Karaoke Box Murder Case

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Episode 42 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Karaoke Box Murder Case
Japanese title:	カラオケボックス殺人事件 (Karaoke Bokkusu Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	December 16, 1996 October 22, 2011 (Remastered version)
Broadcast rating:	17.5%
Manga case:	#13
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 5: Files 6-9 (045-048)
English version
English title:	Karaoke Killing
Dubbed episode:	Episode 43
English airdate:	August 4, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Hiroshi Agasa
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo (via Conan on intercom)
Next Conan's Hint:	Red nose reindeer Riceball (Remastered version)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Toshiki Inoue
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	Masato Sato
Animation director:	Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Police detective, Next Conan's Hint Kenichi Ogata as Hiroshi Agasa Tomoyuki Inoue as Tatsuya Kimura Masahiro Kobayashi as Katsumi Yamada Akiko Matsukuma as Mieko Shibazaki Ginzo Matsuo as Go Sumii Urara Takano as Mari Terahara
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo (voice) Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Hiroshi Agasa

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

When Sonoko's dad uses his connections, Ran and Sonoko find themselves in a Karaoke Bar having dinner with the hottest band in the land! It seems like a dream come true until the lead singer, Tatsuya Kimura, is poisoned right in front of their eyes. The brash super-star had plenty of enemies (he constantly fought for nothing with Mari, Mieko had her love confession to him rejected, Katsumi was angry at him because he was about to go solo and that put the band's career on hold, Go was in his previous band till he left and he was very rude towards the whole band), but which of them hated him enough to commit murder? It's up to Conan to find out!

Murder
	Location: Karaoke Box Victim: Tatsuya Kimura Age: 21 years old Cause of death: Cyanide poisoning Suspects: Mieko Shibazaki, Katsumi Yamada, Mari Terahara, and Go Sumii

People

Mieko Shibazaki
	20 years old Guitarist

Katsumi Yamada
	21 years old Drummer

Tatsuya Kimura
	Victim (poison) 21 years old Vocalist

Mari Terahara
	23 years old Lex manager

Go Sumii
	28 years old Karaoke Box manager

Resolution

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The killer is Mari Terahara. The potassium cyanide was not contained in the food as initially suspected but on the outer layering of the band's logo jacket. Kimura had the habit of dandily removing his jacket during performances at the predicted poisoned location. The poison in the food was thereby traces of the stuff that was already in the victim's hand. Conan, using Shinichi's voice for the first time while hiding away, indicts Terahara by making her perform the same gestures and daring her to take a bite out of the onigiri. Her unexplained fear of taking the bite confirms her guilt.

Mari killed Kimura, her ex-boyfriend, because he turned psychologically abusive to her after she had a nose job and had her freckles removed and he broke up with her. It turns out that not only he liked her better when she was a sweet girl next door, but that he was psychologically and emotionally broken after finding out that Mari had specifically gotten plastic surgery to look beautiful for him, which he could never forgive her and himself - he would've never asked her to change. Kimura decided to punish both of them by verbally abusing her, while he secretly wrote a love song for Mari which would have been his first solo single; however, his taunting went so far that Mari was completely embittered, her former love for him became seething hate, and then decided to have revenge by killing him. Sumii, the only person whom Kimura explained his reasons to, proves this as he shows a photo of the old band (including a pre-surgery Mari with a big nose and freckles); Kimura had written the lyrics of his new song on the back of the photo. After hearing all of that, Mari breaks down screaming and crying out to Kimura, while Mieko realizing that when Kimura turned down her love confession, he did it because Mari was his only love.

Manga to anime changes

• This episode takes place right after Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case, with Ran bringing up Sonoko's deduction of the case. Conan is worried as his cover might be blown, only for Sonoko to accept the credit for solving the murder and claiming that Kogoro and Shinichi don't measure up to her (with the manga showing both detectives in the background). The scene as a whole was used at the end of the Mountain Villa Bandaged Murder Case episode.
  • In the anime version, Sonoko brings up Tatsuya when Ran asks if she has a guy in her life, whereas the manga version has Ran asking about Masaru Ohta (from the Mountain Villa Case), only for Sonoko to express disinterest for him as she is interested in Tatsuya.
• In the manga, Tatsuya was depicted as somewhat drunk up until his death. Immediately before his death, he coughed up blood before collapsing on to the floor.
• The anime leaves out the main theory of the crime, which is that Tatsuya committed suicide (based originally on the poison being found in the victims car and later supported by other evidence). This is what the police investigation concluded happened and what Inspector Megure was going to release as the cause of death at a press conference before receiving word of Shinichi Kudo's phone call.
• The manga reveals that Tatsuya was rude to his band because the record company forced him to pursue a solo career, so he didn't want them to miss him after he left.
• The anime ends with Ran receiving her present, whereas the manga ends with her trying to find Shinichi (while Conan is shown, nervously hiding).

Translation changes

Anime

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Mieko Shibazaki - Amber Ling
• Katsumi Yamada - Sledge
• Tatsuya Kimura - Justin Moon
• Mari Terahara - Mazy Mitchel
• Go Sumii - Georgie

Remastered version

On October 22, 2011, a remastered version of the case was aired.

Trivia

• Despite his face not being shown on-screen, this marks the first time Detective Takagi is listed in the ending credits. He's the inspector that brings the box of Tatsuya's items to Inspector Megure.
• This is the first murder that takes place in a Karaoke Bar or Box.
• Interesting note: Apparently, Conan was not in the police car with Ran or Sonoko, and most likely, in none of the cars, so they apparently left him at the crime scene... alone
• The first episode that Conan solves a case through an intercom.
• In Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case, Conan thought to himself that "I asked the Inspector not to release my 'real name'", talking about this case.
• This is the first time that Conan used an intercom to solve a case.
• This is the first time that Shinichi Kudo appeared to be at the crime scene, when Conan was using Shinichi's voice and the intercom to solve the case.
• Conan was on the roof, when he was speaking in Shinichi's voice with the intercom to solve the case.
• This is the first known case that Shinichi Kudo told the police to keep his involvement with the case a secret, and to not release his name.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart
2	ジングルベル	Jinguru Beru	Jingle Bells
3	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart
4	赤鼻のトナカイ	Akahana no Tonakai	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
5	星の愛 （歌：速見清司）	Hoshi no Ai (Uta: Hayami Seiji)	Star Love (Sung By: Seiji Hayami)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	ブラディービーナス （歌：速水清司）	Buradii Biinasu (Uta: Hayami Seiji)	Bloody Venus (Sung By: Seiji Hayami)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
9	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	怪人包帯男２	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 2	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	赤鼻のトナカイ	Akahana no Tonakai	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
12	ブラディーヴィーナス （歌：小坂水澄）	Buradii Biinasu (Uta: Kosaka Misumi)	Bloody Venus (Sung By: Misumi Kosaka)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
13	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
14	ひらめき	Hirameki	Flash	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	沈む夕陽 （哀愁ver.）	Shizumu Yūhi (Aishū ver.)	Depressing Sunset (Sorrow ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
16	それいけコナン （哀愁ヴァージョン）	Soreike Konan (Aishū Vājon)	Let's Go Conan (Sorrow ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
17	迷宮のラヴァーズ	Meikyū no Lovers	Lovers' Labyrinth	Meikyū no Lovers
18	蘭のテーマ （涙ver.）	Ran no Tēma (Namida ver.)	Ran's Theme (Tearful ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
19	きよしこの夜	Kiyoshiko no Yoru	Silent Night

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	الطائر الجريح	The Wounded Bird
Basque	Karaokeko hilketa	Murder in the Karaoke Box
Catalan (Catalonia dub)	L'assassinat del karaoke	Karaoke box murder
Catalan (Valencian dub)	L'assassinat del karaoke	Karaoke box murder
French	Meurtre au karaoké	Murder in the Karaoke Box
Galician	Asasinato nunha cabina de karaoke	Murder in a Karaoke Box
German	Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod	Perform the Song of Death for Me
Italian	La grande festa	The Big Party
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Asesinato en el karaoke	Murder in the Karaoke Box
Spanish (American dub)	Asesinato en el karaoke	Murder in the Karaoke Box
Vietnamese	Vụ án trong phòng Karaoke	The Karaoke Box Case

See also

• Season 2