sroesch 1 Report post Posted January 12, 2011 Granted, I haven't read every manga there is out there... but among what I have read, I've come across two other characters with the last name Kudo... In Ryo Saenagi's 3 book mini-series "Psychic Power Nanaki", there is Ao Kudo. He is twenty, but looks around fourteen to sixteen as his physical maturing literally stopped with the onset of his abilities - he can see/hear/talk to and exorcise ghosts, he has telepathy and can change one object into another... he usually carries around a stick, which he has on occasion turned into a gun, a bullet proof fan and a huge mat, which he used to catch Nanaki who had fallen from a great height. In that manga, according to the notes, the kanji of his name means either something blue or 'eternal immaturity' - which, due to his abilities, he does seem to be cursed with since he hasn't physically aged. He is a member of an auxiliary group to the police called the "Paranormal Task Force" or (for some reason unstated) the Lock Agency. In another manga, "Legal Drug" by Clamp, there is Kazahaya Kudo who has the ability of psychometry - only stronger... whenever he touches an object or person, he can read it's history and it's emotions - he lives and works at the Green Pharmacy, whose owner often sends him and his also gifted co-worker out to collect "special objects" that have psychic resonations. So... even though we all know DC is NOT that kind of manga... does anyone feel that Shinichi was cheated because he doesn't have a special ability? Or can we consider that the way he always seems to happen to be at the right place at the right/wrong (take your pick) time to catch a murderer as his special power? And for the record... I do not think that he is a Shinigami - NEVER! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chekhov MacGuffin 1089 Report post Posted January 12, 2011 Shinichi Kudo does have a brain like wikipedia for random facts that are critical for solving cases and great observational skills and deductive ability. As for magical powers, he can switch between his child and teenage form with a little help. He has a stare/bad intentions sensor. He also gets bad feelings whenever someone kicks the bucket. You already mentioned the "always in the right place when a crime occurs" ability. He can also telepathically send messages to Ran and realize she is in trouble from a distance somehow. It might be though that Ran is the one telepathically doing the sending and receiving. Anything I missed? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icka M. Chif 16 Report post Posted January 13, 2011 in Getbackers, there's Kudou Himiko, aka 'Poison Lady'. http://getbackers.wikia.com/wiki/Himiko_Kudo And one of the assassins from Weiss Kreuz, Kudou Yohji http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/jadeyes/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sroesch 1 Report post Posted January 13, 2011 Shinichi Kudo does have a brain like wikipedia for random facts that are critical for solving cases and great observational skills and deductive ability. As for magical powers, he can switch between his child and teenage form with a little help. He has a stare/bad intentions sensor. He also gets bad feelings whenever someone kicks the bucket. You already mentioned the "always in the right place when a crime occurs" ability. He can also telepathically send messages to Ran and realize she is in trouble from a distance somehow. It might be though that Ran is the one telepathically doing the sending and receiving. Anything I missed? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sroesch 1 Report post Posted January 13, 2011 Doesn't seem to be anything missing - though I think you may be right about it being Ran doing the sending and receiving - at any rate, she always seems to pick up on when he's thinking strongly about her, like the bomb case where she thought she heard him call out to her. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
