The Mysterious Boy

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Episode 829
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Information

Title:

The Mysterious Boy

Japanese title:

不思議な少年
(Fushigi na Shōnen^?)

Original airdate:

August 13, 2016

Broadcast rating:

5.2%

Filler case number:

#264

Season:

26

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Ai Haibara
Detective Boys
Juzo Megure
Miwako Sato
Wataru Takagi
Shinichi Kudo
Eisuke Aizawa
Nakamichi
Kamen Yaiba

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

Toy engine

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Screenplay:

Takahiro Ōkura

Storyboard:

Atsuko Kase

Episode director:

Tetsuaki Mita

Animation director:

Kenichi Ōtomo and Chiemi Hironaka

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa and Shinichi Kudo
Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara
Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi and Genta Kojima
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato
Yuko Mori as Boy A
Akiko Ashizawa as Boy B
Mari Hino as Girl A
Kinryū Arimoto as Tokujiro Nagai
Takuo Kawamura as Tsutomu Oshiro

Music

Opening song:

"Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru"

Closing song:

"SAWAGE☆LIFE"

The Mysterious Boy (不思議な少年 ,Fushigi na Shōnen) is the 829th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ai Haibara

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Ayumi Yoshida

Genta Kojima

Juzo Megure

Miwako Sato

Wataru Takagi

Shinichi Kudo (young)

Eisuke Aizawa (young)

Nakamichi (young)

Kamen Yaiba (puppet)

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Kometo Bridge

Victim: Tsutomu Oshiro

Age: 30 years old

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma after Falling

Culprit: Tokujiro Nagai

After making him drunk, Nagai lured Oshiro to the Kometo Bridge. While Oshiro's back was temporarily turned, Nagai hurled a flashing boomerang and then quickly drew Oshiro's attention to it. When Oshiro looked after the mysterious glowing object flying by, Nagai grabbed his legs and tipped him over the bridge railing to his death in the dried-out riverbed.

People

Tsutomu Oshiro
	Victim (fell) 30 years old Kuromaru Finance employee

Tokujiro Nagai
	72 years old Nagai Toys shopkeeper

Mrs. Nagai
	Deceased (illness) Tokujiro's late wife

Boy #1
	7 years old (ten years ago) Teitan Elementary student Shinichi's friend and classmate From the shrine out Nagai Toys

Girl #1
	7 years old (ten years ago) Teitan Elementary student Shinichi's friend and classmate

Girl #2
	7 years old (ten years ago) Teitan Elementary student Shinichi's friend and classmate

Resolution

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Tokujiro Nagai's motive for murdering Oshiro was the death of his wife. Mrs. Nagai was hospitalized due to a serious sickness, but Tokujiro's earnings were too modest to afford her treatments, so he was forced to borrow money from Kuromaru Finance. Oshiro, whenever he came by to check on the investment, callously bullied Nagai, which the old man endured for his wife's sake. But then Oshiro decided to demand repayment from Mrs. Nagai, heedless of her condition. When she heard that her husband had plunged himself into debt, Mrs. Nagai suffered a breakdown which contributed to her death soon afterwards.

Upon that revelation, Nagai remembers Conan - or rather, Shinichi - from an incident ten years ago, when one of a group of children visiting his toy shop had dropped a toy engine to the floor, breaking it. Shinichi found out which child had done it, but Nagai kindly refused to run after the offender for this accident, because he believe the child would come back by himself, which he did. The startlement from this realization convinces Nagai to turn himself over to the police, and Inspector Megure orders to Detective Sato a thorough investigation of Kuromaru's dubious business practices. When Megure asks Nagai why he has decided to surrender himself, Nagai replies that a "mysterious boy who has remained unchanged for ten years" has influenced him into doing so, believing him to be a sort of messenger from his late wife to remind him that he had once had faith in the boy who broke a toy to take responsibility and therefore he should take responsibility himself.

Trivia

The first girl when she was in middle-school.

• Takahiro Ōkura, a detective novelist famed for his Assistant Inspector Fukuie series (featured in Volume 85), wrote the script for the episode, then it was not like any other AO. It was his first Conan work, and was really nervous, but everybody was so kind. The second is the script for movie 21, Crimson Love Letter, which is different from the episode, being really showy and and flashy.
• This episode marks perhaps the only time that a single-case, anime-original character discovers Conan's identity.
• The first girl ten years ago is the one from middle-school who talks with Ran in RAIN MAN.
• The first boy has a similar character design to Kenta Connery from Magic Kaito.

Gallery

• Conan/Shinichi
  Conan/Shinichi

See also

• Season 26