Detective Conan Fallen Angel of the Highway opened to 3.5 billion yen and 2.32 million tickets across its first three days in Japan, breaking the previous opening record set by last year's One-eyed Flashback film.
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway earned 3,502,137,800 yen (about $21.9 million) in its first three days in Japan, selling 2,318,009 tickets from April 10 to 12. The debut breaks the franchise's previous opening-weekend record, held by Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, the 28th installment, which posted 3,438,626,700 yen and 2,314,690 tickets in the same frame a year ago.
The film's opening day alone earned 1.13 billion yen, the highest single-day gross in the franchise's history. Screening density was a major driver: T-Joy Yokohama programmed 59 opening-day showtimes for the film, the largest single-venue screening slate ever recorded for an anime title in Japan.
Fallen Angel of the Highway is the 29th theatrical entry in the Detective Conan franchise, which has posted record weekend openings three years running. Director Takahiro Hasui returns from the prior installment, with Takahiro Okura handling the screenplay and Yugo Kanno composing the score.
Without a new Demon Slayer film in theaters this spring, Detective Conan absorbed the attention of Japan's mainstream family-audience market. The franchise's reliability, it has delivered an annual spring release since 1997, has made it one of the most durable revenue engines for Japanese cinemas.
The film is Toho-distributed and carries the same audience loyalty that pushed One-eyed Flashback to 15.8 billion yen in total Japan gross last year. If the 3-day multiplier holds, industry trackers expect Fallen Angel of the Highway to clear 16 billion yen domestically before its run ends.
A formal international release schedule has not been announced. Detective Conan films typically reach Southeast Asian markets within six weeks of their Japan opening, with festival screenings preceding general release in North America, Europe, and India. The franchise's prior entries have been distributed in India through select festival and limited-run windows.
The weekend of April 17-19 will be the first real test of the film's legs. Japanese anime films typically see steep second-weekend drops, but the Detective Conan series has historically held better than average. If the second weekend holds above 50% of the opening, the film will almost certainly surpass One-eyed Flashback's final gross and push Fallen Angel of the Highway into the top ten highest-grossing Japanese films of 2026.
The series' opening-weekend growth curve has been steep across the last three entries. The 27th film, Black Iron Submarine, opened at 2.57 billion yen in 2023. The 28th, One-eyed Flashback, pushed that to 3.44 billion yen in 2024. Fallen Angel of the Highway's 3.5 billion yen extends that climb, with year-over-year growth running faster than the franchise average.
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