Kogoro's Class Reunion Murder Case

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Episode 27-28 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Kogoro's Class Reunion Murder Case
Japanese title:	小五郎の同窓会殺人事件 (Kogoro no Dōsōkai Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	August 5, 1996 (Part 1) August 12, 1996 (Part 2)
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 9: Files 4-6 (084-086)
English version
English title:	Richard's Class Reunion
Dubbed episode:	Episode 28-29
English airdate:	July 8, 2004 (Part 1) July 12, 2004 (Part 2)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Jun Omura
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri
Next Conan's Hint:	Benkei (Part 1) Cat (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	27 Kou Matsuzono 28 Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	27 Hirotoshi Takaya 28 Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kazuhiro Yamaji as Yukio Ayashiro Takaya Hashi as Jun Omura Tomoko Miyadera as Yumi Horikoshi Mayumi Kitagawa as Noriko Ayashiro Tesshô Genda as Kazushi Nakamichi Isshin Chiba as Policeman Wataru Takagi as Robber, Next Conan's Hint Fumihiko Tsuburaya as Master of the inn Miya Sakita as Waitress
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Characters introduced

Jun Omura
	37 years old Model shop manager

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

Part 1

After Kogoro and Conan take down a would-be bank robber, they head off to Kogoro's 15-year class reunion with Ran. Kogoro's old friends were all on the state-winning Judo team together, but when the beautiful Yumi Horikoshi turns up in her room dead of an apparent suicide, the fun is abruptly ended.

Suicide?
	Location: Benkei Private Inn Victim: Yumi Horikoshi Cause of death: Gunshot wound Suspects: Yukio Ayashiro, Jun Omura, Noriko Ayashiro, and Kazushi Nakamichi

Part 2

Kogoro's class reunion continues, but all the catching up has finally caught up to the classmates leaving one of them dead! Is the killer still among them, and if so, can Conan apprehend him in time? Everyone's a suspect in this exciting episode of Detective Conan!

People

Yukio Ayashiro
	38 years old High school P.E. teacher

Jun Omura
	37 years old Model shop manager

Yumi Horikoshi
	Victim (gunshot) 37 years old Cosmetics Co. employee

Noriko Ayashiro
	37 years old Yukio's wife

Kazushi Nakamichi
	38 years old Detective from Chiba Police

Private Inn staff
	Benkei Private Inn staff

Robber
	Caught robbing the bank

Policeman
	Local police officer

Resolution

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The killer is Kazushi Nakamichi. He and Yumi had been dating for years yet Yumi refused his marriage proposals; however, as soon as he got engaged to the daughter of his boss, Yumi got so jealous that she started blackmailing Nakamichi with private photos that she threatened to send to his fiancé.

The school reunion was supposed to be the last time they'd see each other; Nakamichi took the photos from Yumi's purse, then shot her in the head (with the gun that had been missing in the bank robbing case, which he stole) so she wouldn't ruin his married life, and tricked everyone (except for Conan, and later Kogoro) into thinking that Yumi had commited suicide, taking also advantage of how Yumi had mentioned that she did want to kill herself due to depression and her really bad economic situation. Unfortunately, what Nakamichi didn't count on was accelerated rigor mortis, caused by exercising before dying; he played ping-pong with Yumi before killing her, but had to leave the room to make up an alibi when Conan and Ran were drawing close. Because Yumi held a ping-pong racket with her index finger pointing out, it was impossible to move it around the trigger of the gun once rigor mortis settles in.

Manga to anime changes

• The manga starts off at the reunion during the moment where Conan and Ran are bathing. The anime starts before the reunion is held with Conan and Ran trying to convince Kogoro to take them. During which a robbery takes place with Kogoro and Conan pursuing the robber. Kogoro is saved when Conan kicks the gun away from the robber. Afterwards, Kogoro, Conan, and Ran meet with Yumi who hopes to see all of them at the reunion. Meanwhile the culprit sneaks onto the scene to steal the gun used by the robber (though the culprit's not revealed until Part 2).

Dub changes

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

• Yukio Ayashiro - Scott Andros
• Yumi Horikoshi - Jamie Hummelford
• Noriko Ayashiro - Nancy Andros
• Kazushi Nakamichi - Craig Newberry

See also

• Season 1