Kid VS Hakuba: The Azure Throne

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Episode 1193-1194 (Int. Episode 1252-1253)
Information
Title:	Kid VS Hakuba: The Azure Throne
Japanese title:	キッドVS白馬 青の玉座(アズール・スローン) (Kiddo VS Hakuba Azūru Surōn)
Original airdate:	March 14, 2026 (Part 1) March 21, 2026 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	6.0% (Part 1) 5.9% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#325
Season:	31
Manga source:	Volume 105 - F6~F9 (1119 · 1120 · 1121 · 1122)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Kaitou Kid Shinichi Kudo Saguru Hakuba Jirokichi Suzuki Ginzo Nakamori Kaito Kuroba Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Makoto Kyogoku Alan Cartier Etsuto Murobashi
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo (via Conan) Saguru Hakuba
Next Conan's Hint:	Curtain (Part 1) Facial hair (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Yasuyuki Honda
Storyboard:	Yasuyuki Honda
Episode director:	1193: Kota Nakamura 1194: Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	1193: Kenichi Otomo Asuka Tsubuki Miho Tanaka Kana Aoki FALCO Suzuki 1194: Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Rei Masunaga and Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Akemi Okamura as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Kappei Yamaguchi as Kaitou Kid, Shinichi Kudo, Kaito Kuroba Akira Ishida as Saguru Hakuba Masaharu Sato as Jirokichi Suzuki Koji Ishii as Ginzo Nakamori Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Ryuzo Hasuike as Yotaro Kichida Sanae Kobayashi as Satsuki Kichida Yuji Ueda as Masuo Kase Daisuke Kishio as Kyuya Kamiji Juri Kimura as News reporter (Episode 1193) Ayumi Aizawa as Announcer (Episode 1193) Ikuho Matsunaga as Riot policeman (Episode 1193)
Music
Opening song:	Heaven Knows
Closing song:	TOWA ~Towa ni Kaze ni Noru~

Kid VS Hakuba: The Azure Throne (キッドVS白馬 青の玉座(アズール・スローン) ,Kiddo VS Hakuba Azūru Surōn) is the 1193rd and 1194th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Sonoko Suzuki

Kaitou Kid

Shinichi Kudo (Kaitou Kid in disguise/background)

Saguru Hakuba

Jirokichi Suzuki

Ginzo Nakamori

Kaito Kuroba

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Nichiuri TV reporter

Makoto Kyogoku (background)

Alan Cartier (background)

Etsuto Murobashi (corpse flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Hang Glider Cape

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

The Tokyo Bell Tree Tower of the Suzuki Conglomerate is attracting public attention once again due to its latest expansion, the exhibition room in the sky; along with Kaitou Kid’s newest target, the Azure Throne.

Heist

Thief:Kaitou Kid

Target:Azure Throne

Location:Tokyo Bell Tree Tower

A chair featuring one of the largest tanzanites in the world

At night, inside the building, Jirokichi quotes from his newest collaborator that the reason Kid often strikes when the skies are clear is because of his outfit being susceptible to humidity, which leads him to have Kichida Manufacturing build this new exhibition room. He then shows both Conan and Nakamori the security installed outside the room:

• The wall facing toward the camera has its three horizontal color lines changed randomly, but their color patterns are always synchronized with one from the security room monitor frame.
• The corridor before entering the exhibition room has some very powerful humidifiers installed on.

Then, the exhibition room is going to have its final check before Jirokichi’s next encounter with Kid. However, just as when they finish their testing, the power is suddenly cut. Conan notices an abnormality in the camera footage, and rushes to the exhibition room. This scares off Satsuki Kichida as she is looking for a police to help address the strange message from her husband, who is also the president of Kichida Manufacturing, Yotaro. Strangely enough, Yotaro’s secretary Kyuuya Kamiji also receives a strange message from him, both say: “I will protect the jewel with my life”.

However, when Conan enters the room, he sees the terrified Kaitou Kid looking at Yotaro’s body with a gunshot wound on his head.

Murder

Location: Tokyo Bell Tree Tower

Victim: Yotaro Kichida

Age: 45 years old

Cause of death: Gunshot wound to the forehead

Suspects: Masuo Kase, Satsuki Kichida, Kyuuya Kamiji

At that moment, Saguru Hakuba orders the exhibition room to close to make sure no one leaves when he, Nakamori, and Jirokichi march toward the room with several Riot Police officers. Kid is still panicked about the murder scene, and asks Conan to prove his innocence. Conan agrees under one condition: Kaitou Kid will have to disguise as Shinichi and act following what Conan said to, which includes not letting Ran figure out that he was the fake one.

After Hakuba's group arrives and are shocked to see Shinichi Kudo instead of Kaito Kid, all of the high school detectives find three suspicious details:

1. The bloodstain and a bullet hole left on the right of the entrance (based on Hakuba’s point of view).
2. There is something stuck to both sides of the body’s toe.
3. The blood splatter on the curtains to the right of the body.

Part 2

In the interrogation process:

• Masuo Kase, technical director of Kichida Manufacturing, recalls that Yotaro told him he needed time to check something in the room after they finished the testing. Kase also notes others about the rumor that Yotaro and his wife were fighting.
• Kamiji was a firefighter 10 years ago, but quit after breaking a bone from falling off a ladder. The reason he became Yotaro’s secretary is because he was the one to explain about fire prevention equipment during Yotaro’s visit to the fire department.
• Satsuki was sitting on her husband’s chair waiting for his return when she received that strange message from him. When Nakamori informs her about the rumor given by Kase, she clarifies that the one who often argues with her husband is actually Kase.

Takagi and Megure finally make it to the scene due to heavy traffic. But not long after they arrive, they will have to go back to the police station with the culprit because both Conan and Hakuba figure out the truth after hearing the forensic report.

People

Yotaro Kichida
	Victim (gunshot) 45 years old Kichida Industry president

Masuo Kase
	42 years old Kichida Industry Engineering Department head

Satsuki Kichida
	39 years old Yotaro's wife

Kyuuya Kamiji
	38 years old Yotaro's secretary

Funamoto
	Tokyo MPD riot squad officer

Resolution

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Kaitou Kid’s original plan

If the crime of murder had not been carried out, then Kaitou Kid’s heist would have been carried out in this specific order:

• Firstly, he had hidden in a fake fire hydrant installed in the corridor that blends in with the contractors.
• Next, had the people from Kichida finished their testing would he appear and install a Lubor’s lens in front of the camera, deceiving everyone supervising the room via the camera that everything is normal.

This is when we assume if no murder occurred:

• Kid would have taken advantage from the time everyone was deceived to steal the Azure Throne, and blended in with the riot officers who charged in and fled from the exhibition room.

How the murder was carried out

Hakuba predicted Kid’s movement, and so does the culprit. The culprit thought that if Kid was not seen entering the camera, then no one would find it odd if president Kichida was not seen returning to the exhibition room, implying that the president was killed before Kid entered the room. Kase recounts that Yotaro has exited the room after he finished his own checking. Hakuba defies this conclusion by explaining how has the culprit killed the president while got out of the room as the president:

Once the check was completed and Yotaro almost left the room, the culprit probably told him that something was wrong with the lower right wall, and took the chance to send him to heaven. Since everyone was wearing protective gear, Kase mistook the culprit with Yotaro, and let the president inside the room alone, creating an opportunity for them to set up the crime scene that we saw at part 1.

Shinichi joins in when Kajimi says that the culprit could not be identified based on the footage. He points out that Yotaro’s kind of arm crossing is different from the kind of arm crossing that we saw from his impostor, Kyuuya Kajimi. Shinichi adds in: Kajimi stole Yotaro’s phone and took advantage of the power cut to run away from other staff, leave the phone in the hallway after sending the fake messages, remove the disguise, and run to the security room as if he had just received the message from the victim.

Both Hakuba and Shinichi will perform the fireman’s carry, method used by Kajimi to carry the body:

1. While they are lying on their back, lift their knees.
2. Step on their toes to hold their feet in place.
3. Grab both hands and pull them toward you, then duck under.

This explains why there was blood on the curtain and the floor near the throne, which means that the blood also fell onto Kajimi’s shoe.

Aftermath

Hakuba knew that Shinichi was actually Kid, and intended to use the fireman's carry to bring Kid to the police station, but failed because Kid had already handcuffed both Hakuba's legs. Ran has also known about this because Kid mentioned one wrong detail from the time she answered Shinichi's confession. After the thief leaves and she is left angered as Kid could say those words under the disguise of Shinichi, Hakuba explains that those words were of Shinichi, making Conan afraid that his secret identity is revealed. However, Hakuba simply tells that Conan called Shinichi to help solve the murder after being asked by the panicked Kid to prove his innocence.

Manga to anime changes

• Several dialogues are not adapted:

• Ran mentioning the Mount Washio case as one of the topic she talked with Shinichi the other day
• Nakamori praising Jirokichi after he explained the idea to capture Kid
• Nakamori asking the final check team to withdraw quickly from the exhibition room.
• Conan sniffing Kid's clothes to check if there is gunpowder smell, suspecting that he might have changed clothes, which Kid deny and that he would have ran away if he had time for that.
• Nakamori refering Hakuba as "cosplaying detective boy" when he appeared.
• Hakuba thinking that he have no other choice but to abandon the plan to submerge the exhibition room in a pool because Conan is inside.
• "Shinichi" explaining the same trick that was used in Bell Tree Express murder case, and that Hakuba should have read the news as Kaitou Kid was scheduled to steal the jewel exhibited on that train.
• Nakamori mentioned that the security room was crowded by the media as one reason they are doing the questioning in the staff room.
• "Shinichi" explaining how did he enter the exhibition room to Hakuba.
• "Shinichi" reminding Megure that his involvement should be a secret
• Takagi mentioning that president Kichida's phone was found in the hallway.

• Jirokichi asking Conan to come with him into the exhibition room is anime addition.
• After Conan said "Hey, Shinichi-niichan.", "Shinichi" replied "What is it, Conan-kun?". The later line is anime addition.

Trivia

• Starting this episode, Ran Mouri is temporarily voiced by Akemi Okamura, as Wakana Yamazaki went on hiatus due to health reasons.

• Because of that, this case, which supposed to be aired as Episode 1192-1193, is delayed. The episode number was confirmed via an image of Movie 29 guest voice actors who were watching the recording session of this case.

• This case was promoted in conjunction with Episode "ZERO" The Shinichi Kudo Aquarium Case (via their posters).
• The suspects' names are related to "planets":
  • Yotaro Kichida (吉田 陽太郎) comes from "sun" (太陽 ,taiyō) ;
  • Masuo Kase (加勢 増男) comes from "mars" (火星 / マーズ ,kasei / māzu) ;
  • Satsuki Kichida (吉田 さつき) comes from "moon" (月 ,tsuki) ;
  • Kyuya Kamiji (上地 九哉) comes from "earth" (地球 ,chikyū).
• Riot policeman Funamoto (舟本) comes from real-life Shonen Sunday editor Riaru Funamoto (舟本 りある).
• While the characters "吉田" that make up Yotaro and Satsuki Kichida's last name are common, they are usually read Yoshida, which is the 11th most common surname in Japan, found notably in Ayumi Yoshida. Other readings include Yoshita and Kitta, and the "Kichida" reading is very rare.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Kid contre Hakuba : Le Trône d'azur	Kid vs. Hakuba: The Azure throne
German (Subbed)	Kid vs. Hakuba - Der Azurne Thron	Kid vs. Hakuba - The Azure Throne
Korean	키드 vs 하쿠바 청색의 옥좌	Kid vs Hakuba: The Azure Throne

See also

• Season 31