Karaoke Box Murder Case

Synopsis

Sonoko takes Ran and Conan to a karaoke bar to visit her new acquaintance, pop-star Kimura Tatsuya of the band Lex, and his band mates: guitarist Shibazaki Mieko, manager Terahara Mari, and drummer Yamada Katsumi. Tatsuya appears to hate everyone and displays an arrogant, selfish personality. His signature song, "Bloody Venus", begins playing. Tatsuya rips his jacket off as part of the performance. Former Lex member and caterer Sumii Go brings food and Tatsuya grabs a rice ball, eats it, and suddenly collapses dead on the floor. Upon initial examination, Conan smells cyanide and realizes that Tatsuya was murdered. He notices a photograph in the room of another band member. In the photograph is Tatusya, Katsumi, and two unknown women. Katsumi says one of the women is Mari, even though she looks nothing like the current Mari. Using past evidence, Conan, using Shinichi’s voice, calls everyone back to the karaoke room. When Tatusya ripped his jacket off during "Bloody Venus", his hand touched cyanide that was coated on the outer layer of his band jacket. His death was hurried when he ate a riceball with his contaminated hand. The killer is revealed to be Mari and as proof, she has Tatsuya’s lighter in her possession; she switched jackets to conceal evidence. Mari confesses and says that Tatsuya hated her after she had plastic surgery, even though it was to impress him. However, Tatsuya had actually liked how she originally looked, and could not forgive himself after finding out that Mari had specifically gotten plastic surgery to look beautiful for him since he would've never asked her to change how she looks. On the back of the photograph is a love song written by Tatsuya dedicated to Mari making her realize he did still, in fact, love her. Mari realizes her mistake and bursts into tears. (Source: Wikipedia)