The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Sonoko Suzuki

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OVA 8
Information
Title:	The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Sonoko Suzuki
Japanese Title:	女子高生探偵 鈴木園子の事件簿 (Joshi Kōsei Tantei Suzuki Sonoko no Jikenbo)
Original airdate:	March 12, 2008
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Sonoko Suzuki Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo Ai Haibara Detective Boys Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Hiroshi Agasa Nakamichi Eisuke Aizawa
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Kazutoyo Yamada
Technical Director:	Kousuke Kobayashi
Animation Director:	Hayato Watanabe Haruna Kirishima
Voice cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Chafurin as Juzo Megure Katsumi Toriumi as Tsuyoshi Kitano Toru Nara as Junpei Minamisawa  Satomi Arai as Eiko Nishizawa  Masafumi Kimura as Takeo Oshita  Jun Fukushima as Nakamichi   Hisayoshi Suganuma as Eisuke Aizawa   Daisuke Namikawa as Naoya Higashida
Music
Closing song:	Yukidoke no Ano Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Sonoko Suzuki Ran Mouri Shinichi Kudo Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Hiroshi Agasa Nakamichi Eisuke Aizawa Mitsue (on TV) Tsutomu (on TV)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Turbo Engine Skateboard

Case

Situation

Sonoko volunteers herself to write and direct a stage play by Teitan High School students for charity at a church. She came up with a murder case featuring characters from the series (i.e. Kogoro, Megure, etc.) and herself as the female high school detective who will solve the case. However, she can't come up with the meaning of the dying message the victim leaves, and how the rest of the story plays out.

At first, Sonoko asked Ran to talk to Kogoro for suggestion on how the meaning of the dying message should be. He ended up saying the same thing as his deduction in Sonoko's script. Ran then decided to call Shinichi hoping he could give a good suggestion, but Shinichi said he'll call her later. So, in the meantime, the Detective Boys tried to help Sonoko come up with the story.

The case below is the story Sonoko came up with for the stage play.

Murder
	Location: Weekly NEWS office Victim: Takeo Oshita Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Naoya Higashida, Eiko Nishizaki, Tsuyoshi Kitano, and Junpei Minamisawa Oshita was stabbed in the back while watching TV and eating pizza. He then tried to walk to the culprit before falling down and eventually died on the floor.

People

Takeo Oshita
	Victim (stabbed) 54 years old Weekly NEWS president & editor-in-chief

Junpei Minamisawa
	26 years old Weekly NEWS employee

Naoya Higashida
	32 years old Weekly NEWS employee

Eiko Nishizaki
	30 years old Weekly NEWS employee

Tsuyoshi Kitano
	28 years old Weekly NEWS employee

Mr. Nishizaki
	Deceased Eiko's father Weekly NEWS founder

Resolution

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Sonoko says Naoya Higashida should be the real culprit in the story, so Genta came up with having Higashida's given name being Ichirou (one) and the meaning of the dying message being number one. Ayumi then suggested that Oshita was trying to say "one" in English (pronounced as "Wan" in Japanese) and that Higashida was a dog instead. Mitsuhiko then suggested that Oshita was an alien who was shocked and having his heart stopped because Higashida found out about the fact. He then fantasizes a about it turning into a parody of ET, as the Detective Boys to run away with the alien from the police. Sonoko rejected all of these suggestions.

Later, inside Mouri Detecive Agency. Conan was able to come up with a plausible resolution after seeing the text sticker on the detective agency's windows and Mitsuhiko talking about how Genta was making pizza grease dripping everywhere. The resolution he came up with is as follows :

"NEWS" can be used to represent the cardinal directions. As in, "N" stands for Kita (北, North), "E" stands for Higashi (東, East), "W" stands for Nishi (西, West) and "S" expresses Minami (南, South). When sunlight came in through the windows, the letters of "NEWS" written on them appeared as shadows on the floor. After Higashida left, Oshita then saw the shadows as the sunlight came, and he used his left hand to point the shadow of the "E", revealing that the culprit is the one who has "East" in his name.

Oshita grabbed Higashida's left arm with his right hand soon after he had been stabbed, which touched Higashida's watch. Since he was eating pizza just before that, a greasy fingerprint appeared on the watch. Oshita didn't wear a watch, so he grabbed his belt with his right hand, signalling that the culprit's (watch) belt should be checked.

The culprit's motive is that he got fed up with the president trying to make the magazine sell by writing fake reports, which went against his will and his love towards the magazine.

Sonoko accepted "Shinichi's" story. Then, a week later, as the time came for the stage play, Sonoko ended up catching a cold and couldn't speak, thus Ran had to replace her. The last scene was also altered to an action scene where Ran would take out the culprit.

Trivia

• In this OVA, Haibara makes Sonoko cry because of the loopholes in her stage drama play.
• The representation of the drama play was presented in Beika Church.
• The title of the case comes from a book of Arthur Conan Doyle titled The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
• Although this case in non-canon, Sonoko observed that Conan goes to the bathroom a lot, which happened twice in this OVA, and both times was to get on the phone as Shinichi.
• Although it was only in imagination land, when Shinichi called Ran, he was playing the violin, which is the first time to see him play a musical instrument so far.
• This is the first case, however non--canon, that shows the windows that spell out "Mouri Detective Agency" do actually open, by sliding over or under another window.
• The usage of the song "Amazing Grace" can be seen as referencing the movie from the same year Full Score of Fear.

See also

• OVAs