Kogoro's Date Murder Case

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Episode 95 (Int. Episode 98)
Information
Title:	Kogoro's Date Murder Case
Japanese title:	小五郎のデート殺人事件 (Kogorō no Dēto Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 16, 1998
Broadcast rating:	16.8%
Filler case:	#39
Season:	4
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Richard's Deadly Date
Dubbed episode:	Episode 98
English airdate:	January 27, 2009 (DVD)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Detective Boys
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Candy
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Junichi Sakata
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Izumi Shimura (sub-character) Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yoko Soumi as Sachiko Shimamura Kazuyuki Ishikawa as Friend Isshin Chiba as Station announcement Rika Iwamoto as Grade school student
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Kogoro's Date Murder Case (小五郎のデート殺人事件 ,Kogorō no Dēto Satsujin Jiken) is the 95th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

After drinking with a friend who hasn't met for ten years, Kogoro falls asleep on a train and awakens to find himself a person that is willing to go on a date with him. When she stops at home though, she finds a person murdered and causes Kogoro and Conan to start seeking out whether she's guilty or if someone else is involved.

Murder
	Location: Apartment Victim: Kazumi Takenaka Age: 29 years old Cause of death: Stab wound in chest Suspects: Sachiko Shimamura

People

Sachiko Shimamura
	31 years old Import sales director

Kazumi Takenaka
	Victim (stabbed) 29 years old Sachiko's roommate Salesperson

Man A
100px	Kogoro's old friend Office worker

Kid A
100px	Elementary school boy

Kid B
100px	Elementary school boy

Kid C
100px	Elementary school boy

Man B
100px	Delivery courier

Resolution

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After that, Kogoro was about to confront Sachiko Shimamura about the ballpoint pen but when while he touches the table and when he's about to talk to Sachiko, Kogoro slips his hand off the table making his body go down and knocked his head on the table making him unconscious. He then went to sit on the chair. Since Kogoro's unconscious, Conan uses the voice changing bowtie to impersonate him and reveals that Sachiko Shimamura to be the murderer. First, when Kazumi was alive a mail courier and let Kazumi to sign it then, she told the mail courier to check if there is ink left, when there is ink left, she was able to sign her name. But after twenty minutes, Sachiko stabbed Kazumi and the body fell the ballpen, then she check if it was her, in panic, she rushed to her and put the ballpen in her car.

Sachiko confesses and reveals Kazumi was blackmailing her because she sold a product that it was prohibited to sale in Japan, and she was threatening Sachiko to report her in the police.

Afterwards when Sachiko is being led to the police car Conan ask why she didn't kill Mouri at the view point. She says she holds no grudge against him.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Sachiko Shimamura - Sonia Shadowly
• Kazumi Takenaka - Vicki Bowen

Trivia

• Sachiko Shimamura's car is a red Mitsubishi Libero Monte [CB5W].
• This is one of the few cases that Conan solves as the sleeping Kogoro without knocking him out with his Stun-Gun Wristwatch, as Kogoro is quite close to solving the case, though he slips and bangs his head on a table, knocking himself unconscious in the process and leaving Conan to solve the rest of the case for him.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	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
3	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	小さな巨人	Chiisana Kyojin	A Small Great Person	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
6	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	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	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
10	コナンのテーマ （バラード・ヴァージョン)	Konan no Tēma (Barādo・Vājon)	Conan's Theme (Ballad ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
11	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
12	コナンの勝利 （夜空ver.）	Konan no Shōri (Yozora ver.)	Conan's Victory (Night Sky ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	موعد لم يكن في الحسبان	A Date That Wasn't Accounted For
Basque	Kogororen hitzordua eta hilketa
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La cita d'en Kogoro	Kogoro's Rendez-vous
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Assassinat en una cita de Kogoro	Murder in a Kogoro's Rendez-vous
French	Un rendez-vous raté	A Failed Rendez-vous
Galician	O asasinato da cita de Kogoro	Kogoro's Rendez-vous murder
German	Kogoros Rendezvous	Kogoro's Rendez-vous
Italian	L'alibi	The Alibi
Spanish (American dub)	Cita con la muerte	Rendez-vous wirh the death
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El asesinato en una cita de Kogoro	Murder in a Kogoro's Rendez-vous
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมวันเดทของโคโกโร่	Kogoro's date murder case
Vietnamese	Vụ án về cuộc hẹn của chú Mori	Mori's Date Case

See also

• Season 4