Search for Maria-chan!

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Episode 941-942 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Search for Maria-chan!
Japanese title:	マリアちゃんを探せ! (Maria-chan o Sagase!)
Original airdate:	June 1, 2019 (Part 1) June 8, 2019 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	7.2% (Part 1) 8.2% (Part 2)
Manga case:	#291
Season:	29
Manga source:	Volume 95: Files 3-5 (1006-1008)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys Maria Higashio Sumiko Kobayashi Rumi Wakasa Ran Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Shinichi Kudo Heiji Hattori Sonoko Suzuki Masumi Sera Subaru Okiya Kanenori Wakita Hyoue Kuroda Rei Furuya Kogoro Mouri Soshi Okita Azusa Enomoto Renya Karasuma Gin Vodka Vermouth Chianti Korn Nakamichi Eisuke Aizawa Okawa Ishizaki Tashiro Hidaka Yoko Okino Fumimaro Ayanokoji Iroha Sushi Chef Rum Shuichi Akai Akemi Miyano Professor
Case solved by:	Ai Haibara
Next Conan's Hint:	Book cover (Part 1) Drinking bird (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	941: Yasuyuki Honda 942: Masaharu Okuwaki
Storyboard:	941: Yasuyuki Honda 942: Masaharu Okuwaki
Episode director:	941: Akira Yoshimura 942: Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Masatomo Sudo and Seiji Muta (Supervisors) 941: Asuka Tsubuki 942: Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (Design works) Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi (voice actor) as Genta Kojima Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yuri Shiratori as Maria Higashio Yuko Kato as Sumiko Kobayashi Fumi Hirano as Rumi Wakasa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Hideyuki Tanaka as Yusaku Kudo Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Ryo Horikawa as Heiji Hattori Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Noriko Hidaka as Masumi Sera Ryotaro Okiayu as Subaru Okiya Shigeru Chiba as Kanenori Wakita Tohru Furuya as Rei Furuya Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Mikiko Enomoto as Azusa Enomoto Unknown as Rum Sakiko Tamagawa as Akemi Miyano Junichi Sugawara as Professor Marie Hatanaka as Kudo Freak Ikuto Kanemasa as Man A, Reporter C Kaito Takeda as Man B, Reporter D Yuko Takayama as Woman Takumi Watanabe as Reporter A Yuiko Tatsumi as Reporter B
Music
Opening song:	ANSWER
Closing song:	Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai

Search for Maria-chan! (マリアちゃんを探せ! ,Maria-chan o Sagase!) is the 941st and 942nd episode of the Detective Conan anime. This case marks an important revelation about the Black Organization, since the identity of their boss is finally reached.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Maria Higashio Sumiko Kobayashi Rumi Wakasa Ran Mouri Hiroshi Agasa Yusaku Kudo Yukiko Kudo Shinichi Kudo Heiji Hattori Sonoko Suzuki Masumi Sera Subaru Okiya Kanenori Wakita Hyoue Kuroda Rei Furuya Kogoro Mouri Soshi Okita Azusa Enomoto Renya Karasuma (shape/background) Gin (background) Vodka (background) Vermouth (background) Chianti (background) Korn (background) Nakamichi Eisuke Aizawa Okawa Ishizaki Tashiro Hidaka Professor Ran's friend Kazuha's friend Yoko Okino (poster) Fumimaro Ayanokoji (on TV) Keiko Kurachi (on TV) Mineto Mayama (on TV) Riki Agata (on TV) Woman (on TV) Iroha Sushi Chef Rum (voice) Shuichi Akai (background) Akemi Miyano (flashback)

Case

Situation

After the school trip, the case that occurred back at Kyoto attracts global attention, and someone claims that the apparently dead Shinichi Kudo helped to solve the case. Hyoue Kuroda, Kanenori Wakita, and Rumi Wakasa (who is revealed to have access to the APTX victim list) all take notice of this.

Part 1

Maria Higashio hasn't come to school today and Kobayashi sends Haibara and the Detective Boys to her home to see how she's doing and if everything's all right.

Missing person
	Location: Teitan Elementary School Victim: Maria Higashio Age: 7 years old Time: All day Maria Higashio hasn't come to school, which is quite weird, and her parents didn't notify Kobayashi about the reason of her not coming to school.

Meanwhile, Conan, bed-ridden with a cold, enjoys Ran's agreement to hook up. He goes to see Professor Agasa and reads in the news that someone saw Shinichi at Kyoto and on TV. He starts being very nervous and asks Haibara and Heiji about it, while Ran, Sonoko, and Masumi read it as well. The media overrun Heiji and Shinichi's high schools, and Shinichi's house, although Okiya denies them entry. The Detective Boys believe Maria went to her late paternal grandparents' house and took part in the scavenger hunt they organized for her. Haibara helps the Detective Boys to follow the arrows and understand the messages. As they followed the clues, they arrive in a room where a bookshelf was knocked over, and fear Maria might be stuck under it. But it's not the case and there is instead another code to decipher.

Part 2

The Detective Boys discover that Maria went downstairs and try to find the other arrows. Shinichi has still trouble finding who the "Kudo Family Freak" blog owner is and how to stop the media from blowing up. Ran tries to figure out what happened and why Shinichi is considered a ghost. Heiji tells Conan he'll try to settle things on his side. The Detective Boys finally arrive to a bathroom but the only arrow points to the shower with nothing inside it. They convince Haibara to ask for Conan's help, and the latter tells them to give some water to the drinking bird next to the arrow.

The Detective Boys give the drinking bird a glass of water and the bird starts to constantly dip its beak into it. They then notice the glass's water has reversed the arrow's direction, which now points towards the opposite direction of the bathroom. Another room which the kids fail to open. Wakita rings the doorbell at Professor Agasa's door and asks what the fuss in front of their neighbours' house is all about since he can't do his deliveries.

Conan tells the Detective Boys that the door isn't locked but the difference in temperatures between the cold corridor and the warm room where Maria is, creates a pressure gradient that can be dispelled by pushing the door strongly and opening a vent. Maria is indeed inside, asleep. She had come to watch some videos of her grandparents, but was then unable to open the door to leave the room, and concluded that she had to watch every video for the door to open.

As the room was accidentally airtight, Maria likely fell asleep due to heightened carbon dioxyde from her own breathing, which would have worsened if the Detective Boys hadn't found her in time.

People

Mr. Higashio
	Deceased (illness) Maria's grandfather Carpenter

Mrs. Higashio
	Deceased (illness) Maria's grandmother

Girl
	"Kudo Family Freak" blog owner Yusaku and Yukiko's fan

Resolution

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Carasuma

Heiji tells the press outside his school that it was Okita that was caught on film and not Shinichi. At the same time, the owner of the blog suddenly retracts her claim that she saw Shinichi.

As Wakita, Wakasa, and Kuroda look at the retraction, Rum sends an email to Bourbon, demanding that he gather information about Shinichi Kudo.

Yukiko and Yusaku have returned to Japan and reveal to Conan that they convinced the blog owner to retract her claim in exchange for their autographs. They decide to remain in the country for the foreseeable future, in light of Yusaku's interpretation of Koji Haneda's dying message, which leads them and Conan to believe that Renya Karasuma is connected to the Black Organization. Yusaku goes as far to declare that, in light of this revelation, Conan has made an enemy of the most powerful man in all of Japan, even though Karasuma should be long dead.

Trivia

• Just before this case, the special episode which introduced Renya Karasuma was remastered as a two-halves episode.
• The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun was before Haibara transferred in the manga, while in the anime version she didn't came here, so the Detective Boys' statement is wrong.
• Just like in The Darkest Nightmare, Rum was only given a computerized altered voice, and the ending credits do not list a voice actor. They did this intentionally so that no one could look up what other characters that voice actor might play.

See also

• Season 29