Mai Kuraki has broken her own Guinness World Record for Most Theme Songs in a Single Anime Series. The singer and the Detective Conan anime announced the milestone on Sunday, crediting her new song “Ai de Zenbu Dakishimete Aishite” (Hold and Love Me with Your Love), which serves as the series’ 76th ending theme.
Kuraki has been the record holder for years, so this is a case of her extending a mark she already owned rather than taking it from someone else. She also noted that the song completes a personal “30 YEARS × 30 SONGS” run for her career.
The record and the song
The new ending theme debuted in the latest Detective Conan episode, which aired on Saturday. The franchise has posted the clean version of the ending sequence featuring the song, the version without credits that lets viewers see the full animation.
Kuraki first received the Guinness World Record for Most Theme Songs in a Single Anime Series in 2017, when she had 21 songs to her credit in the series. The record has grown with her since, and Sunday’s announcement adds the latest one. She first contributed to Detective Conan with “Secret of my heart,” which served as the series’ ninth ending theme, and has stayed with the franchise ever since.
Release plans
“Ai de Zenbu Dakishimete Aishite” will launch digitally as a single on October 10. Kuraki will then release the compilation Kuraki Mai x Meitantei Conan Collaboration Best 30 -Kimi ga Ite Kureta kara, Uta ga Aru- (Mai Kuraki x Detective Conan Collaboration Best 30 -Because You Were There, There Are Songs-) on November 11, in both limited and regular editions. The limited edition is priced at 5,940 yen (about US$38) and the regular at 4,290 yen (about US$27).
Collating her work with the franchise into a single 30-song collection is a neat summary of how tightly her career has been tied to one anime — a relationship that has now run through multiple decades of the show’s broadcast.
The franchise behind the record
Detective Conan centres on Conan Edogawa, the alias of detective Shinichi Kudo, whose body shrank after he was poisoned at the start of the story. Working alongside detective Kogoro Mori and his daughter Ran, Conan helps the police solve difficult cases.
The television anime premiered on January 8, 1996, and marked its 30th anniversary on January 8, 2026. Gōshō Aoyama launched the original manga in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shounen Sunday in 1994; Viz Media publishes it in English as Case Closed. Crunchyroll has streamed the anime as it airs since episode 754 in 2014, and both Crunchyroll and Netflix host curated selections of episodes, including some that were never released in the United States.
Why it matters
Theme-song records are an odd corner of anime culture, but they say something real about how the industry treats its longest-running shows. A series that has aired since 1996 needs a constant supply of opening and ending themes, and that demand has kept a rotating cast of musicians attached to Detective Conan for three decades — with Kuraki as the most enduring of them.
Holding the Guinness record also gives the franchise a ready-made news hook roughly every time she releases a song, which is a marketing asset for both sides. With the compilation album due in November and a digital single in October, expect more of that cycle before the year is out.
Related coverage: our report on Katekyo Hitman Reborn!’s final ending theme covers another long-running franchise closing out its music era, and our piece on the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run ending theme looks at how audiences respond when a theme song becomes controversial.
Sources: Anime News Network, citing Mai Kuraki’s official accounts, Guinness World Records via Comic Natalie, and Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web
Featured image: Mai Kuraki’s Detective Conan collaboration album artwork, via Anime News Network.
