Moore, Conan, and Inspector Megure are walking towards a Rakugo (type of Japanese play center) where Moore will attempt to act and win the prize of "All you can drink". They make a stop by a famous Rakugo actor's restaurant named Meguro. Ichimatsu is the owner of this shop and he works alongside his ex-wife Meguro Miya. After the play, Ichimatsu is stabbed and sent to the hospital. The evidence points the culpirt to be Meguro Miya, but then Ichimatsu's assistant named Manragutei Kisaburau appears claiming he stabbed Ichimatsu. While both of them try to convict themselves, Conan figures out who the culprit is. Once solved the Miya and Kisaburau go out on a date. At the end Moore practices his horrible play forcing Conan, Inspector, and one of the cops to listen.
Spoilers ahead for viewers who have watched the Detective Conan Season 34 finale. After 34 seasons and 1,297 episodes, it would be easy to assume that Gosho Aoyama’s legendary mystery anime has nothing left to prove. And yet the Season 34 finale, which aired on September 5, 2026, is another reminder of why Detective Conan remains one of Japan’s most enduring crime, suspense, comedy, adventure, and mystery series. The finale does not reinvent the formula; instead, it sharpens the pleasures that have kept fans following Conan Edogawa for decades: a clever case, emotional restraint, character history, and the constant sense that the truth is always one deduction away.
Season 34 opened with a telling choice: before he became Conan, Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mori’s trip to the aquarium was interrupted by murder. That first episode immediately brought the season back to the original wound of the series: Shinichi is still a teenager trapped in a child’s body after being poisoned by a sinister organization, and every case he solves as Conan carries the weight of a life he is unable to fully reclaim. The finale works because it understands that Detective Conan is not only about identifying culprits. It is about the tragedy of a brilliant detective forced to live beside the people he loves while hiding the most important truth of all.
What worked best in the Season 34 finale was its confidence. Detective Conan finales often have to satisfy two audiences at once: viewers who come for the weekly mystery structure and long-term fans invested in the bigger mythology surrounding the Black Organization, Ai Haibara, Shinichi’s condition, and Ran’s slow emotional reckoning. This finale balanced those expectations by treating the case as both a puzzle and a character test. The deductions mattered, but the silences mattered too. Conan’s small hesitations, Ran’s sensitivity, and the lingering presence of Shinichi in every decision gave the episode a bittersweet emotional charge.