The Coded Map of the City Case

Chronology
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Information
Title:	The Coded Map of the City Case
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 version
English title:	Fish Marks the Spot
Dubbed episode:	Episode 4
English airdate:	May 27, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Cell phone
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Haruo Ogawara
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Masaharu Sato as Kawana Konami Yoshida as Shop owner Isshin Chiba as Reporter A Naoki Makishima as Reporter B
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure

Case

Situation

Robbery
	Location: An Italian bank Suspects: Dino Cavane, and Cavane's accomplices The day before Conan and the Detective Boys found a treasure map, Dino Cavane was arrested by police but the whereabouts of the 15,000 Maple Leaf gold coins he stole is still a mystery...

People

Dino Cavane
	Italian crime boss

Cavane's accomplices
	Members of Cavane's Italian crime ring

Resolution

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• 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.
• In the manga, Genta envisions that the Italian gangsters will shoot him, and imagines himself lying in a pool of his own blood. The anime substitutes a less graphic and more stylized image, with a miniature Genta being riddled with colorful, cartoon-like gunshots.

Remastered version

On June 6, 2009, a remastered version of the case was aired.

Gallery

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  Conan organized a trip to the museum with Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko and it proved to be a great day out.

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  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.

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  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.

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  The group look at the first symbol on the map, it looks like the Touto Tower so they go to check it out.

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  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.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	كلمة سر السمكة المضيئة	The luminous fish's secret code
Italian	Codice segreto: il pesce che brilla	Secret code: the fish that glows

See also

• Season 1