The Coded Map of the City Case
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| Title: | The Coded Map of the City Case | ||
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| Japanese title: | 大都会暗号マップ事件 (Daitokai Angou Mappu Jiken) | ||
| Original airdate: | January 29, 1996 June 6, 2009 (Remastered version) | ||
| Season: | 1 | ||
| Manga source: | Volume 4: Files 7-10 (036-039) | ||
| English title: | Fish Marks the Spot | ||
| Dubbed episode: | Episode 4 | ||
| English airdate: | May 27, 2004 | ||
| Cast: | Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure | ||
| Case solved by: | Conan Edogawa | ||
| Next Conan's Hint: | Cell phone | ||
| Director: | Kenji Kodama | ||
| Screenplay: | Kazunari Kouchi | ||
| Storyboard: | Hirohito Ochi | ||
| Episode director: | Hirohito Ochi | ||
| Animation Director: | Haruo Ogawara | ||
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| Opening song: | Mune ga Dokidoki | ||
| Closing song: | STEP BY STEP | ||
| Prev episode: | « An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case | ||
| Next episode: | The Shinkansen's Bomb Case » | ||
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Contents
Cast
Case
Situation
| Robbery | |||||||
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People
| Dino Cavane | |
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| Cavane's accomplices | |
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Resolution
- Evidence
- There's no doubt that Dino Cavane and his accomplices are responsible for the theft of the Maple Leaf coins, but Cavane refuses to say where the coins are hidden.
- Conan and the Detective Boys find a piece of paper with odd symbols drawn on it and the word "ORO" as they leave a museum.
- After looking at an Italian-Japanese dictionary, Conan realizes "ORO" means "Gold" in Italian. Conan is shocked to realize he and the Detective Boys really did find a treasure map.
- Conan is puzzled why someone who is Italian would make a reference to a Japanese street name near Touto Tower.
- Conclusion
Conan realizes that the shapes on the treasure map really refer to the shapes of neon signs near Touto Tower. It wouldn't make sense for someone who does not speak Japanese to make a reference to a Japanese named street, but rather draw pictures of a recognizable objects they saw.
Conan and the Detective Boys manage to find the location of the missing Maple Leaf coins, only to be confronted by Cavane's thugs. Thanks to Conan's quick thinking, Conan and the Detective Boys manage to knock the thugs unconscious and run to the police.
Manga to anime changes
- An entire portion of the story is left out of the anime where Ran takes Conan, Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko to Touto Tower. She recalls a time when she and Shinichi visited the tower and when he bought her a cold drink, which he put up to her cheek. Conan does the same thing, which prompts her to ask him about his true identity (as the manga version takes place after the The Shinkansen's Bomb Case). Conan responds by stating that he is Kamen Yaiba. The scene in question would later appear (ironically) at the begining of the fourth movie Captured in Her Eyes which Ran has a flashback too.
Remastered version
On June 6, 2009, a remastered version of the case was aired.
Gallery
Genta finds a piece of paper with weird symbols on it, and the word "Oro". The group (all except for Conan) think it could be a treasure map.
Unaware to Conan and friends there are three men searching for that piece of paper, but instead of claiming it, the men lurk and see what the kids will discover.
The group look at the first symbol on the map, it looks like the Touto Tower so they go to check it out.
Conan thinks the symbols on the map could relate to objects in real life, like an umbrella. The Detective Boys realize that all these symbols can be found at a clothing store.
Trivia
- This is the first episode that a bunch of robberies appeared.
See also
| Episodes of Season 1 | ||
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| Episode 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 |
