The Novelist Known as the Demon King

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Episode 1014 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Novelist Known as the Demon King
Japanese title:	魔王と呼ばれた小説家 (Maō to Yobareta Shōsetsuka)
Original airdate:	July 31, 2021
Filler case:	#352
Season:	29
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Curtains
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Nobuo Ogizawa
Storyboard:	Masaharu Okuwaki
Episode director:	Minoru Tozawa
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Keiko Sasaki
Character design:	Hiroshi Ogawa (design works) Rei Masunaga
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Kousuke Okano as Ryunosuke Bito Yasuhiro Takato as Haruo Chigasaki Sanae Kobayashi as Miyuki Degawa Masaki Aizawa as Shintaro Tawake Hidenobu Kiuchi as Naoya Akaike
Music
Opening song:	ZERO kara Hajimete
Closing song:	Reboot

The Novelist Known as the Demon King (魔王と呼ばれた小説家 ,Maō to Yobareta Shōsetsuka) is the 1014th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Kogoro and Conan ran into the crime scene of a mystery writer who was shot to death.

Murder
	Location: Shintaro Tawake's house Victim: Shintaro Tawake Age: 55 years old Cause of death: Gunshot wound on abdomen Suspects: Naoya Akaike, Miyuki Degawa, Ryunosuke Bito, and Haruo Chigasaki

The suspects are his four apprentices, but who really did it and how Tawake is killed?

People

Shintaro Tawake
	Victim (gunshot) 55 years old Mystery writer

Naoya Akaike
	38 years old Tawake's apprentice

Miyuki Degawa
	30 years old Tawake's apprentice

Ryunosuke Bito
	35 years old Tawake's apprentice

Haruo Chigasaki
	33 years old Tawake's apprentice

Resolution

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The next day, the police and the four suspects come back to the scene. Conan then tranquilized Kogoro. The culprit made a trick to shot the gun automatically, by tying the weapon to a chair with strings, place it in line with a mirror made with aluminium foil from the house next door. The gunshot will react to the light reflected by the mirror and shot the victim. The culprit use this method because it is needes to create an alibi, so the culprit is the only one with an alibi, Naoya Akaike. The proof is he pretended to make a dentist appointment and later pretended to cancel it, because if he knew that Tawake will die, there was no point to make the appointment. The motive is that Tawake used all of his apprentices as ghost-writers and Akaike wanted to free everyone from Tawake.

Gallery

See also

• Season 29