The Surprise That Leads to Tragedy

Episode 1070 (Int. Episode 1127)
Information
Title:	The Surprise That Leads to Tragedy
Japanese title:	サプライズは悲劇のはじまり (Sapuraizu wa Higeki no Hajimari)
Original airdate:	January 21, 2023
Filler case:	#385
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Hiroshi Agasa Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato
Case solved by:	Hiroshi Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Handkerchief
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Tatsuro Inamoto
Storyboard:	Akihiro Okuzawa
Episode director:	Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	Asuka Tsubuki Yui Ushinohama Miho Tanaka Kana Aoki FALCO Suzuki Yoshitsugu Hatano Joji Yanase
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Atsuya Miura (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Sachi Kokuryu as Riko Totsuka Yuto Suzuki as Yusuke Tsuda Asami Sanada as Mai Takigawa
Music
Opening song:	SPARKLE
Closing song:	Playmaker
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Sweet Voice Heard Through the Phone
Next episode:	Yusaku Kudo's Detective Show »
List of episodes

The Surprise That Leads to Tragedy (サプライズは悲劇のはじまり ,Sapuraizu wa Higeki no Hajimari) is the 1070th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Mai Takigawa accidentally kills her boyfriend Yusuke Tsuda in self-defense after misunderstanding him as a burglar, but in reality he along with Mai's best friend Riko Totsuka planned a surprise party for her birthday.

Murder in self-defense?
	Location: Apartment Victim: Yusuke Tsuda Age: 25 years old Time: Evening Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Culprit: Mai Takigawa

Takagi and Sato arrives to the scene to investigate and also does Conan, who was at the apartment complex at the time and heard the scream along with Agasa and the Detective Boys. Conan and the police discover clues that make them think that there's more behind this case.

People

Mai Takigawa
	25 years old Office worker

Yusuke Tsuda
	Victim (beaten) 25 years old Mai's boyfriend

Riko Totsuka
	25 years old Mai and Yusuke's best friend

Resolution

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Even though Riko Totsuka was the one who created the plan, the surprise party and suggested Mai to have a dangerous weapon as a self defense object, the one who manipulated Riko into creating the "murder in self-defense" plan was Mai Takigawa. She knew that Riko and Yusuke were lovers and took advantage of the plan to kill her boyfriend on purpose. She finally bursts out laughing because she was so dumb for trusting her best friend and her boyfriend.

Trivia

Miwako Sato appears in this episode, even if is a TV Original one, which is extremely rare. The most recent TV Original episode (without counting this one) where Sato appears is An Encouragement of the Perfect Crime

See also

• Season 31