An Illustrator Murder Case

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Episode 60
(Int. Episode 62)

Information

Title:

An Illustrator Murder Case

Japanese title:

イラストレーター殺人事件
(Irasutorētā Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

May 26, 1997

Broadcast rating:

19.5%

Manga case:

#35

Season:

2

Manga source:

Volume 13: Files 5-7 (125-127)

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Ran Mouri
Juzo Megure

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Contact lens set

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Organizer:

Masashi Abe

Storyboard:

Masashi Abe

Episode director:

Masashi Abe

Animation director:

Toshiko Sasaki

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo
Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Jun Hazumi as Kenjin Hanaoka
Sanae Noguchi as Izumi Chono
Takashi Yanase as Man A
Masahito Yabe as Tanaka
Wataru Takagi as Bike courier, Next Conan's Hint
Isshin Chiba as Forensics officer

Music

Opening song:

"Nazo"

Closing song:

"Hikari to Kage no Roman"

An Illustrator Murder Case (イラストレーター殺人事件 ,Irasutorētā Satsujin Jiken) is the 60th episode of Detective Conan anime.

When an illustrator is killed her death is ruled a suicide, but when Conan looks at the evidence all of it points to the illustrator’s boss, but he was nowhere near her when she died. Conan must figure out how he killed her while also being somewhere else at the same time.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Juzo Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Button Speaker

Case

Situation

Kenjin Hanaoka is a popular painter who seems to have everything that a man could want: his own design firm, best selling books, and untold wealth. But when he decides to eat the forbidden fruit and have an affair with one of his pretty, young illustrators his life starts to come apart at the seams. But rather than face the consequences of his mistakes, Hanaoka tries to cover them up in a brutal and bloody manner. Can Conan see through his ingenious plot and expose Hanaoka for what he really is?

Murder

Location: Chono household

Victim: Izumi Chono

Age: 25 years old

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma

Culprit: Kenjin Hanaoka

During a heated discussion, Hanaoka loses his temper and bludgeons Chono, regretting that immediately after.

People

Kenjin Hanaoka
	48 years old Painter

Izumi Chono
	Victim (beaten) 25 years old Illustrator

Man
	Hanaoka Design office worker

Tanaka
	Director caller Hanaoka Design office worker

Forensics officer
	Tokyo MPD forensics officer

Man #2
	Chono's bike courrier

Resolution

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Most of the works Kenjin Hanaoka created were actually created by his apprentice Izumi Chono, who coerced him into having a romantic relationship with her and then threatened to blackmail him to continue supporting her lest she reveal their secret. All the paintings contain a special mark of the victim, an artist's signature of sorts: a butterfly mark. She also occasionally paints the mark on her colleagues and boss/lover as a prank. This would confirm Hanaoka's guilt.

The trick Hanaoka used after bludgeoning her with a rock crystal ashtray was leaning her body over the balcony of his apartment room. The corpse is tied to a fishing line that is connected to a pulley system using a flower pot as a weight and a nail, which was attached to the apartment door and would become detached when it was opened. He hid evidence of the fishing line by using a contact lens cleaner container as a weight to pull the line down a drain after the pot fell. Hanaoka calls a botanist employee to come over to activate the mechanism and in the midst of the chaos has a one sided conversation, pretending to hear from Chono about her supposed plans to commit suicide.

After explaining the trick and with Hanaoka asserting that he'd never been to the apartment before, Conan reveals another butterfly mark hidden on his big toe's nail by spilling a cup of coffee and scalding his foot, making him remove his sock. At the start of the episode, Chono had painted said butterfly mark with a newly released nail polish right before Hanaoka woke up (he did not notice it as Chono had put his socks on). The reason Conan was able to figure that there was a butterfly mark on his toe was because bed sheets was stained with some of the nail polish.

Cornered he reveals his motive, Chono had been his ghost artist and secret lover. Although the two did spent time together a lot Hanaoka saw this as nothing more than a lover’s rendezvous, but Chono wanted more and tried to pressure him into divorcing his wife. That sent him over the edge, and he impulsively grabbed the ash tray and hit her on the head killing her.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters and places in the Funimation Dub are:

• Kenjin Hanaoka - Horace Hennegraf
• Izumi Chono - Sadie Olivette
• Tanaka (the person calling Izumi) - Frederick
• Hanaoka Design Office - Hennegraf Art and Design

• In the Funimation Dub, Kenjin's other employee (the one talking to Kogoro at the beginning of the episode), is credited as Dr. Wang.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	昼下がりの天使たち	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi	Early Afternoon Angels	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
6	事件現場２	Jiken Genba 2	Scene of the Case 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	サスペンス～危機感	Sasupensu ~ Kikikan	Suspense ~ Impending Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	捜査開始	Sōsa Kaishi	The Investigation Begins	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
15	コナンの夢	Konan no Yume	Conan's Dream	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16	光と影のロマン	Hikari to Kage no Roman	Romance of Light and Shadow	Hikari to Kage no Roman
17	事件解決（意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	مصرع فراشة الربيع	The Death of The Spring Butterfly
Basque	Marrazkilariaren hilketa
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de la il·lustradora	Artist murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de la il·lustradora	Artist murder case
French	Une dessinatrice pleine de talent	A Very Talented Artist
Galician	O asasinato da ilustradora	Artist murder
German	Die Schmetterlingsfrau	The Butterfly Woman
Italian	Tra i disegni di un'avventura	Between Drawings of Adventure
Korean	일러스트레이터 살인 사건	An Illustrator Murder Case
Spanish (American dub)	El caso de la ilustradora asesinada	Murdered artist case
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El asesinato de la dibujante	Cartoonist murder
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมนักวาดภาพ	An illustrator murder case
Vietnamese	Vụ mưu sát họa sĩ vẽ tranh minh họa	An illustrator murder case

See also

• Season 2