The next day, the police reveal the identity of the man who created the note, Hades Sabara. Kogoro and Ran decode the riddle "My portion is like a chilled boiled egg like a corpse" which refers to City Hall. There, they find many dolls with "Mazarin Stone" written on their shirts where when beheaded, reveals the letter "T". The riddle "I finished up with a whole pickle" refers to 30 St Mary Axe where they found scratched up pens labeled as Dancing Men reveal the letter "N". At Big Ben, Ran and Kogoro find an arrow pointing to a drain where The Valley of Fear of fear is inscribed. They deduce from the story that something had been sunk in the river, and find a drain cover with the letter "A". Apollo leads the two to the next riddle, "Now I remember to ask a cake to celebrate in advance" referring to St. Bride's Church where they find letters entitled, "A Scandal in Bohemia". Soaking the letter in water reveals the letter "S".
Spoilers ahead for viewers who have watched the Detective Conan Season 34 finale. After 34 seasons and 1,297 episodes, it would be easy to assume that Gosho Aoyama’s legendary mystery anime has nothing left to prove. And yet the Season 34 finale, which aired on September 5, 2026, is another reminder of why Detective Conan remains one of Japan’s most enduring crime, suspense, comedy, adventure, and mystery series. The finale does not reinvent the formula; instead, it sharpens the pleasures that have kept fans following Conan Edogawa for decades: a clever case, emotional restraint, character history, and the constant sense that the truth is always one deduction away.
Season 34 opened with a telling choice: before he became Conan, Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mori’s trip to the aquarium was interrupted by murder. That first episode immediately brought the season back to the original wound of the series: Shinichi is still a teenager trapped in a child’s body after being poisoned by a sinister organization, and every case he solves as Conan carries the weight of a life he is unable to fully reclaim. The finale works because it understands that Detective Conan is not only about identifying culprits. It is about the tragedy of a brilliant detective forced to live beside the people he loves while hiding the most important truth of all.
What worked best in the Season 34 finale was its confidence. Detective Conan finales often have to satisfy two audiences at once: viewers who come for the weekly mystery structure and long-term fans invested in the bigger mythology surrounding the Black Organization, Ai Haibara, Shinichi’s condition, and Ran’s slow emotional reckoning. This finale balanced those expectations by treating the case as both a puzzle and a character test. The deductions mattered, but the silences mattered too. Conan’s small hesitations, Ran’s sensitivity, and the lingering presence of Shinichi in every decision gave the episode a bittersweet emotional charge.