The Scar that Evokes the Past
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| Episode 532-535 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}}) | |
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| Title: | 532: The Scar of First Love 533: The Scar that Evokes the Past 534: The New Scar and the Whistling Man 535: An Old Scar and the Detective's Spirit |
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| Japanese title: | 532: 初恋の傷跡 (Hatsukoi no Kizuato) 533: 過去を呼ぶ傷跡 (Kako o Yobu Kizuato) 534: 新たな傷跡と口笛の男 (Arata na Kizuato to Kuchibue no Otoko) 535: 古き傷跡と刑事の魂 (Furuki Kizuato to Keiji no Tamashii) |
| Original airdate: | May 2, 2009 (The Scar of First Love) May 9, 2009 (The Scar that Evokes the Past) May 16, 2009 (The New Scar and the Whistling Man) May 23, 2009 (An Old Scar and the Detective's Spirit) |
| Season: | 18 |
| Manga source: | Volume 64: Files 4-10 (667-673) |
| Cast: | Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Kiyonaga Matsumoto Ai Haibara Detective Boys Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Inspector Megure Detective Chiba Ninzaburo Shiratori Jinpei Matsuda Masayoshi Sato |
| Cases solved by: | Kogoro Mouri (via Conan) Conan Edogawa |
| Next Conan's Hint: | Sushi (The Scar of First Love) The letter Z (The Scar that Evokes the Past) Mouse (The New Scar and the Whistling Man) Nameplate (An Old Scar and the Detective's Spirit) |
| Director: | Koujin Ochi |
| Organizer: | 532: Seiki Taichuu 533: Seiki Taichuu 534: Takaomi Kanezaki 535: Takaomi Kanezaki |
| Storyboard: | 532: Seiki Taichuu 533: Seiki Taichuu 534: Takaomi Kanezaki 535: Takaomi Kanezaki |
| Episode director: | 532: Masahisa Koyata 533: Kouichirou Kuroda 534: Fumiharu Kamanaka 535: Minoru Tozawa |
| Animation director: | 532: Masakazu Yamazaki 532: Aki Kumata 533: Michitaka Yamamoto 533: Masashi Hasegawa 534: Nobuyuki Iwai 535: Rei Masunaga |
| Opening song: | Everlasting Luv |
| Closing song: | Doing all right |
Contents
Cast
Gadgets
Case
The Scar of First Love
Cast
Gadgets
Situation
A blind rich woman named Kurumi Shodo asks Kogoro to help her find a boy who saved her life in the past; the only clue is that the boy should have a large scar across his torso. She has been able to narrow it down to two people and they are both staying at her house. Conan meanwhile notices the police are stalking the woman's house. He confronts them and finds Kiyonaga Matsumoto who tells Conan that a serial killer from a past case may be there as the killer also has a scar across his chest. During a bath, Kogoro notices that the butler also happens to have a scar across his torso.
After going over the characteristics of the boy, Conan realizes who it is. During the midnight snack, Conan uses Kogoro to solve the case.
People
Resolution
The Scar and the Whistling Man
Cast
Situation
The next day, a criminal psychologist named Douji Hiramune challenges the serial killer to reveal himself, even daring him to come kill him if he wishes so. He happens to live in the same apartment complex as Ayumi where the Detective Boys are staying with. Haibara later reveals to Conan she saw a mysterious man whistling Let It Be which is the serial killer's trademark.
Conan finds Hiramune murdered with the letter "Z" slashed into his back and his throat slashed... exactly like all but one of the serial killer's victims.
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The police department arrive and are confused as the letter they were expecting was "N" as the previous victims had the letters "E", "S", "W" and were thought to be cardinal direction.
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They notice Hiramune's left hand was on his keyboard on the keys "Ctrl" and "C" and his right hand holding the wire of his mouse. Takagi and the Detective Boys decide to accompany him and his interrogation of the victim's relatives. Conan than realizes the victims share one thing in connection, Mahjong. It's confirmed that 20 years ago, all the victims save for Superintendent Morimura attended a popular Mahjong parlor.
Later, Takagi comes to the conclusion that a man named Dokurou Kibo is the serial killer. Aside of his past as an ex-con, Kibo had a very incriminating action und his belt: he once had a HUGE fight with the four victims in the parlor, which finished with him flipping their table (and damaging the tiles they were using) and loudly swearing to kill them. After talking with the manager, Takagi takes one of the old and damaged Mahjong tiles and keeps it in his pocket.
People
Resolution
Manga to anime changes
- Superintendent Matsumoto's flashback of the serial killer attacking is moved to the very beginning to the story arc, before the scar and ginger case even begins.
- In the manga, there is a scene where Conan fetches the two candidates for Lady Shodo's fortune and persuades them to come eat the sushi that Lady Shodo has laid out for them, by claiming that the boy of Lady Shodo's memories loved to eat sushi. This scene is cut in the anime.
- In the manga, one of the candidates for the fortune - Banba - justifies his pursuit of Lady Shodo's fortune by stating that as an adult, he has different circumstances to consider than he did as a child. This line is cut in the anime.
- The song that the serial killer whistles is explicitly identified as Paul McCartney's "Let it Be" in the manga; the anime changes the melody to an entirely different one and merely describes it as "a song that was popular twenty years ago", likely to avoid royalty issues.
- In the manga, Inspector Megure relays the additional information about the serial killer to Superintendent Matsumoto at the latter's desk (as the superintendent has just been jolted from the flashback mentioned above); in the anime, the two men have this exchange while looking into an interrogation room.
