Detective Conan Episode 1084: The Freezing Cold Men

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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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

0 Detective Conan Episode 1084: The Freezing Cold Men

Episode 1084: The Freezing Cold Men

Scenario: The sun sets, filling the sky with a beautiful array of colours. Everything begins from a refrigerated warehouse. Kenzo Aizawa, the president of the company "Aizawa Foods" is inspecting the products inside the warehouse as usual. Simultaneously, a person, who is wearing a yellow hoodie, and possesses a peculiar hairstyle, surreptitiously enters the warehouse, moving cautiously towards the front door. He opens the door accordingly, a bright light with a rather strong intensity kicks in, illuminating the dim warehouse. Kenzo subconsciously covers his eye, he is absolutely gobsmacked. The mysterious man approaches him closer and closer, Kenzo suddenly collapses, and slumps to the ground.

After some hours, the managing director of the company Masaru Bando finds the president succumbing to unconsciousness inside the refrigerated warehouse. He seems fairly anxious about it and decides to call the police. However, Kenzo rejects this behaviour by constantly shaking his head.

The Mouri family is walking in the corridor of a hospital, notably with Kogoro's hand bandaged. Ran gets very concerned regarding his father, and says that she can never believe that he make a big fuss over a little cut from a knife. In the mean time, they are abruptly interrupted as they witnesses a dispute right in front of them, they halt their steps and observe what is going on. A young man wearing a yellow hoodie and laced with a peculiar hairstyle is punching another man. Ran gets forward and tries to impede the fight. After confirmation, they find out that the attacker is called Reiji Aizawa, the second son of Kenzo. And the other one will thus be the eldest son of Kenzo, Ryoichi Aizawa. Ryoichi questions if Reiji is the culprit of persecuting their father, but Reiji does not admit.

After knowing that there is a renowned detective Kogoro Mouri present nearby, they start telling Kogoro what is exactly happening. They all work inside a small company called "Aizawa Foods". Reiji also discloses that most of the employees got fired pretty recently by his brother. Masaru says that he had day off and was sleeping the whole day, and when it was 7PM, he went to the company to pick his phone up, due to the fact that he forgot it in the office. When he entered the office, he noiticed that president's briefcase was still lying on the floor. Later, he went to check the refrigerated warehouse to see if Kenzo was there, and the opening scenario happened. The doctor disrupts them and informs that Kenzo has just been treated and is awake now, everyone, goes to ask his condition.

"I was just taking a nap", Kenzo laughs. Kogoro shows his puzzles, however Kenzo keeps insist that it was just an accident. Even though he says that he was far too tired and dozed off, Conan perceives a sense of incongruity in his words. Conan points to Kenzo's hands and asks if his hands are okay, because obviously there is swelling on the side of his right-hand. Conan questions him if he made it by opening the door, Kogoro adds that it does seem curious, and it looks like that Kenzo was being trapped inside the warehouse by someone. Kenzo equivocates "I know, I must've hit it on the floor when I fell asleep". Conan once again exclaims that it is abnormal to have a person using their hands to resist the fall when they are asleep. Conan deduces that it will be impossible that he was having a nap, moreover, Kogoro adds that the reason behind his falsehood is that he does not want this to be a legal case.

"This is non-sense!" Kenzo shouts, at the same time, Ryoichi offers a request to Kogoro for investigating this case. The room is filled with an atmosphere of awkwardness.

Everyone visits the warehouse, where the incident has occurred. Reiji satirises that it is odd to have his stingy brother hiring a detective. Kogoro examines the padlock that is deposited on the warehouse door, and identifies that the padlock can be only locked from the outside. Therefore, to distinguish if this is an accident or not, he only needs to know that if the door was locked when the crime was carried out. Masaru says that it was locked when he went to check for Kenzo, after he utters the word, Ryoichi chuckles. Everyone inside the company can be a possible candidate for the culprit as the key to the padlock is just right inside the office. Conan gives another possibility of having former employees being the culprit since they might hold resent on Kenzo by firing them. Kenzo instantly corrects Conan that it would never happen, Conan then looks at Kenzo with a cocksure face, anti-questioning him that it seems like he already knew who the culprit was.

Just now, another valuable clue enters Conan's sight. It is a shoe print on the concrete floor. Surprisingly, the only match to this print is Reiji's shoe. Kenzo also realises it and quickly destroys the shoe print by pretending to faint on the concrete floor, which erases the print. He smiles as he reaches the floor.

Everyone decides to enter the warehouse, as Kogoro steps in to the warehouse, a bone-chilling cold permeates the air, causing a visible mist to form with every breath. Ran then purposes Kogoro to call the police. Once again, Kenzo's emotion changes immediately, and stops Kogoro with his vexatious words. He explains that he is running a small company, and already in debt. Calling the police will destroy them, Conan again insinuates "You're doing it for the company? Are you sure you're not protecting something more important than the company?" Reiji then laughs coldly saying that his father have never cared about others but only his company, and mentions his mother's death as an example. Ran comes up with another explanation that maybe Kenzo regrets doing that and now decides to protect his family this time. Ryoichi goes on and suspects Reiji for his argument with Kenzo yesterday afternoon, but Reiji says that he will not kill a person for merely that.

In addition, Reiji has a solid alibi when the crime was implemented. He was drinking all evening at a place called Club L. And says that he is leaving now owing to his reservation again today. As he opens the door and about to leave, the bright beam of light shines to Conan's eye, he seems to be even closer to the truth. He then gets the information from Ryoichi that Kenzo kept the door closed while inspecting the products inside the warehouse to not let the cold air escape. Kenzo is as though fed up with Conan's dedicated investigation and invites Kogoro and Conan to leave the warehouse.

Outside the warehouse, Kogoro, Ran, Ryoichi, and Conan stands together and discuss the case. Kogoro says that Reiji looks suspicious after all, and although he has an alibi, but it might be rather easy to fake one due to how familiar he is with regards to the club. Conan starts to ask Ryoichi's alibi that time, nevertheless, he claims that he was working at home after he leaves his company at 5PM, and nobody can verify that. But Ryoichi says that if he were the culprit, then it does not make sense to hire Kogoro for investigating the case, and Kogoro echoes and tells Conan to stop interfering the case.

In front of the club, a girl is talking to Reiji, and Reiji says that tonight is a prominent day for him, and he is prepared to do everything. At the other side, Conan asks Masaru about Ryoichi, and his behaviour throughout the case. Masaru asks Conan if Kogoro is also suspecting Ryoichi, and informs Conan that Ryoichi actually has a motive for killing the president, by the reason of his eagerness of taking over the company.

Conan contemplates, meticulously piecing together fragments of evidence, analysing clues, and pondering various possibilities until finally, a definitive conclusion emerges in his mind.