Dracula's Villa Murder Case

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Episode 88-89 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Dracula's Villa Murder Case
Japanese title:	ドラキュラ荘殺人事件 (Dorakyura-sō Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 26, 1998 (Part 1) February 2, 1998 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	20.6% 20%
Filler case:	#35
Season:	4
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Vampire Villa
Dubbed episode:	Episode 91-92
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Doctor
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Projector (Part 1) Paint (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Hirohito Ochi
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	88 Kumiko Shishido 89 Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Jun Hazumi as Daisuke Torakura Koji Yusa as Toshiya Tadokoro Yorie Terauchi as Etsuko Torakura Yasuo Muramatsu as Fumio Doi Sho Hayami as Shuichi Hamura Yukiko Iwai as Female voice
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Dracula's Villa Murder Case (ドラキュラ荘殺人事件 ,Dorakyura-sō Satsujin Jiken) is the 88th and 89th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Doctor (flashback)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

A famous vampire writer who used to be a romance writer, and whom Kogoro reads, invites Kogoro to his estate, an old Western building called "Dracula's Manor", for discussion on his next vampire novel and to spy on his wife. However, when the writer ends up dead and snow prevents the cops from coming Kogoro is forced to re-evaluate the possibilities of vampires being real.

Murder
	Location: Torakura household study room Victim: Daisuke Torakura Age: 50 years old Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Toshiya Tadokoro, Etsuko Torakura, Fumio Doi, and Shuichi Hamura Daisuke Torakura, a Horror novelist, is found dead on the cross with a stake on His heart just like dracula. The crime scene is a similar to The last movie scene of Banquet of Fresh Blood as Shuichi Hamura said.

Part 2

With no footprints to reveal the killer, Conan must think of how the door was locked and then find enough evidence to solve the case or else a killer and his hidden secret will walk free with a vampire receiving the blame.

People

Toshiya Tadokoro
	26 years old Daisuke's student

Etsuko Torakura
	30 years old Daisuke's wife Painter

Fumio Doi
	48 years old Monthly Horror Times editor-in-chief

Shuichi Hamura
	33 years old North Kantou University folklore researcher

Daisuke Torakura
	Victim (stabbed) 50 years old Horror novelist

Kaori Tadokoro
	16 years old Toshiya's younger sister

Etsuko's Father
100px	Etsuko's Father

Nurse
100px	Nurse

Resolution

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Out of the suspects, three people had very good reasons to be angry at Torakura. One was his wife Etsuko, since their marriage was actually a forced one: he threatened her family with ruining their business, should the beautiful Etsuko refuse to be his trophy wife. The second was Hamura, who was Etsuko's lover and knew what Torakura had done to her. And the third was the actual culprit: Toshiya Tadokoro.

Tadakoro's little sister and only remaining relative, Kaori, was gravelly ill due to kidney failure, and Torakura had promised to pay for her medical bills in exchange for Tadokoro's work as his assistant and "ghost writer" (meaning, he was the one actually writing Torakura's books). Torakura, however, bribed the Tokyo doctor taking care of her to keep her merely stable instead of actually healing her; the longer her stay in the hospital was, it would be the better for him. This deal ultimately caused young Kaori's death, a year before the murders; Torakura kept lying to Tadokoro, making him believe Kaori was still alive but in an American hospital. The Tokyo nurse who took care of Kaori but couldn't save her life was so guilt-ridden that, one month before the event, she told Todakoro the truth, remarking on how Kaori had called out to him even in her last moments. And so, Tadokoro ultimately fell into despair and killed his mentor to punish him for what he had done to Kaori.

The crux of the crime involved how Tadokoro entered the victim's locked room. The snow on the roof was not disturbed but he could still traverse it without doing so by connecting a ladder from one roof to the other. The vampire reel Tadokoro left running was not only for pure horror but to allow him to shut the window he entered without leaving any fingerprints. One end of the film strip was tied to the door and would slam it shut once it ran out. He prepared a duplicate stake to be left in the mansion's cellar beforehand, remedying the impossibility of him retrieving a murder weapon from such a tight location. He could be the only one to kill the victim as he claimed to have heard the film reel running in the room, which is impossible as the door was soundproofed.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Toshiya Tadokoro - Jonathan Tradonio
• Etsuko Torakura - Daiselle Van Croven
• Fumio Doi - Foster Drake
• Shuichi Hamura - Shamus O'Halliwell
• Daisuke Torakura - Stefan Van Croven
• Kaori Tadokoro - Joella Tradonio

Trivia

• Dracula's Manor is the Japanese version of Villa Diodati.
• The doctor flashback is from The Wandering Artist Murder Case.
• This is the first case that has a victim on a cross.
• This is the first case that a victim was stabbed with a wooden stake through the heart.
• This is the second case, where a building is built on top of a cliff edge overlooking the ocean. The first was Holmes Freak Murder Case.
• When Ran was checking if all of the windows in the Collection Room was closed and locked, there was a wind sound near one of the windows, which is probably the one used for the trick, since it was not completely closed, although she thought that it was.
• This is the first episode that Conan is having Ran perform the trick that he (using Kogoro's voice) is explaining in much detail. He may have had her do the same in the Ski Lodge Murder Case, while he was speaking in Shinichi's voice, but the trick was already set up before the demonstration.
  • This time, she is performing the trick in front of others.
• Kogoro, Ran, and Conan visit a Dracula Mansion, and in the post-credit scene, they are heading to a Franken Manor, where the professor repeats some strange experiments. Conan has to mention that "If we had a werewolf, this would be complete."
• This case is one of the earlier signs that Ran does not like scary places:

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
3	爆破犯人のテーマ	Bakuha Hannin no Tēma	Bomber's Theme	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
4	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	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
8	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
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	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	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
9	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
10	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	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
12	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Vōkaru・Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Vocal ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
17	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
18	事件解決	Jiken Kaiketsu	Case Resolution	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	منزل الرعب	The House of Horror
Basque	Drakularen gazteluko hilketa
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'assassinat de vil·la Dràcula	Dracula villa murder
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat de la mansió de la Dràcula	Dracula mansion murder
French	Le Meurtre de la villa Dracula	Dracula villa murder case
Galician	Asasinato no castelo de Drácula	Murder in Dracula castle
German	Der Tanz der Vampire	The Dance of the Vampires
Italian	La villa di dracula	The Dracula Villa
Spanish (American dub)	El caso del homicidio en la Villa Drácula	Homicide in Dracula villa case
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El asesinato en el castillo de Drácula	Murder in Dracula castle
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมปราสาทแดร็คคูล่า	Dracula castle murder case
Vietnamese	Vụ án mạng ở lâu đài Dracula	Dracula's Villa Murder Case

See also

• Season 4