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Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery (コナンと海老蔵 歌舞伎十八番ミステリー ,Konan to Ebizō Kabuki Jūhachiban Misuterī?) is the 804th and 805th episode in honor of 20th anniversary of the Detective Conan anime.
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Part 1
One day, Conan, Mitsuhiko, and Genta were playing soccer while Ai and Ayumi were sitting at a bench, watching them run around. At one point, the ball hit Mitsuhiko in the face as he was trying to volley a pass from Conan and it flew towards the fences. As Conan went to pick up the ball, a car passed by, making its way down a hill. He and Ai noticed there were drops of brake fluid on the road and immediately realized that car was out of control. She tells him there is a railroad crossing up ahead and tosses his skateboard to him. As Conan skateboards down the hill to stop the car, she calls the police. At the crossing, Sonoko was in a pink Bentley Mulsanne using her phone when she heard that car honking. She turns around and sees Conan airborne with his skateboard, catching her by surprise. He manages to stop the car by wrapping his Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt around a railing and shooting a soccer ball, which inflated and redirected the car toward a pile of cardboard boxes at Tohto Paper Recycling Plant.
Attempted Murder
Location: Tohto Paper Recycling Plant
Victim: Takuya Hosoo
Age: 47 years old
Cause: Car collision
Suspects: Unknown culprit
Someone manipulated the brakes on his Black Mercedes Benz C300 Advantage W205 so that they would not work, causing the car to go out of control on its way downhill.
The police arrive at the plant and tell Takuya Hosoo, that car's driver, that someone messed with its brakes. Takuya tells them he knew that but he had no choice since he had to hurry; he even says he does not have time to take any questioning from them. Soon after, Kogoro and Ran arrive at the scene to scold Conan, not knowing that the kid saved Takuya, and Sonoko came soon after. They misunderstood Conan's intentions because Sonoko told them the kid caused the car to crash, since she saw the car crash right after Conan flew onto the road.
As Takuya was opening the trunk of his car to look at a briefcase, which he had to deliver to someone, he turned his head and recognized Sonoko as President Suzuki's daughter. It turns out they meet each other often during kabuki after-parties, since the president is a huge fan of kabuki. Conan and Ran bugged out when Sonoko told them she dined with the famous kabuki theater actor Ichikawa Ebizo XI a bunch of times. Takuya tells them Ebizo is a big fan of Kogoro.
Takuya, Kogoro, Ran, Sonoko, and Conan are on Hitoshi Takahashi's car, heading toward a kabuki theater Ebizo is currently at. On the way there, Takuya and Hitoshi discuss the incident from earlier. Hitoshi tells Takuya that he did not see anyone suspicious near the garage of Takuya's house last night. At the theater, they see Ebizo and some other people practicing "Nanatsu Men" of the Jūhachiban Kabuki. After some practice, everyone gathers around to see Ebizo open the briefcase Takuya gave to him; inside, there was a two-faced mask. As everyone gazes at it in awe, Conan notices something peculiar about it.
When the president was shocked about the two-faced mask is gone, it was found on Hitoshi's car, but the two-faced mask is gone, only the briefcase is there.
Theft
Location: Kabuki Theater
Missing items: Two-faced mask
Suspects: Ebizo Ichikawa, Takuya Hosoo, Yoshiyuki Yabusaki, Hitoshi Takahashi, Shinnosuke Iwami, Eiji Kaneko, and Yukari Shioji
While the president is searching for the two-faced mask on early morning, it is now gone.
While they are on Hoaji Hospital, Iwami almost commits suicide, but the nurse Harumi Sakaguchi stops him.
Attempted Suicide
Location: Hoaji Hospital
Victim: Shinnosuke Iwami
Age: 29 years old
Cause: Free-fall
He almost jumped by the hospital, but stopped by Ebizo.
Murder
Location: Near the Kabuki Theater
Victim: Hitoshi Takahashi
Age: 40 years old
Cause of death: Strangulation
Suspects: Ebizo Ichikawa, Takuya Hosoo, Yoshiyuki Yabusaki, Shinnosuke Iwami, Eiji Kaneko, and Yukari Shioji
Hitoshi Takahashi was found strangulated in his white Toyota Vellfire (second generation).
Part 2
While Conan is talking to Kaneko, he was kidnapped. And they are wondering where's Conan.
Kidnapping and Attempted Murder
Location: Basement of the abandoned building
Crime: Left in the demolishing
Suspects: Ebizo Ichikawa, Takuya Hosoo, Yoshiyuki Yabusaki, Shinnosuke Iwami, Eiji Kaneko, and Yukari Shioji
Someone use a black fabric wrap and shocked Conan in the abandoned building while looking.
They found Conan in the basement.
Murder
Location: Building
Victim: Eiji Kaneko
Age: 37 years old
Cause of death: Blunt force trauma
Suspects: Ebizo Ichikawa, Takuya Hosoo, Yoshiyuki Yabusaki, Shinnosuke Iwami, and Yukari Shioji
He was killed in the abandoned building being demolished.
People
Resolution
The culprit is
Takuya Hosoo. His motive is:
- First, he killed his secretary and stole the two-faced mask just to create an alibi, broken it at the murder scene of Kaneko.
- Second, Kaneko kidnapped Conan to stop his investigation and Hosoo killed him because the cameraman had been threatening him at the basement of his abandoned building being torn down.
What he did to complete the crime:
- First, he was the one who manipulated his brakes, not his secretary, just to make an alibi to himself. He was supposed to have crashed into a safety barrels, but ended up in the paper station due to Conan's intervention. That way, he looked like he was being threatened by someone.
- Second, Shioji was the one who replaced the mask, the real one is secured at Haneda Airport. Hosoo killed Takahashi just to get his life insurance policy from him.
- Third, he was wearing gloves, according to Officer Tome, if that was fiber they would find some leather on the gloves, but he used vinyl gloves to complete the crime, but failed, why? He said that it would be visible to see.
- Fourth, he asked Richard, the foreigner, to pay a million yen for the two-faced mask.
- Fifth, while he was committing the murder, a button fell from his sleeve and was later found in the car engine, he was supposed to have changed his polo at the Hotel New Baker in Ginza, but was found by Shioji and Conan.
- Sixth, he knows the code given by the security guard.
- Seventh, he wasn't seen in the surveillance footage stealing the two-faced mask.
Regarding to Hosoo and Iwami, they were threatened by Kaneko, how?
Iwami:
- First, Kaneko saw Iwami going inside the Kabuki museum, he threatened and blackmailed him, but Kaneko knew that he didn't steal the mask. He was seen on the surveillance camera giving money to Kaneko.
Hosoo:
- Hosoo was going to buy the memory card for a higher price, he was going to threaten him once again with the photos on his computer so Hosoo killed him to avoid this.
Motive
Hosoo company was going under so he needed the money. He decided to take out an life insurance policy for his secretary and then killed him to get the money. He also stole the two faced mask and made replicas deciding to keep the original so that he continue to profit from the fakes. As for Kaneko, he had started to blackmail Hosoo using incriminating photos he had taken of him. Hosoo payed him for the memory card, but he ultimately decided to kill him to keep him quiet. However, unbeknownst to Hosoo, Kaneko had kept a copy of the pictures so that he could continue to blackmail him, but this action ultimately helped Conan to solve this case.
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Trivia
- This is the first episode to use the new updated character designs by Masatomo Sudo and Nobuyuki Iwai. Moreover, along with The Scarlet School Trip, the first one hour and half special episode, transmitted in two parts.
- In the intro to the viewers, Conan and Ebizo wished them a Happy New Year themselves. Mitsuhiko remembers that in the same intro for next year Conan Cornered in the Darkness.
- In the second part, Sumiko Kobayashi has given to Shiratori the coffee mug with love symbols that Haibara and the Detective Boys have bought for her in Quarter of Silence.
- Detective Chiba's first name is revealed to be "Kazunobu".
- The sea sweatshirt wearing by Sonoko in the first episode is the same from The Missing Sweets in the Old Shop, Private Eye in the Distant Sea, and A Dispute Over a Platinum Ticket, and later in Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon, The Sun Sets in Tangerine Fields, The Glamping Mystery, and The Feuding Girls.
- Sonoko's car is a pink Bentley Mulsanne. It reappears in the end of Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon, where its license plate number is revealed: 新宿 300, す 4 04 (Shinjuku 300, Su 4 04).
- Ebizo Ichikawa's car is a red Audi Q7 V12 TDI Typ 4L. The license plate number is 新宿 337, ほ 71-26 (Shinjuku 337, Ho 71-26).
- Takuya Hosoo's car is a black Mercedes Benz C class (W205). The license plate number is 新宿 332, め 41-41 (Shinjuku 332, Me 41-41).
- Hitoshi Takahashi's car is a 2015 white Toyota Vellfire [GH30W] (second generation). The license plate number is 新宿 334, た 11-04 (Shinjuku 334, Ta 11-04).
- Sodesaki's bike is a Honda Super Cub 50 Pro.
- It's very probable that a future episode or movie will explain it, but:
- When Conan and Haibara examine Kaneko's camera chip, they are both surprised to see someone in a picture. Conan asks her if she has seen him before, and Haibara responds that she doesn't know him, but she'll look it up and Conan thanks her. There's no time, since being trapped in there for half a day really set Conan back, but he could be the boss, who had some important business with Hosoo discovered by the cameraman. Indeed, judging her expression, Haibara must have recognized him, but she doesn't inform Conan for his safety.
- Six different companies holding shares in the HO Trading: Micah Clarke Trading (マイカクラーク商事 ,Maikakurāku shōji?), TMS (ティエムエス ,Tiemuesu?), Rodney S Company (ロドニーS カンパニー ,Rodonī Esu kanpanī?), Nigel Construction (ナイジェル建設 ,Naijeru kensetsu?), and Bernac (べるなっく ,Beru nakku?). However, for the first one in that computer list, we can only read "Company" (カンパニー), then it could be the Black Organization's true name, not revealed yet.
In other languages
| Language |
Title |
Translation
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Catalan (Catalan dub) |
El misteri teatral d'en Conan i l'Ebizo |
Conan and Ebizo's theatrical mystery
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Thai |
โคนันกับเอบิโซ ปริศนาคาบูกิหมายเลข 18 (ตอนพิเศษ 2 ชั่วโมง) |
Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery
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Vietnamese |
Conan và Ebizo: Bí ẩn màn kịch Kabuki số 18 |
Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery
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See also