Welcome to the first trailer post of the week.
Come back tomorrow for the second.
What are the first set of films released this weekend?
Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback 
名探偵コナン 隻眼の残像（フラッシュバック） 「Meitantei Konan Sekigan no Zanzou (Furasshubakku)」
Release Date: April 18th, 2025
Duration: 110 mins
Director: Katsuya Shigehara
Writer: Takeharu Sakurai (Screenplay), Gosho Aoyama (Original Creator),
Starring: Minami Takayama (Conan Edogawa), Rikiya Koyama (Kogoro Mori), Wakana Yamazaki (Ran Mori), Ami Koshimizu (Yui Uehara), Megumi Hayashibara (Ai Haibara),
Animation Production: TMS Entertainment
Website Twitter: @conan_movie ANN MAL Detective Conan World
This is the 28th Detective Conan movie and it is directed by Katsuya Shigehara, who has worked on previous films in the franchise in key animation and technical director roles.
Synopsis: Set in the snowy mountains of Nagano Prefecture, the case begins when Kansuke Yamato is shot at by a “certain man” he was in pursuit of. The bullet grazes his left eye just as an avalanche occurs and the assailant is swallowed by the snow. 10 months later, someone matching his description is the suspect in an attack on a worker at the Nobeyama National Observatory and Kansuke is on the case again. This is when the Mori Detective Agency receives a phone call from a detective called “Wani”, a colleague of Kogoro’s from his days in the Metropolitan Police Department. Wani was investigating the avalanche incident and reveals that Kogoro’s name was found in the case file...
Me & Roboco 
劇場版 僕とロボコ 「Gekijouban boku to roboko」
Release Date: April 18th, 2025
Duration: N/A mins
Director: Akitaro Daichi
Writer: Sayuri Oba (Screenplay), Shuhei Miyazaki (Original Creator),
Starring: Mami Tsuda (Bondo), Shun Matsuo (Roboco). Kotono Mitsuishi (Bondo’s Mother), Erina Goto (Nyonta), M.A.O (Madoka Chuwaan), more listed below
Animation Production: Gallop
Website Twitter: @roboco_hizanapa ANN MAL
This is based on a gag manga by Shuhei Miyazaki which was first serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump and then adapted into a 28-episode TV series made up of 3-minute episodes.
Synopsis: This is set in a world where most families own a cute maid robot. Bondo, a normal elementary school pupil, ends up getting one, Roboco, and it turns out to be anything but normal. Things get even stranger when space-time gets distorted by a mysterious person and the film takes on “multiverse” dimensions with various Roboco – ANN lists the voice actors/characters as follows:
Mayumi Tanaka (voice of Luffy in One Piece) as Roboco from a “straightforward battle world line”
Masako Nozawa as Roboco “from a Showa-era gag manga worldline,” inspired by comedy manga from the mid-20th century
Sumire Uesaka as Roboco “from a romantic comedy worldline”
Shigeru Chiba (Fist of the North Star’s narrator) as Roboco “from a classic sci-fi action worldline” where the war between humans and robots has caused the destruction of the world
Shun Matsuo will continue to play the “normal” Roboco
104-sai, Tetsuyo-san no hitorigurashi 
104歳、哲代さんのひとり暮らし 「104-sai, Tetsuyo-san no hitorikurashi」
Release Date: April 18th, 2025
Duration: 94 mins.
Director: Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Writer: N/A
Starring: Lily Franky (Narration)
Website Twitter: @104_hitori
Synopsis: This documentary shows the daily life of Tetsuyo Ishii, a 104-year-old woman who lives independently in a house in the mountain area off Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture. After working as an elementary school teacher, she retired and became a welfare commissioner. She has continued helping her community in this vein even as she gets older. She has put some of indomitable spirit onto the page with books she has written becoming bestsellers. It appears that the film captures three years of Tetsuyo’s life, from the age of 101 to 104.
Happy End 
ハッピー☆エンド 「Happi- Endo」
Release Date: April 18th, 2025
Duration: 85 mins.
Director: Vin Oota
Writer: N/A
Starring: Ryokuhei Manda, Kiki Kirin / Shigeru Muroi, Koichi Sato (Narrators)
Vin Oota is a documentarian who covers the topics of education, food, and agriculture. I’ve featured his films Dreaming School Yumemiru Kyuushoku in previous trailer posts. For his latest, he takes on healthcare with a real-life palliative care clinic. Actors Koichi Sato and Shigeru Muroi provide narration.
Synopsis: This is a documentary film about five families who have chosen palliative care at home via Manda Palliative Care Clinic. The film shows how the patients live naturally until their final days and features interviews patients with terminal cancer and their families who navigate this time under the guidance of Dr. Ryokuhei Manda, who has experience caring for more than 2,000 patients in home palliative care. Footage from a lecture given by actor Kirin Kiki, who passed away in 2018, is also featured.