The Detective Boys Become Models

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Episode 912
(Int. Episode 967)

Information

Title:

The Detective Boys Become Models

Japanese title:

モデルになった探偵団
 (Moderu ni natta tantei-dan)

Original airdate:

September 8, 2018

Broadcast rating:

7.5%

Filler case number:

#299

Season:

23

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Detective Boys
Miwako Sato
Wataru Takagi
Kazunobu Chiba
Juzo Megure
Ran Mouri
Kogoro Mouri

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa
Wataru Takagi

Next Conan's Hint:

Canvas

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Screenplay:

Toyoto Kogiso

Storyboard:

Masaki Ozora

Episode director:

Takanori Yano

Animation director:

Seiji Muta (supervisor)
Akio Kawamura

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo
Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character)
Kanako Ono (design works)

Production cooperation:

BIG BANG

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba
Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Yoshiko Okamoto as Kinuko Kitasono
Jin Domon as Kengo Higashio
Yuko Inoue as Shizu Minamida
Minoru Shiraishi as Daiki Nishiyama
Katsuyoshi Toya as Retiree
Jun'ichi Sugawara as Train station employee

Music

Opening song:

"Countdown"

Closing song:

"Sadame"

The Detective Boys Become Models (モデルになった探偵団 ,Moderu ni natta tantei-dan) is the 912th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Miwako Sato

Kazunobu Chiba

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Seiho's Art Studio

Victim: Seiho Kitasono

Age: 72 years old

Time: 3:10-3:40 PM

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma to the head

Suspects: Kengo Higashio, Kinuko Kitasono, Shizu Minamida, and Daiki Nishiyama

One of Kitasono's apprentice found him dead as he went to visit him in the afternoon.

People

Seiho Kitasono
	Victim (bludgeoned) 72 years old Famous painter

Kengo Higashio
	33 years old Seiho's apprentice

Kinuko Kitasono
	60 years old Seiho's wife

Shizu Minamida
	55 years old Housekeeper

Daiki Nishiyama
	26 years old Seiho's apprentice

Woman #1
	Mitsuboshi Department Store clerk

Woman #2
	Mitsuboshi Department Store clerk

Man #1
	Okuho Lake resident Retiree

Man #2
	Okuho Lake Train Station employee

Dog
	Old man's pet dog

Resolution

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As the last pieces of the puzzle got together, Conan and Takagi found the truth. Takagi first calls Megure telling him Daiki Nishiyama's alibi fell apart at the same time the suspect was in interrogation room. This was how the criminal fabricated his alibi. First, he made his painting a week earlier from the prior case but the painting wasn't enough to prove an alibi so he decided to come to the scene yesterday use the kids as models so the alibi would be solidified. He just added the kids on top of the one-week-old painting but there was something that shouldn't have been there: the tree that was cut down last week and the barricade tape that surrounded it, which can be visible on the painting. He then returned to the station and vandalized the crossing gate to delay the train.

Vandalism

Location: Okuho Lake Station

Time: 1:17 PM

Culprit: Daiki Nishiyama

He vandalized the crossing gate by blocking it with rocks.

He waited for the sign to change since it changes when the train is supposed to depart even if it hasn't and boarded the train making people suspect he took the train at 2:02 PM which would make sense that he couldn't have killed Seiho. Because he boarded the 1:17 PM train, he was able to take the express train from Aohata Station at 1:55 PM which would leave him just enough time to commit his crime. He then struck Seiho with the bust and killed him. Obliged to confess, he tells it wasn't his fault since he made people pay in exchange for selecting them as winners and Daiki couldn't afford it and always lost. Megure then tells Daiki even if he was passionate for painting and to make children happy, he betrayed the children that modeled for him. He deceived his audience and used them to commit a murder. Nishiyama then regrets his actions and starts to cry.

Aftermath

To award the Detective Boys, Takagi bought food for them but Ayumi and Mitsuhiko went jealous after Takagi didn't buy ice cream for them so he came back to buy some at the station. Unfortunately for him, he missed the train. Later, Conan laughs saying Japan has the world's most punctual trains at the same time Ayumi and Mitsuhiko asked where their ice creams had disappeared.

Trivia

• One of the police cars in the parking of the victim's studio is a Toyota HiAce Fifth generation 2014. It has the same license plate has two police cars in Mystery of the Burning Tent and The Job Request from Inspector Megure.
• The busts in Seiho's workshop are digitized pictures. One of the busts represents French playwright Molière.
• The surnames of the characters are based on the different cardinal positions on Earth: Kengo Higashio (東尾 where the 東 intends to mean East - Higashi), Kinuko and Seiho Kitasono (北園 where the 北 intends to mean North - Kita), Daiki Nishiyama (西山 where the 西 intends to mean West - Nishi) and Shizu Minamida (南田 where the 南 intends to mean South - Minami).
• A slight production mistake occur in the episode when, in the scene Takagi talks to Megure in the woods, we can notice that the background had been cut.
• The Cheetah Delivery company reappears in this episode.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Els de la lliga de detectius júnior fan de models	The detective boys work as models
French (Subbed)	Les Detective boys, modèles d'une toile	The detective boys, models of a canvas
Thai	ชมรมนักสืบเยาวชนเป็นแบบวาดรูป	The Detective Boys is a painting model
Vietnamese	Đội thám tử nhí trở thành người mẫu	The Detective Boys Become Models

See also

• Season 23