The J.League Starting Whistle

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Episode 1207
(Int. Episode 1267)

Information

Title:

The J.League Starting Whistle

Japanese title:

J(ジェー)リーグ開幕の警笛(ホイッスル)
(Jē Rīgu Kaimaku no Hoissuru)

Original airdate:

July 18, 2026

Filler case number:

#468

Season:

31

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mori
Ai Haibara
Ayumi Yoshida
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Genta Kojima
Hiroshi Agasa
Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi
Takahiro Sanada
Ryusuke Higo

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

VAR

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Nobuharu Kamanaka

Screenplay:

Toshimichi Okawa

Storyboard:

Masaki Ozora

Episode director:

Akira Yoshimura
Masahiro Takada

Animation director:

Akio Kawamura

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo
Rei Masunaga (sub-character)
Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)

Production cooperation:

BIG BANG

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa
Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Takahiro Sanada
Hiroaki Morishima as Himself
Yūka Kageyama as Herself
Aya Endo as Nanako Eguchi
Akio Suyama as Commentator
Akihiro Shinohara as VAR
Volcano Ota as Coach
Asuna Tomari as Take
Yui Tsukada as Kaoru

Music

Opening song:

"Ai no FIRE"

Closing song:

"TOWA ~Towa ni Kaze ni Noru~"

The J.League Starting Whistle (J(ジェー)リーグ 開幕の警笛(ホイッスル) ,Jē Rīgu Kaimaku no Keiteki) is the 1207th episode of the Detective Conan anime. It's one of the commemorative episodes for the 30th anniversary of the Detective Conan anime, as well as the fourth J.League collaboration episode.

Conan and the Detective Boys are watching the opening match of the J.League, which is filled with excitement. Former Japan national team players Hiroaki Morishima and Yūka Kageyama are also in the commentary booth, and the match is a heated affair with VAR decisions being made. However, Conan senses something ominous when he sees Kogoro and Megure guarding the Mayor Nanako Eguchi of Toraharu. It turns out that a bomb has been planted somewhere in the stadium, which is packed with spectators, and will explode at the end of the match. With time running out, Conan pursues the culprit and the bomb.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ai Haibara

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Hiroshi Agasa

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Takahiro Sanada

Ryusuke Higo (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Microphone

Detective Boys Badge

Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

At the parking lot of a skyscraper is Renji Matsuo standing beside a car to wait for the mayor of Toraharu city, Nanako Eguchi, as he is her secretary. He receives a call from someone, so he decides to pick it up. The other end of the call blares the referee's whistle loudly, triggering the bomb planted under the car he has been standing by. The man is badly injured from the explosion and has to be taken to the hospital to keep him alive.

Bombing - attempted murder

Location: A parking lot near a skyscraper

Victim: Renji Matsuo

Age: 45 years old

Method: A bomb planted under Eguchi's car

Suspects: Iwashimizu, and Nanako Eguchi

Matsuo went off with a bang as he was answering his call. He barely survived from the explosion and was taken to the hospital.

This season’s J-League has just kicked off with the opening match between Big Osaka and Tokyo spirits. Professor Agasa has taken the children to the stadium holding the opener to watch their favourite teams on the field. During the match, Conan looks around and sees a man who is standing beside a railing and is looking somewhere as if he has been planning on something. The man is wearing a dark yellow shirt and a light yellow cap. Haibara looks another way and sees Kogoro sitting with Eguchi, so she points Conan to her direction. As Conan turns his way around, both he and Haibara see Inspector Megure and Detective Takagi talking to Kogoro’s side. Feeling that something is off, Haibara opens her phone and learns news about the bombing case earlier that day.

Conan goes on his own to eavesdrop on the conversation between the police and the mayor’s side, bringing a microphone so he can always put on Kogoro when the kid is found eavesdropping. Mayor Eguchi reveals several events that have happened recently:

• She received a message demanding her to step down from being mayor if she wants to be alive. She believes that the message was sent by one who opposed her land city use plans.
• She received a cut-off soccer ball from a man. She believes the man is part of the people who want to buy the youth soccer team’s field for cheap and flip it.

Eguchi then attends the photo shoot with the youth soccer team, the reason she insisted on attending the opener of this year’s J-League. The photo shoot ends and Eguchi becomes worried again, as she receives another message from the bomber, claiming they will blow her up when the match ends. In addition, she confirms that the man who gave her the cut-off soccer ball is present, and is the one standing beside the railing.

The Detective Boys had also gone to investigate somewhere else about the bombing case without Conan knowing. They find VAR team members, but mistake them for suspicious people, so they inform Conan unknowingly, forcing Conan to resolve the misunderstanding when he arrives. Then, Conan also meets Takagi and Megure, who are looking for the man wearing a yellow cap and yellow shirt, and suggests the two use the video operating room inside the truck to help look for the man.

People

Renji Matsuo
	Victim (explosion, injured) 45 years old Nanako’s secretary

Nanako Eguchi
	38 years old Toraharu City mayor

Iwashimizu
	Bombing suspect

Kaoru
	FC Beika youth soccer team player

Take
File:Take.jpg	FC Beika youth soccer team player

Man
	FC Beika youth soccer team coach

Man A
	VAR member

Man B
	VAR member

Man C
	VAR member

Man D
	Soccer commentator

Real-life people

Hiroaki Morishima
	Former national team player Soccer commentator

Yūka Kageyama
	Guest commentator 25 years old

Resolution

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The match begins its second round, as Conan is still looking for the bombing case this morning. Conan also eavesdrops from Megure about how the explosion occurred: The bomb activates its timer at its designated time, and then, it explodes in response to a certain frequency. In this particular case, the frequency the bomb responds to is 4.15 kHz and 3.67 hHz sounds, which is the sound of the referee’s whistle at the end of a round.

At the room Takagi, Megure were in just now, Conan reveals that mayor Nanako Eguchi is the one responsible for Matsuo's injury, and that she planted a bomb under FC Beika youth soccer team’s vehicle. Conan is forced to either defuse the bomb or move it somewhere else when the coach of FC Beika youth soccer team comes to ask about Kaoru, who has gone back to the team’s vehicle to eat some sweets. As Conan successfully kicks the bomb to the air, Eguchi surrenders herself to the police. Her plan was to put all the blame on the man wearing yellow, and to flatter her image as one who survives two attempted bombing with both explosions.

Trivia

• The guest voice actors featured in this episode are: Hiroaki Morishima, former member of Japanese national football team player and now president for Cerezo Osaka; and Yuka Kageyama, actress and former member of Hinatazaka46 idol group, who returned to voice herself after Behind the Scenes of the J League Finals.
• In the same vein of other fictional place names in Detective Conan named after real places in London, Toraharu City (虎春市) is named after Trafalgar Square.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Coup d'envoi de la J-League	The J-League kick-off

See also

• Season 31
• The Eleventh Striker
• Promise with a J-Leaguer
• The J League Bodyguard
• Behind the Scenes of the J League Finals