Detective Conan - Episode 1101

At the beginning of the episode, the president of Tsukuba Corporation, Shunichi Tsukuba, reports during a board meeting that he has been attacked for the second time. He sees no need to involve the police and attributes the assaults to jealousy over his business acumen. The next morning, Conan and his friends find Tsukuba’s lifeless body on the street. A note in his pocket signed "Daikichi the Grim Reaper" suggests that this was actually his third attack.

Inspector Megure takes over the investigation and questions the company’s executives, including Vice President Nogi Gakuto. Tsukuba’s aunt, Machigawa Sadako, arrives at the scene in despair. She reveals that Tsukuba had called her the night before, sounding desperate and unlike himself. This leads the police to consider both suicide and murder as possibilities.

Conan and Kogoro Mori delve deeper into the case. They discover that Tsukuba had searched online for information on distinguishing suicide from murder. They also find that the two earlier attacks Tsukuba claimed to have suffered could not have happened due to logistical inconsistencies, casting doubt on his story.

Conan forms a theory: Tsukuba had planned to kill someone and make it look like self-defense but was instead killed by his intended victim. The note was meant to be placed on that victim. Later, Conan revises his theory, asserting that Tsukuba had planned his own suicide but wanted it to appear as murder to preserve his reputation.

Nogi Gakuto becomes the prime suspect when Conan realizes he knows details from the phone call between Tsukuba and his aunt that were never made public. Nogi confesses, revealing that he wanted to tarnish Tsukuba’s reputation by making their death look like a suicide. His plan was to portray Tsukuba as a "loser" who took his own life, disillusioning Tsukuba’s young admirers.

Ironically, both Tsukuba and Nogi had opposing plans that bizarrely overlapped: Tsukuba wanted his suicide to look like murder, while Nogi wanted his murder to look like suicide. Nogi is arrested, and the episode ends with Conan reflecting on the value of human life, dismissing the actions of both men as foolish.