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As the children contemplate Takedera's mishap, they witness Nakashima and Trummelperlman laying down flowers at the stair bottom and paying their respects to the deceased, Yasuo Hanzaki. When questioned about the accident, Nakashima produces her smartphone and shows them the video, which has by happenstance recorded the incident. The two women also confess that following Takedera's request of taking a picture of him, they had quickly realized that this must have been a prank and had played along just to humor him. The Detective Boys begin to reconstruct the details of the incident and realize that it may have actually been foul play since, considering the distance between the top and the bottom of the stairs, Hanzaki likely could not have recognized the costumed Takedera as an alien. | As the children contemplate Takedera's mishap, they witness Nakashima and Trummelperlman laying down flowers at the stair bottom and paying their respects to the deceased, Yasuo Hanzaki. When questioned about the accident, Nakashima produces her smartphone and shows them the video, which has by happenstance recorded the incident. The two women also confess that following Takedera's request of taking a picture of him, they had quickly realized that this must have been a prank and had played along just to humor him. The Detective Boys begin to reconstruct the details of the incident and realize that it may have actually been foul play since, considering the distance between the top and the bottom of the stairs, Hanzaki likely could not have recognized the costumed Takedera as an alien. | ||
| + | Deciding to investigate, the Detective Boys decide to question Hanzaki's next-door neighbour, Tsuneyuki Tamai. Tsuneyuki is able to tell them that Hanzaki was unemployed after having been laid off from his factory job, and was blackmailing someone, which makes the Detective Boys suspect that the blackmailee is very likely Hanzaki's murderer as well. Since Hanzaki habitually left his apartment door unlocked, the Detective Boys enter to look for clues, but all they find is an ashtray full of cigarette stubs, a lot of karaoke giveaway dolls, and a note from an ear, nose and throat clinic. But after some thinking, Tsuneyuki remembers a phone conversation between Hanzaki and his blackmail victim which suggests that Hanzaki was attempting to force him to give him his old job back. However, Hanzaki used to work for a mere subcontractor for the prestigious firm Sank Heavy Industries, which was not satisfyingly profitable. | ||
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{{People|Yasuo Hanzaki|Yasuo Hanzaki.jpg| | {{People|Yasuo Hanzaki|Yasuo Hanzaki.jpg| | ||
* Victim (fell) | * Victim (fell) | ||
| − | * 42 years old}} | + | * 42 years old |
| + | * unemployed}} | ||
{{People|Kota Matsumoto|Kota Matsumoto.jpg| | {{People|Kota Matsumoto|Kota Matsumoto.jpg| | ||
* 6 years old | * 6 years old | ||
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{{People|Tsuneyuki Tamai|Tsuneyuki Tamai.jpg| | {{People|Tsuneyuki Tamai|Tsuneyuki Tamai.jpg| | ||
* 40 years old | * 40 years old | ||
| − | * Hanzaki's neighbor}} | + | * Hanzaki's neighbor |
| + | * unemployed}} | ||
{{People|Akira Omi|Akira Omi.jpg| | {{People|Akira Omi|Akira Omi.jpg| | ||
* 26 years old | * 26 years old | ||
| − | * | + | * Production Manager at Sanko Industries}} |
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=== Resolution === | === Resolution === | ||
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| − | + | Just after they leave the clinic, however, Genta remembers how he had mentioned the details of the incident to Tsuneyuki during their visit, but that Tsuneyuki did not reveal the facts the Detective Boys had to find out on their own. Immediately suspecting what Tsuneyuki is up to, they race to the temple, where they find Tsuneyuki attempting to blackmail the culrpit - '''Akira Omi''' - with the same conditions as Hanzaki did, and Omi attempting to throw him down the stairs to silence his new would-be extorter. | |
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| + | Omi was being blackmailed by Hanzaki after the latter once witnessed him shoplifting from a convenience store. At first Hanzaki demanded money, but since Omi worked at a renowned firm and thus earned a more sizeable salary than Hanzaki ever had, he demaned that Omi should get him a job at Sanko Industries. This, however, proved to be the final straw which drove Omi to murder him. By suggesting to Takedera that he should disguise himself as an alien to do Kota a favor, he set his kind colleague up as a scapegoat and used the plan to make his murder attempt look like an accident, with witnesses to report it. | ||
| − | However, the decisive evidence for Omi's guilt is that Hanzaki was suffering from an inflammation of his throat at the time of his death, rendering him unable to speak at normal volume, much less shout. Nakashima's video recorded the shouting voice quite clearly, so with a proper analysis the fact that it was really Omi shouting can be easily established. | + | However, the decisive evidence for Omi's guilt is that, due to his heavy smoking and passion for karaoke, Hanzaki was suffering from an inflammation of his throat at the time of his death, rendering him unable to speak at normal volume, much less shout. In fact, Omi had knocked Hanzaki out the moment he arrived, then loaded Hanzaki on his back and waited for Takedera to make his appearance before shouting and then casting Hanzaki off his back and down the stairs. Nakashima's video recorded the shouting voice quite clearly, so with a proper analysis the fact that it was really Omi shouting can be easily established. |
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| Title: | The Disappointing and Kind Alien | ||
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| Japanese title: | 残念でやさしい宇宙人 (Zannen de Yasashii Uchūbito?) | ||
| Original airdate: | May 7, 2016 | ||
| Filler case: | #256 | ||
| Season: | 24 | ||
| Manga source: | TV Original | ||
| Cast: | Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Detective Boys | ||
| Case solved by: | Conan Edogawa | ||
| Next Conan's Hint: | Cold medicine | ||
| Director: | Yasuichiro Yamamoto | ||
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| Opening song: | Hane | ||
| Closing song: | Futari no Byōshin | ||
The Disappointing and Kind Alien (残念でやさしい宇宙人 Zannen de Yasashii Uchūbito) is the 816th episode of the Detective Conan anime.
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Case
Situation
One night, two office workers named Arisa Nakashima and Susan Trummelperman are on their way home when they suddenly meet what appears to be an alien appearing at the lower end of a set of stairs from an abandoned temple. The two women are frightened, but then the alien announces, "We are extraterrestrials" while tapping its throat, and asks them to take a picture of them all and publicize it. Amused by this proposition, the two women cheerfully agree to this proposition and pose for a picture and even a video clip with Nakashima's smartphone. Suddenly, they hear a man yelling in fear, "It's an alien!", and then the body of a man comes tumbling down the stairs from above. As it comes to rest at the bottom and the frightened women and their extraterrestrial friend gather around it, the "alien" reveals himself to be a costumed man.
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The morning after that, the Detective Boys investigated the scene and begin to suspect the costumed man to be responsible for a prank gone wrong. However, they are met by a boy named Kota Matsumoto who claims that the incident was actually his fault: The culprit, Hitoshi Takedera, is an acquaintance of his, a kind office worker who plays with the children on his off-days at the children's center. Kota is a firm believer that aliens are mankind's friends. When a bully from his class claims otherwise, it apparently inspired Takedera to dress up as an alien and find witnesses to spread the benevolence "fact" in order to do his young friend a favor.
As the children contemplate Takedera's mishap, they witness Nakashima and Trummelperlman laying down flowers at the stair bottom and paying their respects to the deceased, Yasuo Hanzaki. When questioned about the accident, Nakashima produces her smartphone and shows them the video, which has by happenstance recorded the incident. The two women also confess that following Takedera's request of taking a picture of him, they had quickly realized that this must have been a prank and had played along just to humor him. The Detective Boys begin to reconstruct the details of the incident and realize that it may have actually been foul play since, considering the distance between the top and the bottom of the stairs, Hanzaki likely could not have recognized the costumed Takedera as an alien.
Deciding to investigate, the Detective Boys decide to question Hanzaki's next-door neighbour, Tsuneyuki Tamai. Tsuneyuki is able to tell them that Hanzaki was unemployed after having been laid off from his factory job, and was blackmailing someone, which makes the Detective Boys suspect that the blackmailee is very likely Hanzaki's murderer as well. Since Hanzaki habitually left his apartment door unlocked, the Detective Boys enter to look for clues, but all they find is an ashtray full of cigarette stubs, a lot of karaoke giveaway dolls, and a note from an ear, nose and throat clinic. But after some thinking, Tsuneyuki remembers a phone conversation between Hanzaki and his blackmail victim which suggests that Hanzaki was attempting to force him to give him his old job back. However, Hanzaki used to work for a mere subcontractor for the prestigious firm Sank Heavy Industries, which was not satisfyingly profitable.
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| Episodes of Season 24 | ||
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