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Masatomo Sudo (須藤 昌朋 Sudō Masatomo), born January 28, 1961, in Hokkaido, is a Japanese anime director, and character designer. He is best known for designing characters for the anime series Detective Conan and for his involvement with the anime series Lupin III. He is the character designer for the Detective Conan anime series since its inception in 1996, except for a short period of four years from episodes 356 to 504, where the work was done by Mari Tominaga. He also works as character designer and chief animation director for the movies. Later, he also worked as character design supervisor for Zero's Tea Time anime. Active since 1980, he landed irregular animation jobs for various series before being animation director for the first time in 1994. Shortly after, his career expanded, and he joined the Detective Conan production team. While still being the character designer for the series, he worked with other television animation projects in the 2000s, including Hamtaro, Angel Heart and Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. Since 2007, Sudo works exclusively in the production team of Detective Conan. Read more...
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Featured song
Beautiful Fins (美しい鰭 Utsukushii Hire) is a song by rock band Spitz that was released on April 10, 2023 as digital single and on April 12, 2023 as CD single. The song is featured as the ending theme for the 26th movie, Black Iron Submarine. With Masamune Kusano as voice and guitar, Tetsuya Miwa as second guitar, Akihiro Tamura as bass and Tatsuo Sakiyama as drums, it was written and composed by Kusano and arranged by the band and Seiji Kameda as their 46th single. The digital single peaked at 3rd position on the weekly Oricon Chart, while the regular version peaked at 4th.
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Did you know...
- ... Mai Kuraki holds the Guinness World Record for "most theme songs sung by the same artist for an animation series"?
- ... Paikaru was used as the main ingredient for the antidote prototype to APTX 4869?
- ... The first case Kogoro solves by himself is Kogoro's Class Reunion Murder Case?
- ... Kogoro Mouri was mistaken with an astronaut in episode 57 because there's a Japanese astronaut named Mamoru Mouri?
Latest news
- NEW! Starting March 14, 2026, Akemi Okamura will temporarily replace Wakana Yamazaki as the voice of Ran Mouri due to Wakana's hiatus in taking care of her health.
- 3 special episodes have been announced as part of a project commemorating the 30th anniversary of the anime. They include a collaborative episode with Japan International Birdman Rally written by Takahiro Okura, a J-League collaboration episode, and a 2-hour special episode Murder Case No. 30 written by Takeharu Sakurai.
- The 29th movie of Detective Conan is Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway. The main cast features Conan Edogawa, Chihaya Hagiwara, Jugo Yokomizo, Masumi Sera, Ran Mouri, and others. Directed by Takahiro Hasui and scripted by Takahiro Okura, it is set to release in Japan on April 10, 2026.
- A new English dub of Detective Conan with selected episodes, including some never shown in the U.S. before, has been released on Crunchyroll and Netflix. The latest selection is titled Rivals of the Great Detective.
- Movie 28, titled One-eyed Flashback has ended its run. It was released on April 18, 2025 and has grossed 14.67 billion yen. It was directed by Katsuya Shigehara and written by Takeharu Sakurai.
- The latest Detective Conan planetarium special movie, titled The Shining Payload, premiered on March 8, 2025. Screenplay by Akatsuki Yamatoya and direction by Hiroaki Takagi; it is currently screening in some planetariums in Japan.
Detective Conan Spinoffs
- Last Zero's Tea Time chapter: May 25, 2022: File 060: Daily life
- Last Zero's Tea Time episode: May 9, 2022: Episode 6: TIME.6
- Latest Hanzawa the Criminal chapter: December 25, 2025: File 056: The Culprit Forsaken by God
- Last The Culprit Hanzawa episode: December 20, 2022: Episode 12: The First Target
- Last Wild Police Story chapter: December 3, 2020: File 013: To each their own path
Magic Kaito
- Latest Magic Kaito 1412 episode: March 28, 2015: Episode 24: Midnight Crow (Part 2) (Clash! White or Black!?)
- Latest Magic Kaito chapter: April 24, 2024: Chapter 39: Green Dragon (Part 3)
Yaiba
- English dub of Yaiba: Samurai Legend started airing on August 15, 2025 with the first 12 episodes. More dubs will be released on November 21, 2025.
- Season 2 of Yaiba: Samurai Legend has been announced.
Song information
- The 61st Detective Conan opening is now being used. It is sung by B'z and is titled "Heaven Knows".
- The 74th Detective Conan closing is now being used. It is sung by Mai Kuraki and is titled "TOWA ~Towa ni Kaze ni Noru~".
- The theme song for One-eyed Flashback was sung by King Gnu and was titled "TWILIGHT!!!".
Release news
- Japanese manga volume/book release(s):
- April 8, 2026:
- Volume 108
- Cine Magazine 2026
- April 8, 2026:
- Japanese DVD/Blu-ray release(s):
- DVD Part 32-6 - February 27, 2026
- DVD Part 32-7 - March 20, 2026
- DVD Part 32-8 - April 24, 2026
- DVD Part 32-9 - May 29, 2026
- DVD Part 32-10 - June 26, 2026
- Yaiba: Samurai Legend Blu-ray & DVD Volume 2 - February 25, 2026
- Japanese Music release(s):
- Poker Face CD single - February 18, 2026
- Other Japanese release(s) Highlights:
- (none at the moment)
- English manga volume release(s):
- Volume 98 - April 14, 2026
- Yaiba: Samurai Legend Volume 4 - April 14, 2026
- English DVD/Blu-ray release(s):
- (none at the moment)
General topics
- Detective Conan - The introduction to the world of Detective Conan
- Characters - The characters of Detective Conan
- Anime - In-depth information about the Anime series
- Manga - Details about the Manga series
- Movies - A list of all the movies released to date
- OVAs - A list of OVAs released
- TV Specials - Original TV specials
- Drama - Live action dramas
- Music - The music of Conan!
- Staff - The various people behind the manga and the anime
- Collectibles - DVDs, blu-rays, books, various merchandise
- Games - Detective Conan video games
Specific topics
- Shinichi Kudo - Main character of Detective Conan
- Conan Edogawa - Shrunken form of Shinichi
- Ran Mouri - Shinichi's childhood friend and love interest
- Kogoro Mouri - Ran's father and private detective
- Ai Haibara - Ex-member of the Black Organization
- Black Organization - The "bad guys" in the story
- Volume 1 - First Manga volume released
- Season 1 - First season of the Anime series
- One-eyed Flashback - The latest Detective Conan movie
- The Miracle of Excalibur - The most recent OVA of the series
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