Takagi and Date and the Notebook Promise

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Episode 1109-1110
(Int. Episode 1167-1168)

Information

Title:

Takagi and Date and the Notebook Promise

Japanese title:

高木と伊達と手帳の約束
(Takagi to Date to Techō no Yakusoku)

Original airdate:

January 6, 2024 (Part 1)
January 13, 2024 (Part 2)

Broadcast rating:

6.7% (Part 1)
7.4% (Part 2)

Manga case:

#310

Season:

29

Manga source:

Volume 101: Files 10-11 (1079 · 1080) ~ Volume 102: File 1 (1081)

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Wataru Takagi
Miwako Sato
Rei Furuya
Azusa Enomoto
Ai Haibara
Detective Boys
Wataru Date
Yumi Miyamoto
Gin
Yukiko Kudo

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

Gaming device (Part 1)
Toothpicks (Part 2)

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Nobuharu Kamanaka

Organizer:

Hiroaki Takagi

Storyboard:

Hiroaki Takagi
New Year Greeting:
• Yasuichiro Yamamoto
• Nobuharu Kamanaka

Episode director:

1109: Akira Yoshimura
1110: Masahiro Takada

Animation director:

New Year Greeting:
• Masatomo Sudo
1109:
• Miho Tanaka
• Yui Ushinohama
• Marie Nagano
• Kana Aoki
• Yoshitsugu Hatano
1110:
• Akio Kawamura

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo
Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character)
Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)

Production cooperation:

1110: BIG BANG

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Mikiko Enomoto as Azusa Enomoto
Tohru Furuya as Rei Furuya
Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato
Hiroki Tochi as Wataru Date
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Yuka Terasaki as Alain Cassel
Risa Yoshinaga as Jean Cassel
Narumi Kaho as Yuji Inukai
Satoshi Yamaguchi as Robber (Episode 1109)
Kenya Hatsumura as Detective (Episode 1109)
Shintaro Tanaka as Kidnapper's subordinate (Episode 1110)

Music

Opening song:

"Unraveling Love ~Sukoshi no Yūki~"

Closing song:

"You & I"

Last episode to feature Toru Furuya as the voice of Rei Furuya.

Takagi and Date and the Notebook Promise (高木と伊達と手帳の約束 ,Takagi to Date to Techō no Yakusoku) is the 1109th and 1110th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Wataru Takagi

Miwako Sato

Rei Furuya

Azusa Enomoto

Ai Haibara

Genta Kojima

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Ayumi Yoshida

Juzo Megure

Wataru Date (flashback)

Yumi Miyamoto (flashback)

Gin (background)

Yukiko Kudo (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Haibara and the Detective Boys are going home from the hospital after visiting Agasa, who is still recovering from his injury. While Agasa is still in the hospital, her friends sometime come to her house to cheer her up after some emotional moments. More importantly, Yukiko also came back to cook for her at that time, so things are looking good for her. On their way home, they encounter a robber who is being chased by Detective Takagi. As the robber charges toward the boys, Haibara associates him as Gin chases her. Fortunately, Sato comes to the rescue in time, much to the admiration of the Detective Boys.

The page of Date's notebook that reminds Takagi of the faithful day.

Later, Takagi is about to write reports of the criminal’s arrest on his notebook, formerly belonging to Date, when he flips to the page containing character strings his senior wrote. These strings remind him of a case that both were trying to solve, a case that Date promised to make a man out of Takagi. Both of them were returning from a stakeout that, even though failed, did give them a paper containing character strings to decode. Suddenly, a car hit Date, leading to his death while Takagi witnessed in horror.

Takagi is snapped out of the flashback when Sato notices his expression; she gets a look at the strings before giving it to Conan, who wants to inspect it. Sato initially believes Takagi and Date were going to questionable locations since Date said he wanted to make a man out of the former, until Conan reassures them it was actually Café Poirot. At Poirot, Azusa welcomes all of them and offers glasses of water; Conan starts by explaining how he decoded the strings:

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The material needed to decode the message.

1. Calling the SMS center with a phone with a tone and a recorded message will play.
2. Following the instructions and enter the recipient's phone number.
3. Starting the message with *2*2, compose the message with two numbers for each character according to this table, and finally end it with #s.

The meaning of the code.

Then Conan asks Azusa to do the same and send the numbers in Date's notes as a text message to the phone of the shop. The meaning was: "Sunday afternoon, 12pm, Beika City 5-6"; Poirot's seat next to the door, wearing a red tie and waiting."

Takagi wonders if this message had something to do with Date’s intention to make the man out of him. Amuro joins in the conversation and assumes that the deceased officer wanted him to actually solve a case on his own, Sato shares his viewpoint as she assumes Date would give all credit to Takagi after they both solved the case. Haibara finds the detail of including the outfit in the message interesting, which leads Conan to discover some pieces of tape under the table they, Sato and Takagi are sitting. He asks Azusa if she noticed anyone or anything suspicious around the table the four are sitting, to which she recalls there was a gaming console stuck under that table – the console was playing a game on sleeping mode when she found it, and she has been keeping it ever since. While Azusa retrieves the device, the four use this information to deduce that the person who was supposed to be inside to receive the message did not show up to do so.

As Azusa comes out with the console, Takagi asks her if she saw anyone suspicious looking at the cafe. She mentions that every Sunday afternoon, there is always a black car that appears in front of the café for five minutes, and there is a yellow-haired boy who always makes some kind of hand gestures during those five minutes. The gesture he makes is to hold five fingers, then fold the thumb before folding the others, and he will do it again after reversing the sequence. Both Haibara and Conan recognize the gesture to be a signal for help originated from Canada.

Kidnapping

Victim: Alain Cassel

Age: 7 years old (1 year ago)

Time: 1 year ago

Culprits: Natsufusa Kidou and his subordinate

Since nothing was heard from the kidnappers after Kidou died, we can safely assume he was one of the perpetrators. Kidou demanded an outrageous ransom of 50 million yen to return the boy.

Conan asks Takagi if Date was involved in a case with a concerning boy, to which he links it to the case that he left behind after his senior’s death. He recounts it in full detail to Sato and the kids: One year ago, an automaker vice president Pieere Cassel was working at the Japanese branch of his company when Alain, one of his two sons, was abducted while playing at a park with his friend. Pieere received a call demanding an outrageous ransom of 50 million yen. Even though Date moved to MPD ever since Matsuda’s death two years ago, he and Takagi were involved in the case because Alain’s older brother Jean called them out for help due to them living near Cassel's residence at the time.

Initially, since the Daisan gang was in a dispute with Cassel business over land use rights, it was believed that the kidnapper was one of their members. However, Date suspected its former gang leader Natsufusa Kidou because it was known he was in a huge debt at the time. They began to follow Kidou after his ransom call, but were almost in a dead end when they realized he was beaten severely. Fortunately, he left a paper containing character strings before being taken to the hospital, where he died, and Date copied the string into his notebook.

Manslaughter (Past)

Location: Phone Booth

Victim: Natsufusa Kidou

Time: 1 year ago

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma

Culprit: Drunk man

Kidou got angry when a drunkard complained about his long wait and pushed him away, however, the man grabbed a nearby bottle and severely injured Kidou. Although he was rushed to the hospital, he died a week later, having accidentally left something behind before being taken to the hospital.

Coincidentally, the kidnapper(s) was/were never heard from after the event, so we can safely assume Kidou was one of the perpetrators. That also means that Kidou's henchman had blindly followed his orders because the henchman had no idea about his death. It just so happens that the episode happens on a Sunday, but they only have 5 minutes left until the transaction time so calling the police won't be enough time – they must be the ones to rescue the boy.

Part 2

The specific plan was: Amuro would use Conan's voice changer to disguise himself as the other accomplice, and since the boy was a foreigner like Amuro, he would think that Amuro also worked for VP Cassel and send messages to the electronic game console. Then, after reading the instructions, Amuro would start taking the paper bag from the gap between the sofa and the floor and pretend to put money in it to fool him because his vision was blocked by the grass in front of the shop so he wouldn't notice. Then Amuro would pay and leave with the paper bag, and once Inspector Takagi also left with him, the kidnapper would go out and fall for the trick as planned. However, he has prepared a can of pepper spray to buy more time to run away, leaving the boy in the car.

Further information gathered reveal that the kidnapping location is the fourth floor of the Shiromino Apartment on Third Street, Lot 2, and the person closest to the location is Takagi, so he is assigned to be there. However, as soon as he reaches the fourth floor, the kidnapper manages to drag the boy down the elevator, forcing Takagi to go back down. Meanwhile, the boy resists because he couldn't see Alain, so the robber lies that the boy had been in a traffic accident and they are going to the hospital now, but Takagi gets down just in time and confirms Alain's condition. Will Takagi be able to save the boy?

Kidnapping

Victim: Yuji Inukai

Culprits: Natsufusa Kidou and his subordinate

People

Alain Cassel
	Victim (kidnapped) 7 years old (1 year ago) Cassel family's second son

Pierre Cassel
	Automaker vice president Alain's father

Natsufusa Kidou
	Deceased (blunt trauma) Kidnapper

Man A
	Second kidnapper Kidou's subordinate

Yuji Inukai
	Victim (kidnapped) Alain's friend

Jean Cassel
	Alain's older brother

Man B
	Robber

Police Detective A
	Tokyo MPD Police detective

Police Detective B
	Tokyo MPD Police detective

Man C
	Drunkard

Resolution

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The kidnapper threatens Takagi not to come near and reassures himself that his boss, Natsufusa Kidou, will have a new plan. Takagi replies by revealing to him that he has beaten Kidou to death. The kidnapper initially refuses to believe the story; Takagi turns it up to eleven by declaring that the kidnapper is nothing without his boss, and that he will suffer the same fate as Kidou if he does not hand over the child. This makes him mad as he then beats Takagi with all his might. Fortunately, this buys enough time so that Sato and Amuro can catch up and defeat the criminal for him.

Aftermath

Takagi receives the gift Jean Cassel prepares for Date, reassuring him that he will deliver it to him.

After Sato finishes treating Takagi's injury, she looks to her car and sees Amuro near it. She asks if her car is having an issue, Amuro replies it was because he find similarities between his and her. Then, she asks if the two had actually not seen each other before, to which he replies no while recalling his encounter with her and Yumi during his graduation.

Just then, Megure takes Alain and Jean in his car to where Yuji is rescued, having accepted their requests: Alain wants to reunite with his friend while Jean wants to give Date a toothpick box he prepares for. However, Date's absence confuses Jean as he asks Takagi about the officer. Takagi reassures him that both of them have worked his best to find his friend. The kid asks him to give Date the toothpick box he prepares for the officer; Takagi happily agrees to take the gift, telling him that it should be fine for an officer to receive a small gift like this.

Manga to anime changes

• Some dialogues not included in the anime:

• Sato suggests that she and Takagi have lunch at Poirot.
• Takagi mentions that Sato was working on different case when the kidnapping happened.

• The anime add the scene where Mitsuhiko suggests that they walk Haibara back to Agasa residence.
• In the manga, before capturing the robber, Sato crossed her arms in front. In the anime, she directly prepared to catch the robber.
• In the manga, after informing Conan about the gaming device, Azusa directly go to get it. In the anime, Conan has to ask Azusa what she did with the device before she go to get it.
• The anime did not include the scene where the Detective Boys ask Takagi the reason Date copying the code down in his notes instead of taking a picture with phone.
• The anime removes Detective Boys Badge usage by Sato when she asked Conan to get Alain from the car.

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• The anime add some scene of Detective Boys where they wondering about "radio show about roads" and meaning of "soleil".
• In the manga, Conan directly deduced about Yuji's location is within thirty minute driving radius. In the anime, Takagi and Sato are the one who deduce it.
• In the manga, Conan directly deduced that the car was from underground parking garage and Alain was told to lie down when the car was moving. In the anime, Conan and Mitsuhiko have to ask Alain first about what he sees when he got into the car and when the car left the parking garage.
• The anime add the process of Alain trying to remember the flag color, while in the manga he directly said it.
• In the manga, when Takagi is asking the taxi driver to take him to the restaurant, he immediately saw the restaurant's flag. In the anime, there is a delay between him asking the taxi driver and him seeing the restaurant's flag.
• The anime add original dialogues for Takagi when he provokes the kidnapper, saying that he doubt the kidnapper had seen the news and can't do anyththing without his boss, then asking him to hand over Yuji if he don't want to be beaten to death.

Trivia

• This episode marks the final episode where Tohru Furuya voices Amuro. Since 2025, Amuro has been voiced by Takeshi Kusao.
• Haibara wears a Fusae Brand hat in the case.
• The names of the people involved come from "kidnappings" :
  • Natsufusa Kidō (鬼童 捺房) comes from "kidnapping" (キッドナップ ,Kiddonappu) ;
  • Yūji Inukai (犬飼 佑二) comes from "kidnapping" (誘拐 ,yūkai) and "friends" (友人 ,yūjin) ;
  • The Cassels come from "to snatch away" (掻っ攫う/搔っ攫う ,Kassarau).

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	موعد بين تاكاجي وداتيه	A Date Between Takagi and Date
Catalan (Catalan dub)	En Takagi, en Date i la llibreta de la promesa	Takagi, Date and the Promise Notebook
French (Subbed)	Le rendez-vous entre Takagi et Date écrit dans un carnet	Takagi and Date's meeting written in the notebook
Thai	ทาคางิกับดาเตะ คำสัญญาในสมุดบันทึก	Takagi and Date : The Promise inside the Notebook

See also

• Season 29
• Wild Police Story
• The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love