Mari Terahara (Case Closed)

Mari Terahara (Urara Takano) is the villainess of "Karaoke Box Murder Case", episode 2.14 of Case Closed (airdate December 16, 1996, manga volume 5: Files 6-9). She was the manager of pop band Lex, which was headed by singer Tatsuya Kimura.
Mari's backstory revealed that she and Tatsuya were previously in a band with their friend Go Sumii before Tatsuya left to form Lex, inviting Mari to become his band's manager. Mari, having harbored a deep crush for Tatsuya, felt that his invitation was his reciprocation of her feelings and decided to get plastic surgery done on her nose, fearing she would lose Tatsuya to other women.
However, Mari's surgery left Tatsuya enraged, as he felt Mari was beautiful the way she was. After much verbal abuse during their time working together at Lex, Tatsuya decided to leave the band to start a solo career, and it was during their farewell tour that the band shared lunch with Ran Mouri, her friend Sonoko Suzuki, and Conan Edogawa. During the gathering, Tatsuya pressured Mari into singing "Rudolph, the Red Nose Reindeer" as a way of mocking her past nose surgery. Having finally had enough of Tatsuya's ridicule, the evil Mari plotted to kill her former love by coating his jacket with cyanide, playing off of Tatsuya's habit of throwing his jacket off while performing the band's biggest hit. After planting the poison, Mari requested the song for Tatsuya to sing, who died after getting the cyanide on his hands and eating after his performance.
A photograph of Mari in her and Tatsuya's old band before her surgery was found by Conan, allowing him to realize that she had killed Tatsuya, and lured everyone back to the crime scene (under the persona of his original identity, teen detective Shinichi Kudo). Once there, Conan continued to use his true identity to expose Mari, having her doing the same song as Tatsuya before his death and challenging her to have some food afterwards. After she refused due to knowing she had cyanide on her hands, Mari eventually confessed to killing Tatsuya, believing he hated her for the surgery she'd had. But Go and Conan revealed that Mari was wrong about Tatsuya, with the former stating that while Tatsuya was disappointed in Mari's decision and unable to express his feeling properly, he still loved her dearly and showed her the song he'd written for her, causing Mari to break down in tears. She was arrested (offscreen) for murdering Tatsuya.
== Trivia ==
* In the English dub, Mari's name is translated to Mazy Mitchel and she is voiced by Meredith McCoy.
* Urara Takano also voiced the evil Saline in Shin Cutie Honey.
Category:1990s
Category:Anime Villainess
Category:Brunette
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Manga Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Poison
Category:Show Business
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Fate: Arrested
Category:Delusional