Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case

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Episode 9 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case
Original airdate:	March 4, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 6: File 9~Volume 7: File 1
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Sango Yokomizo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan) Sango Yokomizo
Next Conan's Hint:	Video game
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	Masato Sato
Animation director:	Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Akio Otsuka as Inspector Yokomizo Takeshi Aono as Norikazu Sasai Yu Shimaka as Satoru Imatake Kiyonobu Suzuki as Yamada Wataru Takagi as Middle Aged Man, Next Conan's Hint Isshin Chiba as Male Announcer Konami Yoshida as Female Announcer
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Doki Doki
Closing song:	Step by Step

Characters introduced

Sango Yokomizo
	Inspector from the Shizuoka district

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Case

Resolution

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• Evidence

The award-winning author Imatake Satoru was killed in his hotel room on the night of the Tenkaichi Festival. The murderer: his long-time friend and colleague, Sasai Norikazu. He shot the unsuspecting victim point-blank and left the scene immediately after.

Imatake was found dead with traces of toothpaste on his mouth and a toothbrush lying on the ground near him. His wallet was empty and the room was ransacked.

Sasai was the primary suspect but he had an alibi. In his disposable camera were pictures of him at the festival; and the festival events coincided with the time the killing took place.

• Conclusion

Conan, aiding Inspector Sango Yokomizo through Inspector Kogoro Mouri, proved that it wasn't just a simple case of robbery and that Sasai was indeed the killer.

Imatake was murdered while brushing his teeth, an act done without inhibitions in front of people whom a person is very familiar with. The bad condition of the room was evidence enough that the robbery was a setup, for the killer fled the scene right away after the gun was fired. And the pictures that were seemingly taken that night, thus proving Sasai's innocence, were actually from the past Tenkaichi festival, as his wrist was captured without his current watch tan line.

• Motive

Over a year ago, Sasai felt ridiculed when the more well-known writer Imatake's work was chosen to be published over his at the last minute. Imatake apparently became famous when he won an award for a book that they co-wrote, while Sasai wasn't credited for it.

Sasai planned the murder, so that he could take Imatake's place as top writer in the literary world.

See also

• Season 1