Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board

Chronology
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Episode 1033-1035 (Int. Episode 1090-1092)
Information
Title:	Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board
Japanese title:	太閤名人の将棋盤 (Taikō Meijin no Shōgi-ban)
Original airdate:	January 8, 2022 (Opening Move) January 15, 2022 (Brilliant Move) January 22, 2022 (Checkmate)
Broadcast rating:	7.4% (Opening Move) 7.7% (Brilliant Move) 7.1% (Checkmate)
Manga case:	#300
Season:	27
Manga source:	Volume 98: Files 7-10 (1043-1046)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shukichi Haneda Yumi Miyamoto Ai Haibara Detective Boys Shuichi Akai Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Inspector Yuminaga Kazunobu Chiba Naeko Miike Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Kohji Haneda Mary Sera Masumi Sera Heiji Hattori Chikara Katsumata Hideo Akagi Ryusuke Higo Gin Vodka Vermouth Chianti Korn
Case solved by:	Shukichi Haneda Conan Edogawa Yusaku Kudo
Next Conan's Hint:	Donuts (Opening Move) Coffee, bread, and ice cream (Brilliant Move) Blind shogi (Checkmate)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	1033: • Tomonori Mine • Yasuichiro Yamamoto 1034: • Sumito Sasaki 1035: • Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	1033: • Tomonori Mine • Yasuichiro Yamamoto 1034: • Sumito Sasaki 1035: • Yasuichiro Yamamoto New Year Greeting: • Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	1033: • Koichiro Kuroda • Yosuke Fujino 1034: Sumito Sasaki 1035: Akira Yoshimura New Year Greeting: • Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 1033: • Kaoru Nagakawa • tofu • Michitaka Yamamoto • Asuka Tsubuki 1034: • Yasushi Fujiki • Kenichi Otomo • Yuka Sato • Zhang Yi • Keiko Sasaki (asst.) • Masahisa Koyata (asst.) • Yui Ushinohama (asst.) • Miho Tanaka (asst.) • Rei Masunaga (asst.) • Michitaka Yamamoto (asst.) 1035: • Asuka Tsubuki • Marie Nagano • Michitaka Yamamoto • Miwako Shibata (asst.) • Kenichi Otomo (asst.) New Year Greeting: • Masatomo Sudo
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (Design Works) New Year Greeting layout: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Production cooperation:	1033: Azeta Pictures 1034: Studio Leo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shukichi Haneda Yuu Sugimoto as Yumi Miyamoto Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Natsuo Tokuhiro as Inspector Yuminaga Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Rie Tanaka as Naeko Miike Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Minoru Inaba as Chikara Katsumata Minako Kotobuki as Mina Katsumata Kentaro Ito as Kosuke Hishinuma Nanako Mori as Shoko Uryu Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Witness Tomohisa Aso as Photographer Yasuhiro Mamiya as Loudspeaker voice
Music
Opening song:	SLEEPLESS
Closing song:	SWEET MOONLIGHT

Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board (太閤名人の将棋盤 ,Taikō Meijin no Shōgi-ban) is the 1033rd, 1034th, and 1035th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Mina Katsumata
	23 years old Chikara Katsumata's daughter

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Shukichi Haneda Yumi Miyamoto Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ai Haibara Shuichi Akai Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Inspector Yuminaga Kazunobu Chiba Naeko Miike Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Heiji Hattori (flashback) Chikara Katsumata (flashback) Kohji Haneda (background) Mary Sera (background) Masumi Sera (background) Ryosuke Higo (background) Hideo Akagi (background) Gin (background) Vodka (background) Vermouth (background) Chianti (background) Korn (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Opening Move

While on the way home from school, Conan, Haibara, and the Detective Boys meet Shukichi, who in chance heard the group conversation about the term "yaocho" (match fixing). It was because of the death of Kimiharu Nishikido, a shogi player who was suspected of match fixing.

Murder (Past)
	Location: Unknown Victim: Kimiharu Nishikido Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Mina Katsumata, Shoko Uryu and Kosuke Hishinuma Nishikido was found dead after disappearing amidst allegations of match-fixing. He was beaten to death, and next to his body was an upside-down shogi board with one of its legs removed.

Later, Shukichi leaves for an important meeting, but the group meet Yumi, who is following Shukichi because he is acting strange. Haibara then says that Shukichi might have an affair. Yumi decides to take Conan with her.

Shukichi then enter a donut shop. While waiting for Shukichi, Conan asks Yumi if she has meet Shukichi's parents. Yumi says that Shukichi was adopted by the super rich Haneda family when he was trying to be a professional shogi player, so that Shukichi could fullfill Kohji Haneda's dream. Yumi also aware of Shukichi's biological family, betting that the whole family is also carfree like him. Conan, who knows about the family, says nothing about it.

Yumi then realizes that they are in front of Star Donut, which Yumi sugested Shukichi to go. Yumi is happy, but only for a while, because Shukichi is later seen talking to two women. She then approaches him, only to find that the two women are happy to meet Yumi.

The two women, Mina Katsumata and Shoko Uryu, are young shogi players who are attending shogi study session. Shukichi is involved because he is asked by Chikara Katsumata, Mina's father.

They arrive at an apartment, where another young shogi player, Kosuke Hishinuma, is waiting. There is also another shogi player, Yasukiyo Genda, who is waiting in the apartment. However, Genda is not answering the bell, so they enter the building using the spare key brought by Mina.

They arrive at the room and found the door is not locked. After some searching, Hishinuma finds Genda's body in the kitchen.

Murder
	Location: Apartment Victim: Yasukiyo Genda Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Mina Katsumata, Shoko Uryu and Kosuke Hishinuma 10 minutes after everyone left the apartment, they came back only to stumble across Genda's dead body, who seems to have been strangled to death with and electric chord. Next to him was an upside down shogi board with two legs removed.

Shukichi touchs the kitchen counter and notices something near mixer, toaster, and ice trays.

Takagi and Sato later arrive at the crime scene. Shukichi, knowing the reason why Yumi followed him, has a small argument with her, before get interupted by Sato.

Brilliant Move

Sato and Takagi starts questioning the others, suspecting that they might pretend to buy food and kill Genda. Hishinuma, who bought cups of coffee, said that the water heater is broken, and the stove is not hot. Mina bought freshly baked bread, and there is no microwave, so it is impossible to reheat the bread. Shoko bought some ice cream, and they had checked the freezer to make sure there is no ice cream before go to buy it. They also meet each other before heading to the apartment and they didn't bring any food beforehand.

Sato deduces that the murder might be the work of an outsider, and a serial murder. There is a shogi board with two missing legs next to Genda. In Nishikido case, a shogi board with one missing leg was found. It was revealed that Genda and Nishikdo were friends. The shogi study session is originally run by Genda, Nishikido, Yuhei Kishimoto, and Kinji Uryu. Kinji, who is Shoko's older brother and Mina's boyfriend, committed suicide. After that, Kishimoto became depressed.

Suicide (Past)
	Location: Uryu's house Victim: Kinji Uryu Cause of death: Hanging Some time ago, Kinji Uryu committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. It seems that shortly after, Yuhei Kishimoto started to develop depression from Uryu's death.

Conan warned that there might be more murders, since there are two remaining legs on the shogi board. Sato plans to talk to Kishimoto, so she asks Hishinuma. He later points out from the window the house next to a public bath. However, a smoke appears from that place. Sato then warns the others that they might be the next target.

Sato and Takagi meet Yuminaga at the crime scene. Kishimoto is found burnt in the house, and might still alive before the fire started because his rectal temperature hadn't fallen much. Next to Kishimoto, a shogi board with three missing legs is found. Yuminaga then surprised that Conan, who is observing the shogi board, is there.

Murder

Location: Kishimoto's house Victim: Yuhei Kishimoto Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Mina Katsumata, Shoko Uryu and Kosuke Hishinuma Just after the suspects talk about Uryu's suicide, they see a house on fire from the window of the apartment building, and realize it is Kishimoto's house. As the Sato and Takagi arrive there, Inspector Yuminaga who first arrived tells them that it was completely burned, but the cause of death doesn't seem to have been the fire, since it didn't react to it. Also, a shogi board with three legs missing was next to it.

That night, Shukichi goes to the culprit house to encourage them to turn in to the police.

The next day, while on the way home from school, Conan recalls the case. He was interupted by Genta who was annoyed by capsule toys machine, so he decides to mix up the machine.

Later, he get a phone call from Yumi. Shukichi has been missing since last night and she asks Conan if he knows where Shukichi is. Conan recalls that Shukichi might notice something. Yumi also mentions that Shukichi seems to forget something when they left the apartment, but after he came back, he admitted that it was a mistake on his part.

Yumi then ends the call. Chiba and Naeko, who are with Yumi at the time, deduce that Shukichi might be shocked after Yumi tried to tail him. Hearing that, Yumi is angry, then teases both of them for getting along so well. However, they admit that they had an argument last night.

Meanwhile, Shukichi is abducted by the culprit. After he enters the room, the culprit use stun gun to knock him out and tied him to the leg of a table. Shukichi deduces that the culprit is waiting for police announcement, but he already prevent that.

Hostage situation
	Location: Culprit's apartment Victim: Shukichi Haneda Age: 28 years old Suspects: Mina Katsumata, Shoko Uryu and Kosuke Hishinuma Shukichi heads to the culprit's apartment after finding the truth behind Genda's murder and asks the culprit to turn themselves in, but is knocked out by the culprit.

Conan then call Akai to help him find Shukichi. Yusaku, who is also in the living room with Yukiko, decide to help with the case too. After Conan mentions the things that was on the kitchen counter, Yusaku finds out something that can be use to fabricate an alibi. Conan, recalling what Genta was doing earlier, also finally solves the case.

Checkmate

Akai, without his Subaru disguise and only use a hat and a sunglasses, picks up Conan with his Subaru car in front of Ramen Ogura. Conan says that Shukichi's phone is not active. Akai deduces that Shukichi decide not to bring along the phone containg information about his close friend. He then calls Shukichi's other phone, which is used for secret conversation with him. Shukichi, knowing that Akai is calling him, answer the phone, and asked the culprit to do blind shogi. Akai then uses GPS to find Shukichi's location.

People

Mina Katsumata
	23 years old Chikara Katsumata's daughter Dated Kinji Shogi player

Shoko Uryu
	23 years old Shogi player

Kosuke Hishinuma
	24 years old Shogi player

Yasukiyo Genda
	Victim (strangled) Shogi player

Kimiharu​ Nishikido
	Deceased (beaten) Shogi player Suspected of match-fixing

Yuhei Kishimoto
	Victim (stabbed) Shogi player Developed depression due to Kinji's death

Kinji Uryu
	Deceased (hanged) Shoko's brother Dated Mina Shogi player

Resolution

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The culprit is Kosuke Hishinuma. He used the mixer to make lukewarm water, then used it to make some coffee. While waiting for the mixer, he killed Genda. Before that, he killed Kishimoto and placed the shogi board with three missing legs to confuse the order of the murders. He also set the AC temperature high, so that the body would be found with a high rectal temperature delaying the time of death.

They finally arrived at the apartment where Shukichi was abducted and taken to. Akai then honks the car horn so that Shukichi knows that he and Conan are there to rescue him. Using blind shogi, Shukichi tells Conan and Akai the room where he is abducted. However, to do that, Shukichi had to intentionally make a bad move. Hishinuma realizes it, then discovers the phone and smashes it. He threatens Shukichi saying that he will kill him.

Using his phone, Conan finds Shukichi’s exact location. Akai then makes a plan to save Shukichi.

Conan kicks his soccer ball to the clothline pipes to change its angle. Akai uses the Voice-changing Bowtie and sets it to the loudspeaker mode to warn Hishinuma. When Hishinuma threatens to kill Shukichi, Akai uses his gun to shoot through the pipe and into the window glass. Hishinuma then tries to run away, but Conan manages to tranquilize him.

Motive

Shukichi then tells Conan that Nishikido, Genda, Kishimoto, and Kinji kept pens equipped with a miniature camera in their coat pockets to cheat during their shogi matchs. It worked fine, until Kinji got warned for going to bathroom too often. When he told the others, they told him to follow the rule of silence, which means that if any of them were in danger of being exposed, he would keep the group's secret and kill himself to protect the others.

Hishinuma, who found the suicide suspicious, tracked down one of the members of the group Nishikido and forced him to confess everything before killing him. After learning that two others were involved in this cheating circle, he decided to kill them as well in order to avenge his best friend Kinji. Hishinuma admitted to Shukichi that Nishikido and his fellow cheaters are a disgrace to all shogi players.

Hishinuma had prepared a confession letter, which was meant to frame Kishimoto. In the letter, Kishimoto killed the other two, then committed suicide due to the guilt of what they had done. Hishinuma was waiting for the police to find the letter, but Shukichi had already intercepted it.

Aftermath

Akai calls Camel to fix the window and retrieve the bullet. Shukichi then tells Akai that Mary is refusing to meet Yumi, and he hadn't told Mary that Akai is still alive. Akai ensures that Shukichi will get to see Mary, once the mist concealing the truth behind the Black Organization clears.

Manga to anime changes

• The anime adds some flashback scenes:

• Momiji Ooka's Challenge: Heiji mentioned about Haneda family and Conan's thought about Haneda family is wealthy.
• Taiko Meijin's Match of Love: the match between Chikara and Shukichi, and Shukichi telling Yumi about the match.
• In episode 1035, there are some flashback scenes from episode 1034, when Takagi and Sato are questioning the suspects.

• The scene when the group is searching for Genda is longer in the anime, thus some dialougue are added.
• In the original manga version, Kishimoto's cause of death is unknown, whereas it is shown that he died from being stabbed in a flashback from episode 1035.

  Show spoilers »

• In the manga, after Shukichi was saved, Akai directly called Camel, while Shukichi was talking to Conan. In the anime, while Conan and Shukichi are talking to each other, Akai is seen tying the culprit, and calls Camel after Shukichi and Conan finished talking.
• The anime removes Mary and Yumi background appearances when Shukichi mentions that Mary is refusing to meet Yumi.

Trivia

• The Star Donut logo is a reference to manga series Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi, in which both logo has the kanji 星 with a star in it. The name itself comes from the donut fast food chain Mister Donut.
• Ramen Ogura reappears in the last episode.
• The name of the suspects come from the typefaces on shōgi pieces:

• Mina Katsumata (勝又 水菜) comes from the Minase typeface (水無瀬), invented by the Minase family of shogi calligraphers, as well as the player Kiyokazu Katsumata (for the last name);
• Shōko Uryū (瓜生 祥子) comes from the Shōryū typeface (昇龍);
• Kōsuke Hishinuma (菱沼 浩輔) comes from the Ryōko typeface (菱湖, also read Hishinuma), invented by Maki Ryōko (巻菱 湖), a shogi calligrapher from the Edo period;
• Yasukiyo Genda (源田 安清) comes from the Seian typeface, invented by Genbei Kiyoyasu (源兵衛清安);
• Kimiharu Nishikido (錦戸 公春) comes from the Kinki typeface (錦旗);
• Yūhei Kishimoto (岸本 雄平) comes from the Kishū typeface (淇洲);
• Kinji Uryū (瓜生 欽二) comes from Kinryū typeface (金龍).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El tauler de shogi del Taiko Meijin. (Obertura / Un moviment brillant / Escac i mat)	Taikô Meijin's shôgi board (Opening move / A brilliant movement / Checkmate)
French (Subbed)	Le Plateau de shôgi de Taikô Meijin (1er coup / 2e coup / 3e coup)	Taikô Meijin's shôgi board (1st move / 2nd move / 3rd move)
Thai	กระดานหมากรุกของไทโคเมจิน ภาคหมากแรก / ภาคหมากชั้นเลิศ / ภาครุคฆาต)	Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board (First move / Brilliant move / Checkmate)
Vietnamese	Bàn cờ Shogi của Danh nhân Taiko (Nước đầu tiên) Bàn cờ Shogi của Danh nhân Taiko (Diệu kế) Bàn cờ Shogi của Danh nhân Taiko (Chiếu tướng)

See also

• Season 27