The Art of Ninja Alibi Craft

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Episode 320 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Art of Ninja Alibi Craft
Japanese title:	忍法アリバイ工作の術 (Ninpō Aribai Kōsaku no Jutsu)
Original airdate:	May 19, 2003
Broadcast rating:	13.40%
Filler case:	#106
Season:	12
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Kazunobu Chiba Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Answering machine
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Masato Sato
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Yasumi Mikamoto
Episode director:	Hideaki Oniwa
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Tetsuya Iwanaga as Yuichi Kusaka Yōsuke Akimoto as Ryutaro Tsukigata Masato Hirano as Masaru Saruhashi Mayumi Horikoshi as Teito Station Mother Passenger Megumi Kubota as Teito Station Child Passenger
Music
Opening song:	Kaze no Lalala
Closing song:	Ashita o Yume Mite

The Art of Ninja Alibi Craft (忍法アリバイ工作の術 ,Ninpō Aribai Kōsaku no Jutsu) is the 320th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Kazunobu Chiba Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Yuichi Kusaka, Kogoro's client, is found dead in the park.

Murder
	Location: Park Victim: Yuichi Kusaka Age: 26 years old Cause of death: Suffocation Suspects: Masaru Saruhashi

Kogoro and Conan interrogate Yuichi's sensei Ryutaro Tsukigata, a novelist known for his books about ninjas and learn that Yuichi called his sensei at 8:10 pm to tell him he arrived at the train station. Kogoro reveals the murderer should be Masaru Saruhashi and reveals that they were both competing to be Tsukigata's assistant. The police interrogate Saruhashi who has an alibi between the time of 8:00 and 9:00. Conan finds a key to the train's station locker. Realizing how the murder was done, Conan heads to the train station to confirm what the object in the locker was.

People

Yuichi Kusaka
	Victim (suffocated) 26 years old Tsukigata's assistant

Ryutaro Tsukigata
	63 years old Novelist

Masaru Saruhashi
	29 years old Tsukigata's assistant

Resolution

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Conan then sets up a meeting at Kogoro's office where the police and two suspects are gathered. After knocking Kogoro out with a tranquilizing and using his voice changing bow-tie to impersonate Kogoro, Conan reveals that Kusaka attempted to murder Masaru Saruhashi but was killed in self-defense. Conan reveals that Kusaka stored a bag containing his objects along with a tape recorder and phone timed to call Tsukigata at 8:10 to create an alibi; This is evidenced by a train ticket revealing the actual time Kusako was at the train station. After Kusaka's death, Saruhashi carries the body to the park and heads to a bar to create his alibi. The key #0101, Kusaka used to store the tape recorder used to create his alibi was left in Saruhashi's room and thus his guilt in self-defense was established.

Trivia

• This is the first time that Detective Chiba went to the Mouri Detective Agency.
• This is one of the first cases, if not the first case, where the alibi trick was created, not by the culprit, but by the victim.
• This is the second case of the culprit commits murder to save their own life, in short, self-defense, and the second case where they aimed to cover it up. The first case was The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases, however unlike in this case, it is not treated as a Self Defense plea.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	風のららら	Kaze no Lalala	The Wind's Lalala	Kaze no Lalala
2	暗号トリックの解読	Angō Torikku no Kaidoku	The Trick to Deciphering the Code	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
3	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	カギを探せ！	Kagi o Sagase!	Search for the Key!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
5	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
6	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
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	「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~
9	古城のテーマ	Kojō no Tēma	The Old Castle's Theme	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
10	尋問	Jinmon	Interrogation	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
11	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
15	殺意	Satsui	Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
16	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
17	ジンのテーマＣ	Jin no Tēma C	Gin's Theme C	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
18	逆探知	Gyakutanchi	Phone Trace	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
19	コナンのテーマ （バラード・ヴァージョン)	Konan no Tēma (Barādo・Vājon)	Conan's Theme (Ballad Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
20	明日を夢見て	Ashita o Yume Mite	Dreaming of Tomorrow	Ashita o Yume Mite
21	少年探偵団のテーマ	Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma	The Detective Boys' Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3

Gallery

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	حيلة النينجا	The Ninja Trick
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La coartada ninja	The ninja alibi
Catalan (Valencian dub)	La tècnica ninja de la coartada	The alibi ninja technique
Galician	A coartada da técnica ninja	The ninja technique alibi
German	Ninjakunst: Die Alibi-Erschaffungs-Technik	Art ninja: The alibi creation technique
Italian	Un alibi di ferro	A Perfect Alibi
Spanish (Castilian dub)	La técnica ninja de la coartada programada	The scheduled alibi ninja technique
Thai	วิชานินจาสร้างหลักฐานที่อยู่	The Art of Ninja Alibi
Vietnamese	Nghệ thuật chứng cứ ngoại phạm của Ninja	The Art of Ninja Alibi

See also

• Season 12