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Detective Picture Book

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{{FeaturedArticle|January 18, 2011}}
The '''{{nihongo|Detective Picture Book|名探偵図鑑|Meitantei Zukan}}''', fully titled {{nihongo|'''[[Gosho Aoyama]]'s Detective Picture Book'''|青山剛昌の名探偵図鑑|Aoyama Gōshō no Meitantei Zukan}}, is a special feature included on the dust-jacket of each ''[[Detective Conan]]'' manga volume. Each installment features a brief write-up on a famous fictional detective (or, in rare cases, a criminal), a colored illustration, and a story recommendation from Aoyama.

In the English localization, this feature is referred to as ''"Gosho Aoyama's Mystery Library"'' and - because manga is generally not sold with dust-jackets in the West - relegated to a black-and-white page at the very end of the volume.

== Detectives featured ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Volume !! Featured Detective !! Creator !! Aoyama's Recommendation !! Image
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| align="center"|[[Volume 1|01]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Sherlock Holmes]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] || [[wikipedia:The Sign of the Four|The Sign of the Four]] || [[File: Detective 1.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 2|02]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Kogoro Akechi]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Rampo Edogawa|Edogawa Rampo]] || {{nihongo|The Golden Mask|黄金仮面|Ōgon-kamen}} || [[File: Detective 2.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 3|03]] || {{flagicon|Belgium}} [[Hercule Poirot]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Agatha Christie]] || [[wikipedia:Death on the Nile|Death on the Nile]] || [[File: Detective 3.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 4|04]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[Arsène Lupin]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[Maurice Leblanc]] || [[wikipedia:Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar|Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar]] (''Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur'') || [[File: Detective 4.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 5|05]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[Jules Maigret]] || {{flagicon|Belgium}} [[wikipedia:Georges Simenon|Georges Simenon]] || [[wikipedia:Maigret Sets a Trap|Maigret Sets a Trap]] (''Maigret tend un piège'') || [[File: Detective 5.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 6|06]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Kosuke Kindaichi|Kosuke Kindaichi]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Seishi Yokomizo|Seishi Yokomizo]] || {{nihongo|Gokumon Island|獄門島|Gokumontō}} || [[File: Detective 6.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 7|07]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Columbo|Lieutenant Columbo]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Richard Levinson|Richard Levinson]] and [[wikipedia:William Link|William Link]] || Any Old Port in a Storm || [[File: Detective 7.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 8|08]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Kodō Nomura|Kodo Nomura]] || {{nihongo|The Zenigata Heiji Arrest Files|銭形平次捕物控|Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae}} || [[File: Detective 8.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 9|09]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Philip Marlowe|Philip Marlowe]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Raymond Chandler|Raymond Chandler]] || [[wikipedia:The Long Goodbye (novel)|The Long Goodbye]] || [[File: Detective 9.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 10|10]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[wikipedia:C. Auguste Dupin|C. Auguste Dupin]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe]] || [[wikipedia:The Murders in the Rue Morgue|The Murders in the Rue Morgue]] || [[File: Detective 10.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 11|11]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Ellery Queen|Ellery Queen]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Ellery Queen|Ellery Queen]] (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) || [[wikipedia:The Egyptian Cross Mystery|The Egyptian Cross Mystery]] || [[File: Detective 11.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 12|12]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:V.I. Warshawski|V.I. Warshawski]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Sara Paretsky|Sara Paretsky]] || [[wikipedia:Deadlock (novel)|Deadlock]] || [[File: Detective 12.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 13|13]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Father Brown]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[wikipedia:G.K. Chesterton|Gilbert Keith Chesterton]] || The Queer Feet || [[File: Detective 13.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 14|14]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[wikipedia:Cordelia Gray|Cordelia Gray]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[wikipedia:P.D. James|Phyllis Dorothy James]] || [[wikipedia:An Unsuitable Job for a Woman|An Unsuitable Job for a Woman]] || [[File: Detective 14.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 15|15]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:長谷川宣以#フィクションにおける長谷川平蔵|Heizo Hasegawa]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Shotaro Ikenami|Shotaro Ikenami]] || {{nihongo|Will o' the Wisp|狐火|Kitsunebi}} || [[File: Detective 15.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 16|16]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:浅見光彦|Mitsuhiko Asami]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:内田康夫|Yasuo Uchida]] || {{nihongo|Heike Legend Murder Case|平家伝説殺人事件|Heike Densetsu Satsujin Jiken}} || [[File: Detective 16.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 17|17]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Nero Wolfe|Nero Wolfe]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Rex Stout|Rex Stout]] || [[wikipedia:Too Many Cooks|Too Many Cooks]] || [[File: Detective 17.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 18|18]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Shunsaku Kudo || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:小鷹信光|Nobumitsu Kodaka]] || {{nihongo|Surf City Blues|サーフシティブルース|Sāfu-shiti-burūsu}} || [[File: Detective 18.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 19|19]] || {{flagicon|Lithuania}} [[Hannibal Lecter]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[wikipedia:Thomas Harris|Thomas Harris]] || [[wikipedia:The Silence of the Lambs (novel)|Silence of the Lambs]] || [[File: Detective 19.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 20|20]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:Miss Marple|Miss Marple]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Agatha Christie]] || [[wikipedia:A Murder Is Announced|A Murder Is Announced]] || [[File: Detective 20.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 21|21]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Sam Spade|Sam Spade]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Dashiell Hammett|Dashiell Hammett]] || [[wikipedia:The Maltese Falcon (novel)|The Maltese Falcon]] || [[File: Detective 21.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 22|22]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Shozo Totsugawa || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Kyotaro Nishimura|Kyotaro Nishimura]] || {{nihongo|Terminal Murder Case|終着駅殺人事件|Taminaru Satsujin Jiken}} || [[File: Detective 22.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 23|23]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Furuhata Ninzaburō|Ninzaburō Furuhata]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Koki Mitani|Kōki Mitani]] || {{nihongo|The Dirty King|汚れた王将|Yogoreta Ōshō}} || [[File: Detective 23.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 24|24]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Perry Mason]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Erle Stanley Gardner|Erle Stanley Gardner]] || The Case of the Curious Bride || [[File: Detective 24.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 25|25]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Mikeneko Holmes || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Jirō Akagawa|Jirō Akagawa]] || {{nihongo|Mikeneko Holmes' Deduction|三毛猫ホームズの推理|Mikeneko Hōmuzu no Suiri}} || [[File: Detective 25.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 26|26]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Inspector Samejima || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Arimasa Osawa|Arimasa Osawa]] || {{nihongo|The Poison Ape|毒猿|Doku-Zaru}} || [[File: Detective 26.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 27|27]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[James Bond]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[wikipedia:Ian Fleming|Ian Fleming]] || [[wikipedia:Goldfinger (novel)|Goldfinger]] || [[File: Detective 27.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 28|28]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Kyosuke Kamizu || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia: Akimitsu Takagi|Akimitsu Takagi]] || {{nihongo|The Doll That Somehow Kills|人形はなぜ殺される|Ningyō ha naze korosareru}} || [[File: Detective 28.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 29|29]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Charlie Chan|Charlie Chan]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Earl Derr Biggers|Earl Derr Biggers]] || [[wikipedia:Charlie Chan Carries On|Charlie Chan Carries On]] || [[File: Detective 29.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 30|30]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:Dr. Thorndyke|John Thorndyke]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:R. Austin Freeman|Richard Austin Freeman]] || The Singing Bone || [[File: Detective 30.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 31|31]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Tōyama Kin-san || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:陣出達朗|Tatsurō Jinde]] || {{nihongo|The Tōyama Kin-san Detective Stories|遠山の金さん捕物帖|Tōyama no kinsan torimono jō}} || [[File: Detective 31.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 32|32]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Mike Hammer|Mike Hammer]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Mickey Spillane|Mickey Spillane]] || [[wikipedia:I, the Jury|I, the Jury]] || [[File: Detective 32.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 33|33]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Philo Vance|Philo Vance]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:S.S. Van Dine|S.S. Van Dine]] || [[wikipedia:The Bishop Murder Case|The Bishop Murder Case]] || [[File: Detective 33.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 34|34]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Akakabu-kenji || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:和久峻三|Shunzo Waku]] || {{nihongo|A Suspicious Penalty|疑わしきは罰せよ|Utagawashiki wa basseyo}} || [[File: Detective 34.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 35|35]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Drury Lane (character)|Drury Lane]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Ellery Queen|Ellery Queen]] (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) || The Tragedy of Y || [[File: Detective 35.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 36|36]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Katherine Turner || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Misa Yamamura|Misa Yamamura]] || {{nihongo|Flower Coffin|花の棺|Hana no Hitsugi}} || [[File: Detective 36.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 37|37]] || {{flagicon|US}} Henry Jackson || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Isaac Asimov|Isaac Asimov]] || [[wikipedia:The Acquisitive Chuckle|The Acquisitive Chuckle]] || [[File: Detective 37.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 38|38]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Denshichi || {{flagicon|Japan}} Tatsurō Jinde || {{nihongo|The Demon Peony|夜叉牡丹|Yasha-botan}} || [[File: Detective 38.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 39|39]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Lew Archer|Lew Archer]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Ross Macdonald|Ross Macdonald]] || [[wikipedia:The Moving Target|The Moving Target]] || [[File: Detective 39.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 40|40]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Kiyoshi Mitarai || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Soji Shimada|Soji Shimada]] || {{nihongo|[[wikipedia:The Tokyo Zodiac Murders|The Tokyo Zodiac Murders]]|占星術殺人事件|Sensei-jutsu Satsujin Jiken}} || [[File: Detective 40.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 41|41]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:The Old Man in the Corner|The Old Man in the Corner]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:Emma Orczy|Baroness Orczy]] || [[Wikipedia:The Old Man in the Corner|The Casebook of The Old Man in the Corner]] || [[File: Detective 41.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 42|42]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[Wikipedia:Joseph Rouletabille|Joseph Rouletabille]] || {{flagicon|France}} [[Wikipedia:Gaston Leroux|Gaston Leroux]] || [[wikipedia:The Mystery of the Yellow Room|The Mystery of the Yellow Room]] (''Le mystère de la chambre jaune'') || [[File: Detective 42.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 43|43]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Hanshichi || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Kido Okamoto|Kido Okamoto]] || {{nihongo|The Stone Lantern|石燈籠|Ishidōrō}} || [[File: Detective 43.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 44|44]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Koichiro Munakata || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Seiichi Morimura|Seiichi Morimura]] || {{nihongo|Human Proof|人間の証明|Ningen no Shomei}} || [[File: Detective 44.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 45|45]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Eitaro Imanishi || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Seichō Matsumoto|Seichō Matsumoto]] || {{nihongo|The Sand Vessel|砂の器|Suna no utsuwa}} || [[File: Detective 45.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 46|46]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Gideon Fell|Gideon Fell]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:John Dickson Carr|John Dickson Carr]] || [[wikipedia:The Hollow Man (1935 novel)|The Hollow Man]] || [[File: Detective 46.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 47|47]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Yuichiro Goda || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:高村薫|Kaoru Takamura]] || {{nihongo|Marks' Mountain|マークスの山|Mākusu no Yama}} || [[File: Detective 47.jpg|100px]]
|-
| align="center"|[[Volume 48|48]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Ukyō Sugishita || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:輿水泰弘|Yasuhiro Koshimizu]] || {{nihongo|Intent to Kill|殺意あり|Satsui ari}} || [[File: Detective 48.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 49|49]] || {{flagicon|US}} Steve Carella || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Ed McBain|Ed McBain]] || [[wikipedia:Cop Hater|Cop Hater]] || [[File: Detective 49.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 50|50]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Hideo Himura || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Alice Arisugawa|Alice Arisugawa]] || {{nihongo|The 46th Secret Room|46番目の密室|46 Banme no Misshitsu}} || [[File: Detective 50.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 51|51]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Riyako Asabuki || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:Shizuko Natsuki|Shizuko Natsuki]] || {{nihongo|The Two Truths|二つの真実|Futatsu no Shinjitsu}} || [[File: Detective 51.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 52|52]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Robert Ironside]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Collier Young|Collier Young]] || [[wikipedia:Ironside (TV series)|Ironside TV series]] || [[File: Detective 52.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 53|53]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Akihiko Chuzenji || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Natsuhiko Kyogoku|Natsuhiko Kyogoku]] || {{nihongo|[[wikipedia:The Summer of the Ubume|The Summer of the Ubume]]|姑獲鳥の夏|Ubume no natsu}} || [[File: Detective 53.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 54|54]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Kiyoshi Shimada || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Yukito Ayatsuji|Yukito Ayatsuji]] || {{nihongo|[[Wikipedia:The Decagon House Murders|The Decagon House Murders]]|十角館の殺人|Jukkakukan no satsujin}} || [[File: Detective 54.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 55|55]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:The Continental Op|The Continental Op]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Dashiell Hammett|Dashiell Hammett]] || [[wikipedia:Red Harvest|Red Harvest]] || [[File: Detective 55.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 56|56]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Ningyo Sashichi || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Seishi Yokomizo|Seishi Yokomizo]] || {{nihongo|Ghost Yamabushi|幽霊山伏|Yūrei yamabushi}} || [[File: Detective 56.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 57|57]] || {{flagicon|UK}} Joseph French || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:Freeman Wills Crofts|Freeman Wills Crofts]] || [[wikipedia:The 12.30 from Croydon|The 12:30 from Croydon]] || [[File: Detective 57.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 58|58]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Yoshibumi Takagi || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Kenzo Kitakata|Kenzo Kitakata]] || {{nihongo|The Sleepless Night|眠りなき夜|Nemurinaki-yoru}} || [[File: Detective 58.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 59|59]] || {{flagicon|US}} Mom || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:fr:James Yaffe|James Yaffe]] || A Nice Murder for Mom || [[File: Detective 59.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 60|60]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Rintaro Norizuki|Rintaro Norizuki]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Rintaro Norizuki|Rintaro Norizuki]] || {{nihongo|An Urban Legend Puzzle|都市伝説パズル|Toshi Densetsu Pazuru}} || [[File: Detective 60.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 61|61]] || {{flagicon|US}} Koko || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Lilian Jackson Braun|Lilian Jackson Braun]] || [[wikipedia:The Cat Who Could Read Backwards|The Cat Who Could Read Backwards]] || [[File: Detective 61.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 62|62]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Manabu Yukawa || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Keigo Higashino|Keigo Higashino]] || {{nihongo|Burn|燃える|Moeru}} || [[File: Detective 62.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 63|63]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Daisuke Kanbe || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Yasutaka Tsutsui|Yasutaka Tsutsui]] || {{nihongo|The Locked Room's Wealthy Police Detective|密室の富豪刑事|Misshitsu no fugō keiji}} || [[File: Detective 63.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 64|64]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Inspector Zenigata]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Monkey Punch|Monkey Punch]] || {{nihongo|Haste Makes Waste Part 1|せいては盗をしそんじる (その1)|Seite wa-tō o shisonjiru (sono 1)}} || [[File: Detective 64.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 65|65]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Robert Langdon]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Dan Brown|Dan Brown]] || [[wikipedia:The Da Vinci Code|The Da Vinci Code]] || [[File: Detective 65.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 66|66]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Akojuro Senba || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Juran Hisao|Juran Hisao]] || {{nihongo|The Remote Island Ship|遠島船|Entōbune}} || [[File: Detective 66.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 67|67]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Kanki Ibaragi　|| {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Futaro Yamada|Futaro Yamada]] || {{nihongo|The Thirteen-Sided Love Triangle|十三角関係|Jūsankaku Kankei}} || [[File: Detective 67.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 68|68]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Bannai Tarao || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:比佐芳武|Yoshitake Hisa]] || {{nihongo|The Seven Faces|七つの顔|Nanatsu no kao}} || [[File: Detective 68.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 69|69]] || {{flagicon|UK}} Richard Cuff || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:Wilkie Collins|Wilkie Collins]] || [[wikipedia:The Moonstone|The Moonstone]] || [[File: Detective 69.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 70|70]] || {{flagicon|UK}} Philip Trent || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:Edmund Clerihew Bentley|E. C. Bentley]] || [[wikipedia:Trent's Last Case|Trent's Last Case]] || [[File: Detective 70.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 71|71]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Gregory House]] || {{flagicon|Canada}} [[Wikipedia:David Shore|David Shore]] || [[wikipedia:Frozen (House)|Frozen]] || [[File: Detective 71.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 72|72]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Yoshio Kuraishi || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Hideo Yokoyama|Hideo Yokoyama]] || {{nihongo|Red Cards|赤の名刺|Aka no meishi}} || [[File: Detective 72.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 73|73]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Adrian Monk]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Andy Breckman|Andy Breckman]] and [[Wikipedia:David Hoberman|David Hoberman]] || [[wikipedia:Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty|Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty]] || [[File: Detective 73.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 74|74]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Inspector Onitsura || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Tetsuya Ayukawa|Tetsuya Ayukawa]] || {{nihongo|The Black Suitcase|黒いトランク|Kuroi toranku}} || [[File: Detective 74.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 75|75]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Enshi Shunotei || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Kaoru Kitamura|Kaoru Kitamura]] || {{nihongo|Flying Horse|空飛ぶ馬|Soratobu Uma}} || [[File: Detective 75.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 76|76]] || {{flagicon|US}} Lincoln Rhyme || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Jeffery Deaver|Jeffery Deaver]] || [[wikipedia:The Bone Collector (novel)|The Bone Collector]] || [[File: Detective 76.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 77|77]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Kei Enomoto || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Yusuke Kishi|Yusuke Kishi]] || {{nihongo|The Glass Hammer|硝子のハンマー|Garasu no Hammā}} || [[File: Detective 77.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 78|78]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Keisuke Shiratori || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:海堂尊|Takeru Kaido]] || {{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Team Batista no Eikō|The Glorious Team Batista]]|チーム·バチスタの栄光|Chīmu Bachisuta no Eikō}} || [[File: Detective 78.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 79|79]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Genya Tojo || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:三津田信三|Shinzo Mitsuda]] || 首無の如き祟るもの || [[File: Detective 79.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 80|80]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Shioriko Shinokawa || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:三上延|En Mikami]] || [[wikipedia:Biblia Koshodō no Jiken Techō|Biblia Used Bookstore Casebook　~Shioriko-san and the Strange Guests~]] || [[File: Detective 80.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 81|81]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Handyman of Susukino || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:東直己|Naomi Azuma]] || [[wikipedia:The Detective Is in the Bar|Incoming Call to the Bar]] || [[File: Detective 81.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 82|82]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de|Kageyama]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:東川篤哉|Tokuya Higashigawa]] || {{nihongo|Such Lovely Roses, Such Lethal Intent|綺麗な薔薇には殺意がございます|Kireina bara ni wa satsui ga gozaimasu}} || [[File: Detective 82.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 83|83]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Houtarou Oreki|Hōtarō Oreki]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Honobu Yonezawa|Honobu Yonezawa]] || [[wikipedia:Hyōka|Hyōka]] || [[File: Detective 83.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 84|84]] || {{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Wikipedia:Lisbeth Salander|Lisbeth Salander]] || {{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Wikipedia:Stieg Larsson|Stieg Larsson]] || [[wikipedia:The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]] || [[File: Detective 84.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 85|85]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Lieutenant Fukuie || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:大倉崇裕|Takahiro Ookura]] || [[Wikipedia:ja:福家警部補の挨拶#NHK.E7.89.88.EF.BC.882009.E5.B9.B4.EF.BC.89|Occam's Razor]] || [[File: Detective 85.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 86|86]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Takeshi Yoshiki || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Soji Shimada|Sōji Shimada]] || {{nihongo|Imagine, If the Heavens Could Move|奇想、天を動かす|''Kisō, Ten o Ugokasu''}} || [[File: Detective 86.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 87|87]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Jiro Egami || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Alice Arisugawa|Alice Arisugawa]] || {{nihongo|The Devil With Two Heads|双頭の悪魔|''Sōtō no akuma''}} || [[File: Detective 87.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 88|88]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Kyōko Okitegami || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Nisio Isin|Nisio Isin]] || {{nihongo|The Notebook of Kyōko Okitegami|掟上今日子の備忘録|''Okitegami Kyōko no Bibōroku''}} || [[File: Detective 88.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 89|89]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Sakurako Kujō || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:太田紫織|Shiori Ōta]] || {{nihongo|Where Do You Live ?|貴方のお家はどこですか|''Anata no Ouchi wa Doko desu ka''}} || [[File: Detective 89.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 90|90]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} The Phantom Thief Detective Yamaneko || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:神永学|Manabu Kaminaga]] || {{Nihongo|The Phantom Thief Detective Yamaneko|怪盗探偵山猫|''Kaitō Tantei Yamaneko''}} || [[File: Detective 90.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 91|91]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Riko Rinda || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:松岡圭祐|Keisuke Matsuoka]] || {{nihongo|The Casebook of the Ace Appraiser Q|万能鑑定士Qの事件簿|''Bannou Kanteishi Q no Jikenbo''}} || [[File: Detective 91.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 92|92]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Shinichiro Hanaoka || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:林宏司|Koji Hayashi]] and [[Wikipedia:ja:山岡潤平|Junpei Yamaoka]] || {{nihongo|The Sniffer|スニッファー嗅覚捜査官|Suniffā kyūkaku sōsa-kan}} || [[File: Detective 92.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 93|93]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Richard Castle|Richard Castle]] || {{flagicon|US}} [[Wikipedia:Andrew W. Warlowe|Andrew W. Warlowe]] || [[wikipedia:Castle_(season_1)#Episodes|"Flowers For Your Grave"]] (retitled {{nihongo|"Birth Of A New Team"|新コンビ誕生|Shin Konbi Tanjō}} in Japanese dub) || [[File: Detective 93.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 94|94]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Hiroto Miyama || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:宇田学|Manabu Uda]] || {{nihongo|99.9-criminal lawyer Request .01|99.9-刑事専門弁護士-request .01|99. 9 - Keiji senmon bengoshi - rikuesuto pointo zero ichi}} || [[File: Detective 94.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 95|95]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Yukimasa Yugami || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:井浦秀夫|Hideo Iura]] || {{nihongo|The Murderer's Spell|殺人鬼の呪文|Satsujinki no jumon}} || [[File: Detective 95.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 96|96]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Mikoto Misumi || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:野木亜紀子|Akiko Nogi]] || {{nihongo|The Nameless Poison|名前のない毒|Namae no nai doku}} || [[File: Detective 96.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 97|97]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Keita Kurokochi || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Takashi Nagasaki|Takashi Nagasaki]] || {{nihongo|Kurokochi 1-6|クロコーチ 1- 6|Kurokōchi 1-6}} || [[File: Detective 97.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 98|98]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Totono Kuno || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Yumi Tamura|Yumi Tamura]]|| {{nihongo|Between Train Lines|つかの間のトレイン|Tsukanoma no Train}} || [[File: Detective 98.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 99|99]] || {{flagicon|China}} Maomao || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:日向夏 (小説家)|Natsu Hyūga]]|| {{nihongo|Volume 1 (Cloister edition)|1巻（後宮編)|1-Kan (kōkyū-hen)}} || [[File: Detective 99.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 100|100]] || {{flagicon|UK}} Sherlock Holmes (''Sherlock'')|| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:Steven Moffat|Steven Moffat]] and [[Wikipedia:Mark Gatiss|Mark Gatiss]]|| [[wikipedia:Sherlock_(season_2)#Episodes|A Scandal in Belgravia]] || [[File: Detective 100.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 101|101]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:ja:岸辺露伴|Rohan Kishibe]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} [[wikipedia:Hirohito Araki|Hirohito Araki]]|| {{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan|Episode 5: Millionaire Village]]|富豪村|Fugō-mura}} || [[File: Detective 101.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 102|102]] || {{flagicon|Japan}} Seiko Fuji|| {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:ja:泰三子|Miko Yasu]] || {{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Police in a Pod|Decisive Moment]]|勝負は一瞬|Shōbu wa isshun}} || [[File: Detective 102.jpg|100px]]
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| align="center"|[[Volume 103|103]] || {{flagicon|UK}} [[Wikipedia:Professor Hershel Layton|Professor Layton]]|| {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Wikipedia:Akihiro Hino|Akihiro Hino]] || {{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Professor Layton and the Curious Village|Professor Layton and the Curious Village]]|レイトン教授と不思議な町|Reiton-kyōju to Fushigi na Machi}} || [[File: Detective 103.jpg|100px]]
|}

== See also ==

* [[Manga]]

[[Category:Manga]]
[[Category:Detective Picture Book|*]]

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Vermouth

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{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this person. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}

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| name = Vermouth
| japanese-name = {{Lang|ja|ベルモット}} (Berumotto)
| english-name = Vermouth
| image = EP813-Vermouth.jpg
| age = Her true age is unknown (29) Chris Vineyard<ref>[[Volume 24#File 239 - The Black Burial Ranks|Volume 24, File 239: "The Black Burial Ranks"]]</ref> (?) Sharon Vineyard
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Actress [[Black Organization]] member
| nicknames = Rotten Apple ([[FBI]])
| aliases = Chris Vineyard Sharon Vineyard
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|File 239]] Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176]]
| appearances = {{:Vermouth Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 26]] (Chris Vineyard) [[Volume 35]] (Sharon Vineyard) [[Volume 78]] (Scar Akai) [[Volume 90]] (Azusa Enomoto)
| japanese-voice = [[Mami Koyama]]
| english-voice =
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Vermouth|ベルモット|Berumotto}}''', also known as '''{{nihongo|Sharon Vineyard|シャロン・ヴィンヤード|Sharon Vin'yādo}}''' and '''{{nihongo|Chris Vineyard|クリス・ヴィンヤード|Kurisu Vin'yādo}}''', is an actress and member of the [[Black Organization]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Vermouth's background is very mysterious because she has been secretly living at least two lives through the art of disguise: that of actress Sharon Vineyard (now "deceased") and her supposed daughter, Chris Vineyard.

As the actress Sharon Vineyard, Vermouth gained much fame on Broadway and in movies, even winning an Oscar. Even then, she was a member of the Black Organization. Twenty years ago, she murdered [[Jodie Starling]]'s [[FBI]] father who had collected information on her. Jodie Starling would eventually grow up to be an FBI agent and one of Vermouth's most bitter enemies. As Sharon, Vermouth became close friends with [[Yukiko Kudo]] back when they were studying disguise under [[Toichi Kuroba]].

At some point Sharon began to pretend to have a daughter named Chris, who she did not got along with after she played a rude prank. That fact might have serve as a pretext to why the two 'identities' wouldn't be seen together in public. While Sharon was still alive, Chris kept out of the public eye except for acting in movies and giving interviews. Less than one year ago, Vermouth staged Sharon Vineyard's death, which allowed Chris to come out publicly. Currently, Vermouth serves the Black Organization with the public name Chris Vineyard.

Vermouth is the [[The Boss|boss]]' favorite which grants her some independence. Vermouth also has some particular connection to the boss that she does not want known by the greater organization, which [[Bourbon]] is blackmailing her with.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 898: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref> She also appears not to age or have de-aged over a period of twenty years between when she killed Jodie's parents and her current appearance. She doesn’t seem to like [[APTX 4869|the research]] that [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano|her]] [[Elena Miyano|parents]] engaged in, calling it “foolish". <ref>[[Volume 42#File 434 - Rotten Apple|Volume 42, File 434: "Rotten Apple"]]</ref>

Vermouth entered the storyline some time after [[Ai Haibara|Shiho Miyano/Sherry/Ai Haibara]]'s mysterious flight from the Organization. Her main objective was to track down and eliminate the 'traitor', and for that purpose she assumed the identity of doctor [[Tomoaki Araide]]. But although she managed to discover Shiho's reversion into a child, she did not succeed in killing her, as she met [[Conan Edogawa]], who was able to discover and thwart her plans. She also encountered the FBI during this process.

Vermouth has great personal interest in Conan, constantly calling him "[[Silver Bullet]]". Since it has been revealed that she knows about Ai and Kudo's reversion to their child forms, she seems to know the shrinking effect the drug can have, but for reasons yet unrevealed she keeps this knowledge secret from the rest of the Organization.

== Personality ==
Although she follows orders from the boss and [[Gin]] when he is charge of missions, Vermouth often acts according to her own agenda and whims, even when it runs contrary to the [[Black Organization]]'s best interests. She is secretive and manipulative, even towards other Organization members. Vermouth is confident in her abilities, is very bold, and an expert at manipulating situations to her advantage: traits which allow her to single-handedly weave complex plots and take the upper hand even while she is being monitored by enemies. She is intelligent and insightful, correctly suspecting the allegiance of Kir, but she was successfully outwitted by [[Conan]] and forced by [[Shuichi Akai]] to retreat.
[[File:Vermouth provokes Gin.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Vermouth teases Gin and Vodka by disguising as a waiter.]]
Vermouth's personality is contradictory at times. On one hand, she is a cruel and ruthless agent who will blackmail an unwilling man to commit murder by threatening him and his family just to provide a distraction and happily tell [[Jodie Starling|an FBI agent]] she should smile because she will see her dead father again in heaven. On the other hand, she risks her life several times to protect Conan (Cool Guy), [[Ran]] (Angel), and [[Kogoro]], and her friendly behavior while in disguise as Tomoaki Araide left the real Araide wondering if Vermouth is really a bad person. This inconsistency may reflect an underlying conflict of conscience after [[Shinichi]] (Cool Guy / Silver Bullet) and Ran (Angel) saved her life during the events of the [[Vermouth_timeline#Golden_Apple_Case_.28Manga:_350-354_Anime:_286-288.29|Golden Apple case]]. Vermouth also appears to be an atheist at first as she claims to not believe in God nor angels until Ran unknowingly rescued her which seemed to have given her back some faith.

At this point, Vermouth's motives are very mysterious. She knows about Conan being Shinichi, as well as that Haibara is Sherry, yet she has kept this information a secret from the rest of the Organization. She dislikes the Miyano family's research. She also retains personal feelings for persons who have earned a special place in her heart, such as Shinichi/Conan (Cool Guy) (as the son of [[Yukiko Kudo|her best friend]]) and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] (Angel).<ref name="e288">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case, Part 3]].</ref> As a result, she is highly unwilling to do them any harm even when she is ordered to do so.

While she does kill people, something suggests that she is not much into killing children. When Jodie, as a child, caught Vermouth, Vermouth didn't kill her directly but instead asked her to stay in the house, which she later set on fire. It could mean that she doesn't like to kill children directly. And when she questions a young witness, [[Toji Funemoto]], about Kir's accident, she lets him live.

She enjoys teasing others, seen when she disguised as a male waiter and served Gin and Vodka martinis and taunted Chianti by wishing her good luck and blowing her a kiss.<ref>[[Volume 49#File 501 - Follow the Target!|Volume 49, File 501, page 7: "Follow the Target!"]]</ref>

== Abilities ==
=== Disguise ===
[[File:Vermouth taking off Araide's mask.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth removes a latex mask.]]
Vermouth is able to mimic anyone's appearance and voice exactly with her disguise and acting skills even after observing them for only a short period of time. Vermouth frequently utilizes latex masks. Her disguising ability has been noted by Conan to be on par with the current Kaito Kid (Kaito Kuroba).<ref>[[Volume 44|Volume 44, File 457, Page 7]]</ref> Although she may have known how to disguise prior to meeting [[Toichi Kuroba]], she studied disguise under him. Her disguise ability was first shown in [[The Mysterious Passenger]]<ref>[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287: "The Unseen Horror"]], [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref> where she dressed as a male waiter to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]. [[Jodie Starling]] once referred to Vermouth's disguise abilities as a frightening type of perfection.<ref>[[Episode 362]]</ref>

=== Reconnaissance ===
Vermouth specializes in reconnaissance and infiltration, and has been shown to work very swiftly yet cautiously to rapidly acquire information. Her confidence and skill in disguise and imitation means she can execute bold plans that put her in very close contact with her targets and she can advance her plot even when they are suspicious of her. Without the aid of the other organization members, Vermouth successfully snuck into the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police|Tokyo Metropolitan Police headquarters]] in order to steal the records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases. She later returned them when presumably the surveillance would be even higher after the police noticed the files were missing. She then single-handedly staked out the [[FBI]] who were lured out into watching Kogoro Mouri and uncovered their numbers, addresses, and ways to contact them.

=== Stamina ===
Vermouth is quite strong and has developed a high pain tolerance. While she was disguised as a serial killer in New York City, Vermouth athletically vaults up from a dead hanging positioning over the railing of the stairwell to higher ground despite being shot in the side. She also shoots herself in the leg in order to avoid the effects of sleeping gas, and was able to limp to a phone booth on that shot leg, with several broken ribs caused by Shuichi, and with a deep scratch on her right shoulder when Jodie shot at her.

=== Shooting ===
As Vermouth pulled away in Jodie's car with broken ribs after her flak jacket absorbed a close range shotgun blast, she managed to aim a handgun backwards with her left hand using the side mirror while driving a car she wasn't used to and shoot Araide's car's gas tank standing 100 yards away, causing it to explode. Shuichi is impressed she managed that difficult shot with her battered body. Earlier however, she failed to draw fast enough to shoot Jodie or Shuichi; in the first case, the gun was shot out of her hand, in the second, Shuichi fired first.

== Non-aging ==
[[File:Vermouth 20 years ago.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth's appearance 20 years before the current timeline.]]
For some reason, Vermouth does not appear to age. Her apparent age hasn’t changed since she murdered Jodie’s parents twenty years ago.<ref name="f433">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai]] proved that Vermouth was not wearing a mask when his shotgun fire grazed her face. Specifically, it hasn't been clarified if Vermouth hasn't aged over time or if she became younger all at once. It is also important to note that Vermouth's talent for disguise makes it difficult to figure out when Vermouth stopped aging or deaged.

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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Vermouth<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref> Chris Vineyard Sharon Vineyard|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Silver Bullet Kudo Shinichi<ref name="file955" /> Boy (''Boya'')}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Sharon<ref>[[Volume 35|Volume 35, File 353, Page 6]]</ref>|Ran-chan Angel}}
{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Vermouth<ref name="ep345">[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|Episode 345]]</ref>|That detective (''Ano tantei'')<ref name=827p16>827 pg 16</ref>}}
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{{appellations|Genta Kojima|-|The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>}}
{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|-|The kids (collective)<ref name=824p3/>}}
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{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Vermouth Rotten Apple|Akai Shuichi Akai Silver Bullet}}
{{appellations|Ethan Hondou|-|Hondou}}
{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Vermouth|Kir}}
{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Vermouth|Bourbon}}
{{appellations|Andre Camel|Vermouth}}
{{appellations|Mary Sera|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')|Mary Akai}}
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{{appellations|Shiho Miyano|Vermouth|Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>}}
{{appellations|Vodka|Vermouth|Vodka}}
{{appellations|Pisco|-|Pisco}}
{{appellations|Calvados|-|Calvados}}
{{appellations|Chianti|Vermouth That woman|Chianti}}
{{appellations|Korn|Vermouth}}
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{{appellations|Irish|Vermouth<ref name="m13"/>|Irish<ref name="m13"/>}}
{{appellations|file=M20 odd eyes woman.jpg|Curaçao|Vermouth|Curaçao}}
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{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Sharon|Yukiko}}
{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Dr. Araide}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|-|Kaitou Kid<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|File 824 (Volume 78)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Toji Funemoto|Foreigner (''gaikoku no hito'')}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Manga and anime timeline ===
{{main|Vermouth timeline}}

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Raven Chaser (Movie: [[The Raven Chaser|13]]) ===
Vermouth disguises as a brown haired policeman in a dark suit with glasses to check on [[Irish]]'s progress and the integrity of his disguise during the conference. After texting the boss outside the bathroom, she exits the building and leaves in [[Vehicles in Detective Conan#Gin's Porsche 356A|Gin's Porsche 356A]].

She is seen again disguising as a young brown-haired woman when trying to come closer to the believed serial killer but leaves as soon as she realizes he is not. [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] tracks her down in the underground parking lot and makes her reveal herself. She gives Conan essential information about an organization member named Irish and wishes him good luck when leaving.
It is later revealed that she was the one who supervised the captured [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Superintendent Matsumoto]] and provided him with comestibles. When the police finds out about Matsumoto's remains, she informs [[Gin]] about it and leaves.
Finally, she is briefly seen driving along the Highway when Gin's helicopter crashes, complimenting Conan's accomplishments and calling him again a "silver bullet".

=== The Shadow Approaching Amuro (Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Amuro|813]]) ===
At the end, Bourbon receives a phone call from Vermouth who warns him not to take his current "secret investigation" too deeply, lest it arouses Gin's undue attention.

=== The Darkest Nightmare (Movie: [[The Darkest Nightmare|20]]) ===

== Plot exposition ==
=== Family history ===
[[File:Vermouth Sharon Vineyard EP345.png|thumb|right|200px|Chris and Sharon Vineyard]]
In order to camouflage the fact that Sharon Vineyard and Chris Vineyard are the same person, Vermouth concocted personal histories for her real life cover roles in order to make them seem like different people. When Sharon and Chris Vineyard were revealed to be one and the same, at least part of the stated Vineyard family history was revealed to be a lie. The fall-out between mother and daughter probably serves as an excuse to why the two of them never are seen together. It is unknown how much of the remainder is truthful, based on the truth, or outright fabrication because the primary source of the information is Vermouth herself who may have more to hide.

Little is known of Sharon Vineyard's mother and father. Sharon's parents were not actors, at least not well known ones, because Agasa called Chris Vineyard a second generation actress.<ref name="f341p8">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 8: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> According to Sharon's story, both her mother and father died in a fire on the day Sharon debuted on screen.<ref name="f351p2">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 2: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref>

So far, Sharon Vineyard's age has not been given and nothing is known about her personal history before she became an actress. Even her fans knew little about her private life even after she became famous.<ref name="f344p9">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 9: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Sharon said her road to stardom was very difficult and full of misfortune, prompting her to doubt the existence of God: "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 18: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> Sharon became a star actress<ref name="f350p16">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 16: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> and, according to [[Shuichi Akai]], is best known for her work in the Golden Apple broadway play.
[[File:Chris with veil.png|thumb|left|200px|Chris Vineyard coming out into public for the first time - at the funeral of her mother Sharon Vineyard]]
At some point, she married and gave birth to her daughter Chris Vineyard. Her husband later died of an unspecified illness the day after Sharon won an Oscar. While studying for an acting role approximately 20 years ago, Sharon learned disguise techniques from [[Toichi Kuroba]] alongside the aspiring young Japanese actress [[Yukiko Kudo]].<ref name="f350p17">[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volume 34, File 350, page 17: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref><ref>Yukiko started her career while in high-school. Yukiko is 37 currently so the time frame while Yukiko was studying as a beginning actress is approximately 20 years ago when Yukiko was 17 or 18.</ref> During their time together, Yukiko became Sharon's friend, and they have maintained contact with one another. Sharon later sent Yukiko three tickets to Golden Apple broadway production the year before she died. The cause of Sharon's death has not been revealed.

Chris Vineyard meanwhile became a successful actress quickly by riding the coattails of her mother's fame.<ref name="f351p2" /> She began to make movies and give interviews to reporters only, but otherwise she never appeared publicly.<ref name="f344p9" /> The first day she came out into public was the day of her mother's funeral some time less than one year ago.<ref name="f344p9" /> A reporter who tried to question Chris asked where she went to school, whether she got along with her mother, who her father is, and if the rumored lover she has will appear at Sharon's funeral.<ref name="f344p10">[[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|Volume 34, File 344, page 10: "The Storm of Booing"]]</ref> Chris answered none of these, but the types of questions which were asked demonstrate the secrecy surrounding the Vineyard family history.

Sharon Vineyard and Chris apparently didn't get along; Sharon doesn't consider Chris to be her daughter.<ref name="f351p2" /> Sharon explained this by relaying a tale to Yukiko about Chris who disguised as Sharon's husband and then met with Sharon when she visited her husband's grave to lay flowers.<ref name="f351p3">[[Volume 35#File 351 - Golden Apple 2|Volume 35, File 351, page 3: "Golden Apple 2"]]</ref> Sharon did teach Chris the disguise techniques she learned from Toichi after Chris begged for them.<ref name="f351p3" /> One year prior to the current timeline, Sharon says she hasn't seen Chris in ten years and that she is currently hanging out with a "bad crowd" of people.<ref name="f351p3"/>

=== Hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not Jodie ===
[[File:Ep278 Cool Gay.png|thumb|right|200px|Jodie's copies have uneven borders, highlighted in red, from imperfect camera alignment while photographing Vermouth's images.]]
There were several hints that Vermouth was Dr. Araide and not [[Jodie Saintemillion]] who was also a candidate for being Vermouth before her true identity was revealed.
* The records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases that Vermouth stole did not contain any cases involving [[Jodie Saintemillion]], but did contain the murder case [[Tomoaki Araide]] was involved in. This was the clue that allowed Conan to deduce Araide was Vermouth.
* Jodie's copies of [[Media:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard]] have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.<ref name="f343p18">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also, Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
* Araide switches from the basketball to the drama club.<ref name="f270p3">[[Volume 27#File 270 - Game Start|Volume 27, File 270, page 3: "Game Start"]]</ref>
* Haibara skipped school on the day of the yearly health checkups that Dr. Araide gives the elementary school students. Conan wonders if Haibara thinks there is something wrong with Araide.<ref name="f287p3">[[Volume 29#File 287 - The Unseen Horror|Volume 29, File 287, page 9: "The Unseen Horror"]]</ref>
* Vermouth falls out of character. One of her patients says Dr. Araide has been acting like a stranger.<ref name=355p6>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 6: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> Also, "Dr. Araide" claims to have sent his grandmother and housekeeper Hikaru ahead to Aomori,<ref name=355p5>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (355), pg 5: "The Haunted House's Mystery 1"</ref> which is strange because it was established in the Araide family murder case<ref>[[Volume 24#File 235 - In the Darkness...|Volume 24, Files 235-236: "In the Darkness..."]]</ref> that Araide didn't trust them (especially Hikaru) to take care of themselves.<ref>[[Volume 35#File 355 - Mystery of the Haunted House 1|Volume 35, File 355: "Mystery of the Haunted House 1"]], [[The Truth of the Haunted House|Episode 274: The Truth of the Haunted House]]</ref>

=== Jodie's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ===
[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|right|200px|Seven year old Jodie encounters Vermouth twenty years ago.]]
Jodie's father in the FBI was secretly investigating Vermouth twenty years before the current storyline.<ref name="f433" /> That is too young for Chris Vineyard to be in disguise as she is only 29 currently and would be 9 at the time. After Vermouth killed Jodie's father she inadvertently handled Jodie’s father’s glasses barehanded which had fallen off of him and got her fingerprints on them. Unexpectedly, little Jodie came in and saw Vermouth holding the glasses. When Vermouth left after setting the house on fire, she didn't anticipate that Jodie left to get juice, taking her father’s glasses with her and thus preserving her fingerprint. After she discovered Jodie's corpse was not found in the house, Vermouth looked for the girl desperately in order to rectify her mistake, but Jodie had since been put into witness protection.

Jodie suspected Chris Vineyard of being Vermouth when she saw her at Sharon’s funeral. She somehow determined Chris Vineyard’s prints matched those of the glasses. Chris would have been too young to commit a crime 20 years ago, so later Jodie obtained Sharon’s fingerprints and matched those as well. All three matched, proving to Jodie that the three people were one and the same.

=== Conan's investigation ===
==== Conan's discovery Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide ====
[[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] suspects [[Pisco]] had help from another [[Black Organization]] member. He looks into [[Chris Vineyard]] and realizes that she is able to disguise herself and may be pretending to be someone close to him. [[Kogoro Mouri]]’s case records were stolen from the police department. Conan realizes [[Tomoaki Araide]] is Vermouth because Vermouth needed the files to testify at the trial properly while in disguise.
[[File:Vermouth as Araide.png|left|thumb|200px|Vermouth as Dr. Araide]]
Conan first suspects there is another Black Organization member who was present at the mourning party after considering how Pisco obtained another purple handkerchief which enabled him to leave the investigation. Conan didn't realize that this Black Organization member might be after him or Haibara until after the bus jack case when Haibara tells Conan there was definitely someone from the Organization on the bus. Conan's first suspect is [[Shuichi Akai]] whose behavior seemed suspicious.<ref name="f291p11">[[Volume 29#File 291 - A Tiny Trace|Volume 29, File 291, page 11: "A Tiny Trace"]]</ref> After he recognizes Shuichi in the P & A case<ref name="f326">[[Volume 32#File 326 - P & A|Volume 32, File 326-328: "P & A"]]</ref>, Conan shows sensitivity to the prospect of someone investigating them.<ref name="f332">[[Volume 33#File 332 - Bloody Valentine 2|Volume 33, File 332: "Bloody Valentine 2"]]</ref> Conan doesn't seem to suspect the person Vermouth has replaced, [[Tomoaki Araide|Dr. Araide]], yet because he was willing to use his voice changer in front of him.<ref name="f330">[[Volume 33#File 330 - Sato's Feelings|Volume 33, File 2: "Sato's feelings"]]</ref>

Conan gets his first tangible proof someone is investigating around him when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] informs Conan all the records of [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s cases were stolen from the police station on the day of the bus hijack incident and later returned.<ref name="f336p9">[[Volume 33#File 336 - Clean Scent|Volume 33, File 336, pages 9-10: "Clean Scent"]]</ref> He begins to wonder who the target is and suspects Shuichi may be behind the incident because of the timing. Conan also begins to suspect the English teacher [[Jodie Starling|Jodie Saintemillion]] and Dr. Araide as well because they were also on the bus.<ref name="f343p17">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 17: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> He isn't sure of the motive for taking the records although Conan wonders if someone is trying to lure him out or if the person returned the files because they already knew what Conan would do.<ref name="f341">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref>

Conan's idea that Pisco had an accomplice among the other suspects has fully solidified. He has noticed one of the suspects who had a purple handkerchief, [[Chris Vineyard]], hasn't appeared in public since that case, thus Conan believes Chris is the Black Organization accomplice. He asks [[Agasa]] to go onto Chris's fansite and gather information on her past, interests, and habits<ref name="f341p3">[[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|Volume 34, File 341, page 3: "The Hint That Was Against"]]</ref> and Agasa's investigation corroborates with Conan's deduction.<ref name="f344p9" /> Conan is already aware that Chris Vineyard has disguise abilities and may be in disguise as someone around him.<ref name="f343p17" />

At this point, Conan is still uncertain of Araide, Jodie, and Shuichi's allegiances. He learns from [[Ran Mouri|Ran Mouri]] that Shuichi Akai was seen with a man in an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] jacket during the New York case, causing Conan to wonder if the FBI is in Japan for some reason or the Black Organization infiltrated the American law enforcement.<ref name="f380p5">[[Volume 37#File 380 - White Snow... Black Shadow...|Volume 37, File 380, pages 5-6: "White Snow... Black Shadow..."]]</ref> Conan begins to take precautions around Dr. Araide and Jodie by lying to them in order to minimize contact and information they have about Haibara.<ref name="f420">[[Volume 41#File 420 - The Enclosing Surrounding Net|Volume 41, File 420: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net"]]</ref><ref name="f422">[[Volume 41#File 422 - Inescapable Target|Volume 41, File 422: "Inescapable Target"]]</ref> However, Jodie and Dr. Araide both go over to Agasa's house and plant listening devices because Conan failed to communicate his suspicion and plans to Agasa.<ref name="f422" />

By the time Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he has realized that Vermouth is most likely Dr. Araide because Jodie wasn't in Mouri's case files when they were stolen, while Araide was. Vermouth needed the files to give proper testimony at the trial and to act correctly as Araide. Vermouth puts her plan to capture Haibara into action by calling Agasa's house as Dr. Araide saying he wants to take Haibara to a hospital because her cough hasn't gotten better.<ref name="f430p9">[[Volume 42#File 430 - The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood|Volume 42, File 430, page 9: "The Haunted Ship Painted with Blood"]]</ref> Conan is still unsure of Jodie's allegiance until she answers the door before Dr. Araide arrives. Jodie lies to "Haibara" (who is really Conan in disguise) saying that Dr. Araide's car has broken down and she has come in his place.<ref name="f431p3">[[Volume 42#File 431 - The Invisible Man Enters!|Volume 42, File 431, page 3: "The Invisible Man Enters!"]]</ref> Conan catches the lie and realizes that Jodie has been listening to the bugs as well and is acting to protect Haibara, meaning she is against Vermouth. Armed with this info, he asks Jodie to force the truth from Vermouth, and in return he will trust her.<ref name="f432p4">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 4: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

Conan tells Jodie the true scenario of Dr. Araide's family murder case.<ref name="f433p11">[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433, page 11: "The Truth Behind the Mask"]]</ref> Tomoaki Araide’s father, Yoshiteru Araide, was killed in his bathtub via electrocution. The murder was masterminded by Yoshiteru Araide's second wife, Yoko Araide. She caused a blackout to occur while she was supposedly on the phone, and during the ensuing darkness, snuck to the bathroom and put an electric shaver in the bathtub. She then crept back and asked the housemaid [[Hikaru Yasumoto]] to flip the circuit breaker, causing Yoshiteru Araide to be electrocuted. "Sleeping Kogoro", the police, and the criminal decided to create a false investigation record to protect the conscience of the maid Hikaru. Jodie used this to her advantage and forced Vermouth to reveal that she didn't know the true sequence of events.<ref name="f432p11">[[Volume 42#File 432 - Shinichi Kudo Appears!?|Volume 42, File 432, page 11: "Shinichi Kudo Appears!?"]]</ref>

==== Conan's discovery Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard and Vermouth are the same person ====
[[File:Vermouth protecting Conan.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth disguised as Dr. Araide protects Conan on the hijacked bus. This action puzzled Conan until he realized he had unknowingly saved Vermouth in New York city one year before.]]
At the same time Shinichi and Ran were in New York City, Vermouth disguised as a silver-haired serial killer in order to lure out [[Shuichi Akai]]. Later, Conan suspected the serial killer may have been someone in disguise when he heard that the serial killer’s blood and fingerprints on the stair rails were cleaned up, an action uncharacteristic for someone intending to commit suicide.<ref name=354p3>Manga [[Volume 35]], File 5 (354), pg 3: "Golden Apple 5". Note that Conan had not figured out everything completely at this point.</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380), pg 6: "White Snow... Black Shadow...". Conan is now convinced that the serial killer was killed. He had begun suspecting Shuichi Akai previously, and he still does at this point after Ran informs him Shuichi is an FBI agent, because Shuichi could be a spy in the FBI from the Black Organization.</ref> Sharon was the only person Conan knew about in the local area with high disguise abilities, so suspicion naturally fell onto her.

After Vermouth disguised as Araide, Conan deduced from the way Vermouth was behaving that she was trying to avoid involving Conan in her plan and was only targeting Haibara. Vermouth as Dr. Araide risked her life to protect Conan in the bus jack case and helped him out in Sato's matchup case. When Conan gets the letter from Vermouth inviting him the off-season Halloween mystery party, he realizes that Vermouth's intentions are to only trap Haibara and that Vermouth is trying to lure Conan to the party to avoid catching him up in her plan.

Conan who didn't exist a year ago has no reason to be “protected” by Vermouth. Conan deduces Vermouth must know his identity as Shinichi and the reason for her “protection” must have to do with something he did as Shinichi. However, Sharon was the only one Shinichi had a connection with, and she is apparently dead. Sharon’s daughter Chris has never met Shinichi and is estranged from Sharon Vineyard so she alone doesn't have an adequate motive to protect Shinichi. Also, it wouldn’t make sense for Chris Vineyard, who isn’t a family friend like Sharon, to be able to recognize Shinichi as Conan; presumably Vermouth saw young Shinichi with Yukiko when she was Sharon.<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 5</ref>

All these clues come together when Conan makes the assumption that Sharon Vineyard is Chris Vineyard who disguised as the silver haired serial killer in New York and that she is grateful for being rescued by [[Shinichi]] (Cool Guy / Silver Bullet) and [[Ran]] (Angel).<ref name="f429p9">[[Volume 42#File 429 - The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet|Volume 42, File 429, page 9: "The Full Moon and the Trap at the Banquet"]]. After Conan tells Agasa that Vermouth probably knows who they are, Agasa asks "If they know that much, why haven't they come here to kill you?". Conan's response is, "I don't know the reason, but... but I think I at least know one of the causes."</ref>

=== List of disguises used ===
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Vermouth has used many disguises over the course of the series. These are the known ones used so far.
<gallery perrow=7>
File:Sharon Vineyard 308.png|Sharon Vineyard
File:Chris Vineyard first appearence.png|Chris Vineyard
File:Ep286 Radish Redwood.png|New York City police officer [[Radish Redwood]].<ref name="NYcase">[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]]</ref>
File:Ep288 Slasher.png|Serial killer in New York City to lure out and kill [[Shuichi Akai]].<ref name="NYcase"/>
File:Not Tomoaki Araide.png|[[Tomoaki Araide]] as part of a plan to capture [[Ai Haibara]]
File:Vermouth's disguise as a waiter.png|Waiter at a jazz bar to tease [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]]<ref>Volume 29: Files 3~5. Episode 230-231. "[[The Mysterious Passenger]]"</ref>
File:Fake Bleeding Kiriko Busujima.png|Kiriko Busujima in order to lure assassination target Domon Yasudera out.<ref>Volume 48: File 9~Volume 49: File 4. Episode 425. "[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]]"</ref>
File:Foreign lady.png|Simple disguise used when meeting with the witness Touji Funemoto to investigate about [[Kir]]'s whereabouts.<ref>[[The Shadow of the Black Organization|Episode 464 - 465]]</ref>
File:Vermouth Scar Akai Train case.jpg|Vermouth disguised as Scar Akai on the Bell Tree Express and had put the same disguise on [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] several times earlier.<ref>[[Volume_78#Mystery_Train|Mystery Train]]</ref>
File:Vermouth Disguised.png‎|Simple disguise with hat, sunglasses and tied hair.<ref>[[Volume 78|Volume 78, File 824]]</ref>
File:EP734 Woman.png|Vermouth as "Motoe Benzaki", Touhei Benzaki's fictitious wife<ref>It is revealed in [[Volume 81|File 855]] that Touhei is single, which means that "Motoe" never existed and was only a random alias come up by Vermouth, basing on the appearance of the real woman who taped Jodie.</ref>, who claims to be the woman who taped Jodie back in the bank robbery.
File:vermouth as jodie.png|Vermouth disguises as [[Jodie Starling]] a second time<ref>Volume 42: Files 5~10. Episode 345. "[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night]]". The first was to trick the FBI into leaving the shipping yards.</ref> to trap Camel into revealing critical details about [[Rikumichi Kusuda]]'s death.<ref>Manga [[Volume 84]], File 10 (893): "The Scarlet Prologue"</ref>
File:Vermouth disguised as Azusa.png|Azusa Enomoto.
File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|Vermouth disguise as [[Tsutomu Akai]] from 3 years ago in order to lure out and murder Mary for the infiltration of [[Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]].

File:Vermouth First Disguise.jpg|Policeman in [[The Raven Chaser]]<ref>There were two police officers with glasses in the meeting room, this one was sitting in the last row and went out first. He walked in the same direction as Yamamura to the toilet, who later heard Vermouth dial "[[Nanatsu no Ko]]" near the bathroom. This spiky-haired officer was also shown entering Gin's car and not the other one.</ref>
File:Vermouth Second Disguise.jpg|Mall shopper in [[The Raven Chaser]]
</gallery>

== Speculation ==
=== Vermouth's true age ===
Vermouth's age is unknown because her history is largely unclear. We know she has lived as Chris who is 29, and as Sharon whose age is unknown. Her face when she killed Jodie's father 20 years ago was youthful, suggesting she is currently at least 40 years old as long as no deaging has occurred...

=== Vermouth did not use APTX 4869 ===
A popular theory on Vermouth's non-aging is that she used [[APTX 4869]] to achieve her youthfulness since this is the only known substance capable of producing such an effect ([[Silver Bullet]]'s effects are unknown at this point). However, at present there are things that contradict such a notion. Vermouth would have faced near certain death if she had used APTX 4869.<ref name=V2/> Before Vermouth discovered Haibara and Conan, the known members of the Black Organization (besides Sherry) only knew about APTX 4869's lethal effects,<ref>Sherry did not report the results that several of her mice shrank to the greater organization because they have not been able to figure out how Shiho managed to escape the locked room. If Shiho had reported her data, the Organization would have known that shrinking was a possible side effect of APTX 4869 and would have figured out how she escaped and begun looking for a child. Furthermore, if Shiho had reported to the Organization that APTX 4869 had the possibility of leaving the victim alive, the boss and/or Shiho's superiors would not have permitted the drug in situations where the victim, if surviving, could escape as in Shinichi's case.</ref> and it was considered deadly enough that Sherry's superiors employed it as an untraceable murder weapon.<ref name=V2>Gin described APTX 4869 as a poison before using it on Shinichi, "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff..." (V1-1 pg 37) Haibara also mentions that it was used on a number of other people, "Of all the people who took the drug, only your death hadn't been confirmed yet." (V18-9 pg 6 The Org took great pains to ensure the people APTX4869 was used on were dead, evidenced when they sent Shiho out to investigate Shinichi's case twice to confirm his death. (V18-9 pg 6) Additionally, Gin gave the OK for it to be employed in a time sensitive assassination where failure would be unacceptable: "Anyway, our superior has ordered us to kill him before he rats us out. Don't screw up, Pisco! If there is any complication, you can use the 'experimental drug' [APTX 4869]" (V24-7 pg 17) If the boss, who has been stated to be cautious to a fault, knew about the risk that someone might survive APTX 4869, he would not let his subordinates use the drug without letting them know there was a chance it would leave people alive because, if someone escaped, they could talk to the police or someone else and leak the secret of the Black Organization's existence. If Gin knew it failed to work some of the time, he would have never left Shinichi alone while it acted, and would have also gone looking for him after his body disappeared if that was the case. Even Shiho Miyano who was aware APTX 4869 could rarely cause de-aging expected it to kill her. "I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8) Finally, Shiho makes it clear the Organization is not simply trying APTX 4869 out on victims, they are actively using it to kill. "If I reported your condition to the Organization, it's very likely you would have been terminated before I could do something useful." (V18-9 pg 7) Even though Shinichi was an "interesting specimen" (V18-9 pg 7), if the Org was field testing, they would try to capture Shinichi alive for study. Shiho was still project manager when use on humans began and when Shinichi was poisoned, so she would know the Organization's protocol should someone fail to die.</ref> However, given that Vermouth has said depressing things over the course of the series,<ref>"No angel has smiled upon me", "My life represents a series of misfortunes" (V35-1 pg 2)</ref> it is possible Vermouth took APTX 4869 hoping to commit suicide, but she de-aged instead, similar to Haibara's situation<ref>"I thought that since I was going to get killed anyways, I would take the APTX 4869 which I secretly held. To my luck, the drug that I took thinking it would kill me shrunk by body..." (V18-9 pg 8)</ref>. Vermouth could have also gambled on taking APTX 4869 after she recognized the deaged Shiho and Shinichi and then discovered that APTX 4869 was the common connection between them and likely cause of their conditions. However, both the suicide scenario (if it occurred while Shiho was working on the drug) and the gambling scenario fail to explain why no one in the Black Organization has questioned why Vermouth has become younger, especially after Gin saw her true face following the Haunted Ship case<ref>Shuichi's shotgun fire struck Vermouth's face and wounded it which made it apparent she wasn't wearing a mask and thus that was her true face. Vermouth was picked up by Gin in a telephone booth and he would have noticed her facial injury as well.</ref>, and then connected that with APTX 4869 use and Sherry's mysterious escape from the handcuffs and locked room. 
It is possible that Atsushi and Elena Miyano had something to do with Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging (e.g. Vermouth was their guinea pig). This might explain the personal animosity Vermouth feels towards the Miyanos and why she calls their APTX experiment foolish.

Vermouth's de-aging/non-aging may be a result of a project older than Shiho's APTX 4869, like her parents' [[Silver Bullet]], or something else even older than that. This would explain why none of the other members of the Black Organization suspect that APTX 4869 can also cause this effect and thus are unaware of the possibility Shiho de-aged to escape.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and friends ===
==== Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:Sharon and Yukiko young.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth with Yukiko approximately 20 years ago.]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko attended Sharon's funeral. Later, Yukiko sadly accepts Conan's deduction that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
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[[File:Vermouth provoking Gin.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth teases Gin with a disguise.]]
Vermouth and [[Gin]] are or were in a sexual relationship with one another.<ref name="CD239a">Conan Drill page 239, "肉体関係" (sexual relations)</ref> They get along well enough on missions, but Gin does not like Vermouth's habit of keeping secrets or her teasing. Before the events of the showdown on the ghost ship, Vermouth and Gin trusted one another, but some of Gin's trust may have disappeared as Vermouth failed to inform even the boss of her intentions.<ref name="CD239b">Conan Drill page 239, "同僚・信頼" (Colleagues Trusted)</ref> Gin doesn't mind threatening her with bodily harm, he nearly stabbed her through the head with an icepick on one occasion when she teased him disguised as a waiter, and he later pointed his gun at her when asking how she was connected with Kogoro. She doesn't seem especially bothered by any of these threats however. Because Vermouth is a high ranking member and the boss's favorite, she isn't scared of provoking the other agents, not even Gin who is extremely dangerous and sensitive. She smiled after moving her head to avoid Gin's deadly sweep with an icepick telling him that "She was just joking" which shows that she enjoys teasing him.

==== Sherry ====
[[File:Vermouth episode 230.png|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth terrifies Haibara.]]
Vermouth and [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]] have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Vermouth appears to dislike the research the Miyanos engaged in, calling it foolish. Shiho fears Vermouth more than most other members except perhaps Gin. Shiho was Vermouth's target, but Vermouth gave up on her after Conan's intervention. If Shiho was in a romantic relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a sexual relationship with Gin.<ref name="CD239c">Conan Drill page 239, "恋のライバル…?" (Love rivals?)</ref> During the '[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|Bell Tree Express arc]]', Vermouth tries to use C4 explosives to kill Sherry without telling anyone about the plan, while Bourbon wanted to take her back alive hinting at an abnormal hatred towards her.

==== The Boss ====
In file 898, Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the [[The Boss|boss]], implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.

==== Calvados (deceased) ====
[[Calvados]] was in love with Vermouth, and Vermouth took advantage of his feelings and used him. Vermouth called on Calvados to aid her in disposing with Jodie and capturing Haibara at the shipping yards. After Shuichi got the best of Calvados and Vermouth, she chose to run away, leaving him at the mercy of the FBI. Calvados chose to commit suicide rather than be caught.

==== Chianti and Korn ====
[[Chianti]] and [[Korn]] both hate Vermouth because they believe that Vermouth took advantage of Calvados' feelings for her and used him, leading him to his death. Chianti has been more vocal with her hatred than Korn.

==== Pisco (deceased) ====
Although Vermouth and [[Pisco]] are executive members, Vermouth dislikes and looks down on Pisco despite cooperating with him.<ref name="CD239d">Conan Drill page 239, {{Lang|ja|見下す}} (despise look down on}</ref>

==== Rei Furuya/Bourbon ====
[[Rei Furuya|Rei]]/ Bourbon worked with Vermouth on a plan to determine if [[Shuichi Akai]] was really dead. She made [[Scar Akai|masks that looked like Shuichi's face with a scar]] for him so he could approach Shuichi's friends and colleagues to see their reactions to him. She also interfered with his plans to capture Sherry alive by rigging the location Rei intended to trap Sherry in with explosives to kill her.

==== Vodka====
Throughout the series, Vermouth has not been shown as having any negative emotions regarding [[Vodka]], unlike other members of the Organization (like [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]]). Vodka and Vermouth have been seen along on missions sometimes, but in general they don't pay much attention to each other.
She does tease Vodka about his lack of literary knowledge when he fails to understand how Haido Park could be a place most suited for hunting.

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Jodie Starling ====
[[Jodie Starling]] has a bitter hatred for Vermouth because Vermouth murdered her father, but Vermouth doesn't have any particular animosity for Jodie beyond her being a skilled FBI adversary whom she would like to kill. Jodie thinks Vermouth is an entirely evil person. Vermouth was extremely well liked and kind to students and patients while disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], so when the real Araide wonders if Vermouth is really a bad person, Jodie takes offense and angrily yells at him, "How can someone be a good person if she kills people with a smile!?"<ref>Manga Volume 45, File 2, pg 18: "The truth behind the remaining desk"</ref>

Twenty years before the current timeline, Vermouth goes to the house of Jodie's father, an FBI agent, and kills him. An eight to nine year old [[Jodie Starling]] walks in while Vermouth was trying to put his glasses back on his body and thinks her father is asleep. Vermouth tells her that she should wait for her father to wake up. When the girl asks her who is she, Vermouth replies "A secret makes a woman, woman". Vermouth burns the house down, thinking Jodie stayed behind and was killed as well. However, the girl goes out of the house to buy orange juice for her father, narrowly escaping death. She also takes her father's glasses with her, preserving the fingerprints Vermouth left on them. When Vermouth finds out Jodie's body was not in the house, she looks for her to kill her, but the FBI enrolled her in witness protection. Jodie later becomes an FBI agent in order to find her father's killer.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Vermouth and [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] don't have much personal animosity for each other in particular despite the fact that they have been hunting one another for some time. Vermouth regards Shuichi as a "silver bullet": someone with the potential to destroy the Black Organization. In accordance with this assessment, she attacks him immediately and preferentially in the confrontation with her at the docks. Shuichi seems to hit a nerve when he called her a rotten apple, wilted on the inside.

==== Kir ====
She suspected [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] is a member of the CIA though she didn't tell anyone about it.

=== Others ===
[[File:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Vermouth's dartboard. Conan's picture has "Cool guy" written on it while Ran's says "Angel."]]
==== Shinichi Kudo ====
After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Later in the series, after [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] successfully interfered with Vermouth's plan of killing [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]], then almost forced her to surrender and take him to find the boss, she gives him another nickname - "Silver bullet" - as she believes that he has the potential to destroy the Black Organization, because he could touch her heart. Generally, Vermouth tries to protect Shinichi when she is able to, even if it means risking her own life. Although Shinichi found out later that he unknowingly rescued Vermouth in New York City and that Vermouth was a friend of Yukiko's, Shinichi doesn't understand why Vermouth would make the promise to give up on hunting Sherry and not inform the Black Organization about Haibara and himself.

==== Ran Mouri ====
After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel". Earlier, Vermouth, as her Sharon Vineyard role, complained that her life was a series of misfortunes and, "No angel has smiled upon me, not even once."<ref name="f350p18" /> Even though Vermouth in disguise prepared to kill Ran later, Ran stopped Vermouth from taking a fatal fall. Vermouth was touched by this act of kindness. Much later in the story when Ran shielded Haibara from gunfire with her body, Vermouth refused to shoot Ran or allow her to be shot, instead firing around her in an attempt to frighten Ran into releasing Haibara. Although Ran does not know who Vermouth really is, she values the handkerchief that Sharon Vineyard gave her back in New York. She also describes her as "one of only two treasures in her life" (the other being Shinichi Kudo) when Ran asked her if she was or wasn't Azusa Enomoto.

== Character popularity ==
* eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Vermouth placed 9th in the poll with 75 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Vermouth placed 6th out of 10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Vermouth/Sharon Vineyard placed 8th overall with 372 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. [[Wikipedia: Vermouth|Vermouth]] is a type of flavored fortified wine, which follows the pattern of wine based codenames for women in the Black Organization.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth before.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 230]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Vermouth after.png|thumb|left|x200px|Movie 13]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:704 05.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 704]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== General ===
{{cquote|A secret makes a woman, woman.|Vermouth's motto}}

=== Specific ===
{{cquote|We can be both of God and the Devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time.|[[Volume 37#File 380 - White Snow... Black Shadow...|V37-8 pg11]]|Speaking to [[Suguru Itakura]] over the phone when he demanded to know who Vermouth thought she was.}}
{{cquote|If he could reach my heart, maybe he could be our long awaited [[silver bullet]]...|[[Volume 42]], File 10, pg 18. Vermouth believes Conan is the person capable of ending the Organization she was waiting for.}}
{{cquote|No angel has ever smiled upon me. Not even once.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 286]]|Speaking to Yukiko and Ran about how Sharon's life has been unfortunate.}}
{{cquote|I wonder if there is really god. If he truly existed, wouldn't all hard working, honest people be happy?|[[Episode 286]]|Vermouth expresses her disbelief in god to Ran.}}
{{cquote|Well if you must blame someone, blame a God that set this up for you.|[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 288]]|Vermouth in disguise as the serial killer speaking to Ran in preparation to kill her in New York City}}
{{cquote|Two silver bullets aren't needed. Only one is enough.|Thinking about Conan after hearing the news of Shuichi's death.}}

== In other languages ==
=== Vermouth ===
{{BeginTable OtherLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|ベルモット Berumotto}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|Bilmot بلموت}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|苦艾酒 Kǔ'àijiǔ 贝尔摩得 Bèi'ěrmódé}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Vermouth/Wermut}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Vermouth/Belmouth (anime)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Paramount (manga)}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Вермут}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Vermouth}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Vermouth/Vermut}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เบลม็อท Belmot}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vermouth}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Sharon Vineyard ===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シャロン Sharon|ヴィンヤード Vin'yādo}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| نينا\شارون Nina \ Sharon<ref>|Nina was only used during Shinichi Kudo in New York episodes.</ref>| Vineyard ڤنيارد}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|莎朗 Shālǎng|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name was used when Sharon was first mentioned in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 34]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шэрон|Винъярд}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sharon|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชารอน Sharon|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sharon|Vineyard}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Chris Vineyard ===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|クリス Kurisu|ヴィンヤード Vin'yādo}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic| كرِس Chris|ڤنيارد Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|克莉丝 Kèlìsī|温亚德 Wēnyàdé<ref>This name appears on Vermouth's name card when she first appeared in the [[Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Chinese Volume 24]]. Since the translation was based on the English pronunciation of the name, there may be other variants in later cases.</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Chris|Vineyard}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Крис|Винъярд}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|คริส Chris|วินยาร์ด Vinyard}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Chris|Vinyard}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
* The FBI's nickname for Vermouth, Rotten Apple, could also refer to "fermenting apples", which are known to produce alcohol.
* Half of Vermouth's disguises contain glasses, seen in her role of [[Sharon Vineyard]], [[Tomoaki Araide]], [[Jodie Starling]], a policeman, an unknown woman and a simple disguise.
* The people who spoke well of Vermouth while she was Araide are [[Ran]]'s karate mentor [[Kazumi Tsukamoto]] ("You still have that look of an Angel, Dr. Araide"), Kazumi's friend Kunishige Seto ("Before our cautious Dr. Araide takes me to the hospital"), the school's principal ("Thanks to the exercise you taught me, my waist feel much better!"), and Ran herself ("Dr. Araide is a truly nice person, right?").
* In episode 674 of the anime, Vermouth's phone appears to be modeled after the iPhone.
* She had met a major part of the main characters introduced before or in Vermouth arc, with only exceptions are [[Eri Kisaki]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Makoto Kyogoku]], [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], [[James Black]] and the other district police detectives. Although, most of them met her while disguised as [[Araide]].
* Vermouth's voice actress, [[Mami Koyama]], was the former wife of [[Rei Furuya]]'s voice actor, [[Tohru Furuya]].

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Wikipedia: Vermouth|Vermouth]] (alcohol)

== References ==
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Masumi Sera

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RucyL: /* Masumi's Introduction (Manga: 768 - 770, Anime: 646 - 647) */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this person. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}

{{FeaturedArticle|March 23, 2011}}

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Masumi Sera
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|世良真純}} (Sera Masumi)
| english-name =
| image = Masumi_Sera_Profile.jpg
| age = 17 
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = Teitan High School Student Detective
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second-older brother) [[Akemi Miyano]] (cousin, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (cousin) [[Elena Miyano]] (aunt) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (uncle)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 73|File 768]] Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|Episode 646]]
| appearances = {{:Masumi Sera Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 73]]
| japanese-voice = [[Noriko Hidaka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://combination.jp/blog/2012/02/post-383.html|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-02-01|title=新しいお仕事 | Blog | コンビネーション|publisher=combination Co.Ltd.|author=Noriko Hidaka}}</ref>
| cases-solved = 8
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Masumi Sera|世良真純|Sera Masumi}}''' is a high school detective in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and shogi player [[Shukichi Haneda]]. Also a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]].

== Background ==
Masumi Sera is a high school detective and the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and shogi player, [[Shukichi Haneda]]. She is the only daughter of [[Tsutomu Akai]] and [[Mary]]. 17 years ago, her father, before he disappeared, instructed his family to hide in Japan, where Masumi later was born. Her oldest brother had prior to her birth left Japan to study in America, so they first got to meet each other when Masumi was six-seven years old. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved abroad three years ago with her mother, presumably due to Shuichi infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Her other brother stayed in Japan. She has recently returned to Japan for some unknown reason. After meeting Conan, Ran, and Sonoko during a case, she transfers to [[Setting#Teitan High School (帝丹高校)|Ran's high school class]]. Masumi is skilled at [[Wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]], a hobby encouraged by her brother Shuichi who mailed her instruction videos while in elementary school. She can fight on the same level as [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. She seems to know that Conan is Shinichi and she had in fact met Ran and Shinichi sometime in their past. Currently she is living with [[Mary]], whom she calls "Mama", at a hotel. She claims that she is provided for by a rich friend of her late father, but it hasn't been revealed who it is. Every time they encounter the possibility of information on Mary getting out, they end up moving to a new hotel under Mary's order. While Masumi is eager to seek help from Conan, Mary is skeptical of him.
The three siblings has different last names. Sera is supposedly her mother's maiden name.

== Personality ==
[[File:691-15.png|thumb|200px|Masumi beats a gangster in [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case]]]]
Masumi has a cheery, sociable, boyish personality<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> and is well liked by her classmates at Teitan High. On their first meeting, Masumi fails to correct Sonoko's mistaken impression that she is a man and even makes it worse by declaring that Ran is "[her] type".<ref name=pronouns>The Japanese pronoun used is gender neutral and can refer to either males or females.</ref> Her rather boyish appearance - especially in relation with her flat chest - is a bit of a touchy subject to Masumi, who claims that her mother's bust size is rather well developed and keeps expressing her hope that someday her own chest size will similarly change for her.

Masumi is quite quick-minded, coming up with clever plans and adapting them to sudden changes rapidly. Masumi seems to be prone to dramatics like most detectives are, but perhaps to a lesser degree than [[Shinichi]] or [[Heiji]] as she bluntly says who the criminal is without preamble. On the other hand, Masumi is tough to the point that she is willing to risk all to achieve a successful conclusion of a case. In one instance, she purposefully lured a hostage-taker into a sniper's sight with a smile, hoping he would be shot without showing any apprehension about his possible demise.

Although she has crime scene experience<ref name=769p3>Manga Volume 73, File 7, pg 3: "A Detective Just Like You, Little Boy"</ref>, Masumi seems to be less skilled as a detective than Shinichi or Heiji, apparently missing a critical clue that was necessary to understand how the murderer's setup worked, although Conan opines that Masumi purposely made an error in order to test him. In some degree, she seems to like rivalry or contests to see who is the winner.

Sera's catchphrase upon the conclusion of a case is "case closed".

Sera shows a protective and caring side towards Conan, as seen in the Detectives Nocturne and in the beginning of the Red Woman case when she helps Conan up after falling, as well as having it made clear in the Haunted Hotel case that she was also clearly investigating Conan before they first met, as she knew he was a detective. It’s likely to believe that them being on the same bus was not an accident, which could even lead to be argued that she somehow hinted to them about the cake buffet so they would be on the same bus as her. It is safe to assume though she was, and possibly still is, investigating Conan.

Sera's way of referring to her parents as 'Mama' and 'Papa' indicates a privileged background.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Sera transfers.png‎|thumb|200px|Masumi transfers to Teitan High School]]
At first, she wears a grey fedora that used to belong to Shuichi Akai and a dark jacket which gives her an androgynous appearance. When she transfers to Teitan High, she gets rid of her fedora and wears female clothing. Her hair is dark, wavy, and short; it doesn't even touch her shoulders. Even then, she is rather tomboyish; Genta mistakes her for a man, and Sonoko comments she has a petite figure. Later, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Hattori comment that her bosoms are rather small. Masumi also has an uneven tooth that shows when she smiles.

Masumi and her brother Shuichi presumably more closely resemble their mother than their father.
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== Appellations ==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Sera-san Sera-no-nēchan Sera Sera Masumi<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume 88)]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s younger sister (''Akai-san no imōto'')|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file771">[[volume 73#Bomber's Request|File 771 (Volume 73)]]</ref> Boy (''Bōya''; first time) Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Sera Sera Masumi (movie introduction)<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="ep690">[[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|Episode 690]]</ref>| Kudo Shinichi}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Sera-san Sera Masumi-chan<ref>File 778</ref> Sera-chan|Ran-chan Ran-kun}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Tomboy-ish Girl|Kogoro-san Poiro-san ([[Hercule Poirot|'''Poiro'''t]] + Kogo'''ro''')<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|File 820 (Volume 78)]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro-san (''Nemuri no Kogoro-san'')<ref name="file771" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Papa}}

{{appellations|Mary Sera|Masumi<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|Mama<ref name="file953" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Masumi|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file938">[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938: The Crime in the Blind Spot (Volume 89)]]</ref> Ani<ref name="file859">[[volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859: Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate (Volume 81)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file954">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 954: Sanction of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Sera-san<ref name="file954" />|Subaru}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Masumi<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Kichi-nii<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014 4.JPG]] ([[Masumi Sera|Sera-chan]] calls [[Akai family's middle brother|him]] Kichi-nii)</ref> Kichi-niichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Sera-san Sensei (once) Sera-chan Female High-School Detective (''JK Tantei'')<ref name="file938" /> Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file859" />|Sonoko-chan Sonoko-kun}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Female detective (''onna-tantei'')|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|-|The girl with the ponytail}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Mari-chan<ref name="file930" />|Taisho<ref name="file930" />}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|Sera}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Female High-School Detective (''Jōshi-Kōsei Tantei'')|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Sera-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>[[Volume 86#Poolside Case|File 905 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|"FBI Guy"}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file828">[[Volume 78#The Blush Mermaid|File 828 (Volume 78)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file828" /> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="file828"/>}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Amuro-san<ref name="file937">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch<ref name="file937" /> [[Shuichi Akai|My brother]]'s friend (''Aniki no yūjin'')<ref name="file936" /> The friend (''sono yūjin'')<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Young girl (''wakai no'')<ref name="file858">[[volume 81#Steamy Relations|File 858: A Problematic Deduction (Volume 81)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file858" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Sera Masumi<ref name="m18" />|Haibara Haibara Ai}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Onēsan<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|-|Kudo Yusaku<ref name="ep690" />}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Sera<ref>[[Volume 78]], File 6</ref>|-}}

{{appellations|Scar Akai|Masumi<ref name="MT">[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]]</ref>|Shu-nii<ref name="MT" /> Acquaintance (''shiriai'')}}

{{appellations|Makoto Kyogoku|-|Master of Karate (''Karate no Tatsujin'')}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda<ref>[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file953" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953" />|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Masumi's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 73#Jeet Kune Do|768 - 770]], Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|646 - 647)]] ===
[[File:Sera Kick.png|thumb|right|200px|Masumi defends herself from Ran.]]
Masumi first met [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] on a bus after she was mistaken for a [[Wikipedia:Groping|groper]]. After Sonoko declared Masumi was the groper, Masumi and Ran got into a fight, with Masumi's Jeet Kune Do holding even against Ran's karate. Conan and Masumi cleared up the misunderstanding by pointing out the real groper. Sonoko then mistook Masumi for a boy, an impression which wasn't helped by Masumi declaring that Ran was "his type".<ref name=pronouns/> Masumi and Ran both discovered they were heading to the same hotel, about which Conan is less than pleased.

Masumi finds out the hotel she is staying at doesn't have a room available and complains at the front desk. A man then falls into the parking lot and dies. Conan runs to the source of screaming while Masumi told the guard to watch the elevators before running to the roof. She immediately declares the crime to be a murder, giving her reasoning. She then reveals her name, Sera, that she is a detective, and knows Conan is a detective as well. She also revealed before she knew Conan's name despite it not being mentioned in front of her, revealing that Masumi has been investigating Conan for awhile now.

[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] is not pleased to have another high school detective underfoot but lets Masumi and Conan investigate regardless. After listening to the suspect testimony, police observations, and examining the crime scene, Masumi announces that she has solved the case.

However, Masumi's deduction leaves out a critical detail; Conan is therefore forced to use Shinichi's phone to call his own, give Inspector Megure Conan's phone, and speak through Shinichi's as Shinichi using the voice-changer bow tie. Shinichi figures out the detail that had Masumi stumped, although a look she gives Conan as he runs off suggests her omission was possibly intentional, and once during the phone conversation she tries to trick Shinichi into admitting that he is physically present at the crime scene instead of being explained the details by Conan and Megure.

The following day, Masumi transfers to Teitan High School, surprising both Ran and Sonoko. She was rather popular at school surrounded by students asking her questions about herself.

=== Kogoro Detective Agency Hostage Crisis (Manga: [[Volume 73#Bomber's Request|771]]-[[Volume 74#Bomber's Request|774]], Anime: [[Hostage Situation at the Mouri Detective Agency|648 - 650]]) ===

==== Let's hear your brilliant deduction! (771) ====
According to Sonoko, Masumi has become very popular at Teitan high for being "cheery, sociable, boyish, and cute...and on top of that, she is a jeet kun do-using female detective!"<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> One classmate compares her to [[Shinichi Kudo]] who has been taking a break from school. Masumi tells inquiring classmates that she has been staying in America with her parents since three years ago, but "rebelled" because she would rather live in her Japan where she was born and raised. She sneaks up behind Sonoko and Ran after school because she wanted to speak to Conan at the Mouri Detective Agency. At the agency, Masumi is unhappy to hear that Conan and the rest of Detective Boys are staying at Agasa's house and will be camping the following day. She settles for asking Kogoro if Conan is always at his side when he solves cases, hinting that she suspects Conan is the real brains behind "Sleeping Kogoro".

[[File:Sera slide kick.png|thumb|left|200px|Masumi sweeps out the Hostage Taker's legs]]
Just as Masumi is about to walk out the door, three female mystery writers and a man enter the agency. After a moment of confusion, the man suddenly fires a gun into the roof and takes the detective agency hostage. His demands are that Kogoro figure out which of the three writers killed his sister at a ryokan one month ago. The quick thinking Masumi sidles up to Ran and tells her to go for the man's gun after she takes his legs out. Sera's leg sweep sends the man to the floor, and Ran removes the gun from the man's hand with a kick; however, Masumi leaps back when the man reveals he has bombs strapped around his chest and will detonate them if they try to stop him.

Meanwhile at Agasa's, Haibara is angry that Conan used Shinichi's voice to solve a case around the suspicious Masumi. Conan's response is that Masumi is familiar somehow, like they have met before or she looks like someone, and Conan feels she isn't an enemy. Genta and Mitsuhiko told Conan they saw a high school student walking home with Ran, so the jealous Conan calls Ran's cellphone to hear about it from her.

The hostage taker man orders Ran to answer her phone, but Masumi snatches the phone away and says hello to Conan (who is shocked that Masumi is with Ran). Masumi then tricks the hostage taker and keeps the line connected so Conan can listen in by closing Ran's [[Yaiba#Characters|Sea Cucumber Man]] cellphone strap in between the screen and keypad of the the flip phone.

==== Nickname Rules (772) ====
Masumi asks a few insightful questions about the case; however the hostage taker man discovers Ran's phone is still connected. Under gunpoint, Masumi steps in front of Ran and takes the blame, but Conan, using Shinichi's voice, says he ordered Ran to do it. Masumi is mystified by why Shinichi is now on Conan's phone. Masumi meanwhile spots a glint of light across from the detective agency and declares that the case will come to an end without Shinichi's help.

==== Possible Sniping (773) ====
[[File:Sera773.png|thumb|right|200px|Masumi surprised by Ran's attitude.]]
Masumi explains to Ran that she secretly kept the call to Conan connected so he could call the police and research into the case. While Masumi is still surprised that Shinichi was on the other end of the line instead of Conan, she had initially hoped that Shinichi would somehow be able to talk down the would-be-murderer. She suspects that Shinichi has already figured which one of the suspects is the murderer in the ryokan case, but Shinichi is unable to reveal the truth because the hostage taker would then kill the named culprit and then himself. Sera's plan changed when she noticed the lights from the police snipers on the building across from Mouri Detective Agency. She explains to Ran in detail the names and functions of the various police divisions responsible for hostage situations, and tells Ran in a roundabout fashion that this situation will end with the hostage taker being killed by the police.

Masumi launches a plan to bring the hostage taker into the snipers' range by telling him he should charge Ran's phone battery. Ran foils Sera's intentions by shutting the curtains, blocking the snipers' shot. To Masumi's utter astonishment, Ran tells her that she doesn't want to see anyone die in front of her and declares that "Shinichi won't allow anyone to die. He absolutely wouldn't!"<ref>Volume 73, File 11, page 13, "Possible Sniping." Shinichi then begins to present his deductions over the phone and Masumi wonders how he will manage to resolve this situation without bloodshed.</ref>

==== The book with unturned pages (774) ====
Masumi and Ran take the opportunity to disable the hostage taker when he loses his composure and grip on the detonator after Shinichi tricks him into believing his sister committed suicide. Masumi yells for the waiting bomb squad to secure the area. With the hostage taker arrested, Shinichi then reveals the true culprit. Masumi realizes the mistake in her deduction and explains the correct timeline of events before the murder. Sometime soon after the conclusion of the case, Masumi, walking with Ran and Sonoko speculates aloud that there must be some reason Shinichi left Agasa's before Ran could meet him there. She then exclaims that "due to what just happened, she really gets it", that Conan and Shinichi are on very good terms with one another, and that Ran "is tougher than Masumi thought". Conan isn't sure what to make of these last comments.

=== Video Site (Manga: [[Volume 74|775-777]], Anime: [[The Professor's Video Site|656-657]]) ===
[[File:Ai image.png|thumb|200px|Masumi deletes Haibara's image]]
Masumi stops [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] outside of [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]]'s house to ask them if they are acquaintances of Professor Agasa. The topic of [[Shinichi]] comes up when she talks to Mitsuhiko and Genta about the prior hostage case. Mitsuhiko mentions that [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] told them to keep Shinichi's involvement secret. After asking about Haibara, Masumi mentions that she saw Haibara in one of the professor's online videos. Next, Masumi asks who is currently living in the Kudo house because she saw the curtains shift slightly. The Detective Boys tell her that [[Subaru Okiya]] has been staying there since his apartment burnt down. Masumi cryptically comments with a smirk on her face, "And here I thought that someone had just settled in without permission...But it seems I was just getting worked up over nothing..." while looking up at where Subaru is hiding.

At the end of the case, Masumi is in her hotel room deleting various files. One of her deleted files was a still image from Agasa's video blown up to show Haibara reflected in Agasa's glasses. This indicates that she is not only keeping an eye on Conan but also on Haibara.
"Delete... Delete... For data, at least is an easy task to accomplish...", were her words while she was doing it.

=== East vs. West Rematch (Manga: [[Volume 74#East vs. West|778-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]]) ===
[[File:Sera FBI.png|thumb|left|200px|Masumi thinks about the FBI]]
The case opens with Ran talking to Masumi about [[Heiji Hattori]] who is stopping by for a visit. Masumi is curious whether Heiji or Shinichi is the better detective. After Heiji is introduced to Masumi, Kazuha then calls Heiji and tells him that she is stuck at a restaurant because someone died and a foreigner [[Andre Camel]] is keeping everyone from leaving. Masumi proposes Heiji and Shinichi (via Conan's cellphone) have a deduction match. At the crime scene, Masumi becomes curious about the foreigner, Camel who secured the area. The police and Conan reveal Camel is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and Masumi takes interest. Meanwhile, Camel finds that Masumi looks familiar, but can't quite place why. He takes a picture of her and mails it to [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] and [[James Black]] who are waiting outside. Jodie and James think Masumi resembles someone too, but only James Black correctly identified Masumi as female.

Meanwhile Masumi is busy helping with the case, asking questions and making comments about various deductions. Heiji nearly slips up with Conan's identity in front of her earning a pointed question from Masumi, but Heiji rescues himself by saying he thinks of Conan as Kudo when Conan gets smug have hearing Shinichi's deductions over the phone. Masumi doesn't seemed to be fooled though, her thoughts show that she seems to know Conan, not Shinichi, is the one solving the case while watching Conan come to his final conclusion.

=== EYE (Manga: [[Volume 74#Eye for an Eye|781]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|652]]) ===
Conan, Heiji, Masumi, and the rest of the group return to the Mouri Detective Agency after the poisoning case at Danny's restaurant. Heiji reveals the case that brought him to Tokyo; he received a mysterious letter signed in the name of a person who was murdered in Karuizawa requesting an investigation. Masumi takes an immediate interest in the case and wants to tag along, but Heiji refuses saying that the people he is visiting are only expected five people. Masumi is peeved at being left behind.

=== Kogoro-san is a Good Man (Manga: [[Volume 75|787]], Anime: [[Kogoro-san is a Good Man|661]]) ===
Masumi is walking with Conan, Ran and Sonoko. While they wonder why Kogoro has been coming home late, Sonoko thinks he's found himself a mistress. Masumi thinks that he is just investigating a case. When an old lady named Takae Kiritani comes, she claims that Kogoro has been helping her. Masumi asks what he does for her to which she replies that its small things like helping around the house. Masumi isn't seen again for the rest of the case.

=== Murder at Mouri Detective Agency (Manga: [[Volume 76|797-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]]) ===
[[File:Sera's motorcycle.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi in her motorcycle.]]
During a murder case at Mouri Detective Agency, after meeting Kogoro's new apprentice [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]], [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] comments that the number of detectives around Kogoro has increased again, referring to Masumi. Amuro takes interest in Masumi. Later, Kogoro and friends go over to a suspect's apartment. Masumi calls Ran after hearing about the murder on the news because she is worried about her and Conan. The call has an usual amount of static which alerts Amuro that there are listening devices present. Amuro abruptly hangs up Ran's phone on Masumi. Meanwhile, Conan intentionally gets himself kidnapped by the primary suspect. After Ran enables calling again, Masumi calls back immediately and is very upset because she was worried something had happened to Ran. Ran tells her that Conan has been kidnapped, and details to Masumi the murder at Kogoro's agency. In order to figure out where the kidnapper is headed, Kogoro and Amuro search the apartment and decide to go to the address of one of the other suspects.

Masumi arrives at suspect's home on [[Cars|her motorcycle]], but just misses Kogoro and the gang leaving. She hears the elevator descending and rushes back downstairs in time to follow Amuro's [[Cars|car]]. Meanwhile, the culprit has been driving around with Conan while Haibara has been directing Okiya's car towards them using the criminal tracking glasses. Okiya catches up to the kidnapper and relays what the car looks like to Kogoro. Amuro sees the suspect's car heading in the opposite direction so he quickly wheels around after it. Masumi, who has been following Amuro's car this whole time, u-turns after Amuro and continues chasing. Amuro gets in front of the suspect's car and stops it. The suspect gets out of the car holding Conan at gunpoint, but Masumi drives up onto the roof of the car. She swings her motorcycle around so that the rear wheel slams into the woman's face knocking her unconscious. With tears of relief, Masumi hugs Conan, happy he is safe. Amuro, Okiya, and [[Vermouth]] look on.

=== Meeting with Scar Akai (Manga: [[Volume 76|801]], Anime: [[Won't Forgive Even One Millimeter|675]]) ===
[[File:Sera 675.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Masumi looking for Scar Akai.]]
Masumi is walking with Sonoko and Ran, and Ran is talking by phone with Conan. Masumi hears Haibara's voice in the background and becomes curious. She asks the two others what Haibara is like, and Sonoko says Haibara is like a woman in a child's body.

When Ran hangs up her cellphone, the topic switches over to [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]]. Masumi says to Ran she wants to meet Amuro because she never got a really good look at him from the last case, but Sonoko thinks she wants to meet Conan, instead. Ran says Shinichi and Conan are big fans of Sherlock Holmes. Masumi thinks about that she has known that for a long time.

Suddenly, Masumi sees [[Scar Akai]] in the crowd ahead. She runs after him, but she can't catch him. Ran wonders who Masumi was chasing, but Masumi replies she thought it was someone she knew, and silently appends in her mind that it would be impossible for the man she was chasing to be the person she thinks it was.

[[File:690-3.png|thumb|200px|Masumi is shocked to see Subaru]]
=== Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case (Manga: [[Volume 77|812-814]], Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|690-691]]) ===
Masumi meets [[Subaru Okiya]] at Shinichi's house and she finds him suspicious. She began to think there is a woman at Kudo's house because there are a hair elastic, lipstick in a glass and a long hair in the sink trap. After that, all of them solved a case together that is similar to a case that Shinichi Kudo's father dropped out 10 years ago. It was revealed to be a theft case. Both Subaru and Masumi had got more suspicious of Conan and the identity of Shinichi Kudo. At the end, when the criminals were knocked, she saw Ran and Conan and she thought she was a 'bad kid', after all.

=== Gunma Campground's Cabin Trap (Manga: [[Volume 77|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-700]]) ===
[[File:Masome.png|thumb|left|200px|Masumi at the campground]]
She went camping when she meets Professor Agasa and Conan. The Detective Boys were lost. Masumi and Conan found the two policemen finding the corpse. After she and Conan solved the case, she and Conan rushed towards the burning cabin. Conan and the Detective Boys were talking about how they got safe. Mitsuhiko pointed the way were their savior went. Masumi then began to ask what kind of woman is their savior. She seemed to be surprised when she saw her on Mitsuhiko's cell phone.
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[[File:new-sera.png|thumb|left|200px|Masumi leans in to get a good look at Haibara]]
[[File:Sera is akai sister.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi is revealed to be Shuichi's sister.]]

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]]) ===
Masumi finally meets Haibara, and Haibara has a bad feeling about her (although it could have been due to Scar Akai spying on them from behind the door just then). Later when a murder occurs on the Bell Tree Express, she and Conan investigate. Masumi takes a video recording of the suspects running so she can show it to the detective boys in order to ask them which one had the closest gait to the masked suspect from earlier, but she is intercepted first by Scar Akai in the hallway. She stops and angrily asks him who he is. Scar Akai simply replies that she hasn't changed, reveals his face to her, and refers to her by her first name, "Masumi". In her shock Masumi calls him "Shu-nii", signifying that Shuichi is Masumi's older brother. She questions Scar Akai about what happened, saying that she heard he had died. Scar Akai then tasers her unconscious, stating that he was hoping for that response. Scar Akai later is revealed to be Vermouth in disguise, explaining why he attacked Masumi.

=== The Blush Mermaid Heist (Manga: [[Volume 78|828]]-[[Volume 79|830]], Anime: [[Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid|724-725]]) ===
[[File:SeraHat.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Masumi is relieved that she has got her hat back.]]
Masumi accompanies Conan, Ran, and Sonoko to the location of Kaitou Kid's next heist: a museum where the Blush Mermaid, a gem adhered to the shell of a turtle as a last ditch effort by a an Italian actress in an accident at sea to save her turtle by encouraging someone to rescue it. Before checking out the museum, Masumi asks Ran if she saw a [[Scar Akai|strange man in black]] when she found the hat on the Belltree Express. After the group arrives at the room where the turtle is being held in a large aquarium, [[Ginzo Nakamori|Inspector Nakamori]] pulls Masumi's face to see if it is a mask worn by Kid. Annoyed by Nakamori's mistaken gender assumption and having her face pinched, Masumi knees him in the privates ostensibly to prove he isn't Kid. Masumi then runs off to the bathroom. Later, when Kid makes his move, Masumi is one of many caught in his trap: the rug on the floor is pulled up by strings so that it pins everyone standing on it to the front of aquarium. As soon as the rug drops, everyone sees the tank is empty except for a card left by Kid. This leaves Conan and Masumi quite dumbfounded as to how Kaitou Kid could have removed the turtle. Later, Conan reveals that Masumi is really Kaitou Kid, and he had made a critical error in his acting by assuming Masumi was a male. Kaitou Kid had locked the real Masumi bound and gagged in the men's bathroom after knocking her out with a stun gun. Upon gaining consciousness, Masumi escapes her bonds, rushes out of the bathroom, and gives a still disguised Kid a fierce kick to the face. After Kid escapes (due to Ran distracting Masumi by pointing out that everyone can see her underwear), Masumi is relieved that she at least managed to recover her hat, which she thinks is special because it somehow has the same feel as her brother Shuichi Akai's hat.

=== Cooking Show Murder (Manga: [[Volume 80|844-846]], Anime: [[The Treasure Chest Filled with Fruits|727-728]]) ===
[[File:SeraSmile.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Masumi is smiling and blushing when Conan asks her if they had met each other before.]]
Conan, Ran, Sonoko, Kogoro and Masumi go to a live cooking show. Conan wants to ask something important to Masumi, but a murder gets in his way. While solving the case, Ran realises that Masumi and her might have met each other before, since Ran thinks of waves in the beach each time Masumi gets away. At the end of the case, Conan asks Masumi if they had met each other before. Masumi smiles and says she doesn´t know, but actually she thinks "Of course we have, but I can’t tell you until the time comes..."

=== Adultery Investigation (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]]) ===
[[File:SeraCall.png|left|thumb|200px|Masumi is calling her brother on the phone.]]
After being hired by a classmate, Keiko Kitao, Masumi is investigating to see if the boyfriend of Keiko's sister has fully committed to their relationship. However, as the atmosphere is rapidly changed by the murder, Masumi and Conan start to investigate the crime scene. When Conan has finally deduced who the culprit is, he also observes Masumi making a call with someone saying "...Say, my deduction... It's not wrong, is it?". Upon solving the case, Eri states having seen Masumi talking to her brother on the phone.

=== Meeting Makoto (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]]) ===
[[File:SeraAndMakoto.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Masumi attacks Makoto with her Jeet Kune Do.]]
At a Bowling Center with Conan, Ran, Sonoko and Kogoro, Masumi is introduced to Sonoko's boyfriend Makoto. Shortly before, Makoto mistakes Masumi for a stranger being "overly friendly" with Sonoko and tries to fight her. Masumi explains that she has been taught Jeet Kune Do by her older brother, she also reveals that besides her assumingly dead brother, she also has a second-oldest brother. Furthermore, Masumi explains to Conan that her brother also advises her on cases by phone. After successfully investigating the crime scene with Conan, Masumi steps aside with her smartphone and types in the message "It seems like he's also arrived at the truth... But whether or not our deductions are the same - lately I've been losing confidence in that regard...". When the recipient writes back "Who is he? I'd like an explanation!", Masumi takes a picture with her smartphone. However, the recipient's answer, "If it's him, there's no problem." reveals that he is familiar with Conan. It is heavily implied that it is the same person Conan saw Masumi making a call with in File 857.

=== Red Woman Case (Manga: [[Volume 82|872]]-[[Volume 83|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|754-756]]) ===
Masumi takes a request from her middle brother to consult in his place about a case involving some of his high school classmates who are now 28-29 years old. On the way to a cabin in the woods, Masumi tells Conan and the gang more about her family history and timeline. She reveals that she and her brothers each have different family names for various reasons, one of which is the death of her father. The case takes a dark turn when one of the classmates is found murdered in a bathtub of tomatoes. With the help of the Nagano police, Conan and Masumi manage to solve the case. Later, Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone in the kitchen by calling it with his. He does so and Conan notices the call background screen is a [[Mary|child who looks like Masumi]] with eye bags similar to those of the [[Akai family]] members. Masumi mentions having a younger sister earlier on (Episode 754), so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

=== Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876]]-[[Volume 83|878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]]) ===
On the way home from school, Ran and Sonoko decide to visit Masumi's hotel (which is different from the other one she has been staying at earlier). Masumi claims she had a meeting with her supposedly-hard-to-reach [[Akai family's middle brother|middle brother]] planned, so she texts him to reschedule. Conan seems to notice this contradiction. At the hotel, Conan tries to peek in Masumi's bedroom, but Masumi wards him off by embarrassing him. Masumi also asks Conan is she reminds him of someone he met in the past, but Conan draws a blank. A murder interrupts the meeting. While Conan is investigating, he notices the middle-school aged [[Mary|child]] from Masumi's cellphone picture in the gathered crowd. Later, Conan and the gang return to Masumi's room, and Conan hides his glasses earpiece [[microphone]] to spy on the apartment. It is quickly found and destroyed by Masumi and the child after Conan departs with Ran and Sonoko. Masumi asks the child is she is beginning to like him, but the child responds that she is still long way from trusting him. The child asks Masumi to tell Conan she is her little sister from outside the territory if he asks about her. Masumi doesn't mention that she showed Conan the child's picture.
[[File:Masumi and Scotch Flashback EP836 (3).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi remembers meeting a man nicknamed Scotch]]

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===

Sera invites Conan over to her new hotel to visit, but Conan says that he can't come. While he fibs to Sera, the true reason is that he's attending a Shogi game that day. While Sera doesn't investigate the case itself, she sees the Shogi game on TV while [[Mary|the child]] is sleeping on the table. At the end of the case the young girl has woken up, and is happy about the game's conclusion.

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|903-905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===

Sera invites Conan over so that the child from Masumi's phone knows that he can be trusted, indicating that if he can't, they'll have to find a new living quarters. However despite promising he'd come alone, he ends up bringing Ran and Sonoko with him, much to the little girl and Masumi's frustration. The three teenage girls and Conan plan to hang out at the hotel's pool, but get interrupted by an emergency accompanied by a case. Sera and Conan solve the case together. At the end of the case Ran realizes that she recognizes Sera and her "little sister" from somewhere, but can't quite recall where.

=== Ran & Shinichi - First Contact (Manga: [[Volume 87#Ran & Shinichi - First Contact|921-924]], Anime: [[Memories from Sakura Class|853-854]]) ===

Sera, Sonoko and Ran are all walking in the cherry blossoms when Ran remembers when she first met Shinichi. Sonoko and Ran proceed to tell Sera a synopsized version of the event.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===

Sera, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan all agree to have dinner at Sera's favorite ramen place. While there, Conan and Sera learn that three of the customers are suspects in an ongoing robbery-cum-murder case. Sera calls her brother to get more information on the suspects, but he's busy and hangs up on her. Sera and Conan both solve the case, and in the end the chef gives Conan a handkerchief that he mistakenly believes belongs to Sera, but actually says [[Mary Sera|Mary]]. This prompts Conan to realize that he must have met Mary somewhere, but can't recall where.

=== Girls Band Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|936-938]], Anime:[[The Unfriendly Girls Band|836-837]]) ===

Sonoko gets inspired by a movie she saw the previous night (inspired by the anime K-On!) to start a girl's band with Sera and Ran. Four years ago, Masumi was taught a few notes on the base guitar by a friend of her brother, [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]]. The friend was referred to as "[[Scotch]]" by another person who Masumi thinks looks like [[Rei Furuya|Rei]]. She helps solve the murder case the group runs into, and mentions that she was inspired by her oldest brother into becoming a detective.

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[The Spirit Detective's Murder|863-864]]) ===

Masumi and Mary has moved into another hotel, where a murder takes place next door. Kogoro investigates the inside of the hotel room as part of a case, and after Masumi stalls him for a bit, Mary hides underneath the room's 4th floor veranda. Masumi intercepts Conan right before Mary is discovered, though Conan still manages to snap a picture of her. Sera uses a phone to give Mary all the information she needs to solve the case, and she uses Conan's lost bowtie modulator to pretend to be Kogoro.

=== Swimsuit Festival Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 91#Swimsuit Festival|969]]-[[Volume 92#Swimsuit Festival|971]], Anime:[[The Blind Spot in the Dressing Room|878-879]]) ===
Masumi intentionally puts on a bathing suit similar to the one that she had worn in the past to try to jog Conan's memory of where they met. A case occurs, which involved the method of counting fingers in different countries. Masumi seems to count the same way that is used in the UK, but seems to think that it is the way it is done in the US. As Conan corrects her, she seems confused. Conan thinks back on all of the times that Masumi has done things that seem to imply that she was in the UK rather than the US and he finally remembers the events of 10 years ago by repeating イギリス (Igirisu / Britain) in is head.
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=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime:[[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
The history between Shinichi, Ran and Masumi as children is explored.
<spoiler>
Masumi, along with her mother Mary and brothers Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai encounter Shinichi, who is playing detective, and Ran at a beach. Later, the Akai family gets caught up in a robbery/accident case where a van falls into the ocean and the victim inside is identified as a robber. With hints and intelligence of both Shuichi, Shinichi and his father, Yusaku, they are able to solve the case.

In the end, Masumi calls Shinichi a 'magician'. Though it may be thought that it was because Shinichi was able to humor a rather serious person, Shuichi Akai; it is not the reason behind Masumi calling him 'magician'.
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Many important historical events relating to the Akai family, Shuichi Akai and his commitment to find his father's killer and the character of Tsutomu Akai is explored in this episode/chapter.

=== Café Rice Flower Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 94#Café Rice Flower Murder Case|994-996]], Anime:[[The High School Girl Trio's Secret Café|919-920]]) ===
Masumi and Sonoko meets up with Ran in a café to discuss details of the school field trip to Kyoto and happen upon a murder. Sera and Conan solve the case together.

=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|927-928]]) ===
Masumi, together with other high school students such as Ran, Shinichi, etc, goes on a field trip to Kyoto. In Kyoto, she participated in solving a murder case along with other high school detectives, Heiji and Shinichi. This whole case is a confirmation of Masumi knowing Shinichi's real identity. After the case is solved, Masumi is seen calling her mother, [[Mary Sera]] telling her that "it seems the antidote exists" and her mission now is to get it without fail.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1022-1026]], Anime: TBD) ===
Masumi, Ran and Conan joins with Makoto and Sonoko to watch a movie. They encounter a murder case which happens in a TV Drama Filming Site. To get the antidote for Mary, she trys to ask Ran about Shinchi circumstance during the school trip, and ask her if Shinichi appears in her sight, then Conan would be gone. However, Ran said that she saw both Shinchi and Conan during the [[The Desperate Revival|school festival]], which surprised her. After that, she trys to confronts Conan by calling him Shinchi. Conan denies that it is impossible that he is Shinchi. Masumi remembers her mother, Mary attempted to contact [[Tsutomu Akai|her father]] in London, leaving herself in the room, and came back hours later in the body of a middle-school child form. Until she saw Conan [[Holmes' Revelation|appears in London]], which cause her back to Japan. She ask Ran and Conan that are there any mature child which is similar to Conan. They said that Haibara, who has the mature personality similar to Conan, She remembers that she had met her in the [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|Mystery Train]] before.

=== Antique Facet Case (Manga: [[Volume 97#Antique Facet Case|1035]]-[[Volume 89#Antique Facet Case|1038]], Anime: TBA) ===
After having more or less confirmed Conan's true identity as Shinichi, Masumi starts to investigate about Ai Haibara's connection to him due to her mature personality and unusual choice of Kanji for her name. She follows Conan, Agasa, Ai, and Subaru to the house of an appraiser whom Agasa requested to inspect an antique plate he had found at his late uncle and aunt's estate. During the case, was trying to pressure Haibara into revealing her true identity and giving her the [[APTX 4869|drugs]] that restores " the flow of time". However, Subaru ended up interrupting Sera's investigation, which irritated Sera and tried to kick him. Subaru easily dodged the kick and told Sera that the divison of fault is "50:50"; saying that he might be at fault for irritating her, but she is also at fault for trying to kick him, which surprised Sera.
After the case, Sera asks her mother about her "50:50" catchphrase, Mary revealed that it is a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Mary asks Sera if she can gets her hands on the drug, Sera told her that it is difficult for the moment since Subaru Okiya is standing in her way. Mary asks her if he is such a noteworthy person, however, Sera is more concerned about whether Subaru is her brother Akai or not, since he's using the same "50:50" catchphrase as her brother.

=== Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98|1047]]-[[Volume 99|1050]], Anime: TBA) ===
Ran, Sonoko, Sera and Conan are invited to sisters' birthday party. During the party, Sera sees Conan carrying a blue and white capsule in his medicine box, and realises that it is an APTX antidote. Sera calls her mother, informing her about the antidote. Her mother orders her to steal it possible. Eventually, a murder takes places, postponing Sera's plan. After the case is solved, Sera managed somehow to steal the medicine box. Sera started to remember her mother's shrinking, which occured at the same time of [[Holmes' Revelation]]'s arc in London. Sera and Mary witnessed Conan calling himself Holmes' apprentice during Minerva's match on TV, and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi 10 years ago on the beach. The two realised that Conan is Shinichi, and has a way to return as Shinichi to board a plane to London. Since then, Mary ordered Sera to get closer to him in order to obtain the antidote. Then, Sera opens the medicine box, but realises that the antidote isn't in there, as Conan tricked her by putting it elsewhere, much to Sera's chagrin.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Sera appeared in this movie as an investigator of the person who had been shot in the Bell Tower. She and Conan helped in chasing the culprit and afterwards was shot by the culprit after saving Conan.

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Masumi was Shuichi Akai's sister ===
Masumi was revealed to be Shuichi Akai's sister on the Bell Tree Express after a confrontation with [[Scar Akai]]<ref name=821p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pg 16: "Mystery Train (Junction)"</ref> and while sleeptalking.<ref name=823p4>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 6 (823), pg 4: "Mystery Train (Releasing Smoke)"</ref>
[[File:Sera_and_Shuuichi.png|thumb|right|Masumi and Shuichi Akai.]]
* Masumi has bags under her eyes identical to Shuichi Akai's.
* Masumi Sera's name is also incredibly similar to Mobile Suit Gundam character [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Sayla_Mass Sayla Mass] ({{lang|ja|セイラ・マス}}, ''Seira Masu''). [[Shuichi Akai#Name origin|Shuichi's name is derived]] from Sayla Mass's older brother's name, Char Aznable.
* Conan said he has a feeling he had met her before. "''Somehow I feel like we've met somewhere before, it might be that person resembles someone I know, that's why the feeling that we've met before is on my mind...''"<ref>Manga Chapter 771: Let's Hear Your Brilliant Deduction! p.11</ref>
* [[Andre Camel]] and most likely [[James Black]] seem to recognize her from somewhere. On another interesting note, James was the first to recognize that Masumi was a girl. Everyone else thought that she was a guy when they first saw her. Since James was Shuichi's boss, he would most likely know that Shuichi has a younger sister and what she would look like.
* Masumi lived in Japan until three years ago when her family moved to America. This matches with the time when Shuichi was infiltrating the Black Organization. The family's move to America could be the FBI's attempt to protect them should something go wrong with Shuichi's mission.
* In chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew".
* In chapter 859, Masumi, when being asked who taught her Jeet Kune Do, answers that her older brother did. Consequently, Conan asks Sera: "But, didn't you say your older brother was dead?" This leads to Masumi remarking "Yeah... That's what I heard." also further supporting the theory that Masumi is in Japan to investigate her brother's death.
* In chapter 881, Shukichi calls Masumi's oldest brother as "Shuichi" and Shuichi also tells Mary that he is planning to join FBI.

=== Hints that Masumi was not Bourbon ===
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew". She then thinks there is "no way it was possible" regarding the man she saw, which would make sense if she thought Shuichi was dead. This implied she wasn't Bourbon, since Bourbon believes he is the only one who can kill Shuichi, implying that Gin might have failed to do so. Hence Bourbon wouldn't think that it was impossible to meet Shuichi again in the street.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Friends and family ===
==== Shuichi Akai ====
[[Shuichi Akai]] is Masumi's older brother. She didn't get to meet him until she was six-seven years old, because Shuichi went to study abroad before Masumi was born. At first meeting she was very shy, but she did make some pranks in an attempt to make him smile. Masumi refers to Shuichi as "Shu-nii", implying that they were close. Masumi seems to miss him after his supposed death. In the Blush Mermaid Heist, Masumi is shown to be fond of her fedora as she believes it has the same "feel" as Shuichi's old hats. Shuichi sent Masumi Jeet-Kune-Do training tapes while she was in elementary school. She watched these so many times while practicing that she wore them out.<ref name="876p2">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 2: "Romance Novelist"</ref> She describes her eldest brother as ''strong'' in contrast to her second - oldest brother.<ref name="859p6-7">Manga [[Volume 81]], File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[File:EP671-674 25.png|thumb|right|200px|Masumi hugs Conan after rescuing him in [[Detectives' Nocturne]].]]
Masumi is interested in [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s abilities as a detective and has been gathering information on him and his friends. She appears to be certain that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. Despite her initial suspicious presentation, Conan felt like she wasn't a bad person and so didn't mistrust her. Conan at several points questions her if they've met before, but she denies this, once secretly thinking, "Now's not the time". The period in which such an encounter could have taken place is initially hinted to be somewhere before the three-year span of Masumi's sojourn in the United States, when she was in her preteen years.<ref name="Mang83">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 7-8: "Red Past"</ref><ref name="Mang86">Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905): "The Truth Rises to the Surface"</ref>

It is later shown that she had met Conan/Shinichi ten years ago, when the Akai family had gathered on an undisclosed beach in Japan prior to Shuichi Akai joining the FBI. By chance, Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] had also vacationed there, and they all ended up as witnesses and investigators in a gone-awry flight attempt from a robbery. When Shinichi managed to make Shuichi laugh (something Masumi had miserably failed to achieve) with his intelligence, observation skills and some unintended jokes, Masumi, in her admiration for Shinichi, began to call him "wizard". It is quite possible that this meeting inspired Masumi to become a detective herself.<ref name="Mang92">Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2-4 (972-974): "A Chance Meeting at the Beach"</ref>

When Masumi lives in England, she saw the tennis match from the [[Volume 71#Following Holmes|London case]] on TV and recognized Conan as Shinichi based on his proclamation as 'Holmes' apprentice' (same as Shinichi proclaim himself to Shuichi ten years ago). After that, she start return to Japan to meet Conan.<ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref>

On several occasions, such as the dramatic conclusion of the [[Volume 76#Online Client|Online Client Case]], Masumi has displayed an intensely affectionate air towards Conan which somewhat transcends a mere "big sister" relationship.<ref>Manga Chapter 800: ''Online Client Case'' - "When Objects Collide"; Anime Episode 674: ''[[Detectives' Nocturne]]'' - "Bourbon"</ref> In fact, it is hinted during the [[Volume 83#Romance Novelist Murder Case|Romance Novelist murder]] and in the movie ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]'' that she may actually be entertaining a crush on Shinichi/Conan and hopes of initiating a closer relationship with him. However, the actual level of her feelings for him is yet to be publicly revealed, and it doesn't appear like she has anything against Ran and Shinichi's relationship.

==== Ai Haibara ====
Masumi has been interested in meeting [[Ai Haibara]] and has been secretly gathering information on her, mainly because she has begun to suspect that Haibara is the inventor of the [[APTX]], which Mary wishes to acquire for her re-transformation.<ref>[[Volume 95#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 95, chapter 1005: "Crimson School Trip Case"]]</ref><ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref>. She also seemed to have recognized [[Shiho Miyano]] in the video of her rescuing the [[Detective Boys]]. Haibara in turn feels unnverved by Masumi, mainly by the latter's close interest in her and her pestering allusions, fearing for the safety of her identity.<ref>[[Volume 98#Antique Facet Case|Manga chapters 1035-1036]]</ref>

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sera and Wave.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran hears sounds of rippling waves when she sees Masumi hurried away]]
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] have become friends and often walk home from school together. Masumi has also declared Ran as "her type" when they first met as a sign of liking, though this ultimately led Sonoko, Conan and Ran herself to mistake Masumi for a boy.

At one point, Ran recalls having met Masumi before in the past, hearing the sound of "rippling waves" when the she sees the latter leaving, "as if some sort of magic were at work".<ref name="Mang86"></ref> It is revealed in a later story that she and Masumi had actually met 10 years before, when they were both still children, on a beach, where by happenstance she, Shinichi and the Akai family inadvertently became embroiled in the aftermath of a crime (see '''Conan Edogawa''', above).<ref name="Mang92"></ref>

==== Sonoko Suzuki ====
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have become friends and often walk home from school together, with Sonoko describing Masumi as a popular girl who is "cheery, sociable, boyish and cute" and on top of that, a "Jeet Kune Do using detective", though she also teasingly remarks that the only thing "against Sera" is her flat chest.

==== Shukichi Haneda ====
[[Shukichi Haneda]] is Masumi's middle brother. Masumi appears to have a good relationship with him. Unlike Shuichi, they were close during her childhood. She often consults him regarding information or deductions about the cases she faced, and also has a high regard of her brother's intellect, even considering the already sharp Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to her second older-brother. However, Masumi doesn't know anything about Shukichi's Shogi skills or what he has been up to. She has no idea where he is living.

==== Tsutomu Akai ====
Masumi's father was missing before she was born, so she never knew him. But she refer to him as 'Papa.

==== Mary Sera ====
[[Mary Sera|Mary]] seems very mature and cold while talking to Masumi. She also treats her more like a coworker than her daughter, as she always advises her what to do and switch hotels if any intel about Mary is leaked. She is also somehow stubborn as she declined Masumi's trust in Conan despite the latter's motive and pursuit of justice are geniune.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Rei Furuya ====
Rei first saw Masumi in Detectives Nocturne case and seemed to recognise her. They formally met in chapter 936 (Girls Band) at [[Café Poirot]]. Masumi felt like having met him and even asked him directly about that, but Rei said that was the first time they met. When Masumi talked about a friend of her brother who taught her play the guitar, Rei also seemed to know about that incident. In Masumi's flashback of that friend, a man who looked very much like Rei appeared, and Masumi once again wondered about it, to which Amuro replied that she took the wrong person.

==== Scotch ====
Sera recalled meeting Scotch 4 years ago. That was when Scotch was with Akai and Rei in a train station. Sera also remembered Scotch teaching her how to play the bass and though it was only 10 minutes, she seemed to enjoy it. Sera is not sure of Scotch's true identity or allegiance, but thinks that Scotch is Japanese and that Scotch is not the real name.

== Speculation ==
[[File:Sera Knowing Conan's Name.png‎|thumb|right|200px|Masumi mentioning Conan's name.]]
=== Masumi met Shinichi and Ran when she was younger and knows Conan is Shinichi ===
* Masumi knew [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s identities before they introduced themselves. She also knew that Conan is a detective.<ref> [[Volume 73]], File 6 (768)</ref>
* Masumi seems to know that Conan is the brains behind Sleeping Kogoro. Conan seems to think that he may have met Masumi before or that she resembles someone that he knows. He believes that she got the deduction of a case wrong just so that he would reveal himself. <ref> [[Volume 73]], File 9 (771)</ref>
* Conan realizes he met Masumi before because he finds her snaggletoothed smile familiar,<ref name=845p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 6 (845), pg 16: "Our Territory"</ref>
* Masumi admits that she has met Conan before, but she can´t tell him until "the time" comes.<ref name=846p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 16: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
* Ran has met Masumi as well because Masumi's figure as she runs away reminds her of "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
* Masumi, asks Conan if he once met a girl "a long time ago and could never forget [her]"<ref name=876p11>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 11: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> and gets annoyed when he says he can't recall someone like that.
* Ran has a flashback to when she saw a younger Masumi, who is wearing a bathing suit, say, "You are a wizard, right?". Ran also feels that she has met [[Mary]].<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref>
* The meeting occurred 10 years ago, as mentioned by Mary.<ref> Manga [[Volume 90]], File 5 (953)</ref>
* Masumi puts on a swimsuit similar to the one in Ran's flashback in order to jog Conan's memory, which results in him remembering her in that bathing suit as well, along as three other people, assumed to be her relatives. <ref> Manga [[Volume 91]], File 11 (969)</ref>

In Chapter 771, it is revealed that she also knows Professor Agasa, although she calls him "Professor what's his name". Although this could be explained away as her talking to Conan off screen and her just not remembering Agasa's name.

=== The Wizard ===
In a PS, [[Shukichi Haneda|Masumi's middle brother]] asks if she "has already met the Wizard?"<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> Masumi's thought reply is "You could say so..." Later, Masumi "thinks aloud" that her reason for returning to Japan is to meet the Wizard once more.<ref name=874p8>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 8: "The red past"</ref> The identity of the Wizard is revealed in File 974 to be Shinichi.

==== Shinichi Kudo ====
Tellingly, Masumi turns towards Conan when thinking of the answer "You could say so". At this point Masumi seems to know Conan is Shinichi. If Shinichi was nicknamed "The Wizard" by Masumi and/or her brother because of what happened when he and Masumi met in the past, then the response is appropriate since she could only sort of meet with Shinichi, because Shinichi shrunk into Conan. It's possible that the event where Shinichi earned the nickname "The Wizard" was Shinichi and Ran's meeting with Masumi 10 years ago. When trying to remember Masumi, Ran specifically mentions "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref> A "magical" incident, if it was Shinichi's doing, might have earned him the nickname. Ran has a flashback of a young Masumi saying "You are a wizard, right?".<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref> Conan seems to have remembered meeting Masumi 10 years ago and is shown as a young Shinichi standing in front of a large wave.<ref> Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2 (971)</ref>

==== Someone else ====
At this point it is unlikely that the Wizard is anyone else. There is evidence that Masumi nicknamed the person who she calls Wizard, at a point in the past while Ran was nearby. If Ran was nearby, then this would have to have happened when they first met 10 years ago, meaning that the person must be someone who existed back then. The topic of the Wizard came up during a text conversation about Conan between Masumi and her middle brother, and her response to if she had met the Wizard again was "You could say so", which is more than likely implying that she is referring to Conan, and therefore Shinichi.

[[File:Akai's picture 338.PNG|thumb|right|200px|The picture of the Detective Boys the mystery assistants captured]]

=== Masumi learned about Haibara from Shuichi's picture ===
Masumi initially had an interest in Haibara. This is strange because Haibara didn't exist prior to Shiho shrinking. The knowledge of Shiho should have been secret to her as well, because Shuichi Akai's infiltration of the Black Organization was a secret. If Masumi doesn't even know the details of her brother's death, why should she know about Shiho? Masumi may recognize Haibara from pictures of Conan and Haibara that Shuichi took back during the Vermouth arc. It is standard procedure in the US to send the personal belongings of the dead back to their families. If Shuichi mixed these pictures in with his own things when he took them out of his truck before meeting with Kir, it's possible they were overlooked when the FBI sent Shuichi 's things to his family. If Masumi was interested in finding out how and why Shuichi died, she would begin by researching the people in those pictures and those connected with them in hopes of finding clues.
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== Character popularity ==
* In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Masumi placed 9th overall with 292 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8024|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

* Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 50+ poll "Best Detective Conan characters", with 107 votes.

* Masumi ranked 5th in the Digest Book 60+ poll "Cutest Detective Conan characters", with 135 votes.

* Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 70+ poll "Characters you want to go on a date with", with 106 votes.

* Masumi ranked 11th in the Digest Book 80+ poll "Character you want to marry", with 281 votes.

== Name origin ==
{{nihongo|Masumi Sera's|世良・真純|Sera Masumi}} name comes from the [[Wikipedia: Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character {{nihongo|[[Wikipedia: Sayla Mass|Sayla Mass]]|セイラ・マス|Seira Masu}}.<ref>[[Sherry's soliloquy|Sherry's soliloquy (2012-06-17)]], Gosho was referring to the revelation that Masumi is Shuichi's sister (Manga File 821): {{lang|ja|やっぱりアルテイシアだったのね・・・}} (So it was '''Artesia'''…). Note that "Artesia" is another name of '''Sayla Mass'''.</ref> The kanji for Masumi's surname mean 'good world'. The kanji for her first name, Masumi, mean 'true' and either 'pure' or 'net.'

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Deletion. For data at least ... is an easy task to accomplish.|Masumi, on deleting a picture of Haibara from her computer, File 777 pg 16}}

{{cquote|I guess I'm a bad kid after all...|Masumi, while crying, File 814 pg 16}}

== Trivia ==
[[File:M18-Sera.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Movie 18]]
* Masumi is based on [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], a tomboy detective girl turned criminal who made her first appearance in the [[Volume 54#Detective Koshien Case|''Detective Koshien Case'']]. Since Natsuki had proven highly popular, but Aoyama couldn't recycle her as a protagonist, the character of Masumi was created instead.<ref>''Shonen Sunday'' #33</ref>
* When she was young she liked to read the "[[Night Baron]]" series, so she is fan of [[Yusaku Kudo]].
* Her catchphrase, "Case Closed" (said in English), is likely a reference to the English-language name of Detective Conan. It was later revealed that she first heard the phrase being used by her brother Shuichi after he solved a case, most likely inspiring Masumi to use it herself as well.
* Masumi owns an [[Vehicles in Detective Conan#Sera's Yamaha Artesia XT400|Artesia XT400]].
* In File 859, Masumi reveals that she has a second-older brother and that her oldest brother taught her Jeet-Kune-Do.
* Masumi speaks Queen's English.<ref>[[:File:Postcard2015 1.jpg]]</ref>
* In movie 18, Sera's breasts are mistakenly a little bit developed.

== In other languages ==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|真純 Masumi|世良 Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|ماسومي Māsūmi|سيرا Sēra}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Mexico|American Spanish|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Brazil|Brazilian Portuguese|Masumi|Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Masumi|Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|세라 Sera|양 Yang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|มาสึมิ Mās̄ụ-mi|เซระ Sera}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]

== References ==
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{{Characters}}
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[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Detectives]]
[[Category:High school detectives]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Martial artists]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]
[[Category:Characters named after Mobile Suit Gundam characters]]

[[de:Masumi Sera]]

Volume 21

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RucyL: /* File 204 - The Initial Call */ In the original Japanese 最初の挨拶, reference to 最後の挨拶, title of the Sherlock Holmes story "His last bow"

{{InfoBox Volume
| volume = 21
| image = Volume 21.jpg
| releasedate = October 17, 1998
| chapters = 201-211
| isbn = 4-09-125491-8
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| english-releasedate = January 15, 2008
| english-isbn = 1-4215-1456-7
| english-publisher = [[Viz Media]]
| detective = [[Sam Spade]]
| keyhole = [[Miwako Sato]]
| prev-volume = Volume 20
| next-volume = Volume 22
| footnotes =
}}
Volume 21 was released on October 17, 1998 in Japan.

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Miwako Sato}}
{{Char|Kiyonaga Matsumoto}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
}}

== Gadgets ==

== Blue Castle Case ==
{{ref anime|136-137|The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case}}

=== Gadgets introduced ===
{{NewGadget|name = [[Wristwatch Flashlight]]|image = Wristwatch Flashlight.jpg |description =
* Small flashlight}}
{{clearleft}}

=== File 201 - And Again... ===

=== File 202 - Countdown ===

=== File 203 - Ivory Tower ===

<spoiler>

The culprit is '''Masuyo Mamiya'''. She is in reality a maid named '''Mutsumi Kishikawa''', who killed the grand mistress and took over her identity to search the castle for the treasure. The Grand Mistress had figured out that the maid was searching for the treasure and wanted to fire her, so since their voices were similar, Mutsumi came up with the plan to take her place. But she feared that the daughter couldn't be fooled, so she killed her and the long-time servants by setting the tower on fire. The fire also provided with a way for her old identity to 'die' official. She killed the assistant to get rid of other treasure hunters.
But Mitsuhiko rescues Conan, Genta and Agasa by using the glasses to track them, instead of going into Mutsumi's trap. Then Agasa asks a friend, who is a specialist in plastic surgery, if he had heard of someone who had requested to look like an old woman and managed to get Mutsumi's real identity.
Conan shows her the way to the treasure, which, to Mutsumi's chok turns out to be the castle itself and a beautiful view. Mutsumi break down upon realizing that she paid too high a price for nothing by killing people and change her appearance into a old woman.

</spoiler>

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Katsuo Tabata|Katsuo Tabata manga.jpg|
* 41 years old
* Mamiya family gardener}}
{{People|Mitsuru Mamiya|Mitsuru Mamiya manga.jpg|
* 49 years old
* Husband of the eldest Mamiya daughter (Married into the family)}}
{{People|Takahito Mamiya|Takahito Mamiya manga.jpg|
* 25 years old
* Son of the eldest Mamiya daughter}}
{{People|Masuyo Mamiya|Masuyo Mamiya manga.jpg|
* 83 years old
* Head of the Mamiya family}}
{{EndBox}}

== Shinichi's First Case ==
[[File:Shinichi's first case manga.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Shinichi's first case.]]
{{ref anime|162|The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case}}

=== File 204 - His First Bow ===

=== File 205 - Midair Sealed Chamber ===

=== File 206 - The Last Trump Card ===

=== File 207 - Hidden Within The Depth Of The Heart... ===

<spoiler>

The culprit is '''Tsugumi Amano'''.

</spoiler>

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Tsuneo Ukai|Tsuneo Ukai manga.jpg|
* 47 years old
* Company employee}}
{{People|Kazuhiro Otaka|Kazuhiro Otaka manga.jpg|
* Victim (suffocated)
* 29 years old
* Photographer}}
{{People|Tsugumi Amano|Tsugumi Amano manga.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Photographer}}
{{People|Chizuru Tachikawa|Chizuru Tachikawa manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Photographer}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Noboru Saginuma|Noboru Saginuma manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Photographer}}
{{People|Edward Crowe|Edward Crowe manga.jpg|
* 51 years old
* Freelance journalist}}
{{EndBox}}

== Treadmill Murder Case ==
{{ref anime|146-147|Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story}}

=== Characters introduced ===
{{NewChar|name = [[Yumi Miyamoto]]|image = Yumi Miyamoto.jpg|description =
* Police patrol officer
* Friend of Detective Sato}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]|image = Ninzaburo Shiratori.jpg|description =
* Police inspector}}
{{clearleft}}

=== File 208 - The Sakuradamon Incident!? ===

=== File 209 - The Inspector's Investigation ===

=== File 210 - An Unexpected Rival ===

<spoiler>

The culprit is '''Keizo Masuo'''.

</spoiler>

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Keizo Masuo|Keizo Masuo manga.jpg|
* 53 years old
* Tohto Bank manager, Haido Branch}}
{{People|Kayo Masuo|Kayo Masuo manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 42 years old
* Keizo Masuo's wife}}
{{EndBox}}

== Wedding Murder Case ==
{{ref anime|141-142|The Night Before the Wedding Locked Room Case}}

=== File 211 - A Nice Day in Tokyo ===

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Akio Shigematsu|Akio Shigematsu manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 51 years old
* Morizono family butler}}
{{People|Kaede Katagiri|Kaede Katagiri manga.jpg|
* 22 years old
* Kikuhito Morizono's fiancé}}
{{People|Yuji Sakuraba|Yuji Sakuraba manga.jpg|
* 23 years old
* Morizono family servant}}
{{People|Yurie Morizono|Yurie Morizono manga.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Eldest Morizono daughter}}
{{People|Mikio Morizono|Mikio Morizono manga.jpg|
* 57 years old
* Head of the Morizono family}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Kikuhito Morizono|Kikuhito Morizono manga.jpg|
* 26 years old
* Eldest Morizono son}}
{{EndBox}}

== Trivia ==
* The title for each chapter are worded as the following in ''Case Closed'':
:* File 201 - Another Victim
:* File 203 - The Ivory Tower
:* File 204 - The First Entry
:* File 205 - A Locked Room in the Sky
:* File 207 - A Secret Hidden in the Heart
:* File 208 - The Sakuradamon Incident
:* File 209 - The Inspector's Deduction
:* File 210 - An Unforeseen Enemy
:* File 211 - A Perfect Day for Tokyo

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<div class="left">[[File:Volume21sw.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Sweden]]</div>
<div class="left">[[File:Volume 21e.jpg|150px|thumb|left|United States]]</div>
<div class="left">[[File:Volume21v.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Vietnam]]</div>
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== See also ==
* [[Manga]]
* [[Volume 21-30]]
* [[Detective Conan]]

[[Category:Volumes]]

[[de:Band 21]]

{{Volumes}}

Detective Conan in Spain

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RucyL: /* Cast (Spanish Dub) */

{{InfoBox Country
| country = Spain
| image = Detective Conan Spanish logo.PNG
| language = Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Valencia and Balear
| continent = Europe
| episode = 376 (407) [''Spanish''] 668 (720) [''Catalan''] 422 (456) [''Valencia''] 278 (300) [''Galician''] 98 (104) [''Basque''] 49 (50) [''Balear'']
| volume = 87 (as August 2017)
| kaito volume = 4
| publisher = Planeta DeAgostini
}}
The Detective Conan manga is published in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini in 1998 and the Anime was broadcasted firstly on [[Wikipedia:Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network]] in 2001.

==Manga==
The manga was first published in 1998, with 13 volumes released as of 2000 before its cancellation. With the success of the Spanish dub of the series, the manga continued being released, in a bigger format and under the title Volume 2. Issues 1 to 32 of the second volume were only half of a Japanese volume (meaning the 32 Spanish issues were 16 Japanese issues). From 33 onward, they're the same length as the Japanese release. For the sake of continuity (apart from the fact that the first 13 volumes were hard to find) Volume 1 was re-released in the new format.

Also, 31 out of 36 volumes of Detective Conan Special have been released (albeit with less success than the mainstream series).

The 2 first novels have been released.

In 2011, a new edition has been released, called "Detective Conan: Nueva Edición" (New Edition) which has two Japanese volumes in one Spanish volume. As of 2017, twenty volumes have been released.

Curiously, all Spanish manga releases are inverted so they can be read as a Western comic. This leads to changing some dialogue in order to fit the pictures (for example, all instances of mentioning someone is left-handed are changed to right-handed, and vice versa or some explanation if not like "the direction of reading has been inverted").

== Anime ==

In Spain, apart from Spanish Language, in some parts of the country, people speak another languages and dialects: Catalan, Galician, Basque, Valencian and Balear. These languages have a particular dub of Detective Conan:

{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|El detectiu Conan|668 episodes (soon until 816) + Movies 1-12 and 22}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Valencia|Valencian|Detectiu Conan|422 episodes}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Detective Conan|376 episodes + Movies 1, 2, 4 and 22}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|O detective Conan|278 episodes + Movies 1-8}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Basque Country|Basque|Conan detektibea|98 episodes + Movies 5 and 6}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Balearic Islands|Balear|El detectiu Conan|49 episodes}}
{{EndTable}}

It has been broadcast in the following channels:
{{BeginTable Broadcast|}}
|-
| colspan="8" align="center" style="background: #9FC0FF"|Spanish dub
|-
{{BroadcastItem|7|Cartoon Network|Pay to view. Private TV: Turner|No|2001-2004? 2006-2011?|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 42|42]]|March 5 2001|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Episode 43|43]] - [[Episode 76|76]]|2002|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 114|114]]|September 11 2006|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Episode 223|223]] - |September 13 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 1]] |October 1 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 2]] |2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 4]] |January 14 2011|}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|Antena 3|Free to view. Private TV: Antena 3|No|2002|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 36|36]]|June 29 2002|Only one run. A second run was announced but never
made. Last transmitted episode is unknown, shown here is calculated.}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|Animax|Pay to view. Private TV: Sony|No|2008|[[Episode 114|114]] - [[Episode 222|222]]|April 12 2008|AXN and Animax only broadcast these episodes because Cartoon Network was holding the pay rights for the others.}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|AXN|Pay to view. Private TV: Sony|No|2008|[[Episode 114|114]] - [[Episode 222|222]]|April 19 2008|AXN and Animax only broadcast these episodes because Cartoon Network was holding the pay rights for the others.}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|Aragón TV|Free to view. Public TV: Aragón TV||2008|||}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|CMT|Free to view. Public TV: Castilla-La Mancha Televisión||2008||March 27 2008|}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|Canal Extremadura|Free to view. Public TV: CEXMA||2008|||}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|Televisión Canaria|Free to view. Public TV: Radio Televisión Canaria||2008|||}}
{{BroadcastItem|2|Canal 2 Andalucía|Free to view. Public TV: Canal Sur|Yes|2006-2009|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 327|327]]|2006|Episodes [[Episode 143|143]] to [[Episode 327|327]] were broadcasted after a summer pause.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||Reruns||Channel name changed to Canal Sur 2.}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|Canal Sur 2|Free to view. Public TV: Canal Sur|Yes|2009-2011?|Reruns||}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|K30TV|Free to view. Private TV.|No|2011-2013|||}}
{{BroadcastItem|2|Arait Multimedia|Free to view. Official Youtube Channel|No|2016-2018|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 186|186]]|August 25 2016|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Episode 187|187]] - [[Episode 202|202]]|December 24 2017|Account suspended due to show producers petition to the Spanish rights owners, also it was previously approved.}}
|-
| colspan="8" align="center" style="background: #9FC0FF"|Catalan dub
|-
{{BroadcastItem|9|K3|Free to view. Public TV: Televisió de Catalunya|No|2001-2009|1: [[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 76|76]]|May 17 2001|[[Episode 77]] dubbed, but not aired because it was a 2 parts case}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||2: [[Episode 77|77]] - [[Episode 184|184]]|March 27 2003|[[Episode 185]] dubbed, but not aired because it was a 2 parts case. Includes "Next Conan hint" in some episodes.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||3: [[Episode 185|185]] - [[Episode 278|278]]|December 23 2005|Epilogues were not dubbed nor aired in this season}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||4: [[Episode 279|279]] - [[Episode 327|327]]|February 1 2007|Epilogues were not dubbed nor aired in this season. Some episodes only shows title for next episode preview.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||5: [[Episode 328|328]] - [[Episode 422|422]]|June 27 2007|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||6: [[Episode 423|423]] - [[Episode 468|468]]|January 10 2009|Episodes were aired trying to conclude cases in same weekend.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 4]]|April 10 2009|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 3]]|April 13 2009|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||7: [[Episode 469|469]] - [[Episode 477|477]]|October 10 2009|Episodes were aired trying to conclude cases in same weekend.Channel name changed to Súper 3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|TVCi|Free to view. Public TV: Televisió de Catalunya|No|2007-2009|4: [[Episode 279|279]] - [[Episode 327|327]]|February 1 2007|TVCi was the international channel for TVC. This season was the only one with international rights, so it was broadcast in this channel as a loop.}}
{{BroadcastItem|31|Súper 3|Free to view. Public TV: Televisió de Catalunya|No|2009-2012 2016-|7: [[Episode 478|478]] - [[Episode 514|514]]|October 24 2009|Episodes were aired trying to conclude cases in same weekend.[[Episode 475]] was aired in Súper 3 and never in K3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||3: [[Episode 276|276]] - [[Episode 278|278]]|October 19 2009|It continued a rerun in K3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||4: [[Episode 279|279]] - [[Episode 327|327]]|October 19 2009|First rerun in Súper 3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||5: [[Episode 328|328]] - [[Episode 361|361]]|November 24 2009|First incomplete rerun in Súper 3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 1]]|January 17 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 2]]|January 24 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 3]]|January 31 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 4]]|February 7 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 5]]|February 14 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 6]]|February 21 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 7]]|February 28 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 8]]|March 7 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||6: [[Episode 423|423]] - [[Episode 468|468]]|September 12 2011|First rerun in Súper 3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||7: [[Episode 469|469]] - [[Episode 514|514]]|October 19 2011|First complete rerun in Súper 3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||1: [[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 76|76]]|November 28 2011|First rerun in Súper 3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||2: [[Episode 77|77]] - [[Episode 184|184]]|February 14 2012|First rerun in Súper 3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||1: [[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 76|76]]|July 11 2016|First rerun after rights renewal.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||2: [[Episode 77|77]] - [[Episode 184|184]]|September 1 2012|First rerun after rights renewal. It also includes episodes [[Episode 185|185]] and [[Episode 186|186]]}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 9]]|April 17 2017|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 10]]|May 1 2017|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||3: [[Episode 185|185]] - [[Episode 278|278]]|June 22 2017|First rerun in Súper 3.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||8: [[Episode 515|515]] - [[Episode 590|590]]|September 12 2017|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 11]]|January 6 2018|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 12]]|January 7 2018|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||4: [[Episode 279|279]] - [[Episode 327|327]]|January 16 2018|First rerun after rights renewal.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||5: [[Episode 328|328]] - [[Episode 422|422]]|February 20 2018|First complete rerun in Súper 3. Paused on [[episode 370]]}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||9: [[Episode 590|590]] - [[Episode 668|668]]|April 3 2018|Episodes [[Episode 646|646]] to [[Episode 668|668]] were broadcast after a summer pause.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||10: [[Episode 669|669]] - [[Episode 816|816]]|January 8 2019|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||5: [[Episode 328|328]] - [[Episode 422|422]]|January 23 2019|From [[episode 371]]}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||6: [[Episode 423|423]] - [[Episode 468|468]]|March 1 2019|First rerun after rights renewal.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||7: [[Episode 469|469]] - [[Episode 514|514]]|April 8 2019|First rerun after rights renewal. Paused on [[episode 485]]}}
|-
| colspan="8" align="center" style="background: #9FC0FF"|Galician dub
|-
{{BroadcastItem|3|TVG|Free to view. Public TV: CRTVG|No|2006-2009|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 76|76]]|April 10 2006|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||2: [[Episode 77|77]] - [[Episode 239|239]]|October 26 2006|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||3: [[Episode 240|240]] - [[Episode 278|278]]|December 26 2007|Show moved to TVG2.}}
{{BroadcastItem|9|TVG2|Free to view. Public TV: CRTVG|No|2009-2013|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 288|278]]|February 2 2009|Reruns}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 1]]|December 25 2012|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 2]]|December 26 2012|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 5]]|December 31 2012|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 8]]|January 3 2013|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 3]]|July 5 2013|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 4]]|July 14 2013|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 6]]|July 31 2013|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 7]]|August 2 2013|}}
|-
| colspan="8" align="center" style="background: #9FC0FF"|Balearic dub
|-
{{BroadcastItem|1|IB3|Free to view. Public TV: EPRTVB|Yes|2007-2008|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 49|49]]|Summer 2007|}}
|-
| colspan="8" align="center" style="background: #9FC0FF"|Basque dub
|-
{{BroadcastItem|1|ETB1|Free to view. Public TV: EiTB||2007-2008|||}}
{{BroadcastItem|1|Betizu|Pay to view. Public TV: EiTB||2007-2008|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 99|99]]||}}
{{BroadcastItem|2|ETB3|Free to view. Public TV: EiTB||2011|[[Movie 5]]||}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Movie 6]]||}}
|-
| colspan="8" align="center" style="background: #9FC0FF"|Valencian dub
|-
{{BroadcastItem|1|Punt 2|Free to view. Public TV: RTVV|No|2010|1: [[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 38|38]]|May 4 2010|Channel name changed to Canal Nou 2}}
{{BroadcastItem|4|Canal Nou 2|Free to view. Public TV: RTVV|No|2010-2012|1:[[Episode 39|39]] - [[Episode 193|193]]|September 2 2010|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||2:[[Episode 194|194]] - [[Episode 304|304]]|July 13 2011|[[Episode 304]] was split in 4 parts and the 4 part seems to be aired 4 months later.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||3:[[Episode 304|304]] - [[Episode 360|360]]|January 23 2012|}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||4:[[Episode 361|361]] - [[Episode 422|422]]|September 12 2012|In 2013 channel (July) and group (November) closed}}
{{BroadcastItem|2|À punt|Free to view. Public TV: CVMC|No|2017-|[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 53|53]]|December 17 2017|New Valencian TV, only online.}}
{{BroadcastItem|0|||||[[Episode 1|1]] - [[Episode 278|278]]|June 11 2018|New Valencian TV, TV regular transmissions.}}
{{EndTable}}

===Cast (Spanish Dub)===
*'''Dubbing''': Episodes 1-76 were dubbed in Barcelona (''International Soundstudio''), while episodes 77-376 were dubbed in Madrid (''Alamis'').
*'''Translation (Japanese-Spanish)''': Salomón Doncel and Alessandra Moura.
{{BeginTable Cast|no-image-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|4|Conan Edogawa|Victoria Ramos|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version.}}
{{CastItem|0||Isabel Valls|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 1-76 and movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|0||Diana Torres|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376 and movies 1-2, 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||Joël Mulachs|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|3|Shinichi Kudo|Jonatan López|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version and episodes 1-76}}
{{CastItem|0||Juan Navarro|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376 and movies 1-2, 4, 22.}}
{{CastItem|0||Óscar Muñoz|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|4|Ran Mouri|Berta Cortés|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version.}}
{{CastItem|0||Diana de Guzmán|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 1-76.}}
{{CastItem|0||Carolina Tak|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376 and movies 1-2, 4, 22.}}
{{CastItem|0||Eva Bau|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|4|Kogoro Mouri|Luis Espinosa|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version and episodes 1-76.}}
{{CastItem|0||Ángel Amorós|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376 and movies 1-2, 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||César Lechiguero|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|0||José García Tos|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|4|Hiroshi Agasa|Tasio Alonso|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version.}}
{{CastItem|0||Javier Amilibia|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 1-76.}}
{{CastItem|0||Salvador Serrano|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376 and movies 1-2, 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||Sergio Capelo|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie'' and movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|4|Ayumi Yoshida|Geni Rey|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version.}}
{{CastItem|0||Pilar Mora|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 1-76 and movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|0||Marta Sáinz|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376 and movies 1-2, 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||Eva Andrés|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|4|Genta Kojima|Enrique Hernández|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version and movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|0||Lucas Cisneros|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 1-76.}}
{{CastItem|0||José Carabias|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376 and movies 1-2, 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||Silvia Cabrera|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|4|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mª Rosa Guillén|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version, episodes 1-76 and movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|0||Blanca Rada|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-345.}}
{{CastItem|0||Gema Carballedo|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 346-376 and movies 1-2, 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||Darío Torrent|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|3|Ai Haibara|Silvia Sarmentera|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 129-376 and movie 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||Miry Giner|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|0||Marta Moreno|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|3|Sonoko Suzuki|Aurora Ferrándiz|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 6-76.}}
{{CastItem|0||Mercedes Espinosa|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 79-376 and movies 1-2, 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||Eva Andrés|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie'' and movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|3|Juzo Megure|Francisco Alborch|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Manga Films version, episodes 1-76 and movie 22.}}
{{CastItem|0||Francisco Andrés Valdivia|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376 and movies 1-2, 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||José Luis Siurana|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|2|Heiji Hattori|Claudi Domingo|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 48-58.}}
{{CastItem|0||José María Carrero|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 77-376.}}
{{CastItem|1|Kazuha Toyama|Blanca Rada|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 118-376.}}
{{CastItem|3|Wataru Takagi|Alfredo Martínez|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Episodes 21-376 and movie 4.}}
{{CastItem|0||Enric Puig|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie''.}}
{{CastItem|0||José Manuel Oliva|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Movie 22.}}
{{EndTable}}

===Cast (Catalan Dub)===
*'''Dubbing''': Episodes 1-514 (AudioClip S.A., Barcelona).
*'''Translation (Japanese-Catalan)''': Marina Bornes, Verònica Calafell and Bàrbara Pesquer.
{{BeginTable Cast|no-image-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Conan Edogawa|Joël Mulachs|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Shinichi Kudo|Óscar Muñoz|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Shinichi's voice is used for Conan's thoughts.
Also, in many cases Conan speaks with Shinichi's voice without using his bowtie while serious speak.}}
{{CastItem|1|Ran Mouri|Núria Trifol|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kogoro Mouri|Jordi Royo Mark Ullod|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Jordi dubs Kogoro from episode 185 on, as well as in the movies.}}
{{CastItem|1|Eri Kisaki|Teresa Manresa|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Ai Haibara|Roser Aldabó|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Same case as Shinichi/Conan. Her adult voice is used while in her thoughts and serious speak.}}
{{CastItem|1|Hiroshi Agasa|Fèlix Benito|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Genta Kojima|Miquel Bonet|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Ayumi Yoshida|Meritxell Ané Berta Cortés|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Berta dubs Ayumi from episode 80 on, as well as in the films.}}
{{CastItem|1|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Elisabet Bargalló|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Heiji Hattori|Hernán Fernández|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kazuha Toyama|Isabel Valls Mònica Padrós|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Mònica dubs Kazuha from episode 189 on, as well as in the movies.}}
{{CastItem|1|Juzo Megure|Ramon Canals|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Josep Maria Mas|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kazunobu Chiba|Aleix Estadella|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Sonoko Suzuki|Berta Cortés Ana María Camps Eva Lluch|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Berta dubbed Sonoko in episode 6, while Ana María did it in episodes 34-35.}}
{{CastItem|1|Wataru Takagi|David Corsellas Marc Gómez|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Marc dubs Takagi from episode 514 on and from movie 9 on.}}
{{CastItem|1|Miwako Sato|Teresa Soler Meritxell Sota|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Meritxell dubs Sato from episode 514 on and from movie 9 on.}}
{{CastItem|1|Kaitou Kid|Claudi Domingo Jordi Nogueras|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Jordi dubs Kaito Kid from episode 514 on from movie 10 on.}}
{{EndTable}}

===Cast (Galician Dub)===
*'''Dubbing''': Episodes 1-278 (Sodinor S.A., Vigo).
*'''Translation (Japanese-Galican)''': María Alonso.
{{BeginTable Cast|no-image-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Conan Edogawa|Teresa Santamaría|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Shinichi Kudo|Gaspar Somoza|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Shinichi's voice is used for Conan's thoughts.}}
{{CastItem|1|Ran Mouri|Isabel Vallejo|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kogoro Mouri|Matías Brea|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Eri Kisaki|Charo Pena|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Ai Haibara|Consuelo Díaz Helena Amoedo|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Helena dubs Ai in the movies 3, 4, 6 and 7.}}
{{CastItem|1|Hiroshi Agasa|Paco Barreiro|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Genta Kojima|Antonio Rey|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Ayumi Yoshida|Marián Muíño|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Patricia de Lorenzo Montse Davila|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Montse dubs Mitsuhiko in the movies.}}
{{CastItem|1|Heiji Hattori|Monti Castiñeiras|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kazuha Toyama|Ana Ouro Ana Lemos Xermana Carballido|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Ana Lemos dubs Kazuha from episode 190 on. Xermana dubs Kazuha in the movies.}}
{{CastItem|1|Sonoko Suzuki|Nora Abad|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Juzo Megure|Alfonso Valiño|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Wataru Takagi|Manuel Pombal|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Miwako Sato|Montserrat Davila|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kaitou Kid|Raúl Dans Chema Gagino Óscar Fernández|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Óscar dubs Kaitou in the movie 3.}}
{{EndTable}}

===Cast (Valencian Dub)===
*'''Dubbing''': Episodes 1-422 (Estudi de Musica S.L., Valencia).
*'''Translation (Japanese-Valencian)''': Carlos Ortega.
{{BeginTable Cast|no-image-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Conan Edogawa|Inma Sancho|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Shinichi Kudo|Benja Figueres|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Shinichi's voice is used for Conan's thoughts.}}
{{CastItem|1|Ran Mouri|Rosa López|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kogoro Mouri|José García Tos|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Eri Kisaki|Marina Viñals|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Ai Haibara|Marta Aparicio|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Hiroshi Agasa|Joan Espuig|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Genta Kojima|Ignasi Díaz|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Ayumi Yoshida|Eva Bau|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Laura Violeta|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Heiji Hattori|Dario Torrent|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kazuha Toyama|Silvia Cabrera|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Juzo Megure|Rafael Ordoñez|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Sonoko Suzuki|Laura Violeta|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Wataru Takagi|Joan Montañana|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Called "Takegi" in this dub}}
{{CastItem|1|Miwako Sato|Silvia Cabrera|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kaitou Kid|Dario Torrent|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{EndTable}}

===Cast (Basque Dub)===
*'''Dubbing''': Episodes 1-98 (Edertrack, Bilbao).
{{BeginTable Cast|no-image-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Conan Edogawa|Xebe Atencia|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Shinichi Kudo|Xebe Atencia|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Shinichi and Conan voices are the same.}}
{{CastItem|1|Ran Mouri|Monica Erdocia|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kogoro Mouri|Xeberri Felix Arkarazo|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Felix dubs Kogoro in the movies 5 and 6}}
{{CastItem|1|Ai Haibara|Maribel Legarreta|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Maribel didn't have the opportunity to dub Haibara in the regular series but she has interpretated her in movies 5 and 6, just the only movies dubbed in Basque}}
{{CastItem|1|Hiroshi Agasa|Eduardo Gorriño|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Genta Kojima|Beñat Narbaiza Peio Artetxe|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Peio dubs Genta in the movies 5 and 6}}
{{CastItem|1|Ayumi Yoshida|Jaione Insausti|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Maribel Legarreta Eba Ojanguren|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Eba dubs Mitsuhiko in the movies 5 and 6}}
{{CastItem|1|Heiji Hattori|Iker Díaz|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Sonoko Suzuki|Ana Begoña Eguileor Belen Oskoz|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Belen dubs Sonoko in the movies 5 and 6}}
{{CastItem|1|Juzo Megure|Javi Pombo|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Wataru Takagi|Jon Goiri|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kaitou Kid|Xabier Alkiza|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{EndTable}}

===Cast (Balear Dub)===
*'''Dubbing''': Episodes 1-50 (Graus Balear, Palma de Mallorca).
*'''Translation (Japanese-Balear)''': Sarai María-Arias.
{{BeginTable Cast|no-image-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Conan Edogawa|Unknown|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Shinichi Kudo|Miquel Ruíz|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true|Shinichi's voice is used for Conan's thoughts.}}
{{CastItem|1|Ran Mouri|Marga López|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Kogoro Mouri|Unknown|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{CastItem|1|Sonoko Suzuki|Assumpta Massutí|no-image-cast=true|no-link-cast=true}}
{{EndTable}}

==Trivia==
* The logo used is the same as the standard international logo.
* Nearly all of the characters have the same name. An exception would be [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]] was once named Jerez in Spanish dub, which is just the spanish word for sherry.
* In Spanish Manga Films dub, the currency is American Dollar.
* During around 30 episodes of Spanish Dub, Professor Agasa is called Hakase Agasa. This is a translation mistake because Hakase means Professor in Japanese. After these episodes the mistake is fixed.
* Kaito Kid was called "Kid el Ladrón" (Kid the Thief) in the spanish dub. In Catalan dub was called "Kid Cat el Lladre" in his debut, but then changed to "Kaito Kid" and "Kid el Lladre" interchangeably. In Galician dub "Caco Kid" and in Basque dub "Katalapur Gazterean".
* The TV airing of Spanish dub and Balear Dub is slightly censored. lood is digitally erased or reduced, but there are no cuts. However, the dub itself is uncut, so there are references to the censored blood (for example, Conan may say "there's blood in the floor" even though the blood is erased). A possible explanation could be that the censors were made after the series was dubbed. In Catalan, Galician, Valencian and Basque the censorship doesn't exist.
* In the Catalan dub Conan's voice changes depending on the situation. When he's pretending to be a kid, he has his child voice, but when he's talking to someone who knows his real identity, his voice changes to Shinichi's, as if his voice hadn't changed at all. This causes a severe plothole when he needs his bowtie to speak as Shinichi, which it may look like he wouldn't need at all. But it just may be "the tone" he uses while he do not pretend to be a kid and speak his real self, while actually his voice obviously cannot sound like his adult self.
* In Catalan dub in Kaito Kid's first official appearance as Kaito Kuroba his name was misswritten as Kaiti Kuroha.
* In Catalan dub when Conan says Haibara's real name for first time he omits the second H as in some latin languages the H is mute.
* In Catalan dub Sato and Takagi are miscalled "Inspectors" instead of detectives. Although in few episodes are called "Investigadors" (investigators), a more related/closest word to the detective rank. The same happened with Chiba, although it has been refered more often as "agent" (officer).
* In Spanish dub Kazuha was spelled "Kazuya". In Catalan it was pronounced "Kazua" (with a mute H) until episode 515, when it changed to the more accurate "Kazuha" (pronouncing the H).

==See also==
* [[Detective Conan]]
* [[Spanish Manga]]
* [[Spanish Special Manga]]
* [[Catalan Manga]]
[[Category:Detective Conan in Other Countries]]
{{OtherLang}}

Mary Sera

2017-11-12T23:50:42Z

RucyL: /* Tsutomi Akai */

Moonlight Sonata Murder Case

2017-04-29T15:04:28Z

RucyL: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 11
| image = EP11_Case.jpg
| title = Moonlight Sonata Murder Case
| english-title = The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|ピアノソナタ「月光」殺人事件}} (Piano Sonata "Gekkō" Satsujin Jiken)
| rating = 12.9%
| Manga case number = #18
| manga = [[Volume 7#Piano Sonata Case|Volume 7: Files 2-7 (062-067)]]
| dubbed-episode = Episode 11-12
| season = [[Season 1|1]]
| airdate = April 8, 1996 * September 22, 2003 '''(Rerun)''' *
| english-airdate = June 9, 2004 (Part 1) June 10, 2004 (Part 2)
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Juzo Megure]]
| suspects = Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, Shuichi Murasawa, Reiko Kuroiwa, and Narumi Asai
| solved-by = [[Kogoro Mouri]] (via [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]])
| next-conan-hint = Sheet music Fluorescent paint '''(Rerun)'''
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Shozo Iizuka]] as Tatsuji Kuroiwa [[Shigezo Sasaoka]] as Hideo Kawajima [[Ikuya Sawaki]] as Masato Shimizu [[Atsushi Ii]] as Kazuaki Hirata [[Ai Orikasa]] as [[List of notable case characters#Seiji Asoh|Narumi Asai]] [[Kei Hayami]] as Reiko Kuroiwa [[Hidetoshi Nakamura]] as Ken Nishimoto [[Masuo Amada]] as Shuichi Sawamura [[Yukimasa Natori]] as Manager [[Yasuhiro Takato]] as Clerk [[Yuichi Nagashima]] as Policeman [[Yukiko Iwai]] as Election car [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as Next Conan's Hint
| director = [[Kenji Kodama]]
| organizer = [[Kenji Kodama]] [[Kuchiru Kazehara]]
| storyboard = [[Kenji Kodama]] [[Kuchiru Kazehara]]
| producer = [[Ikuro Sato]] [[Yuji Yamaguchi]]
| animation-director = [[Masatomo Sudo]] [[Hirotoshi Takaya]]
| opening-song = Mune ga Dokidoki
| closing-song = STEP BY STEP
| prev-episode = Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case
| next-episode = Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case
| footnotes = * 1 Hour Special
}}

== Characters introduced ==
{{NewChar|name = [[List of notable case characters#Seiji Asoh|Asai Narumi]]|image = Asai Narumi.jpg|description =
* 26 years old
* Tsukikage island doctor
* From Tokyo}}
{{clearleft}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
Kogoro Mouri received a strange cut-and-paste letter from a client called Keiji Asoh asking him investigate something on Tsukikage Island. He then found out that the man requesting for the investigation, Keiji Asoh, has been dead for 12 years. He was a world-renowned pianist who suddenly killed his family, set his house on fire, and played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as his house burnt around him.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Suicide? (Past)
| image = EP11e_Case.jpg
| location = Keiji Asoh's house on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Keiji Asoh and his family
| cause-death = Burning
| suspects =
| description = Keiji Asoh killed his family, set his house on fire, and played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as his house burnt around him.
}}

Despite thinking the letter is a poor prank, Kogoro decides to investigate anyway and finds the island is holding elections for mayor. Two years ago, a passerby heard the Moonlight Sonata playing from the community center and discovered the body of the mayor slumped over the piano. Although he died from a heart attack, the similarity to the death of Keiji Asoh caused the islanders to think the piano has been cursed.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder? (Past)
| image = EP11f_Case.jpg
| location = Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Isamu Kameyama
| cause-death = Heart attack
| suspects =
| description = Two years ago, a passerby heard the Moonlight Sonata playing from the community center and discovered the body of the mayor slumped over the piano. Although he died from a heart attack, the similarity to the death of Keiji Asoh caused the islanders to think the piano has been cursed.
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP11a_Case.jpg
| location = Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Hideo Kawashima
| age = 56 Years old
| cause-death = Drowning
| suspects = Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, Shuichi Murasawa, Reiko Kuroiwa, Ken Nishimoto, and Narumi Asai
| description = Hideo Kawashima's sodden body found slumped over the cursed community piano as the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata played in the background. Water marks show the body had been dragged to the piano through a back door in the piano room which leads to the sea.
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP11b_Case.jpg
| location = Community center broadcasting room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Tatsuji Kuroiwa
| age = 56 Years old
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects = Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, Shuichi Murasawa, and Ken Nishimoto
| description = Tatsuji Kuroiwa was found stabbed in the broadcasting room. The body was discovered by Ken Nishimoto soon after the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata began playing over the sound system. At the dead man's feet is sheet music inscribed in blood.
}}

Both Reiko and Narumi were excluded from the suspect list due to that they have alibi during the time of murder. Conan manage to decode the musical notes which were from the murderer about revenge from 12 year ago.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = EP11d_Case.jpg
| location = Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island
| age = 27 Years old
| cause-death = Blunt Force Trauma
| cause-death-label = Injury
| victim = Shuichi Murasawa
| suspects = Kazuaki Hirata
| description = When the gang returned to the city hall after the second murder, there was someone in the piano room who jumped out the window and Murasawa was found unconscious on the floor.
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP11c_Case.jpg
| location = Community center storage room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Ken Nishimoto
| age = 55 Years old
| cause-death = Hanging
| suspects = Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, and Shuichi Murasawa
| description = Ran found Ken Nishimoto's hanged body in the storage room. At his feet was coded sheet music purporting to be his will. Although it wasn't playing, the third movement of Moonlight Sonata was recorded on the tape cassette nearby.
}}

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Keiji Asoh|Asou Keiji.jpg|
* Deceased (burned)
* World-renowned pianist}}
{{People|[[List of notable case characters#Seiji Asoh|Narumi Asai]]|Asai Narumi.jpg|
* 26 years old
* Island doctor
* From Tokyo}}
{{People|Isamu Kameyama|Kameyama.jpg|
* Deceased (heart attack)
* Former mayor}}
{{People|Tatsuji Kuroiwa|Tatsuji Kuroiwa.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 56 years old
* Current mayor}}
{{People|Reiko Kuroiwa|Reiko Kuroiwa.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Tatsuji's only daughter}}
{{People|Kazuaki Hirata|Hirata Kazuaki.jpg|
* 31 years old
* Mayor's private secretary}}
{{People|Shuichi Murasawa|Shuichi Murasawa.jpg|
* Victim (beaten - injured)
* 27 years old
* Reiko's fiancé}}
{{People|Hideo Kawashima|Hideo Kawashima.jpg|
* Victim (drowned)
* 56 years old
* Wealthiest man in town}}
{{People|Masato Shimizu|Masato Shimizu.jpg|
* 49 years old
* Mayoral candidate}}
{{People|Ken Nishimoto|Ken Nishimoto.jpg|
* Victim (hanged)
* 55 years old
* Unemployed}}
{{People|[[Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Policeman]]|EP11 Policeman.jpg|
* Tsukikage Island police officer}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
*'''Evidence'''

:'''First Murder'''
::Victim: Hideo Kawashima
::Cause of Death: Drowning
::Location: Piano Room
::Time of Death: 30 minutes – 1 hour before being found

:*The first movement of the Moonlight Sonata was played from a tape recorder.
:*There was a sea water trail from the door to Kawashima's body and he has dirt and sand on the back of his shirt.
:*Kawashima's jacket was found on the beach.
:*The doors and windows of the piano room were locked from the inside.
:*There were several minutes of silence at the beginning of the tape.
:*The Moonlight Sonata sheet music was found, but the notes in the fourth bar were “strange”.
:*Conan decoded that the “strange” notes actually say: "The hellfire of hatred made you pay."

:'''Second Murder'''
::Victim: Tatsuji Kuroiwa
::Cause of Death: Stabbed to death
::Location: Broadcasting Room
::Time of Death: 5 minutes and 30 seconds before being found

[[Image:MoonlightSonataCode.gif|500px|thumb|right|G A G A E E C♯ D F B♭ A E D♯ F D♯ F E A B A A C♯ B♭ B B♭ A B♭ C A "You realize it don't you? You're next." ("Wakatteru na? Tsugi ha omae no ban da.")]]
:*The second movement of the Moonlight Sonata was played.
:*Nishimoto discovered the body.
:*The tape has 5 minutes and 30 seconds lead in silence.
:*Music notes written with the victim's blood were found.
:*Conan decoded the music notes: "You realize it don't you? You're next."

:'''Third Murder'''
::Murder: Ken Nishimoto
::Cause of Death: Hanging
::Location: Storage Room
::Time of Death: 30 minutes before being found

:*The third movement of the Moonlight Sonata was set to play.
:*Sheet music that looked liked a suicide note was found under his feet. The decoded note said he regretted killing Kawashima and Kuroiwa and that he didn't want people to find out the wrongdoing they did years ago.
:*There was no chair or anything to stand on, so Nishimoto couldn't hang himself.
:*No one would bother writing a suicide note in code.

:'''Other incriminating evidence:'''
:*The dusty piano in the city hall was tuned perfectly.
:*After the first murder, there was someone outside the piano room whom Conan and Kogoro failed to catch.
:*When the gang returned to the city hall after the second murder, there was someone in the piano room who jumped out the window and Murasawa was found unconscious on the floor.
:*After the third murder, Conan returned to the piano room and found a tuning hammer for the piano.
:*Under the piano was a secret drawer with cocaine in it.
:*Upon looking at the pictures of the crime scene where Kuroiwa was murdered, there was a button with its red light on near the victim's neck.
:*Conan found that Hirata has powder-like substance under his sleeves and his left hand was bandaged. He also had lots of foreign money with him.
:*Keiji Asoh left sheet music in his safe to which it read: “To my son, Seiji”. Asoh had a son who became ill when he was a child and had to be hospitalized, meaning he was NOT killed in the incident that took the lives of the Asoh family.

*'''Conclusion'''

The person who knocked out Murasawa in the piano room was '''Kazuaki Hirata'''. The bandage on his left hand was the result of smashing the window when he was trying to escape. He was also the one that Kogoro and Conan chased outside the piano room. The piano room was his meeting place with Kawashima when doing business: dealing drugs. He was using the piano's secret compartment as a hiding place for cocaine he got from overseas to which he exchanged later for large sums of money. The reason why he was always talking about the cursed piano was because he wanted to keep everyone in the town away from it. Murasawa saw the drugs that he had left in there earlier so he hit him. Still, he was unrelated to the murders because he wouldn't have related the piano to the crimes.

In the second murder, they found that he had been dead for only a few minutes but when Conan fell on the code of blood, it didn't smear when it takes 25-30 minutes for human blood to dry. It was just a trick that the killer used to manipulate the time of death of the victim. Upon looking at the pictures, there was a button that was lighted near Kuroiwa's neck. But after the body was moved, the light was turned off. This was actually the reverse button. While the police weren't looking, the killer turned off the light. The killer used the reverse side (the blank side that didn't have the song), which played for over 30 min and then it reversed. That was when the 5 minutes and 30 seconds of gap played before the music started.

In the third murder, the killer didn't have the time to put a chair or desk at Nishimoto's feet because he had to escape in time. The killer was probably male because the murders required a lot of physical strength.

The purpose of drowning Kawashima was to send the forensic examiner back to Tokyo, because it was impossible to do an autopsy on the island. The tape in the second murder was a setup so the killer could create an alibi.

Conan deduced that the killer was '''Narumi Asai''' and that she was, in fact, Asoh's aforementioned son, '''Seiji Asoh'''. Asai was probably the surname of the family that adopted him. After graduation, he came to the island as a female doctor. The pronunciation of his name was not written on his diploma, nor the medical license, because if they checked his history, they would have found out that he was a man: the kanji forming Asoh's name could be read as either "Seiji" (a male-only name) or "Narumi" (a female-only name): coupled with Asoh's feminine features and rather girlish voice, it let him masquerade as a female doctor rather well, plus falsifying the times of death and manipulating the crime scenes. He also stayed all night so that they'd make him last for questioning, keeping the "disguise" intact.

As for Murasawa, he was an admirer of the late Asoh and he was the one who kept the donated piano in tune just like that night.

As Conan-through-Kogoro explained all of this, suddenly the police came in and said that Seiji/Narumi had escaped. While they were looking for him, the community center building suddenly went up in flames: it turns out Seiji, who had realized that he had been found out, locked himself inside and set it on fire, intending to die like his father...

Conan, carrying Asoh's last music sheets with his message for the then-young Seiji, managed to slip in and told Seiji, who was sitting at the piano, to keep on living. Seiji confirmed that he was the young boy who escaped his family's murder, plus everything that Conan-through-Kogoro had already said (explained below in "Motive"). When Seiji was done, Conan insisted that he should escape and live; Seiji refused, however, saying that he was already too bloodstained. Then, he grabbed Conan and threw him through the window, saving his life. Afterwards, he played one last music code message in the burning flames: "Thank you, little detective."

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Suicide
| image = EP11g_Case.jpg
| location = Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Seiji Asoh
| age = 26 Years old
| cause-death = Burning
| suspects =
| description = Seiji then committed suicide by dying like his father. Conan failed to stop him, but he played one last music code message in the burning flames: "Thank you, little detective."
}}

*'''Motive'''

Seiji's motive dated back when his father, the pianist Keiji Asoh, and his family was murdered. Kawashima, Nishimoto, Kuroiwa, and Kameyama used Asoh's international concerts as a front for their international drug trade. When Asoh stated that he wouldn't cooperate any longer, they got scared that their secret might be exposed, so they locked the family in their home and set it on fire, . This was all written in the sheet music that he left behind in the safe as his confession to his remaining son. Seiji was hospitalized in Tokyo at the time of the murder, and later was adopted by a friend of the Asoh family.

Seiji went back to the island, under his "Narumi" disguise, bewcause he never believed the official "Keiji Asoh killed his family and himself" version and wanted to find out the truth. As said above, when he told Kameyama that he was Asoh's son, the late mayor was terrified and told him everything an then had a fatal heart attack. Seiji played the Moonlight Sonata that his father loved so much upon seeing the mayor dead, and ultimately that gave him the idea of taking justice in his own hands.

After Seiji's death and the end of the case, Conan and Ran talked about him. They wondered why did Seiji summon Kogoro when he knew how risky that would be for his plan, and Conan speculated that it wasn't just a challenge - that deep down, Seiji ''wanted'' Kogoro to stop him.
</spoiler>

== Rerun ==

The episode was rerun on September 22, 2003. It was unchanged except for the addition of a footage of Gosho Aoyama talking at the beginning.

== Translation changes ==
=== Anime ===
* The names of the characters and places in the [[Funimation]] Dub are:
:* Keiji Asoh - Casper Austin
:* Narumi Asai (former name Seiji) - Nadia Adams (former name Simon)
:* Isamu Kameyama - Kirkpatrick
:* Tatsuji Kuroiwa - Theodore Kinsella
:* Reiko Kuroiwa - Rene Kinsella
:* Kazuaki Hirata - Kevin Hadley
:* Shuichi Murasawa - Steven Mulholland
:* Hideo Kawashima - Henry Kavanagh
:* Masato Shimizu - Matthew Schumacher
:* Ken Nishimoto - Ken Nicholson
:* Tsukikage Island - Moonlight Island (The [[Viz Media]] translation of the manga gives another alternate name Moon Shadow Island)

* Other Changes:
:* At the end when it says "Thank you little detective", Nadia will actually say it at the end.

== Trivia ==
<spoiler>[[Image:MoonlightSonataKeyboardCode.jpg|500px|thumb|left|The code as laid out on an 88 key grand piano keyboard]]{{clear}}
*The keyboard code presented in this case is usable despite minor errors made by the animation staff.
{{clear}}</spoiler>

== BGM listing ==
{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
{{BGMListingItem|1|胸がドキドキ|Mune ga Dokidoki|The Pounding of My Heart|[[Mune ga Dokidoki]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|2|("Moonlight Sonata" First Movement)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|3|("Moonlight Sonata" First Movement)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|4|(Unreleased BGM 1)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|5|(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|6|("Moonlight Sonata" First Movement)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|7|悪のテーマ（パート２）|Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)|Theme of Evil (Part 2)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|8|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|9|事件現場（謎ver.）|Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)|Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|10|(Unreleased BGM 1)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|11|("Moonlight Sonata" Second Movement)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|12|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|13|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|14|緊迫|Kinpaku|Tension|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|15|脅迫（パート２）|Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)|Threat (Part 2)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|16|コナンのテーマ|Konan no Tēma|Conan's Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|17|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|18|犯人のアジト|Hannin no Ajito|The Culprit's Hideout|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|19|沈む夕陽|Shizumu Yūhi|Depressing Sunset|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|20|("Moonlight Sonata" First Movement)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|21|(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|22|STEP BY STEP|STEP BY STEP|STEP BY STEP|[[STEP BY STEP]]}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
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== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|سمفونية ضوء القمر|Moonlight Sonata}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=France|French|Sonate pour crime au clair de lune|A Sonata For a Crime Under the Moonlight}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|Os asasinatos da Sonata ao Luar|Moonlight Sonata's Murders}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Mord bei Mondschein|Murder in the Moonlight}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Il caso della sonata al chiaro di luna|The Moonlight Sonata Case}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sonata a la luz de la luna|Sonata under the Moonlight}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Vụ án bản Sonata ánh trăng|The Moonlight Sonata Case}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==

* [[Season 1]]
{{Season 1}}
[[Category:Episodes]]
[[Category:Rerun episode]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Masatomo Sudo]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hirotoshi Takaya]]

[[de:Fall 018]]

The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid

2017-04-01T16:02:14Z

RucyL: /* In other languages */

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 219
| image = TV Episode 219.jpg
| title = The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid
| english-title =
| japanese-title = 集められた名探偵!工藤新一VS怪盗キッド (Atsumerareta Meitantei! Kudō Shin'ichi VS Kaitō Kiddo)
| rating = 17,60%
| Manga case number = #86
| season = [[Season 9|9]]
| manga = [[Magic Kaito Volume 4#Black Star|Magic Kaito Volume 4: Chapters 3-4 (23-24)]] [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Volume 30: Files 4-7 (299-302)]]
| airdate = January 8, 2001 * October 6, 2003 '''(Rerun)''' *
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Kaito Kuroba]] [[Kaitou Kid]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Aoko Nakamori]] [[Ginzo Nakamori|Inspector Nakamori]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Akako Koizumi]] [[Konosuke Jii]] [[Toichi Kuroba]] [[Keiko Momoi]] [[Saguru Hakuba]]
| suspects =
| case = Cases
| solved-by = [[Shinichi Kudo]] Five of the seven detectives
| next-conan-hint = 10 yen coin N/A '''(Rerun)'''
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]], [[Aoko Nakamori]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Kaito Kuroba]], [[Kaitou Kid]], Next Conan's Hint [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Kenyuu Horiuchi]] as Harufumi Mogi [[Masako Nozawa]] as Furuyo Senma [[Emi Shinohara]] as Ikumi Soda [[Takaya Hashi]] as Shukuzen Ogami [[Akira Ishida]] as [[Saguru Hakuba]] [[Akiko Hiramatsu]] as Aki Ishihara [[Tamio Ohki]] as Masked man [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Akako Koizumi]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Keiko Momoi]] [[Unsho Ishizuka]] as [[Ginzo Nakamori]] [[Shin Aomori]] as Futoshi Takarada [[Katsumi Suzuki]] as Sujio Hosokawa [[Takehiro Murozono]] as [[Minor law enforcement#Yoichi Sensui|Yoichi Sensui]] [[Katsuyuki Konishi]] as [[Minor law enforcement#Officer Nakamura 2|Nakamura]] [[Daiki Nakamura]] as Detective A [[Junichi Sugawara]] as Detective B [[Jin Yamanoi]] as Detective C [[Hiromichi Kogami]] as Detective D [[Takashi Nagasako]] as Policeman [[Kaneta Kimotsuki]] as [[Konosuke Jii]]
| director = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]] [[Kenji Kodama]]
| screenplay =
| organizer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]] [[Masato Sato]]
| storyboard = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]] [[Masato Sato]]
| producer = [[Masato Sato]]
| animation-director = [[Mari Tominaga]] [[Hiroyuki Horiuchi]]
| opening-song = Koi wa Thrill, Shock, Suspense
| closing-song = Start in my life
| prev-episode = Megure's Sealed Secret
| next-episode = The Client Full of Lies
| footnotes = * 2 Hour Special
}}

== Characters introduced ==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Konosuke Jii]]|image = Konosuke Jii.jpg|description =
* 61 years old
* [[Kaitou Kid|Kid's]] assistant
* Snooker hall owner}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Toichi Kuroba]]|image = Toichi Kuroba.jpg|description =
* Deceased
* [[Kaito Kuroba]]'s father
* The original [[Kaitou Kid]]}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Keiko Momoi]]|image = Keiko Momoi.jpg|description =
* 17 years old
* [[Kaito Kuroba|Kaito]] and [[Aoko Nakamori|Aoko's]] classmate}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Saguru Hakuba]]|image = Saguru Hakuba.jpg|description =
* 17 years old
* Detective}}
{{NewChar|name = [[List of minor Magic Kaito characters#Recurring minor anime characters|Detective Konno]]|image = Detective Konno.jpg|description =
* Police detective
* One of [[Ginzo Nakamori|Inspector Nakamori]]'s subordinates}}
{{EndBox}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Kaito Kuroba}}
{{Char|Kaitou Kid}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Aoko Nakamori}}
{{Char|Ginzo Nakamori|display=Inspector Nakamori}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Akako Koizumi}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Card Gun}}
{{Gadget|Hang Glider Cape}}
}}

== Plot ==
=== Clocktower Heist ===
==== Cast ====

==== Situation ====
Kaitou Kid stands on top of the Tokyo Tower with his assistant, Konosuke Jii. He discusses the time he was almost caught by a famous detective in the east, Shinichi Kudo.

At Ekoda High School, Kaito is reading the newspaper about Kaitou Kid's next job and he's pretty happy about it. Aoko took the newspaper away from Kaito and tear it into tiny pieces while getting mad about Kaito taking Kaitou Kid's side. Kaito got all the newspaper pieces while talking to Aoko about not liking Kaitou Kid because her father is the inspector who always lose to Kid. Kaito counts to three and the newspaper appears. Aoko was surprised.

That night, Kid plans to "steal" the clock tower.

{{InfoBox Heist
| heist =
| image = Clock Tower.jpg
| thief = [[Kaitou Kid]]
| thief-label = Thief
| target = Clock Tower
| owner = Futoshi Takarada
| location =
| date =
| notice = Upon this Saturday, under the brilliant moonlight presented by the midnight bell, I'll take the famed clock tower.
| description =
}}

Ginzo Nakamori got every policemen ready to capture Kaitou Kid around the clock tower. He told all the policemen to report anything suspicious going around.

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Futoshi Takarada|Futoshi_Takarada.jpg|
* 53 years old
* Tower owner}}
{{People|Sujio Hosokawa|Sujio_Hosokawa.jpg|
* 32 years old
* Takarada's assistant}}
{{People|[[Minor law enforcement#Yoichi Sensui|Yoichi Sensui]]|Yoichi Sensui.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Policeman
* Single}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Officer Nakamura|Officer Nakamura]]|Officer Nakamura 219.jpg|
* Policeman}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Officer Kawata|Officer Kawata]]|Officer Kawata.jpg|
* Policeman}}
{{EndBox}}

==== Resolution ====
<spoiler>
Although, he leaves it standing with a code upon its hands, saying "I will not give this clock to anyone". After the flashback ends, Kid takes off from the Tokyo tower with his hang glider and proceeds to his next target: the Black Star belonging to the Suzuki Financial Group (leading to the events of a previous episode, [[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid]]).
</spoiler>
 

----
 
=== Detective's Gathering ===

==== Cast ====
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Kaitou Kid}}
}}

==== Situation ====
Kogoro has been invited to a detective meeting by an unknown assailant who sends him money. There are six detectives there excluding Conan. They are in a house where a massacre happened years ago. One of the detectives are killed and they are stranded in the mansion as the bridge has been cut and the cars have been burned. It also appears that the unknown assailant is using the name Kaitou Kid.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP219_Case_2.jpg
| location = Sunset Mansion
| victim = Shukuzen Ogami
| age = 51 Years old
| cause-death = Poison
| suspects = [[Kaitou Kid]]
| description =
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Bombing - Murder
| image = EP219_Case_2b.jpg
| location = At the broken bridge
| victim = Furuyo Senma
| age = 63 Years old
| cause-death = Explosion
| suspects =
| description =
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image = EP219_Case_2c.jpg
| location = Sunset Mansion
| victim = Aki Ishihara and [[Ran Mouri]]
| age = 23 Years old (Aki Ishihara)
| victim-label = Victims
| suspects = Ikumi Soda
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description =
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP219_Case_2d.jpg
| location = Sunset Mansion
| victim = [[Saguru Hakuba]]
| cause-death = Gunshot wound
| suspects = Ikumi Soda
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description =
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP219_Case_2e.jpg
| location = Sunset Mansion
| victim = Ikumi Soda
| age = 29 Years old
| cause-death = Poison
| suspects =
| description =
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP219_Case_2f.jpg
| location = Sunset Mansion
| victim = [[Kogoro Mouri]]
| cause-death = Gunshot wound
| suspects = Harufumi Mogi
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description =
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP219_Case_2g.jpg
| location = Sunset Mansion
| victim = Harufumi Mogi
| age = 39 Years old
| cause-death = Poison
| suspects =
| description =
}}

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Furuyo Senma|Furuyo_Senma.jpg|
* Victim (explosion)
* 63 years old
* Detective}}
{{People|Harufumi Mogi|Harufumi_Mogi.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 39 years old
* Detective}}
{{People|Shukuzen Ogami|Shukuzen_Ogami.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 51 years old
* Detective}}
{{People|Aki Ishihara|Aki_Ishihara.jpg|
* Victim (kidnapped)
* 23 years old
* Maid}}
{{People|Ikumi Soda|Ikumi_Soda.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 29 years old
* Detective}}
{{People|Renya Karasuma|Renya Karasuma.jpg|
* Millionaire
* Previous mansion owner
* Died 50 years ago}}
{{EndBox}}

==== Resolution ====
<spoiler>
[[File:Detectives fake their deaths.jpg|thumb|right|The detectives fake their deaths to trick Senma for confessing that she killed Ogami.]]
The one who killed Ogami is '''Furuyo Senma'''. Senma and Ogami were co-conspirators and had arranged for the detectives to arrive in an attempt to have them find the treasure for them.

The backstory about Karasuma Renya was mostly a lie; the true tale prompted the current tragedy and Senma's motive for seeking out the treasure. Karasuma Renya did not die half a century ago. He was alive at least another ten years. Karasuma Renya had inherited the mansion from his mother, and had found the clues about the King, Queen, and Knight, but he was unable to make any further headway on the riddle. Greedy for the treasure, Renya hired detectives to solve the case for him, and then began killing them as motivation to solve the case faster. Those murders were the true cause behind the bloodstains in the house, not an out-of-control party caused by two wanderers with drugs. Senma's archaeologist father was one of the individuals who was disappeared looking for the treasure, presumably a victim of Karasuma Renya's treasure hunting fanaticism.

Like Karasuma Renya, Senma wanted to know the answer to the treasure hunt that took her father's life at all costs. Sensing that Ogami's greed had got the best of him and that he would kill her after they had found the treasure, she poisoned him using his nail biting habit. She had planned to fake her death, have the other detectives find the treasure and then have them kill each other, but they were not fooled. All the detectives who killed each other are alive all along.

Instead, she is tricked into confessing to Conan, who reveals the true secret of the treasure: the entire mansion is actually made of gold. After solving the case, Kogoro was revealed to be Kid in disguise and escapes before Conan could capture him.
</spoiler>

== Manga to Anime Changes ==
* The manga does not fully reveal that the clocktower heist is a flashback from Kid (immediately preceding the events of [[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid|Episode 76]]) until the very end. The anime adaptation reveals it from the start, as it begins by playing the opening scene of Episode 76 from Kaito's and Aoko's perspective, followed by quick shots of Kaitou Kid's notice from that episode and the Black Star itself.
* In the manga, Inspector Nakamori tells Inspector Megure about the code that Kid left behind while still hanging onto the clock face. In the anime, he relays this information while standing by his squad car. This causes a small plot hole, as Nakamori had been clinging to the clock face only seconds ago.
* In the manga, Kaito bears a few scuff marks when he reunites with Aoko at the bottom of the clock tower and repeats his rose trick. In the anime, his face is completely clean.
* The story when [[Akako Koizumi]] saw the prediction of [[Shinichi Kudo|person]] who is to take care of Kid, Akako's associates, and Akako's attempt to cast spells was omitted from this adaptation. It was restored in ''[[Black Star]]'', the adaptation of the same episode in [[Magic Kaito 1412]].

== Rerun ==

This episode was rerun on October 6, 2003.

== Trivia ==
* This is the first episode of the 21st Century.
* This is the second episode to be digitally animated.
:* The first episode to use digital animation is [[The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases|Episode 96]], and is used again in [[The Osaka Double Mystery - The Naniwa Swordsman and Toyotomi's Castle|Episode 263]]. Until [[Chinatown Deja Vu in the Rain|Episode 284]], most other episodes continue to use traditional animation.
* This special combines two separate stories written by Aoyama: the "Black Star" storyline from ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' Vol. 4, Ch. 3-4 (probably included in the Detective Conan anime because of the appearances of Shinichi and Megure) and Detective's Gathering, from ''Detective Conan'' Vol. 30, Ch. 4-7. The first line of the title ("The Gathering of the Detectives!") refers to the second story, while the second line of the title ("Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid") refers to the first part of the story.
* At the start of the special, Kid's notice from [[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid]] is shown; however, "April fool" is misspelled as "A prill fool". Another mistake is that the aforementioned notice is shown again when Nakamori's assistant reads Kid's notice about the clock tower.
* The plot of this story may have been inspired by Agatha Christie's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None And Then There Were None], where ten guests are trapped on an island and killed one by one by a member of the group. The trick used by the murderer to avoid being suspected is the same in both stories.
* Each of the detectives introduced in this case evokes a famous literary detective:
** Senma, an unassuming old lady, evokes Agatha Christie's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Marple Miss Marple].
** Ogami, a heavy-set man with a love of fine cooking, evokes Rex Stout's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe Nero Wolfe].
** Mogi, a slim, wisecracking "tough guy", evokes Raymond Chandler's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe Philip Marlowe].
** Soda, a medical practitioner who focuses on forensic evidence above all else, evokes R. Austin Freeman's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Thorndyke Dr. Thorndyke], albeit a woman instead of a man.
** Hakuba, though a previously established character from ''Magic Kaito'', is clearly meant to evoke Sherlock Holmes.
* The Vehicles are Show in This episode is Silver Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse [W210] , 1971 Blue Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior 3a serie [105.30], Ferrari F40 & 1998 Red Porsche 911 Carrera [996].

== BGM listing ==
{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
{{BGMListingItem|1|名探偵コナン・メインテーマ|Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma|Detective Conan Main Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|2|空飛ぶ怪盗キッド|Soratobu Kaitō Kiddo|Kaitou Kid Takes Flight|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|3|怪盗キッド出現|Kaitō Kiddo Shutsugen|Kaitou Kid Appears|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|4|昼下がりの天使たち|Hirusagari no Tenshitachi|Early Afternoon Angels|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|5|迷路|Meiro|Labyrinth|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|6|怪盗キッドの予告状１|Kaitō Kiddo no Yokokujō 1|Kaitou Kid's Manifesto 1|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|7|神秘（未収録ヴァージョン）|Shinpi (Mi Shūroku Vājon)|Mystery (Unreleased Version)|}}
{{BGMListingItem|8|尋問|Jinmon|Interrogation|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|9|トリック|Torikku|Trick|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|10|次のターゲット！|Tsugi no Tāgetto!|The Next Target!|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|11|犯人からの電話|Hannin Kara no Denwa|Phone Call From the Culprit|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|12|対決のテーマ（摩天楼ヴァージョン）|Taiketsu no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)|Showdown Theme (Skyscraper Version)|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|13|緊迫|Kinpaku|Tension|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|14|赤い光のスナイパー１|Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 1|The Sniper's Red Light 1|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|15|緊急指令|Kinkyū Shirei|Emergency Orders|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|16|赤い光のスナイパー２|Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 2|The Sniper's Red Light 2|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|17|赤い光のスナイパー１|Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 1|The Sniper's Red Light 1|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|18|秘密の地下室|Himitsu no Chikashitsu|The Basement's Secrets|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|19|一触即発|Isshokusokuhatsu|Critical Situation|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|20|犯人の目星|Hannin no Meboshi|The Culprit's Objective|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|21|別れ|Wakare|Parting|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|22|飛び立つ鳩　（歌：菅井えり）|Tobitatsu Hato (Uta: Sugai Eri)|Flying Doves (Sung By: Eri Sugai)|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|23|新一の名推理|Shin'ichi no Meisuiri|Shinichi's Great Deduction|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|24|迷路|Meiro|Labyrinth|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|25|恋はスリル、ショック、サスペンス|Koi wa Suriru, Shokku, Sasupensu|Love is Thrill, Shock, Suspense|[[Koi wa Thrill, Shock, Suspense]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|26|迷路|Meiro|Labyrinth|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|27|尋問|Jinmon|Interrogation|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|28|(Unreleased BGM 6)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|29|神秘（未収録ヴァージョン）|Shinpi (Mi Shūroku Vājon)|Mystery (Unreleased Version)|}}
{{BGMListingItem|30|(Unreleased BGM 7)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|31|(Unreleased BGM 8)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|32|出動のテーマ２～サイレンサー|Shutsudō no Tēma 2 ~ Sairensā|Mission Theme 2 ~ Silencer|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|33|古城のテーマ|Kojō no Tēma|The Old Castle's Theme|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|34|古城のテーマ|Kojō no Tēma|The Old Castle's Theme|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|35|迷路|Meiro|Labyrinth|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|36|推理（オリジナルver.）|Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)|Deduction (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|37|神秘（未収録ヴァージョン）|Shinpi (Mi Shūroku Vājon)|Mystery (Unreleased Version)|}}
{{BGMListingItem|38|空飛ぶ怪盗キッド|Soratobu Kaitō Kiddo|Kaitou Kid Takes Flight|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|39|廃墟の館（未収録ヴァージョン）|Haikyo no Yakata (Mi Shūroku Vājon)|The Ruins of an Abandoned Building (Unreleased Version)|}}
{{BGMListingItem|40|赤い光のスナイパー１|Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 1|The Sniper's Red Light 1|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|41|古城のテーマ|Kojō no Tēma|The Old Castle's Theme|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|42|赤い光のスナイパー２|Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 2|The Sniper's Red Light 2|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|43|犯人からの電話|Hannin Kara no Denwa|Phone Call From the Culprit|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|44|殺意|Satsui|Murderous Intent|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|45|謎解き（その１）|Nazotoki (Sono 1)|Riddle Solution (Part 1)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|46|古城の探索|Kojō no Tansaku|Exploration of the Old Castle|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|47|赤い光のスナイパー１|Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 1|The Sniper's Red Light 1|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|48|(Unreleased BGM 7)|||}}
{{BGMListingItem|49|神秘（未収録ヴァージョン）|Shinpi (Mi Shūroku Vājon)|Mystery (Unreleased Version)|}}
{{BGMListingItem|50|古城の探索|Kojō no Tansaku|Exploration of the Old Castle|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|51|赤い光のスナイパー２|Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 2|The Sniper's Red Light 2|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|52|怪人包帯男２|Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2|The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|53|忍び寄る危機|Shinobiyoru Kiki|Incoming Crisis|[[Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|54|赤い光のスナイパー１|Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 1|The Sniper's Red Light 1|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|55|怪盗キッド出現|Kaitō Kiddo Shutsugen|Kaitou Kid Appears|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|56|トリック|Torikku|Trick|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|57|忍び寄る影|Shinobiyoru Kage|Creeping Shadow|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|58|古城のテーマ|Kojō no Tēma|The Old Castle's Theme|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|59|犯人の謎|Hannin no Nazo|The Mystery of the Culprit|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|60|沈む夕陽|Shizumu Yūhi|Depressing Sunset|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|61|古城の神秘|Kojō no Shinpi|Mystery of the Old Castle|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|62|怪人包帯男１|Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1|The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|63|ターゲットサスペンスＢ|Tāgetto Sasupensu B|Target Suspense B|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|64|飛び立つ鳩　（歌：菅井えり）|Tobitatsu Hato (Uta: Sugai Eri)|Flying Doves (Sung By: Eri Sugai)|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|65|Start in my life|Start in my life|Start in my life|[[Start in my life]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|66|別居の真相|Bekkyo no Shinsō|The Truth Behind the Separation|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Vlcsnap-2013-10-29-19h36m45s142.png|The police officer is reading the Kid's heist notice
File:Anti-Kid.PNG|Aoko protests against Kid
File:Vlcsnap-2013-10-29-19h55m41s15.png|Kid on the clock
File:Vlcsnap-2013-10-29-19h49m20s40.png|Shinichi introducing himself on the phone to the police
File:Vlcsnap-2013-10-29-20h22m07s249.png|The inviter
File:Vlcsnap-2013-10-29-20h46m07s31.png|Hakuba pointing a gun at Ikumi Soda
File:Vlcsnap-2013-10-29-20h55m27s38.png|Conan can't catch a break
</gallery>

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|شيءٌ من الماضي والكنز المحير|}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Els detectius reunits. En Sinichi Kudo contra en Kid el lladre|The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kid the thief}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|O mago Kaito. Reunión de detectives. Shinichi contra Caco Kid|Kaito the magician. Gathering of Detectives! Shinichi vs. Kid the thief}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Der junge Meisterdieb|The Young Master Thief}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|La leggenda di Furto Kid|The Kaitou Kid's Legend}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|¡Reunión de detectives! Shinichi Kudo contra Kid el ladrón|Gathering of Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kid the thief}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==

* [[Season 9]]
* [[Black Star]]

{{Season 9}}
{{Kaitou Kid}}
{{Magic Kaito}}

[[Category:Episodes]]
[[Category:Rerun episode]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Mari Tominaga]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hiroyuki Horiuchi]]

[[de:Fall 086]]

The Victim Who Came Back

2017-01-07T20:52:11Z

RucyL: /* In other languanges */

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 303
| image = TV Episode 303.jpg
| title = The Victim Who Came Back
| english-title =
| japanese-title = 戻って来た被害者 (Modotte Kita Higaisha)
| rating = 16.40%
| Filler case number = #102
| season = [[Season 11|11]]
| manga = '''TV Original'''
| airdate = December 9, 2002
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Juzo Megure]]
| suspects = Sanae Hosono and Kazuhiro Tokunaga
| solved-by = [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wataru Takagi]]
| next-conan-hint = Recycling
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]], [[Genta Kojima]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Keiko Han]] as Sanae Hosono [[Kōzō Shioya]] as Masateru Hino [[Masaharu Satō]] as Toshimichi Hirose [[Katsumi Toriumi]] as Hisashi Makimura [[Chisato Nakajima]] as Housewife A [[Asako Dodo]] as Housewife B [[Motomu Kiyokawa]] as Kazuhiro Tokunaga
| director = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| screenplay = [[Nobuo Ogizawa]] [[Masataka Tsukimawashi]]
| organizer =
| storyboard = [[Kazuhito Kikuchi]]
| producer = [[Hideki Hiroshima]]
| animation-director = [[Masaki Kudo]]
| opening-song = I can't stop my love for you♥
| closing-song = Overture
| prev-episode = Parade of Malice and Saint
| next-episode = The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages
| footnotes =
}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===

The Detective Boys while walking around town hear a woman in an apartment scream. They investigate the source of the screaming and find a dead old woman stuffed inside of a sofa.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP303_Case.jpg
| location = Apartment
| victim = Old lady
| cause-death = Blunt force trauma to head
| suspects = Sanae Hosono and Kazuhiro Tokunaga
| description =
}}

The police arrive and interrogate Sanae Hosono, the woman who found the body, and learn that she recently bought the sofa from a flower shop. While the police question the inhabitants of the apartment, The Detective Boys along with Takagi, interrogate the employees of the flower shop who bought in the sofa. They learn that the sofa was found on the curbside of the apartment.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Sanae Hosono|Sanae_Hosono.jpg|
* 28 years old}}
{{People|Old lady|EP303_Old_lady.jpg|
* Victim (bludgeoned)}}
{{People|Kazuhiro Tokunaga|Kazuhiro_Tokunaga.jpg|
* 39 years old}}
{{People|Masateru Hino|Masateru_Hino.jpg|
* 40 years old
* Recycle Shop owner}}
{{People|Toshimichi Hirose|Toshimichi_Hirose.jpg|
* 50 years old
* Deliveryman}}
{{People|Hisashi Makimura|Hisashi Makimura.jpg|
}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
* '''Conclusion'''
Mitsuhiko concludes that the culprit is '''Kazuhiro Tokunaga''' due to the instability of his alibi. Takagi confronts Tokunaga who confesses and reveals he murdered her in rage when she threatened to take everything away from him.
</spoiler>

==Trivia==
* This is the first case that Mitsuhiko solved by himself before Conan and is correct.

== BGM listing ==
{{BeginTable BGMListing}}
{{BGMListingItem|1|I can't stop my love for you♥|I can't stop my love for you♥|I can't stop my love for you♥|[[I can't stop my love for you♥]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|2|小さな巨人|Chiisana Kyojin|A Small Great Person|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|3|行き止まり|Ikidomari|Dead End|[[Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|4|蘭のテーマ（涙ver.）|Ran no Tēma (Namida ver.)|Ran's Theme (Tearful ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|5|謎解き（その１）|Nazotoki (Sono 1)|Riddle Solution (Part 1)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|6|推理（オリジナルver.）|Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)|Deduction (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|7|犯人のアジト|Hannin no Ajito|The Culprit's Hideout|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|8|何かが起きる…|Nanika ga Okiru...|Something Happened...|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|9|少年探偵団のテーマ|Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma|The Detective Boys' Theme|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|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]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|11|事件解明（オリジナルver.）|Jiken Kaimei (Orijinaru ver.)|Case Clarification (Original ver.)|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|12|顛末（TENMATSU）|Tenmatsu (TENMATSU)|The Facts (TENMATSU)|[[Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|13|新一の事件解明|Shin'ichi no Jiken Kaimei|Shinichi's Case Clarification|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|14|Overture|Overture|Overture|[[Overture]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|15|恋のトランプゲーム占い|Koi no Toranpu Gēmu Uranai|Love's Fortune-Telling Card Game|[[Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack]]}}
{{BGMListingItem|16|コナンの勝利|Konan no Shōri|Conan's Victory|[[Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1]]}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery perrow="6">
</gallery>

==In other languanges==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|El retorn de la víctima|The return of the victim}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Das Opfer, das wiederkam|The Victim Who Came Back}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La víctima que vuelve|The victim that comes back}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==

* [[Season 11]]

{{Season 11}}

[[Category:Episodes]]
[[Category:Anime Exclusive]][[Category:Animation directed by Masaki Kudo]]

Masumi Sera

2016-05-14T11:35:13Z

RucyL: Trivia was inside in-other-languages table

{{FeaturedArticle|March 23, 2011}}

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this person. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Masumi Sera
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|世良真純}} (Sera Masumi)
| english-name =
| image = Masumi_Sera_Profile.jpg
| age = 16-17? 
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = Teitan High School Student Detective
| relatives = [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Akai family's middle brother|???]] (second-older brother)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 73|File 768]] Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|Episode 646]]
| appearances = {{:Masumi Sera Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 73]]
| japanese-voice = [[Noriko Hidaka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://combination.jp/blog/2012/02/post-383.html|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-02-01|title=新しいお仕事 | Blog | コンビネーション|publisher=combination Co.Ltd.|author=Noriko Hidaka}}</ref>
| cases-solved = 5
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Masumi Sera|世良真純|Sera Masumi}}''' is a high school detective in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is the younger sister of [[federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]].

== Background ==
Masumi Sera is a Japanese-American high school detective and the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]]. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved to America three years ago with her mother, presumably due to Shuichi infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. She has recently returned to Japan for some unknown reason. After meeting Conan, Ran, and Sonoko during a case, she transfers to [[Setting#Teitan High School (帝丹高校)|Ran's high school class]]. Masumi is skilled at [[Wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]], a hobby encouraged by her brother Shuichi who mailed her instruction videos while in elementary school. She can fight on the same level as [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. She seems to know that Conan is Shinichi and implies that she met Ran and Shinichi sometime in their past.

==Personality==
[[File:691-15.png|thumb|Masumi beats a gangster in [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case]]]]

Masumi has a cheery, sociable, boyish personality<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> and is well liked by her classmates at Teitan High. On their first meeting, Masumi fails to correct Sonoko's mistaken impression that she is a man and even makes it worse by declaring that Ran is "[her] type".<ref name=pronouns>The Japanese pronoun used is gender neutral and can refer to either males or females.</ref> Her rather boyish appearance - especially in relation with her flat chest - is a bit of a touchy subject to Masumi, who claims that her mother's bust size is rather well developed and keeps expressing her hope that someday her own chest size will similarly change for her.

Masumi is quite quick-minded, coming up with clever plans and adapting them to sudden changes rapidly. Masumi seems to be prone to dramatics like most detectives are, but perhaps to a lesser degree than [[Shinichi]] or [[Heiji]] as she bluntly says who the criminal is without preamble. On the other hand, Masumi is tough to the point that she is willing to risk all to achieve a successful conclusion of a case. In one instance, she purposefully lured a hostage-taker into a sniper's sight with a smile, hoping he would be shot without showing any apprehension about his possible demise.

Although she has crime scene experience<ref name=769p3>Manga Volume 73, File 7, pg 3: "A Detective Just Like You, Little Boy"</ref>, Masumi seems to be less skilled as a detective than Shinichi or Heiji, apparently missing a critical clue that was necessary to understand how the murderer's setup worked, although Conan opines that Masumi purposely made an error in order to test him. In some degree, she seems to like rivalry or contests to see who is the winner.

Sera's catchphrase upon the conclusion of a case is "case closed".

Sera shows a protective and caring side towards Conan, as seen in the Detectives Nocturn and in the beginning of the Red Woman case when she helps Conan up after falling, as well as having it made clear in the Haunted Hotel case that she was also clearly investigating Conan before they first met, as she knew he was a detective. Its likely to believe that them being on the same bus was not an accident, which could even lead to be argued that she somehow hinted to them about the cake buffet so they would be on the same bus as her. It is safe to assume though she was, and possibly still is, investigating Conan.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Sera_transfers.png‎|thumb|Masumi transfers to Teitan High School]]

At first, she wears a grey fedora that used to belong to Shuichi Akai and a dark jacket which gives her an androgynous appearance. When she transfers to Teitan High, she gets rid of her fedora and wears female clothing. Her hair is dark, wavy, and short; it doesn't even touch her shoulders. Even then, she is rather tomboyish; Genta mistakes her for a man, and Sonoko comments she has a petite figure. Later, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Hattori comment that her bosoms are rather small. Masumi also has an uneven tooth that shows when she smiles.

Masumi and her brother Shuichi presumably more closely resemble their mother than their father.
{{clearleft}}

==Appellations==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Sera-san Sera-no-nēchan Sera Sera Masumi<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume 88)]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s younger sister (''Akai-san no imōto'')|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file771">[[volume 73#Bomber's Request|File 771 (Volume 73)]]</ref> Boy (''Bōya''; first time) Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Sera Masumi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="ep690">[[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|Episode 690]]</ref>| Kudo Shinichi}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Sera-san Sera Masumi-chan<ref>File 778</ref> Sera-chan|Ran-chan Ran-kun}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Tomboy-ish Girl|Kogoro-san Poiro-san ([[Hercule Poirot|'''Poiro'''t]] + Kogo'''ro''')<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|File 820 (Volume 78)]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro-san (''Nemuri no Kogoro-san'')<ref name="file771" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Akai family#Mr. Akai (The Father){{!}}Mr. Akai|file=No Pic.jpg|-|Papa}}

{{appellations|Mary|Masumi<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|Mama<ref name="file953" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Masumi|Shu-nii Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file938">[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938: The Crime in the Blind Spot (Volume 89)]]</ref> Ani<ref name="file859">[[volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859: Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate (Volume 81)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file954">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 954: Sanction of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Sera-san<ref name="file954" />|Subaru}}

{{appellations|file=No Pic.jpg|Akai family's middle brother{{!}}Unknown brother|-|Kichi-nii ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thoght)<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014_4.JPG]] (Sera-chan calls him Kichi-nii)</ref> Aniki}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|-|Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Sera-san Sensei (once) Sera-chan Female High-School Detective (''JK Tantei'')<ref name="file938" /> Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file859" />|Sonoko-chan Sonoko-kun}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Female detective (''onna-tantei'')|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|-|The girl with the ponytail}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Mari-chan<ref name="file930" />|Taisho<ref name="file930" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Female High-School Detective (''Jōshi-Kōsei Tantei'')|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Sera-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>[[Volume 86#Poolside Case|File 905 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|"FBI Guy"}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file828">[[Volume 78#The Blush Mermaid|File 828 (Volume 78)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file828" /> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="file828"/>}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Amuro-san<ref name="file937">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch<ref name="file937" /> [[Shuichi Akai|My brother]]'s friend (''Aniki no yūjin'')<ref name="file936" /> The friend (''sono yūjin'')<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Young girl (''wakai no'')<ref name="file858">[[volume 81#Steamy Relations|File 858: A Problematic Deduction (Volume 81)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file858" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Sera Masumi<ref name="m18" />|Haibara Ai}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Onēsan<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|-|Kudo Yusaku<ref name="ep690" />}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Sera<ref>[[Volume 78]], File 6</ref>|-}}

{{appellations|Scar Akai|Masumi<ref name="MT">[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]]</ref>|Shu-nii<ref name="MT" /> Acquaintance (''shiriai'')}}

{{appellations|Makoto Kyogoku|-|Master of Karate (''Karate no Tatsujin'')}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda<ref>[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file953" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953" />|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

==Plot overview==
=== Masumi's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 73#Jeet Kune Do|768 - 770]], Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|646 - 647)]] ===
[[File:Sera_Kick.png|thumb|right|Masumi defends herself from Ran.]]
Masumi first met [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] on a bus after she was mistaken for a [[Wikipedia:Groping|groper]]. After Sonoko declared Masumi was the groper, Masumi and Ran got into a fight, with Masumi's Jeet Kune Do holding even against Ran's karate. Conan and Masumi cleared up the misunderstanding by pointing out the real groper. Sonoko then mistook Masumi for a boy, an impression which wasn't helped by Masumi declaring that Ran was "his type".<ref name=pronouns/> Masumi and Ran both discovered they were heading to the same hotel, about which Conan is less than pleased.

Masumi finds out the hotel she is staying at doesn't have a room available and complains at the front desk. A man then falls into the parking lot and dies. Conan runs to the source of screaming while Masumi told the guard to watch the elevators before running to the roof. She immediately declares the crime to be a murder, giving her reasoning. She then reveals her name, Masumi, that she is a detective, and knows Conan is a detective as well. She also revealed before she knew Conan's name despite it not being mentioned in front of her, revealing that Masumi has been investigating Conan for awhile now.

[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] is not pleased to have another high school detective underfoot but lets Masumi and Conan investigate regardless. After listening to the suspect testimony, police observations, and examining the crime scene, Masumi announces that she has solved the case.

However, Masumi's deduction leaves out a critical detail; Conan is therefore forced to use Shinichi's phone to call his own, give Inspector Megure Conan's phone, and speak through Shinichi's as Shinichi using the voice-changer bow tie. Shinichi figures out the detail that had Masumi stumped, although a look she gives Conan as he runs off suggests her omission was possibly intentional, and once during the phone conversation she tries to trick Shinichi into admitting that he is physically present at the crime scene instead of being explained the details by Conan and Megure.

The following day, Masumi transfers to Teitan High School, surprising both Ran and Sonoko. She was rather popular at school surrounded by students asking her questions about herself.

===Kogoro Detective Agency Hostage Crisis (Manga: [[Volume 73#Bomber's Request|771]]-[[Volume 74#Bomber's Request|774]], Anime: [[Hostage Situation at the Mouri Detective Agency|648 - 650]])===

====Let's hear your brilliant deduction! (771)====
According to Sonoko, Masumi has become very popular at Teitan high for being "cheery, sociable, boyish, and cute...and on top of that, she is a jeet kun do-using female detective!"<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> One classmate compares her to [[Shinichi Kudo]] who has been taking a break from school. Masumi tells inquiring classmates that she has been staying in America with her parents since three years ago, but "rebelled" because she would rather live in her Japan where she was born and raised. She sneaks up behind Sonoko and Ran after school because she wanted to speak to Conan at the Mouri Detective Agency. At the agency, Masumi is unhappy to hear that Conan and the rest of Detective Boys are staying at Agasa's house and will be camping the following day. She settles for asking Kogoro if Conan is always at his side when he solves cases, hinting that she suspects Conan is the real brains behind "Sleeping Kogoro".

[[File:Sera_slide_kick.png|thumb|left|Masumi sweeps out the Hostage Taker's legs]]
Just as Masumi is about to walk out the door, three female mystery writers and a man enter the agency. After a moment of confusion, the man suddenly fires a gun into the roof and takes the detective agency hostage. His demands are that Kogoro figure out which of the three writers killed his sister at a ryokan one month ago. The quick thinking Masumi sidles up to Ran and tells her to go for the man's gun after she takes his legs out. Sera's leg sweep sends the man to the floor, and Ran removes the gun from the man's hand with a kick; however, Masumi leaps back when the man reveals he has bombs strapped around his chest and will detonate them if they try to stop him.

Meanwhile at Agasa's, Haibara is angry that Conan used Shinichi's voice to solve a case around the suspicious Masumi. Conan's response is that Masumi is familiar somehow, like they have met before or she looks like someone, and Conan feels she isn't an enemy. Genta and Mitsuhiko told Conan they saw a high school student walking home with Ran, so the jealous Conan calls Ran's cellphone to hear about it from her.

The hostage taker man orders Ran to answer her phone, but Masumi snatches the phone away and says hello to Conan (who is shocked that Masumi is with Ran). Masumi then tricks the hostage taker and keeps the line connected so Conan can listen in by closing Ran's [[Yaiba#Characters|Sea Cucumber Man]] cellphone strap in between the screen and keypad of the the flip phone.

====Nickname Rules (772)====
Masumi asks a few insightful questions about the case; however the hostage taker man discovers Ran's phone is still connected. Under gunpoint, Masumi steps in front of Ran and takes the blame, but Conan, using Shinichi's voice, says he ordered Ran to do it. Masumi is mystified by why Shinichi is now on Conan's phone. Masumi meanwhile spots a glint of light across from the detective agency and declares that the case will come to an end without Shinichi's help.

====Possible Sniping (773)====
[[File:Sera773.png|thumb|right|Masumi surprised by Ran's attitude.]]
Masumi explains to Ran that she secretly kept the call to Conan connected so he could call the police and research into the case. While Masumi is still surprised that Shinichi was on the other end of the line instead of Conan, she had initially hoped that Shinichi would somehow be able to talk down the would-be-murderer. She suspects that Shinichi has already figured which one of the suspects is the murderer in the ryokan case, but Shinichi is unable to reveal the truth because the hostage taker would then kill the named culprit and then himself. Sera's plan changed when she noticed the lights from the police snipers on the building across from Mouri Detective Agency. She explains to Ran in detail the names and functions of the various police divisions responsible for hostage situations, and tells Ran in a roundabout fashion that this situation will end with the hostage taker being killed by the police.

Masumi launches a plan to bring the hostage taker into the snipers' range by telling him he should charge Ran's phone battery. Ran foils Sera's intentions by shutting the curtains, blocking the snipers' shot. To Masumi's utter astonishment, Ran tells her that she doesn't want to see anyone die in front of her and declares that "Shinichi won't allow anyone to die. He absolutely wouldn't!"<ref>Volume 73, File 11, page 13, "Possible Sniping." Shinichi then begins to present his deductions over the phone and Masumi wonders how he will manage to resolve this situation without bloodshed.</ref>

====The book with unturned pages (774)====
Masumi and Ran take the opportunity to disable the hostage taker when he loses his composure and grip on the detonator after Shinichi tricks him into believing his sister committed suicide. Masumi yells for the waiting bomb squad to secure the area. With the hostage taker arrested, Shinichi then reveals the true culprit. Masumi realizes the mistake in her deduction and explains the correct timeline of events before the murder. Sometime soon after the conclusion of the case, Masumi, walking with Ran and Sonoko speculates aloud that there must be some reason Shinichi left Agasa's before Ran could meet him there. She then exclaims that "due to what just happened, she really gets it", that Conan and Shinichi are on very good terms with one another, and that Ran "is tougher than Masumi thought". Conan isn't sure what to make of these last comments.

===Video Site (Manga: [[Volume 74|775-777]], Anime: [[The Professor's Video Site|656-657]])===
[[File:Ai image.png|thumb|Masumi deletes Haibara's image]]

Masumi stops [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] outside of [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]]'s house to ask them if they are acquaintances of Professor Agasa. The topic of [[Shinichi]] comes up when she talks to Mitsuhiko and Genta about the prior hostage case. Mitsuhiko mentions that [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] told them to keep Shinichi's involvement secret. After asking about Haibara, Masumi mentions that she saw Haibara in one of the professor's online videos. Next, Masumi asks who is currently living in the Kudo house because she saw the curtains shift slightly. The Detective Boys tell her that [[Subaru Okiya]] has been staying there since his apartment burnt down. Masumi cryptically comments with a smirk on her face, "And here I thought that someone had just settled in without permission...But it seems I was just getting worked up over nothing..." while looking up at where Subaru is hiding.

At the end of the case, Masumi is in her hotel room deleting various files. One of her deleted files was a still image from Agasa's video blown up to show Haibara reflected in Agasa's glasses. This indicates that she is not only keeping an eye on Conan but also on Haibara.
"Delete... Delete... For data, at least is an easy task to accomplish...", were her words while she was doing it.

===East vs. West Rematch (Manga: [[Volume_74#East_vs._West|778-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]])===
[[File:Sera FBI.png|thumb|left|Masumi thinks about the FBI]]
The case opens with Ran talking to Masumi about [[Heiji Hattori]] who is stopping by for a visit. Masumi is curious whether Heiji or Shinichi is the better detective. After Heiji is introduced to Masumi, Kazuha then calls Heiji and tells him that she is stuck at a restaurant because someone died and a foreigner [[Andre Camel]] is keeping everyone from leaving. Masumi proposes Heiji and Shinichi (via Conan's cellphone) have a deduction match. At the crime scene, Masumi becomes curious about the foreigner, Camel who secured the area. The police and Conan reveal Camel is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and Masumi takes interest. Meanwhile, Camel finds that Masumi looks familiar, but can't quite place why. He takes a picture of her and mails it to [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] and [[James Black]] who are waiting outside. Jodie and James think Masumi resembles someone too, but only James Black correctly identified Masumi as female.

Meanwhile Masumi is busy helping with the case, asking questions and making comments about various deductions. Heiji nearly slips up with Conan's identity in front of her earning a pointed question from Masumi, but Heiji rescues himself by saying he thinks of Conan as Kudo when Conan gets smug have hearing Shinichi's deductions over the phone. Masumi doesn't seemed to be fooled though, her thoughts show that she seems to know Conan, not Shinichi, is the one solving the case while watching Conan come to his final conclusion.

===EYE (Manga: [[Volume_74#Eye_for_an_Eye|781]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|652]])===
Conan, Heiji, Masumi, and the rest of the group return to the Mouri Detective Agency after the poisoning case at Danny's restaurant. Heiji reveals the case that brought him to Tokyo; he received a mysterious letter signed in the name of a person who was murdered in Karuizawa requesting an investigation. Masumi takes an immediate interest in the case and wants to tag along, but Heiji refuses saying that the people he is visiting are only expected five people. Masumi is peeved at being left behind.

===Kogoro-san is a Good Man (Manga: [[Volume 75|787]], Anime: [[Kogoro-san is a Good Man|661]])===
Masumi is walking with Conan, Ran and Sonoko. While they wonder why Kogoro has been coming home late, Sonoko thinks he's found himself a mistress. Masumi thinks that he is just investigating a case. When an old lady named Takae Kiritani comes, she claims that Kogoro has been helping her. Masumi asks what he does for her to which she replies that its small things like helping around the house. Masumi isn't seen again for the rest of the case.

===Murder at Mouri Detective Agency (Manga: [[Volume 76|797-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]])===
[[File:Sera's motorcycle.jpg|thumb|right|Masumi in her motorcycle.]]
During a murder case at Mouri Detective Agency, after meeting Kogoro's new apprentice [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]], [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] comments that the number of detectives around Kogoro has increased again, referring to Masumi. Amuro takes interest in Masumi. Later, Kogoro and friends go over to a suspect's apartment. Masumi calls Ran after hearing about the murder on the news because she is worried about her and Conan. The call has an usual amount of static which alerts Amuro that there are listening devices present. Amuro abruptly hangs up Ran's phone on Masumi. Meanwhile, Conan intentionally gets himself kidnapped by the primary suspect. After Ran enables calling again, Masumi calls back immediately and is very upset because she was worried something had happened to Ran. Ran tells her that Conan has been kidnapped, and details to Masumi the murder at Kogoro's agency. In order to figure out where the kidnapper is headed, Kogoro and Amuro search the apartment and decide to go to the address of one of the other suspects.

Masumi arrives at suspect's home on [[Cars|her motorcycle]], but just misses Kogoro and the gang leaving. She hears the elevator descending and rushes back downstairs in time to follow Amuro's [[Cars|car]]. Meanwhile, the culprit has been driving around with Conan while Haibara has been directing Okiya's car towards them using the criminal tracking glasses. Okiya catches up to the kidnapper and relays what the car looks like to Kogoro. Amuro sees the suspect's car heading in the opposite direction so he quickly wheels around after it. Masumi, who has been following Amuro's car this whole time, u-turns after Amuro and continues chasing. Amuro gets in front of the suspect's car and stops it. The suspect gets out of the car holding Conan at gunpoint, but Masumi drives up onto the roof of the car. She swings her motorcycle around so that the rear wheel slams into the woman's face knocking her unconscious. With tears of relief, Masumi hugs Conan, happy he is safe. Amuro, Okiya, and [[Vermouth]] look on.

===Meeting with Scar Akai (Manga: [[Volume 76|801]], Anime: [[Won't Forgive Even One Millimeter|675]])===
[[File:Sera_675.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Masumi looking for Scar Akai.]]
Masumi is walking with Sonoko and Ran, and Ran is talking by phone with Conan. Masumi hears Haibara's voice in the background and becomes curious. She asks the two others what Haibara is like, and Sonoko says Haibara is like a woman in a child's body.

When Ran hangs up her cellphone, the topic switches over to [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]]. Masumi says to Ran she wants to meet Amuro because she never got a really good look at him from the last case, but Sonoko thinks she wants to meet Conan. instead. Ran says Shinichi and Conan are big fans of Sherlock Holmes. Masumi thinks about that she has known that for a long time.

Suddenly, Masumi sees [[Scar Akai]] in the crowd ahead. She runs after him, but she can't catch him. Ran wonders who Masumi was chasing, but Masumi replies she thought it was someone she knew, and silently appends in her mind that it would be impossible for the man she was chasing to be the person she thinks it was.

[[File:690-3.png|thumb|Masumi is shocked to see Subaru]]
===Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case (Manga: [[Volume 77|812-814]], Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|690-691]])===
Masumi meets [[Subaru Okiya]] at Shinichi's house and she finds him suspicious. She began to think there is a woman at Kudo's house because there are a hair elastic, lipstick in a glass and a long hair in the sink trap. After that, all of them solved a case together that is similar to a case that Shinichi Kudo's father dropped out 10 years ago. It was revealed to be a theft case. Both Subaru and Masumi had got more suspicious of Conan and the identity of Shinichi Kudo. At the end, when the criminals were knocked, she saw Ran and Conan and she thought she was a 'bad kid', after all.

===Gunma Campground's Cabin Trap (Manga: [[Volume 77|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-700]])===
[[File:Masome.png|thumb|left|120px|Masumi at the campground]]
She went camping when she meets Professor Agasa and Conan. The Detective Boys were lost. Masumi and Conan found the two policemen finding the corpse. After she and Conan solved the case, she and Conan rushed towards the burning cabin. Conan and the Detective Boys were talking about how they got safe. Mitsuhiko pointed the way were their savior went. Masumi then began to ask what kind of woman is their savior. She seemed to be surprised when she saw her on Mitsuhiko's cell phone.
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[[File:new-sera.png|thumb|left|150px|Masumi leans in to get a good look at Haibara]]
[[File:Sera is akai sister.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi is revealed to be Shuichi's sister.]]

===Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]])===
Masumi finally meets Haibara, and Haibara has a bad feeling about her (although it could have been due to Scar Akai spying on them from behind the door just then). Later when a murder occurs on the Bell Tree Express, she and Conan investigate. Masumi takes a video recording of the suspects running so she can show it to the detective boys in order to ask them which one had the closest gait to the masked suspect from earlier, but she is intercepted first by Scar Akai in the hallway. She stops and angrily asks him who he is. Scar Akai simply replies that she hasn't changed, reveals his face to her, and refers to her by her first name, "Masumi". In her shock Masumi calls him "Shu-nii", signifying that Shuichi is Masumi's older brother. She questions Scar Akai about what happened, saying that she heard he had died. Scar Akai then tasers her unconscious, stating that he was hoping for that response. Scar Akai later is revealed to be Vermouth in disguise, explaining why he attacked Masumi.

===The Blush Mermaid Heist (Manga: [[Volume 78|828]]-[[Volume 79|830]], Anime: [[Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid|724-725]])===
[[File:SeraHat.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Masumi is relieved that she has got her hat back.]]
Masumi accompanies Conan, Ran, and Sonoko to the location of Kaitou Kid's next heist: a museum where the Blush Mermaid, a gem adhered to the shell of a turtle as a last ditch effort by a an Italian actress in an accident at sea to save her turtle by encouraging someone to rescue it. Before checking out the museum, Masumi asks Ran if she saw a [[Scar Akai|strange man in black]] when she found the hat on the Belltree Express. After the group arrives at the room where the turtle is being held in a large aquarium, [[Ginzo Nakamori|Inspector Nakamori]] pulls Masumi's face to see if it is a mask worn by Kid. Annoyed by Nakamori's mistaken gender assumption and having her face pinched, Masumi knees him in the privates ostensibly to prove he isn't Kid. Masumi then runs off to the bathroom. Later, when Kid makes his move, Masumi is one of many caught in his trap: the rug on the floor is pulled up by strings so that it pins everyone standing on it to the front of aquarium. As soon as the rug drops, everyone sees the tank is empty except for a card left by Kid. This leaves Conan and Masumi quite dumbfounded as to how Kaitou Kid could have removed the turtle. Later, Conan reveals that Masumi is really Kaitou Kid, and he had made a critical error in his acting by assuming Masumi was a male. Kaitou Kid had locked the real Masumi bound and gagged in the men's bathroom after knocking her out with a stun gun. Upon gaining consciousness, Masumi escapes her bonds, rushes out of the bathroom, and gives a still disguised Kid a fierce kick to the face. After Kid escapes (due to Ran distracting Masumi by pointing out that everyone can see her underwear), Masumi is relieved that she at least managed to recover her hat, which she thinks is special because it somehow has the same feel as her brother Shuichi Akai's hat.

=== Cooking Show Murder (Manga: [[Volume 80|844-846]], Anime: [[The Treasure Chest Filled with Fruits|727-728]])===
[[File:SeraSmile.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Masumi is smiling and blushing when Conan asks her if they had met each other before.]]
Conan, Ran, Sonoko, Kogoro and Masumi go to a live cooking show. Conan wants to ask something important to Masumi, but a murder gets in his way. While solving the case, Ran realises that Masumi and her might have met each other before, since Ran thinks of waves in the beach each time Masumi gets away. At the end of the case, Conan asks Masumi if they had met each other before. Masumi smiles and says she doesn´t know, but actually she thinks "Of course we have, but I can´t tell you until the time comes..."

===Adultery Investigation (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]] )===
[[File:SeraCall.png|left|thumb|150px|Masumi is calling her brother on the phone.]]
After being hired by a classmate, Keiko Kitao, Masumi is investigating to see if the boyfriend of Keiko's sister has fully committed to their relationship. However, as the atmosphere is rapidly changed by the murder, Masumi and Conan start to investigate the crime scene. When Conan has finally deduced who the culprit is, he also observes Masumi making a call with someone saying "...Say, my deduction... It's not wrong, is it?". Upon solving the case, Eri states having seen Masumi talking to her brother on the phone.

=== Meeting Makoto (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]])===
[[File:SeraAndMakoto.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Masumi attacks Makoto with her Jeet Kune Do.]]
At a Bowling Center with Conan, Ran, Sonoko and Kogoro, Masumi is introduced to Sonoko's boyfriend Makoto. Shortly before, Makoto mistakes Masumi for a stranger being "overly friendly" with Sonoko and tries to fight her. Masumi explains that she has been taught Jeet Kune Do by her older brother, she also reveals that besides her assumingly dead brother, she also has a second-oldest brother. Furthermore, Masumi explains to Conan that her brother also advises her on cases by phone. After successfully investigating the crime scene with Conan, Masumi steps aside with her smartphone and types in the message "It seems like he's also arrived at the truth... But whether or not our deductions are the same - lately I've been losing confidence in that regard...". When the recipient writes back "Who is he? I'd like an explanation!", Masumi takes a picture with her smartphone. However, the recipient's answer, "If it's him, there's no problem." reveals that he is familiar with Conan. It is heavily implied that it is the same person Conan saw Masumi making a call with in File 857.

===Red Woman Case (Manga: [[Volume 82|872]]-[[Volume 83|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|754-756]])===
Masumi takes a request from her middle brother to consult in his place about a case involving some of his high school classmates who are now 28-29 years old. On the way to a cabin in the woods, Masumi tells Conan and the gang more about her family history and timeline. She reveals that she and her brothers each have different family names for various reasons, one of which is the death of her father. The case takes a dark turn when one of the classmates is found murdered in a bathtub of tomatoes. With the help of the Nagano police, Conan and Masumi manage to solve the case. Later, Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone in the kitchen by calling it with his. He does so and Conan notices the call background screen is a [[Mary|child who looks like Masumi]] with eye bags similar to those of the [[Akai family]] members. Masumi mentions having a younger sister earlier on (Episode 754), so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

===Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876]]-[[Volume 83|878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]])===
On the way home from school, Ran and Sonoko decide to visit Masumi's hotel (which is different from the other one she has been staying at earlier). Masumi claims she had a meeting with her supposedly-hard-to-reach [[Akai family's middle brother|middle brother]] planned, so she texts him to reschedule. Conan seems to notice this contradiction. At the hotel, Conan tries to peek in Masumi's bedroom, but Masumi wards him off by embarrassing him. Masumi also asks Conan is she reminds him of someone he met in the past, but Conan draws a blank. A murder interrupts the meeting. While Conan is investigating, he notices the middle-school aged [[Mary|child]] from Masumi's cellphone picture in the gathered crowd. Later, Conan and the gang return to Masumi's room, and Conan hides his glasses earpiece [[microphone]] to spy on the apartment. It is quickly found and destroyed by Masumi and the child after Conan departs with Ran and Sonoko. The child asks Masumi to tell Conan she is her little sister from outside the territory if he asks about her. Masumi doesn't mention that she showed Conan the child's picture.
[[File:Scotch flashback on platform.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Masumi remembers meeting a man nicknamed Scotch]]

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===

=== Ran & Shinichi - First Contact (Manga: [[Volume 87#Ran & Shinichi - First Contact|921-924]], Anime: TBA) ===

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: TBA) ===

=== Girls Band Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|936-938]], Anime: TBA) ===
Four years ago, Masumi was taught by a man how to play the base. The man is [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]]'s friend, and he was called "[[Scotch]]" by his another friend who looks like [[Rei Furuya|Rei]].

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: TBA) ===
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== Non-Canon Plot Overview ==

=== Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]] ===
Sera appeared in this movie as an investigator of the person who had been shot in the Bell Tower. She and Conan helped in chasing the culprit and afterwards was shot by the culprit after saving Conan.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Masumi was Shuichi Akai's sister ===
Masumi was revealed to be Shuichi Akai's sister on the Bell Tree Express after a confrontation with [[Scar Akai]]<ref name=821p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pg 16: "Mystery Train (Junction)"</ref> and while sleeptalking.<ref name=823p4>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 6 (823), pg 4: "Mystery Train (Releasing Smoke)"</ref>
[[File:Sera_and_Shuuichi.png|thumb|right|300px|Masumi and [[Shuichi Akai]].]]
* Masumi has bags under her eyes identical to Shuichi Akai's.
* Masumi Sera's name is also incredibly similar to Mobile Suit Gundam character [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Sayla_Mass Sayla Mass] ({{lang|ja|セイラ・マス}}, ''Seira Masu''). [[Shuichi Akai#Name origin|Shuichi's name is derived]] from Sayla Mass's older brother's name, Char Aznable.
* Conan said he has a feeling he had met her before. "''Somehow I feel like we've met somewhere before, it might be that person resembles someone I know, that's why the feeling that we've met before is on my mind...''"<ref>Manga Chapter 771: Let's Hear Your Brilliant Deduction! p.11</ref>
* [[Andre Camel]] and most likely [[James Black]] seem to recognize her from somewhere. On another interesting note, James was the first to recognize that Masumi was a girl. Everyone else thought that she was a guy when they first saw her. Since James was Shuichi's boss, he would most likely know that Shuichi has a younger sister and what she would look like.
* Masumi lived in Japan until three years ago when her family moved to America. This matches with the time when Shuichi was infiltrating the Black Organization. The family's move to America could be the FBI's attempt to protect them should something go wrong with Shuichi's mission.
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew".
* In Chapter 859, Masumi, when being asked who taught her Jeet Kune Do, answers that her older brother did. Consequently, Conan asks Sera: "But, didn't you say your older brother was dead?" This leads to Masumi remarking "Yeah... That's what I heard." also further supporting the theory that Masumi is in Japan to investigate her brother's death.

=== Hints that Masumi was not Bourbon ===
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew". She then thinks there is "no way it was possible" regarding the man she saw, which would make sense if she thought Shuichi was dead. This implied she wasn't Bourbon, since Bourbon believes he is the only one who can kill Shuichi, implying that Gin might have failed to do so. Hence Bourbon wouldn't think that it was impossible to meet Shuichi again in the street.

==Relationships analysis==

===Friends & Family ===

==== Shuichi Akai ====
[[Shuichi Akai]] is Masumi's older brother. Masumi refers to Shuichi as "Shu-nii", implying that they were close. Masumi seems to miss him after his supposed death. In the Blush Mermaid Heist, Masumi is shown to be fond of her fedora as she believes it has the same "feel" as Shuichi's old hats. Shuichi sent Masumi Jeet-Kune-Do training tapes while she was in elementary school. She watched these so many times while practicing that she wore them out.<ref name="876p2">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 2: "Romance Novelist"</ref> She describes her eldest brother as ''strong'' in contrast to her second - oldest brother.<ref name="859p6-7">Manga [[Volume 81]], File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[File:EP671-674_25.png|thumb|right|Masumi hugs Conan after rescuing him in [[Detectives' Nocturne]].]]
Masumi is interested in [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s abilities as a detective and has been gathering information on him and his friends. She appears to be certain that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. Despite her initial suspicious presentation, Conan felt like she wasn't a bad person and so didn't mistrust her. Conan at several points questions her if they've met before, but she denies this, once secretly thinking, "Now's not the time". (The period in which such an encounter could have taken place is hinted to be somewhere before the three-year span of Masumi's sojourn in the United States, when she was in her preteen years.<ref name="Mang83">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 7-8: "Red Past"</ref><ref name="Mang86">Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905): "The Truth Rises to the Surface"</ref>)

On several occasions, such as the dramatic conclusion of the [[Volume 76#Online Client|Online Client Case]], Masumi has displayed an intensely affectionate air towards Conan which somewhat transcends a mere "big sister" relationship.<ref>Manga Chapter 800: ''Online Client Case'' - "When Objects Collide"; Anime Episode 674: ''[[Detectives' Nocturne]]'' - "Bourbon"</ref> In fact, it is hinted during the [[Volume 83#Romance Novelist Murder Case|Romance Novelist murder]] and in the movie ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]'' that she may actually be entertaining a crush on Shinichi/Conan and hopes of initiating a closer relationship with him. However, the actual level of her feelings for him is yet to be publicly revealed.

==== Ai Haibara ====
Masumi has been interested in meeting [[Ai Haibara]] for yet unrevealed reasons and has been secretly gathering information on her. She also seemed to recognize [[Shiho Miyano]] in the video of her rescuing the [[Detective Boys]]. Haibara in turn feels uneasy around Masumi, especially in close contact situations though arguably it could also be due to Scar Akai's presence near Masumi.

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sera and Wave.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Ran hears sounds of rippling waves when she sees Masumi hurried away]]
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] have become friends and often walk home from school together. Ran seems to recall having met Masumi before in the past, hearing the sound of "rippling waves" when the she sees the latter leaving, "as if some sort of magic were at work".<ref name="Mang86"></ref> Masumi has also declared Ran as "her type" when they first met as a sign of liking, though this ultimately led Sonoko, Conan and Ran herself to mistake Masumi for a boy.

==== Sonoko Suzuki ====
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have become friends and often walk home from school together, with Sonoko describing Masumi as a popular girl who is "cheery, sociable, boyish and cute" and on top of that, a "Jeet Kune Do using detective", though she also teasingly remarks that the only thing "against Sera" is her flat chest.

==== Second-older brother ====
Masumi appears to have a good relationship with her [[Akai family's middle brother|second-older brother]] and often consults him regarding information or deductions about the cases she faced, and also has a high regard of her brother's intellect, even considering the already sharp Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to her second older-brother.

=== Black Organization ===

==== Rei Furuya ====
Rei first saw Masumi in Detectives Nocturne case and seemed to recognise her. They formally met in chapter 936 (Girls Band) at [[Café Poirot]]. Masumi felt like having met him and even asked him directly about that, but Rei said that was the first time they met. When Masumi talked about a friend of her brother who taught her play the guitar, Rei also seemed to know about that incident. In Masumi's flashback of that friend, a man who looked very much like Rei appeared, and Masumi once again wondered about it, to which Amuro replied that she took the wrong person.

==Speculation==
[[File:Sera Knowing Conan's Name.png‎|thumb|right|170px|Masumi mentioning Conan's name.]]
=== Masumi met Shinichi and Ran when she was younger and knows Conan is Shinichi ===
Masumi knew Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s identities before they introduced themselves. Although she claimed to know Ran from Karate tournaments, she recognized Conan as a detective and anticipated his skill. Masumi admits that she has met Conan before, but she can´t tell him until "the time" comes.<ref name=846p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 16: "The Magic Lock"</ref> Since Conan didn't exist until Shinichi shrunk, Masumi must have met Shinichi some time in the past, and she recognizes him as Conan. The meeting was probably a significant time ago because Masumi, while blushing, asks Conan if he once met a girl "a long time ago and could never forget [her]"<ref name=876p11>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 11: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> and gets annoyed when he says he can't recall someone like that. Conan realizes he met Masumi before because he finds her snaggletoothed smile familiar,<ref name=845p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 6 (845), pg 16: "Our Territory"</ref> but she refuses to tell him where they met prior.<ref name=846p16/> Ran appears to have met Masumi as well because Masumi's figure as she runs away reminds her of "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref>

In Chapter 771, it is revealed that she also knows Professor Agasa, although she calls him "Professor what's his name".

=== Identity of Masumi's middle brother ===
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=== The Wizard ===
In a PS, [[Akai family's middle brother|Masumi's middle brother]] asks if she "has already met the Wizard?"<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> Masumi's thought reply is "You could say so..." Later, Masumi "thinks aloud" that her reason for returning to Japan is to meet the Wizard once more.<ref name=874p8>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 8: "The red past"</ref> The identity of the Wizard is still unclear.
==== Kaitou Kid ====
Masumi met Kaito Kid briefly at the [[Volume 78|Blush Mermaid Heist]]. It wasn't a normal meeting since Kid knocked her out and Masumi later attacked him, perhaps prompting the response "You could say so..."

==== Shinichi Kudo ====
Tellingly, Masumi turns towards Conan when thinking of the answer "You could say so". [[#Masumi met_Shinichi_and_Ran_when_she_was_younger_and_knows_Conan_is_Shinichi|At this point Masumi seems to know Conan is Shinichi.]] If Shinichi was nicknamed "The Wizard" by Masumi and/or her brother because of [[#Masumi met_Shinichi_and_Ran_when_she_was_younger_and_knows_Conan_is_Shinichi|what happened when he and Masumi met in the past]], then the response is appropriate since she could only sort of meet with Shinichi, because Shinichi shrunk into Conan. It's possible that the event where Shinichi earned the nickname "The Wizard" was Shinichi and Ran's meeting with Masumi in the past. When trying to remember Masumi, Ran specifically mentions "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref> A "magical" incident, if it was Shinichi's doing, might have earned him the nickname.

==== Someone else ====

[[File:Akai's picture 338.PNG|thumb|right|The picture of the Detective Boys the mystery assistants captured]]

===Masumi learned about Haibara from Shuichi's picture===
Masumi initially had an interest in Haibara. This is strange because Haibara didn't exist prior to Shiho shrinking. The knowledge of Shiho should have been secret to her as well, because Shuichi Akai's infiltration of the Black Organization was a secret. If Masumi doesn't even know the details of her brother's death, why should she know about Shiho? Masumi may recognize Haibara from pictures of Conan and Haibara that Shuichi took back during the Vermouth arc. It is standard procedure in the US to send the personal belongings of the dead back to their families. If Shuichi mixed these pictures in with his own things when he took them out of his truck before meeting with Kir, it's possible they were overlooked when the FBI sent Shuichi 's things to his family. If Masumi was interested in finding out how and why Shuichi died, she would begin by researching the people in those pictures and those connected with them in hopes of finding clues.
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==Character popularity==
*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Masumi placed 9th overall with 292 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8024|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 50+ poll "Best Detective Conan characters", with 107 votes.

*Masumi ranked 5th in the Digest Book 60+ poll "Cutest Detective Conan characters", with 135 votes.

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 70+ poll "Characters you want to go on a date with", with 106 votes.

*Masumi ranked 11th in the Digest Book 80+ poll "Character you want to marry", with 281 votes.

==Name origin==
{{Nihongo|Masumi Sera's|世良・真純|Sera Masumi}} name comes from the [[wikipedia:Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character {{Nihongo|[[wikipedia:Sayla Mass|Sayla Mass]]|セイラ・マス|Seira Masu}}.<ref>[[Sherry's soliloquy|Sherry's soliloquy (2012-06-17)]], Gosho was referring to the revelation that Masumi is Shuichi's sister (Manga File 821): {{lang|ja|やっぱりアルテイシアだったのね・・・}} (So it was '''Artesia'''…). Note that "Artesia" is another name of '''Sayla Mass'''.</ref> The kanji for Masumi's surname mean 'good world'. The kanji for her first name, Masumi, mean 'true' and either 'pure' or 'net.'

==Quotes==
{{cquote|Deletion. For data at least ... is an easy task to accomplish.|Masumi, on deleting a picture of Haibara from her computer, File 777 pg 16}}

{{cquote|I guess I'm a bad kid after all...|Masumi, while crying, File 814 pg 16}}

==Trivia==
*Masumi is based on [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], a tomboy detective girl turned criminal who made her first appearance in the [[Volume 54#Detective Koshien Case|''Detective Koshien Case'']]. Since Natsuki had proven highly popular, but Aoyama couldn't recycle her as a protagonist, the character of Masumi was created instead.<ref>''Shonen Sunday'' #33</ref>
*When she was young she liked to read the "[[Night Baron]]" series, so she is fan of [[Yusaku Kudo]].
*Her catchphrase, "Case Closed" (said in English), is likely a reference to the English-language name of Detective Conan.
*Masumi owns an [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Sera's Yamaha_Artesia_XT400|Artesia XT400]].
*In File 859, Masumi reveals that she has a second-older brother and that her oldest brother taught her Jeet-Kune-Do.
*Masumi speaks Queen's English.<ref>[[:File:Postcard2015 1.jpg]]</ref>

==In other languages==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|真純 Masumi|世良 Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|세라 Sera|양 Yang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|มาสึมิ|เซระ}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi|Arabic| سيرا ماسومي}}
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==See also==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Akai family]]

==References==
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