Karaoke Box Murder Case

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Episode 42 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Karaoke Box Murder Case
Original airdate:	December 16, 1996
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 5: File 6~9
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo (Conan using his Voice-Changing Bowtie over an intercom)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Toshiki Inoue
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	Masato Sato
Animation director:	Akio Kawamura

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Shinichi Kudo (voice) Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Professor 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 lunch with the hottest bad 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, 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 Cause of death: Poisoned 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 manager.

In the anime, Mari killed Kimura because he turned psychologically abusive to her after she had a nose job. It turns out that not only he liked her better when she was just a sweet girl next door, but that he was psychologically broken after finding out that Mari had specifically gotten plastic surgery to please him, which he could never forgive her and himself for.

Kimura decided to punish both of them by abusing her, while he secretly wrote a love song for Mari which would have been his first single; however, his taunting went so far that Mari was completely embittered, and then decided to have revenge by killing him.

Manga to anime changes

• The manga reveals that Tatsuya was rude to his band, because 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). The scene as it appeared in the anime was used for the ending of the Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case.

See also

• Season 2