Ballad of the Woman Who Loved Cake

Chronology
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Episode 1028 (Int. Episode 1085)
Information
Title:	Ballad of the Woman Who Loved Cake
Japanese title:	ケーキを愛する女のバラード (Kēki o Aisuru Onna no Barādo)
Original airdate:	November 27, 2021
Broadcast rating:	6.7%
Filler case:	#360
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Pieces of concrete
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Yoshio Urasawa
Storyboard:	Hiroaki Takagi
Episode director:	Koichiro Kuroda Yosuke Fujino
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Kaoru Nagakawa tofu Michitaka Yamamoto
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	Azeta Pictures
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi, Genta Kojima Eiji Hanawa as Hiroshi Ogawa Yukiyo Fujii as Hanako Ogawa Yoko Hikasa as Yayoi Ito
Music
Opening song:	YURA YURA
Closing song:	Veronica

Ballad of the Woman Who Loved Cake (ケーキを愛する女のバラード ,Kēki o Aisuru Onna no Barādo) is the 1028th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Wristwatch Flashlight Detective Boys Badge Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

The Detective Boys are exploring an abandoned building when they find a woman crushed by ruins. Suddenly, the woman then wakes up scaring the Detective Boys and fainting the. Soon Conan wakes them up.

When they follow the blood trail that is left by the woman, they arrive to Western Confections Paradise, a confectionery shop. They found a woman with red clothes with a blood stain in her leg and they suspected her to be the woman who was crushed. They decide to follow her. The woman walks to Western Confections Paradise main factory.

As Conan and the Detective Boys plan to enter throughservice entrance, suddenly the secretary of the confectionery company Yayoi Ito screamed. The president of the company, Akira Ogawa, is found drowned in red bean paste.

Murder
	Location: Western Confections Paradise main factory Victim: Akira Ogawa Age: 35 years old Cause of death: Suffocation Suspects: Hiroshi Ogawa, Hanako Ogawa, and Yayoi Ito

The younger brother of the victim and also vice-president of the company Hiroshi Ogawa arrives and tells the secretary to call the police. Hiroshi finds his wife Hanako Ogawa's handkerchief next to the body. He later calls Hanako to make an alibi.

The police, along with Kogoro are unable to find out the culprit.However, Conan manages to solve the case first.

People

Akira Ogawa
	Victim (suffocated) 35 years old Western Confections Paradise company president

Hiroshi Ogawa
	29 years old Western Confections Paradise company vice president Akira's younger brother

Hanako Ogawa
	28 years old Hiroshi's wife

Yayoi Ito
	31 years old Akira's secretary

Resolution

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The culprit is Yayoi Ito. She is revealed to be the mysterious woman that came to the shop a week ago and planned the murder, using Hanako Ogawa and the Detective Boys. The woman who was crushed by the building's debris was not Yayoi, but Hanako. Yayoi tricked Hanako in coming to the abandoned building, where she already prepared a trap. Hanako trigged the trap and was crushed by the debris.

She also made a fake blood trail from the building to the cake shop. That was necessary to be supposely discovered by the Detective Boys to make them think it was Ito. After she established an alibi, she went to kill the president, came to the shop, wore the same dress as Hanako, made a fake wound on her leg, and ate cake like nothing happened.

She then attempted to kill the last people standing in her way which was Hiroshi and his wife. Fortunately, Conan alerted Hiroshi beforehand that the killer was Yayoi and to have he and his wife pretend to be poisoned without eating the poisoned cake prepared by Yayoi. Her motive is that the president decided to make Japanese sweets instead of Western cakes. At first, the vice president and his wife also opposed the president, but in the end accepted the suggestion. Because of that, she also planned to murder them.

It is also shown that Yayoi is a bit delusional as she saw the heads of everyone around her as different types of western cakes before being taken away by inspector Megure.

Trivia

• Storyboard Hiroaki Takagi revealled in his personal social media account that Urasawa devised other cause of death initially, but when he was planning for this episode, he proposed that it is necessary to be altered, and the current cause of death which the victim drowns in the red bean paste was actually director Yasuichiro Yamamoto's idea.
• Hiroshi Ogawa is named after the actual Detective Conan prop designer Hiroshi Ogawa.
• The red car is a 2014 convertible Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The license plate is 新宿 300, に 5-93 (Shinjuku 300, Ni 5-93).

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Thai	ลํานําของสาวผู้หลงรักเค้ก	The Ballad of a Girl Who Loves Cake
Vietnamese	Bản Ballad của cô gái yêu bánh

See also

• Season 31