Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time, also known asDetective Conan: Zero's Tea Time (Japanese:名探偵コナン ゼロの日常,Hepburn:Meitantei Konan Zero No Tī Taimu), is a Japanesemanga series written and illustrated byTakahiro Arai [ja]. It is aspin-off of theCase Closed manga byGosho Aoyama, with Aoyama supervising the project, and is centered on the characterToru Amuro. The first part of the story was serialized inShogakukan'sWeekly Shōnen Sunday from May 2018 to May 2022. A six-episodeanime television series adaptation produced byTMS Entertainment was broadcast from April to May 2022.
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".
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.
Written and illustrated byTakahiro Arai [ja], with supervision byGosho Aoyama, the manga's first part ran inShogakukan'sWeekly Shōnen Sunday from May 9, 2018,[4][5] to May 25, 2022.[6][7] The chapters were only published when Aoyama's main seriesCase Closed was on hiatus.[8] Shogakukan has compiled its chapters into individualtankōbon 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]
On October 4, 2021, it was announced that the manga would receive ananime adaptation.[18] In November 2021, atNetflix's "Festival Japan" virtual event, it was revealed that they would stream the series.[19] It is produced byTMS 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 onTokyo MX,ytv, andBS Nippon from April 5 to May 10, 2022.[1][3][20] The opening theme is "Shooting Star" byRakura, while the ending theme is "Find the truth" byRainy.[1] The series premiered on Netflix outside of Japan on July 29, 2022.[21]
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 onAnimeJapan's "Most Wanted Anime Adaptation" poll in 2019.[26]