Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time

Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time
First volume cover, featuring Rei Furuya
名探偵コナン ゼロの日常(ティータイム) (Meitantei Conan Zero no Tī Taimu)
Created by	Gosho Aoyama
Manga
Written by	Takahiro Arai
Published by	Shogakukan
English publisher	SG: Shogakukan Asia
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics Special
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	May 9, 2018 – present
Volumes	6
Anime television series
Directed by	Tomochi Kosaka
Produced by	Shuho Kondo Emi Sato Hiroya Nakata Kiyoaki Terashima
Written by	Yoshiko Nakamura
Music by	Tomisiro
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Licensed by	Netflix (streaming rights)
Original network	Tokyo MX, ytv, BS Nippon
Original run	April 5, 2022 – May 10, 2022
Episodes	6

Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time, also known as Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time (Japanese: 名探偵コナン ゼロの日常(ティータイム), Hepburn: Meitantei Konan Zero No Tī Taimu), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takahiro Arai. It is a spin-off of the Case Closed manga by Gosho Aoyama, with Aoyama supervising the project, and is centered on the character Toru Amuro. The first part of the story was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from May 2018 to May 2022. A six-episode anime television series adaptation produced by TMS Entertainment was broadcast from April to May 2022.

Arai launched another spin-off in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, titled Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc – Wild Police Story, which ran from October 2019 to November 2020.

Characters

See also: List of Case Closed characters

Rei Furuya (降谷 零, Furuya Rei)

Voiced by: Tōru Furuya^[1] (Japanese); Kyle McCarley^[2] (English)

He has three faces: he protects Japan as Rei Furuya of the Public Security Police, serves as an apprentice detective under Kogoro Mori as "Toru Amuro", and also infiltrates a black-ops organization under the code name "Bourbon".

Azusa Enomoto (榎本 梓, Enomoto Azusa)

Voiced by: Mikiko Enomoto^[3] (Japanese); Janice Kawaye^[2] (English)

Works at the Poirot coffee shop, located downstairs from the Mori Detective Agency.

Midori Kuriyama (栗山 緑, Kuriyama Midori)

Voiced by: Asako Dodo^[3] (Japanese); Julie Ann Taylor^[2] (English)

A secretary supporting Eri Kisaki, who runs the Kisaki Law Office.

Yuya Kazami (風見 裕也, Kazami Yuya)

Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita^[3] (Japanese); Ray Chase^[2] (English)

A public security police officer in the Public Safety Department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. He works hard to assist Amuro as his right-hand man.

Haro (ハロ)

Voiced by: Megumi Han^[3]

A stray dog that suddenly appeared in front of the mortuary.

Media

Manga

Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time is written and illustrated by Takahiro Arai and supervisioned by Gosho Aoyama. The first part of the story ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from May 9, 2018,^[4][5] to May 25, 2022.^[6][7] Chapters of the manga were only published when Aoyama's main series Case Closed is on hiatus.^[8] Shogakukan has compiled its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on August 8, 2018.^[9] As of June 17, 2022, six volumes have been released.^[10]

Shogakukan Asia licensed the manga for English language release in Southeast Asia in January 2019.^[11]

Arai published another spin-off, titled Detective Conan: Police Academy Arc – Wild Police Story, which ran in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2, 2019, to November 18, 2020.^[12][13]

Volumes

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	August 8, 2018[9]	978-4-09-128536-2
2	October 8, 2018[14]	978-4-09-128638-3
3	April 10, 2019[15]	978-4-09-128884-4
4	November 18, 2019[16]	978-4-09-129497-5
5	October 18, 2021[17]	978-4-09-850803-7
6	June 17, 2022[10]	978-4-09-851175-4

Anime

On October 4, 2021, it was announced that the manga would receive an anime adaptation.^[18] In November 2021, at Netflix's "Festival Japan" virtual event, it was revealed that they would stream the series.^[19] It is produced by TMS Entertainment and directed by Tomochi Kosaka, with scripts written by Yoshiko Nakamura, character designs handled by Kyōko Yoshimi, and music composed by Tomisiro. The series was broadcast for six episodes on Tokyo MX, ytv, and BS Nippon from April 5 to May 10, 2022.^[1][3][20] The opening theme is "Shooting Star" by Rakura, while the ending theme is "Find the truth" by Rainy.^[1] The series premiered on Netflix outside of Japan on July 29, 2022.^[21]

Episodes

No.	Title [22]	Directed by [a]	Written by [a]	Storyboarded by [a]	Original release date [23][24]	English release date [21]
1	"TIME.１"	Tomochi Kosaka	Yoshiko Nakamura	Tomochi Kosaka	April 5, 2022 (2022-04-05)	July 29, 2022
2	"TIME.２"	Tomochi Kosaka	Yoshiko Nakamura	Jirō Kanai, Iwao Teraoka	April 12, 2022 (2022-04-12)	July 29, 2022
3	"TIME.３"	Yasuhito Takahashi	Yoshiko Nakamura	Iwao Teraoka	April 19, 2022 (2022-04-19)	July 29, 2022
4	"TIME.4"	Yasuhito Takahashi	Yoshiko Nakamura	Iwao Teraoka	April 26, 2022 (2022-04-26)	July 29, 2022
5	"TIME.5"	Minoru Tozawa	Yoshiko Nakamura	Yasuyuki Honda	May 3, 2022 (2022-05-03)	July 29, 2022
6	"TIME.6"	Hitomi Ezoe	Yoshiko Nakamura	Jiro Kanai	May 10, 2022 (2022-05-10)	July 29, 2022

Reception

Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time ranked sixth on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2018" ranking by the Honya Club website.^[25] The series ranked seventh on AnimeJapan's "Most Wanted Anime Adaptation" poll in 2019.^[26]

See also

• Les Misérables, another manga series by the same creator

Notes

1. Information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.

References

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External links

• Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time at Web Sunday (in Japanese)
• Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time official anime website (in Japanese)
• Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time on Netflix
• Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia