Twenty-five feature films, 100 manga volumes, over 1,000 episodes: Detective Conan, created by Gosho Aoyama, is celebrating its 28th anniversary with dignity. The juvenile investigator with swarming gray cells behind his little round glasses comes to appear on French screens with an excellent film: The Bride of Shibuya.
This thrilling adventure is a further demonstration of Eurozoom’s requirement for Anime, which has already distributed The Scarlett Bullet, featuring the hero in 2021. “The film had to be seen by everyone, even those who did not know the world of Detective Conan”, specifies the director in the press kit. And it works! The spectator lets himself be carried away alongside the vigilante (adult prisoner in a child’s body) and his friends to save a former policeman, his future wife and the crowded district of Shibuya from the actions of an elusive terrorist.
Supported by the creator
“I shrunk but not my IQ! », insists the hero who demonstrates it brilliantly through adventures so thrilling and spectacular that we let ourselves be totally carried away. Abductions, attacks and pursuits are on the menu in the heart of Tokyo for an entertainment to which Aoyama-san, creator of this universe, has come to bring his collaboration and then his unconditional support.
If the action takes place during the Halloween period, it is to better allow bewildering scenes such as the one where one of the heroes is kidnapped by the movements of a crowd with pumpkin heads or that garlands hung above tops of partygoers turn into lethal weapons. Enough to develop a breathless suspense where explosive necklaces and multiple betrayals put the nerves of the hero and the public to the test.