Case Closed (season 27)

Kogoro is hired by Junko Miyoshi to catch a thief. While working the case, the body of Junko's neighbor Naotsugu Kitagami is discovered in the parking lot behind her apartment building. Kogoro believes Kitagami got drunk and accidentally fell from his apartment balcony.

Real estate company president Kunihisa Hiyama is found murdered while holding a pair of scissors invented by Dr. Agasa. Conan and Subaru Okiya accompany Agasa to the crime scene. The man who discovered the body is former candy shop owner Kazunori Senba. Agasa suspects Senba is the murderer but it was impossible for Senba to have entered the house with a weapon.

Conan and Subaru deduced that the culprit was Senba who made a blackjack using a sock and a heavy iron ball as a murder weapon. He then threw it along with the colored ball on the victim's roof to confuse Hiyama’s bodyguards. Senba confessed that he committed the crime for revenge. He discovered that Hiyama planned the accident so that he can persuade his wife to sell him their land, where their candy shop was built, without his authorization.

Kogoro received a call from Hotta Gaito, a spirit detective who is going to summon the spirit of Haneda Koji. Kogoro and Conan met Kokuri Senpei, the Toto TV director at the hotel lobby and discovered Gaito dead on his bed. Kogoro saw a figure flew to the nearest balcony and decided to check if there were casualties in the next room and found out that Masumi Sera is the one living next door.

Conan realized the trick that the culprit used. He was about to explain his deduction when he noticed that his bow tie was missing. Kogoro started talking which startled Conan and he noticed that the voice was coming from the smartphone placed at the back of Kogoro’s neck. It was revealed that Mary is using the bow tie and pointed out that the culprit is Senpei.

The episode started with Zero who was running up the stairs and found his friend shot by Akai Shuichi who said ‘Traitor will be punished’. Back to the present, Vermouth asked Bourbon to investigate something before it becomes public and destroy it if necessary. Ran, Conan, Subaru and Sonoko are cleaning Shinichi’s house when Sonoko mentioned that an album titled “ASACA” will be released by a musician named Hado Rokumichi who wrote the lyrics 17 years ago.

The four went to watch Rokumichi’s rehearsal but was forbidden to enter. They then met Vermouth, disguised as Azusa, and Amuro. While everyone’s busy, two guards who was about to conduct a fire inspection, found Rokumichi’s corpse hanging on the stage.

Akai and Amuro reminisce their past with Scotch and Vermouth noticed that Amuro keeps on staring at Subaru. Meanwhile, Ran wonders why Azusa called her ‘Angel’ and remembered a woman who used the same name when she went to save Haibara [refer to episode 433-434]. Amuro and Subaru showed Inspector Megure and Takagi the trick and explained that the victim committed suicide, and Enjo Kanae made the crime scene look like he was murdered.

The Detective Boys helped Tamaki Yujiro to bring the books he bought to his bookstore and as a goodwill, he offered to give them books for free. Tamaki Ichiro came to the store and argued with his father about his run down business and due to frustration, he knocked down one of the old bookshelf. When the Detective Boys passed by the bookstore, they saw the unconscious owner under the fallen bookshelves.

The episode started with the robbery of the group known as Zorro who murdered three residents of the home they broke into before burning it down. Professor Agasa and the Detective Boys went to a villa owned by Agasa’s acquaintance but saw Isehara Yuji, injured by a crossbow, lying unconscious on the ground. Conan found Isehara’s family photo and decided to give it back to him when he noticed a very suspicious man wearing military boots. Ran found out that the robbery took place near the villas where the kids are staying so she decided to follow them along with Kogoro.

Kogoro asked the police to search the ocean immediately to look for Conan and Isehara but they failed to find them as the water is deep and fast. Believing that Conan is still alive, Haibara set off to find him. Conan and Isehara survived the cliff while Zorro and his men, assumed that Isehara is dead, planned to attack a jewellery exhibition that night. Haibara, with the help of Conan, was able to locate the two of them. Isehara then confirmed that the bandits’ next target is Beika City Central Event Hall.

The detective boys along with Professor Agasa arrived at Gifu Station to commemorate the 450th anniversary of General Oda Nobunaga’s entry into the Gifu Castle. As they begin to sightseeing the city, Mitsuhiko and the rest watched a local hero show who called themselves Nobuna Gaizers. After the show, Mitsuhiko went back alone to get the heroes’ signatures but ended up missing.

At Cafe Poirot, Azusa reveals that she must have a doppelganger because she wasn't at the concert hall,l. Everyone began to wonder who the doppelgänger was (refer to ep 866-867). Heiji receives a letter from Densuke Takekuma, the mayor of Yadori village, saying he got a hint about the Takugawa’s hidden treasure and is asking for help to unearth it.

Heiji plans to confess to Kazuha at Kurogane Lake. Conan and his crew tag along and are taken by Densuke to a rundown hotel that was once popular but declined due to a cave-in incident that killed a foreign miner Charles Abel. At the hotel, the group meets a reporter named Hajime Tsurumi, an author named Fumie Masuko, historian Yasukatsu Someji and archeologist Michiki Tanzawa. A dog appears and takes a liking to Hajime but he doesn’t like dogs. They discuss Charles’s incident; he was still alive when found but couldn’t speak due to his injuries, he wrote “nue“ on a sheet of paper, horrifying his rescuers.

Someji’s brutal murder is investigated.Among the visitors were Tanzawa Michiki the archaeologist, Masuko Fumie, an art school graduate who is knowledgeable about Japanese monsters, Someji the deceased documentary reporter/historian knowledgeable about Tokugawa's buried treasure and Hajime, a fledgling reporter who travels across the country for monster stories. Heiji was invited as a last minute resort because Kogoro and Kudo Shinichi are unavailable.

Conan and Heiji realised that the dog barked when he heard nue’s cry but when the monster appeared, it didn’t barked at all. Kazuha and Ran brought all the items Heiji requested and they found an old photo of the excavation team from sixteen years ago. Conan and Heiji revealed that they are going to summon the Nue monster once again. Heiji and Conan begin to reveal the tricks the murderer used.

The murderer is the author, Fumie Masuko. She killed the two men because they left the excavation team and her husband Charles to die. Charles had found a tetsuno (metal) hairpin and meant to ask the team what it was in Hiragana, but the ink bled through and they misunderstand the word to be the English alphabet n-u-e instead. Hajime Tsurumi is also revealed to be Masuko’s son though she denied it.

Kogoro, bring along Ran and Conan, is requested to investigate a Buddha statue rumored to have moved on its own. He meets Eikyo Fukuhara, his family (wife Masako, daughter Yuka, and son Eizen) and Buddhist trainee Junko Wakuda. After dinner, Eikyo leaves to go pray and is later found dead with a knife in his neck. Kogoro, after finding clues thanks to Conan, declares Junko to be the killer after he attempted to scare Eikyo. Junko confesses but Conan isn’t satisfied.

Akai revealed that the people involved in the car accident are actually robbers that steal branded watches. The driver died from the accident while his accomplice escape from the car and blended into the crowd. Yukiko called Yusaku to talk about the case. Akai figure out who the culprit is based on the suspects’ attire while Yusaku and Shinichi figure out based on their watches. Only the culprit’s watch displayed 10:10 which is generally what the watches in stores are displayed so that customers can clearly see the brand of the watches. Mary realised Shuichi is really similar to her husband Akai Tsutomu and finally agree to him joining the FBI. Sera think Shinichi is a magician as he keep making her brother laugh, something she hasn’t being successful with.

Conan continue to wonder who did Kaito Kid disguise himself into. Ran climb up a chair in order to reach a book she is interested in. As she is trying to reach it, Conan blushed as he could almost see her underwear. Haibara accuse him of being a huge pervert. Through the various clues Tomoyose Kimika san talk about, Conan is able to figure out where the instruction paper is at. A blackout suddenly occur and Kaito Kid seem to have open the box and steal its content. Tomoyose Kimika decided that Kaito Kid can have the moonstone while she value the exchange diary even more.

Thanks to Wakasa sensei’s clue, Conan realised the code is link to the schedule but he didn’t manage to solve the code entirely. The news of a skeleton and the code being discovered was all over the news online. After school, Wakasa sensei approach the detective boys once again to get the lime from the old storage. The detective boys discovered the storage room has been ransacked and it seem like the culprit is looking for something. Wakasa sensei give further hint and Conan finally figure out the code. He realised the code is connected to the robbery case 10 years ago.

At an apartment that Wakasa sensei is staying at, she overheard a couple arguing. Her neighbour Banno Teigo wanted to break up with his girlfriend however she demanded money from him. Meanwhile at school, Conan is rehearsing for a play. Conan recalled playing the same role of “Ikkyu-san” when he was in his third year of grade school. He received acting tips from his mother Yukiko and script adjustment from his father Yusaku. When Wakasa sensei try to change a bucket of black water, she fall down and as a result the tiger painting of a folding screen got damaged. Conan and the detective boys decide to go to Wakasa sensei’s house to repaint the painting.

As they reached her apartment, they saw a yellow haired woman pressing the door bell of Banno’s apartment repeatedly before leaving. After they finished the painting, loud music was heard from the neighbour apartment. Genta went to complain, find the door unlocked and discover the couple collapsed on the floor.