Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case

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Information
Title:	The Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case
Japanese title:	社長令嬢誘拐事件 (Shachou Reijou Yuukai Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 15, 1996 April 11, 2009 (Remastered version)
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 1: File 2~5
English version
English title:	The Kidnapped Debutante
English airdate:	May 25, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo (background) Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Professor Agasa
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri
Next Conan's Hint:	Ice
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	Toshiya Shinohara
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Yuzuru Fujimoto as Tani Houchu Otsuka as Kidnapper Yukitoshi Hori as Man in Black A Kae Araki as Akiko Tani Takashi Naka as Asao Yoshiko Okamoto as Maid Isshin Chiba as Cop A Wataru Takagi as Cop B, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Doki Doki
Closing song:	Step by Step

Characters introduced

Conan Edogawa
	6-7 years old Shinichi Kudo Detective

Cast

Characters
Shinichi Kudo (background) Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Professor Agasa

Case

Situation

A CEO's daughter has been kidnapped. According to the butler, Asao, she was taken from the house's garden by a man in black, without alerting any of the guard dogs on the premises. The kidnapper demands that the CEO shut down his company for a while, as well as deliver a large ransom.

Kidnapping
	Location: Tani household Victim: Akiko Tani Suspects: "A man dressed in black" Akiko was kidnapped from home, and the ransom demand is to shut down the company and pay 300 million yen.

People

Tani
	Company president

Akiko Tani
	Victim (kidnapped) Daughter of company president

Asao
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Jumbo
	Tani family guard dog

Kidnapper
	Akiko's kidnapper

Resolution

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Evidence

• Conan hints to Kogoro that it is strange that the guard dogs did not bark at the man dressed in black kidnapping Akiko, since the kidnapper supposedly used the pine tree the dogs was near to escape and they bark at anyone not of the househol.
• Asao seemed surprised when Tani claimed the kidnapper was asking for ransom money in addition to shutting down his company temporarily.
  • During a phone call with the kidnapper, Akiko manages to say she thinks she's in the storeroom of a school and sees a chimney outside the window.

Conclusion Kogoro, thanks to hints from Conan, figures out that Akiko's kidnapping is a fake and that she should be in a nearby hotel. Unfortunately, Akiko was kidnapped for real after the fake kidnapping by a man demanding ransom money in return for Akiko's safety.

After searching nearby schools using one of the dogs, named Jumbo, as transportation and a guide, Conan determines that what Akiko saw outside the school window wasn't a chimney at all, but rather the side of a large skyscraper. Conan then finds Akiko but is unable to take down the kidnapper due to his shrunken size. Thankfully, Jumbo summoned the others and Ran uses her karate on the kidnapper in the nick of time.

Motive Akiko's motive for getting Asao to cooperate with her "kidnapping" was that she wanted to spend more time with her father, who is always at work and doesn't play with her very much anymore.

Manga to anime changes

• The younger Shinichi is in a medical center at Tropical Land whereas in the anime he runs off after being awoken by the police.
• In the manga, Tani immediately puts the vacation plans with Akiko on hold (much to the latter's disappointment). The anime leaves this scene out.
• Rather than showing Conan being introduced to his new class (with Genta, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko as students), the manga version of the story end with Conan reflecting on how he is incapable of fighting the bad guys in his younger form.

Dub changes

• In the English Dub, Ran pointed out that Kogoro did not have a case, with him responding that he polished off a case (a case of beer), whereas in the Japanese Version, Ran states that his messy office is why Eri left him and why Kogoro hasn't had work with him responding that he's selective with his job.
• In the English Dub, Conan blushes during Ran's hug because his disguise worked, whereas in the Japanese Version he blushed because he felt her chest.

Remastered version

On April 11, 2009, a remastered version of the case was aired.

Gallery

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  (Shinichi thinks to himself) "What's happened to my clothes? And why do they keep calling me little boy?!"

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  Shinichi manages to escape from the police officers. He stops at a shop window and looks at his reflection - he's been shrunk by the poison given to him!

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  Shinichi can't get into his house luckily he finds Professor Agasa but has slight trouble trying to prove to him that he is Shinichi and that he's shrunk.

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  "We need to be careful Shinichi, those men are bound to come looking for you if they find out you're still alive! You must tell no one your true identity or what happened! Not even Ran! Do you understand?!"

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  There's someone at the door and it's Ran! What unlucky timing! Professor Agasa and Shinichi try not to panic and do their best to improvise!

Trivia

The manga version of this story marks the debut of Professor Agasa and Kogoro Mouri.

See also

• Season 1