The Kidnapper in the Picture

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Episode 252 (Int. Episode 271)
Information
Title:	The Kidnapper in the Picture
Japanese title:	絵の中の誘拐犯 (E no Naka no Yūkaihan)
Original airdate:	October 8, 2001 July 25, 2020 (Remastered)
Broadcast rating:	17.5%
Remastered rating:	8.1%
Filler case:	#88
Season:	6
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Kamen Yaiba
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Silhouette Picture (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama (chief)
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Hiroshi Matsuzono
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Junko Yamanaka and Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ichiro Nagai as Kenzo Tsubakuro Sachiko Kojima as Akio Tsubakuro Yousuke Akimoto as Jukichi Sakai Masayo Hosono as Kindergarten teacher Jin Yamanoi as Yuuji Kisaki
Music
Opening song:	destiny
Closing song:	Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni

The Kidnapper in the Picture (絵の中の誘拐犯 ,E no Naka no Yūkaihan) is the 252nd episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Kamen Yaiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Detective Boys Badge

Case

Situation

With time running thin, Conan and the Detective Boys followed clues left behind Akio's drawings and Kenzo stated his grandson's habit of providing his signature on an object he found appealing. In response, Conan quickly run to the scene where Akio drew that object and his team followed, in all turn of events, Ayumi in now with the kidnapper. What will happen to her and Akio?

Kidnapping
	Victim: Akio Tsubakuro Age: 5 years old Kidnapper bought crayon and sandwich to Akio.

People

Jukichi Sakai
	55 years old Tsubakuro Financial Corporation head secretary

Kenzo Tsubakuro
	70 years old Tsubakuro Financial Corporation president

Akio Tsubakuro
	Victim (kidnapped) 5 years old Kenzo's grandson

Yuuji Kisaki
	Akio's kidnapper

Resolution

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The drawings consists of Pierrot and Akio enjoying a television show together and an object drew on the bottom left, is a clock water tower. Conan believed that Akio is remain captive from a perspective he saw, his location should be revealed once the alignment is set. However, when the boys reach there, the answer is more ambiguous since there are too many houses on one singular line. So they spit their searches, until at 5 pm Ayumi is missing from the rendezvous point and discovered that Ayumi followed the kidnapper into his car. It drove to the hostage's warehouse and through the detective's boy badge, Ayumi forwarded its whereabouts. Conan makes an entrance through the wooden window and capture the criminal through a can concussion, rescuing Akio from the kidnapper, Yuuji Kisaki.

Trivia

• The kidnapper vehicle is a Classicgrun Perleff.met. 1995 Volkswagen Polo III [Typ 6N].

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	destiny	destiny	destiny	destiny
2	はずむ蘭	Hazumu Ran	Bouncing Ran	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	顛末（TENMATSU）	Tenmatsu (TENMATSU)	The Facts (TENMATSU)	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
5	記憶喪失（影）	Kiokusōshitsu (Kage)	Amnesia (Shadow)	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
6	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
7	犯人のアジト （いよいよver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Iyoiyo ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (More and More ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	急げ！少年探偵団	Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan	Hurry! The Detective Boys	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
9	キーワードの謎解き	Kiiwādo no Nazotoki	Keyword to the Riddle Solution	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
10	暗号トリックの解読	Angō Torikku no Kaidoku	The Trick to Deciphering the Code	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
11	夜の探索	Yoru no Tansaku	Night Search	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
12	コナン行動開始！	Konan Kōdō Kaishi!	Conan, Move Out!	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
13	「何だこの痕跡は？」	"Nanda Kono Konseki wa?"	"What Is This a Trace Of?"	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
14	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
15	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma	Detective Conan Main Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
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 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	التوقيع هو الحل	The Signature Is the Solution
Bahasa melayu	Penculikan di dalam gambar	Kidnapper in the Picture
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El segrestador del dibuix	The kidnapper of the drawing
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Un segrestador en el dibuix	A kidnapper in the drawing
Galician	O secuestrador no debuxo	The kidnapper in the drawing
German	Das Bild des Entführers	The Picture of the Kidnapper
Italian	Il rapimento	The Kidnapping
Spanish (American dub)	El secuestrador en el dibujo	The kidnapper in the drawing
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El secuestrador en el dibujo	The kidnapper in the drawing
Thai	โจรเรียกค่าไถ่ในภาพวาด	The kidnapper in the drawing
Vietnamese	Kẻ bắt cóc trong bức tranh	The Kidnapper in the Picture

See also

• Season 6