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Kazunobu Chiba

Kazunobu Chiba Profile.jpg

Profile
Japanese name: 千葉 和伸
(Chiba Kazunobu)
English name: Detective Chiba
Age: 24-25[1][2]
Gender: Male
Relatives: Older brother (Yoichiro Chiba)[citation needed] on that name
Occupation: Police Detective
Statistics
First appearance: Manga: File 269
Anime: Episode 138
Appearances: Chapters: 101
Episodes: 220
Movies: 17
OVAs: 1
Specials: 1
Openings: 20
Closings: 6
Keyhole number: Volume 33
Actors
Japanese voice: Isshin Chiba
English voice: Chris Cason

Kazunobu Chiba (千葉 和伸 Chiba Kazunobu?), commonly referred to as Detective Chiba (千葉刑事 Chiba-keiji?), is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. Chiba is a detective in the Tokyo district, and very often works alongside Inspector Megure and Wataru Takagi. His main duty appears to be to obtain information outside of the crime scenes. Sometimes, he will even go out and substitute as inspector when Megure is busy on another case. He is a childhood friend and the love interest of Naeko Miike.

Background

A young Chiba

Initially, he was introduced with a minor cameo in The Final Screening Murder Case, as well as a minor role in the 4th Detective Conan Movie. He later takes more of a noticeable role throughout the series.

Chiba attended Teitan Elementary School, in the 20th graduating class, 2 classes below Sumiko Kobayashi. Since childhood, he has a tendency to sweat.[3]

Chiba currently works in the Second violent crimes investigative division, section 3.[4]

Personality

Chiba can be serious, but he is shown to be a mostly light-hearted officer. He loves to eat and is sometimes shown stuffing his face, usually with burgers and sodas, but usually this is merely done for comic effect. Chiba can be very supportive, and is a big help, especially for using his size to catch criminals. He, as well as Yumi Miyamoto, is very supportive for Takagi's relationship and feelings for Sato, and is one of the few officers in the Tokyo district to not get involved in Shiratori's schemes to get the couple to break up.

A very notable trait of Chiba praised by his colleagues in Law Enforcement is that he would always follow and uphold the law no matter what the circumstances are, especially when it is he who breaks it. This is one of the main reasons why Naeko liked him in the first place; it was because he scolded her over a traffic violation, saying that doing the wrong thing will develop into a habit that's hard to get rid of. This event also inspired Naeko to join the Police Force as a traffic cop.

He has been a huge fan of tokusatsu shows like Kamen Yaiba and Gomera for a long time, and was a member of the broadcasting committee at his elementary school. For a project, he and the other club members made a tokusatsu film called Kamen Baiya. Since then his enjoyment tokusatsu has grown and his apartment seems to be covered in figurines based on the characters.

Chiba seems to be very knowledgeable about Betamax tapes He has a habit of checking VHS tapes to see if they were rewound. He believes he picked this habit up from his older brother.[3]

Appellations

Plot overview

Chiba's first manga appearance.

Sato's Father Case (Manga: 269, Anime 205-206)

Kazunobu Chiba makes his debut in the manga series.

Sato's Omiai Case (Manga: 328-330, Anime 253-254)

Takagi and Chiba work together to catch a robber despite conflicting witness statements. Once they finally discover the identity of the robber, he flees. After catching him, Chiba sends Takagi to stop the Omiai by saying "You're a detective right?, then like a detective... go after your target until the time actually runs out!"

Takagi's Last Case (Manga: 450-452, Anime: 390-391)

Chiba's roommate becomes the main suspect of a murder case. As a result Takagi, Sato, and the Detective Boys search the apartment for clues. The room is covered over with toys from the Kamen Yaiba and Gomera franchises. He tracks his tv programs using the newspaper listings and posts sticky notes of the times on his television.

Group Date Kidnapping Case (Manga: 511-514, Anime: 431-432)

Chiba invites Takagi on a group date to make the numbers even. The leader of the group is Chiba's middle school friend Emoto. Emoto mentions that Chiba had wanted to be a police officer since he was a kid. Emoto's sister happened to be friends with Yumi, who also dragged Sato along. After it is realized that a kid was left alone, the group agrees to go get him, however it seems that Chiba and Yumi are too drunk and they get left in the car.

Hammer Man Case (Manga: 625-627, Anime: 530-531)

Takagi is surprised when Sato tries to kiss him while on a stakeout, pretending they are a couple. When he mentions this to Chiba, he says that he has been on stakeout with Sato in the past where they also had pretended to be boyfriend and girlfriend. Chiba says that it was a warm feeling which makes Takagi jealous. Later Chiba asks Takagi how far his relationship with Sato has progressed, and reveals that in the past he and Sato had only held hands while she glared at the culprit. This makes Takagi rethink why Sato tried to kiss him.

VHS Tape of Memories (Manga: 741-742, Anime: 624)

UFO Murder Case (Manga: 942, Anime: Unknown)

A fan of Chiba's sends him a package with his full name written on it as "Kazunobu Chiba".


Non-Canon Plot Overview

Chiba's original appearance in Episode 138

Prior to Manga Appearances

The Final Screening Murder Case (Manga: 222-224, Anime: 138-139)

Chiba's first appearance in the Anime. He was inserted into a Manga canon episode despite still being an Anime Original character at the time.

Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes

Very minor appearances

Relationships analysis

Family & Friends

Wataru Takagi

Chiba's thoughts on Takagi and Sato.

Takagi and Chiba are fellow officers in the 1st investigative division (Homicides) of the Metropolian Police, and very good friends and partners. In fact, Chiba was the only male officer in the department who did not harbor an obsessive crush on Sato and would even assist Takagi in his endeavors to win her heart.[8] Takagi has even spent the night at Chiba's appartment multiple times and borrowed his T-shirts. [9]

Miwako Sato

Chiba is the only male officer who does not have a crush on Sato and they are shown to be just friends. However in the past they have gone on stakeout's two or three times together where they pretended to be boyfriend and girlfriend by holding hands, so Sato could glare at the culprit over Chiba's shoulders. [10]

Ninzaburo Shiratori

Chiba seems to be supportive of Shiratori's relationship and makes fun of him in front of Kobayashi in a similar way to how he treats Takagi.

Naeko Miike

Chiba and Naeko were childhood friends and attended Teitan Elementary together where they both joined the school broadcasting committee (although Naeko only joined because Chiba did). When Naeko was to move away, Chiba wrote down his feelings in a love letter. Naeko wrote her response on the side of a VHS in the committee storage room, hoping Chiba's sweating habit would cause the message "I like you, too" to show up on his hands after grabbing the tape. Unfortunately, Chiba couldn't find the right tape and never got the message.

On the day of his elementary school reunion, Chiba returned to the school and searched for the tape again. With the help of Conan and the Detective Boys, he finally finds the message and heads for the reunion. Unfortunately Naeko doesn't show, and he hears from a former classmate that she said she is "now with the one she loved". Depressed, Chiba immediately leaves and finds a lady traffic cop giving him a ticket. When the officer offers to forget about the ticket since he is a fellow officer, Chiba scolds her for offering to ignore his illegal parking. Chiba leaves with the ticket, but then wonders how the girl knew he was a detective. The officer turns out to be Naeko, who has just been transferred to the police headquarters in Tokyo (working under Yumi) and looks forward to working with the one she loves.[3]

Sakurako Yonehara

Chiba remembers that the person who created the message on the VHS tape (Naeko) was good friends with Sakurako, and they were always together. Sakurako was in the grade level below Chiba.

[[Chiba's Older brother

Chiba's older brother worked at a video store where he was required to open the heads of VHS tapes to see if the video had been rewound. Chiba has picked this habit up from him because he thought it was cool.

Mio Ashida

Mio Ashida from episode 666.

Mio Ashida, age 23, is an office worker from The Rainy Night Menace. She was his first love.

Name origin

Chiba's name comes from his voice actor Isshin Chiba. The kanji for Isshin (一伸 ?) can also be pronounced as "Kazunobu", which was the voice actor's original name. Gosho gave the character a given name with different kanji that are still pronounced as "Kazunobu" (和伸 ?). His original physical appearance was modeled after him as well.

SDB70+ : Q73: Have you established detective Chiba’s first name?
A: His voice actor’s is Isshin… It might just become Isshin. But everyone with “一” (ichi) in their name is a cool guy… I don’t know what to do. (laughs)

He effectively removed the "一" (ichi) in Isshin Chiba (千葉 一伸 ?) and changed it to a "和" which can be read as "Kazu" for the original name Kazunobu Chiba (千葉 和伸 ?).

Different looks

Chiba's "Before" Appearance (Episode 138)
Chiba's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 363)
Chiba's "After" Appearance (Episode 666)
Chiba after dieting (temporary)

Quotes

If you break the rules and let yourself off the hook even once, it'll become a habit! You might think you can break a habit, but you can't!

— Kazunobu Chiba to Naeko Miike[11]

Trivia

  • His given name was reveled more than 500 chapters after his first appearance.
  • Chiba has a scar on his right palm from falling down in the rain as a child.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Volume 71, File 742: "Love Transcending 13 years": Chiba was in the 6th grade 13 years ago, when he was about 11-12 years old, which would make him about 24-25 in the current timeline.
  2. ^ Volume 71, File 741 and Volume 80, File 848, Page 11: Chiba was two grade below Kobayashi (who's exactly 26) and one grade above Sakurako (who's exactly 23).
  3. ^ a b c Manga Chapters 741~742: The VHS of Memory Case
  4. ^ Manga Chapter 792 page 4
  5. ^ a b Detective Conan 80 + Super Digest Book - p121
  6. ^ a b Detective Conan 80 + Super Digest Book - p113
  7. ^ Detective Conan 80 + Super Digest Book - p130
  8. ^ File 330: Sato's Feelings
  9. ^ Azusa's Brother Case
  10. ^ Hammer Man Case
  11. ^ Volume 71, File 742
  12. ^ File 742
Main Characters
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Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Juzo MegureWataru TakagiMiwako SatoNinzaburo ShiratoriYumi MiyamotoKazunobu ChibaNaeko MiikeGinzo NakamoriShintaro ChakiInspector YuminagaKiyonaga MatsumotoHyoue KurodaInspector MomoseChosuke Takagi (Tottori) • Jinpei Matsuda (deceased) • Kenji Hagiwara (deceased) • Wataru Date (deceased) • Masayoshi Sato (deceased) • Officer Tome (ao) • Toshiro Odagiri (ao) • Detective Kobayashi (ao) • Detective Yokoyama (ao) • Detective Kojima (ao) • Superintendent General HakubaManabu FujimakiDetective TakikawaDetective NakamuraDetective FukuiDetective KawanakaDetective SaitohDetective HoritaDetective TakanoDetective SogawaDetective OkumuraDetective SugitaDetective Hirota (ao) • Officer NumataDetective Terashima (ao) • Toshio Moroboshi (ao) • Female forensics member (ao) • Detective MiyazakiDetective TomokawaTadayoshi Uno (ao) • Detective Yama (ao) • Inspector Yuminaga's assistant
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Nagano Prefectural Police Kansuke YamatoYui UeharaTaka'aki Morofushi (Komei)
Kanagawa Prefectural Police Jugo YokomizoChihaya Hagiwara
Hokkaido Prefectural Police Kyohei NishimuraDetective Tamura
Kyoto Prefectural Police Fumimaro AyanokojiDetective Kurumazaki (ao)
Shizuoka Prefectural Police Sango YokomizoTomonori Ogawara (ao) • Detective Tsukumo
Other Prefectures Misao Yamamura (Gunma) • Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno (ao, Nara) • Tamekichi Matsushiro (ao, Gifu) • Shoji Terabayashi (Chiba)
Japanese Intelligence Agencies Rei FuruyaYuya KazamiHiromitsu Morofushi (deceased)
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