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"I…have figured out who the real bad guy is."
— Conan Edogawa
Detective Conan: The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa ~The Worst Two Days in History~ is the fifth TV Special of Detective Conan. It was directed by Yasuichiro Yamamoto and written by Kenji Uchida and Satoshi Akagi, and was released on December 26, 2014.
This special is based on the famous case of the disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926, and the director Kenji Uchida has worked with Gosho Aoyama to achieve a crossover that introduces Conan Edogawa and the various characters in the story of his famous film Kagi Dorobō no Mesoddo ("Key of Life") from 2012.
The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa ~The Worst Two Days in History~ provides examples of:
- Big Bad: The person pulling the strings behind the various criminals is revealed to be "Ad-Lib" Tatsu.
- Faking Amnesia: The Reveal turns out to be that Conan only pretended to lose his memory the entire time as part of his gambit.
- Genre Shift: This TV Special is more of an Action Thriller than the franchise's usual Detective Drama fare.
- Hitman with a Heart: Junitsu Kondo actually does not kill any of his targets, despite his legendary reputation. He simply gets them to safety and takes payment.
- Once More, with Clarity: After the bomb that's seemingly strapped to an amnesiac Conan explodes, the special rewinds to two days before the crime, revealing what really happened behind the events shown in the crime thus far.
