“Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet,” the 24th anime film of the “Detective Conan” series, has been rescheduled to open on 16th April 2021 in Japan. The film was delayed from its original date of 17th April 2020 due to concerns of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
A new promotional video has been revealed to mark the restart of the project. In light of the 12-month delay, the new film is promoted with a “Reload Project” which regroups the 23 “Detective Conan” anime films into “12 rounds bullets”. The details of the project will be unveiled on the official site and Twitter later.
▍Official Trailer
▍Synopsis
Japan is about to celebrate the world’s largest sports festival, “WSG-World Sports Games”, in Tokyo. In line with the opening ceremony, it is announced that the world’s first “Vacuum Superconducting Linear” train, boasting a maximum speed of 1,000 km/h which combined all of Japan’s technologies, will be opened to the public between Shin-Nagoya Station and Shibahama Station and established in Tokyo. As the world’s attention is garnered, an incident occurs at a party venue where famous tournament sponsors are gathered, leading to an abnormal situation where top dogs of companies are kidnapped one after another. Behind the scenes are Shuichi Akai who monitors the incident, and the FBI who waits for orders from Akai.
Conan’s reasoning reveals the relevance of the apocalyptic WSG kidnapping incident that occurred in Boston, USA, 15 years ago, and that the incident was also under the jurisdiction of the FBI. Is this a coincidence? What is going to happen in Japan, where many types of people from all over the world are gathered?
▍Staff and Production
Original Works: Gosho Aoyama (青山剛昌)
Director: Chika Nagaoka (永岡智佳)
Script: Takeharu Sakurai (櫻井武晴)
Music: Katsuo Ono (大野克夫)
Distribution: Toho
