Once-A-Month Present Threat Case

Chronology
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Episode 7 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Threatening Monthly Presents Case
Japanese title:	Tsukiichi PURESENTO kyouhaku jiken (月ちプレゼント脅迫事件)
Original airdate:	February 19, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 3: File 7~10
English version
English title:	The Case of the Mysterious Gifts
English airdate:	June 2, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Dr. Agasa Detective Boys
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Ball-point pen
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Haruo Ogawara
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 Hiroshi Agasa Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Shin Aomori as Ogawa Mugihito as Ogino Kumiko Watanabe as Yuta Ogawa Yoshiko Okamoto as Ogawa's Wife
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Doki Doki
Closing song:	Step by Step

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Dr. Agasa Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Ayumi Yoshida

Case

Situation

Threatening Presents
[[Image:[1]|290px]]	Location: Bekia city Victim: Ogawa Suspects: unknown sender For two years Ogawa has received toys and money once a month from an unknowen sender. When he recevies a large sum of, 25 million yen, he decides to contact Mouri Kogoro

People

Dr. Ogawa
	Victim

Unknown Sender
	N/A

Ogawa Yuuta
	Son of Dr. Ogawa

Resolution

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• Evidence

Two years ago, an anonymous person started sending Dr. Ogawa boxes full of toys, along with some cash, on the first day of each month. And once every year on a winter, Morning Glory flowers get delivered to the hospital where he worked.

Dr. Ogawa received the flowers on that exact same day. However, this time the money came separately with a letter.

Coincidentally, as Conan was playing with one of the toys, he discovered that there was a username in the video game that was not of Dr. Ogawa's five-year old son, Yuuta. He rummaged through patient records and found that Ogino Tomoya, indeed, was a kid who passed away three years ago on that day after being operated on by the doctor.

• Conclusion

Conan deduced that the presents were not given to Dr. Ogawa in gratitude, but with grudge and hate, by someone related to Ogino Tomoya. Sensing that Yuuta was in danger, they rushed and found him in a park near his kindergarten with an unknown man.

Turned out, this man was Tomoya's father, who had been planning to end Yuuta's life on the same day and at the same age that Tomoya died. The father lured Dr. Ogawa and Yuuta with his son's old toys and life insurance money, and sent his son's favorite flower to commemorate his death.

Had Conan not interfered by kicking a nearby soccer ball towards the man, Yuuta wouldn't have been saved from an ill fate.

• Motive

Tomoya's father could not accept that Tomoya died not of surgical complications from Dr. Ogawa's hands. He blamed Dr. Ogawa and planned to have his revenge by taking away what he believed was also taken from him: a father's son.

Manga to Anime Change

In the manga, this story takes place after the Luxury Liner Serial Murder Case, as Ran gets a letter from Natsue who mentions that she and Takeshi are living a more quiet life on the ranch. Natsue tells Ran to give her regards to her "detective boyfriend", which sets up the story.

See also

• Season 1