The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case

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Episode 13 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case
Original airdate:	April 22, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 2: File 4~7 (Heavily altered)
English version
English title:	Mystery Mastermind
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	Calculator
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Yuuichi Higurashi
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Chafurin as Inspector Megure Masako Katsuki as Masami Hirota Hideaki Tezuka as Akira Hirota Kan Tokumaru as Mystery Man A Ryuzaburo Otomo as Mystery Man B Rin Mizuhara as Landlady Isshin Chiba as Cloak checker Takumi Yamazaki as TV Announcer Wataru Takagi as Next Conan's Hint announcer

Characters and Gadgets Introduced

Akemi Miyano (Alias: Masami Hirota)
	Mysterious client

Criminal Tracking Glasses
	Uses radar to locate his transmitters Tracks location of the Detective Boys' badges

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Dr. Agasa

Case

Situation

Missing Person / Murder
	Victim: Kenzou Hirota Suspects: Akira Hirota A woman named Masami Hirota shows up at Kogoro's Detective Agency and asks him to find her father, Kenzou Hirota. She was reunited with her father when they located him in a horse racing track. The next day, Kenzou was found dead and Masami missing. Meanwhile, another detective is tracking Kenzou down for his client, Akira Hirota.

People

Kenzou Hirota
	Victim (strangulation) Believed to be Masami's father and Akira's brother

Hirota's Landlady
	Apartment landlady

Detective
100px	Hired by Akira to find Kenzou

Akira Hirota
	Suspect

Okita
	Mastermind

Manga to Anime Change

In the manga version of the story Gin and Vodka are the masterminds of the case (rather than Okita), and they end up killing Masami Hirota/Akemi Miyano who informs Conan of the organization's existence. This would lead to Ai Haibara's appearance in the series.

To repair the storyline, Episode 128 The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case was written with a similar ending to the manga version.

See Also

• Season 1