Game Company Murder Case

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Episode 54 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Game Company Murder Case
Japanese title:	ゲーム会社殺人事件 (Gēmu-gaisha Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	April 14, 1997
Broadcast rating:	19.1%
Manga case:	#32
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 12: Files 4-6 (114-116)
English version
English title:	Game Gone Bad
Dubbed episode:	Episode 56
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Tequila Gin Vodka
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Numbered cloakroom tokens
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Kazuo Nogami
Storyboard:	Kazuo Nogami
Episode director:	Kazuo Nogami
Animation director:	Hiromi Muranaka Asako Nishida Kei Hyoudou
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Shuntaro Tanigawa as Hideaki Nakajima Yoshinobu Yamada as Koji Ueda Jin Horikawa as Hironobu Takeshita Yoshito Ishinami as Ishikawa Kousei Hirota as Tequila Yukiko Iwai as Attendant A Kaoru Morota as Attendant B Saeko Yoshizawa as Attendant C Isshin Chiba as Forensics officer A Wataru Takagi as Forensics officer B, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Hikari to Kage no Roman

Characters introduced

Tequila
	Black Organization member

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Gin (background) Vodka (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Microphone Stun-Gun Wristwatch Criminal Tracking Glasses Transmitter

Case

Situation

Kogoro is invited to a party for the release of a game which stars himself. While there, Conan runs into a man who uses the alias Tequila and learns that he plans to meet with Gin and Vodka. Conan follows Tequila to the bathroom where an explosion occurs and kills the man. Conan investigates the explosion and realizes that it was a murder attempt but the wrong person was killed.

Bombing - Murder
	Location: Mantendo building Victim: Tequila Cause of death: Explosion Suspects: Hideaki Nakajima, Koji Ueda, and Hironobu Takeshita Tequila went into a toilet stall with a briefcase, and while making a call, the stall exploded.

People

Hideaki Nakajima
	27 years old Mantendo Game developer

Koji Ueda
	27 years old Mantendo Game developer

Hironobu Takeshita
	27 years old Mantendo Game developer

Ishikawa
	Mantendo director

Tequila
	Victim (explosion) Black Organization member

Resolution

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Conan attempts to knock out Kogoro, but his dart hits Ran in the rear when she walks over to check on her father's hangover. Conan is left shocked, but then surprised as Ran remains concious; the dart had hit the keychain in her back pocket. Conan attempts to get the dart back, but causes Ran to karate kick in defense; she believed a pevert was after her. Luckily, Ran has kicked Kogoro's head into the beam he was resting against; this knocks him out successfuly, allowing Conan to use his voice-changing bow tie to reveal what had happened.

Conan reveals that Tequila and Hideaki Nakajima, one of the game designers, secretly exchanged suitcases. Conan reveals that the bomber is game designer Hironobu Takeshita and that Nakajima was his intended target. As evidence, Conan reveals that Nakajima's suitcase's key would fit into the suitcase Takeshita is holding since that is originally Nakajima's suitcase. The mix-up happened due to that Takeshita had switched the numbers before Nakajima made the exchange with the victim. Takeshita confesses and denounces Nakajima for leading Yoshimi (their university boxing club manager who had dated Takeshita and Nakajima afterwards) to suicide when he dumped her. Further evidence is the number of the hotel keys; Kogoro's is 96 while Ran's is 100. Hironobu feared his plan would fall apart if the number he and his victim had were too different; he convinced his co-workers to cut in front of Ran to ensure all three had a number in the 90s.

Conan asks Nakajima what he knows about Tequila's acquaintances only to learn that he always meets them in the "Cocktail" bar at the Daikoku building. Conan heads there only to find out Gin and Vodka had caused an explosion to hide evidence of them being there.

Bombing
	Location: "Cocktail" bar at the Daikoku building Cause: Explosion Suspects: Black Organization

After the explosion, Conan afterwards learns that Nakajima was selling a list of top computer programmers to Tequila.

Continuity error

By the time that this story was told in the manga, Conan had a second encounter with Gin and Vodka (learning their names in the process), as well as learning about the organization. In the anime, however, The Shinkansen's Bomb Case and The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case omitted ties to The Organization and its members. Thus Conan at this point in the anime shouldn't know the names of the men who shrank him, or their organization. The anime fixes this problem in Diplomat Murder Case, in a dub, but not the original version, where Heiji Hattori hints at the names of both Gin and Vodka. This makes it plausible for Conan to recall their names in this episode.

Anime to manga changes

• The manga has a reference to that the organisation are referred to by alcohols when Kogoro says that he had a five or six glasses of "Gin, Vodka and Bourbon ". The reference to Bourbon is not mentioned in the anime version.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Hideaki Nakajima - Henry Nelbit
• Koji Ueda - Kelvin Tug
• Hironobu Takeshita - Charles Shore
• Ishikawa - George Fuman
• Daikoku Building - Apollo Building

Error

Conan upon hearing Kogoro mentioning having some Gin and Vodka, recalls that Heiji Hattori telling him that the two men in black who he met went by the name of Gin and Vodka. In the Japanese Version, he merely recalls that those were the two men responsible for his condition.

This particular error originated in the Dub for Diplomat Murder Case. Presumably, this was done as a means of explaining how Conan knows the codename of the two men due to their omission in several episodes, but Heiji wouldn't discover Conan's secret until Holmes Freak Murder Case.

Manga

• Due to Viz Media originally referring to Gin and Vodka as Kaspar and Melkior (volume 4), their translation of this story in volume 12 has Conan's recollection of the two brought on by Kogoro mentioning that he had Kaspar Gin and Melkior Vodka. Following this, volume 18 is the final time that Viz continued with altered names.

Trivia

• This is the first episode where the murderer kills the wrong person unintentionally.
• In the English dub, the explosion in the Apollo Building killed 23 people, some of whom could not be identified by authorities.
• Mantendo is a reference to Nintendo Co., Ltd. A Japanese video game company.
• This is the first Black Organization Episode since The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case in the Manga, but the first one since Roller Coaster Murder Case in the Anime, when Shinichi first became Conan.
• Although Conan may know their names in the manga, he should not know the names of Gin and Vodka in the anime yet, esp in the original version, where no one told him yet, making that a continuity error too, but...
• Conan will encounter his third Black Organization member in this episode, Tequila.
• The Black Organization Members must think Bombs and Explosions are clean ways to get rid of those they want to kill.
• Black Organization believe in mass murder.
• This is the first episode that a Black Organization member died and was murdered.
• This is the first episode that a Black Organization affiliated person was targeted by someone else for murder, although in this episode the affiliated person managed to live due to an exchange with the Black Organization Member, who died instead.
• When Kogoro mentioned drinking "Gin, Vodka, Bourbon," it made Conan think of Gin and Vodka, who shrank him, although he should not know their names yet in the anime.
• Conan accidentally hit Ran with his tranquilizing dart, but it hit the luggage tags.
• Ran accidentally knocked her dad unconscious.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	謎	Nazo	Mystery	Nazo
2	昼下がりの天使たち	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi	Early Afternoon Angels	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
5	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
7	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
8	悪のテーマ （パート１）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 1)	Theme of Evil (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
10	脅迫 （パート２）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)	Threat (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
12	脅迫 （パート２）	Kyōhaku (Pāto 2)	Threat (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	犯人のアジト	Hannin no Ajito	The Culprit's Hideout	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
14	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
16	ひらめき	Hirameki	Flash	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
17	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
18	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
19	光と影のロマン	Hikari to Kage no Roman	Romance of Light and Shadow	Hikari to Kage no Roman
20	蘭のテーマ （優しさver.）	Ran no Tēma (Yasashisa ver.)	Ran's Theme (Gentle ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	الحقيبة القاتلة	The Deadly Bag
Basque	Hilketa kasinoan	Murder in the casino
Catalan (Catalonia dub)	El cas de l'assassinat de l'empresa de jocs	Game company murder case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat de la companyia de jocs	Game company murder
French	La Mystérieuse organisation	The Mysterious Organization
Galician	O asasinato da empresa de xogos	Game company murder
German	Fatale Verwechslung	Fatal Mix-Up
Italian	Chi è il colpevole?	Who is the Culprit?
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Asesinato en el salón de juegos	Murder in the game hall
Spanish (American dub)	El asesinato en la compañía de juegos	Murder in game company
Vietnamese	Vụ án giết người ở công ty Game	Game Company Murder Case
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมบริษัทเกม	Game Company Murder Case

See also

• Season 2