Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case

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Information
Title:	Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case
Japanese title:	歩美ちゃん誘拐事件 (Ayumi-chan Yūkai Jiken)
Original airdate:	April 15, 1996 June 27, 2009 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	13.6%
Remastered rating:	6.7%
Manga case:	#22
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 9: Files 1-3 (081-083)
English version
English title:	Kidnapped: Amy
Dubbed episode:	Episode 13
English airdate:	June 14, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Hiroshi Agasa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure
Case solved by:	No one
Next Conan's Hint:	School festival Skateboard (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation director:	Haruo Ogawara
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Masashi Hirose as Man A Ginzo Matsuo as Man B Konami Yoshida as Newscaster Takumi Yamazaki as Shopkeeper Kaoru Shimamura as Clerk
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Gadgets introduced

Detective Boys Badge
	Functions like a walkie-talkie Can be located by the Criminal Tracking Glasses

Turbo Engine Skateboard
	Solar-powered super fast skateboard

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Hiroshi Agasa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Woman

Gadgets

Gadgets
Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes Detective Boys Badge Turbo Engine Skateboard

Case

Situation

Kidnapping
	Location: Beika Park Victim: Ayumi Yoshida Suspects: Two mustached men in sunglasses While playing hide and seek, Ayumi goes into the trunk of a car, which speeds off before the game is over. In there, she discovers the head of a dead girl!

People

Man #1
	Thin, with long, ponytailed hair In a white suit

Man #2
	Muscular, with short, curly hair In a brown coat

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Just outside the park, Conan saw two men who hurriedly left in a white car
  • Inside the trunk were paper bags with lots of money inside
  • Ayumi found a saw covered in a slippery fluid
  • Ayumi discovered a girl's head wrapped in newspaper
  • The suspects were heard talking about ransom money and killing the girl who saw their faces

• Conclusion

Turns out, the kidnappers were stage actors for a mystery play, and the head was a fake. Since Conan ruined the head and knocked out the other actor, the Detective Boys took part in the play so the show could go on. The three boys played the man in a brown coat: Genta, saying the lines, was at the bottom, Mitsuhiko in the middle and on Genta's shoulders, and Conan on top of them, with a hat, a mustache, and sunglasses. Ayumi played the dead girl covered in fake blood and hid inside a bag. And during the play, while acting with a dead face, she thought, "I am never playing hide and seek again!"

Manga to anime changes

• The anime version includes a flashback with Agasa describing how the Detective Boys Badges work, which is absent from the manga version as they were introduced in the manga version of Missing Corpse Murder Case.
• While searching for Ayumi, the boys notice Inspector Megure in a patrol car. After they find Ayumi, they see Inspector Megure pass by in the patrol car again, this time with a criminal. Both of these moments are anime-only.

Remastered version

On June 27, 2009, a remastered version of the case was aired.

Trivia

• Insert song: Soba ni Iru Kara, by ↑THE HIGH-LOWS↓.
• The two kidnappers drive a white Toyota Crown S140.
• This was the first episode that there was no crime to the plot. There was a crime that served as background to the plot, but there were no criminals in this case. Ayumi happened to crawl into the trunk of their car, and merely heard some actors rehearsing their lines, and saw the stage props in the trunk with her: saw, ransom money, girls' head, which made everyone think that they are the serial girl kidnappers and killers on the news.
• After finding out that these two men were actors, the police drove past with the real culprits, who were caught offscreen.
• This is the first episode to not feature a culprit in the main plot.

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	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
4	そばにいるから	Soba ni Iru Kara	Because I'm By Your Side	Mune ga Dokidoki
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	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	脅迫 （パート２）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)	Threat (Part 2)	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	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
10	(Unreleased BGM 2)
11	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
12	「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
13	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
14	事件解決	Jiken Kaiketsu	Case Resolution	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
15	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP
16	事件解決 （意気揚々ver.）	Jiken Kaiketsu (Ikiyōyō ver.)	Case Resolution (Triumphant ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	اختطاف إيومي	Ayumi's Kidnapping
Basque	Ayumiren bahiketa
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El segrest de l'Ayumi	Ayumi's Kidnapping
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El segrest d'Ayumi	Ayumi's Kidnapping
French	L'Enlèvement d'Ayumi	Ayumi's Kidnapping
Galician	O secuestro de Ayumi	Ayumi's Kidnapping
German	Der Schein trügt	Appearances are deceiving
Italian	Una bambina da salvare	A Child to Save
Portuguese	O Rapto da Ayumi	Ayumi's Kidnapping
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El secuestro de Ayumi	Ayumi's Kidnapping
Spanish (American dub)	La desaparición de Jessica	Jessica (Ayumi) disappearance
Thai	คดีลักพาตัวอายูมิจัง	Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case
Vietnamese	Vụ bắt cóc Ayumi	Ayumi Kidnapping Case

See also

• Season 1