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 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.

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, to May 25, 2022. Chapters of the manga were only published when Aoyama’s main series Case Closed is on hiatus. Shogakukan has compiled its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on August 8, 2018. As of June 17, 2022, six volumes have been released.

Shogakukan Asia licensed the manga for English language release in Southeast Asia in January 2019.

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.

Anime

On October 4, 2021, it was announced that the manga would receive an anime adaptation. In November 2021, at Netflix‘s “Festival Japan” virtual event, it was revealed that they would stream the series. 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. The opening theme is “Shooting Star” by RAKURA, while the ending theme is “Find the truth” by Rainy. The series premiered on Netflix outside of Japan on July 29, 2022.

Reception

Detective Conan: Zero’s Tea Time ranked 6th on the “Nationwide Bookstore Employees’ Recommended Comics of 2018” ranking by the Honya Club website.

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)
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 (List of volumes)
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 (List of episodes)