Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway Achieves Historic Box Office Success

The 29th film in Gōshō Aoyama's legendary series Detective Conan, which has millions of fans worldwide, Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, achieved a historic success at the Japanese box office. The film grossed 10.88 billion yen (approximately 69.35 million US Dollars), becoming the series' fourth consecutive film to surpass the 10 billion yen mark. This extraordinary achievement was recorded as a first in Japanese cinema history, and the series' creator Gōshō Aoyama crowned this milestone with a special celebratory illustration.

Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway premiered in Japan on April 10, 2026. The film features a high-speed mystery set in Yokohama and centers on Conan Edogawa and Chihaya Hagiwara, the leader of the motorcycle unit from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police. The story captivates audiences with motorcycle action and an emotional backdrop. The box office success achieved by the film in such a short time once again proved how strong and enduring the series' popularity is.

The Detective Conan manga (also known as Case Closed in North America), created by Gōshō Aoyama, first began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine in January 1994. Its anime adaptation met audiences in January 1996. Since then, the series, which follows high school detective Shinichi Kudo as he is shrunk by a mysterious organization and assumes the identity of Conan Edogawa to solve complex cases, has become a major cultural phenomenon in both manga and anime formats. The first theatrical film premiered in 1997, and since then, a new film has been released every year, except for 2020, to its fans.

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