Shiho Miyano

Shiho Miyano
Profile
Japanese name:	宮野 志保 (Miyano Shiho)
English name:	Shiho Miyano
Age:	Estimated to be 18, 6 or 7 (as Ai Haibara)
Gender:	Female
Date of birth:	Unknown
Relatives:	Akemi Miyano (older sister, deceased) Elena Miyano (mother, deceased) Atsushi Miyano (father, deceased)
Aliases:	Ai Haibara (alias) Sherry
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: Chapter 16 (In a silhouette) / Chapter 241 (1st full appearance) Anime: Episode 177
Appearances:	Chapters: 22 Chapters: 2 Chapters: 1 Episodes: 20 Episodes: 1 Movies: 2 Specials: 2 Openings: 7 Closings: 3
Actors
Japanese voice:	Megumi Hayashibara
Drama actor:	Yu Kashii (Sherry)

Shiho Miyano (宮野 志保 ,Miyano Shiho) is a former Black Organization researcher codenamed "Sherry" who was working on APTX 4869. After the Organization killed her sister, she took APTX 4869 to commit suicide but shrank instead. She fled the Organization and now currently goes under the alias of Ai Haibara.

Background

Shiho Miyano and her older sister, Akemi Miyano were born into the secret crime syndicate known unofficially as the Black Organization. Shiho's English mother, Elena Miyano, and Japanese father, Atsushi Miyano were both were important researchers for the Organization. They both died in what other members of the Organization described as an accident while Shiho was very young.

While Akemi lived a normal life, Shiho was sent to America as a small child to go to school and was groomed to finish her parents' research on APTX 4869.. Most of her time in America was lonely; she ate lunch alone, and was otherwise isolated from peers for being different. Despite the difficult social situation, Shiho was an academic prodigy, and by the age of thirteen she was working as a highly ranked scientist for the Organization. Her codename in the Organization is "Sherry", after the alcoholic drink.

Shiho was about 18 years old when she developed the most current incarnation of the experimental test compound APTX 4869. Although it was not her intended purpose, she discovered that it could be used as a poison to kill without leaving any traces of itself in a body. While researching its effects, Shiho noticed that one of her lab mice had become younger after being given the drug instead of dying. Meanwhile, the Black Organization started using APTX 4869 to commit untraceable murders.

After the death of her sister at the hands of Gin, she later escaped the Organization after she took APTX 4869 to commit suicide but shrank instead to elementary school child age. She was found and adopted by Hiroshi Agasa and began living under the alias Ai Haibara.

Personality

Initially, Shiho was very cynical which was reflected in her valuing her own security above idealistic principles of justice. She also did not wish to become close to others. While schooling in America, she ate lunch alone. It was only by repeatedly approaching her that the Detective Boys and Ran finally become her friends. Shiho was also untrusting of others in general, and preferred to put on an expressionless, cold front while bottling up her pain and sadness. Shiho's views about death were complex and at times contradictory. She was prepared to likely kill Kichiro Numabuchi with APTX 4869 as part of her tests, but on the other hand, she detested the Organization's use of APTX as a killing tool and Conan labeling her as a murderer.

Shiho speaks very formally.

Changes as Ai Haibara

Her time Ai Haibara has softened her personality, made her more optimistic and open to Conan's idealistic pursuit of justice.

Appearance

Shiho is a thin woman of average height with naturally wavy auburn hair at mid neck length. Although she is multiracial, she is Japanese looking.

Abilities and skills

Biochemistry

Shiho is a biochemical genius, taking up her parents' research work on APTX 4869 for the Organization by at the age of thirteen after going to school in America.

Medical knowledge

Shiho has demonstrated knowledge of medicine, recognizing the symptoms of Shiratori's subdural hematoma. Using knowledge of osteology, she also is able to deduce a long decayed woman's ambulatory condition.

"Black Organization sense"

Shiho has the ability to sense when Black Organization members are around, which she characterizes as their unique "smell" or "pressure". So far, her sense only detects Black Organization members and not people with malevolent intent generally, however it doesn't always trigger when Black Organization members are present nor does it reveal their numbers. Sometimes the sense is fleeting (Okiya), or context sensitive (when Akemi was planning the bank robbery).

Pain tolerance

Like other Black Organization members, Shiho has also demonstrated a strong tolerance for pain. She climbs up a chimney while extremely sick from the effects of Baijiu-induced regrowth. She then crawls back to the chimney after she is shot multiple times by Gin on the frigid snowy roof. She still maintains consciousness after falling down the chimney and experiencing the agony of reverting back to Ai Haibara. Nowhere during this ordeal or her rescue afterwards did she cry from the pain.

Plot overview

Prior to Escape

After being orphaned by the death of her parents at a young age, Shiho was groomed to take over their APTX 4869 research project. She was educated overseas in America before returning to Japan at or before she was 13. She became a high ranking member, codenamed Sherry, in the Organization's internal drug development division. When she was about 13, undercover FBI agent Shuichi Akai began dating Shiho's sister Akemi Miyano in order use Shiho's rank to his advantage while infiltrating the Organization.

During the 5+ years Shiho worked in the Organization lab, Akemi was Shiho's lifeline to normalcy and her primary emotional support within the darkness of the Organization. Akemi would arrange meetings with Shiho in restaurants and such to chat about current happenings, and Shiho would sometimes tell Akemi about her Organization activities, although it appears she did not go into much detail. Akemi would also send Shiho floppies of pictures of her travels and friends which Shiho would quickly look at. During this time, Shiho accidentally mixed up the disks and mailed a disk of extremely sensitive information back to Akemi by mistake. The disk eventually would up in the hands of Akemi's professor friend Masami Hirota.

Search team were sent to Kudo's house to investigate.

Closer to the beginning of the current timeline, Shiho Miyano was ordered to test the most recent, yet still incomplete, version of APTX 4869 on Kichiro Numabuchi, a failed assassin. Shiho received the data about him, but he managed to escape the Organization before she could test it on him. Shiho fled the Organization herself soon after, so her superiors never found a substitute test subject. Shinichi Kudo wound up being the first "guinea pig" of APTX 4869 according to Gin who decided to use the newly approved poison to kill him after Shinichi witnessed a Black Organization transaction.

Unaware of the APTX 4869's rare deaging side effect when they used it on Shinichi Kudo, the Black Organization ordered a search for him because his body had not been found. As the creator of the drug, Shiho was part of the team who searched Shinichi's house twice to confirm his death. She began to suspect Shinichi's transformation when she noticed his clothes from primary school had disappeared between the first and second searches. Sometime earlier, one mouse dosed with APTX 4869 had become younger, so she suspected something similar had happened to Shinichi. Shiho did not want the Black Organization to kill such an interesting "test subject" before she could examine him, so Shiho confirmed Shinichi as deceased so the organization would not look into the matter further. Shiho later met with Akemi and told her that she went to Kudo's house in Beika city to "look after something".

Akemi's robbery plan and death

Conan's picture in the newspaper article about Akemi Miyano's death. Shiho remembered Conan from this picture.

Meanwhile, Akemi Miyano wished that she and Shiho could leave the Black Organization. The Black Organization itself was in an awkward position as Akemi had been in love with the FBI spy Shuichi Akai whose true allegiance had since been uncovered when Shiho was about 16. The Organization could not simply kill Akemi because that would jeopardize the loyalty of Shiho, who was valuable to the Organization's research efforts. Exasperated, the Organization came up with a trap for Akemi; they told her that she could leave the Organization with Shiho if she would rob 10 billion yen from a bank for them. The Organization expected Akemi to fail which would give them the excuse to eliminate her while keeping Shiho loyal; however Akemi, with a team of robbers, succeeded in obtaining the money.

In the event of her success, the Organization had designed the second part of the robbery plan so that Akemi's assistants would kill each other or be unintentionally killed by the unwitting Akemi. However one accomplice had fled, forcing Akemi to use detective Kogoro Mouri to find him. After her first meeting with Kogoro, Akemi met with Shiho again. Akemi had not told Shiho about the robbery plan, but it seems that Shiho's detection of the Black Organization aura from Akemi and gossip had made Shiho aware that Akemi had done something dangerous. Without telling Shiho about the robbery, Akemi redirected the conversation to Conan Edogawa whom Akemi said was brilliant and had the composure of an adult. This conversation likely helped Shiho uncover Conan's identity as the missing Shinichi.

Later, after all the accomplices were killed, Akemi planned to hand access to the money over to Gin and Vodka at the shipyard. Instead, Gin murdered Akemi. A newspaper took a photo of the crime scene that included Conan looking downcast. Shiho later identified Conan using it.

Shiho already resented the Organization using the incomplete APTX 4869 for killing purposes, but the news of Akemi's death was the final straw that induced Shiho to boycott her research until she received an official explanation for why her sister was killed. The Organization refused, and faced with the possibility Shiho could defect or do something else drastic in revenge, decided to cut their loses by executing Shiho.

Shiho swallows the APTX 4869

Escape From the Black Organization

Awaiting her execution, Shiho was handcuffed to a wall in a sealed room that also featured a garbage chute too small for an adult to fit in. With no other way out, she took a pill of APTX 4869 she had pocketed to commit suicide before she could be killed, but instead she shrunk into a six or seven year old girl. In her new smaller body, she slipped her hand free of the cuff and used the garbage chute to escape the sealed room. She then attempted to reach Shinichi's house, hoping he may be able to help her. Exhausted, she collapsed in front of Kudo's house, where she was found by Professor Agasa, who eventually adopted her. After this, Shiho Miyano took up the role of Ai Haibara. It turned out later that Agasa was a professional acquaintance of her parents and had spoken some with her father, Atsushi Miyano, even though Agasa didn't know at that time the Miyanos had children.

Shiho as Haibara Ai, colored by Aoyama Gosho.

Reunion with the Black Organization

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Shiho shot by Gin.

In Reunion with the Black Organization, Conan and Ai find Gin's Porsche by chance. Conan plants a tracker and transmitter in the parked car and eavesdrop on Gin and Vodka when they return. Gin calls an agent named Pisco and discusses part of a plan to kill someone at a mourning party that will take place at the Haido City Hotel. Gin tells Pisco he can use the "experimental detective" if needed. Gin then finds the tracker and destroys it, believing Sherry placed it there because he also found a single red hair that Haibara inadvertently lost while Conan was planting the bugs. Gin then warns Pisco about Sherry. Although initially reluctant, after hearing Pisco has APTX, Haibara decides to go to the party to try to obtain a sample. Pisco, who knew Shiho as a child, recognizes her as Haibara, kidnaps her using chloroform, and confines her in a wine storage room in another part of the hotel. He doesn't get the opportunity to tell anyone about his discovery because the police are rounding up suspects for the mourning party murder and he is one of them.

After Haibara wakes up, Conan tells Haibara to drink some baijiu in order to escape. While waiting for the change to occur, she copies some APTX data from a computer Pisco left behind onto a floppy disk. Haibara turns back into Shiho and changes into some leftover janitor clothes that Pisco left behind in the room as part of his disguise. Gin and Vodka break into the storage room looking for Pisco, but Shiho managed to hide herself just before they arrive by bracing her body in the chimney. Unfortunately, Gin hears her breathing and finds another one of her hairs. Instead of simply shooting her in the chimney, he goes to the roof to wait for her to finish climbing.

After she climbs out of the chimney, Shiho is confronted by Gin, who shoots her from behind. After exchanging some banter, Gin demands to know how Shiho escaped the locked chamber room when she escaped the Organization. Shiho remains silent, so Gin shoots her several more times non-fatally, hoping she will crack. Eventually, Gin and Vodka realize she won't talk, so Gin prepares to kill her. Conan meanwhile has arrived and darts Gin in the back. Using the voice changer to disguise his voice, Conan orders her to get back to the chimney. Vodka shoots Shiho just as she reaches the chimney, so Shiho falls down awkwardly.

At the bottom she reverts back into Ai Haibara while Pisco watched.

Finish later

Gin and Vodka recognize her and shoot her repeatedly until Conan appears. He shoots Gin with his needle, but Gin doesn't fall asleep. He tells Ai to jump into the chimney, and Vodka shoots at him, but he gets away. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm due to trying to stay awake. Inside, Pisco almost kills her, but Conan rescues her after Pisco accidentally causes a fire. Gin kills Pisco for failure before he's able to tell him the truth about Shiho. Worried that the organization is after her, Ai decides to leave the city.

Relationships analysis

Family & Friends

Akemi Miyano

After the death of Shiho's parents, Akemi became Shiho's only true ally within the darkness of the Black Organization. Through direct conversation and mail Akemi showed Shiho the normal side of life that Shiho was unable to experience. Akmei would often admonish Shiho gently, encouraging her to get a boyfriend. Akemi's death had enough emotional impact to convince Shiho to betray the Organization by boycotting her research even though she knew the act of defiance would likely result in her own death. Shiho greatly misses Akemi. In the non-canon Movie 5, Shiho's desire to hear Akemi's voice again, even if only a message on a message machine, was used by Gin and Vodka to nearly pinpoint Shiho's location.

Elena Miyano

Elena died when Shiho was young, so Shiho doesn't remember much of her. Elena left tapes for Shiho for each of her birthdays. Some of the messages are serious and mysterious, but others are more lighthearted and reveal things about Elena's past. It is clear from the tapes Elena loved Shiho very much, and Shiho misses her mother in turn and takes comfort in hearing her voice.

The Black Organization

Gin

Gin has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting for her, while she hates him. They may have had a romantic relationship in the past.

Vodka

Shiho and Vodka have met and are acquaintances.

Vermouth

Vermouth and Shiho have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Shiho fears Vermouth more than other Black Organization members except perhaps Gin. Shiho was Vermouth's target, but Vermouth gave up on her after Conan's intervention. If Shiho was in a romantic relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a sexual relationship with Gin.

Shuichi Akai

Shuichi Akai and Shiho are likely to have known each other via Akemi Miyano whom Akai was dating. Shiho knew Akai under his alias "Dai Moroboshi", but it is not known if she was aware of his defection and allegiance to the FBI. As Haibara, she is still afraid of and senses the "Black Organization aura" from Akai. Akai recognizes Haibara as Shiho, saying he is not willing to face her yet, likely over guilt related incidents culminating in Akemi's death.

In other languages

Shiho Miyano

Language	Given Name	Family Name
Japanese	志保Shiho	宮野Miyano
English	Shiho	Miyano
French	Shiho	Miyano
Spanish	Shiho	Miyano
German	Shiho	Miyano
Vietnamese	Shiho	Miyano
Korean	시호 Shi Ho	안 Ahn
Thai	ชิโฮ	มิยาโนะ

Sherry

Language	Name	Notes
Japanese	シェリー Sherry
English	Sherry	Once called Shelly due to a translating error.
French	Sherry
Spanish	Jerez/Sherry	In the Spanish dub, her codename was first "Jerez" and later changed into "Sherry".
German	Sherry
Vietnam	Sherry
Arabic	شيري Shirry
Thai	เชอรี่

See also

• Characters
• Ai Haibara
• Black Organization