Volume 45

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Volume 45

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Information
Release date: April 5, 2004
Chapters: 458-468
ISBN: ISBN 4-09-126413-1
Publisher: Shogakukan
English release date: January 8, 2013
English ISBN: ISBN 1-4215-3611-0
English Publisher: Viz Media
Featured Detective & Keyhole
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Eitaro Imanishi
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Kazumi Tsukamoto
Aoyama's death & Conan side images
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Chronology
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List of chaptersList of cases

Volume 45 was released on April 5, 2004 in Japan.

Cast

Gadgets

Chapters

Classmate's Ghost Case

File 458 - Where are the Footprints!?

Conan and Araide report their findings to Sonoko and Ran (who have stayed in the building because of fear); they enter panic mode, and seem more convinced than ever that Hosaka’s ghost is responsible for all the strange events. Since the investigators are not far from the arts room, the conversation is overheard by Monobe, who joins Sonoko and Ran in believing that Hosaka’s ghost is around, and even says that the events constitute a curse from a still-wrathful Hosaka. Conan asks whether he knows Hosaka, and Monobe replies that they were both members of the arts club, and that he was with him when Hosaka died. Sonoko and Ran wish to know more details, but Monobe, believing that he has revealed too much, orders the investigators to leave so that he can focus on his painting; they comply. Once out of the arts room, Sonoko asks whether they should tell Tsukamoto about the desk and chair appearing in the yard (the others agree), while Conan discovers the presence of wax near where the water under the stairs accumulated.

They are able to find Tsukamoto in the library. After learning of this new incident, she gets fired up and excitedly reiterates her will to severely punish the prankster. Meanwhile, Conan finds that all the books that Hosaka borrowed are obscure and seldomly borrowed by anyone else, if at all; Tsukamoto says that that is because Hosaka wanted to be a manga artist, and knowing unusual things would help him write interesting stories.

Tsukamoto then advises the investigators to talk to the headmaster, as he has a long-standing habit of standing in the yard (pondering what he should plant in it) and thus might have seen the person moving Hosaka’s desk and chair out. But the headmaster says that he did not go to the yard that day because of a staff meeting (about what to do with the haunting incidents). The investigators, slightly disappointed by the headmaster’s account, then head to the nursery, but the result is the same. Seko insists that he has seen nothing, and reasons that the nursery is on the first floor, and trees prevent him from even seeing the yard. However, he does reveal that Hosaka and he were childhood friends, that he did not know about Hosaka’s death until months after the tragedy because of a hospitalization, and that the person in charge of the nursery would not be with him for the whole afternoon.

Conan remains stuck and believes that all three third-years that they have met can be the prankster, until Ran calls his attention to some traces of water droplets in the hallway of the first floor. He then has a theory of what happened, and strange traces on the ground of the yard and the fact that water accumulates under Seko’s umbrella seem to support it. Now he is now prepared to make a full deduction.

File 459 - Truth Behind the Remaining Desk

People

  • Major events

    The real Dr. Araide returns with his family from oversees and talks to Conan about it.

    Poisoned Fisherman Case

    Characters introduced

    File 460 - Open Murder at Sea

    File 461 - Poison on the Bait!?

    Agasa has a birthday.

    File 462 - The Blessed Fishing Spot

    At the end of the case it is revealed that it is Agasa's Birthday. Since he starts the series at age 52, he is now 53.

    People

  • Major events

    Conan appears to know a lot about fishing.

    Baseball Player Case

    File 463 - Hideyoshi's Counterattack

    File 464 - A Strange Feeling...

    File 465 - A Back-Street in the Sky

    People

  • Cigarette Message Case

    File 466 - A Secret Letter from the Stars

    File 467 - Have You Seen the Stars?

    File 468 - A Wish to the Stars

    People

  • Cover in other countries

    • China
    • Finland
    • France
    • Germany
    • Hong Kong
    • Indonesia
    • Italy
    • Korea
    • Malaysia (Chinese)
    • Malaysia (Malay)
    • Rep. of China (Taiwan)
    • Spain (Spanish, Volumen 2)
    • Sweden
    • Thailand
    • United States
    • Vietnam

    See also

    Volumes of the Manga
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