The Devil of the TV Station

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Episode 488 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Devil of the TV Station
Japanese title:	テレビ局の悪魔 (Terebi Kyoku no Akuma)
Original airdate:	October 22, 2007 *
Broadcast rating:	9,40%
Manga case:	#172
Season:	16
Manga source:	Volume 57: Files 5-7 (591-593)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Hiroshi Agasa Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Yoko Okino Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Asami Tsuburaya
Case solved by:	Hiroshi Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Delivery
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Yuzo Aoki Makoto Nagao
Episode director:	Masuka Okawa Makoto Nagao
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (chief) Masaki Abe Michitaka Yamamoto Rei Masunaga
Music
Opening song:	Glorious Mind
Closing song:	Sekai wa Mawaru to Yuu Keredo
* 1 Hour Special

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ayumi Yoshida Hiroshi Agasa Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Yoko Okino Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Asami Tsuburaya

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Yoko takes the Detective Boys and Dr. Agasa to a TV studio for a tour, though they're a bit disappointed when they can't go to the Kamen Yaiba studio. When they run into Satan Onizuka, the vocalist for a visual kei rock band who's there for a TV show, they're scared at first and pass him up. However, they decide to search for his room to get his autograph anyway since Mitsuhiko recalls that his older sister Asami is a huge fangirl of Satan's band.

In his room, Satan speaks to his manager and asks him for some food from three specific restaurants and a mirror to replace the broken one in the room itself. They also talk about a huge fight between Satan and the president of his production company, Tenji Urushihara, and Satan says he'll need the mirror soon to take off his make up, since he needs to catch a nap due to his lack of sleep after the scuffle.

In the meantime, the children and Dr. Agasa look for Satan's dressing room. A little later, a Satan without make-up and with a raincoat over his clothes meets with Urushihara and, after a chat, stabs him to death with a knife.

Murder
	Location: Nichiuri TV Victim: Tenji Urushihara Age: 47 years old Cause of death: Stab wound Culprit: Satan Onizuka

Few later, The Detective Boys find Satan Onizuka's room and meet Satan who is somehow back in full make up, who forgives them for the impasse and gives them an autograph. Ayumi notes some origami birds on Satan's table and is delighted, with Satan even teasing the kids a little about it. Soon after, however, Urushihara's corpse is found by an employee and the police arrive at the station.

The police suspect the murderer to be Satan, due to his recent fight with the victim. Satan retorts that, with his make up and costume, it would have been impossible to leave his room without being noticed. Since there is still no mirror in Satan's dressing room, it would be impossible to put on his make up and they cannot charge him with the murder. Conan still suspects Satan as the murderer, and he decides to find out how did he pull such a difficult trick...

People

Waka Inoue
	27 years old Actual Japanese actress

Azusa Yamamoto
	26 years old Actual Japanese actress

Satan Onizuka
	32 years old Vocalist from "The Styx Three"

Tenji Urushibara
	Victim (stabbed) 47 years old Entertainment production company president

Inamori
	Satan's manager

Mishima
	Nichiuri TV AD

Ukiki
100px	Yomiuri TV's mascot character

Man
	Styx Three band member

Woman
	Styx Three band member and vocalist

Woman
100px	Deceased (suicide) Satan's girlfriend

Resolution

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The investigation leads Conan to confirm the suspicion that Satan Onizuka is the culprit, and that he coivered the lack of a mirror in his dressing room via building a make-shift mirror with a transparent ruler and black construction paper. To prove this, Conan reveals through Dr. Agasa that the origami cranes, which he supposedly made to ease his boredom, were used to camouflage the construction paper (plus he used the ruler both for origamis and for the "mirror"), but evidence suggested it was not made on that day. Additionally, the clean-faced Satan was easily able to disguisw himself as a delivery boy, using a DB outfit that he brought and kept in a bag for comic sketches that he was supposed to do in the show (he put on the raincoat right before killing Urushihara); few lifted an eyebrow at the sight of a man in restaurant delivery clothes in the studio. That's why he asked for food from three different places, so his manager would mention it and then inadvertedly trick people for his sake.

Satan more or less admits that he's the killer and explains his reasons. He reveals that three years ago he was in a very low point of both his life and career, having almost lost his voice due to a throat injury and needing to spend months in an hospital for treatment. A teenage fangirl of his comforted him through letters and gifts that always included tiny origamis, but at some point the letters from the girl stopped coming, and initially he didn't really think of it since he believed she had changed interests. Satan reveals that he found out the exact reason why she stopped writing just one month ago, during a bar meeting with Urushihara: behind this back, his boss impersonated him and posted some creepy messages in the band's official website, asking his fans for "blood sacrifices" as a publicity stunt. Urushihara added that the young fangirl's last letter (implied to not have been given to Satan himself) included a message about "giving you [Satan Onizuka] my blood"... meaning that the girl had killed herself in what she thought it was a sacrifice in the name of her beloved Satan Onizuka. After this meeting with Urushihara, Satan located the girl's family and spoke to her grieving mother, who confirmed that the girl had commited suicide three years ago, apparently without reason.

The cruel discovery of the girl's death sent Satan into both an horrible depression and a massive creative slump, since even when he told jokes about death, murder and the Devil in his public persona, he would've never actually told his fans to harm themselves or commit suicide. He concludes by saying that, in the present, he wanted to retire due to his fame waning and his inspiration leaving him, so he and his band agreed to perform in one last farewell concert, but Urushihara cruelly cancelled it and threatened Satan himself with a huge lawsuit if he insisted on retirement. Then Satan officially confesses the crime and refers to Urushihara as the real Devil.

As one last touch, when Satan Onizuka begins to cry over having let his suicidal fangirl down and not being able to create music anymore, the tears coming from his right eye are lightly tainted with blood. Conan and Ai say that this is because Satan uses contact lenses, and when he killed Urushihara, one lense was accidentally stained with his victim's blood.

Satan surrenders himself to the police quietly, and Ai and Conan comment on how when the Devil sheds tears, he loses his powers.

Manga to anime changes

• The anime version starts at night with Satan Onizuka in his beautiful penthouse, being told by Urushihara through the phone that his performance is canceled. Satan tries to object but it told that if he insists, he'll be sued. When Urushihara hangs up, an extremely angry Onizuka unsheaths a knife (the one used in the murder itself) and then throws it to the nearest wall.
• The manga version has Satan Onizuka's real face shown during his last talk with Urushihara. The anime, on the other hand, goes through quite the lengths to not show it clearly until the very end of the episode: first, it chooses to show his eyes and back in the above mentioned opening scene, and then focuses on his torso and hands during the pre-murder talk. And when there's a close-up to Satan's face right before he kills Urushihara, only his eyes are clearly seen.
• The manga version of the story takes place within the Clash of Red and Black storyline (between Hades and Coma) and has a scene with Conan and Haibara debating on the relation between Hidemi and Eisuke Hondou. The anime version (taking place before the storyline) replaces the scene with the Detective Boys introducing themselves to Waka Inoue and Azusa Yamamoto and interacting with them and Yoko.
• The anime includes an additional scene that has Conan, Ran and Kogoro watching the TV show recorded by Yoko, Waka and Azusa. Hilariously, Yoko loses the game show when she doesn't reply a question about Ranpo Edogawa and his detective Kogoro Akechi on time.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
0:05 - 1:51	古城のテーマ	Kojō no Tēma	The Old Castle's Theme	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
3:50 - 5:34	汐留	Shiodome	Shiodome	Detective Conan "Magician of the Silver Sky" Original Soundtrack
6:36 - 7:47	はずむ蘭	Hazumu Ran	Bouncing Ran	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
7:51 - 8:20	ミッドナイト・ステップ	Middonaito・Suteppu	Midnight Step	Detective Conan "Magician of the Silver Sky" Original Soundtrack
8:41 - 9:31	カギを探せ！	Kagi o Sagase!	Search for the Key!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
12:47 - 13:12	トレジャー チルドレン B	Torejā Chirudoren B	Children's Treasure B	Detective Conan "Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure" Original Soundtrack
13:26 - 15:03	古城のテーマ	Kojō no Tēma	The Old Castle's Theme	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
15:11 - 15:43	トレジャー チルドレン B	Torejā Chirudoren B	Children's Treasure B	Detective Conan "Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure" Original Soundtrack
15:56 - 16:52	ミッドナイト・ステップ	Middonaito・Suteppu	Midnight Step	Detective Conan "Magician of the Silver Sky" Original Soundtrack
17:20 - 19:06	カギを探せ！	Kagi o Sagase!	Search for the Key!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
19:19 - 19:37	現金輸送車(回想)	Genkin Yusōsha (Kaisō)	Bank Transport Vehicle (Flashback)	Detective Conan "The Private Eyes' Requiem" Original Soundtrack
19:55 - 20:37	暗殺者のテーマ─事件の予感	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Jiken no Yokan	Assassin's Theme - Foreboding Case	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
22:22 - 23:33	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
24:10 - 24:33	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
24:50 - 25:35	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
25:58 - 27:40	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.)	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
28:20 - 30:30	インターナショナル ケース(インシデント)	Intānashonaru Kēsu (Inshidento)	International Case (Incident)	Detective Conan "Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure" Original Soundtrack
30:40 - 31:40	推理１	Suiri 1	Deduction 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
31:57 - 32:17	ワッツ ハプニング	Wattsu Hapuningu	What's Happening	Detective Conan "Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure" Original Soundtrack
32:27 - 33:53	事件現場３	Jiken Genba 3	Scene of the Case 3	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
34:11 - 36:15	次のターゲット！	Tsugi no Tāgetto!	The Next Target!	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
36:49 - 38:16	対決のテーマ	Taiketsu no Tēma	Showdown Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
38:25 - 39:30	コナン推理	Konan Suiri	Conan's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
39:39 - 40:19	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
41:18 - 42:50	コナン組曲－Captured In Her Eyes	Konan Kumikyoku - Captured in Her Eyes	Conan Suite - Captured in Her Eyes	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
43:31 - 44:32	「名探偵コナン」メイン・テーマ （バラードver.）	"Meitantei Konan" Mein・Tēma (Barādo ver.)	"Detective Conan" Main Theme (Ballad ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
45:59 - 47:03	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Matenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
47:06 - 47:28	陽気な仲間	Yōki na Nakama	Cheerful Friends	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~

Trivia

• There is an animation error roughly 17-18 minutes in, where when Inamori is just starting to reach into the bag for the mirror, Satan Onizuka's body has a space between him and the frame, thus showing the background between his waist and the bottom edge.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan	El dimoni dels estudis de televisió

See also

• Season 16