The Mystery of the Man-Eating Classroom

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Episode 1169-1170 (Int. Episode 1227-1228)
Information
Title:	The Mystery of the Man-Eating Classroom
Japanese title:	人喰い教室の怪 (Hitokui Kyōshitsu no Kai)
Original airdate:	July 26, 2025 (Part 1) August 2, 2025 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	4.9% (Part 1) 5.0% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#320
Season:	30
Manga source:	Volume 104 - F8~10 (1110 · 1111 · 1112)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Maria Higashio Takuma Sakamoto Sumiko Kobayashi Rumi Wakasa Yukiko Kudo Fumiyo Edogawa Yusaku Kudo Ryujiro Uematsu Rum Rachel Asaka Kohji Haneda Night Baron
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Flowerpot (part 1) 10 yen coin (part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Kana Kawana
Storyboard:	Kana Kawana
Episode director:	1169: Yuki Kawakata 1170: Masahiro Takada
Animation director:	1169: Kaoru Nagakawa Michitaka Yamamoto Yukari Kamiaka Zi Dengjia 1170: Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Chie Saito (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	1169: Azeta Pictures 1170: BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Yuko Kato as Sumiko Kobayashi Fumi Hirano as Rumi Wakasa Yuki Matsuoka as Maria Higashio Toko Aoyama as Takuma Sakamoto Naomi Shindo as Mrs. Higashio (credited as Maria's mother) Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo Shinpachi Tsuji as Ryujiro Uematsu Shigeru Chiba as Rum Yumiko Kobayashi as Kaisuke Danno Risae Matsuda as TV announcer (Episode 1169) Teru Ikuta as Clerk (Episode 1169) Riona Imaizumi as Female Student (Episode 1169) Kazuki Miyagi as Rum's subordinate (Episode 1170)
Music
Opening song:	Poker Face
Closing song:	Fun! Fun! Fun!

The Mystery of the Man-Eating Classroom (人喰い教室の怪 ,Hitokui Kyōshitsu no Kai) is the 1169th and 1170th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ai Haibara

Hiroshi Agasa

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Maria Higashio

Takuma Sakamoto

Sumiko Kobayashi

Rumi Wakasa

Fumiyo Edogawa

Yusaku Kudo

Ryujiro Uematsu

Rum

Kohji Haneda (computer screen)

Night Baron (disguise, background)

Ryusuke Higo (phone strap)

Yukiko Kudo (background)

Rachel Asaka (background)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Agasa and Haibara are watching the news reporting the firearm store robbery that happened yesterday when Haibara suddenly asks Agasa if he is free on Wednesday the 16th, to which he explains that he will be teaching one of his acquaintances how to use the remote meeting control from the afternoon to evening, much to her dismay as that could mean that no one will be there for her in Parents’ Day visit at school.

On the Parents’ Day visit at school, Conan, Haibara, and the Detective Boys are walking to the school, with each of them having different feelings for the day: Ayumi is very excited because her dad is anticipating comparing her height increase, which had been noticed yesterday, with her fellow classmates. Mitsuhiko is excited as well because he wants to perform well in front of his parents. Genta is not, however, as his mom said that she would punish him if he dared to fall asleep in the class ever again. Haibara doesn’t care that much because her parents have gone since she was born. Conan reveals that his mom has returned to Japan by chance and she is going to the class today, much to the Detective Boys’ anticipation. Conan then secretly tells Haibara that his mom insisted on attending the class upon receiving the school announcement (and of course, she will attend under the name of Fumiyo Edogawa). He also expresses with her that he hasn’t grown up even a millimeter ever since he is shrunk and asks if it was due to the APTX-4869, to which she reassures him that it wasn’t even though she is not sure about it herself.

Later, they meet Maria, who is trying to buy an adhesive tape, when they are in a store for some school supplies, it turns out that the girl wanted to tape the timetable that is torn on one side and neglected by everyone in the class, even Kobayashi and Rumi Wakasa. They also happen to meet Takuma, who is buying a new writing pad as he broke the old one after slipping on the brick edge of the school flower bed.

The group begins to pay for the items they have purchased, Haibara's pencil stinger case cost her 258 yen, she pays 1000 yen and receives back 500 coin yen, 2 coins 100 yen, 4 coins 10 yen and 2 yen in change, while Maria’s adhesive tape costs her 302 yen, she gives 500 and receive coin 100 yen, coin 50 yen, 4 coins 10 yen and 8 yen in change.

In a classroom hallway, a boy named Kaisuke Danno is telling some others about a boy who died of choking whilst to avoid being caught sneaky eating red-handed in the class turned into an angry spirit haunting the class of his. It is told that once you step in the haunted class, you will hear a voice saying that: Feed me! Or I will eat you! And to stop the angry spirit from doing that and make it leave for somewhere else, you have to leave snacks at the desk after school. Danno continues by saying that the angry spirit is currently haunting this school, which is not trustworthy to Conan, Mitsuhiko, and Genta, whom Danno has met earlier when he tried buying some snacks before class. Just as the story is on its high note, Kobayashi and Rumi inform the children that class 1’B and 1’A are going to attend the PE class together.

Before lunch time, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko see Maria is not as excited for the parents’ day visit at school as others when they are taking food cart to the class, this is explained as Maria expresses her worries for her mom, who assured to come to the class even though she is in the hospital recovering from a back injury due to having tried so hard to attend their recent recital a week ago. In the class, Takuma does not wait in line for food like others as he is looking at something outside the window, which is later known as he has accidentally spoiled a tulip in the flower bed where he slipped but it is currently noticed by only two girls (and probably Conan as well), but he’d eventually get in line as others and have the meal. While having a meal Danno also has flashbacks of the story that actually happened to him but Genta did not believe him at all.

On lunch break, Mitsuhiko sees smoke outside the window and informs the teacher, Conan also goes to the window and witnesses the tulip flower bed burning for some reason. Just as when Conan, Rumi, and Kobayashi arrive at the flower bed with Conan holding a fire extinguisher, Haibara has already done it by jumping out of the window and using the water from the class flower vase. And just as when the four are discussing how it can burn, Danno interrupts as the curse of man-eating class that no one believed has come true.

Arson

Location: Teitan Elementary School

Suspects: Kaisuke Danno, Takuma Sakamoto and Maria Higashio

These three students have a specific motive to be considered as suspect: Danno wants to convince others to believe him, Takuma wants to cover up the lost tulip incident, while Maria wants the parents' day visit at school to be postponed.

Examining the scene shows that a honeysuckle flower pot was accidentally kicked by Haibara when she jumped outside the window, and there is one potato chip under the said pot after being kicked. Conan then recalls the three events, with one of them could be related to the burning flower bed mystery:

• Danno was stopped by Genta when he was trying to buy a package of the same potato chip. However, there are still chances that he had bought it in between and was the one to burn the flower bed to make his rumour more trustworthy.
• Takuma was indeed responsible for the lost tulip as he was scared upon hearing a girl in front of Conan mentioning about the flower bed losing one of its tulips. And he could be the one responsible for the burn of the flower bed as a way to cover up the lost tulip incident.
• Maria’s mom attended the recital that Maria also participated in and is now in the hospital recovering from the back injury. She could be the culprit and the purpose was to postpone the parents’ day visit at school.

The lunch break is over in 30 minutes and just about Rumi is suggesting that they inform this to the principal and the parents, Conan decides to ask the two 10 minutes of it so that he could solve the mystery and continue the event as usual. Then he asks someone to take his notebook and pencil for him so he can make one comparison table of what could the three students do before the flower bed burned, but his pencil suddenly out of stinger so he asks Haibara for one and Takuma volunteers to bring it for him, not knowing about his moist hand when giving the stinger box for Conan until the latter notices this. Next, Conan asks someone to bring him the stopwatch from the family economy class, and a 10 yen coin as there is something wrong with that stopwatch but he suddenly stops as he declares that he has known the one responsible for the flowerbed burning mystery.

Part 2

At the Kudo residence, while preparing for the parents’ day visit at school, Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko Kudo recall the time they kidnapped Conan under the disguises of Night Baron and Fumiyo Edogawa, respectively, with the latter having met with Ran and Kogoro before, so they would suspect Conan again if some parent in the class takes a photo showing that the person attending the meeting for Conan is Yukiko instead of Fumiyo. They are also relieved of not having to explain the situation to Shuichi Akai, who is attending the FBI meeting requiring his present, as it could reveal Conan’s true identity, though Yusaku thinks that he could’ve figured it out for a while (and we can confirm that). They also discuss Rumi Wakasa's situation, knowing that she has been in the Teitan Elementary School as class 1’B deputy homeroom teacher to get close to the person who viewed her news posts the most, Conan. Even though Rumi seems to be not too harmful to Conan for now, Yusaku still warns Yukiko to be careful of her, as she will likely do anything to achieve her goal: Revenge. He then wonders why Yukiko comes here rather than just the disguise, to which she replies it is for the tablet.

The fate of today's Parents' Day is unclear; who set fire to the flower bed, and what does Yukiko plan to do with the tablet?

People

Kaisuke Danno
	7 years old Teitan Elementary School class 1-A student

Mrs. Higashio
	Maria's mother Office employee Agasa's friend

Woman A
	TV announcer

Woman B
	6-Mart employee

Resolution

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Meanwhile at Teitan Elementary School, Conan deduces that the fire began after lunch and if the culprit simply came there to burn it, that person would be noticed by the students in the school, so the fire must have begun from an automatic ignition device. Haibara says she didn’t see anything when she came there to extinguish it, this was because Haibara accidentally kicked the flower pot that hid the potato chip – the kindling. Another key point here is the support frame of the kicked flower pot not having traces of burnt vines, which could mean that the vines were removed earlier so the frame could be used for another purpose – support frame for a special kind of magnifying glass (a kind of converging lens) made from ice water with the help of a bowl. One more thing – how can the ice glass melt so quickly? The answer is the 10 yen coins consisting 95% of copper each, as its good thermal conductivity allows them to catch heat and melt the ice glass.

The one causing the flower bed to burn is the one hiding her hand all the time to keep the 10 yen coins after the incident, Ai Haibara, whom Maria Higashio asked to help cancel the parents’ day visit at school so that her mom wouldn’t try so hard to come here today. The reason he knew this was:

• When Conan asked someone for a 10 yen coin to open the stopwatch only Danno out of Haibara and the three students suspected with burning the flower bed had one as Takuma does not have it after buying the writing pad, while Maria and Haibara denied having one, which were strange as they had 4 of them each after buying their item at the shop earlier.
• Haibara’s stinger box was wet, this could be due to the said ice magnifying glass.
• For some reason, Haibara always keeps her left hand in her pocket.

Meanwhile the story that Danno told Conan, Mitsuhiko and Genta earlier was probably made up by his former schoolmate for the snack as the broken flower vase and the tool cabinet could be easily moved by a fishing rod’s line. Regarding Takuma and the missing tulip, he simply just brought it home and secretly grew it until it grew back, and now Conan suggests he return to the class as it won’t bloom again if he grows in his home.

Even though the two have apologized and Conan asks the teachers to overlook the incident, the principal has already known about this and despite Kobayashi asking him to forgive the girls, he states that whatever the reason, daring to do an experiment during lunchtime in the school yard without permission cannot be ignored, and makes them replant the burnt flower as a punishment while reminding everyone about the parents coming to the event. Kobayashi states that Maria’s mom would still attend the event, even if she couldn’t be here like others. As it turns out, the acquaintance who asked for Agasa’s help for today was Maria’s mom, as she and Agasa would also attend parents’ day visit at school for Maria and Haibara, respectively, through the tablet held by Fumiyo Edogawa. Meanwhile, Rum is having a call with someone in the Black Organization about taking down Rumi, with Rum wondering about why Rumi is still at school after the incident.

Manga to anime changes

• The order of scene is changed so that Yusaku and Yukiko in disguise scenes happened after Conan know the culprit.
• Some minor scenes are added:

• Haibara and Maria receive their changes from the clerk.
• New visual of Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case when Yusaku remembering about Fumiyo.

Trivia

• The convenience store 6-Mart is likely a combination of 7-Eleven and FamilyMart.
• The brand of the adhesive tape Maria bought is Sellotape (セロテープ, serotēpu) by Nichiban (ニチバン).
• Takuma Sakamoto's pencil leads are from the brand UNI, written as PUNI in the anime.
• Due to Ryujiro Uematsu's rare appearance, the animator in charge of his scenes used the old design as reference.
• Kaisuke Danno's name comes from "ghost stories" (怪談 ,kaidan) and "flowerbeds" (花壇 ,kadan).

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	الشبح آكل الطلاب	The Student-Eating Ghost
French (Subbed)	L'Histoire du fantôme cannibale	The Story of the Cannibal Ghost
Thai	ความลึกลับของห้องเรียนกินคน	The Secret of the Man-Eating Classroom

See also

• Season 30