The Fearful Legend of the Snowy Night

Chronology
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Episode 261-262 (Int. Episode 280-281)
Information
Title:	The Fearful Legend of the Snowy Night
Japanese title:	雪の夜の恐怖伝説 (Yuki no Yoru no Kyōfu Densetsu)
Original airdate:	December 10, 2001 (Part 1) December 17, 2001 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	19.50% 18.80%
Filler case:	#91
Season:	10
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Footprints (Part 1) Gash (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Chiaki Hashiba Fumiko Komatsuzaki
Storyboard:	Takaaki Ishiyama
Episode director:	261 Hideki Nagasaki 262 Kazuo Nogami, Mashu Ito
Animation director:	261 Keiichi Ishida 262 Izumi Shimura, Atsushi Aono
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Junko Yamanaka and Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint Yasuo Muramatsu as Genichiro Daimon Hideyuki Umezu as Kazuki Daimon Junichi Sugawara as Organizer Akiko Takeguchi as Tatsuko Daimon Dai Matsumoto as Yoshiro Daimon Yoko Soumi as Kayoko Daimon Miki Itō as Hatsuho Hojo
Music
Opening song:	Winter Bells
Closing song:	Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni

The Fearful Legend of the Snowy Night (雪の夜の恐怖伝説 ,Yuki no Yoru no Kyōfu Densetsu) is the 261st and 262nd episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

It was the 4th year of the Sengoku Era. On that fateful night, the slandered Hidetomo Okiname requested an audience with his tyrannical master, Genbu Ohara, pleading with him to cease his incessant harassment. However, that only served to anger Genbu, resulting in the annihilation of the entire Okiname family. In despair over his loss, Hidetomo donned his armor, cut down Genbu, and committed suicide by slitting his own throat. There's a legend which says that Hidetomo's spirit wanders about to this day, and that those who encounter him will meet an untimely end. Therefore, the Hidetomo Festival was created, intending to calm his vengeful spirit. Incidentally, payment from the previous owner included a replica of the helmet that Hidetomo wore as he committed suicide. That day marks the 500th anniversary of Hidetomo's death.

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are driving to a hot spring in a certain countryside outside Tokyo when the road gets closed due to snow, and so they accept an offer of staying the night at a nearby house, where they meet the famous guitarist Yoshiro Daimon, his older brother Kazuki Daimon, their housekeeper Hatsuho Hojo, Kazuki's wife Kayoko Daimon, Daimon Industries president Genichiro Daimon, and his wife Tatsuko Daimon. The next day they discover the dead body of the company president.

Murder
	Location: Daimon household: separate room from the residence Victim: Genichiro Daimon Age: 70 years old Cause of death: Stab wound on the chest Suspects: Yoshiro Daimon, Hatsuho Hojo, Kayoko Daimon, and Tatsuko Daimon In the next morning, Hatsuho screamed from the walkway: president Daimon is dead. Next to the body was a bottle of E & J Brandy VSOP, and broken glass.

When they follow the footprints, they find his eldest son dressed up in armor and also dead in a locked room.

Murder
	Location: Daimon household: audio room Victim: Kazuki Daimon Age: 35 years old Cause of death: Stab wound on the neck Suspects: Yoshiro Daimon, Hatsuho Hojo, Kayoko Daimon, and Tatsuko Daimon Yoshiro breaks the locked door with an axe. In the opened audio room, they see bloody katana sword behind the door and the dead body stabbed in the neck.

The company president's wife declares that they were killed by the spirit of that 500-year-old samurai, in the day of his death anniversary.

Part 2

As requested by his mother, Yoshiro is the only person left who can protect that house, then he must left forever his guitarist's career. Conan discovers that the footprints of the armor in the snow were used to cover up the culprit's footprints, and finds that the locked room in which the son died was set up.

People

Yoshiro Daimon
	27 years old Guitarist

Kazuki Daimon
	Victim (stabbed) 35 years old Yoshiro's older brother

Hatsuho Hojo
	27 years old Housekeeper

Kayoko Daimon
	26 years old Kazuki's wife

Genichiro Daimon
	Victim (stabbed) 70 years old Yoshiro and Kazuki's father Daimon family head Daimon industries president

Tatsuko Daimon
	60 years old Genichiro's wife Daimon family first lady

Man
	Shrine priest Hidetomo Festival organizer

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

Conan stuns Kogoro and said that on Genichiro's murder, the culprit attempt to cover his tracks with the footprint technique he explained earlier, but in that case anyone other than Tatsuko, who saw the armor could have done it. Most likely, after killing Genichiro, the culprit was splattered with blood. However, neither the armor nor Kazuki's clothes have been stained. After the culprit killed Genichiro, they came into the audio room and killed Kazuki.

Recalling the katana lying on the floor in the audio room. When they first saw it, they jumped to the conclusion that it was used only as a weapon. However, the katana wasn't just a weapon. It had another particularly sneaky purpose: to turn the audio room into a locked room. After the culprit killed Kazuki, they dressed him in the armor, then stabbed the katana into the wall near the door. Then, with the other end of the katana they rested it upon the door handle, then slowly but surely exited the room without letting the katana fall and used the force of the closing door to make the katana bolt the lock with this the sealed room was complete. They knew that no one would have the strength to open the dead-bolted door and they also knew that trying to break the door down would cause the katana to fall to the floor, leaving the trick would unexposed or so the culprit thought.

Before that, they must analyze the significance of the case happening on the anniversary of Hidetomo's death. The culprit took advantage of the legend and left those large footprints to make it seem as though the only possible culprit was the armored warrior, and fool them into believing Kazuki killed Genichiro and committed suicide shortly thereafter. To make this more believable, the culprit purposely directed Tatsuko, who strongly believed in the legend, to bear witness to the animated suit of armor. Being the anniversary of Hidetomo's death, everyone knew that Tatsuko would be praying at the altar at exactly 12:00 AM. Since she couldn't see the katana from her position, it means that the culprit is left-handed.

The culprit is Hatsuho Hojo. After that, he shows a picture that shows Hatsuho, when she was a graduated high school student in sailor suit, and her father, who is revealed to be the CEO who committed suicide.

Keiichi Saegusa
	Deceased (suicide) Saegusa Homes CEO Hatsuho's father

The proof is the the pair of socks that were later found hidden in the kitchen stove. The socks that Tatsuko left on the altar the previous night disappeared, and weren't found on the corpse. So why were they taken? After killing Genichiro, Hojo stepped on the broken glass from when he dropped it, injuring her foot. If she wore the armor's shoes with that wound, there would be a stain. To avoid that, she took the socks from the altar and put them on. She intended to dispose of them the next day, since no one else would be using the kitchen, but Ran ended up coming in to help her with the coffee, so the opportunity to do so was lost.

Hojo confesses and reveals her father, who owned his own company, cherished human relations over cruel business deals. He accepted unreasonable orders from Daimon Industries with a smile, since they had been trading partners for ages. However, with just one mistake, their transactions with Daimon Industries ceased and the factory went bankrupt. Daimon Industries overcame their financial difficulty by cutting off her father's factory. As if to deal the final blow to her father, Genichiro stole their family heirloom, the armor, from him. The CEO sold the armor to raise money to pay his employees. He couldn't do anything for his workers, and he had lost a big part of their family's history. He blamed himself for it all, and committed suicide. When she was working in Tokyo, she changed her name and began to live on Genichiro's house so that she could absolve her father of his regret and so that she could have her revenge on the anniversary of her father's death.

Trivia

• This is the last Detective Conan case written by screenwriter Chiaki Hashiba. It was aired one year after her death, therefore the other screenwriter, Fumiko Komatsuzaki, was probably responsible for completing the unfinished part of the story.
• The Sengoku Era is the period from 1467-1573 in which the then separate Japanese tribes constantly fought for separation or unification from each other, not unlike the American Civil War. The 4th year was 1470, 531 and not 500 years before the episode's airdate.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells
2	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
3	驚愕の真実	Kyōgaku no Shinjitsu	Surprising Truth	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
4	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
5	蘭のお姉さんぶり	Ran no Onēsan Buri	Ran's Elder Sister Style	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
6	驚愕の真実	Kyōgaku no Shinjitsu	Surprising Truth	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
7	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
8	コナンの直感	Konan no Chokkan	Conan's Intuition	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
9	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
10	暗殺者のテーマ─忍び寄る魔手	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Shinobiyoru Mashu	Assassin's Theme - The Devil's Hand Approaches	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
11	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
12	犯人（スナイパー）の正体	Hannin (Sunaipā) no Shōtai	The Culprit's (Sniper's) Identity	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
13	青い青いこの地球に	Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni	On This Blue, Blue Star	Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	夜の探索	Yoru no Tansaku	Night Search	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
5	黒い影─挑戦	Kuroi Kage - Chōsen	Black Shadow - Challenge	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
6	真相究明	Shinsō Kyūmei	Investigating the Truth	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
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	暗殺者のテーマ─忍び寄る魔手	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Shinobiyoru Mashu	Assassin's Theme - The Devil's Hand Approaches	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
9	映画BGM	Eiga BGM	Movie BGM	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
10	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
12	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13	暗殺者のテーマ─狙撃	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Sogeki	Assassin's Theme - Sniping	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
14	漆黒の殺意	Shikkoku no Satsui	Jet Black Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
15	事情聴取	Jijōchōshu	Police Interrogation	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
16	青い青いこの地球に	Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni	On This Blue, Blue Star	Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni
17	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

Quotes

  Show spoilers »

Hatsuho-san. Do you think your father is happy that you avenged his death? Do you think he'd praise you? Hatsuho-san. It wasn't Hidetomo's spirit that put that suit of armour on. You heart wore the suit of armour, the cold armour called revenge.

—Sleeping Kogoro to Hatsuho Hojo

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	أسطورة في ليلة باردة	A Legend in a Cold Night
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La llegenda terrorífica de la nit de la nevada	The horrific legend of the snowy night
Catalan (Valencian dub)	La llegenda terrorífica de la nit de la nevada	The horrific legend of the snowy night
Galician	A lenda arrepiante na noite nevada	The Fearful Legend of the Snowy Night
German	Grusellegende von einer Winternacht	Scary Legend of a Winter Night
Italian	La leggenda del guerriero suicida	The Suicide Warrior Legend
Spanish (American dub)	La aterradora leyenda de una noche nevada	The frightening legend of a snowny night
Spanish (Castilian dub)	La terrorífica leyenda de una nevada noche	The horrific legend of a snowny night
Thai	ตำนานสยองในคืนหิมะตก	The horrific legend on a snowy night
Vietnamese	Truyền thuyết kinh hoàng trong đêm tuyết lạnh	The Fearful Legend of the Snowy Night

See also

• Season 10