Kaito Kid, in Person and for Free
The Hiroshima stop's headline extra is a Kaito Kid character photo session on Saturday, September 26, held to celebrate the venue's opening. The phantom thief appears three times that day, at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., at the Tsubasa no Hiroba event plaza on the sixth floor of Motomachi Credo Pacela, the Hiroshima shopping complex credited as a special partner for this leg. Each session admits 50 groups of up to four people; entry is free and first come, first served, with numbered tickets handed out on site.
There's a weekday perk, too. Visitors who come Monday through Friday receive one of seven Hiroshima-venue-exclusive cards at random, each using illustrations newly drawn for the exhibition. Exhibition-original merchandise will also be sold, though the lineup won't be revealed until later.
A Walk Through How a Conan Episode Gets Made
According to a report from Japanese anime news site Anime Anime, the exhibition is structured as a tour of the TV anime's production pipeline, from initial planning all the way to the theme songs. At the entrance, Conan Edogawa and 30 characters greet visitors, a nod to the 30th anniversary, and one corner collects 30 years' worth of the opening narration scene, the famous "He looks like a child, but his mind is that of an adult. His name: Detective Conan!" bit that kicks off the show.
From there it digs into the materials: character designs and art design documents, notes on what creator Gosho Aoyama values most when building a character, recommended tricks from the director, and scale models built from actual background art, including Kogoro Mouri's detective agency. A storyboard corner papers the walls with boards actually used on the show, and an animation section breaks Conan's movement down frame by frame.
The voice recording area lets visitors compare Conan's line reads across different emotions and displays congratulatory comments from the voice cast. A theme song zone shows off the CD jackets and a timeline of the series' music history, while a memorial scene area revisits famous moments in chronological order starting from the 1996 premiere. The Thanks Theater screens a special short made for the exhibition, an original story that can only be seen there, and a final corner catalogs the history of NEXT CONAN'S HINT, the post-episode teaser that points to the next case, along with a behind-the-scenes look at how that exhibition short was produced.
Stop 7 of 12, Then the World
The Hiroshima run is organized by local broadcaster Hiroshima TV and marks the seventh stop on a national tour. Per the official exhibition site, the tour opened at Tokyo Dome City Prism Hall in February 2026 and covers 12 Japanese cities in total, with international editions planned for Taipei, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Seoul.
The occasion is the TV anime's 30th anniversary. The show has been on the air since January 1996, adapting Gosho Aoyama's mystery manga serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday. The manga has topped 270 million copies in circulation worldwide and won the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shonen category. The theatrical side is busy as well: the movie series keeps posting record hits year after year, and the latest entry, Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway, is in Japanese theaters now.
Looking Ahead
The Hiroshima exhibition runs September 19 through October 12, 2026, at NTT Credo Hall, open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with last entry at 5:00 p.m. After that, the tour continues to Matsuyama (October 17 to November 8), the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse (November 14 to December 6), Nagoya (December 12 to January 11, 2027), Numazu in Shizuoka (January 16 to February 14, 2027) and Fukuoka (February to March 2027, details still to come), before heading to the overseas venues.
For fans outside Japan who can't make the trip, the franchise itself is easier to access in English than ever: Viz Media publishes the manga as Case Closed, and a curated selection of the anime's episodes streams on Netflix and Crunchyroll with a new English dub. Details on the Kaito Kid photo session and the merchandise lineup will be posted on the exhibition's official site.