The official Twitter of “Detective Conan: The Movie” has posted a mysterious tweet ’18, 5, 12, 15, 1, 4 Now, the bullet will be “XXX”ー ‘ on December 1, 2020. A lot of fans all over the world “broke the code”, and left comments.
From the anime “Detective Conan”, “Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet” was scheduled to be released in April 2020, but it was postponed due to the spread of COVID-19. After all, it was announced to premiere in April 2021.
On November 25 that was less than half a year since the release of “Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet”, the official Twitter of “Detective Conan: The Movie” has posted a tweet ’18’. Following that, the account has been posting a one-letter tweet: ‘5’ on November 26, ’12’ on November 27, ’15’ on November 28, ‘1’ on November 29, and ‘4’ on November 30.
On December 1, the account has tweeted all the numbers in order, ’18, 5, 12, 15, 1, 4 Now, the bullet will be “XXX”ー ‘. The fans compare them with the order of the alphabet, and read them as ’18（R）, 5（E）, 12（L）, 15（O）, 1（A）, 4（D）’. Then, the fans tweeted: ‘Now, the bullet will be “reloaded”‘ ‘Now the bullet is “reloaded” Let’s goooo!!!’ ‘It sounds like it will restart, which is cool’ ‘That’s so cooooool!!! So now we can say “How many times have you reloaded so far?” to ask how many times someone has watched the film in theaters!!!!!! I will reload(watch) again and again’
(C)2020 Aoyama Gosho / Detective Conan Production Committee
