The Lover Who Vanished on Pont Koitani

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Chronology
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Episode 1190-1191
(Int. Episode 1249-1250)

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Information
Title: The Lover Who Vanished on Pont Koitani
1190: Tottori Tour
1191: Misasa Arc
Japanese title: 恋谷橋に消えた恋人
(Koitanibashi ni Kieta Koibito)
1190: 鳥取周遊編 (Tottori Shūyū-hen ?)
1191: 三朝編 (Misasa-hen ?)
Original airdate: January 24, 2026 (Tottori Tour)
January 31, 2026 (Misasa Arc)
Broadcast rating: 6.3% (Tottori Tour)
6.5% (Misasa Arc)
Filler case: #456
Season: 31
Manga source: TV Original
Case
Cast: Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Ran Mouri
Katsuhiko Yamane
Ryo Okamoto
Case solved by: Kogoro Mouri (partially on his own, via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint: Frog (Tottori Tour)
Rabbit (Misasa Arc)
Staff
Director: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay: Koshiro Mikami
Storyboard: Mitsuko Kase
Episode director: 1190: Yuki Kawakata
1191: Masahiro Takada
Animation director: 1190:
Kaoru Nagakawa
Michitaka Yamamoto
Zi Dengjia
Yukari Kamiaka
Yui Ushinohama
Marie Nagano
Kana Aoki
1191:
Akio Kawamura
Character design: Masatomo Sudo
Nobuyuki Iwai (sub-character)
Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation: 1190: Azeta Pictures
1191: BIG BANG
Music
Opening song: Heaven Knows
Closing song: TOWA ~Towa ni Kaze ni Noru~

The Lover Who Vanished on Pont Koitani (恋谷橋に消えた恋人 Koitanibashi ni Kieta Koibito?) is the 1190th and 1191st episode of the Detective Conan anime. This is the 21st Mystery Tour episode of the anime, being set in Tottori Prefecture, most notably around Misasa town.

Cast


Gadgets

Case

Situation

Tottori Tour

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are in the Limited Express “Sakura Haruto” that leads them to Tottori Prefecture, as they will be taking a bus to arrive at the Misasa Hot Spring. On the way to the Yumemiya Ryokan, their resting place for the tour, they see Yasuto Utsubuki and Sachiyo Yumemiya talking about Yasuto’s father and Sachiyo’s aunt not allowing the two to be married. Seconds later, Kazuko Yumemiya and Hisao Utsubuki show up and do what the couple just told about earlier.

In the Yumemiya Ryokan, the Mouris are welcomed by Teruki, Kazuko’s son, and a waitress named Yoshimi Komori. As Komori introduces to Ran and Conan about Yumezakuza, a kimono that the waitresses walking behind Komori is going to wear for her wedding, the two instantly realize the woman behind as the one they met earlier. Kogoro also meets two Kurayoshi officers that the family has met in a past case, Katsuhiko Yamane and Ryo Okamoto. The two show their gratitude toward Kogoro for helping, and express their joyfulness of capturing the serial bag-snatcher one week ago, which is why they are here.

In the dinner, Kogoro is drinking with Okamoto and Yamane as he tells the two detectives how he solved cases as Sleeping Kogoro, while Conan and Ran enjoy the dinner at another table when Conan receives the drink he orders from Sachiyo. The two ask her about the problem Sachiyo has, she explains that Kazuko once got into a property dispute with Hisao Utsubuki. Suddenly, Komori accidentally spills some kind of sauce on Conan's costume, so she has to take Conan to change the costume. From there, Conan realizes that some people have issues with Kazuko with their own matters:

  • According to Kazuko Yumemiya, Yoshimi Komori’s carelessness is damaging the reputation of the inn.
  • Kazuko also denies a loan for Masamichi Kasuga, even though his company is facing financial difficulties.
  • Kazuko roasts his son for being in debt because of a girl from Osaka whom he spent money on.
  • Kazuko tells Sachiyo that she never wants to keep the ryokan on her own, and she wants Sachiyo to marry a dependable man instead of Yasuto.

Before the dawn of the next day, Teruki wakes Kogoro up, as Sachiyo has disappeared for some reason. As the two Kurayoshi officers are awaked from the sound, the two would request back up from the Misasa police box. Next morning, Kusuga tries to ask Yasuto if his niece was there or not, which Yasuto answers no, while he mumbles that Sachiyo actually did something. There are some possible suspects beside people in the inn, and Yasuto:

  • The first person is Toshihiro Kitami, a photographer brought by Okamoto, Yamane, and a Misasa officer. The reason he became the suspect is that Sachiyo appears in some pictures he had taken yesterday when he was taking pictures of frogs in the Misasa.
  • A second possibility is Sachiyo’s close friends who are members of Tottori Arts and Culture Association.

So Ran and Conan go to the Yonago City Center to ask the tour guide, while Okamoto and Yamane go to Mount Daisen to ask the mountain guide, and Kogoro goes to find the sand sculptor (he is also seen in the Tottori Sand Dunes, where he used to tie up Conan and throw him down because of a sudden burst of inspiration).

The investigation by the five people seems to yield no results, so they decide to interrogate Yasuto once again to see if he knew anything about the disappearance. This time, he admits that Sachiyo has temporarily taken refuge in the warehouse of the Misasa Violin Museum in the hope that her parents would understand the genuine feelings between her and Yasuto. However, Sachiyo is nowhere to be found there; instead, she has become the victim of an actual kidnapping for ransom. Kasuga recalls that a waitress noticed a black car parked near the mountains yesterday evening, meaning there could be a high chance that the people in the car were the kidnappers.

Kidnapping
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Victim: Sachiyo Yumemiya
Age: 22 years old
Ransom: 100 million yen
Suspects: Yasuto Utsubuki, Kazuko Yumemiya, Teruki Yumemiya, Yoshimi Komori, Masamichi Kasuga, and Toshihiro Kitami
The captor will send two more videos every hour, and the ransom must be prepared within two hours.

Misasa Arc

Yasuto points out that Sachiyo has never blamed anyone else for the unfortunate events that happened to her. Conan happens to pass by three waitresses, including Komori, discussing that no one has ever seen a car like what Kasuga told. The two things raise doubt if Sachiyo was really kidnapped or not, so Conan goes to some location for information, with Ran and Yasuto tagging along:

  • On the road Sachiyo went after escaping the warehouse, there are two separate paths, one of them leads to Misasa hot spring.
  • Conan sees the photographer again in the Kajika bridge when the three arrive at the hot spring through his telescopic lens. The three reach out to Kitami, and know that Sachiyo was trying to cross the river.
  • The side she went to leads to Yumemiya’s parking lot, which has one black car with sand on it.

Meanwhile, the inn receives a third message from the kidnapper. It seems like Kazuko is cornered when she agrees to pay the ransom to rescue Sachiyo, since she had promised her sister that she would take good care of Sachiyo. Suddenly, Conan notices something from the word "wave".

People

  • Resolution

    Trivia

    • Although the English Crunchyroll subbed version of the case is named "The Lover Who Vanished on Pont Koitani", the bridge itself is not officially named "Pont Koitani" in English. Instead, local tourism sites have been using "Koitani Bridge" as an English translation. The word "pont" in the English title is a French word meaning "bridge", and its use may be linked to the fact that when French ambassador to Japan Bernard Dorin came to the valley of the Misasa River in Misasa in 1987, he nicknamed the place the "Vallée de l'Amour" (lit. Valley of Love). The bridge's Japanese name reflects this: "Koitani" translates to "Love (恋) Valley (谷)."[1]
    • The previous Mystery Tour to have aired in Tottori Prefecture, Tottori Sand Dunes Mystery Tour, in 2015, is directly referenced in the episode. Not only the two anime-original detectives from that reappeared, but they referenced the Kumado family ransom case from that Mystery Tour.
    • Starting Episode 1191, the door eyecatch for title card has been revised with a tilted camera movement.
    • The Utsubukis (宇津吹) are named after Mount Utsubuki (打吹山), an important mountain in neighboring Kurayoshi City.

    Gallery

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    In other languages

    Language Title Translation
    Flag of France French (Subbed) La Petite amie disparue sur le pont Koitani The girlfriend that disappeared on Koitani bridge
    Flag of Germany German (Subbed) Die auf der Liebestal-Brücke verschwundene Geliebte The Lover Who Vanished on the Liebestal Bridge

    References

    See also

    Episodes of Season 31
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