Special feature of 1905 film network The animated film (hereinafter referred to as "Halloween Bride") was released, and it became the box office champion that week with over 80 million box office.
Undoubtedly, the first issue of Detective Conan has always been the "hot cake" of Japanese theater animated films in China market.
The last two works — — "Detective Conan: Boxing of the Blue" (2019) and "Detective Conan: Crimson Bullet" (2021) have exceeded 200 million at the box office, successfully surpassing another national animation IP— — The achievements of the theatrical animation of Doraemon series.
In Japan, the box office results of Detective Conan series are also rising all the way, and the new work "Halloween Bride" has set the highest box office in this series with a score of over 9.6 billion yen. In addition, the word-of-mouth of the film scored 4.2/5 on the Japanese rating website, making it the best word-of-mouth in this series in recent years.
In the theater design, Matsuda Jinpei appeared as the main character, and his "five-member police academy" offered a wave of "memory killings". As the 25th theatrical film in Detective Conan series, it can be described as "Ye Qing Hui" for many fans.
Obviously, the director of this theatrical version handed over a good report card, and many fans shouted, hoping that the director could continue to direct subsequent theatrical works. Compared with the comments made by directors in the past few theatrical editions in the audience’s mind, Susumu Mitsunaka is definitely "winning".
01. Law of creation
As the 25th theatrical animation of Detective Conan, The Bride of Halloween is of great significance.
Especially this time, the guide tube was handed over to Susumu Mitsunaka, who is not experienced. For a long time in the past, Detective Conan kept the unwritten rule of "seven-year itch" — — Every seven theatrical editions, a director is changed.
Only after silent director Kong Wen finished his creation did this rule change. First, he directed the Executor of Zero, and then he created the fist of the blue and the crimson bullet, and then came to the latest one.
The creative team of the theatrical version of Detective Conan is always composed of the original author and the director. Looking back at the history of creation, the most famous directors are, and three directors.
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From 2011 to 2017, Kong Wen, the director in charge of creation, was regarded as an "absolute villain" by many Conan fans, and even thought that his period was Conan’s "collapse period".
After all, for the creation of the theatrical version of Detective Conan, two directors, Kenji Kodama and Yamamoto Yasuichiro, are also directors of the early TV version, and they have their own systems for the development of the whole story.
02. Early generation creation
Kenji Kodama’s creation is regarded by many people as the achievement of the theatrical version of Detective Conan, but it is undeniable that before the creation company planned to launch the film version, the original G?sh? Aoyama had planned to let the serial of this story end.
But when he knew that he could put this IP on the big screen, he took the task with great joy and launched the first theatrical version of "Detonating Skyscrapers".
Director Kenji Kodama, like G?sh? Aoyama, is a writer who loves the case reasoning very much, so the stories are all based on the case reasoning of partial realism, combined with the setting of the emotional lines of the characters.
Once the theatrical version of Detective Conan was released, it was favored by fans at that time. The seven animated films directed by him have scored more than 8 points at home, including the most classic "The Dead of Baker Street".
When the guide tube reached Yamamoto Yasuichiro’s hand, there was not much breakthrough in quality, but the control of the Benguer reasoning and the emotional relationship of characters was still on-line.
Many people think that Yao Ming was born from the TV version of animation, and the reason why the two directors are quite different is that on the one hand, Kenji Kodama happened to be at the peak of G?sh? Aoyama’s creation; On the other hand, he was not influenced too much by the creation of TV series.
Yamamoto Yasuichiro’s biggest problem is that he is interfered too much by drama creation, and even many scenes are based on the content of the drama, which is relatively simple as a whole.
However, during this period, Kidd’s scenes obviously increased gradually, and his love and hate with Conan began to be discussed repeatedly as a topic. And Kidd’s famous scenes of several gorgeous rescues all appeared in the Yamamoto Yasuichiro era.
For the audience in China, the 13th work of the series, The Dark Tracker, has become the first theatrical version of Detective Conan introduced to the mainland market in China.
Although the quality of the two directors has changed greatly, it is undeniable that the box office of the whole series of theatrical versions has steadily increased from 1.1 billion yen and maintained at around 3 billion yen. For fans, Yamamoto Yasuichiro can only be regarded as a great achievement, what’s more, he was succeeded by silent Confucius, who subverted the whole series.
03. Business model
If the first two directors are the initiators accompanying the growth of this IP, then Silent Confucius is more like a foreign reformer.
After all, in his previous resume, there is no lack of overseas film and game production experience. And he also applied these experiences to the creation of the theatrical version very well, making the performance in the scene more ornamental. But what followed was that the reasoning details of Detective Conan itself gradually weakened.
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Especially in his first theatrical version of "Fifteen Minutes of Silence", Conan made all kinds of anti-physical actions, so he was also denounced by fans as "Ke Xue".
If Kōbun Shizuno has continued the creation of the first two directors, it is an explosion play. He even stepped up his creation. In the past, most of the big scenes that only existed in the climax paragraphs were blown up when he came here. Even Conan’s skateboard and shoes showed functions beyond scientific limits and properly became "sci-fi action movies".
These problems are best reflected in the 19th theatrical edition of Sunflowers for Fire. But even though it is criticized by most conan fan, it is undeniable that Kōbun Shizuno’s model has successfully opened the commercial road of the theatrical version of Detective Conan. During this period, the box office of the series of films has increased from 3 billion yen to nearly 7 billion yen.
In the face of fans’ doubts, he also came out to explain that this style of work is not just his idea, but the fact is that it is the result of combining the author’s requirements, technical special effects, audience surveys and other factors. For him, and even the whole Detective Conan, the former audience has gradually grown up. "We just want to attract more new audiences."
Looking through all kinds of interviews by the author G?sh? Aoyama, as early as 2000, he once said, "The charm of cartoons is the pleasure of action, and sure enough, movies still need these! Especially the fierce big scene. " Even in everyone’s eyes, Kenji Kodama, who is given priority to with this case reasoning, once emphasized the importance of action scenes.
With Kōbun Shizuno’s withdrawal, new directors appear constantly, but compared with the previous three directors, the producers obviously saw the reasons for the box office of Detective Conan series, and it is difficult to give them another chance to play. Even though "The Bride of Halloween" received excellent market feedback, it is not difficult to find that the setting of "Ke Xue" is still not absent.
04. The next wave of creation
The reason why the box office performance of Detective Conan is bigger than that of Doraemon series is that, to a great extent, the former insists on originality, while the latter is remaking the past plot.
But now that Detective Conan series has found its own creative mode, how to break this creative bottleneck has become a difficulty for G?sh? Aoyama and even the whole creator behind it.
But the careful audience can find that Conan is no longer the protagonist of the work, but more like a clue to connect the whole story. In The Bride of Halloween, the feelings of the "five-member police academy" broke through even more. For this reason, during its release, Japan also replayed The Executor of Zero, echoing An Shi Tong in the five-member, namely Furuya Rei.
Undeniably, The Executor of Zero achieved good box office results at that time, largely due to the box office economy driven by role fans. Yuzuru Tachikawa, the director of this film, once said in an interview that with the influx of more and more new fans, Detective Conan is no longer just Conan itself. "One of the reasons is that the characters with various personalities and the relationship between the characters make the story more intriguing."
Because of this, the selling point of "Crimson Bullet" is the Blanche family, and at the same time, it adds Haibara Ai’s scenes. To a great extent, this has caused a quarrel between the "New Zealand Party" and the "Ke Ai Party". However, in the pilot preview of the official theatrical version of Detective Conan in 2023, Haibara Ai will have a heavy performance. At that time, CP will take the side, which may make this work rich.
The director of this latest work has not been announced yet, but from The Bride of Halloween, we can see some subtle changes made by Susumu Mitsunaka in the creative mode of Silent Confucius, which may also make the audience look forward to this series and new creative styles will appear in the future.
