Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case

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Episode 10 (Int. Episode 10)
Information
Title:	Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case
Japanese title:	プロサッカー選手脅迫事件 (Puro Sakkā Senshu Kyōhaku Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 11, 1996 October 9, 2010 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	13.7%
Remastered rating:	8.4%
Manga case:	#19
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 7: File 8 (068) ~ Volume 8: File 1 (071)
English version
English title:	Deadly Game
Dubbed episode:	Episode 10
English airdate:	June 8, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Detective Boys Hiroshi Agasa Shinichi Kudo Hideo Akagi Naoki Uemura Takeshi Onimaru
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo (via Conan on phone)
Next Conan's Hint:	Video game Hideo Akagi (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Toshiki Inoue
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Akiko Hiramatsu as Ryoko Kazuki Yao as Naoki Uemura Koji Tsujitani as Hideo Akagi Mari Maruta as Mamoru Akagi Takumi Yamazaki as Announcer
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case (プロサッカー選手脅迫事件 ,Puro Sakkā Senshu Kyōhaku Jiken) is the 10th episode of Detective Conan anime. In this episode, a student girl asks help to Kogoro to find a missing person. However, they find out that there's an kidnapping in the apartment and so Conan have to solve by using Agasa's new invention.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Hiroshi Agasa Shinichi Kudo Takeshi Onimaru (DVD)

Characters introduced

Hideo Akagi
	19 years old Tokyo Spirits soccer player

Naoki Uemura
	19 years old Tokyo Spirits soccer player

Ramus
	Big Osaka soccer player

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Gadgets introduced

Portable Bento Box Fax
	Phone-fax machine disguised as a bento box

Case

Situation

When Conan get to home, he find a student girl who looks hesitant in front of Mouri Detective Agency. He asks her to come inside the agency, seeing she want to take with Kogoro. The girl in question, named Ryoko Akagi, ask Kogoro to find a missing person.

Missing Person?
	Location: Unknown Person: Shinichi Kudo Suspects: Unknown

Conan knew that something was up because he didn't really know Ryoko. So after Professor Agasa called him about his new gadget. He pretend that it was Shinichi who called and say he will contact Ryoko later. Ran insists on going to Ryoko's home so she might catch Shinichi, forcing Conan to go alongside her as well.

When they're at Ryoko's apartment. Conan find several clues that lead him to believe Ryoko doesn't live here, and there's a kidnapping involved. Which is why Ryoko pretend to be Shinichi's girlfriend to get contact with him quickly. He decided to called Ryoko as Shinichi using Voice-Changing Bowtie and the Portable Bento Box Fax that Agasa gave him earlier to ask about the case. While trying to not get his real identity exposed to Ran. As she was furious about him 'supposedly' have a girlfriend without her knowing.

Kidnapping
	Location: Akagi's apartment Victim: Mamoru Akagi Suspects: Unknown According to Ryoko, when she came over to make breakfast, she found two letters, one left by the kidnapper, the other one suggested to be written by Mamoru, it reads: "Brother, resurrect me."

People

Ryoko Akagi
	16 years old Beika High School first-year student

Hideo Akagi
	19 years old Tokyo Spirits soccer player

Mamoru Akagi
	9 years old Hideo's younger brother Elementary school third-year student

Naoki Uemura
	19 years old Tokyo Spirits soccer player Hideo's best friend

Takeda
100px	Big Osaka soccer player

Resolution

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Evidence

• The letter written by Mamoru was worded very strangely. And there is a spot beside the text.
• Conan found a video game called Onimaru Quest inside the ransacked room. In the game there are four characters named Mamoru, Hideo, Ryoko, and Naoki
  • According to the Detective Boys, there is a point in Onimaru Quest where the main character dies and have to be resurrected to continue.

Conclusion

Conan deduced that 'Naoki' in the game likely named after Naoki Uemura, a soccer player who joined the Tokyo Spirits a year ago and a good friend of Hideo. Also known to like video games.

He then deduced that Mamoru was not kidnapped, but instead was with Naoki Uemura, which was made to look like it was a kidnapping. The letter that Mamoru left must have been a part of the whole letter saying that he was going to Naoki's apartment to have his main character resurrected.

Conan, Ran and Ryoko rushed to Naoki's place, and they found Mamoru there unharmed. After everything was cleared up, Ran tried to find Shinichi since she believe he's nearby, Conan end up having to pull a trick with Agasa's help to disguised himself as Shinichi for a moment.

Motive

Naoki envied Hideo because even though their skills were pretty much the same, Hideo was still more popular than he was. He came close to surpassing Hideo, but during one of their practices, Hideo accidentally injured his leg. Naoki thought that it was done on purpose so he wouldn't be able to play.

Naoki didn't plan to hurt Mamoru to begin with however. He would send Mamoru home after the soccer finals and then disappear afterward. When he hears that Hideo dedicate his goals of the night to him (without knowing that he was the one who 'kidnapped' Mamoru), however, Naoki realised that Hideo cherished him, and was brought to tears.

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga, the Detective Boys' conversation about the soccer match occurs while they are walking home from school, while the anime has them discussing it while sitting down on a park bench. Additionally, the scene in the manga ends on Conan reflecting how he'd be playing soccer on his high school fields if not for the men in black poisoning him, with a brief background appearance by Gin and Vodka.
• In the manga, Ran later found out about the ransacked room and had Conan clean up the room. This did not happen in the anime.
• In the manga, the story ends with a narrative exposition of Conan mentioning that it took three days before Ran accepted Ryoko's explanation of Shinichi's presence. The anime ended with the narration following the discussion in question back at the Detective Agency.

Trivia

• A remastered version of this case was aired on October 9, 2010.

Translation changes

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

• Ryoko - Riana
• Mamoru Akagi - Matthias Acres
• Naoki Uemura - Nicholas Underwood
• Hideo Akagi - Harrison Acres

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
00:00	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
01:45	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ (タイトルver.)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Taitoru ver.)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Title ver.)	Unreleased
01:52	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
03:12	毛利小五郎のテーマ （ファンキーver.）	Mōri Kogorō no Tēma (Fankii ver.)	Kogoro Mouri's Theme (Funky ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
05:10	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
07:22	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
08:50	犯人のアジト （いよいよver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Iyoiyo ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (More and More ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10:21	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
12:05	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13:50	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15:01	1996 Unreleased BGM 2
16:17	脅迫 （パート２）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)	Threat (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
17:40	対決のテーマ	Taiketsu no Tēma	Showdown Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
18:43	コナンの夢 （夕暮れver.）	Konan no Yume (Yūgure ver.)	Conan's Dream (Twilight ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
20:20	1996 Unreleased BGM 2
21:26	蘭のテーマ（涙ver.）	Ran no Tēma (Namida ver.)	Ran's Theme (Tearful ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
22:02	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP
23:41	それいけコナン （ミディアム・テンポver.）	Soreike Konan (Midiamu・Tenpo ver.)	Let's Go Conan (Medium Tempo ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	ابتزاز لاعب الكرة	Soccer Player's Blackmail
Bahasa Melayu	Kes Ugutan Pemain Bola Sepak	Football Player Blackmail Case
Basque	Xantaia futbol jokalariari
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas del xantatge a un futbolista	Soccer Player Blackmail Case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Xantatge en el futbol	Blackmail in Soccer
China	足球选手恐吓事件	Football Player Blackmail Case
French	Conan marque au but	Conan Scores to the Goal
Galician	Chantaxe a un futbolista	Soccer Player Blackmail
German	Fair Play	Fair Play
Italian	Il calciatore ricattato	The Blackmailed Player
Polish	Szantaż piłkarskiej gwiazdy	Blackmail of a Football Star
Portuguese	Chantage a um jogador de futebol	Soccer Player Blackmailed
Spanish (American dub)	El caso del chantaje al jugador de Fútbol Soccer	Football Soccer Player Blackmail Case
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El caso del chantaje al jugador de fútbol	Soccer Player Blackmail Case
Thai	คดีข่มขู่นักฟุตบอลอาชีพ	The Threatening Pro Soccer Player Case
Vietnamese	Vụ án thư nặc danh gửi cầu thủ bóng đá chuyên nghiệp	Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case

See also

• Season 1