Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case

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Episode 38 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case
Japanese title:	赤鬼村火祭殺人事件 (Akaoni Mura Himatsuri Sastujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	November 18, 1996 October 21, 2017 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	17.8%
Manga case:	#4
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 2: Files 1-3 (010-012)
English version
English title:	Flames of Confusion
Dubbed episode:	Episode 39
English airdate:	July 28, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Hiroshi Agasa
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Left-handedness Clock (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Hirohito Ochi
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Haruo Ogawara
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Katsunosuke Hori as Yutaka Abe Takkou Ishimori as Masaki Negishi Isshin Chiba as Announcer Wataru Takagi as Male clerk, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Female clerk
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Detective Takagi Professor Agasa Gin (background) Vodka (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

When a body is discovered in a bonfire at a ritual Fire Festival by a tourist, the murder investigation begins.

Murder
	Location: Akaoni Village Victim: Masaki Negishi Age: 42 Years old Cause of death: Burning Suspects: Yutaka Abe

And when Detective Mouri finds out that the victim is the same man that he had been tailing for the past three days, he realizes that he has been had. The man who hired Detective Mouri uses his testimony to create the perfect alibi. But Kogoro is sure that his client is the guilty one, and Conan agrees. Can Conan crack the case before this prime suspect leaves the country or will he get away with murder?

People

Masaki Negishi
	Victim (burned) 42 years old Birth date: August 15, 1954

Yutaka Abe
	42 years old Masaki Negishi's friend

Resolution

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The culprit is Yutaka Abe. Yutaka's reason to kill his best friend is that he is on the verge of bankruptcy and he tricked the much richer Negishi to fall on his plan. He made a bet with a drunk Negishi that if he successfully went into hiding, Abe would give his life insurance policy to him. He betrayed Negishi, then commited the murder because he wanted to take the insurance.

Negishi really died on Tuesday night, the night before Yutaka left on his vacation. The next day, Yutaka had Kogoro follow a fake who looked like Negishi in order to make him think Negishi was alive through Wednesday night. Negishi is right-handed but the man on the photos is left-handed. This is the proof that the person Kogoro stalked is not Negishi but a different person.

Negishi's body was found on Thursday evening, during the famous fire festival; Yutaka carefully checked ahead of time to make sure the times matched. With the body burned by flames, it was impossible to find the exact time of death. This led to Kogoro to think that Negishi died from Wednesday night to Thursday night, when in fact, he really died on Tuesday evening. Then, Yutaka came back from his trip on Friday night acting innocent with his complete alibi. Kogoro is completely infuriated when he realizes that he had been lied to, but he can only prove that Yutaka tricked him into following a double, NOT that he is the criminal.

Yutaka's plan is to escape the country, taking Negishi's money with him. Fortunately, Conan confronts him for the murder before he escapes on an airplane and Conan manages to trick him and record him admitting the crime; Conan then knocks him unconscious with a tire to the face. Conan also leaves the casette tape beside Yutaka so when the police find him, he will be arrested with sufficient evidence. Afterwards, the police arrests him together with Negishi's impersonator.

Manga to anime changes

The manga version of the story sets up Conan being in school, as well as introducing his newly created Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes (which he tries while playing soccer while at the grade school soccer field). Additionally, this case takes place much, much earlier in the manga, being the fourth case in the series.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Masaki Negishi - Abraham Yancy
• Yutaka Abe - Mark Newman

Trivia

• The name of the culprit, "Yutaka Abe", comes from the name of one of Gosho's first assistants, Yutaka Abe.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart
2	事件解決（意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	蘭のテーマ （音コンテ）	Ran no Tēma (Oto Konte)	Ran's Theme (Sound Cue)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	事件現場２	Jiken Genba 2	Scene of the Case 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	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
7	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	サスペンス～危機感	Sasupensu ~ Kikikan	Suspense ~ Impending Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma	Detective Conan Main Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13	迷宮のラヴァーズ	Meikyū no Lovers	Lovers' Labyrinth	Meikyū no Lovers
14	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	جريمة أثناء حرق النقود	Crime During Burning Money
French	La Fête du feu	The Fire Festival
German	Feuer und Flamme	Fire and Flame
Italian	L'amico del cuore	The Heart's Friend
Galician	Asasinato na festa do lume
Spanish	Asesinato en la fiesta del fuego
Vietnamese	Kẻ sát nhân trong lễ hội lửa	Murderer in the Fire Festival

See also

• Season 2