From Third-Rate to Great Detective

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| **Chapter 6** | |
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| **Information** | |
| Title: | From Third-Rate to Great Detective |
| Japanese title: | 迷探偵を名探偵に   (Meitantei wo Meitantei ni) |
| Original release: | February 9th, 1994 |
| Shōnen Sunday issue: | #10/1994 |
| Volume: | (/wiki/Volume_1 "Volume 1") |
| Pages: | 16 |
| Anime adaptation: | Episode 3: [An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case](/wiki/An_Idol%27s_Locked_Room_Murder_Case "An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case") |
| **Viz Media version** | |
| English title: | From Third-Rate to Great Detective |
| English release: | September 7, 2004 |
**From Third-Rate to Great Detective (迷探偵を名探偵に ,*Meitantei wo Meitantei ni*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese"))** is the sixth chapter of the [manga](/wiki/Manga "Manga") of *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")*. It was written by [Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama"), drawn by him and his [assistants](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama%27s_assistants "Gosho Aoyama's assistants") and first released in [Shōnen Sunday](/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnen_Sunday "Shōnen Sunday") #10/1994 on February 9th, 1994 and later on reprinted as part of [Volume 1](/wiki/Volume_1 "Volume 1") on June 18th, 1994. It was also featured as the first chapter of the compilation book [Detective Conan Romantic Selection 1](/wiki/Detective_Conan_Romantic_Selection_1 "Detective Conan Romantic Selection 1").
## Contents
* [1 Characters](#Characters)
+ [1.1 Introduced](#Introduced)
+ [1.2 Featured](#Featured)
* [2 Gadgets](#Gadgets)
+ [2.1 Introduced](#Introduced_2)
* [3 Settings](#Settings)
+ [3.1 Introduced](#Introduced_3)
+ [3.2 Featured](#Featured_2)
* [4 Plot](#Plot)
* [5 Continuity](#Continuity)
+ [5.1 Referencing](#Referencing)
* [6 Cameos](#Cameos)
* [7 Real Life Models](#Real_Life_Models)
+ [7.1 Yoko Okino's apartment complex](#Yoko_Okino.27s_apartment_complex)
* [8 Crossover](#Crossover)
+ [8.1 *Magic Kaito*](#Magic_Kaito)
* [9 Shōnen Sunday Q&A](#Sh.C5.8Dnen_Sunday_Q.26A)
* [10 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [11 Adaptations](#Adaptations)
* [12 See also](#See_also)
* [13 References](#References)
## Characters[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Characters")]
Main article: [Characters](/wiki/Characters "Characters")
### Introduced[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Introduced")]
In order of introduction:
- | [Masaki Negishi](/wiki/Masaki_Negishi "Masaki Negishi") | |
| --- | --- |
|  | * Assistant of [Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama") * Cameo on TV |
- | [Yutaka Tani](/wiki/Yutaka_Tani "Yutaka Tani") | |
| --- | --- |
|  | * Assistant of Gosho Aoyama * Cameo on TV |
- | [RZ-04](/wiki/RZ-04 "RZ-04") | |
| --- | --- |
|  | * Small, one-eyed robot * Cameo |
- | [Yoko Okino](/wiki/Yoko_Okino "Yoko Okino") | |
| --- | --- |
|  | * 22 years old * Pop Idol |
- | [Eiichi Yamagishi](/wiki/Eiichi_Yamagishi "Eiichi Yamagishi") | |
| --- | --- |
|  | * Yoko's manager |
- | [Unnamed dead person](/wiki/index.php?title=Akiyoshi_Fujie&action=edit&redlink=1 "Akiyoshi Fujie (page does not exist)") | |
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|  | * Murdered in Yoko's apartment |
### Featured[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Featured")]
In order of appearance:
Characters
[Conan Edogawa](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa")
[Kogoro Mouri](/wiki/Kogoro_Mouri "Kogoro Mouri")
[Man in Black #1 (Mentioned/Panel background)](/wiki/Gin "Gin")
[Man in Black #2 (Mentioned/Panel background)](/wiki/Vodka "Vodka")
[Hiroshi Agasa](/wiki/Hiroshi_Agasa "Hiroshi Agasa")
[Ran Mouri](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri")
[Shinichi Kudo (Mentioned)](/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo "Shinichi Kudo")
## Gadgets[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Gadgets")]
Main article: [Gadgets](/wiki/Gadgets "Gadgets")
### Introduced[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Introduced")]
In order of introduction:
| [Voice-Changing Bowtie](/wiki/Voice-Changing_Bowtie "Voice-Changing Bowtie") | |
| --- | --- |
|  | * Grants ability to imitate voices |
## Settings[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Settings")]
Main article: [Setting](/wiki/Setting "Setting")
### Introduced[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Introduced")]
In order of introduction:
* [Hiroshi Agasa's residence](/wiki/index.php?title=Hiroshi_Agasa%27s_residence&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hiroshi Agasa's residence (page does not exist)")
* [Yoko Okino's apartment complex](/wiki/index.php?title=Yoko_Okino%27s_apartment_complex&action=edit&redlink=1 "Yoko Okino's apartment complex (page does not exist)")
### Featured[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: Featured")]
In order of appearance:
* [Mouri Detective Agency](/wiki/Mouri_Detective_Agency "Mouri Detective Agency")
* [Kudo residence](/wiki/Kudo_residence "Kudo residence") (Background)
* [Teitan High School](/wiki/Teitan_High_School "Teitan High School") (Mentioned)
* [Tropical Land](/wiki/Tropical_Land "Tropical Land") (Mentioned)
## Plot[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=9 "Edit section: Plot")]
[Conan Edogawa](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa") is living at the [Mouri Detective Agency](/wiki/Mouri_Detective_Agency "Mouri Detective Agency") now, but no new information about the "[men in black](/wiki/Black_Organization "Black Organization")" is incoming. [Kogoro Mouri](/wiki/Kogoro_Mouri "Kogoro Mouri") himself is goofing off all day and [Ran Mouri](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri") is away for school, more or less continuing her everyday life. Conan quickly learns during a visit to professor [Hiroshi Agasa](/wiki/Hiroshi_Agasa "Hiroshi Agasa") that life for her isn't all that sunshine and roses and gets his first gadget made by him, a [Voice-Changing Bowtie](/wiki/Voice-Changing_Bowtie "Voice-Changing Bowtie"). Back at the Mouri's residence, Kogoro's favorite pop idol [Yoko Okino](/wiki/Yoko_Okino "Yoko Okino") appears in person, with her manager [Eiichi Yamagishi](/wiki/Eiichi_Yamagishi "Eiichi Yamagishi") in tow, and inquires about Kogoro's help in her apartment...
## Continuity[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=10 "Edit section: Continuity")]
Main article: [Continuity](/wiki/Continuity "Continuity")
* [Conan Edogawa](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa") says it's the "third day" since his body was shrunk. He now also lives in the apartment of [Kogoro Mouri](/wiki/Kogoro_Mouri "Kogoro Mouri"), as intended during the previous case.
* [Ran Mouri](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri") asked about [Shinichi Kudo](/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo "Shinichi Kudo") at [Hiroshi Agasa's house](/wiki/index.php?title=Hiroshi_Agasa%27s_residence&action=edit&redlink=1 "Hiroshi Agasa's residence (page does not exist)") "yesterday", [Yoko Okino](/wiki/Yoko_Okino "Yoko Okino") was followed by [Akiyoshi Fujie](/wiki/index.php?title=Akiyoshi_Fujie&action=edit&redlink=1 "Akiyoshi Fujie (page does not exist)") the same night.
* Ran wears her winter school uniform (October 1st-May 31st).
* It's Waning Crescent Moon 🌘 during the night in the chapter.
* Sixth chapter of the so-called "[Conan Arc](/wiki/Conan_Arc "Conan Arc")", a fan-coined term.
### Referencing[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=11 "Edit section: Referencing")]
* **[The Heisei Holmes](/wiki/The_Heisei_Holmes "The Heisei Holmes") (Manga: [File 1](/wiki/Volume_1#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes "Volume 1"))**: [Conan Edogawa](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa") mentions his shrinking and the "[men in black](/wiki/Black_Organization "Black Organization")" and says that it's been three days since then. [Ran Mouri](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri") also mentions the events in front of professor [Hiroshi Agasa](/wiki/Hiroshi_Agasa "Hiroshi Agasa"), being in concern about [Shinichi Kudo](/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo "Shinichi Kudo")'s well-being since then.
## Cameos[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=12 "Edit section: Cameos")]
Eiichi Yamagishi is modeled and named after one of Gosho's assistants.
* [Masaki Negishi](/wiki/Masaki_Negishi "Masaki Negishi") and [Yutaka Tani](/wiki/Yutaka_Tani "Yutaka Tani"), two assistants of [Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama"), can be seen on TV, in the series [Kogoro Mouri](/wiki/Kogoro_Mouri "Kogoro Mouri") watches, with Tani hitting Negishi.
* [Yoko Okino](/wiki/Yoko_Okino "Yoko Okino") and [Eiichi Yamagishi](/wiki/Eiichi_Yamagishi "Eiichi Yamagishi") are both based on real people acquainted with Gosho. The former is named after the mangaka [Yōko Okino (沖野ヨーコ)](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%96%E9%87%8E%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B3_%28%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6%29), who was studying manga art at Nihon University in a higher semester the same time Gosho studied there.
* Yoko's manager, Yamagishi, on the other hand, is another of Gosho's assistants, this time not only named, but even modeled after him (judging by how he is usually portrayed in other manga and the Omakes). According to Gosho, Yamagishi is in charge of designing and drawing technical stuff, like machinery, vehicles, weapons and architecture. He already had some cameos and mentions in previous works, like *[WALK MAN](/wiki/WALK_MAN "WALK MAN")*, *[Nonchalant Lupin](/wiki/Nonchalant_Lupin "Nonchalant Lupin")*, *[Magic Kaito](/wiki/Magic_Kaito "Magic Kaito")*, *[Yaiba](/wiki/Yaiba "Yaiba")* and *[3rd Base 4th](/wiki/3rd_Base_4th "3rd Base 4th")*.
## Real Life Models[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=13 "Edit section: Real Life Models")]
Main article: [Setting models (Manga)](/wiki/Setting_models_(Manga) "Setting models (Manga)")
### Yoko Okino's apartment complex[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=14 "Edit section: Yoko Okino's apartment complex")]
The apartment complex [Yoko Okino](/wiki/Yoko_Okino "Yoko Okino") lives in is modeled after the Cite Neuve Kita-Senju, a skyscraper in the district of the same name around [Kita-Senju Station](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kita-Senju_Station "wikipedia:Kita-Senju Station") in the [Adachi](/wiki/Adachi "Adachi") Ward of [Tokyo](/wiki/Tokyo "Tokyo"). Gosho Aoyama was living in Kita-Senju himself not long before serialization of *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")* started and used the surroundings there as inspiration for his works.
* The Cite Neuve Kita-Senju.
* Yoko's apartment complex in file 6.
## Crossover[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=15 "Edit section: Crossover")]
Main article: [Crossover](/wiki/Crossover "Crossover")
### *Magic Kaito*[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=16 "Edit section: Magic Kaito")]
RZ-04 is sleeping between Professor Agasa's scraps.
Main article: [Magic Kaito](/wiki/Magic_Kaito "Magic Kaito")
* One of the robots between professor [Hiroshi Agasa](/wiki/Hiroshi_Agasa "Hiroshi Agasa")'s scraps is a sleeping [RZ-04](/wiki/RZ-04 "RZ-04"), the robots that stalked [Kaitou Kid](/wiki/Kaitou_Kid "Kaitou Kid") in chapter 9 ([Magic Kaito Volume 2](/wiki/Magic_Kaito_Volume_2 "Magic Kaito Volume 2"), [chapter 3](/wiki/Magic_Kaito_Volume_2#I_Am_the_Master "Magic Kaito Volume 2")) of his own series.
## Shōnen Sunday Q&A[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=17 "Edit section: Shōnen Sunday Q&A")]
Main article: [Questions given by the Shonen Sunday magazine](/wiki/Questions_given_by_the_Shonen_Sunday_magazine "Questions given by the Shonen Sunday magazine")
Every issue of the [Shōnen Sunday](/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dnen_Sunday "Shōnen Sunday") features a question asked by the magazine to the manga artists featured in it. The one accompanying this chapter was:
**The present that made you most happy so far is**
"The [Sword of Lightning God](/wiki/index.php?title=Raijin-ken&action=edit&redlink=1 "Raijin-ken (page does not exist)") I received when [YAIBA](/wiki/Yaiba "Yaiba") became [animated](/wiki/Kenyuu_Densetsu_Yaiba "Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba")."
(Translation by justwantanaccount)
## Trivia[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=18 "Edit section: Trivia")]
* This is the first time hinted at [Kogoro Mouri](/wiki/Kogoro_Mouri "Kogoro Mouri")'s past as a policeman - a pretty talented one to boot, according to professor [Hiroshi Agasa](/wiki/Hiroshi_Agasa "Hiroshi Agasa").
* Despite Agasa being more of a engineer and mechanic, he's doing rather stereotypical chemical science experiments a lot during these early chapters, which doesn't happen anymore later on.
* Interestingly, [Ran Mouri](/wiki/Ran_Mouri "Ran Mouri") in fact remembers [Gin](/wiki/Gin "Gin") and [Vodka](/wiki/Vodka "Vodka") from [Tropical Land](/wiki/Tropical_Land "Tropical Land") and that [Shinichi Kudo](/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo "Shinichi Kudo") definitely wanted to follow those and has sparsely appeared since then, "working on a case", suspecting that these two strangers might be involved in his disappearance.
* Besides the [RZ-04](/wiki/RZ-04 "RZ-04") (refer to the "Crossover" section), there's a jack-in-the-box, a strange pistol (maybe a miniature of Kid's [Card Gun](/wiki/Card_Gun "Card Gun")?), a light bulb, an umbrella, something which seems to be a wallet and another robot inbetween Agasa's scraps.
* There's canned beer by [Kirin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirin_Company "wikipedia:Kirin Company") in front of the sleeping Kogoro and it looks like he ate a bag of [dried squid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_shredded_squid "wikipedia:Dried shredded squid"). There's also seemingly a list of bets before him - the first indication that he's big on betting games.
* The TV show he wants to watch seems to be called "Idol goro goro!!".
## Adaptations[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=From_Third-Rate_to_Great_Detective&action=edit&section=19 "Edit section: Adaptations")]
Main article: [Anime](/wiki/Anime "Anime")
* **[Anime](/wiki/Anime "Anime") Episode 3:** [An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case](/wiki/An_Idol%27s_Locked_Room_Murder_Case "An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case")