Memories from Sakura Class

Ronsuke Efune
	39 years old; Childminder;

Girl
	Yusaku's Fan;

	Episode 853-854 ; (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
	Information
Title:	Memories from Sakura Class
Japanese title:	サクラ組の思い出; (Sakura-gumi no Omoide)
Original airdate:	March 18, 2017 (Ran GIRL) ; March 25, 2017 (Shinichi BOY)
Broadcast rating:	7.7% ; 6.8%
Manga case:	#266
Season:	26
Manga source:	Volume 87: Files 6-9 (921-924)
	Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa; Shinichi Kudo; Ran Mouri; Sonoko Suzuki; Masumi Sera; Yukiko Kudo; Yusaku Kudo; Eri Kisaki; Kogoro Mouri; Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Yusaku Kudo
Next Conan's Hint:	Nameplate (Ran GIRL); Colored paper (Shinichi BOY)
	Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Voice Cast:
	Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Shinichi Kudo (Young) ; Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Ran Mouri (Young) ; Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri ; Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki, Sonoko Suzuki (Young) ; Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera ; Gara Takashima as Eri Kisaki ; Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo ; Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo ; Koji Yusa as Ronsuke Efune ; Yuki Matsuoka as Mrs. Efune ; Suzuko Mimori as Girl ; Sayuri Yoshida as Teacher A and Teacher B ; Kikumi Umeda as Bully
	Music
Opening song:	Ikusen no Meikyuu de Ikusen no Nazo wo Toite
Closing song:	YESTERDAY LOVE

Chronology
‹ The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love	List of Episodes	The Mystery of the Vanished Black Belt ›

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Shinichi Kudo (flashback)

Ran Mouri

Sonoko Suzuki

Masumi Sera

Yukiko Kudo (flashback)

Yusaku Kudo (flashback)

Kogoro Mouri (flashback)

Eri Mouri (flashback)

Juzo Megure (flashback)

Case

Situation

Ran, Sonoko and Masumi follow Conan as he leads them to an alternate route. It seems Conan wanted Ran to see the Cherry Blossoms. A petal falls on Conan's nose. Ran picks it up and reminisces the first time she met Shinichi. She wonders if Shinichi knows that she hated him the first time she met him.

Ran GIRL

This part emphasises on Ran's perception of the story.

13 years ago, Eri is still married to Kogoro. It is Kogoro's first day at the headquarters and she is searching for Ran's Sakura Badge for pre-school. Kogoro accidentally steps on it and breaks it, so Eri makes Ran a temporary one using colored paper and cardboard.

Meanwhile, a man and a woman are heard talking over something. Their faces are not yet revealed. He says, "She isn't going to come back." Not bothered at all, the woman tells him to "reset everything" and that "there are no time constraints to starting over".

In another scene, Yusaku is in book-signing event where a fan admires his writing that says that she liked one of the last lines of the wandering woman detective in his story: "There are no time constraints to starting over." She hails from Hokkaido. Yukiko calls Yusaku to inform that Shinichi's pre-school badge is missing. Yusaku accidently brought everything that was on his desk, including the badge.

Ran's paper badge is admired by Sonoko in school, but some guys don't seem too happy about it. Sonoko and one of them get into a fight over Ran's badge, which is resolved by their teacher, Efune-sensei. Unfortunately, Ran's badge is all crumpled up but she says that she can make it again since she saw her mom make it.

While everyone is sleeping, Ran is struggling to make her badge out of paper again. This is when Shinichi approaches her. "It's a Cherry Blossom, right?", he says. Upon Ran asking why, he presents his deduction. By the time he finishes, everyone is listening and amused. But Ran doesn't seem too flattered by someone who called her a "crybaby". Sonoko admires him but Ran tries to refute his claim exclaiming that she wasn't crying. Yukiko arrives and scolds Shinichi for running away and losing his badge. Shinichi says that he was telling Ran to make a new one for him. Yukiko recognizes Ran as Eri's daughter. Ran asks for Shinichi name and writes it on the badge, telling him that he can keep it, but he has to promise that Ran is not a crybaby so he won't ever call her that.

Back to the present, Ran says that she couldn't digest the fact that Shinichi being just a kid himself like everyone was acting all like an adult. She was actually crying because the badge her mom made for her was ruined. At that time, she couldn't understand the real reason why Shinichi asked her to make a badge for him.

Another day in the school, Shinichi catches Efune-sensei staring at Ran while singing. Sonoko claims that Efune-sensei can do that since he's the teacher and very popular, so much that many kids want to marry him when they grow up. Upon asking if she likes Efune-sensei, Ran shies away from Shinichi shouting why would she tell him that.

Later that day, Shinichi confronts Efune-sensei regarding some inconsistencies he found in his behavior towards Ran. He presents his questions: Why would he hold her hand when they cross the street? Why would he let her slide first in the park? Why would the location of the park be changed to a distant one without any reason? Why does Ran only have a designated spot for sleeping? He concludes that Efune-sensei is trying to win her over and do bad things to her. Efune-sensei states his reasons: He holds her hand because one time she lost the way and ended up on the other side of town in Haido City. He lets her slide first because she always ends up letting everybody go first and doesn't get to slide herself sometimes. And she sleeps where she does because it is nearest to the bathroom as one time she was sleeping so far away that she didn't make it. He says that he'll state his reasons for switching the park the next day.

The next day, Ran seems sad. When asked why, she tells Sonoko that she got scolded by her mom for bullying her classmates while in reality the case is the complete opposite. On reaching the park, Shinichi asks for the reason Efune brings them to a distant park. Efune points to his wife peeking through the hospital window and says that she loves children. They are actually moving to another hospital in the mountains where the air is better but there are only elderly people on that area. So he thought that he'd let her see the children for one last time, and admits that he was selfish to do that. Ran tells him that it's okay and that they should all wave to her. When the guy who bullied her before says that why should they listen to an outsider wearing a weird badge, Shinichi tells him that he is wearing the same badge as hers. The bully says that then he's an outsider too. In retaliation, Shinichi headbutts him and exclaims: "If there's two of us, then we're friends. And if we're friends, then we're not outsiders." Ran realizes that Shinchi must have seen her being bullied by the guys earlier, so he intentionally told her to make him a badge too. Regaining her lost enthusiasm, Ran holds Shinichi's hand high cheering, "Wave at the teacher's wife, Shinichi!" Shinichi objects to her calling him without honorifics, but Ran tells him that he can call her by her name too. Ran's viewpoint of the story ends with Shinichi saying: "On the back of cherry blossom petals, I made a new childhood friend."

Shinichi BOY

Ran says that Shinichi actually pretended to solve her 'Sakura badge' case, when he had seen her being bullied and thus knew everything from the beginning. Conan's perspective of the story is explored in this episode. Back then, all he saw through the glass was a girl who was upset because she had something taken from her and the word 'outsider'. "It was the first time I had made a heart-pounding deduction.", he speaks to himself and continues to narrate his side of the story.

The story goes back to the scene when everything started. Yukiko is searching for Shinichi's badge and calls Yusaku to enquire about it. Meanwhile, Shinichi is lost in a mystery book. He reads, "If one simply knocks out all the central inferences, and presents one's audience with the starting-point and conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect." Shinichi seems typically embarrassed about wearing glasses when his mother tells him that he will end up wearing them if he reads in the dark.

They leave to Yusaku's book-signing event where Yusaku hands-over the badge and Shinichi clips it to his shirt. Shinichi and his mother arrive next at Beika Pre-school. Efune is carrying out the formalities for Shinichi joining pre-school. Wandering in search of the library, Shinichi ends up opening the doors to the room Ran and others are sleeping in. His first reaction is to be shocked at the sight of so many children lying in rows, which he mistook for a morgue from a scene he saw in a movie. He walks by the sleeping children and finds Ran crying. He sees her uniform missing a badge. He looks at the folds she is making from a distance and accurately deduces it to be a Cherry Blossom Petal from when he saw his dad making stars for decorating the Christmas Tree. He's embarrassed to ask her if he's right. When he tries to speak, he sees a badge made of paper. "What was taken from her wasn't a plastic badge.", he realises. He removes his own badge and asks her, "Make me one, too."