The Mystery of the Water-Flowing Stone Garden

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Episode 282-283 (Int. Episode 304-305)
Information
Title:	The Mystery of the Water-Flowing Stone Garden
Japanese title:	水流るる石庭の怪 (Mizu Nagaruru Sekitei no Kai)
Original airdate:	June 17, 2002 (Part 1) June 24, 2002 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	16.5% 16.6%
Filler case:	#97
Season:	7
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sango Yokomizo Policeman
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Beautiful rock garden (Part 1) Draining of the water (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Screenplay:	Yoshifumi Fukushima
Storyboard:	282: Yasumi Mikamoto 283: Takaaki Ishiyama
Episode director:	282: Minoru Tozawa 283: Shintaro Itoga
Animation director:	282: • Keiko Sasaki 283: • Hirobi Muranaka • Izumi Shimura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Junko Yamanaka and Kumiko Shishido (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri, Next Conan's Hint (Part 1) Akio Otsuka as Sango Yokomizo, Next Conan's Hint (Part 2) Takeshi Watabe as Michiyoshi Majima Takashi Matsuyama as Masayuki Hashimoto Takashi Taguchi as Nobuaki Endo Rikiya Koyama as Tomonori Kiyama Ai Uchikawa as Ayaka Honjo Isshin Chiba as Policeman
Music
Opening song:	I can't stop my love for you♥
Closing song:	Yume Mita Ato de

The Mystery of the Water-Flowing Stone Garden (水流るる石庭の怪 ,Mizu Nagaruru Sekitei no Kai) is the 282nd and 283rd episode of Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Sango Yokomizo Policeman

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

Kogoro's car runs out of gas while he is driving in the mountains with Ran and Conan. Fortunately, a man called Michiyoshi Majima passes by, and kindly picks them up and invites them to his mansion. Majima turns out to be the director of a furniture company, and he owns an enormous mansion in rural Shizuoka. The mansion has a beautiful stone garden with an artificial waterfall. Three times every day, the water is allowed to flow into the empty sandy pool right next to the waterfall (then, in half an hour, the pool will be automatically drained), and the resulting sight is exceptionally pleasant. Majima proudly shows the three visitors this garden, and mentions that it was constructed under the order of Director Kiyama, the former head of the company. He died in a car accident, one year ago.

After this visit, the three visitors are ushered by the housekeeper Ayaka Honjo into the mansion. There, they meet Masayuki Hashimoto, the private secretary of Majima, Nobuaki Endo, the director of Kiyama Interior, and Tomonori Kiyama, a freelance writer of a travelling magazine and Director Kiyama's son. They are there to attend a ceremony, and after spending an afternoon and a dinner with them, it becomes clear that some of them hold grudges against Majima. So, it is hardly a surprise when Majima turns up dead the next morning in the middle of the (empty) sandy pool of the rock garden.

Murder

Location: Majima household Victim: Michiyoshi Majima Age: 50 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Ayaka Honjo, Masayuki Hashimoto, Nobuaki Endo, and Tomonori Kiyama Director Majima is found dead by Honjo, who has gone to the rock garden to clean using a long picking rod. The mystery is that there is not a single footprint around the body, despite it being in the middle of the sandy pool. Could this be an impossible crime?

Part 2

Inspector Yokomizo arrives on the scene and begins an investigation. Kogoro accuses Hashimoto of committing the murder, as Kogoro knows that he owed Majima a lot of money and Majima threatened to fire him. After being proven wrong, Kogoro then floats the idea that Honjo committed the murder. He wants her to confess, but she swears that she did not kill anyone, and that the only thing that she has been hiding is that she is the daughter of Director Kiyama's driver, who died with the Director in the car accident. She says that after hearing rumors that Majima was behind the murder, she decided to work at his company in order to determine the truth. She further reveals that Endo knew all along who she is, and that, during the previous night (at around 10:40), he threatened to reveal her identity to Majima.

Murder (Past)
290px	Location: Cliff Victims: Mr. Kiyama and Tanuma Cause of death: Car crash after falling Culprit: Michiyoshi Majima

This disclosure, along with the fact that the police found a threatening note that Endo wrote to Majima, makes Kogoro and Yokomizo turn their attention to Endo. They head to the roof of the mansion to investigate, as, in the note, Endo wrote that he would expose Majima unless he would head to the roof at 11 PM the previous night (Endo planned to kill Majima there, but, as we will see, he did not succeed). Once there, Kogoro gets inspired again, and this time, he accuses Endo of committing murder. Kogoro says Endo just needed to tie a rope to an arrow and shoot the arrow towards the large tree beside the waterfall with a bow. Then, he would be able to to place the body in the middle of the sandy pool with a pulley and without having to step on the sand.

Kogoro confidently says that in order to destroy the rope afterwards, Endo would tie it to another arrow and shoot the arrow into the nearby forest. Following this line of thought, the police begins a search of the forest, and they actually manage to find a rope tied to an arrow. Conan is shocked by this finding, as he believes that the position that the dead body was in makes it impossible for that trick to have been used. So he begins his own investigation, and soon he is able to determine the truth.

People

Michiyoshi Majima
	Victim (strangled) 50 years old Kiyama Furniture director

Ayaka Honjo
	24 years old Housekeeper

Masayuki Hashimoto
	37 years old Michiyoshi's private secretary

Nobuaki Endo
	45 years old Kiyama Interior director

Tomonori Kiyama
	28 years old Freelance writer

Mr. Kiyama
	Deceased (car accident) Kiyama Furniture former president Tomonori's father

Tanuma
	Deceased (car accident) Mr. Kiyama's driver Ayaka's father

Resolution

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Conan tranquillizes Kogoro and begins the deduction show. He claims that the crime was probably committed around 8:30 PM, and that after murdering Majima, the culprit would place Majima's body on an air mat so that it would float in the (then-filled) sandy pool. The culprit would also have tied a rope to the air mat, so that when the water started receding after 8:30 PM, they could shove Majima's body with the picking rod while pulling back the air mat. In this way, Majima's body would lie in the middle of the drying pool, the air mat could be retrieved, and the impossible crime was executed. The only downside of this plan is that dragging the air mat would leave marks on the rocks at the edge of the pool. This was subsequently noticed by Conan, and it became the cornerstone of his deduction.

Conan then declares Tomonori Kiyama to be the culprit. He conjuectures that during the previous night, after leaving the dining hall at around eight, Kiyama did not return to his room but went to the main wing of the mansion to kill Majima. Since everyone else was still in the dining hall, he did not have to worry about being seen during and after the murder (i.e. when he was in the rock garden). He did have to make sure to not be seen during the return to his room, though, and this was complicated by the fact that Honjo would be working at the "reception" near the mansion entrance after dinner. However, Kiyama knew that Endo planned to talk to Honjo in private in order to threaten her (Endo's real intention was to just distract Honjo, so that she would not notice Kiyama going up to the roof before 11 pm), so he just waited outside until Endo and Honjo started talking, around 10:40 pm.

Since Conan has yet to present any actual evidence, Kiyama fights back vehemently and denies that he killed Majima. However, after Conan showed him the air mat that he used, Kiyama gives up resisting. He recounts that Majima messed with the brakes of the car in order to murder his father, so that he could become the director of the company instead. Kiyama then says that once he learned this, he started planning how to murder Majima, and Endo's own murder plan gave him the perfect opportunity to do so.

Trivia

Episode 352

• This is the last episode to be traditionally animated. Starting with the next episode, all episodes will be digitally animated.
• The garden reappears in a poster from The Fishing Tournament Tragedy.

  Show spoilers »

• The trick Kogoro thinks Endo used to put Majima's body in the middle of the garden is actually used in Magic Lover's Murder Case.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥
2	蘭のお姉さんぶり	Ran no Onēsan Buri	Ran's Elder Sister Style	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
3	１０年後の歩美	10 Nengo no Ayumi	Ayumi 10 Years Later	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
4	想い出	Omoide	Memories	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	昼下がりの天使たち （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Hirusagari no Tenshitachi (Mantenrō Vājon)	Early Afternoon Angels (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
6	記憶喪失（影）	Kiokusōshitsu (Kage)	Amnesia (Shadow)	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
7	蘭のテーマ （摩天楼ヴァージョン）	Ran no Tēma (Mantenrō Vājon)	Ran's Theme (Skyscraper Version)	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
8	尋問	Jinmon	Interrogation	Detective Conan "The Last Wizard of the Century" Original Soundtrack
9	新少年探偵団のテーマ	Shin Shōnen Tanteidan no Tēma	The New Detective Boys' Theme	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
10	記憶喪失（光）	Kiokusōshitsu (Hikari)	Amnesia (Light)	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
11	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
12	犯人からの電話	Hannin Kara no Denwa	Phone Call From the Culprit	Detective Conan "The Time-Bombed Skyscraper" Original Soundtrack
13	夢みたあとで	Yume Mita Ato de	After I've Been Dreaming	Yume Mita Ato de

Part 2

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥	I can't stop my love for you♥
2	謎解き （その２）	Nazotoki (Sono 2)	Riddle Solution (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	謎解き （その１）	Nazotoki (Sono 1)	Riddle Solution (Part 1)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	小五郎の推理	Kogorō no Suiri	Kogoro's Deduction	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
5	雄大な富士山	Yūdai na Fujisan	Grand Mt. Fuji	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
6	日本画の紹介	Nihonga no Shōkai	Introducing the Japanese Painting	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
7	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	阿笠博士のテーマ	Agasa Hakase no Tēma	Professor Agasa's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
10	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	暗殺者のテーマ─忍び寄る魔手	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Shinobiyoru Mashu	Assassin's Theme - The Devil's Hand Approaches	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
12	犯人（スナイパー）の正体	Hannin (Sunaipā) no Shōtai	The Culprit's (Sniper's) Identity	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
13	漆黒の殺意	Shikkoku no Satsui	Jet Black Murderous Intent	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
14	ターゲット サスペンスＣ	Tāgetto Sasupensu C	Target Suspense C	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
15	容疑者は？	Yōgisha wa?	The Suspect Is?	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
16	雄大な富士山	Yūdai na Fujisan	Grand Mt. Fuji	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
17	第３の犠牲者	Dai 3 no Giseisha	The Third Victim	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
18	トリック	Torikku	Trick	Detective Conan "The Fourteenth Target" Original Soundtrack
19	暗殺者のテーマ─狙撃	Ansatsusha no Tēma - Sogeki	Assassin's Theme - Sniping	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
20	映画BGM	Eiga BGM	Movie BGM	Detective Conan "Countdown to Heaven" Original Soundtrack
21	事情聴取	Jijōchōshu	Police Interrogation	Detective Conan "Captured in Her Eyes" Original Soundtrack
22	夢みたあとで	Yume Mita Ato de	After I've Been Dreaming	Yume Mita Ato de
23	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	لغز حديقة الرمال اليابانية	The mystery of the Japanese sand garden
Bahasa Melayu	Misteri air mengalir di taman Jepun	The mystery of the water-flowing Japanese garden
Catalan (Catalan dub)	El misteri del jardí de roques japonès de les aigües	The mystery of the Japanese rocks of waters garden
Catalan (Valencian dub)	El misteri del jardí japonès de roca i aigua	The mystery of the rock and water Japanese garden
Chinese (Simplified)	水流石庭的玄机	The trick of the water-flowing rock garden
Galician	O misterio do xardín xaponés de pedras e auga	The mystery of the rocks and water Japanese garden
German	Der mysteriöse Steingarten	The mysterious stone garden
Italian	Il mistero del giardino giapponese con la cascata	The mystery of the water-flowing Japanese garden
Spanish (American dub)	El misterio de la corriente de agua en el jardín Karesansui	The mystery of the water stream in the Karesansui garden
Spanish (Castilian dub)	El misterio del jardín de piedra donde fluye el agua	The mystery of the rock garden where the water flows
Thai	ปริศนาในสวนหินน้ำไหล	The mystery of the water-flowing garden
Vietnamese	Bí ẩn của khu vườn thác nước	The mystery of the water-flowing garden

See also

• Season 7