Taiko Meijin's Match of Love

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Episode 785-786 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Taiko Meijin's Match of Love
Japanese title:	太閤恋する名人戦 (Taikō Koisuru Meijin-sen)
Original airdate:	July 18, 2015 (Part 1) July 25, 2015 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	7.5% 7.6%
Manga case:	#260
Season:	24
Manga source:	Volume 85: File 6-9 (899-902)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shukichi Haneda Yumi Miyamoto Detective Boys Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Masumi Sera Unknown child Detective Sato Naeko Miike Subaru Okiya
Case solved by:	Shukichi Haneda Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Lance (Part 1) Seven (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Storyboard:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Episode director:	785 Koichiro Kuroda 786 Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	785 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Michitaka Yamamoto, Ryuta Imaizumi, Juri Saito, Miori Nonomura 786 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shukichi Haneda Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera Atsuko Tanaka as Unknown child Yuu Sugimoto as Yumi Miyamoto Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Atsuko Yuya as Detective Sato Rie Tanaka as Naeko Miike Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Minoru Inaba as Chikara Katsumata Tomohisa Aso as Tanimori Male customer, Motorcycle policeman Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Witness Rio Natsuki as Female staff A Yuka Terasaki as Female staff B
Music
Opening song:	WE GO
Closing song:	Kimi e no Uso

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Shukichi Haneda Yumi Miyamoto Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Ai Haibara Professor Agasa Masumi Sera Unknown child Detective Sato Naeko Miike Subaru Okiya

Case

Situation

Part 1

Shukichi Haneda is at Tokiwa Hot Springs, preparing for his shogi match for the title of Meijin. As he was talking to two women, a picture of Yumi Miyamoto fell out of his robe. When he picked up the photo, he thought back to two days ago, when Yumi told him she already through away the envelope he asked her to not open until he obtains all seven because he never called her ever since he gave it to her. After that small conversation, she stormed out of the cafe, where they were talking; when he came out, she was nowhere to be seen. As he tries to find her, a stranger watches him in a car, carrying an evil smile.

Meanwhile, Professor Agasa, Conan, Haibara, and the Detective Boys are visiting power spots via Agasa's car. On the way, Masumi Sera calls Conan and tells him she moved to Hotel Hyde Pride, which is close to Mouri Detective Agency.

As Shukichi heads his way toward today's game, one of the women he talked to earlier gave him a letter a strange man delivered yesterday morning. It was written by Yumi, but when he opened it....

In the middle of his match against Chikara Katsumata, Shukichi left abruptly and took a car ride to Tokyo. It turns out the letter stated that Yumi was kidnapped, and to save her, he must decipher the kidnapper, the Headless Shogi Player's, game record within a limited amount of time. It also told him to not to tell anyone, not even the police. He has less than six hours to crack the code and save her.

After arriving in Tokyo, Shukichi coincidentally meets up with Conan and the others. After Conan smartly separates him from everyone else, he secretly tells them, upon Conan's request, why he came here. With less than four hours remaining, Conan, Shukichi, Professor Agasa, Haibara, and the Detective Boys set off to solve the game records and save Yumi from the kidnapper.

People

Chikara Katsumata
	Shogi player Meijin

Tanimori
	Shogi player

Keiko Tanimori
	Deceased Tanimori's wife

Resolution

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Shukichi and the group confront the culprit, Tanimori, at the Hotel Hyde Pride (incidentally the very hotel Masumi is staying in). Ten years ago, Tanimori once obsessed in winning a Shogi match against Shukichi in order to provide his wife, who was terminally ill, with better treatment. However, in his zeal to win he made an impulsive mistake, which cost him his victory due to a rules technicality. Shukichi, knowing about his emotional distress, denied Tanimori a post-match discussion to allow him to visit his wife before she died. Misunderstanding the intention behind his parting words, Tanimori became obsessed with beating Shukichi in a replay of that fateful match, kidnapping Yumi to face him alone. However, Shukichi proves that Tanimori would have lost even in a fair match, and Tanimori surrenders to the police.

Upon awakening from her drug-induced sleep in which Tanimori had kept her, and learning about her liberation by his hands, Yumi (along with Miike and a number of police officers who are fans of Shukichi) hurriedly escorts Shukichi back to the conclusion of his match, where she kisses Shukichi as a good luck charm, although she remains blissfully ignorant of both his true profession and the nature of the match. He returns to Yamanashi in time to win his 7th Shogi title. Strangely, this victory also garners the undivided attention of both the Unknown child and Subaru Okiya.

Gallery

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  Conan shows Shukichi the kyōsha

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  Yumi kisses Shukichi

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Vietnamese	Trận đấu cho tình yêu của danh nhân Taiko	Taiko Meijin's Match for Love

See also

• Season 24