Magic Lover's Murder Case

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Episode 132-134 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Magic Lover's Murder Case
Japanese title:	奇術愛好家殺人事件 (Kijutsu Aikōka Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 25, 1999 (The Case) February 1, 1999 (The Suspicion) February 8, 1999 (The Resolution)
Broadcast rating:	21.9% 21.2% 23%
Manga case:	#56
Season:	5
Manga source:	Volume 20: Files 2-6 (192-196)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kaitou Kid Shinichi Kudo Kazumi Sanada
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Screen name (The Case) Boat sail (The Suspicion) Bow gun (The Resolution)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Michiyo Sakurai
Storyboard:	Michiyo Sakurai
Episode director:	132 Johei Matsuura 133 Yoshio Suzuki 134 Nana Harada
Animation director:	132 Masayuki Hiraoka 133 Hirobi Muranaka 134 Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1/Part 2) Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki, Next Conan's Hint (Part 3) Natsuo Tokuhiro as Yoshinori Ara Kanji Watanabe as Katsuki Doito Hiroko Fukuda as Kikue Tanaka Renshi Fukuyama as Toshiya Hamano Maki Tamura as Naoko Kuroda Kenji Hamada as Tsutomu Nishiyama Tousei Tanaka as Kiyohiro Sugama Isshin Chiba as Radio Kappei Yamaguchi as Kaitou Kid
Music
Opening song:	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
Closing song:	Still for your love

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kaitou Kid Shinichi Kudo (background) Kazumi Sanada (background) Toichi Kuroba (cameo)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Button Speaker Hang Glider Cape

Case

Situation

The Case

Sonoko invites Ran, to attend a meeting full of avid magic fans she met online. After dropping her off at the snowy lodge, Conan and Kogoro return home. During the ride, they hear on the radio that one of the members, Tsutomu Nishiyama, is found dead in his home and that his dying message was the name Dark Master, one of the members of the club.

Murder
	Location: Nishiyama household Victim: Tsutomu Nishiyama Age: 41 years old Cause of death: Beaten to death Suspects: Kikue Tanaka, Naoko Kuroda, Yoshinori Ara, Kiyohiro Sugama, and Katsuki Doito

Conan rushes back to the lodge only to find out the only bridge across is on fire. Fearing for Ran's life, Conan rushes through the bridge before it collapses and arrives at the lodge, though he inhales so much smoke that he passes out once he steps on its gate so Ran and Sonoko have to take care of him. Toshiya Hamano is later found dead ten metres from the lodge.

Murder
	Location: Snowfield near the lodge Victim: Toshiya Hamano Age: 27 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Kikue Tanaka, Naoko Kuroda, Yoshinori Ara, Kiyohiro Sugama, and Katsuki Doito

Conan wonders how the murder was done since no footprint was found in the snow.

The Suspicion

The members of the lodge decide to leave the Hamano's body untouched to preserve the crime scene and retreat back into the lodge. They discuss among themselves and believe that the club member with the Username Dark Master is the murderer.

Conan, Ran, Kikue Tanaka, and Katsuki Doito head upstairs to retrieve a sweater. While upstairs, an arrow breaks through the window and almost hits them. At the same time, another arrow breaks through the window on the bottom floor. The people of the lodge head outside to investigate and find a crossbow on the ground. The people begin to believe that the culprit is an outsider of the club. Conan investigates and notices that there was evidence that something was stapled to the outside of the house. Conan realizes how the murders are done.

The Resolution

Conan recreates the crossbow attack on the top floor and lures everyone outside.

People

Kikue Tanaka
	28 years old Username: The Fake Child

Toshiya Hamano
	Victim (strangled) 27 years old Username: The Disappearing Bunny

Naoko Kuroda
	25 years old Username: Illusion

Yoshinori Ara
	46 years old Username: The Silent Ventriloquist Lodge owner

Kiyohiro Sugama
	23 years old Part-time worker

Katsuki Doito
	21 years old Username: Red Herring

Tsutomu Nishiyama
	Victim (beaten) 41 years old Username: Escape King Magic Lover's club leader

Yoshiro Kinoshita
	Magician Deceased

Motoyasu Tsukumo
	Magician Deceased

Policemen
	Policemen

Resolution

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Using a tranquilizer, Conan knocks Sonoko out and reveals the culprit to be Kikue Tanaka. Conan reveals that the crossbow incident was simple, Kikue pulled a string with an object at the end to break the window, and fired a concealed crossbow to create the idea the attack was coming from the outside. She did the same for the bottom window but had the arrow stuck to the mirror prepared beforehand. As for Hamano's murder, Kikue strangled him, and using resilient strings, fired them from the balcony to the forest until there was enough to support Hamano's weight. She then tied a string around Hamano's body and used the positioned string to slide the body downwards. She then tied all the strings into another arrow and fired it off. As evidence, Conan reveals that the arrows were specialized to have string connected to them and that they should be found on Tanaka's body somewhere.

Once all of this is explained, Tanaka confesses to the murder and reveals that the group members online prompted her grandfather, Huden Harui, a famous magician, to attempt a dangerous trick which resulted in his death. While she accepted that the accident was her grandfather own fault, she couldn't forgive the comments from both Nishiyama and Hamano about his failure. Conan meanwhile confronts Katsuki Doito and reveals that his name is the anagram for Kaitou Kid. Kaitou Kid reveals that he saw that someone was on the magician's account and wanted to investigate it, and escapes the lounge with the use of his hang glider.

Huden Harui
	Deceased (accident) Magician Kikue Tanaka's grandfather

Trivia

• This is Conan and Kid's second meeting. The first one was in Conan vs. Kaitou Kid.
• This is the episode that Toichi Kuroba made a cameo appearance in, where he was performing a magic trick on stage.
• The spelling may be off, but one of the club did mention that they liked Motoyasu Tsukumo who was a victim of a previous case. I took the spelling of the previous case for him.
• The spelling may be off, but one of the club mentioned that they liked Yoshiro Kinoshita who was a victim a long time ago. I took the spelling of the previous case for him.
• Huden Harui was kind of based on Harry Houdini.
• This is the first case that we see Conan wearing a face mask in the car, which may be a sign that he has a cold or something, and he did sneeze. In fact, Kogoro told him that he has a cold, when he tried to sneak in, so he can follow Ran.
• In short, This is the third case that Conan is sick.
• Kogoro saw Conan run across a burning bridge before it totally collapsed.
• In this case, a disguised Kaito Kid called Conan "Little Detective," in full view of Ran and Sonoko, as well as helping Conan to investigate by going along with it, and distracting Ran and Sonoko, so he can really investigate.
• This is the first case that Conan tranquilized Sonoko up close with the Stun-Gun Wristwatch for his deduction show.
• Conan had recreated the first arrow trick before beginning the Sleeping Sonoko trick.
• At some point during his deduction show, Conan placed the Button Speaker onto Sonoko somewhere, so that he can reveal Kaito Kid's alias to everyone, while heading toward Kid himself.
• This is the episode that Kid tells Conan, "I'm no detective, and you were half-dead with that cold. Can't be helped," when talking about the now solved murder.
• Although Kid, may or may not have seen Conan tranquilize Sonoko in this case, his disguised self went to the verandah, and shot the crossbow, as ordered by Conan, using Sonoko's voice.
  • Although he knows that it was really Conan telling him what to do, and actually solving the case, but in Sonoko's Voice, Kid did call out Sonoko's name, when responding to conan's instructions, helping to cover up the fact that he knows how the "Sleeping Kogoro trick, since he is a witness to the sleeping Sonoko trick, and knows how Conan does it. In short, he is keeping up the illusion for the others, and not revealing Conan is hiding behind Sonoko, and probably others 'all the time.'
    • Kid may not have seen the tranquizer, although he himself puts people to sleep.
    • Kid may not see Conan speaking through the bow tie, however he can speak in the voices of others.
    • He also probably saw Conan run behind the tree, behind Sonoko, at the start of the Deduction show, unlike everyone else who tunes out Conan's disappearance immediately everytime.
• Kaito Kid called Conan "Great Detective," just before he made his escape.
• This is the first case, if not the only case, that Kaito Kid was involved, and he was not planning on any heists at all; he simply came to investigate something.
• This is the second case that Kaito Kid puts Ran to sleep. The first one was in Conan vs. Kaitou Kid.
• In this episode, Kaito says to Conan, "Before the Bell announcing the century's end rings..." just as he flew off in his hang glider, which may have something to do with this case being originally aired in January to February of the year 1999. Although it may also scream out about Kid's next appearance in The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid, which has the following original airdates, so I am confused:

January 8, 2001 * October 6, 2003 (Rerun) * May 18, 2019 and May 25, 2019 (Remastered version) ** It looks like the remastered version aired before the original airdate of 2001?, This is also a Season 9 episode. The first part did talk about a Clocktower Heist, which explains the bell announcing the century's end comment.

• In this case, Kaito Kid maintained his only disguise, until just before he left.
  • Katsuki Doito- Rearrange the letters in "Katsuki Doito" to make Kaitou Kid.
• The Nagano Prefecture snow mountains painting in Ara lodge is from Ski Lodge Murder Case. The beginning snow scene reappears in a painting in Yokosuka Castle from from The Last Wizard of the Century and in Tenbu Station from The Entrance to the Maze: The Anger of the Colossus. Open spoiler box to see images.

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Episode 84

Episode 132

Episode 132-134

Movie 3

BGM listing

Case Part

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
2	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	小さな巨人	Chiisana Kyojin	A Small Great Person	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	想い出 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Omoide (Mantenrō Vājon)	Memories (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
5	毛利小五郎のテーマ	Mōri Kogorō no Tēma	Kogoro Mouri's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
6	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
7	時計じかけの摩天楼	Tokei Jikake no Mantenrō	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
8	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
9	ターゲット サスペンスＨ	Tāgetto Sasupensu H	Target Suspense H	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
10	殺意	Satsui	Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
11	アクアクリスタル	Akua Kurisutaru	Aqua Crystal	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	犯人の謎	Hannin no Nazo	The Mystery of the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
13	一触即発	Isshokusokuhatsu	Critical Situation	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
14	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love

Investigation Part

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
4	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	犯人の謎	Hannin no Nazo	The Mystery of the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
6	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	殺意	Satsui	Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
13	一触即発	Isshokusokuhatsu	Critical Situation	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
14	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love

Resolution Part

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~	TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	小さな巨人	Chiisana Kyojin	A Small Great Person	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	西の名探偵 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Nishi no Meitantei (Mantenrō Vājon)	The Great Detective of the West (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
7	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
8	陰謀 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Inbō (Mantenrō Vājon)	Conspiracy (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
9	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
10	一触即発	Isshokusokuhatsu	Critical Situation	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
11	挫折	Zasetsu	Frustration	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love	Still for your love
14	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	أصدقاء لعبة الخفة	Friends of An Illusion Trick
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas dels assassinats dels amics de la màgia	The friends of magic murders case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Assassinat entre els amants de la màgia	Murders between lovers of magic
Chinese	魔術愛好者殺人事件	The Detective Boys Followed Traces Case
French	Magic Party	Magic Party
Galician	Asasinatos entre magos afeccionados	Murders between amateur magicians
German	Tödlicher Zauber	Deadly Magic
Italian	Il caso degli appassionati di magia	The Magic Lover's Case
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Los asesinatos en el club de magos aficionados	Murder at the amateur magicians club
Spanish (American dub)	Los amantes de la magia en un caso de asesinato	Lovers of magic in a murder case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมคนรักมายากล	Magic lover murder case
Vietnamese	Vụ sát nhân tại câu lạc bộ yêu ảo thuật	Magic Lover's Club Murder Case

See also

• Season 5