Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway earned a franchise-record 3.52 billion yen in its opening weekend, debuting at No.1 in Japan with 2.318 million admissions.
Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway has shattered franchise records with a 3.52 billion yen (approximately US$22 million) opening weekend, debuting at No.1 on the Japan box office chart for the April 10–12 frame and drawing 2.318 million moviegoers.
The 29th film in the long-running Detective Conan series needed only three days to surpass the previous opening-weekend record set by last year's Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, which debuted to 3.43 billion yen. That roughly 90-million-yen improvement may sound modest in percentage terms, but it underscores the franchise's remarkable consistency: each successive installment continues to push the ceiling higher rather than plateau.
The opening-day haul alone was reported at 1.13 billion yen, signaling massive Thursday-evening and Friday demand before the weekend audience even arrived. By Sunday evening the three-day cumulative stood at 3,502,137,800 yen, one of the largest opening weekends recorded for any film domestic or international in Japanese theatrical history.
Nine Detective Conan films now rank among Japan's 100 highest-grossing movies of all time, a feat no other single franchise can match in quite the same annual cadence. The series has released a new theatrical entry almost every spring since 1997, and the recent trajectory has been sharply upward.
The current lifetime champion within the franchise remains 2024's Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram, which accumulated 15.8 billion yen and sits 16th on the all-time domestic chart. Fallen Angel of the Highway's opening pace puts it on a plausible path to challenge that total, though sustained weekday holdover and a strong Golden Week performance in late April and early May will be critical.
Fallen Angel dominated a competitive anime-heavy weekend. Doraemon: Shin Nobita no Kaitei Kiganjo held second place, while Cosmic Princess Kaguya! placed fifth, Assassination Classroom the Movie: Our Time came in seventh, and Poupelle of Chimney Town Yakusoku no Tokeidai rounded out the top ten. None came close to matching Conan's opening-day momentum, let alone its full weekend total.
The breadth of anime titles in the top ten reflects a Japanese theatrical market increasingly dominated by animation, a trend that has accelerated since the pandemic era and shows no sign of reversing. For context, animated films accounted for seven of the top ten earners during the same weekend, underscoring how thoroughly the medium has come to define Japanese theatrical exhibition.
The next major test for Fallen Angel of the Highway is the Golden Week holiday stretch beginning April 29. Historically, Detective Conan films see a significant second-weekend bump during Golden Week, and if Fallen Angel follows that pattern it could cross the 10-billion-yen milestone before May is out. Whether it can ultimately overtake The Million-dollar Pentagram's 15.8-billion-yen franchise record will depend on sustained weekday holdover and strong legs through the summer corridor but the opening weekend has already cemented Fallen Angel as the strongest launch the series has ever produced. For Indian fans, the franchise's growing international presence makes a future theatrical or streaming release in the region an increasingly plausible prospect.
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