EPISODE CONTEXT

This episode wraps up the two-part 'Friendship Can't Be Bought with Money' arc that began in Episode 329, where the Detective Boys first encountered the college students and the inciting incident. As a standalone case conclusion, it requires no broader seasonal context but serves as a clean entry point into the next storyline, 'The Suspicious Spicy Curry (Part 1),' which introduces an entirely new case. It sits comfortably within Conan's episodic mystery format around the 330-episode mark, maintaining the series' steady rhythm of self-contained investigations.