Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story

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Episode 153-154 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story
Japanese title:	園子のアブない夏物語 (Sonoko no Abunai Natsumonogatari)
Original airdate:	July 19, 1999 (Part 1) July 26, 1999 (Part 2) July 31, 2010 (Part 1) (Remastered version) August 7, 2010 (Part 2) (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	18.3% 17.3%
Manga case:	#63
Season:	6
Manga source:	Volume 22: Files 8-10 (219-221)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Sonoko Suzuki Ran Mouri Sango Yokomizo Makoto Kyogoku
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Sonoko's camera (Part 1) Bite mark (Part 2) Spirit photo (Part 1) (Remastered version) Pantograph (Part 2) (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Kenji Kodama
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	153 Nana Harada 154 Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	153 Hirobi Muranaka 154 Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki, Next Conan's Hint Akio Otsuka as Sango Yokomizo Nobuyuki Hiyama as Makoto Kyogoku Hiroaki Hirata as Tadahiko Michiwaki Katsuhisa Houki as Shoji Terabayashi Isshin Chiba as Detective A Naoki Makishima as Man A Keesuke as Waiter Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Girigiri chop
Closing song:	Free Magic

Characters introduced

Makoto Kyogoku
	Sonoko Suzuki's long distance boyfriend

Shoji Terabayashi
	Detective from Chiba Prefecture Police

Unnamed officer
	Detective from Shizuoka Prefecture Police

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Sango Yokomizo

Case

Situation

Part 1

Sonoko, Ran, and Conan go to Izu because of Sonoko's schemes to get a man. At the beach, Sonoko takes a picture of Ran fixing her bathing suit and threatens to send the picture to Shinichi. Sonoko is upset about her lack of love life. However, a college student approaches the girls and asks Sonoko to lunch. He appears to be romantically interested and asks Sonoko to dinner as well. They agree to meet at their lodgings later that day. The college student tells the group a story about a brunette that was murdered a year ago and now haunts the restaurant he wants to dine at. Ran is frighten by the story and forbids Sonoko in using the camera to capture a ghost in it. Sonoko suggest that maybe they could show such a picture to Shinichi and see if he can figure something out, since she is going to show the other picture anyway. The group then finds out that another brunette was murdered in the woods recently in the same manner as the brunette from a year ago.

Murder (Past)
	Location: Izu Victim: A brown-haired woman Time: A year ago Cause of death: Stab wound A woman was found killed, and the murderer was never caught.

Murder
290px	Location: Near the railroad tracks Victim: A brown-haired woman Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: The murderer from a year ago

The group goes to the crime scene and meet Sango Yokomizo who cautions them to stay safe. Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are staying at a cheap inn because Sonoko doesn't want to scare men away by staying at an expensive luxury hotel. In the evening, the three of them wait for the college student to pick them up in his car. Sonoko realizes that she forgot something in her room and goes back up to get it. Here she discovers a suspicious figure searching her bags. The figure attacks her and is about to stab her with a knife when Ran and Conan, worried about the time Sonoko is taking, come to find her.

Robbery - Attempted Murder

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Location: Conan, Ran, and Sonoko's room at the Kawaraya Inn Victim: Sonoko Suzuki Attack Type: Stabbing Suspects: A panty thief? When Sonoko opened the door to the hotel room, she saw a thief rummaging through the luggage. Just as she was about to scream, the thief caught her and was about to attack her with a knife before escaping through the window. Sonoko manage to bite her attacker in the arm. There was signs suggesting that the intruder was searching for the camera film, Sonoko had already develop them.

Sonoko is saved and the figure escapes through the window. The stoic, and somewhat unfriendly, high school student Makoto Kyogoku that is working at the inn moves the group to another room. Ran thinks she has seen this person somewhere before but cannot remember where. The college student shows up muddy and wet and Conan suspects him of attacking Sonoko. Sonoko says she bit the attacker's bicep in her struggle and Conan makes the college student take off his shirt. However, the college student does not have a bite mark on his arm. Makoto has a bandaged bicep and falls under suspicion but Sonoko says he wasn't the attacker since the attacker was hairy. The college student, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan decide to have dinner at the inn because the college student says his car broke down. Conan speculates that Sonoko's attacker was looking for the photographs she was taking during the trip, but cannot figure out why. Conan does not think there are any incriminating photos after Sonoko shows them, after taking out the one of Ran. Perhaps the murderer overheard Sonoko talking about the photographs and misunderstood. This case is still full of mysteries and Conan cannot figure out why Sonoko was attacked and why the killer would think that she took a picture, that needs to get rid of.

Part 2

Attempted Murder

Location: Parking Road of The "Cursed" Restaurant Victim: Sonoko Suzuki Cause: Car fell from the cliff and exploded Sonoko sleeps inside Michiwaki's Station Wagon, while Conan, Ran and Michiwaki are eating in the restaurant. Just then, Conan realizes that the car is moving and Sonoko is still in the car. Conan and Ran run to stop the car, and just when the car is about to fall into the cliff, Ran broke the window and saved Sonoko in time, and the car fell into the cliff. Conan believes the culprit was the serial killer who attacked Sonoko last night.

While they walk to the police station, Sonoko says that she does have one picture left, which is the one she wants to show Shinichi. Conan realizes that culprit still thinks that Sonoko has an incriminating picture and has sent the car over the cliff to destroy it along with the luggage. But he's still confused as to why the culprit thinks such a picture exist.

People

Tadahiko Michiwaki
	College student

Makoto Kyogoku
	Waiter

Shoji Terabayashi
	Mysterious person following Sonoko and Ran

Unnamed Policeman
	Shizuoka Police officer

Woman A
	Victim (stabbed) Brown-haired woman

Woman B
	Deceased (stabbed a year ago) Brown-haired woman

Man
	Restaurant front desk manager

Man
	Talking about new victim

Man
	Talking about new victim

Man
	Greets Restaurant Guests

Resolution

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The big man, Terabayashi, is revealed to be a police detective from Chiba and he is not the serial murderer from the past. The actual murderer from one year ago and who tries to kill Sonoko is Tadahiko Michiwaki. Terabayashi thinks that he has murdered four other women from his district. Michiwaki is the one who attacked Sonoko last night and escapes before Ran and Conan came into Sonoko's room. Sonoko didn't bite her attacker in the arm, but in the leg. She got in wrong in the darkness. Michiwaki also made his own car move towards the cliff by putting the hand brake down while talking to her. In order to prevent the car moving, he put ice under the wheel. Which later melts because of the air conditioner was turned on and it allowed the car to move. People would assume that the water tit left behind came from the conditioner. He left the tool to pick locks to leave the impression that someone broke into the car.

Attempted Murder
	Victim: Sonoko Suzuki Attack type: Stabbing Culprit: Tadahiko Michiwaki

Murders (past)
	Location: Chiba Prefecture, Japan Victim: 4 women Attack type: Stabbing Culprit: Tadahiko Michiwaki Before attacking Sonoko and killing two women in Shizuoka, Michiwaki had already killed four women in Chiba prefecture, prompting Terabayashi to search for him.

The motive as to why Michiwaki murdered many brown-haired woman is because he was rejected by his brown-haired girlfriend and Sonoko and the previous victims resembles the one who rejected him. Another reason why he is targeting Sonoko was that when he killing his latest victim, a train passed by behind him and he felt lights from it. He mistook it as a flash from a camera and when he later saw Sonoko with a camera not far from the crime scene, he thought that she took a picture of him with the victim and was going to show it to Shinichi, when she talked about the picture of Ran. An impression that was probably strengted by Sonoko's other pictures, that showed couples in private moments. It made him think that Sonoko took the picture in the belief it was another intimate moment. Sonoko never told Michiwaki what the picture really showed, because Ran always interrupted. So he approached the group with the intention to find the picture and destroy it. Conan, Ran and Terabayashi arrived at the scene, but it is almost too late, until Makoto saves Sonoko from being stabbed. He incapacitated Michiwaki easily using his karate moves.

Later, Makoto is revealed to be the captain of Haido High's karate team, which explains why Ran felt that she had met him before. He was worry for Sonoko, because he had seen Michiwaki flirting with two other girls before her. He explains that he once saw Sonoko during a karate competition that both he and Ran were involved with, cheering for Ran in such a spirited way that he felt immediately drawn to her.

Remastered version

A remastered version of both episodes aired on July 31st and August 7th, 2010.

Trivia

• Tadahiko Michiwaki's car is carmel beige pearl 1995 Mitsubishi Libero Monte [CB5W].
• This is the second case that takes place at Izu in the Shizuoka Prefecture.
• This is the first case that Sonoko referred to herself as a 'flower,' if not the only case.
• Although there have been serial killer cases before, this case is the first case that women with brown or light brown hair have been targeted. In short, the killer is killing similar looking and same gender victims, and in this case, females.
• This is the case that Conan smartly thought, "Inspector Yokomizo is a lot more dependable than Uncle...," which defered greatly from Sonoko's comment.
• This is the case that Sango called Conan a knight, and instructed him to protect them (Ran and Sonoko).
• This is the first case that Sonoko is seriously targeted by the murdering culprit. It is a lot like how Ran was targeted multiple times in Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case.
• Although Sonoko was targeted by the Culprit in Ski Lodge Murder Case, it is also like how Ran was targeted in Wealthy Daughter Murder Case, where the culprit mostly wanted their testimony of having been attacked, which is a lot different from a murderous culprit continuing trying to kill them, like in this case.
• In this case, Sonoko resembles the victims of this serial killer.
• This is the first case that mentions an underwear thief.
• This is the first case that some detectives are from 2 different Prefectures, and in this case, the Shizuoka Prefecture and the Chiba Prefecture.
• This is the first, if not the only canon appearance of Detective Shoji Terabayashi of Chiba. His other appearance is The Raven Chaser, which is non-canon.
• This is the first case that Makoto Kyogoku is a suspect.
• Sonoko is targeted three different times in this case, and got a knife-wound in the arm.
• This is the first case that Makoto Kyogoku saved Sonoko's life.
• This is the first case that Makoto Kyogoku confessed his love for Sonoko Suzuki.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	ギリギリchop	Girigiri chop	On the edge chop	Girigiri chop
2	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	毛利小五郎のテーマ	Mōri Kogorō no Tēma	Kogoro Mouri's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
5	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	何かが起きる…	Nanika ga Okiru...	Something Happened...	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
8	ターゲット サスペンスＢ	Tāgetto Sasupensu B	Target Suspense B	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
9	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original 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	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	Free Magic	Free Magic	Free Magic	Free Magic

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	ギリギリchop	Girigiri chop	On the edge chop	Girigiri chop
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	何かが起きる…	Nanika ga Okiru...	Something Happened...	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
5	次のターゲット！	Tsugi no Tāgetto!	The Next Target!	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
6	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
7	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
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	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
11	犯人の目星	Hannin no Meboshi	The Culprit's Objective	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	蘭・愛のテーマ （ギターver.）	Ran・Ai no Tēma (Gitā ver.)	Ran's Love Theme (Guitar ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	Free Magic	Free Magic	Free Magic	Free Magic
14	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	نزهة محفوفة بالمخاطر
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La perillosa història estiuenca de la Sonoko	Sonoko's dangerous summer story
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El perillós estiu de Sonoko	Sonoko's dangerous summer
French	Dangereux été pour Sonoko	Dangerous Summer for Sonoko
Galician	O azaroso verán de Sonoko	Sonoko's risky summer
German	Die Liebe, der Strand und der Tod	Love, the Beach and Death
Italian	Un'estate che scotta	A Summer that Burn
Spanish (American dub)	El peligroso verano de Sonoko	Sonoko's dangerous summer
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El verano peligroso de Sonoko	Sonoko's dangerous summer
Thai	หน้าร้อนอันตรายของโซโนโกะ	Sonoko's dangerous summer
Vietnamese	Câu chuyện mùa hè nguy hiểm của Sonoko	Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story

See also

• Season 6