Detective Conan Episode 787: The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool (P1)

Summary

Case Closed

Case Closed, known as Meitantei Conan (名探偵コナン?, lit. Great Detective Conan, officially translated as Detective Conan) in Japan, is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The series is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since February 2, 1994, and has been collected in 73 tankōbon volumes as of September 2011. Due to legal considerations with the name Detective Conan, the English language release was renamed Case Closed.[1] The story follows the adventures of Jimmy Kudo, a prodigious young detective who was inadvertently transformed into a child after being poisoned.

Since its publication, Case Closed has spawned a substantial media franchise. The manga has been adapted into an ongoing animated television series by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation and TMS Entertainment; the animated series has reached its twentieth season. The series has spawned three original video animation series, fifteen animated feature films, three live action dramas, one live action series, numerous video games, and many types of Case Closed-related merchandise. A two-hour television special titled Lupin the 3rd vs Detective Conan was aired on March 27, 2009, and featured a crossover with the series Lupin III.

Funimation Entertainment licensed the anime series for North American broadcast in 2003 under the name Case Closed with the characters given Americanized names. The anime premiered on Cartoon Network as part of their Adult Swim programming block and was discontinued due to low ratings. The first six films were released on Region 1 DVD in North America. Viz Media later licensed the manga series for English-language publication in North America and used Funimation's renamed title and cast. As of July 2011, 39 volumes have been published by Viz Media.

Compilation volumes of the manga have sold more than 120 million copies in Japan. In 2001, the manga was awarded 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category. The anime adaptation has been well received and ranked in the top twenty in Animage's polls between 1996 and 2001. In the Japanese TV anime ranking, Case Closed often ranked in the top six. Both manga and anime have had positive response from critics for its plot and cases.

Plot

Jimmy Kudo is a 17-year-old high school prodigy who frequently helps the police to solve cases. During an investigation, he is attacked by two criminals, codenamed Gin and Vodka, from the syndicate called the Black Organization. They force him to ingest an experimental poison, APTX 4869, which is supposed to kill him, and leave him to die. A rare side-effect of the poison, however, transforms Kudo's body into that of a child instead of killing him.

Adopting the pseudonym Conan Edogawa, Kudo hides his identity to investigate the Black Organization. He intends to pretend to be a child until he can find enough evidence to apprehend the syndicate, after which he can then safely find and administer a cure for his current condition. Edogawa enrolls at Teitan elementary school and forms the Junior Detective League with three other children in his class: Amy Yoshida, Mitch Tsuburaya, and George Kojima. To further cover up his activities, he moves in with his childhood friend Rachel Moore, whose father, Richard, works as a private investigator. Kudo continues to solve criminal cases as Conan, but usually poses as Richard Moore with the help of special gadgets invented by his neighbor and friend, Hiroshi Agasa.

Shiho Miyano, a member of the Black Organization and creator of APTX 4869, tries to leave the syndicate after her sister's murder, but is held captive by them. She attempts to commit suicide by ingesting APTX 4869; however, like Kudo, she is transformed into a child. She manages to escape and enrolls in Conan's school under the pseudonym, Anita Hailey. She joins the Junior Detective League and assists Conan in his investigations on the Black Organization. Conan's quest has led him to help the FBI to plant a CIA agent, Kir, inside the Black Organization as an undercover spy.

In 2007, Aoyama hinted he had the ending planned out but he has no intention of ending the series yet.

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Monday, December 28, 2020

0 Detective Conan Episode 787: The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool (P1)

Episode 787: The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool (Part 1)

Scenario: Conan and his friends go to a hotel pool when Nagami Oiso, the spoiled daughter of the hotel's owner, is found drowned in the pool. She had been wearing a diving tank and searching the pool for her lost necklace. Based on the crime scene, Inspector Megure believes it may have been an accident. However, the hotel bellboys claim the body in the pool suddenly appeared.

Masumi Sera and the unknown child are in their hotel room, waiting for Conan to arrive. The child is questioning whether they can actually trust him even though she thinks he's clever, but Masumi assures her everything will be fine. She warns Masumi that if Conan is not worth their time, they will have to leave and find a new base of operations. After the warning, she hides in the bathroom as Masumi opens the door to welcome Conan in. Unexpectedly, Masumi sees him, Ran, and Sonoko standing outside, even though she told him to come alone. Ran and Sonoko came along with Conan because he told them she mentioned Hotel Hyde Pride had a pool. She tells the three of them to head to the pool first, and that she will come later; as a result, Conan's conversation with her and the child is unfortunately put on hold.

At the pool, Conan, Ran, Sonoko, and Masumi meet President Oiso's secretary Raito Samaki, a man Sonoko met with in a few parties. They also see the president's daughter, Nagami Oiso; Nagami's half-sister, Hamaka Oiso; and the hotel manager, Ensaku Toyoshima. These people are part of Oiso Finance, which is, according to Sonoko, a subsidiary of Suzuki Financial Group. President Oiso actually owns this hotel.

As Raito rubs oil on Nagami's back, Nagami loudly tells him, Hamaka, and Ensaku she knows their secrets. He and Hamaka are a couple, even though he is Nagami's fiance, and they are trying to take half of the president's fortune. Ensaku is secretly letting them use the hotel for their trysts. Before she storms off to tell her father about it, Hamaka tells her her necklace is missing. Thinking it fell while swimming, she angrily commands the manager to kick everyone out of the pool and orders Raito to bring her snorkeling equipment so that she can look for it by herself. After a while, she still could not find the necklace in the pool, so she takes the scuba tank Raito already prepared beforehand and tells him, Hamaka, and Ensaku, who were helping her search for the missing necklace, to get out of the pool. Conan, Ran, Sonoko, and Masumi, who already switched back from their swimsuits to their normal clothes, quietly watch them from a distance.

After lunch, the four of them were walking when Conan notices the hotel's bellboys looking excited about something. They learn from the three people who Nagami kicked out that she is missing. Suddenly they heard the bellboys say there is a person in the middle of the pool. Conan and Masumi rush to the pool to find out that person is Nagami, who already drowned.

However, when the bellboys looked in the pool ten minutes ago, nothing was there. As Raito carries Nagami's body and Ensaku carries the scuba tanks out of the pool, the hotel manager suddenly drops the tank back into the water after stepping on something. He looks into the water and tells everyone there are glass shards at the bottom of the pool.

After a while, Inspector Megure and Detective Takagi arrive to investigate the drowning. Based on the police reports, Nagami's time of death is between noon and 1 PM. According to the bellboys, they did not see anything in the pool until they searched the pool again and saw her body after 2 PM. When Conan and Ensaku told Inspector Megure about the glass shards, the police drained the pool immediately. Those glass shards were not in the pool when Raito, Hamaka, and Ensaku were helping Nagami search for her necklace. Conan and Masumi realize the glass shards form an aquarium. Later, the police find a fifty-meter-long fishing line stuck in the pool drain.

It turns out the secrets Nagami told everyone was just her misunderstanding. In fact, Raito, Hamaka, and Ensaku were planning to celebrate her birthday in this hotel, so they discussed decorations and food here secretly since they wanted it to be a surprise for her. After that was cleared up, Inspector Megure and Detective Takagi ask the three of them what they were doing when Nagami was searching for the necklace alone.