The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall

	Murder (Past)
Location:	Mansion of Death
Victim:	Shusaku Akashi
Cause of death:	Starvation
Suspects:	Naoki Midorikawa, Shoji Yamabuki, Takuto Momose, and Shiro Naoki

Taka'aki Morofushi (Komei)
	35 years old; Inspector from Nagano Prefecture Arano Station;

	Episode 558-561 ; (Int. Episode 609-612)
	Information
Title:	The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall ; 558 Three Visits ; 559 Item in Hand ; 560 The Late Komei ; 561 Empty Fort Strategy
Japanese title:	死亡の館、赤い壁 ; (Shibou no Yakata, Akai Kabe) ; 558 三顧の礼 ; 559 掌中の物 ; 560 死せる孔明 ; 561 空城の計
Original airdate:	December 5, 2009 (558); December 12, 2009 (559); December 19, 2009 (560); December 26, 2009 (561)
Broadcast rating:	11,70% ; 8,30% ; 8,70% ; 6,30%
Manga case:	#199
Season:	18
Manga source:	Volume 65: File 6 (682) ~ ; Volume 66: File 1 (686)
	Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa ; Ran Mouri ; Kogoro Mouri ; Kansuke Yamato ; Yui Uehara ; Taka'aki Morofushi
Case solved by:	Taka'aki Morofushi ; Conan Edogawa ; Kansuke Yamato
Next Conan's Hint:	Red paint (Three Visits) ; Chess (Item in Hand) ; Operating gown (The Late Komei) ; Italy (Empty Fort Strategy)
	Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Organizer:	558 Masaharu Okuwaki ; 559 Masaharu Okuwaki ; 560 Takaomi Kanasaki ; 561 Takaomi Kanasaki
Storyboard:	558 Masaharu Okuwaki ; 559 Masaharu Okuwaki ; 560 Takaomi Kanasaki ; 561 Takaomi Kanasaki
Episode director:	558 Nobuharu Kamanaka ; 559 Aisu Mugino ; 560 Koichiro Kuroda ; 561 Akira Yoshimura
Animation director:	558 Nobuyuki Iwai, Tomomi Kamiya ; 559 Akio Kawamura, Michiyuki Nojo, Yusuke Suzuki ; 560 Michitaka Yamamoto, Masashi Hasegawa ; 561 Masatomo Sudo, Junko Yamanaka, Seiji Muta
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo ; Junko Yamanaka ; Kumiko Shishido and Nobuyuki Iwai (design works)
Production cooperation:	559 BIG BANG ; 560 Azeta Pictures
Voice Cast:
	Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa ; Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri ; Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri ; Yuji Takada as Kansuke Yamato ; Ami Koshimizu as Yui Uehara ; Sho Hayami as Taka'aki Morofushi ; Ryusuke Obayashi as Naoki Midorikawa ; Ryuji Nakagi as Shoji Yamabuki ; Shinpachi Tsuji as Takuto Momose ; Kyosei Tsukui as Shiro Naoki ; Tomoyuki Shimura as Doctor ; Masato Funaki as Patient's husband ; Sadao Nunome as Police Officer A ; Toshimitsu Oda as Police Officer B
	Music
Opening song:	MAGIC
Closing song:	Hikari

Chronology
‹ A Dangerous Party of Two	List of Episodes	Rainbow Color Kidnapping ›

The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall (死亡の館、赤い壁 ,Shibou no Yakata, Akai Kabe^?) is the 558th, 559th, 560th, and 561st episodes of Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Cast

Characters

Case

Situation

Three Visits

Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara takes Kogoro, Ran, and Conan to a mansion. Uehara reveals that the mansion was owned by a rich man in the past; The man one day decided to search for five talented people and gave the five a room in the mansion until they have reached their dreams. Uehara reveals that six people, Shusaku Akashi, Aoi Kobashi, Naoki Midorikawa, Shoji Yamabuki, Takuto Momose, and Shiro Naoki, referred to each others as colors that sound alike to their names. They were called Aka (赤?, Red), Ao (青?, Blue), Midori (緑?, Green), Yamabuki (山吹?, Golden Yellow), Momoiro (桃色?, Pink), and Shiro (白?, White) respectively. Yamato reveals that the doors in the mansion swung outward and that someone used a pile of boxes filled with books to trap Akashi inside a room. They examine the room to find one wall of the room painted red and in the center of the room a white and black chair placed back to back and nailed into the ground with the white chair facing the red wall.

Yamato's rival, Taka'aki Morofushi whose name can be read in Chinese as Komei, arrives and reveals he was the first to find the body as he was delivering flowers to the late Aoi who died from a heart attack in the storage room of the house. Conan reveals that the culprit knew the door would open outwards in the house and the location of the boxes of books which means the culprit is one of the three people who use to live in the mansion.

Item in Hand

Yamato tells Komei to take Ran and Conan with him to investigate the four suspects. They learn that Akashi and Aoi were avid chess fan and that Aoi was adored by all her friends. After investigating the four, they believe Naoki is involved in the murder in some way and travel to his apartment to arrest him. Upon arrival, they find that Naoki has been strangled and that the culprit had spray painted the wall in front of Naoki red.

Murder

Location:	Apartment
Victim:	Shiro Naoki
Age:	36 years old
Cause of death:	Strangulation
Suspects:	Naoki Midorikawa, Shoji Yamabuki, Takuto Momose, and Taka'aki Morofushi

Komei then heads off to investigate the case on his own.

The Late Komei

Komei investigates the crime scene at the mansion and realizes who the culprit is. Before he could text his answer to Yamato, he is knocked unconscious by the culprit.

Attempted Murder

Location:	Mansion of Death
Victim:	Taka'aki Morofushi
Age:	35 years old
Injury:	Blunt trauma to the head
Suspects:	Naoki Midorikawa, Shoji Yamabuki, and Takuto Momose

Arson

Location:	Mansion of Death
Suspects:	Naoki Midorikawa, Shoji Yamabuki, and Takuto Momose

The building is set ablaze and Komei is saved by Uehara. At the hospital, Conan and Yamato deduced from Komei's incomplete text "The late Komei" was a saying which was alluded from the Battle of Wuzhang Plains. The moral of the story is that one can have great influence even after death. They believe that the culprit murdered Akashi to avenge Aoi's death. Conan and Yamato then realize what Akashi's dying message means.

Empty Fort Strategy

Komei regains consciousness, together they conclude that they lack the evidence to capture the culprit and thus decide to use the Empty Fort Strategy to lure the culprit out.

People

Shusaku Akashi
	Deceased (starved) Illustrator

Aoi Kobashi
	Deceased (heart attack) Novelist Shusaku's wife

Taka'aki Morofushi
	Victim (bludgeoned - injured) 35 years old Inspector from Nagano Prefecture Arano Station

Naoki Midorikawa
	38 years old Actor

Shoji Yamabuki
	39 years old Fashion designer

Takuto Momose
	37 years old Computer graphic creator

Shiro Naoki
	Victim (strangled) 36 years old Musician

Kid
	Wandering kid

Drunk man
	Drunk office worker

Woman 1
	Drunk man's girlfriend

Man
	Drunk man with girlfriend

Woman 2
	Drying out her clothes

Panty thief
	Masked man

Police Officer A
	Nagano Prefecture police officer Patrolling around Shiro's house

Police Officer B
	Nagano Prefecture police officer Patrolling around Shiro's house

Doctor
	Arano Hospital doctor

Old man
	Arano Hospital patient

Resolution

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Trivia

This is the last episode of the 2000s.
The case draws heavy reference to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a classic historical romance from China. In the case, Conan and Ran are aware of this reference, with Ran reciting the historical reference for the uninformed viewers. In fact, a lot of details are inspired from them:
- The nickname of Taka'aki Morofushi is Komei, a war strategist in ancient time.
- The dying message of Shusaku Akashi is the case of "The death scare away the living", a strategy Komei used to scare away the living Zhongda from attacking.
- Conan's planning for the culprit to enter Naoki's apartment was inspired from "The Empty Fort", though with opposite use. In the original, The Empty Fort was to purposely reveal resources and traps while there was no actual troops protecting the base, meaning to scare the enemy away. In this case, it was to purposely reveal weakness to make the culprit think he can break into the apartment.
Each person's pronunciation has a reference to a color.

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Morofushi's car is a salmon pink 1986 Citroën CX GTI Série 2.
The police car is a Toyota Crown.

Gallery

For the full gallery see: The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall/Gallery