Introduction
The latest innovation in virtual reality gaming is set for a private showcase, with the children of Japan's elite given the opportunity to playtest it. Unfortunately, their carefree fun is cut short when a company employee is found murdered, his dying message pointing to a clue hidden within the game's historical setting.
Along with the Detective Boys and Ran Mouri, Conan Edogawa enters the game to solve this mystery and ensure the perpetrator is caught. But once they load in, an artificial intelligence named Noah's Ark imprisons them and the other children within. To escape and bring the murderer to justice, Conan and company must navigate a simulated 19th-century London and track down the infamous Jack the Ripper—with the lives of 50 innocent children depending on them.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience reviews
7 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
shiningcheese
I have massive nostalgia for Conan but I haven't watch all of the movies yet and this is said by many to be the best Conan movie.
What the heck... it's actually so average-
This movie lacks suspense, tension, and spectacle, all the things that I look for in a Conan movie. The motives and plot are full of ass-pulls that it requires too much suspension of disbelief out of me and shallow, poorly set up "chekov's gun". The newly introduced characters have so much missed potential too. There's like one good character, but then that got removed from the plot pretty quickly. The other character that is shown to go through some character development actually becomes meaningless because of the plot twist. The movie tries to tackle many interesting topics but since there are so many it tries to sa…
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This movie used to be one of my least favorites in the series. Back then, I found it to be weird and somewhat contrived. I understand that this statement may displease some fans. After all, Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street is unarguably a very popular movie among them all and is often considered the best one in the whole series. To this day, I still don't necessarily agree with these opinions. That said, I can finally see why it is that people love this movie so much and why it is still worth recommending to this day.
One of the things I found to be very fun about this movie is how it implemented the fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle into the world of 19th century London. The environments of industrial London are very well designed and the fan service for Sherlock fans is, admitte…
Read at the sourceYuuki1276
The Phantom of Baker Street has always been one of my favourite Detective Conan movies. I like its characters and story.
The idea of a virtual reality game such as Cocoon and an artificial inteligence like Noah is really fascinating and may be products that will be created in the future.
But there has always been one part of the story, that I do not understand until today. Schindler is supposed to be a descendant of Jack the Ripper, but why should that be a problem for Schindler and his company? It is not as if he were responsible for who his ancestors are. How would people make Schindler responsible for that in any legal way and why should they? That doesn't make sense to me at all.
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From Detective Conan Movies 1 to 15, I like this one the most. The virtual reality concept is interesting and it's set in London which is a nice change. Also includes Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes which made it more interesting.
There is an in-game culprit and real life culprit (in Conan's world) which is pretty cool. The culprit is predictable and the mystery wasn't extremely complicated but it was still exciting to watch.
In terms of art and music, it's decent. I didn't really pay much attention to it at all while watching.
In general, I find the older Conan movies to be more interesting.
Read at the sourcevigorousjammer
Story: 4
The story in this Detective Conan film was definitely the weakest part of it for me. It makes many attempts to do something, but doesn't follow the rules required to do that thing. One thing it tried to do was have a suspenseful mystery, but the film reveals who the murderer is early on, creating a mystery story that doesn't really matter, because we, the viewer already know who did it. The method the murderer used also didn't end up being very interesting. Aside from ruining the mystery elements, the film also does a poor job of creating suspense and tension. The newly introduced characters are put in life-threatening situations, but because they're in the same situation as the main cast, there's never any reason to be worried, because you're always assured that they're going to…
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Although it's taking place inside a VR game, I would have expected quite a bit of mystery from a Detective Conan movie set in the era of Sherlock Holmes. Even more since said game is about investigating the case of Jack the Ripper, one of the great unresolved real-life murder mysteries. But what do we get instead? Conan first goes to Holmes' place (who is currently absent due to his investigation of the Baskerville case), then goes to meet Moriarty, has him kinda summon the culprit, and off we go to the showdown. Bah. Holmes appearing literally out of thin air on the train didn't help either.
Art and animation are quite good, as one would expect from a Detective Conan movie. However, the story was a major disappointment for me, so I won't keep the DVD.
Read at the sourceIlyaoh
At first I'd like to say: Best Conan Film Yet!!
I've seen all the Conan movies currently (which I could find) subbed (11), and this movie, "The Phantom of Baker Street" was the movie I enjoyed most.
Let Detective Mouri drag Conan (Shinichi), Ran, Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys with him to another party where he was invited to, with lots of kids, celebrity's and known people from the anime. Don't forget the highly anticipated murder which will occur....
Then you get a good story for Conan to solve, but what's more? This isn't a regular party, this is a party for kids to test out the beta-cocoon, a game terminal formed like a cocoon, which takes on the five senses we humans have, then they let the people think they're somewhere else, we got several stage's, Paris Dakar Rally, Trea…
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