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Cases in the Introduction Arc

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: Akira Ishida

Takashi is voiced by: Shigeru Nakahara

Abusive Parents: 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.
Asshole Victim: Gozo. Tatsuo.
Big, Screwed-Up Family: And holy shit, HOW.
The Bus Came Back: So far, Jouji was the only member of the Hatamoto family to make another physical appearance, this time being in the 76th episode of the anime, and the 16th volume of the manga.
Childhood Friend Romance: Kitaro and Mariko. See also Kissing Cousins.
Daddy's Girl: Natsue was a Grandpa's Girl. Who becomes the Unexpected Successor.
The Dog Bites Back: Had Gozou neither gone overboard in his mistreatment of Ichiro nor mocked his love for Natsue...
Gold Digger:
- Akie's husband Tatsuo, who married her in hopes of inheriting money since she was one of the possible heirs. 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". 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 his parents had a company that was destroyed by Gozo Hatamoto's. Takeshi's case is more of Becoming the Mask and Love Redeems: 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.
He Knows Too Much: The reason why Tatsuo died. He saw Ichiro trying to drop the killing weapon in the sea and got a face full of metal pipe for his trouble.
Henpecked Husband: Mariko is an Almighty Mom, so Kitaro obviously is this. They do care for each other, though.
Irrational Hate: According to Natsue, 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.
The Jeeves: Suzuki.
Kick the Dog: Gozo's psychological and emotional abuse of his son-in-law Kitaro and grandson Ichiro.
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Ichiro stabs Gozo as revenge for the latter's mistreatment of him and for mocking his love for Natsue.
Kissing Cousins: A huge plot point. Kitaro and Mariko were both this and in a Childhood Friend Romance, but had to 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.
My Beloved Smother: Mariko has traces of this.
Ojou: Akie and Natsue. Akie is the Rich Bitch type, Natsue is the Nice Girl type.
Onee-sama: Natsue, being a very polite Yamato Nadeshiko-like Ojou, addresses Akie as this.
Pet the Dog: Gozo truly cared for his youngest granddaughter Natsue.
Red Herring: Takeshi was apparently set as the villain of this case. He wasn't.
Rich Bitch: Both Akie and Tatsuo.
Shrinking Violet: Ichiro. But when a Shrinking Violet snaps... '''sna*p he does'''.
Supreme Chef: Jouji, who works as a popular French chef and shows off his collection of rare professional knives. Ichiro gets to give a... good use to two of them.
Took the Wife's Name: 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.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Ichiro got to the point of stabbing himself in the leg to try throwing off suspicions. It actually got Conan to suspect him more.

Ayako Suzuki's friends

Ayako Suzuki's friends (Chikako Ikeda, Ryoichi Takahashi, Masaru Ohta, Hiroki Sumiya, Atsuko Tokumoto)

Chikako is voiced by Jun Karasawa

The people involved in a case that is infamous for the huge dose of Nightmare Fuel. 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 and involved the tragic death of a girl named Atsuko doesn't help their case.

Accidental Pervert: As Ran searches for her and Conan's room, she ends up walking on the guys when they were changing clothes. 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.
Ax-Crazy: The culprit, whose weapon is an axe and not only uses it to chop the victim's body into pieces, but to attack Ran and Conan with it.
Bespectacled Cutie: Atsuko was a plain but cute Girl Next Door with glasses, contrasting with Chikako's top model-level looks.
Bridal Carry: Horribly used when the group sees the killer carry a kidnapped Chikako away in his arms, right before her dismembered body is found. It was a stage trick with a doll, piano wire, and Chikako's already decapitated head.
Driven to Suicide: Chikako stole her "friend" Atsuko's best script and made it pass as hers, which made Atsuko cross the Despair Event Horizon and hang herself.
- Takahashi also tries to commit suicide with a knife so he and his beloved Atsuko could be Together in Death, but is thwarted.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: When Takahashi claims how he did everything for Atsuko, Conan as Sonoko throws a Breaking Speech 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.
Handsome Lech: Ohta tries to hit on Ran many times, much to Sonoko and Conan's anger.
Kill the Cutie: Atsuko was a sweet Bespectacled Cutie. She was mentally/emotionally broken after Chikako's betrayal. Guess what followed.
Love Makes You Evil: 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.
Madness Mantra: Atsuko's "No one will believe me!", referring to how she was the true author of the beautiful script that Chikako made pass as hers.
Off with His Head!: Chikako's death. Takahashi then chops up her body and dismembering her.
Posthumous Character: Oh, Atsuko.
Smoking Is Cool: Ohta.
There Is Only One Bed: Ran and Conan spend the night in the same bed. Not like that, of course. Which actually saves 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: Takahashi, for the deceased Atsuko.

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: Show Hayami

Akiko Sayama is voiced by: Chieko Honda

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!

Blow You Away: The Himekaze aka the "Wind of the Princess", which blows in that particular time of the year. 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.
Broken Bird: Sayama.
Broken Pedestal: Ran is very depressed when Maeda's Taking the Heat act makes her believe that he's the killer.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Sayama really, really doesn't like it when Maeda oggles other girls...
The Cracker: Tokio Ebara.
Destination Defenestration:
- 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 he lands inside the hotel's pool.
- 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 Impaled with Extreme Prejudice was a coincidence.
- Additionally, Sayama killed Ebara like that because her beloved brother commited suicide by throwing himself off his apartment's window.
Dirty Old Man: Subverted. Ebara is VERY dirty minded and constantly hits on cute women, but is also Younger Than They Look. Seriously, he's only in his 30's!
Get Out!: An angry Sayama locks Maeda out of their room after he ogles Kamijou when she's in a Stripperiffic outfit. She might have done so to keep him from finding any evidence tying her to the murder she was about to commit, however. Not that it worked.
Honey Trap: 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.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Ebara's lifeless body is found impaled on a statue. Aaaaaugh!.
Love Martyr: Maeda, as bitterly lampshaded by Sayama herself.
Looks Like Cesare: Konnou the banker, a very tall and pale man with dark hair and Stoic Spectacles.
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.
Malevolent Masked Man: The Night Baron is a high-class criminal who uses a mask to cover his identity. Sayama and later Maeda use NB disguises for their own purposes.
Not Distracted by the Sexy: For all of his "Dirty Old Man" tactics, Ebara barely blinks when his ex wife Kamijou shows up in a VERY Stripperiffic cocktail dress. Made even more obvious when Kogoro and Maeda get super distracted, much to the ire of Ran and Sayama.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Old man Kaneshiro was not blind.
Spanner in the Works: 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 Sayama would've probably gotten away with Ebara's murder...
Taking the Heat: Maeda is willing to divert attention to himself and being sent to jail, rather than letting Sayama be punished.
Tampering with Food and Drink: Kamijou slips some sleeping pills in Kogoro's whisky, intending to get him out of the race for the MacGuffin.

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 Cute Sports Club Manager and current Office Lady Yumi Horikoshi apparently finishes her own life via Pretty Little Headshots. But to Conan and Kogoro, this is not suicide.

Arranged Marriage: 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.
Bespectacled Cutie: Noriko is in her late 30's and still looks very Moe.
Blackmail: 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.
Died Standing Up: 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.
Driven to Suicide: 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.
Genius Bruiser: Kazushi is very big and very bright.
Head-Turning Beauty: Yumi, referred to as "the Madonna" of the group.
Hot Springs Episode: And very infamous for how Conan plays the role of Accidental Pervert at the beginning.
Hot Teacher: Yukio is pretty good looking and works as a schoolteacher.
Office Lady: Yumi.
Old Maid: Yumi, despite her beauty, was unmarried at age 34. She wasn't too happy about it.
Sickeningly Sweethearts: Yukio and Noriko, though this is understandable since they just got married and the trip might be doubling as their honeymoon.
True Companions: Kogoro's. Which is why he's so incredibly pissed at Yumi's death. Double when he realizes that not only she was killed, but that one of his friends is the murderer. Cue It's Personal mode and then Kogoro's response.
Tsundere: Yumi. Rather darkly used in the end: she refused Kazushi's marriage proposals... until he decided to marry somebody else. Woman Scorned mode = ON.

Reika Yotsui and her entourage

Reika Yotsui and her entourage (Mr. Yotsui, Takashi Ichieda, Yuji Nikaidou, Takaya Mifune, Osamu Gojou, Masao Rokuda, Nanao Yone, Yaeko Yone)

The people involved in the Billionaire Birthday Blues / Wealthy Daughter Murder case. Reika Yotsui is a callous Rich Bitch with an Unwanted Harem who invites the Mouris and Conan to her birthday party since Kogoro found her lost puppy-dog. 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?!

Ambiguously Brown: Mifune has a much darker skin tone than the rest, but it's never brought up.
And I Must Scream: See the Nightmare Fuel page for a detailed description. *shudder*
Asshole Victim: Reika Yotsui and Yuji Nikaidou.
Bound and Gagged: The reason why Reika couldn't escape from a...
Drowning Pit: One improvised inside a deep bath tub!
It's Personal: Ran was attacked. Conan was most pissed off.
Love Makes You Evil: Had Yaeko not been murdered by Nikaidou and Reika, Ichieda wouldn't have killed them.
Nice Guy: Rokuda and Gojou.
Numerical Theme Naming: The characters here have numbers that goes from 1 to 7 or 8.
Old Retainer: Yone, to the Yotsuis.
Rich Bitch: Reika. She's so selfish and cruel that she and Nikaidou killed a girl (implied to be Reika's childhood friend in the past!), purely to save their own butts.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Nanao Yone calls Ichieda a fool for resorting to murder during his Motive Rant, saying that nobody deserves to be killed in such a gruesome way, and when somebody dies, another person will be grieving.
Unwanted Harem: Ichieda, Nikaidou, Mifune, Rokuda, and Gojou were this to Reika. In a subversion, Ichieda actually loved Yaeko, and only stayed close to Reika to find the moment to kill her and Nikaidou.
Yamato Nadeshiko: Nanao Yone and Yaeko.

The Tsujimura clan

The Tsujimura clan (Toshimitsu, Isao, Takayoshi and Kimie Tsujimura, Yukiko Katsuragi, Kenji Yamashiro)

The Big, Screwed-Up Family 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: his father Toshimitsu, his son Takayoshi, his second wife Kimie, or Takayoshi's girlfriend Yukiko?

Asshole Victim: Isao.
The Atoner: Toshimitsu aided Isao with his Uriah Gambit, so when Isao was killed he tried to take the heat as punishment.
Big Fancy House: 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.
Break the Cutie: Poor, poor Takayoshi and Yukiko. And in the backstory, poor Kimie.
Comforting the Widow: The reason for Isao's Uriah Gambit. Massively backfires with time... when Kimie poisons him.
Despair Event Horizon: Kimie was on the fence after Yamashiro was jailed and his family took Yukiko away.
Flirty Stepsiblings: Yukiko and Takayoshi... and they didn't know it!
Hidden Heart of Gold: Kimie treats Yukiko harshly to hide their real bond.
Improbable Weapon User: Kimie's weapon to murder Isao was a poisoned needle that 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.
Like Parent, Like Spouse: Takayoshi's girlfriend Yukiko looks exactly like her mother. And it turns out there's no coincidence, they're half-siblings.
Luke, I Am Your Father: 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".
Parental Marriage Veto:
- Isao has a Freak Out and imposes this on Takayoshi when he sees the photo of the girl he fancies, 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 subtexts 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 Gold Digger and Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. And then...
Posthumous Character: Oh, Yamashiro.
Strong Family Resemblance: Yukiko looks like a younger, light-haired Kimie.
Taking the Heat: When Heiji claims that Toshimitsu is probably the killer, said character confesses despite not being the culprit. Their real intention is to invoke the trope, because the old man had helped his son Isao with his Uriah Gambit, so he wanted to atone.
The Uriah Gambit: 20 years ago, Isao fancied Kimie. Kimie was Happily Married 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 Comforting the Widow on Kimie!

Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples

Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples (Nanae and Ayano Tsukumo, Yuji Momochi, Mako Miyoshi, Kazumi Sanada, Yashiro Kinoshita)

Kazumi Sanada is voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu

Mako Miyoshi is voiced by: Yurika Hino

Ayano Tsukumo is voiced by: Konami Yoshida

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!

Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Mako is tall, standoffish and very beautiful. And the Sympathetic Murderer.
Cassandra Truth: 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.
Chekhov's Gun: A certain photo album that Ran finds in the Mouri office. 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: 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.
Driven by Envy: Why Tsukumo killed Yashiro.
Drowning Pit: Yashiro died while performing a dangerous trick inside a water tank that went horribly wrong... due to Tsukumo tampering with it and making it look like a genuine accident.
I Have Your Wife: 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 Who Raised Me To Be A Stage Magician".
Locked Out of the Loop: Six-year-old Ayano doesn't know that her dad's dead.
Love Makes You Evil: Mako killed her "mentor" because he killed her beloved older brother Yashiro.
Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Yuji and Kazumi are both very tall and very good looking.

The Yabuchi family

The Yabuchi family (Hiromi, Hidekazu, Yoshichika, Yoshifusa, Yoshiyuki, Keiko and Machiko Yabuchi. Also, Carlos and 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.

Asshole Victim: Machiko was attempting to murder Dickson Tanaka to receive more of the inheritance, but wasn’t expecting him to use the very knife she planned to stab him with on her.
Big Fancy House: The Yabuchis live in a pretty big traditional Japanese complex.
Big, Screwed-Up Family: Hiromi and her husband Hidekazu are pretty good people, but her younger brother Yoshiyuki and his wife Keiko are huge Jerk Asses. Let's not even talk about Machiko...
But Not Too Foreign: Carlos turns out to be the real Yoshifusa's son with a black Brazilian woman. Dickson Tanaka is part Brazilian as well.
Gold Digger: Implied in the case of Machiko.
Karmic Death: 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.
May–December Romance: Yoshichika and Mariko, who is barely older than his adult kids.
Papa Wolf: Dickson/Yoshifusa thinks Carlos is 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, to where he pretends to be Yoshifusa to keep Carlos from being targetted.
Red Herring: 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.
The Reveal: The man known as Yoshifusa Yabuchi 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.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: The Yabuchi family suspects the Yoshifusa recently returned from Brazil is a fake trying to get his share of his brother's inheritance. It turns out that he really is not the real Yoshifusa, who passed away a few years ago, but his close friend Dickson Tanaka. However, his reason for doing so was to protect Yoshifusa's son Carlos, one of the parties named in Yoshichika's will, from getting cheated out of his inheritance.
Scary Black Man: Carlos. Subverted: He only looks scary and is actually a Nice Guy Gentle Giant, more shy and a little child-like than scary.
Smug Snake: Machiko, Keiko and Yoshiyuki. Machiko is far worse, though.
Theme Naming: Three of the males in the Yabuchi family have names starting with Yoshi: patriarch Yoshichika, uncle Yoshifusa, and son Yoshiyuki.
Took the Wife's Name: Hidekazu took up Hiromi's surname since she was the eldest daughter of the rich Yabuchi family.
Undying Loyalty: Dickson took up the Yoshifusa Yabuchi name out of loyalty for his deceased friend/business partner and his child Carlos.
Unexpected Successor: Everyone was shocked to know that 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.
Would Hit a Girl: Dickson would stab a girl, but only to defend himself when she attacks him with a knife.

Akiko Yonehara and others

Akiko Yonehara and others (Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, Sugiyama-sensei, Atsushi Mori, 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...

Break the Cutie: This case was very hard on poor Ran.
Broken Pedestal: Yonehara, for Sonoko and especially Ran. Also in the backstory: Shimoda and Sugiyama, for little Minako.
Distress Ball: Poor Sonoko, drugged and then strangled into unconsciousness by Yonehara as a part of her Wounded Gazelle Gambit.
Driven to Suicide: It was believed that Minako hung herself because she was horrifyingly stressed due to upcoming junior high admission exams. (Unfortunately, this is sorta Truth in Television: it's a known fact that many Japanese students of all ages have committed suicide upon failing important exams.) This was NOT true: she was killed.
He Knows Too Much: The reason for Minako's murder. She found out that Shimoda and Sugiyama were involved in a fraud, and in her Heroic BSoD state she confronted them...
Hot Teacher: Yonehara and Nakamura
Improbable Weapon User: 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.
Kill the Cutie: Minako-chan, noooooooooo!
Looks Like Cesare: Moori the journalist.
Nightmare Fetishist: Moori is a little too happy when he tells the bloody story of the place and the death of a student named Minako in the past.
Old Maid: 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?
Psychological Horror: Invoked by the killer, who writes in lipstick some kana symbols that when put together, read: "Minako". This sends Shimoda into a Villainous BSoD, and lets Yonehara (the killer) identify him as Minako's other murderer.
Would Hit a Girl / Would Hurt a Child: Shimoda and Sugiyama strangled a pre-teen girl to death, then made it look like she had hung herself.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: 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.
Youthful Freckles: Minako

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: Rika Fukami

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. Which is a cover to investigate several odd things that have happened in his Big Fancy House. 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?

The Atoner: 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.
Because Destiny Says So: 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.
Big, Screwed-Up Family: 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.
Broken Bird: Miyuki has massive, MASSIVE emotional problems coming from Mitsuaki and Hideomi's Deadly Prank that killed her parents, as well as her love for Hideomi.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: The fact that Mitsuaki wanted to kill his father-in-law to take full control of the Nagato enterprise places him squarely here.
Chekhov's Gunman: 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.
Childhood Friend Romance: Chairman Nagato was the unclucky childhood friend to the lady that he wants Kogoro to find for him. That woman was actually Miyuki's Missing Mom.
Despair Event Horizon: Poor, poor Miyuki.
- Also Hideomi, who killed himself when he reached it.
Driven to Suicide: 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 manipulating Nobuko into hitting her near said pond to have an excuse to get the pond drained and taking Hideomi away.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Hideomi, once a beautiful young man, has half his face burned off. 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.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: 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
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite Nobuko's actions she does truly care for her family. The reason why she abused Miyuki is because she truly thought she didn't love her brother and just wanted his fortune. When the truth is revealed, she was just as stunned as everyone else, and couldn't say anything.
Love Hurts: And holy goddamned shit, HOW. This case is a huge Tear Jerker.
Malevolent Masked Man: Hideomi is believed to be this, using bandages instead of a mask to cover his hideous scars. He wasn't evil. And actually, the man in "mask" we saw... was a disguised Mitsuaki or an equally disguised Miyuki.
No Hero to His Valet: Nobuko treats Miyuki quite badly, believing her to be a Gold Digger who takes advantage of Hideomi's isolation to get close to the family. It's far more complicated.
Not Good with Rejection: Totally and cruelly inverted. Hideomi crossed the Despair Event Horizon because Miyuki did want to marry him, despite the role he had in the deaths of her parents.
Old Maid: 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.
Conan: With that personality, it's not like she'll ever get married...
Sexy Secretary: Miyuki, a cute-looking young lady with really nice legs.
Smug Snake: Mitsuaki.
Star-Crossed Lovers: Miyuki and Hideomi.
Tragic Keepsake: Miyuki's burned fountain pen, which belonged to her deceased father.
- Chekhov's Gun: 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... 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.
Together in Death: Miyuki tries invoking this when she attempts to commit suicide to be with Hideomi. It fails since she wanted to burn herself to death with a gasoline thermos and her lighter, but Conan and Heiji had switched the fuel with water.
Took the Wife's Name: Mitsuaki, Yasue's husband, took up the family name.
Uptown Boy: Hideomi is a Princely Young Man. 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.

Harumi Matsuzaki, Kiwako Todou, Kunio Kawazu, Hiroshi Itou and Masahiko Matsuzaki

Ran still wants 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: Kikuko Inoue

Harumi is voiced by: Yuko Minaguchi

Anti-Villain: Harumi regrets what she has done, very much. She also breaks down crying Tears of Remorse when exposed.
Childhood Friend Romance: Masahiko and Kiwako.
Damsel in Distress: Poor Kiwako...
Murder the Hypotenuse: Harumi was in love with her stepbrother Masahiko and lost it when he decided to marry Kiwako.
Not Blood Siblings: Harumi and Masahiko.
Secret-Keeper: Kiwako decides to keep Harumi's reasons to herself, as a part of her forgiveness for Harumi.
Super Drowning Skills: Masahiko really can't swim.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Horribly played with. 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.
Yamato Nadeshiko: ... Well, Kiwako is voiced by Kikuko Inoue. She does show a cattier side in the beginning, but her decision to forgive Harumi and not tell Masahiko about her secret love for him is very much YN behavior.
- Not only that: 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.

Cases in the Sherry Arc

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: Aya Hisakawa

Mina is voiced by: Yukari Tamura

Bath Suicide: It seems like Mina took her own life in the bathroom.
Cain and Abel: With Mina as the Abel and Masayo as the Cain.
Chekhov's Gun: Masayo's "Yoko" headband. The accent over the first "o" is covered with a bit of Mina's blood.
Cool Big Sis: Mina adored her sister Masayo and imitated her in pretty much everything. She only succeeded in pushing Masayo away, and then Masayo get so creeped out and fed up that she killed Mina.)
The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry. Mina was the beautiful sister, Masayo was the smart one. Taken to their worst extreme in the end.
Poor Communication Kills: 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.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Mina was the flirty girly girl, Masayo was the shorthaired and kinda tomboyish Office Lady.

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!

Arranged Marriage: 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. Because her True Love is Sakuraba.
The Butler Did It: Inverted, the butler is the murder victim.
Chekhov's Gun: Kaede's blue pendant.
Crazy Jealous Guy: 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 to frame Sakuraba to get him out of the way.
Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Kaede possesses a very beautiful blue pendant. Sakuraba has a matching one, and that reveals their true connection.
Faint in Shock: Kaede passes out when she sees Shigematsu's corpse. When she becomes one of the suspects, Heiji and Conan wonder if she was faking it]. [[spoiler: Not only she ''wasn't'' pretending, but she's completely innocent.
Generation Xerox: 30 years ago there was a Love Triangle between Mikio Morizono, Akio Shigematsu, and an unnamed girl who ultimately married Morizono, becoming the (now dead) "lady" of the house. Now, Morizono's son Kikuhito and Shigematsu's protegé Sakuraba are in a love triangle with Kaede.
I Shall Taunt You: 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
Love Triangle: Kikuhito, Kaede and Sakuraba. In fact, one of Kikuhito's two reasons to kill Shigematsu and frame Sakuraba is 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.)
My God, What Have I Done?: When Shigematsu realized that he was about to condemn his adoptive son to the same unhappiness 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.
Red Herring: Everything points out at Sakuraba. But he's not the culprit.
Scarpia Ultimatum: Implied. Heiji says that according to the servants, Kikuhito pressured Kaede's family and their bussiness to get more leverage.
Star-Crossed Lovers: Kaede and Sakuraba were in their way to become this, since they had to break up in order to have Kaede marry Kikuhito.
Upper-Class Twit: While Mikio and Yurie were decent people, Kikuhito was kiiiiind of a jerk and specially to Sakuraba. Double because of his jealousy.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: 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, so Sakuraba catches him. 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!.

Passengers aboard the ship Symphony

Toji Samezaki, Teruyoshi Kameda, Korehisa Kanie, Minoru Ebina, Sadao Kujirai, Nagisa Isogai, Saizo Kano, Masaru Furukawa, Yoshimi Samezaki

Toji Samezaki is voiced by: Hidekatsu Shibata

Teruyoshi Kameda is voiced by: Jin Hirao

Korehisa Kanie is voiced by: Norio Wakamoto

Minoru Ebina is voiced by: Yosuke Akimoto

Sadao Kujirai is voiced by: Mugihito

Nagisa Isogai is voiced by: Rika Fukami

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 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...

Accidental Murder: 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.
Assassination Attempt: Heiji gets thrown overboard by Kujirai, who realized the former saw Kanie tied up in the bow of the ship.
Bank Robbery: An example of this gone wrong caused Saizo and the gang to suddenly disappear.
From Camouflage to Criminal: 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.
He Knows Too Much: Heiji is thrown overboard by the killer when the former discovers one of the culprit's tricks.
It's Personal: The robbery case for Toji Samezaki, as his daughter died after getting shot in one of Saizo's robberies.
The Lost Lenore: Yoshimi was this to Ebina, motivating the latter to bring a bomb to the ship.
Man on Fire: Kameda, though he was already shot on the head when he was burned.
Never Found the Body: Saizo Kano was presumed dead as his distinctive jacket was seen with four bullet holes on it 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. He was Dead All Along, having not survived the opening scene, and the covered guy was Kujirai in disguise.
No Honor Among Thieves: Saizo Kano gets shot multiple times in the opening scene by his accomplices. Kameda and Kanie later get dispatched by Kujirai.
Phantom Thief: Saizo, Kameda, Kanie, and Kujirai.
Public Secret Message: 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. 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.
Putting the Band Back Together: The gang that committed the robbery from 20 years ago reunite in the ship, ostensibly to celebrate the expiration of their Statute of Limitations of their 400-million yen heist.
Relocating the Explosion: Conan found Ebina's bomb and had it detonated from a liferaft away from the ship.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Attempted by Ebina and foiled by Conan.
Statute of Limitations: 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 Yoshimi's death in their final robbery, Kujirai gets charged for murdering the remaining accomplices.
Taking You with Me: Implied with Ebina's bombing attempt.
That One Case: Despite being a retired cop, Toji still wanted to catch the robbers before the statute of limitations expired.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: 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.

The Araide Family and their housekeeper Hikaru

The Araide family and their housekeeper Hikaru (Dr. Yoshiteru Araide, Yoko Araide, Hikaru Yasumoto, 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, 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...

The Alcoholic: Dr. Araide, in the past
Cute Clumsy Girl: Hikaru, but it's not Played for Laughs or cuteness.
Driven to Suicide: 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.
Electrified Bathtub: The trick that Yoko used to kill Dr. Araide.
Wicked Stepmother: Subverted as Yoko treated Tomoaki like her own son. Before her death, Chiaki asked Yoko to look after Tomoaki for her.

Cases in the Vermouth Arc

'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, the unnamed victim

Professor Agasa takes the Detective Boys in a mountain trip to get some 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?

Accidental Murder: Saika never meant to shoot the Unnamed Hunter down, he was just trying to scare the others off and away from Jubei.
Always Someone Better: Mitsuhiko shows traces of this, in regards to Conan.
Bears Are Bad News: Jubei is very, VERY infamous for her bad temper, and everyone either fears her or wants to shoot her down. Subverted: she's actualy very nice and she once saved Saika's life, but she's been on a constant and literal Roaring Rampage of Revenge 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.
Even Evilhas Standards: 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.
Eye Scream: Jubei had an eye shot off her years ago. 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...
Friend to All Living Things: Ai and Mitsuhiko sorta play the role after they 'befriend' the adorable bear cubbie. 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.
Living MacGuffin: The bear cub, sort-of.
MacGuffin: The matsutake mushrooms that Agasa and the kiddos are looking for.
Mama Bear: Ai and Mitsuhiko find a bear cub in their path. Then their mother appears, and she's NOT pleased. Because the cub's sibling was messily killed few ago. In fact, 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.
Mistaken for Murderer: Sorta. 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.
Names To Run Away From Very Fast: Jubei is nicknamed as such because she lacks an eye and thus is compared to the famous Yagyu Jubei.
Older Is Better: Saika is in his 60's and is the most experienced, wise of the three hunters. And the Sympathetic Murderer.
Shout-Out: When Saika explains why Jubei the bear is called like that, the picture of Yagyu Jubei that appears on the background is clearly one of from Yaiba's Jubei.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Poor, poor Jubei, who lost her cub horribly and snapped...

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...

Arranged Marriage: Rokuro is engaged to Toshimi, but is in love with Kimie. That gave him a possible "reason" to kill Toshimi, but he's cleared off.
Childhood Friends: Rokuro, Saori, Toshimi, Kimie and Naoko have known each other since their early years.
Everybody Knew Already: 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.
Living Foreveris Awesome: In the middle of her Sanity Slippage 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.
Kneel Before Frodo: 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 and make them immortal.
Master of Disguise: Well, not to the level of Kaito Kid and Vermouth but 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. Kimie is actually both of them.
Red Herring: 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: Kimie killed Saori, Naoko and Toshimi because they murdered her mother, the former priestess, over not having won the Festival's prize (the Dewgong Arrow) that was supposed to give them blessings and probably immortality.
Sanity Slippage: Saori had one during a talk with Kimie, leading her to suspect her and her other friends.

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: Akeno Watanabe

Osamu Kenzaki is voiced by: Hisao Egawa

Yuki Takeno is voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto

Terumi Hoshino is voiced by: Yuu Asakawa

Atsushi Makuma is voiced by: Shigeru Nakahara

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...

Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Terumi, the harshest and coldest of the four girls.
Driven to Suicide: Yuki repents from her attempted murder of Kaoru and tries to off herself, but is saved.
Genki Girl: Kaoru has shades of this.
Femme Fatalons: Yuki used her sharp filed thumbnails as a weapon, giving Kaoru a Slashed Throat with them.
Improbable Weapon User: See Femme Fatalons above.
Love at First Sight: Kaoru and Makuma.
Love Hurts: 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.
Meaningful Name: 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)
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Terumi is revealed to idolize Shinichi.
Yandere: Yuki is a mild version, as she does regret what she has done.

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...

Blackmail: 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.
Calling the Old Man Out: Kazuki's purpose is to tell his mom that he wants nothing to do with her and won't let her financially abuse him. It plays out VERY differently, because what he actually wants is to re-take contact with her.
Child Prodigy: Kazuki, a famous star at barely age 7
Dark and Troubled Past: There's a rumor about Kazuki's birth father being a criminal...
Doorstop Baby: 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.
Fan Disservice: In the anime, the image of the well-endowed naked woman strangling Kamoshita to death was far more "clearly" seen than in the manga. But considering the circumstances... meeeeep.◊
Green-Eyed Monster: 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.
Spotting the Thread: 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. 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.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Kazuki.

Cases in the Cell Phone Arc

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: Kōichi Yamadera

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.

Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Shitaras have very, VERY dark family bonds.
The Butler Did It: One of the suspects is the family butler and Kyousuke's Parental Substitute, Benio. Nope, she didn't do it.
Chekhov's Gunman: 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.
Destination Defenestration: At least two family members (the matriarch Ayane and her son Furito, aka Hazuki's Disappeared Dad) died like this.
Driven to Suicide: 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.
Elegant Classical Musician: Two of these!
- Kyousuke is a violinist with Tall, Dark, and Handsome looks, enhanced by his Perma-Stubble. He's also the Sympathetic Murderer.
- 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.
MacGuffin: The supposedly "cursed" Stradivarius violin, cause of several deaths in the family.
Nervous Wreck: Ayane, the leader's wife, acts as if she was permanently in the verge of a mental meltdown ever since 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 mantras... Then, she's one of the victims since she and others helped Chuuichirou cover up for his murder of Danjirou.
Parental Substitute: 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.
Staircase Tumble: Two family members died like this: Kyousuke's father Danjirou (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). 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.
Super Window Jump: Conan and Kyosuke rescue Ayane from a burning building by doing this and landing on Kogoro's rented van. (Of course, Ayane will die later.)
Theme Naming: The chapters involving this case are named "Prelude", "Capriccio", "Requiem"...
Wrong Genre Savvy: When it's theorised that Hazuki could be murdered very soon, she says "but this is not like a mystery novel". Oh, dear.

Cases in the Kir Arc

The Detectives' Koshien Case

People involved in the Detectives' Koshien Case (Natsuki Koshimizu, Junya Tokitsu, Kana Mizoguchi, 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 from a previous case involving the death of a socialite. Kazuha has her suspicions of something wary going on at the island... It turns out the show was a hoax, and a murder was involved.

More about Natsuki and Junya on the One Scene Wonder page.

Best Served Cold: Ultimately what the murdered had resorted to. After Junya's murder, Natsuki intended to have Hiroo, Renzo, and herself stranded on the island to starve to death for the events that happened two years ago. 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.
Betrayal by Inaction: Natsuki considering Renzo not defending Kana when the police interrogated her to be this.
Bludgeoned to Death: How Junya was murdered.
Driven to Suicide: 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.
- Natsuki's best friend Kana Mizoguchi took her own life due to the pressure of being unfairly persecuted for the murder.
Graceful Loser: After the murderer's plan to have everyone stranded failed, Natsuki chose to turn herself in. Then said that she would loved to do a real Koshien with the boys.
The Ophelia: 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.
- 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.
Red Herring: From a previous case. The Window Trick that Junya discovered was really from an unrelated theft caused by Hiroo. A mistake that would cost everyone dearly.
Starts with a Suicide: 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.
Tears of Remorse: 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.
Undying Loyalty: 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 in a society that treats the mentally ill really badly.

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 Takeda Shingen 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 10-Minute Retirement from the force at the time) from the Nagano Prefectural Police. More about the two on Police Officers Outside of Tokyo and Osaka page.

10-Minute Retirement: Yui was in one from the Nagano police in this episode, though it turns out it was part of her investigation.
Accidental Murder: 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 Red Herring, 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.
Death by Falling Over: Subverted for Kuroto. While he does fall, it was starvation that did him in as he fell on a shaded portion under the cliff.
Dying Clue: Ayaka's blue eye shadow points out to Tatsue's black horse which the latter rode to hang the former.
Feuding Families: 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: Tatsue planned to kill Akira and frame it as a murder-suicide on Yui.
Freak Out: Ayaka has one when she hears that Ran and Kazuha saw the silhouette of the red Takeda Shingen armor the previous night.
He Knows Too Much: 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.
High-Voltage Death: Shigetsugu was electrocuted after he was lured into retrieving his notebook that was placed on an overhead line.
Hostile Weather: Yoshiro was killed by a tornado...well, mostly.
Improbable Aiming Skills: 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. 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.
Karmic Death: Tatsue thinks the tornado killing Yoshiro was this for suspecting foul play was involved in Kuroto's death.
Left for Dead: 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.
Man on Fire: Shigetsugu. Since he was electrocuted and burned, everyone initially assumed he represented "fire" in Fuurinkazan. This turns out to be another Red Herring 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.
Past Experience Nightmare: Yoshiro having these and muttering about "the sound, the flash..." led Yui to conclude that there was a fifth person involved in Kuroto's death.
Reasonable Authority Figure: 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.
The Reveal: 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 Improbable Aiming Skills 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 saw too much.
Shipper on Deck: Kuroto appears to have shipped Yui and Kansuke when he was still alive.
Shout-Out: The murders were themed on Fuurinkazan, a battle standard used by Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku Period which was in turn based on Passages 17 to 19 of the seventh chapter of The Art of War (Sun Tzu). ^*
Took the Wife's Name: 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.
Treasure Hunter: Shigetsugu, Akira, Yoshiro, Ayaka, and Koji were said to have looked for Takeda Shingen's legendary lost treasure. Downplayed for Shigetsugu and Ayaka, who did not react to the presence of centipede corpses beside the bodies of the other two.
Wicked Stepmother: Tatsue caused her stepson Shigetsugu's death by electrocution in addition to leaving her biological son Yoshiro for dead and murdering three others.

Cases in the Bourbon Arc

First Part

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 First Love, 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 Serial Killer near the Shodou household...

Batman Gambit: 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.
The Butler Did It: What the butler Taisuke Hoya did was... saving Kurumi's life, harboring feelings for her, and being the guy she was looking for.
Eyes Always Closed and Sunglasses at Night: Both tropes are united in Kurumi's figure, signifying her blindness.
A Friend in Need: According to Kurumi, her "scar boy" was almost unnaturally selfless. As the grown-up Taisuke, he still is.
Gold Digger: The guy or guys who aren't the boy of the past easily fall into this, since Kurumi is loaded. Specially Kusumoto, who goes as far as using a scar that he copied from someone else to make himself pass as "the boy". And then the person whose scar he imitated turned out to be the Serial Killer that Matsumoto was looking for... (To be fair, Kusumoto didn't know about the last detail)
Good Scars, Evil Scars: The man Kurumi is looking for has a distinctive scar, spreading across either his chest or his back. 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.
My Greatest Failure: Taisuke considers the accident where he gained his scar as this, as it's the same one where 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.
Trademark Favorite Food: 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 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"! 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 Batman Gambit, eats almost all the share of sushi that has gari.

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 Serial Killer 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 Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato finally get their Relationship Upgrade.

Achey Scars: Matsumoto claims that when he stepped into the Shodo home to confront Kusumoto (whom he believed to be the killer) and then when he inspected the spot where Hiramune was killed, he felt lots of pain in his infamous scar. 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 That One Case from then on.
Alone with the Psycho: 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 Disappeared Dad. The man ends up shooting him in the chest. It also almost happens to Ai and Ayumi, who cross paths with the new killer when he's leaving Hiramune's apartment after killing him
Batter Up!: The present killer beats the fuck out of a disarmed Takagi with a baseball bat.
Berserker Tears: The Whistling Man was crying after committing the second murder. It turned out that he was friends with the victims and killed them to cover up some information.
The Beatles: In the manga, the killer was heard whistling "Let it be" 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.
Copycat Crime: The murder of the present.. A Justified Trope: 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 was his dad.
Dying Clue: 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 Jack The Rip Off. Similarly, 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.
Fatal Family Photo: 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 happened few afterwards, and the dying Morimura admits he was reckless in order to impress his sweetheart. Since Takagi had a similar behavior (photo or not photo), the others and specially Matsumoto fear for him - but he lives.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: One of the few concrete clues about the killer is that he has a large scar across his back. And it was given to him by Matsumoto, who snatched away his katana right after the Eye Scream incident and wounded him. Also toyed with: 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.
Harmful to Minors: 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.
He Knows Too Much: The reason for Hiramune's three Slashed Throat murders. He first killed two of his 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.
Hostage Situation: 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.
It's Personal: Two of the reasons why Kiyonaga Matsumoto is so Hell-bent into catching this particular killer are linked to the trope. One: during the early investigations of the crime, the killer used his car to fatally strike his partner/Megure's mentor, Superintendent Morimura, who perished in Matsumoto's arms while trying to use his last words to lay some clues.. Second: few after Morimura's death, the killer also scarred Matsumoto across the face (and almost took out one of his eyes) with his katana. The third and last reason is under "Statute of Limitations".
Noodle Incident: Just exactly what Hiramune said to the other victims that he couldn't risk being revealed and murdered them over.
Out-Gambitted: 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?
Pocket Protector: 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 can't help commenting how cliché the situation is.
Red Herring: Midway through the case, 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. The Serial Killer 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.
Slashed Throat: 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. Because he was the killer of the past, and the killer of the present was the son of one of the victims. Karmic Death, anyone?
Smug Snake: Hiramune, holy crap.
Statute of Limitations: The last case of the Serial Killer is juuuust three days away from being definitely archived, which is the other reason why Matsumoto wants to catch the culprit that badly. One can bet that Hiramune, being the killer himself, used this to try making himself look good and gain fame...
Take a Third Option: Between replying to Satou's ill-timed cellphone call and ignoring it during the Alone with the Psycho scene, Takagi chooses to break his 'phone with his own hands to avert a Hostage Situation. Satou realises something wrong's going on and notifies the other policemen.
That One Case: For Matsumoto, due to the connection with Morimura's murder and his own scarring. Satou also alludes to her one case in a scene.
Unusual Eyebrows: The Tall, Dark, and Handsome Morimura's 'brows were kinda... odd.◊

People of the Mystery of the Cherry Blossoms case

People of the Mystery of the Cherry Blossoms case (Nami Kasakura, Yoshiro Soumei, 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 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 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 Stalker with a Crush - 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...

Because Destiny Says So: Shiratori tells the kids and later Nami that he strongly believes in destiny. The girl from his past 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.
Broken Pedestal: Subverted. Shiratori is incredibly depressed upon seeing that the other strong candidate to be his "girl of destiny" is a Broken Bird/Woman Scorned and the killer... but she isn't. And she reappears almost immediately afterwards.
Cherry Blossoms: 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. Just like the girl from his past. 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 gets a Call-Back at the end 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.
- The symbolism is even more anvilicious thanks to the cherry blossom-themed names of these manga chapters as well as the ones dedicated to Shiratori and Sumiko getting together, by one of the chapter covers featuring Shiratori and Conan under a blooming cherry tree, and by how, right after Shiratori sees Kobayashi for the first time after many years and has his Love Epiphany, Conan and Ai notice that a bunch of nearby cherry trees are in bloom...
Childhood Friend Romance: Subverted by Shiratori and his "destiny girl", since they only met once and he didn't even know her name, despite her huge impact in his life. He firmly believes the girl to be Sato, and that's why he pursues her even when he knows she leans more towards Takagi... but later he wonders if she actually is Nami Kasakura. And it turns out she's Sumiko Kobayashi.
Crash-Into Hello: Shiratori and Nami met when she bumped into him and made him drop his cola. It was intentional.
A Day in the Limelight: This case is dedicated to give the readers a more detailed (and probably quite needed) insight regarding Shiratori's thoughts and beliefs.
Financial Abuse: Nami went off the deep end when Soumei took her mother's expensive ring (implied to be a Tragic Keepsake) behind her back, apparently to pawn it, and then gave it to another woman as an engagement one. Lampshaded when Megure says that she could have easily denounced Soumei for theft/fraud instead of killing him.
Love Hurts: And how. Not only Shiratori goes into what looks a LOT like a compressed version of the Five Stages of Grief when he (mistakenly) believes that the sweet little girl he knew grew up into a murderer , but Nami became a killer and a huge Woman Scorned because she got badly screwed by her Asshole Victim of a boyfriend, who not only took money from her but also was a big-ass cheater.
Meaningful Name: The name of the victim, Soumei Yoshiro, sounds a LOT like "Somei Yoshino" aka most popular variety of cherry blossom in Japan.
Shipper on Deck: The kids are pretty happy when they see the chemistry between Nami and Shiratori...
Slipping a Mickey - Tampering with Food and Drink: Nami intentionally makes Shiratori drop his drink, then offers him another as an apology. The second one is laced with sleeping pills.
Stalker with a Crush: 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 to get him out of the way. 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.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Shiratori tells this to Nami before Takagi takes her away. Subverted in that the sweet Genki Girl he was thinking of did NOT grow into Nami, but into Kobayashi-sensei instead.
"You weren't like this in the past."

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 Elegant Gothic Lolita 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. Or more exactly, undo the alibi of their biggest suspect: the fashionable girl's best friend, Yuika Shudou.

All Take and No Give: 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. Sonoko gets pissed off and calls her out on it, saying that Yuika didn't trust Mihiro enough to tell her what was on her mind and set their boundaries/limits straight.
Childhood Friends: Yuika and Mihiro.
Costume Porn: In the manga, the reader catches a one-panel view of Mihiro's clothes and jewelry. In the anime, however... holy crap, she's got great taste and an AWESOME wardrobe.
Elegant Gothic Lolita:
- 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 Imagine Spot, Ai would fit in fairly well due to her Little Miss Snarker nature.
- Also, when in a EGL boutique, Ran and Sonoko briefly borrow identical sweet lolita pink dresses. Conan gets ready to snark at Ran, but when he actually sees her on it, he blushes and thinks to himself that she does look really good.
Master of Disguise: Sort-of. After killing Mihiro, Yuika put on her clothes and a wig and impersonated her for a while to create an alibi.
Office Lady: Yuika, Mihiro's best friend. And her murderer.

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 Cool Teacher Kobayashi takes the spotlight alongside Inspector Shiratori. They have just met and seem to be getting along pretty well as the summer goes on, specially since Shiratori has realised that she was his "girl of destiny" instead of Sato, but it seems their advances will be rather slow. All of a sudden, however, things change: Kobayashi steps into the murder of a particularly dangerous Loan Shark 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...

Ambiguously Brown: Kodama, who's got very dark skin. Probably thanks to having been a once very promising baseball player and thus exercising a LOT outdoors.
Batter Up!: While Kodama stabbed Sumida with a knife, he later tried to "mess up" with Kobayashi with a baseball bat. Too bad the woman he attacked was actually Sato...
Blatant Lies: Noooo, Takimoto has Nothing Personal against the recently murdered Sumida-san, even after what she did!

Nothing, Passive-Aggressive Kombat really! Ohohohoho!

Career-Ending Injury: Kodama had two of these. And after the second happened, Sumida began to pressure and threaten him...
A Day in the Limelight: For both Shiratori and Kobayashi. And their Relationship Upgrade.
The Dog Bites Back: So Sumida wanted to kill Kodama? He ended up killing her instead.
Fat Bitch: Sumida was a pretty much obese woman... and a completely rotten Jerkass. Did you know, in example, that 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 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 tried to invoke Financial Abuse on Kodama, however...
He Knows Too Much: Kodama tries to do this to Kobayashi, since she saw him around almost immediately after he killed Sumida and therefore she would throw his plan off if she properly recalled more details.
Japanese Delinquents: 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 Spots, she's seen dressed up in a typical sukeban outfit.
Lady Looks Like a Dude: 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 Berserk Button.
Loan Shark: 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. When she tried to 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.
Rich Bitch: Ryouko Takimoto, another of the suspects, is said to be from a very rich family. She's also super passive-aggressive when confronted.
Shipper on Deck: The kids notice that Shiratori and Kobayashi are hitting it off 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. 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.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Shiratori gives a magnificent one to Kodama when he claims that him killing Sumida was in self-defense. It's also what leads to Kobayashi finally remembering how Shiratori did the same as a child, 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, you used a bladed weapon with the intent to kill. So none of these circumstances apply. Not to mention, turning a bat which fulfills dreams into a weapon to silence people earns you no right to talk about dreams at all.
Tragic Keepsake: Kagitani's ring is implied to be this, since according to her it belonged to her Missing Mom.

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, 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, Ran is questioning her love for Shinichi...

Darker and Edgier: Hades Sabara's past deeds were so horrible that they had to be seriously bowdlerized in the anime.
Dark and Troubled Past: Only in the manga. After the death of his 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. And the friend's whole family. And he apparently ripped their hearts out.
Everyone Hates Hades: In a roundabout way. Why else would you name the Mad Bomber Serial Killer after him?!
Hostage Situation: 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.
Improbable Weapon User: Minerva hits Hades with her tennis ball. Conan then grabs said ball and kicks it at him.
Love Hurts: This is quite the emotional rollercoaster for Ran, as she starts to seriously doubt her and Shinichi's prospect relationship 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.
Mad Bomber: Hades Sabara and his accomplice Hestia.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Minerva and Demeter seems to be explicitly based on Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams. Minerva has the appearance of the white Maria while has the unbeatable record and reputation of Serena while Demeter has the appearance of Serena but has the Always Second Best reputation of Maria.
Passionate Sports Girl: Demeter and Minerva are both skilled tennis players
Shipping Torpedo: Subverted. Ran thought Minerva was this thanks to the "Love is zero" spiel, but she wasn't.
Theme Naming: All the characters introduced here have names related to Greek/Roman Gods.
Wimbledon: The Women's Finals is vital to the plot.

Second Part

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: Yasuyuki Kase

Hatsune Kamon is voiced by: Yuriko Yamamoto

Always Murder: Averted.
Ambiguously Brown: Banba, who is VERY dark-skinned and even has dreadlocks.
Broken Tears: 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 screaming Hatsune's name.
Brother–Sister Incest: Not that they knew it.
Crazy Jealous Guy: Raita is believed to be this. It's not that easy.
Despair Event Horizon:
- 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.
- At the end of the case, it's almost a sure thing that Raita crossed it as well.
Driven to Suicide: What actually happened to Hatsune.
Half-Identical Twins: One of the rare cases where there's a reason for it. For the most part, Hatsune is Raita's identical twin, but her Y chromosome is missing during meiosis, causing her to have only one copy of the X chromosome.
Happily Adopted: Both of them. 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.
Jerkass: Raita is this at his worst. It's mostly when he's drunk, though.
Rule of Symbolism: Conan suggests the reason Hatsune chose death by fire was because it where her tragic fate began.
Say My Name: "HATSUNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Stuff Blowing Up: Hatsune's death happened when her car exploded with her inside.

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 Death Trap 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 him enough to do such things...

Break the Cutie: Poor, poor Natalie Kuruma.
Driven to Suicide: 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 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.
- Fuemoto also kills himself by drinking poisoned wine after the cops break down the door to his apartment and keeping them on bay for a second with the threat of a bomb strapped to himself, both to keep Takagi's location secret and to humiliate what he thought was "Wataru"'s new girlfriend. However, just before the poison takes effect, Sato makes it very clear to him that he got the wrong guy, and from his face when she yells this at him it's clear his final thoughts were of despairing regret.
Forced to Watch: 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 being blown up by a hidden bomb).
From Bad to Worse: 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? 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.
A Glass of Chianti: Fuemoto is found in his old apartment with a bottle of good wine and a half-full glass. In a subversion, he had poisoned his own drink before consuming it, effectively commiting suicide... and dying without revealing where Takagi is.
High-Class Call Girl: 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.
Like a Son to Me: Fuemoto had an Inter Generational Friendship with Natalie and considered her to be like his daughter. When she died, he completely lost it and decided 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.
Posthumous Character: 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. The only one that is disconnected of the case itself is Yuuko's.
Ravens and Crows: At some point, some black birds almost knock down the camera over the kidnapped Takagi. They turn out to be jackdaws, and this allows the kids and the police to deduce that Takagi is being held hostage in Hokkaido, since the jackdaws are mostly seen in Europe but sometimes they're spotted in Hokkaido.^note.
Snow Means Death: The case takes place in winter, and for worse Takagi's Death Trap 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. (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. 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, when Sato and the others manage to reach for Takagi, it actually begins to snow. And it switches to Snow Means Love 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 Kisses.
Spurned into Suicide: Fuemoto believed Natalie had done this. It turned out he was very wrong - her reasoning went more by her desire to be Together in Death with Date.
Star-Crossed Lovers: Wataru Date and Natalie Kuruma, holy shit...
Use Your Head: A Sato in full Violently Protective Action Girlfriend mode does this to Fuemoto before telling him the truth about Date and Natalie.

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, Komayo's unnamed husband, Shinobu Kagawa)

Tamami Minegishi is voiced by: Kazue Ikura

Sumika Kawana is voiced by: Megumi Tano

Masaie Hakuya is voiced by: Yusuke Numata

Jinsuke Ninda is voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura

Shinobu Kagawa is voiced by: Kaoru Sasajima

In a case also notorious for its Nightmare Fuel, 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.

Accidental Murder: 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.
Ax-Crazy: The impression most of the cast have of the Red Woman is this.
Blood Is the New Black: The reason the Red Woman got her name is that she spilled so much blood from her husband that her dress turned red.
Dead All Along: The original Red Woman had been dead for 15 years; Nagano police just couldn't confirm it until they found 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 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.
Deadly Prank: Satoko was dressed as the Red Woman for a prank. 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.
Mistaken Identity: Shinobu thought Satoko was the Red Woman as the latter was dressed as her, not knowing the original had already been dead by then.
The Mistress: Shinobu was this to Komayo's husband.
Mysterious Watcher:
- The episodes often jump to Shinobu watching over the cast.
- The Red Woman in the intro however, was Sumika, who knew who Masumi was when the others had questions about her gender.
Revenge: 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. 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.
Slasher Smile:
- The Red Woman is occasionally depicted with one.
- Shinobu displays this when she attempts to murder Sumika for the second time.
Woman Scorned: Komayo Takeno aka the Red Woman killed her husband for his infidelity. She got pissed off enough that she also attacked the police officer who responded on the scene.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: 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.

Cases in the Rum Arc

People of the Kawanakajima Murder Case

People involved in the Kawanakajima serial murders (Mamoru Saegusa, Shinsuke Akiyama, Shouji Kano, Shigeru Takeda, Hyoue Kuroda, 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 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...

Apple of Discord: The killer invokes this between Yamato and Morofushi for the purpose of 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.
Batman Gambit:
- The scenario described in He Knows Too Much below? Yes, the culprit deliberately let him know the truth so he could kill him.
- Kuroda and Morofushi seriously treating Yamato as the prime suspect was meant to lower the culprit's guard and draw him out.
Calling Card: The "X" mark on the victims' foreheads which resemble woodpecker claws, representing the Woodpecker Society, a group of Dirty Cops referenced by Yoshiro Torada. Additionally, it's also a reference to the actual Theme Naming behind the members' names - X being the 24th letter of the alphabet and there being 24 prominent generals who served under Takeda Shingen. Furthermore, it is where Akiyama's sister was shot.
Dirty Cop: 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.
Faking the Dead: 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.
He Knows Too Much: Kano discovers who the culprit was and his motive. He gets strangled for his troubles.
It's Personal: The case for Yamato, as the person Takeda shot and killed nine years ago was his childhood friend.
The Maiden Name Debate: Shouji Kano took up his current surname when he got married; it was originally Tsuchiya.
Off with His Head!:
- 12 pages in the manga and we are treated to a rather lovely sequence of Shigeru's head floating in the river. Downplayed in the anime version, where it was less graphic.
- Akiyama gets this fate as his neck was tied to a moving car that fell off a cliff. Subverted - see Faking the Dead above.
Shed the Family Name: Aburakawa was Shinsuke's original surname, then he took in Akiyama (his mother's maiden name) as his last name after his parents divorced.
Shipper on Deck: Mamoru accuses Yamato of going on a date with Yui while on-duty.
Slashed Throat: Takeda was killed this way in the beginning.
Theme Naming: 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. That specific theme is a Red Herring, as their names are more appropriately themed after the Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: One of the more technically complex examples, as Akiyama faked a decapitation.
You Killed My Father: Akiyama's sister was killed by a stray bullet when Yamato's drug-addled childhood friend ran amok.

Anime-Original Cases

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: Ryō Horikawa
Toshihide voiced by: Nobuo Tobita
Yoshimi voiced by: Sakiko Tamagawa
Mrs. Minagawa voiced by: Chiyoko Kawashima

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 Big Fancy House 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.

Financial Abuse: 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.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Katsuhiko is a jerk and he smokes. 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.
Love Dodecahedron: 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.
Mommy Issues: Katsuhiko likes Yoshimi because she looks like his dead biological mother.
Offing the Offspring: The murderer? Katsuhiko's mother. Or better said, his aunt and stepmother.
Out-of-Character Alert: A big clue that points Conan to how Katsuhiko was really poisoned was when Sayuri gave Susumu cake after he drank coffee, despite his problems with cavities.
Real Men Hate Sugar: Katsuhiko says he really hates chocolate, though he accepts Yoshimi's choco anyway. 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.
Red Herring: 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.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Kaori is a shorthaired tomboy in a denim jacket and Jeans. Yoshimi is a motherly-looking girly girl in office lady-like clothes.
Upper-Class Twit: Katsuhiko. He still didn't deserve to die and specially not for the money he inherited from his dead parents.

People from the Dracula's Villa case

People from the Torakura estate (Daisuke Torakura, Etsuko Torakura, Toshiya Tadokoro, Shuichi Hamura, Fumio Doi, Kaori Tadokoro)

Hamura is voiced by: Show Hayami

Etsuko is voiced by: Yorie Terauchi

Tadakoro is voiced by: Koji Yusa

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?

Asshole Victim: Torakura. Almost everyone has reasons to want him dead since he shat on them all BIG TIME.
Bad Boss: Torakura.
Kill the Cutie: Poor, poor Kaori...
Love Makes You Evil: Todakoro kills Torakura because Torakura caused the death of his sister while she was ill.
May–December Romance: Torakura married Etsuko who was 20 years younger than him, through a cruel Scarpia Ultimatum.
Moving the Goalposts: It turns out 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.
Our Vampires Are Different: 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. 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: "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.
Red Herring: Hamura. His reasons seems to be an enough motive to kill Torakura, but turns out that he wasn't the killer.
Scarpia Ultimatum: 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.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: 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.

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: Soichiro Hoshi

Yuri Shirai is voiced by: Sayaka Ohara

Itoe Ogiwara is voiced by: Kazue Ikura

Ryuichi Muraki is voiced by: Ken Narita

A New Transfer Student in Ran and Sonoko's class, Tamanosuke Ito, is not only a Tall, Dark, and Handsome Nice Guy 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...

Accidental Murder: Itoe fell in a trap intended for Tamanosuke.
Angst Coma: 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 from mental fatigue.
Career-Ending Injury: 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.
Cheerful Child: D'aww, Megumi!
Death by Falling Over: 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 and was the same one Ayumi almost fell into earlier in the case. Itoe fell in it instead.
Disguised in Drag: As a child, Tamanosuke often played girl roles. And looked adorable while at it.◊
Harmful to Minors: The first victim was found dead by a seven-year-old girl.
He Knows Too Much: Used twice by the killer of the case:
- First, Chikaishi had realized 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 Tamanosuke had also realized 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...
Get Out!: Chikaishi is introduced by kicking Tamanosuke out of his inn room. Literally.
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Chikaishi was a Jerkass and he smoked in a pipe.
New Transfer Student: Tamanosuke, specially highlighted by him wearing a gakuran in school instead of a blazer uniform.
Nice Guy: Tamanosuke. Though 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 trouble.
Promotion to Parent: 17-year-old Tamanosuke, towards his 7-year-old sister Megumi.
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Chikaishi is really, really bitter...
Super Window Jump: 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.
Tears of Remorse: Tajima breaks down in tears when Tamanosuke apologizes to him for insisting in the "Edo Boy" play and explains his reasons behind it.
Troubled Production: An In-Universe 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, the treasurer had embezzled quite a sum of money , two troupe members die... Oh dear.

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 which is INDEED she, the goddess who took Eizo's life away.
Meaningful Name: Kamiyama Shizuka which means Mountain of the god and Silence.
Nun Too Holy: Well, guess who.
Old Retainer: Kamiyama Shizuka who can easily run up more than a thousand stairs without tiring and keep protesting against Eizo for a good amount of times in the episode. She's 75 and a nun as well mind you.

People from the Kimono Goddess case

People in the Kotoya Inn (Yoriko Yasuda, Kyochi Bando, Eri Akechi aka Chieri Aki, Harumi Fukatsu, Asuka Shibazaki, Ema Anzai, Sakurako Suzuka)

Ema Anzai is voiced by: Haruna Ikezawa

Eri Akechi is voiced by: Miki Itō

Harumi Fukatsu is voiced by: Yuri Shiratori

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, Idol Singer 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?

Break the Cutie: 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 bitches who want her treasured kimonos, and 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).
Broken Bird: 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. In the real story, we have two: Sakurako Suzuka and her long-separated sister, Eri Akechi/Chieri Aki aka the Sympathetic Murderer
Can't Get Away with Nuthin': 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.
Costume Porn: In-universe example. The Kotoya Inn is VERY famous for its collection of beautiful kimonos, all related to the legend of the Kimono Goddess. 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.
Creepy Doll: 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. 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.
Crucified Hero Shot: In the story, Ohana was executed via being tied up to a huge wooden cross and then Impaled with Extreme Prejudice with several lances, thus the still image representing said moment used the imaginery. ^note.
Despair Event Horizon: Sakurako was Driven to Suicide when she was framed for drug trafficking by Ema and Asuka and couldn't prove her innocence.
Hot Springs Episode: The episode is set on a hot spring, and the spring itself is an important part of the killer's trick.
Idol Singer: Harumi.
Rich Bitch: Both Asuka and Ema are from loaded families (the Shibazakis are into politics, the Anzais are in a huge enterprise) and are massive assholes. 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.
The Ophelia: Poor, poor Sakurako.
Rags to Riches: Harumi was a orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, the she rose to stardom once her songs became hits.
Snow Means Death: The case takes place in an onsen during the winter. It's obviously covered in snow out there.
Starts with a Suicide: The two-part episode begins with the very public suicide of a beautiful and sad girl. Said girl is Sakurako.

People from the Lupin III vs. Detective Conan TV special

People from the Lupin III vs. Detective Conan 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: Hiroko Suzuki

Prince Gill Cowell Vespaland is voiced by: Jun Fukuyama

Princess Mira Julietta Vespaland is voiced by: Yui Horie

Count Keith Dan Stiner is voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa

As its name says, this 2009 TV special is a crossover between Detective Conan and the legendary franchise, Lupin III. 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 Rebellious Princess 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 Identical Stranger Ran Mouri end up crossing. This 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...

Cherry Blossoms: One of these is vital to the plot, as it's underneath it that the royal Murder-Suicide took place. And later, Mira decides to take over when she's standing in front of it as well.
Cynicism Catalyst: Mira has both her mother and older brother as these.
Identical Stranger:
- Save for the hair/eye colors and their ethnicities, Ran and Mira◊ look almost exactly alike. So Mira tries to make Ran her Body Double 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 Posthumous Character and to avert any... weird implications.
MacGuffin: Two, actually!:
- The beautiful and unvaluable Crown of Vespania, which Lupin intends to steal. In reality, he had stolen it already years ago, but returned it when the then recently crowned Sakura (who had a Celeb Crush on Lupin) found out; then, he made her promise she'd be The High Queen from then on in exchange for returning it.
- Also some really rare mineral ores that were found in Vespanian soil, which thanks to their "complete stealth powers" 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.
Posthumous Character: Queen Sakura and Prince Gill, who died few months before the special takes place.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Two of these and probably three:
- Count Keith is the leader of the Parliament and holds an Undying Loyalty to Sakura, so he does what he can to help Mira out. Even if it involves pretty much kidnapping Ran to force her to stay as Mira's Body Double a little longer.
- Queen Sakura was one when she was alive, so she got murdered by Gerard for doing what she believed to be the right thing.
- The new Queen Mira will probably turn out to be one as well, specially after all of these adventures.
Pretty Little Headshots: ... There's no way Gill could have shot himself in the head with a revolver and have just a tiny fatal wound.
Royal Brat: Princess Mira doesn't have a lot of respect for authority and can be pretty selfish and entitled. It's stated by Keith and Fujiko that she wasn't like that originally, but became this out of the deep trauma she suffered after losing her mother and brother, rather than anything else. Therefore Keith hired Fujiko as Mira's bodyguard so she'd be able to get out and unwind a little before deciding her future. Mira ultimately decides that she will take over and reign over Vespania as well as she can.
Secret-Keeper: Lupin and his gang figure out Conan's identity.
Self-Made Orphan: It's believed that Gill accidentally killed his mother Sakura during a hunt outing, then crossed the Despair Event Horizon and shot himself dead in grief. Nope: Duke Gerard killed his sister Sakura and then "silenced" his nephew Gill.
Tampering with Food and Drink: 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 Rebellious Princess Mira to sneak away, then meet Ran...
Thou Shall Not Kill: Queen Sakura was a Friend to All Living Things, 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...
Trademark Favorite Food: Princess Mira adores sushi.

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,A trio of robbers,Natsuko Takeoka

Kogoro was asked by the 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 "Kujira" Matsumoto

Abhorrent Admirer: Sayuri Tokomae.
Cassandra Truth:Natsuko was right all along about that Gamo was involved with the attempt murder of Sagae Kinukasa.
Chekhov's Gun: The Animal Cookie
Detective Patsy: A rather well thought plan. Takeoka disguised himself as Gamo to trick Kogoro into proving his false alibi.
Laser-Guided Karma: Sayuri Tokomae is arrested for excessive defense.
Rich Bitch: Wearing several expensive jewelries while going out definitely fits the description for being one, Tokomae.
Red Herring: Sayuri and Arai.

People of the 'The partner is Santa-san' case

People of the 'The partner is Santa-san' case (Santa Ishikawa (real name Haruka), Shigeko Ishikawa, Minoru Moriwaki, Toshihiko Yamanaka, Kurata)

Santa Ishikawa is voiced by: Rie Kugimiya

Shigeko Ishikawa is voiced by: Sayaka Ohara

Minoru Moriwaki is voiced by: Hiro Shimono

Toshihiko Yamada is voiced by: Yosuke Akimoto

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. And turns out to be the key to solve the case.

Anti-Villain: 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...
Babysitting Episode: Basically, Conan's part in this episode is looking after Santa. It's much harder than it sounds.
Cheerful Child: Awwww, Santa!
Chekhov's Gunman: Santa, and how. Who would say a toddler would be the key to unlock this case?
Children Are Innocent: Santa was trying to be genuinely friendly to Yamanaka, but he took it badly.
Disappeared Dad: Santa's father/Shigeko's husband died the year before.
Foreshadowing: In one of the opening scenes, Santa points at someone walking down the streets but Conan mistakenly thinks the baby's looking at the cars... not at Yamanaka. Also, 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.)
Hostage Situation: Towards the end not only Shigeko is captured by Yamanaka, but when he's about to have his Heel–Face Turn, 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.
My God, What Have I Done?: When Yamanaka realises that Santa was attempting to befriend him, he's horrified at his own behavior
Samus Is a Girl: Haruka 'Santa' Ishikawa is a girl, which Ran figures out when she's hugged by her, and Conan learns after having to take Santa to the bathroom.
Staircase Tumble: 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.

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 Big Fancy House. 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 Idol Singer 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?

The Alcoholic: Hirasaka, who does it due to depression. He's a very mean drunk, however, and one year ago he killed Kira in the middle of a drunken tantrum.
Batman Gambit: 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)
Beneath the Mask: Maho is actually VERY shy when she's not cosplaying and hanging around people like Kira (when she was alive, that is.)
Crucified Hero Shot: This is how Shouko is found. The corpse lies on the seance table, arms outstretched like in a cross.
Despair Event Horizon: Shouko, when Mifune attacked her. She offered zero resistence upon being under attack of the man she was hopelessly in love with.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: ... Wait, Hirasaka is a dude?
Dying Clue: 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.
Living Emotional Crutch: Kira was one for Mifune and Maho
Maho: "Miss Kira... She was my reason for living!"
Love Hurts: 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.
Madness Mantra: "It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie!", by Mifune, after he's both found out and told about Shouko's feelings for him
Make It Look Like an Accident: Reiki accidentally killed Kira via knocking her down to the floor when drunk, causing her to 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 safe driver (due to her parents having died in a car accident in her youth).
Poor Communication Kills: Poor, poor Shouko.
Pose of Supplication: 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.
Secret-Keeper: 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)
Secret Relationship: Kira and Mifune. They never told anyone they were dating, since Japanese fans can be really possessive of their artistic celebrities and would have HATED to see that "their Kira" was dating.
Shrinking Violet: Maho.
Spoiled Sweet: Kira was a super popular idol, and said to be a really sweet girl. A good example was her Odd Friendship with Maho.
Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics: Poor Maho.

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