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{{InfoBox TV
| episode             = 836-837
| int-episode         = 891-892
| image               = TV Episode 836-837.jpg
| title               = {{PAGENAME}}
| japanese-title      = {{lang|ja|仲の悪いガールズバンド}}<br>(Naka no Warui Gāruzu Bando<sup>[[Help:Japanese|?]]</sup>)
| rating              = 6.6% <br> 6.9%
| Remastered broadcast rating = 7.2% (Part 1) <br> 6.7% (Part 2)
| Manga case number   = #270
| airdate             = October 15, 2016 (Part 1) <br> October 22, 2016 (Part 2) <br> February 26, 2022 '''(Remastered version Part 1)'''<ref name="fremr"/> <br> March 5, 2022 '''(Remastered version Part 2)'''<ref name="fremr"/>
| season              = [[Season 21|21]]
| manga               = [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|Volume 88: File 10 (936)]] ~ [[Volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|Volume 89: File 1 (938)]]
| english-title       =
| dubbed-episode      =
| english-airdate     =
| cast                = [[Conan Edogawa]] <br> [[Ran Mouri]] <br> [[Sonoko Suzuki]] <br> [[Masumi Sera]] <br> [[Rei Furuya]] <br> [[Azusa Enomoto]] <br> [[Juzo Megure]] <br> [[Wataru Takagi]] <br> [[Shuichi Akai]] <br> [[Hiromitsu Morofushi|Scotch]] <br> [[Shinichi Kudo]]
| solved-by           = [[Conan Edogawa]] <br> [[Masumi Sera]] <br> [[Rei Furuya]]
| next-conan-hint     = Security Camera (Part 1) <br> Knit Hat (Part 2) <br> Guitar case '''(Remastered version Part 1)''' <br> Drumstick '''(Remastered version Part 2)'''
| case                =
| director            = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| organizer           = [[Umesaburo Sagawa]]
| storyboard          = [[Umesaburo Sagawa]]
| producer            = 836: [[Nobuharu Kamanaka]] <br> 837: [[Koichiro Kuroda]]
| animation-director  = [[Seiji Muta]] (supervisor) <br> 836: [[Kenichi Otomo]] <br> 837: [[Michitaka Yamamoto]] and [[Juri Saito]]
| character-design    = [[Masatomo Sudo]] <br> [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] <br> [[Kumiko Shishido]] (design works)
| production-cooperation = 837: [[Azeta Pictures]]
| voice-cast          = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] <br> [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] <br> [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] <br> [[Tohru Furuya]] as [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] <br> [[Noriko Hidaka]] as [[Masumi Sera]] <br> [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] <br> [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]] <br> [[Mikiko Enomoto]] as [[Azusa Enomoto]] <br> [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] as [[Hiromitsu Morofushi|Scotch]] <br> [[Shuichi Ikeda]] as [[Shuichi Akai]] <br> [[Takeharu Onishi]] as Man A <br> [[Hiroyuki Yokoo]] as Man B <br> [[Yurie Mikami]] as Receptionist <br> [[Haruka Jinya]] as Musician <br> [[Toshimitsu Oda]] as Bandman #1 <br> [[Makoto Kaneko]] as Bandman #2 <br> [[Mami Matsui]] as Hagie Yamaji <br> [[Junko Minagawa]] as Someka Kibune <br> [[Reiko Takagi]] as Tadako Fuekawa <br> [[Miki Itō]] as Rumi Kogure
| opening-song        = Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru
| closing-song        = SAWAGE☆LIFE
| prev-episode        = The Man Who Died Twice
| next-episode        = Mysterious Case in a Hot Air Balloon
| footnotes           =
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{{nihongo|'''''The Unfriendly Girls Band'''''|仲の悪いガールズバンド|Naka no Warui Gāruzu Bando}} is the 836th and 837th episode of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]].

== Characters introduced ==
{{beginBox}}
{{newChar|[[Hiromitsu Morofushi|Scotch]]|Hiromitsu Morofushi.jpg|
* Deceased
* Japanese [[Public Security Bureau|PSB]] spy
* Infiltrated the [[Black Organization]]}}
{{endBox}}

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Masumi Sera}}
{{char|Rei Furuya}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Azusa Enomoto}}
{{char|Shuichi Akai|display=Shuichi Akai (flashback/background)}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (background)}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
==== Part 1 ====
After watching a Girls Band movie, Sonoko goes to the Poirot Cafe to try to convince Ran and Masumi to create a band with her. With Sonoko on drums, Ran on keyboard, Masumi on bass and Azusa on guitar, she expects them to be able to perform at the Beika festival at the end of the year. However when asked to perform by several men in the cafe, she fails miserably, only to be saved by Rei who plays really well. Rei is then invited to join in place of Azusa and they all head to a sound studio to record. Throughout several conversations, Masumi mentions that she was taught how to play the bass by a friend of her oldest brother. Rei accidentally let slip that he knew that the friend was a guy, despite the fact that he and Masumi were not supposed to have met until today.

Their conversation is interrupted by a group of people sitting close by. Someka Kibune was yelling at her fellow band mates about them being out of practice despite them having a show coming up in a week, which is a memorial show in honor of Akane Shuto. Hagie Yamaji decides to go into the studio room to nap for 10 minutes as a break before they continue to practice. During this time, Rei asks who do the vocals and they come to the conclusion that none of them can sing. Masumi asks if Ran could call Shinichi because "he can play the guitar as well, right?", but Ran points out that he is tone deaf but can play the violin. Its then that they hear a scream and run down to find Hagie sitting at her drum set, dead from strangulation, surrounded by her band mates. They go to the security office to watch the camera footage and discover that the screen was blocked out by another member's cellphone on a selfie stick.

The police arrive and Megure inquires who set up the selfie stick. Tadako Fuekawa had set up the stick, but only on instructions from the others. The set up was taking too long so Hagie had ordered them to leave it where it was. Takagi points out that one side of the room is mirrored and that the curtain over it was pulled. However the band mates point out that the curtain was also Hagie's doing. They decide to review the security tapes again while getting the alibis of the suspects. All three suspects had entered the room. Tadako was first, she entered the room to get her sewing kit to fix Someka's jacket. To do so, she sat on a stool right at the edge where the cellphone covered the footage. She tried to wake Hagie by calling out to her, but she got no response. Next was Someka, who was trying to restring her guitar. She then walked off camera to tune her guitar next to the Hagie in order to wake her up to resume practice, but was unsuccessful. The final person to enter the room was Rumi, She moved the keyboards away from where Hagie was sleeping and played the keyboards to change the notes. Even though she sang, Hagie never woke up. All three of the suspects were searched and the weapon is no where to be found.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| location = Band
| victim = Hagie Yamaji
| age = 25 years old
| suspects = Someka Kibune, Tadako Fuekawa and Rumi Kogure
| cause-death = Strangulation
| image = EP836-837 Case.jpg
| description = While they are going to resume their rehearsal, the other members tried to wake Hagie up, but she doesn't respond, as she was strangled to death.
}}

Masumi sees a guitar case and a memory is sparked. She remembers seeing her brother, Shuichi Akai, on a train platform 4 years ago with a friend. They were both carrying guitar cases. She had followed them until Shuichi noticed. He then left to buy her a ticket and send her home. During that time, the friend pulled out his guitar and taught Masumi a few notes. She notes that even though he was carrying a soft case, it remained standing after the guitar was removed. Conan thinks to himself that it may have had a sniper rifle inside. A third person had walked up to them with a hat down over his face and refereed to the friend as "Scotch". When Masumi says that Rei looks like the person who was wearing the hat, he dodges the question.

==== Part 2 ====
The three suspects point out that they had altercations with members of other bands, and that it is possible that one of them may have been the killer.

Conan asks to see the video recorded by the cellphone from before the murder. It had been filming vertically because it was stylish and so it would not show their legs. Rei and Masumi lean in to get a better look, and they realize how the trick was done.

=== People ===
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{{People|Someka Kibune|Someka Kibune.jpg|
* 25 years old
* Guitarist}}
{{People|Tadako Fuekawa|Tadako Fuekawa.jpg|
* 24 years old
* Bass guitarist
* Vocalist}}
{{People|Rumi Kogure|Rumi Kogure.jpg|
* 24 years old
* Keyboardist}}
{{People|Hagie Yamaji|Hagie Yamaji.jpg|
* Victim (strangled)
* 25 years old
* Drummer
* Bandleader}}
{{People|Akane Shuto|Akane Shuto.jpg|
* Deceased (suicide or traffic accident?)
* Vocalist}}
{{people|Man #1|Guitarist 1 EP836.jpg|
* Guitarist}}
{{people|Man #2|Guitarist 2 EP836.jpg|
* Guitarist}}
{{people|Man #3|Guitarist 3 EP836.jpg|
* Guitarist}}
{{people|Man #4|Guitarist 4 EP836.jpg|
* Guitarist}}
{{people|Clerk|clerkfemale.png|
* Sound Studio Hakobune clerk}}
{{people|Man #5|musician5.png|
* Sound Studio Hakobune client
* Musician}}
{{people|Man #6|musician6.png|
* Sound Studio Hakobune client
* Musician}}
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=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>The police have already checked all of the items that resemble string and have tested for luminol. However [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]], and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] reveal that the weapon has already left the studio. The police carried it out because it was one of the victims belongings. The murderer had taken her knit hat and unraveled it and used it as the murder weapon and then knitted it back together using the drumsticks. Amuro reveals that the culprit is '''Rumi Kogure'''. The other two suspects had gone into the room to do things that couldn't have been planned. Where as Rumi was supposedly playing her keyboard with her back to the camera where no one could see what she was doing. She had secretly been knitting the hat back together. With the drums fixed in place, the placement of the selfie stick camera would be dependent on the position of the keyboard. Rumi just had to move the keyboard further away from the drums so that the others would have moved the selfie stick to in front of the cctv camera. She has also spiked the victims water bottle with sleeping pills to ensure that she was asleep.

The motive was that the victim had been telling Akane to drink lots of wine and scream into a pillow to get her voice back, but in actuality it was making her voice worse. Then she told Akane that her voice was withering and that she shouldn't even show up to the next gig. Later Akane committed suicide by jumping in front of a car. However it seems that was all a misconception. Akane had run out into the road to save a small child who was crossing the road to get his ball. The victim had believed that she was responsible for Akane's death, not because of her harsh words about her voice, but because she had made a deal with her not to speak until her voice had gotten better. This was why Akane ran into the road rather then shouting, because it would hurt her voice.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Accident (Past)
| victim = Akane Shuto
| image = EP836-837 Case2.jpg
| cause-death = Hit by a car
| location = Highway Intersection
}}

After the case, Masumi revealed to [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] that the reason she became a detective was because of her oldest brother [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]], who is an FBI agent. Sonoko inquires if the person who taught Masumi the base was also from the FBI, but Masumi denies it. [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] inwardly comments that the man was a member of the Metro Police Department Public Security Bureau and that Shuichi was the one who killed [[Hiromitsu Morofushi|him]].

{{InfoBox Crime
| suspects = [[Shuichi Akai]]?
| suspects-label = Culprit
| cause-death = Gunshot wound
| crime = Murder (Past)
| image = Rei and Scotch EP837.jpg
| description = Scotch was an undercover [[Public Security Bureau]] agent, who Rei says was killed by Shuichi Akai.
| victim = [[Hiromitsu Morofushi|Scotch]]
}}</spoiler>

== Manga to anime changes ==
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{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
* The anime skips a few lines of dialogue about Akane's death seen in the panel to the right and jumps to Inspector Megure saying they need to examine the CCTV footage.

== Gallery ==
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== Trivia ==
* The Girls Band Movie that Sonoko refers to at the beginning of episode 836 seems to be a reference to the anime "K-On!"
* She references that the drummer of the band looks like her (Ritsu Tainaka), the basist had long black hair like Ran (Mio Akiyama), and there was a guitarist named "Azusa" (Azusa Nakano).
* The names of the suspects come from musical instrument makers<ref>{{cite web|url=https://w.atwiki.jp/aniwotawiki/pages/35360.html|accessdate=2023-05-14|title=仲の悪いガールズバンド(名探偵コナン)}}</ref>:
:* Someka Kibune (木船 染花, キブネ ソメカ in katakana) comes from [[Wikipedia: Gibson Brands|Gibson]] (guitars) (ギブソン, Gibuson);
:* Tadako Fuekawa (笛川 唯子, フエカワ タダコ in katakana) comes from [[Wikipedia: Fender (company)|Fender]] (guitars) (フェンダー, Fendā);
:* Rumi Kogure (小暮 留海) comes from [[Wikipedia: Korg|Korg]] (keyboards) (コルグ, Korugu);
:* Hagie Yamaji (山路 萩江) comes from [[Wikipedia: Yamaha Corporation|Yamaha]] (keyboards, among others) (ヤマハ);
:* Akane Shutō (首頭 朱音) comes from [[Wikipedia: Shure|Shure]] (microphones) (シュア, Shua).

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan (Catalan dub)|La banda de noies mal avingudes|The not get on well girl band}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เกิร์ลส์แบนด์กับความสัมพันธ์อันแย่|Girls Band With Bad Relationship}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ban nhạc nữ và những mối quan hệ xấu|A Girls Band and Bad Relationships}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Season 21]]

== References ==
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<ref name="fremr">Video not actually remastered, but follows the remaster pattern. Modern OP/ED and upscaled.</ref>
</references>

{{season 21}}
{{Black Organization}}
{{Japanese Intelligence Agencies}}

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