The Crimson Closing Day

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Episode 1214-1216
(Int. Episode 1274-1276)

Information

Title:

The Crimson Closing Day
1214 Opening Day
1215 The Penultimate Show
1216 The Final Show

Japanese title:

茜色の千秋楽
(Akaneiro no Senshūraku)
1214 初日 (Shonichi )
1215 前楽 (Maeraku )
1216 大楽 (Ōraku )

Original airdate:

September 26, 2026 (Opening Day)
October 3, 2026 (The Penultimate Show)
October 10, 2026 (The Final Show)

Manga case:

#326

Season:

31

Manga source:

Volume 106 - F6~F10 (1129 · 1130 · 1131 · 1132 ·1133)

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Heiji Hattori
Kazuha Toyama
Ran Mouri
Kogoro Mouri
Goro Otaki
Osamu Kenzaki
Hyouga Koumoto
Ginshiro Toyama
Heizo Hattori
Yuki Takeno
Kyousuke Kabumoto
Reisuke Inaba

Next Conan's Hint:

Stage (Opening Day)
Marionette (The Penultimate Show)
Observation deck (The Final Show)

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Nobuharu Kamanaka

Organizer:

Hiroaki Takagi

Storyboard:

Hiroaki Takagi

Episode director:

1214: Yoshitsugu Kimura
1215: Minoru Tozawa

Animation director:

1214:
• Kenichi Otomo
• FALCO Suzuki
• Marie Nagano
• Ken Araya
• Mariko Imamura
• Ai Nakatani
• Ayumi Iemura
• Fincrossed Studio
1215:
• Keiko Sasaki

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo
Chie Saito (sub-character)
Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Akemi Okamura as Ran Mouri
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori
Yuko Miyamura as Kazuha Toyama
Norio Wakamoto as Goro Otaki
Masaki Terasoma as Ginshiro Toyama
Hisao Egawa as Osamu Kenzaki
Gakuto Kajiwara as Hyouga Koumoto
Yoji Ueda as Toshikata Yoshiura
Satoshi Taki as Nobuya Nagakubo
Ayumi Tsunematsu as Ayari Kakiwaki
Yuiko Tatsumi as Miku Narasawa
Minako Kotobuki as Yoka Kuraishi
Shun Horie as Tenma Anzaka
Takahiro Yoshino as Police officer (Episode 1214)
Ayaka Onishi as Woman (Episode 1214)
Ai Maeda as Anzaka's mother
Ryosuke Asano as Police officer (Episode 1215)
Keina Yamada as Theater group member (Episode 1215)

Music

Opening song:

"Ai no FIRE"

Closing song:

"Ai de Zenbu Dakishimete Aishite"

The Crimson Closing Day (茜色の千秋楽 ,Akaneiro no Senshūraku) is the 1214th, 1215th and 1216th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Featured

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Heiji Hattori

Kazuha Toyama

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Goro Otaki

Osamu Kenzaki

Hyouga Koumoto

Ginshiro Toyama

Yuki Takeno (background)

Kyousuke Kabumoto (background)

Reisuke Inaba (background)

Heizo Hattori (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Detective Boys Badge

Case

Situation

Opening Day

Once upon a time in Kyoto, a detective play about Heiji and Kogoro was set to be produced, featuring big names in the acting industry such as Osamu Kenzaki, Hyouga Koumoto, and Ninka Gyouda. During the writing process though, an affair between Gyouda and Reisuke Inaba (who was married) caused irreversible damage to the production staff, to the point that the play should have been cancelled. It ended up getting more attention, and the replacement staff were paid a ridiculous amount of money to finish the script. The Mouri family, Heiji, and Kazuha (who is currently wearing a facemask due to sickness) are at Naniwa Art Theater, Osaka to see that heavily altered detective play.

Once the play is over, the group comes to the dressing room to visit Kenzaki and Koumoto. From there, we learn that Kenzaki is now engaged with fellow actress Yuki Takeno after she proposed to him on the observation deck of Naniwa Harukas on a glowing sunset evening. The scenery has since become a famous spot for love proposals. Heiji’s expressions show that he wants to confess his feelings to Kazuha, but he also gets nervous due to previous failed attempts. Kogoro finds it strange because Momiji, the model of Heiichi’s fiancée Kadeo Ootsuka, is not present in the theater. Koumoto and Kenzaki explain that she had to go for a Karuta match, even though she wanted to join in.

More actors from the play appear in the dressing room:

• Toshikata Yoshiura introduces to Kogoro that he is Kenzaki’s stand-in just in case he couldn’t appear in the play due to schedule.
• The two actresses going with Yoshiura are Youka Kuraishi and Miku Narasawa. Kuraishi takes the role of Heiichi’s fiancée Kaede Ootsuka, while Narasawa does so with Ootsuka’s rival Ochiba Toyama–who is obviously modeled after Kazuha.
• Narasawa asks Kazuha if her performance was good. Kazuha reluctantly says yes, but Ayari Kakiwaki comes in and says it just showed how frustrated Narasawa was when she wasn’t assigned with the role of Kaede. Kakiwaki was the one behind Rieko Mouri–who was modeled after Eri Kisaki.
• The last two are Nobuya Nagakubo and Tenma Anzaka. Nagakubo takes the role of Suruga Iori–modeled after Momiji’s butler Muga Iori, while Tenma is Koumoto’s stand-in just like Kenzaki’s case.

Tenma reveals that he just wants to get over with his final performance as the play was deemed to be cursed. He explains that after the script was finished by the replacement staff, the scriptwriter caught a fever while the director got caught in an accident. Tenma also reveals how Kabumoto behaved previously to the cast, thus earning him the nickname "the fiendish puppeteer".

Kogoro’s group then leaves the room. The men comment they have just witnessed the dark side of the acting industry while Ran asks Kazuha what surprise she has been keeping for her. Suddenly, they hear a strange sound outside the building, followed by sounds of people talking about someone who died from falling. Heiji and Conan have to go down to the location since their views are blocked by a curious crowd. Once they get inside the crowd, they find Narasawa hit her head too hard on the ground, posing herself like a puppet. In addition, a cellphone is seen falling down to her place, which displays a message stating they are the fiendish puppeteer.

Murder?/Suicide?

Location: Naniwa Art Theater, Kyoto Prefecture

Victim: Miku Narasawa

Age: 26 years old

Cause of death: Head injury from falling

Suspects: Toshikata Yoshiura, Youka Kuraishi, Ayari Kakiwaki, Nobuya Nagakubo, and Tenma Anzaka

Narasawa’s detective play colleagues also come to confirm if the person who fell down was her or not, with Tenma loudly asking if she actually jumped off from the building. Before his colleagues can ask why he said so, Heiji asks who this cell phone belongs to. Kuraishi finds it similar to Narasawa’s, and Tenma asks if it has something written, to which Conan shows the words on the screen. Kuraishi becomes shocked and faints, while Kakiwaki watches her with a smile.

The incident impacted the cast of the play, as redistribution of roles is required and rehearsals have to be carried out afterward. Therefore, they insisted on having the interrogation made inside the theater troupe building. Kogoro’s group also has to go with Inspector Otaki to verify the suspects’ statement since they were the only ones to meet the main cast after the play. The interrogation happens in the following order:

• Tenma becomes the first since Kogoro’s group saw Narasawa trying to go with him. He explains she did so because she had a crush on him and wanted to confess her feelings to him at Naniwa Harukas. Tenma was then in the restroom as a way to shake her off, and did not meet her until the scene. Otaki asks him who might have something against her, and he mentions Kuraishi since Narasawa repeatedly teased her Kyoto dialect. One notable thing is that Otaki and Tenma seem to have met previously.
• Kuraishi admits her Kyoto dialect speaking was helped by Kabumoto, whose curse she thought to be affecting her next when she saw the message. Notably, she denies Kogoro’s accusation in panic when he suggests there had to be something else between her and the victim. Otaki also asks whom she finds to have something against the victim, and she mentions Kakiwaki since both did not get along well despite being from the same agency.
• Kakiwaki objects what Kuraishi thinks of her since she and Narasawa were just rivals. She mentions it was herself who revealed to her about the weakness of her love rival, whom she does not reveal in full detail and says the police should do it instead. She suggests Nagakubo as a suspect because his attempts to hit on Narasawa were all rejected.
• Nagakubo denies the accusation and believes his attempts would eventually catch her attention, to which Ran and Kazuha view as creep. Otaki asks if he was the one calling the police. He explains the reason he did so was because he felt Tenma had been in the scene prior but acted as if he just came with the others. However, Heiji points out Tenma’s alibi that he did not mention, suggesting he was unlikely to be the murderer. Yoshiura then catches strays because Nagakubo remembers how he seemed to be predicting things in a previous conversation.
• However, Yoshiura is nowhere to be seen in the interrogation room. A police officer in the room explains he has been in the toilet because he ate something that upsetted his stomach in the morning, so the only option is to interrogate him in the restroom. Nothing worth bothering here, let’s just return to the rehearsal room!

Among the people in the rehearsal room, all suspects beside Kuraishi are not present. This is because Nagakubo went outside to buy cigarettes, Kakiwaki went out for a phone call, and Tenma took a nap 30 minutes ago (we just interrogate Yoshiura just now, let him alone in the toilet!). Coincidentally, now it’s the time for her to wake him up, so she goes to his room to do so, with Heiji and Conan tagging along. Not long after they reach the room and fail to wake him up, a scream can be heard outside the room, so they go to the balcony and find Kakiwaki dead in the parking lot.

Murder

Location: Theater troupe building

Victim: Ayari Kakiwaki

Age: 27 years old

Cause of death: Head injury from falling

Suspects: Toshikata Yoshiura, Youka Kuraishi, Nobuya Nagakubo, and Tenma Anzaka

The Penultimate Show

The two detectives rush to the parking lot along with Kogoro and Otaki. Kakiwaki’s death shares similarities to Narasawa’s since her pose resembles that of a puppet while a message is found in her phone, stating there are two more left. Another round of interrogation is carried out: The puppet poses of the victims remind all suspects of the semaphore symbols board that Kabumoto made Tenma and Kuraishi remember for a previous play, while the others didn’t have to remember. Aznaka, after having his alibi proven to be legitimate, volunteers to take the symbols board while Nagakubo continues his interrogation. After his alibi is also proven to be legitimate, he asks for permission to smoke in the balcony of this room. Yoshiura’s second interrogation is ignored since it is just his stomach acting up, while Kuraishi’s interrogation did not go out well because she fainted again upon seeing pictures of murder scenes. She was then taken to the rehearsal room by Ran and Kazuha. Once she woke up, the two went out to fetch some drinks for her, but she silently went out the other way while reassuring her colleagues that she would like to pick on her own.

Attempted Suicide

Location: Theater troupe building

Victim: Youka Kuraishi

Age: 25 years old

Modus operandi: Jumping off from a building

Desperate because of recent deaths, she decides to commit suicide so that no more of her colleagues is in danger.

It turns out that she intends to commit suicide without anyone acknowledging, desperate because of the recent deaths. Ran and Kazuha are able to reach her before she can jump off of the building, though the atmosphere is cut off completely when Nagakubo falls to his death. From the semaphore symbol board Tenma gets, everyone begins identifying the letters the victims resemble – Narasawa displays an E; Kakiwaki displays an V; and Nagakubo displays an I.

Murder

Location: Theater troupe building

Victim: Nobuya Nagakubo

Age: 30 years old

Cause of death: Head injury from falling

Suspects: Toshikata Yoshiura, Youka Kuraishi, and Tenma Anzaka

Galium is found on the railing.

Ginsiro Toyama arrives at the scene and scolds Otaki for letting two murders occur during his investigation. He demands to have two officers guard the remaining suspects, and warns Otaki that Heizo Hattori will beat him beyond recognition if he lets another murder occur. Notably, before warning Otaki, Ginsiro also mentions someone shouldn’t have been here at all, to which Tenma reacts harshly while Otaki says the former’s case was legitimate self-defense. Meanwhile, the message from Nagakubo’s phone displays non-straightforward meaning – from below; Conan and Heiji notice the aluminum railing on the ground has signs of liquid gallium, surprising Otaki as he remembers having someone clean the room pre-interrogation stage. Otaki then reveals about Tenma’s self-defense to the duo when asked: “It happened eight years ago when Tenma was put on trial for excessive self-defense, with the accusers being accomplices of the thugs who died from head trauma. In court, Toshikata Yoshiura came as the witness with the footage he recorded from the altercation. The footage showed that Tenma was trying to defend a girl from being forcibly taken by the deceased thug and his accomplice – a girl named Youka Kuraishi who just transferred to Osaka not long ago. Therefore, Tenma’s self-defense was not excessive at all. In the end, Yoshiura invited both of them to Tokyo to keep them away from the remaining thugs.”

Self-defense (past)

Location: Kyoto

Victim: Thug gang leader

Time: 8 years ago

Cause of death: A blow in front of his head

Culprit: Tenma Anzaka

Yoshiura was walking when he saw Anzaka fight a thug gang, so he recorded with his cellphone. The footage helped in proving Anzaka's innocence, as even though his action led to the death of the gang leader, it showed that he did so when trying to protect Kuraishi from being taken away by the gang.

Coincidentally, the police found a picture of an article about the past case on Narasawa's phone, so there is likely to be a connection between it and the current one. Kogoro tells Otaki to join the interrogation while Heiji and Conan don’t have to do so, still, Conan gives Otaki one of his detective badges so that he and Heiji can eavesdrop the whole interrogation. The interrogation does not show anything useful, so the duo go around the building. In the corridor where they can see certificates inside picture frames, they notice a strange gap. Two employees of the theater group explain it belongs to a certificate that has been missing since this morning, with the tablet it was saved on also missing. Just then, another employee comes to inform the others about Tenma’s mother, as she claims her son had an alibi at the time Narasawa died, so the two reach out to her at the back entrance. It is revealed that Narasawa fell at the same time she and Tenma took pictures together, however, she was told by her son not to share the pictures to anybody after he checked on the body. She also mentions Tenma is having a terminal illness, which only Yoshiura was the other to learn about. Suddenly, Conan and Heiji are able to figure out the truth.

People

Toshikata Yoshiura
	31 years old Role of Daigoro Mouri (based off Kogoro Mouri)

Youka Kuraishi
	25 years old Role of Kaede Ootsuka (based off Momiji Ooka)

Miku Narasawa
	Victim (fell) 26 years old Role of Ochiba Toyama (based off Kazuha Toyama)

Ayari Kakiwaki
	Victim (fell) 27 years old Role of Rieko Mouri (based off Eri Kisaki)

Nobuya Nagakubo
	Victim (fell) 30 years old Role of Suruga Iori (based off Muga Iori)

Tenma Anzaka
	25 years old Role of Heiichi Hattori (based off Heiji Hattori)

Woman A
	Tenma's mother

Police Officer A

Police Officer B

Man A
	Deceased (Blunt force trauma) Thug gang leader

Woman B
	Theater troupe building employee

Woman C
	Theater troupe building employee

Man B
	Theater troupe building employee

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

Manga to Anime Changes

• The anime shows a perspective of one seeing Miku Narasawa falling down the building through one of its fixed glasses.

Trivia

• There is again an error (like episode 1210) in end credits where the sound credits were mistakenly copied from previous week reair of The Detective Boys and the Four Caterpillar Brothers instead of the current one.
• The suspects' names come from "theater":
  • Toshikata Yoshiura (吉浦 利堅) comes from "propman" / "behind the scenes" (裏方 ,urakata) ;
  • Yoka Kuraishi (倉石 洋歌) comes from "stage clothing" (衣装 ,ishō) ;
  • Miku Narasawa (楢沢 美久) comes from "theater basement" (奈落 ,naraku) ;
  • Ayari Kakiwaki (垣脇 綾梨) comes from "background props" (書き割り ,kakiwari) ;
  • Nobuya Nagakubo (長窪 信哉) comes from "dressing room" (楽屋 ,gakuya) ;
  • Temma Anzaka (庵坂 典馬) comes from "dimming" (暗転 ,anten) and "blackout" (暗幕 ,anmaku).
• The Naniwa Arts Theater (浪速芸術劇場) is the real-life Umeda Arts Theater (梅田芸術劇場).
• Naniwa Harukas (浪速ハルカス) is the real-life Abeno Harukas (あべのハルカス).
• The theater troupe the suspects are part of, "Okera-za" (劇団桶羅座), is a wordplay on "L'Opéra" (オペラ座 ,opera-za), nickname of the Paris Opera.
• Hiroaki Takagi, the storyboard artist of this case, admitted that Yoshitsugu Kimura and Ayumi Iemura were his university classmates. The observation is that credits for the first part feature three peers side by side.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Une Dernière représentation rougeoyante	A Glowing red last performance

See also

• Season 31
• Momiji Ooka's Sweet Trap