Detective Conan Anime Celebrates Edogawa Rampo With 2-Part Story Set at Rampo’s Home

Among the many pantheon of recent Japanese storytellers are Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Osamu Dazai, Natsume Sōseki, Haruki Murakami — and Edogawa Rampo (Rampo Edogawa), nearly inarguably the daddy of recent Japanese thriller novels. Finest recognized for his Kogoro Akechi detective tales, his tales have impressed generations of Japanese readers.

One such reader is manga creator Gōshō Aoyama, as his Detective Conan character’s identify Conan Edogawa takes inspiration from Rampo and Sherlock Holmes’ Arthur Conan Doyle. (“Edogawa Rampo” is itself a pen identify, a wordplay on “Edgar Allan Poe” as pronounced in Japanese.) With Edogawa Rampo’s birthday only a month away, the official X (previously Twitter) account for the Detective Conan anime sequence introduced on September 20 that it’s presenting a two-episode particular homicide thriller set on the real-life Edogawa Rampo Residence on November 16 and 23. The account additionally revealed a particular visible for the episodes:

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Picture through Detective Conan anime’s X/Twitter account



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A particular collaboration with Edogawa Ranpo (who’s the inspiration of Conan’s identify), “The Ranpo Residence Homicide Case” will air on Saturday, November 16 and Saturday,, November 23 at 6 p.m. 📺

A particular visible additionally debuts✨

The important thing visible for the two-episode particular reveals the protagonist Conan Edogawa (the shrunken Shinichi Kudo) inserted into an iconic photograph of Edogawa Rampo. The visible additionally options the tagline, “A fantastic detective doesn’t select his period.”

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Picture through x.com
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Picture through tabiiro.jp

It is going to be fascinating seeing Conan resolve a case within the dwelling of one in every of his namesakes. Maybe he’ll even tackle extra iconic poses of the daddy of recent Japanese thriller tales through the episodes.

Sources: Detective Conan anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie