Mountain Witch's Cutlery

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Episode 481-482 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Mountain Witch's Cutlery
Japanese title:	山姥の刃物 (Yamanba no Hamono)
Original airdate:	July 30, 2007 (Part 1) August 6, 2007 (Part 2)
Season:	16
Manga source:	Volume 56: Files 4-6 (579-581)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Professor Agasa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Misao Yamamura Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Professor Agasa (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Goldfish tank (Part 1) Last train (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Organizer:	Takeshi Ashizawa
Storyboard:	Takeshi Ashizawa
Episode director:	481 Jun Takahashi, Yusuke Takane (asst.) 482 Yasuo Ejima
Animation director:	481 Minoru Yamazawa 482 Tomoyuki Kanno
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Toshio Furukawa as Misao Yamamura Naomi Kusumi as Boss Masahito Kawanago as Policeman Shūhei Sakaguchi as Policeman Hisako Kyōda as Iwae Tanaka Kazuki Yao as Fuuga Kahara Satomi Arai as Akane Ooba Norihiro Inoue as Raito Adachi
Music
Opening song:	Namida no Yesterday
Closing song:	I still believe ~Tameiki~

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Professor Agasa Ai Haibara Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Misao Yamamura Ran Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Agasa takes the Detective Boys camping, they end up being stranded in the middle of the woods. They decide to ask for lodgings from a house owned by an elderly woman named Iwae Tanaka. At the same time, Akane Ooba and her two hosts, Raito Adachi and Fuuga Kahara, also request for lodging and Tanaka complies. That night, Mitsuhiko goes to the restroom but see's something horrifying causing him to run back to his room. Soon after they hear a woman scream and Ooba is later found with her throat slit open outside the house with Raito by her side.

Murder
	Location: Iwae Tanaka's house Victim: Akane Ooba Cause of death: Slit wound on the throat Suspects: Iwae Tanaka, Raito Adachi, and Fuuga Kahara

The police arrive and investigate all the bladed weapons in the house. Mitsuhiko then exclaims that while heading back from the restroom, the knife he saw Tanaka sharpening is missing.

Part 2

Tanaka dismisses Mitsuhiko's accusation as his imagination and the police continue their investigation. Agasa notes that his hammer is missing and Conan discovers an officer found the hammer in the woods. Conan later finds the rumored knife with the red handle and shows it to the police. None of the weapons reacted to luminol and leaves the officers stumped.

People

Iwae Tanaka
	74 years old Owner of the house

Akane Ooba
	Victim (throat slit) 25 years old Raito and Fuuga's customer

Raito Adachi
	29 years old Host

Fuuga Kahara
	28 years old Host

Shouta Tanaka
	Iwae Tanaka's grandchild Chef?

Resolution

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As Conan investigates he realizes who the murderer is. Disguising his voice as Agasa, Conan first reveals Kahara is a fake name and that he is actually Tanaka's grandson in disguise, Shouta Tanaka. Since Kahara lived in the house before, he would have used the knife in the shed and is thus, eliminated as a suspect leaving Raito Adachi as the culprit. As evidence, Conan reveals Adachi had his shoes on when he was by Ooba's body while everyone ran bare feet to investigate the screaming. As for the weapon, Conan reveals Adachi used the hammer to break apart an obsidian rock found in the fish tank for the murder; he then concludes the weapon used for the murder should be in the tank. Adachi professes to the murder revealing Ooba tricked his parents into furthering their debt and murdered her in vengeance. Tanaka gives her grandson the knife and her grandson promises to start visiting her again. A month later, Conan spots Shouta working as a chef with the knife his grandmother gave him.

See also

• Season 16