Once-A-Month Present Threat Case

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Episode 7 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Once-A-Month Present Threat Case
Japanese title:	月ちプレゼント脅迫事件 (Tsukiichi Puresento Kyouhaku Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 19, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 3: Files 7-10 (026-029)
English version
English title:	The Case of the Mysterious Gifts
Dubbed episode:	Episode 7
English airdate:	June 2, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Professor Agasa Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Ball-point pen
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Haruo Ogawara
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Shin Aomori as Ogawa Mugihito as Ogino Kumiko Watanabe as Yuta Ogawa Yoshiko Okamoto as Ogawa's Wife
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Professor Agasa

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Shinichi Kudo

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

Threatening Presents

Location: Beika City

Victim: Dr. Ogawa

Suspects: Unknown sender

For two years, Dr. Ogawa has been receiving toys and money once a month from an unknown sender. When he received a large sum of ¥25,000,000, he decides to contact Kogoro Mouri. Meanwhile, Ran is getting way suspicious about Conan's true identity. Ran may have just figured out that Conan is Shinichi.

People

Masayuki Ogawa
	Surgeon

Mr. Ogino
100px	Father of Tomoya Ogino

Yuta Ogawa
	5 years old Son of Masayuki Ogawa

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Two years ago, an anonymous person started sending Dr. Ogawa boxes full of toys, along with some cash, on the first day of each month. And once every year on a winter, Morning Glory flowers get delivered to the hospital where he worked.
  • Dr. Ogawa received the flowers on that exact same day. However, this time the money came separately with a letter.
  • Coincidentally, as Conan was playing with one of the toys, he discovered that there was a username in the video game that was not of Dr. Ogawa's five-year old son, Yuta. He rummaged through patient records and found that Tomoya Ogino, indeed, was a kid who passed away three years ago on that day after being operated on by the doctor.

• Conclusion

Conan deduced that the presents were not given to Dr. Ogawa in gratitude, but with grudge and hate, by someone related to Tomoya Ogino.

Sensing that Yuta was in danger, they rushed and found him in a park near his kindergarten with an unknown man. Turned out, this man was Tomoya's father, who planned to end Yuta's life on the same day and at the same age that Tomoya died. The father lured Dr. Ogawa and Yuta with his son's old toys and life insurance money, and sent his son's favorite flower to commemorate his death.

Had Conan not interfered by kicking a nearby soccer ball towards the man, Yuta wouldn't have been saved from an ill fate.

As for Ran, she stopped her suspicion that Conan was Shinichi. He had asked Dr. Agasa to call Ran as him using the Voice-Changing Bowtie.

• Motive

Tomoya's father could not accept that Tomoya died not of surgical complications from Dr. Ogawa's hands. He blamed Dr. Ogawa and planned to have his revenge by taking away what he believed was also taken from him: a father's son.

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga, this story takes place after the Luxury Liner Serial Murder Case, as Ran gets a letter from Natsue who mentions that she and Takeshi are living a more quiet life on the ranch. Natsue tells Ran to give her regards to her "detective boyfriend", which sets up the story. The anime version starts with Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta asking about Shinichi and whether he is Ran's boyfriend.

Gallery

See also

• Season 1