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Netflix, Crunchyroll Add 2nd Collection of Selected Episodes of Detective Conan Anime on November 1

TMS Entertainment announced Thursday that the second specially curated collection of episodes from the Detective Conan anime will begin streaming on Saturday on Netflix and Crunchyroll in Japanese with English subtitles and with a new English dub. The new collection is titled "Rivals of the Great Detective." The company did not confirm which episodes this will entail, but it teased that they will include Conan's supporting cast of allies and adversaries. In addition, its "Detective Conan: Cinema Saturdays" campaign will stream three more films, each one on a Saturday at 10:00 p.m. EDT, on its "Anime! on TMS" YouTube channel.

The schedule for the next three weeks is:

• Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century (movie 3) on November 1
• Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem (movie 10) on November 8
• Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (movie 7) on November 15

Of the three movies, the third one had a previous release with the old English dub from Funimation. However, TMS Entertainment has been streaming films previously licensed by Funimation in Japanese with English subtitles.

The channel most recently streamed Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear (movie 12), Detective Conan: Magician of the Silver Sky (movie 8), and Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween (movie 25) in the past three weeks.

TMS Entertainment began streaming a specially curated selection of episodes from the Detective Conan anime on Crunchyroll and Netflix on July 3. The episodes are streaming in Japanese and with a new English dub. The first selection of episodes is titled "Conan vs. The Black Organization" and features episodes with the titular antagonists, including episodes that had never before been available in the U.S. Crunchyroll and Netflix added more episodes to the first selection on August 21.

Gōshō Aoyama launched the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Shounen Sunday magazine in 1994. The manga has spawned a television anime that has been running since January 1996, as well as an accompanying anime film series. Viz Media publishes the original manga under the name Case Closed, which was also Funimation's title for the series. The English manga release uses the same English names from the original Funimation dub when applicable with some exceptions, and it uses the original Japanese names otherwise.

The manga series centers on Conan Edogawa, the alias of detective Shinichi Kudo, whose body shrunk after being poisoned at the beginning of the story. Together with detective Kogoro Mori and his daughter Ran, Conan helps the police solve difficult mysteries.

Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback (Meitantei Conan: Sekigan no Flashback), the 28th film in the franchise, opened at #1 at the Japanese box office on April 18.

The anime of Gōshō Aoyama's Detective Conan manga first aired on Japanese television on January 8, 1996.

Source: Press release