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)
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 Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi Professor Agasa
Case solved by:	Shinichi Kudo (via Conan on intercom)
Next Conan's Hint:	The Night Baron
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 Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Police detective, Next Conan's Hint Kenichi Ogata as Professor 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 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 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, 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: 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 manager. The potassium cyanide was not contained in the food as initially suspected but on the outer layering of the band's logo jacket. Kimura always dandily removes 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 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 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

• 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. The scene as a whole was used at the end of the Mountain Villa Bandaged Murder Case episode.
• 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.

Dub changes

• 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.

See also

• Season 2