Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case

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Episode 38 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Akaoni Village Fire Festival Murder Case
Japanese title:	赤鬼村火祭殺人事件 (Akaoni Mura Himatsuri Sastujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	November 18, 1996
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 2: Files 1-3 (010-012)
English version
English title:	Flames of Confusion
Dubbed episode:	Episode 39
English airdate:	July 28, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Professor Agasa
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
Next Conan's Hint:	A blackout
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Hirohito Ochi
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Haruo Ogawara
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Katsunosuke Hori as Yutaka Abe Takkou Ishimori as Masaki Negishi Isshin Chiba as Announcer Wataru Takagi as Male clerk, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Female clerk
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Professor Agasa

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Akaoni Village Victim: Masaki Negishi Suspects: Yutaka Abe When a body is discovered in a bonfire at a ritual Fire Festival by a tourist, the murder investigation begins. And when Detective Mouri finds out that the victim is the same man that he had been tailing for the past three days, he realizes that he has been had. The man who hired Detective Mouri uses his testimony to create the perfect alibi. Can Conan crack the case before this prime suspect leaves the country or will he get away with murder?

People

Masaki Negishi
	Victim (burned) 42 years old

Yutaka Abe
	42 years old Masaki Negishi's friend

Resolution

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The culprit is Yutaka Abe.

Manga to anime changes

The manga version of the story sets up Conan being in school, as well as introducing his newly created Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes (which he tries while playing soccer while at the grade school soccer field). Additionally, this case takes place much, much earlier in the manga, being the fourth case in the series.

See also

• Season 2