The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case

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Episode 13
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Information

Title:

The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case

Japanese title:

奇妙な人捜し殺人事件
(Kimyō na Hito Sagashi Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

April 22, 1996

Season:

1

Manga source:

Volume 2: Files 4-8 (013-016) (h.a.)

English version

English title:

Mystery Mastermind

English airdate:

June 15, 2004

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Ran Mouri
Inspector Megure
Professor Agasa

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

Calculator

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Yuuichi Higurashi

Storyboard:

Johei Matsuura

Episode director:

Johei Matsuura

Animation director:

Atsushi Aono

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa
Chafurin as Inspector Megure
Masako Katsuki as Masami Hirota
Hideaki Tezuka as Akira Hirota
Kan Tokumaru as Mystery Man A
Ryuzaburo Otomo as Mystery Man B
Rin Mizuhara as Landlady
Isshin Chiba as Cloak checker
Takumi Yamazaki as TV Announcer
Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint

Music

Opening song:

"Mune ga Dokidoki"

Closing song:

"STEP BY STEP"

Characters introduced

Akemi Miyano/ Masami Hirota
	Mysterious client

Gadgets introduced

Criminal Tracking Glasses
	Uses radar to locate transmitters (e.g. location of the Detective Boys' badges)

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Inspector Megure

Professor Agasa

Gadgets

Gadgets

Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

A woman named Masami Hirota shows up at Kogoro's Detective Agency and asks him to find her father, Kenzou Hirota. She is reunited with her father when they located him in a horse racing track. The next day, Kenzou is found dead and Masami missing. Meanwhile, another detective is tracking Kenzou down for his client, Akira Hirota.

Missing Person - Murder

Location: Apartment

Victim: Kenzou Hirota

Cause of death: Strangulation via hanging

Suspects: Akira Hirota

Murder

Location: Hotel

Victim: Akira Hirota

Cause of death: Cyanide poisoning

Suspects: Masami Hirota

People

Kenzou Hirota
	Victim (strangled) Believed to be Masami's father and Akira's brother

Landlady
	Kenzou's apartment landlady

Detective
	Hired by Akira Hirota to find Kenzou Hirota

Akira Hirota
	Victim (poison) Believed to be Kenzou's brother and Masami's uncle

Resolution

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Conan found the criminal mastermind, Okita.

• Evidence
  • Masami had make-up on and looked mature when reunited with Kenzou
  • Every night, Kenzou would run the same taxi route over and over, even without customers, and at high speed
  • Judging from the bruises from Kenzou's neck, the killer was a large man
  • Masami's glasses were found in the crime scene
  • Because of Conan's tracking button believed to be in Masami's watch, Akira was found dead due to cyanide poisoning in the hotel

• Resolution

The Hirotas were the criminals involved in the 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case. The route Kenzou drove at night was the practice route of the getaway. But Kenzou betrayed his partners, he ran and took the money for himself. In order to find him, his partners made fake identities - Masami and Akira. When found, Akira killed Kenzou and made it look like suicide. He broke his watch while doing so that's why Masami gave him hers. But the real mastermind of the 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case was Okita. The poison that killed Akira was originally intended for Masami.

• Motive

Okita planned to kill the three from the very beginning. Kenzou realized this so he ran away with the money.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Kenzou Hirota - Kent Hamlin
• Kenzou's cats: Kai, Tei, Gou & Ou - Kent's cats: Tea, Pair, Eyes & Prose
• Akira Hirota - Aaron Hamlin
• Okita - O'Brien

Gallery

Manga to anime changes

In the manga version of the story Gin and Vodka are the masterminds of the case (rather than Okita), and they end up killing Masami Hirota/Akemi Miyano who informs Conan of the organization's existence and that they dress in black. Her death is the motive of Shiho Miyano's defection which leads to Ai Haibara's appearance later in the series. Furthermore, Shiho makes a silhouetted appearance when Akemi is demanding for herself and her sister to be free of the organization, which is also omitted. To repair the storyline, Episode 128 The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case was written with a similar ending to the manga version.

Trivia

• This episode marks the introduction of a new image for the "next episode" preview. The image features the Detective Boys looking at a painting hanging on the wall, which has the title of the next episode written on it.

See also

• Season 1