Rondo in Bad Company

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Episode 1021
(Int. Episode 1078)

Information

Title:

Rondo in Bad Company

Japanese title:

悪友たちの輪舞(ロンド)
(Akuyū-tachi no Rondo)

Original airdate:

October 2, 2021

Broadcast rating:

6.3%

Filler case number:

#355

Season:

26

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi
Kazunobu Chiba

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

30 Million Yen

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Nobuharu Kamanaka

Screenplay:

Nobuo Ogizawa

Storyboard:

Masaki Ozora

Episode director:

Yoshihiro Sugai

Animation director:

Seiji Muta (supervisor)
Kosei Takahashi
Eiichi Tokura
Yusuke Shimizu

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo
Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character)
Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)

Production cooperation:

Mouse

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi
Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba
Kengo Kawanishi as Officer Higashino
Haruo Sato as Kokichi Minamide
Masanori Machida as Kensaku Kitahara
Shizuka Ishigami as Mamoru Nishikawa
Shinnosuke Musashi as Takeshi Mitsumoto
Yusuke Tonozaki as Yasuho Shida
Kosuke Okamoto as Yorimitsu Hosaka

Music

Opening song:

"YURA YURA"

Closing song:

"Veronica"

Rondo in Bad Company (悪友たちの輪舞(ロンド) ,Akuyū-tachi no Rondo) is the 1021st episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Three people who are troublemakers are found dead. After the police found 30 million yen in Yasuho Shida's apartment, Conan suspects that they are the culprit of the robbery three days ago.

Murder

Location: Park

Victim: Takeshi Mitsumoto

Age: 35 years old

Time: 7:00 pm

Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma

Suspects: Yorimitsu Hosaka

Murder

Location: Apartment

Victim: Yorimitsu Hosaka

Age: 35 years old

Cause of death: Stab wound in the chest

Suspects: Yasuho Shida

Murder

Location: Apartament

Victim: Yasuho Shida

Age: 35 years old

Cause of death: Poison inside a bottle

Suspects: Takeshi Mitsumoto

Robbery (Past)

Location: Haido City

Time: 3 days ago

Suspects: Takeshi Mitsumoto, Yorimitsu Hosaka, and Yasuho Shida

Three days ago, 30 million yen in cash was stolen from a financier in Haido City. He was robbed by three masked men.

Conan deduces that they become greedy and decide to kill each other.

Later, Chiba meet a child named Mamoru Nishikawa, who saw a suspicious man trying to enter Shida's apartment. Chiba later suspects the victim's middle school teacher, Kokichi Minamide. Chiba discovers that Minamide had tried to reform those three victim's behavior during middle school, but his efforts never paid off. Chiba deduced that Minamide decide to kill them after he heard that they stole 30 million yen.

In the end, Minamide is confirmed to have an alibi. They continue to search the suspicious man. Meanwhile, Conan ask Mamoru more about the suspicious man. He later found the suspicious man in another apartment building.

People

Officer Higashino
	30 years old Policeman

Takeshi Mitsumoto
	Victim (beaten) 35 years old Delinquent

Yorimitsu Hosaka
	Victim (stabbed) 35 years old Delinquent

Yasuho Shida
	Victim (poison) 35 years old Delinquent

Mamoru Nishikawa
	6 years old Elementary school boy

Kensaku Kitahara
	56 years old Suspicious man

Kokichi Minamide
	70 years old Retired Former middle-school teacher Nicknamed 'Nande' by students

Resolution

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It turns out that the suspicious man, Kensaku Kitahara, came to visit his newly wedded daughter's household. He meant to visit room 402 in building K, but mistakenly tried to get into room 402 in building A, which is Shida's. He only realized his mistake after he saw the door plate, but Mamoru saw him. He threathened Mamoru because he afraid Mamoru will tell his daughter and her husband about his mistake. He wore a mask because he had a bit of a cold, and used sunglasses to hide his eyebrow that was accidentally shaved off when he went to get a haircut.

Megure later received a phone call. The forensics found the pipe with Mistumoto's blood and hair with Hosaka's fingerprint on it. They also found the knife with Hosaka's blood with Shida's fingerprint on it. Conan, through Kogoro, is sure that they will also found the bag of poison used to murder Shida with Mitsumoto's fingerprint on it. Which means, Takeshi Mistumoto was killed by Yorimitsu Hosaka, Yorimitsu Hosaka was killed by Yasuho Shida, and Yasuho Shida was killed by Takeshi Mitsumoto.

Conan advises the police and detectives that they should not read too deeply into situations and head in the wrong direction, and they also should not assume people unrelated to a case as suspects.

Trivia

• This episode shares many similarities with the episode The Devil's Circuit.
• The three suspects' name have kanji that follow each other:
  • Takeshi Mitsumoto (光本 猛志) starts with "光" and ends with "志" ;
  • Yasuho Shida (志田 康保) starts with "志" and ends with "保" ;
  • Yorimitsu Hosaka (保坂 頼光) starts with "保" and ends with "光".
• The other characters that are not suspects are named after cardinal directions:
  • Officer Higashino (東野巡査) is named after "east" (東 ,higashi) ;
  • Kokichi Minamide (南出 公吉) is named after "south" (南 ,minami), while his nickname "nande" comes from the other reading of "south" in Japanese, "nan" ;
  • Kensaku Kitahara (北原 拳作) is named after "north" (北 ,kita) ;
  • Mamoru Nishikawa (西川 守) is named after "west" (西 ,nishi).
• The type of mystery that was utilized in this episode is called Anti-Mystery (アンチ・ミステリー), originated from Japan.

What is Anti-Mystery?(Click the spoiler box below to reveal)

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The rondo effect manifested in this episode.

• A rather unpopular type of detective/mystery school.
  • Simply about the detective who attempted to use his deductions to reach the truth, but came to the false conclusion.
  • Which the truth is often coincidence, accident and so on, the case did not exist at first.
  • These type of works satirizes the statement that "The only absolute truth of the case" and "A genius detective who can always solve a case" from classic mystery works.
• Some representative anti-mystery novels: Offering to the Void and Black Death Mansion Murder Case.
• Likewise as this episode, which the truth was revealed in the beginning of the case, but then investigation went astray.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Un rondó en mala companyia	A rondo in bad company
French (Subbed)	La Ronde des amis malfaisants	The harmful friend patrol
Thai	วงสังหารเพื่อนเลว	The killing circle of bad friends
Vietnamese	Khúc Rondo của những người bạn tồi tệ	The Rondo of Bad Friends

See also

• Season 26