Momiji Ooka's Challenge

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Episode 1024-1025 (Int. Episode 1081-1082)
Information
Title:	Momiji Ooka's Challenge
Japanese title:	大岡紅葉の挑戦状 (Ōoka Momiji no Chōsenjō)
Original airdate:	October 30, 2021 (Part 1) November 6, 2021 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	7.4% (Part 1) 7.1% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#299
Season:	31
Manga source:	Volume 98: Files 3-6 (1039-1042)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Momiji Ooka Muga Iori Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Detective Boys Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Shinichi Kudo Shukichi Haneda Kohji Haneda Shuichi Akai Masumi Sera
Case solved by:	Heiji Hattori (with Conan's help)
Next Conan's Hint:	Footbowl (Part 1) Jingisukan (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	1024: Yasuichiro Yamamoto 1025: Hiroaki Takagi
Storyboard:	1024: Yasuichiro Yamamoto 1025: Hiroaki Takagi
Episode director:	1024: Ryuta Kawahara 1025: Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) 1024: Asuka Tsubuki Marie Nagano Rei Masunaga (asst.) Miho Tanaka (asst.) FALCO Suzuki (asst.) 1025: Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Akiko Motoyoshi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Yuko Miyamura as Kazuha Toyama Satsuki Yukino as Momiji Ooka Daisuke Ono as Muga Iori Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Takashi Nagasako as Benzo Hamana Yoji Ueda as Suguru Kashiwagi Tsuyoshi Koyama as Katsunobu Kanda Masahito Kawanago as Saisuke Jinya Kimiyoshi Kibe as Ooka family servant Ikkyu Juku as Warehouse guard
Music
Opening song:	YURA YURA
Closing song:	Veronica

Momiji Ooka's Challenge (大岡紅葉の挑戦状 ,Ōoka Momiji no Chōsenjō) is the 1024th and 1025th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Heiji Hattori Kazuha Toyama Momiji Ooka Muga Iori Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Hiroshi Agasa Ai Haibara Shinichi Kudo (background/flashback) Shukichi Haneda (background) Kohji Haneda (flashback) Shuichi Akai (flashback) Masumi Sera (flashback)

Case

Situation

Part 1

As Ran came home, she recieve a message from Momiji Ooka, asking Shinichi to solve some code from a deceased housekeeper of a wealthy family. Some hours ago, she also asked Heiji to solve the code, promising that he will do whatever she want if he solve the code faster than anyone. They later gather at Haido Chuo Building roof.

Later they arrive at a pancake shop, where there is a huge line. When Momiji mention about add and subtract, Conan and Heiji solve the code.

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All the code has a sentence written "From your footbowl loving mother". The first three codes has the word "foot" in bold. The character for foot can also mean "add". Meanwhile, the last code has the word "bow" in bold. The character for bow can also mean "subtract". When all the codes are laid over each other, there is a sentence written Haido Harbor Warehouse 4.

However, both of them solved the code simultaneously. They later followed the decoded message and headed to the said location What they found there was, a murder scene.

Murder
	Location: Haido Harbor Warehouse 4 Victim: Benzo Hamana Age: 42 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Suguru Kashiwagi, Katsunobu Kanda, and Saisuke Jinya The eldest son of the four brothers is found dead. Ran, Kazuha, and Momiji scream after seeing the body.

Part 2

The police come and investigate the scene. The victim and the three suspects are brothers, whose mother is the said housekeeper who make the code. They all have burn marks on their palm, as a result of saving their mother from a jingisukan pot 30 years ago.

Momiji and Hattori finds out that on the harbor, there will be a yearly lovely spot for great social media posts. Heiji plans to confess to Kazuha, while Momiji plans to stop him.

The three brothers mention that the first brother was giving away a watch with leather band and a leather jacket. However, when the other brothers give him some canned crabs, chocolate, and nuts, they were returned back. Conan then realized who is the culprit.

People

Benzo Hamana
	Victim (fell) 42 years old Department store buyer Housekeeper's eldest son

Suguru Kashiwagi
	39 years old Bank employee Housekeeper's second son

Katsunobu Kanda
	38 years old Bike store employee Housekeeper's third son

Saisuke Jinya
	36 years old Unemployed Housekeeper's fourth son

Man A
	Servant of the Ooka family

Man B
	Haido Port worker

Woman
	Deceased Former housekeeper Likes mysteries

Man C
	Deceased Housekeeper's husband

Resolution

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Realizing Ran wants Shinichi who is "currently on the phone with Conan" to let Heiji win, Conan lets Heiji solve the case. He later mentions that the first brother might have crab allergy, but that does not explain why he returned the chocolate and nuts. Heiji then deduces that the first brother has a metal allergy, since those foods have some form of metal contained in them. However, there is metal glasses with a cracked lens on Benzo's head. Since he has a metal allergy, he should’ve avoided wearing those types of glasses. The metal glasses is the culprit's glasses he grabbed when he was pushed. That means the culprit is the only one who is wearing glasses, Saisuke Jinya.

Heiji also deduces that he is not the real Saisuke Jinya, since he was wrong about how the brothers had saved their mother from jingisukan pot. He thought that they had grabbed the pot that was falling onto their mother, while in reality is they caught their mother's head that was falling onto the pot. At that time, the mother was fat, so she was heavy, and their hands were pressed onto the jingisukan pot. The burn marks on the fake Saisuke’s hand is made by applying citrus juice and exposing it to the sun.

Heiji also know that he is fake Saisuke from his unattached earlobes. Since it is a dominant gene, one will get them if one of their parents have them too, but in the photos both the parents have attached earlobes meaning that all four brothers should have attached earlobes.

The fake Saisuke admits that he thought the burn marks were cool when he met Saisuke in college. The real Saisuke passed away several days ago due to an illness. Before he died, he mentioned the code and his mother’s treasure to be fake Saisuke. While the fake Saisuke arranged the real Saisuke’s belongings, his phone recieved a message from Benzo. Since he had a similar face and burn marks, he then decided to meet Benzo to get a part of the treasure. However, he was found out by Benzo after he incorrectly guessed how the brothers got their burn marks in the first place. Benzo threatened to call the police and he tried to prevent him from doing so, but in the process pushed him over the railing on the walkway.

The treasure is later revealed to be the jingisukan pot Benzo was carrying in a bag. Most likely the mother wanted the brothers to reunite and eat jingisukan together again like thirty years ago.

Saisuke Jinya
	Deceased (illness) 36 years old Housekeeper's real fourth son

Aftermath

Heiji then tried to confess to Kazuha during the sunset. However, Iori asked Kazuha to take a photo with Ran and Momiji. Conan then tells Hattori who had not realized it yet. Later, Conan asked Heiji about the mansion the housekeeper was working for. It was the mansion of Shukichi Haneda's family. Conan deduces that Kohji Haneda was a son of a wealthy family.

Manga to anime changes

• In the first scene, Momiji drinks tea with a cup plate on her lap. However, the cup plate was removed in the anime.
• In the manga, Ran came home and went to the detective agency, with Kogoro sleeping there. She was also in the detective agency when Conan came home. In the anime, she directly goes to her room and is in the living room when Conan comes home.
• A scene where Iori is looking at his hand clock is shown, which wasn't in the manga.
• In the manga, the cars used by the group to go to the warehouse are white. While in the anime, they are black.
• In the last scene of Part 1, Momiji is shown hiding behind Iori's left side. The manga showed her hiding behind his right side.
• The scene at the beginning where the Detective Boys are at Agasa's house is slightly changed. The videogame they play, which features Yaiba Kurogane and Sayaka Mine in the manga, is changed to two different characters.
• In the manga, after Conan explains the possibility that the culprit might hide before the other people come, Kazuha and Ran praised him. Conan then pretend that it was from Shinichi, with Hattori swearing in his thought. This scene is removed in the anime.
• A few dialogues of Heiji, Kazuha, and Ran are cut in the anime.
• When Momiji asks Takagi to check if the body has a burn mark, he goes to the body to check his palm. In the manga, Takagi was still near the body and directly checks the body's palm.

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• After saying he spilled lemon juice, Conan later corrects that he only spilled water, not lemon juice on the culprit's hand. This dialogue is not in the manga.
• Kohji Haneda's hand is not shown in the manga. The anime shows his hand but does not show his palm bruise.

Trivia

• The black metallic sedan is 2008 Mercedes-Benz CLS 550 [C219].
• The names of the suspects come from the theme of Jingisukan pots:

• Saisuke Jin'ya (陣屋 才輔) comes from the "Jin" part in Jingisukan and veggetables (野菜, Yasai in Japanese);
• Suguru Kashiwagi (柏木 優) comes from the "Gisu" part in Jingisukan;
• Katsunobu Kanda (菅田 克信) comes from the "Kan" part in Jingisukan;
• Benzō Hamana (浜名 勉造) comes from the word pot (鍋, Nabe in Japanese).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Le Défi de Momiji Ôoka	Momiji Ôoka challenge
Thailand	คำท้าทายของโอโอกะ โมมิจิ	Momiji Ooka's Challenge
Vietnamese	Thư khiêu chiến của Ooka Momiji

See also

• Season 31