Love Letter to Ran

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Episode 426 (Int. Episode 464)
Information
Title:	Love Letter to Ran
Japanese title:	蘭へのラブレター (Ran e no Rabu Retā)
Original airdate:	January 16, 2006 February 15, 2014 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	9.8%
Filler case:	#138
Season:	14
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Eisuke Aizawa Nakamichi
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Sonoko Suzuki
Next Conan's Hint:	Fencing stick Diary (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Takashi Sano
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Rie Fujiwara Yukari Watabe
Character design:	Mari Tominaga Kumiko Shishido (sub-character) Yuichi Kurosawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Mayumi Sho as Yuriko Tono Dai Matsumoto as Shuhei Nagai Takumi Yamazaki as Matsushima Masuo Amada as Yasuda Isshin Chiba as Eisuke Aizawa Masayo Kurata as Lower class
Music
Opening song:	Shōdō
Closing song:	Kanashii Hodo Anata ga Suki

Love Letter to Ran (蘭へのラブレター ,Ran e no Rabu Retā) is the 426th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Eisuke Aizawa Nakamichi

Case

Situation

Ran receives an anonymous "love" letter that has Conan worried. Ran isn't able to decide if she should go meet this person or not. Then Ran, Conan, and Sonoko help a lady whom had a strange break-in in her home which then eventually leads to saving a man's life.

Break-in
	Location: Tono household Suspects: Unknown The thief broke in, took some money from an envelope, read her diary, moved her deceased husband's urn a little, and then put the money back before leaving.

People

Yuriko Tono
	Graduated from Teitan High School Recently widowed

Yuta Tono
	Yuriko's son

Shuhei Nagai
	Victim (Assault-injured) Graduated from Teitan High School

Mr. Tono
	Deceased (illness) Yuriko's husband

Kitada
	Teitan High School Class 2-C student

Matsushima
	Mr. Tono's friend

Naruya Toda
	Graduated from Teitan High School

Koji Nakamoto
	Graduated from Teitan High School

Takahiro Murai
	Graduated from Teitan High School

Girl
	Teitan High School junior student

Resolution

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Shuhei found the man trying to press Yuriko to go out with him.

Shuhei tries to chase off Yasuda, a Yakuza man, of whom he has read in the diary trying to press Yuriko to go out with him against her will even going as far as hinting that something might happen to her child if she says no. But as Ran, Sonoko, and Yuriko arrives, he has been beaten and is trampled on by the man.

Assault
	Location: Tokyo Construction site Victim: Shuhei Naga Injury: Blunt force trauma Culprit: Yasuda The culprit assaults Shuhei for money, but he gets neck kicked by Ran.

Angered by the man's actions, Ran gives him her best karate kick (neck kick knockout), saving Shuhei who confirms that he read her diary, put the money back and prayed at her husband's ashes after he recognized a photo of her. The man had once sent a love letter to this lady and thanked her for coming that day even though she had rejected him. From this, Ran decides to go meet the person who sent the letter who turns out to be a junior girl at her school who is admiring Ran.

Remastered version

A remastered version of this episode aired on February 15, 2014.

Trivia

• This is the first remastered anime-original episode.
• Kitada was cited by Ran in The Target is Kogoro Mouri.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	衝動	Shōdō	Impulse	Shōdō
2	昼下がりの天使たち	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi	Early Afternoon Angels	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	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~
4	星の愛 （歌：速見清司）	Hoshi no Ai (Uta: Hayami Seiji)	Star Love (Sung By: Seiji Hayami)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
6	のんびり気分（アナザーver.）	Nonbiri Kibun (Anazā ver.)	Carefree Feeling (Another ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	犯人のアジト	Hannin no Ajito	The Culprit's Hideout	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
9	夜の探索	Yoru no Tansaku	Night Search	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
10	コナンの直感	Konan no Chokkan	Conan's Intuition	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
11	尋問	Jinmon	Interrogation	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
12	「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~
13	怒りのメッセージ	Ikari no Messēji	Message of Anger	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
14	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
15	コナンの決断	Konan no Ketsudan	Conan's Decision	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
16	悲しいほど貴方が好き	Kanashii Hodo Anata ga Suki	I Love You As Much As I'm Sad	Kanashii Hodo Anata ga Suki
17	星の愛 （歌：速見清司）	Hoshi no Ai (Uta: Hayami Seiji)	Star Love (Sung By: Seiji Hayami)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
18	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Una carta d'amor per a la Ran	A love letter to Ran
German	Ein Liebesbrief an Ran	A love letter to Ran
Italian	La lettera dell'ammiratore segreto	The letter from the secret lover
Thai	จดหมายรักถึงรัน
Vietnamese	Bức thư tỏ tình với Ran

See also

• Season 14