The Blind Spot in the Karaoke Box (カラオケボックスの死角 ,Karaoke Bokkusu no Shikaku?) is the 507th and 508th episode of Detective Conan anime.
Cast
Gadgets
Case
Situation
Part 1
Eisuke returns to school and Ran and Sonoko take him to karaoke to celebrate his return. Conan notices that there is a strange man following them and presumes he is an FBI agent sent to keep an eye on Eisuke. While there, Eisuke disappears to the bathroom for a suspiciously long time, and returns with a horrified expression. Shortly after the strange man is found dead from repeated beatings to the head with a blunt weapon.
| Murder
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| Location:
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Karaoke Box
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| Victim:
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Tatsumi Moniwa
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| Age:
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46 years old
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| Cause of death:
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Blunt force trauma
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| Suspects:
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Kyota Honma, Konji Arimoto, Kunio Tamai, and Eisuke Hondou
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| Eisuke Hondou is scared by seeing Tatsumi dead in the karoke box. He is the first discoverer and alerts the others.
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Conan suspects Eisuke to be the murderer due to his strange behavior after returning from the bathroom. However, Eisuke explains that the reason he was so horrified was that while he was heading back to their karaoke room, he stumbled into the wrong room and found two men kissing. The other man whom he saw kissing is revealed to be a woman who looks masculine since she is a body builder. The woman gets mad over the mistake, while Arimoto seems more understanding over that someone could mistake her for a man. The police decide to interrogate the four suspects, including Eisuke, for the murder.
Part 2
The police search the rooms of the four suspects for the blunt weapon used to murder Tatsumi Moniwa. The pictures on Moniwa's cameras were developed revealing pictures of Sonoko. Conan realizes that the man is not an FBI but a stalker who was targeting Sonoko.
People
Resolution
Upon investigation, Conan realizes who the murderer is; He tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her voice to reveal the culprit to be
Kyota Honma. Conan reveals that Honma used a sock stuffed with coins to create a Blackjack. After murdering Moniwa, Honma used the coins to buy cartons of cigarettes from a vending machine. As evidence, Conan reveals that Honma's shoes have become tighter after the murder due to the fact he is now wearing two pairs of socks. He tells the police the blood sample from the sock or coins in the vending machine will convict Honma of murder. Moreover the victim was no stranger to him. The victim's given name could as well be a woman's name, but Homna said that he could only have ran into the victim in the men's restroom without checking the gender. Honma confesses and reveals that Moniwa kidnapped his four year old son and murdered him but was released from the authorities due to the lack of evidence and fueled by hatred, committed the murder. Homna guessed that Moniwa was likely planning to kidnap Sonoko judging from those photos he had been taking. While walking home, Eisuke asks Conan to contact Shinichi so he could ask permission to take Ran with him to America. Conan reveals his identity as Shinichi and denies Eisuke's request. Eisuke admits that he knew Conan was Shinichi since the beginning and asks him to take care of Ran while he goes to America to pursue his career in the CIA.
Trivia
- Ran, Sonoko, and Conan are seen at the karaoke box singing opening 20. As usual, Conan's hilariously awful singing made Ran and Sonoko speechless.
- In this case, Eisuke reveals that he does not like sweet or spicy food.
- In Clash of Red and Black, it was confirmed that Conan had Jodie's cell phone number, although near the end of that story arc, Jodie had to borrow Conan's phone since hers was not working well at the time, and in this case, Conan tried to call Jodie, but his replacement phone was not connecting to her phone, which goes to state, that her phone is still not working at optimum level.
- This is the first time that Conan begins speaking in Sonoko's voice before he tranquilized her.
- This case really makes Eisuke the second person to deduce Conan's identity, the first being Heiji Hattori in Holmes Freak Murder Case.
BGM listing
Part 1
Part 2
Gallery
In other languages
| Language |
Title |
Translation
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 Catalan (Catalan dub) |
L'angle mort del Karaoke |
The blind spot in the Karaoke
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 Italian |
Karaoke con sorpresa |
Karaoke with surprise
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 Thai |
มุมอับในร้านคาราโอเกะ |
The Blind Corner in the Karaoke Box
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 korea |
노래방의 사각지대 |
The Blind spot of the Karaoke Box
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 Indonesian (subbed) |
Titik Buta di Tempat Karaoke |
Blind Spot of the Karaoke Shop
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See also
