The Truth Behind Valentine's

Chronology
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Episode 266-268 (Int. Episode 288-290)
Information
Title:	The Truth Behind Valentine's
Japanese title:	バレンタインの真実 (Barentain no Shinjitsu)
Original airdate:	January 28, 2002 (The Case) February 4, 2002 (The Deduction) February 11, 2002 (The Resolution)
Broadcast rating:	20.40% 20.00% 21.20%
Manga case:	#96
Season:	10
Manga source:	Volume 33: Files 3-6 (331-334)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Kogoro Mouri Makoto Kyogoku Ai Haibara Detective Boys James Black Shuichi Akai Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Chocolate (The Case) Playing ball (The Deduction) Completely black photo (The Resolution)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Chika Ichimaru
Storyboard:	Chika Ichimaru
Episode director:	266 Hideaki Oba 267 Toru Kitahata 268 Hideki Hiroshima
Animation director:	266 Keiichi Ishida 267 Hirobi Muranaka 268 Atsushi Aono
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Junko Yamanaka and Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2 & 3) Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki, Next Conan's Hint (Part 3) Nobuyuki Hiyama as Makoto Kyogoku Tomie Kataoka as Chiyoko Yuasa Tomoyuki Dan as Yoshitaka Nigaki Aya Hisakawa as Ako Amari Yuko Sasaki as Mika Konakawa Mugihito as Yuzo Sakami Tetsuo Kanao as Hajime Itakura
Music
Opening song:	Winter Bells
Closing song:	Yume Mita Ato de

The Truth Behind Valentine's (バレンタインの真実 ,Barentain no Shinjitsu) is the 266th, 267th, and 268th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Kogoro Mouri Makoto Kyogoku Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima James Black (flashback) Shuichi Akai (flashback) Shinichi Kudo (voice)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch Wristwatch Flashlight

Case

Situation

The Case

Sonoko invites Ran to come to a house in the hills where their chocolates are blissed with good fortune for love. Conan and Kogoro attend too. Once there, they meet two men who are out hunting for a Japanese wolf, an old lady who owns the place her two female assistants and a male photographer. The females there start making chocolate as gifts for the one they love. Sonoko makes hers for Makoto and Ran leaves hers nameless. A snowstorm occurs and the photographer is found dead by Conan and the dog named Saburo.

Murder
	Location: Snow forest near Suito House Victim: Yoshitaka Nigaki Age: 28 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Chiyoko Yuasa, Mika Konakawa, Ako Amari, Yuzo Sakami, and Hajime Itakura

The Deduction

The mystery continues and they develop the film on the camera to find droplets of blood on it. Apparently, the murder takes place before the snowstorm but Conan feels like there's a trick to it. The characters are given more back story.

The Resolution

While examining the chocolates, Conan figures out who the murderer is. Kogoro pops in finding Conan snooping around and is put to sleep. Conan tells everyone in the house Kogoro is ready to place his deduction.

People

Chiyoko Yuasa
	61 years old Lodge Suito Sanso owner

Yoshitaka Nigaki
	Victim (beaten) 28 years old Lodge guest

Mika Konakawa
	26 years old Lodge guest

Ako Amari
	25 years old Lodge guest

Yuzo Sakami
	42 years old Lodge guest

Saburo
	Chiyoko's pet dog

Hajime Itakura
	37 years old Lodge guest

Taro Yuasa
	Deceased (avalanche) Chiyoko's husband Previous lodge owner

Reiko Yuasa
	Deceased (illness) Taro's first wife

Resolution

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Jiro
	Chiyoko's pet dog Saburo's twin Supposedly died 12 years ago

Natsuya Amari
	Deceased (avalanche) Ako's brother Suito Sanso visitor

Kogoro reveals who the murderer is and it is revealed to be Ako Amari. She was angered at her boyfriend who is was supposedly recording long footage of an avalanche that killed an innocent man, thereby acting as a bystander to a man in need of help, and possibly causing the avalanche. It was revealed however, that he was recording evidence of the two lodge hunters who caused that accident and intended as a good samaritan to report it to the police. The two hunters congratulate Amari, revealing that they planned to murder that person the whole time to avoid blackmail from the crime they committed.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Suito House Victim: Ako Amari, Chiyoko Yuasa, Mika Konakawa, Conan Edogawa, Ran Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki, and Kogoro Mouri Age: 25 years old (Ako), 61 years old (Chiyoko), 26 years old (Mika) Attack type: Gunshots Culprits: Yuzo Sakami and Hajime Itakura The two hunters try to kill them, since they've been found out.

Just then, a man in a ski mask, goggles, and a scarf comes in when one of the hunters opens the door. He knocks one of the hunters out and after his goggles are shot off reveals Makoto. Ran along with Makoto knocks the other hunter out with double kicks. Makoto demands Sonoko to tell her who is the other boy she is dating as he has not received her hand-made knitted sweater (she gave up due to its difficulty), her hand-made pottery glass (he mistook it to be a vase), and the chocolate (she refused to tell who it is for). He gets ready to fight until Sonoko tells him the chocolate was for him. Later on Ran cries because of Shinichi while Conan watches in the shadows. Ran wakes up to find her jacket blanketing her. She received a picture of herself sleeping from Detective Kid who is Conan with Shinichi's voice. Conan pretended to be Shinichi paying a visit and ate her chocolate due to hunger while she was asleep. Ran becomes angry due to Shinichi not waking her up to meet him.

Manga to anime changes

The following was added to the anime version:

• Mika's recollection of Saburo digging Chiyoko's husband out is accompanied by a still image of the event.
• After Yuzo and Hajime recommends that everyone returns to the lodge or stay outside freezing, Conan is contemplating the details found at the crime scene due to episode 266 ending at that point.
• A flashback is shown when Mika mentioned Yoshitaka cutting himself while chopping chocolate.
• Conan's realization of who the murderer at the end of episode 267 is accompanied with a picture of The Criminal.

Continuity

• This case brought up that Sonoko failed knitting a sweater for Makoto Kyogoku, which she gave up on in The Murderous Pottery Class.

Trivia

• The case of "Bloody Valentine's" was the day when Al Capone shot down seven people with machine guns as they stood in front of a garage on February 14, 1929.
• The suspects' names are related to chocolates and chocolate-making:

• Chiyoko Yuasa (湯浅 千代子) is related to chocolate (the katakana for Chiyoko is チヨコ and the katakana for the "choco" in chocolate is チョコ) and the heating and foaming of the chocolate (Yuasa 湯浅 is similar to Yusen 湯煎, which means boiling with water);
• Yoshitaka Nigaki (二垣 佳貴) is related to bitter (bitter, or niga 苦 in Japanese is phonetically similar to the niga in Nigaki), like the bitter cocoa before it becomes chocolate, and chocolate cakes (the characters for Yoshitaka 佳貴 can also be read "keiki", like the Japanese word for cake, which is kēki);
• Mika Konakawa (粉川 実果) is related to icing sugar (粉砂糖) and fruits (果実);
• Ako Amari (甘利 亜子) is related to sweetness (甘);
• Yuzo Sakami (酒見 祐三) is related to liquor-filled chocolates (酒 stands for alcohol);
• Hajime Itakura (板倉 創) is related to chocolate bars (板チョコ means chocolate bar in Japanese);
• Also, the characters of Reiko Yuasa, Chiyoko's husband's previous wife, whose first name completes the word chocolate (the katakana for Reiko is レイコ and the katakana for the rēto in chocorēto is レート) and Natsuya Amari, whose first name refers to nuts (ナッツ or Nattsu is Japanese for nuts) also fit in the theme of chocolate.

BGM listing

Case Part

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells
2	１０年後の歩美	10 Nengo no Ayumi	Ayumi 10 Years Later	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
3	蘭のお姉さんぶり	Ran no Onēsan Buri	Ran's Elder Sister Style	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
4	トロピカルランドの想い出	Toropikaru Rando no Omoide	Memories of Tropical Land	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
5	昼下がりの天使たち	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi	Early Afternoon Angels	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	とっておきクイズ	Totte Oki Kuizu	Take the Quiz	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
7	蘭のテーマ （世紀末ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Seikimatsu Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Last Century Version)	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
8	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
9	殺意	Satsui	Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
10	第３の犠牲者	Dai 3 no Giseisha	The Third Victim	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
11	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
12	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
13	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
14	夢みたあとで	Yume Mita Ato de	After I've Been Dreaming	Yume Mita Ato de

Investigation Part

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
4	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
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	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	ジンのテーマＦ	Jin no Tēma F	Gin's Theme F	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
10	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	過去のあやまち	Kako no Ayamachi	Error of the Past	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
12	夜の探索	Yoru no Tansaku	Night Search	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
13	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	真相究明	Shinsō Kyūmei	Investigating the Truth	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
15	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~
16	ターゲット サスペンスＢ	Tāgetto Sasupensu B	Target Suspense B	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" 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	犯人（スナイパー）の正体	Hannin (Sunaipā) no Shōtai	The Culprit's (Sniper's) Identity	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
19	夢みたあとで	Yume Mita Ato de	After I've Been Dreaming	Yume Mita Ato de

Resolution Part

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells	Winter Bells
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	漆黒の殺意	Shikkoku no Satsui	Jet Black Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
4	驚愕の真実	Kyōgaku no Shinjitsu	Surprising Truth	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
5	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
6	記憶喪失（光）	Kiokusōshitsu (Hikari)	Amnesia (Light)	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
7	犯人（スナイパー）の正体	Hannin (Sunaipā) no Shōtai	The Culprit's (Sniper's) Identity	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
8	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
9	コナンの直感	Konan no Chokkan	Conan's Intuition	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
10	忍び寄る危機	Shinobiyoru Kiki	Incoming Crisis	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
11	エレベーターからの脱出	Erebētā Kara no Dasshutsu	Escaping From the Elevator	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
12	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
13	哀のテーマＢ （ピアノ・ヴァージョン）	Ai no Tēma B (Piano Vājon)	Ai's Theme B (Piano Version)	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
14	夢みたあとで	Yume Mita Ato de	After I've Been Dreaming	Yume Mita Ato de
15	別れ	Wakare	Parting	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	حل قضية المنتجع السياحي	The Solution of the Case of the Resort
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La veritat del dia de Sant Valentí (El cas/Les deduccions/La solució)	Saint Valentine's day truth (Case/Deductions/Solution)
Catalan (Valencian dub)	La veritat del dia de Sant Valentí(1a part/Les deduccions/La solució)	Saint Valentine's day truth (Part 1/Deductions/Solution)
Galician	San Valentín sanguento	Bloody saint Valentine's
German	Mörderischer Valentinstag	Murderous Valentine's Day
Italian	Il delitto di San Valentino	Valentine's Day Crime
Spanish (Castilian dub)	La verdad de San Valentín	Saint Valentine truth
Spanish (American dub)	La verdad detrás del día de San Valentín (Capítulo del crimen/de la deducción/de resolución)	The truth behind Saint Valentine's day (Crime/Deduction/Resolution episode)
Thai	ความจริงของวันวาเลนไทน์	The truth of Valentine's Day
Vietnamese	Sự thật đằng sau ngày Valentine	The Truth Behind Valentine's

See also

• Season 10