The City Crows

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Episode 363 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The City Crows
Japanese title:	都会のカラス (Tokai no Karasu)
Original airdate:	June 7, 2004
Broadcast rating:	11.5
Filler case:	#115
Season:	13
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Kazunobu Chiba Detective Terashima Officer Tome Unnamed Officer
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Lottery ticket
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Yuzo Aoki
Episode director:	Rokou Ogiwara
Animation director:	Akira Watanabe
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Kōichi Tōchika as Detective Terashima Takeharu Onishi as Resident Yoshiaki Takagi as Worker Keiko Yamamoto as Tatsue Egami Ginka Sakura as Housewife Miho Kashiwao as Housewife Misuzu Sasaki as Housewife Nozomu Sasaki as Noriko's lover Junko Iwao as Noriko Imai
Music
Opening song:	START
Closing song:	Nemuru Kimi no Yokogao ni Hohoemi o

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Kazunobu Chiba Detective Terashima Officer Tome Unnamed Officer (cameo)

Case

Situation

An old lady is found dead after a pot falls on her from the top of a building where she lived alone.

Accident?
	Location: Front of the apartment Victim: Tatsue Egami Cause of death: Blunt force trauma by a falling flower pot Suspects: Crows It seems that the crows accidentally made the potted plant fall from the top of the apartment and hit Egami's head. Could this be an accident?

Detective Chiba is sent to investigate, and Conan helps him to figure out who the culprit really is. The news, of course, comes as a shock to Ayumi, who just happens to look up to the culprit.

People

Tatsue Egami
	Victim (bludgeoned) "Grandma Crow" Room 404's apartment resident

Noriko Imai
	Pastry shop worker Room 504's apartment resident

Man #1
	Businessman Witness Apartment resident

Man #2
	Noriko's boyfriend

Man #3
	Garbage man

Man #4
	Garbage man

Woman #1
	Housewife

Woman #2
	Housewife

Woman #3
	Housewife

Resolution

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They then confronted Noriko Imai, where Conan says Egami was not killed by the flower pot on accident but it was only her who could that since she is the only one living above the victim. She fished Egami's flower pot up, then she dropped the fishing line down to the floor, circled the string behind the broken refrigerator and taped the lottery ticket to it. Finally, putting the lottery ticket on the front step, she waited for Tatsue to return. When Tatsue tried to pick up the lottery ticket, she pulled the line, that way, she can position her at exactly where she was needed. However, she couldn't aim for Tatsue's head, since the refrigerator was to big and it probably blocked her view of her. After dropping the pot, she pulled the lottery ticket back to complete the trick, where she then put the 500 yen coin there before hand to explain the strange position of Tatsue. To incriminate her, Conan saw strange marks under the refrigerator when the garbage-men collected it, along with a torn piece of the lottery ticket that ripped when she was pulling it back up. Imai confesses where she reveals that Tatsue Egami humiliated her in her own shop by bringing a letter that she picked up. This letter was actually the ripped break-up letter (divorce certificate) that her boyfriend wrote to her.

Ripped break-up (past)
	Location: Pastry shop Victim: Noriko Imai Culprit: Tatsue Egami The "Grandma Crow" is made the broken heart of Noriko's boyfriend from divorce certificate.

Tatsue Egami had found the letter which was ripped up and in pieces from the garbage can where she then proceeded to repair it in order to humiliate Noriko in her shop, while Noriko herself was trying to forget the sorrowful memory. With Ayumi's persuasion, she turns herself in.

Trivia

Lottery ticket number.

• This is the second anime original case about crows, which indirectly represents Renya Karasuma and his bleak henchmen, after The Disappearing Weapon Search Case.
• The lottery ticket is 363, as this episode.
• The pastry shop at Beika Station reappears in The Synchronicity Case and Running Away in a Game.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	START	START	START	START
2	哀のサスペンス～ジンのテーマＢ	Ai no Sasupensu ~ Jin no Tēma B	Ai's Suspense ~ Gin's Theme B	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
3	犯人現わる！	Hannin Arawaru!	The Culprit is Revealed!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
6	カギを探せ！	Kagi o Sagase!	Search for the Key!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
7	「何だこの痕跡は？」	"Nanda Kono Konseki wa?"	"What Is This a Trace Of?"	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
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	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	オセンチな歩美 （未収録ヴァージョン）	Osenchina Ayumi (Mi Shūroku Vājon)	Sentimental Ayumi (Unreleased Version)
13	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
14	驚愕の真実	Kyōgaku no Shinjitsu	Surprising Truth	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
15	漆黒の殺意	Shikkoku no Satsui	Jet Black Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
16	哀のテーマＢ （ピアノ・ヴァージョン）	Ai no Tēma B (Piano Vājon)	Ai's Theme B (Piano Version)	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
17	哀のテーマＣ	Ai no Tēma C	Ai's Theme C	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
18	眠る君の横顔に微笑みを	Nemuru Kimi no Yokogao ni Hohoemi o	The Feeling When I See Your Smile While Sleeping	Nemuru Kimi no Yokogao ni Hohoemi o

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	غربان المدينة	The City Crows
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Els corbs de la ciutat	The city crows
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Els corbs de la ciutat	The city crows
German	Großstadtkrähen	Crows from the big city
Italian	La nonna dei corvi	The Grandma Crow
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Los cuervos urbanos	The urban crows

See also

• Season 13