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The Last Wizard of the Century

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{{InfoBox Movie
| video = XGCLedZXbHQ
| movie = 3
| image = Movie3poster.jpg
| title = The Last Wizard of the Century
| english-title = The Last Wizard of the Century
| japanese-title = 名探偵コナン世紀末の魔術師 (Meitantei Konan Seikimatsu no Majutsushi)
| season =
| airdate = April 17, 1999
| english-airdate = December 29, 2009
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Kaitou Kid]] [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Ginzo Nakamori]] [[Shintaro Chaki]] [[Shiro Suzuki]] [[Detective Kobayashi]] [[Detective Yokoyama]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| case =
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] [[Kaneto Shiozawa]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]], [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Nobuo Tanaka]] as [[Shintaro Chaki]] [[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Fumio Matsuoka]] as [[Shiro Suzuki]] [[Unsho Ishizuka]] as [[Ginzo Nakamori]] [[Yuko Miyamura]] as [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Chikao Otsuka]] as Shouichi Inui [[Eisuke Yoda]] as Kuranosuke Sawabe [[Houchu Ohtsuka]] as Ryu Sagawa [[Emi Shinohara]] as Natsumi Kousaka [[Mitsuru Miyamoto]] as Masato Nishino [[Haruhiko Jo]] as Sergei Ovchinnikov [[Toshihiko Nakajima]] as Judging staff [[Isshin Chiba]] as Cop C [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Kaitou Kid]] [[Toshiko Fujita]] as Seiran Hoshi
| prev-movie = The Fourteenth Target
| next-movie = Captured in Her Eyes
| footnotes =
}}

== Characters introduced ==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Detective Kobayashi]]|image = Detective Kobayashi.jpg|description =
* Detective from Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department}}
{{NewChar|name = [[Detective Yokoyama]]|image = Detective Yokoyama.jpg|description =
* Detective from Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department}}
{{EndBox}}

== Gadgets introduced ==
{{NewGadget|name = [[Bullet Proof Lenses]]|image = Bullet Proof Lenses.jpg|description =
* Lenses with protection from bullets
* Part of a modification to Conan's [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|glasses]]}}
{{clearleft}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa|display=Professor Agasa}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Kaitou Kid}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{Char|Ginzo Nakamori}}
{{Char|Shintaro Chaki}}
{{Char|Shiro Suzuki}}
}}

==Gadgets==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Turbo Engine Skateboard}}
{{Gadget|Wristwatch Flashlight}}
{{Gadget|Card Gun}}
{{Gadget|Hang Glider Cape}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===
At night, Ayumi is watching TV about the vampire meeting the beautiful lady. While Ayumi is getting excited to see the best part, her mother tells her to go to bed. Ayumi still wants to watch a little more, but her mother reminds her to go swimming tomorrow. While Ayumi is in bed, the mysterious shadow appears and Ayumi checks it outside. It is the master thief, Kaitou Kid. Ayumi asks Kid that he's Dracula and Kid says no that he's just resting his wings. Kid gently grabs Ayumi's hand and kisses. Suddenly, the police helicopter appears with the bright light on and the police inspector named Ginzo Nakamori orders the police to arrest Kid and not letting him escape. Kid says bye to Ayumi and jumps off the balcony. While falling, he uses the hang glider to fly in the air and makes his escape from the police.

At Teitan Elementary School, Ayumi tells her friends that she met Kaitou Kid in person and she thinks Kid is handsome. Someday, Conan will catch Kaitou Kid.

In August 19th at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters, the police are at the Special Kaitou Kid Investigation Conference for talking about Kid's next heist. First, they were reviewing who Kid was. Criminal 1412 or better known as Kaitou Kid is associated with 134 cases of thievery. Of which 15 cases are overseas, including America, France, Germany, and 12 others. Overall 152 gemstones have been stolen, with the net worth of 38,925,000,000 yen. From Kaitou Kid, he sent a notice to the police of his next heist. The notice says, "From the dusk of the beast, through the dawn of the virgin. When the second hand upon the clock's face hints to the twelfth symbol, I will take the Memories Egg from the Shining Sky's chamber. The Last Wizard of the Century, Kaitou Kid." The Memories Egg mentioned in the notice was discovered last month in the Suzuki Corporation's collection. A secret treasure of the Romanov Dynasty, the Imperial Easter Egg.

{{InfoBox Heist
| heist = Heist
| image = Imperial Easter Egg.jpg
| thief = [[Kaitou Kid]]
| thief-label = Thief
| target = Imperial Easter Egg
| owner = Suzuki Financial Group
| location = Suzuki Modern Art Museum in Osaka
| date = August 22
| notice = From the dusk of the beast, through the dawn of the virgin. When the second hand upon the clock's face hints to the twelfth symbol, I will take the Memories Egg from the Shining Sky's chamber.
| description =
}}

The Imperial Easter Egg: A gift from the Russian Tsar to the queen to honor Easter. These rare eggs were created by gem-craftsman, Fabergé between 1885 and 1916. The police had previously confirmed just fifty pieces of the collection. That means, this will be the fifty-first round. The Suzuki Corporation, currently in possession of the egg, beginning August 23rd, will have the egg on display near Osaka City's Park at the Suzuki Modern Arts Museum. As for the code, Nakamori believes that "From the dusk of the lion, through the dawn of the virgin" means the dusk of the final day of Leo, August 22: To the beginning of the Virgo which is August 23rd to September 22nd. That is the time frame for the crime. Next, he believes that "When the second hand upon the clock's face hints to the twelfth symbol" means it relates to the time of the crime, but the police haven't solve the part yet. Finally, "I will take the Memories Egg from the Shining Sky's chamber" meaning Kid will appear at the Castle Tower in Osaka City. That means from the evening of August 22nd through the dawn of August 23rd, he will appear at Osaka Castle to steal the Imperial Easter Egg. This time they will be working alongside the Osaka Precinct. In addition, abiding by Suzuki's wishes, the police invited the famous detective, Kogoro Mouri for help. This time, their objective is to protect the egg with their lives. Even if he is to get away, they must protect the egg. Suddenly, Nakamori persuades the police detectives that they must uphold their police department's reputation by catching the thief and putting him behind bars. They must catch Kaitou Kid no matter what in the name of justice. All the police detectives agree and roar!

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan arrives in Osaka at the train station and they meet Sonoko who's waiting for them. They are taking a ride on a limousine and they meet the driver who is Shiro Suzuki's secretary, Masato Nishino. He has been overseas on vacation and he's fluent in English, French, and even German.

At Professor Agasa's house, the Detective Boys think it isn't fair that Conan gets to go to Osaka by himself. Agasa later cheers them up by giving them watermelons. Before they are about to eat, Agasa wants the Detective Boys to answer his quiz. Agasa is starting: Agasa has a lot of grandchildren, how old are they? The Detective Boys are thinking but they cannot answer it. Haibara answers that the age is zero. It remains an egg. Washi (elderly self) is eagle's washi, many Ooku no Mago (grandchildren) means egg's tamago (many grandchildren), the egg is zero in age. Agasa says that is correct and the Detective Boys are impressed at Haibara. After that, they begin eating watermelons.

Meanwhile in Osaka, the limousine finally arrives at the Suzuki Modern Arts Museum. When the group got out of the limousine, they see lots of police officers guarding around the museum. While looking, they meet Heiji and Kazuha.

In the chairman's room, the chairman of the Suzuki Financial Group and Sonoko's father, Shiro Suzuki is glad meeting the detective, Kogoro Mouri. When he asks Sonoko who are the other two from Osaka, Sonoko introduces Heiji Hattori, the high school detective from Osaka and Kazuha Toyama, Heiji's childhood friend to her father. Later, Chairman Suzuki introduces the people to the group. First is the Russian Embassy's first class representative named Sergei Ovchinnikov, the art dealer named Shouichi Inui, a Chinese woman who's a Romanov Dynasty researcher named Seiran Hoshi and she says, "Ni hao" in Chinese saying, "How are you". Finally, the freelance reporter covering the egg's origins named Ryu Sagawa. When Kogoro asks about the business's cost, Inui answers that it's 800 million. He mentions that if the chairman is willing to sell the egg, he can raise the bid. Until sudden, Sergei tells the chairman that the Imperial Easter Egg belongs in native Russia and asks why sell it to some unknown collector when he can donate it to the National Museum of Mother Russia. Inui gets offended when Sergei calls him unknown. After the conversation about the egg, they left and they'll talk to the chairman later about the egg. Nishino brought the box that contains the egg and places on the table. After that, he was ordered by Chairman Suzuki to bring drinks to the group. When Chairman Suzuki opens the egg, there's a golden model of Tsar Nicholas II and his family inside. Chairman Suzuki inserts the key in the egg and turns it to reveal the trick of Nicholas turning the page of the book. In Fabergé's files old files, they found the plans of the egg. The file shows the picture of the egg and the golden statue of Nicholas II and his family. In the egg's title, "Memories Egg" is translated from Russian to English. It's labeled, "ВОСПОМИНАНИE" on top of the picture of the Imperial Easter Egg. In Russian, it should be: "po spi mai naii." Which is literally translated as memories. Conan asks why is the book itself called Memories and Kogoro answers the Tsar got his children together to read them a story and that's the memory. Conan then asks about the Tsar had this egg made for the queen and wouldn't she feel cheated. Chairman Suzuki answers according to the time the 51st egg was created, Russia was in a period of financial depression. Speaking of that, in Kid's message, he mentioned the Shining Sky's chamber and why would Osaka Castle be shining is what Heiji wonders. Kazuha says the one who built the Osaka Castle, noted the base of Osaka Castle was beautiful, so Kid's saying it is a light shining on Osaka's history. Superintendent Chaki and Inspector Nakamori appears and they have no doubt that Kid will be appearing at the Osaka Castle but they still have no clue about, "When the second hand upon the clock's face hints to the twelfth symbol" means. Kogoro deduces that it's an alphabet letter and the 12th letter in English is the letter L meaning 3 o'clock. Kid will be coming at 3 AM which is what "through the dawn of the virgin" means.

At Naniwa Buddha Shrine, Ran got a good fortune saying, "The one who waits will meet with love once more." Conan and Heiji just left the shrine so they could talk more about Kid's riddle. After that, Conan checks the fortune he got from the shrine and it says, "No one is hurt when a tsunami destroys your home." Conan also found, "Misfortune: Secrets will be revealed."

At the museum, Chairman Suzuki and Kogoro are planning going to a restaurant to have dinner for killing time since Kid will be coming at 3 AM. Nakamori appears and he's about to take the egg. Kogoro asks is it going to the exhibit. Nakamori reveals it's a fake. The police have tried to take the target where Kid mentions in his notice and trap him, but that doesn't work against Kid. Now the plan is to hide it somewhere he doesn't know of. Kogoro asks where will it be, but Nakamori can't tell him. Only Nakamori and his subordinates know the location. Nakamori already checks his subordinates' faces to see if they're Kid or not. Until sudden, Kogoro pulls Nakamori's cheeks with his both hands to see if it's possible that he's Kid. Then Nakamori starts pulling Kogoro's cheeks but they are both fighting by pulling each other's faces. While they are fighting, there's a dove with a hearing device.

At night, Conan and Heiji arrived back at the front of the museum. At the front of the museum, there's a woman who's a confectionery shop owner named Natsumi Kousaka and her family's assistant named Kuranosuke Sawabe. She tells Nishino that she requested to meet with the chairman concerning the Imperial Easter Egg on the pamphlet. The egg's picture on the pamphlet is different from the sketch of her great-grandfather's. Heiji checks his watch and thinks it's interesting. If 3 AM is L, soon it'll almost be 'he'. Currently on Heiji's watch is 7:13 PM. When it becomes 7:20, it'll become the perfect 'he'. Conan just thought of something: The character 'he' from the code, "From the dusk of the lion to the dawn of the virgin", it's the 12th character of the phrase. In Kid's message, he doesn't mean 3 AM, he means 7:20 PM. Conan tells Heiji that he's going to Osaka Castle. When it rains, Heiji just figured out that the Shining Sky's chamber isn't the Castle Tower but Tsuuten Tower. He tells Conan that Kid's on top of the Tsuuten Tower and there is a gleaming weather station. On top of the tower, Kid stands and the dove returns to Kid with the hearing device. Kid pushes the remote to start the fireworks at Osaka Castle. At the Japanese Restaurant "Kakahei", Chairman Suzuki and Kogoro are having a good time watching the fireworks while having dinner together. Conan knows that the fireworks at Osaka Castle are to divert attention away from Tsuuten Tower. When Conan asks Nishino where the egg is, he answers that Nakamori took it to another location. Meanwhile, Kid now uses the remote to make the bombs exploded at the power substation which made the entire city turned the power off. When few places haves turned the power back on, Kid now knows where the egg is located and it's in the warehouse. Kid flies to the warehouse with his hang glider. Conan went after Kid with the skateboard but later he got stuck in a dead end. He went with Heiji on the motorcycle instead. Once they get to the warehouse, Conan enters and went upstairs. He found Kid stealing the egg and Nakamori with the police detectives knocked out. Kid fires with his card gun to create a smoke and flies away. Conan went down by using the rope and went back on the motorcycle with Heiji. Later, Heiji got hurt when he fell down and tells Conan to keep chasing Kid. While Kid is flying, the mysterious unknown culprit fires at Kid's right eye with the gun and he fell into the sea.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder?
| image = Movie3 Case 1.jpg
| location = Sky
| victim = [[Kaitou Kid]]
| cause-death = Gunshot wound?
| suspects = Unknown culprit
| description = The culprit shot to Kid's right eye and he fell into the sea.
}}

After Conan found the injured dove and the egg, he can't find Kid's body. The police conducted a wide-area search for him and no one knows whether Kid is dead or alive.

The next day on August 23rd, to assure the egg's well being, the exhibition was cancelled so it could be examined. The group returned to Tokyo on the Suzuki's Luxury Liner. In the luxury liner, Natsumi is having a conversation with the chairman. She says her great-grandfather's name is Kiichi, he worked with Fabergé's company as a craftsman. While working in Russia on fine arts, he married a woman and returned to Japan. Not long after her great-grandmother gave birth to a girl. Not long after, she passed away. Nine years later, her great-grandfather died at age forty-five. That baby girl would be Natsumi's grandmother. Her grandfather and parents both passed away in a car accident when she was five years old. She was raised by her grandmother. Unfortunately, she passed away last month. Natsumi previously worked in Paris as a beautician. After coming to Japan, she was looking through her grandmother's possession. When she came across this, it's an old sketch by her great-grandfather. It looks like the middle is missing though. Conan found something strange that there could be two eggs because if it was the same egg, the outline aligns. Conan thinks it was actually a large sketch with two eggs drawn, and now the middle is missing. He now wonders what "Memories" actually mean while examining the egg but until sudden, he found a piece of glass under the egg and touches it. The glass falls off. When he picks it up, he found a strange reflection. Conan tells Nishino to turn off the lights and uses the wristwatch flashlight on the glass to create a projection on the wall. It shows an image of the castle. It's a mirror that's been modified with images, originally from Asia. Legend states followers of the Christian faith used these special type of mirrors to project the cross in secret. The image is the Yokosuka Castle and it was built by Natsumi's great-grandfather, and in turn her grandmother inherited it. Kogoro deduces that while Natsumi's grandfather was fleeing from the Russian Revolution, he brought the two eggs along with him. Then, Kogoro believes that her grandfather sold the gems from second egg which leads to believe that he built the castle and hid the gem-less egg there. He then left the hidden message in the egg's mirror for his descendants to discover. Natsumi brought the key that she found with the design and asks is it important. Kogoro says that must be it and the key to the second's egg's location is somewhere in the castle. Kogoro will be going to the castle with Natsumi including the people that they all wanted to go.

Ran and Conan are healing the dove by putting bandages on. Someone knocks on the door and they check who it is. It's actually Sagawa recording with his camera and left. Sonoko, Natsumi, and Nishino appears and enters the room where Conan and Ran are staying. When the dove flaps it's own wings, Nishino fled quickly while covering his nose.

Sonoko and Conan went to Seiran's door and invites her to go to Ran's room to have fun. Seiran thanks Sonoko for the invitation and gets ready. They notice the back of the picture frame that says, "Grigori". Sonoko asks is it her boyfriend and Seiran says yes while putting down the frame to cover the picture.

In Ran's room, Natsumi told Ran that she has been living in Paris since she was twenty. Natsumi's eyes are gray. Her mother and grandmother have the same color eyes. Seiran also has gray eyes too. Ran mentions that Seiran's name means blue orchid and her name means orchid. Seiran says her name is the Japanese pronounciation, originally it is Chinglan. Sei is Ching, Ran is Lan. Hoshi is Pusi, so her name is Chinglan Pusi. Ran Mouri's name is Lan Maoli and Sonoko Suzuki's name is Yuanzu Lingmu. Seiran and Natsumi both have the same age since Seiran was born on May 5th and Natsumi was born on May 3rd. Once Conan said he was born on May 4th, Ran got suspicious that Conan is Shinichi because that's Shinichi's date of birth but she thinks it's impossible.

At afternoon, Natsumi and Serian took a seat with Kogoro and the chairman. When Kogoro pours a drink for Seiran, Seiran noticed that Sagawa is wearing a pendant. It's a ring and it's labeled "Maria". It belongs to Tsar Nicholas II's daughter, Maria. After he shows it to Seiran, he went back inside the luxury liner.

That night at 7:30 PM, Sagawa is murdered, shot in the right eye by the unknown culprit.

Nishino went to Kogoro and tells him that Sagawa is dead in his bedroom. When Kogoro, Ran, Conan, and Nishino went to Sagawa's bedroom, they found his dead body.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie3 Case 2.jpg
| location = Suzuki's Luxury Liner
| victim = Ryu Sagawa
| time = 7:30 PM
| cause-death = Gunshot wound
| suspects = Scorpion
| description =
}}

Kogoro examines the body that he was dead about 30 minutes ago and notices that the pendant has been taken. Kogoro tells the chairman to call the police.

At the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters, Inspector Megure receives a call and the police are on their way to the luxury liner by taking a ride on a helicopter. Takagi and Shiratori are also coming too. They arrived at the luxury liner and investigates the crime scene. Kogoro tells Megure that the culprit's motive is to steal the ring. Suddenly, the crime scene investigator found a pen which belongs to Nishino. When they went to Nishino by asking him if it's his pen or not, Nishino confirms it and wonders what's it doing in Sagawa's room. Nishino claims he was preparing dinner and went to tell Sagawa but he found him dead. Megure asks where was he at around 7:30 and Nishino answers that he was taking a shower in his room around 7:10 PM, then took a short nap. Takagi went to Megure and reports that the video tapes are missing in his room. That explains why the room was torn apart. Suddenly, Conan just ran off and Ran went after him. While Ran is looking for Conan, Shiratori appears behind her and he tells Ran to go back with the others and he'll search Conan for her.

Conan is on the phone talking to Professor Agasa and he requests for him to search for a criminal who shoots victim's right eye online. Agasa understands and he'll get to work. Later, Conan calls back to Agasa and Agasa says he found some information on the ICPO's criminal database. Age and gender: unknown, a thief wanted for murder. The unknown criminal is called Scorpion.

In Nishino's room, Takagi found the ring under Nishino's bed which means Nishino is the main suspect of murdering Sagawa. Nishino claims he didn't do it. Conan found a padded pillow and asks Nishino that is he allergic to feathers. Nishino says yes and Conan now confirms that Nishino is not the suspect. Conan reminds the police that in Sagawa's room, there are feathers at the crime scene. The culprit ravaged the entire room, tearing open the feather pillows. Someone with feather allergies wouldn't be able to do it. When the police ask the chairman, he confirms that Nishino is allergic to feathers. Even with just a few feathers, he can't stop sneezing. That's why Nishino uses padded pillows to sleep instead of using feather pillows. Sonoko remembers at that time when Nishino enters Ran's room, he ran out quickly because of the dove. Megure then wonders who is the culprit. Conan mentions about Scorpion, a criminal focused on stealing treasures of the Romanov Dynasty, and often kills by shooting through the right eye, which means Scorpion is the right suspect of killing Sagawa. The same suspect of attacking Kaitou Kid was Scorpion also. Scorpion attacked Kid in order to steal the egg. When Kogoro asks Conan why does he know criminals like Scorpion but Conan nervously can't answer it and suddenly, Shiratori says that he got the information from Agasa. Megure then asks why would Sagawa's missing ring show up in Nishino's room if the culprit is Scorpion. Nishino remembers Sagawa that he met him from three years ago in Asia. Sagawa was recording a video of a weeping girl who just had her house burned down. Nishino told him to stop, but when he didn't, he just punched his face to stop it. When Conan gave hints to Kogoro, he has finally got it. Kogoro deduces that it's two cases intertwined to one. The first case is Sagawa framing Nishino for stealing the ring. To do this, he made it seem as if Nishino stole the ring, that's why he presented it to the group of people. While Nishino was in the shower, Sagawa snuck into the room and hid the ring under the bed. Then, Sagawa took Nishino's pen. This was to complete his plan of stacking evidence against Nishino, but he didn't succeed just as the second case occurred. Sagawa was shot by Scorpion. Kogoro believes the motive for killing is that Scorpion's identity was unveiled on the tapes. Then, Scorpion couldn't find the ring, scavenged the entire room. Shiratori says the lifeboat is missing which means Scorpion has already escaped. Scorpion could be targeting the other egg which Scorpion will be at the Kousaka family's castle. Shiratori will accompany Natsumi to the castle.

The next day on August 24th, the luxury liner arrives at Tokyo. Meanwhile, the Detective Boys are taking a walk. Once they arrived at Agasa's house, they heard Haibara that she and Agasa are going to the castle. After that, they sneaked in Agasa's car. While Agasa is driving a car, the Detective Boys surprised him.

Shiratori and the group are going to the castle by riding two cars. In a taxi, Sergei asks Kogoro did Sagawa's ring truly belongs to Maria. Kogoro can't say yet, but Inspector Megure is having it examined. Sergei mentions that it's been said Maria was the kindest of the four daughters, and had stunning gray eyes. After the revolution in Russia, the Tsar and his family were executed, but only Maria and the prince's corpses have yet to be found.

The group finally arrived in Yokosuka Castle. The castle is in German style, resembling Neuschwanstein Castle. It's been called a perfect stage for Cinderalla. Conan wonders why is it German style and remembers that Natsumi's grandparents are from Russia. Suddenly, Agasa arrives at the castle and gave Conan a new glasses with the special upgrade that he requested. Inui is late because he said he had an errand and would meet the group. Later, Inui arrives back while carrying a bag.

When they went inside, Kogoro tells Sawabe to lock the doors to keep the children outside from entering the castle. The Detective Boys are trying to find a another entrance to look for the treasure.

The group are in the knight's armor gallery, there are pieces displayed featuring Western designs from the medieval times. Next they went to Dame's lounge room. The old mistress often spent the entire day in just in that room. Another room they went is Tsar's gallery. Inui secretly sneaks back into the lounge room and searches the treasure. When he found the vault that's hidden behind the frame, he got the lock pick from his bag and opens the vault. He found the treasure and tried to grab it but got caught with the cuff. The ceiling door opens and the swords fall from the ceiling which it has been linked with chains. It scared Inui and he thought he was going to die. The group found him and Sawabe frees Inui with the key. It is a theft repelling installation Kichi installed. There are many dangerous traps in the castle.

The group went to the study room. There are many pictures of Kichi, his family, and of the activities he enjoyed in life. Conan asks Natsumi where is her great-grandmother's photograph and Natsumi says she hasn't seen one herself. She doesn't even know who she looks like. Inui notices the picture of Rasputin. There is even G. Rasputin's signature. Ran asks her dad who is Rasputin and Kogoro believes he's known as the most evil man of the century. Inui says he was also known as Mad Monk Rasputin. He caused the downfall of the Tsar, and eventually to the ruin of the Romanov Dynasty. He was quite imperious then. After all the evil he had done, the Tsar's brother, Duke Yusoupov killed him. The corpse was found on the river, with an eye missing. When Kogoro is smoking the cigarette, Conan sees the strange movement of the smoke. Conan asks to borrow it and says that there's a air current coming from below the floor. Conan found the Russian alphabet buttons. It is for opening the door of the basement. Sergei puts the password, "The Last Wizard of the Century" and it finally opens the door. As they traverse the tunnel, Inui, an art dealer, sees a shadowy figure in one direction of the tunnels, and in his pursuit, he is shot by a silenced handgun.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie3 Case 3.jpg
| location = Yokosuka Castle
| victim = Shouichi Inui
| cause-death = Gunshot wound
| suspects = Scorpion
| description =
}}

Delving farther into the tunnel, they find a coffin with a corpse clutching the second egg. Suddenly, the two eggs are snatched away.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Masato Nishino|Masato Nishino.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Shiro Suzuki's secretary}}
{{People|Sergei Ovchinnikov|Sergei Ovchinnikov.jpg|
* 41 years old
* Russian Embassy's first class representative}}
{{People|Shouichi Inui|Shoichi Inui.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* 45 years old
* Art dealer}}
{{People|Seiran Hoshi|Seiran Hoshi.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Romanov Dynasty researcher}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Ryu Sagawa|Ryu Sagawa.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* 32 years old
* Freelance reporter}}
{{People|Natsumi Kousaka|Natsumi Kosaka.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Confectionery shop owner}}
{{People|Kuranosuke Sawabe|Kuranosuke Sawabe.jpg|
* 65 years old
* Kousaka family's assistant}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
Conan deduces that Scorpion is '''Seiran Hoshi''' the historian. She pretends to be Chinese and she's actually Russian. She shoots her victims in the right eye to avenge her ancestor, Grigori Rasputin, whose body was found with an eye missing. Seiran attempts to kill Conan with her last bullet, but the bullet ricochets off the bulletproof glass on Conan's glasses installed by the professor. As Conan kicks a piece of rubble, she reloads and is about to fire when a playing card knocks the gun out of her hands. Conan then knocks her out with the rubble. Shiratori appears and carries Seiran out. Conan figures "Shiratori" was actually Kaitou Kid in disguise. In the end, Conan is about to confess to Ran that he's Shinichi, but then Kid comes, disguised as Shinichi, and distracts Ran. Kaitou Kid then disappears in a flurry of doves. It's revealed that Natsumi's great-grandmother was Nicholas II's daughter, Maria, and Kid wanted to steal the egg to give it back to her, as she was its rightful owner. During the Russian Revolution, Natsumi's great-grandfather fell in love with her, and the pair eloped to Japan, carrying the eggs with them. When Maria died, Natsumi's great-grandfather used her fortune to build a magnificent castle to act as her tomb.
</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* While on the cruise-liner after bandaging the bird, there is a brief glimpse of the room on the ship Conan is in. He is staying in room 221-A. 221-B Baker Street was Holmes' apartment in London. This is an obvious homage to the Holmes' series which is referenced in the anime quite frequently.
* This marks the first appearance of Ai Haibara (As Vye Graythorn) in the English Dub. Oddly, she was never introduced in the english dub due to Funimation cancelling the dub only a few episodes short of her debut. Weirdly, she will appear in this movie, but for English only viewers, people will question who she is because she was never introduced before.

== Dub changes ==
* The names of the characters in the [[Funimation]] Dub are:
:* Masato Nishino - Maxwell Nishino
:* Shouichi Inui - Giordano Infantino
:* Ryu Sagawa - Ray Segue
:* Natsumi Kousaka - Natasha Kousaka
:* Kuranosuke Sawabe - Kuranosuke Sotheby

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]

{{Movies}}

[[Category:Movies]]

The Phantom of Baker Street

2013-04-04T13:48:33Z

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{{InfoBox Movie
| video = TBUipUQRXhQ
| movie = 6
| image = Movie 6.jpg
| title = The Phantom of Baker Street
| english-title = The Phantom of Baker Street
| japanese-title = 名探偵コナンベイカー街の亡霊 (Meitantei Konan Beikaa Sutoriito no Bōrei)
| season =
| airdate = April 20, 2002
| english-airdate = February 16, 2010
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Yukiko Kudo]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Detective Chiba]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Shinichi Kudo]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Yusaku Kudo]]
| case =
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Ai Orikasa]] as Hiroki Sawada [[Megumi Ogata]] as Hideki Moroboshi [[Urara Takano]] as Shinya Takizawa [[Rikako Aikawa]] as Akira Emori [[Mitsuki Saigo]] as Seiichiro Kikugawa [[Hideyuki Tanaka]] as [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Hiroaki Hirata]] as Tadaaki Kashimura [[Yuzuru Fujimoto]] as Colonel Moran [[Eisuke Yoda]] as Tetsunosuke Emori [[Ryuichi Horibe]] as Toshio Moroboshi [[Isshin Chiba]] as [[Detective Chiba]] [[Kiyoshi Kobayashi]] as Professor Moriarty [[Sho Hayami]] as Jack the Ripper [[Sumi Shimamoto]] as [[Yukiko Kudo|Irene Adler]] [[Kei Hayami]] as Mrs. Hudson [[Katsuhisa Hoki]] as Mysterious Vagrant [[Toshihiko Nakajima]] as Gambler [[Masane Tsukayama]] as Thomas Schindler
| prev-movie = Countdown to Heaven
| next-movie = Crossroad in the Ancient Capital
| footnotes =
}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Yusaku Kudo}}
{{Char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa|display=Professor Agasa}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Detective Chiba}}
{{Char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (flashback)}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===
Child prodigy Hiroki Sawada—who, by the age of ten, is already a MIT graduate school student and has developed a DNA Tracker software—is now in the final stage of his second major work, an artificial intelligence system called Noah's Ark, in a heavily guarded room. Hiroki has been under the guardianship of Thomas Schindler, owner of the software giant Schindler, Inc., since his mother died. He has been put under a rigorous study program and has a somewhat deprived childhood. This night, at the top of the Schindler building where Hiroki lives, Hiroki finishes Noah's Ark, sending the software through the telephone lines and after, his computer shows the message "Noah's Ark Sailed Out." The security guards become suspicious and try to enter Hiroki's room. When they finally break into Hiroki's room with Schindler, Hiroki is not in the room. Apparently, he leaps off the top of the building to his death.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Suicide (Past)
| image = Movie6 Case.jpg
| location = Schindler Building
| victim = Hiroki Sawada
| cause-death = Falling from the building
| description =
}}

The image on his computer screen shows an ark sailing in water and the words "Good-bye Hiroki."

Two years later, at the Beika City Hall, Schindler, Inc., holds a demonstration of a virtual reality game system called Cocoon. Many kids, including the Detective Boys, are invited to the demonstration. However, only the kids with badges are chosen for the demonstration. Professor Agasa and Yusaku Kudo arrive at the City Hall. Agasa gives Conan Edogawa a badge and tells Conan that his mother, Yukiko Kudo, would not be there because of an alumni reunion. The rest of Detective Boys trick a few kids by exchanging badges for the Premium Golden Yaiber Cards. They all use the badges and participate in the demonstration.

In another room, Schindler kills Kashimura, one of his top employees, and Kashimura's types in a dying message: the letters J, T and R.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie6_Case1.jpg
| location = Beika City Hall - Basement
| victim = Tadaaki Kashimura
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects = Thomas Schindler
| description =
}}

Conan discovers the murder and decides to participate in the demonstration, hoping that the game would lead him to an answer. Yusaku finds out that J-T-R stands for "Jack The Ripper".

When the demonstration begins, Hiroki's artificial intelligence system, Noah's Ark takes control of the game system Cocoon. It tells the audience that if all fifty kids in the demonstration lose the game, it will kill the kids with a large electromagnetic burst. The kids in the demonstration are given a choice of five stages in the game, and Conan and the Detective Boys choose the final stage, a re-creation of an 1800 London mystery. In the beginning of the game, Conan discovers that Agasa's inventions don't work. Conan and his friends track down 221b Baker Street, only to find that Holmes and Watson are at Dartmoor. Since Holmes is unable to help, the kids find Colonel Moran and Professor Moriarty. Moriarty tells Conan that he trained Jack the Ripper when Jack was a street urchin. The professor gives the children a clue about the next victim, who turns out to be Irene Adler, Holmes's only love.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Hiroki Sawada|Hiroki Sawada.jpg|
* Deceased (Suicide)
* 10 years old
* Boy genius}}
{{People|Thomas Schindler|Thomas Schindler.jpg|
* 52 years old
* Tsar of the IT Industry}}
{{People|Seiichiro Kikukawa|Seiichiro Kikukawa.jpg|
* 11 years old
* Playright's son}}
{{People|Hideki Moroboshi|Hideki Moroboshi.jpg|
* 12 years old
* Police deputy superintendent general's grandson}}
{{People|Akira Emori|Akira Emori.jpg|
* 11 years old
* Financial group and bank president's grandson}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Shinya Takizawa|Shinya Takizawa.jpg|
* 11 years old
* Ruling party politician's son}}
{{People|Tadaaki Kashimura|Tadaaki Kashimura.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 39 years old
* In charge of Game Development}}
{{People|Toshio Moroboshi|Toshio Moroboshi.jpg|
* Police deputy superintendent general}}
{{People|Tetsunosuke Emori|Tetsunosuke Emori.jpg|
* Financial group and bank president}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
It is revealed that Tadaaki Kashimura was Hiroki Sawada's real father.

In the real world, Yusaku investigates the case. Yusaku reveals that the murderer is the company's president, '''Thomas Schindler'''. Schindler is a descendant of Jack the Ripper who will stop at nothing to hide his secret. Schindler is immediately arrested.

One by one, the children “die” while trying to protect Conan until only three are left: Conan, Ran Mouri, and another child, Hideki Moroboshi. They follow Jack the Ripper to a runaway train, and the murderer leads them to the top of the train. There, Jack the Ripper ties himself to Ran and threatens Conan. Ran decides to save Conan and sacrifices herself by jumping off the train and into a ravine, taking Jack the Ripper with her. As Conan begins to lose hope, Sherlock Holmes appears and gives Conan some useful advice that eventually helps Conan and Hideki survive the game. After winning the game, Conan reveals that Hideki is actually the Ark in disguise. Then, all the children are released from the demonstration, and the Noah's Ark destroys itself.
</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* 'The Phantom of Baker Street' is the second highest grossing film in the Detective Conan franchise grossing a bit less than 3.4 billion yen.
* Currently, this is the final movie to be dubbed in english by Funimation Entertainment. No new movies have been announced thus far.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]
{{Movies}}

[[Category:Movies]]

The Phantom of Baker Street

2013-04-04T13:47:53Z

Ccrogers15: /* People */

{{InfoBox Movie
| video = TBUipUQRXhQ
| movie = 6
| image = Movie 6.jpg
| title = The Phantom of Baker Street
| english-title = The Phantom of Baker Street
| japanese-title = 名探偵コナンベイカー街の亡霊 (Meitantei Konan Beikaa Sutoriito no Bōrei)
| season =
| airdate = April 20, 2002
| english-airdate = February 16, 2010
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Yukiko Kudo]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Detective Chiba]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Shinichi Kudo]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Yusaku Kudo]]
| case =
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Ai Orikasa]] as Hiroki Sawada [[Megumi Ogata]] as Hideki Moroboshi [[Urara Takano]] as Shinya Takizawa [[Rikako Aikawa]] as Akira Emori [[Mitsuki Saigo]] as Seiichiro Kikugawa [[Hideyuki Tanaka]] as [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Hiroaki Hirata]] as Tadaaki Kashimura [[Yuzuru Fujimoto]] as Colonel Moran [[Eisuke Yoda]] as Tetsunosuke Emori [[Ryuichi Horibe]] as Toshio Moroboshi [[Isshin Chiba]] as [[Detective Chiba]] [[Kiyoshi Kobayashi]] as Professor Moriarty [[Sho Hayami]] as Jack the Ripper [[Sumi Shimamoto]] as [[Yukiko Kudo|Irene Adler]] [[Kei Hayami]] as Mrs. Hudson [[Katsuhisa Hoki]] as Mysterious Vagrant [[Toshihiko Nakajima]] as Gambler [[Masane Tsukayama]] as Thomas Schindler
| prev-movie = Countdown to Heaven
| next-movie = Crossroad in the Ancient Capital
| footnotes =
}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Yusaku Kudo}}
{{Char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa|display=Professor Agasa}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Detective Chiba}}
{{Char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (flashback)}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===
Child prodigy Hiroki Sawada—who, by the age of ten, is already a MIT graduate school student and has developed a DNA Tracker software—is now in the final stage of his second major work, an artificial intelligence system called Noah's Ark, in a heavily guarded room. Hiroki has been under the guardianship of Thomas Schindler, owner of the software giant Schindler, Inc., since his mother died. He has been put under a rigorous study program and has a somewhat deprived childhood. This night, at the top of the Schindler building where Hiroki lives, Hiroki finishes Noah's Ark, sending the software through the telephone lines and after, his computer shows the message "Noah's Ark Sailed Out." The security guards become suspicious and try to enter Hiroki's room. When they finally break into Hiroki's room with Schindler, Hiroki is not in the room. Apparently, he leaps off the top of the building to his death.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Suicide (Past)
| image = Movie6 Case.jpg
| location = Schindler Building
| victim = Hiroki Sawada
| cause-death = Falling from the building
| description =
}}

The image on his computer screen shows an ark sailing in water and the words "Good-bye Hiroki."

Two years later, at the Beika City Hall, Schindler, Inc., holds a demonstration of a virtual reality game system called Cocoon. Many kids, including the Detective Boys, are invited to the demonstration. However, only the kids with badges are chosen for the demonstration. Professor Agasa and Yusaku Kudo arrive at the City Hall. Agasa gives Conan Edogawa a badge and tells Conan that his mother, Yukiko Kudo, would not be there because of an alumni reunion. The rest of Detective Boys trick a few kids by exchanging badges for the Premium Golden Yaiber Cards. They all use the badges and participate in the demonstration.

In another room, Schindler kills Kashimura, one of his top employees, and Kashimura's types in a dying message: the letters J, T and R.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie6_Case1.jpg
| location = Beika City Hall - Basement
| victim = Tadaaki Kashimura
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects = Thomas Schindler
| description =
}}

Conan discovers the murder and decides to participate in the demonstration, hoping that the game would lead him to an answer. Yusaku finds out that J-T-R stands for "Jack The Ripper".

When the demonstration begins, Hiroki's artificial intelligence system, Noah's Ark takes control of the game system Cocoon. It tells the audience that if all fifty kids in the demonstration lose the game, it will kill the kids with a large electromagnetic burst. The kids in the demonstration are given a choice of five stages in the game, and Conan and the Detective Boys choose the final stage, a re-creation of an 1800 London mystery. In the beginning of the game, Conan discovers that Agasa's inventions don't work. Conan and his friends track down 221b Baker Street, only to find that Holmes and Watson are at Dartmoor. Since Holmes is unable to help, the kids find Colonel Moran and Professor Moriarty. Moriarty tells Conan that he trained Jack the Ripper when Jack was a street urchin. The professor gives the children a clue about the next victim, who turns out to be Irene Adler, Holmes's only love.

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Hiroki Sawada|Hiroki Sawada.jpg|
* Deceased (Suicide)
* 10 years old
* Boy genius}}
{{People|Thomas Schindler|Thomas Schindler.jpg|
* 52 years old
* Tsar of the IT Industry}}
{{People|Seiichiro Kikukawa|Seiichiro Kikukawa.jpg|
* 11 years old
* Playright's son}}
{{People|Hideki Moroboshi|Hideki Moroboshi.jpg|
* 12 years old
* Police deputy superintendent general's grandson}}
{{People|Akira Emori|Akira Emori.jpg|
* 11 years old
* Financial group and bank president's grandson}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Shinya Takizawa|Shinya Takizawa.jpg|
* 11 years old
* Ruling party politician's son}}
{{People|Tadaaki Kashimura|Tadaaki Kashimura.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 39 years old
* In charge of Game Development}}
{{People|Toshio Moroboshi|Toshio Moroboshi.jpg|
* Police deputy superintendent general}}
{{People|Tetsunosuke Emori|Tetsunosuke Emori.jpg|
* Financial group and bank president}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
It is revealed that Tadaaki Kashimura was Hiroki Sawada's real father.

In the real world, Yusaku investigates the case. Yusaku reveals that the murderer is the company's president, '''Thomas Schindler'''. Schindler is a descendant of Jack the Ripper who will stop at nothing to hide his secret. Schindler is immediately arrested.

One by one, the children “die” while trying to protect Conan until only three are left: Conan, Ran Mouri, and another child, Hideki Moroboshi. They follow Jack the Ripper to a runaway train, and the murderer leads them to the top of the train. There, Jack the Ripper ties himself to Ran and threatens Conan. Ran decides to save Conan and sacrifices herself by jumping off the train and into a ravine, taking Jack the Ripper with her. As Conan begins to lose hope, Sherlock Holmes appears and gives Conan some useful advice that eventually helps Conan and Hideki survive the game. After winning the game, Conan reveals that Hideki is actually the Ark in disguise. Then, all the children are released from the demonstration, and the Noah's Ark destroys itself.
</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* 'The Phantom of Baker Street' is the second highest grossing film in the Detective Conan franchise grossing a bit less than 3.4 billion yen.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]
{{Movies}}

[[Category:Movies]]

Karasuma Group

2013-04-04T11:18:59Z

Ccrogers15: /* Trivia */

{{InfoBox BlackOrganization
| name = Black Organization
| japanese-name = 黒の組織 (Kuro no soshiki)
| english-name = Black Organization
| image = Black Organization Profile.jpg
| boss = [[The Boss of the Black Organization|"Ano kata"]]
| members = [[Gin]] [[Vodka]] [[Vermouth]] [[Korn]] [[Chianti]] [[Bourbon]]
| deceased-members = [[Atsushi Miyano]] [[Elena Miyano]] [[Akemi Miyano]] [[Tequila]] [[Pisco]] [[Calvados]] [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] [[Ethan Hondou]] [[Arrack]] (Conan Special) [[Yoshiaki Hara]] ([[Countdown to Heaven|Movie 5]]) [[Irish]] ([[The Raven Chaser|Movie 13]])
| former-members = [[Sherry]] ([[Ai Haibara]]) [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] [[Generic]] (Conan Special)
| undercover-agents = [[Rye]] ([[Shuichi Akai]]) [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]
| aliases = The men in black
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes|Chapter 1]] Anime: [[Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Black Organization Appearances}}
| footnotes =
}}
The {{nihongo|'''Black Organization'''|黒の組織|kuro no soshiki}} serves as the main antagonist in the series. It is a secret syndicate that commits a number of crimes for various reasons which range from blackmail to robberies to assassinations. The members of the organization are given code names based on alcoholic beverages. The [[The Boss of the Black Organization|leader of the Black Organization]] is unseen and unheard of and is known only through text messages. Their boss's phone number follows the tune of the children song {{nihongo| '''[[Nanatsu no Ko]]'''|七つの子 |lit. Seven children}}; the number is #969#6261. The true name of the Black Organization is unknown. The first members to appear were Gin and Vodka, who were responsible for [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s transformation in the first place.

== Members ==

=== Current ===

*'''[[The Boss of the Black Organization|The boss]]''': The leader of the Black Organization. The boss's identity, gender, age, and location are all unknown. He/She is respectfully referred to as "that person" (ano kata) by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
*'''[[Gin]]''': A high ranking Black Organization executive official who seems to specialize in coordinating deals and assassinations. He is one of the most frequently reoccurring Black Organization characters. He is shown to be intelligent and very acute, and his long silver hair and sweeping trench coat give him a distinctive appearance. He forced the drug [[APTX 4869]] on Shinichi, and his favorite car is the Porsche 356A.
*'''[[Vodka]]''': Gin's secretary<ref name=CD237>Conan Drill page 237. Vodka's position is 全体監視役秘書係 which roughly translates to General Oversight division secretary</ref> and assistant, he is another frequently reoccurring Black Organization character. He wears a hat and sunglasses at all times. He is less intelligent compared to his boss Gin whom he often is seen working with.
*'''[[Vermouth]]''' (Sharon Vineyard/Chris Vineyard): A mysterious actress from America with exceptional disguise and voice changing abilities that allow her to pose as anyone. Like Gin, she is a Black Organization executive member.<ref>Conan Drill</ref> She is hated by a number of the members of the Black Organization, but due to the fact that she is their boss' favorite, she is untouchable and they are unable to do anything to her. It is unknown where her loyalty lies, as she often protects Conan and calls him a "silver bullet", implying that she believes him to be capable of bringing down the Black Organization. She also does not seem to age.
*'''[[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]''': Operates under alias of Rena Mizunashi, a TV reporter. Her true name is Hidemi Hondou. Like her deceased father, she is actually a member of the [[CIA]] who infiltrated the Black Organization. Her brother, [[Eisuke Hondou]], was not aware of this since Hidemi pretended not to know him after she went undercover.
*'''[[Chianti]]''': A professional sniper who has been seen to take orders from Gin. She has a fiery and impatient personality. She loathes Vermouth.
*'''[[Korn]]''': A professional sniper who has been seen to take orders from Gin. His speech is characterized by short phrases with many pauses.
*'''[[Tooru Amuro|Bourbon]]''': A newly established organization member who has great deduction and intelligence gathering skills. His public name is Tooru Amuro. Kir said he has recently been dispatched to search for [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]]. Gin has said that Bourbon hates [[Shuichi Akai]] much more than he does and that he is a man who follows his own rules, much like Vermouth.

=== Deceased ===
*'''[[Tequila]]''': An agent with the same rank as Vodka who seemed to primarily deal with programmers. He was a giant man who spoke with an Osakan accent. He was unintentionally killed in explosion in Episode 54 and Manga Volume 12.
*'''[[Pisco]]''': An elderly executive agent who was also the chairman of a car company. He was killed by Gin in Episode 178 after being caught on camera performing an assassination. He discovered Haibara was Sherry, but was unable to inform anyone before he was killed.
*'''[[Calvados]]''': A sniper infatuated with Vermouth who shot himself after being crippled by [[Shuichi Akai]] in Episode 345.
*'''[[Akemi Miyano]]''': Shiho Miyano's older sister and Shuichi Akai's girlfriend. She was a low ranking member of the organization and completed a billion yen robbery as part of an agreement to release herself and her sister from the organization. The organization reneged on the deal and she was killed by Gin in Episode 128 and in Manga Volume 2.
*'''[[Atsushi Miyano]]''': Haibara's father and Elena's husband. He headed the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both he and Elena died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young.
*'''[[Elena Miyano]]''': Haibara's mother and Atsushi's wife. She was of British origin and was known within the organization as "Hell's Angel". She worked the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both she and Atsushi died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young. She left some mysterious tapes for Shiho.
*'''[[Rikumichi Kusuda]]''': An agent sent to infiltrate Haido Central Hospital to discover the whereabouts of Kir. He killed himself when Akai was hot on his trail. (Episode 498)
*'''[[Ethan Hondou]]''': A CIA agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. He committed suicide to protect his daughter [[Hidemi Hondou]] from being uncovered as a CIA agent.
*'''[[Yoshiaki Hara]]''': A movie only agent killed by Gin in ''[[Countdown to Heaven|Movie 5]]''
*'''[[Irish]]''': A movie only agent killed by Chianti in ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''.
*'''[[Arrack]]''': A non-[[canon]] [[Detective Conan Special|special manga]] agent who committed suicide from Conan Special: Volume 26.

=== Former ===

*'''[[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]''' (Ai Haibara/Shiho Miyano): A high ranking biochemist who worked on [[APTX 4869]]. She boycotted her work after her sister was killed and was awaiting execution. She escaped when she took an APTX 4869 she had smuggled in with her and shrunk to her 6~7 year old body. She has been living with Professor Agasa and has been working on an antidote to the APTX 4869.
*'''[[Shuichi Akai|Rye]]''': The codename of Shuichi Akai, he was an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. His allegiance was discovered and he was rejected by the organization. His prowess led the organization to view him as the FBI's trump card.
*'''[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]''': A serial killer whom was slated to be the original test subject for the APTX drug before he escaped. Later escaped and is now in custody for murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him.
*'''[[Generic]]''': a non-[[canon]] [[Detective Conan Special|special manga]] agent who is an old friend of Sherry who considers her as his sister. He used the Apoptoxin medicine to shrink his own body and entered the school where Haibara is. He lost his memory due to his own memory removal gas in Conan Special: Volume 26.

== Organization structure and divisions ==
There are many divisions in the Black Organization which are roughly grouped into three categories: Internal Division (内部活動部隊), External Division (外部活動部隊), and General Oversight (全体監視役). The external division is composed of agents who primarily deal with people outside the Organization. The known internal division agents are focused on in-house research and development. General oversight takes a managerial and coordinating role. The divisions are unrelated to relative ranking among members.<ref name=CD237>Conan Drill page 237</ref> (e.g Vermouth is higher ranking than Vodka.)


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| colspan="7" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0 3px;"
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|-
| align="center"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Anokata 60px.jpg]] || [[The Boss of the Black Organization|The boss]]
|}
|}
|-
| colspan="2" |
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| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]]
|}
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
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| style="vertical-align: top" |
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|-
! rowspan="2" width="16%"|Drug Development || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Software Development || rowspan="2" width="28%"|Reconnaissance || colspan="2" width="14%"|Operations || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Fundraising || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Unknown
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| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] ''(escaped)''
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| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Yoshiaki Hara 60px.jpg]] || [[Yoshiaki Hara|Yoshiaki Hara*]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]]
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| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Tooru Amuro|Bourbon]]
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| [[File:Hidemi Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]<ref>Kir's division in the Black Organization has not been revealed, but it is likely she is in the Reconnaissance division because: 1)Her newscaster position is the type of job a reconnaissance division person would have. 2) She met with Vermouth many times while Vermouth was disguised as Araide 3) She discovered Bourbon's mission despite being mistrusted, and not even high rankers like Gin knew about it. If Kir was part of recon, she would be more likely to know.</ref> (Incertae sedis)
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| [[File:Rikumichi Kusuda 60px.jpg]] || [[Rikumichi Kusuda|Rikumichi Kusuda]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Irish 60px.jpg]] || [[Irish|Irish*]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]]
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| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]]
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| [[File:Kichiro Numabuchi 60px.jpg]] || [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] ''(arrested)''
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| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Akemi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Akemi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai|Rye]] ''(former)''
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| [[File:Ethan Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Ethan Hondou]] ''(deceased)''
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'''''*''': These characters are not considered to be [[canon]].''

==Rank==

Agents who excel at their work and make their way up the ranks are given alcohol codenames. Even within codenamed agents there are further rank divisions. One advantage that comes with being higher ranked is access to more informational files; lower rank agents have to request to see certain materials from higher ranking agents.<ref name=824p16>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 16: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref>

===Executive agents===
The "Executive"<ref>Manga [[Volume 58]], File 2 (599), pg 9: "Akai's past". "Executive" is a term used by the FBI to describe the agents who are high ranking like Gin and is not necessarily the term the Organization itself uses to refer to that top level.</ref> agents are the highest ranked codenamed agents within the Black Organization under the boss. They can command many other codenamed agents and have access to more information than lower ranked agents. Even for other executive agents, killing one without express orders from the boss would result in a loss of standing.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, page 14: Pisco tells Gin this</ref> 
*[[Gin]]
*[[Vermouth]]: Also the boss' favorite
*[[Pisco]]<ref name=CD239>[[:File:ConanDrill239.jpg|Conan Drill page 239]]</ref>

===Codenamed agents===
Agents who have excelled beyond the rank and file member enough earn recognition and an alcohol codename.

'''Work(ed) under Gin'''
*[[Vodka]]: Tequila and Vodka are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
*[[Tequila]]: Vodka and Tequila are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
*[[Chianti]]
*[[Korn]]
*[[Rye]]

'''Work(ed) under Vermouth'''
*[[Calvados]]

'''General'''
*[[Sherry]]: Known to be highly ranked but it has not been stated if she was an executive agent.
*[[Kir]]
*[[Tooru Amuro|Bourbon]]
*[[Irish]] (movie only)

===Non codenamed agents===
*[[Akemi Miyano]]
*[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]
*[[Ethan Hondou]]
*[[Rikumichi Kusuda]]
*[[Yoshiaki Hara]] (movie only)

===Unknown if codenamed===
*[[Atsushi Miyano]]
*[[Elena Miyano]]

== Modus operandi==
The Black Organization commits crimes such as illegal deals<ref>Manga [[Volume 4]], Files 4-6: Shinkansen Bomb Case</ref>, blackmail<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1: "The Heisei Holmes"</ref>, robberies<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], Files 4-7: "Masami Hirota Case"</ref>, and contract assassinations{{Citation needed}} to raise money for research.<ref>The Miyano parents went to work for the Black Organization because they [[Volume_41#Bathroom_Murder_Case|received funding after being unable to find a sponsor]] that would pay for them to research their theories. Tequila bribed [[Black_Organization#Hideaki Nakajima|Hideaki Nakajima]] with a large amount of money for the world's best programmers. [[Black_Organization#Suguru Itakura|Suguru Itakura]] was offered a large sum of money to complete his program</ref> The organization operates like a hybrid of a business and a mafia group. The Black Organization recruits outside talent and cultivates clients and sponsors by sending high ranking members like Gin to business meetings, but they also use mafia-like tactics to intimidate desirable civilians into making deals with them.<ref>e.g. Suguru Itakura</ref> Besides their financially motivated crimes, the organization engages in other stereotypical criminal activities like bribery, spying, and eliminating threats or former partners who are deemed useless or a risk.

=== Customs ===
The organization is highly secretive, and tries to eliminate anyone who has knowledge of their existence and threatens to expose their inner workings, including members who have become a liability, such as [[Akemi Miyano]]. They will dispose of even senior members like [[Pisco]] without hesitation to protect their secrets. Remaining unknown seems to be a higher priority than even research as Ai Haibara thought Conan would be killed before he could be “studied”.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, pg 7: "The girl made of lies" - "If I reported your condition to the organization, it's very likely you would have been terminated before I could do something useful." Haibara, explaining that Kudo would have been killed by the Black Organization anyway even though he was an "interesting specimen."</ref> The organization often destroys evidence via fire or explosion<ref>List of examples: the shinkansen bomb case, destruction of the Daiko Building's cocktail bar where meetings took place, destruction of the pharmaceutical company building Shiho worked at, Vermouth's assassination of Jodie's father and subsequent burning down of the house</ref> and Haibara warns that they will not hesitate to kill family and friends of a target to protect the secret of their existence.

The organization has several practices that resemble those of stereotypical secret societies.<ref>[[Conan Drill]], Black Organization Section, pgs 250-252. Among the sources of inspiration for the Black Org, the [[Wikipedia:Freemasons|Freemasons]] (フリーメイソン), the [[Wikipedia:KKK|KKK]], and others that were not translated are mentioned for their secret-society-like aspects.</ref> The Black Organization members all tend to wear black outfits, which Akemi says is intentional and supposed to resemble crows. For an as of yet unrevealed reason, nearly all the Black Organization's members (with the exception of the [[The Boss of the Black Organization|boss]]) use code names based on alcoholic drinks: hard liquors for men and wine or wine-based cocktails for women. Also it would appear the organization is also fond using detective fiction and classic literature in their project names and passwords. Examples include the APTX 4869 pun on Sherlock Holmes, the computer password Shelling Ford- a prototype name for Sherlock Holmes, a computer virus called Night Baron named after a character from mystery writer [[Yusaku Kudo]]’s novels, and mission codenames relating to the novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde''].

=== Criminal techniques ===
The Black Organization conducts its crimes in ways that are difficult to trace back to them. Handguns and sniping, fire and bombs, and poisons seem to be their preferred techniques. Sometimes the organization attempts to disguise their murders as accidents or suicides. To this end, [[APTX 4869]] was deployed as a poison because it is forensically difficult to detect. If they are unable to disguise a murder as something else, they will usually attempt to destroy any evidence using fire or explosives to make it difficult to investigate. Sometimes they will time their crimes so the blame will fall on another party instead, confusing the investigation. If a meeting place or asset of theirs is compromised, the Black Organization typically thoroughly destroys it before it can be investigated properly.

=== Locations and hideouts ===
The Black Organization seems to have hideouts,<ref name=383p11>Manga [[Volume 38]], File 1 (383), pg 11: "The New Weapon!"</ref> but none of them have been revealed so far. In line with their secretive existence, the Black Organization prefers to meet in places that are isolated or where they can slip away easily. Several operatives occupy public positions like famous actress (Vermouth), television announcer (Kir), or company chairman (Pisco) which gives the Black Organization connections to circles of the rich and famous and access to otherwise unavailable locations. So far, the Black Organization have met clients at a dim restaurant, a Shinkansen's dining car, a crowded wake, a train station under construction, and in an isolated area of an amusement park. The Black Organization often conducts business and meetings at the shipping yard.<ref>Akemi's murder, Showdown with Vermouth, planning for the Domon assassination?, Kir's call to Akai.</ref> Not very many member's abodes have been shown, but they range in extravagance from Kir's relatively plain apartment to Vermouth's lavish penthouse in a tall building.

=== Personnel characteristics ===
Individually, the organization's higher ranking members are typically intelligent and often multitalented. So far, at least all senior members are shown to carry guns and wear body armor under their clothing when out. Many agents, even those outside the assassination divisions, are skilled at using firearms. Disguise is a particularly common skill. Both [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]] were shown to be resistant to Conan's tranquilizer needle<ref>Manga Chapter 242: The White World</ref> and knockout gas<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple</ref>and subsequently both readily shot themselves in order to continue to stay awake. This may show that they have trained themselves to resist knockout effects to prevent capture and cope with pain.


==History==
The Black Organization’s main research project, of which [[APTX 4869]] is a part, has been around for at least half a century.<ref>Haibara thinks thinking to herself… "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century." (file 189, but see the ep 130/131 for a better translation) APTX 4869 is the only known connection between the org and Shinichi so Haibara must be referring to the APTX project.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 19, File 9</ref> The Black Organization has historical ties to America before the current storyline. Evidence for this is the involvement of the FBI and CIA in counter operations. Also, Jodie mentions that her father in the FBI was investigating Vermouth as Sharon Vineyard 20 years ago.<ref>Chapter 433</ref>


==Goal and research==
As of now, the Black Organization's main purpose and goal still remain unknown. What is known is that they are recruiting talent in biochemistry and computer science and funding research using the proceeds from their crime. Currently, the only sources of information Conan can rely on to learn the true intentions behind the Black Organization are former agent [[Sherry]], the CIA's undercover member Kir, and Black Organization related cases.

=== APTX 4869 and Biochemistry ===
[[File:Bloody_Disk_Manga.png|thumb|100px|right|[[The Desperate Revival|The disk of APTX 4869 data that Haibara lied about losing.]]]]
:''See also: [[APTX 4869]]''
The Black Organization has a long history of biochemistry research. Thirty years before Conan was shrunk, they recruited [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]] to work on research for them. Eventually, the two scientists developed a project they called [[APTX 4869#Silver_Bullet|Silver Bullet]]. Not long after the two died in what some members of the Organization called an accident and their daughter, [[Shiho Miyano]], took over research on the [[APTX 4869]] project. Although APTX 4869 was being developed for another, still secret, purpose, the Organization is using the incomplete prototype as an untraceable, lethal poison.

The Organization's project data for APTX 4869 contains important secrets. [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|One disk Haibara and Conan tried to retrieve]] had real names, addresses, and codenames of agents, and the name of the person/people who invested money for the research.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 1, pg 16: "Why..."</ref> Haibara made a copy of some of the APTX 4869 data when [[Reunion with the Black Organization|she was locked in a room with Pisco's computer]], but then lied to Conan about losing it.<ref>In [[The Desperate Revival|Episode 188]] (File 251), Haibara has the bloody disk of copied APTX 4869 data from [[Reunion with the Black Organization]]. She had lied to Conan about losing it.</ref>

=== Computer research and viruses ===
Another part of the Organization's research requires the skills of world class programmers. It is known the Black Organization has involvement with computer viruses (Night Baron); however, the main purpose of their computer science research may be something other than virii and related to their biochemistry research. [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#Hideaki_Nakajima|Hideaki Nakajima]] made an exchange with Tequila in the [[Game Company Murder Case]], giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. Vermouth and Tequila also blackmailed a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer named [[Suguru Itakura]] to complete a particular “system software” Itakura had stopped developing because of bad eyesight. Whatever it is, it prompted the coerced programmer Suguru Itakura to say that he didn’t want to complete his program “for the sake of humanity”.<ref> Manga chapter 380, pg 12</ref>

===Quotes===
{{cquote|Kudo-kun... You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century.|Haibara<ref>Manga Volume 19, File 9: Chapter 191: Episode 130-131</ref>}}

{{cquote|We can be both of God and Devil, since we are trying to raise the dead against the stream of time...|Vermouth<ref name=380p13>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 13: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref>}}

{{cquote|You can’t rush things. Humans can never go against the stream of time. If man forcibly tries to change that there will be punishment.|Haibara<ref>Manga Volume 20, File 1. Repeated in Volume 37, File 8, pg 17: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref>}}

{{cquote|No, I can't finish it... I won't. That program must not be completed, not for the sake of my vision but for humanity.|December 22nd journal entry from Itakura's diary<ref name=380p11>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 11: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref>}}

===Speculation about the Black Organization's goal===
====Immortality/anti aging====
[[File:Mermaid_case_guestbook_scene_manga.PNG|thumb|right|Shiho Miyano's name is in a guestbook logging past contestants for the immortality arrows]]
One possibility is that the Black Organization's research, especially [[APTX 4869]] development, is trying to create a therapy which will cause immortality, stall or reverse the effects of aging, or extend a human's lifespan.

Shiho Miyano said that, in developing APTX 4869, she didn't intend to create a poison,<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, page 9</ref> which suggests that APTX 4869 was originally developed with a different goal in mind. It probably was just a useful side effect that the current prototype kills while leaving no trace in the victim’s body, and was thus employed as a poison - a usage which Haibara detests.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, pg 9</ref> Additionally, APTX 4869 is nicknamed the "''incomplete'' detective" by the Black Organization, which means its true purpose has not yet been achieved.

The de-aging effect that occurred when Shinichi and Haibara took APTX 4869 probably indicates the main intent of the drug's development. After [[Pisco]] saw Haibara shrink back to her child form, he commented that he was impressed she had developed the drug to that point, implying that de-aging is in the right direction.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, pg 9</ref> Supporting this is Haibara’s line, "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."<ref>Manga Volume 19, File 9: Chapter 191: Episode 130-131</ref> APTX 4869 is the only known intersection between Shinichi and the Black Organization; meaning that Shinichi's de-aging made him relevant to the Black Organization's project.

According to Haibara’s description about APTX 4869<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 10</ref>, the drug activates [[wikipedia:telomerase|telomerase]], an enzyme which can increase the number of times a cell can divide, and therefore affect a cell's lifespan and “reproductive potential”. The goal of this might be to revert all non-neural cells to a "youthful", high reproductive potential state.

Besides APTX 4869, [[Vermouth#Non-aging|Vermouth's unnatural youth]] is another indicator that the Black Organization may be involved in research towards extending lifespan, halting aging, or rejuvenating the body. In addition, Shiho Miyano’s name was on the raffle list for the immortality arrows in the mermaid case in Fukui.<ref>Chapters 279-283</ref>
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====Raising the dead====
There is a possibility that the Black Organization may be trying to develop a method to revive the dead. Suguru Itakura's diary contained a quote by one of the Black Organization's agents, most likely Vermouth: "We can be both God and Devil since we are trying to raise the dead against the stream of time" <ref name=380p13/> The original purpose of APTX 4869 might be to raise the dead. [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] and Conan later wondered if the line meant that the Black Organization was trying to create zombies.<ref name=380p16>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 16: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref> Once when Conan asked Haibara directly what APTX 4869 was meant to do she replied, "It's a nostrum to raise the dead. I wonder if that answer is satisfactory?"<ref name=384p8>Manga Volume 32, File 8, page 8: "The Old Picture"</ref> It may be her comment was a bluff intended to provoke Conan into revealing what he had been up to rather than a serious statement of the purpose of the drug.

== Known Black Organization targets and contacts ==
{{main|List of Black Organization related characters}}
The Black Organization has involved many non-members in its plots, as collaborators or as targets. Additionally, many characters are friends or acquaintances with members of the Black Organization, often without realizing it. For a full list of major and minor characters who have been involved with the Black Organization, please see the '''[[List of Black Organization related characters|list of Black Organization related characters]]'''.

== Plot timeline ==
{{main|Black Organization timeline}}

== Manga to anime differences ==
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
The first season of Detective Conan rarely featured the Black Organization because the anime writers wanted to downplay their presence.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/case-closed/mystery-mastermind/episode/336019/trivia.html#notes Episode trivia on TV.com]</ref> Two of the episodes at least, were altered heavily in light of this:

*'''Episode 5, [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case]]:''' The episode replaces the two men who shrunk Conan with lookalikes unrelated to the Black Organization. In the manga version of this case, Conan runs into the real pair and learns their code names (Gin/Vodka in the Japanese Version, Melkior and Kaspar in the English Version). Their replacement creates a continuity error in '''Episode 54, [[Game Company Murder Case]]'''. Conan recognizes their code names when Tequila speaks to them, yet Conan never learned their code names in the anime version of events.

*'''Episode 13, [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]]:''' At the end of the episode, Masami Hirota meets with the criminal in charge the recent murders. She survives a gunshot wound thanks to Conan. In the manga version, which is in [[Volume 2]], the masterminds are Gin and Vodka. Masami is actually [[Akemi Miyano]], and stole the money to buy her sister out of the organization. Upon refusal to give the money's location to Gin, he shoots her. Conan arrives shortly after, and tries to help Akemi. He gives her his real name, and before dying she tells Conan the location of the money and that the organization who killed her wears black like crows. The anime had to do a similar story in Episode 128, '''[[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case]]''', in order to repair the storyline because Akemi's death is what prompted [[Shiho Miyano]] to defect from the Organization.

==Relation to the Organization from Magic Kaito==
:''See also: [[Magic Kaito Organization]]''
It is questionable if the Detective Conan's Black Organization and [[Magic Kaito]]'s [[Magic_Kaito_Organization|unnamed organization]] are the same organization. The member of the magic Kaito organization that claimed responsibility for killing [[Toichi]] eight years ago is referred to as "[[Snake]]"<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Magic Kaito |volume=3 |publisher=Shogakukan |date=1994-10-15 |isbn=4-09-122093-5 |chapter=Blue Birthday |language=Japanese |location=Tokyo |page=140 }}</ref>, a nickname that doesn't fit in with the codenames of the Black Organization, suggesting they are two separate groups. This though may not be the case if Snake refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_wine Snake Wine], but because [[Kaitou Kid]]'s origins have yet to be reexplained within the Detective Conan story, this is only speculation.

Additionally the members of the Magic Kaito Organization are looking for a magical gem called [[Pandora]]. The magical nature of Magic Kaito and its organization's search does not mesh with the non-magical setting of Detective Conan.

==Trivia==
*In the English Dub, "Case Closed", [[Gin]]' is renamed "Melkior" and [[Vodka]]'s is renamed "Kaspar". In the English manga, these are explained as specific brands of the relevant drinks.

*Members seem to get along fairly well most of the time. [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] have a particularly close rapport. [[Gin]] is annoyed by [[Vermouth]]'s teasing, but when on business they seem to get along alright. [[Chianti]] holds a hateful grudge against [[Vermouth]] because she believes [[Vermouth]] led [[Calvados]] to his death, indicating that [[Chianti]] has some sort of relationship with the deceased agent. [[Korn]] appears to be anti-social.

*[[Vermouth]] is the only living member of the organization who learned that Ai Haibara is Shiho Miyano and Conan Edogawa is [[Shinichi Kudo]]. Pisco also knew Haibara's identity, and unlike Vermouth, would've revealed it to [[Gin]] if he hadn't been murdered by him first. Conan told [[Akemi Miyano]] his real name as she died.

*According to the Black Organization only the "Silver Bullet" can defeat/kill them, Vermouth believes that Conan/Shinichi is their "Silver Bullet". However everyone else thinks Akai is their greatest threat.
*At the moment, Kir is the youngest member of the Black Organization at Age 27. Before Shiho left the organization, she was the Youngest at Age 18, but only a few days before that, her sister Akemi was the youngest at age 25, however she was killed by Gin.

*[[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]] indicates that the organization has numerous members. Later [[Clash of Red and Black|episode 502]] shows that these members can include old members in their 70's or 80's. Episode 557 also shows that the organization has access to a large quantity of weapons and sends a large amount of its members depending on the mission.

*Episodes 462-465 marks the first 4-part episode dealing with the Black Organization without it being aired as a special (However, international airings outside Japan have separated each 2 hour special dealing with the Black Organization into six separate parts).

*Episodes 491-504 marks the longest Black Organization arc to ever air, consisting of more than ten parts.

*During the course of the series, almost every member had some kind of individual contact with Conan/Shinichi; [[Gin]] in the episode 1, manga chapter 33 on the bullet train, and episode 178 when Conan shoots him with his needle while hiding, [[Vodka]] in manga chapter 33 on the bullet train and during the course of episodes 309-311, [[Vermouth]] in episode 345 and while she was disguised as Araide, [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] in episode 425, [[Akemi Miyano]] in manga chapters 13-16/episode 128, [[Pisco]] in episode 178, [[Tequila]] in episode 54, [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] in episode 118 and briefly in 290, and [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] in episodes 496-497.

== See also ==

* [[Characters]]
* [[APTX 4869]]
* [[Nanatsu no ko]]

==In other languages==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig}}
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== References ==

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| name = Black Organization
| japanese-name = 黒の組織 (Kuro no soshiki)
| english-name = Black Organization
| image = Black Organization Profile.jpg
| boss = [[The Boss of the Black Organization|"Ano kata"]]
| members = [[Gin]] [[Vodka]] [[Vermouth]] [[Korn]] [[Chianti]] [[Bourbon]]
| deceased-members = [[Atsushi Miyano]] [[Elena Miyano]] [[Akemi Miyano]] [[Tequila]] [[Pisco]] [[Calvados]] [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] [[Ethan Hondou]] [[Arrack]] (Conan Special) [[Yoshiaki Hara]] ([[Countdown to Heaven|Movie 5]]) [[Irish]] ([[The Raven Chaser|Movie 13]])
| former-members = [[Sherry]] ([[Ai Haibara]]) [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] [[Generic]] (Conan Special)
| undercover-agents = [[Rye]] ([[Shuichi Akai]]) [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]
| aliases = The men in black
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes|Chapter 1]] Anime: [[Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Black Organization Appearances}}
| footnotes =
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The {{nihongo|'''Black Organization'''|黒の組織|kuro no soshiki}} serves as the main antagonist in the series. It is a secret syndicate that commits a number of crimes for various reasons which range from blackmail to robberies to assassinations. The members of the organization are given code names based on alcoholic beverages. The [[The Boss of the Black Organization|leader of the Black Organization]] is unseen and unheard of and is known only through text messages. Their boss's phone number follows the tune of the children song {{nihongo| '''[[Nanatsu no Ko]]'''|七つの子 |lit. Seven children}}; the number is #969#6261. The true name of the Black Organization is unknown. The first members to appear were Gin and Vodka, who were responsible for [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s transformation in the first place.

== Members ==

=== Current ===

*'''[[The Boss of the Black Organization|The boss]]''': The leader of the Black Organization. The boss's identity, gender, age, and location are all unknown. He/She is respectfully referred to as "that person" (ano kata) by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
*'''[[Gin]]''': A high ranking Black Organization executive official who seems to specialize in coordinating deals and assassinations. He is one of the most frequently reoccurring Black Organization characters. He is shown to be intelligent and very acute, and his long silver hair and sweeping trench coat give him a distinctive appearance. He forced the drug [[APTX 4869]] on Shinichi, and his favorite car is the Porsche 356A.
*'''[[Vodka]]''': Gin's secretary<ref name=CD237>Conan Drill page 237. Vodka's position is 全体監視役秘書係 which roughly translates to General Oversight division secretary</ref> and assistant, he is another frequently reoccurring Black Organization character. He wears a hat and sunglasses at all times. He is less intelligent compared to his boss Gin whom he often is seen working with.
*'''[[Vermouth]]''' (Sharon Vineyard/Chris Vineyard): A mysterious actress from America with exceptional disguise and voice changing abilities that allow her to pose as anyone. Like Gin, she is a Black Organization executive member.<ref>Conan Drill</ref> She is hated by a number of the members of the Black Organization, but due to the fact that she is their boss' favorite, she is untouchable and they are unable to do anything to her. It is unknown where her loyalty lies, as she often protects Conan and calls him a "silver bullet", implying that she believes him to be capable of bringing down the Black Organization. She also does not seem to age.
*'''[[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]''': Operates under alias of Rena Mizunashi, a TV reporter. Her true name is Hidemi Hondou. Like her deceased father, she is actually a member of the [[CIA]] who infiltrated the Black Organization. Her brother, [[Eisuke Hondou]], was not aware of this since Hidemi pretended not to know him after she went undercover.
*'''[[Chianti]]''': A professional sniper who has been seen to take orders from Gin. She has a fiery and impatient personality. She loathes Vermouth.
*'''[[Korn]]''': A professional sniper who has been seen to take orders from Gin. His speech is characterized by short phrases with many pauses.
*'''[[Tooru Amuro|Bourbon]]''': A newly established organization member who has great deduction and intelligence gathering skills. His public name is Tooru Amuro. Kir said he has recently been dispatched to search for [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]]. Gin has said that Bourbon hates [[Shuichi Akai]] much more than he does and that he is a man who follows his own rules, much like Vermouth.

=== Deceased ===
*'''[[Tequila]]''': An agent with the same rank as Vodka who seemed to primarily deal with programmers. He was a giant man who spoke with an Osakan accent. He was unintentionally killed in explosion in Episode 54 and Manga Volume 12.
*'''[[Pisco]]''': An elderly executive agent who was also the chairman of a car company. He was killed by Gin in Episode 178 after being caught on camera performing an assassination. He discovered Haibara was Sherry, but was unable to inform anyone before he was killed.
*'''[[Calvados]]''': A sniper infatuated with Vermouth who shot himself after being crippled by [[Shuichi Akai]] in Episode 345.
*'''[[Akemi Miyano]]''': Shiho Miyano's older sister and Shuichi Akai's girlfriend. She was a low ranking member of the organization and completed a billion yen robbery as part of an agreement to release herself and her sister from the organization. The organization reneged on the deal and she was killed by Gin in Episode 128 and in Manga Volume 2.
*'''[[Atsushi Miyano]]''': Haibara's father and Elena's husband. He headed the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both he and Elena died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young.
*'''[[Elena Miyano]]''': Haibara's mother and Atsushi's wife. She was of British origin and was known within the organization as "Hell's Angel". She worked the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both she and Atsushi died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young. She left some mysterious tapes for Shiho.
*'''[[Rikumichi Kusuda]]''': An agent sent to infiltrate Haido Central Hospital to discover the whereabouts of Kir. He killed himself when Akai was hot on his trail. (Episode 498)
*'''[[Ethan Hondou]]''': A CIA agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. He committed suicide to protect his daughter [[Hidemi Hondou]] from being uncovered as a CIA agent.
*'''[[Yoshiaki Hara]]''': A movie only agent killed by Gin in ''[[Countdown to Heaven|Movie 5]]''
*'''[[Irish]]''': A movie only agent killed by Chianti in ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''.
*'''[[Arrack]]''': A non-[[canon]] [[Detective Conan Special|special manga]] agent who committed suicide from Conan Special: Volume 26.

=== Former ===

*'''[[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]''' (Ai Haibara/Shiho Miyano): A high ranking biochemist who worked on [[APTX 4869]]. She boycotted her work after her sister was killed and was awaiting execution. She escaped when she took an APTX 4869 she had smuggled in with her and shrunk to her 6~7 year old body. She has been living with Professor Agasa and has been working on an antidote to the APTX 4869.
*'''[[Shuichi Akai|Rye]]''': The codename of Shuichi Akai, he was an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. His allegiance was discovered and he was rejected by the organization. His prowess led the organization to view him as the FBI's trump card.
*'''[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]''': A serial killer whom was slated to be the original test subject for the APTX drug before he escaped. Later escaped and is now in custody for murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him.
*'''[[Generic]]''': a non-[[canon]] [[Detective Conan Special|special manga]] agent who is an old friend of Sherry who considers her as his sister. He used the Apoptoxin medicine to shrink his own body and entered the school where Haibara is. He lost his memory due to his own memory removal gas in Conan Special: Volume 26.

== Organization structure and divisions ==
There are many divisions in the Black Organization which are roughly grouped into three categories: Internal Division (内部活動部隊), External Division (外部活動部隊), and General Oversight (全体監視役). The external division is composed of agents who primarily deal with people outside the Organization. The known internal division agents are focused on in-house research and development. General oversight takes a managerial and coordinating role. The divisions are unrelated to relative ranking among members.<ref name=CD237>Conan Drill page 237</ref> (e.g Vermouth is higher ranking than Vodka.)


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| [[File:Anokata 60px.jpg]] || [[The Boss of the Black Organization|The boss]]
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{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! colspan="2" style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#555555;"|General Oversight
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| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]]
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| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]]
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! colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #777799;"|Internal Division || colspan="5" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #779977;"|External Division || colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #907040;"|Unknown
|-
! rowspan="2" width="16%"|Drug Development || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Software Development || rowspan="2" width="28%"|Reconnaissance || colspan="2" width="14%"|Operations || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Fundraising || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Unknown
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! style="color: #000000; background: #FFE0E0;"|Assassination || style="color: #000000; background: #E0E0FF;"|Robbery
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{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] ''(escaped)''
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
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{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Yoshiaki Hara 60px.jpg]] || [[Yoshiaki Hara|Yoshiaki Hara*]] ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]]
|-
| [[File:Tooru Amuro 60px.jpg]] || [[Tooru Amuro|Bourbon]]
|-
| [[File:Hidemi Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]<ref>Kir's division in the Black Organization has not been revealed, but it is likely she is in the Reconnaissance division because: 1)Her newscaster position is the type of job a reconnaissance division person would have. 2) She met with Vermouth many times while Vermouth was disguised as Araide 3) She discovered Bourbon's mission despite being mistrusted, and not even high rankers like Gin knew about it. If Kir was part of recon, she would be more likely to know.</ref> (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Rikumichi Kusuda 60px.jpg]] || [[Rikumichi Kusuda|Rikumichi Kusuda]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Irish 60px.jpg]] || [[Irish|Irish*]] ''(deceased)''
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{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]]
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| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]]
|-
| [[File:Kichiro Numabuchi 60px.jpg]] || [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] ''(arrested)''
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| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] ''(deceased)''
|}

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{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Akemi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Akemi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
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| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] ''(deceased)''
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| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai|Rye]] ''(former)''
|-
| [[File:Ethan Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Ethan Hondou]] ''(deceased)''
|}
|}
|}

'''''*''': These characters are not considered to be [[canon]].''

==Rank==

Agents who excel at their work and make their way up the ranks are given alcohol codenames. Even within codenamed agents there are further rank divisions. One advantage that comes with being higher ranked is access to more informational files; lower rank agents have to request to see certain materials from higher ranking agents.<ref name=824p16>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 16: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref>

===Executive agents===
The "Executive"<ref>Manga [[Volume 58]], File 2 (599), pg 9: "Akai's past". "Executive" is a term used by the FBI to describe the agents who are high ranking like Gin and is not necessarily the term the Organization itself uses to refer to that top level.</ref> agents are the highest ranked codenamed agents within the Black Organization under the boss. They can command many other codenamed agents and have access to more information than lower ranked agents. Even for other executive agents, killing one without express orders from the boss would result in a loss of standing.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, page 14: Pisco tells Gin this</ref> 
*[[Gin]]
*[[Vermouth]]: Also the boss' favorite
*[[Pisco]]<ref name=CD239>[[:File:ConanDrill239.jpg|Conan Drill page 239]]</ref>

===Codenamed agents===
Agents who have excelled beyond the rank and file member enough earn recognition and an alcohol codename.

'''Work(ed) under Gin'''
*[[Vodka]]: Tequila and Vodka are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
*[[Tequila]]: Vodka and Tequila are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
*[[Chianti]]
*[[Korn]]
*[[Rye]]

'''Work(ed) under Vermouth'''
*[[Calvados]]

'''General'''
*[[Sherry]]: Known to be highly ranked but it has not been stated if she was an executive agent.
*[[Kir]]
*[[Tooru Amuro|Bourbon]]
*[[Irish]] (movie only)

===Non codenamed agents===
*[[Akemi Miyano]]
*[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]
*[[Ethan Hondou]]
*[[Rikumichi Kusuda]]
*[[Yoshiaki Hara]] (movie only)

===Unknown if codenamed===
*[[Atsushi Miyano]]
*[[Elena Miyano]]

== Modus operandi==
The Black Organization commits crimes such as illegal deals<ref>Manga [[Volume 4]], Files 4-6: Shinkansen Bomb Case</ref>, blackmail<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1: "The Heisei Holmes"</ref>, robberies<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], Files 4-7: "Masami Hirota Case"</ref>, and contract assassinations{{Citation needed}} to raise money for research.<ref>The Miyano parents went to work for the Black Organization because they [[Volume_41#Bathroom_Murder_Case|received funding after being unable to find a sponsor]] that would pay for them to research their theories. Tequila bribed [[Black_Organization#Hideaki Nakajima|Hideaki Nakajima]] with a large amount of money for the world's best programmers. [[Black_Organization#Suguru Itakura|Suguru Itakura]] was offered a large sum of money to complete his program</ref> The organization operates like a hybrid of a business and a mafia group. The Black Organization recruits outside talent and cultivates clients and sponsors by sending high ranking members like Gin to business meetings, but they also use mafia-like tactics to intimidate desirable civilians into making deals with them.<ref>e.g. Suguru Itakura</ref> Besides their financially motivated crimes, the organization engages in other stereotypical criminal activities like bribery, spying, and eliminating threats or former partners who are deemed useless or a risk.

=== Customs ===
The organization is highly secretive, and tries to eliminate anyone who has knowledge of their existence and threatens to expose their inner workings, including members who have become a liability, such as [[Akemi Miyano]]. They will dispose of even senior members like [[Pisco]] without hesitation to protect their secrets. Remaining unknown seems to be a higher priority than even research as Ai Haibara thought Conan would be killed before he could be “studied”.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, pg 7: "The girl made of lies" - "If I reported your condition to the organization, it's very likely you would have been terminated before I could do something useful." Haibara, explaining that Kudo would have been killed by the Black Organization anyway even though he was an "interesting specimen."</ref> The organization often destroys evidence via fire or explosion<ref>List of examples: the shinkansen bomb case, destruction of the Daiko Building's cocktail bar where meetings took place, destruction of the pharmaceutical company building Shiho worked at, Vermouth's assassination of Jodie's father and subsequent burning down of the house</ref> and Haibara warns that they will not hesitate to kill family and friends of a target to protect the secret of their existence.

The organization has several practices that resemble those of stereotypical secret societies.<ref>[[Conan Drill]], Black Organization Section, pgs 250-252. Among the sources of inspiration for the Black Org, the [[Wikipedia:Freemasons|Freemasons]] (フリーメイソン), the [[Wikipedia:KKK|KKK]], and others that were not translated are mentioned for their secret-society-like aspects.</ref> The Black Organization members all tend to wear black outfits, which Akemi says is intentional and supposed to resemble crows. For an as of yet unrevealed reason, nearly all the Black Organization's members (with the exception of the [[The Boss of the Black Organization|boss]]) use code names based on alcoholic drinks: hard liquors for men and wine or wine-based cocktails for women. Also it would appear the organization is also fond using detective fiction and classic literature in their project names and passwords. Examples include the APTX 4869 pun on Sherlock Holmes, the computer password Shelling Ford- a prototype name for Sherlock Holmes, a computer virus called Night Baron named after a character from mystery writer [[Yusaku Kudo]]’s novels, and mission codenames relating to the novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde''].

=== Criminal techniques ===
The Black Organization conducts its crimes in ways that are difficult to trace back to them. Handguns and sniping, fire and bombs, and poisons seem to be their preferred techniques. Sometimes the organization attempts to disguise their murders as accidents or suicides. To this end, [[APTX 4869]] was deployed as a poison because it is forensically difficult to detect. If they are unable to disguise a murder as something else, they will usually attempt to destroy any evidence using fire or explosives to make it difficult to investigate. Sometimes they will time their crimes so the blame will fall on another party instead, confusing the investigation. If a meeting place or asset of theirs is compromised, the Black Organization typically thoroughly destroys it before it can be investigated properly.

=== Locations and hideouts ===
The Black Organization seems to have hideouts,<ref name=383p11>Manga [[Volume 38]], File 1 (383), pg 11: "The New Weapon!"</ref> but none of them have been revealed so far. In line with their secretive existence, the Black Organization prefers to meet in places that are isolated or where they can slip away easily. Several operatives occupy public positions like famous actress (Vermouth), television announcer (Kir), or company chairman (Pisco) which gives the Black Organization connections to circles of the rich and famous and access to otherwise unavailable locations. So far, the Black Organization have met clients at a dim restaurant, a Shinkansen's dining car, a crowded wake, a train station under construction, and in an isolated area of an amusement park. The Black Organization often conducts business and meetings at the shipping yard.<ref>Akemi's murder, Showdown with Vermouth, planning for the Domon assassination?, Kir's call to Akai.</ref> Not very many member's abodes have been shown, but they range in extravagance from Kir's relatively plain apartment to Vermouth's lavish penthouse in a tall building.

=== Personnel characteristics ===
Individually, the organization's higher ranking members are typically intelligent and often multitalented. So far, at least all senior members are shown to carry guns and wear body armor under their clothing when out. Many agents, even those outside the assassination divisions, are skilled at using firearms. Disguise is a particularly common skill. Both [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]] were shown to be resistant to Conan's tranquilizer needle<ref>Manga Chapter 242: The White World</ref> and knockout gas<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple</ref>and subsequently both readily shot themselves in order to continue to stay awake. This may show that they have trained themselves to resist knockout effects to prevent capture and cope with pain.


==History==
The Black Organization’s main research project, of which [[APTX 4869]] is a part, has been around for at least half a century.<ref>Haibara thinks thinking to herself… "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century." (file 189, but see the ep 130/131 for a better translation) APTX 4869 is the only known connection between the org and Shinichi so Haibara must be referring to the APTX project.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 19, File 9</ref> The Black Organization has historical ties to America before the current storyline. Evidence for this is the involvement of the FBI and CIA in counter operations. Also, Jodie mentions that her father in the FBI was investigating Vermouth as Sharon Vineyard 20 years ago.<ref>Chapter 433</ref>


==Goal and research==
As of now, the Black Organization's main purpose and goal still remain unknown. What is known is that they are recruiting talent in biochemistry and computer science and funding research using the proceeds from their crime. Currently, the only sources of information Conan can rely on to learn the true intentions behind the Black Organization are former agent [[Sherry]], the CIA's undercover member Kir, and Black Organization related cases.

=== APTX 4869 and Biochemistry ===
[[File:Bloody_Disk_Manga.png|thumb|100px|right|[[The Desperate Revival|The disk of APTX 4869 data that Haibara lied about losing.]]]]
:''See also: [[APTX 4869]]''
The Black Organization has a long history of biochemistry research. Thirty years before Conan was shrunk, they recruited [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]] to work on research for them. Eventually, the two scientists developed a project they called [[APTX 4869#Silver_Bullet|Silver Bullet]]. Not long after the two died in what some members of the Organization called an accident and their daughter, [[Shiho Miyano]], took over research on the [[APTX 4869]] project. Although APTX 4869 was being developed for another, still secret, purpose, the Organization is using the incomplete prototype as an untraceable, lethal poison.

The Organization's project data for APTX 4869 contains important secrets. [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|One disk Haibara and Conan tried to retrieve]] had real names, addresses, and codenames of agents, and the name of the person/people who invested money for the research.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 1, pg 16: "Why..."</ref> Haibara made a copy of some of the APTX 4869 data when [[Reunion with the Black Organization|she was locked in a room with Pisco's computer]], but then lied to Conan about losing it.<ref>In [[The Desperate Revival|Episode 188]] (File 251), Haibara has the bloody disk of copied APTX 4869 data from [[Reunion with the Black Organization]]. She had lied to Conan about losing it.</ref>

=== Computer research and viruses ===
Another part of the Organization's research requires the skills of world class programmers. It is known the Black Organization has involvement with computer viruses (Night Baron); however, the main purpose of their computer science research may be something other than virii and related to their biochemistry research. [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#Hideaki_Nakajima|Hideaki Nakajima]] made an exchange with Tequila in the [[Game Company Murder Case]], giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. Vermouth and Tequila also blackmailed a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer named [[Suguru Itakura]] to complete a particular “system software” Itakura had stopped developing because of bad eyesight. Whatever it is, it prompted the coerced programmer Suguru Itakura to say that he didn’t want to complete his program “for the sake of humanity”.<ref> Manga chapter 380, pg 12</ref>

===Quotes===
{{cquote|Kudo-kun... You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century.|Haibara<ref>Manga Volume 19, File 9: Chapter 191: Episode 130-131</ref>}}

{{cquote|We can be both of God and Devil, since we are trying to raise the dead against the stream of time...|Vermouth<ref name=380p13>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 13: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref>}}

{{cquote|You can’t rush things. Humans can never go against the stream of time. If man forcibly tries to change that there will be punishment.|Haibara<ref>Manga Volume 20, File 1. Repeated in Volume 37, File 8, pg 17: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref>}}

{{cquote|No, I can't finish it... I won't. That program must not be completed, not for the sake of my vision but for humanity.|December 22nd journal entry from Itakura's diary<ref name=380p11>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 11: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref>}}

===Speculation about the Black Organization's goal===
====Immortality/anti aging====
[[File:Mermaid_case_guestbook_scene_manga.PNG|thumb|right|Shiho Miyano's name is in a guestbook logging past contestants for the immortality arrows]]
One possibility is that the Black Organization's research, especially [[APTX 4869]] development, is trying to create a therapy which will cause immortality, stall or reverse the effects of aging, or extend a human's lifespan.

Shiho Miyano said that, in developing APTX 4869, she didn't intend to create a poison,<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, page 9</ref> which suggests that APTX 4869 was originally developed with a different goal in mind. It probably was just a useful side effect that the current prototype kills while leaving no trace in the victim’s body, and was thus employed as a poison - a usage which Haibara detests.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, pg 9</ref> Additionally, APTX 4869 is nicknamed the "''incomplete'' detective" by the Black Organization, which means its true purpose has not yet been achieved.

The de-aging effect that occurred when Shinichi and Haibara took APTX 4869 probably indicates the main intent of the drug's development. After [[Pisco]] saw Haibara shrink back to her child form, he commented that he was impressed she had developed the drug to that point, implying that de-aging is in the right direction.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, pg 9</ref> Supporting this is Haibara’s line, "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."<ref>Manga Volume 19, File 9: Chapter 191: Episode 130-131</ref> APTX 4869 is the only known intersection between Shinichi and the Black Organization; meaning that Shinichi's de-aging made him relevant to the Black Organization's project.

According to Haibara’s description about APTX 4869<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 10</ref>, the drug activates [[wikipedia:telomerase|telomerase]], an enzyme which can increase the number of times a cell can divide, and therefore affect a cell's lifespan and “reproductive potential”. The goal of this might be to revert all non-neural cells to a "youthful", high reproductive potential state.

Besides APTX 4869, [[Vermouth#Non-aging|Vermouth's unnatural youth]] is another indicator that the Black Organization may be involved in research towards extending lifespan, halting aging, or rejuvenating the body. In addition, Shiho Miyano’s name was on the raffle list for the immortality arrows in the mermaid case in Fukui.<ref>Chapters 279-283</ref>
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====Raising the dead====
There is a possibility that the Black Organization may be trying to develop a method to revive the dead. Suguru Itakura's diary contained a quote by one of the Black Organization's agents, most likely Vermouth: "We can be both God and Devil since we are trying to raise the dead against the stream of time" <ref name=380p13/> The original purpose of APTX 4869 might be to raise the dead. [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] and Conan later wondered if the line meant that the Black Organization was trying to create zombies.<ref name=380p16>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 16: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref> Once when Conan asked Haibara directly what APTX 4869 was meant to do she replied, "It's a nostrum to raise the dead. I wonder if that answer is satisfactory?"<ref name=384p8>Manga Volume 32, File 8, page 8: "The Old Picture"</ref> It may be her comment was a bluff intended to provoke Conan into revealing what he had been up to rather than a serious statement of the purpose of the drug.

== Known Black Organization targets and contacts ==
{{main|List of Black Organization related characters}}
The Black Organization has involved many non-members in its plots, as collaborators or as targets. Additionally, many characters are friends or acquaintances with members of the Black Organization, often without realizing it. For a full list of major and minor characters who have been involved with the Black Organization, please see the '''[[List of Black Organization related characters|list of Black Organization related characters]]'''.

== Plot timeline ==
{{main|Black Organization timeline}}

== Manga to anime differences ==
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
The first season of Detective Conan rarely featured the Black Organization because the anime writers wanted to downplay their presence.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/case-closed/mystery-mastermind/episode/336019/trivia.html#notes Episode trivia on TV.com]</ref> Two of the episodes at least, were altered heavily in light of this:

*'''Episode 5, [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case]]:''' The episode replaces the two men who shrunk Conan with lookalikes unrelated to the Black Organization. In the manga version of this case, Conan runs into the real pair and learns their code names (Gin/Vodka in the Japanese Version, Melkior and Kaspar in the English Version). Their replacement creates a continuity error in '''Episode 54, [[Game Company Murder Case]]'''. Conan recognizes their code names when Tequila speaks to them, yet Conan never learned their code names in the anime version of events.

*'''Episode 13, [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]]:''' At the end of the episode, Masami Hirota meets with the criminal in charge the recent murders. She survives a gunshot wound thanks to Conan. In the manga version, which is in [[Volume 2]], the masterminds are Gin and Vodka. Masami is actually [[Akemi Miyano]], and stole the money to buy her sister out of the organization. Upon refusal to give the money's location to Gin, he shoots her. Conan arrives shortly after, and tries to help Akemi. He gives her his real name, and before dying she tells Conan the location of the money and that the organization who killed her wears black like crows. The anime had to do a similar story in Episode 128, '''[[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case]]''', in order to repair the storyline because Akemi's death is what prompted [[Shiho Miyano]] to defect from the Organization.

==Relation to the Organization from Magic Kaito==
:''See also: [[Magic Kaito Organization]]''
It is questionable if the Detective Conan's Black Organization and [[Magic Kaito]]'s [[Magic_Kaito_Organization|unnamed organization]] are the same organization. The member of the magic Kaito organization that claimed responsibility for killing [[Toichi]] eight years ago is referred to as "[[Snake]]"<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Magic Kaito |volume=3 |publisher=Shogakukan |date=1994-10-15 |isbn=4-09-122093-5 |chapter=Blue Birthday |language=Japanese |location=Tokyo |page=140 }}</ref>, a nickname that doesn't fit in with the codenames of the Black Organization, suggesting they are two separate groups. This though may not be the case if Snake refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_wine Snake Wine], but because [[Kaitou Kid]]'s origins have yet to be reexplained within the Detective Conan story, this is only speculation.

Additionally the members of the Magic Kaito Organization are looking for a magical gem called [[Pandora]]. The magical nature of Magic Kaito and its organization's search does not mesh with the non-magical setting of Detective Conan.

==Trivia==
*In the English Dub, "Case Closed", [[Gin]]' is renamed "Melkior" and [[Vodka]]'s is renamed "Kaspar". In the English manga, these are explained as specific brands of the relevant drinks.

*Members seem to get along fairly well most of the time. [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] have a particularly close rapport. [[Gin]] is annoyed by [[Vermouth]]'s teasing, but when on business they seem to get along alright. [[Chianti]] holds a hateful grudge against [[Vermouth]] because she believes [[Vermouth]] led [[Calvados]] to his death, indicating that [[Chianti]] has some sort of relationship with the deceased agent. [[Korn]] appears to be anti-social.

*[[Vermouth]] is the only living member of the organization who learned that Ai Haibara is Shiho Miyano and Conan Edogawa is [[Shinichi Kudo]]. Pisco also knew Haibara's identity, and unlike Vermouth, would've revealed it to [[Gin]] if he hadn't been murdered by him first. Conan told [[Akemi Miyano]] his real name as she died.

*According to the Black Organization only the "Silver Bullet" can defeat/kill them, Vermouth believes that Conan/Shinichi is their "Silver Bullet". However everyone else thinks Akai is their greatest threat.
*So far, the youngest member still in the Black Organization is revealed to be [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] at age 27. [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] is actually much younger, as her age was revealed to be 18, and her sister is in her early twenties.

*[[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]] indicates that the organization has numerous members. Later [[Clash of Red and Black|episode 502]] shows that these members can include old members in their 70's or 80's. Episode 557 also shows that the organization has access to a large quantity of weapons and sends a large amount of its members depending on the mission.

*Episodes 462-465 marks the first 4-part episode dealing with the Black Organization without it being aired as a special (However, international airings outside Japan have separated each 2 hour special dealing with the Black Organization into six separate parts).

*Episodes 491-504 marks the longest Black Organization arc to ever air, consisting of more than ten parts.

*During the course of the series, almost every member had some kind of individual contact with Conan/Shinichi; [[Gin]] in the episode 1, manga chapter 33 on the bullet train, and episode 178 when Conan shoots him with his needle while hiding, [[Vodka]] in manga chapter 33 on the bullet train and during the course of episodes 309-311, [[Vermouth]] in episode 345 and while she was disguised as Araide, [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] in episode 425, [[Akemi Miyano]] in manga chapters 13-16/episode 128, [[Pisco]] in episode 178, [[Tequila]] in episode 54, [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] in episode 118 and briefly in 290, and [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] in episodes 496-497.

== See also ==

* [[Characters]]
* [[APTX 4869]]
* [[Nanatsu no ko]]

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable OtherLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|黒の組織 Kuro no soshiki}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Organització Negra}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa|Organisasi Hitam}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Schwarze Organisation}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|L’Organisation des Hommes en Noir}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|L'Organizzazione degli Uomini in Nero }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Tổ chức Áo đen}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|المنظمة السوداء Al-Munadama Al-Sowda}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Musta Organisaatio}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|องค์กรชุดดำ}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|黑衣组织 Hēi'yī Zǔzhī}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig}}
{{EndTable}}

== References ==

<references/>

{{Black Organization}}

[[Category:Black Organization|*]]

[[de:Organisation]]

Miwako Sato

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Miwako Sato
| japanese-name = 佐藤美和子 (Satō Miwako)
| english-name = Detective Saimone
| image = Miwako Sato Profile.jpg
| age = ~28<ref>Detective Conan Drill: The Dechipherment of Conan Page 29. Miwako's age is written as '''推定'''28歳 (presumably 28 years old).</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = April (unknown date)<ref>[[Volume 44#File 450 - From Heaven to Hell|Volume 44, File 450 "From Heaven to Hell", page 2]]: "佐藤さんの誕生日は'''四月'''だし、..." ("Sato-san's birthday was in '''April'''...") ''(The reference to April was not translated in English Volume 44.)''</ref>
| relatives = [[Masayoshi Sato]] (father, deceased) Mother (unnamed)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_19#Stadium_Bomber_Case|File 190]] Anime: [[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|Episode 130]]
| appearances = {{:Miwako Sato Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 21]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Yuya]]
| english-voice = [[Kate Oxley]]
| drama-actor = [[Natsuhi Ueno]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Miwako Sato|佐藤美和子|Satō Miwako}}''', also known as '''Detective Saimone''' in the [[Funimation]] dub, is a police assistant inspector and detective in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[Image:Miwako and her father.png|thumb|left|150px|Miwako and her last moment with her father]] Eighteen years ago, when she was still at elementary school, Miwako lost her father, [[Masayoshi Sato]] , in a traffic accident as he was about to deliver a bank robber to the police - an event that marked her life. She eventually became a police officer on her own and now works alongside [[Inspector Megure]], [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]], [[Detective Chiba]], and especially [[Wataru Takagi]] in the Tokyo police district.

Sato first met [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]] during a blackmail case against Nichiuri TV.<ref>Manga Chapter 190: The 56 Thousand Hostages</ref> In a subsequent case which dealt with a cunning murder of a banker's wife by her husband, she became impressed with Conan's intellect and deductionary ability and has since come to trust his judgements implicitly.<ref>Manga Chapter 210: An Unexpected Rival</ref> Eventually, the case of her father's death was also resolved with [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]'s help, which helped fanning the spark of affection she was feeling for him at the time.<ref>Manga Chapter 269: Time's Up</ref>

Sato's first love interest was [[Jinpei Matsuda]], whom she only got to know briefly due to his death by the hands of a dangerous bomber. Although she denied it at first, she finally acknowledged her feelings for Takagi, which made him the outcast among the other jealous police officers who were interested in her, especially [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Shiratori]]. Nonetheless, for a very long time, anytime they were about to take their relationship to the very next step, something got in the way (mostly in the shape of Miwako's best friend, [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]]), until Sato and Takagi - mostly undisturbed (thanks to the help of Conan and the Detective Boys for creating a makeshift reason for the interlopers to leave) - shared their very first kiss when Takagi was hospitalized in the course of a hard case.<ref>Manga Chapter 673: The Common Pattern</ref>Then had their second kiss when Takagi survived a bombing accident.<ref>Episode 683: The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love(Enter The Scene)</ref>

== Personality ==
Sato is considered one of the most dangerous members of the police, being not at all afraid to get tangled with dangerous men in fights, which she almost always wins. However, she does have a softer personality, in which she is very friendly with the [[Detective Boys]], and especially [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], whom she considers is a big help in difficult cases. When in action, however, Sato can be quite reckless and daring, which has earned her the title 'The Silver Witch' among car racers on Mount Fuyuna due to her driving style.<ref>Manga Chapter 663: The True Identity of the Witch</ref>

Her favorite hobbies are going to the karaoke, attending all-you-can-eat offers, and going out to eat ramen.

== Plot overview ==
=== Stadium Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 19|189]]-[[Volume 20|191]]; Anime: [[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|130-131]]) ===
Miwako's first appearance was in Episode 130, and in manga File 190, where she is seen trying to arrest the culprit's accomplice along with other police officers, but gradually failed.

=== Treadmill Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 21|208-210]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|146-147]]) ===

This case is the very beginning of the long love story between Miwako Sato and her fellow police officer, [[Wataru Takagi]].

One night, Sato and her friend [[Yumi Miyamoto]] from the traffic department have a drink together. In her drunken state, Sato unknowingly reveals to Yumi the person that she has feelings for, however, when she wakes up, she doesn't remember the exact details of what she has told her friend. The next day, Sato arrives at the Police Headquarter and meets up with detective [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]], who is talking to the [[Detective Boys]] at the time. She asks Takagi who the children are, only to be mistaken by them that she is his girlfriend. However, both of them denies that this is true. She also wonders if Takagi has heard anything from Yumi, without knowing that her friend has already told the police officer about what happened the previous night, saying that the person whom Sato likes is "someone from the first investigation division".

Later, the bank manager from a recent bank robbery case comes to see the police. During his phone call to his wife, everyone hears her sudden scream. Sato immediately drives Takagi, Conan and the manager to their house, only to discover the wife's stabbed body instead. The person to be in charge of this murder case is Inspector [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]], a police officer who has just been promoted recently. Sato sarcastically congratulates Shiratori on his rapid promotion, and jokingly comments that he may as well consider her "a possible wedding match", without knowing that this statement has raised a major misunderstanding from Takagi, who thinks that she really has affection for the new police inspector.

With the help from Conan, the trick and the identity of the killer are uncovered, and the case goes to an end. When every works are done, Shiratori invites Sato to have dinner with him at a restaurant that he knows but she turns down the offer, saying that French cuisine isn't her favorite. She instead invites Takagi to go out and eat ramen together. Just as the misunderstanding earlier is about to be cleared and Takagi finally has the chance to be with Sato, a drunken [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] suddenly appears and suggests them go out for a drink with him at a bar. Sato immediately approves of the idea despite the other invitation to Takagi, thus raises another serious misconception: Detective Sato has special feelings for Inspector Megure.

=== Innocent Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 23|231]]-[[Volume 24|233]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|156-157]]) ===

=== Sato's Father Case (Manga: [[Volume 27|267-269]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|205-206]]) ===

=== Police Escort Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 30|296-298]]; Anime: [[The Shinkansen Transport Case|240-241]]) ===

=== Sato's Omiai Case (Manga: [[Volume 32|328]]-[[Volume 33|330]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|253-254]]) ===

=== Parade Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 36|366-368]]; Anime: [[Parade of Malice and Saint|301-302]]) ===

=== Serial Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 36|369]]-[[Volume 37|373]]; Anime: [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|304]]) ===
During this case, she was having many flash backs of her former crush who was killed during a bombing incident. When the bombing started to become more familiar, she became very worried for Takagi. When takagi and conan were trapped in an elevator with a mercury lever bomb, Takagi told Sato that he and conan would have to remain and die with the bomb to get the name of the location of a much bigger bomb. She tried to force her way through police to get to takagi, but failed. However the bomb was disabled by conan at last second. Later after capturing the bomber, she ran after him and attempted to kill him as she was fully taken in with revenge. At last second before she would of killed him, takagi tackled sato and even smacked her in the face to make her regain her senses. Takagi and Sato almost kiss until Inspector Megure breaks it up.

=== Missing Ring Case (Manga: [[Volume 40|404-406]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5|358-359]]) ===

=== Takagi's Last Case (Manga: [[Volume 44|450-452]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|390-391]]) ===

=== Jewel Robber's Suicide Case (Manga: [[Volume 47|484-486]]; Anime: [[A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed|401-402]]) ===

=== Group Date Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 50|511-514]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|431-432]]) ===

=== Fake Wedding Case (Manga: [[Volume 52|535-537]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding|449]]) ===

=== Sato's Ring Case (Manga: [[Volume 56|576-578]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger|487]]) ===

=== Hammer Man Case (Manga: [[Volume 60|625-627]]; Anime: [[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|530-531]]) ===

=== Whistling Killer Case (Manga: [[Volume 64|670-673]]; Anime: [[The Scar that Evokes the Past|534-535]]) ===

=== Overnight Deadline (Manga: [[Volume 76|804]]-[[Volume 77|808]]; Anime: [[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|681-683]]) ===

=== Captured In Her Eyes (Not canonical to main continuity) ===
During Captured In Her Eyes, Miwako was a target of a serial killer. She thought she was safe but when she and ran went to the bathroom, a blackout in the hotel occured. When a gunman came into the bathroom, she jumped at ran to protect her, however she was shot several times and put into a coma. This incident caused a large deal of grief on Ran and Takagi. Even going as far as to make ran completely lose her memories. She was given by doctors a 50/50 chance at surviving due to severe wounds. However, she survived.

== Relationship analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Wataru Takagi ====
{{main|Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato}}
[[Image:Episode 535 - Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sato and Takagi]]Miwako started to have feelings for Takagi after seeing the resemblance he has of the deceased Matsuda Jinpei. Their relationship gradually develops as the series continues.
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==== Yumi Miyamoto ====
[[Image:Miwako and Yumi.png|thumb|right|150px|Miwako and Yumi chatting]]Yumi is Miwako's best friend in the headquarter. They are seen together a lot, and Yumi always teases Miwako about her relationship with Takagi.
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==== Inspector Megure ====
[[Image:Inspector Megure and Miwako Sato.png|thumb|right|150px|Inspector Megure with Miwako Sato]]Inspector Megure is like a father figure to Miwako as she said to Takagi in one of the episodes (although Takagi mistook it as a love interest at first).
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==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[Image:Conan with Officer Sato.png|thumb|right|150px|Miwako listens to Conan]]Miwako seems to admire Conan, like Takagi, usually telling Conan information that are actually forbidden to be leaked to normal citizens.
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==== Ninzaburo Shiratori ====
Although Shiratori crushes on Sato and attempts to marry her, she views him as a friend. He only gives up after the Detective Boys point him to Kobayashi.

==== Miwako Sato's mother ====

== 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. Sato placed 13th in the poll with 50 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>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Sato placed 14th overall with 107 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Miwako's "Before" Appearance (Episode 146)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Miwako's "After" Appearance (Episode 661)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|But kid, remember one thing... The word justice isn't a word you can involve in any occasion... it's something we must secretly in our heart.|To [[Genta]]}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=100px perrow=6>
File:Miwako as a child.png|Miwako Sato as a child (18 years ago)
File:Takagi and Miwako about to kiss.jpg| Miwako and Takagi about to kiss
File:Miwako picking randomly.jpg
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[File:Satos FD.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Sato's RX-7]]
* Sato drives a [[Cars#Miwako_Sato|red series 6 Mazda (Ẽfini) RX-7]]. It used to be white, but she painted it red so it would be more visible in the fog.
* Sato has a habit of shrieking while drifting without pulling the handbrake as she feels that shrieking helps make it easier. But she finds it embarrassing, though. This habit caused the "Mountain Witch" story to happen, as people reported the the witch would drift using a white FD and scream really loud.
* Sato is a fan of [[Lupin III]].
* Sato dislike any type of shining or expensive jewelries. This fact was used by Yumi to trick some of her admirer to by expensive jewels that she seems nice. However, she wears a ghost-expelled ring which she think came from Takagi.
* A running gag in the series is how whenever she and Takagi go on a date, they are stalked by other police detectives who have crushes on her.
* In the English Dub, during Captured In Her Eyes, a script error says that Sato died when she was shot. This is false, however, all parts of the movie say she died, until the end of the movie where it says she will survive. Why this is like this is unknown.
* Sato is bad at drawing.
* Sato, Takagi and Yumi are the only Police Officers to take Conan seriously, usually treating him as an equal.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Sato family]]

== References ==
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{{Characters}}
{{Police}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sato Miwako}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Police detectives]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Martial artists]]
[[de:Miwako Sato]]

Miwako Sato

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Miwako Sato
| japanese-name = 佐藤美和子 (Satō Miwako)
| english-name = Detective Saimone
| image = Miwako Sato Profile.jpg
| age = ~28<ref>Detective Conan Drill: The Dechipherment of Conan Page 29. Miwako's age is written as '''推定'''28歳 (presumably 28 years old).</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = April (unknown date)<ref>[[Volume 44#File 450 - From Heaven to Hell|Volume 44, File 450 "From Heaven to Hell", page 2]]: "佐藤さんの誕生日は'''四月'''だし、..." ("Sato-san's birthday was in '''April'''...") ''(The reference to April was not translated in English Volume 44.)''</ref>
| relatives = [[Masayoshi Sato]] (father, deceased) Mother (unnamed)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_19#Stadium_Bomber_Case|File 190]] Anime: [[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|Episode 130]]
| appearances = {{:Miwako Sato Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 21]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Yuya]]
| english-voice = [[Kate Oxley]]
| drama-actor = [[Natsuhi Ueno]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Miwako Sato|佐藤美和子|Satō Miwako}}''', also known as '''Detective Saimone''' in the [[Funimation]] dub, is a police assistant inspector and detective in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[Image:Miwako and her father.png|thumb|left|150px|Miwako and her last moment with her father]] Eighteen years ago, when she was still at elementary school, Miwako lost her father, [[Masayoshi Sato]] , in a traffic accident as he was about to deliver a bank robber to the police - an event that marked her life. She eventually became a police officer on her own and now works alongside [[Inspector Megure]], [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]], [[Detective Chiba]], and especially [[Wataru Takagi]] in the Tokyo police district.

Sato first met [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]] during a blackmail case against Nichiuri TV.<ref>Manga Chapter 190: The 56 Thousand Hostages</ref> In a subsequent case which dealt with a cunning murder of a banker's wife by her husband, she became impressed with Conan's intellect and deductionary ability and has since come to trust his judgements implicitly.<ref>Manga Chapter 210: An Unexpected Rival</ref> Eventually, the case of her father's death was also resolved with [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]'s help, which helped fanning the spark of affection she was feeling for him at the time.<ref>Manga Chapter 269: Time's Up</ref>

Sato's first love interest was [[Jinpei Matsuda]], whom she only got to know briefly due to his death by the hands of a dangerous bomber. Although she denied it at first, she finally acknowledged her feelings for Takagi, which made him the outcast among the other jealous police officers who were interested in her, especially [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Shiratori]]. Nonetheless, for a very long time, anytime they were about to take their relationship to the very next step, something got in the way (mostly in the shape of Miwako's best friend, [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]]), until Sato and Takagi - mostly undisturbed (thanks to the help of Conan and the Detective Boys for creating a makeshift reason for the interlopers to leave) - shared their very first kiss when Takagi was hospitalized in the course of a hard case.<ref>Manga Chapter 673: The Common Pattern</ref>Then had their second kiss when Takagi survived a bombing accident.<ref>Episode 683: The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love(Enter The Scene)</ref>

== Personality ==
Sato is considered one of the most dangerous members of the police, being not at all afraid to get tangled with dangerous men in fights, which she almost always wins. However, she does have a softer personality, in which she is very friendly with the [[Detective Boys]], and especially [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], whom she considers is a big help in difficult cases. When in action, however, Sato can be quite reckless and daring, which has earned her the title 'The Silver Witch' among car racers on Mount Fuyuna due to her driving style.<ref>Manga Chapter 663: The True Identity of the Witch</ref>

Her favorite hobbies are going to the karaoke, attending all-you-can-eat offers, and going out to eat ramen.

== Plot overview ==
=== Stadium Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 19|189]]-[[Volume 20|191]]; Anime: [[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|130-131]]) ===
Miwako's first appearance was in Episode 130, and in manga File 190, where she is seen trying to arrest the culprit's accomplice along with other police officers, but gradually failed.

=== Treadmill Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 21|208-210]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|146-147]]) ===

This case is the very beginning of the long love story between Miwako Sato and her fellow police officer, [[Wataru Takagi]].

One night, Sato and her friend [[Yumi Miyamoto]] from the traffic department have a drink together. In her drunken state, Sato unknowingly reveals to Yumi the person that she has feelings for, however, when she wakes up, she doesn't remember the exact details of what she has told her friend. The next day, Sato arrives at the Police Headquarter and meets up with detective [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]], who is talking to the [[Detective Boys]] at the time. She asks Takagi who the children are, only to be mistaken by them that she is his girlfriend. However, both of them denies that this is true. She also wonders if Takagi has heard anything from Yumi, without knowing that her friend has already told the police officer about what happened the previous night, saying that the person whom Sato likes is "someone from the first investigation division".

Later, the bank manager from a recent bank robbery case comes to see the police. During his phone call to his wife, everyone hears her sudden scream. Sato immediately drives Takagi, Conan and the manager to their house, only to discover the wife's stabbed body instead. The person to be in charge of this murder case is Inspector [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]], a police officer who has just been promoted recently. Sato sarcastically congratulates Shiratori on his rapid promotion, and jokingly comments that he may as well consider her "a possible wedding match", without knowing that this statement has raised a major misunderstanding from Takagi, who thinks that she really has affection for the new police inspector.

With the help from Conan, the trick and the identity of the killer are uncovered, and the case goes to an end. When every works are done, Shiratori invites Sato to have dinner with him at a restaurant that he knows but she turns down the offer, saying that French cuisine isn't her favorite. She instead invites Takagi to go out and eat ramen together. Just as the misunderstanding earlier is about to be cleared and Takagi finally has the chance to be with Sato, a drunken [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] suddenly appears and suggests them go out for a drink with him at a bar. Sato immediately approves of the idea despite the other invitation to Takagi, thus raises another serious misconception: Detective Sato has special feelings for Inspector Megure.

=== Innocent Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 23|231]]-[[Volume 24|233]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|156-157]]) ===

=== Sato's Father Case (Manga: [[Volume 27|267-269]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|205-206]]) ===

=== Police Escort Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 30|296-298]]; Anime: [[The Shinkansen Transport Case|240-241]]) ===

=== Sato's Omiai Case (Manga: [[Volume 32|328]]-[[Volume 33|330]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|253-254]]) ===

=== Parade Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 36|366-368]]; Anime: [[Parade of Malice and Saint|301-302]]) ===

=== Serial Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 36|369]]-[[Volume 37|373]]; Anime: [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|304]]) ===

=== Missing Ring Case (Manga: [[Volume 40|404-406]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5|358-359]]) ===

=== Takagi's Last Case (Manga: [[Volume 44|450-452]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|390-391]]) ===

=== Jewel Robber's Suicide Case (Manga: [[Volume 47|484-486]]; Anime: [[A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed|401-402]]) ===

=== Group Date Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 50|511-514]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|431-432]]) ===

=== Fake Wedding Case (Manga: [[Volume 52|535-537]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding|449]]) ===

=== Sato's Ring Case (Manga: [[Volume 56|576-578]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger|487]]) ===

=== Hammer Man Case (Manga: [[Volume 60|625-627]]; Anime: [[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|530-531]]) ===

=== Whistling Killer Case (Manga: [[Volume 64|670-673]]; Anime: [[The Scar that Evokes the Past|534-535]]) ===

=== Overnight Deadline (Manga: [[Volume 76|804]]-[[Volume 77|808]]; Anime: [[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|681-683]]) ===

== Relationship analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Wataru Takagi ====
{{main|Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato}}
[[Image:Episode 535 - Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sato and Takagi]]Miwako started to have feelings for Takagi after seeing the resemblance he has of the deceased Matsuda Jinpei. Their relationship gradually develops as the series continues.
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==== Yumi Miyamoto ====
[[Image:Miwako and Yumi.png|thumb|right|150px|Miwako and Yumi chatting]]Yumi is Miwako's best friend in the headquarter. They are seen together a lot, and Yumi always teases Miwako about her relationship with Takagi.
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==== Inspector Megure ====
[[Image:Inspector Megure and Miwako Sato.png|thumb|right|150px|Inspector Megure with Miwako Sato]]Inspector Megure is like a father figure to Miwako as she said to Takagi in one of the episodes (although Takagi mistook it as a love interest at first).
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==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[Image:Conan with Officer Sato.png|thumb|right|150px|Miwako listens to Conan]]Miwako seems to admire Conan, like Takagi, usually telling Conan information that are actually forbidden to be leaked to normal citizens.
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==== Ninzaburo Shiratori ====
Although Shiratori crushes on Sato and attempts to marry her, she views him as a friend. He only gives up after the Detective Boys point him to Kobayashi.

==== Miwako Sato's mother ====

== 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. Sato placed 13th in the poll with 50 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>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Sato placed 14th overall with 107 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Miwako's "Before" Appearance (Episode 146)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Miwako's "After" Appearance (Episode 661)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|But kid, remember one thing... The word justice isn't a word you can involve in any occasion... it's something we must secretly in our heart.|To [[Genta]]}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=100px perrow=6>
File:Miwako as a child.png|Miwako Sato as a child (18 years ago)
File:Takagi and Miwako about to kiss.jpg| Miwako and Takagi about to kiss
File:Miwako picking randomly.jpg
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[File:Satos FD.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Sato's RX-7]]
* Sato drives a [[Cars#Miwako_Sato|red series 6 Mazda (Ẽfini) RX-7]]. It used to be white, but she painted it red so it would be more visible in the fog.
* Sato has a habit of shrieking while drifting without pulling the handbrake as she feels that shrieking helps make it easier. But she finds it embarrassing, though. This habit caused the "Mountain Witch" story to happen, as people reported the the witch would drift using a white FD and scream really loud.
* Sato is a fan of [[Lupin III]].
* Sato dislike any type of shining or expensive jewelries. This fact was used by Yumi to trick some of her admirer to by expensive jewels that she seems nice. However, she wears a ghost-expelled ring which she think came from Takagi.
* A running gag in the series is how whenever she and Takagi go on a date, they are stalked by other police detectives who have crushes on her.
* In the English Dub, during Captured In Her Eyes, a script error says that Sato died when she was shot. This is false, however, all parts of the movie say she died, until the end of the movie where it says she will survive. Why this is like this is unknown.
* Sato is bad at drawing.
* Sato, Takagi and Yumi are the only Police Officers to take Conan seriously, usually treating him as an equal.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Sato family]]

== References ==
<references />

{{Characters}}
{{Police}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sato Miwako}}
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[[Category:Martial artists]]
[[de:Miwako Sato]]

Azusa Enomoto

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Azusa Enomoto
| japanese-name = 榎本梓 (Enomoto Azusa)
| english-name =
| image = Azusa Enomoto Profile.jpg
| age = 23
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = Sugihito Enomoto (older brother)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_43#Forgotten_Cellphone_Case|File 438]] Anime: [[The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case|Episode 152]]
| appearances = {{:Azusa Enomoto Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 43]]
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Mikiko Enomoto]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Azusa Enomoto|榎本梓|Enomoto Azusa}}''' is a character in the manga and anime franchise, ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Azusa is a kind and young worker at the Café Poirot, the coffee shop that is directly under the Mouri Detective Agency. [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] often goes there for a quick coffee break. Azusa sometimes gives Kogoro a case to solve, mostly involving missing cell phones and cell phone messages.

== Personality ==
She has a kind personality.

== Different looks ==
Azusa is a character that has gone through numerous significant changes. Her first appearance look was only used once, as a throw-away character in [[The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case]] at the end, still working in Café Poirot, which also looked different.<ref name=Old>[[The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case|Episode 152: The Mysterious Old Man Disappearance Case]]</ref> However, after this appearance, the character received a big makeover, as did the Café. This version of the character was used in two different episodes, and in one she even provided assistance in helping Conan solve the case.<ref name=Other>[[The Deduction That Was Too Good|Episode 207: The Deduction That Was Too Good]]</ref> in the other appearance, she appeared in the new look Café, asking for orders from Conan, Ran, Kogoro, and [[Shizuka Hattori]].<ref name=Shizuka>[[The Client Full of Lies|Episode 220: The Client Full of Lies (Part 1)]]</ref> After these appearances, Azusa received one last final makeover, as did the Café, in a look that is still used today.<ref name=Cell>[[The Forgotten Cell Phone|Episodes 350 and 351: The Forgotten Cell Phone (Parts 1 and 2)]]</ref> <ref name = Cell2>[[The Pursuit of the Fish E-mail|Episode 438 : The Pursuit of the Fish E-mail]]</ref>The voice actress has not changed throughout all of her appearances, voiced by [[Mikiko Enomoto]].

{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Azusa - 1st Version.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Azusa's first look. Also note the appearance of Café Poirot]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Azusa - 2nd Version.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Azusa's second look.]]
|}

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== Plot overview ==

== Relationships analysis ==
===Family & Friends===

====Kogoro, Ran and Conan====
Azusa has been on good terms with the 3. All 3 live in the 2 floors above her workplace at the Cafe.

====Sugihito Enomoto====
Her Brother Sugihito, aged 27, was introduced in episode 526. He was a suspect in a murdercase, however with all her thoughts she believed her brother was not the killer. Later she goes to find him at a warehouse, but is attacked and knocked out. The real killer then tells Sugihito that if he wants his sister to survive, he must write out a final confession and then hang himself. Before he is forced to do so, Detective Sato arrests the real killer and Sugihito is proven innocent.

== Name origin ==
She and her voice actress share the same family name "Enomoto".

== Quotes ==

== Trivia ==
*In the anime TV series, Azusa's appearance has changed drastically from her first episode, where she was unnamed. She has had three different looks, all different, but with the same voice actress.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]

== References ==
<references />

{{DEFAULTSORT:Enomoto Azusa}}
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[[Category:Female characters]]
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[[de:Azusa Enomoto]]

Collectibles

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Ccrogers15: /* Miscellaneous watching methods */ (Added digital releases, as Case Closed seasons 1-5 will be available starting april 16th on PSN,XBL and Itunes.

== Blu-ray ==

{{BeginTable Collectible|watchable=yes}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Blu-ray|Japan|Japanese Blu-ray|Japanese|November 25, 2009|November 21, 2012|movies=19|seasons=0|collections=0|others=1|20}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Blu-ray|Germany|German Blu-ray|German|May 13, 2011|September 28, 2012|movies=2|seasons=0|collections=0|others=0|2}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Blu-ray|Republic of China|Traditional Chinese Blu-ray|Traditional Chinese|December 17, 2010|January 6, 2012|movies=15|seasons=0|collections=0|others=0|15}}
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== DVDs ==

{{BeginTable Collectible|watchable=yes}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|Japan|Japanese DVDs|Japanese|October 25, 2000|June 29, 2012|movies=19|seasons=169|collections=30|others=19|237}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|US|English DVDs|English|August 24, 2004|March 23, 2010|movies=7|seasons=18|collections=10|others=1|36}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|Germany|German DVDs|German|March 21, 2005|September 28, 2012|movies=15|seasons=9|collections=0|others=0|24}}
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== VHS Tapes ==

{{BeginTable Collectible|watchable=yes}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|VHS|Japan|Japanese VHS|Japanese|June 26, 1996|October 4, 2006|movies=8|seasons=138|collections=0|others=8|154}}
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== Miscellaneous watching methods ==

{{BeginTable Collectible|watchable=yes}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Laserdisc|Japan|Japanese Laserdisc|Japanese Laserdisc|June 26, 1996|December 22, 1999|movies=3|seasons=36|collections=0|others=1|40}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|GBA|Japan|Gameboy Advance Video|Japanese GBA Video|November 20, 2003|March 25, 2004|movies=0|seasons=0|collections=14|others=0|14}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|VCD|Thailand|Thai VCD|Thai VCD|}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|-|US|Thai VCD|Playstation Network, ITunes, Xbox Live|April 16th 2013|TBA|movies=0|seasons=5|collections=5|others=0|14}}}}
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== Detective Conan Manga ==

{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Japan|Japanese Manga|Japanese|June 18, 1994|December 2012|78}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|US|English Manga|English|September 7, 2004|October 9, 2012|44}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Spain|Spanish Manga|Spanish|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Catalonia|Catalan Manga|Catalan|October 2004|July 2008|8}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|France|French Manga|French|April 1, 1997|July 12, 2012|70}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Netherlands|Flemish Manga|Dutch (Flemish)|July 11, 2007|September 1, 2010|13}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Germany|German Manga|German|November 15, 2001|November 9, 2012|74}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Italy|Italian Manga|Italian|February 2, 2005|August 9, 2012|74}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Finland|Finnish Manga|Finnish|September 15, 2004|September 26, 2012|73}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Norway|Norwegian Manga|Norwegian|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Sweden|Swedish Manga|Swedish|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|China|Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Simplified Chinese||September 1, 2012|75}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Republic of China|Chinese Manga (Chingwin)|Traditional Chinese|1995|November, 2012|75}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Hong Kong|Chinese Manga (Edko)|Traditional Chinese||April 30, 2012|74}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Singapore|Chinese Manga (Chaung Yi)|Simplified Chinese|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Malaysia|Chinese Manga (Tora Aman)|Simplified Chinese|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Malaysia|Malaysian Manga |Malay||June 2012|74}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Indonesia|Indonesian Manga|Indonesian|1997|March 13, 2013|72}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Vietnam|Vietnamese Manga|Vietnamese|?|2011|74}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Thailand|Thai Manga|Thai|?| 2013|72}}
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== Detective Conan Special Manga ==

{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Japan|Japanese Special Manga|Japanese|January 28, 1997|November 28, 2011|37}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Spain|Spanish Special Manga|Spanish|October 2006|October 2009|31}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Germany|German Special Manga|German|May 15, 2005|March 15, 2008|18}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Italy|Italian Special Manga|Italian|January 24, 2011|November 24, 2011|6}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|China|Chinese Special Manga|Chinese|December 1, 2002|December 1, 2009|34}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Republic of China|Traditional Chinese Special Manga|Traditional Chinese||January 11, 2012|36}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Malaysia|Malaysian Special Manga|Malay|?|?|34}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Vietnam|Vietnamese Special Manga|Vietnamese|?|2011|36}}
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== Magic Kaito Manga ==

{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Japan|Japanese Magic Kaito Manga|Japanese|May 15, 1988|March 15, 2007|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Spain|Spanish Magic Kaito Manga|Spanish|May 2004|November 2008|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Germany|German Magic Kaito Manga|German|March 15, 2006|August 15, 2008|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Italy|Italian Magic Kaito Manga|Italian|September 19, 2007|December 19, 2007|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Thailand|Thai Magic Kaito Manga|Thai|?|?|4}}
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== Novels ==
{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Novel|Japan|Japanese Novels|Japanese Novels|May 15, 2005|June 18, 2012|10}}
{{CollectibleItem|Novel|Spain|Spanish Novels|Spanish Novels|November 2008|November 2008|2}}
{{CollectibleItem|Novel|China|Chinese Novels|Chinese Novels|July 1, 2005|March 1, 2011|5}}
{{CollectibleItem|Novel|Vietnam|Vietnamese Novels|Vietnamese Novels|?|February 22, 2013|6}}
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== Manga compilations and other books ==
{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Japan|Shonen Sunday Books and Specials|Shonen Sunday Books and Specials|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Book|Japan|Reference Books|Reference Books|May 10, 2001|April 18, 2007|5}}
{{CollectibleItem|Book|Japan|Shogakukan Learning Series|Shogakukan Learning Series|March 20, 2001|June 6, 2012|38}}
{{EndTable}}

== Toys ==

{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Toy|Japan|McDonald's Happy Set Toys|McDonald's Happy Set Toys|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Toy|Japan|Plush|Plush|||}}
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== Miscellaneous ==

{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Misc collectible|Japan|Shitajiki|Shitajiki|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Card|Japan|Phonecards|Phonecards|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Card|Japan|Trading Cards|Trading Cards|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Calendar|Japan|Calendars|Calendars|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Puzzle|Japan|Jigsaw Puzzles|Jigsaw Puzzles|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Game|Japan|Board Games|Board Games|||}}
{{EndTable}}

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Season 5

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Season 5 aired from June 29, 1998 to February 8, 1999.

== List of episodes ==

The following is a list of episodes for Season 5.
<onlyinclude>
{{BeginTable Season}}
{{SeasonItem|107|113|[[The Mysterious Mole Alien Case|The Mysterious Mole Alien Case (Part 1)]]|June 29, 1998|next-conan-hint=Manhole
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=While playing baseball, Conan and the Detective Boys accidentally throw the ball into someone's yard. On the way to retrive it, they meet Yoshikazu Watanuki, a man who turns out to be the suspect of a murder case.}}
{{SeasonItem|108|114|[[The Mysterious Mole Alien Case|The Mysterious Mole Alien Case (Part 2)]]|July 6, 1998|next-conan-hint=Muddy water
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=The police find Masao at Yoshikazu's house who buried the stolen jewels around the yard. The police are forced to excavate the yard, but they find no body. Conan is positive Yoshikazu killed Masao's sister just by the smirk he has on his face. The Detective Boys ask a witness who heard digging noises from Yoshikazu's yard on the day Masao's sister went missing to find the witness made a mistake and the noise was actually coming from the construction site next door. Conan calls the police and puts on a show telling his deduction. Conan points out the body is under a growing flower which sprouted from the victim received as a gift on the day she went missing.}}
{{SeasonItem|109|115|[[Detective Club Pursuit Case]]|July 13, 1998|next-conan-hint=Ice
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=Ayumi is hit by a red car and the other three members of the Detective Boys club chases after it on Conan's skateboard. They lose sight of it near a factory, but they find it again minutes later to chase it to a police station where a man named Kenichi Shishido turns himself in for hit and run. At the hospital, everyone is surprised to hear a man has been murdered in the factory where they were at. Conan finds a red car in a building beside the factory and other clues that point the murder to Kenichi. Conan knocks Kogoro out to explain Kenichi is the murderer and he purposely hit Ayumi and allowed the Detective Boys to chase him as an alibi. As proof, they find Ayumi's detective badge wedged in between the bumper of the car in the garage.}}
{{SeasonItem|110|116|[[Cooking Classroom Murder Case|Cooking Classroom Murder Case (Part 1)]]|July 27, 1998|next-conan-hint=Ring
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=Ran takes a French cuisine cooking lesson in Sonoko's absence and Conan and Kogoro tag along. There is a blackout while Conan and Kogoro head to the washroom and they find someone purposely tripped the circuit breaker using a weight and block of ice. Returning to the kitchen, the teacher is on the floor claiming to have trouble breathing and Conan discovers she's been punctured in the back. The police investigate and find evidence the attacker was someone from inside.}}
{{SeasonItem|111|117|[[Cooking Classroom Murder Case|Cooking Classroom Murder Case (Part 2)]]|August 3, 1998|next-conan-hint=School infirmary
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=The four suspects is interrogated and searched. It seems everyone has a motive, but no evidence or murder weapon is found to pinpoint the killer. Conan does a little investigation of his own and finds a contact lens case outside the bathroom window and tinted contact lens in one of the mixing bowls. Just as the suspects pressures the police to let them go, Conan steps in reveal the trick was done by a sewing needle, string, and a ring to push the needle through and the only one wearing a ring is Nishitani.}}
{{SeasonItem|112|118|[[The Seven Mysteries of Teitan Elementary School Case]]|August 10, 1998|next-conan-hint=Pool float
|manga-source=[[Volume 16|V16 - F4~5]]
|pnew= First appearance of [[Sumiko Kobayashi]] and [[Ryujiro Uematsu]].
|summary=Ayumi came to school one night to find a masked man. She told the vice-principal about it and he became absent for the last two days and the other teachers are acting suspicious. The Detective Boys sneak into the school at night where they find puppets with their names on it, mannequins and statues being moved, and someone trying to scare them with red paint and dry ice. The Detective Boys pretend to be scared and hide in the bathroom. When they come out, they find their teacher, Ms. Kobayashi, secretly practicing for the parent meet. However, she claims to not have tried to scare them off and they realize that someone else is indeed in the school. However, it is actually the vice-principal who lost his toupee and had been searching for it for the last two nights.}}
{{SeasonItem|113|119|[[The White Sandy Beach Murder Case]]|August 17, 1998|next-conan-hint=Feather
|manga-source=[[Special Volume 1|SV1 - F6]]
|summary=Ran, Kogoro and Conan go to a small beach city, and they find a girl dead by drowning. Everything points at young Mitsuko commiting suicide... but her best friend Tomoko thinks otherwise and asks Kogoro to prove it! The biggest suspect, Mitsuko's ex-boyfriend Dr. Tanaka, has a very good alibi, though. Can Conan break through it and see what's his role in her death?}}
{{SeasonItem|114|120|[[Scuba Diving Murder Case|Scuba Diving Murder Case (Part 1)]]|August 24, 1998|next-conan-hint=Ring
|manga-source=[[Volume 17|V17 - F3~5]]
|summary=Ran tricks her mother and father into going to the beach together. Kogoro, annoyed, leaves for the bathroom and returns with two girls named Kiwako Toda and Harumi Matsuzaki who invite the Mouri family and Conan to lunch with the scuba diving club at the local college. Kiwako decides to go snorkeling alone and asks Kiwako to get her a towel during lunch. After awhile, the group spots Kiwako drowning and rushes to save her. Drowning is the least of their worries because Kiwako was bitten by a snake. Ran is sure she saw an erabu sea snake, but everyone is confused when she claims she saw the snake with wings.}}
{{SeasonItem|115|121|[[Scuba Diving Murder Case|Scuba Diving Murder Case (Part 2)]]|August 31, 1998|next-conan-hint=1/2
|manga-source=[[Volume 17|V17 - F3~5]]
|summary=The Mouri family, Conan, and the diving club members rush to the hospital where Kiwako is in intensive care. Conan and Eri is sure the events was an attempted murder case and Conan gets an idea who did it after a conversation Eri and Ran has about Kogoro. Conan knocks Kogoro out to use him to tell the deduction he has in front of Harumi. Conan believes Kiwako was only pretending to drown to test her fiance's love for her and Harumi forced a snake to bite Kiwako to take advantage of the situation which explains the wings Ran saw. Harumi admit her mistake and is glad the antidote reached the hospital on time to save Kiwako.}}
{{SeasonItem|116|122|[[The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case|The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case (Part 1)]]|September 7, 1998|next-conan-hint=French
|manga-source=[[Volume 19|V19 - F2~4]]
|pnew= First appearance of [[Kaori Shinmei]].
|summary=A young woman shows up at the detective agency asking Detective Mori to find her father, a mystery writer, who vanished two months ago along with his wife. The only clue to his whereabouts is a piece found in his latest publication, but can Conan and the others solve the code?}}
{{SeasonItem|117|123|[[The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case|The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case (Part 2)]]|September 14, 1998|next-conan-hint=Car mirror
|manga-source=[[Volume 19|V19 - F2~4]]
|summary=In continuation from the last case, the search for the mystery writer continues. Conan and the others must decipher the code in his text in order to solve the mystery of his and his wife's disappearance two months ago. Will Conan be able to do help them do this without blowing his cover?}}
{{SeasonItem|118|124-125|[[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case|The Naniwa Serial Murder Case (1 Hour Special)]]|September 21, 1998|next-conan-hint=Model gun
|manga-source=[[Volume 19|V19 - F5~8]]
|pnew=First appearance of [[Goro Otaki]], [[Kazuha Toyama]], [[Ginshiro Toyama]], and [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]].
|summary=A serial killer who strangles his victims first then stabs them though their wallet to their chest appears in Osaka. Heiji Hattori invites Conan, Ran, and Mouri for a tour in Osaka. While on the tour they meet Kazuha Toyama who has followed them since the beginning to "Keep an eye on Heiji from Ran". Later, their a body is dropped onto the car, the third victim of the same serial killer. After failing to prevent the fourth victim from being killed, they found out the victims are indeed connected, they took the driving test at the same time at the same place. Heiji then travels to meet up with the councilman named Gouji, who is a suspect of causing the murders. Conan is forced by Ran to travel with another officer to go to their hotel but due to an emergency, they are driven to the site where Numabuchi, a mass murder and also a suspect, is thought to be hiding. After Conan finds him, he realizes Numabuchi and Gouji are not the murderer. Heiji also realizes this and both figure out Sakada, the tour guide police, is the murderer. After stopping his suicide, Heiji is shot but survives.}}
{{SeasonItem|119|126|[[The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case]]|October 12, 1998|next-conan-hint=Balloon
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=Conan and the gang attend a Kamen Rider costume party. I a duel between a Yaiba cos-player and staff. Both shot their guns, but only one bullet kills. Is there more to this case than what everyone saw with their own two eyes?}}
{{SeasonItem|120|127|[[A Honey Cocktail Murder Case]]|October 19, 1998|next-conan-hint=Packing tape
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=Kogoro is invited to a mountain house by a previous client named Hiromi Yamazaki who wishes Kogoro to help with the announcement of a spa resort. While Kogoro is looking out the window, Hiromi falls from the second floor and is announced dead. Evidence show Hiromi was attacked by bees and accidentally ran off the balcony, but Conan believes there's more to the story and does an investigation of his own. Using a knocked out Kogoro, Conan declares the housekeeper, Shingo Aihara, as the killer who used Hiromi's apiphobia to his advantage and other tricks to ensure Hiromi fell to her doom.}}
{{SeasonItem|121|128|[[The Locked Bathroom Murder Case|The Locked Bathroom Murder Case (Part 1)]]|October 26, 1998|next-conan-hint=Bandana
|manga-source=[[Volume 20|V20 - F7~9]]
|summary=Conan, Ran, and Kogoro are on their way to a Y?ko concert when Kogoro discovers he lost his ticket. He overhears a woman named Masayo on the payphone and her situation about a friend who is unable to go to the concert because of a cold. Kogoro asks her for the spare ticket and she accepts as long as Kogoro drives her to her house to pick up her sister. Masayo finds the bathroom sealed with tape and when they break through, they find Masayo's sister dead. Everyone believes the death was a suicide, but Conan knows its murder.}}
{{SeasonItem|122|129|[[The Locked Bathroom Murder Case|The Locked Bathroom Murder Case (Part 2)]]|November 2, 1998|next-conan-hint=Beeper
|manga-source=[[Volume 20|V20 - F7~9]]
|summary=The victim's fiancé busts in and tells the police he was ringing the door bell the day before because the victim missed an appointment. Conan knocks out Kogoro, and tells his deduction to everyone that Masayo is the murderer and the sealed room wasn't really sealed at all. To prove it, Conan directs the police to the bloodstain on the door and explains Masayo got blood on her headband and looked through the spy hole when the fiancé was ringing the doorbell.}}
{{SeasonItem|123|130|[[The Weather Girl Kidnapping Case]]|November 9, 1998|next-conan-hint=Spotlight
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=Aki Asano, the weather girl for the local news, leaves a message for Kogoro's assistance. Kogoro is away because of business so the Detective Boys go instead to discover Aki has been getting threatening letters. Conan gives Aki his pager number just before she receives an urgent phone call and asks the Detective Boys to wait for her. She does not come back, but Conan begins to receive numbers as messages from her on his pager including the emergency telephone number. With a hint from Ran and Genta, Conan is able to decode the messages and pinpoint where Aki is and apprehend the kidnapper.
Note: Currently the final episode of the English Dub. Funimation has announced that at this time they have no current plans to dub Detective Conan past this episode. }}

{{SeasonItem|124|-|[[A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case|A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case (Part 1)]]|November 16, 1998||next-conan-hint=Remote control
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=Seiji Ishimoto, president of an electronic company, claims he has been receiving threat letters and hires Kogoro as a bodyguard. As a government minister gets on stage at the banquet where they're at, he is shot and Seiji's shoulder is gazed. Conan spots a man on the balcony, but he is unable to find him. Kogoro spends the night at Seiji's hotel room keeping watch in case the murderer returns. In the morning, Kogoro receives a phonecall from Inspector Megure announcing the man on the balcony was found dead.}}
{{SeasonItem|125|-|[[A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case|A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case (Part 2)]]|November 23, 1998|next-conan-hint=Characters
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=Seiji Ishimoto tells the police about the threat letters after he's approached by the minister's secretary, Tsuneaki Niikura. When everyone leaves the hotel room, Conan does a search, but he is interrupted by an unknown man who finds something. Inspector Megure questions Kogoro about Seiji's secretary and reveals she has a motive and shows a picture of her boyfriend who Kogoro recognizes as the person he bumped into as he left the hotel room. Kogoro calls everyone to the murder scene where he declares the boyfriend to be the killer. Conan stuns Kogoro to reveal Tsuneaki Niikura as the true killer who sent the threat letters to Seiji as a diversion.}}
{{SeasonItem|126|-|[[The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case|The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case (Part 1)]]|November 30, 1998|next-conan-hint=Script
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|pnew= First appearance of [[Tamanosuke Ito]] and [[Megumi Ito]].
|summary=While watching the Drama Traveling Troupe's practice run, the Director's sister Megumi finds the script writter dead. Aside from the murder, there is also a missing disc. What was the murderer's intent of taking the disc?!}}
{{SeasonItem|127|-|[[The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case|The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case (Part 2)]]|December 7, 1998|next-conan-hint=Gin and Vodka
|manga-source='''TV Original'''
|summary=Conan and Megumi sneak out during nighttime and follow the Director, Tamanosuke, to the stage. While there, the Director is struck in the head, and is put out of consciousness. In addition, the treasurer is found dead,and seems to have fallen to her death in the stage basement. A strange note is left both near the corpse and in Tamanosuke's hands. Furthermore, the disc was found in Tamanosuke's room, with the data deleted, and the disc thrown in the trash. Can the Detective Boys work together to find the murderer?}}
{{SeasonItem|128|-|[[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case]]|December 14, 1998|next-conan-hint=Cassette tape
|manga-source=[[Volume 2|V2 - F4~8]] ('''[[Manga Legend|h.a.]]''')
|pnew=Reintroduction of [[Akemi Miyano]] (Her [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|previous appearance]]) is ignored).
|pchar=Akemi Miyano's death. Conan reveals to her that he is really [[Shinichi Kudo]].|pbo= [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] kill Akemi, and make it look like a suicide.
|summary=A bank robbery occurs and Akemi Miyano is a suspect. Conan investigates and finds out the money was to free her and her sister from the black organization. When Akemi meets with them, she finds out they planned to betray her and kill her. Conan manages to listen to her dying words and learns about the existence of the Black Organization.}}
{{SeasonItem|129|-|[[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case (2 Hour Special)]]|January 4, 1999|manga-source=[[Volume 18|V18 - F6]] ~ [[Volume 19|V19 - F1]]|pnew=First appearance of [[Ai Haibara]].|pchar=Haibara's past is explored, as well as her relationship to [[Akemi Miyano]].|ppast=Haibara's relationship with Akemi is discussed, as well as her history with the Black Organization.
|pbo=Haibara reveals how she used to be a member of the Black Organization and was the one who created the [[APTX 4869]] drug.|next-conan-hint=Baseball cap
|summary=In Teitan Elementary School, a new student comes, and introduces herself as Ai Haibara. The Detective Boys introduce Haibara to Conan, who is always summoned when there's crime. Just then, the Detective Boys go to a store, and find an odd man. Conan thinks the man is Gin, who fed him the drug that changed his body. Conan accidentally lets slip the fact about his body shrinking due to a drug, although he quickly says it is a joke to protect his identity. In the office of a newspaper company, the Detective Boys are held hostage and about to be killed when Conan saves them. Conan having informed the police earlier, the counterfeiters are hauled off to jail and Conan finds out they aren't part of the organization. Later, Conan is told by Haibara that she kidnapped Agasa. When Conan goes the Dr. Agasa's house, Conan finds out Haibara tricked him. Haibara is living with the professor. Haibara tells Conan that she once visited his house to check out whether or not Conan died from the drug. Also, she tells him that she created the drug, and used to be a member of the Black Organization. Haibara also tells Conan that the reason she hates the organization is because her elder sister was killed by the Organization because Akemi failed the job. Haibara escaped from the organization by taking her the drug in an attempted suicide, and Agasa found her. Conan blames her for the creation of the drugs and for the lives of those she indirectly killed. Agasa thinks that as long as Haibara is around, she will create the cure for her product. Unfortunately, the data was destroyed after her escape. However, some old data went missing a long time ago, possibly sent by accident to one of Akemi's old professors. The professor is murdered soon after, unfortunately, and Conan solves the case. Haibara is very upset that he was unable to help her sister and breaks down. After trying to access the floppy disk, a virus activates and all the files on the floppy are deleted.}}
{{SeasonItem|130|-|[[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case (Part 1)]]|January 11, 1999||pnew=First appearance of [[Miwako Sato]], in a minor cameo role.|next-conan-hint=TV camera
|manga-source=[[Volume 19|V19 - F9]] ~ [[Volume 20|V20 - F1]]
|summary=Conan and the Detective Boys are watching a soccer game when someone calls the television station covering the game. This person demands that 50 million yen be given to him, or he will indiscriminately shoot someone in the stands.}}
{{SeasonItem|131|-|[[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case (Part 2)]]|January 18, 1999|next-conan-hint=Screen name
|manga-source=[[Volume 19|V19 - F9]] ~ [[Volume 20|V20 - F1]]
|summary=When the money is picked up, the police attempt to capture him. However, it turns out that this person has a partner in the stands, and will shoot someone unless this person is let go. The police are forced to let him go, but Conan has to find out where the partner who is still in the stadium is before he shoots someone.}}
{{SeasonItem|132|-|[[Magic Lover's Murder Case|Magic Lover's Murder Case (The Case)]]|January 25, 1999|next-conan-hint=Boat sail
|pmk=Kid and Toichi are mentioned.
|manga-source=[[Volume 20|V20 - F2~6]]
|summary=Sonoko invites Conan and Ran to meet a guy who's a magician she met on the web.}}
{{SeasonItem|133|-|[[Magic Lover's Murder Case|Magic Lover's Murder Case (The Suspicion)]]|February 1, 1999|next-conan-hint=Bow gun
|manga-source=[[Volume 20|V20 - F2~6]]
|summary=}}
{{SeasonItem|134|-|[[Magic Lover's Murder Case|Magic Lover's Murder Case (The Resolution)]]|February 8, 1999||next-conan-hint=Trash pickup day and crows
|pmk=Kid appears near the end of the case.
|manga-source=[[Volume 20|V20 - F2~6]]
|summary=Conan solved the case using Sonoko and revealed that Doi is really Kaitou Kid in disguise.}}
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== Theme Songs ==

=== Openings ===

* Episodes 97-123: [[Unmei no RUURETTO mawashite]] by [[ZARD]]
* Episodes 124-142: [[TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~]] by [[TWO-MIX]]

=== Endings ===

* Episodes 107-108: [[Negai goto hitotsu dake]] by [[Miho Komatsu]]
* Episodes 109-131: [[Koori no ue ni tatsu you ni]] by [[Miho Komatsu]]
* Episodes 132-152: [[Still for your love]] by [[rumania montevideo]]

=== Status of Case Closed ===
Although never official, Funimation has stopped dubbing Case Closed. They dubbed 130 episodes and 6 movies. However, Although they dubbed season 5, only half the season was dubbed. 11 Episodes were left undubbed. Including the introduction of the important Major Character, Ai Haibara. Ironically, Funimation dubbed movies that featured Ai Haibara as a main character, although she was renamed Vye. This led to plot holes for the english dub viewers, as Ai just drops in during the movies, leaving fans who never seen the Japanese Anime to question where she came from and who she is.

== See also ==
* [[Anime]]
* [[Staff Listing Season 5]]
* [[Season 4]]
* [[Season 6]]

[[Category:Seasons]]

TV Networks

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== USA ==

=== Adult Swim ===

{{main|e1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Swim Adult Swim]}}

'''Adult Swim (Cartoon Network Adult Block)''', often stylized as '''[adult swim]''', is an adult-oriented cable television network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM [[wikipedia:Eastern time|ET]]/[[wikipedia:Pacific time|PT]] in the United States and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand.<ref name=as_split>[http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/6516.html Adult Swim/CN Split Cements Strategy]. ICv2. March 3, 2005.</ref> The network features animated shows, including original programming, syndicated shows, and Japanese anime, generally with minimal or no editing for content. The shows are geared toward an 14-18+ audience, in contrast to the pre-teen daytime programming on Cartoon Network. In May 2004, Adult Swim was the first to air any Detective Conan related material in english. It was titled case closed. They aired the series for 2 seasons but it was pulled. Season 3 aired on colours TV and seasons 4 and 5 were direct to dvd.

== Japan ==

=== Animax ===

{{main|e1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animax Animax]}}

{{nihongo|'''Animax'''|アニマックス|Animakkusu}} is a Japanese anime satellite television network, dedicated to broadcasting anime programming.<ref name="Animax-JACP">''[http://www.animax.co.jp/about/company.html Animax official website - corporate profile]'' {{ja icon}}</ref> A subsidiary of Japanese media conglomerate [[wikipedia:Sony|Sony]], it is headquartered in {{nihongo|New Pier Takeshiba North Tower|ニューピア竹芝ノースタワー|Nyū Pia Takeshiba Nōsu Tawā}} in [[wikipedia:Minato, Tokyo|Minato, Tokyo]], Japan, with its co-founders and shareholders including [[wikipedia:Sony Pictures Entertainment|Sony Pictures Entertainment]] and the noted anime studios [[wikipedia:Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]]<ref name="Animax-JACP"/><ref name ="Sunrise-profile">''[http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/company/company.html Sunrise official website - corporate outline]'' - [[wikipedia:Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]], official corporate outline, ''About Us'' section. {{ja icon}}</ref>, [[wikipedia:Toei Animation|Toei Animation]]<ref name="Toei-profile-jp">''[http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/corporate/prof/history.html Toei Animation official website - history section]'', [[wikipedia:Toei Animation|Toei Animation]] official website. {{ja icon}}</ref><ref name="Toei profile-en">''[http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/english/history/history.html Toei Animation - official website - English section - History]'' Toei Animation official website. {{En icon}}</ref>, TMS Entertainment, and production company [[wikipedia:NAS (company)|NAS]].<ref name="partners">[http://www.animax.co.jp/link/index.html Animax's official website - Official Partners] - Animax official website, Official Partners section, links page. {{ja icon}}</ref><ref name=pressrelease>''[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=124 Sony Pictures Entertainment to Launch Animax Asia]'', Press Release, SPE, 29 October 2003, Anime News Network.</ref>

=== Nippon Television Network Corporation ===

{{main|e1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Television Nippon Television]}}

{{nihongo|'''Nippon Television Network Corporation'''|日本テレビ放送網株式会社|Nihon Terebi Hōsōmō Kabushiki-gaisha}} (is a television network based in the [[wikipedia:Shiodome|Shiodome]] area of [[wikipedia:Minato, Tokyo|Minato, Tokyo]], Japan owned by the [[wikipedia:Yomiuri Shimbun|Yomiuri Shimbun]]. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as {{nihongo|'''Nihon TV'''|日本テレビ|Nihon Terebi}}, contracted to {{nihongo|'''Nittele'''|日テレ|Nittere}}, and abbreviated as "'''NTV'''".

=== Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation ===

{{main|e1=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yomiuri_Telecasting_Corporation Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation]}}

{{nihongo|'''Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation'''|'''讀賣テレビ放送株式会社'''|Yomiuri Terebi Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha|extra='''YTV''', '''ytv''', {{nihongo|'''Yomiuri TV'''|'''読売テレビ'''}}}} is a TV station joining [[wikipedia:Nippon News Network|'''Nippon News Network''' ('''NNN''')]] and '''Nippon Television Network System''' ('''NNS''') in Osaka Business Park, [[wikipedia:Osaka|Osaka]], Japan founded as "{{nihongo|'''New Osaka Television Co.'''|'''新大阪テレビ放送株式会社'''|Shin Ōsaka Terebi Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha|extra=NOTV}}" on February 13, 1958. On August 1, New Osaka TV was renamed "Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation" and started TV broadcasting on August 28 as the first TV station which is affiliated with Nippon Television Network Corp.

== References ==

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[[Category:Companies]]

Detective Conan

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'''{{nihongo|Detective Conan|名探偵コナン|Meitantei Konan, lit. Great Detective Conan}}''' is a Japanese detective [[manga]] series written and illustrated by [[Gosho Aoyama]]. It has been serialized in the Japanese manga anthology ''[[Magazines#Weekly Shōnen Sunday|Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' since 1994 and has been collected in seventy-four [[Glossary|Tankōbon]] volumes as of December 14th, 2011.

The manga has been adapted into an anime series by the animation studio [[Studios#TMS Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsha]], directed by [[Kenji Kodama]] and [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]], and is broadcast in Japan on [[TV Networks#Nippon Television Network Corporation|Nippon Television]], [[TV Networks#Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation|Yomiuri TV]] and [[TV Networks#Animax|Animax]]. The series debuted on January 8th, 1996 and has since broadcast 586 episodes as of September 4th, 2010. The series has seen high levels of popularity in both manga and anime formats in Japan since its reception, and has also been adapted into fifteen [[Glossary|Golden Week]] movies, with the first released on April 17th, 1997 and since then followed with a movie released each year. Ten of the movies held a top 10 box office position in the year they were screened. In addition, five [[OVAs#Magic_Files|Magic Files]] related to the movies and twelve [[OVAs|Original Video Animations]] have been released.

==Story summary==
[[Image:Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg|thumb|125px|Conan Edogawa]]
The story follows the adventures of [[Shinichi Kudo]] (also known as Jimmy Kudo in Case Closed), a young detective prodigy who was inadvertently shrunk into a child's body due to a [[APTX 4869|poison]] he was force-fed by members of a [[Black Organization|criminal syndicate]]. Neighbor and family friend [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] strongly suggested Shinichi hide his identity to prevent them from killing him and the people he cares about, so Shinichi takes the name [[Conan Edogawa]]. He goes to live with his childhood friend [[Ran Mouri]] and her father, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], and tries to use Kogoro's detective agency as a way to find the people who shrank him — without letting Ran figure out who he really is.
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==Case Closed==
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| country = USA
| image = Case Closed logo.png
| language = English
| continent = North America, Europe, and Australia
| episode = 130
| volume = 44
| publisher = Viz Media, FUNimation
}}
Detective Conan is known as "Case Closed" in North America. The name "''Case Closed''" results from concerns of copyright conflict of the name ''Detective Conan''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-02-05/funimation-renames-conan|accessdate=2008-08-18|publisher=Anime News Network|date=2007-10-09|title=FUNimation renames Conan}}</ref>

[[Viz Media]] licensed the manga series under the name for English-language publication in North America and released forty-three volumes as of July 10th, 2012. The American edition of the manga covers for volumes 44 and 45 are completed and set. Because Victor Gollancz Ltd canceled publication of Detective Conan after 15 volumes in UK, Viz Media continues to handle UK's distribution under the name Case Closed. [[Funimation Entertainment]] also licensed the anime series for North American broadcast under the name ''Case Closed''. The character names were also adapted into English ones with some names different between the two. Fifty episodes of the English dubbed series aired on [[TV Networks#Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network]] as part of their [[TV Networks#Adult Swim|Adult Swim]] programming block on May 24th, 2004 until January 2005 and were discontinued due to low ratings.<ref name="Adult Swim Anime Plans">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-01-22/adult-swim-anime-plans|title=Adult Swim Anime Plans|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=May 5, 2009}}</ref> In Canada, Case Closed premiered on channel [[TV Networks#YTV|YTV]], 22 episodes were broadcasted between April 7th, 2006 and September 2nd, 2006. A separate English adaptation of the series by Animax Asia premiered in the Philippines on January 18th, 2006, under the name Detective Conan. Because Animax were unable to obtain further TV broadcast rights, their version comprised 52 episodes. The series continued with reruns until August 7, 2006, when it was removed from the station. Funimation also released DVDs of their dubbed series beginning August 24th, 2004. Initially, the releases were done in single DVDs and future episodes were released in seasonal boxes; as of 2009, they have released 130 episodes dubbed in English. The seasonal boxes were later re-released in redesigned boxes entitled Viridian edition. The first six films were released on Region 1 DVD in North America between October 3rd 2006 and February 16th 2010, and were sold very well.

In 2006, Funimation made the series available, airing new episodes on Colours TV during its syndication with the Funimation Channel. As of 2012, only 130 episodes (episodes 1-123 Japanese version) have been dubbed in English. Detective Conan is later broadcasted in North America on NHK's cable network TV Japan. Though anime was not so popular in North America, the manga enjoys high success. Volume 36 appeared in the ''[[wikipedia:New York Times Manga Best Sellers|New York Times Manga Best Sellers]]'' list during the week ending on October 24th, 2010. Volume 41 broke the record making it to the top 5 in sales rank during the week ending on January 14th, 2012. The manga continues to be released in North America, though it trails the Japanese publishing by about 30 volumes.

S. California's UTB, United Television Broadcasting's free digital television station began to re-broadcast already dubbed Case Closed's episodes on August 21st, 2011. The next two-episode block was scheduled for Saturday, August 27th, followed by two more episodes on Sunday, August 28th. The episodes were broadcasted at 6:30 a.m and repeated at 10:30 a.m the same day. A one-episode block also aired at 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays as well.

Incidentally, the catchphrase for [[Masumi Sera]] is 'Case Closed' (whether it's intended as a reference or coincidental is unspecified).

As of 2013, only one Case Closed branded videogame was released, which was Case Closed: The mirapolis investigation, which was a Nintendo Wii exclusive title and released only in Japan and Europe. It features the English voice cast from the Anime for the english version, and has minor changes in script. It is so far the only English DC Game.

As of April 2013, Funimation was renewed the Case Closed licence "For Future Use". Additionally on April 2nt 2013, Funimation announced Starting April 16th 2013 seasons 1-5 would be made available digitally through many online vendors, starting with Itunes, Playstation Network and Xbox Live. Season 1 will be available april 16th, season 2 and 3 in may, and Season 4 and 5 in June. Movie release dates have not been announced, however a hint shown in the description hints at a possible new season. Each episode will be 99 cents a piece. [http://caseclosedfans.blogspot.com/2013/04/case-closed-returns.html Source]

==Critical reception==

The series has been well received in Japan, with the anime adaptation ranking in the top twenty in [[Magazines#Animage|Animage]]'s polls between 1996 until 2000, where it dropped below the top twenty. In the Japanese TV anime ranking, Detective Conan often ranked the top six. It has even been used as a mascot to promote citizens to follow the law. The English adaption has not been as equally popular as in Japan, and has been criticized for the name changes.

The manga is a huge success and it is continued to be published. It won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2000. Some of its volumes appear on the lists of best-selling manga.

The series is successful in Asia and Europe, where some countries translated most of the episodes and volumes. Due to the high popularity DC is re-broadcasting in many countries after the original premieres.

Although popular in many other countries, Case Closed failed in the US due to Poor Advertising, Name Changes, and script changes. Due to this, the "Case Closed" version was cancelled at only 130 episodes and 6 movies. Although the english anime is cancelled, the Manga is still released by VIZ media.

== Demographic ==

Even though Detective Conan is a [[Glossary#Shōnen|Shōnen]], its audience is composed of a substantial proportion of female viewers and readers. The series also seems to attract all ages.

== Appearances in other media ==
Besides his anime and manga appearances, Conan is the protagonist for all the movies and the video games based on the Case Closed series. Several anime and games have parodied, lampooned or otherwise mentioned him or the series. Some of them include: [[wikipedia:Yakitate!! Japan|Yakitate!! Japan]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakitate!!_Japan Yakitate!! Japan]!! Japan'' Anime Episode # 48</ref> [[wikipedia:Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_(manga) Black Cat]'' Anime Episodes # 13 & 14</ref> [[wikipedia:Inuyasha|Inuyasha]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha Inuyasha]'' Anime Episode 128 ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYO1nZpEFg#t=5m38s briefly about one second])</ref> [[wikipedia:Hayate the Combat Butler|Hayate the Combat Butler]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayate_the_Combat_Butler Hayate no Gotoku]''# 30</ref> [[wikipedia:Proposal Daisakusen|Proposal Daisakusen]],<ref> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposal_Daisakusen Proposal Daisakusen]'' Episode # 10 </ref> [[wikipedia:Sonic X|Sonic X]], [[wikipedia:Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|Kenichi the Mighties Disciple]]<ref> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi:_The_Mightiest_Disciple Kenichi: The Mighties Disciple]''</ref>, [[wikipedia:Angelic Layer|Angelic Layer]]<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelic_Layer Angelic Layer]'' Episode 22</ref>, and [[wikipedia:Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]<ref>'''Trucy''': "This Summer: A Legal Eagles Production of 'Case Closed'." ...Looks like a poster for a different show. '''Apollo''': ...One I wouldn't mind seeing real soon. ''(Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)''</ref> In case of Inuyasha, Detective Conan features Conan reading Inuyasha manga first in [[Kogoro_Mouri,_Suspect|Episode 200]] (aired July 24, 2000). Later, [[Shinichi]] and [[Ran]] made their [[wikipedia:cameo appearance|cameo appearance]] in Inuyasha episode 128 (aired October 13, 2003).

Conan has also been used as a character to promote people to follow the law in Japan, due to the popularity of the series.
<div class="left">[[File:Future_Detective_Conan_the_Great.png|250px|thumb|right|Detective Conan cameo in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]</div>
<div class="left">[[File:DCinInuyasha.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Detective Conan in Inuyasha episode 128]]</div>
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==In other languages==
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|名探偵コナン Meitantei Konan|Lit. "Great Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Case Closed|Due to copyright issues, however packaging and door closing scenes still mentions "Detective Conan" title.}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|المحقق كونان Al-Muhakik Konan|Sometimes called المتحري كونان {{Bracket|Al-Mutahrry Konan|(Investigator Konan)}} }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Detectiu Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Simplified Chinese|名侦探柯南 Mingzhentan Kenan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|名偵探柯南 Mingchent’an k’onan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Détective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|O detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Detektiv Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=India|Hindi|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Hungary|Hungarian|Conan, a detektív| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Indonesia|Detektif Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Detektif Conan Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|명탐정 코난 Myeongtamjeong Konan|Lit. "Great Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Poland|Polish|Detektyw Conan Detective Tsonan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russia|Детектив Конан | }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish/Spanish Latin|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Mästerdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Denmark|Danish|Mesterdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Norway|Norwegian|Mesterdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ยอดนักสืบจิ๋วโคนัน {{Bracket|Yodnakseubjew Conan|(Great Detective Boy Conan)}}|Sometimes called ยอดนักสืบรุ่นจิ๋วโคนัน Yodnakseub Roonjew Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Thám tử lừng danh Conan|Renowned Detective Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Salapoliisi Conan|Detective Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Czech Republic|Czech|Detektiv Conan| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Detective Conan in France]]
* [[Detective Conan in Spain]]
* [[Detective Conan in Italy]]
* [[Detective Conan in Germany]]
* [[Detective Conan in the Arab World]]
* [[Detective Conan in Finland]]
* [[Detective Conan in the Philippines]]
* [[Detective Conan in Korea]]
* [[Detective Conan in Thailand]]

== References ==

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Detective Conan

2013-04-03T03:43:20Z

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'''{{nihongo|Detective Conan|名探偵コナン|Meitantei Konan, lit. Great Detective Conan}}''' is a Japanese detective [[manga]] series written and illustrated by [[Gosho Aoyama]]. It has been serialized in the Japanese manga anthology ''[[Magazines#Weekly Shōnen Sunday|Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' since 1994 and has been collected in seventy-four [[Glossary|Tankōbon]] volumes as of December 14th, 2011.

The manga has been adapted into an anime series by the animation studio [[Studios#TMS Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsha]], directed by [[Kenji Kodama]] and [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]], and is broadcast in Japan on [[TV Networks#Nippon Television Network Corporation|Nippon Television]], [[TV Networks#Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation|Yomiuri TV]] and [[TV Networks#Animax|Animax]]. The series debuted on January 8th, 1996 and has since broadcast 586 episodes as of September 4th, 2010. The series has seen high levels of popularity in both manga and anime formats in Japan since its reception, and has also been adapted into fifteen [[Glossary|Golden Week]] movies, with the first released on April 17th, 1997 and since then followed with a movie released each year. Ten of the movies held a top 10 box office position in the year they were screened. In addition, five [[OVAs#Magic_Files|Magic Files]] related to the movies and twelve [[OVAs|Original Video Animations]] have been released.

==Story summary==
[[Image:Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg|thumb|125px|Conan Edogawa]]
The story follows the adventures of [[Shinichi Kudo]] (also known as Jimmy Kudo in Case Closed), a young detective prodigy who was inadvertently shrunk into a child's body due to a [[APTX 4869|poison]] he was force-fed by members of a [[Black Organization|criminal syndicate]]. Neighbor and family friend [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] strongly suggested Shinichi hide his identity to prevent them from killing him and the people he cares about, so Shinichi takes the name [[Conan Edogawa]]. He goes to live with his childhood friend [[Ran Mouri]] and her father, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], and tries to use Kogoro's detective agency as a way to find the people who shrank him — without letting Ran figure out who he really is.
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==Case Closed==
{{InfoBox Country
| country = USA
| image = Case Closed logo.png
| language = English
| continent = North America, Europe, and Australia
| episode = 130
| volume = 44
| publisher = Viz Media, FUNimation
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Detective Conan is known as "Case Closed" in North America. The name "''Case Closed''" results from concerns of copyright conflict of the name ''Detective Conan''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-02-05/funimation-renames-conan|accessdate=2008-08-18|publisher=Anime News Network|date=2007-10-09|title=FUNimation renames Conan}}</ref>

[[Viz Media]] licensed the manga series under the name for English-language publication in North America and released forty-three volumes as of July 10th, 2012. The American edition of the manga covers for volumes 44 and 45 are completed and set. Because Victor Gollancz Ltd canceled publication of Detective Conan after 15 volumes in UK, Viz Media continues to handle UK's distribution under the name Case Closed. [[Funimation Entertainment]] also licensed the anime series for North American broadcast under the name ''Case Closed''. The character names were also adapted into English ones with some names different between the two. Fifty episodes of the English dubbed series aired on [[TV Networks#Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network]] as part of their [[TV Networks#Adult Swim|Adult Swim]] programming block on May 24th, 2004 until January 2005 and were discontinued due to low ratings.<ref name="Adult Swim Anime Plans">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-01-22/adult-swim-anime-plans|title=Adult Swim Anime Plans|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=May 5, 2009}}</ref> In Canada, Case Closed premiered on channel [[TV Networks#YTV|YTV]], 22 episodes were broadcasted between April 7th, 2006 and September 2nd, 2006. A separate English adaptation of the series by Animax Asia premiered in the Philippines on January 18th, 2006, under the name Detective Conan. Because Animax were unable to obtain further TV broadcast rights, their version comprised 52 episodes. The series continued with reruns until August 7, 2006, when it was removed from the station. Funimation also released DVDs of their dubbed series beginning August 24th, 2004. Initially, the releases were done in single DVDs and future episodes were released in seasonal boxes; as of 2009, they have released 130 episodes dubbed in English. The seasonal boxes were later re-released in redesigned boxes entitled Viridian edition. The first six films were released on Region 1 DVD in North America between October 3rd 2006 and February 16th 2010, and were sold very well.

In 2006, Funimation made the series available, airing new episodes on Colours TV during its syndication with the Funimation Channel. As of 2012, only 130 episodes (episodes 1-123 Japanese version) have been dubbed in English. Detective Conan is later broadcasted in North America on NHK's cable network TV Japan. Though anime was not so popular in North America, the manga enjoys high success. Volume 36 appeared in the ''[[wikipedia:New York Times Manga Best Sellers|New York Times Manga Best Sellers]]'' list during the week ending on October 24th, 2010. Volume 41 broke the record making it to the top 5 in sales rank during the week ending on January 14th, 2012. The manga continues to be released in North America, though it trails the Japanese publishing by about 30 volumes.

S. California's UTB, United Television Broadcasting's free digital television station began to re-broadcast already dubbed Case Closed's episodes on August 21st, 2011. The next two-episode block was scheduled for Saturday, August 27th, followed by two more episodes on Sunday, August 28th. The episodes were broadcasted at 6:30 a.m and repeated at 10:30 a.m the same day. A one-episode block also aired at 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays as well.

Incidentally, the catchphrase for [[Masumi Sera]] is 'Case Closed' (whether it's intended as a reference or coincidental is unspecified).

As of 2013, only one Case Closed branded videogame was released, which was Case Closed: The mirapolis investigation, which was a Nintendo Wii exclusive title and released only in Japan and Europe. It features the English voice cast from the Anime for the english version, and has minor changes in script. It is so far the only English DC Game.

As of April 2013, Funimation was renewed the Case Closed licence "For Future Use". Additionally on April 2nt 2013, Funimation announced Starting April 16th 2013 seasons 1-5 would be made available digitally through many online vendors, starting with Itunes, Playstation Network and Xbox Live. Season 1 will be available april 16th, season 2 and 3 in may, and Season 4 and 5 in June. Movie release dates have not been announced, however a hint shown in the description hints at a possible new season. Each episode will be 99 cents a piece. [http://caseclosedfans.blogspot.com/2013/04/case-closed-returns.html Source]

==Critical reception==

The series has been well received in Japan, with the anime adaptation ranking in the top twenty in [[Magazines#Animage|Animage]]'s polls between 1996 until 2000, where it dropped below the top twenty. In the Japanese TV anime ranking, Detective Conan often ranked the top six. It has even been used as a mascot to promote citizens to follow the law. The English adaption has not been as equally popular as in Japan, and has been criticized for the name changes.

The manga is a huge success and it is continued to be published. It won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2000. Some of its volumes appear on the lists of best-selling manga.

The series is successful in Asia and Europe, where some countries translated most of the episodes and volumes. Due to the high popularity DC is re-broadcasting in many countries after the original premieres.

Although popular in many other countries, Case Closed failed in the US due to Poor Advertising, Name Changes, and script changes. Due to this, the "Case Closed" version was cancelled at only 130 episodes and 6 movies. Although the english anime is cancelled, the Manga is still released by VIZ media.

== Demographic ==

Even though Detective Conan is a [[Glossary#Shōnen|Shōnen]], its audience is composed of a substantial proportion of female viewers and readers. The series also seems to attract all ages.

== Appearances in other media ==
Besides his anime and manga appearances, Conan is the protagonist for all the movies and the video games based on the Case Closed series. Several anime and games have parodied, lampooned or otherwise mentioned him or the series. Some of them include: [[wikipedia:Yakitate!! Japan|Yakitate!! Japan]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakitate!!_Japan Yakitate!! Japan]!! Japan'' Anime Episode # 48</ref> [[wikipedia:Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_(manga) Black Cat]'' Anime Episodes # 13 & 14</ref> [[wikipedia:Inuyasha|Inuyasha]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha Inuyasha]'' Anime Episode 128 ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYO1nZpEFg#t=5m38s briefly about one second])</ref> [[wikipedia:Hayate the Combat Butler|Hayate the Combat Butler]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayate_the_Combat_Butler Hayate no Gotoku]''# 30</ref> [[wikipedia:Proposal Daisakusen|Proposal Daisakusen]],<ref> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposal_Daisakusen Proposal Daisakusen]'' Episode # 10 </ref> [[wikipedia:Sonic X|Sonic X]], [[wikipedia:Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|Kenichi the Mighties Disciple]]<ref> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi:_The_Mightiest_Disciple Kenichi: The Mighties Disciple]''</ref>, [[wikipedia:Angelic Layer|Angelic Layer]]<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelic_Layer Angelic Layer]'' Episode 22</ref>, and [[wikipedia:Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]<ref>'''Trucy''': "This Summer: A Legal Eagles Production of 'Case Closed'." ...Looks like a poster for a different show. '''Apollo''': ...One I wouldn't mind seeing real soon. ''(Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)''</ref> In case of Inuyasha, Detective Conan features Conan reading Inuyasha manga first in [[Kogoro_Mouri,_Suspect|Episode 200]] (aired July 24, 2000). Later, [[Shinichi]] and [[Ran]] made their [[wikipedia:cameo appearance|cameo appearance]] in Inuyasha episode 128 (aired October 13, 2003).

Conan has also been used as a character to promote people to follow the law in Japan, due to the popularity of the series.
<div class="left">[[File:Future_Detective_Conan_the_Great.png|250px|thumb|right|Detective Conan cameo in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]</div>
<div class="left">[[File:DCinInuyasha.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Detective Conan in Inuyasha episode 128]]</div>
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==In other languages==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|名探偵コナン Meitantei Konan|Lit. "Great Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Case Closed|Due to copyright issues, however packaging still mentions "Detective Conan" title.}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|المحقق كونان Al-Muhakik Konan|Sometimes called المتحري كونان {{Bracket|Al-Mutahrry Konan|(Investigator Konan)}} }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Detectiu Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Simplified Chinese|名侦探柯南 Mingzhentan Kenan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|名偵探柯南 Mingchent’an k’onan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Détective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|O detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Detektiv Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=India|Hindi|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Hungary|Hungarian|Conan, a detektív| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Indonesia|Detektif Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Detektif Conan Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|명탐정 코난 Myeongtamjeong Konan|Lit. "Great Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Poland|Polish|Detektyw Conan Detective Tsonan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russia|Детектив Конан | }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish/Spanish Latin|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Mästerdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Denmark|Danish|Mesterdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Norway|Norwegian|Mesterdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ยอดนักสืบจิ๋วโคนัน {{Bracket|Yodnakseubjew Conan|(Great Detective Boy Conan)}}|Sometimes called ยอดนักสืบรุ่นจิ๋วโคนัน Yodnakseub Roonjew Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Thám tử lừng danh Conan|Renowned Detective Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Salapoliisi Conan|Detective Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Czech Republic|Czech|Detektiv Conan| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Detective Conan in France]]
* [[Detective Conan in Spain]]
* [[Detective Conan in Italy]]
* [[Detective Conan in Germany]]
* [[Detective Conan in the Arab World]]
* [[Detective Conan in Finland]]
* [[Detective Conan in the Philippines]]
* [[Detective Conan in Korea]]
* [[Detective Conan in Thailand]]

== References ==

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{{OtherLang}}
[[Category:General Information|*]]
[[de:Detektiv Conan‏‎]]

Two Days with the Culprit

2013-04-03T03:28:22Z

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{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 547-548
| image = TV Episode 547-548.jpg
| title = Two Days with the Culprit
| english-title =
| japanese-title = 犯人との二日間 (Hannin to no Futsukakan)
| season = [[Season 18|18]]
| manga = '''TV Original'''
| airdate = September 19, 2009 (First Day) September 26, 2009 (Second Day)
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Detective Chiba]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]]
| suspects = Ryousuke Oomine
| solved-by = [[Kogoro Mouri]] (via [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]])
| next-conan-hint = Window wiping (First Day) Clockwise (Second Day)
| director = [[Koujin Ochi]]
| screenplay = [[Hiroshi Kashiwabara]]
| organizer =
| storyboard = [[Shigenori Kageyama]]
| producer = 547 [[Fumiharu Kamanaka]] 548 [[Kouichirou Kuroda]]
| animation-director = 547 [[Nobuyuki Iwai]], [[Tomomi Kamiya]] 548 [[Michitaka Yamamoto]], [[Masashi Hasegawa]]
| opening-song = MAGIC
| closing-song = Hikari
| prev-episode = The Witch Enshrouded by Fog
| next-episode = The Revolving Sushi Mystery
| footnotes = Final episode to feature [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]].
}}
== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa|display=Professor Agasa}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Detective Chiba}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===

==== First Day ====
A man named Ryousuke Oomine threatens Kazuyoshi Onda, the president of a game company, to pay his game designer the money he deserves. During the dispute, Oomine accidentally shoots Onda with a gun and leaves the crime scene.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime =
| image = EP547-548 Case1.jpg
| location = Park near Shibuya-ku
| victim = Kazuyoshi Onda
| cause-death = Gunshot wound
| suspects = Ryousuke Oomine
| description =
}}

The next day, Ran and Sonoko take Conan out to an ice-cream parlor in the mall. Conan overhears Takagi and a police officer discuss the how a young girl has been kidnapped and held hostage by Oomine. Conan searches for the girl at the parking lot. He found Oomine kidnapping the little girl.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image = EP547-548b Case.jpg
| location = Parking lot
| victim = Kayoko Yuuki
| cause-death =
| suspects = Ryousuke Oomine
| description =
}}

Conan kicks the cart at Oomine with his turbo power shoes and frees Kayoko from Oomine's grasp. However, Oomine captures Conan and uses him as his hostage.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image = EP547-548c Case.jpg
| location = Parking lot
| victim = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| cause-death =
| suspects = Ryousuke Oomine
| description =
}}

While pursued by the police, the two hide in the basement of a warehouse. Conan analyzes Oomine and confirming he is un-armed, attempts to escape. An unknown man however attempts to shoot Conan but is saved by Oomine.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = EP547-548d Case.jpg
| location = Basement of the warehouse
| victim = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| cause-death =
| suspects = Seiichi Kanayama, Momoko Uemiya, and Satoshi Kanda
| description =
}}

Elsewhere Kogoro investigates Oomine's friends and realizes three other people has the motive to kill Onda. Conan realizing there is more to the case then a simple murder, calls Professor Agasa to hide him and Oomine from the police.

==== Second Day ====
At Agasa's house, Oomine reveals the gun he bought was supposedly filled with blanks and it was only used to scare Onda. After Onda was shot, he reveals he threw the gun away. Conan, Oomine, Agasa, and Kogoro decide to search for the gun. Conan notices a dent on a wall and realizes where the gun landed. Conan reveals that the gun landed on an automatic window washer and was brought to the roof. After examining the gun, the bullets were confirmed to be blanks and that someone attempted to frame Oomine for murder. Conan returns to the basement where the culprit attempted to shoot him and finds a part of a gun.

=== People ===
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{{People|Kazuyoshi Onda|Kazuyoshi Onda.jpg|fsize=0.94em|
* Victim (gunshot)
* 48 years old
* Game software company president}}
{{People|Ryousuke Oomine|Ryosuke Omine.jpg|
* 24 years old}}
{{People|Natsumi Yuuki|Natsumi Yuuki.jpg|
* Kayoko's mother}}
{{People|Kayoko Yuuki|Kayoko Yuuki.jpg|
* Victim (kidnapped)
* 5 years old
* Natsumi's daughter}}
{{People|Seiichi Kanayama|Seiichi Kanayama.jpg|
* 24 years old
* Game creator}}
{{People|Momoko Uemiya|Momoko Uemiya.jpg|
* 24 years old
* Onda's secretary}}
{{People|Satoshi Kanda|Satoshi Kanda.jpg|
* 32 years old
* Vice president}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
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While Kogoro is talking with the police and the three suspects, Oomine appears holding Conan and threatening to shoot him. The suspect Satoshi Kanda tackles Oomine down. Conan tranquilizes Kogoro and while impersonating him, reveals '''Satoshi Kanda''' to be the murderer. Conan reveals Kanda planned the murder after hearing Oomine and the two suspects' plans. He directed Oomine to the gun website and was the one who sold Oomine the gun. As evidence, Conan reveals that Kanda was searching for Oomine's gun and due to the window washer, got detergent and dirt on his shoes. For more evidence, Conan reveals that while firing his gun at Oomine, his gun exploded cutting his finger. Conan gives the police the piece of the gun and declaring a blood test will confirm it is Kanda's blood.
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== Gallery ==
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== Triva ==
This episode marks the final episode where Akira Kamiya voices Kogoro Mouri. Every episode after this which featured Kogoro, He has been voiced by Rikiya Koyama.

== See also ==
* [[Season 18]]

[[Category:Episodes]][[Category:Anime Exclusive]][[Category:Animation directed by Nobuyuki Iwai]][[Category:Animation directed by Tomomi Kamiya]][[Category:Animation directed by Michitaka Yamamoto]][[Category:Animation directed by Masashi Hasegawa]]

Shiho Miyano

2013-04-01T03:58:05Z

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Shiho Miyano
| japanese-name = 宮野志保 (Miyano Shiho)
| english-name = Shiho Miyano
| image = Shiho Miyano Profile.jpg
| age = Estimated to be 18<ref name=CD51>Conan Drill Page 51. Also, in Episode 343, Haibara is listening to recorded messages that her mother made every year, and these seem to stop after her 18th birthday.</ref>, 6 or 7 (as Ai Haibara)<ref name=CD49>Conan Drill Page 49</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD49/>
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames =
| aliases = Ai Haibara (alias) Sherry
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_2#File_016_-_A_Devil-like_Woman|File 16]] (In a silhouette) / [[Volume_24#File_241_-_The_Bullet_from_the_Past|File 241]] (first full appearance) Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 177]]
| appearances = {{:Shiho Miyano Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole =
| japanese-voice = [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| english-voice =
| drama-actor = [[Yu Kashii]] (Sherry)
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Shiho Miyano'''|宮野志保|Miyano Shiho}} is a former [[Black Organization]] researcher, codenamed '''"Sherry"''', who was working on [[APTX 4869]]. After the Black Organization killed her [[Akemi Miyano|sister]], she took APTX 4869 to commit suicide but shrank instead. She fled the Black Organization and now currently goes under the alias of '''[[Ai Haibara]]'''.

==Background==
[[Image:Shiho_Miyano_computer_picture.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Shiho as she appears on Pisco's computer in manga version]] 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 important researchers for the Black Organization. They both died in what other members of the Black 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]].<ref> File 384-386 Volume 38 File 2-4</ref>. 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 Black Organization.<ref>Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization five years ago. He did so by becoming Akemi’s girlfriend in order to get close to Shiho and use her influence to get in. (Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past") According to the FBI’s description, Shiho was “a scientist for them” at the time. Furthermore this took place in Japan since everyone was speaking Japanese, Akemi lived in Japan, and the FBI bust two years prior to the current timeline was in Japan (607 pg 8). If Shiho is 18 now, she would be 13 at the time Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization and she was already a scientist for them at this point and high ranked.</ref> Her codename in the Black 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<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, page 9</ref>, 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 Black Organization after she took APTX 4869 to commit suicide but shrank instead to elementary school child age. Having had suspicions about the potential survival of [[Shinichi Kudo]], the only unconfirmed death of the human trial subjects, when she tried to run she eventually collapsed in the rain outside the house of Shinichi's neighbor, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. Agasa found and adopted her, and she now lives with him under the alias [[Ai Haibara]].
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==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<ref>[[Volume 30|Volume 30, File 303: "Genta's Misfortune"]]</ref>. It was only by repeatedly approaching her that the [[Detective Boys]] and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] finally become her friends. Shiho was also untrusting of others in general, and preferred to put on an expressionless, cold mask while bottling up her pain and sadness. Shiho's views about death have been complex and at times contradictory. She was prepared to likely kill [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] with APTX 4869 as part of her tests, but on the other hand, she detested the Black 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 as Ai Haibara has softened her personality, making 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 Black Organization by the age of thirteen after going to school in America.

===Medical knowledge===
Shiho has demonstrated knowledge of medicine, recognizing the symptoms of Shiratori's [[Wikipedia:Subdural hematoma|subdural hematoma]].<ref>Tokyo hostage/Matsuda case</ref> Using knowledge of osteology, she also is able to deduce a long decayed woman's ambulatory condition.<ref>Castle treasure case</ref>

==="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,<ref>She has only claimed the sense for Black Organization members, and she does not seem to have the same magnitude reaction around people who aren't, such as case culprits, although she may be generally suspicious of them.</ref> however it doesn't always trigger when Black Organization members are present,<ref>This is the case specially when the Black Organization members aren't focusing or in an aggressive mood. Numabuchi is an example of this.</ref> nor does it reveal their numbers.<ref>The case with Vermouth and Akai on the bus, and when she was unsure if Pisco had an accomplice (Vermouth) at the party.</ref> Sometimes the sense is fleeting ([[Subaru Okiya|Okiya]], or [[Akai]] passing by pursuing [[James Black]]), or context sensitive (when Akemi was planning the bank robbery).

===Pain tolerance===
[[Gin|Like]] [[Vermouth|other]] Black Organization members, Shiho has also demonstrated a strong tolerance for pain. She climbs barefoot up a chimney while extremely sick from the effects of a cold combined with [[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.

Another example is that while she was being shrunk by the Apotoxin, unlike Shinichi, she did not seem to feel an extreme ammount of pain like Shinichi did and she did not scream in pain unlike shinichi. (evidented by, if the BO would of heard the scream they would of come to check on her) and also unlike Shinichi she did not pass out. Instead, she was still awake and crawled out of the lab into a dust shoot, where later she finally passed out in front of Shinichi Kudo`s house.

==Plot overview==
===Prior to Escape===
After being orphaned by the death of [[Atsushi Miyano|her]] [[Elena Miyano|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 Black Organization's internal drug development division.<ref>Conan Drill page 237</ref> When she was about 13,<ref>Five years before present timeline</ref> undercover [[FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] began dating Shiho's sister [[Akemi Miyano]] in order to use Shiho's rank to his advantage while infiltrating the Black Organization.

During the 5+ years Shiho worked in the Black Organization lab, Akemi was Shiho's lifeline to normalcy and her primary emotional support within the darkness of the Black Organization. Akemi would arrange meetings with Shiho in restaurants and such to chat about current happenings, and Shiho would sometimes tell Akemi about her Black Organization activities, although it appears she did not go into much detail.<ref name="Akemi Meeting">Volume 18, File 10, Page 15</ref> 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.

[[Image:Investigation_Kudo's_house.jpg‎|thumb|left|170px|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 [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]], a failed assassin. Shiho received the data about him, but he managed to escape the Black Organization before she could test it on him. Shiho fled the Black 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".<ref name="Akemi Meeting"/>

==== Akemi's robbery plan and death ====
[[Image:Conan newspaper.jpg|thumb|right|200px|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.<ref>Two years before present timeline</ref> The Black Organization could not simply kill Akemi because that would jeopardize the loyalty of Shiho, who was valuable to the Black Organization's research efforts. Exasperated, the Black Organization came up with a trap for Akemi; they told her that she could leave the Black Organization with Shiho if she would rob 10 billion yen from a bank for them. The Black 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 Black 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.<ref name="Akemi Meeting"/> Akemi had not told Shiho about the robbery plan, but it seems that Shiho's detection of the Black Organization aura from Akemi<ref>Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest case (some translations do not have this line correct)</ref> 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 deduce 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.<ref>This is based on the manga version of this case. The anime alters this scene</ref> 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 Black Organization for 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 Black Organization refused, and faced with the possibility that Shiho could defect or do something else drastic in revenge, decided to cut their loses by executing Shiho.

[[Image:Shiho_taking_APTX4869.jpg|thumb|left|220px|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 shrank 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 Kudo's house, hoping he might be able to help her. Exhausted, she collapsed in front of Kudo's house, where she was found by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], who eventually adopted her.<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> 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.<ref>Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor</ref>
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===As Ai Haibara ===
[[File:Sherry's Soliloquy.PNG|thumb|right|super|Shiho as Ai Haibara, colored by Gosho Aoyama for [[Sherry's soliloquy]]]]
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===Reunion with the Black Organization===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]], Conan and Haibara find Gin's [[Cars#Porsche_356A|Porsche]] by chance. Conan plants a tracker and transmitter in the parked car and eavesdrops 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 [[APTX 4869|"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 manages 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, however, he goes to the roof to wait for her to finish climbing.

[[image:Sherry-getting-shot.png|thumb|left|175px|Shiho shot by Gin.]] 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 from the locked chamber room. 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 with his tranquilizer watch. 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.

In the fireplace, Shiho reverts back into Ai Haibara while Pisco watches. He congratulates her for having made so much progress on the APTX, whose effects he has just witnessed. He tells Shiho he was a close friend of the Miyanos while they were still alive, and they told him much about the drug they were developing. He knew her from when she was a baby, even though Shiho does not remember him. Pisco prepares to shoot her, but Conan stops him by distracting him at the last minute. Conan manages to trick Pisco into setting himself and the room on fire, and carries Haibara out of the room on his back before Pisco can find them again. Gin comes down the chimney and confronts Pisco. Before Pisco is able to tell Gin the truth about Shiho and APTX 4869, Gin kills Pisco for accidentally getting his picture taken in the act of murder during the mourning party.

Conan sneaks Haibara to Agasa's beetle and gives her his jacket. Haibara then lies to Conan about losing the disk of APTX data she copied.<ref>The bloody disk is on the bottom of the stack shown in Volume 25 File 9 (Chapter 251), Page 8 and Episode 188.</ref> Worried that the organization knows that she has shrunk, Haibara tells Conan she must leave the city. Agasa tells Haibara that her identity is safe because he eavesdropped on the conversation when Gin killed Pisco by using the tracking glasses Shiho dropped when she fell down the chimney.

[[File:Shiho video.jpg|thumb|220px|left|The video of Shiho saving the [[Detective Boys]] (filmed by [[Mitsuhiko]]) that [[Amuro]] found on [[Kogoro]]'s computer]]
=== Temporary antidote in Gunma ===
On a camping trip in Gunma, the Detective Boys run across a murderer burying a body and are chased to a cabin in the woods where the killer and the victim had been staying. The murderer bars the door and sets the cabin alight with the children inside. The strength of the children is not enough to open the door and Ayumi passes out from the smoke. With Conan nowhere nearby, Haibara takes a temporary [[Antidote (Prototype)|antidote]], borrows the victim's clothing, and uses the murder weapon - an axe - to break down the door. Mitsuhiko, not realizing who she is, films her carrying Ayumi from the burning cabin and mails the video to Kogoro hoping he would find their savior. Bourbon logs into Kogoro's computer and sees the video, precipitating the events on the Bell Tree Express.

=== Impersonation by Kaitou Kid and faked death ===
[[File:Kaito_Shiho_824.PNG|thumb|right|150px|Kaitou Kid flies away in the Shiho disguise]]
To counter [[Tooru Amuro|Bourbon]] and [[Vermouth]]'s plan to capture or kill Shiho aboard the Bell Tree Express, Conan, with [[Subaru Okiya]] and [[Yukiko Kudo]]'s help, devised a plan to keep Haibara hidden and force the ignorant [[Kaitou Kid]], only present to scout ahead for a future heist, to disguise as Shiho and confront Bourbon. Bourbon wound up confronting "Shiho" and fell for the thief's disguise because Haibara told Kaitou Kid what to say. In the confusion that followed, Subaru Okiya separated the rearmost carriage from the train, which then blew up because Vermouth had planted explosives there intending to kill Shiho to prevent Bourbon from capturing her alive. Kaitou Kid escaped in the nick of time, but the rest of the Black Organization, sans Vermouth, now believe Shiho Miyano is dead.
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==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. Akemi would often admonish Shiho gently to do things normal for her age, such as encouraging her to get a boyfriend. Akemi's death had enough emotional impact to convince Shiho to betray the Black 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 phone answering 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 ====
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[[Gin]] has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting her, and anticipating killing her, while she hates and fears him. They may have had a sexual relationship in the past.<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>

==== Vodka ====
Shiho and [[Vodka]] have met and are acquaintances.<ref name=CD239/>

==== 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.

====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 status as a spy 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 to the incidents culminating in Akemi's death.

==Name origin==
"Shiho" (志保) means "will and sail", her surname is "Miyano" (宮野). Sherry is Detective Shunsaku Kudo's (from [[wikipedia:ja:探偵物語|Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales)]]) favorite liquor.

==Different looks==
{|
|[[File:Shiho Miyano Before.PNG|thumb|200px|Shiho's earlier appearance [[Reunion with the Black Organization]]]]
|[[File:Shiho Miyano After.PNG|thumb|200px|Shiho's later appearance in [[The Stranger from Ten Years Later]]]]
|}

==Quotes==

===Quotes about Shiho===
{{cquote|She's one of the top brains in our organisation...|[[Volume 2|File 16, Page 13: "A devil-like Woman"]]|Gin said to Akemi before killing her}}

== Trivia ==
* Shiho Miyano has had two appearances as an adult in the manga. All the rest of the times she has been shown in flashbacks. She took her own temporary antidote in File 816.

==In other languages==

===Shiho Miyano===
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|志保Shiho |宮野Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|시호 Shi Ho, 장미 Jang Mi|안 Ahn, 홍 Hong}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ|มิยาโนะ}}
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===Sherry===
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly due to a translating error.}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Jerez/Sherry| In the Spanish dub, her codename was first "Jerez" and later changed into "Sherry".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|شيري Shirry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่| }}
{{EndTable}}

==See also==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Ai Haibara]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Miyano family]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]
* [[APTX4869]]
* [[wikipedia:Sherry|Sherry]] (Alcohol)

==References==
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Kogoro Mouri

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Kogoro Mouri
| japanese-name = 毛利小五郎 (Mōri Kogorō)
| english-name = Richard Moore
| image = Kogoro Mouri Profile.jpg
| age = 38<ref name="CD59">Conan Drill page 59</ref><ref>[[Volume 78#File 818|Volume 78, File 818]] lists Kogoro's age as 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name="CD59" />
| relatives = [[Ran Mouri]] (daughter) [[Eri Kisaki]] (wife)
| nicknames = Sleeping Kogoro The Sleeping Sleuth Detective Moron Smoking Kogoro Shinigami (Death God)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_1#Company_President.27s_Daughter_Case|File 2]] (mentioned in File 1) Anime: [[Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case|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|''Mōri Kogorō''}} is one of the main characters of the [[manga]] and [[anime]]. He is a private detective and the father of [[Ran Mouri]].

== Background ==
[[File:Young Kogoro and Eri.jpg|thumb|180px|left|Young Kogoro in school]]
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]] and [[Shinichi Kudo]], 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 [[Juzo Megure|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 shot at 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.

After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] had been shrunk by an accidental effect of a [[APTX 4869|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.

In the Japanese version, due to his name Kogoro Mouri he is often mistaken for the famous astronaut [[wikipedia:Mamoru Mohri|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 Eri's age remains the same since they had attended school together, and if not, if it will 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.
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==Personality==
[[File:Kogoro's personality.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Kogoro in the morning.]]
Kogoro spends most of his time being dysfunctional and entirely unprofessional. Most often it is Ran, but occasionally Eri, who takes responsibility for straightening him out and reminding him who really has the power in the family.

Kogoro has an overinflated sense of his own importance and detective prowess to the point where he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep with entirely different deductions than he was making in his waking state. Furthermore Kogoro is not diplomatic, frequently making sarcastic and blunt comments about suspects or even his own clients. Kogoro is also headstrong and irritable, but especially so when Eri is involved.

On cases, Kogoro is lax with his deductions and investigation; usually missing all but the most obvious clues. He often jumps to silly conclusions, changes his mind, and falls into whatever logical traps the culprit has prepared. The police, especially Megure, usually find him to be an embarrassment and they hope he goes into sleeping mode as soon as possible.

Kogoro does have a serious side which only emerges when the case has personal importance to him, such as when Eri and Ran are involved. When this happens, Kogoro's entire personality and demeanor changes for the serious, and he begins acting professionally, demonstrating improved deductive skills and cunning. While he is not up to the standards of Shinichi and he still has problems with finding clues, his logical reasoning becomes better, and Kogoro often demonstrates he has a better sense of interpersonal relationships than Shinichi does.

[[Image:Kogoro and Yoko Okino.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Kogoro showboating in front of [[Yoko Okino]].]]
Kogoro easily becomes 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> He also keeps a massive collection of Yoko related goods and his office and bedroom have Yoko posters. Because of his flirtatious behavior around attractive women, 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. About his hobbies and leisure activities, unless he drinks to excess or goes hunting for any recordings of his favorite idol star, [[Yoko Okino]], he enjoys betting on horse races, mahjong (which he tend to lose) and baseball (he even plays in his neighborhood's team).
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== Appearance ==
Kogoro is an average sized man. He has slicked back, short black hair with two loose locks hanging across his forehead and a short mustache. Ten years ago when Kogoro was still on the police force, he was clean shaven.<ref>Manga Volume 55, File 7, page 6: "Dawn"</ref> While on cases, Kogoro usually wears a muted blue or grey suit and necktie, and just a collared shirt when being more casual. If he has been drinking heavily, he often ties his necktie around his forehead like a bandana. He seems to be reasonably fit, as he is capable of doing an [[#Judo|Ippon seoi-nage]]. Kogoro is right handed.<ref>Manga Volume 51, File 8, page 3: "Goroo is Goro?!" Kogoro writing with right hand</ref> Kogoro also smokes, although over the course of Detective Conan's run he has gradually been depicted smoking less often.

== Abilities ==
=== Detective skills ===
:''See also: [[List of cases solved by Kogoro Mouri]]'' 
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 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" />[[File:Kogoro is stunned.PNG|thumb|right|150px|Kogoro's characteristic strange expression when Conan uses the [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch]]]]

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. 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).

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]]''''').

=== Judo ===
Kogoro was on the Judo team while he was at Beika University. Although he was the strongest on the team and can and still does toss large men with ease, he lost all the time at tournaments because he got excited and his strength was used against him. His trademark is the [http://www.judoinfo.com/images/animations/blue/ipponseoi.htm Ippon seoi-nage] (one arm shoulder throw). He appears to also be a capable teacher in the art, having taught both Eri and Ran.

=== Shooting ===
In the non-[[canon]] [[Movie 2]], Kogoro was an excellent shot with a handgun.
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== Appellations ==
Kogoro earned the news nickname {{nihongo|Sleeping Kogoro|眠りの小五郎|Nemuri no Kogorou}} because of his trademark technique of solving cases while looking like he is asleep. Many characters unfamiliar with him call him by this nickname when they realize who the detective is.

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== Plot overview ==
=== Company President's Daughter Case (Manga: [[Volume 1|File 2-5]]; Anime: [[Episode 2]]) ===
[[File:Kogoro takes the credit.png|220px|thumb|right|Kogoro happily takes the credits for solving the case.]]
This is Kogoro Mouri’s first case in the series,<ref>Even though this is the first case of Kogoro in [[Detective Conan]], it is most likely not his first case ever, since he had been a private detective even before the current timeline started.</ref> after [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|the event]] where [[Shinichi]] was turned into a child by the [[Black Organization]].

He is requested by his clients on the phone to find out the location of their kidnapped daughter, Akiko Tani, who is suspected to have been abducted by “a large man dressed in black”. Kogoro then immediately calls a taxi to go to the Tani mansion in Yayoi, without knowing that [[Ran|his daughter]] and [[Conan|a strange kid]] has already jumped in with him. He expresses his excitement about the case, calling himself “Great Detective”, but only to be sarcastically addressed as “Confused Detective” by the two instead.<ref>[[Volume 1|Volume 1, File 2, Page 28]]; the two characters 名 (renowned) and 迷 (confused) have the same pronunciation (mei) and can be used as a pun.</ref> Kogoro becomes furious and questions Ran about the identity of the strange kid, then intends to get rid of them from the car. He is unable to do so however, as they are on a highway.

When the three arrive at the Tani household, Kogoro questions some of the family members about the details of the kidnapping. However, Conan’s continuous interference get on his nerves, even to the point that he wants to “kill” the boy after solving the case.<ref>[[Volume 1|Volume 1, File 3, Page 10]]. However, it was most likely just an exaggerated type of expression rather than his true desire of killing Conan.</ref>

Later, with the help from Conan’s hint, Kogoro is able to come to the conclusion that the house butler is behind the kidnapping. However, Akiko Tani has already been abducted by someone else at the time. After the case was over, it is revealed that the first kidnapping was just a set-up by the girl with the help from the butler, while the second one was by mere chance. Kogoro then laughs in satisfaction and takes all the credits for himself while Conan is actually the one to release the dog and helps locate Akiko. At the end, Kogoro finally accepts Conan and adopts him, feeling that with the boy around, “he will solve the cases smoothly as silk”.<ref>[[Volume 1| Volume 1, File 5, Page 16]]</ref> With this statement, Kogoro is, ironically, correct.

=== Bloody Idol Case (Manga: [[Volume 1|File 6-9]]; Anime: [[Episode 3]]) ===
[[File:KogoroRose.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Kogoro holding a rose, trying to act "charming" in front of Yoko.]]
This case marks the very first appearance of '''“Sleeping Kogoro”'''.

It begins with [[Conan]] waking up in the morning and finds a slothful Kogoro drinking beer and watching television shows, including the musical performance of his idol star, [[Yoko Okino]]. Later, [[Agasa]] advises him to build Kogoro into a great detective, thus get more and more works, however, he highly doubts that this is even possible, looking at how lazy the man is.

Busying enjoying one of [[Yoko Okino]]’s shows, Kogoro feels bothered when a customer arrives at his office and asks her to come back the next day. However, he becomes extremely shocked after finding out that the visitor is no one other than Yoko herself. He immediately rushes to his room and changes the sleazy outfit into a charming suit.

Kogoro then learns that Yoko has been watched by a mysterious person, and accepts to investigate about it secretly. He asks her to write her home address, phone number and even her auto-graph with the line “To Kogoro-san” on it. After that, they all decide to go the her apartment and check out the situation. However, much to everyone’s surprise, there is a dead body inside the idol’s house. Kogoro asks them to call the Police and is furious when Yoko’s manager tries to prevent him in order to protect her from the media. When Inspector [[Megure]] arrives, he gets depressed about his old subordinate’s appearance, thinking of him as the one who always makes situation turns into a “nightmare”.<ref>[[Volume 1|Volume 1, File 7, Page 5]]</ref>

Kogoro is once again pissed off by Conan’s interference. In the meantime, he keeps trying to defend Yoko as she is the main suspect of the homicide, blindly commenting that “poor little Yoko-san couldn't possibly have done this”.<ref>[[Volume 1| Volume 1, File 7, Page 12]]</ref> He continuously accuses her manager, Eiichi Yamagishi, of being the culprit, since he has a double key; while he doesn't have any proof that Yoko is innocent either. Later, however, after learning that an earring of the actress Yuko Ikezawa was dropped at the crime scene, he immediately changes his suspicion to her. Thanks to Conan’s hints, Kogoro comes to the conclusion that Yuko has indeed been inside Yoko’s apartment, but she denies having killed the victim. He once again accuses Eiichi without any solid evidence. Realizing Kogoro’s mistake, Conan kicks an ash-tray at his head, knocking him unconscious. He uses the [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] that [[Agasa]] has given to him earlier to imitate Kogoro’s voice, and points out that the case is in fact a suicide. Kogoro wakes up as soon as the cigarette on his hand starts to burn his fingers.

From then on, Conan has officially begun using Kogoro as a “puppet” for his deductions in future cases, with the purpose of turning the man into a famous detective.

[[File:Kogoro suspects Conan.png|thumb|220px|right|Kogoro is suspicious about Conan's identity.]]
=== Mysterious Shadow Case (Manga: [[Volume 2|File 10-12]]; Anime: [[Episode 38]])===
Kogoro Mouri becomes suspicious about [[Conan]]'s identity for the first time in this case. When talking to the boy, Kogoro suddenly feels like he has seen Conan from somewhere before. He thinks that it might have been around the time when Ran was still in elementary school.<ref>[[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 010]]</ref> Later, when Kogoro is investigating the death of a man that he has been hired to observe for three days, Conan hints him by pointing out that every picture of the suspect taken during the supposed time of the murder has clocks in them, which helps the detective figure out that he must have intentionally taken them that way in order to make people see clearly that he has an "alibi". Kogoro immediately finds it strange that whenever it seems like he has been stuck, Conan always gives him some kind of clue, just like in the cases before. He, for the first time, notices that Conan is not an ordinary child and begins to wonder who the boy is. However, after Conan messes up with other photos, Kogoro completely loses his suspicions, thinking: "A brat is a brat after all..."<ref>[[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 12]]</ref>

=== Masami Hirota Case (Manga: [[Volume 2|File 13-16]]; Anime: [[Episode 128]])===
First direct encounter with a member from the [[Black Organization]].

=== Museum Owner Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 4|File 30-32]]; Anime: [[Episode 8]]) ===
This case marks Kogoro Mouri's first fame as a private detective.

One morning, Kogoro and [[Conan]] are forced to go together with [[Ran]] to a medieval-themed art museum, because she heard a rumor about a knight armor that moves by itself at nights. The three of them visit around the museum and watch the masterpieces, much to Kogoro and Conan's complaint. However, when they walk into an exhibition place called the "Room of Hell", Ran discovers the corpse of the museum's owner, Manaka, who has been brutally slashed and stabbed to death with a sword. After the Police arrive, he watches the crime scene through the recorded video together with them, and found out that the culprit had already been waiting for Manaka inside the exhibition room. He covered himself in a knight armor, not only to hide his identity, but he also wanted to intentionally appear in front of the security camera, thus creating a simulation of the painting "Divine Punishment". Kogoro suddenly recalls the fact that the path to the "Room of Hell" was blocked during the time of the murder, indicating that the culprit must have been among the museum staffs, as they know the areas very well. With Conan's hint, the Police are able to discover the victim's dying message held inside his hand. The scrumped note has the name "Kubota" written on it.

[[File:Volume 4 File 032.jpg|220px|thumb|left|Kogoro's first fame.]]
With this piece of evidence and some further discoveries, Kogoro and the Police continuously accuse Kubota of being the culprit. However, Conan always thinks that there might have been something wrong with the theory. By watching the recorded video of the crime scene one more time, he is able to figure out the trick that the culprit used to frame Kubota. Later, Conan comes to the conclusion that the murderer must have been a person with a great love for art, and the only one who could sent Kubota to work alone at the time: The museum curator, Ochiai. With Conan's hint, Kogoro has finally figured out the truth behind the murder. The dying message wasn't written by the victim himself, but had been prepared by the culprit beforehand. He deduces that when Manaka found out that the name of the person who were attacking him was false, the pen he used to erase that name couldn't write, so he threw it away. Kogoro laughs in satisfaction of his brilliant theory, only to be proven by [[Megure]] that the thrown pen ''can'' write. Thanks to another hint from Conan, Kogoro concludes that the pen on the floor must have been replaced with a normal one, and the person who is holding the useless pen, Ochiai, is the true culprit.

At the end of the case, Kogoro is shown reading a newspaper article that features him. He is proud of himself for "solving" the murder case, and is happy that he has, since then, become an "instant celebrity".
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=== Kogoro's Class Reunion (Manga: [[Volume 9|File 84-86]]; Anime: [[Kogoro's Class Reunion Murder Case|Episode 27-28]]) ===
[[File:Angry Kogoro.png|right|thumb|220px|Kogoro is furious because the murderer is one of his friends.]]
Kogoro brings [[Ran]] and [[Conan]] together to the reunion vacation with his old classmates from Beika University's Judo Club celebrated in Tochigi. These friends of his are [[Jun Omura]] - a model shop manager; Yukio Ayashiro - high school P.E. teacher; Yumi Horikoshi - an employee from a company; Noriko Ayashiro - Yukio's wife and Kazushi Nakamichi - a Police officer from Chiba Prefecture. During their chat, they jokingly comment about how Kogoro used to skip practice courses and often lost in tournaments, while he has told Ran that he was "invincible".<ref>[[Volume 9|Volume 9, File 84, Page 3]]</ref> Later, one of Kogoro's friends in the group, Kazushi Nakamichi, suggests everyone to play ping-pong before they go watch the fireworks at 6:30 PM. All of them agree to participate in the activity, except for Yumi Horikoshi, who is said to have been going out with Kazushi when they were still in University.

While Kogoro is having a ping-pong match with Yukio, Ran and Kazushi are shown sitting on the side talking. She compliments him, saying that he is the strongest on their Judo team. However, Kazushi disclaims that title by specifying that there is a person even more powerful than himself whom he can never beat. He also states that the person he is talking about is present with them at that moment.<ref>[[Volume 9|Volume 9, File 84, Page 11]]</ref>

[[File:Kogoro KOs Kazushi.png|left|thumb|220px|Kogoro knocks out Kazushi with Judo.]]
Much later in the evening, when everyone gets back to the inn from the fireworks place (even though most of them have lost the way), they find out that Yumi is still sleeping, and decide to wake her up. Much to their surprise, the moment they walk into Yumi's room, she has already been shot. Kogoro, together with Kazushi, take the role in investigating her death before the Polive arrive. Using professional techniques, they figure out that Yumi has been dead since 7 hours ago, when they all went to the ping-pong room. Just as usual, Kogoro becomes furious at Conan's interference, despite the boy's hints, and claims that she has committed suicide. However, right after Conan intentionally asks him how Yumi was shot, he rushes to her body and finds out that there are no burn mark around the wound, which wouldn't make sense if it was a suicide. Kogoro then comes to the conclusion that his friend was actually murdered.

Suspecting that Jun Omura is hiding something, Kogoro interrogates him and gets to know that he saw Yumi at more than 5 PM, when she was supposed to have died. Even though on the outside, Kogoro keeps saying that the killer was some intruder, but deep inside, he knows for sure that the culprit must have been among his best friends, since outsiders wouldn't bother faking the crime scene. When being questioned by Conan, Kogoro angrily punches at a house-stake, yelling that he will not forgive the culprit, and determines to "expose them with no question, no matter what".<ref>[[Volume 9|Volume 9, File 85]]; In the anime version, he punched at the wall.</ref>

[[File:Cheerful Kogoro.png|right|thumb|220px|Kogoro has got his "spirit" back.]]
Seeing the uncle's determination, despite having found out the truth behind the murder, Conan decides not to use the [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch]]
this time, and chooses to give Kogoro clues so he can solve the case by himself. With Conan's helps, Kogoro is able to figure out that the culprit is Kazushi Nakamichi. Yumi was actually killed after playing ping-pong with Kazushi after 6 PM, that way, her muscle would harden much faster than usual. Another evidence was when Kazushi knew for sure that she had been dead the moment they discovered her corpse. When Kazushi confesses and says that she was a demon who were destroying his life, Kogoro sarcastically asks him who is the real demon. Kazushi angrily grabs his yukata, only to be knocked off by Kogoro, who thinks that he doesn't want to understand the feeling of a killer.<ref>[[Volume 9|Volume 9, File 86, Page 16]]</ref> It is then revealed that Kogoro is the "strongest person" whom Kazushi was talking about earlier. He compliments Kogoro, saying he is still as strong as ever. However, Kogoro answers that Kazushi is actually the one who gets weaker in both strength and mind.<ref>[[Volume 9|Volume 9, File 86, Page 17]]</ref>

The case ends with Kogoro staring sadly out of the window because of his friends' story, but immediately has his "spirit" back after seeing a girl's pink underwear.<ref>[[Volume 9|Volume 9, File 86, Page 18]]</ref>


=== TV Station Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 11|File 102-104]]; Anime: [[Episode 31]]) ===
Kogoro Mouri becomes suspicious about [[Conan]] for the second time in this case.

Kogoro is invited to attend a television live show as a guest star. However, a murder occurs at the studio. After finding out all the evidences, Conan lures Kogoro to a separate room, lying that [[Yoko Okino]] is in there. Just as usual, he decides to tranquilize Kogoro and uses the man to solve the case. Unfortunately, when Kogoro wakes up, he begins to question Conan about Yoko's whereabouts. He is also suspicious about the fact that whenever Conan tries to pull him outside, he always falls asleep right after. Kogoro angrily grabs the boy's suit jacket and wants to "clear things up". Much to Conan's luck, Yoko Okino appears for real and Kogoro completely loses his suspicions.

=== Game Convention Case (Manga: [[Volume 12|File 114-116]]; Anime: [[Episode 54]])===
Kogoro stars in a video game and meets someone involved with the [[Black Organization]].



=== Scuba Diving Case (Manga: [[Volume 17|File 163-165]]; Anime: [[Scuba Diving Murder Case|Episode 114-115]]) ===
Kogoro, [[Ran]] and [[Conan]] spend their time at a beach in Izu. When Ran asks her father to look at her new swimsuit, he tells her to keep quite because it will be inconvenient for him to flirt with women once they know that he's together with her. Suddenly, Kogoro notices a beautiful woman in swimsuit standing right next to them and excitedly asks if she needs any sun cream. Unexpected to him, when the woman turns around, he finds out that it is none other than his wife, [[Eri Kisaki]].

Both Kogoro and Eri are very surprised by the other's appearance, and it doesn't take them too long to figure out that this whole "coincidental union" is a setup by Ran, who greatly wants her parents to be back together. However, the situation doesn't go very well when the two start mocking each other; with Kogoro commenting that Eri's "an old lady who still wears colorful swimsuit", and the lawyer replies that he's the one "trying to flirt with this old lady". After that, Kogoro becomes upset and walks away from his seat, saying that he’s going to the toilet.

Ran notices that her father has been gone for a long time, to which Eri speculates that he has come to the beach and approaches other women. And when Kogoro comes back, he is indeed shown with two young girls, Kiwako Toda and Harumi Matsuzaki. The situation turns worse as Eri discovers sand traces on her husband’s legs, and she imagines that Kogoro must have been kneeling while applying sun scream to those girls at the beach, then he took them back there to show off with her. However, Conan suspects that the uncle has in fact gone searching for his wife’s lost wedding ring, but Kogoro’s goofiness makes him completely give up on the thought.

Later, with the invitation from the university students, the Mouri family have lunch together at a seaside restaurant. When Ran once again attempts to alleviate the tense relationship between Kogoro and Eri by commenting that Kiwako Toda and her boyfriend Masahiko Matsuzaki being childhood friends is exactly the same case as her parents’, Kogoro sarcastically tells them that many couples have suffered in marriage for loving a friend they’ve known since childhood. He and Eri even give the young couple their business cards and recommend the two to seek them in case “he suspects that his wife is cheating” or because “they plan to divorce and she wants to get a lot of alimonies from her husband”.

After Kiwako Toda goes diving and gets bitten by a sea snake, Ran is asked to identify it. Kogoro compliments his daughter for having good sense of observation, but Eri takes advantage of the topic and comments that she is completely different from “a certain someone who still haven’t even noticed that his wife’s finger is empty”. However, Kogoro acts as if he doesn’t understand Eri’s hint.

Later, as Kogoro’s about to drive Kiwako’s friends to the hospital, Eri decides to drop Ran and Conan off there then goes home right away. However, Kogoro talks to her with a serious expression that he has something to tell her after that. At the hospital, when Eri’s about to leave after seeing her husband talking to some girls, Conan asks a nurse to call Eri and Harumi Matsuzaki and tells them to go to an office to see Kogoro. He then immediately tranquillizes the uncle and takes him to the place.

At the office, Conan, using Kogoro’s voice, points out that the culprit is none other than Harumi. He also says that Eri purposely didn’t wear the wedding ring in order to attract Kogoro’s attention. After the case is solved, it is revealed that Kogoro did indeed go search for the wedding ring, which explains the sand traces on his legs, as he kneeled on the sand when doing so. Kogoro takes the ring out of his pocket and throws it to Eri. He says that he figured it out because Eri was drying her hair with her glasses on, normally no one would do that unless they’re trying to find something on the ground. He also guesses that Eri intentionally dropped her ring and tried to make him see that by using her left hand to hold the cup and continuously waved it around. Just as their relationship is about to be improved by this act, Kogoro completely ruins the moment by showing off with the female nurses, which enrages Eri and she drives away right after.

=== Murderer Kogoro Mouri Case (Manga: [[Volume 27|File 264-266]]; Anime: [[Kogoro Mouri, Suspect|Episode 199-200]]) ===



=== Kogoro's Choice (Manga: [[Volume 37|File 374-376]]; Anime: [[The Unseen Suspect|Episode 305-306]]) ===
=== Footsteps of Darkness (Manga: [[Volume 37|File 377-379]]; Anime: [[The Dark Footprint|Episode 307-308]]) ===
Kogoro is requested to find the location of the famous game system engineer [[Suguru Itakura]], who has been in contact with the [[Black Organization]].
=== Eri vs. Yukiko (Manga: [[Volume 40|File 413]]-[[Volume 41|416]]; Anime: [[The Similar Princesses|Episode 333-334]]) ===
=== Black Organization vs. FBI (Manga: [[Volume 48|File 499]]-[[Volume 49|504]]; Anime: [[Episode 425]]) ===
=== Cat Sitting Case (Manga: [[Volume 51|File 528-529]]; Anime: [[Episode 445]]) ===
=== Shinichi's Childhood Adventure (Manga: [[Volume 55|File 570-573]]; Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure|Episode 472-473]])===
This case shows Kogoro's home life before he separated from Eri and left the police force.


=== Judo Champion Case (Manga: [[Volume 62|File 643-645]]; Anime: [[Might Over Mystery|Episode 528-529]]) ===
=== Eri's Birthday Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 68|File 709-711]]; Anime: [[The Worst Birthday|Episode 589-590]]) ===
=== Private Eye ([[Volume 75|File 793-795]]; Anime: [[Wedding Eve|Episode 667-668]]) ===
[[Tooru Amuro]], a member from the [[Black Organization]] officially becomes Kogoro's apprentice so he can investigate about [[Sherry]]'s whereabouts.

== Relationships analysis ==
===Family & Friends===
====Eri Kisaki====
Eri Kisaki is Kogoro Mouri's wife, who has been living separately from him for the last 10 years. The main reason they have not yet gotten back together is because of Mouri's constant flirting with other women; though it is shown that she still cares for him, even naming her cat 'Goro' which is taken from Kogoro.

====Ran Mouri====
She Kogoro Mouri's 16-year old daughter. She often has to look after her irresponsible father because of his drinking. She is very determined to get her parents back together and tries every chance she gets to make them reconcile, though her attempts usually end in failure.

====Conan Edogawa====
Mouri took in Conan after he had 'solved' the case in episode 2, saying that Conan was his 'luck' and allowing Conan to live with them.

====Yoko Okino====
Yoko is Kogoro's idol. He always watches television about her.

====Shinichi Kudo====
They are both detectives, but due to Shinichi being the better detective, Mouri is constantly complaining about how he never gets any work because of the 'detective brat'. He is also against his daughter being with Shinichi so much.

===Law Enforcement===
====Juzo Megure====
Mouri used to work with Megure-keibu when he was still part of the police force.

== 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>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Kogoro placed 16th overall with 82 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</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]].

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kogoro_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Kogoro's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kogoro_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Kogoro's "After" Appearance (Episode 632)]]
|}

== 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 you're 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.|[[Kogoro's Class Reunion Murder Case]]}}

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

== New Voice ==
Starting with episode 553, Akira Kamiya left the show due to being fired for internal undisclosed reasons. In 553 and later episodes, Kogoro has been voiced by Rikiya Koyama. The voice acting sound similar but many fans immedietly noticed the change.

== Trivia ==

==In other languages==
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== Gallery ==
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File:Kogoro Mouri -10.PNG|Kogoro Mouri 10 years ago
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[List of cases solved by Kogoro Mouri]]

== References ==
<references/>

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[[Category:Characters]]
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[[Category:Private Detectives]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Martial artists]]
[[Category:Sleeping detectives]]
[[Category:Cases solved by Kogoro Mouri]]

[[de:Kogoro Mori]]
{{Characters}}

The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case

2013-03-27T04:14:49Z

Ccrogers15: /* Dub changes */

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 81-82
| image = TV Episode 81-82.jpg
| title = The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case
| english-title = Two Times Trouble
| japanese-title = 人気アーティスト誘拐事件 (Ninki Ātisuto Yūkai Jiken)
| season = [[Season 3|3]]
| manga = [[Volume 15#Two-Mix Kidnapping Case|Volume 15: Files 4-6 (144-146)]]
| airdate = November 17, 1997 (Part 1) November 24, 1997 (Part 2)
| dubbed-episode = Episode 84-85
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Two-Mix]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]]
| suspects = Unknown kidnapper
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| next-conan-hint = New Year's Eve midnight bell (Part 1) Coffee (Part 2)
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]], [[Minami Takayama]] ([[Two-Mix]]) [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]], [[Genta Kojima]], Next Conan's Hint [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Shiina Nagano]] as [[Shiina Nagano]] ([[Two-Mix]]) [[Norio Wakamoto]] as Satoshi Miyahara [[Katsuhisa Houki]] as Subordinate [[Hiroshi Naka]] as Budokan staff B [[Toshihiko Nakajima]] as Yama-san, Concert staff A [[Takahiro Murozono]] as Manager, Concert staff B [[Yasuhiro Takato]] as Security guard, Concert staff C [[Isshin Chiba]] as Budokan staff A, Concert staff D [[Mikiko Enomoto]] as Waitress, Female customer
| director = [[Kenji Kodama]]
| screenplay =
| organizer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| storyboard = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| producer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| animation-director = 81 [[Hiromi Muranaka]] 82 [[Keiko Sasaki]]
| opening-song = Nazo
| closing-song = Kimi ga Inai Natsu
| prev-episode = The Wandering Artist Murder Case
| next-episode = General Hospital Murder Case
| footnotes =
}}
== Characters introduced ==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[TWO-MIX]]|image = Two-Mix_Anime.jpg|link = TWO-MIX|description =
* [[Minami Takayama]] and Shiina Nagano
* Idols/Pop-stars}}
{{EndBox}}

==Gadgets introduced==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewGadget|name = [[Earring Cellphone]]|image = Earring_Cellphone.jpg|link = Earring Cellphone|description =
* A cellphone that can be worn on the ear and easily transported}}
{{EndBox}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===

==== Part 1 ====
The members of the pop group, Two-Mix, are kidnapped and the kidnappers demand the Detective Boys to deliver the bag belonging to one of the singers, Minami Takayama. The police tail the Detective Boys and when captured, find out Ayumi is disguised as Conan and that the kidnappers demanded Ayumi to deliver the item.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image = EP81-82 Case.jpg
| location = Front of the café
| victim = [[Minami Takayama]] and Shiina Nagano
| victim-label = Victims
| cause-death =
| suspects = Unknown kidnapper
| description =
}}

==== Part 2 ====
Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta tells Inspector Megure everything except how to find Conan. They decide to follow him and they learned who the kidnapper is and why the crime was committed.

=== People ===

{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Man #1|EP81-82_Man1.jpg|
* Kidnapper}}
{{People|Man #2|EP81-82_Man2.jpg|
* Kidnapper}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===

<spoiler>
'''Satoshi Miyahara''' is the kidnapper who wants to destroy Two-Mix along with the song that they wrote because the lyrics coincidentally reveal the truth behind a murder that he committed. With some tricks from his cell phone, Conan is able to save the pop group. He was Two-Mix's only manager.
</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* In the original, Conan is seen at the karaoke box singing [[Mune ga DOKIDOKI|opening 1]].
*The demo tape song's lyrics seem to be based on Two-Mix's song "Living Daylights".
*The song Two-Mix performs at the concert is "BREAK" from their "Fantastix" album.

== Dub changes ==
* The names of the characters in the [[Funimation]] Dub are:
:* TWO-MIX - TWO-TIMES
:* Minami Takayama - Korma Delorica
:* Shiina Nagamo - Karman Santher
:* Satoshi Miyahara - Morshu Esterbaum
* The Funimation Dub names the manager of TWO-TIMES, Orpheus.
*Additionally, Funimation had "Return To Love" completely re recorded with heavy modifications to the lyrics, with the voice actress for Conan/Korma doing the singing.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery perrow=5>
</gallery>

== See also ==

* [[Season 3]]

[[Category:Episodes]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hiromi Muranaka]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Keiko Sasaki]]

The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case

2013-03-27T04:13:01Z

Ccrogers15: /* Dub changes */

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 81-82
| image = TV Episode 81-82.jpg
| title = The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case
| english-title = Two Times Trouble
| japanese-title = 人気アーティスト誘拐事件 (Ninki Ātisuto Yūkai Jiken)
| season = [[Season 3|3]]
| manga = [[Volume 15#Two-Mix Kidnapping Case|Volume 15: Files 4-6 (144-146)]]
| airdate = November 17, 1997 (Part 1) November 24, 1997 (Part 2)
| dubbed-episode = Episode 84-85
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Two-Mix]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]]
| suspects = Unknown kidnapper
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| next-conan-hint = New Year's Eve midnight bell (Part 1) Coffee (Part 2)
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]], [[Minami Takayama]] ([[Two-Mix]]) [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Wataru Takagi]], [[Genta Kojima]], Next Conan's Hint [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Shiina Nagano]] as [[Shiina Nagano]] ([[Two-Mix]]) [[Norio Wakamoto]] as Satoshi Miyahara [[Katsuhisa Houki]] as Subordinate [[Hiroshi Naka]] as Budokan staff B [[Toshihiko Nakajima]] as Yama-san, Concert staff A [[Takahiro Murozono]] as Manager, Concert staff B [[Yasuhiro Takato]] as Security guard, Concert staff C [[Isshin Chiba]] as Budokan staff A, Concert staff D [[Mikiko Enomoto]] as Waitress, Female customer
| director = [[Kenji Kodama]]
| screenplay =
| organizer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| storyboard = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| producer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| animation-director = 81 [[Hiromi Muranaka]] 82 [[Keiko Sasaki]]
| opening-song = Nazo
| closing-song = Kimi ga Inai Natsu
| prev-episode = The Wandering Artist Murder Case
| next-episode = General Hospital Murder Case
| footnotes =
}}
== Characters introduced ==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|name = [[TWO-MIX]]|image = Two-Mix_Anime.jpg|link = TWO-MIX|description =
* [[Minami Takayama]] and Shiina Nagano
* Idols/Pop-stars}}
{{EndBox}}

==Gadgets introduced==
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewGadget|name = [[Earring Cellphone]]|image = Earring_Cellphone.jpg|link = Earring Cellphone|description =
* A cellphone that can be worn on the ear and easily transported}}
{{EndBox}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===

==== Part 1 ====
The members of the pop group, Two-Mix, are kidnapped and the kidnappers demand the Detective Boys to deliver the bag belonging to one of the singers, Minami Takayama. The police tail the Detective Boys and when captured, find out Ayumi is disguised as Conan and that the kidnappers demanded Ayumi to deliver the item.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image = EP81-82 Case.jpg
| location = Front of the café
| victim = [[Minami Takayama]] and Shiina Nagano
| victim-label = Victims
| cause-death =
| suspects = Unknown kidnapper
| description =
}}

==== Part 2 ====
Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta tells Inspector Megure everything except how to find Conan. They decide to follow him and they learned who the kidnapper is and why the crime was committed.

=== People ===

{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Man #1|EP81-82_Man1.jpg|
* Kidnapper}}
{{People|Man #2|EP81-82_Man2.jpg|
* Kidnapper}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===

<spoiler>
'''Satoshi Miyahara''' is the kidnapper who wants to destroy Two-Mix along with the song that they wrote because the lyrics coincidentally reveal the truth behind a murder that he committed. With some tricks from his cell phone, Conan is able to save the pop group. He was Two-Mix's only manager.
</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* In the original, Conan is seen at the karaoke box singing [[Mune ga DOKIDOKI|opening 1]].
*The demo tape song's lyrics seem to be based on Two-Mix's song "Living Daylights".
*The song Two-Mix performs at the concert is "BREAK" from their "Fantastix" album.

== Dub changes ==
* The names of the characters in the [[Funimation]] Dub are:
:* TWO-MIX - TWO-TIMES
:* Minami Takayama - Korma Delorica
:* Shiina Nagamo - Karman Santher
:* Satoshi Miyahara - Morshu Esterbaum
* The Funimation Dub names the manager of TWO-TIMES, Orpheus.
*Additionally, Funimation had "Return To Love" completely re recorded, with the voice actress for Conan/Korma doing the singing.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery perrow=5>
</gallery>

== See also ==

* [[Season 3]]

[[Category:Episodes]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hiromi Muranaka]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Keiko Sasaki]]

Sonoko Suzuki

2013-03-27T03:24:28Z

Ccrogers15: updated picture to newer appearance

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Sonoko Suzuki
| japanese-name = 鈴木園子 (Suzuki Sonoko)
| english-name = Serena Sebastian
| image = ssuzukip.jpg
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Shiro Suzuki]] (father) [[Tomoko Suzuki]] (mother) [[Ayako Suzuki]] (older sister) [[Jirokichi Suzuki]] (uncle)
| nicknames = Deduction Queen Sonoko Annoying Sonoko ([[Genta Kojima|Genta]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_5#Bandaged_Man_Case|File 40]] Anime: [[Valentine Murder Case|Episode 6]]
| appearances = {{: Sonoko Suzuki Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 8]]
| japanese-voice = [[Naoko Matsui]]
| english-voice = [[Laura Bailey]]
| drama-actor = [[Mayuko Iwasa]] (1st) [[Sayaka Akimoto]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Sonoko Suzuki|鈴木園子|Suzuki Sonoko}}''', known in the Funimation English dub as '''Serena Sebastian''', is a character from the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Sonoko is [[Ran Mouri]]'s best friend, and is the girlfriend of [[Makoto Kyogoku]], with whom she currently is in a long-distance relationship. [[Conan Edogawa]] sometimes has to knock her out with his stun gun watch to use her as "Deduction Queen Sonoko". Because of this, Sonoko has claimed to be a great high school detective in her own right.

== Background ==
Sonoko is the daughter of Tomoko and Shiro Suzuki, the extremely wealthy family of a large company. She has a sister, [[Ayako Suzuki|Ayako]], and an uncle named [[Jirokichi Suzuki|Jirokichi]], who is often involved in trying to capture the [[Kaitou Kid]].

== Personality ==
[[File:Sonoko is scary.png|right|225px|thumb|Sonoko is rather expressive.]]
Before she began dating [[Makoto Kyogoku|Makoto]], Sonoko displayed the typical girl her age, acting very boy-crazy, and often mostly thinking about trying to snag the "perfect boy." She would often act sad because she couldn't get a boyfriend, using all necessary means to try and get one. She often dressed in clothes meant to attract boys, and would try to sweet talk her way into being with a boy, by making him chocolates,<ref name=ValChoc>[[Valentine Murder Case|Episode 6: Valentine Murder Case]]</ref> trying to impress a boy while wearing a bikini,<ref name=Triplet>[[The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case|Episode 72: The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case]]</ref> or going to various events that young guys were going to attend.<ref name=Lodge>[[Ski Lodge Murder Case|Episode 84-85: Ski Lodge Murder Case]]</ref> [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], in the meanwhile, would always be the one to unwillingly attract the boys, which would cause jealousy in Sonoko.<ref name=Villa>[[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|Episode 34-35: Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case]]</ref> However, this all changed when Sonoko met and began dating Makoto.

Sonoko loves using her money to go on big vacations, like expensive ski trips,<ref name=Lodge /> and loves to buy fancy clothes and items.<ref name=Megure /> Also, she is a sugar and sweets glutton, and loves to go to festivals where sugary sweets are on display, often picking up gigantic plates filled with various cakes.<ref name=Sweets>[[The Candy House the Witch Lives In|Episode 368: The Candy House the Witch Lives In]]</ref> She has even used [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] for the sole purpose of having a children's discount on food.<ref name=Culprit>[[Two Days with the Culprit|Episode 547-548: Two Days with the Culprit]]</ref> She is also a big fan of the band LEX,<ref name=LEX>[[Karaoke Box Murder Case|Episode 42: Karaoke Box Murder Case]]</ref> and various other people in pop music, including [[Two-Mix]].<ref name=Mix>[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 81-82: The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case]]</ref>

Conan has had to use Sonoko sometimes, when he needs to do a deduction show. At first, he sometimes struggled to copy Sonoko's mannerism's down, but now is used to it.<ref name=Bank>[[The Bank Heist Murder Case|Episode 79: The Bank Heist Murder Case]]</ref> However, because he has had to use Sonoko so often for a deduction, Sonoko, like [[Kogoro Mouri]], completely buys into her whole "sleeping" person, calling her self the best detective in [[Teitan High School]], and a "Deduction Queen."<ref name=Bank /> This makes Conan sometimes completely regret using her to solve a case, though he does admire her courage in certain situations. Sonoko is shown to not be completely clueless, and is sometimes able to solve little things on her own, and can figure things out when she is provided some assistance by Conan, like in [[The Suspicious Spicy Curry]], when Conan had to communicate to Sonoko, Kogoro, and [[Misao Yamamura|Yamamura]] in charades and sign language.<ref name=Curry>[[The Suspicious Spicy Curry|Episode 331-332: The Suspicious Spicy Curry]]</ref>

Sonoko is a big fanatic of the [[Kaitou Kid]], thinking that not only is he very handsome, but is also herself a very big fan of him, cheering him on in trying to steal something, even when that something is a rare treasure of the Suzuki family! She wishes to meet the Kid up close, and sometimes almost gets her wish, but is very disappointed when she doesn't.<ref name=Kid>[[Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk|Episode 356: Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk]]</ref>

==Appellations==

== Appearance ==
Sonoko often wears a bandanna backing up her fringe, skirt, random clothes covering the top. Her clothes often show more skin, in comparison to Ran, mostly for the purpose of attracting guys. In [[Countdown to Heaven]], she temporarily changes her hairstyle to a perm.

== Plot overview ==
===Deduction Queen Sonoko (Manga: [[Volume 5#Bandaged Man Case|40-44]], Anime: [[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|34-35]])===
[[File: Sonoko35.png|thumb|left|Deduction Queen Sonoko appears!]]
Conan and Ran visit Sonoko's mountain villa to see the autumn leaves and meet up with some old friends. On the way to the front they see a strange bandaged man in a dark cloak crossing the bridge. When they see him he turns around, shocking them with his face and eye contact as he quickly makes a retreat around the side of the house. Everything seems fine as Ran tries to find her room, accidentally walking in on the boys of the house. When everyone is asked about the bandaged man he is brushed off as possibly a crazy man with nothing better to do. However he is taken far more seriously when later one of the girls is seen being carried off by him from the windows, the boys give chase and find her dismembered body in the woods.

He had previously attacked Ran in the woods earlier, but ran off when Conan gave chase. Everyone panics and decides that it's best to go to bed for the night, when he strikes again, this time trying to kill Ran in her sleep. Conan kicks Ran out of the way, using his bow-tie to wake her up, she freezes up as Conan grabs for him, but he is thrown against the bed, twisting his ankle. The bandaged man quickly makes a hasty retreat, leaving Conan to wonder why he is targeting Ran.
Everyone decides to stay up for the night and keep together to throw off the murderous man in bandages. Conan suspects that Ran saw something that made her a target for the bandaged man, and the culprit is one of the people staying there. The rush for remembrance is on as Conan desperately tries to solve the mystery before the bandaged man strikes again.

After the investigation, Conan solve the case. Kogoro isn't there to be put to sleep, so he decides to solve the case by Ran. But when he shoots the anesthetic needle, Sonoko appears and she falls asleep. Conan reveals, by Sonoko, the killer is Ryoichi Takahashi.
Sonoko is very proud, she thinks she settled the case. She was in love with Masaru Ohta, but already isn't.
Currently, Conan often uses Sonoko for solving cases.
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===An important date (Manga: [[Volume 11#Coffee Shop Case|105-107]], Anime: [[Coffee Shop Murder Case|32]])===
At the end of the case, Conan asks Ran if she meets Shiro Wakaoji, a young man who was in the coffee shop. She says no, but Shiro is interested by Ran. When he begin to flirt with her, Sonoko arrives. She was his autentic date! Sonoko, very angry, hits him and goes out from there.

===Makoto's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 22#Sonoko's Camera Case|219-221]], Anime: [[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|153-154]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan go to Izu because of Sonoko's schemes to get a man. At the beach, Sonoko takes a picture of Ran fixing her bathing suit and threatens to send the picture to Shinichi. Sonoko is upset about her lack of love life. However, a college student approaches the girls and asks Sonoko to lunch. He appears to be romantically interested and asks Sonoko to dinner as well. They agree to meet at their lodgings later that day. The college student tells the group a story about a brunette that was murdered a year ago and now haunts the restaurant he wants to dine at. The group then finds out that another brunette was murdered in the woods recently in the same manner as the brunette from a year ago.

[[File: EP153-154b_Case.jpg|thumb|right|The serial killer tries to kill Sonoko...]]
The group goes to the crime scene and meet Sango Yokomizo who cautions them to stay safe. Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are staying at a cheap Ryokan because Sonoko doesn't want to scare men away by staying at an expensive luxury hotel. In the evening, the three of them wait for the college student to pick them up in his car. Sonoko realizes that she forgot something in her room and goes back up to get it. Here she discovers a suspicious figure searching her bags. The figure attacks her and is about to stab her with a knife when Ran and Conan, worried about the time Sonoko is taking, come to find her.

Sonoko is saved and the figure escapes through the window. The stoic, and somewhat unfriendly, high school student (Makoto Kyogoku) that is working at the Ryokan moves the group to another room. Ran thinks she has seen this person somewhere before but cannot remember where. The college student shows up muddy and wet and Conan suspects him of attacking Sonoko. Sonoko says she bit the attacker's bicep in her struggle and Conan makes the college student take off his shirt. However, the college student does not have a bite mark on his arm. Makoto has a bandaged bicep and falls under suspicion but Sonoko says he wasn't the attacker since the attacker was hairy. The college student, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan decide to have dinner at the Ryokan because the college student says his car broke down. Conan speculates that Sonoko's attacker was looking for the photographs she was taking during the trip, but cannot figure out why. Conan does not think there are any incriminating photos. Perhaps the murderer overheard Sonoko talking about the photographs and misunderstood. This case is still full of mysteries and Conan cannot figure out why Sonoko was attacked.

Later, Michiwaki (the student), Ran and Conan go to eat to a restaurant, and Sonoko is in Michiwaki's car, sleepy. Suddenly, the car gets on and Sonoko is, again, near the death.
When they go to the police station, Sonoko and Michiwaki enter into the forest. There, Michiwaki tries to kill Sonko: he is the serial killer!
Finally, when Sonoko thinks she is going to death, Makoto appears and save her. Michiwaki is arrested and Makoto says to Sonoko he is in love whit her, but he must goes abroad.
Currently, Sonoko is involved with Makoto.

===Jodie's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 27#Arcade Murder Case|271-273]], Anime: [[The Battle Game Trap|226-227]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are at the arcade where they meet their High School English teacher, Jodie Saintemillion who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Ran to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Ran loses to a gamer named Kengo Bito who taunts her in her lost. Bito plays the game again his rival, Takayasu Shimizu; The battle is projected on a large screen. Bito's avatar overwhelms Shimizu's but stops at the climax of the match. The people in the arcade realize Bito is dead and the police are called in.
The police investigate; after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people, a middle aged man, an employee, Shimizu, and Jodie.
[[File: Sonoko227.png|thumb|right|Sonoko thinks about Makoto]]
The autopsy reveals the poison to be Tetrodotoxin; a poison that causes instant paralysis and death soon after. Conan investigates and learns the method and the culprit who murdered Bito.
Conan tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her; declaring Shimizu to be the murderer. Conan reveals that Shimizu was the one playing Bito's avatar in order disguise the fact Bito was already dead. As for the weapon, Conan explains Shimizu hid a needle inside a cigarette, put gum around it, wrapped it around paper and had it stuck to the employee's shoes. As certain evidence, Conan reveals that a coin with Shimizu's fingerprints should be found in Bito's arcade machine. Shimizu confesses revealing Bito's gambling and debt caused his sister to develop Vitamin A deficiency and resulting in her blindness. As Sonoko, Ran, and Jodie leave the arcade, their discussion leads to Shinichi whom Jodie dubs as Cool Guy; She says goodbye whilst calling Conan Cool Guy and leaves. That night, Jodie calls an unknown person discussing how her target, the Rotten Apple has changed appearance.

===Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 28#Girl Clubbing Case|284-286]], Anime: [[Megure's Sealed Secret|217-218]])===
Ran and Sonoko are shopping for a sweater as Sonoko wants to buy for Makoto Kyogoku; Sonoko gets scolded by Ran when she learns that Sonoko wants to make it pass as if she had knitted the sweater for him. Sonoko arrives to the pasta shop right then and upon seeing the girls's pictures she identifies them as Ganguro, girls who change their looks drastically to look fashionable and exotic and as a way to rebel against Japanese society.
Sonoko calls Ran to ask where she is. She says she's in a parking lot and then she screams in terror because she has just found another victim. Said victim is a 20 year old girl named Tae Aizawa, who used to work at the same store: again, a very young woman with bleached hair, tanned skin, and wearing the special jewelry gifts. Unlike the others, however, Aizawa is actually dead.
After discussing some more details, Takagi returns and confirms the information already given. Conan and Ran see that Sonoko isn't with them; Ran mentions that Sonoko was supposed to go to the car and then to the restroom, and then Conan realizes that Sonoko was wearing platform boots... like all the victims. Ran calls Sonoko to her cellphone, and Sonoko says she's looking for a safe way out since the lights are out. She then gets scared since it looks like she's being followed, and as she turns, the culprit is right in front of her and she starts screaming.

[[File: Sonoko218.png|thumb|right|Sonoko... saved!?]]
Sonoko manages to avoid the culprit's pipe and throws her phone at him, revealing his face. She tries running downstairs, with the man being horrified since she saw him clearly. Conan says that the killer saw Sonoko with Mouri's keys and mistook her for the driver, hence why he's chasing her now. Sonoko's phone lands near a purikura machine located near a restaurant in the tenth floor, so they deduce Sonoko and the killer are not too far away from it. Megure takes active part in commanding the police, and both Matsumoto and Mouri notice how pumped up he is.
Sonoko runs aimlessly in the tenth floor, and when she's about to reach the gates she trips over her boots and falls to the ground. Ran and the police find her phone on the stairs and deduce she's in the apartment store as no one has seen her in the restaurants. Meanwhile, the maddened killer starts ranting about how all the fashionable girls are bitches in sheep's clothing who should be all killed. Sonoko screams again and this time Ran, Conan, Megure and Co. hear her; they also hear the sound of several things falling, Go stones among them, which allow them to see she's now on the fourth floor (the only one with such arrangments).
Sonoko again dodges the pipe, as the culprit rants about how he only wanted to teach her a lesson, but after seeing his face, he had to kill her. Cornered again, Sonoko cowers as he tries to hit her directly... and then Megure shows up. He takes the hit for her and gets struck in the head, but the blow is softened by his hat.
At the end, Ran and Sonoko are moved to tears, thinking Megure's girlfriend died.

===Murderous Pottery Class (Manga: [[Volume 30#Pottery Class Case|305-307]], Anime: [[The Murderous Pottery Class|228-229]])===
[[File: Sonoko228.png|thumb|left|Sonoko looking at Ran's vessel.]]
Sonoko tells Ran she is attending pottery classes to make a gift to Makoto, a big vessel. Ran decides to join too. One day, Conan follows the girls to the pottery class.
Ran is making an earthel vessel and Sonoko wants to see that, but Ran doesn't want. Joking, the vessel fell. All the class heard a noise, and Sonoko thins Ran's vessel is broken. But no, Ran has got the vessel in her hand.
Conan, Ran, and all the class go to find the origin of the noise, and Sonoko attempts to uncover Ran's vessel. Ran tells her if she do it, their friendship will be broken.
Motoo Mino is killed and they try to discover the truth.
Suddenly, Conan find out the truth: the master murdered Motoo! The little detective uses 'Deduction Queen Sonoko' to solve it.

At the end, she is talking with Ran and Conan, and they see a photo that Makoto send to Sonoko. In the photo, he is with friends and he put flowers in Sonoko's vessel. She is sad because he thought it was a vase.
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===Bloody Valentine (Manga: [[Volume 33#Valentine Chocolate Case|331-334]], Anime: [[The Truth Behind Valentine's|266-268]])===

===Halloween Party (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]])===
[[File: Sonoko witch.png|thumb|right|Sonoko as a witch]]
[[Kogoro Mouri]] receives an invitation to a Halloween cruise; the Halloween cruise is famous for hiring guests to star in a horror film. At the beginning, Sonoko is making-up Kogoro as a monster, specifically as a vampire.
He can bring a friend, and Sonoko wants to go with him because Ran doesn't want, she is afraid by zombies, witches and monsters in general.
The day of the party, she goes with Kogoro there, wearing a witch costume. When they are in a taxi, the taxi driver was disguised as a monster too and scared them.
During the cruise, the party members are divided into groups with team devil consisting of Kogoro, Sonoko, and people disguised as a werewolf, a mummy, a medusa and an invisible man. Sonoko and Kogoro meet Medusa and they talk a lot with her.

During the party, the host is shot by a crossbow, attached to the arrow is a card from team devil.
First, Sonoko thinks, as Kogoro, the mummy is the culprit, because he is the only who hasn't got the card. When Kogoro calls to his house for explain the situation to [[Ran]] and nobody picks up the phone, she says Ran could be having a shower.
Later, when the invisible man gets rid of his bands and is [[Shinichi Kudo]], she is very surprised. Kudo explains the culprit is the werewolf. The murderer says someone called '[[Vermouth]]' forced him to kill the captain.
After, she discovers, at the same time than Kogoro and the others, that the 'invisible man' Shinichi was a faker, and he really is [[Heiji Hattori]].

Sonoko's disguise is entirely black, with a large hat with a stripe in the center, black too. The dress reaches to the thighs, with peak shape. She also wears high boots and long gloves, both black. She carries a broom too.
She looks very happy for go to the party, disguise as a "sexy" witch and search cute and handsome monsters.
We don't know if Sonoko knows Medusa is really [[Yukiko Kudo]].

===Jodie's Truth (Manga: [[Volume 42#Murderer's Car Case|435]], Anime: [[Find the Buttocks' Mark!|346]])===
At the begin, Sonoko is with Ran visiting Jodie at the hospital. She is very surprised because miss Jodie is a FBI agent. Ahe tihnks she was infiltrated in the high school.
She talks with Ran about her friend did while she was in the 'horror cruise'. She says that this attitude is typical of Ran. Also, they talk to Jodie's photos.

===Dark Photograph (Manga: [[Volume 56#Missing Photo Case|582]], Anime: [[Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph|484]])===
At the beginning of the case, Sonoko is walking with Ran and Conan to return home after school. She says it's very hot and and she should do as Eisuke, which disappears after school.

===The Culprit is Sonoko (Anime: [[The Devil Hidden in the Tennis Court|602]])===
[[File: Sonoko602.png|thumb|left|Is Sonoko the culprit?]]
Sonoko, Ran and Conan are playing tennis in a court. Sonoko likes Takao Goto, the tennis club vice-captain. But suddenly, Goto dies.
Inspector Yamamura goes to investigate the mysterious case. There are three suspects: Yuka Tsuchida, Fumihiro Azuma and Chie Otake. Yamamura surprisingly accuses Sonoko as the culprit.
Conan discovers the truth and he uses Sonoko to solve the case. Sonoko then proves her innocence.

In the end, when she solves the case and reveals the murderer is Azuma, Ran says she was worried. Sonoko got very upset with Yamamura of accusing her as the culprit.
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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends===
{{main|Suzuki family}}
==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sonoko.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Sonoko hugging Ran]]
Sonoko and [[Ran]] have been best friends ever since they were little.<ref name=Magic>[[Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata|Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata]]</ref> Sonoko is often there to help Ran whenever she is bullied by other school children, more often there than even [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was.<ref name=Magic /> They were often shown hanging out with each others on the way home after school. Sonoko usually invite Ran to join her on trips, attend some activities of her family (most of the times are [[Jirokichi Suzuki|her uncle's]] showdowns with [[Kaitou Kid]]), even enjoy expensive services<ref>The Bell Tree Express.</ref>, or simply just go shopping together.

Sonoko once said to a murderer what she thought about friendship: "So what if friendship is unreliable and fragile! That way when you communicate with your heart, you can feel the warmth inside. If it were as hard as some chattering iron plate, you wouldn’t feel the warmth, y’know?"<ref name=Loli>[[The Alibi of the Black Dress|Episode 576: "The Alibi of the Black Dress"]]</ref>

Meanwhile, even though Ran knows that Sonoko has a lot of money, she always makes sure that money never gets involved in their friendship, not going to ski vacations with Sonoko because she doesn't have the money, when she knows that Sonoko would pay for her to go.<ref name=Friendship>[[Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money|Episode 329-330: Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money]]</ref> This, along with other things, has helped strengthen the bond between both Ran and Sonoko.

Before meeting [[Makoto Kyogoku|the man of her own]], Sonoko was sometimes envious that Ran always got the attentions from boys<ref>[[Volume_22#File_219_-_Go_On.2C_Sonoko.21|Volume 22, File 219, Page 4.]]</ref>, however, this didn't affect the deep friendship between them.

==== Conan Edogawa ====
Whenever [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] is near at Sonoko, she gets annoyed.

==== Makoto Kyogoku ====
Sonoko originally met [[Makoto Kyogoku]] while on a vacation, when he worked at his father's hotel in his spare time.<ref name=Summer>[[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|Episode 153-154: Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story]]</ref> At first, neither she, Conan, nor Ran recognized him, because he wore glasses to hide his features. He later saves her when he takes a knife in the arm for her, to protect her from getting killed by a crazed serial killer.<ref name=Summer /> This is when Ran finally realizes that he is the famous karate champion. After defeating the killer, he confesses his feelings for her, which leaves Sonoko dumbfounded and flustered.<ref name=Summer /> According to Makoto, he originally met Sonoko during one of Ran's tournaments, and loved how feisty and firey she was in trying to cheer her friend on.<ref name=Summer /> After this, Sonoko and Makoto begin a long distance relationship.<ref name=Summer />
[[Image:Sonoko Presents Her Chocolate to Makoto.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Sonoko presenting the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Makoto often saves Sonoko from dangerous peril, like in a snow lodge,<ref name=Valentine>[[The Truth Behind Valentine's|Episode 266-268: The Truth Behind Valentine's]]</ref> and in a forest.<ref name=Red>[[Sonoko's Red Handkerchief|Episode 457-458: Sonoko's Red Handkerchief]]</ref> Sonoko loves to use some kind of concocted scheme to get Makoto to come to her, usually in some romantic way, to create a romantic and dreamy experience for her.<ref name=Red /> This, however, doesn't always end in success, but he sometimes does stumble through her little schemes.<ref name=Valentine /><ref name=Red /> He often warns her of the way she is dressed, because he believes that guys will try to come after her because of it.<ref name=Summer /><ref name=Valentine />
[[Image:Sonoko Gives Makoto Her Chocolate.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Sonoko gives the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Sonoko often wants to show Makoto that her feelings for him are stronger than he thinks, planning simple ideas to make him feel special. However, these often go in awry, as she either cannot make what she had planned to make, like when she promised to make him a home-made sweater, but had to resort to buying one in a mall,<ref name=Megure>[[Megure's Locked Away Secret|Episode 217-218: Megure's Locked Away Secret]]</ref> or Makoto has no idea what she gave him is, like when he believed that the pottery she sent him was supposed to be for flowers.<ref name=Pottery>[[The Murderous Pottery Class|Episode 228-229: The Murderous Pottery Class]]</ref> Sonoko keeps a photo of Makoto in her bag, and uses it as a good luck charm for when she takes exams.<ref name=Photo>[[Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages]]</ref> She has also made him a chocolate, trying to make him feel jealous by not saying who it was for, thus forcing him to visit her in a snow lodge to ask her what was going on.<ref name=Valentine /> When he finds out that indeed, she made him the chocolate, he gets very embarrassed himself.<ref name=Valentine />

Although long distance relationships can be hard to be in, Sonoko has stayed faithful to Makoto, other than dreaming of meeting up with the Kaitou Kid, though this is mostly to see him up close more than anything else.
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== 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. Sonoko placed 7th in the poll with 86 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 ==

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 6)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "After" Appearance (Episode 627)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Are you an idiot? So what if friendship is unreliable and fragile! That way when you communicate with your heart, you can feel the warmth inside. If it were as hard as some chattering iron plate, you wouldn’t feel the warmth, y’know?|Sonoko spoke to Shodo.<ref name=Loli />}}

== Trivia ==
* Sonoko has been shown to be very aggressive. For example when Genta called her "Auntie Sonoko", she punched him extremely hard, and when she was interrupted by a soccer ball, she threw it back at the kicker, causing him to fall back.

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|園子　Sonoko|鈴木 Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Serena|Sebastian}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| سوكو 　Soko|''Suzuki سوزوكي''}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|보라 Bo Ra|정 Jung}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โซโนโกะ|ซึซึกิ}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Sonoko_625-626.jpg|Sonoko and Ran clutching Conan in fear in a haunted house in Episode 625-626.
File:Sonoko10yrs.png|Sonoko in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Suzuki family]]

== References ==
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Shinichi Kudo Appearances

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== Manga ==
<onlyinclude>{{Appearances|chapters|Shinichi Kudo|
[[Volume 1|'''File 001''': The Heisei Holmes]]
[[Volume 10|'''File 094''': The Great Detective Of The East...!?]]
[[Volume 10|'''File 095''': The Great Detective Of The East Appears!?]]
[[Volume 10|'''File 096''': The Burning Body]]
[[Volume 21|'''File 204''': The Initial Call]]
[[Volume 21|'''File 205''': Midair Sealed Chamber]]
[[Volume 21|'''File 206''': The Last Trump Card]]
[[Volume 21|'''File 207''': Hidden Within The Depth Of The Heart]]
[[Volume 26|'''File 255''': The Intruder's Sudden Arrival]]
[[Volume 26|'''File 256''': Concealed Truth]]
[[Volume 26|'''File 257''': Revival Under the Threat of Death]]
[[Volume 26|'''File 258''': Momentary Rest]]
[[Volume 26|'''File 259''': A Tranquil Time]]
[[Volume 26|'''File 260''': The Memorable Place]]
[[Volume 34|'''File 350''': Golden Apple 1]]
[[Volume 35|'''File 351''': Golden Apple 2]]
[[Volume 35|'''File 352''': Golden Apple 3]]
[[Volume 35|'''File 353''': Golden Apple 4]]
[[Volume 35|'''File 354''': Golden Apple 5]]
[[Volume 46|'''File 473''': Impromptu]] (flashback)
[[Volume 50|'''File 518''': Heiji's Memories]]
[[Volume 50|'''File 519''': Yuki-Onna's Plan]]
[[Volume 50|'''File 520''': The Mysterious Lift]]
[[Volume 50|'''File 521''': Legend of the Yuki-Onna's Silver Kimono]]
[[Volume 51|'''File 522''': Vengeance in the Snowstorm]]
[[Volume 55|'''File 570''': Under the Moon]]
[[Volume 55|'''File 571''': Dawn]]
[[Volume 55|'''File 572''': Broad Daylight]]
[[Volume 55|'''File 573''': Setting Sun]]
[[Volume 62|'''File 647''': The Lost Memory]]
[[Volume 62|'''File 648''': Shinichi Kudo the Murderer]]
[[Volume 62|'''File 649''': Shiragami-sama]]
[[Volume 62|'''File 650''': Endless Tears]]
[[Volume 62|'''File 651''': True Identity]]
[[Volume 62|'''File 652''': The Thing She Really Wants to Ask]]
[[Volume 63|'''File 653''': My Deduction]]
[[Volume 63|'''File 654''': Deduction Answer]]
[[Volume 71|'''File 743''': Holmes' Apprentice]]
[[Volume 71|'''File 745''': Love is Zero]]
[[Volume 71|'''File 746''': Ask Holmes]]
[[Volume 71|'''File 747''': The Holmes Code]]
[[Volume 72|'''File 752''': A Troublesome and Difficult Case]]
}}</onlyinclude>

== Anime ==
<onlyinclude>{{Appearances|episodes|Shinichi Kudo|
[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|'''Episode 1''': Roller Coaster Murder Case]]
[[Valentine Murder Case|'''Episode 6''': Valentine Murder Case]] (flashback)
[[Pet Dog John Murder Case|'''Episode 26''': Pet Dog John Murder Case]] (flashback)
[[Diplomat Murder Case|'''Episode 48''': Diplomat Murder Case (Part 1)]]
[[Diplomat Murder Case|'''Episode 49''': Diplomat Murder Case (Part 2)]]
[[The First Errand Murder Case|'''Episode 59''': The First Errand Murder Case]] (flashback)
[[The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case|'''Episode 162''': The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case]] (flashback)
[[The Desperate Revival|'''Episode 190''': The Desperate Revival (The Third Choice)]]
[[The Desperate Revival|'''Episode 191''': The Desperate Revival (The Black Knight)]]
[[The Desperate Revival|'''Episode 192''': The Desperate Revival (Shinichi's Return)]]
[[The Desperate Revival|'''Episode 193''': The Desperate Revival (The Promised Place)]]
[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|'''Episode 219''': The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid]] (2 Hour Special) (flashback)
[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|'''Episode 286''': Shinichi Kudo's New York Case (The Case)]]
[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|'''Episode 287''': Shinichi Kudo's New York Case (The Deduction)]]
[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|'''Episode 288''': Shinichi Kudo's New York Case (The Resolution)]]
[[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|'''Episode 386''': The Dissonance of the Stradivarius (Interlude)]] (flashback)
[[Ran's Suspicions|'''Episode 400''': Ran's Suspicions]] (flashback)
[[The Half Completed Crime Mystery|'''Episode 413''': The Half Completed Crime Mystery]] (flashback)
[[Aya Ueto and Shinichi - The Promise from 4 Years Ago|'''Episode 437''': Aya Ueto and Shinichi - The Promise from 4 Years Ago]] (flashback)
[[The Mystery I Loved|'''Episode 456''': The Mystery I Loved]] (flashback)
[[Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure|'''Episode 472''': Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure (Part 1)]] (young/flashback)
[[Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure|'''Episode 473''': Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure (Part 2)]] (young/flashback)
[[Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope|'''Episode 490''': Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope]] (1 Hour Special)
[[Murderer, Shinichi Kudo|'''Episode 521''': Murderer, Shinichi Kudo]] (1 Hour Special)
[[Shinichi's True Face and Ran's Tears|'''Episode 522''': Shinichi's True Face and Ran's Tears]] (1 Hour Special)
[[What She Truly Wants to Ask|'''Episode 523''': What She Truly Wants to Ask]]
[[The Blue Spark of Hate|'''Episode 524''': The Blue Spark of Hate (Part 1)]]
[[Holmes' Revelation|'''Episode 616''': Holmes' Revelation (Holmes' Apprentice)]]
[[Holmes' Revelation|'''Episode 617''': Holmes' Revelation (Love is 0)]]
[[Holmes' Revelation|'''Episode 618''': Holmes' Revelation (Satan)]]
[[Holmes' Revelation|'''Episode 621''': Holmes' Revelation (0 is Start)]]
}}</onlyinclude>

== Movies ==
<onlyinclude>{{Appearances|movies|Shinichi Kudo|
[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper|'''Movie 1''': The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]] (voice)
[[The Fourteenth Target|'''Movie 2''': The Fourteenth Target]] (voice)
[[The Last Wizard of the Century|'''Movie 3''': The Last Wizard of the Century]] (Kaitou Kid in disguise)
[[Captured in Her Eyes|'''Movie 4''': Captured in Her Eyes]] (flashback)
[[The Phantom of Baker Street|'''Movie 6''': The Phantom of Baker Street]]
[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital|'''Movie 7''': Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]
[[Magician of the Silver Sky|'''Movie 8''': Magician of the Silver Sky]] (Kaitou Kid in disguise)
[[Strategy Above the Depths|'''Movie 9''': Strategy Above the Depths]]
[[The Private Eyes' Requiem|'''Movie 10''': The Private Eyes' Requiem]]
[[Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure|'''Movie 11''': Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure]]
[[Full Score of Fear|'''Movie 12''': Full Score of Fear]]
[[The Raven Chaser|'''Movie 13''': The Raven Chaser]]
[[The Lost Ship in the Sky|'''Movie 14''': The Lost Ship in the Sky]] (Kaitou Kid in disguise)
[[Quarter of Silence|'''Movie 15''': Quarter of Silence]] (voice)
}}</onlyinclude>

== OVAs ==
<onlyinclude>{{Appearances|ovas|Shinichi Kudo|
[[Conan vs Kid vs Yaiba - The Decisive Battle Over the Treasured Sword!|'''OVA 1''': Conan vs Kid vs Yaiba - The Decisive Battle Over the Treasured Sword!]]
[[16 Suspects!?|'''OVA 2''': 16 Suspects!?]]
[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!|'''OVA 6''': Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]
[[The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Suzuki Sonoko|'''OVA 8''': The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Suzuki Sonoko]]
[[Stranger in 10 Years|'''OVA 9''': Stranger in 10 Years]]
[[Kid In Trap Island|'''OVA 10''': Kid In Trap Island]] (Kaito Kid in disguise)
[[A Secret Order From London|'''OVA 11''': A Secret Order From London]]
[[Magic File 2: The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab|'''Magic File 2''': The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab]]
[[Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata|'''Magic File 3''': Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata]]
[[The Ten Planets in the Night Sky|'''Gosho Short 5''': The Ten Planets in the Night Sky]]
}}</onlyinclude>

== Specials ==
<onlyinclude>{{Appearances|specials|Shinichi Kudo|
[[A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo: Prologue Until Goodbye|'''Drama (2006)''': A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo: Prologue Until Goodbye]]
[[Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization|'''Drama 2 (2007)''': Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization]]
[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan|'''Lupin III vs. Detective Conan''']]
[[A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~The Mystery of the Legendary Bird~|'''Drama 3 (2011)''': A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~The Mystery of the Legendary Bird~]]
[[Shinichi Kudo and the Kyoto Shinsengumi Murder Case|'''Drama 4 (2012)''': Shinichi Kudo and the Kyoto Shinsengumi Murder Case]]
}}</onlyinclude>

== Openings ==
<onlyinclude>{{Appearances|openings|Shinichi Kudo|
[[Mune ga DOKIDOKI|'''Opening 1''': "Mune ga DOKIDOKI" by ↑THE HIGH-LOWS↓]]
[[Feel Your Heart|'''Opening 2''': "Feel Your Heart" by VELVET GARDEN]]
[[Nazo|'''Opening 3''': "Nazo" by Miho Komatsu]]
[[Unmei no RUURETTO mawashite|'''Opening 4''': "Unmei no RUURETTO mawashite" by ZARD]]
[[TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~|'''Opening 5''': "TRUTH ~A Great Detective of Love~" by TWO-MIX]]
[[GIRIGIRI chop|'''Opening 6''': "GIRIGIRI chop" by B'z]]
[[Mysterious Eyes|'''Opening 7''': "Mysterious Eyes" by GARNET CROW]]
[[Koi wa SURIRU, SHOKKU, SASUPENSU|'''Opening 8''': "Koi wa SURIRU, SHOKKU, SASUPENSU" by Rina Aiuchi]]
[[destiny|'''Opening 9''': "destiny" by Miki Matsuhashi]]
[[Winter Bells|'''Opening 10''': "Winter Bells" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[I can't stop my love for you♥|'''Opening 11''': "I can't stop my love for you♥" by Rina Aiuchi]]
[[Kaze no lalala|'''Opening 12''': "Kaze no lalala" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Kimi to yakusoku shita yasashii ano basho made|'''Opening 13''': "Kimi to yakusoku shita yasashii ano basho made" by U-ka saegusa IN db]]
[[START|'''Opening 14''': "START" by Rina Aiuchi]]
[[Hoshi no kagayaki yo|'''Opening 15''': "Hoshi no kagayaki yo" by ZARD]]
[[Growing of my heart|'''Opening 16''': "Growing of my heart" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Shoudou|'''Opening 17''': "Shoudou" by B'z]]
[[100 mono tobira|'''Opening 18''': "100 mono tobira" by Rina Aiuchi & U-ka Saegusa]]
[[Kumo ni notte|'''Opening 19''': "Kumo ni notte" by U-ka saegusa IN db]]
[[Namida no IESUTADEE|'''Opening 20''': "Namida no IESUTADEE" by GARNET CROW]]
[[GURORIASU MAINDO|'''Opening 21''': "GURORIASU MAINDO" by ZARD]]
[[Ai wa kurayami no naka de|'''Opening 22''': "Ai wa kurayami no naka de" by ZARD]]
[[Ichibyougoto ni Love for you|'''Opening 23''': "Ichibyougoto ni Love for you" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Mysterious|'''Opening 24''': "Mysterious" by Naifu]]
[[Revive|'''Opening 25''': "Revive" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Everlasting Luv|'''Opening 26''': "Everlasting Luv" by BREAKERZ]]
[[Magic|'''Opening 27''': "Magic" by Rina Aiuchi]]
[[As the Dew|'''Opening 28''': "As the Dew" by GARNET CROW]]
[[Summer Time Gone|'''Opening 29''': "Summer Time Gone" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Tear drops|'''Opening 30''': "Tear drops" by Caos Caos Caos]]
[[Don't Wanna Lie|'''Opening 31''': "Don't Wanna Lie" by B'z]]
[[Misty Mystery|'''Opening 32''': "Misty Mystery" by GARNET CROW]]
[[Miss Mystery|'''Opening 33''': "Miss Mystery" by BREAKERZ]]
[[Kimi no Namida ni Konna ni Koi Shiteru|'''Opening 34''': Kimi no Namida ni Konna ni Koi Shiteru]]
[[TRY AGAIN|'''Opening 35''': TRY AGAIN by Mai Kuraki]]
}}</onlyinclude>

== Closings ==
<onlyinclude>{{Appearances|closings|Shinichi Kudo|
[[STEP BY STEP|'''Closing 1''': "STEP BY STEP" by ZIGGY]]
[[Meikyuu no Lovers|'''Closing 2''': "Meikyuu no Lovers" by heath]]
[[Hikari to kage no ROMAN|'''Closing 3''': "Hikari to kage no ROMAN" by Keiko Utoko]]
[[Kimi ga inai natsu|'''Closing 4''': "Kimi ga inai natsu" by DEEN]]
[[Negai goto hitotsu dake|'''Closing 5''': "Negai goto hitotsu dake" by Miho Komatsu]]
[[Koori no ue ni tatsu you ni|'''Closing 6''': "Koori no ue ni tatsu you ni" by Miho Komatsu]]
[[Still for your love|'''Closing 7''': "Still for your love" by rumania montevideo]]
[[Free Magic|'''Closing 8''': "Free Magic" by WAG]]
[[Secret of my heart|'''Closing 9''': "Secret of my heart" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Natsu no maboroshi|'''Closing 10''': "Natsu no maboroshi" by GARNET CROW]]
[[Start in my life|'''Closing 11''': "Start in my life" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Always|'''Closing 12''': "Always" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Aoi aoi kono hoshi ni|'''Closing 13''': "Aoi aoi kono hoshi ni" by Azumi Uehara]]
[[Yume mita ato de|'''Closing 14''': "Yume mita ato de" by GARNET CROW]]
[[Overture|'''Closing 16''': "Overture" by Koshi Inaba]]
[[Ashita o yume mite|'''Closing 17''': "Ashita o yume mite" by ZARD]]
[[Kimi to iu hikari|'''Closing 18''': "Kimi to iu hikari" by GARNET CROW]]
[[Nemuru kimi no yokogao ni hohoemi o|'''Closing 19''': "Nemuru kimi no yokogao ni hohoemi o" by U-ka saegusa IN db]]
[[Wasurezaki|'''Closing 20''': "Wasurezaki" by GARNET CROW]]
[[June Bride ~Anata shika mienai~|'''Closing 21''': "June Bride ~Anata shika mienai~" by U-ka saegusa IN db]]
[[Sekai tomete|'''Closing 22''': "Sekai tomete" by Shiori Takei]]
[[Thank You For Everything|'''Closing 23''': "Thank You For Everything" by Sayuri Iwata]]
[[Kanashii hodo anata ga suki|'''Closing 24''': "Kanashii hodo anata ga suki" by ZARD]]
[[Shiroi yuki|'''Closing 26''': "Shiroi yuki" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[I still believe ~Tameiki~|'''Closing 27''': "I still believe ~Tameiki~" by Yumi Shizukusa]]
[[Sekai wa mawaru to yuu keredo|'''Closing 28''': "Sekai wa mawaru to yuu keredo" by GARNET CROW]]
[[Yukidoke no ano kawa no nagare no you ni|'''Closing 29''': "Yukidoke no ano kawa no nagare no you ni" by U-ka saegusa IN db]]
[[Summer Memories|'''Closing 30''': "Summer Memories" by Aya Kamiki]]
[[Koigokoro kagayaki nagara|'''Closing 32''': "Koigokoro kagayaki nagara" by Naifu]]
[[Tomorrow is the last Time|'''Closing 36''': "Tomorrow is the last Time" by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Juugoya Crisis ~ Kimi ni aitai ~|'''Closing 37''': "Juugoya Crisis ~ Kimi ni aitai ~" by Hundred Percent Free]]
[[Your Best Friend|'''Closing 40''': "Your Best Friend " by Mai Kuraki]]
[[Koi ni Koishite|'''Closing 43''': "Koi ni Koishite" by Mai Kuraki]]
}}</onlyinclude>

== See also ==

* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Conan Edogawa]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]

[[Category:Appearances]]

Yoko Okino

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Yoko Okino
| japanese-name = 沖野ヨーコ (Okino Yōko)
| english-name = Yoko Okino
| image = Yoko Okino Profile.jpg
| age = 22
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 6 Anime: Episode 3
| appearances = {{:Yoko Okino Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 17]]
| japanese-voice = [[Yuri Amano]] (Episode 3~122) [[Miki Nagasawa]] (Episode 249~present)
| english-voice = [[Elise Baughman]]
| drama-actor = [[Becky]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Yoko Okino|沖野ヨーコ|Okino Yōko}}''', which is also the character's name in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
=== Before becoming an idol ===
Yoko attended Konan High School and had a boyfriend named Akiyoshi Fujie. Yoko began pursuing a career as an idol leading Akiyoshi broke up with Yoko after being persuaded by Yoko's manager, Yamagishi, but it was later revealed that Akiyoshi never stopped loving her.<ref name="misunderstanding">Manga Chapter 009: An Unfortunate Misunderstanding</ref><ref name="lockedroom">[[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case|Episode 003: An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case]]</ref>

=== Idol career ===
Yoko started her idol career as a member of the quartet "Earth Ladies", along with Kaoru Kusano, Yuki Takeno, and Terumi Hoshino. The team was quite successful, but after some time they disbanded to pursue their own careers. Yoko has remained successful and quite popular in the pop idol and acting business.<ref>Manga Chapter 322: A Long-Awaited Gathering</ref>

Yoko first met [[Conan Edogawa]], [[Kogoro Mouri]] and his daughter [[Ran Mouri]] when she asked for Kogoro's help in apprehending a stalker who had even penetrated her apartment (and of course, Kogoro would not hesitate to take the case). But in the apartment they found an unknown man impaled upon a knife, turning this case into a murder investigation. Soon, however, Conan figured out that the 'victim' had actually committed suicide: The man was Akiyoshi Fujie, Yoko's old boyfriend who still loved her. Due to a fatal misunderstanding, however, Akiyoshi fell into despair and plunged himself on to the knife, making it appear as if he had been murdered in order to take revenge on Yoko. Luckily, Conan found out the truth before damage could be inflicted on Yoko's career.<ref name="misunderstanding" /><ref name="lockedroom" />

Overcoming her grief, Yoko has carried on her career and has remained a friend and valuable contact to Kogoro and Conan in the TV and idol industry ever since.

== Personality ==
Yoko is a modest and friendly person whose fame hasn't got into her head and is devoted to her friends and fans; perhaps one of the reasons she has remained popular to this day.

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

==== Kogoro Mouri ====
[[Kogoro Mouri]] is completely infatuated with the young popstar and has all of her appearances in movies and music on tape and DVD, and has even once appeared on her cooking show. Yoko considers Mouri, [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to be good friends. She often suggests Kogoro for participation in her TV shows and commercials, and often invites him, Ran and Conan to parties and dinners. However, the latter often tend to evolve into murder cases.

==== Kaoru Kusano, Yuki Takeno, and Terumi Hoshino ====
She has remained close to her former band members throughout the years. In episode 249 She invited Kogoro, Ran, Conan and her former band members Yuki Takeno, and Terumi Hoshino to Kaoru`s wedding party, although it was ruined when Kaoru was attacked and almost killed by getting her Throat slit, however she survived.

== Name origin ==
The name "Yoko Okino" is probably a reference to the Japanese-American artist and musician '''{{nihongo|Yoko Ono|小野洋子|Ono Yōko}}'''.

== Trivia ==
* In [[Clash of Red and Black|Episode 495]], Yoko is seen singing ''[[Yukidoke no ano kawa no nagare no you ni]]'' (the 29th closing song of the ''Detective Conan'' TV series) on TV.<ref>[[Clash of Red and Black|Episode 495: Clash of Red and Black]]</ref>
* In her introductory case, there are cigarette stubs in an ashtray in her apartment despite her claims to not smoke. Some fans speculate that this may have been a hint at her being the [[Anokata|boss]] of the Black Organization when the series was still planned to be short.

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Yoko|Okino}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|يوكو Yoko <ref>This is the same as [[Sango Yokomizo |Yokomizo]]'s Arabic name</ref>|''Okino اوكينو''}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|소라 So Ra|오 Oh}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โยโกะ|โอกิโนะ}}
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== References ==
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== See also ==

* [[Characters]]
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[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Entertainment]]
[[de:Yoko Okino]]

Detective Conan Wiki:Fan Sites

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Here is a list of as external resources related to the world of Detective Conan.

== Affiliates ==

* [http://www.facebook.com/detectiveconannews Detective Conan News (Facebook Page)]
* [http://detective-conan-news.blogspot.com Detective Conan News (Blogspot)]
* [http://twitter.com/Conan_news Detective Conan News (Twitter)]
* [http://conannews.tumblr.com Detective Conan News (Tumblr)]

== External resources ==

* [http://www.ytv.co.jp/conan YTV's Conan Website] (Japanese)
* [http://www.ytv.co.jp/conan/blog YTV's Official Conan Blog] (Japanese)
* [http://www.koware.net/ Koware Site Detective Conan Branch] (Japanese)
* [http://conan.aga-search.com Mouri Kogoro Detective Agency] (Japanese)
* [http://detectiveshinichi.com/ Detective Shinichi]
* [http://magicsdetectiveagency.wordpress.com/ Magic's Detective Agency - "The Ultimate Guide To Changes In "Detective Conan""]
* [http://detektivconan-wiki.com/wiki/Hauptseite DetektivConan-Wiki] (German)
* [http://www.conan21.com/ Conan21.com] (Korean)
* [http://www.dctp.ws DCTP]
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/anime/Detective-Conan-Case-Closed/]Detective Conan/Case Closed FanFiction (English)

== Other ==
* [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Case-Closed/234820129881980?fref=ts Save Case Closed (A ground dedicated to revive the English Dub]
* [http://savecaseclosed.forumotion.com/ Save Case Closed Forum (Popular forum dedicated to the Funimation dub and VIZ Manga.]
[[Category:Detective Conan Wiki]]

Heiji Hattori

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
| height =
| weight =
| date-of-birth = Unknown date<ref name=CD56/> in July or August<ref>[http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdetektivconan-wiki.com%2Fwiki%2FInterview_mit_Gosho_Aoyama&act=url Interview with Gosho Aoyama at Comic Salon in Erlangen, July 22, 2006]</ref>
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West"
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_10#Great_Detective_of_the_West|File 92]] Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|Episode 48]]
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = All cases with [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]]
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is an Osakan high school detective in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend and the romantic interest of [[Kazuha Toyama]]. Originally a rival to [[Shinichi Kudo]], Heiji has since found out [[Conan]]'s true identity and the two often team up to work on cases.

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [[Heizo Hattori]], chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [[Shizuka Hattori]]. Heiji wants to be a detective like his father, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school.

At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name=StabbetWallet>Manga Volume 19: Files 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [[Shinichi Kudo]] is the "Great Detective of the East". As a result, Heiji showed up unannounced at the Mouri Detective Agency looking for Kudo, seeking to challenge his rival to a showdown of wits. (In fact, they had such a contest before, three years previously, during a skiing trip in the Yamagata prefecture, although they never learned about each other's identities at that time.<ref>Manga Chapters 518-522: Yuki-Onna Murder Case</ref>) Heiji was soundly defeated in the following case after [[Conan Edogawa]] temporarily turned back into Shinichi, but he gained a lot of respect for Shinichi in the process.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-096: The Great Detective Of The West</ref>.

During their second encounter, Conan knocked Heiji out to solve the on-going case, but during his final presentation of the facts, Heiji awoke prematurely and discovered Conan's secret, and in the end managed to blackmail Conan into revealing all. <ref>Manga Chapters 121: The Holmes Freak Case: The Revelation</ref> Ever since that revelation, Heiji has been helping Conan in hiding his secret identity, though he constantly slips up by calling him "Kudo" in front of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and Kazuha.

Heiji and Conan most often congenially team up to solve assorted cases. Heiji has also helped Conan investigate the [[Black Organization]] on several occasions, such as when the two investigated [[Jodie Starling]] <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=34 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 2-7 |language=English }}</ref>, or when Heiji investigated [[Eisuke Hondou]] on his own and then told Conan his findings<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=56 | chapter=Files 7 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. He's also helped cover for Conan during several of the brief instances where Conan regained his true adolescent age, and has even disguised himself as Shinichi on several occasions in order to protect his identity, even though he is not very good at it (mostly owing to his distinctive Kansai dialect). When not working on a case, he regularly attempts to invite Conan to take in the sights and culinary delights in Osaka, which he considers more wholesome than Tokyo's.
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== Personality ==
Even while solving a case, Heiji tends to be lighthearted and good-humored, preferring to work through it with a grin on his face. He is a big fan of baseball, and is most of the time shown wearing an Osaka cap, to support the local Osaka baseball team. He usually wears his cap with its visor pointed backward, but if he feels challenged, he turns the visor forward.

Heiji is known for his pride as an Osaka citizen and for his thick Osakan accent, which has been pointed out and sometimes made fun numerous times. However, Heiji holds his head high and is always one to brag about the greatness of Osaka, especially when Conan comes to visit.

Despite him knowing the value and necessity of remaining calm in the face of a crime, Heiji tends to be impulsive at times, which tends to cloud his judgment a little. This was discussed directly in the "Detective Koushien" case, when [[Saguru Hakuba]] accused Heiji of being a poor detective for disrupting a crime scene in his rush to see if the victim could still be saved. Heiji, however, solved the case in the end, and reminded Saguru that the detective's first job is to prevent death if he can. Heiji is also known to be extremely protective of those he values as close friends, and tries hard to keep them out of harm. There are several instances where Hattori tells Kazuha to wait for him or leaves her behind in order to keep her from being involved in cases, simply because he's afraid of her getting hurt.<ref>Manga Volume 59, File 6, pg 6: Armored Warrior</ref><ref>Manga Volume 59, File 7, pg 11: Art of War</ref><ref name=653p3>Manga Volume 63, File 1, page 3: My Deduction</ref>

Furthermore, he's pretty much always watching Shinichi's back, and does whatever he can to not only keep Shinichi safe, but to keep his identity under cover. However, on one occasion Heiji advised Conan to tell the truth, when Ran had convinced herself that Conan was Shinichi and thus willingly gave him blood after being shot.

Although he is very competitive when it comes to detective cases, when a case gets hot, he and Shinichi work effectively together. During Shinichi's first return to his high school during the play performance, Heiji let him take the lead role in the investigations, saying it was because they were in Tokyo, Shinichi's turf.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=26 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 1-7 |language=English }}</ref>

Although he frequently mocks Kazuha for her superstitions and enthusiasm for good-luck charms, Heiji has several times revealed that he puts more trust in them than he would admit. He once dreamed of Shinichi being murdered, and out subsequently insisted that Conan wear his omamori, the good luck charm Kazuha gave him. The omamori ended up saving Shinichi's life by deflecting a knife blow, but Heiji, without his usual protection, was shot in the stomach.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=19 | chapter=Files 5-8 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. In another case, Ran hung a teruterubozu, a charm that's supposed to ensure good weather, in the window so that Conan would have good weather for his field trip the next day. Heiji, however, got up in the middle of the night to take down the teruterubozu so that Conan's field trip would be rained out and he could accompany Heiji on an investigation of the The Red Horse Among The Flames.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=39 |language=Japanese}}</ref>.

== Appellations ==

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{| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;"
! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Heiji !! style="width:200px;"|What Heiji calls them
|-
| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Hattori || Kudo
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Hattori ''(alone)'' Heiji-niichan || Kudo ''(alone/accidentally)'' Conan-kun
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Hattori-kun || Neechan Ran-san
|}
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! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Heiji !! style="width:200px;"|What Heiji calls them
|-
| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Heiji || Kazuha Kazuha-chan ''(polite)''
|-
| [[File:Heizo Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heizo Hattori]] || Heiji || Dad ''(Oyaji)''
|-
| [[File:Shizuka Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Shizuka Hattori]] || Heiji || Mom ''(Okan)'' Old lady ''(Oba-han)''
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| [[File:Goro Otaki 60px.jpg]] || [[Goro Otaki]] || Hei-chan || Otaki-han
|}
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== Appearance and Attributes ==
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark skin, and his eyes are normally dark green in the anime but are drawn as blue in the manga. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref>

=== Intelligence and eidetic memory ===
Heiji has the same astute logic as Conan, mostly thinking on par with him in every case, although Conan has defeated him a few times. Like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan. <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan |volume=38 |chapter=Files 8-10 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

=== Kendo ===
As Shinichi is to soccer, so is Heiji to kendo. He's the fifth position, or taisho, and captain of his high school Kendo team. Heiji may disable criminals using an improvised bokken similar to how Shinichi uses his soccer skills.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle driver. He also speaks fluent English.

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]].''
[[image:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]
===The Great Detective Of The West===
One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tusjimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.<ref>Manga Chapters 092: </ref>

===Finding the One Truth===
After this first case, it only takes one more run-in with Conan to get Heiji thinking about the similarities between Conan and Shinichi. It is on the "[[Holmes Freak Murder Case]]" that Heiji, despite professing a preference for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen Ellery Queen], exercises the Holmesian axiom: "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." In addition, after Conan had [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|knocked him out]] to use him as his mouthpiece to present his evidence, Heiji receives a clout on the head from [[Kogoro Mouri]], which wakes him up again, and from the corner of his eye he spies Conan standing behind him and using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to mimick his voice; he thus discovers Conan's secret, which forces Conan to explain his situation.

===Fast Friends===
On their third case together, Conan was initially irritated to see Heiji, but they quickly formed a strong team. Together they cornered the murderer and even took steps to preventing the suicide she had planned. When she realizes that she won't be able to kill herself she weeps piteously, causing Heiji to whisper to Conan, "perhaps we should have let her die." Conan replies that "a detective who corners a murderer with logic and then lets them commit suicide is no better than a murderer."

Although Heiji seemed to laugh this off at the time, soon after he invites Conan (and [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Ran Mouri]], because otherwise it'd look suspicious) to Osaka. It is revealed by [[Kazuha Toyama]] (in her first appearance) that Heiji has been talking about 'Kudo' so often that Kazuha thought 'Kudo' was his new Tokyo girlfriend. Heiji suggests that the reason he invited Conan to Osaka is because he has been worried about Conan's safety; he has had dreams of Conan being murdered. On a case together in Osaka, Heiji gives Conan his omamori, which ends up saving his life by deflecting a knife thrust. However, without it Heiji is injured while trying to prevent the murderer from committing suicide. In the ambulance, he reveals to Conan that he has taken to heart Conan's admonishment.

===A Friend in Need===
Since that time, Heiji has quickly grown to be one of the people that Conan/Shinichi trusts most. Heiji has helped Conan investigate the Black Organization, including [[Jodie Starling]], has disguised himself as Shinichi on multiple occasions to protect his identity, and has, perhaps most importantly, become Conan's closest friend and confidante.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
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Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] is a very close one; they were childhood friends, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship is identified as a romantic one by other characters and fans alike, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, it has been shown that he becomes visibly jealous when he sees Kazuha with other guys, becoming distracted throughout the whole case. At one point, after a certain case, while looking at Kazuha, his thoughts read: 'Fool. You're too naive. I promise you, as long as you're with me, I'll never let anyone hurt you.'. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him In on of the mangas Kazuha attempts to confess her feelings after finding out that Ran had done so with Shinichi, but is unlucky because by telling him, Heiji ran off to tease Shinichi for it. She one time even attempted to sacrifice herself to save Heiji during a case that they accidently both fell off a cliff, and when they were both hanging on the branch Heiji was holding was breaking so to prevent him falling she stabbed him hand with an arrow of love to force him to let her fall, however he still held on despite a wounded and bloody hand. Also, they have the same situation as Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have the same background as them. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police's daughter, like Ran is a police's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions, so no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji can be a little bit worried for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and in a life or death situation. They are as close as real brothers, both being detectives who have feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other. However, they are both all business when a case gets serious. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.
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==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his [[Heizo Hattori|father]] is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

====Shizuka Hattori====
[[Shizuka Hattori|Shizuka]] is Heiji's mother and he sometimes called her mom an "old lady".

====Goro Otaki====
[[Goro Otaki|Otaki]] and Heiji are very good friends.

== Injuries ==
Heiji has been shown to receive the most amount of Injuries out of the characters in the franchise. His so far are:

'''10.2-6'''
Heiji and Conan's head collide, raising bumps.
'''12.7-10'''
Heiji and Conan's head collide, raising bumps.
'''19.8'''
Shot in the belly by Detective Sakata
'''23.4-9'''
Hit over the head and tossed overboard into the ocean
'''25.4-8'''
Kazuha slaps Heiji after he bursts into her room demanding she take her clothes off, then attempts to assist her in doing so.
'''28.6-10'''
Right hand stabbed by Kazuha with an arrow while dangling off a Cliff.
(31.8 mentions this scar as given to him 'last year')
'''31.8'''
Kazuha nails him on the back of the head with something, raising a bump.
Mentioned:
'''31.8'''
Scar behind the left ear from last year's Oyodo competition. Given to him by Okita when he was unable to stop Okita's 5-step attack. Match was stopped because his neck wouldn't stop bleeding until a doctor tended to it.
'''31.10'''
Shallow Cut to left cheek with a Katana by Kotegawa Takashi
'''31.11/32.1'''
Heiji's father punches him in the face, sends him flying.
'''38.8-10'''
Handcuffed behind his back in an attic, beaten with fists and feet, face shoved into the floor, gun pointed at his head repeatedly.
'''Movie 3'''
Crashes his motorcycle, sprains something, most likely a leg.
'''Movie 7'''
Slice on his forehead and voluntarily took a cut to the left shoulder with a poisoned dagger.
'''Movie 10'''
Shot in the arm and leg.

== 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. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 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>

*Heiji placed 3rd in the results of a poll ranking the top 3 "ikemen" ("good-looking men") of the series aired during the promotional special for [[The Lost Ship in the Sky]].<ref>The Lost Ship in the Sky Special Edition Blu-ray</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Heiji placed 3rd out of 10 with 10.79% of the votes cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Heiji placed 5th overall with 956 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Heiji's name comes from fictional Edo period police detective '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]]|銭形平次}}''' and famous samurai and ninja '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Hattori Hanzō|Hattori Hanzou]]|服部半蔵}}'''. His surname also stems from Inspector Hattori, a police officer who often cooperates with Detective Shunsaku Kudo of the TV Drama [[wikipedia:ja:探偵物語|Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales)]].

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they wanna find a flaw.}}

{{cquote|Life is limited, that's why it's so precious. Since there's a limit, we try our best to live.}}

{{cquote|Not good... detective suits me better. (Heiji and Conan forced to chop up vegetables)}}

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|平次　Heiji|服部 Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harley|Hartwell}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|Spanish Latin America|Alfredo|Adame}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Heiji|Hattori / Hatsutori (in Volume 10)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Heiji|Hattori (Anime) / Hatsutori (Manga)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| هيجي Hiji |هاتوري Hattori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|인성 In Sung|하 Ha}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|平次 Pingci|服部 Fubu }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เฮย์จิ|ฮัตโตริ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Хейджи|Хаттори}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here]. As the link is now dead, a new list can be found on this page under "Injuries".
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Kaito Kuroba]], and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Heiji10yrs.png|Heiji in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
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Heiji Hattori

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
| height =
| weight =
| date-of-birth = Unknown date<ref name=CD56/> in July or August<ref>[http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdetektivconan-wiki.com%2Fwiki%2FInterview_mit_Gosho_Aoyama&act=url Interview with Gosho Aoyama at Comic Salon in Erlangen, July 22, 2006]</ref>
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West"
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_10#Great_Detective_of_the_West|File 92]] Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|Episode 48]]
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = All cases with [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]]
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is an Osakan high school detective in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend and the romantic interest of [[Kazuha Toyama]]. Originally a rival to [[Shinichi Kudo]], Heiji has since found out [[Conan]]'s true identity and the two often team up to work on cases.

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [[Heizo Hattori]], chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [[Shizuka Hattori]]. Heiji wants to be a detective like his father, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school.

At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name=StabbetWallet>Manga Volume 19: Files 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [[Shinichi Kudo]] is the "Great Detective of the East". As a result, Heiji showed up unannounced at the Mouri Detective Agency looking for Kudo, seeking to challenge his rival to a showdown of wits. (In fact, they had such a contest before, three years previously, during a skiing trip in the Yamagata prefecture, although they never learned about each other's identities at that time.<ref>Manga Chapters 518-522: Yuki-Onna Murder Case</ref>) Heiji was soundly defeated in the following case after [[Conan Edogawa]] temporarily turned back into Shinichi, but he gained a lot of respect for Shinichi in the process.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-096: The Great Detective Of The West</ref>.

During their second encounter, Conan knocked Heiji out to solve the on-going case, but during his final presentation of the facts, Heiji awoke prematurely and discovered Conan's secret, and in the end managed to blackmail Conan into revealing all. <ref>Manga Chapters 121: The Holmes Freak Case: The Revelation</ref> Ever since that revelation, Heiji has been helping Conan in hiding his secret identity, though he constantly slips up by calling him "Kudo" in front of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and Kazuha.

Heiji and Conan most often congenially team up to solve assorted cases. Heiji has also helped Conan investigate the [[Black Organization]] on several occasions, such as when the two investigated [[Jodie Starling]] <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=34 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 2-7 |language=English }}</ref>, or when Heiji investigated [[Eisuke Hondou]] on his own and then told Conan his findings<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=56 | chapter=Files 7 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. He's also helped cover for Conan during several of the brief instances where Conan regained his true adolescent age, and has even disguised himself as Shinichi on several occasions in order to protect his identity, even though he is not very good at it (mostly owing to his distinctive Kansai dialect). When not working on a case, he regularly attempts to invite Conan to take in the sights and culinary delights in Osaka, which he considers more wholesome than Tokyo's.
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== Personality ==
Even while solving a case, Heiji tends to be lighthearted and good-humored, preferring to work through it with a grin on his face. He is a big fan of baseball, and is most of the time shown wearing an Osaka cap, to support the local Osaka baseball team. He usually wears his cap with its visor pointed backward, but if he feels challenged, he turns the visor forward.

Heiji is known for his pride as an Osaka citizen and for his thick Osakan accent, which has been pointed out and sometimes made fun numerous times. However, Heiji holds his head high and is always one to brag about the greatness of Osaka, especially when Conan comes to visit.

Despite him knowing the value and necessity of remaining calm in the face of a crime, Heiji tends to be impulsive at times, which tends to cloud his judgment a little. This was discussed directly in the "Detective Koushien" case, when [[Saguru Hakuba]] accused Heiji of being a poor detective for disrupting a crime scene in his rush to see if the victim could still be saved. Heiji, however, solved the case in the end, and reminded Saguru that the detective's first job is to prevent death if he can. Heiji is also known to be extremely protective of those he values as close friends, and tries hard to keep them out of harm. There are several instances where Hattori tells Kazuha to wait for him or leaves her behind in order to keep her from being involved in cases, simply because he's afraid of her getting hurt.<ref>Manga Volume 59, File 6, pg 6: Armored Warrior</ref><ref>Manga Volume 59, File 7, pg 11: Art of War</ref><ref name=653p3>Manga Volume 63, File 1, page 3: My Deduction</ref>

Furthermore, he's pretty much always watching Shinichi's back, and does whatever he can to not only keep Shinichi safe, but to keep his identity under cover. However, on one occasion Heiji advised Conan to tell the truth, when Ran had convinced herself that Conan was Shinichi and thus willingly gave him blood after being shot.

Although he is very competitive when it comes to detective cases, when a case gets hot, he and Shinichi work effectively together. During Shinichi's first return to his high school during the play performance, Heiji let him take the lead role in the investigations, saying it was because they were in Tokyo, Shinichi's turf.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=26 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 1-7 |language=English }}</ref>

Although he frequently mocks Kazuha for her superstitions and enthusiasm for good-luck charms, Heiji has several times revealed that he puts more trust in them than he would admit. He once dreamed of Shinichi being murdered, and out subsequently insisted that Conan wear his omamori, the good luck charm Kazuha gave him. The omamori ended up saving Shinichi's life by deflecting a knife blow, but Heiji, without his usual protection, was shot in the stomach.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=19 | chapter=Files 5-8 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. In another case, Ran hung a teruterubozu, a charm that's supposed to ensure good weather, in the window so that Conan would have good weather for his field trip the next day. Heiji, however, got up in the middle of the night to take down the teruterubozu so that Conan's field trip would be rained out and he could accompany Heiji on an investigation of the The Red Horse Among The Flames.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=39 |language=Japanese}}</ref>.

== Appellations ==

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! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Heiji !! style="width:200px;"|What Heiji calls them
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| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Hattori || Kudo
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Hattori ''(alone)'' Heiji-niichan || Kudo ''(alone/accidentally)'' Conan-kun
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Hattori-kun || Neechan Ran-san
|}
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! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Heiji !! style="width:200px;"|What Heiji calls them
|-
| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Heiji || Kazuha Kazuha-chan ''(polite)''
|-
| [[File:Heizo Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heizo Hattori]] || Heiji || Dad ''(Oyaji)''
|-
| [[File:Shizuka Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Shizuka Hattori]] || Heiji || Mom ''(Okan)'' Old lady ''(Oba-han)''
|-
| [[File:Goro Otaki 60px.jpg]] || [[Goro Otaki]] || Hei-chan || Otaki-han
|}
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== Appearance and Attributes ==
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark skin, and his eyes are normally dark green in the anime but are drawn as blue in the manga. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref>

=== Intelligence and eidetic memory ===
Heiji has the same astute logic as Conan, mostly thinking on par with him in every case, although Conan has defeated him a few times. Like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan. <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan |volume=38 |chapter=Files 8-10 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

=== Kendo ===
As Shinichi is to soccer, so is Heiji to kendo. He's the fifth position, or taisho, and captain of his high school Kendo team. Heiji may disable criminals using an improvised bokken similar to how Shinichi uses his soccer skills.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle driver. He also speaks fluent English.

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]].''
[[image:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]
===The Great Detective Of The West===
One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tusjimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.<ref>Manga Chapters 092: </ref>

===Finding the One Truth===
After this first case, it only takes one more run-in with Conan to get Heiji thinking about the similarities between Conan and Shinichi. It is on the "[[Holmes Freak Murder Case]]" that Heiji, despite professing a preference for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen Ellery Queen], exercises the Holmesian axiom: "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." In addition, after Conan had [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|knocked him out]] to use him as his mouthpiece to present his evidence, Heiji receives a clout on the head from [[Kogoro Mouri]], which wakes him up again, and from the corner of his eye he spies Conan standing behind him and using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to mimick his voice; he thus discovers Conan's secret, which forces Conan to explain his situation.

===Fast Friends===
On their third case together, Conan was initially irritated to see Heiji, but they quickly formed a strong team. Together they cornered the murderer and even took steps to preventing the suicide she had planned. When she realizes that she won't be able to kill herself she weeps piteously, causing Heiji to whisper to Conan, "perhaps we should have let her die." Conan replies that "a detective who corners a murderer with logic and then lets them commit suicide is no better than a murderer."

Although Heiji seemed to laugh this off at the time, soon after he invites Conan (and [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Ran Mouri]], because otherwise it'd look suspicious) to Osaka. It is revealed by [[Kazuha Toyama]] (in her first appearance) that Heiji has been talking about 'Kudo' so often that Kazuha thought 'Kudo' was his new Tokyo girlfriend. Heiji suggests that the reason he invited Conan to Osaka is because he has been worried about Conan's safety; he has had dreams of Conan being murdered. On a case together in Osaka, Heiji gives Conan his omamori, which ends up saving his life by deflecting a knife thrust. However, without it Heiji is injured while trying to prevent the murderer from committing suicide. In the ambulance, he reveals to Conan that he has taken to heart Conan's admonishment.

===A Friend in Need===
Since that time, Heiji has quickly grown to be one of the people that Conan/Shinichi trusts most. Heiji has helped Conan investigate the Black Organization, including [[Jodie Starling]], has disguised himself as Shinichi on multiple occasions to protect his identity, and has, perhaps most importantly, become Conan's closest friend and confidante.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
{{main|Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama}}
Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] is a very close one; they were childhood friends, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship is identified as a romantic one by other characters and fans alike, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, it has been shown that he becomes visibly jealous when he sees Kazuha with other guys, becoming distracted throughout the whole case. At one point, after a certain case, while looking at Kazuha, his thoughts read: 'Fool. You're too naive. I promise you, as long as you're with me, I'll never let anyone hurt you.'. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him In on of the mangas Kazuha attempts to confess her feelings after finding out that Ran had done so with Shinichi, but is unlucky because by telling him, Heiji ran off to tease Shinichi for it. She one time even attempted to sacrifice herself to save Heiji during a case that they accidently both fell off a cliff, and when they were both hanging on the branch Heiji was holding was breaking so to prevent him falling she stabbed him hand with an arrow of love to force him to let her fall, however he still held on despite a wounded and bloody hand. Also, they have the same situation as Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have the same background as them. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police's daughter, like Ran is a police's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions, so no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji can be a little bit worried for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and in a life or death situation. They are as close as real brothers, both being detectives who have feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other. However, they are both all business when a case gets serious. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.
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==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his [[Heizo Hattori|father]] is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

====Shizuka Hattori====
[[Shizuka Hattori|Shizuka]] is Heiji's mother and he sometimes called her mom an "old lady".

====Goro Otaki====
[[Goro Otaki|Otaki]] and Heiji are very good friends.

== 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. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 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>

*Heiji placed 3rd in the results of a poll ranking the top 3 "ikemen" ("good-looking men") of the series aired during the promotional special for [[The Lost Ship in the Sky]].<ref>The Lost Ship in the Sky Special Edition Blu-ray</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Heiji placed 3rd out of 10 with 10.79% of the votes cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Heiji placed 5th overall with 956 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Heiji's name comes from fictional Edo period police detective '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]]|銭形平次}}''' and famous samurai and ninja '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Hattori Hanzō|Hattori Hanzou]]|服部半蔵}}'''. His surname also stems from Inspector Hattori, a police officer who often cooperates with Detective Shunsaku Kudo of the TV Drama [[wikipedia:ja:探偵物語|Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales)]].

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they wanna find a flaw.}}

{{cquote|Life is limited, that's why it's so precious. Since there's a limit, we try our best to live.}}

{{cquote|Not good... detective suits me better. (Heiji and Conan forced to chop up vegetables)}}

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|平次　Heiji|服部 Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harley|Hartwell}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|Spanish Latin America|Alfredo|Adame}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Heiji|Hattori / Hatsutori (in Volume 10)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Heiji|Hattori (Anime) / Hatsutori (Manga)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| هيجي Hiji |هاتوري Hattori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|인성 In Sung|하 Ha}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|平次 Pingci|服部 Fubu }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เฮย์จิ|ฮัตโตริ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Хейджи|Хаттори}}
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== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here].
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Kaito Kuroba]], and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Heiji10yrs.png|Heiji in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
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[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Detectives]]
[[category:High school detectives]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Martial artists]]
[[Category:Characters from Osaka]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]
[[Category:Characters who know Ai Haibara's identity]]
[[Category:Sleeping detectives]]

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Minami Takayama

2013-03-21T21:13:49Z

Ccrogers15: /* Appearances as Herself */

{{InfoBox Cast
| name = Minami Takayama
| image = Cast Minami Takayama.jpg
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = May 5, 1964
| place-of-birth =
| location = Adachi, Tokyo
| voice-of = [[Conan Edogawa]] Young [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Aoko Nakamori]] Herself
| nicknames =
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Minami Takayama|高山みなみ|Takayama Minami}}''', born May 5th, 1964, is a [[Glossary|seiyū]] and singer from Adachi, Tokyo.

In '''[[Detective Conan]]''' she is the voice of [[Conan Edogawa]]. She is also the lead vocalist of pop group [[Two-Mix]], who performed the 5th opening theme for the anime.

She was once married to [[Gosho Aoyama]] and was also the voice of [[Yaiba Kurogane]] in his other series '''[[Yaiba]]'''. They were married on her birthday in 2005 but divorced on December 10, 2007.

==Appearances as Herself==
[[File:Takayama anime.PNG|left|thumb|150px|Takayama in the Anime]] Minami appeared in [[Volume 15]] of the manga, in File 144-146. The story was made into [[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 81]] and [[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]].

In this episode, she appears with '''Shiina Nagano'''. Before waiting for a concert, Takayama is disguised because she is looking for Nagano. The Detective Boys then bump into her and realize that she is the famous artist Minami Takayama. She then tricks everyone with a man's voice and takes them to a restaurant. Then there is a strange person who has been using the phone for a long time. Then a while late, a person on the phone is looking for her, she then answers and it turns out to be Shiina Nagano. He tells her that he is outside the restaurant and asks her to go outside. After that, the suspicious person kidnaps her and the kidnappers demand the Detective Boys to deliver the bag belonging to Minami Takayama.

While the English manga retains her name, the English Dub of the anime renames her Korma Delorica and in keeping with her shared voice with Conan, she is voiced by [[Alison Viktorin]].

Her and her brother made a second appearance in the series in episode 238.

==Other notable roles==
=== Anime ===
*[[wikipedia:Mister Ajikko|Mister Ajikko]] as Yoichi Ajiyoshi
*[[wikipedia:Kiki's Delivery Service|Kiki's Delivery Service]] as Kiki & Ursula
*[[wikipedia:Ranma 1/2|Ranma 1/2]] as Nabiki Tendo
*[[wikipedia:Tanoshii Moomin Ikka (TV series)|Moomin Family]] as Moomintroll
*[[wikipedia:Magical Taruruto-kun|Magical Taruruto-kun]] as Honmaru Edojo
*[[wikipedia:Cooking Papa|Cooking Papa]] as Makoto Araiwa
*[[wikipedia:Nintama Rantaro|Nintama Rantaro]] as Rantaro Inadera
*[[wikipedia:Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko|Starship Girl Yamamoto Yoko]] as Yoko Yamamoto
*[[wikipedia:Mashuranbo|Mashuranbo]] as Mashuranbo
*[[wikipedia:Cyborg 009|Cyborg 009 The Cyborg Soldier]] as Artemis
*[[wikipedia:Pokemon (anime)|Pokemon]] as Hiroshi, Ruku
*[[wikipedia:Shaman King|Shaman King]] as Hao
*[[wikipedia:Kyo Kara Maoh!|Kyou Kara Maou!]] as Anissina von Karbelnikoff
*[[wikipedia:Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi]] as Kisara Nanjo (Valkyrie)
*[[wikipedia:GeGeGe no Kitaro|GeGeGe no Kitarou (2007)]] as Kitarou
*[[wikipedia: Fullmetal Alchemist| Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009)]] as Envy
*[[wikipedia: Digimon Xros Wars| Digimon Xros Wars (2010)]] as Taiki Kudo
*[[wikipedia: Project ARMS|Project ARMS (2001)]] as Kei Kuruma
*[[wikipedia: Escaflowne| The Vision of Escaflowne (1996)]] as Dilandau

=== Video games ===
*[[wikipedia:Mega Man X7|Mega Man X7]] as Axl
*[[wikipedia:Mega Man X8|Mega Man X8]] as Axl
*[[wikipedia:Mega Man X: Command Mission|Mega Man X: Command Mission]] as Axl

== In other languages ==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Korma|Delorica}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Minami|Takayama}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Minami|Takayama}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Minami|''Not Given''}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|''مينامي''|تاكامي Takami}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Minami|Takayama}}
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== See also ==
* [[Staff]]

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[[Category:Voice Actors]] [[Category:Japanese Voice Actors]] [[Category:Female Voice Actors]] [[Category:Japanese female Voice Actors]] [[Category:Female characters]] [[Category:Gosho Aoyama]]

Sonoko Suzuki

2013-03-18T12:17:02Z

Ccrogers15: /* Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: 284-286, Anime: 217-218) */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Sonoko Suzuki
| japanese-name = 鈴木園子 (Suzuki Sonoko)
| english-name = Serena Sebastian
| image = Sonoko Suzuki Profile.jpg
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Shiro Suzuki]] (father) [[Tomoko Suzuki]] (mother) [[Ayako Suzuki]] (older sister) [[Jirokichi Suzuki]] (uncle)
| nicknames = Deduction Queen Sonoko Annoying Sonoko ([[Genta Kojima|Genta]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_5#Bandaged_Man_Case|File 40]] Anime: [[Valentine Murder Case|Episode 6]]
| appearances = {{: Sonoko Suzuki Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 8]]
| japanese-voice = [[Naoko Matsui]]
| english-voice = [[Laura Bailey]]
| drama-actor = [[Mayuko Iwasa]] (1st) [[Sayaka Akimoto]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Sonoko Suzuki|鈴木園子|Suzuki Sonoko}}''', known in the Funimation English dub as '''Serena Sebastian''', is a character from the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Sonoko is [[Ran Mouri]]'s best friend, and is the girlfriend of [[Makoto Kyogoku]], with whom she currently is in a long-distance relationship. [[Conan Edogawa]] sometimes has to knock her out with his stun gun watch to use her as "Deduction Queen Sonoko". Because of this, Sonoko has claimed to be a great high school detective in her own right.

== Background ==
Sonoko is the daughter of Tomoko and Shiro Suzuki, the extremely wealthy family of a large company. She has a sister, [[Ayako Suzuki|Ayako]], and an uncle named [[Jirokichi Suzuki|Jirokichi]], who is often involved in trying to capture the [[Kaitou Kid]].

== Personality ==
[[File:Sonoko is scary.png|right|225px|thumb|Sonoko is rather expressive.]]
Before she began dating [[Makoto Kyogoku|Makoto]], Sonoko displayed the typical girl her age, acting very boy-crazy, and often mostly thinking about trying to snag the "perfect boy." She would often act sad because she couldn't get a boyfriend, using all necessary means to try and get one. She often dressed in clothes meant to attract boys, and would try to sweet talk her way into being with a boy, by making him chocolates,<ref name=ValChoc>[[Valentine Murder Case|Episode 6: Valentine Murder Case]]</ref> trying to impress a boy while wearing a bikini,<ref name=Triplet>[[The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case|Episode 72: The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case]]</ref> or going to various events that young guys were going to attend.<ref name=Lodge>[[Ski Lodge Murder Case|Episode 84-85: Ski Lodge Murder Case]]</ref> [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], in the meanwhile, would always be the one to unwillingly attract the boys, which would cause jealousy in Sonoko.<ref name=Villa>[[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|Episode 34-35: Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case]]</ref> However, this all changed when Sonoko met and began dating Makoto.

Sonoko loves using her money to go on big vacations, like expensive ski trips,<ref name=Lodge /> and loves to buy fancy clothes and items.<ref name=Megure /> Also, she is a sugar and sweets glutton, and loves to go to festivals where sugary sweets are on display, often picking up gigantic plates filled with various cakes.<ref name=Sweets>[[The Candy House the Witch Lives In|Episode 368: The Candy House the Witch Lives In]]</ref> She has even used [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] for the sole purpose of having a children's discount on food.<ref name=Culprit>[[Two Days with the Culprit|Episode 547-548: Two Days with the Culprit]]</ref> She is also a big fan of the band LEX,<ref name=LEX>[[Karaoke Box Murder Case|Episode 42: Karaoke Box Murder Case]]</ref> and various other people in pop music, including [[Two-Mix]].<ref name=Mix>[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 81-82: The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case]]</ref>

Conan has had to use Sonoko sometimes, when he needs to do a deduction show. At first, he sometimes struggled to copy Sonoko's mannerism's down, but now is used to it.<ref name=Bank>[[The Bank Heist Murder Case|Episode 79: The Bank Heist Murder Case]]</ref> However, because he has had to use Sonoko so often for a deduction, Sonoko, like [[Kogoro Mouri]], completely buys into her whole "sleeping" person, calling her self the best detective in [[Teitan High School]], and a "Deduction Queen."<ref name=Bank /> This makes Conan sometimes completely regret using her to solve a case, though he does admire her courage in certain situations. Sonoko is shown to not be completely clueless, and is sometimes able to solve little things on her own, and can figure things out when she is provided some assistance by Conan, like in [[The Suspicious Spicy Curry]], when Conan had to communicate to Sonoko, Kogoro, and [[Misao Yamamura|Yamamura]] in charades and sign language.<ref name=Curry>[[The Suspicious Spicy Curry|Episode 331-332: The Suspicious Spicy Curry]]</ref>

Sonoko is a big fanatic of the [[Kaitou Kid]], thinking that not only is he very handsome, but is also herself a very big fan of him, cheering him on in trying to steal something, even when that something is a rare treasure of the Suzuki family! She wishes to meet the Kid up close, and sometimes almost gets her wish, but is very disappointed when she doesn't.<ref name=Kid>[[Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk|Episode 356: Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk]]</ref>

==Appellations==

== Appearance ==
Sonoko often wears a bandanna backing up her fringe, skirt, random clothes covering the top. Her clothes often show more skin, in comparison to Ran, mostly for the purpose of attracting guys. In [[Countdown to Heaven]], she temporarily changes her hairstyle to a perm.

== Plot overview ==
===Deduction Queen Sonoko (Manga: [[Volume 5#Bandaged Man Case|40-44]], Anime: [[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|34-35]])===
[[File: Sonoko35.png|thumb|left|Deduction Queen Sonoko appears!]]
Conan and Ran visit Sonoko's mountain villa to see the autumn leaves and meet up with some old friends. On the way to the front they see a strange bandaged man in a dark cloak crossing the bridge. When they see him he turns around, shocking them with his face and eye contact as he quickly makes a retreat around the side of the house. Everything seems fine as Ran tries to find her room, accidentally walking in on the boys of the house. When everyone is asked about the bandaged man he is brushed off as possibly a crazy man with nothing better to do. However he is taken far more seriously when later one of the girls is seen being carried off by him from the windows, the boys give chase and find her dismembered body in the woods.

He had previously attacked Ran in the woods earlier, but ran off when Conan gave chase. Everyone panics and decides that it's best to go to bed for the night, when he strikes again, this time trying to kill Ran in her sleep. Conan kicks Ran out of the way, using his bow-tie to wake her up, she freezes up as Conan grabs for him, but he is thrown against the bed, twisting his ankle. The bandaged man quickly makes a hasty retreat, leaving Conan to wonder why he is targeting Ran.
Everyone decides to stay up for the night and keep together to throw off the murderous man in bandages. Conan suspects that Ran saw something that made her a target for the bandaged man, and the culprit is one of the people staying there. The rush for remembrance is on as Conan desperately tries to solve the mystery before the bandaged man strikes again.

After the investigation, Conan solve the case. Kogoro isn't there to be put to sleep, so he decides to solve the case by Ran. But when he shoots the anesthetic needle, Sonoko appears and she falls asleep. Conan reveals, by Sonoko, the killer is Ryoichi Takahashi.
Sonoko is very proud, she thinks she settled the case. She was in love with Masaru Ohta, but already isn't.
Currently, Conan often uses Sonoko for solving cases.
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===An important date (Manga: [[Volume 11#Coffee Shop Case|105-107]], Anime: [[Coffee Shop Murder Case|32]])===
At the end of the case, Conan asks Ran if she meets Shiro Wakaoji, a young man who was in the coffee shop. She says no, but Shiro is interested by Ran. When he begin to flirt with her, Sonoko arrives. She was his autentic date! Sonoko, very angry, hits him and goes out from there.

===Makoto's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 22#Sonoko's Camera Case|219-221]], Anime: [[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|153-154]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan go to Izu because of Sonoko's schemes to get a man. At the beach, Sonoko takes a picture of Ran fixing her bathing suit and threatens to send the picture to Shinichi. Sonoko is upset about her lack of love life. However, a college student approaches the girls and asks Sonoko to lunch. He appears to be romantically interested and asks Sonoko to dinner as well. They agree to meet at their lodgings later that day. The college student tells the group a story about a brunette that was murdered a year ago and now haunts the restaurant he wants to dine at. The group then finds out that another brunette was murdered in the woods recently in the same manner as the brunette from a year ago.

[[File: EP153-154b_Case.jpg|thumb|right|The serial killer tries to kill Sonoko...]]
The group goes to the crime scene and meet Sango Yokomizo who cautions them to stay safe. Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are staying at a cheap Ryokan because Sonoko doesn't want to scare men away by staying at an expensive luxury hotel. In the evening, the three of them wait for the college student to pick them up in his car. Sonoko realizes that she forgot something in her room and goes back up to get it. Here she discovers a suspicious figure searching her bags. The figure attacks her and is about to stab her with a knife when Ran and Conan, worried about the time Sonoko is taking, come to find her.

Sonoko is saved and the figure escapes through the window. The stoic, and somewhat unfriendly, high school student (Makoto Kyogoku) that is working at the Ryokan moves the group to another room. Ran thinks she has seen this person somewhere before but cannot remember where. The college student shows up muddy and wet and Conan suspects him of attacking Sonoko. Sonoko says she bit the attacker's bicep in her struggle and Conan makes the college student take off his shirt. However, the college student does not have a bite mark on his arm. Makoto has a bandaged bicep and falls under suspicion but Sonoko says he wasn't the attacker since the attacker was hairy. The college student, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan decide to have dinner at the Ryokan because the college student says his car broke down. Conan speculates that Sonoko's attacker was looking for the photographs she was taking during the trip, but cannot figure out why. Conan does not think there are any incriminating photos. Perhaps the murderer overheard Sonoko talking about the photographs and misunderstood. This case is still full of mysteries and Conan cannot figure out why Sonoko was attacked.

Later, Michiwaki (the student), Ran and Conan go to eat to a restaurant, and Sonoko is in Michiwaki's car, sleepy. Suddenly, the car gets on and Sonoko is, again, near the death.
When they go to the police station, Sonoko and Michiwaki enter into the forest. There, Michiwaki tries to kill Sonko: he is the serial killer!
Finally, when Sonoko thinks she is going to death, Makoto appears and save her. Michiwaki is arrested and Makoto says to Sonoko he is in love whit her, but he must goes abroad.
Currently, Sonoko is involved with Makoto.

===Jodie's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 27#Arcade Murder Case|271-273]], Anime: [[The Battle Game Trap|226-227]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are at the arcade where they meet their High School English teacher, Jodie Saintemillion who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Ran to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Ran loses to a gamer named Kengo Bito who taunts her in her lost. Bito plays the game again his rival, Takayasu Shimizu; The battle is projected on a large screen. Bito's avatar overwhelms Shimizu's but stops at the climax of the match. The people in the arcade realize Bito is dead and the police are called in.
The police investigate; after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people, a middle aged man, an employee, Shimizu, and Jodie.
[[File: Sonoko227.png|thumb|right|Sonoko thinks about Makoto]]
The autopsy reveals the poison to be Tetrodotoxin; a poison that causes instant paralysis and death soon after. Conan investigates and learns the method and the culprit who murdered Bito.
Conan tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her; declaring Shimizu to be the murderer. Conan reveals that Shimizu was the one playing Bito's avatar in order disguise the fact Bito was already dead. As for the weapon, Conan explains Shimizu hid a needle inside a cigarette, put gum around it, wrapped it around paper and had it stuck to the employee's shoes. As certain evidence, Conan reveals that a coin with Shimizu's fingerprints should be found in Bito's arcade machine. Shimizu confesses revealing Bito's gambling and debt caused his sister to develop Vitamin A deficiency and resulting in her blindness. As Sonoko, Ran, and Jodie leave the arcade, their discussion leads to Shinichi whom Jodie dubs as Cool Guy; She says goodbye whilst calling Conan Cool Guy and leaves. That night, Jodie calls an unknown person discussing how her target, the Rotten Apple has changed appearance.

===Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 28#Girl Clubbing Case|284-286]], Anime: [[Megure's Sealed Secret|217-218]])===
Ran and Sonoko are shopping for a sweater as Sonoko wants to buy for Makoto Kyogoku; Sonoko gets scolded by Ran when she learns that Sonoko wants to make it pass as if she had knitted the sweater for him. Sonoko arrives to the pasta shop right then and upon seeing the girls's pictures she identifies them as Ganguro, girls who change their looks drastically to look fashionable and exotic and as a way to rebel against Japanese society.
Sonoko calls Ran to ask where she is. She says she's in a parking lot and then she screams in terror because she has just found another victim. Said victim is a 20 year old girl named Tae Aizawa, who used to work at the same store: again, a very young woman with bleached hair, tanned skin, and wearing the special jewelry gifts. Unlike the others, however, Aizawa is actually dead.
After discussing some more details, Takagi returns and confirms the information already given. Conan and Ran see that Sonoko isn't with them; Ran mentions that Sonoko was supposed to go to the car and then to the restroom, and then Conan realizes that Sonoko was wearing platform boots... like all the victims. Ran calls Sonoko to her cellphone, and Sonoko says she's looking for a safe way out since the lights are out. She then gets scared since it looks like she's being followed, and as she turns, the culprit is right in front of her and she starts screaming.

[[File: Sonoko218.png|thumb|right|Sonoko... saved!?]]
Sonoko manages to avoid the culprit's pipe and throws her phone at him, revealing his face. She tries running downstairs, with the man being horrified since she saw him clearly. Conan says that the killer saw Sonoko with Mouri's keys and mistook her for the driver, hence why he's chasing her now. Sonoko's phone lands near a purikura machine located near a restaurant in the tenth floor, so they deduce Sonoko and the killer are not too far away from it. Megure takes active part in commanding the police, and both Matsumoto and Mouri notice how pumped up he is.
Sonoko runs aimlessly in the tenth floor, and when she's about to reach the gates she trips over her boots and falls to the ground. Ran and the police find her phone on the stairs and deduce she's in the apartment store as no one has seen her in the restaurants. Meanwhile, the maddened killer starts ranting about how all the fashionable girls are bitches in sheep's clothing who should be all killed. Sonoko screams again and this time Ran, Conan, Megure and Co. hear her; they also hear the sound of several things falling, Go stones among them, which allow them to see she's now on the fourth floor (the only one with such arrangments).
Sonoko again dodges the pipe, as the culprit rants about how he only wanted to teach her a lesson, but after seeing his face, he had to kill her. Cornered again, Sonoko cowers as he tries to hit her directly... and then Megure shows up. He takes the hit for her and gets struck in the head, but the blow is softened by his hat.
At the end, Ran and Sonoko are moved to tears, thinking Megure's girlfriend died.
A video of Megure Saving Sonoko can be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZOX7J315c&feature=youtu.be Here.]

===Murderous Pottery Class (Manga: [[Volume 30#Pottery Class Case|305-307]], Anime: [[The Murderous Pottery Class|228-229]])===
[[File: Sonoko228.png|thumb|left|Sonoko looking at Ran's vessel.]]
Sonoko tells Ran she is attending pottery classes to make a gift to Makoto, a big vessel. Ran decides to join too. One day, Conan follows the girls to the pottery class.
Ran is making an earthel vessel and Sonoko wants to see that, but Ran doesn't want. Joking, the vessel fell. All the class heard a noise, and Sonoko thins Ran's vessel is broken. But no, Ran has got the vessel in her hand.
Conan, Ran, and all the class go to find the origin of the noise, and Sonoko attempts to uncover Ran's vessel. Ran tells her if she do it, their friendship will be broken.
Motoo Mino is killed and they try to discover the truth.
Suddenly, Conan find out the truth: the master murdered Motoo! The little detective uses 'Deduction Queen Sonoko' to solve it.

At the end, she is talking with Ran and Conan, and they see a photo that Makoto send to Sonoko. In the photo, he is with friends and he put flowers in Sonoko's vessel. She is sad because he thought it was a vase.
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===Bloody Valentine (Manga: [[Volume 33#Valentine Chocolate Case|331-334]], Anime: [[The Truth Behind Valentine's|266-268]])===

===Halloween Party (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]])===
[[File: Sonoko witch.png|thumb|right|Sonoko as a witch]]
[[Kogoro Mouri]] receives an invitation to a Halloween cruise; the Halloween cruise is famous for hiring guests to star in a horror film. At the beginning, Sonoko is making-up Kogoro as a monster, specifically as a vampire.
He can bring a friend, and Sonoko wants to go with him because Ran doesn't want, she is afraid by zombies, witches and monsters in general.
The day of the party, she goes with Kogoro there, wearing a witch costume. When they are in a taxi, the taxi driver was disguised as a monster too and scared them.
During the cruise, the party members are divided into groups with team devil consisting of Kogoro, Sonoko, and people disguised as a werewolf, a mummy, a medusa and an invisible man. Sonoko and Kogoro meet Medusa and they talk a lot with her.

During the party, the host is shot by a crossbow, attached to the arrow is a card from team devil.
First, Sonoko thinks, as Kogoro, the mummy is the culprit, because he is the only who hasn't got the card. When Kogoro calls to his house for explain the situation to [[Ran]] and nobody picks up the phone, she says Ran could be having a shower.
Later, when the invisible man gets rid of his bands and is [[Shinichi Kudo]], she is very surprised. Kudo explains the culprit is the werewolf. The murderer says someone called '[[Vermouth]]' forced him to kill the captain.
After, she discovers, at the same time than Kogoro and the others, that the 'invisible man' Shinichi was a faker, and he really is [[Heiji Hattori]].

Sonoko's disguise is entirely black, with a large hat with a stripe in the center, black too. The dress reaches to the thighs, with peak shape. She also wears high boots and long gloves, both black. She carries a broom too.
She looks very happy for go to the party, disguise as a "sexy" witch and search cute and handsome monsters.
We don't know if Sonoko knows Medusa is really [[Yukiko Kudo]].

===Jodie's Truth (Manga: [[Volume 42#Murderer's Car Case|435]], Anime: [[Find the Buttocks' Mark!|346]])===
At the begin, Sonoko is with Ran visiting Jodie at the hospital. She is very surprised because miss Jodie is a FBI agent. Ahe tihnks she was infiltrated in the high school.
She talks with Ran about her friend did while she was in the 'horror cruise'. She says that this attitude is typical of Ran. Also, they talk to Jodie's photos.

===Dark Photograph (Manga: [[Volume 56#Missing Photo Case|582]], Anime: [[Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph|484]])===
At the beginning of the case, Sonoko is walking with Ran and Conan to return home after school. She says it's very hot and and she should do as Eisuke, which disappears after school.

===The Culprit is Sonoko (Anime: [[The Devil Hidden in the Tennis Court|602]])===
[[File: Sonoko602.png|thumb|left|Is Sonoko the culprit?]]
Sonoko, Ran and Conan are playing tennis in a court. Sonoko likes Takao Goto, the tennis club vice-captain. But suddenly, Goto dies.
Inspector Yamamura goes to investigate the mysterious case. There are three suspects: Yuka Tsuchida, Fumihiro Azuma and Chie Otake. Yamamura surprisingly accuses Sonoko as the culprit.
Conan discovers the truth and he uses Sonoko to solve the case. Sonoko then proves her innocence.

In the end, when she solves the case and reveals the murderer is Azuma, Ran says she was worried. Sonoko got very upset with Yamamura of accusing her as the culprit.
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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends===
{{main|Suzuki family}}
==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sonoko.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Sonoko hugging Ran]]
Sonoko and [[Ran]] have been best friends ever since they were little.<ref name=Magic>[[Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata|Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata]]</ref> Sonoko is often there to help Ran whenever she is bullied by other school children, more often there than even [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was.<ref name=Magic /> They were often shown hanging out with each others on the way home after school. Sonoko usually invite Ran to join her on trips, attend some activities of her family (most of the times are [[Jirokichi Suzuki|her uncle's]] showdowns with [[Kaitou Kid]]), even enjoy expensive services<ref>The Bell Tree Express.</ref>, or simply just go shopping together.

Sonoko once said to a murderer what she thought about friendship: "So what if friendship is unreliable and fragile! That way when you communicate with your heart, you can feel the warmth inside. If it were as hard as some chattering iron plate, you wouldn’t feel the warmth, y’know?"<ref name=Loli>[[The Alibi of the Black Dress|Episode 576: "The Alibi of the Black Dress"]]</ref>

Meanwhile, even though Ran knows that Sonoko has a lot of money, she always makes sure that money never gets involved in their friendship, not going to ski vacations with Sonoko because she doesn't have the money, when she knows that Sonoko would pay for her to go.<ref name=Friendship>[[Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money|Episode 329-330: Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money]]</ref> This, along with other things, has helped strengthen the bond between both Ran and Sonoko.

Before meeting [[Makoto Kyogoku|the man of her own]], Sonoko was sometimes envious that Ran always got the attentions from boys<ref>[[Volume_22#File_219_-_Go_On.2C_Sonoko.21|Volume 22, File 219, Page 4.]]</ref>, however, this didn't affect the deep friendship between them.

==== Conan Edogawa ====
Whenever [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] is near at Sonoko, she gets annoyed.

==== Makoto Kyogoku ====
Sonoko originally met [[Makoto Kyogoku]] while on a vacation, when he worked at his father's hotel in his spare time.<ref name=Summer>[[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|Episode 153-154: Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story]]</ref> At first, neither she, Conan, nor Ran recognized him, because he wore glasses to hide his features. He later saves her when he takes a knife in the arm for her, to protect her from getting killed by a crazed serial killer.<ref name=Summer /> This is when Ran finally realizes that he is the famous karate champion. After defeating the killer, he confesses his feelings for her, which leaves Sonoko dumbfounded and flustered.<ref name=Summer /> According to Makoto, he originally met Sonoko during one of Ran's tournaments, and loved how feisty and firey she was in trying to cheer her friend on.<ref name=Summer /> After this, Sonoko and Makoto begin a long distance relationship.<ref name=Summer />
[[Image:Sonoko Presents Her Chocolate to Makoto.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Sonoko presenting the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Makoto often saves Sonoko from dangerous peril, like in a snow lodge,<ref name=Valentine>[[The Truth Behind Valentine's|Episode 266-268: The Truth Behind Valentine's]]</ref> and in a forest.<ref name=Red>[[Sonoko's Red Handkerchief|Episode 457-458: Sonoko's Red Handkerchief]]</ref> Sonoko loves to use some kind of concocted scheme to get Makoto to come to her, usually in some romantic way, to create a romantic and dreamy experience for her.<ref name=Red /> This, however, doesn't always end in success, but he sometimes does stumble through her little schemes.<ref name=Valentine /><ref name=Red /> He often warns her of the way she is dressed, because he believes that guys will try to come after her because of it.<ref name=Summer /><ref name=Valentine />
[[Image:Sonoko Gives Makoto Her Chocolate.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Sonoko gives the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Sonoko often wants to show Makoto that her feelings for him are stronger than he thinks, planning simple ideas to make him feel special. However, these often go in awry, as she either cannot make what she had planned to make, like when she promised to make him a home-made sweater, but had to resort to buying one in a mall,<ref name=Megure>[[Megure's Locked Away Secret|Episode 217-218: Megure's Locked Away Secret]]</ref> or Makoto has no idea what she gave him is, like when he believed that the pottery she sent him was supposed to be for flowers.<ref name=Pottery>[[The Murderous Pottery Class|Episode 228-229: The Murderous Pottery Class]]</ref> Sonoko keeps a photo of Makoto in her bag, and uses it as a good luck charm for when she takes exams.<ref name=Photo>[[Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages]]</ref> She has also made him a chocolate, trying to make him feel jealous by not saying who it was for, thus forcing him to visit her in a snow lodge to ask her what was going on.<ref name=Valentine /> When he finds out that indeed, she made him the chocolate, he gets very embarrassed himself.<ref name=Valentine />

Although long distance relationships can be hard to be in, Sonoko has stayed faithful to Makoto, other than dreaming of meeting up with the Kaitou Kid, though this is mostly to see him up close more than anything else.
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== 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. Sonoko placed 7th in the poll with 86 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 ==

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 6)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "After" Appearance (Episode 627)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Are you an idiot? So what if friendship is unreliable and fragile! That way when you communicate with your heart, you can feel the warmth inside. If it were as hard as some chattering iron plate, you wouldn’t feel the warmth, y’know?|Sonoko spoke to Shodo.<ref name=Loli />}}

== Trivia ==
* Sonoko has been shown to be very aggressive. For example when Genta called her "Auntie Sonoko", she punched him extremely hard, and when she was interrupted by a soccer ball, she threw it back at the kicker, causing him to fall back.

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|園子　Sonoko|鈴木 Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Serena|Sebastian}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| سوكو 　Soko|''Suzuki سوزوكي''}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|보라 Bo Ra|정 Jung}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โซโนโกะ|ซึซึกิ}}
{{EndTable}}

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Sonoko_625-626.jpg|Sonoko and Ran clutching Conan in fear in a haunted house in Episode 625-626.
File:Sonoko10yrs.png|Sonoko in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Suzuki family]]

== References ==
<references />

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki Sonoko}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Sleeping detectives]]

[[de:Sonoko Suzuki]]
{{Characters}}

Juzo Megure

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Juzo Megure
| japanese-name = 目暮十三 (Megure Juuzou)
| english-name = Joseph Meguire
| image = Juzo Megure Profile.jpg
| age = Early/mid 40s
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Midori Megure]] (wife)
| nicknames = Inspector Inspector-dono ([[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_1#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Juzo Megure Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 4]]
| japanese-voice = [[Chafurin]]
| english-voice = [[Mark Stoddard]]
| drama-actor = [[Masahiko Nishimura]] (1st) [[Masato Ibu]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Juzo Megure|目暮十三|Megure Juuzou}}''' (also known as '''Joseph Meguire''' in the Funimation dub), commonly referred to as '''Inspector Megure''', is a Police Inspector (Rank 6) in Division 1 of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department<ref name=PoliceRanks>http://forums.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=6114.0</ref> in the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Shortly after Megure had come to the police force, he was involved in a case in which he would meet his future wife, [[Midori Megure|Midori]]. As a result of the case, he has taken to wearing a hat in public in order to hide a scar which he gained and his own self-consciousness about how he came to his marriage.<ref>Manga Chapter 286: An Unexpected Motive</ref> Megure was also a good friend of star detective story novelist [[Yusaku Kudo]], and would in the past consult him about one case or another. On many such occasions, Yusaku would take his son [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] with him, who would pick up his father's investigative skills and eventually become a detective in his own right.<ref>Manga Chapter 204: The Initial Call</ref>

Megure is almost always there on the scene when a murder occurs, always interviewing the suspects, and acting as the commanding officer of the group of police he brings along with him, among them [[Wataru Takagi]], [[Miwako Sato]], [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]], and [[Detective Chiba|Chiba]]. Megure and [[Kogoro Mouri]] were former co-officers in the district.<ref>Manga Chapters 570-573: Shinichi's Childhood Adventure</ref>

== Personality ==
Megure is a capable veteran officer who cares much for his underlings, but he is prone to occasional shouting fits whenever something does not go right or when his temper gets the better of him. He also has little patience for fools, but tends to be a bit too conservative, limiting his ability for flexible thinking.

After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] solved their first mutual case for him, he has regularly consulted him in difficult cases and considered him a great help.<ref>Manga Chapter 207: Hidden Within The Depth Of The Heart</ref> In stark contrast to this, he tends not to think much of [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]], usually thinking of them as a nuisance until they solve the ongoing case for him. Likewise, from their common police days, he has no high regard for [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], and he thinks that he may actually be under some kind of jinx, since wherever Kogoro shows up, there is always some murder case nearby (a fact which actually conforms to Conan, which in later cases he seems to have realized).

In some anime originals, Megure has the habit of trying to tell the culprit about the morale of doing wrong, which he rarely does in the manga series.

== Plot overview ==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Wataru Takagi ===
Megure and [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] usually work together to work on murder cases.

=== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ===
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Superintendent Matsumoto]] is Megure's superior.

=== Midori Megure ===
[[Midori Megure|Midori]] is Megure's wife. During a case along time ago, she insisted on being a decoy for a serial killer. This is explained in Episode 217-218. Juzo jumped in front of the car to save her. While she was hit, he only hit his head. This is explained why he never takes off his hat, which is to hide the scar. She survived and later they were married.

=== Miwako Sato ===
Miwako and Juzo have been shown to have a Father/Daughter Relationship.

=== Kogoro Mouri ===
Kogoro and Megure use to work together in the past before kogoro left the force.

=== Sonoko Suzuki ===
In episode 218, Juzo shielded Sonoko from a serial killer. The serial killer was going to kill sonoko with a iron club until Juzo shielded her at last second. The killer was arrested and Juzo went to the hospital. Sonoko, Ran, Conan, Kogoro and the Superintendent went to visit him.

== 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. Megure placed 24th in the poll with 17 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 ==
[[File:Detective 5.jpg|thumb|right|Maigret was featured by Gosho Aoyama in the fifth volume.]]
"Juzo Megure" comes from '''[[Wikipedia:Jules Maigret|Jules Maigret]]''', a fictional Paris police detective created by the writer Georges Simenon. Maigret and Megure physically resemble one another as well, both are stocky and somewhat overweight. Megure's first name "Juzo" has also been used as a pun on thirteen, the Japanese numeral.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Megure_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Megure's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Megure_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Megure's "After" Appearance (Episode 549)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

== Trivia ==
* Megure's scar has yet to be seen, because even when he was hospitalized, he either had his hat or had a bandage that wrapped the whole top of his head.
* Megure does not know how to work with computers well. He doesn't know the most basic jargon nor the proper way to turn one on or off.<ref name=379p>Manga Volume 37, File 7, :"Footsteps of Darkness 3"</ref>

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|十三 Juzo|目暮 Megure}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Joseph|Meguire}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Juzo|Megure}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Juzo|Megure/Maigret<ref>In the Manga</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Juzo|Megure}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Juzo|Megure}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|''Not given''|ميغوري 　Migori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|롬보/한석 Lom Bo/Han Seok |골 Gol<ref>His name changed in Movie 2, because of the issue with the number-name pairing.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|十三 Shisan|目暮 Mumu}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Juzo|Megure}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Juzo|Megure}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|จูโซ|เมงูเระ}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Juzo Megure -10.PNG|Juzo Megure 10 years ago
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Megure family]]

== References ==
<references />
{{Characters}}
{{Police}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Megure Juzo}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Police detectives]]
[[de:Juzo Megure]]

Setting

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35.701359,139.692421,Tokyo
Capital of Japan and city of Conan and most of the other characters.
34.69759,135.501909,Osaka
<div style="min-width: 120px; max-width: 400px; min-height: 35px;">City of Heiji and Kazuha. Head inspector is Goro Otaki, and the police chief is Heiji's father, Heizo, while Kazuha's father is also a detective.</div>
35.021,138.383331,Shizuoka
Sango Yokomizo is the head inspector of Shizuoka District. A few cases occur there.
36.648623,138.194228,Nagano
<div style="min-width: 120px; max-width: 400px; min-height: 50px;">Kansuke Yamato is the head inspector of Nagano District. Other notable people from this district include Yamato's partner, Yui Uehara, and another friend of Yamato, Inspector Taka'aki 'Koumei' Morofushi.</div>
36.394757,139.061737,Gunma
Misao Yamamura is the head inspector of the Gunma prefecture.
35.450602,139.642868,Kanagawa
Jugo Yokomizo is the head inspector of the Kanagawa prefecture.
35.011299,135.767984,Kyoto
Fumimaro Ayanokoji is the head inspector of Kyoto.
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<div class="thumbcaption">Japan, Detective Conan's country of origin. Click on a point of interest for more information.</div>
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The setting of Detective Conan is a combination of real locations in Japan and fictional locations.

=Beika City=
{{nihongo|Beika City|米花市|Beika-shi}} is named after Baker Street, the location of [[Sherlock Holmes]]'s flat.<ref name="Settingname">{{cite web|url=http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/cookie/name.html|date=|accessdate=2010-01-06|publisher=|title=名称集}}</ref> Beika City is divided into two towns: Beika and Haido.
{| class="wikitable" width="1000"
! colspan="3" | Beika City
|-
| colspan="3" |
<dcmap width="1000" height="472">
File:Conandrillmap.jpg|1000px|Map of Beika taken from ''Detective Conan Drill: The Decipherment of Conan''. Click to enlarge.
rect 269 140 344 305 [[Setting|Teitan High School]]
rect 124 147 181 298 [[Setting|Detective Mouri Agency]]
</dcmap>
|-
! colspan="3" | Points of interest
|-
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01) Haido City Hotel ([[Volume 16#File 156 - Chance Meeting|File 156]]) 杯戸シティホテル 
02) TR Haido Station ([[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|File 344]]) TR杯戸駅 
03) Haido Department Store ([[Volume 28#File 284 - The Buried Secret|File 284]]) 杯戸百貨店 
04) [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko Suzuki's]] house ([[Volume 11#File 104 - Flash News Deduction Show|File 104]]) 鈴木園子の家 
05) Haido Town Shopping Mall and Ferris Wheel ([[Volume 36#File 369 - The Officer Who Never Returned|File 369]]) 杯戸町のショッピングモール&大観覧車 
06) Touto Tower ([[Volume 4#File 36 - Code Sheet Obtained!!|File 36]]) 東都タワー 
07) Family Restaurant "Donny's" ([[Volume 4#File 37 - The ABC's of Deciphering|File 37]]) ファミレス「Donny's」 
08) Tsukimi Avenue ([[Volume 4#File 37 - The ABC's of Deciphering|File 37]]) 月見通り 
09) Yamago Highway ([[Volume 4#File 38 - An Answer and Another Answer|File 38]]) 山越街道 
10) Nanbu Aquarium ([[Volume 4#File 37 - The ABC's of Deciphering|File 37]]) 南部水族館 
11) Hotel New Beika ([[Volume 37#File 377 - Footsteps of Darkness 1|File 377]]) ホテルニュー米花 
12) Beika Center Building - Outlook Restaurant "Arséne" ([[Volume 26#File 258 - Momentary Rest|File 258]]) 米花センタービル・展望レストラン「Arséne」 
13) [[Eri Kisaki|Kisaki]] Law Firm Office ([[Volume 24#File 237 - From the Bottom of Heart|File 237]]) 妃法律事務所 (オフィス) 
14) Beika Hotel ([[Volume 5#File 50 - Escape and Pursuit|File 50]]) 米花ホテル 
15) [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa's]] house ([[Volume 1#File 2 - The Great Detective Turned Small|File 2]]) 阿笠博士の家 
| style="font-size: 90%; width: 333px; vertical-align:top;" |
16) [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi Kudo's]] house ([[Volume 1#File 2 - The Great Detective Turned Small|File 2]]) 工藤新一の家 
17) Family Restaurant "Donny's" ([[Volume 17#File 170 - The Actors Gathered|File 170]]) ファミレス「Donny's」 
18) TR Beika Station (Station Building) ([[Volume 30#File 304 - Genta's Trap|File 304]]) TR米花駅 (駅ビル) 
19) [[Kogoro Mouri|Mouri]] Detective Agency ([[Volume 1#File 2 - The Great Detective Turned Small|File 2]]) 毛利探偵事務所 
20) Beika Park ([[Volume 3#File 27 - The Same Person|File 27]]) 米花公園 
21) [[Tomoaki Araide|Araide]] Clinic ([[Volume 24#File 234 - Another Half Year|File 234]]) 新出医院 
22) Teimuzu River ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 提無津川 
23) Beika Library ([[Volume 10#File 96 - The Burning Body|File 96]]) 米花図書館 
24) Beika University ([[Volume 9#File 84 - Kogoro's Class Reunion|File 84]]) 米花大学 
25) Nichiuri TV Station ([[Volume 11#File 102 - A Death During a Live Broadcast|File 102]]) 日売TV局 
26) Teitan University ([[Volume 9#File 83 - What! Really!?|File 83]]) 帝丹大学 
27) Beika Tunnel ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 米花トンネル 
28) Beika Bridge ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 米花大橋 
29) Expressway ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 高速道路 
30) Beika 2-chōme Intersection ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 米花2丁目交差点 
31) 4-chōme Avenue ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 4丁目通り 
32) Church ([[Volume 8#File 78 - The Bride's Tragedy|File 78]]) 教会 
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33) Beika Post Office ([[Volume 36#File 368 - The Bomber's Aim|File 368]]) 米花郵便局 
34) Teitan High School ([[Volume 26#File 255 - The Intruder's Sudden Arrival|File 255]]) 帝丹高校 
35) Teitan Elementary School ([[Volume 2#File 10 - An Advantageous Shadow|File 10]]) 帝丹小学校 
36) Beika General Hospital ([[Volume 3#File 27 - The Same Person|File 27]]) 米花総合病院 
37) Beika Department Store ([[Volume 17#File 166 - What Should We Do!?|File 166]]) べいかデパート 
38) [[Jodie Starling|Jodie Saintemillion's]] Apartment ([[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|File 341]]) ジョディ・サンテミリオンの自宅 
39) Beika Art Museum ([[Volume 4#File 30 - The Armored Knight|File 30]]) 米花美術館 
40) Beika Museum ([[Volume 16#File 156 - Chance Meeting|File 156]]) 米花博物館 
41) [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi Yoshida's]] apartment ([[Volume 39#File 398 - The Torn Friendship 1|File 398]]) 吉田歩美の自宅 
42) [[Genta Kojima|Genta Kojima's]] house (Liquor Store) ([[Volume 30#File 303 - Genta's Misfortune|File 303]]) 小嶋元太の家 (酒屋) 
43) [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's]] house ([[Volume 35#File 358 - Disappearing Mitsuhiko 1|File 358]]) 円谷光彦の家 
44) Daiko Building ("Cocktail" Bar) ([[Volume 12#File 116 - Conan's Mistake|File 116]]) 大黒ビル (バー「カクテル」) 
45) Expressway Entrance ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 高速道路入り口
|}

==Beika Town==
{{nihongo|Beika Town|米花町|Beika-chō}} is where Conan and a majority of the other main characters live.
===Mouri Detective Agency===
[[Image:Mouri_Detective_Agency.png|thumb|right|250px|The Mouri Detective Agency above Café Poirot]]
The {{nihongo|Mouri Detective Agency|毛利探偵事務所|Mōri Tantei Jimusho}} is the place where Detective Mouri lives with his daughter, Ran. Conan begins living there when he is shrunk in order to gain more information about the Black Organization. It is located in {{nihongo|Beika Town District 5|米花町５丁目|Beika-chō 5-chōme}} <ref>[[Volume 39#File 394 - Shadow of the Red Horse|Volume 32, File 394 "Shadow of the Red Horse", page 13]]: "杯戸町なら近いです！　わたしの家、隣の米花町五丁目ですから…" ("I live close to Haido Town! My house is in Beika Town District 5.")</ref>. According to [[The Meguro Sanma Case]] it is located on {{nihongo|block 39|39番地|39-banchi}}, but this information is [[Canon|non-canon]].

The Mouri Detective Agency takes up the upper two floors of a three story building. The second floor is the detective agency proper, and is where Kogoro meets potential clients and stores his files. The windows are lettered with "Mouri Detective Agency". The third floor is the Mouri family living space. Part of the floor space is a living room with a [[Wikipedia:kotatsu|kotatsu]] and television. There is also a small kitchen and a bathroom. Kogoro's bedroom, which is shared by Conan, has a sliding door out onto a small balcony overlooking the street. The agency is accessed via a covered staircase to the right of Café Poirot.

===Café Poirot===
{{nihongo|Café Poirot|喫茶店ポアロ|Kissaten Poaro}}, where [[Azusa Enomoto]] works, is located directly beneath the Mouri Detective Agency. The café gets its name from one of Agatha Christie's most popular detectives, [[wiki:Hercule Poirot|Hercule Poirot]].<ref>Manga Chapter 440</ref> It is located in {{nihongo|Beika Town District 5|米花町５丁目|Beika-chō 5-chōme}}.

===Kudo Residence===
House where [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]], [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], and [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] lived. Current residence of [[Subaru Okiya]] after receiving permission from [[Conan Edogawa]]. After Yusaku and Yukiko traveled to America, Shinichi stayed in the house by himself while continuing to attend Teitan High School. Notable features of the house include its massive size and a huge library with dozens of shelves filled to capacity with mystery novels from all over the world.

According to the address on the letter from Teiji Moriya in [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]], Shinichi's house is located at: 
'''{{nihongo|Beika City Beika Town|米花市米花町|Beika-shi Beika-chō}}''' 
'''{{nihongo|District 2, Block 21|２丁目２１番地|2-chōme, 21-banchi}}'''<ref name="Addresssystem">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system</ref>

The "2-21" number is a direct reference to Sherlock Holmes' residence at 221B Baker Street.
[[Image:Agasa Residence.png|thumb|right|250px|Agasa's house]]

===Agasa Residence===
Located next door to the Kudo residence, this is where [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] and later [[Ai Haibara]] live. Agasa's residence includes a lab where he works on various inventions, and where Haibara works to synthesize an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] to [[APTX 4869]].

Agasa's house is located at: 
'''{{nihongo|Beika City Beika Town|米花市米花町|Beika-shi Beika-chō}}''' 
'''{{nihongo|District 2, Block 22|２丁目２２番地|2-chōme, 22-banchi}}'''<ref name="Addresssystem" />

===Beika Center Building===
{{nihongo|Beika Center Building|米花センタービル|Beika Centā Biru}}

===Mokubasou===
[[File:EP509-511a Case.jpg|thumb|right|Burned remains of Mokubasou]]
Mokubasou was a small apartment building in between Agasa's house and Teitan Elementary where [[Subaru Okiya]] lived before it burnt down [[Conan_vs._Double_Code_Mystery#Red.2C_White.2C_Yellow.2C_and_the_Detective_Boys|in an arson case]]. Mokubasou was located at: 
'''{{nihongo|Beika City Beika Town|米花市米花町|Beika-shi Beika-chō}}''' 
'''{{nihongo|District 2, Block 23|2丁目23番地|2-chōme, 23-banchi}}'''<ref name="Addresssystem" />

===Teito Bank===
A bank near the Beika Department store where a robbery took place.

===Beika Department Store===
[[File:Beika_Dept_store.PNG|thumb|right|120px|Beika Department Store]]
{{nihongo|Beika Department Store|べいかデパート|Beika Depāto}} is a multistory department store near the Teito Bank. It has a space for children to play on its roof. The floor with the sports department was hijacked by a bomber during the thirteen red shirts case.

===Beika Post Office===
{{nihongo|Beika Post Office|米花郵便局|Beika Yūbinkyoku}} is located in {{nihongo|Beika Town District 3|米花町３丁目|Beika-chō 3-chōme}}.<ref>Volume 36, File 7</ref>

===Beika Supermarket===
{{nihongo|Beika Supermarket|米花スーパー|Beika Sūpā}} is where Ran went to buy groceries. It is located in {{nihongo|Beika Town District 2|米花町２丁目|Beika-chō 2-chōme}}.<ref>Volume 33, File 9</ref>

===Beika City Building===
{{nihongo|Beika City Building|米花シティビル|Beika Shiti Biru}} is where the climax of [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]] occurs. There is a movie theater on the bottom level.

===Beika Park===
{{nihongo|Beika Park|米花公園|Beika Kōen}}

=== Beika General Hospital ===
{{nihongo|Beika General Hospital|米花総合病院|Beika Sōgōbyōin}} is a major Beika hospital close to the Beika Department Store where a would be murderer planned to take revenge on a doctor after his daughter died during surgery.<ref>[[Once-A-Month Present Threat Case]]</ref> [[Jodie Starling]] enrolled in this hospital after she was shot by [[Calvados]] during a showdown with [[Vermouth]].<ref>Manga Volume 45, File 2, pg 18: "[[Volume 45|The truth behind the remaining desk]]"</ref>

==Haido Town==
{{nihongo|Haido Town|杯戸町|Haido-chō}} is a town in Beika City adjacent to Beika Town and is named after London's Hyde Park.<ref name="Settingname" />
===Haido City Hotel===
The {{nihongo|Haido City Hotel|杯戸シティホテル|Haido Shiti Hoteru}} was first introduced when [[Kaitou Kid]] landed on its roof before the [[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid|Black Star Heist]]. It appeared again in [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] where [[Pisco]] assassinated a politician and [[Gin]] and [[Shiho Miyano]] had a confrontation on the roof. The dying mystery writer spent his finals days there in [[The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case]]. The White Day party for a candy company in [[White Day of Betrayal]] was held at the hotel. In [[The Reminiscent Golden Eye]], a cat's eye gem targeted by both Kaito Kid and a rival thief, Chat Noir, was displayed in the Haido City Hotel on the night of the heist.

===Haido Art Museum===
The {{nihongo|Haido Art Museum|杯戸美術館|Haido Bijutsukan}}

===Haido Central Hospital===
[[File:Haido Central Hospital.PNG|thumb|right|Haido Central Hospital]]
{{nihongo|Haido Central Hospital|杯戸中央病院|Haido Chūōbyōin}} was the location where the [[FBI]] held [[Kir]] while she was unconscious and the site of a showdown between the [[Black Organization]] and the FBI. The Haido Cinema building is nearby.

===Haido Park===
A park in Haido Town where the [[Black Organization]] attempted to assassinate a politician.
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=Osaka Prefecture=
{{nihongo|Osaka Prefecture|大阪府|Ōsaka-fu}} is located in the Kansai region of Japan and is the home to [[Heiji Hattori]], [[Kazuha Toyama]], and the Osaka Police Department.

==Osaka==
{{nihongo|Osaka|大阪|Ōsaka}} is the capital city of Osaka Prefecture featured prominently throughout the series. The city has many landmarks, including Osaka Castle, Tsūtenkaku Tower, and the Osaka Dome.
[[Image:Hattori Residence.png|thumb|right|250px|Heiji's house]]
==Neyagawa==
According to [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]], Heiji's family's home is in the city of {{nihongo|Neyagawa|寝屋川市|Neyagawa Shi}}.
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=Restaurants=
==Café Poirot==
:[[Setting#Caf.C3.A9_Poirot|See above]]

==Café Columbo==
{{nihongo|Café Columbo|喫茶コロンボ|Kissa Koronbo}} was first mentioned in chapter 2 of the manga. It is the restaurant that [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] had been to right before meeting Conan. The restaurant itself first appears in the [[The Forgotten Cell Phone]]. The restaurant gets its name from TV detective [[Columbo]]. It is located in {{nihongo|Beika Town District 5|米花町５丁目|Beika-chō 5-chōme}}.

==Donny's==
Donny's is a family restaurant, likely modeled off of Denny's. Kogoro met at least one of his clients regarding a prospective case at Donny's.

==Café Raoul==
A French restaurant with a Paris style interior that Kogoro considers his new-found secret hideout. After Conan told Ran about it, Eri and Ran went out to eat there as well.<ref>Manga Chapter 594</ref>

==Ramen Ogura==
Ramen Ogura used to be a rundown shop on a shopping street in Haido Town. Despite the low customer traffic, its specialty dish full of bamboo shoots "yama ramen" is very tasty. The shop's motto is "So good, it's to die for." Ironically it was the scene of a murder case. After the case, it moved to Beika Town and became quite popular. Its motto also changed to "Ramen so wicked, it's to die for." <ref>Manga Chapter 765</ref>

=Police Stations=
==Tokyo Metropolitan Police Station==
{{main|Tokyo Metropolitan Police}}
[[Image:Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters]]
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department headquarters are located just north of Minato City, in the the government buildings area of Chiyoda City beside the Imperial Palace.

=Educational institutions=
Educational institutions found within Detective Conan include but are not limited to: Teitan Elementary, Teitan High, Haido Elementary, and Ekoda High School. Each school within the series has their own specific uniforms or dress code for their male and female students.

==Elementary schools==
===Teitan Elementary School===
{{main|Teitan Elementary School}}

[[Image:Teitan Elementary Overhead.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Teitan Elementary school]]
{{nihongo|Teitan Elementary School|帝丹小学校|Teitan Shōgakkō}} is the elementary school of [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]. Teitan Elementary currently does not require a uniform.

"Teitan" is a play-on word of "tantei"(探偵) meaning "detective".

====Staff====
* [[Sumiko Kobayashi]] (1st grade teacher)
* [[Ryujiro Uematsu]] (Principal)

====Previous students====
* [[Shinichi Kudo]] (graduated)
* [[Ran Mouri]] (graduated)
* [[Sonoko Suzuki]] (graduated)
* [[Fusae Campbell]] (graduated)

===Haido Elementary School===
While no main characters attend {{nihongo|Haido Elementary School|杯戸小学校|Haido Shōgakkō}}, this school plays a key role in [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].
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==Middle/Junior High schools==
===Teitan Middle School===
Shinichi, Ran, and Sonoko went to {{nihongo|Teitan Middle School|帝丹中学|Teitan Chūgaku}}.<ref name=173p6>Manga Volume 18, File 3, page 6: "First Love"</ref> The winter uniform consists of a black gakuran and slacks for the boys and a navy blue collared white sailor outfit with a green ribbon and a navy blue skirt for the girls. The summer uniform consists of a white short-sleeve button-up shirt and black slacks for the boys and a white short sleeve shirt, yellow vest with a green ribbon and navy blue skirt for the girls.

====Staff====
* [[Matsumoto family|Sayuri Matsumoto]] (music teacher)

====Previous students====
* [[Shinichi Kudo]] (graduated)
* [[Ran Mouri]] (graduated)
* [[Sonoko Suzuki]] (graduated)

===Okuho Middle School===
Okuho is [[Hiroshi Agasa]]'s middle school. It is probably located near Teitan Elementary in Beika Town as Agasa walked [[Fusae Campbell]] to Teitan Elementary on his way to Okuho Middle School in the morning.
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==High schools==
===Teitan High School===
{{nihongo|Teitan High School|帝丹高校|Teitan Kōkō}} is a "ladder school" associated with Teitan University. Students include [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], and [[Masumi Sera|Sera]]. Teitan High's winter uniform consists of a white shirt, green tie, navy blue blazer, and either a pair of navy blue pants (boys) or navy blue skirt (girls).

====Staff====
* [[Jodie Starling|Jodie Saintemillion]] (English teacher)
* [[Tomoaki Araide]] (Nurse and temporary basketball coach)
* Mr. Tabuchi (Basketball coach)

====Previous students====
[[Image:Kaihou Academy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kaihou Academy]]
* [[Kogoro Mouri]] (graduated)
* [[Eri Kisaki]] (graduated)
* [[Yukiko Kudo]] (graduated)
* [[Tomoaki Araide]] (graduated)
* [[Eisuke Hondou]] (transferred out)

===Kaihou Academy===
{{nihongo|Kaihou Academy|改方学園|Kaihō Gakuen}} is [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] and [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]]'s high school, located in Osaka. The summer uniforms are a sailor outfit with a white shirt, slate-blue skirt, and red ribbon for the girls and grey slacks with a white short-sleeve button-up shirt for the boys. It is seen in [[The Raven Chaser|Movie 13]].

===Ekoda High School===
[[Image:Ekoda_2.PNG|thumb|right|250px|Ekoda High School]]
{{nihongo|Ekoda High School|江古田高校|Ekoda Kōkō}} is the high school of [[Kaito Kuroba|Kaito]], [[Aoko Nakamori|Aoko]], [[Akako Koizumi|Akako]], and [[Saguru Hakuba|Saguru]]. Ekoda High's winter uniform consists of a midnight blue gakuran for the boys and a navy blue sailor outfit with a red ribbon for the girls. It's also the same school that some of the characters from [[Yaiba]] ([[Sayaka Mine|Sayaka]], [[Yaiba Kurogane|Yaiba]]) attend.

===Kohnan (Kounan) High School===
{{nihongo|Kohnan High School|港南高校|Kōnan Kōkō}} is the high school that pop idol [[Yoko Okino]] and her ex-boyfriend Akiyoshi Fujie attended, as well as [[3rd Base Fourth|Shigeo Nagashima]]. Kohnan battled Ohgane High School for the Baseball Koshien title in [[Miracle at Koshien Ball Park! The Defiants Face the Dark Demon|Episode 383: Miracle at Koshien Ball Park! The Defiants Face the Dark Demon]].

====Current students====
*[[3rd Base Fourth|Shigeo Nagashima]]

====Previous students====
*[[Yoko Okino]] (graduated)
*[[Yoko Okino#Before becoming an idol|Akiyoshi Fujie]] (graduated)

===Jikogenba High School===
This school is mentioned by Conan in episode 393 and is said to be near Beika Park. This location is [[Canon|non-canon]].
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==Colleges/Universities==
===Teitan University ===
{{nihongo|Teitan University|帝丹大学|Teitan Daigaku}} is associated with Teitan High School and Teitan Elementary School.

===Beika University===
{{nihongo|Beika University|米花大学|Beika Daigaku}} is a university in Beika City, Beika Town. Its drama students occasionally put on performances for the public.

===Touto University===
The fictional counterpart of the similarly prestigious [[wiki:University of Tokyo|Tokyo University]].

====Previous students====
*[[Tomoaki Araide]] (graduated top of class)

===Jonan University===
This location is first mentioned in the [[Night Baron Murder Case]] and was mentioned again for TV original episodes and [[The Raven Chaser]].
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=Entertainment places=
==Tropical Land==
{{main|Tropical Land}}
{{nihongo|'''Tropical Land'''|トロピカルランド|Toropikaru Rando}} is an amusement park which was the site of the last date between Shinichi and Ran, before Shinichi was forced to take [[APTX 4869]] by Gin and Vodka of the Black Organization. The park is built in what is now considered a standard layout: guests enter the park into a central hub which then splits off into other themed areas radiating out from the center. Notable appearances of Tropical Land within Detective Conan include [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|The Roller Coaster Murder Case]], [[The Revival of the Dying Message]], and ''[[Captured in Her Eyes]]''. This location was first introduced in the [[Magic Kaito]] manga.

==Haido Town Shopping Mall==
{{nihongo|Haido Town Shopping Mall|杯戸町のショッピングモール|Haido-chō no Shoppingu Mōru}} has the largest ferris wheel in Japan, over 125m tall, with 72 seats. For the ferris wheel to make one full rotation, it takes over 18 minutes (30cm per second, according to [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]). The ferris wheel itself is better known as the place where [[Jinpei Matsuda]] died trying to defuse a bomb left by a crazed bomber.

==Miracle Land==
This amusement park is prominently featured in the 10th movie, [[The Private Eyes' Requiem]].

=Historical sites=
== Landmarks ==
===Touto Tower===
{{nihongo|Touto (Tokyo) Tower|東都タワー|Tōto Tawā}} is a communications and observation tower located in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan built in the 1950s. Inspired in design by the Eiffel Tower, this landmark has become a popular tourist and school field trip destination. In the manga and anime series the tower is referred to by the "Touto Tower" name instead of "Tokyo Tower". ("Touto" is how Tokyo used to be called in the past.) The tower was featured recently in the 13th movie, ''[[The Raven Chaser]]'' during the climax of the film. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Tower|date=|accessdate=2010-01-04|publisher=Wikipedia|title=Tokyo Tower}}</ref>

===Tsutenkaku Tower===
The {{nihongo|Tsutenkaku Tower|通天閣|Tsūtenkaku}} is a weather and observation tower located in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan built originally in 1912, dismantled, and then rebuilt in the 1950s. This tower, like Touto Tower, was inspired in design by the Eiffel Tower in addition to the Arc de Triomphe. The 1912 Tsutenkaku Tower was built next to an amusement park but later dismantled in the 1940s in an effort to thwart American bombing raids. The current tower was built on the same site in the 1950s thanks to the efforts of the citizens of Osaka.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts%C5%ABtenkaku|date=|accessdate=2010-01-04|publisher=Wikipedia|title=Tsūtenkaku}}</ref> Notable appearances of this landmark in Detective Conan include [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]], [[Conan and Heiji and the Vanished Boy]], and ''[[The Last Wizard of the Century]]''.

===Tokyo Sky Tree===
The {{nihongo|Tokyo Sky Tree|東京スカイツリー|Tōkyō Sukai Tsurī}} is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower located in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan and is still under construction as of November 9, 2011. The Sky Tree was built mostly to give better digital terrestrial television coverage since the Tokyo Tower has long been overshadowed by taller high-rise buildings and is unable to provide the necessary coverage. The in series name for the Tokyo Sky Tree is currently unknown. The Sky Tree replaced the Tokyo Tower as the scene of the climax for [[Akako Koizumi|Akako's]] face-off against [[Kaitou Kid]] in [[A Witch Sheds No Tears]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Sky_Tree|date=|accessdate=2011-11-09|publisher=Wikipedia|title=Tower Sky Tree}}</ref>

=Hotels=
==Hotel New Beika==

==Haido City Hotel==
:See [[Setting#Haido_City_Hotel|above]]

==Haido Hotel==

==Enjyu City Hotel==
The hotel where Akemi Miyano left her money.

==K3==
Located in Osaka, it was dedicated to three sports players, with the three K's representing something sports-related.

== Minato Hotel ==
Minato Hotel is a hotel with a revolving restaurant on the roof and is presumably located in the [[Wikipedia:Minato%2C_Tokyo|Minato special ward in Tokyo]]. Jody Hopper's magician troupe were scheduled to perform what was going to be their last show together. Unfortunately, the show was ruined by Snake and his lackies who were after the Hopper family [[The_Secret_of_the_Red_Tear|Red Tear]]. Kaitou Kid managed to beat them by setting the restaurant to rotate at high speed.

=Railway Tracks and Stations=
Trains and their tracks play important roles in getting the characters around throughout Beika City and the rest of Japan. The prominent railway company is {{nihongo|Touto Railways|東都鉄道|Tōto Tetsudō}}, henceforth referred to as TR, a reference to the real-life Japan Railways (JR).

==TR Terminal Station==
{{nihongo|TR Terminal Station|東都鉄道ターミナル駅|Tōto Tetsudō Tāminaru Eki}} is the head/commanding train station featured in [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]. Employees give commands to the train conductors and give them updates on obstacles or situations from the command center.
[[Image:Beika_Station.png|thumb|right|250px|Beika Station]]

==Beika Station==
{{nihongo|Beika Station|米花駅|Beika Eki}} is the main train station frequented by the cast of Detective Conan and is one of the many stations located along the Loop Line. This station played a key role in [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]. It seems to be modeled in appearance after the real-life [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin-%C5%8Ckubo_Station Shin-Ōkubo Station] in Shinjuku, Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://coolway.air-nifty.com/unicorn/2008/05/post_ac2d.html|date=2008-05-08|accessdate=2012-11-25|publisher=http://coolway.air-nifty.com|title=米花町のモデル: 紺碧の世界に夜露死苦}}</ref>

==Loop Line==
The {{nihongo|Loop Line|環状線|Kanjōsen}} is the main set of tracks for Beika City and was featured prominently in [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]. As its name suggests, this track runs in a loop around Beika City. A majority of the stations seem to be based on the real-life Yamanote Line.　In [[The Missing Page]] it is referred to as the {{nihongo|Touto Line|東都線|Tōtosen}}.
===Stations===
*Beika Station (米花駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Takadanobaba Station|Shimodababa Station]] (下田馬場駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Higashi-ikebukuro Station|Higashi-sawabukuro Station]] (東沢袋駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Ikebukuro Station|Sawabukuro Station]] (沢袋駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Shinjuku Station|Shinjuku Station]] (新宿駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Mejiro Station|Majiro Station]] (間白駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Tokyo Station|Touto Station]] (東京駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Maihama Station|Tokuhama-chō Station]] (徳浜町駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Otsuka Station|Kozuka Station]] (小塚駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Nishisugamo Station|Nishisugame Station]] (西巣亀駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Fujimidai Station|Fujimi Station]] (富士見駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Komagome Station|Komaire Station]] (駒入駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Tabata Station|Hatabata Station]] (畑端駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Nippori Station|Yūbori Station]] (夕暮里駅)
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*Nibanmachi Station (二番街駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Uguisudani Station|Karasutani Station]] (烏谷駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Ueno Station|Shimono Station]] (下野駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Akihabara Station|Natsuhabara Station]] (夏葉原駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Kanda Station|Hotokeda Station]] (仏田駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Nihonbashi Station|Sanbonbashi Station]] (三本橋駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Tokyo Station|Minamitokyo Station]] (南東京駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Yurakucho Station|Murakucho Station]] (無楽町駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Ginza Station|Doza Station]] (銅座駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Shinbashi Station|Furuhashi Station]] (古橋駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Hamamatsucho Station|Okamatsucho Station]] (岡松町駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Shibakoen Station|Shibahama Station]] (芝浜駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Shinagawa Station|Kawashina Station]] (川品駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Ebisu Station|Egisu Station]] (恵木寿駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Harajuku Station|Sorajuku Station]] (空宿駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Yoyogi Station|Yorogi Station]] (よろぎ駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Okubo Station|Kokubo Station]] (小久保駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Sakuradai Station|Midoridai Station]]　(緑台駅)
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*Beika Station (米花駅)
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tarouroom.blog89.fc2.com/blog-entry-613.html|date=2009-11-07|accessdate=2012-03-25|publisher=太郎の部屋|title=「名探偵コナン」に登場する「東都環状線」を「山手線」と比較検証してみた　その1　駅名}}</ref>
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==Sakaimachi Line==
The {{nihongo|Sakaimachi Line|境町線|Sakaimachisen}} is a connecting line to the series' main Loop Line. It is mentioned in the [[Canon|non-canon]] case [[The Missing Page]].
===Stations===
*Ashikōen Station (芦公園駅)
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*Yahatayama Station (八畑山駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Yoyogi Station|Yorogi Station]] (よろぎ駅) - Transfer station to Loop Line
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*Shimokado Station (下高戸駅)
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*Tsubakijōsui Station (椿上水駅)
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*Kamiminamizawa Station (上南沢駅)

==Minato Line==
The {{nihongo|Minato Line|港線|Minatosen}} is a connecting line to the series' main Loop Line. It is mentioned in the [[Canon|non-canon]] case [[The Missing Page]].
===Stations===
*Sasazuka Station (佐々塚駅)
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*Hatagaya Station (波田ヶ谷駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Otsuka Station|Kozuka Station]] (小塚駅) - Transfer station to Loop Line
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*Ohtabashi Station (大田橋駅)
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*Meidaimae Station (明大前駅)

===Unknown===

==Suzuki Villa==
Sonoko`s family owns a villa in the woods that is surrounded by forest. It is only accessible by a very old foot bridge that tends to collapse alot. The villa appeared as the central location in Episode 34-35 (35 and 36 in CC), and made a brief cameo in episode 446.

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#[http://www.geocities.jp/cona_kyu/hyakka.htm コナン大百科]

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APTX 4869

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[[Image:APTX 4869.jpg|thumb|right|250px|APTX 4869]]
'''APTX {{nihongo|4869|四八六九|Yon-Hachi-Roku-Kyuu}}''', nicknamed "Prototype Detective" by members of the Black Organization, is a fictional toxin and derivative of an experimental formula of unknown purpose developed by [[Shiho Miyano]], which is used by the [[Black Organization]] as an untraceable, lethal poison. Right now, there is a prototype antidote for it made by Shiho, namely [[Antidote (Prototype)]].

== Description ==
APTX is an abbreviation of "Apoptoxin," and, as the name implies, it involves the activation of [[wikipedia:apoptosis|apoptosis]]: the mechanism by which cells kill themselves. APTX contains ingredients which have other functions as well. It contains a component which activates [[wikipedia:telomerase|telomerase]]: an enzyme which lengthens the caps at the end of DNA whose length limits the number of times a cell can divide.

In practice, most of the time APTX 4869 works as a lethal poison. [[Gin]] says it can't be detected when used, possibly indicating it leaves few traces that forensic examination could uncover. However, As said by Ai Haibara, a rare side effect can infact de-age victims. She said in Episode 129, Everything besides Organs, Body Hair, Personality, and Memories are reverted back to a state of ages 7-10 years old. [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], the series' protagonist, was forced by Gin and Vodka to take the poison with the intention of killing him silently due to the police being around in Episode 1; later Shiho Miyano, was set to be executed for being a possible loose end after Gin and Vodka killed her Sister Akemi. She was set to be executed, but to escape she took her own poison intending to commit suicide, however her body, like Shinichi`s, was reverted back to Childhood state.

== Name origin ==
APTX 4869 is a pun on "Sherlock Holmes". 4869 can also be pronounced "Shi-Ha-Ro-Ku", which translates into Sherlock. Adding to the pun, the password for the APTX data is "Shellingford"<ref>Volume 24, File 10, page 11, confirmed to be spelled this way in the original Japanese.</ref>, an unintentional misspelling of "Sherrinford", which was the name Arthur Conan Doyle called his detective character before deciding on "Sherlock".<ref>"The name comes from Arthur Conan Doyle's earliest notes for A Study in Scarlet, which gave the great detective's name as "Sherrinford Holmes" and that of his medical companion as "Ormond Sacker"." {{cite web|url=http://www.sherlockian.net/societies/baringgould.html|date=2010|accessdate=2012-01-28|publisher=Chris Redmond|title=Sherlockian.Net: William S. Baring-Gould}}</ref> The password and the pun name seem to be related to why several members of the Black Organization call APTX 4869 the "incomplete detective",<ref name="239p4">Volume 24, File 8, pg 4: "The Black Burial Ranks ". Gin is conversing with Pisco and tells him, "Of course, it's up to you if you use the 'Incomplete Detective' or not...". Earlier on the phone, Gin had mentioned it was fine if Pisco used the drug which both Haibara and Conan took to mean APTX 4869.</ref><ref name="241p11">Volume 24, File 10, pg 11: "A Bullet from the Past". Haibara tells Conan that "the members of the Organization sometimes gave this uncompleted drug a nickname... 'the Incomplete Detective'."</ref> implying APTX 4869 is not finished yet.

== Antidote ==
:''Main article: [[Antidote_(Prototype)|Prototype Antidote]]''
[[Image:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|150px|Gin poisons Shinichi.]]
Throughout the series there are several instances in which the APTX was temporarily neutralized and Shinichi and Shiho were returned to their actual age forms. The main ingredient for this reversal is a component found in [[baijiu]], which Haibara has already incorporated in a prototype antidote for the APTX.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-095: The Great Detective of the West</ref>

It is notable that in the instances where Shinichi or Shiho were successfully changed back, the recipient was suffering from a common cold while the component was ingested, indicating that the immune system somehow has to be taxed for the antidote to work.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-095: The Great Detective of the West</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 241: The Bullet from the Past</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 255-257: The School Play Case</ref> The only apparent [[canon]] exception was Shinichi's reversion in the London arc. While not canon, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'' uses this idea as Conan is given a pill to give him the symptoms of a cold, while drinking baijiu.

Conan and Haibara briefly reverted to their true age while having rum cake (thought to contain among other things [[baijiu]]) in the live action drama ''[[Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization]]''.

== Speculation ==

=== Original intent ===
At first, it was revealed by Gin that the APTX 4869 was a poison to kill people who know too much about the Black Organization. He used Shinichi as a guinea pig. Shiho Miyano said that she didn't intend to create a poison,<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, page 9</ref> which suggests that APTX 4869 was originally developed with a different goal in mind. It probably was just a useful side effect that the current prototype kills while leaving no trace in the victim’s body, and was thus employed as a poison - a usage which Haibara detests.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, page 9</ref> Additionally, APTX 4869 is nicknamed the "''incomplete'' detective" by the Black Organization,<ref name="239p4"/><ref name="241p11"/> which means its true purpose has not yet been achieved.

==== Immortality/anti-aging ====
One possibility is that the goal of the APTX 4869 is to develop a therapy which will cause immortality, stall or reverse the effects of aging, or extend a human's lifespan. The de-aging effect that occurred when Shinichi and Haibara took APTX 4869 probably indicates the main intent of the drug's development. After [[Pisco]] saw Haibara shrink back to her child form, he commented that he was impressed she had developed the drug to that point, implying that deaging is in the right direction.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, page 9</ref> Supporting this is Haibara’s line, "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."<ref>Manga Volume 19, File 9 - Chapter 189; Episode 130-131</ref> APTX 4869 is the only known intersection between Shinichi and the Black Organization; meaning that Shinichi's de-aging made him relevant to the Black Organization's project.

According to Haibara’s description about APTX 4869<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 10</ref>, APTX 4869 activates [[wikipedia:telomerase|telomerase]], an enzyme which can increase the number of times a cell can divide, and therefore affect a cell's lifespan and “reproductive potential”. The goal of this might be to revert all non-neural cells to a "youthful", high reproductive potential state. [[Vermouth]]'s unnatural youth is another indicator that the Black Organization may be involved in research towards extending lifespan, halting aging, or rejuvenating the body.

The goal of the antagonists in ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' is pursuing immortality, via the [[Pandora Gem]], but it is unclear whether if the [[Magic Kaito Organization|organization in Magic Kaito]] is the same one as the Black Organization.

====Raising the dead====
The original purpose of APTX 4869 might be to raise the dead. Once when Conan asked Haibara directly what APTX 4869 was meant to do she replied, "It's a nostrum to raise the dead. I wonder if that answer is satisfactory?"<ref name=384p8>Manga Volume 38, File 2, page 8: "The Old Picture"</ref> The context of the comment, however, makes it unclear if she was merely bluffing to provoke Conan into revealing that he had been looking into the Black Organization behind her back, rather than making a serious statement of the purpose of the drug.

=== Silver Bullet ===
In a flashback, Shiho recalls the end of [[Elena_Miyano#Tapes_left_for_Shiho|the recorded message]] left by [[Elena Miyano|her mother]] which revealed Elena had been working on "a truly terrifying drug" the Miyano parents called the ''Silver Bullet''. It was something incredible enough that Elena said they were "putting their hopes on it",<ref name=821p7>Manga Chapter 821, pg 7: "Mystery Train 「Junction」"</ref> and Elena's lab mates had taken to calling it "a dream drug". It was important enough that Elena and Atsushi had to leave behind Shiho and Akemi in order to complete the drug. When Haibara's flashback ends, Haibara expresses her resentment that she had only later realized that the drug was something that should have never been made.<ref name=821p7/>

It is unclear whether Silver Bullet is the Miyano parents' personal nickname for what is currently called APTX 4869, or if it was a closely related project they developed in parallel. Whatever the case, Silver Bullet and APTX 4869 are closely linked if not the same in-development drug. Haibara took over her parents' research after they died, with the APTX project named specifically. In addition, Haibara had earlier referred to APTX 4869 as a dream-like drug.<ref name=384p8/> During her recollection of the tapes, Haibara was holding and considering the antidote to APTX 4869. She then regrets that she didn't understand the drug was something that should have never been made, strongly implying she worked on the same drug as well. Lastly, Vermouth, who was in the Organization long enough to have heard the Miyanos use the name Silver Bullet,<ref>Vermouth has been in the Organization at least 20 years dated by when she assassinated Jodie's father which is more time than the theoretical maximum 18 years the tapes could be recorded -- dated to Shiho's conception.</ref> may have given Conan the same nickname in reference to his deaged state caused by the drug.

== References ==
<references />

{{Black Organization}}

[[Category:Objects]]
[[de:Apoptoxin_4869]]

APTX 4869

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[[Image:APTX 4869.jpg|thumb|right|250px|APTX 4869]]
'''APTX {{nihongo|4869|四八六九|Yon-Hachi-Roku-Kyuu}}''', nicknamed "Prototype Detective" by members of the Black Organization, is a fictional toxin and derivative of an experimental formula of unknown purpose developed by [[Shiho Miyano]], which is used by the [[Black Organization]] as an untraceable, lethal poison. Right now, there is a prototype antidote for it made by Shiho, namely [[Antidote (Prototype)]].

== Description ==
APTX is an abbreviation of "Apoptoxin," and, as the name implies, it involves the activation of [[wikipedia:apoptosis|apoptosis]]: the mechanism by which cells kill themselves. APTX contains ingredients which have other functions as well. It contains a component which activates [[wikipedia:telomerase|telomerase]]: an enzyme which lengthens the caps at the end of DNA whose length limits the number of times a cell can divide.

In practice, most of the time APTX 4869 works as a lethal poison. [[Gin]] says it can't be detected when used, possibly indicating it leaves few traces that forensic examination could uncover. However, As said by Ai Haibara, a rare side effect can infact de-age victims. She said in Episode 129, Everything besides Organs, Body Hair, Personality, and Memories are reverted back to a state of ages 7-10 years old. [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], the series' protagonist, is such a victim; later Shiho Miyano, who chooses to attempt suicide by using her own drug, was added to the known people to have survived after taking APTX 4869 throughout the series.

== Name origin ==
APTX 4869 is a pun on "Sherlock Holmes". 4869 can also be pronounced "Shi-Ha-Ro-Ku", which translates into Sherlock. Adding to the pun, the password for the APTX data is "Shellingford"<ref>Volume 24, File 10, page 11, confirmed to be spelled this way in the original Japanese.</ref>, an unintentional misspelling of "Sherrinford", which was the name Arthur Conan Doyle called his detective character before deciding on "Sherlock".<ref>"The name comes from Arthur Conan Doyle's earliest notes for A Study in Scarlet, which gave the great detective's name as "Sherrinford Holmes" and that of his medical companion as "Ormond Sacker"." {{cite web|url=http://www.sherlockian.net/societies/baringgould.html|date=2010|accessdate=2012-01-28|publisher=Chris Redmond|title=Sherlockian.Net: William S. Baring-Gould}}</ref> The password and the pun name seem to be related to why several members of the Black Organization call APTX 4869 the "incomplete detective",<ref name="239p4">Volume 24, File 8, pg 4: "The Black Burial Ranks ". Gin is conversing with Pisco and tells him, "Of course, it's up to you if you use the 'Incomplete Detective' or not...". Earlier on the phone, Gin had mentioned it was fine if Pisco used the drug which both Haibara and Conan took to mean APTX 4869.</ref><ref name="241p11">Volume 24, File 10, pg 11: "A Bullet from the Past". Haibara tells Conan that "the members of the Organization sometimes gave this uncompleted drug a nickname... 'the Incomplete Detective'."</ref> implying APTX 4869 is not finished yet.

== Antidote ==
:''Main article: [[Antidote_(Prototype)|Prototype Antidote]]''
[[Image:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|150px|Gin poisons Shinichi.]]
Throughout the series there are several instances in which the APTX was temporarily neutralized and Shinichi and Shiho were returned to their actual age forms. The main ingredient for this reversal is a component found in [[baijiu]], which Haibara has already incorporated in a prototype antidote for the APTX.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-095: The Great Detective of the West</ref>

It is notable that in the instances where Shinichi or Shiho were successfully changed back, the recipient was suffering from a common cold while the component was ingested, indicating that the immune system somehow has to be taxed for the antidote to work.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-095: The Great Detective of the West</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 241: The Bullet from the Past</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 255-257: The School Play Case</ref> The only apparent [[canon]] exception was Shinichi's reversion in the London arc. While not canon, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'' uses this idea as Conan is given a pill to give him the symptoms of a cold, while drinking baijiu.

Conan and Haibara briefly reverted to their true age while having rum cake (thought to contain among other things [[baijiu]]) in the live action drama ''[[Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization]]''.

== Speculation ==

=== Original intent ===
At first, it was revealed by Gin that the APTX 4869 was a poison to kill people who know too much about the Black Organization. He used Shinichi as a guinea pig. Shiho Miyano said that she didn't intend to create a poison,<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, page 9</ref> which suggests that APTX 4869 was originally developed with a different goal in mind. It probably was just a useful side effect that the current prototype kills while leaving no trace in the victim’s body, and was thus employed as a poison - a usage which Haibara detests.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9, page 9</ref> Additionally, APTX 4869 is nicknamed the "''incomplete'' detective" by the Black Organization,<ref name="239p4"/><ref name="241p11"/> which means its true purpose has not yet been achieved.

==== Immortality/anti-aging ====
One possibility is that the goal of the APTX 4869 is to develop a therapy which will cause immortality, stall or reverse the effects of aging, or extend a human's lifespan. The de-aging effect that occurred when Shinichi and Haibara took APTX 4869 probably indicates the main intent of the drug's development. After [[Pisco]] saw Haibara shrink back to her child form, he commented that he was impressed she had developed the drug to that point, implying that deaging is in the right direction.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, page 9</ref> Supporting this is Haibara’s line, "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."<ref>Manga Volume 19, File 9 - Chapter 189; Episode 130-131</ref> APTX 4869 is the only known intersection between Shinichi and the Black Organization; meaning that Shinichi's de-aging made him relevant to the Black Organization's project.

According to Haibara’s description about APTX 4869<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 10</ref>, APTX 4869 activates [[wikipedia:telomerase|telomerase]], an enzyme which can increase the number of times a cell can divide, and therefore affect a cell's lifespan and “reproductive potential”. The goal of this might be to revert all non-neural cells to a "youthful", high reproductive potential state. [[Vermouth]]'s unnatural youth is another indicator that the Black Organization may be involved in research towards extending lifespan, halting aging, or rejuvenating the body.

The goal of the antagonists in ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' is pursuing immortality, via the [[Pandora Gem]], but it is unclear whether if the [[Magic Kaito Organization|organization in Magic Kaito]] is the same one as the Black Organization.

====Raising the dead====
The original purpose of APTX 4869 might be to raise the dead. Once when Conan asked Haibara directly what APTX 4869 was meant to do she replied, "It's a nostrum to raise the dead. I wonder if that answer is satisfactory?"<ref name=384p8>Manga Volume 38, File 2, page 8: "The Old Picture"</ref> The context of the comment, however, makes it unclear if she was merely bluffing to provoke Conan into revealing that he had been looking into the Black Organization behind her back, rather than making a serious statement of the purpose of the drug.

=== Silver Bullet ===
In a flashback, Shiho recalls the end of [[Elena_Miyano#Tapes_left_for_Shiho|the recorded message]] left by [[Elena Miyano|her mother]] which revealed Elena had been working on "a truly terrifying drug" the Miyano parents called the ''Silver Bullet''. It was something incredible enough that Elena said they were "putting their hopes on it",<ref name=821p7>Manga Chapter 821, pg 7: "Mystery Train 「Junction」"</ref> and Elena's lab mates had taken to calling it "a dream drug". It was important enough that Elena and Atsushi had to leave behind Shiho and Akemi in order to complete the drug. When Haibara's flashback ends, Haibara expresses her resentment that she had only later realized that the drug was something that should have never been made.<ref name=821p7/>

It is unclear whether Silver Bullet is the Miyano parents' personal nickname for what is currently called APTX 4869, or if it was a closely related project they developed in parallel. Whatever the case, Silver Bullet and APTX 4869 are closely linked if not the same in-development drug. Haibara took over her parents' research after they died, with the APTX project named specifically. In addition, Haibara had earlier referred to APTX 4869 as a dream-like drug.<ref name=384p8/> During her recollection of the tapes, Haibara was holding and considering the antidote to APTX 4869. She then regrets that she didn't understand the drug was something that should have never been made, strongly implying she worked on the same drug as well. Lastly, Vermouth, who was in the Organization long enough to have heard the Miyanos use the name Silver Bullet,<ref>Vermouth has been in the Organization at least 20 years dated by when she assassinated Jodie's father which is more time than the theoretical maximum 18 years the tapes could be recorded -- dated to Shiho's conception.</ref> may have given Conan the same nickname in reference to his deaged state caused by the drug.

== References ==
<references />

{{Black Organization}}

[[Category:Objects]]
[[de:Apoptoxin_4869]]

Moonlight Sonata Murder Case

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{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 11
| image = EP11_Case.jpg
| title = Moonlight Sonata Murder Case
| english-title = The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case
| japanese-title = ピアノソナタ「月光」殺人事件 (Piano Sonata "Gekkō" Satsujin Jiken)
| manga = [[Volume 7#Piano Sonata Case|Volume 7: Files 2-7 (062-067)]]
| dubbed-episode = Episode 11-12
| season = [[Season 1|1]]
| airdate = April 8, 1996 *
| english-airdate = June 9, 2004 (Part 1) June 10, 2004 (Part 2)
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]
| suspects = Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, Shuichi Murasawa, Reiko Kuroiwa, and Narumi Asai
| solved-by = [[Kogoro Mouri]] (via [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]])
| next-conan-hint = School festival
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Shozo Iizuka]] as Tatsuji Kuroiwa [[Shigezo Sasaoka]] as Hideo Kawajima [[Ikuya Sawaki]] as Masato Shimizu [[Atsushi Ii]] as Kazuaki Hirata [[Ai Orikasa]] as Nami Asai [[Kei Hayami]] as Reiko Kuroiwa [[Hidetoshi Nakamura]] as Ken Nishimoto [[Masuo Amada]] as Shuichi Sawamura [[Yukimasa Natori]] as Manager [[Yasuhiro Takato]] as Clerk [[Yuichi Nagashima]] as Policeman [[Yukiko Iwai]] as Election car [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as Next Conan's Hint
| director = [[Kenji Kodama]]
| organizer = [[Kenji Kodama]] [[Kuchiru Kazehara]]
| storyboard = [[Kenji Kodama]] [[Kuchiru Kazehara]]
| producer = [[Ikuro Sato]] [[Yuji Yamaguchi]]
| animation-director = [[Masatomo Sudo]] [[Hirotoshi Takaya]]
| opening-song = Mune ga Dokidoki
| closing-song = STEP BY STEP
| prev-episode = Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case
| next-episode = Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case
| footnotes = * 1 Hour Special
}}
== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
Kogoro Mouri received a strange cut-and-paste letter from a client called Keiji Asou asking him investigate something on Tsukikage Island. He then found out that the man requesting for the investigation, Keiji Asou, has been dead for 12 years. He was a world-renowned pianist who suddenly killed his family, set his house on fire, and played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as his house burnt around him.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Suicide (Past)
| image = EP11e_Case.jpg
| location = Keiji Asou's house on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Keiji Asou
| cause-death = Burning
| suspects =
| description = Keiji Asou killed his family, set his house on fire, and played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as his house burnt around him.
}}

Despite thinking the letter is a poor prank, Kogoro decides to investigate anyway and finds the island is holding elections for mayor. Two years ago, a passerby heard the Moonlight Sonata playing from the community center and discovered the body of the mayor slumped over the piano. Although he died from a heart attack, the similarity to the death of Keiji Asou caused the islanders to think the piano has been cursed.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Keiji Asou's Curse? (Past)
| image = EP11f_Case.jpg
| location = Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Isamu Kameyama
| cause-death = Heart attack
| suspects =
| description = Two years ago, a passerby heard the Moonlight Sonata playing from the community center and discovered the body of the mayor slumped over the piano. Although he died from a heart attack, the similarity to the death of Keiji Asou caused the islanders to think the piano has been cursed.
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP11a_Case.jpg
| location = Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Hideo Kawashima
| cause-death = Drowning
| suspects = Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, Shuichi Murasawa, Reiko Kuroiwa, Ken Nishimoto, and Narumi Asai
| description = Hideo Kawashima's sodden body found slumped over the cursed community piano as the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata played in the background. Water marks show the body had been dragged to the piano through a back door in the piano room which leads to the sea.
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP11b_Case.jpg
| location = Community center broadcasting room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Tatsuji Kuroiwa
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects = Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, Shuichi Murasawa, and Ken Nishimoto
| description = Tatsuji Kuroiwa was found stabbed in the broadcasting room. The body was discovered by Ken Nishimoto soon after the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata began playing over the sound system. At the dead man's feet is sheet music inscribed in blood.
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = EP11d_Case.jpg
| location = Community center piano room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Shuichi Murasawa
| suspects = Unknown suspect
| description = When the gang returned to the city hall after the second murder, there was someone in the piano room who jumped out the window and Murasawa was found unconscious on the floor.
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP11c_Case.jpg
| location = Community center storage room on Tsukikage Island
| victim = Ken Nishimoto
| cause-death = Hanging
| suspects = Masato Shimizu, Kazuaki Hirata, and Shuichi Murasawa
| description = Ran found Ken Nishimoto's hanged body in the storage room. At his feet was coded sheet music purporting to be his will. Although it wasn't playing, the third movement of Moonlight Sonata was recorded on the tape cassette nearby.
}}

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Keiji Asou|Asou Keiji.jpg|
* Deceased
* World-renowned pianist}}
{{People|Narumi Asai|Asai Narumi.jpg|
* 26 years old
* Island doctor
* From Tokyo}}
{{People|Isamu Kameyama|Kameyama.jpg|
* Deceased
* Former mayor}}
{{People|Tatsuji Kuroiwa|Tatsuji Kuroiwa.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 56 years old
* Current mayor}}
{{People|Reiko Kuroiwa|Reiko Kuroiwa.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Tatsuji's only daughter}}
{{People|Kazuaki Hirata|Hirata Kazuaki.jpg|
* 31 years old
* Mayor's private secretary}}
{{People|Shuichi Murasawa|Shuichi Murasawa.jpg|
* Victim (beaten)
* 27 years old
* Reiko's fiancé}}
{{People|Hideo Kawashima|Hideo Kawashima.jpg|
* Victim (drowned)
* 56 years old
* Wealthiest man in town}}
{{People|Masato Shimizu|Masato Shimizu.jpg|
* 49 years old
* Mayoral candidate}}
{{People|Ken Nishimoto|Ken Nishimoto.jpg|
* Victim (hanged)
* 55 years old
* Unemployed}}
{{People|Policeman|EP11 Policeman.jpg|
* Tsukikage Island police officer}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
*'''Evidence'''

:'''First Murder'''
::Victim: Hideo Kawashima
::Cause of Death: Drowning
::Location: Piano Room
::Time of Death: 30 minutes – 1 hour before being found

:*The first movement of the Moonlight Sonata was played from a tape recorder.
:*There was a sea water trail from the door to Kawashima's body and he has dirt and sand on the back of his shirt.
:*Kawashima's jacket was found on the beach.
:*The doors and windows of the piano room were locked from the inside.
:*There were several minutes of silence at the beginning of the tape.
:*The Moonlight Sonata sheet music was found, but the notes in the fourth bar were “strange”.
:*Conan decoded that the “strange” notes actually say: "The hellfire of hatred made you pay."

:'''Second Murder'''
::Victim: Tatsuji Kuroiwa
::Cause of Death: Stabbed to death
::Location: Broadcasting Room
::Time of Death: 5 minutes and 30 seconds before being found

[[Image:MoonlightSonataCode.gif|500px|thumb|right|G A G A E E C♯ D F B♭ A E D♯ F D♯ F E A B A A C♯ B♭ B B♭ A B♭ C A "You realize it don't you? You're next." ("Wakatteru na? Tsugi ha omae no ban da.")]]
:*The second movement of the Moonlight Sonata was played.
:*Nishimoto discovered the body.
:*The tape has 5 minutes and 30 seconds lead in silence.
:*Music notes written with the victim's blood were found.
:*Conan decoded the music notes: "You realize it don't you? You're next."

:'''Third Murder'''
::Murder: Ken Nishimoto
::Cause of Death: Hanging
::Location: Storage Room
::Time of Death: 30 minutes before being found

:*The third movement of the Moonlight Sonata was set to play.
:*Sheet music that looked liked a suicide note was found under his feet. The decoded note said he regretted killing Kawashima and Kuroiwa and that he didn't want people to find out the wrongdoing they did years ago.
:*There was no chair or anything to stand on, so Nishimoto couldn't hang himself.
:*No one would bother writing a suicide note in code.

:'''Other incriminating evidence:'''
:*The dusty piano in the city hall was tuned perfectly.
:*After the first murder, there was someone outside the piano room whom Conan and Kogoro failed to catch.
:*When the gang returned to the city hall after the second murder, there was someone in the piano room who jumped out the window and Murasawa was found unconscious on the floor.
:*After the third murder, Conan returned to the piano room and found a tuning hammer for the piano.
:*Under the piano was a secret drawer with cocaine in it.
:*Upon looking at the pictures of the crime scene where Kuroiwa was murdered, there was a button with its red light on near the victim's neck.
:*Conan found that Hirata has powder-like substance under his sleeves and his left hand was bandaged. He also had lots of foreign money with him.
:*Keiji Asou left sheet music in his safe to which it read: “To my son, Seiji”. Asou had a son who became ill when he was a child and had to be hospitalized.

*'''Conclusion'''

The person who knocked out Murasawa in the piano room was Hirata. The bandage on his left hand was the result of smashing the window when he was trying to escape. He was also the one that Kogoro and Conan chased outside the piano room. The piano room was his meeting place with Kawashima when doing business: dealing drugs. He was using the piano's secret compartment as a hiding place for cocaine he got from overseas to which he exchanged later for large sums of money. The reason why he was always talking about the cursed piano was because he wanted to keep everyone in the town away from it. Murasawa saw the drugs that he had left in there earlier so he hit him. Still, he was unrelated to the murders because he wouldn't have related the piano to the crimes.

In the second murder, they found that he had been dead for only a few minutes but when Conan fell on the code of blood, it didn't smear when it takes 25-30 minutes for human blood to dry. It was just a trick that the killer used to manipulate the time of death of the victim. Upon looking at the pictures, there was a button that was lighted near Kuroiwa's neck. But after the body was moved, the light was turned off. This was actually the reverse button. While the police weren't looking, the killer turned off the light. The killer used the reverse side (the blank side that didn't have the song), which played for over 30 min and then it reversed. That was when the 5 minutes and 30 seconds of gap played before the music started.

In the third murder, the killer didn't have the time to put a chair or desk at Nishimoto's feet because he had to escape in time. The killer was probably male because the murders required a lot of physical strength.

The purpose of drowning Kawashima was to send the forensic examiner back to Tokyo, because it was impossible to do an autopsy on the island. The tape in the second murder was a setup so the killer could create an alibi.

Conan deduced that the killer was '''Narumi Asai''' and that she was, in fact, Asou's son, '''Seiji Asou'''. Asai was probably the surname of the family that adopted him. After graduation, he came to the island as a female doctor. The pronunciation of his name was not written on his diploma, nor the medical license, because if they checked his history, they would have found out that he was a man. He stayed all night so that they'd make him last for questioning.

As for Murasawa, he was an admirer of the late Asou and he was the one who kept the donated piano in tune just like that night.

Seiji then committed suicide by dying like his father. Conan failed to stop him, but he played one last music code message in the burning flames: "Thank you, little detective."

*'''Motive'''

Seiji's motive dated back when his father, the pianist, and his family was murdered. Kawashima, Nishimoto, Kuroiwa, and Kameyama used Asou's international concerts as a front for their international drug trade. When Asou stated that he wouldn't cooperate any longer, they got scared that their secret might be exposed. This was all written in the sheet music that he left behind in the safe as his confession to his son. Seiji was hospitalized in Tokyo at the time of the murder.

Seiji went back to the island to avenge his family's death. When he told Kameyama that he was Asou's son, the late mayor was terrified and told him everything. He then had a heart attack. Seiji played the Moonlight Sonata that his father loved so much upon seeing the mayor dead.
</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
[[Image:MoonlightSonataKeyboardCode.jpg|500px|thumb|left|The code as laid out on an 88 key grand piano keyboard]]{{clear}}
*The keyboard code presented in this case is usable despite minor errors made by the animation staff.
{{clear}}

== Dub changes ==
* The names of the characters and places in the [[Funimation]] Dub are:
:* Keiji Asou - Casper Austin
:* Narumi Asai (former name Seiji) - Nadia Adams (former name Simon)
:* Isamu Kameyama - Kirkpatrick
:* Tatsuji Kuroiwa - Theodore Kinsella
:* Reiko Kuroiwa - Rene Kinsella
:* Kazuaki Hirata - Kevin Hadley
:* Shuichi Murasawa - Steven Mulholland
:* Hideo Kawashima - Henry Kavanagh
:* Masato Shimizu - Matthew Schumacher
:* Ken Nishimoto - Ken Nicholson
:* Tsukikage Island - Moonlight Island (The [[Viz Media]] translation of the manga gives another alternate name Moon Shadow Island)

* Other Changes:
:* At the end when it says "Thank you little detective", Nadia will actually say it at the end.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery perrow="6">
File:TV Episode 11.jpg
</gallery>

== See also ==

* [[Season 1]]

[[Category:Episodes]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Masatomo Sudo]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hirotoshi Takaya]]

Detective Conan

2013-03-07T10:31:19Z

Ccrogers15: /* Case Closed */

'''{{nihongo|Detective Conan|名探偵コナン|Meitantei Konan, lit. Great Detective Conan}}''' is a Japanese detective [[manga]] series written and illustrated by [[Gosho Aoyama]]. It has been serialized in the Japanese manga anthology ''[[Magazines#Weekly Shōnen Sunday|Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' since 1994 and has been collected in seventy-four [[Glossary|Tankōbon]] volumes as of December 14th, 2011.

The manga has been adapted into an anime series by the animation studio [[Studios#TMS Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsha]], directed by [[Kenji Kodama]] and [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]], and is broadcast in Japan on [[TV Networks#Nippon Television Network Corporation|Nippon Television]], [[TV Networks#Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation|Yomiuri TV]] and [[TV Networks#Animax|Animax]]. The series debuted on January 8th, 1996 and has since broadcast 586 episodes as of September 4th, 2010. The series has seen high levels of popularity in both manga and anime formats in Japan since its reception, and has also been adapted into fifteen [[Glossary|Golden Week]] movies, with the first released on April 17th, 1997 and since then followed with a movie released each year. Ten of the movies held a top 10 box office position in the year they were screened. In addition, five [[OVAs#Magic_Files|Magic Files]] related to the movies and twelve [[OVAs|Original Video Animations]] have been released.

==Story summary==
[[Image:Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg|thumb|125px|Conan Edogawa]]
The story follows the adventures of [[Shinichi Kudo]] (also known as Jimmy Kudo in Case Closed), a young detective prodigy who was inadvertently shrunk into a child's body due to a [[APTX 4869|poison]] he was force-fed by members of a [[Black Organization|criminal syndicate]]. Neighbor and family friend [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] strongly suggested Shinichi hide his identity to prevent them from killing him and the people he cares about, so Shinichi takes the name [[Conan Edogawa]]. He goes to live with his childhood friend [[Ran Mouri]] and her father, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], and tries to use Kogoro's detective agency as a way to find the people who shrank him — without letting Ran figure out who he really is.
{{clear}}

==Case Closed==
{{InfoBox Country
| country = USA
| image = Case Closed logo.png
| language = English
| continent = North America, Europe, and Australia
| episode = 130
| volume = 44
| publisher = Viz Media, FUNimation
}}
Detective Conan is known as "Case Closed" in North America. The name "''Case Closed''" results from concerns of copyright conflict of the name ''Detective Conan''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-02-05/funimation-renames-conan|accessdate=2008-08-18|publisher=Anime News Network|date=2007-10-09|title=FUNimation renames Conan}}</ref>

[[Viz Media]] licensed the manga series under the name for English-language publication in North America and released forty-three volumes as of July 10th, 2012. The American edition of the manga covers for volumes 44 and 45 are completed and set. Because Victor Gollancz Ltd canceled publication of Detective Conan after 15 volumes in UK, Viz Media continues to handle UK's distribution under the name Case Closed. [[Funimation Entertainment]] also licensed the anime series for North American broadcast under the name ''Case Closed''. The character names were also adapted into English ones with some names different between the two. Fifty episodes of the English dubbed series aired on [[TV Networks#Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network]] as part of their [[TV Networks#Adult Swim|Adult Swim]] programming block on May 24th, 2004 until January 2005 and were discontinued due to low ratings.<ref name="Adult Swim Anime Plans">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-01-22/adult-swim-anime-plans|title=Adult Swim Anime Plans|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=May 5, 2009}}</ref> In Canada, Case Closed premiered on channel [[TV Networks#YTV|YTV]], 22 episodes were broadcasted between April 7th, 2006 and September 2nd, 2006. A separate English adaptation of the series by Animax Asia premiered in the Philippines on January 18th, 2006, under the name Detective Conan. Because Animax were unable to obtain further TV broadcast rights, their version comprised 52 episodes. The series continued with reruns until August 7, 2006, when it was removed from the station. Funimation also released DVDs of their dubbed series beginning August 24th, 2004. Initially, the releases were done in single DVDs and future episodes were released in seasonal boxes; as of 2009, they have released 130 episodes dubbed in English. The seasonal boxes were later re-released in redesigned boxes entitled Viridian edition. The first six films were released on Region 1 DVD in North America between October 3rd 2006 and February 16th 2010, and were sold very well.

In 2006, Funimation made the series available, airing new episodes on Colours TV during its syndication with the Funimation Channel. As of 2012, only 130 episodes (episodes 1-123 Japanese version) have been dubbed in English. Detective Conan is later broadcasted in North America on NHK's cable network TV Japan. Though anime was not so popular in North America, the manga enjoys high success. Volume 36 appeared in the ''[[wikipedia:New York Times Manga Best Sellers|New York Times Manga Best Sellers]]'' list during the week ending on October 24th, 2010. Volume 41 broke the record making it to the top 5 in sales rank during the week ending on January 14th, 2012. The manga continues to be released in North America, though it trails the Japanese publishing by about 30 volumes.

S. California's UTB, United Television Broadcasting's free digital television station began to re-broadcast already dubbed Case Closed's episodes on August 21st, 2011. The next two-episode block was scheduled for Saturday, August 27th, followed by two more episodes on Sunday, August 28th. The episodes were broadcasted at 6:30 a.m and repeated at 10:30 a.m the same day. A one-episode block also aired at 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays as well.

Incidentally, the catchphrase for [[Masumi Sera]] is 'Case Closed' (whether it's intended as a reference or coincidental is unspecified).

As of 2013, only one Case Closed branded videogame was released, which was Case Closed: The mirapolis investigation, which was a Nintendo Wii exclusive title and released only in Japan and Europe. It features the English voice cast from the Anime for the english version, and has minor changes in script. It is so far the only English DC Game.

==Critical reception==

The series has been well received in Japan, with the anime adaptation ranking in the top twenty in [[Magazines#Animage|Animage]]'s polls between 1996 until 2000, where it dropped below the top twenty. In the Japanese TV anime ranking, Detective Conan often ranked the top six. It has even been used as a mascot to promote citizens to follow the law. The English adaption has not been as equally popular as in Japan, and has been criticized for the name changes.

The manga is a huge success and it is continued to be published. It won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2000. Some of its volumes appear on the lists of best-selling manga.

The series is successful in Asia and Europe, where some countries translated most of the episodes and volumes. Due to the high popularity DC is re-broadcasting in many countries after the original premieres.

Although popular in many other countries, Case Closed failed in the US due to Poor Advertising, Name Changes, and script changes. Due to this, the "Case Closed" version was cancelled at only 130 episodes and 6 movies. Although the english anime is cancelled, the Manga is still released by VIZ media.

== Demographic ==

Even though Detective Conan is a [[Glossary#Shōnen|Shōnen]], its audience is composed of a substantial proportion of female viewers and readers. The series also seems to attract all ages.

== Appearances in other media ==
Besides his anime and manga appearances, Conan is the protagonist for all the movies and the video games based on the Case Closed series. Several anime and games have parodied, lampooned or otherwise mentioned him or the series. Some of them include: [[wikipedia:Yakitate!! Japan|Yakitate!! Japan]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakitate!!_Japan Yakitate!! Japan]!! Japan'' Anime Episode # 48</ref> [[wikipedia:Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_(manga) Black Cat]'' Anime Episodes # 13 & 14</ref> [[wikipedia:Inuyasha|Inuyasha]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha Inuyasha]'' Anime Episode 128 ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYO1nZpEFg#t=5m38s briefly about one second])</ref> [[wikipedia:Hayate the Combat Butler|Hayate the Combat Butler]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayate_the_Combat_Butler Hayate no Gotoku]''# 30</ref> [[wikipedia:Proposal Daisakusen|Proposal Daisakusen]],<ref> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposal_Daisakusen Proposal Daisakusen]'' Episode # 10 </ref> [[wikipedia:Sonic X|Sonic X]], [[wikipedia:Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|Kenichi the Mighties Disciple]]<ref> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi:_The_Mightiest_Disciple Kenichi: The Mighties Disciple]''</ref>, [[wikipedia:Angelic Layer|Angelic Layer]]<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelic_Layer Angelic Layer]'' Episode 22</ref>, and [[wikipedia:Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]<ref>'''Trucy''': "This Summer: A Legal Eagles Production of 'Case Closed'." ...Looks like a poster for a different show. '''Apollo''': ...One I wouldn't mind seeing real soon. ''(Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)''</ref> In case of Inuyasha, Detective Conan features Conan reading Inuyasha manga first in [[Kogoro_Mouri,_Suspect|Episode 200]] (aired July 24, 2000). Later, [[Shinichi]] and [[Ran]] made their [[wikipedia:cameo appearance|cameo appearance]] in Inuyasha episode 128 (aired October 13, 2003).

Conan has also been used as a character to promote people to follow the law in Japan, due to the popularity of the series.
<div class="left">[[File:Future_Detective_Conan_the_Great.png|250px|thumb|right|Detective Conan cameo in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]</div>
<div class="left">[[File:DCinInuyasha.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Detective Conan in Inuyasha episode 128]]</div>
{{clearleft}}

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|名探偵コナン Meitantei Konan|Lit. "Great Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Case Closed|Due to copyright issues, however packaging still mentions "Detective Conan" title.}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|المحقق كونان Al-Muhakik Konan|Sometimes called المتحري كونان {{Bracket|Al-Mutahrry Konan|(Investigator Konan)}} }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Detectiu Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Simplified Chinese|名侦探柯南 Mingzhentan Kenan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|名偵探柯南 Mingchent’an k’onan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Détective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|O detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Detektiv Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=India|Hindi|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Hungary|Hungarian|Conan, a detektív| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Indonesia|Detektif Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Detektif Conan Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|명탐정 코난 Myeongtamjeong Konan|Lit. "Great Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Poland|Polish|Detektyw Conan Detective Tsonan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russia|Детектив Конан | }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish/Spanish Latin|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Mästerdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Denmark|Danish|Mesterdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Norway|Norwegian|Mesterdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ยอดนักสืบจิ๋วโคนัน {{Bracket|Yodnakseubjew Conan|(Great Detective Boy Conan)}}|Sometimes called ยอดนักสืบรุ่นจิ๋วโคนัน Yodnakseub Roonjew Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Thám tử lừng danh Conan|Renowned Detective Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Salapoliisi Conan|Detective Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Czech Republic|Czech|Detektiv Conan| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Detective Conan in France]]
* [[Detective Conan in Spain]]
* [[Detective Conan in Italy]]
* [[Detective Conan in Germany]]
* [[Detective Conan in the Arab World]]
* [[Detective Conan in Finland]]
* [[Detective Conan in the Philippines]]
* [[Detective Conan in Korea]]
* [[Detective Conan in Thailand]]

== References ==

<references/>
{{OtherLang}}
[[Category:General Information|*]]
[[de:Detektiv Conan‏‎]]

Detective Conan

2013-03-07T10:26:57Z

Ccrogers15: /* Critical reception */

'''{{nihongo|Detective Conan|名探偵コナン|Meitantei Konan, lit. Great Detective Conan}}''' is a Japanese detective [[manga]] series written and illustrated by [[Gosho Aoyama]]. It has been serialized in the Japanese manga anthology ''[[Magazines#Weekly Shōnen Sunday|Weekly Shōnen Sunday]]'' since 1994 and has been collected in seventy-four [[Glossary|Tankōbon]] volumes as of December 14th, 2011.

The manga has been adapted into an anime series by the animation studio [[Studios#TMS Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsha]], directed by [[Kenji Kodama]] and [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]], and is broadcast in Japan on [[TV Networks#Nippon Television Network Corporation|Nippon Television]], [[TV Networks#Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation|Yomiuri TV]] and [[TV Networks#Animax|Animax]]. The series debuted on January 8th, 1996 and has since broadcast 586 episodes as of September 4th, 2010. The series has seen high levels of popularity in both manga and anime formats in Japan since its reception, and has also been adapted into fifteen [[Glossary|Golden Week]] movies, with the first released on April 17th, 1997 and since then followed with a movie released each year. Ten of the movies held a top 10 box office position in the year they were screened. In addition, five [[OVAs#Magic_Files|Magic Files]] related to the movies and twelve [[OVAs|Original Video Animations]] have been released.

==Story summary==
[[Image:Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg|thumb|125px|Conan Edogawa]]
The story follows the adventures of [[Shinichi Kudo]] (also known as Jimmy Kudo in Case Closed), a young detective prodigy who was inadvertently shrunk into a child's body due to a [[APTX 4869|poison]] he was force-fed by members of a [[Black Organization|criminal syndicate]]. Neighbor and family friend [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] strongly suggested Shinichi hide his identity to prevent them from killing him and the people he cares about, so Shinichi takes the name [[Conan Edogawa]]. He goes to live with his childhood friend [[Ran Mouri]] and her father, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], and tries to use Kogoro's detective agency as a way to find the people who shrank him — without letting Ran figure out who he really is.
{{clear}}

==Case Closed==
{{InfoBox Country
| country = USA
| image = Case Closed logo.png
| language = English
| continent = North America, Europe, and Australia
| episode = 130
| volume = 44
| publisher = Viz Media
}}
Detective Conan is known as "Case Closed" in North America. The name "''Case Closed''" results from concerns of copyright conflict of the name ''Detective Conan''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2004-02-05/funimation-renames-conan|accessdate=2008-08-18|publisher=Anime News Network|date=2007-10-09|title=FUNimation renames Conan}}</ref>

[[Viz Media]] licensed the manga series under the name for English-language publication in North America and released forty-three volumes as of July 10th, 2012. The American edition of the manga covers for volumes 44 and 45 are completed and set. Because Victor Gollancz Ltd canceled publication of Detective Conan after 15 volumes in UK, Viz Media continues to handle UK's distribution under the name Case Closed. [[Funimation Entertainment]] also licensed the anime series for North American broadcast under the name ''Case Closed''. The character names were also adapted into English ones with some names different between the two. Fifty episodes of the English dubbed series aired on [[TV Networks#Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network]] as part of their [[TV Networks#Adult Swim|Adult Swim]] programming block on May 24th, 2004 until January 2005 and were discontinued due to low ratings.<ref name="Adult Swim Anime Plans">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-01-22/adult-swim-anime-plans|title=Adult Swim Anime Plans|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=May 5, 2009}}</ref> In Canada, Case Closed premiered on channel [[TV Networks#YTV|YTV]], 22 episodes were broadcasted between April 7th, 2006 and September 2nd, 2006. A separate English adaptation of the series by Animax Asia premiered in the Philippines on January 18th, 2006, under the name Detective Conan. Because Animax were unable to obtain further TV broadcast rights, their version comprised 52 episodes. The series continued with reruns until August 7, 2006, when it was removed from the station. Funimation also released DVDs of their dubbed series beginning August 24th, 2004. Initially, the releases were done in single DVDs and future episodes were released in seasonal boxes; as of 2009, they have released 130 episodes dubbed in English. The seasonal boxes were later re-released in redesigned boxes entitled Viridian edition. The first six films were released on Region 1 DVD in North America between October 3rd 2006 and February 16th 2010, and were sold very well.

In 2006, Funimation made the series available, airing new episodes on Colours TV during its syndication with the Funimation Channel. As of 2012, only 130 episodes (episodes 1-123 Japanese version) have been dubbed in English. Detective Conan is later broadcasted in North America on NHK's cable network TV Japan. Though anime was not so popular in North America, the manga enjoys high success. Volume 36 appeared in the ''[[wikipedia:New York Times Manga Best Sellers|New York Times Manga Best Sellers]]'' list during the week ending on October 24th, 2010. Volume 41 broke the record making it to the top 5 in sales rank during the week ending on January 14th, 2012. The manga continues to be released in North America, though it trails the Japanese publishing by about 30 volumes.

S. California's UTB, United Television Broadcasting's free digital television station began to re-broadcast already dubbed Case Closed's episodes on August 21st, 2011. The next two-episode block was scheduled for Saturday, August 27th, followed by two more episodes on Sunday, August 28th. The episodes were broadcasted at 6:30 a.m and repeated at 10:30 a.m the same day. A one-episode block also aired at 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays as well.

Incidentally, the catchphrase for [[Masumi Sera]] is 'Case Closed' (whether it's intended as a reference or coincidental is unspecified).

==Critical reception==

The series has been well received in Japan, with the anime adaptation ranking in the top twenty in [[Magazines#Animage|Animage]]'s polls between 1996 until 2000, where it dropped below the top twenty. In the Japanese TV anime ranking, Detective Conan often ranked the top six. It has even been used as a mascot to promote citizens to follow the law. The English adaption has not been as equally popular as in Japan, and has been criticized for the name changes.

The manga is a huge success and it is continued to be published. It won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2000. Some of its volumes appear on the lists of best-selling manga.

The series is successful in Asia and Europe, where some countries translated most of the episodes and volumes. Due to the high popularity DC is re-broadcasting in many countries after the original premieres.

Although popular in many other countries, Case Closed failed in the US due to Poor Advertising, Name Changes, and script changes. Due to this, the "Case Closed" version was cancelled at only 130 episodes and 6 movies. Although the english anime is cancelled, the Manga is still released by VIZ media.

== Demographic ==

Even though Detective Conan is a [[Glossary#Shōnen|Shōnen]], its audience is composed of a substantial proportion of female viewers and readers. The series also seems to attract all ages.

== Appearances in other media ==
Besides his anime and manga appearances, Conan is the protagonist for all the movies and the video games based on the Case Closed series. Several anime and games have parodied, lampooned or otherwise mentioned him or the series. Some of them include: [[wikipedia:Yakitate!! Japan|Yakitate!! Japan]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakitate!!_Japan Yakitate!! Japan]!! Japan'' Anime Episode # 48</ref> [[wikipedia:Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat_(manga) Black Cat]'' Anime Episodes # 13 & 14</ref> [[wikipedia:Inuyasha|Inuyasha]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha Inuyasha]'' Anime Episode 128 ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYO1nZpEFg#t=5m38s briefly about one second])</ref> [[wikipedia:Hayate the Combat Butler|Hayate the Combat Butler]],<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayate_the_Combat_Butler Hayate no Gotoku]''# 30</ref> [[wikipedia:Proposal Daisakusen|Proposal Daisakusen]],<ref> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposal_Daisakusen Proposal Daisakusen]'' Episode # 10 </ref> [[wikipedia:Sonic X|Sonic X]], [[wikipedia:Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple|Kenichi the Mighties Disciple]]<ref> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenichi:_The_Mightiest_Disciple Kenichi: The Mighties Disciple]''</ref>, [[wikipedia:Angelic Layer|Angelic Layer]]<ref>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelic_Layer Angelic Layer]'' Episode 22</ref>, and [[wikipedia:Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]<ref>'''Trucy''': "This Summer: A Legal Eagles Production of 'Case Closed'." ...Looks like a poster for a different show. '''Apollo''': ...One I wouldn't mind seeing real soon. ''(Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)''</ref> In case of Inuyasha, Detective Conan features Conan reading Inuyasha manga first in [[Kogoro_Mouri,_Suspect|Episode 200]] (aired July 24, 2000). Later, [[Shinichi]] and [[Ran]] made their [[wikipedia:cameo appearance|cameo appearance]] in Inuyasha episode 128 (aired October 13, 2003).

Conan has also been used as a character to promote people to follow the law in Japan, due to the popularity of the series.
<div class="left">[[File:Future_Detective_Conan_the_Great.png|250px|thumb|right|Detective Conan cameo in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]</div>
<div class="left">[[File:DCinInuyasha.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Detective Conan in Inuyasha episode 128]]</div>
{{clearleft}}

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|名探偵コナン Meitantei Konan|Lit. "Great Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Case Closed|Due to copyright issues, however packaging still mentions "Detective Conan" title.}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|المحقق كونان Al-Muhakik Konan|Sometimes called المتحري كونان {{Bracket|Al-Mutahrry Konan|(Investigator Konan)}} }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Detectiu Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Simplified Chinese|名侦探柯南 Mingzhentan Kenan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|名偵探柯南 Mingchent’an k’onan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Détective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|O detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Detektiv Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=India|Hindi|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Hungary|Hungarian|Conan, a detektív| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Indonesia|Detektif Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Detektif Conan Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|명탐정 코난 Myeongtamjeong Konan|Lit. "Great Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Poland|Polish|Detektyw Conan Detective Tsonan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russia|Детектив Конан | }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish/Spanish Latin|Detective Conan| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Mästerdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Denmark|Danish|Mesterdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Norway|Norwegian|Mesterdetektiven Conan|Lit. "The Master-Detective Conan"}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ยอดนักสืบจิ๋วโคนัน {{Bracket|Yodnakseubjew Conan|(Great Detective Boy Conan)}}|Sometimes called ยอดนักสืบรุ่นจิ๋วโคนัน Yodnakseub Roonjew Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Thám tử lừng danh Conan|Renowned Detective Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Salapoliisi Conan|Detective Conan}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Czech Republic|Czech|Detektiv Conan| }}
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== See also ==
* [[Detective Conan in France]]
* [[Detective Conan in Spain]]
* [[Detective Conan in Italy]]
* [[Detective Conan in Germany]]
* [[Detective Conan in the Arab World]]
* [[Detective Conan in Finland]]
* [[Detective Conan in the Philippines]]
* [[Detective Conan in Korea]]
* [[Detective Conan in Thailand]]

== References ==

<references/>
{{OtherLang}}
[[Category:General Information|*]]
[[de:Detektiv Conan‏‎]]

Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

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{{InfoBox Movie
| video = D7gsd5XL39k
| movie = 7
| image = Movie7poster.jpg
| title = Crossroad in the Ancient Capital
| english-title =
| japanese-title = 名探偵コナン迷宮の十字路 (Meitantei Konan Meikyū no Kurosuroodo)
| season =
| airdate = April 19, 2003
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Goro Otaki]] [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Miwako Sato]] [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]/[[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Heiji Hattori]]
| case =
| prev-movie = The Phantom of Baker Street
| next-movie = Magician of the Silver Sky
| footnotes =
}}
== Characters introduced ==

{{NewChar|name = [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]]|image = Fumimaro Ayanokoji.jpg|description =
* 26 years old
* Inspector from Kyoto Police District}}
{{clearleft}}

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Hiroshi Agasa|display=Professor Agasa}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{Char|Goro Otaki}}
{{Char|Juzo Megure|display=Inspector Megure}}
{{Char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{Char|Miwako Sato}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Stun-Gun Wristwatch}}
{{Gadget|Detective Boys Badge}}
{{Gadget|Criminal Tracking Glasses}}
{{Gadget|Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt}}
}}

== Case ==

=== Situation ===
It starts in a past where the little girl is bouncing the little ball under the cherry blossom tree while singing a song. Heiji was in love with her after he saw her playing outside a temple when he was little.

In the present at Beika Station, Conan (using Shinichi's voice) is talking to Ran on the phone. Conan said he's been pretty busy working on the case and Ran told Conan (as Shinichi) to be careful because there's going to be a cold weather. Kogoro is singing while being drunk. He's singing about Yoshinoyama which refers to a play written about two characters in Japanese history. Minamoto Yoshitsune and his concubine, Shizuka Gozen. They separated when Yoshitsune's brother pressed him to flee to northern Japan.

That night in Tokyo - Nishikuni Tachi City, they were three men waiting for a person called Benkei. Suddenly, the mysterious masked samurai appeared and got the bow and arrow to get ready to shoot at someone. He shoots the arrow and kills the man.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie7 Case1.jpg
| location = Tokyo - Nishikuni Tachi City
| victim = Hachiro Kataoka
| cause-death = Arrow shot wound
| suspects = Benkei
| description =
}}

The samurai got the sword and slashes two other men in cold blood.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie7 Case2.jpg
| location = Tokyo - Nishikuni Tachi City
| victim = Shichiro Washino
| cause-death = Slash wound
| suspects = Benkei
| description =
}}

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie7 Case3.jpg
| location = Tokyo - Nishikuni Tachi City
| victim = Rokuro Kamei
| cause-death = Slash wound
| suspects = Benkei
| description =
}}

After that, he collected the books and the mysterious code papers from the victims. Benkei now fled the crime scene. In Osaka at "Tokohei" restaurant, he stabbed the owner which is one of Heiji's friends.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie7 Case4.jpg
| location = "Tokohei" restaurant in Osaka
| victim = Heishiro Bizen
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects = Benkei
| description =
}}

He got the same book and the mysterious code paper just like the previous victims had. Later at early dawn in Kyoto, he kills the man and got another same book and the mysterious code paper. He now fled the crime scene.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie7 Case5.jpg
| location = "Snack Jiro" in Kyoto
| victim = Jiro Suruga
| cause-death = Slash wound
| suspects = Benkei
| description =
}}

Several days later at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters, Inspector Megure and the two other policemen from Osaka and Kyoto are having a conversation to the press talking about the wanted criminal. The police confirmed that they're one of the members of the robbery group called the Genjibotaru. The Genjibotaru has been stealing the famous Buddha statues. Their activities have been centered in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto since the year of 1991. Their members are named after servants of Yoshitsune, holding the books called the Yoshitsune Chronicles.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = Movie7 Case6.jpg
| location =
| victim = Shozo Sakura
| cause-death = Slit wound on the throat
| suspects =
| description =
}}

=== People ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Rokuro Kamei|Rokuro Kamei.jpg|
* Victim (slashed)
* 35 years old}}
{{People|Shichiro Washino|Shichiro Washino.jpg|
* Victim (slashed)
* 35 years old}}
{{People|Hachiro Kataoka|Hachiro Kataoka.jpg|
* Victim (arrow shot)
* 34 years old}}
{{People|Heishiro Bizen|Heishiro Bizen.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 35 years old}}
{{People|Jiro Suruga|Jiro Suruga.jpg|
* Victim (slashed)
* 32 years old}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Ryuen|Ryuen.jpg|
* 34 years old
* Monk of Sanno Temple}}
{{People|Enkai|Enkai.jpg|
* 65 years old
* Chief priest of Sanno Temple}}
{{People|Shozo Sakura|Shozo Sakura.jpg|
* Victim (throat slit)
* 51 years old
* Antique arts dealer}}
{{People|Shuntaro Mizuo|Shuntaro Mizuo.jpg|
* 33 years old
* Noh performer}}
{{People|Taiga Saijo|Taiga Saijo.jpg|
* 35 years old
* Used book store owner}}
{{clear}}
{{People|Tae Yamakura|Tae Yamakura.jpg|
* 52 years old
* Mistress of Tea House in Miyagawacho}}
{{People|Suzu Chika|Suzu Chika.jpg|
* 19 years old
* Dancer}}
{{People|Kayo Ichi|Kayo Ichi.jpg|
* Geisha}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>
Kazuha is kidnapped by the murderer because Heiji is too injured to do anything. The only way Kazuha will be let go is if Heiji himself goes and rescues her.

Conan finds a way to turn back into Shinichi. The culprit is revealed to be '''Taiga Saijo'''. Shinichi disguises himself to look like Heiji in order to rescue Kazuha. However, the rescue goes wrong and Shinichi ends up unable to fight because the antidote was only temporary. The real Heiji shows up and fights the men that are coming after him and Kazuha.

Shinichi runs into Ran while and has to use his tranquilizer watch to knock her out as he turns back into Conan. He goes back to the scene of the fight where Heiji and the culprit are fighting on a roof. The now-released Kazuha and Conan take out a few of their foes and Conan kicks a soccer ball at Heiji's opponent, giving Heiji an opportunity to win the fight.

In the very end, Heiji realizes Kazuha was his first love when she starts singing the song that he heard the girl at the temple sing back when he was young and also tells him about the time she went to Kyoto with him. Ran also learns that Shinichi being there with her wasn't a dream when Conan uses a trick to make the sweat she wiped off Shinichi's face appear on her handkerchief.
</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* Heishiro Bizen from [[Conan, Heiji, and the Vanished Boy]] appeared again, but got killed by Benkei.
* This is the first movie not to be dubbed by FUNimation.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]
{{Movies}}

[[Category:Movies]]

Miwako Sato

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