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A Fresh Cast Brings the Original Detective Conan Anime to a New Audience

I don't think that this is enough to bring it to a new audience. They should advertise this more and across other platforms.

They also should not be unorthodox with releasing episodes

This is a great interview!
The new dub has been an absolute delight to listen to, and I can recognize how much love and care has been put into the project. Ayu sounds like the perfect director for the job, and it's fun hearing about all the experiences of the actors tackling these iconic roles.

This was a nice interview, and I can only hope this crew will be able to continue working on Conan for years to come! I really, really hope it all pays off for TMS.

James02 wrote:

I don't think that this is enough to bring it to a new audience. They should advertise this more and across other platforms.

Okay, what should they be doing instead?
Ever since July, TMS has been pushing hard to promote Conan in almost every space they have access to. These new dubbed episodes are going up on Crunchyroll and Netflix, which are among the most-viewed streaming services for watching anime. TMS has been sharing this news across all of their social media, and CR & Netflix both have promoted it on their social media as well.
On top of that, TMS was doing this roll-out among an entire weekly campaign that lasted 6 months where they streamed one of the first 26 Detective Conan movies each weekend on their Youtube. In addition to streaming some of the newly dubbed episodes (& sometimes subbed episodes) as special events on their Youtube as well.

In these past 6 months, TMS has done more to advertise and put the Detective Conan series in front of the eyes of English-speaking fans than they ever have before. And have done a ton to express their earnest desire to get this series recognized among English anime fans.

So please, if you think there is more they could be doing to get the series in front of more people, do let them know asap because it must be a great idea.

(Honestly, the only piece of the puzzle that I feel is missing is getting these episode selections out on a cool Blu-ray release for the physical media crowd! I know I'd grab a copy Day 1, especially since the HD remastering done on these early Conan episodes is absolutely gorgeous!)

James02 wrote:

They also should not be unorthodox with releasing episodes

I disagree.
It's way too late to try and get Detective Conan's "weekly family anime" structure to stick over here beyond the core fans already watching the weekly simulcast, especially among the contemporary English-speaking anime audience who hates "filler".

While I wouldn't say it's been perfect, I will say the current approach is pretty darn good. Especially after the second batch of episodes came out and filled in a few loose ends, I think that the currently available episodes of the dub is a VERY solid group of episodes to not only get new fans invested in the core plot of the series, but also introduce them to many of the fan-favorite characters and give them an understanding of what kind of series Detective Conan is.

Relatively speaking, we actually have most of the big highlight cases from the first third of the series currently dubbed into English now, which for a longtime fan like me honestly feels miraculous. I know it may not feel quite the same for newcomers, but I do think they'll get more out of the series story-wise through this approach than, for example, having to sit through over 100 episodes of random cases before getting introduced to a character as core to the series as Ai Haibara.

But I will say this much, there is a hurdle to convincing a new fan to check out a series where not every episode is being provided to them, that's true. But I also think that trying to get them to approach a series with 1000+ episodes like Conan in an orthodox manner is an even greater hurdle.
Conan is not One Piece. Its TV series has a lot of padding and random cases-of-the-week written solely to fill broadcast slots over the past 30 years.

I wasn’t aware of any advertising of this. Nor was I aware Netflix added this dub. Where are they doing that. UK? US? I only became aware of this dub from this article.

This hodgepodge method of skipping around and random batches of episodes honestly sounds like one of the worst ways to experience any kind of media ever. Even skipping parts in JoJo would be preferable because presumably you'd still watch the later parts in order and not skip hundreds of episodes out of order like these dub releases of Detective Conan are doing.

I marathoned Detective Conan over a decade ago through fansubs. I know they can't officially advocate for that but.. that really is how you do it if you're interested in actually experiencing the series.

While most shows I would be opposed to this, there are a TON of anime original episodes in Conan's 1000+ ep run which are not so great.

I'm convinced they’re not even trying to market to new audiences tbh. This is gauging the existing fanbase specifically.

at least release the subbed version of ep 124-753 in the west like what they're doing on Netflix Asia (SEA, India) with monthly batches of around 40 EPs separated by release year. So new viewers have more options instead of limited by such selections.