Friendship Washed Away in the Riverbed

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Episode 908
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Information

Title:

Friendship Washed Away in the Riverbed

Japanese title:

川床に流れた友情
(Kawadoko ni nagareta yūjō)

Original airdate:

July 21, 2018

Broadcast rating:

6.9%

Filler case number:

#298

Season:

27

Manga source:

TV Original

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri 
Ran Mouri

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Water mill

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Screenplay:

Yasutoshi Murakawa

Storyboard:

Mitsuko Kase

Episode director:

Fumiaki Kamanaka

Animation director:

Kenichi Otomo

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi
Mariya Ise as Yuko Akiba
Ryoko Shiraishi as Juri Matsui
Chiwa Saito as Maria Suzumoto
Shino Shimoji as Clerk
Hayato Kimura as Itamae
Takaaki Uchino as Police Officer

Music

Opening song:

"Countdown"

Closing song:

"Kamikaze Express"

Friendship Washed Away in the Riverbed (川床に流れた友情 ,Kawadoko ni nagareta yūjō) is the 908th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Sonoko Suzuki (photograph)

Wataru Takagi

Juzo Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets

Wristwatch Flashlight

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Kogoro, Ran and Conan arrive in a park in Tokyo where Ran told them to go. Arrived at the place, they discover the park is nice and charming. They also discover a watermill onlooking the river behind the park's restaurant. Even if it isn't used presently, it used to irrigate the nearby rice field and is now used as a natural icehouse where they make ice for the guests. As they are explained details of the park by the clerk, a group of 3 graduates who recognize Kogoro Mouri as the great detective. they then take selfies at the riverside to immortalize the moment. They then planned to organize different activities but the fun is quickly interrupted by a tragic event.

Murder or Accident?

Location: Tokyo Park

Victim: Yuko Akiba

Age: 21 years old

Cause of death: Drowning

Suspects: Maria Suzumoto and Juri Matsui

From their table, they distinguished her body floating in the river stream and Kogoro swam to get her and the verdict was sure: she was dead.

Will the great detective impress the scholars and find the truth?

People

Maria Suzumoto
	21 years old Teito University English student

Juri Matsui
	21 years old Teito University Philosophy student

Yuko Akiba
	Victim (drowned) 21 years old Teito University Education student

Clerk
	Tokyo Park clerk Hostess

Itamae
	Japanese prized cook Tokyo Park employee

Police Officer
	Tokyo MPD Police Officer

Resolution

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After seeing the lake behind the watermill, Conan finds the truth. He comes back at the restaurant and is chased by Kogoro who asks him where he had been. He then knocks him off and starts the deduction. Previously, Kogoro had been elaborating that the victim died in an accident but Conan (a.k.a Sleeping Kogoro) tells that he was just doing an elaboration. First, he made the others remark that the selfie sticks location was awkward since it was in the riverbed but since she slipped while trying to take a picture, she should've fallen in the river with her phone. In conclusion, it was all placed to make it look like and accident by Yuko's killer. She lured her in the watermill by using a free texting service and then, the killer went there by her own to reach the victim. After meeting Yuko, the killer asked her about some tips to chat and convinced Yuko to go inside the storage room which's door's lock had been broken beforehand by the culprit. She then struck Yuko with natural ice from the storage and killed her. Proof of their presence is the presence of sawdust which was swept in order to hide footprints. The killer then used a cart to move the body and threw it into a lake. She left the selfie stick and the phone to make it look like it was an accident. He tells the killer was right among them but the suspects replied by saying they were with him the moment they saw the body in the water. He tells that it was a trick used by the culprit and had Takagi prepare the trick. The killer had opened a sluice not normally opened and the river swept the Azolla Japonica that was in the irrigation canal and that then flowed into the pool. The water then gathered in enough time for the killer to pretend being among the others. Kogoro then tells that pools are naturally formed when sections of the river curve and separate from the main river and then flow back along with the corpse. The planner was Maria Suzumoto. The thorns Yuko had on her corpse were gotten when the killer passed by wild roses which meant the killer also had them. She then hides them trying to say she's not the culprit. Another piece of evidence is that she didn't have any band-aids before coming but she is now wearing some. Takagi then informs the group that forensics have found blood on one of the icehouse's block of ice. Harassed, she asks Kogoro where's the proof. The gloves she used to kill Yuko were right in her bag. Exposed, she confesses and tells Yuko had been posting hainous comments on a picture sharing blog and that she was selfish. To punish her, Juri slaps her and tell her that she should count on her friends.

Aftermath

a few days after, Ran had found a new shaved ice shop near their home and asked Conan about going there checking one day. Kogoro then replies telling that they weren't penguins and there wasn't any point about eating ice. Ran replies and told him 'who cares' and Conan noted that penguins didn't eat ice.

Trivia

Episode 906

• Kakigōri is a japanese dessert made of shaved ice and flavored with syrup and a sweetener, often condensed milk.
• The watermill appeared in a painting in Hatobue Lodge from Eyewitness Testimony Seven Years Later.

Gallery

• 
  Title Card
• 
  Taking selfie.
• 
  Victim
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  Questioning the suspects.
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  Watermill
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  Sleeping Kogoro solving the case.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Vietnamese	Tình bạn trôi xuống lòng sông

See also

• Season 27