The Santa Claus of Summer

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OVA The Santa Claus of Summer
Information
Title:	The Santa Claus of Summer
Japanese Title:	夏のサンタクロース (Natsu no Santa Kurōsu)
Original airdate:	March 17, 1999
Manga source:	Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories: The Santa Claus of Summer
Case
Cast:	Keisuke Hara Gray Asuka Anzai Kogoro Mouri
Staff
Director:	Osamu Nabeshima
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Osamu Nabeshima Kou Matsuzono
Technical Director:	Osamu Nabeshima
Animation Director:	Masatomo Sudo (chief) Yoshiharu Shimizu Masahiko Itojima Satoshi Ishino
Character Design:	Masahiko Itojima, Satoshi Ishino, and Yasuhiro Moriki (design works)
Voice cast: Wataru Takagi as Keisuke Hara Wakana Yamazaki as Asuka Anzai Akira Kamiya as Gray Takehiro Murozono as White Daiki Nakamura as Silver Kae Araki as Yoko Chafurin as Director Keiichi Nanba as Man Toshihiko Nakajima as Pilot Naoki Makishima as Combatant Yumi Hikita as Control Room Mitsuki Saiga as Computer Mikiko Enomoto as Female Student

Cast

Keisuke Hara
	17 years old Birth date: May 15th, 1982 High school student

Gray
	Responsible for the EC4 satellite system

Asuka Anzai
	Popular idol

Characters

Characters
Kogoro Mouri (cameo)

Plot

Keisuke Hara has just been dumped by his girlfriend who tells him not to call or page her anymore. Depressed, Keisuke goes for a ride on his motorcycle only to crash into two gentlemen, one of which is carrying a gun. During the collision Keisuke's telephone card and a man named Gray's card fall out onto the street. Gray accidentally grabs Keisuke's telephone card by mistake, thinking it's his own card, while Keisuke ends up grabbing the other card. Gray tells Keisuke to forget what he's seen and gives him an alcoholic drink as compensation. It isn't until later that Gray discovers Keisuke grabbed his card, which is the activation key for a weaponized satellite system.

Drunk, Keisuke ignores his ex-girlfriend's request to not page her and mistakenly uses the activation key as a telephone card. Inputting his message to the ex-girlfriend, he activates a countdown for the satellite, setting Earth as its target. Much to Gray's dismay, because Keisuke was drunk he doesn't remember the passcode number he input for the satellite. Gray now has less than 24 hours to get Keisuke to remember by any means necessary or the Earth is doomed.

Resolution

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Gray ends up catering to Keisuke's every whim, including allowing him to meet his favorite pop idol, Asuka Anzai. Asuka is relieved to get away from being an idol briefly and just enjoy life as a normal 17 year old girl. Keisuke and Asuka get to know each other better throughout the day and Keisuke ends up having the military deck Tokyo out like it's Christmas time. Asuka is happy and remarks that Keisuke is just like Santa Claus. Gray finally interrupts Keisuke's happy time and explains that the satellite is set to go off in 30 minutes. Thanks to talking with Asuka, Keisuke finally remembers what the passcode number he set for the satellite is and manages to stop it just as the timer reaches zero. Sometime after stopping the satellite, Keisuke receives a new telephone card from Asuka and calls her.

Trivia

Kogoro's cameo

• Kogoro Mouri makes a cameo appearance when Keisuke is in the telephone booth leaving a message for his ex-girlfriend.
• The song Asuka sings is "Kitto ieru", the main theme for the Gosho Aoyama Collection of Short Stories OVAs. In this episode, Wakana Yamazaki, Asuka's voice actress, sings the song instead of Yukari Tamura.
• Keisuke Hara has essentially the same character design for Kaito Kuroba, but with Wataru Takagi's voice.
• Asuka Anzai reappears only in a poster in The Locked Bathroom Murder Case and Which One's Deduction Show, and Keisuke Hara on a TV program in Kogoro-san is a Good Man.

See also

• OVAs