The Cost of Likes

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Episode 944-945 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Cost of Likes
Japanese title:	いいね。の代償 (Īne. no Daishō)
Original airdate:	June 22, 2019 (Part 1) June 29, 2019 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	7.4% (Part 1) 8.1% (Part 2)
Filler case:	#316
Season:	29
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	SNS (Part 1) Phone (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Hiroaki Takagi
Episode director:	944: Takanori Yano 945: Baron Horiuchi
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo and Seiji Muta (Supervisors) 944: Akio Kawamura 945: Kenichi Otomo, Nobuyuki Iwai, Yui Ushinohama and Miho Tanaka
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (Design works) Rei Masunaga
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Chafurin as Juzo Megure Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Katsumi Toriumi as Chiichiro Dewa Sho Okumura as Shiro Yasukawa Tatsuku Kida as A-Otoko Ayano Hamaguchi as B-Ko Osamu Hosoi as Kikuhide Otsubo Hiroki Shimowada as Sumito Kagura Eiji Takemoto as Go Kouchiyama Nao Toyama as Haruka Ibe
Music
Opening song:	ANSWER
Closing song:	Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai

The Cost of Likes (いいね。の代償 ,Īne. no Daishō) is the 944th and 945th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Case

Part 1

Conan, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Haibara visit the injured Genta at the hospital. Fortunately, his injury is only minor because he was saved by a man named Sumito Kagura, who had broken his right arm. Several other accident victims are also hospitalized at the same place as the two of them, including a man named Kikuhide Otsubo. Shortly after, Kagura is visited by his two friends, Haruka Ibe and Go Kouchiyama, the latter also takes a his picture to post on his social media which earns a lot of Like, as Kagura himself was injured in an accident and had received a huge amount of collateral money enough to pay all his debt. As the Detective Boys continues to listen to the trio's conversation, Conan notices that Otsubo starts to act suspicious toward them.

Fake Bomb Threat

Location: Yotsubishi Bank Victim: People inside the bank Age: 7 years old (Genta), 33 years old (Kikuhide), and 26 years old (Sumito) Time: Friday the 25th morning Suspects: Prankster, Sumito Kagura, and Kikuhide Otsubo In the morning, someone called the Yotsubishi Bank stating that there were bombs planted outside the bank. The employee that received the call ordered everyone inside to evacuate. It's later turned out that there was no bomb planted as the culprit had claimed.

Collateral Damage

Location: Yotsubishi Bank Victim: Genta Kojima, Kikuhide Otsubo, Sumito Kagura, and three other people Age: 7 years old (Genta), 33 years old (Kikuhide), and 26 years old (Sumito) Time: Friday the 25th morning Culprits: People running out of the bank In the morning, someone called the Yotsubishi Bank stating that there were bombs inside which caused everyone to panick and run outside causing injuries to other people that were walking in front of the bank. Curiously, Kagura, the one who protected Genta, was actually a victim of a previous accident fifteen days ago. The bank, feeling responsible for the incident, payed every victims their hospitalization bill and collateral money.

Collateral Damage (Past)
	Location: Demolition site Victim: Sumito Kagura and site workers Age: 26 years old (Sumito) Time: 15 days ago Injury: Blunt force trauma Fifteen days ago, while Sumito was walking in a forest, a bomb exploded from a nearby demolition site which projected a block onto him which injured him.

After Genta is discharged from the hospital, the Detective Boys begin their search for the truth behind the incident as they've become suspicious of Kagura's so called unlucky fortune. Ayumi and Haibara follow Kagura's action the entire day, but unable to find Kagura being anything more than a simple lucky-going guy. Genta and Mitsuhiko check out the cafe that Kagura's co-worker and boss hang out and discovers that Kagura did have sufficient motive to cause this incident due to his co-workers telling that he was hoping for "more tasty collateral damage". Meanwhile, Conan uses the Otsubo's address he got from the nurse to locate his apartment and obtains his information from Otsuhu's neighbor Shiro Yasukawa as he is unable to find Otsubo himself, and discovers that Otsubo is a web influencer who is fixed on obtaining info related to the unlucky Kagura. Because of the conflicting information, the group is unable to prove that Kagura is the mastermind behind the incident, and decides to postpone the investigation until tomorrow, which they will interrogate Otsubo as they have suspected him of witnessing the culprit being the fake bomb threat.

However, that night, Otsubo is murdered in a park after threatening to expose the culprit's crime.

Murder
	Location: Park Victim: Kikuhide Otsubo Age: 33 years old Time: Friday the 25th, at 8 PM Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Sumito Kagura, Go Kouchiyama, and Haruka Ibe During the night, Otsubo discusses with a mysterious figure telling him that he'll expose the truth and, fearing this, the mysterious figure kills him by using a rock. The next morning, the Detective Boys find him dead.

With the murder happening, the Detective Boys especially Genta become convinced that Kagura must had silenced Otsubo. Genta then rushes off to Kagura's apartment in order to get him to spill the truth.

People

Sumito Kagura
	Victim (shoved - injured) 26 years old Chonenten Acting Company member

Kikuhide Otsubo
	Victim (bludgeoned) 33 years old Influencer

Haruka Ibe
	24 years old Kagura's friend Chonenten Acting Company member

Go Kouchiyama
	26 years old Kagura's friend Influencer

B-Ko
	Chonenten Acting Company member

A-Otoko
	Chonenten Acting Company member

Hiroaki Kano
	Chonenten Acting Company member

Nobuko Ogi
	Chonenten Acting Company member

Sasai
	Sasai Tavern owner Kagura's superior

Chiichiro Dewa
	30 years old Chonenten Acting Company manager

Shiro Yasukawa
	35 years old Freelance poet Otsubo's neighbor and friend

Man A
	Yotsubishi Bank employee

Nurse
	Beika Central Hospital nurse

Man B
	Kagura's friend

Resolution

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The culprit is Go Kouchiyama.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Kagura's apartment Victim: Sumito Kagura Age: 26 years old Time: 12:00 Cause: Poison Culprit: Go Kouchiyama Since he expressed feelings towards Haruka, Go wanted to kill Kagura from the beginning and pin his murder for a suicide to be alone the two of them. He poisoned Kagura's glass of beer but the murder was prevented by Conan's quick actions.

Trivia

Number of likes.

• The number of likes of the first post about Kagura from Kouchiyama corresponds to the number of APTX-4869.
• The police car is the same as in The High School Girl Trio's Secret Café.
• The forensics officers use a parody of a Nikon camera instead written Nekon.
• One of the three posters in Chonenten café was created by the French artist Jules Chéret.

See also

• Season 29