Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy

Chronology
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Episode 993-995 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy
Japanese title:	代役・京極真 (Daiyaku Kyōgoku Makoto)
Original airdate:	January 9, 2021 (Part 1) January 16, 2021 (Part 2) January 23, 2021 (Part 3)
Broadcast rating:	8.7% (Part 1)  ?.?% (Part 2)  ?.?% (Part 3)
Manga case:	#295
Season:	29
Manga source:	Volume 96: Files 8-11 (1022-1025) ~ Volume 97: Files 1 (1026)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Masumi Sera Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Detective Boys Shinichi Kudo Mary Sera Atsushi Miyano Elena Miyano Renya Karasuma Yukiko Kudo Kamen Yaiba Gomera Tomomi Sakaguchi
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Stunt (Part 1) Medicine (Part 2) Straw (Part 3)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Jiro Kanai
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto (New Year Greeting) Jiro Kanai (Episodes)
Episode director:	New Year Greeting: Yasuichiro Yamamoto 993: Minoru Tozawa 994: Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	New Year Greeting: Masatomo Sudo Seiji Muta and Nobuyuki Iwai (supervisors) 993: Keiko Sasaki 994: Asuka Tsubuki, Kanako Ono (asst.), Miwa Oshima (asst.), Yui Ushinohama (asst.), Marie Nagano (asst.), Masakazu Yamazaki (asst.), and Ayu Imoto (asst.)
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (design works) Kyoko Yoshimi
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Nobuyuki Hiyama as Makoto Kyogoku Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima, Kamen Yaiba Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Binbin Takaoka as Shigematsu Tomioka Kazuya Ichijo as Daisaku Odori Daichi Endou as Saiya Tokuzono Akeno Watanabe as Nanako Jinmei Tomoe Hanba as Hidoka Aburai Tomohiro Nishimura as Youta Maegi Jun Inoue as Nishibe Naomi Sano as Hostage lady Hirosato Amano as Forensics officer
Music
Opening song:	JUST BELIEVE YOU
Closing song:	Reboot

Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy (代役・京極真 ,Daiyaku Kyōgoku Makoto) is the 993rd, 994th, and 995th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Masumi Sera Sonoko Suzuki Makoto Kyogoku Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Ai Haibara Hiroshi Agasa Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Shinichi Kudo (background/flashback) Mary Sera (flashback) Atsushi Miyano (background) Elena Miyano (background) Renya Karasuma (shape/background) Yukiko Kudo (background) Kamen Yaiba Gomera (book) Tomomi Sakaguchi (book)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie Voice-Changing Face Mask (flashback)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Ran, Sonoko, Sera and Makoto are walking on the streets after watching a movie, when they find a man taking a woman hostage. Fortunatelly, Makoto knocks down the criminal to later see Shigematsu Tomioka telling that all of the scene was a performance and why he interrupted the shooting of the scene. Since the actor was unconscious, Makoto is choosen as the understudy of the film. They later find two actors, a production assistand and a makeup artist. The actor Saiya Tokuzono is so annoying because he made a joke giving an electric pen to the actress Nanako Jinmei to sign an autograph. When Makoto and Tokuzono go to an abandoned building, the staff prepares to film some scenes. When the director asks for Tokuzono, the actor screams and falls from a window, and Makoto is the main suspect because he was in the same floor when the murder took place.

Murder

Location: Abandoned building Victim: Saiya Tokuzono Age: 34 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma by falling Suspects: Makoto Kyogoku, Shigematsu Tomioka, Daisaku Odori, Nanako Jinmei, Hideka Aburai and Yota Hoegi When Conan, the girls and the staff were in the yard of the building, they see the actor Tokuzono falling from the window, to later see Makoto checking from the same window where the actor fell.

The police investigate the scene and adds also the staff as suspects, the assistant director find something in the room of the murder. At the end of this part, the assistant director Daisaku Odori seems to solve the murder and starts to blackmail the culprit.

Part 2

Conan discover some clues but he didn't discover the culprit yet. He later knows something of the deceased production assistant called Nishibe, who was also Hideka's boyfriend. When all the staff were drinking some drinks that were buyed by Yota and Takagi, the assistant director Daisaku Odori fells poisoned onto the floor.

Murder
	Location: Drama set Victim: Daisaku Odori Age: 48 years old Cause of death: Cyanide poison Suspects: Shigematsu Tomioka, Nanako Jinmei, Hideka Aburai and Yota Hoegi When all the staff were drinking some drinks buyed by Yota and Takagi, the assistant director falls death onto the floor while checking his phone, he was poisoned with cyanide.

Conan now has two cases to solve. When Conan was motivated to solve the case. Later, Sera after doing a tricky question to Conan, almost knows the true identity of him, Shinichi Kudo.

Part 3

Haibara tells Agasa that thirty years ago, her father worked in a R&D company and were forced to create the APTX-4869. Finally, after investigate too much, Conan solve the case using Sonoko's voice.

People

Shigematsu Tomioka
	50 years old Movie director

Daisaku Odori
	Victim (poison) 48 years old Assistant director

Saiya Tokuzono
	Victim (fell) 34 years old Actor

Nanako Jinmei
	29 years old Actress

Hideka Aburai
	26 years old Make-up artist

Youta Hoegi
	26 years old Production assistant

Nishibe
	Deceased (car accident) Production assistant Hideka's boyfriend

Resolution

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The culprit is Hideka Aburai. Her motives are:

• When Nishibe was pranked by Tokuzono, he remembered how he caused Nanako to have an accident, at the other day, he dies in a car crash.
• Odori discovered that she was the murderer of Tokuzono because she was looking up to the window, so he started to blackmail her.

After she was discovered, she tried to commit suicide, but is saved by Makoto and Ran.

Attempted Suicide
	Location: Abandoned building yard (also drama set) Victim: Hideka Aburai Age: 26 years old Cause: Car crash She tried to commite suicide by crashing the staff van with her inside, but is stopped and saved by Makoto and Ran.

Manga to anime changes

• Hideka Aburai's hair in the manga is black, but is changed to brown in the anime.
• Daisaku Odori's hair in the manga is black, but is changed to grey in the anime.
• A flashback from The Desperate Revival is added in the anime, when Ran talked about the time when both Shinichi and Conan were together.

Trivia

• The police car from The High School Girl Trio's Secret Café reappeared.
• The restaurant fanchised Welcome Burger, named after McDonalds', which appeared in Clash of Red and Black, reappears in this case.
• The movie in the beginning shows the Azengers, a group of heroes that are actually inspired by Marvel Comics' Avengers. The movie shows Kamen Yaiba joining the group.
• The film production staff's van is a white Toyota HiAce. The license plate number is 新宿 330, ふ 59-65 (Shinjuku 330, Fu 59-65).
• The car that rammed Jinmei in the past is a white hardtop Mercedes CLK320. The license plate number is 新宿 320, ま 23-06 (Shinjuku 320, Ma 23-06).
• Daisaku Odori wears Nike sneakers.
• The ambulance that carried Odori's corpse is a Toyota HiMedic. The license plate number is 新宿 800, ひ 47-62 (Shinjuku 800, Hi 47-62).

See also

• Season 29