A passing glance at your nearest (non-mainland China) is enough even for general onlookers that a Nijiiro Version mystery is on the loose!
One would need to be quite the sharp detective to figure everything out... good thing there's already a pint-sized one across the series, with over a dozen entries to his name!
Growing of my heart Detective Conan
「名探偵コナン」より
| Game | Genre |  |  |  |  |  |
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| AC8 xBox (DLC) |  | ★2 77 | ★3 100 | ★5 256 | ★7 379 | - |
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konan3 (Conan 3rd song, see below)Give yourselves a pat on the back if you've figured out today's subject from the incipit alone: it's Detective Conan/Case Closed time once more! We're going for the obscure entry/latest movie darling approach once again, starting with this 2nd-arcade-gen debut.
Growing of my heart is the 16th opening theme to the long-running manga run, used in 2005 from episodes 416 to 424, another of the animated run's hour-long-episodes seasons. If the song sounds at touch like an arrangement of the Detective Conan main theme, the choice is not casual; at the eve of the Detective Conan animated run's 10th anniversary, the shw's opening theme reflected that with a '10TH ANNIVERSARY DETECTIVE CONAN' label, and a new song paying respects to its origins on toe. The SongID label on the Taiko entries featuring the track is a divergence from the former tracks' classification: with the omnipresent in-episode Main Theme having konant as ID, the opening themes opted for a different order, with the 13th OP Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made having conan and then the 15th one -Hoshi no Kagayakiyo- having konan (with a 'k') instead, to make the connection with the Main Theme's ID. Thus, this is internally the third opening theme for the Detective Conan series in Taiko, explaining why there's no 'konan2' across past songs' IDs.
Composed by Aika Ohno (大野愛果) and Takeshi Hayama (葉山たけし), this was lyricized and performed by the Chiba R&B singer Mai Kuraki (倉木麻衣), a pop icon near and dear to mangaka Gosho Aoyama's animated exploits of his works. Not only she's often featured in the show as a pop singer in-universe (billboard and actual speaking in-character roles on toe, too!), she's also currently in the Guinness World Records thanks to her Conan-related discography, for the highest number of songs produced for a single show to date! The single also reached a 4th-place daily peak at Oricon, when it was commercially released near the end of 2005.
One of the full-accuracy Oni mode charts from the playable Detective Conan discography, the repeating stanzas might be soil terrain to cultivate note-couples sequences at far-more-approachable pace than other 7* Oni contemporaries... granted you're able to get your hands on it in the first place. As mentioned in our past look at Conan songs via SotW, most of the early tracks -especially opening themes- are stranded in one-two titles tops, including a selective gen-2 arcade firmware. Sure, this was more recently ported for the xBox family of devices's The Drum Master as a piece of DLC, but with the digital game in question being delisted as of last year, it's not possible for newcomers to make further DLC purchases for the game, and actually make use of them at the same time!
TWILIGHT!!! From the Theathrical Film "Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback"
劇場版「名探偵コナン 隻眼の残像」より
劇場版「名探偵コナン 隻眼の残像」より
| Game | Genre | | | | | |
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| NS2 (MP) | | ★2 83 | ★4 138 | ★6 353 | ★7 470 | - |
115 kgntwl (King Gnu - TWILIGHT!!!)Today's second pick at our hand is also mighty topical, as it happens that the source movie the song comes from was premiered in Japan theaters on this very day, exactly one year ago!
The 28th theatrical film of the series -Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback (名探偵コナン 隻眼の残像)- starts with a recounting of events from 10 months prior at the Yatsugatake mountain range, with inspector Yamato Kansuke of the Nagano Prefectural Police giving chase to a suspect of a gun robbery case from 8 years ago. During the pursuit, Kansuke got shot at his left eye and got caught into an avalanche; while he eventually managed to recover, his left eye stayed scarred with no memory of the events of that day. Flashforward to present day, detective Kogoro Mouri got contacted by Koji Sametani, Kansuke's colleague at the time, asking for a meeting in person in order to crack the mystery on what truly happened that day. At the meeting, however, Sametani got fatally shot, compelling Kogoro to shed lights on the case as a way to give justice to his friend's death coming with his daughter Ran, Conan and the Detective Boys club.
While not managing to break the series box-office records set from The Million-Dollar Pentagram from the previous year, this movie came as close as it could be with a 14.67 billion Yen figure in grossing (over 160 million dollars worldwide), sitting as Japan's third highest grossing movie of 2025, trailing shortly behind to Kokuho but being WELL behind the latest movie entry of the Kimetsu no Yaiba series. Who knows, maybe we can touch upon that subject matter later on, under these lines...
TWILIGHT!!! was the first song in the Anime genre from the 2013 band King Gnu, with lead/songwriter Daiki Tsuneta (常田大希) handling both lyrics and composition. It's also bearer of the lowest-rated Oni mode out of the currently-out song from the same unit, despite the mild approach to short compound clusters and the handswitch-friendly Go-Go Time portion. Curse you, low base BPM-!!!
