Due to a recent fad, Sakamoto Ryoma histories have become popular. Capitalizing on this, Jirokichi Suzuki's museum has set up a Ryoma exhibit. Jirokichi wanted to purchase a prize item of Ryoma's for the exhibit, a gun belt with a large ruby, from the current owners Shishihiko Tarumi and Masanosuke Hanamura. Not wanting to buy it before having it evaluating by his own appraiser, Jirokichi instead arranged a space at the exhibit for the owners to display the gunbelt in the meanwhile. Elsewhere, Sonoko tells Ran that Kaitou Kid has sent an advance notice that he will be at the exhibit to return some items that were stolen 20 years ago from Shishihiko Tarumi's Ryoma exhibit by the thief Phantom Lady: Ryoma's letter to his wife talking about the belt, a pistol Ryoma was carrying, and a sake cup with a bloodstain when Ryoma was assassinated. Inspector Ginzo Nakamori and Superintendent Shintaro Chaki discuss the best strategy to capture Kid: Lure Kid in to allow him to to return what was stolen, but then prevent him from leaving.
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.