The Gold-Star Answer

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Episode TV Special 8 (P1) (Int. Episode 1262)
Information
Title:	The Gold-Star Answer
Japanese title:	はなまるな真実(アンサー) (Hanamaruna Ansā)
Original airdate:	June 6, 2026
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Kazunobu Chiba Kaitou Kid Kaito Kuroba Keita Kaneko Cure Answer
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Jewel
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Akatsuki Yamatoya
Storyboard:	Hiroaki Takagi
Episode director:	Hiroaki Takagi Minoru Tozawa Taichi Atarashi (asst.) Shinga Nakamura (asst.)
Animation director:	Keiko Sasaki Hiroaki Takagi
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kyoko Yoshimi and Hiroaki Takagi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Kappei Yamaguchi as Kaitou Kid/Kaito Kuroba Koji Ochiai as Keita Kaneko Hikari Senga as Anna Akechi/Cure Answer Ayumi Tsunematsu as Chinami Hosho Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Nijee Shinnosuke Musashi as Hanninda Sachi Kokuryu as Phantom Thief Santos Taihi Kimura as Comrade
Music
Opening song:	Heaven Knows
Closing song:	7 DAYS

The Gold-Star Answer (はなまるな真実(アンサー) ,Hanamaruna Ansā), is a special episode of Detective Conan and a crossover with Pretty Cure installment, Star Detective Precure!. It's one of the commemorative specials for the 30th anniversary of the Detective Conan anime. It aired on June 6, 2026.

As part of the collaboration with the Pretty Cure franchise, Star Detective Precure! aired a crossover episode with Detective Conan in their series with The Detectives Assemble (名探偵の共演(アッセンブル) ,Meitantei no Assenburu), aired on May 31, 2026.

Jewelry stores across town are being robbed, but Conan's young friend Ayumi is excited. The crimes bear a striking resemblance to the events of a certain magical girl anime she's enjoying, and she's hopeful that she'll get to meet a "PreCure!" if the thieves show up again. Cure Answer appears in the episode, and Conan seems understandably surprised.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ai Haibara

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Kazunobu Chiba

Kaitou Kid

Kaito Kuroba

Keita Kaneko

Hiroshi Agasa

Case

Situation

Serial theft

Location: Four Jewelry stores

Stolen items: Jewelry from those stores

Culprits: Santos Thieves' Guild

The thieves disguise themselves as a distinguished character for each of their crime (Police officers, Kamen Yaiba, Kaiju Gomera, and Kaitou Kid).

Potential theft

Location: Kaneko Jewelry Store

Targeted item: The Pum-pum-pum-pum-pumpkin

Culprits: Santos Thieves' Guild

The four thieves captured turn out to be pawns instead of the Santos Thieves' Guild

People

Kaneko's personal bodyguard
	Tall, muscular man

Woman
	Purple hoodie Acting suspicious around Kaneko Jewelry Store

Man A
	Kaneko Jewelry Store visitor

Man B
	Blue shirt Decoy thief

Man C
	Orange shirt Decoy thief

Man D
	Purple shirt Decoy thief

Man E
	Yellow shirt Decoy thief

Pretty Cure character

Anna Akechi

Resolution

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Kaneko's personal bodyguard and the woman in a purple hoodie are members of the Santos Thieves' guild. Anna Akechi in her Cure Answer outfit (who is actually Kaitou Kid in disguise) shows up to warn them about copyright infringement. As the kids are discussing after the attempted theft, Haibara wonders if Kid is one of Pretty Cure fans or not. Meanwhile, the scene of the real Anna Akechi walking somewhere also captures the image of Kaitou Kid on his way home.

Episode numbering

Unlike other episodes, there are different ways the episode was labeled. In the official website and Netflix, the episode is labeled as Special Episode (特別編, Tokubetsu-hen). In the Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine preview, it was labeled as 30th Anniversary Special (30周年記念SP, 30-Shūnen Kinen Supesharu). In Crunchyroll, the episode is labeled as Episode P1. While the international version labeled it as a regular episode (as episode 1262). Interestingly, a few social media posts by animators involved with the episode labeled it as episode 1203, suggesting that it was internally counted as the 1203th episode during production.

Production details

Promotional material for Detective Conan and Star Detective PreCure!'s crossover episodes with their air dates

The Detective Conan X Star Detective PreCure! collaboration project started with the Pretty Cure! producer, Masaya Aramaki, having interest in seeing both series connect with each other, due to its installment's detective theme and how he's a big fan of the Detective Conan series. Despite his doubts, he approached the Star Detective PreCure! staff about the crossover idea, half-jokingly saying "It'd be fun if we could do this, right?". The staff would be interested at the idea, along with TMS Entertainment and Yorimuri TV staff. Additionally, Yorimuri TV was interested at transcending the limits of the broadcasting stations with the crossover, since Star Detective PreCure! airs on TV Asahi.

Masataka Todo, the producer of Detective Conan, admits that it isn't unprecendented for studios and production companies to have collaborations, but noted that a collaboration with a high broadcasting station would be a "huge ask". And noted that the crossover between two series was a success thanks to the tireless effort of many parties involved.

During the proposal stages, the PreCure! producer Koji Kawasaki admits that he was skeptical at first with the collaboration as to whether it'd happen. As the collaboration advances in development stages, he admits that he remembers being hit with a strong wave of "Oh, is this really happening?". He was interested in seeing two different works be merged together and intrigued in using different approaches to take advantage of each series's setting. He also wanted the characters to be intrinsically involved in each other's stories, highlighting its self-contained nature.

Yasuichiro Yamamoto, the current Detective Conan director, was also enthusiastic about the crossover idea, although he had concerns about world-building and tones differences between the two series (as Detective Conan is a mystery action series, while Pretty Cure! is a magical girl franchise), as well as the world-building rules of Detective Conan in particular. When the script is shown to Gosho Aoyama, he insisted that things such as "magic and fantasy" do not exist in Detective Conan universe. Yamamoto says that he'd like to incorporate the appearances for other Pretty Cures, and hopes that the story would be realized in the future.

Masaya Aramaki admits that the staff had difficulties handling the transformation aspects of PreCure! within the Conan universe, and how far they could incorporate fantasy. He said that they managed to explore options and admits that it was pretty fun working in the crossover special. The staff did end up placing stuff for the viewers to feel they're watching Detective Conan in Star Detective PreCure! episode, out of respect for the series.

Trivia

• The Pretty Cure episode showed in the beginning is directly based on the eighteenth episode of Star Detective PreCure!, The Detectives Assemble, which was a crossover episode with Detective Conan, part of the collaboration.
  • Although, in Detective Conan episode, the PreCure! episode shown doesn't feature Conan, Ran and Kogoro, whom appeared in the crossover.
• This marks the first time Kaitou Kid played a major role in an anime-original episode of the main anime.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
German	Eine Antwort, perfekt und mit Sternchen	An Answer, Perfect and with a Star
Thai	อานเซอร์ที่ถูกต้อง 100 เปอร์เซนต์	The 100-Percent Correct Answer

See also

• Specials
• Crossover