Boy Genta's Misfortune

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Episode 242 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato, Next Conan's Hint Yuko Kato as Sumiko Kobayashi Junichi Sugawara as Shopkeeper Isshin Chiba as Man Erina Yamazaki as Boy Nana Mizuki as Clothing store clerk
Music
Opening song:	destiny
Closing song:	always

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ai Haibara Sumiko Kobayashi Miwako Sato Wataru Takagi 100px Detective Chiba Gin (background

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
	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 criminal 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

Man
	Purse snatcher

Someda Kamiyo
	Blond guy Witness

Resolution

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Genta tries to remember where he sees the purse snatcher. After eating ice cream, seeing the Flag of France, and looking at a store mirror, he heads to a barber shop. Afterwards the purse snatcher confronts him but Conan reveals it was a trap. What Genta saw was the reflection of the mirror of the barbershop. The purse snatcher's shirt actually says "SOS" instead of "202". Also he had a cigarette in his right hand which he is right handed. The purse snatcher was actually Someda Kamiyo which he changes his hair color at the barber shop. Now the thief is surrounded by cops.

When Conan and Haibara discuss the left-handed right-handed mix-up that occurred during case, Haibara reveals to Conan that Gin is left-handed.

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.

See also

• Season 9