Seven Mysteries of Fudo High Murder Case File 1

8.9

01

There is rumored to be seven mysterious murders in the Fudo High School, although only six have been solved. High school student Hajime Kindaichi is invited by the Mystery Research Team leader, Ruiko Sakuragi to help her solve the seventh riddle. There is a threatening note from the "After-School Magician" that if the old school building is demolished, the school principal will be murdered. That night, the Mystery Club, along with the security officer, Ryozo Tachibana see a figure in a mask and then a body hung above a candle pentagram in the locked forbidden biology room, but when they reach the room, it is empty. However, the next morning, Sakuragi is found hanged in the biology room in the same way as the unsolved seventh mystery. It is later revealed that she solved the last of the Seven Mysteries after she saw a corpse of a student from 10 years ago hidden within the walls. Hajime swears to solve the mystery. (Source: Wikipedia)

4/7/1997

Seven Mysteries of Fudo High Murder Case File 2

8.3

02

Inspector Isamu Kenmochi is assigned to investigate Sakuragi's death and Hajime explains what they saw. Yuichiro Matoba, the physics teacher suspects the culprit is a former teacher referred to as "M" who was rumored to conduct strange rituals. Student writer Makoto Makabe proposes a plausible theory of how the murder was carried out, but Hajime believes there is a different scenario. Kenmochi tells Hajime how 10 years earlier, the Mystery Club member, Chihiro Aoyama, was investigating the seven mysteries but she suddenly disappeared. Meanwhile, student Takahiro Onoue has Sakuragi's data disc which contains a message about who the culprit may be, but as he decodes it, he is beaten to death with a wrapped up hammer by the "Magician" and his body is dragged to the printing room to coincide with one of the seven mysteries. When Hajime and his friend Miyuki Nanase read the Mystery Club's minutes, they find a copy of Sakuragi's notes inside, also stating that there were originally only six mysteries. Miyuki is attacked when she tries to remove a poster of Makabe on the wall in the old building of Fudo High School. Hajime then finds Miyuki badly injured beside the fountain in accordance with the third mystery. (Source: Wikipedia)

4/14/1997

Seven Mysteries of Fudo High Murder Case File 3

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03

Kenmochi tells Hajime that the old school building was formerly the property of Takahata Pharmaceuticals and that six of their experimental subjects died there. Later, Miyuki wakes up in the hospital after being attacked by the killer and encourages Hajime to continue his investigation despite the risks. He decodes Sakuragi’s code and then finds the body of Chihiro Aoyama hidden in a wall cavity. Hajime calls everybody to the old school building and explains how the killer used a mirror to create the mystery of Sakuragi's murder. He then accuses physics teacher Yuichiro Matoba of the murders and being the "After-School Magician". He was left behind by the Takahata company to keep the six bodies hidden for 30 years and was responsible for the accidental death of Chihiro Aoyama 10 years earlier after she found out about the deaths of the experimental subjects. Suddenly, security officer Ryozo Tachibana rushes forward and stabs and kills Matoba with scissors in revenge for the death of Chihiro whom he reveals was his daughter. Afterwards the police find the six bodies of the experimental subjects and the building is demolished on schedule. A funeral is also held for Chihiro Aoyama that Hajime attends and meets her for the first and last time. (Source: Wikipedia)

4/21/1997

Legend of Lake Hiren Murder Case File 1

8.4

04

Hajime and Miyuki go on a tour of the Hiren Lake Resort in place of his friend Shigeru Kikkawa where the participants stand to win a membership pass. A news flash announces that Jason, an axe murderer has escaped from a nearby prison. The next morning, they discover that one of the group has been killed with an axe and the only bridge to the resort has been burned down. Company president Saburou Kayama decides to leave with a suitcase full of money, but he is also killed and the suitcase returned. Then, Miyuki is injured by a booby trap in the woods. Case file cast: 3rd year student Eiji Touno, 2nd year student Sayuri Kawanishi, university student Souchi Kurata, painter Seiji Kobayashi, freelance writer Yousuke Itsuki, company president Saburou Kayama and his wife Seiko Kayama, doctor Seisaku Kouda, tour conductor Shyoutarou Kujyou, and Shigeru Kikkawa a friend of Hajime. (Source: Wikipedia)

4/28/1997

Legend of Lake Hiren Murder Case File 2

8.4

05

Hajime suspects the killer may be one of the member of the group itself. Eiji Touno leaves by boat to get help, but the boat returns with his body. That night, the artist Seiji Kobayashi is killed. Hajime discovers that all of the guests are survivors of the sinking of the Oriental ship that happened three years ago. (Source: Wikipedia)

5/5/1997

Legend of Lake Hiren Murder Case File 3

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06

Hajime realizes that the killer has been listening to the group via a hidden microphone and uses it to trap the killer who is found to be Eiji Touno. Touno had actually killed Shigeru Kikkawa and disguised the body as himself. Touno wanted revenge on the person with the initials "S.K." who had pushed his sister Keiko away from a full lifeboat during the sinking of the Oriental Cruise Disaster in a case of the Plank of Carneades. Touno escapes and drives a motor boat out onto the lake, who commits suicide by blowing up the boat and the lake turns red due to the sun setting. Later Yousuke Itsuki shows Hajime a photo of Eiji Touno with his sister Keiko Goizume who has a striking resemblance to Miyuki. (Source: Wikipedia)

5/12/1997

Castle of Wax Murder Case File 1

8.5

07

Hajime and Miyuki take part in a mystery night held in an old castle which contains a wax museum. A mysterious Mr. Redrum has invited ten people involved in criminal investigation to participate with a chance to win ownership of the castle. Inside, the invitees find wax doll likenesses of themselves. That night, Megumi Toma the Toma Detective Agency President and her wax doll, are found stabbed in the back, with the only clue the two cue balls she was holding. Case file cast: President of the Toma Detective Agency Megumi Toma, crime psychologist Richard Anderson, mystery novel critic Kusaburo Bando, National Police Inspector Kengo Akechi, and mystery novel writer, Kahoru Takigawa. (Source: Wikipedia)

5/19/1997

Castle of Wax Murder Case File 2

9.0

08

After the first murder, the guests find that they are isolated from the outside world, and that "redrum" is an anagram for "murder". Next, Richard Anderson, the crime psychologist is murdered and then the mystery novel critic, Kusaburo Bando, is found hanged with his doll along with a recording saying that it was he who killed Toma and Anderson. However, Hajime remains skeptical and accuses National Police Inspector Kengo Akechi as the murderer. (Source: Wikipedia)

3/26/1997

Castle of Wax Murder Case File 3

8.4

09

Hajime accuses Detective Akechi of being the murderer, but Akechi proves that he is not Redrum, and reveals that he is on the trail of a 30 year old crime. Hajime finds a ring in the fireplace and deduces that Redrum is actually the mystery novel writer, Kahoru Takigawa. She admits to the murders because the three people she killed were responsible for the death of her lover, Kyoji Sayama, 29 years ago during a disagreement after the five of them carried out a large robbery. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/2/1997

Gentleman Thief Killer File 1

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10

Detective Kenmochi asks Hajime for help catching a phantom art thief, a so-called Kaitou Gentleman who leaves calling cards announcing his next target. He takes Hajime and Miyuki to the mansion of the master artist Gamou Gouzou. There, Hajime meets Sakura Izumi, a former school friend who has been declared Gouzou's heir based on a stolen painting of his daughter which was sent to an art competition by the Kaitou Gentleman. The painting is stolen and Sakura is assaulted and her hair cut and Hajime believes that it was done by one of the members of the group staying in the mansion. Meanwhile, Gouzou's lover, Dr. Satomi Kaitsu plans to poison Sakura but she is strangled to death and the portrait of her is stolen. Case file cast: master artist Gamou Gouzou, butler Komiyama, Sakura Izumi, Dr. Satomi Kaitsu, art magazine journalist Daigi Maki, butler Komiyama, ghost painter Nobuhiko Izumi, and Hajime's friend Itsuki. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/9/1997

Gentleman Thief Killer File 2

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11

The next night, the Kaitou Gentleman steals a painting of Gouzou fishing, and the next morning Gouzou is found dead beside the river, but everyone has an alibi. Hajime sets a trap for the thief and catches the Kaitou Gentleman who is disguised as the art magazine journalist Daigi Maki, but she denies committing the murders and escapes. The inclusion of the Southern Cross constellation in the painting of the daughter arouses Hijime's suspicions and he sends his friend Itsuki to investigate on the most southern island of Okinawa where the constellation can be seen from Japan. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/16/1997

Gentleman Thief Killer File 3

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12

Hajime thinks he has solved the case of the murders of Dr. Kaitsu and Gouzou. He believes that two people were involved and that they blamed the Kaitou Gentleman to deflect suspicion from themselves. He suggests that they first sent the portrait of the daughter to the exhibition to force Gouzou to admit that he had a daughter, which ushered Sakura into the mansion. However the painting had the Southern Cross in the night sky which meant that, it was not painted by Gouzou, but a ghost painter he employed in Okinawa. Dr. Kaitsu was his accomplice, but they crippled the painter with drugs and sent him to a hospital in Okinawa where he has since died. Hajime accuses Sakura of the murders, unknowingly assisted by the butler Komiyama. She admits that she did it because her father, Nobuhiko Izumi, was the ghost painter, however she takes her own life and confesses her feelings for Hajime before she can be arrested. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/23/1997

Isle of Sadness Murder Case File 1

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13

Hajime and Miyuki participate in a treasure hunt on the Isle of Sadness (Hiho) in Kyushu organised by Daisuke Mimasaka. The others who are also participating are treasure hunters Asato Kakimoto, Ryuzo Yasojima, Kohei Himura, Hisayoshi Yaogi, Chris Einstein, the former butler Eisaku Iwata, Kyoko Kaya and Mimasaka's daughter Midori Mimasaka. Upon arrival at the island, they discover the decomposed body of Mimasaka, stuffed into a grandfather clock. The only clues are a Yamawara statue, a set of eight dolls, an old song whose lyrics are supposed to provide clues to the location of the treasure. In Tottori folklore, the Yamawara defends the treasure on the island and kills those who get close, hence the name of the island. The treasure hunters insist on continuing with the hunt and they discover that there is one extra guest who must be the killer. The next morning, Hajime notices a doll missing, and Asato Kakimoto is found dead in his lodge with blood splattered all over the floor, walls and ceiling, but everyone has an alibi. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/30/1997

Isle of Sadness Murder Case File 2

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14

Chris Einstein invites Hajime into investigate the black torii gateway where Hajime is injured after walking near a geyser. While being treated for his wounds, Hajime discovers that Mimasaka's daughter Midori was not favored by her father and she resented him. He also sees a photograph taken ten years earlier of the owners of the island which includes most of the treasure hunters including Professor Saeki and his young son Koichiro. After Saeki appeared to have died accidentally, everyone left the island to Mimasaka and departed. That night, Ryuzo Yasojima is killed when his lodge burns down. All guests have alibis except Kohei Himura, but he is shot a short while later after witnessing the true culprit. While at the onsen, Hajime finds a clue when he discovers that the red ochre on the island turns black on contact with water. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/7/1997

Isle of Sadness Murder Case File 3

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15

Hajime realizes that the red torii referred to in the song would now appear black because of the geyser. However, Hisayoshi Yaogi has also solved the mystery and finds the location of the treasure, but when Hajime leads the others there, they find him dead. Hajime deduces that Midori Mimasaka is the killer, but she is in fact Koichiro Saeki, Professor Saeki's son. They enter the cavern containing the treasure of gold and jewels guarded by a huge Yamawara statue. Eisaku Iwata, the former butler, then prepares to shoot the remaining members of the group to keep the treasure for himself, but Kyoko Kaya shoots him in the shoulder and reveals that she is a police officer who is chasing Iwata for suspected murder and insurance fraud. Iwata makes a grab for the gold which topples the statue, killing him and causing the cavern to collapse, burying the treasure in the process. Hajime saves Koichiro who reveals that he met Midori and how he had planned revenge against Mimasaka for the death of his father, but he fell in love with Midori, only for her to commit suicide over her father's actions. Later, Koichiro Saeki is arrested for his crimes. Although what was in Kyoko Kaya’s box remains unknown. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/14/1997

The Devil's Suite Murder Case File 1

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16

Michael Henry, the French executive member of the Toutou Philharmonic Orchestra, is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in the villa of Shuichiro Mido, composer of "The Devil's Suite" based on his three poems. The only clue is a key clasped in his hand. Hajime helps in the search to find the famed composer's lost work along with Inspector Akechi. Also present are the other orchestra committee members; conductor Takehiko Natsuoka, opera singer Yurie Kazekura and violinist Arisa Kure. Suddenly, Mido's manager Yuka Yamane finds Kazekura dead in the collector's room, her head covered by a helmet as described in Mido's poems. Meanwhile, they find a written copy of the poems comprising "The Devil's Suite" and Akechi gives it to Hajime to solve the mystery of the two deaths. Main cast: Hajime Kindaichi, Miyuki Nanase, and Super intendent Kengo Akechi. Case file cast: Executive member of the Toutou Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Henry, composer Shuichiro Mido, assistant Yozo Tsubaki, conductor Takehiko Natsuoka, opera singer Yurie Kazekura, violinist Arisa Kure, and Mido's manager Yuka Yamane. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/21/1997

The Devil's Suite Murder Case File 2

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17

Following the plot of The Devil's Suite poems again, an arrow from the collector's room is fired at Arisa Kure. Akechi calls everyone together after finding a musical score in conductor Takehiko Natsuoka's room. Natsuoka admits that he took it from Michael Henry, but only after he was already dead. Hajime accuses Kure of being the murderer, because the French word for key which he held in his dying hand, "kle", sounds like "kure" in Japanese. He also accuses her of faking the attack by an arrow to deflect suspicion and accuses Tsubaki for complicity by hiding the bow in Natsuoka's room. Tsubaki tries to accept the blame for the murders, revealing that Kure is actually Shuichiro Mido's daughter even though he was very harsh with her. However, Kure confesses to the deaths, admitting that Michael's death was an accident which was witnessed by Kazekura who then planned to blackmail her. She then attempts to commit suicide by falling off a cliff, but Hajime and Tsubaki save her telling her that her father loves her. Kure is arrested for the murder of Michael Henry and Yurie Kazekura. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/28/1997

Hida Mechanized House Murder Case File 1

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18

Hajime and Miyuki travel with Detective Isamu Kenmochi to Kuchinashi village in Okuhida (Hida region) of Gifu Prefecture after kenmochi received a letter from Shino, a childhood friend who married into the Tatsumi family as the second wife. She has been receiving death threats from the "Cursed Warrior" since her husband, Kuranosuke Tatsumi's death, when his will named Seimaru, Shino's son as his heir. They suspect Ryunosuske, Tatsumi's son is from his first wife, Ayako. The will is to take effect after the current Warrior Festival. Suddenly, someone dressed as Kaneharu, a samurai warrior attacks the house. Later, a man claiming to be Saburou Akanuma visits with his face covered and offers to reveal the identity of the Cursed Warrior at midnight. However, he is found dead in a locked room without a head. Shino says that Akanuma claimed to be Seimaru's twin whom she believed was stillborn. That night, while walking, Miyuki falls and is ambushed by a sword-wielding warrior. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/4/1997

Hida Mechanized House Murder Case File 2

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Hajime searches for Miyuki and finds her being carried by a warrior into the Samurai Temple. Meanwhile, Detective Kenmochi learns the legend of 400 years ago when General Kaneharu sought refuge in the village. The villagers agreed, but on the condition that Kaneharu was disposed of by his men. As he died, Kaneharu placed a curse on the village. Hajime and Miyuki are captured by the Cursed Warrior who displays Seimaru's severed head. Kenmochi deduces that the servant Senda Saruhiko killed Akanuma, but Saruhiko is later found dead after an old family gun misfires. With Seimaru and Saruhiko dead, Kuranosuke assumes the role of head of the family and the inheritance, and insists that Kenmochi, Hajime and Miyuki leave. They decide to stay at a hotel for a night, but return the next morning. Hajime realizes that Saruhiko could not have killed Akanuma, but he was probably duped into assisting the real killer who may be one of Kuranosuke Tatsumi's first three children; Ryunosuske, Moegi his daughter or Hayato his second son. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/11/1997

Hida Mechanized House Murder Case File 3

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20

Hajime now concludes that Akanuma never existed and was a creation of the killer and Saruhiko. He states that Seimaru's body was disguised to look like Akanuma, and that Ryunosuske is really Shino's son, not Seimaru. Confronted by this evidence, Shino confesses that she knew Ayako in school and always resented her wealth. When they were both in hospital giving birth, Shino was unmarried and when she met Ayako in the hospital again she decided to switch their babies planning that her child would be raised as a Tatsumi. She says that she killed Seimaru whom she always hated because she saw Ayako in her son and despised Saruhiko whom she saw as greedy. However, Ryunosuske is just as ruthless as his mother, and he had already poisoned Shino's tea. That is when Hayato reveals himself as sane as he had faked being mentally disabled because Ryunosuke attempted to kill him via poisoning years ago. As she dies Shino still defends her real son Ryunosuske by saying that she poisoned herself. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/18/1997

The Opera House Murder Case File 1

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21

Miyuki asks Hajime to help out with drama club camp at an island Opera Hotel where a small group of students plan to re-enact the Phantom of the Opera. Eight students have already left the club after Fuyuko Tsukishima, the girl who was selected for the lead role, killed herself in front of the other members. She jumped from the roof after her face was disfigured by acid. During dinner on the first night of the camp, the new lead actress, Orie Hidaka is murdered by a falling chandelier. They suspect a mystery guest named Kagetsu who arrived earlier covered in bandages. When Hajime and the others visit his room, they find it empty and a message "Burned in the flames of Hell" scrawled on the wall in blood. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/25/1997

The Opera House Murder Case File 2

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22

The club members begin to fear for their lives but cannot leave the island because of an approaching typhoon. The next morning, student Harumi Kiryu is found dead, hanged from a tree in an apparent suicide, but Hajime proves she was murdered. Then, after she almost discovers someone in the sound room of the theater, teacher Natsuyo Ogata is found dead in a bathtub, in a replay of the plot from Phantom of the Opera. However, Hajime deduces that she was murdered elsewhere and placed in the bathtub. Student Ryoko Saotome's reaction to another death prompts her to confess that she, Kiryu and Hidaka had caused Fuyuko's disfigurement. Hajime later finds Fuyuko's diary in the kitchen in which she wrote about loving "R". Suddenly someone wearing a phantom mask, apparently Kagetsu, attacks Saotome and Miyuki. When Hajime runs into the room Kagetsu jumps from the window into the ocean and apparently dies, but Hajime is suspicious. He realizes that it was a trick to make them believe Kagetsu died from the fall. (Source: Wikipedia)

9/1/1997

The Opera House Murder Case File 3

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23

Hajime believes he has discovered the killer's identity and calls everyone together. He explains that Kagetsu does not exist and how the murders were committed. Hajime tricks his suspect, Shuichiro Kamiya, into sitting in Saotome's seat because earlier Hajime had discovered a crossbow aimed at the seat. Kamiya suddenly jumps out of the seat when the clock strikes 12, revealing that he is the killer and planned to kill Saotome with the knife. He confesses that he and Fuyuko loved each other, referring to each other as Christine and Raoul ("R"), characters from the opera. After the couple overheard Hidaka, Kiryu and Saotome say they conspired to scare Fuyuko, the distraught Fuyuko suicided and so he sought revenge for her death. However, before he can be stopped, Kamiya runs to the roof and jumps, killing himself to be in heaven with Fuyuko. (Source: Wikipedia)

9/8/1997

Kindaichi the Killer File 1

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24

The popular author Goryu Tachibana throws a party at his villa in Karuizawa where he declares that the person who successfully decodes a phrase will have the rights to publish his next book, a non-fiction book which will expose the name of somebody present. Akira Kamoshita of Otoba Publishing House engages Hajime to attend, however during the party Tachibana harasses Miyuki and when Hajime intervenes, he accidentally removes Tachibana's hairpiece and the writer immediately excludes Otoba Publishing from competing. Later, Hajime goes to apologize, but he is found with the body of Tachibana who had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt object by someone who also knocked Hajime unconscious. Nagano Prefectural Police Inspector Shigeru Nagashima concludes that all the evidence points to Hajime who is then arrested for Tachibana's murder against Inspector Kenmochi's advice. However, Hajime escapes police custody and attempts to find the killer. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/20/1997

Kindaichi the Killer File 2

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25

Hajime suspects Kon Omura from Hiyaku Publishing may have Tachibana's manuscript. However, after directing Hajime to Wataru Tokito, Omura is murdered with a golf club. Hajime then follows Tokito to a construction site and questions him, but after he directs Hajime to Katsura, someone causes steel beams to fall and kill him. Hajime is still on the run from the police, which now include Super intendent Akechi, but the television newscaster Tetsuo Tsuzuki shelters him. Hajime then goes to question the manga writer Ohei Katsura, who directs him to Nonaka Tomomi before Katsura is stabbed from behind and killed. Hajime is again suspected of the murder. However, he begins to suspect that the individual messages that Tachibana told each of the publishers directing them to other participants may be a type of code. Hajime's friends still support him. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/27/1997

Kindaichi the Killer File 3

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26

Hajime is on the run, now wanted for four murders, and he is sheltered by Cameraman Kiyonori Hariu who gives Hajime photos of the murder scenes and blueprints of Tachibana's villa. Hajime heads back to Karuizawa with Inspector Shigeru Nagashima in pursuit and Hajime jumps from the train into a river to escape. He is taken in by Aoi Hanamura who feels sorry for him. Hajime locates Nonaka at the nearby Yunosawa Hotel, but it is a trap laid by Akechi and Nagashima. However Hajime sees Nonaka leaves by a side door, lured by a false message. Hajime warns her to be careful, but she is later attacked and killed with a knife. Before he runs away, Hajime scribbles a note for Akechi and runs into the kitchen of the hotel. Appearing desperate, Hajime takes a woman hostage and Akechi shoots him and Hajime falls to the ground. In the ambulance, Hajime reveals to his friends that his message asked Akechi to shoot him with a blank bullet and he then spread tomato juice on his shirt when Akechi shot him in order to catch the real culprit. They all travel to Tachibana's villa where Hajime reviews the evidence. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/3/1997

Kindaichi the Killer File 4

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27

Hajime believes that he has identified the killer, and lies in wait with his friends and the police in Tachibana's room. Later, a masked man walks in to recover the hidden manuscript and is captured. Hajime explains that the key to the code was the names of the invitees to the party which suggested that the data disc containing the manuscript was hidden in the grandfather clock and they find it there. Hajime also explains how the killer was able to exit Tachibana's room without leaving footprints in the mud outside. He then reveals Tetsuo Tsuzuki as the killer of five people; Goryu Tachibana, Kon Omura, Wataru Tokito, Ohei Katsura and Nonaka Tomomi. Tsuzuki confesses, saying that he did it for his 10-year-old daughter Mizuho who has kidney failure. He donated one of his kidneys to save her, but the hospital bungled the operation and the transplant was a failure. In desperation to save his daughter, he smuggled organs for a crime boss, but Tachibana found out and was going to expose him. Suddenly, Tsuzuki commits suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach and makes a last wish for his remaining kidney to be given to his daughter. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/10/1997

Ghost Ship Murder Case File 1

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Inspector Kenmochi takes Hajime and Myuki on the Cobalt Marine, not a cruise ship, but a cargo freighter with accommodation to Okinawa. Meanwhile, Captain Kozo Takamori has received a letter from a Ghost Captain stating that the cruise of death has begun. Takamori asserts that it was sent by one of the disgruntled crew and accuses the Navigator Mikihiko Wakaouji. When Hajime is ill the next morning he discovers that Second Mate Joji Mizuzaki and female crew member Yoko Katori are romantically involved. Also, Captain Takamori appears to have disappeared although when they enter his locked room it appears that he was just eating breakfast. A passenger and reporter for a ship magazine Yoshikazu Akai suggests it is just like on the Mary Celeste. The crew then discover the communications equipment has been destroyed. Hajime calculates the time that the person responsible for the captain's disappearance left his room and checks everyone's alibis but the results are inconclusive. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/17/1997

Ghost Ship Murder Case File 2

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Kenmochi discovers that Captain Takamori and Navigator Wakaouji and were commanding officers on the Oriental cruise ship which sank after colliding with an oil tanker 3 years earlier. They were rivals but the collision ruined both their careers. That night, Wakaouji is poisoned and his body is thrown overboard. They find a suicide note in Morse code saying he has terminal cancer and that he killed Takamori and Mizuzaki. However when they rush to Mizuzaki's station in the wheel-house, they find Kanou dead there instead, poisoned from the steering wheel. Mizuzaki had apparently slept in that morning. Meanwhile, passenger Yu Tokihara decides to commit suicide and jumps from the ship, sending her regards to Captain Ghost. However, Hajime jumps in to save her. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/24/1997

Ghost Ship Murder Case File 3

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30

Mizuzaki jumps into the water and saves Hajime and Tokihara, then takes control of the ship. They come across an island, and row ashore to seek help. Reporter Yoshikazu Akai becomes separated from the others and thinks he sees the captain, but it is a ploy and he is pushed off the cliff to his death. After they return to the ship, Hajime reviews all the evidence and asserts that the killer is Chief Engineer Kentaro Otsuki. Otsuki takes Mizuzaki hostage in the wheelhouse, however an alarm sounds as the ship is heading towards a reef. At the last minute, the ship is diverted, revealing someone else has the ability to control the ship. (Source: Wikipedia)

12/1/1997

Ghost Ship Murder Case File 4

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Hajime now accuses the young crew member Yoko Katori of being the killer, saying that Kentaro Otsuki grabbing Mizuzaki was part of his plan to expose her. He claims that Takamori, Wakaouji, Kanou and Akai were all involved in the sinking of the Orient, and that Katori and Tokihara were somehow related to victims. Yu Tokihara admits that she wanted revenge because she saw Wakaouji jeopardize her husband to save himself. However, she could not kill him, and after he apparently suicided she no longer had a reason to live. Yoko Katori says that Akai's article about the sinking alleged that her father, the captain of the tanker, was drunk and he was assigned blame for the collision, but she maintains that he did not drink. Hajime then explains how Yoko committed the murders. Suddenly, Mizuzaki breaks down and admits that he was also on the Orient, and was responsible for the collision because he joined Captain Wakaouji at a party. Wakaouji, Takamori and Kanou then lied to cast the blame on the tanker captain to save their careers. Yoko is arrested for the murders, however her father's name is finally cleared. Mizuzaki and Yoko still love each other, and he promises to marry her on her eventual release from prison. (Source: Wikipedia)

12/8/1997

Murderous Intent Below −15 °C

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Hajime and Miyuke join the Fudoh Ski Club's special training although Hajime is poor at skiing. That night, Hajime finds Shiramine beaten and buried in the snow, however the injuries are not serious. CCTV footage shows the culprit hitting Shiramine with what appears to be a set of skis in a cover, but Hajime deduces that it was frozen towels as the skis are locked up at night. Based on the CCTV footage and Suzumori's actions, Hajime accuses Emi Suzumori of attacking Shiramine. She breaks down and admits she did it because she believes that Shiramine deliberately sabotaged Shibusawa's skis which caused him to have a debilitating accident. However, Shibusawa regains consciousness from a coma and tells Suzumori that Shiramine is not to blame because he adjusted his skis himself. The Fudoh Ski Club goes on to win the competition, but without the help of Hajime who still cannot ski. (Source: Wikipeida)

12/15/1997

Magical Express Murder Case File 1

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Hajime, Myuki and Detective Kenmochi board a sleeper train for the Sequestrum Plain Motel in Hokkaido after the police receive a threatening letter from the self-named "Puppet Master from Hell". On board the train, they are entertained by members of the Fantasy Magic Team. They receive a phone warning from the Puppet Master that a bomb will explode on the train in 20 minutes. The train stops and everyone alights, however the leader of the magic team and Yumi's husband, Fumio Yamagami is missing. Akechi arrives because he is a fan of the magician team, and the bomb goes off, but it only distributes rose petals. Another phone message directs them to the body of Yamagami. They flee his cabin as set of small explosions go off, but then find his body has been removed. Everyone checks into the motel, but a little while later Yamagami's body is discovered and he is strung up like a marionette in the room of a mysterious masked guest, Mario Totsune. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/12/1998

Magical Express Murder Case File 2

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The mysterious masked guest Mario Totsune has apparently left, however the hotel is surround by swamp and there is no way out except by train. Akechi explains that the famous magician Reiko Chikamiya died 5 years earlier during a magic rehearsal in the same venue, and the magic of the Fantasy Magic Team is mostly her creation, but the "Living Puppet" show was created after her death. Childe Yurama insists the magic performance proceeds with him as the new leader, angering Yumi Yamagami. On his way to the performance on an island stage, Hajime breaks the drawbridge mechanism. During the performance of the Living Puppet, Hajime again receives a phone call from the Puppet Master and after a blackout, the body of Yurama has replaced the Living Puppet on stage. Hajime reasons that because the drawbridge is still up, the killer must still be on the island. That night, someone wearing a clown mask abducts Myuki. Hajimi follow him, but becomes caught in the swamp and sinks below the surface. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/19/1998

Magical Express Murder Case File 3

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Hajime is rescued from the bottomless swamp and Akechi reveals that Yurama was killed some time before his body was left on stage. He states that Reiko Chikamiya's death was not an accident, and when she fell, a vase of red roses was also smashed. However, her notebook with details of her magic tricks and ideas was never found. He believes that the killer is avenging Chikamiya's death. Kenmochi tells everyone that Yurama was killed by someone who knows the living puppet trick pointing to Yumi and Sakonji, but Sakonji says there is no proof either of them killed Yamagami. That night they hear a scream from Yumi's room, but when the crash in through the locked door, they find her dead, hanging from a tree outside. When they check the room below, Hajime asserts that he has found the identity of the Puppet Master who knows that Chikamiya's former students, Yamagami, Yumi, Yurama and Sakonji killed her to obtain her notebook of magic. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/26/1998

Magical Express Murder Case File 4

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Hajime calls everyone together believing he has solved the murders. He explains that the killer used a large piece of jade in Yumi's room to be a counterweight to help him descend from the room through the window. This indicates the killer is lighter than Yumi, implicating Yoichi Takato. Hajime also explains that Takato sent Yamagami's body to the hotel as baggage addressed to himself as Mario Totsune. Confronted with the evidence, Totsune confesses to the elaborate scheme and reveals that he is the only son of Reiko Chikamiya. He was raised by his father and only saw Chikamiya twice, but was fascinated by magic, and only found out she was his mother after his father’s death and saw her book of magic. After seeing the Living Puppet act, he realized the team also had a copy of Chikamiya's notes and later when he became the manager, he overheard them reveal their involvement in her death. Sakonji confirms the story and gives Takato his copy of the notebook. Takato is taken away by the police, however he knows a trap is already set. When Sakonji performs a new death-defying act, he is killed because Chikamiya wrote an intentional flaw into her notebook. With Sakonji's death, Takato escapes from prison. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/2/1998

Legend of Snow Demon Murder Case File 1

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Miyuki convinces Hajime to join her on a trip to a village in Hokkaido to help with the filming of a TV show. They stay at the villa of the reclusive artist Isen Himuro and then drive in a mini-van to the annex across the river to set up a video camera system. The annex is now a 20 minute drive away after the bridge collapsed. When they return, Hajime is surprised to find Kenmochi and Akechi in the village after their vehicle broke down. While watching the remote camera images in the annex, a Snow Demon appears and kills actress Rie Kano with an axe. The figure then turns and destroys the surveillance camera. Some villagers tell the story of the Snow Demon, how the poor area was known for human trafficking. Apparently during a snow storm, a woman in bondage escaped with her baby, but no-one would shelter her, fearing revenge from the traffickers, not even her former family. The baby died and the woman disappeared after leaving a curse on the village, creating the Snow demon. Suddenly, the assistant Marina Ayatsuji discovers the body of the main suspect, cameraman Michio Akashi stuffed inside a snowman, clutching some straw. Akeshi determines that he was killed before Kano, and thus could not be the killer. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/9/1998

Legend of Snow Demon Murder Case File 2

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With Akashi, the main suspect dead, Hajime is forced to go through everyone's alibis again, but the results are inconclusive. When Hijime questions why Himuro covers his face, Miyuki explains that he was among the few survivors of an airplane which crashed into a nearby mountain 10 years earlier. While again watching video footage of Kano's death at the annex, Hajime notices that the self-portrait of Himuro was gone when they arrived, presumably taken by the person posing as the Snow Demon. Hajime and the others drive to the annex and discover the self-portrait has been replaced by another painting. He also discovers evidence that someone has used a rope to cross the river, meaning the annex can be reached within 5 minutes from the main villa. Meanwhile Akechi receives information that the three people who reported the airplane crash were Kano, Hiruta and Akashi. Hajime, Akechi and Kenmochi rush to director Hiruta's room but find him already dead. Akeshi gathers everyone together, except Himuro whom he believes is an impostor. He asserts that Himuro actually died in the crash, and Hiruta and the others found a stand-in for Himuro, planning to make money from selling his paintings. Akechi and the others burst into Himuro's locked room and find him dead, apparently from a pill overdose. They see a suicide letter confessing to the murders and that his real name is Takau Mizunuma. It explains that when he and the others came upon the crash site, they buried Himuro's body and decided to impersonate him and share his fortune, however later Mizunuma decided to keep the money himself. The case appears closed, but Hajime is still suspicious. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/16/1998

Legend of Snow Demon Murder Case File 3

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Hajime is intent on finding the real culprit even though everyone considers the case closed. He suggests that one of the airplane crash survivors changed their name and is seeking revenge. Hajime proves that Marina Ayatsuji was able to commit the murders and she eventually confesses. She tells them that she was a 10 year old named Marina Kuze when survived the crash and vainly tried to help her trapped mother. She asked Kano, Akashi, Hiruta and Mizunuma to help her when they arrived, but they refused. She blamed them for the death of her mother and wanted revenge, and she thanks Hajime for exposing the truth. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/23/1998

Tarot Lodge Murder Case File 1

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Hajime is invited by the pop idol Reika Hayami to her father's Tarot Villa in the snowy mountains to where she has retreated and refuses to see anyone. Coincidentally, a skier called Kenji Tsuji seeks shelter after returning late and finding the cable car switched off. In the villa is a framed panel of tarot cards and Reika's father explains that the former owner had an interest in tarot cards, so he framed them as a feature. Reporter Annryo Hojo mentions that one card is upside down. Reporter Goro Itami tells about a case he reported on 15 years ago when 2 children were kidnapped and their father killed, and another how police shot a bystander instead of a robber. Later Itami tries to extort money from Yuichiro Hayami and demands to spend night with Reiko. Hayami angrily refuses and hits Itami with and ash tray, killing him and then he hastily buries the body. The next morning, all the tarot cards have been removed, and the Wheel of Fortune card appears pinned to Itami's door. Hajime believes it indicates Windmill Hill, so everyone travels there in the cable car and they find Itami's body tied to the windmill. When they return, the telephone lines are down, and the cable car controls have been smashed. Hajime investigates, while Hayami begins to panic about who had dug up Itami's body, tied it to the windmill and left the tarot card. (Source: Wikipedia)

3/2/1998

Tarot Lodge Murder Case File 2

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Hayami receives an intercom call from the person who dug up Itami's body who requests that he kill Akama. Meanwhile, a drunken Akama pressures Reika to keep him on as her agent and follow his orders, but she becomes frightened. Hayami follows Akama into the balneary [a] and electrocutes him. Hearing a scream, everyone runs to the balneary to find Akama dead and the Tower of Power down tarot card indicating an unexpected disaster. Because of his erratic behavior, Hajime begins to suspect Hayami. Hayami receives another call from the Tarot Card killer who says he plans to kill Hijime, but he kills Hayami instead, leaving him hanging in his room in an apparent suicide, with the Hanged Man tarot card upside down. The remainder of the cards are also found in his room. Hajime suspects murder and he believes Hayami killed Itami and suspects that it has to do with the cases Itami mentioned earlier, although Hajime suspects a mastermind is behind all the murders. While looking at the Hayami family photo album, Hajime discovers a clue to the killer. While investigating, Hajime is knocked unconscious and wakes up later at Windmill Hill. Almost freezing to death, Hajime burns the jumper that Miyuki knitted for him to unfreeze the windmill and uses the cable car to return to the villa. (Source: Wikipedia)

3/9/1998

Tarot Lodge Murder Case File 3

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Hajime calls everyone together and states that the tarot cards will reveal the killer who does not know the correct position of all the tarot cards. When Takuya Kojo guesses the wrong position of the Hanged Man card Hajime accuses him of being the so-called Tarot Card killer. Kojo initially denies his involvement, but then confesses that he planned everything because he was one of the kidnapped children 15 years ago. Hayami was the kidnapper who killed his father, and Reika is his sister is whose real name was Azusa, but Hayami raised her as his daughter. Kojo only decided to kill Akama because of the agent's evil nature. Horrified by this revelation, Reika runs out into the snow and is almost caught by an avalanche, but Kojo sacrifices himself to save her. Later, Reika realizes that Miyuki loves Hajime and decides not to compete for his love. (Source: Wikipedia)

3/16/1998

Black Butterfly of Death Murder Case File 1

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Touno Eiji is supposed to be dead, killed in a fiery wreck following the serial killings at Nagano's Lake (Episode 4), however Yousuke Itsuki sees an article which shows him still alive and working with Shimon Madarame who claims to have resurrected extinct butterflies and plans to display them at Kanazawa. When they arrive at Kanazawathey meet Hajime's uncle Heiske and his daughter Fumi Kindaichi. Fumi travels with them to the Madarame residence, known as Butterfly Manor. Madarame introduces his three daughters named after butterflies: Tateha, Ageha and Ruri. During the party, Ruri sees a live Black Butterfly pinned to a wall - a premonition of death. The highlight of the evening is the release of luminous butterflies, meanwhile, Hajime thinks he sees Touno, but he introduces himself as Miyama. The next day, a purple butterfly is pinned to a tree and it has the same design as Ruri's kimono. Hajime searches for Ruri and finds her dead in the garden in an area known as the butterfly's grave. Officer Inokawa arrives to investigate the murder. (Source: Wikipedia)

4/13/1998

Black Butterfly of Death Murder Case File 2

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Officer Inokawa checks everyone's alibis for the time Ruri's body was placed on the butterfly grave and only Miyama has no alibi, so he is taken in for questioning. Yamano Katsunori sees a Black Butterfly and tells the fearful story of a woman whose husband was killed by the village head's son who then took her as his wife. She bore three beautiful girls, but they all suicided and she placed a curse on the village. Days later, four Undying Butterflies appeared at the village head's house, and his family and the villagers began dying from some disease. That night the luminous butterflies lead everyone to Tateha's body, strung up like a butterfly. Later, Hajime asks Miyama Hikage his real name because he knows the words Miyama and Hikage are names of butterflies. Miyama says he has amnesia and was found unconscious and seriously burned in Kanazawa's mountain forest 6 months ago. Madarame took him in because Miyama had a butterfly-shaped burn on his back. Hajime suspects Miyama may be Eiji Touno, however he has no motive. Hajime suspects the murders relate to events of 25 years ago when Shimon discovered the luminous butterflies and Midori's lover Minoru Suga committed suicide. Suddenly, Ageha screams as she is surrounded by venomous spiders in the balneary. (Source: Wikipedia)

4/20/1998

Black Butterfly of Death Murder Case File 3

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Miyama arrives at the balneary first and finds Ageha bleeding from stab wounds and there is another message from the killer. They discover through her blood type that 25 year old Ageha cannot be the daughter of both Shimon and Midori. Later that day, Shimon is killed and also hung on the wall like a butterfly. Hajime questions Yamano Katsunori about 25 years ago when his assistant was Minoru Suga and the wealthy Shimon Madarame provided funding for butterfly research. Minoru Suga suicided on the eve of the announcement of the discovery of the luminous butterflies. Hajime suspects those events and the current murders are linked. That night Miyama and Ageha attempt to leave together but are stopped by Officer Inokawa. Hajime explains that Miyama is not the murderer who is still among them. (Source: Wikipedia)

4/27/1998

Black Butterfly of Death Murder Case File 4

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Hajime explains that the killer cleverly delayed the discovery of Fumi's body to create an alibi, and used the scants which attract and repel the Black Butterflies to cover his movements. He then accuses Masayuki Onodera of being the Undying Butterfly killer. Hajime explains that the killings are retribution for the suicide of Minoru Suga and suspects that Onodera is the son of Minoru Suga and Midori. Onodera admits his guilt, blaming Midori for betraying his father and revealing the location of the luminous butterfly pupae to Shimon Madarame. However, Midori rejects the accusation, saying that she always loved Suga, and that her three girls were his through artificial insemination, a fact that she was planning to reveal when Madarame was in his deathbed. Confronted by the truth, Onodera fatally stabs himself. Midori rushes to his side, then she the sets the building on fire to die with her son. After they escape the scientist Yamano reveals that he always knew that Suga Minoru was the one who had discovered the Legendary Luminous Butterfly, but he in his excitement told Madarame about this. Revealing himself to be the one who had told Madarame about the discovery causing him to steal the credit for finding the butterfly. He states he had no ill intentions he just wanted to save the Lab with the funding he received from Madarame he had no idea it would lead to such calamity. In the end Suga Minoru is given credit for discovering the Luminous Butterfly, and Miyama and Ageha get married with Hajime stating that Touno Eiji died that day in the lake. (Source: Wikipedia)

5/11/1998

The Kidnapping of Reika Hayami Murder Case File 1

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Following a day of shooting a film, Reika Hayami and her manager Yasuyuki Yasuoga are kidnapped by someone calling himself the Puppet Clown. The kidnapper demands a huge ransom from the film director Youko Kafuraki and the ransom note also specifies that Hajime Kindaichi must deliver the money. Director Youko Kafuraki refuses to pay the ransom, so Veteran actress Reiko Mitamura offers to pay herself. Inspector Isamu Kenmochi appears in disguise, having been called by Kafuraki. Hajime is told to take the money to a phone booth at Nakahara Station, but when he gets there he receives another phone call with a cryptic message to find the next location. (Source: Wikipedia)

5/18/1998

The Kidnapping of Reika Hayami Murder Case File 2

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Hajime goes from location to location following the instructions from the Puppet Clown, injuring himself in the process. However as he crosses a suspension bridge he falls and loses all the money and is rescued by Kenmochi who has been following him. With the failure of the ransom payment, the Puppet Clown kills Manami Yasuoga and shoots at Reika Hayami. Later he calls Hajime and tells him that the deal is off and that he has killed his victims and dumped their bodies. Hajime deduces the possible location of the bodies at Kawaguchi Lake at Yamanashi, and the police carry out a search there. On the way to Yamanashi, Hajime finds Reika badly beaten on the side of the road. (Source: Wikipedia)

5/25/1998

The Kidnapping of Reika Hayami Murder Case File 3

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Reika is badly beaten, but alive. After she regains consciousness, she relates the story of the kidnapping by the Puppet Clown who appears to have mysophobia, and the murder of Yasuoga. Suspecting that something is suspicious about Youko Kafuraki's company and the relationships between the staff, Hajime asks his friend Itsuki to investigate. Meanwhile, the police find the body of Yasuoga who had been shot five times and also the hideout of the Puppet Clown. Meanwhile, Hajime begins to suspect the kidnapping was not about the ransom, and Itsuki reveals that Yasuoga is Kafuraki's nephew and a known womanizer, including possibly with Reiko Mitamura. Hajime suspects that the Puppet Clown is someone within the company. However, they all have alibis for the period when Yasuoga was shot but Hajime believes he knows the killer's identity. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/1/1998

The Kidnapping of Reika Hayami Murder Case File 4

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Hajime explains his theory to the assembled group of Youko Kafuraki's staff. He believes that Yasuoga was the accomplice of the Puppet Clown who then decided to kill him. The Puppet Clown created an alibi by confusing Reika over the date on which Yasuoga was killed and Hajime accuses Yasuoga's wife Manami of being the Puppet Clown. Manami admits her guilt, saying that she was a successful actress until she was beaten and raped by thugs which ruined her career although Yasuoga offered to marry her. She then found out that the rape was a ploy by Yasuoga himself to marry her and further his career in the company and so she plotted revenge. Following her revelation, she drinks some tea and falls dead, poisoned. Later, Hajime receives a gift and a phone call from Kafuraki company Secretary Kobuchizawa who says he is really the Puppet Master from Hell Yoichi Takato, who manipulated Manami and then poisoned her. Hajime swears to catch him in the name of his grandfather. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/8/1998

French Silver Coins Murder Case File 1

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Fashion model Masumi Takamori, is blackmailed by an old acquaintance, Hiroshi, who threatens to expose her drug-taking past. She accidentally kills him with a vase, but as Masumi buys a suitcase to dispose of the body, she encounters Hajime, a former classmate. She gives him and Miyuki tickets to a fashion show in Nagaya. That night she disposes of Hiroshi's body. Hajime and Miyuki arrive at Nagaya and stay at the exclusive French hotel to be used for a wedding fashion show of the competing brands for sponsorship by Mitsumoto Property; Kimasawa and Rokujou. Rokujou tries to poach Naoko, but fails. Takamori receives a phone call from someone calling themselves Burial Francs who witnessed her kill Hiroshi and dispose of the body. The person blackmails her into adding a powder to someon's drink. Later, Kimasawa receives a wedding dress with a 5 Franc coin signifying burial. At the evening dinner, Takamori adds the poisonous powder to Naoko's glass, but Rokujou drinks it instead and falls down dead. Inspector Kenmochi arrives to investigate. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/15/1998

French Silver Coins Murder Case File 2

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Hajime deduces the killer is in their midst, after finding fish in a tank dead, he assumes that the killer dropped in the empty capsule which contained the poison. The fashion competition goes ahead, and Kimasawa promises to make Yuke the company director when she retires. Meanwhile, Takamori suspects that Burial Francs is also present at the hotel. Hajime confronts Takamori over the lack of fingerprints on the poison glass after both he and Takamori had touched it, but she manages to find an excuse. Later, she receives another call from Burial Francs to kill another person and her erratic behavior arouses Hajime's suspicions. The fashion show begins, but backstage, the main dress for Kimasawa has been ruined, so the highly talented Naoko hastily constructs a fantastic dress from tablecloths and available accessories. Suddenly, a package arrives with a burial suit and 5 Franc piece designed for Yousuke Inukai, whom they find dead in an unoccupied room from poisoned wine. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/2/1998

French Silver Coins Murder Case File 3

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Hajime explains the mystery of how Inukai was poisoned to Masumi, but she feigns innocence. Masumi receives one last instruction from Burial Francs, but it is a trap and she is grabbed by Burial Francs. Just as Kenmochi receives news that data discs containing measurements for the dead people have been stolen, another package arrives with a burial dress for designed for Sayako Kiriyama. Masumi awakes to find herself in a room with a gun and Kiriyama's body just as Hajime and the other arrive to check on her. Inside the locked room, Masumi recognizes the perfume smell of Burial Francs and believes that it is Yuri Kimasawa herself. When everyone bursts into the room Masumi shoots Kimasawa, believing that she is like a mother bird who destroys her own eggs, in a parallel of her own experience. Hajime believes that Masumi was set up to kill Kimasawa, however Kenmochi does not believe him. Later, Yuke discovers the hotel's wine is fake and Hajime realizes how Kiriyama was killed. (Source: Wikipedia)

6/29/1998

French Silver Coins Murder Case File 4

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Hajime finally figures out the identity of Burial Francs and sets a trap at the hospital treating Kimasawa to catch the elusive culprit when theytries to kill Kimasawa. He explains the killer switched her room key with Kiriyama’s so she could lock the room from the outside and he exposes Naoko Torimaru as Burial Francs. Naoko eventually admits her plan, and tells how she and Masumi had similar upbringings, and how Kimasawa helped her get rid of a criminal she killed years earlier, however when Kimasawa named Yousuke Inukai as her successor, she decided to act. Suddenly, Kimasawa reveals that Inukai was blackmailing her over the death of the criminal and she was preparing to set Naoko up with her own label. Naoko and Masumi are arrested for the murders, however, Kenmochi allows Masumi to model a Kimasawa wedding dress one last time before being taken to prison. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/6/1998

Who Murdered the Goddess?

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Hajime's friend Ryuta Saki has a crush on Sayaka Kamitsu and they go on a double date with Hajime and Myuki. Back at the school, a guard and a teacher find a broken plaster sculpture and the teacher Nakatsukawa unconscious from a blow by another plaster statue in the Art Lab. When the teenagers arrive home, Inspector Kenmochi accuses Sayaka of the attack because she has the only other key to the room. When they all inspect the scene, Ryuta finds a piece of contact lens. By a process of elimination he identifies student Shiomi Hatsune as the attacker. She admits that she visited Nakatsukawa in the lab to declare he love for him, but he said he already had someone else and she accidentally broke the plaster statue over his head. Later, Nakatsukawa recovers and forgives Shiomi for her impetuousness. (Source: Wikipedia)

7/13/1998

Site of Demon God Murder Case File 1

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Hajime and Miyuki are invited by their senior Satsuki Munakata to her home in the remote Majin Village and they take his cousin Fumi. On the way Hajimetells Fumi about the first time they visited Satsuki to help dig for historical artefacts. Munakata says there are only three families there; Boukyoku, Hoko and her own, Nanakakami. The fourth Doutakute residence was burned down ten years earlier. in her house they have a effigy of the Magamitori God which the family worships as the guardian of the village. The objective of the dig is to find four "devil's artefacts" somewhere in the village which are said to bestow fame and fortune. Dig coordinator Kunamori explains how Bunzaemon originally had the artefacts and became famous. The artefacts were then gathered by Kichieman Munakata, Satsuki's grandfather who became very wealthy, however tragedy has befallen his descendants and he buried the artefacts somewhere in the village. Toribeno, Kunamori's assistant, displays four replicas made by Kichieman; a necklace, blade, mirror and bell. Later, they all go to the Magamitori cave where the dig will take place and after sliding aside the "mirror rock" they dig for a while but find nothing important. After dinner, Miyuki sees a Magamitori figure at the cave and when they investigate, they find Yamato’s body inside the sealed cave. (Sourcve: Wikipedia)

7/27/1998

Site of Demon God Murder Case File 2

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Yamato is found dead in the sealed Magamitori cave, strangled by the fake necklace which had been stolen along with the blade and mirror. Satsuki explains the Magamitori curse predicts the death of three people and tells how Kichieman's eldest daughter, eldest son and his wife all died. She says Magamitori gave three commandments; bury the artefacts, build four houses to worship him and the eldest daughter must become his servant. With news the phone is not working, three of the residents decide to leave, but are almost killed when the tunnel out of the valley collapses. Then, Asuka Minatoya's husband is killed by a huge falling copper bell. When they return, the fourth replica artefact, the bell, is missing. Later Soga is called out to meet one of the team, but is killed instead, however he is found near the broken seven angle mirror with pages from a torn day calendar in his hand. It is suggested that Satsuki and her mother may want revenge for Shiro Munakata's death a year earlier. Satsuki explains that her mother has been locked in the house since the age of 17 to serve Magamitori and she has never seen her face. Later, Kyouko Munakata approaches Hajime and Miyuki. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/3/1998

Site of Demon God Murder Case File 3

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Kyouko Munakata asks Hajime to pass a letter to her daughter Satsuki and says she will take care of the Magamitori curse. That night Hajime and Miyuki see the Magamitori who leaps through a window and with Kyouko Munakata and apparently throws her over a cliff into the river leaving the replica dagger. With four people dead, every feels the danger has passed but Haijme continues his investigation. He believes that he has found the location of the artefacts based on plans of the mansion and knows the identity of the killer after solving the mystery of how the four murders were committed. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/10/1998

Site of Demon God Murder Case File 4

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Hajime reveals that the next page on the calendar from which Soga tore the pages was the month of March, which in ancient Japanese revealed Yaoi Muranishi as the killer. He then reveals the location of the artefacts through an arrangement of mirrors in the mansion and finds them hidden inside a stone statue. Muranishi explains that Kyouko manipulated Shiro Munakata into marrying her, but she feared he would leave her after finding the artefacts so she destroyed his research. Muranishi and Munakata then became lovers, but when she became pregnant Kyouko noticed her betrayal. They fought and Kyouko fell down the stairs and died. They hid her death, and Munakata wore a veil and pretended to be the reclusive Kyouko. When the baby was born, they pretended the baby was Kyouko's daughter. However when Munakata heard Yamato and Soga say they caused Shiro's death, she plotted to kill them as she was ill and only had six months to live. Munakata grabbed the blade artefact and attempted to kill herself but she was struck by lightning. Back in the present, the trio arrive at Majin Village and are welcomed by Satsuki who explains that Yaoi Munakata died ten days earlier after living for six months in a prison hospital, however they enjoyed that brief time together. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/17/1998

Graveyard Island Murder Case File 1

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Hajime, Miyuki and four school friends take a low-cost trip to a vacant island named Graveyard Island. Soon after arrival they find a cave filled with human skulls and bones, then they meet a group of college students in camouflage playing a survival game. That night, Chie Hirashima tells the story of the curse of a Ghost Soldier. During the war, many Japanese soldiers lost their lives on the island. It was sealed off as Graveyard Island, but since then fisherman have reported seeing ghost soldiers there. Meanwhile at one combat group's camp, Yonemura goes missing and the others are targeted by an old war tank. During the night, Hajime is woken by the sound of an explosion. In the morning the combat game players report that they cannot contact the Yonemura team. They eventually find the Yonemura team camp site which has been destroyed by an explosion, apparently from an old tank shell. They attempt to notify the authorities, but find their transmitter does not work and the rope holding their boat has been cut and the boat is gone. During the night, while Tatsuyuki is on guard duty talking to Hajime, Tetsunori is killed. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/24/1998

Graveyard Island Murder Case File 2

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The group begin to fear the unseen Ghost Soldier and move their camp to an open area and set traps in the jungle around the camp. During the night one of the sound traps is triggered and Hajime and Miyuki see a skeletal Japanese soldier. When they return to camp, they find Namba stabbed to death in his sleeping bag. Hajime also finds all the traps around the camp have been broken. Early the next morning Hajime and Miyuki encounter a mouse which dies from eating poisoned bread, and he later finds clues that indicate that the murderer is someone in their group. That night Iwano asks Hajime to take the first watch and he does, but sets up a dummy of himself in the jungle. The murderer stabs the dummy, then someone tries to strangle Hajime, but they escape. Hajime deduces that the murderer captured Yonemura and used him as a Ghost Soldier decoy to deflect suspicion, and asserts that the culprit is among them. (Source: Wikipedia)

8/31/1998

Graveyard Island Murder Case File 3

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Hajime deduces the murderer is Tatsuyuki Hiyama who killed Yonemura's team and captured Yonemura to appear as a Ghost Soldier. However, the killer did not realize that Yonemura scratched a dying message while he was tied up, which was a type of Morse code that referred to an event in a village 2 years ago. Hajime proposes that Hiyama then killed him with poisoned bread and that the murderer has an accomplice within the group, and he accuses Remi Morishita. However Hiyama denies knowing her and eats a poison capsule, intending to take all the blame himself. Later, Yonemura's poisoned body is found, dressed in a Japanese soldier's uniform confirming Hajime's hypothesis. Remi Morishita, eventually admits her guilt and is imprisoned, but after she discovers that she is pregnant with Hiyama's child, she tells Hajime their story. She and Hiyama were from a small mountain village which was burned down 2 years ago by young men playing war games and only a few people survived. They moved to Tokyo and overheard Hagimoto and the others talking about how they caused the fire. Hiyama swore to take revenge for the village and their parents' deaths. (Source: Wikipedia)

9/7/1998

Superintendent Akechi's Splendid Reasoning

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Tired after working at an amusement park, Hajime Kindaichi is on a train home when he is accused of murdering the loan broker Ekuma Tadao on the train and arrested. Hajime claims he is innocent and Akechi promises that he will seize the real killer. Now in jail, Hajime's fate depends on the detective skills of Inspector Akechi. Akechi commences his investigation by analyzing the crime scene, questioning the witnesses and probing Tadao's background. However, Kindaichi appears to be the only person who could have committed the murder. Slowly Akechi pieces together the evidence, and accuses the conductor, Kiyoshi Yagi of being the murderer. Yagi confesses, saying that he lost 20 years of savings to Tadao and killed him when he saw him on the train. Meanwhile, Hajime while in jail, also deduced that Yagi was the murderer. (Source: Wikipedia)

9/14/1998

Ghost Fire Island Murder Case File 1

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Because Hajime has spent all his money, he and Miyuki decide to take a part-time job during the summer vacation at the Otemon summer training camp for medical students. Later, while Hajime is in Otemon Hospital waiting for a gastric medical examination he sees a boy named Kuniaki Ebisawa in a coma. Hajime and Miyuki travel to the camp on Shiranui Island, also called "Ghost Fire Island", where the soul of dead student is said to return every year at this time. They check into the Eikou Hostel where they and meet the other staff including Kouhei Ohno who examined Hajime at Otemon Hospital. They learn the layout of the building which was a former sanatorium and are assigned to clean the disused Crape Myrtle (百日紅, Sarusuberi) Room. They also meet the students, and the friendly student Yozo Kawasaki accidentally mentions Ebisawa. Kouhei Ohno tells tem about the "test of courage" which involves peering through the keyhole into the Sarusuberi Room in which the ghost of a student who committed suicide appears every year at midnight on August 15. Through the keyhole, Hajime sees Keiichi Morimura being hung in the locked room. However when they enter the room, it is empty. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/12/1998

Ghost Fire Island Murder Case File 2

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Hajime and the other students are perplexed at the vision of Morimura being hung when Makio Shiina runs up to them saying he saw a ghost outside his window. Hostel manager Tenzo Tsukahara prevents them from disturbing Morimura to check if he is alive. In the morning, Morimura cannot be found, and Makio Shiina believes he is the next to be killed by the spirit of Kuniaki Ebisawa as he saw a will-o'-the-wisp outside the window. Kentaro Kato explains that he, Morimura and Shiina bullied Ebisawa so much that he attempted suicide and is now in a coma at Otemon Hospital. Hajime wants to notify Kenmochi of the disappearance, but Yozo Kawasaki stops the discussion and orders the students to attend their lessons. Later, they find Morimura's body, but cannot call the police because someone smashed the telephone equipment. That afternoon Makio Shiina disappears, and Hajime finds his body hanging high in the rafters in the nearby church. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/19/1998

Ghost Fire Island Murder Case File 3

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Shiina's body hangs high in the church, but the ladder which has disappeared and they are unable to bring it down. Dr. Kawasaki asks Hajime to try to solve the murders, but after Hajime's analysis of the available information, only Kawasaki has no alibi. Asami Hanamura tells Hajime that during the test of courage, she saw Yutaka Kawashima carrying the ladder. Meanwhile, Kentaro Kato fears for his life and believes that Ebisawa is after him. Late that night, Yuri Shintani tries to strangle Kato. Hajime reveals that Yuri is the elder sister of Kuniaki Ebisawa but he doesn't believe she killed Morimura and Shiina. Kato asks to sleep in Hajime's room, but Hajime cannot stay awake, and Kato is hanged in his room while he is asleep. (Source: Wikipedia)

10/26/1998

Ghost Fire Island Murder Case File 4

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With Kato now dead, Hajime analyses the clues and returns to the church where the very much alive Shiina is preparing to burn down the building. Hajime explains how Shiina faked his hanging, and that he feels guilty for betraying his friend Ebisawa. He feared that if he did not participate in the bullying, Morimura and Shiina would have bullied him instead. He prepares to commit suicide, but Yuri convinces him to stay alive and rejoin his best friend Ebisawa when he eventually recovers. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/2/1998

Inspector Kenmochi's Secret File 1

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Koshiro Kirisawa, the famous ikebana artist and head of Mugetsu School of Flower Arrangement, is stabbed and killed in the hotel where Inspector Kenmochi is staying. Kenmochi believes he witnesses the murder in an external stairwell by a woman around 2am, and one of the hotel staff also reports seeing her. Kirisawa's two step-daughters Beniko and Midoriko are prime suspects because if Kirisawa’s fiancée Akemi Todo has his child, it would inherit his valuable estate. Kenmochi asks Hajime to help him with the case, and after examining the crime scene, Hajime deduces the identity of the culprit over dinner. He takes everyone to the crime scene where he explains what happened and accuses the older sister Beniko of killing her father. She admits killing him because he married their mother shortly after their father's death. However, Todo tells them that Kirisawa was their real father who had an affair with their mother when she was married, and he dearly loved his daughters. Both Beniko and Midoriko are devastated by the revelation. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/9/1998

Inspector Kenmochi's Secret File 2

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Kenmochi presents Hajime with another case. A computer teacher named Nanako Segawa is found dead in a park. Yuri Mishima, a student from the computer school is arrested for the murder, but Hajime thinks that this is an exchange murder, and there is a mastermind behind the killing. There are three suspects who also use Yuri's computer, and none have adequate alibis. After examining the computer room and the evidence, Hajime believes he knows the culprit. Suddenly, the student Rumi Nakajima threatens to throw herself off the rooftop rather than be accused of Segawa's murder, however Kenmochi intervenes and stops her. Hajime then explains the mastermind is someone who knows that Mishima is a frustrated rival to Nakajima for the handsome Yoshiki Maruyama's affection, and Hajime accuses Kenichi Hamaoka, a teacher in the computer class. Hamaoka admits that he discovered that Segawa was embezzling money from her family's company and initially helped her, but he became afraid of the consequences and planned to have her killed, using Mishima as his tool. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/16/1998

Ijinkan Hotel Murder Case File 1

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Hajime and Miyuki head to a hotel in Hakodate to help out with a case involving a threatening message against a theater company. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/23/1998

Ijinkan Hotel Murder Case File 2

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The red-bearded murderer is still at large. The hotel owner reveals the story behind the guest who lived in the red room. (Source: Wikipedia)

11/30/1998

Ijinkan Hotel Murder Case File 3

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Hajime tries to snap out of the shock of what happened to Saki as he pushes on to solve the mystery. Another person claims to be the real culprit. (Source: Wikipedia)

12/7/1998

Ijinkan Hotel Murder Case File 4

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The truth takes center stage as Hajime reveals that the culprit did something during the play that proves they committed the crimes. (Source: Wikipedia)

12/14/1998

Computer Cottage Murder Case File 1

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Hajime and Miyuki get lost while skiing, fortunately they find a cottage in the snow. They know that the residents in the house always use computers to connect with each other. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/11/1999

Computer Cottage Murder Case File 2

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75

Sojo is killed in his room. Rampo and Watson are suspected to have the motion to kill him. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/18/1999

Computer Cottage Murder Case File 3

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Rampo is stabbed in the snow and dies after he says "Patri......" to Kindaichi and Watson. Some time later, they find a female corpse, which turns out to be Spencer. (Source: Wikipedia)

1/25/1999

Computer Cottage Murder Case File 4

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Patricia is found poisioned in her cottage. Kindaichi reveals a case committed by the Computer Cottage members years ago with the help of the computer. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/1/1999

Saint Valentine Murder Case File 1

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Hajime and Miyuki go to a cottage in Nagano to spend their Valentine's Day. They and Aoyama, the owner of the cottage, find three members from the Kyogoku Family. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/8/1999

Saint Valentine Murder Case File 2

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One of the Kyogoku Brothers is killed with the message of "The Angel of Death" left near his corpse. Some time later, Hajime receives a phone call from Yousuke Kyogoku. The latter wants Hajime to help him. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/15/1999

Saint Valentine Murder Case File 3

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Hajime figures out the real killer who commits the murders in such a romantic festival. (Source: Wikipedia)

2/22/1999

Fumi Kindaichi's Lovely Activity! The Case of Fumi's Kidnapping

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81

A bank robber has committed crime and is trying to escape through the back door, but he happens to see Fumi walking over after getting out. Hajime, Miyuki and the police are annoyed about Fumi being the hostage. (Source: Wikipedia)

3/1/1999

Fumi Kindaichi's Lovely Activity! Mirror Labyrinth Murder Case

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A murder happens in the Mirror Labyrinth in an amusement park. One of the four girls is dead, and the other three are suspected, but they all state they have perfect alibis. How can Hajime solve the case and point out the real murderer? (Source: Wikipedia)

3/8/1999

Superintendent Akechi's Splendid Reasoning 2

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