This is the first Conan movie doing what the TV series only hints at: real stakes, real time pressure, real bodies. The bomb chases escalate with the animation quality jumping visibly higher than anything on television, and every sequence feels designed to break your attention span into smaller, panicked pieces. It's a movie that trusts you to stay three steps ahead of Conan while the screen burns around him, then reveals the bomber early enough that you spend the final act knowing exactly who he is and still not knowing how to stop him.

The first Detective Conan film pits Conan Edogawa against a bomber loose in his home town. Ran Mouri has asked Shinichi Kudou to the movies, and Conan cannot come up with a believable excuse to skip the date. When the day arrives, a large stock of plastic explosives has gone missing, and the thief challenges Shinichi to track down and defuse the bombs hidden across the city. Moving from one bomb to the next, Conan races the clock to protect the city. He must stop the culprit before a skyscraper at the city's center is destroyed, which could kill hundreds of people. He must also work out who is behind the plot and why the bomber is targeting Shinichi.