Case Closed Movie 01: The Time Bombed Skyscraper

Don't let the child-sized body fool you — Shinichi Kudou is still one of Japan's sharpest teenage detectives, shrunk down by a criminal organization and now forced to solve crimes while pretending to be a random kid named Conan Edogawa. That's already a weird situation. Then someone steals a massive amount of plastic explosives and leaves Conan a personal challenge: find the bombs hidden across the city before they go off. Oh, and his childhood friend Ran is waiting for a movie date that Shinichi technically agreed to, and Conan has to figure out how to juggle that alongside, you know, preventing a citywide disaster. The movie does a solid job of balancing the tense, ticking-clock thriller stuff with the lighter comedy that comes from Conan being a tiny kid trying to act like a genius adult without blowing his cover. It never takes itself too seriously, but the mystery has real stakes. If you've seen Lupin III vs. Detective Conan and want something with that same blend of heist-thriller energy and sharp detective work, this scratches that itch. Fans of Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin who like mysteries wrapped around atmospheric urban settings will also find something here. As a standalone movie, it's a clean entry point into the Detective Conan world — no prior knowledge required, just a tolerance for a very strange premise played completely straight.