Chase the Miyama Stag Beetle

Episode 663 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Chase the Miyama Stag Beetle
Japanese title:	ミヤマクワガタを追え (Miyama Kuwagata o Oe)
Original airdate:	July 7, 2012
Broadcast rating:	11,4%
Filler case:	#195
Season:	21
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Professor Agasa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Chiharu Matsubara
Case solved by:	Professor Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	The name
Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Screenplay:	Toyoto Kogiso
Storyboard:	Shigenori Kageyama
Episode director:	Shirabe Kobayashi
Animation Director:	Miyuki Hanawa Masahiko Matsuo Moriyasu Taniguchi
Music
Opening song:	Miss Mystery
Closing song:	Overwrite
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Kogoro-san is a Good Man
Next episode:	The Great Dog Coeur's Triumph 2 »
List of episodes

Characters introduced

Detective Motohashi
	45 years old Yamanashi Prefecture Police detective

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Professor Agasa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Chiharu Matsubara

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

At Teitan Elementary School, Genta and Mitsuhiko see a student showing off because he owns a beetle and become jealous. At Agasa's house, Genta and Mitsuhiko tell Agasa about getting the rhinoceros beetle and Agasa knows a place to get those. Agasa's old friend lives in Yamanashi so Conan, Haibara, Agasa, and the Detective Boys go on a trip.

When they arrive, they meet Agasa's old friend named Ryutarou Namatame. Later, Genta is thirsty so they all go to the shop called "Michi no Eki" where they sell food and drinks. Namatame find a guy named Kei Yabe who's eating ramen while getting little upset about Yabe telling Namatame a lie that he's at playing pachinko. Yabe tells Namatame that it's not what it looks like.

Genta and Mitsuhiko find the bug cages filled with all kinds of beetles and they are impressed about it until suddenly, the man named Shuhei Ikeda tell Genta and Mitsuhiko not to touch it. He tells them that the Tocoro Department is coming to retrieve them. Namatame tells Ikeda that the kids want to look at them and Ikeda doesn't have to make a big fuss about it. After that, Namatame tells the Detective Boys when Ikeda was a child, he was very stingy.

At Namatame's house, the Detective Boys are having watermelon for snack. They have made a plan to go into the forest and catch some beetles.

In the forest, Conan puts slices of stinky bananas mixed with sake into the small bags each Detective Boy carries and ties the bags to the branches of the tree so later the beetles will be attracted to it at night.

When Conan, Haibara, and the Detective Boys find the truck, Genta looks inside and Yabe just appears from under the truck. Yabe angrily asks Genta what he's looking at. Genta didn't do anything wrong so Yabe tells the kids to go away.

That night at Namatame's house, Namatame and Agasa are having a little conversation about Agasa's inventions. At precisely 10:00 pm, the Detective Boys are going back to the forest where they made baits to attract the beetles. Namatame warns the kids that there could be snakes in the forest so Agasa will go with them.

In the forest, they are lot of beetles on the bags attached to the tree branches, and the Detective Boys are very happy catching them. Going back to the house, they spot Ikeda walking on the streets moaning about Namatame.

When Conan, Haibara, Agasa, and the Detective Boys arrive at Namatame's house, they find Namatame lying on the floor, injured.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Namatame's house Victim: Ryutarou Namatame Suspects: Kei Yabe and Shuhei Ikeda

Conan tells Namatame to get a hold of himself and suddenly, Namatame says, "Miyama stag beetle" before losing consciousness. When Haibara is about to call an ambulance with her cellphone, she notices that the Buddha statue Ryutarou had is gone.

Robbery
	Location: Namatame's house Suspects: Kei Yabe and Shuhei Ikeda Someone stole the Buddha statue.

Haibara doesn't have a signal range on her cellphone so she goes outside to look for one. Conan finds a little amount of hair on Namatame's back and wonders what did Namatame mean by "Miyama stag beetle".

Namatame is taken to the hospital while unconscious. The police arrive, and the investigation begins. Conan and the Detective Boys report everything they've seen, and also the Buddha statue that goes missing. The police mention about the missing Buddha statue case that has occurred at Kenkan Temple. Conan gives a little amount of hair he found on Namatame to the police so they can give it to the forensics to exam it. Agasa is still wondering what did Namatame mean "Miyama stag beetle", because, of course, the culprit can't be the beetle. Haibara mentions that she and the Detective Boys saw Ikeda while walking in the forest. Genta now knows that he has seen the beetles at Michi no Eki.

The police finds Ikeda and they want him for questioning. The police ask Ikeda where he was at 12:00 am. Mitsuhiko says that he was walking on the streets angrily saying, "That Ryutarou! I can't let my guard down!" The reason why Ikeda was saying that is because when he went watering the rice garden, the water was turned off. The only one who did that was Namatame. That's why he wanted to teach him a lesson when he would see him again. He says that he would haver never tried to kill Namatame. Conan asks Ikeda about the Buddha statue. Ikeda remembers there was a dirty one and he has a clue. He mentions about Kei Yabe who had lots of tools in his truck when being very sneaky. That made Ikeda suspicious. Genta remembers Yabe is wearing a Miyama stag beetle shirt.

The police visit Yabe because they want him for questioning. They ask Yabe where he was at 12:00 am. Yabe says he was at home, alone. Ikeda calls Yabe a liar because when Ikeda was watering the rice field and when he was on his way to his home, he visited Yabe's house and his truck wasn't there. The police asks Yabe if he did enter Namatame's house, hurt him, and steal the Buddha statue. Yabe denies it. Conan asks Officer Iwanaga about what the little amount of hair was and Officer Iwanaga says it was a dog's hair.

Conan, Haibara, and Agasa went back to Michi no Eki to find some clues. Conan asked anybody if they remember Conan and the group visiting to Michi no Eki. Nobody can't remembered except one person who sells plants. The plant owner remembered they were some couples buying the potted flower. The plant owner showed the potted flower to Conan and he finally solved the whole mystery.

People

Ryutarou Namatame
	Victim (beaten - injured) 52 years old

Kei Yabe
	27 years old

Shuhei Ikeda
	50 years old

Detective Motohashi
	45 years old

Detective Fujii
	27 years old

Officer Iwanaga
	55 years old

Man
	Woman's husband

Woman
	Man's wife

Resolution

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Meanwhile, the police are about to take Ikeda and Yabe to the station but stopped by Conan using Agasa's voice to present his deduction. Of course, Agasa is making mouth movement to make it look like what Conan is saying.

Ikeda and Yabe aren't the culprits of hurting Namatame and stealing the Buddha statue. However, Yabe did committed the crime of stealing the Buddha statue from the Kenkan Temple last night, not from Namatame. Conan found it under Yabe's truck before he goes investigating the Michi no Eki. If Ikeda and Yabe were the culprits, Namatame knows their names. He wouldn't say Miyama stag beetle. When Conan and the others arrived back at Namatame's house, the lights were on. Namatame went to his bed but he heard something, went to the meeting room, turned on the lights, and then got attacked. When they visited the Michi no Eki, Namatame was bragging about the Buddha statue from the Kamakura period. At that time, a couple that look like travelers were there. The couple bought one potted plant. Haibara shows the potted flower with the little sign to the police and they could not believe it. Namatame didn't mean Miyama stag beetle as an insect, what he means was a flower. They are both pronounced the same but could have different meanings. Namatame did saw the culprit's face but doesn't know the name of the culprit. So he wanted to say that the culprit is the one that bought the Miyama potted flower. As evidence, according to the plant owner that sold the potted flower, the plant owner said the couple had a dog. The little hair that Conan found on Namatame was the couple's dog. If the DNA matches, it will prove it.

After that, with the power of the police, they searched all the hotels that allowed pets. They found the couple. The couple that got caught in Tokyo thought they could sell the Buddha statue that they heard was from the Kamakura period for a high price. They followed Agasa's car and sneaked to Namatame's house to steal it. However, when they got it appraised, it was not made by anyone in particular. Namatame was released from the hospital after about 2-3 days.

In the end at Teitan Elementary School, Genta and Mitsuhiko got the beetles on their shirts to show off to other students but unfortunately, the students are interested in the potted flower with the sign saying Miyama stag beetle.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
0:07 - 1:16	昼下がりの天使たち（摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi(Matenrō Vājon)	Early Afternoon Angels(Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3:22 - 4:26	????
4:30 - 6:19	????
7:42 - 8:23	ベルモット	Berumotto	Vermouth	Detective Conan "The Raven Chaser" Original Soundtrack
9:03 - 9:35	友情	Yūjou	Friendship	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
10:15 - 11:06	謎解き（その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11:12 - 12:01	古城のテーマ	Kojō no Tēma	The Old Castle's Theme	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
12:42 - 14:21	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
14:39 - 15:25	コナン推理	Konan Suiri	Conan's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
15:29 - 15:55	スズランの花	Suzuran no Hana	The Lily of the Valley Flower	Detective Conan "The Raven Chaser" Original Soundtrack
17:26 - 18:04	ビートルジュース	Biitorujūsu	Betelgeuse	Detective Conan "The Raven Chaser" Original Soundtrack
19:25 - 20:27	????
20:31 - 21:53	????
23:44 - 23:58	THE END（あれまぁ～）	THE END (Aremā~)	THE END ("Good Heavens!")	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack

See also

• Season 21