Difference between revisions of "Volume 24"

Masami Muranishi
	Victim (strangled);

Higashida
100px	Company employee;

	Volume 24
	Information
Release date:	July 17, 1999
Chapters:
ISBN:	ISBN 4-09-125494-2
Publisher:	Shogakukan
English release date:	July 15, 2008
English ISBN:	ISBN 1-4215-1676-4
English Publisher:	Viz Media
	Featured Detective & Keyhole
; Perry Mason	; Tomoaki Araide
	Aoyama's death & Conan side images

Revision as of 23:49, 27 January 2013

Chronology
‹ Volume 23	List of Chapters • List of Cases	Volume 25 ›

Volume 24 was released on July 17, 1999 in Japan.

Cast

Characters

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Button Speaker

Innocent Suspect Case

Anime Episode 156-157: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2

File 232 - Finding Evidence

The Detective Boys are still investigating.

File 233 - Countdown

People

Kitagawa
100px	Company employee

Blackout Murder Case

Anime Episode 170-171: The Blind Spot in the Darkness

Characters introduced

Tomoaki Araide
	25 years old Doctor Teitan High basketball coach

Hikaru Yasumoto
	22 years old Household maid

File 234 - Another Half Year

For some time, Conan has taken notice that Ran seems unusually distant to him (Shinichi) whenever he calls her up lately. The day the case begins, Kogoro (along with Conan and Ran) is called by his physician, Yoshiteru Tomoaki, who tells him that he has "just half a year ..." Devastated, Kogoro confronts his doctor with the assumption that he has only half a year left to live, only to learn that the doctor actually meant for Kogoro to reduce his excessive alcohol consumption in that time to ease up on his liver. When he is called away to treat another patient, his wife, Yoko Araide, mutters derisively under her breath that this case is less medical and more sexual.

While looking for the bathroom, Ran runs into the doctor's son, Tomoaki, and the household aid, Hikaru. Upon learning that Kogoro is the famed 'master detective', Dr. Araide invites Kogoro and company for dinner. While preparing to eat, Dr. Araide decides to take a bath. All the while, Conan notices Ran staring at Tomoaki, and almost all the family present agrees that the two would make a good couple (much to Conan's consternation).

Suddenly, the lights go out, and Hikari hurries to the fuse box to switch it back on. The light goes on, then blinks out and goes back on again. Wondering where Dr. Ariade is, Yoko and Hikari go to the bathroom and find him in the bathtub, dead...

File 235 - In the Darkness...

Conan is quick to discover the cause for Dr. Araide's death: his electric razor has fallen into the filled tub, electrocuting him. Though it seems that Dr. Araide must have dropped the razor himself, Conan notices that some things don't quite add up: Why was Dr. Araide sitting with his back to the mirror mounted at the end of the bathtub when he was shaving? And where did Hikaru get the burn mark on her arm? But what distracts Conan from the case is that Ran and Tomoaki seems strangely drawn to each other, and a disconcerting thought dawns inside him: Could Ran have become interested in Tomoaki now ...?

File 236 - The Unbelievable Link

While Kogoro, Megure and Takagi test all possible scenarios, Conan discovers several clues missed by the police and adds them up to the solution of the case. And as usual, he stuns Kogoro to use him as a mouthpiece to deliver his conclusions. But Tomoaki vehemently protests the questionings, claiming that none of his family could have done such a thing!