Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky (2010) poster
2010 · animation · crime · mystery · action

Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky

Directed by Yasuichiro Yamamoto1h 43m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.92k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured animation / crime, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A terrorist group invades a laboratory containing a deadly bacteria and destroys the lab with an explosion. They later announce via the internet they have gained possession of the bacteria and declare themselves to be the Red Siamese Cats, a terrorist group that was eradicated a decade ago.

Our read · Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky (2010) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · crime · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want action-packed anime as Conan battles terrorists with a deadly bacteria.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want grounded drama or dislike cartoon action and chases.

If Detective Conan is your film
Detective Conan: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Conan movie with large scale stakes
(if you prefer pure heist)
Lupin the 3rd vs Detective Conan (2009)
fun crossover with Lupin and Conan
(if you want serious tone)
Detective Conan: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (2003)
another solid Conan feature mystery
(if modern setting preferred)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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