The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case

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Episode 119 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case
Japanese title:	仮面ヤイバー殺人事件 (Kamen Yaibā Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	October 12, 1998
Broadcast rating:	18%
Filler case:	#45
Season:	5
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	The Masked Yaiba Murder Mystery
Dubbed episode:	Episode 126
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Detective Boys Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Tome
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Model gun
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Toshihiko Nakajima as Officer Tome Takeshi Kusao as Osamu Honda Takehiro Murozono as Yasuyuki Tsutsumi Yuka Imai as Madoka Saotome Takashi Nagasako as Katsuji Mishima
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Tome

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

While on the way to dinner Conan and the group come across a bunch of people dressed as Kamen Yaiba fans. They are invited to the party where an attempted murder and suicide appears to occur, but Conan begins to wonder if there is more than meets the eye to this.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Mansion Victim: Osamu Honda Age: 21 Years old Suspects: Katsuji Mishima Mishima fired at Honda with his gun, but Honda was wearing a bullet proof vest which is why he didn't get killed.

Suicide?
	Location: Mansion Victim: Katsuji Mishima Age: 21 Years old Cause of death: Gunshot wound After Mishima fired at Honda with his gun, he raises the gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Could this really be a suicide?

People

Yasuyuki Tsutsumi
	21 years old Shonan University Law Department

Madoka Saotome
	21 years old University of Shiraba Linguistic Literature Department

Osamu Honda
	21 years old Shonan University Engineering Department

Katsuji Mishima
	Victim (gunshot) 21 years old Tokyo University Physical Education Department

Resolution

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Hiroshi Honda

Conan knocks out Kogoro with his stun gun wristwatch and begins to reveal his deductions with the voice changing bowtie. It was no suicide but it was actually a murder. Someone had this planned out right from the beginning. The person could have suggested, something like this to Mishima, that they should put up an act at the party, so that they could give people a scare. For this act, they quarreled before everybody so as to lay the setting for today. The killer is Osamu Honda. Honda first modified two guns of the same model and then prepared two different kind of bullets. First which would be a real bullet, and the other one an empty bullet. The gun that Honda gave to Mishima before the whole thing was the one with the empty bullets. Before the official opening for the party in the morning, Honda met Mishima at the temple and handed over the gun to him and brought the gun that had the real bullets inside. Honda's excuse would be that he needed to check the gun. That means that the gun on Honda's waist is Mishima's gun. The gun that Honda gave to Mishima wasn't sealed at all because he was afraid it would be involved afterwards. Honda chose today when he wasn't wearing Kamen Yaiba costume but wearing a Laser Police costume instead. That's because only the Laser Police bear guns. Also, it wouldn't be strange if he wore a bullet-proof vest. Just when Mishima dashed in, Honda purposely moved a few steps so that the other people wouldn't be caught in the fray. That also let Mishima get a good aim at his target. Mishima had no knowledge of guns when he fired a gun, he should have felt like something was wrong. Honda had considered the gunshot and the movement and has practiced with Mishima. So when Honda saw Mishima being shot down, he misunderstood it, since it had the same effect as when they were practicing. It all went as they had planned beforehand. Mishima didn't commit suicide because when someone who really wanted to commit suicide, would press the gun to his temple and pull the trigger. That way, there should be burn mark on his temple. Mishima doesn't have any burn mark on his temple, because even it was an empty shot, it would have some fireworks. So at that time he didn't want to hurt himself and didn't press the gun against his head. As evidence, the crime scene investigator found that they were other fingerprints on the gun besides Mishima's. The fingerprint and the fingerprint on Genta's Detective Boys Badge (which Conan gave it to the crime scene investigator to check it) is the same. The other fingerprint belongs to Genta. Genta never touched Mishima's gun but why were Genta's fingerprints found on the gun is this what happens: Before Honda went to the party, Conan and the Detective Boys met Honda at the temple. At that time, Genta did touched the gun. That means, that the gun Honda had on was later used by Mishima at the party. It proves that Honda's gun has been swapped with Mishima's.

Some time ago Mishima, who was a Kamen Yaiba fan to the point of mental illness, had stolen Honda's little brother's extremely rare Kamen Yaiba poster while he was riding his motorcycle; the poor boy ran after Mishima's moto and was hit by a truck, dying two days later. In his last words, the younger Honda begged his brother to "capture that Kamen Yaiba".

Honda joined many fan clubs to find who had caused his brother's death. A year and a half after the accident, he found his brother's poster in Mishima's apartment; Mishima himself lied and said it was a gift from his own brother, though Honda knew that Mishima had no siblings. Honda then engineered the meeting of Kamen Yaiba fans to trick the mentally-inbalanced Mishima into first shooting him, then committing suicide under the belief that it was all an act.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Yasuyuki Tsutsumi - York Taylor
• Madoka Saotome - Melanie Seymour
• Osamu Honda - Stu Hogan
• Katsuji Mishima - Sam Michener
• Hiroshi Honda - Henry Hogan

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	事件解決（意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	新一のテーマ	Shin'ichi no Tēma	Shinichi's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
6	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
7	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
8	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
10	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13	事件の謎	Jiken no Nazo	Mystery of the Case	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	「名探偵コナン」メイン・テーマ （バラードver.）	"Meitantei Konan" Mein・Tēma (Barādo ver.)	"Detective Conan" Main Theme (Ballad ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
15	氷の上に立つように	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni	Like Standing on Ice	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni
16	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
17	事件解決（意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan	El cas de l'assassinat d'en Yaiba l'emmascarat
French	Meurtre au fan-club de Kamen Yaiba	Murder at the Kamen Yaiba fan-club
Galician	O asasinato de Yaiba o enmascarado
German	Im falschen Film	In the Wrong Movie
Spanish	El caso de asesinato de Kamen Yaiba
Vietnamese	Vụ án siêu nhân

See also

• Season 5