After 32 years of murders, suspicious cocktails, impossible locked rooms and Ran somehow still waiting for Shinichi to come home, we finally know something huge about the Detective Conan ending: creator Gosho Aoyama has already finished the storyboard for the final chapter.
Aoyama dropped the bomb during the Japanese TV special 24-Hour Television Latest Information SP（24時間テレビ最新情報SP）, a preview programme connected to Nippon TV’s annual 24-Hour Television 49: Love Saves the Earth（24時間テレビ49「愛は地球を救う」）. Conan super-fans CHANMINA and SixTONES member Taiga Kyomoto visited Aoyama’s actual workplace for the interview, where the 63-year-old manga legend revealed that the storyboard for the final episode has already been completed.
And his review of the ending?
“It’s interesting.” 😏
Sir. Respectfully. Some of us have been waiting since dial-up internet. We’re going to need slightly more than that.
32 Years, 1,000+ Cases… and Still in Grade 1 🎒🔍
Detective Conan began serialization in 1994. That means kids who discovered Shinichi Kudo back then are now adults with careers, mortgages, children and mysterious lower-back pain whenever they stand up too quickly.
Conan, meanwhile, is still approximately seven.
At this point, APTX 4869 isn’t even the most mysterious thing in the series. The real mystery is how nobody at Teitan Elementary has noticed this child has survived three decades without advancing to Grade 2.
The technology around him has evolved too. Conan started life in an era when mobile phones looked like bricks, but today he casually uses smartphones and high-tech gadgets while solving crimes that apparently happen every time he leaves the house.
Honestly, Beika City tourism should probably come with a waiver.
Aoyama Has Been Sitting on the Detective Conan Ending for YEARS 😏
Here’s the funnier part: this isn’t actually the first time Aoyama has admitted the ending exists.
During a 2022 conversation with ONE PIECE creator Eiichiro Oda, Aoyama had already revealed that he had prepared a provisional storyboard for Detective Conan’s final chapter. In other words, while fans have spent years analysing Gin, Rum, Haibara, Karasuma and every suspicious elderly man who appears for more than four seconds, Aoyama has basically been sitting there knowing how the whole thing ends.
That is villain behaviour.
It does, however, mean the Detective Conan ending has a real destination. After three decades of cases, movies, disguises and a family tree complicated enough to require its own detective agency, Aoyama knows where the story is heading.
The finish line exists.
We just don’t know whether it’s five kilometres away or another 600 murders away.
The 3 Mysteries Conan Still Has to Solve 🕶️🧪❤️
The Detective Conan ending has some serious homework waiting for it. The Black Organization needs a proper conclusion, Conan eventually needs to deal with the minor inconvenience of being trapped inside a child’s body, and Haibara deserves an ending that doesn’t involve simply handing Shinichi a permanent antidote and saying, “Well, good luck.”
Then there’s Shinichi and Ran.
Will Ran finally learn the complete truth? Will Shinichi permanently return to his original body? And can these two possibly go on one normal date without someone being poisoned, stabbed, kidnapped or discovered inside a locked bathroom?
Honestly, if the final chapter is just Shinichi and Ran eating dinner peacefully for 20 pages, that might be Aoyama’s greatest plot twist ever.
No murder. No fishing wire. No mysterious businessman wearing sunglasses indoors.
Absolute cinema. 👏
Calm Down — Conan Isn’t Ending Next Tuesday ☕
Before everyone starts an emergency 1,000-episode rewatch, there is one very important detail: Aoyama confirming that the final storyboard exists does NOT mean Detective Conan has officially announced its ending.
There is still no confirmed publication date for the Detective Conan ending, and no official countdown telling fans when the manga will actually finish. Aoyama has prepared the destination, but apparently Conan still has plenty of crimes to stumble into before he gets there.
So yes, somewhere inside Aoyama’s files sits the answer to one of manga’s longest-running mysteries.
He knows what happens.
We don’t.
Which means after 32 years, the biggest unsolved case in Detective Conan may no longer be “Who is the killer?”
It’s:
“Gosho… WHEN ARE YOU ACTUALLY LETTING US READ THIS THING?” 😂🔍
Until then, sit back and enjoy the remaining adventures of pop culture’s most dangerous elementary school student.
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