The Amuro-centric spinoff, Zero’s TeatimeĪmuro has brought in a whole new generation of Conan fans based on his good looks and enigmatic personality, and he’s even gotten his own new spin-off to prove it. Kaito Kid is certainly one of the more popular Detective Conan boys, but his fortunes have been fading in comparison with Amuro Toru, star of the previous film, Zero the Enforcer. Yet the more measured box office performance of Fist of Blue Sapphire can be traced directly to the characters it features and the type of story it went forth to tell. You can’t keep a ball rolling forever, and the momentum surrounding the Detective Conan movies was bound to slow down at some point. But this was, to a certain extent, to be expected.
While it only took a little over a month for Zero the Enforcer to take down the previous domestic box office record set by The Darkest Nightmare, the franchise’s twenty-first movie, it took Fist of the Blue Sapphire around four months (136 days) to take down the previous record this time around.įist of Blue Sapphire hasn’t therefore exactly been the blistering box office breakout that previous theatrical entries have been. Looking at the Fist of Blue Sapphire’s box office, I’d say that that moment might come sooner than you may thank. This will surely invite support from international markets, and not just from residents of Singapore.Įven so, the question on everyone’s lips for a while now has been when the Detective Conan franchise will inevitably run out of steam and fail to break it’s increasingly incredible box office records.
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It’s worth noting that Zero the Enforcer’s gross box office is actually 11 billion yen, due to its release overseas in the southeast Asian market, where Detective Conan has traditionally performed well.įist of Blue Sapphire has yet to beat Zero the Enforcer’s gross box office, but that’s all about to change over the coming months – not only because it’s getting its own set of international screenings across South East Asia, but also because the setting of the film itself will surely engorge it’s international box office takings.Īfter all, Fist of Blue Sapphire is the first in the series to be set overseas, as it sees Conan, Kid, and Makoto engage in a three-way brawl/mystery/heist in the metropolis of Singapore. This is all when it comes to the domestic box office, however.
9.18 billion yen (around $86 million USD) was the target to beat, coming from Zero the Enforcer’s domestic box office, which Fist of Blue Sapphire beat on August 25, 136 days after its premiere.
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Gosho Aoyama’s mystery series has been smashing its own box office records year on year since 2013, and the latest movie, Detective Conan: Fist of Blue Sapphire, is no exception.Īugust 25 saw Fist of Blue Sapphire’s box office finally surpass the franchise’s previous record, set last year by the twenty-second theatrical movie Zero the Enforcer, meaning that the franchise has now beaten its domestic box office record for seven years in a row. While Makoto Shinkai might spice up the Japanese box office every two years or so, there are few franchises that have had the same level of consistent success as Detective Conan.
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