The Shifting Mystery of Beika City

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Episode 857-858 (Int. Episode 912-913)
Information
Title:	The Shifting Mystery of Beika City
Japanese title:	米花町二転三転ミステリー (Beikachō Nitensanten Misuterī)
Original airdate:	April 29, 2017 (Part 1) May 6, 2017 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	6.1% 6.6%
Filler case:	#276
Season:	22
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	The ABC Murders (Part 1) Mystery magazines (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora Nobuharu Kamanaka
Episode director:	857: Takanori Yano 858: Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 857: Akio Kawamura 858: Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Nobuyuki Iwai Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Production cooperation:	857: BIG BANG
ExpandVoice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Takahiro Yoshino as Tatsuya Amagi Jin Horikawa as Hikoichi Bando Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Yosuke Chino Umeka Shoji as Hiro Ezaki Reiko Suzuki as Toyoko Kanemitsu Rina Kitagawa as Koyuki Gamo Ryu Yamaguchi as Tameo Fukuda Kotaro Shinohara as Zetto Ichimura Yumiko Konatsu as Eiko Hayama
Music
Opening song:	Ikusen no Meikyū de Ikusen no Nazo o Toite
Closing song:	YESTERDAY LOVE

The Shifting Mystery of Beika City (米花町二転三転ミステリー ,Beikachō Nitensanten Misuterī) is the 857th and 858th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Juzo Megure

Wataru Takagi

Kazunobu Chiba

Case

Situation

Part 1

Murder

Location: Near the condominium

Victim: Tatsuya Amagi

Age: 24 years old

Time: 9:00 p.m

Cause of death: Stab wounds in torso

Suspects: Tameo Fukuda, Toyoko Kanemitsu, Hiro Ezaki, Hikoichi Bando, Yosuke Chino, Koyuki Gamo, and all of the people in his neighborhood

Amagi's murder was obviously motivated by hatred, and the most complicating factor is that he was practically despised by everyone in the neighborhood due to his crude, violent manner and perpetuated acts of disorderly conduct, such as revving up his motorbike on the street in the dead of night.

Murder

Location: Bando's house

Victim: Hikoichi Bando

Age: 35 years old

Time: 9:00 p.m

Cause of death: Poison (pesticide)

Suspect: Yosuke Chino

According to the police, they found Bando's card near the body, so they went to his house, and found him dead. And the reason why Chino became a suspect because his lighter were found under the sofa. A college student named Hiro Ezaki was pestering him, saying "It's a good thing that Bando killed Amagi, that's what he deserved."

People

Tatsuya Amagi
	Victim (stabbed) 24 years old Unemployed

Tameo Fukuda
	33 years old Office worker

Hikoichi Bando
	Victim (poison) 35 years old Neighborhood association president

Hiro Ezaki
	20 years old College student

Toyoko Kanemitsu
	68 years old Cafe manager

Koyuki Gamo
	23 years old Waitress

Yosuke Chino
	35 years old College professor

Eiko Hayama
	55 years old Hikoichi's housekeeper

Zetto Ichimura
	32 years old Editor

Man
	Hiro's lover

Dorosue Yamiyo
	"The Melting Weapon" book author

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

Amagi and Bando were murdered by Toyoko Kanemitsu, but under a more indirect motive. Kanemitsu, a passionate mystery fan, had written a book titled The Melting Weapon and submitted it under the pen name "Yamiyo Dorosue" to the publishing company where Chino worked as a reviewer and censor. However, Chino judged the script as being too awful for publishing, and he openly voiced his derision of the author's writing skills and her pen name while visiting Kanemitsu's café, without knowing that he was addressing the very subject of his criticism. Thereupon Kanemitsu decided to take revenge on Chino by framing him for the murders of Tatsuya Amagi, since he was already hated by most of his neighbors, and Hikoichi Bando because he had been too negligent in challenging Amagi for his disorderly conduct.

Conan's clue for discovering Kanemitsu's guilt were the mystery books she had brought to her café and removed after the murders; all of them featured short stories she had already successfully published, and Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, on which the case was incidentally patterned based on the victims' last names and Kanemitsu's pen name. Kanemitsu, admitting her guilt, subtly left those clues so that only a true mystery fan, who would be Conan, would be able to expose her as the culprit.

In the episode's post-credit scene, a short review of The Melting Weapon is provided, demonstrating that Chino's assessment actually had a solid basis in fact. Kanemitsu had proposed a highly unrealistic murder method using a poisoned-covered slug as a weapon. While the victim was asleep, the murderer would release the slug into his bedroom. When the slug ended up on the victim's face, the poison would seep through the skin into his bloodstream, killing him, and the salty sweat exuded by the victim's death throes would melt the slug away, leaving no murder weapon.

Trivia

Episode 834

• The Haido University appeared in a painting from The Man Who Died Twice.
• The name "Dorosue" is a reference to mystery author Dorothy L. Sayers.
• The name of Kanemitsu's cafe is "Brown", which is a reference to G.K. Chesterton's detective priest, Father Brown.
• The motorbike is a Honda CB 400 Super Four.
• This episode pays homage to Agatha Christie's novel ABC Murders and also novel The Tragedy of X written by Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay.

  Show spoilers »

• The names of the characters follow the same pattern as in the ABC Murders, where the characters' last names are following an alphabetical order, except for the culprit's name (Toyoko Kanemitsu):

• A: Tatsuya Amagi;
• B: Hikoichi Bando;
• C: Yosuke Chino;
• D: Dorosue Yamiyo (the name is written in the Japanese order, henceforth, Dorosue is the last name);
• E: Hiro Ezaki;
• F: Tameo Fukuda;
• G: Koyuki Gamo;
• H: Eiko Hayama;
• I: Zetto Ichimura.

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El misteri de la cruïlla de Beika	The mystery of the Beika crossroad
French (Subbed)	Mystères et rebondissements à Beika	Mysteries and twists in Beika
Thai	คดีปริศนาที่ไม่แน่นอนของเมืองเบกะ
Vietnamese	Bí ẩn về hiện tượng lặp lại nhiều phần ở phố Beika

See also

• Season 22