The Detective Boys Become Models

Chronology
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Episode 912 (Int. Episode 967)
Information
Title:	The Detective Boys Become Models
Japanese title:	モデルになった探偵団  (Moderu ni natta tantei-dan)
Original airdate:	September 8, 2018
Broadcast rating:	7.5%
Filler case:	#299
Season:	23
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Miwako Sato Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Juzo Megure Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Wataru Takagi
Next Conan's Hint:	Canvas
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Toyoto Kogiso
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	Takanori Yano
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character) Kanako Ono (design works)
Production cooperation:	BIG BANG
ExpandVoice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Chafurin as Juzo Megure Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Atsuko Yuya as Miwako Sato Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Yoshiko Okamoto as Kinuko Kitasono Jin Domon as Kengo Higashio Yuko Inoue as Shizu Minamida Minoru Shiraishi as Daiki Nishiyama Katsuyoshi Toya as Retiree Jun'ichi Sugawara as Train station employee
Music
Opening song:	Countdown
Closing song:	Sadame

The Detective Boys Become Models (モデルになった探偵団 ,Moderu ni natta tantei-dan) is the 912th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Miwako Sato Kazunobu Chiba

Case

Situation

Murder
	Location: Seiho's Art Studio Victim: Seiho Kitasono Age: 72 years old Time: 3:10-3:40 PM Cause of death: Blunt force trauma to the head Suspects: Kengo Higashio, Kinuko Kitasono, Shizu Minamida, and Daiki Nishiyama One of Kitasono's apprentice found him dead as he went to visit him in the afternoon.

People

Seiho Kitasono
	Victim (bludgeoned) 72 years old Famous painter

Kengo Higashio
	33 years old Seiho's apprentice

Kinuko Kitasono
	60 years old Seiho's wife

Shizu Minamida
	55 years old Housekeeper

Daiki Nishiyama
	26 years old Seiho's apprentice

Woman #1
	Mitsuboshi Department Store clerk

Woman #2
	Mitsuboshi Department Store clerk

Man #1
	Okuho Lake resident Retiree

Man #2
	Okuho Lake Train Station employee

Dog
	Old man's pet dog

Resolution

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As the last pieces of the puzzle got together, Conan and Takagi found the truth. Takagi first calls Megure telling him Daiki Nishiyama's alibi fell apart at the same time the suspect was in interrogation room. This was how the criminal fabricated his alibi. First, he made his painting a week earlier from the prior case but the painting wasn't enough to prove an alibi so he decided to come to the scene yesterday use the kids as models so the alibi would be solidified. He just added the kids on top of the one-week-old painting but there was something that shouldn't have been there: the tree that was cut down last week and the barricade tape that surrounded it, which can be visible on the painting. He then returned to the station and vandalized the crossing gate to delay the train.

Vandalism
	Location: Okuho Lake Station Time: 1:17 PM Culprit: Daiki Nishiyama He vandalized the crossing gate by blocking it with rocks.

He waited for the sign to change since it changes when the train is supposed to depart even if it hasn't and boarded the train making people suspect he took the train at 2:02 PM which would make sense that he couldn't have killed Seiho. Because he boarded the 1:17 PM train, he was able to take the express train from Aohata Station at 1:55 PM which would leave him just enough time to commit his crime. He then struck Seiho with the bust and killed him. Obliged to confess, he tells it wasn't his fault since he made people pay in exchange for selecting them as winners and Daiki couldn't afford it and always lost. Megure then tells Daiki even if he was passionate for painting and to make children happy, he betrayed the children that modeled for him. He deceived his audience and used them to commit a murder. Nishiyama then regrets his actions and starts to cry.

Aftermath

To award the Detective Boys, Takagi bought food for them but Ayumi and Mitsuhiko went jealous after Takagi didn't buy ice cream for them so he came back to buy some at the station. Unfortunately for him, he missed the train. Later, Conan laughs saying Japan has the world's most punctual trains at the same time Ayumi and Mitsuhiko asked where their ice creams had disappeared.

Trivia

• One of the police cars in the parking of the victim's studio is a Toyota HiAce Fifth generation 2014. It has the same license plate has two police cars in Mystery of the Burning Tent and The Job Request from Inspector Megure.
• The busts in Seiho's workshop are digitized pictures. One of the busts represents French playwright Molière.
• The surnames of the characters are based on the different cardinal positions on Earth: Kengo Higashio (東尾 where the 東 intends to mean East - Higashi), Kinuko and Seiho Kitasono (北園 where the 北 intends to mean North - Kita), Daiki Nishiyama (西山 where the 西 intends to mean West - Nishi) and Shizu Minamida (南田 where the 南 intends to mean South - Minami).
• A slight production mistake occur in the episode when, in the scene Takagi talks to Megure in the woods, we can notice that the background had been cut.
• The Cheetah Delivery company reappears in this episode.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Els de la lliga de detectius júnior fan de models	The detective boys work as models
French (Subbed)	Les Detective boys, modèles d'une toile	The detective boys, models of a canvas
Thai	ชมรมนักสืบเยาวชนเป็นแบบวาดรูป	The Detective Boys is a painting model
Vietnamese	Đội thám tử nhí trở thành hình mẫu

See also

• Season 23