Welcome! MeitanteiBunshou here with some thoughts on today’s Detective Conan.

This Week’s Translation

新幹線で平次兄ちゃんと和葉姉ちゃんは紅葉姉ちゃん、執事の伊織さんと「偶然」乗り合わせたんだって。 ところが車内にあったスマホで脅され、紅葉姉ちゃんを人質にされた伊織さんは指示通りに動くことに。 異変に気付いた平次兄ちゃんはこっそりボクと連絡をとってたんだ。 犯人の声から伊織さんが思い出す紅葉姉ちゃんとの出会い。 そして、それを知る犯人の正体は!?

「執事になった理由(後編)」このあとすぐ!

— 江戸川コナン (@conan_file) August 23, 2025

Momiji and her butler Iori happened to be on the same bullet train as Heiji and Kazuha by chance. However, when someone threatens Momiji and holds her hostage, Iori is forced to follow their demands. Heiji realized something was up and was able to get me secretly in touch with Iori. The criminal’s voice reminded Iori of the day he first met Momiji and led him to figure out who is behind this!

“The Reason He Became a Butler (Part Two)” coming up next!

Today’s Episode

In retrospect, it is a good thing that Momiji bought up all those seats. If there were more passengers on this car, finding two guys pantsing the same dead dude would’ve been weird. Was curious about the pin sized hole in the guy’s pants in the last episode so I’m glad they finally addressed it. Plus, I got another rabbit hole to fall into with Japanese: Waseda Shorthand.

Kinda wish that Iori could have let them know there could potentially be a third person on the train. Seemed a bit obvious at the time given she didn’t follow protocol and the fact there were 3 guys he took out back then. Then again, with Iori’s track record on the previous episode alone, I’m sure he has a lot of enemies wanting revenge. Unfortunately for them, he hasn’t lost his edge. I do wonder if they made the switch with the real vendor after they had Iori pick up the phone.

The old man talking to Furuya has to be head of pub sec or something. I don’t think he could be Karasuma but we’ll see. DetCo is known to have red herrings here and there, so I’ll keep being skeptical.

On another note, Iori getting saved by a deck of cards reminded me of Carter getting saved by a wad of cash in Rush Hour.

Next Episode is…

Hopefully we get the next canon case next month. Until then it’s back to the Detective Boys.

As for the Conan Hint: Forks* – フォーク

Until next time 👋

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