The Unsmashable Snowman

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Episode 466-467
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Information

Title:

The Unsmashable Snowman

Japanese title:

割れない雪だるま
(Warenai Yukidaruma)

Original airdate:

February 26, 2007 (Part 1)
March 5, 2007 (Part 2)

Broadcast rating:

9.9%
8.3%

Manga case:

#161

Season:

16

Manga source:

Volume 54: Files 3-5 (556-558)

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Ai Haibara
Detective Boys
Misao Yamamura
Professor Agasa
Jodie Starling
James Black
Vermouth
Eisuke Hondou

Case solved by:

Misao Yamamura (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Snowman's gloves (Part 1)
Flavor of snow (Part 2)

Staff

Director:

Masato Sato

Organizer:

466 Hiroshi Fukutomi
467 Kazumi Kobayashi, Masato Sato

Storyboard:

466 Hiroshi Fukutomi
467 Kazumi Kobayashi, Masato Sato

Episode director:

466 Minoru Tozawa
467 Fumiharu Kamanaka

Animation director:

466 Daisuke Niinuma
467 Tomoyuki Kanno

Music

Opening song:

"Kumo ni Notte"

Closing song:

"Shiroi Yuki"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ai Haibara

Genta Kojima

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Detective Yamamura

Professor Agasa

Jodie Starling (Background)

James Black (Background)

Vermouth (Background)

Eisuke Hondou (Background / Flashback)

Touji Funemoto
Touji Funemoto (Background)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Telescopic Lenses

Case

Situation

Part 1

The Detective Boys are at a small ski resort and meet up with four university students who are building a snowman for an art project. Later that evening, Sakuko Kokura, one of the university students, becomes lost in the blizzard and the two groups begin their search for her. Conan finds Kokura dead at the bottom of a cliff in a lake.

Accident?

Location: Lake

Victim: Sakuko Kokura

Cause of death: Drowning

Suspects: Tanji Kiyama, Asaka Onoe, and Kazuya Itabashi

The police declare that Kokura's death was a snowboarding accident. However, Conan notices that the body is missing a hat, goggles, and gloves and believes that she was murdered and that one of the university students is the culprit.

Part 2

Genta trips and falls into the snow and comments how it was hard and salty. Conan realizes how the murder was done and gathers the suspects along with Inspector Misao Yamamura.

People

Sakuko Kokura
	Victim (drowned) 22 years old University student

Tanji Kiyama
	22 years old University student

Asaka Onoe
	22 years old University student

Kazuya Itabashi
	22 years old University student

Resolution

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Conan tranquilizes Yamamura and impersonates him using his voice changing bow tie to reveal that the murderer is the university student Kazuya Itabashi. Conan reveals that during the snow storm, Kazuya used salt to harden the snowman he was working on. He then called Sakuko to his room where he drowned her in his sink which contained the water from the lake. Afterwords, he attached Sakuko's snow shoes on and placed her in the body of the hardened snowman and rolled her into the lake. He then used the Detective Boy's snowman to rebuild a new body for the snowman. As evidence, Conan reveals that the Detective Boy's snowman had their detective badges, which are now found in Kazuya's snowman. He also declares that the forensic team should find traces of lake water or Sakuko's DNA in Kazuya's sink. Kazuya confesses to the crime revealing that Sakuko purposely disabled Asaka Onoe, one of the other university students, out of envy; this sparked Kazuya's murder in the name of vengeance.

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See also

• Season 16