Special Detective Conan Event Happening in the U.K. for the First Time

Key Takeaways

• Detective Conan movie 27 released in the UK in 2024, becoming the first to screen in British theaters. (99 characters)
• Special event at Sherlock Holmes Museum features a mystery word hunt based on the anime franchise. (97 characters)
• Fans can participate for free to win a special postcard and celebrate the collaboration between Conan and Holmes. (108 characters)

The Detective Conan series is a beloved franchise about a detective that has won hearts all around the world. The series currently has an anime that has aired for almost 30 years, more than 100 volumes of manga, and even video games. Despite its long-running popularity not just in Japan but globally, 2024 is the first time that a Detective Conan movie screened in theaters in the United Kingdom.78

To celebrate such a momentous moment in history, Japan’s favorite detective is teaming up with the UK’s most famous detective for a special event at none-other-than the Sherlock Holmes Museum in London. As part of the promotion for the screening of Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram, a fun puzzle game has been added to the Sherlock Holmes Museum that is themed after the anime franchise. A video about the event was posted on the official Japanese X (formerly Twitter) page for the Detective Conan movie at the start of October.

Detective Conan Meets Sherlock Holmes

A Tale of Two Detectives

The first news of the special event between Detective Conan and the Sherlock Holmes Museum was announced back in September via the museum’s official Instagram page, paired with the Instagram for cineasiauk. This post announced the “mystery word hunt” event as a celebration for the release of Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram in UK theaters on September 27th. The event started on September 13th.

Participation in the special Detective Conan event is included in normal tickets to the Sherlock Holmes Museum, with no additional cost. Anyone with a ticket to the museum can get a Mystery Word Hunt card from the museum office, and needs to search for the four hidden keywords throughout the rest of the museum. The first 100 people who completed this challenge got a special Sherlock Holmes Museum gift (this is already finished), and all participants who finish can get an exclusive Sherlock Holmes x Detective Conan postcard. The special postcard features the main characters from Detective Conan posing in front of a real picture of the Sherlock Holmes museum.

About Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram

The first Detective Conan Movie to Release in the UK

Detective Conan: The Million-Dollar Pentagram is the 27th movie in the Detective Conan franchise. It released on April 12th, 2024 in Japan, and still holds the title of the highest grossing Japanese film of 2024. It then opened in theaters in the UK on September 27th, 2024, as the first Conan movie to be released in the country. Overall, the movie has had a great international release, grossing over $41 million.

Vue Cinema simply describes the plot of the film as, “Missing Samurai swords. An unsolved mystery from the great Edo period. The battle for treasure begins…” As the movie is likely to only attract those who are already fans of the Conan series rather than first-timers, though, no more of a description would be needed. Anyone who is a fan of Conan was happy to see the franchise come to the theater for the first time in their country, and the special collaboration with the Sherlock Holmes Museum shows just how happy the UK was to welcome Detective Conan officially.

Watch Detective Conan now on Disney+.

Sources: X, Instagram, AnimeNewsNetwork