The Scarlet School Trip

Template:InfoBox TV 2 The Scarlet School Trip (紅の修学旅行 ,Kurenai no Shūgakuryokō) is the 927th and the 928th episode of the Detective Conan anime. They are composed of two 45 minutes special episodes and have been co-produced with Gosho Aoyama's supervision. It introduces the first canonical performance of Fumimaro Ayanokoji and his pet chipmunk, and is set in Kyoto, where the animation team went to recreate the most realistically possible all the landmarks, including Kiyomizu Butai. There were also special guests from Yomiuri TV, which were introduced as voice actors.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo Masumi Sera Heiji Hattori Fumimaro Ayanokoji 100px Chipmunk Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Nakamichi Eisuke Aizawa Tashiro Hidaka Okawa Ishizaki Kazuha's friend Soshi Okita Kogoro Mouri Momiji Ooka Muga Iori Mary Sera Ai Haibara (flashback) Ayumi Yoshida (flashback) Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya (flashback) Genta Kojima (flashback) Hiroshi Agasa (flashback) Subaru Okiya (flashback) Kazuha Toyama Yukiko Kudo Yusaku Kudo Yaiba Kurogane (background) Moroha Kurogane (background) Professor Kaitou Kid (background) Mai Kuraki Makoto Kyogoku (cellphone puppet) Ryusuke Higo (doll flashback) Namako-Otoko (cellphone strap)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Shinichi eventually manages to take part to the Kyoto trip with Ran and their friends, thanks to the series of antidotes Haibara gave Conan. Each time Conan takes an antidote, he has to wait 8 hours after the back shrinking before taking another one. Shinichi and Ran secretly hope that Ran will give an answer to Shinichi's love declaration back in London. On the Kiyomizu-Dera, Shinichi meets Keiko, an actress and old friend of his mother, who stays in the same hotel as Shinichi and his class, with some university friends with which she shot a blockbuster revolving around a tengu and other monsters. She asks Shinichi to help her to decipher a mysterious code written and sent by their late friend Michio Dekuri, who committed suicide some time ago. The code was received by Nishiki, the movie's screenwriter, along with red aralia leaves, typical from Kyoto. Shinichi tries to solve it, while enjoying Kyoto with his friends, in particular Masumi, who knows Conan is Shinichi but still keeps it a secret. The group of friends visit Kyoto's temples and their gruesome crimson ceilings, that were at first the temple's floors spilled with the blood of samurais who committed mass suicide/seppuku and left many footprints, it was so astounding that the floors were kept and turned into ceilings.

Bright Red Arc

Murder

Location: GION Hotel Victim: Taro Nishiki Age: 38 years old Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Mineto Mayama, Shinya Ihaya, Keiko Kurachi, and Riki Agata After Nishiki meets with the others to show the riddle, he dies less than an hour later and is seen stabbed dead on the floor. Around him are scattered sheets of the screenplay, labels and a new riddle. On his forehead have been made two bumps and on the ceiling was a blood pond (in fact red paint painted beforehand except for a few droplets of real blood) and footsteps leading to the exterior of the room as if it was a tengu's doing.

Attempted murder

Location: GION Hotel Victim: Riki Agata Age: 37 years old Attack Types: Stabbing Suspects: Mineto Mayama, Shinya Ihaya, and Keiko Kurachi Just and hour after Nishiki's murder, Agata is seen screaming in his room which alerts everyone. They gather at the door and get it unlocked by the bellhop before seeing inside Agata on the floor with two bumps on his head and screaming for help at a tengu on the ceiling. He then throws his ashtray at it before it explodes and vanished. The next day, Agata slowly recovered from the injury and there wasn't any new riddle.

Murder

Location: Isogiyama Restaurant front porch Victim: Shinya Ihaya Age: 37 years old Cause of death: Slit wound on the throat Suspects: Mineto Mayama, Keiko Kurachi, and Riki Agata After a hord of people disguised as tengus disturb the group (Shinichi, Nakamichi, Ran, Sonoko, Momiji and Masumi), they fight them before finding out that someone on a website was paying them 100 thousand Yen. As they feared it was the culprit's actions to distract them, they head back to the restaurant and find out it was too late: Ihaya was dead, lying upside-down on the Inuyarai where there were the same footprints as in Nishiki's room.

Crimson Love Arc

Suicide (Past)

Location: Kiyomizu Butai Victim: Michio Dekuri Time: 3-4 days ago Cause of death: Falling A few days before the murder spree in Kyoto, one of the previous members of the filming team who had wrote the first version of the story (in manga) killed himself by throwing himself from the top of the Kiyomizu dera shrine after he thought he was forgotten by the others (Mayama, Agata, Nishiki, and Ihaya) since they didn't put his name in the credits or so what he thought.

People

Keiko Kurachi
	37 years old Actress Yukiko's old friend

Shinya Ihaya
	Victim (throat slit) 37 years old Actor

Mineto Mayama
	38 years old Movie director

Riki Agata
	37 years old Composer

Taro Nishiki
	Victim (stabbed) 38 years old Screenwriter Naomoto award winner

Michio Dekuri
	Deceased (fell) Mangaka Cipher writer?

Woman
	TV announcer

Bellhop
	Gion Hotel bellhop In charge of floor 10

Police Detective
	Kyoto Prefectural Police Assistant Inspector Ayanokoji's assistant

Manager
	Mai Kuraki's manager

Greg Irwin
	62 years old News announcer Real-life singer

Driver
	Koba Taxi car 567 driver

Priest
	Kiyomizu Butai monk and priest

Police Officer
	Kyoto Prefectural Police officer Guarding Mayama's room

Receptionist
	GION Hotel front desk receptionist

Resolution

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Conclusion

Attempted Murder

Location: Kiyomizu Butai Victim: Mineto Mayama Age: 38 years old Cause: Falling Culprit: Riki Agata On the last day of the pre-open of the movie, Mayama receives a phone call from an unknown person telling him to go to the Kiyomizu Butai. Heading there, he sees a mysterious and invisible silhouette approaching him with bloody footprints before grabbing him and throwing him over the railing saying that he is Michio Dekuri reincarnated as a tengu after falling and that he'll seek revenge. He luckily survives without any injuries since Shinichi, Heiji, Yusaku, and Masumi already planned the culprit's doings and prepared a mattress under the shrine. Shinichi and Heiji then confront the culprit.

Shinichi, Heiji and Masumi tell the killer his plan failed, and reveal him to be Riki Agata. The three teenagers say they solved the code: Dekuri's symbol was actually to be considered as a compass, and according to it, and to the code's kanji characters' position, and to the fact that these characters were extracted from some of Kyoto's streets' and districts' names corresponding to the position, the code can be understood as a succession of kanji characters who correspond to the first or second syllables of the streets' or districts' names they originate, for instance "kon" for "kontaka", etc., from left to right. The first lines of each code then read "koro sunoha", which means "I'm about to kill". Heiji says the reversed "saki" kanji means its corresponding character, "pon", is to be reversed to "npo", then "n". The first code accordingly means "I'm going to kill three people, the first one being the screenwriter". The second reads "I'm going to kill two more people, the next one being the leading role". And the third is "I'm going to kill one more person, then I'll jump off the balcony". In fact, Agata wanted to kill Mayama and pretend he was the murderer and committed suicide after he failed to kill Agata.

Agata had beforehand booked all of the hotel's smoking rooms and checked one out for Nishiki just as the latter was phoning the hotel. In this room, Agata had previously painted the ceiling red with fake blood splatters and footprints. He then stuck magnetic post-its (similar to Nishiki's ones) over the whole ceiling in order to conceal it, the post-its being of the same color as the ceiling. After killing Nishiki, Agata unstuck all post-its and threw them away on the floor, mixing them up with Nishiki's own ones. He then opened the window and sprayed some of Nishiki's blood with a syringe on the fake blood traces, to pretend he had indeed been murdered on the ceiling by a tengu. Agata, a plastic art expert, also made a fake tengu out of guncotton and used alcohol-ink marker pens to draw on it. He then pasted the very light piece of artwork on his room's ceiling, screamed, pretending to be assaulted by a monster, and threw the ashtray with his lit cigarette in it to the tengu's face to have it explode, burn and vanish into thin air, as this is how guncotton reacts to fire. He had lit his cigarette not long ago to do so, explaining the only 3-centimeter burn patterns left by his cigarette on the floor, that should have been longer if he'd been smoking for a longer period of time.

Agata had also prepared the restaurant's inuyarai by previously painting it red with the usual traces, but covering it with another inuyarai. After he killed Ihaya, he removed the cover inuyarai, threw his bloody glove, dagger and coat into it and put it over another restaurant's inuyarai. He hadn't left any fingerprints on the bloody things for the police still to believe Mayama was the murderer. Shinichi had noticed the dust gap around the first inuyarai, implying it had been covered by something that protected it from dust. Lastly, to frighten Mayama into pinning himself against the railing, Agata used a directional loudspeaker only Mayama could hear, with Dekuri's voice, and had previously painted transparent sheets with red footprints and stuck them on the balcony's floor, covering each of them with another sheet of the same color as the floor, to conceal them. He would then tie fishing lines to each of these same-color sheets and pull them away one after the other in order to fool Mayama into believing Dekuri was walking in his direction, and speaking to him. Agata left his fingerprints on the sheets as he was certain Mayama would die and everybody would rush to the railing, leaving him time and space enough to retrieve all sheets and discarding them later.

Agata tries to run away but gets surrounded by the police who were disguised as visitors. Agata finally confesses to being the serial killer, giving two bumps to his victims just like the tengu does to Kobutori Tale's evil old man who tries to imitate the good Kobutori, just like Nishiki, Ihaya and Mayama stole Dekuri's work and pretended his name would feature in the movie's credits while it was eventually not the case. Agata asked them for an explanation, saying Dekuri cried unceasingly, and the three men replied they were so happy their plan had worked perfectly, thus implying they wanted to humiliate their depressed friend and never had the intention to put his name in the movie. But Keiko and Mayama turn up and say that the producers had modified some very important typology spaces in the credits, preventing the name "Michio Dekuri" from appearing. As actually the name was supposed to appear across the five people's vertical names, which is why everyone changed names and spaces. Dekuri's name was supposed to appear at the same time, and it didn't beacuse of the producers, who didn't want to clear up the mistake afterwards for financial reasons. Agata wasn't told about it as their friends wanted Dekuri and him to discover the surprise while watching the movie together, as they were really close friends. Agata howls in regrets for what he did to his friends.

Aftermath

After the case is solved, Ran talks about a nice place that Okita had told her about and as Sonoko and Masumi start going ahead, Shinichi holds Ran back and asks her how she feels about him. Shinichi mentions Ran's meeting with Okita the previous and wonders if she has forgotten about his confession in London. In response, Ran pulls him closer by grabbing his tie and kisses him on the cheek.

Shinichi moves to kiss Ran on the lips, but the antidote begins to wear off, and he flees.

Masumi gives chase, only to run into Heiji. She realizes that the rucksack Heiji is wearing has the shrunken Shinichi inside it, but doesn't directly confront the two about it. Shinichi and Heiji therefore understand that Masumi knows about Shinichi being Conan.

A teacher of Teitan High School tells students Shinichi has to leave due to an emergency, and tells them not to say a word about Shinichi's coming and presence to Kyoto, as specially asked for by Shinichi himself.

Ran tells Sonoko she actually took Okita aside to give him back his talisman he had dropped during the Kendo Case. She apologised to Okita because she and her father unwittingly opened the talisman, and found a piece of wood and a picture showing Moroha Kurogane, Okita's secret love and a skilled high school kendo practitioner as well. Okita says Moroha is actually his rival Yaiba Kurogane's little sister, and he will date Moroha as soon as he defeats Yaiba at kendo. Okita accepts Ran's excuse but just asks her not to tell a word of this to Momiji, probably because he loves her as well.

As Shinichi and Ran exchange texts about what the kiss means for their relationship, both of them being mutually satisfied with each other's declaration, Masumi speaks with Mary. Mary orders her to obtain the "medicine" that will return her to her true age, so that they can stop running, and counter-attack.

Heiji gives Conan a motorbike ride back to Tokyo, and Ran texts Shinichi to ask him if they're officially dating each other now. Conan thinks about the last antidote Haibara gave him but which he couldn't take as the timing made it impossible: the class was leaving Kyoto and Shinichi still needed to wait for another 8 hours before taking it... Heiji secretly envies Shinichi who not only "stole" his second favourite place in Japan to confess his love to Kazuha, but also as Shinichi is his rival, he now sets the bar high and Heiji has from here on to go further in his relationship with Kazuha as well.

Yukiko and Yusaku are watching the Kyoto Case on TV, in Los Angeles, and are puzzled over the case being so much broadcasted, even worldwide, and hitting the headlines. Yusaku replies it has to do with the victims' and culprit's fame. As Yukiko feels moved to hear the crime motive was Kyoko's boyfriend's death, Yusaku explains he knew about Michio Dekuri's full name as he had seen the movie's poster online and noticed the rearrangement of names and spaces, exactly the same as for the movie's credits, showing the boyfriend's name across his other friends' names, which is why Kyoko/Keiko changed her name. He then comments on the fact Dekuri would have probably not killed himself if he had seen the poster earlier. He also talks about a more burning issue: has Shinichi been spotted by media or else while he was solving the case since Shinichi is considered dead for most people, including the Black Organisation.

After that, Shinichi sends Ran a mail and saying, "Of course we are dating". Ran collapses onto her bed in a fit of giggles and giddiness.

Trivia

• The OS on the laptop Yusaku and Yukiko use is Windows 10.
• This case was initially planned to be set in Singapore for the manga, but was later changed to Kyoto. The Singapore setting was then recycled for The Fist of Blue Sapphire.
• The two episodes were aired as a one hour and a half movie on January 10, 2019, at the Tokyo Shiodome cinema, two days before the broadcast of the second part. Every staff member who worked on the two episodes were invited, along with some pre-selected fans who had the opportunity to ask questions to the staff.
• In Thailand, just like the release of Episode One TV special. The episodes were first released as a movie on January 3, 2021 in selected theaters.
• Along with Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery, this is the second one hour and half special episode, transmitted in two parts.
• The anime staff went to Kyoto to take reference material (photos, videos, etc.) for the two episodes special in the last months preceding the creation of the special.
• Shinichi and Nakamichi's room is 927, just like the episode that makes the first part of the case.
• Mai Kuraki's manager seen in the episode isn't the real manager, since the real one is a man named Toshinori Masuda and the president of Being.
• Gosho Aoyama worked as key animator for episode 928.
• The taxi taken by Mineto Mayama to Kiyomizu Dera is the same as in Conan Kidnapped (Koba Taxi car 567) but with a different license plate: 東山 500, こ 58-84 (Higashiyama 500, Ko 58-84).
• Greg Erwin, a real life author-interpret and singer makes a appearance as himself as he impersonates a Los Angeles news announcer with a character design similar to his look. He was born in the United States but lives in Japan and speaks perfect Japanese.
• Restaurant Danny's Dining reappears at the end of episode 928.
• Naomoto Awards are named after the famous japanese Naoki literary awards.
• The monkeys from the timestamp 9:33 of The Scarlet School Trip (Bright Red Arc) is the famous three monkeys that represents see no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil.

Manga to anime changes

• The scene with Mai Kuraki and her manager is only seen in the anime, although the quote about the double couple was proposed by Gosho Aoyama.
• The part when Ran asks Keiko Kurachi if she has won the Macademy Awards is skipped in the anime.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
French (Subbed)	Le voyage scolaire écarlate (1re partie : Rouge vif / 2e partie : Amour pourpre)	The scarlet school trip (Part 1: Deep red / Part 2: Purple love)
Thai	ทัศนศึกษามรณะ (ภาคสีแดงก่ำ / ภาคความรักสีแดง)	A dangerous school trip (Deep red / Red love)

See also

• Season 29