Detective Conan Episode 1089: The Genius Restaurant

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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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

0 Detective Conan Episode 1089: The Genius Restaurant

Episode 1089: The Genius Restaurant

Scenario: On an idly day, near the pavement located next to a shrine, the stick repeatedly danced upon the drum, which created a sound reverberating around the whole street, lacing with a melancholy melody that came out of a clarinet. The Detective Boys were deeply attracted by the graceful music and followed behind the three music players. The three folks led them towards a newly opened candy shop nearby, and they seemed to be the staff responsible for celebrating it. The emaciated man, wearing a purple kimono decided to hand the Detective Boys a plum for each of them, in order to commemorate this jubilant day. Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko all claimed that they had never seen anything like this plum before. After the three of them tasted it, they were all astonished by the luscious flavour of it. While Conan did not impersonate the others, he gazed at the plum in his hand, and looked rather dejected. Genta then questioned Conan about whether he was looking down at candies, yet Conan denied it, and remarked mercilessly, "It's just that candy for kids." then just put the plum inside his pockets. Genta got fairly piqued after hearing Conan's thoughts, and told Conan that he ought not pretend to be a grownup. Mitsuhiko also echoed, stating that people like Conan are being classified as arrogant. Although Conan kept declining being arrogant, Genta started a quarrel with Conan about it. Finally, suppressing his anger, Conan walked off.

After leaving the Detective Boys, Conan alone, walked along the pavement grumbling. Abruptly, he came across an old man, who was wearing spectacles with frames embellished with gold. He had his full body dressed in grey, also had a grey hat on top of his head. Due to Conan's madness at the Detective Boys, he did not see the old man advancing towards him, thus Conan knocked him down undeliberately. Conan apologized to the old man and helped him picking up his spectacles. After he put his spectacles, he said something gradually: "I saw a corpse, an omurice corpse."

Conan sighed and thought that was non-sense, and attempted to walking away. However, the old man seemed to be raged and grabbed Conan back, meanwhile shouting sentences like "Don't turn your back on the elderly!" He held Conan in his arms, carried him at a gloomy alley full of bamboos grown. Conan did not understand, and inquired of the old man where was the so-called "omurice corpse", the old man then realised that the corpse was grisly gone. The old man then accused Conan eating the omurice, Conan keenly escaped out of the old man's arm timely, unfortunately got obstructed by the end of the small alley. The end of the alley happened to be a wooden door with a layer of dust deposited onto it, apparently not being used for a while. As Conan peered upwards, a signboard with "Jurakudai" had been engraved on top of it came into sight. Conan then noticed that this was the name of the restaurant that he had been before with Ran.

Three months ago, it used to be a famed and popular restaurant that served western foods. Conan recalled the last time he visited the Jurakudai Restaurant with Ran.

When they walked into the restaurant entrance hall, there was a big aquarium-like facility with all kinds of special dishes introduced exclusively by the restaurant flowing all around the water inside the aquarium. This can be considered the menu of this peculiar restaurant. When they turned their heads to the left, they saw the chef-owner of the restaurant, Jurakudai, who was busy in the kitchen. At that time, he was jugging kitchen dishes ingeniously and had none of them broken into pieces. There were three staff members employed by him also standing nearby, praising his talent.

Moreover, he had a world-class five-star dish named "special kid's lunch", which could be considered his special dish for the restaurant. This restaurant also had an interesting manner for ordering food, which was to use a special machine in the shape of a pink frog-like creature. By inserting cash into the machine, you would get a food ticket in exchange, and the food would be ordered. Ran recommended Conan try out the "special kid's lunch", as that was what this restaurant was famous for. Nevertheless, Conan did not want it and said that a kid's lunch was still just a kid's lunch. This provoking statement got heard by the chef, and he seemed rather furious about it. Ran also perceived that Conan was acting like a grownup, and people who did not know him very well would most likely assume he was an arrogant kid. In the end, Conan decided to eat omurice, just like Ran, and not experience the "special kid's lunch". The chef got even more indignant after learning of Conan's decision.

Ran started ordering their food using the special food machine; she first found the corresponding machine, which was used for ordering omurice, and selected the number of dishes desired by using the lever that was installed on the right-hand side of the machine. After receiving the money and order, the eye of the pink frog suddenly emits laser light, and the chef inside the kitchen would accept it by absorbing the laser light using a cooking pan. The pan displayed "Omurice II" after the erosion of the laser light. "SHOWTIME!!!" The chef shouted with excitement. Namley, a tune of classical music kicked in; it was "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", composed by Wolfgang A. Mozart. The chef cooked the omurice along with this elegant classical music, with his three staffs dancing to cheer him up. After Jurakudai finished his cooking, the dishes were placed inside a steel pot cover. They were then sent into a rocket, which could fly from the kitchen and reach the dining area. On the customer side, Ran and Conan arrived at the dining area and saw a marvellous design of the room, with a universe background and 3D models of the moon, the earth, and even a rainbow swirling around. And most importantly, the dining tables and seats were located on a carousel. The rocket was dangling from the dining table where Ran and Conan were sitting, and the two dishes were then dropped downward and lied on top of the table using a parachute made of some sort of fabric. The most ingenious thing was that the parachute could then be used as a bib. Ran and Conan had their meal very gracefully, along with the accompaniment of classical music.

Back to the present, Conan discovered a photo of him eating the omurice stuck on the wooden door, seemingly taken on his last visit to the restaurant. It was fixed with the tip of the stick that was attached to the flag, which was stabbed on top of the omurice in that restaurant. Conan surmised that the chef of the restaurant might have done it. He could easily take the photo inside the kitchen while he was eating the omurice. After this deduction, he then thought of the staff member who was playing the violin in the background when the chef was cooking. Conan seemed to understand what was going on, and turned his face towards the old man who was standing just behind him. And enquired if the omurice corpse the old man saw was himself, and surprisingly, the old man shook his head. Then Conan asked if the corpse was a long-haired high school girl wearing overalls (Ran Mouri), and the old man nodded. As Conan got shocked, he noticed a badge icon equipped on the old man's chest and then quickly discovered the old man's identity. The old man ghastly sneered afterwards, an earth-shattering action scenario was about to kick off.