Inspector Shiratori, Memories of the Cherry Blossom

Chronology
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Episode 568-569 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Inspector Shiratori, Memories of the Cherry Blossom
Japanese title:	白鳥警部、桜の思い出 (Shiratori-keibu, Sakura no Omoide)
Original airdate:	March 13, 2010 (Part 1) March 20, 2010 (Part 2)
Season:	19
Manga source:	Volume 66: Files 2-4 (687-689)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Ninzaburo Shiratori
Staff
Director:	Koujin Ochi
Organizer:	Fumiharu Kamanaka
Storyboard:	Fumiharu Kamanaka
Episode director:	568 Minoru Tozawa 569 Fumiharu Kamanaka
Animation director:	568 Chiemi Hironaka 569 Nobuyuki Iwai, Tomomi Kamiya
Music
Opening song:	As the Dew
Closing song:	Hello Mr. my yesterday

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ninzaburo Shiratori Wataru Takagi Inspector Megure Sumiko Kobayashi Ai Haibara Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Miwako Sato Isokichi Kamoi (flashback)

Case

Situation

Part 1

At the theatres, the Detective Boys run into Shiratori who is depressed Sato's affection is being directed at Takagi. Shiratori reveals that he is bound to Sato because of an encounter he had with her in the past. Shiratori explains Sato as a young girl stood up to two thieves by herself. Shiratori helps her stop the thieves and in return receives from her a drink with paper folded sakura. Conan questions whether that girl was actually Sato as their personalities differ greatly. During the movie, Shiratori runs into a woman named Nami Kasakura who offers him a drink with paper folded sakuras causing Shiratori to consider the possibility she was the girl in the past. After the movie, Kasakura tells Shiratori she is being stalked and asks him to investigate. At her apartment, Kasakura's boyfriend is found dead.

Murder
	Location: Apartment Victim: Yoshiro Somei Cause of death: Blunt-force trauma Suspects: Nami Kasakura

Conan suspects Kasakura but her alibi supposedly states she was at the theatre the whole time.

Part 2

Shiratori has Takagi search for the drinks at the theatre and to bring them to the apartment.

People

Nami Kasakura
	27 years old

Yoshiro Somei
	Victim (bludgeoned) 30 years old Kasakura's boyfriend

Resolution

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Shiratori reveals his deductions and explains that Nami Kasakura drugged him with sleeping pills and placed her tuque on him to create her alibi by having Shiratori impersonate her. Takagi arrives at the department and shows them Shiratori's drink. Shiratori reveals that he had broken a piece from the flower design yet all the pieces remained on his drink revealing that Kasakura switched his drink while he was asleep to hide the fact that there were sleeping pills in them. As further evidence, Shiratori explains that there was a white string on his head from the tuque meaning his hair should also be found on Kasakura's tuque. Kasakura confesses and reveals that her boyfriend had been cheating on her for the past two years and she killed him in vengeance for giving her mother's ring to another woman and for wasting her seven years. Shiratori, saddened that the girl of his past has become a criminal, is cheered by Ayumi who offers him paper folded sakura's and repeats the same thing the girl in Shiratori's past says. Ayumi explains she learned that from her teacher Sumiko Kobayashi causing Shiratori to realize Kobayashi was the girl from his past.

See also

• Season 19