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

This Week’s Translation

大阪から来た平次兄ちゃんと和葉姉ちゃんと一緒に、ボクと蘭姉ちゃん、小五郎のおじさんと鷲雄山を登ってたんだ! 蘭姉ちゃんは2人を絶景スポットに連れて行きたいみたい…。

でも途中で雨になって、お寺で雨宿りさせてもらうことに。 お寺には住職さんと3人のお坊さんがいて、 なんだか気になることが…。

そしたらお坊さんから山に伝わる魔物・紅蓮髑髏の話を聞いたんだ。 そのあと小五郎のおじさんが突然 姿を消して、そこでボクたちが見たのは…!?

「鷲雄山の紅蓮髑髏(前編)」このあとすぐ!

— 江戸川コナン (@conan_file) October 11, 2025

We were climbing Mt. Washio with Heiji and Kazuha who came from Kyoto, Kogoro, Ran, and myself. Looks like Ran plans to take the two of them to see a romantic view.

But on the way, we got caught in the rain and ended up staying at a temple. At the temple, there was a head priest and three monks, but something’s off…

And then one of the monks began to tell the chilling tale of the Crimson Skeleton. Right after that, Kogoro went missing and we saw bursts of flames climbing the stairs!

“The Crimson Skeleton of Mt. Washio (Part One)” coming up next!

Today’s Episode

被害者　ー　Victim

かんてつ（?）昇楽寺僧侶
Kantetsu (?) Shogakuji Temple Monk

容疑者　ー　Suspects

哲進　和尚　（70）昇楽寺住職
Priest Tetsushin (70) Shogakuji Temple Head Priest

賢哲　（28）昇楽寺僧侶
Kentetsu (28) Shogakuji Temple Monk

頓哲　（31）昇楽寺僧侶
Tontetsu (31) Shogakuji Temple Monk

Ran’s playing matchmaker, Kogoro is tied up somewhere and someone killed a monk.

Surprised that Ran hasn’t told Kazuha that she’s dating Shinichi until now.

They have had many canon interactions with each other. How long has it been since the London case and the Kyoto case anyway… 2011 and 2019?!

The rate things are going, Kazuha and Heiji are not getting together any time soon (;^ω^). How many times have we been in a situation where Heiji is trying to set up something to one-up Shinichi’s “Big Ben Confession” to Ran. These two are the next definition of “Just go out already” after Ran and Shinichi. Hopefully Kazuha’s wingwoman Ran can help.

On another note, it’s a good thing that Momiji wasn’t tagging along. I do like that Ran thought climbing a mountain would stop her from being a third wheel. If she ended up getting tired, I’m sure Iori wouldn’t mind packing her up the trail. Thankfully, Karuta calls.

Love that the monks all have iron（鉄・てつ・tetsu）/sage（哲・てつ・tetsu） in their names. Wonder if they have some other wordplay going on there.

Speaking of names, rare for them not to have a character card for the victim.

Speaking of being forgetful of a character, even the monks went 5 whole days and didn’t think to report that Kantetsu has gone missing to the police. This week’s conan hint was bucket, so I’m guessing the bucket was placed there to hide the evidence of oil or something on the stairs.

The killer seems to have used the same trick to kill that renowned statue researcher. Probably was killed because he noticed something was off about the statue. Considering all those statues where Kogoro was tied up, I’m guessing someone is making a quick buck on selling the shrine’s stuff. And that bucket getting knocked over… was it an accident or intentional? I think we have the culprit.

Next Episode is…

It seems as though we have the culprit in our sights but more importantly… how will matchmaker Ran get these two together and who is going to save Kogoro?

I do fear that 2026 (The 30th anniversary for the anime) isn’t going to have as many canon cases as we got this year. We seem to be in the back half of volume 105. Volume 106 released in 2024 while 107 released this year in April 😓.

As for the Conan Hint: Sunset – 夕焼け

Until next time 👋

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