Kogoro Mouri

2011-08-04T10:34:18Z

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Kogoro Mouri
| japanese-name = 毛利小五郎 (Mouri Kogorou)
| english-name = Richard Moore
| image = Kogoro Mouri Profile.jpg
| age = 37-38<ref name="CD59">Conan Drill page 59</ref>
| height = 183 cm? (6'0)
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth = unknown<ref name="CD59" />
| relatives = [[Ran Mouri]] (daughter) [[Eri Kisaki]] (wife)
| nicknames = Sleeping Kogoro The Sleeping Sleuth
| first-appearance = Manga: Chapter 2 (mentioned in ch. 1) Anime: Episode 1
| appearances = {{:Kogoro Mouri Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 400+ (via [[Shinichi Kudo|Conan]]), 4 (on his own), 18 (while awake)
| keyhole = [[Volume 3]]
| japanese-voice = [[Akira Kamiya]] (Ep. 1~548) [[Rikiya Koyama]] (Ep. 553~)
| english-voice = [[R. Bruce Elliott]]
| drama-actor = [[Takanori Jinnai]]
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Kogoro Mouri'''|毛利小五郎|''Mouri Kogorou''}} is one of the main characters of the [[manga]] and [[anime]]. He is a private detective and the father of [[Ran Mouri]].

== Background ==
Kogoro is a private investigator,<ref>[[Volume 1#File 001 - The Heisei Holmes|Volume 1, File 1: "The Heisei Holmes"]]</ref> but he prefers to laze around all day. Kogoro attended Teitan High School, the same high school as [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], along with [[Eri Kisaki]], [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko Fujimine]], and the actress Ruri Ujo.<ref>[[Volume 37]]</ref> He then graduated from Beika University, where he was the ace of the Judo team, though he was highly vulnerable to stage fright.<ref>[[Volume 9#File 086 - The Two Benkei Standing Deaths|Volume 9, File 86: "The Two Benkei Standing Deaths"]]</ref>

Some time after graduating, Kogoro became a police officer. He worked in The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Division One under [[Inspector Megure]], but he did poorly at his job. He also worked for some time under [[Inspector Yuminaga]] in the arson division as well. While Movie 2 strongly suggests that Kogoro left the police force because of the incident where he fired upon Eri Kisaki who was held as a hostage, his reasons for leaving the force have not been confirmed in the manga. Kogoro is an excellent marksman.<ref name="m2">[[The Fourteenth Target|Movie 2: The Fourteenth Target]]</ref>

Kogoro's daughter, [[Ran Mouri]], is also the daughter of [[Eri Kisaki]], who is now living separately after an argument ten years prior.<ref name="m2" /> Despite constantly feigning disinterest in her, Kogoro still has feelings for his wife—he has even asked her to move back in with him, but she pretends not to hear him because she is not "ready" yet,<ref>[[Volume 17]]</ref> though she still has feelings for him as well. These are expressed mainly through jealousy when Kogoro's attention is caught by other attractive women in the vicinity.

[[File:Kogoro is stunned.PNG|thumb|left|150px|Kogoro's characteristic strange expression when Conan uses the [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch]]]]
After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] had been shrunk by an accidental effect of [[APTX 4869|a mysterious poison]] and was forced to adopt the identity of [[Conan Edogawa]], [[Hiroshi Agasa]] concluded that Shinichi couldn't openly continue any investigation without attracting undue attention by the [[Black Organization]]. To maintain his cover, he suggested Shinichi to move in with Kogoro and use him as a front. When Kogoro's conclusions during one of their first investigations became so dilettantish that the cause became hopeless, Conan used his soccer skills to kick an ashtray to knock him out. Kogoro unconsciously (and conveniently) adopted a reclining pose, and Conan used his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice Changer]], imitating Kogoro's voice, to present his conclusions and the identity of the true murderer; this earned Kogoro the title "Sleeping Kogoro" and the reputation as a master detective. (Later, Conan would employ his [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch]] to knock out Kogoro instead.)<ref>[[Volume 1#File 009 - An Unfortunate Misunderstanding|Volume 1, File 9: An Unfortunate Misunderstanding]]</ref> In the few instances where Kogoro remains awake for some reason, Conan still does the main detective work and uses Kogoro as his official mouth-piece by drawing the latter's attentions to important clues he has uncovered.

==Personality==
Kogoro can easily become infatuated with beautiful women. His dream woman is pop idol [[Yoko Okino]], and he never misses (or tries not to miss) her television shows.<ref>[[Volume 3#File 025 - The Dream That Will Not Come True|Volume 3, File 25: "The Dream That Will Not Come True"]]</ref><ref>Such behaviors can be seen consistently from [[Volume 1#File 006 - From Third-Rate to Great Detective|Volume 1, File 6]] to [[Volume 52#File 541 - Sonoko's Red Handkerchief|Volume 52, File 541]].</ref> Because of his behavior around attractive woman, he often embarrasses his daughter [[Ran Mouri]], and while it is not the reason why his wife left him, it is the reason why she hasn't come back.

While he is never outright called an alcoholic, Kogoro has a tendency to get intoxicated at social events, and [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi/Conan]] makes sarcastic remarks about him spending money on alcohol. In the anime, his office is littered with empty beer cans,<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> and he keeps a well-stocked liquor shelf. Kogoro is also a heavy smoker, and is usually seen with a cigarette in his mouth. His hobbies include mahjong and gambling on horse racing and [[wikipedia:keirin|keirin]].

In the Japanese version, due to his name Kogoro Mori he is often mistaken for the famous astronaut [[Mamoru Mohri]] when he introduces himself, because they both are in the news frequently, of Japanese decent, and have the same last name. In the English version when Kogoro introduces himself he is often mistaken for "oh, that famous astronaut," as well. In the English version it is possible he is also confused with Patrick Moore.

In the US version, Kogoro Mouri says that he is forty-three, in opposed to being thirty-seven in the Japanese version. It is unknown if Eva's age remains the same since they had attended school together, and if not, if it'll affect the Princess Pageant storyline that occurred twenty years ago, making her in her twenties when she participated instead of a teenager.

Kogoro suffers from a mild acrophobia (fear of heights) and is quite uncomfortable in high settings, such as skyscrapers, when he has the chance to see how high up he is. It has also been made clear that Kogoro is an expert with a handgun, being able to hit targets at great distance with an impressive level of accuracy. He is also known for his Judo throw, which he often uses to incapacitate escaping suspects.

== Detective Skills ==
Throughout most of the series, Kogoro is depicted as a pretty incompetent detective, often missing obvious clues and jumping to the wrong conclusions, though several of these conclusions were shared by other people on the scene. However, Kogoro does follow the proper police procedures, asks questions, and (with a little help from Conan) follows leads quite well. Despite his ineptness, he had been a prominent police officer under [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Juzo Megure]] ten years prior to the start of the series<ref name="m2" /> He is shown to have left the police force after events addressed in the second movie, ''[[The Fourteenth Target]]''.<ref name="m2" />
[[Image:Kogoro and Yoko Okino.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Kogoro showboating in front of [[Yoko Okino]].]]

Thanks to Conan's undercover help in solving numerous cases, Kogoro's reputation as a detective grows quickly.<ref>He first rises to fame in [[Volume 4]].</ref> He hardly remembers the solutions of any cases because Conan knocks him out with tranquillizer darts so that he can announce the solution to the case while hidden, using a device that allows him to imitate Kogoro's voice as a proxy. However, Kogoro never seems to wonder about this fact and often boasts about his merits. Because of this, he has become nicknamed the '''{{nihongo|Sleeping Kogoro|眠りの小五郎|Nemuri no Kogorou}}'''. [[Jugo Yokomizo]] often mistakenly calls him '''{{nihongo|Smoking Kogoro|煙の小五郎|Kemuri no Kogorou}}''' because of his heavy smoking habits.

In later stories, there are times when Kogoro is actually able to solve crime cases without (or little) help from Conan, especially when people he knows or cares about are involved; it appears that, while he can connect the dots just fine, he can't actually find them as quickly as Conan does. The first of these events takes place during a trip to a hot spring, where one of his old college friends is murdered. Kogoro is actually so disturbed and determined to find the killer on his own that Conan cannot bring himself to drug him, limiting himself to surreptitiously drawing attention to the necessary clues.<ref>[[Volume 9#File 084 - Kogoro's Class Reunion|Volume 9, Files 84-86: "Kogoro's Class Reunion"]]</ref> Despite his frequent moronic analyses, Kogoro is actually pretty smart when he applies himself. He is even able to completely solve a crime on his own in the ninth movie, ''[[Strategy Above the Depths]]'', due to the fact that the culprit Minako resembles Eri, and Conan applauds him mentally for his success. (For a more detailed list of the cases he has - more or less - solved on his own, see '''''[[List of cases solved by Kogoro Mouri]]''''').

Because of his (or rather, Conan's) tendency to coincidentally come across a crime scene, Inspector Megure is often referred to Kogoro as a ''shinigami'' (death god).

== Plot overview ==

== Relationships analysis ==

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Kogoro placed 8th in the poll with 84 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
The name "Kogoro Mouri" came from two mystery-related sources. "Kogoro" came from "[[Kogoro Akechi]]", the detective created by [[Edogawa Rampo]], while Mouri came from [[Maurice Leblanc|'''Mauri'''ce Leblanc]]. Coincidentally, his drama actor, [[Takanori Jinnai]], has played Kogoro Akechi in many TV movies.

The kanji for "Mouri" (毛利) comes from daimyo [[wikipedia:Mōri Motonari|Mouri Motonari]].

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|You're talking about someone who can swoop in like a bird and then fly away again without anyone noticing. A flying killer with wings! Is that what your trying to tell me?!}}

{{cquote|You're right, old pal. I'll never understand no matter the reason what drives someone to murder. And I don't think I want to.}}

{{cquote|A caged animal still has teeth!}}

== Trivia ==

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|توغو Togo|موري Mori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|명한 Myunghan|유 Yoo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|小五郎 Xiaowulang|毛利 Maoli}}
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== See also ==

* [[Characters]]
* [[List of cases solved by Kogoro Mouri]]

== References ==

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[[Category:Martial artists]]
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Full Score of Fear

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{{InfoBox Movie
| movie = 12
| image = Movie 12.jpg
| title = Full Score of Fear
| english-title =
| japanese-title =
| season = 17
| Movie Date = April 19, 2008
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Inspector Megure]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| case =
| prev-movie = Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure
| next-movie = The Raven Chaser
| footnotes =
}}

== Characters ==
* [[Conan Edogawa]]
* [[Ran Mouri]]
* [[Kogoro Mouri]]
* [[Inspector Megure]]
* [[Miwako Sato]]
* [[Wataru Takagi]]
* [[Ai Haibara]]
* [[Kojima Genta]]
* [[Ayumi Yoshida]]
* [[Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko]]
* [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]
* [[Hiroshi Agasa|Dr. Agasa]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Sonoko Suzuki]]
* [[Officer Chiba]]
* [[Gin]] (Movie 13 teaser)

== Plot ==
Serial murders involving all kinds have happened. All the victims are from a Music School led by a famous pianist. Conan and company have been invited to a opening concert of the Music Hall built by the pianist. The biggest attraction of this concert is the world famous violin called "Stradivarius" and a special appearance of a singer who has a perfect pitch. Will she be next, and does the song she is singing "Amazing Grace" plays an important part in this case? Conan may can't sing a note, but he's ready to figure out and make sure she's stay alive for the final act as the concert plays a Full Score of Fear!

== See also ==

* [[Movies]]

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