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[[folder:People from the Valentine Murder Case]]
!!People from the Valentine Murder case (Katsuhiko Minagawa, Mrs. Minagawa, Susumu Minagawa, Yoshimi Watanabe, Kaori Sekiya, Naomichi, Toshihide Wakamatsu)
->Katsuhiko voiced by: Creator/RyoHorikawa\\
Toshihide voiced by: Creator/NobuoTobita\\
Yoshimi voiced by: Creator/SakikoTamagawa\\
Mrs. Minagawa voiced by: Creator/ChiyokoKawashima
The filler case in which Sonoko was introduced in the anime (In the manga, she only appeared in the original rendition of the Mountain Villa Case.) as well as first case where Conan used his wristwatch stungun (introduced in the Hatamoto family case in the manga). Sonoko has Ran and Conan tagging along as she visits the BigFancyHouse of a tennis player named Katsuhiko Minagawa, who's having a small meeting with his family and friends... and all of a sudden, Katsuhiko drops dead in the backyard. It's up to Conan to solve this case, as a girl named Yoshimi is being accused of the murder but he has the feeling that something else is going on and she's just a scapegoat.
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* FinancialAbuse: [[spoiler:The reason for Katsuhiko's murder. He's actually the nephew of the Minagawas who was taken in after his parents' deaths; the family is now about to go bankrupt, so Mrs. Minagawa poisons him to have access to his large inheritance and save the family business.]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Katsuhiko is a jerk and he smokes. [[spoiler: Since Naomichi had poisoned his cigarette filters and Katsuhiko cut them off, he barely dodged death. Of course he died later due to the time-delayed poison he had ingested.]]
* LoveDodecahedron: Katsuhiko likes Yoshimi. Yoshimi might like him back. Kaori likes Katsuhiko. Naomichi likes Yoshimi. Toshihide goes after Ran but she doesn't like him, obviously.
* MommyIssues: [[spoiler: Katsuhiko likes Yoshimi because she looks like his dead biological mother.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:The murderer? ''Katsuhiko's mother''. Or better said, [[ParentalSubstitute his aunt and stepmother]].]]
* OutDamnedSpot: Subverted. [[spoiler: Mrs. Minagawa is still seen doing the dishes after the murder, which tips Conan off. She's actually trying to wash poison off the cups/dishes so she won't be blamed, but Conan (through Kogoro) says it'll still remain there.]]
* RealMenHateSugar: Katsuhiko says he really hates chocolate, though he accepts Yoshimi's choco anyway. [[spoiler: Which his mom uses to kill him: she puts poison in the coffee and the antidote in the cake, clearly knowing her adoptive son would NOT eat the cake. And she even replaced Yoshimi's choco with a poisoned one to get her involved.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Naomichi. At first, it looks like Naomichi is the one who murdered Katsuhiko, and he even confesses. But as it turns out, while Naomichi ''did'' try to kill Katsuhiko, his murder plan didn't work because Katsuhiko didn't use the cigarette filters that Naomichi poisoned. The murder plan that killed Katushiko was someone else's.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kaori is a shorthaired tomboy in a denim jacket and Jeans. Yoshimi is a motherly-looking girly girl in office lady-like clothes.
* UpperClassTwit: Katsuhiko. He still didn't deserve to die [[spoiler: and specially not for the money he inherited from his dead parents.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Tsujimura clan]]
!!The Tsujimura clan (Toshimitsu, Isao, Takayoshi and Kimie Tsujimura, Yukiko Katsuragi, [[spoiler: Kenji Yamashiro]])
The BigScrewedUpFamily that shows up in the case that was Heiji Hattori's first appearance, i.e. ''The Diplomat Murder Case''. Heiji comes to Tokyo to challenge Shinichi Kudo, and the "stage" is the murder of the diplomat Isao Tsujimura. Who killed him: [[OffingTheOffspring his father Toshimitsu]], [[SelfMadeOrphan his son Takayoshi]], his second wife Kimie, or Takayoshi's girlfriend Yukiko?
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Isao.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Toshimitsu aided Isao with his UriahGambit, so when Isao was killed he tried to take the heat as punishment.]]
* BigFancyHouse: The Tsujimuras are fabulously wealthy, and their home is ''massive''. The crime scene itself is Isao's office at home, a ''really'' nice and huge studio with dozens of books.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor, ''poor'' Takayoshi and Yukiko. [[spoiler: And in the backstory, ''poor'' Kimie.]]
* ComfortingTheWidow: [[spoiler:The reason for Isao's UriahGambit. Massively backfires with time... when Kimie poisons him.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Kimie was on the fence after Yamashiro was jailed and his family took Yukiko away.]]
* FlirtyStepsiblings: [[spoiler:Yukiko and Takayoshi... and they didn't know it!]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Kimie treats Yukiko harshly [[spoiler: to hide their real bond.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Kimie's weapon to murder Isao was a poisoned needle that [[HiddenWeapons she kept hidden]] in her keychain's locket. She first drugged him to make him fall asleep, then she discreetly prickled him behind the ear when nobody was looking.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Or better said, "Yukiko, I am your long-lost mother who couldn't raise you and had to give you away to your paternal family".]]
* ParentalMarriageVeto:
** Isao has a FreakOut and imposes this on Takayoshi when he sees the photo of the girl he fancies, [[spoiler: which gives Kimie the first clues about what he did to Yamashiro.]]
** Kimie herself visits Kogoro's office to get Conan and Co. to their mansion, ostensibly to ask Kogoro to get {{subtext}}s for one. Heiji theorizes this is because Kimie believes that the kind, sweet, smart, etc. Yukiko is simply just ''too'' good to be true and might actually be a mix of GoldDigger and BitchInSheepsClothing. [[FromBadToWorse And then...]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Oh, Yamashiro.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:Yukiko looks like a younger, light-haired Kimie.]]
* TakingTheHeat: When Heiji claims that [[spoiler:Toshimitsu]] is probably the killer, said character confesses ''despite not being the culprit''. Their real intention is to invoke the trope, because [[spoiler:the old man had helped his son Isao with his UriahGambit, so he wanted to atone.]]
* TheUriahGambit: [[spoiler:20 years ago, Isao fancied Kimie. Kimie was HappilyMarried to Isao's acquintance Yamashiro. What did Isao do? Use him as a scapegoat in a fraud (with help of Toshimitsu), wait until he died in prison, and then go ComfortingTheWidow on Kimie!]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Harumi Matsuzaki, Kiwako Todou, Kunio Kawazu, Hiroshi Itou and Masahiko Matsuzaki]]
!!Harumi Matsuzaki, Kiwako Todou, Kunio Kawazu, Hiroshi Itou and Masahiko Matsuzaki
Ran still wants [[TheMasochismTango Eri and Kogoro]] to get back together, so she stages a small vacation to the beach. They befriend a group of scuba divers... but tragedy falls over them when one of the girls, Kiwako, almost drowns. And for worse, it's ''not'' an accident, but the doing of one of her friends.
--> Kiwako is voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue
--> Harumi is voiced by: Creator/YukoMinaguchi
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Harumi regrets what she has done, ''very'' much. She also breaks down crying TearsOfRemorse when exposed.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Masahiko and Kiwako.
* DistressedDamsel: Poor Kiwako...
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Harumi was in love with her stepbrother Masahiko and lost it when he decided to marry Kiwako.]]
* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler:Harumi and Masahiko.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Kiwako decides to keep Harumi's reasons to herself, as a part of her forgiveness for Harumi.]]
* SuperDrowningSkills: Masahiko really can't swim.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: ''Horribly'' played with. [[spoiler: Knowing that Masahiko can't swim, Kiwako pretended to drown while trying to prove how much he loved her, recruiting Harumi for the prank without knowing her feelings. Harumi, already upset since Kiwako was marrying the guy she liked, lost it and tried poisoning Kiwako with a snake she caught.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: ... Well, Kiwako ''is'' voiced by Creator/KikukoInoue. She ''does'' show a cattier side in the beginning, but [[spoiler: her decision to forgive Harumi ''and'' not tell Masahiko about her secret love for him]] is very much YN behavior.
** Not only that: [[spoiler: she let everyone except Conan, Eri, Kogoro and Ran believe that it was an accident. Thanks to her, Harumi averted going to jail for trying to kill her.]] It takes a very, ''very'' forgiving and kind person to do such things.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mina and Masayo Aoshima]]
!!Mina and Masayo Aoshima
Once, Kogoro losed a ticket for a Yoko Okino concert he wanted to go to. He bumped into a girl named Masayo Aoshima, who also was a Yoko fan and had a spare ticket. They went to the house Masayo shared with her younger sister Mina... but they find out she's killed herself. However, Conan is suspicious and thinks Masayo knows more than she lets them see.
-->Masayo is voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa
-->Mina is voiced by: Creator/YukariTamura
* BathSuicide: It seems like Mina took her own life in the bathroom.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: With Mina as the Abel and Masayo as the Cain.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Masayo's "Yoko" headband. The accent over the first "o" is covered with a bit of Mina's blood.]]
* CoolBigSis: Mina adored her sister Masayo and imitated her in pretty much everything. [[spoiler: She only succeeded in pushing Masayo away, and then Masayo get so creeped out ''and'' fed up that she killed Mina.]])
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry. Mina was the beautiful sister, Masayo was the smart one. [[spoiler: Taken to their worst extreme in the end.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Had Mina not joked around with how she fell for Masayo's ex-boyfriend Kenji, Masayo wouldn't have snapped on her as badly as she did.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mina was the flirty girly girl, Masayo was the shorthaired and kinda tomboyish OfficeLady.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Hatamoto Family]]
!!The Hatamoto Family (Gozo, Kitaro, Mariko, Jouji, Akie, Tetsuo, Ichiro and Natsue Hatamoto. Also, Takeshi Hatamoto nee Zaiki and Kenji Suzuki).
The people involved in a rather notorious case from the first season. After having lost their ferry, Conan and the Mouris are "picked up" by the rich Hatamoto clan and board into their yacht. However, they start witnessing the ''extremely'' dark family dynamics as well as the JerkAss behavior from the leader, Gozo Hatamoto... who is bloodily murdered. And that's just the beginning!
-->Ichiro is voiced by: Creator/AkiraIshida
-->Takashi is voiced by: Creator/ShigeruNakahara
* AbsoluteCleavage: Akie, one of the very few charas to sport this.
* AbusiveParents: More exactly, abusive grandfather and father-in-law. Gozo was an HORRIBLE JerkAss to everyone except to Natsue, and his preferred victims were Kitaro and Ichiro.
* AssholeVictim: Gozo. [[spoiler: Tatsuo.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: And holy shit, HOW.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Kitaro and Mariko. See also KissingCousins.]]
* DaddysGirl: Natsue was a Grandpa's Girl. [[spoiler: Who becomes the UnexpectedSuccessor.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Had Gozou neither gone overboard in his mistreatment of Ichiro ''nor'' mocked his love for Natsue...]]
* GoldDigger:
** Akie's husband Tatsuo, who married her in hopes of inheriting money since she was one of the possible heirs. [[KickTheDog He even says so openly, and in front of Akie herself]] - much to Akie's shock, since she actually loved him and wasn't aware of this "detail". [[spoiler: She wasn't: the wealth went to her little sister Natsue. Then again it didn't matter: he got killed off.]]
** Takeshi is accused by Gozo of being this, since [[spoiler: his parents had a company that was destroyed by Gozo Hatamoto's. Takeshi's case is more of BecomingTheMask and LoveRedeems: he ''did'' at first approach Natsue to see what kind of person she was and get back to the Hatamotos, but he came to truly like her as well.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason why [[spoiler: Tatsuo]] died. [[spoiler: He saw Ichiro trying to drop the killing weapon in the sea and got a face full of metal pipe for his trouble.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: Mariko is an AlmightyMom, so Kitaro obviously is this. [[HappilyMarried They do care for each other]], though.
* IrrationalHate: According to Yasue, Gozo hated detectives to the core because he thought that detectives have nothing better to do than sneaking around looking for other people's flaws. Gozo's hatred toward detectives was so irrational that he prohibited every member of Hatamoto family from reading detective novels or watching detective TV shows.
* TheJeeves: Suzuki.
* KickTheDog: Gozo's psychological and emotional abuse of his son-in-law Kitaro and grandson Ichiro.
* KissingCousins: A huge plot point. [[spoiler: Kitaro and Mariko were both this ''and'' in a ChildhoodFriendRomance, but had to [[ParentalMarriageVeto beg Gozo to let them marry]]. And 25 years later, their son Ichiro fell in love with Natsue... and Gozo not only denied him the chance to ask her out, but cruelly mocked him.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: The husbands of Akie and Natsue, Tatsuo and Takeshi, were middle-class men who married into the Hatamoto family and thus took up their surname.
* MyBelovedSmother: Mariko has traces of this.
* TheOjou: Akie and Natsue. Akie is the RichBitch type, Natsue is the NiceGirl type.
* OneeSama: Natsue, being a very polite YamatoNadeshiko-like {{Ojou}}, addresses Akie as this.
* PetTheDog: Gozo truly cared for his youngest granddaughter Natsue.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Takeshi was apparently set as the villain of this case. He wasn't.]]
* RichBitch: Both Akie and Tatsuo.
* ShrinkingViolet: Ichiro. [[spoiler: But when a ShrinkingViolet snaps... '''[[BewareTheNiceOnes snap he does'''.]] ]]
* SupremeChef: Jouji, who works as a popular French chef and shows off his collection of rare professional knives. [[spoiler: Ichiro gets to give a... good use to two of them. ]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Ichiro got to the point of stabbing himself in the leg to try throwing off suspicions. It actually got Conan to suspect him ''more''.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kogoro Mouri's college friends ]]
!!Kogoro Mouri's college friends (Kazushi Nakanishi, Yumi Horikoshi, Noriko Ayashiro née Kimoto, Yukio Ayashiro, Jun Oomura)
Another famous case from the first season. Every five years Kogoro Mouri reunites himself in a hot spring site with his best friends from college, the members of the judo club he used to belong to. This year, Ran and Conan manage to join in - and just in time, as former CuteSportsClubManager and current OfficeLady Yumi Horikoshi apparently finishes her own life via PrettyLittleHeadshots. But to Conan and Kogoro, this is ''not'' suicide.
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: Kazushi accepted an ''omiai'' (arranged date) with the daughter of his boss, they hit it off and were about to get married. Yumi was not happy ''at all''.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Kazushi is fully bald, as well as a strong judo practitioner and a competent policeman. [[spoiler: Subverted when he's revealed to be the killer ''and'' when Kogoro captures him.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: What Yumi was doing to Kazushi, threatening to send some risque and old photos of themselves to his new girlfriend ''after years of blowing off his marriage proposals''.]]
* ChristmasCake: Yumi, despite her beauty, was unmarried at age 34. She wasn't too happy about it.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler: Yumi was shot in the head when she was on her feet. There are analogies to Benkei's legendary death that Conan catches on and then relays to Kogoro in his own way.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: People think at first that Yumi killed herself. This isn't helped by how she ''did'' express the wish to finish herself off since she's been depressed and in danger of losing her job in the middle of the economic crisis.
* GeniusBruiser: Kazushi is very big and very bright.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Yumi, referred to as "the Madonna" of the group.
* HotSpringsEpisode: And ''very'' infamous for how Conan plays the role of AccidentalPervert at the beginning.
* HotTeacher: Yukio is pretty good looking and works as a schoolteacher.
* {{Meganekko}}: Noriko is in her late 30's and still looks ''very'' {{Moe}}.
* OfficeLady: Yumi.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Yukio and Noriko, though this is understandable since they ''just'' got married and the trip might be doubling as their honeymoon.
* TrueCompanions: Kogoro's. Which is why he's so incredibly ''pissed'' at Yumi's death. [[spoiler: Double when he realizes that not only she was killed, ''but that one of his friends is the murderer''. Cue ItsPersonal mode and then Kogoro's response.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Yumi. [[spoiler: Rather darkly used in the end: she refused Kazushi's marriage proposals... until he decided to marry somebody else. WomanScorned mode = ON.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Akiko Yonehara and others]]
!!Akiko Yonehara and others (Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, Sugiyama-sensei, Atsushi Mori, [[spoiler: Minako Mochizuki]])
From the Ski Lodge case. Sonoko takes Ran and Conan to a ski trip and they run into their old school teacher Akiko Yonehara and her co-workers, who are there at vacation. They stay at the same lodge alongside a snarky reporter named Atsushi Mori, who notes that the villa was murder's crime scene some time ago. And then another teacher, Sugiyama, is killed...
* BreakTheCutie: This case was ''very'' hard on [[spoiler: poor Ran.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Yonehara, for Sonoko and ''specially'' Ran. Also in the backstory: Shimoda and Sugiyama, for little Minako.]]
* ChristmasCake: Nakamura teases Yonehara about being this:
-->'''Nakamura''': It's the last strand of hope for a woman in her 30's who missed her prime marriage age, right?
* DistressBall: Poor Sonoko, [[spoiler: drugged and then strangled into unconsciousness by Yonehara as a part of her WoundedGazelleGambit.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: It was believed that Minako hung herself because she was horrifyingly stressed due to upcoming junior high admission exams. (Unfortunately, this is sorta TruthInTelevision: it's a known fact that many Japanese students of all ages have commited suicide upon failing important tests.) This was NOT true: [[WouldHurtAGirl she was killed]].]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: The reason for Minako's murder. She found out that Shimoda and Sugiyama were involved in a fraud, and in her HeroicBSOD state she confronted them...]]
* HotTeacher: Yonehara and Nakamura
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Yonehara's long hair wasn't for real; she had gotten it cut recently, but the stylist cut it too short for her liking so she put on a wig to hide this. And then she came up with the idea of using said wig ''to strangle Shimoda and Sugiyama to death'' without using a rope: as she was carrying her "weapon" on her, no one would find it... Too bad Conan saw some wig strands around and suspected her.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Minako-chan, noooooooooo!]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Moori.
* NightmareFetishist: Moori is a ''little'' too happy when he tells the bloody story of the place...
* PsychologicalHorror: Invoked by the killer, who writes in lipstick some ''kana'' symbols that when put together, read: [[spoiler: "Minako".]] This [[spoiler: sends Shimoda into a VillainousBSOD, and lets Yonehara (the killer) identify him as Minako's other murderer.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Shimoda and Sugiyama strangled a pre-teen girl to death, then made it look like she had hung herself.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Yonehara knocks Sonoko out via both drugging and strangling, then lays on the floor to make it look like she was attacked too. The body that Sonoko saw right before that? It was Sugiyama's corpse, his face covered by Yonehara's wig.]]
* YouthfulFreckles: [[spoiler: Minako]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Dracula's Villa case]]
!!People from the Torakura estate (Daisuke Torakura, Etsuko Torakura, Toshiya Tadokoro, Shuichi Hamura, Fumio Doi, [[spoiler:Kaori Tadokoro]])
-->Hamura is voiced by: Creator/ShowHayami
-->Etsuko is voiced by: Yorie Terauchi
-->Tadakoro is voiced by: Creator/KojiYusa
In a {{filler}} case, Kogoro, Conan and Ran were invited by a famous and ''very'' eccentric mystery novelist named Daisuke Torakura (a former romance novelist who switched genres) to his estate, to have some talks about his next novel and to have Kogoro checking on his wife Etsuko, whom Torakura believes she's cheating on him. Then a snowstorm hits and as Conan and Ran takes a tour around the Torakura estate, the clock suddenly strikes midnight... and Torakura was locked into his studio. When everyone in the house gathered and managed to break in, they found him dead... and tied up to a cross, with a stake through his heart. But the study's door is locked and there's no footprints in the snow, so are vampires real or does someone in the state killed him and used the legend of the vampires to hide their leads? And who did that: Etsuko, the chauffeur and researcher Shuichi Hamada, Torakura's disciple and ghost writer Toshiya Todakoro, or his editor Fumio Doi?
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Torakura. Almost everyone has reasons to want him dead since he shat on them all BIG TIME.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:Torakura.]]
* IllGirl: Todakuro's younger sister Kaori, ill from kidney failure ever since she was little. Her brother works as Torakura's ghost writer to have her hospital bills covered. [[spoiler:The truth is ''far'' uglier: see MovingTheGoalposts.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Poor, poor Kaori...]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Todakoro]] kills Torakura because Torakura caused the death of his sister while she was ill.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: Torakura married Etsuko who was 20 years younger than him, [[spoiler:through a cruel ScarpiaUltimatum.]]
* MovingTheGoalposts: [[spoiler:It turns out [[PosthumousCharacter Kaori died a year earlier]] because Torakura ''bribed her doctor into keeping her on ''painkillers only'' instead of paying for '''crucial''' and expensive treatment abroad (as per his end of the bargain)'', so Todakuro would spend his time indefinitely as his subordinate, which ultimately killed her. Then, he maintained the lie via keeping Todakuro locked in his countryside villa, telling him that Kaori (supposed to be in an American hospital) was still in recovery. And when the poor guy found out from the guilt-ridden nurse who used to tend to her, he went nuts with pain and murdered Torakura.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Although there aren't any real vampires in the series, Torakura dresses up as one to keep up the theme of his profession and he collects vampire-themed memorabilia in his spare time. [[spoiler:And he was killed by a stake through his heart in a simliar way as some vampires do.]]
** This is lampshaded by Conan at the end of the episode in his thoughts: [[spoiler:"When a vampire sucks someone's blood out, they also become vampires." In other words, Todakuro figuratively became a vampire himself by becoming a murderer.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Hamura. His reasons seems to be an enough motive to kill Torakura, but turns out that he wasn't the killer.]]
* ScarpiaUltimatum: [[spoiler:How Torakura married Etsuko, threatening to ruin her father's business and throw the family into destitution. What's more, she ''never'' loved him and she was in love with Hamura, but was forced to marry him in order to save the family's business.]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Torakura and Etsuko. Torakura isn't really that ''ugly'' and he doesn't look exceptionally old (he's as much in his 50's), but Etsuko is ''really'' attractive.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ayako Suzuki's friends]]
!!Ayako Suzuki's friends (Chikako Ikeda, Ryoichi Takahashi, Masaru Ohta, Hiroki Sumiya, [[spoiler: Atsuko Tokumoto]])
->Chikako is voiced by Jun Karasawa
The people involved in a case that is infamous for the huge dose of NightmareFuel. Sonoko invites Ran and Conan to a mountain villa to meet up with her sister Ayako and her friends from her college's cinema club and enjoy the autumn in nice company. Things get weird when Ran and Conan see a man with bandages on his face, and then one of the members of the club is first kidnapped and later gruesomely killed. The fact that their past is far more troubled that it looks like [[spoiler: and involved the tragic death of a girl named Atsuko]] doesn't help their case.
* AccidentalPervert: As Ran searches for her and Conan's room, she ends up walking on the guys when they were changing clothes. [[spoiler: Including Takahashi, who then targets her because she saw that he wasn't as pudgy as he looked... which would reveal how he later hid Chikako's head under his clothes.]]
* AxCrazy: The culprit, whose WeaponOfChoice is an axe ''and'' not only uses it to [[spoiler: chop the victim's body into pieces]], but to [[spoiler: attack Ran ''and'' Conan with it.]]
* BridalCarry: ''Horribly'' used when the group sees the killer carry a kidnapped [[spoiler: Chikako]] away in his arms, right before [[spoiler: her dismembered]] body is found. [[spoiler: It was a stage trick with a doll, piano wire, and Chikako's already decapitated head.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Chikako stole her "friend" Atsuko's best script and made it pass as hers, which made Atsuko cross the DespairEventHorizon and hang herself.]]
** [[spoiler: Takahashi also tries to commit suicide with a knife so he and his beloved Atsuko could be TogetherInDeath, but is thwarted.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler: When Takahashi claims how he did everything for Atsuko, Conan as Sonoko throws a BreakingSpeech in his face about how he tried to kill Ran to protect his identity, even though Ran was innocent and had nothing to do with what happened to Atsuko; ultimately he isn't some tragic hero avenging his lost love, but nothing more than a killer. This ends up shattering him and makes him give up on his suicide attempt.]]
* HandsomeLech: Ohta tries to hit on Ran many times, much to [[GreenEyedMonster Sonoko]] and [[CrazyJealousGuy Conan]]'s anger.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Atsuko was a sweet GlassesGirl. She was mentally/emotionally broken after Chikako's betrayal. Guess what followed.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Takahashi uses this to justify his ''brutal'' murder of Chikako, since he was deeply in love with poor Atsuko, witnessed her fall into despair and was unable to stop it, and then he decided to punish Chikako for causing her suicide.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: Atsuko]]'s "No one will believe me!", referring to [[spoiler: how she was the true author of the beautiful script that Chikako made pass as hers.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: [[spoiler: Atsuko was a plain but cute GirlNextDoor with glasses, [[LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine contrasting]] with Chikako's top model-level looks.]]
* OffWithHisHead:[[spoiler: Chikako's death. Takahashi then takes it UpToEleven by chopping up her body and dismembering her.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Oh, Atsuko.]]
* SmokingIsCool: Ohta.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Ran and Conan spend the night in the same bed. Not like that, of course. [[spoiler: Which actually saves [[HeavySleeper Ran]]'s life in the upcoming attack by the masked man: Conan was awake when said man attacked them, so he pushed her away from harm's way and then used his voice changer at full volume to wake up Ran right in the nick of time.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Takahashi, for the deceased Atsuko.]]
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[[folder:Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples]]
!!Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples (Nanae and Ayano Tsukumo, Yuji Momochi, Mako Miyoshi, Kazumi Sanada, [[spoiler: Yashiro Kinoshita]])
-->Kazumi Sanada is voiced by: Creator/RyotaroOkiayu
-->Mako Miyoshi is voiced by: Yurika Hino
-->Ayano Tsukumo is voiced by: Creator/KonamiYoshida
The first group featured in the popular double episode "The Cornered Famous detective! Two big murder cases". Motoyasu Tsukumo is a famous stage magician who appears dead in strange circumstances the day when his daughter Ayano turned six years old, so his widow Nanae goes to Kogoro to search for help since she suspects one of his three disciples is the murderer. This, however, brings Ran some memories... and evidence that Conan is Shinichi!
* AdultFear: The case's about to be deciphered... and then a bomb is dropped. [[spoiler: Little Ayano is missing! And Mako, the killer, is the one who took her away! In a subversion, Mako brings Ayano back unharmed, though she admits she was ''this'' close to killing her.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Mako is tall, standoffish and very beautiful. [[spoiler: And the SympatheticMurderer.]]
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: Young Mako actually witnessed how Tsukumo messed around with Yashiro's equipment and caused his death, but nobody believed her since she was a little girl back then.]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain photo album that Ran finds in the Mouri office. [[spoiler: It has a photo of Tsukumo with kid!Ran and kid!Shinichi, and taking a good look at it makes Ran suspect about Conan's true identity--especially after comparing said picture to the long look she takes of a Conan without glasses.]]
** In-story example: [[spoiler: Tsukumo kept photos of all his disciples in his study - including Yashiro. Kazumi saw Mako hugging Yashiro's picture to her chest tenderly, so he suspected that she had a link to him. He never acted on it, though.]]
* DrivenByEnvy: [[spoiler: Why Tsukumo killed Yashiro.]]
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler: Yashiro died while [[FatalMethodActing performing a dangerous trick]] inside a water tank that went horribly wrong... due to Tsukumo tampering with it and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident making it look like a genuine accident]].]]
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Or better said, "I Have Your Little Daughter And I'll Kill Her If You Don't Let Me Show You My Best Trick And Then Kill You for Killing My Older Brother [[PromotionToParent Who Raised Me To Be A Stage Magician]]"]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Six-year-old Ayano doesn't know that her dad's dead.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Mako killed her "mentor" because he killed her beloved older brother Yashiro.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Yuji and Kazumi are both very tall and very good looking.
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[[folder:The Yabuchi family]]
!!The Yabuchi family (Hiromi, Hidekazu, Yoshichika, Yoshifusa, Yoshiyuki, Keiko and Machiko Yabuchi. Also, Carlos and [[spoiler: Dickson Tanaka]])
The second group from "The Cornered Famous detective! Two big murder cases". Yukiko Kudo has suddenly come from the USA, and manages to get Conan to stay with her for the weekend. The next day she's summoned by her childhood friend Hiromi Yabuchi, whose father Yoshichika died recently; her uncle Yoshifusa has arrived from Brazil alongside his bodyguard Carlos, but she's sure something strange is going on and thus she asks Yukiko for help. Conan senses something fishy ''is'' going on, thus he must protect his mother ''and'' defuse whatever plan is brewing behind closed doors.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Machiko was attempting to murder Dickson Tanaka to receive more of the inheritance, but wasn’t expecting him to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use the very knife she planned to stab him with on her]].]]
* BigFancyHouse: The Yabuchis live in a pretty big traditional Japanese complex.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Hiromi and her husband Hidekazu are pretty good people, but her younger brother Yoshiyuki and his wife Keiko are huge {{Jerk Ass}}es. Let's not even talk about Machiko...
* ButNotTooForeign: [[spoiler: Carlos turns out to be the real Yoshifusa's son with a black Brazilian woman. Dickson Tanaka is part Brazilian as well.]]
* GoldDigger: Implied in the case of Machiko.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Machiko wanted to kill her brother-in-law to get more of her husband's inheritance. Too bad she tried to stab said brother-in-law while in the bath... and he (or better said, his stand-in) killed her in self-defense.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Hidekazu took up Hiromi's surname since she was the eldest daughter of the rich Yabuchi family.
* MayDecemberRomance: Yoshichika and Mariko, who is barely older than his adult kids.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Dickson/Yoshifusa thinks Carlos is [[LikeASonToMe like a son to him]]. He will do everything in his power to make sure Carlos will be safe and won't be cheated out of his share of his uncle's inheritance.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Keiko, who set a small trap with a crossbow to either kill herself (original) or scare off Dickson/Yoshifusa (dubs). She wasn't the killer, though.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The man known as Yoshifusa Yabuchi [[DeadPersonImpersonation is actually Dickson Tanaka]], a Brazilian man with Japanese blood, who is impersonating his dead friend Yoshifusa to protect said friend's son and heir... Carlos.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Carlos. [[spoiler: Subverted: [[FaceofAThug He only looks scary]] and is actually a NiceGuy GentleGiant, [[ShrinkingViolet more shy]] and a little child-like than scary.]]
* SmugSnake: Machiko, Keiko and Yoshiyuki. Machiko is far worse, though.
* ThemeNaming: Three of the males in the Yabuchi family have names starting with ''Yoshi'': patriarch Yoshi''chika'', uncle Yoshi''fusa'', and son Yoshi''yuki''.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Dickson took up the Yoshifusa Yabuchi name out of loyalty for his deceased friend/business partner and his child Carlos.]]
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Everyone was shocked to know that [[spoiler: Carlos was taking the place of his dead father Yoshifusa among the inheritors. Yoshichika ''did'' know, but he didn't tell anyone -- except for signaling it in the tape that was his last will.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Dickson would stab a girl, but only to defend himself when she attacks him with a knife.]]
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[[folder:Reika Yotsui and her entourage]]
!!Reika Yotsui and her entourage (Mr. Yotsui, Takashi Ichieda, Yuji Nikaidou, Takaya Mifune, Osamu Gojou, Masao Rokuda, Nanao Yone, [[spoiler: Yaeko Yone]])
The people involved in the ''Billionaire Birthday Blues'' / [[spoiler: Wealthy Daughter Murder]] case. Reika Yotsui is a callous RichBitch with an UnwantedHarem who invites the Mouris and Conan to her birthday party since Kogoro found her lost puppydog. Everything goes well until the party is over and Kogoro, Ran, Conan and several others have to stay in the village due to a mysterious problem... Reika then disappears, one of her suitors is found dead, and Ran is drugged up and almost drowned to death. What the ''Hell'' is going on?!
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Mifune has a much darker skin tone than the rest, but it's never brought up.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:See the NightmareFuel page for a detailed description.]] *shudder*
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Two of them.]]
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler: The reason why Reika couldn't escape from a...]]
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler:One improvised inside a ''deep'' bath tub!]]
* ItsPersonal: Ran was attacked. Conan was ''most'' pissed off.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Had Yaeko not been murdered by Nikaidou and Reika, Ichieda wouldn't have killed them.]]
* NiceGuy: Rokuda and Gojou.
* NumericalThemeNaming: The characters here have numbers that goes from 1 to 7 [[spoiler:or 8]].
* OldRetainer: Yone, to the Yotsuis.
* RichBitch: Reika. She's so selfish and cruel that [[spoiler: she and Nikaidou killed a girl (implied to be Reika's childhood friend in the past!), purely to save their own butts.]]
* UnwantedHarem: Ichieda, Nikaidou, Mifune, Rokuda and Gojou were this to Reika. [[spoiler: In a subversion, Ichieda actually loved ''Yaeko'', and only stayed close to Reika to find the moment to kill her and Nikaidou.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: Yone [[spoiler: and Yaeko.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Nagato family and entourage]]
!!The Nagato family and entourage (Dousan, Nobuko, Yasue, Hideomi, and Mitsuaki Nagato; Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuuga)
-->Miyuki Hyuga is voiced by: Creator/RikaFukami
-->Mitsuaki Nagato is voiced by: Ryoichi Tanaka
The people from the "Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case". Dousan Nagato, a rich old man who's ill and not expected to live for long, hires Kogoro to find his first love. [[spoiler: Which is a cover to investigate several odd things that have happened in his BigFancyHouse.]] All of a sudden, however, two persons from his family are dead. What happened, what was the secret they both held, and will Conan find out the truth alongside Heiji, who's been called in too?
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: What Hideomi truly was, encouraging and helping Miyuki since he and Mitsuaki killed her parents via causing the fire in which they died. Also that's where he got his scars from, having rescued little Miyuki from the same fire; he could have gotten plastic surgery very easily, but didn't want to do so.]]
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Miyuki says she believes that her and Hideomi are destined to be together, since they've been "tied via a destiny made of fire" for a long time.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Not as bad as the Hatamoto family, but pretty fucked up. Yasue and Chairman Nagato were pretty nice persons, but Mitsuaki, Hideomi and Nobuko have... ''issues''.
* BrokenBird: Miyuki has massive, MASSIVE emotional problems [[spoiler: coming from Mitsuaki and Hideomi's DeadlyPrank that killed her parents, as well as her love for Hideomi.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The fact that [[spoiler: Mitsuaki wanted to kill his father-in-law to take full control of the Nagato enterprise]] places him squarely here.
* ChekhovsGunman: Conan sees a familiar man among the police, but doesn't recognize him. That man is Heizo Hattori, actually an old friend of Chairman Nagato... and Heiji shows up almost immediately afterwards.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Chairman Nagato was the unclucky childhood friend to the lady that he wants Kogoro to find for him. [[spoiler: That woman was actually Miyuki's MissingMom.]]
* ChristmasCake: When Nobuko bitchslaps Miyuki, Nagato speculates it's because "she hasn't found a husband". Considering that Nobuko is 39 years old, ''way'' past the "limit"... yeah.
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Conan]]''': With ''that'' personality, it's not like she'll ever get married...
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Miyuki.]]
** [[spoiler: Also Hideomi, who killed himself when he reached it.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Having crossed the DEH, Hideomi killed himself with poison. Miyuki found his lifeless body and she pretended to join Mitsuaki in his plan to kill Chairman Nagato, only to betray and kill Mitsuaki later so she can avenge Hideomi and protect Nagato. She also roped Mitsuaki into hiding Hideomi's corpse in the pond, later [[DecoyDamsel manipulating Nobuko]] into hitting her near said pond to have an excuse to get the pond drained and taking Hideomi away.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Hideomi, [[IWasQuiteALooker once a beautiful young man]], has half his face burned off. [[spoiler: They turn out to be Good Scars... sorta.]]
* {{Hikikomori}}: Hideomi, after he got scarred, left school and holed himself up in his room to write his novels without needing to interact with anyone.
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:]] [[spoiler: Mitsuaki's death, when Miyuki stabs his hand with her pen and makes him fall from the balcony... and he gets "stuck" in the fence]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite Nobuko's actions she does truly care for her family. The reason why she abused Miyuki is because she truly thought she [[GoldDigger didn't love her brother and just wanted his fortune]]. [[spoiler:When the truth is revealed, she was just as stunned as everyone else, and couldn't say anything.]]
* LoveHurts: And holy goddamned shit, HOW. This case is a huge TearJerker.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Mitsuaki, Yasue's husband, took up the family name.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Hideomi is believed to be this, [[BandagedFace using bandages instead of a mask]] to cover [[TwoFaced his hideous scars.]] [[spoiler: He wasn't evil. And actually, the man in "mask" we saw... was a disguised Mitsuaki or an equally disguised Miyuki.]]
* NoHeroToHisValet: Nobuko treats Miyuki quite badly, believing her to be a GoldDigger who takes advantage of Hideomi's isolation to get close to the family. [[spoiler: It's far more complicated.]]
* NotGoodWithRejection: [[spoiler: Totally and cruelly inverted. Hideomi crossed the DespairEventHorizon because Miyuki ''did'' want to marry him, despite the role he had in the deaths of her parents.]]
* SexySecretary: Miyuki, a cute-looking young lady with [[ShesGotLegs really nice legs]].
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Mitsuaki.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Miyuki and Hideomi.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Miyuki's burned fountain pen, which belonged to her deceased father.
** [[spoiler: ChekhovsGun: Miyuki uses it to stab Mitsuaki's hand when she tries to throw him off the balcony and he holds on to her. Then he falls off to his death.]]
*** Furthermore... [[spoiler: the pen didn't belong to Miyuki's dad, but to her mother. Nagato gave it to her when they were kids, and it's the proof that the girl he loved in the past was Miyuki's mom.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Miyuki tries invoking this when she attempts to commit suicide to be with Hideomi. It fails since she wanted to [[KillItWithFire burn herself to death with a gasoline thermos and her lighter]], but Conan and Heiji had switched the fuel with water.]]
* UptownBoy: Hideomi is a PrincelyYoungMan. Miyuki is an orphan and his father's secretary. In a subversion, the one opposing to their match-up was Hideomi's older sister and not his father, who was more-or-less fine with this.
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[[folder:Raita Banba and Hatsune Kamon]]
!!Raita Banba and Hatsune Kamon
Raita is one of Kogoro's high school friends and Hatsune is his fiancee, and they intend to have Kogoro attend their wedding ceremony. The night before their marriage, however, Hatsune's car explodes with her inside -- and it soon comes out that ''both'' of them were having the other investigated on suspicions of infidelity. Hatsune wanted to see if he'd flirt with other women and Raita hired a detective after becoming suspicious of her interactions with a handsome man named Tooru Amuro, who turns out to be the detective ''she'' had hired to investigate him. Could Raita's jealousy have gone too far?
-->Raita Banba is voiced by: Creator/YasuyukiKase
-->Hatsune Kamon is voiced by: Creator/YurikoYamamoto
* AlwaysMurder: [[spoiler:Averted for the first time since volume 1.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Banba, who is VERY dark-skinned and even has dreadlocks.
* BrokenTears: [[spoiler: Raita tearfully loses it when he learns the terrible truth about Hatsune and himself. By the time the case is over, the poor man is sobbing and [[SayMyName screaming Hatsune's name]].]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Not that they knew it.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: Raita is believed to be this. [[spoiler: It's not that easy.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Hatsune was already ''very'' stressed over the wedding, her bad health and her suspicions about who Raita actually was. When her fears about him being her twin brother were confirmed, she crossed the edge.]]
** [[spoiler: At the end of the case, it's almost a sure thig that Raita crossed it as well.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:What actually happened to Hatsune.]]
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:One of the rare cases where there's a reason for it.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Both of them. [[spoiler: In fact, they were orphaned in the same fire, a very large one that not only killed their parents but decimated almost a whole neighborhood more than 30 years ago.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Hatsune, who has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Syndrome Turner Syndrome.]].]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Raita is this at his worst. It's mostly when he's drunk, though.
* SayMyName: [[spoiler: "HATSUNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"]]
* StuffBlowingUp: Hatsune's death happened when her car exploded with her inside.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The attendants of the Night Baron Tour]]
!!The attendants of the Night Baron Tour (Hideko Kamijou, Tokio Ebara, Satoru Maeda, Genichirou Kaneshiro, Shizune Hayashi, Shiro Konnou, Akiko Sayama)
-->Shirou Konno is voiced by: Creator/ShowHayami
-->Akiko Sayama is voiced by: Creator/ChiekoHonda
Via Dr. Agasa, Conan finds out that there's a tour to a famous hotel featuring his father's iconic character, the Night Baron, as a main theme. Agasa was supposed to go but his companion and his granddaughter had to relinquish their spots, so Conan and the Mouris go in their place. It's a good thing, though, since it turns out that one of the attendants is a massive JerkAss named Tokio Ebara... and he's gruesomely killed while wearing a Night Baron outfit!
* BlowYouAway: The ''Himekaze'' aka the "Wind of the Princess", which blows in that particular time of the year. [[spoiler: And is the reason why Ebara lands on the statue, when he wasn't supposed to. Wasn't helped by him wearing a cape in that moment.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Sayama.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Ran is ''very'' depressed when Maeda's TakingTheHeat act makes her believe that he's the killer.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sayama really, really doesn't like it when Maeda oggles other girls...
* TheCracker: [[spoiler:Tokio Ebara.]]
* CryCute: Used twice in the story:
** [[spoiler: Kamijou cries quietly when Ebara is found dead. They were married in the past and even when their divorce was nasty, she still cared a little for him.]]
** [[spoiler: Sayama is seen crying when she's taken away and Maeda tells her "IWillWaitForYou!".]]
* DestinationDefenestration:
** When Conan is thinking about the MacGuffin, he gets ambushed and thrown off the balcony he's leaning on by someone dressed up as the Night Baron. He survives, since [[SoftWater he lands inside the hotel's pool]].
** [[spoiler: This was also how Sayama (the one who threw Conan off, but only to scare him away) kills Ebara. Though the thing with him being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice was a coincidence.]]
** Additionally, [[spoiler: Sayama killed Ebara like that because her beloved brother commited suicide by throwing himself off his apartment's window.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Subverted. Ebara is VERY dirty minded and constantly hits on cute women, but is also YoungerThanTheyLook. Seriously, he's only in his 30's!
* GetOut: An angry [[ClingyJealousGirl Sayama]] locks Maeda out of their room after he ogles Kamijou when she's in a {{Stripperiffic}} outfit. [[spoiler: She might have done so to keep him from finding any evidence tying her to the murder she was about to commit, however. [[TakingTheHeat Not that it worked]].]]
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Sayama uses ''herself'' as such, to trap Ebara and then kill him. She invites him to her and Maeda's room, spikes his drink, dresses him up as the Night Baron ''and throws him off the balcony''.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Ebara's lifeless body is found impaled on a statue. Aaaaaugh!.]]
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler: Maeda, as bitterly lampshaded by Sayama herself.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Konnou the banker, a very tall and pale man with dark hair and StoicSpectacles.
* MacGuffin: There's a diskette to be won by the people in the tour, containing a ''nasty'' and ''completely unblockable'' computer virus that is called the Night Baron.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: The ''Night Baron'' is a high-class criminal who uses a mask to cover his identity. [[spoiler: Sayama and later Maeda use NB disguises for their own purposes.]]
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: For all of his "DirtyOldMan" tactics, Ebara barely blinks when [[spoiler: his ex wife]] Kamijou shows up in a VERY {{Stripperiffic}} cocktail dress. Made even more obvious when Kogoro ''and'' Maeda get [[DistractedBytheSexy super distracted]], much to the ire of [[ChildrenRaiseYou Ran]] and [[ClingyJealousgirl Sayama.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Old man Kaneshiro was ''not'' blind.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: The big reason why Agasa couldn't go is that his companion's granddaughter fell very ill. Had the little girl not been bed-ridden, Agasa wouldn't have had to tell Conan and the Mouris to go in his place, and therefore [[spoiler: Sayama]] would've probably gotten away with Ebara's murder...
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Maeda is willing to divert attention to himself and being sent to jail, rather than letting Sayama be punished.]]
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: Kamijou slips some sleeping pills in Kogoro's whisky, intending to get him out of the race for the MacGuffin.]]
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[[folder:The Araide Family and their housekeeper Hikaru]]
!!The Araide family and their housekeeper Hikaru (Dr. Yoshiteru Araide, Yoko Araide, Hikaru Yasumoto, [[spoiler: Chiaki Araide]]
In this specific case Kogoro, Ran and Conan makes a visit to the household of Kogoro's personal doctor. They meet Dr. Araide's handsome and kind son, Tomoaki, and he and Ran seem to get along incredibly well! Logically, [[CrazyJealousGuy Conan/Shinichi]] is rather troubled - but as someone dies in the house, there is no time to dwell on it. Even when Conan is having a hard time focusing on the case due to his fear of "losing" Ran to the younger Araide, the case must be solved...
* TheAlcoholic: Dr. Araide, in the past
* CuteClumsyGirl: Hikaru, but it's not PlayedForLaughs or cuteness.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Since Yoshiteru cheated on her too much and was very neglectful, Chiaki fell into depression and ultimately killed herself. Yoko was the dead Chiaki's best friend, so she killed the doctor as punishment.]]
* ElectrifiedBathtub: [[spoiler:The trick that Yoko used to kill Dr. Araide.]]
* WickedStepmother: Subverted as Yoko treated Tomoaki like her own son. [[spoiler:Before her death, Chiaki asked Yoko to look after Tomoaki for her.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Passengers aboard the ship ''Symphony'']]
!!Toji Samezaki, Teruyoshi Kameda, Korehisa Kanie, Minoru Ebina, Sadao Kujirai, Nagisa Isogai, Saizo Kano, Masaru Furukawa, [[spoiler: Yoshimi Samezaki]]
-->Toji Samezaki is voiced by: Creator/HidekatsuShibata
-->Teruyoshi Kameda is voiced by: Jin Hirao
-->Korehisa Kanie is voiced by: Creator/NorioWakamoto
-->Minoru Ebina is voiced by: Creator/YosukeAkimoto
-->Sadao Kujirai is voiced by: {{Creator/Mugihito}}
-->Nagisa Isogai is voiced by: Creator/RikaFukami
-->[[spoiler: Yoshimi Samezaki]] is voiced by: Yukiko Iwai
In the opening scene of "The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case," a man named Saizo Kano gets shot and falls down to the sea by what appears to be his accomplices. Flash forward to the present, Conan, Ran, and Mouri solve a puzzle from a newspaper ad, earning them an all-expenses-paid trip to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonin_Islands Ogasawara]] aboard a ship. They then encounter Toji Samezaki, a former colleague of Kogoro's, and the other winners as well. Seemingly unrelated at first, things take a turn for the worse when one of the passengers is found burned, and it turns out nearly all of the passengers have something to do with a robbery from 20 years ago and that the missing Saizo Kano may still be alive all this time...
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Saizo's gang was known for their heists being relatively bloodless. However, in their final robbery, they fired wildly, causing the deaths of Yoshimi and at least one of Toji's men.]]
* AssassinationAttempt: Heiji gets thrown overboard by [[spoiler: Kujirai, who realized the former saw Kanie tied up in the bow of the ship.]]
* BankRobbery: An example of this gone wrong caused Saizo and the gang to suddenly disappear.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: [[spoiler: Kanie had a gunshot wound back from his military service. Kujirai took advantage of this both to frame him for the murder of Kameda and the attempt on Kujirai's life (as Kujirai was presumed to have been shot from quite a distance) and for the rest of the cast to think he was the missing Saizo Kano.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Heiji is thrown overboard by the killer when the former discovers one of the culprit's tricks.
* ItsPersonal: The robbery case for Toji Samezaki, [[spoiler: as his daughter died after getting shot in one of Saizo's robberies.]]
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: Yoshimi was this to Ebina, motivating the latter to bring a bomb to the ship.]]
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Kameda, though he was already shot on the head when he was burned.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: Saizo Kano was presumed dead as his distinctive jacket was seen with four bullet holes on it [[spoiler: along with a picture of him and his daughter Nagisa.]] The cast spent most of the episode wondering if Saizo was alive the entire time, as he was suspected to be the heavily-covered guy who briefly appeared early in the episode. [[spoiler: He was DeadAllAlong, having not survived the opening scene, and the covered guy was Kujirai in disguise.]]
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Saizo Kano gets shot multiple times in the opening scene by his accomplices. [[spoiler: Kameda and Kanie later get dispatched by Kujirai.]]
* PhantomThief: Saizo, [[spoiler: Kameda, Kanie, and Kujirai.]]
* PublicSecretMessage: The newspaper ad put out by a certain Masaru Furukawa; to get aboard the ship, one has to present an old 10,000-yen bill. [[spoiler: This was also a message to the remaining accomplices, who by this point had long changed their appearances. Reading the characters for Masaru Furukawa sideways turns it into "Saizo Kano," with Kujirai unaware of this despite having created the ploy. The other passengers (save for Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Heiji) knew this beforehand, and boarded the ship in search for answers on the heist from 20 years ago.]]
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The gang that committed the robbery from 20 years ago reunite in the ship, ostensibly to celebrate the expiration of their StatuteOfLimitations of their 400-million yen heist.
* RelocatingTheExplosion: [[spoiler: Conan found Ebina's bomb and had it detonated from a liferaft away from the ship.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Attempted by Ebina and foiled by Conan.]]
* StatuteOfLimitations: The episode mostly revolves around the expiration of the statute of limitations for the gang's robbery from 20 years back. While they could no longer be prosecuted for [[spoiler: Yoshimi's death]] in their final robbery, [[spoiler: Kujirai gets charged for murdering the remaining accomplices.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Implied with [[spoiler: Ebina's bombing attempt.]]
* ThatOneCase: Despite being a retired cop, Toji still wanted to catch the robbers before the statute of limitations expired.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Kujirai shot himself and framed it on Kanie, who was found dead from a (presumed) suicide moments later. The reason there wasn't blood flowing despite having shot himself much earlier was that Kujirai plugged his wound with a tennis ball.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Domoto Family and entourage]]
!! Domoto Family and entourage (Eizo, Yatsunori, Junpei, Rino, Aoyagi, Machida and Nagano, Ayaka and Shizuka)
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ran commented that Ayaka is kind and beautiful like the goddess [[spoiler: which is INDEED she, the goddess who took Eizo's life away]].
* MeaningfulName: Kamiyama Shizuka which mean Mountain of the god and Silence, consider with this case theme her name might double as AwesomeMcCoolname.
* NunTooHoly: Well, guess who.
* OldRetainer: Kamiyama Shizuka who can easily run up more than thousand of stairs without tiring and keep protesting against Eizo for good amount of times in the episode. She's 75 and a [[NunTooHoly nun]] as well mind you.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bikuni Island Residents]]
!! Bikuni Island Residents (Saori and Benzo Kadowaki, Naoko Kuroe, Rokuro Fujiyama, Toshimi Ebihara, Kimie and "Great" Mikoto Shimabukuro)
A girl named Saori sends Kogoro and Heiji letters, asking them to save her from being murdered by mermaids. She lives on Bikuni Island and they go there to meet her, but she's been missing for a short while. Two other women appear dead, however...
* ArrangedMarriage: Rokuro is engaged to Toshimi, but is in love with Kimie. [[spoiler: That gave him a possible "reason" to [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse kill Toshimi]], but he's cleared off.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: Rokuro, Saori, Toshimi, Kimie and Naoko have known each other since their early years.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: [[spoiler: All the middle aged people in Bikuni knew that the current Mikoto was Kimie under a disguise, and that the supposed "mermaid corpse" was her mom's.]]
* LivingForeverisAwesome: [[spoiler: In the middle of her SanitySlippage incident, Saori said that she wanted to be immortal... followed by her all but telling Kimie that she, Toshimi and Naoko burned Great Mikoto. Kimie, who had secretly taken up Mikoto's identity already, realized that her friends had killed her mother aka the former one.]]
* KneelBeforeFrodo: [[spoiler: After the older people of the island say they knew that Kimie (and before her, her mother) was Mikoto, they humbly bow to Kimie.]]
* MacGuffin: The Dewgong Arrows won in Bikuni Island's Festival are supposed to bless the people who win them [[spoiler: and make them immortal.]]
* MasterOfDisguise: Well, not to the level of Kaito Kid and Vermouth but [[spoiler:Kimie (who works as a make-up artist ''and'' a {{miko}}) still managed to disguised herself as Mikoto, which is pretty impressive]].
* {{Miko}}: The Great Mikoto is the priestess of a local temple, and her descendant Kimie works as a shrine maiden there. [[spoiler: Kimie is actually ''both'' of them.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Saori was believed to be the killer, but it was Kimie. It doesn't help that Kimie ''did'' disguise herself as the already dead Saori at some point, then used her corpse to fake her own death.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Kimie killed Saori, Naoko and Toshimi because they murdered her mother, the former priestess, over [[DisproportionateRetribution not having won the Festival's prize]] (the Dewgong Arrow) that was supposed to give them blessings and probably immortality.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Saori had one during a talk with Kimie, leading her to suspect her and her other friends.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Kimono Goddess case]]
!!People in the Kotoya Inn (Yoriko Yasuda, Kyochi Bando, Eri Akechi [[spoiler: aka Chieri Aki]], Harumi Fukatsu, Asuka Shibazaki, Ema Anzai, [[spoiler: Sakurako Suzuka]])
-->Ema Anzai is voiced by: Creator/HarunaIkezawa
-->Eri Akechi is voiced by: Creator/MikiIto
-->Harumi Fukatsu is voiced by: Creator/YuriShiratori
-->Asuka Shibazaki is voiced by: Kaho Kouda
In this {{filler}} case, the Mouris take Conan to a hot spring inn to help him heal from a sprained ankle. There's also a film crew in the same place, ready to work with five female celebrities: publishing editor Yoriko, top model Asuka, novelist Eri, IdolSinger Harumi and oil painter Ema. Things go normally until two of the women are stabbed to death in the inn's grounds, and their lifeless bodies are surrounded by the inn's beautiful kimonos and ''obis''! Is this a supernatural revenge coming from the local deity, the Kimono Goddess? Or are both deaths the doing of someone in the crew instead?
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: In the legend, Ohana. (She helps a rich lord, gets many beautiful kimonos as thanks, is falsely accused of a crime by two selfish {{rich bitch}}es who want her treasured kimonos, ends up unfairly executed). In the real case, Sakurako (orphaned and separated from her older sister, re-builds her own life from scratch, is falsely accused of drug traffic, can't prove her innocence, kills herself).]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Ohana from the Kimono Goddess legend, who was so broken by her ordeals that she allegedly became an angry spirit and only calmed down when the locals venerated her as a goddess to placate her very well-justified anger.]] [[spoiler: In the real story, we have two: Sakurako Suzuka and her long-separated sister, Eri Akechi/Chieri Aki aka the SympatheticMurderer]]
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[spoiler:In the legend, Ohana's angry spirit murders the two greedy local girls who caused her unfair death. Even more symbolically, their lifeless bodies are found surrounded by the kimonos that the two assholes wanted enough to get the real owner killed.]]
* CostumePorn: In-universe example. The Kotoya Inn is VERY famous for its collection of beautiful kimonos, all related to the legend of the Kimono Goddess. [[spoiler: Asuka and Ema are found dead and rodeated by such gorgeous clothes: Asuka is "buried" under the obi sashes, Ema is lying on a pile of kimonos.]]
* CreepyDoll: If somebody wants a favor from the Kimono Goddess, he or she must: make one of these in paper, put on a kimono, go to the local Goddess shrine at midnight, and leave the doll in a wooden box specially outfitted for such a purpose. [[spoiler: Specially if s/he wants her to sponsor a revenge that ''they'' will carry out with their own hands, like Eri did before placing the dolls in the crime scenes.]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler: In the story, Ohana was executed via being tied up to a huge wooden cross and then ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice with several lances, thus the still image representing said moment used the imaginery. [[note]]TruthinTelevision: the "crucifixion and impalement" execution was used not only on average criminals, but on UsefulNotes/{{Japanese Christian}}s during Japan's isolation of the world (like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-six_Martyrs_of_Japan the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki]]) and on British and American POW's during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.[[/note]].]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Sakurako was DrivenToSuicide when she was framed for drug trafficking by Ema and Asuka and couldn't prove her innocence.]]
%%* HotSpringsEpisode
* IdolSinger: Harumi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Subverted: Harumi uses contacts normally, switching to specs only when she's in the springs.
* RichBitch: Both Asuka and Ema are from loaded families (the Shibazakis are into politics, the Anzais are in a huge enterprise) and are massive assholes. [[spoiler: It cost them their lives: in the past they used Sakurako as a scapegoat for their own drug trades and drove her to kill herself, then Sakurako's sister Eri/Chieri killed them both.]]
* TheOphelia: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Sakurako.]]
* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler:Harumi was a orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, the she rose to stardom once her songs became hits.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The case takes place in an ''onsen'' during the winter. It's obviously covered in snow out there.
* StartsWithASuicide: [[spoiler:The two-part episode begins with the very public suicide of a beautiful and sad girl.]] [[spoiler: Said girl is Sakurako.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Secret of the Idols Case]]
!!People from the Secret of Idols case (Kaoru Kusano, Osamu Kenzaki, Yuki Takeno, Terumi Hoshino and Atsushi Makuma)
-->Kaoru Kusano is voiced by: Creator/AkenoWatanabe
-->Osamu Kenzaki is voiced by: Creator/HisaoEgawa
-->Yuki Takeno is voiced by: Creator/MaayaSakamoto
-->Terumi Hoshino is voiced by: Creator/YuuAsakawa
-->Atsushi Makuma is voiced by: Creator/ShigeruNakahara
Yoko Okino sends Kogoro and Co. an invitation to the engagement party of her former bandmate Kaoru Kusano, who also happens to be a Kogoro fangirl. Bad thing, she's also the target of a stalker and she wants Kogoro to find him or her. But it should take place soon, since during the party Kaoru is attacked and almost dies...
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Terumi, the harshest and coldest of the four girls.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Yuki repents from her attempted murder of Kaoru and tries to off herself, but is saved.]]
* GenkiGirl: Kaoru has shades of this.
* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Yuki used her sharp filed thumbnails as a weapon, giving Kaoru a SlashedThroat with them.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: See FemmeFatalons above.
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Kaoru and Makuma.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Yuki lost it and tried to kill Kaoru because she believed that, by getting engaged to her beloved Kenzaki, she was trampling all over her feelings. In reality the guy Kaoru loved was their manager Makuma, and the engagement was a gambit from her to make him come forward.]]
* MeaningfulName: The four former Earth Ladies' names all have meaning to the earth's beauty. (Kaoru Kusano=Fragrant of Grass Field, Yuki Takeno= Snow Mountain, Terumi Hoshino= Bright Beautiful Stars, Yoko Okino= Sunshine of the Open Sea)
* SugarAndIcePersonality: [[spoiler:Terumi is revealed to idolize Shinichi.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Yuki is a mild version, as she ''does'' regret what she has done.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Day that Kogoro Ceased Being Detective]]
!!People from the Day that Kogoro Ceased Being Detective (Sayuri Tokomae, Ryozo Gamo, Sagae Kinugaza, Isao Takeoka, Kyosuke Arai,[[spoiler:A trio of robbers]],[[spoiler:Natsuko Takeoka]]
Kogoro was asked by the [[RichBitch wealthy-looking woman]] Sayuri Tokomae to be her bodyguard for her exercise program. At the same time however, a client named Ryozo Gamo phoned in and ask Kogoro to meet him for a request that involves finding a witness as Gamo was accused of a recent murder that occurred. When Kogoro was unable to find any witnesses, Gamo apparently lost all hope and committed suicide. Later, Kogoro's old friend, Takeoka come to assist him to find the real murderer, with hints pointing Gamo's nephew, Kyosuke Arai. The next day Arai was found hanged, apperently because of the pressure that Kogoro put on him. Feeling that this is his fault, Kogoro then decides to retire...
-->Sayuri Tokomae is voiced by: Wakako "Creator/{{Kujira}}" Matsumoto
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Sayuri Tokomae.
* CassandraTruth:[[spoiler:Natsuko was right all along about that Gamo was involved with the attempt murder of Sagae Kinukasa.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The Animal Cookie]]
* DetectivePatsy: A rather well thought plan. [[spoiler:Takeoka disguised himself as Gamo to trick Kogoro into proving his false alibi.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Natsuko.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Sayuri Tokomae is arrested for excessive defense.]]
%%* ManlyTears
* RichBitch: Wearing several expensive jewelries while going out definitely fits the description for being one, Tokomae.
* RedHerring: Sayuri and Arai.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Black Dress Alibi case]]
!!People from the Black Dress Alibi case (Mihiro Kuze, Yuika Shodou)
Ran and Sonoko drag Kogoro and Conan in a shopping spree through Harajuku, the most fashionable street in Tokyo. During a rest in a tea house, the girls are starstruck when they spot a young woman clad in a beautiful ElegantGothicLolita outfit, which includes a really pretty and lacy black and red dress... But few hours later, the fashionable girl appears strangled to death in a public restroom! Since they're among the few who last saw her alive, Conan and Kogoro must find out who did her in. [[spoiler: Or more exactly, undo the alibi of their biggest suspect: the fashionable girl's best friend, Yuika Shudou.]]
* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler: Yuika killed Mihiro because she found her overbearing, self-absorbed and possessive, to the point of allegedly shooing everyone in Yuika's life so she could have her all for herself. [[BerserkButton Sonoko gets pissed off]] and [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on it]], saying that Yuika didn't trust Mihiro enough [[PoorCommunicationKills to tell her what was on her mind]] and set their boundaries/limits straight.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: Yuika and Mihiro.
* CostumePorn: In the manga, the reader catches a one-panel view of Mihiro's clothes and jewelry. [[AdaptationExpansion In the anime, however...]] ''holy crap'', she's got great taste and an AWESOME wardrobe.
* ElegantGothicLolita:
** Mihiro. Her bedroom is briefly seen at the start, and she's got several pieces of EGL clothing hanging on the walls.
** According to Conan's ImagineSpot, Ai would fit in fairly well due to her LittleMissSnarker nature.
** Also, when in a EGL boutique, Ran and Sonoko briefly borrow identical ''sweet lolita'' [[PinkMeansFeminine pink dresses]]. Conan gets ready to snark at Ran, but when [[SheCleansUpNicely he actually sees her on it]], he blushes and thinks to himself that she ''does'' look really good.
* MasterOfDisguise: Sort-of. [[spoiler: After killing Mihiro, Yuika [[DeadPersonImpersonation put on her clothes and a wig and impersonated her for a while to create an alibi]].]]
* {{Meganekko}}: Yuika.
* OfficeLady: Yuika, Mihiro's best friend. [[spoiler: And her murderer.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Seance's Double Locked Mystery Room Case]]
!!People from the Seance's Double Locked Mystery Room Case (Kouji Yatsukawa, Ryuichi Mifune, Shouko Utakura, Reiki Hirasaka, Maho Izumi, Kazuo Ohnogi, Yutaka Kani, Ichirou Sawanami, Kira Miyahara)
Conan, Ran and Kogoro get lost in the middle of a trip and knock on the door of a creepy BigFancyHouse. It turns out the owner is the manga artist Reiki Hirasaka, a friend of a person they helped before (TV producer Kouji Yatsukawa), and he and some other friends also affiliated to entertainment circles are holding a séance to invoke the spirit of Kira Miyahara, a beautiful IdolSinger who died a while ago, so they escape a supposed curse that has already costed another person their life. It's not enough, however: two of the attendants die, and both murder scenes are locked mystery room types! All of this is related to the mysterious Kira, whose body never was found... Is her spirit murdering those who were involved in her death? Is she alive and hiding, ready to attack the rest as revenge for whatever they did to her? Or is one of the attendants the real murderer, again in the name of revenge?
* TheAlcoholic: Hirasaka, who does it [[DrowningMySorrows due to depression]]. [[spoiler: He's a ''very'' mean drunk, however, and one year ago he killed Kira in the middle of a drunken tantrum.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Mifune not only wanted to murder the people who got his dear Kira killed, but hoped to manipulate the odds so the investigation of Kira's death would be re-opened and her corpse, supposedly hidden in Hirasaka's mansion, would be found. (And he was right - her remains were buried underneath the seance table)]]
* BeneathTheMask: Maho is actually VERY shy when she's not cosplaying and hanging around people like [[spoiler: Kira (when she was alive, that is.)]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: This is how [[spoiler: Shouko]] is found. The corpse lies on the seance table, arms outstretched like in a cross.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mifune.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Shouko, when Mifune attacked her. She offered zero resistence upon being under attack ''of the man she was hopelessly in love with''.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: ... Wait, Hirasaka is a dude?
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: When Shouko found Sawanami's body, she noticed that he used his own blood to spell some ''kana'' on the floor. That's what made her realize that Mifune was the killer.]]
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Kira was one for [[spoiler: Mifune]] and [[spoiler: Maho]]
-->[[spoiler: Maho]]: "Miss Kira... She was my reason for '''living'''!"
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Kira and Mifune were secretly dating, until her death. Shouko loved Mifune but didn't tell him, as she was aware of how he was mourning for Kira. Due to an horrible misunderstanding, ''Mifune killed Shouko'', and only learned that she loved him when Maho told him ''after Shouko's death''.]]
* MadnessMantra: "It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie!", by [[spoiler: Mifune, after he's both found out ''and'' told about Shouko's feelings for him]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Reiki accidentally killed Kira via knocking her down to the floor when drunk, causing her to [[DeathByFallingOver fatally hit her head]]. He and the other people around staged a fake car accident to cover this up; however, that ended up tipping Mifune off, as Kira was actually a great driver.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Shouko.]]
* PoseOfSupplication: [[spoiler: Maho, when she explains her link to Kira and how she couldn't bring herself to say she was the woman who assisted the fatal party where Kira was killed by Reiki.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Cruel subversion. Since Shouko had found out that her beloved Mifune killed Sawanami, she told Mifune what happened and then promised that she wouldn't snitch. Mifune still killed her, both because he thought she'd {{black mail}} him and believed she was the girl who witnessed Kira's death and helped hide her body. (It was Maho, not Shouko)]]
* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Kira and Mifune. They never told anyone they were dating, since Japanese fans can be ''really'' possessive of their artistic celebrities [[YokoOhNo and would have HATED to see that "their Kira" was dating]].]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Maho.
%% * SpoiledSweet: Kira was a super popular idol, and said to be a really sweet girl. A good example was her OddFriendship [[spoiler:with Maho.]]
* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: [[spoiler: Poor Maho.]]
* UnrequitedTragicMaiden: [[spoiler: Shouko Utakura]] may be one of the most tragic cases in the whole franchise.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Holmes's Revelation case]]
!!People from the Holmes's Revelation case (Diana Kingston, Venus the kitty, the Glass family, Ares Ashley, Hades Sabara, Hestia, Demeter Bauer)
The Holmes' Revelation Arc is one of climatic entries in the series. Not only does Shinichi return for some time, [[spoiler: he also (kind of) finally confesses to Ran he loves her.]] It's a dream come true for Conan when he finally gets to go to London, home of his hero, Sherlock Holmes. However, the fun is cut short when Apollo Glass, a little boy whose older sister Minerva knows Shinichi from somewhere, requests help. Meanwhile, [[LoveHurts Ran is questioning her love for Shinichi...]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Hades Sabara's past deeds were so horrible that they had to be ''seriously'' {{bowdlerize}}d in the anime.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Only in the manga. [[spoiler: After the death of his IllGirl mother and his financial ruin, Hades Sabara murdered both the people hounding him for money ''and'' the friend who suggested he invest in the stock market. [[AndYourLittleDogToo And the friend's whole family.]] And he apparently ''[[HeartTrauma ripped their hearts out]]''.]]
* EveryoneHatesHades: In a roundabout way. Why else would you name the ''MadBomber SerialKiller'' after him?!
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: Minerva is playing badly because of her mother's kidnapping. Subverted: she's trying to tell the detectives about her abducted mom ''without stopping to play''.]]
* IllGirl: Minerva and Apollo's mother, Juno, is blind.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Minerva hits Hades with her tennis ball. Conan then grabs said ball and kicks it at him.]]
* LoveHurts: This is quite the emotional rollercoaster for Ran, as she starts to seriously doubt her and Shinichi's prospect relationship [[spoiler: after she misunderstands Minerva's "Love is zero" words as dis-encouragement, and a brief but awkward encounter with a temporarily normal Shinichi doesn't clear up anything.]]
* MadBomber: Hades Sabara and his accomplice Hestia.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Minerva and Demeter seems to be explicitly based on Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Demeter and Minerva are both skilled tennis players
* ShippingTorpedo: [[spoiler: Subverted. Ran thought Minerva was this thanks to the "Love is zero" spiel, but she wasn't.]]
* ThemeNaming: All the characters introduced here have names related to [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek/Roman Gods.]]
* {{UsefulNotes/Wimbledon}}: The Women's Finals is vital to the plot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Small Client Case]]
!!People from the Small Client case (Kazuki Kinukawa, Yasuhiro Kamoshita, Mitsu Kusano, Toshiko Besshou, and Tomoka Saegusa)
Kogoro is contacted by seven-year-old Kazuki Kinukawa, a very popular child actor. He wants Kogoro to find his birth mother, who abandoned him when he was a toddler, so he can call her out on what she did to him and warn her that he won't hand her any money from his career. The leads they have guide them to a hot spring place in Atami, and they meet three women who can potentially be the one they're searching for... But then a JerkAss writer appears dead, and one of the three ladies is the prospect killer! For worse, the victim was planning to see if an ''horrible'' rumor about Kazuki's origins was true...
* BeautyMark: The main clue to the mysterious woman's identity is a mole that she's supposed to have on her body, more specifically on her chest. [[spoiler: It turns out that Tomoka, the real birth mother, had hers ''on the back of her neck''; Kazuki believed she had it on her chest because she carried him on her back as a toddler with a sling.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: Toshiko's actual reason to kill Kamoshita was that she claimed to be Kazuki's mom as a joke and got money outta the deal, but Kamoshita found out and threatened her.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Kazuki's purpose is to tell his mom that he wants nothing to do with her and won't let her [[FinancialAbuse financially abuse him]]. [[spoiler: It plays out VERY differently, because what he actually wants is to re-take contact with her.]]
* ChildProdigy: Kazuki, a famous star at barely age 7
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: There's a rumor about Kazuki's birth father being a criminal...]]
* DoorstopBaby: Kazuki was left by his mother on the door of a Christian church when he was around two years old. She still sent him postcards from Atami, but stopped doing so a year ago.
* FanDisservice: In the anime, the image of the well-endowed naked woman [[spoiler: [[FullFrontalAssault strangling Kamoshita to death]] ]] was far more "clearly" seen than in the manga. [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:EP354-355_Case.jpg But considering the circumstances... meeeeep.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: Toshiko bullied Tomoka into stopping her contact with Kazuki because she was barren, and thus she ''deeply'' resented Tomoka for having given her child away.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Kazuki.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Scar Of First Love case]]
!!People from the Scar Of First Love case (Kurumi Shudou, Taisuke Hoya, Ryuhei Kusumoto, Sougo Banba)
The first part of the "Scar that Evokes the Past" case. A rich blind lady named Kurumi Shodou hires Kogoro to help her find her FirstLove, a man who saved her when they were both children and, as a result, has a scar on his body. After giving a TV interview to make her case known, she has managed to narrow the search down to two men, and noww she wants Kogoro to find out which of them is the man from the past - but later they find out another prospect candidate! And at the same time, there's a hunt for a SerialKiller near the Shodou household...
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Kurumi always knew that Taisuke was the guy who saved her, but was too humble to let it be known. The whole deal was her way to make him come forward.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: What the butler Taisuke Hoya did was... saving Kurumi's life, harboring feelings for her, and being the guy she was looking for.]]
* EyesAlwaysClosed ''and'' SunglassesAtNight: Both tropes are united in Kurumi's figure, signifying her blindness.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Kurumi is a very nice-looking rich woman, who is also completely blind. It's also inverted since she's more pro-active than the usual DIL and is actively searching for the guy she has loved for years.
* AFriendInNeed: According to Kurumi, her "scar boy" was almost unnaturally selfless. [[spoiler: As the grown-up Taisuke, ''he still is''.]]
* GoldDigger: The guy or guys who aren't the boy of the past easily fall into this, since Kurumi is ''loaded''. [[spoiler: Specially Kusumoto, who goes as far as ''using a scar that he copied from someone else'' to make himself pass as "the boy". [[ContrivedCoincidence And then]] the person whose scar he imitated turned out to be the SerialKiller that Matsumoto was looking for... (To be fair, Kusumoto didn't know about the last detail)]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The man Kurumi is looking for has a distinctive scar, spreading across either his chest or his back. [[spoiler: What tips Conan off is how one of the candidates has a ''small'' scar... and it makes sense, since getting it as a boy means the scar is big on a child, '''but small on a grown man.''']]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Taisuke considers the accident where he gained his scar as this, as it's the same one where [[EyeScream Kurumi's eyes]] were injured enough to eventually cause her to be blind. That's the exact reason why he refuses to reveal his identity.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The other trademark of this "mysterious boy" is his liking for ginger. This was shown in him loving both Ginger Ale drinks and ''gari'' aka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gari_(ginger) the pickled red ginger]] used on sushi. The kid loved ''gari'' so much that he introduced himself to little!Kurumi by his nickname "Gari-kun"! [[spoiler: This is proved in public when Kurumi has sushi brought to the reunion where Conan reveals the deal throgh Kogoro... and Taisuke, unaware of how this is a part of Kurumi's BatmanGambit, eats almost all the share of sushi that has ''gari''.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the Scar And the Whistling Man case]]
!!People of the Scar And the Whistling Man case (Superintendent Morimura, Douji Hiramune, Susumu and Eiki Nabei, Tsuguharu and Maiko Boukawa, Atsunori and Hidekuni Mugita)
The second part of the Scar that Evokes the Past case is focused on the look for a SerialKiller that Matsumoto, Megure, Takagi and others are hunting down. The criminal psychologist Douji Hiramune, who also happens to be Ayumi's neighbor, challenges this murderer in live television... and soon is found dead, his lifeless body branded with a letter. This confuses the police, as it doesn't exactly fit what they thought to be the killer's usual M.O... but there are other hints scattered around, and it's up to Conan and the police to put them all together!
As a corollary, this is the case where [[spoiler: Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato '''finally''' get their RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* AcheyScars: Matsumoto claims that when he [[spoiler: stepped into the Shodo home to confront Kusumoto (whom he believed to be the killer)]] and then when [[spoiler: he inspected the spot where Hiramune was killed]], he felt ''lots'' of pain in his infamous scar. [[spoiler: When Kibo is captured, not only he doesn't recognize Matsumoto but his scar doesn't hurt anymore, sorta "telling" Matsumoto to not hang onto ThatOneCase from then on.]]
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: Takagi is ambushed, beaten up and captured by the killer of the present - the son of one of the past victims, who found out about the real killer and murdered him to avenge his DisappearedDad. The man ends up shooting him in the chest.]] It also ''almost'' happens to [[spoiler: Ai and Ayumi, who cross paths with the new killer when he's leaving Hiramune's apartment after killing him]]
* BatterUp: [[spoiler: The present killer]] beats the fuck out of a disarmed [[spoiler: Takagi]] with a baseball bat.
* Music/TheBeatles: In the manga, the killer was heard whistling "Let it be" [[spoiler: to signify the two or three bits of remorse he felt back then]]. It was taken out of the anime and replaced by a "random song that was popular back then" in story, likely to avert conflicts with royalties and copyrights.
* CopycatCrime: [[spoiler: The murder of the present.]]. A JustifiedTrope: [[spoiler: The new killer forced the old one to tell him how he commited the murders, then used said knowledge to kill his target since one of the past victims [[YouKilledMyFather was his dad]].]]
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: As Hiramune was bleeding to death, he managed to put blood on the CTRL and C keys and died grabbing the mouse by its cord to imply that the murderer was a JackTheRipOff.]] Similarly, [[spoiler: right before dying in Matsumoto's arms, Morimura tried to use his last words to pull this trope, but Matsumoto didn't understand it at that time.]]
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler: According to Matsumoto, Morimura was about to get married and even showed him a picture of his girlfriend/soon-to-be wife. The hit-and-run incident [[RetiRony happened few afterwards]], and the dying Morimura admits he was reckless in order to impress his sweetheart.]] [[spoiler: Since Takagi had a similar behavior (photo or not photo), the others and ''specially'' Matsumoto fear for him - but he lives.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: One of the few concrete clues about the killer is that he has a large scar across his back. [[spoiler: And it was given to him by ''Matsumoto'', who snatched away his katana right after the EyeScream incident and wounded him.]] Also toyed with: [[spoiler: after killing Hiramune, Nabei Jr. saw the scar itself on Hiramune's back and used his knife to carve a "Z" there, to cover up said scar and throw the police off.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: [[spoiler: Eiki Nabei was ''ten years old'' when his father Susumu was murdered in the hall of the family house. Nabei Jr.'s bedroom was right next to the hall, meaning he didn't see the killer but could hear his and his dad's last talk as well as his whistling.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: The reason for Hiramune's three SlashedThroat murders. He first killed two of his {{TabletopGame/Mahjong}} partners (Mugita and Boukawa) because they thought his theories about perfect crimes were going ''too'' far, and he feared they'd tell other people about his creepy ideas. Years later, he killed the last partner remaining (Nabei Sr.) because said partner wanted to talk to the police about the case.]]
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: After Takagi confronts Eiki Nabei and Nabei Jr. confirms he killed Hiramune to avenge his father's murder, he tries to stage this once Sato starts calling to Takagi's phone. Takagi breaks said phone and ensures he will be the only hostage, which clues Sato in and makes her ask for back-up.]]
* ItsPersonal: Two of the reasons why Kiyonaga Matsumoto is so Hell-bent into catching this particular killer are linked to the trope. One: [[spoiler: during the early investigations of the crime, the killer used his car to fatally strike his partner/Megure's mentor, [[ForgottenFallenFriend Superintendent Morimura]], who [[DiedInyourArmstonight perished in Matsumoto's arms]] while trying to use his last words to lay some clues.]]. Second: [[spoiler: few after Morimura's death, the killer ''also'' scarred Matsumoto across the face ([[EyeScream and almost took out one of his eyes]]) [[KatanasAreJustBetter with his katana]].]] The third and last reason is under "StatuteOfLimitations".
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Hiramune, and how. Who would've thought that his arrogant declarations, made to throw suspicions off himself and look good while at it, would bring him his downfall?]]
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: What saved Takagi's life was the mahjong tile he had in his chest pocket, which blocked the bullet shot at him. (Though he still was injured enough to need hospitalization.) Shiratori keeps it later, and [[LampshadeHanging can't help commenting how cliché the situation is]].]]
* RedHerring: Midway through the case, [[spoiler: an ex-con named Dokurou Kibo is believed to be the culprit since he always had verbal spats with the victims in a mahjong parlor and, at some point, openly gunned for their deaths.]] [[spoiler: The SerialKiller of the past was actually ''Hiramune'', who ''also'' was the guy who both ran Morimura over and later gave Matsumoto his scar; Kibo couldn't be the murderer because, by the time Nabei was murdered, he ''already'' was in jail for other crimes. The definitive proof comes from him showing no reaction to Matsumoto, the man he supposedly "scarred" with a katana.]]
* SlashedThroat: Three of the four victims of the past died like this. (The other, a certain policeman who was on the case, was ran over in the streets.) Then, Hiramune was murdered in exactly the same way. [[spoiler: Because he ''was'' the killer of the past, and the killer of the present was the son of one of the victims. KarmicDeath, anyone?]]
* SmugSnake: '''Hiramune''', holy crap.
* StatuteOfLimitations: The last case of the SerialKiller is juuuust three days away from being definitely archived, which is the ''other'' reason why Matsumoto wants to catch the culprit that badly. [[spoiler: One can bet that Hiramune, being the killer himself, used this to try making himself look good and gain fame...]]
* ThatOneCase: For [[spoiler: Matsumoto, due to the connection with Morimura's murder and his own scarring]]. [[spoiler: Satou also alludes to ''her'' one case in a scene.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Between [[spoiler: replying to Satou's ill-timed cellphone call]] and [[spoiler: ignoring it]] during the AloneWithThePsycho scene, [[spoiler: Takagi]] chooses to [[spoiler: ''break his 'phone with his own hands'' to avert a HostageSituation. Satou realises something wrong's going on and notifies the other policemen.]]
* UnusualEyebrows: The TallDarkAndHandsome Morimura's 'brows were kinda... [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:Superintendent_Morimura.jpg odd.]]
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[[folder:People of the Mystery of the Cherry Blossoms case]]
!!People of the Mystery of the Cherry Blossoms case (Nami Kasakura, Yoshiro Soumei, [[spoiler: the girl from Shiratori's past aka Sumiko Kobayashi]])
A case that happens a short time after the aforementioned "Scar and the Whistling Man" one, focused on Inspector Ninzaburou Shiratori. He decides to take a break and go to the theater [[spoiler: after learning that Sato has definitely chosen Takagi over him]]; due to a mistake he ends up stuck not just with Conan, Ai and the Detective Kids (whom he mentions [[spoiler: his actually sympathetic reasons to chase after Sato]] to), but with a beautiful woman named Nami Kasakura, whom he takes quite a liking to. After the movie is over, Nami asks Shiratori for help against a StalkerWithACrush - but it's too late, since whoever this stalker is, s/he has beaten her boyfriend Yoshiro Soumei to death! Conan and Ai wonder if there are other explanations for the crime, however, and so does Shiratori...
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Shiratori tells the kids and later Nami that he strongly believes in destiny. [[spoiler: The girl from his past [[ManicPixieDreamGirl changed his life so much for the best]] that he thinks she is his fated love, hence why he insists in courting Sato and later Nami, aka the ones he believes to be the grown-up version of said girl.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Subverted. Shiratori is incredibly depressed upon seeing that the other strong candidate to be his "girl of destiny" is a BrokenBird[=/=]WomanScorned and the killer... but she isn't. [[FirstGirlAfterAll And she reappears almost immediately afterwards]].]]
* CherryBlossoms: Nami likes to use straw wrappers to make paper rings whose parts look like cherry blossoms, and she gives a cup to Shiratori that has those. [[spoiler: Just like the girl from his past]]. [[spoiler: This proves to be vital later since Shiratori, Conan and Ai see that she has ''several'' of those in her apartment, ready to use in her plan.]] It also [[ChekhovsGun gets a]] CallBack at the end [[spoiler: when Ayumi gives Shiratori a similar cherry-themed paper ring ''and'' tells him the same words used by the "girl of destiny", which leads Shiratori to recognize Kobayashi as his "fated love" when he sees her.]]
** [[LampshadeHanging The symbolism is even more anvilicious]] thanks to [[ThemeNaming the cherry blossom-themed names]] [[FlowerMotifs of these manga chapters]] [[spoiler: as well as the ones dedicated to Shiratori and Sumiko getting together]], by [[http://www.mangareader.net/139-8736-1/detective-conan/chapter-689.html one of the chapter covers]] featuring Shiratori and Conan under a blooming cherry tree, and by how, right after [[spoiler: Shiratori sees Kobayashi for the first time after many years and has his LoveEpiphany]], Conan and Ai notice that a bunch of nearby cherry trees are in bloom...
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Subverted by Shiratori and his "destiny girl", since they ''only'' met once and he didn't even know her name, [[ManicPixieDreamGirl despite her huge]] [[TrueLove impact in his life]]. He firmly believes the girl to be Sato, and that's why he pursues her [[RomanticFalseLead even when he knows]] [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she leans more]] [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy towards Takagi]]... but later he wonders if she actually is Nami Kasakura.]] [[spoiler: And it turns out she's [[CoolTeacher Sumiko Kobayashi]].]]
* CrashIntoHello: Shiratori and Nami met when she bumped into him and made him drop his cola. [[spoiler: It was intentional.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: This case is dedicated to give the readers a more detailed (and probably quite needed) insight regarding Shiratori's thoughts and beliefs.
* FinancialAbuse: [[spoiler: Nami went off the deep end when Soumei took her mother's expensive ring (implied to be a TragicKeepsake) behind her back, apparently to pawn it, and then ''gave it to another woman as an engagement one''.]] Lampshaded when Megure says that [[spoiler: she could have easily denounced Soumei for theft/fraud instead of killing him.]]
* LoveHurts: And how. Not only [[spoiler: Shiratori goes into what looks a LOT like a compressed version of the FiveStagesOfGrief when he (mistakenly) believes [[UsedToBeASweetKid that the sweet little girl he knew grew up into a murderer]] ]], but [[spoiler: Nami became a killer and a huge WomanScorned ''because'' she got '''badly''' screwed by her AssholeVictim of a boyfriend, [[FinancialAbuse who not only took money from her]] but also was a big-ass cheater]].
* MeaningfulName: The name of the victim, Soumei Yoshiro, sounds a LOT like "Somei Yoshino" aka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_×_yedoensis most popular variety of cherry blossom in Japan]].
* NiceHat: Nami wears a really cute [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knit_cap knit cap]]. [[spoiler: Which she uses in her plan by placing it on the sleeping Shiratori's head so the Detective Kids will think it's her instead. Since they're in a very dark theater ''and'' the other seats are empty, the deal works well... until Shiratori, Conan and Ai realise the trick.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: The kids are pretty happy when they see the chemistry between Nami and Shiratori...
* SlippingAMickey - TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: Nami intentionally makes Shiratori drop his drink, then offers him another as an apology. The second one is laced with sleeping pills.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: Nami claims that she has one, so she asks Shiratori to check around to see if he can find clues about their identity. However, the stalker ends up beating her boyfriend Soumei to death, apparently [[MurderTheHypotenuse to get him out of the way]]. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Of course]], there never was one to start with: ''Nami'' herself killed Soumei and made up the stalker deal to throw the kids and the police off.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: Shiratori tells this to Nami before Takagi takes her away]]. [[spoiler: Subverted in that the sweet GenkiGirl he was thinking of did NOT grow into Nami, but into ''Kobayashi-sensei'' instead.]]
-->"You weren't like this in the past."
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[[folder:People of the Timeless Sakura Love case]]
!!People of the Timeless Sakura Love (Akira Sumida, Kikuna Kagitani, Ryoko Takimoto, and Ryusuke Kodama)
In this case Conan, Ai and the Detective Boys's CoolTeacher Kobayashi takes the spotlight alongside Inspector Shiratori. They have just met and [[ShipTease seem to be getting along pretty well]] as the summer goes on, [[spoiler: specially since Shiratori has realised that ''she'' was his [[SingleTargetSexuality "girl of destiny"]] instead of Sato]], but [[CannotSpitItOut it seems their advances will be rather slow]]. All of a sudden, however, things change: Kobayashi steps into the murder of a particularly dangerous LoanShark during a summer festival, the one who did this person in is on the loose, ''and'' Shiratori is the one in charge of the investigation...
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Kodama, who's got very dark skin. Probably thanks to [[spoiler: having been a once very promising baseball player]] and thus exercising a LOT outdoors.
* BatterUp: [[spoiler: While Kodama [[KnifeNut stabbed Sumida with a knife]], he later tried to "mess up" with Kobayashi with a baseball bat. Too bad [[BodyDouble the woman he attacked]] [[IdenticalStranger was actually]] [[ActionGirl Sato]]...]]
* BlatantLies: Noooo, Takimoto has ''NothingPersonal'' against the recently murdered Sumida-san, even after what she did!
Nothing, PassiveAggressiveKombat really! Ohohohoho!
* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Kodama had ''two'' of these. And after the second happened, Sumida began to pressure and threaten him...]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: For both Shiratori and Kobayashi. [[spoiler: And their RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: So Sumida wanted to kill Kodama? He ended up killing her instead.]]
* FatBitch: Sumida was a pretty much obese woman... and a completely ''rotten'' JerkAss. Did you know, in example, that [[spoiler: she claimed she had sold Kagitani's beautiful and super pricey ring already ''when she was actually wearing it'', and she did so ''in front of her'']]? Or that she [[spoiler: sold a supposedly valious plate to Takimoto for 500.000 yen and it turned out to be just 500 yen worth]]? She should've NOT [[spoiler: tried to invoke FinancialAbuse on Kodama]], however...
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Kodama tries to do this to Kobayashi, since she saw him around almost immediately after he killed Sumida and therefore [[SpannerInTheworks she would throw his plan off]] if she properly recalled more details.]]
* JapaneseDelinquents: Kikuna Kagitani was an infamous gang leaderess, and according to her declarations she can still easily summon more than 100 female delinquents to fight her battles. Additionally she bleaches her hair blond and, in the kids's {{Imagine Spot}}s, she's seen dressed up in a typical ''sukeban'' outfit.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Sumida has such manly looks that, when her photo is shown around after her death, the only thing that proves her gender is how she buttons her blouse. And being mistaken for a guy was her BerserkButton.
* LoanShark: Sumida was technically a pawn shop owner, but she also loaned money and then was super abusive to the poor saps who didn't pay in time or didn't meet her expectatives. [[spoiler: When she tried to [[FinancialAbuse force Kodama to get a life insurance so she'd kill him and get the money from it]], that caused him to snap and kill her.]]
* RichBitch: Ryouko Takimoto, another of the suspects, is said to be from a very rich family. She's also super passive-aggressive when confronted.
* ShipperOnDeck: The kids notice that Shiratori and Kobayashi are hitting it off [[spoiler: ''and'' know the story behind their shared past]], so they try to push the two towards each other. Ai seems to be specially curious, and in a case between these two she expresses frustration at their slow advances. [[spoiler: When Kobayashi rejects Shiratori since she believes he only likes her because she looks like Sato, Conan explicitely says that he should catch the culprit of the case so she will "open her heart" to him once again.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: Shiratori gives a ''magnificent'' one to Kodama when he claims that him killing Sumida was in self-defense.]] [[spoiler: It's also what leads to Kobayashi ''finally'' remembering how Shiratori did the same [[WiseBeyondTheirYears as a child]], [[RescueRomance to save her from thieves]].]]
-->"Criminal Law, Article #36. An act unavoidably performed to protect the rights of oneself or any other person against imminent and unlawful infringement is not punishable. An act exceeding the limits of self-defense may lead to the punishment being reduced or may exculpate the offender in light of circumstances. These are the provisions of self-defense. At the time of the crime, [[spoiler: you used a bladed weapon]] with the intent to kill. So none of these circumstances apply. Not to mention, [[spoiler: turning a bat which fulfills dreams into a weapon to silence people]] '''earns you no right to talk about dreams at all'''.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Kagitani's ring]] is implied to be this, since according to her [[spoiler: it belonged to her MissingMom.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the Broadcast of Love case]]
!!People of the Broadcast of Love case (Wataru Date, Ryousuke Fuemoto, Natalie Kuruma, Yuuko Tokugi, Kyouka Hikoue)
Detective Takagi begins to act a little oddly during winter, and seems to have many thoughts in his head. Suddenly, he disappears without a trace - and the next time he's seen he has been kidnapped and put in a DeathTrap that could be located anywhere in Northern Japan! Not only Conan, the Detective Kids and the whole Beika police department must find him before any of the trap's mechanisms activate and kill him, but they must also find out ''exactly'' why a person would hate someone like ''[[NiceGuy him]]'' enough to do such things...
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor, ''poor'' Natalie Kuruma.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Three young women killed themselves by hanging around the same time of Date's death. One was his girlfriend Natalie, who did so over her grief for his death. The others were the medical student Yuuko, who [[ItsAllMyFault couldn't forgive herself for accidentally killing a guy with her car]], and the hostess Kyouka whose world crashed when her boyfriend was uncovered as a fraudster.]]
* ForcedToWatch: The case is kickstarted when the Detective Kids are given a tablet PC... which shows them an image of the trapped Takagi. From then on it's a race against time to find the poor guy before he ends up dead thanks to one or another mechanism in it (hanging in a makeshift gallow, freezing to death in the very crude Japanese winters, or [[spoiler: being blown up by a hidden bomb]]).
* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: So Natalie and Date were about to get engaged? Date got hit by a car and died right before the fateful day, and Natalie was among those who identified his corpse. And then she hung herself in despair. And '''then''' her parents died when they were in their way to retrieve her body.]] And for worse? [[spoiler: Date had just succesfully finished a case about a fraudster, and the fraudster's girlfriend Kyouka was so devastated that she ''also'' hung herself in despair.]] YEOWCH.
* AGlassOfChianti: [[spoiler: Fuemoto is found in his old apartment with a bottle of good wine and a half-full glass.]] [[spoiler: In a subversion, he had poisoned his own drink before consuming it, effectively commiting suicide... and dying without revealing where Takagi is.]]
* HighClassCallGirl: [[spoiler: Kyouka Hikoue]] is implied to be one. She worked as a hostess and was noted to be both very pretty and popular among the men going to her work place.
* LikeASonToMe: [[spoiler: Fuemoto had an InterGenerationalFriendship with Natalie and considered her to be like his daughter. When she died, he completely lost it and decided [[LoveMakesYouEvil to kill the man who caused her death]], not knowing that Date had died and for worse, mistaking Date's best friend and surrogate 'younger brother' as the one who "caused" poor Natalie's disgrace.]]
* MixedAncestry: Natalie was half-American, half-Japanese, which is seen in [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold her blond hair.]] [[spoiler: When Date's parents came to retrieve their son's corpse, they saw her tearfully standing in a corner of the morgue and took notice of her unusual looks...]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Wataru Date, Natalie Kuruma, Yuuko Tokugi, and Kyouka Hikoue are already long dead, having perished at very least two years ago almost at the same time. One of the biggest plot points in the case is to decipher the connections between their deaths. [[spoiler: The only one that is disconnected of the case itself is Yuuko's.]]
* RavensAndCrows: At some point, some black birds [[spoiler: almost knock down the camera over the kidnapped Takagi]]. They turn out to be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_jackdaw jackdaws]], and this allows the kids and the police to deduce that [[spoiler: Takagi is being held hostage in Hokkaido, since the jackdaws are mostly seen in Europe but sometimes they're spotted in Hokkaido.[[note]]Hokkaido is the northernmost Japanese island, and [[http://wikitravel.org/en/Wakkanai its absolute northermost city]] is a hub of connection with Russia's [[http://wikitravel.org/en/Sakhalin Sakhalin Island]] which, under the name of "Karafuto", once temporarily belonged to Japan.[[/note]].]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The case takes place in winter, and for worse Takagi's DeathTrap is placed in a extremely cold and snowy city which could be either in Aomori, Akita, Hokkaido, Iwate, Yamagata... practically ''anywhere'' in the North of Japan. [[spoiler: (Actually in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido)]]. So even if none of the trap's mechanisms activate, Takagi (who is only wearing a suit since the kidnapper took his coat away) will still freeze to death and this will probably take place under the snow. [[spoiler: Even when he's (barely) rescued, Takagi suffers frostbite among other things as a consequence of being exposed to the cold for almost two days and must be hospitalized.]] It's even more anvilicious because, [[spoiler: when Sato and the others manage to reach for Takagi]], ''it actually begins to snow''. [[spoiler: And it switches to SnowMeansLove when he's completely safe and Sato, overjoyed to see everything's okay from now on, gives him the mother of all {{The Big Damn Kiss}}es.]]
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler: Fuemoto believed Natalie had done this. It turned out he was ''very'' wrong - her reasoning went more by her desire to be TogetherInDeath with Date.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Wataru Date and Natalie Kuruma, holy shit...]]
* UseYourHead: [[spoiler: A Sato in full [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective]] ActionGirlfriend mode does this to Fuemoto before telling him the truth about Date and Natalie.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the 'The partner is Santa-san' case]]
!!People of the 'The partner is Santa-san' case (Santa Ishikawa, Shigeko Ishikawa, Haruka [[spoiler: Ishikawa]], Minoru Moriwaki, Toshihiko Yamanaka, [[spoiler: Kurata]])
-->Santa Ishikawa is voiced by: Creator/RieKugimiya
-->Shigeko Ishikawa is voiced by: Creator/SayakaOhara
-->Minoru Moriwaki is voiced by: Creator/HiroShimono
-->Toshihiko Yamada is voiced by: Creator/YosukeAkimoto
A young widow named Shigeko Ishikawa goes to Kogoro because she's being followed around by an odd person who is becoming more and more aggressive in their pursuit. While Kogoro looks for Shigeko's stalker, Conan is stuck taking care of her child Santa, a really sweet but ''really'' hyperactive toddler who loves snooping around. [[spoiler: And turns out to be the key to solve the case.]]
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the case, the actual villain Kurata appears. And takes ''a two year old'' hostage, even threatening them with a knife, despite the baby's mother's tearful pleas. Thank God Conan manages to kick a ball at him and retrieve the baby safely.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Yamanaka is a basically good person who took a terrible decision out of despair, but repents as soon as Conan explains that Santa wanted to be his friend...]]
* BabysittingEpisode: Basically, Conan's part in this episode is looking after Santa. [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter It's much harder than it sounds.]]
* CheerfulChild: Awwww, Santa!
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Santa, and how. Who would say a toddler would be the key to unlock this case?]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler: Santa was trying to be genuinely friendly to Yamanaka, but he took it ''badly''.]]
* DisappearedDad: Santa's father/[[WidowWoman Shigeko's husband]] died the year before.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In one of the opening scenes, [[spoiler: Santa points at someone walking down the streets but Conan mistakenly thinks the baby's looking at the cars... not at Yamanaka.]] Also, [[spoiler: the way Santa hugs Ran hints at Santa being a girl not a boy. (Apparently some baby girls hug with their whole bodies, while baby boys tend to use their arms.)]]
* HostageSituation: Towards the end [[spoiler: not only Shigeko is captured by Yamanaka, but when he's about to have his HeelFaceTurn, his companion Kurata kidnaps Santa. Luckily Santa bit on his arm and was released, letting Conan use his superpowered shoes to kick a ball to Kurata's face.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Yamanaka realises that Santa was attempting to befriend him, he's horrified at his own behavior]]
* StaircaseTumble: Shigeko's stalker pushed her down a pedestrian bridge. Since she wasn't that high up there ''and'' fell over a soft bag she was carrying, she wasn't actualy hurt but was still very scared. Kogoro was walking by and went to help her, and that's when she decided to hire him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:'People' of the "Mushrooms, Bears and Detective Boys!" case]]
!!'People' of the "Mushrooms, Bears and Detective Boys!" case (Tomoya Negoro, Matasaburo Saika, Kiyoshi Yasaka, Jubei the bear, [[spoiler: the unnamed victim]]
Professor Agasa takes the Detective Boys in a mountain trip to get some ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsutake matsutake]]'' mushrooms, very famous for their delicious taste as well as ''super'' hard to find. The area as a whole, however, is divided in two fields: one for mushroom picking and another for hunting. Genta, and later Mitsuhiko and Ai, get lost in the hunting part... right when Jubei, a very ferocious bear, is lurking around and in a terrible mood. Three hunters tag along to help the group, and then they find the corpse of a fourth one. Which of the three is the killer?
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Saika never meant to shoot the Unnamed Hunter down, he was just trying to scare the others off and away from Jubei.]]
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Mitsuhiko shows traces of this, in regards to Conan.
* BearsAreBadNews: Jubei is very, VERY infamous for [[TomboyishName her]] bad temper, and everyone either fears her or wants to shoot her down. [[spoiler: Subverted: she's actualy very nice and she once saved Saika's life, but she's been on a constant and literal RoaringRampageOfRevenge after one of her two cubbies was ''murdered and used as a bait for her''. Saika made up tales about her beng a beast to keep the hunters away from her.]]
* EvenEvilhasStandards: [[spoiler: Negoro was gung-ho on hunting Jubei down, but he was as shocked as everyone else when he learned about the Unnamed Hunter's horrible trap for her.]]
* EyeScream: Jubei had an eye shot off her years ago. [[spoiler: She was tending to the injured Saika and trying to help him, but other hunters who had come to help him too thought she was about to eat him and then shot at her...]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ai and Mitsuhiko sorta play the role after they 'befriend' the ''adorable'' bear cubbie. [[spoiler: Saika plays it straighter, as he tried to return Jubei's kindness by protecting her (and later her cubs) through the years. He even dug a grave for the cubbie that was killed.]]
* LivingMacGuffin: The bear cub, sort-of.
* MacGuffin: The ''matsutake'' mushrooms that Agasa and the kiddos are looking for.
* MamaBear: Ai and Mitsuhiko find a bear cub in their path. Then their mother appears, and she's NOT pleased. [[spoiler: Because the cub's sibling was messily killed few ago.]] In fact, [[spoiler: Jubei ''immediately'' calms down, stops her rampage and goes away peacefully with her remaining cubbie when the kids release it and allow it to reunite with her.]]
* MistakenForMurderer: Sorta. [[spoiler: Conan believed that Saika was specifically aiming to kill Ai and Mitsuhiko because they knew too much about his intentions. He never had such intentions; he shot around because he wanted to scare them off... and ended up killing the other hunter ''also completely by accident''.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast: Jubei is nicknamed as such because she [[EyeScream lacks an eye]] and thus is compared to the famous UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei.
* OlderIsBetter: Saika is in his 60's and is the most experienced, wise of the three hunters. [[spoiler: And the SympatheticMurderer.]]
* ShoutOut: When Saika explains why Jubei the bear is called like that, the picture of UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei that appears on the background is clearly one of from Anime/{{Yaiba}}'s Jubei.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Poor, ''poor'' Jubei, who lost her cub horribly and snapped...]]
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[[folder:People from the Lupin III vs. Detective Conan TV special]]
!!People from the ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan'' TV special (Queen Sakura Aludia, Crown Prince Gill Cowell and Princess Mira Julietta Vespaland of Vespania; Count Keith Dan Stinger, Duke Gerard Musca Vespaland)
-->Queen Sakura Aludia Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/HirokoSuzuki
-->Prince Gill Cowell Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/JunFukuyama
-->Princess Mira Julietta Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/YuiHorie
-->Count Keith Dan Stiner is voiced by: Creator/HikaruMidorikawa
As its name says, this 2009 TV special is a crossover between ''Detective Conan'' and the legendary franchise, ''Franchise/LupinIII''. The Kingdom of Vespania has been thrown into turmoil after the deaths of its Queen and Crown Prince, and the crown is about to go to the Queen's youngest daughter Mira, a RebelliousPrincess [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating believed to be unfit to be the new sovereign]]. In an attempt to make her more popular, her advisor Count Keith arranges an official trip to Japan, and the paths of Princess Mira and her IdenticalStranger Ran Mouri end up crossing. Which ''also'' brings Conan into the fray, as not only he knows that his beloved Ran is playing the "princess" role for Mira, but he finds out that Lupin and his gang are planning a HUGE theft and they're hanging around Mira's entourage to get it done...
* {{Bowdlerize}}: For obvious reasons, this special has ''some'' less adult humor and FanService than it's usual in the ''Lupin III'' series.
* CherryBlossoms: One of these is vital to the plot, as it's underneath it that the royal MurderSuicide took place. [[spoiler: And later, Mira decides to take over when she's standing in front of it as well.]]
* CynicismCatalyst: Mira has both her mother and older brother as these.
* IdenticalStranger:
** Save for the hair/eye colors and their ethnicities, [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:Ran_and_Princess_Mira.jpg Ran and Mira]] look almost exactly alike. So Mira tries to make Ran her BodyDouble [[spoiler: and later Ran has to "continue" the charade for other reasons...]]
** Also, Prince Gill looked like Shinichi but as a blue-eyed blond. This isn't commented upon, probably because Gill is a PosthumousCharacter and to avert any... weird implications.
* MacGuffin: Two, actually!:
** The beautiful and unvaluable Crown of Vespania, which Lupin intends to steal. [[spoiler: In reality, he had stolen it already years ago, but returned it when the then recently crowned Sakura (who had a CelebCrush on Lupin) found out; then, he made her promise she'd be TheHighQueen from then on in exchange for returning it.]]
** Also [[spoiler: some really rare mineral ores that were found in Vespanian soil, which thanks to their "complete stealth powers" [[InvisibilityCloak may make things totally invisible to any radars.]] Queen Sakura really didn't want to use these ores inadequately (i.e., for warfare) and refused to exploit them, so her greedy brother Duke Gerard killed her to take a hold on them.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Queen Sakura and Prince Gill, who died few months before the special takes place.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Two of these [[spoiler: and probably three]]:
** Count Keith is the leader of the Parliament and holds an UndyingLoyalty to Sakura, so he does what he can to help Mira out. [[spoiler: Even if it involves pretty much kidnapping Ran to force her to stay as Mira's BodyDouble a little longer.]]
** Queen Sakura was one when she was alive, [[spoiler: so she [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished got murdered]] by Gerard for doing what she believed to be the right thing.]]
** [[spoiler: The new Queen Mira will probably turn out to be one as well, specially after all of these adventures.]]
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: ... There's ''no'' way Gill could have shot himself in the head with a hunting rifle and have just a tiny fatal wound.
* RoyalBrat: Princess Mira doesn't have a lot of respect for authority and can be pretty selfish and entitled. It's stated by Keith and [[spoiler: Fujiko]] that [[UsedToBeASweetKid she wasn't like that originally]], but became this [[BrokenBird out of the deep trauma she suffered]] [[OrphansOrdeal after losing her mother and brother]], rather than anything else. Therefore [[spoiler: Keith hired [[ActionGirl Fujiko]] as Mira's bodyguard so she'd be able to get out and unwind a little before deciding her future]]. [[spoiler: Mira ultimately decides that she ''will'' take over and reign over Vespania as well as she can.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Lupin and his gang figure out Conan's identity.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: It's believed that Gill [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed]] his mother Sakura during a hunt outing, then crossed the DespairEventHorizon and shot himself dead in grief. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Nope:]] [[EvilChancellor Duke]] [[TheEvilPrince Gerard]] killed his sister Sakura and then [[HeKnowsTooMuch "silenced" his nephew Gill]].]]
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: A fake sommelier poisons Mira's wine during a party, but Conan and then Kogoro (both guests at the party) stop him. This causes quite a mess and allows RebelliousPrincess Mira to sneak away, then meet [[IdenticalStranger Ran]]...]]
* ThouShallNotKill: [[spoiler: Queen Sakura was a FriendToAllLivingThings, therefore she had secretly converted the hunting cartridges into blanks during "hunting outings". This proves to be Duke Gerard's perdition, as it was impossible for Gill to shoot his mom and himself dead without someone switching the cartridges back...]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Princess Mira adores sushi.
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[[folder:Tamanosuke Ito and his travelling drama troupe]]
!!Tamanosuke Itou and his travelling drama troupe (Tamanosuke and Megumi Itou, Ryuichi Muraki, Yuri Shirai, Itoe Ogiwara, Kenzou Tajima, Tetsuo Chikaishi)
-->Tamanosuke Itou is voiced by: Creator/SoichiroHoshi
-->Yuri Shirai is voiced by: Creator/SayakaOhara
-->Itoe Ogiwara is voiced by: Creator/KazueIkura
-->Ryuichi Muraki is voiced by: Creator/KenNarita
A NewTransferStudent in Ran and Sonoko's class, Tamanosuke Ito, is not only a TallDarkAndHandsome NiceGuy but the leader of a drama group that has been going through hard times after the death of his parents, the original leaders. The Detective Boys, Ran and Sonoko try to help him with his newest play, one about the legendary thief Edo Boy, by giving away flyers and checking on their well being. But two deaths happen all of a sudden, revealing some rather dark secrets within the group...
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Itoe fell in a trap intended for Tamanosuke.]]
* AngstComa: [[spoiler: Tamanosuke is injured and briefly falls into unconsciousness after Itoe's death. Kogoro and Conan believe the latter comes less from his injuries and more [[BreakThecutie from mental fatigue]].]]
* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Subverted. Tajima ''did'' suffer an injury on his back that kept him from doing his usual acrobatics, but at some point during the past year, the pain had gone away and that allowed him to both perform his thievery ''and'' his murders.]]
* CheerfulChild: D'aww, Megumi!
* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: The culprit staged a trap like this for Tamanosuke, using a hole in the stage that was supposed to be a part of the scenery [[ChekhovsGun and was the same one Ayumi almost fell into earlier in the case]]. [[AccidentalMurder Itoe fell in it instead]].]]
* DisguisedInDrag: As a child, Tamanosuke often played girl roles. [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/images/thumb/4/47/Episode_126_scene_4.jpg/180px-Episode_126_scene_4.jpg And looked adorable while at it.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: The first victim was found dead by ''a seven year old girl''.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Used ''twice'' by the killer of the case:
** First, [[spoiler: Chikaishi had realised that there was a thief in the troupe, who used the group to steal valious things all around Japan. He also identified the thief, Kenzou Tajima, and tried to blackmail him. Tajima got fed up and killed him, which ties into the second case...]]
** Later, it turns out that [[spoiler: Tamanosuke had also realised that Tajima was a thief, so he staged the whole "Edo Boy" play as a way to flush him out and convince him to turn himself in. After killing Chikaishi (and stealing his disk containing the script of the play), Tajima set his eye on Tamanosuke and tried to murder him as well...]]
* GetOut: Chikaishi is introduced by kicking Tamanosuke out of his inn room. [[KickTheDog Literally]].
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Chikaishi was a JerkAss and he smoked in a pipe.
* NewTransferStudent: Tamanosuke, specially highlighted by him wearing a [[SailorFuku gakuran]] in school instead of a blazer uniform.
* NiceGuy: Tamanosuke. Though [[FatalFlaw this also brings him trouble]], as he can't bring himself to fully call out Chikaishi when in his JerkAss moods, since he doesn't want the troupe to get into more troubles.
* PromotionToParent: 17-year-old Tamanosuke, towards his 7-year-old sister Megumi.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Chikaishi is really, ''really'' bitter...
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler: When the murderer tries to kill the knocked-out Tamanosuke in the hospital, under the disguise of a doctor, he's caught by the police and it turns out the "Tamanosuke" he attacked is a disguised mannequin. So he breaks the window and jumps off to escape.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler: Tajima breaks down in tears when Tamanosuke apologizes to him for insisting in the "Edo Boy" play and explains his reasons behind it.]]
* TroubledProduction: An InUniverse example, with the "Edo Boy" play that the group's getting ready. The script writer is a bitter JerkAss, the troupe leader is a sweetie but he's overwhelmed due to his lack of experience, [[spoiler: the treasurer [[FinancialAbuse had embezzled quite a sum of money]] ]], two troupe members die... Oh dear.
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[[folder:Kyousuke Haga and the Shitara family]]
!!Kyousuke Haga and the Shitara family (Ayane, Chuuichirou, Genzaburou, Emi, Furuto, Hazuki, Danjirou and Chinami Shitara), Benio Tsumagami
-->Kyousuke Haga is voiced by: Creator/KoichiYamadera
The "Dissonance of the Stradivarius" case starts when the very rich Shutara clan is seemingly hit by a curse: every time the family's prized Stradivarius is used to play music, a family member has been hit with misfortune... and lately , these "misfortunes" have been fatal. The young heiress of the clan hires Kogoro to find an explanation and break the curse, and her musician uncle Kyousuke Haga is involved in the deals.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Shitaras have very, VERY dark family bonds.
* TheButlerDidIt: One of the suspects is the family butler and Kyousuke's ParentalSubstitute, Benio. [[spoiler: Nope, she didn't do it.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Kyousuke. It's thanks to him that Conan finds out about a VERY important clue towards Ano Kata, which he had been struggling to do at the start of the case.]]
* DestinationDefenestration: At least two family members [[spoiler: (the matriarch Ayane and her son Furito, aka Hazuki's DisappearedDad)]] died like this.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Kyosuke tried to do it by throwing himself off a window after being revealed as the killer. Conan had already told the firemen working in the mansion about it, so they stopped him.]]
* ElegantClassicalMusician: Two of these!
** Kyousuke is a violinist with TallDarkAndHandsome looks, [[UnkemptBeauty enhanced by]] his PermaStubble. [[spoiler: He's also the SympatheticMurderer.]]
** Hazuki, the girl who hired Kogoro, is very cute and plays the violin very well. She hires Kogoro because she's well aware that the Stradivarius will ''not'' go to her when its owner Chuuichirou dies, so she wants the "curse" to be broken so she can play it at least once in her life.
* IllGirl: Kyousuke's mother Chinami was already fatally ill around the time her husband died. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Nope]]: she was killed to cover up Danjirou's murder.]]
* MacGuffin: The supposedly "cursed" Stradivarius violin, cause of several deaths in the family.
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Genzaburou's death.]]
* NervousWreck: Ayane, the leader's wife, acts as if she was permanently in the verge of a mental meltdown ever since [[spoiler: her son aka Hazuki's father]] died, to the point of sometimes walking around the halls holding the Stadivarius to her chest and murmuring {{madness mantra}}s... [[spoiler: Then, she's one of the victims since she and others helped Chuuichirou cover up for his murder of Danjirou.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Benio worked for Kyosuke's dead parents rather than the clan as a whole, and while Kyousuke was raised by his maternal relatives (the Haga family), she helped raise him.
* StaircaseTumble: Two family members died like this: Kyousuke's father Danjirou [[spoiler: (thrown down the stairs by robbers who were after the Stradivarius, died some time later in the hospital)]] and his and Hazuki's aunt Emi (an accident). [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Again, nope]]: Danjirou was killed by Chuuichirou over the Stradivarius, and while Emi's death ''was'' a genuine accident, seeing her trip to her death despite being a skilled athlete is what gave Kyosuke the idea to kill the others.]]
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler: Conan and Kyosuke rescue Ayane from a burning building by doing this and landing on Kogoro's rented van.]] [[spoiler: (Of course, Ayane will die later.)]]
* ThemeNaming: The chapters involving this case are named "Prelude", "Capriccio", "Requiem"...
* WrongGenreSavvy: When it's theorised that Hazuki could be murdered very soon, she says "but this is not like a mystery novel". [[TemptingFate Oh, dear.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Morizono family and its associates]]
!!The Morizono family (Mikio, Yurie and Kikuhito Morizono, Kaede Katagiri, Yuji Sakuraba, Akio Shigematsu)
The rich family from the ''Night before the Wedding Murder Locked Room''. Heiji's mother Shizuka is a friend of them, but when their youngest son Kikuhito is about to marry a young lady named Kaede, she cannot go and asks Heiji and Kazuha to head to Tokyo in her name. After hanging out with Conan and the Mouris for a while, they go to the Morizono's beautiful mansion... but then everyone gets a terrible surprise when Akio Shigematsu, the butler of the family and the one who arranged the marriage itself, is found stabbed to death!
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* ArrangedMarriage: Kaede Katagiri and Kikuhito Morizono. Kikuhito seems to adore Kaede, but while she doesn't outright hate him, she seems to be a bit doubtful.[[spoiler: Because her TrueLove is Sakuraba.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: Inverted, the butler is '''the murder victim'''.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Kaede's blue pendant.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: [[spoiler: Sakuraba is believed to be one ''and'' to have killed Shigematsu as revenge for forcing Kaede and him to be apart, but the true CJG is Kikuhito. Enough to not just murder Shigematsu, but [[UriahGambit to frame Sakuraba to get him out of the way]].]]
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kaede possesses a very beautiful blue pendant. [[spoiler: Sakuraba has a matching one, and that reveals [[StarCrossedLovers their true connection]].]]
* {{Fainting}}: Kaede passes out when she sees Shigematsu's corpse. When she becomes one of the suspects, Heiji and Conan wonder if [[WoundedGazelleGambit she was faking it]. [[spoiler: Not only she ''wasn't'' pretending, but she's completely innocent.]]
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: 30 years ago there was a LoveTriangle between Mikio Morizono, Akio Shigematsu, and an unnamed girl who ultimately married Morizono, becoming the ([[MissingMom now dead]]) "lady" of the house. Now, Morizono's son Kikuhito and Shigematsu's protegé Sakuraba are in a love triangle with Kaede.]]
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* IShallTauntYou: [[spoiler: Kikuhito provokes Sakuraba into hitting him to make him look worse and more suspicious... and specially to break a window that has a hole he used to stage a false "locked room" mystery]]
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler: Kikuhito, Kaede and Sakuraba. In fact, one of Kikuhito's two reasons to kill Shigematsu and frame Sakuraba is [[CrazyJealousGuy his jealousy]] and the belief that Sakuraba is about to steal Kaede away. (He didn't know that they were in love well before she knew Kikuhito.)]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Shigematsu realized that he was about to condemn his adoptive son [[LoveHurts to the same unhappiness]] [[GenerationXerox he once went through]], he had this reaction and tried to convince Kikuhito to call off the wedding. And got stabbed to death for it.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Everything points out at Sakuraba. But he's not the culprit.]]
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Implied. [[spoiler: Heiji says that according to the servants, Kikuhito pressured Kaede's family and their bussiness to get more leverage.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Kaede and Sakuraba were in their way to become this, since they had to break up in order to have Kaede marry Kikuhito.]]
* UpperClassTwit: While Mikio and Yurie were decent people, Kikuhito was kiiiiind of a jerk and specially to Sakuraba. [[spoiler: Double because of his jealousy.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Kikuhito hates, HAAAAAATES heights. i.e, Shigematsu has to take Kaede on a sightsteeing tour before the wedding because she wants to go to the Tokyo Tower and Kikuhito utterly, completely refuses to go there. At some point Conan falls off a high tree but Kikuhito freezes up and can't help him, [[BigDamnHeroes so Sakuraba catches him]]. [[spoiler: He tries to stage his murder of Shigematsu in a way that will suggest someone ''without'' said phobia is the killer, but fails. Conan even manages the incident with the tree as evidence against him!.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Detectives' Koshien Case]]
!!People involved in the Detectives' Koshien Case (Natsuki Koshimizu, Junya Tokitsu, [[spoiler: Kana Mizoguchi]], [[spoiler: the unnamed socialite]], Hiroo Tsuchio and Renzo Koya)
On the heels of an investigation at a temple, Heiji brings Conan along for a televised event called the "Detectives Koshien" (Koshien meaning "Challenge"). Where four high-school detectives will be brought to mansion on an island to test their wits on a case. Other competitors included Saguru Hakuba, Natsuki Koshimizu, and Junya Tokitsu, with producer Hiroo Tsuchio and servant Renzo Koya on board for the production. Which also has a connection [[spoiler: from a previous case involving the death of a socialite.]] Kazuha has her suspicions of something wary going on at the island... [[spoiler: It turns out the show was a hoax, and a murder was involved.]]
More about Natsuki and Junya on the [[Characters/DetectiveConanOneSceneWonders One Scene Wonder page.]]
* BestServedCold: Ultimately what the murdered had resorted to. After [[spoiler:Junya's]] murder, [[spoiler: Natsuki]] intended to have [[spoiler: Hiroo, Renzo, and herself]] stranded on the island to starve to death for the events that happened two years ago.[[spoiler: Wanting to have Hiroo and Renzo dead for the former setting up the window trick while breaking in the mansion ''after'' the suicide, which fooled Junya to think it was a homicide. And the latter for not testifying for Kana out of fear of sullying the socialite's name.]] With Conan, Heiji and Saguru as collateral damage. Fortunately Kogoro, Ran and Kazuha's own investigation brought a rescue boat.
* BetrayalByInaction: [[spoiler: Natsuki considering Renzo not defending Kana when the police interrogated her to be this.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Socialite who took her life was thought of have hung herself. However a development changed it to a murder case. In reality, she ''did'' commit suicide in the midde of a nervous breakdown, but Renzo didn't say anything to protect her honor.]]
** [[spoiler: Natsuki's best friend Kana Mizoguchi]] took her own life due to the pressure of [[spoiler: being unfairly persecuted for the murder.]]
* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler: How Junya was murdered.]]
* GracefulLoser: After the murderer's plan to have everyone stranded failed, [[spoiler: Natsuki chose to turn herself in]]. Then said that [[spoiler: she would loved to do a real Koshien with the boys.]]
%% * UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects: [[spoiler: Crucial when it came to how three of the detectives were chosen. When Natsuki heard from Kana about a detective with an weird accent, she invited the three that were chosen to deduce who it could've been. Heiji has a [[KansaiRegionalAccent thick Osakan accent]]. Hakuba had been studying abroad, so he had been neglecting on his Japanese. Tokitsu instead used more antiquated pronouns when addressing to himself. Shinichi-Conan speaks a pretty thick Edo-ben, aka Shitamachi Tokyo accent.]]
* TheOphelia: [[spoiler: The Socialite ''really'' did kill herself from having a nervous breakdown. Renzo did not testify due to how Japanese society frown on the mentally-ill.]]
** [[spoiler: Kana was the one who filled an Ophelia's water theme, however, as she commit ed suicide by throwing herself off a cliff and into the sea.]]
* RedHerring: From a previous case. [[spoiler: The Window Trick that Junya discovered was really from an unrelated theft caused by Hiroo. A mistake that would cost everyone dearly.]]
* StartsWithASuicide: [[spoiler: The anime version of this case begins with Kana thinking of her terrible last days, before she throws herself into the sea and to her own death.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler: Renzo broke down remembering about the Socialite and her suicide, since he held her dear to him. Natsuki did the same in the anime while remembering Kana's suicide and explaining what happened.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Renzo truly cared for the Socialité. This led him to commit the huge mistake of not telling that she killed herself, afraid that the lady's name would be tarnished [[http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/new-documentary-explores-taboo-subject-of-mental-illness-in-japan in a society]] that treats the mentally ill '''really''' badly.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Torada and Tatsuo families]]
!!People involved in the ''Fuurinkazan'' serial murder case (Naonobu Torada, Tatsue Torada, Shigetsugu Torada, Yoshiro Torada, Yui Torada, Tamefumi Tatsuo, Shigeyo Tatsuo, Akira Tatsuo, Ayaka Tatsuo, Koji Tatsuo, Kuroto Kai)
The feuding Torada and Tatsuo families respectively ask Kogoro and Heiji for help after each of their family members was killed under unusual circumstances, with centipede corpses beside their bodies being the only common theme. Both groups of detectives eventually meet and run into Kansuke Yamato, a police detective from Nagano prefecture who thinks the murders may be related to the death of a certain Kuroto Kai six years earlier. The following day, when Ayaka hears of Ran and Kazuha seeing the shadow of a UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen armor the previous night, she locks herself in the bathroom, only to go missing. The two families plus the protagonists and Yamato search for the missing woman, and the Nagano detective sees her hanged from a tree.
This case marked the debut of Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara, both officers (the latter being on her TenMinuteRetirement from the force at the time) from the Nagano Prefectural Police. More about the two on [[Characters/DetectiveConanPoliceOfficersOutsideOfTokyoAndOsaka Police Officers Outside of Tokyo and Osaka page.]]
* TenMinuteRetirement: Yui was in one from the Nagano police in this episode, though it turns out it was part of her investigation.
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: In Shigetsugu's notebook, he, Yoshiro, Koji, and Ayaka wrote that they set off fireworks only to injure Kuroto and put him out of contention as the village's representative for their festival. The horse apparently panicked and thus he was thrown off a cliff. This turns out to be a RedHerring, as fireworks weren't the reason the horse acted that way. Tatsue actually shot it and Kuroto was left to die at a shaded spot below the cliff, making him the first casualty of the ''Fuurinkazan'' serial murders and representing the ''in'' (shadow) part of ''Fuurinkazaninrai.'']]
* DeathByFallingOver: Subverted for Kuroto. While he does fall, it was starvation that did him in as he fell on a shaded portion under the cliff.
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: Ayaka's blue eye shadow points out to Tatsue's black horse which the latter rode to hang the former.]]
* FeudingFamilies: The Torada and Tatsuo families. Apparently, their feud has gone long enough that Shigeyo, the oldest member of either family, has no idea why they hated each other in the first place.
* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler: Tatsue planned to kill Akira and frame it as a murder-suicide on Yui.]]
* FreakOut: Ayaka has one when she hears that Ran and Kazuha saw the silhouette of the red UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen armor the previous night.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Yoshiro and Koji planned to go forward to the police as the former remembered that a gunshot was fired just before Kuroto died. They were killed (in the case of Yoshiro, left to die) for their troubles. Likely also the case for Shigetsugu and Ayaka, who were by the current timeline the surviving witnesses of Kai's murder.]]
* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler: Shigetsugu was electrocuted after he was lured into retrieving his notebook that was placed on an overhead line.]]
* HostileWeather: Yoshiro was killed by a tornado...[[LeftForDead well, mostly.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Kuroto and Akira are known to practically never miss in horseback archery. Hell, the former did not even miss for ''ten'' straight years, at least until his final stint at the festival. Akira hadn't missed for ''five.'' [[spoiler: This is also the reason for Kuroto's murder and the attempt on Akira's life; nobody would place a bet because of their ridiculous skills and this posed a threat on Tatsue's gambling business.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Tatsue thinks the tornado killing Yoshiro was this for [[HeKnowsTooMuch suspecting foul play was involved]] in Kuroto's death.]]
* LeftForDead: A centipede corpse was placed near Yoshiro's body, and the fresh blood at the time indicated he was still alive when it was placed.
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Shigetsugu. Since he was electrocuted and burned, everyone initially assumed he represented "fire" in ''Fuurinkazan.'' This turns out to be ''another'' RedHerring as his death actually stood for ''rai'' (lightning); Akira was supposed to stand for ''ka'' (fire) until Conan, Heiji, Yui, and Yamato thwarted Tatsue's attempt on his life.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Koji took up the Tatsuo surname when he married into the family. Curiously enough, his wife was never mentioned in any of the two episodes.
* PastExperienceNightmare: Yoshiro having these and muttering about [[spoiler: "the sound, the flash..." led Yui to conclude that there was a fifth person involved in Kuroto's death.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Kuroto was a beloved figure in his hometown; when he went missing, the entire village searched for him 24/7 over the course of a week until Yui found his emaciated body.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Tatsue committed the five murders and attempted a sixth (Akira); while the murders were indeed based on the ''Fuurinkazan'' battle standard, the term was incomplete and she mentions that it's actually ''Fuurinkazaninrai,'' which includes the phrases "Be as hard to know as the shadow" and "Move as fast as lightning." Those omitted portions stood for the murders of Kuroto and Shigetsugu (the latter initially thought to represent "fire" and was also thought to be suicide at first). The reason she committed the murders was that Kai's ImprobableAimingSkills threatened her gambling business which was centered on the horseback archery in the annual festival. The other four were murdered since they witnessed Kuroto's death, and likely [[HeKnowsTooMuch saw too much.]]]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Kuroto appears to have shipped Yui and Kansuke when he was still alive.
* ShoutOut: The murders were themed on ''Fuurinkazan'', a battle standard used by UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen during the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod which was in turn based on Passages 17 to [[spoiler: 19]] of the seventh chapter of Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu.
* TreasureHunter: Shigetsugu, Akira, Yoshiro, Ayaka, and Koji were said to have looked for UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen's legendary lost treasure. [[spoiler: Downplayed for Shigetsugu and Ayaka, who did not react to the presence of centipede corpses beside the bodies of the other two.]]
* WickedStepmother: [[spoiler: Tatsue caused her stepson Shigetsugu's death by electrocution in addition to murdering her biological son Yoshiro and three others.]]
* WidowWoman: Yui's husband was left for dead after falling victim to a tornado.
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[[folder:People from the Red Woman Case]]
!!People involved in the Red Woman case (Tamami Minegishi, Sumika Kawana, Masaie Hakuya, Jinsuke Ninda, Satoko Imoto, Komayo Takeno, [[spoiler: Komayo's unnamed husband]], Shinobu Kagawa)
--> Tamami Minegishi is voiced by: Creator/KazueIkura
--> Sumika Kawana is voiced by: Megumi Tano
--> Masaie Hakuya is voiced by: Creator/YusukeNumata
--> Jinsuke Ninda is voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura
--> Shinobu Kagawa is voiced by: Kaoru Sasajima
In a case also notorious for its NightmareFuel, Masumi is invited by her then-unknown middle brother's high school friends to investigate strange phenomena in a villa, in which she tags along Conan, Ran, and Sonoko. When the latter two mention that they spotted a red woman lurking in the forest, Tamami, Sumika, Masaie, and Jinsuke all express shock and tell the story of a murder case involving the Red Woman from 15 years ago and the disappearance and eventual death of their friend Satoko three years later. When Sumika finds the bathtub filled with tomatoes, Conan and Masumi rush to investigate and pull out Masaie's lifeless body from the sea of fruits.
This case marks the first appearance of the unknown girl living with Masumi Sera, albeit as a screensaver in the latter's phone.
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Satoko likely drowned in the bog by accident after Shinobu chased her, thinking she was the Red Woman. The original Red Woman's (Komayo) body wouldn't be found until after Satoko's death, hence why Shinobu thought the Red Woman was still on the loose.]]
* AxCrazy: The impression most of the cast have of the Red Woman is this.
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: The reason the Red Woman got her name is that she spilled so much blood from her husband that her dress turned red.
* DeadAllAlong: The original Red Woman had been dead for 15 years; Nagano police just couldn't confirm it until they found [[spoiler: Komayo's]] umbilical cord hidden by her recently-deceased mother. Another reason the police took that long to ascertain the Red Woman's identity was [[spoiler: they've received reports of break-ins at nearby rental villas and the occasional forest sighting over the past ten years, which were both caused by Shinobu.]] Prior to the identification of the skeleton, Koumei was the leading proponent of this theory, whereas Yamato thought the Red Woman was still alive.
* DeadlyPrank: Satoko was dressed as the Red Woman for a prank. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, someone had been gunning for revenge against the Red Woman and Satoko was accidentally killed for it. When Sumika finally got confirmation from Masaie that he was Satoko's accomplice in the prank and that the two couldn't find each other, she killed him.]]
* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: Shinobu]] thought Satoko was the Red Woman as the latter was dressed as her, not knowing the original had already been dead by then.
* TheMistress: [[spoiler: Shinobu was this to Komayo's husband.]]
* MysteriousWatcher:
** The episodes often jump to [[spoiler: Shinobu]] watching over the cast.
** The Red Woman in the intro [[spoiler: however, was Sumika, who knew who Masumi was when the others [[LadyLooksLikeADude had questions about her gender]].]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Shinobu]] had been looking for her lover's murderer, the Red Woman, for the past 15 years and has shown that she will attack anyone who does so much as resemble the Red Woman. [[spoiler: She attacks Sumika later on because she saw her dress as the Red Woman who was observing Masumi, Ran, Conan, and Sonoko in the beginning of the case.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** The Red Woman is occasionally depicted with one.
** [[spoiler: Shinobu displays this when she attempts to murder Sumika for the second time.]]
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler: Komayo Takeno]] aka the Red Woman [[ADeadlyAffair killed her husband for his infidelity]]. She got pissed off enough that she also attacked the police officer who responded on the scene.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Subverted - Yui thinks Sumika slashed her own back, but Conan notes that it is physically impossible for her to give herself a clean horizontal slash.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the Kawanakajima Murder Case]]
!!People involved in the Kawanakajima serial murders (Mamoru Saegusa, Shinsuke Akiyama, Shouji Kano, Shigeru Takeda, [[Characters/DetectiveConanPoliceOfficersOutsideOfTokyoAndOsaka Hyoue Kuroda]], [[spoiler: Tsuyako Aburakawa]])
--> Mamoru Saegusa is voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa
--> Shinsuke Akiyama is voiced by: Kousuke Okano
--> Shouji Kano is voiced by: Kiyonobu Suzuki
--> Shigeru Takeda is voiced by: Shin Goto
--> Hyoue Kuroda is voiced by: Yukimasa Kishino
After the Kamaitachi case was closed, Kogoro declines to join Yamamura, Heiji, and Kazuha, as he, driven by interest on a TV drama [[IdolSinger Yoko Okino]] starred in, takes Ran and Conan to a visit to the Old Battlefield of Kawanakajima. As he and Ran try to remember the strategy Kansuke Yamamoto used in the fourth battle, the Nagano trio arrives, also ostensibly taking a detour to the site. Their fellow officers Mamoru Saegusa, Shinsuke Akiyama, and Shouji Kano, arrive not much later, and the rest of the cast learn that their squad leader Shigeru Takeda is yet to show up. As Yui tours everyone around the battlefield, Yamato spots a floating head on a nearby river, and it turns out to be Takeda's...
* AppleOfDiscord: The killer [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this between Yamato and Morofushi for the purpose of [[spoiler: framing the former for the murders. It turns out the two made it seem like they are arguing to trick Akiyama into thinking his plan had a chance of working.]]
* BatmanGambit:
** The scenario described in [[spoiler: HeKnowsTooMuch below?]] Yes, the culprit deliberately let him know the truth so he could kill him.
** [[spoiler: Kuroda and Morofushi seriously treating Yamato as the prime suspect]] was meant to lower the culprit's guard and draw him out.
* CallingCard: The "X" mark on the victims' foreheads which resemble woodpecker claws, representing [[spoiler: the Woodpecker Society, a group of [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]] referenced by Yoshiro Torada. Additionally, it's also a reference to the actual ThemeNaming behind the members' names - X being the 24th letter of the alphabet and there being [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Four_Generals_of_Takeda_Shingen 24 prominent generals who served under Takeda Shingen.]] Furthermore, it is where Akiyama's sister was shot.]]
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: The Woodpecker Society/X sold the weapons they confiscated, and Akiyama discovered that the gun used to kill his sister was sold by the group.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Akiyama faked a decapitation using Takeda's headless body and a fake head from his family's salon. He did this to further pin suspicion on Yamato, who set off on his own and was already the prime suspect by that point.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kano discovers who the culprit was and his motive. He gets strangled for his troubles.
* ItsPersonal: The case for Yamato, as the person Takeda shot and killed nine years ago was his childhood friend.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Shouji Kano took up his current surname when he got married; it was originally Tsuchiya.
* OffWithHisHead:
** 12 pages in the manga and we are treated to a rather [[SarcasmMode lovely]] sequence of Shigeru's head floating in the river. Downplayed in the anime version, where it was less graphic.
** [[spoiler: Akiyama gets this fate as his neck was tied to a moving car that fell off a cliff. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] - see FakingTheDead above.]]
* ShedTheFamilyName: Aburakawa was Shinsuke's original surname, then he took in Akiyama (his mother's maiden name) as his last name after his parents divorced.
* ShipperOnDeck: Mamoru accuses Yamato of going on a date with Yui while on-duty.
* SlashedThroat: Takeda was killed this way in the beginning.
* ThemeNaming: Outside of Kuroda, Uehara, and Morofushi, the police officers' names contain some reference to the generals killed in action during the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima. [[spoiler: That specific theme is a RedHerring, as their names are more appropriately themed after the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: One of the more technically complex examples, as Akiyama faked a ''decapitation.'']]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Akiyama's sister]] was killed by a stray bullet when Yamato's drug-addled childhood friend ran amok.
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[[folder:People from the Valentine Murder Case]]
!!People from the Valentine Murder case (Katsuhiko Minagawa, Mrs. Minagawa, Susumu Minagawa, Yoshimi Watanabe, Kaori Sekiya, Naomichi, Toshihide Wakamatsu)
->Katsuhiko voiced by: Creator/RyoHorikawa\\
Toshihide voiced by: Creator/NobuoTobita\\
Yoshimi voiced by: Creator/SakikoTamagawa\\
Mrs. Minagawa voiced by: Creator/ChiyokoKawashima
The filler case in which Sonoko was introduced in the anime (In the manga, she only appeared in the original rendition of the Mountain Villa Case.) as well as first case where Conan used his wristwatch stungun (introduced in the Hatamoto family case in the manga). Sonoko has Ran and Conan tagging along as she visits the BigFancyHouse of a tennis player named Katsuhiko Minagawa, who's having a small meeting with his family and friends... and all of a sudden, Katsuhiko drops dead in the backyard. It's up to Conan to solve this case, as a girl named Yoshimi is being accused of the murder but he has the feeling that something else is going on and she's just a scapegoat.
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* FinancialAbuse: [[spoiler:The reason for Katsuhiko's murder. He's actually the nephew of the Minagawas who was taken in after his parents' deaths; the family is now about to go bankrupt, so Mrs. Minagawa poisons him to have access to his large inheritance and save the family business.]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Katsuhiko is a jerk and he smokes. [[spoiler: Since Naomichi had poisoned his cigarette filters and Katsuhiko cut them off, he barely dodged death. Of course he died later due to the time-delayed poison he had ingested.]]
* LoveDodecahedron: Katsuhiko likes Yoshimi. Yoshimi might like him back. Kaori likes Katsuhiko. Naomichi likes Yoshimi. Toshihide goes after Ran but she doesn't like him, obviously.
* MommyIssues: [[spoiler: Katsuhiko likes Yoshimi because she looks like his dead biological mother.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:The murderer? ''Katsuhiko's mother''. Or better said, [[ParentalSubstitute his aunt and stepmother]].]]
* OutDamnedSpot: Subverted. [[spoiler: Mrs. Minagawa is still seen doing the dishes after the murder, which tips Conan off. She's actually trying to wash poison off the cups/dishes so she won't be blamed, but Conan (through Kogoro) says it'll still remain there.]]
* RealMenHateSugar: Katsuhiko says he really hates chocolate, though he accepts Yoshimi's choco anyway. [[spoiler: Which his mom uses to kill him: she puts poison in the coffee and the antidote in the cake, clearly knowing her adoptive son would NOT eat the cake. And she even replaced Yoshimi's choco with a poisoned one to get her involved.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Naomichi. At first, it looks like Naomichi is the one who murdered Katsuhiko, and he even confesses. But as it turns out, while Naomichi ''did'' try to kill Katsuhiko, his murder plan didn't work because Katsuhiko didn't use the cigarette filters that Naomichi poisoned. The murder plan that killed Katushiko was someone else's.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kaori is a shorthaired tomboy in a denim jacket and Jeans. Yoshimi is a motherly-looking girly girl in office lady-like clothes.
* UpperClassTwit: Katsuhiko. He still didn't deserve to die [[spoiler: and specially not for the money he inherited from his dead parents.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Tsujimura clan]]
!!The Tsujimura clan (Toshimitsu, Isao, Takayoshi and Kimie Tsujimura, Yukiko Katsuragi, [[spoiler: Kenji Yamashiro]])
The BigScrewedUpFamily that shows up in the case that was Heiji Hattori's first appearance, i.e. ''The Diplomat Murder Case''. Heiji comes to Tokyo to challenge Shinichi Kudo, and the "stage" is the murder of the diplomat Isao Tsujimura. Who killed him: [[OffingTheOffspring his father Toshimitsu]], [[SelfMadeOrphan his son Takayoshi]], his second wife Kimie, or Takayoshi's girlfriend Yukiko?
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Isao.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Toshimitsu aided Isao with his UriahGambit, so when Isao was killed he tried to take the heat as punishment.]]
* BigFancyHouse: The Tsujimuras are fabulously wealthy, and their home is ''massive''. The crime scene itself is Isao's office at home, a ''really'' nice and huge studio with dozens of books.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor, ''poor'' Takayoshi and Yukiko. [[spoiler: And in the backstory, ''poor'' Kimie.]]
* ComfortingTheWidow: [[spoiler:The reason for Isao's UriahGambit. Massively backfires with time... when Kimie poisons him.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Kimie was on the fence after Yamashiro was jailed and his family took Yukiko away.]]
* FlirtyStepsiblings: [[spoiler:Yukiko and Takayoshi... and they didn't know it!]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Kimie treats Yukiko harshly [[spoiler: to hide their real bond.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Kimie's weapon to murder Isao was a poisoned needle that [[HiddenWeapons she kept hidden]] in her keychain's locket. She first drugged him to make him fall asleep, then she discreetly prickled him behind the ear when nobody was looking.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Or better said, "Yukiko, I am your long-lost mother who couldn't raise you and had to give you away to your paternal family".]]
* ParentalMarriageVeto:
** Isao has a FreakOut and imposes this on Takayoshi when he sees the photo of the girl he fancies, [[spoiler: which gives Kimie the first clues about what he did to Yamashiro.]]
** Kimie herself visits Kogoro's office to get Conan and Co. to their mansion, ostensibly to ask Kogoro to get {{subtext}}s for one. Heiji theorizes this is because Kimie believes that the kind, sweet, smart, etc. Yukiko is simply just ''too'' good to be true and might actually be a mix of GoldDigger and BitchInSheepsClothing. [[FromBadToWorse And then...]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Oh, Yamashiro.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:Yukiko looks like a younger, light-haired Kimie.]]
* TakingTheHeat: When Heiji claims that [[spoiler:Toshimitsu]] is probably the killer, said character confesses ''despite not being the culprit''. Their real intention is to invoke the trope, because [[spoiler:the old man had helped his son Isao with his UriahGambit, so he wanted to atone.]]
* TheUriahGambit: [[spoiler:20 years ago, Isao fancied Kimie. Kimie was HappilyMarried to Isao's acquintance Yamashiro. What did Isao do? Use him as a scapegoat in a fraud (with help of Toshimitsu), wait until he died in prison, and then go ComfortingTheWidow on Kimie!]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Harumi Matsuzaki, Kiwako Todou, Kunio Kawazu, Hiroshi Itou and Masahiko Matsuzaki]]
!!Harumi Matsuzaki, Kiwako Todou, Kunio Kawazu, Hiroshi Itou and Masahiko Matsuzaki
Ran still wants [[TheMasochismTango Eri and Kogoro]] to get back together, so she stages a small vacation to the beach. They befriend a group of scuba divers... but tragedy falls over them when one of the girls, Kiwako, almost drowns. And for worse, it's ''not'' an accident, but the doing of one of her friends.
--> Kiwako is voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue
--> Harumi is voiced by: Creator/YukoMinaguchi
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Harumi regrets what she has done, ''very'' much. She also breaks down crying TearsOfRemorse when exposed.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Masahiko and Kiwako.
* DistressedDamsel: Poor Kiwako...
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Harumi was in love with her stepbrother Masahiko and lost it when he decided to marry Kiwako.]]
* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler:Harumi and Masahiko.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Kiwako decides to keep Harumi's reasons to herself, as a part of her forgiveness for Harumi.]]
* SuperDrowningSkills: Masahiko really can't swim.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: ''Horribly'' played with. [[spoiler: Knowing that Masahiko can't swim, Kiwako pretended to drown while trying to prove how much he loved her, recruiting Harumi for the prank without knowing her feelings. Harumi, already upset since Kiwako was marrying the guy she liked, lost it and tried poisoning Kiwako with a snake she caught.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: ... Well, Kiwako ''is'' voiced by Creator/KikukoInoue. She ''does'' show a cattier side in the beginning, but [[spoiler: her decision to forgive Harumi ''and'' not tell Masahiko about her secret love for him]] is very much YN behavior.
** Not only that: [[spoiler: she let everyone except Conan, Eri, Kogoro and Ran believe that it was an accident. Thanks to her, Harumi averted going to jail for trying to kill her.]] It takes a very, ''very'' forgiving and kind person to do such things.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mina and Masayo Aoshima]]
!!Mina and Masayo Aoshima
Once, Kogoro losed a ticket for a Yoko Okino concert he wanted to go to. He bumped into a girl named Masayo Aoshima, who also was a Yoko fan and had a spare ticket. They went to the house Masayo shared with her younger sister Mina... but they find out she's killed herself. However, Conan is suspicious and thinks Masayo knows more than she lets them see.
-->Masayo is voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa
-->Mina is voiced by: Creator/YukariTamura
* BathSuicide: It seems like Mina took her own life in the bathroom.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: With Mina as the Abel and Masayo as the Cain.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Masayo's "Yoko" headband. The accent over the first "o" is covered with a bit of Mina's blood.]]
* CoolBigSis: Mina adored her sister Masayo and imitated her in pretty much everything. [[spoiler: She only succeeded in pushing Masayo away, and then Masayo get so creeped out ''and'' fed up that she killed Mina.]])
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry. Mina was the beautiful sister, Masayo was the smart one. [[spoiler: Taken to their worst extreme in the end.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Had Mina not joked around with how she fell for Masayo's ex-boyfriend Kenji, Masayo wouldn't have snapped on her as badly as she did.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mina was the flirty girly girl, Masayo was the shorthaired and kinda tomboyish OfficeLady.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Hatamoto Family]]
!!The Hatamoto Family (Gozo, Kitaro, Mariko, Jouji, Akie, Tetsuo, Ichiro and Natsue Hatamoto. Also, Takeshi Hatamoto nee Zaiki and Kenji Suzuki).
The people involved in a rather notorious case from the first season. After having lost their ferry, Conan and the Mouris are "picked up" by the rich Hatamoto clan and board into their yacht. However, they start witnessing the ''extremely'' dark family dynamics as well as the JerkAss behavior from the leader, Gozo Hatamoto... who is bloodily murdered. And that's just the beginning!
-->Ichiro is voiced by: Creator/AkiraIshida
-->Takashi is voiced by: Creator/ShigeruNakahara
* AbsoluteCleavage: Akie, one of the very few charas to sport this.
* AbusiveParents: More exactly, abusive grandfather and father-in-law. Gozo was an HORRIBLE JerkAss to everyone except to Natsue, and his preferred victims were Kitaro and Ichiro.
* AssholeVictim: Gozo. [[spoiler: Tatsuo.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: And holy shit, HOW.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Kitaro and Mariko. See also KissingCousins.]]
* DaddysGirl: Natsue was a Grandpa's Girl. [[spoiler: Who becomes the UnexpectedSuccessor.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Had Gozou neither gone overboard in his mistreatment of Ichiro ''nor'' mocked his love for Natsue...]]
* GoldDigger:
** Akie's husband Tatsuo, who married her in hopes of inheriting money since she was one of the possible heirs. [[KickTheDog He even says so openly, and in front of Akie herself]] - much to Akie's shock, since she actually loved him and wasn't aware of this "detail". [[spoiler: She wasn't: the wealth went to her little sister Natsue. Then again it didn't matter: he got killed off.]]
** Takeshi is accused by Gozo of being this, since [[spoiler: his parents had a company that was destroyed by Gozo Hatamoto's. Takeshi's case is more of BecomingTheMask and LoveRedeems: he ''did'' at first approach Natsue to see what kind of person she was and get back to the Hatamotos, but he came to truly like her as well.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason why [[spoiler: Tatsuo]] died. [[spoiler: He saw Ichiro trying to drop the killing weapon in the sea and got a face full of metal pipe for his trouble.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: Mariko is an AlmightyMom, so Kitaro obviously is this. [[HappilyMarried They do care for each other]], though.
* IrrationalHate: According to Yasue, Gozo hated detectives to the core because he thought that detectives have nothing better to do than sneaking around looking for other people's flaws. Gozo's hatred toward detectives was so irrational that he prohibited every member of Hatamoto family from reading detective novels or watching detective TV shows.
* TheJeeves: Suzuki.
* KickTheDog: Gozo's psychological and emotional abuse of his son-in-law Kitaro and grandson Ichiro.
* KissingCousins: A huge plot point. [[spoiler: Kitaro and Mariko were both this ''and'' in a ChildhoodFriendRomance, but had to [[ParentalMarriageVeto beg Gozo to let them marry]]. And 25 years later, their son Ichiro fell in love with Natsue... and Gozo not only denied him the chance to ask her out, but cruelly mocked him.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: The husbands of Akie and Natsue, Tatsuo and Takeshi, were middle-class men who married into the Hatamoto family and thus took up their surname.
* MyBelovedSmother: Mariko has traces of this.
* TheOjou: Akie and Natsue. Akie is the RichBitch type, Natsue is the NiceGirl type.
* OneeSama: Natsue, being a very polite YamatoNadeshiko-like {{Ojou}}, addresses Akie as this.
* PetTheDog: Gozo truly cared for his youngest granddaughter Natsue.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Takeshi was apparently set as the villain of this case. He wasn't.]]
* RichBitch: Both Akie and Tatsuo.
* ShrinkingViolet: Ichiro. [[spoiler: But when a ShrinkingViolet snaps... '''[[BewareTheNiceOnes snap he does'''.]] ]]
* SupremeChef: Jouji, who works as a popular French chef and shows off his collection of rare professional knives. [[spoiler: Ichiro gets to give a... good use to two of them. ]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Ichiro got to the point of stabbing himself in the leg to try throwing off suspicions. It actually got Conan to suspect him ''more''.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kogoro Mouri's college friends ]]
!!Kogoro Mouri's college friends (Kazushi Nakanishi, Yumi Horikoshi, Noriko Ayashiro née Kimoto, Yukio Ayashiro, Jun Oomura)
Another famous case from the first season. Every five years Kogoro Mouri reunites himself in a hot spring site with his best friends from college, the members of the judo club he used to belong to. This year, Ran and Conan manage to join in - and just in time, as former CuteSportsClubManager and current OfficeLady Yumi Horikoshi apparently finishes her own life via PrettyLittleHeadshots. But to Conan and Kogoro, this is ''not'' suicide.
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: Kazushi accepted an ''omiai'' (arranged date) with the daughter of his boss, they hit it off and were about to get married. Yumi was not happy ''at all''.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Kazushi is fully bald, as well as a strong judo practitioner and a competent policeman. [[spoiler: Subverted when he's revealed to be the killer ''and'' when Kogoro captures him.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: What Yumi was doing to Kazushi, threatening to send some risque and old photos of themselves to his new girlfriend ''after years of blowing off his marriage proposals''.]]
* ChristmasCake: Yumi, despite her beauty, was unmarried at age 34. She wasn't too happy about it.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler: Yumi was shot in the head when she was on her feet. There are analogies to Benkei's legendary death that Conan catches on and then relays to Kogoro in his own way.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: People think at first that Yumi killed herself. This isn't helped by how she ''did'' express the wish to finish herself off since she's been depressed and in danger of losing her job in the middle of the economic crisis.
* GeniusBruiser: Kazushi is very big and very bright.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Yumi, referred to as "the Madonna" of the group.
* HotSpringsEpisode: And ''very'' infamous for how Conan plays the role of AccidentalPervert at the beginning.
* HotTeacher: Yukio is pretty good looking and works as a schoolteacher.
* {{Meganekko}}: Noriko is in her late 30's and still looks ''very'' {{Moe}}.
* OfficeLady: Yumi.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Yukio and Noriko, though this is understandable since they ''just'' got married and the trip might be doubling as their honeymoon.
* TrueCompanions: Kogoro's. Which is why he's so incredibly ''pissed'' at Yumi's death. [[spoiler: Double when he realizes that not only she was killed, ''but that one of his friends is the murderer''. Cue ItsPersonal mode and then Kogoro's response.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Yumi. [[spoiler: Rather darkly used in the end: she refused Kazushi's marriage proposals... until he decided to marry somebody else. WomanScorned mode = ON.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Akiko Yonehara and others]]
!!Akiko Yonehara and others (Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, Sugiyama-sensei, Atsushi Mori, [[spoiler: Minako Mochizuki]])
From the Ski Lodge case. Sonoko takes Ran and Conan to a ski trip and they run into their old school teacher Akiko Yonehara and her co-workers, who are there at vacation. They stay at the same lodge alongside a snarky reporter named Atsushi Mori, who notes that the villa was murder's crime scene some time ago. And then another teacher, Sugiyama, is killed...
* BreakTheCutie: This case was ''very'' hard on [[spoiler: poor Ran.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Yonehara, for Sonoko and ''specially'' Ran. Also in the backstory: Shimoda and Sugiyama, for little Minako.]]
* ChristmasCake: Nakamura teases Yonehara about being this:
-->'''Nakamura''': It's the last strand of hope for a woman in her 30's who missed her prime marriage age, right?
* DistressBall: Poor Sonoko, [[spoiler: drugged and then strangled into unconsciousness by Yonehara as a part of her WoundedGazelleGambit.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: It was believed that Minako hung herself because she was horrifyingly stressed due to upcoming junior high admission exams. (Unfortunately, this is sorta TruthInTelevision: it's a known fact that many Japanese students of all ages have commited suicide upon failing important tests.) This was NOT true: [[WouldHurtAGirl she was killed]].]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: The reason for Minako's murder. She found out that Shimoda and Sugiyama were involved in a fraud, and in her HeroicBSOD state she confronted them...]]
* HotTeacher: Yonehara and Nakamura
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Yonehara's long hair wasn't for real; she had gotten it cut recently, but the stylist cut it too short for her liking so she put on a wig to hide this. And then she came up with the idea of using said wig ''to strangle Shimoda and Sugiyama to death'' without using a rope: as she was carrying her "weapon" on her, no one would find it... Too bad Conan saw some wig strands around and suspected her.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Minako-chan, noooooooooo!]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Moori.
* NightmareFetishist: Moori is a ''little'' too happy when he tells the bloody story of the place...
* PsychologicalHorror: Invoked by the killer, who writes in lipstick some ''kana'' symbols that when put together, read: [[spoiler: "Minako".]] This [[spoiler: sends Shimoda into a VillainousBSOD, and lets Yonehara (the killer) identify him as Minako's other murderer.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Shimoda and Sugiyama strangled a pre-teen girl to death, then made it look like she had hung herself.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Yonehara knocks Sonoko out via both drugging and strangling, then lays on the floor to make it look like she was attacked too. The body that Sonoko saw right before that? It was Sugiyama's corpse, his face covered by Yonehara's wig.]]
* YouthfulFreckles: [[spoiler: Minako]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Dracula's Villa case]]
!!People from the Torakura estate (Daisuke Torakura, Etsuko Torakura, Toshiya Tadokoro, Shuichi Hamura, Fumio Doi, [[spoiler:Kaori Tadokoro]])
-->Hamura is voiced by: Creator/ShowHayami
-->Etsuko is voiced by: Yorie Terauchi
-->Tadakoro is voiced by: Creator/KojiYusa
In a {{filler}} case, Kogoro, Conan and Ran were invited by a famous and ''very'' eccentric mystery novelist named Daisuke Torakura (a former romance novelist who switched genres) to his estate, to have some talks about his next novel and to have Kogoro checking on his wife Etsuko, whom Torakura believes she's cheating on him. Then a snowstorm hits and as Conan and Ran takes a tour around the Torakura estate, the clock suddenly strikes midnight... and Torakura was locked into his studio. When everyone in the house gathered and managed to break in, they found him dead... and tied up to a cross, with a stake through his heart. But the study's door is locked and there's no footprints in the snow, so are vampires real or does someone in the state killed him and used the legend of the vampires to hide their leads? And who did that: Etsuko, the chauffeur and researcher Shuichi Hamada, Torakura's disciple and ghost writer Toshiya Todakoro, or his editor Fumio Doi?
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Torakura. Almost everyone has reasons to want him dead since he shat on them all BIG TIME.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:Torakura.]]
* IllGirl: Todakuro's younger sister Kaori, ill from kidney failure ever since she was little. Her brother works as Torakura's ghost writer to have her hospital bills covered. [[spoiler:The truth is ''far'' uglier: see MovingTheGoalposts.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Poor, poor Kaori...]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Todakoro]] kills Torakura because Torakura caused the death of his sister while she was ill.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: Torakura married Etsuko who was 20 years younger than him, [[spoiler:through a cruel ScarpiaUltimatum.]]
* MovingTheGoalposts: [[spoiler:It turns out [[PosthumousCharacter Kaori died a year earlier]] because Torakura ''bribed her doctor into keeping her on ''painkillers only'' instead of paying for '''crucial''' and expensive treatment abroad (as per his end of the bargain)'', so Todakuro would spend his time indefinitely as his subordinate, which ultimately killed her. Then, he maintained the lie via keeping Todakuro locked in his countryside villa, telling him that Kaori (supposed to be in an American hospital) was still in recovery. And when the poor guy found out from the guilt-ridden nurse who used to tend to her, he went nuts with pain and murdered Torakura.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Although there aren't any real vampires in the series, Torakura dresses up as one to keep up the theme of his profession and he collects vampire-themed memorabilia in his spare time. [[spoiler:And he was killed by a stake through his heart in a simliar way as some vampires do.]]
** This is lampshaded by Conan at the end of the episode in his thoughts: [[spoiler:"When a vampire sucks someone's blood out, they also become vampires." In other words, Todakuro figuratively became a vampire himself by becoming a murderer.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Hamura. His reasons seems to be an enough motive to kill Torakura, but turns out that he wasn't the killer.]]
* ScarpiaUltimatum: [[spoiler:How Torakura married Etsuko, threatening to ruin her father's business and throw the family into destitution. What's more, she ''never'' loved him and she was in love with Hamura, but was forced to marry him in order to save the family's business.]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Torakura and Etsuko. Torakura isn't really that ''ugly'' and he doesn't look exceptionally old (he's as much in his 50's), but Etsuko is ''really'' attractive.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ayako Suzuki's friends]]
!!Ayako Suzuki's friends (Chikako Ikeda, Ryoichi Takahashi, Masaru Ohta, Hiroki Sumiya, [[spoiler: Atsuko Tokumoto]])
->Chikako is voiced by Jun Karasawa
The people involved in a case that is infamous for the huge dose of NightmareFuel. Sonoko invites Ran and Conan to a mountain villa to meet up with her sister Ayako and her friends from her college's cinema club and enjoy the autumn in nice company. Things get weird when Ran and Conan see a man with bandages on his face, and then one of the members of the club is first kidnapped and later gruesomely killed. The fact that their past is far more troubled that it looks like [[spoiler: and involved the tragic death of a girl named Atsuko]] doesn't help their case.
* AccidentalPervert: As Ran searches for her and Conan's room, she ends up walking on the guys when they were changing clothes. [[spoiler: Including Takahashi, who then targets her because she saw that he wasn't as pudgy as he looked... which would reveal how he later hid Chikako's head under his clothes.]]
* AxCrazy: The culprit, whose WeaponOfChoice is an axe ''and'' not only uses it to [[spoiler: chop the victim's body into pieces]], but to [[spoiler: attack Ran ''and'' Conan with it.]]
* BridalCarry: ''Horribly'' used when the group sees the killer carry a kidnapped [[spoiler: Chikako]] away in his arms, right before [[spoiler: her dismembered]] body is found. [[spoiler: It was a stage trick with a doll, piano wire, and Chikako's already decapitated head.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Chikako stole her "friend" Atsuko's best script and made it pass as hers, which made Atsuko cross the DespairEventHorizon and hang herself.]]
** [[spoiler: Takahashi also tries to commit suicide with a knife so he and his beloved Atsuko could be TogetherInDeath, but is thwarted.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler: When Takahashi claims how he did everything for Atsuko, Conan as Sonoko throws a BreakingSpeech in his face about how he tried to kill Ran to protect his identity, even though Ran was innocent and had nothing to do with what happened to Atsuko; ultimately he isn't some tragic hero avenging his lost love, but nothing more than a killer. This ends up shattering him and makes him give up on his suicide attempt.]]
* HandsomeLech: Ohta tries to hit on Ran many times, much to [[GreenEyedMonster Sonoko]] and [[CrazyJealousGuy Conan]]'s anger.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Atsuko was a sweet GlassesGirl. She was mentally/emotionally broken after Chikako's betrayal. Guess what followed.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Takahashi uses this to justify his ''brutal'' murder of Chikako, since he was deeply in love with poor Atsuko, witnessed her fall into despair and was unable to stop it, and then he decided to punish Chikako for causing her suicide.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: Atsuko]]'s "No one will believe me!", referring to [[spoiler: how she was the true author of the beautiful script that Chikako made pass as hers.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: [[spoiler: Atsuko was a plain but cute GirlNextDoor with glasses, [[LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine contrasting]] with Chikako's top model-level looks.]]
* OffWithHisHead:[[spoiler: Chikako's death. Takahashi then takes it UpToEleven by chopping up her body and dismembering her.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Oh, Atsuko.]]
* SmokingIsCool: Ohta.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Ran and Conan spend the night in the same bed. Not like that, of course. [[spoiler: Which actually saves [[HeavySleeper Ran]]'s life in the upcoming attack by the masked man: Conan was awake when said man attacked them, so he pushed her away from harm's way and then used his voice changer at full volume to wake up Ran right in the nick of time.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Takahashi, for the deceased Atsuko.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples]]
!!Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples (Nanae and Ayano Tsukumo, Yuji Momochi, Mako Miyoshi, Kazumi Sanada, [[spoiler: Yashiro Kinoshita]])
-->Kazumi Sanada is voiced by: Creator/RyotaroOkiayu
-->Mako Miyoshi is voiced by: Yurika Hino
-->Ayano Tsukumo is voiced by: Creator/KonamiYoshida
The first group featured in the popular double episode "The Cornered Famous detective! Two big murder cases". Motoyasu Tsukumo is a famous stage magician who appears dead in strange circumstances the day when his daughter Ayano turned six years old, so his widow Nanae goes to Kogoro to search for help since she suspects one of his three disciples is the murderer. This, however, brings Ran some memories... and evidence that Conan is Shinichi!
* AdultFear: The case's about to be deciphered... and then a bomb is dropped. [[spoiler: Little Ayano is missing! And Mako, the killer, is the one who took her away! In a subversion, Mako brings Ayano back unharmed, though she admits she was ''this'' close to killing her.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Mako is tall, standoffish and very beautiful. [[spoiler: And the SympatheticMurderer.]]
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: Young Mako actually witnessed how Tsukumo messed around with Yashiro's equipment and caused his death, but nobody believed her since she was a little girl back then.]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain photo album that Ran finds in the Mouri office. [[spoiler: It has a photo of Tsukumo with kid!Ran and kid!Shinichi, and taking a good look at it makes Ran suspect about Conan's true identity--especially after comparing said picture to the long look she takes of a Conan without glasses.]]
** In-story example: [[spoiler: Tsukumo kept photos of all his disciples in his study - including Yashiro. Kazumi saw Mako hugging Yashiro's picture to her chest tenderly, so he suspected that she had a link to him. He never acted on it, though.]]
* DrivenByEnvy: [[spoiler: Why Tsukumo killed Yashiro.]]
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler: Yashiro died while [[FatalMethodActing performing a dangerous trick]] inside a water tank that went horribly wrong... due to Tsukumo tampering with it and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident making it look like a genuine accident]].]]
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Or better said, "I Have Your Little Daughter And I'll Kill Her If You Don't Let Me Show You My Best Trick And Then Kill You for Killing My Older Brother [[PromotionToParent Who Raised Me To Be A Stage Magician]]"]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Six-year-old Ayano doesn't know that her dad's dead.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Mako killed her "mentor" because he killed her beloved older brother Yashiro.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Yuji and Kazumi are both very tall and very good looking.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Yabuchi family]]
!!The Yabuchi family (Hiromi, Hidekazu, Yoshichika, Yoshifusa, Yoshiyuki, Keiko and Machiko Yabuchi. Also, Carlos and [[spoiler: Dickson Tanaka]])
The second group from "The Cornered Famous detective! Two big murder cases". Yukiko Kudo has suddenly come from the USA, and manages to get Conan to stay with her for the weekend. The next day she's summoned by her childhood friend Hiromi Yabuchi, whose father Yoshichika died recently; her uncle Yoshifusa has arrived from Brazil alongside his bodyguard Carlos, but she's sure something strange is going on and thus she asks Yukiko for help. Conan senses something fishy ''is'' going on, thus he must protect his mother ''and'' defuse whatever plan is brewing behind closed doors.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Machiko was attempting to murder Dickson Tanaka to receive more of the inheritance, but wasn’t expecting him to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use the very knife she planned to stab him with on her]].]]
* BigFancyHouse: The Yabuchis live in a pretty big traditional Japanese complex.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Hiromi and her husband Hidekazu are pretty good people, but her younger brother Yoshiyuki and his wife Keiko are huge {{Jerk Ass}}es. Let's not even talk about Machiko...
* ButNotTooForeign: [[spoiler: Carlos turns out to be the real Yoshifusa's son with a black Brazilian woman. Dickson Tanaka is part Brazilian as well.]]
* GoldDigger: Implied in the case of Machiko.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Machiko wanted to kill her brother-in-law to get more of her husband's inheritance. Too bad she tried to stab said brother-in-law while in the bath... and he (or better said, his stand-in) killed her in self-defense.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Hidekazu took up Hiromi's surname since she was the eldest daughter of the rich Yabuchi family.
* MayDecemberRomance: Yoshichika and Mariko, who is barely older than his adult kids.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Dickson/Yoshifusa thinks Carlos is [[LikeASonToMe like a son to him]]. He will do everything in his power to make sure Carlos will be safe and won't be cheated out of his share of his uncle's inheritance.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Keiko, who set a small trap with a crossbow to either kill herself (original) or scare off Dickson/Yoshifusa (dubs). She wasn't the killer, though.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The man known as Yoshifusa Yabuchi [[DeadPersonImpersonation is actually Dickson Tanaka]], a Brazilian man with Japanese blood, who is impersonating his dead friend Yoshifusa to protect said friend's son and heir... Carlos.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Carlos. [[spoiler: Subverted: [[FaceofAThug He only looks scary]] and is actually a NiceGuy GentleGiant, [[ShrinkingViolet more shy]] and a little child-like than scary.]]
* SmugSnake: Machiko, Keiko and Yoshiyuki. Machiko is far worse, though.
* ThemeNaming: Three of the males in the Yabuchi family have names starting with ''Yoshi'': patriarch Yoshi''chika'', uncle Yoshi''fusa'', and son Yoshi''yuki''.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Dickson took up the Yoshifusa Yabuchi name out of loyalty for his deceased friend/business partner and his child Carlos.]]
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Everyone was shocked to know that [[spoiler: Carlos was taking the place of his dead father Yoshifusa among the inheritors. Yoshichika ''did'' know, but he didn't tell anyone -- except for signaling it in the tape that was his last will.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Dickson would stab a girl, but only to defend himself when she attacks him with a knife.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Reika Yotsui and her entourage]]
!!Reika Yotsui and her entourage (Mr. Yotsui, Takashi Ichieda, Yuji Nikaidou, Takaya Mifune, Osamu Gojou, Masao Rokuda, Nanao Yone, [[spoiler: Yaeko Yone]])
The people involved in the ''Billionaire Birthday Blues'' / [[spoiler: Wealthy Daughter Murder]] case. Reika Yotsui is a callous RichBitch with an UnwantedHarem who invites the Mouris and Conan to her birthday party since Kogoro found her lost puppydog. Everything goes well until the party is over and Kogoro, Ran, Conan and several others have to stay in the village due to a mysterious problem... Reika then disappears, one of her suitors is found dead, and Ran is drugged up and almost drowned to death. What the ''Hell'' is going on?!
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Mifune has a much darker skin tone than the rest, but it's never brought up.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:See the NightmareFuel page for a detailed description.]] *shudder*
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Two of them.]]
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler: The reason why Reika couldn't escape from a...]]
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler:One improvised inside a ''deep'' bath tub!]]
* ItsPersonal: Ran was attacked. Conan was ''most'' pissed off.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Had Yaeko not been murdered by Nikaidou and Reika, Ichieda wouldn't have killed them.]]
* NiceGuy: Rokuda and Gojou.
* NumericalThemeNaming: The characters here have numbers that goes from 1 to 7 [[spoiler:or 8]].
* OldRetainer: Yone, to the Yotsuis.
* RichBitch: Reika. She's so selfish and cruel that [[spoiler: she and Nikaidou killed a girl (implied to be Reika's childhood friend in the past!), purely to save their own butts.]]
* UnwantedHarem: Ichieda, Nikaidou, Mifune, Rokuda and Gojou were this to Reika. [[spoiler: In a subversion, Ichieda actually loved ''Yaeko'', and only stayed close to Reika to find the moment to kill her and Nikaidou.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: Yone [[spoiler: and Yaeko.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Nagato family and entourage]]
!!The Nagato family and entourage (Dousan, Nobuko, Yasue, Hideomi, and Mitsuaki Nagato; Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuuga)
-->Miyuki Hyuga is voiced by: Creator/RikaFukami
-->Mitsuaki Nagato is voiced by: Ryoichi Tanaka
The people from the "Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case". Dousan Nagato, a rich old man who's ill and not expected to live for long, hires Kogoro to find his first love. [[spoiler: Which is a cover to investigate several odd things that have happened in his BigFancyHouse.]] All of a sudden, however, two persons from his family are dead. What happened, what was the secret they both held, and will Conan find out the truth alongside Heiji, who's been called in too?
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: What Hideomi truly was, encouraging and helping Miyuki since he and Mitsuaki killed her parents via causing the fire in which they died. Also that's where he got his scars from, having rescued little Miyuki from the same fire; he could have gotten plastic surgery very easily, but didn't want to do so.]]
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Miyuki says she believes that her and Hideomi are destined to be together, since they've been "tied via a destiny made of fire" for a long time.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Not as bad as the Hatamoto family, but pretty fucked up. Yasue and Chairman Nagato were pretty nice persons, but Mitsuaki, Hideomi and Nobuko have... ''issues''.
* BrokenBird: Miyuki has massive, MASSIVE emotional problems [[spoiler: coming from Mitsuaki and Hideomi's DeadlyPrank that killed her parents, as well as her love for Hideomi.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The fact that [[spoiler: Mitsuaki wanted to kill his father-in-law to take full control of the Nagato enterprise]] places him squarely here.
* ChekhovsGunman: Conan sees a familiar man among the police, but doesn't recognize him. That man is Heizo Hattori, actually an old friend of Chairman Nagato... and Heiji shows up almost immediately afterwards.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Chairman Nagato was the unclucky childhood friend to the lady that he wants Kogoro to find for him. [[spoiler: That woman was actually Miyuki's MissingMom.]]
* ChristmasCake: When Nobuko bitchslaps Miyuki, Nagato speculates it's because "she hasn't found a husband". Considering that Nobuko is 39 years old, ''way'' past the "limit"... yeah.
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Conan]]''': With ''that'' personality, it's not like she'll ever get married...
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Miyuki.]]
** [[spoiler: Also Hideomi, who killed himself when he reached it.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Having crossed the DEH, Hideomi killed himself with poison. Miyuki found his lifeless body and she pretended to join Mitsuaki in his plan to kill Chairman Nagato, only to betray and kill Mitsuaki later so she can avenge Hideomi and protect Nagato. She also roped Mitsuaki into hiding Hideomi's corpse in the pond, later [[DecoyDamsel manipulating Nobuko]] into hitting her near said pond to have an excuse to get the pond drained and taking Hideomi away.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Hideomi, [[IWasQuiteALooker once a beautiful young man]], has half his face burned off. [[spoiler: They turn out to be Good Scars... sorta.]]
* {{Hikikomori}}: Hideomi, after he got scarred, left school and holed himself up in his room to write his novels without needing to interact with anyone.
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:]] [[spoiler: Mitsuaki's death, when Miyuki stabs his hand with her pen and makes him fall from the balcony... and he gets "stuck" in the fence]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite Nobuko's actions she does truly care for her family. The reason why she abused Miyuki is because she truly thought she [[GoldDigger didn't love her brother and just wanted his fortune]]. [[spoiler:When the truth is revealed, she was just as stunned as everyone else, and couldn't say anything.]]
* LoveHurts: And holy goddamned shit, HOW. This case is a huge TearJerker.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Mitsuaki, Yasue's husband, took up the family name.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Hideomi is believed to be this, [[BandagedFace using bandages instead of a mask]] to cover [[TwoFaced his hideous scars.]] [[spoiler: He wasn't evil. And actually, the man in "mask" we saw... was a disguised Mitsuaki or an equally disguised Miyuki.]]
* NoHeroToHisValet: Nobuko treats Miyuki quite badly, believing her to be a GoldDigger who takes advantage of Hideomi's isolation to get close to the family. [[spoiler: It's far more complicated.]]
* NotGoodWithRejection: [[spoiler: Totally and cruelly inverted. Hideomi crossed the DespairEventHorizon because Miyuki ''did'' want to marry him, despite the role he had in the deaths of her parents.]]
* SexySecretary: Miyuki, a cute-looking young lady with [[ShesGotLegs really nice legs]].
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Mitsuaki.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Miyuki and Hideomi.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Miyuki's burned fountain pen, which belonged to her deceased father.
** [[spoiler: ChekhovsGun: Miyuki uses it to stab Mitsuaki's hand when she tries to throw him off the balcony and he holds on to her. Then he falls off to his death.]]
*** Furthermore... [[spoiler: the pen didn't belong to Miyuki's dad, but to her mother. Nagato gave it to her when they were kids, and it's the proof that the girl he loved in the past was Miyuki's mom.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Miyuki tries invoking this when she attempts to commit suicide to be with Hideomi. It fails since she wanted to [[KillItWithFire burn herself to death with a gasoline thermos and her lighter]], but Conan and Heiji had switched the fuel with water.]]
* UptownBoy: Hideomi is a PrincelyYoungMan. Miyuki is an orphan and his father's secretary. In a subversion, the one opposing to their match-up was Hideomi's older sister and not his father, who was more-or-less fine with this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Raita Banba and Hatsune Kamon]]
!!Raita Banba and Hatsune Kamon
Raita is one of Kogoro's high school friends and Hatsune is his fiancee, and they intend to have Kogoro attend their wedding ceremony. The night before their marriage, however, Hatsune's car explodes with her inside -- and it soon comes out that ''both'' of them were having the other investigated on suspicions of infidelity. Hatsune wanted to see if he'd flirt with other women and Raita hired a detective after becoming suspicious of her interactions with a handsome man named Tooru Amuro, who turns out to be the detective ''she'' had hired to investigate him. Could Raita's jealousy have gone too far?
-->Raita Banba is voiced by: Creator/YasuyukiKase
-->Hatsune Kamon is voiced by: Creator/YurikoYamamoto
* AlwaysMurder: [[spoiler:Averted for the first time since volume 1.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Banba, who is VERY dark-skinned and even has dreadlocks.
* BrokenTears: [[spoiler: Raita tearfully loses it when he learns the terrible truth about Hatsune and himself. By the time the case is over, the poor man is sobbing and [[SayMyName screaming Hatsune's name]].]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Not that they knew it.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: Raita is believed to be this. [[spoiler: It's not that easy.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Hatsune was already ''very'' stressed over the wedding, her bad health and her suspicions about who Raita actually was. When her fears about him being her twin brother were confirmed, she crossed the edge.]]
** [[spoiler: At the end of the case, it's almost a sure thig that Raita crossed it as well.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:What actually happened to Hatsune.]]
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:One of the rare cases where there's a reason for it.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Both of them. [[spoiler: In fact, they were orphaned in the same fire, a very large one that not only killed their parents but decimated almost a whole neighborhood more than 30 years ago.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Hatsune, who has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Syndrome Turner Syndrome.]].]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Raita is this at his worst. It's mostly when he's drunk, though.
* SayMyName: [[spoiler: "HATSUNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"]]
* StuffBlowingUp: Hatsune's death happened when her car exploded with her inside.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The attendants of the Night Baron Tour]]
!!The attendants of the Night Baron Tour (Hideko Kamijou, Tokio Ebara, Satoru Maeda, Genichirou Kaneshiro, Shizune Hayashi, Shiro Konnou, Akiko Sayama)
-->Shirou Konno is voiced by: Creator/ShowHayami
-->Akiko Sayama is voiced by: Creator/ChiekoHonda
Via Dr. Agasa, Conan finds out that there's a tour to a famous hotel featuring his father's iconic character, the Night Baron, as a main theme. Agasa was supposed to go but his companion and his granddaughter had to relinquish their spots, so Conan and the Mouris go in their place. It's a good thing, though, since it turns out that one of the attendants is a massive JerkAss named Tokio Ebara... and he's gruesomely killed while wearing a Night Baron outfit!
* BlowYouAway: The ''Himekaze'' aka the "Wind of the Princess", which blows in that particular time of the year. [[spoiler: And is the reason why Ebara lands on the statue, when he wasn't supposed to. Wasn't helped by him wearing a cape in that moment.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Sayama.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Ran is ''very'' depressed when Maeda's TakingTheHeat act makes her believe that he's the killer.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sayama really, really doesn't like it when Maeda oggles other girls...
* TheCracker: [[spoiler:Tokio Ebara.]]
* CryCute: Used twice in the story:
** [[spoiler: Kamijou cries quietly when Ebara is found dead. They were married in the past and even when their divorce was nasty, she still cared a little for him.]]
** [[spoiler: Sayama is seen crying when she's taken away and Maeda tells her "IWillWaitForYou!".]]
* DestinationDefenestration:
** When Conan is thinking about the MacGuffin, he gets ambushed and thrown off the balcony he's leaning on by someone dressed up as the Night Baron. He survives, since [[SoftWater he lands inside the hotel's pool]].
** [[spoiler: This was also how Sayama (the one who threw Conan off, but only to scare him away) kills Ebara. Though the thing with him being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice was a coincidence.]]
** Additionally, [[spoiler: Sayama killed Ebara like that because her beloved brother commited suicide by throwing himself off his apartment's window.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Subverted. Ebara is VERY dirty minded and constantly hits on cute women, but is also YoungerThanTheyLook. Seriously, he's only in his 30's!
* GetOut: An angry [[ClingyJealousGirl Sayama]] locks Maeda out of their room after he ogles Kamijou when she's in a {{Stripperiffic}} outfit. [[spoiler: She might have done so to keep him from finding any evidence tying her to the murder she was about to commit, however. [[TakingTheHeat Not that it worked]].]]
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Sayama uses ''herself'' as such, to trap Ebara and then kill him. She invites him to her and Maeda's room, spikes his drink, dresses him up as the Night Baron ''and throws him off the balcony''.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Ebara's lifeless body is found impaled on a statue. Aaaaaugh!.]]
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler: Maeda, as bitterly lampshaded by Sayama herself.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Konnou the banker, a very tall and pale man with dark hair and StoicSpectacles.
* MacGuffin: There's a diskette to be won by the people in the tour, containing a ''nasty'' and ''completely unblockable'' computer virus that is called the Night Baron.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: The ''Night Baron'' is a high-class criminal who uses a mask to cover his identity. [[spoiler: Sayama and later Maeda use NB disguises for their own purposes.]]
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: For all of his "DirtyOldMan" tactics, Ebara barely blinks when [[spoiler: his ex wife]] Kamijou shows up in a VERY {{Stripperiffic}} cocktail dress. Made even more obvious when Kogoro ''and'' Maeda get [[DistractedBytheSexy super distracted]], much to the ire of [[ChildrenRaiseYou Ran]] and [[ClingyJealousgirl Sayama.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Old man Kaneshiro was ''not'' blind.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: The big reason why Agasa couldn't go is that his companion's granddaughter fell very ill. Had the little girl not been bed-ridden, Agasa wouldn't have had to tell Conan and the Mouris to go in his place, and therefore [[spoiler: Sayama]] would've probably gotten away with Ebara's murder...
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Maeda is willing to divert attention to himself and being sent to jail, rather than letting Sayama be punished.]]
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: Kamijou slips some sleeping pills in Kogoro's whisky, intending to get him out of the race for the MacGuffin.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Araide Family and their housekeeper Hikaru]]
!!The Araide family and their housekeeper Hikaru (Dr. Yoshiteru Araide, Yoko Araide, Hikaru Yasumoto, [[spoiler: Chiaki Araide]]
In this specific case Kogoro, Ran and Conan makes a visit to the household of Kogoro's personal doctor. They meet Dr. Araide's handsome and kind son, Tomoaki, and he and Ran seem to get along incredibly well! Logically, [[CrazyJealousGuy Conan/Shinichi]] is rather troubled - but as someone dies in the house, there is no time to dwell on it. Even when Conan is having a hard time focusing on the case due to his fear of "losing" Ran to the younger Araide, the case must be solved...
* TheAlcoholic: Dr. Araide, in the past
* CuteClumsyGirl: Hikaru, but it's not PlayedForLaughs or cuteness.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Since Yoshiteru cheated on her too much and was very neglectful, Chiaki fell into depression and ultimately killed herself. Yoko was the dead Chiaki's best friend, so she killed the doctor as punishment.]]
* ElectrifiedBathtub: [[spoiler:The trick that Yoko used to kill Dr. Araide.]]
* WickedStepmother: Subverted as Yoko treated Tomoaki like her own son. [[spoiler:Before her death, Chiaki asked Yoko to look after Tomoaki for her.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Passengers aboard the ship ''Symphony'']]
!!Toji Samezaki, Teruyoshi Kameda, Korehisa Kanie, Minoru Ebina, Sadao Kujirai, Nagisa Isogai, Saizo Kano, Masaru Furukawa, [[spoiler: Yoshimi Samezaki]]
-->Toji Samezaki is voiced by: Creator/HidekatsuShibata
-->Teruyoshi Kameda is voiced by: Jin Hirao
-->Korehisa Kanie is voiced by: Creator/NorioWakamoto
-->Minoru Ebina is voiced by: Creator/YosukeAkimoto
-->Sadao Kujirai is voiced by: {{Creator/Mugihito}}
-->Nagisa Isogai is voiced by: Creator/RikaFukami
-->[[spoiler: Yoshimi Samezaki]] is voiced by: Yukiko Iwai
In the opening scene of "The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case," a man named Saizo Kano gets shot and falls down to the sea by what appears to be his accomplices. Flash forward to the present, Conan, Ran, and Mouri solve a puzzle from a newspaper ad, earning them an all-expenses-paid trip to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonin_Islands Ogasawara]] aboard a ship. They then encounter Toji Samezaki, a former colleague of Kogoro's, and the other winners as well. Seemingly unrelated at first, things take a turn for the worse when one of the passengers is found burned, and it turns out nearly all of the passengers have something to do with a robbery from 20 years ago and that the missing Saizo Kano may still be alive all this time...
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Saizo's gang was known for their heists being relatively bloodless. However, in their final robbery, they fired wildly, causing the deaths of Yoshimi and at least one of Toji's men.]]
* AssassinationAttempt: Heiji gets thrown overboard by [[spoiler: Kujirai, who realized the former saw Kanie tied up in the bow of the ship.]]
* BankRobbery: An example of this gone wrong caused Saizo and the gang to suddenly disappear.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: [[spoiler: Kanie had a gunshot wound back from his military service. Kujirai took advantage of this both to frame him for the murder of Kameda and the attempt on Kujirai's life (as Kujirai was presumed to have been shot from quite a distance) and for the rest of the cast to think he was the missing Saizo Kano.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Heiji is thrown overboard by the killer when the former discovers one of the culprit's tricks.
* ItsPersonal: The robbery case for Toji Samezaki, [[spoiler: as his daughter died after getting shot in one of Saizo's robberies.]]
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: Yoshimi was this to Ebina, motivating the latter to bring a bomb to the ship.]]
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Kameda, though he was already shot on the head when he was burned.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: Saizo Kano was presumed dead as his distinctive jacket was seen with four bullet holes on it [[spoiler: along with a picture of him and his daughter Nagisa.]] The cast spent most of the episode wondering if Saizo was alive the entire time, as he was suspected to be the heavily-covered guy who briefly appeared early in the episode. [[spoiler: He was DeadAllAlong, having not survived the opening scene, and the covered guy was Kujirai in disguise.]]
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Saizo Kano gets shot multiple times in the opening scene by his accomplices. [[spoiler: Kameda and Kanie later get dispatched by Kujirai.]]
* PhantomThief: Saizo, [[spoiler: Kameda, Kanie, and Kujirai.]]
* PublicSecretMessage: The newspaper ad put out by a certain Masaru Furukawa; to get aboard the ship, one has to present an old 10,000-yen bill. [[spoiler: This was also a message to the remaining accomplices, who by this point had long changed their appearances. Reading the characters for Masaru Furukawa sideways turns it into "Saizo Kano," with Kujirai unaware of this despite having created the ploy. The other passengers (save for Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Heiji) knew this beforehand, and boarded the ship in search for answers on the heist from 20 years ago.]]
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The gang that committed the robbery from 20 years ago reunite in the ship, ostensibly to celebrate the expiration of their StatuteOfLimitations of their 400-million yen heist.
* RelocatingTheExplosion: [[spoiler: Conan found Ebina's bomb and had it detonated from a liferaft away from the ship.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Attempted by Ebina and foiled by Conan.]]
* StatuteOfLimitations: The episode mostly revolves around the expiration of the statute of limitations for the gang's robbery from 20 years back. While they could no longer be prosecuted for [[spoiler: Yoshimi's death]] in their final robbery, [[spoiler: Kujirai gets charged for murdering the remaining accomplices.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Implied with [[spoiler: Ebina's bombing attempt.]]
* ThatOneCase: Despite being a retired cop, Toji still wanted to catch the robbers before the statute of limitations expired.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Kujirai shot himself and framed it on Kanie, who was found dead from a (presumed) suicide moments later. The reason there wasn't blood flowing despite having shot himself much earlier was that Kujirai plugged his wound with a tennis ball.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Domoto Family and entourage]]
!! Domoto Family and entourage (Eizo, Yatsunori, Junpei, Rino, Aoyagi, Machida and Nagano, Ayaka and Shizuka)
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ran commented that Ayaka is kind and beautiful like the goddess [[spoiler: which is INDEED she, the goddess who took Eizo's life away]].
* MeaningfulName: Kamiyama Shizuka which mean Mountain of the god and Silence, consider with this case theme her name might double as AwesomeMcCoolname.
* NunTooHoly: Well, guess who.
* OldRetainer: Kamiyama Shizuka who can easily run up more than thousand of stairs without tiring and keep protesting against Eizo for good amount of times in the episode. She's 75 and a [[NunTooHoly nun]] as well mind you.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bikuni Island Residents]]
!! Bikuni Island Residents (Saori and Benzo Kadowaki, Naoko Kuroe, Rokuro Fujiyama, Toshimi Ebihara, Kimie and "Great" Mikoto Shimabukuro)
A girl named Saori sends Kogoro and Heiji letters, asking them to save her from being murdered by mermaids. She lives on Bikuni Island and they go there to meet her, but she's been missing for a short while. Two other women appear dead, however...
* ArrangedMarriage: Rokuro is engaged to Toshimi, but is in love with Kimie. [[spoiler: That gave him a possible "reason" to [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse kill Toshimi]], but he's cleared off.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: Rokuro, Saori, Toshimi, Kimie and Naoko have known each other since their early years.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: [[spoiler: All the middle aged people in Bikuni knew that the current Mikoto was Kimie under a disguise, and that the supposed "mermaid corpse" was her mom's.]]
* LivingForeverisAwesome: [[spoiler: In the middle of her SanitySlippage incident, Saori said that she wanted to be immortal... followed by her all but telling Kimie that she, Toshimi and Naoko burned Great Mikoto. Kimie, who had secretly taken up Mikoto's identity already, realized that her friends had killed her mother aka the former one.]]
* KneelBeforeFrodo: [[spoiler: After the older people of the island say they knew that Kimie (and before her, her mother) was Mikoto, they humbly bow to Kimie.]]
* MacGuffin: The Dewgong Arrows won in Bikuni Island's Festival are supposed to bless the people who win them [[spoiler: and make them immortal.]]
* MasterOfDisguise: Well, not to the level of Kaito Kid and Vermouth but [[spoiler:Kimie (who works as a make-up artist ''and'' a {{miko}}) still managed to disguised herself as Mikoto, which is pretty impressive]].
* {{Miko}}: The Great Mikoto is the priestess of a local temple, and her descendant Kimie works as a shrine maiden there. [[spoiler: Kimie is actually ''both'' of them.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Saori was believed to be the killer, but it was Kimie. It doesn't help that Kimie ''did'' disguise herself as the already dead Saori at some point, then used her corpse to fake her own death.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Kimie killed Saori, Naoko and Toshimi because they murdered her mother, the former priestess, over [[DisproportionateRetribution not having won the Festival's prize]] (the Dewgong Arrow) that was supposed to give them blessings and probably immortality.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Saori had one during a talk with Kimie, leading her to suspect her and her other friends.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Kimono Goddess case]]
!!People in the Kotoya Inn (Yoriko Yasuda, Kyochi Bando, Eri Akechi [[spoiler: aka Chieri Aki]], Harumi Fukatsu, Asuka Shibazaki, Ema Anzai, [[spoiler: Sakurako Suzuka]])
-->Ema Anzai is voiced by: Creator/HarunaIkezawa
-->Eri Akechi is voiced by: Creator/MikiIto
-->Harumi Fukatsu is voiced by: Creator/YuriShiratori
-->Asuka Shibazaki is voiced by: Kaho Kouda
In this {{filler}} case, the Mouris take Conan to a hot spring inn to help him heal from a sprained ankle. There's also a film crew in the same place, ready to work with five female celebrities: publishing editor Yoriko, top model Asuka, novelist Eri, IdolSinger Harumi and oil painter Ema. Things go normally until two of the women are stabbed to death in the inn's grounds, and their lifeless bodies are surrounded by the inn's beautiful kimonos and ''obis''! Is this a supernatural revenge coming from the local deity, the Kimono Goddess? Or are both deaths the doing of someone in the crew instead?
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: In the legend, Ohana. (She helps a rich lord, gets many beautiful kimonos as thanks, is falsely accused of a crime by two selfish {{rich bitch}}es who want her treasured kimonos, ends up unfairly executed). In the real case, Sakurako (orphaned and separated from her older sister, re-builds her own life from scratch, is falsely accused of drug traffic, can't prove her innocence, kills herself).]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Ohana from the Kimono Goddess legend, who was so broken by her ordeals that she allegedly became an angry spirit and only calmed down when the locals venerated her as a goddess to placate her very well-justified anger.]] [[spoiler: In the real story, we have two: Sakurako Suzuka and her long-separated sister, Eri Akechi/Chieri Aki aka the SympatheticMurderer]]
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[spoiler:In the legend, Ohana's angry spirit murders the two greedy local girls who caused her unfair death. Even more symbolically, their lifeless bodies are found surrounded by the kimonos that the two assholes wanted enough to get the real owner killed.]]
* CostumePorn: In-universe example. The Kotoya Inn is VERY famous for its collection of beautiful kimonos, all related to the legend of the Kimono Goddess. [[spoiler: Asuka and Ema are found dead and rodeated by such gorgeous clothes: Asuka is "buried" under the obi sashes, Ema is lying on a pile of kimonos.]]
* CreepyDoll: If somebody wants a favor from the Kimono Goddess, he or she must: make one of these in paper, put on a kimono, go to the local Goddess shrine at midnight, and leave the doll in a wooden box specially outfitted for such a purpose. [[spoiler: Specially if s/he wants her to sponsor a revenge that ''they'' will carry out with their own hands, like Eri did before placing the dolls in the crime scenes.]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler: In the story, Ohana was executed via being tied up to a huge wooden cross and then ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice with several lances, thus the still image representing said moment used the imaginery. [[note]]TruthinTelevision: the "crucifixion and impalement" execution was used not only on average criminals, but on UsefulNotes/{{Japanese Christian}}s during Japan's isolation of the world (like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-six_Martyrs_of_Japan the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki]]) and on British and American POW's during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.[[/note]].]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Sakurako was DrivenToSuicide when she was framed for drug trafficking by Ema and Asuka and couldn't prove her innocence.]]
%%* HotSpringsEpisode
* IdolSinger: Harumi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Subverted: Harumi uses contacts normally, switching to specs only when she's in the springs.
* RichBitch: Both Asuka and Ema are from loaded families (the Shibazakis are into politics, the Anzais are in a huge enterprise) and are massive assholes. [[spoiler: It cost them their lives: in the past they used Sakurako as a scapegoat for their own drug trades and drove her to kill herself, then Sakurako's sister Eri/Chieri killed them both.]]
* TheOphelia: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Sakurako.]]
* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler:Harumi was a orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, the she rose to stardom once her songs became hits.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The case takes place in an ''onsen'' during the winter. It's obviously covered in snow out there.
* StartsWithASuicide: [[spoiler:The two-part episode begins with the very public suicide of a beautiful and sad girl.]] [[spoiler: Said girl is Sakurako.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Secret of the Idols Case]]
!!People from the Secret of Idols case (Kaoru Kusano, Osamu Kenzaki, Yuki Takeno, Terumi Hoshino and Atsushi Makuma)
-->Kaoru Kusano is voiced by: Creator/AkenoWatanabe
-->Osamu Kenzaki is voiced by: Creator/HisaoEgawa
-->Yuki Takeno is voiced by: Creator/MaayaSakamoto
-->Terumi Hoshino is voiced by: Creator/YuuAsakawa
-->Atsushi Makuma is voiced by: Creator/ShigeruNakahara
Yoko Okino sends Kogoro and Co. an invitation to the engagement party of her former bandmate Kaoru Kusano, who also happens to be a Kogoro fangirl. Bad thing, she's also the target of a stalker and she wants Kogoro to find him or her. But it should take place soon, since during the party Kaoru is attacked and almost dies...
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Terumi, the harshest and coldest of the four girls.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Yuki repents from her attempted murder of Kaoru and tries to off herself, but is saved.]]
* GenkiGirl: Kaoru has shades of this.
* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Yuki used her sharp filed thumbnails as a weapon, giving Kaoru a SlashedThroat with them.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: See FemmeFatalons above.
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Kaoru and Makuma.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Yuki lost it and tried to kill Kaoru because she believed that, by getting engaged to her beloved Kenzaki, she was trampling all over her feelings. In reality the guy Kaoru loved was their manager Makuma, and the engagement was a gambit from her to make him come forward.]]
* MeaningfulName: The four former Earth Ladies' names all have meaning to the earth's beauty. (Kaoru Kusano=Fragrant of Grass Field, Yuki Takeno= Snow Mountain, Terumi Hoshino= Bright Beautiful Stars, Yoko Okino= Sunshine of the Open Sea)
* SugarAndIcePersonality: [[spoiler:Terumi is revealed to idolize Shinichi.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Yuki is a mild version, as she ''does'' regret what she has done.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Day that Kogoro Ceased Being Detective]]
!!People from the Day that Kogoro Ceased Being Detective (Sayuri Tokomae, Ryozo Gamo, Sagae Kinugaza, Isao Takeoka, Kyosuke Arai,[[spoiler:A trio of robbers]],[[spoiler:Natsuko Takeoka]]
Kogoro was asked by the [[RichBitch wealthy-looking woman]] Sayuri Tokomae to be her bodyguard for her exercise program. At the same time however, a client named Ryozo Gamo phoned in and ask Kogoro to meet him for a request that involves finding a witness as Gamo was accused of a recent murder that occurred. When Kogoro was unable to find any witnesses, Gamo apparently lost all hope and committed suicide. Later, Kogoro's old friend, Takeoka come to assist him to find the real murderer, with hints pointing Gamo's nephew, Kyosuke Arai. The next day Arai was found hanged, apperently because of the pressure that Kogoro put on him. Feeling that this is his fault, Kogoro then decides to retire...
-->Sayuri Tokomae is voiced by: Wakako "Creator/{{Kujira}}" Matsumoto
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Sayuri Tokomae.
* CassandraTruth:[[spoiler:Natsuko was right all along about that Gamo was involved with the attempt murder of Sagae Kinukasa.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The Animal Cookie]]
* DetectivePatsy: A rather well thought plan. [[spoiler:Takeoka disguised himself as Gamo to trick Kogoro into proving his false alibi.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Natsuko.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Sayuri Tokomae is arrested for excessive defense.]]
%%* ManlyTears
* RichBitch: Wearing several expensive jewelries while going out definitely fits the description for being one, Tokomae.
* RedHerring: Sayuri and Arai.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Black Dress Alibi case]]
!!People from the Black Dress Alibi case (Mihiro Kuze, Yuika Shodou)
Ran and Sonoko drag Kogoro and Conan in a shopping spree through Harajuku, the most fashionable street in Tokyo. During a rest in a tea house, the girls are starstruck when they spot a young woman clad in a beautiful ElegantGothicLolita outfit, which includes a really pretty and lacy black and red dress... But few hours later, the fashionable girl appears strangled to death in a public restroom! Since they're among the few who last saw her alive, Conan and Kogoro must find out who did her in. [[spoiler: Or more exactly, undo the alibi of their biggest suspect: the fashionable girl's best friend, Yuika Shudou.]]
* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler: Yuika killed Mihiro because she found her overbearing, self-absorbed and possessive, to the point of allegedly shooing everyone in Yuika's life so she could have her all for herself. [[BerserkButton Sonoko gets pissed off]] and [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on it]], saying that Yuika didn't trust Mihiro enough [[PoorCommunicationKills to tell her what was on her mind]] and set their boundaries/limits straight.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: Yuika and Mihiro.
* CostumePorn: In the manga, the reader catches a one-panel view of Mihiro's clothes and jewelry. [[AdaptationExpansion In the anime, however...]] ''holy crap'', she's got great taste and an AWESOME wardrobe.
* ElegantGothicLolita:
** Mihiro. Her bedroom is briefly seen at the start, and she's got several pieces of EGL clothing hanging on the walls.
** According to Conan's ImagineSpot, Ai would fit in fairly well due to her LittleMissSnarker nature.
** Also, when in a EGL boutique, Ran and Sonoko briefly borrow identical ''sweet lolita'' [[PinkMeansFeminine pink dresses]]. Conan gets ready to snark at Ran, but when [[SheCleansUpNicely he actually sees her on it]], he blushes and thinks to himself that she ''does'' look really good.
* MasterOfDisguise: Sort-of. [[spoiler: After killing Mihiro, Yuika [[DeadPersonImpersonation put on her clothes and a wig and impersonated her for a while to create an alibi]].]]
* {{Meganekko}}: Yuika.
* OfficeLady: Yuika, Mihiro's best friend. [[spoiler: And her murderer.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Seance's Double Locked Mystery Room Case]]
!!People from the Seance's Double Locked Mystery Room Case (Kouji Yatsukawa, Ryuichi Mifune, Shouko Utakura, Reiki Hirasaka, Maho Izumi, Kazuo Ohnogi, Yutaka Kani, Ichirou Sawanami, Kira Miyahara)
Conan, Ran and Kogoro get lost in the middle of a trip and knock on the door of a creepy BigFancyHouse. It turns out the owner is the manga artist Reiki Hirasaka, a friend of a person they helped before (TV producer Kouji Yatsukawa), and he and some other friends also affiliated to entertainment circles are holding a séance to invoke the spirit of Kira Miyahara, a beautiful IdolSinger who died a while ago, so they escape a supposed curse that has already costed another person their life. It's not enough, however: two of the attendants die, and both murder scenes are locked mystery room types! All of this is related to the mysterious Kira, whose body never was found... Is her spirit murdering those who were involved in her death? Is she alive and hiding, ready to attack the rest as revenge for whatever they did to her? Or is one of the attendants the real murderer, again in the name of revenge?
* TheAlcoholic: Hirasaka, who does it [[DrowningMySorrows due to depression]]. [[spoiler: He's a ''very'' mean drunk, however, and one year ago he killed Kira in the middle of a drunken tantrum.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Mifune not only wanted to murder the people who got his dear Kira killed, but hoped to manipulate the odds so the investigation of Kira's death would be re-opened and her corpse, supposedly hidden in Hirasaka's mansion, would be found. (And he was right - her remains were buried underneath the seance table)]]
* BeneathTheMask: Maho is actually VERY shy when she's not cosplaying and hanging around people like [[spoiler: Kira (when she was alive, that is.)]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: This is how [[spoiler: Shouko]] is found. The corpse lies on the seance table, arms outstretched like in a cross.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mifune.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Shouko, when Mifune attacked her. She offered zero resistence upon being under attack ''of the man she was hopelessly in love with''.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: ... Wait, Hirasaka is a dude?
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: When Shouko found Sawanami's body, she noticed that he used his own blood to spell some ''kana'' on the floor. That's what made her realize that Mifune was the killer.]]
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Kira was one for [[spoiler: Mifune]] and [[spoiler: Maho]]
-->[[spoiler: Maho]]: "Miss Kira... She was my reason for '''living'''!"
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Kira and Mifune were secretly dating, until her death. Shouko loved Mifune but didn't tell him, as she was aware of how he was mourning for Kira. Due to an horrible misunderstanding, ''Mifune killed Shouko'', and only learned that she loved him when Maho told him ''after Shouko's death''.]]
* MadnessMantra: "It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie!", by [[spoiler: Mifune, after he's both found out ''and'' told about Shouko's feelings for him]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Reiki accidentally killed Kira via knocking her down to the floor when drunk, causing her to [[DeathByFallingOver fatally hit her head]]. He and the other people around staged a fake car accident to cover this up; however, that ended up tipping Mifune off, as Kira was actually a great driver.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Shouko.]]
* PoseOfSupplication: [[spoiler: Maho, when she explains her link to Kira and how she couldn't bring herself to say she was the woman who assisted the fatal party where Kira was killed by Reiki.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Cruel subversion. Since Shouko had found out that her beloved Mifune killed Sawanami, she told Mifune what happened and then promised that she wouldn't snitch. Mifune still killed her, both because he thought she'd {{black mail}} him and believed she was the girl who witnessed Kira's death and helped hide her body. (It was Maho, not Shouko)]]
* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Kira and Mifune. They never told anyone they were dating, since Japanese fans can be ''really'' possessive of their artistic celebrities [[YokoOhNo and would have HATED to see that "their Kira" was dating]].]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Maho.
%% * SpoiledSweet: Kira was a super popular idol, and said to be a really sweet girl. A good example was her OddFriendship [[spoiler:with Maho.]]
* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: [[spoiler: Poor Maho.]]
* UnrequitedTragicMaiden: [[spoiler: Shouko Utakura]] may be one of the most tragic cases in the whole franchise.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Holmes's Revelation case]]
!!People from the Holmes's Revelation case (Diana Kingston, Venus the kitty, the Glass family, Ares Ashley, Hades Sabara, Hestia, Demeter Bauer)
The Holmes' Revelation Arc is one of climatic entries in the series. Not only does Shinichi return for some time, [[spoiler: he also (kind of) finally confesses to Ran he loves her.]] It's a dream come true for Conan when he finally gets to go to London, home of his hero, Sherlock Holmes. However, the fun is cut short when Apollo Glass, a little boy whose older sister Minerva knows Shinichi from somewhere, requests help. Meanwhile, [[LoveHurts Ran is questioning her love for Shinichi...]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Hades Sabara's past deeds were so horrible that they had to be ''seriously'' {{bowdlerize}}d in the anime.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Only in the manga. [[spoiler: After the death of his IllGirl mother and his financial ruin, Hades Sabara murdered both the people hounding him for money ''and'' the friend who suggested he invest in the stock market. [[AndYourLittleDogToo And the friend's whole family.]] And he apparently ''[[HeartTrauma ripped their hearts out]]''.]]
* EveryoneHatesHades: In a roundabout way. Why else would you name the ''MadBomber SerialKiller'' after him?!
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: Minerva is playing badly because of her mother's kidnapping. Subverted: she's trying to tell the detectives about her abducted mom ''without stopping to play''.]]
* IllGirl: Minerva and Apollo's mother, Juno, is blind.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Minerva hits Hades with her tennis ball. Conan then grabs said ball and kicks it at him.]]
* LoveHurts: This is quite the emotional rollercoaster for Ran, as she starts to seriously doubt her and Shinichi's prospect relationship [[spoiler: after she misunderstands Minerva's "Love is zero" words as dis-encouragement, and a brief but awkward encounter with a temporarily normal Shinichi doesn't clear up anything.]]
* MadBomber: Hades Sabara and his accomplice Hestia.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Minerva and Demeter seems to be explicitly based on Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Demeter and Minerva are both skilled tennis players
* ShippingTorpedo: [[spoiler: Subverted. Ran thought Minerva was this thanks to the "Love is zero" spiel, but she wasn't.]]
* ThemeNaming: All the characters introduced here have names related to [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek/Roman Gods.]]
* {{UsefulNotes/Wimbledon}}: The Women's Finals is vital to the plot.
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[[folder:People from the Small Client Case]]
!!People from the Small Client case (Kazuki Kinukawa, Yasuhiro Kamoshita, Mitsu Kusano, Toshiko Besshou, and Tomoka Saegusa)
Kogoro is contacted by seven-year-old Kazuki Kinukawa, a very popular child actor. He wants Kogoro to find his birth mother, who abandoned him when he was a toddler, so he can call her out on what she did to him and warn her that he won't hand her any money from his career. The leads they have guide them to a hot spring place in Atami, and they meet three women who can potentially be the one they're searching for... But then a JerkAss writer appears dead, and one of the three ladies is the prospect killer! For worse, the victim was planning to see if an ''horrible'' rumor about Kazuki's origins was true...
* BeautyMark: The main clue to the mysterious woman's identity is a mole that she's supposed to have on her body, more specifically on her chest. [[spoiler: It turns out that Tomoka, the real birth mother, had hers ''on the back of her neck''; Kazuki believed she had it on her chest because she carried him on her back as a toddler with a sling.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: Toshiko's actual reason to kill Kamoshita was that she claimed to be Kazuki's mom as a joke and got money outta the deal, but Kamoshita found out and threatened her.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Kazuki's purpose is to tell his mom that he wants nothing to do with her and won't let her [[FinancialAbuse financially abuse him]]. [[spoiler: It plays out VERY differently, because what he actually wants is to re-take contact with her.]]
* ChildProdigy: Kazuki, a famous star at barely age 7
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: There's a rumor about Kazuki's birth father being a criminal...]]
* DoorstopBaby: Kazuki was left by his mother on the door of a Christian church when he was around two years old. She still sent him postcards from Atami, but stopped doing so a year ago.
* FanDisservice: In the anime, the image of the well-endowed naked woman [[spoiler: [[FullFrontalAssault strangling Kamoshita to death]] ]] was far more "clearly" seen than in the manga. [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:EP354-355_Case.jpg But considering the circumstances... meeeeep.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: Toshiko bullied Tomoka into stopping her contact with Kazuki because she was barren, and thus she ''deeply'' resented Tomoka for having given her child away.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Kazuki.
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[[folder:People from the Scar Of First Love case]]
!!People from the Scar Of First Love case (Kurumi Shudou, Taisuke Hoya, Ryuhei Kusumoto, Sougo Banba)
The first part of the "Scar that Evokes the Past" case. A rich blind lady named Kurumi Shodou hires Kogoro to help her find her FirstLove, a man who saved her when they were both children and, as a result, has a scar on his body. After giving a TV interview to make her case known, she has managed to narrow the search down to two men, and noww she wants Kogoro to find out which of them is the man from the past - but later they find out another prospect candidate! And at the same time, there's a hunt for a SerialKiller near the Shodou household...
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Kurumi always knew that Taisuke was the guy who saved her, but was too humble to let it be known. The whole deal was her way to make him come forward.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: What the butler Taisuke Hoya did was... saving Kurumi's life, harboring feelings for her, and being the guy she was looking for.]]
* EyesAlwaysClosed ''and'' SunglassesAtNight: Both tropes are united in Kurumi's figure, signifying her blindness.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Kurumi is a very nice-looking rich woman, who is also completely blind. It's also inverted since she's more pro-active than the usual DIL and is actively searching for the guy she has loved for years.
* AFriendInNeed: According to Kurumi, her "scar boy" was almost unnaturally selfless. [[spoiler: As the grown-up Taisuke, ''he still is''.]]
* GoldDigger: The guy or guys who aren't the boy of the past easily fall into this, since Kurumi is ''loaded''. [[spoiler: Specially Kusumoto, who goes as far as ''using a scar that he copied from someone else'' to make himself pass as "the boy". [[ContrivedCoincidence And then]] the person whose scar he imitated turned out to be the SerialKiller that Matsumoto was looking for... (To be fair, Kusumoto didn't know about the last detail)]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The man Kurumi is looking for has a distinctive scar, spreading across either his chest or his back. [[spoiler: What tips Conan off is how one of the candidates has a ''small'' scar... and it makes sense, since getting it as a boy means the scar is big on a child, '''but small on a grown man.''']]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Taisuke considers the accident where he gained his scar as this, as it's the same one where [[EyeScream Kurumi's eyes]] were injured enough to eventually cause her to be blind. That's the exact reason why he refuses to reveal his identity.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The other trademark of this "mysterious boy" is his liking for ginger. This was shown in him loving both Ginger Ale drinks and ''gari'' aka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gari_(ginger) the pickled red ginger]] used on sushi. The kid loved ''gari'' so much that he introduced himself to little!Kurumi by his nickname "Gari-kun"! [[spoiler: This is proved in public when Kurumi has sushi brought to the reunion where Conan reveals the deal throgh Kogoro... and Taisuke, unaware of how this is a part of Kurumi's BatmanGambit, eats almost all the share of sushi that has ''gari''.]]
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[[folder:People of the Scar And the Whistling Man case]]
!!People of the Scar And the Whistling Man case (Superintendent Morimura, Douji Hiramune, Susumu and Eiki Nabei, Tsuguharu and Maiko Boukawa, Atsunori and Hidekuni Mugita)
The second part of the Scar that Evokes the Past case is focused on the look for a SerialKiller that Matsumoto, Megure, Takagi and others are hunting down. The criminal psychologist Douji Hiramune, who also happens to be Ayumi's neighbor, challenges this murderer in live television... and soon is found dead, his lifeless body branded with a letter. This confuses the police, as it doesn't exactly fit what they thought to be the killer's usual M.O... but there are other hints scattered around, and it's up to Conan and the police to put them all together!
As a corollary, this is the case where [[spoiler: Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato '''finally''' get their RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* AcheyScars: Matsumoto claims that when he [[spoiler: stepped into the Shodo home to confront Kusumoto (whom he believed to be the killer)]] and then when [[spoiler: he inspected the spot where Hiramune was killed]], he felt ''lots'' of pain in his infamous scar. [[spoiler: When Kibo is captured, not only he doesn't recognize Matsumoto but his scar doesn't hurt anymore, sorta "telling" Matsumoto to not hang onto ThatOneCase from then on.]]
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: Takagi is ambushed, beaten up and captured by the killer of the present - the son of one of the past victims, who found out about the real killer and murdered him to avenge his DisappearedDad. The man ends up shooting him in the chest.]] It also ''almost'' happens to [[spoiler: Ai and Ayumi, who cross paths with the new killer when he's leaving Hiramune's apartment after killing him]]
* BatterUp: [[spoiler: The present killer]] beats the fuck out of a disarmed [[spoiler: Takagi]] with a baseball bat.
* Music/TheBeatles: In the manga, the killer was heard whistling "Let it be" [[spoiler: to signify the two or three bits of remorse he felt back then]]. It was taken out of the anime and replaced by a "random song that was popular back then" in story, likely to avert conflicts with royalties and copyrights.
* CopycatCrime: [[spoiler: The murder of the present.]]. A JustifiedTrope: [[spoiler: The new killer forced the old one to tell him how he commited the murders, then used said knowledge to kill his target since one of the past victims [[YouKilledMyFather was his dad]].]]
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: As Hiramune was bleeding to death, he managed to put blood on the CTRL and C keys and died grabbing the mouse by its cord to imply that the murderer was a JackTheRipOff.]] Similarly, [[spoiler: right before dying in Matsumoto's arms, Morimura tried to use his last words to pull this trope, but Matsumoto didn't understand it at that time.]]
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler: According to Matsumoto, Morimura was about to get married and even showed him a picture of his girlfriend/soon-to-be wife. The hit-and-run incident [[RetiRony happened few afterwards]], and the dying Morimura admits he was reckless in order to impress his sweetheart.]] [[spoiler: Since Takagi had a similar behavior (photo or not photo), the others and ''specially'' Matsumoto fear for him - but he lives.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: One of the few concrete clues about the killer is that he has a large scar across his back. [[spoiler: And it was given to him by ''Matsumoto'', who snatched away his katana right after the EyeScream incident and wounded him.]] Also toyed with: [[spoiler: after killing Hiramune, Nabei Jr. saw the scar itself on Hiramune's back and used his knife to carve a "Z" there, to cover up said scar and throw the police off.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: [[spoiler: Eiki Nabei was ''ten years old'' when his father Susumu was murdered in the hall of the family house. Nabei Jr.'s bedroom was right next to the hall, meaning he didn't see the killer but could hear his and his dad's last talk as well as his whistling.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: The reason for Hiramune's three SlashedThroat murders. He first killed two of his {{TabletopGame/Mahjong}} partners (Mugita and Boukawa) because they thought his theories about perfect crimes were going ''too'' far, and he feared they'd tell other people about his creepy ideas. Years later, he killed the last partner remaining (Nabei Sr.) because said partner wanted to talk to the police about the case.]]
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: After Takagi confronts Eiki Nabei and Nabei Jr. confirms he killed Hiramune to avenge his father's murder, he tries to stage this once Sato starts calling to Takagi's phone. Takagi breaks said phone and ensures he will be the only hostage, which clues Sato in and makes her ask for back-up.]]
* ItsPersonal: Two of the reasons why Kiyonaga Matsumoto is so Hell-bent into catching this particular killer are linked to the trope. One: [[spoiler: during the early investigations of the crime, the killer used his car to fatally strike his partner/Megure's mentor, [[ForgottenFallenFriend Superintendent Morimura]], who [[DiedInyourArmstonight perished in Matsumoto's arms]] while trying to use his last words to lay some clues.]]. Second: [[spoiler: few after Morimura's death, the killer ''also'' scarred Matsumoto across the face ([[EyeScream and almost took out one of his eyes]]) [[KatanasAreJustBetter with his katana]].]] The third and last reason is under "StatuteOfLimitations".
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Hiramune, and how. Who would've thought that his arrogant declarations, made to throw suspicions off himself and look good while at it, would bring him his downfall?]]
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: What saved Takagi's life was the mahjong tile he had in his chest pocket, which blocked the bullet shot at him. (Though he still was injured enough to need hospitalization.) Shiratori keeps it later, and [[LampshadeHanging can't help commenting how cliché the situation is]].]]
* RedHerring: Midway through the case, [[spoiler: an ex-con named Dokurou Kibo is believed to be the culprit since he always had verbal spats with the victims in a mahjong parlor and, at some point, openly gunned for their deaths.]] [[spoiler: The SerialKiller of the past was actually ''Hiramune'', who ''also'' was the guy who both ran Morimura over and later gave Matsumoto his scar; Kibo couldn't be the murderer because, by the time Nabei was murdered, he ''already'' was in jail for other crimes. The definitive proof comes from him showing no reaction to Matsumoto, the man he supposedly "scarred" with a katana.]]
* SlashedThroat: Three of the four victims of the past died like this. (The other, a certain policeman who was on the case, was ran over in the streets.) Then, Hiramune was murdered in exactly the same way. [[spoiler: Because he ''was'' the killer of the past, and the killer of the present was the son of one of the victims. KarmicDeath, anyone?]]
* SmugSnake: '''Hiramune''', holy crap.
* StatuteOfLimitations: The last case of the SerialKiller is juuuust three days away from being definitely archived, which is the ''other'' reason why Matsumoto wants to catch the culprit that badly. [[spoiler: One can bet that Hiramune, being the killer himself, used this to try making himself look good and gain fame...]]
* ThatOneCase: For [[spoiler: Matsumoto, due to the connection with Morimura's murder and his own scarring]]. [[spoiler: Satou also alludes to ''her'' one case in a scene.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Between [[spoiler: replying to Satou's ill-timed cellphone call]] and [[spoiler: ignoring it]] during the AloneWithThePsycho scene, [[spoiler: Takagi]] chooses to [[spoiler: ''break his 'phone with his own hands'' to avert a HostageSituation. Satou realises something wrong's going on and notifies the other policemen.]]
* UnusualEyebrows: The TallDarkAndHandsome Morimura's 'brows were kinda... [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:Superintendent_Morimura.jpg odd.]]
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[[folder:People of the Mystery of the Cherry Blossoms case]]
!!People of the Mystery of the Cherry Blossoms case (Nami Kasakura, Yoshiro Soumei, [[spoiler: the girl from Shiratori's past aka Sumiko Kobayashi]])
A case that happens a short time after the aforementioned "Scar and the Whistling Man" one, focused on Inspector Ninzaburou Shiratori. He decides to take a break and go to the theater [[spoiler: after learning that Sato has definitely chosen Takagi over him]]; due to a mistake he ends up stuck not just with Conan, Ai and the Detective Kids (whom he mentions [[spoiler: his actually sympathetic reasons to chase after Sato]] to), but with a beautiful woman named Nami Kasakura, whom he takes quite a liking to. After the movie is over, Nami asks Shiratori for help against a StalkerWithACrush - but it's too late, since whoever this stalker is, s/he has beaten her boyfriend Yoshiro Soumei to death! Conan and Ai wonder if there are other explanations for the crime, however, and so does Shiratori...
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Shiratori tells the kids and later Nami that he strongly believes in destiny. [[spoiler: The girl from his past [[ManicPixieDreamGirl changed his life so much for the best]] that he thinks she is his fated love, hence why he insists in courting Sato and later Nami, aka the ones he believes to be the grown-up version of said girl.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Subverted. Shiratori is incredibly depressed upon seeing that the other strong candidate to be his "girl of destiny" is a BrokenBird[=/=]WomanScorned and the killer... but she isn't. [[FirstGirlAfterAll And she reappears almost immediately afterwards]].]]
* CherryBlossoms: Nami likes to use straw wrappers to make paper rings whose parts look like cherry blossoms, and she gives a cup to Shiratori that has those. [[spoiler: Just like the girl from his past]]. [[spoiler: This proves to be vital later since Shiratori, Conan and Ai see that she has ''several'' of those in her apartment, ready to use in her plan.]] It also [[ChekhovsGun gets a]] CallBack at the end [[spoiler: when Ayumi gives Shiratori a similar cherry-themed paper ring ''and'' tells him the same words used by the "girl of destiny", which leads Shiratori to recognize Kobayashi as his "fated love" when he sees her.]]
** [[LampshadeHanging The symbolism is even more anvilicious]] thanks to [[ThemeNaming the cherry blossom-themed names]] [[FlowerMotifs of these manga chapters]] [[spoiler: as well as the ones dedicated to Shiratori and Sumiko getting together]], by [[http://www.mangareader.net/139-8736-1/detective-conan/chapter-689.html one of the chapter covers]] featuring Shiratori and Conan under a blooming cherry tree, and by how, right after [[spoiler: Shiratori sees Kobayashi for the first time after many years and has his LoveEpiphany]], Conan and Ai notice that a bunch of nearby cherry trees are in bloom...
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Subverted by Shiratori and his "destiny girl", since they ''only'' met once and he didn't even know her name, [[ManicPixieDreamGirl despite her huge]] [[TrueLove impact in his life]]. He firmly believes the girl to be Sato, and that's why he pursues her [[RomanticFalseLead even when he knows]] [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she leans more]] [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy towards Takagi]]... but later he wonders if she actually is Nami Kasakura.]] [[spoiler: And it turns out she's [[CoolTeacher Sumiko Kobayashi]].]]
* CrashIntoHello: Shiratori and Nami met when she bumped into him and made him drop his cola. [[spoiler: It was intentional.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: This case is dedicated to give the readers a more detailed (and probably quite needed) insight regarding Shiratori's thoughts and beliefs.
* FinancialAbuse: [[spoiler: Nami went off the deep end when Soumei took her mother's expensive ring (implied to be a TragicKeepsake) behind her back, apparently to pawn it, and then ''gave it to another woman as an engagement one''.]] Lampshaded when Megure says that [[spoiler: she could have easily denounced Soumei for theft/fraud instead of killing him.]]
* LoveHurts: And how. Not only [[spoiler: Shiratori goes into what looks a LOT like a compressed version of the FiveStagesOfGrief when he (mistakenly) believes [[UsedToBeASweetKid that the sweet little girl he knew grew up into a murderer]] ]], but [[spoiler: Nami became a killer and a huge WomanScorned ''because'' she got '''badly''' screwed by her AssholeVictim of a boyfriend, [[FinancialAbuse who not only took money from her]] but also was a big-ass cheater]].
* MeaningfulName: The name of the victim, Soumei Yoshiro, sounds a LOT like "Somei Yoshino" aka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_×_yedoensis most popular variety of cherry blossom in Japan]].
* NiceHat: Nami wears a really cute [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knit_cap knit cap]]. [[spoiler: Which she uses in her plan by placing it on the sleeping Shiratori's head so the Detective Kids will think it's her instead. Since they're in a very dark theater ''and'' the other seats are empty, the deal works well... until Shiratori, Conan and Ai realise the trick.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: The kids are pretty happy when they see the chemistry between Nami and Shiratori...
* SlippingAMickey - TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: Nami intentionally makes Shiratori drop his drink, then offers him another as an apology. The second one is laced with sleeping pills.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: Nami claims that she has one, so she asks Shiratori to check around to see if he can find clues about their identity. However, the stalker ends up beating her boyfriend Soumei to death, apparently [[MurderTheHypotenuse to get him out of the way]]. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Of course]], there never was one to start with: ''Nami'' herself killed Soumei and made up the stalker deal to throw the kids and the police off.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: Shiratori tells this to Nami before Takagi takes her away]]. [[spoiler: Subverted in that the sweet GenkiGirl he was thinking of did NOT grow into Nami, but into ''Kobayashi-sensei'' instead.]]
-->"You weren't like this in the past."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the Timeless Sakura Love case]]
!!People of the Timeless Sakura Love (Akira Sumida, Kikuna Kagitani, Ryoko Takimoto, and Ryusuke Kodama)
In this case Conan, Ai and the Detective Boys's CoolTeacher Kobayashi takes the spotlight alongside Inspector Shiratori. They have just met and [[ShipTease seem to be getting along pretty well]] as the summer goes on, [[spoiler: specially since Shiratori has realised that ''she'' was his [[SingleTargetSexuality "girl of destiny"]] instead of Sato]], but [[CannotSpitItOut it seems their advances will be rather slow]]. All of a sudden, however, things change: Kobayashi steps into the murder of a particularly dangerous LoanShark during a summer festival, the one who did this person in is on the loose, ''and'' Shiratori is the one in charge of the investigation...
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Kodama, who's got very dark skin. Probably thanks to [[spoiler: having been a once very promising baseball player]] and thus exercising a LOT outdoors.
* BatterUp: [[spoiler: While Kodama [[KnifeNut stabbed Sumida with a knife]], he later tried to "mess up" with Kobayashi with a baseball bat. Too bad [[BodyDouble the woman he attacked]] [[IdenticalStranger was actually]] [[ActionGirl Sato]]...]]
* BlatantLies: Noooo, Takimoto has ''NothingPersonal'' against the recently murdered Sumida-san, even after what she did!
Nothing, PassiveAggressiveKombat really! Ohohohoho!
* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Kodama had ''two'' of these. And after the second happened, Sumida began to pressure and threaten him...]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: For both Shiratori and Kobayashi. [[spoiler: And their RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: So Sumida wanted to kill Kodama? He ended up killing her instead.]]
* FatBitch: Sumida was a pretty much obese woman... and a completely ''rotten'' JerkAss. Did you know, in example, that [[spoiler: she claimed she had sold Kagitani's beautiful and super pricey ring already ''when she was actually wearing it'', and she did so ''in front of her'']]? Or that she [[spoiler: sold a supposedly valious plate to Takimoto for 500.000 yen and it turned out to be just 500 yen worth]]? She should've NOT [[spoiler: tried to invoke FinancialAbuse on Kodama]], however...
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Kodama tries to do this to Kobayashi, since she saw him around almost immediately after he killed Sumida and therefore [[SpannerInTheworks she would throw his plan off]] if she properly recalled more details.]]
* JapaneseDelinquents: Kikuna Kagitani was an infamous gang leaderess, and according to her declarations she can still easily summon more than 100 female delinquents to fight her battles. Additionally she bleaches her hair blond and, in the kids's {{Imagine Spot}}s, she's seen dressed up in a typical ''sukeban'' outfit.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Sumida has such manly looks that, when her photo is shown around after her death, the only thing that proves her gender is how she buttons her blouse. And being mistaken for a guy was her BerserkButton.
* LoanShark: Sumida was technically a pawn shop owner, but she also loaned money and then was super abusive to the poor saps who didn't pay in time or didn't meet her expectatives. [[spoiler: When she tried to [[FinancialAbuse force Kodama to get a life insurance so she'd kill him and get the money from it]], that caused him to snap and kill her.]]
* RichBitch: Ryouko Takimoto, another of the suspects, is said to be from a very rich family. She's also super passive-aggressive when confronted.
* ShipperOnDeck: The kids notice that Shiratori and Kobayashi are hitting it off [[spoiler: ''and'' know the story behind their shared past]], so they try to push the two towards each other. Ai seems to be specially curious, and in a case between these two she expresses frustration at their slow advances. [[spoiler: When Kobayashi rejects Shiratori since she believes he only likes her because she looks like Sato, Conan explicitely says that he should catch the culprit of the case so she will "open her heart" to him once again.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: Shiratori gives a ''magnificent'' one to Kodama when he claims that him killing Sumida was in self-defense.]] [[spoiler: It's also what leads to Kobayashi ''finally'' remembering how Shiratori did the same [[WiseBeyondTheirYears as a child]], [[RescueRomance to save her from thieves]].]]
-->"Criminal Law, Article #36. An act unavoidably performed to protect the rights of oneself or any other person against imminent and unlawful infringement is not punishable. An act exceeding the limits of self-defense may lead to the punishment being reduced or may exculpate the offender in light of circumstances. These are the provisions of self-defense. At the time of the crime, [[spoiler: you used a bladed weapon]] with the intent to kill. So none of these circumstances apply. Not to mention, [[spoiler: turning a bat which fulfills dreams into a weapon to silence people]] '''earns you no right to talk about dreams at all'''.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Kagitani's ring]] is implied to be this, since according to her [[spoiler: it belonged to her MissingMom.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the Broadcast of Love case]]
!!People of the Broadcast of Love case (Wataru Date, Ryousuke Fuemoto, Natalie Kuruma, Yuuko Tokugi, Kyouka Hikoue)
Detective Takagi begins to act a little oddly during winter, and seems to have many thoughts in his head. Suddenly, he disappears without a trace - and the next time he's seen he has been kidnapped and put in a DeathTrap that could be located anywhere in Northern Japan! Not only Conan, the Detective Kids and the whole Beika police department must find him before any of the trap's mechanisms activate and kill him, but they must also find out ''exactly'' why a person would hate someone like ''[[NiceGuy him]]'' enough to do such things...
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor, ''poor'' Natalie Kuruma.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Three young women killed themselves by hanging around the same time of Date's death. One was his girlfriend Natalie, who did so over her grief for his death. The others were the medical student Yuuko, who [[ItsAllMyFault couldn't forgive herself for accidentally killing a guy with her car]], and the hostess Kyouka whose world crashed when her boyfriend was uncovered as a fraudster.]]
* ForcedToWatch: The case is kickstarted when the Detective Kids are given a tablet PC... which shows them an image of the trapped Takagi. From then on it's a race against time to find the poor guy before he ends up dead thanks to one or another mechanism in it (hanging in a makeshift gallow, freezing to death in the very crude Japanese winters, or [[spoiler: being blown up by a hidden bomb]]).
* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: So Natalie and Date were about to get engaged? Date got hit by a car and died right before the fateful day, and Natalie was among those who identified his corpse. And then she hung herself in despair. And '''then''' her parents died when they were in their way to retrieve her body.]] And for worse? [[spoiler: Date had just succesfully finished a case about a fraudster, and the fraudster's girlfriend Kyouka was so devastated that she ''also'' hung herself in despair.]] YEOWCH.
* AGlassOfChianti: [[spoiler: Fuemoto is found in his old apartment with a bottle of good wine and a half-full glass.]] [[spoiler: In a subversion, he had poisoned his own drink before consuming it, effectively commiting suicide... and dying without revealing where Takagi is.]]
* HighClassCallGirl: [[spoiler: Kyouka Hikoue]] is implied to be one. She worked as a hostess and was noted to be both very pretty and popular among the men going to her work place.
* LikeASonToMe: [[spoiler: Fuemoto had an InterGenerationalFriendship with Natalie and considered her to be like his daughter. When she died, he completely lost it and decided [[LoveMakesYouEvil to kill the man who caused her death]], not knowing that Date had died and for worse, mistaking Date's best friend and surrogate 'younger brother' as the one who "caused" poor Natalie's disgrace.]]
* MixedAncestry: Natalie was half-American, half-Japanese, which is seen in [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold her blond hair.]] [[spoiler: When Date's parents came to retrieve their son's corpse, they saw her tearfully standing in a corner of the morgue and took notice of her unusual looks...]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Wataru Date, Natalie Kuruma, Yuuko Tokugi, and Kyouka Hikoue are already long dead, having perished at very least two years ago almost at the same time. One of the biggest plot points in the case is to decipher the connections between their deaths. [[spoiler: The only one that is disconnected of the case itself is Yuuko's.]]
* RavensAndCrows: At some point, some black birds [[spoiler: almost knock down the camera over the kidnapped Takagi]]. They turn out to be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_jackdaw jackdaws]], and this allows the kids and the police to deduce that [[spoiler: Takagi is being held hostage in Hokkaido, since the jackdaws are mostly seen in Europe but sometimes they're spotted in Hokkaido.[[note]]Hokkaido is the northernmost Japanese island, and [[http://wikitravel.org/en/Wakkanai its absolute northermost city]] is a hub of connection with Russia's [[http://wikitravel.org/en/Sakhalin Sakhalin Island]] which, under the name of "Karafuto", once temporarily belonged to Japan.[[/note]].]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The case takes place in winter, and for worse Takagi's DeathTrap is placed in a extremely cold and snowy city which could be either in Aomori, Akita, Hokkaido, Iwate, Yamagata... practically ''anywhere'' in the North of Japan. [[spoiler: (Actually in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido)]]. So even if none of the trap's mechanisms activate, Takagi (who is only wearing a suit since the kidnapper took his coat away) will still freeze to death and this will probably take place under the snow. [[spoiler: Even when he's (barely) rescued, Takagi suffers frostbite among other things as a consequence of being exposed to the cold for almost two days and must be hospitalized.]] It's even more anvilicious because, [[spoiler: when Sato and the others manage to reach for Takagi]], ''it actually begins to snow''. [[spoiler: And it switches to SnowMeansLove when he's completely safe and Sato, overjoyed to see everything's okay from now on, gives him the mother of all {{The Big Damn Kiss}}es.]]
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler: Fuemoto believed Natalie had done this. It turned out he was ''very'' wrong - her reasoning went more by her desire to be TogetherInDeath with Date.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Wataru Date and Natalie Kuruma, holy shit...]]
* UseYourHead: [[spoiler: A Sato in full [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective]] ActionGirlfriend mode does this to Fuemoto before telling him the truth about Date and Natalie.]]
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[[folder:People of the 'The partner is Santa-san' case]]
!!People of the 'The partner is Santa-san' case (Santa Ishikawa, Shigeko Ishikawa, Haruka [[spoiler: Ishikawa]], Minoru Moriwaki, Toshihiko Yamanaka, [[spoiler: Kurata]])
-->Santa Ishikawa is voiced by: Creator/RieKugimiya
-->Shigeko Ishikawa is voiced by: Creator/SayakaOhara
-->Minoru Moriwaki is voiced by: Creator/HiroShimono
-->Toshihiko Yamada is voiced by: Creator/YosukeAkimoto
A young widow named Shigeko Ishikawa goes to Kogoro because she's being followed around by an odd person who is becoming more and more aggressive in their pursuit. While Kogoro looks for Shigeko's stalker, Conan is stuck taking care of her child Santa, a really sweet but ''really'' hyperactive toddler who loves snooping around. [[spoiler: And turns out to be the key to solve the case.]]
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the case, the actual villain Kurata appears. And takes ''a two year old'' hostage, even threatening them with a knife, despite the baby's mother's tearful pleas. Thank God Conan manages to kick a ball at him and retrieve the baby safely.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Yamanaka is a basically good person who took a terrible decision out of despair, but repents as soon as Conan explains that Santa wanted to be his friend...]]
* BabysittingEpisode: Basically, Conan's part in this episode is looking after Santa. [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter It's much harder than it sounds.]]
* CheerfulChild: Awwww, Santa!
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Santa, and how. Who would say a toddler would be the key to unlock this case?]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler: Santa was trying to be genuinely friendly to Yamanaka, but he took it ''badly''.]]
* DisappearedDad: Santa's father/[[WidowWoman Shigeko's husband]] died the year before.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In one of the opening scenes, [[spoiler: Santa points at someone walking down the streets but Conan mistakenly thinks the baby's looking at the cars... not at Yamanaka.]] Also, [[spoiler: the way Santa hugs Ran hints at Santa being a girl not a boy. (Apparently some baby girls hug with their whole bodies, while baby boys tend to use their arms.)]]
* HostageSituation: Towards the end [[spoiler: not only Shigeko is captured by Yamanaka, but when he's about to have his HeelFaceTurn, his companion Kurata kidnaps Santa. Luckily Santa bit on his arm and was released, letting Conan use his superpowered shoes to kick a ball to Kurata's face.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Yamanaka realises that Santa was attempting to befriend him, he's horrified at his own behavior]]
* StaircaseTumble: Shigeko's stalker pushed her down a pedestrian bridge. Since she wasn't that high up there ''and'' fell over a soft bag she was carrying, she wasn't actualy hurt but was still very scared. Kogoro was walking by and went to help her, and that's when she decided to hire him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:'People' of the "Mushrooms, Bears and Detective Boys!" case]]
!!'People' of the "Mushrooms, Bears and Detective Boys!" case (Tomoya Negoro, Matasaburo Saika, Kiyoshi Yasaka, Jubei the bear, [[spoiler: the unnamed victim]]
Professor Agasa takes the Detective Boys in a mountain trip to get some ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsutake matsutake]]'' mushrooms, very famous for their delicious taste as well as ''super'' hard to find. The area as a whole, however, is divided in two fields: one for mushroom picking and another for hunting. Genta, and later Mitsuhiko and Ai, get lost in the hunting part... right when Jubei, a very ferocious bear, is lurking around and in a terrible mood. Three hunters tag along to help the group, and then they find the corpse of a fourth one. Which of the three is the killer?
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Saika never meant to shoot the Unnamed Hunter down, he was just trying to scare the others off and away from Jubei.]]
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Mitsuhiko shows traces of this, in regards to Conan.
* BearsAreBadNews: Jubei is very, VERY infamous for [[TomboyishName her]] bad temper, and everyone either fears her or wants to shoot her down. [[spoiler: Subverted: she's actualy very nice and she once saved Saika's life, but she's been on a constant and literal RoaringRampageOfRevenge after one of her two cubbies was ''murdered and used as a bait for her''. Saika made up tales about her beng a beast to keep the hunters away from her.]]
* EvenEvilhasStandards: [[spoiler: Negoro was gung-ho on hunting Jubei down, but he was as shocked as everyone else when he learned about the Unnamed Hunter's horrible trap for her.]]
* EyeScream: Jubei had an eye shot off her years ago. [[spoiler: She was tending to the injured Saika and trying to help him, but other hunters who had come to help him too thought she was about to eat him and then shot at her...]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ai and Mitsuhiko sorta play the role after they 'befriend' the ''adorable'' bear cubbie. [[spoiler: Saika plays it straighter, as he tried to return Jubei's kindness by protecting her (and later her cubs) through the years. He even dug a grave for the cubbie that was killed.]]
* LivingMacGuffin: The bear cub, sort-of.
* MacGuffin: The ''matsutake'' mushrooms that Agasa and the kiddos are looking for.
* MamaBear: Ai and Mitsuhiko find a bear cub in their path. Then their mother appears, and she's NOT pleased. [[spoiler: Because the cub's sibling was messily killed few ago.]] In fact, [[spoiler: Jubei ''immediately'' calms down, stops her rampage and goes away peacefully with her remaining cubbie when the kids release it and allow it to reunite with her.]]
* MistakenForMurderer: Sorta. [[spoiler: Conan believed that Saika was specifically aiming to kill Ai and Mitsuhiko because they knew too much about his intentions. He never had such intentions; he shot around because he wanted to scare them off... and ended up killing the other hunter ''also completely by accident''.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast: Jubei is nicknamed as such because she [[EyeScream lacks an eye]] and thus is compared to the famous UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei.
* OlderIsBetter: Saika is in his 60's and is the most experienced, wise of the three hunters. [[spoiler: And the SympatheticMurderer.]]
* ShoutOut: When Saika explains why Jubei the bear is called like that, the picture of UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei that appears on the background is clearly one of from Anime/{{Yaiba}}'s Jubei.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Poor, ''poor'' Jubei, who lost her cub horribly and snapped...]]
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[[folder:People from the Lupin III vs. Detective Conan TV special]]
!!People from the ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan'' TV special (Queen Sakura Aludia, Crown Prince Gill Cowell and Princess Mira Julietta Vespaland of Vespania; Count Keith Dan Stinger, Duke Gerard Musca Vespaland)
-->Queen Sakura Aludia Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/HirokoSuzuki
-->Prince Gill Cowell Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/JunFukuyama
-->Princess Mira Julietta Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/YuiHorie
-->Count Keith Dan Stiner is voiced by: Creator/HikaruMidorikawa
As its name says, this 2009 TV special is a crossover between ''Detective Conan'' and the legendary franchise, ''Franchise/LupinIII''. The Kingdom of Vespania has been thrown into turmoil after the deaths of its Queen and Crown Prince, and the crown is about to go to the Queen's youngest daughter Mira, a RebelliousPrincess [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating believed to be unfit to be the new sovereign]]. In an attempt to make her more popular, her advisor Count Keith arranges an official trip to Japan, and the paths of Princess Mira and her IdenticalStranger Ran Mouri end up crossing. Which ''also'' brings Conan into the fray, as not only he knows that his beloved Ran is playing the "princess" role for Mira, but he finds out that Lupin and his gang are planning a HUGE theft and they're hanging around Mira's entourage to get it done...
* {{Bowdlerize}}: For obvious reasons, this special has ''some'' less adult humor and FanService than it's usual in the ''Lupin III'' series.
* CherryBlossoms: One of these is vital to the plot, as it's underneath it that the royal MurderSuicide took place. [[spoiler: And later, Mira decides to take over when she's standing in front of it as well.]]
* CynicismCatalyst: Mira has both her mother and older brother as these.
* IdenticalStranger:
** Save for the hair/eye colors and their ethnicities, [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:Ran_and_Princess_Mira.jpg Ran and Mira]] look almost exactly alike. So Mira tries to make Ran her BodyDouble [[spoiler: and later Ran has to "continue" the charade for other reasons...]]
** Also, Prince Gill looked like Shinichi but as a blue-eyed blond. This isn't commented upon, probably because Gill is a PosthumousCharacter and to avert any... weird implications.
* MacGuffin: Two, actually!:
** The beautiful and unvaluable Crown of Vespania, which Lupin intends to steal. [[spoiler: In reality, he had stolen it already years ago, but returned it when the then recently crowned Sakura (who had a CelebCrush on Lupin) found out; then, he made her promise she'd be TheHighQueen from then on in exchange for returning it.]]
** Also [[spoiler: some really rare mineral ores that were found in Vespanian soil, which thanks to their "complete stealth powers" [[InvisibilityCloak may make things totally invisible to any radars.]] Queen Sakura really didn't want to use these ores inadequately (i.e., for warfare) and refused to exploit them, so her greedy brother Duke Gerard killed her to take a hold on them.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Queen Sakura and Prince Gill, who died few months before the special takes place.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Two of these [[spoiler: and probably three]]:
** Count Keith is the leader of the Parliament and holds an UndyingLoyalty to Sakura, so he does what he can to help Mira out. [[spoiler: Even if it involves pretty much kidnapping Ran to force her to stay as Mira's BodyDouble a little longer.]]
** Queen Sakura was one when she was alive, [[spoiler: so she [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished got murdered]] by Gerard for doing what she believed to be the right thing.]]
** [[spoiler: The new Queen Mira will probably turn out to be one as well, specially after all of these adventures.]]
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: ... There's ''no'' way Gill could have shot himself in the head with a hunting rifle and have just a tiny fatal wound.
* RoyalBrat: Princess Mira doesn't have a lot of respect for authority and can be pretty selfish and entitled. It's stated by Keith and [[spoiler: Fujiko]] that [[UsedToBeASweetKid she wasn't like that originally]], but became this [[BrokenBird out of the deep trauma she suffered]] [[OrphansOrdeal after losing her mother and brother]], rather than anything else. Therefore [[spoiler: Keith hired [[ActionGirl Fujiko]] as Mira's bodyguard so she'd be able to get out and unwind a little before deciding her future]]. [[spoiler: Mira ultimately decides that she ''will'' take over and reign over Vespania as well as she can.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Lupin and his gang figure out Conan's identity.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: It's believed that Gill [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed]] his mother Sakura during a hunt outing, then crossed the DespairEventHorizon and shot himself dead in grief. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Nope:]] [[EvilChancellor Duke]] [[TheEvilPrince Gerard]] killed his sister Sakura and then [[HeKnowsTooMuch "silenced" his nephew Gill]].]]
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: A fake sommelier poisons Mira's wine during a party, but Conan and then Kogoro (both guests at the party) stop him. This causes quite a mess and allows RebelliousPrincess Mira to sneak away, then meet [[IdenticalStranger Ran]]...]]
* ThouShallNotKill: [[spoiler: Queen Sakura was a FriendToAllLivingThings, therefore she had secretly converted the hunting cartridges into blanks during "hunting outings". This proves to be Duke Gerard's perdition, as it was impossible for Gill to shoot his mom and himself dead without someone switching the cartridges back...]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Princess Mira adores sushi.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tamanosuke Ito and his travelling drama troupe]]
!!Tamanosuke Itou and his travelling drama troupe (Tamanosuke and Megumi Itou, Ryuichi Muraki, Yuri Shirai, Itoe Ogiwara, Kenzou Tajima, Tetsuo Chikaishi)
-->Tamanosuke Itou is voiced by: Creator/SoichiroHoshi
-->Yuri Shirai is voiced by: Creator/SayakaOhara
-->Itoe Ogiwara is voiced by: Creator/KazueIkura
-->Ryuichi Muraki is voiced by: Creator/KenNarita
A NewTransferStudent in Ran and Sonoko's class, Tamanosuke Ito, is not only a TallDarkAndHandsome NiceGuy but the leader of a drama group that has been going through hard times after the death of his parents, the original leaders. The Detective Boys, Ran and Sonoko try to help him with his newest play, one about the legendary thief Edo Boy, by giving away flyers and checking on their well being. But two deaths happen all of a sudden, revealing some rather dark secrets within the group...
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Itoe fell in a trap intended for Tamanosuke.]]
* AngstComa: [[spoiler: Tamanosuke is injured and briefly falls into unconsciousness after Itoe's death. Kogoro and Conan believe the latter comes less from his injuries and more [[BreakThecutie from mental fatigue]].]]
* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Subverted. Tajima ''did'' suffer an injury on his back that kept him from doing his usual acrobatics, but at some point during the past year, the pain had gone away and that allowed him to both perform his thievery ''and'' his murders.]]
* CheerfulChild: D'aww, Megumi!
* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: The culprit staged a trap like this for Tamanosuke, using a hole in the stage that was supposed to be a part of the scenery [[ChekhovsGun and was the same one Ayumi almost fell into earlier in the case]]. [[AccidentalMurder Itoe fell in it instead]].]]
* DisguisedInDrag: As a child, Tamanosuke often played girl roles. [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/images/thumb/4/47/Episode_126_scene_4.jpg/180px-Episode_126_scene_4.jpg And looked adorable while at it.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: The first victim was found dead by ''a seven year old girl''.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Used ''twice'' by the killer of the case:
** First, [[spoiler: Chikaishi had realised that there was a thief in the troupe, who used the group to steal valious things all around Japan. He also identified the thief, Kenzou Tajima, and tried to blackmail him. Tajima got fed up and killed him, which ties into the second case...]]
** Later, it turns out that [[spoiler: Tamanosuke had also realised that Tajima was a thief, so he staged the whole "Edo Boy" play as a way to flush him out and convince him to turn himself in. After killing Chikaishi (and stealing his disk containing the script of the play), Tajima set his eye on Tamanosuke and tried to murder him as well...]]
* GetOut: Chikaishi is introduced by kicking Tamanosuke out of his inn room. [[KickTheDog Literally]].
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Chikaishi was a JerkAss and he smoked in a pipe.
* NewTransferStudent: Tamanosuke, specially highlighted by him wearing a [[SailorFuku gakuran]] in school instead of a blazer uniform.
* NiceGuy: Tamanosuke. Though [[FatalFlaw this also brings him trouble]], as he can't bring himself to fully call out Chikaishi when in his JerkAss moods, since he doesn't want the troupe to get into more troubles.
* PromotionToParent: 17-year-old Tamanosuke, towards his 7-year-old sister Megumi.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Chikaishi is really, ''really'' bitter...
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler: When the murderer tries to kill the knocked-out Tamanosuke in the hospital, under the disguise of a doctor, he's caught by the police and it turns out the "Tamanosuke" he attacked is a disguised mannequin. So he breaks the window and jumps off to escape.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler: Tajima breaks down in tears when Tamanosuke apologizes to him for insisting in the "Edo Boy" play and explains his reasons behind it.]]
* TroubledProduction: An InUniverse example, with the "Edo Boy" play that the group's getting ready. The script writer is a bitter JerkAss, the troupe leader is a sweetie but he's overwhelmed due to his lack of experience, [[spoiler: the treasurer [[FinancialAbuse had embezzled quite a sum of money]] ]], two troupe members die... Oh dear.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kyousuke Haga and the Shitara family]]
!!Kyousuke Haga and the Shitara family (Ayane, Chuuichirou, Genzaburou, Emi, Furuto, Hazuki, Danjirou and Chinami Shitara), Benio Tsumagami
-->Kyousuke Haga is voiced by: Creator/KoichiYamadera
The "Dissonance of the Stradivarius" case starts when the very rich Shutara clan is seemingly hit by a curse: every time the family's prized Stradivarius is used to play music, a family member has been hit with misfortune... and lately , these "misfortunes" have been fatal. The young heiress of the clan hires Kogoro to find an explanation and break the curse, and her musician uncle Kyousuke Haga is involved in the deals.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Shitaras have very, VERY dark family bonds.
* TheButlerDidIt: One of the suspects is the family butler and Kyousuke's ParentalSubstitute, Benio. [[spoiler: Nope, she didn't do it.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Kyousuke. It's thanks to him that Conan finds out about a VERY important clue towards Ano Kata, which he had been struggling to do at the start of the case.]]
* DestinationDefenestration: At least two family members [[spoiler: (the matriarch Ayane and her son Furito, aka Hazuki's DisappearedDad)]] died like this.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Kyosuke tried to do it by throwing himself off a window after being revealed as the killer. Conan had already told the firemen working in the mansion about it, so they stopped him.]]
* ElegantClassicalMusician: Two of these!
** Kyousuke is a violinist with TallDarkAndHandsome looks, [[UnkemptBeauty enhanced by]] his PermaStubble. [[spoiler: He's also the SympatheticMurderer.]]
** Hazuki, the girl who hired Kogoro, is very cute and plays the violin very well. She hires Kogoro because she's well aware that the Stradivarius will ''not'' go to her when its owner Chuuichirou dies, so she wants the "curse" to be broken so she can play it at least once in her life.
* IllGirl: Kyousuke's mother Chinami was already fatally ill around the time her husband died. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Nope]]: she was killed to cover up Danjirou's murder.]]
* MacGuffin: The supposedly "cursed" Stradivarius violin, cause of several deaths in the family.
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Genzaburou's death.]]
* NervousWreck: Ayane, the leader's wife, acts as if she was permanently in the verge of a mental meltdown ever since [[spoiler: her son aka Hazuki's father]] died, to the point of sometimes walking around the halls holding the Stadivarius to her chest and murmuring {{madness mantra}}s... [[spoiler: Then, she's one of the victims since she and others helped Chuuichirou cover up for his murder of Danjirou.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Benio worked for Kyosuke's dead parents rather than the clan as a whole, and while Kyousuke was raised by his maternal relatives (the Haga family), she helped raise him.
* StaircaseTumble: Two family members died like this: Kyousuke's father Danjirou [[spoiler: (thrown down the stairs by robbers who were after the Stradivarius, died some time later in the hospital)]] and his and Hazuki's aunt Emi (an accident). [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Again, nope]]: Danjirou was killed by Chuuichirou over the Stradivarius, and while Emi's death ''was'' a genuine accident, seeing her trip to her death despite being a skilled athlete is what gave Kyosuke the idea to kill the others.]]
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler: Conan and Kyosuke rescue Ayane from a burning building by doing this and landing on Kogoro's rented van.]] [[spoiler: (Of course, Ayane will die later.)]]
* ThemeNaming: The chapters involving this case are named "Prelude", "Capriccio", "Requiem"...
* WrongGenreSavvy: When it's theorised that Hazuki could be murdered very soon, she says "but this is not like a mystery novel". [[TemptingFate Oh, dear.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Morizono family and its associates]]
!!The Morizono family (Mikio, Yurie and Kikuhito Morizono, Kaede Katagiri, Yuji Sakuraba, Akio Shigematsu)
The rich family from the ''Night before the Wedding Murder Locked Room''. Heiji's mother Shizuka is a friend of them, but when their youngest son Kikuhito is about to marry a young lady named Kaede, she cannot go and asks Heiji and Kazuha to head to Tokyo in her name. After hanging out with Conan and the Mouris for a while, they go to the Morizono's beautiful mansion... but then everyone gets a terrible surprise when Akio Shigematsu, the butler of the family and the one who arranged the marriage itself, is found stabbed to death!
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* ArrangedMarriage: Kaede Katagiri and Kikuhito Morizono. Kikuhito seems to adore Kaede, but while she doesn't outright hate him, she seems to be a bit doubtful.[[spoiler: Because her TrueLove is Sakuraba.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: Inverted, the butler is '''the murder victim'''.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Kaede's blue pendant.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: [[spoiler: Sakuraba is believed to be one ''and'' to have killed Shigematsu as revenge for forcing Kaede and him to be apart, but the true CJG is Kikuhito. Enough to not just murder Shigematsu, but [[UriahGambit to frame Sakuraba to get him out of the way]].]]
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kaede possesses a very beautiful blue pendant. [[spoiler: Sakuraba has a matching one, and that reveals [[StarCrossedLovers their true connection]].]]
* {{Fainting}}: Kaede passes out when she sees Shigematsu's corpse. When she becomes one of the suspects, Heiji and Conan wonder if [[WoundedGazelleGambit she was faking it]. [[spoiler: Not only she ''wasn't'' pretending, but she's completely innocent.]]
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: 30 years ago there was a LoveTriangle between Mikio Morizono, Akio Shigematsu, and an unnamed girl who ultimately married Morizono, becoming the ([[MissingMom now dead]]) "lady" of the house. Now, Morizono's son Kikuhito and Shigematsu's protegé Sakuraba are in a love triangle with Kaede.]]
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* IShallTauntYou: [[spoiler: Kikuhito provokes Sakuraba into hitting him to make him look worse and more suspicious... and specially to break a window that has a hole he used to stage a false "locked room" mystery]]
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler: Kikuhito, Kaede and Sakuraba. In fact, one of Kikuhito's two reasons to kill Shigematsu and frame Sakuraba is [[CrazyJealousGuy his jealousy]] and the belief that Sakuraba is about to steal Kaede away. (He didn't know that they were in love well before she knew Kikuhito.)]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Shigematsu realized that he was about to condemn his adoptive son [[LoveHurts to the same unhappiness]] [[GenerationXerox he once went through]], he had this reaction and tried to convince Kikuhito to call off the wedding. And got stabbed to death for it.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Everything points out at Sakuraba. But he's not the culprit.]]
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Implied. [[spoiler: Heiji says that according to the servants, Kikuhito pressured Kaede's family and their bussiness to get more leverage.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Kaede and Sakuraba were in their way to become this, since they had to break up in order to have Kaede marry Kikuhito.]]
* UpperClassTwit: While Mikio and Yurie were decent people, Kikuhito was kiiiiind of a jerk and specially to Sakuraba. [[spoiler: Double because of his jealousy.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Kikuhito hates, HAAAAAATES heights. i.e, Shigematsu has to take Kaede on a sightsteeing tour before the wedding because she wants to go to the Tokyo Tower and Kikuhito utterly, completely refuses to go there. At some point Conan falls off a high tree but Kikuhito freezes up and can't help him, [[BigDamnHeroes so Sakuraba catches him]]. [[spoiler: He tries to stage his murder of Shigematsu in a way that will suggest someone ''without'' said phobia is the killer, but fails. Conan even manages the incident with the tree as evidence against him!.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Detectives' Koshien Case]]
!!People involved in the Detectives' Koshien Case (Natsuki Koshimizu, Junya Tokitsu, [[spoiler: Kana Mizoguchi]], [[spoiler: the unnamed socialite]], Hiroo Tsuchio and Renzo Koya)
On the heels of an investigation at a temple, Heiji brings Conan along for a televised event called the "Detectives Koshien" (Koshien meaning "Challenge"). Where four high-school detectives will be brought to mansion on an island to test their wits on a case. Other competitors included Saguru Hakuba, Natsuki Koshimizu, and Junya Tokitsu, with producer Hiroo Tsuchio and servant Renzo Koya on board for the production. Which also has a connection [[spoiler: from a previous case involving the death of a socialite.]] Kazuha has her suspicions of something wary going on at the island... [[spoiler: It turns out the show was a hoax, and a murder was involved.]]
More about Natsuki and Junya on the [[Characters/DetectiveConanOneSceneWonders One Scene Wonder page.]]
* BestServedCold: Ultimately what the murdered had resorted to. After [[spoiler:Junya's]] murder, [[spoiler: Natsuki]] intended to have [[spoiler: Hiroo, Renzo, and herself]] stranded on the island to starve to death for the events that happened two years ago.[[spoiler: Wanting to have Hiroo and Renzo dead for the former setting up the window trick while breaking in the mansion ''after'' the suicide, which fooled Junya to think it was a homicide. And the latter for not testifying for Kana out of fear of sullying the socialite's name.]] With Conan, Heiji and Saguru as collateral damage. Fortunately Kogoro, Ran and Kazuha's own investigation brought a rescue boat.
* BetrayalByInaction: [[spoiler: Natsuki considering Renzo not defending Kana when the police interrogated her to be this.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Socialite who took her life was thought of have hung herself. However a development changed it to a murder case. In reality, she ''did'' commit suicide in the midde of a nervous breakdown, but Renzo didn't say anything to protect her honor.]]
** [[spoiler: Natsuki's best friend Kana Mizoguchi]] took her own life due to the pressure of [[spoiler: being unfairly persecuted for the murder.]]
* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler: How Junya was murdered.]]
* GracefulLoser: After the murderer's plan to have everyone stranded failed, [[spoiler: Natsuki chose to turn herself in]]. Then said that [[spoiler: she would loved to do a real Koshien with the boys.]]
%% * UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects: [[spoiler: Crucial when it came to how three of the detectives were chosen. When Natsuki heard from Kana about a detective with an weird accent, she invited the three that were chosen to deduce who it could've been. Heiji has a [[KansaiRegionalAccent thick Osakan accent]]. Hakuba had been studying abroad, so he had been neglecting on his Japanese. Tokitsu instead used more antiquated pronouns when addressing to himself. Shinichi-Conan speaks a pretty thick Edo-ben, aka Shitamachi Tokyo accent.]]
* TheOphelia: [[spoiler: The Socialite ''really'' did kill herself from having a nervous breakdown. Renzo did not testify due to how Japanese society frown on the mentally-ill.]]
** [[spoiler: Kana was the one who filled an Ophelia's water theme, however, as she commit ed suicide by throwing herself off a cliff and into the sea.]]
* RedHerring: From a previous case. [[spoiler: The Window Trick that Junya discovered was really from an unrelated theft caused by Hiroo. A mistake that would cost everyone dearly.]]
* StartsWithASuicide: [[spoiler: The anime version of this case begins with Kana thinking of her terrible last days, before she throws herself into the sea and to her own death.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler: Renzo broke down remembering about the Socialite and her suicide, since he held her dear to him. Natsuki did the same in the anime while remembering Kana's suicide and explaining what happened.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Renzo truly cared for the Socialité. This led him to commit the huge mistake of not telling that she killed herself, afraid that the lady's name would be tarnished [[http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/new-documentary-explores-taboo-subject-of-mental-illness-in-japan in a society]] that treats the mentally ill '''really''' badly.]]
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[[folder:The Torada and Tatsuo families]]
!!People involved in the ''Fuurinkazan'' serial murder case (Naonobu Torada, Tatsue Torada, Shigetsugu Torada, Yoshiro Torada, Yui Torada, Tamefumi Tatsuo, Shigeyo Tatsuo, Akira Tatsuo, Ayaka Tatsuo, Koji Tatsuo, Kuroto Kai)
The feuding Torada and Tatsuo families respectively ask Kogoro and Heiji for help after each of their family members was killed under unusual circumstances, with centipede corpses beside their bodies being the only common theme. Both groups of detectives eventually meet and run into Kansuke Yamato, a police detective from Nagano prefecture who thinks the murders may be related to the death of a certain Kuroto Kai six years earlier. The following day, when Ayaka hears of Ran and Kazuha seeing the shadow of a UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen armor the previous night, she locks herself in the bathroom, only to go missing. The two families plus the protagonists and Yamato search for the missing woman, and the Nagano detective sees her hanged from a tree.
This case marked the debut of Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara, both officers (the latter being on her TenMinuteRetirement from the force at the time) from the Nagano Prefectural Police. More about the two on [[Characters/DetectiveConanPoliceOfficersOutsideOfTokyoAndOsaka Police Officers Outside of Tokyo and Osaka page.]]
* TenMinuteRetirement: Yui was in one from the Nagano police in this episode, though it turns out it was part of her investigation.
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: In Shigetsugu's notebook, he, Yoshiro, Koji, and Ayaka wrote that they set off fireworks only to injure Kuroto and put him out of contention as the village's representative for their festival. The horse apparently panicked and thus he was thrown off a cliff. This turns out to be a RedHerring, as fireworks weren't the reason the horse acted that way. Tatsue actually shot it and Kuroto was left to die at a shaded spot below the cliff, making him the first casualty of the ''Fuurinkazan'' serial murders and representing the ''in'' (shadow) part of ''Fuurinkazaninrai.'']]
* DeathByFallingOver: Subverted for Kuroto. While he does fall, it was starvation that did him in as he fell on a shaded portion under the cliff.
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: Ayaka's blue eye shadow points out to Tatsue's black horse which the latter rode to hang the former.]]
* FeudingFamilies: The Torada and Tatsuo families. Apparently, their feud has gone long enough that Shigeyo, the oldest member of either family, has no idea why they hated each other in the first place.
* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler: Tatsue planned to kill Akira and frame it as a murder-suicide on Yui.]]
* FreakOut: Ayaka has one when she hears that Ran and Kazuha saw the silhouette of the red UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen armor the previous night.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Yoshiro and Koji planned to go forward to the police as the former remembered that a gunshot was fired just before Kuroto died. They were killed (in the case of Yoshiro, left to die) for their troubles. Likely also the case for Shigetsugu and Ayaka, who were by the current timeline the surviving witnesses of Kai's murder.]]
* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler: Shigetsugu was electrocuted after he was lured into retrieving his notebook that was placed on an overhead line.]]
* HostileWeather: Yoshiro was killed by a tornado...[[LeftForDead well, mostly.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Kuroto and Akira are known to practically never miss in horseback archery. Hell, the former did not even miss for ''ten'' straight years, at least until his final stint at the festival. Akira hadn't missed for ''five.'' [[spoiler: This is also the reason for Kuroto's murder and the attempt on Akira's life; nobody would place a bet because of their ridiculous skills and this posed a threat on Tatsue's gambling business.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Tatsue thinks the tornado killing Yoshiro was this for [[HeKnowsTooMuch suspecting foul play was involved]] in Kuroto's death.]]
* LeftForDead: A centipede corpse was placed near Yoshiro's body, and the fresh blood at the time indicated he was still alive when it was placed.
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Shigetsugu. Since he was electrocuted and burned, everyone initially assumed he represented "fire" in ''Fuurinkazan.'' This turns out to be ''another'' RedHerring as his death actually stood for ''rai'' (lightning); Akira was supposed to stand for ''ka'' (fire) until Conan, Heiji, Yui, and Yamato thwarted Tatsue's attempt on his life.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Koji took up the Tatsuo surname when he married into the family. Curiously enough, his wife was never mentioned in any of the two episodes.
* PastExperienceNightmare: Yoshiro having these and muttering about [[spoiler: "the sound, the flash..." led Yui to conclude that there was a fifth person involved in Kuroto's death.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Kuroto was a beloved figure in his hometown; when he went missing, the entire village searched for him 24/7 over the course of a week until Yui found his emaciated body.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Tatsue committed the five murders and attempted a sixth (Akira); while the murders were indeed based on the ''Fuurinkazan'' battle standard, the term was incomplete and she mentions that it's actually ''Fuurinkazaninrai,'' which includes the phrases "Be as hard to know as the shadow" and "Move as fast as lightning." Those omitted portions stood for the murders of Kuroto and Shigetsugu (the latter initially thought to represent "fire" and was also thought to be suicide at first). The reason she committed the murders was that Kai's ImprobableAimingSkills threatened her gambling business which was centered on the horseback archery in the annual festival. The other four were murdered since they witnessed Kuroto's death, and likely [[HeKnowsTooMuch saw too much.]]]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Kuroto appears to have shipped Yui and Kansuke when he was still alive.
* ShoutOut: The murders were themed on ''Fuurinkazan'', a battle standard used by UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen during the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod which was in turn based on Passages 17 to [[spoiler: 19]] of the seventh chapter of Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu.
* TreasureHunter: Shigetsugu, Akira, Yoshiro, Ayaka, and Koji were said to have looked for UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen's legendary lost treasure. [[spoiler: Downplayed for Shigetsugu and Ayaka, who did not react to the presence of centipede corpses beside the bodies of the other two.]]
* WickedStepmother: [[spoiler: Tatsue caused her stepson Shigetsugu's death by electrocution in addition to murdering her biological son Yoshiro and three others.]]
* WidowWoman: Yui's husband was left for dead after falling victim to a tornado.
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[[folder:People from the Red Woman Case]]
!!People involved in the Red Woman case (Tamami Minegishi, Sumika Kawana, Masaie Hakuya, Jinsuke Ninda, Satoko Imoto, Komayo Takeno, [[spoiler: Komayo's unnamed husband]], Shinobu Kagawa)
--> Tamami Minegishi is voiced by: Creator/KazueIkura
--> Sumika Kawana is voiced by: Megumi Tano
--> Masaie Hakuya is voiced by: Creator/YusukeNumata
--> Jinsuke Ninda is voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura
--> Shinobu Kagawa is voiced by: Kaoru Sasajima
In a case also notorious for its NightmareFuel, Masumi is invited by her then-unknown middle brother's high school friends to investigate strange phenomena in a villa, in which she tags along Conan, Ran, and Sonoko. When the latter two mention that they spotted a red woman lurking in the forest, Tamami, Sumika, Masaie, and Jinsuke all express shock and tell the story of a murder case involving the Red Woman from 15 years ago and the disappearance and eventual death of their friend Satoko three years later. When Sumika finds the bathtub filled with tomatoes, Conan and Masumi rush to investigate and pull out Masaie's lifeless body from the sea of fruits.
This case marks the first appearance of the unknown girl living with Masumi Sera, albeit as a screensaver in the latter's phone.
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Satoko likely drowned in the bog by accident after Shinobu chased her, thinking she was the Red Woman. The original Red Woman's (Komayo) body wouldn't be found until after Satoko's death, hence why Shinobu thought the Red Woman was still on the loose.]]
* AxCrazy: The impression most of the cast have of the Red Woman is this.
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: The reason the Red Woman got her name is that she spilled so much blood from her husband that her dress turned red.
* DeadAllAlong: The original Red Woman had been dead for 15 years; Nagano police just couldn't confirm it until they found [[spoiler: Komayo's]] umbilical cord hidden by her recently-deceased mother. Another reason the police took that long to ascertain the Red Woman's identity was [[spoiler: they've received reports of break-ins at nearby rental villas and the occasional forest sighting over the past ten years, which were both caused by Shinobu.]] Prior to the identification of the skeleton, Koumei was the leading proponent of this theory, whereas Yamato thought the Red Woman was still alive.
* DeadlyPrank: Satoko was dressed as the Red Woman for a prank. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, someone had been gunning for revenge against the Red Woman and Satoko was accidentally killed for it. When Sumika finally got confirmation from Masaie that he was Satoko's accomplice in the prank and that the two couldn't find each other, she killed him.]]
* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: Shinobu]] thought Satoko was the Red Woman as the latter was dressed as her, not knowing the original had already been dead by then.
* TheMistress: [[spoiler: Shinobu was this to Komayo's husband.]]
* MysteriousWatcher:
** The episodes often jump to [[spoiler: Shinobu]] watching over the cast.
** The Red Woman in the intro [[spoiler: however, was Sumika, who knew who Masumi was when the others [[LadyLooksLikeADude had questions about her gender]].]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Shinobu]] had been looking for her lover's murderer, the Red Woman, for the past 15 years and has shown that she will attack anyone who does so much as resemble the Red Woman. [[spoiler: She attacks Sumika later on because she saw her dress as the Red Woman who was observing Masumi, Ran, Conan, and Sonoko in the beginning of the case.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** The Red Woman is occasionally depicted with one.
** [[spoiler: Shinobu displays this when she attempts to murder Sumika for the second time.]]
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler: Komayo Takeno]] aka the Red Woman [[ADeadlyAffair killed her husband for his infidelity]]. She got pissed off enough that she also attacked the police officer who responded on the scene.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Subverted - Yui thinks Sumika slashed her own back, but Conan notes that it is physically impossible for her to give herself a clean horizontal slash.
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[[folder:People of the Kawanakajima Murder Case]]
!!People involved in the Kawanakajima serial murders (Mamoru Saegusa, Shinsuke Akiyama, Shouji Kano, Shigeru Takeda, [[Characters/DetectiveConanPoliceOfficersOutsideOfTokyoAndOsaka Hyoue Kuroda]], [[spoiler: Tsuyako Aburakawa]])
--> Mamoru Saegusa is voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa
--> Shinsuke Akiyama is voiced by: Kousuke Okano
--> Shouji Kano is voiced by: Kiyonobu Suzuki
--> Shigeru Takeda is voiced by: Shin Goto
--> Hyoue Kuroda is voiced by: Yukimasa Kishino
After the Kamaitachi case was closed, Kogoro declines to join Yamamura, Heiji, and Kazuha, as he, driven by interest on a TV drama [[IdolSinger Yoko Okino]] starred in, takes Ran and Conan to a visit to the Old Battlefield of Kawanakajima. As he and Ran try to remember the strategy Kansuke Yamamoto used in the fourth battle, the Nagano trio arrives, also ostensibly taking a detour to the site. Their fellow officers Mamoru Saegusa, Shinsuke Akiyama, and Shouji Kano, arrive not much later, and the rest of the cast learn that their squad leader Shigeru Takeda is yet to show up. As Yui tours everyone around the battlefield, Yamato spots a floating head on a nearby river, and it turns out to be Takeda's...
* AppleOfDiscord: The killer [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this between Yamato and Morofushi for the purpose of [[spoiler: framing the former for the murders. It turns out the two made it seem like they are arguing to trick Akiyama into thinking his plan had a chance of working.]]
* BatmanGambit:
** The scenario described in [[spoiler: HeKnowsTooMuch below?]] Yes, the culprit deliberately let him know the truth so he could kill him.
** [[spoiler: Kuroda and Morofushi seriously treating Yamato as the prime suspect]] was meant to lower the culprit's guard and draw him out.
* CallingCard: The "X" mark on the victims' foreheads which resemble woodpecker claws, representing [[spoiler: the Woodpecker Society, a group of [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]] referenced by Yoshiro Torada. Additionally, it's also a reference to the actual ThemeNaming behind the members' names - X being the 24th letter of the alphabet and there being [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Four_Generals_of_Takeda_Shingen 24 prominent generals who served under Takeda Shingen.]] Furthermore, it is where Akiyama's sister was shot.]]
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: The Woodpecker Society/X sold the weapons they confiscated, and Akiyama discovered that the gun used to kill his sister was sold by the group.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Akiyama faked a decapitation using Takeda's headless body and a fake head from his family's salon. He did this to further pin suspicion on Yamato, who set off on his own and was already the prime suspect by that point.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kano discovers who the culprit was and his motive. He gets strangled for his troubles.
* ItsPersonal: The case for Yamato, as the person Takeda shot and killed nine years ago was his childhood friend.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Shouji Kano took up his current surname when he got married; it was originally Tsuchiya.
* OffWithHisHead:
** 12 pages in the manga and we are treated to a rather [[SarcasmMode lovely]] sequence of Shigeru's head floating in the river. Downplayed in the anime version, where it was less graphic.
** [[spoiler: Akiyama gets this fate as his neck was tied to a moving car that fell off a cliff. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] - see FakingTheDead above.]]
* ShedTheFamilyName: Aburakawa was Shinsuke's original surname, then he took in Akiyama (his mother's maiden name) as his last name after his parents divorced.
* ShipperOnDeck: Mamoru accuses Yamato of going on a date with Yui while on-duty.
* SlashedThroat: Takeda was killed this way in the beginning.
* ThemeNaming: Outside of Kuroda, Uehara, and Morofushi, the police officers' names contain some reference to the generals killed in action during the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima. [[spoiler: That specific theme is a RedHerring, as their names are more appropriately themed after the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: One of the more technically complex examples, as Akiyama faked a ''decapitation.'']]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Akiyama's sister]] was killed by a stray bullet when Yamato's drug-addled childhood friend ran amok.
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[[folder:People from the Valentine Murder Case]]
!!People from the Valentine Murder case (Katsuhiko Minagawa, Mrs. Minagawa, Susumu Minagawa, Yoshimi Watanabe, Kaori Sekiya, Naomichi, Toshihide Wakamatsu)
->Katsuhiko voiced by: Creator/RyoHorikawa\\
Toshihide voiced by: Creator/NobuoTobita\\
Yoshimi voiced by: Creator/SakikoTamagawa\\
Mrs. Minagawa voiced by: Creator/ChiyokoKawashima
The filler case in which Sonoko was introduced in the anime (In the manga, she only appeared in the original rendition of the Mountain Villa Case.) as well as first case where Conan used his wristwatch stungun (introduced in the Hatamoto family case in the manga). Sonoko has Ran and Conan tagging along as she visits the BigFancyHouse of a tennis player named Katsuhiko Minagawa, who's having a small meeting with his family and friends... and all of a sudden, Katsuhiko drops dead in the backyard. It's up to Conan to solve this case, as a girl named Yoshimi is being accused of the murder but he has the feeling that something else is going on and she's just a scapegoat.
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* FinancialAbuse: [[spoiler:The reason for Katsuhiko's murder. He's actually the nephew of the Minagawas who was taken in after his parents' deaths; the family is now about to go bankrupt, so Mrs. Minagawa poisons him to have access to his large inheritance and save the family business.]]
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Katsuhiko is a jerk and he smokes. [[spoiler: Since Naomichi had poisoned his cigarette filters and Katsuhiko cut them off, he barely dodged death. Of course he died later due to the time-delayed poison he had ingested.]]
* LoveDodecahedron: Katsuhiko likes Yoshimi. Yoshimi might like him back. Kaori likes Katsuhiko. Naomichi likes Yoshimi. Toshihide goes after Ran but she doesn't like him, obviously.
* MommyIssues: [[spoiler: Katsuhiko likes Yoshimi because she looks like his dead biological mother.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:The murderer? ''Katsuhiko's mother''. Or better said, [[ParentalSubstitute his aunt and stepmother]].]]
* OutDamnedSpot: Subverted. [[spoiler: Mrs. Minagawa is still seen doing the dishes after the murder, which tips Conan off. She's actually trying to wash poison off the cups/dishes so she won't be blamed, but Conan (through Kogoro) says it'll still remain there.]]
* RealMenHateSugar: Katsuhiko says he really hates chocolate, though he accepts Yoshimi's choco anyway. [[spoiler: Which his mom uses to kill him: she puts poison in the coffee and the antidote in the cake, clearly knowing her adoptive son would NOT eat the cake. And she even replaced Yoshimi's choco with a poisoned one to get her involved.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Naomichi. At first, it looks like Naomichi is the one who murdered Katsuhiko, and he even confesses. But as it turns out, while Naomichi ''did'' try to kill Katsuhiko, his murder plan didn't work because Katsuhiko didn't use the cigarette filters that Naomichi poisoned. The murder plan that killed Katushiko was someone else's.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kaori is a shorthaired tomboy in a denim jacket and Jeans. Yoshimi is a motherly-looking girly girl in office lady-like clothes.
* UpperClassTwit: Katsuhiko. He still didn't deserve to die [[spoiler: and specially not for the money he inherited from his dead parents.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Tsujimura clan]]
!!The Tsujimura clan (Toshimitsu, Isao, Takayoshi and Kimie Tsujimura, Yukiko Katsuragi, [[spoiler: Kenji Yamashiro]])
The BigScrewedUpFamily that shows up in the case that was Heiji Hattori's first appearance, i.e. ''The Diplomat Murder Case''. Heiji comes to Tokyo to challenge Shinichi Kudo, and the "stage" is the murder of the diplomat Isao Tsujimura. Who killed him: [[OffingTheOffspring his father Toshimitsu]], [[SelfMadeOrphan his son Takayoshi]], his second wife Kimie, or Takayoshi's girlfriend Yukiko?
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Isao.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Toshimitsu aided Isao with his UriahGambit, so when Isao was killed he tried to take the heat as punishment.]]
* BigFancyHouse: The Tsujimuras are fabulously wealthy, and their home is ''massive''. The crime scene itself is Isao's office at home, a ''really'' nice and huge studio with dozens of books.
* BreakTheCutie: Poor, ''poor'' Takayoshi and Yukiko. [[spoiler: And in the backstory, ''poor'' Kimie.]]
* ComfortingTheWidow: [[spoiler:The reason for Isao's UriahGambit. Massively backfires with time... when Kimie poisons him.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Kimie was on the fence after Yamashiro was jailed and his family took Yukiko away.]]
* FlirtyStepsiblings: [[spoiler:Yukiko and Takayoshi... and they didn't know it!]]
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Kimie treats Yukiko harshly [[spoiler: to hide their real bond.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Kimie's weapon to murder Isao was a poisoned needle that [[HiddenWeapons she kept hidden]] in her keychain's locket. She first drugged him to make him fall asleep, then she discreetly prickled him behind the ear when nobody was looking.]]
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Or better said, "Yukiko, I am your long-lost mother who couldn't raise you and had to give you away to your paternal family".]]
* ParentalMarriageVeto:
** Isao has a FreakOut and imposes this on Takayoshi when he sees the photo of the girl he fancies, [[spoiler: which gives Kimie the first clues about what he did to Yamashiro.]]
** Kimie herself visits Kogoro's office to get Conan and Co. to their mansion, ostensibly to ask Kogoro to get {{subtext}}s for one. Heiji theorizes this is because Kimie believes that the kind, sweet, smart, etc. Yukiko is simply just ''too'' good to be true and might actually be a mix of GoldDigger and BitchInSheepsClothing. [[FromBadToWorse And then...]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler:Oh, Yamashiro.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler:Yukiko looks like a younger, light-haired Kimie.]]
* TakingTheHeat: When Heiji claims that [[spoiler:Toshimitsu]] is probably the killer, said character confesses ''despite not being the culprit''. Their real intention is to invoke the trope, because [[spoiler:the old man had helped his son Isao with his UriahGambit, so he wanted to atone.]]
* TheUriahGambit: [[spoiler:20 years ago, Isao fancied Kimie. Kimie was HappilyMarried to Isao's acquintance Yamashiro. What did Isao do? Use him as a scapegoat in a fraud (with help of Toshimitsu), wait until he died in prison, and then go ComfortingTheWidow on Kimie!]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Harumi Matsuzaki, Kiwako Todou, Kunio Kawazu, Hiroshi Itou and Masahiko Matsuzaki]]
!!Harumi Matsuzaki, Kiwako Todou, Kunio Kawazu, Hiroshi Itou and Masahiko Matsuzaki
Ran still wants [[TheMasochismTango Eri and Kogoro]] to get back together, so she stages a small vacation to the beach. They befriend a group of scuba divers... but tragedy falls over them when one of the girls, Kiwako, almost drowns. And for worse, it's ''not'' an accident, but the doing of one of her friends.
--> Kiwako is voiced by: Creator/KikukoInoue
--> Harumi is voiced by: Creator/YukoMinaguchi
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Harumi regrets what she has done, ''very'' much. She also breaks down crying TearsOfRemorse when exposed.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Masahiko and Kiwako.
* DistressedDamsel: Poor Kiwako...
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Harumi was in love with her stepbrother Masahiko and lost it when he decided to marry Kiwako.]]
* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler:Harumi and Masahiko.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Kiwako decides to keep Harumi's reasons to herself, as a part of her forgiveness for Harumi.]]
* SuperDrowningSkills: Masahiko really can't swim.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: ''Horribly'' played with. [[spoiler: Knowing that Masahiko can't swim, Kiwako pretended to drown while trying to prove how much he loved her, recruiting Harumi for the prank without knowing her feelings. Harumi, already upset since Kiwako was marrying the guy she liked, lost it and tried poisoning Kiwako with a snake she caught.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: ... Well, Kiwako ''is'' voiced by Creator/KikukoInoue. She ''does'' show a cattier side in the beginning, but [[spoiler: her decision to forgive Harumi ''and'' not tell Masahiko about her secret love for him]] is very much YN behavior.
** Not only that: [[spoiler: she let everyone except Conan, Eri, Kogoro and Ran believe that it was an accident. Thanks to her, Harumi averted going to jail for trying to kill her.]] It takes a very, ''very'' forgiving and kind person to do such things.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mina and Masayo Aoshima]]
!!Mina and Masayo Aoshima
Once, Kogoro losed a ticket for a Yoko Okino concert he wanted to go to. He bumped into a girl named Masayo Aoshima, who also was a Yoko fan and had a spare ticket. They went to the house Masayo shared with her younger sister Mina... but they find out she's killed herself. However, Conan is suspicious and thinks Masayo knows more than she lets them see.
-->Masayo is voiced by: Creator/AyaHisakawa
-->Mina is voiced by: Creator/YukariTamura
* BathSuicide: It seems like Mina took her own life in the bathroom.
* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: With Mina as the Abel and Masayo as the Cain.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Masayo's "Yoko" headband. The accent over the first "o" is covered with a bit of Mina's blood.]]
* CoolBigSis: Mina adored her sister Masayo and imitated her in pretty much everything. [[spoiler: She only succeeded in pushing Masayo away, and then Masayo get so creeped out ''and'' fed up that she killed Mina.]])
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry. Mina was the beautiful sister, Masayo was the smart one. [[spoiler: Taken to their worst extreme in the end.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Had Mina not joked around with how she fell for Masayo's ex-boyfriend Kenji, Masayo wouldn't have snapped on her as badly as she did.]]
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Mina was the flirty girly girl, Masayo was the shorthaired and kinda tomboyish OfficeLady.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Hatamoto Family]]
!!The Hatamoto Family (Gozo, Kitaro, Mariko, Jouji, Akie, Tetsuo, Ichiro and Natsue Hatamoto. Also, Takeshi Hatamoto nee Zaiki and Kenji Suzuki).
The people involved in a rather notorious case from the first season. After having lost their ferry, Conan and the Mouris are "picked up" by the rich Hatamoto clan and board into their yacht. However, they start witnessing the ''extremely'' dark family dynamics as well as the JerkAss behavior from the leader, Gozo Hatamoto... who is bloodily murdered. And that's just the beginning!
-->Ichiro is voiced by: Creator/AkiraIshida
-->Takashi is voiced by: Creator/ShigeruNakahara
* AbsoluteCleavage: Akie, one of the very few charas to sport this.
* AbusiveParents: More exactly, abusive grandfather and father-in-law. Gozo was an HORRIBLE JerkAss to everyone except to Natsue, and his preferred victims were Kitaro and Ichiro.
* AssholeVictim: Gozo. [[spoiler: Tatsuo.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: And holy shit, HOW.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Kitaro and Mariko. See also KissingCousins.]]
* DaddysGirl: Natsue was a Grandpa's Girl. [[spoiler: Who becomes the UnexpectedSuccessor.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Had Gozou neither gone overboard in his mistreatment of Ichiro ''nor'' mocked his love for Natsue...]]
* GoldDigger:
** Akie's husband Tatsuo, who married her in hopes of inheriting money since she was one of the possible heirs. [[KickTheDog He even says so openly, and in front of Akie herself]] - much to Akie's shock, since she actually loved him and wasn't aware of this "detail". [[spoiler: She wasn't: the wealth went to her little sister Natsue. Then again it didn't matter: he got killed off.]]
** Takeshi is accused by Gozo of being this, since [[spoiler: his parents had a company that was destroyed by Gozo Hatamoto's. Takeshi's case is more of BecomingTheMask and LoveRedeems: he ''did'' at first approach Natsue to see what kind of person she was and get back to the Hatamotos, but he came to truly like her as well.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason why [[spoiler: Tatsuo]] died. [[spoiler: He saw Ichiro trying to drop the killing weapon in the sea and got a face full of metal pipe for his trouble.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: Mariko is an AlmightyMom, so Kitaro obviously is this. [[HappilyMarried They do care for each other]], though.
* IrrationalHate: According to Yasue, Gozo hated detectives to the core because he thought that detectives have nothing better to do than sneaking around looking for other people's flaws. Gozo's hatred toward detectives was so irrational that he prohibited every member of Hatamoto family from reading detective novels or watching detective TV shows.
* TheJeeves: Suzuki.
* KickTheDog: Gozo's psychological and emotional abuse of his son-in-law Kitaro and grandson Ichiro.
* KissingCousins: A huge plot point. [[spoiler: Kitaro and Mariko were both this ''and'' in a ChildhoodFriendRomance, but had to [[ParentalMarriageVeto beg Gozo to let them marry]]. And 25 years later, their son Ichiro fell in love with Natsue... and Gozo not only denied him the chance to ask her out, but cruelly mocked him.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: The husbands of Akie and Natsue, Tatsuo and Takeshi, were middle-class men who married into the Hatamoto family and thus took up their surname.
* MyBelovedSmother: Mariko has traces of this.
* TheOjou: Akie and Natsue. Akie is the RichBitch type, Natsue is the NiceGirl type.
* OneeSama: Natsue, being a very polite YamatoNadeshiko-like {{Ojou}}, addresses Akie as this.
* PetTheDog: Gozo truly cared for his youngest granddaughter Natsue.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Takeshi was apparently set as the villain of this case. He wasn't.]]
* RichBitch: Both Akie and Tatsuo.
* ShrinkingViolet: Ichiro. [[spoiler: But when a ShrinkingViolet snaps... '''[[BewareTheNiceOnes snap he does'''.]] ]]
* SupremeChef: Jouji, who works as a popular French chef and shows off his collection of rare professional knives. [[spoiler: Ichiro gets to give a... good use to two of them. ]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Ichiro got to the point of stabbing himself in the leg to try throwing off suspicions. It actually got Conan to suspect him ''more''.]]
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[[folder:Kogoro Mouri's college friends ]]
!!Kogoro Mouri's college friends (Kazushi Nakanishi, Yumi Horikoshi, Noriko Ayashiro née Kimoto, Yukio Ayashiro, Jun Oomura)
Another famous case from the first season. Every five years Kogoro Mouri reunites himself in a hot spring site with his best friends from college, the members of the judo club he used to belong to. This year, Ran and Conan manage to join in - and just in time, as former CuteSportsClubManager and current OfficeLady Yumi Horikoshi apparently finishes her own life via PrettyLittleHeadshots. But to Conan and Kogoro, this is ''not'' suicide.
* ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler: Kazushi accepted an ''omiai'' (arranged date) with the daughter of his boss, they hit it off and were about to get married. Yumi was not happy ''at all''.]]
* BaldOfAwesome: Kazushi is fully bald, as well as a strong judo practitioner and a competent policeman. [[spoiler: Subverted when he's revealed to be the killer ''and'' when Kogoro captures him.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: What Yumi was doing to Kazushi, threatening to send some risque and old photos of themselves to his new girlfriend ''after years of blowing off his marriage proposals''.]]
* ChristmasCake: Yumi, despite her beauty, was unmarried at age 34. She wasn't too happy about it.
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler: Yumi was shot in the head when she was on her feet. There are analogies to Benkei's legendary death that Conan catches on and then relays to Kogoro in his own way.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: People think at first that Yumi killed herself. This isn't helped by how she ''did'' express the wish to finish herself off since she's been depressed and in danger of losing her job in the middle of the economic crisis.
* GeniusBruiser: Kazushi is very big and very bright.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Yumi, referred to as "the Madonna" of the group.
* HotSpringsEpisode: And ''very'' infamous for how Conan plays the role of AccidentalPervert at the beginning.
* HotTeacher: Yukio is pretty good looking and works as a schoolteacher.
* {{Meganekko}}: Noriko is in her late 30's and still looks ''very'' {{Moe}}.
* OfficeLady: Yumi.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Yukio and Noriko, though this is understandable since they ''just'' got married and the trip might be doubling as their honeymoon.
* TrueCompanions: Kogoro's. Which is why he's so incredibly ''pissed'' at Yumi's death. [[spoiler: Double when he realizes that not only she was killed, ''but that one of his friends is the murderer''. Cue ItsPersonal mode and then Kogoro's response.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Yumi. [[spoiler: Rather darkly used in the end: she refused Kazushi's marriage proposals... until he decided to marry somebody else. WomanScorned mode = ON.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Akiko Yonehara and others]]
!!Akiko Yonehara and others (Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, Sugiyama-sensei, Atsushi Mori, [[spoiler: Minako Mochizuki]])
From the Ski Lodge case. Sonoko takes Ran and Conan to a ski trip and they run into their old school teacher Akiko Yonehara and her co-workers, who are there at vacation. They stay at the same lodge alongside a snarky reporter named Atsushi Mori, who notes that the villa was murder's crime scene some time ago. And then another teacher, Sugiyama, is killed...
* BreakTheCutie: This case was ''very'' hard on [[spoiler: poor Ran.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Yonehara, for Sonoko and ''specially'' Ran. Also in the backstory: Shimoda and Sugiyama, for little Minako.]]
* ChristmasCake: Nakamura teases Yonehara about being this:
-->'''Nakamura''': It's the last strand of hope for a woman in her 30's who missed her prime marriage age, right?
* DistressBall: Poor Sonoko, [[spoiler: drugged and then strangled into unconsciousness by Yonehara as a part of her WoundedGazelleGambit.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: It was believed that Minako hung herself because she was horrifyingly stressed due to upcoming junior high admission exams. (Unfortunately, this is sorta TruthInTelevision: it's a known fact that many Japanese students of all ages have commited suicide upon failing important tests.) This was NOT true: [[WouldHurtAGirl she was killed]].]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: The reason for Minako's murder. She found out that Shimoda and Sugiyama were involved in a fraud, and in her HeroicBSOD state she confronted them...]]
* HotTeacher: Yonehara and Nakamura
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Yonehara's long hair wasn't for real; she had gotten it cut recently, but the stylist cut it too short for her liking so she put on a wig to hide this. And then she came up with the idea of using said wig ''to strangle Shimoda and Sugiyama to death'' without using a rope: as she was carrying her "weapon" on her, no one would find it... Too bad Conan saw some wig strands around and suspected her.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Minako-chan, noooooooooo!]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Moori.
* NightmareFetishist: Moori is a ''little'' too happy when he tells the bloody story of the place...
* PsychologicalHorror: Invoked by the killer, who writes in lipstick some ''kana'' symbols that when put together, read: [[spoiler: "Minako".]] This [[spoiler: sends Shimoda into a VillainousBSOD, and lets Yonehara (the killer) identify him as Minako's other murderer.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Shimoda and Sugiyama strangled a pre-teen girl to death, then made it look like she had hung herself.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Yonehara knocks Sonoko out via both drugging and strangling, then lays on the floor to make it look like she was attacked too. The body that Sonoko saw right before that? It was Sugiyama's corpse, his face covered by Yonehara's wig.]]
* YouthfulFreckles: [[spoiler: Minako]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Dracula's Villa case]]
!!People from the Torakura estate (Daisuke Torakura, Etsuko Torakura, Toshiya Tadokoro, Shuichi Hamura, Fumio Doi, [[spoiler:Kaori Tadokoro]])
-->Hamura is voiced by: Creator/ShowHayami
-->Etsuko is voiced by: Yorie Terauchi
-->Tadakoro is voiced by: Creator/KojiYusa
In a {{filler}} case, Kogoro, Conan and Ran were invited by a famous and ''very'' eccentric mystery novelist named Daisuke Torakura (a former romance novelist who switched genres) to his estate, to have some talks about his next novel and to have Kogoro checking on his wife Etsuko, whom Torakura believes she's cheating on him. Then a snowstorm hits and as Conan and Ran takes a tour around the Torakura estate, the clock suddenly strikes midnight... and Torakura was locked into his studio. When everyone in the house gathered and managed to break in, they found him dead... and tied up to a cross, with a stake through his heart. But the study's door is locked and there's no footprints in the snow, so are vampires real or does someone in the state killed him and used the legend of the vampires to hide their leads? And who did that: Etsuko, the chauffeur and researcher Shuichi Hamada, Torakura's disciple and ghost writer Toshiya Todakoro, or his editor Fumio Doi?
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Torakura. Almost everyone has reasons to want him dead since he shat on them all BIG TIME.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler:Torakura.]]
* IllGirl: Todakuro's younger sister Kaori, ill from kidney failure ever since she was little. Her brother works as Torakura's ghost writer to have her hospital bills covered. [[spoiler:The truth is ''far'' uglier: see MovingTheGoalposts.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Poor, poor Kaori...]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Todakoro]] kills Torakura because Torakura caused the death of his sister while she was ill.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: Torakura married Etsuko who was 20 years younger than him, [[spoiler:through a cruel ScarpiaUltimatum.]]
* MovingTheGoalposts: [[spoiler:It turns out [[PosthumousCharacter Kaori died a year earlier]] because Torakura ''bribed her doctor into keeping her on ''painkillers only'' instead of paying for '''crucial''' and expensive treatment abroad (as per his end of the bargain)'', so Todakuro would spend his time indefinitely as his subordinate, which ultimately killed her. Then, he maintained the lie via keeping Todakuro locked in his countryside villa, telling him that Kaori (supposed to be in an American hospital) was still in recovery. And when the poor guy found out from the guilt-ridden nurse who used to tend to her, he went nuts with pain and murdered Torakura.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Although there aren't any real vampires in the series, Torakura dresses up as one to keep up the theme of his profession and he collects vampire-themed memorabilia in his spare time. [[spoiler:And he was killed by a stake through his heart in a simliar way as some vampires do.]]
** This is lampshaded by Conan at the end of the episode in his thoughts: [[spoiler:"When a vampire sucks someone's blood out, they also become vampires." In other words, Todakuro figuratively became a vampire himself by becoming a murderer.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Hamura. His reasons seems to be an enough motive to kill Torakura, but turns out that he wasn't the killer.]]
* ScarpiaUltimatum: [[spoiler:How Torakura married Etsuko, threatening to ruin her father's business and throw the family into destitution. What's more, she ''never'' loved him and she was in love with Hamura, but was forced to marry him in order to save the family's business.]]
* UglyGuyHotWife: Torakura and Etsuko. Torakura isn't really that ''ugly'' and he doesn't look exceptionally old (he's as much in his 50's), but Etsuko is ''really'' attractive.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ayako Suzuki's friends]]
!!Ayako Suzuki's friends (Chikako Ikeda, Ryoichi Takahashi, Masaru Ohta, Hiroki Sumiya, [[spoiler: Atsuko Tokumoto]])
->Chikako is voiced by Jun Karasawa
The people involved in a case that is infamous for the huge dose of NightmareFuel. Sonoko invites Ran and Conan to a mountain villa to meet up with her sister Ayako and her friends from her college's cinema club and enjoy the autumn in nice company. Things get weird when Ran and Conan see a man with bandages on his face, and then one of the members of the club is first kidnapped and later gruesomely killed. The fact that their past is far more troubled that it looks like [[spoiler: and involved the tragic death of a girl named Atsuko]] doesn't help their case.
* AccidentalPervert: As Ran searches for her and Conan's room, she ends up walking on the guys when they were changing clothes. [[spoiler: Including Takahashi, who then targets her because she saw that he wasn't as pudgy as he looked... which would reveal how he later hid Chikako's head under his clothes.]]
* AxCrazy: The culprit, whose WeaponOfChoice is an axe ''and'' not only uses it to [[spoiler: chop the victim's body into pieces]], but to [[spoiler: attack Ran ''and'' Conan with it.]]
* BridalCarry: ''Horribly'' used when the group sees the killer carry a kidnapped [[spoiler: Chikako]] away in his arms, right before [[spoiler: her dismembered]] body is found. [[spoiler: It was a stage trick with a doll, piano wire, and Chikako's already decapitated head.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Chikako stole her "friend" Atsuko's best script and made it pass as hers, which made Atsuko cross the DespairEventHorizon and hang herself.]]
** [[spoiler: Takahashi also tries to commit suicide with a knife so he and his beloved Atsuko could be TogetherInDeath, but is thwarted.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: [[spoiler: When Takahashi claims how he did everything for Atsuko, Conan as Sonoko throws a BreakingSpeech in his face about how he tried to kill Ran to protect his identity, even though Ran was innocent and had nothing to do with what happened to Atsuko; ultimately he isn't some tragic hero avenging his lost love, but nothing more than a killer. This ends up shattering him and makes him give up on his suicide attempt.]]
* HandsomeLech: Ohta tries to hit on Ran many times, much to [[GreenEyedMonster Sonoko]] and [[CrazyJealousGuy Conan]]'s anger.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Atsuko was a sweet GlassesGirl. She was mentally/emotionally broken after Chikako's betrayal. Guess what followed.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Takahashi uses this to justify his ''brutal'' murder of Chikako, since he was deeply in love with poor Atsuko, witnessed her fall into despair and was unable to stop it, and then he decided to punish Chikako for causing her suicide.]]
* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: Atsuko]]'s "No one will believe me!", referring to [[spoiler: how she was the true author of the beautiful script that Chikako made pass as hers.]]
* {{Meganekko}}: [[spoiler: Atsuko was a plain but cute GirlNextDoor with glasses, [[LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine contrasting]] with Chikako's top model-level looks.]]
* OffWithHisHead:[[spoiler: Chikako's death. Takahashi then takes it UpToEleven by chopping up her body and dismembering her.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Oh, Atsuko.]]
* SmokingIsCool: Ohta.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Ran and Conan spend the night in the same bed. Not like that, of course. [[spoiler: Which actually saves [[HeavySleeper Ran]]'s life in the upcoming attack by the masked man: Conan was awake when said man attacked them, so he pushed her away from harm's way and then used his voice changer at full volume to wake up Ran right in the nick of time.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Takahashi, for the deceased Atsuko.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples]]
!!Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples (Nanae and Ayano Tsukumo, Yuji Momochi, Mako Miyoshi, Kazumi Sanada, [[spoiler: Yashiro Kinoshita]])
-->Kazumi Sanada is voiced by: Creator/RyotaroOkiayu
-->Mako Miyoshi is voiced by: Yurika Hino
-->Ayano Tsukumo is voiced by: Creator/KonamiYoshida
The first group featured in the popular double episode "The Cornered Famous detective! Two big murder cases". Motoyasu Tsukumo is a famous stage magician who appears dead in strange circumstances the day when his daughter Ayano turned six years old, so his widow Nanae goes to Kogoro to search for help since she suspects one of his three disciples is the murderer. This, however, brings Ran some memories... and evidence that Conan is Shinichi!
* AdultFear: The case's about to be deciphered... and then a bomb is dropped. [[spoiler: Little Ayano is missing! And Mako, the killer, is the one who took her away! In a subversion, Mako brings Ayano back unharmed, though she admits she was ''this'' close to killing her.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Mako is tall, standoffish and very beautiful. [[spoiler: And the SympatheticMurderer.]]
* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: Young Mako actually witnessed how Tsukumo messed around with Yashiro's equipment and caused his death, but nobody believed her since she was a little girl back then.]]
* ChekhovsGun: A certain photo album that Ran finds in the Mouri office. [[spoiler: It has a photo of Tsukumo with kid!Ran and kid!Shinichi, and taking a good look at it makes Ran suspect about Conan's true identity--especially after comparing said picture to the long look she takes of a Conan without glasses.]]
** In-story example: [[spoiler: Tsukumo kept photos of all his disciples in his study - including Yashiro. Kazumi saw Mako hugging Yashiro's picture to her chest tenderly, so he suspected that she had a link to him. He never acted on it, though.]]
* DrivenByEnvy: [[spoiler: Why Tsukumo killed Yashiro.]]
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler: Yashiro died while [[FatalMethodActing performing a dangerous trick]] inside a water tank that went horribly wrong... due to Tsukumo tampering with it and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident making it look like a genuine accident]].]]
* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: Or better said, "I Have Your Little Daughter And I'll Kill Her If You Don't Let Me Show You My Best Trick And Then Kill You for Killing My Older Brother [[PromotionToParent Who Raised Me To Be A Stage Magician]]"]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Six-year-old Ayano doesn't know that her dad's dead.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Mako killed her "mentor" because he killed her beloved older brother Yashiro.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Yuji and Kazumi are both very tall and very good looking.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Yabuchi family]]
!!The Yabuchi family (Hiromi, Hidekazu, Yoshichika, Yoshifusa, Yoshiyuki, Keiko and Machiko Yabuchi. Also, Carlos and [[spoiler: Dickson Tanaka]])
The second group from "The Cornered Famous detective! Two big murder cases". Yukiko Kudo has suddenly come from the USA, and manages to get Conan to stay with her for the weekend. The next day she's summoned by her childhood friend Hiromi Yabuchi, whose father Yoshichika died recently; her uncle Yoshifusa has arrived from Brazil alongside his bodyguard Carlos, but she's sure something strange is going on and thus she asks Yukiko for help. Conan senses something fishy ''is'' going on, thus he must protect his mother ''and'' defuse whatever plan is brewing behind closed doors.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Machiko was attempting to murder Dickson Tanaka to receive more of the inheritance, but wasn’t expecting him to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard use the very knife she planned to stab him with on her]].]]
* BigFancyHouse: The Yabuchis live in a pretty big traditional Japanese complex.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Hiromi and her husband Hidekazu are pretty good people, but her younger brother Yoshiyuki and his wife Keiko are huge {{Jerk Ass}}es. Let's not even talk about Machiko...
* ButNotTooForeign: [[spoiler: Carlos turns out to be the real Yoshifusa's son with a black Brazilian woman. Dickson Tanaka is part Brazilian as well.]]
* GoldDigger: Implied in the case of Machiko.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Machiko wanted to kill her brother-in-law to get more of her husband's inheritance. Too bad she tried to stab said brother-in-law while in the bath... and he (or better said, his stand-in) killed her in self-defense.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Hidekazu took up Hiromi's surname since she was the eldest daughter of the rich Yabuchi family.
* MayDecemberRomance: Yoshichika and Mariko, who is barely older than his adult kids.
* PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Dickson/Yoshifusa thinks Carlos is [[LikeASonToMe like a son to him]]. He will do everything in his power to make sure Carlos will be safe and won't be cheated out of his share of his uncle's inheritance.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Keiko, who set a small trap with a crossbow to either kill herself (original) or scare off Dickson/Yoshifusa (dubs). She wasn't the killer, though.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The man known as Yoshifusa Yabuchi [[DeadPersonImpersonation is actually Dickson Tanaka]], a Brazilian man with Japanese blood, who is impersonating his dead friend Yoshifusa to protect said friend's son and heir... Carlos.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Carlos. [[spoiler: Subverted: [[FaceofAThug He only looks scary]] and is actually a NiceGuy GentleGiant, [[ShrinkingViolet more shy]] and a little child-like than scary.]]
* SmugSnake: Machiko, Keiko and Yoshiyuki. Machiko is far worse, though.
* ThemeNaming: Three of the males in the Yabuchi family have names starting with ''Yoshi'': patriarch Yoshi''chika'', uncle Yoshi''fusa'', and son Yoshi''yuki''.
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Dickson took up the Yoshifusa Yabuchi name out of loyalty for his deceased friend/business partner and his child Carlos.]]
* UnexpectedSuccessor: Everyone was shocked to know that [[spoiler: Carlos was taking the place of his dead father Yoshifusa among the inheritors. Yoshichika ''did'' know, but he didn't tell anyone -- except for signaling it in the tape that was his last will.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler: Dickson would stab a girl, but only to defend himself when she attacks him with a knife.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Reika Yotsui and her entourage]]
!!Reika Yotsui and her entourage (Mr. Yotsui, Takashi Ichieda, Yuji Nikaidou, Takaya Mifune, Osamu Gojou, Masao Rokuda, Nanao Yone, [[spoiler: Yaeko Yone]])
The people involved in the ''Billionaire Birthday Blues'' / [[spoiler: Wealthy Daughter Murder]] case. Reika Yotsui is a callous RichBitch with an UnwantedHarem who invites the Mouris and Conan to her birthday party since Kogoro found her lost puppydog. Everything goes well until the party is over and Kogoro, Ran, Conan and several others have to stay in the village due to a mysterious problem... Reika then disappears, one of her suitors is found dead, and Ran is drugged up and almost drowned to death. What the ''Hell'' is going on?!
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Mifune has a much darker skin tone than the rest, but it's never brought up.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:See the NightmareFuel page for a detailed description.]] *shudder*
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Two of them.]]
* BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler: The reason why Reika couldn't escape from a...]]
* DrowningPit: [[spoiler:One improvised inside a ''deep'' bath tub!]]
* ItsPersonal: Ran was attacked. Conan was ''most'' pissed off.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Had Yaeko not been murdered by Nikaidou and Reika, Ichieda wouldn't have killed them.]]
* NiceGuy: Rokuda and Gojou.
* NumericalThemeNaming: The characters here have numbers that goes from 1 to 7 [[spoiler:or 8]].
* OldRetainer: Yone, to the Yotsuis.
* RichBitch: Reika. She's so selfish and cruel that [[spoiler: she and Nikaidou killed a girl (implied to be Reika's childhood friend in the past!), purely to save their own butts.]]
* UnwantedHarem: Ichieda, Nikaidou, Mifune, Rokuda and Gojou were this to Reika. [[spoiler: In a subversion, Ichieda actually loved ''Yaeko'', and only stayed close to Reika to find the moment to kill her and Nikaidou.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: Yone [[spoiler: and Yaeko.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Nagato family and entourage]]
!!The Nagato family and entourage (Dousan, Nobuko, Yasue, Hideomi, and Mitsuaki Nagato; Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuuga)
-->Miyuki Hyuga is voiced by: Creator/RikaFukami
-->Mitsuaki Nagato is voiced by: Ryoichi Tanaka
The people from the "Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case". Dousan Nagato, a rich old man who's ill and not expected to live for long, hires Kogoro to find his first love. [[spoiler: Which is a cover to investigate several odd things that have happened in his BigFancyHouse.]] All of a sudden, however, two persons from his family are dead. What happened, what was the secret they both held, and will Conan find out the truth alongside Heiji, who's been called in too?
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: What Hideomi truly was, encouraging and helping Miyuki since he and Mitsuaki killed her parents via causing the fire in which they died. Also that's where he got his scars from, having rescued little Miyuki from the same fire; he could have gotten plastic surgery very easily, but didn't want to do so.]]
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Miyuki says she believes that her and Hideomi are destined to be together, since they've been "tied via a destiny made of fire" for a long time.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Not as bad as the Hatamoto family, but pretty fucked up. Yasue and Chairman Nagato were pretty nice persons, but Mitsuaki, Hideomi and Nobuko have... ''issues''.
* BrokenBird: Miyuki has massive, MASSIVE emotional problems [[spoiler: coming from Mitsuaki and Hideomi's DeadlyPrank that killed her parents, as well as her love for Hideomi.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The fact that [[spoiler: Mitsuaki wanted to kill his father-in-law to take full control of the Nagato enterprise]] places him squarely here.
* ChekhovsGunman: Conan sees a familiar man among the police, but doesn't recognize him. That man is Heizo Hattori, actually an old friend of Chairman Nagato... and Heiji shows up almost immediately afterwards.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Chairman Nagato was the unclucky childhood friend to the lady that he wants Kogoro to find for him. [[spoiler: That woman was actually Miyuki's MissingMom.]]
* ChristmasCake: When Nobuko bitchslaps Miyuki, Nagato speculates it's because "she hasn't found a husband". Considering that Nobuko is 39 years old, ''way'' past the "limit"... yeah.
-->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Conan]]''': With ''that'' personality, it's not like she'll ever get married...
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Miyuki.]]
** [[spoiler: Also Hideomi, who killed himself when he reached it.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Having crossed the DEH, Hideomi killed himself with poison. Miyuki found his lifeless body and she pretended to join Mitsuaki in his plan to kill Chairman Nagato, only to betray and kill Mitsuaki later so she can avenge Hideomi and protect Nagato. She also roped Mitsuaki into hiding Hideomi's corpse in the pond, later [[DecoyDamsel manipulating Nobuko]] into hitting her near said pond to have an excuse to get the pond drained and taking Hideomi away.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Hideomi, [[IWasQuiteALooker once a beautiful young man]], has half his face burned off. [[spoiler: They turn out to be Good Scars... sorta.]]
* {{Hikikomori}}: Hideomi, after he got scarred, left school and holed himself up in his room to write his novels without needing to interact with anyone.
* [[spoiler: ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:]] [[spoiler: Mitsuaki's death, when Miyuki stabs his hand with her pen and makes him fall from the balcony... and he gets "stuck" in the fence]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite Nobuko's actions she does truly care for her family. The reason why she abused Miyuki is because she truly thought she [[GoldDigger didn't love her brother and just wanted his fortune]]. [[spoiler:When the truth is revealed, she was just as stunned as everyone else, and couldn't say anything.]]
* LoveHurts: And holy goddamned shit, HOW. This case is a huge TearJerker.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Mitsuaki, Yasue's husband, took up the family name.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: Hideomi is believed to be this, [[BandagedFace using bandages instead of a mask]] to cover [[TwoFaced his hideous scars.]] [[spoiler: He wasn't evil. And actually, the man in "mask" we saw... was a disguised Mitsuaki or an equally disguised Miyuki.]]
* NoHeroToHisValet: Nobuko treats Miyuki quite badly, believing her to be a GoldDigger who takes advantage of Hideomi's isolation to get close to the family. [[spoiler: It's far more complicated.]]
* NotGoodWithRejection: [[spoiler: Totally and cruelly inverted. Hideomi crossed the DespairEventHorizon because Miyuki ''did'' want to marry him, despite the role he had in the deaths of her parents.]]
* SexySecretary: Miyuki, a cute-looking young lady with [[ShesGotLegs really nice legs]].
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Mitsuaki.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Miyuki and Hideomi.]]
* TragicKeepsake: Miyuki's burned fountain pen, which belonged to her deceased father.
** [[spoiler: ChekhovsGun: Miyuki uses it to stab Mitsuaki's hand when she tries to throw him off the balcony and he holds on to her. Then he falls off to his death.]]
*** Furthermore... [[spoiler: the pen didn't belong to Miyuki's dad, but to her mother. Nagato gave it to her when they were kids, and it's the proof that the girl he loved in the past was Miyuki's mom.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Miyuki tries invoking this when she attempts to commit suicide to be with Hideomi. It fails since she wanted to [[KillItWithFire burn herself to death with a gasoline thermos and her lighter]], but Conan and Heiji had switched the fuel with water.]]
* UptownBoy: Hideomi is a PrincelyYoungMan. Miyuki is an orphan and his father's secretary. In a subversion, the one opposing to their match-up was Hideomi's older sister and not his father, who was more-or-less fine with this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Raita Banba and Hatsune Kamon]]
!!Raita Banba and Hatsune Kamon
Raita is one of Kogoro's high school friends and Hatsune is his fiancee, and they intend to have Kogoro attend their wedding ceremony. The night before their marriage, however, Hatsune's car explodes with her inside -- and it soon comes out that ''both'' of them were having the other investigated on suspicions of infidelity. Hatsune wanted to see if he'd flirt with other women and Raita hired a detective after becoming suspicious of her interactions with a handsome man named Tooru Amuro, who turns out to be the detective ''she'' had hired to investigate him. Could Raita's jealousy have gone too far?
-->Raita Banba is voiced by: Creator/YasuyukiKase
-->Hatsune Kamon is voiced by: Creator/YurikoYamamoto
* AlwaysMurder: [[spoiler:Averted for the first time since volume 1.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Banba, who is VERY dark-skinned and even has dreadlocks.
* BrokenTears: [[spoiler: Raita tearfully loses it when he learns the terrible truth about Hatsune and himself. By the time the case is over, the poor man is sobbing and [[SayMyName screaming Hatsune's name]].]]
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Not that they knew it.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: Raita is believed to be this. [[spoiler: It's not that easy.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Hatsune was already ''very'' stressed over the wedding, her bad health and her suspicions about who Raita actually was. When her fears about him being her twin brother were confirmed, she crossed the edge.]]
** [[spoiler: At the end of the case, it's almost a sure thig that Raita crossed it as well.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:What actually happened to Hatsune.]]
* HalfIdenticalTwins: [[spoiler:One of the rare cases where there's a reason for it.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Both of them. [[spoiler: In fact, they were orphaned in the same fire, a very large one that not only killed their parents but decimated almost a whole neighborhood more than 30 years ago.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Hatsune, who has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Syndrome Turner Syndrome.]].]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Raita is this at his worst. It's mostly when he's drunk, though.
* SayMyName: [[spoiler: "HATSUNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"]]
* StuffBlowingUp: Hatsune's death happened when her car exploded with her inside.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The attendants of the Night Baron Tour]]
!!The attendants of the Night Baron Tour (Hideko Kamijou, Tokio Ebara, Satoru Maeda, Genichirou Kaneshiro, Shizune Hayashi, Shiro Konnou, Akiko Sayama)
-->Shirou Konno is voiced by: Creator/ShowHayami
-->Akiko Sayama is voiced by: Creator/ChiekoHonda
Via Dr. Agasa, Conan finds out that there's a tour to a famous hotel featuring his father's iconic character, the Night Baron, as a main theme. Agasa was supposed to go but his companion and his granddaughter had to relinquish their spots, so Conan and the Mouris go in their place. It's a good thing, though, since it turns out that one of the attendants is a massive JerkAss named Tokio Ebara... and he's gruesomely killed while wearing a Night Baron outfit!
* BlowYouAway: The ''Himekaze'' aka the "Wind of the Princess", which blows in that particular time of the year. [[spoiler: And is the reason why Ebara lands on the statue, when he wasn't supposed to. Wasn't helped by him wearing a cape in that moment.]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Sayama.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Ran is ''very'' depressed when Maeda's TakingTheHeat act makes her believe that he's the killer.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Sayama really, really doesn't like it when Maeda oggles other girls...
* TheCracker: [[spoiler:Tokio Ebara.]]
* CryCute: Used twice in the story:
** [[spoiler: Kamijou cries quietly when Ebara is found dead. They were married in the past and even when their divorce was nasty, she still cared a little for him.]]
** [[spoiler: Sayama is seen crying when she's taken away and Maeda tells her "IWillWaitForYou!".]]
* DestinationDefenestration:
** When Conan is thinking about the MacGuffin, he gets ambushed and thrown off the balcony he's leaning on by someone dressed up as the Night Baron. He survives, since [[SoftWater he lands inside the hotel's pool]].
** [[spoiler: This was also how Sayama (the one who threw Conan off, but only to scare him away) kills Ebara. Though the thing with him being ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice was a coincidence.]]
** Additionally, [[spoiler: Sayama killed Ebara like that because her beloved brother commited suicide by throwing himself off his apartment's window.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Subverted. Ebara is VERY dirty minded and constantly hits on cute women, but is also YoungerThanTheyLook. Seriously, he's only in his 30's!
* GetOut: An angry [[ClingyJealousGirl Sayama]] locks Maeda out of their room after he ogles Kamijou when she's in a {{Stripperiffic}} outfit. [[spoiler: She might have done so to keep him from finding any evidence tying her to the murder she was about to commit, however. [[TakingTheHeat Not that it worked]].]]
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: Sayama uses ''herself'' as such, to trap Ebara and then kill him. She invites him to her and Maeda's room, spikes his drink, dresses him up as the Night Baron ''and throws him off the balcony''.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Ebara's lifeless body is found impaled on a statue. Aaaaaugh!.]]
* LoveMartyr: [[spoiler: Maeda, as bitterly lampshaded by Sayama herself.]]
* LooksLikeCesare: Konnou the banker, a very tall and pale man with dark hair and StoicSpectacles.
* MacGuffin: There's a diskette to be won by the people in the tour, containing a ''nasty'' and ''completely unblockable'' computer virus that is called the Night Baron.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: The ''Night Baron'' is a high-class criminal who uses a mask to cover his identity. [[spoiler: Sayama and later Maeda use NB disguises for their own purposes.]]
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: For all of his "DirtyOldMan" tactics, Ebara barely blinks when [[spoiler: his ex wife]] Kamijou shows up in a VERY {{Stripperiffic}} cocktail dress. Made even more obvious when Kogoro ''and'' Maeda get [[DistractedBytheSexy super distracted]], much to the ire of [[ChildrenRaiseYou Ran]] and [[ClingyJealousgirl Sayama.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Old man Kaneshiro was ''not'' blind.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: The big reason why Agasa couldn't go is that his companion's granddaughter fell very ill. Had the little girl not been bed-ridden, Agasa wouldn't have had to tell Conan and the Mouris to go in his place, and therefore [[spoiler: Sayama]] would've probably gotten away with Ebara's murder...
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:Maeda is willing to divert attention to himself and being sent to jail, rather than letting Sayama be punished.]]
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: Kamijou slips some sleeping pills in Kogoro's whisky, intending to get him out of the race for the MacGuffin.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Araide Family and their housekeeper Hikaru]]
!!The Araide family and their housekeeper Hikaru (Dr. Yoshiteru Araide, Yoko Araide, Hikaru Yasumoto, [[spoiler: Chiaki Araide]]
In this specific case Kogoro, Ran and Conan makes a visit to the household of Kogoro's personal doctor. They meet Dr. Araide's handsome and kind son, Tomoaki, and he and Ran seem to get along incredibly well! Logically, [[CrazyJealousGuy Conan/Shinichi]] is rather troubled - but as someone dies in the house, there is no time to dwell on it. Even when Conan is having a hard time focusing on the case due to his fear of "losing" Ran to the younger Araide, the case must be solved...
* TheAlcoholic: Dr. Araide, in the past
* CuteClumsyGirl: Hikaru, but it's not PlayedForLaughs or cuteness.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Since Yoshiteru cheated on her too much and was very neglectful, Chiaki fell into depression and ultimately killed herself. Yoko was the dead Chiaki's best friend, so she killed the doctor as punishment.]]
* ElectrifiedBathtub: [[spoiler:The trick that Yoko used to kill Dr. Araide.]]
* WickedStepmother: Subverted as Yoko treated Tomoaki like her own son. [[spoiler:Before her death, Chiaki asked Yoko to look after Tomoaki for her.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Passengers aboard the ship ''Symphony'']]
!!Toji Samezaki, Teruyoshi Kameda, Korehisa Kanie, Minoru Ebina, Sadao Kujirai, Nagisa Isogai, Saizo Kano, Masaru Furukawa, [[spoiler: Yoshimi Samezaki]]
-->Toji Samezaki is voiced by: Creator/HidekatsuShibata
-->Teruyoshi Kameda is voiced by: Jin Hirao
-->Korehisa Kanie is voiced by: Creator/NorioWakamoto
-->Minoru Ebina is voiced by: Creator/YosukeAkimoto
-->Sadao Kujirai is voiced by: {{Creator/Mugihito}}
-->Nagisa Isogai is voiced by: Creator/RikaFukami
-->[[spoiler: Yoshimi Samezaki]] is voiced by: Yukiko Iwai
In the opening scene of "The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case," a man named Saizo Kano gets shot and falls down to the sea by what appears to be his accomplices. Flash forward to the present, Conan, Ran, and Mouri solve a puzzle from a newspaper ad, earning them an all-expenses-paid trip to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonin_Islands Ogasawara]] aboard a ship. They then encounter Toji Samezaki, a former colleague of Kogoro's, and the other winners as well. Seemingly unrelated at first, things take a turn for the worse when one of the passengers is found burned, and it turns out nearly all of the passengers have something to do with a robbery from 20 years ago and that the missing Saizo Kano may still be alive all this time...
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Saizo's gang was known for their heists being relatively bloodless. However, in their final robbery, they fired wildly, causing the deaths of Yoshimi and at least one of Toji's men.]]
* AssassinationAttempt: Heiji gets thrown overboard by [[spoiler: Kujirai, who realized the former saw Kanie tied up in the bow of the ship.]]
* BankRobbery: An example of this gone wrong caused Saizo and the gang to suddenly disappear.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: [[spoiler: Kanie had a gunshot wound back from his military service. Kujirai took advantage of this both to frame him for the murder of Kameda and the attempt on Kujirai's life (as Kujirai was presumed to have been shot from quite a distance) and for the rest of the cast to think he was the missing Saizo Kano.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Heiji is thrown overboard by the killer when the former discovers one of the culprit's tricks.
* ItsPersonal: The robbery case for Toji Samezaki, [[spoiler: as his daughter died after getting shot in one of Saizo's robberies.]]
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: Yoshimi was this to Ebina, motivating the latter to bring a bomb to the ship.]]
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Kameda, though he was already shot on the head when he was burned.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: Saizo Kano was presumed dead as his distinctive jacket was seen with four bullet holes on it [[spoiler: along with a picture of him and his daughter Nagisa.]] The cast spent most of the episode wondering if Saizo was alive the entire time, as he was suspected to be the heavily-covered guy who briefly appeared early in the episode. [[spoiler: He was DeadAllAlong, having not survived the opening scene, and the covered guy was Kujirai in disguise.]]
* NoHonorAmongThieves: Saizo Kano gets shot multiple times in the opening scene by his accomplices. [[spoiler: Kameda and Kanie later get dispatched by Kujirai.]]
* PhantomThief: Saizo, [[spoiler: Kameda, Kanie, and Kujirai.]]
* PublicSecretMessage: The newspaper ad put out by a certain Masaru Furukawa; to get aboard the ship, one has to present an old 10,000-yen bill. [[spoiler: This was also a message to the remaining accomplices, who by this point had long changed their appearances. Reading the characters for Masaru Furukawa sideways turns it into "Saizo Kano," with Kujirai unaware of this despite having created the ploy. The other passengers (save for Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and Heiji) knew this beforehand, and boarded the ship in search for answers on the heist from 20 years ago.]]
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The gang that committed the robbery from 20 years ago reunite in the ship, ostensibly to celebrate the expiration of their StatuteOfLimitations of their 400-million yen heist.
* RelocatingTheExplosion: [[spoiler: Conan found Ebina's bomb and had it detonated from a liferaft away from the ship.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Attempted by Ebina and foiled by Conan.]]
* StatuteOfLimitations: The episode mostly revolves around the expiration of the statute of limitations for the gang's robbery from 20 years back. While they could no longer be prosecuted for [[spoiler: Yoshimi's death]] in their final robbery, [[spoiler: Kujirai gets charged for murdering the remaining accomplices.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: Implied with [[spoiler: Ebina's bombing attempt.]]
* ThatOneCase: Despite being a retired cop, Toji still wanted to catch the robbers before the statute of limitations expired.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Kujirai shot himself and framed it on Kanie, who was found dead from a (presumed) suicide moments later. The reason there wasn't blood flowing despite having shot himself much earlier was that Kujirai plugged his wound with a tennis ball.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Domoto Family and entourage]]
!! Domoto Family and entourage (Eizo, Yatsunori, Junpei, Rino, Aoyagi, Machida and Nagano, Ayaka and Shizuka)
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ran commented that Ayaka is kind and beautiful like the goddess [[spoiler: which is INDEED she, the goddess who took Eizo's life away]].
* MeaningfulName: Kamiyama Shizuka which mean Mountain of the god and Silence, consider with this case theme her name might double as AwesomeMcCoolname.
* NunTooHoly: Well, guess who.
* OldRetainer: Kamiyama Shizuka who can easily run up more than thousand of stairs without tiring and keep protesting against Eizo for good amount of times in the episode. She's 75 and a [[NunTooHoly nun]] as well mind you.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bikuni Island Residents]]
!! Bikuni Island Residents (Saori and Benzo Kadowaki, Naoko Kuroe, Rokuro Fujiyama, Toshimi Ebihara, Kimie and "Great" Mikoto Shimabukuro)
A girl named Saori sends Kogoro and Heiji letters, asking them to save her from being murdered by mermaids. She lives on Bikuni Island and they go there to meet her, but she's been missing for a short while. Two other women appear dead, however...
* ArrangedMarriage: Rokuro is engaged to Toshimi, but is in love with Kimie. [[spoiler: That gave him a possible "reason" to [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse kill Toshimi]], but he's cleared off.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: Rokuro, Saori, Toshimi, Kimie and Naoko have known each other since their early years.
* EverybodyKnewAlready: [[spoiler: All the middle aged people in Bikuni knew that the current Mikoto was Kimie under a disguise, and that the supposed "mermaid corpse" was her mom's.]]
* LivingForeverisAwesome: [[spoiler: In the middle of her SanitySlippage incident, Saori said that she wanted to be immortal... followed by her all but telling Kimie that she, Toshimi and Naoko burned Great Mikoto. Kimie, who had secretly taken up Mikoto's identity already, realized that her friends had killed her mother aka the former one.]]
* KneelBeforeFrodo: [[spoiler: After the older people of the island say they knew that Kimie (and before her, her mother) was Mikoto, they humbly bow to Kimie.]]
* MacGuffin: The Dewgong Arrows won in Bikuni Island's Festival are supposed to bless the people who win them [[spoiler: and make them immortal.]]
* MasterOfDisguise: Well, not to the level of Kaito Kid and Vermouth but [[spoiler:Kimie (who works as a make-up artist ''and'' a {{miko}}) still managed to disguised herself as Mikoto, which is pretty impressive]].
* {{Miko}}: The Great Mikoto is the priestess of a local temple, and her descendant Kimie works as a shrine maiden there. [[spoiler: Kimie is actually ''both'' of them.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Saori was believed to be the killer, but it was Kimie. It doesn't help that Kimie ''did'' disguise herself as the already dead Saori at some point, then used her corpse to fake her own death.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Kimie killed Saori, Naoko and Toshimi because they murdered her mother, the former priestess, over [[DisproportionateRetribution not having won the Festival's prize]] (the Dewgong Arrow) that was supposed to give them blessings and probably immortality.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Saori had one during a talk with Kimie, leading her to suspect her and her other friends.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Kimono Goddess case]]
!!People in the Kotoya Inn (Yoriko Yasuda, Kyochi Bando, Eri Akechi [[spoiler: aka Chieri Aki]], Harumi Fukatsu, Asuka Shibazaki, Ema Anzai, [[spoiler: Sakurako Suzuka]])
-->Ema Anzai is voiced by: Creator/HarunaIkezawa
-->Eri Akechi is voiced by: Creator/MikiIto
-->Harumi Fukatsu is voiced by: Creator/YuriShiratori
-->Asuka Shibazaki is voiced by: Kaho Kouda
In this {{filler}} case, the Mouris take Conan to a hot spring inn to help him heal from a sprained ankle. There's also a film crew in the same place, ready to work with five female celebrities: publishing editor Yoriko, top model Asuka, novelist Eri, IdolSinger Harumi and oil painter Ema. Things go normally until two of the women are stabbed to death in the inn's grounds, and their lifeless bodies are surrounded by the inn's beautiful kimonos and ''obis''! Is this a supernatural revenge coming from the local deity, the Kimono Goddess? Or are both deaths the doing of someone in the crew instead?
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: In the legend, Ohana. (She helps a rich lord, gets many beautiful kimonos as thanks, is falsely accused of a crime by two selfish {{rich bitch}}es who want her treasured kimonos, ends up unfairly executed). In the real case, Sakurako (orphaned and separated from her older sister, re-builds her own life from scratch, is falsely accused of drug traffic, can't prove her innocence, kills herself).]]
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Ohana from the Kimono Goddess legend, who was so broken by her ordeals that she allegedly became an angry spirit and only calmed down when the locals venerated her as a goddess to placate her very well-justified anger.]] [[spoiler: In the real story, we have two: Sakurako Suzuka and her long-separated sister, Eri Akechi/Chieri Aki aka the SympatheticMurderer]]
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[spoiler:In the legend, Ohana's angry spirit murders the two greedy local girls who caused her unfair death. Even more symbolically, their lifeless bodies are found surrounded by the kimonos that the two assholes wanted enough to get the real owner killed.]]
* CostumePorn: In-universe example. The Kotoya Inn is VERY famous for its collection of beautiful kimonos, all related to the legend of the Kimono Goddess. [[spoiler: Asuka and Ema are found dead and rodeated by such gorgeous clothes: Asuka is "buried" under the obi sashes, Ema is lying on a pile of kimonos.]]
* CreepyDoll: If somebody wants a favor from the Kimono Goddess, he or she must: make one of these in paper, put on a kimono, go to the local Goddess shrine at midnight, and leave the doll in a wooden box specially outfitted for such a purpose. [[spoiler: Specially if s/he wants her to sponsor a revenge that ''they'' will carry out with their own hands, like Eri did before placing the dolls in the crime scenes.]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler: In the story, Ohana was executed via being tied up to a huge wooden cross and then ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice with several lances, thus the still image representing said moment used the imaginery. [[note]]TruthinTelevision: the "crucifixion and impalement" execution was used not only on average criminals, but on UsefulNotes/{{Japanese Christian}}s during Japan's isolation of the world (like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-six_Martyrs_of_Japan the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki]]) and on British and American POW's during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.[[/note]].]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Sakurako was DrivenToSuicide when she was framed for drug trafficking by Ema and Asuka and couldn't prove her innocence.]]
%%* HotSpringsEpisode
* IdolSinger: Harumi.
* {{Meganekko}}: Subverted: Harumi uses contacts normally, switching to specs only when she's in the springs.
* RichBitch: Both Asuka and Ema are from loaded families (the Shibazakis are into politics, the Anzais are in a huge enterprise) and are massive assholes. [[spoiler: It cost them their lives: in the past they used Sakurako as a scapegoat for their own drug trades and drove her to kill herself, then Sakurako's sister Eri/Chieri killed them both.]]
* TheOphelia: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Sakurako.]]
* RagsToRiches: [[spoiler:Harumi was a orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, the she rose to stardom once her songs became hits.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The case takes place in an ''onsen'' during the winter. It's obviously covered in snow out there.
* StartsWithASuicide: [[spoiler:The two-part episode begins with the very public suicide of a beautiful and sad girl.]] [[spoiler: Said girl is Sakurako.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Secret of the Idols Case]]
!!People from the Secret of Idols case (Kaoru Kusano, Osamu Kenzaki, Yuki Takeno, Terumi Hoshino and Atsushi Makuma)
-->Kaoru Kusano is voiced by: Creator/AkenoWatanabe
-->Osamu Kenzaki is voiced by: Creator/HisaoEgawa
-->Yuki Takeno is voiced by: Creator/MaayaSakamoto
-->Terumi Hoshino is voiced by: Creator/YuuAsakawa
-->Atsushi Makuma is voiced by: Creator/ShigeruNakahara
Yoko Okino sends Kogoro and Co. an invitation to the engagement party of her former bandmate Kaoru Kusano, who also happens to be a Kogoro fangirl. Bad thing, she's also the target of a stalker and she wants Kogoro to find him or her. But it should take place soon, since during the party Kaoru is attacked and almost dies...
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Terumi, the harshest and coldest of the four girls.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Yuki repents from her attempted murder of Kaoru and tries to off herself, but is saved.]]
* GenkiGirl: Kaoru has shades of this.
* FemmeFatalons: [[spoiler:Yuki used her sharp filed thumbnails as a weapon, giving Kaoru a SlashedThroat with them.]]
* ImprobableWeaponUser: See FemmeFatalons above.
* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Kaoru and Makuma.]]
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Yuki lost it and tried to kill Kaoru because she believed that, by getting engaged to her beloved Kenzaki, she was trampling all over her feelings. In reality the guy Kaoru loved was their manager Makuma, and the engagement was a gambit from her to make him come forward.]]
* MeaningfulName: The four former Earth Ladies' names all have meaning to the earth's beauty. (Kaoru Kusano=Fragrant of Grass Field, Yuki Takeno= Snow Mountain, Terumi Hoshino= Bright Beautiful Stars, Yoko Okino= Sunshine of the Open Sea)
* SugarAndIcePersonality: [[spoiler:Terumi is revealed to idolize Shinichi.]]
* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:Yuki is a mild version, as she ''does'' regret what she has done.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Day that Kogoro Ceased Being Detective]]
!!People from the Day that Kogoro Ceased Being Detective (Sayuri Tokomae, Ryozo Gamo, Sagae Kinugaza, Isao Takeoka, Kyosuke Arai,[[spoiler:A trio of robbers]],[[spoiler:Natsuko Takeoka]]
Kogoro was asked by the [[RichBitch wealthy-looking woman]] Sayuri Tokomae to be her bodyguard for her exercise program. At the same time however, a client named Ryozo Gamo phoned in and ask Kogoro to meet him for a request that involves finding a witness as Gamo was accused of a recent murder that occurred. When Kogoro was unable to find any witnesses, Gamo apparently lost all hope and committed suicide. Later, Kogoro's old friend, Takeoka come to assist him to find the real murderer, with hints pointing Gamo's nephew, Kyosuke Arai. The next day Arai was found hanged, apperently because of the pressure that Kogoro put on him. Feeling that this is his fault, Kogoro then decides to retire...
-->Sayuri Tokomae is voiced by: Wakako "Creator/{{Kujira}}" Matsumoto
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Sayuri Tokomae.
* CassandraTruth:[[spoiler:Natsuko was right all along about that Gamo was involved with the attempt murder of Sagae Kinukasa.]]
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The Animal Cookie]]
* DetectivePatsy: A rather well thought plan. [[spoiler:Takeoka disguised himself as Gamo to trick Kogoro into proving his false alibi.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Natsuko.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Sayuri Tokomae is arrested for excessive defense.]]
%%* ManlyTears
* RichBitch: Wearing several expensive jewelries while going out definitely fits the description for being one, Tokomae.
* RedHerring: Sayuri and Arai.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Black Dress Alibi case]]
!!People from the Black Dress Alibi case (Mihiro Kuze, Yuika Shodou)
Ran and Sonoko drag Kogoro and Conan in a shopping spree through Harajuku, the most fashionable street in Tokyo. During a rest in a tea house, the girls are starstruck when they spot a young woman clad in a beautiful ElegantGothicLolita outfit, which includes a really pretty and lacy black and red dress... But few hours later, the fashionable girl appears strangled to death in a public restroom! Since they're among the few who last saw her alive, Conan and Kogoro must find out who did her in. [[spoiler: Or more exactly, undo the alibi of their biggest suspect: the fashionable girl's best friend, Yuika Shudou.]]
* AllTakeAndNoGive: [[spoiler: Yuika killed Mihiro because she found her overbearing, self-absorbed and possessive, to the point of allegedly shooing everyone in Yuika's life so she could have her all for herself. [[BerserkButton Sonoko gets pissed off]] and [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on it]], saying that Yuika didn't trust Mihiro enough [[PoorCommunicationKills to tell her what was on her mind]] and set their boundaries/limits straight.]]
* ChildhoodFriends: Yuika and Mihiro.
* CostumePorn: In the manga, the reader catches a one-panel view of Mihiro's clothes and jewelry. [[AdaptationExpansion In the anime, however...]] ''holy crap'', she's got great taste and an AWESOME wardrobe.
* ElegantGothicLolita:
** Mihiro. Her bedroom is briefly seen at the start, and she's got several pieces of EGL clothing hanging on the walls.
** According to Conan's ImagineSpot, Ai would fit in fairly well due to her LittleMissSnarker nature.
** Also, when in a EGL boutique, Ran and Sonoko briefly borrow identical ''sweet lolita'' [[PinkMeansFeminine pink dresses]]. Conan gets ready to snark at Ran, but when [[SheCleansUpNicely he actually sees her on it]], he blushes and thinks to himself that she ''does'' look really good.
* MasterOfDisguise: Sort-of. [[spoiler: After killing Mihiro, Yuika [[DeadPersonImpersonation put on her clothes and a wig and impersonated her for a while to create an alibi]].]]
* {{Meganekko}}: Yuika.
* OfficeLady: Yuika, Mihiro's best friend. [[spoiler: And her murderer.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Seance's Double Locked Mystery Room Case]]
!!People from the Seance's Double Locked Mystery Room Case (Kouji Yatsukawa, Ryuichi Mifune, Shouko Utakura, Reiki Hirasaka, Maho Izumi, Kazuo Ohnogi, Yutaka Kani, Ichirou Sawanami, Kira Miyahara)
Conan, Ran and Kogoro get lost in the middle of a trip and knock on the door of a creepy BigFancyHouse. It turns out the owner is the manga artist Reiki Hirasaka, a friend of a person they helped before (TV producer Kouji Yatsukawa), and he and some other friends also affiliated to entertainment circles are holding a séance to invoke the spirit of Kira Miyahara, a beautiful IdolSinger who died a while ago, so they escape a supposed curse that has already costed another person their life. It's not enough, however: two of the attendants die, and both murder scenes are locked mystery room types! All of this is related to the mysterious Kira, whose body never was found... Is her spirit murdering those who were involved in her death? Is she alive and hiding, ready to attack the rest as revenge for whatever they did to her? Or is one of the attendants the real murderer, again in the name of revenge?
* TheAlcoholic: Hirasaka, who does it [[DrowningMySorrows due to depression]]. [[spoiler: He's a ''very'' mean drunk, however, and one year ago he killed Kira in the middle of a drunken tantrum.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Mifune not only wanted to murder the people who got his dear Kira killed, but hoped to manipulate the odds so the investigation of Kira's death would be re-opened and her corpse, supposedly hidden in Hirasaka's mansion, would be found. (And he was right - her remains were buried underneath the seance table)]]
* BeneathTheMask: Maho is actually VERY shy when she's not cosplaying and hanging around people like [[spoiler: Kira (when she was alive, that is.)]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: This is how [[spoiler: Shouko]] is found. The corpse lies on the seance table, arms outstretched like in a cross.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Mifune.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Shouko, when Mifune attacked her. She offered zero resistence upon being under attack ''of the man she was hopelessly in love with''.]]
* DudeLooksLikeALady: ... Wait, Hirasaka is a dude?
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: When Shouko found Sawanami's body, she noticed that he used his own blood to spell some ''kana'' on the floor. That's what made her realize that Mifune was the killer.]]
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Kira was one for [[spoiler: Mifune]] and [[spoiler: Maho]]
-->[[spoiler: Maho]]: "Miss Kira... She was my reason for '''living'''!"
* LoveHurts: [[spoiler: Kira and Mifune were secretly dating, until her death. Shouko loved Mifune but didn't tell him, as she was aware of how he was mourning for Kira. Due to an horrible misunderstanding, ''Mifune killed Shouko'', and only learned that she loved him when Maho told him ''after Shouko's death''.]]
* MadnessMantra: "It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie!", by [[spoiler: Mifune, after he's both found out ''and'' told about Shouko's feelings for him]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler:Reiki accidentally killed Kira via knocking her down to the floor when drunk, causing her to [[DeathByFallingOver fatally hit her head]]. He and the other people around staged a fake car accident to cover this up; however, that ended up tipping Mifune off, as Kira was actually a great driver.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Shouko.]]
* PoseOfSupplication: [[spoiler: Maho, when she explains her link to Kira and how she couldn't bring herself to say she was the woman who assisted the fatal party where Kira was killed by Reiki.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Cruel subversion. Since Shouko had found out that her beloved Mifune killed Sawanami, she told Mifune what happened and then promised that she wouldn't snitch. Mifune still killed her, both because he thought she'd {{black mail}} him and believed she was the girl who witnessed Kira's death and helped hide her body. (It was Maho, not Shouko)]]
* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Kira and Mifune. They never told anyone they were dating, since Japanese fans can be ''really'' possessive of their artistic celebrities [[YokoOhNo and would have HATED to see that "their Kira" was dating]].]]
* ShrinkingViolet: Maho.
%% * SpoiledSweet: Kira was a super popular idol, and said to be a really sweet girl. A good example was her OddFriendship [[spoiler:with Maho.]]
* StockShoujoBullyingTactics: [[spoiler: Poor Maho.]]
* UnrequitedTragicMaiden: [[spoiler: Shouko Utakura]] may be one of the most tragic cases in the whole franchise.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Holmes's Revelation case]]
!!People from the Holmes's Revelation case (Diana Kingston, Venus the kitty, the Glass family, Ares Ashley, Hades Sabara, Hestia, Demeter Bauer)
The Holmes' Revelation Arc is one of climatic entries in the series. Not only does Shinichi return for some time, [[spoiler: he also (kind of) finally confesses to Ran he loves her.]] It's a dream come true for Conan when he finally gets to go to London, home of his hero, Sherlock Holmes. However, the fun is cut short when Apollo Glass, a little boy whose older sister Minerva knows Shinichi from somewhere, requests help. Meanwhile, [[LoveHurts Ran is questioning her love for Shinichi...]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Hades Sabara's past deeds were so horrible that they had to be ''seriously'' {{bowdlerize}}d in the anime.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Only in the manga. [[spoiler: After the death of his IllGirl mother and his financial ruin, Hades Sabara murdered both the people hounding him for money ''and'' the friend who suggested he invest in the stock market. [[AndYourLittleDogToo And the friend's whole family.]] And he apparently ''[[HeartTrauma ripped their hearts out]]''.]]
* EveryoneHatesHades: In a roundabout way. Why else would you name the ''MadBomber SerialKiller'' after him?!
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: Minerva is playing badly because of her mother's kidnapping. Subverted: she's trying to tell the detectives about her abducted mom ''without stopping to play''.]]
* IllGirl: Minerva and Apollo's mother, Juno, is blind.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler: Minerva hits Hades with her tennis ball. Conan then grabs said ball and kicks it at him.]]
* LoveHurts: This is quite the emotional rollercoaster for Ran, as she starts to seriously doubt her and Shinichi's prospect relationship [[spoiler: after she misunderstands Minerva's "Love is zero" words as dis-encouragement, and a brief but awkward encounter with a temporarily normal Shinichi doesn't clear up anything.]]
* MadBomber: Hades Sabara and his accomplice Hestia.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Minerva and Demeter seems to be explicitly based on Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams.
* PassionateSportsGirl: Demeter and Minerva are both skilled tennis players
* ShippingTorpedo: [[spoiler: Subverted. Ran thought Minerva was this thanks to the "Love is zero" spiel, but she wasn't.]]
* ThemeNaming: All the characters introduced here have names related to [[Myth/GreekMythology Greek/Roman Gods.]]
* {{UsefulNotes/Wimbledon}}: The Women's Finals is vital to the plot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Small Client Case]]
!!People from the Small Client case (Kazuki Kinukawa, Yasuhiro Kamoshita, Mitsu Kusano, Toshiko Besshou, and Tomoka Saegusa)
Kogoro is contacted by seven-year-old Kazuki Kinukawa, a very popular child actor. He wants Kogoro to find his birth mother, who abandoned him when he was a toddler, so he can call her out on what she did to him and warn her that he won't hand her any money from his career. The leads they have guide them to a hot spring place in Atami, and they meet three women who can potentially be the one they're searching for... But then a JerkAss writer appears dead, and one of the three ladies is the prospect killer! For worse, the victim was planning to see if an ''horrible'' rumor about Kazuki's origins was true...
* BeautyMark: The main clue to the mysterious woman's identity is a mole that she's supposed to have on her body, more specifically on her chest. [[spoiler: It turns out that Tomoka, the real birth mother, had hers ''on the back of her neck''; Kazuki believed she had it on her chest because she carried him on her back as a toddler with a sling.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: Toshiko's actual reason to kill Kamoshita was that she claimed to be Kazuki's mom as a joke and got money outta the deal, but Kamoshita found out and threatened her.]]
* CallingTheOldManOut: Kazuki's purpose is to tell his mom that he wants nothing to do with her and won't let her [[FinancialAbuse financially abuse him]]. [[spoiler: It plays out VERY differently, because what he actually wants is to re-take contact with her.]]
* ChildProdigy: Kazuki, a famous star at barely age 7
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: There's a rumor about Kazuki's birth father being a criminal...]]
* DoorstopBaby: Kazuki was left by his mother on the door of a Christian church when he was around two years old. She still sent him postcards from Atami, but stopped doing so a year ago.
* FanDisservice: In the anime, the image of the well-endowed naked woman [[spoiler: [[FullFrontalAssault strangling Kamoshita to death]] ]] was far more "clearly" seen than in the manga. [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:EP354-355_Case.jpg But considering the circumstances... meeeeep.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: Toshiko bullied Tomoka into stopping her contact with Kazuki because she was barren, and thus she ''deeply'' resented Tomoka for having given her child away.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Kazuki.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Scar Of First Love case]]
!!People from the Scar Of First Love case (Kurumi Shudou, Taisuke Hoya, Ryuhei Kusumoto, Sougo Banba)
The first part of the "Scar that Evokes the Past" case. A rich blind lady named Kurumi Shodou hires Kogoro to help her find her FirstLove, a man who saved her when they were both children and, as a result, has a scar on his body. After giving a TV interview to make her case known, she has managed to narrow the search down to two men, and noww she wants Kogoro to find out which of them is the man from the past - but later they find out another prospect candidate! And at the same time, there's a hunt for a SerialKiller near the Shodou household...
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Kurumi always knew that Taisuke was the guy who saved her, but was too humble to let it be known. The whole deal was her way to make him come forward.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler: What the butler Taisuke Hoya did was... saving Kurumi's life, harboring feelings for her, and being the guy she was looking for.]]
* EyesAlwaysClosed ''and'' SunglassesAtNight: Both tropes are united in Kurumi's figure, signifying her blindness.
* DisabledLoveInterest: Kurumi is a very nice-looking rich woman, who is also completely blind. It's also inverted since she's more pro-active than the usual DIL and is actively searching for the guy she has loved for years.
* AFriendInNeed: According to Kurumi, her "scar boy" was almost unnaturally selfless. [[spoiler: As the grown-up Taisuke, ''he still is''.]]
* GoldDigger: The guy or guys who aren't the boy of the past easily fall into this, since Kurumi is ''loaded''. [[spoiler: Specially Kusumoto, who goes as far as ''using a scar that he copied from someone else'' to make himself pass as "the boy". [[ContrivedCoincidence And then]] the person whose scar he imitated turned out to be the SerialKiller that Matsumoto was looking for... (To be fair, Kusumoto didn't know about the last detail)]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: The man Kurumi is looking for has a distinctive scar, spreading across either his chest or his back. [[spoiler: What tips Conan off is how one of the candidates has a ''small'' scar... and it makes sense, since getting it as a boy means the scar is big on a child, '''but small on a grown man.''']]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler: Taisuke considers the accident where he gained his scar as this, as it's the same one where [[EyeScream Kurumi's eyes]] were injured enough to eventually cause her to be blind. That's the exact reason why he refuses to reveal his identity.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: The other trademark of this "mysterious boy" is his liking for ginger. This was shown in him loving both Ginger Ale drinks and ''gari'' aka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gari_(ginger) the pickled red ginger]] used on sushi. The kid loved ''gari'' so much that he introduced himself to little!Kurumi by his nickname "Gari-kun"! [[spoiler: This is proved in public when Kurumi has sushi brought to the reunion where Conan reveals the deal throgh Kogoro... and Taisuke, unaware of how this is a part of Kurumi's BatmanGambit, eats almost all the share of sushi that has ''gari''.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the Scar And the Whistling Man case]]
!!People of the Scar And the Whistling Man case (Superintendent Morimura, Douji Hiramune, Susumu and Eiki Nabei, Tsuguharu and Maiko Boukawa, Atsunori and Hidekuni Mugita)
The second part of the Scar that Evokes the Past case is focused on the look for a SerialKiller that Matsumoto, Megure, Takagi and others are hunting down. The criminal psychologist Douji Hiramune, who also happens to be Ayumi's neighbor, challenges this murderer in live television... and soon is found dead, his lifeless body branded with a letter. This confuses the police, as it doesn't exactly fit what they thought to be the killer's usual M.O... but there are other hints scattered around, and it's up to Conan and the police to put them all together!
As a corollary, this is the case where [[spoiler: Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato '''finally''' get their RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* AcheyScars: Matsumoto claims that when he [[spoiler: stepped into the Shodo home to confront Kusumoto (whom he believed to be the killer)]] and then when [[spoiler: he inspected the spot where Hiramune was killed]], he felt ''lots'' of pain in his infamous scar. [[spoiler: When Kibo is captured, not only he doesn't recognize Matsumoto but his scar doesn't hurt anymore, sorta "telling" Matsumoto to not hang onto ThatOneCase from then on.]]
* AloneWithThePsycho: [[spoiler: Takagi is ambushed, beaten up and captured by the killer of the present - the son of one of the past victims, who found out about the real killer and murdered him to avenge his DisappearedDad. The man ends up shooting him in the chest.]] It also ''almost'' happens to [[spoiler: Ai and Ayumi, who cross paths with the new killer when he's leaving Hiramune's apartment after killing him]]
* BatterUp: [[spoiler: The present killer]] beats the fuck out of a disarmed [[spoiler: Takagi]] with a baseball bat.
* Music/TheBeatles: In the manga, the killer was heard whistling "Let it be" [[spoiler: to signify the two or three bits of remorse he felt back then]]. It was taken out of the anime and replaced by a "random song that was popular back then" in story, likely to avert conflicts with royalties and copyrights.
* CopycatCrime: [[spoiler: The murder of the present.]]. A JustifiedTrope: [[spoiler: The new killer forced the old one to tell him how he commited the murders, then used said knowledge to kill his target since one of the past victims [[YouKilledMyFather was his dad]].]]
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: As Hiramune was bleeding to death, he managed to put blood on the CTRL and C keys and died grabbing the mouse by its cord to imply that the murderer was a JackTheRipOff.]] Similarly, [[spoiler: right before dying in Matsumoto's arms, Morimura tried to use his last words to pull this trope, but Matsumoto didn't understand it at that time.]]
* FatalFamilyPhoto: [[spoiler: According to Matsumoto, Morimura was about to get married and even showed him a picture of his girlfriend/soon-to-be wife. The hit-and-run incident [[RetiRony happened few afterwards]], and the dying Morimura admits he was reckless in order to impress his sweetheart.]] [[spoiler: Since Takagi had a similar behavior (photo or not photo), the others and ''specially'' Matsumoto fear for him - but he lives.]]
* GoodScarsEvilScars: One of the few concrete clues about the killer is that he has a large scar across his back. [[spoiler: And it was given to him by ''Matsumoto'', who snatched away his katana right after the EyeScream incident and wounded him.]] Also toyed with: [[spoiler: after killing Hiramune, Nabei Jr. saw the scar itself on Hiramune's back and used his knife to carve a "Z" there, to cover up said scar and throw the police off.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: [[spoiler: Eiki Nabei was ''ten years old'' when his father Susumu was murdered in the hall of the family house. Nabei Jr.'s bedroom was right next to the hall, meaning he didn't see the killer but could hear his and his dad's last talk as well as his whistling.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: The reason for Hiramune's three SlashedThroat murders. He first killed two of his {{TabletopGame/Mahjong}} partners (Mugita and Boukawa) because they thought his theories about perfect crimes were going ''too'' far, and he feared they'd tell other people about his creepy ideas. Years later, he killed the last partner remaining (Nabei Sr.) because said partner wanted to talk to the police about the case.]]
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: After Takagi confronts Eiki Nabei and Nabei Jr. confirms he killed Hiramune to avenge his father's murder, he tries to stage this once Sato starts calling to Takagi's phone. Takagi breaks said phone and ensures he will be the only hostage, which clues Sato in and makes her ask for back-up.]]
* ItsPersonal: Two of the reasons why Kiyonaga Matsumoto is so Hell-bent into catching this particular killer are linked to the trope. One: [[spoiler: during the early investigations of the crime, the killer used his car to fatally strike his partner/Megure's mentor, [[ForgottenFallenFriend Superintendent Morimura]], who [[DiedInyourArmstonight perished in Matsumoto's arms]] while trying to use his last words to lay some clues.]]. Second: [[spoiler: few after Morimura's death, the killer ''also'' scarred Matsumoto across the face ([[EyeScream and almost took out one of his eyes]]) [[KatanasAreJustBetter with his katana]].]] The third and last reason is under "StatuteOfLimitations".
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler: Hiramune, and how. Who would've thought that his arrogant declarations, made to throw suspicions off himself and look good while at it, would bring him his downfall?]]
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: What saved Takagi's life was the mahjong tile he had in his chest pocket, which blocked the bullet shot at him. (Though he still was injured enough to need hospitalization.) Shiratori keeps it later, and [[LampshadeHanging can't help commenting how cliché the situation is]].]]
* RedHerring: Midway through the case, [[spoiler: an ex-con named Dokurou Kibo is believed to be the culprit since he always had verbal spats with the victims in a mahjong parlor and, at some point, openly gunned for their deaths.]] [[spoiler: The SerialKiller of the past was actually ''Hiramune'', who ''also'' was the guy who both ran Morimura over and later gave Matsumoto his scar; Kibo couldn't be the murderer because, by the time Nabei was murdered, he ''already'' was in jail for other crimes. The definitive proof comes from him showing no reaction to Matsumoto, the man he supposedly "scarred" with a katana.]]
* SlashedThroat: Three of the four victims of the past died like this. (The other, a certain policeman who was on the case, was ran over in the streets.) Then, Hiramune was murdered in exactly the same way. [[spoiler: Because he ''was'' the killer of the past, and the killer of the present was the son of one of the victims. KarmicDeath, anyone?]]
* SmugSnake: '''Hiramune''', holy crap.
* StatuteOfLimitations: The last case of the SerialKiller is juuuust three days away from being definitely archived, which is the ''other'' reason why Matsumoto wants to catch the culprit that badly. [[spoiler: One can bet that Hiramune, being the killer himself, used this to try making himself look good and gain fame...]]
* ThatOneCase: For [[spoiler: Matsumoto, due to the connection with Morimura's murder and his own scarring]]. [[spoiler: Satou also alludes to ''her'' one case in a scene.]]
* TakeAThirdOption: Between [[spoiler: replying to Satou's ill-timed cellphone call]] and [[spoiler: ignoring it]] during the AloneWithThePsycho scene, [[spoiler: Takagi]] chooses to [[spoiler: ''break his 'phone with his own hands'' to avert a HostageSituation. Satou realises something wrong's going on and notifies the other policemen.]]
* UnusualEyebrows: The TallDarkAndHandsome Morimura's 'brows were kinda... [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:Superintendent_Morimura.jpg odd.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the Mystery of the Cherry Blossoms case]]
!!People of the Mystery of the Cherry Blossoms case (Nami Kasakura, Yoshiro Soumei, [[spoiler: the girl from Shiratori's past aka Sumiko Kobayashi]])
A case that happens a short time after the aforementioned "Scar and the Whistling Man" one, focused on Inspector Ninzaburou Shiratori. He decides to take a break and go to the theater [[spoiler: after learning that Sato has definitely chosen Takagi over him]]; due to a mistake he ends up stuck not just with Conan, Ai and the Detective Kids (whom he mentions [[spoiler: his actually sympathetic reasons to chase after Sato]] to), but with a beautiful woman named Nami Kasakura, whom he takes quite a liking to. After the movie is over, Nami asks Shiratori for help against a StalkerWithACrush - but it's too late, since whoever this stalker is, s/he has beaten her boyfriend Yoshiro Soumei to death! Conan and Ai wonder if there are other explanations for the crime, however, and so does Shiratori...
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Shiratori tells the kids and later Nami that he strongly believes in destiny. [[spoiler: The girl from his past [[ManicPixieDreamGirl changed his life so much for the best]] that he thinks she is his fated love, hence why he insists in courting Sato and later Nami, aka the ones he believes to be the grown-up version of said girl.]]
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Subverted. Shiratori is incredibly depressed upon seeing that the other strong candidate to be his "girl of destiny" is a BrokenBird[=/=]WomanScorned and the killer... but she isn't. [[FirstGirlAfterAll And she reappears almost immediately afterwards]].]]
* CherryBlossoms: Nami likes to use straw wrappers to make paper rings whose parts look like cherry blossoms, and she gives a cup to Shiratori that has those. [[spoiler: Just like the girl from his past]]. [[spoiler: This proves to be vital later since Shiratori, Conan and Ai see that she has ''several'' of those in her apartment, ready to use in her plan.]] It also [[ChekhovsGun gets a]] CallBack at the end [[spoiler: when Ayumi gives Shiratori a similar cherry-themed paper ring ''and'' tells him the same words used by the "girl of destiny", which leads Shiratori to recognize Kobayashi as his "fated love" when he sees her.]]
** [[LampshadeHanging The symbolism is even more anvilicious]] thanks to [[ThemeNaming the cherry blossom-themed names]] [[FlowerMotifs of these manga chapters]] [[spoiler: as well as the ones dedicated to Shiratori and Sumiko getting together]], by [[http://www.mangareader.net/139-8736-1/detective-conan/chapter-689.html one of the chapter covers]] featuring Shiratori and Conan under a blooming cherry tree, and by how, right after [[spoiler: Shiratori sees Kobayashi for the first time after many years and has his LoveEpiphany]], Conan and Ai notice that a bunch of nearby cherry trees are in bloom...
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Subverted by Shiratori and his "destiny girl", since they ''only'' met once and he didn't even know her name, [[ManicPixieDreamGirl despite her huge]] [[TrueLove impact in his life]]. He firmly believes the girl to be Sato, and that's why he pursues her [[RomanticFalseLead even when he knows]] [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan she leans more]] [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy towards Takagi]]... but later he wonders if she actually is Nami Kasakura.]] [[spoiler: And it turns out she's [[CoolTeacher Sumiko Kobayashi]].]]
* CrashIntoHello: Shiratori and Nami met when she bumped into him and made him drop his cola. [[spoiler: It was intentional.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: This case is dedicated to give the readers a more detailed (and probably quite needed) insight regarding Shiratori's thoughts and beliefs.
* FinancialAbuse: [[spoiler: Nami went off the deep end when Soumei took her mother's expensive ring (implied to be a TragicKeepsake) behind her back, apparently to pawn it, and then ''gave it to another woman as an engagement one''.]] Lampshaded when Megure says that [[spoiler: she could have easily denounced Soumei for theft/fraud instead of killing him.]]
* LoveHurts: And how. Not only [[spoiler: Shiratori goes into what looks a LOT like a compressed version of the FiveStagesOfGrief when he (mistakenly) believes [[UsedToBeASweetKid that the sweet little girl he knew grew up into a murderer]] ]], but [[spoiler: Nami became a killer and a huge WomanScorned ''because'' she got '''badly''' screwed by her AssholeVictim of a boyfriend, [[FinancialAbuse who not only took money from her]] but also was a big-ass cheater]].
* MeaningfulName: The name of the victim, Soumei Yoshiro, sounds a LOT like "Somei Yoshino" aka [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_×_yedoensis most popular variety of cherry blossom in Japan]].
* NiceHat: Nami wears a really cute [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knit_cap knit cap]]. [[spoiler: Which she uses in her plan by placing it on the sleeping Shiratori's head so the Detective Kids will think it's her instead. Since they're in a very dark theater ''and'' the other seats are empty, the deal works well... until Shiratori, Conan and Ai realise the trick.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: The kids are pretty happy when they see the chemistry between Nami and Shiratori...
* SlippingAMickey - TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: Nami intentionally makes Shiratori drop his drink, then offers him another as an apology. The second one is laced with sleeping pills.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: Nami claims that she has one, so she asks Shiratori to check around to see if he can find clues about their identity. However, the stalker ends up beating her boyfriend Soumei to death, apparently [[MurderTheHypotenuse to get him out of the way]]. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Of course]], there never was one to start with: ''Nami'' herself killed Soumei and made up the stalker deal to throw the kids and the police off.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler: Shiratori tells this to Nami before Takagi takes her away]]. [[spoiler: Subverted in that the sweet GenkiGirl he was thinking of did NOT grow into Nami, but into ''Kobayashi-sensei'' instead.]]
-->"You weren't like this in the past."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People of the Timeless Sakura Love case]]
!!People of the Timeless Sakura Love (Akira Sumida, Kikuna Kagitani, Ryoko Takimoto, and Ryusuke Kodama)
In this case Conan, Ai and the Detective Boys's CoolTeacher Kobayashi takes the spotlight alongside Inspector Shiratori. They have just met and [[ShipTease seem to be getting along pretty well]] as the summer goes on, [[spoiler: specially since Shiratori has realised that ''she'' was his [[SingleTargetSexuality "girl of destiny"]] instead of Sato]], but [[CannotSpitItOut it seems their advances will be rather slow]]. All of a sudden, however, things change: Kobayashi steps into the murder of a particularly dangerous LoanShark during a summer festival, the one who did this person in is on the loose, ''and'' Shiratori is the one in charge of the investigation...
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Kodama, who's got very dark skin. Probably thanks to [[spoiler: having been a once very promising baseball player]] and thus exercising a LOT outdoors.
* BatterUp: [[spoiler: While Kodama [[KnifeNut stabbed Sumida with a knife]], he later tried to "mess up" with Kobayashi with a baseball bat. Too bad [[BodyDouble the woman he attacked]] [[IdenticalStranger was actually]] [[ActionGirl Sato]]...]]
* BlatantLies: Noooo, Takimoto has ''NothingPersonal'' against the recently murdered Sumida-san, even after what she did!
Nothing, PassiveAggressiveKombat really! Ohohohoho!
* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Kodama had ''two'' of these. And after the second happened, Sumida began to pressure and threaten him...]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: For both Shiratori and Kobayashi. [[spoiler: And their RelationshipUpgrade.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: So Sumida wanted to kill Kodama? He ended up killing her instead.]]
* FatBitch: Sumida was a pretty much obese woman... and a completely ''rotten'' JerkAss. Did you know, in example, that [[spoiler: she claimed she had sold Kagitani's beautiful and super pricey ring already ''when she was actually wearing it'', and she did so ''in front of her'']]? Or that she [[spoiler: sold a supposedly valious plate to Takimoto for 500.000 yen and it turned out to be just 500 yen worth]]? She should've NOT [[spoiler: tried to invoke FinancialAbuse on Kodama]], however...
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Kodama tries to do this to Kobayashi, since she saw him around almost immediately after he killed Sumida and therefore [[SpannerInTheworks she would throw his plan off]] if she properly recalled more details.]]
* JapaneseDelinquents: Kikuna Kagitani was an infamous gang leaderess, and according to her declarations she can still easily summon more than 100 female delinquents to fight her battles. Additionally she bleaches her hair blond and, in the kids's {{Imagine Spot}}s, she's seen dressed up in a typical ''sukeban'' outfit.
* LadyLooksLikeADude: Sumida has such manly looks that, when her photo is shown around after her death, the only thing that proves her gender is how she buttons her blouse. And being mistaken for a guy was her BerserkButton.
* LoanShark: Sumida was technically a pawn shop owner, but she also loaned money and then was super abusive to the poor saps who didn't pay in time or didn't meet her expectatives. [[spoiler: When she tried to [[FinancialAbuse force Kodama to get a life insurance so she'd kill him and get the money from it]], that caused him to snap and kill her.]]
* RichBitch: Ryouko Takimoto, another of the suspects, is said to be from a very rich family. She's also super passive-aggressive when confronted.
* ShipperOnDeck: The kids notice that Shiratori and Kobayashi are hitting it off [[spoiler: ''and'' know the story behind their shared past]], so they try to push the two towards each other. Ai seems to be specially curious, and in a case between these two she expresses frustration at their slow advances. [[spoiler: When Kobayashi rejects Shiratori since she believes he only likes her because she looks like Sato, Conan explicitely says that he should catch the culprit of the case so she will "open her heart" to him once again.]]
* ShutUpHannibal: [[spoiler: Shiratori gives a ''magnificent'' one to Kodama when he claims that him killing Sumida was in self-defense.]] [[spoiler: It's also what leads to Kobayashi ''finally'' remembering how Shiratori did the same [[WiseBeyondTheirYears as a child]], [[RescueRomance to save her from thieves]].]]
-->"Criminal Law, Article #36. An act unavoidably performed to protect the rights of oneself or any other person against imminent and unlawful infringement is not punishable. An act exceeding the limits of self-defense may lead to the punishment being reduced or may exculpate the offender in light of circumstances. These are the provisions of self-defense. At the time of the crime, [[spoiler: you used a bladed weapon]] with the intent to kill. So none of these circumstances apply. Not to mention, [[spoiler: turning a bat which fulfills dreams into a weapon to silence people]] '''earns you no right to talk about dreams at all'''.
* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler: Kagitani's ring]] is implied to be this, since according to her [[spoiler: it belonged to her MissingMom.]]
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[[folder:People of the Broadcast of Love case]]
!!People of the Broadcast of Love case (Wataru Date, Ryousuke Fuemoto, Natalie Kuruma, Yuuko Tokugi, Kyouka Hikoue)
Detective Takagi begins to act a little oddly during winter, and seems to have many thoughts in his head. Suddenly, he disappears without a trace - and the next time he's seen he has been kidnapped and put in a DeathTrap that could be located anywhere in Northern Japan! Not only Conan, the Detective Kids and the whole Beika police department must find him before any of the trap's mechanisms activate and kill him, but they must also find out ''exactly'' why a person would hate someone like ''[[NiceGuy him]]'' enough to do such things...
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor, ''poor'' Natalie Kuruma.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Three young women killed themselves by hanging around the same time of Date's death. One was his girlfriend Natalie, who did so over her grief for his death. The others were the medical student Yuuko, who [[ItsAllMyFault couldn't forgive herself for accidentally killing a guy with her car]], and the hostess Kyouka whose world crashed when her boyfriend was uncovered as a fraudster.]]
* ForcedToWatch: The case is kickstarted when the Detective Kids are given a tablet PC... which shows them an image of the trapped Takagi. From then on it's a race against time to find the poor guy before he ends up dead thanks to one or another mechanism in it (hanging in a makeshift gallow, freezing to death in the very crude Japanese winters, or [[spoiler: being blown up by a hidden bomb]]).
* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: So Natalie and Date were about to get engaged? Date got hit by a car and died right before the fateful day, and Natalie was among those who identified his corpse. And then she hung herself in despair. And '''then''' her parents died when they were in their way to retrieve her body.]] And for worse? [[spoiler: Date had just succesfully finished a case about a fraudster, and the fraudster's girlfriend Kyouka was so devastated that she ''also'' hung herself in despair.]] YEOWCH.
* AGlassOfChianti: [[spoiler: Fuemoto is found in his old apartment with a bottle of good wine and a half-full glass.]] [[spoiler: In a subversion, he had poisoned his own drink before consuming it, effectively commiting suicide... and dying without revealing where Takagi is.]]
* HighClassCallGirl: [[spoiler: Kyouka Hikoue]] is implied to be one. She worked as a hostess and was noted to be both very pretty and popular among the men going to her work place.
* LikeASonToMe: [[spoiler: Fuemoto had an InterGenerationalFriendship with Natalie and considered her to be like his daughter. When she died, he completely lost it and decided [[LoveMakesYouEvil to kill the man who caused her death]], not knowing that Date had died and for worse, mistaking Date's best friend and surrogate 'younger brother' as the one who "caused" poor Natalie's disgrace.]]
* MixedAncestry: Natalie was half-American, half-Japanese, which is seen in [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold her blond hair.]] [[spoiler: When Date's parents came to retrieve their son's corpse, they saw her tearfully standing in a corner of the morgue and took notice of her unusual looks...]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Wataru Date, Natalie Kuruma, Yuuko Tokugi, and Kyouka Hikoue are already long dead, having perished at very least two years ago almost at the same time. One of the biggest plot points in the case is to decipher the connections between their deaths. [[spoiler: The only one that is disconnected of the case itself is Yuuko's.]]
* RavensAndCrows: At some point, some black birds [[spoiler: almost knock down the camera over the kidnapped Takagi]]. They turn out to be [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_jackdaw jackdaws]], and this allows the kids and the police to deduce that [[spoiler: Takagi is being held hostage in Hokkaido, since the jackdaws are mostly seen in Europe but sometimes they're spotted in Hokkaido.[[note]]Hokkaido is the northernmost Japanese island, and [[http://wikitravel.org/en/Wakkanai its absolute northermost city]] is a hub of connection with Russia's [[http://wikitravel.org/en/Sakhalin Sakhalin Island]] which, under the name of "Karafuto", once temporarily belonged to Japan.[[/note]].]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The case takes place in winter, and for worse Takagi's DeathTrap is placed in a extremely cold and snowy city which could be either in Aomori, Akita, Hokkaido, Iwate, Yamagata... practically ''anywhere'' in the North of Japan. [[spoiler: (Actually in Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido)]]. So even if none of the trap's mechanisms activate, Takagi (who is only wearing a suit since the kidnapper took his coat away) will still freeze to death and this will probably take place under the snow. [[spoiler: Even when he's (barely) rescued, Takagi suffers frostbite among other things as a consequence of being exposed to the cold for almost two days and must be hospitalized.]] It's even more anvilicious because, [[spoiler: when Sato and the others manage to reach for Takagi]], ''it actually begins to snow''. [[spoiler: And it switches to SnowMeansLove when he's completely safe and Sato, overjoyed to see everything's okay from now on, gives him the mother of all {{The Big Damn Kiss}}es.]]
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: [[spoiler: Fuemoto believed Natalie had done this. It turned out he was ''very'' wrong - her reasoning went more by her desire to be TogetherInDeath with Date.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Wataru Date and Natalie Kuruma, holy shit...]]
* UseYourHead: [[spoiler: A Sato in full [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective]] ActionGirlfriend mode does this to Fuemoto before telling him the truth about Date and Natalie.]]
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[[folder:People of the 'The partner is Santa-san' case]]
!!People of the 'The partner is Santa-san' case (Santa Ishikawa, Shigeko Ishikawa, Haruka [[spoiler: Ishikawa]], Minoru Moriwaki, Toshihiko Yamanaka, [[spoiler: Kurata]])
-->Santa Ishikawa is voiced by: Creator/RieKugimiya
-->Shigeko Ishikawa is voiced by: Creator/SayakaOhara
-->Minoru Moriwaki is voiced by: Creator/HiroShimono
-->Toshihiko Yamada is voiced by: Creator/YosukeAkimoto
A young widow named Shigeko Ishikawa goes to Kogoro because she's being followed around by an odd person who is becoming more and more aggressive in their pursuit. While Kogoro looks for Shigeko's stalker, Conan is stuck taking care of her child Santa, a really sweet but ''really'' hyperactive toddler who loves snooping around. [[spoiler: And turns out to be the key to solve the case.]]
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* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the case, the actual villain Kurata appears. And takes ''a two year old'' hostage, even threatening them with a knife, despite the baby's mother's tearful pleas. Thank God Conan manages to kick a ball at him and retrieve the baby safely.]]
* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Yamanaka is a basically good person who took a terrible decision out of despair, but repents as soon as Conan explains that Santa wanted to be his friend...]]
* BabysittingEpisode: Basically, Conan's part in this episode is looking after Santa. [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter It's much harder than it sounds.]]
* CheerfulChild: Awwww, Santa!
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Santa, and how. Who would say a toddler would be the key to unlock this case?]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler: Santa was trying to be genuinely friendly to Yamanaka, but he took it ''badly''.]]
* DisappearedDad: Santa's father/[[WidowWoman Shigeko's husband]] died the year before.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In one of the opening scenes, [[spoiler: Santa points at someone walking down the streets but Conan mistakenly thinks the baby's looking at the cars... not at Yamanaka.]] Also, [[spoiler: the way Santa hugs Ran hints at Santa being a girl not a boy. (Apparently some baby girls hug with their whole bodies, while baby boys tend to use their arms.)]]
* HostageSituation: Towards the end [[spoiler: not only Shigeko is captured by Yamanaka, but when he's about to have his HeelFaceTurn, his companion Kurata kidnaps Santa. Luckily Santa bit on his arm and was released, letting Conan use his superpowered shoes to kick a ball to Kurata's face.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Yamanaka realises that Santa was attempting to befriend him, he's horrified at his own behavior]]
* StaircaseTumble: Shigeko's stalker pushed her down a pedestrian bridge. Since she wasn't that high up there ''and'' fell over a soft bag she was carrying, she wasn't actualy hurt but was still very scared. Kogoro was walking by and went to help her, and that's when she decided to hire him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:'People' of the "Mushrooms, Bears and Detective Boys!" case]]
!!'People' of the "Mushrooms, Bears and Detective Boys!" case (Tomoya Negoro, Matasaburo Saika, Kiyoshi Yasaka, Jubei the bear, [[spoiler: the unnamed victim]]
Professor Agasa takes the Detective Boys in a mountain trip to get some ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsutake matsutake]]'' mushrooms, very famous for their delicious taste as well as ''super'' hard to find. The area as a whole, however, is divided in two fields: one for mushroom picking and another for hunting. Genta, and later Mitsuhiko and Ai, get lost in the hunting part... right when Jubei, a very ferocious bear, is lurking around and in a terrible mood. Three hunters tag along to help the group, and then they find the corpse of a fourth one. Which of the three is the killer?
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* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Saika never meant to shoot the Unnamed Hunter down, he was just trying to scare the others off and away from Jubei.]]
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Mitsuhiko shows traces of this, in regards to Conan.
* BearsAreBadNews: Jubei is very, VERY infamous for [[TomboyishName her]] bad temper, and everyone either fears her or wants to shoot her down. [[spoiler: Subverted: she's actualy very nice and she once saved Saika's life, but she's been on a constant and literal RoaringRampageOfRevenge after one of her two cubbies was ''murdered and used as a bait for her''. Saika made up tales about her beng a beast to keep the hunters away from her.]]
* EvenEvilhasStandards: [[spoiler: Negoro was gung-ho on hunting Jubei down, but he was as shocked as everyone else when he learned about the Unnamed Hunter's horrible trap for her.]]
* EyeScream: Jubei had an eye shot off her years ago. [[spoiler: She was tending to the injured Saika and trying to help him, but other hunters who had come to help him too thought she was about to eat him and then shot at her...]]
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Ai and Mitsuhiko sorta play the role after they 'befriend' the ''adorable'' bear cubbie. [[spoiler: Saika plays it straighter, as he tried to return Jubei's kindness by protecting her (and later her cubs) through the years. He even dug a grave for the cubbie that was killed.]]
* LivingMacGuffin: The bear cub, sort-of.
* MacGuffin: The ''matsutake'' mushrooms that Agasa and the kiddos are looking for.
* MamaBear: Ai and Mitsuhiko find a bear cub in their path. Then their mother appears, and she's NOT pleased. [[spoiler: Because the cub's sibling was messily killed few ago.]] In fact, [[spoiler: Jubei ''immediately'' calms down, stops her rampage and goes away peacefully with her remaining cubbie when the kids release it and allow it to reunite with her.]]
* MistakenForMurderer: Sorta. [[spoiler: Conan believed that Saika was specifically aiming to kill Ai and Mitsuhiko because they knew too much about his intentions. He never had such intentions; he shot around because he wanted to scare them off... and ended up killing the other hunter ''also completely by accident''.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast: Jubei is nicknamed as such because she [[EyeScream lacks an eye]] and thus is compared to the famous UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei.
* OlderIsBetter: Saika is in his 60's and is the most experienced, wise of the three hunters. [[spoiler: And the SympatheticMurderer.]]
* ShoutOut: When Saika explains why Jubei the bear is called like that, the picture of UsefulNotes/YagyuJubei that appears on the background is clearly one of from Anime/{{Yaiba}}'s Jubei.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Poor, ''poor'' Jubei, who lost her cub horribly and snapped...]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:People from the Lupin III vs. Detective Conan TV special]]
!!People from the ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan'' TV special (Queen Sakura Aludia, Crown Prince Gill Cowell and Princess Mira Julietta Vespaland of Vespania; Count Keith Dan Stinger, Duke Gerard Musca Vespaland)
-->Queen Sakura Aludia Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/HirokoSuzuki
-->Prince Gill Cowell Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/JunFukuyama
-->Princess Mira Julietta Vespaland is voiced by: Creator/YuiHorie
-->Count Keith Dan Stiner is voiced by: Creator/HikaruMidorikawa
As its name says, this 2009 TV special is a crossover between ''Detective Conan'' and the legendary franchise, ''Franchise/LupinIII''. The Kingdom of Vespania has been thrown into turmoil after the deaths of its Queen and Crown Prince, and the crown is about to go to the Queen's youngest daughter Mira, a RebelliousPrincess [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating believed to be unfit to be the new sovereign]]. In an attempt to make her more popular, her advisor Count Keith arranges an official trip to Japan, and the paths of Princess Mira and her IdenticalStranger Ran Mouri end up crossing. Which ''also'' brings Conan into the fray, as not only he knows that his beloved Ran is playing the "princess" role for Mira, but he finds out that Lupin and his gang are planning a HUGE theft and they're hanging around Mira's entourage to get it done...
* {{Bowdlerize}}: For obvious reasons, this special has ''some'' less adult humor and FanService than it's usual in the ''Lupin III'' series.
* CherryBlossoms: One of these is vital to the plot, as it's underneath it that the royal MurderSuicide took place. [[spoiler: And later, Mira decides to take over when she's standing in front of it as well.]]
* CynicismCatalyst: Mira has both her mother and older brother as these.
* IdenticalStranger:
** Save for the hair/eye colors and their ethnicities, [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/File:Ran_and_Princess_Mira.jpg Ran and Mira]] look almost exactly alike. So Mira tries to make Ran her BodyDouble [[spoiler: and later Ran has to "continue" the charade for other reasons...]]
** Also, Prince Gill looked like Shinichi but as a blue-eyed blond. This isn't commented upon, probably because Gill is a PosthumousCharacter and to avert any... weird implications.
* MacGuffin: Two, actually!:
** The beautiful and unvaluable Crown of Vespania, which Lupin intends to steal. [[spoiler: In reality, he had stolen it already years ago, but returned it when the then recently crowned Sakura (who had a CelebCrush on Lupin) found out; then, he made her promise she'd be TheHighQueen from then on in exchange for returning it.]]
** Also [[spoiler: some really rare mineral ores that were found in Vespanian soil, which thanks to their "complete stealth powers" [[InvisibilityCloak may make things totally invisible to any radars.]] Queen Sakura really didn't want to use these ores inadequately (i.e., for warfare) and refused to exploit them, so her greedy brother Duke Gerard killed her to take a hold on them.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: Queen Sakura and Prince Gill, who died few months before the special takes place.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Two of these [[spoiler: and probably three]]:
** Count Keith is the leader of the Parliament and holds an UndyingLoyalty to Sakura, so he does what he can to help Mira out. [[spoiler: Even if it involves pretty much kidnapping Ran to force her to stay as Mira's BodyDouble a little longer.]]
** Queen Sakura was one when she was alive, [[spoiler: so she [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished got murdered]] by Gerard for doing what she believed to be the right thing.]]
** [[spoiler: The new Queen Mira will probably turn out to be one as well, specially after all of these adventures.]]
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: ... There's ''no'' way Gill could have shot himself in the head with a hunting rifle and have just a tiny fatal wound.
* RoyalBrat: Princess Mira doesn't have a lot of respect for authority and can be pretty selfish and entitled. It's stated by Keith and [[spoiler: Fujiko]] that [[UsedToBeASweetKid she wasn't like that originally]], but became this [[BrokenBird out of the deep trauma she suffered]] [[OrphansOrdeal after losing her mother and brother]], rather than anything else. Therefore [[spoiler: Keith hired [[ActionGirl Fujiko]] as Mira's bodyguard so she'd be able to get out and unwind a little before deciding her future]]. [[spoiler: Mira ultimately decides that she ''will'' take over and reign over Vespania as well as she can.]]
* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Lupin and his gang figure out Conan's identity.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: It's believed that Gill [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed]] his mother Sakura during a hunt outing, then crossed the DespairEventHorizon and shot himself dead in grief. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Nope:]] [[EvilChancellor Duke]] [[TheEvilPrince Gerard]] killed his sister Sakura and then [[HeKnowsTooMuch "silenced" his nephew Gill]].]]
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: [[spoiler: A fake sommelier poisons Mira's wine during a party, but Conan and then Kogoro (both guests at the party) stop him. This causes quite a mess and allows RebelliousPrincess Mira to sneak away, then meet [[IdenticalStranger Ran]]...]]
* ThouShallNotKill: [[spoiler: Queen Sakura was a FriendToAllLivingThings, therefore she had secretly converted the hunting cartridges into blanks during "hunting outings". This proves to be Duke Gerard's perdition, as it was impossible for Gill to shoot his mom and himself dead without someone switching the cartridges back...]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Princess Mira adores sushi.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tamanosuke Ito and his travelling drama troupe]]
!!Tamanosuke Itou and his travelling drama troupe (Tamanosuke and Megumi Itou, Ryuichi Muraki, Yuri Shirai, Itoe Ogiwara, Kenzou Tajima, Tetsuo Chikaishi)
-->Tamanosuke Itou is voiced by: Creator/SoichiroHoshi
-->Yuri Shirai is voiced by: Creator/SayakaOhara
-->Itoe Ogiwara is voiced by: Creator/KazueIkura
-->Ryuichi Muraki is voiced by: Creator/KenNarita
A NewTransferStudent in Ran and Sonoko's class, Tamanosuke Ito, is not only a TallDarkAndHandsome NiceGuy but the leader of a drama group that has been going through hard times after the death of his parents, the original leaders. The Detective Boys, Ran and Sonoko try to help him with his newest play, one about the legendary thief Edo Boy, by giving away flyers and checking on their well being. But two deaths happen all of a sudden, revealing some rather dark secrets within the group...
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Itoe fell in a trap intended for Tamanosuke.]]
* AngstComa: [[spoiler: Tamanosuke is injured and briefly falls into unconsciousness after Itoe's death. Kogoro and Conan believe the latter comes less from his injuries and more [[BreakThecutie from mental fatigue]].]]
* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler: Subverted. Tajima ''did'' suffer an injury on his back that kept him from doing his usual acrobatics, but at some point during the past year, the pain had gone away and that allowed him to both perform his thievery ''and'' his murders.]]
* CheerfulChild: D'aww, Megumi!
* DeathByFallingOver: [[spoiler: The culprit staged a trap like this for Tamanosuke, using a hole in the stage that was supposed to be a part of the scenery [[ChekhovsGun and was the same one Ayumi almost fell into earlier in the case]]. [[AccidentalMurder Itoe fell in it instead]].]]
* DisguisedInDrag: As a child, Tamanosuke often played girl roles. [[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/images/thumb/4/47/Episode_126_scene_4.jpg/180px-Episode_126_scene_4.jpg And looked adorable while at it.]]
* HarmfulToMinors: The first victim was found dead by ''a seven year old girl''.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Used ''twice'' by the killer of the case:
** First, [[spoiler: Chikaishi had realised that there was a thief in the troupe, who used the group to steal valious things all around Japan. He also identified the thief, Kenzou Tajima, and tried to blackmail him. Tajima got fed up and killed him, which ties into the second case...]]
** Later, it turns out that [[spoiler: Tamanosuke had also realised that Tajima was a thief, so he staged the whole "Edo Boy" play as a way to flush him out and convince him to turn himself in. After killing Chikaishi (and stealing his disk containing the script of the play), Tajima set his eye on Tamanosuke and tried to murder him as well...]]
* GetOut: Chikaishi is introduced by kicking Tamanosuke out of his inn room. [[KickTheDog Literally]].
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Chikaishi was a JerkAss and he smoked in a pipe.
* NewTransferStudent: Tamanosuke, specially highlighted by him wearing a [[SailorFuku gakuran]] in school instead of a blazer uniform.
* NiceGuy: Tamanosuke. Though [[FatalFlaw this also brings him trouble]], as he can't bring himself to fully call out Chikaishi when in his JerkAss moods, since he doesn't want the troupe to get into more troubles.
* PromotionToParent: 17-year-old Tamanosuke, towards his 7-year-old sister Megumi.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Chikaishi is really, ''really'' bitter...
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler: When the murderer tries to kill the knocked-out Tamanosuke in the hospital, under the disguise of a doctor, he's caught by the police and it turns out the "Tamanosuke" he attacked is a disguised mannequin. So he breaks the window and jumps off to escape.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler: Tajima breaks down in tears when Tamanosuke apologizes to him for insisting in the "Edo Boy" play and explains his reasons behind it.]]
* TroubledProduction: An InUniverse example, with the "Edo Boy" play that the group's getting ready. The script writer is a bitter JerkAss, the troupe leader is a sweetie but he's overwhelmed due to his lack of experience, [[spoiler: the treasurer [[FinancialAbuse had embezzled quite a sum of money]] ]], two troupe members die... Oh dear.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kyousuke Haga and the Shitara family]]
!!Kyousuke Haga and the Shitara family (Ayane, Chuuichirou, Genzaburou, Emi, Furuto, Hazuki, Danjirou and Chinami Shitara), Benio Tsumagami
-->Kyousuke Haga is voiced by: Creator/KoichiYamadera
The "Dissonance of the Stradivarius" case starts when the very rich Shutara clan is seemingly hit by a curse: every time the family's prized Stradivarius is used to play music, a family member has been hit with misfortune... and lately , these "misfortunes" have been fatal. The young heiress of the clan hires Kogoro to find an explanation and break the curse, and her musician uncle Kyousuke Haga is involved in the deals.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Shitaras have very, VERY dark family bonds.
* TheButlerDidIt: One of the suspects is the family butler and Kyousuke's ParentalSubstitute, Benio. [[spoiler: Nope, she didn't do it.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Kyousuke. It's thanks to him that Conan finds out about a VERY important clue towards Ano Kata, which he had been struggling to do at the start of the case.]]
* DestinationDefenestration: At least two family members [[spoiler: (the matriarch Ayane and her son Furito, aka Hazuki's DisappearedDad)]] died like this.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Kyosuke tried to do it by throwing himself off a window after being revealed as the killer. Conan had already told the firemen working in the mansion about it, so they stopped him.]]
* ElegantClassicalMusician: Two of these!
** Kyousuke is a violinist with TallDarkAndHandsome looks, [[UnkemptBeauty enhanced by]] his PermaStubble. [[spoiler: He's also the SympatheticMurderer.]]
** Hazuki, the girl who hired Kogoro, is very cute and plays the violin very well. She hires Kogoro because she's well aware that the Stradivarius will ''not'' go to her when its owner Chuuichirou dies, so she wants the "curse" to be broken so she can play it at least once in her life.
* IllGirl: Kyousuke's mother Chinami was already fatally ill around the time her husband died. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Nope]]: she was killed to cover up Danjirou's murder.]]
* MacGuffin: The supposedly "cursed" Stradivarius violin, cause of several deaths in the family.
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Genzaburou's death.]]
* NervousWreck: Ayane, the leader's wife, acts as if she was permanently in the verge of a mental meltdown ever since [[spoiler: her son aka Hazuki's father]] died, to the point of sometimes walking around the halls holding the Stadivarius to her chest and murmuring {{madness mantra}}s... [[spoiler: Then, she's one of the victims since she and others helped Chuuichirou cover up for his murder of Danjirou.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Benio worked for Kyosuke's dead parents rather than the clan as a whole, and while Kyousuke was raised by his maternal relatives (the Haga family), she helped raise him.
* StaircaseTumble: Two family members died like this: Kyousuke's father Danjirou [[spoiler: (thrown down the stairs by robbers who were after the Stradivarius, died some time later in the hospital)]] and his and Hazuki's aunt Emi (an accident). [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Again, nope]]: Danjirou was killed by Chuuichirou over the Stradivarius, and while Emi's death ''was'' a genuine accident, seeing her trip to her death despite being a skilled athlete is what gave Kyosuke the idea to kill the others.]]
* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler: Conan and Kyosuke rescue Ayane from a burning building by doing this and landing on Kogoro's rented van.]] [[spoiler: (Of course, Ayane will die later.)]]
* ThemeNaming: The chapters involving this case are named "Prelude", "Capriccio", "Requiem"...
* WrongGenreSavvy: When it's theorised that Hazuki could be murdered very soon, she says "but this is not like a mystery novel". [[TemptingFate Oh, dear.]]
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[[folder:The Morizono family and its associates]]
!!The Morizono family (Mikio, Yurie and Kikuhito Morizono, Kaede Katagiri, Yuji Sakuraba, Akio Shigematsu)
The rich family from the ''Night before the Wedding Murder Locked Room''. Heiji's mother Shizuka is a friend of them, but when their youngest son Kikuhito is about to marry a young lady named Kaede, she cannot go and asks Heiji and Kazuha to head to Tokyo in her name. After hanging out with Conan and the Mouris for a while, they go to the Morizono's beautiful mansion... but then everyone gets a terrible surprise when Akio Shigematsu, the butler of the family and the one who arranged the marriage itself, is found stabbed to death!
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* ArrangedMarriage: Kaede Katagiri and Kikuhito Morizono. Kikuhito seems to adore Kaede, but while she doesn't outright hate him, she seems to be a bit doubtful.[[spoiler: Because her TrueLove is Sakuraba.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: Inverted, the butler is '''the murder victim'''.
* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Kaede's blue pendant.]]
* CrazyJealousGuy: [[spoiler: Sakuraba is believed to be one ''and'' to have killed Shigematsu as revenge for forcing Kaede and him to be apart, but the true CJG is Kikuhito. Enough to not just murder Shigematsu, but [[UriahGambit to frame Sakuraba to get him out of the way]].]]
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Kaede possesses a very beautiful blue pendant. [[spoiler: Sakuraba has a matching one, and that reveals [[StarCrossedLovers their true connection]].]]
* {{Fainting}}: Kaede passes out when she sees Shigematsu's corpse. When she becomes one of the suspects, Heiji and Conan wonder if [[WoundedGazelleGambit she was faking it]. [[spoiler: Not only she ''wasn't'' pretending, but she's completely innocent.]]
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: 30 years ago there was a LoveTriangle between Mikio Morizono, Akio Shigematsu, and an unnamed girl who ultimately married Morizono, becoming the ([[MissingMom now dead]]) "lady" of the house. Now, Morizono's son Kikuhito and Shigematsu's protegé Sakuraba are in a love triangle with Kaede.]]
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* IShallTauntYou: [[spoiler: Kikuhito provokes Sakuraba into hitting him to make him look worse and more suspicious... and specially to break a window that has a hole he used to stage a false "locked room" mystery]]
* LoveTriangle: [[spoiler: Kikuhito, Kaede and Sakuraba. In fact, one of Kikuhito's two reasons to kill Shigematsu and frame Sakuraba is [[CrazyJealousGuy his jealousy]] and the belief that Sakuraba is about to steal Kaede away. (He didn't know that they were in love well before she knew Kikuhito.)]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: When Shigematsu realized that he was about to condemn his adoptive son [[LoveHurts to the same unhappiness]] [[GenerationXerox he once went through]], he had this reaction and tried to convince Kikuhito to call off the wedding. And got stabbed to death for it.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Everything points out at Sakuraba. But he's not the culprit.]]
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Implied. [[spoiler: Heiji says that according to the servants, Kikuhito pressured Kaede's family and their bussiness to get more leverage.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Kaede and Sakuraba were in their way to become this, since they had to break up in order to have Kaede marry Kikuhito.]]
* UpperClassTwit: While Mikio and Yurie were decent people, Kikuhito was kiiiiind of a jerk and specially to Sakuraba. [[spoiler: Double because of his jealousy.]]
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Kikuhito hates, HAAAAAATES heights. i.e, Shigematsu has to take Kaede on a sightsteeing tour before the wedding because she wants to go to the Tokyo Tower and Kikuhito utterly, completely refuses to go there. At some point Conan falls off a high tree but Kikuhito freezes up and can't help him, [[BigDamnHeroes so Sakuraba catches him]]. [[spoiler: He tries to stage his murder of Shigematsu in a way that will suggest someone ''without'' said phobia is the killer, but fails. Conan even manages the incident with the tree as evidence against him!.]]
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[[folder:The Detectives' Koshien Case]]
!!People involved in the Detectives' Koshien Case (Natsuki Koshimizu, Junya Tokitsu, [[spoiler: Kana Mizoguchi]], [[spoiler: the unnamed socialite]], Hiroo Tsuchio and Renzo Koya)
On the heels of an investigation at a temple, Heiji brings Conan along for a televised event called the "Detectives Koshien" (Koshien meaning "Challenge"). Where four high-school detectives will be brought to mansion on an island to test their wits on a case. Other competitors included Saguru Hakuba, Natsuki Koshimizu, and Junya Tokitsu, with producer Hiroo Tsuchio and servant Renzo Koya on board for the production. Which also has a connection [[spoiler: from a previous case involving the death of a socialite.]] Kazuha has her suspicions of something wary going on at the island... [[spoiler: It turns out the show was a hoax, and a murder was involved.]]
More about Natsuki and Junya on the [[Characters/DetectiveConanOneSceneWonders One Scene Wonder page.]]
* BestServedCold: Ultimately what the murdered had resorted to. After [[spoiler:Junya's]] murder, [[spoiler: Natsuki]] intended to have [[spoiler: Hiroo, Renzo, and herself]] stranded on the island to starve to death for the events that happened two years ago.[[spoiler: Wanting to have Hiroo and Renzo dead for the former setting up the window trick while breaking in the mansion ''after'' the suicide, which fooled Junya to think it was a homicide. And the latter for not testifying for Kana out of fear of sullying the socialite's name.]] With Conan, Heiji and Saguru as collateral damage. Fortunately Kogoro, Ran and Kazuha's own investigation brought a rescue boat.
* BetrayalByInaction: [[spoiler: Natsuki considering Renzo not defending Kana when the police interrogated her to be this.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Socialite who took her life was thought of have hung herself. However a development changed it to a murder case. In reality, she ''did'' commit suicide in the midde of a nervous breakdown, but Renzo didn't say anything to protect her honor.]]
** [[spoiler: Natsuki's best friend Kana Mizoguchi]] took her own life due to the pressure of [[spoiler: being unfairly persecuted for the murder.]]
* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler: How Junya was murdered.]]
* GracefulLoser: After the murderer's plan to have everyone stranded failed, [[spoiler: Natsuki chose to turn herself in]]. Then said that [[spoiler: she would loved to do a real Koshien with the boys.]]
%% * UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects: [[spoiler: Crucial when it came to how three of the detectives were chosen. When Natsuki heard from Kana about a detective with an weird accent, she invited the three that were chosen to deduce who it could've been. Heiji has a [[KansaiRegionalAccent thick Osakan accent]]. Hakuba had been studying abroad, so he had been neglecting on his Japanese. Tokitsu instead used more antiquated pronouns when addressing to himself. Shinichi-Conan speaks a pretty thick Edo-ben, aka Shitamachi Tokyo accent.]]
* TheOphelia: [[spoiler: The Socialite ''really'' did kill herself from having a nervous breakdown. Renzo did not testify due to how Japanese society frown on the mentally-ill.]]
** [[spoiler: Kana was the one who filled an Ophelia's water theme, however, as she commit ed suicide by throwing herself off a cliff and into the sea.]]
* RedHerring: From a previous case. [[spoiler: The Window Trick that Junya discovered was really from an unrelated theft caused by Hiroo. A mistake that would cost everyone dearly.]]
* StartsWithASuicide: [[spoiler: The anime version of this case begins with Kana thinking of her terrible last days, before she throws herself into the sea and to her own death.]]
* TearsOfRemorse: [[spoiler: Renzo broke down remembering about the Socialite and her suicide, since he held her dear to him. Natsuki did the same in the anime while remembering Kana's suicide and explaining what happened.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Renzo truly cared for the Socialité. This led him to commit the huge mistake of not telling that she killed herself, afraid that the lady's name would be tarnished [[http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/new-documentary-explores-taboo-subject-of-mental-illness-in-japan in a society]] that treats the mentally ill '''really''' badly.]]
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[[folder:The Torada and Tatsuo families]]
!!People involved in the ''Fuurinkazan'' serial murder case (Naonobu Torada, Tatsue Torada, Shigetsugu Torada, Yoshiro Torada, Yui Torada, Tamefumi Tatsuo, Shigeyo Tatsuo, Akira Tatsuo, Ayaka Tatsuo, Koji Tatsuo, Kuroto Kai)
The feuding Torada and Tatsuo families respectively ask Kogoro and Heiji for help after each of their family members was killed under unusual circumstances, with centipede corpses beside their bodies being the only common theme. Both groups of detectives eventually meet and run into Kansuke Yamato, a police detective from Nagano prefecture who thinks the murders may be related to the death of a certain Kuroto Kai six years earlier. The following day, when Ayaka hears of Ran and Kazuha seeing the shadow of a UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen armor the previous night, she locks herself in the bathroom, only to go missing. The two families plus the protagonists and Yamato search for the missing woman, and the Nagano detective sees her hanged from a tree.
This case marked the debut of Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara, both officers (the latter being on her TenMinuteRetirement from the force at the time) from the Nagano Prefectural Police. More about the two on [[Characters/DetectiveConanPoliceOfficersOutsideOfTokyoAndOsaka Police Officers Outside of Tokyo and Osaka page.]]
* TenMinuteRetirement: Yui was in one from the Nagano police in this episode, though it turns out it was part of her investigation.
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: In Shigetsugu's notebook, he, Yoshiro, Koji, and Ayaka wrote that they set off fireworks only to injure Kuroto and put him out of contention as the village's representative for their festival. The horse apparently panicked and thus he was thrown off a cliff. This turns out to be a RedHerring, as fireworks weren't the reason the horse acted that way. Tatsue actually shot it and Kuroto was left to die at a shaded spot below the cliff, making him the first casualty of the ''Fuurinkazan'' serial murders and representing the ''in'' (shadow) part of ''Fuurinkazaninrai.'']]
* DeathByFallingOver: Subverted for Kuroto. While he does fall, it was starvation that did him in as he fell on a shaded portion under the cliff.
* DyingClue: [[spoiler: Ayaka's blue eye shadow points out to Tatsue's black horse which the latter rode to hang the former.]]
* FeudingFamilies: The Torada and Tatsuo families. Apparently, their feud has gone long enough that Shigeyo, the oldest member of either family, has no idea why they hated each other in the first place.
* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler: Tatsue planned to kill Akira and frame it as a murder-suicide on Yui.]]
* FreakOut: Ayaka has one when she hears that Ran and Kazuha saw the silhouette of the red UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen armor the previous night.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Yoshiro and Koji planned to go forward to the police as the former remembered that a gunshot was fired just before Kuroto died. They were killed (in the case of Yoshiro, left to die) for their troubles. Likely also the case for Shigetsugu and Ayaka, who were by the current timeline the surviving witnesses of Kai's murder.]]
* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler: Shigetsugu was electrocuted after he was lured into retrieving his notebook that was placed on an overhead line.]]
* HostileWeather: Yoshiro was killed by a tornado...[[LeftForDead well, mostly.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Kuroto and Akira are known to practically never miss in horseback archery. Hell, the former did not even miss for ''ten'' straight years, at least until his final stint at the festival. Akira hadn't missed for ''five.'' [[spoiler: This is also the reason for Kuroto's murder and the attempt on Akira's life; nobody would place a bet because of their ridiculous skills and this posed a threat on Tatsue's gambling business.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Tatsue thinks the tornado killing Yoshiro was this for [[HeKnowsTooMuch suspecting foul play was involved]] in Kuroto's death.]]
* LeftForDead: A centipede corpse was placed near Yoshiro's body, and the fresh blood at the time indicated he was still alive when it was placed.
* ManOnFire: [[spoiler: Shigetsugu. Since he was electrocuted and burned, everyone initially assumed he represented "fire" in ''Fuurinkazan.'' This turns out to be ''another'' RedHerring as his death actually stood for ''rai'' (lightning); Akira was supposed to stand for ''ka'' (fire) until Conan, Heiji, Yui, and Yamato thwarted Tatsue's attempt on his life.]]
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Koji took up the Tatsuo surname when he married into the family. Curiously enough, his wife was never mentioned in any of the two episodes.
* PastExperienceNightmare: Yoshiro having these and muttering about [[spoiler: "the sound, the flash..." led Yui to conclude that there was a fifth person involved in Kuroto's death.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Kuroto was a beloved figure in his hometown; when he went missing, the entire village searched for him 24/7 over the course of a week until Yui found his emaciated body.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Tatsue committed the five murders and attempted a sixth (Akira); while the murders were indeed based on the ''Fuurinkazan'' battle standard, the term was incomplete and she mentions that it's actually ''Fuurinkazaninrai,'' which includes the phrases "Be as hard to know as the shadow" and "Move as fast as lightning." Those omitted portions stood for the murders of Kuroto and Shigetsugu (the latter initially thought to represent "fire" and was also thought to be suicide at first). The reason she committed the murders was that Kai's ImprobableAimingSkills threatened her gambling business which was centered on the horseback archery in the annual festival. The other four were murdered since they witnessed Kuroto's death, and likely [[HeKnowsTooMuch saw too much.]]]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Kuroto appears to have shipped Yui and Kansuke when he was still alive.
* ShoutOut: The murders were themed on ''Fuurinkazan'', a battle standard used by UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen during the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod which was in turn based on Passages 17 to [[spoiler: 19]] of the seventh chapter of Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu.
* TreasureHunter: Shigetsugu, Akira, Yoshiro, Ayaka, and Koji were said to have looked for UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen's legendary lost treasure. [[spoiler: Downplayed for Shigetsugu and Ayaka, who did not react to the presence of centipede corpses beside the bodies of the other two.]]
* WickedStepmother: [[spoiler: Tatsue caused her stepson Shigetsugu's death by electrocution in addition to murdering her biological son Yoshiro and three others.]]
* WidowWoman: Yui's husband was left for dead after falling victim to a tornado.
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[[folder:People from the Red Woman Case]]
!!People involved in the Red Woman case (Tamami Minegishi, Sumika Kawana, Masaie Hakuya, Jinsuke Ninda, Satoko Imoto, Komayo Takeno, [[spoiler: Komayo's unnamed husband]], Shinobu Kagawa)
--> Tamami Minegishi is voiced by: Creator/KazueIkura
--> Sumika Kawana is voiced by: Megumi Tano
--> Masaie Hakuya is voiced by: Creator/YusukeNumata
--> Jinsuke Ninda is voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura
--> Shinobu Kagawa is voiced by: Kaoru Sasajima
In a case also notorious for its NightmareFuel, Masumi is invited by her then-unknown middle brother's high school friends to investigate strange phenomena in a villa, in which she tags along Conan, Ran, and Sonoko. When the latter two mention that they spotted a red woman lurking in the forest, Tamami, Sumika, Masaie, and Jinsuke all express shock and tell the story of a murder case involving the Red Woman from 15 years ago and the disappearance and eventual death of their friend Satoko three years later. When Sumika finds the bathtub filled with tomatoes, Conan and Masumi rush to investigate and pull out Masaie's lifeless body from the sea of fruits.
This case marks the first appearance of the unknown girl living with Masumi Sera, albeit as a screensaver in the latter's phone.
* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: Satoko likely drowned in the bog by accident after Shinobu chased her, thinking she was the Red Woman. The original Red Woman's (Komayo) body wouldn't be found until after Satoko's death, hence why Shinobu thought the Red Woman was still on the loose.]]
* AxCrazy: The impression most of the cast have of the Red Woman is this.
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: The reason the Red Woman got her name is that she spilled so much blood from her husband that her dress turned red.
* DeadAllAlong: The original Red Woman had been dead for 15 years; Nagano police just couldn't confirm it until they found [[spoiler: Komayo's]] umbilical cord hidden by her recently-deceased mother. Another reason the police took that long to ascertain the Red Woman's identity was [[spoiler: they've received reports of break-ins at nearby rental villas and the occasional forest sighting over the past ten years, which were both caused by Shinobu.]] Prior to the identification of the skeleton, Koumei was the leading proponent of this theory, whereas Yamato thought the Red Woman was still alive.
* DeadlyPrank: Satoko was dressed as the Red Woman for a prank. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, someone had been gunning for revenge against the Red Woman and Satoko was accidentally killed for it. When Sumika finally got confirmation from Masaie that he was Satoko's accomplice in the prank and that the two couldn't find each other, she killed him.]]
* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: Shinobu]] thought Satoko was the Red Woman as the latter was dressed as her, not knowing the original had already been dead by then.
* TheMistress: [[spoiler: Shinobu was this to Komayo's husband.]]
* MysteriousWatcher:
** The episodes often jump to [[spoiler: Shinobu]] watching over the cast.
** The Red Woman in the intro [[spoiler: however, was Sumika, who knew who Masumi was when the others [[LadyLooksLikeADude had questions about her gender]].]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Shinobu]] had been looking for her lover's murderer, the Red Woman, for the past 15 years and has shown that she will attack anyone who does so much as resemble the Red Woman. [[spoiler: She attacks Sumika later on because she saw her dress as the Red Woman who was observing Masumi, Ran, Conan, and Sonoko in the beginning of the case.]]
* SlasherSmile:
** The Red Woman is occasionally depicted with one.
** [[spoiler: Shinobu displays this when she attempts to murder Sumika for the second time.]]
* WomanScorned: [[spoiler: Komayo Takeno]] aka the Red Woman [[ADeadlyAffair killed her husband for his infidelity]]. She got pissed off enough that she also attacked the police officer who responded on the scene.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Subverted - Yui thinks Sumika slashed her own back, but Conan notes that it is physically impossible for her to give herself a clean horizontal slash.
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[[folder:People of the Kawanakajima Murder Case]]
!!People involved in the Kawanakajima serial murders (Mamoru Saegusa, Shinsuke Akiyama, Shouji Kano, Shigeru Takeda, [[Characters/DetectiveConanPoliceOfficersOutsideOfTokyoAndOsaka Hyoue Kuroda]], [[spoiler: Tsuyako Aburakawa]])
--> Mamoru Saegusa is voiced by: Tadashi Miyazawa
--> Shinsuke Akiyama is voiced by: Kousuke Okano
--> Shouji Kano is voiced by: Kiyonobu Suzuki
--> Shigeru Takeda is voiced by: Shin Goto
--> Hyoue Kuroda is voiced by: Yukimasa Kishino
After the Kamaitachi case was closed, Kogoro declines to join Yamamura, Heiji, and Kazuha, as he, driven by interest on a TV drama [[IdolSinger Yoko Okino]] starred in, takes Ran and Conan to a visit to the Old Battlefield of Kawanakajima. As he and Ran try to remember the strategy Kansuke Yamamoto used in the fourth battle, the Nagano trio arrives, also ostensibly taking a detour to the site. Their fellow officers Mamoru Saegusa, Shinsuke Akiyama, and Shouji Kano, arrive not much later, and the rest of the cast learn that their squad leader Shigeru Takeda is yet to show up. As Yui tours everyone around the battlefield, Yamato spots a floating head on a nearby river, and it turns out to be Takeda's...
* AppleOfDiscord: The killer [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this between Yamato and Morofushi for the purpose of [[spoiler: framing the former for the murders. It turns out the two made it seem like they are arguing to trick Akiyama into thinking his plan had a chance of working.]]
* BatmanGambit:
** The scenario described in [[spoiler: HeKnowsTooMuch below?]] Yes, the culprit deliberately let him know the truth so he could kill him.
** [[spoiler: Kuroda and Morofushi seriously treating Yamato as the prime suspect]] was meant to lower the culprit's guard and draw him out.
* CallingCard: The "X" mark on the victims' foreheads which resemble woodpecker claws, representing [[spoiler: the Woodpecker Society, a group of [[DirtyCop Dirty Cops]] referenced by Yoshiro Torada. Additionally, it's also a reference to the actual ThemeNaming behind the members' names - X being the 24th letter of the alphabet and there being [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Four_Generals_of_Takeda_Shingen 24 prominent generals who served under Takeda Shingen.]] Furthermore, it is where Akiyama's sister was shot.]]
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: The Woodpecker Society/X sold the weapons they confiscated, and Akiyama discovered that the gun used to kill his sister was sold by the group.]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Akiyama faked a decapitation using Takeda's headless body and a fake head from his family's salon. He did this to further pin suspicion on Yamato, who set off on his own and was already the prime suspect by that point.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kano discovers who the culprit was and his motive. He gets strangled for his troubles.
* ItsPersonal: The case for Yamato, as the person Takeda shot and killed nine years ago was his childhood friend.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Shouji Kano took up his current surname when he got married; it was originally Tsuchiya.
* OffWithHisHead:
** 12 pages in the manga and we are treated to a rather [[SarcasmMode lovely]] sequence of Shigeru's head floating in the river. Downplayed in the anime version, where it was less graphic.
** [[spoiler: Akiyama gets this fate as his neck was tied to a moving car that fell off a cliff. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] - see FakingTheDead above.]]
* ShedTheFamilyName: Aburakawa was Shinsuke's original surname, then he took in Akiyama (his mother's maiden name) as his last name after his parents divorced.
* ShipperOnDeck: Mamoru accuses Yamato of going on a date with Yui while on-duty.
* SlashedThroat: Takeda was killed this way in the beginning.
* ThemeNaming: Outside of Kuroda, Uehara, and Morofushi, the police officers' names contain some reference to the generals killed in action during the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima. [[spoiler: That specific theme is a RedHerring, as their names are more appropriately themed after the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen.]]
* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: One of the more technically complex examples, as Akiyama faked a ''decapitation.'']]
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Akiyama's sister]] was killed by a stray bullet when Yamato's drug-addled childhood friend ran amok.
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* DyingClue: [[spoiler: As Hiramune was bleeding to death, he managed to put blood on the CTRL and C keys and died grabbing the mouse by its cord to imply that the murderer was a JackTheRipOff.]] Similarly, [[spoiler: right before dying in Matsumoto's arms, Morimura tried to use his FamousLastWords last words to pull this trope, but Matsumoto didn't understand it at that time.]]
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* ItsPersonal: Two of the reasons why Kiyonaga Matsumoto is so Hell-bent into catching this particular killer are linked to the trope. One: [[spoiler: during the early investigations of the crime, the killer used his car to fatally strike his partner/Megure's mentor, [[ForgottenFallenFriend Superintendent Morimura]], who [[DiedInyourArmstonight perished in Matsumoto's arms]] while trying to use his FamousLastWords last words to lay some clues.]]. Second: [[spoiler: few after Morimura's death, the killer ''also'' scarred Matsumoto across the face ([[EyeScream and almost took out one of his eyes]]) [[KatanasAreJustBetter with his katana]].]] The third and last reason is under "StatuteOfLimitations".
