Chiba's Difficult UFO Case

Episode 847-848 (Int. Episode 902-903)
Information
Title:	Chiba's Difficult UFO Case
Japanese title:	千葉のUFO(ユーフォー)難事件 (Chiba no Yūfō Nanjiken)
Original airdate:	January 28, 2017 (Part 1) February 4, 2017 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	7.6% 7.3%
Manga case:	#272
Season:	26
Manga source:	Volume 89: Files 5-7 (942-944)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kazunobu Chiba Naeko Miike Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Hina Wada Juzo Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Yumi Miyamoto Ai Haibara Mary Shuichi Akai Akemi Miyano Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku Jodie Starling Andre Camel Detective Horita Detective Nakamura Unnamed officer
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Concrete (Part 1) Garbage bag (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Masaki Ozora
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	847: Akira Yoshimura 848: Koichiro Kuroda
Animation Director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 847: Asuka Tsubuki 848: Michitaka Yamamoto, Ryuta Imaizumi, Shigenori Taniguchi, Miori Nomura, and Ippeita Watanabe
Character Design:	Masatomo Sudo Nobuyuki Iwai Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Production Cooperation:	848: Azeta Pictures
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Rikako Aikawa as Kazunobu Chiba (young) Rie Tanaka as Naeko Miike, Naeko Miike (young) Yu Sugimoto as Yumi Miyamoto Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Kazuhiko Inoue as Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Miyuki Ichijou as Jodie Starling Mikako Komatsu as Hina Wada Koki Mitomo as Kyogo Nakatsu Hiroki Takahashi as Yusuke Kuchiki Risa Hayamizu as Policewoman A Chiyako Shibahara as Policewoman B Yuko Ueda as Manager
Music
Opening song:	Ikusen no Meikyū de Ikusen no Nazo o Toite
Closing song:	YESTERDAY LOVE
Chronology
Prev episode:	« Conan Cornered in the Darkness
Next episode:	The Marriage Registration's Password »
List of episodes

Chiba's Difficult UFO Case (千葉のUFO(ユーフォー)難事件 ,Chiba no Yūfō Nanjiken) is the 847th and 848th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Kazunobu Chiba Naeko Miike Yumi Miyamoto Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Hina Wada Juzo Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Ai Haibara (background) Mary (background) Shuichi Akai (background) Akemi Miyano (background) Sonoko Suzuki (background) Makoto Kyogoku (background) Jodie Starling (flashback) Andre Camel (flashback) Detective Horita (cameo) Detective Nakamura (cameo) Unnamed officer (cameo)

Case

Situation

Part 1

A girl from Haido Senior High School comes to Kogoro's office to report a sighting of an alien at Haido Park. Conan recalls that this is the same place where the incidents of Natsuko Shibuya happened. He also recalls that if Haibara and Mary look alike, they can be related. That can then mean Haibara and Akai Shuichi are also related. Kogoro, Conan, and Ran get to the school, and they see a big piece of concrete with footsteps on it. Officer Chiba later arrives and tells them there was a murder here and that a man was caught in it. It is said that the man was killed by an alien who came out from an flying UFO and fled just after.

Murder

Location: Backyard lot at Haido High School Victim: Kyogo Nakatsu Age: 42 years old Cause of death: Suffocation Suspect: Yusuke Kuchiki One morning, Nakatsu and Kuchiki were both found by construction workers lying side by side inside a patch of hardening concrete. Forensics found that Nakatsu was suffocated by having his breathing cut off, but no murder weapon was found. Upon being questioned, Kuchiki has claimed that Nakatsu was actually killed by an alien hovering above them. Some credibility for this tale is lent by the fact that the only footprints found in the concrete were Nakatsu's and Kuchiki's.

People

Hina Wada
	17 years old Haido High School karate player Ran's self-declared karate rival

Kyogo Nakatsu
	Victim (suffocated) 42 years old Magazine editor

Yusuke Kuchiki
	38 years old Magazine contributor Alien fanatic

Policewoman #1
	Police officer with the same rank as Naeko Criticizing Chiba

Policewoman #2
	Police officer with the same rank as Naeko Mocking Chiba

Man
	Construction site worker

Woman
	Chiba's apartment building's manager

Resolution

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Conan's reconstruction of the alleged "UFO".

Yusuke Kuchiki murdered Nakatsu because the latter had derided his latest effort in taking an actual UFO picture; the trigger for the murder was that Nakatsu suggested that he could submit even a picture of a fake UFO. Kuchiki used a solar balloon - a black, cylindrical plastic bag which floats if the air inside is warmed sufficiently - as the murder weapon, cutting off Nakatsu's breathing and forcing him into the concrete patch. Following Nakatsu's demise, Kuchiki let the balloon float away into the nearby Haido Park, where it eventually ended up in one of its trees, and then dropped himself onto his own deepened footprints (which would have betrayed his perpetration), erasing them. He merely concocted the "alien murderer" story in order to ward suspicion off himself.

However, Kuchiki committed a number of mistakes which eventually lead to his arrest:

• In order to faciliate his plan, he had practiced the disposal of the murder weapon long beforehand, leading to Hina's purported UFO sighting. The black practice balloon and several book about physics, in which the solar balloon effect was described, were found by Conan in Kuchiki's cupboard during the house search.
• The fact that Kuchiki had pulled his hood over his head despite the warm day on which he committed the murder, in order to prevent his hair from getting stuck in the hardening concrete.
• That he did not post his alleged "alien encounter" on the Internet, despite him being such an UFO fanatic, because he did not want anyone to search for and find the "UFO", which was still stuck somewhere in Haido Park.
• The fact that, following the attempt at Natsuko Shibuya's life, security cameras were installed in the park, rendering Kuchiki unable to retrieve the balloon without being seen. The traces of Nakatsu's saliva and Kuchiki's fingerprints on the plastic would provide the crucial evidence of his murder act.

Manga to anime changes

• File 944 begins with Kogoro watching a UFO themed movie starring Yoko Okino. This doesn't happen in the anime.

Trivia

• The character design for the alien is the same in The Disappointing and Kind Alien.
• Detective Chiba's first name is revealed to be "Kazunobu".
• This was the first and only time that Chiba was shown as skinny and attractive to other women.
• The suspects' names are related to celestial bodies:

• Hina Wada (和田 陽奈) is the actual name of a fan who won the occasion to appear in the manga during the Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day 2015. Moreover, it is a reference to the sun (太陽, taiyō / 日, hi);
• Kyōgo Nakatsu (中津 恭吾) comes from the moon (月, tsuki);
• Yūsuke Kikuchi (朽木 雄輔) comes from the Earth (地球, chikyū).

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Un cas d'ovnis difícil per a l'inspector Chiba	A difficult UFO case for Inspector Chiba
Thai	คดี UFO ที่ยากของชิบะ	Chiba's Difficult UFO Case
Vietnamese	Vụ án UFO khó nhằn của Chiba

See also

• Season 26