The BEST episodes directed by Taiichiro Yamamoto
#1 - New Assistant Teacher Skeleton Case (Part One)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 3
Conan and his friends, along with assistant homeroom teacher Wakasa, discover a skeleton in the old storage shed at the school. The victim died approximately ten years earlier. Ten years ago, a group of four thieves broke into the home of a wealthy man and fled with 200 million yen worth of gold ingots. That same night, a group of suspicious figures were seen entering Teitan Elementary School. Conan and his friends attempt to crack the code written on the headband found in the skeleton's hand. Conan realizes the class schedule Ayumi found in the storage shed is the key to cracking the code.
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Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 8
Kogoro wins a horse race with the price money being 100 times of the original bet, which turns out to be 1 Million Yen. But he admits that it is a ticket he accidentally picked up. Regardless, they go to the neighbourhood sushi restaurant to celebrate. There they meet Wakita who turns out to be proficient in deductive reasoning. He correctly predicts the horse Kogoro bet on just by listening to their conversation. While introducing himself, Wakita says that he is a detective maniac and that he struggles to stay at one place and is constantly moving. He wanted Kogoro to narrate some cases he had solved. It seems that Wakita has a 'bad' eye, much to the suspicion of Conan as an eligible 'Rum' suspect. Meanwhile, a lady storms into the restaurant shouting that somebody stole her pouch. The pouch is found by the lady on the restaurant bathroom. She says that it was stolen on the train and that the culprit should have an injury to the wrist administered by her as she caught the hand of the thief on the busy train.
#3 - The Tokyo-Style Deduction Show Next Door (Part Two)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 9
Wakita seems to be getting competitive with Kogoro, who avoids going any further into the matter as it seems that the ticket he accidentally picked up was originally hers.
#4 - The Melting Cake!
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 12
When Conan, Kogoro, and Ran go to Cafe Poirot in the morning, they discover the special cakes Amuro Toru put in the mini fridge have melted. It has apparently happened several times before, but the cause is unknown. Later, Mitsuhiko, Genta, and Ayumi arrive at Poirot. Azusa hires a professional to fix the fridge, but it's not broken. Genta reasons the owner of a rival bakery must be destroying the cakes during the night. Conan believes Genta's theory is wrong, but sets up a camera outside the store to film the interior of the shop after closing anyway.
#5 - Kaitou Kid and the Trick Box (Part One)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 1
Kimika asks Jirokichi to help her open a trick box created by a mid-19th Century tinkerer. Inside the box is Luna Memoria, the world's largest moonstone left to her by her late husband. The instructions to open the box are written on a piece of paper stuck between the pages of one of ten thousand books given to Jirokichi. In order to lure Kaito Kid, Jirokichi puts the trick box containing Luna Memory on display. Conan and friends try to figure out how to open the box, while Kid lurks nearby in disguise...
#6 - Kaitou Kid and the Trick Box (Part Two)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 2
Jirokichi holds an exhibition for a trick box containing Luna Memoria, the world's largest moonstone, on display in order to lure Kaito Kid. Kimika asked Jirokichi to open the trick box left to her by her husband. Conan senses Kid's presence nearby and is on his guard. The group sets to finding the written instructions for opening the box in the ten thousand books donated by Kimika. Later, Kimika recounts a memory of her husband in hopes that it will help them find the book. Conan realizes where the book is and the true contents of the box, but Kid makes his move.
#7 - New Assistant Teacher Skeleton Case (Part Two)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 4
Conan, the Detective Boys, and their assistant homeroom teacher Wakasa discover a ten year old skeleton in the basement of the old school storage shed. They begin attempting to crack the code written on the headband the skeleton was holding in its hand. The class schedule Ayumi found in the storage shed is the key to the code, which is related to a ten year old case in which four thieves stole 200 million yen worth of gold ingots from a wealthy man's home. The skeleton belonged to the boss of the thieves. Conan cracks the code and comes up with a plan to catch the other three thieves who are coming for their shares.
#8 - The Meiji Restoration Mystery Tour (Yamaguchi Arc)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 5
Kogoro receives a letter from a mysterious person named Kurataya Komakichi claiming he wants to give him his family treasure, so he heads to Yamaguchi prefecture with Conan and Ran, but he's mistaken for a robber's accomplice and is arrested. Komakichi is the name of a robber who shot owner of Japanese-style cafe Takarada in the arm and stole millions of yen worth of Keicho gold coins. Kogoro is released after news site reporter Asuka clears up the misunderstanding. Kogoro, Conan, and Ran visit Hagi in their investigation into the case, but someone is trying to kill them.
#9 - The Meiji Restoration Mystery Tour (Hagi Arc)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 6
Mouri Kogoro received a letter from a mysterious person called Kurataya Komakichi saying he wanted to give him his family treasure. So, Ran and Conan decided to accompany him to Yamaguchi. The letter said: "I'll be waiting in front of the large fox at the Yuda hot springs Station at 3 PM" signed Kurataya Komakichi. He suddenly exlcaimed himself that he would be rich and woke up the whole train wagon making Ran and Conan a bit uncomfortable. They later arrived at the Shin-Yamaguchi Station and again, Kogoro exclaimed himself that they arrived in Yamaguchi. Because they had plenty of time before the meeting started, they decided to do sightseeing but Kogoro ran into Natsume Asuka, a Yamaguchi news site reporter at Yamaguchi Shimbun and she gave him her business card. When she asked Kogoro why they were in Yamaguchi, he said that they were only sightseeing not mentionning the mysterious letter from Kurataya Komakichi. She asked them to be their tour guide and evidently, the famous detective accepted because she was a beautiful lady. The trip starts when Asuka brings them to Kozan Park telling them that at the Muromachi Period, Yamaguchi was even more prosperous than Kyoto and that people nicknamed it Nishinokyo or the Kyoto of the west and it was where there was the Rurikoji Five-Story Pagoda, one of the three greatests of Japan along with the ones of Hōryū-ji and of Daigo-ji and that the pagoda lights up at night.Then, they went to Chinryutei, the house of the merchant Abe Family where thinkerers such as Saigō Takamori and Kido Takayoshi held secret meetings regarding the Satchō Alliance.Ran added that the room where the thinkers thought was really tiny and Kogoro said that standing in this room made him feel patriotic. Asuka then asked Mori Kogoro what were his plans for the evening and he responded by saying he was meeting someone named Kuataya Komakichi.
#10 - Mystery of the Michelin Starred Restaurant
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 7
Kogoro, Conan, and Ran arrive at a popular lakeside restaurant. On the table are five settings for dinners that have just been started, but the customers are missing. Later, Conan and friends find chef owner Kuchiishi bleeding from his head. When Kogoro asks about the missing customers, he points towards the back door. A note with the character for "curse" is posted on the door, and five sets of footsteps lead to the lake ten meters past it. Conan feels something is off about the crime scene and closes in on the truth behind the mysterious case...
#11 - A Woman With a White Hand (Part One)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 10
Early in the morning, professional golfer Banno Tengo tells his girlfriend Kurumi he wants to break up, so Kurumi demands 100 million yen in damages. The two of them decide to discuss things that night. That night, while at Wakasa-sensei's apartment, Conan and friends hear loud music coming from the apartment next door. They go to Banno's room to complain, where they discover him and Kurumi on the floor. Banno is only unconscious, but Kurumi is dead. Banno claims he was attacked by a woman with white hands. Conan and his friends saw the same woman, but...
#12 - A Woman With a White Hand (Part Two)
Detective Conan - Season 26 - Episode 11
Professional golfer Banno lives in the apartment next door to Wakasa-sensei's, and his girlfriend Kurumi has been murdered. Banno claims he was attacked by a strange woman, but Conan believes Kurumi was murdered by Banno. Several residents of the apartment saw a strange woman. She was also on the security camera footage of the elevator. The police proceed with the investigation with a crazy fan of Banno's as their suspect. Conan is still unable to solve the trick Banno used to write on his own face, but Ai and Genta's comments bring him closer to the truth...