Once-A-Month Present Threat Case

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Information
Title:	Once-A-Month Present Threat Case
Japanese title:	月いちプレゼント脅迫事件 (Tsukiichi Purezento Kyouhaku Jiken)
Original airdate:	February 19, 1996
Broadcast rating:	12.7%
Manga case:	#8
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 3: Files 7-10 (026-029)
English version
English title:	The Case of the Mysterious Gifts
Dubbed episode:	Episode 7
English airdate:	June 2, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo Gin Vodka Hitomi Reiko Yuko Ikezawa
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Bar code
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 Mrs. Ogawa
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Shinichi Kudo Gin (background) Vodka (background) Hitomi (flashback) Reiko (flashback) Yuko Ikezawa (flashback) Jumbo (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

Once a month for the past two years surgeon Masayuki Ogawa has been receiving anonymous toys and money valued over 25 million yen. He asks for Kogoro's help to determine who is sending the gifts. On Conan's suggestion, they review Masayuki's patient history. During the investigation Ran begins to suspect that Conan is actually Shinichi. When Conan plays a video game Masayuki received, Conan discovers that it belonged to a child named Tomoya Ogino who died during one of John's operations three years previously.

Sending Presents
	Location: Beika City Person: Masayuki Ogawa Suspects: Unknown sender For two years, Dr. Ogawa has been receiving toys and money once a month from an unknown sender. When he received a large sum of ¥25,000,000, he decides to contact Kogoro Mouri. Meanwhile, Ran is getting way suspicious about Conan's true identity. Ran may have just figured out that Conan is Shinichi.

People

Masayuki Ogawa
	Surgeon

Yuta Ogawa
	5 years old Masayuki's son

Tomoya Ogino
	Deceased (appendicitis) 5 years old Tanaka's son

Tanaka Ogino
100px	Unknown

Mr. Kishida
	Ran and Shinichi's teacher

Resolution

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The patient, Tomoya Ogino died from appendicitis in three years ago. All the properties that were send to Ogawa were Tomoya's. Birth date: January 20th, 1988.

File:Ogino.jpg

The culprit's face revealed, Ogino, the father of Tomoya Ogino.

• 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, Yuta. He rummaged through patient records and found that Tomoya Ogino, 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 Tomoya Ogino. The toys belonged to Tomoya and was send as a memento of the boy. The money was from the life insurance.

Sensing that Yuta 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 planned to end Yuta's life on the same day and at the same age that Tomoya died. The father lured Dr. Ogawa and Yuta 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, Yuta wouldn't have been saved from an ill fate. Mr. Okino, facing Yuta's gratitude for the toys and is reminded of his son, breaks down and finally admits to himself that Tomoya's death wasn't the doctor's fault. However, Dr. Ogawa decided to forgive the culprit, citing that, as a father, he understood how devastating it was to lose a son.

As for Ran, she stopped her suspicion that Conan was Shinichi. He had asked Professor Agasa to call Ran as him using the Voice-Changing Bowtie.

• 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 changes

• 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. The anime version starts with Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta asking about Shinichi and whether he is Ran's boyfriend.
  • Additionally, Ran's recollection of the past cases included a flashback to "Luxury Liner Serial Murder Case" in the manga only.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Masayuki Ogawa - John Woodman
• Mr. Ogino - Mr. Oswald
• Tomoya Ogino - Tommy Oswald
• Yuta Ogawa - Joseph Woodman

Continuity

• This is the first case Ran gets suspicious of Conan. The second case this happens is in The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
2	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	小さな巨人	Chiisana Kyojin	A Small Great Person	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	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
5	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
6	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
7	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
8	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
9	犯人現わる！	Hannin Arawaru!	The Culprit is Revealed!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	事件発生！	Jiken Hassei!	A Case Springs Forth!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	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
14	「名探偵コナン」メイン・テーマ（バラードバージョン）	"Meitantei Konan" Mein・Tēma (Barādo ver.)	"Detective Conan" Main Theme (Ballad ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
15	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP
16	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
17	毛利小五郎のテーマ （ファンキーver.）	Mōri Kogorō no Tēma (Fankii ver.)	Kogoro Mouri's Theme (Funky ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	هدايا للانتقام	Gifts for Revenge
Basque	Opari! Mehatxua hilero
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'amenaça del regal mensual	The Once-A-Month Present's Threat
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El misteri dels regals mensuals	The Once-A-Month Present's Mistery
France	Le Mystérieux expéditeur	The Mysterious Sender
Galician	A ameaza mensual dos agasallos	The Once-A-Month Present's Threat
German	Späte Rache	Late Revenge
Italian	Un regalo al mese	A Gift a Month
Portuguese	A ameaça do presente mensal	The Once-A-Month Present's Threat
Spanish (Castilian dub)	La amenaza del regalo mensual	The Once-A-Month Present's Threat
Spanish (American dub)	Un obsequio amenazante	A threatening gift
Thai	คดีของขวัญอันตราย	The Dangerous Present Case
Vietnamese	Món quà hăm dọa	The Threat Present

See also

• Season 1