Best Angle

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Chapter 1093
Information
Title:	Best Angle
Japanese title:	映え (Bae)
Original release:	April 27th, 2022
Shōnen Sunday issue:	#22-23/2022
Volume:	103
Pages:	16
Anime adaptation:	Episode 1131: The Suspected Infidelity of the Triple Collab (Part 2)

Best Angle (映え ,Bae) is the 1093rd chapter of the manga of Detective Conan. It was written by Gosho Aoyama, drawn by him and his assistants and first released in Shōnen Sunday #22-23/2022 on April 27, 2022 and has been published as part of Volume 103 on April 12, 2023.

Characters

Introduced

Forensics Officer
	Tokyo MPD forensics officer

Kenya Shibami
	Deceased (hit and run) Former "The Knight Hearts" member Aijima's boyfriend

Woman
	"The Knight Hearts" fan

Featured

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Hiroshi Agasa Kazunobu Chiba Ninzaburo Shiratori Yumi Miyamoto Shukichi Haneda Naeko Miike Sumiko Kobayashi Tokumi Nagasu (flashback) Mao Toya Sumika Kokonoe Yasuko Aijima Waitress C Band member A Band member B Band member C Band member D

Settings

Featured

• Tokyo Metropolis
  • Unknown ward
    • Unknown restaurant in Tokyo (flashback)
    • Unknown miscellaneous shops in Tokyo (background)
    • Streets in Tokyo
  • Bunkyo Ward
    • Tohto Dome
  • Beika Ward
    • Beika Town
      • Danny's

Plot

The suspects want to leave, but suddenly Yumi, Naeko and Kobayashi start setting up a table and chairs. Yumi explains that she will now reveal the truth behind the poisoning of Tokumi Nagasu. The women were supposed to show Shiratori or Chiba the conclusions Conan sent them on their cell phones, but Yumi wanted to do the deduction show herself. Naeko asks the suspects to sit at the table to the right of the crime scene as it will help them unmask the culprit. Yasuko Aijima sits in the left-hand chair, Sumika Kokonoe sits in the middle chair and Mao Toya sits in the right-hand chair. Yumi then has a waitress bring a new plate of maritozzi, but the suspects do not want to taste it as they still feel uneasy about the murder. Without further ado, Yumi and Naeko help themselves to two of the maritozzi and urge the suspects to do so. Mao and Sumika also decide to grab one each, but only Yasuko still has not touched a single maritozzo. Yumi says that this is no wonder, as Yasuko Aijima's hand is covered in poison, because she is the culprit.

The surveillance video showed Tokumi leaning forward in her chair at first. Yasuko had loosened a screw in advance, which made Tokumi think she had broken the chair because she of her weight; afraid of being laughed at, she preferred to sit leaning forward and not putting any weight on the back of the chair. When a cake was brought in for the birthday party and the lights were turned off, Tokumi swapped her chair with the left chair from the neighboring table on the right. In order not to make any noise when she stood up, she grabbed the underside of the chair and stood up so that the chair remained pressed against her buttocks. Yasuko placed the poison exactly in that spot under the chair predicting Tokumi's actions. Yasuko is now sitting on this very chair, which she also had to touch on the underside when she sat down, which is why she is not taking a maritozzo. As a waitress at the restaurant, it was easy for her to find out about the birthday surprise party and reserve the table next to the crime scene. In addition, Yasuko used the friends' selfie ritual to her advantage: since Tokumi always positioned herself on the right-hand side of the selfies since she felt more photogenic that way, Yasuko, as the photographer, was able to position the group so that Tokumi was closest to the right-hand chair and was thus unconsciously guided to that chair.

Yumi says that Yasuko must have noticed immediately that she is now sitting on Tokumi's poisoned chair, because the chair is wobbly and the underside of the seat is strangely sticky. But she could not say anything about it, otherwise she would have been found out. However, she is not actually sitting on the poisoned chair, as it is an important piece of evidence and it was already turned in to forensics. Yumi and the forensics team already swapped it for another chair; there is only butter on the underside of the seat, so Yasuko was never in danger of poisoning herself during the reenactment. In the meantime, forensics have been able to detect the poison on the real chair. Furthermore, forensics were able to watch previous footage from the security cameras showing Yasuko having tampered with the chair.

Mao and Sumika are furious, as one of them could have been poisoned in Yasuko's murder plan and died instead. But Yasuko says she does not care, as she blames Mao and Sumika as well as Tokumi for the death of Kenya Shibami, the fifth member of the band The Knight Hearts. He had to leave the band after the celebrity press got hold of a photo of Kenya with his girlfriend, as the band cultivated the image that all members were single. Kenya then tried his hand as a solo artist, but was unsuccessful. He was then killed in a car accident while walking drunk across a street. Yasuko was his girlfriend at the time and had tracked down the woman who had taken the photo. When Yasuko showed her the photo of the five band members together with the four friends, the woman revealed that Tokumi had approached her on the street because of her Kenya fan jacket and had told her where Kenya's favorite bar was. Kenya always went there with Yasuko, and that was where the woman took the photo of Yasuko and Kenya. Mao and Sumika had also been there when Tokumi told the woman about the local restaurant, but they had kept quiet and did not warn Yasuko of what Tokumi said. Yasuko only wishes she could travel back to the time when The Knight Hearts were still an indie band and the four friends were hoping for a big breakthrough, to warn them that a big breakthrough can sometimes break friendships and hearts.

On the drive home, Conan explains to the other detective boys what actually happend when the three pairs ran into each other. Yumi, Naeko and Kobayashi had asked their respective partners not to make any plans for the coming Saturday. Shukichi, Chiba and Shiratori then discovered heart markings in their girlfriends' calendars and assumed that a heartfelt surprise would be waiting for them that day. Therefore, the three men wanted to come up with a gift; to do this, Shiratori asked fellow officer Yumi for help in choosing one, and Yumi was knowledgeable about expensive fashion items. Shukichi asked Yumi's colleague Naeko, whom he had met during the case of Yumi's kidnapping, for help. Chiba asked Kobayashi, whom he knows as an alumni of Teitan Elementary School, for help. As thanks for the advice, the men then invited the women to dinner, where they all happened to go to the same restaurant and then met at the murder case. So there was no triple cheating, much to Haibara's disappointment. The surprise next Saturday is also in fact not what the men thought it was: the women had bought tickets for themselves and their respective partners for the big The Knight Hearts concert at the Tohto Dome. At the end, the three men attend the concert with their girlfriends. While the girls cheer on the band, Shukichi, who is standing behind with Chiba and Shiratori, makes a remark that he is already a knight (騎士 ,kishi) (read the same in Japanese as shogi player (棋士 ,kishi)), which makes Chiba comment that it is well said from the meijin.

Continuity

Referencing

• Crossover and A New Motivation (Manga: 1091) : Various scenes are referenced, including circumstances leading to the victim's death.

Sherry's Soliloquy

Sherry's soliloquy for File 1093.

Sherry's Soliloquy (シェリーのひとりごと ,Sherī no Hitorigoto) is a collection of comments Gosho Aoyama has Ai Haibara say on the official Detective Conan website, Conan News Agency (こなん通信社 Konan Tsūshin-sha) in the course of every new chapter's publication.

Soliloquy of File 1093:
フン・・・だと思ったわよ・・・
Hmm... that’s what I thought...
(April 29, 2022)

Animal Crossing Promotional Hints

With every new chapter, players can receive these hints written by Gosho Aoyama in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: New Horizons by interacting with four characters named Spade (スペード), Heart (ハート), Diamond (ダイヤ), and Clover (クローバ), who appear in Gosho's Dream Town.

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May 2nd, 2022:
Spade: It's finally time for the Hagi episode of WPS -->
Heart: In the manga, I forgot to draw the wing of the RX7, so -->
Diamond: The anime version is accurate (laughs)
Clover: Hagi! Let's be flashy 'bout it! Full speed ahead!

May 9th, 2022:
Spade: The anime WPS was great and fun
Heart: The voice acting felt so young
Diamond: That last scene with the sunset is so cool
Clover: You're too fast, Hagi

May 16th, 2022:
Spade: Spy x Family is very fun ->
Heart: Thought that Yoru's VA was Sawako's VA->
Diamond: But it simply was that it was another VA->
Clover: Who sounded very similar (laughs)

May 23rd, 2022:
Spade: I enjoyed USJ (Universal Studios Japan)♪ (^_^)
Heart: The puzzles were hard but fun!
Diamond: There were two Detective Sato, but -->
Clover: Both were beautiful and pretty!

(Translation by Spimer)

Adaptations

The Suspected Infidelity of the Triple Collab (episodes 1130-1131)

• Several scenes and dialogues are added in anime version:

• Haibara glaring at Conan when he intercepted her from investigating possible infidelity.
• Chiba thanking Conan for summarizing the victim and suspects' information.
• Naeko, after saying that Conan is just like a police officer, wonder if she should say a detective, with Chiba expression changed as she said that.
• When Yasuko mentioned that Sumiko cheated with another band, Yumi and Naeko immediately look at Chiba and Shiratori.
• Detective Boys singing "Bokura no Yume sa Kamen Yaiba", and later sleeping.
• Conan sneezing after Kobayashi, Yumi, and Naeko talked about their ace-in-the-hold that they are all familiar with, followed by Haibara hoping the case can be solved soon so that she could know how the three-couple drama ends.

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• The photograph of Kenya and Yasuko that made Kenya quit the band.

• In the manga, after Conan received the camera footage from Yumi, he first reviewed on how Nagasu initially sat down and then ate french fries. This part is not adapted into anime.

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• In the manga, Yasuko mentioned that Mao and Sumika were there when Tokumi met Kenya's fan. Their appearance in that flashback is only shown in anime version.

See also

• Manga
• Volume 101-110
• Detective Conan

References

1. Summary translated from the German version as of August 6, 2024.