Roller Coaster Murder Case

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Episode 1
(Int. Episode 1)

Information

Title:

Roller Coaster Murder Case

Japanese title:

ジェットコースター殺人事件
(Jetto Kōsutā Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

January 8, 1996
April 4, 2009 (Remastered version)

Broadcast rating:

8.5%

Remastered rating:

6.9%

Manga case:

#1

Season:

1

Manga source:

Volume 1: File 1 (001)

English version

English title:

The Big Shrink
The Roller Coaster Murder Case!

English airdate:

May 24, 2004 (Adult Swim)
July 3, 2025

FUNimation Voice cast:

Jerry Jewell as Jimmy Kudo
Colleen Clinkenbeard as Rachel Moore
Monica Rial as Amy Yeager, Tropical Island employee
Dameon Clarke as George Kaminski, Mack the arms dealer, Security guard A, Tropical Island employee
Cynthia Cranz as Mitch Tennison, Fan girl A
R. Bruce Elliott as Richard Moore
Mark Stoddard as Joseph Meguire
Bill Flynn as Hershel Agasa
Alison Viktorin as Conan Edogawa
Meredith McCoy as Haley, surprised maid
Gwendolyn Lau as Ashley, Fan girl B
Susan Huber as Rikki
Brad Jackson as Kenneth
Kyle Hebert as Vodka, Tropical Island employee, varsity soccer player
Troy Baker as Gin
Grant James as Master of the House (uncredited)
Amber Cotton as Fan girl C
Eric Vale as Tropical Island employee, Tropical Island policeman
Kent Williams as Newscaster

Case

Cast:

Shinichi Kudo
Ran Mouri
Kogoro Mouri
Juzo Megure
Gin
Vodka
Detective Boys
Hiroshi Agasa

Cases solved by:

Shinichi Kudo (x2)

Next Conan's Hint:

N/A
Tropical Land (Remastered version)

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Hiroshi Kashiwabara

Storyboard:

Kenji Kodama

Episode director:

Kenji Kodama

Animation director:

Masatomo Sudo

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima (Uncredited: Police officer, Security guard B, Next Conan's Hint)
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Takeshi Watabe as Mansion owner
Yukitoshi Hori as Man in black A
Fumihiko Tachiki as Man in black B
Shinpachi Tsuji as CEO
Yumi Hikita as Hitomi
Mari Maruta as Aiko
Naomi Nagasawa as Reiko
Isshin Chiba as Kishida (Uncredited: Security guard A)

Music

Opening song:

"Mune ga Dokidoki"

Closing song:

"STEP BY STEP"

Roller Coaster Murder Case (ジェットコースター殺人事件 ,Jetto Kōsutā Satsujin Jiken), known as The Big Shrink in Funimation's English release and as The Roller Coaster Murder Case! in Studio Nano release, is the first episode of Detective Conan anime.

It adapts File 1: The Heisei Holmes of the original manga. It was first aired in January 8, 1996, while the remastered version was aired in April 4, 2009.

The anime begins in the middle of a case where a murder was committed during a party at a private mansion, introducing the high-school student detective Shinichi Kudo who came to solve it. In the next day, he comes with Ran Mouri to the Tropical Land where another murder would be committed in a roller-coaster.

Being the first episode, most of the main characters are introduced throughout the episode. The introduction of the characters Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta are anime-original, as their first manga appearance would be in File 17-19: Haunted Mansion Case.

Cast

Introduced

Shinichi Kudo
	16-17 years old High school student Detective

Ran Mouri
	16 years old High school student Karate champion

Kogoro Mouri
	38 years old Ran's father Detective

Juzo Megure
	Inspector from Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

Gin
	Black Organization member

Vodka
	Black Organization member

Ayumi Yoshida
	7 years old Mitsuhiko and Genta's classmate

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
	7 years old Ayumi and Genta's classmate

Genta Kojima
	7 years old Ayumi and Mitsuhiko's classmate

Hiroshi Agasa
	52 years old Engineer/Inventor Shinichi's old family friend

Currently Unnamed Child
	6-7 years old Shrunken Shinichi Kudo Detective

"The Criminal"
	Unseen suspect/culprit

Plot

Case 1: Crime at the Private Mansion

Situation

The episode starts in a mansion where a party has been interrupted by a murder: one of the guests, President Yamazaki of Yatsubishi Bank, was found dead with a bullet in his heart. The police, led by Inspector Megure, have been investigating the crime scene, but have no conclusive evidence as to who the killer is. However, Shinichi makes his grand entrance and claims that he has figured out the case.

Murder

Location: Private Mansion

Victim: Tetsu Yamazaki

Cause of death: Gunshot wound

Suspects: Owner/host, and guests

President Yamazaki of Yatsubishi Bank is found dead in a locked room with a bullet through his chest.

People

Landlord
	Mansion owner In a wheelchair due to injured leg

Tetsu Yamazaki
	Victim (gunshot) 38 years old Landlord's best friend Yatsubishi Bank president

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

Evidence

• Shinichi states that the room Yamazaki was killed in was locked from the inside. The only possible entrance into the room was the window.
• The mansion owner claims that there is at least a 10 meter gap between the two windows that Shinichi states the killer used. Shinichi points out, however, that if the killer used the roof to get closer to the other window, this gap is shortened to a mere 2 meters. Therefore, it could easily be jumped across.
• Shinichi notes that there is an indentation on the balcony where the killer attached a rope with a piece of wood at the end, allowing the killer a way to get back across to the 3rd floor window, as it is impossible for the killer to have successfully landed on the 10 centimeter roof ledge coming back. By using a piece of wood rather than simply tying the rope to the balcony, the killer was able to remove evidence of his method of escape while on the other side of the building.
• The lack of footprints below the window implies that it was an inside job.
• Shinichi claims to have spoken with the killer's doctor.

Conclusion

Shinichi concludes that the murderer could only have been someone who knew the mansion very well and eventually points his finger at the landlord. The latter, being in a wheelchair, then starts to laugh, claiming that he's in no position to be able to commit such a crime. Shinichi then grabs a globe and throws it towards the owner who immediately jumps out of his chair to avoid it. The maid and guests are all in shock. Shinichi then says that he's been healed for a while now as reported by his doctor, which Megure confirms. Seeing that he's been exposed he tries to escape, but Shinichi knocks him out by kicking the globe as a makeshift soccer ball.

Motive

Although the episode does not clearly state the mansion owner's motive, it likely had something to do with the "under-the-table" financial dealings that the owner had with Yamazaki.

Case 2: Roller Coaster Murder Case

Situation

Ran Mouri meets up with her friend Shinichi Kudo on their way to Teitan High School. After Shinichi explains to Ran why he quit the soccer team and tells her that he wants to become a detective like the fictional Sherlock Holmes, Ran reminds Shinichi of a promise he made with her: if Ran won the regional karate championship, Shinichi would go with her to the amusement park, Tropical Land. Shinichi had forgotten, however, and Ran tries to kick him as punishment.

After school, Shinichi fulfill his promise by going with Ran to Tropical Land. As they're in line for the Mystery Coaster, Shinichi demonstrates his deductive reasoning to Ran when he correctly deduces that a girl standing in line in front of them is a gymnast, since the wind accidentally raised her flowing skirt and, alongside her frilly panties, he could see some marks on her upper thighs that are typical of gym practitioners. Shinichi and Ran's date is cut short when a murder occurs while they're riding the roller coaster. Who is responsible for killing Kishida, and how did they do it?

Murder

Location: Tropical Land

Victim: Kishida

Cause of death: Decapitation

Suspects: Aiko, Hitomi, Reiko, and Men in black

Kishida was beheaded while riding the Mystery Coaster as the coaster came out of a darkened tunnel.

People

Kishida
	Victim (decapitated) Aiko's boyfriend Third car right seat

Aiko
	Kishida's girlfriend Third car left seat

Hitomi
	Gymnast Reiko's friend First car right seat

Reiko
	Hitomi's friend First car left seat

Man in black
	Mysterious man Fourth car left seat

Man in black
	Mysterious man Fourth car right seat

Police officer
	Tokyo MPD Police officer Assisting Megure

Weapon Smuggler
	Doing business with the men in black CEO

Security guard A
	Tropical Land security Found Conan

Security guard B
	Tropical Land security Found Conan

Currently unnamed child
	6-7 years old Shinichi Kudo Detective

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

Evidence

• Shinichi examines the tunnel area of the Mystery Coaster and finds a wire with some pearls still strung onto it and a hook at the end of the wire.
• The killer left a false piece of evidence, a bloodied knife, inside Aiko's purse with the intention of framing her. Shinichi explains that this is a fake piece of evidence, because it is impossible for a woman to have enough leverage and force to behead someone while on the ride.

Conclusion

Shinichi states the killer used an object like a purse or a backpack to escape the ride restraints and wrap a wire around the victim's head while in the darkness of the Mystery Coaster's tunnel. After tying the wire around the victim's head the killer tossed a hook attached to the other end onto the roller coaster's track, beheading the victim using the coaster's speed and movement. Shinichi concludes the murderer is Hitomi, as her expertise as a gymnast makes this feat possible. He proves her guilt through two crucial pieces of evidence:

1. Hitomi's necklace (the murder weapon) is missing after the end of the ride
2. Hitomi has a tear-trail on her face that runs horizontally which is impossible unless she was crying during the course of the ride.

Motive

Hitomi's motive for murdering Kishida is because she used to go out with him long before she met Aiko and Reiko in college, until he dumped her. Hitomi planned to murder Kishida at the place they had their first date (Tropical Land) using the very necklace he had bought for her. Had Shinichi not proven the truth behind the murder, Hitomi would have committed suicide via poisoning herself after the visit to Tropical Land.

Episode Resolution: Chasing the Men in Black

  Show spoilers »

Shinichi, suspicious of the two men dressed in all black that rode the coaster, decides to follow them on their way to the outskirts of Tropical Land. He tells Ran to head home without him, and when she tries to follow her shoelace breaks, leaving her to watch him go with the strange feeling she'll never see him again. Shinichi gets caught up watching one of the men conduct a blackmail transaction with a company executive and doesn't notice the other man dressed in black sneaking up from behind until the man knocks Shinichi out with pipe. To avoid the attention of the police, they give Shinichi an un-tested poison in order to kill him without a trace, and leave him to die. However, rather than killing Shinichi, the poison shrinks him down to the size of a six year old.

Attempted Murder

Location: Tropical Land

Victim: Shinichi Kudo

Culprit: Gin

Shinichi gets caught up watching one of the men conduct a blackmail transaction with a company executive and doesn't notice the other man dressed in black sneaking up from behind until the man knocks Shinichi out with pipe. To avoid the attention of the police, they give Shinichi an un-tested poison in order to kill him without a trace, and leave him to die.

TV Special

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Detective Conan anime, a two-hour special complete remake of the first episode would be aired at December 9, 2016. It retold the events of the first episode with new animation and added in numerous backstory scenes for characters that would appear much later in the anime including Sherry, the FBI and Black Organization, Ran's schoolmates at Teitan high, the Suzuki family, and many others. It also included remakes of the important scenes for later episodes.

The TV Special would be also released in USA by Discotek Media with the Bang Zoom! Entertainment's English dub and it would be screened at CharaExpo USA in December 7th, 2019, later released in Blu-ray at July 28, 2020. This would be the first English dubbed media of Detective Conan in USA since The Phantom of Baker Street.

Manga to anime changes

• The first episode of the anime includes Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko (the future Detective Boys) trying to sneak into the Tropical Land rides without paying. They actually don't appear until many chapters later in the manga.
• Hiroshi Agasa and Kogoro Mouri also appear in this episode, whereas in the manga they make their debut in the Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case.
• The mansion owner kills his wife in the manga. In the anime the owner kills his friend and business partner, Yamazaki.
• In the manga, Shinichi is asked for the football by a group of small children. In the anime, the ball is from his school's soccer team; Shinichi also scores a goal with the ball, instead of merely kicking it back.
• In the manga, when Ran is trying to kick Shinichi, he leaps out of the way instead of getting his face under her skirt and then being hit for that.
• In the manga, Reiko points out that Gin and Vodka could have committed the murder as they were behind the victim. Shinichi acknowledges that they look suspicious, but if they pulled off the murder, they would have anticipated the arrival of the police (which they don't, as they are in a hurry to pull off their transaction).
• In the manga, Shinichi uses a camera when spying on Vodka. In the anime, he simply eavesdrops on the deal going on.
• When Shinichi is found out by the Security Guards, a loadful of them discover him in the manga while in the anime, only two of them show up.

Translation changes

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

• Shinichi Kudo - Jimmy Kudo
• Ran Mouri - Rachel Moore
• Kogoro Mouri - Richard Moore
• Juzo Megure - Inspector Joseph Meguire
• Professor Hiroshi Agasa - Dr. Hershel Agasa
• Ayumi Yoshida - Amy Yeager
• Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya - Mitch Tennison
• Genta Kojima - George Kaminski
• Hitomi - Haley
• Aiko - Ashley
• Kishida - Kenneth
• Reiko - Rikki

• In the Funimation Dub, Agasa reactivates his rocket pack on purpose, whereas in the Japanese Version he does so unknowingly.
• In the Funimation Dub, Kogoro takes offense to Ran's compliment of Shinichi, whereas the Japanese Version has him stating that he needs to make a living.
• In the Funimation Dub, Ran sarcastically states that Shinichi looked at Hitomi's legs for the purpose of making a deduction, whereas in the Japanese Version she critiques him for knowing that Hitomi is a gymnast before shaking her hand.
• In the Funimation Dub, Gin's reason for using the APTX 4869 was fear of leaving a bullet trail behind, whereas in the Japanese Version it was due to the cops still being around after the murder on the roller coaster.

Trivia

• In Shinichi's deduction about the roller coaster murder case, he said that he felt a drop of liquid, the culprit's tear, hit his forehead as she leaned over him to place the loop around the victim's neck. However, Shinichi neglected to mention any change in the feeling or sound of the wind rushing past his face as the culprit leaned over him.
• A remastered version of the case was aired in April 4, 2009. A few modifications were made in this new version: the victim's head doesn't land next to the Detective Boys and the scene where the viewer could see blood on the roller-coaster was cut.

Quotes

Joke Card

Challenge me in the next episode, ok? (次回は僕に挑戦してね！ ,Jikai wa boku ni chōsen shitene！)

—Conan

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
00:00	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
02:12	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
03:06	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
04:06	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma	Detective Conan Main Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
04:50	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ (タイトルver.)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Taitoru ver.)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Title ver.)	Unreleased
05:20	阿笠博士のテーマ	Agasa Hakase no Tēma	Professor Agasa's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
07:15	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
09:07	事件解決 （意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10:14	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13:08	脅迫 （パート２）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)	Threat (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14:03	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
14:31	事件現場 （ショートver.）	Jiken Genba (Shōto ver.)	Scene of the Case (Short ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
15:56	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
17:32	コナンのテーマ （バラード・ヴァージョン)	Konan no Tēma (Barādo・Vājon)	Conan's Theme (Ballad Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
21:14	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
21:53	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	أشهر متحرٍّ في هذا العصر	The Most Famous Detective in This Era
Bahasa Indonesia	Kasus Pembunuhan di Roller Coaster	Roller Coaster Murder Case
Bahasa Melayu	Kes Pembunuhan Roller Coaster	Roller Coaster Murder Case
Basque	Mende honetako detektiberik ospetsuena	The Most Famous Detective of This Century
Brazillian Portuguese	O Caso do Assassinato na Montanha-Russa	The Murder Case in Roller Coaser
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El detectiu més famós d'aquest segle	The Most Famous Detective of This Century
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El detectiu més famós del segle	The Most Famous Detective of the Century
Chinese (Simplified)	云霄飞车杀人事件	Roller Coaster Murder Case
Filipino	Ang Pinaka-tanyag na Detective sa Panahong ito	The Most Famous Detective in This Century
French	Le Plus grand détective du siècle	The Most Famous Detective of This Century
Galician	O detective máis célebre deste século	The Most Famous Detective of This Century
German	Die tödliche Perlenkette	The Deadly Pearl Necklace
Hindi	इस सेंचुरी का मोस्ट फेमस डिटेक्टिव	The Most Famous Detective of This Century
Italian	Un piccolo grande detective	A Great Little Detective
Korean	제트 코스터 살인 사건	Jet Coaster Murder Case
Polish	Najsłynniejszy detektyw stulecia	The Most Famous Detective of the Century
Persian	پرونده قتل در شهربازی	Roller Coaster Murder Case
Portuguese	Assassinato na montanha russa	Murder in roller coaster
Spanish (American dub)	El detective más famoso del siglo	The most famous detective of the century
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Asesinato en la montaña rusa	Murder in the roller coaster
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมบนรถไฟเหาะ	The Murder Case on the Roller Coster
Vietnamese	Vụ án mạng trên tàu lượn siêu tốc	Roller Coaster Murder Case

See also

• Season 1