Picking Wild Plants and Clovers

Episode 1011-1012 (Int. Episode 1068-1069)
Information
Title:	Picking Wild Plants and Clovers
Japanese title:	山菜狩りとクローバー (Sansai kari to kurōbā)
Original airdate:	July 10, 2021 (Part 1) July 17, 2021 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	6.6% (Part 1) 5.4% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#297
Season:	31
Manga source:	Volume 97: Files 7-9 (1032-1034)
English version
English title:	Picking Wild Plants and Clovers
Dubbed episode:	1011-1012
English airdate:	March 29, 2023 (Tubi)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Sumiko Kobayashi Rumi Wakasa Misao Yamamura Kohji Haneda
Case solved by:	Misao Yamamura (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Commemorative photo (Part 1) Lucky Charm (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Masaki Ozora
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	1011: Koichiro Kuroda 1012: Masahiro Takada
Animation Director:	1011: Seiji Muta and Nobuyuki Iwai (supervisors) Kaoru Nagakawa tofu Michitaka Yamamoto 1012: Seiji Muta (supervisor) Akio Kawamura
Character Design:	Masatomo Sudo Akiko Motoyoshi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (Design Works)
Production Cooperation:	1011: Azeta Pictures 1012: BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Yuko Kato as Sumiko Kobayashi Fumi Hirano as Rumi Wakasa Toshio Furukawa as Misao Yamamura Hiroki Yasumoto as Kohji Haneda Yutaka Furukawa as Police detective Taro Yamaguchi as Toji Fukikoshi Yumi Toma as Maika Zenda
Music
Opening song:	ZERO kara Hajimete
Closing song:	Reboot
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Idol Whose Smile Disappeared
Next episode:	The Man Who Loved Too Much »
List of episodes

Picking Wild Plants and Clovers (山菜狩りとクローバー ,Sansai kari to kurōbā) is the 1011th and 1012th episode of the Detective Conan anime. This case revealed Rumi Wakasa might have a connection to Kohji Haneda.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Sumiko Kobayashi Rumi Wakasa Misao Yamamura Kohji Haneda (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Part 1

Maika Zenda decides to kill her would be husband, Toji Fukikoshi, in front of his villa.

Murder
	Location: In front of Fukikoshi's manor in Minanokami, Gunma Prefecture Victim: Toji Fukikoshi Age: 42 years old Time: Several hours ago Cause of death: Stab wound on the torso Culprit: Maika Zenda

Several hours later, Zenda picks up the Detective Boys, along with their teachers at the station. Using Zenda's car, they go to pick wild plants. Later, while Ayumi and Zenda are searching for Zenda's earring, Conan, Haibara, and Rumi find Fukikoshi's body under the tree just next to the rear of the car.

Yamamura arrives and investigates the scene. He finds out that when the Detective Boys took a photo immediately after arriving, there was no corpse under the tree. Yamamura's assistant then reveals that Fukikoshi is a marriage swindler wanted by the police.

Meanwhile, Ayumi is searching for a four-leaf clover, which was found while she was searching for Zenda's earring. Ayumi plans to give the clover to Zenda as a lucky charm. Hearing that, Rumi recalls Kohji Haneda's dead body and covers her right eye.

Part 2

Yamamura's assistant finds the villa where the murder happened. Inside the villa, there was a woman whose hands were covered with blood. Yamamura suspects the woman to be the culprit.

Conan later finds the four-leaf clover, and realizes how the body suddenly appeared under the tree.

People

Toji Fukikoshi
	Victim (stabbed) 42 years old IT company director

Maika Zenda
	38 years old Former elementary school teacher

Shigefumi Uruma
	Toji's real identity Wanted marriage swindler

Woman
	Shigefumi's girlfriend Has nyctophobia and claustrophobia

Police detective
	Gunma Prefecture Police assistant inspector

Forensics officer
	Gunma Prefectural Police forensics officer

Resolution

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Conan has no choice but to tranquilize Yamamura in front of Rumi. Maika Zenda didn't have to drag the body while the kids were there, since she had already done so hours ago. She parked her car in front of the body, just as Yamamura speculated, but the body wasn't seen since it was hidden by the cardboard boxes since she had asked the Detective Boys to place them on the window since they were taking place in the van.

She said they were used for her moving in with her would be husband, but were in fact they were only used for her trick. She then took the picture with the kids and used it as proof that the body wasn't next to rear of the van. While everyone was picking wild plants, she would expect them to grow thirsty, so she purposely left the refreshments in the car. She then volunteered to head back to the car when everybody started to get thirsty.

She also asked Ayumi to go with her to establish her alibi. When they arrived at the car, she would pretend to have lost her earring to force the two of them to crouch and search the ground for it, and she would use that moment to move the car without even starting the engine. Previously, before leaving the car, she set the gear to neutral, so that the front wheel wouldn’t get locked in and she would be able to move the car by pushing the wheel, which is evidenced by the fact that she has more mud on the back of her sleeves than on her arms.

The use of Ayumi for establishing the alibi is also because she is short, and a tall person would be able to notice her meddling with the back of the wheel. After moving it, she successfully made the corpse visible to everyone. They wouldn't suspect that the car moved since she parked it next to two identical trees. Proof that the car was moved is the four-leaf clover that Ayumi was looking for and that was now missing. It was in fact under the front wheel, which shouldn't be the case, if she didn't move the car.

Ayumi however defends Maika to the point of being reduced to tears, saying there is no way she would do something like this as she is very kind. Maika seeing this apologizes for using her to create her alibi and admits her guilt, she confesses that she found out long ago that her husband was cheating on her. She brought him to the house he had been using for his affair as it would be the last thing he saw before she killed him. She then framed his lover and mistress, by leaving her restrained in the very house they used to cheat on her.

Aftermath

Ayumi then decides to give the four-leaf clover to Rumi. Rumi thanks her and promises to always keep it tucked in her handkerchief for good luck. However, after Ayumi turns around, she silently lets the clover fly out of the handkerchief, and Conan stares at her suspiciously as it flies by his face.

Manga to anime changes

• A scene with the Detective Boys and their teachers in the train is shown at the beginning, which wasn't in the manga.

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• Kohji's palm bruise is not shown in the anime. However, the anime shows Kohji's bishop small crack mark, while in the manga it was hidden.

Trivia

• There are some references to the manga series Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi.

• Incidentally, Lum and Ataru Morobushi from the series is voiced by Fumi Hirano (Rumi Wakasa's voice actress) and Toshio Furukawa (Misao Yamamura's voice actor) respectively.

• There is a scene when Conan is playing cards with Mitsuhiko and Genta in the train, which is a reference to The 36-Cell Perfect Game.
• The fake names used by Uruma are Michio Kogo (古後 道生), Hajime Tadano (只野 創), Ruita Usui (薄井 塁太) and Rikuaki Segawa (瀬川 陸明).
• The case takes place in Minakami (みなかみ), in Gunma prefecture, but the names were changed to Minanokami (みなのかみ). Similarly, Minakami Station (水上駅) becomes Minanokami Station (水乃上駅). The village is also approximately an hour away from Mount Fuyuna (冬名山), the real-life Mount Haruna (榛名山) which is the setting place of The Witch Enshrouded by Fog.
• The van is a white Mazda Biante. The license plate is 赤城 301, す 37・26 (Akagi 301, Su 37-26).
• The train the Detective Boys and their teachers take is on the Jōetsu Line from Takasaki to Nagaoka. It is operated in real-life by JR East, but the anime changed it to TR East.
• The names of the suspects and Fukikoshi's aliases come from edible wild plant names in Japanese:

• Maika Zenda (善田 舞佳) comes from the Asian royal fern (ゼンマイ, Zenmai in Japanese);
• Toji Fukikoshi (吹越 桐司) comes from butterbur sprouts (蕗の薹, Fukinotō in Japanese);
• Ruito Usui (薄井 塁人) comes from leaves of Siebold's plantain lily (ウルイ, Urui in Japanese);
• Hajime Tadano (只野 創) comes from Japanese angelica tree sprouts (タラの芽, Taranome in Japanese);
• Michio Kogo (古後 道生) comes from young shoots of the fiddlehead fern (コゴミ, Kogomi in Japanese);
• Rikuaki Segawa (瀬川 陸明) comes from the water celery (芹, Seri in Japanese).
• As opposed to that, Fukikoshi's real name Shigefumi Uruma (閏間 茂史) comes from the lacquer tree (漆, Urushi in Japanese), a toxic plant always mistaken for an edible wild plant.

• The painting about flowers in the house appeared before in Karahashi Group's lobby from Conan Cornered in the Darkness and in Mori family's former apartment from Memories from Sakura Class. Open spoiler box to see images.

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Episode 846

Episode 853

Episode 1012

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La recollida de plantes silvestres i el trèvol	The harvesting of wild plants and clover
French (Subbed)	La Cueillete et le Trèfle	The harvesting and the clover
Thai	เก็บผักป่ากับใบโคลเวอร์	Picking wild vegetable and clovers
Vietnamese	Hái rau dại và cỏ bốn lá

See also

• Season 31