Beckoning Cat from Right to Left

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Episode 486 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Manekineko from the Right to the Left
Original airdate:	September 3, 2007
Season:	16
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ai Haibara
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Conan and Haibara rescue a kitten from a tree and return him to his owner, Tamotsu Ishigami, the owner of a local café. A woman barges into the café exclaiming she found her boss, Kenzo Kanemaru, dead.

Murder
	Victim: Kenzo Kanemaru

Conan, Haibara, Kogoro, and Ishigami enter office to confirm the Kanemaru's death and the authorities arrive. Conan notices that someone used the vacuum and threw away its contents and also finds the paw of a broken maneki neko.

People

Tamotsu Ishigami
	35 years old Café owner

Kenzo Kanemaru
100px	Victim 65 years old

Fumie Imaoka
	65 years old Janitor

Chika Murai
	22 years old Motojo University student

Resolution

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After finding a notepad with its page ripped, blood on a flip clock at 12:59, and a kitten's bloody par print on the window still, Conan confirms Ishigami to be the culprit and tranquilizes Kogoro. Kogoro reveals that Ishigami killed Kanemaru with a maneki neko he bought and cleaned up the shattered pieces with the vacuum. As evidence, a message on the notepad reveals Ishigami had a planned meeting with the victim at 1:00 and the blood on the flip clock confirms the time of death. Furthermore, his kitten's bloody paw print was found in the room where the murdered occurred. Ishigami professes to the murder, lamenting over the debt he owed to him.

See also

• Season 16