Hot, Bitter, Sweet Soup

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Episode 397 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Hot, Bitter, Sweet Soup
Japanese title:	辛く苦く甘い汁 (Karaku Nigaku Amai Shiru)
Original airdate:	May 9, 2005
Broadcast rating:	12.9%
Filler case:	#128
Season:	14
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Miwako Sato Detective Horita Tsujimura
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Flour
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Screenplay:	Takeo Ohno
Storyboard:	Nana Harada
Episode director:	Nana Harada
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Hiroshi Kawaguchi as Detective Horita Mari Okamoto as Etsuko Aikawa Daiki Nakamura as Ryota Shimizu Naoki Makishima as Inoue Eiji Yanagizawa as Officer Kinoshita Takuma Suzuki as Tsujimura Yoko Asada as Clerk
Music
Opening song:	Hoshi no Kagayaki yo
Closing song:	Wasurezaki

Hot, Bitter, Sweet Soup (辛く苦く甘い汁 ,Karaku Nigaku Amai Shiru) is the 397th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Tsujimura
	Doctor

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Miwako Sato Detective Horita

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

A woman, Fumie Ozawa, is found dead in her bathroom around 9 am, having appeared to have committed suicide by hanging her self with a thin wire, by her friend Etsuko Aikawa who claims it was murder.

Suicide?
	Location: Apartment 105 - Bathroom Victim: Fumie Ozawa Age: 24 years old Cause of death: Hanging Nearby Shower Suspects: Etsuko Aikawa and Ryota Shimizu

The medical examiner puts the time of death between 6 and 8 pm the previous night. Kogoro investigates the scene and sees that she schedules a dentist appointment for the same day of her "suicide". Conan finds a powdered substance, sneaks away with a sample, and when asking a store clerk of it, she says it is katakuri starch, a thickner with sugar properties. When looking in to Ozawa's company financials, the police find a 30 million yen deficit that they believed she embezzled and her superior/boyfriend, Ryota Shimizu, who was off the same day she died and received an e-mail from Ozawa at 5:45 pm yesterday, may have a connection. Aikawa claims she treated Fumie like a surrogate daughter all her life and would do nothing to harm her when the police question her as a suspect. Later, Aikawa's alibi is in question when a delivery man saw her earlier than she stated. She states that she found the body earlier than she did, but after she left money for Ozawa before finding her, and was going to notify the police afterwords.

People

Tsujimura
	Doctor

Etsuko Aikawa
	58 years old "Yuuzuki" Japanese-style confection shop owner

Officer Kinoshita
	Policeman

Fumie Ozawa
	Victim (hanged) 24 years old Consumer loan company office lady

Ryota Shimizu
	30 years old Consumer loan company chief executive

Inoue
	Ice maker master

Clerk
	Convenience store clerk

Resolution

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As the case is thought to be over, the authorities believing Aikawa to be the killer trying to frame Shimizu, Conan tranquilizes Kogoro as they are leaving then explains that Ryota Shimizu is the true culprit. Shimizu used ice which melted over the course of the day to slowly hang Fumie Ozawa, and that he used her cell phone on vibrate when he called it to send an e-mail to give him an alibi by shaking off a book self above to land on the mouse. His hair is also found on the wire used to kill her. He confesses, revealing that he did it because both of them had embezzled the 30 million yen, but Fumie took the blame for the two; Shimizu didn't want to see her remain in jail for the rest of her life for something the two of them had done.

Trivia

• This is the first case that came out after the creator, Gosho Aoyama married Conan's voice actress, Minami Takayama on May 5, 2005.
• Ran is currently taking part in a Karate Tournament. Although Strategy Above the Depths is non-canon, she did win the gold medal at the Kanto Martial Arts Competition in that movie. Although that movie came out on April 09, 2005, and the original airing of this also non-canon case was on May 9, 2005, it could still be the very same competition.
• The day of the dentist appointment, and today in the day in question is May 9, and the original airdate was May 9,2005.
• The calendar showed Mother's day as yesterday, and this case did indeed air the day after Mother's Day in 2005, which also means that this case aired on Monday.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	星のかがやきよ	Hoshi no Kagayaki yo	The Brilliance of the Stars	Hoshi no Kagayaki yo
2	事件解決 （意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	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	「何だこの痕跡は？」 （未収録ヴァージョン）	"Nanda Kono Konseki wa?" (Mi Shūroku Vājon)	"What Is This a Trace Of?" (Unreleased Version)
6	脅迫 （パート１）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 1)	Threat (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	「何だこの痕跡は？」 （未収録ヴァージョン）	"Nanda Kono Konseki wa?" (Mi Shūroku Vājon)	"What Is This a Trace Of?" (Unreleased Version)
10	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
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	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Need not to know.	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
13	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	赤い光のスナイパー１	Akai Hikari no Sunaipā 1	The Sniper's Red Light 1	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
16	コナン組曲－Captured In Her Eyes	Konan Kumikyoku - Captured in Her Eyes	Conan Suite - Captured in Her Eyes	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
17	それいけコナン （哀愁ヴァージョン）	Soreike Konan (Aishū Vājon)	Let's Go Conan (Sorrow Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
18	忘れ咲き	Wasurezaki	Forget-Me-Not	Wasurezaki
19	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	الطعوم المختلفة	The Different Baits
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Una de picant, una d'amargant i una de dolça	One spicy, one bitter and one sweet
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Un sabor coent, amargant i dolç	A spicy, bitter and sweet flavor
German	Die große Versuchung	The great temptation
Italian	Delitto nella doccia	Murder in the Bathroom
Thai	น้ำที่ทั้งเผ็ด ขม และหวาน	The water that Hot, Bitter, and Sweet
Vietnamese	Món súp mặn, đắng và ngọt

See also

• Season 14