Troublesome Kindness

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Episode 999 (Int. Episode 1056)
Information
Title:	Troublesome Kindness
Japanese title:	迷惑な親切心 (Meiwakuna Shinsetsushin)
Original airdate:	February 27, 2021
Broadcast rating:	7.3%
Filler case:	#345
Season:	26
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Troublesome Kindness
Dubbed episode:	999
English airdate:	March 15, 2023 (Tubi)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Hand Dryer
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Junichi Iioka Chisato Matsuda
Storyboard:	Chonin Kamikawa
Episode director:	Ryota Kawahara
Animation director:	Seiji Muta and Nobuyuki Iwai (supervisors) Keiko Sasaki Asuka Tsubuki Miho Tanaka (asst.) Marie Nagano (asst.) Hirona Okada (asst.) Rei Masunaga (asst.) Masakazu Yamazaki (asst.)
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Kyoko Yoshimi (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi as Wataru Takagi Yasuhiro Mamiya as Tomoya Kusano Fuminori Komatsu as Shin Kotani Junji Majima as Hajime Yamanashi Taro Kiuchi as Kotani's boss Motoki Sakuma as Suspicious man Daisuke Kasuya as Shop employee Miki Natsutani as Akiho Yamanashi
Music
Opening song:	JUST BELIEVE YOU
Closing song:	Reboot

Troublesome Kindness (迷惑な親切心 ,Meiwakuna Shinsetsushin) is the 999th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi

Gadgets

Gadgets
Stun-Gun Wristwatch Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are in a restaurant, when they overheard Tomoya Kusano talking about his kindness to his friend Hajime Yamanashi. Conan notice an angry suspicious man in hoodie. Later, Tomoya Kusano is found dead in the toilet.

Murder
	Location: Toilet Victim: Tomoya Kusano Age: 30 years old Cause of death: Blunt force trauma Suspects: Shin Kotani

The police investigate the scene and the man in hoodie, Shin Kotani, seems worried. Is he the culprit?

People

Tomoya Kusano
	Victim (bludgeoned) 30 years old Office worker Do-Gooder

Shin Kotani
	32 years old Customer

Hajime Yamanashi
	30 years old Office worker Tomoya's co-worker

Man A
	Soba restaurant employee

Man B
	Shin's ex-employer Metalworking company president

Suspicious man
	Man who Kusano called the police on for being suspicious

Police officer
	Tokyo MPD Police officer

Forensics officer
	Tokyo MPD CSI officer

Old woman
	Elder

Resolution

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The culprit is Hajime Yamanashi. He attacked Tomoya while he was using the hand dryer in the bathroom, then used a roll of toilet paper to keep the hand dryer running. The evidence is a button from his jacket that was found in the toilet drain. His motive was that Tomoya indirectly caused his sister Akiho’s death after she unfortunately witnessed a murder and was chased by the murderer.

She was able to run to a police box, but there was no one there since the police officer was with Tomoya, who called them only because he saw a suspicious man outside his house. In the end, Akiho was also murdered, and Hajime, after hearing Tomoya's story and learning that he was responsible, decided to get revenge, so he killed Tomoya. It is revealed that Shin Kotani also wanted to murder Tomoya with the same method that Hajime used because he had caused him to be fired from his job, but he refused to do it and decided to stay calm in the restaurant.

Homicide (Past)
	Location: Near the police box Victims: Akiho Yamanashi and an unnamed office worker Age: 25 years old (Akiho) Cause of death: Stab wound Culprit: Unnamed killer

Akiho Yamanashi
	Deceased (stabbed) 25 years old Hajime's younger sister

Man D
	Deceased (stabbed) Office worker

Man E
	Akiho and the man's murderer

In the end, while waiting for the elevator, Kogoro wants to help an old woman, but the old woman thinks that Kogoro wants to rob her, so she quickly get into the elevator, not allowing Kogoro, Ran, and Conan in.

Trivia

• The first director responsible for the Detective Conan anime and movies, Kenji Kodama, under the pseudonym Chonin Kamikawa, did the storyboard for this episode.
• The police cars from Mystery of the Burning Tent and The Kendo Tournament of Love and Mystery reappeared.
• The hand dryer is a Dyson Airblade.

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	Una bona voluntat problemàtica	A problematic goodwill
French (Subbed)	Une gentillesse malvenue	The unwelcome kindness
Thai	การมีน้ำใจที่น่ารำคาญ	An annoying kindness
Vietnamese	Lòng tốt gây phiền toái

See also

• Season 26