The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case

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Episode 119 (Int. Episode 126)
Information
Title:	The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case
Japanese title:	仮面ヤイバー殺人事件 (Kamen Yaibā Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	October 12, 1998 December 28, 2019 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	18.0%
Remastered rating:	6.6%
Filler case:	#45
Season:	3
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	The Masked Yaiba Murder Mystery
Dubbed episode:	Episode 126
English airdate:	May 12, 2009 (DVD)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Tome Kamen Yaiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Model gun Costume (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama (chief)
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Izumi Shimura (sub-character) Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri 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 Toshihiko Nakajima as Officer Tome Takeshi Kusao as Osamu Honda Takehiro Murozono as Yasuyuki Tsutsumi Yuka Imai as Madoka Saotome Takashi Nagasako as Katsuji Mishima Mikiko Enomoto as Hiroshi Honda
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni

The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case (仮面ヤイバー殺人事件 ,Kamen Yaibā Satsujin Jiken) is the 119th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Tome Kamen Yaiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

While on the way to dinner, Conan and the group come across a bunch of people dressed as Kamen Yaiba fans. They are invited to the party where an attempted murder and suicide appears to occur, but Conan begins to wonder if there is more than meets the eye to this.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Mansion Victim: Osamu Honda Age: 21 years old Injury: Gunshot wound Culprit: Katsuji Mishima Mishima fired at Honda with his gun, but Honda was wearing a bullet proof vest which is why he didn't get killed.

Suicide?
	Location: Mansion Victim: Katsuji Mishima Age: 21 years old Cause of death: Gunshot wound on Right temple Suspects: Yasuyuki Tsutsumi, Madoka Saotome, and Osamu Honda After Mishima fired at Honda with his gun, he raises the gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Could this really be a suicide?

People

Yasuyuki Tsutsumi
	21 years old Jonan University Law Department

Madoka Saotome
	21 years old Women's University of Shirakaba Literature Department

Osamu Honda
	Victim (gunshot - injured) 21 years old Jonan University Engineering Department

Katsuji Mishima
	Victim (gunshot) 21 years old Toto University Physical Education Department

Resolution

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Hiroshi Honda
	Deceased (truck accident) Osamu's younger brother Elementary school boy

Conan knocks out Kogoro with his stun gun wristwatch and begins to reveal his deductions with the voice changing bowtie. It was no suicide but it was actually a murder. Someone had this planned out right from the beginning. The person could have suggested, something like this to Mishima, that they should put up an act at the party, so that they could give people a scare. For this act, they quarreled before everybody so as to lay the setting for today.

The killer is Osamu Honda. Honda first modified two guns of the same model and then prepared two different kind of bullets. First which would be a real bullet, and the other one an empty blank. The gun that Honda gave to Mishima before the whole performance was the one with blanks. Before the official opening for the party in the morning, Honda met Mishima at the temple and handed over the gun to him and brought the gun that had the real bullets inside. Honda's excuse would be that he needed to check the gun. That means that the gun on Honda's waist is Mishima's gun. The gun that Honda gave to Mishima wasn't sealed at all because he was afraid it would be involved afterwards. Honda chose a Laser Police costume instead of the Kamen Yaiba costume he usually wore. That's because only the Laser Police have guns, and it also wouldn't be strange if he wore a bullet-proof vest.

Just when Mishima dashed in, Honda purposely moved a few steps so that the other people wouldn't be caught in the fray. This also let Mishima get a good aim at his target. Since Mishima had no knowledge of guns, he didn't feel like anything was wrong when he fired the gun. Honda had considered the gunshot and the movement as nothing strange as they had practiced with Mishima. So when Honda saw Mishima being shot down, he misunderstood it, since it had the same effect as when they were practicing, and believed that it was going as they had planned beforehand. Mishima didn't commit suicide because if he was someone who really wanted to commit suicide, he would have pressed the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. There should be burn mark on his temple. Mishima doesn't have any burn marks on his temple, because even it was a blank, it would still have left some burns. At that time, he didn't want to hurt himself and didn't press the gun against his head.

As evidence, the crime scene investigator found that they were other fingerprints on the gun besides Mishima's. The fingerprint on Mishima's gun and the fingerprint on Genta's Detective Boys Badge (which Conan gave it to the crime scene investigator to check it) is the same. The other fingerprint belongs to Genta. Genta never touched Mishima's gun, but then why were Genta's fingerprints found on the gun? Before Honda went to the party, Conan and the Detective Boys met Honda at the temple. At that time, Genta touched the gun. That means, that the gun Honda had on was later used by Mishima at the party. It proves that Honda's gun has been swapped with Mishima's.

Motive

Some time ago Mishima, who was a Kamen Yaiba fan to the point of mental illness, had stolen Honda's little brother's extremely rare Kamen Yaiba poster while he was riding his motorcycle; the poor boy ran after Mishima's motorcycle and was hit by a truck, dying two days later. In his last words, the younger Honda begged his brother to "capture that Kamen Yaiba".

Robbery (Past)
	Location: Alley Victim: Hiroshi Honda Culprit: Katsuji Mishima Mishima stole Hiroshi's extremely rare Kamen Yaiba poster.

Accidental death (Past)
	Location: Alley Victim: Hiroshi Honda Cause of death: Truck accident Hiroshi Honda was ran over by a truck whilst chasing Mishima.

Honda joined many fan clubs to find the person who had caused his brother's death. A year and a half after the accident, he found his brother's poster in Mishima's apartment. Mishima himself lied and said it was a gift from his own brother, though Honda knew that Mishima had no siblings with the name Hiroshi. Honda then engineered the meeting of Kamen Yaiba fans to trick the mentally-unbalanced Mishima into first shooting him, then committing suicide under the belief that it was all an act.

Honda also comments that he at first only joined the Kamen Yaiba fan clubs for the sole purpose of revenge, however slowly but surely that reason started dissipating. He had gotten genuinely hooked on Kamen Yaiba, and to him it was no coincidence as Kamen Yaiba had a similar backstory to his. Kamen Yaiba had lost his little sister and had vowed to bring all those who are evil to justice, he comments that they similar backstorys with different circumstances and that are very alike. However, Ayumi scolds him saying he is nothing like Kamen yaiba, Genta and Mitshiko comment on how Kamen Yaiba always did the right thing. Madoka agrees with them stating that after Kamen Yaiba lost his little sister he wanted to help people, not hurt them. Hearing this leaves, Honda shocked and ashamed of himself as he lowers his head in shame.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Yasuyuki Tsutsumi - York Taylor
• Madoka Saotome - Melanie Seymour
• Osamu Honda - Stu Hogan
• Katsuji Mishima - Sam Michener
• Hiroshi Honda - Henry Hogan

Trivia

• The Revolver in case is Smith & Wesson Model 36.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	事件解決（意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	新一のテーマ	Shin'ichi no Tēma	Shinichi's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
6	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
7	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
8	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
10	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13	事件の謎	Jiken no Nazo	Mystery of the Case	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	「名探偵コナン」メイン・テーマ （バラードver.）	"Meitantei Konan" Mein・Tēma (Barādo ver.)	"Detective Conan" Main Theme (Ballad ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
15	氷の上に立つように	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni	Like Standing on Ice	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni
16	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
17	事件解決（意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	البطل المقنع	The Masked Hero
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat d'en Yaïba l'emmascarat	Masked Yaiba murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat de Kamen Yaiba	The Kamen Yaiba murder
French	Meurtre au fan-club de Kamen Yaiba	Murder at the Kamen Yaiba fan-club
Galician	O asasinato de Yaiba o enmascarado	Masked Yaiba murder
German	Im falschen Film	In the Wrong Movie
Italian	La matricola	The Freshman
Spanish (American dub)	El caso del asesinato Kamen Yaiba	The Kamen Yaiba murder case
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El caso de Yaiba el enmascarado	Masked Yaiba case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมหน้ากากไยบะ	Masked Yaiba murder case
Vietnamese	Vụ án sát nhân Kamen Yaiba	The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case

See also

• Season 3