The Coded Map of the City Case

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Information

Title:

The Coded Map of the City Case

Japanese title:

大都会暗号マップ事件
(Daitokai Angou Mappu Jiken)

Original airdate:

January 29, 1996
June 6, 2009 (Remastered version)

Season:

1

Manga source:

Volume 4: Files 7-10 (036-039)

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Detective Boys
Ran Mouri
Kogoro Mouri
Inspector Megure

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

Cell phone

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Kazunari Kouchi

Episode director:

Hirohito Ochi

Animation director:

Haruo Ogawara

Voice cast

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Inspector Megure
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Masaharu Sato as Kawana
Konami Yoshida as Shop owner
Isshin Chiba as Reporter A
Naoki Makishima as Reporter B

Music

Opening song:

"Mune ga Dokidoki"

Closing song:

"STEP BY STEP"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Inspector Megure

Case

Situation

Robbery

Location: An Italian bank

Suspects: Dino Cavane, and Cavane's accomplices

The day before Conan and the Detective Boys found a treasure map, Dino Cavane was arrested by police but the whereabouts of the 15,000 Maple Leaf gold coins he stole is still a mystery...

People

Dino Cavane
	Italian crime boss

Cavane's accomplices
	Members of Cavane's Italian crime ring

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • There's no doubt that Dino Cavane and his accomplices are responsible for the theft of the Maple Leaf coins, but Cavane refuses to say where the coins are hidden.
  • Conan and the Detective Boys find a piece of paper with odd symbols drawn on it and the word "ORO" as they leave a museum.
  • After looking at an Italian-Japanese dictionary, Conan realizes "ORO" means "Gold" in Italian. Conan is shocked to realize he and the Detective Boys really did find a treasure map.
  • Conan is puzzled why someone who is Italian would make a reference to a Japanese street name near Touto Tower.

• Conclusion

Conan realizes that the shapes on the treasure map really refer to the shapes of neon signs near Touto Tower. It wouldn't make sense for someone who does not speak Japanese to make a reference to a Japanese named street, but rather draw pictures of a recognizable objects they saw.

Conan and the Detective Boys manage to find the location of the missing Maple Leaf coins, only to be confronted by Cavane's thugs. Thanks to Conan's quick thinking, Conan and the Detective Boys manage to knock the thugs unconscious and run to the police.

Manga to anime changes

• An entire portion of the story is left out of the anime where Ran takes Conan, Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko to Touto Tower. She recalls a time when she and Shinichi visited the tower and when he bought her a cold drink, which he put up to her cheek. Conan does the same thing, which prompts her to ask him about his true identity (as the manga version takes place after the The Shinkansen's Bomb Case). Conan responds by stating that he is Kamen Yaiba. The scene in question would later appear (ironically) at the begining of the fourth movie Captured in Her Eyes which Ran has a flashback too.
• In the manga, Genta envisions that the Italian gangsters will shoot him, and imagines himself lying in a pool of his own blood. The anime substitutes a less graphic and more stylized image, with a miniature Genta being riddled with colorful, cartoon-like gunshots.

Remastered version

On June 6, 2009, a remastered version of the case was aired.

Gallery

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  Conan organized a trip to the museum with Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko and it proved to be a great day out.
• 
  Genta finds a piece of paper with weird symbols on it, and the word "Oro". The group (all except for Conan) think it could be a treasure map.
• 
  Unaware to Conan and friends there are three men searching for that piece of paper, but instead of claiming it, the men lurk and see what the kids will discover.
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  The group look at the first symbol on the map, it looks like the Touto Tower so they go to check it out.
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  Conan thinks the symbols on the map could relate to objects in real life, like an umbrella. The Detective Boys realize that all these symbols can be found at a clothing store.

See also

• Season 1