Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time (Japanese: 名探偵コナン ゼロの, Hepburn: Meitantei Konan Zero No Tī Taimu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takahiro Arai. It is a spin-off of the Detective Conan manga by Gosho Aoyama, with Aoyama supervisioning the project, and is centered on the character Toru Amuro. The first part of the story was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from May 2018 to May 2022. A six-episode anime television series adaptation by TMS Entertainment was broadcast from April to May 2022.
Arai launched another spin-off in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, titled Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc – Wild Police Story, which ran from October 2019 to November 2020.
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Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time is written and illustrated by Takahiro Arai and supervisioned by Gosho Aoyama. The first part of the story ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from May 9, 2018, to May 25, 2022. Chapters of the manga were only published when Aoyama's main series Detective Conan is on hiatus. Shogakukan has compiled its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on August 8, 2018. As of October 18, 2021, five volumes have been released.
Shogakukan Asia licensed the manga for English language release in Southeast Asia in January 2019.
Arai published another spin-off, titled Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc – Wild Police Story, which ran in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2, 2019, to November 18, 2020.
Volume lists[]
| No. | Release date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 8, 2018 | 978-4-09-128536-2 |
| 2 | October 8, 2018 | 978-4-09-128638-3 |
| 3 | April 10, 2019 | 978-4-09-128884-4 |
| 4 | November 18, 2019 | 978-4-09-129497-5 |
| 5 | October 18, 2021 | 978-4-09-850803-7 |
Anime[]
On October 4, 2021, it was announced that the manga will receive an anime adaptation. In November 2021, at Netflix's "Festival Japan" virtual event, it was revealed that they would stream the series. It is produced by TMS Entertainment and directed by Tomochi Kosaka, with scripts written by Yoshiko Nakamura, character designs handled by Kyōko Yoshimi, and music composed by Tomisiro. The series was broadcast for six episodes on Tokyo MX, ytv, and BS-4 from April 5 to May 10, 2022. The opening theme is "Shooting Star" by RAKURA, while the ending theme is "Find the truth" by Rainy. The series will premiere on Netflix outside of Japan on July 29, 2022.
Episode list[]
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date | English release date |
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| 1 | "TIME.１" | Tomochi Kosaka | Yoshiko Nakamura | Tomochi Kosaka | April 5, 2022 | July 29, 2022 |
| 2 | "TIME.２" | Tomochi Kosaka | Yoshiko Nakamura | Jirō Kanai, Iwao Teraoka | April 12, 2022 | July 29, 2022 |
| 3 | "TIME.３" | Yasuhito Takahashi | Yoshiko Nakamura | Iwao Teraoka | April 19, 2022 | July 29, 2022 |
| 4 | "TIME.4" | Yasuhito Takahashi | Yoshiko Nakamura | Iwao Teraoka | April 26, 2022 | July 29, 2022 |
| 5 | "TIME.5" | Minoru Tozawa | Yoshiko Nakamura | Yasuyuki Honda | May 3, 2022 | July 29, 2022 |
| 6 | "TIME.6" | Hitomi Ezoe | Yoshiko Nakamura | Jiro Kanai | May 10, 2022 | July 29, 2022 |
Reception[]
Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time ranked 6th on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2018" ranking by the Honya Club website.