Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween is the 25th Detective Conan Theatrical Film in the franchise. It was directed by Susumu Mitsunaka, written by Takahiro Okura, and produced by Kiyoaki Terashima, Shūhō Kondō, and Takeshi Shioguchi. This is the first film in the franchise not to be scored by longtime series composer Katsuo Ono, instead being scored by Yugo Kanno. It was released in April 15, 2022, with a second "Halloween Revival" screening done from October 28 to November 7 the same year.
It was followed by Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine the following year.
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The Bride of Halloween provides examples of:
- Action Prologue: The film begins with the Metropolitan Police rehearsing their security protocol for Muranaka's wedding, while Furuya and Kazami pursue the serial bomber who killed Hagiwara and Matsuda, who had escaped from prison.
- Back for the Dead: In a movie first, the unnamed serial bomber responsible for the Metropolitan Police Serial Bombing case is brought back, only to be shortly killed off in the film's opening sequence by the Big Bad.
- Badass in Distress: Amuro/Furuya spends a lot of the movie kept in a confinement box for safety reasons, on account of Plamya having strapped a bomb on his neck. He gets out of it just in time for the climax.
- Big Bad: The mastermind of the events of the case is the Russia-based international hitman Plamya, who has come to unleash a campaign of terror upon Tokyo for an unknown reason. That reason is both to seek revenge against Furuya and the Onizuka gang for being the only ones to successfully defuse their bomb and foil their plans (not knowing that Furuya is the only one left alive due to various incidents that had happened in the interim), as well as to lure Nado Unichtozit' to their deaths by planning to turn the Shibuya intersection into a massive bomb in the style of their signature double-chemical design. Plamya also happens to be Christine Richard, Muranaka's fiancee and the bride of the wedding ceremony, planning to use the wedding as a clean slate with all those who know of her identity dead in the wake of it.
- Bloodstained Glass Windows: Christine, upon her identity being revealed, starts a gunfight in the chapel against both the MPD and Nado Unichtozit'.
- Cooldown Hug: Conan gives one to Yelenika, to convince her that it's not worth killing Plamya for revenge. It works.
- Crusading Widow: Nado Unichtozit', led by Yelenika Lavrentyeva, is an entire group of this, dedicated to hunting down Plamya to avenge the deaths of their loved ones.
- Death by Adaptation: In the manga, the unnamed serial bomber's ultimate fate is merely arrested even though Sato wanted him dead, here he gets killed by Plamya.
- Demoted to Extra: Kogoro is taken out of commission early in the film when he tries to save Ai after she gets flung into incoming traffic by a bomb attack, and spends the rest of the film hospitalized after getting hit by a truck.
- Distant Finale: In a sense, the sequence where the Onizuka class (aside from the late Hagiwara) reunite and stop Plamya from blowing up a building serves as one to the Wild Police Story spinoff, showing the gang's last adventure together before Matsuda's own death in the serial bombing case.
- Mad Bomber: Plamya is an assassin known for using powerful incendiary bombs for their hits. They even make their appearance by blowing up the Police Serial Bomber right in front of Furuya and Kazami, before hooking the same bomb on Furuya's neck.
- Sequel Hook: The camera is submerged underwater into the dark depths of the ocean, only for an ominous voice to ring out from the abyss.Gin: I was dying to see you...Sherry!
