Takagi and Date and the Notebook Promise

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Episode 1109-1110 (Int. Episode 1167-1168)
Information
Title:	Takagi and Date and the Notebook Promise
Japanese title:	高木と伊達と手帳の約束 (Takagi to Date to Techō no Yakusoku)
Original airdate:	January 6, 2024 (Part 1) January 13, 2024 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	6.7% (Part 1) 7.4% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#310
Season:	29
Manga source:	Volume 101: Files 10-11 (1079 · 1080) ~ Volume 102: File 1 (1081)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Rei Furuya Azusa Enomoto Ai Haibara Detective Boys Wataru Date Yumi Miyamoto Gin Yukiko Kudo
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Gaming device (Part 1) Toothpicks (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Hiroaki Takagi
Storyboard:	Hiroaki Takagi New Year Greeting: • Yasuichiro Yamamoto • Nobuharu Kamanaka
Episode director:	1109: Akira Yoshimura 1110: Masahiro Takada
Animation director:	New Year Greeting: • Masatomo Sudo 1109: • Miho Tanaka • Yui Ushinohama • Marie Nagano • Kana Aoki • Yoshitsugu Hatano 1110: • Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	1110: BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Mikiko Enomoto as Azusa Enomoto Tohru Furuya as Rei Furuya Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Hiroki Tochi as Wataru Date Chafurin as Juzo Megure Yuka Terasaki as Alain Cassel Risa Yoshinaga as Jean Cassel Narumi Kaho as Yuji Inukai Satoshi Yamaguchi as Robber (Episode 1109) Kenya Hatsumura as Detective (Episode 1109) Shintaro Tanaka as Kidnapper's subordinate (Episode 1110)
Music
Opening song:	Unraveling Love ~Sukoshi no Yūki~
Closing song:	You & I
Last episode to feature Toru Furuya as the voice of Rei Furuya.

Takagi and Date and the Notebook Promise (高木と伊達と手帳の約束 ,Takagi to Date to Techō no Yakusoku) is the 1109th and 1110th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Wataru Takagi

Miwako Sato

Rei Furuya

Azusa Enomoto

Ai Haibara

Genta Kojima

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Ayumi Yoshida

Juzo Megure

Wataru Date (flashback)

Yumi Miyamoto (flashback)

Gin (background)

Yukiko Kudo (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Haibara and the Detective Boys have just visited Agasa due to his injury from a previous case and are now returning. They help each other to cheer Haibara up after the previous events, and luckily Yukiko also came back to cook for her at that time so everything was fine. However, they encounter a robber being chased by Inspector Takagi, and he runs toward the boys, terrifying Haibara because she associated that image with Gin chasing her. Fortunately, Sato comes to the rescue in time, much to the admiration of the Detective Boys, and then when Takagi is about to write down the time the robber was captured in Date's notebook, he sees a string of characters and a note: Meet Takagi on Sunday. This made him remember the memory of his senior, the day before he passed away due to a traffic accident, Sato and the boys also begin to pay attention to the note above, and from here the decoding begins at Poirot's, where Conan quickly notices the code.

Azusa is a little surprised to see Takagi and Sato with the kids, but is later drawn into the group to solve the code, first starting with the reason why the code leads to Poirot's:

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• Call the SMS center with a phone with a tone and a recorded message will play.
• Follow the instructions and enter the recipient's phone number
• Start the message with *2*2, compose the message with two numbers for each character according to this table, and finally end it with #s

Then Conan asks Azusa to do the same and send the numbers in Date's notes as a text message to the phone of the shop. The meaning was: "Sunday afternoon, 12pm, Beika City 5-6"; " Poirot's seat next to the door, wearing a red tie and waiting."

Explaining why Date wanted to appeal to Takagi's male instincts, Amuro assumes that his deceased friend wanted Takagi to solve a case to become a real detective, and thinks that a shady plot might be going on here. While discussing the location, Conan notices a piece of tape under the table he and the others are sitting at, so he asks Azusa about it, who only remembers that there was a game console with a game running in sleep mode with tape right on the floor in that chair and she is now currently holding it. It seems that the person who was supposed to appear in the shop didn't show up, causing it to fall down after a while.

She is then asked if she had seen anyone suspicious, to which she mentions a boy who would make a strange gesture in front of the shop while in his car every Sunday afternoon. During those five minutes, the boy would always hold up five fingers, then fold his thumb, then fold his other four fingers, and then rewind the action. Conan and Haibara immediately recognize this as a distress signal after confirming that he was a foreigner, as the hand gesture was a distress signal originating from Canada.

Kidnapping

Victim: Alain Cassel

Age: 7 years old (1 year ago)

Time: 1 year ago

Culprits: Natsufusa Kidou and his subordinate

In that case, the witness testified that two men kidnapped the boy while he was playing with friends in the park. The next day, the perpetrator called and demanded 50 million yen in ransom and escaped when the police tracked him down.

Also, Azusa mentions that it had just happened last week, while Takagi tries to remember if he was leaving behind any cases related to some clues; and finally, he remembers about a kidnapping case that happened a year ago involving the child of an automobile manufacturer named VP Pieere Cassel. As for why Date and Takagi were involved in that case despite Date having moved to MPD ever since Matsuda's death, which was 2 years ago at that time, it was simply because their houses were near Cassel's house so they were asked.

The suspect in that case was initially thought to be a member of the Deisan gang, who was in a dispute with the aforementioned car manufacturer over land use rights, but Date became interested in the former leader of that gang named Natsufusa Kidou, who was in huge debt due to gambling at the time. After the ransom call, the two of them began to follow him, but Kidou ended up being severely beaten by a drunk man and was taken to the hospital. Kidou also seems to have accidentally left a note, which Date copied while waiting for the forensics to arrive, and since the kidnappers didn't have any information afterwards, we can confirm that Kidou was one of the two perpetrators of the above kidnapping. That also means that Kidou's henchman had blindly followed his orders because the henchman had no idea about his death. It just so happens that today is Sunday, but they only have 5 minutes left until the transaction time so calling the police won't be enough time. And it seems like everyone is going to carry out the plan to rescue the boy.

Manslaughter (Past)

Location: Phone Booth

Victim: Natsufusa Kidou

Time: 1 year ago

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma

Culprit: Drunk man

Kidou got angry when a drunk complained about his long wait and pushed the drunk, however, the drunk grabbed a nearby bottle and severely injured Kidou. Although he was rushed to the hospital, he died a week later, having accidentally left something behind before being taken to the hospital.

Part 2

The specific plan was: Amuro would use Conan's voice changer to disguise himself as the other accomplice, and since the boy was a foreigner like Amuro, he would think that Amuro also worked for VP Cassel and send messages to the electronic game console. Then, after reading the instructions, Amuro would start taking the paper bag from the gap between the sofa and the floor and pretend to put money in it to fool him because his vision was blocked by the grass in front of the shop so he wouldn't notice. Then Amuro would pay and leave with the paper bag, and once Inspector Takagi also left with him, the kidnapper would go out and fall for the trick as planned. However, he has prepared a can of pepper spray to buy more time to run away, leaving the boy in the car.

Further information gathered reveal that the kidnapping location is the fourth floor of the Shiromino Apartment on Third Street, Lot 2, and the person closest to the location is Takagi, so he is assigned to be there. However, as soon as he reaches the fourth floor, the kidnapper manages to drag the boy down the elevator, forcing Takagi to go back down. Meanwhile, the boy resists because he couldn't see Alain, so the robber lies that the boy had been in a traffic accident and they are going to the hospital now, but Takagi gets down just in time and confirms Alain's condition. Will Takagi be able to save the boy?

Kidnapping

Victim: Yuji Inukai

Culprits: Natsufusa Kidou and his subordinate

People

Alain Cassel
	Victim (kidnapped) 7 years old (1 year ago) Cassel family's second son

Pierre Cassel
	Automaker vice president Alain's father

Natsufusa Kidou
	Deceased (blunt trauma) Kidnapper

Man A
	Second kidnapper Kidou's subordinate

Yuji Inukai
	Victim (kidnapped) Alain's friend

Jean Cassel
	Alain's older brother

Man B
	Robber

Police Detective A
	Tokyo MPD Police detective

Police Detective B
	Tokyo MPD Police detective

Man C
	Drunkard

Resolution

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The kidnapper threatens him not to come near and tells himself that his boss, referring to Natsufusa Kidou, will have a new plan, but Takagi reminds him that he beat Kidou to death. The kidnapper initially doesn't believe it, but Takagi continues that he thinks he saw the news and that he thinks he's nothing without Kidou, even saying that if he doesn't hand over the child, he'll end up like his boss. This really makes him mad and he beats Takagi with all his might, all to buy time for Sato and Amuro to come to the rescue.

Aftermath

Amuro is seen looking at Sato's car and is then asked by her, apparently because they are driving the same car type, and then he is asked if they had met before. He answers no, essentially protecting his identity while thinking about the time they met at the police academy. Alain and Yuji are then reunited when Megure drives the sooner and his older brother in the police car while waiting for their parents, the older brother asks Takagi about Date and asks him to give him a box of toothpicks as gift for saving his brother. Even though it is a heartwarming for us, this might leave scar as we knew what happened to Wataru Date.

Manga to anime changes

• Some dialogues not included in the anime:

• Sato suggests that she and Takagi have lunch at Poirot.
• Takagi mentions that Sato was working on different case when the kidnapping happened.

• The anime add the scene where Mitsuhiko suggests that they walk Haibara back to Agasa residence.
• In the manga, before capturing the robber, Sato crossed her arms in front. In the anime, she directly prepared to catch the robber.
• In the manga, after informing Conan about the gaming device, Azusa directly go to get it. In the anime, Conan has to ask Azusa what she did with the device before she go to get it.
• The anime did not include the scene where the Detective Boys ask Takagi the reason Date copying the code down in his notes instead of taking a picture with phone.
• The anime removes Detective Boys Badge usage by Sato when she asked Conan to get Alain from the car.

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• The anime add some scene of Detective Boys where they wondering about "radio show about roads" and meaning of "soleil".
• In the manga, Conan directly deduced about Yuji's location is within thirty minute driving radius. In the anime, Takagi and Sato are the one who deduce it.
• In the manga, Conan directly deduced that the car was from underground parking garage and Alain was told to lie down when the car was moving. In the anime, Conan and Mitsuhiko have to ask Alain first about what he sees when he got into the car and when the car left the parking garage.
• The anime add the process of Alain trying to remember the flag color, while in the manga he directly said it.
• In the manga, when Takagi is asking the taxi driver to take him to the restaurant, he immediately saw the restaurant's flag. In the anime, there is a delay between him asking the taxi driver and him seeing the restaurant's flag.
• The anime add original dialogues for Takagi when he provokes the kidnapper, saying that he doubt the kidnapper had seen the news and can't do anyththing without his boss, then asking him to hand over Yuji if he don't want to be beaten to death.

Trivia

• This episode marks the final episode where Tohru Furuya voices Amuro. Since 2025, Amuro has been voiced by Takeshi Kusao.
• Haibara wears a Fusae Brand hat in the case.
• The names of the people involved come from "kidnappings" :
  • Natsufusa Kidō (鬼童 捺房) comes from "kidnapping" (キッドナップ ,Kiddonappu) ;
  • Yūji Inukai (犬飼 佑二) comes from "kidnapping" (誘拐 ,yūkai) and "friends" (友人 ,yūjin) ;
  • The Cassels come from "to snatch away" (掻っ攫う/搔っ攫う ,Kassarau).

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	موعد بين تاكاجي وداتيه	A Date Between Takagi and Date
Catalan (Catalan dub)	En Takagi, en Date i la llibreta de la promesa	Takagi, Date and the Promise Notebook
French (Subbed)	Le rendez-vous entre Takagi et Date écrit dans un carnet	Takagi and Date's meeting written in the notebook
Thai	ทาคางิกับดาเตะ คำสัญญาในสมุดบันทึก	Takagi and Date : The Promise inside the Notebook

See also

• Season 29
• Wild Police Story