The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case

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Episode 13
(Int. Episode 14)

Information

Title:

The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case

Japanese title:

奇妙な人捜し殺人事件
(Kimyō na Hitosagashi Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

April 22, 1996

Broadcast rating:

12.7%

Manga case:

#5

Season:

1

Manga source:

Volume 2: Files 4-7 (013-016) (h.a.)

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Ran Mouri
Juzo Megure
Hiroshi Agasa
Akemi Miyano

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

¥1,000,000,000

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Yuichi Higurashi

Storyboard:

Johei Matsuura

Episode director:

Johei Matsuura

Animation director:

Atsushi Aono

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Masako Katsuki as Masami Hirota
Hideaki Tezuka as Akira Hirota
Kan Tokumaru as Detective
Ryuzaburo Otomo as Okita
Rin Mizuhara as Landlady
Isshin Chiba as Cloak checker
Takumi Yamazaki as TV announcer
Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint

Music

Opening song:

"Mune ga Dokidoki"

Closing song:

"STEP BY STEP"

The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case (奇妙な人捜し殺人事件 ,Kimyō na Hitosagashi Satsujin Jiken), known in English as Mystery Mastermind, is the 13th episode of Detective Conan anime.

It adapts the ¥1,000,000,000 Robbery^{(ch 13-16)} of the Detective Conan manga, but with significant changes. It was first aired in April 22, 1996.

In this episode, a female client asks Kogoro to help her find her father. After reuniting with her father, in the next day he was found dead and the client goes missing. It's up to Conan, Ran and Kogoro to find her whereabouts.

Cast

Introduced

Akemi Miyano/Masami Hirota
	Mysterious client

Featured

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Juzo Megure

Hiroshi Agasa

Gadgets

Introduced

Criminal Tracking Glasses
	Uses radar to locate transmitters (e.g. location of the Detective Boys' badges)

Transmitter
	Sends real time location to the Criminal Tracking Glasses

Featured

Gadgets

Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

A woman named Masami Hirota shows up at Kogoro's Detective Agency and asks him to find her father, Kenzo Hirota. She is reunited with her father when they located him in a horse racing track. The next day, Kenzo is found dead and Masami missing. Meanwhile, another detective is tracking Kenzo down for his client, Akira Hirota.

Missing Person - Murder

Location: Apartment

Victim: Kenzo Hirota

Age: 48 years old

Cause of death: Strangulation via hanging

Suspects: Akira Hirota

Akira and Akemi ask to find Kenzo by the two detectives, but Akira is killed and hanging resemble Kenzo is suicide.

Murder

Location: Beika Hotel Room 804

Victim: Akira Hirota

Age: 28 years old

Cause of death: Cyanide poisoning

Suspects: Masami Hirota

Kogoro calling Akira and, when the light opened, they shocked Akira is dead by poisoned drink.

People

Kenzo Hirota
	Victim (hanged) 48 years old Former taxi driver

Landlady
	Kenzo's apartment landlady

Detective
	Private detective

Akira Hirota
	Victim (poison) 28 years old Pachinko parlor guard

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

Conan found the criminal mastermind, Okita.

Evidence

• Masami had make-up on and wore more formal, adult clothing when reunited with Kenzo, despite having presented herself as a highschool student from the countryside at first.
• Every night, Kenzo would run the same taxi route over and over, even without customers, and at high speed. Also, he suddenly paid several months worth of rent to his landlady, who then told Kogoro that he did so in fresh and new cash.
• Judging from the bruises from Kenzo's neck, the killer was a large man.
• Masami's glasses were found in the crime scene.
• Because of Conan's tracking button believed to be in Masami's watch, Akira was found dead due to cyanide poisoning (Sleeping pills) in the hotel.

Resolution

The three Hirotas were the criminals involved in the 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case. The route Kenzo drove at night was the practice route of the getaway. But Kenzo betrayed his partners, running away and taking the money for himself. In order to find him, his partners made fake identities - Masami and Akira. When found, Akira killed Kenzo and made it look like suicide. He broke his watch while doing so that's why Masami gave him hers. But the real mastermind of the 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case was Okita. The poison that killed Akira may have originally been intended for Masami.

Motive

Okita planned to kill the three from the very beginning. Kenzo realized this before the other two did, which is the true reason why he ran away with the money.

Conclusion

While investigating near the hotel where Akira was found dead, Conan and the others run into a pretty lady in elegant red clothes who carries several suitcases. They don't pay lots of attention to her at first, but Conan soon realises that she is Masami Hirota, carrying the stolen money in said suitcases and probably about to meet the mastermind.

Attempted Murder

Location: Wharf

Victim: Masami Hirota

Attack types: Shooting

Culprit: Okita

Okita aim the pistol to Masami but conan Kick the can to Protect.

Masami confronts Okita and angrily asks him why did he trick her into giving Akira the poisoned drink and kill him. Okita says Akira was too dumb to handle such a large quantity of money, and after drawing his gun he adds that he will also kill Masami to silence her and take all the money. Then Conan steps in and uses his Power Shoes to kick a can into Okita's face, capturing and knocking him out. Masami asks him who he is, and Conan calmly tells her "I'm Conan Edogawa, and I'm a detective!".

Attempted Murder

Location: Wharf

Victim: Masami Hirota and Conan Edogawa

Attack types: Shooting

Culprit: Okita

The culprit ready to kill Conan and Masami with pistol, but Conan strikes Okita again.

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga version of the story, Gin and Vodka are the masterminds of the case rather than Okita, and they end up killing Masami Hirota/Akemi Miyano who informs Conan of the organization's existence and that they dress in black. Her death is the motive of Shiho Miyano's defection which leads to Ai Haibara's appearance later in the series. Furthermore, Shiho makes a silhouetted appearance when Akemi is demanding for herself and her sister to be free of the organization, which is also omitted. To repair the storyline, The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case was written with a similar ending to the manga version.
  • In 2016, the anime special Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small was released. It finishes with a rendition of Akemi's death that follows the manga rather than the anime.

Trivia

• This episode marks the introduction of a new image for the "next episode" preview. The image features the Detective Boys looking at a painting hanging on the wall, which has the title of the next episode written on it.
• The spy's car is a gray Toyota Corolla AE100.
• Kenzo Hirota drives a white Toyota Crown taxi.
• At the end of the episode, Conan's transmitter was still on the watch that the dead guy was wearing, so Agasa probably had to make a new transmitter for future uses.
• Although the Black Organization was involved in the manga version of this episode, the anime version has Okita take over Gin and Vodka's role, and therefore cutting out the Black Organization involvement for a second time, since this anime episode did not give away that she was affiliated with them in any way, although it did give her real name.

Translation changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Masami Hirota - Michelle Hamlin/Kendra Miyano
• Kenzo Hirota - Kent Hamlin
• Kenzo's cats: Kai, Tei, Gou & Ou - Kent's cats: Tea, Pair, Eyes & Prose
• Akira Hirota - Aaron Hamlin
• Okita - O'Brien

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
00:00	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
01:45	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ (タイトルver.)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Taitoru ver.)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Title ver.)	Unreleased
02:17	小さな巨人	Chiisana Kyojin	A Small Great Person	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
07:05	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.)	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
08:20	1996 Unreleased BGM 2
11:10	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12:27	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13:24	犯人のアジト （いよいよver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Iyoiyo ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (More and More ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
15:26	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16:37	コナンのテーマ コナンのテーマ （予告）	Konan no Tēma Konan no Tēma (Yokoku)	Conan's Theme Conan's Theme (Preview)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1 Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
18:28	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
19:54	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
21:51	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
22:31	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	جرائم القتل المتلاحقة	The Serial Murders
Basque	Aztarna faltsuen atzetik	Behind the fake footprints
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de la desaparició misteriosa	The Case of the Mysterious Disappearence
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'estrany cas de la recerca doble	The double search strange case
French	Le Meurtre déconcertant	The Unsettling Murder
Galician	O roubo dos cen millóns de dólares	100 Million Dollars' Robbery
German	Masamis Armbanduhr	Masami's Wristwatch
Hindi	द बेफलिंग सरच मरडर केस	The baffling search murder case
Italian	Dov'è papà?	Where is Dad?
Korean	기묘한 사람 찾기 살인 사건	The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case
Polish	Zaskakujące poszukiwanie zaginionego	The Suprsing Search for a Missing Person
Portuguese	O caso da investigação desconcertante	The upsetting investigation case
Spanish (American dub)	El caso de la búsqueda frustrada	The unsuccessful search case
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El caso de la investigación desconcertante	The upsetting investigation case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมบุรุษลึกลับ	The Mysterious Person Murder Case
Vietnamese	Vụ tìm người kỳ lạ	The Strange Person Hunt Case

See also

• Season 1