The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden

Chronology
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Episode 1018-1020 (Int. Episode 1075-1077)
Information
Title:	The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden
Japanese title:	骨董盆は隠せない (Kottō Bon wa Kakusenai)
Original airdate:	September 11, 2021 (Part 1) September 18, 2021 (Part 2) September 25, 2021 (Part 3)
Broadcast rating:	6.9% (Part 1) 7.7% (Part 2) 7.6% (Part 3)
Manga case:	#298
Season:	26
Manga source:	Volume 97: Files 10-11 (1035-1036) ~ Volume 98: Files 1-2 (1037-1038)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Masumi Sera Subaru Okiya Shuichi Akai Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Mary Sera Shukichi Akai Tsutomu Akai Detective Boys Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Gin Vodka Vermouth Chianti Korn Kogoro Mouri Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Masumi Sera Subaru Okiya
Next Conan's Hint:	Black Lacquer Tray (Part 1) Crane (Part 2) Hearing Aid (Part 3)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	1018: Tsurumi Mukaiyama 1019: Minoru Tozawa 1020: Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 1018: • Kenichi Otomo • Yui Ushinohama • Marie Nagano (asst.) • Ken Araya (asst.) • Rei Masunaga (asst.) • Ayu Imoto (asst.) 1019: • Keiko Sasaki 1020: • Asuka Tsubuki • Miho Tanaka • Ken Araya (asst.)
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Akiko Motoyoshi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera Ryotaro Okiayu as Subaru Okiya Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Yuki Kaji as Shuichi Akai (17 years ago) Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Atsuko Tanaka as Mary Sera Yuki Kaida as Shukichi Akai (17 years ago) Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Masaharu Sato as Hogen Nishitsu Tohru Furusawa as Motoyuki Tojima Yōsuke Akimoto as Kinji Chono Narumi Tsunoda as Suzue Sakamaki
Music
Opening song:	ZERO kara Hajimete
Closing song:	Veronica

The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden (骨董盆は隠せない ,Kottō Bon wa Kakusenai) is the 1018th, 1019th, and 1020th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Masumi Sera Subaru Okiya Shuichi Akai (background/flashback) Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Mary Sera Shukichi Akai (flashback) Tsutomu Akai (flashback) Ayumi Yoshida (flashback) Genta Kojima (flashback) Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya (flashback) Ran Mouri (flashback) Sonoko Suzuki (flashback) Gin (background) Vodka (background) Vermouth (background) Chianti (background) Korn (background) Kurisuke Agasa (background) Tomoaki Okuda (flashback) Kogoro Mouri (flashback) Sanpei Kokuri (flashback) Shinichi Kudo (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie (background)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Agasa tells Conan that he hired an antique appraiser to appraise an antique tray that he got from the treasure hunt back then. Meanwhile, Haibara is disturbed by Sera who is observing the house. Conan then explain how Sera was suspicious about her. Subaru then visits the professor, allowing Sera to come inside. Before Sera can ask anything, Subaru interrupts her by asking Agasa about the appraisal. Agasa says that he is just on the way to get the result. Agasa also mentions that the appraiser wants to show the Chinese black lacquer tray which is said to be worth 100 million yen. Three people own the same tray, and they hire the same appraiser. At first, Sera doesn't want to come along, so that she can talk to Haibara who seems not interested too. However, when Haibara also wants to come along, Sera suddenly wants to. They decide to go to the appraiser's house using Agasa's car.

Upon arriving, Agasa tries to call the appraiser, Hogen Nishitsu, but there is no response, so he goes inside to search for Nishitsu.

Meanwhile, Nishitsu is showing the real antique tray to someone and telling the person that the tray is not theirs. Hearing that, the person knock out Nishitsu using a spear. Before they manage to retrieve the tray, they hear Agasa's voice.

Agasa then found Nishitsu bleeding. Nishitsu then tells him about the real tray. Agasa flips the tray and realizes that it is the antique tray Nishitsu mentioned. Agasa plans to call the ambulance and police, but his phone is in the car, so he goes back to get the phone. After some time, the culprit reappears from the wardrobe and kill Nishitsu.

Murder
	Location: Nishitsu residence Victim: Hogen Nishitsu Age: 71 years old Time: 2:00 pm Cause of death: Blunt force trauma and stab wound on the back Suspects: Motoyuki Tojima, Kinji Chono, and Suzue Sakamaki Nishitsu was found lying dead from getting struck on the head and then fatally stabbed by spear through his back of the chest.

The police then come and investigate the crime scene. They also interrogate the antique trays owner, who did not have an alibi when the murder took place.

Part 2

During the investigation, Sera remarks that Haibara uses a difficult expression for a first-year grade school student. She begins to ask if Haibara also took the same thing Conan did. Subaru then interrupts her, saying that nowadays grade school students have smartphones to look up anything. He also mentioned that Agasa often uses complicated words, so that it wouldn't be odd if Haibara uses some of his words.

Later, Agasa tells the police about the bloody fingerprints at the back of the real tray. However, it turns out that the culprit has put the same bloody mark on the other two trays. Agasa then mentions that when the tray was flipped sideways, the crane's beak is at the same spot as the blood. However, after flipping the trays with the blood at the top, none of the crane's beak is at the same spot as the blood.

Sera then asks Subaru how he immediately recognized her as a girl despite she was wearing a helmet. Subaru answers her that her bottom is quite feminine. Conan then asks Subaru why he doesn't tell Sera about him. Subaru says that he wants to keep Sera out as much as possible.

Subaru then recalls the moment 17 years ago, when he, along with Shukichi and his mother, Mary, was on a plane from England to Japan. Mary mentioned that while Tsutomu was investigating Kohji Haneda's death, he found out that an organization is involved, so he requested his family to go to Japan to seek refuge. She said that Tsutomu will return after he get rid of the organization, and mentioned that she was pregnant.

Chiba later comes and brings Nishitsu's hearing aid. All the suspects admitted that they didn't know it is a hearing aid until recently. Chiba then mentions that there is a message from Agasa on Nishitsu's phone, but it was never opened despite the notification sound is on. Haibara then deduces that by the time the message is received, the hearing aid has already malfunctioned.

Sera suddenly remarks that Haibara's behavior is hardly fitting for a child. She then asks about the antidote. Subaru interrupts her, but she reacts aggressively and was ready to beat Subaru. Subaru successfully avoid it, says the phrase "50-50", and that she better act less violent if she wants to look more feminine. Sera then mentions that she doesn't have to because her mother's chest used to be huge. Hearing "used to be", Subaru asks if her mother has passed away, but Sera refuse to answer.

Conan then recalls the moments he encountered Mary. While he is thinking that she is from England, he realizes the meaning of "sister outside the domain".

Part 3

Chiba comes back and brings a small box that Nishitsu want to show the clients according to the housekeeper. It is Agasa's box that contains the dish he asked Nishitsu to appraise. Later, Subaru, Conan, and Sera take a look at the dish and noticed that there is a bare crack mark on the dish. Subaru then flips the dish sideways. Suddenly, three of them realized something. Conan then asks Agasa about the crane's beak direction. After asking Chiba about any bloodstain in one of the boxes, Conan, Sera, and Subaru know the culprit's identity and the owner of the real tray.

People

Hogen Nishitsu
	Victim (bludgeoned and stabbed) 71 years old Antiques dealer Agasa's acquaintance

Motoyuki Tojima
	41 years old Securities company employee Appraisal client

Kinji Chono
	74 years old Former real estate company CEO Retired Appraisal client

Suzue Sakamaki
	46 years old Art museum director Appraisal client

Resolution

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Sera deduces that there is no way the blood and the crane's beak could be at the same spot unless it is at the top of the dish. Before Agasa flipped the tray, the blood was pointing northeast, while the crane's beak was pointing northwest. When it was flipped, then the crane's beak would end up pointing northeast. As a result the culprit is Motoyuki Tojima.

Conan then deduces that there is no way the culprit is Chono or Sakamaki because they would’ve made a sound when they lifted the spear and would have been heard by Nishitsu. Tojima then says that his hearing aid had malfunctioned, so he couldn't have heard it. However, there was no way for him to know about the hearing aid before, unless Nishitsu told him, which means Tojima was with Nishitsu when the murder happened.

His motive was his daughter who has a serious illness that costs a huge amount of money to treat. Subaru reveals his tray would have been enough to cover that cost because the other two trays aren't fakes, but studies. The two trays were carved by famous engravers when they were young and were modeled after the real tray. The culprit realizes what he did was for no reason and regrets it. Conan deduces Kinji Chono is the owner of the real black lacquer tray by looking at the bloodstain in Chono's box, which means the box was empty when the murder happened.

As for Agasa's antique dish, it is a message from his uncle Kurisuke. The words on the box say "The harder you hide, the more obvious it becomes. Kurisuke." Subaru deduces that Kurisuke repaired the dish he accidentally broke. Feeling that it would be discovered, he painted the entire dish with similar colored oil paint, but in the end, he got found out and got a severe scolding. The paint might have peeled off when Nishitsu used a solvent to remove the paint.

Aftermath

Later, they go back to Agasa residence. Sera decided to go back to the hotel. Haibara wonders if she will come again. Subaru doubts that Sera will come often. Subaru also suspects that something has happened with his mother, Mary.

Conan wants to tell Subaru that his mother has shrunk into a middle school-aged girl, but what he wants to confirm is Mary's true identity. "Sister outside the domain" also means "Sister out of territory". If "ter" is removed from "sister", then it will leave "SIS", which stands for Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, which means Mary is an MI6 agent. Conan wonders if Mary wants to test him to see if he is competent enough to trust as an ally.

Back at the hotel, Sera ask Mary where the phrase "50-50" comes from. Mary says that it comes from Tsutomu, which later Shuichi also picked up and often used. Sera then suspects that Subaru is her eldest brother Shuichi Akai.

Manga to anime changes

• Because these three epiosdes were adapted from four manga chapters, there are some additional scenes that were not in the manga:

• Flashback to Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy, where Sera asked Ran and Sonoko about Haibara. There are also Conan's flashback to The Spirit Detective's Murder and The Wizard of the Ripples.
• A scene where Sera arriving in front of Agasa's house and Subaru observing her from Kudo residence.
• A scene where Conan enters the room and checks Nishitsu's body. Sera also enters the room to look for the tray, while none of them entered the room in the manga.

• In the anime, the suspect interrogation is held in another room, while in the manga it was held directly on the alley in front of the room where the murder happened.
• In the manga, the housekeepers appeared, but not in the anime. Their roles are replaced by either Takagi or Chiba.
• Mary's flashback of Kohji Haneda is removed from the anime.
• In the anime, the hearing aid is discovered by the forensics, then it is brought to the crime scene by Chiba. In the manga, the hearing aid was still on the crime scene, it was discovered by Takagi after he stepped on it.
• In the manga, after Conan instructed Takagi to flip back the trays, he asked Takagi about the bloodstain in one of the boxes. In the anime, he asks Chiba instead.

Trivia

• The events in The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun occur before Haibara appears in the manga, while in the anime, as this case happens after, it was stated that she didn't want to come along. Agasa's statement about the case in the anime instead follows the manga, contradicting how the anime originally changed this detail.
• The name of the suspects come from traditional crafts:

• Hōgen Nishitsu (西津 法玄) comes from enamelware (七宝焼, Shippōyaki in Japanese);
• Motoyuki Tōjima (遠島 基行) comes from pottery (陶磁器, Tōjiki in Japanese);
• Kinji Chōno (蝶野 欽治) comes from engraving (彫金, Chōkin in Japanese);
• Suzue Sakamaki (坂巻鈴江) comes from sake cups (盃, Sakazuki in Japanese) and gold lacquering (蒔絵, Makie in Japanese).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La safata antiga no es pot amagar	The old tray cannot be hidden
French (Subbed)	Le Plateau antique indissimulable	The antique dish undisguised
Thai	จานโบราณที่ซ่อนไม่มิด	The antique tray that wasn't fully hidden
Vietnamese	Chiếc khay cổ không thể che giấu

See also

• Season 26