The Unfriendly Girls Band

Chronology
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Episode 836-837 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Unfriendly Girls Band
Japanese title:	仲の悪いガールズバンド (Naka no Warui Gāruzu Bando?)
Original airdate:	October 15, 2016 (Part 1) October 22, 2016 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	6.6% 6.9%
Manga case:	#270
Season:	26
Manga source:	Volume 88: File 10 (936) ~ Volume 89: File 1 (938)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Masumi Sera Rei Furuya Azusa Enomoto Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Shuichi Akai Scotch
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa Masumi Sera Rei Furuya
Next Conan's Hint:	Security Camera (Part 1) Knit Hat (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Organizer:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Storyboard:	Umesaburo Sagawa
Episode director:	836: Nobuharu Kamanaka 837: Koichiro Kuroda
Animation director:	836: Kenichi Otomo 837: Michitaka Yamamoto, Juri Saito
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Tohru Furuya as Tooru Amuro Noriko HIdaka as Masumi Sera Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Mikiko Enomoto as Azusa Enomoto Hikaru Midorikawa as Scotch Shuichi Ikeda as Shuichi Akai Takeharu Onishi as Man Hiroyuki Yokoo as Man Yurie Mikami as Receptionist Haruka Jinya as Musician Toshimitsu Oda as Bandman Makoto Kaneko as Bandman Mami as Hagie Yamaji Junko Minagawa as Someka Kibune Reiko Takagi as Tadako Fuekawa Miki Itō as Rumi Kogure
Music
Opening song:	Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru
Closing song:	SAWAGE☆LIFE

The Unfriendly Girls Band (仲の悪いガールズバンド ,Naka no Warui Gāruzu Bando) is the 836th and 837th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Characters introduced

Scotch
	Deceased Japanese PSB spy Infiltrated the Black Organization

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Masumi Sera Rei Furuya Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Azusa Enomoto Shuichi Akai (flashback/background)

Case

Situation

Part 1

After watching a Girls Band movie, Sonoko goes to the Poirot Cafe to try to convince Ran and Masumi to create a band with her. With Sonoko on drums, Ran on keyboard, Masumi on bass and Azusa on guitar, she expects them to be able to perform at the Beika festival at the end of the year. However when asked to perform by several men in the cafe, she fails miserably, only to be saved by Rei who plays really well. Rei is then invited to join in place of Azusa and they all head to a sound studio to record. Throughout several conversations, Masumi mentions that she was taught how to play the bass by a friend of her oldest brother. Rei accidentally let slip that he knew that the friend was a guy, despite the fact that he and Masumi were not supposed to have met until today.

Their conversation is interrupted by a group of people sitting close by. Someka Kibune was yelling at her fellow band mates about them being out of practice despite them having a show coming up in a week, which is a memorial show in honor of Akane Shuto. Hagie Yamaji decides to go into the studio room to nap for 10 minutes as a break before they continue to practice. During this time, Rei asks who do the vocals and they come to the conclusion that none of them can sing. Masumi asks if Ran could call Shinichi because "he can play the guitar as well, right?", but Ran points out that he is tone deaf but can play the violin. Its then that they hear a scream and run down to find Hagie sitting at her drum set, dead from strangulation, surrounded by her band mates. They go to the security office to watch the camera footage and discover that the screen was blocked out by another member's cellphone on a selfie stick.

The police arrive and Megure inquires who set up the selfie stick. Tadako Fuekawa had set up the stick, but only on instructions from the others. The set up was taking too long so Hagie had ordered them to leave it where it was. Takagi points out that one side of the room is mirrored and that the curtain over it was pulled. However the band mates point out that the curtain was also Hagie's doing. They decide to review the security tapes again while getting the alibis of the suspects. All three suspects had entered the room. Tadako was first, she entered the room to get her sewing kit to fix Someka's jacket. To do so, she sat on a stool right at the edge where the cellphone covered the footage. She tried to wake Hagie by calling out to her, but she got no response. Next was Someka, who was trying to restring her guitar. She then walked off camera to tune her guitar next to the Hagie in order to wake her up to resume practice, but was unsuccessful. The final person to enter the room was Rumi, She moved the keyboards away from where Hagie was sleeping and played the keyboards to change the notes. Even though she sang, Hagie never woke up. All three of the suspects were searched and the weapon is no where to be found.

Murder
	Location: Band Victim: Hagie Yamaji Age: 25 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Someka Kibune, Tadako Fuekawa and Rumi Kogure While they are going to resume their rehearsal, the other members tried to wake Hagie up, but she doesn't respond, as she was strangled to death.

Masumi sees a guitar case and a memory is sparked. She remembers seeing her brother, Shuichi Akai, on a train platform 4 years ago with a friend. They were both carrying guitar cases. She had followed them until Shuichi noticed. He then left to buy her a ticket and send her home. During that time, the friend pulled out his guitar and taught Masumi a few notes. She notes that even though he was carrying a soft case, it remained standing after the guitar was removed. Conan thinks to himself that it may have had a sniper rifle inside. A third person had walked up to them with a hat down over his face and refereed to the friend as "Scotch". When Masumi says that Rei looks like the person who was wearing the hat, he dodges the question.

Part 2

The three suspects point out that they had altercations with members of other bands, and that it is possible that one of them may have been the killer.

Conan asks to see the video recorded by the cellphone from before the murder. It had been filming vertically because it was stylish and so it would not show their legs. Rei and Masumi lean in to get a better look, and they realize how the trick was done.

People

Someka Kibune
	25 years old Guitarist

Tadako Fuekawa
	24 years old Bass guitarist Vocalist

Rumi Kogure
	24 years old Keyboardist

Hagie Yamaji
	Victim (strangled) 25 years old Drummer Bandleader

Akane Shuto
	Deceased (suicide or traffic accident?) Vocalist

Man 1
	Guitarist

Man 2
	Guitarist

Man 3
	Guitarist

Man 4
	Guitarist

Clerk
	Sound Studio Hakobune clerk

Man 5
	Sound Studio Hakobune client Musician

Man 6
	Sound Studio Hakobune client Musician

Resolution

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The police have already checked all of the items that resemble string and have tested for luminol. However Conan, Amuro, and Masumi reveal that the weapon has already left the studio. The police carried it out because it was one of the victims belongings. The murderer had taken her knit hat and unraveled it and used it as the murder weapon and then knitted it back together using the drumsticks. Amuro reveals that the culprit is Rumi Kogure. The other two suspects had gone into the room to do things that couldn't have been planned. Where as Rumi was supposedly playing her keyboard with her back to the camera where no one could see what she was doing. She had secretly been knitting the hat back together. With the drums fixed in place, the placement of the selfie stick camera would be dependent on the position of the keyboard. Rumi just had to move the keyboard further away from the drums so that the others would have moved the selfie stick to in front of the cctv camera. She has also spiked the victims water bottle with sleeping pills to ensure that she was asleep.

The motive was that the victim had been telling Akane to drink lots of wine and scream into a pillow to get her voice back, but in actuality it was making her voice worse. Then she told Akane that her voice was withering and that she shouldn't even show up to the next gig. Later Akane committed suicide by jumping in front of a car. However it seems that was all a misconception. Akane had run out into the road to save a small child who was crossing the road to get his ball. The victim had believed that she was responsible for Akane's death, not because of her harsh words about her voice, but because she had made a deal with her not to speak until her voice had gotten better. This was why Akane ran into the road rather then shouting, because it would hurt her voice.

Accident
	Location: Highway Intersection Victim: Akane Shuto Cause of death: Hit by a car

After the case, Masumi revealed to Ran and Sonoko that the reason she became a detective was because of her oldest brother Shuichi, who is an FBI agent. Sonoko inquires if the person who taught Masumi the base was also from the FBI, but Masumi denies it. Amuro inwardly comments that the man was a member of the Metro Police Department Public Security Bureau and that Shuichi was the one who killed him.

Murder (Past)
	Victim: Scotch Cause of death: Gunshot wound Culprit: Shuichi Akai? Scotch was an undercover Public Security Bureau agent, who Rei says was killed by Shuichi Akai.

Manga to anime changes

• The anime skips a few lines of dialogue about Akane's death seen in the panel to the right and jumps to Inspector Megure saying they need to examine the CCTV footage.

Trivia

• The Girls Band Movie that Sonoko refers to at the beginning of episode 836 seems to be a reference to the anime "K-On!"
• She references that the drummer of the band looks like her (Ritsu Tainaka), the basist had long black hair like Ran (Mio Akiyama), and there was a guitarist named "Azusa" (Azusa Nakano).

See also

• Season 26