A June Bride Murder Case

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Episode 18 (Int. Episode 19)
Information
Title:	A June Bride Murder Case
Japanese title:	6月の花嫁殺人事件 (Rokugatsu no Hanayome Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	June 3, 1996 June 12, 2010 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	14.6%
Manga case:	#21
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 8: Files 8-10 (078-080)
English version
English title:	Wedding Day Blues
Dubbed episode:	Episode 19
English airdate:	June 23, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Kiyonaga Matsumoto Shinichi Kudo Officer Tome
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Medicine capsule Lemon tea can (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Kazunari Kouchi
Storyboard:	Johei Matsuura
Episode director:	Johei Matsuura
Animation director:	Atsushi Aono
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Yu Mizushima as Toshihiko Takasugi Maya Okamoto as Sayuri Matsumoto Seizo Kato as Kiyonaga Matsumoto Urara Takano as Kazumi Takenaka Dai Matsumoto as Atsushi Umemiya Takumi Yamazaki as Friend Wataru Takagi as Police officer, Next Conan's Hint Naoki Makishima as Officer Tome
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

A June Bride Murder Case (6月の花嫁殺人事件 ,Rokugatsu no Hanayome Satsujin Jiken) is the 18th episode of Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Kiyonaga Matsumoto
	Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Shinichi Kudo (flashback) Officer Tome Kogoro Mouri (mentioned)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Conan, Ran, and Sonoko visit their old middle school music teacher, Sayuri Matsumoto, as she prepares for her wedding to Toshihiko Takasugi. Sayuri teases Conan because he reminds her of a boy she once taught. Conan manages to escape suspicion before too many parallels to Shinichi are noticed.

Not everyone seems to be completely satisfied with Sayuri's marriage choice: a former student with a crush, Sayuri's doubting police father, and the groom's ex-girlfriend are all present. As Sonoko films the proceedings, Sayuri drinks from a can of her favorite lemon tea. She then collapses and is rushed to the hospital. The tea was spiked with a caustic substance.

Attempted Murder

Location: Chapel Victim: Sayuri Matsumoto Age: 27 years old Injury: Sodium hydroxide poisoning Suspects: Atsushi Umemiya, Toshihiko Takasugi, Kazumi Takenaka, Kiyonaga Matsumoto, Ran Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki, and Conan Edogawa Sonoko and Ran take Conan to the wedding of their old middle school music teacher. When they go to check up on her, they discover that she drank a lemon punch tea that was poisoned by one of the four people she previously met.

People

Sayuri Matsumoto
	Victim (poison - injured) 27 years old Bride Teitan Junior High music teacher Kiyonaga's daughter

Kazumi Takenaka
	27 years old Sayuri's college friend Toshihiko's ex-girlfriend

Kiyonaga Matsumoto
	54 years old Tokyo MPD superintendent Sayuri's father

Atsushi Umemiya
	18 years old Sayuri's former student, Teitan High council president

Toshihiko Takasugi
	28 years old Groom Takasugi Group heir

Police officer
	Policeman from Tokyo Police District

Resolution

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Conan found out who the criminal was and put Sonoko to sleep.

Evidence

• By looking at the video Ran took he showed that Sonoko had put her lemon tea right next to the victim's and the criminal had put the poison in Sonoko's lemon tea instead of the one the victim had been drinking. Proof of this was the fact that Sonoko's fingerprints were all over the can and two of the people that had touched the can did have their fingerprints on it.
• The criminal had actually put in the capsule they brought along with the poison, floating in the drink and with the poison that was put in separately to make it look like the poison was put in 15 minutes before when it actually had been put in more recently.
• The only four people that had been near the can after it was switched was Sonoko, Ran, Conan, and the groom, Toshihiko Takasugi.

Conclusion

The criminal was Toshihiko Takasugi. Sonoko and Ran had never touched the can after the switch and once they exclude Conan, Takasugi and the victim herself are the only people that could of poisoned the lemon tea. It couldn't have been the victim because there was no container to hold the poison in or the drying agent. Those two things were needed to carry around sodium hydroxide, the poison used, because sodium hydroxide liquefies in a few minutes and the victim was in the room the whole time there would be no way to dispose of the container and drying agent outside in the hall where it was found.

Motive

The motive was that superintendent Matsumoto had crashed into a suspect's car twelve years ago, and Takasugi's mother and only direct relative got caught in the crash.

Murder? Accident? (past)
	Location: Village road Victim: Takasugi's mother Time: 20 years ago Cause of death: Car carshed Culprit: A serial killer A serial killer crashed into Takasugi's mother twenty years ago.

Woman
	Deceased (car crash) Toshihiko's mother Candy shop owner

Man
100px	Criminal twenty years ago

Not seeing Takasugi's mother, Matsumoto told him to go away when he tried to tell him. 15 minutes later Takasugi's mother died on the street. Upon hearing this, Matsumoto admitted his share of guilt in the accident, but also added that once he learned about Takasugi's mother, he never forgave himself for inadvertently killing her. He did intend to apologize to Takasugi, but he had already moved away by then.

Takasugi was adopted by a rich family, and then destiny brought him back to Matsumoto and Sayuri. When he learned that his girlfriend was the superintendent's daughter, he was consumed by anger and bitterness, wanted to kill her to show the superintendent how much it hurt to lose someone he cared for. Kazumi Takenaka, however, slapped Takasugi and told him that Sayuri's first love was a boy who loved Lemon Tea and never forgot him after he moved away for undisclosed reasons. Once Sayuri started dating Takasugi and noticed he also drank Lemon Tea, she deduced what had happened in the past, therefore she did know that Takasugi was her lost first love, knew what he wanted to do to her, and willingly took the poison to atone for all the pain that transformed Takasugi from a kind boy to an embittered adult.

Later they were told that Sayuri's surgery was a success and that she was going to recover soon, even to the relief of Takasugi himself, who had genuinely repented from what he had done. He was given a light sentence due to Sayuri telling the judge about how she drank his poison voluntarily. Three years later, Sayuri and Takasugi rekindled their relationship, and they got married for real.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Sayuri Matsumoto - Catherine McLaughlin
• Kazumi Takenaka - Celia
• Atsushi Umemiya - Johnny Umina
• Toshihiko Takasugi - Tony Tsugi

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga, Conan rinses out Miss Matsumoto's mouth out with milk after he finds her collapsed, in an effort to neutralize the poison in her body. It is later stated that this bit of first aid may have been the reason to why Miss Matsumoto was discharged from the hospital sooner than anticipated. These parts are cut from the anime entirely.
• In the manga, Conan accidentally knocks out Sonoko and is forced to use her to make his deductions. However, in the anime Conan knocks out Sonoko intentionally to use her to make his deductions.

Remastered version

A remastered version of this episode aired on June 12, 2010.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
00:00	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
01:45	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ (タイトルver.)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Taitoru ver.)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Title ver.)	Unreleased
01:52	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
02:59	のんびり気分	Nonbiri Kibun	Carefree Feeling	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
05:45	蘭・愛のテーマ	Ran・Ai no Tēma	Ran's Love Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
07:12	蘭のテーマ（優しさver.）	Ran no Tēma (Yasashisa ver.)	Ran's Theme (Gentle ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
09:22	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12:54	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
13:53	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
14:26	犯人のアジト	Hannin no Ajito	The Culprit's Hideout	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16:34	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
18:50	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Vōkaru・Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Vocal Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
20:30	コナンのテーマ（バラード・ヴァージョン)	Konan no Tēma (Barādo・Vājon)	Conan's Theme (Ballad Version)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
21:25	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP	STEP BY STEP
23:34	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	العرس الذي يتحول إلى مأساة	The Wedding that Turned into a Tragedy
Basque	Ezkontza egun iluna	A dark wedding day
Catalan (Catalan dub)	L'assassinat de la núvia	Bride's Murder
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat de la nòvia	Bride's Murder
French	La Mariée de juin	June's Bride
Galician	O asasinato da noiva	Bride's Murder
German	Die Kapsel im Zitronentee	The Capsule in the Lemon Tea
Italian	Oggi sposi	Just Married
Polish	Sprawa czerwcowej panny młodej	The Case of a June Bride
Portuguese	Assassinato da noiva de Julho	July's [sic] bride murder
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Asesinato de la novia de junio	June's bride murder
Spanish (American dub)	¿Quién asesinó a la novia?	Who murdered the bride?
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมเจ้าสาวเดือนมิถุนา	A June Bride Murder Case
Vietnamese	Vụ án giết cô dâu	A Bride Murder Case

See also

• Season 1