Detective Conan Episode 1152: Last Dance

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, March 27, 2025

0 Detective Conan Episode 1152: Last Dance

Episode 1152: Last Dance

Scenario: Sonoko invites Ran to a party held by real estate company manager Kensaku Takada, and Conan inevitably has to follow them since Kogoro is off to drink with the neighborhood association. At the party, they get to meet Kensaku and his wife, Konomi. Kensaku, who heard from Sonoko that Ran is a karate champion, says that he also once practiced karate in college, and out of his passionate talking, starts striking poses. While not mentioned by anyone, Kensaku’s sleeves pull up slightly during this talk, revealing an expensive-looking watch.

Upon seeing Rika, Kensaku’s maid, walk past him, he calls her over to bring some drinks. Unfortunately, Rika bumps into one of the guests and accidentally spills the drinks onto Kensaku, which makes him furious and he nearly strikes her before Konomi intervenes. Konomi suggests him to go change his clothes, and Kensaku leaves the room, before Konomi also leaves to head to the powder room. Conan then spots a worried-looking man holding his phone intently before the man also exits the room.

After some time, Konomi returns, but Kensaku is still missing. Rika, now with a red mark on her cheek, tells Konomi that Kensaku went out to smoke. Konomi then instructs Rika to go get Kensaku. Meanwhile, Sonoko notices that Konomi had changed her shoes, and also invites Ran to change into a different pair of shoes. When questioned by Conan, Sonoko reveals the party to be a dance party, where participants wear special dancing shoes. She reminds Ran that wearing accessories are not allowed. But not long before the dancing is about to begin, a scream from Rika interrupts the excitement—she has found Kensaku, who had fallen to his death.

Kensaku was drinking before the accident, but would this really mean he was in a drunken state and accidentally fell off the elevated property?

The police arrive, with Takagi noting that Kensaku had been drinking before his death, suggesting that his drunken state led him to accidentally fall over the mansion’s fencing and, due to the property’s elevation, injure his head on the pavement below. However, Conan denies this as an accident, having noticed many footprints in the yard above, indicating a fight between Kensaku and a possible killer. The police, Ran, and Sonoko head back up to the mansion’s yard to see the footprints, but Conan stays back, and finds that Kensaku’s watch is missing. Apparently, the forensics officer had found the watch in Kensaku’s jacket pocket, not on his wrist. Back at the mansion, the police take a look at the footprints. Considering their wide extent across the yard, they assume Kensaku had an intense fight with whoever killed him. There are also four sets of footprints, which are from Kensaku, Rika, Conan and the murderer. Strangely, some footprints are whole while others are halved, as if the halved footprints were created from a person standing on their tiptoes.

Conan helps the police narrow down the suspects to those who left the party venue before Kensaku’s death. They are Konomi, Rika, and the worried-looking man from before, who is introduced as Satoru.

Of the three, Satoru is the only one with a motive, being financially indebted to Kensaku. The police later find a pair of dancing shoes in the yard that match with the fourth set of footprints. It bears a small mud print. Satoru confesses that the shoes belong to him, and the police decide that he is the culprit. Conan, though, notices something between Satoru’s dancing shoes and the shoes Satoru was currently wearing.

Conan decides to investigate some more, and heads into the mansion’s kitchen, where he sees Rika searching for something on the floor. That “something” is her earring, which for some reason had been dropped. Heading back out to the yard, Conan finds that forensics had finished recording the footprints. Conan then has Takagi and Chiba reenact the murder by stepping onto the footprints. But when Takagi is forced to stand on his tiptoes, he loses balance. The experiment is seemingly useless, and Satoru is being taken away by the police for questioning.

Conan, holding the forensic officer’s record of the footprints, passes by Ran. Ran notices that the footprints look similar to a step diagram, which Sonoko used when teaching Ran how to dance. It is not long before Sonoko is seen kneeling on the ground…and “Sonoko’s” deduction show begins.