The Detective Boys VS The Silver Detectives

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Episode 777 (Int. Episode 830)
Information
Title:	The Detective Boys VS The Silver Detectives
Japanese title:	少年探偵団vs(バーサス)老人(シルバー)探偵団 (Shōnen Tantei-dan Bāsasu Shirubā Tantei-dan)
Original airdate:	May 9, 2015
Broadcast rating:	8.9%
Filler case:	#238
Season:	20
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Aloha shirt
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	Koichiro Kuroda
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Michitaka Yamamoto Ryuta Imaizumi Juri Saito Shigeki Awai
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Production cooperation:	Azeta Pictures
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima Chafurin as Juzo Megure Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Hiromichi Kogami as Kiyomasa Kuroda Kazuhiko Kishino as Eitaro Tokunaga Ikuo Nishikawa as Mutsuhiko Akasaka Yu Shimaka as Ginta Oshima Reiko Suzuki as Yasuko Emoto Hiroko Nishi as Tae Kano
Music
Opening song:	WE GO
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso

The Detective Boys VS The Silver Detectives (少年探偵団vs(バーサス)老人(シルバー)探偵団 ,Shōnen Tantei-dan Bāsasu Shirubā Tantei-dan) is the 777th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Introduced

Mutsuhiko Akasaka
	70 years old Silver Detective League member Former civil servant

Ginta Oshima
	70 years old Silver Detective League member Former merchant

Yasuko Emoto
	70 years old Silver Detective League member Apartment management

Featured

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Kazunobu Chiba

Case

Situation

The Detective Boys and Conan met a group called the Silver Detective League, who are similar to them. The Silver Detective League said that they saw a thief with blond hair and followed him into a house, where they saw Kiyomasa Kuroda's corpse.

Murder

Location: Kuroda's house

Victim: Kiyomasa Kuroda

Age: 22 years old

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma

Suspects: Unknown culprit

The Silver Detective League then seemed to have solved the case and said the the blond thief killed Kiyomasa, but Conan is doubting whether that is the truth.

People

Mutsuhiko Akasaka
	70 years old Silver Detective League member Former civil servant

Ginta Oshima
	70 years old Silver Detective League member Former merchant

Yasuko Emoto
	70 years old Silver Detective League member Apartment management

Eitaro Tokunaga
	71 years old Silver Detective League member Former technician

Kiyomasa Kuroda
	Victim (bludgeoned) 22 years old Unemployed

Tae Kano
	Deceased Retiree

Resolution

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The culprit is Eitaro Tokunaga. He wanted to get revenge for a elderly lady whom Kiyomasa Kuroda hit with his car so that he could get her money. Some time later Kuroda murdered her by pushing her down the stairs leading to a train station. He had orchestrated the entire plot by forming the silver detectives, in doing so he could establish an alibi for the murder and tamper of any evidence along the way.

Attempted Murder (Past)

Location: Street

Victim: Tae Kano

Injury: Hit by a car

Culprit: Kiyomasa Kuroda

Murder (Past)

Location: Train station

Victim: Tae Kano

Cause of death: Fell from stairs

Culprit: Kiyomasa Kuroda

A few days later, Conan spots the other detective boys being chased by the elderly detectives who want the kids to be their teachers much to their chagrin.

Trivia

• The book Conan makes a reference to is John Dickson Carr's novel The Emperor's Snuff-Box.
• Kiyomasa Kuroda's car is a dandelion yellow Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V. The license plate number is 新宿 300, な 16-73 (Shinjuku 300, Na 16-73).
• In 2026, more than ten years after the original airdate, the case received a sequel, The Detective Boys VS The Silver Detectives 2.

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La lliga de detectius júnior contra els detectius de la tercera edat	The Detective Boys versus the elderly detectives
French (Subbed)	Detective Boys vs Silver Detectives	Detective Boys vs Silver Detectives
Thai	ชมรมนักสืบเยาวชนปะทะกลุ่มนักสืบรุ่นลายคราม	Detective Boys vs Detective Elderliess
Vietnamese	Đội thám tử nhí và Đội thám tử lão thành	Detective Boys and Detective Elderliess

See also

• Season 20