Valentine Murder Case

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Episode 6
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Information

Title:

The Valentine Murder Case

Japanese title:

バレンタイン殺人事件
(Barentain Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

February 12, 1996

Season:

1

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Ran Mouri
Sonoko Suzuki
Kogoro Mouri
Inspector Megure
Professor Agasa
Detective Boys

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Bar code

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Toshiki Inoue

Episode director:

Yuji Yamaguchi

Animation director:

Takashi Hyoudo

Voice cast

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Inspector Megure
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Ryo Horikawa as Katsuhiko Minagawa
Tomoyuki Dan as Toshihide Wakamatsu
Nobuo Tobita as Naomichi
Sakiko Tamagawa as Yoshimi Watanabe
Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki
Kazue Ikura as Kaori Sekiya
Chiyoko Kawashima as Minagawa's mother
Chiaki Morita as Susumu Minagawa

Music

Opening song:

"Mune ga Dokidoki"

Closing song:

"STEP BY STEP"

Characters introduced

Sonoko Suzuki
	17 years old Ran's best friend

Gadgets introduced

Stun-Gun Wristwatch
	A watch with a tranquilizer dart

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Inspector Megure

Professor Agasa

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Ayumi Yoshida

Shinichi Kudo (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Minagawa household-Yard

Victim: Katsuhiko Minagawa

Cause of death: Poison

Suspects: Toshihide Wakamatsu, Kaori Sekiya, Yoshimi Watanabe, Naomichi, and Minagawa's mother

Katsuhiko collapsed dead onto the ground from poison outside his house after eating a piece of Yoshimi's chocolate.

People

Katsuhiko Minagawa
	Victim (poison) Captain of the Beika University tennis club

Toshihide Wakamatsu
	Member of the Beika University tennis club

Kaori Sekiya
	Member of the Beika University tennis club

Yoshimi Watanabe
	Member of the Beika University tennis club

Naomichi
	Member of the Beika University tennis club

Mrs. Minagawa
	Katsuhiko and Susumu's mother

Susumu Minagawa
	Katsuhiko's younger brother

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Katsuhiko’s heart literally stopped on Valentine's Day. Beside his dead body, a cigarette and a chocolate bar were found among his usual items.
  • Before the tragedy, he was in his small party where they ate and drank. On Valentine’s day (because of the tradition), each girl gives a guy a bar of chocolate, to which the guy would consume preferentially.
  • Conan noticed that even though her son died, Katsuhiko's mother is doing the dishes.
  • Susumu drank the coffee, which makes his mother mad, but she suddenly had a change of heart and gave him some cake despite Susumu's previous troubles with cavities.

• Conclusion

After putting Kogoro to sleep with the Stun-Gun Wristwatch, Conan, using the Voice-Changing Bowtie, revealed how Katsuhiko’s real killer was his mother.

Katsuhiko does not smoke with filters, that’s why Naomichi’s attempt to poison him through this, failed. Meanwhile, his mother knew his habits, and put poison in his coffee, knowing that he wouldn’t eat the antidote in the cake. The reason she had a change of heart when Susumu drank the coffee is because he drank the coffee with the poison, so she quickly gave him the antidote in the cake so he wouldn't die. She also framed Yoshimi by switching the chocolates she gave him with a half-eaten bar that Katsuhiko apparently ate. Though his mother immediately washed all the cups and switched the chocolates, it is pointed out that forensics could inspect the drainage to find the poison and the swapped chocolate is already visibly melting through the culprit's kimono .

• Motive

When her husband’s business took a turn for the worse, Katsuhiko's mother had to think of the quickest way to acquire Katsuhiko’s estate, and save the house.

Katsuhiko is an orphan who was adopted by his only living relative when he was a kid. His foster mother knew he fell in love with Yoshimi since she closely resembled his deceased mother, so she framed her.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the English dub are:

• Katsuhiko Minagawa - Keenan Morris
• Toshihide Wakamatsu - Tommy Walker
• Kaori Sekiya - Kari Simmons
• Yoshimi Watanabe - Katie Watson
• Naomichi - Norman
• Mrs. Minagawa - Mrs. Morris
• Susumu Minagawa - Sammy Morris

Gallery

Trivia

• This is the first anime case in which a murder victim is poisoned.
• This episode features the first use of the anime's second post-credits stinger image, featuring Conan in a "thinking" pose.

See also

• Season 1