The Inauspicious Matchmaking

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Episode 1085-1086 (Int. Episode 1143-1144)
Information
Title:	The Inauspicious Matchmaking
Japanese title:	不吉な縁結び (Fukitsuna Enmusubi)
Original airdate:	June 3, 2023 (Part 1) June 10, 2023 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	5.3% (Part 1) 5.6% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#306
Season:	28
Manga source:	Volume 100: Files 9-11 (1067 · 1068 · 1069)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Shinichi Kudo Juzo Megure Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Shuichi Akai James Black Andre Camel Jodie Starling Rei Furuya Azusa Enomoto Momiji Ooka Muga Iori Rum Tim FBI Agent 1 Jim Mason Mark Densuke Takekuma Self Defense member Meisuke Ozumi Yui Yamashita Minoru Nagatsuka Kaitou Kid Katsuki Doito
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Heiji Hattori
Next Conan's Hint:	Mask (Part 1) Snowman (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Hatsuki Tsuji
Storyboard:	Hatsuki Tsuji
Episode director:	1085: Taiki Nishimura 1086: Tsurumi Mukaiyama
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo (supervisor) 1085: • Akio Kawamura 1086: • Kosei Takahashi • Yusuke Shimizu • Eiichi Tokura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Chie Saito (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	1085: BIG BANG 1086: Mouse
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Yuko Miyamura as Kazuha Toyama Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Kenji Nomura as Andre Camel Takaya Hashi as James Black Shuhei Sakaguchi as Heiji in mask Yuki Kuwahara as Woman Hiroaki Okuda as Announcer Fuminori Komatsu as Meisuke Ozumi Tomomichi Nishimura as Densuke Takekuma Toshiya Chiba as Self Defense Forces personnel Gakuto Kajiwara as Hyouga Koumoto Toru Nara as Torahiko Kawano Makoto Naruse as Kyoma Jinnai Michiko Neya as Tsurumi Shamoto Eri Suzuki as Child Chihiro Ibuki as Child
Music
Opening song:	RAISE INSIGHT
Closing song:	Kuufuku

The Inauspicious Matchmaking (不吉な縁結び ,Fukitsuna Enmusubi) is the 1085th and 1086th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Hyouga Koumoto
	Member of the idol group "Naniwa Kids"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Shinichi Kudo (flashback) Juzo Megure (flashback) Yusaku Kudo (flashback) Yukiko Kudo (flashback) Shuichi Akai (flashback) Jodie Starling (flashback) James Black (flashback) Andre Camel (flashback) Rei Furuya (flashback) Azusa Enomoto (flashback) Momiji Ooka (flashback) Muga Iori (flashback) Rum (flashback) Tim (flashback) FBI Agent 1 (flashback) Jim Mason (flashback) Mark (flashback) Densuke Takekuma (flashback) Self Defense Forces member (flashback) Meisuke Ozumi (flashback) Yui Yamashita (flashback) Minoru Nagatsuka (flashback) Kaitou Kid (background) Katsuki Doito (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan teasing Heiji with Kazuha's voice.

Conan, Ran, and Kazuha, who came to Tokyo, visited the Haido Shrine, which was best known for matchmaking. Owing to the encounter of the "115 fate" day, the shrine was rather crowded. Ran previously did not know about this popular attraction and inquired of Kazuha how she became aware of it. Kazuha explained it was because of Heiji, as she haphazardly saw him looking up information with regards to this shrine. From these recent words and deeds, Conan was convinced that Heiji was also there, and he soon found a suspicious man wearing a fox mask. On the other hand, Kazuha noticed a person among the crowd who did not seem to have the intent of matchmaking.

Conan found Heiji while poking around the shrine platform, and also teased him using the voice-changing bowtie, which imitated Kazuha's voice. Heiji reiterated the previous attempts at confession, the first time was interrupted by a zombie actor; the second time was interrupted by a paratrooper from the Japanese Air Defense Force; the third time was interrupted by an emergency case; the fourth time was for the same reason; the fifth time at Kiyomizu-dera was taken one step ahead by Shinichi; the sixth time was because Kazuha was disguised by Kid; and the seventh time, Kazuha got dragged away by Iori when Heiji was about to confess. After all of these failures, Heiji realised that the thing he had been missing was not beautiful sights or situations but luck. Therefore, he went to the shrine just to improve his luck. Heiji thus wore the fox mask with Conan's bowtie inside of it, this could allow him to change his sound without being discovered by Kazuha. Surprisingly, Kazuha mistook the masked Heiji for Komoto Hyoga of the Naniwa Kids. After some time, the suspicious person who did not seem to have an interest in matchmaking was later found dead and revealed to be a police investigator searching for criminals around the area. From Kazuha's findings, the victim chased after someone while he was waiting in the queue, and was apparently saying something like "This really is a matchmaking shrine, that's three of them in one place."

Murder
	Location: Haido Shrine Victim: Soushi Hidaka Age: 31 years old Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Kyouma Jinnai, Tsurumi Shamoto and Torahiko Kawano

It was liable to be believed that the victim slipped down the steps and died in an accident, but both Conan and Heiji believed that it was a murder. There was a flag without a pole abandoned in the middle of the steps, Heiji deduced that the weapon would possibly be the pole of the flag. Since carrying the entire flag while escaping would be too noticeable, the culprit thus decided to only take the pole. The criminals that the police investigator was searching for before his death were gathered together by the police. There were three suspects in the case: pickpocket and shoplifter Tsurumi Shamoto, a person who drove without a license and committed a hit-and-run, Torahiko Kawano, and marriage fraudster Kyouma Jinnai. The three of them were the criminals that Soushi had been capturing while he was alive.

Part 2

The police verified their alibis when the crime was carried out, Tsurumi was tied to a lamppost at the bicycle parking area using the handcuffs, after being discovered by the victim. Torahiko bumped into some thugs and got into a fight with them near the entrance of the shrine, thanks to that, this attarcted loads of attentions towards the fight and gave the oppurtunity for the crime to be implemented without testimonies. Finally, Kyouma was finding his wallet during that time. Conan proposed another assumption, since there was a box used to store the flag poles and flags, those were supposed to be set up already, but due to the fight outbroke by Torahiko, the staff resposible for putting the flags went to spectate. The culprit might put the weapon pole inside the box, however, Sato rejected this theory, because forensics examined the stuff inside it, which did not find a match to the victim's blood component. So, where did the culprit hide the flag pole?

In the meantime, Ran thought that the "Komoto" kind of looked like Heiji, did Kazuha also identify the masked man's identity?

People

Hyouga Koumoto
	"Naniwa Kids" idol group member

Usagi Mikage
	TV personality Hyouga's lover

Soushi Hidaka
	Victim (bludgeoned) 31 years old Tokyo MPD Investigative cooperation department assistant inspector

Kyouma Jinnai
	29 years old Marriage fraud perpetrator

Tsurumi Shamoto
	30 years old Repeated shoplifter

Torahiko Kawano
	38 years old Unlicensed driver, causes hit-and-run

Ms. Kawano
	Torahiko's younger sister Swindled by Kyouma

Man A
	TV news announcer

Man B
	Wanted criminal

Boy A
	Haido shrine visitor

Boy B
	Haido shrine visitor Boy A's friend

Woman
	Haido shrine visitor Tourist Hyouga's fan

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The culprit is Tsurumi Shamoto. The flagpole was a red herring to mislead everyone, it was not the actual weapon that killed the victim. Tsurumi first knocked the victim out with the real weapon, and pushed him to make him glide down the steps. Then she took a nearby flag out of the place and stained it with the victim's blood, making it look like it got blood on it during the attack. The pole of the flag was taken out beforehand and put inside the box, which had the newly flag inside. Making an illusion that the culprit fled with a flag pole.

Handcuff Escape Trick

Click to see trick demonstration.

When the victim fixed Tsurumi near the lamppost at the bicycle parking area, she could easily swipe the handcuffs, and commit murder, then cuff herself again. Conan demonstrated the trick:

1. Take the gap in the cuffs;
2. Pass the cable up through the bottom;
3. Pass the fist through the loop in the cable;
4. Pull the cable through.

Using this trick, she could escape from the lamppost, and pretend to be trapped all the time as she came back. Actually, Tsurumi initially just wanted to escape after swiping the handcuffs, however, when she walked towards the exit, nearby the steps, she was discovered by the victim again, who claimed to capture her again. Therefore, she just casually took a heavy object nearby and hit the victim, the object was...

The Actual Weapon

The actual weapon happened to be a water bucket that was originally left by a faucet. It had water inside, and due to the cold day, the water inside the bucket froze. The culprit grabbed this bucket and hit the victim's head without thinking. Moreover, to conceal this weapon, she put the bucket upside down on the head of a snowman, pretending it to be a decorative hat for the snowman. This got revealed by Conan when he heard a sound coming from the snowman, followed by a fall of the snowman's eye. That was because the ice inside the bucket had melted, and this created a change in momentum that exerted a force on the head of the snowman, causing the eye to fall.

Aftermath

Conan asked Heiji what kind of name would be a "ridiculous" name. Heiji jokingly answered "Conan Edogawa", before pointed out "Doito Katsuki", whose name can be rearranged into "Kaito Kid". Conan then thought about the name being an anagram.

In the end, Heiji's farce got debunked as the true Komoto appeared in the shrine, and Kazuha said that from the beginning, she recognized Heiji in a heartbeat since they had been friends since childhood. She just disguised herself to not recognize and see Heiji's further act, Heiji explained that he was there to ask god to help him regarding matchmaking, but Kazuha did not know who the person Heiji was matching for was, but it was obviously herself.

Manga to anime changes

• The anime add some original scenes not in the manga:

• Conan asks Ran if he can go for a walk rather than standing in line, before go to approach Heiji.
• Conan thinking the reason why the suspects stay at the shrine and if the flagpole is really the weapon.
• Conan wondering if Kazuha would have known Heiji is the man behind the mask, and what Heiji will do if she knows.
• Conversation between Conan and Kazuha about what Heiji might be doing at the moment.

• While the cases where Heiji attempted to confess Kazuha were mentioned in the manga, the anime add flashback scenes of those cases.
• In the manga, Shinichi is shown in the background while Conan is thinking about the mysterious sound. In the anime it is not shown.
• The anime change how Sato deal with Kawano when he got provoked by Heiji. Instead of hitting Kawano on the head, Sato pulls his ear.
• The anime add more reaction from Shamoto when she heard Kawano is responsible of her current condition. She tried to kick Kawano several times, and when Takagi tried to calm them down, Shamoto kicked Takagi several times.

Trivia

• The organizer and storyboard of this case, Hatsuki Tsuji, is in charge of manga case storyboard once again after thirteen years. He worked on the last two episodes of The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen.
• The suspects' names are related to animals and make the kanji for Hikawa Shrine (氷川神社), which was the set model for Haido Shrine:
  • Soushi Hidaka (氷高 創志) is the "Hi" (氷) in Hikawa and comes from "ox" (ウシ, ushi);
  • Torahiko Kawano (川野 寅彦) is the "kawa" (川) in Hikawa and comes from "tiger" (トラ, tora);
  • Kyouma Jin'nai (神内 恭麻) is the "Jin" (神) in Jinja (shrine) and comes from "horse" (ウマ, uma);
  • Tsurumi Shamoto (社本 鶴美) is the "Ja" (社) in Jinja (shrine) and comes from "crane" (鶴, tsurumi);
  • Furthermore, Usagi Mikage (三影兎) comes from "rabbit" (ウサギ, usagi) and "shadow" (影, kage);
  • Hyouga Koumoto (光本 兵我) comes from "panther" (ヒョウ, hyou) and "light" (光, kou), as opposed to Usagi who is "shadow". He is also inspired from Taiga Kyoumoto (京本 大我), member of the idol group SixTONES and a fan of the Detective Conan series, and Koichi Domoto (堂本 光一), member of the duo KinKi Kids.
  • Naniwa Kids (浪花キッズ) comes from the duo KinKi Kids (Kinki (近畿) is the region in which the Naniwa Ward of Osaka is situated) and the boys band Naniwa Danshi (なにわ男子). The inclusion of a snowman in the case is a reference to the idol band Snow Man, who started at the same time as SixTones.

Quotes

Heiji remembers one of the people Kaitou Kid disguised as, Katsuki Doito, and his name being "ridiculous".

• Conan and Heiji's conversation regarding "ridiculous" name:

Conan Edogawa: What kind of name do you think a "ridiculous" name would be?
(江戸川コナン「お前『ふざけた名前』ってどんなんだと思う？」)

Heiji Hattori: A ridiculous name? I know one guy who's got one.
(服部平次「どんなんって？そんな奴 1人知ってんで。」)

Conan Edogawa: Who?
(江戸川コナン「だ、誰だよ、そいつ？」)

Heiji Hattori: Edogawa Conan. It's you.
(服部平次「江戸川コナン、お前や。」)

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Rencontre funeste avec le destin	Fateful encounter of destiny
Thai	การจับคู่ที่โชคร้าย	The Unfortunate Matchmaking

See also

• Season 28