Detective Conan's "Clash of the Red and Black" arc is finally getting an official English release. TMS Entertainment announced on October 26, 2026 that the arc will stream as the fourth curated collection on Netflix and Crunchyroll starting November 1.
Netflix had already teased episodes for that date without naming them.
The arc pits the FBI against the Black Organization, the syndicate that shrank Shinichi Kudo into Conan in the first place. According to TMS, this material has never had a release in English in the West, which makes it the most significant addition to the curated collections so far.
How the collections work
TMS started this project in July 2025 with a selection titled "Conan vs. The Black Organization," drawn from episodes featuring the series' central antagonists, including some that had never been available in the United States. More episodes were added to that first batch in August 2025.
The second collection, "Rivals of the Great Detective," focused on Conan's allies and rivals and began streaming in November 2025, with additional episodes following on January 1, 2026. The third, "FBI Intervention," started on May 1, 2026 and expanded on August 1.
The pattern is consistent: a themed batch arrives, then grows. If that holds, "Clash of the Red and Black" will not be complete on day one.
The dub situation
These collections stream in Japanese with a new English dub produced by Studio Nano. That dub is not the same as the Bang Zoom! or Funimation versions that older English releases used, so viewers who grew up with either of those will hear different voices. The curation also mixes in episodes that had no prior U.S. release at all, which is the main reason the collections exist.
Why this arc in particular
Detective Conan has run since January 1996 and passed a thousand episodes. A newcomer looking at that library has no obvious entry point, and the curated collections are TMS's answer: pick the storylines that matter to the larger plot, dub them properly, and put them where people already subscribe.
The FBI versus Black Organization material is the series' spine. Conan's entire situation exists because of the Black Organization, and the FBI agents who orbit him are the closest thing the show has to a second lead cast. An arc where those two sides meet directly is the payoff for years of setup, and it is the kind of thing that has been difficult to watch legally in English.
The source
Gōshō Aoyama launched the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1994. The anime followed in January 1996 and has run continuously since, alongside a yearly film series. Viz Media publishes the manga in English as Case Closed, using the localized names from the original Funimation dub where those exist.
That naming history is worth knowing before starting. The English manga and various dubs have not always agreed on what to call people, and the new Studio Nano dub makes its own choices. If a character seems to have two names, that is usually why.
The music side of the franchise has its own milestones. In late September 2026, Mai Kuraki extended her own Guinness World Record for most theme songs in a single anime series when "Ai de Zenbu Dakishimete Aishite" became the show's 76th ending theme. Twenty-nine years of a single singer writing for a single series is the sort of thing that only happens to a show that refuses to end.
Where to start
For anyone who wants the plot-critical material and nothing else, the four collections now form a serviceable path: "Conan vs. The Black Organization" first, then "Rivals of the Great Detective," then "FBI Intervention," then "Clash of the Red and Black" on November 1. That order roughly follows the arc chronology rather than broadcast order, which is what most viewers want here.
Both Netflix and Crunchyroll will carry the new batch. Availability by country depends on each platform's licensing, and neither company has published a full territory list yet.
The eleven o'clock announcement on a Monday is a reminder of how this franchise operates. It does not do hype cycles. It adds episodes to a streaming catalogue and lets the audience find them.
Source: Anime News Network, citing TMS Entertainment
Featured image: Detective Conan key art, via Anime News Network.
