User:S261157/Kindaichi Case Files - Volume 1: The Opera House Murders
The Opera House Murders is the first Kindaichi mystery, and the story on which the first anime movie is based. Miyuki corrals Kindaichi into assisting the school drama club in rehearsing "The Phantom of the Opera" at an isolated island hotel. But a killer stalks the high school group, one who can walk across mud without leaving footprints, and it's up to Kindaichi to solve the case, fighting time, weather, and police detective Kenmochi, who fails to take the young man seriously (for the last time).
Characters introduced
Plot
Story
At Fudo High School, the lazy high school student named Hajime Kindaichi is little late at class when he felt asleep at the roof of high school. In class, there is Kindaichi's childhood friend named Miyuki Nanase who is little worried about him. Kindaichi sneaks to the window from the outside and knocks the window to give Miyuki attention. Kindaichi is holding the rain pipe to not fall off the building. The teacher appears and finds out that Kindaichi's causing trouble. Suddenly, the rain pipe came off the wall of the building and Kindaichi is about to fall to his death but saved by Miyuki and the teacher.
At the teacher's lounge, the teachers are talking about the troublemaker, Kindaichi. The teacher cannot believe that Miyuki and Kindaichi (which the teacher calls him an idiot) are childhood friends. All of a sudden, the drama club advisor named Ogata doesn't think Kindaichi is an idiot. The teacher still thinks Kindaichi is an idiot because he always comes late and leaves early. He doesn't even show up to half of his classes. His test scores are horrible and he is terrible in sports. Ogata knows that's not his true self and she knows something very special about him that he is related to the famous detective, Kosuke Kindaichi.
One week later, Kindaichi and Miyuki are riding on a train to go on a trip. In Japan, every year a National High School Drama Contest is held so the nine members of the drama club were soon off to annual training camp. The 12th grade student named Fuse is inviting Miyuki to play cards with him. During card playing, Fuse can read people's mind when they picked the card while Fuse's not looking at them for picking. Until sudden, Kindaichi reveals the trick of how Fuse can tell the card that the girls pick is because the back of the card has a little diamond symbol at the top left corner. He can tell the suit and value of any card by the marks. Fuse suddenly suggest Kindaichi to do some entertainment and Kindaichi doesn't mind at all.
