Case Closed (season 9)

The cover of the first DVD compilation for season nine of Detective Conan released by Shogakukan

The ninth season of the Case Closed anime was directed by Kenji Kodama and Yasuichiro Yamamoto and produced by TMS Entertainment and Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation.^[1] The series is based on Gosho Aoyama's Case Closed manga series. In Japan, the series is titled Detective Conan (名探偵コナン Meitantei Conan) but was changed due to legal issues with the title Detective Conan.^[2] The episodes' plot follows Conan Edogawa's daily adventures.

The episodes use five pieces of theme music: two opening themes and three closing themes. The first opening theme is "Koi wa Suriru, Shokku, Sasupensu" (恋はスリル,ショック,サスペンス^?, lit. "Love is Thrill, Shock, Suspense") by Rina Aiuchi until episode 230.^[3] The second opening theme is "Destiny" by Miki Matsuhashi for the rest of the season. The first ending theme is "Start in My Life" by Mai Kuraki until episode 232.^[3] The second ending theme is "Always" also by Mai Kuraki until episode 247. The third ending theme is "Aoi Aoi Kono Hoshi ni " (青い青いこの地球に^?, lit. "The Blue Blue Star") by Azumi Uehara and is used for the rest of the season.

The season initially ran from January 15, 2001 through October 22, 2001 on Nippon Television Network System in Japan.^[3] Episodes 220 to 254 were later collected into nine DVD compilations by Shogakukan. They were released between December 25, 2002 and August 25, 2003 in Japan.^[4]

Episode list

Ep no.	Title	Original Airdate
220	"The Client Full of Lies (Part 1)" "Itsuwari Darake no Irainin (Zenpen)" (偽りだらけの依頼人(前編))	January 15, 2001
A woman named Ikenami Shizuka asks Richard Moore to help find a man named Shirou Shabata so she can retrieve an old photograph; Conan realizes that the Ikenami is lying to Richard when she introduces herself for unknown reasons. Realizing that Shirou was skilled in kendo, Conan assumes that his name would show up in past kendo competitions. After finding an address, they enter Shirou's apartment and discover that Shirou has been murdered. Shirou's right hand contains the photograph Ikenami is searching for; it makes her the prime suspect to the murder.
221	"The Client Full of Lies (Part 2)" "Itsuwari Darake no Irainin (Kōhen)" (偽りだらけの依頼人(後編))	January 22, 2001
After a thorough investigation, Conan tranquilizes Richard and reveals the culprit to be Shirou's wife, Kyouko Shabata. Conan reveals that the photograph was used to hide the Shirou's real dying message, his wedding ring covered in blood in his right hand. Conan reveals that Kyouko falsified Shirou's time of death by placing the morning newspaper by Shirou's late-night snack to present it as breakfast and by using a timed videocassette recorder to record a show. Kyouko confesses and reveals that Shirou was gambling them into debt and she was forced to kill him. She attempts to kill herself, but Ikenami stops her. Harley and Kirsten arrive and reveal that Ikenami is actually Harley's mother. Ikenami confesses and tells Richard that she wanted to see what kind of person he was since Harley was injured the last time he stayed over.
222	"And There Were No Mermaids (The Murder)" "Soshite Ningyou wa Inakunatta (Jikenhen)" (そして人魚はいなくなった(事件編))	January 29, 2001
Conan along with Harley, Rachel, and Moore visit the Isle of Mermaids looking for Saori, who had sent a letter to Harley and Moore asking them to save her from being killed by a mermaid, but when they try to look for her she has been reported missing. Every year on this island a festival is held were 3 locals win the Dungong Arrow that is said to wield immortality to its carrier. The festival is brought to a disastrous end when one of the winners is found dead hanging down the waterfall.
223	"And There Were No Mermaids (The Deduction)" "Soshite Ningyou wa Inakunatta (Suirihen)" (そして人魚はいなくなった(推理編))	February 5, 2001
Conan and Harley investigate the area and history of Mermaids Grave, a forest on mermaid island. They learn that an elder who is over 130 years old is a holder of the arrow and the head of the festival. While investigating two more murders occur. Conan reveals to Harley he knows who the murderer is and to meet him later, but later he and Kirsten fall off a cliff.
224	"And There Were No Mermaids (The Resolution)" "Soshite Ningyou wa Inakunatta (Kaiketsuhen)" (そして人魚はいなくなった(解決編))	February 12, 2001
Conan reveals that the murderer is the elder. He reveals that the elder were people who dressed up as her to continue the story of the arrow. Harley and Kirsten arrive at the house in time to confirm the story. The culprit reveals that her mother was the previous elder who were killed by the three victims. She continued the elder story for her mother, but finds out the whole town knew she was the elder and that her mother was the mermaid's corpse. All the town people bow their heads and apologize for not telling her sooner as she cries due to her guilt.
225	"The Secret of the High Sales" "Shoubai Hanjou no Himitsu" (商売繁盛のヒミツ)	February 19, 2001
A boy named Rintaro asks the Junior Detective League to investigate on a strange man named Yuuji Kamekura. Rintaro explains that Yuuji appeared one day at his family restaurant claiming he owes Rintaro's grandfather a favor and would like to work at the restaurant. Yuuji soon after begins living with the family and helps them improve the restaurant to the point the family are constantly busy with the costumers. The Junior Detective League investigate and all but Conan are convinced Yuuji is planning to dig a tunnel into a store to steal merchandise. The Junior Detective League learn from a manager of a jewelry store that a robbery occurred five years ago and the thief was never caught. The Junior Detective League deduce that Yuuji plans to dig up the jewels he buried five years ago from the robbery under the restaurant which was under construction five years ago. Conan denies the absurd deduction but gives in when Vi tells him Yuuji is a very simple person unlike previous criminals. The Junior Detective League manage to catch Yuuji digging up for jewels and call the police, convicting him of his robbery five years ago.
226	"The Battle Game Trap (Part 1)" "Batoru Geemu no Wana (Zenpen)" (バトルゲームの罠(前編))	February 26, 2001
Srena, Rachel, and Conan are at the arcade where they meet their High School English teacher, Jodie Starling who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Rachel to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Rachel loses to a gamer named Kengo Bitou who taunts her in her lost. Bitou plays the game again his rival, Takayasu Shimizu; The battle is projected on a large screen. Bitou's avatar overwhelms Shimizu's but stops at the climax of the match. The people in the arcade realize Bitou is dead and the police are called in. The police investigate; after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people, a middle aged man, an employee, Shimizu, and Jodie.
227	"The Battle Game Trap (Part 2)" "Batoru Geemu no Wana (Kōhen)" (バトルゲームの罠(後編))	March 5, 2001
The autopsy reveals the poison to be Tetrodotoxin; a poison that causes instant paralysis and death soon after. Conan investigates and learns the method and the culprit who murdered Bitou. He tranquilizes Serena and impersonates her; declaring Shimizu to be the murderer. Conan reveals that Shimizu was the one playing Bitou's avatar in order disguise the fact Bitou was already dead. As for the weapon, Conan explains Shimizu hid a needle inside a cigarette, put gum around it, wrapped it around paper and had it stuck to the employee's shoes. As certain evidence, Conan reveals that a coin with Shimizu's fingerprint should be found in Bitou's arcade machine. Shimizu confesses revealing Bitou's gambling and debt caused his sister to develop Vitamin A deficiency and resulting in her blindness. As Serena, Rachel, and Jodie leave the arcade, their discussion leads to Jimmy whom Jodie dubs as Cool Guy; She says goodbye whilst calling Conan Cool Guy and leaves. That night, Jodie calls an unknown person discussing how her target, the Rotten Apple has changed appearance.
228	"The Murderous Pottery Class (Part 1)" "Satsui no Dougei Kyoushitsu (Zenpen)" (殺意の陶芸教室(前編))	March 12, 2001
Rachel, Serena, and Conan attend a pottery class to make pretty mugs. However, when the helping lady of pottery open the closet, the former Son-in-law of potter is strangled to death with a necktie and found in a closet. During the investigation of police authority, Conan observes the movement of all the suspects. Since Conan knows who the culprit is, he tries to find evidence to prove it was him.
229	"The Murderous Pottery Class (Part 2)" "Satsui no Dougei Kyoushitsu (Kōhen)" (殺意の陶芸教室(後編))	March 19, 2001
When Conan found the something suspicious from necktie, he figured out the trick of culprit. By using Serena, he reveals the culprit who strangled the victim and tie the culprit into the crime with clue. Underneath the revealed truth, the culprit confessed that the Son-in-law of himself was not honest with personal ties to his lovely daughter.
230	"The Mysterious Passenger (Part 1)" "Nazo-meita Joukyaku (Zenpen)" (謎めいた乗客(前編))	April 16, 2001
Gin and Vodka are at a bar discussing their plans with the Black Organization member, Vermouth to capture Sherry. Conan and the Detective Boys are taking the transit bus to a ski resort where they meet Araide and Jodie aboard the bus. Vi is able to sense that Vermouth is on the bus and hides herself to prevent her from being found. Soon after, the bus is hi-jacked by two armed men who uses the passengers as hostages and demands the city to release their boss. Conan attempts to search for a way to apprehend the men but is caught every time causing him to realize that one of the three passengers in the back seat is an accomplice of the armed men and is somehow informing them when of the passenger's behavior. Conan investigates the ski bags the robbers placed in the center of the bus and realizes they contain explosives.
231	"The Mysterious Passenger (Part 2)" "Nazo-meita Joukyaku (Kōhen)" (謎めいた乗客(後編))	April 23, 2001
Conan figures out who the accomplice is. When the bus enters a tunnel, the armed men force Araide and a passenger named Akai Shuichi to wear the ski gear the hijackers were wearing. The hijackers then use Miharu Tomino, a woman chewing gum as a hostage and proceed to leave the bus. Conan reveals that the woman is an accomplice of theirs and that they plan to detonate the bombs in the ski bags once they are off the bus. The Junior Detective League are able to inform the driver to stop suddenly which allows Conan to apprehend the criminals. Tomino accidentally activates the bomb giving them a few minutes before it detonates. The passengers leave the bus but Vi remains seated in the bus as she plans to die in the explosion and subsequently prevent the Black Organization from finding her and harming those around her. Conan rushes back in the bus, grabs Vi, and escape through the back window of the bus before the explosion occurs. Conan has Wilder take Vi to the hospital in order to hide her from the Black Organization member. Later, Akai Shuichi is seen reporting to an unknown person and informing them that the target has not appeared.
232	"The Apartment Degradation Case" "Manshon Tenraku Jiken" (マンション転落事件)	May 7, 2001
Richard Moore accepts a case to help to find out who has been sending threatening phone calls and letters. On the way to the man's apartment with his friend, Moore and Conan witness the man fall to his death. Conan finds out who the culprit is and solves the case.
233	"The Evidence That Didn't Disappear (Part 1)" "Kienakatta Shouko (Zenpen)" (消えなかった証拠(前編))	May 14, 2001
Agasa takes the Junior Detective League to a neighbor who is giving away his belongings before moving to England. While there Teruya Kanou's, the neighbor, Papillon is missing when the longcase clock strikes twelve and chimes twelve times. When Doyle's, the Papillon, collar is found inside an incinerator and the backdoor opens, Conan realizes that a culprit attempted to falsify the scene to give the impression Doyle ran away when in fact the culprit is hiding Doyle in the House to steal him afterward. Shino Hasuki's shoes are found near the crime scene and she is suspected of being the culprit.
234	"The Evidence That Didn't Disappear (Part 2)" "Kienakatta Shouko (Kōhen)" (消えなかった証拠(後編))	May 21, 2001
Conan notices that there is glass wool in the incinerator and realizes who the culprit is. After gathering the guests, Conan reveals that the grandfather clock did not chime since the culprit changed the time on it and reveals that the culprit used the stereo to simulate the chimes. Doyle chased after the chime and is lured to the back of the stereo with food containing sleeping pills. Conan reveals that the culprit was after the jewellery on Doyle's collar which is worth a fortune. He reveals that the culprit is Yoshio Tsunashima; Tsunashima had reserved a small pendulum clock which was becoming slower by a minute per hour, meaning something was weighting down the pendulum which was revealed to be Doyle's collar. Tsunashima confesses to his crime and reveals he needed the money to continue to support the abandoned dogs he kept taking in. Kanou decides to give the collar to Tsunashima and not push for any charges. That following evening, they find out Kanou's other dog, Arthur, was the one who was placed Hasuki's shoes elsewhere. Conan reveals that Arthur wanted to prevent Hasuki from leaving so he could be with his love Christie, Hasuki's German Shepherd. Hasuki announces that she had accepted Kanou's proposal and will be joining him in England.
235	"The Locked Wine Cellar" "Misshitsu no Wain Seraa" (密室のワインセラー)	May 28, 2001
Moore, Rachel and Conan are invited to a private party by a President of a financial business, who is known for his expensive collection and various tastes in wine. Three other guests attend and all of which have borrowed money from the president. He challenges one of the guests, a training sommelier to a tasting challenge that if he guesses all of the wines correctly he will forget his debt. As the sommelier guesses two of the wines correctly the president gets frustrated and goes to his wine cellar for a rare wine. They all realize that the president has taken too long and discover his dead body in the wine cellar which has been found locked. Fingerprints have been found on the door by two of the suspects yet Conan discovers the clues and in the end uses Moore with the aid of Wilder and Chiba to reanact how the criminal killed the President. The criminal confesses that they killed the president because he rose the interest on their debt and they couldn't pay.
236	"The Nanki Beach Mystery Tour (Part 1)" "Nanki Shirahama Misuterii Tsuaa (Zenpen)" (南紀白浜ミステリーツアー(前編))	June 4, 2001
Rachel, Moore, and Conan go to Shirahama on a vacation they won, and there meet a group of college students. They are all in the same art club, but don't seem to get along well. When Madoka is drawing, she finds the body of one of her fellow students, Maki, stabbed in the heart.
237	"The Nanki Beach Mystery Tour (Part 2)" "Nanki Shirahama Misuterii Tsuaa (Kōhen)" (南紀白浜ミステリーツアー(後編))	June 11, 2001
Conan investigates and finds out that Madoka was cheating on her boyfriend with another student, Fuji, but that none of them committed the murder. Kanoka killed Maki, because Maki had helped her get into the university illegally.
238	"The 3 "K"s of Osaka Case (Part 1)" "Oosaka "Mittsu no K" Jiken (Zenpen)" (大阪“3つのK”事件(前編))	June 18, 2001
Harley invites Moore, Rachel, and Conan to a celebration of the opening of the 3K restaurant by three American celebrities, a boxer, a baseballer, and a soccer player who Conan admires. Conan is st Later a murder occurs and Conan is acting strangely as the three are suspects.
239	"The 3 "K"s of Osaka Case (Part 2)" "Oosaka "Mittsu no K" Jiken (Kōhen)" (大阪“3つのK”事件(後編))	June 25, 2001
Conan investigates further and finally confronts with the culprit. The culprit reveals that the victim created false rumors about him and destroyed his life. Harley later cheers Conan up while Rachel and Kirsten mention how they look like brothers.
240	"The Bullet Train Transport Case (Part 1)" "Shinkansen Gosou Jiken (Zenpen)" (新幹線護送事件(前編))	July 2, 2001
While traveling home on the Shinkansen from Osaka, Conan, Rachel, and Moore ran into Officers Miwako and Wilder, who were transporting a criminal. Later, a bomb was found on the train which Officer Miwako went to investigate. At that time, while she was in the bathroom with it, Officer Wilder had to take the criminal to the bathroom. And then, he apparently committed suicide but...
241	"The Bullet Train Transport Case (Part 2)" "Shinkansen Gosou Jiken (Kōhen)" (新幹線護送事件(後編))	July 9, 2001
From the crime scene, Conan found the suspicious thing that makes the scene as the place of homicide. During the investigation, Conan observes three suspects. Conan points out the suspects of who the murderer is. After investigating and finding clues, Conan reveals the culprit. He tries to escape but is stopped by Wilder and Miwako.
242	"Boy George's Misfortune" "Genta Shōnen no Sainan" (元太少年の災難)	July 16, 2001
George has been acting weird at school lately. The Junior Detective League learns that he is being targeted by a killer. George tries to remember where he sees the killer. After eating ice cream, seeing the Flag of France, and looking at a store mirror, he heads to a barber shop. Afterwards the killer confronts him but Conan reveals it was a trap and that the killer is surrounded by cops.
243	"Richard Moore's Imposter (Part 1)" "Mōri Kogoro no Nisemono (Zenpen)" (毛利小五郎のニセ者(前編))	July 23, 2001
An imposter impersonates Moore at a hotel where he is invited to investigate a case where a man is said to have committed suicide 4-5 years ago. Moore decides to play along and not reveal his identity. Later that night, the impostor is found hanged in his room.
244	"Richard Moore's Imposter (Part 2)" "Mōri Kogoro no Nisemono (Kōhen)" (毛利小五郎のニセ者(後編))	July 30, 2001
Overlap the clues in the crime scene of the case, Conan figured out that the case was related with the suicide case of 5 years ago. Giving hint of the place in which treasure buried, Conan invites the culprit to the forest of suicide. Using the real deduction of true Sleeping Richard, Conan reveals that it is not a suicide but a murder and that relates to the incident 5 years ago. Afterwards, Moore picks up girls who are his fans and gives them a ride in the car.
245	"The Gun Shot in the Sunflower Building" "Himawari-kan no Juusei" (ヒマワリ館の銃声)	August 6, 2001
Conan, Moore and Rachel all go to an isolated mansion called the Sunflower building because every 12 hours it rotates. They are having a bbq outside while the owner is inside when they hear a shot fired. They rush inside to find the owner shot through the forehead. After investigating, Conan discovers the culprit was one of the owner's students studying to be an architect. The student killed the owner because the owner stole his work and was getting an award for it.
246	"The Mystery in the Net (Part 1)" "Ami ni Kakatta Nazo (Zenpen)" (網にかかった謎(前編))	August 13, 2001
Professor Agasa takes the Junior Detective League and Conan at the beach during school break while Rachel and Serena also happen to be on the exact beach. At night, all of them ate dinner in a hotel together with the lifeguards they met that morning. The man the lifeguards were supposed to meet didn't show up so they tried calling him but the only sound that could be heard was the sound of the waves. The 3 lifeguards decided to look for the man at the beach and found him on the shore dead, covered in scratches and wrapped in a fisherman's net.
247	"The Mystery in the Net (Part 2)" "Ami ni Kakatta Nazo (Kōhen)" (網にかかった謎(後編))	August 20, 2001
Conan figures out the culprit and decides to use Professor Agasa's voice to reveal the trick but remembers he forgot his voice changing bow tie at the hotel. Haibara arrives bringing with her Conan's bow tie. Conan tells Amy, Mitch and George to collect some things. After the three brought them, Conan, as Professor Agasa, reveals the trick the culprit used to kill the man. The victim, covered in fishnet, was placed in the shore where the culprit dug a hole fit for a man. He then placed a boat with sea water on top of the victim to serve as a weight so that when the victim wakes up he won't be able to escape when the tides rises up. The killer placed false evidence on the boat so that the police would think that the victim was placed inside the boat before letting him drown. The culprit then tells that he killed the man which was responsible for his father's death and that he only gathered all his courage to bestow divine punishment upon the man. Rachel then tells the man that courage is a word that gives you the strength to do what's right and not to take someone else's life. Afterwards, Vi comes up to Ran and introduces herself.
248	"The Alibi of the Soothing Forest" "Iyashi no Mori no Aribai" (癒しの森のアリバイ)	August 27, 2001
While Conan, Rachel and Moore are going sightseeing, the village head is killed by the somebody who visited the village head before post office lady. When Conan observing the clue around the crime scene, he figure out that the culprit was the victim's oldest son. With Sleeping Richard's deduction, Conan reveals the truth of the village head's death.
249	"The Idol Stars' Secret (Part 1)" "Aidoru-tachi no Himitsu (Zenpen)" (アイドル達の秘密(前編))	September 3, 2001
Richard Moore gets an invite for an engagement party from his favorite idol Youko-chan. Kaoru the one who is getting engaged is another star and a former member of a group they all used to be in. She is a fan of Moore and wanted him to find out who was stalking her. Kaoru decides to take a bath. And the rest of the girl group decide to dress up and sing their old song to surprise her. Conan discovers blood leading to the door and they find her attacked. Bloody clothes are found outside which were made to make it seem like it was Kaoru's stalker but really is someone at the party.
250	"The Idol Stars' Secret (Part 2)" "Aidoru-tachi no Himitsu (Kōhen)" (アイドル達の秘密(後編))	September 10, 2001
Megure searches everyone for the murder weapon but it isn't found. Though they discover a listening device and find drawers tampered with. The hospital calls and Kaoru will make it. Meanwhile, Conan confronts the culprit who tried to kill Kaoru over a misunderstanding and overdoses on medicine to try and kill herself. But Conan saves her life. Kaoru apparently made up the rumor of the engagement to get her manager to notice her and they later become engaged.
251	"The Tragedy at the OK Corral" "OK-Bokujou no Higeki" (OK牧場の悲劇)	September 17, 2001
Because of Moore's love of horses he takes Conan and Rachel to an OK corral ranch. One of their prize winning horses gets spooked and they all go running after her. They reach the horse and Conan finds blood on her horseshoe. They then find the farrier; one who shoes the horses, murdered. They find out that the farrier, had been meeting with a businessman who wanted to buy and ruin breeding any more horses that would save the ranch. Conan deduces that it wasn't an accident and that someone gave the horse chocolate which is stimulant for horses. But it wasn't the cause for the death and was a cover-up for the real criminal. And that the murder weapon was the horseshoe that the person in haste put on wrong. The criminal confesses and had killed the farrier accidentally in self-defense.
252	"The Kidnapper in the Picture" "E no Naka no Yuukaihan" (絵の中の誘拐犯)	October 8, 2001
Conan and the Junior Detective League find out about a kidnapping case and decide to investigate. They look for places where the kidnapped boy might be hidden and Amy finds the culprit. She hides in his car and is taken to where the boy is being kept, and Conan knocks the kidnapper out by hitting him with a kicked paint can.
253	"Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4 (Part 1)" "Honchou no Keiji Koi Monogatari 4 (Zenpen)" (本庁の刑事恋物語4(前編))	October 15, 2001
Simone is having an arranged marriage meeting with a man due to her mother's persistence. She arrives to find out it's Ninzaburo Shiratori. She proposes that if Wilder does not arrive to her before sunset, she will marry him whether she wants to or not. He accepts, but Wilder is busy with a store robbery. Three of the eye witnesses all give different description and three culprits are kept in the back of the police car. Conan on the phone prepares to help Wilder solve the case as Jimmy Kudo.
254	"Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4 (Part 2)" "Honchou no Keiji Koi Monogatari 4 (Kōhen)" (本庁の刑事恋物語4(後編))	October 22, 2001
Wilder solves the case and arrests the culprit when he tries to make a dash out of the police car. Wilder catches up and gives up on going to Simone in time to stop the marriage as the sun is almost set and the car is too far away. His party comes to cheer him on and he runs. Conan manages to stop the marriage in time with Tomoaki Araide's help. Wilder manages to reach the restaurant but the sun has completely sunk. He then sees Simone around the corner who tells him he told her an emergency case has come up. Wilder smiles as he enters the car. Meanwhile Shiratori leaves the restaurant, disappointed in his close marriage. Conan comments how Wilder and Simone reminded him of Rachel and himself.

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