Detective Conan Spinoff Wild Police Story Gets Anime Adaptation

The Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc – Wild Police Story spinoff manga will reportedly be adapted into an anime series.

According to Sugoi LITE, the popular spinoff about undercover agent Rei Furuya will get its own TV anime series. Wild Police Story is a prequel that shows Furuya's formative years at a police academy, before he crossed paths with Conan as the double-agent Bourbon and was still honing his skills as a detective. The original manga was created by Takahiro Arai and ran for 13 chapters in 2020. Arai also penned the Zero's Tea Time manga, which also features Furuya as its main character. Further details about the show, such as the cast and crew, what animation studio is producing it and its release date, were not confirmed at this time.

The main Case Closed manga, also known as Detective Conan, was created by Gosho Aoyama and was first published in 1994. The series tells the story of Shinichi Kudo, a young prodigy detective who is kidnapped by a criminal syndicate and forced to ingest an experimental poison. Instead of killing him, the poison transforms him into a literal child. Kudo adopts the identity of Conan Edogawa -- his first name being a reference to Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- and continues to help solve mysteries and thwart crimes committed by the nefarious Black Organization, despite everyone now assuming he is just a kid.

Since its initial publication, Case Closed has become the fifth-best selling manga franchise of all time with over 230-million copies in circulation worldwide. The manga was adapted into an anime series in 1996, which is still currently running with over 1000 episodes produced. The manga has been localized into over 20 languages, and the anime series has been broadcast in over 40 countries. The 24th and latest movie in the franchise, Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet was released in Japan in April 2021. The movie outperformed Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time in its opening week and eventually grossed more than $95 million USD at the box office. In addition to the anime series, Case Closed has also been adapted into multiple video games and a live-action TV series. Conan, arguably anime's most famous detective, matched wits against anime's most famous criminal, Lupin the 3rd, in a 2009 crossover movie.

The Case Closed manga is distributed and localized in English by VIZ Media. The anime can currently be streamed through Crunchyroll.

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