Toshimi Ebihara (Case Closed)

Toshimi Ebihara (Takako Fuji) was a villainess from "And Then There Were No Mermaids", episodes 9.09, 9.10, and 9.11 of Case Closed (airdates January 29, February 5 and 12, 2001, manga volume 28: Files 6-10). She lived on the island known as "The Isle of Mermaids" and was the daughter of the town's fishing union leader.
Toshimi was also an old college friend of Saori Kadowaki, who had disappeared after sending a letter to Heiji Hattori asking for help stopping a mermaid from killing her. While talking to another one of Saori's friends, Kimie Shimabukuro, Toshimi approached them and scolded Kimie for not believing in the existence of mermaids on the isle, being stopped from telling more of the town's legends by her and Kimie's friend Rokuro Kadowaki. As for Saori's disappearance, Toshimi agreed with her friends that Saori's letter was inspired by her losing the Dugong Arrow she got in the town's annual festival the previous year and that she'd run off after having an argument with her father, Benzo.
Later on, during the island's annual Dugong Arrow festival, Toshimi disappeared despite her being one of the few selected to get an arrow and was later found hanging from the nearby waterfalls. While her death was initially believed to be either a suicide or an accident, the truth was ultimately determined by Conan Edogawa: Toshimi had been murdered by Kimie, who had also killed Saori and Naoko Kuroe (another friend of hers, Saori's, Toshimi's, and Rokuro's) and used the former's body to stage her own death. For a motive, Kimie (who had been posing as her great-grandmother, the isle's "Elder") revealed that she'd taken on the role from her mother--who had died in a fire that broke out in their shrine's warehouse three years prior. That year, Toshimi (along with Saori and Naoko) were angry at not getting selected to receive a Dugong Arrow and decided to set the warehouse on fire with Kimie's mother in it; also doing so as a "test" of her rumored immortality.
Kimie learned the truth behind her mother's death when Saori accidentally revealed her involvement in the fire to her, and after killing Saori and hiding her body, Kimie plotted to kill her other friends in revenge. Toshimi was Kimie's first victim after Saori, luring her to the waterfalls before knocking her out and sending her adrift in a plastic raft. Having placed a rope and wooden post around her neck, Toshimi was hung to death when the raft went down the falls and the wooden post got caught on a branch.
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Saori Kadowaki Toshimi Ebihara Naoko Kuroe.png|Toshimi (along with Saori and Naoko) preparing to kill Kimie's mother
Toshimi Ebihara corpse.png|Toshimi's deceased body
Category:2000s
Category:Anime Villainess
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Corpse
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Knocked Out
Category:Manga Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Burning Alive
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Woman Kills Villainess
Category:Fate: Deceased
Category:Demise: Hung