The Memories of First Love Case

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Information
Title:	The Memories of First Love Case
Japanese title:	初恋の人想い出事件 (Hatsukoi no Hito Omoide no Jiken)
Original airdate:	May 11, 1998 (Part 1) May 18, 1998 (Part 2) Aug 20, 2016 (Part 1) (Remastered version) Aug 27, 2016 (Part 2) (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	20.3% 19.5%
Remastered rating:	6.1% 7.9%
Manga case:	#50
Season:	4
Manga source:	Volume 18: Files 3-5 (173-175)
English version
English title:	The Memories of First Love
Dubbed episode:	Episode 106-107
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Hiroshi Agasa Shinichi Kudo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Lemon pie (Part 1) Fax (Part 2) Birthday cake (Part 1) (Remastered version) Convenience store (Part 2) (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	100 Hirohito Ochi 101 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	100 Hirohito Ochi 101 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	100 Hirohito Ochi 101 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	100 Akio Kawamura 101 Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Yukari Shin as Asami Uchida Naoya Uchida as Manabu Sawai Takako Fuji as Tomoko Hayasaka Toshiharu Sakurai as Yoshinobu Morimoto Yuji Ueda as Shibahisa Noguchi Romi Park as Chika Miyazaki Isshin Chiba as Firefighter A Wataru Takagi as Firefighter B, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Hiroshi Naka as Convenience store manager
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Hiroshi Agasa Shinichi Kudo

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Conan, Ran, and Sonoko are cleaning up Shinchi's house, and their chat goes from Sonoko complaining about doing this in summer break to Ran wondering who could have been Shinichi's first love and Sonoko speculating whether Ran was his first love or not. Almost as if on cue, an old classmate stops by to check on Shinichi's well-being, then joins the group in their cleaning: her name is Asami Uchida, she used to be the student council president of Teitan High School and she now attends a local art-centered university as a literature major.

While helping Conan and the girls with their work, Asami mentions that she'll throw her birthday party in a nearby bungalow that she and her friends rented specially for the event. She had come to personally invite Shinichi, however, and drops hints about a love confession that he might have given her four years ago. Sonoko mentions rumors about a younger student stalking Asami in these days, and Ran concludes that Asami was Shinichi's first love. Sonoko manages to rope Asami into inviting them as well, and Kogoro agrees to go there, once he learns one of the people has been a three time beauty contest winner.

The party starts normally, with the additional perk that it's also a celebration for Asami winning a literary prize, a tennis tournament and a beauty contest, and everyone seems to have quite a good time. A pretty girl named Tomoko Hayasaka teases the handsome Manabu Sawai about being a playboy, but he ignores it and focuses on complimenting Kogoro for having a way with words. Around the same time the older students Yoshinobu Morimoto, Chika Miyazaki and Shibahisa Noguchi mention Asami's accomplishments: she defeated Morimoto in the literary contest, Chika was just a runner-up for the beauty one that she won, and she was a part of the couple that won a mixed tennis tournament that Noguchi participated in as well.

In the meantime, Ran and Asami are baking Asami's trademark recipe: lemon pie. Asami forgot to bring the one she already baked. The pie itself looks messy since Ran had never baked any pies, but it actually tastes good; Asami says what matters is what's on the inside, rather than how it looks.

The party goes on well, and the bungalow's fax machine gets a fax from one of Asami's professors, wishing her a happy birthday. Asami herself, however, is feeling like crap all of a sudden so she's taking a nap. Sawai and mentions a nearby karaoke parlor where they already booked a room, saying they should let Asami sleep and go there for a while.

As everyone has fun, Sonoko notices Ran is rather mopey instead. She mentions how Asami is sweet, gorgeous, smart, once was the manager of the school's soccer club that Shinichi was a member of, and looks like she's super perfect, so she guesses that Shinichi admires Asami quite a bit and correctly deduced that Ran is feeling inferior to her. Ran mentions that Asami said Shinichi likes lemon pie a lot and offered to teach her (Ran) the recipe, and confirms that she feels like she can't compare to Asami. Sonoko tries to cheer her up by saying Asami is herself and so is Ran, so she shouldn't bring herself down.

Around 3 AM, the group starts getting ready to return to the rented bungalow nevermind one or two problems: like Noguchi being drunk, Sawai taking too much time to bring cigarettes or Kogoro being for too long in the restroom. They decide to go back and then go to bed so they can clean up in the morning, but then they look through the window and the bungalow is on fire. Kogoro and Sawai immediately look for the keys to the rental car they have handy, so they can go there and rescue her.

When the group arrives, the bungalow's completely surrounded by fire, so much that it almost pours from the windows and even the doors. Ran, who was praying for Asami's safety in their way there, sees Chika trying to move a nearby motorcycle and has an idea: she puts on the moto's driving helmet, goes inside followed by Conan, kicks the door to the nearby open and rescues Asami.

Attempted Suicide?

Location: Bungalow Victim: Asami Uchida Age: 18 years old Cause: Burnt alive Suspects: Manabu Sawai, Tomoko Hayasaka, Shibahisa Noguchi, Chika Miyazaki, and Yoshinobu Morimoto Ran and Conan find Asami lying on the floor of the living room with no burn marks, which means she is safe and sound. But this is odd, since when the group left, she was lying on a couch. Is this all an accident, did Asami either try to commit suicide or call the others's attention via faking a life-or-death incident, or is something sinister in the works?

Part 2

Ran passes out almost immediately after rescuing Asami, both from the smoke inhalation and the huge effort. She wakes up in the nearby hospital and is fine, but Asami is still unconscious. She tells Sonoko that the helmet idea came from Conan, who gave it to her so she'd have extra protection, and mentions that he did something incredible.

Conan, Kogoro and the birthday guests are back to what remains of the bungalow and gather information. The fire began at 2:50 AM, at the living room, and was apparently caused by the b-day people's carelessness: Asami's birthday cake was left with its candles burning, they fell on the floor and the gift-wrapping papers, which triggered the fire itself and spreads it all around. Kogoro doesn't really believe this, and he wonders if Asami herself set the fire.

At the hospital, Sonoko tells Ran that when she was brought to the hospital, Asami was calling out to Shinichi and apologizing to him in whispers. They decide to go get some drinks and take a break, unaware of how Asami awakens once they leave.

Conan hears what Kogoro says and is troubled by several details. He's sure that Asami was lying on the couch when they left, but she was on the floor when he and Ran found her; additionally, several furniture pieces were in different spots. He wonders if Morimoto, who had the key to the house, set the place on fire, but decides against it since the fire began at 2:50 AM so he couldn't have had enough time and the window was open so the key wasn't needed. He also wonders about Noguchi (he had the car keys) and Chika (who has a bike), since there was some time when everyone was out of the karaoke parlor, but decides against it too: he couldn't have enough time, and her bike was already parked. Also, the policemen haven't found any specific things that could have been used to set the fire from a distance.

Conan wonders if Asami did truly set the fire, whether to kill herself or get attention. One of the firemen tells Conan not to stay too close to the burned remains and hands him two sheets of paper, apparently coming from the fax machine. Then Conan checks on the sheets and realizes some details. This adds up to what one of Asami's friends said, and the placement of the furniture around Asami.

Ran and Sonoko are still in the hospital, commenting how Asami switched from the tennis to the soccer club despite her natural tennis talent. Then they find out that Asami has disappeared. Around the same time, Conan snoops around the nearby store and finds out that Tomoko, Sawai and the already drunk Noguchi were around, and one of them may have something to do with the incident.

People

Asami Uchida
	Victim (burned-injured) 18 years old Freshman, Literature Department Tohto University

Manabu Sawai
	22 years old Senior, Tohto University, Literature Dept. Mystery club president

Tomoko Hayasaka
	21 years old Senior, Tohto University, Literature Dept. Mystery club vice-president

Shibahisa Noguchi
	20 years old Sophomore, Tohto University, Literature Dept.

Chika Miyazaki
	19 years old Sophomore, Tohto University, Literature Dept.

Yoshinobu Morimoto
	22 years old Junior, Tohto University, Literature Dept.

Resolution

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Having realized the truth, Conan heads back to the bungalow. Ran and Sonoko have told Kogoro about Asami's disappearance, and he believes she may be about to try killing herself again. Soon, however, Conan is using Kogoro to reveal the truth.

Manabu Sawai is the culprit. He set up the birthday cake with lit candles on a chair below the fax machine and sent a fax from a convenience store while pretending to use the phone, so the received fax caught fire as soon as the paper sheets touched the still-lit candles. To make sure this would happen, he sent several faxes. It's demonstrated when Conan through Kogoro tells the firemen to set up a similar trick in what remains of the house, effectively showing how easy it was for Sawai to set everything on fire without being there.

Chika and Noguchi openly wonder why would Sawai want to kill Asami, but Conan through Kogoro says he never wanted to kill her and adds he wanted to save her, to be her "knight in shining armor" who would win her affections after rescuing her from mortal danger. He adds that when everyone was getting ready to leave to the karaoke box, Sawai took the "time out" to rearrange the furniture and place the sleeping Asami, whom he surely drugged with pills, on the floor so she wouldn't get burned.

The owner of the shop saw Sawai using the fax machine when everyone else was singing in the parlor; then Conan gets out holding two pieces of burned paper and showing them as proof. The confirmation paper coming from the fax machine also holds info about Sawai's presence, like his phone name and fingerprints. Even more, Sawai had problems handling the fax machine itself so he had to use the birthday fax from Asami's prof as a test and the shop owner recalled his odd behavior.

Sawai angrily retorts all of this and asks for real proofs. Conan through Kogoro says that there IS even more evidence: two, actually. One is how, when the group arrived and they suggested to call Asami to see if she was okay, Sawai openly said the room itself would be gone. The other is the prof's fax, still smeared with cream, which Sawai probably keeps in his pocket.

One of the firemen approaches Sawai and he tells him to stop, then pulls out the rests of paper and admits what he did, saying that he never expected the fire to spread as fast as he did. His motive was, effectively, to save Asami's life and thus catch her attention and gratitude, after having been rejected by her the previous month. Up until then, no girl had ever refused the handsome and charming Sawai's affections, so he was shell-shocked and wanted her to love him.

Asami appears on the doorstep right as Sawai surrenders peacefully. Sawai tells her she's such a beautiful and perfect girl, that she can have any man at her feet. She, however, replies that things don't work that way: if someone's heart won't open to someone else, then there's no way to force them to do so.

Later, a more cheerful Asami reveals to Ran and Sonoko that she was bluffing when she said she was Shinichi's first love. In reality he was her first love: she wasn't immediately attracted to him from the start, but came to like him for his talent and for his blunt approach to things - she once baked a terrible lemon pie for her tennis and soccer club friends, and he was the only person who told her it wasn't tasty, so she baked and baked until she made one he actually liked. She adds that she taught Ran a bad lemon pie recipe on a whim, but Ran was still skilled enough at baking to make it edible, and that she wanted to invite Shinichi to the party to get back at him for all the times he told her the pie sucked.

Asami then explains what actually happened when she confessed to Shinichi, much to Conan's embarrassment (and Sonoko has to gag him with her hands). She says Shinichi rejected her affections, yes, but that he also shyly explained why he couldn't go out with her: he already had a girl he liked, a girl he's "known from childhood" and who's "strong, stubborn, yet also gentle and kind of a crybaby". Sonoko joyfully shouts that the girl must be Ran, but she's oblivious.

Manga to anime changes

• In the anime, when Sawai admits that he didn't think the fire would expand as quick as it did, Conan gets so angry that through Kogoro, he calls him on how selfish he has been: had the group been late for less than two minutes, Asami would have burned or asphyxiated to death, and Sawai never thought of it since he was that wrapped in his own feelings. He adds that if Sawai actually wanted to be loved by Asami, he should've simply stuck to become an honorable guy that she would've admired and come to love.
• Noguchi's first name in the anime is Shibahisa, while in the manga it's Shigehisa.
• In the anime, the professor who sent the fax to Asami was named Masao Takamura, whereas in the manga, the professor was called Hideo Takamura.

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Asami Uchida - Annette Peters
• Manabu Sawai - Damon
• Tomoko Hayasaka - Tammy
• Shibahisa Noguchi - Nory
• Chika Miyazaki - Cherie
• Yoshinobu Morimoto - Mark

Remastered version

• A remastered version of this case was aired August 20, 2016 and August 27, 2016.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	小さな巨人	Chiisana Kyojin	A Small Great Person	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
5	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
6	毛利小五郎のテーマ（ファンキーver.）	Mōri Kogorō no Tēma (Fankii ver.)	Kogoro Mouri's Theme (Funky ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
8	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
9	想い出 （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Omoide (Mantenrō Vājon)	Memories (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
10	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
11	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
12	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	時計じかけの摩天楼	Tokei Jikake no Mantenrō	The Time-Bombed Skyscraper	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
14	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
15	爆破犯人のテーマ	Bakuha Hannin no Tēma	Bomber's Theme	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
16	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	運命のルーレット廻して	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite	Spinning the Roulette of Destiny	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
2	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Skyscraper ver.)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
3	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	事件解明 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Kaimei (Orijinaru ver.)	Case Clarification (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
7	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	悲劇のヒロイン	Higeki no Hiroin	Tragic Heroine	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	願い事ひとつだけ	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake	Just One Wish	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
14	瞳を閉じれば～蘭のテーマ～ （インストヴァージョン）	Hitomi o Tojireba ~ Ran no Tēma (Insuto Vājon)	If I Close My Eyes ~ Ran's Theme (Instrumental ver.)	Boku ga Iru ~ TV Anime "Detective Conan" Image Song Album
15	事件解決（意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

Trivia

• Aya Ueto and Shinichi - The Promise from 4 Years Ago is clearly modeled after this case.
• Nazo can be heard playing in a jukebox.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	الحريق	The Fire
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El record del primer amor	Memory of the First Love
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Records del primer amor	Memories of the First Love
French	Souvenir du premier amour	Memories of the First Love
Galician	Recordos do primeiro amor	Memories of the First Love
German	Die erste Liebe vergisst man nie	One Never Forgets His First Love
Italian	Il mistero del primo amore	The Mystery of First Love
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Recuerdos del primer amor	Memories of the First Love
Spanish (American dub)	Los recuerdos del primer amor	Memories of the First Love
Vietnamese	Vụ án kỷ niệm mối tình đầu	The Memories of First Love Case

See also

• Season 4