Detective Conan's FBI Collection Grows August 1, And Why TMS's Own Channel Is the Better Deal

Straight answer first, because it is the whole point: Detective Conan is not free to watch on AnimeSphere. We carry 69 Detective Conan and Case Closed entries in our catalogue metadata, series, specials, films, and across every one of them we have zero free episodes. Not a partial run, not a handful of movies. Nothing. If you came here to start Conan tonight for free, I can't help you, and I'd rather say that in the first paragraph than bury it under 400 words of filler.

What's changing on August 1

Netflix and Crunchyroll are both expanding the third curated Detective Conan collection, the one organized around the show's FBI storylines. That selection opened on May 1, and its pitch was that it contained episodes that had never had a U.S. release before; more of them arrive August 1. If you already pay for either service, that's your route, and it's the legitimate one. Details are with Anime News Network, who reported it.

For a show that started airing in 1996, drip-feeding curated arcs is honestly a sane way to handle it. Handing a newcomer a run that long with no entry point is the harder sell.

The studio connection actually matters here

Detective Conan is a TMS Entertainment production. TMS spent decades as Tokyo Movie Shinsha, and that older library is the interesting part: TMS runs its own official channel, and two mysteries from that era sit on it free and legally. We carry both.

**Sherlock Hound** (1984, Tokyo Movie Shinsha) is the lead recommendation. All 26 episodes are free on AnimeSphere in English dub, straight from the Anime! on TMS Official Channel. Hayao Miyazaki directed six of them. We spot-checked episodes 1, 13 and 26 today; the uploads are complete episodes, properly labeled.

I cover action for a living and I'll defend this one on those terms. Sherlock Hound is built on chases, Moriarty's contraptions, biplanes, rooftops, and they're staged with a clarity most modern shows can't manage. You always know who is chasing whom, which direction they're going, and how much ground is left. That is the entire job of an action scene, and this 1984 kids' show does it better than plenty of things airing now.

**Cat's Eye** (1983, Tokyo Movie Shinsha) is the second pick: three art-thief sisters, and a detective boyfriend who has no idea. We have 33 of its 36 episodes free with English subtitles, from the same official TMS channel. Three uploads in the run are raw Japanese, so 33 is the honest number, not 36.

Neither is a Conan substitute, different decade, different tone, no Kaito Kid. But they come from the same studio lineage, they're free, they're official, and you can finish Sherlock Hound end to end without paying anyone. That's a better offer than most availability news comes with.