The Spirit Detective's Murder

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Information

Title:

Soul Detective Murder Case

Japanese title:

霊魂探偵殺害事件
(Reikon Tantei Satsugai Jiken)

Original airdate:

June 17, 2017 (Part 1)
June 24, 2017 (Part 2)

Broadcast rating:

5.7%
5.2%

Manga case:

#275

Season:

27

Manga source:

Volume 90: Files 3-5 (951-953)

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Masumi Sera
Mary Sera
Shinichi Kudo
Rum
Gin
Vodka
Vermouth
Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi
Yoko Okino

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Mary)

Next Conan's Hint:

Wine glass (Part 1)
Salt (Part 2)

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Screenplay:

Shigenori Kageyama

Storyboard:

Shigenori Kageyama

Episode director:

863: Yano Takanori,
864: Minoru Tozawa

Animation director:

863: Akio Kawamura,
864: Keiko Sasaki

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera
Atsuko Tanaka as Mary Sera
Yukitoshi Hori as Gin
Fumihiko Tachiki as Vodka
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi
Nozomu Sasaki as Sanpei Kokuri
Takayuki Sasada as Yamamoto
Taisuke Nakano as Itou

Music

Opening song:

"Ikusen no Meikyuu de Ikusen no Nazo wo Toite"

Closing song:

"YESTERDAY LOVE"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Masumi Sera

Mary Sera

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Shinichi Kudo (flashback)

Gin

Vodka

Vermouth (background)

Rum (criminal silhouette)

Yoko Okino (Kogoro's imagination)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan thinks about Kohji Haneda's murder case. The website with the information has been taken down and hasn't been re-uploaded yet. But Kogorō get a call from the TV-station giving him an offer to appear in a show with Gaito Hotta, a known 'spirit-detective', who claims that he is going to call Kōji Haneda's spirit and have him reveal the truth of the murder. Conan suspects that Hotta might have dig up some information on the murder and tags along with Kogorō to meet him. In the taxi Kogorō and Conan discuss Hotta. Gaito Hotta is a TV-personality, who claims to solve mysteries by contacting the souls of dead people. Kogorō explain that Hotta is a fraud who had been exposed once during a case about a missing climber. A body had been found, but it was a completely different person. And it has been proved that Hotta had paid people to testify false witness statements and had done some investigation beforehand. Now he is probably trying to do a comeback. Conan guess that Hotta has chosen the Haneda murder, because it was so long ago, but Conan decides to see if Hotta has some information that can help him in figuring out Rum's identity.

Murder

Location: Beika Hotel

Victim: Gaito Hotta

Age: Unknown

Cause of death: Stab wounds in Torso

Suspects: Sanpei Kokuri

People

Gaito Hotta
	Victim (stabbed) "Soul Detective"

Sanpei Kokuri
	35 years old Tohto TV director

Yamamoto
	Beika Hotel bellhop

Itou
	Beika Hotel bellhop

Forensics Staff member
	Tokyo MPD CSI officer

Resolution

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The culprit is Sanpei Kokuri. The motive was that Hotta used his late sister's corpse for his show. A few years ago Kokuri's sister committed suicide in the mountains due to a break-up. But her body was never found. Later Hotta was making a show in the mountain (most likely in connection with a missing person case, that Conan and Kogorō discussed in the taxi) and 'found' the body claiming to have 'felt' it's spirit. Kokuri realized that Hotta must have found his sister's body a long time ago, but instead of reporting it to the police, he had buried it to use it in his show. So he killed Hotta in revenge for having humiliating her.

Masumi calls Mary 'mama', Indicating she is her mother. The only thing that Hotta knew is that someone saw Asaka holding a small mirror and that he believed Asaka, the bodyguard, is a woman. Mary considers that information boring and warns Masumi that she should be careful around Conan and that he may not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Later at night, Gin and Vodka talk about the case. Gin comments that Rum screwed up in the Case from 17 years ago. Gin is more concerned about the fact that Kogorō went to investigate the murder. Gin immediately suggests that Kogorō be finished off before he becomes more of a threat.

Trivia

• The name Gaito Hotta (katakana: ホッタ ガイト) comes from "poltergeist" (ポルターガイスト).
• The name Sanpei Kokuri comes from "Kokkuri-san" (table-turning).

Gallery

• 
  Mary caught by Conan's phone camera.

See also

• Season 27