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The Bride of Halloween

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{{InfoBox Movie
| video = HTRrw7S7KoI
| movie = 25
| image = Movie 25.jpg
| title = The Bride of Halloween
| english-title =
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|名探偵コナンハロウィンの花嫁}} (''Meitantei Conan: Harōin no Hanayome'')
| season =
| airdate = April 15, 2022
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Miwako Sato]] [[Jinpei Matsuda]] [[Kenji Hagiwara]] [[Wataru Date]] [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] [[Rei Furuya]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Juzo Megure]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Naeko Miike]] [[Yuya Kazami]] [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Serial bomber]] [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]] [[Manabu Fujimaki]] [[Detective Ida]] [[Detective Fukui]] [[Detective Okumura]] [[Detective Hirota]] [[Detective Horita]] [[Detective Nakamura]] [[Detective Takigawa]] [[Detective Sugita]] [[Detective Saitoh]] [[Ryusuke Higo]] [[Yoko Okino]] [[Zero the Enforcer|Sayoko Shokoku]] [[Kamen Yaiba]] [[Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Unnamed officer]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| director = [[Susumu Mitsunaka]]
| screenplay = [[Takahiro Okura]]
| storyboard = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Iwao Teraoka]] [[Jiro Kanai]]
| producer = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Kazuki Yokoyama]] [[Kentaro Kawajiri]]
| animation-director = [[Masatomo Sudo]] (chief) [[Yoshiharu Shimizu]] [[Hiroyuki Notake]] [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] [[Naruyuki Takahashi]] [[Yuko Iwasa]] [[Akio Kawamura]] Iwao Teraoka [[Kyoko Yoshimi]] (asst.) [[Hirona Okada]] (asst.) [[Ayu Imoto]] (asst.) [[Keiko Sasaki]] (asst.) [[Akiko Motoyoshi]] (asst.) [[Miwa Oshima]] (asst.) [[Kenichi Otomo]] (asst.) [[Marie Nagano]] (asst.) [[Joji Yanase]] (asst.) [[Kyoko Yufu]] (asst.) [[Mari Tominaga]] (asst.) [[Kana Aoki]] (asst.) [[Michitaka Yamamoto]] (asst.) [[Sae Fukushima]] (asst.) [[Takashi Hashimoto]] (effects)
| character-design = Masatomo Sudo '''Design Works''': [[Hiroshi Ogawa]] '''Layout checker''': [[Shinsuke Ishikawa]]
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] and Shinichi Kudo (young) [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Rikiya Koyama]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Tohru Furuya]] as [[Rei Furuya]] [[Nobutoshi Canna]] as [[Jinpei Matsuda]] [[Shinichiro Miki]] as [[Kenji Hagiwara]] [[Hiroki Tochi]] as [[Wataru Date]] [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] as [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]], [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Atsuko Yuya]] as [[Miwako Sato]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Isshin Chiba]] as [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Yuu Sugimoto]] as [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Rie Tanaka]] as [[Naeko Miike]] [[Nobuo Tobita]] as [[Yuya Kazami]] [[Joji Nakata]] as Serial bomber [[Mai Shiraishi]] as Yelenika Lavrentyeva [[Kenta Miyake]] as [[Minor law enforcement#Tsutomu Muranaka|Tsutomu Muranaka]] [[Yuriko Yamaguchi]] as Christine Richard [[Volcano Ota]] as Oleg Lavrentyev [[Vladimir Bogdanov]] as Dmitri Lazarev [[Aleksej Rachubo]] as Grigori Lazarev [[Maksim Kolesnik]] as Sergey [[Eugene]] as Russian man [[Tomoyuki Shimura]] as PSB agent A [[Biichi Sato]] as PSB agent B [[Taro Kiuchi]] as Police officer [[Yasuhiro]] as Police detective A [[Kenta Matsumoto]] as Police detective B [[Shinnosuke Ogami]] as Forensics officer [[Takuma Suzuki]] as Chief priest [[Yuka Keicho]] as Nurse [[Jenya]] as Woman [[Makoto Kaneko]] as Part-time worker [[Yukari Hikida]] as Reporter [[Miyu Oshima]] as Female high school student
| theme-song = Chronostasis
| soundtrack = Detective Conan "The Bride of Halloween" Original Soundtrack
| case =
| prev-movie = The Scarlet Bullet
| next-movie = Movie 26
| footnotes =
}}
'''The Bride of Halloween''' is the 25th movie in the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' franchise. It was released in Japan on April 15, 2022. Yugo Kanno was in charge of the movie soundtrack instead of Katsuo Ohno.<ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-12-22/25th-detective-conan-film-trailer-highlights-police-academy-characters/.180925</ref> The movie was also announced to be released in [[Wikipedia: IMAX|IMAX]], [[Wikipedia: MX4D|MX4D]], [[Wikipedia: 4DX|4DX]], and [[Wikipedia: Dolby Cinema|DOLBY CINEMA]] in Japan.

The movie got a "Halloween Revival" screening from October 28 to November 7, 2022. The special screening features a new teaser of [[Movie 26]], which was released publically after the screening ended.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Rei Furuya}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Jinpei Matsuda|display=Jinpei Matsuda (flashback)}}
{{char|Kenji Hagiwara|display=Kenji Hagiwara (flashback)}}
{{char|Wataru Date|display=Wataru Date (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiromitsu Morofushi|display=Hiromitsu Morofushi (flashback)}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{char|Ai Haibara}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{char|Genta Kojima}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{char|Yumi Miyamoto}}
{{char|Naeko Miike}}
{{char|Yuya Kazami}}
{{char|Kiyonaga Matsumoto}}
{{char|Serial Bomber|Serial Bomber|display=Serial bomber}}
{{char|Manabu Fujimaki}}
{{char|Detective Ida}}
{{char|Detective Fukui}}
{{char|Detective Okumura}}
{{char|Detective Hirota}}
{{char|Detective Horita}}
{{char|Detective Nakamura}}
{{char|Detective Takigawa|Nakamura-keiji|display=Detective Takigawa}}
{{char|Detective Sugita}}
{{char|Detective Saitoh}}
{{char|Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Takigawa-keiji|display=Unnamed officer}}
{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman1|display=PSB Agent #1}}
{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman2|display=PSB Agent #2}}
{{char|Ryusuke Higo|display=Ryusuke Higo (cellphone puppet)}}
{{char|Yoko Okino|display=Yoko Okino (TV)}}
{{char|Zero the Enforcer#People|Sayoko Shokoku|display=Sayoko Shokoku}}
{{char|Kamen Yaiba|display=Kamen Yaiba (TV)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Turbo Engine Skateboard}}
{{Gadget|Criminal Tracking Glasses}}
{{Gadget|Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Transmitter}}
{{Gadget|Detective Boys Badge}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
[[Shibuya]], Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, and members of the first division of the Metropolitan Police Department, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]] assist to the marriage of [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]. [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] in a bride dress enters the room, accompanied by superintendent [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Matsumoto]] and the priest asks the couple to pronounce their vows. Just before Sato can make hers, a group of armed men bursts into the room. One of them manages to walk up to Sato and tries to shoot her, but Takagi leaps in front of him, protecting Sato and taking the bullet, much to Sato's shock. It turns out that everything was fake, as it was a police drill held by [[Juzo Megure|Megure]], diguised as the priest, and Kogoro in planning of former first division superintendent Tsutomu Muranaka's marriage. Nevertheless, in Sato's eyes, the image of the grim reaper that she had seen when [[Jinpei Matsuda]], the man she had been in love with, had been killed in a series of bombings three years ago, overlapped with Takagi's.

At the same time, the same [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|serial bomber]] that killed Matsuda escapes from [[Wikipedia: Fuchū Prison|Fuchu Prison]]. [[Rei Furuya]]/Tooru Amuro, a member of the public safety police, is hunting down the man who killed his classmate along with his subordinate [[Yuya Kazami]]. They manage to corner him in an elevated parking lot, but he reveals that he has a collar bomb around his neck. Before they can react, the liquids on both sides of the bomb touch which triggers the bomb, instantly killing the bomber and projecting the two agents away. Furuya wakes up shortly after, and catches Kazami's unconscious body before it falls off the guardrail, but a mysterious masked person puts a collar around his neck, the same collar the serial bomber wore.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder/Bombing
| image = M25 Case 1.jpg
| location = Parking lot, Tokyo Metropolis
| victim = Serial bomber
| age = Unknown
| time =
| cause-death = Collar bomb
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
}}

Back at [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]'s house, the Detective Boys are preparing their Halloween costumes and are whining about the marriage being fake when they hear a loud blast. Rushing to the back of the house, they see Agasa next to a crater caused by a new update he made on Conan's [[Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt|ball-dispensing belt]], letting it adjust the size of the soccer balls he can throw. The Detective Boys then head to the [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department|Metropolitan Police Department headquarters]] to meet Kogoro, who promised to take to out to eat after his meeting for the security committee. After reaching Kogoro, the group walks towards the restaurant, but a foreign man with a broken bloodstained tablet passing them drops a piece of paper. [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] picks it up and catches up with the man to give it back to him. The man's tablet suddenly turns red and it explodes, sending Haibara on the boulevard. Kogoro runs into circulation and manages to save her, but is hit and injured by an oncoming truck. Later on, the police arrives and tend to Haibara's minor injuries while bringing Kogoro to the hospital.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder/Bombing
| image = M25 Case 2.jpg
| location = [[wikipedia:ja:内堀通り|Uchibori Street]], Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
| victim = Deaths: Oleg Lavrentyev Non-fatal injuries: Ai Haibara
| victim-label = Victims
| age = 7 years old (Haibara)
| time =
| cause-death = Bomb in tablet
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Accident
| image = M25 Case 3.jpg
| location = Uchibori Street, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
| victim = Kogoro Mouri
| victim-label = Victim
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Hit by truck
| cause-death-label = Injury
| description =
}}

Conan asks Haibara if the man told her anything, and she replies that he thanked her in a Russian accent. The man, who died instantly, is revealed to not have many possessions on him that could identify him, and even the piece of paper from earlier was destroyed. Near the tarp covering the body, amongst the crowd, a blonde-haired woman weeps. The forensics officer at the scene finds a business card and hands it over to the group, who find a familiar name on it: Jinpei Matsuda, a former detective from the bomb squad that stayed one week in the first division, before dying in a serial bombing case three years ago. The detectives then try to find a correlation between the business card and Matsuda, and ask Sato, who was the paired with him, if she remembered anything about the business card. Sato replies by the negative, and locks herself in her office, but is followed closely by Conan, who knows she knows about it. Sato accepts Conan's help to find when Matsuda could have given the business card. Matsuda was transferred on October 31, and was busy everyday until the 6th of November, but died on the 7th. It would have thus meant that he had handed the card on the 6th. Suddenly, Sato remembers that on the night of the 5th, she saw Matsuda with a rosary, which meant that he went to the cemetery that night, and that he could have handed out a card at that moment. Both figure out that he went to his colleague [[Kenji Hagiwara]]'s grave, who was on the same bomb squad as him and died seven years ago from the same bomber.

At the grave, located in Gessanji Temple's (月参寺) cemetery, Sato and Takagi ask the priest who went to the Hagiwara's grave, and he tells them that a man named Furuya went there every year and that he was a former member of the forces with Hagiwara. Both then try to search in the police database, but his name is nowhere to be found. An injured Yuya Kazami then comes and interrupts their investigation, saying that the PSB will take over the case. This infuriates Sato, and when Takagi tries to calm her down, they get into a fight, which makes Takagi feel helpless. [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Shiratori]], Takagi's former rival in love, who was next to them, says that right now he is the only hope for Sato, which gives him confidence again. In the evening, Conan and Ran visit Kogoro at the Hibiya Hospital, and there they meet Muranaka along with his future wife, Christine Richard from France. They discuss at the café about how both met and they also reveal that they went to see Kogoro so he could give a speech at their marriage, since Christine is a fan of his. Both convene to meet Ran and Conan the next day to see Halloween decorations around town. After the couple leaves, Ran decides to stay at the hospital to watch over her father, and Conan tells her that he will stay at the professor's for the night, reassuring her. After Ran leaves, Conan confronts the two [[List of Zero's Tea Time Characters#PSB Agent 1|PSB agents]] secretly spying on him.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attemped Bombing (Past)
| image = M25 Case 4.jpg
| location =
| victim =
| age =
| time = November 6, 3 years ago
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Bombing
| image = M25 Case 6.jpg
| location =
| victim =
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects =
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
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{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image = M25 Case 5.jpg
| location =
| victim = Kazunobu Chiba
| age = 24
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Dmitri Lazarev and Grigori Lazarev
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping and Hostage Situation
| image = M25 Case 6.jpg
| location =
| victim = Wataru Takagi
| age = 26
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Dmitri Lazarev and another Nado Unichtozit' member
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
}}

=== People ===
{{beginBox}}
{{people|Yelenika Lavrentyeva|Yelenika Lavrentyeva.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Nado Unichtozit' leader}}
{{people|Oleg Lavrentyev|Oleg Lavrentyev.jpg|
* Victim (explosion)
* Yelenika's older brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Dmitri Lazarev|Dmitri Lazarev.jpg|
* Grigori's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Grigori Lazarev|Grigori Lazarev.jpg|
* Dmitri's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Tsutomu Muranaka|Tsutomu Muranaka]]|Tsutomu Muranaka.jpg|
* Former MPD Division 1 Senior Superintendent
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Christine Richard|Christine Richard.jpg|
* 40 years old
* Tsutomu's fiancée
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Plamya|Plamya.jpg|
* International hitman
* Unknown identity}}
{{people|Sergey|Sergey.jpg|
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Forensics officer|M25 Forensics.jpg|
* Tokyo MPD Forensics officer}}
{{people|Chief priest|M25 Priest.jpg|
* Gessanji Temple chief priest}}
{{endBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>Plamya's identity is '''Christine Richard'''.
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Shootout
| image = M25 Case 7.jpg
| location =
| victim =
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Massive Bombing
| image = M25 Case 8.jpg
| location = Shibuya
| victim =
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = M25 Case 9.jpg
| location =
| victim = Rei Furuya
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description = Plamya attempt to killed Rei in revenge for ruining her plan but was knock out by Muranaka
}}</spoiler>

== Music ==
The [[Detective Conan "The Bride of Halloween" Original Soundtrack|main soundtrack]] is composed and arranged by [[Yugo Kanno]], reprising the role of veteran music composer [[Katsuo Ohno]]. Ohno still being involved as supervisor for the main theme arrangement.

The insert song ''[[Kimi ga Ireba]]'' is used again in the movie since [[The Private Eyes' Requiem]]. It is sung by [[Karen Aoki]], with a new arrangement by Yugo Kanno.

The ending theme is titled ''[[Chronostasis]]'', sung by [[BUMP OF CHICKEN]].

== Anime to movie changes ==
* In the anime version, the bombings that took the life of Hagiwara and later Matsuda both happened on January 6, the same as the airdate of episode 304 (January 6, 2003). In the movie, similar to the original manga, the bombings happened on November 7.

== Trivia ==
* The movie is a commemorative work for the 100th anniversary of Shogakukan.
* This is the first movie to be produced under the name TMS/Studio 1.
* The special guest voice actor for this movie is actress [[Wikipedia: Mai Shiraishi|Mai Shiraishi]], a former member of the Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46, who voiced Yelenika Lavrentyeva<ref>https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2222297/full/</ref>.

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|عروس شيبويا<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220517190511/https://spacetoon.com/conan-movie/</ref>|The Bride Of Shibuya}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|La núvia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|万圣夜的新娘|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=France|French|La fiancée de Shibuya|The Shibuya Fiancée}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Halloween-Braut<ref>[https://conannews.org/film-25-kommt-ende-mai-2022-in-deutschland-ins-kino/46295/ ''Film 25 kommt Ende Mai 2022 in Deutschland ins Kino'']. ''ConanNews.org'' (in German). 6 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022.</ref>|The Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La novia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เจ้าสาวฮาโลวีน|Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Nàng dâu Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:M25 Poster.jpg|Poster drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25PromotionalArtByAoyama.jpg|Promotional art drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25 Poster Sakura.jpg|Sakura visual poster
</gallery>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]
* [[Wild Police Story]]
* [[Love Story at Police Headquarters ~Wedding Eve~]]
* [[The Flying Jack-o'-lantern]]

{{Movies}}
{{Wild Police Story}}

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{{InfoBox Movie
| video = HTRrw7S7KoI
| movie = 25
| image = Movie 25.jpg
| title = The Bride of Halloween
| english-title =
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|名探偵コナンハロウィンの花嫁}} (''Meitantei Conan: Harōin no Hanayome'')
| season =
| airdate = April 15, 2022
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Miwako Sato]] [[Jinpei Matsuda]] [[Kenji Hagiwara]] [[Wataru Date]] [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] [[Rei Furuya]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Juzo Megure]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Naeko Miike]] [[Yuya Kazami]] [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Serial bomber]] [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]] [[Manabu Fujimaki]] [[Detective Ida]] [[Detective Fukui]] [[Detective Okumura]] [[Detective Hirota]] [[Detective Horita]] [[Detective Nakamura]] [[Detective Takigawa]] [[Detective Sugita]] [[Detective Saitoh]] [[Ryusuke Higo]] [[Yoko Okino]] [[Zero the Enforcer|Sayoko Shokoku]] [[Kamen Yaiba]] [[Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Unnamed officer]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| director = [[Susumu Mitsunaka]]
| screenplay = [[Takahiro Okura]]
| storyboard = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Iwao Teraoka]] [[Jiro Kanai]]
| producer = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Kazuki Yokoyama]] [[Kentaro Kawajiri]]
| animation-director = [[Masatomo Sudo]] (chief) [[Yoshiharu Shimizu]] [[Hiroyuki Notake]] [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] [[Naruyuki Takahashi]] [[Yuko Iwasa]] [[Akio Kawamura]] Iwao Teraoka [[Kyoko Yoshimi]] (asst.) [[Hirona Okada]] (asst.) [[Ayu Imoto]] (asst.) [[Keiko Sasaki]] (asst.) [[Akiko Motoyoshi]] (asst.) [[Miwa Oshima]] (asst.) [[Kenichi Otomo]] (asst.) [[Marie Nagano]] (asst.) [[Joji Yanase]] (asst.) [[Kyoko Yufu]] (asst.) [[Mari Tominaga]] (asst.) [[Kana Aoki]] (asst.) [[Michitaka Yamamoto]] (asst.) [[Sae Fukushima]] (asst.) [[Takashi Hashimoto]] (effects)
| character-design = Masatomo Sudo '''Design Works''': [[Hiroshi Ogawa]] '''Layout checker''': [[Shinsuke Ishikawa]]
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] and Shinichi Kudo (young) [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Rikiya Koyama]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Tohru Furuya]] as [[Rei Furuya]] [[Nobutoshi Canna]] as [[Jinpei Matsuda]] [[Shinichiro Miki]] as [[Kenji Hagiwara]] [[Hiroki Tochi]] as [[Wataru Date]] [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] as [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]], [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Atsuko Yuya]] as [[Miwako Sato]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Isshin Chiba]] as [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Yuu Sugimoto]] as [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Rie Tanaka]] as [[Naeko Miike]] [[Nobuo Tobita]] as [[Yuya Kazami]] [[Joji Nakata]] as Serial bomber [[Mai Shiraishi]] as Yelenika Lavrentyeva [[Kenta Miyake]] as [[Minor law enforcement#Tsutomu Muranaka|Tsutomu Muranaka]] [[Yuriko Yamaguchi]] as Christine Richard [[Volcano Ota]] as Oleg Lavrentyev [[Vladimir Bogdanov]] as Dmitri Lazarev [[Aleksej Rachubo]] as Grigori Lazarev [[Maksim Kolesnik]] as Sergey [[Eugene]] as Russian man [[Tomoyuki Shimura]] as PSB agent A [[Biichi Sato]] as PSB agent B [[Taro Kiuchi]] as Police officer [[Yasuhiro]] as Police detective A [[Kenta Matsumoto]] as Police detective B [[Shinnosuke Ogami]] as Forensics officer [[Takuma Suzuki]] as Chief priest [[Yuka Keicho]] as Nurse [[Jenya]] as Woman [[Makoto Kaneko]] as Part-time worker [[Yukari Hikida]] as Reporter [[Miyu Oshima]] as Female high school student
| theme-song = Chronostasis
| soundtrack = Detective Conan "The Bride of Halloween" Original Soundtrack
| case =
| prev-movie = The Scarlet Bullet
| next-movie = Movie 26
| footnotes =
}}
'''The Bride of Halloween''' is the 25th movie in the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' franchise. It was released in Japan on April 15, 2022. Yugo Kanno was in charge of the movie soundtrack instead of Katsuo Ohno.<ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-12-22/25th-detective-conan-film-trailer-highlights-police-academy-characters/.180925</ref> The movie was also announced to be released in [[Wikipedia: IMAX|IMAX]], [[Wikipedia: MX4D|MX4D]], [[Wikipedia: 4DX|4DX]], and [[Wikipedia: Dolby Cinema|DOLBY CINEMA]] in Japan.

The movie got a "Halloween Revival" screening from October 28 to November 7, 2022. The special screening features a new teaser of [[Movie 26]], which was released publically after the screening ended.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Rei Furuya}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Jinpei Matsuda|display=Jinpei Matsuda (flashback)}}
{{char|Kenji Hagiwara|display=Kenji Hagiwara (flashback)}}
{{char|Wataru Date|display=Wataru Date (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiromitsu Morofushi|display=Hiromitsu Morofushi (flashback)}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{char|Ai Haibara}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{char|Genta Kojima}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{char|Yumi Miyamoto}}
{{char|Naeko Miike}}
{{char|Yuya Kazami}}
{{char|Kiyonaga Matsumoto}}
{{char|Serial Bomber|Serial Bomber|display=Serial bomber}}
{{char|Manabu Fujimaki}}
{{char|Detective Ida}}
{{char|Detective Fukui}}
{{char|Detective Okumura}}
{{char|Detective Hirota}}
{{char|Detective Horita}}
{{char|Detective Nakamura}}
{{char|Detective Takigawa|Nakamura-keiji|display=Detective Takigawa}}
{{char|Detective Sugita}}
{{char|Detective Saitoh}}
{{char|Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Takigawa-keiji|display=Unnamed officer}}
{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman1|display=PSB Agent #1}}
{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman2|display=PSB Agent #2}}
{{char|Ryusuke Higo|display=Ryusuke Higo (cellphone puppet)}}
{{char|Yoko Okino|display=Yoko Okino (TV)}}
{{char|Zero the Enforcer#People|Sayoko Shokoku|display=Sayoko Shokoku}}
{{char|Kamen Yaiba|display=Kamen Yaiba (TV)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Turbo Engine Skateboard}}
{{Gadget|Criminal Tracking Glasses}}
{{Gadget|Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Transmitter}}
{{Gadget|Detective Boys Badge}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
[[Shibuya]], Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, and members of the first division of the Metropolitan Police Department, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]] assist to the marriage of [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]. [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] in a bride dress enters the room, accompanied by superintendent [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Matsumoto]] and the priest asks the couple to pronounce their vows. Just before Sato can make hers, a group of armed men bursts into the room. One of them manages to walk up to Sato and tries to shoot her, but Takagi leaps in front of him, protecting Sato and taking the bullet, much to Sato's shock. It turns out that everything was fake, as it was a police drill held by [[Juzo Megure|Megure]], diguised as the priest, and Kogoro in planning of former first division superintendent Tsutomu Muranaka's marriage. Nevertheless, in Sato's eyes, the image of the grim reaper that she had seen when [[Jinpei Matsuda]], the man she had been in love with, had been killed in a series of bombings three years ago, overlapped with Takagi's.

At the same time, the same [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|serial bomber]] that killed Matsuda escapes from [[Wikipedia: Fuchū Prison|Fuchu Prison]]. [[Rei Furuya]]/Tooru Amuro, a member of the public safety police, is hunting down the man who killed his classmate along with his subordinate [[Yuya Kazami]]. They manage to corner him in an elevated parking lot, but he reveals that he has a collar bomb around his neck. Before they can react, the liquids on both sides of the bomb touch which triggers the bomb, instantly killing the bomber and projecting the two agents away. Furuya wakes up shortly after, and catches Kazami's unconscious body before it falls off the guardrail, but a mysterious masked person puts a collar around his neck, the same collar the serial bomber wore.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder/Bombing
| image = M25 Case 1.jpg
| location = Parking lot, Tokyo Metropolis
| victim = Serial bomber
| age = Unknown
| time =
| cause-death = Collar bomb
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
}}

Back at [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]'s house, the Detective Boys are preparing their Halloween costumes and are whining about the marriage being fake when they hear a loud blast. Rushing to the back of the house, they see Agasa next to a crater caused by a new update he made on Conan's [[Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt|ball-dispensing belt]], letting it adjust the size of the soccer balls he can throw. The Detective Boys then head to the [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department|Metropolitan Police Department headquarters]] to meet Kogoro, who promised to take to out to eat after his meeting for the security committee. After reaching Kogoro, the group walks towards the restaurant, but a foreign man with a broken bloodstained tablet passing them drops a piece of paper. [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] picks it up and catches up with the man to give it back to him. The man's tablet suddenly turns red and it explodes, sending Haibara on the boulevard. Kogoro runs into circulation and manages to save her, but is hit and injured by an oncoming truck. Later on, the police arrives and tend to Haibara's minor injuries while bringing Kogoro to the hospital.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder/Bombing
| image = M25 Case 2.jpg
| location = [[wikipedia:ja:内堀通り|Uchibori Street]], Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
| victim = Deaths: Oleg Lavrentyev Non-fatal injuries: Ai Haibara
| victim-label = Victims
| age = 7 years old (Haibara)
| time =
| cause-death = Bomb in tablet
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Accident
| image = M25 Case 3.jpg
| location = Uchibori Street, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
| victim = Kogoro Mouri
| victim-label = Victim
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Hit by truck
| cause-death-label = Injury
| description =
}}

Conan asks Haibara if the man told her anything, and she replies that he thanked her in a Russian accent. The man, who died instantly, is revealed to not have many possessions on him that could identify him, and even the piece of paper from earlier was destroyed. Near the tarp covering the body, amongst the crowd, a blonde-haired woman weeps. The forensics officer at the scene finds a business card and hands it over to the group, who find a familiar name on it: Jinpei Matsuda, a former detective from the bomb squad that stayed one week in the first division, before dying in a serial bombing case three years ago. The detectives then try to find a correlation between the business card and Matsuda, and ask Sato, who was the paired with him, if she remembered anything about the business card. Sato replies by the negative, and locks herself in her office, but is followed closely by Conan, who knows she knows about it. Sato accepts Conan's help to find when Matsuda could have given the business card. Matsuda was transferred on October 31, and was busy everyday until the 6th of November, but died on the 7th. It would have thus meant that he had handed the card on the 6th. Suddenly, Sato remembers that on the night of the 5th, she saw Matsuda with a rosary, which meant that he went to the cemetery that night, and that he could have handed out a card at that moment. Both figure out that he went to his colleague [[Kenji Hagiwara]]'s grave, who was on the same bomb squad as him and died seven years ago from the same bomber.

At the grave, located in Gessanji Temple's (月参寺) cemetery, Sato and Takagi ask the priest who went to the Hagiwara's grave, and he tells them that a man named Furuya went there every year and that he was a former member of the forces with Hagiwara. Both then try to search in the police database, but his name is nowhere to be found. An injured Yuya Kazami then comes and interrupts their investigation, saying that the PSB will take over the case. This infuriates Sato, and when Takagi tries to calm her down, they get into a fight, which makes Takagi feel helpless. [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Shiratori]], Takagi's former rival in love, who was next to them, says that right now he is the only hope for Sato, which gives him confidence again. In the evening, Conan and Ran visit Kogoro at the Hibiya Hospital, and there they meet Muranaka along with his future wife, Christine Richard from France. They discuss at the café about how both met and they also reveal that they went to see Kogoro so he could give a speech at their marriage, since Christine is a fan of his. Both convene to meet Ran and Conan the next day to see Halloween decorations around town. After the couple leaves, Ran decides to stay at the hospital to watch over her father, and Conan tells her that he will stay at the professor's for the night, reassuring her. After Ran leaves, Conan confronts the two [[List of Zero's Tea Time Characters#PSB Agent 1|PSB agents]] secretly spying on him.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attemped Bombing (Past)
| image = M25 Case 4.jpg
| location =
| victim =
| age =
| time = November 6, 3 years ago
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image = M25 Case 5.jpg
| location =
| victim = Kazunobu Chiba
| age = 24
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Dmitri Lazarev and Grigori Lazarev
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping and Hostage Situation
| image = M25 Case 6.jpg
| location =
| victim = Wataru Takagi
| age = 26
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Dmitri Lazarev and another Nado Unichtozit' member
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
}}

=== People ===
{{beginBox}}
{{people|Yelenika Lavrentyeva|Yelenika Lavrentyeva.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Nado Unichtozit' leader}}
{{people|Oleg Lavrentyev|Oleg Lavrentyev.jpg|
* Victim (explosion)
* Yelenika's older brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Dmitri Lazarev|Dmitri Lazarev.jpg|
* Grigori's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Grigori Lazarev|Grigori Lazarev.jpg|
* Dmitri's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Tsutomu Muranaka|Tsutomu Muranaka]]|Tsutomu Muranaka.jpg|
* Former MPD Division 1 Senior Superintendent
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Christine Richard|Christine Richard.jpg|
* 40 years old
* Tsutomu's fiancée
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Plamya|Plamya.jpg|
* International hitman
* Unknown identity}}
{{people|Sergey|Sergey.jpg|
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Forensics officer|M25 Forensics.jpg|
* Tokyo MPD Forensics officer}}
{{people|Chief priest|M25 Priest.jpg|
* Gessanji Temple chief priest}}
{{endBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>Plamya's identity is '''Christine Richard'''.
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Shootout
| image = M25 Case 7.jpg
| location =
| victim =
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Massive Bombing
| image = M25 Case 8.jpg
| location = Shibuya
| victim =
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = M25 Case 9.jpg
| location =
| victim = Rei Furuya
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description = Plamya attempt to killed Rei in revenge for ruining her plan but was knock out by Muranaka
}}</spoiler>

== Music ==
The [[Detective Conan "The Bride of Halloween" Original Soundtrack|main soundtrack]] is composed and arranged by [[Yugo Kanno]], reprising the role of veteran music composer [[Katsuo Ohno]]. Ohno still being involved as supervisor for the main theme arrangement.

The insert song ''[[Kimi ga Ireba]]'' is used again in the movie since [[The Private Eyes' Requiem]]. It is sung by [[Karen Aoki]], with a new arrangement by Yugo Kanno.

The ending theme is titled ''[[Chronostasis]]'', sung by [[BUMP OF CHICKEN]].

== Anime to movie changes ==
* In the anime version, the bombings that took the life of Hagiwara and later Matsuda both happened on January 6, the same as the airdate of episode 304 (January 6, 2003). In the movie, similar to the original manga, the bombings happened on November 7.

== Trivia ==
* The movie is a commemorative work for the 100th anniversary of Shogakukan.
* This is the first movie to be produced under the name TMS/Studio 1.
* The special guest voice actor for this movie is actress [[Wikipedia: Mai Shiraishi|Mai Shiraishi]], a former member of the Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46, who voiced Yelenika Lavrentyeva<ref>https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2222297/full/</ref>.

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|عروس شيبويا<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220517190511/https://spacetoon.com/conan-movie/</ref>|The Bride Of Shibuya}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|La núvia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|万圣夜的新娘|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=France|French|La fiancée de Shibuya|The Shibuya Fiancée}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Halloween-Braut<ref>[https://conannews.org/film-25-kommt-ende-mai-2022-in-deutschland-ins-kino/46295/ ''Film 25 kommt Ende Mai 2022 in Deutschland ins Kino'']. ''ConanNews.org'' (in German). 6 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022.</ref>|The Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La novia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เจ้าสาวฮาโลวีน|Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Nàng dâu Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:M25 Poster.jpg|Poster drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25PromotionalArtByAoyama.jpg|Promotional art drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25 Poster Sakura.jpg|Sakura visual poster
</gallery>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]
* [[Wild Police Story]]
* [[Love Story at Police Headquarters ~Wedding Eve~]]
* [[The Flying Jack-o'-lantern]]

{{Movies}}
{{Wild Police Story}}

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[[de:Film 25]]

The Bride of Halloween

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| video = HTRrw7S7KoI
| movie = 25
| image = Movie 25.jpg
| title = The Bride of Halloween
| english-title =
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|名探偵コナンハロウィンの花嫁}} (''Meitantei Conan: Harōin no Hanayome'')
| season =
| airdate = April 15, 2022
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Miwako Sato]] [[Jinpei Matsuda]] [[Kenji Hagiwara]] [[Wataru Date]] [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] [[Rei Furuya]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Juzo Megure]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Naeko Miike]] [[Yuya Kazami]] [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Serial bomber]] [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]] [[Manabu Fujimaki]] [[Detective Ida]] [[Detective Fukui]] [[Detective Okumura]] [[Detective Hirota]] [[Detective Horita]] [[Detective Nakamura]] [[Detective Takigawa]] [[Detective Sugita]] [[Detective Saitoh]] [[Ryusuke Higo]] [[Yoko Okino]] [[Zero the Enforcer|Sayoko Shokoku]] [[Kamen Yaiba]] [[Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Unnamed officer]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| director = [[Susumu Mitsunaka]]
| screenplay = [[Takahiro Okura]]
| storyboard = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Iwao Teraoka]] [[Jiro Kanai]]
| producer = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Kazuki Yokoyama]] [[Kentaro Kawajiri]]
| animation-director = [[Masatomo Sudo]] (chief) [[Yoshiharu Shimizu]] [[Hiroyuki Notake]] [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] [[Naruyuki Takahashi]] [[Yuko Iwasa]] [[Akio Kawamura]] Iwao Teraoka [[Kyoko Yoshimi]] (asst.) [[Hirona Okada]] (asst.) [[Ayu Imoto]] (asst.) [[Keiko Sasaki]] (asst.) [[Akiko Motoyoshi]] (asst.) [[Miwa Oshima]] (asst.) [[Kenichi Otomo]] (asst.) [[Marie Nagano]] (asst.) [[Joji Yanase]] (asst.) [[Kyoko Yufu]] (asst.) [[Mari Tominaga]] (asst.) [[Kana Aoki]] (asst.) [[Michitaka Yamamoto]] (asst.) [[Sae Fukushima]] (asst.) [[Takashi Hashimoto]] (effects)
| character-design = Masatomo Sudo '''Design Works''': [[Hiroshi Ogawa]] '''Layout checker''': [[Shinsuke Ishikawa]]
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] and Shinichi Kudo (young) [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Rikiya Koyama]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Tohru Furuya]] as [[Rei Furuya]] [[Nobutoshi Canna]] as [[Jinpei Matsuda]] [[Shinichiro Miki]] as [[Kenji Hagiwara]] [[Hiroki Tochi]] as [[Wataru Date]] [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] as [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]], [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Atsuko Yuya]] as [[Miwako Sato]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Isshin Chiba]] as [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Yuu Sugimoto]] as [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Rie Tanaka]] as [[Naeko Miike]] [[Nobuo Tobita]] as [[Yuya Kazami]] [[Joji Nakata]] as Serial bomber [[Mai Shiraishi]] as Yelenika Lavrentyeva [[Kenta Miyake]] as [[Minor law enforcement#Tsutomu Muranaka|Tsutomu Muranaka]] [[Yuriko Yamaguchi]] as Christine Richard [[Volcano Ota]] as Oleg Lavrentyev [[Vladimir Bogdanov]] as Dmitri Lazarev [[Aleksej Rachubo]] as Grigori Lazarev [[Maksim Kolesnik]] as Sergey [[Eugene]] as Russian man [[Tomoyuki Shimura]] as PSB agent A [[Biichi Sato]] as PSB agent B [[Taro Kiuchi]] as Police officer [[Yasuhiro]] as Police detective A [[Kenta Matsumoto]] as Police detective B [[Shinnosuke Ogami]] as Forensics officer [[Takuma Suzuki]] as Chief priest [[Yuka Keicho]] as Nurse [[Jenya]] as Woman [[Makoto Kaneko]] as Part-time worker [[Yukari Hikida]] as Reporter [[Miyu Oshima]] as Female high school student
| theme-song = Chronostasis
| soundtrack = Detective Conan "The Bride of Halloween" Original Soundtrack
| case =
| prev-movie = The Scarlet Bullet
| next-movie = Movie 26
| footnotes =
}}
'''The Bride of Halloween''' is the 25th movie in the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' franchise. It was released in Japan on April 15, 2022. Yugo Kanno was in charge of the movie soundtrack instead of Katsuo Ohno.<ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-12-22/25th-detective-conan-film-trailer-highlights-police-academy-characters/.180925</ref> The movie was also announced to be released in [[Wikipedia: IMAX|IMAX]], [[Wikipedia: MX4D|MX4D]], [[Wikipedia: 4DX|4DX]], and [[Wikipedia: Dolby Cinema|DOLBY CINEMA]] in Japan.

The movie got a "Halloween Revival" screening from October 28 to November 7, 2022. The special screening features a new teaser of [[Movie 26]], which was released publically after the screening ended.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Rei Furuya}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Jinpei Matsuda|display=Jinpei Matsuda (flashback)}}
{{char|Kenji Hagiwara|display=Kenji Hagiwara (flashback)}}
{{char|Wataru Date|display=Wataru Date (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiromitsu Morofushi|display=Hiromitsu Morofushi (flashback)}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{char|Ai Haibara}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{char|Genta Kojima}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{char|Yumi Miyamoto}}
{{char|Naeko Miike}}
{{char|Yuya Kazami}}
{{char|Kiyonaga Matsumoto}}
{{char|Serial Bomber|Serial Bomber|display=Serial bomber}}
{{char|Manabu Fujimaki}}
{{char|Detective Ida}}
{{char|Detective Fukui}}
{{char|Detective Okumura}}
{{char|Detective Hirota}}
{{char|Detective Horita}}
{{char|Detective Nakamura}}
{{char|Detective Takigawa|Nakamura-keiji|display=Detective Takigawa}}
{{char|Detective Sugita}}
{{char|Detective Saitoh}}
{{char|Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Takigawa-keiji|display=Unnamed officer}}
{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman1|display=PSB Agent #1}}
{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman2|display=PSB Agent #2}}
{{char|Ryusuke Higo|display=Ryusuke Higo (cellphone puppet)}}
{{char|Yoko Okino|display=Yoko Okino (TV)}}
{{char|Zero the Enforcer#People|Sayoko Shokoku|display=Sayoko Shokoku}}
{{char|Kamen Yaiba|display=Kamen Yaiba (TV)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Turbo Engine Skateboard}}
{{Gadget|Criminal Tracking Glasses}}
{{Gadget|Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Transmitter}}
{{Gadget|Detective Boys Badge}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
[[Shibuya]], Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, and members of the first division of the Metropolitan Police Department, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]] assist to the marriage of [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]. [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] in a bride dress enters the room, accompanied by superintendent [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Matsumoto]] and the priest asks the couple to pronounce their vows. Just before Sato can make hers, a group of armed men bursts into the room. One of them manages to walk up to Sato and tries to shoot her, but Takagi leaps in front of him, protecting Sato and taking the bullet, much to Sato's shock. It turns out that everything was fake, as it was a police drill held by [[Juzo Megure|Megure]], diguised as the priest, and Kogoro in planning of former first division superintendent Tsutomu Muranaka's marriage. Nevertheless, in Sato's eyes, the image of the grim reaper that she had seen when [[Jinpei Matsuda]], the man she had been in love with, had been killed in a series of bombings three years ago, overlapped with Takagi's.

At the same time, the same [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|serial bomber]] that killed Matsuda escapes from [[Wikipedia: Fuchū Prison|Fuchu Prison]]. [[Rei Furuya]]/Tooru Amuro, a member of the public safety police, is hunting down the man who killed his classmate along with his subordinate [[Yuya Kazami]]. They manage to corner him in an elevated parking lot, but he reveals that he has a collar bomb around his neck. Before they can react, the liquids on both sides of the bomb touch which triggers the bomb, instantly killing the bomber and projecting the two agents away. Furuya wakes up shortly after, and catches Kazami's unconscious body before it falls off the guardrail, but a mysterious masked person puts a collar around his neck, the same collar the serial bomber wore.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder/Bombing
| image = M25 Case 1.jpg
| location = Parking lot, Tokyo Metropolis
| victim = Serial bomber
| age = Unknown
| time =
| cause-death = Collar bomb
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
}}

Back at [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]'s house, the Detective Boys are preparing their Halloween costumes and are whining about the marriage being fake when they hear a loud blast. Rushing to the back of the house, they see Agasa next to a crater caused by a new update he made on Conan's [[Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt|ball-dispensing belt]], letting it adjust the size of the soccer balls he can throw. The Detective Boys then head to the [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department|Metropolitan Police Department headquarters]] to meet Kogoro, who promised to take to out to eat after his meeting for the security committee. After reaching Kogoro, the group walks towards the restaurant, but a foreign man with a broken bloodstained tablet passing them drops a piece of paper. [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] picks it up and catches up with the man to give it back to him. The man's tablet suddenly turns red and it explodes, sending Haibara on the boulevard. Kogoro runs into circulation and manages to save her, but is hit and injured by an oncoming truck. Later on, the police arrives and tend to Haibara's minor injuries while bringing Kogoro to the hospital.

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| image = M25 Case 2.jpg
| location = [[wikipedia:ja:内堀通り|Uchibori Street]], Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
| victim = Deaths: Oleg Lavrentyev Non-fatal injuries: Ai Haibara
| victim-label = Victims
| age = 7 years old (Haibara)
| time =
| cause-death = Bomb in tablet
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Accident
| image = M25 Case 3.jpg
| location = Uchibori Street, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
| victim = Kogoro Mouri
| victim-label = Victim
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Hit by truck
| cause-death-label = Injury
| description =
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Conan asks Haibara if the man told her anything, and she replies that he thanked her in a Russian accent. The man, who died instantly, is revealed to not have many possessions on him that could identify him, and even the piece of paper from earlier was destroyed. Near the tarp covering the body, amongst the crowd, a blonde-haired woman weeps. The forensics officer at the scene finds a business card and hands it over to the group, who find a familiar name on it: Jinpei Matsuda, a former detective from the bomb squad that stayed one week in the first division, before dying in a serial bombing case three years ago. The detectives then try to find a correlation between the business card and Matsuda, and ask Sato, who was the paired with him, if she remembered anything about the business card. Sato replies by the negative, and locks herself in her office, but is followed closely by Conan, who knows she knows about it. Sato accepts Conan's help to find when Matsuda could have given the business card. Matsuda was transferred on October 31, and was busy everyday until the 6th of November, but died on the 7th. It would have thus meant that he had handed the card on the 6th. Suddenly, Sato remembers that on the night of the 5th, she saw Matsuda with a rosary, which meant that he went to the cemetery that night, and that he could have handed out a card at that moment. Both figure out that he went to his colleague [[Kenji Hagiwara]]'s grave, who was on the same bomb squad as him and died seven years ago from the same bomber.

At the grave, located in Gessanji Temple's (月参寺) cemetery, Sato and Takagi ask the priest who went to the Hagiwara's grave, and he tells them that a man named Furuya went there every year and that he was a former member of the forces with Hagiwara. Both then try to search in the police database, but his name is nowhere to be found. An injured Yuya Kazami then comes and interrupts their investigation, saying that the PSB will take over the case. This infuriates Sato, and when Takagi tries to calm her down, they get into a fight, which makes Takagi feel helpless. [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Shiratori]], Takagi's former rival in love, who was next to them, says that right now he is the only hope for Sato, which gives him confidence again. In the evening, Conan and Ran visit Kogoro at the Hibiya Hospital, and there they meet Muranaka along with his future wife, Christine Richard from France. They discuss at the café about how both met and they also reveal that they went to see Kogoro so he could give a speech at their marriage, since Christine is a fan of his. Both convene to meet Ran and Conan the next day to see Halloween decorations around town. After the couple leaves, Ran decides to stay at the hospital to watch over her father, and Conan tells her that he will stay at the professor's for the night, reassuring her. After Ran leaves, Conan confronts the two [[List of Zero's Tea Time Characters#PSB Agent 1|PSB agents]] secretly spying on him.

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| crime = Attemped Bombing (Past)
| image = M25 Case 4.jpg
| location =
| victim =
| age =
| time = November 6, 3 years ago
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprit
| description =
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| image = M25 Case 5.jpg
| location =
| victim = Kazunobu Chiba
| age = 24
| time =
| cause-death =
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| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
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| crime = Kidnapping and Hostage Situation
| image = M25 Case 6.jpg
| location =
| victim = Wataru Takagi
| age = 26
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Dmitri Lazarev and another Nado Unichtozit' member
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description =
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=== People ===
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{{people|Yelenika Lavrentyeva|Yelenika Lavrentyeva.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Nado Unichtozit' leader}}
{{people|Oleg Lavrentyev|Oleg Lavrentyev.jpg|
* Victim (explosion)
* Yelenika's older brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Dmitri Lazarev|Dmitri Lazarev.jpg|
* Grigori's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Grigori Lazarev|Grigori Lazarev.jpg|
* Dmitri's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Tsutomu Muranaka|Tsutomu Muranaka]]|Tsutomu Muranaka.jpg|
* Former MPD Division 1 Senior Superintendent
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Christine Richard|Christine Richard.jpg|
* 40 years old
* Tsutomu's fiancée
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Plamya|Plamya.jpg|
* International hitman
* Unknown identity}}
{{people|Sergey|Sergey.jpg|
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Forensics officer|M25 Forensics.jpg|
* Tokyo MPD Forensics officer}}
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* Gessanji Temple chief priest}}
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=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>Plamya's identity is '''Christine Richard'''.</spoiler>
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| crime = Massive Bombing
| image = M25 Case 8.jpg
| location = Shibuya
| victim =
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
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{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = M25 Case 9.jpg
| location =
| victim = Rei Furuya
| age =
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects = Plamya
| suspects-label = Culprits
| description = Plamya attempt to killed Rei in revenge for ruining her plan but was knock out by Muranaka
}}
== Music ==
The [[Detective Conan "The Bride of Halloween" Original Soundtrack|main soundtrack]] is composed and arranged by [[Yugo Kanno]], reprising the role of veteran music composer [[Katsuo Ohno]]. Ohno still being involved as supervisor for the main theme arrangement.

The insert song ''[[Kimi ga Ireba]]'' is used again in the movie since [[The Private Eyes' Requiem]]. It is sung by [[Karen Aoki]], with a new arrangement by Yugo Kanno.

The ending theme is titled ''[[Chronostasis]]'', sung by [[BUMP OF CHICKEN]].

== Anime to movie changes ==
* In the anime version, the bombings that took the life of Hagiwara and later Matsuda both happened on January 6, the same as the airdate of episode 304 (January 6, 2003). In the movie, similar to the original manga, the bombings happened on November 7.

== Trivia ==
* The movie is a commemorative work for the 100th anniversary of Shogakukan.
* This is the first movie to be produced under the name TMS/Studio 1.
* The special guest voice actor for this movie is actress [[Wikipedia: Mai Shiraishi|Mai Shiraishi]], a former member of the Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46, who voiced Yelenika Lavrentyeva<ref>https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2222297/full/</ref>.

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|عروس شيبويا<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220517190511/https://spacetoon.com/conan-movie/</ref>|The Bride Of Shibuya}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|La núvia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|万圣夜的新娘|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=France|French|La fiancée de Shibuya|The Shibuya Fiancée}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Halloween-Braut<ref>[https://conannews.org/film-25-kommt-ende-mai-2022-in-deutschland-ins-kino/46295/ ''Film 25 kommt Ende Mai 2022 in Deutschland ins Kino'']. ''ConanNews.org'' (in German). 6 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022.</ref>|The Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La novia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เจ้าสาวฮาโลวีน|Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Nàng dâu Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:M25 Poster.jpg|Poster drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25PromotionalArtByAoyama.jpg|Promotional art drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25 Poster Sakura.jpg|Sakura visual poster
</gallery>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]
* [[Wild Police Story]]
* [[Love Story at Police Headquarters ~Wedding Eve~]]
* [[The Flying Jack-o'-lantern]]

{{Movies}}
{{Wild Police Story}}

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[[de:Film 25]]

The Bride of Halloween

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| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|名探偵コナンハロウィンの花嫁}} (''Meitantei Conan: Harōin no Hanayome'')
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| airdate = April 15, 2022
| english-airdate =
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| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| director = [[Susumu Mitsunaka]]
| screenplay = [[Takahiro Okura]]
| storyboard = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Iwao Teraoka]] [[Jiro Kanai]]
| producer = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Kazuki Yokoyama]] [[Kentaro Kawajiri]]
| animation-director = [[Masatomo Sudo]] (chief) [[Yoshiharu Shimizu]] [[Hiroyuki Notake]] [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] [[Naruyuki Takahashi]] [[Yuko Iwasa]] [[Akio Kawamura]] Iwao Teraoka [[Kyoko Yoshimi]] (asst.) [[Hirona Okada]] (asst.) [[Ayu Imoto]] (asst.) [[Keiko Sasaki]] (asst.) [[Akiko Motoyoshi]] (asst.) [[Miwa Oshima]] (asst.) [[Kenichi Otomo]] (asst.) [[Marie Nagano]] (asst.) [[Joji Yanase]] (asst.) [[Kyoko Yufu]] (asst.) [[Mari Tominaga]] (asst.) [[Kana Aoki]] (asst.) [[Michitaka Yamamoto]] (asst.) [[Sae Fukushima]] (asst.) [[Takashi Hashimoto]] (effects)
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| prev-movie = The Scarlet Bullet
| next-movie = Movie 26
| footnotes =
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'''The Bride of Halloween''' is the 25th movie in the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' franchise. It was released in Japan on April 15, 2022. Yugo Kanno was in charge of the movie soundtrack instead of Katsuo Ohno.<ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-12-22/25th-detective-conan-film-trailer-highlights-police-academy-characters/.180925</ref> The movie was also announced to be released in [[Wikipedia: IMAX|IMAX]], [[Wikipedia: MX4D|MX4D]], [[Wikipedia: 4DX|4DX]], and [[Wikipedia: Dolby Cinema|DOLBY CINEMA]] in Japan.

The movie got a "Halloween Revival" screening from October 28 to November 7, 2022. The special screening features a new teaser of [[Movie 26]], which was released publically after the screening ended.

== Cast ==
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{{char|Rei Furuya}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
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{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{char|Ai Haibara}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{char|Genta Kojima}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{char|Yumi Miyamoto}}
{{char|Naeko Miike}}
{{char|Yuya Kazami}}
{{char|Kiyonaga Matsumoto}}
{{char|Serial Bomber|Serial Bomber|display=Serial bomber}}
{{char|Manabu Fujimaki}}
{{char|Detective Ida}}
{{char|Detective Fukui}}
{{char|Detective Okumura}}
{{char|Detective Hirota}}
{{char|Detective Horita}}
{{char|Detective Nakamura}}
{{char|Detective Takigawa|Nakamura-keiji|display=Detective Takigawa}}
{{char|Detective Sugita}}
{{char|Detective Saitoh}}
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{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman2|display=PSB Agent #2}}
{{char|Ryusuke Higo|display=Ryusuke Higo (cellphone puppet)}}
{{char|Yoko Okino|display=Yoko Okino (TV)}}
{{char|Zero the Enforcer#People|Sayoko Shokoku|display=Sayoko Shokoku}}
{{char|Kamen Yaiba|display=Kamen Yaiba (TV)}}
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== Gadgets ==
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{{Gadget|Turbo Engine Skateboard}}
{{Gadget|Criminal Tracking Glasses}}
{{Gadget|Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Detective Boys Badge}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
[[Shibuya]], Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, and members of the first division of the Metropolitan Police Department, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]] assist to the marriage of [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]. [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] in a bride dress enters the room, accompanied by superintendent [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Matsumoto]] and the priest asks the couple to pronounce their vows. Just before Sato can make hers, a group of armed men bursts into the room. One of them manages to walk up to Sato and tries to shoot her, but Takagi leaps in front of him, protecting Sato and taking the bullet, much to Sato's shock. It turns out that everything was fake, as it was a police drill held by [[Juzo Megure|Megure]], diguised as the priest, and Kogoro in planning of former first division superintendent Tsutomu Muranaka's marriage. Nevertheless, in Sato's eyes, the image of the grim reaper that she had seen when [[Jinpei Matsuda]], the man she had been in love with, had been killed in a series of bombings three years ago, overlapped with Takagi's.

At the same time, the same [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|serial bomber]] that killed Matsuda escapes from [[Wikipedia: Fuchū Prison|Fuchu Prison]]. [[Rei Furuya]]/Tooru Amuro, a member of the public safety police, is hunting down the man who killed his classmate along with his subordinate [[Yuya Kazami]]. They manage to corner him in an elevated parking lot, but he reveals that he has a collar bomb around his neck. Before they can react, the liquids on both sides of the bomb touch which triggers the bomb, instantly killing the bomber and projecting the two agents away. Furuya wakes up shortly after, and catches Kazami's unconscious body before it falls off the guardrail, but a mysterious masked person puts a collar around his neck, the same collar the serial bomber wore.

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| image = M25 Case 1.jpg
| location = Parking lot, Tokyo Metropolis
| victim = Serial bomber
| age = Unknown
| time =
| cause-death = Collar bomb
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
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Back at [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]'s house, the Detective Boys are preparing their Halloween costumes and are whining about the marriage being fake when they hear a loud blast. Rushing to the back of the house, they see Agasa next to a crater caused by a new update he made on Conan's [[Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt|ball-dispensing belt]], letting it adjust the size of the soccer balls he can throw. The Detective Boys then head to the [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department|Metropolitan Police Department headquarters]] to meet Kogoro, who promised to take to out to eat after his meeting for the security committee. After reaching Kogoro, the group walks towards the restaurant, but a foreign man with a broken bloodstained tablet passing them drops a piece of paper. [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] picks it up and catches up with the man to give it back to him. The man's tablet suddenly turns red and it explodes, sending Haibara on the boulevard. Kogoro runs into circulation and manages to save her, but is hit and injured by an oncoming truck. Later on, the police arrives and tend to Haibara's minor injuries while bringing Kogoro to the hospital.

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| image = M25 Case 2.jpg
| location = [[wikipedia:ja:内堀通り|Uchibori Street]], Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
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| victim-label = Victims
| age = 38 years old (Kogoro) and 7 years old (Haibara)
| time =
| cause-death = Bomb in suitcase
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
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Conan asks Haibara if the man told her anything, and she replies that he thanked her in a Russian accent. The man, who died instantly, is revealed to not have many possessions on him that could identify him, and even the piece of paper from earlier was destroyed. Near the tarp covering the body, amongst the crowd, a blonde-haired woman weeps. The forensics officer at the scene finds a business card and hands it over to the group, who find a familiar name on it: Jinpei Matsuda, a former detective from the bomb squad that stayed one week in the first division, before dying in a serial bombing case three years ago. The detectives then try to find a correlation between the business card and Matsuda, and ask Miwako Sato, who was the paired with him, if she remembered anything about the business card. Sato replies by the negative, and locks herself in her office, but is followed closely by Conan, who knows she knows about it. Sato accepts Conan's help to find when Matsuda could have given the business card. Matsuda was transferred on October 31, and was busy everyday until the 6th of November, but died on the 7th. It would have thus meant that he had handed the card on the 6th. Suddenly, Sato remembers that on the night of the 5th, she saw Matsuda with a rosary, which meant that he went to the cemetery that night, and that he could have handed out a card at that moment. Both figure out that he went to his colleague [[Kenji Hagiwara]]'s grave, who was on the same bomb squad as him and died seven years ago from the same bomber.

At the grave, located in Gessanji Temple's (月参寺) cemetery, Sato and Takagi ask the priest who went to the Hagiwara's grave, and he tells them that a man named Furuya went there every year and that he was a former member of the forces with Hagiwara. Both then try to search in the police database, but his name is nowhere to be found. An injured Yuya Kazami then comes and interrupts their investigation, saying that the PSB will take over the case. This infuriates Sato, and when Takagi tries to calm her down, they get into a fight, which makes Takagi feel helpless. [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Inspector Shiratori]], Takagi's former rival in love, who was next to them, says that right now he is the only hope for Sato, which gives him confidence again. In the evening, Conan and Ran visit Kogoro at the Hibiya Hospital, and there they meet Muranaka along with his future wife, Christine Richard from France. They discuss at the café about how both met and they also reveal that they went to see Kogoro so he could give a speech at their marriage, since Christine is a fan of his. Both convene to meet Ran and Conan the next day to see Halloween decorations around town. After the couple leaves, Ran decides to stay at the hospital to watch over her father, and Conan tells her that he will stay at the professor's for the night, reassuring her. After Ran leaves, Conan confronts the [[List of Zero's Tea Time Characters#PSB Agent 1|two PSB agents]] secretly spying on him.
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=== People ===
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* 29 years old
* Nado Unichtozit' leader}}
{{people|Oleg Lavrentyev|Oleg Lavrentyev.jpg|
* Victim (explosion)
* Yelenika's older brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
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* Grigori's twin brother
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* Dmitri's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
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* Former MPD Division 1 Senior Superintendent
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Christine Richard|Christine Richard.jpg|
* 40 years old
* Tsutomu's fiancée
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Plamya|Plamya.jpg|
* International hitman
* Unknown identity}}
{{people|Sergey|Sergey.jpg|
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Forensics officer|M25 Forensics.jpg|
* Tokyo MPD Forensics officer}}
{{people|Chief priest|M25 Priest.jpg|
* Gessanji Temple chief priest}}
{{endBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>Plamya's identity is '''Christine Richard'''.</spoiler>

== Music ==
"[[Chronostasis]]", by [[BUMP OF CHICKEN]].

== Anime to movie changes ==
* In the anime version, the bombings that took the life of Hagiwara and later Matsuda both happened on January 6, the same as the airdate of episode 304 (January 6, 2003). In the movie, similar to the original manga, the bombings happened on November 7.

== Trivia ==
* The movie is a commemorative work for the 100th anniversary of Shogakukan.
* This is the first movie to be produced under the name TMS/Studio 1.
* The special guest voice actor for this movie is actress [[Wikipedia: Mai Shiraishi|Mai Shiraishi]], a former member of the Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46, who voiced Yelenika Lavrentyeva<ref>https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2222297/full/</ref>.

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|عروس شيبويا<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220517190511/https://spacetoon.com/conan-movie/</ref>|The Bride Of Shibuya}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|La núvia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|万圣夜的新娘|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=France|French|La fiancée de Shibuya|The Shibuya Fiancée}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Halloween-Braut<ref>[https://conannews.org/film-25-kommt-ende-mai-2022-in-deutschland-ins-kino/46295/ ''Film 25 kommt Ende Mai 2022 in Deutschland ins Kino'']. ''ConanNews.org'' (in German). 6 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022.</ref>|The Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La novia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เจ้าสาวฮาโลวีน|Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Nàng dâu Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:M25 Poster.jpg|Poster drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25PromotionalArtByAoyama.jpg|Promotional art drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25 Poster Sakura.jpg|Sakura visual poster
</gallery>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]
* [[Wild Police Story]]
* [[Love Story at Police Headquarters ~Wedding Eve~]]
* [[The Flying Jack-o'-lantern]]

{{Movies}}
{{Wild Police Story}}

[[Category:Movies]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Masatomo Sudo]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Yoshiharu Shimizu]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hiroyuki Notake]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Nobuyuki Iwai]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Nariyuki Takahashi]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Yuko Iwasa]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Akio Kawamura]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Iwao Teraoka]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Kyoko Yoshimi]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hirona Okada]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Ayu Imoto]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Keiko Sasaki]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Akiko Motoyoshi]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Miwa Oshima]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Kenichi Otomo]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Marie Nagano]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Joji Yanase]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Kyoko Yufu]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Mari Tominaga]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Kana Aoki]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Michitaka Yamamoto]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Sae Fukushima]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Takashi Hashimoto]]

[[de:Film 25]]

The Bride of Halloween

2022-11-21T00:21:10Z

Cds: /* Case */

{{InfoBox Movie
| video = HTRrw7S7KoI
| movie = 25
| image = Movie 25.jpg
| title = The Bride of Halloween
| english-title =
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|名探偵コナンハロウィンの花嫁}} (''Meitantei Conan: Harōin no Hanayome'')
| season =
| airdate = April 15, 2022
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Miwako Sato]] [[Jinpei Matsuda]] [[Kenji Hagiwara]] [[Wataru Date]] [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] [[Rei Furuya]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Juzo Megure]] [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Naeko Miike]] [[Yuya Kazami]] [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Serial bomber]] [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]] [[Manabu Fujimaki]] [[Detective Ida]] [[Detective Fukui]] [[Detective Okumura]] [[Detective Hirota]] [[Detective Horita]] [[Detective Nakamura]] [[Detective Takigawa]] [[Detective Sugita]] [[Detective Saitoh]] [[Ryusuke Higo]] [[Yoko Okino]] [[Zero the Enforcer|Sayoko Shokoku]] [[Kamen Yaiba]] [[Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Unnamed officer]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = [[Conan Edogawa]]
| director = [[Susumu Mitsunaka]]
| screenplay = [[Takahiro Okura]]
| storyboard = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Iwao Teraoka]] [[Jiro Kanai]]
| producer = Susumu Mitsunaka [[Kazuki Yokoyama]] [[Kentaro Kawajiri]]
| animation-director = [[Masatomo Sudo]] (chief) [[Yoshiharu Shimizu]] [[Hiroyuki Notake]] [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] [[Naruyuki Takahashi]] [[Yuko Iwasa]] [[Akio Kawamura]] Iwao Teraoka [[Kyoko Yoshimi]] (asst.) [[Hirona Okada]] (asst.) [[Ayu Imoto]] (asst.) [[Keiko Sasaki]] (asst.) [[Akiko Motoyoshi]] (asst.) [[Miwa Oshima]] (asst.) [[Kenichi Otomo]] (asst.) [[Marie Nagano]] (asst.) [[Joji Yanase]] (asst.) [[Kyoko Yufu]] (asst.) [[Mari Tominaga]] (asst.) [[Kana Aoki]] (asst.) [[Michitaka Yamamoto]] (asst.) [[Sae Fukushima]] (asst.) [[Takashi Hashimoto]] (effects)
| character-design = Masatomo Sudo '''Design Works''': [[Hiroshi Ogawa]] '''Layout checker''': [[Shinsuke Ishikawa]]
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] and Shinichi Kudo (young) [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Rikiya Koyama]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Tohru Furuya]] as [[Rei Furuya]] [[Nobutoshi Canna]] as [[Jinpei Matsuda]] [[Shinichiro Miki]] as [[Kenji Hagiwara]] [[Hiroki Tochi]] as [[Wataru Date]] [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] as [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]], [[Wataru Takagi]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Atsuko Yuya]] as [[Miwako Sato]] [[Chafurin]] as [[Juzo Megure]] [[Kazuhiko Inoue]] as [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] [[Isshin Chiba]] as [[Kazunobu Chiba]] [[Yuu Sugimoto]] as [[Yumi Miyamoto]] [[Rie Tanaka]] as [[Naeko Miike]] [[Nobuo Tobita]] as [[Yuya Kazami]] [[Joji Nakata]] as Serial bomber [[Mai Shiraishi]] as Yelenika Lavrentyeva [[Kenta Miyake]] as [[Minor law enforcement#Tsutomu Muranaka|Tsutomu Muranaka]] [[Yuriko Yamaguchi]] as Christine Richard [[Volcano Ota]] as Oleg Lavrentyev [[Vladimir Bogdanov]] as Dmitri Lazarev [[Aleksej Rachubo]] as Grigori Lazarev [[Maksim Kolesnik]] as Sergey [[Eugene]] as Russian man [[Tomoyuki Shimura]] as PSB agent A [[Biichi Sato]] as PSB agent B [[Taro Kiuchi]] as Police officer [[Yasuhiro]] as Police detective A [[Kenta Matsumoto]] as Police detective B [[Shinnosuke Ogami]] as Forensics officer [[Takuma Suzuki]] as Chief priest [[Yuka Keicho]] as Nurse [[Jenya]] as Woman [[Makoto Kaneko]] as Part-time worker [[Yukari Hikida]] as Reporter [[Miyu Oshima]] as Female high school student
| theme-song = Chronostasis
| soundtrack = Detective Conan "The Bride of Halloween" Original Soundtrack
| case =
| prev-movie = The Scarlet Bullet
| next-movie = Movie 26
| footnotes =
}}
'''The Bride of Halloween''' is the 25th movie in the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' franchise. It was released in Japan on April 15, 2022. Yugo Kanno was in charge of the movie soundtrack instead of Katsuo Ohno.<ref>https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-12-22/25th-detective-conan-film-trailer-highlights-police-academy-characters/.180925</ref> The movie was also announced to be released in [[Wikipedia: IMAX|IMAX]], [[Wikipedia: MX4D|MX4D]], [[Wikipedia: 4DX|4DX]], and [[Wikipedia: Dolby Cinema|DOLBY CINEMA]] in Japan.

The movie got a "Halloween Revival" screening from October 28 to November 7, 2022. The special screening features a new teaser of [[Movie 26]], which was released publically after the screening ended.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Rei Furuya}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Jinpei Matsuda|display=Jinpei Matsuda (flashback)}}
{{char|Kenji Hagiwara|display=Kenji Hagiwara (flashback)}}
{{char|Wataru Date|display=Wataru Date (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiromitsu Morofushi|display=Hiromitsu Morofushi (flashback)}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{char|Ai Haibara}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{char|Genta Kojima}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{char|Yumi Miyamoto}}
{{char|Naeko Miike}}
{{char|Yuya Kazami}}
{{char|Kiyonaga Matsumoto}}
{{char|Serial Bomber|Serial Bomber|display=Serial bomber}}
{{char|Manabu Fujimaki}}
{{char|Detective Ida}}
{{char|Detective Fukui}}
{{char|Detective Okumura}}
{{char|Detective Hirota}}
{{char|Detective Horita}}
{{char|Detective Nakamura}}
{{char|Detective Takigawa|Nakamura-keiji|display=Detective Takigawa}}
{{char|Detective Sugita}}
{{char|Detective Saitoh}}
{{char|Minor law enforcement#Manga-based episodes#Unnamed officers|Takigawa-keiji|display=Unnamed officer}}
{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman1|display=PSB Agent #1}}
{{char|The Darkest Nightmare|M20 Policeman2|display=PSB Agent #2}}
{{char|Ryusuke Higo|display=Ryusuke Higo (cellphone puppet)}}
{{char|Yoko Okino|display=Yoko Okino (TV)}}
{{char|Zero the Enforcer#People|Sayoko Shokoku|display=Sayoko Shokoku}}
{{char|Kamen Yaiba|display=Kamen Yaiba (TV)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{Gadgets Appearances|
{{Gadget|Turbo Engine Skateboard}}
{{Gadget|Criminal Tracking Glasses}}
{{Gadget|Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt}}
{{Gadget|Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes}}
{{Gadget|Detective Boys Badge}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
[[Shibuya]], Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, and members of the first division of the Metropolitan Police Department, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]] assist to the marriage of [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]. [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] in a bride dress enters the room, accompanied by superintendent [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Matsumoto]] and the priest asks the couple to pronounce their vows. Just before Sato can make hers, a group of armed men bursts into the room. One of them manages to walk up to Sato and tries to shoot her, but Takagi leaps in front of him, protecting Sato and taking the bullet, much to Sato's shock. It turns out that everything was fake, as it was a police drill held by [[Juzo Megure|Megure]], diguised as the priest, and Kogoro in planning of former first division superintendent Tsutomu Muranaka's marriage. Nevertheless, in Sato's eyes, the image of the grim reaper that she had seen when [[Jinpei Matsuda]], the man she had been in love with, had been killed in a series of bombings three years ago, overlapped with Takagi's.

At the same time, the same [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|serial bomber]] that killed Matsuda escapes from [[Wikipedia: Fuchū Prison|Fuchu Prison]]. [[Rei Furuya]]/Tooru Amuro, a member of the public safety police, is hunting down the man who killed his classmate along with his subordinate [[Yuya Kazami]]. They manage to corner him in an elevated parking lot, but he reveals that he has a collar bomb around his neck. Before they can react, the liquids on both sides of the bomb touch which triggers the bomb, instantly killing the bomber and projecting the two agents away. Furuya wakes up shortly after, and catches Kazami's unconscious body before it falls off the guardrail, but a mysterious masked person puts a collar around his neck, the same collar the serial bomber wore.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder/Bombing
| image = M25 Case 1.jpg
| location = Parking lot, Tokyo Metropolis
| victim = Serial bomber
| age = Unknown
| time =
| cause-death = Collar bomb
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
}}

Back at [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]'s house, the Detective Boys are preparing their Halloween costumes and are whining about the marriage being fake when they hear a loud blast. Rushing to the back of the house, they see Agasa next to a crater caused by a new update he made on Conan's [[Anywhere Ball Dispensing Belt|ball-dispensing belt]], letting it adjust the size of the soccer balls he can throw. The Detective Boys then head to the [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department|Metropolitan Police Department headquarters]] to meet Kogoro, who promised to take to out to eat after his meeting for the security committee. After reaching Kogoro, the group walks towards the restaurant, but a foreign man with a broken bloodstained tablet passing them drops a piece of paper. [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] picks it up and catches up with the man to give it back to him. The man's tablet suddenly turns red and it explodes, sending Haibara on the boulevard. Kogoro runs into circulation and manages to save her, but is hit and injured by an oncoming truck. Later on, the police arrives and tend to Haibara's minor injuries while bringing Kogoro to the hospital.

{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder/Bombing
| image = M25 Case 2.jpg
| location = [[wikipedia:ja:内堀通り|Uchibori Street]], Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
| victim = Deaths: Oleg Lavrentyev Non-fatal injuries: Kogoro Mouri and Ai Haibara
| victim-label = Victims
| age = 38 years old (Kogoro) and 7 years old (Haibara)
| time =
| cause-death = Bomb in suitcase
| suspects = Plamya: Yelenika Lavrentyeva, Dmitri Lazarev, Grigori Lazarev, Tsutomu Muranaka and Christine Richard
| description =
}}

Conan asks Haibara if the man told her anything, and she replies that he thanked her in a Russian accent. The man, who died instantly, is revealed to not have many possessions on him that could identify him, and even the piece of paper from earlier was destroyed. Near the tarp covering the body, amongst the crowd, a blonde-haired woman weeps. The forensics officer at the scene finds a business card and hands it over to the group, who find a familiar name on it: Jinpei Matsuda, a former detective from the bomb squad that stayed one week in the first division, before dying in a serial bombing case three years ago. The detectives then try to find a correlation between the business card and Matsuda, and ask Miwako Sato, who was the paired with him, if she remembered anything about the business card. Sato replies by the negative, and locks herself in her office, but is followed closely by Conan, who knows she knows about it. Sato accepts Conan's help to find when Matsuda could have given the business card. Matsuda was transferred on October 31, and was busy everyday until the 6th of November, but died on the 7th. It would have thus meant that he had handed the card on the 6th. Suddenly, Sato remembers that on the night of the 5th, she saw Matsuda with a rosary, which meant that he went to the cemetery that night, and that he could have handed out a card at that moment. Both figure out that he went to his colleague [[Kenji Hagiwara]]'s grave, who was on the same bomb squad as him and died seven years ago from the same bomber.

At the grave, located in Gessanji Temple's (月参寺) cemetery, Sato and Takagi ask the priest who went to the Hagiwara's grave, and he tells them that a man named Furuya went there every year and that he was a former member of the forces with Hagiwara. Both then try to search in the police database, but his name is nowhere to be found. An injured Yuya Kazami then comes and interrupts their investigation, saying that the PSB will take over the case. This infuriates Sato, and when Takagi tries to calm her down, they get into a fight, which makes Takagi feel helpless. [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Inspector Shiratori]], Takagi's former rival in love, who was next to them, says that right now he is the only hope for Sato, which gives him confidence again. In the evening, Conan and Ran visit Kogoro at the Hibiya Hospital, and there they meet Muranaka along with his future wife, Christine Richard from France. They discuss at the café about how both met and they also reveal that they went to see Kogoro so he could give a speech at their marriage, since Christine is a fan of his. Both convene to meet Ran and Conan the next day to see Halloween decorations around town. After the couple leaves, Ran decides to stay at the hospital to watch over her father, and Conan tells her that he will stay at the professor's for the night, reassuring her. After Ran leaves, Conan confronts the [[List of Zero's Tea Time Characters#PSB Agent 1|two PSB agents]] secretly spying on him.
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image =
| location =
| victim = Kazunobu Chiba
| age = 24
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects =
| description =
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Kidnapping
| image =
| location =
| victim = Wataru Takagi
| age = 26
| time =
| cause-death =
| suspects =
| description =
}}
=== People ===
{{beginBox}}
{{people|Yelenika Lavrentyeva|Yelenika Lavrentyeva.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Nado Unichtozit' leader}}
{{people|Oleg Lavrentyev|Oleg Lavrentyev.jpg|
* Victim (explosion)
* Yelenika's older brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Dmitri Lazarev|Dmitri Lazarev.jpg|
* Grigori's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Grigori Lazarev|Grigori Lazarev.jpg|
* Dmitri's twin brother
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Tsutomu Muranaka|Tsutomu Muranaka]]|Tsutomu Muranaka.jpg|
* Former MPD Division 1 Senior Superintendent
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Christine Richard|Christine Richard.jpg|
* 40 years old
* Tsutomu's fiancée
* Kogoro's big fan}}
{{people|Plamya|Plamya.jpg|
* International hitman
* Unknown identity}}
{{people|Sergey|Sergey.jpg|
* Nado Unichtozit' member}}
{{people|Forensics officer|M25 Forensics.jpg|
* Tokyo MPD Forensics officer}}
{{people|Chief priest|M25 Priest.jpg|
* Gessanji Temple chief priest}}
{{endBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>Plamya's identity is '''Christine Richard'''.</spoiler>

== Music ==
"[[Chronostasis]]", by [[BUMP OF CHICKEN]].

== Anime to movie changes ==
* In the anime version, the bombings that took the life of Hagiwara and later Matsuda both happened on January 6, the same as the airdate of episode 304 (January 6, 2003). In the movie, similar to the original manga, the bombings happened on November 7.

== Trivia ==
* The movie is a commemorative work for the 100th anniversary of Shogakukan.
* This is the first movie to be produced under the name TMS/Studio 1.
* The special guest voice actor for this movie is actress [[Wikipedia: Mai Shiraishi|Mai Shiraishi]], a former member of the Japanese idol girl group Nogizaka46, who voiced Yelenika Lavrentyeva<ref>https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2222297/full/</ref>.

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable EpLang}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|عروس شيبويا<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220517190511/https://spacetoon.com/conan-movie/</ref>|The Bride Of Shibuya}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|La núvia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|万圣夜的新娘|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=France|French|La fiancée de Shibuya|The Shibuya Fiancée}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Halloween-Braut<ref>[https://conannews.org/film-25-kommt-ende-mai-2022-in-deutschland-ins-kino/46295/ ''Film 25 kommt Ende Mai 2022 in Deutschland ins Kino'']. ''ConanNews.org'' (in German). 6 March 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2022.</ref>|The Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La novia de Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เจ้าสาวฮาโลวีน|Halloween Bride}}
{{EpLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Nàng dâu Halloween|The Bride of Halloween}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:M25 Poster.jpg|Poster drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25PromotionalArtByAoyama.jpg|Promotional art drawn by Gosho Aoyama
File:M25 Poster Sakura.jpg|Sakura visual poster
</gallery>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Movies]]
* [[Wild Police Story]]
* [[Love Story at Police Headquarters ~Wedding Eve~]]
* [[The Flying Jack-o'-lantern]]

{{Movies}}
{{Wild Police Story}}

[[Category:Movies]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Masatomo Sudo]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Yoshiharu Shimizu]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hiroyuki Notake]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Nobuyuki Iwai]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Nariyuki Takahashi]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Yuko Iwasa]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Akio Kawamura]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Iwao Teraoka]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Kyoko Yoshimi]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Hirona Okada]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Ayu Imoto]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Keiko Sasaki]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Akiko Motoyoshi]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Miwa Oshima]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Kenichi Otomo]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Marie Nagano]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Joji Yanase]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Kyoko Yufu]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Mari Tominaga]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Kana Aoki]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Michitaka Yamamoto]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Sae Fukushima]]
[[Category:Animation directed by Takashi Hashimoto]]

[[de:Film 25]]

Characters

2022-11-12T22:08:09Z

Cds: /* Black Organization */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about secret identities and character allegiances. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}

[[Image:Detective Conan Characters.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Main characters of the series]]
The series was created and is drawn by [[Gosho Aoyama]]. The protagonists from his earlier series [[Magic Kaito]] look very similar: [[Kaitou Kid]] has made many appearances as himself in the anime and manga of the series. The main protagonist of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' series, [[Shinichi Kudo]], and the protagonist of the ''Magic Kaito'' series, [[Kaito Kuroba]], are also similar. Hundreds of minor characters have been created and are always given backgrounds, motives, and personalities that put them under suspicion during the investigation.

The English adaption dubbed by [[Funimation]], called ''Case Closed'', has different names than the one in the manga published by [[Viz Media]].

== Protagonists ==
The series revolves around [[Shinichi Kudo]] and his "child version", [[Conan Edogawa]], as well as his love interest and best friend [[Ran Mouri]] and her father [[Kogoro Mouri]].
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shinichi Kudo|Jimmy Kudo|Main character of the series, and Ran's love interest and later boyfriend. He was shrunk into a child after being forced to take a drug called [[APTX 4869]], which was created by the Black Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Conan Edogawa|Conan Edogawa|"Child" version of Shinichi Kudo. He's after the Black Organization to regain his original body. The show follows his journey and the different cases he encounters along the way.}}
{{CharItem|Ran Mouri|Rachel Moore|Shinichi's childhood friend, and later his girlfriend. She doesn't know Conan's real identity. She's the one taking care of him along with her detective father, Kogoro. She is also skilled in karate.}}
{{CharItem|Kogoro Mouri|Richard Moore|Private eye and Ran's father. Separated from Eri Kisaki, Ran's mother.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Detective Boys ==
{{main|Detective Boys}}
The Detective Boys are called the "Junior Detective League" in the English version of the show. Notably, the Detective Boys are the only people that see the bowtie in action who aren't suspicious about Conan's identity.
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Ayumi Yoshida|Amy Yeager|Member of the Detective Boys. She likes Conan and she considers Haibara a best friend.}}
{{CharItem|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitch Tennison|Member of the Detective Boys. The most intelligent true child in the Detective Boys. He is great when it comes to science and logic.}}
{{CharItem|Genta Kojima|George Kaminski|Member and self-proclaimed leader of the Detective Boys. Loves to eat, especially roasted eel on rice.}}
{{CharItem|Ai Haibara|Vi Graythorn (movies) Anita Hailey (manga)|Member of the Detective Boys and an adult shrunken by [[APTX 4869]]. Her former identity was a Black Organization scientist codenamed "Sherry", real name "Shiho Miyano". She is a developer of APTX4869.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Family & Friends ==
{{main|:Category:Families}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Hiroshi Agasa|Herschel Agasa|Professor who creates gadgets for Conan to use. Is the best friend of Yusaku Kudo. He was the first to know about Conan's true identity.}}
{{CharItem|Sonoko Suzuki|Serena Sebastian|Ran's best friend. The youngest daughter of the wealthy Suzuki family.}}
{{CharItem|Eri Kisaki|Eva Kadan|Ran's mother, a very successful attorney. Married to, but currently living separately from Kogoro Mouri. She is a friend of Yukiko Kudo.}}
{{CharItem|Yusaku Kudo|Booker Kudo|Shinichi's father. A famous mystery novel author who is well-known in both America and Japan.}}
{{CharItem|Yukiko Kudo|Vivian Kudo|Shinichi's mother. A retired actress, she can disguise well and can mimic voices without a voice changer, a skill she learned from the deceased magician Toichi Kuroba. She is a close friend of Sharon Vineyard.}}
{{CharItem|Heiji Hattori|Harley Hartwell|Shinichi's rival detective and best friend from Osaka. Known as "Great Detective of the West". He's also a trained Kendo martial artist and the first to deduce Conan's true identity.}}
{{CharItem|Kazuha Toyama|Kirsten Thomas (anime) Kazuha Toyama (manga) Katrina Tolliver (video game) Katie Thompson (card game)|Heiji Hattori's best friend since childhood and love interest. She is a trained Aikido martial artist.}}
{{CharItem|Yoko Okino|Yoko Okino|Star who is idolized by Kogoro Mouri.}}
{{CharItem|Sumiko Kobayashi|Liz Faulkner|Conan's homeroom teacher and Ninzaburo Shiratori's girlfriend. Also the self-proclaimed manager of the Detective Boys.}}
{{CharItem|Tomoaki Araide|N/A|Kogoro's doctor, Teitan school nurse, and a high school basketball coach. He was once impersonated by Vermouth.}}
{{CharItem|Makoto Kyogoku|N/A|Sonoko Suzuki's boyfriend, and a karate champion that has been admired by Ran.}}
{{CharItem|Shizuka Hattori|N/A|Heiji Hattori's mother.}}
{{CharItem|Jirokichi Suzuki|N/A|Sonoko's uncle, who is obsessed with embarrassing and outsmarting Kaitou Kid.}}
{{CharItem|Eisuke Hondou|N/A|Ran and Sonoko's classmate, whom Conan finds suspicious. He is later discovered to be looking for his sister, Hidemi and wants to follow in the footsteps of his father and sister to be a CIA agent.}}
{{CharItem|Azusa Enomoto|N/A|A kind worker at the coffee shop that is right under the Mouri Detective Agency, who sometimes has a case that she wants Kogoro to solve.}}
{{CharItem|Subaru Okiya|N/A|FBI agent Shuichi Akai's civilian persona after he faked his death to protect Kir. He lives in Shinichi Kudo's house, sometimes assists the Detective Boys and Conan on cases, and keeps an eye on Haibara.}}
{{CharItem|Masumi Sera|N/A|A high school detective who transfers into Ran and Sonoko's high school class. She is the younger sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda.}}
{{CharItem|Shukichi Haneda|N/A|Yumi Miyamoto's boyfriend and a professional shogi player. Also the brother of Shuichi Akai and Masumi Sera.}}
{{CharItem|Sakurako Yonehara|N/A|A housekeeper and Naeko Miike and Kazunobu Chiba's childhood friend.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Law enforcement ==
{{main|Law Enforcement}}
=== Tokyo Metropolitan Police District===
{{main|Tokyo Metropolitan Police}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Juzo Megure|Joseph Meguire|An inspector from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Nicholas Santos|Police inspector who works with Inspector Megure. Originally Detective Takagi's rival for Detective Sato's affection, he is involved with Sumiko Kobayashi.}}
{{CharItem|Miwako Sato|Detective Simone|Female police officer who works with Inspector Megure. Currently involved with Detective Takagi.}}
{{CharItem|Wataru Takagi|Harry Wilder|Police officer who works with Inspector Megure. Currently involved with Detective Sato.}}
{{CharItem|Kazunobu Chiba|Detective Chiba|Police officer who often works with Inspector Megure. He is Naeko Miike's childhood friend and love interest.}}
{{CharItem|Yumi Miyamoto|N/A|A traffic enforcer and Detective Sato's best friend who is a compulsive tease. Also Shukichi Haneda's girlfriend.}}
{{CharItem|Naeko Miike|N/A|A traffic enforcer working with Yumi Miyamoto. She is Kazunobu Chiba's childhood friend and love interest.}}
{{CharItem|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Kristopher McLaughlin|Senior Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police 1st Division and Inspector Megure's superior.}}
{{CharItem|Inspector Yuminaga|N/A|The head inspector of the arson squad and Kogoro Mouri's former superior.}}
{{CharItem|Shintaro Chaki|Bernie Biggers|Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police 2nd Division and Ginzo Nakamori's superior.}}
{{CharItem|Hyoue Kuroda|N/A|Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police 1st Division and Former Nagano Police Chief. He has a damaged eye covered by a shaded lens. He knows that Conan is the [[List of characters who know Conan is Sleeping Kogoro#Hyoue Kuroda|"Brains behind Sleeping Kogoro"]].}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Osaka Police District ===
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Heizo Hattori|Martin Hartwell|Heiji Hattori's father, and a police chief from Osaka Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Ginshiro Toyama|Chief Thomas|Kazuha's father, and a detective from Osaka Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Goro Otaki|Inspector Odin|Inspector from Osaka Police District, and a very close friend to Heiji and Heizo.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Nagano Police District ===
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Kansuke Yamato|N/A|Inspector from Nagano Police District, partially disabled after surviving an avalanche.}}
{{CharItem|Yui Uehara|N/A|Kansuke Yamato's former partner who has recently returned to the force.}}
{{CharItem|image=Taka'aki Morofushi|link=Taka'aki Morofushi|Taka'aki Morofushi (Komei)|N/A|Inspector from Nagano Police District. Childhood friend and rival of Kansuke Yamato. He is also the older brother of Hiromitsu Morofushi.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Other police districts ===
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Sango Yokomizo|Inspector Worthington|Inspector from Shizuoka Police District, known for his gruff personality.}}
{{CharItem|Misao Yamamura|Inspector Magnum|Detective from Gunma Police District, albeit a not very good one. Is later promoted to "Inspector".}}
{{CharItem|Jugo Yokomizo|N/A|Sango Yokomizo's twin brother, also an inspector from Kanagawa Police District. He is not as easygoing as his brother.}}
{{CharItem|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|N/A|Inspector from Kyoto Prefectural Police, also known as the "Royal Inspector" for his noble family line. Notorious for his snobbishness and his attachment to his pet chipmunk.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Japanese intelligence agencies ===
{{main|Japanese intelligence agencies}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|image=Rei Furuya|link=Rei Furuya|Rei Furuya (Bourbon)|N/A|Aka Tooru Amuro. Specializes in detective work and information gathering. He posed as a private detective and became Kogoro Mouri's apprentice. He is later revealed as an undercover National Police Agency investigator working to undermine the Organization.}}
{{CharItem|image=Scotch|link=Hiromitsu Morofushi|Hiromitsu Morofushi (Scotch)|N/A|A deceased undercover investigator from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau. He died while infiltrating the Black Organization and the younger brother of Taka'aki Morofushi.}}
{{CharItem|Yuya Kazami|N/A|An investigator from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau and Rei's Subordinate.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== FBI ===
{{main|Federal Bureau of Investigation}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shuichi Akai|N/A|FBI agent, considered by Gin as his rival, and the "Silver Bullet" that could take down the Black Organization. In the past, he infiltrated the Black Organization under the name Dai Moroboshi and obtained the codename "Rye" before being expelled. He faked his death to protect Kir and is currently undercover as [[Subaru Okiya]].}}
{{CharItem|image=Jodie Starling|link=Jodie Starling|Jodie Starling (Jodie Saintemillion)|N/A|An FBI agent on an undercover assignment against the Black Organization, and Ran's English teacher at one point. }}
{{CharItem|James Black|N/A|High ranking FBI agent, Jodie's superior.}}
{{CharItem|Andre Camel|N/A|FBI agent, played a vital role in the protection of Rena Mizunashi.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== CIA ===
{{main|Central Intelligence Agency}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|image=Hidemi Hondou|link=Hidemi Hondou|Hidemi Hondou (Kir)|N/A|An undercover CIA agent, also pretending to be TV reporter Rena Mizunashi.}}
{{CharItem|Ethan Hondou|N/A|Deceased CIA member who infiltrated the Black Organization. He is also Hidemi and Eisuke's father.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== MI6 ===
{{main|Secret Intelligence Service}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Mary Sera|N/A|An unknown child of middle school age who appears to be a girl with light hair. She is a middle-aged woman and the mother of Shuichi Akai, Shukichi Haneda, and Masumi Sera.}}
{{charItem|Tsutomu Akai|N/A|Mary's husband and the father of Shuichi Akai, Shukichi Haneda, and Masumi Sera. He went missing 17 years ago after the murder of Haneda Kohji and his body was never found.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Black Organization ==
{{main|Black Organization}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|The Boss|The Boss|Click "[[Renya Karasuma|Here]]" to reveal the identity of the Black Organization head, the true central antagonist of the series.}}
{{CharItem|Rum|N/A|Click "[[Kanenori Wakita|Here]]" to reveal the identity of high ranking member of the Black Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Gin|Gin Melkior (manga, later changed to Gin)|A high ranking executive member of the Black Organization. A highly intelligent and lethal assassin, he tried to kill Shinichi with APTX 4869.}}
{{CharItem|Vodka|Vodka Kaspar (manga, later changed to Vodka)|Member of the Black Organization. Gin's secretary and partner on most occasions.}}
{{CharItem|image=Vermouth|link=Vermouth|Chris Vineyard (Vermouth)|N/A|Member of the Black Organization. She is an actress and master of disguise. Considered the boss' "favorite," and knows that Haibara and Conan are Sherry and Shinichi.}} She was known to the world as [[Sharon Vineyard]].
{{CharItem|Chianti|N/A|Member of the Black Organization. Considered an excellent sniper.}}
{{CharItem|Korn|N/A|Member of the Black Organization. Considered an excellent sniper.}}
{{CharItem|image=Shiho Miyano|link=Shiho Miyano|Shiho Miyano (Sherry)|Shiho Miyano |Codenamed Sherry, she was a scientist for the Black Organization and creator of APTX 4869. Her sister's death caused her to betray the Black Organization. Her current alias is [[Ai Haibara]].}}
{{CharItem|Akemi Miyano|Akemi Miyano|Former member of the Black Organization, sister of Shiho Miyano, daughter of Elena Miyano and Atsushi Miyano, and the girlfriend of Shuichi Akai. She was killed by Gin for being a liability to the organization.}}
{{CharItem|Elena Miyano|N/A|Akemi and Shiho Miyano's mother. Deceased member of the Black Organization known as Hell's Angel.}}
{{CharItem|Atsushi Miyano|N/A|Akemi Miyano and Shiho Miyano's father. Deceased member of the Black Organization known as the "Mad Scientist".}}
{{CharItem|Tequila|Tequila|Member of the Black Organization, originally trying to get programs and a list of the world's top programmers. Was accidentally killed by a bomb.}}
{{CharItem|image=Pisco|link=Pisco|Kenzo Masuyama (Pisco)|N/A|An executive member of the Black Organization and a family friend of the Miyanos. His last assignment was to assassinate a politician. He was killed by Gin for getting caught in the act.}}
{{CharItem|Calvados|N/A|Member of the Black Organization, another sniper. Kills himself after Shuichi Akai disables him. He was in love with Vermouth.}}
{{CharItem|Rikumichi Kusuda|N/A|Member of the Black Organization, who pretended to be a patient at the hospital holding Kir. He commits suicide when his cover is blown. His corpse is used to fake Shuichi Akai's death.}}
{{CharItem|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Cornelius Graver|Serial killer whom Conan runs into a few times. Former member of the Black Organization, who was scheduled to be the original test subject for APTX 4869 prior to his escape.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Magic Kaito ==
{{main|Magic Kaito}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Kaito Kuroba|Kaito Kuroba|High school student and magician. Aoko Nakamori's childhood friend, and love interest. Son of world-renowned magician Toichi Kuroba.}}
{{CharItem|Kaitou Kid|Phantom Thief Kid|Secret identity of Kaito Kuroba. Magician and thief, also known to be "uncatchable".}}
{{CharItem|Aoko Nakamori|N/A|Kaito Kuroba's childhood friend, and love interest. Daughter of Ginzo Nakamori.}}
{{CharItem|Ginzo Nakamori|Mace Fuller|Inspector from Tokyo Metropolitan Police 2nd Division, who is obsessed with capturing Kaitou Kid.}}
{{CharItem|Toichi Kuroba|Toichi Kuroba|Kaito Kuroba's deceased father. Once a world-renowned magician and the original Kaitou Kid. He was the one who taught Yukiko Kudo and Sharon Vineyard how to make a perfect disguise.}}
{{CharItem|Chikage Kuroba|N/A|Kaito Kuroba's mother. Before meeting her husband, she was a jewel thief known as Phantom Lady.}}
{{CharItem|Konosuke Jii|N/A|Once Toichi Kuroba's attendant and friend, now Kaito's assistant.}}
{{CharItem|Kaitou Corbeau|N/A|A mysterious thief that looks like Kaitou Kid in black clothing. He recently emerged in Las Vegas before coming to Japan to target the [[Magic Kaito Chapters not yet included in a Volume#Midnight Crow|Midnight Crow]].}}
{{CharItem|Akako Koizumi|N/A|A witch who wishes to seduce Kaitou Kid and enslave all men.}}
{{CharItem|Saguru Hakuba|N/A|High school detective trying to catch Kaitou Kid.}}
{{CharItem|Snake|N/A|The primary antagonist, a member of the [[Magic Kaito Organization]] who is responsible for murdering Toichi Kuroba.}}
{{CharItem|Spider|N/A|An anime-only character who works for the Magic Kaito Organization as an assassin. His public persona is a stage performer and illusionist named Gunter Von Goldberg II.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Others ==

{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|"The Criminal"|"The Criminal"|A generic depiction taking the place of an unknown culprit.}}
{{CharItem|Scar Akai|N/A|Shuichi Akai [[disguise]] used by Bourbon and Vermouth to find out if the real Akai is dead and to lure out Sherry.}}
{{charItem|Kohji Haneda|Koji Haneda|Shukichi's non-blood brother and a professional shogi player. He was forced to take poison, called APTX 4869, created by the Black Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Asaka|N/A|A mysterious person from [[Case from 17 years ago|17 years ago]] whom Conan believes is the killer of Kohji Haneda and potentially the Black Organization member Rum. This person has been missing ever since.}}
{{CharItem|Momiji Ooka|N/A|Kyoto high school student who claims that Heiji is her future husband.}}
{{CharItem|Rumi Wakasa|N/A|New deputy homeroom teacher of class 1-B of Teitan Primary school. She is also somehow connected to Kohji Haneda and the case from 17 years ago as she is keeping an object that has the shape of a Shogi piece inside her pocket. She was also seen looking at the updated APTX victim list that contains both Shinichi's and Kohji's names.}}
{{CharItem|Muga Iori|N/A|The butler of Momiji's family.}}
{{EndTable}}

== More characters ==
*[[List of notable case characters]]
*[[List of minor recurring manga characters]]
*[[List of minor recurring anime characters]]
* [[List of minor recurring movie characters]]
* Click [[Detective Conan Wiki:Characters needing a page|here]] to vote for the next characters to have a main page.

== References ==
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[[Category:General Information]]
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Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano

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The romantic relationship between [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].

== Relationship analysis ==
[[File:Shuichi and Akemi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shuichi asks Akemi why she didn't get away from him after knowing that he was just using her.]]
[[Shuichi Akai]] and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with the woman (and felow agent) he dated until then, [[Jodie Starling]]; he cared deeply for Jodie, but since he had fallen for Akemi he didn't want to keep two parallel relationships.

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.

Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. Later, due to a massive error by [[Andre Camel]], Shuichi is discovered by the rest of the Organization to be an FBI agent, leading to his expulsion. Shuichi confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seem surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. There is an unrevealed P.S. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death.

== Shuichi/Akemi moments ==
=== Manga/Anime ===
==== Memories (309) ====
When Shuichi meets Ran and Conan on the street, he comments on Ran's tears and tells her that she reminds him of a stupid woman (Akemi) who would cry behind his back.

====[[Clash of Red and Black|Shuichi's flashback (502)]] ====
After Shuichi's expulsion, he confirmed that he is an FBI agent to her. However, Akemi didn't seem surprised by this and she said she never suspected him, so Shuichi asked her why she didn't get away from him even if she already knew that he was just using her, and Akemi hinted it is because she loves him.

=== Anime only (non-canon) ===
==== [[Clash of Red and Black|Episode 497: Clash of Red and Black (Disturbance)]] ====
In the anime version of File 600, it is revealed that [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] met because she hit him with the car. She quickly called for an ambulance and they took him to the hospital. In the hospital, they met and reveled each other their names, although Shuichi lies and told her his name was Dai Moroboshi. After it, they started meeting.

== Trivia ==
* Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]], is the real-life husband of [[Akemi Miyano]]'s voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]].
*According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, When Akai-san and Akemi-san were dating he cook rice for her.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
Op25-14.JPG|[[Revive|Opening 25]].
Shuichi and Akemi.jpg|
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Shuichi Akai]]
* [[Akemi Miyano]]
* [[Gin and Shuichi Akai]]
* [[Black Organization]]

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Relationships]]

Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano

2022-11-12T22:03:13Z

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The romantic relationship between [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].

== Relationship analysis ==
[[File:Shuichi and Akemi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shuichi asks Akemi why she didn't get away from him after knowing that he was just using her.]]
[[Shuichi Akai]] and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with the woman (and felow agent) he dated until then, [[Jodie Starling]]; he cared deeply for Jodie, but since he had fallen for Akemi he didn't want to keep two parallel relationships.

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.

Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. Later, due to a massive error by [[Andre Camel]], Shuichi is discovered by the rest of the Organization to be an FBI agent, leading to his expulsion. Shuichi confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seem surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. There is an unrevealed P.S. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death.

== Shuichi/Akemi moments ==
=== Manga/Anime ===
==== Memories (309) ====
When Shuichi meets Ran and Conan on the street, he comments on Ran's tears and tells her that she reminds him of a stupid woman (Akemi) who would cry behind his back.

====[[Clash of Red and Black|Shuichi's flashback (502)]] ====
After Shuichi's expulsion, he confirmed that he is an FBI agent to her. However, Akemi didn't seem surprised by this and she said she never suspected him, so Shuichi asked her why she didn't get away from him even if she already knew that he was just using her, and Akemi hinted it is because she loves him.

=== Anime only (non-canon) ===
==== [[Clash of Red and Black|Episode 497: Clash of Red and Black (Disturbance)]] ====
In the anime version of File 600, it is revealed that [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] met because she hit him with the car. She quickly called for an ambulance and they took him to the hospital. In the hospital, they met and reveled each other their names, although Shuichi lies and told her his name was Dai Moroboshi. After it, they started meeting.

== Trivia ==
* Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]], is the real-life husband of [[Akemi Miyano]]'s voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]].
* In an interview in Singapore in 2016, Gosho confirmed that Akai and Akemi are cousins. It is stated at 34:23 in the audio link.<ref>Aoyama Gosho's Q&A with fans. Singapore 2016. https://clyp.it/mwoiwshx</ref>
*According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, When Akai-san and Akemi-san were dating he cook rice for her.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
Op25-14.JPG|[[Revive|Opening 25]].
Shuichi and Akemi.jpg|
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Shuichi Akai]]
* [[Akemi Miyano]]
* [[Gin and Shuichi Akai]]
* [[Black Organization]]

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Relationships]]

Elena Miyano

2022-11-12T22:02:39Z

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Elena Miyano
| english-name =
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|宮野エレーナ}} (Miyano Erēna)
| image = Elena Miyano Profile.png
| age = 29<ref>Sohei Dejima, her husband's childhood friend, was 54-year-old, then in [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|file 1011]] was a flashback from nineteen years ago.</ref> (deceased)
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (first daughter, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second daughter) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (husband, deceased)
| occupation = Black Organization member Scientist
| nicknames = "Hell Angel" (Black Organization)<ref name="hell angel">Manga Volume 41, File 11, pg 12: "A Mystery Left in a Small Sealed Room". Hell's Angel comes from Haibara's Japanese translation as "The angel which fell into hell".</ref>
| alias = Elena Sera (birth name)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 39|File 398]] Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329]]
| appearances = {{:Elena Miyano Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Hiroko Suzuki]] (eps. 341-771) [[Megumi Hayashibara]] (eps. 953+)
| english-voice = [[Vivian Lu]] (Zero's Tea Time)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Elena Miyano|宮野エレーナ|Miyano Erēna}}''' was a British biochemist in the [[Black Organization]]. She was married to [[Atsushi Miyano]] and had two children, [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> Together she and Atsushi started the [[APTX 4869]] research according to [[Vermouth]].<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> Both Elena and Atsushi died during a research facility fire that [[Pisco]] called an accident. Later the project was taken over by her daughter Shiho.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house thirty years ago to go "somewhere" for his research, most likely the [[Black Organization]]<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 1 (425)</ref>. He got married in this time period to Elena, a foreigner of British origin. [[Vermouth]] hints that they worked on an existing project upon joining,<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents '''who took over''' this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> which is probably part of the one Shiho implied was at least fifty years old.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 9 (189): "The Endangered Ball "; Episodes [[Episode 130|130]]-[[Episode 131|131]] "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> While researching, they worked on a project they called [[Silver Bullet]], which their lab mates refereed to as a "dream drug".<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Elena was nicknamed "Hell Angel" while in the Organization, which [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] translates into Japanese as "the angel which fell into hell".<ref name="hell angel"/> She may have earned the nickname because of her nice personality which set her apart from the darkness of the rest of the organization. She and her husband met [[Hiroshi Agasa]] at a science conference at some point. Agasa remembers that Atsushi was a very polite person who complimented his inventions, but that Elena was a very quiet person who you couldn't tell what she was thinking.<ref> Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6-8 (398-400)</ref> Around twenty-five years ago Elena gave birth to [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and then twenty years ago, the couple and a 4~5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi's father's house then occupied by Atsushi's childhood friend and playmate Sohei Dejima.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] revealed that he had met Elena some time before she died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> She appears in one of Amuro's flashbacks, where she asked him not to pick fights anymore as she wouldn't be able to tend his wounds the next time he comes, because she will go to somewhere "very far away".<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara's mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>

Elena and Atsushi died in a fire at their research facility<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948)</ref> shortly after [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] was born.<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 2 (939)</ref> Most of their work was destroyed, and their deaths were claimed to be an accident by [[Pisco]], who apparently was close with the couple. However, Elena and Atsushi seemed to know that something was going to happen to them. Elena took the time to leave four tapes for Shiho meaning that she knew she was about to do something that she might not survive, and entrusted those tapes to Akemi, who was around seven at the time.<ref>Manga chapters 425 and 427</ref> The four tapes are numbered 1-20 with the numbers split into groups of five. But the first two tapes are blank. The numbers correspond to a message left by Elena for Shiho's same-numbered birthday. On the fourth tape (15-20) message number 18 meant for Shiho’s 18th birthday, Elena talks about if Shiho will regret what she is about to do, she was working on a remarkable drug she called "[[Silver Bullet]]". She added that it was "terrifying" and the research would require them to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Shiho was able to resurrect their project from the salvaged remains, and was already working on it around five years ago.

== Appearance and personality ==
Elena is British and has long blonde hair. In every instance so far she has been shown wearing glasses which cover her eyes. She has also been shown wearing a lab coat.

Since Elena has not appeared or interacted with other characters much on screen, much of her personality has been described by others. Elena seems to have been a very quiet person which has lead to people thinking she didn't understand much Japanese. However we know that she is fluent. Agasa seems to think that she is more suspicious than her "mad scientist" husband, Atsushi.<ref>[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]; [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329: "A Friendship That Can't Be Bought"]]</ref> Elena seems to have had a generally nice personality, which has earned her the nickname "Hell Angel" inside the [[Black Organization]] which implies her niceness on the backdrop of the criminal organization. Given the tapes she left behind, Elena seems to have loved her daughters. That said, Elena left her daughters at the mercy of the Black Organization even though she knew that she was going to "disappear" in advance.

== Skills ==
Due to her work on drug related projects for the [[Black Organization]] she would have to be skilled at biochemistry. She made significant advances on her research project working with her lab mates on creating a "dream drug" that they were calling "[[Silver Bullet]]". It is unknown how much progress was made, only that her daughter [[Shiho Miyano]] was able to make further advances on a project called "[[APTX 4869]]".

Despite her quiet nature and foreign appearance, Elena can speak Japanese fluently. This was called into question by one of the workers living at Atsushi's house. In the anime he later sees Elena talking with Akemi quietly.

== Appellations ==

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== Plot overview ==
=== Hotel Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|178]]) ===
[[Pisco]] tells [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] that he is an old acquaintance of her parents and knew that they were working on a drug project. He is surprised on how far she has come with the project. He also mentions that the parents died in an accident.

=== Moving Dolls Case (Manga: [[Volume 38#Moving Dolls Case|384]], Anime: [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|312]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Silhouette.PNG|thumb|right|200px|The first look at Elena we get, courtesy of Agasa's flashback.]]
When [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] questions Haibara about why she doesn't know much about the Doll sets, the topic shifts to her past. She mentions that the [[Black Organization]] told [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] that her parents had died in a lab accident, but Haibara is skeptical despite Pisco's earlier words. Haibara mentions that she doesn't know much about her mother, but that her father "[[Atsushi Miyano]]" was often called a Mad Scientist, and his projects were often boycotted.

=== The Torn Friendship (Manga: [[Volume 39#The Torn Friendship|398]], Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|329]]) ===
On the way to a camping retreat Agasa comments that he does know the scientist, Atsushi Miyano. He says that he was a very friendly man who complimented his inventions. He reveals that his wife was named "Elena Miyano" and that she was quiet and he could never tell what she was thinking. Rumor has it that she met Atsushi when she came from England to study in Japan.

=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Before.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Elena and Haibara.]]
Approximately thirty years ago Atsushi moved out of the house he inherited from his father to go do research. He left the home to a childhood friend of his to open a design company. A short time later he sent a wedding invitation to his friend. At a point twenty years ago Atsushi and his wife, Elena, and his daughter, Akemi, came back to the house with something very important to tell the friend and stayed overnight, however the friend who was living there was busy and away for a few days. The other members of the company remember Elena being very quiet. They thought it was because she didn't speak Japanese very well, but Akemi spoke it perfectly. Atsushi had been looking out the window frequently and a black car with grey windows was parked nearby quite often. The three of them left without leaving any message behind. Akemi returned at a much more recent point of time (approximately one week before dying) to use the bathroom and hid something in the water tank. Twice someone had broken into the house and broken the lock on the bathroom door, possibly to find the item and spy on the occupants. Haibara reveals that her mother's nickname in the organization was {{nihongo|"Hell Angel"|ヘルエンジェル|Heru Enjeru}} and she translates it into Japanese as {{nihongo|3="jigoku ni ochita tenshi"|2=地獄に落ちた天使|4=the angel that fell to hell}}. At the end of the main case, Conan reveals that the items that Akemi hid in the bathroom were cassette tapes sealed in a plastic bag. The four tapes are numbered in 5 intervals ending with 20. Conan says that the first two tapes were empty and began to listen to the 11-15 tape. He stops and hands the headphones to Haibara saying that its something he shouldn't hear. The tape begins with "To the 11-year old Shiho, happy brithday!" The tapes are recorded messages from Elena to a more grown-up Shiho who she would have not been able to meet.

=== Convenience Store Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Convenience Store Case|427]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|343]]) ===
In the middle of this case we have Haibara sitting in Agasa's basement listening to the tapes that were recovered in the previous case. "Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I am totally on your side. I'll never loose faith in you. Do your best. Well, it'll be your 19th birthday next time... bye-bye honey, oh, by the way... maybe you are old enough to hear this... I'm really..." However this is all we get to hear of the tape. (Later in the series we get the continuation of the quote.)

=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]]) ===
In the confrontation between Jodie and Vermouth at the dock once the main case had finished, Haibara arrived and said that she would willingly give herself over to Vermouth in exchange for sparing everyone else. Vermouth told her "If you want to blame anyone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research."

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|821, 823-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|702, 704]]) ===
[[File:Elena after.png|thumb|left|200px|Amuro has a flashback with Elena.<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara’s mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>]]
After receiving a message from Vermouth on her phone while on the train, Haibara freaks out and ditches the main group and hides around the corner as to not be detected. She then has a flashback to the words that her mother left her on the tapes (that were recovered 400 chapters ago). This version was translated slightly different than the original: "Alright, so the next time will be your 19th birthday... bye-bye see you soon... oh yes, maybe its about time I told you... the truth is, your mom is making a truly terrifying drug at the moment... my lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a "dream drug"... your dad and I are putting our hopes on it and calling it... the silver bullet! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister... please understand Shiho..."

At the end of the case [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]'s identity is revealed and he tells the person he believes to be Shiho that she looks very much like her mother. He reveals that he has met both of the Miyano parents as well as Akemi. However that Shiho happened to be Kaitou Kid in a mask with Haibara feeding him lines.

=== Tea Poisoning Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|889]], Anime: [[The Tense Tea Party|771]]) ===
[[Rei Furuya]] has a flashback to when he was a kid and his wounds were being treated by Elena. However she tells him that soon she may have to go far away and will be unable to continue to treat his wounds from when he was picking fights.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843]]) ===
When a makeup counter sales associate asks Haibara where her mother was, she commented that her mother had died shortly after she was born.

=== Kohji Haneda's Death Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|948]]-[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|950]], Anime: [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene|861-862]]) ===
Haibara gives further details about the deaths of the elder Miyanos. They died in a fire at their research facility. Many of their drug data documents were also destroyed but Shiho was able to recreate their drug based on the parts that survived. It is also revealed that their drug was used for killing like Shiho's APTX 4869. [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] who were killed in their hotel rooms seventeen years ago may have been killed by that drug. However, only Kohji was listed on the [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|APTX 4869's victims' list]].

=== Black Bunny's Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#File 1011- Memories of That Woman|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===
[[File:Elena reveals pregnant.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena reveals that she is pregnant to Atsushi.]]
In a flashback from nineteen years ago, Rei is badly injured due to fighting with his bullies. Akemi brings him to her parents' clinic to get him treated. In contrast to her serious and mind-your-own-business behavior towards her patients, Elena seems very frank with Rei. The reason behind this is she can relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him that he shouldn't come if gets into another fight. But if he hurts his pride by explaining to bullies why he is no different to them, she will surely put a bandage on it. It is revealed that during the flashback, Elena was three months pregnant with Shiho.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: [[Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy|995]]) ===

== Relationship analysis ==
=== [[Atsushi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-coulpe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena and Atsushi.]]
With in a short time of meeting (a few years) they fell in love and got married. Sohei Dejima, Atsushi's childhood friend, reports that he received an invitation to their wedding only a few years after Atsushi had left his home in Dejima's hands.

=== [[Akemi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-family.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena, Atsushi, Akemi, and Rei.]]
She had to trust Akemi enough to have left her tapes for Shiho in Akemi's hands. Akemi was also taken with Elena and Atsushi to visit Atsushi's home twenty years ago. However it must be noted that they were distracted enough by the fact that the [[Black Organization]] was following them that they let Akemi roam free and hide the resident's belongings.

=== [[Shiho Miyano]] ===
She cared enough to leave messages on tapes for the grown-up Shiho for all of the birthdays that she would miss witnessing. She even left some information about the drug project that she was working on called the "[[Silver Bullet]]" using that as an explanation as to why she had to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.

=== [[Vermouth]] ===
Vermouth seems to blame the Miyano parents for her own situation. When she was ready to kill [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] during the showdown at the docks she told her that she should blame her parents for this predicament.

=== [[Rei Furuya]] ===
While the true relationship between them has not been revealed yet, we know that they knew each other when [[Rei Furuya|Rei]] was younger. Rei got into many fights and it seems that Elena would bandage him up after the fights. However, one day, Elena had to move and could no longer bandage him. In the flashback in [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]], it is shown that Elena was very friendly with Amuro, which was unlike her behavior. It was because she could relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him she will surely put a bandage on his wounded pride if he explains to his bullies that he is no different from them. It is revealed that Rei entered the police academy in order to find Elena who disappeared without his knowledge, hoping to find her.

== Name origin ==
"Elena" comes from the German reading of the Irene of [[Wikipedia: Irene Adler|Irene Adler]].<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12259#p810549 Gosho Q&A from Super Digest Book 50+] Q: 76: Does Miyano Elena's name come from the German reading of Irene? 
A: That's right, it does.</ref>

==Trivia==
*In [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene]] Haibara mentioned that Akemi has a Put On Mascara mirror that originally belong to Elena.
*The Miyano couple met in the medical college and Gosho believe Elena fell in love first according to the LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I'm totally on your side! Well, it will be you nineteenth birthday next time. Bye-bye, honey. Oh yes, maybe it's about time I told you... The truth is, your mom is making a truly ''terrifying'' drug at the moment. My lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a dream drug. Your dad and I are putting all our hopes on it and calling it the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister. Please understand, Shiho.|Part of Elena's message on Shiho's 18th tape.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pgs 7-8: "Mystery Train: Junction"</ref>}}
{{cquote|Even if people look different, when you peel back our skin, we're all just lumps of blood and flesh. To prove it, every race in the world has red blood flowing through them, just like yours.|Rei's memory of Elena Miyano treating his wounds.<ref>[[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]]</ref>}}

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Nch re0340 NTV.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 340 remastered's hint.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP953-Elena Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 953]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" |
[[File:Elena Miyano2.png|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 1029 (Wild Police Story Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Elena Miyano ZTT.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Zero's Tea Time Episode 5]]
|}

== Speculation ==

=== Elena Miyano and Mary are sisters ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
In 2014 [[Gosho Aoyama]] did an interview with the Da Vinci magazine in which he revealed that "Two mothers will be revealed to be sisters". Many people jumped in with the idea that [[Mary Sera|Mary]], the [[Akai family]] mother, would be one of them since she is a recently introduced character of the arc that was happening at the time. Additional speculation began to link Elena as the other sister due to her being mentioned in the same question of the same interview. Furthermore, the two are both British.

In November 2015, the manga [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|Department Store Stabbing Case]], Conan noticed some left over make-up on [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s face that made it look like she had the [[Akai family]] eye bags. Conan immediately began to suspect that Haibara may be related to Mary. At this stage in the series we have not seen Elena Miyano's eyes for comparison.

In an interview in Singapore in 2016, Gosho confirmed that [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Akemi Miyano]] are cousins. It is stated at 34:23 in the audio link.<ref>Aoyama Gosho's Q&A with fans. Singapore 2016. https://clyp.it/mwoiwshx</ref> This would imply that one of Shuichi's parents is a sibling of one of Akemi's parents.

In April 2018, Elena Miyano's face was fully revealed in the manga [[Volume 95#Black Bunny.27s Club Case|Black Bunny Club Case]]. She does not have the Akai family eye marks, however she does mention having an older sister. In combination with the statements above this feels like one step away from being proven.

==== Other commentary on sisters speculation ====
'''Gosho has given three different [[Super Digest Books]] Q&A answers on the subject.''' 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB70.2B questions translations|SDB 70+]] 
Q67: Are [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] and [[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary|mother]] sisters? 
A: Yukiko is not the sister... 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB80.2B questions translations|SDB 80+]] 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and [[Shuichi Akai]]'s/[[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary Sera|mother]] sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 
Q62: Are [[Masumi Sera|Sera-san]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) 

'''Gosho has also talked about it in [[Postcards]]''' 
[[Postcards#2016|2016]] 
Elena and Mary, sisters? ...please look forward to it~~ (laugh) 
Relationship between the [[Mary|ryōiki-gai no imōto (sister from outside the domain)]] and Haibara... please look forward to it (laugh).

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}
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Volume 102

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Cds: /* File 1087 - Idiots */

{{InfoBox Volume
| volume = 102
| image = Volume 102.jpg
| releasedate = September 15, 2022
| chapters = 1081-1091
| isbn = 978-4-09-851255-3
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| english-releasedate =
| english-isbn =
| english-publisher =
| detective = [[Wikipedia: Police in a Pod|Seiko Fuji]]
| keyhole = [[Chihaya Hagiwara]]
| prev-volume = Volume 101
| next-volume = Volume 103
| footnotes =
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== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Ai Haibara}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{char|Genta Kojima}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Rei Furuya}}
{{char|Azusa Enomoto}}
{{char|Wataru Date|display=Wataru Date (background)}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Misao Yamamura}}
{{char|Kansuke Yamato}}
{{char|Yui Uehara}}
{{char|Taka'aki Morofushi}}
{{char|Hiromitsu Morofushi|display=Hiromitsu Morofushi (background)}}
{{char|Kamen Yaiba|display=Kamen Yaiba (background)}}
{{char|Jugo Yokomizo}}
{{char|Chihaya Hagiwara}}
{{char|Shinobu Ooe|Shinobu Ooe manga}}
{{char|Sango Yokomizo|display=Sango Yokomizo (background)}}
{{char|Jinpei Matsuda|display=Jinpei Matsuda (flashback)}}
{{char|Kenji Hagiwara|display=Kenji Hagiwara (flashback)}}
{{char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{char|Momiji Ooka}}
{{char|Muga Iori}}
{{char|Hyoue Kuroda}}
{{char|Osamu Kenzaki|display=Osamu Kenzaki (background)}}
{{char|Detective Samonji|display=Detective Samonji (background)}}
{{char|Hyouga Koumoto|Hyouga Koumoto manga|display=Hyouga Koumoto (background)}}
{{char|Fumimaro Ayanokoji}}
{{char|Chipmunk|display=Maro}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa}}
{{char|Ninzaburo Shiratori}}
{{char|Sumiko Kobayashi}}
{{char|Shukichi Haneda}}
{{char|Yumi Miyamoto}}
{{char|Kazunobu Chiba}}
{{char|Naeko Miike}}
}}

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

== Chapters ==
=== Wataru Date's Notebook ===
==== File 1081 - Successors to The Legacy ====
{{main|Successors to The Legacy}}

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{people|Alain Cassel|Alain Cassel manga.jpg|
* Victim (kidnapped)
* 7 years old (1 year ago)
* Cassel family's second son}}
{{people|Pierre Cassel|Pierre Cassel manga.jpg|
* Alain's father
* Automaker vice president}}
{{people|Natsufusa Kidou|Natsufusa Kidou manga.jpg|
* Deceased
* Kidnapper}}
{{people|Man|V101 Kidnapper2.jpg|
* Second kidnapper}}
{{people|Yuji Inukai|Yuji Inukai manga.jpg|
* Victim (kidnapped)
* Alain's friend}}
{{people|Jean Cassel|Jean Cassel manga.jpg|
* Alain's older brother}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Nagano-Gunma Prefectural Border Murder Case ===
==== File 1082 - Murder on the Border ====
{{main|Murder on the Border}}

==== File 1083 - Memories of the Border ====
{{main|Memories of the Border}}

==== File 1084 - Micchan's House ====
{{main|Micchan's House}}
<spoiler>The culprit is '''Yumi Nakata'''.</spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{people|Kazuki Tsukishima|Kazuki Tsukishima manga.jpg|
* Victim (bludgeoned)
* 30 years old
* Live streamer
* Member of the "Moon & Star" channel}}
{{people|Yumi Nakata|Yumi Nakata manga.jpg|
* 28 years old
* Live streamer}}
{{people|Kyouko Hoshikawa|Kyouko Hoshikawa manga.jpg|
* 27 years old
* Live streamer
* Member of the "Moon & Star" channel}}
{{people|Senta Hanayama|Senta Hanayama manga.jpg|
* 31 years old
* Live streamer}}
{{people|Chizu Yuba|Chizu Yuba manga.jpg|
* Victim (fell-injured)
* Car crash survivor
* Currently in a coma}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Marriage Partner Searching Party Murder Case ===
==== File 1085 - 15's Suffering ====
{{main|15's Suffering}}

==== File 1086 - 18's Recollection ====
{{main|18's Recollection}}

==== File 1087 - Idiots ====
{{main|Idiots}}
<spoiler>The culprit is '''Itaru Kaburagi'''. The victim, whose real name was '''Ari Sukiyama''', was a marriage swindler who tricked Itaru's good-natured older brother into supporting her, leaving him with a huge debt that drove him to suicide. Kaburagi attempt to commited suicide by used a knife but Takagi stop him by grabbing the knife with Yokomizo knock Kaburagi out. </spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{people|Anju Tomari|Anju Tomari manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* 30 years old
* Participant No. 24}}
{{people|Ikuhisa Uedera|Ikuhisa Uedera manga.jpg|
* 26 years old
* Unemployed
* Participant No. 31}}
{{people|Genji Enzaki|Genji Enzaki manga.jpg|
* 38 years old
* Literary critic
* Participant No. 27}}
{{people|Itaru Kaburagi|Itaru Kaburagi manga.jpg|
* 32 years old
* IT company president
* Participant No. 19}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Detective Play Director Murder Case ===
=== Character Introduced ===
{{BeginBox}}
{{NewChar|[[Mysterious old man]]|Mysterious Old Man manga.jpg|
* Mysterious old man using a breather}}
{{NewChar|[[Mysterious man with sunglasses]]|Mysterious man with sunglasses manga.jpg|
* Mysterious middle-aged with sunglasses
* Old man's driver}}
{{EndBox}}

==== File 1088 - A Sweet Trap ====
{{main|A Sweet Trap}}

==== File 1089 - The Cracked Open Door ====
{{main|The Cracked Open Door}}

==== File 1090 - The Truth Behind the Door ====
{{main|The Truth Behind the Door}}

<spoiler>The culprit is '''Reisuke Inaba'''. He killed Ninka because she threatened to reveal their affair to the media unless he divorced his wife. He also killed Kabumoto because the latter blackmailed him even though Kabumoto was the one who introduced the married Ninka to him. His resolve to murder him was set when the victim told Reisuke that the reason he introduced Ninka to him was that he could write better scripts if Reisuke cheated for once.

After the case, Iori brings Ran and Kazuha to the scene. He has a conversation with Kuroda, who calls him ''Sakakibara'', a codename Iori had when undercover as a Public Security Bureau officer in the past. Iori also mentions he [[Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café|met]] a [[Rei Furuya|blond-haired man]] at Café Poirot and thinks that he is restrained by his past bonds.

A black Rolls-Royce then passes near the scene with a mysterious old man on ventilator as its passenger. The old man then says to his driver that the police are nothing but a bunch of fools.</spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{people|Myouji Karuo|Myouji Karuo manga.jpg|
* 48 years old
* Producer}}
{{people|Reisuke Inaba|Reisuke Inaba manga.jpg|
* 39 years old
* Playwright}}
{{people|Shigeki Kimata|Shigeki Kimata manga.jpg|
* 50 years old
* Stage director}}
{{people|Kyousuke Kabumoto|Kyousuke Kabumoto manga.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 52 years old
* Director}}
{{people|Ninka Gyouda|Ninka Gyouda manga.jpg|
* Deceased (poison)
* Actress}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Family Restaurant Murder Case ===
==== File 1091 - Crossover ====
{{main|Crossover (manga chapter)}}

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{people|Tokumi Nagasu|Tokumi Nagasu manga.jpg|
* Victim (poison)
* 29 years old
* Pet shop employee
* Customer}}
{{people|Mao Toya|Mao Toya manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Bookstore employee
* Customer}}
{{people|Sumika Kokonoe|Sumika Kokonoe manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Apparel shop employee
* Customer}}
{{people|Yasuko Aijima|Yasuko Aijima manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Danny's waitress}}
{{people|Tomoko|Tomoko manga.jpg|
* Birthday girl}}
{{people|Man A|F1091 Man A.jpg|
* "The Knight Hearts" leader}}
{{people|Man B|F1091 Man B.jpg|
* "The Knight Hearts" member}}
{{people|Man C|F1091 Man C.jpg|
* "The Knight Hearts" member}}
{{people|Man D|F1091 Man D.jpg|
* "The Knight Hearts" member}}
{{people|Man E|F1091 Man E.jpg|
* "The Knight Hearts" ex-member?}}
{{people|Woman A|F1091 Woman A.jpg|
* Danny's waitress}}
{{people|Woman B|F1091 Woman B.jpg|
* Danny's waitress}}
{{people|Woman C|F1091 Woman C.jpg|
* Danny's waitress}}
{{people|Ginga|Cosmo Detective Ginga.jpg|
* Movie character}}
{{people|Girl-Yaiba|Girl-Yaiba.jpg|
* Female [[Kamen Yaiba]]
* Real name: Fuuko}}
{{EndBox}}

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Manga]]
* [[Volume 101-110]]
* [[Detective Conan]]

{{Unscheduled chapters}}
{{Volumes}}

[[Category:Volumes]]

Taka'aki Morofushi

2022-11-10T17:29:30Z

Cds: /* Nagano-Gunma Prefectural Border Murder Case (Manga: 1082-1084, Anime: TBD) */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about many events. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}
{{InfoBox Char
| name = Taka'aki Morofushi
| japanese-name = 諸伏高明 (Morofushi Takaaki)
| english-name =
| image = Taka'aki Morofushi Profile.png
| age = 35
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth = unknown
| relatives = [[Mr. Morofushi]] (father, deceased) [[Mrs. Morofushi]] (mother, deceased) [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] (younger brother, deceased)
| occupation = Nagano Prefecture Police Inspector
| aliases =
| nicknames = Komei (高明)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 65#Red Wall Case|File 682]] Anime: [[The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall|Episode 558]]
| appearances = {{:Taka'aki Morofushi Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 65]]
| japanese-voice = [[Sho Hayami]] [[Nobuhiko Okamoto]] (young)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Taka'aki Morofushi|諸伏高明|Morofushi Takaaki}}''', more commonly known as '''{{nihongo|Komei|高明|Kōmei}}''' is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Morofushi's parents died prematurely, and while he remained in Nagano, his younger brother Hiromitsu was taken in by relatives in Tokyo and thus separated from Morofushi.

Morofushi first met [[Kansuke Yamato]] in elementary school.<ref name=Komei/> Morofushi's exploits were so well known there that a book about a child solving a case in an elementary school, titled "Kōmei-kun from Second Grade Class A!", was based off of him (another character in the book was based off of Yamato).<ref name=Komei/> Morofushi cherishes the book, keeping it in the glove compartment of his car, as the author was a friend of his.<ref name=Komei>[[The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall|Episodes 558-561: The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall]]</ref>

After (presumably) graduating from high school, Morofushi went to Tokyo to do a university degree, and finished top of his class. Then (presumably) he returned to Nagano and joined the prefectural police force, where climbed the ladder over the years and eventually became an Inspector. He once abandoned his job briefly in an attempt to save Yamato (who had been left to die in an avalanche),<ref name=Komei/> and while Yamato was eventually safe, Morofushi was demoted and sent to work at a local police station.<ref name=Komei/>

== Personality ==
Morofushi is generally shown to be calm and well-mannered, in contrast to the quick-tempered Yamato. According to Yamato, Morofushi tends to ignore others completely while investigating a case, and sometimes even goes out of his jurisdiction. If he has to, Morofushi will put his life on the line.

== Skills ==
Morofushi is highly skilled at the art of deduction, unlike many of the other police characters in Detective Conan. He also knows a lot about the [[Wikipedia: Three Kingdoms|Three Kingdoms]] era (an era in Chinese history lasting from 220 CE to 280 CE), and frequently quotes two of the most prominent military strategists of that era, namely [[Wikipedia: Zhuge Liang|Zhuge Liang]] (诸葛亮) and [[Wikipedia: Zhou Yu|Zhou Yu]] (周瑜).

== Appellations ==
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<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Komei}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917"/>}}
{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|-|Mouri-san}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Komei}}
{{appellations|Hiromitsu Morofushi|Niisan<ref name="file1021">[[Volume 96#Deceased's Belongings|File 1021: Deceased's Belongings (Volume 96)]]</ref> Taka'aki-niichan<ref name="file1021"/>|Hiromitsu<ref name="file1021"/>}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Komei}}
{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Morofushi<ref name="file914">[[volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref> Chief (''Kachō'')<ref name="file913"/>}}
{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Komei<ref name="file915">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 915 (Volume 86)]]</ref> Morofushi<ref name="file917"/>|Kansuke-kun<ref name="file915"/> Yamato Kansuke<ref name="file913"/>}}
{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917"/>|Yui-san ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref>[[:File:Postcard2016 6.jpg]] (Taka'aki (or Komei) calls her 'Yui-san', I think... probably... (laugh) )</ref>}}
{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori||Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')<ref name="file1018">[[Volume 96#Kaitou Kid and the Fairy's Lips|File 1018 (Volume 96)]]</ref>}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Komei}}
{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Inspector Morofushi Taka'aki (''Morofushi-Takaaki-keibu'')<ref name="file1018"/>|Adviser Suzuki Jirokichi (''Suzuki Jirokichi-sōdan'yaku'')}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid||Kid<ref name="file1018">[[Volume 96#Kaitou Kid and the Fairy's Lips|File 1018 (Volume 96)]]</ref>}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Red Wall Case (Manga: [[Volume 65#Red Wall Case|682-686]], Anime: [[The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall|558-561]]) ===
Morofushi is the first to realize that by looking at red things for a long time and then looking at something white, one sees green in the afterimage (this dying message thus implies the Italian flag, a vital clue to uncovering the culprit). While he texts Yamato "the late Kōmei" as a hint, he is abused by the culprit, who smacks Morofushi's head and renders him unconscious. The culprit later sets the house on fire to kill Morofushi, but he is able to escape before the whole house is engulfed by flames.

Later on, together with [[Conan]] and Yamato, Morofushi devises a scheme to trick the culprit to that the police can arrest him with ease.

=== Eye for an Eye (Manga: [[Volume 74#Eye for an Eye|783-784]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|653-654]]) ===
It is revealed that Morofushi has managed to get back to the prefectural police force.

=== The Red Woman (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman|874-875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|754-756]]) ===

=== Kawanakajima Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|913]]-[[volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|917]], Anime: [[The Darkness of the Prefectural Police|810-812]]) ===

=== Kaitou Kid and the Fairy's Lips (Manga: [[Volume 96#Kaitou Kid and the Fairy's Lips|1018-1021]], Anime: [[Kid vs. Komei: The Targeted Lips|983-984]]) ===
Morofushi arrives at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters to retrieve an envelope addressed to him, and stumbles upon a case involving [[Kaitou Kid]] after meeting [[Jirokichi Suzuki]]. While talking on the phone with Yamato, [[Yui Uehara]] mentions that he had a younger brother who had moved to Tokyo after their parents' deaths and working in MPD. Morofushi replies that he has not been in touch with his younger brother, and thus does not know where he is or what he is doing.

After seeing through Kid's tricks and "solving" the case, he meets up with [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] and [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]], who hands him the envelope. Inside, Morofushi finds a phone with a huge hole on the screen and the letter "H" written on the back. Morofushi thus realizes that it is his brother Hiromitsu's phone, and conjectures that he has been working for the [[Public Security Bureau]] and died while carrying out some undercover mission. The number "0" is on the back of the envelope, which reminds Morofushi of the time when Hiromitsu called him and told him excitedly that he had made a friend nicknamed "Zero" in Tokyo.

=== Nagano Snowy Mountains Case (Manga: [[Volume 97#Nagano Snowy Mountains Case|1028-1031]], Anime: [[The 36-Cell Perfect Game|1003-1005]]) ===
Morofushi, along with Yamato and Uehara, investigates the video footage of the crime scene shot by [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]. He sees [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] in the video and realizes that he has met him before. After thinking for a while, Morofushi recalls that when he was studying in Tokyo, he met up with Hiromitsu, who took "Zero" with him and told him that they were good friends and that both aspired to be a police officer. Morofushi thus suspects that the envelope was sent by Amuro. Shortly after this, his former boss, [[Kuroda]], talks to him in private; the conversation is not revealed to us readers, but it can be deduced from his subsequent behavior that Morofushi is instructed by Kuroda to pretend to not know Amuro.

After finally arriving at the crime scene, Morofushi greets Kogoro only and asks him who Amuro and Wakita are (Kogoro replies that they are his apprentices). As Yamato yells at him, telling him enter the church and start doing work, Morofushi goes past Amuro and says "every moment is precious and not a moment should be wasted." with the inner monologue "time is money, as the saying goes."

=== Nagano-Gunma Prefectural Border Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Nagano-Gunma Prefectural Border Murder Case|1082-1084]], Anime: TBD) ===
Morofushi became acquitance with Yamamura learning that he was friends with Hiromitsu

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Hiromitsu Morofushi ===
Taka'aki and Hiromitsu Morofushi are siblings. After their parents' death, Hiromitsu was taken in by relatives in Tokyo and was separated from Taka'aki, but they still kept a good relationship. Their contact was forced to stop when Hiromitsu quitted the Tokyo MPD and "took on another assignment" (i.e. began working for the PSB). Afterwards, Hiromitsu became an undercover and died during his mission, but Taka'aki was not aware of this until he retrieves Hiromitsu's broken phone four years later and infers from the phone the fate of his younger brother.

=== Kansuke Yamato ===
The rivalry between Yamato and Morofushi is mostly friendly, in which they see who can solve a case first. The two are also friends, and although they sometimes clash (with Yamato being quite rude to Morofushi), the overall relationship is not affected, and they keep working closely.

Morofushi is grateful that Yamato has introduced him to Conan, as he realizes after the Red Wall Case that Conan is highly intelligent.<ref name=Komei/> He even believes, and confides this to Yamato, that if it were not for Conan's observations, they would have never even come close to solving the case.<ref name=Komei/> He even compares Conan to a young version of Zhuge Liang.<ref name=Komei/>

== Name origin ==
[[File:Koumei nickname.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Komei nickname in kanji with a katakana reading.]]
Morofushi's name has a lot to do with Zhuge Liang (诸葛亮), a prominent Chinese military strategist living in the Three Kingdoms era. The courtesy name of Zhuge Liang is "孔明", which is pronounced as "Kōmei" in Japanese. Morofushi's given name "高明" is also pronounced in this way with the on'yomi reading, or the Sino-Japanese reading ("Taka'aki", on the other hand, is the kun'yomi reading, or native reading, of "高明"). Furthermore, the on'yomi reading of Morofushi ("Shofuku") is somewhat similar to the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese surname 诸葛 ("Shokatsu").

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Make no intrusion into others' affairs. When it comes to relationships between close people, outsiders must never interfere.{{citation needed}}}}

== Trivia ==
* During Morofushi's first appearance, after hearing him noting that the case is under his department's jurisdiction and learning his name, Conan inwardly commented "''Shokatsu no Kōmei''" (Komei's jurisdiction). This is a pun on the Japanese reading of Zhuge Kongming.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Taka'aki Morofushi Profile.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 558]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Taka'aki Morofushi Middle.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 653]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Taka'aki Morofushi After.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 810]]
|}

== In other languages ==

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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|高明 Taka'aki|諸伏 Morofushi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|高明 Gāomíng|诸伏 Zhūfú}}
{{EndTable}}

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

== References ==
<references/>

{{Characters}}
{{Police}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morofushi Taka'aki}}

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Police detectives]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Victims]]

[[de:Takaaki Morofushi]]

Akemi Miyano

2022-11-10T17:25:07Z

Cds: /* Shuichi Akai */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Akemi Miyano
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|宮野明美}} (Miyano Akemi)
| english-name = Akemi Miyano (Kendra Miyano in Case Closed episode 14)
| image = Akemi Miyano Profile.jpg
| age = 25 (deceased)<ref name=age>She was 5 when she visited Sohei Dejima's house with her parents 20 years ago in Volume 41, File 423: "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Shiho Miyano]] (younger sister) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| occupation = Black Organization member
| aliases = Masami Hirota (Michelle in Case Closed episode 14)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 2#Masami Hirota Case|File 13]] Anime: [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13]] (She is reintroduced in [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|128]], though her previous appearance is ignored.)
| appearances = {{:Akemi Miyano Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 41]]
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Sakiko Tamagawa]] [[Masako Katsuki]] (Masami Hirota)
| english-voice = [[Clarine Harp]] (Michelle Hamlin/Kendra Miyano in Case Closed episode 14) [[Alex Valle]] (Countdown to Heaven) [[Rebecca Davis]] (Bang Zoom!)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Akemi Miyano|宮野明美|Miyano Akemi}}''', also known by her alias as '''{{nihongo|Masami Hirota|広田雅美|Hirota Masami}}''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Akemi is the older sister of [[Shiho Miyano]], and both were members of the [[Black Organization]]. However, unlike her sister, Akemi was never considered a high ranking member. Akemi dated [[Shuichi Akai]] while he was infiltrating the Organization. Akemi was shot by Gin and killed after she performed a bank robbery. Although she dies in her first appearance, Akemi shows up numerous times throughout the series, mostly in episodes featuring Haibara, whom looks at [[Ran Mouri]] as a spitting image of her sister.

== Background ==
Akemi Miyano, the oldest child of [[Elena Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano]], was born into the Black Organization approximately some 25 years before the current timeline.<ref name=age></ref> Unlike her younger sister [[Shiho Miyano]], Akemi was never considered a high ranking member of the Organization and managed to live a mostly normal life, traveling about freely and going to school and college like normal, despite being watched over by the organization. Both of her parents later died an accident while she was young, orphaning Akemi and Shiho. Although her sister became a highly ranked codenamed scientist, Akemi remained in close contact with Shiho and served as her lifeline to normalcy. She only involved herself into the organization to try get Shiho out of it.

At some point 13 years ago she attended Teitan Elementary School and graduated from it. She was in Class 6-A.<ref>File 1070</ref>

Some five years before the current timeline, Akemi met undercover FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] who was using the alias Dai Moroboshi. He planned to date Akemi in order to get close to Shiho Miyano so he could gain standing within the Black Organization as part of his mission. Although Shuichi initially was just using her, they wound up really falling in love. Akemi discovered Shuichi was an FBI agent and guessed his plan, but kept this knowledge secret even from him. Three years later, Shuichi's true allegiance was uncovered and he was ejected from the Organization. Akemi then revealed that she knew his secret, and that she wished to leave the Organization and date him seriously.

This did not happen because Akemi was unwilling to leave without her sister, and the Black Organization would not allow Shiho to go because her work on the [[APTX 4869]] project was extremely valuable. Although Shuichi stopped contacting Akemi for her safety, the Organization was planning to get rid of her anyway because her connection to Shuichi was considered a serious risk. The Organization could not simply eliminate her though because it would jeopardize Shiho's loyalty. The Black Organization finally put their plan to kill Akemi into motion two years later just after [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] had shrunk into [[Conan Edogawa|Conan Edogawa]].
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== Personality ==
Akemi had a nurturing, kind, friendly, cheerful and outgoing personality, with a good sense of humor. Playful as a child, she enjoyed playing games and creating codes for other people, but never to hurt them. For example, she hid the work tools of her father's friends and happily watched as they panicked; however, she only wanted them to work less hard. Even though she knew of her elementary classmates’ mischievings, in the class memory capsule, she did not rat them out but simply wished everyone well. She was popular among classmates for her sweet nature. She appeared likable and well-adjusted considering that she had to change schools many times.

As an adult, she remained loving despite being in the Black Organization. She likely had to violate her moral code to complete criminal missions for them. However, she was strong-willed enough to arrange an escape deal for her and her sister. Although they rarely saw each other, she and her sister Shiho were very close and confided in each other. However, Shuichi says Akemi was always crying in the dark while pretending to be strong, suggesting that she had painful memories she did not want to burden other people with. Her selfless, nurturing, and slightly vulnerable personality reminds Shiho (as Haibara Ai) as well as Akai Shuichi of Ran Mouri.

Akemi was clever and calculating, given that she could plan a 1-billion-yen robbery. Her convincing disguise and acting eluded even Conan.

== Appearance ==
[[Image:Akemi Before (1).png|thumb|right|200px|As Masami Hirota]]
Akemi is often noted to be very similar to [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. Both Haibara and Shuichi get the feeling that they are alike. She is a pretty Japanese girl with long black hair and a medium height.

== Plot overview ==
=== ¥1,000,000,000 Robbery Case (Manga: [[Volume 2#.C2.A51.2C000.2C000.2C000 Robbery|013-016]], Anime: [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|13]]/[[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|128]]) ===
[[Image:Conan and Akemi manga.png|thumb|right|200px|Akemi's death in the manga.]]
The Organization's plan to silence Akemi was to pretend to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful one billion yen bank robbery, [[Gin]] told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her. Akemi hired two partners to help her. Kenzo Hirota, a Tokyoite with no family, would be the get-away driver, because he used to work as a taxi driver. An unnamed giant man would serve as muscle. The day before the mission, she send a text to Akai, explaining the situation and asked if he would want to go out with her for real, should she manage to get out of the organization.

Akemi and her two partners successfully pull off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Unfortunately, Kenzo Hirota then backstabs Akemi and the giant by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approach different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Akemi creates the alias Hirota Masami, borrowing from [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|a professor friend's name]], and changing her hairstyle so she appears to be a high school girl from Yamagata looking for her missing "father".<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Akemi approaches the then-not-well-known Detective [[Kogoro]] at his office and convinces him to help her. Kogoro begins to search for the man's via his contacts.

[[Image:Conan and Akemi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Akemi's death in the anime.]]
Sometime while Kogoro is searching for Kenzo, Akemi meets with Shiho at a restaurant and describes Conan to her. Akemi tells Shiho that Conan lives in the [[Mouri Detective Agency]] near the [[Setting|Kudo house]] that Shiho had visited earlier (as part of a search to ensure Shinichi was really killed by APTX 4869) and that he has the composure of an adult. Shiho then asks Akemi to tell her about the dangerous mission that Akemi had just performed, but Akemi tells Shiho she is fine and that she should stop working on that drug and try to get a boyfriend instead.

With Conan and Ran's help, Kogoro finds Kenzo and "Hirota Masami" pretends to be overjoyed at their "reunion". Later that night, Akemi and the giant man confront Kenzo to take back the money. A fight breaks out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo to death against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hang Kenzo's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grab the cash, and leave for a hotel. Akemi slips some pills given to her by Gin into the giant's drink so she could take the money, unaware that they were laced with cyanide and would kill him instantly. With both of her partners dead, she hides the suitcases of money at the hotel's front desk and takes a taxi to meet Gin and [[Vodka]] at the shipping yard, with [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] following closely behind.<ref name=manga>Detective Conan Manga Files 13 to 16</ref>

When she arrives at the meeting place, she tells Gin that she will only tell him where the money is after he frees her sister, but Gin goes back on his word, saying her sister is far too valuable to let go of. He gives her one last chance to cooperate, but she refuses and he shoots her. Conan arrives at the scene with her bleeding out.Akemi is one of the few characters in the show that knows Conan is [[Shinichi Kudo]], as he admits it to her while she is dying in front of him, while she tells him about the dangers of the Black Organization and tells him where the money is.<ref name=Akemi/> Akemi's death is ruled a suicide, as Gin's fingerprints were not found on the gun that killed her,<ref name=Akemi/> but her fingerprints were.<ref name=manga/>

=== Murdered Professor Case (Manga: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|179]]-[[Volume 19#Murdered Professor Case|181]], Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|129]]) ===
[[Image:Akemi and Shiho.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Akemi with Shiho, only a little bit before her death, in one of the last times they ever saw each other.]]
[[Ai Haibara|Haibara]], the shrunken [[Shiho Miyano]], remembers her meetings with Akemi leading up to her death by Gin. She breaks down in front of [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] asking why he could not save Akemi.

=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423]]-[[Volume 42#Bathroom Murder Case|425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===
[[File: EP340 2.jpg|thumb|200px]]
20 years prior to the current timeline, [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]] visit Atsushi's father's house whom he had left to a friend. They brought with them a 4-5 year old Akemi. The friend had turned the house into a Design company office. The Miyano's had come there and acted like they were hiding from something/someone. Akemi hid the tools of the workers causing her to unknowingly prevent a murder from occurring. Closer to the present day, around one week prior to her death, Akemi returned and planted tapes created by Elena for Shiho, in the same spot that she had hid the tools years before. She told one of the workers that she would be back with-in the week and bring her sister to meet them.

=== Kir Transport Case (Manga: [[Volume 58#Kir Transport Case|599]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black#Resolution 3|497]]) ===
The night before the heist, Akemi sends Dai Moroboshi (Shuichi Akai) a text message, asking him to be her real boyfriend if she is able to escape from the organization.<ref name=Akai>Detective Conan Manga File 599: Akai's Past</ref> The text message also had an unshown PS message.

=== Foreign Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 58#Foreign Suspect Case|607-609]], Anime [[Clash of Red and Black#Friday the Thirteenth .28Manga: 605-609.2C Anime: 501-504.29|501-504]]) ===
Shuichi has a flashback to when he confronted Akemi with the news that he was an FBI agent. She says that she has known for a while.

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|700-704]]) ===
[[Subaru Okiya]] reveals to Haibara that he can read her movements due to her acting similar to her sister Akemi, this was one of the clues leading to the reveal of his identity. [[Bourbon]], whose identity was also revealed in this case, mentioned knowing the Miyano parents which caused Haibara to remember hearing mention of him from her chats with Akemi.

=== UFO Sighting Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#UFO Sighting Murder Case|942]], Anime: [[Chiba's Difficult UFO Case|847-848]]) ===
Conan realizes that Haibara and [[Mary]] might share a resemblance. He thinks back to the relationship between Akemi and Shuichi and the idea that they might have been related.

=== Black Bunny Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Black Bunny's Club_Case|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===
Amuro is badly injured due to fighting with his bullies. Akemi brings him to her parents' clinic to get him treated.

=== Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule (Manga: [[Volume 101#Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule|1070-1072]], Anime: TBD) ===
It's revealed that Akemi went to [[Teitan Elementary School]] and graduated from it. She also buried a time capsule at the school as well.
It also revealed her body hasn't been identified yet.

The capsule content reveals that a class photos with on the back it says how she wishes for everyone dream to come true and photo of her and Shino in the past with a letter on the back.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
:''See also: [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case]]''
In the anime, she works at a bank under the name Masami Hirota and pulls an inside job. Her partners in the robbery are Shirou Kaizuka (a race driver) and Kishi (a bank guard),<ref name=Akemi>[[The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case|Episode 128: The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case]]</ref> while the Kenzo Hirota part of the story was used for another case unrelated to Akemi or the Black Organization.<ref name=Hirota>[[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13: The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]]</ref>

The Anime also added a Non-canon scene into Clash of Red and Black that shows how Akemi met Shuichi. Shuichi walks out in front of her car on purpose and gets hospitalized. Then they fall in love as she nurses him back to health in the hospital.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Onēchan}}
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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Shuichi Akai ===
{{main|Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano}}
[[Shuichi Akai]] and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with the woman (and felow agent) he dated until then, [[Jodie Starling]]; he cared deeply for Jodie, but since he had fallen for Akemi he didn't want to keep two parallel relationships.

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.
[[File:Akai and Akemi.png|right|thumb|200px|Shuichi asks Akemi why she didn't get away from him after knowing that he was just using her.]]
Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. Later, due to a massive error by [[Andre Camel]], Shuichi is discovered by the rest of the Organization to be an FBI agent, leading to his expulsion. Shuichi confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seemed surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death.

=== Ai Haibara ===
Despite the fact that they couldn't see each other often, Akemi and her sister Shiho were very close to each other. Akemi had constantly tried to encourage the studious and workaholic Shiho to relax and find herself a boyfriend.

Akemi's death scarred her sister deeply. Much of Akemi's personality Shiho finds personified in [[Ran Mouri]] - perhaps this is the main reason why Shiho was first reluctant to accept her (due to the still-fresh pain of her loss), but eventually came to consider her as a surrogate sister.

=== Rei Furuya ===
Akemi seems to have known [[Rei Furuya]], and described him and his relationship with Shuichi to Shiho.This is not revealed yet. In the flashback during [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]], it tells that Akemi and Rei met and know each other when they were children. They might be close. Akemi cared about Rei. However, according to Aoyama Gosho, Akemi did not remember Rei when she is a adult. This implies that when meeting each other in the black organization, Akemi did not realize that Bourbon was Rei. This protected the true person of Rei.

== Speculation ==
=== Hidden P.S. ===
[[Image:Akemi's Text Message.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The last text message Akemi had sent Shuichi, before her death.]]
In the text message that Akemi Miyano sent to [[Shuichi Akai]] before she commits the bank robbery, aside from the main content, there is also a '''"P.S."''' shown below it, at the bottom left corner of his cell phone's screen. However, what Akemi wrote ''under'' that part (the things she wanted to say in the P.S.) has never been revealed to the readers (watchers).

There is a common speculation among the fans that Akemi has asked [[Shuichi Akai]] to protect the safety of her sister, [[Shiho Miyano]], in case the robbery she planned ends up in failure, or that the [[Black Organization]] decides to betray their promise, which is to let her and her sister leave if she succeeds. It is important to note that in the Manga File 810, Shuichi, while disguising as [[Subaru Okiya]], has mentioned in his mind about the promise he made with a certain '''"her"''', because of which he refuses to make [[Ai Haibara]] go with him by force.<ref>[[Volume 77|Volume 77, File 810, Page 16]]</ref> This woman whom Shuichi was referring to might have been his late girlfriend Akemi, and his promise with her might be relevant to the hidden content of the mysterious P.S.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Akemi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 13]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Akemi After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 492]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Image:EP954 Akemi.png|thumb|right|200px|Young Akemi Episode 953]]
|}

== Trivia ==
* Akemi's voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]], is in real-life married to Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]].
* She is the first one [[Shinichi Kudo]] revealed himself to besides Professor Agasa, in the second manga volume.
*In [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene]] Haibara mentioned that Akemi had a Put On Mascara mirror that originally belonged to Elena.
*In Episode 312, it’s revealed by Haibara that her parent bought Akemi festival dolls that look like the Hinamatsu Dolls at the apartment the Detective Boys were in, but when their parents died, Akemi put them away as they brought painful memories of Haibara and Akemi deceased parents.
*She often had to transfer schools under the Black Organization's orders.<ref>File 1070</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano]]
* [[Black Organization]]

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| name = Akemi Miyano
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|宮野明美}} (Miyano Akemi)
| english-name = Akemi Miyano (Kendra Miyano in Case Closed episode 14)
| image = Akemi Miyano Profile.jpg
| age = 25 (deceased)<ref name=age>She was 5 when she visited Sohei Dejima's house with her parents 20 years ago in Volume 41, File 423: "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Shiho Miyano]] (younger sister) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| occupation = Black Organization member
| aliases = Masami Hirota (Michelle in Case Closed episode 14)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 2#Masami Hirota Case|File 13]] Anime: [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13]] (She is reintroduced in [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|128]], though her previous appearance is ignored.)
| appearances = {{:Akemi Miyano Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 41]]
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Sakiko Tamagawa]] [[Masako Katsuki]] (Masami Hirota)
| english-voice = [[Clarine Harp]] (Michelle Hamlin/Kendra Miyano in Case Closed episode 14) [[Alex Valle]] (Countdown to Heaven) [[Rebecca Davis]] (Bang Zoom!)
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Akemi Miyano|宮野明美|Miyano Akemi}}''', also known by her alias as '''{{nihongo|Masami Hirota|広田雅美|Hirota Masami}}''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Akemi is the older sister of [[Shiho Miyano]], and both were members of the [[Black Organization]]. However, unlike her sister, Akemi was never considered a high ranking member. Akemi dated [[Shuichi Akai]] while he was infiltrating the Organization. Akemi was shot by Gin and killed after she performed a bank robbery. Although she dies in her first appearance, Akemi shows up numerous times throughout the series, mostly in episodes featuring Haibara, whom looks at [[Ran Mouri]] as a spitting image of her sister.

== Background ==
Akemi Miyano, the oldest child of [[Elena Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano]], was born into the Black Organization approximately some 25 years before the current timeline.<ref name=age></ref> Unlike her younger sister [[Shiho Miyano]], Akemi was never considered a high ranking member of the Organization and managed to live a mostly normal life, traveling about freely and going to school and college like normal, despite being watched over by the organization. Both of her parents later died an accident while she was young, orphaning Akemi and Shiho. Although her sister became a highly ranked codenamed scientist, Akemi remained in close contact with Shiho and served as her lifeline to normalcy. She only involved herself into the organization to try get Shiho out of it.

At some point 13 years ago she attended Teitan Elementary School and graduated from it. She was in Class 6-A.<ref>File 1070</ref>

Some five years before the current timeline, Akemi met undercover FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] who was using the alias Dai Moroboshi. He planned to date Akemi in order to get close to Shiho Miyano so he could gain standing within the Black Organization as part of his mission. Although Shuichi initially was just using her, they wound up really falling in love. Akemi discovered Shuichi was an FBI agent and guessed his plan, but kept this knowledge secret even from him. Three years later, Shuichi's true allegiance was uncovered and he was ejected from the Organization. Akemi then revealed that she knew his secret, and that she wished to leave the Organization and date him seriously.

This did not happen because Akemi was unwilling to leave without her sister, and the Black Organization would not allow Shiho to go because her work on the [[APTX 4869]] project was extremely valuable. Although Shuichi stopped contacting Akemi for her safety, the Organization was planning to get rid of her anyway because her connection to Shuichi was considered a serious risk. The Organization could not simply eliminate her though because it would jeopardize Shiho's loyalty. The Black Organization finally put their plan to kill Akemi into motion two years later just after [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] had shrunk into [[Conan Edogawa|Conan Edogawa]].
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== Personality ==
Akemi had a nurturing, kind, friendly, cheerful and outgoing personality, with a good sense of humor. Playful as a child, she enjoyed playing games and creating codes for other people, but never to hurt them. For example, she hid the work tools of her father's friends and happily watched as they panicked; however, she only wanted them to work less hard. Even though she knew of her elementary classmates’ mischievings, in the class memory capsule, she did not rat them out but simply wished everyone well. She was popular among classmates for her sweet nature. She appeared likable and well-adjusted considering that she had to change schools many times.

As an adult, she remained loving despite being in the Black Organization. She likely had to violate her moral code to complete criminal missions for them. However, she was strong-willed enough to arrange an escape deal for her and her sister. Although they rarely saw each other, she and her sister Shiho were very close and confided in each other. However, Shuichi says Akemi was always crying in the dark while pretending to be strong, suggesting that she had painful memories she did not want to burden other people with. Her selfless, nurturing, and slightly vulnerable personality reminds Shiho (as Haibara Ai) as well as Akai Shuichi of Ran Mouri.

Akemi was clever and calculating, given that she could plan a 1-billion-yen robbery. Her convincing disguise and acting eluded even Conan.

== Appearance ==
[[Image:Akemi Before (1).png|thumb|right|200px|As Masami Hirota]]
Akemi is often noted to be very similar to [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. Both Haibara and Shuichi get the feeling that they are alike. She is a pretty Japanese girl with long black hair and a medium height.

== Plot overview ==
=== ¥1,000,000,000 Robbery Case (Manga: [[Volume 2#.C2.A51.2C000.2C000.2C000 Robbery|013-016]], Anime: [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|13]]/[[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|128]]) ===
[[Image:Conan and Akemi manga.png|thumb|right|200px|Akemi's death in the manga.]]
The Organization's plan to silence Akemi was to pretend to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful one billion yen bank robbery, [[Gin]] told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her. Akemi hired two partners to help her. Kenzo Hirota, a Tokyoite with no family, would be the get-away driver, because he used to work as a taxi driver. An unnamed giant man would serve as muscle. The day before the mission, she send a text to Akai, explaining the situation and asked if he would want to go out with her for real, should she manage to get out of the organization.

Akemi and her two partners successfully pull off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Unfortunately, Kenzo Hirota then backstabs Akemi and the giant by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approach different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Akemi creates the alias Hirota Masami, borrowing from [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|a professor friend's name]], and changing her hairstyle so she appears to be a high school girl from Yamagata looking for her missing "father".<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Akemi approaches the then-not-well-known Detective [[Kogoro]] at his office and convinces him to help her. Kogoro begins to search for the man's via his contacts.

[[Image:Conan and Akemi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Akemi's death in the anime.]]
Sometime while Kogoro is searching for Kenzo, Akemi meets with Shiho at a restaurant and describes Conan to her. Akemi tells Shiho that Conan lives in the [[Mouri Detective Agency]] near the [[Setting|Kudo house]] that Shiho had visited earlier (as part of a search to ensure Shinichi was really killed by APTX 4869) and that he has the composure of an adult. Shiho then asks Akemi to tell her about the dangerous mission that Akemi had just performed, but Akemi tells Shiho she is fine and that she should stop working on that drug and try to get a boyfriend instead.

With Conan and Ran's help, Kogoro finds Kenzo and "Hirota Masami" pretends to be overjoyed at their "reunion". Later that night, Akemi and the giant man confront Kenzo to take back the money. A fight breaks out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo to death against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hang Kenzo's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grab the cash, and leave for a hotel. Akemi slips some pills given to her by Gin into the giant's drink so she could take the money, unaware that they were laced with cyanide and would kill him instantly. With both of her partners dead, she hides the suitcases of money at the hotel's front desk and takes a taxi to meet Gin and [[Vodka]] at the shipping yard, with [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] following closely behind.<ref name=manga>Detective Conan Manga Files 13 to 16</ref>

When she arrives at the meeting place, she tells Gin that she will only tell him where the money is after he frees her sister, but Gin goes back on his word, saying her sister is far too valuable to let go of. He gives her one last chance to cooperate, but she refuses and he shoots her. Conan arrives at the scene with her bleeding out.Akemi is one of the few characters in the show that knows Conan is [[Shinichi Kudo]], as he admits it to her while she is dying in front of him, while she tells him about the dangers of the Black Organization and tells him where the money is.<ref name=Akemi/> Akemi's death is ruled a suicide, as Gin's fingerprints were not found on the gun that killed her,<ref name=Akemi/> but her fingerprints were.<ref name=manga/>

=== Murdered Professor Case (Manga: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|179]]-[[Volume 19#Murdered Professor Case|181]], Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|129]]) ===
[[Image:Akemi and Shiho.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Akemi with Shiho, only a little bit before her death, in one of the last times they ever saw each other.]]
[[Ai Haibara|Haibara]], the shrunken [[Shiho Miyano]], remembers her meetings with Akemi leading up to her death by Gin. She breaks down in front of [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] asking why he could not save Akemi.

=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423]]-[[Volume 42#Bathroom Murder Case|425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===
[[File: EP340 2.jpg|thumb|200px]]
20 years prior to the current timeline, [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]] visit Atsushi's father's house whom he had left to a friend. They brought with them a 4-5 year old Akemi. The friend had turned the house into a Design company office. The Miyano's had come there and acted like they were hiding from something/someone. Akemi hid the tools of the workers causing her to unknowingly prevent a murder from occurring. Closer to the present day, around one week prior to her death, Akemi returned and planted tapes created by Elena for Shiho, in the same spot that she had hid the tools years before. She told one of the workers that she would be back with-in the week and bring her sister to meet them.

=== Kir Transport Case (Manga: [[Volume 58#Kir Transport Case|599]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black#Resolution 3|497]]) ===
The night before the heist, Akemi sends Dai Moroboshi (Shuichi Akai) a text message, asking him to be her real boyfriend if she is able to escape from the organization.<ref name=Akai>Detective Conan Manga File 599: Akai's Past</ref> The text message also had an unshown PS message.

=== Foreign Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 58#Foreign Suspect Case|607-609]], Anime [[Clash of Red and Black#Friday the Thirteenth .28Manga: 605-609.2C Anime: 501-504.29|501-504]]) ===
Shuichi has a flashback to when he confronted Akemi with the news that he was an FBI agent. She says that she has known for a while.

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|700-704]]) ===
[[Subaru Okiya]] reveals to Haibara that he can read her movements due to her acting similar to her sister Akemi, this was one of the clues leading to the reveal of his identity. [[Bourbon]], whose identity was also revealed in this case, mentioned knowing the Miyano parents which caused Haibara to remember hearing mention of him from her chats with Akemi.

=== UFO Sighting Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#UFO Sighting Murder Case|942]], Anime: [[Chiba's Difficult UFO Case|847-848]]) ===
Conan realizes that Haibara and [[Mary]] might share a resemblance. He thinks back to the relationship between Akemi and Shuichi and the idea that they might have been related.

=== Black Bunny Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Black Bunny's Club_Case|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===
Amuro is badly injured due to fighting with his bullies. Akemi brings him to her parents' clinic to get him treated.

=== Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule (Manga: [[Volume 101#Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule|1070-1072]], Anime: TBD) ===
It's revealed that Akemi went to [[Teitan Elementary School]] and graduated from it. She also buried a time capsule at the school as well.
It also revealed her body hasn't been identified yet.

The capsule content reveals that a class photos with on the back it says how she wishes for everyone dream to come true and photo of her and Shino in the past with a letter on the back.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
:''See also: [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case]]''
In the anime, she works at a bank under the name Masami Hirota and pulls an inside job. Her partners in the robbery are Shirou Kaizuka (a race driver) and Kishi (a bank guard),<ref name=Akemi>[[The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case|Episode 128: The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case]]</ref> while the Kenzo Hirota part of the story was used for another case unrelated to Akemi or the Black Organization.<ref name=Hirota>[[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13: The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]]</ref>

The Anime also added a Non-canon scene into Clash of Red and Black that shows how Akemi met Shuichi. Shuichi walks out in front of her car on purpose and gets hospitalized. Then they fall in love as she nurses him back to health in the hospital.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Shuichi Akai ===
{{main|Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano}}
[[Shuichi Akai]] and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with the woman (and felow agent) he dated until then, [[Jodie Starling]]; he cared deeply for Jodie, but since he had fallen for Akemi he didn't want to keep two parallel relationships.

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.
[[File:Akai and Akemi.png|right|thumb|200px|Shuichi asks Akemi why she didn't get away from him after knowing that he was just using her.]]
Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. Later, due to a massive error by [[Andre Camel]], Shuichi is discovered by the rest of the Organization to be an FBI agent, leading to his expulsion. Shuichi confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seemed surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death.

Until her death, Akemi still didn't know that Shuichi was in fact her cousin.

=== Ai Haibara ===
Despite the fact that they couldn't see each other often, Akemi and her sister Shiho were very close to each other. Akemi had constantly tried to encourage the studious and workaholic Shiho to relax and find herself a boyfriend.

Akemi's death scarred her sister deeply. Much of Akemi's personality Shiho finds personified in [[Ran Mouri]] - perhaps this is the main reason why Shiho was first reluctant to accept her (due to the still-fresh pain of her loss), but eventually came to consider her as a surrogate sister.

=== Rei Furuya ===
Akemi seems to have known [[Rei Furuya]], and described him and his relationship with Shuichi to Shiho.This is not revealed yet. In the flashback during [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]], it tells that Akemi and Rei met and know each other when they were children. They might be close. Akemi cared about Rei. However, according to Aoyama Gosho, Akemi did not remember Rei when she is a adult. This implies that when meeting each other in the black organization, Akemi did not realize that Bourbon was Rei. This protected the true person of Rei.

== Speculation ==
=== Hidden P.S. ===
[[Image:Akemi's Text Message.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The last text message Akemi had sent Shuichi, before her death.]]
In the text message that Akemi Miyano sent to [[Shuichi Akai]] before she commits the bank robbery, aside from the main content, there is also a '''"P.S."''' shown below it, at the bottom left corner of his cell phone's screen. However, what Akemi wrote ''under'' that part (the things she wanted to say in the P.S.) has never been revealed to the readers (watchers).

There is a common speculation among the fans that Akemi has asked [[Shuichi Akai]] to protect the safety of her sister, [[Shiho Miyano]], in case the robbery she planned ends up in failure, or that the [[Black Organization]] decides to betray their promise, which is to let her and her sister leave if she succeeds. It is important to note that in the Manga File 810, Shuichi, while disguising as [[Subaru Okiya]], has mentioned in his mind about the promise he made with a certain '''"her"''', because of which he refuses to make [[Ai Haibara]] go with him by force.<ref>[[Volume 77|Volume 77, File 810, Page 16]]</ref> This woman whom Shuichi was referring to might have been his late girlfriend Akemi, and his promise with her might be relevant to the hidden content of the mysterious P.S.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Akemi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 13]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Akemi After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 492]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Image:EP954 Akemi.png|thumb|right|200px|Young Akemi Episode 953]]
|}

== Trivia ==
* Akemi's voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]], is in real-life married to Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]].
* She is the first one [[Shinichi Kudo]] revealed himself to besides Professor Agasa, in the second manga volume.
*In [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene]] Haibara mentioned that Akemi had a Put On Mascara mirror that originally belonged to Elena.
*In Episode 312, it’s revealed by Haibara that her parent bought Akemi festival dolls that look like the Hinamatsu Dolls at the apartment the Detective Boys were in, but when their parents died, Akemi put them away as they brought painful memories of Haibara and Akemi deceased parents.
*She often had to transfer schools under the Black Organization's orders.<ref>File 1070</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano]]
* [[Black Organization]]

== References ==
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{{Black Organization}}
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| english-name =
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|宮野エレーナ}} (Miyano Erēna)
| image = Elena Miyano Profile.png
| age = 29<ref>Sohei Dejima, her husband's childhood friend, was 54-year-old, then in [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|file 1011]] was a flashback from nineteen years ago.</ref> (deceased)
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (first daughter, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second daughter) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (husband, deceased)
| occupation = Black Organization member Scientist
| nicknames = "Hell Angel" (Black Organization)<ref name="hell angel">Manga Volume 41, File 11, pg 12: "A Mystery Left in a Small Sealed Room". Hell's Angel comes from Haibara's Japanese translation as "The angel which fell into hell".</ref>
| alias = Elena Sera (birth name)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 39|File 398]] Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329]]
| appearances = {{:Elena Miyano Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Hiroko Suzuki]] (eps. 341-771) [[Megumi Hayashibara]] (eps. 953+)
| english-voice = [[Vivian Lu]] (Zero's Tea Time)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Elena Miyano|宮野エレーナ|Miyano Erēna}}''' was a British biochemist in the [[Black Organization]]. She was married to [[Atsushi Miyano]] and had two children, [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> She is also [[Mary Sera]]'s sister. Together she and Atsushi started the [[APTX 4869]] research according to [[Vermouth]].<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> Both Elena and Atsushi died during a research facility fire that [[Pisco]] called an accident. Later the project was taken over by her daughter Shiho.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house thirty years ago to go "somewhere" for his research, most likely the [[Black Organization]]<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 1 (425)</ref>. He got married in this time period to Elena, a foreigner of British origin. [[Vermouth]] hints that they worked on an existing project upon joining,<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents '''who took over''' this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> which is probably part of the one Shiho implied was at least fifty years old.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 9 (189): "The Endangered Ball "; Episodes [[Episode 130|130]]-[[Episode 131|131]] "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> While researching, they worked on a project they called [[Silver Bullet]], which their lab mates refereed to as a "dream drug".<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Elena was nicknamed "Hell Angel" while in the Organization, which [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] translates into Japanese as "the angel which fell into hell".<ref name="hell angel"/> She may have earned the nickname because of her nice personality which set her apart from the darkness of the rest of the organization. She and her husband met [[Hiroshi Agasa]] at a science conference at some point. Agasa remembers that Atsushi was a very polite person who complimented his inventions, but that Elena was a very quiet person who you couldn't tell what she was thinking.<ref> Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6-8 (398-400)</ref> Around twenty-five years ago Elena gave birth to [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and then twenty years ago, the couple and a 4~5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi's father's house then occupied by Atsushi's childhood friend and playmate Sohei Dejima.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] revealed that he had met Elena some time before she died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> She appears in one of Amuro's flashbacks, where she asked him not to pick fights anymore as she wouldn't be able to tend his wounds the next time he comes, because she will go to somewhere "very far away".<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara's mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>

Elena and Atsushi died in a fire at their research facility<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948)</ref> shortly after [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] was born.<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 2 (939)</ref> Most of their work was destroyed, and their deaths were claimed to be an accident by [[Pisco]], who apparently was close with the couple. However, Elena and Atsushi seemed to know that something was going to happen to them. Elena took the time to leave four tapes for Shiho meaning that she knew she was about to do something that she might not survive, and entrusted those tapes to Akemi, who was around seven at the time.<ref>Manga chapters 425 and 427</ref> The four tapes are numbered 1-20 with the numbers split into groups of five. But the first two tapes are blank. The numbers correspond to a message left by Elena for Shiho's same-numbered birthday. On the fourth tape (15-20) message number 18 meant for Shiho’s 18th birthday, Elena talks about if Shiho will regret what she is about to do, she was working on a remarkable drug she called "[[Silver Bullet]]". She added that it was "terrifying" and the research would require them to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Shiho was able to resurrect their project from the salvaged remains, and was already working on it around five years ago.

== Appearance and personality ==
Elena is British and has long blonde hair. In every instance so far she has been shown wearing glasses which cover her eyes. She has also been shown wearing a lab coat.

Since Elena has not appeared or interacted with other characters much on screen, much of her personality has been described by others. Elena seems to have been a very quiet person which has lead to people thinking she didn't understand much Japanese. However we know that she is fluent. Agasa seems to think that she is more suspicious than her "mad scientist" husband, Atsushi.<ref>[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]; [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329: "A Friendship That Can't Be Bought"]]</ref> Elena seems to have had a generally nice personality, which has earned her the nickname "Hell Angel" inside the [[Black Organization]] which implies her niceness on the backdrop of the criminal organization. Given the tapes she left behind, Elena seems to have loved her daughters. That said, Elena left her daughters at the mercy of the Black Organization even though she knew that she was going to "disappear" in advance.

== Skills ==
Due to her work on drug related projects for the [[Black Organization]] she would have to be skilled at biochemistry. She made significant advances on her research project working with her lab mates on creating a "dream drug" that they were calling "[[Silver Bullet]]". It is unknown how much progress was made, only that her daughter [[Shiho Miyano]] was able to make further advances on a project called "[[APTX 4869]]".

Despite her quiet nature and foreign appearance, Elena can speak Japanese fluently. This was called into question by one of the workers living at Atsushi's house. In the anime he later sees Elena talking with Akemi quietly.

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== Plot overview ==
=== Hotel Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|178]]) ===
[[Pisco]] tells [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] that he is an old acquaintance of her parents and knew that they were working on a drug project. He is surprised on how far she has come with the project. He also mentions that the parents died in an accident.

=== Moving Dolls Case (Manga: [[Volume 38#Moving Dolls Case|384]], Anime: [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|312]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Silhouette.PNG|thumb|right|200px|The first look at Elena we get, courtesy of Agasa's flashback.]]
When [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] questions Haibara about why she doesn't know much about the Doll sets, the topic shifts to her past. She mentions that the [[Black Organization]] told [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] that her parents had died in a lab accident, but Haibara is skeptical despite Pisco's earlier words. Haibara mentions that she doesn't know much about her mother, but that her father "[[Atsushi Miyano]]" was often called a Mad Scientist, and his projects were often boycotted.

=== The Torn Friendship (Manga: [[Volume 39#The Torn Friendship|398]], Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|329]]) ===
On the way to a camping retreat Agasa comments that he does know the scientist, Atsushi Miyano. He says that he was a very friendly man who complimented his inventions. He reveals that his wife was named "Elena Miyano" and that she was quiet and he could never tell what she was thinking. Rumor has it that she met Atsushi when she came from England to study in Japan.

=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Before.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Elena and Haibara.]]
Approximately thirty years ago Atsushi moved out of the house he inherited from his father to go do research. He left the home to a childhood friend of his to open a design company. A short time later he sent a wedding invitation to his friend. At a point twenty years ago Atsushi and his wife, Elena, and his daughter, Akemi, came back to the house with something very important to tell the friend and stayed overnight, however the friend who was living there was busy and away for a few days. The other members of the company remember Elena being very quiet. They thought it was because she didn't speak Japanese very well, but Akemi spoke it perfectly. Atsushi had been looking out the window frequently and a black car with grey windows was parked nearby quite often. The three of them left without leaving any message behind. Akemi returned at a much more recent point of time (approximately one week before dying) to use the bathroom and hid something in the water tank. Twice someone had broken into the house and broken the lock on the bathroom door, possibly to find the item and spy on the occupants. Haibara reveals that her mother's nickname in the organization was {{nihongo|"Hell Angel"|ヘルエンジェル|Heru Enjeru}} and she translates it into Japanese as {{nihongo|3="jigoku ni ochita tenshi"|2=地獄に落ちた天使|4=the angel that fell to hell}}. At the end of the main case, Conan reveals that the items that Akemi hid in the bathroom were cassette tapes sealed in a plastic bag. The four tapes are numbered in 5 intervals ending with 20. Conan says that the first two tapes were empty and began to listen to the 11-15 tape. He stops and hands the headphones to Haibara saying that its something he shouldn't hear. The tape begins with "To the 11-year old Shiho, happy brithday!" The tapes are recorded messages from Elena to a more grown-up Shiho who she would have not been able to meet.

=== Convenience Store Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Convenience Store Case|427]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|343]]) ===
In the middle of this case we have Haibara sitting in Agasa's basement listening to the tapes that were recovered in the previous case. "Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I am totally on your side. I'll never loose faith in you. Do your best. Well, it'll be your 19th birthday next time... bye-bye honey, oh, by the way... maybe you are old enough to hear this... I'm really..." However this is all we get to hear of the tape. (Later in the series we get the continuation of the quote.)

=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]]) ===
In the confrontation between Jodie and Vermouth at the dock once the main case had finished, Haibara arrived and said that she would willingly give herself over to Vermouth in exchange for sparing everyone else. Vermouth told her "If you want to blame anyone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research."

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|821, 823-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|702, 704]]) ===
[[File:Elena after.png|thumb|left|200px|Amuro has a flashback with Elena.<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara’s mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>]]
After receiving a message from Vermouth on her phone while on the train, Haibara freaks out and ditches the main group and hides around the corner as to not be detected. She then has a flashback to the words that her mother left her on the tapes (that were recovered 400 chapters ago). This version was translated slightly different than the original: "Alright, so the next time will be your 19th birthday... bye-bye see you soon... oh yes, maybe its about time I told you... the truth is, your mom is making a truly terrifying drug at the moment... my lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a "dream drug"... your dad and I are putting our hopes on it and calling it... the silver bullet! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister... please understand Shiho..."

At the end of the case [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]'s identity is revealed and he tells the person he believes to be Shiho that she looks very much like her mother. He reveals that he has met both of the Miyano parents as well as Akemi. However that Shiho happened to be Kaitou Kid in a mask with Haibara feeding him lines.

=== Tea Poisoning Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|889]], Anime: [[The Tense Tea Party|771]]) ===
[[Rei Furuya]] has a flashback to when he was a kid and his wounds were being treated by Elena. However she tells him that soon she may have to go far away and will be unable to continue to treat his wounds from when he was picking fights.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843]]) ===
When a makeup counter sales associate asks Haibara where her mother was, she commented that her mother had died shortly after she was born.

=== Kohji Haneda's Death Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|948]]-[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|950]], Anime: [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene|861-862]]) ===
Haibara gives further details about the deaths of the elder Miyanos. They died in a fire at their research facility. Many of their drug data documents were also destroyed but Shiho was able to recreate their drug based on the parts that survived. It is also revealed that their drug was used for killing like Shiho's APTX 4869. [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] who were killed in their hotel rooms seventeen years ago may have been killed by that drug. However, only Kohji was listed on the [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|APTX 4869's victims' list]].

=== Black Bunny's Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#File 1011- Memories of That Woman|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===
[[File:Elena reveals pregnant.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena reveals that she is pregnant to Atsushi.]]
In a flashback from nineteen years ago, Rei is badly injured due to fighting with his bullies. Akemi brings him to her parents' clinic to get him treated. In contrast to her serious and mind-your-own-business behavior towards her patients, Elena seems very frank with Rei. The reason behind this is she can relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him that he shouldn't come if gets into another fight. But if he hurts his pride by explaining to bullies why he is no different to them, she will surely put a bandage on it. It is revealed that during the flashback, Elena was three months pregnant with Shiho.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: [[Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy|995]]) ===

== Relationship analysis ==
=== [[Atsushi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-coulpe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena and Atsushi.]]
With in a short time of meeting (a few years) they fell in love and got married. Sohei Dejima, Atsushi's childhood friend, reports that he received an invitation to their wedding only a few years after Atsushi had left his home in Dejima's hands.

=== [[Akemi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-family.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena, Atsushi, Akemi, and Rei.]]
She had to trust Akemi enough to have left her tapes for Shiho in Akemi's hands. Akemi was also taken with Elena and Atsushi to visit Atsushi's home twenty years ago. However it must be noted that they were distracted enough by the fact that the [[Black Organization]] was following them that they let Akemi roam free and hide the resident's belongings.

=== [[Shiho Miyano]] ===
She cared enough to leave messages on tapes for the grown-up Shiho for all of the birthdays that she would miss witnessing. She even left some information about the drug project that she was working on called the "[[Silver Bullet]]" using that as an explanation as to why she had to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.

=== [[Vermouth]] ===
Vermouth seems to blame the Miyano parents for her own situation. When she was ready to kill [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] during the showdown at the docks she told her that she should blame her parents for this predicament.

=== [[Rei Furuya]] ===
While the true relationship between them has not been revealed yet, we know that they knew each other when [[Rei Furuya|Rei]] was younger. Rei got into many fights and it seems that Elena would bandage him up after the fights. However, one day, Elena had to move and could no longer bandage him. In the flashback in [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]], it is shown that Elena was very friendly with Amuro, which was unlike her behavior. It was because she could relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him she will surely put a bandage on his wounded pride if he explains to his bullies that he is no different from them. It is revealed that Rei entered the police academy in order to find Elena who disappeared without his knowledge, hoping to find her.

== Name origin ==
"Elena" comes from the German reading of the Irene of [[Wikipedia: Irene Adler|Irene Adler]].<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12259#p810549 Gosho Q&A from Super Digest Book 50+] Q: 76: Does Miyano Elena's name come from the German reading of Irene? 
A: That's right, it does.</ref>

==Trivia==
*In [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene]] Haibara mentioned that Akemi has a Put On Mascara mirror that originally belong to Elena.
*The Miyano couple met in the medical college and Gosho believe Elena fell in love first according to the LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I'm totally on your side! Well, it will be you nineteenth birthday next time. Bye-bye, honey. Oh yes, maybe it's about time I told you... The truth is, your mom is making a truly ''terrifying'' drug at the moment. My lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a dream drug. Your dad and I are putting all our hopes on it and calling it the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister. Please understand, Shiho.|Part of Elena's message on Shiho's 18th tape.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pgs 7-8: "Mystery Train: Junction"</ref>}}
{{cquote|Even if people look different, when you peel back our skin, we're all just lumps of blood and flesh. To prove it, every race in the world has red blood flowing through them, just like yours.|Rei's memory of Elena Miyano treating his wounds.<ref>[[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]]</ref>}}

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Nch re0340 NTV.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 340 remastered's hint.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP953-Elena Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 953]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" |
[[File:Elena Miyano2.png|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 1029 (Wild Police Story Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Elena Miyano ZTT.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Zero's Tea Time Episode 5]]
|}

== Speculation ==

=== Elena Miyano and Mary are sisters ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
In 2014 [[Gosho Aoyama]] did an interview with the Da Vinci magazine in which he revealed that "Two mothers will be revealed to be sisters". Many people jumped in with the idea that [[Mary Sera|Mary]], the [[Akai family]] mother, would be one of them since she is a recently introduced character of the arc that was happening at the time. Additional speculation began to link Elena as the other sister due to her being mentioned in the same question of the same interview. Furthermore, the two are both British.

In November 2015, the manga [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|Department Store Stabbing Case]], Conan noticed some left over make-up on [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s face that made it look like she had the [[Akai family]] eye bags. Conan immediately began to suspect that Haibara may be related to Mary. At this stage in the series we have not seen Elena Miyano's eyes for comparison.

In an interview in Singapore in 2016, Gosho confirmed that [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Akemi Miyano]] are cousins. It is stated at 34:23 in the audio link.<ref>Aoyama Gosho's Q&A with fans. Singapore 2016. https://clyp.it/mwoiwshx</ref> This would imply that one of Shuichi's parents is a sibling of one of Akemi's parents.

In April 2018, Elena Miyano's face was fully revealed in the manga [[Volume 95#Black Bunny.27s Club Case|Black Bunny Club Case]]. She does not have the Akai family eye marks, however she does mention having an older sister. In combination with the statements above this feels like one step away from being proven.

==== Other commentary on sisters speculation ====
'''Gosho has given three different [[Super Digest Books]] Q&A answers on the subject.''' 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB70.2B questions translations|SDB 70+]] 
Q67: Are [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] and [[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary|mother]] sisters? 
A: Yukiko is not the sister... 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB80.2B questions translations|SDB 80+]] 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and [[Shuichi Akai]]'s/[[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary Sera|mother]] sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 
Q62: Are [[Masumi Sera|Sera-san]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) 

'''Gosho has also talked about it in [[Postcards]]''' 
[[Postcards#2016|2016]] 
Elena and Mary, sisters? ...please look forward to it~~ (laugh) 
Relationship between the [[Mary|ryōiki-gai no imōto (sister from outside the domain)]] and Haibara... please look forward to it (laugh).

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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{{Black Organization}}
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| image = Elena Miyano Profile.png
| age = 29<ref>Sohei Dejima, her husband's childhood friend, was 54-year-old, then in [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|file 1011]] was a flashback from nineteen years ago.</ref> (deceased)
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (first daughter, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second daughter) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (husband, deceased)
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| alias = Elena Sera (birth name)
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| appearances = {{:Elena Miyano Appearances}}
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| japanese-voice = [[Hiroko Suzuki]] (eps. 341-771) [[Megumi Hayashibara]] (eps. 953+)
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'''{{nihongo|Elena Miyano|宮野エレーナ|Miyano Erēna}}''' was a British biochemist in the [[Black Organization]]. She was married to [[Atsushi Miyano]] and had two children, [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> She is also [[Mary Sera]]'s sister. Together she and Atsushi started the [[APTX 4869]] research according to [[Vermouth]].<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> Both Elena and Atsushi died during a research facility fire that [[Pisco]] called an accident. Later the project was taken over by her daughter Shiho.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house thirty years ago to go "somewhere" for his research, most likely the [[Black Organization]]<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 1 (425)</ref>. He got married in this time period to Elena, a foreigner of British origin. [[Vermouth]] hints that they worked on an existing project upon joining,<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents '''who took over''' this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> which is probably part of the one Shiho implied was at least fifty years old.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 9 (189): "The Endangered Ball "; Episodes [[Episode 130|130]]-[[Episode 131|131]] "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> While researching, they worked on a project they called [[Silver Bullet]], which their lab mates refereed to as a "dream drug".<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Elena was nicknamed "Hell Angel" while in the Organization, which [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] translates into Japanese as "the angel which fell into hell".<ref name="hell angel"/> She may have earned the nickname because of her nice personality which set her apart from the darkness of the rest of the organization. She and her husband met [[Hiroshi Agasa]] at a science conference at some point. Agasa remembers that Atsushi was a very polite person who complimented his inventions, but that Elena was a very quiet person who you couldn't tell what she was thinking.<ref> Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6-8 (398-400)</ref> Around twenty-five years ago Elena gave birth to [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and then twenty years ago, the couple and a 4~5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi's father's house then occupied by Atsushi's childhood friend and playmate Sohei Dejima.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] revealed that he had met Elena some time before she died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> She appears in one of Amuro's flashbacks, where she asked him not to pick fights anymore as she wouldn't be able to tend his wounds the next time he comes, because she will go to somewhere "very far away".<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara's mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>

Elena and Atsushi died in a fire at their research facility<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948)</ref> shortly after [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] was born.<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 2 (939)</ref> Most of their work was destroyed, and their deaths were claimed to be an accident by [[Pisco]], who apparently was close with the couple. However, Elena and Atsushi seemed to know that something was going to happen to them. Elena took the time to leave four tapes for Shiho meaning that she knew she was about to do something that she might not survive, and entrusted those tapes to Akemi, who was around seven at the time.<ref>Manga chapters 425 and 427</ref> The four tapes are numbered 1-20 with the numbers split into groups of five. But the first two tapes are blank. The numbers correspond to a message left by Elena for Shiho's same-numbered birthday. On the fourth tape (15-20) message number 18 meant for Shiho’s 18th birthday, Elena talks about if Shiho will regret what she is about to do, she was working on a remarkable drug she called "[[Silver Bullet]]". She added that it was "terrifying" and the research would require them to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Shiho was able to resurrect their project from the salvaged remains, and was already working on it around five years ago.

== Appearance and personality ==
Elena is British and has long blonde hair. In every instance so far she has been shown wearing glasses which cover her eyes. She has also been shown wearing a lab coat.

Since Elena has not appeared or interacted with other characters much on screen, much of her personality has been described by others. Elena seems to have been a very quiet person which has lead to people thinking she didn't understand much Japanese. However we know that she is fluent. Agasa seems to think that she is more suspicious than her "mad scientist" husband, Atsushi.<ref>[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]; [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329: "A Friendship That Can't Be Bought"]]</ref> Elena seems to have had a generally nice personality, which has earned her the nickname "Hell Angel" inside the [[Black Organization]] which implies her niceness on the backdrop of the criminal organization. Given the tapes she left behind, Elena seems to have loved her daughters. That said, Elena left her daughters at the mercy of the Black Organization even though she knew that she was going to "disappear" in advance.

== Skills ==
Due to her work on drug related projects for the [[Black Organization]] she would have to be skilled at biochemistry. She made significant advances on her research project working with her lab mates on creating a "dream drug" that they were calling "[[Silver Bullet]]". It is unknown how much progress was made, only that her daughter [[Shiho Miyano]] was able to make further advances on a project called "[[APTX 4869]]".

Despite her quiet nature and foreign appearance, Elena can speak Japanese fluently. This was called into question by one of the workers living at Atsushi's house. In the anime he later sees Elena talking with Akemi quietly.

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== Plot overview ==
=== Hotel Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|178]]) ===
[[Pisco]] tells [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] that he is an old acquaintance of her parents and knew that they were working on a drug project. He is surprised on how far she has come with the project. He also mentions that the parents died in an accident.

=== Moving Dolls Case (Manga: [[Volume 38#Moving Dolls Case|384]], Anime: [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|312]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Silhouette.PNG|thumb|right|200px|The first look at Elena we get, courtesy of Agasa's flashback.]]
When [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] questions Haibara about why she doesn't know much about the Doll sets, the topic shifts to her past. She mentions that the [[Black Organization]] told [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] that her parents had died in a lab accident, but Haibara is skeptical despite Pisco's earlier words. Haibara mentions that she doesn't know much about her mother, but that her father "[[Atsushi Miyano]]" was often called a Mad Scientist, and his projects were often boycotted.

=== The Torn Friendship (Manga: [[Volume 39#The Torn Friendship|398]], Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|329]]) ===
On the way to a camping retreat Agasa comments that he does know the scientist, Atsushi Miyano. He says that he was a very friendly man who complimented his inventions. He reveals that his wife was named "Elena Miyano" and that she was quiet and he could never tell what she was thinking. Rumor has it that she met Atsushi when she came from England to study in Japan.

=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Before.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Elena and Haibara.]]
Approximately thirty years ago Atsushi moved out of the house he inherited from his father to go do research. He left the home to a childhood friend of his to open a design company. A short time later he sent a wedding invitation to his friend. At a point twenty years ago Atsushi and his wife, Elena, and his daughter, Akemi, came back to the house with something very important to tell the friend and stayed overnight, however the friend who was living there was busy and away for a few days. The other members of the company remember Elena being very quiet. They thought it was because she didn't speak Japanese very well, but Akemi spoke it perfectly. Atsushi had been looking out the window frequently and a black car with grey windows was parked nearby quite often. The three of them left without leaving any message behind. Akemi returned at a much more recent point of time (approximately one week before dying) to use the bathroom and hid something in the water tank. Twice someone had broken into the house and broken the lock on the bathroom door, possibly to find the item and spy on the occupants. Haibara reveals that her mother's nickname in the organization was {{nihongo|"Hell Angel"|ヘルエンジェル|Heru Enjeru}} and she translates it into Japanese as {{nihongo|3="jigoku ni ochita tenshi"|2=地獄に落ちた天使|4=the angel that fell to hell}}. At the end of the main case, Conan reveals that the items that Akemi hid in the bathroom were cassette tapes sealed in a plastic bag. The four tapes are numbered in 5 intervals ending with 20. Conan says that the first two tapes were empty and began to listen to the 11-15 tape. He stops and hands the headphones to Haibara saying that its something he shouldn't hear. The tape begins with "To the 11-year old Shiho, happy brithday!" The tapes are recorded messages from Elena to a more grown-up Shiho who she would have not been able to meet.

=== Convenience Store Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Convenience Store Case|427]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|343]]) ===
In the middle of this case we have Haibara sitting in Agasa's basement listening to the tapes that were recovered in the previous case. "Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I am totally on your side. I'll never loose faith in you. Do your best. Well, it'll be your 19th birthday next time... bye-bye honey, oh, by the way... maybe you are old enough to hear this... I'm really..." However this is all we get to hear of the tape. (Later in the series we get the continuation of the quote.)

=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]]) ===
In the confrontation between Jodie and Vermouth at the dock once the main case had finished, Haibara arrived and said that she would willingly give herself over to Vermouth in exchange for sparing everyone else. Vermouth told her "If you want to blame anyone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research."

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|821, 823-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|702, 704]]) ===
[[File:Elena after.png|thumb|left|200px|Amuro has a flashback with Elena.<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara’s mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>]]
After receiving a message from Vermouth on her phone while on the train, Haibara freaks out and ditches the main group and hides around the corner as to not be detected. She then has a flashback to the words that her mother left her on the tapes (that were recovered 400 chapters ago). This version was translated slightly different than the original: "Alright, so the next time will be your 19th birthday... bye-bye see you soon... oh yes, maybe its about time I told you... the truth is, your mom is making a truly terrifying drug at the moment... my lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a "dream drug"... your dad and I are putting our hopes on it and calling it... the silver bullet! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister... please understand Shiho..."

At the end of the case [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]'s identity is revealed and he tells the person he believes to be Shiho that she looks very much like her mother. He reveals that he has met both of the Miyano parents as well as Akemi. However that Shiho happened to be Kaitou Kid in a mask with Haibara feeding him lines.

=== Tea Poisoning Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|889]], Anime: [[The Tense Tea Party|771]]) ===
[[Rei Furuya]] has a flashback to when he was a kid and his wounds were being treated by Elena. However she tells him that soon she may have to go far away and will be unable to continue to treat his wounds from when he was picking fights.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843]]) ===
When a makeup counter sales associate asks Haibara where her mother was, she commented that her mother had died shortly after she was born.

=== Kohji Haneda's Death Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|948]]-[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|950]], Anime: [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene|861-862]]) ===
Haibara gives further details about the deaths of the elder Miyanos. They died in a fire at their research facility. Many of their drug data documents were also destroyed but Shiho was able to recreate their drug based on the parts that survived. It is also revealed that their drug was used for killing like Shiho's APTX 4869. [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] who were killed in their hotel rooms seventeen years ago may have been killed by that drug. However, only Kohji was listed on the [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|APTX 4869's victims' list]].

=== Black Bunny's Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#File 1011- Memories of That Woman|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===
[[File:Elena reveals pregnant.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena reveals that she is pregnant to Atsushi.]]
In a flashback from nineteen years ago, Rei is badly injured due to fighting with his bullies. Akemi brings him to her parents' clinic to get him treated. In contrast to her serious and mind-your-own-business behavior towards her patients, Elena seems very frank with Rei. The reason behind this is she can relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him that he shouldn't come if gets into another fight. But if he hurts his pride by explaining to bullies why he is no different to them, she will surely put a bandage on it. It is revealed that during the flashback, Elena was three months pregnant with Shiho.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: [[Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy|995]]) ===

== Relationship analysis ==
=== [[Atsushi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-coulpe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena and Atsushi.]]
With in a short time of meeting (a few years) they fell in love and got married. Sohei Dejima, Atsushi's childhood friend, reports that he received an invitation to their wedding only a few years after Atsushi had left his home in Dejima's hands.

=== [[Akemi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-family.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena, Atsushi, Akemi, and Rei.]]
She had to trust Akemi enough to have left her tapes for Shiho in Akemi's hands. Akemi was also taken with Elena and Atsushi to visit Atsushi's home twenty years ago. However it must be noted that they were distracted enough by the fact that the [[Black Organization]] was following them that they let Akemi roam free and hide the resident's belongings.

=== [[Shiho Miyano]] ===
She cared enough to leave messages on tapes for the grown-up Shiho for all of the birthdays that she would miss witnessing. She even left some information about the drug project that she was working on called the "[[Silver Bullet]]" using that as an explanation as to why she had to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.

=== [[Vermouth]] ===
Vermouth seems to blame the Miyano parents for her own situation. When she was ready to kill [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] during the showdown at the docks she told her that she should blame her parents for this predicament.

=== [[Rei Furuya]] ===
While the true relationship between them has not been revealed yet, we know that they knew each other when [[Rei Furuya|Rei]] was younger. Rei got into many fights and it seems that Elena would bandage him up after the fights. However, one day, Elena had to move and could no longer bandage him. In the flashback in [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]], it is shown that Elena was very friendly with Amuro, which was unlike her behavior. It was because she could relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him she will surely put a bandage on his wounded pride if he explains to his bullies that he is no different from them. It is revealed that Rei entered the police academy in order to find Elena who disappeared without his knowledge, hoping to find her.

== Name origin ==
"Elena" comes from the German reading of the Irene of [[Wikipedia: Irene Adler|Irene Adler]].<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12259#p810549 Gosho Q&A from Super Digest Book 50+] Q: 76: Does Miyano Elena's name come from the German reading of Irene? 
A: That's right, it does.</ref>

==Trivia==
*In [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene]] Haibara mentioned that Akemi has a Put On Mascara mirror that originally belong to Elena.
*The Miyano couple met in the medical college and Gosho believe Elena fell in love first according to the LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I'm totally on your side! Well, it will be you nineteenth birthday next time. Bye-bye, honey. Oh yes, maybe it's about time I told you... The truth is, your mom is making a truly ''terrifying'' drug at the moment. My lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a dream drug. Your dad and I are putting all our hopes on it and calling it the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister. Please understand, Shiho.|Part of Elena's message on Shiho's 18th tape.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pgs 7-8: "Mystery Train: Junction"</ref>}}
{{cquote|Even if people look different, when you peel back our skin, we're all just lumps of blood and flesh. To prove it, every race in the world has red blood flowing through them, just like yours.|Rei's memory of Elena Miyano treating his wounds.<ref>[[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]]</ref>}}

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Nch re0340 NTV.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 340 remastered's hint.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP953-Elena Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 953]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" |
[[File:Elena Miyano2.png|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 1029 (Wild Police Story Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Elena Miyano ZTT.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Zero's Tea Time Episode 5]]
|}

== Speculation ==

=== Elena Miyano and Mary are sisters ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
In 2014 [[Gosho Aoyama]] did an interview with the Da Vinci magazine in which he revealed that "Two mothers will be revealed to be sisters". Many people jumped in with the idea that [[Mary Sera|Mary]], the [[Akai family]] mother, would be one of them since she is a recently introduced character of the arc that was happening at the time. Additional speculation began to link Elena as the other sister due to her being mentioned in the same question of the same interview. Furthermore, the two are both British.

In November 2015, the manga [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|Department Store Stabbing Case]], Conan noticed some left over make-up on [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s face that made it look like she had the [[Akai family]] eye bags. Conan immediately began to suspect that Haibara may be related to Mary. At this stage in the series we have not seen Elena Miyano's eyes for comparison.

In an interview in Singapore in 2016, Gosho confirmed that [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Akemi Miyano]] are cousins. It is stated at 34:23 in the audio link.<ref>Aoyama Gosho's Q&A with fans. Singapore 2016. https://clyp.it/mwoiwshx</ref> This would imply that one of Shuichi's parents is a sibling of one of Akemi's parents.

In April 2018, Elena Miyano's face was fully revealed in the manga [[Volume 95#Black Bunny.27s Club Case|Black Bunny Club Case]]. She does not have the Akai family eye marks, however she does mention having an older sister. In combination with the statements above this feels like one step away from being proven.

In [[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case]], it is finally revealed that Mary and Elena are sisters when Vermouth force-feeds Mary the [[APTX 4869|APTX]] with the words: "How does it feel to depart from this world at the hands of your sister's creation?"<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume_99#File_1049_-_It.27s_Unbelievable.21|File 1049: It's Unbelievable! (Volume 99)]]</ref>

==== Other commentary on sisters speculation ====
'''Gosho has given three different [[Super Digest Books]] Q&A answers on the subject.''' 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB70.2B questions translations|SDB 70+]] 
Q67: Are [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] and [[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary|mother]] sisters? 
A: Yukiko is not the sister... 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB80.2B questions translations|SDB 80+]] 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and [[Shuichi Akai]]'s/[[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary Sera|mother]] sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 
Q62: Are [[Masumi Sera|Sera-san]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) 

'''Gosho has also talked about it in [[Postcards]]''' 
[[Postcards#2016|2016]] 
Elena and Mary, sisters? ...please look forward to it~~ (laugh) 
Relationship between the [[Mary|ryōiki-gai no imōto (sister from outside the domain)]] and Haibara... please look forward to it (laugh).

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Akai family]]

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'''{{nihongo|Elena Miyano|宮野エレーナ|Miyano Erēna}}''' was a British biochemist in the [[Black Organization]]. She was married to [[Atsushi Miyano]] and had two children, [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> She is also [[Mary Sera]]'s sister. Together she and Atsushi started the [[APTX 4869]] research according to [[Vermouth]].<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> Both Elena and Atsushi died during a research facility fire that [[Pisco]] called an accident. Later the project was taken over by her daughter Shiho.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house thirty years ago to go "somewhere" for his research, most likely the [[Black Organization]]<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 1 (425)</ref>. He got married in this time period to Elena, a foreigner of British origin. [[Vermouth]] hints that they worked on an existing project upon joining,<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents '''who took over''' this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> which is probably part of the one Shiho implied was at least fifty years old.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 9 (189): "The Endangered Ball "; Episodes [[Episode 130|130]]-[[Episode 131|131]] "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> While researching, they worked on a project they called [[Silver Bullet]], which their lab mates refereed to as a "dream drug".<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Elena was nicknamed "Hell Angel" while in the Organization, which [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] translates into Japanese as "the angel which fell into hell".<ref name="hell angel"/> She may have earned the nickname because of her nice personality which set her apart from the darkness of the rest of the organization. She and her husband met [[Hiroshi Agasa]] at a science conference at some point. Agasa remembers that Atsushi was a very polite person who complimented his inventions, but that Elena was a very quiet person who you couldn't tell what she was thinking.<ref> Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6-8 (398-400)</ref> Around twenty-five years ago Elena gave birth to [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and then twenty years ago, the couple and a 4~5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi's father's house then occupied by Atsushi's childhood friend and playmate Sohei Dejima.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] revealed that he had met Elena some time before she died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> She appears in one of Amuro's flashbacks, where she asked him not to pick fights anymore as she wouldn't be able to tend his wounds the next time he comes, because she will go to somewhere "very far away".<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara's mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>

Elena and Atsushi died in a fire at their research facility<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948)</ref> shortly after [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] was born.<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 2 (939)</ref> Most of their work was destroyed, and their deaths were claimed to be an accident by [[Pisco]], who apparently was close with the couple. However, Elena and Atsushi seemed to know that something was going to happen to them. Elena took the time to leave four tapes for Shiho meaning that she knew she was about to do something that she might not survive, and entrusted those tapes to Akemi, who was around seven at the time.<ref>Manga chapters 425 and 427</ref> The four tapes are numbered 1-20 with the numbers split into groups of five. But the first two tapes are blank. The numbers correspond to a message left by Elena for Shiho's same-numbered birthday. On the fourth tape (15-20) message number 18 meant for Shiho’s 18th birthday, Elena talks about if Shiho will regret what she is about to do, she was working on a remarkable drug she called "[[Silver Bullet]]". She added that it was "terrifying" and the research would require them to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Shiho was able to resurrect their project from the salvaged remains, and was already working on it around five years ago.

== Appearance and personality ==
Elena is British and has long blonde hair. In every instance so far she has been shown wearing glasses which cover her eyes. She has also been shown wearing a lab coat.

Since Elena has not appeared or interacted with other characters much on screen, much of her personality has been described by others. Elena seems to have been a very quiet person which has lead to people thinking she didn't understand much Japanese. However we know that she is fluent. Agasa seems to think that she is more suspicious than her "mad scientist" husband, Atsushi.<ref>[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]; [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329: "A Friendship That Can't Be Bought"]]</ref> Elena seems to have had a generally nice personality, which has earned her the nickname "Hell Angel" inside the [[Black Organization]] which implies her niceness on the backdrop of the criminal organization. Given the tapes she left behind, Elena seems to have loved her daughters. That said, Elena left her daughters at the mercy of the Black Organization even though she knew that she was going to "disappear" in advance.

== Skills ==
Due to her work on drug related projects for the [[Black Organization]] she would have to be skilled at biochemistry. She made significant advances on her research project working with her lab mates on creating a "dream drug" that they were calling "[[Silver Bullet]]". It is unknown how much progress was made, only that her daughter [[Shiho Miyano]] was able to make further advances on a project called "[[APTX 4869]]".

Despite her quiet nature and foreign appearance, Elena can speak Japanese fluently. This was called into question by one of the workers living at Atsushi's house. In the anime he later sees Elena talking with Akemi quietly.

== Appellations ==

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== Plot overview ==
=== Hotel Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|178]]) ===
[[Pisco]] tells [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] that he is an old acquaintance of her parents and knew that they were working on a drug project. He is surprised on how far she has come with the project. He also mentions that the parents died in an accident.

=== Moving Dolls Case (Manga: [[Volume 38#Moving Dolls Case|384]], Anime: [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|312]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Silhouette.PNG|thumb|right|200px|The first look at Elena we get, courtesy of Agasa's flashback.]]
When [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] questions Haibara about why she doesn't know much about the Doll sets, the topic shifts to her past. She mentions that the [[Black Organization]] told [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] that her parents had died in a lab accident, but Haibara is skeptical despite Pisco's earlier words. Haibara mentions that she doesn't know much about her mother, but that her father "[[Atsushi Miyano]]" was often called a Mad Scientist, and his projects were often boycotted.

=== The Torn Friendship (Manga: [[Volume 39#The Torn Friendship|398]], Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|329]]) ===
On the way to a camping retreat Agasa comments that he does know the scientist, Atsushi Miyano. He says that he was a very friendly man who complimented his inventions. He reveals that his wife was named "Elena Miyano" and that she was quiet and he could never tell what she was thinking. Rumor has it that she met Atsushi when she came from England to study in Japan.

=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Before.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Elena and Haibara.]]
Approximately thirty years ago Atsushi moved out of the house he inherited from his father to go do research. He left the home to a childhood friend of his to open a design company. A short time later he sent a wedding invitation to his friend. At a point twenty years ago Atsushi and his wife, Elena, and his daughter, Akemi, came back to the house with something very important to tell the friend and stayed overnight, however the friend who was living there was busy and away for a few days. The other members of the company remember Elena being very quiet. They thought it was because she didn't speak Japanese very well, but Akemi spoke it perfectly. Atsushi had been looking out the window frequently and a black car with grey windows was parked nearby quite often. The three of them left without leaving any message behind. Akemi returned at a much more recent point of time (approximately one week before dying) to use the bathroom and hid something in the water tank. Twice someone had broken into the house and broken the lock on the bathroom door, possibly to find the item and spy on the occupants. Haibara reveals that her mother's nickname in the organization was {{nihongo|"Hell Angel"|ヘルエンジェル|Heru Enjeru}} and she translates it into Japanese as {{nihongo|3="jigoku ni ochita tenshi"|2=地獄に落ちた天使|4=the angel that fell to hell}}. At the end of the main case, Conan reveals that the items that Akemi hid in the bathroom were cassette tapes sealed in a plastic bag. The four tapes are numbered in 5 intervals ending with 20. Conan says that the first two tapes were empty and began to listen to the 11-15 tape. He stops and hands the headphones to Haibara saying that its something he shouldn't hear. The tape begins with "To the 11-year old Shiho, happy brithday!" The tapes are recorded messages from Elena to a more grown-up Shiho who she would have not been able to meet.

=== Convenience Store Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Convenience Store Case|427]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|343]]) ===
In the middle of this case we have Haibara sitting in Agasa's basement listening to the tapes that were recovered in the previous case. "Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I am totally on your side. I'll never loose faith in you. Do your best. Well, it'll be your 19th birthday next time... bye-bye honey, oh, by the way... maybe you are old enough to hear this... I'm really..." However this is all we get to hear of the tape. (Later in the series we get the continuation of the quote.)

=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]]) ===
In the confrontation between Jodie and Vermouth at the dock once the main case had finished, Haibara arrived and said that she would willingly give herself over to Vermouth in exchange for sparing everyone else. Vermouth told her "If you want to blame anyone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research."

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|821, 823-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|702, 704]]) ===
[[File:Elena after.png|thumb|left|200px|Amuro has a flashback with Elena.<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara’s mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>]]
After receiving a message from Vermouth on her phone while on the train, Haibara freaks out and ditches the main group and hides around the corner as to not be detected. She then has a flashback to the words that her mother left her on the tapes (that were recovered 400 chapters ago). This version was translated slightly different than the original: "Alright, so the next time will be your 19th birthday... bye-bye see you soon... oh yes, maybe its about time I told you... the truth is, your mom is making a truly terrifying drug at the moment... my lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a "dream drug"... your dad and I are putting our hopes on it and calling it... the silver bullet! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister... please understand Shiho..."

At the end of the case [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]'s identity is revealed and he tells the person he believes to be Shiho that she looks very much like her mother. He reveals that he has met both of the Miyano parents as well as Akemi. However that Shiho happened to be Kaitou Kid in a mask with Haibara feeding him lines.

=== Tea Poisoning Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|889]], Anime: [[The Tense Tea Party|771]]) ===
[[Rei Furuya]] has a flashback to when he was a kid and his wounds were being treated by Elena. However she tells him that soon she may have to go far away and will be unable to continue to treat his wounds from when he was picking fights.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843]]) ===
When a makeup counter sales associate asks Haibara where her mother was, she commented that her mother had died shortly after she was born.

=== Kohji Haneda's Death Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|948]]-[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|950]], Anime: [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene|861-862]]) ===
Haibara gives further details about the deaths of the elder Miyanos. They died in a fire at their research facility. Many of their drug data documents were also destroyed but Shiho was able to recreate their drug based on the parts that survived. It is also revealed that their drug was used for killing like Shiho's APTX 4869. [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] who were killed in their hotel rooms seventeen years ago may have been killed by that drug. However, only Kohji was listed on the [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|APTX 4869's victims' list]].

=== Black Bunny's Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#File 1011- Memories of That Woman|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===
[[File:Elena reveals pregnant.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena reveals that she is pregnant to Atsushi.]]
In a flashback from nineteen years ago, Rei is badly injured due to fighting with his bullies. Akemi brings him to her parents' clinic to get him treated. In contrast to her serious and mind-your-own-business behavior towards her patients, Elena seems very frank with Rei. The reason behind this is she can relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him that he shouldn't come if gets into another fight. But if he hurts his pride by explaining to bullies why he is no different to them, she will surely put a bandage on it. It is revealed that during the flashback, Elena was three months pregnant with Shiho.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: [[Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy|995]]) ===

== Relationship analysis ==
=== [[Atsushi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-coulpe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena and Atsushi.]]
With in a short time of meeting (a few years) they fell in love and got married. Sohei Dejima, Atsushi's childhood friend, reports that he received an invitation to their wedding only a few years after Atsushi had left his home in Dejima's hands.

=== [[Akemi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-family.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena, Atsushi, Akemi, and Rei.]]
She had to trust Akemi enough to have left her tapes for Shiho in Akemi's hands. Akemi was also taken with Elena and Atsushi to visit Atsushi's home twenty years ago. However it must be noted that they were distracted enough by the fact that the [[Black Organization]] was following them that they let Akemi roam free and hide the resident's belongings.

=== [[Shiho Miyano]] ===
She cared enough to leave messages on tapes for the grown-up Shiho for all of the birthdays that she would miss witnessing. She even left some information about the drug project that she was working on called the "[[Silver Bullet]]" using that as an explanation as to why she had to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.

=== [[Mary Sera]] ===
Elena and Mary are siblings. In episode 953, Atsushi said that her sister thought the offer was suspicious when they got an offer letter from the Karasuma group. In chapter 1049, Vermouth saying "how does it feel to be killed by a drug that your own sister concocted?".

=== [[Vermouth]] ===
Vermouth seems to blame the Miyano parents for her own situation. When she was ready to kill [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] during the showdown at the docks she told her that she should blame her parents for this predicament.

=== [[Rei Furuya]] ===
While the true relationship between them has not been revealed yet, we know that they knew each other when [[Rei Furuya|Rei]] was younger. Rei got into many fights and it seems that Elena would bandage him up after the fights. However, one day, Elena had to move and could no longer bandage him. In the flashback in [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]], it is shown that Elena was very friendly with Amuro, which was unlike her behavior. It was because she could relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him she will surely put a bandage on his wounded pride if he explains to his bullies that he is no different from them. It is revealed that Rei entered the police academy in order to find Elena who disappeared without his knowledge, hoping to find her.

== Name origin ==
"Elena" comes from the German reading of the Irene of [[Wikipedia: Irene Adler|Irene Adler]].<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12259#p810549 Gosho Q&A from Super Digest Book 50+] Q: 76: Does Miyano Elena's name come from the German reading of Irene? 
A: That's right, it does.</ref>

==Trivia==
*In [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene]] Haibara mentioned that Akemi has a Put On Mascara mirror that originally belong to Elena.
*The Miyano couple met in the medical college and Gosho believe Elena fell in love first according to the LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I'm totally on your side! Well, it will be you nineteenth birthday next time. Bye-bye, honey. Oh yes, maybe it's about time I told you... The truth is, your mom is making a truly ''terrifying'' drug at the moment. My lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a dream drug. Your dad and I are putting all our hopes on it and calling it the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister. Please understand, Shiho.|Part of Elena's message on Shiho's 18th tape.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pgs 7-8: "Mystery Train: Junction"</ref>}}
{{cquote|Even if people look different, when you peel back our skin, we're all just lumps of blood and flesh. To prove it, every race in the world has red blood flowing through them, just like yours.|Rei's memory of Elena Miyano treating his wounds.<ref>[[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]]</ref>}}

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Nch re0340 NTV.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 340 remastered's hint.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP953-Elena Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 953]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" |
[[File:Elena Miyano2.png|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 1029 (Wild Police Story Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Elena Miyano ZTT.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Zero's Tea Time Episode 5]]
|}

== Speculation ==

=== Elena Miyano and Mary are sisters ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
In 2014 [[Gosho Aoyama]] did an interview with the Da Vinci magazine in which he revealed that "Two mothers will be revealed to be sisters". Many people jumped in with the idea that [[Mary Sera|Mary]], the [[Akai family]] mother, would be one of them since she is a recently introduced character of the arc that was happening at the time. Additional speculation began to link Elena as the other sister due to her being mentioned in the same question of the same interview. Furthermore, the two are both British.

In November 2015, the manga [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|Department Store Stabbing Case]], Conan noticed some left over make-up on [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s face that made it look like she had the [[Akai family]] eye bags. Conan immediately began to suspect that Haibara may be related to Mary. At this stage in the series we have not seen Elena Miyano's eyes for comparison.

In an interview in Singapore in 2016, Gosho confirmed that [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Akemi Miyano]] are cousins. It is stated at 34:23 in the audio link.<ref>Aoyama Gosho's Q&A with fans. Singapore 2016. https://clyp.it/mwoiwshx</ref> This would imply that one of Shuichi's parents is a sibling of one of Akemi's parents.

In April 2018, Elena Miyano's face was fully revealed in the manga [[Volume 95#Black Bunny.27s Club Case|Black Bunny Club Case]]. She does not have the Akai family eye marks, however she does mention having an older sister. In combination with the statements above this feels like one step away from being proven.

In [[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case]], it is finally revealed that Mary and Elena are sisters when Vermouth force-feeds Mary the [[APTX 4869|APTX]] with the words: "How does it feel to depart from this world at the hands of your sister's creation?"<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume_99#File_1049_-_It.27s_Unbelievable.21|File 1049: It's Unbelievable! (Volume 99)]]</ref>

==== Other commentary on sisters speculation ====
'''Gosho has given three different [[Super Digest Books]] Q&A answers on the subject.''' 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB70.2B questions translations|SDB 70+]] 
Q67: Are [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] and [[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary|mother]] sisters? 
A: Yukiko is not the sister... 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB80.2B questions translations|SDB 80+]] 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and [[Shuichi Akai]]'s/[[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary Sera|mother]] sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 
Q62: Are [[Masumi Sera|Sera-san]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) 

'''Gosho has also talked about it in [[Postcards]]''' 
[[Postcards#2016|2016]] 
Elena and Mary, sisters? ...please look forward to it~~ (laugh) 
Relationship between the [[Mary|ryōiki-gai no imōto (sister from outside the domain)]] and Haibara... please look forward to it (laugh).

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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| name = Shiho Miyano
| japanese-name = 宮野志保 (Miyano Shiho)
| english-name = Shelly Miyano
| image = Shiho Miyano Profile.jpg
| age = 18<ref name=CD72>Super Digest Book 10+, page 202, question 42</ref><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)
| occupation = Scientist
| nicknames =
| aliases = Ai Haibara (alias) Sherry (code name)
| status = '''Alive''' (Under disguise as Ai Haibara) Dead (for the [[Black Organization]])
| 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:(first appeared in episode: 128-129 )-[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 177]]
| appearances = {{:Shiho Miyano Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole =
| japanese-voice = [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| english-voice = [[Erica Mendez]]
| drama-actor = [[Yu Kashii]] (Sherry)
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{{nihongo|'''Shiho Miyano'''|宮野志保|Miyano Shiho}} is a former [[Black Organization]] researcher, codenamed '''{{nihongo|"Sherry"|シェリー|Sherī}}''', 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 '''{{nihongo|[[Ai Haibara]]|灰原哀|Haibara Ai}}'''.

== Background ==
[[Image:Shiho Miyano computer picture.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Shiho as she appears on Pisco's computer in the 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 her peers for being different.<ref>Boy Genta’s Misfortune</ref>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 in the present, then she would have been 13 at the time that 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.
Her only real friend was Akemi, who only involved herself in the organization to get Shiho out.

At some point, along with [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]], she has visited the Mermaid Island, where there supposedly lived a woman rumored to be immortal. She has always know that [[Renya Karasuma]] is the Black Organization head.

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 rebelled against the Black Organization, refusing to complete any work for them until she received a satisfactory explanation for why her sister was killed. Instead she was confined to a small room to await the boss decided her execution. She took an APTX 4869 pill she had pocketed earlier to commit suicide, but shrank instead to elementary school child age. That allowed her to slip her handcuffs and escape via a rubbish chute. Her only hope was her suspicions about the potential survival of [[Shinichi Kudo]], the only unconfirmed death of the human trial subjects. She fled towards Shinichi's house, but 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]].

Naturally, the boss ordered the organization to hunt her down and murder her, and to get rid of anyone associated with her.

== 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 attending school 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 became 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.
Her fascination with her work seems to be stronger than fear for the organization, while she was still a member, since she risked changing Shinichi Kudo's data to avoid him getting killed before she could study him.

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. Many characters refer to her as very beautiful, a trait she seems to have inherited from her mother.

== 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>

=== Detective skills ===
Shiho was able to deduce Conan as Shinichi by inspecting the clues left in Kudo residence. As Haibara, she shows sharp observation, keen thinking process and ability to make logical deduction; however, unlike Conan/Shinichi, she often lacks specialized knowledge or experience to make the conclusive argument to solve the case. Moreover, to avoid attention, she stays quiet, which Conan often takes the spotlight. Haibara does not identify herself as a "mystery freak" as Conan. In the few cases that Haibara leads the investigation, she shows that she can be a great detective on her own, although this is not her prime speciality. Haibara has also known to read some mysteries like
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and PD James's Cordelia Gray novel but it is not known whether she enjoys the genre.

=== "Black Organization sense" ===
[[Image:Ai's BO radar.png|thumb|right|200px|Shiho as Haibara senses a Black Organization member is nearby.]]
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 especially 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 Shuichi 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|Subaru]], or [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] 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. During the initial apoptoxin transformation, Shiho does not scream despite the sensation of 'bones melting', as doing so would likely have ended in being caught and killed when someone came to check on her. It is unclear if she even passes out at all, and regardless she manages to recover quickly enough to escape through a chute/ventilation shaft before her captors know anything happened.

Additionally, 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 over a story in height and experiencing the agony of reverting back to Ai Haibara. Nowhere during this ordeal or her rescue afterwards did she cry from the pain. Shiho also handled the painful side affects of being reverting back to an adult with a [[prototype antidote]] better than Shinichi.

=== Shooting ===
Shiho is familiar with firearms. As Haibara, she was confident enough to intentionally miss a shot with a handgun.

=== Driving ===
In Lupin III vs Detective Conan The Movie, Haibara is able to ride a Harley motorbike, she stated that she used to own a Harley when she was Shiho.

In The Disappearance of Edogawa Conan, she is shown driving a car as Haibara.

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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Miyano Shiho (in the intro of each movie) Haibara|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun}}
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{{appellations/head|Shiho Miyano}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Some lady we never seen<ref>[[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|Episode 700: The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret]]</ref>|The children Ayumi-chan (collective)<ref name=817p12>817 pg 12</ref>}}
{{appellations|Genta Kojima|-|The children Genta-kun (collective)<ref name=817p12/>}}
{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|-|The children Mitsuhiko-kun (collective)<ref name=817p12/>}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|-|Haibara Ai<ref name=817p12/>}}
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{{appellations/head|Shiho Miyano}}
{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Shiho|Onēchan}}
{{appellations|Elena Miyano|Shiho|Mom (''Okāsan'')}}
{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Dad (''Otōsan'')}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Haibara-san (once) Ai-chan|-}}
{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Ai-kun|Doctor (''Hakase'')}}
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{{appellations/head|Shiho Miyano}}
{{appellations|Gin|Sherry|Gin}}
{{appellations|Vodka|That woman|Vodka}}
{{appellations|Vermouth|Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref name=823p15>823 pg 15</ref>|Vermouth}}
{{appellations|Pisco|Shiho-chan Sherry|Pisco}}
{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Hell's Angel's daughter|-}}
{{appellations|Curaçao|Sherry|-}}
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<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Shiho Miyano}}
{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Brown haired girl Sherry|Jodie-sensei}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|That brown haired girl|Moroboshi Dai}}
{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Sherry|-}}
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<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Shiho Miyano}}
{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|Sherry-chan|-}}
|}
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== 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|200px|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. She was aware that Akemi pulled out a robbery, but Shiho might have suspended that there was more to the story. 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.

=== Escape from the Black Organization ===
[[Image:Shiho taking APTX4869.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Shiho swallows the [[APTX 4869]].]]
Awaiting the boss decided 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:anime ep: 129 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>

=== As Ai Haibara ===
[[File:Sherry's Soliloquy.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Shiho as Ai Haibara, colored by Gosho Aoyama for [[Sherry's soliloquy]].]]
{{Main|Ai Haibara#Plot overview}}

=== Reunion with the Black Organization (Manga: [[Volume 24|238-242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|176-178]]) ===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]], Conan and Haibara find Gin's [[Cars#Porsche 356 A|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|200px|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.

=== Temporary antidote in Gunma (Manga: [[Volume 77|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-700]]) ===
[[File:Shiho video.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The video of Shiho saving the [[Detective Boys]] (filmed by [[Mitsuhiko]]) that [[Amuro]] found on [[Kogoro]]'s computer.]]
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 (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]])===
[[File:Kaito Shiho 824.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Kaitou Kid flies away in the Shiho disguise.]]
To counter [[Rei Furuya|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.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and 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. Indicating that her sister was more important to Shiho than her research. 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.

==== Atsushi Miyano ====
Shiho's feelings toward her late father is unknown, but she does show interest in seeing the house where he grew up.

==== Mary Sera ====
Shiho's face looked similar to [[Mary Sera]]. Ayumi once said that Ai was similar to Masumi. However, Shiho doesn't know that she and Masumi are cousins.

==== Rumi Wakasa ====
It seems like Haibara was "triggered" by Rumi in the Burning Tent Murder Case when "prosthetic eye" was mentioned. Haibara then questioned whether Rumi got problems with her right eye's vision. But after the case was solved, she told Conan that she liked Rumi and that Conan shouldn't speak ill of her. Their relationship has been peaceful ever since.

=== The Black Organization ===
==== The Boss ====

==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Sherry}}
[[Gin]] has an abnormal attachment for Shiho Miyano<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref> and seems to enjoy hunting for her, while she seems to fear and hate him. They appear to know each other well despite being in different parts of the Organization. Gin can identify Shiho from a single auburn hair. [[Episode 129|When Shiho escaped from the Black Organization]], Gin began searching for her, ordering Vodka to bring her back dead or alive. Gin and Shiho had [[Reunion with the Black Organization|a direct confrontation]] later in the [[Setting#Haido City Hotel|Haido City Hotel]]. Since then, Shiho has managed to avoid any more direct contact with Gin.

The theory that the two may have had a relationship in the past has been mentioned in at least one official guidebook for the manga<ref name=CD239/> and has some traction in the fandom. [[Gosho Aoyama]] has deferred questions related to the issue in past interviews, asking for fans to be patient.<ref>青山剛昌先生と話そうDAY (Let's talk with Aoyama Gosho-sensei day), held January 3, 2013 [http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=287218]

Q: A girl asked about the "Sherry naked" thing, that why does Gin always think about her without clothes, what exactly is their relationship?

A: Gosho answered that they indeed had a relationship, but it wouldn't be interesting if (he) revealed it there, so please wait for it. The poster also mentioned that Gosho had a trolling (or something like that) laugh/smile at the time.
</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. Vermouth appears to dislike the research the Miyanos engaged in, calling it foolish. Vermouth resents the Miyanos in general, but it is unclear if she hates Shiho specifically. That said, Vermouth considers Shiho to be someone who absolutely must die. If Shiho was in a relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a romantic relationship with Gin.<ref name="CD239c">Conan Drill page 239, "恋のライバル…?" (Love rivals?)</ref>

==== 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", and she likely knows he was a spy and an FBI agent, but she referes to him in her mind as 'the one, who betrayed the organization', so it's unclear what she has heard of his break with the organization. In chapter 824, Bourbon mentions that Dai Moroboshi worked for the FBI in front of Kaitou Kid, disguised as Sherry, who was listening through a microphone <ref>Manga Chapter 824 ([http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b40277b84692b54c491654534be7ccf/tumblr_mpc528w9hS1qfn9zio1_r1_500.png])</ref>. Nonetheless, 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) means "shrine field". 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|x200px|[[Tottori Spider Mansion Demon|Episode 177]].]]
|[[File:Shiho Miyano After.PNG|thumb|x200px|[[The Stranger from Ten Years Later|OVA 9]].]]
|[[File:Shiho in gunma forest.png|thumb|x200px|[[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|Episode 700]].]]
|[[File:Shiho episode ONE image.jpg|x200px|thumb|[[Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small|Episode ONE (TV Special) Version]].]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== Quotes about Shiho ===
{{cquote|She's one of the top brains in our organization...|[[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 ==
Click [[Ai Haibara#In other languages | here]] to see what the names "Shiho Miyano" and "Sherry" become in the manga/anime of other languages.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Ai Haibara]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]
* [[Wikipedia: Sherry|Sherry]] (alcohol)

== Gallery ==
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File:Shiho handcuffed.JPG|The scene of Sherry's lockup which is shown in nearly every ''Detective Conan'' movie's introduction.
</gallery>

== References ==
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| name = Atsushi Miyano
| english-name =
| japanese-name = 宮野厚司 (Miyano Atsushi)
| image = Atsushi Miyano Profile.png
| age = 35<ref>In [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|file 1011]], published by Shonen Sunday, he was wrongly 32-year-old, but it is corrected in volume 95. Sohei Dejima, his childhood friend, was 54-year-old, then it was a flashback from 19 years ago.</ref> (deceased)
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (first daughter, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second daughter) [[Elena Miyano]] (wife, deceased)
| occupation = [[Black Organization]] member Scientist
| nicknames = Mad Scientist (V38-2)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|File 1011]] Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|Episode 340]]
| appearances = {{:Atsushi Miyano Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 96]]
| japanese-voice = [[Yuichi Nakamura]]
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Atsushi Miyano|宮野厚司|Miyano Atsushi}}''' was a biochemist in the [[Black Organization]] and apparently [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and [[Shiho Miyano]]'s father.<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> Atsushi Miyano and [[Elena Miyano]] started or continued on the [[APTX 4869]] research according to [[Vermouth]].<ref>Episode 345: "If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research."</ref> One or both of them worked on the project before Shiho took over. Both Elena and Atsushi died for some reason which [[Pisco]] called an accident while Shiho was young.

== Background ==
Atsushi was a "mad scientist" who was unpopular in the scientific community because his work and theories were not mainstream.<ref>[[Volume 38|Volume 38, File 2, Page 7: "The Unexpected Treasure"]]; [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|Episode 312: "Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun"]]</ref> Agasa was a distant acquaintance of Atsushi and had met him and his wife at conferences. Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]; [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329: "A Friendship That Can't Be Bought"]]</ref> Atsushi Miyano's true appearance was unknown as he hadn't appeared in the manga until file 1011 in a flashback. He was shown in shadow in the anime.

Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house in [[Wikipedia: Kōenji|Kōenji]]<ref>In the anime version, the office hang several posters with the inscription Kohenji, Minami.</ref> thirty years ago to go somewhere for his research; he had found someone to sponsor his theory, and was moving to join a large research facility.<ref>Manga Volume 41, File 10 (423)</ref> Conan and Haibara think this is the Black Organization. He got married in this time period to Elena and then visited his father's house then occupied by his childhood friend and playmate Souhei Dejima later with Elena when Akemi was 4-5 years old. It was said that he seemed to have something important to discuss with his friend.<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 11]]; [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|Episode 340: "Hidden Bathroom Secret"]]</ref> The visit occurred 20 years prior to the current timeline.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref>

[[Rei Furuya]] said he met Atsushi some time before he died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref>

== Personality ==
Contrary to the personality generally associated with the phrase "mad scientist", Agasa describes Atsushi as having been "a very polite man" and that he doesn't think Atsushi was suspicious.<ref name="Volume 39"/>

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Shiho Miyano|Dad (''Otōsan'')}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Dad (''Otōsan'') Miyano Atsushi Mad scientist}}
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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Miyano Atsushi Mad scientist Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===

=== Black Bunny's Club Case Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#File 1011- Memories of That Woman|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: [[Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy|995]]) ===

== Timeline ==
'''30 years ago''' 
* Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house to go somewhere for his research. Souhei Dejima takes up residence in it.<ref>Volume 41</ref>
* Atsushi joins the [[Shirohato Pharmaceuticals]]' drug development team.<ref>SDB Black</ref>

'''?? years ago''' 
* Elena comes from England to study in Japan. Atsushi and Elena meet.<ref>Volume 39</ref>
* Atsushi and Elena get married and send a wedding invitation to Dejima.<ref>Volume 41</ref>

'''~25 years ago''' 
* Shirohato Pharmaceuticals bankrupts. Miyano Clinic opens.<ref>SDB Black / Volume 96</ref>
* Akemi is born (present day age is given as 25).

'''19 years ago''' 
* Elena is three months pregnant with Shiho while working at Miyano Clinic. Furuya Rei appears at Miyano clinic.<ref>Volume 95</ref>
* Atsushi and Elena decide to take the Karasuma Group's offer.<ref>Volume 95</ref>
* The Miyanos join a research facility sponsored by the Karasuma Group.<ref>SDB Black</ref>
* Vermouth states the Miyanos "took over this foolish research"<ref>Volume 41</ref>
* Atsushi, Elena, and a 5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi's father's house then occupied by Dejima. They seemed to be frightened.<ref>SDB Black / Volume 41</ref>
* Elena records tapes for Shiho, calling her drug project "Silver Bullet". Elena fears she and Atsushi will have to leave their children behind to complete the project.<ref>Volume 78</ref>

'''~18 years ago''' 
* Shiho is born.

'''~17-18 years ago''' 
* The Miyanos get dragged into an accident and die.<ref>SDB Black</ref>
* Haibara specifies they died in a lab fire which destroyed the lab and the research<ref>Volume 89</ref>

'''17 years ago''' 
* Kohji Haneda case occurs in the US. His name later appears on the ATPX list.<ref>Volume 89</ref>
* Haibara assumes he was killed with a drug made by her parents.<ref>Volume 89</ref>

'''?? years ago''' 
* Shiho is sent to study in the US while Akemi remained in Japan.<ref>Volume 38</ref>

'''~5 years ago''' 
* Shiho is known to be working for the Black Organization as a scientist at the age of thirteen. She may have started to work even earlier.
* Haibara has stated she gathered the surviving data from the fire at her parents lab to try to recreate the research they worked on.<ref>Volume 89</ref>

'''<1 year ago''' 
* Akemi returned to Atsushi's father's house to hide Elena's tapes for Shiho.
* Shinichi is fed APTX4869 by Gin.
* Akemi is killed by Gin.
* Shiho willingly takes APTX4869 and escapes the BO.

== Name origin ==
His given name "Atsushi" comes from an animator, [[Atsushi Aono]].

== Different looks ==
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| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP340-Atsushi Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 340]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP953-Atsushi Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 953]]
|}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]

== References ==
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{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}
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Mary Sera

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| name = Mary Sera
| japanese-name = メアリー世良 (Mearī Sera)
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| image = Mary Sera Profile.jpg
| age = Looks approximately middle school aged according to Conan Real age is 53<ref>Akai is 32 (SDB90+ Q4) so add 17 years on that at reasonable minimum.</ref><ref>'''Chapter 1037:''' Mary was 36 eighteen years ago.</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = MI6 agent Housewife
|status = Alive (shrunk) Dead (for the Black Organization)
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (husband, deceased) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first son) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second son) [[Masumi Sera]] (daughter)
| nicknames = Sister from outside the domain
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 83#Red Tragedy|File 875]] Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|Episode 756]]
| appearances = {{:Mary Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 83]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Tanaka]]
| cases-solved = 1
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{{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリー世良|Mearī Sera}}, also known by her marriage name as {{nihongo|'''Mary Akai'''|赤井メアリー|Akai Mearī}}<ref>'''Chapter 1037'''</ref> appears as a middle-school age girl with blonde hair who has been hiding in various hotels in Tokyo with [[Masumi Sera]]. Despite her appearance, she is actually a middle-aged woman; she is the wife of [[Tsutomu Akai]], and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and Masumi Sera. She is a member of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6.

== Background ==
[[File:Ep 995 Mary's flashback.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Masumi thinking back to her mother's transformation]]Mary Sera's full background is currently unknown, She met and married [[Tsutomu Akai]], and bore three children, [[Shuichi]], [[Shukichi]], and [[Masumi]]. Her husband left at some point before Masumi was born, to investigate the double murder of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]], which got him tangled with the [[Black Organization]].

Later on, Mary learned that her husband was apparently roaming London and immediately travelled there, taking Masumi along as added insurance.<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1049: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> Leaving her daughter in their hotel room, she left to meet Tsutomu at their favorite meeting place at Vauxhall Bridge. There she was trapped and forced to ingest the [[APTX]] by [[Vermouth]],<ref name="ch1048">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1048: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> causing her age to be regressed and return to Masumi hours later in the body of a middle-school child.<ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref><ref name="ch1049" />

Right after her return, Mary and Sera watched a recording of a TV broadcast about [[Conan Edogawa]]'s involvement in the attempted blackmail of Minerva Glass<ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Manga volume 71, file 743]] to [[Volume 72#Following Holmes|volume 72, file 752]]: "Following Holmes"</ref> and immediately recognized him as [[Shinichi Kudo]], whom they [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|had encountered ten years ago]].<ref>[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, file 1050: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> She returned to Japan with Masumi in order to find out about the existence of an antidote to the APTX, which Shinichi apparently has access to, using Masumi as a proxy for her investigations. She also has expressed an interest in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and the identity of the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]].<ref>[[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Manga volume 90: "Soul Detective Murder Case"]]</ref>

== Personality ==
Mary seems very mature and direct, especially when speaking to Masumi. She seems hesitant to trust others at the moment and is being extremely cautious about who knows about her. Currently because of her cautiousness, she and Masumi have been moving from one hotel to another to keep their location hidden.

She is proud of her British heritage.

Like her eldest son she also seems to be clumsy at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and how to interact positively with others. In dealing with her children, Mary seems to be strict and cold, treating her children more like coworkers than a family. Shukichi seemed to be more nurturing to Masumi than her mom. When Mary was 10 years younger, she came to physical blows with her eldest son, Shuichi, since he lied to her about his reasons to study in the USA and planned to join the FBI and investigate her husbands' incident. They both went as far as attacking each other's faces, leaving black eyes. She also thought Shuichi, who is a rather cold person as well, would make a good replacement father figure for Masumi and Shukichi. However, soon after she realized that Shuichi was driven by the same sense of curiosity as his father and he would go his own way. To her daughter Masumi, she acts secretively by hiding a lot of important information from Masumi, such as turning off the TV when Shuukichi shogi match was shown, and possibly some other whereabouts of the Black Organization and the Akai family overall. Her continued mistrust of Conan is another example of her general denseness at understanding others, since it is long past the point where she should be able to tell that Conan's motives and pursuit of justice are genuine.

But she does express joy at Shukichi's victory for becoming the seven-crowned Shogi master. It indicates that she does care for her children. Additionally, when Mary easily sees through Vermouth's disguise of Tsutomu, she appears genuinely distraught at the fact that her husband is apparently dead and even cries and didn't seem to be concerned about her fate as long as Masumi remains save, showing regardless of her tough attitude, she truly cares for her family. The apparent death of Tsutomu may have contributed to her hardened personality.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Mary different eyes.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mary's two different eye patterns.]]
Mary is a girl of middle school age (12-15) with blonde, curly, neck length hair. The child has eyes similar to those of [[Masumi Sera]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. In her appearance in File 877, she was shown wearing a high-neck pleated top, hoodie jacket, and hat. Like all the other manga characters, the color of her eyes is supposed to be blue, as seen in the keyhole of manga volume 83. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past.

In her varying appearances, Mary's eyes have been drawn slightly differently. In her original and current chapter appearances she seems to have an extra lash on the top of her eye, where as in the Pool case and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s comparison of her and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s eyes in the Department store case she does not have that extra lash.

== Skills ==
[[File:Mary skills.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Mary's hiding skills.]]
Mary seems to know about several types of wire taps. When she and Masumi find Conan's wire tap in their room, she says that she hasn't seen that type before. She also describes the components of it such as its battery life and performance. She spoke in a similar fashion about Conan's voice changer after she gets a chance to use it herself.

She has demonstrated the ability to hang from a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She has the strength to vault back up on to the balcony, much like [[Vermouth]] did in the New York case.

10 years ago she already had the ability to fight well enough that she landed a "knife-hand strike" to her son Shuichi's face, who at the time had already been practicing Jeet Kune Do. In the present, even with her small body, she was able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service".
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== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Tsutomu-san<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974]]</ref> Husband (''Shujin'')<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> ''Ano hito'' (literally "that person", but the intended meaning is "husband")<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shuichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|-|Brat of the FBI (''FBI no kozo'')}}
{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shukichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Mama<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Masumi<ref name="file953"/>}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Kohji<ref name="file952">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file952"/>}}
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{{appellations|Vermouth|Mary Akai|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')}}
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{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Mary<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930: Excessive Seasoning (Volume 88)]]</ref> That girl (''ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930"/> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[Volume 85#Poolside Case|File 903: The Corpse in the Pool (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903"/>}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|That girl (''ano ko'')}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== The Red Woman Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman Murder Case|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|756]])===
[[File:Another person with eye bags appears.png|thumb|left|200px|Mary on Masumi's phone.]]
Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone by calling it with his. When he does he notices the call background screen is a child with eye bags similar to those of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. He remarks that the girl looks similar to Masumi. Earlier in the case she only mentioned having two brothers; a mother; and a father, so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

=== Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876-878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]]) ===
[[File:Unknown child and Masumi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mary and Masumi.]]
When Ran, Sonoko, and Conan visit Masumi's apartment, Mary is shown opening Masumi's door as Conan, Masumi, Sonoko, and Ran rush to investigate a crime. It is implied she was hiding in Masumi's bedroom while the other three were in the dining area because Masumi asks Conan not to enter her bedroom. Mary later goes downstairs to the scene of the crime where she is seen by Conan. At some point off screen Conan leaves behind a bug in Masumi's room. After the case is solved, Mary is shown examining Conan's bug along with Masumi, who had found it and crushed it. Mary comments on the quality of the performance of the bug itself and that she has never seen one like it. When Masumi asks if Mary has taken a liking to Conan she says that it is still early to trust Conan, and asks Masumi to introduce her as "{{nihongo|the little sister from ''outside the domain''|領域外の妹|ryōiki-gai no imōto}}", should Conan question her in the future.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
[[File:Mary & Masumi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mary and Masumi in the bedroom.]]
Mary is interested in [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s shogi match. When Masumi returns to the hotel room in the middle of the case while Mary is napping, she turns on the TV and sees the shogi match. Later after the case is solved, Masumi enters the room for a second time to see Mary turning off the TV. Presumably she saw the end of the match and was happy at Shukichi's victory, as was Subaru Okiya, whose identity was revealed in the case before this one, to be Shuichi.

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===
[[File:Ran and Unknown Child.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran sees Masumi and Mary.]]
Mary is waiting for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to visit her and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] in their hotel room. She expresses her still-lingering concern of trusting Conan, even though she thinks he is bright enough. Mary does comment that if anything were to go wrong they would have to move hotels again. Her talk with him alone is put on hold, however, because [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have invited themselves in accompanying Conan in order to enjoy the hotel's pool. As Conan, Ran, and Sonoko head back home after the case is solved, Ran turns around and sees Masumi talking to her. Ran gets the feeling that she has seen that child before.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
[[File:Conan and the handkerchief.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan with the handkerchief.]]
[[Masumi Sera]] is at Ramen Ogura with Conan, Sonoko and Ran. [[Katsumasa Ogura]] asks Masumi (mistakenly calling her "Mari") if she's going to take the same food to her apartment again. Conan implies that Masumi could be giving food to someone she's letting stay in her apartment, making a clear reference to Mary, but she jokes saying that it's for her secret boyfriend. At the end of the case it is revealed that Ogura had found a handkerchief that Masumi had left behind that said "Mary" on it in English. Ogura had confused the English name with the Japanese name "Mari". Conan believes that the handkerchief may be related to the child as well.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843-844]]) ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
Conan thinks about Mary, "the little sister from outside the domain looks a lot like Sera, no wait, more than that girl resembling Sera..." (領域外の妹と名乗る… 世良によく似た… いや…　あの子世良というより…‥ ). Conan also thinks to himself that the child's name is probably Mary. At the end of the case Haibara tried to wipe some of the makeup off of her face in the bathroom, but she missed some just below her left eye. The left over makeup made it look like she had the same eye bags as Shuichi, Masumi, and Mary. This causes Conan to make a connection between her and Mary.

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[The Spirit Detective's Murder|863-864]]) ===
[[File:Mary is Masumi's mother.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Mama?!"]]
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] is put in contact with a Soul Detective who wishes to reveal some information about the [[Kohji Haneda]] case. When Conan and Kogoro go to meet with him at the hotel, they find him dead and that [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] and Mary are presently staying in the next room. During the investigation Conan runs into Masumi's hotel room and checks the balcony as that is the only place a person would hide. However, Mary has hidden herself by anchoring herself and hiding by hugging the wall underneath the balcony. Conan takes a picture of a car parked on the ground floor below the balconies and decides to take a snapshot of the underside of the balcony, just to be certain. Masumi rushes to interrupt him on some pretense. Conan then drops his voice-changer on his way back inside. Mary picks it up, and later uses it in place of Conan to solve the case. When the culprit tries to flee by leaping over the balcony of the murder room over to their room, Mary takes him down single handedly using skills comparable to that of the secret service. Masumi rushes after Conan who has followed the suspect, calling out "Mama". Once Conan has left, Mary and Masumi discuss what information the Soul Detective had, which was that before Kohji's death, Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror and thinks that it means that Asaka is a woman. Mary warns Masumi about Conan saying that "it is like encountering a demon in the darkness" (暗がりに鬼を繋ぐが如く), and that he is not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Conan goes home and looks at the snapshot he has taken of the underside of the balcony. He theorizes that Mary could have been Asaka. Later Gin uses the same demon line that Mary used to refer to Kogoro.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
[[File:Mary Masumi Shuichi at beach.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A flashback to 10 years ago at the beach.]]
10 years ago at a beach somewhere in Japan, Shuichi reunited with his family after his 7 years in the US. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of [[Tsutomu Akai|his father]]. She also tells both Shuichi and Masumi not to do things that got them involved in the case, because there are people out there that are after them.
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=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|928]]) ===
After the case is solved, Masumi calls Mary and informs her about the drug that will return her back to normal, after witnessing Shinichi's appearance. Mary ordered Masumi to find [[Ai Haibara|the developer]] of the drug and obtain it. Once she succeeds, Mary declared that they will stop running from hotel to hotel and counterattack.

=== Antique Facet Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Antique Facet Case|1038]], Anime: [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|1020]]) ===
At the end of the case, Sera asks her mother about her "50:50" catchphrase, Mary revealed that it is a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Mary asks Sera if she can gets her hands on the drug, which the latter told her that it is difficult for the moment since [[Subaru Okiya]] is standing in her way. Mary asks her if he is such a noteworthy person, however, Sera is more concerned about whether Subaru is her brother Akai or not, since he's using the same "50:50" catchphrase as her brother.

=== Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98|1047]]-[[Volume 99|1050]], Anime: [[The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment|1045-1046]]) ===
Mary receives a call from Masumi, informing her that Conan brought the antidote that can returns her to her orginal body, and it is blue and white compared to the drug she was forced to take, which is red and white. Mary ordered her daughter to steal the antidote if possible. Later, Mary calls her daughter, asking if she was able to get the antidote, which Masumi responded that she was involved in a poisoning murder case. Hearing about poison, Mary started to remember her shrinking moment. Several months ago, Mary was supposed to meet her husband at Vauxhall Bridge in London, [[Tsutomu Akai]] appeared in front of her, however Mary realised that he isn't her husband after giving him false informations about her daughter. Tsutomu is revealed to be [[Vermouth]] in disguise, who intended to poison her with [[APTX 4869]]. Vermouth feeds Mary the drug with her mouth directly, which is created by her [[Elena Miyano|sister]]. Mary then jumps into the river due to the effect of the drug being very instant. After Mary shrinked, she returned to Sera, explaining to her the whole situation. Later, Mary and Sera witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during [[Holmes' Revelation|Minerva's match on TV]], and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi 10 years ago. The two realised that Conan is Shinichi who shrunk the same way as Mary, however, he has a way of returning as Shinichi to board a plane to London. Since then, Mary ordered Masumi to get closer to him, in order get their hands on the antidote.

=== Serial Hotel Bombing Case (Manga: [[Volume 103|1094-1096]], Anime: TBA) ===
After luring Conan to their current hotel to get their hands on the APTX antidote, Sera and Mary get involved in the resolution of a serial bombing case. However, they are discovred by an unknown man, who is the driver of an unknown old man, to the hotel and triggers a fire alert, forcing the building's evacuation. As Sera and Mary try to avoid drawing attention to themselves, they are nevertheless spotted by the unknown old man.<ref name="File 1096">Manga [[Volume 103]], [[Volume 103#Serial Hotel Bombing Case|File 1094-1096]]</ref>

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Mary is only shown twice at dawn under her hotel bed's blankets.

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Mary is shown working with her daughter Masumi to find a VIP from England who was kidnapped. She is seen attacking Subaru (Shuichi Akai) landing a few clean blows before running disappearing. She is also seen towards the end of the movie as she hides in Subaru’s car and waits for him to jump in. She points the gun to his head and threatens him and the FBI as they risked the life of an important VIP.

== Relationship ==
=== Tsutomu Akai ===
Tsutomu is her husband, who she lost around 17 years prior to the series. In his last message, he advice them to hide in Japan and think of him as dead due to that he has made himself some enemies. Although much of their relationship remains unknown, she knew her husband enough to easily see through Vermouth's disguise and in contrast to her distant and hardened exterior, the fact that Tsutomu was possibly dead was enough to cause her to cry, showing she cared deeply for him.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
Shuichi is her oldest son. She didn't approve at first of his decision to join the FBI and investigate his father's death, but eventually she gave him her blessing.

=== Shukichi Haneda ===
Shukichi is her second-oldest child and youngest son. It's not certain how she feels of him, but she keeps track of his Shogi-career and seemed happy when he became the seven-crowned king.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Masumi is her only daughter and youngest child, who was born after the family moved to Japan. Currently the two of them switch between hotels to hide themselves. Mary cares for Masumi, but doesn't trust her entirely (probably due to her extreme youth).

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Mary reacted to Kohji's name when she heard Kogoro mention it. It's possible that the Akai family, including Mary, might know Kohji in person.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Mary is the Akai family mother ===
These were the hints that fans used to determine that Mary was the Akai family mother prior to the end of the Soul Detective Murder Case where Masumi called Mary "mother"<ref>File 953</ref>, and the flashback to Shinichi and Ran meeting the Akai family on a beach.

* Mary shares a resemblance to [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]], and it was known from Masumi's earlier testimony that Akai family's mother also passed her looks into Shuichi and Sera.
* Mary is unusually mature while talking to Masumi. She gave Masumi instructions despite Masumi being apparently older and a skillful detective in her own right.
* Mary was happy when [[Shukichi]] (who was later revealed to be the middle brother of the Akai Family) won his 7th Shogi title.

* Mary seems to have some knowledge abut wiretaps, she also demonstrated the ability to a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She was also able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service." A normal middle school girl wouldn't be able to do this.

=== Mary is an adult shrunken by APTX 4869 ===
Mary acts like an adult despite having the appearance of a middle-school aged female. When Masumi and Mary speak, the speech honorifics are not those appropriate for an elder Masumi talking to a younger girl. Instead, they appear to indicate the two are on equal levels, or even reverse with Mary expressing greater seniority. In addition, Mary's voice actor in the anime, [[Atsuko Tanaka]], has a deep and sultry voice which is often used to portray mature female characters.

The secrecy surrounding Mary, as well as Masumi's attempts to get her to trust Conan, whom Masumi knows is a shrunken Shinichi, might be indications that Masumi is trying to get the child help about an [[APTX 4869]] problem. This plot point is finally canonized in manga chapter 1049, when a flashback reveals a fateful confrontation between Mary and Vermouth which resulted in Mary getting force-fed the APTX.<ref name="ch1049" />

=== Mary is the sister of Elena Miyano ===
This very popular fan theory<ref>According to polls at DCW as of Sep 10, 2015, the most popular choice for her true identity is APTX-dosed Akai family mother</ref> was born after Gosho hinted that two mother characters are sisters.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639 Leaked interview notes from the May issue of the magazine 「ダ・ヴィンチ」 (da Vinci) with the fans/reporters/whatever, leaked April 15, 2014] "Two mothers will also be revealed as being sisters, etc.…… A lot of things are connected together. This is bad, I'm talking too much. Well, please look forward to the manga.</ref> After it was confirmed the sisters were not the previous most popular choice [[Yukiko Kudo]] and [[Chikage Kuroba]], and that the Akai family mother was one member of the sister pair,<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12439&p=842050#p842050 Super Digest Book 70+: Gosho Aoyama's Interview] "Are Yukiko and Sera's mum sisters?" 
Answer : The sister isn't Yukiko but... 
</ref> fan suspicion fell squarely on Elena Miyano as the other mother. After all, both women are British. Gosho has given evasive answers when asked about Elena and the Akai family mother being related, which is his habit when a fan theory is correct but he can't admit to it.<ref>When answering fan questions, Gosho often bluntly says "no" if a guess is wrong. If it is correct and would spoil a mystery, Gosho's habit is to be vague and avoid giving a firm answer rather than lying or giving in and revealing the truth. After narrowing down the choices, fans started trying to trap Gosho. 
[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=361432 Conan Super Digest Book SDB 80+]
 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and Shuichi Akai's/Sera's mother sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 

Q62: Are Sera and Haibara cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) </ref>

=== Mary is a British SIS/MI6 Agent ===
Mary is British and has several unusual skill sets that match those of other spy-like characters in ''Detective Conan''. Mary has knowledge of incapacitating martial arts that can bring down adult men despite her size<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, extraordinary flexibility and climbing skills that allowed her to hide below a balcony like a ninja<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, and knowledge of listening devices and hidden microphones.<ref>Romance Novelist Murder Case</ref>

Because of her British nationality, the theory that she is a member of the British [[Wikipedia:Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6, has gained traction in many Detective Conan fandoms. In chapter 1049, that detail is inserted into ''Detective Conan'' canon when in a flashback Vermouth expresses regret that she cannot disguise herself as Mary to infiltrate MI6 for the time being when she is forced to assassinate the latter.<ref name="ch1049" />
== Speculation ==
At the time Mary was introduced, her relationship to Masumi Sera was unknown. Masumi testifies that she has two older brothers: [[Shuichi Akai]] and an unknown brother (later revealed to be [[Shukichi Haneda]]) living in Japan.<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: Red Woman. "We're three siblings: My two oldest brothers and me, their little sister!" </ref> She says her father is dead, and her mother lives overseas in America. Masumi says she doesn't have any more relatives close enough to depend on.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 3: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> Masumi only started claiming to have a "younger sister from outside the domain" after the unknown child coached her to use that cover story if Conan asked about her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 6 (878), pg 16: "The Phone, the Sea, and I" She requests Masumi call her the younger sister from outside the domain if Conan asks</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 7 (879), pgs 2-3: "Detective's Master" Conan asks about the girl and Masumi uses the "younger sister from outside the domain" explanation as she was instructed. Conan notices the discrepancy between this and her earlier statements which didn't mention a sister.</ref><ref>[[Episode 759]] 1min 41sec Crunchyroll translation: "If she has two brothers and doesn't know of her relatives, then who is that young girl I saw on her phone that looks just like her?"</ref> She is currently being financially supported by a friend of her father's. If Masumi has told the truth, minus what she said about having a "younger sister from outside the domain", that leaves relatively few options for Mary's identity assuming the child is related by blood somehow to Masumi. In file 972, Mary is revealed to be the Akai family's mother.

== Gallery ==
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File:756 23.jpg|Mary's original appearance in the anime adaptation of the case (episode 756).
File:Mary original appearance.jpg|Mary as she originally appeared in file 875.
File:2014-06-08 00.25.28.jpg|Mary in file 899.
EP1019 3.jpeg|Mary 17 years ago
EP881 8.jpeg|Mary 10 years ago
Keyhole_83.jpg|Mary as child in keyhole
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*In File 1038 its reveal that like Shuichi and Tsumotu, she uses the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame”.
*It is revealed in many manga panels that Mary is left-handed, just like her son.
*Mary usually coughs, properly due to the side effects of APTX-4869.
*Mary's seiyuu is Atsuko Tanaka.

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

== References ==
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Shukichi Haneda

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| age = 28
| gender = Male
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| date-of-birth = November 12<ref name="marriage">[[:File:Marriage Form Anime.jpg]]</ref>
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Masumi Sera]] (younger sister) [[Kohji Haneda]] (non-blood brother, deceased)
| occupation = Shogi player
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'''{{nihongo|Shukichi Haneda|羽田秀𠮷|Haneda Shūkichi}}''' is a professional [[wikipedia:Shogi|shogi]] player, as well as the boyfriend of [[Yumi Miyamoto]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is also the middle brother of the Akai family, making him the sibling of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]].

== Background ==
[[File:Kichi chibi.png|thumb|left|200px|Shukichi as a middle schooler more than 10 years ago.]]
Shukichi Haneda was presumably born as Shukichi Akai until some incident, perhaps the death of his father, caused Shukichi and [[Masumi|Masumi Sera]] to switch to using "Sera" as a family name. The Akai family apparently lived a rather wealthy life.<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 847, page 3: "Until I Collect All Seven"]]</ref> He might have been born in England. When the family moved to Japan, Shukichi's older brother Shuichi left them to study in America. After that his younger sister Masumi was born. Seven years after moving to Japan, he and his family were briefly reunited with Shuichi, who plans to join the FBI to investigate the death of their father. When Shukichi graduated from high school he began using the family name Haneda from Koji Haneda, a shogi player he admire. It is not clear what their relationship was. According to Yumi he asked to be adopted into the Haneda family. At some point he started his career as a professional shogi player.

Shukichi met [[Yumi Miyamoto]] for the first time on a train where he overslept, resting his head on Yumi's shoulder, and Yumi waited for him even though she had to miss her stop.<ref name="overslept">[[Volume 85|Volume 85, File 900, page 6: "Check"]]</ref> He attained the prestigious [[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)|Meijin]] title back when he was still dating Yumi, without the latter knowing.<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 849, page 15: "Taikou's Optimal Moves"]]</ref>

Shukichi's main objective is to prove himself worthy as Yumi's boyfriend by secretly winning all seven shogi titles, despite having technically been dumped by her. He was widely known by the name of '''{{nihongo|Taiko Meijin|太閤名人|Taikō Meijin}}''' in the world of shogi even before he finally achieved all seven titles in his most recent Shogi match, due to his unique skill.<ref name="titles">[[Volume 85|Volume 85, File 902, page 16: "The Brilliant Move"]]</ref> Even though he then lost one in a revenge match with his rival [[Chikara Katsumata]], he intends to stick with his original plan.

Shukichi currently lives in an apartment at {{nihongo|Chateau Beika Condo|シャトー米花マンション|Shatō Beika Manshon}}, the same place as when he was still going out with Yumi.<ref>The anime version (Episode 731) shows the number of his locker as 1801.</ref>

== Personality ==
Shukichi has a very cheerful personality, which Yumi (to her annoyance) perceived as immature. In front of Yumi and other characters, he rarely suppresses his emotions, which can range from overly joyful when meeting his ex-girlfriend, to hilariously disapproving when the latter announces that their relationship was over. Despite this, Shukichi does show a calmer and more serious side during some situations, most notably when he is making his deductions or when he appears in front of the media.

On the other hand, Shukichi is quite confident and proud of his excellent memory, as seen when he proclaims himself the best memorizer in the world.<ref name="memory">[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 847, page 14: "Until I Collect All Seven"]]</ref> From his goal of achieving all seven shogi titles to win Yumi's admiration, he shows himself as a person with great patience and determination. The only thing which can disturb him is his intense feelings for Yumi; his belief in her love for him affects his performance at shogi immensely, making her his effective muse,he is even willing to leave an important match to save her like durning meijin title match which he left to save her.

He is also a strong detective, more skilled than Masumi. She often consulted him on cases over the phone, double-checking her deductions.

He is also a little careless and carefree shown in file 1043-1046 when he found out culprit's identity he went to talk with him and ask him to surrender but he get himself caught

He only loves Yumi and didn't betray her. Even after she dumped him, he doesn't want to tell Yumi about his shogi profession to surprise her and didn't tell her about the practice group. For example, there are women in it so she won't be jealous.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Shuukichi appearance.jpg|thumb|200px|Shukichi Haneda's different looks.]]
Shukichi Haneda is perhaps the most characterized by his hair, which sticks up in the back like a bed head. He is often shown wearing glasses, usually except when he is playing shogi or is being interviewed as a professional shogi player.

Unlike his two siblings who resemble their mother, Shukichi is most similar to his father.<ref name=859p6-7>Manga Volume 81, File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

He apparently dresses in slouchy clothes like jerseys fairly often. In Shogi matches he wears traditional attire.

== Abilitites and skills ==
=== Shogi ===
Shukichi Haneda has won numerous shogi matches and earned himself the title Meijin, which, along with [[wikipedia:Ryu-oh|Ryu-oh]], is the most prestigious title in the professional shogi titleholder system.<ref>[[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)]]</ref><ref>[[Wikipedia:Ryu-oh]]</ref> In [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love]], he managed to attain all seven titles. During the events of the [[The Marriage Registration's Password|Missing Envelope Case]], Shukichi loses his title defense match for the Osho title against [[Chikara Katsumata]] and subsequently only holds six titles at the moment.

=== Memorization ===
Shukichi is extremely skillful at memorizing, as shown when he managed to remember the code written on [[Sakurako Yonehara]]'s paper despite having only seen it for a very short amount of time. He also claims to be the best in this field.<ref name="memory" />

=== Deductive abilities ===
Shukichi Haneda is very intelligent, something his skill in memorization appears to help. His intelligence seems to be well-known among the students from his high school, as he apparently has solved some mysteries in his class during his time studying there.<ref name=872p3>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: "The Red Woman"</ref> It is possible his intelligence may even outstrip his older brother Shuichi's since Sera characterizes the already intelligent Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to the middle brother's "smart". Shukichi often advises Masumi on cases via cellphone.<ref name=859p6-7/> He was able to correctly deduce over the phone that Masumi's deduction was unreliable in [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|a bathroom murder case]]. He was able to solve a murder case next to his house, where he effectively figured out the trick behind the victim's suicide note, as well as the culprit's identity. His intelligence might even surpasses Conan's; In the events of the [[Volume 98#Shogi Player Serial Murder Case|Shogi Player Serial Murder Case]], he managed to figure out the culprit's identity much earlier than Conan.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Mary Sera|Shukichi<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Dad (''Otōsan'')<ref name="file974" />}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Shukichi<ref name="file972" />|Shuichi-niisan<ref name="file972" /> Niisan<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Kichi-nii<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014 4.JPG]] ([[Masumi Sera|Sera-chan]] calls [[Akai family's middle brother|him]] Kichi-nii)</ref> Kichi-niichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Masumi<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file947" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Chukichi<ref name="file899">[[volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Bald-Headed Rat (''Hage-Nezumi'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref>|Yumi-tan<ref name="file899" /> Yumi-san<ref name="file929" /> Precious person (''taisetsu na hito'')<ref name="file945">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 945 (Volume 89)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Yumi-chan's boyfriend (''Yumi-chan no kareshi'')<ref name="file929" /> [[Yumi Miyamoto|Her]] boyfriend with round glasses (''Maru-megane no kareshi'')<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|-}}
|}
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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Haneda-san<ref name="file849">[[volume 80#Yumi's Love Story|File 849: Taiko's Optimal Move (Volume 80)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Haneda Shukichi (talking to the [[Detective Boys|DB]])<ref name="file899" /> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" /> Boyfriend-san (''kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929" />|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; mail)<ref>File 861</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file1043">[[Volume_98#File_1043_-_The_Meijin.27s_Beard|File 1043: The Meijin's Beard (Volume 98)]]</ref> Chuukichi<ref>[[The Scarlet Alibi]]</ref> Shuukichi-san}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Taiko<ref name="file849"/> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file945" />}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Niichan<ref name="file849" /> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file849" /> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file947" />}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|[[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi-san]]'s ex-boyfriend-san (''Yumi-san no moto-kare-san'')<ref name="file849"/>}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Agasa-san}}
|}
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{{appellations/head|Shukichi}}
{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Taiko Meijin<ref name="file945" /> Your boyfriend (''kareshi''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file945" /> Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file946" />}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Haneda-san}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Haneda-san Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san'')<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Your boyfriend (''kimi no kareshi''; talking to Yumi)}}
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{{appellations/head|Shukichi}}
{{appellations|Chikara Katsumata|Haneda-meijin<ref name="file946" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Haneda Shukichi Meijin}}
|}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Missing Classmate Case (Manga: [[Volume 49|506]], Anime: [[Super Secret of the Road to School|427]]) ===
Shukichi was first mentioned by Yumi to the Detective Boys when the children were looking for a missing schoolgirl. She described him as someone with a good-looking face but childish personality. She also mentioned having "dumped him in a bad way", so she was buying a facemask so he wouldn't recognize her, since she was going to a place not far from where he lived.<ref>[[Volume 49|Volume 49, File 506, page 11: "The Secret Path to School"]]</ref>

=== Sera's phone call during Detective's Nocturne (Manga: [[Volume 76|798-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]]) ===
After Sera took down the kidnapper with her motorcycle she either made or received a call from an unknown person. Given her pattern of contacting her brother regarding cases, she may have called him concerning this one. Another possibility is Mary.

=== Yumi's Love Story (Manga: [[Volume_80|847-849]], Anime: [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene|731-732]]) ===
Yumi recalls her moment with Shukichi before they broke up. When she proposed that they should end their relationship as she would become a police officer, Shukichi handed her an envelope and told her not to open until he "collect all seven", referring to the shogi titles. However, he hasn't contacted her ever since then, so she officially broke up with him.

When a murder takes place at his neighboring apartment, Shukichi becomes one of the prime suspects as he knows the code to acquire the spare key. That is when he finally meets his ex-girlfriend again after all those years. He cheerfully introduces to everyone about their relationship, only to be denied by Yumi.

As the investigation progresses, Shukichi perceives the true nature of the victim's suicide note, calling it "a well prepared move", which turns out to be an important clue. Later, when asked about his own alibi, Shukichi refuses to answer, much to Yumi's annoyance. However, he mentally tells her not to be worried, while confidently looking at Conan, who's already figured out the truth about the case.

Conan, with Shukichi's helps, points out that the culprit is the victim's husband. Shukichi explains that the suicide note was actually written four years ago, on an airplane that almost crashed; the culprit used it to fake her death as a suicide. He also reveals that he has suspected the husband since he saw the note, and his theory was confirmed when he overheard his conversation with his son.

At the end of the case, it is revealed that Shukichi is in fact the famous shogi player called "Taiko Meijin", and was having a match when the crime occured. He kept quiet about it so Yumi couldn't find out about his occupation. It's also revealed that the reason he's so determined in winning all seven shogi titles is because when the two were still dating, Yumi used to express her admiration for a sumo champion who had won six tournaments in a row.

=== Bathroom murder case's failed deduction (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]]) ===
Sera had called Shukichi regarding the "adultery case" she was about to investigate and was overheard by Eri. After the murder was discovered, Sera relayed her brother the facts of the case and her deduction by phone call. He told Sera her deduction was unreliable.

=== Bowling Alley drowning murder (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]]) ===
[[File:Akai Middle Brother's hand.png|thumb|right|200px|The middle brother's hand and cellphone]]
Conan asks Sera who she called during the last case, and she tells Conan about the existence of her second older brother who is very smart. Confronted with another murder case, Sera texts Shukichi about the situation and her logic. Sera also informs her brother than Conan seems to have figured out the case, but she isn't sure of her answer since her confidence has been shaken as of late. Her brother texts Sera asking who she keeps talking about. Sera sends him a picture of Conan and Shukichi replies that "it is no problem" if it is Conan doing the deducing, after all Shukichi had a good experience with Conan's deductions in [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene]].

Masumi is very surprised and wonders how her brother knows Conan. Her suspicion makes sense because she knows that Conan didn't exist prior to Shinichi shrinking.<ref name=861p4>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 4: "Just like Magic"</ref> The brother later sends another text to Masumi which most likely said something about how he met Conan during a case before. This makes Masumi react "Ah, I see. So ''that's'' how it is."<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> At the end of the unseen message is a PS asking if she has "already met the wizard." Sera looks over at Conan and thinks "You could say so..." while sending a reply.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
Shukichi won important matches to help him win his 4th, 5th and 6th titles. Before he begins his title match to become only the 2nd Nanakan-ō shogi player with all 7 titles) in history, he receives a letter. He opens the letter only to find out that Yumi was kidnapped and is trapped in a well. The letter contains clues pertaining to the whereabouts of Yumi. He arrives at the location but cannot find the well. Upon the arrival, he bumps into Conan and the Detective Boys who immediately ask the real purpose of Shukichi. The match is postponed as Shukichi attempts to win both the battle of shogi and love.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
Shukichi and [[Akai family's middle brother|Masumi's second-older brother]] (later revealed to be Shukichi himself)'s favorite phrase is the same: ''I'm skillful at memorizing such things. I'm the best in Japan... No, maybe even the best in the world.'' Shukichi said the phrase in [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene|Episode 731]]. Yumi and Sera call Shukichi at the same time, Shukichi answers Yumi's call first, put it on hold as he receives the call from Masumi, telling her that he's on the phone with someone important and to call later.As soon as he hangs up on Masumi, he resumes his conversation with Yumi. It turns out Shukichi knows some important facts about the case culprit and became helpful to Yumi and the investigation.

=== Shukichi's Envelope Case (Manga: [[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|945-947]], Anime: [[The_Marriage_Registration%27s_Password|849-850]]) ===
Parts of Shukichi's family information appeared on Shukichi's marriage registration form:
* The father's name appears to be {{nihongo|'''Tsutomu Akai'''|赤井務武|Akai Tsutomu}}.
* The mother's given name is {{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリ世良|Mary Sera}}.

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| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Shukichi's marriage registration.jpg|thumb|x165px|right|Shukichi's marriage registration (File 947)]]

| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Shuukichi Father Akai family name 947.png|thumb|x165px|right|Englargement of Shukichi's marriage registration form, showing the section for parents.]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Marriage Form Anime.jpg|right|thumb|x165px|Anime version (1).]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Marriage Form Anime 2.jpg|right|thumb|x165px|Anime version (2).]]
|}
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Shukichi loses one of his Shogi titles against his rival [[Chikara]], making him only with six titles.

It also came out that Shukichi has a non-blood-related brother named {{nihongo|'''[[Kohji Haneda]]'''|羽田浩司|Haneda Kōji}}.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
10 years ago, Shukichi, Masumi and their mother [[Mary]], reunite with [[Shuichi]] who did not take the test yet to become an FBI agent in the Beach. They also encountered [[Shinichi]], [[Ran]] and [[Yukiko]] who also happened to be there. All of them end up being involved in a case where 2 two robbers robbed a watch shop with one of them accidentally got killed in an accident, and the other was still on the run.

=== Policewomen Serial Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96|1015-1017]], Anime: [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|972-974]]) ===
After the murder of the second female police officer, Shukichi calls Yumi, worried about her safety, advising her to go home.
It is revealed that Shukichi is secretly in contact with his older brother Shuichi, as he sent the latter an email; asking him to protect Yumi.

=== Shogi Player Serial Murder Case (Manga : [[Volume 98|1043-1046]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board|1033-1035]]) ===
Shukichi was holding a Shogi practice session with younger Shogi players. However, Yumi suspects that he was having an affair, which causes her to bring Conan along to tail him. Unfortunately, one of the Shogi group members got killed while arriving at the apartment. Shukichi realizes that the culprit is one of the members before the police arrive. He goes to the culprit's place to tell him to turn himself in but got kidnapped afterwards.
Eventually, he is saved by a double effort of Conan and his brother Shuichi. Shukichi reveals to his brother that he wanted to introduce Yumi to his [[Mary|mother]], but is unable to contact her. After Shukichi revealed to his brother that he didn't tell their mother that he is still alive yet, Shuichi reassures that he'll meet her eventually, once the mist of the [[Black Organization]] that covers the truth, has been cleared up.

=== Family Restaurant Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102|1091]]-[[Volume 103|1093]], Anime: TPD) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Shukichi is shown having a date with Yumi at Nagoya. When Yumi gets terribly drunk, She says she accepts Shukichi’s proposal. They meet Shuichi when Yumi dashes in front of his car. He guides the FBI to pursuit the culprit by his memorizing skill. At the end of the movie, Yumi denies on accepts Shukichi's proposal as she was sober, much to Shukichi's disappointment.

== Hints that Shukichi was the Akai family's middle brother ==
[[File:Akai Middle Brother's hand manga.png|thumb|right|200px|The middle brother's hand and cellphone]]
* Shukichi was in the right age range for the middle brother. The middle brother's former high school classmates are currently 28 and 29 years old, suggesting that the middle brother is similarly aged.
* Shukichi is very intelligent as the middle brother was described. When Conan and Shukichi encountered each other during a case, Shukichi noted that Conan is an excellent detective. Later Shukichi asked Masumi about the detective she was always talking talking about, not realizing he had already met this person before. Masumi shows her brother Conan's picture thinking he will be surprised. Shukichi replies back that "if it's him, then there's no problem"; he had met Conan previously after all.
* Shukichi is right handed and has pale skin, matching the phone-holding hand of the middle brother.
* Both [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Mary]] took special interest in the outcome of Shukichi's Shogi matches. Masumi, who had earlier stated that she had no idea where the middle brother is or what he is up to did not recognize Shukichi in his match.
* When Yumi and Sera together described Shukichi and her brother respectively, they were identical. Both wear round glasses, have stubble, wear 'messy jerseys', have excellent memories, and share the exactly same favorite saying.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Yumi Miyamoto ===
''Main article: [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]''
[[File:ShukichiYumiKiss.jpg|Yumi surprises Shukichi|right|thumb|200px|]]
Shukichi Haneda and [[Yumi Miyamoto]] first met when the latter was still in college, and had begun dating since then until Yumi eventually broke up with him because she thought he was immature. Shukichi is completely oblivious to Yumi breaking up with him and he still thinks of her as his girlfriend as if nothing has happened. Yumi, on the other hand, refers to him as an ex and doesn't show much interest in his personal life. Despite this, it appears she still has some feelings for him.

Their relationship began to relapse after Shukichi was caught up in a murder case in his apartment complex. Despite Yumi acting standoffish most of the time, they start using pet names for each other once again. They even exchanged a kiss before Shukichi continued his shogi match to win the seventh title. By the time Yumi figured out Shukichi's real identity, Shukichi was regularly meeting with her. All of this time, Yumi still insisted on calling him an ex.

Yumi was unaware of Shukichi being a famous shogi player for a long time, mostly due to her lack of interest in investigating, and an apparent personal disinterest in shogi (she is more of a Mahjong type). She assumed Shukichi was a "meijin" at some minor game like shiratori or fishing. She eventually saw Shukichi on television and figured it out. After realizing that meijins can make 100,000,000 yen in salary, she desperately tries to reclaim the letter he left for her, which her ornery building manager had seized.

After Shukichi lost the decisive match against [[Chikara Katsumata]],Yumi rips the letter on Shukichi's favour as it became invalid due to his loss. Disappointed by his loss, Yumi encouraged Shukichi that she will wait for him to re-gather the seven Shogi titles once again and that she will listen to any one of his wishes. She also motivated him to never lose to anyone, improving the romantic relationship between the two.

After that she spend more time with shukichi in his apartment and shukichi was worried for Yumi and anytime something might happen to her like durning traffic police murder case which she might be murdered.

In file 1043-1046 Yumi suspected of having an affair and show jealousy which she tailed him but it was revealed it was just a practice group for shogi.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Shukichi was 10-11 years old when Masumi was born, and he was, unlike Shuichi, close during her childhood until she was seven and finally introduced to their older brother. Despite the ten year age separation between [[Masumi Sera]] and her moving abroad, nevertheless she and Shukichi kept in touch by phone. [[Masumi Sera]] frequently calls him to ask about case solutions.<ref name=859p6-7>Manga Volume 81, File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref> Shukichi appears to have avoided telling Masumi anything about his Shogi skills or what he has been up to. She has no idea where he is living.<ref name=859p6-7/>

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Kohji was a talented shogi player that his "not-related-by-blood"<ref>Shukichi was a {{lang|ja|義理の兄}} to Kohji: an adopted brother or step brother, rather than a blood brother.</ref> brother, [[Shukichi Haneda]], deeply respected. Many had high hopes that Kohji would win all seven of the major shogi titles, but Rum killed him preventing it. It's likely that Shukichi changed one of his name characters slightly to honor the late Kohji.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
[[Shuichi Akai]] keeps track of [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s shogi matches. During a reunion ten years ago Shukichi shows concern over his brother's choice of path in life. During the [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|Policewomen Serial Murder Case]], when Yumi is accosted by drunkards, Shuichi as Subaru incapacitates them and has them leave her alone. It is shown when he is alone he received a text by Shukichi to protect Yumi, indicating the brothers are in contact.

=== Mary Sera ===
[[Mary Sera]] is Shukichi's mother. While stuck in the body of a middle schooler, she is shown keeping track of [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s shogi matches.
She smiled when he became the seven-crowned king. Shukichi is shown to be unaware of his mother current circumstances and hasn't been in contact wanted to introduce Yumi to her and asked Shuichi what their being doing to which Shuichi reassure him that he would see their mother sooner or later.

=== Conan Edogawa ===
Shukichi seems to have noticed [[Conan]]'s intelligence and trusted his deductions the first time they met. He even writes to his sister, that it's all right if Conan make the deductions. Shinichi has met Shukichi in the past as a child, so it's possible that Shukichi might recognize him as Conan because of his memorization skills, and also due to Shukichi calling Conan a Wizard, the same nickname that Masumi attributed to Shinichi when they met 10 years ago. It's also possible that his brother Shuichi told him about Conan given that Shukichi knows of Akai having faked his death.

=== Chikara Katsumata ===
[[Chikara Katsumata]] is Shukichi's only shown Shogi rival and the holder of the one of the seven main Shogi titles. He claimed the seventh title from Katsumata in [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love]]. Shukichi then lost a revenge match to Chikara in [[The Marriage Registration's Password]], leaving him with only six titles.

== Name origin ==
According to Gosho, the full name {{nihongo|Shukichi Haneda|羽田秀𠮷|Haneda Shūkichi}} and the in-story nickname {{nihongo|Taiko|太閤|Taikō}} are both references to [[wikipedia:Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi Toyotomi]] ({{Lang|ja|豊臣 '''秀吉'''}}), who was previously named Hideyoshi Hashiba ({{Lang|ja|羽柴 '''秀吉'''}}).<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 849, page 15: "Taiko's Optimal Moves"]]</ref> Additionally, Haneda's "Hane" ({{lang|ja|羽}}) also comes from [[wikipedia:Yoshiharu Habu|Yoshiharu Habu]] ({{lang|ja|'''羽'''生善治}}), a real-life professional shogi player who has won all seven titles.<ref>http://ddnavi.com/news/191132/ Translation: http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639</ref> Gosho also revealed that the "kichi" part of his name comes from [[wikipedia:ja:阪田三吉|Sankichi Sakata]] ({{Lang|ja|阪田三'''𠮷'''}}) in an [[Animal Crossing promotional hints|''Animal Crossings'' Promotional Hint]] on January 18, 2016.

There is one wrinkle in the above information. Because of Shukichi's backstory related to [[Kohji Haneda]], then the true source for Haneda ({{Lang|ja|羽田}}) is likely the [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|list of people killed by]] [[APTX 4869]], and Gosho's shogi source explanation was ex post facto. There are only two ways for both Gosho's shogi source explanation and the List of APTX 4869 victim source to be true. One is that Gosho decided on the name Haneda, and then noticed the name on the list and came up with additional backstory for Shukichi on the spot, or that Gosho planned out Haneda's backstory in Volume 18, 15 years before he was actually introduced. That second explanation is perhaps a bit of a stretch, as Masumi Sera was only created in response to the positive fan reaction to female detective [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], some eight years after volume 18 was published.

Shukichi's prior surname {{nihongo|Sera|世良|Sera}} is from the [[Wikipedia: Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character {{Nihongo|[[Wikipedia: Sayla Mass|Sayla Mass]]|セイラ・マス|Seira Masu}}.<ref>[[Sherry's soliloquy|Sherry's soliloquy (2012-06-17)]], Gosho was referring to the revelation that Sera is Akai's sister (Manga File 821): やっぱりアルテイシアだったのね・・・ (So it was '''Artesia'''…). Note that "Artesia" is another name of '''Sayla Mass'''.</ref> Shukichi's oldest surname "Akai" comes from the [[Wikipedia: Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]], whose nickname was the {{nihongo|"Red Comet"|'''赤い'''彗星|'''Akai''' Suisei}}.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|I'm skillful at memorizing such things. I'm the best in Japan... No, maybe even the best in the world.}}

{{cquote|Well, I guess the story just turned into me gushing about Yumi-san... But I live in the shogi world, where making people wait is unacceptable.|Shukichi, after telling his story about his first meeting with Yumi to Detective Boys, File 900 pg 8}}

== In other languages ==
==Gallery==
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EP785-1.jpeg|Shukichi in college
File:EP1019 4.jpeg|11-year-old Shukichi with his brother Shuichi.
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== Trivia ==
* Shukichi is right-handed.
* In file 946, Yumi reveals that she nicknames him 'Chukichi' because he keeps eating cheese like a rat which makes a noise that sounds a lot like 'Chu'. He is shown to like cake.
*Shukichi can speak English.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]
* [[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)|Meijin]]
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Masumi Sera]] (younger sister) [Kohji Haneda]] (non-blood brother, deceased)
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'''{{nihongo|Shukichi Haneda|羽田秀𠮷|Haneda Shūkichi}}''' is a professional [[wikipedia:Shogi|shogi]] player, as well as the boyfriend of [[Yumi Miyamoto]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is also the middle brother of the Akai family, making him the sibling of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]].

== Background ==
[[File:Kichi chibi.png|thumb|left|200px|Shukichi as a middle schooler more than 10 years ago.]]
Shukichi Haneda was presumably born as Shukichi Akai until some incident, perhaps the death of his father, caused Shukichi and [[Masumi|Masumi Sera]] to switch to using "Sera" as a family name. The Akai family apparently lived a rather wealthy life.<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 847, page 3: "Until I Collect All Seven"]]</ref> He might have been born in England. When the family moved to Japan, Shukichi's older brother Shuichi left them to study in America. After that his younger sister Masumi was born. Seven years after moving to Japan, he and his family were briefly reunited with Shuichi, who plans to join the FBI to investigate the death of their father. When Shukichi graduated from high school he began using the family name Haneda from Koji Haneda, a shogi player he admire. It is not clear what their relationship was. According to Yumi he asked to be adopted into the Haneda family. At some point he started his career as a professional shogi player.

Shukichi met [[Yumi Miyamoto]] for the first time on a train where he overslept, resting his head on Yumi's shoulder, and Yumi waited for him even though she had to miss her stop.<ref name="overslept">[[Volume 85|Volume 85, File 900, page 6: "Check"]]</ref> He attained the prestigious [[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)|Meijin]] title back when he was still dating Yumi, without the latter knowing.<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 849, page 15: "Taikou's Optimal Moves"]]</ref>

Shukichi's main objective is to prove himself worthy as Yumi's boyfriend by secretly winning all seven shogi titles, despite having technically been dumped by her. He was widely known by the name of '''{{nihongo|Taiko Meijin|太閤名人|Taikō Meijin}}''' in the world of shogi even before he finally achieved all seven titles in his most recent Shogi match, due to his unique skill.<ref name="titles">[[Volume 85|Volume 85, File 902, page 16: "The Brilliant Move"]]</ref> Even though he then lost one in a revenge match with his rival [[Chikara Katsumata]], he intends to stick with his original plan.

Shukichi currently lives in an apartment at {{nihongo|Chateau Beika Condo|シャトー米花マンション|Shatō Beika Manshon}}, the same place as when he was still going out with Yumi.<ref>The anime version (Episode 731) shows the number of his locker as 1801.</ref>

== Personality ==
Shukichi has a very cheerful personality, which Yumi (to her annoyance) perceived as immature. In front of Yumi and other characters, he rarely suppresses his emotions, which can range from overly joyful when meeting his ex-girlfriend, to hilariously disapproving when the latter announces that their relationship was over. Despite this, Shukichi does show a calmer and more serious side during some situations, most notably when he is making his deductions or when he appears in front of the media.

On the other hand, Shukichi is quite confident and proud of his excellent memory, as seen when he proclaims himself the best memorizer in the world.<ref name="memory">[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 847, page 14: "Until I Collect All Seven"]]</ref> From his goal of achieving all seven shogi titles to win Yumi's admiration, he shows himself as a person with great patience and determination. The only thing which can disturb him is his intense feelings for Yumi; his belief in her love for him affects his performance at shogi immensely, making her his effective muse,he is even willing to leave an important match to save her like durning meijin title match which he left to save her.

He is also a strong detective, more skilled than Masumi. She often consulted him on cases over the phone, double-checking her deductions.

He is also a little careless and carefree shown in file 1043-1046 when he found out culprit's identity he went to talk with him and ask him to surrender but he get himself caught

He only loves Yumi and didn't betray her. Even after she dumped him, he doesn't want to tell Yumi about his shogi profession to surprise her and didn't tell her about the practice group. For example, there are women in it so she won't be jealous.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Shuukichi appearance.jpg|thumb|200px|Shukichi Haneda's different looks.]]
Shukichi Haneda is perhaps the most characterized by his hair, which sticks up in the back like a bed head. He is often shown wearing glasses, usually except when he is playing shogi or is being interviewed as a professional shogi player.

Unlike his two siblings who resemble their mother, Shukichi is most similar to his father.<ref name=859p6-7>Manga Volume 81, File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

He apparently dresses in slouchy clothes like jerseys fairly often. In Shogi matches he wears traditional attire.

== Abilitites and skills ==
=== Shogi ===
Shukichi Haneda has won numerous shogi matches and earned himself the title Meijin, which, along with [[wikipedia:Ryu-oh|Ryu-oh]], is the most prestigious title in the professional shogi titleholder system.<ref>[[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)]]</ref><ref>[[Wikipedia:Ryu-oh]]</ref> In [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love]], he managed to attain all seven titles. During the events of the [[The Marriage Registration's Password|Missing Envelope Case]], Shukichi loses his title defense match for the Osho title against [[Chikara Katsumata]] and subsequently only holds six titles at the moment.

=== Memorization ===
Shukichi is extremely skillful at memorizing, as shown when he managed to remember the code written on [[Sakurako Yonehara]]'s paper despite having only seen it for a very short amount of time. He also claims to be the best in this field.<ref name="memory" />

=== Deductive abilities ===
Shukichi Haneda is very intelligent, something his skill in memorization appears to help. His intelligence seems to be well-known among the students from his high school, as he apparently has solved some mysteries in his class during his time studying there.<ref name=872p3>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: "The Red Woman"</ref> It is possible his intelligence may even outstrip his older brother Shuichi's since Sera characterizes the already intelligent Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to the middle brother's "smart". Shukichi often advises Masumi on cases via cellphone.<ref name=859p6-7/> He was able to correctly deduce over the phone that Masumi's deduction was unreliable in [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|a bathroom murder case]]. He was able to solve a murder case next to his house, where he effectively figured out the trick behind the victim's suicide note, as well as the culprit's identity. His intelligence might even surpasses Conan's; In the events of the [[Volume 98#Shogi Player Serial Murder Case|Shogi Player Serial Murder Case]], he managed to figure out the culprit's identity much earlier than Conan.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Mary Sera|Shukichi<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Dad (''Otōsan'')<ref name="file974" />}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Shukichi<ref name="file972" />|Shuichi-niisan<ref name="file972" /> Niisan<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Kichi-nii<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014 4.JPG]] ([[Masumi Sera|Sera-chan]] calls [[Akai family's middle brother|him]] Kichi-nii)</ref> Kichi-niichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Masumi<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file947" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Chukichi<ref name="file899">[[volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Bald-Headed Rat (''Hage-Nezumi'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref>|Yumi-tan<ref name="file899" /> Yumi-san<ref name="file929" /> Precious person (''taisetsu na hito'')<ref name="file945">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 945 (Volume 89)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Yumi-chan's boyfriend (''Yumi-chan no kareshi'')<ref name="file929" /> [[Yumi Miyamoto|Her]] boyfriend with round glasses (''Maru-megane no kareshi'')<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|-}}
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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Haneda-san<ref name="file849">[[volume 80#Yumi's Love Story|File 849: Taiko's Optimal Move (Volume 80)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Haneda Shukichi (talking to the [[Detective Boys|DB]])<ref name="file899" /> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" /> Boyfriend-san (''kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929" />|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; mail)<ref>File 861</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file1043">[[Volume_98#File_1043_-_The_Meijin.27s_Beard|File 1043: The Meijin's Beard (Volume 98)]]</ref> Chuukichi<ref>[[The Scarlet Alibi]]</ref> Shuukichi-san}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Taiko<ref name="file849"/> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file945" />}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Niichan<ref name="file849" /> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file849" /> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file947" />}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|[[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi-san]]'s ex-boyfriend-san (''Yumi-san no moto-kare-san'')<ref name="file849"/>}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Agasa-san}}
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{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Taiko Meijin<ref name="file945" /> Your boyfriend (''kareshi''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file945" /> Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file946" />}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Haneda-san}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Haneda-san Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san'')<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Your boyfriend (''kimi no kareshi''; talking to Yumi)}}
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{{appellations|Chikara Katsumata|Haneda-meijin<ref name="file946" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Haneda Shukichi Meijin}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Missing Classmate Case (Manga: [[Volume 49|506]], Anime: [[Super Secret of the Road to School|427]]) ===
Shukichi was first mentioned by Yumi to the Detective Boys when the children were looking for a missing schoolgirl. She described him as someone with a good-looking face but childish personality. She also mentioned having "dumped him in a bad way", so she was buying a facemask so he wouldn't recognize her, since she was going to a place not far from where he lived.<ref>[[Volume 49|Volume 49, File 506, page 11: "The Secret Path to School"]]</ref>

=== Sera's phone call during Detective's Nocturne (Manga: [[Volume 76|798-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]]) ===
After Sera took down the kidnapper with her motorcycle she either made or received a call from an unknown person. Given her pattern of contacting her brother regarding cases, she may have called him concerning this one. Another possibility is Mary.

=== Yumi's Love Story (Manga: [[Volume_80|847-849]], Anime: [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene|731-732]]) ===
Yumi recalls her moment with Shukichi before they broke up. When she proposed that they should end their relationship as she would become a police officer, Shukichi handed her an envelope and told her not to open until he "collect all seven", referring to the shogi titles. However, he hasn't contacted her ever since then, so she officially broke up with him.

When a murder takes place at his neighboring apartment, Shukichi becomes one of the prime suspects as he knows the code to acquire the spare key. That is when he finally meets his ex-girlfriend again after all those years. He cheerfully introduces to everyone about their relationship, only to be denied by Yumi.

As the investigation progresses, Shukichi perceives the true nature of the victim's suicide note, calling it "a well prepared move", which turns out to be an important clue. Later, when asked about his own alibi, Shukichi refuses to answer, much to Yumi's annoyance. However, he mentally tells her not to be worried, while confidently looking at Conan, who's already figured out the truth about the case.

Conan, with Shukichi's helps, points out that the culprit is the victim's husband. Shukichi explains that the suicide note was actually written four years ago, on an airplane that almost crashed; the culprit used it to fake her death as a suicide. He also reveals that he has suspected the husband since he saw the note, and his theory was confirmed when he overheard his conversation with his son.

At the end of the case, it is revealed that Shukichi is in fact the famous shogi player called "Taiko Meijin", and was having a match when the crime occured. He kept quiet about it so Yumi couldn't find out about his occupation. It's also revealed that the reason he's so determined in winning all seven shogi titles is because when the two were still dating, Yumi used to express her admiration for a sumo champion who had won six tournaments in a row.

=== Bathroom murder case's failed deduction (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]]) ===
Sera had called Shukichi regarding the "adultery case" she was about to investigate and was overheard by Eri. After the murder was discovered, Sera relayed her brother the facts of the case and her deduction by phone call. He told Sera her deduction was unreliable.

=== Bowling Alley drowning murder (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]]) ===
[[File:Akai Middle Brother's hand.png|thumb|right|200px|The middle brother's hand and cellphone]]
Conan asks Sera who she called during the last case, and she tells Conan about the existence of her second older brother who is very smart. Confronted with another murder case, Sera texts Shukichi about the situation and her logic. Sera also informs her brother than Conan seems to have figured out the case, but she isn't sure of her answer since her confidence has been shaken as of late. Her brother texts Sera asking who she keeps talking about. Sera sends him a picture of Conan and Shukichi replies that "it is no problem" if it is Conan doing the deducing, after all Shukichi had a good experience with Conan's deductions in [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene]].

Masumi is very surprised and wonders how her brother knows Conan. Her suspicion makes sense because she knows that Conan didn't exist prior to Shinichi shrinking.<ref name=861p4>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 4: "Just like Magic"</ref> The brother later sends another text to Masumi which most likely said something about how he met Conan during a case before. This makes Masumi react "Ah, I see. So ''that's'' how it is."<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> At the end of the unseen message is a PS asking if she has "already met the wizard." Sera looks over at Conan and thinks "You could say so..." while sending a reply.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
Shukichi won important matches to help him win his 4th, 5th and 6th titles. Before he begins his title match to become only the 2nd Nanakan-ō shogi player with all 7 titles) in history, he receives a letter. He opens the letter only to find out that Yumi was kidnapped and is trapped in a well. The letter contains clues pertaining to the whereabouts of Yumi. He arrives at the location but cannot find the well. Upon the arrival, he bumps into Conan and the Detective Boys who immediately ask the real purpose of Shukichi. The match is postponed as Shukichi attempts to win both the battle of shogi and love.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
Shukichi and [[Akai family's middle brother|Masumi's second-older brother]] (later revealed to be Shukichi himself)'s favorite phrase is the same: ''I'm skillful at memorizing such things. I'm the best in Japan... No, maybe even the best in the world.'' Shukichi said the phrase in [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene|Episode 731]]. Yumi and Sera call Shukichi at the same time, Shukichi answers Yumi's call first, put it on hold as he receives the call from Masumi, telling her that he's on the phone with someone important and to call later.As soon as he hangs up on Masumi, he resumes his conversation with Yumi. It turns out Shukichi knows some important facts about the case culprit and became helpful to Yumi and the investigation.

=== Shukichi's Envelope Case (Manga: [[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|945-947]], Anime: [[The_Marriage_Registration%27s_Password|849-850]]) ===
Parts of Shukichi's family information appeared on Shukichi's marriage registration form:
* The father's name appears to be {{nihongo|'''Tsutomu Akai'''|赤井務武|Akai Tsutomu}}.
* The mother's given name is {{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリ世良|Mary Sera}}.

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Shukichi loses one of his Shogi titles against his rival [[Chikara]], making him only with six titles.

It also came out that Shukichi has a non-blood-related brother named {{nihongo|'''[[Kohji Haneda]]'''|羽田浩司|Haneda Kōji}}.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
10 years ago, Shukichi, Masumi and their mother [[Mary]], reunite with [[Shuichi]] who did not take the test yet to become an FBI agent in the Beach. They also encountered [[Shinichi]], [[Ran]] and [[Yukiko]] who also happened to be there. All of them end up being involved in a case where 2 two robbers robbed a watch shop with one of them accidentally got killed in an accident, and the other was still on the run.

=== Policewomen Serial Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96|1015-1017]], Anime: [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|972-974]]) ===
After the murder of the second female police officer, Shukichi calls Yumi, worried about her safety, advising her to go home.
It is revealed that Shukichi is secretly in contact with his older brother Shuichi, as he sent the latter an email; asking him to protect Yumi.

=== Shogi Player Serial Murder Case (Manga : [[Volume 98|1043-1046]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board|1033-1035]]) ===
Shukichi was holding a Shogi practice session with younger Shogi players. However, Yumi suspects that he was having an affair, which causes her to bring Conan along to tail him. Unfortunately, one of the Shogi group members got killed while arriving at the apartment. Shukichi realizes that the culprit is one of the members before the police arrive. He goes to the culprit's place to tell him to turn himself in but got kidnapped afterwards.
Eventually, he is saved by a double effort of Conan and his brother Shuichi. Shukichi reveals to his brother that he wanted to introduce Yumi to his [[Mary|mother]], but is unable to contact her. After Shukichi revealed to his brother that he didn't tell their mother that he is still alive yet, Shuichi reassures that he'll meet her eventually, once the mist of the [[Black Organization]] that covers the truth, has been cleared up.

=== Family Restaurant Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102|1091]]-[[Volume 103|1093]], Anime: TPD) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Shukichi is shown having a date with Yumi at Nagoya. When Yumi gets terribly drunk, She says she accepts Shukichi’s proposal. They meet Shuichi when Yumi dashes in front of his car. He guides the FBI to pursuit the culprit by his memorizing skill. At the end of the movie, Yumi denies on accepts Shukichi's proposal as she was sober, much to Shukichi's disappointment.

== Hints that Shukichi was the Akai family's middle brother ==
[[File:Akai Middle Brother's hand manga.png|thumb|right|200px|The middle brother's hand and cellphone]]
* Shukichi was in the right age range for the middle brother. The middle brother's former high school classmates are currently 28 and 29 years old, suggesting that the middle brother is similarly aged.
* Shukichi is very intelligent as the middle brother was described. When Conan and Shukichi encountered each other during a case, Shukichi noted that Conan is an excellent detective. Later Shukichi asked Masumi about the detective she was always talking talking about, not realizing he had already met this person before. Masumi shows her brother Conan's picture thinking he will be surprised. Shukichi replies back that "if it's him, then there's no problem"; he had met Conan previously after all.
* Shukichi is right handed and has pale skin, matching the phone-holding hand of the middle brother.
* Both [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Mary]] took special interest in the outcome of Shukichi's Shogi matches. Masumi, who had earlier stated that she had no idea where the middle brother is or what he is up to did not recognize Shukichi in his match.
* When Yumi and Sera together described Shukichi and her brother respectively, they were identical. Both wear round glasses, have stubble, wear 'messy jerseys', have excellent memories, and share the exactly same favorite saying.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Yumi Miyamoto ===
''Main article: [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]''
[[File:ShukichiYumiKiss.jpg|Yumi surprises Shukichi|right|thumb|200px|]]
Shukichi Haneda and [[Yumi Miyamoto]] first met when the latter was still in college, and had begun dating since then until Yumi eventually broke up with him because she thought he was immature. Shukichi is completely oblivious to Yumi breaking up with him and he still thinks of her as his girlfriend as if nothing has happened. Yumi, on the other hand, refers to him as an ex and doesn't show much interest in his personal life. Despite this, it appears she still has some feelings for him.

Their relationship began to relapse after Shukichi was caught up in a murder case in his apartment complex. Despite Yumi acting standoffish most of the time, they start using pet names for each other once again. They even exchanged a kiss before Shukichi continued his shogi match to win the seventh title. By the time Yumi figured out Shukichi's real identity, Shukichi was regularly meeting with her. All of this time, Yumi still insisted on calling him an ex.

Yumi was unaware of Shukichi being a famous shogi player for a long time, mostly due to her lack of interest in investigating, and an apparent personal disinterest in shogi (she is more of a Mahjong type). She assumed Shukichi was a "meijin" at some minor game like shiratori or fishing. She eventually saw Shukichi on television and figured it out. After realizing that meijins can make 100,000,000 yen in salary, she desperately tries to reclaim the letter he left for her, which her ornery building manager had seized.

After Shukichi lost the decisive match against [[Chikara Katsumata]],Yumi rips the letter on Shukichi's favour as it became invalid due to his loss. Disappointed by his loss, Yumi encouraged Shukichi that she will wait for him to re-gather the seven Shogi titles once again and that she will listen to any one of his wishes. She also motivated him to never lose to anyone, improving the romantic relationship between the two.

After that she spend more time with shukichi in his apartment and shukichi was worried for Yumi and anytime something might happen to her like durning traffic police murder case which she might be murdered.

In file 1043-1046 Yumi suspected of having an affair and show jealousy which she tailed him but it was revealed it was just a practice group for shogi.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Shukichi was 10-11 years old when Masumi was born, and he was, unlike Shuichi, close during her childhood until she was seven and finally introduced to their older brother. Despite the ten year age separation between [[Masumi Sera]] and her moving abroad, nevertheless she and Shukichi kept in touch by phone. [[Masumi Sera]] frequently calls him to ask about case solutions.<ref name=859p6-7>Manga Volume 81, File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref> Shukichi appears to have avoided telling Masumi anything about his Shogi skills or what he has been up to. She has no idea where he is living.<ref name=859p6-7/>

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Kohji was a talented shogi player that his "not-related-by-blood"<ref>Shukichi was a {{lang|ja|義理の兄}} to Kohji: an adopted brother or step brother, rather than a blood brother.</ref> brother, [[Shukichi Haneda]], deeply respected. Many had high hopes that Kohji would win all seven of the major shogi titles, but Rum killed him preventing it. It's likely that Shukichi changed one of his name characters slightly to honor the late Kohji.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
[[Shuichi Akai]] keeps track of [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s shogi matches. During a reunion ten years ago Shukichi shows concern over his brother's choice of path in life. During the [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|Policewomen Serial Murder Case]], when Yumi is accosted by drunkards, Shuichi as Subaru incapacitates them and has them leave her alone. It is shown when he is alone he received a text by Shukichi to protect Yumi, indicating the brothers are in contact.

=== Mary Sera ===
[[Mary Sera]] is Shukichi's mother. While stuck in the body of a middle schooler, she is shown keeping track of [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s shogi matches.
She smiled when he became the seven-crowned king. Shukichi is shown to be unaware of his mother current circumstances and hasn't been in contact wanted to introduce Yumi to her and asked Shuichi what their being doing to which Shuichi reassure him that he would see their mother sooner or later.

=== Conan Edogawa ===
Shukichi seems to have noticed [[Conan]]'s intelligence and trusted his deductions the first time they met. He even writes to his sister, that it's all right if Conan make the deductions. Shinichi has met Shukichi in the past as a child, so it's possible that Shukichi might recognize him as Conan because of his memorization skills, and also due to Shukichi calling Conan a Wizard, the same nickname that Masumi attributed to Shinichi when they met 10 years ago. It's also possible that his brother Shuichi told him about Conan given that Shukichi knows of Akai having faked his death.

=== Chikara Katsumata ===
[[Chikara Katsumata]] is Shukichi's only shown Shogi rival and the holder of the one of the seven main Shogi titles. He claimed the seventh title from Katsumata in [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love]]. Shukichi then lost a revenge match to Chikara in [[The Marriage Registration's Password]], leaving him with only six titles.

== Name origin ==
According to Gosho, the full name {{nihongo|Shukichi Haneda|羽田秀𠮷|Haneda Shūkichi}} and the in-story nickname {{nihongo|Taiko|太閤|Taikō}} are both references to [[wikipedia:Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi Toyotomi]] ({{Lang|ja|豊臣 '''秀吉'''}}), who was previously named Hideyoshi Hashiba ({{Lang|ja|羽柴 '''秀吉'''}}).<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 849, page 15: "Taiko's Optimal Moves"]]</ref> Additionally, Haneda's "Hane" ({{lang|ja|羽}}) also comes from [[wikipedia:Yoshiharu Habu|Yoshiharu Habu]] ({{lang|ja|'''羽'''生善治}}), a real-life professional shogi player who has won all seven titles.<ref>http://ddnavi.com/news/191132/ Translation: http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639</ref> Gosho also revealed that the "kichi" part of his name comes from [[wikipedia:ja:阪田三吉|Sankichi Sakata]] ({{Lang|ja|阪田三'''𠮷'''}}) in an [[Animal Crossing promotional hints|''Animal Crossings'' Promotional Hint]] on January 18, 2016.

There is one wrinkle in the above information. Because of Shukichi's backstory related to [[Kohji Haneda]], then the true source for Haneda ({{Lang|ja|羽田}}) is likely the [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|list of people killed by]] [[APTX 4869]], and Gosho's shogi source explanation was ex post facto. There are only two ways for both Gosho's shogi source explanation and the List of APTX 4869 victim source to be true. One is that Gosho decided on the name Haneda, and then noticed the name on the list and came up with additional backstory for Shukichi on the spot, or that Gosho planned out Haneda's backstory in Volume 18, 15 years before he was actually introduced. That second explanation is perhaps a bit of a stretch, as Masumi Sera was only created in response to the positive fan reaction to female detective [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], some eight years after volume 18 was published.

Shukichi's prior surname {{nihongo|Sera|世良|Sera}} is from the [[Wikipedia: Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character {{Nihongo|[[Wikipedia: Sayla Mass|Sayla Mass]]|セイラ・マス|Seira Masu}}.<ref>[[Sherry's soliloquy|Sherry's soliloquy (2012-06-17)]], Gosho was referring to the revelation that Sera is Akai's sister (Manga File 821): やっぱりアルテイシアだったのね・・・ (So it was '''Artesia'''…). Note that "Artesia" is another name of '''Sayla Mass'''.</ref> Shukichi's oldest surname "Akai" comes from the [[Wikipedia: Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]], whose nickname was the {{nihongo|"Red Comet"|'''赤い'''彗星|'''Akai''' Suisei}}.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|I'm skillful at memorizing such things. I'm the best in Japan... No, maybe even the best in the world.}}

{{cquote|Well, I guess the story just turned into me gushing about Yumi-san... But I live in the shogi world, where making people wait is unacceptable.|Shukichi, after telling his story about his first meeting with Yumi to Detective Boys, File 900 pg 8}}

== In other languages ==
==Gallery==
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EP785-1.jpeg|Shukichi in college
File:EP1019 4.jpeg|11-year-old Shukichi with his brother Shuichi.
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== Trivia ==
* Shukichi is right-handed.
* In file 946, Yumi reveals that she nicknames him 'Chukichi' because he keeps eating cheese like a rat which makes a noise that sounds a lot like 'Chu'. He is shown to like cake.
*Shukichi can speak English.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]
* [[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)|Meijin]]
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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| name = Shuichi Akai
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|赤井秀一}} (Akai Shūichi)
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| image = Shuichi Akai Profile.jpg
| age = 32<ref>Q4 of Super Digest Book 90+ Interview with Gosho</ref> 27 as [[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]]
| gender = Male
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, missing, presumed dead) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (younger brother) [[Masumi Sera]] (younger sister)
| occupation = FBI Agent
|status = '''Alive''' (Under disguise as [[Subaru Okiya]]) Dead (for the [[Black Organization]]) Missing (presumed dead)
| nicknames = Shu ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Dai-kun ([[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]]) Akai-kun ([[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet ([[The Boss]] & [[Vermouth]]) Shu-nii ([[Masumi Sera|Masumi]]) Niisan ([[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]])
| aliases = Rye Dai Moroboshi [[Subaru Okiya]]
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|File 287]] Anime: [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230]]
| appearances = {{:Shuichi Akai Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 6 (5 as Subaru)
| keyhole = [[Volume 37]] [[Volume 60]] (Subaru Okiya)
| japanese-voice = [[Shuichi Ikeda]] [[Yuki Kaji]] (young)
| english-voice = [[Keith Silverstein]]
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'''{{nihongo|Shuichi Akai|赤井秀一|Akai Shūichi}}''' is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and a major figure in the battle against the [[Black Organization]]. He once assumed the identity of '''{{nihongo|Dai Moroboshi|諸星大|Moroboshi Dai}}''' and infiltrated the Organization, where he was given the codename '''{{nihongo|Rye|ライ|Rai}}'''. During this time he made enemies with [[Gin]] and became romantically involved with [[Akemi Miyano]]. He is the older brother of [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]].

== Background ==
[[File:Long haired Akai.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Shuichi as "Dai Moroboshi" during his infiltration of the Black Organization.]]
Shuichi Akai is a British American of Japanese descent, originally from England, and is a member of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, on special assignment in Japan to capture [[Gin]]. His superior is [[James Black]] and his partner is [[Jodie Starling]].<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple 5</ref> He had infiltrated the Black Organization under the name Dai Moroboshi - and the codename "Rye" - as a mole<ref>Manga Chapter 599: Akai's Past</ref> and dated [[Akemi Miyano]], one of their low-ranking members, to feed information to the FBI. In order to facilitate the latter, and later because he had genuinely developed feelings for Akemi, Shuichi saw himself forced to break up his then on-going relationship with Jodie.<ref>Manga Chapter 677: The Fated Individual</ref> Later on, his cover in the Black Organization was accidentally blown by his colleague [[Andre Camel]], and when Akemi was killed, he declared her murderer, [[Gin]] (with whom he seems to have had some tensions even before his exposure), his personal enemy.<ref>Manga Chapter 504: Black Organization vs. FBI 2</ref>

=== The disappearance of his father ===
17 years prior to the current timeline, Shuichi's father, [[Tsutomu Akai]], got himself involved in the murder case of Kohji Haneda and Amanda Hughes and disappeared. In his last message he instructed his pregnant wife Mary and their two sons to hide in Japan. Shuichi, determined to investigate his missing father's "incident," convinced his mother to let him study in America. After he left Japan, his younger sister Masumi was born. Shuichi didn't get to meet her until he returned to Japan after seven years in the states, but Shukichi sent him pictures of her. After he had finished school, he joined the FBI.

=== Infiltration of the Black Organization ===
Five years prior to the current time-line, [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent Shuichi Akai infiltrated the [[Black Organization]] using the alias Dai Moroboshi as a mole and dated [[Akemi Miyano]], one of their low-ranking members, in order to meet [[Shiho Miyano]], a high-ranked member codenamed Sherry, and use her influence to get into the Black Organization.<ref name=599p9>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past"</ref> Although at first he was simply using Akemi as a tool, they both fell in love with each other. Shuichi distinguished himself as an agent and two years prior to the current time-line received the codename Rye and was called to work under executive agent [[Gin]]. The FBI laid a trap hoping to capture Gin at a warehouse where the meeting was supposed to take place,<ref name=599p9/> but the Black Organization discovered Akai's true allegiance and Gin never appeared.<ref name=599p10>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 10: "Akai's Past"</ref>
He broke up with Akemi to protect her and he lost contact with her after the mission to capture Gin failed. Two years later Akemi got killed by the organization to cut loose ends.

== Personality ==
Shuichi is a tenacious but stoic agent. Even in personal matters, he remains cool, even detached, from anyone, but his redeeming value is a great sense of loyalty to anyone he knows. He is a skilled and relentless pursuer and detective, qualities which have labeled him the number one enemy of the [[Black Organization]] and earned him the nickname "[[Silver Bullet]]". He looks forward to opportunities to hunt the Black Organization down and get revenge for [[Akemi]]. While usually professional, he often acts independently of the FBI, and even his boss [[James Black]] has trouble getting ahold of him. Shuichi gets along well with Conan, who share many personality traits. Despite that he has American citizenship, he still considers England as his home country.

James Black describes Shuichi as an introverted person who doesn't easily get close to people, and further notes that Shuichi has become even more closed off since Akemi's death.<ref name=502p13>Manga Volume 49, File 2, page 13: "New Order"</ref> Shuichi doesn't often voice what he is thinking and has an unhealthy tendency to prioritize his missions above the emotional well-being of his friends, co-workers, family, and love interests.<ref>Shuichi's fake death, while preserving Kir and allowing her to pass confidential information to the FBI, has caused significant dysfunction within the FBI who believe him to be truly dead. While Shuichi has technically been fulfilling the promise he made to look after Haibara's welfare as Okiya, he has executed it in such a way that made Haibara terrified of his presence and refused to be alone at Agasa's house when he was around.</ref> Conflict between his missions and the interests of those he cares about has lead to significant sorrow for him<ref>Shuichi didn't inform Akemi he was an FBI agent despite being in love because it might jeopardize his mission (and his relationship). Even though Akemi figured out Shuichi was an FBI agent and wished to leave the Organization and date him seriously, she kept it secret from him either because she was not sure how he would react, or because she thought it could cause him harm. Thus, the infiltration mission was the root cause of their secretkeeping which prevented them from coming up with an exit strategy for Akemi in case the mission failed. The following chain of events led to Akemi's death.</ref> and others.<ref>Shuichi's faked death to save Kir's mission and get her to pass information to the FBI as well demoralized the FBI, especially Jodie. Shuichi's infiltration mission required that he seduce Akemi even though he was dating Jodie at the time. When he fell in love with Akemi for real, Shuichi decided to break it off with Jodie. When justifying his decision to Jodie, he mentioned that he didn't want the onus of loving two women at once, but he also mentioned he thought the "sacrifice" was important to his mission to destroy the Black Organization. This implies that love was not the only factor in Shuichi's decision, he thought choosing Akemi over Jodie would help his mission -- perhaps because he was afraid he would be caught as a spy if anyone discovered his relationship with Akemi was fake. [http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=980&p=16431#p16431]</ref>

Shuichi prefers to plan secretly, and will readily trick his friends and coworkers, even injuring them, if helps the success of his missions.<ref>FBI vs Org, Shuichi didn't tell the rest of the FBI he would cover Kogoro's agency. In Red vs Black, the return Kir plan and the fake death plan were both kept secret from the FBI. He ordered Camel to remove by force if necessary anyone who interfered which resulted in Jodie being knocked out. He later told Kir to hit Camel for real to make her escape look authentic.</ref> Shuichi is often forgiven for these transgressions because his judgment is usually sound and his plans work out well.<ref>In FBI vs Org, Shuichi was forgiven for covering Kogoro without telling his boss and for making the decision on his own to let the Black Organization leave without much resistance because he thought it might lead to a dangerous firefight downtown. In Red vs Black, Shuichi was forgiven after being told off for hiding his secret plan to return Rena to the Org.</ref> Shuichi's secret plans, while strategically robust in the short term, often cause emotional problems for others that he does not fully appreciate.<ref>In particular, his faked death had a major impact on the FBI and [[Jodie Starling]]. [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] was able to take advantage of the emotional confusion surrounding his death to approach the FBI for his own ends. Jodie's sorrow has reduced her effectiveness and led her to blunder into dangerous situations.</ref>

Even though he means well, Shuichi is notably clumsy at trying to comfort and connect with others. He is especially dense at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and thus how to modify his own behavior to improve relations. As [[Subaru Okiya]], his technique to approach [[Ai Haibara]] leaves her terrified of him, and repeated contact only intensifies her loathing. Ten years ago, he was also cold to young Masumi on their first meeting, brushing Masumi's silly antics aside without realizing that she simply wanted him to smile and treat her kindly, though he most likely was simply in a bad mood, since he just had an intense argument with his mother, in which they traded physical blows, because of his plan to join the FBI after his studies to pursue the case of his father and because he had lied to her about that. Later that day, during the investigation of a case, Shuichi gives both Shinichi and Ran a task to help with the investigation, so Masumi approaches Shuichi shyly and asks for a task as well. Now Shuichi responds kindly and gives her a task that makes her feel important. 

Despite his social awkwardness, Shuichi is not apathetic. He gives Jodie some hope by leaving her a message in his own handwriting, and leaves her a very roundabout hint about his identity after knocking her down even though he cannot reveal the truth to her yet. Eventually he also realized that Masumi was looking up to him, so he began to send her videos of him doing Jeet Kune Do.

== Appearance ==
Shuichi is a tall and fit man of Japanese descent with short wavy hair with strands hanging over his right eye. He is very handsome, as mentioned by Yukiko Kudo. His trademark features, by which people close to him have identified him are his eyes which have permanent bags underneath them that make him appear sleep deprived. Other characters often describe him as evil eyed or having a sharp gaze. His eyes are blue in the manga (like every other character) and green in the anime. He and [[Masumi Sera]] presumably more closely resemble their mother then their father. The second trademark feature is his knit cap, which he is always shown wearing. When he was younger he had a grey fedora which Masumi now wears herself. Up to one year ago, he had very long waist length hair, which he cut after the death of Akemi Miyano "to freshen up." Shuichi is left-handed. Ten years before the present timeline, Shuichi still had short hair, which means he grew it out sometime during the next five years.<ref>File 973</ref> He is a heavy smoker and his favorite drink is whiskey- he has recently taken to drinking bourbon rather than scotch.

His outfit is a grey jacket on top of a collared black shirt, black pants, shoes, and his trademark black knit cap.

== Abilities ==
=== Intelligence ===
[[File:783-5.jpg|thumb|200px|Conan ft. Shuichi]]

Shuichi is a highly intelligent man, recognized as a threat even by Gin. Extremely observant and excellent instincts, he has a knack for seeing through deceptions and reading the patterns of people. Once, after realizing that a transmitter had accidentally been attached to the Black Organization, he set up a sniper ambush at a nearby building to Kogoro's detective agency, knowing that the enemies would try to kill Kogoro after finding the transmitter under the belief Kogoro was spying on them, all to trick the Organization into thinking the bug was his personal trap."<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> He is also very alert to threats on his person, able to sense Rei Furuya/Bourbon and his desire to kill Shuichi under the belief that Shuichi killed Scotch. Basically on par to Shinichi/Conan, Shuichi has a remarkable talent for analysis and deductive reasoning, able to survey the situation and accurately determine the cause of it. During Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case, Shuichi figured out the key point of Sanada coins, solving the case before Conan and even providing him the hint of "Kumogakure Saizou" to lead him to the same conclusion. In the Paper Airplane Case, Shuichi (disguised as Subaru Okiya), he also showed knowledge of Morse code and origami. He was able to deduce along with Yusaku Kudo that the hints of ASACA and MASCARA lead to the name of the Boss of the Black Organization, Karasuma Renya.

=== Firearms ===
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shooting Shuichi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Shuichi aiming with a Glock]]
Shuichi, is an exceptional crackshot with firearms, the most skilled seen so far. He can shoot a small piece of gum out of Gin's hand from about 700 yards away, even snipe at 1300 yards, well-beyond the range the Black Organization's professional snipers [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]].<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> Shuichi is good at handling shotguns as well; he accurately shot Vermouth from the hip faster than she could aim at him with her subcompact pistol. He is capable of busting a moving car's tire from a speeding car with just a single shot.<ref>Manga Volume 85 File 4 Page 5</ref>

While naturally left-handed, he is ambidextrous, able to wield firearms basically as effectively with his right hand. At the same time Akai is unusual in that he is "eye-bidextrous" while shooting. Like hands and feet, most individuals have a dominant eye they prefer to use when lining up a shot, but Shuichi is shown using both eyes at different times.<ref> Left eye for shooting Vermouth in New York, Right eye for shooting Rei's subordinates' car in Scarlet Showdown.</ref>

=== Martial arts ===
Shuichi is also a highly proficient hand-to-hand combatant. Having extensive skill and knowledge of Jeet Kune Do, he taught his sister Sera much, who openly acknowledges him to still be much stronger than her.<ref>Episode 744</ref> In the Bus Jack case, Shuichi's combat skills was hinted as he was ready to strike one of the criminals before Conan hit him with the tranquilizer dart. During the Ikkaku Rock case, Shuichi expertly knocks a knife out of the criminal's hand unarmed. Though subtle, Shuichi also swiftly knocks out a drunkard harassing Officer Yumi (at the request of his younger brother) in the Policewomen Serial Murder Case. At the same time, he is noticeable resilient. While taking a serious kick to the face from Ran Mouri, he emerged virtually unharmed, a feat few people have accomplished against her.

=== Other skills ===
[[File:783-4.jpg|thumb|200px|Jodie and Camel are shocked to learn that Shuichi can cook]]
Shuichi is a skilled driver. He can overtake many cars quickly in heavy traffic conditions and drift around a U-turn.<ref name=420p14>Manga Volume 41, File 7, page 14: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net" </ref> As Subaru, he hacked into Kogoro's computer to see what cases he had received from his website. Later he hacked into Haibara's Phone and saw the message that Vermouth had sent her. Shuichi learned how to act and properly apply his Subaru disguise by himself thanks to Yukiko Kudo and equipment from [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]].<ref>Manga [[Volume 85]], File 5 (898), pg 2: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref>
He also learned from Yukiko to be a very capable cook. This was meant to help better keep a low-profile as Subaru.<ref>[[The Scarlet Return]]</ref> At the same time, he would often uses his dishes as an excuse to interject himself into cases at Professor Agasa's house and save money on food. He apparently at one point held a part-time job playing the accordion, making decent money from it. In addition to his native language, having worked in the United States as an FBI agent for a long time, Shuichi is also fluent in English as shown in the episode 288.
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== Appellations ==
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<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Shuichi}}
{{appellations|Mary Sera|Shuichi<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Father (''chichi'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Niisan<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> Shuichi-niisan<ref name="file972" />|Shukichi<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Akai Shuichi<ref>[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938]]</ref> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref>|Masumi}}

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Akai-san<ref name="file974" /> ''Oniisan''<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi|Boy (''Bōya'') Conan-kun<ref>[[Volume 100#FBI Serial Murder Case|FBI Serial Murder Case]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Moroboshi Dai<ref>Manga File 802, pg 10: "Don't make that kind of face..."</ref> That Akai person|That brown-haired girl}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Dai-kun|''Kimi Omae''}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shu-chan ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref name="niisanshuchan">[[:File:Postcard2016 18.jpg]] (Yukiko calls him "Shu-chan")</ref>|Yukiko-san (as Subaru)}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Akai-san<ref name="file950">[[volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 950: The Clipped Letters (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}
|}
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{{appellations/head|Shuichi}}
{{appellations|James Black|Akai-kun Moroboshi Dai Rye|James}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Shu<ref name="file897">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|File 897 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Akai-kun Akai Shuichi|Jodie}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|Akai-san<ref name="file897" /> Akai-shan<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi|Camel}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Akai Shuichi<ref name="file897" />|Okiya Subaru}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Akai<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file897" /> Rye<ref name="file955">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 955: Whereabouts of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Snoop dog of the FBI (''FBI no inu'') That man|Bourbon<ref name="file897" /> Amuro Tooru-kun<ref name="file897" /> Zero<ref name="file897" /> Furuya Rei-kun<ref name="file897" /> Wolf (''ōkami'')<ref name="file897" />}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Akai Shuichi|Mizunashi Rena Kir}}

{{appellations|Ethan Hondou|-|Ethan Hondou NOC}}
{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch}}
|}
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{{appellations/head|Shuichi}}
{{appellations|Renya Karasuma|Silver Bullet|[[Black Organization|Their]] Boss (''yatsura no Boss'')}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Akai<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi Silver Bullet|Vermouth Rotten Apple}}

{{appellations|Gin|Akai Shuichi Akai|Gin ''Koibito'' (literally "lover", but the intended meaning is "old enemy")}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Akai}}

{{appellations|Chianti|Akai}}

{{appellations|Korn|Akai}}

{{appellations|Rikumichi Kusuda|Akai Shuichi|Kusuda Rikumichi<ref name="file897" />}}

{{appellations|Calvados|-|Calvados}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum<ref name="file950" />}}

{{appellations|Curaçao|Rye|Curaçao}}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Shuichi}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Your brother (''Oniisan''; talking to [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref> FBI person (''FBI no hito'')|''Omae''}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|-|NOC's son (''NOC no musuko'') Brother (''otōto''; talking to [[Hidemi Hondou|Hidemi]])}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Shu-nii<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Akai Shuichi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18" /> Pierrot Onii-san|Holmes' Apprentice-kun (''Homuzu no deshi-kun'')<ref name="file 973">[[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 973 (Volume 92)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi<ref>Episode 954</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Akai-kun|Yusaku-san}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Guy (''niichan'')}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Timeline ===
{{main|Shuichi Akai timeline}}

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Shuichi appeared in this movie as [[Subaru Okiya]]. At first he is seen watching the Detective Boys testing Professor Agasa's invention. Later after [[Masumi Sera]] gets shot, he is seen leaving the hospital, where she is hospitalized. After that he is seen involving himself in the sniper investigation. He is the one who shoot the suspect at the last part. We can see too that he turn off his voice changer and said to [[James Black|James]] {{nihongo|"Roger"|了解|ryōkai}} as signal that it's already finished.

=== The Darkest Nightmare (Movie: [[The Darkest Nightmare|20]]) ===
In this movie, he shows as a FBI agent. He saves [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] from [[Gin]]. We see a fight between him and [[Rei Furuya]] until Conan arrive. They cooperate and takes down the black metal crow (helicopter) of [[black organization]].

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===

Shuichi shoots Maiko Shirahato in the shoulder with a silver bullet in order to stop her from shooting Alan McKenzie.

== Speculation ==
[[James Black]]'s English background may have assisted the young British-Japanese Shuichi Akai in fast-tracking his way to a US citizenship and then enrolling in the FBI.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and friends ===
==== Akemi Miyano ====
{{main|Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano}}
Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with [[Jodie Starling]].

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi was concerned, and helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.

[[File:Akemi's Text Message.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The last text message Akemi had sent Shuichi, before her death.]]
Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. After Shuichi's expulsion, he confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seemed surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death. The message also contains a P.S. which has not been revealed yet.
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==== Jodie Starling ====
While Jodie and Shuichi's relationship had been viewed as mere colleagues, it is revealed later on in the series that Jodie and Shuichi had dated before about 5 years prior. However, after Shuichi infiltrated the Black Organization under the alias of Dai Moroboshi, he started dating Akemi Miyano in hopes of using her to attain information about the Black Organization. Despite this, Shuichi ended up falling in love with Akemi, leading him to break up with Jodie, stating that, "To be able to love two women at the same time…it's not that handy a personality."<ref name="677p5">Manga [[Volume 65]], File 3 (677), pg 5: "The fated individual"</ref> In spite of the break-up, Jodie still held strong feelings for Shuichi which never wavered as time passed and took his apparent death at Kir's hands especially hard, to the point of being reduced to tears.

==== James Black ====
[[James Black]] is the boss of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents in Japan and therefore the boss of Shuichi. He was one of those who know that Shuichi was alive after Shuichi's fake death, but only because he saw the glue on Shuichi's fingers and would have otherwise also been kept in the dark. The two maintain close contact with each other up to present.

==== Andre Camel ====
[[Andre Camel]] worked with Shuichi Akai before when he was an agent in the [[Black Organization]]. Camel was involved in the plan to capture Gin two years ago, but he gave away the plan of the FBI when he saw a member of the organization disguised as an old man. Because of this, Shuichi's identity became known to the Organization. However, Shuichi does not seem to bear a grudge against Camel but worked together well. Camel is willing to help Akai in any way he can to redeem for his mistake.

==== Ai Haibara ====
When Haibara first met Shuichi, she thought he was a member of the Black Organization. Shuichi seems to know of Haibara's identity. Haibara knows him as Dai Moroboshi, her sister's boyfriend who betrayed the Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 802</ref> Haibara should know Dai was a spy and FBI agent, after hearing an exchange between [[Bourbon]] and [[Kaitou Kid]] through a microphone<ref>Manga Chapter 824,[http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b40277b84692b54c491654534be7ccf/tumblr_mpc528w9hS1qfn9zio1_r1_500.png]</ref>, but she does not know him by the name Shuichi Akai. During his time in the organization he became acquatained with Haibara, while she was still known as [[Shiho Miyano]], through Akemi and make use of it to slip into the organization. He made a promise with Akemi to look after Haibara's welfare.<ref>Manga [[Volume 77]], Files 3-5 (809-811)</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa / Shinichi Kudo ====
Shuichi and Conan get along well and are capable of thinking on par with one another. In the short time they have worked together, Shuichi has come to respect Conan's intellect and deductive skills and speaks to him professionally. After FBI had capture Kir, he asked who Conan was, hinting that he suspected that there was more to Conan that meets the eyes. He is also aware that [[Conan]] and [[Shinichi Kudo]] are really one and the same person <ref>Manga [[Volume 77]], File 813 p.16 and File 814 p.3 </ref>. There is further speculation amongst fans that Shuichi has figured out that Ai was formerly Sherry and (more than likely) learned about her research for the Black Organization and the two possible effects of [[APTX 4869]].

==== Masumi Sera ====
[[Masumi Sera]] is Shuichi's younger sister. Masumi wasn't born yet when Shuichi went to America to study, so they first got to meet each other, when Masumi was seven. It's indicated at Shuichi cares for his sister. While Masumi was growing up, Shuichi would send her training tapes of Jeet Kune Do that she could practice after. During the [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|Mystery Train case]], when Masumi was knocked out by Vermouth and hidden in her room, Shuichi (disguised as Subaru) carried her back to her own room. As he was about to leave he overheard her calling out 'Shuu-nii' in her sleep, which made him smile. In the movie [[Dimensional Sniper]] he (as Subaru) was seen leaving the hospital, where Masumi was hospitalized after getting shot, hinting that he was visiting her. While she was unconscious, he left a bouquet in her room, which Ran and Sonoko find. During the [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|Antique Facet Case]], when he realize Masumi showing suspicious movements around Agasa's house, he shows up as Subaru and keep an eye on her. He realize that Masumi was trying to pressure Haibara. He ended up by interrupting her investigation to prevent Masumi get involved into dangerous situation.

==== Shukichi Haneda ====
[[Shukichi Haneda]] is Shuichi's younger brother. He keeps track of Shukichi Haneda's shogi matches. During a reunion ten years ago Shukichi shows concern over his choice of path in life. During the Policewomen Serial Murder Case, he received a text by Shukichi to protect [[Yumi Miyamoto]], indicating the brothers are in contact. When Yumi is accosted by drunkards, he disguised as Subaru incapacitates them and has them leave her alone.

==== Mary Sera ====
[[Mary Sera]] is Shuichi's mother. She hoped that he would become a father figure to Masumi to replace their missing biological father.

==== Tsutomu Akai ====
[[Tsutomu Akai]] is Shuichi's father. His father's disappearance cause him to seek revenge and is the reason Shuichi became an FBI agent.

=== Allies ===
==== Hidemi Hondou ====
Hidemi is a CIA agent undercover in the Black Organization as Rena Mizunashi, codenamed Kir. She agreed to supply the FBI with information of the organization in return for her brother's protection. She, Akai and Conan worked out the plan to send Hidemi back to the organization and fake Akai's death.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Shuichi Akai}}
Shuichi Akai and Gin are rivals and hate one another. It is implied that they didn't get along even before Shuichi was exposed as an undercover FBI agent. Shuichi refers to Gin as "Koibito", which ironically means 'lover.' Gin killed Shuichi's love Akemi, so Shuichi thinks of Gin as his archenemy.

==== Rei Furuya====
{{main|Shuichi Akai and Rei Furuya}}
[[File:AkaiAmuro.png|thumb|200px||Akai and Amuro]]
Since joining the Black Organization, [[Rei Furuya]] has always considered Shuichi as a worthy rival, he wants to compare his capacity with Shuichi and thinks he is the only one who could defeat Shuichi. Shuichi always shows respect towards Rei, he admits Rei's capability and feels interest everytime he faces Rei, he also makes Rei feel quite confused sometimes. Their relationship is becoming more bitter and dramatic when Rei misunderstood Shuichi killed his best friend - [[Scotch]], but actually the one who indirectly caused Scotch to die was Rei himself. Shuichi chooses to keep a secret, continues to let Rei misunderstand him instead of letting Rei know that painful truth. Over time, Shuichi appears to help and protect Rei in some cases, he gradually wants to compensate for the losses which Rei has experienced, he also reveals that he doesn't want to be Rei's enemy. For now, Rei is temporarily lowering his hatred to working well with Shuichi and Conan in destroying the Black Organization.

=== Unknown relationships ===
==== Kohji Haneda ====
A relationship between Shuichi and [[Kohji Haneda]] is unknown, but [[Volume 89#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|the case of Kohji's death]] made Shuichi an FBI agent.<ref name="file948">[[volume 89#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref>

== 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. Shuichi placed 12th in the poll with 53 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』人気投票結果|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. Shuichi placed 7th overall with 415 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>
* In a poll held on June 5, 2020 by asking women age 20 to 40 who were their favourite Detective Conan character, Shuichi ranked eigth<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/hjkevu/detective_conan_character_popularity_poll_june_5/</ref>.

== Name origin ==
[[File:Akai.gif|image|right|thumb|200px|Yutaka Tani draws Shuichi as half of Char on Gosho's website]]
Akai's name comes from the [[wikipedia:Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]], whose nickname was the {{nihongo|"Red Comet"|'''赤い'''彗星|'''Akai''' Suisei}}, and Char's voice actor [[Shuichi Ikeda|'''Shuichi''' Ikeda]] (who is also Akai's voice actor). Additionally, his alias, Dai Moroboshi, comes from Char's real name, Casval Rem '''Deikun''' (sounds like '''Dai-kun''' in Japanese). '''Moroboshi''' can also mean ''falling star'', another possible allusion to ''Red Comet''.<ref>In Moroboshi (諸星), the first kanji can be broken up into 言者 which when pronounced as げんしゃ (gensha) sounds very similar to the word for "phenomenon" (genshou). The second character (星) means "star". Moroboshi, read as "Star phenomenon" references falling stars or maybe comets. </ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shuichi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 259]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shuichi Middle.jpeg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 345]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:The Scarlet Return-Shooting Shuichi.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 783]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Fear of death is worse than death itself.|Said to Camel.<ref>[[Volume 58#File 602 - Last Resort|Volume 58, File 602, Page 13]]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Don't make that kind of face...}}
{{cquote|Don't get distracted by what's in front of you and pursue the wrong prey}}
{{cquote|The odds are 50/50 so we are on the same boat.}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:EP1019 4.jpeg|15-year-old Shuichi with his brother Shukichi
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
* Shuichi is left-handed.
* Shuichi is a Jeet Kune Do practitioner who is three times stronger than [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]]. The three times is, again, a reference of Char's [[Wikipedia: Zaku|mobile suit]] being three times faster than the others.
* Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]], is the real-life husband of [[Akemi Miyano]]'s voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]].
* [[Wikipedia: Shuichi Akai (footballer)|Shuichi Akai]] is a real-life former Japanese football player.
*According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, What motivated Shuuichi to do Jeet Kune Do was because his father practised it too.
* According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, Shuichi hairstyle was inspired by Char Aznable.
*He likes to use the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame” as revealed by Camel in File 895. Shuichi got the phrase from his father which his mother uses the phrase as well as revealed in File 1038. Even as Subaru uses it as shown in [[Episode 1020]].

== In other languages ==
=== Shuichi Akai ===
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|秀一 Shūichi|赤井 Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شوتشي Shūtshi|أكاي Akāi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|flag2 = Hong Kong| Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)|秀一 Xiùyī|赤井 Chìjǐng}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shuichi / Suichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|상윤 Sang Yoon|이 Lee}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชูอิจิ|อากาอิ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Dai Moroboshi ===
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|大 Dai|諸星 Moroboshi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|大 Dà|诸星 Zhūxīng}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Hong Kong|Chinese (Traditional)|大 Dà|諸星 Zhūxīng}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Subaru Okiya]]
* [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Wikipedia: Rye whiskey|Rye]] (alcohol)
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Shuichi Akai
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|赤井秀一}} (Akai Shūichi)
| english-name =
| image = Shuichi Akai Profile.jpg
| age = 32<ref>Q4 of Super Digest Book 90+ Interview with Gosho</ref> 27 as [[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]]
| gender = Male
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, missing, presumed dead) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (younger brother) [[Masumi Sera]] (younger sister) [[Akemi Miyano]] (girlfriend/cousin, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (cousin) [[Elena Miyano]] (aunt, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (uncle, deceased)
| occupation = FBI Agent
|status = '''Alive''' (Under disguise as [[Subaru Okiya]]) Dead (for the [[Black Organization]]) Missing (presumed dead)
| nicknames = Shu ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Dai-kun ([[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]]) Akai-kun ([[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet ([[The Boss]] & [[Vermouth]]) Shu-nii ([[Masumi Sera|Masumi]]) Niisan ([[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]])
| aliases = Rye Dai Moroboshi [[Subaru Okiya]]
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|File 287]] Anime: [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230]]
| appearances = {{:Shuichi Akai Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 6 (5 as Subaru)
| keyhole = [[Volume 37]] [[Volume 60]] (Subaru Okiya)
| japanese-voice = [[Shuichi Ikeda]] [[Yuki Kaji]] (young)
| english-voice = [[Keith Silverstein]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Shuichi Akai|赤井秀一|Akai Shūichi}}''' is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and a major figure in the battle against the [[Black Organization]]. He once assumed the identity of '''{{nihongo|Dai Moroboshi|諸星大|Moroboshi Dai}}''' and infiltrated the Organization, where he was given the codename '''{{nihongo|Rye|ライ|Rai}}'''. During this time he made enemies with [[Gin]] and became romantically involved with [[Akemi Miyano]]. He is the older brother of [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]].

== Background ==
[[File:Long haired Akai.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Shuichi as "Dai Moroboshi" during his infiltration of the Black Organization.]]
Shuichi Akai is a British American of Japanese descent, originally from England, and is a member of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, on special assignment in Japan to capture [[Gin]]. His superior is [[James Black]] and his partner is [[Jodie Starling]].<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple 5</ref> He had infiltrated the Black Organization under the name Dai Moroboshi - and the codename "Rye" - as a mole<ref>Manga Chapter 599: Akai's Past</ref> and dated [[Akemi Miyano]], one of their low-ranking members, to feed information to the FBI. In order to facilitate the latter, and later because he had genuinely developed feelings for Akemi, Shuichi saw himself forced to break up his then on-going relationship with Jodie.<ref>Manga Chapter 677: The Fated Individual</ref> Later on, his cover in the Black Organization was accidentally blown by his colleague [[Andre Camel]], and when Akemi was killed, he declared her murderer, [[Gin]] (with whom he seems to have had some tensions even before his exposure), his personal enemy.<ref>Manga Chapter 504: Black Organization vs. FBI 2</ref>

=== The disappearance of his father ===
17 years prior to the current timeline, Shuichi's father, [[Tsutomu Akai]], got himself involved in the murder case of Kohji Haneda and Amanda Hughes and disappeared. In his last message he instructed his pregnant wife Mary and their two sons to hide in Japan. Shuichi, determined to investigate his missing father's "incident," convinced his mother to let him study in America. After he left Japan, his younger sister Masumi was born. Shuichi didn't get to meet her until he returned to Japan after seven years in the states, but Shukichi sent him pictures of her. After he had finished school, he joined the FBI.

=== Infiltration of the Black Organization ===
Five years prior to the current time-line, [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent Shuichi Akai infiltrated the [[Black Organization]] using the alias Dai Moroboshi as a mole and dated [[Akemi Miyano]], one of their low-ranking members, in order to meet [[Shiho Miyano]], a high-ranked member codenamed Sherry, and use her influence to get into the Black Organization.<ref name=599p9>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past"</ref> Although at first he was simply using Akemi as a tool, they both fell in love with each other. Shuichi distinguished himself as an agent and two years prior to the current time-line received the codename Rye and was called to work under executive agent [[Gin]]. The FBI laid a trap hoping to capture Gin at a warehouse where the meeting was supposed to take place,<ref name=599p9/> but the Black Organization discovered Akai's true allegiance and Gin never appeared.<ref name=599p10>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 10: "Akai's Past"</ref>
He broke up with Akemi to protect her and he lost contact with her after the mission to capture Gin failed. Two years later Akemi got killed by the organization to cut loose ends.

== Personality ==
Shuichi is a tenacious but stoic agent. Even in personal matters, he remains cool, even detached, from anyone, but his redeeming value is a great sense of loyalty to anyone he knows. He is a skilled and relentless pursuer and detective, qualities which have labeled him the number one enemy of the [[Black Organization]] and earned him the nickname "[[Silver Bullet]]". He looks forward to opportunities to hunt the Black Organization down and get revenge for [[Akemi]]. While usually professional, he often acts independently of the FBI, and even his boss [[James Black]] has trouble getting ahold of him. Shuichi gets along well with Conan, who share many personality traits. Despite that he has American citizenship, he still considers England as his home country.

James Black describes Shuichi as an introverted person who doesn't easily get close to people, and further notes that Shuichi has become even more closed off since Akemi's death.<ref name=502p13>Manga Volume 49, File 2, page 13: "New Order"</ref> Shuichi doesn't often voice what he is thinking and has an unhealthy tendency to prioritize his missions above the emotional well-being of his friends, co-workers, family, and love interests.<ref>Shuichi's fake death, while preserving Kir and allowing her to pass confidential information to the FBI, has caused significant dysfunction within the FBI who believe him to be truly dead. While Shuichi has technically been fulfilling the promise he made to look after Haibara's welfare as Okiya, he has executed it in such a way that made Haibara terrified of his presence and refused to be alone at Agasa's house when he was around.</ref> Conflict between his missions and the interests of those he cares about has lead to significant sorrow for him<ref>Shuichi didn't inform Akemi he was an FBI agent despite being in love because it might jeopardize his mission (and his relationship). Even though Akemi figured out Shuichi was an FBI agent and wished to leave the Organization and date him seriously, she kept it secret from him either because she was not sure how he would react, or because she thought it could cause him harm. Thus, the infiltration mission was the root cause of their secretkeeping which prevented them from coming up with an exit strategy for Akemi in case the mission failed. The following chain of events led to Akemi's death.</ref> and others.<ref>Shuichi's faked death to save Kir's mission and get her to pass information to the FBI as well demoralized the FBI, especially Jodie. Shuichi's infiltration mission required that he seduce Akemi even though he was dating Jodie at the time. When he fell in love with Akemi for real, Shuichi decided to break it off with Jodie. When justifying his decision to Jodie, he mentioned that he didn't want the onus of loving two women at once, but he also mentioned he thought the "sacrifice" was important to his mission to destroy the Black Organization. This implies that love was not the only factor in Shuichi's decision, he thought choosing Akemi over Jodie would help his mission -- perhaps because he was afraid he would be caught as a spy if anyone discovered his relationship with Akemi was fake. [http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=980&p=16431#p16431]</ref>

Shuichi prefers to plan secretly, and will readily trick his friends and coworkers, even injuring them, if helps the success of his missions.<ref>FBI vs Org, Shuichi didn't tell the rest of the FBI he would cover Kogoro's agency. In Red vs Black, the return Kir plan and the fake death plan were both kept secret from the FBI. He ordered Camel to remove by force if necessary anyone who interfered which resulted in Jodie being knocked out. He later told Kir to hit Camel for real to make her escape look authentic.</ref> Shuichi is often forgiven for these transgressions because his judgment is usually sound and his plans work out well.<ref>In FBI vs Org, Shuichi was forgiven for covering Kogoro without telling his boss and for making the decision on his own to let the Black Organization leave without much resistance because he thought it might lead to a dangerous firefight downtown. In Red vs Black, Shuichi was forgiven after being told off for hiding his secret plan to return Rena to the Org.</ref> Shuichi's secret plans, while strategically robust in the short term, often cause emotional problems for others that he does not fully appreciate.<ref>In particular, his faked death had a major impact on the FBI and [[Jodie Starling]]. [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] was able to take advantage of the emotional confusion surrounding his death to approach the FBI for his own ends. Jodie's sorrow has reduced her effectiveness and led her to blunder into dangerous situations.</ref>

Even though he means well, Shuichi is notably clumsy at trying to comfort and connect with others. He is especially dense at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and thus how to modify his own behavior to improve relations. As [[Subaru Okiya]], his technique to approach [[Ai Haibara]] leaves her terrified of him, and repeated contact only intensifies her loathing. Ten years ago, he was also cold to young Masumi on their first meeting, brushing Masumi's silly antics aside without realizing that she simply wanted him to smile and treat her kindly, though he most likely was simply in a bad mood, since he just had an intense argument with his mother, in which they traded physical blows, because of his plan to join the FBI after his studies to pursue the case of his father and because he had lied to her about that. Later that day, during the investigation of a case, Shuichi gives both Shinichi and Ran a task to help with the investigation, so Masumi approaches Shuichi shyly and asks for a task as well. Now Shuichi responds kindly and gives her a task that makes her feel important. 

Despite his social awkwardness, Shuichi is not apathetic. He gives Jodie some hope by leaving her a message in his own handwriting, and leaves her a very roundabout hint about his identity after knocking her down even though he cannot reveal the truth to her yet. Eventually he also realized that Masumi was looking up to him, so he began to send her videos of him doing Jeet Kune Do.

== Appearance ==
Shuichi is a tall and fit man of Japanese descent with short wavy hair with strands hanging over his right eye. He is very handsome, as mentioned by Yukiko Kudo. His trademark features, by which people close to him have identified him are his eyes which have permanent bags underneath them that make him appear sleep deprived. Other characters often describe him as evil eyed or having a sharp gaze. His eyes are blue in the manga (like every other character) and green in the anime. He and [[Masumi Sera]] presumably more closely resemble their mother then their father. The second trademark feature is his knit cap, which he is always shown wearing. When he was younger he had a grey fedora which Masumi now wears herself. Up to one year ago, he had very long waist length hair, which he cut after the death of Akemi Miyano "to freshen up." Shuichi is left-handed. Ten years before the present timeline, Shuichi still had short hair, which means he grew it out sometime during the next five years.<ref>File 973</ref> He is a heavy smoker and his favorite drink is whiskey- he has recently taken to drinking bourbon rather than scotch.

His outfit is a grey jacket on top of a collared black shirt, black pants, shoes, and his trademark black knit cap.

== Abilities ==
=== Intelligence ===
[[File:783-5.jpg|thumb|200px|Conan ft. Shuichi]]

Shuichi is a highly intelligent man, recognized as a threat even by Gin. Extremely observant and excellent instincts, he has a knack for seeing through deceptions and reading the patterns of people. Once, after realizing that a transmitter had accidentally been attached to the Black Organization, he set up a sniper ambush at a nearby building to Kogoro's detective agency, knowing that the enemies would try to kill Kogoro after finding the transmitter under the belief Kogoro was spying on them, all to trick the Organization into thinking the bug was his personal trap."<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> He is also very alert to threats on his person, able to sense Rei Furuya/Bourbon and his desire to kill Shuichi under the belief that Shuichi killed Scotch. Basically on par to Shinichi/Conan, Shuichi has a remarkable talent for analysis and deductive reasoning, able to survey the situation and accurately determine the cause of it. During Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case, Shuichi figured out the key point of Sanada coins, solving the case before Conan and even providing him the hint of "Kumogakure Saizou" to lead him to the same conclusion. In the Paper Airplane Case, Shuichi (disguised as Subaru Okiya), he also showed knowledge of Morse code and origami. He was able to deduce along with Yusaku Kudo that the hints of ASACA and MASCARA lead to the name of the Boss of the Black Organization, Karasuma Renya.

=== Firearms ===
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shooting Shuichi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Shuichi aiming with a Glock]]
Shuichi, is an exceptional crackshot with firearms, the most skilled seen so far. He can shoot a small piece of gum out of Gin's hand from about 700 yards away, even snipe at 1300 yards, well-beyond the range the Black Organization's professional snipers [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]].<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> Shuichi is good at handling shotguns as well; he accurately shot Vermouth from the hip faster than she could aim at him with her subcompact pistol. He is capable of busting a moving car's tire from a speeding car with just a single shot.<ref>Manga Volume 85 File 4 Page 5</ref>

While naturally left-handed, he is ambidextrous, able to wield firearms basically as effectively with his right hand. At the same time Akai is unusual in that he is "eye-bidextrous" while shooting. Like hands and feet, most individuals have a dominant eye they prefer to use when lining up a shot, but Shuichi is shown using both eyes at different times.<ref> Left eye for shooting Vermouth in New York, Right eye for shooting Rei's subordinates' car in Scarlet Showdown.</ref>

=== Martial arts ===
Shuichi is also a highly proficient hand-to-hand combatant. Having extensive skill and knowledge of Jeet Kune Do, he taught his sister Sera much, who openly acknowledges him to still be much stronger than her.<ref>Episode 744</ref> In the Bus Jack case, Shuichi's combat skills was hinted as he was ready to strike one of the criminals before Conan hit him with the tranquilizer dart. During the Ikkaku Rock case, Shuichi expertly knocks a knife out of the criminal's hand unarmed. Though subtle, Shuichi also swiftly knocks out a drunkard harassing Officer Yumi (at the request of his younger brother) in the Policewomen Serial Murder Case. At the same time, he is noticeable resilient. While taking a serious kick to the face from Ran Mouri, he emerged virtually unharmed, a feat few people have accomplished against her.

=== Other skills ===
[[File:783-4.jpg|thumb|200px|Jodie and Camel are shocked to learn that Shuichi can cook]]
Shuichi is a skilled driver. He can overtake many cars quickly in heavy traffic conditions and drift around a U-turn.<ref name=420p14>Manga Volume 41, File 7, page 14: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net" </ref> As Subaru, he hacked into Kogoro's computer to see what cases he had received from his website. Later he hacked into Haibara's Phone and saw the message that Vermouth had sent her. Shuichi learned how to act and properly apply his Subaru disguise by himself thanks to Yukiko Kudo and equipment from [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]].<ref>Manga [[Volume 85]], File 5 (898), pg 2: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref>
He also learned from Yukiko to be a very capable cook. This was meant to help better keep a low-profile as Subaru.<ref>[[The Scarlet Return]]</ref> At the same time, he would often uses his dishes as an excuse to interject himself into cases at Professor Agasa's house and save money on food. He apparently at one point held a part-time job playing the accordion, making decent money from it. In addition to his native language, having worked in the United States as an FBI agent for a long time, Shuichi is also fluent in English as shown in the episode 288.
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== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Father (''chichi'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Niisan<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> Shuichi-niisan<ref name="file972" />|Shukichi<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Akai Shuichi<ref>[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938]]</ref> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref>|Masumi}}

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Akai-san<ref name="file974" /> ''Oniisan''<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi|Boy (''Bōya'') Conan-kun<ref>[[Volume 100#FBI Serial Murder Case|FBI Serial Murder Case]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Moroboshi Dai<ref>Manga File 802, pg 10: "Don't make that kind of face..."</ref> That Akai person|That brown-haired girl}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Dai-kun|''Kimi Omae''}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shu-chan ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref name="niisanshuchan">[[:File:Postcard2016 18.jpg]] (Yukiko calls him "Shu-chan")</ref>|Yukiko-san (as Subaru)}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Akai-san<ref name="file950">[[volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 950: The Clipped Letters (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}
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{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Shu<ref name="file897">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|File 897 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Akai-kun Akai Shuichi|Jodie}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|Akai-san<ref name="file897" /> Akai-shan<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi|Camel}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Akai Shuichi<ref name="file897" />|Okiya Subaru}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Akai<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file897" /> Rye<ref name="file955">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 955: Whereabouts of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Snoop dog of the FBI (''FBI no inu'') That man|Bourbon<ref name="file897" /> Amuro Tooru-kun<ref name="file897" /> Zero<ref name="file897" /> Furuya Rei-kun<ref name="file897" /> Wolf (''ōkami'')<ref name="file897" />}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Akai Shuichi|Mizunashi Rena Kir}}

{{appellations|Ethan Hondou|-|Ethan Hondou NOC}}
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{{appellations|Renya Karasuma|Silver Bullet|[[Black Organization|Their]] Boss (''yatsura no Boss'')}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Akai<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi Silver Bullet|Vermouth Rotten Apple}}

{{appellations|Gin|Akai Shuichi Akai|Gin ''Koibito'' (literally "lover", but the intended meaning is "old enemy")}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Akai}}

{{appellations|Chianti|Akai}}

{{appellations|Korn|Akai}}

{{appellations|Rikumichi Kusuda|Akai Shuichi|Kusuda Rikumichi<ref name="file897" />}}

{{appellations|Calvados|-|Calvados}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum<ref name="file950" />}}

{{appellations|Curaçao|Rye|Curaçao}}
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{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Your brother (''Oniisan''; talking to [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref> FBI person (''FBI no hito'')|''Omae''}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|-|NOC's son (''NOC no musuko'') Brother (''otōto''; talking to [[Hidemi Hondou|Hidemi]])}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Shu-nii<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Akai Shuichi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18" /> Pierrot Onii-san|Holmes' Apprentice-kun (''Homuzu no deshi-kun'')<ref name="file 973">[[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 973 (Volume 92)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi<ref>Episode 954</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Akai-kun|Yusaku-san}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Guy (''niichan'')}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Timeline ===
{{main|Shuichi Akai timeline}}

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Shuichi appeared in this movie as [[Subaru Okiya]]. At first he is seen watching the Detective Boys testing Professor Agasa's invention. Later after [[Masumi Sera]] gets shot, he is seen leaving the hospital, where she is hospitalized. After that he is seen involving himself in the sniper investigation. He is the one who shoot the suspect at the last part. We can see too that he turn off his voice changer and said to [[James Black|James]] {{nihongo|"Roger"|了解|ryōkai}} as signal that it's already finished.

=== The Darkest Nightmare (Movie: [[The Darkest Nightmare|20]]) ===
In this movie, he shows as a FBI agent. He saves [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] from [[Gin]]. We see a fight between him and [[Rei Furuya]] until Conan arrive. They cooperate and takes down the black metal crow (helicopter) of [[black organization]].

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===

Shuichi shoots Maiko Shirahato in the shoulder with a silver bullet in order to stop her from shooting Alan McKenzie.

== Speculation ==
[[James Black]]'s English background may have assisted the young British-Japanese Shuichi Akai in fast-tracking his way to a US citizenship and then enrolling in the FBI.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and friends ===
==== Akemi Miyano ====
{{main|Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano}}
Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with [[Jodie Starling]].

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi was concerned, and helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.

[[File:Akemi's Text Message.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The last text message Akemi had sent Shuichi, before her death.]]
Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. After Shuichi's expulsion, he confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seemed surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death. The message also contains a P.S. which has not been revealed yet.
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==== Jodie Starling ====
While Jodie and Shuichi's relationship had been viewed as mere colleagues, it is revealed later on in the series that Jodie and Shuichi had dated before about 5 years prior. However, after Shuichi infiltrated the Black Organization under the alias of Dai Moroboshi, he started dating Akemi Miyano in hopes of using her to attain information about the Black Organization. Despite this, Shuichi ended up falling in love with Akemi, leading him to break up with Jodie, stating that, "To be able to love two women at the same time…it's not that handy a personality."<ref name="677p5">Manga [[Volume 65]], File 3 (677), pg 5: "The fated individual"</ref> In spite of the break-up, Jodie still held strong feelings for Shuichi which never wavered as time passed and took his apparent death at Kir's hands especially hard, to the point of being reduced to tears.

==== James Black ====
[[James Black]] is the boss of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents in Japan and therefore the boss of Shuichi. He was one of those who know that Shuichi was alive after Shuichi's fake death, but only because he saw the glue on Shuichi's fingers and would have otherwise also been kept in the dark. The two maintain close contact with each other up to present.

==== Andre Camel ====
[[Andre Camel]] worked with Shuichi Akai before when he was an agent in the [[Black Organization]]. Camel was involved in the plan to capture Gin two years ago, but he gave away the plan of the FBI when he saw a member of the organization disguised as an old man. Because of this, Shuichi's identity became known to the Organization. However, Shuichi does not seem to bear a grudge against Camel but worked together well. Camel is willing to help Akai in any way he can to redeem for his mistake.

==== Ai Haibara ====
When Haibara first met Shuichi, she thought he was a member of the Black Organization. Shuichi seems to know of Haibara's identity. Haibara knows him as Dai Moroboshi, her sister's boyfriend who betrayed the Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 802</ref> Haibara should know Dai was a spy and FBI agent, after hearing an exchange between [[Bourbon]] and [[Kaitou Kid]] through a microphone<ref>Manga Chapter 824,[http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b40277b84692b54c491654534be7ccf/tumblr_mpc528w9hS1qfn9zio1_r1_500.png]</ref>, but she does not know him by the name Shuichi Akai. During his time in the organization he became acquatained with Haibara, while she was still known as [[Shiho Miyano]], through Akemi and make use of it to slip into the organization. He made a promise with Akemi to look after Haibara's welfare.<ref>Manga [[Volume 77]], Files 3-5 (809-811)</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa / Shinichi Kudo ====
Shuichi and Conan get along well and are capable of thinking on par with one another. In the short time they have worked together, Shuichi has come to respect Conan's intellect and deductive skills and speaks to him professionally. After FBI had capture Kir, he asked who Conan was, hinting that he suspected that there was more to Conan that meets the eyes. He is also aware that [[Conan]] and [[Shinichi Kudo]] are really one and the same person <ref>Manga [[Volume 77]], File 813 p.16 and File 814 p.3 </ref>. There is further speculation amongst fans that Shuichi has figured out that Ai was formerly Sherry and (more than likely) learned about her research for the Black Organization and the two possible effects of [[APTX 4869]].

==== Masumi Sera ====
[[Masumi Sera]] is Shuichi's younger sister. Masumi wasn't born yet when Shuichi went to America to study, so they first got to meet each other, when Masumi was seven. It's indicated at Shuichi cares for his sister. While Masumi was growing up, Shuichi would send her training tapes of Jeet Kune Do that she could practice after. During the [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|Mystery Train case]], when Masumi was knocked out by Vermouth and hidden in her room, Shuichi (disguised as Subaru) carried her back to her own room. As he was about to leave he overheard her calling out 'Shuu-nii' in her sleep, which made him smile. In the movie [[Dimensional Sniper]] he (as Subaru) was seen leaving the hospital, where Masumi was hospitalized after getting shot, hinting that he was visiting her. While she was unconscious, he left a bouquet in her room, which Ran and Sonoko find. During the [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|Antique Facet Case]], when he realize Masumi showing suspicious movements around Agasa's house, he shows up as Subaru and keep an eye on her. He realize that Masumi was trying to pressure Haibara. He ended up by interrupting her investigation to prevent Masumi get involved into dangerous situation.

==== Shukichi Haneda ====
[[Shukichi Haneda]] is Shuichi's younger brother. He keeps track of Shukichi Haneda's shogi matches. During a reunion ten years ago Shukichi shows concern over his choice of path in life. During the Policewomen Serial Murder Case, he received a text by Shukichi to protect [[Yumi Miyamoto]], indicating the brothers are in contact. When Yumi is accosted by drunkards, he disguised as Subaru incapacitates them and has them leave her alone.

==== Mary Sera ====
[[Mary Sera]] is Shuichi's mother. She hoped that he would become a father figure to Masumi to replace their missing biological father.

==== Tsutomu Akai ====
[[Tsutomu Akai]] is Shuichi's father. His father's disappearance cause him to seek revenge and is the reason Shuichi became an FBI agent.

=== Allies ===
==== Hidemi Hondou ====
Hidemi is a CIA agent undercover in the Black Organization as Rena Mizunashi, codenamed Kir. She agreed to supply the FBI with information of the organization in return for her brother's protection. She, Akai and Conan worked out the plan to send Hidemi back to the organization and fake Akai's death.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Shuichi Akai}}
Shuichi Akai and Gin are rivals and hate one another. It is implied that they didn't get along even before Shuichi was exposed as an undercover FBI agent. Shuichi refers to Gin as "Koibito", which ironically means 'lover.' Gin killed Shuichi's love Akemi, so Shuichi thinks of Gin as his archenemy.

==== Rei Furuya====
{{main|Shuichi Akai and Rei Furuya}}
[[File:AkaiAmuro.png|thumb|200px||Akai and Amuro]]
Since joining the Black Organization, [[Rei Furuya]] has always considered Shuichi as a worthy rival, he wants to compare his capacity with Shuichi and thinks he is the only one who could defeat Shuichi. Shuichi always shows respect towards Rei, he admits Rei's capability and feels interest everytime he faces Rei, he also makes Rei feel quite confused sometimes. Their relationship is becoming more bitter and dramatic when Rei misunderstood Shuichi killed his best friend - [[Scotch]], but actually the one who indirectly caused Scotch to die was Rei himself. Shuichi chooses to keep a secret, continues to let Rei misunderstand him instead of letting Rei know that painful truth. Over time, Shuichi appears to help and protect Rei in some cases, he gradually wants to compensate for the losses which Rei has experienced, he also reveals that he doesn't want to be Rei's enemy. For now, Rei is temporarily lowering his hatred to working well with Shuichi and Conan in destroying the Black Organization.

=== Unknown relationships ===
==== Kohji Haneda ====
A relationship between Shuichi and [[Kohji Haneda]] is unknown, but [[Volume 89#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|the case of Kohji's death]] made Shuichi an FBI agent.<ref name="file948">[[volume 89#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref>

== 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. Shuichi placed 12th in the poll with 53 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』人気投票結果|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. Shuichi placed 7th overall with 415 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>
* In a poll held on June 5, 2020 by asking women age 20 to 40 who were their favourite Detective Conan character, Shuichi ranked eigth<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/hjkevu/detective_conan_character_popularity_poll_june_5/</ref>.

== Name origin ==
[[File:Akai.gif|image|right|thumb|200px|Yutaka Tani draws Shuichi as half of Char on Gosho's website]]
Akai's name comes from the [[wikipedia:Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]], whose nickname was the {{nihongo|"Red Comet"|'''赤い'''彗星|'''Akai''' Suisei}}, and Char's voice actor [[Shuichi Ikeda|'''Shuichi''' Ikeda]] (who is also Akai's voice actor). Additionally, his alias, Dai Moroboshi, comes from Char's real name, Casval Rem '''Deikun''' (sounds like '''Dai-kun''' in Japanese). '''Moroboshi''' can also mean ''falling star'', another possible allusion to ''Red Comet''.<ref>In Moroboshi (諸星), the first kanji can be broken up into 言者 which when pronounced as げんしゃ (gensha) sounds very similar to the word for "phenomenon" (genshou). The second character (星) means "star". Moroboshi, read as "Star phenomenon" references falling stars or maybe comets. </ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shuichi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 259]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shuichi Middle.jpeg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 345]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:The Scarlet Return-Shooting Shuichi.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 783]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Fear of death is worse than death itself.|Said to Camel.<ref>[[Volume 58#File 602 - Last Resort|Volume 58, File 602, Page 13]]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Don't make that kind of face...}}
{{cquote|Don't get distracted by what's in front of you and pursue the wrong prey}}
{{cquote|The odds are 50/50 so we are on the same boat.}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:EP1019 4.jpeg|15-year-old Shuichi with his brother Shukichi
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
* Shuichi is left-handed.
* Shuichi is a Jeet Kune Do practitioner who is three times stronger than [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]]. The three times is, again, a reference of Char's [[Wikipedia: Zaku|mobile suit]] being three times faster than the others.
* Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]], is the real-life husband of [[Akemi Miyano]]'s voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]].
* [[Wikipedia: Shuichi Akai (footballer)|Shuichi Akai]] is a real-life former Japanese football player.
*According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, What motivated Shuuichi to do Jeet Kune Do was because his father practised it too.
* According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, Shuichi hairstyle was inspired by Char Aznable.
*He likes to use the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame” as revealed by Camel in File 895. Shuichi got the phrase from his father which his mother uses the phrase as well as revealed in File 1038. Even as Subaru uses it as shown in [[Episode 1020]].

== In other languages ==
=== Shuichi Akai ===
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|秀一 Shūichi|赤井 Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شوتشي Shūtshi|أكاي Akāi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|flag2 = Hong Kong| Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)|秀一 Xiùyī|赤井 Chìjǐng}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shuichi / Suichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|상윤 Sang Yoon|이 Lee}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชูอิจิ|อากาอิ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Dai Moroboshi ===
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|大 Dai|諸星 Moroboshi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|大 Dà|诸星 Zhūxīng}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Hong Kong|Chinese (Traditional)|大 Dà|諸星 Zhūxīng}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Subaru Okiya]]
* [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Wikipedia: Rye whiskey|Rye]] (alcohol)
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Shuichi Akai
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|赤井秀一}} (Akai Shūichi)
| english-name =
| image = Shuichi Akai Profile.jpg
| age = 32<ref>Q4 of Super Digest Book 90+ Interview with Gosho</ref> 27 as [[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]]
| gender = Male
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, missing, presumed dead) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (younger brother) [[Masumi Sera]] (younger sister)
| occupation = FBI Agent
|status = '''Alive''' (Under disguise as [[Subaru Okiya]]) Dead (for the [[Black Organization]]) Missing (presumed dead)
| nicknames = Shu ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Dai-kun ([[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]]) Akai-kun ([[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet ([[The Boss]] & [[Vermouth]]) Shu-nii ([[Masumi Sera|Masumi]]) Niisan ([[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]])
| aliases = Rye Dai Moroboshi [[Subaru Okiya]]
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|File 287]] Anime: [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230]]
| appearances = {{:Shuichi Akai Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 6 (5 as Subaru)
| keyhole = [[Volume 37]] [[Volume 60]] (Subaru Okiya)
| japanese-voice = [[Shuichi Ikeda]] [[Yuki Kaji]] (young)
| english-voice = [[Keith Silverstein]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Shuichi Akai|赤井秀一|Akai Shūichi}}''' is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and a major figure in the battle against the [[Black Organization]]. He once assumed the identity of '''{{nihongo|Dai Moroboshi|諸星大|Moroboshi Dai}}''' and infiltrated the Organization, where he was given the codename '''{{nihongo|Rye|ライ|Rai}}'''. During this time he made enemies with [[Gin]] and became romantically involved with [[Akemi Miyano]]. He is the older brother of [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]].

== Background ==
[[File:Long haired Akai.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Shuichi as "Dai Moroboshi" during his infiltration of the Black Organization.]]
Shuichi Akai is a British American of Japanese descent, originally from England, and is a member of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, on special assignment in Japan to capture [[Gin]]. His superior is [[James Black]] and his partner is [[Jodie Starling]].<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple 5</ref> He had infiltrated the Black Organization under the name Dai Moroboshi - and the codename "Rye" - as a mole<ref>Manga Chapter 599: Akai's Past</ref> and dated [[Akemi Miyano]], one of their low-ranking members, to feed information to the FBI. In order to facilitate the latter, and later because he had genuinely developed feelings for Akemi, Shuichi saw himself forced to break up his then on-going relationship with Jodie.<ref>Manga Chapter 677: The Fated Individual</ref> Later on, his cover in the Black Organization was accidentally blown by his colleague [[Andre Camel]], and when Akemi was killed, he declared her murderer, [[Gin]] (with whom he seems to have had some tensions even before his exposure), his personal enemy.<ref>Manga Chapter 504: Black Organization vs. FBI 2</ref>

=== The disappearance of his father ===
17 years prior to the current timeline, Shuichi's father, [[Tsutomu Akai]], got himself involved in the murder case of Kohji Haneda and Amanda Hughes and disappeared. In his last message he instructed his pregnant wife Mary and their two sons to hide in Japan. Shuichi, determined to investigate his missing father's "incident," convinced his mother to let him study in America. After he left Japan, his younger sister Masumi was born. Shuichi didn't get to meet her until he returned to Japan after seven years in the states, but Shukichi sent him pictures of her. After he had finished school, he joined the FBI.

=== Infiltration of the Black Organization ===
Five years prior to the current time-line, [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent Shuichi Akai infiltrated the [[Black Organization]] using the alias Dai Moroboshi as a mole and dated [[Akemi Miyano]], one of their low-ranking members, in order to meet [[Shiho Miyano]], a high-ranked member codenamed Sherry, and use her influence to get into the Black Organization.<ref name=599p9>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past"</ref> Although at first he was simply using Akemi as a tool, they both fell in love with each other. Shuichi distinguished himself as an agent and two years prior to the current time-line received the codename Rye and was called to work under executive agent [[Gin]]. The FBI laid a trap hoping to capture Gin at a warehouse where the meeting was supposed to take place,<ref name=599p9/> but the Black Organization discovered Akai's true allegiance and Gin never appeared.<ref name=599p10>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 10: "Akai's Past"</ref>
He broke up with Akemi to protect her and he lost contact with her after the mission to capture Gin failed. Two years later Akemi got killed by the organization to cut loose ends.

== Personality ==
Shuichi is a tenacious but stoic agent. Even in personal matters, he remains cool, even detached, from anyone, but his redeeming value is a great sense of loyalty to anyone he knows. He is a skilled and relentless pursuer and detective, qualities which have labeled him the number one enemy of the [[Black Organization]] and earned him the nickname "[[Silver Bullet]]". He looks forward to opportunities to hunt the Black Organization down and get revenge for [[Akemi]]. While usually professional, he often acts independently of the FBI, and even his boss [[James Black]] has trouble getting ahold of him. Shuichi gets along well with Conan, who share many personality traits. Despite that he has American citizenship, he still considers England as his home country.

James Black describes Shuichi as an introverted person who doesn't easily get close to people, and further notes that Shuichi has become even more closed off since Akemi's death.<ref name=502p13>Manga Volume 49, File 2, page 13: "New Order"</ref> Shuichi doesn't often voice what he is thinking and has an unhealthy tendency to prioritize his missions above the emotional well-being of his friends, co-workers, family, and love interests.<ref>Shuichi's fake death, while preserving Kir and allowing her to pass confidential information to the FBI, has caused significant dysfunction within the FBI who believe him to be truly dead. While Shuichi has technically been fulfilling the promise he made to look after Haibara's welfare as Okiya, he has executed it in such a way that made Haibara terrified of his presence and refused to be alone at Agasa's house when he was around.</ref> Conflict between his missions and the interests of those he cares about has lead to significant sorrow for him<ref>Shuichi didn't inform Akemi he was an FBI agent despite being in love because it might jeopardize his mission (and his relationship). Even though Akemi figured out Shuichi was an FBI agent and wished to leave the Organization and date him seriously, she kept it secret from him either because she was not sure how he would react, or because she thought it could cause him harm. Thus, the infiltration mission was the root cause of their secretkeeping which prevented them from coming up with an exit strategy for Akemi in case the mission failed. The following chain of events led to Akemi's death.</ref> and others.<ref>Shuichi's faked death to save Kir's mission and get her to pass information to the FBI as well demoralized the FBI, especially Jodie. Shuichi's infiltration mission required that he seduce Akemi even though he was dating Jodie at the time. When he fell in love with Akemi for real, Shuichi decided to break it off with Jodie. When justifying his decision to Jodie, he mentioned that he didn't want the onus of loving two women at once, but he also mentioned he thought the "sacrifice" was important to his mission to destroy the Black Organization. This implies that love was not the only factor in Shuichi's decision, he thought choosing Akemi over Jodie would help his mission -- perhaps because he was afraid he would be caught as a spy if anyone discovered his relationship with Akemi was fake. [http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=980&p=16431#p16431]</ref>

Shuichi prefers to plan secretly, and will readily trick his friends and coworkers, even injuring them, if helps the success of his missions.<ref>FBI vs Org, Shuichi didn't tell the rest of the FBI he would cover Kogoro's agency. In Red vs Black, the return Kir plan and the fake death plan were both kept secret from the FBI. He ordered Camel to remove by force if necessary anyone who interfered which resulted in Jodie being knocked out. He later told Kir to hit Camel for real to make her escape look authentic.</ref> Shuichi is often forgiven for these transgressions because his judgment is usually sound and his plans work out well.<ref>In FBI vs Org, Shuichi was forgiven for covering Kogoro without telling his boss and for making the decision on his own to let the Black Organization leave without much resistance because he thought it might lead to a dangerous firefight downtown. In Red vs Black, Shuichi was forgiven after being told off for hiding his secret plan to return Rena to the Org.</ref> Shuichi's secret plans, while strategically robust in the short term, often cause emotional problems for others that he does not fully appreciate.<ref>In particular, his faked death had a major impact on the FBI and [[Jodie Starling]]. [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] was able to take advantage of the emotional confusion surrounding his death to approach the FBI for his own ends. Jodie's sorrow has reduced her effectiveness and led her to blunder into dangerous situations.</ref>

Even though he means well, Shuichi is notably clumsy at trying to comfort and connect with others. He is especially dense at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and thus how to modify his own behavior to improve relations. As [[Subaru Okiya]], his technique to approach [[Ai Haibara]] leaves her terrified of him, and repeated contact only intensifies her loathing. Ten years ago, he was also cold to young Masumi on their first meeting, brushing Masumi's silly antics aside without realizing that she simply wanted him to smile and treat her kindly, though he most likely was simply in a bad mood, since he just had an intense argument with his mother, in which they traded physical blows, because of his plan to join the FBI after his studies to pursue the case of his father and because he had lied to her about that. Later that day, during the investigation of a case, Shuichi gives both Shinichi and Ran a task to help with the investigation, so Masumi approaches Shuichi shyly and asks for a task as well. Now Shuichi responds kindly and gives her a task that makes her feel important. 

Despite his social awkwardness, Shuichi is not apathetic. He gives Jodie some hope by leaving her a message in his own handwriting, and leaves her a very roundabout hint about his identity after knocking her down even though he cannot reveal the truth to her yet. Eventually he also realized that Masumi was looking up to him, so he began to send her videos of him doing Jeet Kune Do.

== Appearance ==
Shuichi is a tall and fit man of Japanese descent with short wavy hair with strands hanging over his right eye. He is very handsome, as mentioned by Yukiko Kudo. His trademark features, by which people close to him have identified him are his eyes which have permanent bags underneath them that make him appear sleep deprived. Other characters often describe him as evil eyed or having a sharp gaze. His eyes are blue in the manga (like every other character) and green in the anime. He and [[Masumi Sera]] presumably more closely resemble their mother then their father. The second trademark feature is his knit cap, which he is always shown wearing. When he was younger he had a grey fedora which Masumi now wears herself. Up to one year ago, he had very long waist length hair, which he cut after the death of Akemi Miyano "to freshen up." Shuichi is left-handed. Ten years before the present timeline, Shuichi still had short hair, which means he grew it out sometime during the next five years.<ref>File 973</ref> He is a heavy smoker and his favorite drink is whiskey- he has recently taken to drinking bourbon rather than scotch.

His outfit is a grey jacket on top of a collared black shirt, black pants, shoes, and his trademark black knit cap.

== Abilities ==
=== Intelligence ===
[[File:783-5.jpg|thumb|200px|Conan ft. Shuichi]]

Shuichi is a highly intelligent man, recognized as a threat even by Gin. Extremely observant and excellent instincts, he has a knack for seeing through deceptions and reading the patterns of people. Once, after realizing that a transmitter had accidentally been attached to the Black Organization, he set up a sniper ambush at a nearby building to Kogoro's detective agency, knowing that the enemies would try to kill Kogoro after finding the transmitter under the belief Kogoro was spying on them, all to trick the Organization into thinking the bug was his personal trap."<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> He is also very alert to threats on his person, able to sense Rei Furuya/Bourbon and his desire to kill Shuichi under the belief that Shuichi killed Scotch. Basically on par to Shinichi/Conan, Shuichi has a remarkable talent for analysis and deductive reasoning, able to survey the situation and accurately determine the cause of it. During Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case, Shuichi figured out the key point of Sanada coins, solving the case before Conan and even providing him the hint of "Kumogakure Saizou" to lead him to the same conclusion. In the Paper Airplane Case, Shuichi (disguised as Subaru Okiya), he also showed knowledge of Morse code and origami. He was able to deduce along with Yusaku Kudo that the hints of ASACA and MASCARA lead to the name of the Boss of the Black Organization, Karasuma Renya.

=== Firearms ===
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shooting Shuichi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Shuichi aiming with a Glock]]
Shuichi, is an exceptional crackshot with firearms, the most skilled seen so far. He can shoot a small piece of gum out of Gin's hand from about 700 yards away, even snipe at 1300 yards, well-beyond the range the Black Organization's professional snipers [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]].<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> Shuichi is good at handling shotguns as well; he accurately shot Vermouth from the hip faster than she could aim at him with her subcompact pistol. He is capable of busting a moving car's tire from a speeding car with just a single shot.<ref>Manga Volume 85 File 4 Page 5</ref>

While naturally left-handed, he is ambidextrous, able to wield firearms basically as effectively with his right hand. At the same time Akai is unusual in that he is "eye-bidextrous" while shooting. Like hands and feet, most individuals have a dominant eye they prefer to use when lining up a shot, but Shuichi is shown using both eyes at different times.<ref> Left eye for shooting Vermouth in New York, Right eye for shooting Rei's subordinates' car in Scarlet Showdown.</ref>

=== Martial arts ===
Shuichi is also a highly proficient hand-to-hand combatant. Having extensive skill and knowledge of Jeet Kune Do, he taught his sister Sera much, who openly acknowledges him to still be much stronger than her.<ref>Episode 744</ref> In the Bus Jack case, Shuichi's combat skills was hinted as he was ready to strike one of the criminals before Conan hit him with the tranquilizer dart. During the Ikkaku Rock case, Shuichi expertly knocks a knife out of the criminal's hand unarmed. Though subtle, Shuichi also swiftly knocks out a drunkard harassing Officer Yumi (at the request of his younger brother) in the Policewomen Serial Murder Case. At the same time, he is noticeable resilient. While taking a serious kick to the face from Ran Mouri, he emerged virtually unharmed, a feat few people have accomplished against her.

=== Other skills ===
[[File:783-4.jpg|thumb|200px|Jodie and Camel are shocked to learn that Shuichi can cook]]
Shuichi is a skilled driver. He can overtake many cars quickly in heavy traffic conditions and drift around a U-turn.<ref name=420p14>Manga Volume 41, File 7, page 14: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net" </ref> As Subaru, he hacked into Kogoro's computer to see what cases he had received from his website. Later he hacked into Haibara's Phone and saw the message that Vermouth had sent her. Shuichi learned how to act and properly apply his Subaru disguise by himself thanks to Yukiko Kudo and equipment from [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]].<ref>Manga [[Volume 85]], File 5 (898), pg 2: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref>
He also learned from Yukiko to be a very capable cook. This was meant to help better keep a low-profile as Subaru.<ref>[[The Scarlet Return]]</ref> At the same time, he would often uses his dishes as an excuse to interject himself into cases at Professor Agasa's house and save money on food. He apparently at one point held a part-time job playing the accordion, making decent money from it. In addition to his native language, having worked in the United States as an FBI agent for a long time, Shuichi is also fluent in English as shown in the episode 288.
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== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Mary Sera|Shuichi<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Father (''chichi'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Niisan<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> Shuichi-niisan<ref name="file972" />|Shukichi<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Akai Shuichi<ref>[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938]]</ref> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref>|Masumi}}

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Akai-san<ref name="file974" /> ''Oniisan''<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi|Boy (''Bōya'') Conan-kun<ref>[[Volume 100#FBI Serial Murder Case|FBI Serial Murder Case]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Moroboshi Dai<ref>Manga File 802, pg 10: "Don't make that kind of face..."</ref> That Akai person|That brown-haired girl}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Dai-kun|''Kimi Omae''}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shu-chan ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref name="niisanshuchan">[[:File:Postcard2016 18.jpg]] (Yukiko calls him "Shu-chan")</ref>|Yukiko-san (as Subaru)}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Akai-san<ref name="file950">[[volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 950: The Clipped Letters (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}
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{{appellations|James Black|Akai-kun Moroboshi Dai Rye|James}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Shu<ref name="file897">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|File 897 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Akai-kun Akai Shuichi|Jodie}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|Akai-san<ref name="file897" /> Akai-shan<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi|Camel}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Akai Shuichi<ref name="file897" />|Okiya Subaru}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Akai<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file897" /> Rye<ref name="file955">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 955: Whereabouts of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Snoop dog of the FBI (''FBI no inu'') That man|Bourbon<ref name="file897" /> Amuro Tooru-kun<ref name="file897" /> Zero<ref name="file897" /> Furuya Rei-kun<ref name="file897" /> Wolf (''ōkami'')<ref name="file897" />}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Akai Shuichi|Mizunashi Rena Kir}}

{{appellations|Ethan Hondou|-|Ethan Hondou NOC}}
{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch}}
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{{appellations|Renya Karasuma|Silver Bullet|[[Black Organization|Their]] Boss (''yatsura no Boss'')}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Akai<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi Silver Bullet|Vermouth Rotten Apple}}

{{appellations|Gin|Akai Shuichi Akai|Gin ''Koibito'' (literally "lover", but the intended meaning is "old enemy")}}

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{{appellations|Chianti|Akai}}

{{appellations|Korn|Akai}}

{{appellations|Rikumichi Kusuda|Akai Shuichi|Kusuda Rikumichi<ref name="file897" />}}

{{appellations|Calvados|-|Calvados}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum<ref name="file950" />}}

{{appellations|Curaçao|Rye|Curaçao}}
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{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Your brother (''Oniisan''; talking to [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref> FBI person (''FBI no hito'')|''Omae''}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|-|NOC's son (''NOC no musuko'') Brother (''otōto''; talking to [[Hidemi Hondou|Hidemi]])}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Shu-nii<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Akai Shuichi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18" /> Pierrot Onii-san|Holmes' Apprentice-kun (''Homuzu no deshi-kun'')<ref name="file 973">[[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 973 (Volume 92)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi<ref>Episode 954</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Akai-kun|Yusaku-san}}

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== Plot overview ==
=== Timeline ===
{{main|Shuichi Akai timeline}}

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Shuichi appeared in this movie as [[Subaru Okiya]]. At first he is seen watching the Detective Boys testing Professor Agasa's invention. Later after [[Masumi Sera]] gets shot, he is seen leaving the hospital, where she is hospitalized. After that he is seen involving himself in the sniper investigation. He is the one who shoot the suspect at the last part. We can see too that he turn off his voice changer and said to [[James Black|James]] {{nihongo|"Roger"|了解|ryōkai}} as signal that it's already finished.

=== The Darkest Nightmare (Movie: [[The Darkest Nightmare|20]]) ===
In this movie, he shows as a FBI agent. He saves [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] from [[Gin]]. We see a fight between him and [[Rei Furuya]] until Conan arrive. They cooperate and takes down the black metal crow (helicopter) of [[black organization]].

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===

Shuichi shoots Maiko Shirahato in the shoulder with a silver bullet in order to stop her from shooting Alan McKenzie.

== Speculation ==
[[James Black]]'s English background may have assisted the young British-Japanese Shuichi Akai in fast-tracking his way to a US citizenship and then enrolling in the FBI.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and friends ===
==== Akemi Miyano ====
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Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with [[Jodie Starling]].

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi was concerned, and helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.

[[File:Akemi's Text Message.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The last text message Akemi had sent Shuichi, before her death.]]
Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. After Shuichi's expulsion, he confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seemed surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death. The message also contains a P.S. which has not been revealed yet.
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==== Jodie Starling ====
While Jodie and Shuichi's relationship had been viewed as mere colleagues, it is revealed later on in the series that Jodie and Shuichi had dated before about 5 years prior. However, after Shuichi infiltrated the Black Organization under the alias of Dai Moroboshi, he started dating Akemi Miyano in hopes of using her to attain information about the Black Organization. Despite this, Shuichi ended up falling in love with Akemi, leading him to break up with Jodie, stating that, "To be able to love two women at the same time…it's not that handy a personality."<ref name="677p5">Manga [[Volume 65]], File 3 (677), pg 5: "The fated individual"</ref> In spite of the break-up, Jodie still held strong feelings for Shuichi which never wavered as time passed and took his apparent death at Kir's hands especially hard, to the point of being reduced to tears.

==== James Black ====
[[James Black]] is the boss of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents in Japan and therefore the boss of Shuichi. He was one of those who know that Shuichi was alive after Shuichi's fake death, but only because he saw the glue on Shuichi's fingers and would have otherwise also been kept in the dark. The two maintain close contact with each other up to present.

==== Andre Camel ====
[[Andre Camel]] worked with Shuichi Akai before when he was an agent in the [[Black Organization]]. Camel was involved in the plan to capture Gin two years ago, but he gave away the plan of the FBI when he saw a member of the organization disguised as an old man. Because of this, Shuichi's identity became known to the Organization. However, Shuichi does not seem to bear a grudge against Camel but worked together well. Camel is willing to help Akai in any way he can to redeem for his mistake.

==== Ai Haibara ====
When Haibara first met Shuichi, she thought he was a member of the Black Organization. Shuichi seems to know of Haibara's identity. Haibara knows him as Dai Moroboshi, her sister's boyfriend who betrayed the Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 802</ref> Haibara should know Dai was a spy and FBI agent, after hearing an exchange between [[Bourbon]] and [[Kaitou Kid]] through a microphone<ref>Manga Chapter 824,[http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b40277b84692b54c491654534be7ccf/tumblr_mpc528w9hS1qfn9zio1_r1_500.png]</ref>, but she does not know him by the name Shuichi Akai. During his time in the organization he became acquatained with Haibara, while she was still known as [[Shiho Miyano]], through Akemi and make use of it to slip into the organization. He made a promise with Akemi to look after Haibara's welfare.<ref>Manga [[Volume 77]], Files 3-5 (809-811)</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa / Shinichi Kudo ====
Shuichi and Conan get along well and are capable of thinking on par with one another. In the short time they have worked together, Shuichi has come to respect Conan's intellect and deductive skills and speaks to him professionally. After FBI had capture Kir, he asked who Conan was, hinting that he suspected that there was more to Conan that meets the eyes. He is also aware that [[Conan]] and [[Shinichi Kudo]] are really one and the same person <ref>Manga [[Volume 77]], File 813 p.16 and File 814 p.3 </ref>. There is further speculation amongst fans that Shuichi has figured out that Ai was formerly Sherry and (more than likely) learned about her research for the Black Organization and the two possible effects of [[APTX 4869]].

==== Masumi Sera ====
[[Masumi Sera]] is Shuichi's younger sister. Masumi wasn't born yet when Shuichi went to America to study, so they first got to meet each other, when Masumi was seven. It's indicated at Shuichi cares for his sister. While Masumi was growing up, Shuichi would send her training tapes of Jeet Kune Do that she could practice after. During the [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|Mystery Train case]], when Masumi was knocked out by Vermouth and hidden in her room, Shuichi (disguised as Subaru) carried her back to her own room. As he was about to leave he overheard her calling out 'Shuu-nii' in her sleep, which made him smile. In the movie [[Dimensional Sniper]] he (as Subaru) was seen leaving the hospital, where Masumi was hospitalized after getting shot, hinting that he was visiting her. While she was unconscious, he left a bouquet in her room, which Ran and Sonoko find. During the [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|Antique Facet Case]], when he realize Masumi showing suspicious movements around Agasa's house, he shows up as Subaru and keep an eye on her. He realize that Masumi was trying to pressure Haibara. He ended up by interrupting her investigation to prevent Masumi get involved into dangerous situation.

==== Shukichi Haneda ====
[[Shukichi Haneda]] is Shuichi's younger brother. He keeps track of Shukichi Haneda's shogi matches. During a reunion ten years ago Shukichi shows concern over his choice of path in life. During the Policewomen Serial Murder Case, he received a text by Shukichi to protect [[Yumi Miyamoto]], indicating the brothers are in contact. When Yumi is accosted by drunkards, he disguised as Subaru incapacitates them and has them leave her alone.

==== Mary Sera ====
[[Mary Sera]] is Shuichi's mother. She hoped that he would become a father figure to Masumi to replace their missing biological father.

==== Tsutomu Akai ====
[[Tsutomu Akai]] is Shuichi's father. His father's disappearance cause him to seek revenge and is the reason Shuichi became an FBI agent.

=== Allies ===
==== Hidemi Hondou ====
Hidemi is a CIA agent undercover in the Black Organization as Rena Mizunashi, codenamed Kir. She agreed to supply the FBI with information of the organization in return for her brother's protection. She, Akai and Conan worked out the plan to send Hidemi back to the organization and fake Akai's death.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
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Shuichi Akai and Gin are rivals and hate one another. It is implied that they didn't get along even before Shuichi was exposed as an undercover FBI agent. Shuichi refers to Gin as "Koibito", which ironically means 'lover.' Gin killed Shuichi's love Akemi, so Shuichi thinks of Gin as his archenemy.

==== Rei Furuya====
{{main|Shuichi Akai and Rei Furuya}}
[[File:AkaiAmuro.png|thumb|200px||Akai and Amuro]]
Since joining the Black Organization, [[Rei Furuya]] has always considered Shuichi as a worthy rival, he wants to compare his capacity with Shuichi and thinks he is the only one who could defeat Shuichi. Shuichi always shows respect towards Rei, he admits Rei's capability and feels interest everytime he faces Rei, he also makes Rei feel quite confused sometimes. Their relationship is becoming more bitter and dramatic when Rei misunderstood Shuichi killed his best friend - [[Scotch]], but actually the one who indirectly caused Scotch to die was Rei himself. Shuichi chooses to keep a secret, continues to let Rei misunderstand him instead of letting Rei know that painful truth. Over time, Shuichi appears to help and protect Rei in some cases, he gradually wants to compensate for the losses which Rei has experienced, he also reveals that he doesn't want to be Rei's enemy. For now, Rei is temporarily lowering his hatred to working well with Shuichi and Conan in destroying the Black Organization.

=== Unknown relationships ===
==== Kohji Haneda ====
A relationship between Shuichi and [[Kohji Haneda]] is unknown, but [[Volume 89#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|the case of Kohji's death]] made Shuichi an FBI agent.<ref name="file948">[[volume 89#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref>

== 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. Shuichi placed 12th in the poll with 53 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』人気投票結果|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. Shuichi placed 7th overall with 415 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>
* In a poll held on June 5, 2020 by asking women age 20 to 40 who were their favourite Detective Conan character, Shuichi ranked eigth<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/hjkevu/detective_conan_character_popularity_poll_june_5/</ref>.

== Name origin ==
[[File:Akai.gif|image|right|thumb|200px|Yutaka Tani draws Shuichi as half of Char on Gosho's website]]
Akai's name comes from the [[wikipedia:Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]], whose nickname was the {{nihongo|"Red Comet"|'''赤い'''彗星|'''Akai''' Suisei}}, and Char's voice actor [[Shuichi Ikeda|'''Shuichi''' Ikeda]] (who is also Akai's voice actor). Additionally, his alias, Dai Moroboshi, comes from Char's real name, Casval Rem '''Deikun''' (sounds like '''Dai-kun''' in Japanese). '''Moroboshi''' can also mean ''falling star'', another possible allusion to ''Red Comet''.<ref>In Moroboshi (諸星), the first kanji can be broken up into 言者 which when pronounced as げんしゃ (gensha) sounds very similar to the word for "phenomenon" (genshou). The second character (星) means "star". Moroboshi, read as "Star phenomenon" references falling stars or maybe comets. </ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shuichi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 259]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shuichi Middle.jpeg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 345]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:The Scarlet Return-Shooting Shuichi.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 783]]
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== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Fear of death is worse than death itself.|Said to Camel.<ref>[[Volume 58#File 602 - Last Resort|Volume 58, File 602, Page 13]]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Don't make that kind of face...}}
{{cquote|Don't get distracted by what's in front of you and pursue the wrong prey}}
{{cquote|The odds are 50/50 so we are on the same boat.}}

==Gallery==
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File:EP1019 4.jpeg|15-year-old Shuichi with his brother Shukichi
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== Trivia ==
* Shuichi is left-handed.
* Shuichi is a Jeet Kune Do practitioner who is three times stronger than [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]]. The three times is, again, a reference of Char's [[Wikipedia: Zaku|mobile suit]] being three times faster than the others.
* Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]], is the real-life husband of [[Akemi Miyano]]'s voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]].
* [[Wikipedia: Shuichi Akai (footballer)|Shuichi Akai]] is a real-life former Japanese football player.
*According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, What motivated Shuuichi to do Jeet Kune Do was because his father practised it too.
* According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, Shuichi hairstyle was inspired by Char Aznable.
*He likes to use the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame” as revealed by Camel in File 895. Shuichi got the phrase from his father which his mother uses the phrase as well as revealed in File 1038. Even as Subaru uses it as shown in [[Episode 1020]].

== In other languages ==
=== Shuichi Akai ===
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|秀一 Shūichi|赤井 Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شوتشي Shūtshi|أكاي Akāi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|flag2 = Hong Kong| Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)|秀一 Xiùyī|赤井 Chìjǐng}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shuichi / Suichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|상윤 Sang Yoon|이 Lee}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชูอิจิ|อากาอิ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shuichi|Akai}}
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=== Dai Moroboshi ===
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|大 Dai|諸星 Moroboshi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|大 Dà|诸星 Zhūxīng}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Hong Kong|Chinese (Traditional)|大 Dà|諸星 Zhūxīng}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Subaru Okiya]]
* [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Wikipedia: Rye whiskey|Rye]] (alcohol)
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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| name = Shukichi Haneda
| japanese-name = {{nihongo|羽田秀𠮷}} (Haneda Shūkichi)
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| image = Shukichi Haneda Profile.jpg
| age = 28
| gender = Male
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| date-of-birth = November 12<ref name="marriage">[[:File:Marriage Form Anime.jpg]]</ref>
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Masumi Sera]] (younger sister) [[Kohji Haneda]] (non-blood brother, deceased)
| occupation = Shogi player
| nicknames = {{nihongo|Chukichi|チュウ𠮷/<ruby>秀𠮷<rp>[</rp><rt>チュウキチ</rt><rp>]</rp></ruby><ref name="file946">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 946 (Volume 89)]]</ref>|4=[[Yumi Miyamoto]]}} Kichi-nii ([[Masumi Sera]]) Aniki ([[Masumi Sera]])
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| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 80#File 847 - Until I Collect All Seven|File 847]] Anime: [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene|Episode 731]]
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'''{{nihongo|Shukichi Haneda|羽田秀𠮷|Haneda Shūkichi}}''' is a professional [[wikipedia:Shogi|shogi]] player, as well as the boyfriend of [[Yumi Miyamoto]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is also the middle brother of the Akai family, making him the sibling of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]].

== Background ==
[[File:Kichi chibi.png|thumb|left|200px|Shukichi as a middle schooler more than 10 years ago.]]
Shukichi Haneda was presumably born as Shukichi Akai until some incident, perhaps the death of his father, caused Shukichi and [[Masumi|Masumi Sera]] to switch to using "Sera" as a family name. The Akai family apparently lived a rather wealthy life.<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 847, page 3: "Until I Collect All Seven"]]</ref> He might have been born in England. When the family moved to Japan, Shukichi's older brother Shuichi left them to study in America. After that his younger sister Masumi was born. Seven years after moving to Japan, he and his family were briefly reunited with Shuichi, who plans to join the FBI to investigate the death of their father. When Shukichi graduated from high school he began using the family name Haneda from Koji Haneda, a shogi player he admire. It is not clear what their relationship was. According to Yumi he asked to be adopted into the Haneda family. At some point he started his career as a professional shogi player.

Shukichi met [[Yumi Miyamoto]] for the first time on a train where he overslept, resting his head on Yumi's shoulder, and Yumi waited for him even though she had to miss her stop.<ref name="overslept">[[Volume 85|Volume 85, File 900, page 6: "Check"]]</ref> He attained the prestigious [[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)|Meijin]] title back when he was still dating Yumi, without the latter knowing.<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 849, page 15: "Taikou's Optimal Moves"]]</ref>

Shukichi's main objective is to prove himself worthy as Yumi's boyfriend by secretly winning all seven shogi titles, despite having technically been dumped by her. He was widely known by the name of '''{{nihongo|Taiko Meijin|太閤名人|Taikō Meijin}}''' in the world of shogi even before he finally achieved all seven titles in his most recent Shogi match, due to his unique skill.<ref name="titles">[[Volume 85|Volume 85, File 902, page 16: "The Brilliant Move"]]</ref> Even though he then lost one in a revenge match with his rival [[Chikara Katsumata]], he intends to stick with his original plan.

Shukichi currently lives in an apartment at {{nihongo|Chateau Beika Condo|シャトー米花マンション|Shatō Beika Manshon}}, the same place as when he was still going out with Yumi.<ref>The anime version (Episode 731) shows the number of his locker as 1801.</ref>

== Personality ==
Shukichi has a very cheerful personality, which Yumi (to her annoyance) perceived as immature. In front of Yumi and other characters, he rarely suppresses his emotions, which can range from overly joyful when meeting his ex-girlfriend, to hilariously disapproving when the latter announces that their relationship was over. Despite this, Shukichi does show a calmer and more serious side during some situations, most notably when he is making his deductions or when he appears in front of the media.

On the other hand, Shukichi is quite confident and proud of his excellent memory, as seen when he proclaims himself the best memorizer in the world.<ref name="memory">[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 847, page 14: "Until I Collect All Seven"]]</ref> From his goal of achieving all seven shogi titles to win Yumi's admiration, he shows himself as a person with great patience and determination. The only thing which can disturb him is his intense feelings for Yumi; his belief in her love for him affects his performance at shogi immensely, making her his effective muse,he is even willing to leave an important match to save her like durning meijin title match which he left to save her.

He is also a strong detective, more skilled than Masumi. She often consulted him on cases over the phone, double-checking her deductions.

He is also a little careless and carefree shown in file 1043-1046 when he found out culprit's identity he went to talk with him and ask him to surrender but he get himself caught

He only loves Yumi and didn't betray her. Even after she dumped him, he doesn't want to tell Yumi about his shogi profession to surprise her and didn't tell her about the practice group. For example, there are women in it so she won't be jealous.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Shuukichi appearance.jpg|thumb|200px|Shukichi Haneda's different looks.]]
Shukichi Haneda is perhaps the most characterized by his hair, which sticks up in the back like a bed head. He is often shown wearing glasses, usually except when he is playing shogi or is being interviewed as a professional shogi player.

Unlike his two siblings who resemble their mother, Shukichi is most similar to his father.<ref name=859p6-7>Manga Volume 81, File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

He apparently dresses in slouchy clothes like jerseys fairly often. In Shogi matches he wears traditional attire.

== Abilitites and skills ==
=== Shogi ===
Shukichi Haneda has won numerous shogi matches and earned himself the title Meijin, which, along with [[wikipedia:Ryu-oh|Ryu-oh]], is the most prestigious title in the professional shogi titleholder system.<ref>[[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)]]</ref><ref>[[Wikipedia:Ryu-oh]]</ref> In [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love]], he managed to attain all seven titles. During the events of the [[The Marriage Registration's Password|Missing Envelope Case]], Shukichi loses his title defense match for the Osho title against [[Chikara Katsumata]] and subsequently only holds six titles at the moment.

=== Memorization ===
Shukichi is extremely skillful at memorizing, as shown when he managed to remember the code written on [[Sakurako Yonehara]]'s paper despite having only seen it for a very short amount of time. He also claims to be the best in this field.<ref name="memory" />

=== Deductive abilities ===
Shukichi Haneda is very intelligent, something his skill in memorization appears to help. His intelligence seems to be well-known among the students from his high school, as he apparently has solved some mysteries in his class during his time studying there.<ref name=872p3>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: "The Red Woman"</ref> It is possible his intelligence may even outstrip his older brother Shuichi's since Sera characterizes the already intelligent Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to the middle brother's "smart". Shukichi often advises Masumi on cases via cellphone.<ref name=859p6-7/> He was able to correctly deduce over the phone that Masumi's deduction was unreliable in [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|a bathroom murder case]]. He was able to solve a murder case next to his house, where he effectively figured out the trick behind the victim's suicide note, as well as the culprit's identity. His intelligence might even surpasses Conan's; In the events of the [[Volume 98#Shogi Player Serial Murder Case|Shogi Player Serial Murder Case]], he managed to figure out the culprit's identity much earlier than Conan.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Mary Sera|Shukichi<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Dad (''Otōsan'')<ref name="file974" />}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Shukichi<ref name="file972" />|Shuichi-niisan<ref name="file972" /> Niisan<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Kichi-nii<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014 4.JPG]] ([[Masumi Sera|Sera-chan]] calls [[Akai family's middle brother|him]] Kichi-nii)</ref> Kichi-niichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Masumi<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file947" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Chukichi<ref name="file899">[[volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Bald-Headed Rat (''Hage-Nezumi'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref>|Yumi-tan<ref name="file899" /> Yumi-san<ref name="file929" /> Precious person (''taisetsu na hito'')<ref name="file945">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 945 (Volume 89)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Yumi-chan's boyfriend (''Yumi-chan no kareshi'')<ref name="file929" /> [[Yumi Miyamoto|Her]] boyfriend with round glasses (''Maru-megane no kareshi'')<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|-}}
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{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Taiko<ref name="file849"/> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file945" />}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Niichan<ref name="file849" /> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file849" /> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file947" />}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|[[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi-san]]'s ex-boyfriend-san (''Yumi-san no moto-kare-san'')<ref name="file849"/>}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Agasa-san}}
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{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Taiko Meijin<ref name="file945" /> Your boyfriend (''kareshi''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file945" /> Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file946" />}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Haneda-san}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Haneda-san Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san'')<ref name="file929" />}}

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{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Haneda Shukichi Meijin}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Missing Classmate Case (Manga: [[Volume 49|506]], Anime: [[Super Secret of the Road to School|427]]) ===
Shukichi was first mentioned by Yumi to the Detective Boys when the children were looking for a missing schoolgirl. She described him as someone with a good-looking face but childish personality. She also mentioned having "dumped him in a bad way", so she was buying a facemask so he wouldn't recognize her, since she was going to a place not far from where he lived.<ref>[[Volume 49|Volume 49, File 506, page 11: "The Secret Path to School"]]</ref>

=== Sera's phone call during Detective's Nocturne (Manga: [[Volume 76|798-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]]) ===
After Sera took down the kidnapper with her motorcycle she either made or received a call from an unknown person. Given her pattern of contacting her brother regarding cases, she may have called him concerning this one. Another possibility is Mary.

=== Yumi's Love Story (Manga: [[Volume_80|847-849]], Anime: [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene|731-732]]) ===
Yumi recalls her moment with Shukichi before they broke up. When she proposed that they should end their relationship as she would become a police officer, Shukichi handed her an envelope and told her not to open until he "collect all seven", referring to the shogi titles. However, he hasn't contacted her ever since then, so she officially broke up with him.

When a murder takes place at his neighboring apartment, Shukichi becomes one of the prime suspects as he knows the code to acquire the spare key. That is when he finally meets his ex-girlfriend again after all those years. He cheerfully introduces to everyone about their relationship, only to be denied by Yumi.

As the investigation progresses, Shukichi perceives the true nature of the victim's suicide note, calling it "a well prepared move", which turns out to be an important clue. Later, when asked about his own alibi, Shukichi refuses to answer, much to Yumi's annoyance. However, he mentally tells her not to be worried, while confidently looking at Conan, who's already figured out the truth about the case.

Conan, with Shukichi's helps, points out that the culprit is the victim's husband. Shukichi explains that the suicide note was actually written four years ago, on an airplane that almost crashed; the culprit used it to fake her death as a suicide. He also reveals that he has suspected the husband since he saw the note, and his theory was confirmed when he overheard his conversation with his son.

At the end of the case, it is revealed that Shukichi is in fact the famous shogi player called "Taiko Meijin", and was having a match when the crime occured. He kept quiet about it so Yumi couldn't find out about his occupation. It's also revealed that the reason he's so determined in winning all seven shogi titles is because when the two were still dating, Yumi used to express her admiration for a sumo champion who had won six tournaments in a row.

=== Bathroom murder case's failed deduction (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]]) ===
Sera had called Shukichi regarding the "adultery case" she was about to investigate and was overheard by Eri. After the murder was discovered, Sera relayed her brother the facts of the case and her deduction by phone call. He told Sera her deduction was unreliable.

=== Bowling Alley drowning murder (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]]) ===
[[File:Akai Middle Brother's hand.png|thumb|right|200px|The middle brother's hand and cellphone]]
Conan asks Sera who she called during the last case, and she tells Conan about the existence of her second older brother who is very smart. Confronted with another murder case, Sera texts Shukichi about the situation and her logic. Sera also informs her brother than Conan seems to have figured out the case, but she isn't sure of her answer since her confidence has been shaken as of late. Her brother texts Sera asking who she keeps talking about. Sera sends him a picture of Conan and Shukichi replies that "it is no problem" if it is Conan doing the deducing, after all Shukichi had a good experience with Conan's deductions in [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene]].

Masumi is very surprised and wonders how her brother knows Conan. Her suspicion makes sense because she knows that Conan didn't exist prior to Shinichi shrinking.<ref name=861p4>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 4: "Just like Magic"</ref> The brother later sends another text to Masumi which most likely said something about how he met Conan during a case before. This makes Masumi react "Ah, I see. So ''that's'' how it is."<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> At the end of the unseen message is a PS asking if she has "already met the wizard." Sera looks over at Conan and thinks "You could say so..." while sending a reply.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
Shukichi won important matches to help him win his 4th, 5th and 6th titles. Before he begins his title match to become only the 2nd Nanakan-ō shogi player with all 7 titles) in history, he receives a letter. He opens the letter only to find out that Yumi was kidnapped and is trapped in a well. The letter contains clues pertaining to the whereabouts of Yumi. He arrives at the location but cannot find the well. Upon the arrival, he bumps into Conan and the Detective Boys who immediately ask the real purpose of Shukichi. The match is postponed as Shukichi attempts to win both the battle of shogi and love.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
Shukichi and [[Akai family's middle brother|Masumi's second-older brother]] (later revealed to be Shukichi himself)'s favorite phrase is the same: ''I'm skillful at memorizing such things. I'm the best in Japan... No, maybe even the best in the world.'' Shukichi said the phrase in [[The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene|Episode 731]]. Yumi and Sera call Shukichi at the same time, Shukichi answers Yumi's call first, put it on hold as he receives the call from Masumi, telling her that he's on the phone with someone important and to call later.As soon as he hangs up on Masumi, he resumes his conversation with Yumi. It turns out Shukichi knows some important facts about the case culprit and became helpful to Yumi and the investigation.

=== Shukichi's Envelope Case (Manga: [[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|945-947]], Anime: [[The_Marriage_Registration%27s_Password|849-850]]) ===
Parts of Shukichi's family information appeared on Shukichi's marriage registration form:
* The father's name appears to be {{nihongo|'''Tsutomu Akai'''|赤井務武|Akai Tsutomu}}.
* The mother's given name is {{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリ世良|Mary Sera}}.

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| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Shukichi's marriage registration.jpg|thumb|x165px|right|Shukichi's marriage registration (File 947)]]

| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Shuukichi Father Akai family name 947.png|thumb|x165px|right|Englargement of Shukichi's marriage registration form, showing the section for parents.]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Marriage Form Anime.jpg|right|thumb|x165px|Anime version (1).]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Marriage Form Anime 2.jpg|right|thumb|x165px|Anime version (2).]]
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Shukichi loses one of his Shogi titles against his rival [[Chikara]], making him only with six titles.

It also came out that Shukichi has a non-blood-related brother named {{nihongo|'''[[Kohji Haneda]]'''|羽田浩司|Haneda Kōji}}.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
10 years ago, Shukichi, Masumi and their mother [[Mary]], reunite with [[Shuichi]] who did not take the test yet to become an FBI agent in the Beach. They also encountered [[Shinichi]], [[Ran]] and [[Yukiko]] who also happened to be there. All of them end up being involved in a case where 2 two robbers robbed a watch shop with one of them accidentally got killed in an accident, and the other was still on the run.

=== Policewomen Serial Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96|1015-1017]], Anime: [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|972-974]]) ===
After the murder of the second female police officer, Shukichi calls Yumi, worried about her safety, advising her to go home.
It is revealed that Shukichi is secretly in contact with his older brother Shuichi, as he sent the latter an email; asking him to protect Yumi.

=== Shogi Player Serial Murder Case (Manga : [[Volume 98|1043-1046]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board|1033-1035]]) ===
Shukichi was holding a Shogi practice session with younger Shogi players. However, Yumi suspects that he was having an affair, which causes her to bring Conan along to tail him. Unfortunately, one of the Shogi group members got killed while arriving at the apartment. Shukichi realizes that the culprit is one of the members before the police arrive. He goes to the culprit's place to tell him to turn himself in but got kidnapped afterwards.
Eventually, he is saved by a double effort of Conan and his brother Shuichi. Shukichi reveals to his brother that he wanted to introduce Yumi to his [[Mary|mother]], but is unable to contact her. After Shukichi revealed to his brother that he didn't tell their mother that he is still alive yet, Shuichi reassures that he'll meet her eventually, once the mist of the [[Black Organization]] that covers the truth, has been cleared up.

=== Family Restaurant Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102|1091]]-[[Volume 103|1093]], Anime: TPD) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Shukichi is shown having a date with Yumi at Nagoya. When Yumi gets terribly drunk, She says she accepts Shukichi’s proposal. They meet Shuichi when Yumi dashes in front of his car. He guides the FBI to pursuit the culprit by his memorizing skill. At the end of the movie, Yumi denies on accepts Shukichi's proposal as she was sober, much to Shukichi's disappointment.

== Hints that Shukichi was the Akai family's middle brother ==
[[File:Akai Middle Brother's hand manga.png|thumb|right|200px|The middle brother's hand and cellphone]]
* Shukichi was in the right age range for the middle brother. The middle brother's former high school classmates are currently 28 and 29 years old, suggesting that the middle brother is similarly aged.
* Shukichi is very intelligent as the middle brother was described. When Conan and Shukichi encountered each other during a case, Shukichi noted that Conan is an excellent detective. Later Shukichi asked Masumi about the detective she was always talking talking about, not realizing he had already met this person before. Masumi shows her brother Conan's picture thinking he will be surprised. Shukichi replies back that "if it's him, then there's no problem"; he had met Conan previously after all.
* Shukichi is right handed and has pale skin, matching the phone-holding hand of the middle brother.
* Both [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Mary]] took special interest in the outcome of Shukichi's Shogi matches. Masumi, who had earlier stated that she had no idea where the middle brother is or what he is up to did not recognize Shukichi in his match.
* When Yumi and Sera together described Shukichi and her brother respectively, they were identical. Both wear round glasses, have stubble, wear 'messy jerseys', have excellent memories, and share the exactly same favorite saying.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Yumi Miyamoto ===
''Main article: [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]''
[[File:ShukichiYumiKiss.jpg|Yumi surprises Shukichi|right|thumb|200px|]]
Shukichi Haneda and [[Yumi Miyamoto]] first met when the latter was still in college, and had begun dating since then until Yumi eventually broke up with him because she thought he was immature. Shukichi is completely oblivious to Yumi breaking up with him and he still thinks of her as his girlfriend as if nothing has happened. Yumi, on the other hand, refers to him as an ex and doesn't show much interest in his personal life. Despite this, it appears she still has some feelings for him.

Their relationship began to relapse after Shukichi was caught up in a murder case in his apartment complex. Despite Yumi acting standoffish most of the time, they start using pet names for each other once again. They even exchanged a kiss before Shukichi continued his shogi match to win the seventh title. By the time Yumi figured out Shukichi's real identity, Shukichi was regularly meeting with her. All of this time, Yumi still insisted on calling him an ex.

Yumi was unaware of Shukichi being a famous shogi player for a long time, mostly due to her lack of interest in investigating, and an apparent personal disinterest in shogi (she is more of a Mahjong type). She assumed Shukichi was a "meijin" at some minor game like shiratori or fishing. She eventually saw Shukichi on television and figured it out. After realizing that meijins can make 100,000,000 yen in salary, she desperately tries to reclaim the letter he left for her, which her ornery building manager had seized.

After Shukichi lost the decisive match against [[Chikara Katsumata]],Yumi rips the letter on Shukichi's favour as it became invalid due to his loss. Disappointed by his loss, Yumi encouraged Shukichi that she will wait for him to re-gather the seven Shogi titles once again and that she will listen to any one of his wishes. She also motivated him to never lose to anyone, improving the romantic relationship between the two.

After that she spend more time with shukichi in his apartment and shukichi was worried for Yumi and anytime something might happen to her like durning traffic police murder case which she might be murdered.

In file 1043-1046 Yumi suspected of having an affair and show jealousy which she tailed him but it was revealed it was just a practice group for shogi.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Shukichi was 10-11 years old when Masumi was born, and he was, unlike Shuichi, close during her childhood until she was seven and finally introduced to their older brother. Despite the ten year age separation between [[Masumi Sera]] and her moving abroad, nevertheless she and Shukichi kept in touch by phone. [[Masumi Sera]] frequently calls him to ask about case solutions.<ref name=859p6-7>Manga Volume 81, File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref> Shukichi appears to have avoided telling Masumi anything about his Shogi skills or what he has been up to. She has no idea where he is living.<ref name=859p6-7/>

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Kohji was a talented shogi player that his "not-related-by-blood"<ref>Shukichi was a {{lang|ja|義理の兄}} to Kohji: an adopted brother or step brother, rather than a blood brother.</ref> brother, [[Shukichi Haneda]], deeply respected. Many had high hopes that Kohji would win all seven of the major shogi titles, but Rum killed him preventing it. It's likely that Shukichi changed one of his name characters slightly to honor the late Kohji.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
[[Shuichi Akai]] keeps track of [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s shogi matches. During a reunion ten years ago Shukichi shows concern over his brother's choice of path in life. During the [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|Policewomen Serial Murder Case]], when Yumi is accosted by drunkards, Shuichi as Subaru incapacitates them and has them leave her alone. It is shown when he is alone he received a text by Shukichi to protect Yumi, indicating the brothers are in contact.

=== Mary Sera ===
[[Mary Sera]] is Shukichi's mother. While stuck in the body of a middle schooler, she is shown keeping track of [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s shogi matches.
She smiled when he became the seven-crowned king. Shukichi is shown to be unaware of his mother current circumstances and hasn't been in contact wanted to introduce Yumi to her and asked Shuichi what their being doing to which Shuichi reassure him that he would see their mother sooner or later.

=== Conan Edogawa ===
Shukichi seems to have noticed [[Conan]]'s intelligence and trusted his deductions the first time they met. He even writes to his sister, that it's all right if Conan make the deductions. Shinichi has met Shukichi in the past as a child, so it's possible that Shukichi might recognize him as Conan because of his memorization skills, and also due to Shukichi calling Conan a Wizard, the same nickname that Masumi attributed to Shinichi when they met 10 years ago. It's also possible that his brother Shuichi told him about Conan given that Shukichi knows of Akai having faked his death.

=== Chikara Katsumata ===
[[Chikara Katsumata]] is Shukichi's only shown Shogi rival and the holder of the one of the seven main Shogi titles. He claimed the seventh title from Katsumata in [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love]]. Shukichi then lost a revenge match to Chikara in [[The Marriage Registration's Password]], leaving him with only six titles.

== Name origin ==
According to Gosho, the full name {{nihongo|Shukichi Haneda|羽田秀𠮷|Haneda Shūkichi}} and the in-story nickname {{nihongo|Taiko|太閤|Taikō}} are both references to [[wikipedia:Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Hideyoshi Toyotomi]] ({{Lang|ja|豊臣 '''秀吉'''}}), who was previously named Hideyoshi Hashiba ({{Lang|ja|羽柴 '''秀吉'''}}).<ref>[[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 849, page 15: "Taiko's Optimal Moves"]]</ref> Additionally, Haneda's "Hane" ({{lang|ja|羽}}) also comes from [[wikipedia:Yoshiharu Habu|Yoshiharu Habu]] ({{lang|ja|'''羽'''生善治}}), a real-life professional shogi player who has won all seven titles.<ref>http://ddnavi.com/news/191132/ Translation: http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639</ref> Gosho also revealed that the "kichi" part of his name comes from [[wikipedia:ja:阪田三吉|Sankichi Sakata]] ({{Lang|ja|阪田三'''𠮷'''}}) in an [[Animal Crossing promotional hints|''Animal Crossings'' Promotional Hint]] on January 18, 2016.

There is one wrinkle in the above information. Because of Shukichi's backstory related to [[Kohji Haneda]], then the true source for Haneda ({{Lang|ja|羽田}}) is likely the [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|list of people killed by]] [[APTX 4869]], and Gosho's shogi source explanation was ex post facto. There are only two ways for both Gosho's shogi source explanation and the List of APTX 4869 victim source to be true. One is that Gosho decided on the name Haneda, and then noticed the name on the list and came up with additional backstory for Shukichi on the spot, or that Gosho planned out Haneda's backstory in Volume 18, 15 years before he was actually introduced. That second explanation is perhaps a bit of a stretch, as Masumi Sera was only created in response to the positive fan reaction to female detective [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], some eight years after volume 18 was published.

Shukichi's prior surname {{nihongo|Sera|世良|Sera}} is from the [[Wikipedia: Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character {{Nihongo|[[Wikipedia: Sayla Mass|Sayla Mass]]|セイラ・マス|Seira Masu}}.<ref>[[Sherry's soliloquy|Sherry's soliloquy (2012-06-17)]], Gosho was referring to the revelation that Sera is Akai's sister (Manga File 821): やっぱりアルテイシアだったのね・・・ (So it was '''Artesia'''…). Note that "Artesia" is another name of '''Sayla Mass'''.</ref> Shukichi's oldest surname "Akai" comes from the [[Wikipedia: Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]], whose nickname was the {{nihongo|"Red Comet"|'''赤い'''彗星|'''Akai''' Suisei}}.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|I'm skillful at memorizing such things. I'm the best in Japan... No, maybe even the best in the world.}}

{{cquote|Well, I guess the story just turned into me gushing about Yumi-san... But I live in the shogi world, where making people wait is unacceptable.|Shukichi, after telling his story about his first meeting with Yumi to Detective Boys, File 900 pg 8}}

== In other languages ==
==Gallery==
<gallery>
EP785-1.jpeg|Shukichi in college
File:EP1019 4.jpeg|11-year-old Shukichi with his brother Shuichi.
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
* Shukichi is right-handed.
* In file 946, Yumi reveals that she nicknames him 'Chukichi' because he keeps eating cheese like a rat which makes a noise that sounds a lot like 'Chu'. He is shown to like cake.
*Shukichi can speak English.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]
* [[Wikipedia: Meijin (shogi)|Meijin]]
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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Mary Sera

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{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this person. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}

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| japanese-name = メアリー世良 (Mearī Sera)
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| image = Mary Sera Profile.jpg
| age = Looks approximately middle school aged according to Conan Real age is 53<ref>Akai is 32 (SDB90+ Q4) so add 17 years on that at reasonable minimum.</ref><ref>'''Chapter 1037:''' Mary was 36 eighteen years ago.</ref>
| gender = Female
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| occupation = MI6 Agent Housewife
|status = Alive (shrunk) Dead (for the Black Organization)
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (husband, deceased) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first son) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second son) [[Masumi Sera]] (daughter)
| nicknames = Sister from outside the domain
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 83#Red Tragedy|File 875]] Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|Episode 756]]
| appearances = {{:Mary Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 83]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Tanaka]]
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{{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリー世良|Mearī Sera}}, also known by her marriage name as {{nihongo|'''Mary Akai'''|赤井メアリー|Akai Mearī}}<ref>'''Chapter 1037'''</ref> appears as a middle-school age girl with blonde hair who has been hiding in various hotels in Tokyo with [[Masumi Sera]]. Despite her appearance, she is actually a middle-aged woman; she is the wife of [[Tsutomu Akai]], and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and Masumi Sera. She is a member of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6.

== Background ==
[[File:Ep 995 Mary's flashback.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Masumi thinking back to her mother's transformation]]Mary Sera's full background is currently unknown, She met and married [[Tsutomu Akai]], and bore three children, [[Shuichi]], [[Shukichi]], and [[Masumi]]. Her husband left at some point before Masumi was born, to investigate the double murder of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]], which got him tangled with the [[Black Organization]].

Later on, Mary learned that her husband was apparently roaming London and immediately travelled there, taking Masumi along as added insurance.<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1049: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> Leaving her daughter in their hotel room, she left to meet Tsutomu at their favorite meeting place at Vauxhall Bridge. There she was trapped and forced to ingest the [[APTX]] by [[Vermouth]],<ref name="ch1048">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1048: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> causing her age to be regressed and return to Masumi hours later in the body of a middle-school child.<ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref><ref name="ch1049" />

Right after her return, Mary and Sera watched a recording of a TV broadcast about [[Conan Edogawa]]'s involvement in the attempted blackmail of Minerva Glass<ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Manga volume 71, file 743]] to [[Volume 72#Following Holmes|volume 72, file 752]]: "Following Holmes"</ref> and immediately recognized him as [[Shinichi Kudo]], whom they [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|had encountered ten years ago]].<ref>[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, file 1050: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> She returned to Japan with Masumi in order to find out about the existence of an antidote to the APTX, which Shinichi apparently has access to, using Masumi as a proxy for her investigations. She also has expressed an interest in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and the identity of the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]].<ref>[[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Manga volume 90: "Soul Detective Murder Case"]]</ref>

== Personality ==
Mary seems very mature and direct, especially when speaking to Masumi. She seems hesitant to trust others at the moment and is being extremely cautious about who knows about her. Currently because of her cautiousness, she and Masumi have been moving from one hotel to another to keep their location hidden.

She is proud of her British heritage.

Like her eldest son she also seems to be clumsy at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and how to interact positively with others. In dealing with her children, Mary seems to be strict and cold, treating her children more like coworkers than a family. Shukichi seemed to be more nurturing to Masumi than her mom. When Mary was 10 years younger, she came to physical blows with her eldest son, Shuichi, since he lied to her about his reasons to study in the USA and planned to join the FBI and investigate her husbands' incident. They both went as far as attacking each other's faces, leaving black eyes. She also thought Shuichi, who is a rather cold person as well, would make a good replacement father figure for Masumi and Shukichi. However, soon after she realized that Shuichi was driven by the same sense of curiosity as his father and he would go his own way. To her daughter Masumi, she acts secretively by hiding a lot of important information from Masumi, such as turning off the TV when Shuukichi shogi match was shown, and possibly some other whereabouts of the Black Organization and the Akai family overall. Her continued mistrust of Conan is another example of her general denseness at understanding others, since it is long past the point where she should be able to tell that Conan's motives and pursuit of justice are genuine.

But she does express joy at Shukichi's victory for becoming the seven-crowned Shogi master. It indicates that she does care for her children. Additionally, when Mary easily sees through Vermouth's disguise of Tsutomu, she appears genuinely distraught at the fact that her husband is apparently dead and even cries and didn't seem to be concerned about her fate as long as Masumi remains save, showing regardless of her tough attitude, she truly cares for her family. The apparent death of Tsutomu may have contributed to her hardened personality.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Mary different eyes.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mary's two different eye patterns.]]
Mary is a girl of middle school age (12-15) with blonde, curly, neck length hair. The child has eyes similar to those of [[Masumi Sera]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. In her appearance in File 877, she was shown wearing a high-neck pleated top, hoodie jacket, and hat. Like all the other manga characters, the color of her eyes is supposed to be blue, as seen in the keyhole of manga volume 83. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past.

In her varying appearances, Mary's eyes have been drawn slightly differently. In her original and current chapter appearances she seems to have an extra lash on the top of her eye, where as in the Pool case and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s comparison of her and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s eyes in the Department store case she does not have that extra lash.

== Skills ==
[[File:Mary skills.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Mary's hiding skills.]]
Mary seems to know about several types of wire taps. When she and Masumi find Conan's wire tap in their room, she says that she hasn't seen that type before. She also describes the components of it such as its battery life and performance. She spoke in a similar fashion about Conan's voice changer after she gets a chance to use it herself.

She has demonstrated the ability to hang from a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She has the strength to vault back up on to the balcony, much like [[Vermouth]] did in the New York case.

10 years ago she already had the ability to fight well enough that she landed a "knife-hand strike" to her son Shuichi's face, who at the time had already been practicing Jeet Kune Do. In the present, even with her small body, she was able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service".
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== Appellations ==
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{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Tsutomu-san<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974]]</ref> Husband (''Shujin'')<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> ''Ano hito'' (literally "that person", but the intended meaning is "husband")<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shuichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|-|Brat of the FBI (''FBI no kozo'')}}
{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shukichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Mama<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Masumi<ref name="file953"/>}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Kohji<ref name="file952">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file952"/>}}
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<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Vermouth|Mary Akai|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')}}
|}
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{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Mary<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930: Excessive Seasoning (Volume 88)]]</ref> That girl (''ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930"/> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[Volume 85#Poolside Case|File 903: The Corpse in the Pool (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903"/>}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|That girl (''ano ko'')}}
|}
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== Plot overview ==
=== The Red Woman Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman Murder Case|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|756]])===
[[File:Another person with eye bags appears.png|thumb|left|200px|Mary on Masumi's phone.]]
Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone by calling it with his. When he does he notices the call background screen is a child with eye bags similar to those of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. He remarks that the girl looks similar to Masumi. Earlier in the case she only mentioned having two brothers; a mother; and a father, so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

=== Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876-878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]]) ===
[[File:Unknown child and Masumi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mary and Masumi.]]
When Ran, Sonoko, and Conan visit Masumi's apartment, Mary is shown opening Masumi's door as Conan, Masumi, Sonoko, and Ran rush to investigate a crime. It is implied she was hiding in Masumi's bedroom while the other three were in the dining area because Masumi asks Conan not to enter her bedroom. Mary later goes downstairs to the scene of the crime where she is seen by Conan. At some point off screen Conan leaves behind a bug in Masumi's room. After the case is solved, Mary is shown examining Conan's bug along with Masumi, who had found it and crushed it. Mary comments on the quality of the performance of the bug itself and that she has never seen one like it. When Masumi asks if Mary has taken a liking to Conan she says that it is still early to trust Conan, and asks Masumi to introduce her as "{{nihongo|the little sister from ''outside the domain''|領域外の妹|ryōiki-gai no imōto}}", should Conan question her in the future.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
[[File:Mary & Masumi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mary and Masumi in the bedroom.]]
Mary is interested in [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s shogi match. When Masumi returns to the hotel room in the middle of the case while Mary is napping, she turns on the TV and sees the shogi match. Later after the case is solved, Masumi enters the room for a second time to see Mary turning off the TV. Presumably she saw the end of the match and was happy at Shukichi's victory, as was Subaru Okiya, whose identity was revealed in the case before this one, to be Shuichi.

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===
[[File:Ran and Unknown Child.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran sees Masumi and Mary.]]
Mary is waiting for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to visit her and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] in their hotel room. She expresses her still-lingering concern of trusting Conan, even though she thinks he is bright enough. Mary does comment that if anything were to go wrong they would have to move hotels again. Her talk with him alone is put on hold, however, because [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have invited themselves in accompanying Conan in order to enjoy the hotel's pool. As Conan, Ran, and Sonoko head back home after the case is solved, Ran turns around and sees Masumi talking to her. Ran gets the feeling that she has seen that child before.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
[[File:Conan and the handkerchief.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan with the handkerchief.]]
[[Masumi Sera]] is at Ramen Ogura with Conan, Sonoko and Ran. [[Katsumasa Ogura]] asks Masumi (mistakenly calling her "Mari") if she's going to take the same food to her apartment again. Conan implies that Masumi could be giving food to someone she's letting stay in her apartment, making a clear reference to Mary, but she jokes saying that it's for her secret boyfriend. At the end of the case it is revealed that Ogura had found a handkerchief that Masumi had left behind that said "Mary" on it in English. Ogura had confused the English name with the Japanese name "Mari". Conan believes that the handkerchief may be related to the child as well.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843-844]]) ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
Conan thinks about Mary, "the little sister from outside the domain looks a lot like Sera, no wait, more than that girl resembling Sera..." (領域外の妹と名乗る… 世良によく似た… いや…　あの子世良というより…‥ ). Conan also thinks to himself that the child's name is probably Mary. At the end of the case Haibara tried to wipe some of the makeup off of her face in the bathroom, but she missed some just below her left eye. The left over makeup made it look like she had the same eye bags as Shuichi, Masumi, and Mary. This causes Conan to make a connection between her and Mary.

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[The Spirit Detective's Murder|863-864]]) ===
[[File:Mary is Masumi's mother.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Mama?!"]]
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] is put in contact with a Soul Detective who wishes to reveal some information about the [[Kohji Haneda]] case. When Conan and Kogoro go to meet with him at the hotel, they find him dead and that [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] and Mary are presently staying in the next room. During the investigation Conan runs into Masumi's hotel room and checks the balcony as that is the only place a person would hide. However, Mary has hidden herself by anchoring herself and hiding by hugging the wall underneath the balcony. Conan takes a picture of a car parked on the ground floor below the balconies and decides to take a snapshot of the underside of the balcony, just to be certain. Masumi rushes to interrupt him on some pretense. Conan then drops his voice-changer on his way back inside. Mary picks it up, and later uses it in place of Conan to solve the case. When the culprit tries to flee by leaping over the balcony of the murder room over to their room, Mary takes him down single handedly using skills comparable to that of the secret service. Masumi rushes after Conan who has followed the suspect, calling out "Mama". Once Conan has left, Mary and Masumi discuss what information the Soul Detective had, which was that before Kohji's death, Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror and thinks that it means that Asaka is a woman. Mary warns Masumi about Conan saying that "it is like encountering a demon in the darkness" (暗がりに鬼を繋ぐが如く), and that he is not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Conan goes home and looks at the snapshot he has taken of the underside of the balcony. He theorizes that Mary could have been Asaka. Later Gin uses the same demon line that Mary used to refer to Kogoro.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
[[File:Mary Masumi Shuichi at beach.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A flashback to 10 years ago at the beach.]]
10 years ago at a beach somewhere in Japan, Shuichi reunited with his family after his 7 years in the US. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of [[Tsutomu Akai|his father]]. She also tells both Shuichi and Masumi not to do things that got them involved in the case, because there are people out there that are after them.
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=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|928]]) ===
After the case is solved, Masumi calls Mary and informs her about the drug that will return her back to normal, after witnessing Shinichi's appearance. Mary ordered Masumi to find [[Ai Haibara|the developer]] of the drug and obtain it. Once she succeeds, Mary declared that they will stop running from hotel to hotel and counterattack.

=== Antique Facet Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Antique Facet Case|1038]], Anime: [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|1020]]) ===
At the end of the case, Sera asks her mother about her "50:50" catchphrase, Mary revealed that it is a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Mary asks Sera if she can gets her hands on the drug, which the latter told her that it is difficult for the moment since [[Subaru Okiya]] is standing in her way. Mary asks her if he is such a noteworthy person, however, Sera is more concerned about whether Subaru is her brother Akai or not, since he's using the same "50:50" catchphrase as her brother.

=== Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98|1047]]-[[Volume 99|1050]], Anime: [[The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment|1045-1046]]) ===
Mary receives a call from Masumi, informing her that Conan brought the antidote that can returns her to her orginal body, and it is blue and white compared to the drug she was forced to take, which is red and white. Mary ordered her daughter to steal the antidote if possible. Later, Mary calls her daughter, asking if she was able to get the antidote, which Masumi responded that she was involved in a poisoning murder case. Hearing about poison, Mary started to remember her shrinking moment. Several months ago, Mary was supposed to meet her husband at Vauxhall Bridge in London, [[Tsutomu Akai]] appeared in front of her, however Mary realised that he isn't her husband after giving him false informations about her daughter. Tsutomu is revealed to be [[Vermouth]] in disguise, who intended to poison her with [[APTX 4869]]. Vermouth feeds Mary the drug with her mouth directly, which is created by her [[Elena Miyano|sister]]. Mary then jumps into the river due to the effect of the drug being very instant. After Mary shrinked, she returned to Sera, explaining to her the whole situation. Later, Mary and Sera witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during [[Holmes' Revelation|Minerva's match on TV]], and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi 10 years ago. The two realised that Conan is Shinichi who shrunk the same way as Mary, however, he has a way of returning as Shinichi to board a plane to London. Since then, Mary ordered Masumi to get closer to him, in order get their hands on the antidote.

=== Serial Hotel Bombing Case (Manga: [[Volume 103|1094-1096]], Anime: TBA) ===
After luring Conan to their current hotel to get their hands on the APTX antidote, Sera and Mary get involved in the resolution of a serial bombing case. However, they are discovred by an unknown man, who is the driver of an unknown old man, to the hotel and triggers a fire alert, forcing the building's evacuation. As Sera and Mary try to avoid drawing attention to themselves, they are nevertheless spotted by the unknown old man.<ref name="File 1096">Manga [[Volume 103]], [[Volume 103#Serial Hotel Bombing Case|File 1094-1096]]</ref>

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Mary is only shown twice at dawn under her hotel bed's blankets.

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Mary is shown working with her daughter Masumi to find a VIP from England who was kidnapped. She is seen attacking Subaru (Shuichi Akai) landing a few clean blows before running disappearing. She is also seen towards the end of the movie as she hides in Subaru’s car and waits for him to jump in. She points the gun to his head and threatens him and the FBI as they risked the life of an important VIP.

== Relationship ==
=== Tsutomu Akai ===
Tsutomu is her husband, who she lost around 17 years prior to the series. In his last message, he advice them to hide in Japan and think of him as dead due to that he has made himself some enemies. Although much of their relationship remains unknown, she knew her husband enough to easily see through Vermouth's disguise and in contrast to her distant and hardened exterior, the fact that Tsutomu was possibly dead was enough to cause her to cry, showing she cared deeply for him.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
Shuichi is her oldest son. She didn't approve at first of his decision to join the FBI and investigate his father's death, but eventually she gave him her blessing.

=== Shukichi Haneda ===
Shukichi is her second-oldest child and youngest son. It's not certain how she feels of him, but she keeps track of his Shogi-career and seemed happy when he became the seven-crowned king.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Masumi is her only daughter and youngest child, who was born after the family moved to Japan. Currently the two of them switch between hotels to hide themselves. Mary cares for Masumi, but doesn't trust her entirely (probably due to her extreme youth).

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Mary reacted to Kohji's name when she heard Kogoro mention it. It's possible that the Akai family, including Mary, might know Kohji in person.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Mary is the Akai family mother ===
These were the hints that fans used to determine that Mary was the Akai family mother prior to the end of the Soul Detective Murder Case where Masumi called Mary "mother"<ref>File 953</ref>, and the flashback to Shinichi and Ran meeting the Akai family on a beach.

* Mary shares a resemblance to [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]], and it was known from Masumi's earlier testimony that Akai family's mother also passed her looks into Shuichi and Sera.
* Mary is unusually mature while talking to Masumi. She gave Masumi instructions despite Masumi being apparently older and a skillful detective in her own right.
* Mary was happy when [[Shukichi]] (who was later revealed to be the middle brother of the Akai Family) won his 7th Shogi title.

* Mary seems to have some knowledge abut wiretaps, she also demonstrated the ability to a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She was also able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service." A normal middle school girl wouldn't be able to do this.

=== Mary is an adult shrunken by APTX 4869 ===
Mary acts like an adult despite having the appearance of a middle-school aged female. When Masumi and Mary speak, the speech honorifics are not those appropriate for an elder Masumi talking to a younger girl. Instead, they appear to indicate the two are on equal levels, or even reverse with Mary expressing greater seniority. In addition, Mary's voice actor in the anime, [[Atsuko Tanaka]], has a deep and sultry voice which is often used to portray mature female characters.

The secrecy surrounding Mary, as well as Masumi's attempts to get her to trust Conan, whom Masumi knows is a shrunken Shinichi, might be indications that Masumi is trying to get the child help about an [[APTX 4869]] problem. This plot point is finally canonized in manga chapter 1049, when a flashback reveals a fateful confrontation between Mary and Vermouth which resulted in Mary getting force-fed the APTX.<ref name="ch1049" />

=== Mary is the sister of Elena Miyano ===
This very popular fan theory<ref>According to polls at DCW as of Sep 10, 2015, the most popular choice for her true identity is APTX-dosed Akai family mother</ref> was born after Gosho hinted that two mother characters are sisters.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639 Leaked interview notes from the May issue of the magazine 「ダ・ヴィンチ」 (da Vinci) with the fans/reporters/whatever, leaked April 15, 2014] "Two mothers will also be revealed as being sisters, etc.…… A lot of things are connected together. This is bad, I'm talking too much. Well, please look forward to the manga.</ref> After it was confirmed the sisters were not the previous most popular choice [[Yukiko Kudo]] and [[Chikage Kuroba]], and that the Akai family mother was one member of the sister pair,<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12439&p=842050#p842050 Super Digest Book 70+: Gosho Aoyama's Interview] "Are Yukiko and Sera's mum sisters?" 
Answer : The sister isn't Yukiko but... 
</ref> fan suspicion fell squarely on Elena Miyano as the other mother. After all, both women are British. Gosho has given evasive answers when asked about Elena and the Akai family mother being related, which is his habit when a fan theory is correct but he can't admit to it.<ref>When answering fan questions, Gosho often bluntly says "no" if a guess is wrong. If it is correct and would spoil a mystery, Gosho's habit is to be vague and avoid giving a firm answer rather than lying or giving in and revealing the truth. After narrowing down the choices, fans started trying to trap Gosho. 
[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=361432 Conan Super Digest Book SDB 80+]
 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and Shuichi Akai's/Sera's mother sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 

Q62: Are Sera and Haibara cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) </ref>

=== Mary is a British SIS/MI6 Agent ===
Mary is British and has several unusual skill sets that match those of other spy-like characters in ''Detective Conan''. Mary has knowledge of incapacitating martial arts that can bring down adult men despite her size<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, extraordinary flexibility and climbing skills that allowed her to hide below a balcony like a ninja<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, and knowledge of listening devices and hidden microphones.<ref>Romance Novelist Murder Case</ref>

Because of her British nationality, the theory that she is a member of the British [[Wikipedia:Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6, has gained traction in many Detective Conan fandoms. In chapter 1049, that detail is inserted into ''Detective Conan'' canon when in a flashback Vermouth expresses regret that she cannot disguise herself as Mary to infiltrate MI6 for the time being when she is forced to assassinate the latter.<ref name="ch1049" />
== Speculation ==
At the time Mary was introduced, her relationship to Masumi Sera was unknown. Masumi testifies that she has two older brothers: [[Shuichi Akai]] and an unknown brother (later revealed to be [[Shukichi Haneda]]) living in Japan.<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: Red Woman. "We're three siblings: My two oldest brothers and me, their little sister!" </ref> She says her father is dead, and her mother lives overseas in America. Masumi says she doesn't have any more relatives close enough to depend on.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 3: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> Masumi only started claiming to have a "younger sister from outside the domain" after the unknown child coached her to use that cover story if Conan asked about her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 6 (878), pg 16: "The Phone, the Sea, and I" She requests Masumi call her the younger sister from outside the domain if Conan asks</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 7 (879), pgs 2-3: "Detective's Master" Conan asks about the girl and Masumi uses the "younger sister from outside the domain" explanation as she was instructed. Conan notices the discrepancy between this and her earlier statements which didn't mention a sister.</ref><ref>[[Episode 759]] 1min 41sec Crunchyroll translation: "If she has two brothers and doesn't know of her relatives, then who is that young girl I saw on her phone that looks just like her?"</ref> She is currently being financially supported by a friend of her father's. If Masumi has told the truth, minus what she said about having a "younger sister from outside the domain", that leaves relatively few options for Mary's identity assuming the child is related by blood somehow to Masumi. In file 972, Mary is revealed to be the Akai family's mother.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
File:756 23.jpg|Mary's original appearance in the anime adaptation of the case (episode 756).
File:Mary original appearance.jpg|Mary as she originally appeared in file 875.
File:2014-06-08 00.25.28.jpg|Mary in file 899.
EP1019 3.jpeg|Mary 17 years ago
EP881 8.jpeg|Mary 10 years ago
Keyhole_83.jpg|Mary as child in keyhole
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*In File 1038 its reveal that like Shuichi and Tsumotu, she uses the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame”.
*It is revealed in many manga panels that Mary is left-handed, just like her son.
*Mary usually coughs, properly due to the side effects of APTX-4869.
*Mary's seiyuu is Atsuko Tanaka.

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

== References ==
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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Mary Sera
| japanese-name = メアリー世良 (Mearī Sera)
| english-name =
| image = Mary Sera Profile.jpg
| age = Looks approximately middle school aged according to Conan Real age is 53<ref>Akai is 32 (SDB90+ Q4) so add 17 years on that at reasonable minimum.</ref><ref>'''Chapter 1037:''' Mary was 36 eighteen years ago.</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = MI6 Agent Housewife
|status = Alive (shrunk) Dead (for the Black Organization)
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (husband, deceased) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first son) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second son) [[Masumi Sera]] (daughter)
| nicknames = Sister from outside the domain
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 83#Red Tragedy|File 875]] Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|Episode 756]]
| appearances = {{:Mary Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 83]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Tanaka]]
| cases-solved = 1
| footnotes =
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{{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリー世良|Mearī Sera}}, also known by her marriage name as {{nihongo|'''Mary Akai'''|赤井メアリー|Akai Mearī}}<ref>'''Chapter 1037'''</ref> appears as a middle-school age girl with blonde hair who has been hiding in various hotels in Tokyo with [[Masumi Sera]]. Despite her appearance, she is actually a middle-aged woman; she is the wife of [[Tsutomu Akai]], and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and Masumi Sera. She is a member of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6.

== Background ==
[[File:Ep 995 Mary's flashback.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Masumi thinking back to her mother's transformation]]Mary Sera's full background is currently unknown, She met and married [[Tsutomu Akai]], and bore three children, [[Shuichi]], [[Shukichi]], and [[Masumi]]. Her husband left at some point before Masumi was born, to investigate the double murder of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]], which got him tangled with the [[Black Organization]].

Later on, Mary learned that her husband was apparently roaming London and immediately travelled there, taking Masumi along as added insurance.<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1049: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> Leaving her daughter in their hotel room, she left to meet Tsutomu at their favorite meeting place at Vauxhall Bridge. There she was trapped and forced to ingest the [[APTX]] by [[Vermouth]],<ref name="ch1048">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1048: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> causing her age to be regressed and return to Masumi hours later in the body of a middle-school child.<ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref><ref name="ch1049" />

Right after her return, Mary and Sera watched a recording of a TV broadcast about [[Conan Edogawa]]'s involvement in the attempted blackmail of Minerva Glass<ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Manga volume 71, file 743]] to [[Volume 72#Following Holmes|volume 72, file 752]]: "Following Holmes"</ref> and immediately recognized him as [[Shinichi Kudo]], whom they [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|had encountered ten years ago]].<ref>[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, file 1050: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> She returned to Japan with Masumi in order to find out about the existence of an antidote to the APTX, which Shinichi apparently has access to, using Masumi as a proxy for her investigations. She also has expressed an interest in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and the identity of the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]].<ref>[[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Manga volume 90: "Soul Detective Murder Case"]]</ref>

== Personality ==
Mary seems very mature and direct, especially when speaking to Masumi. She seems hesitant to trust others at the moment and is being extremely cautious about who knows about her. Currently because of her cautiousness, she and Masumi have been moving from one hotel to another to keep their location hidden.

She is proud of her British heritage.

Like her eldest son she also seems to be clumsy at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and how to interact positively with others. In dealing with her children, Mary seems to be strict and cold, treating her children more like coworkers than a family. Shukichi seemed to be more nurturing to Masumi than her mom. When Mary was 10 years younger, she came to physical blows with her eldest son, Shuichi, since he lied to her about his reasons to study in the USA and planned to join the FBI and investigate her husbands' incident. They both went as far as attacking each other's faces, leaving black eyes. She also thought Shuichi, who is a rather cold person as well, would make a good replacement father figure for Masumi and Shukichi. However, soon after she realized that Shuichi was driven by the same sense of curiosity as his father and he would go his own way. To her daughter Masumi, she acts secretively by hiding a lot of important information from Masumi, such as turning off the TV when Shuukichi shogi match was shown, and possibly some other whereabouts of the Black Organization and the Akai family overall. Her continued mistrust of Conan is another example of her general denseness at understanding others, since it is long past the point where she should be able to tell that Conan's motives and pursuit of justice are genuine.

But she does express joy at Shukichi's victory for becoming the seven-crowned Shogi master. It indicates that she does care for her children. Additionally, when Mary easily sees through Vermouth's disguise of Tsutomu, she appears genuinely distraught at the fact that her husband is apparently dead and even cries and didn't seem to be concerned about her fate as long as Masumi remains save, showing regardless of her tough attitude, she truly cares for her family. The apparent death of Tsutomu may have contributed to her hardened personality.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Mary different eyes.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mary's two different eye patterns.]]
Mary is a girl of middle school age (12-15) with blonde, curly, neck length hair. The child has eyes similar to those of [[Masumi Sera]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. In her appearance in File 877, she was shown wearing a high-neck pleated top, hoodie jacket, and hat. Like all the other manga characters, the color of her eyes is supposed to be blue, as seen in the keyhole of manga volume 83. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past.

In her varying appearances, Mary's eyes have been drawn slightly differently. In her original and current chapter appearances she seems to have an extra lash on the top of her eye, where as in the Pool case and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s comparison of her and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s eyes in the Department store case she does not have that extra lash.

== Skills ==
[[File:Mary skills.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Mary's hiding skills.]]
Mary seems to know about several types of wire taps. When she and Masumi find Conan's wire tap in their room, she says that she hasn't seen that type before. She also describes the components of it such as its battery life and performance. She spoke in a similar fashion about Conan's voice changer after she gets a chance to use it herself.

She has demonstrated the ability to hang from a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She has the strength to vault back up on to the balcony, much like [[Vermouth]] did in the New York case.

10 years ago she already had the ability to fight well enough that she landed a "knife-hand strike" to her son Shuichi's face, who at the time had already been practicing Jeet Kune Do. In the present, even with her small body, she was able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service".
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== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shuichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|-|Brat of the FBI (''FBI no kozo'')}}
{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shukichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Mama<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Masumi<ref name="file953"/>}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Kohji<ref name="file952">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file952"/>}}
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{{appellations|Vermouth|Mary Akai|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')}}
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{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Mary<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930: Excessive Seasoning (Volume 88)]]</ref> That girl (''ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930"/> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[Volume 85#Poolside Case|File 903: The Corpse in the Pool (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903"/>}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|That girl (''ano ko'')}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== The Red Woman Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman Murder Case|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|756]])===
[[File:Another person with eye bags appears.png|thumb|left|200px|Mary on Masumi's phone.]]
Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone by calling it with his. When he does he notices the call background screen is a child with eye bags similar to those of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. He remarks that the girl looks similar to Masumi. Earlier in the case she only mentioned having two brothers; a mother; and a father, so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

=== Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876-878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]]) ===
[[File:Unknown child and Masumi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mary and Masumi.]]
When Ran, Sonoko, and Conan visit Masumi's apartment, Mary is shown opening Masumi's door as Conan, Masumi, Sonoko, and Ran rush to investigate a crime. It is implied she was hiding in Masumi's bedroom while the other three were in the dining area because Masumi asks Conan not to enter her bedroom. Mary later goes downstairs to the scene of the crime where she is seen by Conan. At some point off screen Conan leaves behind a bug in Masumi's room. After the case is solved, Mary is shown examining Conan's bug along with Masumi, who had found it and crushed it. Mary comments on the quality of the performance of the bug itself and that she has never seen one like it. When Masumi asks if Mary has taken a liking to Conan she says that it is still early to trust Conan, and asks Masumi to introduce her as "{{nihongo|the little sister from ''outside the domain''|領域外の妹|ryōiki-gai no imōto}}", should Conan question her in the future.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
[[File:Mary & Masumi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mary and Masumi in the bedroom.]]
Mary is interested in [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s shogi match. When Masumi returns to the hotel room in the middle of the case while Mary is napping, she turns on the TV and sees the shogi match. Later after the case is solved, Masumi enters the room for a second time to see Mary turning off the TV. Presumably she saw the end of the match and was happy at Shukichi's victory, as was Subaru Okiya, whose identity was revealed in the case before this one, to be Shuichi.

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===
[[File:Ran and Unknown Child.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran sees Masumi and Mary.]]
Mary is waiting for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to visit her and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] in their hotel room. She expresses her still-lingering concern of trusting Conan, even though she thinks he is bright enough. Mary does comment that if anything were to go wrong they would have to move hotels again. Her talk with him alone is put on hold, however, because [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have invited themselves in accompanying Conan in order to enjoy the hotel's pool. As Conan, Ran, and Sonoko head back home after the case is solved, Ran turns around and sees Masumi talking to her. Ran gets the feeling that she has seen that child before.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
[[File:Conan and the handkerchief.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan with the handkerchief.]]
[[Masumi Sera]] is at Ramen Ogura with Conan, Sonoko and Ran. [[Katsumasa Ogura]] asks Masumi (mistakenly calling her "Mari") if she's going to take the same food to her apartment again. Conan implies that Masumi could be giving food to someone she's letting stay in her apartment, making a clear reference to Mary, but she jokes saying that it's for her secret boyfriend. At the end of the case it is revealed that Ogura had found a handkerchief that Masumi had left behind that said "Mary" on it in English. Ogura had confused the English name with the Japanese name "Mari". Conan believes that the handkerchief may be related to the child as well.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843-844]]) ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
Conan thinks about Mary, "the little sister from outside the domain looks a lot like Sera, no wait, more than that girl resembling Sera..." (領域外の妹と名乗る… 世良によく似た… いや…　あの子世良というより…‥ ). Conan also thinks to himself that the child's name is probably Mary. At the end of the case Haibara tried to wipe some of the makeup off of her face in the bathroom, but she missed some just below her left eye. The left over makeup made it look like she had the same eye bags as Shuichi, Masumi, and Mary. This causes Conan to make a connection between her and Mary.

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[The Spirit Detective's Murder|863-864]]) ===
[[File:Mary is Masumi's mother.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Mama?!"]]
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] is put in contact with a Soul Detective who wishes to reveal some information about the [[Kohji Haneda]] case. When Conan and Kogoro go to meet with him at the hotel, they find him dead and that [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] and Mary are presently staying in the next room. During the investigation Conan runs into Masumi's hotel room and checks the balcony as that is the only place a person would hide. However, Mary has hidden herself by anchoring herself and hiding by hugging the wall underneath the balcony. Conan takes a picture of a car parked on the ground floor below the balconies and decides to take a snapshot of the underside of the balcony, just to be certain. Masumi rushes to interrupt him on some pretense. Conan then drops his voice-changer on his way back inside. Mary picks it up, and later uses it in place of Conan to solve the case. When the culprit tries to flee by leaping over the balcony of the murder room over to their room, Mary takes him down single handedly using skills comparable to that of the secret service. Masumi rushes after Conan who has followed the suspect, calling out "Mama". Once Conan has left, Mary and Masumi discuss what information the Soul Detective had, which was that before Kohji's death, Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror and thinks that it means that Asaka is a woman. Mary warns Masumi about Conan saying that "it is like encountering a demon in the darkness" (暗がりに鬼を繋ぐが如く), and that he is not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Conan goes home and looks at the snapshot he has taken of the underside of the balcony. He theorizes that Mary could have been Asaka. Later Gin uses the same demon line that Mary used to refer to Kogoro.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
[[File:Mary Masumi Shuichi at beach.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A flashback to 10 years ago at the beach.]]
10 years ago at a beach somewhere in Japan, Shuichi reunited with his family after his 7 years in the US. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of [[Tsutomu Akai|his father]]. She also tells both Shuichi and Masumi not to do things that got them involved in the case, because there are people out there that are after them.
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=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|928]]) ===
After the case is solved, Masumi calls Mary and informs her about the drug that will return her back to normal, after witnessing Shinichi's appearance. Mary ordered Masumi to find [[Ai Haibara|the developer]] of the drug and obtain it. Once she succeeds, Mary declared that they will stop running from hotel to hotel and counterattack.

=== Antique Facet Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Antique Facet Case|1038]], Anime: [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|1020]]) ===
At the end of the case, Sera asks her mother about her "50:50" catchphrase, Mary revealed that it is a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Mary asks Sera if she can gets her hands on the drug, which the latter told her that it is difficult for the moment since [[Subaru Okiya]] is standing in her way. Mary asks her if he is such a noteworthy person, however, Sera is more concerned about whether Subaru is her brother Akai or not, since he's using the same "50:50" catchphrase as her brother.

=== Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98|1047]]-[[Volume 99|1050]], Anime: [[The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment|1045-1046]]) ===
Mary receives a call from Masumi, informing her that Conan brought the antidote that can returns her to her orginal body, and it is blue and white compared to the drug she was forced to take, which is red and white. Mary ordered her daughter to steal the antidote if possible. Later, Mary calls her daughter, asking if she was able to get the antidote, which Masumi responded that she was involved in a poisoning murder case. Hearing about poison, Mary started to remember her shrinking moment. Several months ago, Mary was supposed to meet her husband at Vauxhall Bridge in London, [[Tsutomu Akai]] appeared in front of her, however Mary realised that he isn't her husband after giving him false informations about her daughter. Tsutomu is revealed to be [[Vermouth]] in disguise, who intended to poison her with [[APTX 4869]]. Vermouth feeds Mary the drug with her mouth directly, which is created by her [[Elena Miyano|sister]]. Mary then jumps into the river due to the effect of the drug being very instant. After Mary shrinked, she returned to Sera, explaining to her the whole situation. Later, Mary and Sera witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during [[Holmes' Revelation|Minerva's match on TV]], and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi 10 years ago. The two realised that Conan is Shinichi who shrunk the same way as Mary, however, he has a way of returning as Shinichi to board a plane to London. Since then, Mary ordered Masumi to get closer to him, in order get their hands on the antidote.

=== Serial Hotel Bombing Case (Manga: [[Volume 103|1094-1096]], Anime: TBA) ===
After luring Conan to their current hotel to get their hands on the APTX antidote, Sera and Mary get involved in the resolution of a serial bombing case. However, they are discovred by an unknown man, who is the driver of an unknown old man, to the hotel and triggers a fire alert, forcing the building's evacuation. As Sera and Mary try to avoid drawing attention to themselves, they are nevertheless spotted by the unknown old man.<ref name="File 1096">Manga [[Volume 103]], [[Volume 103#Serial Hotel Bombing Case|File 1094-1096]]</ref>

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Mary is only shown twice at dawn under her hotel bed's blankets.

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Mary is shown working with her daughter Masumi to find a VIP from England who was kidnapped. She is seen attacking Subaru (Shuichi Akai) landing a few clean blows before running disappearing. She is also seen towards the end of the movie as she hides in Subaru’s car and waits for him to jump in. She points the gun to his head and threatens him and the FBI as they risked the life of an important VIP.

== Relationship ==
=== Tsutomu Akai ===
Tsutomu is her husband, who she lost around 17 years prior to the series. In his last message, he advice them to hide in Japan and think of him as dead due to that he has made himself some enemies. Although much of their relationship remains unknown, she knew her husband enough to easily see through Vermouth's disguise and in contrast to her distant and hardened exterior, the fact that Tsutomu was possibly dead was enough to cause her to cry, showing she cared deeply for him.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
Shuichi is her oldest son. She didn't approve at first of his decision to join the FBI and investigate his father's death, but eventually she gave him her blessing.

=== Shukichi Haneda ===
Shukichi is her second-oldest child and youngest son. It's not certain how she feels of him, but she keeps track of his Shogi-career and seemed happy when he became the seven-crowned king.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Masumi is her only daughter and youngest child, who was born after the family moved to Japan. Currently the two of them switch between hotels to hide themselves. Mary cares for Masumi, but doesn't trust her entirely (probably due to her extreme youth).

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Mary reacted to Kohji's name when she heard Kogoro mention it. It's possible that the Akai family, including Mary, might know Kohji in person.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Mary is the Akai family mother ===
These were the hints that fans used to determine that Mary was the Akai family mother prior to the end of the Soul Detective Murder Case where Masumi called Mary "mother"<ref>File 953</ref>, and the flashback to Shinichi and Ran meeting the Akai family on a beach.

* Mary shares a resemblance to [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]], and it was known from Masumi's earlier testimony that Akai family's mother also passed her looks into Shuichi and Sera.
* Mary is unusually mature while talking to Masumi. She gave Masumi instructions despite Masumi being apparently older and a skillful detective in her own right.
* Mary was happy when [[Shukichi]] (who was later revealed to be the middle brother of the Akai Family) won his 7th Shogi title.

* Mary seems to have some knowledge abut wiretaps, she also demonstrated the ability to a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She was also able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service." A normal middle school girl wouldn't be able to do this.

=== Mary is an adult shrunken by APTX 4869 ===
Mary acts like an adult despite having the appearance of a middle-school aged female. When Masumi and Mary speak, the speech honorifics are not those appropriate for an elder Masumi talking to a younger girl. Instead, they appear to indicate the two are on equal levels, or even reverse with Mary expressing greater seniority. In addition, Mary's voice actor in the anime, [[Atsuko Tanaka]], has a deep and sultry voice which is often used to portray mature female characters.

The secrecy surrounding Mary, as well as Masumi's attempts to get her to trust Conan, whom Masumi knows is a shrunken Shinichi, might be indications that Masumi is trying to get the child help about an [[APTX 4869]] problem. This plot point is finally canonized in manga chapter 1049, when a flashback reveals a fateful confrontation between Mary and Vermouth which resulted in Mary getting force-fed the APTX.<ref name="ch1049" />

=== Mary is the sister of Elena Miyano ===
This very popular fan theory<ref>According to polls at DCW as of Sep 10, 2015, the most popular choice for her true identity is APTX-dosed Akai family mother</ref> was born after Gosho hinted that two mother characters are sisters.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639 Leaked interview notes from the May issue of the magazine 「ダ・ヴィンチ」 (da Vinci) with the fans/reporters/whatever, leaked April 15, 2014] "Two mothers will also be revealed as being sisters, etc.…… A lot of things are connected together. This is bad, I'm talking too much. Well, please look forward to the manga.</ref> After it was confirmed the sisters were not the previous most popular choice [[Yukiko Kudo]] and [[Chikage Kuroba]], and that the Akai family mother was one member of the sister pair,<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12439&p=842050#p842050 Super Digest Book 70+: Gosho Aoyama's Interview] "Are Yukiko and Sera's mum sisters?" 
Answer : The sister isn't Yukiko but... 
</ref> fan suspicion fell squarely on Elena Miyano as the other mother. After all, both women are British. Gosho has given evasive answers when asked about Elena and the Akai family mother being related, which is his habit when a fan theory is correct but he can't admit to it.<ref>When answering fan questions, Gosho often bluntly says "no" if a guess is wrong. If it is correct and would spoil a mystery, Gosho's habit is to be vague and avoid giving a firm answer rather than lying or giving in and revealing the truth. After narrowing down the choices, fans started trying to trap Gosho. 
[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=361432 Conan Super Digest Book SDB 80+]
 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and Shuichi Akai's/Sera's mother sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 

Q62: Are Sera and Haibara cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) </ref>
In file 1049, it is confirmed that Elena and Mary are sisters, when Vermouth said "How does it feel to detach from this world with the drug that your sister made?" after poisoned Mary with APTX 4869.

=== Mary is a British SIS/MI6 Agent ===
Mary is British and has several unusual skill sets that match those of other spy-like characters in ''Detective Conan''. Mary has knowledge of incapacitating martial arts that can bring down adult men despite her size<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, extraordinary flexibility and climbing skills that allowed her to hide below a balcony like a ninja<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, and knowledge of listening devices and hidden microphones.<ref>Romance Novelist Murder Case</ref>

Because of her British nationality, the theory that she is a member of the British [[Wikipedia:Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6, has gained traction in many Detective Conan fandoms. In chapter 1049, that detail is inserted into ''Detective Conan'' canon when in a flashback Vermouth expresses regret that she cannot disguise herself as Mary to infiltrate MI6 for the time being when she is forced to assassinate the latter.<ref name="ch1049" />
== Speculation ==
At the time Mary was introduced, her relationship to Masumi Sera was unknown. Masumi testifies that she has two older brothers: [[Shuichi Akai]] and an unknown brother (later revealed to be [[Shukichi Haneda]]) living in Japan.<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: Red Woman. "We're three siblings: My two oldest brothers and me, their little sister!" </ref> She says her father is dead, and her mother lives overseas in America. Masumi says she doesn't have any more relatives close enough to depend on.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 3: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> Masumi only started claiming to have a "younger sister from outside the domain" after the unknown child coached her to use that cover story if Conan asked about her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 6 (878), pg 16: "The Phone, the Sea, and I" She requests Masumi call her the younger sister from outside the domain if Conan asks</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 7 (879), pgs 2-3: "Detective's Master" Conan asks about the girl and Masumi uses the "younger sister from outside the domain" explanation as she was instructed. Conan notices the discrepancy between this and her earlier statements which didn't mention a sister.</ref><ref>[[Episode 759]] 1min 41sec Crunchyroll translation: "If she has two brothers and doesn't know of her relatives, then who is that young girl I saw on her phone that looks just like her?"</ref> She is currently being financially supported by a friend of her father's. If Masumi has told the truth, minus what she said about having a "younger sister from outside the domain", that leaves relatively few options for Mary's identity assuming the child is related by blood somehow to Masumi. In file 972, Mary is revealed to be the Akai family's mother.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
File:756 23.jpg|Mary's original appearance in the anime adaptation of the case (episode 756).
File:Mary original appearance.jpg|Mary as she originally appeared in file 875.
File:2014-06-08 00.25.28.jpg|Mary in file 899.
EP1019 3.jpeg|Mary 17 years ago
EP881 8.jpeg|Mary 10 years ago
Keyhole_83.jpg|Mary as child in keyhole
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*In File 1038 its reveal that like Shuichi and Tsumotu, she uses the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame”.
*It is revealed in many manga panels that Mary is left-handed, just like her son.
*Mary usually coughs, properly due to the side effects of APTX-4869.
*Mary's seiyuu is Atsuko Tanaka.

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

== References ==
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| age = 32<ref>Q4 of Super Digest Book 90+ Interview with Gosho</ref> 27 as [[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]]
| gender = Male
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, missing, presumed dead) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (younger brother) [[Masumi Sera]] (younger sister)
| occupation = FBI Agent
|status = '''Alive''' (Under disguise as [[Subaru Okiya]]) Dead (for the [[Black Organization]]) Missing (presumed dead)
| nicknames = Shu ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Dai-kun ([[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]]) Akai-kun ([[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet ([[The Boss]] & [[Vermouth]]) Shu-nii ([[Masumi Sera|Masumi]]) Niisan ([[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]])
| aliases = Rye Dai Moroboshi [[Subaru Okiya]]
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|File 287]] Anime: [[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 230]]
| appearances = {{:Shuichi Akai Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 6 (5 as Subaru)
| keyhole = [[Volume 37]] [[Volume 60]] (Subaru Okiya)
| japanese-voice = [[Shuichi Ikeda]] [[Yuki Kaji]] (young)
| english-voice = [[Keith Silverstein]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Shuichi Akai|赤井秀一|Akai Shūichi}}''' is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and a major figure in the battle against the [[Black Organization]]. He once assumed the identity of '''{{nihongo|Dai Moroboshi|諸星大|Moroboshi Dai}}''' and infiltrated the Organization, where he was given the codename '''{{nihongo|Rye|ライ|Rai}}'''. During this time he made enemies with [[Gin]] and became romantically involved with [[Akemi Miyano]]. He is the older brother of [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]].

== Background ==
[[File:Long haired Akai.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Shuichi as "Dai Moroboshi" during his infiltration of the Black Organization.]]
Shuichi Akai is a British American of Japanese descent, originally from England, and is a member of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, on special assignment in Japan to capture [[Gin]]. His superior is [[James Black]] and his partner is [[Jodie Starling]].<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple 5</ref> He had infiltrated the Black Organization under the name Dai Moroboshi - and the codename "Rye" - as a mole<ref>Manga Chapter 599: Akai's Past</ref> and dated [[Akemi Miyano]], one of their low-ranking members, to feed information to the FBI. In order to facilitate the latter, and later because he had genuinely developed feelings for Akemi, Shuichi saw himself forced to break up his then on-going relationship with Jodie.<ref>Manga Chapter 677: The Fated Individual</ref> Later on, his cover in the Black Organization was accidentally blown by his colleague [[Andre Camel]], and when Akemi was killed, he declared her murderer, [[Gin]] (with whom he seems to have had some tensions even before his exposure), his personal enemy.<ref>Manga Chapter 504: Black Organization vs. FBI 2</ref>

=== The disappearance of his father ===
17 years prior to the current timeline, Shuichi's father, [[Tsutomu Akai]], got himself involved in the murder case of Kohji Haneda and Amanda Hughes and disappeared. In his last message he instructed his pregnant wife Mary and their two sons to hide in Japan. Shuichi, determined to investigate his missing father's "incident," convinced his mother to let him study in America. After he left Japan, his younger sister Masumi was born. Shuichi didn't get to meet her until he returned to Japan after seven years in the states, but Shukichi sent him pictures of her. After he had finished school, he joined the FBI.

=== Infiltration of the Black Organization ===
Five years prior to the current time-line, [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent Shuichi Akai infiltrated the [[Black Organization]] using the alias Dai Moroboshi as a mole and dated [[Akemi Miyano]], one of their low-ranking members, in order to meet [[Shiho Miyano]], a high-ranked member codenamed Sherry, and use her influence to get into the Black Organization.<ref name=599p9>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past"</ref> Although at first he was simply using Akemi as a tool, they both fell in love with each other. Shuichi distinguished himself as an agent and two years prior to the current time-line received the codename Rye and was called to work under executive agent [[Gin]]. The FBI laid a trap hoping to capture Gin at a warehouse where the meeting was supposed to take place,<ref name=599p9/> but the Black Organization discovered Akai's true allegiance and Gin never appeared.<ref name=599p10>Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 10: "Akai's Past"</ref>
He broke up with Akemi to protect her and he lost contact with her after the mission to capture Gin failed. Two years later Akemi got killed by the organization to cut loose ends.

== Personality ==
Shuichi is a tenacious but stoic agent. Even in personal matters, he remains cool, even detached, from anyone, but his redeeming value is a great sense of loyalty to anyone he knows. He is a skilled and relentless pursuer and detective, qualities which have labeled him the number one enemy of the [[Black Organization]] and earned him the nickname "[[Silver Bullet]]". He looks forward to opportunities to hunt the Black Organization down and get revenge for [[Akemi]]. While usually professional, he often acts independently of the FBI, and even his boss [[James Black]] has trouble getting ahold of him. Shuichi gets along well with Conan, who share many personality traits. Despite that he has American citizenship, he still considers England as his home country.

James Black describes Shuichi as an introverted person who doesn't easily get close to people, and further notes that Shuichi has become even more closed off since Akemi's death.<ref name=502p13>Manga Volume 49, File 2, page 13: "New Order"</ref> Shuichi doesn't often voice what he is thinking and has an unhealthy tendency to prioritize his missions above the emotional well-being of his friends, co-workers, family, and love interests.<ref>Shuichi's fake death, while preserving Kir and allowing her to pass confidential information to the FBI, has caused significant dysfunction within the FBI who believe him to be truly dead. While Shuichi has technically been fulfilling the promise he made to look after Haibara's welfare as Okiya, he has executed it in such a way that made Haibara terrified of his presence and refused to be alone at Agasa's house when he was around.</ref> Conflict between his missions and the interests of those he cares about has lead to significant sorrow for him<ref>Shuichi didn't inform Akemi he was an FBI agent despite being in love because it might jeopardize his mission (and his relationship). Even though Akemi figured out Shuichi was an FBI agent and wished to leave the Organization and date him seriously, she kept it secret from him either because she was not sure how he would react, or because she thought it could cause him harm. Thus, the infiltration mission was the root cause of their secretkeeping which prevented them from coming up with an exit strategy for Akemi in case the mission failed. The following chain of events led to Akemi's death.</ref> and others.<ref>Shuichi's faked death to save Kir's mission and get her to pass information to the FBI as well demoralized the FBI, especially Jodie. Shuichi's infiltration mission required that he seduce Akemi even though he was dating Jodie at the time. When he fell in love with Akemi for real, Shuichi decided to break it off with Jodie. When justifying his decision to Jodie, he mentioned that he didn't want the onus of loving two women at once, but he also mentioned he thought the "sacrifice" was important to his mission to destroy the Black Organization. This implies that love was not the only factor in Shuichi's decision, he thought choosing Akemi over Jodie would help his mission -- perhaps because he was afraid he would be caught as a spy if anyone discovered his relationship with Akemi was fake. [http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=980&p=16431#p16431]</ref>

Shuichi prefers to plan secretly, and will readily trick his friends and coworkers, even injuring them, if helps the success of his missions.<ref>FBI vs Org, Shuichi didn't tell the rest of the FBI he would cover Kogoro's agency. In Red vs Black, the return Kir plan and the fake death plan were both kept secret from the FBI. He ordered Camel to remove by force if necessary anyone who interfered which resulted in Jodie being knocked out. He later told Kir to hit Camel for real to make her escape look authentic.</ref> Shuichi is often forgiven for these transgressions because his judgment is usually sound and his plans work out well.<ref>In FBI vs Org, Shuichi was forgiven for covering Kogoro without telling his boss and for making the decision on his own to let the Black Organization leave without much resistance because he thought it might lead to a dangerous firefight downtown. In Red vs Black, Shuichi was forgiven after being told off for hiding his secret plan to return Rena to the Org.</ref> Shuichi's secret plans, while strategically robust in the short term, often cause emotional problems for others that he does not fully appreciate.<ref>In particular, his faked death had a major impact on the FBI and [[Jodie Starling]]. [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] was able to take advantage of the emotional confusion surrounding his death to approach the FBI for his own ends. Jodie's sorrow has reduced her effectiveness and led her to blunder into dangerous situations.</ref>

Even though he means well, Shuichi is notably clumsy at trying to comfort and connect with others. He is especially dense at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and thus how to modify his own behavior to improve relations. As [[Subaru Okiya]], his technique to approach [[Ai Haibara]] leaves her terrified of him, and repeated contact only intensifies her loathing. Ten years ago, he was also cold to young Masumi on their first meeting, brushing Masumi's silly antics aside without realizing that she simply wanted him to smile and treat her kindly, though he most likely was simply in a bad mood, since he just had an intense argument with his mother, in which they traded physical blows, because of his plan to join the FBI after his studies to pursue the case of his father and because he had lied to her about that. Later that day, during the investigation of a case, Shuichi gives both Shinichi and Ran a task to help with the investigation, so Masumi approaches Shuichi shyly and asks for a task as well. Now Shuichi responds kindly and gives her a task that makes her feel important. 

Despite his social awkwardness, Shuichi is not apathetic. He gives Jodie some hope by leaving her a message in his own handwriting, and leaves her a very roundabout hint about his identity after knocking her down even though he cannot reveal the truth to her yet. Eventually he also realized that Masumi was looking up to him, so he began to send her videos of him doing Jeet Kune Do.

== Appearance ==
Shuichi is a tall and fit man of Japanese descent with short wavy hair with strands hanging over his right eye. He is very handsome, as mentioned by Yukiko Kudo. His trademark features, by which people close to him have identified him are his eyes which have permanent bags underneath them that make him appear sleep deprived. Other characters often describe him as evil eyed or having a sharp gaze. His eyes are blue in the manga (like every other character) and green in the anime. He and [[Masumi Sera]] presumably more closely resemble their mother then their father. The second trademark feature is his knit cap, which he is always shown wearing. When he was younger he had a grey fedora which Masumi now wears herself. Up to one year ago, he had very long waist length hair, which he cut after the death of Akemi Miyano "to freshen up." Shuichi is left-handed. Ten years before the present timeline, Shuichi still had short hair, which means he grew it out sometime during the next five years.<ref>File 973</ref> He is a heavy smoker and his favorite drink is whiskey- he has recently taken to drinking bourbon rather than scotch.

His outfit is a grey jacket on top of a collared black shirt, black pants, shoes, and his trademark black knit cap.

== Abilities ==
=== Intelligence ===
[[File:783-5.jpg|thumb|200px|Conan ft. Shuichi]]

Shuichi is a highly intelligent man, recognized as a threat even by Gin. Extremely observant and excellent instincts, he has a knack for seeing through deceptions and reading the patterns of people. Once, after realizing that a transmitter had accidentally been attached to the Black Organization, he set up a sniper ambush at a nearby building to Kogoro's detective agency, knowing that the enemies would try to kill Kogoro after finding the transmitter under the belief Kogoro was spying on them, all to trick the Organization into thinking the bug was his personal trap."<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> He is also very alert to threats on his person, able to sense Rei Furuya/Bourbon and his desire to kill Shuichi under the belief that Shuichi killed Scotch. Basically on par to Shinichi/Conan, Shuichi has a remarkable talent for analysis and deductive reasoning, able to survey the situation and accurately determine the cause of it. During Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case, Shuichi figured out the key point of Sanada coins, solving the case before Conan and even providing him the hint of "Kumogakure Saizou" to lead him to the same conclusion. In the Paper Airplane Case, Shuichi (disguised as Subaru Okiya), he also showed knowledge of Morse code and origami. He was able to deduce along with Yusaku Kudo that the hints of ASACA and MASCARA lead to the name of the Boss of the Black Organization, Karasuma Renya.

=== Firearms ===
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shooting Shuichi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Shuichi aiming with a Glock]]
Shuichi, is an exceptional crackshot with firearms, the most skilled seen so far. He can shoot a small piece of gum out of Gin's hand from about 700 yards away, even snipe at 1300 yards, well-beyond the range the Black Organization's professional snipers [[Chianti]] and [[Korn]].<ref>Anime Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out</ref> Shuichi is good at handling shotguns as well; he accurately shot Vermouth from the hip faster than she could aim at him with her subcompact pistol. He is capable of busting a moving car's tire from a speeding car with just a single shot.<ref>Manga Volume 85 File 4 Page 5</ref>

While naturally left-handed, he is ambidextrous, able to wield firearms basically as effectively with his right hand. At the same time Akai is unusual in that he is "eye-bidextrous" while shooting. Like hands and feet, most individuals have a dominant eye they prefer to use when lining up a shot, but Shuichi is shown using both eyes at different times.<ref> Left eye for shooting Vermouth in New York, Right eye for shooting Rei's subordinates' car in Scarlet Showdown.</ref>

=== Martial arts ===
Shuichi is also a highly proficient hand-to-hand combatant. Having extensive skill and knowledge of Jeet Kune Do, he taught his sister Sera much, who openly acknowledges him to still be much stronger than her.<ref>Episode 744</ref> In the Bus Jack case, Shuichi's combat skills was hinted as he was ready to strike one of the criminals before Conan hit him with the tranquilizer dart. During the Ikkaku Rock case, Shuichi expertly knocks a knife out of the criminal's hand unarmed. Though subtle, Shuichi also swiftly knocks out a drunkard harassing Officer Yumi (at the request of his younger brother) in the Policewomen Serial Murder Case. At the same time, he is noticeable resilient. While taking a serious kick to the face from Ran Mouri, he emerged virtually unharmed, a feat few people have accomplished against her.

=== Other skills ===
[[File:783-4.jpg|thumb|200px|Jodie and Camel are shocked to learn that Shuichi can cook]]
Shuichi is a skilled driver. He can overtake many cars quickly in heavy traffic conditions and drift around a U-turn.<ref name=420p14>Manga Volume 41, File 7, page 14: "The Enclosing Surrounding Net" </ref> As Subaru, he hacked into Kogoro's computer to see what cases he had received from his website. Later he hacked into Haibara's Phone and saw the message that Vermouth had sent her. Shuichi learned how to act and properly apply his Subaru disguise by himself thanks to Yukiko Kudo and equipment from [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]].<ref>Manga [[Volume 85]], File 5 (898), pg 2: "Scarlet Epilogue"</ref>
He also learned from Yukiko to be a very capable cook. This was meant to help better keep a low-profile as Subaru.<ref>[[The Scarlet Return]]</ref> At the same time, he would often uses his dishes as an excuse to interject himself into cases at Professor Agasa's house and save money on food. He apparently at one point held a part-time job playing the accordion, making decent money from it. In addition to his native language, having worked in the United States as an FBI agent for a long time, Shuichi is also fluent in English as shown in the episode 288.
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== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Mary Sera|Shuichi<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Father (''chichi'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Niisan<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> Shuichi-niisan<ref name="file972" />|Shukichi<ref name="file972" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Akai Shuichi<ref>[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938]]</ref> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref>|Masumi}}

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Akai-san<ref name="file974" /> ''Oniisan''<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi|Boy (''Bōya'') Conan-kun<ref>[[Volume 100#FBI Serial Murder Case|FBI Serial Murder Case]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Moroboshi Dai<ref>Manga File 802, pg 10: "Don't make that kind of face..."</ref> That Akai person|That brown-haired girl}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Dai-kun|''Kimi Omae''}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shu-chan ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref name="niisanshuchan">[[:File:Postcard2016 18.jpg]] (Yukiko calls him "Shu-chan")</ref>|Yukiko-san (as Subaru)}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Akai-san<ref name="file950">[[volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 950: The Clipped Letters (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}
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{{appellations|James Black|Akai-kun Moroboshi Dai Rye|James}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Shu<ref name="file897">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|File 897 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Akai-kun Akai Shuichi|Jodie}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|Akai-san<ref name="file897" /> Akai-shan<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi|Camel}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Akai Shuichi<ref name="file897" />|Okiya Subaru}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Akai<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file897" /> Rye<ref name="file955">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 955: Whereabouts of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Snoop dog of the FBI (''FBI no inu'') That man|Bourbon<ref name="file897" /> Amuro Tooru-kun<ref name="file897" /> Zero<ref name="file897" /> Furuya Rei-kun<ref name="file897" /> Wolf (''ōkami'')<ref name="file897" />}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Akai Shuichi|Mizunashi Rena Kir}}

{{appellations|Ethan Hondou|-|Ethan Hondou NOC}}
{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch}}
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{{appellations/head|Shuichi}}
{{appellations|Renya Karasuma|Silver Bullet|[[Black Organization|Their]] Boss (''yatsura no Boss'')}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Akai<ref name="file897" /> Akai Shuichi Silver Bullet|Vermouth Rotten Apple}}

{{appellations|Gin|Akai Shuichi Akai|Gin ''Koibito'' (literally "lover", but the intended meaning is "old enemy")}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Akai}}

{{appellations|Chianti|Akai}}

{{appellations|Korn|Akai}}

{{appellations|Rikumichi Kusuda|Akai Shuichi|Kusuda Rikumichi<ref name="file897" />}}

{{appellations|Calvados|-|Calvados}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum<ref name="file950" />}}

{{appellations|Curaçao|Rye|Curaçao}}
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{{appellations/head|Shuichi}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Your brother (''Oniisan''; talking to [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref> FBI person (''FBI no hito'')|''Omae''}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|-|NOC's son (''NOC no musuko'') Brother (''otōto''; talking to [[Hidemi Hondou|Hidemi]])}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Shu-nii<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Akai Shuichi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18" /> Pierrot Onii-san|Holmes' Apprentice-kun (''Homuzu no deshi-kun'')<ref name="file 973">[[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 973 (Volume 92)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi<ref>Episode 954</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Akai-kun|Yusaku-san}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Guy (''niichan'')}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Timeline ===
{{main|Shuichi Akai timeline}}

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Shuichi appeared in this movie as [[Subaru Okiya]]. At first he is seen watching the Detective Boys testing Professor Agasa's invention. Later after [[Masumi Sera]] gets shot, he is seen leaving the hospital, where she is hospitalized. After that he is seen involving himself in the sniper investigation. He is the one who shoot the suspect at the last part. We can see too that he turn off his voice changer and said to [[James Black|James]] {{nihongo|"Roger"|了解|ryōkai}} as signal that it's already finished.

=== The Darkest Nightmare (Movie: [[The Darkest Nightmare|20]]) ===
In this movie, he shows as a FBI agent. He saves [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] from [[Gin]]. We see a fight between him and [[Rei Furuya]] until Conan arrive. They cooperate and takes down the black metal crow (helicopter) of [[black organization]].

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===

Shuichi shoots Maiko Shirahato in the shoulder with a silver bullet in order to stop her from shooting Alan McKenzie.

== Speculation ==
[[James Black]]'s English background may have assisted the young British-Japanese Shuichi Akai in fast-tracking his way to a US citizenship and then enrolling in the FBI.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and friends ===
==== Akemi Miyano ====
{{main|Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano}}
Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with [[Jodie Starling]].

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi was concerned, and helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.

[[File:Akemi's Text Message.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The last text message Akemi had sent Shuichi, before her death.]]
Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. After Shuichi's expulsion, he confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seemed surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death. The message also contains a P.S. which has not been revealed yet.
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==== Jodie Starling ====
While Jodie and Shuichi's relationship had been viewed as mere colleagues, it is revealed later on in the series that Jodie and Shuichi had dated before about 5 years prior. However, after Shuichi infiltrated the Black Organization under the alias of Dai Moroboshi, he started dating Akemi Miyano in hopes of using her to attain information about the Black Organization. Despite this, Shuichi ended up falling in love with Akemi, leading him to break up with Jodie, stating that, "To be able to love two women at the same time…it's not that handy a personality."<ref name="677p5">Manga [[Volume 65]], File 3 (677), pg 5: "The fated individual"</ref> In spite of the break-up, Jodie still held strong feelings for Shuichi which never wavered as time passed and took his apparent death at Kir's hands especially hard, to the point of being reduced to tears.

==== James Black ====
[[James Black]] is the boss of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents in Japan and therefore the boss of Shuichi. He was one of those who know that Shuichi was alive after Shuichi's fake death, but only because he saw the glue on Shuichi's fingers and would have otherwise also been kept in the dark. The two maintain close contact with each other up to present.

==== Andre Camel ====
[[Andre Camel]] worked with Shuichi Akai before when he was an agent in the [[Black Organization]]. Camel was involved in the plan to capture Gin two years ago, but he gave away the plan of the FBI when he saw a member of the organization disguised as an old man. Because of this, Shuichi's identity became known to the Organization. However, Shuichi does not seem to bear a grudge against Camel but worked together well. Camel is willing to help Akai in any way he can to redeem for his mistake.

==== Ai Haibara ====
When Haibara first met Shuichi, she thought he was a member of the Black Organization. Shuichi seems to know of Haibara's identity. Haibara knows him as Dai Moroboshi, her sister's boyfriend who betrayed the Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 802</ref> Haibara should know Dai was a spy and FBI agent, after hearing an exchange between [[Bourbon]] and [[Kaitou Kid]] through a microphone<ref>Manga Chapter 824,[http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b40277b84692b54c491654534be7ccf/tumblr_mpc528w9hS1qfn9zio1_r1_500.png]</ref>, but she does not know him by the name Shuichi Akai. During his time in the organization he became acquatained with Haibara, while she was still known as [[Shiho Miyano]], through Akemi and make use of it to slip into the organization. He made a promise with Akemi to look after Haibara's welfare.<ref>Manga [[Volume 77]], Files 3-5 (809-811)</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa / Shinichi Kudo ====
Shuichi and Conan get along well and are capable of thinking on par with one another. In the short time they have worked together, Shuichi has come to respect Conan's intellect and deductive skills and speaks to him professionally. After FBI had capture Kir, he asked who Conan was, hinting that he suspected that there was more to Conan that meets the eyes. He is also aware that [[Conan]] and [[Shinichi Kudo]] are really one and the same person <ref>Manga [[Volume 77]], File 813 p.16 and File 814 p.3 </ref>. There is further speculation amongst fans that Shuichi has figured out that Ai was formerly Sherry and (more than likely) learned about her research for the Black Organization and the two possible effects of [[APTX 4869]].

==== Masumi Sera ====
[[Masumi Sera]] is Shuichi's younger sister. Masumi wasn't born yet when Shuichi went to America to study, so they first got to meet each other, when Masumi was seven. It's indicated at Shuichi cares for his sister. While Masumi was growing up, Shuichi would send her training tapes of Jeet Kune Do that she could practice after. During the [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|Mystery Train case]], when Masumi was knocked out by Vermouth and hidden in her room, Shuichi (disguised as Subaru) carried her back to her own room. As he was about to leave he overheard her calling out 'Shuu-nii' in her sleep, which made him smile. In the movie [[Dimensional Sniper]] he (as Subaru) was seen leaving the hospital, where Masumi was hospitalized after getting shot, hinting that he was visiting her. While she was unconscious, he left a bouquet in her room, which Ran and Sonoko find. During the [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|Antique Facet Case]], when he realize Masumi showing suspicious movements around Agasa's house, he shows up as Subaru and keep an eye on her. He realize that Masumi was trying to pressure Haibara. He ended up by interrupting her investigation to prevent Masumi get involved into dangerous situation.

==== Shukichi Haneda ====
[[Shukichi Haneda]] is Shuichi's younger brother. He keeps track of Shukichi Haneda's shogi matches. During a reunion ten years ago Shukichi shows concern over his choice of path in life. During the Policewomen Serial Murder Case, he received a text by Shukichi to protect [[Yumi Miyamoto]], indicating the brothers are in contact. When Yumi is accosted by drunkards, he disguised as Subaru incapacitates them and has them leave her alone.

==== Mary Sera ====
[[Mary Sera]] is Shuichi's mother. She hoped that he would become a father figure to Masumi to replace their missing biological father.

==== Tsutomu Akai ====
[[Tsutomu Akai]] is Shuichi's father. His father's disappearance cause him to seek revenge and is the reason Shuichi became an FBI agent.

=== Allies ===
==== Hidemi Hondou ====
Hidemi is a CIA agent undercover in the Black Organization as Rena Mizunashi, codenamed Kir. She agreed to supply the FBI with information of the organization in return for her brother's protection. She, Akai and Conan worked out the plan to send Hidemi back to the organization and fake Akai's death.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
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Shuichi Akai and Gin are rivals and hate one another. It is implied that they didn't get along even before Shuichi was exposed as an undercover FBI agent. Shuichi refers to Gin as "Koibito", which ironically means 'lover.' Gin killed Shuichi's love Akemi, so Shuichi thinks of Gin as his archenemy.

==== Rei Furuya====
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[[File:AkaiAmuro.png|thumb|200px||Akai and Amuro]]
Since joining the Black Organization, [[Rei Furuya]] has always considered Shuichi as a worthy rival, he wants to compare his capacity with Shuichi and thinks he is the only one who could defeat Shuichi. Shuichi always shows respect towards Rei, he admits Rei's capability and feels interest everytime he faces Rei, he also makes Rei feel quite confused sometimes. Their relationship is becoming more bitter and dramatic when Rei misunderstood Shuichi killed his best friend - [[Scotch]], but actually the one who indirectly caused Scotch to die was Rei himself. Shuichi chooses to keep a secret, continues to let Rei misunderstand him instead of letting Rei know that painful truth. Over time, Shuichi appears to help and protect Rei in some cases, he gradually wants to compensate for the losses which Rei has experienced, he also reveals that he doesn't want to be Rei's enemy. For now, Rei is temporarily lowering his hatred to working well with Shuichi and Conan in destroying the Black Organization.

=== Unknown relationships ===
==== Kohji Haneda ====
A relationship between Shuichi and [[Kohji Haneda]] is unknown, but [[Volume 89#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|the case of Kohji's death]] made Shuichi an FBI agent.<ref name="file948">[[volume 89#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref>

== 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. Shuichi placed 12th in the poll with 53 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』人気投票結果|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. Shuichi placed 7th overall with 415 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>
* In a poll held on June 5, 2020 by asking women age 20 to 40 who were their favourite Detective Conan character, Shuichi ranked eigth<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/hjkevu/detective_conan_character_popularity_poll_june_5/</ref>.

== Name origin ==
[[File:Akai.gif|image|right|thumb|200px|Yutaka Tani draws Shuichi as half of Char on Gosho's website]]
Akai's name comes from the [[wikipedia:Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] character [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]], whose nickname was the {{nihongo|"Red Comet"|'''赤い'''彗星|'''Akai''' Suisei}}, and Char's voice actor [[Shuichi Ikeda|'''Shuichi''' Ikeda]] (who is also Akai's voice actor). Additionally, his alias, Dai Moroboshi, comes from Char's real name, Casval Rem '''Deikun''' (sounds like '''Dai-kun''' in Japanese). '''Moroboshi''' can also mean ''falling star'', another possible allusion to ''Red Comet''.<ref>In Moroboshi (諸星), the first kanji can be broken up into 言者 which when pronounced as げんしゃ (gensha) sounds very similar to the word for "phenomenon" (genshou). The second character (星) means "star". Moroboshi, read as "Star phenomenon" references falling stars or maybe comets. </ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shuichi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 259]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shuichi Middle.jpeg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 345]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:The Scarlet Return-Shooting Shuichi.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 783]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Fear of death is worse than death itself.|Said to Camel.<ref>[[Volume 58#File 602 - Last Resort|Volume 58, File 602, Page 13]]</ref>}}
{{cquote|Don't make that kind of face...}}
{{cquote|Don't get distracted by what's in front of you and pursue the wrong prey}}
{{cquote|The odds are 50/50 so we are on the same boat.}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:EP1019 4.jpeg|15-year-old Shuichi with his brother Shukichi
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
* Shuichi is left-handed.
* Shuichi is a Jeet Kune Do practitioner who is three times stronger than [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]]. The three times is, again, a reference of Char's [[Wikipedia: Zaku|mobile suit]] being three times faster than the others.
* Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]], is the real-life husband of [[Akemi Miyano]]'s voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]].
* [[Wikipedia: Shuichi Akai (footballer)|Shuichi Akai]] is a real-life former Japanese football player.
*According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, What motivated Shuuichi to do Jeet Kune Do was because his father practised it too.
* According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+, Shuichi hairstyle was inspired by Char Aznable.
*He likes to use the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame” as revealed by Camel in File 895. Shuichi got the phrase from his father which his mother uses the phrase as well as revealed in File 1038. Even as Subaru uses it as shown in [[Episode 1020]].

== In other languages ==
=== Shuichi Akai ===
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|秀一 Shūichi|赤井 Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شوتشي Shūtshi|أكاي Akāi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|flag2 = Hong Kong| Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)|秀一 Xiùyī|赤井 Chìjǐng}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shuichi / Suichi|Akai}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|상윤 Sang Yoon|이 Lee}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชูอิจิ|อากาอิ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shuichi|Akai}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Dai Moroboshi ===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|大 Dai|諸星 Moroboshi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|大 Dà|诸星 Zhūxīng}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Hong Kong|Chinese (Traditional)|大 Dà|諸星 Zhūxīng}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Subaru Okiya]]
* [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Wikipedia: Rye whiskey|Rye]] (alcohol)
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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Ai Haibara

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ai Haibara
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|灰原哀}} (Haibara Ai)
| english-name = Vi Graythorn (movies) Anita Hailey (mangas and game)
| image = Ai Haibara Profile.png
| age = 18<ref name=CD51>Conan Drill Page 51</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 89]], File 948. Haibara states her age for the second time</ref> 6 or 7 (as Ai Haibara)<ref
name=CD49>Conan Drill Page 49</ref><ref>Stated to be 7 in OVA 11</ref>
| gender = Female
| date of birth = unknown
| occupation = [[Teitan Elementary School]] student [[Detective Boys]] second-in-command
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames = Ai-chan (by [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]) (by [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]) Ai-kun (by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Princess (by [[Subaru Okiya]])
| status = Alive (shrunk) Dead (for the Black Organization)
| aliases = [[Shiho Miyano]] (real name) Sherry
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 2#File 016 - A Devil-like Woman|File 16]] (in a silhouette) / [[Volume 18#File 176 - The New Student...|File 176]] (1st full appearance) 
Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]] Magic Kaito 1412: [[Kid vs Conan: Teleportation Under the Moonlight|Episode 21]]
| appearances = {{:Ai Haibara Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 18]]
| japanese-voice = [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| english-voice = [[Brina Palencia]] (FUNimation) [[Erica Mendez]] (Bang Zoom!)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Conan:_Zero_the_Enforcer|title=Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer-Wikipedia|date=|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org|accessdate=2019-09-02}}</ref>
| drama-actor = [[Kyoka Shibata]] (Ai Haibara) [[Yu Kashii]] (Shiho Miyano)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ai Haibara|灰原哀|Haibara Ai}}''', real name '''{{nihongo|[[Shiho Miyano]]|宮野志保|Miyano Shiho}}''', is the creator of [[APTX 4869]], the pill that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo]] into [[Conan Edogawa]], and a victim of it herself. Formerly '''{{nihongo|Sherry|シェリー|Sherī}}''' of the [[Black Organization]], she is on the run from them and lives with [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. She is also one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know that Shinichi is Conan]].

== Background ==
=== Shiho Miyano ===
[[File:Shiho in shinichi house.PNG‎|thumb|left|200px|Shiho and other organization members go to investigate the death of Shinichi in his house.]]
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Shiho Miyano and her older sister, [[Akemi Miyano]], were born into the secret crime syndicate "The [[Black Organization]]". Her English mother, [[Elena Miyano]], and her Japanese father, [[Atsushi Miyano]], were both scientists working for the Black Organization on a secret project. While Haibara was young, both her parents died in what was claimed to be an accident. While Akemi lived a normal life, the highly intelligent Shiho was groomed to take over her parents' research. She was sent to the United States for education at a very young age, and then later came back to Japan to finish her parents' secret project, "Silver Bullet".<ref>Manga [[Volume 38]], Files 2-4 (384-386) Manga [[Volume 78]], Files 1-7 (818-824)</ref>. By the age of thirteen she was working as a scientist for the Black Organization<ref>Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization five years ago. He did so by becoming Akemi’s boyfriend 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.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>, where she was given the codename "Sherry", after the alcoholic drink.
[[File:Shiho taking APTX4869.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shiho swallows [[APTX 4869]].]]
Shiho was about 18 years old when she developed the experimental test compound [[APTX 4869]]. While researching its effects, she discovered that it could be used as a poison to kill without leaving any traces of itself in a body. She then noticed that one of her lab mice had become smaller instead of dying, though she did not report that effect. Meanwhile, the Black Organization started human trials, using APTX 4869 to commit untraceable murders. Unaware of the drug's rare side effect when they used it on [[Shinichi Kudo]], the Black Organization ordered a search for him because his body had not been found. Shiho and her team searched Shinichi's house twice to confirm his death, however it lead her to suspect Shinichi had shrunk instead. However, Shiho confirmed him as deceased so the organization would not look into the matter further and kill him after all.

Shiho was unhappy that the Black Organization was using the incomplete APTX 4869 for murder, as she believed that was not the drug's intended purpose. When Shiho learned of Akemi's death, but was given no explanation, she decided to boycott her research until the Black Organization gave her an explanation. Instead, the Organization confined her in a small room to await her execution. With no other way out, she took APTX 4869 intending to commit suicide, but instead shrank. In her new, smaller body, she escaped and attempted to reach Shinichi's house. There she collapsed and was found by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], who eventually adopted her.<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> As it turned out later, Agasa was acquaintances with her parents, especially her father, even though he didn't know at that time that they had children or were part of the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor</ref>

=== Ai Haibara ===
[[File:Haibara founded infront of Kudo's house.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Haibara collapsed in front of Kudo's house.]]
To prevent the knowledge of her transfiguration from being discovered, Shiho and Professor Agasa create her alias ''Ai Haibara''. As Ai Haibara, she attends [[Teitan Elementary School]] with Shinichi Kudo's shrunken form, [[Conan Edogawa]]. Following her first adventure with the [[Detective Boys]], she reveals her true identity as the developer of [[APTX 4869]] to Conan.<ref>Manga Chapter 178: Code Name Sherry</ref>, and also accurately deduces Conan as Shinichi in the shrunken form, though her deduction is based on prior knowledge of her research and investigation of Shinichi Kudo. Conan protests her presence,<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> but as time passes, he accepts her as a friend, though her cynicism and secretive air still rail him at times. Although she does not think too highly of the Detective Boys' immature antics, she has come to value them all as close friends.

Haibara has begun working on [[Prototype Antidote|an antidote]] for the APTX 4869, but since most of the important data had been stored on computer files, which are now mostly destroyed, the work progresses slowly. Conan also eventually succeeds in persuading [[Vermouth]] to leave Haibara in peace after ruining a murderous plot.<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple</ref> This fragile peace lasts until Sherry's whereabouts leak to the rest of the Black Organization and a second murder plot occurs aboard a train. A counter plan results in an explosion that preserves Shiho's secret identity. Currently all major Black Organization members besides Vermouth believe Sherry is dead.

Currently she idolizes footballer [[Higo Ryusuke]].

== Personality ==
[[File:Ai - Sai Brand's Wallet.jpg|thumb|200px|Haibara asking for a ''Fusae Brand'''s wallet for her cooperation.]]
Haibara has a calm and cool personality, sarcastic wit, and high intelligence. When freshly escaped from the Black Organization, she was cynical and pushed others away. Haibara has since defrosted by embracing her new child life and has established strong relationships with the Detective Boys, Agasa, and Ran.

As Ai Haibara, she speaks and acts older than she is supposed to be, which results in the Detective Boys referring to her as "cool" or "mature". This is emphasized by her impressing general knowledge, even in areas without relation with sciences (such as theology or history<ref>[[Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys|Episode 212: Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys]] where she explains the religious myth of the Fall</ref><ref>[[The Evidence That Didn't Disappear|Episode 233: The Evidence That Didn't Disappear]] where she explains the death of Marie-Antoinette</ref>); and on occasion she is so forceful and demanding that she can stun adults several decades above her current physical age into submission. Despite her jaded demeanor, she can be kind and caring, though usually more to animals than people. Haibara tends to be quiet, though this may be due to her caution to keep herself hidden from the Black Organization. She considers Conan and the Detective Boys the first real friends she has ever had, and is even willing to sacrifice herself just to ensure their safety.<ref>Manga Chapters 289: Bus Hijacking Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 434: Rotten Apple Case</ref>. Indeed, she considers herself as a threat for them, since the Black Organization will most likely eliminate all of them once she is found. That is why she describes herself as "dangerous and not like the others"<ref>[[The Evidence That Didn't Disappear|Episode 233: The Evidence That Didn't Disappear]]</ref>
[[File:Episode213.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Mitsuhiko assisting Haibara after bandaging her sprained foot.]]
Haibara is generally a loner and misses her older sister, Akemi, greatly (in the film ''[[Countdown to Heaven]]'', she would call her sister's old apartment just to hear her voice on the voicemail). Her greatest fear is being caught by the [[Black Organization]], and she is especially terrified of [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]]. She tries to keep Conan from doing reckless things that may give away their identity, though often she is surprised by his actions which usually result in gaining the information he needs while also keeping their identities secret. However, whenever Conan is reckless in regards to keeping his identity from Ran, Haibara is the one who plans ahead in order to keep him from being revealed. Because she occasionally works overnight on the antidote for the APTX 4869, she tends to be tired quite frequently, causing Conan to call her an "evil-eyed yawny girl" on one occasion.<ref>[[Volume 65#Dangerous Couple Case|Manga Chapter 680: A Dangerous Couple]]</ref>

Despite spending most of her time alone at the lab, Haibara shows excellent understanding of reading people's mind. Examples include Haibara deducing that Ayumi had a crush on Conan, figuring out Conan was about to tell his identity to Ran, or understanding the anger of Kobayashi when confronting Inspector Shiratori. Thanks to this ability, Haibara can remind Conan about the situation and make him act appropriately, not to reveal his identity.

In the OVA ''[[A Secret Order From London]]'', Haibara reveals to [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] that she likes peanut butter and blueberry jelly sandwiches, from her schooldays in America. She has also mentioned that she only make it with "American peanut butter and jelly exclusively sold in international grocery store". However, since [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] caught her eating one of these sandwiches, especially since Haibara was on her part constantly pestering him into eating low-calorie foods only, she had to abandon that habit for a while.<ref>OVA 11: ''A Secret Order From London''</ref>

=== Taste for fashion ===
[[File:Haibara and fashion.png|thumb|200px|Haibara reading fashion magazine 'Com Com'.]]
Haibara seems to have some interest in fashion, as she has made repeated requests for certain types of accessories, particularly of the [[Fusae Campbell|Fusae]] and Prada brands. For instance, when [[Miwako Sato]] declares she would do anything for the one who will solve her father's mystery, she asks for Prada's newest handbag model<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|Episode 205: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3]]</ref>. What's more, in one of the cases, in order to expose the identity of the person who hid the phone cables to cut off communications with the outside world, she was asked by Conan to fake an unbearable appendix pain, which she agreed to after jokingly requesting for a Fusae Brand's wallet for her cooperation. She then started rolling on the floor and screaming for help. The culprit felt like he had no choice but to reveal the cable from his pockets and reconnect the phone to ask for an ambulance.<ref>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 374-375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco]]</ref> When observing the suspects in a case, what caught her attention was the bag the suspect was carrying. She recognized that the bag was the newest Fusae brand model, and added that it wasn't on sale in Japan yet.<ref>[[Conan and Heiji, Code of Love|Episode 763-764: Conan and Heiji, Code of Love]]</ref>She is also seen with a Prada cell phone case in the Mystery Train case.

Haibara reads 'ComCom' magazine (a name similar to Japan's 'CanCam' fashion magazine).<ref>[[The Lost Ship in the Sky|Movie 14: ''The Lost Ship in the Sky'']]</ref> In OVA 11, the Detective Boys wrongly began to suspect Haibara was a child model from America, due to her looks and knowledge of fashion and makeup.

=== Fan of popular stars ===
[[File:766-1.png|thumb|left|200px|Haibara's listening to "Dandy Lion".]]
While she generally accompanies her fellow Detective Boys to soccer matches played by the Tokyo Spirits, Haibara herself is a fan of [[Culture#Soccer|Big Osaka]] in general and of the player [[Ryusuke Higo]] in particular, especially since the latter has likewise abandoned a "black organization" (Noir Tokyo) after the team had betrayed him and had remained an outcast in public opinion for a time.<ref>[[Volume 34#Soccer Supporter Case|Manga Chapters 344-346: Soccer Supporter Case]]</ref><ref>Anime episodes 279-280: "[[Hooligan's Labyrinth]]"</ref> Haibara also liked to hear [[Yoko]]'s songs due to the fact that Higo also likes the songs.<ref>[[Teimuzu River Kite Flying Case|Episode 765-766: Teimuzu River Kite Flying Case]]</ref> However, she later deleted all of Yoko's songs because of the rumored date between Yoko and Ryusuke. At the end of the case, she renews her interest in both of them and goes to play soccer with the Detective Boys while singing Yoko's song "Dandy Lion".<ref>[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|A Secret of the Big Couple]]</ref> She has also shown an interest in Kabuki and one of the well known kabuki actors, Ichikawa Ebizo, in the episode Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Juhachiban Mystery. She introduced herself to Ebizo as one of the Detective Boys and Conan's assistant, assuming a more endearing demeanor, which the children noted, during their conversation in the search for Conan.

In non-canon, Haibara is a fan of Sannomiya Kazunori, an actor playing a detective role. She was really annoyed and slapped Conan (in a bath house) when he teased her on liking Sannomiya.<ref>''A Challenge from Detective Boys'' radio drama</ref>
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== Abilities and skills ==
=== Biochemistry ===
Shiho/Haibara 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/Haibara 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> In [[A Code of Stars and Tobacco]] case, she recognized the bones of a deceased person, even though the bones are scattered, and she recognized, "Mandible, humorus, femur,"

=== Detective skills ===
Shiho/Haibara was able to deduce Conan as Shinichi by inspecting the clues left in Kudo residence. She shows sharp observation, keen thinking process and ability to make logical deduction; however, unlike Conan/Shinichi, she often lacks specialized knowledge or experience to make the conclusive argument to solve the case. Moreover, to avoid attention, she stays quiet, which Conan often takes the spotlight. Haibara does not identify herself as a "mystery freak" as Conan. In the few cases that Haibara leads the investigation, she shows that she can be a great detective on her own, although this is not her prime speciality. Haibara has also known to read some mysteries like
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels and PD James's Cordelia Gray novel but it is not known whether she enjoys the genre.

=== "Black Organization sense" ===
[[Image:Ai's BO radar.png|thumb|right|200px|Shiho as Haibara senses a Black Organization member is nearby.]]
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 especially 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 Shuichi 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|Subaru]], or [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] passing by pursuing [[James Black]]), or context sensitive (when Akemi was planning the bank robbery).

It is also possible that it mostly activates, when she senses danger, and esp. when she is the target. When she first met Kuroda, she appeared frightened, but she explained later that his face was frightening, and was easily backed up by the rest of the Detective Boys. It momentarily activated in Mystery of the Burning Tent, but it was fleeting, and she says that she likes the teacher, and "Does not want to hear anything bad about her" to Conan, whose only getting much more suspicious of the teacher. So far, she has not met Wakita, or even seen him.

To be truthful, Conan seems to be suspicious of 2, maybe 3 of the new one-eyed people, so maybe her Black Organization sense tranferred to him since those two are primarily interested in him, and not her. In fact, hers may be dissapating, if she feels safe.

=== Pain tolerance ===
[[Gin|Like]] [[Vermouth|other]] Black Organization members, Haibara as Shiho has also demonstrated a strong tolerance for pain. During the initial apoptoxin transformation, Shiho does not scream despite the sensation of 'bones melting', as doing so would likely have ended in being caught and killed when someone came to check on her. It is unclear if she even passes out at all, and regardless she manages to recover quickly enough to escape through a chute/ventilation shaft before her captors know anything happened.

Additionally, 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 over a story in height and experiencing the agony of reverting back to Ai Haibara. Nowhere during this ordeal or her rescue afterwards did she cry from the pain. Shiho also handled the painful side affects of being reverting back to an adult with a [[prototype antidote]] better than Shinichi.

=== Shooting ===
Shiho/Haibara is familiar with firearms. As Haibara, she was confident enough to intentionally miss a shot with a handgun. Despite the recoil of shooting in her first grade body, it did not seem to effect her in the slightest.<ref>[[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129: The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case]]</ref>

=== Driving ===
In The Movie Crossover : Lupin III vs Detective Conan, Haibara is able to ride a Harley motorbike, she stated that she used to own a Harley when she was Shiho.
[[File:Haibara Flute.png|thumb|right|200px|Haibara played the recorder to send a message "S H O O T" to Conan in [[Full_Score_of_Fear|Conan the movie12]].]]
In The Special Episode : Disappearance of Edogawa Conan, she is shown driving a car as Haibara.

=== Football ===
Initially Haibara wasn't interested in football, but thanks to Conan she now enjoys watching them and roots for Big Osaka team, with Higo Ryusuke her favorite player. In Movie 16, she performed a long pass through the debris, delivering the ball to Conan for the decisive kick saving the day.

=== Music ===
In canon, Haibara has knowledge about classical music. In Movie 12, she played the recorder to send a message to Conan.

=== Art Appreciation ===
In her first appearance, she recognized that a teenager's painting was a Picasso painting, helping Conan to figure out the Detective Boys' client's older brother was kidnapped due to his ability to paint fakes of famous paintings, more importantly, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume_S%C5%8Dseki Natsume Sōseki] on the 1,000 yen bill's portrait.

=== Acting ===
In her first case, after she fired a gun, and was about to be reprimanded for it by Megure, she began her crying act. That act continued for the longest time, and the only one stuck walking her home was Conan.

When they were near the Kudo and Agasa's residence, Conan asked her if she can get home by herself now, since her address is somewhere around here, but he did not recall the address, when she told him at school.

When he began to walk away, she immediately stopped the crying act, and transferred into her Black Organization Role of Sherry, but probably more evil than she ever was in the organization, and all she is doing is talking.

When she really introduced herself to him, she did it in a way, where she showed that she can be quite evil, like the rest of the Black Organization, even telling him that Agasa, who is his lifeline to being a detective in his child's body is dead, really freaking him out.

She was talking and speaking like so many of her cold-blooded former co-workers, and showed no remorse at all, nor did she break character at all.

When he went to Agasa, he was alive and well, and all three spoke, when she finally stopped acting.

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Haibara by her name suffixed with ''-san'' (due to her personality), and some with ''-chan'' (due to her agreement), a lot of the characters have different ways of calling her due to their different relationships. The following is a list of the different appellations for Haibara (and the ones Haibara gives in return) encountered in the series.

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{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|-|Kogoro-san Detective Mouri (''Mouri-tantei'')}}
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{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Haibara Ai-chan (once)|Kojima-kun Genta<ref name="file947">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947: Motto (Volume 89)]]</ref>}}
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{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Haibara-san Ai-chan<ref>Chapter 824</ref>}}
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{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|That little girl That big sister Haibara Ai (movie 7 introduction)|Osaka friend}}
{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Ai-chan}}
{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Ai-chan|Suzuki-san}}
{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Haibara-san|Wakasa-sensei}}
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{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}
{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}
{{appellations|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|-|Numabuchi Ki'ichiro}}
{{appellations|Yoshiaki Hara|-|Hara-san}}
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{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Ai-chan|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')}}
{{appellations|Miwako Sato|-|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}
{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|-|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}
{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Ai-chan "Little red hiding hood" Brown haired girl Sherry|Jodie-sensei}}
{{appellations|James Black|Sherry}}
{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|-|Kir Mizunashi Rena}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|-|Kuroda<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|That brown haired girl|Moroboshi Dai That Akai person<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[Clash of Red and Black|Ep. 501]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Princess<ref>[[Episode 684]]</ref>|Subaru-san<ref>Chapter 801</ref>}}
{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Haibara Ai<ref>File 1054</ref>|-}}
{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|-|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|-|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')}}
{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|-|Inspector Yokomizo (''Yokomizo keibu'')}}
{{appellations|Jinpei Matsuda|-|Detective Matsuda (''Matsuda-keiji'')}}
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{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|-|Taiko<ref name="file849">[[volume 80#Yumi's Love Story|File 849: Taiko's Optimal Move (Volume 80)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file948">[[volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide}}
{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-san Higo Ryusuke}}
{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Ai-chan|Okino Yoko Idol mare (''idol-onna'')}}
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{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Young lady|Kid (in her thoughts) Magician in the Moonlight-san (''Gekka no Kijutsushi-san'') (once)}}
{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|Sherry-chan|Mine Fujiko}}
{{appellations|Genji Kojima|-|Kojima-kun's father (''Kojima-kun no chichioya'')}}
{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|-|Eisuke Hondou Eisuke}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Haibara Ai-chan<ref>File 1035</ref>|Sera Masumi<ref>Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]]</ref>}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Older Brother Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 18|176-178]], Anime: [[Episode 129|129]]) ===
[[File:129-1.png|thumb|left|200px|First Haibara's "evil" appearance.]]
Conan's class receives a new student named Ai Haibara. She acts rather cold and reserved when the Detective Boys try to befriend her, and Genta notices she's looking at Conan suspiciously. She tells them where she lives but Conan fails to realize it's at Agasa's home (Tokyo blocks are not numbered in sequential order and Conan has never had reason to learn Agasa's mailing address due to their being neighbors).

After school, a boy named Toshiya asks the Detective Boys to find his missing brother. The Detective Boys along with Haibara investigate Toshiya's house and finds a painting of [[Wikipedia: Natsume Sōseki|Natsume Sōseki]]. Toshiya reveals that before his brother disappeared, a woman, who had an interest in that portrait, approached Toshiya's brother. The Detective Boys search around town to ask whether anyone has seen the woman or Toshiya's brother. Conan notices that a man was using a counterfeit ¥1000 and realizes Toshiya's brother was actually kidnapped and forced to help create counterfeit bills. After following the man along with the clues Toshiya's brother left behind, they are able to apprehend the organized crime group and save Toshiya's brother.

=== University Professor Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 18|179]]-[[Volume 19|181]], Anime: [[Episode 129|129]]) ===
[[image:Ai cries.png|thumb|200px|Haibara cries on Conan after asking him why hadn't he helped her sister.]]
On the way home, Haibara reveals to Conan that she is a former member of the Black Organization, with the code name "Sherry". She actually betrayed the group and escaped with the use of the APTX 4869, which caused her to become a child. She reveals that she once accidentally sent a floppy disk containing data on the Black Organization to her older sister, and the disc is now in the possession of her sister's professor, Masami Hirota.

Agasa takes Conan and Haibara there to retrieve the disk, only to discover that Hirota has been murdered. The suspects are Hirota's three students who visited that day. Conan reveals the culprit to be a man named Akira Shirakura; Shirakura after bludgeoning Hirota to death and tied the answering machine cassette tape around the key to the room which rewound when a call was made, subsequently dragging the key into the room. As evidence, Conan reveals that Shirakura's fingerprints should be found on the tape. After seeing Conan's amazing display of logic after she had given up on the case herself, Haibara breaks down and asks Conan why he could not save her sister, Akemi, from the Black Organization. Conan finally makes the connection that the "Masami Hirota" who Gin killed was actually Shiho's sister, and sympathy for Haibara's attitude stirs in him. The disc is taken into police custody, but once it is released to them Haibara attempts to read the files off the disk—only to have [[Night Baron|a virus]] delete all the data.

=== Stadium Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume 19|189]]-[[Volume 20|191]], Anime: [[Episode 130|130-131]]) ===
Haibara is hesitant to see the football match closer (fearing that her face will be visible on TV). After, she tells Conan that she's 18 years old.

=== Blue Castle Treasure Case (Manga: [[Volume 20|200]]-[[Volume 21|203]], Anime: [[Episode 136|136-137]]) ===
Haibara talks to Ayumi, saying that she doesn't have love interest in Conan so Ayumi doesn't have to worry about her.

=== Movie Theater Case (Manga: [[Volume 23|222-224]], Anime: [[Episode 138|138-139]]) ===
At the start of the second Gomera movie, Ayumi falls asleep and puts her head on Conan's shoulder. When Conan turns to Haibara, saying he needs to use the restroom and asks her if she would switch seats, she has also put her head on Conan's shoulder, having fallen asleep as well.

=== Innocent Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 23|231]] and [[Volume 24|232-233]], Anime: [[Episode 156|156-157]]) ===
The episode opens with Haibara and Conan in what looks to be an abandoned and empty room. Haibara tells him that she (possibly referring to Ran) has found out about his identity. When he asks her why she's telling him all this, she tells him that he can see into the hearts of the wicked, but he couldn't understand a woman's heart, then tells him that she's been in love with him since she met him. We see Conan's face, but it doesn't appear to be at all surprised, and Haibara continues with: "I guess you didn't even notice... Kamen Yaiba-san." After Mitsuhiko yells out "CUT!", it is revealed that both Conan and Haibara were merely acting, and practicing lines for Teitan Elementary School's play, with Mitsuhiko as the director.

=== Reunion with the Black Organization (Manga: [[Volume 25|238-242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|176-178]]) ===
[[image:Sherry-getting-shot.png|thumb|left|200px|Shiho shot by Gin.]]
In Episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. Haibara is kidnapped and confined in a wine cellar by the Black Organization member [[Pisco]], but she escapes before Gin and Vodka arrive by drinking [[baijiu]] to turn back into an adult. Gin anticipates her actions and intercepts her on the roof. He shoots selectively to wound her, intending to force her to explain how she escaped from the Organization before he finally kills her. Conan prevents Gin from killing her by shooting the man with his [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer wristwatch]]. Conan tells Haibara to jump into the chimney when a distracted Vodka shoots at him but as he's behind a door, he gets away once Haibara has gone down the chimney. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm to stay awake. Inside the wine cellar, Pisco is about to kill Haibara but Conan rescues her after tricking Pisco into accidentally causing a fire. They make their escape as Pisco tries to find them amidst the fire and smoke. At this point, Gin crawls from the chimney and confronts Pisco, citing his failure to remain in the shadows in his mission and kills him before Pisco is able to tell him the truth that Shiho Miyano has deaged into a young girl. Worried that the Organization is after her, Haibara decides to leave the city. Conan anticipates that Gin will predict her next move as leaving Tokyo so it will be better if she does the unexpected and remains in Beika. Unknown to Conan or Haibara, [[Vermouth]] saw Haibara at the party and uses her expert disguise skills to get closer to Haibara and Conan in order to confirm Haibara's identity as Sherry and then kill her.

=== Dangerous Cave Case (Manga: [[Volume 25#Dangerous Cave Case|251]]-[[Volume 26#Dangerous Cave Case|254]], Anime [[The Desperate Revival|188-189]]) ===
Conan finds out that Ran suspects him of being Shinichi, because Ran said she knew Conan's blood type for a blood transfusion, which Haibara hears.

=== School Play Case (Manga: [[Volume 26#School Play Case|255-257]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival|190-191]]) ===
[[File:Flower gun.png|thumb|200px|Haibara's about to shoot Conan.]]
While Conan is in the hospital contemplating admitting his identity to her, Haibara enters and points a gun at his head, saying that the Black Organization has found out about her due to an unknown agent being present at the Pisco incident. Because of this, Professor Agasa is held hostage and, in exchange for his life and a chance to return to the Black Organization, Haibara is required to terminate all the links she had in her child identity. However, when she pulls the trigger a bunch of flowers come out, showing that the story was just an act. Still, she uses this story as her point: both Haibara and Conan cannot reveal their identities no matter the situation, in order to prevent such a tragedy from occurring.

During that night, Haibara explains her plan to disassociate Conan from Shinichi in Ran's eyes. She has Conan take a [[prototype antidote]] for APTX 4869 and then disguises herself as Conan. For the rest of the arc, Conan returns as Shinichi while Haibara is present as Conan, thus creating the illusion of Shinichi and Conan existing at the same time, disproving that the two are the same person.

=== Elevator Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 26#Elevator Murder Case|258-260]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival|192-193]]) ===
At the end of the Desperate Revival arc, the antidote begins to run out and Shinichi runs into the bathroom, where Haibara is still disguised as Conan already waiting for him. She knows that Shinichi would run into the men´s bathroom after the symptoms of the regress conversion start to appear. Presumably, she leaves Conan's clothes
for Shinichi and changes back into Haibara before leaving with Agasa who's waiting for her in the car park. Returned to the form of Conan once more, Conan returns to where Ran is waiting for Shinichi and tells her Shinichi has to leave urgently on another case.

=== Music Box Case (Manga: [[Volume 26#File_261_-_Touching_the_Music_Strings.21.3F|261]], Anime: [[The Significant Music Box|194]]) ===
Some time after the "comeback of Shinichi", Conan asks Haibara for some more antidotes, as he would like to meet Ran again in his adult form to tell her the whole truth. Haibara refuses and says it's too late, and it could be dangerous for Conan to swallow another prototype that could kill him. Haibara and the Detective Boys seem delighted to see Conan again, though the Boys are completely ignorant of who Conan really is.

=== Mermaid's Curse Case (Manga: [[Volume 28#Mermaid.27s Curse Case|281]], Anime: [[And Then There Were No Mermaids|223]]) ===
During the investigation of a case involving a lottery, Heiji Hattori and Conan goes through books with names of contestants from previous lotteries. Conan finds the name Shiho Miyano in one of the books and recalls it as the real name of Haibara. But he can't imagine that it's the same person, since she doesn't appear as a person desiring eternal youth and beauty.

=== Bus Hijacking Case (Manga: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|287-289]], Anime: [[The Mysterious Passenger|230-231]] ===
[[File:Vermouth episode 230.png|thumb|right|200px|Haibara in pinch.]]
Vermouth, disguised as [[Tomoaki Araide]], boards a bus that Haibara, Agasa, and the Detective Boys are riding to a ski resort. Whatever plan Vermouth might have had is completely interrupted by the bus being hijacked by random criminals and the presence of two FBI agents that have been tracking her: [[Jodie Starling]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. Haibara detects Vermouth's presence on the bus. She becomes so afraid that the Detective Boys, Conan, and Agasa will be killed because of her that she decides to commit suicide, deliberately staying behind in the bus which is about to explode. Realising her intent, Conan runs back and with his quick thinking, saves her. He asks her not to run away from life. However, the event caused her to remain anxious for several days.

=== Dog Lovers Case (Manga: [[Volume 29#Dog Lovers Case|290-292]], Anime: [[The Evidence That Didn%27t Disappear|233-234]]) ===
The hijacked bus incident in ''The Mysterious Passenger Case'' led Haibara to be especially worried about her situation. Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko attempt to cheer her up and, with the help of Arthur the dog, manage to make her smile. Conan comments that she should keep that expression, since it makes her look like a child, causing Haibara to blush.

=== Netted Man Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 31#Netted Man Murder Case|311-313]], Anime: [[The Mystery in the Net|246-247]]) ===
While she is at the beach with the Detective Boys and Ran, Haibara once again witnesses Conan's/Shinichi's feelings for Ran. She remains in the water until Ran notices she got a sunstroke. Conan wonders why she did not stay with Professor Agasa, and she answers that she did not want to run away from a dolphin (Ran) who is loved by the ocean (Shinichi/Conan), and a shark (herself) that ran away from the cold and dark bottom of the ocean cannot compete with the dolphin. However, Conan fails to understand this metaphor, which draws a parallel between Ran and Haibara.

=== Kaitou Kid and the Three Instruments (Manga: [[Volume 46#Kaitou Kid and the Three Instruments|475-478]], Anime: [[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion|394-396]]) ===
Conan figures out the boss's full number, but Haibara warns him not to call it because it is "[[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]". Conan then thinks he can get Detective Takagi to figure out who the number belongs to, but then Haibara warns that if he does, Detective Takagi will be killed. This scene is the first time Haibara openly reveals to Conan that she has been hiding important secrets about the Black Organization from him; earlier she [[Black Organization#APTX 4869 and Biochemistry|had lied to him]]. The exchange suggests that Haibara is withholding information because she fears Conan will make a rash move.

=== Red, White, and Yellow Case (Manga: [[Volume 60#Red, White, and Yellow Case|622-624]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Double Code Mystery#Red, White, Yellow, and the Detective Boys|509]]) ===
[[File:Haibara doesn't like Okiya.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Haibara does not like Subaru.]]
Not long after Akai's death, Conan hears fresh intel from the [[FBI]] that a new [[Black Organization]] agent called [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] is looking for Shiho, which Conan keeps secret from Haibara. As Conan and Haibara investigate a normal case, Haibara feels that an organization member is around. The organization member which she felt is implied to be one of the innocent suspects, [[Subaru Okiya]]. Conan invites Okiya to live in Kudo's house since Okiya's apartment was burnt to the ground. Okiya appears in other cases later on, including at the Haido mall where the rest of the Black Organization gathered to chase a rumored sighting of a [[Scar Akai|scarred Shuichi Akai]]. Although Okiya is trusted by Conan and Agasa and behaves kindly to Haibara, she remains frightened of him. Later, some of his actions lead her to believe he might be someone she knows and she comes to trust him more, even attempting to uncover his identity when she thought he was asleep.

=== Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret (Manga: [[Volume 77#Cabin Trap|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-704]]) ===
[[File:Shiho 700.png|thumb|200px|Haibara turns into Shiho via the [[Prototype antidote|prototype antidote]] for the first time.]]
Haibara is forced to revert to Shiho using a [[temporary antidote]] to save the other children of the group from a fire. A video of her as an adult is sent to the Mouri Detective Agency by Mitsuhiko which Sera, Okiya, and Amuro find out about. Because of this, Haibara is later targeted by a plot concocted by Vermouth and Bourbon aboard the Bell Tree Express Train. Bourbon is revealed to be Amuro and Haibara learns that he knew her parents. Bourbon was hoping to capture Shiho alive, but Vermouth's modifications to his plan which were designed to kill her led to Shiho supposedly being blown up on the train. The Shiho Vermouth and Bourbon thought was killed was really [[Kaitou Kid]] in disguise, Conan having forced him into the plan. Because of this, all of the Black Organization besides Vermouth think Shiho is now dead, and Vermouth is unable to reveal the truth to the rest of them without also compromising Conan, Haibara and their deaged condition against her wishes.

=== The Heartfelt Strap (Manga: [[Volume 94#Haibara's Lost Phone Strap Case|997-999]], Anime: [[The Heartfelt Strap|925-926]]) ===
Haibara refuse to give Conan a couple antidotes in order to go to the Kyoto trip with Ran. Suddenly, she finds out she lost the Higo puppet phone strap she bought at the stadium store. It was particularly precious to her because Ryusuke Higo touched it in the bleachers during the football match. She freezes in disbelief and collapses against the wall. Conan decide to go and with the Detective Boys to find her phone strap, in exchange for the antidotes. At the end, they are able to return the strap but it was partially destroyed. At fisrt, Haibara still refusing Conan's pleas to give him the antidote but she still give him the antidote later on as their hard work for finding the strap.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: [[Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy|995]]) ===
Haibara mentioned [[Atsushi Miyano|her father]] worked as a member of [[Shirohato Pharmaceuticals]] R&D team thirty years ago. However, the company went bankrupt twenty-five years ago and her parents decided to open a small clinic.

=== Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule (Manga: [[Volume 101#Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule|1070-1072]], Anime: TBD) ===
Haibara finds out her sister Akemi attended [[Teitan Elementary School]] and graduated from it nineteen years ago. She also buried a time capsule at the school as well, which reveals a photo of Akemi and Shino in the past with a letter on the back. Suddenly, someone heavily triggered Haibara's anxiety, causing Conan to rush outside the classroom. When he asked an upperclassman if any suspicious person passed by, he was informed that only pizza and sushi deliveries came near the area. Conan then dismisses his suspicion and concludes that Haibara must have been overreacting only.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Countdown to Heaven (Movie: [[Countdown to Heaven|5]]) ===
[[File:M5-43.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ai, witnessing Genta's virtue]]
Having greatly missed her sister Akemi, Ai secretly begins to make a call to an apartment that her sister once stayed in order to hear her voice from the tape recorder. Gin and Vodka, knowing about this habit of hers, plan to track down Asaga's phone number when she makes the call, but their plan is foiled by Conan and Agasa after being informed of this by Genta.

As she begins to bond with the Detective Boys, Ai begins to realize that she herself is no longer all alone or full of sorrow, and is willing to sacrifice herself to allow them to live. She also witnesses both Genta and Mitsuhiko's bravery of not wanting to leave her behind from the time bombed tower, with the former forcefully carrying her to the escape car despite her intention to countdown the time bomb until the end, and the latter holds on to her when she is thrown off the car due to the blaze from the explosion. Ai, knowing of Ayumi's affection toward Conan, also warns him to never make Ayumi cries, else she'll never forgive him.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and friends ===

==== Akemi Miyano ====
The death of Akemi still affects her. It was the death of her sister that led to Haibara's escape from the organization, because no one would tell her the reason. She became aware of the robbery Akemi pulled before her death, but suspected there was more to the story.

In the movie Countdown to Heaven, she kept calling Akemi's number at her apartment just to hear her voice, fully aware that the Black Organization might wiretap and trace to her location. It took extreme measure from Conan to make Haibara abandon this thought.

==== Atsushi Miyano ====
Dr. Miyano was Haibara's father. He passed away when she was barely a year old. Her feelings toward her father is unknown, but she does show interest in seeing the house where he grew up.

==== Elena Miyano ====
Elena passed away when Shiho was a baby. Even though Shiho/Haibara has accepted her passing for a long time, being able to hear her voice via recorded
tapes calmed Haibara down.

==== Conan Edogawa/Shinichi Kudo ====
[[File:Haibara Conan moment Ed60.png|thumb|left|190px|Haibara and Conan/Shinichi believe and rely on each other (Picture from [[Sissy Sky|Closing 60 Scene]]).]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

Both are de-aged by APTX4869 and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes Haibara and [[Conan]] close confidants and more empathetic with each other than most other characters. Conan is one of the few people in front of whom she has shown any signs of weakness, such as breaking down over her sister's death. They share an interesting relationship. They believe and rely on each other. She is keenly observant of Conan's personality, intelligence, and sense of justice.

If Conan is in danger, she is willing to throw away her life to save him, overriding fears and concerns for her own safety that would ordinarily paralyze her. Similarly, Conan has saved Haibara's life more than once when she would have sacrificed herself for his and the [[Detective Boys]]' safety. She often enjoys teasing Conan, which he takes in good stride. However, he is oblivious of her feelings towards him and sometimes finds it difficult to deal with her sarcasm and impudent, cold nature. Although in empathy on many matters, they don't fully trust one another with information about the Black Organization out of concern for the safety and feelings of the other. In fact, she has always known that [[Renya Karasuma]] is the Black Organization head, but she never reveals it for Conan's safety.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[File:772-1.png|thumb|left|190px|Haibara is typing a mail to Professor Agasa angrily for cheating his diet.]]
{{main|Agasa family}}
The relationship between Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] is rather unusual, if not humorous. Despite their actual ages, Haibara often acts more like a mother to the professor, constantly reminding him to watch what he eats. On several occasions, she has removed fattening foods from his reach<ref name=Depths>[[Strategy Above the Depths|Movie 9: Strategy Above the Depths]]</ref>, and is attempting to help get him into better shape. Kogoro jokingly notes in Countdown to Heaven that she acts a lot like Agasa's wife.
There have also been instances where she'll automatically step in front of Agasa in cases of danger.<ref name=Eyes>[[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]]</ref> Out of all the people she's met, Haibara seems most comfortable about acting herself with Professor Agasa; which might be attributed to the fact that he was the one who found her after she escaped the Black Organization, and took her in. Agasa had been an acquaintance of Shiho's parents, but he hadn't imagine that she would be their daughter, before Conan revealed it.

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ed60-3.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Haibara's first greeting with Ran. (Picture from [[Sissy_Sky|Closing 60's Scene]]).]]
[[File:247-1.png|thumb|right|165px|Haibara's first meeting with Ran.(Picture from [[The_Mystery_in_the_Net|Original Scene]]).]]
There are instances where Haibara will caution Conan from actions that involve [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], though it's assumed this is due merely to the fact that
she wants to keep her identity hidden. Early on, she is cold and distant towards Ran, even more so than she is to most other people. Ran believes that it is because Haibara hated her,<ref name=Net>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref> though in truth it is because Ran reminds Haibara strongly of her dead sister.

After Ran notices Haibara is not feeling well and carries her to safety during a case, Haibara finally properly introduces herself to Ran, and they slowly became friends. Because Haibara finds that Ran resembles her older sister, Akemi Miyano, she takes special interest in protecting her. These feelings increase after Ran jumps through a slew of bullets from [[Calvados|a Black Organization sniper]] to save Haibara.<ref name=Vermouth>[[Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon|Episode 345: Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon]]</ref> Haibara immediately thinks of her own sister, and begins acting to try to protect Ran from the organization, such as when Haibara begs for Ran to stay at Agasa's house when she knows that [[Korn]], [[Chianti]], and the rest of the Black Organization are lurking about, immediately thinking of her own sister's death, and wanting to keep Ran safe.<ref name=KornChianti>[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!|Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!]]</ref>

Assuming that Conan has romantic feelings for Ran, Haibara feels jealous of her and suffer from considering herself as less attractive than Ran. She even implies that Ran would be similar to a dolphin, when she would only be a shark coming from the cold depths of the sea, indicating that she cannot compete against her<ref>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref>. Once when Haibara had a cold and Ran came to bring her some food, Ai pretended to be asleep and Conan said she wasn't being considerate for Ran's good actions towards her. Haibara thought to herself that Conan doesn't understand a thing, but she doesn't want him to anyway, hinting that she has actually romantic feelings towards Conan/Shinichi and is jealous due to his feelings for Ran.

==== Akai Shuichi/Subaru Okiya ====
[[File:685-2.png|thumb|left|190px|Haibara uncovering Subaru's scarf.]]
The first time [[Subaru]] appears, Haibara felt a strange feeling toward him and thought he is a member of the Black Organization. However, the feeling kept coming and going. In later episodes, Haibara doesn't seem to hate him so much anymore. She even tries to uncover Subaru's scarf to check his neck, probably suspecting he was using a device made by Professor Agasa. At one point, she asks him if he bugged Agasa's house because he keeps appearing at opportune moments when they're involved in a case, bringing food hastily put together as an excuse for his presence. She cited one instance in which the food was not cooked and the vegetables were raw.

Currently, although Akai/Subaru knows Haibara's secret identity, Haibara doesn't know Subaru's identity, nor does she know Akai was her deceased sister's boyfriend. Both Akai/Subaru, Conan, and Agasa are keeping such information a secret from Haibara. At one point, Haibara questions if Akai is a "lolicon."

==== Dai Moroboshi ====
[[File:701 8.png|thumb|right|190px|Dai Moroboshi in Haibara's thought.]]
Haibara knows [[Dai Moroboshi]] as her sister's boyfriend. She deduces that Dai approaches her sister just to collect information about the Black Organization. She remembered him giving her a promise to protect Akemi. But she also remembers him as 'the one, who betrayed the organization', so there is a possibility that she has heard another story of what happened. Later on, she meets a [[Scar Akai|guy]] similar to him in [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]] and wonders how he got the scar on his face.

==== Heiji Hattori ====
Heiji is one of the few character who know Conan and Haibara's secret identity, as well as the effect of APTX 4869. In general, Heiji and Haibara rarely meet each other. His hot temperament is a trait that Haibara dislikes. However, on more than one occasion, Haibara trusts Heiji to keep the secret of the drug and to keep Conan/Shinichi safe when Conan temporarily reverts back to Shinichi.
Haibara also shows a mischievous side towards Heiji. At one point when Heiji (kinda) confessed to Kazuha, Haibara used the recorded speech as her ringtone.

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Detective boys under Haibara's command.png|thumb|right|185px|Haibara is the second-command in Detective Boys.]]
Haibara has tried to keep an emotional distance away from the rest of the Detective Boys at the beginning. However, over time, she can't resist their boistorous friendliness anymore and gradually warms up to them. When she was first introduced, she would often stay off to the side of whatever activity the Detective Boys were doing while later arcs, such as the Sweet and Cold Delivery Service arc, open with her playing soccer with them, and even mentally as she's about to do one of Higo's moves.

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
[[File:330-1.png|thumb|left|185px|Ayumi is happy for being allowed to call Haibara by her name (Ai).]]
{{Main|Ayumi Yoshida}}
Out of the Detective Boys, Haibara is the closest with [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]. At one time, Ayumi noticed that she called everyone by their first names except for Haibara and decided to try and call her "Ai-chan", but without success. At the end of a case which involved a shattered friendship, Haibara told Ayumi that it was okay for her to call her "Ai-chan". When Mitsuhiko and Genta tried to call her that, however, she told them that only Ayumi was allowed to call her by her first name.<ref name=Ai-chan>[[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329-330: A Friendship That Can't Be Bought]]</ref> On the whole, Haibara seems to see Ayumi as a little sister, even going so far as to physically shield her from danger.<ref name=starsandtobacco>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco (Part 2)]]</ref> Besides, Ayumi is one of the people who teach her that she cannot win by always running away, and that she has to face her enemies<ref>[[Episode 347|Episode 347: Find the Buttock's Mark]]</ref>.
However, Haibara and Ayumi may almost be love rivals, since both seem to develop romantic feelings for Conan: Ayumi even asks her if she is in love with him, and is really frightened when she is answered positively (she eventually cheers up when Haibara says she is not).<ref>[[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|Episode 205: The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case]]</ref>

==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ====
[[Image:279haibaramitsuhiko.png|thumb|left|185px|Haibara listening in on Mitsuhiko's radio.]]
{{main|Ai Haibara and Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
Haibara's classmate and fellow detective [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] develops romantic feelings for her, and Haibara is fully aware of this. Haibara uses Mitsuhiko's feelings to her advantage when she needs him to do something, but she also admires his intelligence and courage during missions the Detective Boys must perform and respects his feelings. In some episodes she even shows more confidence in Mitsuhiko than in Ayumi or Genta when the going gets tough.

=== Black Organization ===
==== The Boss ====

==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Sherry}}
[[Gin]] has an abnormal attachment for Shiho, often thinks of her being naked, and seems to enjoy hunting her down, while she hates and fears him. They had some sort of relationship in the past.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__st__60__p__287218#entry287218 青山剛昌先生と話そうDAY (Let's talk with Aoyama Gosho-sensei day), held January 3, 2013]</ref>

==== Vodka ====
Shiho and [[Vodka]] have met and are acquaintances.<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill Page 239</ref>

==== 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: in the first times, the feeling of her presence can even entirely paralyze her<ref>[[The Mysterious Passenger|Episode 231: The Mysterious Passenger]]</ref>. Shiho was initially Vermouth's target, but Vermouth promised to give up on her after Conan's intervention.<ref name=CD239/> She broke this promise later when Bourbon discovered a video of Sherry, still clinging to her personal conviction that Shiho is the one person who can't be allowed to exist in the world.<ref>Manga File 818</ref>

==== Rei Furuya ====
[[Rei Furuya|Rei]] knew Haibara's parents and sister. Rei has also met Shiho in the Mystery Train case, but not knowing that it was [[Kaitou Kid]] in disguise.

=== Others ===
==== Mary Sera ====
As Haibara tries to wipe out the mascara in her left eye, Conan notices the similarities between her and [[Mary]], and he thinks that they might be blood related. Conan thinks that Haibara is somehow connected to the [[Akai family]].

== People who know Haibara's real identity ==
{{main|List of characters who know Ai Haibara's identity}}
These people know Haibara's true identity: Professor Agasa, Conan, Vermouth, Pisco, Heiji Hattori, Yukiko Kudo, Yusaku Kudo, and Shuichi Akai. It is also possible that James Black and Jodie Starling of the FBI know Haibara's true identity since they call Haibara by her codename "Sherry", although they may not know yet her true name.

== Gadgets ==
{{main|Gadgets}}
Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Shinichi/Conan to use for investigate cases or catch criminals, and Haibara also uses some gadgets same as conan to use for self defense and help Shinichi/Conan. such as Glasses and wristwatch ([[Criminal Tracking Glasses]], [[Telescopic Lenses]], [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch]], [[Wristwatch Flashlight]]) and [[Detective Boys Badge]] (use for communicating with Detective boys).

== 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. Haibara placed 4th in the poll with 686 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』人気投票結果|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</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. Haibara placed 4th out of 10. (First place of all female characters)<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. Haibara placed 3rd overall with 1,592 votes. (First place of all female characters)<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>
* In a poll held on June 5, 2020 by asking women age 20 to 40 who were their favourite Detective Conan character, Ai ranked fifth<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/hjkevu/detective_conan_character_popularity_poll_june_5/</ref>.

== Name origin ==
According to Agasa, Ai Haibara's name comes from [[Wikipedia: Cordelia Gray|Cordelia '''Gray''']] (the character 灰 in her name means "ash") and [[Wikipedia: V.I. Warshawski|V.'''I'''. Warshawski]] ("Ai" comes from the letter "I"). Although Agasa suggested she use the kanji 愛 (love) for "Ai", she preferred to use the kanji 哀 (sorrow).<ref>[[Volume 18#File 179 - The Girl Made of Lies|Volume 18, File 179: "The Girl Made of Lies"]]</ref> Her US FUNimation name, "Vi Graythorn", has similar roots. However, Gosho Aoyama in an interview posted in the May 2014 issue of Da Vinci magazine stated that the "Ai" in Ai Haibara comes from [[Wikipedia: Irene Adler|'''I'''rene Adler]], a character from the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' story "A Scandal in Bohemia", and she is inspired by her.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Da Vinci|month=May|year=2014|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten}}</ref><ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref>

Her US Viz name, Anita Hailey, comes from:
* Anita: Anne Katherine Green (the first American Mystery Writer)
* Hailey: Hero (though Anita didn't care much for the choice)<ref>Case Closed Volume 18: File 179 - The False Girl</ref>

Her codename '''Sherry''' is Detective Shunsaku Kudo's (from [[wikipedia:ja:探偵物語|Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales)]]) favorite liquor.

== Different looks ==
{|
|[[File:Ai Before.jpg|thumb|x200px|Episode 129]]
|[[File:Ai Middle.JPG|thumb|x200px|Episode 477]]
|[[File:Ai After Brown.jpg|thumb|x200px|Episode 509]]
|}
{|
|[[File:Ai After.jpg|thumb|x200px|Episode 631]]
|[[File:haibara 2015.png|thumb|x200px|Episode 779]]
|[[File:Haibara Alt 2.jpg|thumb|x200px|Episode 890]]
|[[File:haibara ai magic kaito 1412.png|thumb|x200px|Magic Kaito 1412 (episode 21).]]
|}
{|
|[[File:ai 2017.png|thumb|x200px|Opening 45]]
|[[File:Ai haibara smile ed60.png|thumb|x200px|Closing 60]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== General ===
{{cquote|You can't complain about time going by... If anyone tries to change it... Life will punish them.|[[Volume 20|File 191, Page 11: "The Eyes From Far Away"]]}}
{{cquote|Creation reflects the inner state of the creator.|[[Volume 33|File 335: "Memento of a Wife"]]}}
{{cquote|Don't judge people from the outside. Like any rose has thorns, the more person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.|[[Volume 45|File 461: "Poison on the Bait!?"]]}}
{{cquote|They say time and a people’s hearts are inversely proportional. The more it passes, the more they grow apart.|[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|Episode 290: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6]]}}
{{cquote|It’s like an automated vending machine for canned juice. You’ll get what you want so long as you have the money but you get nothing in return without it. You can’t buy your way into the hearts of others.|Episode 330}}

=== Specific ===
{{cquote|Using too much of your brain can make you bald like Professor Agasa.. |[[Volume 23|File 222, Page 7: "The Last Movie"]]}}
{{cquote|Even this loyal mirror won't reflect your true form.|Talking to Conan|[[Volume 23|File 223, Page 14: "The True in the Mirror"]]}}
{{cquote|You'll protect me, right?|Talking to Conan|[[Volume 34|File 346: "The Fake Supporter"]]}}
{{cquote|I will pass!|When the Detective Boys want to play detectives or treasure hunters}}
* [[Megumi Hayashibara]]'s favorite line as Ai Haibara, indicated in Conan radio.
{{cquote|Baka! (Fool)}}
* [[Minami Takayama]]'s favorite line from Haibara, indicated in Conan radio.
{{cquote|If I... If I... I wish I could lose my memory if possible. I wouldn't remember my sister's death, or being forced to make poison for the Organization. If I could forget everything and just become a regular elementary school student Haibara Ai, I wonder how good it'll be... And, I could be with you forever, forever just like this...|[[Movie 4|Movie 4: "Captured in Her Eyes"]]|Said to Conan in response to Ran losing her memory, she then played it off as a joke}}
{{cquote|Really... just like Officer Takagi and Inspector Shiratori... How come all the officers we know have to be such slow, annoying, blockhead morons?|Episode 659}}
{{cquote|Just an elementary school student who loves science.|[[The Scarlet Bullet|Movie 24: "The Scarlet Bullet"]]|Answering to [[The Scarlet Bullet#People|Eri Ishioka]]'s question of who exactly is she}}

=== Quotes about Ai ===
{{cquote|She's not as tough as she looks.|Conan talking to Agasa|[[Volume 34|File 341: "The Hint That Was Against"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Sherry is a fortified wine from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain. Most sherries are initially dry, with sweetness added later. This could be a play on her personality that the Black Organization recognized. To further confirm the pun, in the Spanish dub of the anime, her codename in the organization is "Jerez" rather than "Sherry" (in Spanish language, both the town and the wine share the name), although she was renamed later to "Sherry" again.
* Haibara is an animal lover.<ref>The Evidence That Didn't Disappear</ref> <ref>Mushrooms, Bears, and the Detective Boys</ref> <ref>Super Secret of the Road to School</ref>
* Haibara strongly dislikes getting shocked by static electricity. She used to have some accessories to dissipate the charge, but she seems to have given up on them after Conan taught her a good strategy to avoid being shocked.<ref>Manga [[Volume 61]], Files 5-7 (635-637), Anime [[Episode 525]]</ref>,
*In non canon Haibara reveals to [[Fujiko Mine]] that she used to ride a Harley before she shrank.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>
* Haibara's hair color has changed numerously since her first appearance, but it is most commonly reddish or copper.
* Haibara has the recording of Heiji's 'confession' to Kazuha<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 9 (881), Anime [[Episode 764]]</ref> as her ring tone.<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 8 (912), Anime [[Episode 809]]</ref>
* As a traitor of the organization who could died, she compares herself to [[Wikipedia: Marie Antoinette|Marie Antoinette]], the beautiful French princess who met her end at the guillotine.<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 6 (290), Anime [[Episode 233]]</ref>
*In [[Grabbing Karuta Cards in Dire Straits]] When Haibara figured out the case, she made the same face expression as Conan's in a typical case.
*Haibara owns a laptop that appears to be a cross between the Microsoft and Apple models.
*The age difference between [[Rei Furuya]] and Haibara is the same as the age difference between Haibara's shrunken form and Haibara as Shiho.
*According to Super Digest Book 100+ Haibara still hasn’t been told that Amuro is from Public Security.

== In other languages ==
=== Ai Haibara ===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|哀 Ai|灰原 Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|''آي''|هيبارا Hībāra}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|flag2 = Hong Kong | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) |哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Anita/Vi|Hailey/Graythorn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|장미 Jang Mee|홍 Hong}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Ай Ai|Хайбара Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ไอ XỊ|ไฮบาระ Ḥị-bā-ra}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ai|Haibara}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Shiho Miyano ===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|志保 Shiho |宮野 Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شيهو Shīho|ميانو Miyāno}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|志保 Zhìbǎo|宫野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Hong Kong|Chinese (Traditional)|志保 Zhìbǎo|宮野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|시호 Shi Ho|안 Ahn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Сихо/Шихо Siho/Shiho|Мияно Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ Chi-ḥoa|มิยาโนะ Mi-yā-noa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Sherry ===
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شيري Sheri| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|flag2 = Hong Kong|Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) |雪莉 Xuělì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly, due to translating errors}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|쉐리 Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шерри Sherri| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sherry|Once "Jerez".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่ Chex-rī̀| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{EndTable}}

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]

{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}
{{Black Organization}}
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[[de:Ai Haibara]]

Akemi Miyano

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Akemi Miyano
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|宮野明美}} (Miyano Akemi)
| english-name = Akemi Miyano (Kendra Miyano in Case Closed episode 14)
| image = Akemi Miyano Profile.jpg
| age = 25 (deceased)<ref name=age>She was 5 when she visited Sohei Dejima's house with her parents 20 years ago in Volume 41, File 423: "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Shiho Miyano]] (younger sister) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| occupation = Black Organization member
| aliases = Masami Hirota (Michelle in Case Closed episode 14)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 2#Masami Hirota Case|File 13]] Anime: [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13]] (She is reintroduced in [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|128]], though her previous appearance is ignored.)
| appearances = {{:Akemi Miyano Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 41]]
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Sakiko Tamagawa]] [[Masako Katsuki]] (Masami Hirota)
| english-voice = [[Clarine Harp]] (Michelle Hamlin/Kendra Miyano in Case Closed episode 14) [[Alex Valle]] (Countdown to Heaven) [[Rebecca Davis]] (Bang Zoom!)
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'''{{nihongo|Akemi Miyano|宮野明美|Miyano Akemi}}''', also known by her alias as '''{{nihongo|Masami Hirota|広田雅美|Hirota Masami}}''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Akemi is the older sister of [[Shiho Miyano]], and both were members of the [[Black Organization]]. However, unlike her sister, Akemi was never considered a high ranking member. Akemi dated [[Shuichi Akai]] while he was infiltrating the Organization. Akemi was shot by Gin and killed after she performed a bank robbery. Although she dies in her first appearance, Akemi shows up numerous times throughout the series, mostly in episodes featuring Haibara, whom looks at [[Ran Mouri]] as a spitting image of her sister.

== Background ==
Akemi Miyano, the oldest child of [[Elena Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano]], was born into the Black Organization approximately some 25 years before the current timeline.<ref name=age></ref> Unlike her younger sister [[Shiho Miyano]], Akemi was never considered a high ranking member of the Organization and managed to live a mostly normal life, traveling about freely and going to school and college like normal, despite being watched over by the organization. Both of her parents later died an accident while she was young, orphaning Akemi and Shiho. Although her sister became a highly ranked codenamed scientist, Akemi remained in close contact with Shiho and served as her lifeline to normalcy. She only involved herself into the organization to try get Shiho out of it.

At some point 13 years ago she attended Teitan Elementary School and graduated from it. She was in Class 6-A.<ref>File 1070</ref>

Some five years before the current timeline, Akemi met undercover FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] who was using the alias Dai Moroboshi. He planned to date Akemi in order to get close to Shiho Miyano so he could gain standing within the Black Organization as part of his mission. Although Shuichi initially was just using her, they wound up really falling in love. Akemi discovered Shuichi was an FBI agent and guessed his plan, but kept this knowledge secret even from him. Three years later, Shuichi's true allegiance was uncovered and he was ejected from the Organization. Akemi then revealed that she knew his secret, and that she wished to leave the Organization and date him seriously.

This did not happen because Akemi was unwilling to leave without her sister, and the Black Organization would not allow Shiho to go because her work on the [[APTX 4869]] project was extremely valuable. Although Shuichi stopped contacting Akemi for her safety, the Organization was planning to get rid of her anyway because her connection to Shuichi was considered a serious risk. The Organization could not simply eliminate her though because it would jeopardize Shiho's loyalty. The Black Organization finally put their plan to kill Akemi into motion two years later just after [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] had shrunk into [[Conan Edogawa|Conan Edogawa]].
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== Personality ==
Akemi had a nurturing, kind, friendly, cheerful and outgoing personality, with a good sense of humor. Playful as a child, she enjoyed playing games and creating codes for other people, but never to hurt them. For example, she hid the work tools of her father's friends and happily watched as they panicked; however, she only wanted them to work less hard. Even though she knew of her elementary classmates’ mischievings, in the class memory capsule, she did not rat them out but simply wished everyone well. She was popular among classmates for her sweet nature. She appeared likable and well-adjusted considering that she had to change schools many times.

As an adult, she remained loving despite being in the Black Organization. She likely had to violate her moral code to complete criminal missions for them. However, she was strong-willed enough to arrange an escape deal for her and her sister. Although they rarely saw each other, she and her sister Shiho were very close and confided in each other. However, Shuichi says Akemi was always crying in the dark while pretending to be strong, suggesting that she had painful memories she did not want to burden other people with. Her selfless, nurturing, and slightly vulnerable personality reminds Shiho (as Haibara Ai) as well as Akai Shuichi of Ran Mouri.

Akemi was clever and calculating, given that she could plan a 1-billion-yen robbery. Her convincing disguise and acting eluded even Conan.

== Appearance ==
[[Image:Akemi Before (1).png|thumb|right|200px|As Masami Hirota]]
Akemi is often noted to be very similar to [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. Both Haibara and Shuichi get the feeling that they are alike. She is a pretty Japanese girl with long black hair and a medium height.

== Plot overview ==
=== ¥1,000,000,000 Robbery Case (Manga: [[Volume 2#.C2.A51.2C000.2C000.2C000 Robbery|013-016]], Anime: [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|13]]/[[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|128]]) ===
[[Image:Conan and Akemi manga.png|thumb|right|200px|Akemi's death in the manga.]]
The Organization's plan to silence Akemi was to pretend to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful one billion yen bank robbery, [[Gin]] told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her. Akemi hired two partners to help her. Kenzo Hirota, a Tokyoite with no family, would be the get-away driver, because he used to work as a taxi driver. An unnamed giant man would serve as muscle. The day before the mission, she send a text to Akai, explaining the situation and asked if he would want to go out with her for real, should she manage to get out of the organization.

Akemi and her two partners successfully pull off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Unfortunately, Kenzo Hirota then backstabs Akemi and the giant by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approach different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Akemi creates the alias Hirota Masami, borrowing from [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|a professor friend's name]], and changing her hairstyle so she appears to be a high school girl from Yamagata looking for her missing "father".<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Akemi approaches the then-not-well-known Detective [[Kogoro]] at his office and convinces him to help her. Kogoro begins to search for the man's via his contacts.

[[Image:Conan and Akemi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Akemi's death in the anime.]]
Sometime while Kogoro is searching for Kenzo, Akemi meets with Shiho at a restaurant and describes Conan to her. Akemi tells Shiho that Conan lives in the [[Mouri Detective Agency]] near the [[Setting|Kudo house]] that Shiho had visited earlier (as part of a search to ensure Shinichi was really killed by APTX 4869) and that he has the composure of an adult. Shiho then asks Akemi to tell her about the dangerous mission that Akemi had just performed, but Akemi tells Shiho she is fine and that she should stop working on that drug and try to get a boyfriend instead.

With Conan and Ran's help, Kogoro finds Kenzo and "Hirota Masami" pretends to be overjoyed at their "reunion". Later that night, Akemi and the giant man confront Kenzo to take back the money. A fight breaks out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo to death against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hang Kenzo's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grab the cash, and leave for a hotel. Akemi slips some pills given to her by Gin into the giant's drink so she could take the money, unaware that they were laced with cyanide and would kill him instantly. With both of her partners dead, she hides the suitcases of money at the hotel's front desk and takes a taxi to meet Gin and [[Vodka]] at the shipping yard, with [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] following closely behind.<ref name=manga>Detective Conan Manga Files 13 to 16</ref>

When she arrives at the meeting place, she tells Gin that she will only tell him where the money is after he frees her sister, but Gin goes back on his word, saying her sister is far too valuable to let go of. He gives her one last chance to cooperate, but she refuses and he shoots her. Conan arrives at the scene with her bleeding out.Akemi is one of the few characters in the show that knows Conan is [[Shinichi Kudo]], as he admits it to her while she is dying in front of him, while she tells him about the dangers of the Black Organization and tells him where the money is.<ref name=Akemi/> Akemi's death is ruled a suicide, as Gin's fingerprints were not found on the gun that killed her,<ref name=Akemi/> but her fingerprints were.<ref name=manga/>

=== Murdered Professor Case (Manga: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|179]]-[[Volume 19#Murdered Professor Case|181]], Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|129]]) ===
[[Image:Akemi and Shiho.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Akemi with Shiho, only a little bit before her death, in one of the last times they ever saw each other.]]
[[Ai Haibara|Haibara]], the shrunken [[Shiho Miyano]], remembers her meetings with Akemi leading up to her death by Gin. She breaks down in front of [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] asking why he could not save Akemi.

=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423]]-[[Volume 42#Bathroom Murder Case|425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===
[[File: EP340 2.jpg|thumb|200px]]
20 years prior to the current timeline, [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]] visit Atsushi's father's house whom he had left to a friend. They brought with them a 4-5 year old Akemi. The friend had turned the house into a Design company office. The Miyano's had come there and acted like they were hiding from something/someone. Akemi hid the tools of the workers causing her to unknowingly prevent a murder from occurring. Closer to the present day, around one week prior to her death, Akemi returned and planted tapes created by Elena for Shiho, in the same spot that she had hid the tools years before. She told one of the workers that she would be back with-in the week and bring her sister to meet them.

=== Kir Transport Case (Manga: [[Volume 58#Kir Transport Case|599]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black#Resolution 3|497]]) ===
The night before the heist, Akemi sends Dai Moroboshi (Shuichi Akai) a text message, asking him to be her real boyfriend if she is able to escape from the organization.<ref name=Akai>Detective Conan Manga File 599: Akai's Past</ref> The text message also had an unshown PS message.

=== Foreign Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 58#Foreign Suspect Case|607-609]], Anime [[Clash of Red and Black#Friday the Thirteenth .28Manga: 605-609.2C Anime: 501-504.29|501-504]]) ===
Shuichi has a flashback to when he confronted Akemi with the news that he was an FBI agent. She says that she has known for a while.

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|700-704]]) ===
[[Subaru Okiya]] reveals to Haibara that he can read her movements due to her acting similar to her sister Akemi, this was one of the clues leading to the reveal of his identity. [[Bourbon]], whose identity was also revealed in this case, mentioned knowing the Miyano parents which caused Haibara to remember hearing mention of him from her chats with Akemi.

=== UFO Sighting Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#UFO Sighting Murder Case|942]], Anime: [[Chiba's Difficult UFO Case|847-848]]) ===
Conan realizes that Haibara and [[Mary]] might share a resemblance. He thinks back to the relationship between Akemi and Shuichi and the idea that they might have been related.

=== Black Bunny Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Black Bunny's Club_Case|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===
Amuro is badly injured due to fighting with his bullies. Akemi brings him to her parents' clinic to get him treated.

=== Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule (Manga: [[Volume 101#Akemi Miyano's Time Capsule|1070-1072]], Anime: TBD) ===
It's revealed that Akemi went to [[Teitan Elementary School]] and graduated from it. She also buried a time capsule at the school as well.
It also revealed her body hasn't been identified yet.

The capsule content reveals that a class photos with on the back it says how she wishes for everyone dream to come true and photo of her and Shino in the past with a letter on the back.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
:''See also: [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case]]''
In the anime, she works at a bank under the name Masami Hirota and pulls an inside job. Her partners in the robbery are Shirou Kaizuka (a race driver) and Kishi (a bank guard),<ref name=Akemi>[[The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case|Episode 128: The Black Organization: 1 Billion Yen Robbery Case]]</ref> while the Kenzo Hirota part of the story was used for another case unrelated to Akemi or the Black Organization.<ref name=Hirota>[[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13: The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]]</ref>

The Anime also added a Non-canon scene into Clash of Red and Black that shows how Akemi met Shuichi. Shuichi walks out in front of her car on purpose and gets hospitalized. Then they fall in love as she nurses him back to health in the hospital.

== Appellations ==
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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Shuichi Akai ===
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[[Shuichi Akai]] and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Shuichi's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Shuichi used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As [[James Black]] later recalls, although Shuichi's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Shuichi actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with the woman (and felow agent) he dated until then, [[Jodie Starling]]; he cared deeply for Jodie, but since he had fallen for Akemi he didn't want to keep two parallel relationships.

How Akemi and Shuichi met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her.<ref>Episode 497</ref> Akemi helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.
[[File:Akai and Akemi.png|right|thumb|200px|Shuichi asks Akemi why she didn't get away from him after knowing that he was just using her.]]
Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Shuichi really wasn't who he claimed to be. Later, due to a massive error by [[Andre Camel]], Shuichi is discovered by the rest of the Organization to be an FBI agent, leading to his expulsion. Shuichi confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Shuichi's surprise, Akemi doesn't seemed surprised by this, so Shuichi asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Shuichi was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Shuichi a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. After the heist, Akemi is killed by [[Gin]], and it is unknown how Shuichi responded if at all. Shuichi treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death.

Until her death, Akemi still didn't know that Shuichi was in fact her cousin.

=== Ai Haibara ===
Despite the fact that they couldn't see each other often, Akemi and her sister Shiho were very close to each other. Akemi had constantly tried to encourage the studious and workaholic Shiho to relax and find herself a boyfriend.

Akemi's death scarred her sister deeply. Much of Akemi's personality Shiho finds personified in [[Ran Mouri]] - perhaps this is the main reason why Shiho was first reluctant to accept her (due to the still-fresh pain of her loss), but eventually came to consider her as a surrogate sister.

=== Rei Furuya ===
Akemi seems to have known [[Rei Furuya]], and described him and his relationship with Shuichi to Shiho.This is not revealed yet. In the flashback during [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]], it tells that Akemi and Rei met and know each other when they were children. They might be close. Akemi cared about Rei. However, according to Aoyama Gosho, Akemi did not remember Rei when she is a adult. This implies that when meeting each other in the black organization, Akemi did not realize that Bourbon was Rei. This protected the true person of Rei.

== Speculation ==
=== Hidden P.S. ===
[[Image:Akemi's Text Message.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The last text message Akemi had sent Shuichi, before her death.]]
In the text message that Akemi Miyano sent to [[Shuichi Akai]] before she commits the bank robbery, aside from the main content, there is also a '''"P.S."''' shown below it, at the bottom left corner of his cell phone's screen. However, what Akemi wrote ''under'' that part (the things she wanted to say in the P.S.) has never been revealed to the readers (watchers).

There is a common speculation among the fans that Akemi has asked [[Shuichi Akai]] to protect the safety of her sister, [[Shiho Miyano]], in case the robbery she planned ends up in failure, or that the [[Black Organization]] decides to betray their promise, which is to let her and her sister leave if she succeeds. It is important to note that in the Manga File 810, Shuichi, while disguising as [[Subaru Okiya]], has mentioned in his mind about the promise he made with a certain '''"her"''', because of which he refuses to make [[Ai Haibara]] go with him by force.<ref>[[Volume 77|Volume 77, File 810, Page 16]]</ref> This woman whom Shuichi was referring to might have been his late girlfriend Akemi, and his promise with her might be relevant to the hidden content of the mysterious P.S.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Akemi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 13]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Akemi After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 492]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[Image:EP954 Akemi.png|thumb|right|200px|Young Akemi Episode 953]]
|}

== Trivia ==
* Akemi's voice actress, [[Sakiko Tamagawa]], is in real-life married to Shuichi Akai's voice actor, [[Shuichi Ikeda]].
* She is the first one [[Shinichi Kudo]] revealed himself to besides Professor Agasa, in the second manga volume.
*In [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene]] Haibara mentioned that Akemi had a Put On Mascara mirror that originally belonged to Elena.
*In Episode 312, it’s revealed by Haibara that her parent bought Akemi festival dolls that look like the Hinamatsu Dolls at the apartment the Detective Boys were in, but when their parents died, Akemi put them away as they brought painful memories of Haibara and Akemi deceased parents.
*She often had to transfer schools under the Black Organization's orders.<ref>File 1070</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano]]
* [[Black Organization]]

== References ==
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| image = Elena Miyano Profile.png
| age = 29<ref>Sohei Dejima, her husband's childhood friend, was 54-year-old, then in [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|file 1011]] was a flashback from nineteen years ago.</ref> (deceased)
| gender = Female
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| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (first daughter, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second daughter) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (husband, deceased)
| occupation = Black Organization member Scientist
| nicknames = "Hell Angel" (Black Organization)<ref name="hell angel">Manga Volume 41, File 11, pg 12: "A Mystery Left in a Small Sealed Room". Hell's Angel comes from Haibara's Japanese translation as "The angel which fell into hell".</ref>
| alias = Elena Sera (birth name)
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 39|File 398]] Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329]]
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| japanese-voice = [[Hiroko Suzuki]] (eps. 341-771) [[Megumi Hayashibara]] (eps. 953+)
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'''{{nihongo|Elena Miyano|宮野エレーナ|Miyano Erēna}}''' was a British biochemist in the [[Black Organization]]. She was married to [[Atsushi Miyano]] and had two children, [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> She is also [[Mary Sera]]'s sister. Together she and Atsushi started the [[APTX 4869]] research according to [[Vermouth]].<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> Both Elena and Atsushi died during a research facility fire that [[Pisco]] called an accident. Later the project was taken over by her daughter Shiho.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house thirty years ago to go "somewhere" for his research, most likely the [[Black Organization]]<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 1 (425)</ref>. He got married in this time period to Elena, a foreigner of British origin. [[Vermouth]] hints that they worked on an existing project upon joining,<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents '''who took over''' this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> which is probably part of the one Shiho implied was at least fifty years old.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 9 (189): "The Endangered Ball "; Episodes [[Episode 130|130]]-[[Episode 131|131]] "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> While researching, they worked on a project they called [[Silver Bullet]], which their lab mates refereed to as a "dream drug".<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Elena was nicknamed "Hell Angel" while in the Organization, which [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] translates into Japanese as "the angel which fell into hell".<ref name="hell angel"/> She may have earned the nickname because of her nice personality which set her apart from the darkness of the rest of the organization. She and her husband met [[Hiroshi Agasa]] at a science conference at some point. Agasa remembers that Atsushi was a very polite person who complimented his inventions, but that Elena was a very quiet person who you couldn't tell what she was thinking.<ref> Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6-8 (398-400)</ref> Around twenty-five years ago Elena gave birth to [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and then twenty years ago, the couple and a 4~5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi's father's house then occupied by Atsushi's childhood friend and playmate Sohei Dejima.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] revealed that he had met Elena some time before she died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> She appears in one of Amuro's flashbacks, where she asked him not to pick fights anymore as she wouldn't be able to tend his wounds the next time he comes, because she will go to somewhere "very far away".<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara's mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>

Elena and Atsushi died in a fire at their research facility<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948)</ref> shortly after [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] was born.<ref> Manga [[Volume 89]], File 2 (939)</ref> Most of their work was destroyed, and their deaths were claimed to be an accident by [[Pisco]], who apparently was close with the couple. However, Elena and Atsushi seemed to know that something was going to happen to them. Elena took the time to leave four tapes for Shiho meaning that she knew she was about to do something that she might not survive, and entrusted those tapes to Akemi, who was around seven at the time.<ref>Manga chapters 425 and 427</ref> The four tapes are numbered 1-20 with the numbers split into groups of five. But the first two tapes are blank. The numbers correspond to a message left by Elena for Shiho's same-numbered birthday. On the fourth tape (15-20) message number 18 meant for Shiho’s 18th birthday, Elena talks about if Shiho will regret what she is about to do, she was working on a remarkable drug she called "[[Silver Bullet]]". She added that it was "terrifying" and the research would require them to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Shiho was able to resurrect their project from the salvaged remains, and was already working on it around five years ago.

== Appearance and personality ==
Elena is British and has long blonde hair. In every instance so far she has been shown wearing glasses which cover her eyes. She has also been shown wearing a lab coat.

Since Elena has not appeared or interacted with other characters much on screen, much of her personality has been described by others. Elena seems to have been a very quiet person which has lead to people thinking she didn't understand much Japanese. However we know that she is fluent. Agasa seems to think that she is more suspicious than her "mad scientist" husband, Atsushi.<ref>[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]; [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329: "A Friendship That Can't Be Bought"]]</ref> Elena seems to have had a generally nice personality, which has earned her the nickname "Hell Angel" inside the [[Black Organization]] which implies her niceness on the backdrop of the criminal organization. Given the tapes she left behind, Elena seems to have loved her daughters. That said, Elena left her daughters at the mercy of the Black Organization even though she knew that she was going to "disappear" in advance.

== Skills ==
Due to her work on drug related projects for the [[Black Organization]] she would have to be skilled at biochemistry. She made significant advances on her research project working with her lab mates on creating a "dream drug" that they were calling "[[Silver Bullet]]". It is unknown how much progress was made, only that her daughter [[Shiho Miyano]] was able to make further advances on a project called "[[APTX 4869]]".

Despite her quiet nature and foreign appearance, Elena can speak Japanese fluently. This was called into question by one of the workers living at Atsushi's house. In the anime he later sees Elena talking with Akemi quietly.

== Appellations ==

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== Plot overview ==
=== Hotel Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|242]], Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|178]]) ===
[[Pisco]] tells [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] that he is an old acquaintance of her parents and knew that they were working on a drug project. He is surprised on how far she has come with the project. He also mentions that the parents died in an accident.

=== Moving Dolls Case (Manga: [[Volume 38#Moving Dolls Case|384]], Anime: [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|312]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Silhouette.PNG|thumb|right|200px|The first look at Elena we get, courtesy of Agasa's flashback.]]
When [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] questions Haibara about why she doesn't know much about the Doll sets, the topic shifts to her past. She mentions that the [[Black Organization]] told [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] that her parents had died in a lab accident, but Haibara is skeptical despite Pisco's earlier words. Haibara mentions that she doesn't know much about her mother, but that her father "[[Atsushi Miyano]]" was often called a Mad Scientist, and his projects were often boycotted.

=== The Torn Friendship (Manga: [[Volume 39#The Torn Friendship|398]], Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|329]]) ===
On the way to a camping retreat Agasa comments that he does know the scientist, Atsushi Miyano. He says that he was a very friendly man who complimented his inventions. He reveals that his wife was named "Elena Miyano" and that she was quiet and he could never tell what she was thinking. Rumor has it that she met Atsushi when she came from England to study in Japan.

=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===
[[File:Elena Miyano Before.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Elena and Haibara.]]
Approximately thirty years ago Atsushi moved out of the house he inherited from his father to go do research. He left the home to a childhood friend of his to open a design company. A short time later he sent a wedding invitation to his friend. At a point twenty years ago Atsushi and his wife, Elena, and his daughter, Akemi, came back to the house with something very important to tell the friend and stayed overnight, however the friend who was living there was busy and away for a few days. The other members of the company remember Elena being very quiet. They thought it was because she didn't speak Japanese very well, but Akemi spoke it perfectly. Atsushi had been looking out the window frequently and a black car with grey windows was parked nearby quite often. The three of them left without leaving any message behind. Akemi returned at a much more recent point of time (approximately one week before dying) to use the bathroom and hid something in the water tank. Twice someone had broken into the house and broken the lock on the bathroom door, possibly to find the item and spy on the occupants. Haibara reveals that her mother's nickname in the organization was {{nihongo|"Hell Angel"|ヘルエンジェル|Heru Enjeru}} and she translates it into Japanese as {{nihongo|3="jigoku ni ochita tenshi"|2=地獄に落ちた天使|4=the angel that fell to hell}}. At the end of the main case, Conan reveals that the items that Akemi hid in the bathroom were cassette tapes sealed in a plastic bag. The four tapes are numbered in 5 intervals ending with 20. Conan says that the first two tapes were empty and began to listen to the 11-15 tape. He stops and hands the headphones to Haibara saying that its something he shouldn't hear. The tape begins with "To the 11-year old Shiho, happy brithday!" The tapes are recorded messages from Elena to a more grown-up Shiho who she would have not been able to meet.

=== Convenience Store Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Convenience Store Case|427]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|343]]) ===
In the middle of this case we have Haibara sitting in Agasa's basement listening to the tapes that were recovered in the previous case. "Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I am totally on your side. I'll never loose faith in you. Do your best. Well, it'll be your 19th birthday next time... bye-bye honey, oh, by the way... maybe you are old enough to hear this... I'm really..." However this is all we get to hear of the tape. (Later in the series we get the continuation of the quote.)

=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]]) ===
In the confrontation between Jodie and Vermouth at the dock once the main case had finished, Haibara arrived and said that she would willingly give herself over to Vermouth in exchange for sparing everyone else. Vermouth told her "If you want to blame anyone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research."

=== Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|821, 823-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|702, 704]]) ===
[[File:Elena after.png|thumb|left|200px|Amuro has a flashback with Elena.<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara’s mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>]]
After receiving a message from Vermouth on her phone while on the train, Haibara freaks out and ditches the main group and hides around the corner as to not be detected. She then has a flashback to the words that her mother left her on the tapes (that were recovered 400 chapters ago). This version was translated slightly different than the original: "Alright, so the next time will be your 19th birthday... bye-bye see you soon... oh yes, maybe its about time I told you... the truth is, your mom is making a truly terrifying drug at the moment... my lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a "dream drug"... your dad and I are putting our hopes on it and calling it... the silver bullet! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister... please understand Shiho..."

At the end of the case [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]'s identity is revealed and he tells the person he believes to be Shiho that she looks very much like her mother. He reveals that he has met both of the Miyano parents as well as Akemi. However that Shiho happened to be Kaitou Kid in a mask with Haibara feeding him lines.

=== Tea Poisoning Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|889]], Anime: [[The Tense Tea Party|771]]) ===
[[Rei Furuya]] has a flashback to when he was a kid and his wounds were being treated by Elena. However she tells him that soon she may have to go far away and will be unable to continue to treat his wounds from when he was picking fights.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843]]) ===
When a makeup counter sales associate asks Haibara where her mother was, she commented that her mother had died shortly after she was born.

=== Kohji Haneda's Death Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|948]]-[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|950]], Anime: [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene|861-862]]) ===
Haibara gives further details about the deaths of the elder Miyanos. They died in a fire at their research facility. Many of their drug data documents were also destroyed but Shiho was able to recreate their drug based on the parts that survived. It is also revealed that their drug was used for killing like Shiho's APTX 4869. [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] who were killed in their hotel rooms seventeen years ago may have been killed by that drug. However, only Kohji was listed on the [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|APTX 4869's victims' list]].

=== Black Bunny's Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#File 1011- Memories of That Woman|1011]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|953]]) ===
[[File:Elena reveals pregnant.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena reveals that she is pregnant to Atsushi.]]
In a flashback from nineteen years ago, Rei is badly injured due to fighting with his bullies. Akemi brings him to her parents' clinic to get him treated. In contrast to her serious and mind-your-own-business behavior towards her patients, Elena seems very frank with Rei. The reason behind this is she can relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him that he shouldn't come if gets into another fight. But if he hurts his pride by explaining to bullies why he is no different to them, she will surely put a bandage on it. It is revealed that during the flashback, Elena was three months pregnant with Shiho.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: [[Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy|995]]) ===

== Relationship analysis ==
=== [[Atsushi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-coulpe.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena and Atsushi.]]
With in a short time of meeting (a few years) they fell in love and got married. Sohei Dejima, Atsushi's childhood friend, reports that he received an invitation to their wedding only a few years after Atsushi had left his home in Dejima's hands.

=== [[Akemi Miyano]] ===
[[File:EP953-family.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Elena, Atsushi, Akemi, and Rei.]]
She had to trust Akemi enough to have left her tapes for Shiho in Akemi's hands. Akemi was also taken with Elena and Atsushi to visit Atsushi's home twenty years ago. However it must be noted that they were distracted enough by the fact that the [[Black Organization]] was following them that they let Akemi roam free and hide the resident's belongings.

=== [[Shiho Miyano]] ===
She cared enough to leave messages on tapes for the grown-up Shiho for all of the birthdays that she would miss witnessing. She even left some information about the drug project that she was working on called the "[[Silver Bullet]]" using that as an explanation as to why she had to leave Shiho and Akemi behind.

=== [[Mary Sera]] ===
Elena and Mary are siblings. In episode 953, Atsushi said that her sister thought the offer was suspicious when they got an offer letter from the Karasuma group. In chapter 1049, Vermouth saying "how does it feel to be killed by a drug that your own sister concocted?".

=== [[Vermouth]] ===
Vermouth seems to blame the Miyano parents for her own situation. When she was ready to kill [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] during the showdown at the docks she told her that she should blame her parents for this predicament.

=== [[Rei Furuya]] ===
While the true relationship between them has not been revealed yet, we know that they knew each other when [[Rei Furuya|Rei]] was younger. Rei got into many fights and it seems that Elena would bandage him up after the fights. However, one day, Elena had to move and could no longer bandage him. In the flashback in [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]], it is shown that Elena was very friendly with Amuro, which was unlike her behavior. It was because she could relate to him being a half-japanese herself. She advises him against fighting and tells him she will surely put a bandage on his wounded pride if he explains to his bullies that he is no different from them. It is revealed that Rei entered the police academy in order to find Elena who disappeared without his knowledge, hoping to find her.

== Name origin ==
"Elena" comes from the German reading of the Irene of [[Wikipedia: Irene Adler|Irene Adler]].<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12259#p810549 Gosho Q&A from Super Digest Book 50+] Q: 76: Does Miyano Elena's name come from the German reading of Irene? 
A: That's right, it does.</ref>

==Trivia==
*In [[Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene]] Haibara mentioned that Akemi has a Put On Mascara mirror that originally belong to Elena.
*The Miyano couple met in the medical college and Gosho believe Elena fell in love first according to the LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I'm totally on your side! Well, it will be you nineteenth birthday next time. Bye-bye, honey. Oh yes, maybe it's about time I told you... The truth is, your mom is making a truly ''terrifying'' drug at the moment. My lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a dream drug. Your dad and I are putting all our hopes on it and calling it the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]! But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister. Please understand, Shiho.|Part of Elena's message on Shiho's 18th tape.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pgs 7-8: "Mystery Train: Junction"</ref>}}
{{cquote|Even if people look different, when you peel back our skin, we're all just lumps of blood and flesh. To prove it, every race in the world has red blood flowing through them, just like yours.|Rei's memory of Elena Miyano treating his wounds.<ref>[[The Unsolved Cocktail Case]]</ref>}}

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Nch re0340 NTV.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 340 remastered's hint.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP953-Elena Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 953]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" |
[[File:Elena Miyano2.png|thumb|left|x150px|Episode 1029 (Wild Police Story Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Elena Miyano ZTT.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Zero's Tea Time Episode 5]]
|}

== Speculation ==

=== Elena Miyano and Mary are sisters ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
In 2014 [[Gosho Aoyama]] did an interview with the Da Vinci magazine in which he revealed that "Two mothers will be revealed to be sisters". Many people jumped in with the idea that [[Mary Sera|Mary]], the [[Akai family]] mother, would be one of them since she is a recently introduced character of the arc that was happening at the time. Additional speculation began to link Elena as the other sister due to her being mentioned in the same question of the same interview. Furthermore, the two are both British.

In November 2015, the manga [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|Department Store Stabbing Case]], Conan noticed some left over make-up on [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s face that made it look like she had the [[Akai family]] eye bags. Conan immediately began to suspect that Haibara may be related to Mary. At this stage in the series we have not seen Elena Miyano's eyes for comparison.

In an interview in Singapore in 2016, Gosho confirmed that [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Akemi Miyano]] are cousins. It is stated at 34:23 in the audio link.<ref>Aoyama Gosho's Q&A with fans. Singapore 2016. https://clyp.it/mwoiwshx</ref> This would imply that one of Shuichi's parents is a sibling of one of Akemi's parents.

In April 2018, Elena Miyano's face was fully revealed in the manga [[Volume 95#Black Bunny.27s Club Case|Black Bunny Club Case]]. She does not have the Akai family eye marks, however she does mention having an older sister. In combination with the statements above this feels like one step away from being proven.

In [[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case]], it is finally revealed that Mary and Elena are sisters when Vermouth force-feeds Mary the [[APTX 4869|APTX]] with the words: "How does it feel to depart from this world at the hands of your sister's creation?"<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume_99#File_1049_-_It.27s_Unbelievable.21|File 1049: It's Unbelievable! (Volume 99)]]</ref>

==== Other commentary on sisters speculation ====
'''Gosho has given three different [[Super Digest Books]] Q&A answers on the subject.''' 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB70.2B questions translations|SDB 70+]] 
Q67: Are [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] and [[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary|mother]] sisters? 
A: Yukiko is not the sister... 
[[Super Digest Books#SDB80.2B questions translations|SDB 80+]] 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and [[Shuichi Akai]]'s/[[Masumi Sera|Sera]]'s [[Mary Sera|mother]] sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 
Q62: Are [[Masumi Sera|Sera-san]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) 

'''Gosho has also talked about it in [[Postcards]]''' 
[[Postcards#2016|2016]] 
Elena and Mary, sisters? ...please look forward to it~~ (laugh) 
Relationship between the [[Mary|ryōiki-gai no imōto (sister from outside the domain)]] and Haibara... please look forward to it (laugh).

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Akai family]]

== References ==
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[[Image:Detective Conan Characters.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Main characters of the series]]
The series was created and is drawn by [[Gosho Aoyama]]. The protagonists from his earlier series [[Magic Kaito]] look very similar: [[Kaitou Kid]] has made many appearances as himself in the anime and manga of the series. The main protagonist of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' series, [[Shinichi Kudo]], and the protagonist of the ''Magic Kaito'' series, [[Kaito Kuroba]], are also similar. Hundreds of minor characters have been created and are always given backgrounds, motives, and personalities that put them under suspicion during the investigation.

The English adaption dubbed by [[Funimation]], called ''Case Closed'', has different names than the one in the manga published by [[Viz Media]].

== Protagonists ==
The series revolves around [[Shinichi Kudo]] and his "child version", [[Conan Edogawa]], as well as his love interest and best friend [[Ran Mouri]] and her father [[Kogoro Mouri]].
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shinichi Kudo|Jimmy Kudo|Main character of the series, and Ran's love interest and later boyfriend. He was shrunk into a child after being forced to take a drug called [[APTX 4869]], which was created by the Black Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Conan Edogawa|Conan Edogawa|"Child" version of Shinichi Kudo. He's after the Black Organization to regain his original body. The show follows his journey and the different cases he encounters along the way.}}
{{CharItem|Ran Mouri|Rachel Moore|Shinichi's childhood friend, and later his girlfriend. She doesn't know Conan's real identity. She's the one taking care of him along with her detective father, Kogoro. She is also skilled in karate.}}
{{CharItem|Kogoro Mouri|Richard Moore|Private eye and Ran's father. Separated from Eri Kisaki, Ran's mother.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Detective Boys ==
{{main|Detective Boys}}
The Detective Boys are called the "Junior Detective League" in the English version of the show. Notably, the Detective Boys are the only people that see the bowtie in action who aren't suspicious about Conan's identity.
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Ayumi Yoshida|Amy Yeager|Member of the Detective Boys. She likes Conan and she considers Haibara a best friend.}}
{{CharItem|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitch Tennison|Member of the Detective Boys. The most intelligent true child in the Detective Boys. He is great when it comes to science and logic.}}
{{CharItem|Genta Kojima|George Kaminski|Member and self-proclaimed leader of the Detective Boys. Loves to eat, especially roasted eel on rice.}}
{{CharItem|Ai Haibara|Vi Graythorn (movies) Anita Hailey (manga)|Member of the Detective Boys and an adult shrunken by [[APTX 4869]]. Her former identity was a Black Organization scientist codenamed "Sherry", real name "Shiho Miyano". She is a developer of APTX4869.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Family & Friends ==
{{main|:Category:Families}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Hiroshi Agasa|Herschel Agasa|Professor who creates gadgets for Conan to use. Is the best friend of Yusaku Kudo. He was the first to know about Conan's true identity.}}
{{CharItem|Sonoko Suzuki|Serena Sebastian|Ran's best friend. The youngest daughter of the wealthy Suzuki family.}}
{{CharItem|Eri Kisaki|Eva Kadan|Ran's mother, a very successful attorney. Married to, but currently living separately from Kogoro Mouri. She is a friend of Yukiko Kudo.}}
{{CharItem|Yusaku Kudo|Booker Kudo|Shinichi's father. A famous mystery novel author who is well-known in both America and Japan.}}
{{CharItem|Yukiko Kudo|Vivian Kudo|Shinichi's mother. A retired actress, she can disguise well and can mimic voices without a voice changer, a skill she learned from the deceased magician Toichi Kuroba. She is a close friend of Sharon Vineyard.}}
{{CharItem|Heiji Hattori|Harley Hartwell|Shinichi's rival detective and best friend from Osaka. Known as "Great Detective of the West". He's also a trained Kendo martial artist and the first to deduce Conan's true identity.}}
{{CharItem|Kazuha Toyama|Kirsten Thomas (anime) Kazuha Toyama (manga) Katrina Tolliver (video game) Katie Thompson (card game)|Heiji Hattori's best friend since childhood and love interest. She is a trained Aikido martial artist.}}
{{CharItem|Yoko Okino|Yoko Okino|Star who is idolized by Kogoro Mouri.}}
{{CharItem|Sumiko Kobayashi|Liz Faulkner|Conan's homeroom teacher and Ninzaburo Shiratori's girlfriend. Also the self-proclaimed manager of the Detective Boys.}}
{{CharItem|Tomoaki Araide|N/A|Kogoro's doctor, Teitan school nurse, and a high school basketball coach. He was once impersonated by Vermouth.}}
{{CharItem|Makoto Kyogoku|N/A|Sonoko Suzuki's boyfriend, and a karate champion that has been admired by Ran.}}
{{CharItem|Shizuka Hattori|N/A|Heiji Hattori's mother.}}
{{CharItem|Jirokichi Suzuki|N/A|Sonoko's uncle, who is obsessed with embarrassing and outsmarting Kaitou Kid.}}
{{CharItem|Eisuke Hondou|N/A|Ran and Sonoko's classmate, whom Conan finds suspicious. He is later discovered to be looking for his sister, Hidemi and wants to follow in the footsteps of his father and sister to be a CIA agent.}}
{{CharItem|Azusa Enomoto|N/A|A kind worker at the coffee shop that is right under the Mouri Detective Agency, who sometimes has a case that she wants Kogoro to solve.}}
{{CharItem|Subaru Okiya|N/A|FBI agent Shuichi Akai's civilian persona after he faked his death to protect Kir. He lives in Shinichi Kudo's house, sometimes assists the Detective Boys and Conan on cases, and keeps an eye on Haibara.}}
{{CharItem|Masumi Sera|N/A|A high school detective who transfers into Ran and Sonoko's high school class. She is the younger sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda.}}
{{CharItem|Shukichi Haneda|N/A|Yumi Miyamoto's boyfriend and a professional shogi player. Also the brother of Shuichi Akai and Masumi Sera.}}
{{CharItem|Sakurako Yonehara|N/A|A housekeeper and Naeko Miike and Kazunobu Chiba's childhood friend.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Law enforcement ==
{{main|Law Enforcement}}
=== Tokyo Metropolitan Police District===
{{main|Tokyo Metropolitan Police}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Juzo Megure|Joseph Meguire|An inspector from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Nicholas Santos|Police inspector who works with Inspector Megure. Originally Detective Takagi's rival for Detective Sato's affection, he is involved with Sumiko Kobayashi.}}
{{CharItem|Miwako Sato|Detective Simone|Female police officer who works with Inspector Megure. Currently involved with Detective Takagi.}}
{{CharItem|Wataru Takagi|Harry Wilder|Police officer who works with Inspector Megure. Currently involved with Detective Sato.}}
{{CharItem|Kazunobu Chiba|Detective Chiba|Police officer who often works with Inspector Megure. He is Naeko Miike's childhood friend and love interest.}}
{{CharItem|Yumi Miyamoto|N/A|A traffic enforcer and Detective Sato's best friend who is a compulsive tease. Also Shukichi Haneda's girlfriend.}}
{{CharItem|Naeko Miike|N/A|A traffic enforcer working with Yumi Miyamoto. She is Kazunobu Chiba's childhood friend and love interest.}}
{{CharItem|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Kristopher McLaughlin|Senior Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police 1st Division and Inspector Megure's superior.}}
{{CharItem|Inspector Yuminaga|N/A|The head inspector of the arson squad and Kogoro Mouri's former superior.}}
{{CharItem|Shintaro Chaki|Bernie Biggers|Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police 2nd Division and Ginzo Nakamori's superior.}}
{{CharItem|Hyoue Kuroda|N/A|Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police 1st Division and Former Nagano Police Chief. He has a damaged eye covered by a shaded lens. He knows that Conan is the [[List of characters who know Conan is Sleeping Kogoro#Hyoue Kuroda|"Brains behind Sleeping Kogoro"]].}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Osaka Police District ===
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Heizo Hattori|Martin Hartwell|Heiji Hattori's father, and a police chief from Osaka Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Ginshiro Toyama|Chief Thomas|Kazuha's father, and a detective from Osaka Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Goro Otaki|Inspector Odin|Inspector from Osaka Police District, and a very close friend to Heiji and Heizo.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Nagano Police District ===
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Kansuke Yamato|N/A|Inspector from Nagano Police District, partially disabled after surviving an avalanche.}}
{{CharItem|Yui Uehara|N/A|Kansuke Yamato's former partner who has recently returned to the force.}}
{{CharItem|image=Taka'aki Morofushi|link=Taka'aki Morofushi|Taka'aki Morofushi (Komei)|N/A|Inspector from Nagano Police District. Childhood friend and rival of Kansuke Yamato. He is also the older brother of Hiromitsu Morofushi.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Other police districts ===
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Sango Yokomizo|Inspector Worthington|Inspector from Shizuoka Police District, known for his gruff personality.}}
{{CharItem|Misao Yamamura|Inspector Magnum|Detective from Gunma Police District, albeit a not very good one. Is later promoted to "Inspector".}}
{{CharItem|Jugo Yokomizo|N/A|Sango Yokomizo's twin brother, also an inspector from Kanagawa Police District. He is not as easygoing as his brother.}}
{{CharItem|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|N/A|Inspector from Kyoto Prefectural Police, also known as the "Royal Inspector" for his noble family line. Notorious for his snobbishness and his attachment to his pet chipmunk.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== Japanese intelligence agencies ===
{{main|Japanese intelligence agencies}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|image=Rei Furuya|link=Rei Furuya|Rei Furuya (Bourbon)|N/A|Aka Tooru Amuro. Specializes in detective work and information gathering. He posed as a private detective and became Kogoro Mouri's apprentice. He is later revealed as an undercover National Police Agency investigator working to undermine the Organization.}}
{{CharItem|image=Scotch|link=Hiromitsu Morofushi|Hiromitsu Morofushi (Scotch)|N/A|A deceased undercover investigator from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau. He died while infiltrating the Black Organization and the younger brother of Taka'aki Morofushi.}}
{{CharItem|Yuya Kazami|N/A|An investigator from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau and Rei's Subordinate.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== FBI ===
{{main|Federal Bureau of Investigation}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shuichi Akai|N/A|FBI agent, considered by Gin as his rival, and the "Silver Bullet" that could take down the Black Organization. In the past, he infiltrated the Black Organization under the name Dai Moroboshi and obtained the codename "Rye" before being expelled. He faked his death to protect Kir and is currently undercover as [[Subaru Okiya]].}}
{{CharItem|image=Jodie Starling|link=Jodie Starling|Jodie Starling (Jodie Saintemillion)|N/A|An FBI agent on an undercover assignment against the Black Organization, and Ran's English teacher at one point. }}
{{CharItem|James Black|N/A|High ranking FBI agent, Jodie's superior.}}
{{CharItem|Andre Camel|N/A|FBI agent, played a vital role in the protection of Rena Mizunashi.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== CIA ===
{{main|Central Intelligence Agency}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|image=Hidemi Hondou|link=Hidemi Hondou|Hidemi Hondou (Kir)|N/A|An undercover CIA agent, also pretending to be TV reporter Rena Mizunashi.}}
{{CharItem|Ethan Hondou|N/A|Deceased CIA member who infiltrated the Black Organization. He is also Hidemi and Eisuke's father.}}
{{EndTable}}

=== MI6 ===
{{main|Secret Intelligence Service}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Mary Sera|N/A|An unknown child of middle school age who appears to be a girl with light hair. She is a middle-aged woman and the mother of Shuichi Akai, Shukichi Haneda, and Masumi Sera.}}
{{charItem|Tsutomu Akai|N/A|Mary's husband and the father of Shuichi Akai, Shukichi Haneda, and Masumi Sera. He went missing 17 years ago after the murder of Haneda Kohji and his body was never found.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Black Organization ==
{{main|Black Organization}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|The Boss|The Boss|Click "[[Renya Karasuma|Here]]" to reveal the identity of the Black Organization head, the true central antagonist of the series.}}
{{CharItem|Rum|N/A|Click "[[Kanenori Wakita|Here]]" to reveal the identity of high ranking member of the Black Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Gin|Gin Melkior (manga, later changed to Gin)|A high ranking executive member of the Black Organization. A highly intelligent and lethal assassin, he tried to kill Shinichi with APTX 4869.}}
{{CharItem|Vodka|Vodka Kaspar (manga, later changed to Vodka)|Member of the Black Organization. Gin's secretary and partner on most occasions.}}
{{CharItem|image=Vermouth|link=Vermouth|Chris Vineyard (Vermouth)|N/A|Member of the Black Organization. She is an actress and master of disguise. Considered the boss' "favorite," and knows that Haibara and Conan are Sherry and Shinichi.}} She was known to the world as [[Sharon Vineyard]].
{{CharItem|Chianti|N/A|Member of the Black Organization. Considered an excellent sniper.}}
{{CharItem|Korn|N/A|Member of the Black Organization. Considered an excellent sniper.}}
{{CharItem|image=Shiho Miyano|link=Shiho Miyano|Shiho Miyano (Sherry)|Shiho Miyano |Codenamed Sherry, she was a scientist for the Black Organization and creator of APTX 4869. Her sister's death caused her to betray the Black Organization. Her current alias is [[Ai Haibara]].}}
{{CharItem|Akemi Miyano|Akemi Miyano|Former member of the Black Organization, sister of Shiho Miyano, daughter of Elena Miyano and Atsushi Miyano, and the girlfriend of Shuichi Akai. She was killed by Gin for being a liability to the organization.}}
{{CharItem|Elena Miyano|N/A|Akemi and Shiho Miyano's mother, and the sister of Mary Sera. Deceased member of the Black Organization known as Hell's Angel.}}
{{CharItem|Atsushi Miyano|N/A|Akemi Miyano and Shiho Miyano's father. Deceased member of the Black Organization known as the "Mad Scientist".}}
{{CharItem|Tequila|Tequila|Member of the Black Organization, originally trying to get programs and a list of the world's top programmers. Was accidentally killed by a bomb.}}
{{CharItem|image=Pisco|link=Pisco|Kenzo Masuyama (Pisco)|N/A|An executive member of the Black Organization and a family friend of the Miyanos. His last assignment was to assassinate a politician. He was killed by Gin for getting caught in the act.}}
{{CharItem|Calvados|N/A|Member of the Black Organization, another sniper. Kills himself after Shuichi Akai disables him. He was in love with Vermouth.}}
{{CharItem|Rikumichi Kusuda|N/A|Member of the Black Organization, who pretended to be a patient at the hospital holding Kir. He commits suicide when his cover is blown. His corpse is used to fake Shuichi Akai's death.}}
{{CharItem|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Cornelius Graver|Serial killer whom Conan runs into a few times. Former member of the Black Organization, who was scheduled to be the original test subject for APTX 4869 prior to his escape.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Magic Kaito ==
{{main|Magic Kaito}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Kaito Kuroba|Kaito Kuroba|High school student and magician. Aoko Nakamori's childhood friend, and love interest. Son of world-renowned magician Toichi Kuroba.}}
{{CharItem|Kaitou Kid|Phantom Thief Kid|Secret identity of Kaito Kuroba. Magician and thief, also known to be "uncatchable".}}
{{CharItem|Aoko Nakamori|N/A|Kaito Kuroba's childhood friend, and love interest. Daughter of Ginzo Nakamori.}}
{{CharItem|Ginzo Nakamori|Mace Fuller|Inspector from Tokyo Metropolitan Police 2nd Division, who is obsessed with capturing Kaitou Kid.}}
{{CharItem|Toichi Kuroba|Toichi Kuroba|Kaito Kuroba's deceased father. Once a world-renowned magician and the original Kaitou Kid. He was the one who taught Yukiko Kudo and Sharon Vineyard how to make a perfect disguise.}}
{{CharItem|Chikage Kuroba|N/A|Kaito Kuroba's mother. Before meeting her husband, she was a jewel thief known as Phantom Lady.}}
{{CharItem|Konosuke Jii|N/A|Once Toichi Kuroba's attendant and friend, now Kaito's assistant.}}
{{CharItem|Kaitou Corbeau|N/A|A mysterious thief that looks like Kaitou Kid in black clothing. He recently emerged in Las Vegas before coming to Japan to target the [[Magic Kaito Chapters not yet included in a Volume#Midnight Crow|Midnight Crow]].}}
{{CharItem|Akako Koizumi|N/A|A witch who wishes to seduce Kaitou Kid and enslave all men.}}
{{CharItem|Saguru Hakuba|N/A|High school detective trying to catch Kaitou Kid.}}
{{CharItem|Snake|N/A|The primary antagonist, a member of the [[Magic Kaito Organization]] who is responsible for murdering Toichi Kuroba.}}
{{CharItem|Spider|N/A|An anime-only character who works for the Magic Kaito Organization as an assassin. His public persona is a stage performer and illusionist named Gunter Von Goldberg II.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Others ==

{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|"The Criminal"|"The Criminal"|A generic depiction taking the place of an unknown culprit.}}
{{CharItem|Scar Akai|N/A|Shuichi Akai [[disguise]] used by Bourbon and Vermouth to find out if the real Akai is dead and to lure out Sherry.}}
{{charItem|Kohji Haneda|Koji Haneda|Shukichi's non-blood brother and a professional shogi player. He was forced to take poison, called APTX 4869, created by the Black Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Asaka|N/A|A mysterious person from [[Case from 17 years ago|17 years ago]] whom Conan believes is the killer of Kohji Haneda and potentially the Black Organization member Rum. This person has been missing ever since.}}
{{CharItem|Momiji Ooka|N/A|Kyoto high school student who claims that Heiji is her future husband.}}
{{CharItem|Rumi Wakasa|N/A|New deputy homeroom teacher of class 1-B of Teitan Primary school. She is also somehow connected to Kohji Haneda and the case from 17 years ago as she is keeping an object that has the shape of a Shogi piece inside her pocket. She was also seen looking at the updated APTX victim list that contains both Shinichi's and Kohji's names.}}
{{CharItem|Muga Iori|N/A|The butler of Momiji's family.}}
{{EndTable}}

== More characters ==
*[[List of notable case characters]]
*[[List of minor recurring manga characters]]
*[[List of minor recurring anime characters]]
* [[List of minor recurring movie characters]]
* Click [[Detective Conan Wiki:Characters needing a page|here]] to vote for the next characters to have a main page.

== References ==
<References/>

{{Characters}}
[[Category:Characters|*]]
[[Category:General Information]]
[[de:Nebencharaktere]]

Volume 100

2022-09-26T16:35:07Z

Cds: /* File 1063 - Dramatic Pursuit in the Dark of Night */

{{InfoBox Volume
| volume = 100
| image = Volume 100.jpg
| releasedate = October 18, 2021
| chapters = 1059-1069
| isbn = 978-4-09-850717-7
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| english-releasedate =
| english-isbn =
| english-publisher =
| detective = [[Wikipedia: Sherlock (TV series)|Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)]]
| keyhole = [[Gin]]
| prev-volume = Volume 99
| next-volume = Volume 101
| footnotes =
}}
Volume 100 was released on October 18, 2021.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Ai Haibara}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{char|Genta Kojima}}
{{char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{char|Yusaku Kudo}}
{{char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{char|Kanenori Wakita}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Gin}}
{{char|Vodka}}
{{char|Vermouth}}
{{char|Chianti}}
{{char|Korn}}
{{char|Shuichi Akai}}
{{char|Subaru Okiya}}
{{char|Jodie Starling}}
{{char|James Black}}
{{char|Andre Camel}}
{{char|FBI Agent 1}}
{{char|Hidemi Hondou}}
{{char|Rei Furuya|display=Rei Furuya (background)}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"|display=Rum}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (background)}}
{{char|Kaitou Kid|display=Kaitou Kid (background)}}
{{char|Ginzo Nakamori|display=Ginzo Nakamori (background)}}
{{char|Natsuko Shibuya|display=Natsuko Shibuya (background)}}
{{char|Magic Lover's Murder Case|Katsuki Doito|display=Katsuki Doito (background)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{gadgets Appearances|
{{gadget|Detective Boys Badge}}
{{gadget|Telescopic Lenses}}
{{gadget|Voice-Changing Choker}}
{{gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
}}

== Chapters ==
=== Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case ===
==== File 1059 - Pre-Show Briefing ====
<spoiler>Someone disguised as Yusaku appears, and says that they came to help out because Yusaku cleared Kid's name in a museum scam. Conan assumes that it is Kid, and they go over the case details and discover that Yumekawa is the culprit.</spoiler>

==== File 1060 - The Show is About to Begin ====
<spoiler>Conan solves the case and '''Saiko Yumekawa''' admits to committing the crime, she thought of the trick because she originally planned to sell it as material to a famous writer, but she didn't have confidence that the trick would work, so she talked about it to the three victims online. The three victims tried to test it at home, and it was a success however before she could sell it, Morita, one of the victims, used it in the online novel she was writing as a hobby and uploaded it. Yumekawa got angry and asked her to delete it at once, sent her flying, then apologized but ended up killing her, then she used the trick. The two others might also realize the trick, so she both called them one after the other saying "the culprit ain't me nor you, so it has to be the last one, let's meet and ask for help" and killed them too. She could've refused the interview by saying "I can't get back from my best friends' deaths" but she accepted because she couldn't sleep thinking it might come out to the light someday, so she thought that if she was able to deceive Yusaku, she'd be relieved afterward and could sleep.

After the case, Megure mentions that Kid was sighted in Shibuya at the same time and Conan realizes that the fake Yusaku is not Kid, but rather Vermouth, who is following Rum's orders to investigate Yusaku, whom he considers a threat to the organization.

Yusaku and Yukiko pretended to have food poisoning, as they saw through the Black Organization attempt to take them out. They plan with the FBI and pretended to get the symptoms of food poisoning to fool the Black Organization. Yusaku and Shuichi mention that the only thing left is to prepare for the Black Organization's big move.</spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Saiko Yumekawa|Saiko Yumekawa manga.jpg|
* Announcer
* Atsumi's close friend
* Found Atsumi's body}}
{{People|Atsumi Morita|Atsumi Morita manga.jpg|
* Victim (bashed)
* 24 years old
* Apparel maker}}
{{People|Taiji Kiryuu|Taiji Kiryuu manga.jpg|
* Victim (strangled)
* 31 years old
* Freeter}}
{{people|Koretsugu Kanzawa|Koretsugu Kanzawa manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 47 years old
* Baker}}
{{EndBox}}

=== FBI Serial Murder Case ===
==== File 1061 - The Bloodstained ID ====
An FBI agent is seen waiting for another agent, named Tony. Vodka approaches him with agent Tony’s blood-stained ID. Seeing him, he tries to flee only to be stopped by Gin, who asks him the FBI hide-out location and shoots him to death.

The Detective Boys are strolling one day, talking about the recent murders of unknown foreigners in their city. Then suddenly, they hear a loud thump across an alley. Conan rushes and notices a man fallen to death. He looks up at the building’s roof-top, from which the man fell, and spots Vodka standing there. Conan rushes towards the dead man’s body. Kir spots his presence.

Conan finds the dead agent’s ID and a strange code on his mobile phone. He rushes quickly to the Kudo Residence, only to find the FBI team hiding there. James Black gives a rundown on how they have been losing agents to the organization. Jodie explains the reason for the code, to which Conan surprises them by having solved the code easily.

==== File 1062 - The Trap at the Street Corner ====
Conan explains the method of cracking the code. The FBI appears surprised at him, for having cracked the code without any specialised tools. The code was made by a pair of the dead agents, to prove that it was undecodable. Camel suggests using the code again, but this time to lure in the BO. Having lost the agents who knew how to make the code, Jodie decides to code it herself.
Camel and Mark decide to go together. Akai hands over his knit cap as a measure to hide Camel's face for his identity exposure.
The BO intercepts this code as well. They go over their plans, but Rum interjects them.

Camel and Mark wait in a parking lot for the BO. Meanwhile, the two agents outside, scouting the place, are shot from behind. Upon learning this, Camel and Mark start to leave the parking lot, when suddenly they are shot by Gin.
Meanwhile, Yusaku and Yukiko, arrive at the Mansion. Yusaku looks at the code, and remarks about Jodie’s Japanese usage, and seems to understand the situation.

==== File 1063 - Dramatic Pursuit in the Dark of Night ====
Yusaku explains how Jodie’s code tipped off the BO that it was a trap. He points out the differences in romanization used in the previous code made the two agent and the current one that was made by Jodie.

Meanwhile, Camel and Mark are being chased by Chianti and Korn. Camel manages to shake them off, and drops off agent Mark, who is injured, at a safe spot. Gin and Vodka get on Camel’s tail in their Porsche. Camel heads off to the Umibotaru tunnel, in an attempt to escape, but is cornered by Vermouth and Kir from the other side. Kir shoots him on his shoulder. Camel runs the car off the bridge and into the river. He manages to escape from the sinking car and resurfaces away from the bridge. Akai advises him to swim to a shore nearby.

==== File 1064 - A Light in the Darkness ====
Camel reaches the shore of an island. Based on the brick patterns, Yusaku figures out the location to be Umizarujima island. Conan and Akai relay all the instructions to Camel on how to stay alive. Camel starts a fire to warm himself up. But it catches BO’s attention. Akai tells him to put out the fire and hide, as the BO approach the island in their cruiser. Upon arriving, Gin orders the rest to split up and search. Meanwhile, Akai, disguise as Subaru, and Conan are on their way. They get a call from Kir, who tells them that she won’t hesitate to aim for Camel's face.

==== File 1065 - Hunter and Prey ====
Camel gathers stuff that Akai tells him to. He is about to leave the café, where he is hiding but overhears Vodka talking about Rum. He gets spotted and barely manages to escape. He buries himself underneath the soil using the tools he gathered for his aid. Gin notices this plan and orders everyone to search, but Rum has other plans.
Akai and Conan arrive at a park, with a clear view of the Umizarujima island. Upon arriving, they notice the island burning. As the BO is about to leave, they spot Camel running towards the pier. He reaches the end and locks the gate between them. At Akai’s command, he runs towards the edge and gets shot by Chianti in the back.

==== File 1066 - RUM ====
Camel falls into the sea. Akai gestures to Conan that the plan was a success. Gin decides to throw a grenade into the sea to ensure his death. But Akai thwarts his plans, by shooting at the grenade in mid-air. He shoots at them as well. Soon the fireboats arrive, forcing the BO to retreat.

Vermouth mentions that the agent was Camel, and shows a picture of him. Korn remembers being told by Rum, two years ago, to kill Akai and Camel on sight. He was told to keep an eye out on a warehouse, where a meeting was supposed to take place. Rum hears this and acknowledges their effort to kill the agent and also says that they stood out too much.
<spoiler>
Akai and Conan explain how the death was faked using paper stacks and the blood packets hidden in the knit cap. Camel relays the information that Rum is wearing a disguise and uses a silly name.

[[File:Rum-true-appearance.png|200px|thumb|right|Rum without disguises.]]
Rum is revealed in disguise as '''Kanenori Wakita'''. He was also the old man who appeared in the warehouse, where Akai's identity as an FBI agent was revealed two years ago.</spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Man|Unnamed FBI Agent 1 File 1061 manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|Tony|Tony manga.jpg|
* Deceased (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|Jim Mason|Jim Mason manga.jpg|
* Victim (fell)
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|Cheng|Chen manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|Mark|Mark manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot - injured)
* FBI special agent
* Tony's younger brother}}
{{People|[[Bill]]|Bill manga.jpg|
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|David|David manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot - injured)
* FBI special agent}}
{{people|George|No face.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot - injured)
* FBI special agent}}
{{people|Aaron|No face.jpg|
* Deceased (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{people|Agent A|No face.jpg|
* Deceased (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{people|Agent B|No face.jpg|
* Deceased (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Shintoist Temple Case ===
==== File 1067 - A Secret Visit to the Shrine ====
The news of the killings and the fire on Umizarujima island is on the news. When the news mention the identity of victims to be possibly members of the FBI only the debunk the rumor Conan ponders on it noted how many FBI agent return to HQ to regroup and wonders what Akai and his father meant by the Tea party. Also on what Camel overheard about Rum. Kazuha drops by to go to a love shrine in Haido along with Ran. Conan tried to find Heiji only to learn that he did come along today and they decide to take Conan along.

When arrived at the shrine when Ran asked how Kazuha know much about the shrine. Kazuha explained she once saw Heiji look up on it on his phone the other day and she decide to look up on it and found out it was very popular shrine but believe Heiji was look up something. However Conan suspect otherwise considering his action from before he wouldn't be surprise that Heiji want a love amulent.

Conan finds Heiji in the shrine as well, secretly waiting for his good luck charm with a mask to hide his face. Conan used Kazuha's voice with his voice changer bowtie to scared Heiji afterward Conan was surprised that Heiji would defer to the gods Heiji respond he can't help it because too many interference kept happening every time. Heiji then tell Conan that he realize that what he lacking wasn't a beautiful view or romantic atmosphere but luck wanting to improve his luck with a Love Amulent, but Conan believe that Heiji should get a amulet that ward off his bad luck. Conan then attaches his voice-changing bowtie onto the Mask that Heiji wearing to hide his identity.

Kazuha and Ran end up meeting him but mistake him to be an idol. Just then, they hear a scream, only to find out someone has fallen down the stairs. Heiji, under disguise, declares it a murder. Takagi and Sato arrive at the crime scene. They manage to find three suspects.

==== File 1068 - Wanted Criminal Investigation ====
The victim is an assistant police detective, Hidaka Soushi, from the Wanted Criminal Investigation Squad. The three suspects are the three wanted criminals, the victim was after. Tsurumi Shamoto, a shoplifter, was caught by the victim and hand-cuffed to a pole. Torahiko Kawano, a hit and run driver, was indulged in a fight at the shrine’s entrance. Kyouma Jinnai, a marriage fraud perpetrator, was looking for his lost wallet. The three suspects are connected via the crimes committed. Conan and Heiji, get the grasp on the case when they hear the sound of something falling on snow.

==== File 1069 - Snowman ====
{{main|Snowman}}

<spoiler>The culprit is '''Tsurumi Shamoto'''.
Tsurumi, untied herself from the pole and tried to escape. But she crossed the victim once again, and swung a bucket of ice on his head, making him fall down the stairs to death. She turned the bucket upside down and put it on a snowman’s head to hide it. Then went back to the pole and tied herself back to it, using the same method she used to escape.

Later, Conan asks Heiji about silly names and Heiji tells him that an anagram can be used as a silly name, like ‘Katsuki Doito’ which was once used by Kaitou Kid. Heiji again fails to confess his love to Kazuha.</spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Hyouga Koumoto|Hyouga Koumoto manga.jpg|
* Member of the idol group ''Naniwa Kids''
* Currently hiding}}
{{people|Usagi Mikage|Usagi Mikage manga.jpg|
* Entertainer in a relationship with Koumoto}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Soushi Hidaka|Soushi Hidaka]]|Soushi Hidaka manga.jpg|
* Victim (bludgeoned)
* 31 years old
* Investigative Cooperation Department Assistant Inspector}}
{{people|Kyouma Jinnai|Kyouma Jinnai manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Suspect
* Marriage fraud perpetrator}}
{{people|Tsurumi Shamoto|Tsurumi Shamoto manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Suspect
* Repeated shoplifter}}
{{people|Torahiko Kawano|Torahiko Kawano manga.jpg|
* 38 years old
* Suspect
* Unlincensed driving, caused hit and run}}
{{people|Man|V100 Man.jpg|
* Wanted criminal}}
{{people|Ms. Kawano|Ms. Kawano manga.jpg|
* Kawano's younger sister
* Swindled by Jinnai}}
{{EndBox}}

== Trivia ==
=== Locations ===
{{main|Setting}}
Settings featured in this volume:

* [[Wikipedia: Chiba Prefecture|Chiba Prefecture]] (mentioned)
* [[Wikipedia: Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa Prefecture]]
** [[Wikipedia: Kawasaki, Kanagawa|Kawasaki]]
*** [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line|Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line]] Kanagawa Entrance (first appearance)
** Ōtaru street
* [[Tokyo]]
** [[Beika Ward]]
*** [[Beika Town]]
**** Café Guava (first appearance)
**** [[Kudo Residence]]
*** [[Haido Town]]
**** Haido Shrine (first appearance)
** [[Shibuya Ward]] (mentioned)
** Unknown ward
*** Harbor
* [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Bay|Tokyo Bay]]
** Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line between Chiba and Kanagawa (first appearance)
*** Umihotaru (as "Umibotaru") (first appearance)
** [[Wikipedia: Sarushima|Umizarujima]] (first appearance)

=== Models ===
{{main|Setting models}}
==== Haido Shrine ====
The Haido Shrine appearing from file 1067 onwards is based on the Shibuya Hikawa Shrine, which in real life is located in the [[Wikipedia: Higashi, Shibuya|Higashi district]] of [[Shibuya]] in [[Tokyo]]. [[Gosho Aoyama]] personally visited the place to shoot the reference photos.<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?p=883645#p883645 AC Hints (January 18th, 2021)]
Pic 1:"I went to a nearby temple as--->" 
Pic 2:"First prayers of the year as well to take references-->" 
Pic 3:"It was pretty empty and silent but--->" 
Pic 4:"My lottery was "pretty good luck"!" 
Translation by Spimer.</ref>

<gallery>
File:File 1067 Haido Shrine.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Haido Shrine in file 1067...
File:Shibuya Hikawa Shrine.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the Shibuya Hikawa Shrine in real life.
File:File 1067 Haido Shrine Gate.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The gate leading to the Haido Shrine in file 1067...
File:Shibuya Hikawa Shrine Gate.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the gate leading to the Shibuya Hikawa Shrine in real life.
</gallery>

==== Namikaze Park ====
The Namikaze Park (なみかぜ公園, "Wave Wind Park") Subaru Okiya and Conan Edogawa to help Andre Camel is modeled after the real Umikaze Park (うみかぜ公園, "Sea Wind Park").

<gallery>
File:File 1064 Namikaze Park.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Namikaze Park in file 1064...
File:Umikaze Park.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the Umikaze Park in real life.
</gallery>

==== Umibotaru ====
Umibotaru, the place Andre Camel gets confronted with the [[Black Organization]] on, is directly based on Umihotaru, an artificial island on the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, which connects the Chiba and Kanagawa Prefectures. Umihotaru connects an underwater tunnel and a bridge, offering parking space for people crossing the Aqua-Line.

<gallery>
File:File 1063 Umibotaru.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Umibotaru in file 1063...
File:Umihotaru.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and Umihotaru in real life.
</gallery>

==== Umizarujima ====
Umizarujima ("Sea Monkey Island") is based on Sarushima ("Monkey Island"), an actual island inside Tokyo Bay, also located off the coast of Kanagawa Prefecture and used as an artillery battery in the past, as Yusaku Kudo explained. There also actually was a fire on the real island a while ago, similar to the one in the manga, destroying several of the facilities at the beach.

<gallery>
File:File 1064 Umizarujima Pier.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Umizarujima's pier in file 1064...
File:Sarushima Pier.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the pier of Sarushima in real life.
File:File 1064 Umizarujima Shop.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A rental shop at the beach of Umizarujima in file 1064...
File:Sarushima Shop.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the shop in Sarushima in real life before the fire.
</gallery>

== Covers in other countries ==
<div><ul>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100cc.jpg|150px|thumb|left|China]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100f.jpg|150px|thumb|left|France]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100g.png|150px|thumb|left|Germany]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100bi.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Indonesia]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100i.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Italy]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100k.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Korea]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100cw.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Republic of China (Taiwan)]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100th.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Thailand]]</li>
</ul></div>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Manga]]
* [[Volume 91-100]]
* [[Detective Conan]]

{{Volume 100}}
{{Volumes}}
{{Black Organization}}

[[Category:Volumes]]

[[de:Band 100]]

Volume 100

2022-09-26T16:33:29Z

Cds: /* File 1067 - A Secret Visit to the Shrine */

{{InfoBox Volume
| volume = 100
| image = Volume 100.jpg
| releasedate = October 18, 2021
| chapters = 1059-1069
| isbn = 978-4-09-850717-7
| publisher = [[Shogakukan]]
| english-releasedate =
| english-isbn =
| english-publisher =
| detective = [[Wikipedia: Sherlock (TV series)|Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)]]
| keyhole = [[Gin]]
| prev-volume = Volume 99
| next-volume = Volume 101
| footnotes =
}}
Volume 100 was released on October 18, 2021.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Ai Haibara}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{char|Genta Kojima}}
{{char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{char|Yusaku Kudo}}
{{char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{char|Kanenori Wakita}}
{{char|Juzo Megure}}
{{char|Wataru Takagi}}
{{char|Miwako Sato}}
{{char|Gin}}
{{char|Vodka}}
{{char|Vermouth}}
{{char|Chianti}}
{{char|Korn}}
{{char|Shuichi Akai}}
{{char|Subaru Okiya}}
{{char|Jodie Starling}}
{{char|James Black}}
{{char|Andre Camel}}
{{char|FBI Agent 1}}
{{char|Hidemi Hondou}}
{{char|Rei Furuya|display=Rei Furuya (background)}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"|display=Rum}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo|display=Shinichi Kudo (background)}}
{{char|Kaitou Kid|display=Kaitou Kid (background)}}
{{char|Ginzo Nakamori|display=Ginzo Nakamori (background)}}
{{char|Natsuko Shibuya|display=Natsuko Shibuya (background)}}
{{char|Magic Lover's Murder Case|Katsuki Doito|display=Katsuki Doito (background)}}
}}

== Gadgets ==
{{gadgets Appearances|
{{gadget|Detective Boys Badge}}
{{gadget|Telescopic Lenses}}
{{gadget|Voice-Changing Choker}}
{{gadget|Voice-Changing Bowtie}}
}}

== Chapters ==
=== Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case ===
==== File 1059 - Pre-Show Briefing ====
<spoiler>Someone disguised as Yusaku appears, and says that they came to help out because Yusaku cleared Kid's name in a museum scam. Conan assumes that it is Kid, and they go over the case details and discover that Yumekawa is the culprit.</spoiler>

==== File 1060 - The Show is About to Begin ====
<spoiler>Conan solves the case and '''Saiko Yumekawa''' admits to committing the crime, she thought of the trick because she originally planned to sell it as material to a famous writer, but she didn't have confidence that the trick would work, so she talked about it to the three victims online. The three victims tried to test it at home, and it was a success however before she could sell it, Morita, one of the victims, used it in the online novel she was writing as a hobby and uploaded it. Yumekawa got angry and asked her to delete it at once, sent her flying, then apologized but ended up killing her, then she used the trick. The two others might also realize the trick, so she both called them one after the other saying "the culprit ain't me nor you, so it has to be the last one, let's meet and ask for help" and killed them too. She could've refused the interview by saying "I can't get back from my best friends' deaths" but she accepted because she couldn't sleep thinking it might come out to the light someday, so she thought that if she was able to deceive Yusaku, she'd be relieved afterward and could sleep.

After the case, Megure mentions that Kid was sighted in Shibuya at the same time and Conan realizes that the fake Yusaku is not Kid, but rather Vermouth, who is following Rum's orders to investigate Yusaku, whom he considers a threat to the organization.

Yusaku and Yukiko pretended to have food poisoning, as they saw through the Black Organization attempt to take them out. They plan with the FBI and pretended to get the symptoms of food poisoning to fool the Black Organization. Yusaku and Shuichi mention that the only thing left is to prepare for the Black Organization's big move.</spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Saiko Yumekawa|Saiko Yumekawa manga.jpg|
* Announcer
* Atsumi's close friend
* Found Atsumi's body}}
{{People|Atsumi Morita|Atsumi Morita manga.jpg|
* Victim (bashed)
* 24 years old
* Apparel maker}}
{{People|Taiji Kiryuu|Taiji Kiryuu manga.jpg|
* Victim (strangled)
* 31 years old
* Freeter}}
{{people|Koretsugu Kanzawa|Koretsugu Kanzawa manga.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 47 years old
* Baker}}
{{EndBox}}

=== FBI Serial Murder Case ===
==== File 1061 - The Bloodstained ID ====
An FBI agent is seen waiting for another agent, named Tony. Vodka approaches him with agent Tony’s blood-stained ID. Seeing him, he tries to flee only to be stopped by Gin, who asks him the FBI hide-out location and shoots him to death.

The Detective Boys are strolling one day, talking about the recent murders of unknown foreigners in their city. Then suddenly, they hear a loud thump across an alley. Conan rushes and notices a man fallen to death. He looks up at the building’s roof-top, from which the man fell, and spots Vodka standing there. Conan rushes towards the dead man’s body. Kir spots his presence.

Conan finds the dead agent’s ID and a strange code on his mobile phone. He rushes quickly to the Kudo Residence, only to find the FBI team hiding there. James Black gives a rundown on how they have been losing agents to the organization. Jodie explains the reason for the code, to which Conan surprises them by having solved the code easily.

==== File 1062 - The Trap at the Street Corner ====
Conan explains the method of cracking the code. The FBI appears surprised at him, for having cracked the code without any specialised tools. The code was made by a pair of the dead agents, to prove that it was undecodable. Camel suggests using the code again, but this time to lure in the BO. Having lost the agents who knew how to make the code, Jodie decides to code it herself.
Camel and Mark decide to go together. Akai hands over his knit cap as a measure to hide Camel's face for his identity exposure.
The BO intercepts this code as well. They go over their plans, but Rum interjects them.

Camel and Mark wait in a parking lot for the BO. Meanwhile, the two agents outside, scouting the place, are shot from behind. Upon learning this, Camel and Mark start to leave the parking lot, when suddenly they are shot by Gin.
Meanwhile, Yusaku and Yukiko, arrive at the Mansion. Yusaku looks at the code, and remarks about Jodie’s Japanese usage, and seems to understand the situation.

==== File 1063 - Dramatic Pursuit in the Dark of Night ====
Yusaku explains how Jodie’s code tipped off the BO that it was a trap. He points out the differences in romanization used in the previous code and the current one.
Meanwhile, Camel and Mark are being chased by Chianti and Korn. Camel manages to shake them off, and drops off agent Mark, who is injured, at a safe spot. Gin and Vodka get on Camel’s tail in their Porsche. Camel heads off to the Umibotaru tunnel, in an attempt to escape, but is cornered by Vermouth and Kir from the other side. Kir shoots him on his shoulder. Camel runs the car off the bridge and into the river. He manages to escape from the sinking car and resurfaces away from the bridge. Akai advises him to swim to a shore nearby.

==== File 1064 - A Light in the Darkness ====
Camel reaches the shore of an island. Based on the brick patterns, Yusaku figures out the location to be Umizarujima island. Conan and Akai relay all the instructions to Camel on how to stay alive. Camel starts a fire to warm himself up. But it catches BO’s attention. Akai tells him to put out the fire and hide, as the BO approach the island in their cruiser. Upon arriving, Gin orders the rest to split up and search. Meanwhile, Akai, disguise as Subaru, and Conan are on their way. They get a call from Kir, who tells them that she won’t hesitate to aim for Camel's face.

==== File 1065 - Hunter and Prey ====
Camel gathers stuff that Akai tells him to. He is about to leave the café, where he is hiding but overhears Vodka talking about Rum. He gets spotted and barely manages to escape. He buries himself underneath the soil using the tools he gathered for his aid. Gin notices this plan and orders everyone to search, but Rum has other plans.
Akai and Conan arrive at a park, with a clear view of the Umizarujima island. Upon arriving, they notice the island burning. As the BO is about to leave, they spot Camel running towards the pier. He reaches the end and locks the gate between them. At Akai’s command, he runs towards the edge and gets shot by Chianti in the back.

==== File 1066 - RUM ====
Camel falls into the sea. Akai gestures to Conan that the plan was a success. Gin decides to throw a grenade into the sea to ensure his death. But Akai thwarts his plans, by shooting at the grenade in mid-air. He shoots at them as well. Soon the fireboats arrive, forcing the BO to retreat.

Vermouth mentions that the agent was Camel, and shows a picture of him. Korn remembers being told by Rum, two years ago, to kill Akai and Camel on sight. He was told to keep an eye out on a warehouse, where a meeting was supposed to take place. Rum hears this and acknowledges their effort to kill the agent and also says that they stood out too much.
<spoiler>
Akai and Conan explain how the death was faked using paper stacks and the blood packets hidden in the knit cap. Camel relays the information that Rum is wearing a disguise and uses a silly name.

[[File:Rum-true-appearance.png|200px|thumb|right|Rum without disguises.]]
Rum is revealed in disguise as '''Kanenori Wakita'''. He was also the old man who appeared in the warehouse, where Akai's identity as an FBI agent was revealed two years ago.</spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Man|Unnamed FBI Agent 1 File 1061 manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|Tony|Tony manga.jpg|
* Deceased (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|Jim Mason|Jim Mason manga.jpg|
* Victim (fell)
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|Cheng|Chen manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|Mark|Mark manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot - injured)
* FBI special agent
* Tony's younger brother}}
{{People|[[Bill]]|Bill manga.jpg|
* FBI special agent}}
{{People|David|David manga.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot - injured)
* FBI special agent}}
{{people|George|No face.jpg|
* Victim (gunshot - injured)
* FBI special agent}}
{{people|Aaron|No face.jpg|
* Deceased (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{people|Agent A|No face.jpg|
* Deceased (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{people|Agent B|No face.jpg|
* Deceased (gunshot)
* FBI special agent}}
{{EndBox}}

=== Shintoist Temple Case ===
==== File 1067 - A Secret Visit to the Shrine ====
The news of the killings and the fire on Umizarujima island is on the news. When the news mention the identity of victims to be possibly members of the FBI only the debunk the rumor Conan ponders on it noted how many FBI agent return to HQ to regroup and wonders what Akai and his father meant by the Tea party. Also on what Camel overheard about Rum. Kazuha drops by to go to a love shrine in Haido along with Ran. Conan tried to find Heiji only to learn that he did come along today and they decide to take Conan along.

When arrived at the shrine when Ran asked how Kazuha know much about the shrine. Kazuha explained she once saw Heiji look up on it on his phone the other day and she decide to look up on it and found out it was very popular shrine but believe Heiji was look up something. However Conan suspect otherwise considering his action from before he wouldn't be surprise that Heiji want a love amulent.

Conan finds Heiji in the shrine as well, secretly waiting for his good luck charm with a mask to hide his face. Conan used Kazuha's voice with his voice changer bowtie to scared Heiji afterward Conan was surprised that Heiji would defer to the gods Heiji respond he can't help it because too many interference kept happening every time. Heiji then tell Conan that he realize that what he lacking wasn't a beautiful view or romantic atmosphere but luck wanting to improve his luck with a Love Amulent, but Conan believe that Heiji should get a amulet that ward off his bad luck. Conan then attaches his voice-changing bowtie onto the Mask that Heiji wearing to hide his identity.

Kazuha and Ran end up meeting him but mistake him to be an idol. Just then, they hear a scream, only to find out someone has fallen down the stairs. Heiji, under disguise, declares it a murder. Takagi and Sato arrive at the crime scene. They manage to find three suspects.

==== File 1068 - Wanted Criminal Investigation ====
The victim is an assistant police detective, Hidaka Soushi, from the Wanted Criminal Investigation Squad. The three suspects are the three wanted criminals, the victim was after. Tsurumi Shamoto, a shoplifter, was caught by the victim and hand-cuffed to a pole. Torahiko Kawano, a hit and run driver, was indulged in a fight at the shrine’s entrance. Kyouma Jinnai, a marriage fraud perpetrator, was looking for his lost wallet. The three suspects are connected via the crimes committed. Conan and Heiji, get the grasp on the case when they hear the sound of something falling on snow.

==== File 1069 - Snowman ====
{{main|Snowman}}

<spoiler>The culprit is '''Tsurumi Shamoto'''.
Tsurumi, untied herself from the pole and tried to escape. But she crossed the victim once again, and swung a bucket of ice on his head, making him fall down the stairs to death. She turned the bucket upside down and put it on a snowman’s head to hide it. Then went back to the pole and tied herself back to it, using the same method she used to escape.

Later, Conan asks Heiji about silly names and Heiji tells him that an anagram can be used as a silly name, like ‘Katsuki Doito’ which was once used by Kaitou Kid. Heiji again fails to confess his love to Kazuha.</spoiler>

==== People ====
{{BeginBox}}
{{People|Hyouga Koumoto|Hyouga Koumoto manga.jpg|
* Member of the idol group ''Naniwa Kids''
* Currently hiding}}
{{people|Usagi Mikage|Usagi Mikage manga.jpg|
* Entertainer in a relationship with Koumoto}}
{{people|[[Minor law enforcement#Soushi Hidaka|Soushi Hidaka]]|Soushi Hidaka manga.jpg|
* Victim (bludgeoned)
* 31 years old
* Investigative Cooperation Department Assistant Inspector}}
{{people|Kyouma Jinnai|Kyouma Jinnai manga.jpg|
* 29 years old
* Suspect
* Marriage fraud perpetrator}}
{{people|Tsurumi Shamoto|Tsurumi Shamoto manga.jpg|
* 30 years old
* Suspect
* Repeated shoplifter}}
{{people|Torahiko Kawano|Torahiko Kawano manga.jpg|
* 38 years old
* Suspect
* Unlincensed driving, caused hit and run}}
{{people|Man|V100 Man.jpg|
* Wanted criminal}}
{{people|Ms. Kawano|Ms. Kawano manga.jpg|
* Kawano's younger sister
* Swindled by Jinnai}}
{{EndBox}}

== Trivia ==
=== Locations ===
{{main|Setting}}
Settings featured in this volume:

* [[Wikipedia: Chiba Prefecture|Chiba Prefecture]] (mentioned)
* [[Wikipedia: Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa Prefecture]]
** [[Wikipedia: Kawasaki, Kanagawa|Kawasaki]]
*** [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line|Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line]] Kanagawa Entrance (first appearance)
** Ōtaru street
* [[Tokyo]]
** [[Beika Ward]]
*** [[Beika Town]]
**** Café Guava (first appearance)
**** [[Kudo Residence]]
*** [[Haido Town]]
**** Haido Shrine (first appearance)
** [[Shibuya Ward]] (mentioned)
** Unknown ward
*** Harbor
* [[Wikipedia: Tokyo Bay|Tokyo Bay]]
** Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line between Chiba and Kanagawa (first appearance)
*** Umihotaru (as "Umibotaru") (first appearance)
** [[Wikipedia: Sarushima|Umizarujima]] (first appearance)

=== Models ===
{{main|Setting models}}
==== Haido Shrine ====
The Haido Shrine appearing from file 1067 onwards is based on the Shibuya Hikawa Shrine, which in real life is located in the [[Wikipedia: Higashi, Shibuya|Higashi district]] of [[Shibuya]] in [[Tokyo]]. [[Gosho Aoyama]] personally visited the place to shoot the reference photos.<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?p=883645#p883645 AC Hints (January 18th, 2021)]
Pic 1:"I went to a nearby temple as--->" 
Pic 2:"First prayers of the year as well to take references-->" 
Pic 3:"It was pretty empty and silent but--->" 
Pic 4:"My lottery was "pretty good luck"!" 
Translation by Spimer.</ref>

<gallery>
File:File 1067 Haido Shrine.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Haido Shrine in file 1067...
File:Shibuya Hikawa Shrine.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the Shibuya Hikawa Shrine in real life.
File:File 1067 Haido Shrine Gate.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The gate leading to the Haido Shrine in file 1067...
File:Shibuya Hikawa Shrine Gate.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the gate leading to the Shibuya Hikawa Shrine in real life.
</gallery>

==== Namikaze Park ====
The Namikaze Park (なみかぜ公園, "Wave Wind Park") Subaru Okiya and Conan Edogawa to help Andre Camel is modeled after the real Umikaze Park (うみかぜ公園, "Sea Wind Park").

<gallery>
File:File 1064 Namikaze Park.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Namikaze Park in file 1064...
File:Umikaze Park.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the Umikaze Park in real life.
</gallery>

==== Umibotaru ====
Umibotaru, the place Andre Camel gets confronted with the [[Black Organization]] on, is directly based on Umihotaru, an artificial island on the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, which connects the Chiba and Kanagawa Prefectures. Umihotaru connects an underwater tunnel and a bridge, offering parking space for people crossing the Aqua-Line.

<gallery>
File:File 1063 Umibotaru.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Umibotaru in file 1063...
File:Umihotaru.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and Umihotaru in real life.
</gallery>

==== Umizarujima ====
Umizarujima ("Sea Monkey Island") is based on Sarushima ("Monkey Island"), an actual island inside Tokyo Bay, also located off the coast of Kanagawa Prefecture and used as an artillery battery in the past, as Yusaku Kudo explained. There also actually was a fire on the real island a while ago, similar to the one in the manga, destroying several of the facilities at the beach.

<gallery>
File:File 1064 Umizarujima Pier.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Umizarujima's pier in file 1064...
File:Sarushima Pier.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the pier of Sarushima in real life.
File:File 1064 Umizarujima Shop.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A rental shop at the beach of Umizarujima in file 1064...
File:Sarushima Shop.jpg|thumb|200px|right|... and the shop in Sarushima in real life before the fire.
</gallery>

== Covers in other countries ==
<div><ul>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100cc.jpg|150px|thumb|left|China]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100f.jpg|150px|thumb|left|France]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100g.png|150px|thumb|left|Germany]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100bi.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Indonesia]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100i.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Italy]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100k.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Korea]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100cw.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Republic of China (Taiwan)]]</li>
<li style="display: inline-block;">[[File:Volume100th.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Thailand]]</li>
</ul></div>

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[Manga]]
* [[Volume 91-100]]
* [[Detective Conan]]

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Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato

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Cds: /* Marriage Partner Searching Party Murder Case (Manga: 1085-1087) */

The romantic relationship between [[Wataru Takagi]] and [[Miwako Sato]].
== Relationship analysis ==
[[Image:Takagi and Sato.jpg|thumb|250px|Takagi and Sato]]
'''[[Wataru Takagi]]''' and '''[[Miwako Sato]]''' are two officers working under Inspector Megure in the first division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, where Sato is currently Takagi's superior. As the story progresses, they start developing strong mutual romantic feelings for one another.

Despite being heavily admired by many male colleagues around her, especially Inspector [[Shiratori]] in the beginning, Sato still cares and worries about Takagi deeply, most notably during situations where his safety was put at risk. She also finds in Takagi traits that remind her of her late colleague, [[Jinpei Matsuda]], whom she had become romantically inclined towards in the brief time they've known each other. Takagi, on the other hand, respects Sato as his senior and loves her sincerely as a girlfriend, even to the point of willingly sacrificing his own life just to keep her away from all dangers.<ref>Manga: [[Volume 64]], File 673: "The Common Pattern"; Anime: [[The Scar that Evokes the Past]].</ref> After going through numerous difficulties and challenges, in some later cases, their relationship was hinted to have entered a sexual level; however, the true nature of this development has yet to be confirmed.<ref>'''Hints of sexual relationship:'''
* [[Volume 76]], File 806, Page 6 ([[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love]]): Sato accidentally reveals that she and Takagi have been sleeping together, and blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation.
* [[Volume 82]], File 867, Page 6 ([[The Case of the Lucky Calico]]): Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation; later in Page 9, Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm ''wasn't'', of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed.
* [[Volume 82]], Files 869~871 ([[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9]]): Takagi misunderstands that Sato is pregnant, and is strongly convinced that the baby is his, which wouldn't make sense if they never had sexual relationship.</ref>

A running joke in the series is that their relationship never progresses because of interruptions by the rest of the police force or other characters.
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== Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato moments ==
=== Manga/Anime ===
==== [[Volume 12|Volume 21: Files 208-210]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|Episode 146-147: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story]] ====
* Takagi tells the Detective Boys he has someone he likes and it's quickly inferred that it's Sato.
* Takagi is told that there is someone Sato likes in the 1st division and he wonders who it is, and worries if it is [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]].
* Shiratori invites Sato out for dinner at a french restaurant after the case is resolved, and is dejected when he gets rejected by Sato.
* Sato instead invites Takagi out, and then also invites Inspector Megure, making Takagi worried that the one Sato likes might be Megure instead of Shiratori.

==== [[Volume 23|Volume 23: File 231-233]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|Episode 156-157: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2]] ====
* Takagi asks if Sato likes Inspector Megure (in that way), to which Sato replies yes (she misunderstood). She explains it's because he reminds her of her father, and Takagi realises what she means, that he misunderstood (from before). Sato teases and says he looks like he wants to say something more.

==== [[Volume 27|Volume 27: Files 267-269]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|Episode 205-206: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP206 (1).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato says she used to think she would grant the wish of the person who solves the mystery and catches Shuushirou, prompting Takagi and Shiratori to fantasise about Sato in a wedding dress. The Detective Boys immediately begin listing the wish they would like granted, and Sato thinks that only they would take it so seriously, but then notices the two men (Takagi and Shiratori) who have both gone quiet and looking like they're thinking hard (about their wishes), and she asks, "What's up with you two?"
* Takagi forgets his handcuffs and says the fortune telling magazine says he is super lucky today. It gives Sato flashbacks of the day her father died, when he left home he had forgotten his handcuffs and also said he had super lucky fortune that day. Sato gives old, rusty handcuffs to Takagi, telling him they are a memento of her father's and that it is sure to bring him luck. Shiratori looks decidedly put out.
* Later, Takagi is handcuffed into a building that has been set on fire, Sato wants to rush into the building but is stopped by Shiratori and Megure. As bits of the building crumbles, Sato yells out that Takagi is a baka, with tears in her eyes, only to hear Takagi answering her from behind them.
* Takagi had gotten out, but was still handcuffed to a metal bar, he collapses from the wound to his head, and Sato notices he has a gun and asks him why he didn't just shoot the handcuffs with his gun. The Detective Boys answer that it must have been because the handcuffs were the memento from Sato's father and he didn't want to damage them. Ai remarks that Takagi is the type to die early.
* Sato holds Takagi's unconscious body, and Shiratori stands to the side with his arms crossed.
* To show her thanks and to keep her promise (because Takagi figured out the mystery), she asks what he wants, and he says he wants to go somewhere sometime with her. He thinks it's a date, but Sato drags him along an undercover mission instead.

==== [[Volume 30|Volume 30: Files 296-298]]/[[The Shinkansen Transport Case|Episode 240-241: The Shinkansen Transport Case]] ====
* As Ran is mulling over her failed attempt to ask about Shinichi's feelings for her, Takagi walks by muttering, "Doing it directly is bad..." about his situation with Sato.
* A ticket to a magic show drops out of his jacket, and when asked, Takagi says that Yumi had an extra ticket and invited him, but that he said he wasn't interested. It was a plan Yumi thought up, to see whether Sato's face would change expression when she heard, but Sato instead encourages Takagi to go.
* Later, Takagi gets a phone call from Yumi asking how it went, he hangs up quickly shouting for her to call him at a better time, and Sato is behind him asking him what Yumi wanted.
* At the end of the episode, Yumi and Sato are talking, and Sato asks if Yumi likes Takagi. Yumi exclaims loudly, and thinks that her plan worked.
* Although Sato doesn't seem to care, the others remark that she is in an awfully good mood for someone who just got her pay cut (because a suspect had died in police custody) and "maybe something good happened."

==== [[Volume 32|Volume 32: File 328-330]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|Episode 253-254: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4]] ====
* Sato, pressured/forced by her mom to attend an omiai (arranged marriage meeting), randomly picks a photo of a possible suitor (with her toes, no less), and it turns out to be Shiratori.
* Yumi promises to send her a "servant" (Takagi) to save Sato (who had just agreed to a bet with Shiratori that she’d marry him if Takagi didn’t show up within the time the sun sets), and she texts Takagi. However, he is caught up with a case and doesn't read the message until Conan, (who happens to be there eavesdropping with Araide sensei, Ran and Sonoko at the time) calls him using Shinichi's voice and explains the situation. He also helps Takagi with the case.
* Sato, who had just agreed to the wager, thinks that Takagi will definitely come, and then, blushing, she wonders why she thinks that.
* As the sun is about to set, Sato resigns herself to the deal and thinks herself a failure as a police officer for not realizing until just now how important Takagi has become to her.
* Just as Shiratori is about to seal their deal with a kiss, Conan uses Araide-sensei's shadow and his voice-changing bow tie to imitate Takagi's voice, stopping the kiss, and the deal.
* The real Takagi is waiting outside the house, thinking that he failed to stop the bet, when Sato runs out and gets in his car.

Here it is shown that Conan approves of their relationship.

==== [[Volume 36|Volume 36: Files 366-368]]/[[Parade of Malice and Saint|Episode 301-302: Parade of Malice and Saint]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP302.jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato and Takagi are going on a date to Tropical Marine Land next Sunday, every police officer knows, and it seems lots of them have requested days off and reserved binoculars for that day.
* Takagi puts on a disguise that reminds Sato of her former colleague Matsuda, and Sato slaps him as a result.
* Takagi almost gets blown up and Sato frantically tries to rescue him, not knowing that Takagi is safe, burning her hands in the process. The other infer that she was trying to save both Takagi and Matsuda.
* At the end, Sato apologies for slapping Takagi, and Takagi frets over Sato's hands, resulting in them staring into each other's eyes until they pull away, both blushing.
* Sato says everyone she has ever cared about has died, so it would be better if she and Takagi went back to just being colleagues, and Takagi agrees after a while, losing his nerve to disagree. She walks away sadly, while Takagi stares after her.

==== [[Volume 36|Volume 36: File 369-373]]/[[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: The Trembling Police Headquarters]] ====
[[Image:Sato Takagi interupted.jpg|thumb|250px|Sato and Takagi were close to kissing before Megure interrupted.]]
* Takagi thinks he cannot compete against [[Jinpei Matsuda]], and is mocked by the Detective Boys. Takagi says he doesn't want to give up either.
* Sato dreams and sees the grim reaper behind Takagi, and doesn't take him to investigate bomb sites, because she doesn't want anything to happen to him.
* Near the end of the episode, Sato begins to cry on Takagi's shoulder saying that she wants to forget Matsuda, and after Takagi tells her she shouldn't forget, the two nearly kiss. However, they are interrupted by [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]].
* Sato deletes her precious last mail from Matsuda and says goodbye but that she won't forget him.

==== [[The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car|TV Original/Episode 321: The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car]] ====
* Sato and Takagi have to pretend to be lovers, and both are embarrassed, Sato makes Takagi sit closer to her and put his arm around her.

==== [[Volume 40|Volume 40: Files 404-406]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5|Episode 358-359: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5]] ====
* Takagi and Sato are going on their very first date to Tropical Marine Land, where the police officers are following them, led by Shiratori with cameras and binoculars.
* Takagi has bought a ring for Sato but before he can give it to her, he realises his bag has been switched out with that of a drug dealer's.
* Eventually the bag drops into the water and the ring is lost.
* Sato makes Takagi promise that he'll never go away and leave her.
* Conan thinks to himself that though Takagi lost his bag, he gained something much more precious.

==== [[Volume 44|Volume 44: Files 450-452]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|Episode 390-391: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6]] ====
* Sato sternly orders Takagi into her car, so Takagi wonders if he did something wrong. He starts worrying and even thinks she is going to break up with him. However, when he opens the door and a toy snake leaps out, scaring him, Sato starts laughing, commenting that the trick worked perfectly. Takagi is relieved and they flirt cutely. (Chiba and Shiratori are actually watching them the entire time)
* The police department is lead to believe that Takagi will be sent far away on a case for a long time. However, instead of being sad or disappointed, they are ecstatic that Takagi will be leaving (and therefore staying away from Sato). Takagi is, however, disappointed that Sato seems to be indifferent, even asking for twentieth century pears while Yumi burst into tears.
* While investigating the case, Takagi yells, "I'm definitely not going to find another woman! Definitely not!" when he overhears the Detective Boys chatting about Hide (the soccer player) leaving the country and finding a girlfriend as he thought they were talking about him. When he realizes that this is not the case, he is quite embarrassed.
* Takagi is upset that Sato still hasn’t shown any emotion about his leaving Tokyo, but when Sato falls for her own trick with the toy snake, she is silent and appears upset and then suddenly asks Takagi if he won’t forget her even if a super sexy actress becomes the police chief.
* Right after Takagi blurts that he wants to be engaged with Sato before he leaves, [[Inspector Megure]] informs them that it is actually Chosuke Takagi who is being sent away not Wataru.
*Sato, who is blushing a lot, asks what Takagi just said, but he quickly changes the subject and says that they should go to karaoke with the kids. Takagi is shown sighing at the karaoke with Conan and Ai watching him.

==== [[Volume 47|Volume 47: Files 484-486]]/[[A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed|Episode 401-402: A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed]] ====
* Conan and the Detective Boys run into Takagi as he enters into a jewelry shop to buy a brooch for Sato.
* Shiratori heckles him about the jewelry shop visit and the brooch.
* Takagi makes Sato go and look through the coat for the brooch, and it turns out Yumi tricked both Takagi and Shiratori into buying jewelry that Yumi liked. Sato laughs and remarks that she never was one for flashy things.

==== [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]] ====
* While Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are working on [[Rena Mizunashi|Rena Mizunashi's]] bell ringer prank case, Conan hops to an empty apartment next door to her, which should be unoccupied.
* Conan looks on a glass door or window and sees "Ki Mi Wa."
* When it dawned on Conan what was going on, he called Takagi, who admitted that a few days ago, he was doing a stake-out, and wrote on the glass, "Takagi Miwako," and forgot to wipe it up. In short, what Sato's name would be, if they married.
* By the time, that Conan saw the glass, the "TaKa" and "Ko" were erased.

==== [[Volume 50|Volume 50: 511-514]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|Episode 431-432: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP432 (2).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Takagi and Sato have both been invited to a goukon (singles mixer) separately, and both went to even out the numbers, but they didn't tell each other and get jealous when they see each other paying attention to other people.
* In the middle of the case, Sato and Takagi break out into a jealous quarrel.
* Takagi ends up figuring out the case and saving the kidnapper from suicide, getting praise from Inspector Megune.
* Takagi and Sato are driving back, and Takagi says Sato is not a losing lottery ticket, that she is a super win ticket. The two nearly kiss, before being reminded that Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are still in the backseat.

==== [[Volume 52|Volume 52: 535-537]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding|Episode 449: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP449 (3).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato is annoyed that Yumi is sticking too close to Takagi as Yumi and Takagi play stand ins for a couple on their wedding day.
* Later in the case, Sato switches places with Yumi to protect her from the culprit. She tries to arrest him when he attacks her, but then she mistakenly pins Takagi down to the ground since said culprit is a man who looks a lot like Takagi.
* Months later, it turns out that a witness to the 'attack' is a famous photographer and has used a picture he took of Sato pining Takagi down in a commercial ad. Sato and Takagi are embarrassed, and Chiba slyly tells Shiratori that he can't take the ads down.

==== [[Trick vs. Magic|TV Original/Episode 450-451: Trick vs. Magic]] ====
*Scared about the thunder, Takagi strongly hugs Sato at the height of the breasts causing her furiosly embarassed and hit him.

==== [[Volume 56|Volume 56: 576-578]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger|Episode 487: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8]] ====
* Takagi (and the rest of the police department) is worried about the sudden appearance of a ring on Sato's left hand.
*Ran congratulates Takagi on his engagement to Sato, but is shocked when he learns that the ring is not from him. He says that he feels like he’s on a tightrope with Sato, which helps Conan solve the case.
* Turns out Sato was just wearing it as a charm (because she misunderstood something Yumi said), and Takagi gets her to wear a ring he buys for her, although Sato still thinks it's a charm.

==== [[Volume 60|Volume 60: 625-627]]/[[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|Episode 530-531: The Truth Behind the Urban Legend]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP530 (5).jpg|thumb|250px|Sato almost kisses Takagi, Conan is scolded for interrupting ]]
* Takagi and Sato are on a stakeout when Sato says suddenly “give me a hot kiss right now!” and they nearly kiss but they are interrupted by Conan, who points out that they are pretending to be lovers. However, he is scolded by Sonoko because she wanted to see them kiss.
* Later, they both trip as they inspect the bathtub that Conan points out, and end up face to face, staring into each others' eyes while blushing, until Conan coughs and interrupts them again.
* Takagi keeps thinking back to the almost kiss, and gets jealous over the thought that Sato also pulled the "appear as lovers, pretend to kiss" ploy with Chiba on previous stakeouts. (Chiba had just told him that he pretended to be lovers with her and would never forget that “soft feeling”).
* Later, he realizes that Sato had only to held Chiba's hand, and that she asked Takagi to kiss her because it was him.

==== [[Volume 64|Volume 64: Files 667-673]]/[[The Scar that Evokes the Past|Episode 534-535: The Scar that Evokes the Past]] ====
* Sato tells Takagi that after the case is solved she’ll go with him to the new hot springs place, and this motivates Takagi to takes up a more active role in the investigation. Sato, however, begins to worry when she hears from Superintendent Matsumoto that this is a very bad signal and that such reckless behavior is likely to trigger Takagi's death in the line of duty. She is even reminded of her father and Jinpei Matsuda.
* Takagi is captured by the killer, and then receives a cellphone call from Sato. The killer deduces that Sato is Takagi's girlfriend and tries to force him reply and stage an even bigger hostage situation. Takagi breaks said cellphone instead, winking and saying, “guess I’ll be your only hostage now.”
* Few minutes later, the still captured Takagi mistakenly believes that Sato is a member of the group that is trying to rescue him and is at the front door. He tries to stop said killer from harming the officers but gets shot for it. In the anime, he even calls out to her before passing out.
* Sato is crushed when she believes Takagi has died, and then is greatly relieved when Shiratori tells her that he's alive. She kisses Takagi when he's hospitalized, after Conan and the Detective Boys ward off Megure and others who were about to enter.
[[Image:Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|250px|Sato and Takagi kiss]]

==== [[Volume 68|Volume 68: File 708]]/[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love|Episode 585: Timeless Sakura's Love]] ====
* After Shiratori shows off the bento Sumiko made for him, Takagi asks Sato for a bento next time, Sato misinterprets Takagi and responds that if he's going to the convenience store, to get her a bento as well, Leaving Takagi feeling dejected and Chiba amused.

==== [[Volume 69|Volume 69: File 725-727]]/[[White Day of Betrayal|Episode 608-609: White Day of Betrayal]] ====
* On White Day, Sato overhears Ran and Sonoko discussing return gifts, and turns to Takagi and sticks out her hand expectantly. Takagi points out that he didn't get any Valentines Day presents from Sato, while thinking that he waited and waited, and Sato indignantly retorts that she gave him candy during a stakeout that night. Takagi points out that it was only pocky and Sato had already eaten some beforehand. After Shiratori drives by with a carload of gifts for Sumiko, Sato throws Takagi a sour look.
* Later on, Sato is trying to focus and trying to forget something ominous her friend told her that will happen if her boyfriend doesn't give her return candy.
* After Takagi tricks Sato into opening the glove compartment, Sato is extremely happy, while Takagi remarks that he put his gift in 3 days beforehand.

==== [[Volume 76|Volume 76: File 804-808]]/[[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|Episode 681-683: The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato second kiss.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Takagi and Sato's second kiss.]]
* Due to a massive misunderstanding, Takagi is kidnapped and placed in a cruel death trap outside of Tokyo. Sato takes a very active role in his rescue, even attacking the culprit when she finds him.
* At some point in the investigation, Sato lets it slip that she knows Takagi doesn't move too much when he's sleeping, even adding that he looks very cute. She is greatly embarrassed when she realizes the kids are listening.
* Sato saves Takagi barely in time and kisses him, with a camera showing them. The male police officers see that scene and make them angry and jealous.
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==== [[Volume 82|Volume 82: Files 869-871]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9|Episode 748-749: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9]] ====
[[File:Takagi imagining being a family with Sato.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Takagi imagining being a family with Sato.]]
* Takagi misunderstands and believes Sato is pregnant with his child, and he says he'll take full responsibility, and envisions them married.
**The fact he jumps to this conclusion shows how far they've come in their relationship.
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==== [[Volume 82|Volume 82: Files 865-868]]/[[The Case of the Lucky Calico|Episode 751-752: The Case of the Lucky Calico]] ====
* Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation.
* Later in Page 9 of Vol 82 File 867, Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm wasn't, of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed. The implication of them having a sexual relationship is so direct that it wasn't included in the anime.

==== [[Volume 88|Volume 88: Files 928-930]]/[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|Episode 828: Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2]] ====
* Sato and Takagi put on disguise to catch the culprit at a ramen shop. It's again stated that they're sexually active, as Sato tells Takagi that she plans to work out *intensely* that night to burn out calories and is mad when he misses the point of her remark.

==== [[The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love|TV Original/Episode 851-852: The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love]] ====
[[File:EP851-3.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
* Takagi pretends he is sick and tells Megure that he’ll be gone on sick leave, but instead he goes on a date with Sato in Yufuin. Sato is unaware of this, as Takagi told her that he had managed to take a day off, until she receives a call from Inspector Megure telling about a case and mentioning that Takagi is on sick leave. Sato then gets furious at Takagi, making him trembling with fear.
* Near the end, Takagi apologizes profusely, but Sato says that she won’t forgive him.

==== [[Volume 95|Volume 95: Files 1013]]/[[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|Episode 971:The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department]] ====
*When Naeko asked Sato why she didn't drove away the person who hit on her by tell the person that Takagi was her lover during one of their stakeouts Sato replied that she once did that to tease Takagi in a previous stakeout and Takagi panically reveal those around them that they were police officers stated that she can't really used that stratergy.
==== Marriage Partner Searching Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Marriage Partner Searching Party Murder Case|1085-1087]]) ====
*When Chihaya grab Takagi and questioned his action in stopping the culprit from committing suicide by grab the knife Sato got jealous and cut them off and question Chihaya what she is doing which Chihaya respond that they won't be idiot like that any longer and told her that if she love him she should never let him go.

=== Movies/OVAs ===
==== [[Movie 4|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 4.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Takagi holds Sato in his arms in Movie 4.]]
* When Sato asks Takagi about her outfit, he begins to blush and replies saying it look amazing on her.
* When Kogoro begins interrogating Takagi, Conan reveals to Kogoro about Takagi's true feelings for Sato. Takagi begins to deeply blush and Kogoro seeing it's true, threatens to reveal the news Sato, but Takagi stops him and reveals some information on the recent case.
* When Conan, Kogoro and Takagi arrive at the scene, Takagi hurries to Sato's side and hold her in his arms.
* When a man pushes a woman out of a train and Takagi catches her he remembers when he was holding Sato, who was shot and undergoing surgery. He goes into shock and gets distracted long enough for the culprit to push Ran onto the rail track.
* At the end of the film when Shiratori reveals that Sato is going to be alright, Takagi is shown to be crying tears of joy upon discovering the news.

==== [[Movie 10|Movie 10: The Private Eyes' Requiem]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 10.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Takagi and Sato on a date at Miracle Land in Movie 10.]]
* Takagi and Sato were on a date at Miracle Land, where Kazuha, Ran, Haibara, Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko, were hostages with explosive wristbands on their wrists.

==== [[Movie 12|Movie 12: Full Score of Fear]] ====

==== [[Movie 13|Movie 13: The Raven Chaser]] ====

==== [[Movie 17|Movie 17: Private Eye in the Distant Sea]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 17.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Sato hugs Takagi upon finding Ran in Movie 17.]]

==== [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Wedding Poster - Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The wedding poster of Takagi and Sato as Sato's phone cover in Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie.]]

==== [[Movie 25|Movie 25: The Bride of Halloween]] ====

=== Openings ===
==== [[Mysterious Eyes|Opening 7: Mysterious Eyes]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with a pair of handcuffs in the index finger, a posible reference to [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|a recently case]] or a [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|future case involving Sato's father]].

==== [[Winter Bells|Opening 10: Winter Bells]] ====
* Both appear together during the final scenes, Takagi looking flushed to Sato.
* In the final scene, they appear together again.

==== [[Kaze no Lalala|Opening 12: Kaze no Lalala]] ====
* In the final scene, they two appear together.
* In the final scene, they are watching the camera with the same facial expression.

==== [[Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made|Opening 13: Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made]] ====
* In the ending final, they are shown very close, with Sato teasing Takagi.

==== [[START|Opening 14: START]] ====
* In the moment when appear the police detectives, they appear followed almost with Yumi in between.
* In the final shot of the main cast, they also appear very close but with Yumi in between again.

==== [[Growing of my heart|Opening 16: Growing of my heart]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear all the time nearly.

==== [[100 Mono Tobira|Opening 18: 100 Mono Tobira]] ====
* They appear at the same moment at the same level line.

==== [[Namida no Yesterday|Opening 20: Namida no Yesterday]] ====
* In the nearly middle of the opening, Takagi pretend to approach with Sato but Shiratori give him away of her.

==== [[Glorious Mind|Opening 21: Glorious Mind]] ====
* They two appear in the whole first opening version, Takagi worried about Sato's ring.

==== [[Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you|Opening 23: Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you]] ====
* In the final shot of the opening, they two appear very close.

==== [[Mysterious|Opening 24: Mysterious]] ====
* In the opening, the scene when appear many main characters, they appear together.

==== [[Revive|Opening 25: Revive]] ====
* In the opening, they appear together with the other police detectives and Kogoro.
* In the final ending, they appear next to each other.

==== [[Everlasting Luv|Opening 26: Everlasting Luv]] ====
* In the opening, they appear at the same time, together.

==== [[MAGIC|Opening 27: MAGIC]] ====
* When they appear in the opening, Sato shows her police badge and Takagi his wallet, reveling a Sato picture in, and blushed.

==== [[As the Dew|Opening 28: As the Dew]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with many characters.
* Takagi and Sato make a similar pose and smiled to the camera.

==== [[SUMMER TIME GONE|Opening 29: SUMMER TIME GONE]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear next to the same police car although not together and looking up into the sky.
* In the end of the opening, they two are standing together and smiling.

==== [[Don't Wanna Lie|Opening 31: Don't Wanna Lie]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear with Chiba running like in Opening 16.

==== [[Misty Mystery|Opening 32: Misty Mystery]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with the other police officers, looking at the camera.

==== [[Miss Mystery|Opening 33: Miss Mystery]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear during the scene of the floating screens together with a blue background.

==== [[TRY AGAIN|Opening 35: TRY AGAIN]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear very close, smiling, with a pink background.

==== [[Butterfly Core|Opening 37: Butterfly Core]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together not watching to the camera.

==== [[Greed|Opening 38: Greed]] ====
* In the scene with the police, they appear near.
* In the nearly final shot with the whole group, they appear very close looking above to the camera.

==== [[WE GO|Opening 40: WE GO]] ====

==== [[Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru|Opening 43: Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru]] ====

==== [[Lie, Lie, Lie,|Opening 45: Lie, Lie, Lie]] ====

==== [[Countdown|Opening 47: Countdown]] ====

==== [[JUST BELIEVE YOU|Opening 52: JUST BELIEVE YOU]] ====

== Trivia ==
* They are one of the rarer non-childhood couples.
* Takagi gets a lot of grief as Sato is so popular in the police department while he is popular in the traffic apartment but not the same as Sato. According to Yumi, some girls in the police apartment are attracted to him because they find him moe-level adorable.
* They are the first couple to be introduced of the police group.
* Though Takagi was introduced in Conan's arc, Sato was introduced in Sherry's arc.
** This is similar to [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]], in which, the boy (Heiji/Takagi) was introduced in Conan's arc and the girl (Kazuha/Sato) was introduced in Sherry's arc.
* They are, along with [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]], the only couple who have any kind of sexual references.
*According to Gosho in JUSTICE PLUS Super Digest Book, Takagi confessed first.

== Gallery ==
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== See also ==
* [[Wataru Takagi]]
* [[Miwako Sato]]
* [[Sato family]]
* [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (series)]]
* [[Ninzaburo Shiratori and Sumiko Kobayashi]]
* [[Kazunobu Chiba and Naeko Miike]]
* [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]

== References ==
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The romantic relationship between [[Wataru Takagi]] and [[Miwako Sato]].
== Relationship analysis ==
[[Image:Takagi and Sato.jpg|thumb|250px|Takagi and Sato]]
'''[[Wataru Takagi]]''' and '''[[Miwako Sato]]''' are two officers working under Inspector Megure in the first division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, where Sato is currently Takagi's superior. As the story progresses, they start developing strong mutual romantic feelings for one another.

Despite being heavily admired by many male colleagues around her, especially Inspector [[Shiratori]] in the beginning, Sato still cares and worries about Takagi deeply, most notably during situations where his safety was put at risk. She also finds in Takagi traits that remind her of her late colleague, [[Jinpei Matsuda]], whom she had become romantically inclined towards in the brief time they've known each other. Takagi, on the other hand, respects Sato as his senior and loves her sincerely as a girlfriend, even to the point of willingly sacrificing his own life just to keep her away from all dangers.<ref>Manga: [[Volume 64]], File 673: "The Common Pattern"; Anime: [[The Scar that Evokes the Past]].</ref> After going through numerous difficulties and challenges, in some later cases, their relationship was hinted to have entered a sexual level; however, the true nature of this development has yet to be confirmed.<ref>'''Hints of sexual relationship:'''
* [[Volume 76]], File 806, Page 6 ([[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love]]): Sato accidentally reveals that she and Takagi have been sleeping together, and blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation.
* [[Volume 82]], File 867, Page 6 ([[The Case of the Lucky Calico]]): Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation; later in Page 9, Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm ''wasn't'', of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed.
* [[Volume 82]], Files 869~871 ([[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9]]): Takagi misunderstands that Sato is pregnant, and is strongly convinced that the baby is his, which wouldn't make sense if they never had sexual relationship.</ref>

A running joke in the series is that their relationship never progresses because of interruptions by the rest of the police force or other characters.
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== Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato moments ==
=== Manga/Anime ===
==== [[Volume 12|Volume 21: Files 208-210]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|Episode 146-147: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story]] ====
* Takagi tells the Detective Boys he has someone he likes and it's quickly inferred that it's Sato.
* Takagi is told that there is someone Sato likes in the 1st division and he wonders who it is, and worries if it is [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]].
* Shiratori invites Sato out for dinner at a french restaurant after the case is resolved, and is dejected when he gets rejected by Sato.
* Sato instead invites Takagi out, and then also invites Inspector Megure, making Takagi worried that the one Sato likes might be Megure instead of Shiratori.

==== [[Volume 23|Volume 23: File 231-233]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|Episode 156-157: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2]] ====
* Takagi asks if Sato likes Inspector Megure (in that way), to which Sato replies yes (she misunderstood). She explains it's because he reminds her of her father, and Takagi realises what she means, that he misunderstood (from before). Sato teases and says he looks like he wants to say something more.

==== [[Volume 27|Volume 27: Files 267-269]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|Episode 205-206: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP206 (1).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato says she used to think she would grant the wish of the person who solves the mystery and catches Shuushirou, prompting Takagi and Shiratori to fantasise about Sato in a wedding dress. The Detective Boys immediately begin listing the wish they would like granted, and Sato thinks that only they would take it so seriously, but then notices the two men (Takagi and Shiratori) who have both gone quiet and looking like they're thinking hard (about their wishes), and she asks, "What's up with you two?"
* Takagi forgets his handcuffs and says the fortune telling magazine says he is super lucky today. It gives Sato flashbacks of the day her father died, when he left home he had forgotten his handcuffs and also said he had super lucky fortune that day. Sato gives old, rusty handcuffs to Takagi, telling him they are a memento of her father's and that it is sure to bring him luck. Shiratori looks decidedly put out.
* Later, Takagi is handcuffed into a building that has been set on fire, Sato wants to rush into the building but is stopped by Shiratori and Megure. As bits of the building crumbles, Sato yells out that Takagi is a baka, with tears in her eyes, only to hear Takagi answering her from behind them.
* Takagi had gotten out, but was still handcuffed to a metal bar, he collapses from the wound to his head, and Sato notices he has a gun and asks him why he didn't just shoot the handcuffs with his gun. The Detective Boys answer that it must have been because the handcuffs were the memento from Sato's father and he didn't want to damage them. Ai remarks that Takagi is the type to die early.
* Sato holds Takagi's unconscious body, and Shiratori stands to the side with his arms crossed.
* To show her thanks and to keep her promise (because Takagi figured out the mystery), she asks what he wants, and he says he wants to go somewhere sometime with her. He thinks it's a date, but Sato drags him along an undercover mission instead.

==== [[Volume 30|Volume 30: Files 296-298]]/[[The Shinkansen Transport Case|Episode 240-241: The Shinkansen Transport Case]] ====
* As Ran is mulling over her failed attempt to ask about Shinichi's feelings for her, Takagi walks by muttering, "Doing it directly is bad..." about his situation with Sato.
* A ticket to a magic show drops out of his jacket, and when asked, Takagi says that Yumi had an extra ticket and invited him, but that he said he wasn't interested. It was a plan Yumi thought up, to see whether Sato's face would change expression when she heard, but Sato instead encourages Takagi to go.
* Later, Takagi gets a phone call from Yumi asking how it went, he hangs up quickly shouting for her to call him at a better time, and Sato is behind him asking him what Yumi wanted.
* At the end of the episode, Yumi and Sato are talking, and Sato asks if Yumi likes Takagi. Yumi exclaims loudly, and thinks that her plan worked.
* Although Sato doesn't seem to care, the others remark that she is in an awfully good mood for someone who just got her pay cut (because a suspect had died in police custody) and "maybe something good happened."

==== [[Volume 32|Volume 32: File 328-330]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|Episode 253-254: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4]] ====
* Sato, pressured/forced by her mom to attend an omiai (arranged marriage meeting), randomly picks a photo of a possible suitor (with her toes, no less), and it turns out to be Shiratori.
* Yumi promises to send her a "servant" (Takagi) to save Sato (who had just agreed to a bet with Shiratori that she’d marry him if Takagi didn’t show up within the time the sun sets), and she texts Takagi. However, he is caught up with a case and doesn't read the message until Conan, (who happens to be there eavesdropping with Araide sensei, Ran and Sonoko at the time) calls him using Shinichi's voice and explains the situation. He also helps Takagi with the case.
* Sato, who had just agreed to the wager, thinks that Takagi will definitely come, and then, blushing, she wonders why she thinks that.
* As the sun is about to set, Sato resigns herself to the deal and thinks herself a failure as a police officer for not realizing until just now how important Takagi has become to her.
* Just as Shiratori is about to seal their deal with a kiss, Conan uses Araide-sensei's shadow and his voice-changing bow tie to imitate Takagi's voice, stopping the kiss, and the deal.
* The real Takagi is waiting outside the house, thinking that he failed to stop the bet, when Sato runs out and gets in his car.

Here it is shown that Conan approves of their relationship.

==== [[Volume 36|Volume 36: Files 366-368]]/[[Parade of Malice and Saint|Episode 301-302: Parade of Malice and Saint]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP302.jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato and Takagi are going on a date to Tropical Marine Land next Sunday, every police officer knows, and it seems lots of them have requested days off and reserved binoculars for that day.
* Takagi puts on a disguise that reminds Sato of her former colleague Matsuda, and Sato slaps him as a result.
* Takagi almost gets blown up and Sato frantically tries to rescue him, not knowing that Takagi is safe, burning her hands in the process. The other infer that she was trying to save both Takagi and Matsuda.
* At the end, Sato apologies for slapping Takagi, and Takagi frets over Sato's hands, resulting in them staring into each other's eyes until they pull away, both blushing.
* Sato says everyone she has ever cared about has died, so it would be better if she and Takagi went back to just being colleagues, and Takagi agrees after a while, losing his nerve to disagree. She walks away sadly, while Takagi stares after her.

==== [[Volume 36|Volume 36: File 369-373]]/[[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: The Trembling Police Headquarters]] ====
[[Image:Sato Takagi interupted.jpg|thumb|250px|Sato and Takagi were close to kissing before Megure interrupted.]]
* Takagi thinks he cannot compete against [[Jinpei Matsuda]], and is mocked by the Detective Boys. Takagi says he doesn't want to give up either.
* Sato dreams and sees the grim reaper behind Takagi, and doesn't take him to investigate bomb sites, because she doesn't want anything to happen to him.
* Near the end of the episode, Sato begins to cry on Takagi's shoulder saying that she wants to forget Matsuda, and after Takagi tells her she shouldn't forget, the two nearly kiss. However, they are interrupted by [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]].
* Sato deletes her precious last mail from Matsuda and says goodbye but that she won't forget him.

==== [[The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car|TV Original/Episode 321: The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car]] ====
* Sato and Takagi have to pretend to be lovers, and both are embarrassed, Sato makes Takagi sit closer to her and put his arm around her.

==== [[Volume 40|Volume 40: Files 404-406]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5|Episode 358-359: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5]] ====
* Takagi and Sato are going on their very first date to Tropical Marine Land, where the police officers are following them, led by Shiratori with cameras and binoculars.
* Takagi has bought a ring for Sato but before he can give it to her, he realises his bag has been switched out with that of a drug dealer's.
* Eventually the bag drops into the water and the ring is lost.
* Sato makes Takagi promise that he'll never go away and leave her.
* Conan thinks to himself that though Takagi lost his bag, he gained something much more precious.

==== [[Volume 44|Volume 44: Files 450-452]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|Episode 390-391: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6]] ====
* Sato sternly orders Takagi into her car, so Takagi wonders if he did something wrong. He starts worrying and even thinks she is going to break up with him. However, when he opens the door and a toy snake leaps out, scaring him, Sato starts laughing, commenting that the trick worked perfectly. Takagi is relieved and they flirt cutely. (Chiba and Shiratori are actually watching them the entire time)
* The police department is lead to believe that Takagi will be sent far away on a case for a long time. However, instead of being sad or disappointed, they are ecstatic that Takagi will be leaving (and therefore staying away from Sato). Takagi is, however, disappointed that Sato seems to be indifferent, even asking for twentieth century pears while Yumi burst into tears.
* While investigating the case, Takagi yells, "I'm definitely not going to find another woman! Definitely not!" when he overhears the Detective Boys chatting about Hide (the soccer player) leaving the country and finding a girlfriend as he thought they were talking about him. When he realizes that this is not the case, he is quite embarrassed.
* Takagi is upset that Sato still hasn’t shown any emotion about his leaving Tokyo, but when Sato falls for her own trick with the toy snake, she is silent and appears upset and then suddenly asks Takagi if he won’t forget her even if a super sexy actress becomes the police chief.
* Right after Takagi blurts that he wants to be engaged with Sato before he leaves, [[Inspector Megure]] informs them that it is actually Chosuke Takagi who is being sent away not Wataru.
*Sato, who is blushing a lot, asks what Takagi just said, but he quickly changes the subject and says that they should go to karaoke with the kids. Takagi is shown sighing at the karaoke with Conan and Ai watching him.

==== [[Volume 47|Volume 47: Files 484-486]]/[[A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed|Episode 401-402: A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed]] ====
* Conan and the Detective Boys run into Takagi as he enters into a jewelry shop to buy a brooch for Sato.
* Shiratori heckles him about the jewelry shop visit and the brooch.
* Takagi makes Sato go and look through the coat for the brooch, and it turns out Yumi tricked both Takagi and Shiratori into buying jewelry that Yumi liked. Sato laughs and remarks that she never was one for flashy things.

==== [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]] ====
* While Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are working on [[Rena Mizunashi|Rena Mizunashi's]] bell ringer prank case, Conan hops to an empty apartment next door to her, which should be unoccupied.
* Conan looks on a glass door or window and sees "Ki Mi Wa."
* When it dawned on Conan what was going on, he called Takagi, who admitted that a few days ago, he was doing a stake-out, and wrote on the glass, "Takagi Miwako," and forgot to wipe it up. In short, what Sato's name would be, if they married.
* By the time, that Conan saw the glass, the "TaKa" and "Ko" were erased.

==== [[Volume 50|Volume 50: 511-514]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|Episode 431-432: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP432 (2).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Takagi and Sato have both been invited to a goukon (singles mixer) separately, and both went to even out the numbers, but they didn't tell each other and get jealous when they see each other paying attention to other people.
* In the middle of the case, Sato and Takagi break out into a jealous quarrel.
* Takagi ends up figuring out the case and saving the kidnapper from suicide, getting praise from Inspector Megune.
* Takagi and Sato are driving back, and Takagi says Sato is not a losing lottery ticket, that she is a super win ticket. The two nearly kiss, before being reminded that Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are still in the backseat.

==== [[Volume 52|Volume 52: 535-537]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding|Episode 449: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP449 (3).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato is annoyed that Yumi is sticking too close to Takagi as Yumi and Takagi play stand ins for a couple on their wedding day.
* Later in the case, Sato switches places with Yumi to protect her from the culprit. She tries to arrest him when he attacks her, but then she mistakenly pins Takagi down to the ground since said culprit is a man who looks a lot like Takagi.
* Months later, it turns out that a witness to the 'attack' is a famous photographer and has used a picture he took of Sato pining Takagi down in a commercial ad. Sato and Takagi are embarrassed, and Chiba slyly tells Shiratori that he can't take the ads down.

==== [[Trick vs. Magic|TV Original/Episode 450-451: Trick vs. Magic]] ====
*Scared about the thunder, Takagi strongly hugs Sato at the height of the breasts causing her furiosly embarassed and hit him.

==== [[Volume 56|Volume 56: 576-578]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger|Episode 487: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8]] ====
* Takagi (and the rest of the police department) is worried about the sudden appearance of a ring on Sato's left hand.
*Ran congratulates Takagi on his engagement to Sato, but is shocked when he learns that the ring is not from him. He says that he feels like he’s on a tightrope with Sato, which helps Conan solve the case.
* Turns out Sato was just wearing it as a charm (because she misunderstood something Yumi said), and Takagi gets her to wear a ring he buys for her, although Sato still thinks it's a charm.

==== [[Volume 60|Volume 60: 625-627]]/[[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|Episode 530-531: The Truth Behind the Urban Legend]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP530 (5).jpg|thumb|250px|Sato almost kisses Takagi, Conan is scolded for interrupting ]]
* Takagi and Sato are on a stakeout when Sato says suddenly “give me a hot kiss right now!” and they nearly kiss but they are interrupted by Conan, who points out that they are pretending to be lovers. However, he is scolded by Sonoko because she wanted to see them kiss.
* Later, they both trip as they inspect the bathtub that Conan points out, and end up face to face, staring into each others' eyes while blushing, until Conan coughs and interrupts them again.
* Takagi keeps thinking back to the almost kiss, and gets jealous over the thought that Sato also pulled the "appear as lovers, pretend to kiss" ploy with Chiba on previous stakeouts. (Chiba had just told him that he pretended to be lovers with her and would never forget that “soft feeling”).
* Later, he realizes that Sato had only to held Chiba's hand, and that she asked Takagi to kiss her because it was him.

==== [[Volume 64|Volume 64: Files 667-673]]/[[The Scar that Evokes the Past|Episode 534-535: The Scar that Evokes the Past]] ====
* Sato tells Takagi that after the case is solved she’ll go with him to the new hot springs place, and this motivates Takagi to takes up a more active role in the investigation. Sato, however, begins to worry when she hears from Superintendent Matsumoto that this is a very bad signal and that such reckless behavior is likely to trigger Takagi's death in the line of duty. She is even reminded of her father and Jinpei Matsuda.
* Takagi is captured by the killer, and then receives a cellphone call from Sato. The killer deduces that Sato is Takagi's girlfriend and tries to force him reply and stage an even bigger hostage situation. Takagi breaks said cellphone instead, winking and saying, “guess I’ll be your only hostage now.”
* Few minutes later, the still captured Takagi mistakenly believes that Sato is a member of the group that is trying to rescue him and is at the front door. He tries to stop said killer from harming the officers but gets shot for it. In the anime, he even calls out to her before passing out.
* Sato is crushed when she believes Takagi has died, and then is greatly relieved when Shiratori tells her that he's alive. She kisses Takagi when he's hospitalized, after Conan and the Detective Boys ward off Megure and others who were about to enter.
[[Image:Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|250px|Sato and Takagi kiss]]

==== [[Volume 68|Volume 68: File 708]]/[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love|Episode 585: Timeless Sakura's Love]] ====
* After Shiratori shows off the bento Sumiko made for him, Takagi asks Sato for a bento next time, Sato misinterprets Takagi and responds that if he's going to the convenience store, to get her a bento as well, Leaving Takagi feeling dejected and Chiba amused.

==== [[Volume 69|Volume 69: File 725-727]]/[[White Day of Betrayal|Episode 608-609: White Day of Betrayal]] ====
* On White Day, Sato overhears Ran and Sonoko discussing return gifts, and turns to Takagi and sticks out her hand expectantly. Takagi points out that he didn't get any Valentines Day presents from Sato, while thinking that he waited and waited, and Sato indignantly retorts that she gave him candy during a stakeout that night. Takagi points out that it was only pocky and Sato had already eaten some beforehand. After Shiratori drives by with a carload of gifts for Sumiko, Sato throws Takagi a sour look.
* Later on, Sato is trying to focus and trying to forget something ominous her friend told her that will happen if her boyfriend doesn't give her return candy.
* After Takagi tricks Sato into opening the glove compartment, Sato is extremely happy, while Takagi remarks that he put his gift in 3 days beforehand.

==== [[Volume 76|Volume 76: File 804-808]]/[[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|Episode 681-683: The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato second kiss.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Takagi and Sato's second kiss.]]
* Due to a massive misunderstanding, Takagi is kidnapped and placed in a cruel death trap outside of Tokyo. Sato takes a very active role in his rescue, even attacking the culprit when she finds him.
* At some point in the investigation, Sato lets it slip that she knows Takagi doesn't move too much when he's sleeping, even adding that he looks very cute. She is greatly embarrassed when she realizes the kids are listening.
* Sato saves Takagi barely in time and kisses him, with a camera showing them. The male police officers see that scene and make them angry and jealous.
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==== [[Volume 82|Volume 82: Files 869-871]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9|Episode 748-749: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9]] ====
[[File:Takagi imagining being a family with Sato.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Takagi imagining being a family with Sato.]]
* Takagi misunderstands and believes Sato is pregnant with his child, and he says he'll take full responsibility, and envisions them married.
**The fact he jumps to this conclusion shows how far they've come in their relationship.
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==== [[Volume 82|Volume 82: Files 865-868]]/[[The Case of the Lucky Calico|Episode 751-752: The Case of the Lucky Calico]] ====
* Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation.
* Later in Page 9 of Vol 82 File 867, Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm wasn't, of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed. The implication of them having a sexual relationship is so direct that it wasn't included in the anime.

==== [[Volume 88|Volume 88: Files 928-930]]/[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|Episode 828: Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2]] ====
* Sato and Takagi put on disguise to catch the culprit at a ramen shop. It's again stated that they're sexually active, as Sato tells Takagi that she plans to work out *intensely* that night to burn out calories and is mad when he misses the point of her remark.

==== [[The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love|TV Original/Episode 851-852: The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love]] ====
[[File:EP851-3.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
* Takagi pretends he is sick and tells Megure that he’ll be gone on sick leave, but instead he goes on a date with Sato in Yufuin. Sato is unaware of this, as Takagi told her that he had managed to take a day off, until she receives a call from Inspector Megure telling about a case and mentioning that Takagi is on sick leave. Sato then gets furious at Takagi, making him trembling with fear.
* Near the end, Takagi apologizes profusely, but Sato says that she won’t forgive him.

==== [[Volume 95|Volume 95: Files 1013]]/[[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|Episode 971:The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department]] ====
*When Naeko asked Sato why she didn't drove away the person who hit on her by tell the person that Takagi was her lover during one of their stakeouts Sato replied that she once did that to tease Takagi in a previous stakeout and Takagi panically reveal those around them that they were police officers stated that she can't really used that stratergy.
==== Marriage Partner Searching Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Marriage Partner Searching Party Murder Case|1085-1087]]) ====

=== Movies/OVAs ===
==== [[Movie 4|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 4.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Takagi holds Sato in his arms in Movie 4.]]
* When Sato asks Takagi about her outfit, he begins to blush and replies saying it look amazing on her.
* When Kogoro begins interrogating Takagi, Conan reveals to Kogoro about Takagi's true feelings for Sato. Takagi begins to deeply blush and Kogoro seeing it's true, threatens to reveal the news Sato, but Takagi stops him and reveals some information on the recent case.
* When Conan, Kogoro and Takagi arrive at the scene, Takagi hurries to Sato's side and hold her in his arms.
* When a man pushes a woman out of a train and Takagi catches her he remembers when he was holding Sato, who was shot and undergoing surgery. He goes into shock and gets distracted long enough for the culprit to push Ran onto the rail track.
* At the end of the film when Shiratori reveals that Sato is going to be alright, Takagi is shown to be crying tears of joy upon discovering the news.

==== [[Movie 10|Movie 10: The Private Eyes' Requiem]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 10.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Takagi and Sato on a date at Miracle Land in Movie 10.]]
* Takagi and Sato were on a date at Miracle Land, where Kazuha, Ran, Haibara, Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko, were hostages with explosive wristbands on their wrists.

==== [[Movie 12|Movie 12: Full Score of Fear]] ====

==== [[Movie 13|Movie 13: The Raven Chaser]] ====

==== [[Movie 17|Movie 17: Private Eye in the Distant Sea]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 17.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Sato hugs Takagi upon finding Ran in Movie 17.]]

==== [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Wedding Poster - Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The wedding poster of Takagi and Sato as Sato's phone cover in Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie.]]

==== [[Movie 25|Movie 25: The Bride of Halloween]] ====

=== Openings ===
==== [[Mysterious Eyes|Opening 7: Mysterious Eyes]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with a pair of handcuffs in the index finger, a posible reference to [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|a recently case]] or a [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|future case involving Sato's father]].

==== [[Winter Bells|Opening 10: Winter Bells]] ====
* Both appear together during the final scenes, Takagi looking flushed to Sato.
* In the final scene, they appear together again.

==== [[Kaze no Lalala|Opening 12: Kaze no Lalala]] ====
* In the final scene, they two appear together.
* In the final scene, they are watching the camera with the same facial expression.

==== [[Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made|Opening 13: Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made]] ====
* In the ending final, they are shown very close, with Sato teasing Takagi.

==== [[START|Opening 14: START]] ====
* In the moment when appear the police detectives, they appear followed almost with Yumi in between.
* In the final shot of the main cast, they also appear very close but with Yumi in between again.

==== [[Growing of my heart|Opening 16: Growing of my heart]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear all the time nearly.

==== [[100 Mono Tobira|Opening 18: 100 Mono Tobira]] ====
* They appear at the same moment at the same level line.

==== [[Namida no Yesterday|Opening 20: Namida no Yesterday]] ====
* In the nearly middle of the opening, Takagi pretend to approach with Sato but Shiratori give him away of her.

==== [[Glorious Mind|Opening 21: Glorious Mind]] ====
* They two appear in the whole first opening version, Takagi worried about Sato's ring.

==== [[Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you|Opening 23: Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you]] ====
* In the final shot of the opening, they two appear very close.

==== [[Mysterious|Opening 24: Mysterious]] ====
* In the opening, the scene when appear many main characters, they appear together.

==== [[Revive|Opening 25: Revive]] ====
* In the opening, they appear together with the other police detectives and Kogoro.
* In the final ending, they appear next to each other.

==== [[Everlasting Luv|Opening 26: Everlasting Luv]] ====
* In the opening, they appear at the same time, together.

==== [[MAGIC|Opening 27: MAGIC]] ====
* When they appear in the opening, Sato shows her police badge and Takagi his wallet, reveling a Sato picture in, and blushed.

==== [[As the Dew|Opening 28: As the Dew]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with many characters.
* Takagi and Sato make a similar pose and smiled to the camera.

==== [[SUMMER TIME GONE|Opening 29: SUMMER TIME GONE]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear next to the same police car although not together and looking up into the sky.
* In the end of the opening, they two are standing together and smiling.

==== [[Don't Wanna Lie|Opening 31: Don't Wanna Lie]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear with Chiba running like in Opening 16.

==== [[Misty Mystery|Opening 32: Misty Mystery]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with the other police officers, looking at the camera.

==== [[Miss Mystery|Opening 33: Miss Mystery]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear during the scene of the floating screens together with a blue background.

==== [[TRY AGAIN|Opening 35: TRY AGAIN]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear very close, smiling, with a pink background.

==== [[Butterfly Core|Opening 37: Butterfly Core]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together not watching to the camera.

==== [[Greed|Opening 38: Greed]] ====
* In the scene with the police, they appear near.
* In the nearly final shot with the whole group, they appear very close looking above to the camera.

==== [[WE GO|Opening 40: WE GO]] ====

==== [[Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru|Opening 43: Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru]] ====

==== [[Lie, Lie, Lie,|Opening 45: Lie, Lie, Lie]] ====

==== [[Countdown|Opening 47: Countdown]] ====

==== [[JUST BELIEVE YOU|Opening 52: JUST BELIEVE YOU]] ====

== Trivia ==
* They are one of the rarer non-childhood couples.
* Takagi gets a lot of grief as Sato is so popular in the police department while he is popular in the traffic apartment but not the same as Sato. According to Yumi, some girls in the police apartment are attracted to him because they find him moe-level adorable.
* They are the first couple to be introduced of the police group.
* Though Takagi was introduced in Conan's arc, Sato was introduced in Sherry's arc.
** This is similar to [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]], in which, the boy (Heiji/Takagi) was introduced in Conan's arc and the girl (Kazuha/Sato) was introduced in Sherry's arc.
* They are, along with [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]], the only couple who have any kind of sexual references.
*According to Gosho in JUSTICE PLUS Super Digest Book, Takagi confessed first.

== Gallery ==
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== See also ==
* [[Wataru Takagi]]
* [[Miwako Sato]]
* [[Sato family]]
* [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (series)]]
* [[Ninzaburo Shiratori and Sumiko Kobayashi]]
* [[Kazunobu Chiba and Naeko Miike]]
* [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]

== References ==
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The romantic relationship between [[Wataru Takagi]] and [[Miwako Sato]].
== Relationship analysis ==
[[Image:Takagi and Sato.jpg|thumb|250px|Takagi and Sato]]
'''[[Wataru Takagi]]''' and '''[[Miwako Sato]]''' are two officers working under Inspector Megure in the first division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, where Sato is currently Takagi's superior. As the story progresses, they start developing strong mutual romantic feelings for one another.

Despite being heavily admired by many male colleagues around her, especially Inspector [[Shiratori]] in the beginning, Sato still cares and worries about Takagi deeply, most notably during situations where his safety was put at risk. She also finds in Takagi traits that remind her of her late colleague, [[Jinpei Matsuda]], whom she had become romantically inclined towards in the brief time they've known each other. Takagi, on the other hand, respects Sato as his senior and loves her sincerely as a girlfriend, even to the point of willingly sacrificing his own life just to keep her away from all dangers.<ref>Manga: [[Volume 64]], File 673: "The Common Pattern"; Anime: [[The Scar that Evokes the Past]].</ref> After going through numerous difficulties and challenges, in some later cases, their relationship was hinted to have entered a sexual level; however, the true nature of this development has yet to be confirmed.<ref>'''Hints of sexual relationship:'''
* [[Volume 76]], File 806, Page 6 ([[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love]]): Sato accidentally reveals that she and Takagi have been sleeping together, and blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation.
* [[Volume 82]], File 867, Page 6 ([[The Case of the Lucky Calico]]): Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation; later in Page 9, Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm ''wasn't'', of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed.
* [[Volume 82]], Files 869~871 ([[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9]]): Takagi misunderstands that Sato is pregnant, and is strongly convinced that the baby is his, which wouldn't make sense if they never had sexual relationship.</ref>

A running joke in the series is that their relationship never progresses because of interruptions by the rest of the police force or other characters.
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== Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato moments ==
=== Manga/Anime ===
==== [[Volume 12|Volume 21: Files 208-210]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|Episode 146-147: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story]] ====
* Takagi tells the Detective Boys he has someone he likes and it's quickly inferred that it's Sato.
* Takagi is told that there is someone Sato likes in the 1st division and he wonders who it is, and worries if it is [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]].
* Shiratori invites Sato out for dinner at a french restaurant after the case is resolved, and is dejected when he gets rejected by Sato.
* Sato instead invites Takagi out, and then also invites Inspector Megure, making Takagi worried that the one Sato likes might be Megure instead of Shiratori.

==== [[Volume 23|Volume 23: File 231-233]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|Episode 156-157: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2]] ====
* Takagi asks if Sato likes Inspector Megure (in that way), to which Sato replies yes (she misunderstood). She explains it's because he reminds her of her father, and Takagi realises what she means, that he misunderstood (from before). Sato teases and says he looks like he wants to say something more.

==== [[Volume 27|Volume 27: Files 267-269]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|Episode 205-206: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP206 (1).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato says she used to think she would grant the wish of the person who solves the mystery and catches Shuushirou, prompting Takagi and Shiratori to fantasise about Sato in a wedding dress. The Detective Boys immediately begin listing the wish they would like granted, and Sato thinks that only they would take it so seriously, but then notices the two men (Takagi and Shiratori) who have both gone quiet and looking like they're thinking hard (about their wishes), and she asks, "What's up with you two?"
* Takagi forgets his handcuffs and says the fortune telling magazine says he is super lucky today. It gives Sato flashbacks of the day her father died, when he left home he had forgotten his handcuffs and also said he had super lucky fortune that day. Sato gives old, rusty handcuffs to Takagi, telling him they are a memento of her father's and that it is sure to bring him luck. Shiratori looks decidedly put out.
* Later, Takagi is handcuffed into a building that has been set on fire, Sato wants to rush into the building but is stopped by Shiratori and Megure. As bits of the building crumbles, Sato yells out that Takagi is a baka, with tears in her eyes, only to hear Takagi answering her from behind them.
* Takagi had gotten out, but was still handcuffed to a metal bar, he collapses from the wound to his head, and Sato notices he has a gun and asks him why he didn't just shoot the handcuffs with his gun. The Detective Boys answer that it must have been because the handcuffs were the memento from Sato's father and he didn't want to damage them. Ai remarks that Takagi is the type to die early.
* Sato holds Takagi's unconscious body, and Shiratori stands to the side with his arms crossed.
* To show her thanks and to keep her promise (because Takagi figured out the mystery), she asks what he wants, and he says he wants to go somewhere sometime with her. He thinks it's a date, but Sato drags him along an undercover mission instead.

==== [[Volume 30|Volume 30: Files 296-298]]/[[The Shinkansen Transport Case|Episode 240-241: The Shinkansen Transport Case]] ====
* As Ran is mulling over her failed attempt to ask about Shinichi's feelings for her, Takagi walks by muttering, "Doing it directly is bad..." about his situation with Sato.
* A ticket to a magic show drops out of his jacket, and when asked, Takagi says that Yumi had an extra ticket and invited him, but that he said he wasn't interested. It was a plan Yumi thought up, to see whether Sato's face would change expression when she heard, but Sato instead encourages Takagi to go.
* Later, Takagi gets a phone call from Yumi asking how it went, he hangs up quickly shouting for her to call him at a better time, and Sato is behind him asking him what Yumi wanted.
* At the end of the episode, Yumi and Sato are talking, and Sato asks if Yumi likes Takagi. Yumi exclaims loudly, and thinks that her plan worked.
* Although Sato doesn't seem to care, the others remark that she is in an awfully good mood for someone who just got her pay cut (because a suspect had died in police custody) and "maybe something good happened."

==== [[Volume 32|Volume 32: File 328-330]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|Episode 253-254: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4]] ====
* Sato, pressured/forced by her mom to attend an omiai (arranged marriage meeting), randomly picks a photo of a possible suitor (with her toes, no less), and it turns out to be Shiratori.
* Yumi promises to send her a "servant" (Takagi) to save Sato (who had just agreed to a bet with Shiratori that she’d marry him if Takagi didn’t show up within the time the sun sets), and she texts Takagi. However, he is caught up with a case and doesn't read the message until Conan, (who happens to be there eavesdropping with Araide sensei, Ran and Sonoko at the time) calls him using Shinichi's voice and explains the situation. He also helps Takagi with the case.
* Sato, who had just agreed to the wager, thinks that Takagi will definitely come, and then, blushing, she wonders why she thinks that.
* As the sun is about to set, Sato resigns herself to the deal and thinks herself a failure as a police officer for not realizing until just now how important Takagi has become to her.
* Just as Shiratori is about to seal their deal with a kiss, Conan uses Araide-sensei's shadow and his voice-changing bow tie to imitate Takagi's voice, stopping the kiss, and the deal.
* The real Takagi is waiting outside the house, thinking that he failed to stop the bet, when Sato runs out and gets in his car.

Here it is shown that Conan approves of their relationship.

==== [[Volume 36|Volume 36: Files 366-368]]/[[Parade of Malice and Saint|Episode 301-302: Parade of Malice and Saint]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP302.jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato and Takagi are going on a date to Tropical Marine Land next Sunday, every police officer knows, and it seems lots of them have requested days off and reserved binoculars for that day.
* Takagi puts on a disguise that reminds Sato of her former colleague Matsuda, and Sato slaps him as a result.
* Takagi almost gets blown up and Sato frantically tries to rescue him, not knowing that Takagi is safe, burning her hands in the process. The other infer that she was trying to save both Takagi and Matsuda.
* At the end, Sato apologies for slapping Takagi, and Takagi frets over Sato's hands, resulting in them staring into each other's eyes until they pull away, both blushing.
* Sato says everyone she has ever cared about has died, so it would be better if she and Takagi went back to just being colleagues, and Takagi agrees after a while, losing his nerve to disagree. She walks away sadly, while Takagi stares after her.

==== [[Volume 36|Volume 36: File 369-373]]/[[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: The Trembling Police Headquarters]] ====
[[Image:Sato Takagi interupted.jpg|thumb|250px|Sato and Takagi were close to kissing before Megure interrupted.]]
* Takagi thinks he cannot compete against [[Jinpei Matsuda]], and is mocked by the Detective Boys. Takagi says he doesn't want to give up either.
* Sato dreams and sees the grim reaper behind Takagi, and doesn't take him to investigate bomb sites, because she doesn't want anything to happen to him.
* Near the end of the episode, Sato begins to cry on Takagi's shoulder saying that she wants to forget Matsuda, and after Takagi tells her she shouldn't forget, the two nearly kiss. However, they are interrupted by [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]].
* Sato deletes her precious last mail from Matsuda and says goodbye but that she won't forget him.

==== [[The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car|TV Original/Episode 321: The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car]] ====
* Sato and Takagi have to pretend to be lovers, and both are embarrassed, Sato makes Takagi sit closer to her and put his arm around her.

==== [[Volume 40|Volume 40: Files 404-406]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5|Episode 358-359: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5]] ====
* Takagi and Sato are going on their very first date to Tropical Marine Land, where the police officers are following them, led by Shiratori with cameras and binoculars.
* Takagi has bought a ring for Sato but before he can give it to her, he realises his bag has been switched out with that of a drug dealer's.
* Eventually the bag drops into the water and the ring is lost.
* Sato makes Takagi promise that he'll never go away and leave her.
* Conan thinks to himself that though Takagi lost his bag, he gained something much more precious.

==== [[Volume 44|Volume 44: Files 450-452]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|Episode 390-391: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6]] ====
* Sato sternly orders Takagi into her car, so Takagi wonders if he did something wrong. He starts worrying and even thinks she is going to break up with him. However, when he opens the door and a toy snake leaps out, scaring him, Sato starts laughing, commenting that the trick worked perfectly. Takagi is relieved and they flirt cutely. (Chiba and Shiratori are actually watching them the entire time)
* The police department is lead to believe that Takagi will be sent far away on a case for a long time. However, instead of being sad or disappointed, they are ecstatic that Takagi will be leaving (and therefore staying away from Sato). Takagi is, however, disappointed that Sato seems to be indifferent, even asking for twentieth century pears while Yumi burst into tears.
* While investigating the case, Takagi yells, "I'm definitely not going to find another woman! Definitely not!" when he overhears the Detective Boys chatting about Hide (the soccer player) leaving the country and finding a girlfriend as he thought they were talking about him. When he realizes that this is not the case, he is quite embarrassed.
* Takagi is upset that Sato still hasn’t shown any emotion about his leaving Tokyo, but when Sato falls for her own trick with the toy snake, she is silent and appears upset and then suddenly asks Takagi if he won’t forget her even if a super sexy actress becomes the police chief.
* Right after Takagi blurts that he wants to be engaged with Sato before he leaves, [[Inspector Megure]] informs them that it is actually Chosuke Takagi who is being sent away not Wataru.
*Sato, who is blushing a lot, asks what Takagi just said, but he quickly changes the subject and says that they should go to karaoke with the kids. Takagi is shown sighing at the karaoke with Conan and Ai watching him.

==== [[Volume 47|Volume 47: Files 484-486]]/[[A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed|Episode 401-402: A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed]] ====
* Conan and the Detective Boys run into Takagi as he enters into a jewelry shop to buy a brooch for Sato.
* Shiratori heckles him about the jewelry shop visit and the brooch.
* Takagi makes Sato go and look through the coat for the brooch, and it turns out Yumi tricked both Takagi and Shiratori into buying jewelry that Yumi liked. Sato laughs and remarks that she never was one for flashy things.

==== [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]] ====
* While Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are working on [[Rena Mizunashi|Rena Mizunashi's]] bell ringer prank case, Conan hops to an empty apartment next door to her, which should be unoccupied.
* Conan looks on a glass door or window and sees "Ki Mi Wa."
* When it dawned on Conan what was going on, he called Takagi, who admitted that a few days ago, he was doing a stake-out, and wrote on the glass, "Takagi Miwako," and forgot to wipe it up. In short, what Sato's name would be, if they married.
* By the time, that Conan saw the glass, the "TaKa" and "Ko" were erased.

==== [[Volume 50|Volume 50: 511-514]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|Episode 431-432: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP432 (2).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Takagi and Sato have both been invited to a goukon (singles mixer) separately, and both went to even out the numbers, but they didn't tell each other and get jealous when they see each other paying attention to other people.
* In the middle of the case, Sato and Takagi break out into a jealous quarrel.
* Takagi ends up figuring out the case and saving the kidnapper from suicide, getting praise from Inspector Megune.
* Takagi and Sato are driving back, and Takagi says Sato is not a losing lottery ticket, that she is a super win ticket. The two nearly kiss, before being reminded that Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are still in the backseat.

==== [[Volume 52|Volume 52: 535-537]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding|Episode 449: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP449 (3).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato is annoyed that Yumi is sticking too close to Takagi as Yumi and Takagi play stand ins for a couple on their wedding day.
* Later in the case, Sato switches places with Yumi to protect her from the culprit. She tries to arrest him when he attacks her, but then she mistakenly pins Takagi down to the ground since said culprit is a man who looks a lot like Takagi.
* Months later, it turns out that a witness to the 'attack' is a famous photographer and has used a picture he took of Sato pining Takagi down in a commercial ad. Sato and Takagi are embarrassed, and Chiba slyly tells Shiratori that he can't take the ads down.

==== [[Trick vs. Magic|TV Original/Episode 450-451: Trick vs. Magic]] ====
*Scared about the thunder, Takagi strongly hugs Sato at the height of the breasts causing her furiosly embarassed and hit him.

==== [[Volume 56|Volume 56: 576-578]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger|Episode 487: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8]] ====
* Takagi (and the rest of the police department) is worried about the sudden appearance of a ring on Sato's left hand.
*Ran congratulates Takagi on his engagement to Sato, but is shocked when he learns that the ring is not from him. He says that he feels like he’s on a tightrope with Sato, which helps Conan solve the case.
* Turns out Sato was just wearing it as a charm (because she misunderstood something Yumi said), and Takagi gets her to wear a ring he buys for her, although Sato still thinks it's a charm.

==== [[Volume 60|Volume 60: 625-627]]/[[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|Episode 530-531: The Truth Behind the Urban Legend]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP530 (5).jpg|thumb|250px|Sato almost kisses Takagi, Conan is scolded for interrupting ]]
* Takagi and Sato are on a stakeout when Sato says suddenly “give me a hot kiss right now!” and they nearly kiss but they are interrupted by Conan, who points out that they are pretending to be lovers. However, he is scolded by Sonoko because she wanted to see them kiss.
* Later, they both trip as they inspect the bathtub that Conan points out, and end up face to face, staring into each others' eyes while blushing, until Conan coughs and interrupts them again.
* Takagi keeps thinking back to the almost kiss, and gets jealous over the thought that Sato also pulled the "appear as lovers, pretend to kiss" ploy with Chiba on previous stakeouts. (Chiba had just told him that he pretended to be lovers with her and would never forget that “soft feeling”).
* Later, he realizes that Sato had only to held Chiba's hand, and that she asked Takagi to kiss her because it was him.

==== [[Volume 64|Volume 64: Files 667-673]]/[[The Scar that Evokes the Past|Episode 534-535: The Scar that Evokes the Past]] ====
* Sato tells Takagi that after the case is solved she’ll go with him to the new hot springs place, and this motivates Takagi to takes up a more active role in the investigation. Sato, however, begins to worry when she hears from Superintendent Matsumoto that this is a very bad signal and that such reckless behavior is likely to trigger Takagi's death in the line of duty. She is even reminded of her father and Jinpei Matsuda.
* Takagi is captured by the killer, and then receives a cellphone call from Sato. The killer deduces that Sato is Takagi's girlfriend and tries to force him reply and stage an even bigger hostage situation. Takagi breaks said cellphone instead, winking and saying, “guess I’ll be your only hostage now.”
* Few minutes later, the still captured Takagi mistakenly believes that Sato is a member of the group that is trying to rescue him and is at the front door. He tries to stop said killer from harming the officers but gets shot for it. In the anime, he even calls out to her before passing out.
* Sato is crushed when she believes Takagi has died, and then is greatly relieved when Shiratori tells her that he's alive. She kisses Takagi when he's hospitalized, after Conan and the Detective Boys ward off Megure and others who were about to enter.
[[Image:Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|250px|Sato and Takagi kiss]]

==== [[Volume 68|Volume 68: File 708]]/[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love|Episode 585: Timeless Sakura's Love]] ====
* After Shiratori shows off the bento Sumiko made for him, Takagi asks Sato for a bento next time, Sato misinterprets Takagi and responds that if he's going to the convenience store, to get her a bento as well, Leaving Takagi feeling dejected and Chiba amused.

==== [[Volume 69|Volume 69: File 725-727]]/[[White Day of Betrayal|Episode 608-609: White Day of Betrayal]] ====
* On White Day, Sato overhears Ran and Sonoko discussing return gifts, and turns to Takagi and sticks out her hand expectantly. Takagi points out that he didn't get any Valentines Day presents from Sato, while thinking that he waited and waited, and Sato indignantly retorts that she gave him candy during a stakeout that night. Takagi points out that it was only pocky and Sato had already eaten some beforehand. After Shiratori drives by with a carload of gifts for Sumiko, Sato throws Takagi a sour look.
* Later on, Sato is trying to focus and trying to forget something ominous her friend told her that will happen if her boyfriend doesn't give her return candy.
* After Takagi tricks Sato into opening the glove compartment, Sato is extremely happy, while Takagi remarks that he put his gift in 3 days beforehand.

==== [[Volume 76|Volume 76: File 804-808]]/[[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|Episode 681-683: The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato second kiss.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Takagi and Sato's second kiss.]]
* Due to a massive misunderstanding, Takagi is kidnapped and placed in a cruel death trap outside of Tokyo. Sato takes a very active role in his rescue, even attacking the culprit when she finds him.
* At some point in the investigation, Sato lets it slip that she knows Takagi doesn't move too much when he's sleeping, even adding that he looks very cute. She is greatly embarrassed when she realizes the kids are listening.
* Sato saves Takagi barely in time and kisses him, with a camera showing them. The male police officers see that scene and make them angry and jealous.
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==== [[Volume 82|Volume 82: Files 869-871]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9|Episode 748-749: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9]] ====
[[File:Takagi imagining being a family with Sato.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Takagi imagining being a family with Sato.]]
* Takagi misunderstands and believes Sato is pregnant with his child, and he says he'll take full responsibility, and envisions them married.
**The fact he jumps to this conclusion shows how far they've come in their relationship.
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==== [[Volume 82|Volume 82: Files 865-868]]/[[The Case of the Lucky Calico|Episode 751-752: The Case of the Lucky Calico]] ====
* Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation.
* Later in Page 9 of Vol 82 File 867, Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm wasn't, of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed. The implication of them having a sexual relationship is so direct that it wasn't included in the anime.

==== [[Volume 88|Volume 88: Files 928-930]]/[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|Episode 828: Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2]] ====
* Sato and Takagi put on disguise to catch the culprit at a ramen shop. It's again stated that they're sexually active, as Sato tells Takagi that she plans to work out *intensely* that night to burn out calories and is mad when he misses the point of her remark.

==== [[The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love|TV Original/Episode 851-852: The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love]] ====
[[File:EP851-3.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
* Takagi pretends he is sick and tells Megure that he’ll be gone on sick leave, but instead he goes on a date with Sato in Yufuin. Sato is unaware of this, as Takagi told her that he had managed to take a day off, until she receives a call from Inspector Megure telling about a case and mentioning that Takagi is on sick leave. Sato then gets furious at Takagi, making him trembling with fear.
* Near the end, Takagi apologizes profusely, but Sato says that she won’t forgive him.

==== [[Volume 95|Volume 95: Files 1013]]/[[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|Episode 971:The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department]] ====
*When Naeko asked Sato why she didn't drove away the person who hit on her by tell the person that Takagi was her lover during one of their stakeouts Sato replied that she once did that to tease Takagi in a previous stakeout and Takagi panically reveal those around them that they were police officers stated that she can't really used that stratergy.

=== Movies/OVAs ===
==== [[Movie 4|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 4.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Takagi holds Sato in his arms in Movie 4.]]
* When Sato asks Takagi about her outfit, he begins to blush and replies saying it look amazing on her.
* When Kogoro begins interrogating Takagi, Conan reveals to Kogoro about Takagi's true feelings for Sato. Takagi begins to deeply blush and Kogoro seeing it's true, threatens to reveal the news Sato, but Takagi stops him and reveals some information on the recent case.
* When Conan, Kogoro and Takagi arrive at the scene, Takagi hurries to Sato's side and hold her in his arms.
* When a man pushes a woman out of a train and Takagi catches her he remembers when he was holding Sato, who was shot and undergoing surgery. He goes into shock and gets distracted long enough for the culprit to push Ran onto the rail track.
* At the end of the film when Shiratori reveals that Sato is going to be alright, Takagi is shown to be crying tears of joy upon discovering the news.

==== [[Movie 10|Movie 10: The Private Eyes' Requiem]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 10.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Takagi and Sato on a date at Miracle Land in Movie 10.]]
* Takagi and Sato were on a date at Miracle Land, where Kazuha, Ran, Haibara, Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko, were hostages with explosive wristbands on their wrists.

==== [[Movie 12|Movie 12: Full Score of Fear]] ====

==== [[Movie 13|Movie 13: The Raven Chaser]] ====

==== [[Movie 17|Movie 17: Private Eye in the Distant Sea]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 17.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Sato hugs Takagi upon finding Ran in Movie 17.]]

==== [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Wedding Poster - Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The wedding poster of Takagi and Sato as Sato's phone cover in Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie.]]

==== [[Movie 25|Movie 25: The Bride of Halloween]] ====

=== Openings ===
==== [[Mysterious Eyes|Opening 7: Mysterious Eyes]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with a pair of handcuffs in the index finger, a posible reference to [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|a recently case]] or a [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|future case involving Sato's father]].

==== [[Winter Bells|Opening 10: Winter Bells]] ====
* Both appear together during the final scenes, Takagi looking flushed to Sato.
* In the final scene, they appear together again.

==== [[Kaze no Lalala|Opening 12: Kaze no Lalala]] ====
* In the final scene, they two appear together.
* In the final scene, they are watching the camera with the same facial expression.

==== [[Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made|Opening 13: Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made]] ====
* In the ending final, they are shown very close, with Sato teasing Takagi.

==== [[START|Opening 14: START]] ====
* In the moment when appear the police detectives, they appear followed almost with Yumi in between.
* In the final shot of the main cast, they also appear very close but with Yumi in between again.

==== [[Growing of my heart|Opening 16: Growing of my heart]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear all the time nearly.

==== [[100 Mono Tobira|Opening 18: 100 Mono Tobira]] ====
* They appear at the same moment at the same level line.

==== [[Namida no Yesterday|Opening 20: Namida no Yesterday]] ====
* In the nearly middle of the opening, Takagi pretend to approach with Sato but Shiratori give him away of her.

==== [[Glorious Mind|Opening 21: Glorious Mind]] ====
* They two appear in the whole first opening version, Takagi worried about Sato's ring.

==== [[Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you|Opening 23: Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you]] ====
* In the final shot of the opening, they two appear very close.

==== [[Mysterious|Opening 24: Mysterious]] ====
* In the opening, the scene when appear many main characters, they appear together.

==== [[Revive|Opening 25: Revive]] ====
* In the opening, they appear together with the other police detectives and Kogoro.
* In the final ending, they appear next to each other.

==== [[Everlasting Luv|Opening 26: Everlasting Luv]] ====
* In the opening, they appear at the same time, together.

==== [[MAGIC|Opening 27: MAGIC]] ====
* When they appear in the opening, Sato shows her police badge and Takagi his wallet, reveling a Sato picture in, and blushed.

==== [[As the Dew|Opening 28: As the Dew]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with many characters.
* Takagi and Sato make a similar pose and smiled to the camera.

==== [[SUMMER TIME GONE|Opening 29: SUMMER TIME GONE]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear next to the same police car although not together and looking up into the sky.
* In the end of the opening, they two are standing together and smiling.

==== [[Don't Wanna Lie|Opening 31: Don't Wanna Lie]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear with Chiba running like in Opening 16.

==== [[Misty Mystery|Opening 32: Misty Mystery]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with the other police officers, looking at the camera.

==== [[Miss Mystery|Opening 33: Miss Mystery]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear during the scene of the floating screens together with a blue background.

==== [[TRY AGAIN|Opening 35: TRY AGAIN]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear very close, smiling, with a pink background.

==== [[Butterfly Core|Opening 37: Butterfly Core]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together not watching to the camera.

==== [[Greed|Opening 38: Greed]] ====
* In the scene with the police, they appear near.
* In the nearly final shot with the whole group, they appear very close looking above to the camera.

==== [[WE GO|Opening 40: WE GO]] ====

==== [[Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru|Opening 43: Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru]] ====

==== [[Lie, Lie, Lie,|Opening 45: Lie, Lie, Lie]] ====

==== [[Countdown|Opening 47: Countdown]] ====

==== [[JUST BELIEVE YOU|Opening 52: JUST BELIEVE YOU]] ====

== Trivia ==
* They are one of the rarer non-childhood couples.
* Takagi gets a lot of grief as Sato is so popular in the police department while he is popular in the traffic apartment but not the same as Sato. According to Yumi, some girls in the police apartment are attracted to him because they find him moe-level adorable.
* They are the first couple to be introduced of the police group.
* Though Takagi was introduced in Conan's arc, Sato was introduced in Sherry's arc.
** This is similar to [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]], in which, the boy (Heiji/Takagi) was introduced in Conan's arc and the girl (Kazuha/Sato) was introduced in Sherry's arc.
* They are, along with [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]], the only couple who have any kind of sexual references.
*According to Gosho in JUSTICE PLUS Super Digest Book, Takagi confessed first.

== Gallery ==
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== See also ==
* [[Wataru Takagi]]
* [[Miwako Sato]]
* [[Sato family]]
* [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (series)]]
* [[Ninzaburo Shiratori and Sumiko Kobayashi]]
* [[Kazunobu Chiba and Naeko Miike]]
* [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]

== References ==
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The romantic relationship between [[Wataru Takagi]] and [[Miwako Sato]].
== Relationship analysis ==
[[Image:Takagi and Sato.jpg|thumb|250px|Takagi and Sato]]
'''[[Wataru Takagi]]''' and '''[[Miwako Sato]]''' are two officers working under Inspector Megure in the first division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, where Sato is currently Takagi's superior. As the story progresses, they start developing strong mutual romantic feelings for one another.

Despite being heavily admired by many male colleagues around her, especially Inspector [[Shiratori]] in the beginning, Sato still cares and worries about Takagi deeply, most notably during situations where his safety was put at risk. She also finds in Takagi traits that remind her of her late colleague, [[Jinpei Matsuda]], whom she had become romantically inclined towards in the brief time they've known each other. Takagi, on the other hand, respects Sato as his senior and loves her sincerely as a girlfriend, even to the point of willingly sacrificing his own life just to keep her away from all dangers.<ref>Manga: [[Volume 64]], File 673: "The Common Pattern"; Anime: [[The Scar that Evokes the Past]].</ref> After going through numerous difficulties and challenges, in some later cases, their relationship was hinted to have entered a sexual level; however, the true nature of this development has yet to be confirmed.<ref>'''Hints of sexual relationship:'''
* [[Volume 76]], File 806, Page 6 ([[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love]]): Sato accidentally reveals that she and Takagi have been sleeping together, and blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation.
* [[Volume 82]], File 867, Page 6 ([[The Case of the Lucky Calico]]): Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation; later in Page 9, Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm ''wasn't'', of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed.
* [[Volume 82]], Files 869~871 ([[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9]]): Takagi misunderstands that Sato is pregnant, and is strongly convinced that the baby is his, which wouldn't make sense if they never had sexual relationship.</ref>

A running joke in the series is that their relationship never progresses because of interruptions by the rest of the police force or other characters.
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== Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato moments ==
=== Manga/Anime ===
==== [[Volume 12|Volume 21: Files 208-210]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|Episode 146-147: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story]] ====
* Takagi tells the Detective Boys he has someone he likes and it's quickly inferred that it's Sato.
* Takagi is told that there is someone Sato likes in the 1st division and he wonders who it is, and worries if it is [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]].
* Shiratori invites Sato out for dinner at a french restaurant after the case is resolved, and is dejected when he gets rejected by Sato.
* Sato instead invites Takagi out, and then also invites Inspector Megure, making Takagi worried that the one Sato likes might be Megure instead of Shiratori.

==== [[Volume 23|Volume 23: File 231-233]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|Episode 156-157: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2]] ====
* Takagi asks if Sato likes Inspector Megure (in that way), to which Sato replies yes (she misunderstood). She explains it's because he reminds her of her father, and Takagi realises what she means, that he misunderstood (from before). Sato teases and says he looks like he wants to say something more.

==== [[Volume 27|Volume 27: Files 267-269]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|Episode 205-206: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP206 (1).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato says she used to think she would grant the wish of the person who solves the mystery and catches Shuushirou, prompting Takagi and Shiratori to fantasise about Sato in a wedding dress. The Detective Boys immediately begin listing the wish they would like granted, and Sato thinks that only they would take it so seriously, but then notices the two men (Takagi and Shiratori) who have both gone quiet and looking like they're thinking hard (about their wishes), and she asks, "What's up with you two?"
* Takagi forgets his handcuffs and says the fortune telling magazine says he is super lucky today. It gives Sato flashbacks of the day her father died, when he left home he had forgotten his handcuffs and also said he had super lucky fortune that day. Sato gives old, rusty handcuffs to Takagi, telling him they are a memento of her father's and that it is sure to bring him luck. Shiratori looks decidedly put out.
* Later, Takagi is handcuffed into a building that has been set on fire, Sato wants to rush into the building but is stopped by Shiratori and Megure. As bits of the building crumbles, Sato yells out that Takagi is a baka, with tears in her eyes, only to hear Takagi answering her from behind them.
* Takagi had gotten out, but was still handcuffed to a metal bar, he collapses from the wound to his head, and Sato notices he has a gun and asks him why he didn't just shoot the handcuffs with his gun. The Detective Boys answer that it must have been because the handcuffs were the memento from Sato's father and he didn't want to damage them. Ai remarks that Takagi is the type to die early.
* Sato holds Takagi's unconscious body, and Shiratori stands to the side with his arms crossed.
* To show her thanks and to keep her promise (because Takagi figured out the mystery), she asks what he wants, and he says he wants to go somewhere sometime with her. He thinks it's a date, but Sato drags him along an undercover mission instead.

==== [[Volume 30|Volume 30: Files 296-298]]/[[The Shinkansen Transport Case|Episode 240-241: The Shinkansen Transport Case]] ====
* As Ran is mulling over her failed attempt to ask about Shinichi's feelings for her, Takagi walks by muttering, "Doing it directly is bad..." about his situation with Sato.
* A ticket to a magic show drops out of his jacket, and when asked, Takagi says that Yumi had an extra ticket and invited him, but that he said he wasn't interested. It was a plan Yumi thought up, to see whether Sato's face would change expression when she heard, but Sato instead encourages Takagi to go.
* Later, Takagi gets a phone call from Yumi asking how it went, he hangs up quickly shouting for her to call him at a better time, and Sato is behind him asking him what Yumi wanted.
* At the end of the episode, Yumi and Sato are talking, and Sato asks if Yumi likes Takagi. Yumi exclaims loudly, and thinks that her plan worked.
* Although Sato doesn't seem to care, the others remark that she is in an awfully good mood for someone who just got her pay cut (because a suspect had died in police custody) and "maybe something good happened."

==== [[Volume 32|Volume 32: File 328-330]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|Episode 253-254: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4]] ====
* Sato, pressured/forced by her mom to attend an omiai (arranged marriage meeting), randomly picks a photo of a possible suitor (with her toes, no less), and it turns out to be Shiratori.
* Yumi promises to send her a "servant" (Takagi) to save Sato (who had just agreed to a bet with Shiratori that she’d marry him if Takagi didn’t show up within the time the sun sets), and she texts Takagi. However, he is caught up with a case and doesn't read the message until Conan, (who happens to be there eavesdropping with Araide sensei, Ran and Sonoko at the time) calls him using Shinichi's voice and explains the situation. He also helps Takagi with the case.
* Sato, who had just agreed to the wager, thinks that Takagi will definitely come, and then, blushing, she wonders why she thinks that.
* As the sun is about to set, Sato resigns herself to the deal and thinks herself a failure as a police officer for not realizing until just now how important Takagi has become to her.
* Just as Shiratori is about to seal their deal with a kiss, Conan uses Araide-sensei's shadow and his voice-changing bow tie to imitate Takagi's voice, stopping the kiss, and the deal.
* The real Takagi is waiting outside the house, thinking that he failed to stop the bet, when Sato runs out and gets in his car.

Here it is shown that Conan approves of their relationship.

==== [[Volume 36|Volume 36: Files 366-368]]/[[Parade of Malice and Saint|Episode 301-302: Parade of Malice and Saint]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP302.jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato and Takagi are going on a date to Tropical Marine Land next Sunday, every police officer knows, and it seems lots of them have requested days off and reserved binoculars for that day.
* Takagi puts on a disguise that reminds Sato of her former colleague Matsuda, and Sato slaps him as a result.
* Takagi almost gets blown up and Sato frantically tries to rescue him, not knowing that Takagi is safe, burning her hands in the process. The other infer that she was trying to save both Takagi and Matsuda.
* At the end, Sato apologies for slapping Takagi, and Takagi frets over Sato's hands, resulting in them staring into each other's eyes until they pull away, both blushing.
* Sato says everyone she has ever cared about has died, so it would be better if she and Takagi went back to just being colleagues, and Takagi agrees after a while, losing his nerve to disagree. She walks away sadly, while Takagi stares after her.

==== [[Volume 36|Volume 36: File 369-373]]/[[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: The Trembling Police Headquarters]] ====
[[Image:Sato Takagi interupted.jpg|thumb|250px|Sato and Takagi were close to kissing before Megure interrupted.]]
* Takagi thinks he cannot compete against [[Jinpei Matsuda]], and is mocked by the Detective Boys. Takagi says he doesn't want to give up either.
* Sato dreams and sees the grim reaper behind Takagi, and doesn't take him to investigate bomb sites, because she doesn't want anything to happen to him.
* Near the end of the episode, Sato begins to cry on Takagi's shoulder saying that she wants to forget Matsuda, and after Takagi tells her she shouldn't forget, the two nearly kiss. However, they are interrupted by [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]].
* Sato deletes her precious last mail from Matsuda and says goodbye but that she won't forget him.

==== [[The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car|TV Original/Episode 321: The Kidnapper's Disappearing Getaway Car]] ====
* Sato and Takagi have to pretend to be lovers, and both are embarrassed, Sato makes Takagi sit closer to her and put his arm around her.

==== [[Volume 40|Volume 40: Files 404-406]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5|Episode 358-359: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5]] ====
* Takagi and Sato are going on their very first date to Tropical Marine Land, where the police officers are following them, led by Shiratori with cameras and binoculars.
* Takagi has bought a ring for Sato but before he can give it to her, he realises his bag has been switched out with that of a drug dealer's.
* Eventually the bag drops into the water and the ring is lost.
* Sato makes Takagi promise that he'll never go away and leave her.
* Conan thinks to himself that though Takagi lost his bag, he gained something much more precious.

==== [[Volume 44|Volume 44: Files 450-452]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|Episode 390-391: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6]] ====
* Sato sternly orders Takagi into her car, so Takagi wonders if he did something wrong. He starts worrying and even thinks she is going to break up with him. However, when he opens the door and a toy snake leaps out, scaring him, Sato starts laughing, commenting that the trick worked perfectly. Takagi is relieved and they flirt cutely. (Chiba and Shiratori are actually watching them the entire time)
* The police department is lead to believe that Takagi will be sent far away on a case for a long time. However, instead of being sad or disappointed, they are ecstatic that Takagi will be leaving (and therefore staying away from Sato). Takagi is, however, disappointed that Sato seems to be indifferent, even asking for twentieth century pears while Yumi burst into tears.
* While investigating the case, Takagi yells, "I'm definitely not going to find another woman! Definitely not!" when he overhears the Detective Boys chatting about Hide (the soccer player) leaving the country and finding a girlfriend as he thought they were talking about him. When he realizes that this is not the case, he is quite embarrassed.
* Takagi is upset that Sato still hasn’t shown any emotion about his leaving Tokyo, but when Sato falls for her own trick with the toy snake, she is silent and appears upset and then suddenly asks Takagi if he won’t forget her even if a super sexy actress becomes the police chief.
* Right after Takagi blurts that he wants to be engaged with Sato before he leaves, [[Inspector Megure]] informs them that it is actually Chosuke Takagi who is being sent away not Wataru.
*Sato, who is blushing a lot, asks what Takagi just said, but he quickly changes the subject and says that they should go to karaoke with the kids. Takagi is shown sighing at the karaoke with Conan and Ai watching him.

==== [[Volume 47|Volume 47: Files 484-486]]/[[A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed|Episode 401-402: A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed]] ====
* Conan and the Detective Boys run into Takagi as he enters into a jewelry shop to buy a brooch for Sato.
* Shiratori heckles him about the jewelry shop visit and the brooch.
* Takagi makes Sato go and look through the coat for the brooch, and it turns out Yumi tricked both Takagi and Shiratori into buying jewelry that Yumi liked. Sato laughs and remarks that she never was one for flashy things.

==== [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]] ====
* While Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are working on [[Rena Mizunashi|Rena Mizunashi's]] bell ringer prank case, Conan hops to an empty apartment next door to her, which should be unoccupied.
* Conan looks on a glass door or window and sees "Ki Mi Wa."
* When it dawned on Conan what was going on, he called Takagi, who admitted that a few days ago, he was doing a stake-out, and wrote on the glass, "Takagi Miwako," and forgot to wipe it up. In short, what Sato's name would be, if they married.
* By the time, that Conan saw the glass, the "TaKa" and "Ko" were erased.

==== [[Volume 50|Volume 50: 511-514]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|Episode 431-432: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP432 (2).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Takagi and Sato have both been invited to a goukon (singles mixer) separately, and both went to even out the numbers, but they didn't tell each other and get jealous when they see each other paying attention to other people.
* In the middle of the case, Sato and Takagi break out into a jealous quarrel.
* Takagi ends up figuring out the case and saving the kidnapper from suicide, getting praise from Inspector Megune.
* Takagi and Sato are driving back, and Takagi says Sato is not a losing lottery ticket, that she is a super win ticket. The two nearly kiss, before being reminded that Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are still in the backseat.

==== [[Volume 52|Volume 52: 535-537]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding|Episode 449: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP449 (3).jpg|thumb|250px]]
* Sato is annoyed that Yumi is sticking too close to Takagi as Yumi and Takagi play stand ins for a couple on their wedding day.
* Later in the case, Sato switches places with Yumi to protect her from the culprit. She tries to arrest him when he attacks her, but then she mistakenly pins Takagi down to the ground since said culprit is a man who looks a lot like Takagi.
* Months later, it turns out that a witness to the 'attack' is a famous photographer and has used a picture he took of Sato pining Takagi down in a commercial ad. Sato and Takagi are embarrassed, and Chiba slyly tells Shiratori that he can't take the ads down.

==== [[Trick vs. Magic|TV Original/Episode 450-451: Trick vs. Magic]] ====
*Scared about the thunder, Takagi strongly hugs Sato at the height of the breasts causing her furiosly embarassed and hit him.

==== [[Volume 56|Volume 56: 576-578]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8: The Left Hand's Ring Finger|Episode 487: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 8]] ====
* Takagi (and the rest of the police department) is worried about the sudden appearance of a ring on Sato's left hand.
*Ran congratulates Takagi on his engagement to Sato, but is shocked when he learns that the ring is not from him. He says that he feels like he’s on a tightrope with Sato, which helps Conan solve the case.
* Turns out Sato was just wearing it as a charm (because she misunderstood something Yumi said), and Takagi gets her to wear a ring he buys for her, although Sato still thinks it's a charm.

==== [[Volume 60|Volume 60: 625-627]]/[[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|Episode 530-531: The Truth Behind the Urban Legend]] ====
[[Image:Takagi and Sato EP530 (5).jpg|thumb|250px|Sato almost kisses Takagi, Conan is scolded for interrupting ]]
* Takagi and Sato are on a stakeout when Sato says suddenly “give me a hot kiss right now!” and they nearly kiss but they are interrupted by Conan, who points out that they are pretending to be lovers. However, he is scolded by Sonoko because she wanted to see them kiss.
* Later, they both trip as they inspect the bathtub that Conan points out, and end up face to face, staring into each others' eyes while blushing, until Conan coughs and interrupts them again.
* Takagi keeps thinking back to the almost kiss, and gets jealous over the thought that Sato also pulled the "appear as lovers, pretend to kiss" ploy with Chiba on previous stakeouts. (Chiba had just told him that he pretended to be lovers with her and would never forget that “soft feeling”).
* Later, he realizes that Sato had only to held Chiba's hand, and that she asked Takagi to kiss her because it was him.

==== [[Volume 64|Volume 64: Files 667-673]]/[[The Scar that Evokes the Past|Episode 534-535: The Scar that Evokes the Past]] ====
* Sato tells Takagi that after the case is solved she’ll go with him to the new hot springs place, and this motivates Takagi to takes up a more active role in the investigation. Sato, however, begins to worry when she hears from Superintendent Matsumoto that this is a very bad signal and that such reckless behavior is likely to trigger Takagi's death in the line of duty. She is even reminded of her father and Jinpei Matsuda.
* Takagi is captured by the killer, and then receives a cellphone call from Sato. The killer deduces that Sato is Takagi's girlfriend and tries to force him reply and stage an even bigger hostage situation. Takagi breaks said cellphone instead, winking and saying, “guess I’ll be your only hostage now.”
* Few minutes later, the still captured Takagi mistakenly believes that Sato is a member of the group that is trying to rescue him and is at the front door. He tries to stop said killer from harming the officers but gets shot for it. In the anime, he even calls out to her before passing out.
* Sato is crushed when she believes Takagi has died, and then is greatly relieved when Shiratori tells her that he's alive. She kisses Takagi when he's hospitalized, after Conan and the Detective Boys ward off Megure and others who were about to enter.
[[Image:Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|250px|Sato and Takagi kiss]]

==== [[Volume 68|Volume 68: File 708]]/[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love|Episode 585: Timeless Sakura's Love]] ====
* After Shiratori shows off the bento Sumiko made for him, Takagi asks Sato for a bento next time, Sato misinterprets Takagi and responds that if he's going to the convenience store, to get her a bento as well, Leaving Takagi feeling dejected and Chiba amused.

==== [[Volume 69|Volume 69: File 725-727]]/[[White Day of Betrayal|Episode 608-609: White Day of Betrayal]] ====
* On White Day, Sato overhears Ran and Sonoko discussing return gifts, and turns to Takagi and sticks out her hand expectantly. Takagi points out that he didn't get any Valentines Day presents from Sato, while thinking that he waited and waited, and Sato indignantly retorts that she gave him candy during a stakeout that night. Takagi points out that it was only pocky and Sato had already eaten some beforehand. After Shiratori drives by with a carload of gifts for Sumiko, Sato throws Takagi a sour look.
* Later on, Sato is trying to focus and trying to forget something ominous her friend told her that will happen if her boyfriend doesn't give her return candy.
* After Takagi tricks Sato into opening the glove compartment, Sato is extremely happy, while Takagi remarks that he put his gift in 3 days beforehand.

==== [[Volume 76|Volume 76: File 804-808]]/[[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|Episode 681-683: The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato second kiss.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Takagi and Sato's second kiss.]]
* Due to a massive misunderstanding, Takagi is kidnapped and placed in a cruel death trap outside of Tokyo. Sato takes a very active role in his rescue, even attacking the culprit when she finds him.
* At some point in the investigation, Sato lets it slip that she knows Takagi doesn't move too much when he's sleeping, even adding that he looks very cute. She is greatly embarrassed when she realizes the kids are listening.
* Sato saves Takagi barely in time and kisses him, with a camera showing them. The male police officers see that scene and make them angry and jealous.
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==== [[Volume 82|Volume 82: Files 869-871]]/[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9|Episode 748-749: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9]] ====
[[File:Takagi imagining being a family with Sato.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Takagi imagining being a family with Sato.]]
* Takagi misunderstands and believes Sato is pregnant with his child, and he says he'll take full responsibility, and envisions them married.
**The fact he jumps to this conclusion shows how far they've come in their relationship.
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==== [[Volume 82|Volume 82: Files 865-868]]/[[The Case of the Lucky Calico|Episode 751-752: The Case of the Lucky Calico]] ====
* Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation.
* Later in Page 9 of Vol 82 File 867, Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm wasn't, of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed. The implication of them having a sexual relationship is so direct that it wasn't included in the anime.

==== [[Volume 88|Volume 88: Files 928-930]]/[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|Episode 828: Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2]] ====
* Sato and Takagi put on disguise to catch the culprit at a ramen shop. It's again stated that they're sexually active, as Sato tells Takagi that she plans to work out *intensely* that night to burn out calories and is mad when he misses the point of her remark.

==== [[The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love|TV Original/Episode 851-852: The Descent Into Hell Tour of Love]] ====
[[File:EP851-3.jpg|thumb|right|250px]]
* Takagi pretends he is sick and tells Megure that he’ll be gone on sick leave, but instead he goes on a date with Sato in Yufuin. Sato is unaware of this, as Takagi told her that he had managed to take a day off, until she receives a call from Inspector Megure telling about a case and mentioning that Takagi is on sick leave. Sato then gets furious at Takagi, making him trembling with fear.
* Near the end, Takagi apologizes profusely, but Sato says that she won’t forgive him.

==== [[Volume 95|Volume 95: Files 1013]]/[[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|Episode 971:The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department]] ====
*When Naeko asked Sato why she didn't drove away the person who hit on her by tell the person that Takagi was her lover during one of their stakeouts Sato replied that she once did that to tease Takagi in a previous stakeout and Takagi panically reveal those around them that they were police officers stated that she can't really used that stratergy.
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=== Movies/OVAs ===
==== [[Movie 4|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 4.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Takagi holds Sato in his arms in Movie 4.]]
* When Sato asks Takagi about her outfit, he begins to blush and replies saying it look amazing on her.
* When Kogoro begins interrogating Takagi, Conan reveals to Kogoro about Takagi's true feelings for Sato. Takagi begins to deeply blush and Kogoro seeing it's true, threatens to reveal the news Sato, but Takagi stops him and reveals some information on the recent case.
* When Conan, Kogoro and Takagi arrive at the scene, Takagi hurries to Sato's side and hold her in his arms.
* When a man pushes a woman out of a train and Takagi catches her he remembers when he was holding Sato, who was shot and undergoing surgery. He goes into shock and gets distracted long enough for the culprit to push Ran onto the rail track.
* At the end of the film when Shiratori reveals that Sato is going to be alright, Takagi is shown to be crying tears of joy upon discovering the news.

==== [[Movie 10|Movie 10: The Private Eyes' Requiem]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 10.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Takagi and Sato on a date at Miracle Land in Movie 10.]]
* Takagi and Sato were on a date at Miracle Land, where Kazuha, Ran, Haibara, Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko, were hostages with explosive wristbands on their wrists.

==== [[Movie 12|Movie 12: Full Score of Fear]] ====

==== [[Movie 13|Movie 13: The Raven Chaser]] ====

==== [[Movie 17|Movie 17: Private Eye in the Distant Sea]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Movie 17.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Sato hugs Takagi upon finding Ran in Movie 17.]]

==== [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]] ====
[[File:Takagi and Sato Wedding Poster - Lupin III vs. Detective Conan The Movie.jpg|250px|thumb|right|The wedding poster of Takagi and Sato as Sato's phone cover in Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie.]]

==== [[Movie 25|Movie 25: The Bride of Halloween]] ====

=== Openings ===
==== [[Mysterious Eyes|Opening 7: Mysterious Eyes]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with a pair of handcuffs in the index finger, a posible reference to [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|a recently case]] or a [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 3|future case involving Sato's father]].

==== [[Winter Bells|Opening 10: Winter Bells]] ====
* Both appear together during the final scenes, Takagi looking flushed to Sato.
* In the final scene, they appear together again.

==== [[Kaze no Lalala|Opening 12: Kaze no Lalala]] ====
* In the final scene, they two appear together.
* In the final scene, they are watching the camera with the same facial expression.

==== [[Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made|Opening 13: Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made]] ====
* In the ending final, they are shown very close, with Sato teasing Takagi.

==== [[START|Opening 14: START]] ====
* In the moment when appear the police detectives, they appear followed almost with Yumi in between.
* In the final shot of the main cast, they also appear very close but with Yumi in between again.

==== [[Growing of my heart|Opening 16: Growing of my heart]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear all the time nearly.

==== [[100 Mono Tobira|Opening 18: 100 Mono Tobira]] ====
* They appear at the same moment at the same level line.

==== [[Namida no Yesterday|Opening 20: Namida no Yesterday]] ====
* In the nearly middle of the opening, Takagi pretend to approach with Sato but Shiratori give him away of her.

==== [[Glorious Mind|Opening 21: Glorious Mind]] ====
* They two appear in the whole first opening version, Takagi worried about Sato's ring.

==== [[Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you|Opening 23: Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you]] ====
* In the final shot of the opening, they two appear very close.

==== [[Mysterious|Opening 24: Mysterious]] ====
* In the opening, the scene when appear many main characters, they appear together.

==== [[Revive|Opening 25: Revive]] ====
* In the opening, they appear together with the other police detectives and Kogoro.
* In the final ending, they appear next to each other.

==== [[Everlasting Luv|Opening 26: Everlasting Luv]] ====
* In the opening, they appear at the same time, together.

==== [[MAGIC|Opening 27: MAGIC]] ====
* When they appear in the opening, Sato shows her police badge and Takagi his wallet, reveling a Sato picture in, and blushed.

==== [[As the Dew|Opening 28: As the Dew]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with many characters.
* Takagi and Sato make a similar pose and smiled to the camera.

==== [[SUMMER TIME GONE|Opening 29: SUMMER TIME GONE]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear next to the same police car although not together and looking up into the sky.
* In the end of the opening, they two are standing together and smiling.

==== [[Don't Wanna Lie|Opening 31: Don't Wanna Lie]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear with Chiba running like in Opening 16.

==== [[Misty Mystery|Opening 32: Misty Mystery]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together with the other police officers, looking at the camera.

==== [[Miss Mystery|Opening 33: Miss Mystery]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear during the scene of the floating screens together with a blue background.

==== [[TRY AGAIN|Opening 35: TRY AGAIN]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear very close, smiling, with a pink background.

==== [[Butterfly Core|Opening 37: Butterfly Core]] ====
* Takagi and Sato appear together not watching to the camera.

==== [[Greed|Opening 38: Greed]] ====
* In the scene with the police, they appear near.
* In the nearly final shot with the whole group, they appear very close looking above to the camera.

==== [[WE GO|Opening 40: WE GO]] ====

==== [[Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru|Opening 43: Sekai wa Anata no Iro ni Naru]] ====

==== [[Lie, Lie, Lie,|Opening 45: Lie, Lie, Lie]] ====

==== [[Countdown|Opening 47: Countdown]] ====

==== [[JUST BELIEVE YOU|Opening 52: JUST BELIEVE YOU]] ====

== Trivia ==
* They are one of the rarer non-childhood couples.
* Takagi gets a lot of grief as Sato is so popular in the police department while he is popular in the traffic apartment but not the same as Sato. According to Yumi, some girls in the police apartment are attracted to him because they find him moe-level adorable.
* They are the first couple to be introduced of the police group.
* Though Takagi was introduced in Conan's arc, Sato was introduced in Sherry's arc.
** This is similar to [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]], in which, the boy (Heiji/Takagi) was introduced in Conan's arc and the girl (Kazuha/Sato) was introduced in Sherry's arc.
* They are, along with [[Gin]] and [[Vermouth]], the only couple who have any kind of sexual references.
*According to Gosho in JUSTICE PLUS Super Digest Book, Takagi confessed first.

== Gallery ==
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== See also ==
* [[Wataru Takagi]]
* [[Miwako Sato]]
* [[Sato family]]
* [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story (series)]]
* [[Ninzaburo Shiratori and Sumiko Kobayashi]]
* [[Kazunobu Chiba and Naeko Miike]]
* [[Shukichi Haneda and Yumi Miyamoto]]

== References ==
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