The Fated Blue Birthday

TV Special The Fated Blue Birthday
Information
Title:	The Fated Blue Birthday
Japanese Title:	運命のブルーバースデー (Unmei no Burū Bāsudē)
Original airdate:	October 29, 2011
Manga source:	Volume 3: Chapter 6
Story
Cast:	Kaito Kuroba Kaitou Kid Aoko Nakamori Ginzo Nakamori Keiko Momoi Snake
Next Kid's Magic:	Costume contest
Staff
Director:	Toshiki Hirano
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Toshiki Hirano Akira Iwanaga
Technical Director:	Masahisa Koyata
Animation Director:	Noriyuki Fukuda
Voice cast: Kappei Yamaguchi as Kaito Kuroba, Kaitou Kid Ayumi Fujimura as Aoko Nakamori Unsho Ishizuka as Ginzo Nakamori Ai Kayano as Keiko Momoi Houchu Ohtsuka as Snake Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Shozo Iizuka as Boss Toru Ohkawa as Director
Music
Opening song:	Misty Mystery
Closing song:	Your Best Friend
Chronology
Prev episode:	« A Witch Sheds No Tears
Next episode:	Love on the Ski Slope on Christmas Eve »
List of TV Specials

"The Fated Blue Birthday" (運命のブルーバースデー ,Unmei no Burū Bāsudē) is an animated special for Magic Kaito based on the sixth chapter from the third Magic Kaito volume.

Characters introduced

Snake
	Man in black responsible for Toichi Kuroba's death Under orders to find Pandora

Magic Kaito Sub-boss
100px	Sub-boss of the criminal organization Snake's superior

Cast

Characters
Kaito Kuroba Kaitou Kid Aoko Nakamori Ginzo Nakamori Keiko Momoi Toichi Kuroba (flashback) Conan Edogawa (introduction/cameo)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Card Gun Hang Glider Cape

Plot

Story

After a successful heist, Kid receives a phone call from a payphone and is told to stop stealing gems. At school, Kaito promises Aoko he will attend her birthday party, which is on the same day as his heist for the gem known as the Blue Birthday.

Heist
	Thief: Kaitou Kid Target: Blue Birthday Owner: India Location: Indian Treasure Exhibit Date: Same day as Aoko Nakamori's birthday Blue Birthday is India's largest sapphire.

Kaito succeeds but is met by an organization and learns that they are the cause of his father's death.

Resolution

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After seemingly killed, the organization steal the Blue Birthday and departs. Kaito follows them and learns the organization are searching for an immortality granting jewel known as Pandora which resides in a large gemstone and can only be found if shone in the moonlight. After determining the Blue Birthday is not the gem they are looking for, Kaito threatens to find and destroy Pandora before they can find it. Unable to make it to Aoko's birthday in time, Kaito rigs an apartment complex's lights to spell out Happy Birthday Aoko. Elsewhere, the organization contacts their boss who decides to contact another of their organization's member known as Spider to counter Kid.

Gallery

Kid receives an ominous phonecall

Kaito promises to perform a magic show for Aoko's birthday party

Inspector Nakamori explains the traps set up to catch Kid

Kid successfully steals the Blue Birthday

Snake confronts Kid

Snake's boss reveals the story of Pandora

Kid checks for Pandora

"I, Kaitou Kid, shall locate that Pandora gem before you do and shatter it into tiny pieces!"

Kaito's birthday present to Aoko

Conan wonders about the noise

See also

• TV Specials
• Magic Kaito Volume 3