The Blind Spot in the Dressing Room

Chronology
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Episode 878-879 (Int. Episode 933-934)
Information
Title:	The Blind Spot in the Dressing Room
Japanese title:	試着室の死角 (Shichakushitsu no Shikaku)
Original airdate:	October 28, 2017 (Part 1) November 4, 2017 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	7.8% 8.5%
Manga case:	#280
Season:	22
Manga source:	Volume 91: Files 10-11 (969-970) ~ Volume 92: File 1 (971)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Masumi Sera Makoto Kyogoku Shukichi Haneda Shuichi Akai Mary Shinichi Kudo Wataru Takagi Juzo Megure Yukiko Kudo Jinsuke Ninda
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa  Masumi Sera
Next Conan's Hint:	Swimsuits (Part 1) Sandals (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Storyboard:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Episode director:	878: Minoru Tozawa 879: Hiroya Saito
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo and Seiji Muta (Supervisors) 878: Keiko Sasaki 879: Asuka Tsubuki
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Akiko Motoyoshi (sub-character) Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Marie Hatanaka as Fukunishi Ryoko Hikida as Izumi Roko Takizawa as Ritsuko Sashihara Chisa Yokoyama as Ayami Yamaki Kimiko Saito as Tomoyo Nitsuka Mai Nakahara as Reia Nanbu Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shukichi Haneda Atsuko Tanaka as Mary
Music
Opening song:	Lie, Lie, Lie,
Closing song:	Togetsukyō ~Kimi Omou~

The Blind Spot in the Dressing Room (試着室の死角 ,Shichakushitsu no Shikaku) is the 878th and 879th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Masumi Sera Makoto Kyogoku (background) Shukichi Haneda (flashback) Shuichi Akai (flashback) Mary Sera (flashback) Shinichi Kudo (flashback) Wataru Takagi Juzo Megure Yukiko Kudo (background) Jinsuke Ninda (hand flashback)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Masumi, Sonoko, and Ran go buy swimsuits in an upscale department store. The girls spend a while trying on many two-pieces, which causes Conan to remember something from the past. As goes out for a stroll to clear his mind. Conan witnesses the extremely bitchy behavior of a rich woman named Ritsuko Sashihara. She belittles and abuses another client (Tomoyo), the shop assistant in charge (Reia) and her assistant Ayami. Few later, Ritsuko is found strangled to death and bleeding in the dressing room. Conan and Masumi check on the corpse and realize that she left some dying clues, and Conan recalls more and more of the old incident that he's been thinking about through the shopping trip.

Murder
	Location: Shimusa Clothing store Victim: Ritsuko Sashihara Age: 41 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Tomoyo Nitsuka, Reia Nanbu, and Ayami Yamaki

Part 2

With the help of Sonoko mentioning the face cover used in cosmetics, Sera and Conan solved the trick the culprit used to murder the victim unnoticed.

People

Tomoyo Nitsuka
	43 years old Customer

Reia Nanbu
	24 years old Shimusa Clothing Shop employee

Ritsuko Sashihara
	Victim (strangled) 41 years old Customer Cosmetic company president

Ayami Yamaki
	35 years old Customer Ritsuko's subordinate

Fukunishi
	Shimusa Clothing Shop clerk

Izumi
	Shimusa Clothing Shop clerk

Resolution

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The culprit is Ayami Yamaki, Ritsuko Sashihara's assistant. She did it because she had been humiliated by the victim when she dress her dog in the same outfit as Yamaki. When she saw that, Yamaki understood that she was a slave to her boss and wanted to leave the company, but couldn't since she was in massive debt to her cruel boss. She became so desperate that she decided to kill Ritsuko to free herself.

Conan thinks about how Masumi didn't know the difference between how Americans and Japanese count and how Europeans count, and connects it to other instances of Masumi saying and doing things that someone who lived in America wouldn't—being surprised at how thin a baseball bat was, and keeping her fork in her left hand while eating during the Red Woman case, and referring to soccer as "football" during the Romance Novelist case. Conan realizes that these instances show that Masumi actually lived in the United Kingdom, not in the United States, in Britain, cricket is more popular than baseball and has a wider bat, when eating, one would not switch the fork to the right hand, as is the case in the United States, and the British refer to association football as "Football", while in the U.S. it's called "Soccer".

As Conan wonders why Masumi would lie about this, he begins to think of England, and finally remembers something. He and Ran did meet Masumi before, several years ago, alongside other people.

Manga to anime changes

• Because the three manga chapters were not enough to make two episodes, some scenes were either made longer, or dialogues were added.
• During her interrogation scene, Ayami is asked about the gifts in her purse. She tells the police that the boxes contain perfume and are a gift for the store manager. In the manga, Takagi requests to see the contents of her perfumes boxes. In the anime, however, Ayami herself offers to show him.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El punt cec de l'emprovador	The dressing room blind spot
French (Subbed)	L'Angle mort de la cabine	The changing room blind spot
Thai	มุมอับในห้องแต่งตัว	The blind spot in the dressing room
Vietnamese	Điểm mù trong phòng thử đồ

Trivia

• In The Fist of Blue Sapphire, the white swimsuit worn by Ran in the pool is one of those she bought here.
• The name of the suspects come from type of clothes:

• Ritsuko Sashihara (指原 律子) comes from separate clothes (セパレーツ ,separētsu);
• Tomoyo Nitsuka (二塚 朝世) comes from knit clothes (ニット ,nitto);
• Reia Nanbu (南部 玲亜) comes from flares (フレア ,furea), bell-bottom clothes;
• Ayami Yamaki (八巻 彩実) comes from camisoles (キャミソール ,kyamisōru).

• The store name SIMUSA (シムサ ,Shimusa) comes from Musashi (武蔵 / ムサシ ,Musashi).

See also

• Season 22