Today on the release day of the memorial 100th volume Gosho Aoyama’s Detective Conan / Case Closed mystery manga series in Japan, Shogakukan announced that the manga has reached a circulation of 250 million copies worldwide.
A huge 22-meter advertisement featuring the visuals of Conan from all 100 volumes has been displayed in the underground passage of Shibuya Station on the Denentoshi Line (until October 24, 2021).
The manga has been serialized in the publisher’s Weekly Shonen Sunday for 28 years since January 1994 and has become one of the longest-running and most popular weekly manga series in Japan.