Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case

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Episode 9 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case
Japanese title:	天下一夜祭殺人事件 (Tenkaichi Yomatsuri Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	March 4, 1996 February 25, 2017 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	13%
Remastered rating:	7.1%
Manga case:	#17
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 6: File 9 (059) ~ Volume 7: File 1 (061)
English version
English title:	Festival Fiasco
Dubbed episode:	Episode 9
English airdate:	June 7, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sango Yokomizo
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Disposable camera Film camera (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	Masato Sato
Animation director:	Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Akio Otsuka as Sango Yokomizo Takeshi Aono as Norikazu Sasai Yu Shimaka as Satoru Imatake Kiyonobu Suzuki as Yamada Wataru Takagi as Middle aged man, Next Conan's Hint Isshin Chiba as Male announcer Konami Yoshida as Female announcer
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Characters introduced

Sango Yokomizo
	Detective from Saitama Prefecture Police

Yamada
	35 years old Publisher employee

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

During the night of the Tenkaichi Festival at the hotel, the author named Satoru Imatake is brushing his teeth in the bathroom and his friend named Norikazu Sasai is making a mess. When he checked what Sasai's doing, he's confused that Sasai dressed up weird and saw that the hotel room was a big mess. Sasai raises his gun to aim at Imatake's forehead and fired. He also took the rest of the money from his wallet.

Robbery - Murder
	Location: Hotel room Victim: Satoru Imatake Cause of death: Gunshot wound Culprit: Norikazu Sasai The award-winning author, Satoru Imatake, was killed in his hotel room on the night of the Tenkaichi Festival. A man was seen fleeing the scene of shooting.

He went out of the hotel room and fled out of the hotel. He throws away his gun, coat, and his glasses. He took the disposable camera out of his pocket.

While at the Tenkaichi Festival, Ran, Conan, and Kogoro are having a good time. Sasai just finally arrived at the festival while sweating. He found Ran and asked her to take a picture of him behind the background of the mountain that says, "Ichi" so Sasai gives the camera to Ran and Ran takes a picture. Sasai tells Ran that he's collecting an archive based on the theme, "Local Festivals" which is the photo that Ran took. Ran realizes that he's an author. Sasai also told Ran that he writes with the pen name, Tomokazu Imai. After Ran hears that, she got excited that she read about it while at junior high. Kogoro thinks it's strange because he mentions that name was used by Satoru Imatake when he made his debut. Sasai also told them that he's a friend of Imatake and he will drink in celebration for Imatake's Naomoto award. Suddenly, Sasai's sweating more because he's wearing a white jacket. After the conversation, Sasai asked Ran if she could take more pictures of him around the festival and Ran doesn't mind at all. While she's taking pictures of Sasai, the man just appeared behind Sasai. The man's name is Yokomizo, he's a policeman. He wants Sasai for questioning because Imatake's been murdered at the hotel where Sasai is staying.

People

Satoru Imatake
	Victim (gunshot) Author/Novelist

Norikazu Sasai
	Author Imatake's friend

Yamada
	Representative from Imatake's Publisher

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Satoru Imatake's murderer was his long-time friend and colleague, Norikazu Sasai. He shot the unsuspecting victim point-blank and left the scene immediately after.
  • Imatake was found dead with traces of toothpaste on his mouth and a toothbrush lying on the ground near him. His wallet was empty and the room was ransacked.
  • Sasai was the primary suspect, but he had an alibi. In his disposable camera, there were pictures of him at the festival; and the festival events coincided with the time the killing took place.

• Conclusion

Conan, aiding Inspector Yokomizo through Kogoro Mouri, proved that it wasn't just a simple case of robbery and that Norikazu Sasai was indeed the killer.

Imatake was murdered while brushing his teeth, an act done without inhibitions in front of people whom a person is very familiar with. The bad condition of the room was evidence enough that the robbery was a setup, for the killer fled the scene right away after the gun was fired. And the pictures that were seemingly taken that night proving Sasai's innocence were actually taken from the past Tenkaichi festival. In the picture, his wrist was captured without its current watch tan line.

• Motive

Over a year ago, Sasai felt ridiculed when the more well-known writer Imatake's work was chosen to be published over his at the last minute. Imatake apparently became famous when he won an award for a book that they co-wrote, while Sasai wasn't credited for it.

Sasai planned the murder, so that he could take Imatake's place as top writer in the literary world.

Remastered version

A remastered version of this case was aired on February 25, 2017.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Satoru Imatake (pen name Tomokazu Imai) - Salvador Emerson (pen name Thompson Imus)
• Norikazu Sasai - Nicodimus Stanley
• Yamada - Johansen

Trivia

• This is the first time that Kogoro, Ran, and Conan were used as an alibi, even though the murder took place long enough before the encounter with the culprit, for the culprit to have committed the murder.

Episode 162

• Norikazu Sasai reappears in the one year ago flashback from The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case.
• This is the first episode where the identity of the murderer isn't kept a secret from the viewer. As such, the mystery is cracking the alibi of the murderer.
• Sango Yokomizo was originally the detective of the Saitama district, though he later became an inspector when he transferred to the Shizuoka district soon after.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
2	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	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
5	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	(Unreleased BGM 1)
7	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	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
9	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma	Detective Conan Main Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
10	「名探偵コナン」メイン・テーマ （予告）	"Meitantei Konan" Mein・Tēma (Yokoku)	"Detective Conan" Main Theme (Preview)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	犯人のアジト	Hannin no Ajito	The Culprit's Hideout	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
12	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	犯人現わる！	Hannin Arawaru!	The Culprit is Revealed!	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
14	それいけコナン （哀愁ヴァージョン）	Soreike Konan (Aishū Vājon)	Let's Go Conan (Sorrow Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP
16	それいけコナン（超早ver.）	Soreike Konan (Chōhaya ver.)	Let's Go Conan (Very Fast ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	جريمة قتل في المهرجان	A murder in the carnival
Basque	Udaberri festako hilketa
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de la festa de primavera	The Spring Party Murder Case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Assassinat en el festival de primavera	Murder in Spring Party
French	Festival fatal	Fatal festival
Galicia	Asasinato durante a festa	Murder during the Party
German	Die Konkurrenz schläft nicht	The Competition Never Sleeps
Italian	Il festival di Primavera	The Spring Festival
Portuguese	Assassínio no festival	Murder in Festival
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Asesinato en el festival	Murder in the Festival
Spanish (American dub)	El caso del homicidio en el festival	Homicide in festival case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมอำพราง	The Disguised Murder Case
China	天下第一夜祭杀人事件	Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case

See also

• Season 1