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Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway Film Unveils Video, Visual
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The official X/Twitter account for the Detective Conan films unveiled on Thursday a video and "Angel" visual for Detective Conan: Highway no Datenshi (Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway), the franchise's 29th film.
The new film will center on the character Chihaya Hagiwara, member of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police and the leader of its motorcycle division. Miyuki Sawashiro will now voice the character, replacing the late Atsuko Tanaka. The movie will also feature Kanagawa inspector Jugo Yokomizo, teenage detective Masumi Sera, Chihaya's late younger brother Kenji Hagiwara, and Kenji's Police Academy classmate Jinpei Matsuda.
The previous film in the franchise, Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback (Meitantei Conan: Sekigan no Flashback), had teased the character's appearance at the end of the film.
Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback opened in Japan on April 18, and debuted at #1 at the Japanese box office. The film became the #19 highest-grossing film of all time in Japan in June, and is currently the 18th highest-grossing film in Japan of all time, having earned 14.66 billion yen (about US$99.8 million). Katsuya Shigehara (unit director of Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine) directed the film. Takeharu Sakurai (various Detective Conan movies) wrote the script.
TMS Entertainment began streaming a specially curated selection of episodes from the Detective Conan (Case Closed) anime on Crunchyroll and Netflix on July 3. The episodes are streaming in Japanese and with a new English dub, which marks the new dub's first appearance on Crunchyroll. The first selection of episodes is titled "Conan vs. The Black Organization" and features episodes with the titular antagonists, including episodes that have never before been available in the U.S. Crunchyroll and Netflix added more episodes on August 21 and again on November 1.
The company has also been streaming the franchise's films on YouTube as part of its "Detective Conan: Cinema Saturdays" campaign.
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. The English manga release uses the same English names from the original Funimation dub when applicable, 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.
Source: Detective Conan films' X/Twitter account
