Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy

Chronology
‹ Murder at the Townhouse Café	List of Episodes	TBD

Episode 993-995 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy
Japanese title:	代役・京極真 (Daiyaku Kyōgoku Makoto)
Original airdate:	January 9, 2021 (Part 1) January 16, 2021 (Part 2) January 23, 2021 (Part 3)
Manga case:	#295
Season:	29
Manga source:	Volume 96: Files 8-11 (1022-1025) ~ Volume 97: Files 1 (1026)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Masumi Sera Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo Mary Sera Atsushi Miyano Elena Miyano Renya Karasuma Yukiko Kudo Kamen Yaiba Gomera Tomomi Sakaguchi
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Stunt (Part 1) Medicine (Part 2) Straw (Part 3)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Jiro Kanai
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto (New Year Greeting) Jiro Kanai (Episodes)
Episode director:	New Year Greeting: Yasuichiro Yamamoto 993: Minoru Tozawa 994: Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	New Year Greeting: Masatomo Sudo Seiji Muta and Nobuyuki Iwai (supervisors) 993: Keiko Sasaki 994: Asuka Tsubuki, Kanako Ono (asst.), Miwa Oshima (asst.), Yui Ushinohama (asst.), Marie Nagano (asst.), Masakazu Yamazaki (asst.), and Ayu Imoto (asst.)
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (design works) Kyoko Yoshimi
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Nobuyuki Hiyama as Makoto Kyogoku Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Kamen Yaiba Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Binbin Takaoka as Shigematsu Tomioka Kazuya Ichijo as Daisaku Odori Daichi Endou as Saiya Tokuzono Akeno Watanabe as Nanako Jinmei Tomoe Hanba as Hidoka Aburai Tomohiro Nishimura as Youta Maegi Jun Inoue as Nishibe Naomi Sano as Hostage lady
Music
Opening song:	JUST BELIEVE YOU
Closing song:	Reboot

Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy (代役・京極真 ,Daiyaku Kyōgoku Makoto) is the 993rd, 994th, and 995th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Masumi Sera Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Shinichi Kudo (background/flashback) Mary Sera (flashback) Atsushi Miyano (background) Elena Miyano (background) Renya Karasuma (shape/background) Yukiko Kudo (background) Kamen Yaiba Gomera (book) Tomomi Sakaguchi (book)

Case

People

Shigematsu Tomioka
	50 years old Movie director

Daisaku Odori
	Victim (poison) 48 years old Assistant director

Saiya Tokuzono
	Victim (fell) 34 years old Actor

Nanako Jinmei
	29 years old Actress

Hideka Aburai
	26 years old Make-up artist

Youta Hoegi
	26 years old Production assistant

Nishibe
	Deceased (car accident) Production assistant Hideka's boyfriend

Resolution

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The culprit is Hideka Aburai.

Manga to anime changes

• Hideka Aburai's hair in the manga is black, but is changed to brown in the anime.
• A flashback from The Desperate Revival is added in the anime, when Ran talked about the time when both Shinichi and Conan were together.

Trivia

• The police car from The High School Girl Trio's Secret Café reappeared.
• The restaurant fanchised Welcome Burger, named after McDonalds', which appeared in Clash of Red and Black, reappears in this case.

See also

• Season 29