Taiko Meijin's Match of Love

Episode 785-786 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Taiko Meijin's Match of Love
Japanese title:	太閤恋する名人戦 (Taikō Koisuru Meijin-sen)
Original airdate:	July 18, 2015 (Part 1) July 25, 2015 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	7.5%
Season:	24
Manga source:	Volume 85: File 6-9 (899-902)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shukichi Haneda Yumi Miyamoto Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Masumi Sera Unknown child Miwako Sato Naeko Miike Subaru Okiya
Case solved by:	Shukichi Haneda Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Lance (Part 1) Seven (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Storyboard:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Episode director:	785 Koichiro Kuroda 786 Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	785 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Michitaka Yamamoto, Ryuta Imaizumi, Juri Saito, Miori Nonomura 786 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shukichi Haneda Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera Atsuko Tanaka as Unknown child Yuu Sugimoto as Yumi Miyamoto Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Rie Tanaka as Naeko Miike Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Minoru Inaba as Chikara Katsumata Tomohisa Aso as Tanimori Male customer, Motorcycle policeman Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Witness Rio Natsuki as Female staff A Yuka Terasaki as Female staff B
Music
Opening song:	WE GO
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Welcome to Orihime Club
Next episode:	The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Shukichi Haneda Yumi Miyamoto Masumi Sera Unknown child Subaru Okiya Hiroshi Agasa Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Ai Haibara Miwako Sato Naeko Miike

Case

People

Chikara Katsumata
	Shogi player Meijin

Tanimori
	Shogi player

Keiko Tanimori
	Deceased Tanimori's wife

Resolution

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Shukichi and the group confront the culprit, Tanimori, at the Hotel Hyde Pride (incidentally the very hotel Masumi is staying in). Tanimori once obsessed in winning a Shogi match against Shukichi in order to make his wife, who was terminally ill, proud. However, in his zeal to win he made a mistake which cost him his victory due to a rules technicality, and Shukichi, knowing about his emotional distress, tried to persuade him to go visit his wife before she died. Misunderstanding the intention behind it, Tanimori became obsessed with beating Shukichi in a replay of that fateful match, kidnapping Yumi both to test his opponent's deductive skills and to face him alone. However, Shukichi proves that Tanimori would have lost even in a fair match, and Tanimori surrenders to the police.

Upon awakening from her drug-induced sleep in which Tanimori had kept her, and learning about her liberation by his hands, Yumi (along with Miike and a number of police officers who are fans of Shukichi) hurriedly escorts Shukichi back to the conclusion of his match, where she kisses Shukichi as a good luck charm, although she remains blissfully ignorant of both his true profession and the nature of the match. He returns to Yamanashi in time to win his 7th Shogi title. Strangely, this victory also garners the undivided attention of both the Unknown child and Subaru Okiya.

See also

• Season 24