Cactus's Flower Murder Case

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Episode 37
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Information

Title:

Cactus's Flower Murder Case

Japanese title:

サボテンの花殺人事件
(Saboten no Hana Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

November 11, 1996
January 23, 2016 (Remastered version)

Broadcast rating:

18.5%

Remastered rating:

8%

Filler case number:

#13

Season:

2

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Ran Mouri
Detective Boys

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

Portrait
Plastic container (Remastered version)

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Kazunari Kouchi

Storyboard:

Kuchiru Kazehara

Episode director:

Susumu Ishizaki

Animation director:

Hirotoshi Takaya

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, Naomi
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint
Emi Shinohara as Noriko Okaya
Rintaro Nishi as Tsuyoshi Kitagawa
Jurota Kosugi as Saeki
Hirohiko Kakegawa as Detective

Music

Opening song:

"Feel Your Heart"

Closing song:

"Meikyū no Lovers"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Ayumi Yoshida

Genta Kojima

Case

Situation

When a pretty girl hires Detective Mouri to help her find an old flame, it seems like a routine case. But when Conan finds out that the man she is looking for was responsible for the death of her fiancé, he realizes that romance is the farthest thing from her mind. What is she planning to do?

Accident (Past)

Location: Near Shinshūshin town

Victim: Tatsuo Yamaguchi

Cause of death: Car crash and explosion

Culprit: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa and Naomi

Noriko and Tatsuo were hounded by a red sports car (Toyota Celica Liftback) while driving on some cliffs. The driver, Tatsuo, lost control of his Green Subaru Legacy Outback. After wrecking, the gas tank exploded. A group of bystanders managed to help Noriko escape in time, but Tatsuo was burnt alive.

People

Noriko Okaya
	Client of the Mouri Detective Agency Commercial company former employee

Tatsuo Yamaguchi
	Deceased (car explosion) Commercial company employee Noriko Okaya's fiancé Loves cactus

Saeki
	Doctor in a hospital Noriko's friend Tatsuo's best friend

Tsuyoshi Kitagawa
	Missing man Driver of the red sports car

Naomi
	Tsuyoshi Kitagawa's fiancée

Policeman
	Nagano Prefectural Police detective

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

Conan is showing the cactuses to Noriko Okaya.

It's revealed that Noriko Okaya planned to kill Tsuyoshi Kitagawa and his fiancée, to punish them for causing the death of her lover Tastsuo. Dr. Saeki, the late Tatsuo's best friend and Noriko's treating doctor, explains her past to Conan and the Mouris.

Attempted Murder/Suicide

Location: Roof of a building

Victims: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa and his fiancée

Crime: Arson

Culprit: Noriko Okaya

Having found Kitagawa and his fiancé working on a sculpture in a rooftop, Noriko attacks them with pepper gas and then douses the two of them with gasoline. Kitagawa tells her to stop and warns her that she'll burn to death too, but Noriko doesn't care and says that she'll burn with them so she can be with Tatsuo again.

Conan, however, appearsa with Dr. Saeki and brings her beautiful cacti that belonged to Tatsuo, and now are kept safe by Dr. Saeki. They manage to convince Noriko to not kill the Kitagawas and herself.

Remastered version

A remastered version of this case was aired on January 23, 2016.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Noriko Okaya - Nora Odell
• Tatsuo Yamaguchi - Terry York
• Saeki - James Soto
• Tsuyoshi Kitagawa - Trent Cook

Trivia

• Noriko Okaya drives a silver Honda Civic EK9, Tatsuo Yamaguchi drove a green Subaru Legacy Outback, Saeki drives a white Toyota Crown, Tsuyoshi Kitagawa drives a red Toyota Celica Liftback.
• Insert song: "Yume o Tomenaide Ite" by VELVET GARDEN

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart
2	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	事件現場２	Jiken Genba 2	Scene of the Case 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
7	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
8	夢をとめないでいて	Yume o Tomenaide Ite	Don't Stop Dreaming	Feel Your Heart
9	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	事件の謎	Jiken no Nazo	Mystery of the Case	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	蘭のテーマ （涙ver.）	Ran no Tēma (Namida ver.)	Ran's Theme (Tearful ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	迷宮のラヴァーズ	Meikyū no Lovers	Lovers' Labyrinth	Meikyū no Lovers
13	はずむ蘭	Hazumu Ran	Bouncing Ran	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	قضية زهرة الصبار	Cactus Flower Case
Catalan	El cas de l'assassinat del cactus	The Case of the Cactus Murder
French	Meurtre au cactus	Murder With a Cactus
German	Der Kaktusblütenmord	The Cactus Blossom Murder
Italian	Mistero a tutta velocità	Mistery at Full Speed
Galician	O asasinato da flor do cacto
Spanish	El asesinato y la flor de cactus
Traditional Chinese	仙人掌花殺人事件	Cactus's Flower Murder Case
Vietnamese	Vụ án hoa xương rồng giáng sinh	The Christmas Cactus's Flower Case

See also

• Season 2