This episode was not complex at all. It was straight to the point. The imagery and differences in time frame were obvious. The episode in a whole was pretty well put together for an Anime Original. The animation was well drawn, and they set it up pretty well. It wasn't over thought too much, and, as with most every episode in Detective Conan, there is the lame reason for the murder that we end up ignoring or forgetting by next week at the end.

This episode is based in band hall of some sort. The band S&G are playing on stage; one of their songs being a mock-up of 'Everlasting Luv', the current openning theme to the Detective Conan anime. Mouri Kogoro had brought Ran and Conan here after being dragged around shopping by Ran in order to drink himself into a stupor. Surprise, surprise. Though he offers them 'as much as they want', the food seems incredibly cheap At one point, Conan takes a break for the toilet, takeing his time to admire the childish crayon drawings on the wall. After the show the drummer requests a signature from Mouri Kogoro, and Kogoro has Conan run off to get more of the snacks. When he returns, he finds Ran missing. Turns out that drummer of S&G had a CD she really wanted and showed her the way to the green room.

This is where it gets tricky. Take in the scene; you have plenty of time to do so. All the instruments are nicely put away, but not the bass drum. You get to see this for a while as the drummer, Yuusuke, heads into the room. You don't get a clear view of him, but from inside, you can hear his voice, and eventually, his scream. Ran rushes in to find Yuusuke with a horrified expression, shaking like a leaf on the ground and pointing at something covered in a cloth with a pale hand that has Yukiko's glove on. One can only put one and one together in this situatio, especially with what Yuusuke claimed to have seen.

Ran rushes off to get Mouri Kogoro (instead of the police officer just down the hall) leaving Yuusuke alone. When she returns the scene is obviously different. For one, the bass drum has 'disappeared' from the scene. Mouri and Conan head into thecrime scene and lift the blanket from the corpse on the floor to see Yukiko facedown with obvious purple marks for fingers on the back of her neck, and a green smudge which Conan notices. Ran is told toget the police by her father (finally.) From here, if you hadn't already take the clues and put one and one together to get at least half of the mystery solved, then I suggest you watch it over and pay a bit more attention to the details.

In the end Foriensics found out that the green smudge on Yukiko's arm was indeed crayon. Seeing as therewere no crayonsin the green room, the only place to get such a mark would be eighth floor where Conan had first noticed the children's crayon drawings. It turns out one of them had been smudged sometime after the show. From this, it's figured that Yukiko had been attacked on the eighth floor. This means that the crime did not happen in the green room, but on the eighth floor. This means the body had to of been transported in some way.

Near the shin of the body had been a rectangular mark; a mark left by the metal fitting of the drum case's handle. From here, putting everything together had just become disgustingly easy. There is only one person that could have set up an intricate plan such as this. The culprit is pointed out to have been Nakamura Yuusuke; only he could have done it. He had taken a hand from a manequin and placed it within his guiter to hide itas he and Ran had headed down into the Green Room. While Ran waited outside, Yuusuke had thaken the manequin's hand with Yukiko's glove on it just barely under the blanket, but out in the open enough for Ran to be able to notice it. This, along with a few cushions helped him to fool Ran and have her head up to fetch her father.

When Ran had gone, all he had to do was take him bass drum case with Yukiko's body stuffed inside, retreive the body, and shove it under the blanket after replacing her missing glove. Then, replacing the bass drum into its case and the mannequin's hand into his guitar, Yuusaku was able to move the case back outside and get into position before anyone arrived.  Though,he didn't have time to tune hi guitar, which is what killed him in this case.

Now, why would he do such a thing? Because Yukiko and Shouta had both been reqruited to another band. She insulted the band she had been in, making them seem as if they were only a stepping stone in her rise to fame. Yuusuke broke into rage, which is when he rushed Yukiko and strangled her to death.

This case is very straight forward and simple. I enjoyed it, but it could have been a bit more challenging.

Watanabe Yukiko - Vocals

Nishimoto  Makoto - Guitar

Aoki Shouta - Bass

 Tanaka Risako - Keyboard