Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery

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Episode 804-805 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery
Japanese title:	コナンと海老蔵 歌舞伎十八番ミステリー (Konan to Ebizō Kabuki Jūhachiban Misuterī?)
Original airdate:	January 9, 2016 (Part 1) * January 16, 2016 (Part 2) *
Broadcast rating:	9.1% 9.4%
Filler case:	253
Season:	25
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Ai Haibara Detective Boys Juzo Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Officer Tome Sodesaki Ginzo Nakamori Ryusuke Higo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Ebizo Ichikawa XI (Part 1) Jacket (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Storyboard:	Hajime Kamegaki
Episode director:	804 Hajime Kamegaki 805 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	804 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Kenichi Ōtomo, Chiemi Hironaka, Keiko Sasaki 805 Masatomo Sudo (supervisor), Seiji Muta (supervisor), Nobuyuki Iwai, Aiyuu Imoto (asst.)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Ebizo Ichikawa as Himself Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi and Genta Kojima Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Chafurin as Juzo Megure Kazuhiko Inoue as Ninzaburo Shiratori Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Shizuka Ito as Harumi Sakaguchi Katsumi Toriumi as Shota Kikuchi, Masa and Worker A Keiji Himeno as Receptionist A and Worker B Hidenari Ugaki as Construction Site Supervisor Yasuyuki Kase as Hitoshi Takahashi Takayuki Sugo as Yoshiyuki Yabusaki Ken Narita as Eiji Kaneko Tomo Sakurai as Yukari Shioji Yuji Ueda as Shinnosuke Iwami Mitsuaki Hoshino as Takuzo Minowa Eizo Tsuda as Takuya Hosoo
Music
Opening song:	Hane
Closing song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
* 1 Hour Special

Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery (コナンと海老蔵 歌舞伎十八番ミステリー ,Konan to Ebizō Kabuki Jūhachiban Misuterī) is the 804th and 805th episodes in honor of 20th anniversary of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ichikawa Ebizo XI Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Juzo Megure Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Officer Tome (cameo) Sodesaki Ginzo Nakamori (journal background) Ryusuke Higo (phone silhouette)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Turbo Engine Skateboard Detective Boys Badge Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie Wristwatch Flashlight Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt

Case

Situation

Part 1

One day, Conan, Mitsuhiko, and Genta were playing soccer while Ai and Ayumi were sitting at a bench, watching them run around. At one point, the ball hit Mitsuhiko in the face as he was trying to volley a pass from Conan and it flew towards the fences. As Conan went to pick up the ball, a car passed by, making its way down a hill. He and Ai noticed there were drops of brake fluid on the road and immediately realized that car was out of control. She tells him there is a railroad crossing up ahead and tosses his skateboard to him. As Conan skateboards down the hill to stop the car, she calls the police. At the crossing, Sonoko was in a pink Bentley Mulsanne using her phone when she heard that car honking. She turns around and sees Conan airborne with his skateboard, catching her by surprise. He manages to stop the car by wrapping his Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt around a railing and shooting a soccer ball, which inflated and redirected the car toward a pile of cardboard boxes at Tohto Paper Recycling Plant.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Tohto Paper Recycling Plant Victim: Takuya Hosoo Age: 47 years old Cause: Car Collision Suspects: Unknown Culprit Someone manipulated the brakes on his Black Mercedes Benz C300 Advantage W205 so that they would not work, causing the car to go out of control on its way downhill.

The police arrive at the plant and tell Takuya Hosoo, that car's driver, that someone messed with its brakes. Takuya tells them he knew that but he had no choice since he had to hurry; he even says he does not have time to take any questioning from them. Soon after, Kogoro and Ran arrive at the scene to scold Conan, not knowing that the kid saved Takuya, and Sonoko came soon after. They misunderstood Conan's intentions because Sonoko told them the kid caused the car to crash, since she saw the car crash right after Conan flew onto the road.

As Takuya was opening the trunk of his car to look at a briefcase, which he had to deliver to someone, he turned his head and recognized Sonoko as President Suzuki's daughter. It turns out they meet each other often during kabuki after-parties, since the president is a huge fan of kabuki. Conan and Ran bugged out when Sonoko told them she dined with the famous kabuki theater actor Ichikawa Ebizo XI a bunch of times. Takuya tells them Ebizo is a big fan of Kogoro.

Takuya, Kogoro, Ran, Sonoko, and Conan are on Hitoshi Takahashi's car, heading toward a kabuki theater Ebizo is currently at. On the way there, Takuya and Hitoshi discuss the incident from earlier. Hitoshi tells Takuya that he did not see anyone suspicious near the garage of Takuya's house last night. At the theater, they see Ebizo and some other people practicing "Nanatsu Men" of the Jūhachiban Kabuki. After some practice, everyone gathers around to see Ebizo open the briefcase Takuya gave to him; inside, there was a two-faced mask. As everyone gazes at it in awe, Conan notices something peculiar about it.

When the president was shocked about the two-faced mask is gone, it was found on Hitoshi's car, but the two-faced mask is gone, only the briefcase is there.

Theft
	Location: Kabuki Theater Missing items: Two-Faced Mask Suspects: Ebizo Ichikawa, Takuya Hosoo, Yoshiyuki Yabusaki, Hitoshi Takahashi, Shinnosuke Iwami, Eiji Kaneko, and Yukari Shioji While the president is searching for the two-faced mask on early morning, it is now gone.

While they are on Hoaji Hospital, Iwami almost commits suicide but Harumi Sakaguchi stops him.

Attempted Suicide
	Location: Hoaji Hospital Victim: Shinnosuke Iwami Age: 29 years old Cause: Free-fall He almost jumped by the hospital, but stopped by Ebizo.

Murder
	Location: Near the Kabuki Theater Victim: Hitoshi Takahashi Age: 40 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Ebizo Ichikawa, Takuya Hosoo, Yoshiyuki Yabusaki, Shinnosuke Iwami, Eiji Kaneko, and Yukari Shioji Hitoshi Takahashi was found strangulated in his white Toyota Vellfire (second generation).

Part 2

While Conan is talking to Kaneko, he was kidnapped. And they are wondering where's Conan.

Kidnapping and Attempted Murder
	Location: Basement of the abandoned building Victim: Conan Edogawa Crime: Left in the demolishing Suspects: Ebizo Ichikawa, Takuya Hosoo, Yoshiyuki Yabusaki, Shinnosuke Iwami, Eiji Kaneko, and Yukari Shioji Someone use a black fabric wrap and shocked Conan in the abandoned building while looking.

They found Conan in the basement.

Murder
	Location: Building Victim: Eiji Kaneko Age: 37 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Ebizo Ichikawa, Takuya Hosoo, Yoshiyuki Yabusaki, Shinnosuke Iwami, and Yukari Shioji He was killed in the abandoned building being demolished.

People

Takuya Hosoo
	47 years old HO Holdings president Shiro Suzuki's acquaintance

Hitoshi Takahashi
	Victim (strangled) 40 years old Hosoo's secretary

Yoshiyuki Yabusaki
	57 years old Kabuki Theater president

Shinnosuke Iwami
	29 years old Kabuki Theater playwright

Eiji Kaneko
	Victim (beaten) 37 years old Cameraman

Yukari Shioji
	32 years old HO Holdings accounting secretary Takahashi's girlfriend

Takuzo Minowa
	55 years old Kabuki Theater security guard

Harumi Sakaguchi
	Hoaji Hospital nurse Ebizo's big fan

Shota Kikuchi
	Hoaji Hospital doctor

Richard
	Hosoo's American client

Terashima
	Hoaji Hospital doctor

Man #1
	Construction site supervisor Ebizo's big fan

Masa
	Blue-collar worker Construction site worker Excavator driver

Receptionist A
	Kabuki center receptionist

Receptionist B
	Kabuki center receptionist

Construction Worker
	Blue-collar worker Demolition site employee

Construction Worker B
	Blue-collar worker Demolition site employee

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The culprit is Takuya Hosoo. His motive is:

• First, he killed his secretary and the two-faced mask he stole just to create an alibi, he broke it at the murder of his secretary.
• Second, he is acting to be Kaneko, who kidnapped Conan only to stop his investigation, also Hosoo killed him because Kaneko, who had threatening Hosoo for his abandoned building. In the kidnapping case of Conan, he was held at the basement being torn down.

What he did to complete the crime:

• First, he was the one who manipulated his brakes, not his secretary, just to make an alibi to himself. He was supposed to crash on a recycling plant, but ended in the paper station he was crashed. That way, he looks like being threaten by someone.
• Second, Takahashi and Shioji are the one who replace the mask, the real one is secured at Haneda Airport. Hosoo killed him just to get his life insurance policy on him.
• Third, he was wearing gloves, according to Officer Tome, if that was fiber they would find some leather on the gloves, but he used vinyl gloves to complete the crime, but failed, why? He said that it would be visible to see.
• Fourth, he asked him (the foreigner) to pay a million yen with the two-faced mask.
• Fifth, while he's doing the murder of Takahashi, a button was found in the engine, he was supposed to change his polo at the hotel, but was found by Shioji and Conan.
• Sixth, he knows the code given by the security guard.
• Seventh, he wasn't found in the cameras stealing the two-faced mask.

Regarding to Hosoo and Iwami, they are threaten by Kaneko, how?

Iwami:

• First, Kaneko found Iwami getting inside at the Kabuki museum, he threaten him, but Kaneko knows that he didn't get inside. He was found at the cam giving money to Kaneko.

Hosoo:

• Hosoo bought that chip for a higher price, he was going to threaten him once again.

Motive

Hosoo company was going under so he needed the money.

Quote

“	No company is worth taking human lives to save	„
— Ebizo Ichikawa XI

Trivia

The cup from movie 15.

• Along with The Scarlet School Trip, this is the first one hour and half special episode, transmitted in two parts.
• In Fugitive: Kogoro Mouri, there is a poster about Sukeroku, a Kabuki play, with Ichikawa Ebizo XI in his younger years. In the intro to the viewers, Conan and Ebizo wished them a Happy New Year themselves. Mitsuhiko remembers that in the same intro for next year Conan Cornered in the Darkness.
• In the second part, Sumiko Kobayashi has given to Inspector Shiratori the coffee mug with love symbols that Haibara and the Detective Boys have bought for her in Quarter of Silence.
• Detective Chiba's first name is revealed to be "Kazunobu".
• The sea sweatshirt wearing by Sonoko in the first episode is the same from The Missing Sweets in the Old Shop, Private Eye in the Distant Sea, and A Dispute Over a Platinum Ticket, and later in Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon, The Sun Sets in Tangerine Fields, and The Glamping Mystery.
• Sonoko's car is a pink Bentley Mulsanne. It reappears in the end of Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon, where its license plate number is revealed : 新宿 300, す 4 04 (Shinjuku 300, Su 4 04).
• Ebizo Ichikawa's car is a red Audi Q7 V12 TDI Typ 4L. The license plate number is 新宿 337, ほ 71-26 (Shinjuku 337, Ho 71-26).
• Takuya Hosoo's car is a black Mercedes Benz C class (W205). The license plate number is 新宿 332, め 41-41 (Shinjuku 332, Me 41-41).
• Hitoshi Takahashi's car is a 2015 white Toyota Vellfire [GH30W] (second generation). The license plate number is 新宿 334, た 11-04 (Shinjuku 334, Ta 11-04).
• The car in the Kabuki center next to Ebizo's is a blue Chrysler 300 [LX]. The license plate number is 新宿 330, ち• 7 82 (Shinjuku 330, Chi • 7 82).
• The car at the right in Hosoo's garage is a 2011 white Lexus LFA [LFA10].
• Sodesaki's bike is a Honda Super Cub 50 Pro.
• Harumi is seemingly shown to have feelings for Iwami.
• When Conan and Haibara examine Kaneko's camera chip, they are both surprised to see someone. Conan asks her if she has seen him before, and Haibara responds that she doesn't know him, but she'll look it up and Conan thanks her. Although unconfirmed, it could potentially have been a man in black that was blackmailed by Kaneko, and a future episode could explain it.
• Different companies holding shares in Hosoo Trading Corporation: Maika Clark Corporation (マイカクラーク商事 ,Maikakurāku shōji), TMS (ティエムエス ,Tiemuesu), Rodney S Company (ロドニーS カンパニー ,Rodonī Esu kanpanī), Nigel Construction (ナイジェル建設 ,Naijeru kensetsu), and Berunaku (べるなっく ,Beru nakku).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El misteri teatral d'en Conan i l'Ebizo	Conan and Ebizo's theatrical mystery
Thai	โคนันกับเอบิโซ ปริศนาคาบูกิหมายเลข 18 (ตอนพิเศษ 2 ชั่วโมง)	Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery

See also

• Season 25