The Similar Princesses

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Episode 333-334 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Similar Princesses
Japanese title:	似た者プリンセス (Nitamono Purinsesu)
Original airdate:	August 25, 2003 (Part 1) September 1, 2003 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	12.90% 15.00%
Manga case:	#120
Season:	12
Manga source:	Volume 40: File 10 (413) ~ Volume 41: File 3 (416)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eri Kisaki Yukiko Kudo Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Midori Kuriyama Yoko Okino
Case solved by:	Yukiko Kudo (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Ran's mother and Shinichi's mother (Part 1) Bookmark (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Masato Sato
Organizer:	Chika Ichimaru
Storyboard:	Chika Ichimaru
Episode director:	333 Nana Harada 334 Kazuyoshi Yokota
Animation director:	333 Hirobi Muranaka 334 Akiko Kawashima
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Gara Takashima as Eri Kisaki Sumi Shimamoto as Yukiko Kudo Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Asako Dodo as Midori Kuriyama Miki Nagasawa as Yoko Okino Fumio Matsuoka as Sohachi Ueki Akira Shimada as Kozo Doi Akira Murayama as Shigeru Fujieda Kosei Tomita as Mikio Fujieda Yukari Honma as Motoka Fujieda Yasunori Masutani as Boy Naoki Makishima as Policeman 1 Masahiro Okazaki as Policeman 2 Fujiko Takimoto as Home helper 1 Naoko Nakamura as Home helper 2 Sayuri Kubo as Home helper 3 Akiko Toda as Home helper 4
Music
Opening song:	Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made
Closing song:	Kimi to Iu Hikari

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Eri Kisaki Yukiko Kudo Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Midori Kuriyama Yoko Okino (On TV) Yusaku Kudo (Background / On phone)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro is hired by the wife of a rich man named Mikio Fujieda to find out who wants to kill him and had been promised ¥10 million after solving the case. Kogoro however spends ¥8 million(¥3 million from three days of party, another ¥5 from horse race and gambling in order to find money to pay back the former cost) and is unable to solve the case. Ran decides to call her mother, Eri Kisaki, to help solve the mystery. Conan, Ran, and Eri head to Fujieda's mansion to investigate only to run into Conan's mother, Yukiko who is investigating the mystery in place of her husband Yusaku. The two mothers reminiscence about a high-school pageant and how it ended in a tie due to a person not handing in their ballot. Ran reveals that Kogoro has an unhanded ballot from the contest which sparks the interest of the two. Later that night, Fujieda is caught on a camera after being shot.

Murder

Location: Fujieda Household Study Room Victim: Mikio Fujieda Age: 58 years old Cause of death: Three gunshot wounds Suspects: Sohachi Ueki, Kozo Doi, Shigeru Fujieda, and Motoka Fujieda While Conan, Ran, Eri and Yukiko along with Ueki and Motoka are watching Mikio in the security room, Mikio is threatened by someone with a gun and is shot! Shortly later, when the former four are able to enter the study he is shot two more times! As everyone has alibis during each of the gun shots, who's the true culprit?

Part 2

Conan investigates and realizes who the murderer is after receiving a hint from his father.

People

Sohachi Ueki
	69 years old Fujieda family butler

Kozo Doi
	61 years old Fujieda family gardener From Kochi Prefecture

Shigeru Fujieda
	47 years old Mikio Fujieda's brother-in-law

Mikio Fujieda
	Victim (gunshot) 58 years old Head of the Fujieda family

Motoka Fujieda
	26 years old Mikio Fujieda's wife Kogoro's client

Mrs. Fujieda
	Deceased Fujieda family heiress Shigeru's sister Mikio's former wife

Boy
	Italian restaurant waiter

Nakanishi
	Eri's client

Maid A
	Fujieda family maid

Maid B
	Fujieda family maid

Maid C
	Fujieda family maid

Maid D
	Fujieda family maid

Maid E
	Fujieda family maid

Police Officer A
	Tokyo MPD police officer

Police Officer B
	Tokyo MPD police officer

Resolution

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Conan reveals the murderer to be the butler, Sohachi Ueki. Conan reveals that Fujieda was drugged with Isoprenaline causing him to be stunned and dazed when he stood up to stretch causing them to believe that the culprit was in the room at the time of the murder. Conan explains that Fujieda was shot from outside the room. Another complication involves how three shots were heard but that the gardener Kozo Doi testified that he only heard two with the first sound being glass shattering. Megure realizes after a hint from Eri and Yukiko that Ueki must have used a silencer, for the first shot (also explaining why on the surveillance footage there was an absence of a gunshot). It also explains why the gunshot wound was shallow in nature according to Chiba's report.

As evidence, Conan reveals that the coffee the butler served should contain traces of Isoprenaline and that the butler should have the silencer on him. Ueki confesses and reveals he murdered Fujieda in order to preserve the garden his former mistress cherished and worked so hard to build. Mikio's will was then read that he will not give his inheritance to those who could not protect his life and Motoka was forced to sell her possession to pay Eri, Kogoro, and Yukiko for total of 10 million yen according to laws No. 415.

At the Mouri Detective Agency, Yukiko and Eri ask Kogoro whom he voted for in their high-school pageant. Kogoro reveals he voted for Eri since he thought "Miss" meant "mistake" and that it was a mistake for Eri to have entered the competition. Kogoro told that he would vote for Yukiko if he realized "Miss Teitan" was a beauty contest. Much to Eri's dismay, she took 10% (1 million yen) of Kogoro's payment for solving the case and Ran took some to pay for Kogoro's debts, for their expenses, and payment for the laundry (since Kogoro peed his pants) leaving Kogoro less than 5000 yen.

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga, Yukiko wears a cross necklace as an accessory. This is changed to a silver "l" in the anime to avoid doing any religious reference.

Trivia

• Detective Takagi's appearance changes a bit strarting from this episode, most notably his shirt (from sky blue to light grey) and necktie (from blue to bluish dark gray).
• This case marks Midori Kuriyama's first canon appearance.
• This is the fourth case with Yukiko Kudo. The other three were Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case, The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases, and The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno, not counting the backflash in Desperate Revival.
• Unlike Yukiko's first and third appearance, she was undisguised in this case, just like her second appearance.
• In this case, Eri referred to Yukiko as a "Teitan Princess, who I was Couldn't beat," and Yukiko called her "The Conservative Mature Queen.
• This is the case that revealed that the two mothers have not seen each other for ten years, which was before Kogoro and Eri have split up. Which would probably explain why Conan/Shinichi did not recognize Eri when he first saw her in Coffee Shop Murder Case, since he and Ran were really 7 years old, when her parents split.
• This is the case that revealed that Yukiko Kudo, Eri Kisaki, and Kogoro Mouri all attended Teitan High School, and Eri and Yukiko competed in a Miss Teitan High School Beauty Pageant which shook the school, and they cancelled the competition to end the chaos, so neither one actually won or lost.
• This case also revealed that Yukiko was already a gifted actress, and Eri, even at the age of 16, received an offer to study at Harvard.
• This is the case that revealed that Ran's mother competed against Shinichi's mother, in that competition.
• This is one of the first cases, of not the only case, where Yukiko almost blew Conan Edogawa's identity, and after she accidentally said "My," while hugging Conan, which caused Eri to catch that one word.
  • Yukiko quickly covered it up by saying, "My Grandpa's sister's daughter's cousin's uncle's grandson."
  • In The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases, she told Ran that Conan "happens to be my grandfather's older brother's daughter's cousin's uncles' grandson."
  • Well, at least she got the her grandpa's sibling's daughter's cousin's uncle's grandson" correct even though the Grandpa's sibling is a different gender.
  • With luck, Ran may not latch onto the discrepancy between this episode and 237 episodes ago.
• This is one of the first cases that make Conan feel useless, at least at the start due to how highly competent both of their mothers are at handling the case, leaving practically nothing for him to do in regards to investigating the crime.
• Yukiko recognized the gardener, Kozo Doi, came from the Kochi Prefecture, and told him that she was from Takajou City, which appears to possibly be a fictitious city, although it did cause Kozo to reveal that he is from Kami City, which is apparently not too far from Takajou City, since he obviously heard of it. Yukiko is an actress, and she helped him by getting him to talk, which he was not doing, until he believed that she was from the same prefecture as himself.
• Conan also revealed that Yukiko once played a part that spoke with a Tosa Accent, and she learned it at that time.
• This is the first case with Yukiko Kudo, that Yusaku is only in the background.
• Yukiko had to have been really watching Conan, because when he was just beginning to develop, what will be called his "Prankster Smile," in the future,

and immediately hit him, like Kogoro does, and guessed that he figured it out. The smile was not even half formed at the time, when she hit him on the head, and for the most part, it was still at a mostly imperceptible.

• • This case also makes Yukiko the first person to catch the prankster smile that Conan frequently shows when he figured out the case or trick, and to make it harder to mention, is it never got to be actually formed due to it's emergence being halted at the offset.
• When Conan made a reference to her appearing on stage as the Night Baroness, he is referring to what certain circles call Yukiko, since she is the wife to the creator of the Night Baron Books, as revealed in Shinichi Kudo's New York Case.
• This is the first case that Conan uses a lip syncing Yukiko to solve his case.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	君と約束した優しいあの場所まで	Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made	Until I Get You Gently to That Promised Place	Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made
2	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
3	昼下がりの天使たち	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi	Early Afternoon Angels	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
5	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
6	少年探偵団のテーマ	Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma	The Detective Boys' Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
8	ワインをのんで	Wain o Nonde	Drinking Wine	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
9	ゲームスタート～ピッタリ賞	Gēmu Sutāto ~ Pittari Shō	Game Start ~ Exact Prize	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
10	真相究明	Shinsō Kyūmei	Investigating the Truth	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
11	蘭・愛のテーマ （ギターver.）	Ran・Ai no Tēma (Gitā ver.)	Ran's Love Theme (Guitar ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	(Unreleased Sound Effect/BGM)
14	尋問	Jinmon	Interrogation	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
15	少年探偵団のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	The Detective Boys' Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
16	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
17	犯人（スナイパー）の正体	Hannin (Sunaipā) no Shōtai	The Culprit's (Sniper's) Identity	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
18	君という光	Kimi to Iu Hikari	The Light Called "You"	Kimi to Iu Hikari

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	君と約束した優しいあの場所まで	Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made	Until I Get You Gently to That Promised Place	Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made
2	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
3	緊迫	Kinpaku	Tension	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	犯人のアジト （いよいよver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Iyoiyo ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (More and More 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	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
7	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
8	「何だこの痕跡は？」 （未収録ヴァージョン）	"Nanda Kono Konseki wa?" (Mi Shūroku Vājon)	"What Is This a Trace Of?" (Unreleased Version)
9	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	迷路	Meiro	Labyrinth	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 4 ~Isoge! Shōnen Tanteidan~
11	激突	Gekitotsu	Clash	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	推理 （不気味ver.）	Suiri (Bukimi ver.)	Deduction (Ominous ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	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
15	コナンの夢	Konan no Yume	Conan's Dream	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16	君という光	Kimi to Iu Hikari	The Light Called "You"	Kimi to Iu Hikari
17	想い出	Omoide	Memories	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
18	THE END（あれまぁ～）	THE END (Aremā~)	THE END ("Good Heavens!")	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Dues princeses pastades	Two identical princesses
Catalan (Valencian dub)	La reina i la princesa	The queen and the princess
German	Zwei ähnliche Prinzessinnen	Two similar princesses
Italian	Cronaca di una morte annunciata	Foretold Death's Chronicle
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Dos princesas tal para cual	Two princesses made each for other
Thai	ปริ๊นเซสที่คล้ายกัน	Alike Princesses

See also

• Season 12