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Chronology
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Episode 242
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Information
Title: Boy Genta's Misfortune
Japanese title: 元太少年の災難
(Genta Shōnen no Sainan)
Original airdate: July 16, 2001
Season: 9
Manga source: Volume 30: Files 8-9 (303-304)
Case
Cast: Conan Edogawa
Detective Boys
Ai Haibara
Sumiko Kobayashi
Miwako Sato
Wataru Takagi
Detective Chiba
Gin
Case solved by: Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint: Cellphone
Staff
Director: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Kenji Kodama
Organizer: Chika Ichimaru
Storyboard: Chika Ichimaru
Episode director: Minoru Tozawa
Animation director: Keiko Sasaki
Music
Opening song: destiny
Closing song: always


Cast

Case

Situation

Genta has been acting weird at school lately. He is hiding under his futon at home, and doesn't eat his lunch instead of racing to finish first which is worrying his teacher Kobayashi. When he leaves school, Genta climbs over the wall and runs, like he is trying to lose someone. When the Detective Boys confront him, he tells them someone is trying to kill him. Earlier, he had heard the sound of someone's footsteps keeping pace with him in a tunnel. Later he was pushed off a bridge, and a burning car hurtled towards him. As he was telling the Detective Boys this, they reached a place outside a store where Genta likes to play a Yaiba Game machine. A large bolt falls nearby, barely alerting the Detective Boys in time to avoid part of the store's "BAKER" sign hurtling to the ground.

Attempted Murder

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Location: Outside a Beika City building with a Kamen Yaiba game on the sidewalk that Genta likes to play
Victim: Genta Kojima
Suspects: Purse Snatcher
While Genta is talking, the Detective Boys got away from the falling letter.

Conan examines the support cable, and determines it had been deliberately cut and someone was indeed after Genta's life. They go to a burger restaurant and Genta reveals the man he thinks is trying to kill him is the purse snatcher the police are after. Genta had seen the man sometime earlier, before he was a wanted burglar, but had forgotten where it was. Genta does remember a golden haired man was with him when he saw the thief. Genta also explains that he went to a crime scene where the snatcher struck five days ago and saw his golden-haired witness in the crowd. He took the witness to the police and told them the story, but the witness denied seeing the thief. Genta later gets a mysterious phone call: "If you tell anyone that you saw me, I will kill you!! You, your family, and everybody that you know!"

Genta tries to recall where he saw the thief. He remembers the witness sitting beside him, but doesn't remember the thief sitting down. Genta was sleepy at the time. The things he remembers about the thief are that he was holding a cigarette in his left hand, meaning he is left handed. He was also wearing a tee-shirt with a skull and the numbers 202 in digital clock-like numerals. Genta notices one of the customers at the burger place has a similar tee-shirt, only with the numbers 1999 instead. Conan asks the man where he got his shirt, and the man tells him it is from the Bones clothing store. The Detective Boys run to find the place, but unfortunately the suspect had followed them into the restaurant and overheard everything.

At the shop, the salesperson explains that they sold a variety of shirts like that with different text such as "Escape", "Help", and "1999" because of the doomsday prediction in 2000, but none that say 202. The salesperson doesn't remember anyone unusual either. Genta does remember a few more details about the thief though. The thief was reading a newspaper, the place allowed smoking, and Genta never took his eyes off of him meaning it was a place where it wouldn't be unusual to watch someone without making them uncomfortable. From those clues, Conan realizes the answer. To avoid alerting the thief who is watching nearby, Conan whispers something to Genta.

People

  • Resolution

    Trivia

    • Haibara talks about her time in America as a child in this case. She was lonely because she always ate alone after picking her lunch up at the dining hall.[1]

    Gallery

    See also

  • ^ Volume 30: Files 8 (303), pg 3: "Genta's Misfortune"