A Cottage Surrounded by Zombies

Chronology
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Episode 830-832 (Int. Episode 885-887)
Information
Title:	A Cottage Surrounded by Zombies
Japanese title:	ゾンビが囲む別荘 (Zonbi ga Kakomu Bessō?)
Original airdate:	September 3, 2016 (Part 1) September 10, 2016 (Part 2) September 17, 2016 (Part 3)
Broadcast rating:	6.1% 6.6% 6.2%
Manga case:	#269
Season:	21
Manga source:	Volume 88: Files 5-9 (931-935)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Misao Yamamura Yoko Okino Shinichi Kudo Goro Otaki
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori
Next Conan's Hint:	Zombie Blade (Part 1) Audition (Part 2) Toilet paper (Part 3)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Storyboard:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Episode director:	830: Koichiro Kuroda 831: Hiroshi Akiyama 832: Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 830: Michitaka Yamamoto and Juri Saito 831: Asuka Tsubuki and Tomoko Fukunaga 832: Nobuyuki Iwai, Ayu Imoto, and Kenichi Otomo
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Nobuyuki Iwai Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Production cooperation:	830: Azeta Pictures
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Yuko Miyamura as Kazuha Toyama Toshio Furukawa as Misao Yamamura Miki Nagasawa as Yoko Okino Haruo Sato as Takashi Harawaki Noriaki Sugiyama as Joji Naito Takumi Watanabe as Male Zombie A Masayuki Hirai as Male zombie B Ryoko Maekawa as Female zombie Masaki Aizawa as Tetsuto Naito Machiko Toyoshima as Orie Baisho Nobuyuki Kobushi as Masahachi Ninomiya Chie Sato as Kyoko Ejiri Yuki Masuda as Ria Kawabata
Music
Opening song:	Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru
Closing song:	SAWAGE☆LIFE

A Cottage Surrounded by Zombies (ゾンビが囲む別荘 ,Zonbi ga Kakomu Bessō) is the 830th, 831st, and 832nd episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Misao Yamamura Yoko Okino (TV screen) Shinichi Kudo (background) Goro Otaki (background)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Kogoro, Ran, Heiji, and Kazuha are going to a cottage located in Gunma Prefecture because of a crime that happened there. Kogoro feels sick, so he wanted to go in the toilet but when he came out, he feels weak because he ate a poisonous mushroom. According to Conan, when someone eats the mushroom, they feel its deliciousness but also feels it's poison.

Kogoro goes into the forest and found some delicious mushrooms, when he ate it, he got poisoned. So he took a rest, supposed to be in the director's car, but Takashi was nowhere to be found. Heiji and Conan searched everyone's rooms. After that, Takashi has already died. They tried to called their cellphones but there's no service.

Suicide?
	Location: Cottage Victim: Takashi Harawaki Age: 30 years old Cause of death: Hydrocyanic poisoning Suspects: Tetsuto Naito, Ria Kawabata, Kyoko Ejiri, Orie Baisho, and Masahachi Ninomiya He was found dead when Conan and Heiji got into the Takashi's room.

They found a video leaning on Takashi's room, when he drinks the water, he was poisoned already. They discussed the case eight years ago.

Accident? (Past)
	Location: Cottage Victim: Joji Naito Time: 8 years ago Cause of death: Starvation Suspects: Tetsuto Naito, Ria Kawabata, Kyoko Ejiri, Orie Baisho, Takashi Harawaki, and Masahachi Ninomiya He was starved to death when he was found 4 days later.

His plan was not successful, it backfired and caused him to die.

Part 2

Zombie attack.

At that time, while Kogoro was not healed, he saw some zombies on the window. Heiji cuts the head of a zombie, and it was humans who startled it. They learned about the zombie party before.

Murder
	Location: Cottage Victim: Kyoko Ejiri Age: 30 years old Cause of death: Slit wound on the throat Culprit: Takashi Harawaki? She was slit on the neck after Kogoro scares Ran and Kazuha because there are zombies on the window leaning Kogoro's room.

Part 3

Conan and Heiji solve the case.

People

Tetsuto Naito
	38 years old Movie director

Ria Kawabata
	29 years old Actress

Takashi Harawaki
	Victim (poison) 30 years old Producer

Kyoko Ejiri
	Victim (throat slit) 30 years old Camerawoman

Orie Baisho
	29 years old Lighting technician

Masahachi Ninomiya
	29 years old Soundman

Joji Naito
	Deceased (starved) Tetsuto's younger brother Horror club president

Resolution

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Heiji reveals that the videos on the cell phones are the ones that were originally from the movie they were filming eight years ago. When they first met Takashi and Kyoko today, Takashi had a beard and different pants and Kyoko was wearing makeup and her hair style was a bit different than what was seen in the two videos. Also if you zoom in, you can see an E on Kyoko's shirt that is not present on her corpse.

Conan reveals that the way the killer knew the movie subtitle was that they used a toilet paper roll to block out the light and make the words on the paper visible through the envelope. As for Takashi's body, it was placed on the missing trolley cart and hidden in the back portion of the dresser where parts of the drawers had been removed to create a cavity on the inside. This was the same trick that Joji had used for his disappearing act 8 years ago. The drawers had become stuck in place when the crew had moved the dresser to look for him. However it was a trick that he couldn't do alone.

The culprit is Ria Kawabata. She helped Joji perform the trick but did not realize he had become stuck. His death was truthfully an unfortunate accident. A while later Takashi found messages from Joji inside the dresser where he had scratched in blood that he blamed Ria for his death. Takashi then began to blackmail Ria, which is why she killed him. Kyoko was killed because she realized that the video used for Takashi's death was the one from eight years ago.

On the way home, Heiji attempts to confess to Kazuha but a zombie extra pops out, annoying them.

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga, after noticing the zombies in the window, Heiji and Conan wonder if they might be movie extras, with Heiji later noting that they must not be after hearing the film crew scream in reaction to the zombies. This does not happen in the anime.
• In the second part of the case, between the moment where Conan grabs a boom mic to defend himself and the moment that the window breaks, there is a scene where Heiji tosses the chair he grabbed to the side and runs off to grab the Zombie Sword prop, leaving behind a very frightened Conan who in confusion asks where Heiji is going. While the scene is brief, this does not happen in the manga.

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* In the manga Heiji explains how someone can hide inside the wardrobe without anyone's help.

Trivia

• The zombie blade featured in this case resembles the Devil King Sword used by Takeshi Onimaru from Yaiba, one of Gosho Aoyama's previous works.
• The names of the suspects come from zombie movies:

• Tetsuto Naitō (内東 徹人) comes from Night of the Living Dead (ナイト・オブ・ザ・リビングデッド ,Naito obu za ribingudeddo);
• Ria Kawabata (河端 理亜) comes from The Return of the Living Dead, released in Japan under the name Battalion (バタリアン ,Batarian);
• Takashi Harawaki (原脇 崇) comes from The Evil Dead (死霊のはらわた ,Shiryō no harawata);
• Kyōko Ejiri (江尻 恭子) comes from Day of the Dead (死霊のえじき ,Shiryō no ejiki);
• Orie Baishō (倍賞 織江) comes from Resident Evil, released in Japan under the name Biohazard (バイオハザード ,Baiohazādo);
• Masahachi Ninomiya (二宮 雅八) comes from 28 Days Later (28日後... ,Nijūhachi nighi go) and 28 Weeks Later (28週後... ,Nijūhasshūgo);
• Jōji Naitō (内東 丞治) comes from Night of the Living Dead as well as George A. Romero (ジョージ・A・ロメロ ,Jōji Ē Romero), who wrote and directed the series.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Una mansió envoltada de zombis	A mansion surrounded by zombies
Thai	บ้านพักตากอากาศที่ล้อมรอบด้วยซอมบี้	A Cottage Surrounded by Zombies
Vietnamese	Ngôi nhà bị thây ma vây quanh

See also

• Season 21