The Mist Goblin Legend Murder Case

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Episode 52 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Mist Goblin Legend Murder Case
Japanese title:	霧天狗伝説殺人事件 (Kiri-tengu Densetsu Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 17, 1997
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 11: Files 8-10 (108-110)
English version
English title:	The Mist Goblin Murder
Dubbed episode:	Episode 53-54
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Professor Agasa
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Songbird
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Kazuo Nogami Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	Kazuo Nogami Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Jouji Yanami as Priest Tenei Kihachiro Uemura as Kannen Naoki Makishima as Tonnen Shunsuke Sakuya as Mokunen Masaki Kawanabe as Shunen Yukiko Iwai as Kikuno Isshin Chiba as Policeman A Wataru Takagi as Policeman B, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Hikari to Kage no Roman
1 Hour Special

Gadgets introduced

Button Speaker
	Miniature speaker May be used with the Voice-Changing Bowtie

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo (Flashback) Gin (Flashback) Vodka (Flashback) Inspector Megure Professor Agasa

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

A baffling and seemingly impossible murder is committed at a secluded mountain temple. Luckily Conan and Kogoro are on the scene! It is believed that the terrible Mist Goblin (Kiritengu), a creature with super strength, haunts the temple. Conan doesn't believe in goblins, but he may have to change his tune as the evidence suggests that the Mist Goblin may be more than just a legend!

Suicide?
	Location: Sandei Temple Victim: Priest Tenei Cause of death: Hanging Suspects: Kannen, Tonnen, Mokunen, and Shunen

People

Priest Tenei
	Victim (hanged) 71 years old Sandei Temple resident priest

Kannen
	21 years old Monk

Tonnen
	19 years old Monk

Mokunen
	19 years old Monk

Shunen
	18 years old Monk

Chunen
	Deceased (hanged) Monk

Kikuno
	21 years old Priest's granddaughter

Resolution

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Young Shunen is the killer... as well as the younger brother of the deceased monk Chunen. Some time ago Chunen was in love with Tenei's granddaughter Kikuno, who not only was the heiress to the temple but had just accepted to marry another Buddhist monk from a very important monastery. Tenei was so upset at such an affair, that when he learned that Chunen and Kikuno were about to elope, he killed Chunen using exactly the same trick that Shunen later used on him (which is described below), managing to strangle the guy and then set the scene in such a way that it looked like a perfect killing by the Mist Goblin.

Shunen was always suspicious of Tenei and the other monks, so he hid his identity and entered the monastery to gain their trust and learn what had happened to his brother. He spent six months quietly snooping around, managing to more or less figure out how the murder was commited, but not the identity of the killer.

Shunen confronted Tenei right after the Mouris and Conan had gone to bed, having noticed how he had openly spoken about the Chunen incident when prior to that no one had ever menttioned it; under the effects of alcohol, Tenei told Shunen everything. The young novice begged his superior to turn himself in, but Tenei refused and said he'd rather let everyone think the Mist Goblin took Chunen's life, since such a "mystery" had let him raise the fame of the monstery. Shunen then lost it and used his newfound knowledge to kill Tenei in the same way Chunen died: he grabbed a rope, wrapped it around Tenei's neck, and pulled it as if he was carrying a heavy bag on his back (the "bag being, of course, Tenei).

After recovering his senses and seeing that he had murdered Tenei, Shunnen decided to use the same tricks Tenei used on Chunen to throw suspicions off him: placing the body in a lifeboat, using the nearby cascade water to slowly fill up the room, hanging Tenei's body from the ceiling, and then breaking the wooden wall (most of it was done naturally from the internal water pressure). The room was filled with water by taping the priest hole with wooden planks and a tool board was used to divert the waterfall cascade. This explains why no hanging marks were left on the ceiling beam. Shuunen failed to dispose of the duct tape he used to tape the hole however containing his fingerprints. He is arrested promptly.

Manga to anime changes

• The anime version starts off with Conan, Ran and Kogoro looking at the cherry blossom trees, as well as Conan recaps his first encounter with Gin & Vodka. The scene ends with Conan, Ran & Kogoro having their picture taken.

Dub changes

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

• Priest Tenei - Bonzai Tenei
• Kikuno - Caitlin
• Sandei Temple - Bendei Temple

See also

• Season 2