Special Volume 19
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| Release date: | May 28, 2003 |
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| Original Work: | Gosho Aoyama |
| Manga: | Eiichi Yamagishi |
| ISBN: | ISBN 4-09-142789-8 |
| Publisher: | Shogakukan |
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Special Volume 19 was released on May 28, 2003 in Japan.[1][2]
Cast
Gadgets
The Intense Cold World of Murder
File 1 - Part 1
Conan and the Detective Boys, accompanied by their teacher Ms. Koyabashi, are on a school field trip to a food factory. Disinterested, Conan listens to the soccer game on his MP3 player which is confiscated by Koyabashi. They are given a tour of the facility by employees Kashiwa and Minamoto. Minamoto abruptly leaves, forcing Kashiwa to handle the tour on her own. Before he departs, Kashiwa gives him a banana to put in the freezer. The tour goes well and ends with the children watching a movie about the factory. Conan sneaks off to the employee lounge to watch the soccer game but is caught by Kashiwa who informs him that the game is over and the home team won 3-1. An hour after the tour, and as promised for being good students, Kashiwa gives the kids ice cream. She opens the door of the large walk-in freezer and, to her horror, discovers Minamoto on the floor, face up, frozen to death.
An investigation is launched. Minamoto’s cause of death is hypothermia as he was froze solid. The banana Kashiwa gave Minamoto before he left is found near his corpse. It is determined that Kashiwa sent Minamoto to the freezer to put the banana away, but everyone assumes Minamoto slipped and was stuck to the floor, until Conan discovers a pack of broken rice crackers in the victim’s chest pocket. A bright pink mark is found at the nape of Minamoto’s neck. With the given circumstances, Conan believes that someone knocked Minamoto unconscious, causing him to fall facing the front thereby breaking the rice crackers, then turned him on his back to alter the crime scene. Kashiwa tearfully blames herself for what has happened but Conan concludes that Minamoto had been murdered. Kashiwa’s weird behavior lands her on Conan’s suspect list. Furthermore, is it virtually above possible means for anyone to freeze a human body very quickly, even at -60 degrees, but one matter remains: if Kashiwa is the killer, how was she able to freeze a human being with so quickly while being surrounded with children the entire time.
File 2 - Part 2
Conan has a brief encounter with the owner and janitor of the food factory. The owner says that Minamoto had been reprimanded for slacking off at work and was on the verge of being fired for taking long excessive breaks in the lounge and bathroom. The maid says Minamoto used to eat his favorite snacks which included rice crackers and a can of cola which was thrown in the garbage. After realizing Minamoto was a soccer fan, Conan understands the truth behind his death.
People
Death Scenario
File 3 - Part 1
File 4 - Part 2
People
Conan's Desperate Situation
File 5 - Part 1
File 6 - Part 2
File 7 - Part 3
People
Famous Detective VS The Perfect Crime
File 8 - Part 1
Ran, Kogoro, and Conan are enjoying their time viewing cherry blossoms. Kogoro claims himself to be a master detective and his deductions can cut through any deception thrown his way. Their evening is interrupted when they come across Mr. Mita, a man who proclaims that the perfect crime is possible, then goes on to say that he could pull it off. This disturbs Kogoro, Conan, Mr. Mita’s coworkers, and everyone else within earshot. His boss and the only man capable of putting an end to his shenanigans, Ariyuki Kashima, is laid out and drunk past the point of no return, having consumed massive amounts of alcohol. Conan states that the perfect crime is useless when there is a detective on the scene. Mita proclaims that it was only a joke to see how Kogoro would react.
To soothe the situation, Mita puts on a pair of black leather gloves and pours everyone another round of drinks. The garbage bin is filled to the brim with trash and Kogoro suggests just leaving the trash there, but Ran objects and decides to take their empty cans home to dispose of properly. Mita takes Ariyuki home in a cab. Conan notices that Ariyuki dropped his wallet and goes to return it, but Mita and Ariyuki have already left.
Arriving at Ariyuki’s condo, Mita reveals that he actually intends on committing the perfect crime and his selected victim is the unfortunate Ariyuki. The drunk Ariyuki is led to his condo and dragged to the back and inside a sauna room. Mita puts on another pair of leather gloves, strips Ariyuki of his clothing, even his boxer briefs, prompts him onto the wooden seat, and sets the sauna to its highest temperature possible. Before leaving, Mita forges a note and leaves the condo key in the mailbox. Mita looks back and up at Ariyuki’s condo from outside with complete arrogance and over confidence, showing no remorse and pure excitement for tomorrow’s events, as Ariyuki dies a slow brutal death inside his sauna.
The next day, Mita returns to Ariyuki to act surprise and concerned for his boss. To his actual dismay and genuine shock, he sees Conan making an appearance as he wants to return Ariyuki’s wallet that he dropped yesterday at the function. Mita has the building owner open the door, claiming he left important documents inside and that Ariyuki himself isn’t opening the door and not answering any calls, fearing for the worst. Once inside, they locate the note and key in the mail slot, but Conan detects a foul odor in the air coming from the back of the condo. He rushes through the condo and inside of the sauna, finds Ariyuki’s corpse, covered in gruesome burns all over.
The Coroner’s Office arrives on the scene and launches an investigation into Ariyuki’s death. Based on the condition of the body, it appears if he had fallen asleep in his sauna and was burned to death after he had drunk large amounts of alcohol prior at the previous function. There are no physical injuries or wounds to suggest a confrontation or struggle.
Conan looks around and finds nothing out of the ordinary in various parts of the victim’s condo: the kitchen, bathroom, and trash. During his search for clues, he has an unsettling feeling of how Mita was just telling a group of people a horrific story about committing the perfect crime and yet he is at the scene of a crime of his late boss. Conan can not yet confirm if foul play is involved.
Giving the circumstances of this case and manner of death, the dispatch of the police is left at the discretion of the medical examiner. There is nothing suspicious about Ariyuki’s corpse. The medical examiner will assume he got home after drinking with his employees, went into the sauna, fell asleep, and was burnt all over his body.
Therefore, the manner of death makes perfect sense. An autopsy investigator would have no doubts. They would see Ariyuki’s death and rule it an unfortunate accident, submit the documents, all would be forgotten, and the case would be over. Conan replays the voice of Sebastian in his head where he asks Kogoro if it is impossible, claiming he feels he can do it, and wonders if Ariyuki’s death is what Mita calls “the perfect crime” as part one comes to an eerie end.
File 9 - Part 2
People
The Culprit is #10
File 10
People
Cover in other countries
References
- ^ "名探偵コナン 特別編コミックス". Koware Site Detective Conan Branch. http://www.koware.net/data_room/b_tokubetsuhen_data/tokubetsu_top.htm. Retrieved on 2010-06-26.
- ^ "名探偵コナン 特別編コミックリス". Mouri Kogoro Detective Agency. http://conan.aga-search.com/501-33-3tokubetsuhen.html. Retrieved on 2010-06-26.
See also
| Volumes of the Special Manga | ||
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