{"rewrite":{"id":"r_e6743f8cf1eb6156a4fb31c8","clusterId":"c_2528cccbf1fed87bc6be295e","slug":"scriptwriter-toyoto-kogisu-dies-at-69","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Scriptwriter Toyoto Kogisu Dies at 69","summary":"The Writers Guild of Japan announced that screenwriter Toyoto Kogisu died on September 29. He was 69. Kogisu wrote several episodes of the Detective Conan anime between 2000 and 2018, including the 733rd episode, \"The Wedding Reception and the Two Gunshots.\" His work outside anime went to live-action television, with credits on Taiyo ni Hoero!, Hagure Keiji: Junjoha, Sasurai Keiji Ryojou-hen, and Bengoshi Takabayashi Ayuko. The guild announced his death on Monday and did not disclose a cause of death. Kogisu's Detective Conan episodes sit inside a run of more than two decades of the mystery series, which follows the young detective Shinichi Kudo after his body is shrunk. The guild is the organization that confirmed the death, and its notice is the primary record of the date.","whyItMatters":"Kogisu's name is attached to a franchise that credits him across eighteen years of episodes, but the guild notice that carried the news gave no cause of death and no account of his later work.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eBoth accounts of the death trace back to the Writers Guild of Japan, which made the announcement on Monday. Kogisu was 69 at the time of his death on September 29. No cause of death was released.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Detective Conan work brackets roughly eighteen years: his contributions to the anime run from 2000 to 2018. Episode 733, \u0026#34;The Wedding Reception and the Two Gunshots,\u0026#34; is the episode singled out in the coverage, and an image of it circulated with the announcement. The series itself is a long-running mystery anime built around a detective who solves cases in a child\u0026#39;s body.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of his credits are live-action drama: Taiyo ni Hoero!, Hagure Keiji: Junjoha, Sasurai Keiji Ryojou-hen, and Bengoshi Takabayashi Ayuko. Those titles put his television work well outside the anime sphere, and they are the reason the guild, a writers\u0026#39; organization, rather than an animation studio carried the announcement. Coverage of the death did not detail where in his career the anime episodes fell relative to the drama work.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Toyoto Kogisu's Detective Conan credits span 2000 to 2018, years when the anime's episodic writers did the work of keeping a weekly mystery series coherent. The guild confirmed the death without a cause.","twitterPost":"Toyoto Kogisu wrote Detective Conan episodes from 2000 to 2018, the unglamorous middle stretch that keeps a weekly mystery running.","threadsPost":"Toyoto Kogisu's Detective Conan work ran from 2000 to 2018, including episode 733, \"The Wedding Reception and the Two Gunshots.\" That stretch is the part of a long-running mystery series that rarely gets credited by name: the freelance writers holding the weekly schedule together.","newsletterBlurb":"The Writers Guild of Japan announced that screenwriter Toyoto Kogisu died on September 29 at 69. He wrote Detective Conan episodes between 2000 and 2018, including episode 733, and had a parallel career in live-action drama.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-23/scriptwriter-toyoto-kogisu-dies-at-69/.243147\",\"title\":\"Scriptwriter Toyoto Kogisu Dies at 69\"},{\"source\":\"OtakuKart Anime\",\"url\":\"https://otakukart.com/detective-conan-scriptwriter-toyoto-kogisu-dies-at-69-wrote-episodes-for-the-anime-between-2000-and-2018/\",\"title\":\"Detective Conan Scriptwriter Toyoto Kogisu Dies at 69, Wrote Episodes for the Anime Between 2000 and 2018\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5277,"outputTokens":971,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792858030,"createdAt":"2026-10-24T16:01:38.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-24T16:06:05.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-24T16:06:05.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_2528cccbf1fed87bc6be295e","canonicalTitle":"News\nScriptwriter Toyoto Kogisu Dies at 69","representativeArticleId":"a_e57abc247d81c6f1394f1fe4","sourceCount":2,"writtenSourceCount":2,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":false,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[\"Detective Conan\"],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Toyoto Kogisu\"],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"anime\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-23T18:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-24T14:52:09.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-24T16:06:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-23/scriptwriter-toyoto-kogisu-dies-at-69/.243147","title":"News\nScriptwriter Toyoto Kogisu Dies at 69"},{"source":"OtakuKart Anime","url":"https://otakukart.com/detective-conan-scriptwriter-toyoto-kogisu-dies-at-69-wrote-episodes-for-the-anime-between-2000-and-2018/","title":"Detective Conan Scriptwriter Toyoto Kogisu Dies at 69, Wrote Episodes for the Anime Between 2000 and 2018"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":["Detective Conan"],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":["Toyoto Kogisu"],"type":"news","domain":"anime","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["Toyoto Kogisu died on September 29 at the age of 69.","The Writers Guild of Japan announced Toyoto Kogisu's death on Monday and did not disclose a cause of death.","Toyoto Kogisu wrote several episodes of the Detective Conan anime between 2000 and 2018.","Episode 733 of Detective Conan, \"The Wedding Reception and the Two Gunshots,\" is among the episodes scripted by Toyoto Kogisu.","Toyoto Kogisu also wrote scripts for the live-action series Taiyo ni Hoero!, Hagure Keiji: Junjoha, Sasurai Keiji Ryojou-hen, and Bengoshi Takabayashi Ayuko."]}