Review of Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine: A mystery series that takes solace in the known

The only place to watch the Detective Conan series in India is via Bilibili, a Chinese streaming service whose app isn’t formally available in India. Because it airs on a kids-only pay TV channel, fewer people may see it. Nevertheless, as is customary for anime movies, Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine, the 26th stand-alone movie in the series, is receiving a pretty extensive theatrical distribution in India, months after its debut in Japan. Not surprisingly, given the main character’s Sherlockian influence, the underwater murder mystery hits all the series’ standard notes: crime, investigation, false leads, and eventually, the conclusion.

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Since the program began airing on Indian television more than ten years ago, the backstories and character development of every character have become so worn out that, for those who are even somewhat familiar with the franchise, the exposition to catch everyone up on years of progress is quite straightforward.

So, it’s probable that fans of Conan from all those years ago won’t skip a beat. In summary, the plot from 1994 is as follows: a high school detective investigating a dubious transaction at an amusement park gets drugged and shrinks down to a child. He remains in this form while evading and taking down the Black Organization, the dubious organization that initially poisoned him (not realizing he survived), attending elementary school under the alias Edogawa Conan, living with his girlfriend and her bumbling detective father, and working as a sidekick solving crimes. Ai Haibara, a former Black Organization scientist who was likewise shrunk down and whose survival the crime gang is also ignorant of, is a frequent companion.

Without significantly furthering the storyline of the main series, Black Iron Submarine joins the canon of anime movies that must have high risks. Therefore, a good deal of fanservice and nearly enormous franchise advancements have to be retracted, and they are. Even if the world-building eventually suffers, the story has never been the main focus.

The Detective Conan franchise takes great pleasure in employing traditional detective elements to accomplish independent murder investigations across Japan and beyond, with a surprising number of the cases involving the same Tokyo police detectives. The massive undersea Interpol data center, which gathers real-time surveillance camera feeds from all around the world in one location, is where the secret of Black Iron Submarine’s modernity lies. Although the full privacy ramifications of this are not fully explored, Conan and Haibara are put in danger by a sophisticated facial recognition system, while outside assailants working on behalf of the Black Organization penetrate the facility.

Detective Conan Ai Haibara’s Story: Jet-Black Mystery Train, a separate backstory film, was only available in India for one day earlier this month. It’s possible that this film serves as a better introduction to the series’ developments over the past ten years and even serves as a better detective story, even though it was taken straight out of the main show’s episodes. But the current chapter, with its outrageous action and demanding animation budget, is all the more engaging because of the skillful handling of the franchise by its creator and lifelong mangaka, Gosho Aoyama.

But as usual with Conan, those who are interested and question everything are rewarded, while those who are not may find themselves at best put up with the finale. Even if you don’t need a notebook, this franchise demands that you treat it seriously, as Japanese fans have fervently done for years. Its decades-long run of consistently high ratings, popularity, and significance in its own nation demonstrate that there is still a need for the formulaic yet excellent detective movie.