Conan, Ran, and Kogoro arrive in Hiroshima to meet a film crew whom plan to film them touring Miyajima, Hiroshima. The assistant producer, Yuuichi Kitamura, gets a severe stomach pain that causes him to be bedridden. They take a ferry to Miyajima and begin filming. In front of Itsukushima Shrine, a crew member finds out salt was added to his drink; the film crew then notice a familiar man in a crowd and assume him to be at fault. One of the crew tells Conan that man may be probing the crew since it is suspected one of them is running an illegal casino. The film crew arrives at a red-leaf bun pastry shop owned by Yayoi Ayase which has a specialty of red-leaf bun called Misen's Seven Wonders, based on the seven wonders of Mount Misen: The eternal flame of Daishō-in, The plum tree grown from Kūkai's khakkhara, a boulder that ebb and flows the salt water of Hiroshima Bay, a boulder inscribed with Kūkai's writing, the sound of a goblin's clapping, a special cherry blossom that undergoes deciduous all season long, and and lights dubbed as dragon fire over Hiroshima Bay. Conan notices a photograph depicting the crew members in the past and is told the crew were in Miyajima two years ago for filming; He then notices the man spotted at the shrine in another picture who is revealed to be Shinroku Ayasa, Yayoi's brother. Yayoi explains her parents fell to their death on Misen two years prior and Shinroku investigated the cause. Two weeks ago, he disappears for unknown reasons. As the filming continues, a crew member finds his ring tone has been changed to clappers and another has been thrown an etched rock.
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.