A Friendship That Can't Be Bought

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Episode 329-330 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	A Friendship That Can't Be Bought
Japanese title:	お金で買えない友情 (Okane de Kaenai Yūjō)
Original airdate:	July 28, 2003 (Part 1) August 4, 2003 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	16% 14.50%
Manga case:	#115
Season:	12
Manga source:	Volume 39: Files 6-8 (398-400)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Hiroshi Agasa Suguru Itakura Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Yoko Okino Vermouth Elena Miyano
Case solved by:	Hiroshi Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Sunroof (Part 1) Belt (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Masato Sato
Organizer:	Hirohito Ochi
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	329 Kazuyoshi Yokota 330 Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	329 Akiko Kawashima 330 Takashi Yamamoto
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Keiichi Nanba as Reiji Fukuura Kae Araki as Haruka Tendo Kouichi Nagano as Takuto Meshiai Minako Arakawa as Yasumi Shirafuji Keiichi Sonobe as Coroner Rie Kugimiya as Megumi
Music
Opening song:	Kaze no Lalala
Closing song:	Kimi to Iu Hikari

Characters introduced

Elena Miyano
	Ai Haibara's mother

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Hiroshi Agasa Suguru Itakura (background) Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Shinichi Kudo (flashback) Ran Mouri (background/flashback) Sonoko Suzuki (background) Yoko Okino (background) Vermouth (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Wristwatch Flashlight

Case

Situation

Part 1

Ayumi decides that on the Detective Boys camping trip, she will attempt address Ai Haibara by her first name and to call her "Ai-chan". While driving Conan talks to Professor Agasa about the black organization. Agasa reveal that there a bit more to the Itakura's diary. After the woman spoke in English she hung up the phone after a cat meowed in the background. Agasa reveals that he knew Haibara's father Professor Miyano through meeting him at conventions. He describes him a friendly man who complimented his inventions. But his wife was the strange one. Her name was Elena and Agasa had heard that she met professor Miyano when she came from England to Japan to study. During the camping trip, they run into four college students, who are a club called 'The Outdoor Club'. Each contribute to the club in their own way, Yasumi is a great cook, Reiji is the driver, Takuto is skilled at fishing and finding eatable plants and Haruka is paying for everything. Haruka claims that she doesn't have any real talent like the others, so paying is all she can do. The club offer The Detective Boys a ride in their campervan to the top mountain to watch the fireworks. While driving down the mountain, one of the four college students, Yasumi Shirafuji, is found on the road dead.

Accident?
	Location: Mountains Victim: Yasumi Shirafuji Age: 22 years old Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Reiji Fukuura, Haruka Tendo, and Takuto Meshiai Shirafuji seems to have lost control of her bike and rode over a cliff

Evidence atop the mountain suggests Shirafuji lost control of her bike and accidentally went over the cliff. Conan reveals that there is a lack of blood on the cement raising the possibility it was a murder made to look like an accident and that the suspects are the three college students.

Part 2

After a thorough investigation, Conan finds out how the body was placed on the road and who the murderer is.

People

Reiji Fukuura
	21 years old College student

Yasumi Shirafuji
	Victim (bashed) 22 years old College student

Haruka Tendo
	21 years old College student

Takuto Meshiai
	23 years old College student

Resolution

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Conan impersonates Agasa's voice and reveals that Shirafuji's body was murdered and placed atop the van. The culprit used the sunroof to hold down Shirafuji's body and wrapped her body in a plastic covering to reduce friction. When the sunroof was released, Shirafuji's body fell backwards while the campervan was in motion which explains why they found the body on the way back. Conan then reveals the culprit to be the college student Haruka Tendo, evidenced by her change of clothes. Conan reveals that her she changed to a pair of similar jeans but the design was slightly different and that she threw away her other jean as it contains Shirafuji's blood. Tendo confesses and reveals that she was pretending to be rich, because she thought that an ordinary talent-less girl from the country side wouldn't make friend on her own. She worked hard and took out loans to pay for their expensive trips, but she pulled through. Then she found out her friends knew the truth yet only used their relationship for money, understanding that Haruka would use a lot of money to keep up the charade. Yasuumi flippantly badmouths Haruka while Reiji out of desperate greed decides on letting Haruka continue giving money so that he can join a race derby and then terminate the relationship by the end of their graduation. Takuto was the only one of those three who suggested that they should tell Haruka that they knew the truth, and yet he didn't do it himself. Tendo thereby aimed to kill Shirafuji and frame Reiji for the murder should the accident theory be debunked.

Ayumi and Haibara criticize Tendo out of shame, saying that she should have known that money could have never gotten her real friends in the first place and that it was wrong for her to kill out of this reason alone. Tendo breaks down.

During the ride back, Haibara allows Ayumi to call her "Ai-chan" upon accepting their friendship. She recalled Conan telling her a story about Ran and Sonoko's friendship, how Ran never let money gets between them, and notices how the outdoor club seemed to take Haruka's money for granted.

Trivia

Movie 10

• Four college students (Reiji Fukuura, Yasumi Shirafuji, Haruka Tendo, and Takuto Meshiai) camp car is a 2001 Toyota Camroad Leo.
• Reiji Fukuura reappears at Miracle Land in The Private Eyes' Requiem.
• Part One of this case with Ai Haibara makes the 200th episode since her introductory episode in The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case, exactly 200 episodes ago.
• In the first scene of this case, Ayumi is on the phone with a girl, Megumi-chan, who might possibly be Megumi Ito from The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case, even though Ayumi is in Class B, and that Megumi was in Class C.
  • To back this up, Megumi-chan made a reference to Conan-kun and the others going camping with Ayumi, and Megumi Ito stated in the other case, that when she saw Conan at school, she asked about him.
  • Although it is possible for them to have a classmate in 1-B with the name of Megumi as well.
• Although Ayumi's address book is not subtitled, she does seem to keep a record of her friends, and their honorifics, and noticed Ai Haibara's honorific is a lot more formal than everyone else's.
  • Conan-kun
  • Mitsuhiko-kun
  • Genta-kun
  • Haibara-san
  • Unknown about other male classmates, however...
  • All other Female classmates are First Name-chan.
    • And even the boys in the Detective Boys are first name-kun.
• When Conan was asking Agasa about the diary, he is referring to Suguru Itakura's diary, which was found along with his corpse in On the Trail of a Silent Witness, and they were looking into the diary in Contact with the Black Organization.
• This is the case that Professor Agasa told Conan that he does know Atsushi Miyano, who he did not know at the time to be Haibara's father, however he has met him at a number of conferences.
• This is the case that Conan referred to Atsushi Miyano as that Outlawed Mad Scientist."
• This is the case that Agasa thought Atsushi's wife, Elena Miyano was suspicious, at least compared to her polite husband.
• This is the case that leads to Haibara giving Ayumi permission to call her Ai-chan instead of Haibara-san.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	風のららら	Kaze no Lalala	The Wind's Lalala	Kaze no Lalala
2	１０年後の歩美	10 Nengo no Ayumi	Ayumi 10 Years Later	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
3	夜の探索	Yoru no Tansaku	Night Search	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
4	カギを探せ！	Kagi o Sagase!	Search for the Key!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
5	恋のトランプゲーム占い	Koi no Toranpu Gēmu Uranai	Love's Fortune-Telling Card Game	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
6	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
7	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~
8	事件一件落着	Jiken Ikken Rakuchaku	The End of a Case	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
9	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
10	父への思い	Chichi e no Omoi	Thoughts of Father	Detective Conan "The Phantom of Baker Street" Original Soundtrack
11	古城の探索	Kojō no Tansaku	Exploration of the Old Castle	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
12	古城の探索	Kojō no Tansaku	Exploration of the Old Castle	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" 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	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
15	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
16	いよいよゲームステージへ	Iyoiyo Gēmu Sutēji e	To the Game Stage At Last	Detective Conan "The Phantom of Baker Street" Original Soundtrack
17	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
18	優作の推理	Yūsaku no Suiri	Yusaku's Deduction	Detective Conan "The Phantom of Baker Street" Original Soundtrack
19	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
20	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
21	君という光	Kimi to Iu Hikari	The Light Called "You"	Kimi to Iu Hikari

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	風のららら	Kaze no Lalala	The Wind's Lalala	Kaze no Lalala
2	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	優作の推理	Yūsaku no Suiri	Yusaku's Deduction	Detective Conan "The Phantom of Baker Street" Original Soundtrack
6	「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~
7	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
8	真相究明	Shinsō Kyūmei	Investigating the Truth	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
9	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" 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	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
12	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	陰謀 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Inbō (Mantenrō Vājon)	Conspiracy (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
14	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
15	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	漆黒の殺意	Shikkoku no Satsui	Jet Black Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
17	驚愕の真実	Kyōgaku no Shinjitsu	Surprising Truth	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
18	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
19	ジャック・ザ・リッパーの因縁	Jakku・Za・Rippā no Innen	Jack the Ripper's Fate	Detective Conan "The Phantom of Baker Street" Original Soundtrack
20	君という光	Kimi to Iu Hikari	The Light Called "You"	Kimi to Iu Hikari
21	蘭・愛のテーマ （ギターver.）	Ran・Ai no Tēma (Gitā ver.)	Ran's Love Theme (Guitar ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	الصداقة المزيفة	The Fake Friendship
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'amistat no es pot comprar	Friendship can't be bought
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'amistat no es pot comprar	Friendship can't be bought
German	Freundschaft, die sich nicht mit Geld kaufen lässt	Friendship, that can't be bought with money
Italian	Un'amicizia infranta	A Shattered Friendship
Spanish (Castilian dub)	La amistad no se compra con dinero	Can't buy friendship with money
Vietnamese	Không thể mua được tình bạn	Can't buy the friendship
Thai	มิตรภาพที่ไม่สามารถซื้อได้ด้วยเงิน	Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money

See also

• Season 12