Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (series)

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The Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (本庁の刑事恋物語 ,Honchō no Keiji Koi-monogatati) series is a series of the Detective Conan manga and anime.

Anime

Jpn#	Eng#	Episode title	Original airdate	English airdate	Plot	Manga source	Season
146	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (Part 1)	May 24, 1999			V21 - F8~10	Season 6
The detective boys go to the police station who are trying to figure out who robbed a nearby bank. The man who owns the bank phones his wife, then gives the phone to one of the officers. Suddenly, the woman screams and she is then found dead in her house with a wound from a knife. Conan thinks that these two cases are related - did the robbers kill the wife because she recognized one of them? He sees the man smiling at his wife's dead body. Yumi Miyamoto debuts in this episode, in a flashback with Takagi. Sato's, Takagi's, and Shiratori's characters develop fully. Shiratori becomes a full time Inspector. Sato and Takagi's budding romance is explored for the first time.
147	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (Part 2)	May 30, 1999			V21 - F8~10	Season 6
Conan gives the police small clues and they eventually find out that the man killed his own wife and staged the robbery to his own bank. Takagi and Sato are about to eat a ramen dinner together, until Megure interrupts and insists that he take Sato somewhere, along with Takagi.
156	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2 (Part 1)	August 9, 1999			V23 - F10 ~ V24 - F2	Season 6
Sato is chasing a murderer through the school building where the Detective Boys are in. After cornering him, she accidentally handcuffs him to her between a toilet handle, trapping them. The man proclaims he is innocent and that needs to get on a plane tomorrow to attend his daughter's wedding. She tells Takagi to solve the case before the time and not to inform the police. The Tokyo police department send out a massive manhunt for the suspect, Sato, and Takagi. Sato and Takagi's romance is once again explored.
157	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2 (Part 2)	August 16, 1999			V23 - F10 ~ V24 - F2	Season 6
With the help of the Detective Boys, the case is solved. However, the building Sato and the suspect is trapped in is about to be blown up. With all the ruckus of the people, they are unable to warn Agasa who created a special bomb called Tropical Rainbow, a bomb that explodes with all the colors of the rainbow. Conan manages to knock Agasa out before he pushes the button to demolish the building. Takagi is also extremely relieved when he finds out that Sato only sees Inspector Megure as a fatherly figure. Takagi is relieved when he learns that Sato only thinks of Megure as a father figure.
205	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3 (Part 1)	August 28, 2000			V27 - F4~F7	Season 8
A serial arsonist sets huge fires across the city and Takagi and Sato with the Detective Boys are out to solve it. It turns out this is also the day the case of Sato's father's death will be annulled, and the bank robber will be able to keep the money he stole from the bank. Sato sets out to solve both cases before the day ends, but Takagi has been attacked by the arsonist. Masayoshi Sato's first appearance. Sato's feelings for avenging her father's death are displayed. When Takagi says a line similar to the last thing Sato's father said to her on the day he was killed, she gets very scared. Takagi and Sato's budding romantic feelings for each other are once again on display. Sato lets Takagi use her treasured handcuffs, the ones her father used. After she learns that Takagi dissappears, Sato is also very determined to find him. Sato's past is explored. Her father was also a policeman, but he was killed by one of his own close friends. Sato is set out to find this person.
206	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3 (Part 2)	September 4, 2000			V27 - F4~F7	Season 8
After Ai reveals the pattern of the arsonist attack, the Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko run into the arsonist who attempts to kill them. Takagi is revealed to be inside the warehouse the arsonist set fire to. He can't break the handcuffs due to them being a momentum from Sato's dead father. Conan manages to arrive in time and stop the arsonist, but does not realize Takagi is in the burning warehouse. Meanwhile, the clock strikes midnight and the suspected bank robber explains everything to Sato, saying how his father saved his life. Sato reveals that due to the typhoon in Italy, the anull date was moved forward by one day. Takagi seemingly dies but appears with his handcuffs attached to the window bars. He collapses in Sato's arms. Even though Takagi knew that he could have shot the handcuffs to escape from the trap that was set, he was still determined to never shoot them, and find another way out, knowing how much those handcuffs meant to Sato. A bewildered Sato sees Takagi, her feelings for him finally growing stronger when she learns that not only is he safe, but that he cared so much to not even touch the handcuffs. Due to this, Sato and Takagi go on a date! However, the date turns into another case, as Megure calls them both before they can even begin the date, to monitor an escaped convict. We finally learned what happened to Sato's father on the day he died.
253	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4 (Part 1)	October 15, 2001			V32 - F11 ~ V33 - F2	Season 9
Sato is having an arranged marriage meeting with a man due to her mother's persistence. She arrives to find out it's Ninzaburo Shiratori. She proposes that if Takagi does not arrive to her before sunset, she will marry him whether she wants to or not. He accepts, but Takagi is busy with a store robbery. Three of the eye witnesses all give different description and three culprits are kept in the back of the police car. Conan on the phone prepares to help Takagi solve the case as Kudo Shinichi. Takagi is determined to not let Shiratori marry Sato! Also, Yumi has a plan that involves Takagi running in to save Sato just in time. Sato and Takagi's feelings for each other are heavily explored. Everyone knows about their feelings for each other, except Sato and Takagi themselves!
254	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4 (Part 2)	October 22, 2001			V32 - F11 ~ V33 - F2	Season 9
Takagi solves the case and arrests the culprit when he tries to make a dash out of the police car. Takagi catches up and gives up on going to Sato in time to stop the marriage as the sun is almost set and the car is too far away. His party comes to cheer him on and he runs. Conan manages to stop the marriage in time with Tomoaki Araide's help. Takagi manages to reach the restaurant but the sun has completely sunk. He then sees Sato around the corner who tells him he told her an emergency case has come up. Takagi smiles as he enters the car. Meanwhile Shiratori leaves the restaurant, disappointed in his close marriage. Conan comments how Takagi and Sato reminded him of Ran and himself. With a little help from Chiba, Conan, and Dr. Araide, Takagi is able to stop the almost kiss! And we get to know why Conan(Shinichi) is helping Takagi with his love! Before she is about to kiss Shiratori, Sato finally admits to herself her strong feelings for Takagi, mentioning how much she'll miss him. Takagi stops the kiss in time!
358	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5 (Part 1)	May 3, 2004			V40 - F1~3	Season 13
Takagi and Sato are on a date at Tropical Island while the Tokyo police force try and prevent Takagi from making a move with Sato. Later, the Detective Boys are bought up and Takagi and Sato are forced to watch over them. Later Takagi's bag with a wedding ring in it is switched, and Takagi finds out he has a bag of cocaine. Takagi and Sato are on a date! He plans on offering her a ring, but the other officers are jealous and interfere!
359	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5 (Part 2)	May 10, 2004			V40 - F1~3	Season 13
With evidence from the bag and elimination, they are able to track down the culprit and arrest him but Takagi's bag is lost in the ocean in the process.
390	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6 (Part 1)	February 28, 2005			V44 - F4~6	Season 14
Yumi overhears that a promotion for Takagi will send him to a case in a far away place where he shall remain there until the case is solved. Apparantly the case involves a large number of people in a crime organization, where he is expected to be there for three years. Later the Detective Boys are walking home when they noticed a strange jogger. Takagi, Sato, and Chou are placed on the case of a murder. The Detective Boys come across them and identify the jogger as the suspect. When they arrive, the suspect's allibi of video recordings proves he was there the whole time the murder took place, but the Detective Boys are certain he was the jogger. What's more, the alibi is confirmed by Officer Chiba, since it's his roommate. Chosuke Takagi is introduced.
391	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6 (Part 2)	March 7, 2005			V44 - F4~6	Season 14
Conan discovers that the suspect tricked Chiba's sense of time. He revealed that there was a re-air of the news, and it was dubbed. He also revealed that the culprit cut out parts and fast forwarded parts of the video to manipulate time. He also spun the time two hours behind, and slowly fixed it as the day dragged on. Afterwards, Takagi almost proposes to Sato but Megure reveals to him Chosuke Takagi is the one being sent for the case. They later take the Detective Boys to Karaoke.
431	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7 (Part 1)	February 20, 2006			V50 - F1~4	Season 15
Mouri, Ran, and Conan are at a café when they run into Takagi who is aiming to pick up girls. Meanwhile, he finds Sato there doing the same. After a tense date with two strangers, Conan realizes from the conversation that a boy home alone is in danger. When they arrive at their house, the boy has been kidnapped. The kidnapper leaves an email demanding money.
432	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7 (Part 2)	February 27, 2006			V50 - F1~4	Season 15
After solving clues Takagi leaves suddenly and Conan reveals who the kidnapper is. Just then, the boy returns home unharmed, making them believe the culprit will try to make a run for it. After arriving to his house it is revealed that a winning lottery ticket was returned to the culprit in his mailbox, making him release his friends had no intention of stealing from him and the guilt of his crime caused him to suicide. Takagi manages to save his life while Sato yells at him for the danger he could have been in.
449	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding (1 Hour Special)	August 21, 2006			V52 - F3~5	Season 15
Takagi and Miyamoto poses as a bride and groom in order to catch a serial killer/burglar who had threatened to kill the real bride and groom. When Chiba reports that the burned corpse of one of the wedding guests is found near the river, Megure deduces that the victim was killed by the serial killer in order to obtain the wedding invitation. A mysterious video arrives at the wedding party from a friend of the groom. After watching the video, Megure suspects that the killer is already in the chapel and Conan suggests that the bride meet with the guests in order to find the burglar who broke into her house. The bride reports that there are three suspicious guests: a photographer, a snowboarding instructor, and an internet administrator. The groom insists that the wedding to proceed, despite Megure's protests. As the bride walks down the aisle, the burglar suddenly appears. However, the groom announces that the burglar was actually a police officer, Chiba, posing as the burglar. Megure points out that Chiba has been by the river and the groom could not have figured out the burglar's true identity. Megure also reveals that the groom was the burglar's accomplice and in the end killed the burglar so he could marry the bride for money. When the groom attempts to escape, he is stopped by Conan and Ran.
487	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger (1 Hour Special)	October 15, 2007			V56 - F1~3	Season 16
Sato has a ring on her left hand ring finger, which all the officers believe was given to her by Takagi, thus, making them angry at him. Sato receives a call from Ran that there was a murder. A fifty-two year old mystery author is murdered.
568	-	Inspector Shiratori, Memories of the Cherry Blossom (Part 1)	March 13, 2010			V66 - F2~4	Season 19
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569	-	Inspector Shiratori, Memories of the Cherry Blossom (Part 2)	March 20, 2010			V66 - F2~4	Season 19
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583	-	Kobayashi-sensei's Love	August 14, 2010			V68 - F9 ~ V69 - F1	Season 19
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584	-	Inspector Shiratori's Lost Love	August 21, 2010			V68 - F9 ~ V69 - F1	Season 19
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585	-	Timeless Sakura's Love	August 28, 2010			V68 - F9 ~ V69 - F1	Season 19
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624	-	A Video Letter of First Love	July 16, 2011			V71 - F1~2	Season 20
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659	-	Co-Investigating with a First Love (Part 1)	June 9, 2012			V75 - F6~8	Season 21
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660	-	Co-Investigating with a First Love (Part 2)	June 16, 2012			V75 - F6~8	Season 21
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731	-	The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene (Part 1)	March 1, 2014			V80 - F8~10	Season 23
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732	-	The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene (Part 2)	March 8, 2014			V80 - F8~10	Season 23
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748	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (Confession)	August 2, 2014			V82 - F8~10	Season 24
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749	-	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (Truth)	August 9, 2014			V82 - F8~10	Season 24
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785	-	Taiko Meijin's Match of Love (Part 1)	July 18, 2015			V85 - F6~9	Season 24
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786	-	Taiko Meijin's Match of Love (Part 2)	July 25, 2015			V85 - F6~9	Season 24
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See also

• Tokyo Metropolitan Police
• Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato
• Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto
• Kazunobu Chiba and Naeko Miike
• Ninzaburo Shiratori and Sumiko Kobayashi