Hey, Detective Conan fans. Anybody have a guide for how much of the series and movies are available in USA English? Dubs are my priority, but I'm interested in what's Sub only as well.
While I'm asking, same question for Lupin III fans. What's in English dubbed?
ATTENTION DETECTIVE CONAN/CASE CLOSED FANS! WE HAVE A NEW DUB AND YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING!
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In case you haven't heard, TMS Entertainment released a new English dub of select episodes for Detective Conan on both Netflix and Crunchyroll earlier this month. The collection titled Conan VS The Black Organization, features the following episodes:
Ep 1: The Rollercoaster Murder Case
Ep 2: The Kidnapping of the Company President's Daughter
Ep 128: The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robber Case
Ep 129: The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case
Ep 176-178: Re-Encounter with the Black Organization
Ep 230-231: Mysterious Passenger
I have more to say under the cut, but here's the TLDR: This collection has new, faithfully dubbed content with new & returning cast members, and TMS plans to commission more of this dub if it does well. Please support it!
If you've decided to keep reading, here are more details.
If you recall the old Funimation dub, it ended around episode 123 of the series (listed as 130 on their DVDs due to splitting the double-length episodes into two-parters) due to low sales, so they never reached a majority of the episodes listed above. So, aside from episodes 1 & 2(titled The Big Shrink and The Kidnapped Deputante in the Funi dub), which were also redubbed, this is the first time these episodes have been officially brought over to the West!
Fans will also be happy to know this new dub by Studio Nano in Texas follows suit with Bang Zoom and Discotek's movie dubs in that all Japanese character and location names are retained, and the dub scripts are more faithful to the Japanese original. In addition, we have a mix of old and new voice talent among the Conan cast, including:
Molly Zhang as Conan Edogawa
Mauricio Ortiz-Segura as Shinichi Kudo
Megan Shipman as Ran Mori
Robert McCollum as Kogoro Mori
Alexis Tipton as Ai Haibara
Christopher Guerrero as Professor/Doctor Hiroshi Agasa
Mark Stoddard as Inspector Megure
Colleen Clinkenbeard as Vermouth
Nick Huber as Gin
David Matranga as Vodka
In addition, TMS has been premiering a movie dub each week on their YouTube channel, which will include the 5th Conan movie, Countdown to Heaven, premiering on the 26th of July at 7pm PT/10pm ET. Presumably, it will have a redub, but we don't know at the time of this post if it will be from Bang Zoom or Studio Nano. If it's available to watch in your country, please go watch them, show your support for more Conan, and most importantly: Be Respectful.
UPDATE(24/07/2025): The movie premiere of Countdown to Heaven has been confirmed by TMS' Youtube link to be an English subtitled release. While this may be disappointing to those hoping for a new dub of the movie, please support the premiere all the same. More Conan available in the West is always a good thing.
For anyone wishing for the old Case Closed dub to return, I say this: as a fan of the old dub and its cast, the Studio Nano dub is probably the closest we've come to capturing the spirit of that dub while still respecting the source material. Stoddard was the original voice of Inspector Meguire(Megure) and is reprising the role. Clinkenbeard was previously the voice of Rachel Moore(Ran) and is now playing the role of Vermouth. Additionally, McCollum, who is our new Sleeping Kogoro, had a role in the old dub as soccer player Harrison Acres (Hideo Akagi).
In terms of the new talent listed, Tipton carries the spirit of Haibara's more jaded and sarcastic personality, performing that scene in episode 129 to perfection. Ortiz-Segura's performance as Shinichi is closer to Kappei Yamaguchi's portrayal in pitch, but is a solid voice for the character, and I hope to hear more from him in future dubbed episodes. Guerrero's performance as Agasa even brings back his European accent, going for a more British take on the voice rather than German, which is somewhat fitting as Agasa is the Watson to Conan's Holmes. And above all, Molly Zhang nails Conan Edogawa, able to vary her delivery to convey a clear difference between Conan's "I'm just a little kid" act and when he's in full deduction mode.
Finally, considering TMS is willing to make more of this dub if it does well, that means we could potentially see more returning cast members from the Case Closed dub in new roles, or even reprising! Imagine Jerry Jewell(Jimmy Kudo in the Funi dub) coming back to reprise as the Phantom Thief Kid, or even taking up the role of Shinichi's father, Yuusaku Kudo, or Kevin M Connolly(Harley Hartwell in the Funi dub) coming back to reprise as Heiji Hattori. I don't know about you, but I would love to see it. At the same time, maybe there could be reprisals from the Bang Zoom cast for the newer characters, like Kyle McCarley's Toru Amuro or Jenny Yokobori's Masumi Sera. Who knows, maybe they'll even dub Magic Kaito with this studio? One can hope🤞
Again, I really hope this dub does well, because right now, anything that can lessen the gap in episodes legally is a good thing. If you live in any English-speaking-majority country in the West(America, Canada, UK, Ireland) and look up the episodes for 'Case Closed(Detective Conan)' on Crunchyroll, you'll notice there is a 631-episode-long gap between episodes 123(where Funimation stopped) and 754(when Crunchyroll picked up the license).
Obviously, asking for dubs of every single missing episode would be too big an ask, but collections of select episodes based on important characters or arcs are significantly more doable.
So please, if you're a fan of this show and these characters, watch and rewatch the new dub on Crunchyroll and Netflix, check out the movie premieres if you can, and respectfully let TMS know that we want more Conan in the English West. Because if they know we want it, they'll keep making it.
As Conan always says, there is always only one truth. Or to put it another way...😏
