The Suspects Are a Passionate Couple

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Episode 822-823
(Int. Episode 877-878)

Information

Title:

The Suspects Are a Passionate Couple

Japanese title:

容疑者は熱愛カップル
(Yōgi-sha wa Netsuai Kappuru^?)

Original airdate:

June 18, 2016 (Part 1)
June 25, 2016 (Part 2)

Broadcast rating:

5.9%
6.5%

Manga case:

#267

Season:

26

Manga source:

Volume 87: File 10 (925) ~
Volume 88: File 1 (927)

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Ai Haibara
Ryusuke Higo
Yoko Okino
Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi
Ran Mouri
Ayumi Yoshida
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Genta Kojima
Kazunobu Chiba
Hyoue Kuroda

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Higo and Yoko (Part 1)
Vacuum Bag (Part 2)

Staff

Director:

Yasuichiro Yamamoto

Organizer:

Umesaburo Sagawa

Storyboard:

Umesaburo Sagawa

Episode director:

822 Yoshitaka Fujimoto
823 Toshio Kiuchi

Animation director:

Masatomo Sudo and Seiji Muta (supervisors)
822 Yukiko Nakaya
823 Chiemi Hironaka and Kenichi Otomo

Character design:

Masatomo Sudo
Nobuyuki Iwai
Kumiko Shishido (design works)

Production cooperation:

822 Studio Guts

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri
Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara
Chafurin as Juzo Megure
Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi and Genta Kojima
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba
Takahiro Sakurai as Ryusuke Higo
Miki Nagasawa as Yoko Okino
Shōtaro Morikubo as Yasuto Konoe
Mariya Ise as Reiko Banba
Miyuki Kobori as Showbiz reporter
Yusaku Yara as Akimichi Yamada

Music

Opening song:

"Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru"

Closing song:

"Futari no Byōshin"

The Suspects Are a Passionate Couple (容疑者は熱愛カップル ,Yōgi-sha wa Netsuai Kappuru) is the 822nd and 823rd episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ai Haibara

Ryusuke Higo

Yoko Okino

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Ran Mouri

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Kazunobu Chiba

Hyoue Kuroda (flashback)

Takahiro Sanada (TV)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

She is shocked to see an article saying the two of them are dating.

Kogoro and Ai are shocked and enraged at the news of Ryusuke Higo and Yoko Okino apparently dating each other. Therefore, Ai "hires" Kogoro to conduct an investigation about their relationship. While searching on the internet, they find out that the couple were spotted at a restaurant in Haido City. Conan then mentions that there's a new restaurant in Haido City which belongs to a senior of Higo, which results in Ai and Kogoro forcing Conan to take them there to spy on the couple. Haibara even goes as far as deleting the song Dandy Lion from her phone, even though it's her favorite song.

Teiya Asuka, Higo's senior and the owner of the restaurant, has gone missing. The three employees, namely Yasuto Konoe (a waiter), Reiko Banba (a waitress and Asuka's girlfriend) and Akimichi Yamada (the restaurant's sommelier), have to go look for him. Konoe later receives a message from the owner, saying that he is in the storeroom and want to meet Higo and Yoko there. But when the couple arrives at the storeroom, they find Asuka dead, with his neck artery slit.

Murder

Location: "Aska" Restaurant

Victim: Teiya Asuka

Age: 31 years old

Time: 7:30-8:00 PM

Cause of death: Slit wound on the throat

Suspects: Akimichi Yamada, Reiko Banba, Yasuto Konoe, Ryusuke Higo, and Yoko Okino

After being told to meet Asuka in the storeroom, Higo and Yoko go there and find the former dead.

Inspector Megure suspects Yoko and Higo because they are first who found the body, and he states that the possibility is high that they are the murderers.

Part 2

Conan deduces that the culprit is one of the three employees of the restaurant.

People

Teiya Asuka
	Victim (throat slit) 31 years old Former football player Restaurant Owner Ryusuke's acquaintance

Akimichi Yamada
	43 years old Sommelier

Reiko Banba
	27 years old Waitress Konoe's ex-girlfriend Asuka's girlfriend

Yasuto Konoe
	28 years old Waiter Banba's ex-boyfriend

Resolution

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Inspector Megure reviews all of the suspects movements before the murder. Kogoro continues to try to blame Higo for the murder, so Conan tranquilizes him and reveals that the culprit is Akimichi Yamada. Yamada killed Asuka because Asuka had discovered that he was a fraud who wanted to expand the business with the extra money he'd saved by buying cheap wine that he served as expensive vintage to the restaurant clients.

Yamada killed Asuka during the second search when he went down to the storage room, then used Higo's and Asuka's phones to send a message to lure Asuka to a secluded spot for the murder. Using a vacuum cleaner, a vacuum compression bag, Asuka's clothes, and the corkscrew from his sommelier's knife, Yamada then pretended that Asuka was apparently still alive at the time of the murder and during his employees' search for him (thus establishing his alibi): By first sucking out all the air from the vacuum bag, then puncturing the bag with the corkscrew from his knife, caused the air to rush in and inflate the bag, creating an instant dummy beneath the blankets. To provide the evidence for that trick, Ai secures Higo's discarded phone and the vacuum bags from the kitchen's waste bin, which are riddled with Yamada's fingerprints.

Other hints to Yamada's faked profession as a sommelier were provided when:

• Yamada did not sniff the cork of the wine bottle he had served Higo and Yoko, something a real sommelier always does in order to find out whether the wine has been spoiled by the residue of the chemicals used in making the bottle corks,
• and the fact that the cigarettes found in the toilet were of the same brand, but smoked in two different ways, proving that they were consumed by two different people. Yamada thus attempted to conceal his habit of smoking (a taboo for a sommelier, since his profession heavily depends on an unspoiled sense of taste) by mixing his own cigarette stubs with the ones used by Konoe.

As it turns out in the aftermath, Higo and Yoko are not dating each other; the watch they were looking at on the cover of the tabloid article was a mutual gift for a retiring high school teacher of theirs, and they were meeting with Asuka (a fellow graduate from their high school) to ask him to write a personal dedication on the watch.

Ai is thanked by Higo for finding the evidence, and says he's tempted to have her take Takahiro Sanada's place on Big Osaka. The next day, Ai seems determined to prove herself a soccer player, and is enjoying Yoko's music again.

Trivia

• The names of the suspects come from Italian wines :

• Teiya Asuka (飛鳥 悌耶, アスカ テイヤ in katakana) comes from Asti wine (アスティ, Asuti) ;
• Akimichi Yamada (山田 晃通) comes from Yamada Wine, a wine shop in Japan, and its owner Akimichi Yamada (山田 晃通) ;
• Reiko Banba (伴場 嶺子, バンバ レイコ in katakana) comes from Barbaresco (バルバレスコ, Barubaresuko) ;
• Yasuto Kōnoe (鴻江 保人, コウノエ ヤスト in katakana) comes from Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone (エスト! エスト!! エスト!!! ディ・モンテフィアスコーネ, Esuto! Esuto!! Esuto!!! di Montefiasucōne).

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Els sospitosos són una parella molt enamorada	The suspects are a couple too much in love
Thai	ผู้ต้องสงสัยคือคู่รักหวานแหวว	The Suspects are a Sweet Couple
Vietnamese	Nghi phạm là cặp đôi quyến rũ

See also

• Season 26