Art Museum Owner Murder Case

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Information

Title:

Art Museum Owner Murder Case

Japanese title:

Bijutsukan Ōnā Satsujin Jiken
(美術館オーナー殺人事件)

Original airdate:

February 26, 1996

Season:

1

Manga source:

Volume 4 File 1~3

English version

English title:

The Art Museum Murder Case

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Inspector Megure

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

Disposable Camera

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Kazunari Kouchi

Storyboard:

Ryou Yasumura

Episode director:

Keitaro Motonaga

Animation director:

Satoshi Ishino

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Inspector Megure
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Tamio Oki as Ochiai
Yuji Fujishiro as Kubota
Kazuya Ichijo as Iijima
Hajime Koseki as Manaka
Isshin Chiba as Guard A
Takumi Yamazaki as Guard B

Music

Opening song:

"Mune ga Doki Doki"

Closing song:

"Step by Step"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Inspector Megure

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Beika Art Museum

Victim: Manaka

Cause of death: Slashed

Suspects: Art Museum staff especially Kubota

Manaka, the new owner of the Beika Art Museum, is found dead in one of the exhibit rooms. The murder scene is a tableau of Divine Punishment, a painting depicting a righteous knight who battled the devil and imprisoned it.

People

Ochiai
	Art Museum director

Kubota
	Primary suspect Art Museum staff

Iijima
	Art Museum staff

Manaka
	Victim (slashed) Art Museum owner

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • The security camera recorded Manaka as he seemingly waited for someone. Suddenly, with such agility and precision, the relic knight behind him struck with its sword. While it prepared to strike again, the owner barely managed to grab a painting tag, write something down and throw the pen away. The knight slashed and a final thrust ended his life.
  • Inspectors Megure and Kogoro found a museum staff's name, Kubota, written in the crumpled paper in Manaka's hand.
  • Bad as it was, Conan also found the pen on the floor;
  • And the bloodied suit of armor was discovered in Kubota's locker.
  • But then again, Conan noticed that the pen had its point retracted, the crumpled paper had inkless pen marks on it, and the artwork tags were in the room but the pieces weren't. Certainly, Kubota, who didn't seem to have a penchant for the arts, wouldn't have thought to protect those from being damaged.

• Conclusion

Manaka was scheduled to have a meeting with Ochiai, the art museum director. Little did the owner know that the director already staged his death. Ochia dressed himself with the suit of armor, strategically placed the tag with Kubota's name written on it and the pen with which Manaka apparently used to write the note, then murdered Manaka medieval style.

But the little eye of justice had tricks of his own. Conan pulled an "innocent" act of wanting the directions to the toilet be written by Ochiai. And before the director knew it, he drew the inkless pen from his pocket.

• Motive

In the hopes of getting the art museum to stay opened, the previous owner who got bankrupt sold it to Manaka. Manaka, however, was consumed by his own greed and planned to convert the building into a casino.

Ochiai was not going to let it happen as he considered the artworks as his own. He killed Manaka to prevent the inevitable.

And as for Kubota, Ochiai thought it just right to punish the person who had been selling some art relics and pieces secretly.

See also

• Season 1