Last Dance

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Episode 1152 (Int. Episode 1210)
Information
Title:	Last Dance
Japanese title:	ラストダンス (Rasuto Dansu)
Original airdate:	February 8, 2025
Broadcast rating:	6.2%
Filler case:	#434
Season:	30
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan}
Next Conan's Hint:	Shoelaces
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Yuki Notsuka
Storyboard:	Masaki Ozora
Episode director:	Masahiko Suzuki
Animation director:	Kazuaki Morita Maho Tanabe Miki Konno Yuji Shirahata Tomoyuki Kameda Masahiro Sekiguchi Kaori Yokoe Hideaki Shimada Ayana Togashi Takatsugu Umeda Hideki Sakai MIGHTY MAX MOVIE Shin Eun-ah So Eun-ji 8bit Akihiro Ino (asst.)
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	8bit
ExpandVoice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Kozo Mito as Forensics officer Hozumi Goda as Kensaku Takada Haruna Ikezawa as Konomi Takada Mayuki Makiguchi as Rika Yamazato Shinji Kawada as Satoru Yoshioka
Music
Opening song:	But No Love
Closing song:	Shooting star

Last Dance (ラストダンス ,Rasuto Dansu) is the 1152nd episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba

Gadgets

Gadgets
Wristwatch Flashlight Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Sonoko invites Ran to a party held by real estate company manager Kensaku Takada, and Conan inevitably has to follow them since Kogoro is off to drink with the neighborhood association. At the party, they get to meet Kensaku and his wife, Konomi. Kensaku, who heard from Sonoko that Ran is a karate champion, says that he also once practiced karate in college, and out of his passionate talking, starts striking poses. While not mentioned by anyone, Kensaku’s sleeves pull up slightly during this talk, revealing an expensive-looking watch.

Upon seeing Rika, Kensaku’s maid, walk past him, he calls her over to bring some drinks. Unfortunately, Rika bumps into one of the guests and accidentally spills the drinks onto Kensaku, which makes him furious and he nearly strikes her before Konomi intervenes. Konomi suggests him to go change his clothes, and Kensaku leaves the room, before Konomi also leaves to head to the powder room. Conan then spots a worried-looking man holding his phone intently before the man also exits the room.

After some time, Konomi returns, but Kensaku is still missing. Rika, now with a red mark on her cheek, tells Konomi that Kensaku went out to smoke. Konomi then instructs Rika to go get Kensaku. Meanwhile, Sonoko notices that Konomi had changed her shoes, and also invites Ran to change into a different pair of shoes. When questioned by Conan, Sonoko reveals the party to be a dance party, where participants wear special dancing shoes. She reminds Ran that wearing accessories are not allowed. But not long before the dancing is about to begin, a scream from Rika interrupts the excitement—she has found Kensaku, who had fallen to his death.

Accident?
	Location: Next to Kensaku's mansion Victim: Kensaku Takada Age: 45 years old Cause of death: Blunt head trauma from falling Suspects: Konomi Takada, Rika Yamazato & Satoru Yoshioka Kensaku was drinking before the accident, but would this really mean he was in a drunken state and accidentally fell off the elevated property?

The police arrive, with Takagi noting that Kensaku had been drinking before his death, suggesting that his drunken state led him to accidentally fall over the mansion’s fencing and, due to the property’s elevation, injure his head on the pavement below. However, Conan denies this as an accident, having noticed many footprints in the yard above, indicating a fight between Kensaku and a possible killer. The police, Ran, and Sonoko head back up to the mansion’s yard to see the footprints, but Conan stays back, and finds that Kensaku’s watch is missing. Apparently, the forensics officer had found the watch in Kensaku’s jacket pocket, not on his wrist. Back at the mansion, the police take a look at the footprints. Considering their wide extent across the yard, they assume Kensaku had an intense fight with whoever killed him. There are also four sets of footprints, which are from Kensaku, Rika, Conan and the murderer. Strangely, some footprints are whole while others are halved, as if the halved footprints were created from a person standing on their tiptoes.

Conan helps the police narrow down the suspects to those who left the party venue before Kensaku’s death. They are Konomi, Rika, and the worried-looking man from before, who is introduced as Satoru.

Of the three, Satoru is the only one with a motive, being financially indebted to Kensaku. The police later find a pair of dancing shoes in the yard that match with the fourth set of footprints. It bears a small mud print. Satoru confesses that the shoes belong to him, and the police decide that he is the culprit. Conan, though, notices something between Satoru’s dancing shoes and the shoes Satoru was currently wearing.

Conan decides to investigate some more, and heads into the mansion’s kitchen, where he sees Rika searching for something on the floor. That “something” is her earring, which for some reason had been dropped. Heading back out to the yard, Conan finds that forensics had finished recording the footprints. Conan then has Takagi and Chiba reenact the murder by stepping onto the footprints. But when Takagi is forced to stand on his tiptoes, he loses balance. The experiment is seemingly useless, and Satoru is being taken away by the police for questioning.

Conan, holding the forensic officer’s record of the footprints, passes by Ran. Ran notices that the footprints look similar to a step diagram, which Sonoko used when teaching Ran how to dance. It is not long before Sonoko is seen kneeling on the ground…and “Sonoko’s” deduction show begins.

People

Kensaku Takada
	Victim (fell) 45 years old Real estate company manager Party organizer

Konomi Takada
	28 years old Kensaku's wife

Rika Yamazato
	22 years old Maid

Satoru Yoshioka
	36 years old Kensaku's acquaintance

Man
	Party attendee

Forensics officer
	Tokyo MPD forensics officer

Resolution

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Deduction

To start with, Satoru’s dancing shoes were definitely used in the murder, but on closer inspection, the laces on the dancing shoes are being tied more tightly than the laces on Satoru’s shoes, indicating that whoever was wearing them during the murder had smaller feet than Satoru. Therefore, Satoru is not the culprit. Moreover, the real culprit wanted to frame Satoru.

Next is Rika, who has a red mark on her cheek. The mark was from when Kensaku struck her in the kitchen, which was also when she lost her earring. However, it is not possible for her to have murder Kensaku by pushing him over the yard’s fencing, since Kensaku has karate skills and would have been able to defend. Thus, Rika is not the culprit.

This leaves Konomi, but being Kensaku’s wife, she does not have a motive. Yet, considering the method used to murder Kensaku, she is the only one who could have done it. Kensaku was murdered while he was dancing, which is proven by two clues. The first are the halved footprints. If you were to push someone, you would have to dig your heels into the ground. Tiptoeing does the opposite; it is impossible to generate enough force in that position to push someone such that they would lose their balance. This is confirmed with how Takagi lost his balance in the reenactment of the murder. The second is the fact that Kensaku’s wristwatch was found in his jacket pocket. Kensaku probably removed the watch in order to dance, since accessories are not allowed to be worn while dancing. The only person who could have danced with Kensaku is his wife, Konomi Takada.

Conan, through Sonoko’s voice, says that Konomi most likely stole Satoru’s dancing shoes, then lured Kensaku into the yard by saying that she wanted to practice dancing some more before the event. As they danced, Konomi slowly lured Kensaku to the edge of the yard. Konomi then tripped Kensaku over the fencing, but Kensaku accidentally stepped onto the dancing shoes Konomi was wearing, leaving a mud print. Considering that not much time had passed since the incident, Conan deduces that Konomi must still have a red mark on her foot from when Kensaku stepped on her. Sure enough, Konomi takes off her heels to reveal the mark where Kensaku stepped on her.

Motive

Konomi’s motive was that Kensaku didn’t really love her as a true wife, he only married her to be his “trophy wife” and brag and boast about her to other people. As for framing Satoru, she says that she would have framed anyone who had a possible motive to kill Kensaku.

Aftermath

Ran, Sonoko, and Conan are walking home when Sonoko mentions how they didn’t get to dance at Kensaku’s party, and suddenly starts dancing with Ran on the street. Quite comically, Sonoko ends up banging her head on a nearby utility pole.

Trivia

• The title of this episode pays homage to the final Ninzaburo Furuhata film The Last Dance (ファイナル ラスト・ダンス).
• This episode was outsourced to 8bit, which is a well-known animation company in the anime industry. This was most likely due to TMS Entertainment having previously been contracted by 8bit to work on an episode of Laid-Back Camp Season 3.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	الرَقصة الأخيرة	The Last Dance
French (Subbed)	Last Dance	Last Dance
Thai	ลีลาศครั้งสุดท้าย	The Last Dance

See also

• Season 30