Hustler vs. Magician

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Episode 3
Information
Title:	Hustler vs. Magician
Japanese Title:	ハスラーVSマジッャン (Hasurā VS Majishan)
Original airdate:	October 18, 2014
Season:	1
Manga source:	Magic Kaito Volume 2: Chapter 7 (13)
Story
Cast:	Kaito Kuroba Aoko Nakamori Konosuke Jii Kaitou Kid Toichi Kuroba
Heist Target:	Legendary Cue
Staff
Director:	Susumu Kudo
Screenplay:	Kunihiko Okada
Storyboard:	Shunji Murata
Episode Director:	Yoshihiro Mori
Animation Director:	Hiromi Ogata (supervisor) Masahiko Itojima Seika Saruwatari Hiroshi Kamata Toshimitsu Kobayashi Wan Qian Xie
Voice Cast: Kappei Yamaguchi as Kaito Kuroba/Kaitou Kid M.A.O as Aoko Nakamori Michio Hazama as Konosuke Jii Shuichi Ikeda as Toichi Kuroba Tsutomu Isobe as Tsuujirou Hasura Hideaki Tezuka Kanehira Yamamoto Takehiro Hasu Takaaki Torajima Mami Yoshida Naoto Kobayashi
Music
Opening song:	Kimi no Matsu Sekai
Closing song:	WHITE of CRIME

After hearing how Jii was hustled out of a gem-encrusted pool cue, Kaito brings him and Aoko for an undercover theft/retrieval.

Cast

Characters
Kaito Kuroba Aoko Nakamori Konosuke Jii Kaitou Kid Toichi Kuroba (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Card Gun

Plot

Story

While playing a round pool with Aoko, Kaito is harassed by a goon who warns that his Boss will buy the Blue Parrot Billiards Club, owned by Jii himself. Jii remembers playing a great billiards player, Tsuujirou Hasura, who also happens to works for the Boss of the goon from earlier. After hearing how Jii was hustled out of his gem-encrusted pool cue, Kaito brings him and Aoko for an undercover theft/retrieval. KID sends an advanced notice of his theft to Hasura, and Jii brings the pair to the pool bar with Hasura; the only catch is that Kaito and Aoko pretend to be married university students to be able to enter. Kaito plays a few rounds where he loses each and in his last ante wagers Jii's club and Hasura's bejeweled cued. Aoko abruptly arrives inebriated after having drank a couple Martinis and plays on the piano to a tune matching Kaito's rhythm and Kaito wins using a spectacular pool technique his father taught him as a boy.

Heist
	Thief: Kaitou Kid Target: Legendary Cue Owner: Tsuujirou Hasura Location: Poolbar American Advanced Notice: I'll take the legendary cue at 10 PM tonight!! Tell Hasura-sama... Pool stick encrusted with jewels.

People

Tsuujirou Hasura
	Billiards player

"Boss"
	Owner of the "American" billiards hall Gun smuggler

Resolution

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After Kaito's winning, the Boss presses a button to reveal his weapons cache inside the pool table and holds him at gunpoint. Jii cuts the power allowing Kaito to use the cover of night to expose the criminals to a paralysis dust for KID to steal the cue. Hasura notes to him that Kid's notice was to steal from 'Hasura', and "Kaito" won the match so the cue 'belongs' to Kaito and not Hasura, rendering his theft void and 'returning' the cue to "Kaito's" possession. The Organized Crime Division arrives to arrest the gun smugglers with Hasura agreeing to testify, and bids farewell to a great player. Jii mounts his returned cue on a holster on the wall, and Kaito lets Aoko win a friendly game.

Manga to Anime changes

• The manga version of this story features Inspector Nakamori, who accidentally gets Aoko drunk at the Blue Parrot (while under the influence of alcohol himself). He later leads the charge to arrest the gun smugglers. The anime removes the Inspector entirely, implying that Aoko got drunk on her own.

See also

• Magic Kaito 1412 Season 1