The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case

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Episode 119 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case
Japanese title:	仮面ヤイバー殺人事件 (Kamen Yaibaa Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	October 12, 1998
Season:	5
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	The Masked Yaiba Murder Mystery
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan) Detective Boys Officer Tome
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Kenji Kodama
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Izumi Shimura
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette mawashite
Closing song:	Koori no ue ni tatsu you ni

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Officer Tome

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

While on the way to dinner Conan and company come across a bunch of people dressed as Kamen Yaiba fans. They are invited to the party where an attempted murder and suicide appears to occur, but Conan begins to wonder if there is more than meets the eye to this.

Attempted Murder
	Victim: Osamu Honda Suspects: Katsuji Mishima

Suicide?
	Victim: Katsuji Mishima

People

Yasuyuki Tsutsumi
	21 years old Shonan University Law Department

Madoka Saotome
	21 years old University of Shiraba Linguistic Literature Department

Osamu Honda
	21 years old Shonan University Engineering Department

Katsuji Mishima
	Victim (gunshot) 21 years old Tokyo University Physical Education Department

Resolution

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The killer was Osamu Honda. Some time ago Mishima, who was a Kamen Yaiba fan to the point of mental illness, had stolen Honda's little brother's extremely rare Kamen Yaiba poster while he was riding his motorcycle; the poor boy ran after Mishima's moto and was hit by a truck, dying two days later. In his last words, the younger Honda begged his brother to "capture that Kamen Yaiba".

Honda joined many fan clubs to find who had caused his brother's death. A year and a half after the accident, he found his brother's poster in Mishima's apartment; Mishima himself lied and said it was a gift from his own brother, though Honda knew that Mishima had no siblings. Honda then engineered the meeting of Kamen Yaiba fans to trick the mentally-inbalanced Mishima into first shooting him, then committing suicide under the belief that it was all an act.

See also

• Season 5