Mai Kuraki breaks her own Detective Conan Guinness record

Guinness World Records has certified Mai Kuraki's 30th theme song for Detective Conan - and because she already held the record, the person she beat to get there was herself. The certificate, dated 27 September 2026, records "the most theme songs sung by the same artist for an animation series" at 30, for a Japanese singer and a franchise that have been in each other's orbit for a very long time.

The song that took her over the line is "Ai de Zenbu Dakishimete Aishite" (roughly, hold me and love me with all your love), the series' 76th ending theme, which debuted with the latest episode. Kuraki is a Japanese pop and R&B singer who first joined the show's rota with its ninth closing song, "Secret of my heart", and who picked up her first Guinness title for the same category in 2017, when the count stood at 21. Nine years later, the number is 30, which is a lot of endings for one voice.

Thirty songs, one album

The run is being packaged. "Ai de Zenbu Dakishimete Aishite" gets a digital release as a single on 10 October, and on 11 November Kuraki puts out Mai Kuraki x Detective Conan Collaboration Best 30 -Because You Were There, There Are Songs-, a collection of the whole set. The limited edition is 5,940 yen (about $38) and the regular edition is 4,290 yen (about $27). The clean version of the new ending sequence - the one without the credits on top - is already streaming, so the song is doing the rounds before the single lands.

Detective Conan, known in English-speaking markets as Case Closed, has been running since 1996 and is built on Gosho Aoyama's manga about Shinichi Kudo, a teenage detective dosed with a poison that leaves him in the body of a small child and under the alias Conan Edogawa. That is a machine with a near-permanent need for opening and closing songs, and Kuraki has been one of the people it calls.

Our opinion

Thirty songs by one artist on one show is not really a measure of a singer's talent - it is a record of a television schedule. It means a production committee kept making the same phone call for years, in an era when theme slots are usually treated as marketing inventory and handed to whoever is currently charting. Kuraki's run is the tail end of a house-singer model, the sort of arrangement where the person who sings the ending is as much a member of the furniture as the narrator, and almost nobody builds franchises that way any more.

The arithmetic flatters her in a way worth being honest about. A show with 76 ending themes has a lot of shelf space, and 30 of them is both a real achievement and a reflection of how long Detective Conan has refused to end. What is genuinely smart is the product attached to the certificate: a Best 30 album turns a statistic into something fans can hold, and the limited edition at 5,940 yen is priced for the people who will want all of it. Records make nice headlines; the album is what actually gets sold.