The Moonlight Sonata Murder

Chronology
‹ Troublesome Kindness	List of Episodes	TBD

Episode 1000-1001 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Moonlight Sonata Murder
Japanese title:	ピアノソナタ「月光」殺人事件 (Piano Sonata "Gekkō" Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 6, 2021 (Part 1) March 13, 2021 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	7.2% (Part 1)  ?.? (Part 2)
Manga case:	#18
Season:	29
Manga source:	Volume 7: Files 2-7 (062-067)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Narumi Asai Detective Horita Detective Sugita Detective Saitoh Detective Ida Detective Sogawa
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Tsukikage Island (Part 1) Piano (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	1000: Akira Yosimura 1001: Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo (Chief) 1000: Nobuyuki Iwai Keiko Sasaki 1001: Nobuyuki Iwai Akio Kawamura Kazunori Ozawa (effects)
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (design works) Rei Masunaga
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Miyuki Sawashiro as Narumi Asai Shinpachi Tsuji as Tatsuji Kuroiwa Tetsuo Sakaguchi as Hideo Kawashima Masashi Sugawara as Masato Shimizu Norihiro Inoue as Kazuaki Hirata Rika Fukami as Reiko Kuroiwa Shiro Saito as Ken Nishimoto Ryota Takeuchi as Shuichi Murasawa Riki Kagami as Manager Kozo Mito as Clerk Mugihito as Police Officer Katsumi Toriumi as Announcecement
Music
Opening song:	ZERO kara Hajimete
Closing song:	Reboot

The Moonlight Sonata Murder (ピアノソナタ「月光」殺人事件 ,Piano Sonata "Gekkō" Satsujin Jiken) is the 1000th and 1001st episode of the Detective Conan anime. It is a remake of Moonlight Sonata Murder Case.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Seiji Asoh Detective Horita Detective Sugita Detective Saitoh Detective Ida Detective Sogawa

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro recieved a strange letter from a man named Keiji Asoh, asking him to investigate something on Tsukikage Island. Kogoro, Conan, and Ran go to the island to only discover that Keiji Asoh had died 12 years ago.

Suicide? (Past)
	Location: Keiji Asoh's house on Tsukikage Island Victim: Keiji Asoh and his family Cause of death: Burning Keiji Asoh killed his family, set his house on fire, and played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as his house burnt around him.

They then meet Narumi Asai, who told them where to meet the mayor. At the community center, they discovered a room with a piano, where the former mayor was found dead two years ago.

Murder? (Past)
	Location: Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island Victim: Isamu Kameyama Cause of death: Heart attack Two years ago, Kazuaki Hirata heard the Moonlight Sonata playing from the community center and discovered the body of the mayor slumped over the piano. Although he died from heart attack, the similarity to the death of Keiji Asoh caused the islanders to think the piano has been cursed.

While the group are waiting outside, suddenly the first movement of Moonlight Sonata is played, and Hideo Kawashima was found dead in the piano room.

Murder

Location: Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island Victim: Hideo Kawashima Age: 56 years old Cause of death: Drowning Suspects: Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, Shuichi Murasawa, Reiko Kuroiwa, Ken Nishimoto, and Narumi Asai Hideo Kawashima's sodden body found slumped over the cursed community piano as the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata played in the background. Water marks show the body had been dragged to the piano through a back door in the piano room which leads to the sea.

Conan then realized that the murder will happened again, and they decide to sleep at the piano room, along with the policeman and Narumi Asai.

Megure arrived the next day and start intrograting the suspect. While intrograting Reiko, the second movement of Moonlight Sonata is played, and Tatsuji Kuriowa was found dead at the broadcasting room.

Murder

Location: Community center broadcasting room on Tsukikage Island Victim: Tatsuji Kuroiwa Age: 56 years old Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, Shuichi Murasawa, and Ken Nishimoto Tatsuji Kuroiwa was found stabbed in the broadcasting room. The body was discovered by Ken Nishimoto soon after the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata began playing over the sound system. At the dead man's feet is sheet music inscribed in blood.

Part 2

Conan realised that the music sheet left with the victims are codes. The old policeman then revealed that Keiji Asoh left some music sheets in his safe. While they are trying to unlock the community center storage room, Conan heard a sound coming from piano room. He then saw a suspicious person checking below the piano. Conan try to chase the person, but the person ran away. Conan tripped and found Shuichi Murasawa unconsious on the floor.

Attempted Murder
	Location: Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island Victim: Shuichi Murasawa Age: 27 years old Injury: Blunt Force Trauma Suspects: Kazuaki Hirata

Not long after that, Ken Nishimoto is found hanged in the storage room, along with music sheets.

Murder

Location: Community center storage room on Tsukikage Island Victim: Ken Nishimoto Age: 55 years old Cause of death: Hanging Suspects: Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, and Shuichi Murasawa Ran found Ken Nishimoto's hanged body in the storage room. At his feet was coded sheet music purporting to be his will. Although it wasn't playing, the third movement of Moonlight Sonata was recorded on the tape cassette nearby.

After looking at Keiji Asoh's music sheets, Conan realized who is the culprit.

People

Keiji Asoh
	Deceased (burned) World-renowned pianist

Narumi Asai
	26 years old Island doctor From Tokyo

Isamu Kameyama
	Deceased (heart attack) Former mayor

Tatsuji Kuroiwa
	Victim (stabbed) 56 years old Current mayor

Reiko Kuroiwa
	27 years old Tatsuji's only daughter

Kazuaki Hirata
	31 years old Mayor's private secretary

Shuichi Murasawa
	Victim (beaten - injured) 27 years old Reiko's fiancé

Hideo Kawashima
	Victim (drowned) 56 years old Wealthiest man in town Mayoral candidate

Masato Shimizu
	49 years old Mayoral candidate

Ken Nishimoto
	Victim (hanged) 55 years old Unemployed

Police Officer
	Tsukikage Island police officer

See also

• Season 29
• Moonlight Sonata Murder Case