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Nanako Eguchi
	38 years old; Toraharu City mayor;

Renji Matsuo
	Victim (explosion - injured); 45 years old; Nanako’s secretary;

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The J.League Starting Whistle (J(ジェー)リーグ開幕の警笛(ホイッスル) ,Jē Rīgu Kaimaku no Hoissuru^?) is the 1207th episode of the Detective Conan anime. It's one of the commemorative episodes for the 30th anniversary of the Detective Conan anime, as well as the fourth J.League collaboration episode.

Conan and the Detective Boys are watching the opening match of the J.League, which is filled with excitement. Former Japan national team players Hiroaki Morishima and Yūka Kageyama are also in the commentary booth, and the match is a heated affair with VAR decisions being made. However, Conan senses something ominous when he sees Kogoro and Megure guarding the Mayor Nanako Eguchi of Toraharu. It turns out that a bomb has been planted somewhere in the stadium, which is packed with spectators, and will explode at the end of the match. With time running out, Conan pursues the culprit and the bomb.^[1]

Cast

Characters

Ryusuke Higo (background)

Gadgets

Transmitter

Detective Boys Badge

Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

Renji Matsuo is working as secretary for Nanako Eguchi, mayor of Toraharu city. He has been waiting at one of Eguchi’s cars, waiting for her, when his phone suddenly rings. When he picks up the call, the other end of the line blares the referee’s whistle loudly, causing the pipe bomb installed under the car Matsuo has been standing to explode. The man is left gravely injured for the rest of the episode.

Bombing - Attempted murder

Location: In front of Toraharu City Hall

Victim: Renji Matsuo

Age: 45 years old

Weapon: Pipe bomb

Suspects: Unknown

Matsuo went off with a bang after the other end of his call blared the referee's whistle loudly. He barely survived from the explosion and was taken to the hospital.

Meanwhile, Agasa, Conan, Haibara, and the Detective Boys are at an undisclosed stadium to watch the football match between Big Osaka and Tokyo Spirits, the opening match of this year’s J-League. While the match is going on, Conan notices a man who wears a dark yellow shirt and a yellow cap looking elsewhere in the stadium. His behavior makes Conan suspect what he is plotting to. At the time, Haibara finds Kogoro sitting with Nanako in a room for special guests to spectate the match, so she points Conan to her direction. Coincidentally, Just as when Conan has a look at the old man, Takagi and Megure reach out to Kogoro and Nanako for something. Haibara searches the internet as she fears something is off, and discovers the bombing that happened earlier.

Meanwhile, Takagi and Megure have brought Kogoro and Nanako to an undisclosed room inside the stadium to inform them about the bombing that just happened. This prompts Nanako to show the police about the threat message that she received this morning, which she believes to be from someone who opposes her city land use plan. She also recalls about a man who sent her a cut-off ball, believing him to be from the people who want to buy the youth soccer team’s field for cheap and flip it.

Moments later, the first round of the match ends and Conan takes advantage of the break to investigate the situation, of which the Detective Boys are soon aware when Haibara explains to Agasa. They decide to carry out their own investigation, much to Haibara and Agasa’s dismay.

To sum up with the investigation, Conan finds a connection between the man he saw in the first round of the match, named Iwashimizu, and the people targeting Toraharu city mayor. He then gets in touch with VAR team members and their video operation room when the Detective Boys are investigating on their own, as they mistook them for suspicious people. He once again meets Takagi and Megure, who are trying to find Iwashimizu, and suggests doing so with the help of the video operation room.

People

Iwashimizu
	Bombing suspect

Kaoru
	FC Beika youth soccer team player

Take
File:Take.jpg	FC Beika youth soccer team player

Man
	FC Beika youth soccer team coach

Man A
	VAR member

Man B
	VAR member

Man C
	VAR member

Man D
	Soccer commentator

Real-life people

Hiroaki Morishima
	54 years old Former national team player Soccer commentator

Yūka Kageyama
	25 years old ^[2] Guest commentator

Resolution

Show spoilers »

Trivia

The guest voice actors featured in this episode are: Hiroaki Morishima, former member of Japanese national football team player and now president for Cerezo Osaka; and Yuka Kageyama, actress and former member of Hinatazaka46 idol group, who returned to voice herself after Behind the Scenes of the J League Finals.^[5]
In the same vein of other fictional place names in Detective Conan named after real places in London, Toraharu City (虎春市) is named after Trafalgar Square.

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Coup d'envoi de la J-League	The J-League kick-off
German (Subbed)	J-League – Anpfiff	J-League – Kickoff
Korean	J리그 개막의 휘슬	The J.League Starting Whistle

References

^ https://fan.books.rakuten.co.jp/articles/8981
^ Based on real-life character's age at the time the episode aired
^ A different type of whistle produces different frequencies. A type can also produce more than one frequency.
^ The specific type of whistle that produces these frequencies is https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
^ https://eiga.com/news/20260711/13/

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[1] ttps://fan.books.rakuten.co.jp/articles/8981

[2] Based on real-life character's age at the time the episode aired

[3] A different type of whistle produces different frequencies. A type can also produce more than one frequency.

[4] The specific type of whistle that produces these frequencies is https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3

[5] ttps://eiga.com/news/20260711/13/

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 === Resolution ===
 <spoiler>
-The match begins its second round, as Conan is still looking for the bombing case this morning. Conan also eavesdrops from Megure about how the explosion occurred: The bomb activates its timer at its designated time, and then, it explodes in response to a certain frequency. In this particular case, the frequency the bomb responds to is 4.15 kHz and 3.67 hHz sounds<ref> A different type of whistle produces different frequencies. A type can also produce more than one frequency.  </ref>, which is the sound of the [https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3 referee’s whistle] at the end of a round.
+Conan takes his time during the second round to look at pictures of the car that blew up earlier this morning. He is caught attention by the doll hanging on its inside rearview mirror, and finds it similar to one that Nanako pulled out from her purse when she was taking photos with FC Beika young soccer team. Meanwhile, Megure and Takagi return to where Kogoro and Nanako are at to inform them how the explosion occurred: The bomb activates its timer at its designated time, and then, it explodes in response to a certain frequency. In this particular case, the frequency the bomb responds to is 4.15 kHz and 3.67 hHz sounds<ref> A different type of whistle produces different frequencies. A type can also produce more than one frequency.  </ref>, which is the sound of the referee’s whistle<ref> The specific type of whistle that produces these frequencies is https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3 </ref> at the end of a round. All of which are heard by Conan via the microphone he put on Kogoro.
 At the room Takagi, Megure were in just now, Conan reveals that mayor '''Nanako Eguchi''' is the one responsible for Matsuo's injury, and that she planted a bomb under FC Beika youth soccer team’s vehicle. Conan is forced to either defuse the bomb or move it somewhere else when the coach of FC Beika youth soccer team comes to ask about Kaoru, who has gone back to the team’s vehicle to eat some sweets. As Conan successfully kicks the bomb to the air, Eguchi surrenders herself to the police. Her plan was to put all the blame on the man wearing yellow, and to flatter her image as one who survives two attempted bombing with both explosions.