Every criminal needs a cute sidekick and the silhouetted man Hanzawa-san is no different. The upcoming anime spin-off of Case Closed, Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa revealed today that Inori Minase, who is best known as the voice of Rem in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, will be joining the cast of the special as the pomeranian Pometaro.
Pometaro's anime character design was also released:
Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa is an official spin-off comedy manga illustrated by Mayuko Kanba that has been serialized in Shogakukan's Shonen Sunday S monthly magazine since May 2017, and so far six collected volumes have been released in Japan. Its story is set in Beika-cho in Tokyo, a fictional town that is the center of the story in the Detective Conan main series, and follows the daily life of the “Shadow Man" (Hanzawa-san the Culprit), a silhouette of an unidentified criminal in Case Closed.
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Akitaro Daichi (Kodomo no Omocha) directs Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa at TMS and 1st Studio. The series is scheduled to air in Japan in October with Netflix streaming it internationally at some point after.
Source: Comic Natalie
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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.
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