The Wizard of the Ripples

Chronology
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Episode 881-882 (Int. Episode 936-937)
Information
Title:	The Wizard of the Ripples
Japanese title:	さざ波の魔法使い (Sazanami no Mahōtsukai)
Original airdate:	November 18, 2017 (Part 1) November 25, 2017 (Part 2) April 04, 2020 (Part 1) (Remastered) April 11, 2020 (Part 2) (Remastered)
Broadcast rating:	7.8% (Part 1) 8.7% (Part 2)
Remastered rating:	9.2% (Part 1) 9.1% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#281
Season:	27
Manga source:	Volume 92: Files 2-4 (972-974)
Case
Cast:	Shinichi Kudo Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Shuichi Akai Masumi Sera Shukichi Haneda Mary Sera Yukiko Kudo Yusaku Kudo Sonoko Suzuki Jinsuke Ninda
Case solved by:	Shuichi Akai Yusaku Kudo
Next Conan's Hint:	Beach hut (Part 1) Detective's assistant (Part 2) Shuichi Akai (Remastered version Part 1) Mary (Remastered version Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Yasuyuki Honda
Storyboard:	Yasuyuki Honda
Episode director:	881: Nobuharu Kamanaka 882: Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo and Seiji Muta (Supervisors) 881: Kenichi Otomo 882: Chiemi Hironaka
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Akiko Motoyoshi (sub-character) Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Shinichi Kudo (young), Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Ran Mouri (young) Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera, Masumi Sera (young) Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Toshiyuki Morikawa as Shukichi Haneda Atsuko Tanaka as Mary Sera Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Kazuya Ichijou as Detective Yūki Shin as Employee Takeharu Onishi as Robber Masaya Fukunishi as Man #6 and #7 Aya Kawakami as Woman Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Yasuhiro Takato as Shigekatsu Fukumizu Megumi Toyoguchi as Yasue Kitamori Kisho Taniyama as Raiya Ooami
Music
Opening song:	Lie, Lie, Lie,
Closing song:	Togetsukyō ~Kimi Omou~

The Wizard of the Ripples (さざ波の魔法使い ,Sazanami no Mahōtsukai) is the 881st and 882nd episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Tsutomu Akai
	Deceased? Mary's husband

Cast

Characters
Shinichi Kudo (flashback) Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri (flashback and real) Shuichi Akai (flashback) Masumi Sera Shukichi Haneda (flashback) Mary Sera (flashback) Yukiko Kudo (flashback) Yusaku Kudo (flashback) Sonoko Suzuki Jinsuke Ninda (hand flashback)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Ten years ago, Masumi, taken by her middle brother Shukichi and their mother Mary, reunite with Shuichi who did not take the test yet to become an FBI agent in the Atsuhama Beach, Shizuoka Prefecture. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of his father. The Akai family also encountered Shinichi, Ran and Yukiko who also happened to be there. Shinichi introduce himself as "Holmes Apprentice". All of them end up being involved in a case where two robbers robbed a watch shop with one of them accidentally got killed in an accident, and the other was still on the run.

Accident
	Location: Atsuhama Beach Victim: Robber Age: Unknown Cause of death: Broken neck Suspects: Unknown When the vehicle crashed into the guardrail, the driver's head smashed into the windshield, breaking his cervical vertebrae in the process. The man was killed upon impact.

Part 2

Robbery
	Location: Unknown Stolen items: Watches Suspects: Shigekatsu Fukumizu, Yasue Kitamori, and Raiya Ooami

People

Police detective
	Shizuoka Prefectural Police detective

Shigekatsu Fukumizu
	32 years old (ten years ago)

Yasue Kitamori
	27 years old (ten years ago)

Raiya Ooami
	26 years old (ten years ago)

Man
	Victim (car crash) Robber

Girl
	Fukumizu's girlfriend

Man B
	Man causing a ruckus at the beach

Man C
	Tough guy's friend

Man D
	Tough guy's friend

Man E
	Beach shop employee

Man F
	Witness

Woman
	Witness

Man G
	Witness

Man H
	Lifeguard

Resolution

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The other robber is Yasue Kitamori. Yusaku and Shuichi explain that they knew this from the fact that she is not wearing a swimsuit under her outerwear, and her purchase, a pair of beach sandals. Since the other robber fell into the sea, the bank notes in the robber's wallet would be drenched and thus too suspicious to pay with. Unlike the clothes the other two suspects purchased, Yasue's sandals were cheap enough to pay for them with coins instead. Secondly, Yusaku and Shuichi noticed that Yasue's watch was stuck at 10:10. This time is what watches on display at shops are usually set to, since the handles don't obstruct the brand logos this way. All branded watches have serial numbers, so it will only take a simple comparison between Yasue's watch and the ones stolen during the robbery to prove her involvement in the crime. Yasue confesses and explains that during their escape, she and her partner got into an argument over Yasue taking the watch from the loot for herself and that this argument caused the car crash.

After the case, Shuichi said that he enjoys to solve the case speaks of being "infected by the disease called curiosity," Mary is immediately reminded of Tsutomu. Shukichi is also reminded of Tsutomu when Mary tells Shuichi to "purge the fog that covers the truth". Shinchi said that he would like to become a detective as Shuichi, and Masumi calls Shinichi as 'Wizard'.

Conan realizes that Masumi knows that he is Shinichi Kudo, the Akai family's middle brother is Shukichi Haneda, and that their mother is Mary, now somehow shrunken.

Masumi thinks to herself that while Conan has finally remembered her, and has remembered that he made Shuichi smile and laugh when she could not, there is another reason she calls him a "wizard", a reason which he does not know.

Trivia

• Yukiko's cellphone photo along with Yusaku and baby Shinichi is from The Ten Planets in the Night Sky.
• The crashed car is a brilliant metallic blue 2000 Suzuki Kei [HN11S].
• The names of the suspects come from beaches :

• Shigekatsu Fukumizu (福水 繁克) comes from Zushi Beach (逗子海水浴場), Kanagawa Prefecture ;
• Yasue Kitamori (北森 靖絵) comes from Moriya Beach (守谷海水浴場), Chiba Prefecture ;
• Raiya Oami (大網 頼哉) comes from Oarai Beach (大洗サンビーチ海水浴場), Ibaraki Prefecture.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El mag de les ones	The wizard of the waves
French (Subbed)	Le Magicien des vagues	The wizard of the waves
Thai	จอมเวทย์แห่งเสียงคลื่น	The great wizard of the waving sound
Vietnamese	Phù thủy của những con sóng

See also

• Season 27