The Spiral of Rain and Malice

Chronology
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Episode 1062 (Int. Episode 1119)
Information
Title:	The Spiral of Rain and Malice
Japanese title:	雨と悪意のスパイラル (Ame to Akui no Supairaru)
Original airdate:	November 5, 2022
Broadcast rating:	6.9%
Filler case:	#377
Season:	31
Manga source:	TV Original
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Ai Haibara Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Ryusuke Higo
Case solved by:	Wataru Takagi
Next Conan's Hint:	Earrings
Staff
Director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto Nobuharu Kamanaka
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Hatsuki Tsuji
Episode director:	Masahiro Takada
Animation director:	Seiji Muta (supervisor) Akio Kawamura
Character design:	Masatomo Sudo Masanori Hashimoto (sub-character) Hiroshi Ogawa (design works)
Production cooperation:	BIG BANG
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Wataru Takagi Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Megumi Hayashibara as Ai Haibara Chafurin as Juzo Megure Isshin Chiba as Kazunobu Chiba Hitomi Nabatame as Tamaki Onda Kanae Ito as Yurina Shirosaki Daichi Endo as Ryuji Koyabu Momoko Noji as Kinu Kawai Koji Marunaka as Boss Nodoka Hasegawa as Newscaster
Music
Opening song:	SPARKLE
Closing song:	Playmaker

The Spiral of Rain and Malice (雨と悪意のスパイラル ,Ame to Akui no Supairaru) is the 1062nd episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ayumi Yoshida Genta Kojima Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Ai Haibara Juzo Megure Wataru Takagi Kazunobu Chiba Ryusuke Higo (cellphone puppet)

Case

Situation

Murder (?)
	Location: Shikigawa river, Tokyo Metropolis Victim: Tamaki Onda Age: 38 years old Time: Between midnight and 2 AM Cause of death: Drowning, beating or blood loss Suspects: Ryuji Koyabu and Yurina Shirosaki

People

Tamaki Onda
	Victim (blood loss?) 38 years old Design company representative

Yurina Shirosaki
	25 years old Onda's subordinate

Ryuji Koyabu
	32 years old Cheetah Delivery employee Ex-convict

Man A
	Cheetah Delivery employee Koyabu's boss

Man B
	Cheetah Delivery employee Koyabu's co-worker

Kinu Kawai
	Old lady with dog

Dog
	Kawai's dog

Woman
	Newcaster

Resolution

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It turns out that Onda's death was accidental. She first had a fight with Yurina Shirosaki, which left her unconscious and bleeding. Several hours later, during the rain, she woke up and, disoriented, ventured in the nearby neighborhood. She was then hit by Ryuji Koyabu's truck, but struggled and managed to climb inside. She then asked Koyabu to drive her back to the river, where she went to retrieve Shirosaki's lost earring. She then took refuge inside the car and died there, having lost too much blood. Both suspects didn't come back in time to find her, and didn't notice her in the car. As it turns out the motive was that Shirosaki had some designs to show Onda, but she made a mistake and was embarrassed to show her. They both struggled over the tablet and ended with Shirosaki striking Onda on the head. Shirosaki revealed that Onda had been especially hard on her and that combined with the mistake she made on the design caused her to lose control. However, Conan reveals that Shirosaki most likely has the voice recorder that Onda had used before they met. The recorder which looks like a brooch is found in her purse and played by Takagi revealing that Onda had already known about the mistakes that Shirosaki had made on the designs. Along with that Chiba reveals that they questioned one of the other employees and revealed that the reason why Onda was so hard with her was because she wanted Shirosaki to be her successor, hearing this she breaks down realizing that she had misunderstood Onda's intentions.

Trivia

• After Kogoro Mouri's Grand Lecture, screenplay writer Junichi Miyashita returned Detective Conan after an absence of three years.

Quotes

The truth captured by the two recorders wasn't murderous intent, but a spiral of misfortune that led to her death.
(２つのレコーダーがとらえた真実、それは殺意以前の死に至る負けのスパイラルだった。)

—Conan Edogawa

See also

• Season 31