Detective Conan Episode 1098: Chihaya Hagiwara, Goddess of the Wind (Part 1)

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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Thursday, September 28, 2023

0 Detective Conan Episode 1098: Chihaya Hagiwara, Goddess of the Wind (Part 1)

Episode 1098: Chihaya Hagiwara, Goddess of the Wind (Part 1)

Scenario: Kogoro, Ran, and Sonoko went to Kanagawa to try out some French gourmet food in a restaurant called Déesse du Vent. The first intent of them going here was because Kogoro saw Yoko had come here before in one of her drama. Therefore it was rather popular and had a two-year waiting list of reservations; so how did they manage to go there instantly? The answer was obviously Sonoko - but as well as the fact that the head chef of that restaurant was a fan of the Sleeping Kogoro. Supposedly, they had also called the Detective Boys and Agasa to tag along. Unfortunately, Haibara got fairly afraid concerning the past incidents (The Time Capsule Case and FBI Serial Murder Case), in which she was on the brink of the explosure of her identity, so she decided to stay out this time, the other kids thus accompanied her in Professor's house and altogether they ate Subaru Okiya's curry. On Conan's end, he was still with Agasa inside the car, lost in orientation since Kanagawa was quite strangeness for them. Agasa was also caught for overspeeding in the middle of the road by a female traffic cop, who has a lock of red-brown long hair, wearing the police uniform and helmet. When they finally arrived there, Agasa and Conan explained the situation and the reason for there lateness. After that, they met a stout and strong old man, apparently having similar ages with Professor Agasa, who called himself Kinji Nanjo, the Suzuki Security representative director. he greeted Sonoko and went to the bathroom; Agasa, on the otehr hand, also intended to go to the bathroom.

Within the bathroom, President Nanjo and Professor Agasa were both washing their hands. They found out that they looked somewhat alike to each other, President Nanjo therefore entrusted Agasa with a little affair, which was to swap their clothes to impersonate each other. President Nanjo in fact wanted to sneak out of the restaurant before his family arrived, so he wanted to fool his guards so they would mistake Agasa for himself, so he could run away. The most dramatic consequence of this was that it did not fool the two guards of his, but instead, it fooled two criminals who were inside the restaurant precisely. A man with a long face, short hair, and a viscious look hijacked Agasa with a gun and took him to the garage forcefully, along with his accomplice.

Just as Conan was puzzling about it, wondering why he saw "two President Nanjos" outside the bathroom, a sharp sound of gunfire burst in. By judging the establishment point of this gunfire, Conan persuited and got to the garage. Conan then found a drop of the professor's fresh blood on the ground, and he understood what was going on with Agasa, so he activated his glasses to track the location of Agasa since he had a detective badge with him. He then urged Kogoro and Ran to inform the police, and he had stepped onto his skateboard and gone straight towards the highway. He then used the detective badge to communicate with the professor. Agasa said that evidently there were two criminals involved in this abduction case; the first was the man, who pointed at him with the gun initially; the second was a woman, who was driving the car. Conan also got the indication that the car in which Agasa was kidnapped was a yellow one. Conan afterwards found the car and noticed some stains of blood on the truck, so it was assumed that Agasa was inside.

The woman who was driving the car attempted to ditch Conan by insanely turning the steering wheel, which bounced Conan midst the sky. At that instance, Conan was swinging in the hollow sky, and his helplessness has genuinely manifested. Kogoro and Ran, who were driving behind, also witnessed that, and they were utterly shocked. Suddenly, the traffic cop who intercepted Agasa earlier grabbed Conan in the middle of the sky with her motorcycle and saved him timely. Ran felt that the traffic cop had grown a pair of angel wings, which lingered back and forth. "Thud..." The motorcycle landed on the road, Conan was successfully saved by the traffic cop, who seemingly had "wings" on her back. She took off the police helmet and actually introduced herself properly to everyone: her name is Chihaya Hagiwara, who is from the Kanagawa Police Traffic Division. Hagiwara then analysed the situation: Professor Agasa was kidnapped due to his similar appearances with President Nanjo, who was the real target of the two criminals. President Nanjo once bragged about how good his safes were by saying "No one is able to open it unless it's him; then go and steal me as well", which somewhat provoked the robbery thieves, so the two criminals here might have robbed one of these safes and wanted to rob President Nanjo as well in order to open his safe.

Hagiwara wanted to after the two criminals with Conan, since Conan had the location tracking glasses to know the exact location and the detective badge to communicate with Agasa directly. However, one of the criminals noticed that their hostage might have some sort of GPS technology on him apart from his phone, which they had gotten rid of in the first place. So they re-examined the truck and tossed the detective badge out of the car. At the same time, they also changed the car licence to minimise the probability of being discovered. Hagiwara flet quite discouraged, since now they could not know the location of that yellow car anymore and also that it would be impossible to intercept it with a different car license. Conan then told her that "there's another way; there's no need to give up yet". By means of this remark by Conan, Hagiwara got reminded by her younger brother, Kenji Hagiwara, who obviously said the same sentence before.

On the other hand, Kogoro, Ran, and Sonoko returned to the garage of that French restaurant; they were discussing the case as well. Kogoro found out that the criminals did not make a reservation to go to this restaurant; they just kncoked down two random people in the garage and pretended to be them. President Nanjo also leaked his schedule for today, so they got here easily. The two people were clearly knocked unconscious by stun gun, just like what they did with Professor Agasa when they tossed his detective badge.

Afterwards, the Kanagawa Prefecture police showed up; it was the familiar Jugo Yokomizo; he also commented on the Mouri family as the "family of reapers" in a playful tone. Later on, he quickly targeted the two criminals' identities; the woman was named Rokue Chien, and the man was named Daiya Chien. Ran then told him that Conan went along with a female traffic cop who possessed long red hair to persuade the criminals, and Inspector Yokomizo was fairly corried concerning Hagiwara...