Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon

Episode 838 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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Information
Title:	Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon
Japanese title:	ふんわり気球で怪事件 (Funwari Kikyū De Kai Jiken?)
Original airdate:	November 5, 2016
Broadcast rating:	6.5%
Filler case:	#267
Season:	26
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Hat
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Toyoto Kogiso
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Hidenari Ugaki as Ayato Hasegawa Koichi Tochika as Officer Kaneko Akinori Egoshi as Officer Nao Tamura as Announcement Kenji Nomura as Akihiro Okuda Ayumi Tsunematsu as Arisa Mizuguchi Shinji Kawada as Shingo Mizuguchi
Music
Opening song:	Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru
Closing song:	SAWAGE☆LIFE
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Unfriendly Girls Band
Next episode:	You Can Hear The Tengu's Voice »
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Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon (ふんわり気球で怪事件 ,Funwari Kikyu De Kai Jiken) is the 838th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Like every year, Sonoko goes to the "Suzuki Balloon Festival", the largest national hot-air balloon race sponsored by her family at the Ibaraki Prefecture, this time with Ran and Conan. The three go on Ayato Hasegawa's balloon, the receptionist who must record the video of the competition.

During the race, with a premium of ten million yen for the winner, Akihiro Okuda's balloon clashes with Shingo Mizuguchi's, the reigning champion, and as he cuts on his face, his wife Arisa Mizuguchi falls from the wicker basket and dies on the river bank.

Accident and Attempt
	Location: Suzuki's Balloon Festival at the Ibaraki Prefecture Victim: Arisa Mizuguchi and Shingo Mizuguchi (Alive) Age: 33 years old (Arisa) & 37 years old (Shingo) Cause of death: Blunt force trauma after falling Suspect: Akihiro Okuda

The police are immediately called. Conan finds out that it was not an accident, so he fells Sonoko asleep and resolved the case.

People

Ayato Hasegawa
	45 Years old Receptionist

Shingo Mizuguchi
	Victim (fell - injured) 37 Years old Husband Player

Arisa Mizuguchi
	Victim (fell) 33 Years old Building guard Wife

Akihiro Okuda
	35 Years old Player

Officer Kaneko
	35 Years old Ibaraki prefectural police officer

Policeman
100px	Ibaraki prefectural police officer

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The accident is actually a murder. The culprit is Shingo Mizuguchi. First, Shingo knocked Arisa unconscious with the fire extinguisher inside the basket of the hot air balloon. Then, to pin the blame on Okuda, he pulled out a weave from his hot air balloon basket on the night before the contest and picked a fight with him. The proof that Shingo did it was the melted plastic on the hot air balloon in the shape of doll hands. The motive was that the stocks he bought with money he borrowed from his clients crashed and if he didn't return it soon, they were going to audit him next month. He murdered her for her life insurance money.

Trivia

• The sea sweatshirt worn by Sonoko is the same from The Missing Sweets in the Old Shop, Private Eye in the Distant Sea, the beginning of A Dispute Over a Platinun Ticket, and Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery (Part 1).
• All balloons are called "Bell Tree", like the airship in movie 14, The Lost Ship in the Sky, and Shingo Mizuguchi has the number 1. In addition, during the race, the background music is the same for the airship's journey.
• Sonoko's car is the same from the beginning of Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery (Part 1), a 2010 Pink Bentley Mulsanne. The license plate number is 新宿 300, す 4 04 (Shinjuku 300, Su 4 04), but it wasn't revealed in the preview special episode.

See also

• Season 26