The J League Bodyguard

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Episode 907 (Int. Episode 962)
Information
Title:	The J League Bodyguard
Japanese title:	Jリーグの用心棒 (J rīgu no yōjinbō)
Original airdate:	July 14, 2018
Broadcast rating:	6.6%
Filler case:	#296
Season:	28
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ai Haibara Detective Boys Wataru Takagi Hideo Akagi Yasuhito Endo Tomoaki Makino Naoki Uemura Jodie Starling Andre Camel James Black  Shigetatsu Masunaga  Masakiyo Maedono Tsuyoshi Itazawa
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Stadium tour
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Hajime Kamegaki
Storyboard:	Hajime Kamegaki
Episode director:	Hajime Kamegaki
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (Supervisor) Hirona Okada Mari Tominaga Ken Araya Nanae Yonemoto
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character) Kumiko Shishido (Design Works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Koji Tsujitani as Hideo Akagi Jin Urayama as Mitsuru Murai Yasuhito Endo as Himself Yuko Goto as Risa Miyamoto Toru Furusawa as Yuichi Tonozuka Tetsuya Iwanaga as Yasuaki Iwasada Kazumasa Takemoto as Doctor Hidemitsu Shimizu as Foreign man A Yasuaki Iwasada as Media Hiroshi Abe as Fan
Music
Opening song:	Countdown
Closing song:	Kamikaze Express
The Eleventh Striker post-story.

The J League Bodyguard (Jリーグの用心棒 ,J rīgu no yōjinbō) is the 907th episode of the Detective Conan anime. This episode is a post-story for The Eleventh Striker.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi (voice) Hideo Akagi Yasuhito Endo Tomoaki Makino Naoki Uemura Jodie Starling (background) James Black (background) Andre Camel (background) Shigetatsu Masunaga Tsuyoshi Itazawa Masakiyo Maedono

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

The case first starts in an office where two suspicious men are gambling and watching results on a computer. The first man says, "They are taking it in right from the start", and the other replies with an affirmative. That first man continues by telling "The Japanese will understand what gambling is all about". As they watch results, the game then comes at 8-2. The second man asks if they should proceed with buying, and the first man says that it is being taken care of.

Illegal Gambling
	Location: Unknown place in England Illegal gambling way: Computer rig results Culprits: Two English men The two men that were in that office were doing illegal gambling which is severely punished in Japan since it never happened in the J-League.

After this scene, the boss of the J League is talking to one of his employee Yasuaki Iwasada telling that Japan performance at the World Cup was disappointing with in background a poster of all-star J-League players written "The Second Half of the J League Starts Now!!".

Attempted Murder
	Location: J-League Stadium Victim: Kogoro Mouri Age: 38 years old Injury: Abdominal pain due to laxatives Suspects: Yasuaki Iwasada, Yuichi Tonozuka, and Risa Miyamoto Kogoro couldn't kick the ball in the penalty match since he suddenly felt pain in his stomach. He was then hurried to the infirmary.

People

Man
	Mysterious English man Gambler

Man 2
	Mysterious English man Gambler

Yasuaki Iwasada
	40 years old J League employee

Yuichi Tonozuka
	45 years old Tokyo Spirits roupeiro

Risa Miyamoto
	22 years old Tokyo Spirits roupeiro

Doctor
	J League infirmary staff doctor Avid soccer fan

Man
	Tokyo Spirits fan Hot dog stand employee

Real-life people

Mitsuru Murai
	58 years old J League president and chairman

Kazuki Fukai
	23 years old Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo player #8

Yu Kobayashi
	30 years old Team captain Kawasaki Frontale player #11

Takuma Nishimura
	21 years old Vegalta Sendai player #30

Gen Shoji
	25 years old Kashima Antlers player #3

Kosuke Nakamura
	23 years old Kashiwa Reysol player #23

Masato Morishige
	31 years old Team captain FC Tokyo player #3

Pierce Waring
	19 years old Cerezo Osaka player #46 (temporary number)

Chong Tese
	34 years old Shimizu S-Pulse player #9 (written #8 since there is a mistake)

Kaoru Takayama
	30 years old Shonan Bellmare player #23 (typewriting mistake: Bellemare instead of Bellmare)

Shu Kurata
	29 years old Gamba Osaka player #10

Resolution

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As Kogoro is sleeping mysteriously in his VIP room, Risa Miyamoto enters the room as Kogoro asks him and excuses himself for making her be there. She says that it's fine and that it's her first time in the room. She then asks where are the others to whom Kogoro responds by saying that there are no others that were invited and that she was the only one. He makes a brief flashback of the opening ceremony which was completely flushed down the drain because of his brutal diarrhea. She confirms it and asks if he had recovered from his injury. Sleeping Kogoro replies that he did his best to pass it off as a back pain. He understood that she knew what was coming and she tries to cut him off by adding something but Kogoro continues and adds that he heard her say "Stop him. Please notice". In fact, while she was checking the drinks in the locker room, she deliberately brought him Akagi's drinks which laced with different laxatives. Mouri then asks a question to her: Couldn't she have left it in Akagi's locker or if I hadn't drink it, wouldn't she have brought it back? She confesses that she gambled her life and her fate on him to get money and that she never gambled before but she won her bet. Kogoro asks her if she shouldn't bite the hand that feeds her even if she knew it was the wrong thing. She spills the beans by telling that two years ago, as she was studying abroad in England to become a Roupeiro, she made a friend with another aspiring Roupeiro and they became co-signers for each others' loans. Pursuing her sentence, Conan a.k.a sleeping Kogoro says that the friend disappeared and that she took on their debt. Impressed, she tells he's really amazing and that she didn't know how he looked everything up since they met today. He reveals her that her supposed friend and the Rodriguez pretending to be a good person (in fact the two English gamblers) were part of the same evil totocalcio organization. His real name was Salvador Takahashi Rodriguez. The information Conan collected was via and email he sent to Jodie Starling and the FBI. She bursts into tears and fell to the ground. At the same time, Yuichi Tonozuka enters the room and had heard all the truth. He tries to hide her shame and his for what she had done and deploys multiple excuses by trying to take her blame and asks him to forgive her since he hated to have Roupeiros that cause problems to the league. Just then, Hide scores a goal just at the moment the match ended. He tells Tonozuka to look around and that he'll see people doing foul play everywhere but that here in Japan they had a thorough early warning system and that all these crimes never happened in J League's history. Today's game was a draw and the players were returning.

Aftermath

The next day, Takagi calls Kogoro to asks him if he had diarrhea of something and Kogoro tells he didn't and that it was embarrassing so he hung up. Risa is quickly released without any charges and Takagi tells her Mouri-san doesn't know anything about it and that nothing will happen to her. She walks happily back home. As for the Totocalcio organization, they were all arrested in one day. Haibara gets angry on her computer as she reads the news and asks if some busybody (in occurrence Conan) had put a powerful organization on the job (the FBI). Conan denies any involvement with his disguised laugh.

Trivia

Japanese soccer player Yasuhito Endo in the recording room.

• The J League staff employee Yasuaki Iwasada was named after Yazuaki Iwasada, the real life public relations manager of the J League. He was the one in charge of working with the Conan anime production team during the pre-production of The Eleventh Striker and during the pre-production of every episode that concerns the J League.

• In this episode he voiced mass media reporter.

• This episode is made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of J League, was aired during 2018 FIFA World Cup, and is the second filler to reference movie 16, after Promise with a J-Leaguer. However, as Kazunari Kouchi, the writer of movie 16, passes away in 2016, Hajime Kamegaki wrote the episode instead.
• Yasuhito Endo, a popular football player in Japan, reprised his own role from movie 16.
• The licensed water bottles from the J League feature Hide and Uemura.
• Kogoro wears the Jersey number 556, which is pronounced similar to his name in Japanese.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El guardaespatlles de la lliga japonesa	The bodyguard of the Japanese League
French (Subbed)	L'ange gardien de la J. League	The guardian angel of the J League
Thai	บอดี้การ์ดแห่งเจลีก	The bodyguard of J League
Vietnamese	Người bảo hộ J League

See also

• Season 28
• The Eleventh Striker
• Promise with a J-Leaguer
• Behind the Scenes of the J League Finals