Rondo in Bad Company

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Episode 1021 (Int. Episode 1078)
Information
Title:	Rondo in Bad Company
Japanese title:	悪友たちの輪舞(ロンド) (Akuyū-tachi no Rondo)
Original airdate:	October 2, 2021
Broadcast rating:	6.3%
Filler case:	#355
Season:	26
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	30 Million Yen
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	Yoshihiro Sugai
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Kosei Takahashi Eiichi Tokura Yusuke Shimizu
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	Mouse
Voice 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 Kengo Kawanishi as Officer Higashino Haruo Sato as Kokichi Minamide Masanori Machida as Kensaku Kitahara Shizuka Ishigami as Mamoru Nishikawa Shinnosuke Musashi as Takeshi Mitsumoto Yusuke Tonozaki as Yasuho Shida Kosuke Okamoto as Yorimitsu Hosaka
Music
Opening song:	YURA YURA
Closing song:	Veronica

Rondo in Bad Company (悪友たちの輪舞(ロンド) ,Akuyū-tachi no Rondo) is the 1021st episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Three people who are troublemakers are found dead. After the police found 30 million yen in Yasuho Shida's apartment, Conan suspects that they are the culprit of the robbery three days ago.

Murder
	Location: Park Victim: Takeshi Mitsumoto Age: 35 years old Time: 7:00 pm Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Yorimitsu Hosaka

Murder
	Location: Apartment Victim: Yorimitsu Hosaka Age: 35 years old Cause of death: Stab wound in the chest Suspects: Yasuho Shida

Murder
	Location: Apartament Victim: Yasuho Shida Age: 35 years old Cause of death: Poison inside a bottle Suspects: Takeshi Mitsumoto

Robbery (Past)
	Location: Haido City Time: 3 days ago Suspects: Takeshi Mitsumoto, Yorimitsu Hosaka, and Yasuho Shida Three days ago, 30 million yen in cash was stolen from a financier in Haido City. He was robbed by three masked men.

Conan deduces that they become greedy and decide to kill each other.

Later, Chiba meet a child named Mamoru Nishikawa, who saw a suspicious man trying to enter Shida's apartment. Chiba later suspects the victim's middle school teacher, Kokichi Minamide. Chiba discovers that Minamide had tried to reform those three victim's behavior during middle school, but his efforts never paid off. Chiba deduced that Minamide decide to kill them after he heard that they stole 30 million yen.

In the end, Minamide is confirmed to have an alibi. They continue to search the suspicious man. Meanwhile, Conan ask Mamoru more about the suspicious man. He later found the suspicious man in another apartment building.

People

Officer Higashino
	30 years old Policeman

Takeshi Mitsumoto
	Victim (beaten) 35 years old Delinquent

Yorimitsu Hosaka
	Victim (stabbed) 35 years old Delinquent

Yasuho Shida
	Victim (poison) 35 years old Delinquent

Mamoru Nishikawa
	6 years old Elementary school boy

Kensaku Kitahara
	56 years old Suspicious man

Kokichi Minamide
	70 years old Retired Former middle-school teacher Nicknamed 'Nande' by students

Forensics officer
	Tokyo MPD CSI officer

Resolution

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It turns out that the suspicious man, Kensaku Kitahara, came to visit his newly wedded daughter's household. He meant to visit room 402 in building K, but mistakenly tried to get into room 402 in building A, which is Shida's. He only realized his mistake after he saw the door plate, but Mamoru saw him. He threathened Mamoru because he afraid Mamoru will tell his daughter and her husband about his mistake. He wore a mask because he had a bit of a cold, and used sunglasses to hide his eyebrow that was accidentally shaved off when he went to get a haircut.

Megure later received a phone call. The forensics found the pipe with Mistumoto's blood and hair with Hosaka's fingerprint on it. They also found the knife with Hosaka's blood with Shida's fingerprint on it. Conan, through Kogoro, is sure that they will also found the bag of poison used to murder Shida with Mitsumoto's fingerprint on it. Which means, Takeshi Mistumoto was killed by Yorimitsu Hosaka, Yorimitsu Hosaka was killed by Yasuho Shida, and Yasuho Shida was killed by Takeshi Mitsumoto.

Conan advises the police and detectives that they should not read too deeply into situations and head in the wrong direction, and they also should not assume people unrelated to a case as suspects.

Trivia

• This episode shares many similarities with the episode The Devil's Circuit.
• The three suspects' name have kanji that follow each other:
  • Takeshi Mitsumoto (光本 猛志) starts with "光" and ends with "志" ;
  • Yasuho Shida (志田 康保) starts with "志" and ends with "保" ;
  • Yorimitsu Hosaka (保坂 頼光) starts with "保" and ends with "光".
• The other characters that are not suspects are named after cardinal directions:
  • Officer Higashino (東野巡査) is named after "east" (東 ,higashi) ;
  • Kokichi Minamide (南出 公吉) is named after "south" (南 ,minami), while his nickname "nande" comes from the other reading of "south" in Japanese, "nan" ;
  • Kensaku Kitahara (北原 拳作) is named after "north" (北 ,kita) ;
  • Mamoru Nishikawa (西川 守) is named after "west" (西 ,nishi).
• The type of mystery that was utilized in this episode is called Anti-Mystery (アンチ・ミステリー), originated from Japan.

What is Anti-Mystery? [CLICK TO REVEAL]

The rondo effect manifested in this episode.

• A rather unpopular type of detective/mystery school.
  • Simply about the detective who attempted to use his deductions to reach the truth, but came to the false conclusion.
  • Which the truth is often coincidence, accident and so on, the case did not exist at first.
  • These type of works satirizes the statement that "The only absolute truth of the case" and "A genius detective who can always solve a case" from classic mystery works.
• Some representative anti-mystery novels: Offering to the Void and Black Death Mansion Murder Case.
• Likewise as this episode, which the truth was revealled in the beginning of the case, but then investiagtion went astray.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Un rondó en mala companyia	A rondo in bad company
French (Subbed)	La Ronde des amis malfaisants	The harmful friend patrol
Thai	วงสังหารเพื่อนเลว	The killing circle of bad friends
Vietnamese	Khúc Rondo của những người bạn tồi tệ

See also

• Season 26