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Case from 17 years ago

2017-11-27T06:59:19Z

Detective Reaper: /* Aftermath */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this case. 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]].}}

[[File:Conan reads the case online.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Conan reads about the case online.]]
17 years ago [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] were found dead in their hotel rooms. Kohji had managed to leave a mysterious dying message that may indicate that a member of the [[Black Organization]] was involved.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Kohji Haneda}}
{{char|Amanda Hughes|Amanda Hughes EP861}}
{{char|Asaka|Asaka EP861}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"}}
{{char|Tsutomu Akai}}
}}

== Description ==
Kohji Haneda, a shogi player, went to the US to participate in a chess competition at the Juke Hotel, however the day before the match he was found murdered in his hotel room. According to a website with numerous photos of the crime scene, his room was a total mess which was chalked up to a struggle between Kohji and his assailant. The website reported that the cause of his death remains unclear, but Haibara recalls his name was on the APTX 4869 victims list. On the same day in a different hotel room Amanda Hughes, a wealthy person who has contacts with both the FBI and CIA, was found murdered and the cause of her death is also unclear.

Amanda had been a fan of Kohji's and had been in contact with him in the past. She had visited his hotel room some time before the murder, her fingerprints were found on the door handle, sofa, tea cups, knife, and fork. After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. Several defensive wounds were found on Kohji's arms and his palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. There were some bruises on his face as well. In Kouji's room, the sink in the bathroom was even left running. Amanda's own room, on the other hand, was neat and tidy, as though nothing had happened. It is not known who was murdered first.

On the day of the murders Amanda's bodyguard, who she called "Asaka", disappeared. Currently Asaka is the prime suspect in both murders. Neither relatives or acquaintances of Amanda know when Asaka was hired on as her bodyguard. It is currently unknown whether Asaka is a given name or a surname. If it were a given name then it would be likely that Asaka would be female, however if it were a surname then it would not be possible to determine the gender. At some point Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror, which leads Gaito Hotta to believe that Asaka is a woman. As a bodyguard, it is thought that Asaka is skilled at bringing down opponents.

Tsutomu Akai was either involved in the case or its aftermath. As a result, he made enemies with some really bad people (Black Organization) and sent a message to his family telling them to move to Japan for safety. Since then Tsutomu has not been seen, leading many to believe that he is dead. However, his body has never been found.

Gin comments that this case is a job in which Rum screwed up, clarifying that Rum was present, or at least involved some way or another, and that things did not happen according to plan back then.

=== Aftermath ===
[[File:Kohji Hanedas body.jpg|right|thumb|285px|Kuroda connects Rumi to the Kohji case.]]
Mary Sera took her family to Japan as instructed by her husband's text. Mary also gave birth to Masumi around that time. Shuichi Akai then left his family to study abroad in the United States with the intention of obtaining a green card and joining the FBI to find out what happened to his father. Shukichi Akai eventually leaves the family as well, changing his family name to Haneda. He also claims to be a non-blood brother of Kohji and possesses his fan that has his motto.

When Conan learns that the case involved APTX, he finds information about the case that had been uploaded to the internet. Even when it gets taken down the person who uploaded it tries to re-upload it. Conan thinks that it's almost if they are saying "Please help me solve this mystery!".

Gaito Hotta had obtained information that states that Asaka had been seen holding a hand mirror to claim that Asaka was a woman. However it is unclear whether this is first or second-hand information. Mary thinks that this information was "boring", seemingly expecting to know more information about Asaka from the so-called "soul detective" Gaito.

A woman whose name, {{nihongo|Rumi Wakasa|若狭留美|Wakasa Rumi}}, bears similar spelling to the dying message of the Kohji case appears at Conan's school. When Hyoue Kuroda learns of this person's appearance on the news, he seems to make a connection between her and the Kohji case and implies that he might know her by saying "that's not like that person at all" when he was told she was going camping.

Currently the list of people who know about the case are as follows: Conan, Haibara, Agasa, Shuichi, Masumi, Mary, Kogoro, Gin, Vodka, Bourbon, Vermouth, and Kuroda. It is presumed that since Rumi's name bares resemblance to the dying message that she may know as well. Shukichi seems to be aware of Kohji's death, but it is unclear what he knows, or what his connection to Kohji is, since he is called a 'non-biological brother'.

== Dying Message ==
After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. The mirror had writing on it that Haibara recognized as saying "PUT ON MASCARA", however it had been broken so that only "P T O N" remained. Kohji's palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. The sink in Amanda's bathroom was even left running. It seems as if Kohji was attacked in the bathroom and turned the sink on, then ran water over the mirror to use the scissors to cut the mirror up, although it's unclear how he managed to do that during such circumstances, while Rum could have been distracted in the fight against Tsutomu Akai. With the letters "P T O N" removed, the message remaining is "U MASCARA", which can be arranged to make "ASACA RUM". Though this is a correct way to decipher the dying message, it's unknown if this is the only correct way to interpret the message, or that it was originally created by Kohji, or if the message was altered at all by someone.
The Black Organization is aware of the dying message.

{| style="float:left;"
|-
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:broken mirror letters.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Broken mirror dying message]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:scissors and bruise.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Gripping the scissors tightly]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|
|}
{{clear}}

== APTX Connection ==
Even though the cause of death is unclear in both cases, only Kohji's name appeared on the [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#APTX_4869_Victims|APTX 4869 victims list]]. However it is interesting to note that Kohji's name appeared two names below Shinichi's name on the list. Haibara thinks that the person who compiled the victims list may not have compiled it chronologically, but rather in some other fashion, like blood type.

Since Haibara states that the drug she worked on was created from the burnt remains from the data left behind by her parents, she says that its possible that Kohji was made to ingest an early prototype made by her parents. Haibara hasn't mentioned whether Amanda Hughes' name is on the list or not.
[[File:APTX_4869_victim_list 2.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
{{clear}}

== Motive ==
The motive for the murders is unknown. In Kohji Haneda's case, Haibara suggest it might have been because he was close to Amanda Hughes. If that's true, then that means that Amanda was the main target, possibly because of her connections to the FBI and the CIA.

== Anime Changes ==
* Given that the Romanized spelling of Asaca and Rum in the dying message is important, it seems relevant to note that the Romanized spelling of "Kohji" was changed for the anime version to "Kouji". 

== Speculation ==

=== Asaka's identity ===
Conan suspects that Asaka is Rum, based on that the missing letters from the mirror spells out ASACA RUM. Conan also suspected that Mary is Asaka, by thinking that Asaka is a strong woman.

=== The one putting the case online ===
A mysterious individual, the uploader, is in possession of detailed crime scene photographs and case information. This includes pictures of Kohji's dying message hand mirror broken on the ground prior to Asaka removing a hand mirror from the scene. This unknown uploader posts this information online, seemingly asking for the case to be solved.

Information about the case was online at the time Okiya and Conan solved the "The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters" case, but was removed by the beginning of the "Soul Detective Murder Case". The reason why the information was deleted and the identity of the one doing the takedowns --perhaps the uploader themselves or another force who wishes to scrub the essential details of Kohji's case from the internet-- is still uncertain.

It should be noted that current Police Superintendent [[Hyoue Kuroda]] has access to the information on the website and seems to see some sort of connection to Elementary teacher [[Rumi Wakasa]]. Some fans speculate that it is possible that Rumi is the one uploading the information to the site due to her name being a close letter scramble of the dying message ASAKA RUM and her method of approaching Conan.

=== Alternate interpretations of the mirror ===

=== Kohji's palm bruise ===
In the picture of Kohji's hand, there are several bruises on the fingers and one on the center of his palm. These are presumed to be from holding the scissors tightly. Kohji's method of holding the scissors is unclear, but the bruises are consistent with looping one's thumb and index finger through the two rings so the rings as close to the base of the fingers. If the blade is angled across the palm and the other three fingers folded over, it makes a defensive-like pose. This grip does not explain the bruise in the hollow of his palm. If a defensive grip was used, then the bruise must have been caused by an item secreted in Kohji's palm he was gripping along with the scissors, holding the scissors another way, or another force altogether. It may also be of concern that despite supposedly gripping the scissors tightly in life, after Kohji was killed and the body photographed, the scissors were elsewhere nearby and Kohji's hand opened.

== See also ==
* [[Rum]]
* [[Kohji Haneda]]
* [[List of Black Organization related characters]]

{{APTX 4869}}
{{Black Organization}}
{{rum arc}}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Black Organization]]

Case from 17 years ago

2017-11-24T03:30:13Z

Detective Reaper: /* Dying Message */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this case. 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]].}}

[[File:Conan reads the case online.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Conan reads about the case online.]]
17 years ago [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] were found dead in their hotel rooms. Kohji had managed to leave a mysterious dying message that may indicate that a member of the [[Black Organization]] was involved.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Kohji Haneda}}
{{char|Amanda Hughes|Amanda Hughes EP861}}
{{char|Asaka|Asaka EP861}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"}}
{{char|Tsutomu Akai}}
}}

== Description ==
Kohji Haneda, a shogi player, went to the US to participate in a chess competition at the Juke Hotel, however the day before the match he was found murdered in his hotel room. According to a website with numerous photos of the crime scene, his room was a total mess which was chalked up to a struggle between Kohji and his assailant. The website reported that the cause of his death remains unclear, but Haibara recalls his name was on the APTX 4869 victims list. On the same day in a different hotel room Amanda Hughes, a wealthy person who has contacts with both the FBI and CIA, was found murdered and the cause of her death is also unclear.

Amanda had been a fan of Kohji's and had been in contact with him in the past. She had visited his hotel room some time before the murder, her fingerprints were found on the door handle, sofa, tea cups, knife, and fork. After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. Several defensive wounds were found on Kohji's arms and his palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. There were some bruises on his face as well. In Kouji's room, the sink in the bathroom was even left running. Amanda's own room, on the other hand, was neat and tidy, as though nothing had happened. It is not known who was murdered first.

On the day of the murders Amanda's bodyguard, who she called "Asaka", disappeared. Currently Asaka is the prime suspect in both murders. Neither relatives or acquaintances of Amanda know when Asaka was hired on as her bodyguard. It is currently unknown whether Asaka is a given name or a surname. If it were a given name then it would be likely that Asaka would be female, however if it were a surname then it would not be possible to determine the gender. At some point Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror, which leads Gaito Hotta to believe that Asaka is a woman. As a bodyguard, it is thought that Asaka is skilled at bringing down opponents.

Tsutomu Akai was either involved in the case or its aftermath. As a result, he made enemies with some really bad people (Black Organization) and sent a message to his family telling them to move to Japan for safety. Since then Tsutomu has not been seen, leading many to believe that he is dead. However, his body has never been found.

Gin comments that this case is a job in which Rum screwed up, clarifying that Rum was present, or at least involved some way or another, and that things did not happen according to plan back then.

=== Aftermath ===
[[File:Kohji Hanedas body.jpg|right|thumb|285px|Kuroda connects Rumi to the Kohji case.]]
Mary Sera took her family to Japan as instructed by her husband's text. Shuichi Akai then left his family to study abroad in the United States with the intention of obtaining a green card and joining the FBI to find out what happened to his father. Shukichi Akai eventually leaves the family as well, changing his family name to Haneda. He also claims to be a non-blood brother of Kohji and possesses his fan that has his motto.

When Conan learns that the case involved APTX, he finds information about the case that had been uploaded to the internet. Even when it gets taken down the person who uploaded it tries to re-upload it. Conan thinks that it's almost if they are saying "Please help me solve this mystery!".

Gaito Hotta had obtained information that states that Asaka had been seen holding a hand mirror to claim that Asaka was a woman. However it is unclear whether this is first or second-hand information. Mary seemed to think that this information was boring.

A woman whose name, {{nihongo|Rumi Wakasa|若狭留美|Wakasa Rumi}}, bears similar spelling to the dying message of the Kohji case appears at Conan's school. When Hyoue Kuroda learns of this person's appearance on the news, he seems to make a connection between her and the Kohji case and implies that he might know her by saying "that's not like that person at all" when he was told she was going camping.

Currently the list of people who know about the case are as follows: Conan, Haibara, Agasa, Shuichi, Masumi, Mary, Kogoro, Gin, Vodka, Bourbon, Vermouth, and Kuroda. It is presumed that since Rumi's name bares resemblance to the dying message that she may know as well. Shukichi seems to be aware of Kohji's death, but it is unclear what he knows, or what his connection to Kohji is, since he is called a 'non-biological brother'.

== Dying Message ==
After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. The mirror had writing on it that Haibara recognized as saying "PUT ON MASCARA", however it had been broken so that only "P T O N" remained. Kohji's palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. The sink in Amanda's bathroom was even left running. It seems as if Kohji was attacked in the bathroom and turned the sink on, then ran water over the mirror to use the scissors to cut the mirror up, although it's unclear how he managed to do that during such circumstances, while Rum could have been distracted in the fight against Tsutomu Akai. With the letters "P T O N" removed, the message remaining is "U MASCARA", which can be arranged to make "ASACA RUM". Though this is a correct way to decipher the dying message, it's unknown if this is the only correct way to interpret the message, or that it was originally created by Kohji, or if the message was altered at all by someone.
The Black Organization is aware of the dying message.

{| style="float:left;"
|-
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:broken mirror letters.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Broken mirror dying message]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:scissors and bruise.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Gripping the scissors tightly]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|
|}
{{clear}}

== APTX Connection ==
Even though the cause of death is unclear in both cases, only Kohji's name appeared on the [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#APTX_4869_Victims|APTX 4869 victims list]]. However it is interesting to note that Kohji's name appeared two names below Shinichi's name on the list. Haibara thinks that the person who compiled the victims list may not have compiled it chronologically, but rather in some other fashion, like blood type.

Since Haibara states that the drug she worked on was created from the burnt remains from the data left behind by her parents, she says that its possible that Kohji was made to ingest an early prototype made by her parents. Haibara hasn't mentioned whether Amanda Hughes' name is on the list or not.
[[File:APTX_4869_victim_list 2.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
{{clear}}

== Motive ==
The motive for the murders is unknown. In Kohji Haneda's case, Haibara suggest it might have been because he was close to Amanda Hughes. If that's true, then that means that Amanda was the main target, possibly because of her connections to the FBI and the CIA.

== Anime Changes ==
* Given that the Romanized spelling of Asaca and Rum in the dying message is important, it seems relevant to note that the Romanized spelling of "Kohji" was changed for the anime version to "Kouji". 

== Speculation ==

=== Asaka's identity ===
Conan suspects that Asaka is Rum, based on that the missing letters from the mirror spells out ASACA RUM. Conan also suspected that Mary is Asaka, by thinking that Asaka is a strong woman.

=== The one putting the case online ===
A mysterious individual, the uploader, is in possession of detailed crime scene photographs and case information. This includes pictures of Kohji's dying message hand mirror broken on the ground prior to Asaka removing a hand mirror from the scene. This unknown uploader posts this information online, seemingly asking for the case to be solved.

Information about the case was online at the time Okiya and Conan solved the "The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters" case, but was removed by the beginning of the "Soul Detective Murder Case". The reason why the information was deleted and the identity of the one doing the takedowns --perhaps the uploader themselves or another force who wishes to scrub the essential details of Kohji's case from the internet-- is still uncertain.

It should be noted that current Police Superintendent [[Hyoue Kuroda]] has access to the information on the website and seems to see some sort of connection to Elementary teacher [[Rumi Wakasa]]. Some fans speculate that it is possible that Rumi is the one uploading the information to the site due to her name being a close letter scramble of the dying message ASAKA RUM and her method of approaching Conan.

=== Alternate interpretations of the mirror ===

=== Kohji's palm bruise ===
In the picture of Kohji's hand, there are several bruises on the fingers and one on the center of his palm. These are presumed to be from holding the scissors tightly. Kohji's method of holding the scissors is unclear, but the bruises are consistent with looping one's thumb and index finger through the two rings so the rings as close to the base of the fingers. If the blade is angled across the palm and the other three fingers folded over, it makes a defensive-like pose. This grip does not explain the bruise in the hollow of his palm. If a defensive grip was used, then the bruise must have been caused by an item secreted in Kohji's palm he was gripping along with the scissors, holding the scissors another way, or another force altogether. It may also be of concern that despite supposedly gripping the scissors tightly in life, after Kohji was killed and the body photographed, the scissors were elsewhere nearby and Kohji's hand opened.

== See also ==
* [[Rum]]
* [[Kohji Haneda]]
* [[List of Black Organization related characters]]

{{APTX 4869}}
{{Black Organization}}
{{rum arc}}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Black Organization]]

Case from 17 years ago

2017-11-24T03:28:29Z

Detective Reaper: /* Description */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this case. 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]].}}

[[File:Conan reads the case online.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Conan reads about the case online.]]
17 years ago [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] were found dead in their hotel rooms. Kohji had managed to leave a mysterious dying message that may indicate that a member of the [[Black Organization]] was involved.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Kohji Haneda}}
{{char|Amanda Hughes|Amanda Hughes EP861}}
{{char|Asaka|Asaka EP861}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"}}
{{char|Tsutomu Akai}}
}}

== Description ==
Kohji Haneda, a shogi player, went to the US to participate in a chess competition at the Juke Hotel, however the day before the match he was found murdered in his hotel room. According to a website with numerous photos of the crime scene, his room was a total mess which was chalked up to a struggle between Kohji and his assailant. The website reported that the cause of his death remains unclear, but Haibara recalls his name was on the APTX 4869 victims list. On the same day in a different hotel room Amanda Hughes, a wealthy person who has contacts with both the FBI and CIA, was found murdered and the cause of her death is also unclear.

Amanda had been a fan of Kohji's and had been in contact with him in the past. She had visited his hotel room some time before the murder, her fingerprints were found on the door handle, sofa, tea cups, knife, and fork. After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. Several defensive wounds were found on Kohji's arms and his palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. There were some bruises on his face as well. In Kouji's room, the sink in the bathroom was even left running. Amanda's own room, on the other hand, was neat and tidy, as though nothing had happened. It is not known who was murdered first.

On the day of the murders Amanda's bodyguard, who she called "Asaka", disappeared. Currently Asaka is the prime suspect in both murders. Neither relatives or acquaintances of Amanda know when Asaka was hired on as her bodyguard. It is currently unknown whether Asaka is a given name or a surname. If it were a given name then it would be likely that Asaka would be female, however if it were a surname then it would not be possible to determine the gender. At some point Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror, which leads Gaito Hotta to believe that Asaka is a woman. As a bodyguard, it is thought that Asaka is skilled at bringing down opponents.

Tsutomu Akai was either involved in the case or its aftermath. As a result, he made enemies with some really bad people (Black Organization) and sent a message to his family telling them to move to Japan for safety. Since then Tsutomu has not been seen, leading many to believe that he is dead. However, his body has never been found.

Gin comments that this case is a job in which Rum screwed up, clarifying that Rum was present, or at least involved some way or another, and that things did not happen according to plan back then.

=== Aftermath ===
[[File:Kohji Hanedas body.jpg|right|thumb|285px|Kuroda connects Rumi to the Kohji case.]]
Mary Sera took her family to Japan as instructed by her husband's text. Shuichi Akai then left his family to study abroad in the United States with the intention of obtaining a green card and joining the FBI to find out what happened to his father. Shukichi Akai eventually leaves the family as well, changing his family name to Haneda. He also claims to be a non-blood brother of Kohji and possesses his fan that has his motto.

When Conan learns that the case involved APTX, he finds information about the case that had been uploaded to the internet. Even when it gets taken down the person who uploaded it tries to re-upload it. Conan thinks that it's almost if they are saying "Please help me solve this mystery!".

Gaito Hotta had obtained information that states that Asaka had been seen holding a hand mirror to claim that Asaka was a woman. However it is unclear whether this is first or second-hand information. Mary seemed to think that this information was boring.

A woman whose name, {{nihongo|Rumi Wakasa|若狭留美|Wakasa Rumi}}, bears similar spelling to the dying message of the Kohji case appears at Conan's school. When Hyoue Kuroda learns of this person's appearance on the news, he seems to make a connection between her and the Kohji case and implies that he might know her by saying "that's not like that person at all" when he was told she was going camping.

Currently the list of people who know about the case are as follows: Conan, Haibara, Agasa, Shuichi, Masumi, Mary, Kogoro, Gin, Vodka, Bourbon, Vermouth, and Kuroda. It is presumed that since Rumi's name bares resemblance to the dying message that she may know as well. Shukichi seems to be aware of Kohji's death, but it is unclear what he knows, or what his connection to Kohji is, since he is called a 'non-biological brother'.

== Dying Message ==
After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. The mirror had writing on it that Haibara recognized as saying "PUT ON MASCARA", however it had been broken so that only "P T O N" remained. Kohji's palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. The sink in Amanda's bathroom was even left running. It seems as if Kohji was attacked in the bathroom and turned the sink on, then ran water over the mirror to use the scissors to cut the mirror up, although it's unclear how he managed to do that during such circumstances, while Rum could have been distracted in the fight against Tsutomu Akai. With the letters "P T O N" removed, the message remaining is "U MASCARA", which can be arranged to make "ASACA RUM".
The Black Organization is aware of the dying message.

{| style="float:left;"
|-
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:broken mirror letters.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Broken mirror dying message]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:scissors and bruise.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Gripping the scissors tightly]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|
|}
{{clear}}

== APTX Connection ==
Even though the cause of death is unclear in both cases, only Kohji's name appeared on the [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#APTX_4869_Victims|APTX 4869 victims list]]. However it is interesting to note that Kohji's name appeared two names below Shinichi's name on the list. Haibara thinks that the person who compiled the victims list may not have compiled it chronologically, but rather in some other fashion, like blood type.

Since Haibara states that the drug she worked on was created from the burnt remains from the data left behind by her parents, she says that its possible that Kohji was made to ingest an early prototype made by her parents. Haibara hasn't mentioned whether Amanda Hughes' name is on the list or not.
[[File:APTX_4869_victim_list 2.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
{{clear}}

== Motive ==
The motive for the murders is unknown. In Kohji Haneda's case, Haibara suggest it might have been because he was close to Amanda Hughes. If that's true, then that means that Amanda was the main target, possibly because of her connections to the FBI and the CIA.

== Anime Changes ==
* Given that the Romanized spelling of Asaca and Rum in the dying message is important, it seems relevant to note that the Romanized spelling of "Kohji" was changed for the anime version to "Kouji". 

== Speculation ==

=== Asaka's identity ===
Conan suspects that Asaka is Rum, based on that the missing letters from the mirror spells out ASACA RUM. Conan also suspected that Mary is Asaka, by thinking that Asaka is a strong woman.

=== The one putting the case online ===
A mysterious individual, the uploader, is in possession of detailed crime scene photographs and case information. This includes pictures of Kohji's dying message hand mirror broken on the ground prior to Asaka removing a hand mirror from the scene. This unknown uploader posts this information online, seemingly asking for the case to be solved.

Information about the case was online at the time Okiya and Conan solved the "The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters" case, but was removed by the beginning of the "Soul Detective Murder Case". The reason why the information was deleted and the identity of the one doing the takedowns --perhaps the uploader themselves or another force who wishes to scrub the essential details of Kohji's case from the internet-- is still uncertain.

It should be noted that current Police Superintendent [[Hyoue Kuroda]] has access to the information on the website and seems to see some sort of connection to Elementary teacher [[Rumi Wakasa]]. Some fans speculate that it is possible that Rumi is the one uploading the information to the site due to her name being a close letter scramble of the dying message ASAKA RUM and her method of approaching Conan.

=== Alternate interpretations of the mirror ===

=== Kohji's palm bruise ===
In the picture of Kohji's hand, there are several bruises on the fingers and one on the center of his palm. These are presumed to be from holding the scissors tightly. Kohji's method of holding the scissors is unclear, but the bruises are consistent with looping one's thumb and index finger through the two rings so the rings as close to the base of the fingers. If the blade is angled across the palm and the other three fingers folded over, it makes a defensive-like pose. This grip does not explain the bruise in the hollow of his palm. If a defensive grip was used, then the bruise must have been caused by an item secreted in Kohji's palm he was gripping along with the scissors, holding the scissors another way, or another force altogether. It may also be of concern that despite supposedly gripping the scissors tightly in life, after Kohji was killed and the body photographed, the scissors were elsewhere nearby and Kohji's hand opened.

== See also ==
* [[Rum]]
* [[Kohji Haneda]]
* [[List of Black Organization related characters]]

{{APTX 4869}}
{{Black Organization}}
{{rum arc}}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Black Organization]]

Tsutomu Akai

2017-11-24T00:13:46Z

Detective Reaper: /* Shuichi Akai */

Case from 17 years ago

2017-11-24T00:01:53Z

Detective Reaper: /* Dying Message */

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[[File:Conan reads the case online.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Conan reads about the case online.]]
17 years ago [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] were found dead in their hotel rooms. Kohji had managed to leave a mysterious dying message that may indicate that a member of the [[Black Organization]] was involved.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Kohji Haneda}}
{{char|Amanda Hughes|Amanda Hughes EP861}}
{{char|Asaka|Asaka EP861}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"}}
{{char|Tsutomu Akai}}
}}

== Description ==
Kohji Haneda, a shogi player, went to the US to participate in a chess competition at the Juke Hotel, however the day before the match he was found murdered in his hotel room. According to a website with numerous photos of the crime scene, his room was a total mess which was chalked up to a struggle between Kohji and his assailant. The website reported that the cause of his death remains unclear, but Haibara recalls his name was on the APTX 4869 victims list. On the same day in a different hotel room Amanda Hughes, a wealthy person who has contacts with both the FBI and CIA, was found murdered and the cause of her death is also unclear.

Amanda had been a fan of Kohji's and had been in contact with him in the past. She had visited his hotel room some time before the murder, her fingerprints were found on the door handle, sofa, tea cups, knife, and fork. After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. Several defensive wounds were found on Kohji's arms and his palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. There were some bruises on his face as well. In Kouji's room, the sink in the bathroom was even left running. Amanda's own room, on the other hand, was neat and tidy, as though nothing had happened. It is not known who of them was murdered first.

On the day of the murders Amanda's bodyguard, who she called "Asaka", disappeared. Currently Asaka is the prime suspect in both murders. Neither relatives or acquaintances of Amanda know when Asaka was hired on as her bodyguard. It is currently unknown whether Asaka is a given name or a surname. If it were a given name then it would be likely that Asaka would be female, however if it were a surname then it would not be possible to determine the gender. At some point Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror, which leads Gaito Hotta to believe that Asaka is a woman. As a bodyguard, it is thought that Asaka is skilled at bringing down opponents.

Tsutomu Akai was either involved in the case or its aftermath. As a result, he made enemies with some really bad people and sent a message to his family telling them to move to the safety of Japan. Since then Tsutomu has not been seen, leading many to believe that he is dead. However, a body has never been found.

Gin comments that this case is a job in which Rum screwed up, clarifying that Rum was present, or at least involved some way or another, and that things did not happen according to plan back then.

=== Aftermath ===
[[File:Kohji Hanedas body.jpg|right|thumb|285px|Kuroda connects Rumi to the Kohji case.]]
Mary Sera took her family to Japan as instructed by her husband's text. Shuichi Akai then left his family to study abroad in the United States with the intention of obtaining a green card and joining the FBI to find out what happened to his father. Shukichi Akai eventually leaves the family as well, changing his family name to Haneda. He also claims to be a non-blood brother of Kohji and possesses his fan that has his motto.

When Conan learns that the case involved APTX, he finds information about the case that had been uploaded to the internet. Even when it gets taken down the person who uploaded it tries to re-upload it. Conan thinks that its almost if they are saying "Please help me solve this mystery!".

Gaito Hotta had obtained information that sates that Asaka had been seen holding a hand mirror and was going to use that to claim that Asaka was a woman. However it is unclear whether this is first or second hand information. Mary seemed to think that this information was boring.

A woman whose name, {{nihongo|Rumi Wakasa|若狭留美|Wakasa Rumi}}, bears similar spelling to the dying message of the Kohji case appears at Conan's school. When Hyoue Kuroda learns of this person, he seems to make a connection between her and the Kohji case and implies that he might know her by saying "that's not like that person at all" when he was told she was going camping.

Currently the list of people who know about the case are as follows: Conan, Haibara, Agasa, Shuichi, Masumi, Mary, Kogoro, Gin, Vodka, Bourbon, Vermouth, and Kuroda. It is presumed that since Rumi's name bares resemblance to the dying message that she may know as well. Shukichi seems to be aware of Kohji's death, but it is unclear what he knows, or what his connection to Kohji is, since he is called a 'non-biological brother'.

== Dying Message ==
After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. The mirror had writing on it that Haibara recognized as saying "PUT ON MASCARA", however it had been broken so that only "P T O N" remained. Kohji's palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. The sink in Amanda's bathroom was even left running. It seems as if Kohji was attacked in the bathroom and turned the sink on, then ran water over the mirror to use the scissors to cut the mirror up, although it's unclear how he managed to do that during such circumstances, while Rum could have been distracted in the fight against Tsutomu Akai. With the letters "P T O N" removed, the message remaining is "U MASCARA", which can be arranged to make "ASACA RUM".
The Black Organization is aware of the dying message.

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| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:broken mirror letters.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Broken mirror dying message]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:scissors and bruise.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Gripping the scissors tightly]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|
|}
{{clear}}

== APTX Connection ==
Even though the cause of death is unclear in both cases, only Kohji's name appeared on the [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#APTX_4869_Victims|APTX 4869 victims list]]. However it is interesting to note that Kohji's name appeared two names below Shinichi's name on the list. Haibara thinks that the person who compiled the victims list may not have compiled it chronologically, but rather in some other fashion, like blood type.

Since Haibara states that the drug she worked on was created from the burnt remains from the data left behind by her parents, she says that its possible that Kohji was made to ingest an early prototype made by her parents. Haibara hasn't mentioned whether Amanda Hughes' name is on the list or not.
[[File:APTX_4869_victim_list 2.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
{{clear}}

== Motive ==
The motive for the murders is unknown. In Kohji Haneda's case, Haibara suggest it might have been because he was close to Amanda Hughes. If that's true, then that means that Amanda was the main target, possibly because of her connections to the FBI and the CIA.

== Anime Changes ==
* Given that the Romanized spelling of Asaca and Rum in the dying message is important, it seems relevant to note that the Romanized spelling of "Kohji" was changed for the anime version to "Kouji". 

== Speculation ==

=== Asaka's identity ===
Conan suspects that Asaka is Rum, based on that the missing letters from the mirror spells out ASACA RUM. Conan also suspected that Mary is Asaka, by thinking that Asaka is a strong woman.

=== The one putting the case online ===
A mysterious individual, the uploader, is in possession of detailed crime scene photographs and case information. This includes pictures of Kohji's dying message hand mirror broken on the ground prior to Asaka removing a hand mirror from the scene. This unknown uploader posts this information online, seemingly asking for the case to be solved.

Information about the case was online at the time Okiya and Conan solved the "The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters" case, but was removed by the beginning of the "Soul Detective Murder Case". The reason why the information was deleted and the identity of the one doing the takedowns --perhaps the uploader themselves or another force who wishes to scrub the essential details of Kohji's case from the internet-- is still uncertain.

It should be noted that current Police Superintendent [[Hyoue Kuroda]] has access to the information on the website and seems to see some sort of connection to Elementary teacher [[Rumi Wakasa]]. Some fans speculate that it is possible that Rumi is the one uploading the information to the site due to her name being a close letter scramble of the dying message ASAKA RUM and her method of approaching Conan.

=== Alternate interpretations of the mirror ===

=== Kohji's palm bruise ===
In the picture of Kohji's hand, there are several bruises on the fingers and one on the center of his palm. These are presumed to be from holding the scissors tightly. Kohji's method of holding the scissors is unclear, but the bruises are consistent with looping one's thumb and index finger through the two rings so the rings as close to the base of the fingers. If the blade is angled across the palm and the other three fingers folded over, it makes a defensive-like pose. This grip does not explain the bruise in the hollow of his palm. If a defensive grip was used, then the bruise must have been caused by an item secreted in Kohji's palm he was gripping along with the scissors, holding the scissors another way, or another force altogether. It may also be of concern that despite supposedly gripping the scissors tightly in life, after Kohji was killed and the body photographed, the scissors were elsewhere nearby and Kohji's hand opened.

== See also ==
* [[Rum]]
* [[Kohji Haneda]]
* [[List of Black Organization related characters]]

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== References ==
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[[Category:Black Organization]]

Characters

2017-11-23T18:37:00Z

Detective Reaper: /* Others */

{{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 a number of 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|Conan]] as well as his love interest and best friend [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and her father [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]].
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shinichi Kudo|Jimmy Kudo|Main character of the series and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s love interest. He was shrunk into a child after being forced to take a poison, called [[APTX 4869]], 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 Kudo|Shinichi]]'s childhood friend, and main love interest. She doesn't know [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s real identity. She's the one taking care of him along with her detective father, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]. She is also skilled in karate.}}
{{CharItem|Kogoro Mouri|Richard Moore|Private eye and [[Ran Mouri|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. They have seen [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] use the bowtie, and even caught Conan using the bowtie to solve cases.
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Ayumi Yoshida|Amy Yeager|Member of the [[Detective Boys]]. She likes [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and she considers [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] like a best friend to her.}}
{{CharItem|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitch Tennison|Member of the [[Detective Boys]]. Has a crush on [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]. 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]]. Has a crush on [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] and 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 invented APTX 4869.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Family & Friends ==
{{main|:Category:Families}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Hiroshi Agasa|Herschel Agasa|Professor who creates gadgets for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to use and the best friend of [[Yusaku Kudo]]. He was the first to know about Conan's true identity.}}
{{CharItem|Sonoko Suzuki|Serena Sebastian|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s best friend. Youngest daughter of the wealthy Suzuki family.}}
{{CharItem|Eri Kisaki|Eva Kadan|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s mother, a very successful attorney. Married to, but currently living separately from [[Kogoro Mouri]]. She is a friend of [[Yukiko Kudo]] from high school.}}
{{CharItem|Yusaku Kudo|Booker Kudo|[[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s father. A famous mystery novel author who is well-known in both America and Japan.}}
{{CharItem|Yukiko Kudo|Vivian Kudo|[[Shinichi 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 Kudo|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 Edogawa|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 also a trained Aikido martial artist.}}
{{CharItem|Yoko Okino|Yoko Okino|Idol star who is worshiped by [[Kogoro Mouri]].}}
{{CharItem|Sumiko Kobayashi|Liz Faulkner|[[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s homeroom teacher and [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]'s girlfriend. Also the self-proclaimed manager of the [[Detective Boys]].}}
{{CharItem|Tomoaki Araide|N/A|[[Kogoro Mouri|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 Mouri|Ran]].}}
{{CharItem|Shizuka Hattori|N/A|[[Heiji Hattori]]'s mother.}}
{{CharItem|Jirokichi Suzuki|N/A|[[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s uncle, obsessed with embarrassing and outsmarting the thief, [[Kaitou Kid]].}}
{{CharItem|Eisuke Hondou|N/A|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s classmate, whom [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] finds suspicious. He is later discovered to be looking for his sister, [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Mouri|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 Edogawa|Conan]] on cases, and keeps an eye on [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]].}}
{{CharItem|Masumi Sera|N/A|A high school detective who transfers into [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s high school class. She is the sister of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Shukichi Haneda]].}}
{{CharItem|Shukichi Haneda|N/A|Yumi Miyamoto's ex-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|Inspector from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Nicholas Santos|Police inspector who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Originally [[Wataru Takagi|Detective Takagi]]'s rival for [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]]'s affection, he is currently involved with [[Sumiko Kobayashi]].}}
{{CharItem|Miwako Sato|Detective Simone|Female police officer who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Currently involved with [[Wataru Takagi|Detective Takagi]].}}
{{CharItem|Wataru Takagi|Harry Wilder|Police officer who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Currently involved with [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]].}}
{{CharItem|Kazunobu Chiba|Detective Chiba|Police officer who often works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. He is [[Naeko Miike]]'s childhood friend and love interest.}}
{{CharItem|Yumi Miyamoto|N/A|A traffic enforcer and [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]]'s best friend who is a compulsive tease.}}
{{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 [[Juzo Megure|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 Toyama|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 Hattori|Heiji]] and [[Heizo Hattori|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]].}}
{{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 agent working to undermine the Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Scotch|N/A|A deceased undercover agent from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau. He was killed while infiltrating the [[Black Organization]].}}
{{EndTable}}

=== FBI ===
{{main|Federal Bureau of Investigation}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shuichi Akai|N/A|[[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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 [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Mouri|Ran]]'s English teacher at one point. She had been Shuichi Akai's girlfriend before he met Akemi Miyano.}}
{{CharItem|James Black|N/A|High ranking [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent, [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]'s superior.}}
{{CharItem|Andre Camel|N/A|[[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent, played a vital role in the protection of [[Hidemi Hondou|Rena Mizunashi]].}}
{{EndTable}}

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

== Black Organization ==
{{main|Black Organization}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|image=The Boss of the Black Organization|link=The Boss of the Black Organization|The Boss|N/A|Leader of the [[Black Organization]]. Identity unknown.}}
{{CharItem|Rum|N/A| A high ranking member of the [[Black Organization]], Rum has a close connection to the Boss.}}
{{CharItem|Gin|Gin Melkior (manga, later changed to Gin)|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 [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] are really [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] and [[Shinichi Kudo|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 [[Akemi Miyano|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 Miyano]] and [[Shiho Miyano]]'s mother. Deceased member of the [[Black Organization]]. Known as the 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. Accidentally got 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 kill 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 pretends to be a patient in the hospital holding [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Edogawa|Conan]] runs into a few times. Former member of the [[Black Organization]], who scheduled to be the original test subject for [[APTX 4869]] before he escaped.}}
{{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 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. She used to masquerade as the thief Phantom Lady.}}
{{CharItem|Konosuke Jii|N/A|Once [[Toichi Kuroba]]'s attendant and friend, now [[Kaito Kuroba|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|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 [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Vermouth]] to find out if the real Akai is dead and to lure out [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]].}}
{{CharItem|Mary Sera|N/A|An unknown child of middle-school age who appears to be a girl with light hair. She is actually a middle-aged woman and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and [[Masumi Sera]]. Conan suspected that Mary is Asaka, and even the second-in-command Rum in the Black Organization.}}
{{charItem|Kohji Haneda|Koji Haneda|[[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s non-blood brother and a professional shogi player. He was forced to take a 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 Edogawa|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 Kouji's names.}}
{{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 afer the murder of Haneda Kouji and his body was never found.}}
{{CharItem|Kanenori Wakita|N/A|A sushi chief.He has relatively good deductive ability, a "true Tokyoite" personality, and an injury to his left eye, and he was shown looking at Shinichi's name after Shinichi was known to solve the famous Tengu case, making him a suspect of [[Rum]]'s true identity.}}
{{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]]

== References ==
<References/>

{{Characters}}
[[Category:Characters|*]]
[[Category:General Information]]
[[de:Nebencharaktere]]

Characters

2017-11-23T18:35:34Z

Detective Reaper: /* Others */

{{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 a number of 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|Conan]] as well as his love interest and best friend [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and her father [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]].
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shinichi Kudo|Jimmy Kudo|Main character of the series and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s love interest. He was shrunk into a child after being forced to take a poison, called [[APTX 4869]], 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 Kudo|Shinichi]]'s childhood friend, and main love interest. She doesn't know [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s real identity. She's the one taking care of him along with her detective father, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]. She is also skilled in karate.}}
{{CharItem|Kogoro Mouri|Richard Moore|Private eye and [[Ran Mouri|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. They have seen [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] use the bowtie, and even caught Conan using the bowtie to solve cases.
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Ayumi Yoshida|Amy Yeager|Member of the [[Detective Boys]]. She likes [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and she considers [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] like a best friend to her.}}
{{CharItem|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitch Tennison|Member of the [[Detective Boys]]. Has a crush on [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]. 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]]. Has a crush on [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] and 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 invented APTX 4869.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Family & Friends ==
{{main|:Category:Families}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Hiroshi Agasa|Herschel Agasa|Professor who creates gadgets for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to use and the best friend of [[Yusaku Kudo]]. He was the first to know about Conan's true identity.}}
{{CharItem|Sonoko Suzuki|Serena Sebastian|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s best friend. Youngest daughter of the wealthy Suzuki family.}}
{{CharItem|Eri Kisaki|Eva Kadan|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s mother, a very successful attorney. Married to, but currently living separately from [[Kogoro Mouri]]. She is a friend of [[Yukiko Kudo]] from high school.}}
{{CharItem|Yusaku Kudo|Booker Kudo|[[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s father. A famous mystery novel author who is well-known in both America and Japan.}}
{{CharItem|Yukiko Kudo|Vivian Kudo|[[Shinichi 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 Kudo|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 Edogawa|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 also a trained Aikido martial artist.}}
{{CharItem|Yoko Okino|Yoko Okino|Idol star who is worshiped by [[Kogoro Mouri]].}}
{{CharItem|Sumiko Kobayashi|Liz Faulkner|[[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s homeroom teacher and [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]'s girlfriend. Also the self-proclaimed manager of the [[Detective Boys]].}}
{{CharItem|Tomoaki Araide|N/A|[[Kogoro Mouri|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 Mouri|Ran]].}}
{{CharItem|Shizuka Hattori|N/A|[[Heiji Hattori]]'s mother.}}
{{CharItem|Jirokichi Suzuki|N/A|[[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s uncle, obsessed with embarrassing and outsmarting the thief, [[Kaitou Kid]].}}
{{CharItem|Eisuke Hondou|N/A|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s classmate, whom [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] finds suspicious. He is later discovered to be looking for his sister, [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Mouri|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 Edogawa|Conan]] on cases, and keeps an eye on [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]].}}
{{CharItem|Masumi Sera|N/A|A high school detective who transfers into [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s high school class. She is the sister of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Shukichi Haneda]].}}
{{CharItem|Shukichi Haneda|N/A|Yumi Miyamoto's ex-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|Inspector from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Nicholas Santos|Police inspector who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Originally [[Wataru Takagi|Detective Takagi]]'s rival for [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]]'s affection, he is currently involved with [[Sumiko Kobayashi]].}}
{{CharItem|Miwako Sato|Detective Simone|Female police officer who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Currently involved with [[Wataru Takagi|Detective Takagi]].}}
{{CharItem|Wataru Takagi|Harry Wilder|Police officer who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Currently involved with [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]].}}
{{CharItem|Kazunobu Chiba|Detective Chiba|Police officer who often works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. He is [[Naeko Miike]]'s childhood friend and love interest.}}
{{CharItem|Yumi Miyamoto|N/A|A traffic enforcer and [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]]'s best friend who is a compulsive tease.}}
{{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 [[Juzo Megure|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 Toyama|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 Hattori|Heiji]] and [[Heizo Hattori|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]].}}
{{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 agent working to undermine the Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Scotch|N/A|A deceased undercover agent from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau. He was killed while infiltrating the [[Black Organization]].}}
{{EndTable}}

=== FBI ===
{{main|Federal Bureau of Investigation}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shuichi Akai|N/A|[[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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 [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Mouri|Ran]]'s English teacher at one point. She had been Shuichi Akai's girlfriend before he met Akemi Miyano.}}
{{CharItem|James Black|N/A|High ranking [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent, [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]'s superior.}}
{{CharItem|Andre Camel|N/A|[[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent, played a vital role in the protection of [[Hidemi Hondou|Rena Mizunashi]].}}
{{EndTable}}

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

== Black Organization ==
{{main|Black Organization}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|image=The Boss of the Black Organization|link=The Boss of the Black Organization|The Boss|N/A|Leader of the [[Black Organization]]. Identity unknown.}}
{{CharItem|Rum|N/A| A high ranking member of the [[Black Organization]], Rum has a close connection to the Boss.}}
{{CharItem|Gin|Gin Melkior (manga, later changed to Gin)|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 [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] are really [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] and [[Shinichi Kudo|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 [[Akemi Miyano|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 Miyano]] and [[Shiho Miyano]]'s mother. Deceased member of the [[Black Organization]]. Known as the 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. Accidentally got 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 kill 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 pretends to be a patient in the hospital holding [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Edogawa|Conan]] runs into a few times. Former member of the [[Black Organization]], who scheduled to be the original test subject for [[APTX 4869]] before he escaped.}}
{{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 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. She used to masquerade as the thief Phantom Lady.}}
{{CharItem|Konosuke Jii|N/A|Once [[Toichi Kuroba]]'s attendant and friend, now [[Kaito Kuroba|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|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 [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Vermouth]] to find out if the real Akai is dead and to lure out [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]].}}
{{CharItem|Mary Sera|N/A|An unknown child of middle-school age who appears to be a girl with light hair. She is actually a middle-aged woman and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and [[Masumi Sera]]. Conan suspected that Mary is Asaka, and even the second-in-command Rum in the Black Organization.}}
{{charItem|Kohji Haneda|Koji Haneda|[[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s non-blood brother and a professional shogi player. He was forced to take a 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 Edogawa|Conan]] believes is the killer of Kohji Haneda and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]].}}
{{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 Kouji's names.}}
{{charItem|Tsutomu Akai|N/A|[[Mary]]'s husband and the father of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and [[Masumi Sera]].}}
{{CharItem|Kanenori Wakita|N/A|A sushi chief.He has relatively good deductive ability, a "true Tokyoite" personality, and an injury to his left eye, and he was shown looking at Shinichi's name after Shinichi was known to solve the famous Tengu case, making him a suspect of [[Rum]]'s true identity.}}
{{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]]

== References ==
<References/>

{{Characters}}
[[Category:Characters|*]]
[[Category:General Information]]
[[de:Nebencharaktere]]

Characters

2017-11-23T18:33:08Z

Detective Reaper: /* Others */

{{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 a number of 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|Conan]] as well as his love interest and best friend [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and her father [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]].
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shinichi Kudo|Jimmy Kudo|Main character of the series and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s love interest. He was shrunk into a child after being forced to take a poison, called [[APTX 4869]], 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 Kudo|Shinichi]]'s childhood friend, and main love interest. She doesn't know [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s real identity. She's the one taking care of him along with her detective father, [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]. She is also skilled in karate.}}
{{CharItem|Kogoro Mouri|Richard Moore|Private eye and [[Ran Mouri|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. They have seen [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] use the bowtie, and even caught Conan using the bowtie to solve cases.
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Ayumi Yoshida|Amy Yeager|Member of the [[Detective Boys]]. She likes [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and she considers [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] like a best friend to her.}}
{{CharItem|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitch Tennison|Member of the [[Detective Boys]]. Has a crush on [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]. 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]]. Has a crush on [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] and 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 invented APTX 4869.}}
{{EndTable}}

== Family & Friends ==
{{main|:Category:Families}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Hiroshi Agasa|Herschel Agasa|Professor who creates gadgets for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to use and the best friend of [[Yusaku Kudo]]. He was the first to know about Conan's true identity.}}
{{CharItem|Sonoko Suzuki|Serena Sebastian|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s best friend. Youngest daughter of the wealthy Suzuki family.}}
{{CharItem|Eri Kisaki|Eva Kadan|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s mother, a very successful attorney. Married to, but currently living separately from [[Kogoro Mouri]]. She is a friend of [[Yukiko Kudo]] from high school.}}
{{CharItem|Yusaku Kudo|Booker Kudo|[[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s father. A famous mystery novel author who is well-known in both America and Japan.}}
{{CharItem|Yukiko Kudo|Vivian Kudo|[[Shinichi 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 Kudo|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 Edogawa|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 also a trained Aikido martial artist.}}
{{CharItem|Yoko Okino|Yoko Okino|Idol star who is worshiped by [[Kogoro Mouri]].}}
{{CharItem|Sumiko Kobayashi|Liz Faulkner|[[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s homeroom teacher and [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]'s girlfriend. Also the self-proclaimed manager of the [[Detective Boys]].}}
{{CharItem|Tomoaki Araide|N/A|[[Kogoro Mouri|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 Mouri|Ran]].}}
{{CharItem|Shizuka Hattori|N/A|[[Heiji Hattori]]'s mother.}}
{{CharItem|Jirokichi Suzuki|N/A|[[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s uncle, obsessed with embarrassing and outsmarting the thief, [[Kaitou Kid]].}}
{{CharItem|Eisuke Hondou|N/A|[[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s classmate, whom [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] finds suspicious. He is later discovered to be looking for his sister, [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Mouri|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 Edogawa|Conan]] on cases, and keeps an eye on [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]].}}
{{CharItem|Masumi Sera|N/A|A high school detective who transfers into [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s high school class. She is the sister of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Shukichi Haneda]].}}
{{CharItem|Shukichi Haneda|N/A|Yumi Miyamoto's ex-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|Inspector from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District.}}
{{CharItem|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Nicholas Santos|Police inspector who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Originally [[Wataru Takagi|Detective Takagi]]'s rival for [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]]'s affection, he is currently involved with [[Sumiko Kobayashi]].}}
{{CharItem|Miwako Sato|Detective Simone|Female police officer who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Currently involved with [[Wataru Takagi|Detective Takagi]].}}
{{CharItem|Wataru Takagi|Harry Wilder|Police officer who works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. Currently involved with [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]].}}
{{CharItem|Kazunobu Chiba|Detective Chiba|Police officer who often works with [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]]. He is [[Naeko Miike]]'s childhood friend and love interest.}}
{{CharItem|Yumi Miyamoto|N/A|A traffic enforcer and [[Miwako Sato|Detective Sato]]'s best friend who is a compulsive tease.}}
{{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 [[Juzo Megure|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 Toyama|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 Hattori|Heiji]] and [[Heizo Hattori|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]].}}
{{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 agent working to undermine the Organization.}}
{{CharItem|Scotch|N/A|A deceased undercover agent from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Public Security Bureau. He was killed while infiltrating the [[Black Organization]].}}
{{EndTable}}

=== FBI ===
{{main|Federal Bureau of Investigation}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|Shuichi Akai|N/A|[[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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 [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Mouri|Ran]]'s English teacher at one point. She had been Shuichi Akai's girlfriend before he met Akemi Miyano.}}
{{CharItem|James Black|N/A|High ranking [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent, [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]'s superior.}}
{{CharItem|Andre Camel|N/A|[[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent, played a vital role in the protection of [[Hidemi Hondou|Rena Mizunashi]].}}
{{EndTable}}

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

== Black Organization ==
{{main|Black Organization}}
{{BeginTable Char}}
{{CharItem|image=The Boss of the Black Organization|link=The Boss of the Black Organization|The Boss|N/A|Leader of the [[Black Organization]]. Identity unknown.}}
{{CharItem|Rum|N/A| A high ranking member of the [[Black Organization]], Rum has a close connection to the Boss.}}
{{CharItem|Gin|Gin Melkior (manga, later changed to Gin)|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 [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] are really [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] and [[Shinichi Kudo|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 [[Akemi Miyano|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 Miyano]] and [[Shiho Miyano]]'s mother. Deceased member of the [[Black Organization]]. Known as the 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. Accidentally got 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 kill 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 pretends to be a patient in the hospital holding [[Hidemi Hondou|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 Edogawa|Conan]] runs into a few times. Former member of the [[Black Organization]], who scheduled to be the original test subject for [[APTX 4869]] before he escaped.}}
{{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 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. She used to masquerade as the thief Phantom Lady.}}
{{CharItem|Konosuke Jii|N/A|Once [[Toichi Kuroba]]'s attendant and friend, now [[Kaito Kuroba|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|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 [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Vermouth]] to find out if the real Akai is dead and to lure out [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]].}}
{{CharItem|Mary Sera|N/A|An unknown child of middle-school age who appears to be a girl with light hair. She is actually a middle-aged woman and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and [[Masumi Sera]].}}
{{charItem|Kohji Haneda|Koji Haneda|[[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s non-blood brother and a professional shogi player. He was forced to take a 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 Edogawa|Conan]] believes is the killer of Kohji Haneda and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]].}}
{{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 Kouji's names.}}
{{charItem|Tsutomu Akai|N/A|[[Mary]]'s husband and the father of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and [[Masumi Sera]].}}
{{CharItem|Kanenori Wakita|N/A|A sushi chief.He has relatively good deductive ability, a "true Tokyoite" personality, and an injury to his left eye, and he was shown looking at Shinichi's name after Shinichi was known to solve the famous Tengu case, making him a suspect of [[Rum]]'s true identity.}}
{{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]]

== References ==
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APTX 4869

2017-11-23T03:38:36Z

Detective Reaper: /* Immortality/anti-aging */

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

== Description ==
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list.jpg|thumb|left|Haibara recalls [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#APTX_4869_Victims|a list of all of the victims APTX was used to kill]]. Only Shinichi's death was unconfirmed.]]
APTX is an abbreviation of "Apoptoxin," and, as the name implies, it involves the activation of [[wikipedia:apoptosis|apoptosis]]: the mechanism by which cells kill themselves. APTX contains ingredients which have other functions as well. It contains a component which activates [[wikipedia:telomerase|telomerase]]: an enzyme which lengthens the caps at the end of DNA whose length limits the number of times a cell can divide.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 10</ref>

In practice, most of the time APTX 4869 works as a lethal poison. [[Gin]] says it can't be detected when used, possibly indicating it leaves few traces that forensic examination could uncover. However, as said by [[Ai Haibara]], a rare side effect can in fact de-age victims. When talking about her own and Conan's shrinking, she said that the side effect causes everything apart from the nervous system to revert back to a childlike state,<ref>“[Shrinking] is an unexpected side effect. The nervous system is unaffected, but everything else—bones, muscle tissue, internal organs, hair – reverts to a childlike state” (VIZ english version of the quote in volume 18 file 8.)</ref><ref>[[Episode 129]]</ref> but the adult personality and memories remain intact.

[[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], the series' protagonist, was forced by Gin and Vodka to take the poison with the intention of killing him silently due to the police being around in [[Episode 1]]. Later [[Shiho Miyano]], was set to be executed for being a possible loose end after Gin and Vodka killed her sister Akemi. Instead of letting herself be murdered, Shiho took her own poison intending to commit suicide; however, her body was reverted back to a childhood state like Shinichi's.
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== History ==
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]] joined the Black Organization as researchers thirty years before the present timeline<ref name=f423>[[Volume_41#File_423_-_A_Mystery_Left_by_a_Visitor|Volume 41, File 423: "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"]]</ref> and started developing APTX 4869. [[Vermouth]] may have hinted that there was an earlier project that the Miyanos assumed control over when they joined,<ref>“If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents '''who took over''' this foolish research.” Episode 345</ref> perhaps the one Shiho implied was at least 50 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> Regardless, the pair worked on APTX 4869 until they met their untimely deaths in a labratory fire<ref>Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948), Pages 3-4: "The Clenched Scissors"</ref> which destroyed much of their research, leaving their daughter [[Shiho Miyano]] behind and the project in an unfinished state. The Miyano parents' version of the APTX 4869 was used to kill at least one person, [[Kohji Haneda]] who was murdered 17 years ago and included on Shiho's list of APTX victims.

Shiho was then groomed to take over their APTX 4869 research project.<ref name="387p7">Manga [[Volume 38]], File 2 (384), pg 7: "An unexpected Treasure"</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948), Pages 3-4: "The Clenched Scissors</ref> She was educated overseas in America<ref name="387p7"/> before returning to Japan at or before she was 13<ref>13 is the latest age she was codenamed by according to Akai Shuuichi's version of events.</ref>. Shiho advanced the drug to the point where she observed at least one of her lab mice reverting in age.<ref>Shiho's intro when she first explains APTX to Shinichi</ref> She was also 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. The drug was still considered incomplete by the time it was used on [[Shinichi Kudo]]<ref>APTX's nickname is incomplete detective</ref>, but [[Pisco]] implied that Shiho had advanced it significantly since her parents' tenure<ref>[[Volume 24]]</ref>. Shiho boycotted her work, when she couldn't get any answer to why her sister had died. To die by her own hand, she used the poison and ended up getting shrunk, which made her able to escape. It is unknown if the Black Organization has found replacement researchers to continue work on the APTX 4869 project after Shiho's defection.

Sometime during APTX's development, the Black Organization decided to use the incomplete form as a poison for stealthy murder, since it could kill without leaving trace in the victim.

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

== Antidote ==
:''Main article: [[Prototype antidote]]''
[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|150px|Gin poisons Shinichi.]]
Throughout the series there are several instances in which the APTX was temporarily neutralized and Shinichi and Shiho were returned to their actual age forms. The main ingredient for this reversal is a component found in [[baijiu]], which Haibara has already incorporated in a prototype antidote for the APTX.<ref name="TGDOTW">Manga [[Volume 10]], Files 4-5 (092-095): "The Great Detective of the West"</ref>

It is notable that in the instances where Shinichi or Shiho were successfully changed back, the recipient was suffering from a common cold while the component was ingested, indicating that the immune system somehow has to be taxed for the antidote to work.<ref name="TGDOTW"/><ref name="241p">Manga [[Volume 24]], File 10 (241): "The Bullet from the Past"</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 26]], Files 2-4 (255-257): "School Play Case"</ref> The only apparent [[canon]] exception was Shinichi's reversion in the London arc. While not canon, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'' uses this idea as Conan is given a pill to give him the symptoms of a cold, while drinking baijiu.

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

== Speculation ==

=== Original intent ===
At first, it was revealed by Gin that the APTX 4869 was a poison to kill people who know too much about the Black Organization. He used Shinichi as a guinea pig. Shiho Miyano said that she didn't intend to create a poison,<ref name="179p9">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), page 9: "The Girl Made Of Lies"</ref> which suggests that APTX 4869 was originally developed with a different goal in mind. It probably was just a useful side effect that the current prototype kills while leaving no trace in the victim’s body, and was thus employed as a poison - a usage which Haibara detests.<ref name="179p9"/> Additionally, APTX 4869 is nicknamed the "''incomplete'' detective" by the Black Organization,<ref name="239p4"/><ref name="241p11"/> which means its true purpose has not yet been achieved.

==== Immortality/anti-aging ====
One possibility is that the goal of the APTX 4869 is to develop a therapy which will cause immortality, stall or reverse the effects of aging, or extend a human's lifespan. The de-aging effect that occurred when Shinichi and Haibara took APTX 4869 probably indicates the main intent of the drug's development. After [[Pisco]] saw Haibara shrink back to her child form, he commented that he was impressed she had developed the drug to that point, implying that deaging is in the right direction.<ref name="242p9">Manga [[Volume 24]], File 11, page 9: "The White World"</ref> Supporting this is Haibara’s line, "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 9 (189): "The Endangered Ball "; Episodes [[Episode 130|130]]-[[Episode 131|131]]</ref> APTX 4869 is the only known intersection between Shinichi and the Black Organization; meaning that Shinichi's de-aging made him relevant to the Black Organization's project.

According to Haibara’s description about APTX 4869<ref name="241p"/>, APTX 4869 activates [[wikipedia:telomerase|telomerase]], an enzyme which can increase the number of times a cell can divide, and therefore affect a cell's lifespan and “reproductive potential”. The goal of this might be to revert all non-neural cells to a "youthful", high reproductive potential state. [[Vermouth]]'s unnatural youth is another indicator that the Black Organization may be involved in research towards extending lifespan, halting aging, or rejuvenating the body.

The goal of the antagonists in ''[[Magic Kaito]]'' is pursuing immortality, via the [[Pandora Gem]], but the goal of the Black Organization, as confirmed in one interview with Gosho Aoyama, is NOT immortality.

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

=== "Silver Bullet" and "APTX 4869" are two names for the same project ===
:''See also: [[Silver Bullet (drug)]]''
In a flashback, Shiho recalls the end of [[Elena_Miyano#Tapes_left_for_Shiho|the recorded message]] left by [[Elena Miyano|her mother]] which revealed Elena had been working on "a truly terrifying drug" the Miyano parents called the ''[[Silver Bullet]]''.<ref name=821p7>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pg 7: "Mystery Train 「Junction」"</ref> It is unclear whether Silver Bullet is the Miyano parents' personal nickname for what is currently called APTX 4869, or if it was a closely related project they developed in parallel. Whatever the case, the Miyanos' Silver Bullet drug and Shiho's APTX 4869 are probably closely linked if not the same in-development drug.

Haibara took over her parents' research after they died by reconstructing their work from surviving fragments after a lab fire which supposedly killed her parents.<ref>Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948), Pages 3-4: "The Clenched Scissors"</ref> One of these projects was the APTX 4869 project. The proof some version of APTX 4869 existed in the Miyano parents' time lies in a [[List of Black Organization related characters#APTX 4869 Victims|death list]] which includes the name of [[Kohji Haneda|a man]] killed with the drug [[Case from 17 years ago|17 years prior]] to the current timeline. Because Shiho had to reconstruct her parents' research from the fragments that survived, intentionally or unintentionally, it's possible that some of what the Miyanos called the [[Silver Bullet]] became incorporated into Shiho's modern version of APTX 4869.

Regardless of what the parents' version of APTX 4869 was intended for, those characters who know about the shrinking side effect of Shiho's modern version of APTX 4869 have a tendency to compare it to the Miyanos' research. After watching Haibara shrink, Pisco, who knew about the project the Miyanos worked on, commented that Shiho's parents would be proud of the progress Shiho had made on the drug.<ref name=V24-11p9>Manga [[Volume 24]], File 11, page 9: "The White World"</ref> During her recollection of the tapes, Haibara was holding and considering the antidote to APTX 4869. She then regrets that she didn't understand the drug was something that should have never been made, strongly implying she had worked on the same drug as well.<ref name=821p7/> Lastly, [[Vermouth]], who opposed the Miyanos' research seems to have transposed her distaste onto Shiho's research and Shiho herself.<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref>

It is also notable that Vermouth has been a part of the Black Organization long enough to have heard the Miyanos use the name "Silver Bullet",<ref>Vermouth has been in the Organization at least 20 years dated by when she assassinated Jodie's father which is more time than the theoretical maximum 18 years the tapes could be recorded -- dated to Shiho's conception.</ref> and may have given Conan the same nickname in reference to his deaged state caused by the drug. On the other hand, [[Shuichi Akai]] also has the nickname Silver Bullet, but no apparent connection to the drug other than dating Akemi Miyano, the sister/daughter of the drug's creators.

== References ==
<references />

{{APTX 4869}}
{{Black Organization}}

[[Category:Objects]]
[[Category:Black Organization]]
[[de:Apoptoxin_4869]]

Akai family

2017-11-18T16:53:07Z

Detective Reaper: /* Tsutomu Akai */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning these people. 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]].}}

The '''Akai family''' has five known members so far: [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], [[Masumi Sera]], their mother [[Mary]], and her husband [[Tsutomu Akai]]. According to Masumi, her surname Sera comes from her mother's side, and her second brother had also been sharing this surname until he graduated from high school.

== Members ==
'''''Note''': Italics mean that the family member is deceased.''

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===Tsutomu Akai===
{{main|Tsutomu Akai}}
* Tsutomu is missing (unknown if alive or dead since his body was never found).
* Tsutomu passed his looks down to his middle son Shukichi.
* Tsutomu was not an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent.<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>
* Tsutomu was involved in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]].
* He instructed his family to escape to Japan. It happened before Masumi was born, so he never got to meet her.
* He had a rich friend, that looks after Masumi.

===Mary===
[[File:Mary Profile.jpg|thumb|right|Mary]]
{{main|Mary}}
Mary is the mother of the three Akai siblings. She currently has the body of a middle schooler for unknown reasons, possibly because she was drugged with [[APTX 4869]] or some similar drug. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past. Mary passed her looks onto Shuichi and Masumi, who share her characteristic eyes. According to Masumi, Mary was living in America.<ref>Chapter 786</ref>But later revealed in file 972, she is British and lived in England instead of America.
{{clear}}

===Shuichi Akai (1st son)===
{{main|Shuichi Akai}}
Shuichi Akai is the 1st son in Akai family. He 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 Dai Moroboshi and infiltrated the Organization, where he was given the codename Rye. During this time he made enemies with [[Gin]] and [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and became romantically involved with [[Akemi Miyano]]. He subsequently put an end to his relationship with Jodie Starling (his colleague at the FBI).

===Shukichi Haneda (2nd son)===
[[File:Shukichi is the brother.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Shuichi and Shukichi on the beach.]]
{{main|Shukichi Haneda}}
Shukichi Haneda is a professional shogi player, as well as the former boyfriend of Yumi Miyamoto. He has a non-blood brother named Kohji Haneda, a masterful shogi player, and a victim of APTX 4869.
{{clear}}

===Masumi Sera (1st daughter)===
{{main|Masumi Sera}}
Masumi Sera is the 1st daughter in Akai family. She is a high school detective. She is the younger sister of FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]]. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved to America three years ago with her mother, presumably due to Akai infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. She has recently returned to Japan for some unknown reason.

===Mary's sister===
Gosho has hinted that Mary is one of a pair of sisters, but so far in the series no mention of a sister has been made. However,in the manga [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|Department Store Stabbing Case]], Conan noticed some left over make-up on [[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 somehow to Mary. Due to this ressemblance, Fans began to believe that Mary's sister is [[Elena Miyano]], but it hasn't been confirmed yet.
Gosho said that "Two mothers will be revealed to be sisters". If Mary does have a sister, then that sister has at least one child or more.
In an interview in Singapore, Gosho confirmed that Shuichi and Akemi are cousins, meaning that Elena and Mary, who are both British, are sisters.

== Timeline ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width=120px style="background:brown;color:white;"|Time
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Event
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Shuichi's age
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Shukichi's age
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Masumi's age
|-
| ??
| [[Tsutomu Akai]] and [[Mary]] are born and married. Mary takes her husband's surname Akai.
| N/A
| N/A
| N/A
|-
| >32 years ago
| [[Shuichi Akai]] is born.
| 0
| N/A
| N/A
|-
| 28 years ago
| [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi Akai]] is born.
| 4
| 0
| N/A
|-
| 17 years ago
| [[Kohji Haneda]] is killed with some formulation of [[APTX 4869]]. Tsutomu and Mary conceive Masumi.
| 15
| 11
| N/A
|-
| 16-17 years ago
| After Kohji's incident, Tsutomu Akai becomes involved with "horrible people." He leaves a message telling his family to leave England for Japan because it is safer. Tsutomu then disappears, no body is found, and he is presumed dead. Shuichi Akai refuses to let his father's murderers escape and formulates a plan to study in the US, get a US citizenship, and enter the FBI to investigate his "father's incident". Shuichi lies to Mary about his intentions and then leaves his family for the United States when Mary is beginning to have visible signs of being pregnant with Masumi.
| 15-16
| 11-12
| <0
|-
| 16-17 years ago
| [[Masumi Sera|Masumi Akai]] is born in Japan.
| 15-16
| 11-12
| 0
|-
| >14-15 years ago
| Masumi and Shukichi start using the family name Sera instead of Akai.
| <18
| <14
| <3
|-
| 14-15 years ago
| Shukichi enters high school with the family name Sera.
| 17-18
| 13-14
| 1-2
|-
| 10 years ago
| Shukichi graduates high school and changes his family name from Sera to Haneda. (Masumi says all three siblings have different family names. Masumi has "Sera", Shuichi has "Akai", and Shukichi has "Haneda".) Mary, Masumi, and Shukichi reunite with Shuichi at a Japanese beach after 7 years. Shuichi and Masumi meet for the first time. Shuichi has obtained full USA citizenship after getting a green card. He has not taken the test to become an FBI agent yet.
| 21-22
| 17-18
| 6-7
|-
| 5-10 years ago
| Shuichi sends Masumi Jeet Kune Do videos to Masumi in elementary school.
| 22-27
| 18-23
| 6-11
|-
| 5 years ago
| Shuichi starts infiltrating the [[Black Organization]] and dating [[Akemi Miyano]].
| 27
| 23
| 11-12
|-
| 4 years ago
| Masumi sees Shuichi in Japan.
| 28
| 24
| 12-13
|-
| 3 years ago
| Mary and Masumi move overseas, Masumi goes to middle school overseas.
| 29
| 25
| 13-14
|-
| 2 years ago
| Shuichi is uncovered as an FBI agent and is ejected from the Black Organization.
| 30
| 26
| 14-15
|-
| Current
| Shuichi has his death faked and is living in secret. Masumi comes back to Japan and has been living in different hotels with Mary. Shukichi has been living in Japan winning shogi awards.
| 32
| 28
| 16-17
|}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Families]]

[[de:Familie Akai]]

Akai family

2017-11-18T16:49:53Z

Detective Reaper: /* Members */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning these people. 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]].}}

The '''Akai family''' has five known members so far: [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], [[Masumi Sera]], their mother [[Mary]], and her husband [[Tsutomu Akai]]. According to Masumi, her surname Sera comes from her mother's side, and her second brother had also been sharing this surname until he graduated from high school.

== Members ==
'''''Note''': Italics mean that the family member is deceased.''

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|GMA=[[File:No pic female.jpg|100px]] Unmentioned mother
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|PAPAKAI={{familytree/Mr. Akai}}
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{{familytree| | |SHUICHI| |MASUMI| |KICHI| | |KOHJI
|SHUICHI={{familytree/Shuichi Akai}}
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|MASUMI=[[File:Masumi Sera.jpg|100px|link=Masumi Sera]] [[Masumi Sera|Masumi Sera formerly Akai]]
|KOHJI=[[File:Kohji Haneda.jpg|100px|link=Kohji Haneda]] ''[[Kohji Haneda]]''
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===Tsutomu Akai===
{{main|Tsutomu Akai}}
* Tsutomu is apparently deceased.
* Tsutomu passed his looks down to his middle son Shukichi.
* Tsutomu was not an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent.<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>
* Tsutomu was involved in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]].
* He instructed his family to escape to Japan. It happened before Masumi was born, so he never got to meet her.
* He had a rich friend, that looks after Masumi.

===Mary===
[[File:Mary Profile.jpg|thumb|right|Mary]]
{{main|Mary}}
Mary is the mother of the three Akai siblings. She currently has the body of a middle schooler for unknown reasons, possibly because she was drugged with [[APTX 4869]] or some similar drug. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past. Mary passed her looks onto Shuichi and Masumi, who share her characteristic eyes. According to Masumi, Mary was living in America.<ref>Chapter 786</ref>But later revealed in file 972, she is British and lived in England instead of America.
{{clear}}

===Shuichi Akai (1st son)===
{{main|Shuichi Akai}}
Shuichi Akai is the 1st son in Akai family. He 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 Dai Moroboshi and infiltrated the Organization, where he was given the codename Rye. During this time he made enemies with [[Gin]] and [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and became romantically involved with [[Akemi Miyano]]. He subsequently put an end to his relationship with Jodie Starling (his colleague at the FBI).

===Shukichi Haneda (2nd son)===
[[File:Shukichi is the brother.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Shuichi and Shukichi on the beach.]]
{{main|Shukichi Haneda}}
Shukichi Haneda is a professional shogi player, as well as the former boyfriend of Yumi Miyamoto. He has a non-blood brother named Kohji Haneda, a masterful shogi player, and a victim of APTX 4869.
{{clear}}

===Masumi Sera (1st daughter)===
{{main|Masumi Sera}}
Masumi Sera is the 1st daughter in Akai family. She is a high school detective. She is the younger sister of FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]]. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved to America three years ago with her mother, presumably due to Akai infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. She has recently returned to Japan for some unknown reason.

===Mary's sister===
Gosho has hinted that Mary is one of a pair of sisters, but so far in the series no mention of a sister has been made. However,in the manga [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|Department Store Stabbing Case]], Conan noticed some left over make-up on [[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 somehow to Mary. Due to this ressemblance, Fans began to believe that Mary's sister is [[Elena Miyano]], but it hasn't been confirmed yet.
Gosho said that "Two mothers will be revealed to be sisters". If Mary does have a sister, then that sister has at least one child or more.
In an interview in Singapore, Gosho confirmed that Shuichi and Akemi are cousins, meaning that Elena and Mary, who are both British, are sisters.

== Timeline ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width=120px style="background:brown;color:white;"|Time
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Event
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Shuichi's age
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Shukichi's age
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Masumi's age
|-
| ??
| [[Tsutomu Akai]] and [[Mary]] are born and married. Mary takes her husband's surname Akai.
| N/A
| N/A
| N/A
|-
| >32 years ago
| [[Shuichi Akai]] is born.
| 0
| N/A
| N/A
|-
| 28 years ago
| [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi Akai]] is born.
| 4
| 0
| N/A
|-
| 17 years ago
| [[Kohji Haneda]] is killed with some formulation of [[APTX 4869]]. Tsutomu and Mary conceive Masumi.
| 15
| 11
| N/A
|-
| 16-17 years ago
| After Kohji's incident, Tsutomu Akai becomes involved with "horrible people." He leaves a message telling his family to leave England for Japan because it is safer. Tsutomu then disappears, no body is found, and he is presumed dead. Shuichi Akai refuses to let his father's murderers escape and formulates a plan to study in the US, get a US citizenship, and enter the FBI to investigate his "father's incident". Shuichi lies to Mary about his intentions and then leaves his family for the United States when Mary is beginning to have visible signs of being pregnant with Masumi.
| 15-16
| 11-12
| <0
|-
| 16-17 years ago
| [[Masumi Sera|Masumi Akai]] is born in Japan.
| 15-16
| 11-12
| 0
|-
| >14-15 years ago
| Masumi and Shukichi start using the family name Sera instead of Akai.
| <18
| <14
| <3
|-
| 14-15 years ago
| Shukichi enters high school with the family name Sera.
| 17-18
| 13-14
| 1-2
|-
| 10 years ago
| Shukichi graduates high school and changes his family name from Sera to Haneda. (Masumi says all three siblings have different family names. Masumi has "Sera", Shuichi has "Akai", and Shukichi has "Haneda".) Mary, Masumi, and Shukichi reunite with Shuichi at a Japanese beach after 7 years. Shuichi and Masumi meet for the first time. Shuichi has obtained full USA citizenship after getting a green card. He has not taken the test to become an FBI agent yet.
| 21-22
| 17-18
| 6-7
|-
| 5-10 years ago
| Shuichi sends Masumi Jeet Kune Do videos to Masumi in elementary school.
| 22-27
| 18-23
| 6-11
|-
| 5 years ago
| Shuichi starts infiltrating the [[Black Organization]] and dating [[Akemi Miyano]].
| 27
| 23
| 11-12
|-
| 4 years ago
| Masumi sees Shuichi in Japan.
| 28
| 24
| 12-13
|-
| 3 years ago
| Mary and Masumi move overseas, Masumi goes to middle school overseas.
| 29
| 25
| 13-14
|-
| 2 years ago
| Shuichi is uncovered as an FBI agent and is ejected from the Black Organization.
| 30
| 26
| 14-15
|-
| Current
| Shuichi has his death faked and is living in secret. Masumi comes back to Japan and has been living in different hotels with Mary. Shukichi has been living in Japan winning shogi awards.
| 32
| 28
| 16-17
|}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Families]]

[[de:Familie Akai]]

Case from 17 years ago

2017-11-17T04:45:08Z

Detective Reaper: /* Description */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this case. 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]].}}

[[File:Conan reads the case online.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Conan reads about the case online.]]
17 years ago [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] were found dead in their hotel rooms. Kohji had managed to leave a mysterious dying message that may indicate that a member of the [[Black Organization]] was involved.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Kohji Haneda}}
{{char|Amanda Hughes|Amanda Hughes EP861}}
{{char|Asaka|Asaka EP861}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"}}
{{char|Tsutomu Akai}}
}}

== Description ==
Kohji Haneda, a shogi player, went to the US to participate in a chess competition at the Juke Hotel, however the day before the match he was found murdered in his hotel room. According to a website with numerous photos of the crime scene, his room was a total mess which was chalked up to a struggle between Kohji and his assailant. The website reported that the cause of his death remains unclear, but Haibara recalls his name was on the APTX 4869 victims list. On the same day in a different hotel room Amanda Hughes, a wealthy person who has contacts with both the FBI and CIA, was found murdered and the cause of her death is also unclear.

Amanda had been a fan of Kohji's and had been in contact with him in the past. She had visited his hotel room some time before the murder, her fingerprints were found on the door handle, sofa, tea cups, knife, and fork. After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. Several defensive wounds were found on Kohji's arms and his palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. There were some bruises on his face as well. In Kouji's room, the sink in the bathroom was even left running. Amanda's own room, on the other hand, was neat and tidy, as though nothing had happened. It is not known who of them was murdered first.

On the day of the murders Amanda's bodyguard, who she called "Asaka", disappeared. Currently Asaka is the prime suspect in both murders. Neither relatives or acquaintances of Amanda know when Asaka was hired on as her bodyguard. It is currently unknown whether Asaka is a given name or a surname. If it were a given name then it would be likely that Asaka would be female, however if it were a surname then it would not be possible to determine the gender. At some point Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror, which leads Gaito Hotta to believe that Asaka is a woman. As a bodyguard, it is thought that Asaka is skilled at bringing down opponents.

Tsutomu Akai was either involved in the case or its aftermath. As a result, he made enemies with some really bad people and sent a message to his family telling them to move to the safety of Japan. Since then Tsutomu has not been seen, leading many to believe that he is dead. However, a body has never been found.

Gin comments that this case is a job in which Rum screwed up, clarifying that Rum was present, or at least involved some way or another, and that things did not happen according to plan back then.

=== Aftermath ===
[[File:Kohji Hanedas body.jpg|right|thumb|285px|Kuroda connects Rumi to the Kohji case.]]
Mary Sera took her family to Japan as instructed by her husband's text. Shuichi Akai then left his family to study abroad in the United States with the intention of obtaining a green card and joining the FBI to find out what happened to his father. Shukichi Akai eventually leaves the family as well, changing his family name to Haneda. He also claims to be a non-blood brother of Kohji and possesses his fan that has his motto.

When Conan learns that the case involved APTX, he finds information about the case that had been uploaded to the internet. Even when it gets taken down the person who uploaded it tries to re-upload it. Conan thinks that its almost if they are saying "Please help me solve this mystery!".

Gaito Hotta had obtained information that sates that Asaka had been seen holding a hand mirror and was going to use that to claim that Asaka was a woman. However it is unclear whether this is first or second hand information. Mary seemed to think that this information was boring.

A woman whose name, {{nihongo|Rumi Wakasa|若狭留美|Wakasa Rumi}}, bears similar spelling to the dying message of the Kohji case appears at Conan's school. When Hyoue Kuroda learns of this person, he seems to make a connection between her and the Kohji case and implies that he might know her by saying "that's not like that person at all" when he was told she was going camping.

Currently the list of people who know about the case are as follows: Conan, Haibara, Agasa, Shuichi, Masumi, Mary, Kogoro, Gin, Vodka, Bourbon, Vermouth, and Kuroda. It is presumed that since Rumi's name bares resemblance to the dying message that she may know as well. Shukichi seems to be aware of Kohji's death, but it is unclear what he knows, or what his connection to Kohji is, since he is called a 'non-biological brother'.

== Dying Message ==
After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. The mirror had writing on it that Haibara recognized as saying "PUT ON MASCARA", however it had been broken so that only "P T O N" remained. Kohji's palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. The sink in Amanda's bathroom was even left running. It seems as if Kohji had gone to her room and turned the sink on, then ran water over the mirror to use the scissors to cut the mirror up, although it's unclear how he managed to do that during such circumstances. With the letters "P T O N" removed, the message remaining is "U MASCARA", which can be arranged to make "ASACA RUM".
The Black Organization is aware of the dying message.

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== APTX Connection ==
Even though the cause of death is unclear in both cases, only Kohji's name appeared on the [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#APTX_4869_Victims|APTX 4869 victims list]]. However it is interesting to note that Kohji's name appeared two names below Shinichi's name on the list. Haibara thinks that the person who compiled the victims list may not have compiled it chronologically, but rather in some other fashion, like blood type.

Since Haibara states that the drug she worked on was created from the burnt remains from the data left behind by her parents, she says that its possible that Kohji was made to ingest an early prototype made by her parents. Haibara hasn't mentioned whether Amanda Hughes' name is on the list or not.
[[File:APTX_4869_victim_list 2.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
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== Motive ==
The motive for the murders is unknown. In Kohji Haneda's case, Haibara suggest it might have been because he was close to Amanda Hughes. If that's true, then that means that Amanda was the main target, possibly because of her connections to the FBI and the CIA.

== Anime Changes ==
* Given that the Romanized spelling of Asaca and Rum in the dying message is important, it seems relevant to note that the Romanized spelling of "Kohji" was changed for the anime version to "Kouji". 

== Speculation ==

=== Asaka's identity ===
Conan suspects that Asaka is Rum, based on that the missing letters from the mirror spells out ASACA RUM. Conan also suspected that Mary is Asaka, by thinking that Asaka is a strong woman.

=== The one putting the case online ===
A mysterious individual, the uploader, is in possession of detailed crime scene photographs and case information. This includes pictures of Kohji's dying message hand mirror broken on the ground prior to Asaka removing a hand mirror from the scene. This unknown uploader posts this information online, seemingly asking for the case to be solved.

Information about the case was online at the time Okiya and Conan solved the "The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters" case, but was removed by the beginning of the "Soul Detective Murder Case". The reason why the information was deleted and the identity of the one doing the takedowns --perhaps the uploader themselves or another force who wishes to scrub the essential details of Kohji's case from the internet-- is still uncertain.

It should be noted that current Police Superintendent [[Hyoue Kuroda]] has access to the information on the website and seems to see some sort of connection to Elementary teacher [[Rumi Wakasa]]. Some fans speculate that it is possible that Rumi is the one uploading the information to the site due to her name being a close letter scramble of the dying message ASAKA RUM and her method of approaching Conan.

=== Alternate interpretations of the mirror ===

=== Kohji's palm bruise ===
In the picture of Kohji's hand, there are several bruises on the fingers and one on the center of his palm. These are presumed to be from holding the scissors tightly. Kohji's method of holding the scissors is unclear, but the bruises are consistent with looping one's thumb and index finger through the two rings so the rings as close to the base of the fingers. If the blade is angled across the palm and the other three fingers folded over, it makes a defensive-like pose. This grip does not explain the bruise in the hollow of his palm. If a defensive grip was used, then the bruise must have been caused by an item secreted in Kohji's palm he was gripping along with the scissors, holding the scissors another way, or another force altogether. It may also be of concern that despite supposedly gripping the scissors tightly in life, after Kohji was killed and the body photographed, the scissors were elsewhere nearby and Kohji's hand opened.

== See also ==
* [[Rum]]
* [[Kohji Haneda]]
* [[List of Black Organization related characters]]

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== References ==
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[[Category:Black Organization]]

Shiho Miyano

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| name = Shiho Miyano
| japanese-name = 宮野志保 (Miyano Shiho)
| english-name = Shiho 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
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_2#File_016_-_A_Devil-like_Woman|File 16]] (In a silhouette) / [[Volume_24#File_241_-_The_Bullet_from_the_Past|File 241]] (first full appearance) Anime: [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 177]]
| appearances = {{:Shiho Miyano Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole =
| japanese-voice = [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| english-voice =
| drama-actor = [[Yu Kashii]] (Sherry)
| footnotes =
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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 '''[[Ai Haibara]]'''.

==Background==
[[Image:Shiho_Miyano_computer_picture.jpg|left|200px|thumb|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. 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 she might have visiting the Mermaid Island, where there supposedly lived a woman rumored to be immortal.

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 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]].
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==Personality==
Initially, Shiho was very cynical, which was reflected in her valuing her own security above idealistic principles of justice. She also did not wish to become close to others. While 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 genera.

==="Black Organization sense"===
[[Image:Ai's BO radar.png|thumb|right|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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==Plot overview==
===Prior to Escape===
After being orphaned by the death of [[Atsushi Miyano|her]] [[Elena Miyano|parents]] at a young age, Shiho was groomed to take over their [[APTX 4869]] research project. She was educated overseas in America before returning to Japan at or before she was 13. She became a high ranking member, codenamed Sherry, in the Black Organization's internal drug development division.<ref>Conan Drill page 237</ref> When she was about 13,<ref>Five years before present timeline</ref> undercover [[FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] began dating Shiho's sister [[Akemi Miyano]] in order to use Shiho's rank to his advantage while infiltrating the Black Organization.

During the 5+ years Shiho worked in the Black Organization lab, Akemi was Shiho's lifeline to normalcy and her primary emotional support within the darkness of the Black Organization. Akemi would arrange meetings with Shiho in restaurants and such to chat about current happenings, and Shiho would sometimes tell Akemi about her Black Organization activities, although it appears she did not go into much detail.<ref name="Akemi Meeting">Volume 18, File 10, Page 15</ref> Akemi would also send Shiho floppies of pictures of her travels and friends which Shiho would quickly look at. During this time, Shiho accidentally mixed up the disks and mailed a disk of extremely sensitive information back to Akemi by mistake. The disk eventually would up in the hands of Akemi's professor friend, Masami Hirota.

[[Image:Investigation_Kudo's_house.jpg‎|thumb|left|170px|Search team were sent to Kudo's house to investigate.]]Closer to the beginning of the current timeline, Shiho Miyano was ordered to test the most recent, yet still incomplete, version of APTX 4869 on [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]], a failed assassin. Shiho received the data about him, but he managed to escape the Black Organization before she could test it on him. Shiho fled the Black Organization herself soon after, so her superiors never found a substitute test subject. [[Shinichi Kudo]] wound up being the first "guinea pig" of APTX 4869 according to [[Gin]], who decided to use the newly approved poison to kill him after Shinichi witnessed a Black Organization transaction.

Unaware of the APTX 4869's rare deaging side effect when they used it on Shinichi Kudo, the Black Organization ordered a search for him because his body had not been found. As the creator of the drug, Shiho was part of the team who searched Shinichi's house twice to confirm his death. She began to suspect Shinichi's transformation when she noticed his clothes from primary school had disappeared between the first and second searches. Sometime earlier, one mouse dosed with APTX 4869 had become younger, so she suspected something similar had happened to Shinichi. Shiho did not want the Black Organization to kill such an interesting "test subject" before she could examine him, so Shiho confirmed Shinichi as deceased so the organization would not look into the matter further. Shiho later met with Akemi and told her that she went to Kudo's house in Beika city to "look after something".<ref name="Akemi Meeting"/>

==== Akemi's robbery plan and death ====
[[Image:Conan newspaper.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's picture in the newspaper article about Akemi Miyano's death. Shiho remembered Conan from this picture.]]
Meanwhile, Akemi Miyano wished that she and Shiho could leave the Black Organization. The Black Organization itself was in an awkward position as Akemi had been in love with the FBI spy, Shuichi Akai, whose true allegiance had since been uncovered when Shiho was about 16.<ref>Two years before present timeline</ref> The Black Organization could not simply kill Akemi because that would jeopardize the loyalty of Shiho, who was valuable to the Black Organization's research efforts. Exasperated, the Black Organization came up with a trap for Akemi; they told her that she could leave the Black Organization with Shiho if she would rob 10 billion yen from a bank for them. The Black Organization expected Akemi to fail, which would give them the excuse to eliminate her while keeping Shiho loyal; however Akemi, with a team of robbers, succeeded in obtaining the money.

In the event of her success, the Black Organization had designed the second part of the robbery plan so that Akemi's assistants would kill each other or be unintentionally killed by the unwitting Akemi. However one accomplice had fled, forcing Akemi to use detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] to find him. After her first meeting with Kogoro, Akemi met with Shiho again.<ref name="Akemi Meeting"/> Akemi had not told Shiho about the robbery plan, but it seems that Shiho's detection of the Black Organization aura from Akemi<ref>Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest case (some translations do not have this line correct)</ref> and gossip had made Shiho aware that Akemi had done something dangerous. Without telling Shiho about the robbery, Akemi redirected the conversation to [[Conan Edogawa]], whom Akemi said was brilliant and had the composure of an adult. This conversation likely helped Shiho deduce Conan's identity as the missing Shinichi.

Later, after all the accomplices were killed, Akemi planned to hand access to the money over to Gin and Vodka at the shipyard.<ref>This is based on the manga version of this case. The anime alters this scene</ref> Instead, Gin murdered Akemi. A newspaper took a photo of the crime scene that included Conan looking downcast. Shiho later identified Conan using it.

Shiho already resented the Black Organization for using the incomplete APTX 4869 for killing purposes, but the news of Akemi's death was the final straw that induced Shiho to boycott her research until she received an official explanation for why her sister was killed. 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.

[[Image:Shiho_taking_APTX4869.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Shiho swallows the [[APTX 4869]]]]

===Escape from the Black Organization===
Awaiting her execution, Shiho was handcuffed to a wall in a sealed room that also featured a garbage chute too small for an adult to fit in. With no other way out, she took a pill of APTX 4869 she had pocketed to commit suicide before she could be killed, but instead she shrank into a six- or seven-year-old girl. In her new, smaller body, she slipped her hand free of the cuff and used the garbage chute to escape the sealed room. She then attempted to reach Shinichi Kudo's house, hoping he might be able to help her. Exhausted, she collapsed in front of Kudo's house, where she was found by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], who eventually adopted her.<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> After this, Shiho Miyano took up the role of Ai Haibara. It turned out later that Agasa was a professional acquaintance of her parents and had spoken some with her father, [[Atsushi Miyano]], even though Agasa didn't know at that time the Miyanos had children.<ref>Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor</ref>
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===As Ai Haibara ===
[[File:Sherry's Soliloquy.PNG|thumb|right|super|Shiho as Ai Haibara, colored by Gosho Aoyama for [[Sherry's soliloquy]]]]
{{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_356A|Porsche]] by chance. Conan plants a tracker and transmitter in the parked car and eavesdrops on Gin and Vodka when they return. Gin calls an agent named [[Pisco]] and discusses part of a plan to kill someone at a mourning party that will take place at the [[Haido City Hotel]]. Gin tells Pisco he can use the [[APTX 4869|"experimental detective"]] if needed. Gin then finds the tracker and destroys it, believing Sherry placed it there because he also found a single red hair that Haibara inadvertently lost while Conan was planting the bugs. Gin then warns Pisco about Sherry. Although initially reluctant, after hearing Pisco has APTX, Haibara decides to go to the party to try to obtain a sample. Pisco, who knew Shiho as a child, recognizes her as Haibara, kidnaps her using chloroform, and confines her in a wine storage room in another part of the hotel. He doesn't get the opportunity to tell anyone about his discovery because the police are rounding up suspects for the mourning party murder and he is one of them.

After Haibara wakes up, Conan tells Haibara to drink some [[baijiu]] in order to escape. While waiting for the change to occur, she copies some APTX data from a computer Pisco left behind onto a floppy disk. Haibara turns back into Shiho and changes into some leftover janitor clothes that Pisco left behind in the room as part of his disguise. Gin and Vodka break into the storage room looking for Pisco, but Shiho manages to hide herself just before they arrive by bracing her body in the chimney. Unfortunately, Gin hears her breathing and finds another one of her hairs. Instead of simply shooting her in the chimney, however, he goes to the roof to wait for her to finish climbing.

[[image:Sherry-getting-shot.png|thumb|left|175px|Shiho shot by Gin.]] After she climbs out of the chimney, Shiho is confronted by Gin, who shoots her from behind. After exchanging some banter, Gin demands to know how Shiho escaped from the locked chamber room. Shiho remains silent, so Gin shoots her several more times non-fatally, hoping she will crack. Eventually, Gin and Vodka realize she won't talk, so Gin prepares to kill her. Conan meanwhile has arrived and darts Gin in the back with his tranquilizer watch. Using the voice changer to disguise his voice, Conan orders her to get back to the chimney. Vodka shoots Shiho just as she reaches the chimney, so Shiho falls down awkwardly.

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

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

[[File:Shiho video.jpg|thumb|220px|left|The video of Shiho saving the [[Detective Boys]] (filmed by [[Mitsuhiko]]) that [[Amuro]] found on [[Kogoro]]'s computer]]

=== Temporary antidote in Gunma (Manga: [[Volume 77|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-700]])===
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|150px|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.
{{clear}}

==Relationships analysis==
===Family & Friends===
====Akemi Miyano====
After the death of Shiho's parents, Akemi became Shiho's only true ally within the darkness of the Black Organization. Through direct conversation and mail, Akemi showed Shiho the normal side of life that Shiho was unable to experience. Akemi would often admonish Shiho gently to do things normal for her age, such as encouraging her to get a boyfriend. Akemi's death had enough emotional impact to convince Shiho to betray the Black Organization by boycotting her research, even though she knew the act of defiance would likely result in her own death. 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.

====Wakasa Rumi====
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===
==== 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 romantic 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 romantic relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a sexual 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. 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|200px|Shiho's "Before" Appearance (Episode 177)]]
|[[File:Shiho Miyano After.PNG|thumb|200px|Shiho's "After" Appearance (OVA 9)]]
|[[File:Shiho episode ONE image.jpg|200px|thumb|Shihos's Appearance (Episode ONE Special)]]
|}

==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==

===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=US|English|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|志保 Zhìbaǒ|宫野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|시호 Shi Ho, 장미 Jang Mi|안 Ahn, 홍 Hong}}<ref>These are localized full names.</ref>
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Shiho|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=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly due to a translating error.}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korea|쉐리 Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Jerez/Sherry| In the Spanish dub, her codename was first "Jerez" and later changed into "Sherry".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่ Chex-rī̀| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{EndTable}}

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

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Shiho handcuffed.JPG|The scene of Sherry's lockup which is shown in nearly every Detective Conan movie's introduction.
</gallery>

==References==
<References/>
{{APTX 4869}}
{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miyano Shiho}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Black Organization]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]

[[de:Shiho Miyano]]

Korn

2017-11-16T21:27:15Z

Detective Reaper: /* Movie 20: The Darkest Nightmare */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Korn
| japanese-name = コルン (Korun)
| english-name = Korn
| image = Korn Profile.jpg
| age = Unknown
| gender = Male
| occupation = Black Organization member
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_48#Black_Organization_vs._FBI|File 500]] Anime: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Episode 425]]
| appearances = {{:Korn Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Hiroyuki Kinoshita]]
| english-voice =
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Korn|コルン|Korun}}''' is a [[Black Organization]] sniper in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Korn is [[Chianti]]'s partner, and also a skilled assassin, assigned in the assassination division of the Black Organization. He is always seen wearing thick glasses and a hat.

== Personality ==
Even if he is less impatient than Chianti, Korn enjoys killing, and is disappointed when he does not get the opportunity to.<ref>[[Movie 13|Movie 13: The Raven Chaser]], where he regrets that he has not been the one firing at [[Irish]]</ref> Like most members of the organization, he has a cold personality. However, unlike the other members, he appears to be asocial, rarely interacting with other members unless spoken to. He is always seen frowning and looks robotic. His speech is short and full of pauses, leading some fans to speculate that he may have some sort of speech impediment, is a foreigner with weak Japanese or merely because of his age.

== Plot overview ==
==== [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact]] ====
Korn appears for the first time at a shooting stand belonging to the Black Organization, training for the planned murder of Yasutero Domon. Later, he is present when Gin discusses the time and place of this murder with Kir. Even if he is supposed to participate in the two attempted assassinations (against Yasutero Domon and [[Kogoro Mouri]]), and is, each time, seen waiting for Gin's order to shoot, he never gets the opportunity to fire.

==== [[The Shadow of the Black Organization]] ====
Korn is seen in Chianti's car. He tells her he thinks Kir is dead.

==== [[Clash of Red and Black]] ====

==== [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen]] ====

=== Non-Canon Plot Overview ===
==== Movie 13: [[The Raven Chaser]] ====
Korn and Chianti are charged by Gin to burst the tires of [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]'s car, and immediately leave once their mission executed. At the end of the movie, he appears in the helicopter piloted by Vodka, albeit he is not the one to fire at Irish and Conan.

==== Movie 20: [[The Darkest Nightmare]]====
Korn appears in Movie 20 in a pitch black helicopter near the end of the movie as a pilot. During the movie, Korn, together with Chianti, received orders from Gin to spy on the [[Public Security Bureau]] when [[Curaçao]] was transferred to the hospital. He was also able to snipe a British spy known as Stout with a headshot when Stout was receiving orders on a bus.

== Appellations ==
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<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Korn}}
{{appellations|Chianti|Korn}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|-|Vermouth}}

{{appellations|Gin|Korn|Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|-|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Korn}}

{{appellations|Calvados|-|Calvados}}

{{appellations|file=Stout.jpg|List of notable case characters#Stout{{!}}Stout|-|Stout}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Korn}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Korn}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Chianti ====
[[File:Korn Chianti Ferris Wheel.jpg|thumb|right|Chianti: "What? You want to ride the [ferris wheel]?"]]
[[Chianti]] is Korn's partner. They seem to get along well enough; Chianti confides to Korn that she would like to kill Vermouth because she led Calvados to his death. They are not dating.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page-7#entry322612 Super Digest Book 60+] 5. Are Chianti and Korn dating? A: No.</ref> However, the animation team added an extra scene in [[Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small‎|the episode one remake special]] where Korn blushes when Chianti asks him if he wants to ride the ferris wheel, which in Japan is considered a romantic activity for couples.
{{clear}}

==== Vermouth ====
Korn, like Chianti, resents Vermouth, believing she caused the death of Calvados. He wishes to kill Vermouth.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Korn Before.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Korn's "Before" Appearance (Episode 425)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Korn After.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Korn's "After" Appearance (Episode 580)]]
|}

== Trivia ==
* Chianti and Korn's car is a [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Chianti's_Dodge_Viper|blue Dodge Viper with two white stripes.]]
* Korn's always carrying a M24 SWS (Sniper Weapon System) sniper rifle.

==References==
<references />
== See also ==

* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[wikipedia:Korn (spirit)|Korn]] (Alcohol)
{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}

[[Category:Black Organization]]
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[de:Korn]]

Korn

2017-11-16T21:26:47Z

Detective Reaper: /* Movie 20: The Darkest Nightmare */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Korn
| japanese-name = コルン (Korun)
| english-name = Korn
| image = Korn Profile.jpg
| age = Unknown
| gender = Male
| occupation = Black Organization member
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_48#Black_Organization_vs._FBI|File 500]] Anime: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Episode 425]]
| appearances = {{:Korn Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Hiroyuki Kinoshita]]
| english-voice =
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Korn|コルン|Korun}}''' is a [[Black Organization]] sniper in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Korn is [[Chianti]]'s partner, and also a skilled assassin, assigned in the assassination division of the Black Organization. He is always seen wearing thick glasses and a hat.

== Personality ==
Even if he is less impatient than Chianti, Korn enjoys killing, and is disappointed when he does not get the opportunity to.<ref>[[Movie 13|Movie 13: The Raven Chaser]], where he regrets that he has not been the one firing at [[Irish]]</ref> Like most members of the organization, he has a cold personality. However, unlike the other members, he appears to be asocial, rarely interacting with other members unless spoken to. He is always seen frowning and looks robotic. His speech is short and full of pauses, leading some fans to speculate that he may have some sort of speech impediment, is a foreigner with weak Japanese or merely because of his age.

== Plot overview ==
==== [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact]] ====
Korn appears for the first time at a shooting stand belonging to the Black Organization, training for the planned murder of Yasutero Domon. Later, he is present when Gin discusses the time and place of this murder with Kir. Even if he is supposed to participate in the two attempted assassinations (against Yasutero Domon and [[Kogoro Mouri]]), and is, each time, seen waiting for Gin's order to shoot, he never gets the opportunity to fire.

==== [[The Shadow of the Black Organization]] ====
Korn is seen in Chianti's car. He tells her he thinks Kir is dead.

==== [[Clash of Red and Black]] ====

==== [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen]] ====

=== Non-Canon Plot Overview ===
==== Movie 13: [[The Raven Chaser]] ====
Korn and Chianti are charged by Gin to burst the tires of [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]'s car, and immediately leave once their mission executed. At the end of the movie, he appears in the helicopter piloted by Vodka, albeit he is not the one to fire at Irish and Conan.

==== Movie 20: [[The Darkest Nightmare]]====
Korn appears in Movie 20 in a pitch black helicopter near the end of the movie as a pilot. During the movie, Korn, together with Chianti, received orders from Gin to spy on the [Public Security Bureau] when [[Curaçao]] was transferred to the hospital. He was also able to snipe a British spy known as Stout with a headshot when Stout was receiving orders on a bus.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations/head|Korn}}
{{appellations|Chianti|Korn}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|-|Vermouth}}

{{appellations|Gin|Korn|Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|-|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Korn}}

{{appellations|Calvados|-|Calvados}}

{{appellations|file=Stout.jpg|List of notable case characters#Stout{{!}}Stout|-|Stout}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Korn}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Korn}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Chianti ====
[[File:Korn Chianti Ferris Wheel.jpg|thumb|right|Chianti: "What? You want to ride the [ferris wheel]?"]]
[[Chianti]] is Korn's partner. They seem to get along well enough; Chianti confides to Korn that she would like to kill Vermouth because she led Calvados to his death. They are not dating.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page-7#entry322612 Super Digest Book 60+] 5. Are Chianti and Korn dating? A: No.</ref> However, the animation team added an extra scene in [[Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small‎|the episode one remake special]] where Korn blushes when Chianti asks him if he wants to ride the ferris wheel, which in Japan is considered a romantic activity for couples.
{{clear}}

==== Vermouth ====
Korn, like Chianti, resents Vermouth, believing she caused the death of Calvados. He wishes to kill Vermouth.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Korn Before.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Korn's "Before" Appearance (Episode 425)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Korn After.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Korn's "After" Appearance (Episode 580)]]
|}

== Trivia ==
* Chianti and Korn's car is a [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Chianti's_Dodge_Viper|blue Dodge Viper with two white stripes.]]
* Korn's always carrying a M24 SWS (Sniper Weapon System) sniper rifle.

==References==
<references />
== See also ==

* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[wikipedia:Korn (spirit)|Korn]] (Alcohol)
{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}

[[Category:Black Organization]]
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[de:Korn]]

Hyoue Kuroda

2017-11-03T20:08:24Z

Detective Reaper: /* Background */

Kohji Haneda

2017-10-10T22:05:31Z

Detective Reaper:

Kohji Haneda

2017-10-10T22:05:16Z

Detective Reaper:

Kohji Haneda

2017-10-10T22:04:02Z

Detective Reaper:

Kohji Haneda

2017-10-10T22:02:17Z

Detective Reaper:

Scar Akai

2017-10-07T15:59:36Z

Detective Reaper: /* Bell Tree Express Arc (Manga: 818-824, Anime: 701-704) */

Mary Sera

2017-10-07T15:47:31Z

Detective Reaper: /* Relationship */

Kohji Haneda

2017-10-07T15:43:49Z

Detective Reaper: /* Relationship analysis */

Kohji Haneda

2017-10-07T15:41:31Z

Detective Reaper: /* Burning Tent Murder Case (Manga: 987-989, Anime: TBA) */

Kohji Haneda

2017-10-07T15:39:51Z

Detective Reaper: /* Kohji Haneda's Death Case (Manga: 948-950, Anime: 861-862) */

National Police Agency

2017-10-06T14:21:27Z

Detective Reaper: /* Canon agents */

The {{Nihongo|'''National Police Agency (NPA)'''|警察庁|Keisatsu-chō}} is the central coordinating agency of the Japanese police system. It is administered by the [[Wikipedia:National Public Safety Commission (Japan)|National Public Safety Commission]], which appoints the {{nihongo|Commissioner General|警察庁長官|Keisatsu-chō Chōkan}}. As head of the NPA, the Commissioner General holds the highest position in the Japanese police.

The NPA supervises the Regional Police Bureaus and prefectural police organizations, as well as the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]]. Unlike the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] of the United States, the NPA does not have any police officers of its own. Instead, its role is to determine general standards and policies, although in national emergencies or large-scale disasters the agency is authorized to take command of prefectural police forces.

== Background ==
At some point the NPA, or namely its [[#Security Bureau|Security Bureau]], learned of the existence of the [[Black Organization]]. [[Rei Furuya]], using the alias Tooru Amuro, and [[Scotch|another man]] who was an officer from the [[Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police#Public_Security_Bureau|Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau]] infiltrated the Organization. After distinguishing themselves in an unknown fashion, [[the Boss of the Black Organization]] gave the two codenames. Rei became "Bourbon" and the other man became "Scotch".

Eventually, Scotch's identity as a spy was found out by the Black Organization. When he was confronted by [[Shuichi Akai]], who was also infiltrating the organization on behalf of the FBI at the same time, Scotch attempted to steal Shuichi's gun to commit suicide and destroy his phone which contains sensitive data, but was stopped as Shuichi revealed his true affiliation to him. However, at that moment, a worried Rei quickly arrived at the scene and Scotch mistook his ally's approaching footsteps for those of a Black Organization member. He then pulled the trigger and shot himself along with the phone. Shuichi, not knowing of Rei's true identity at the time, picked up the gun and made it look like he had killed Scotch himself. As a result, Rei hated Shuichi and the FBI generally and hoped they would leave Japan altogether.

== Known Agents ==



=== Canon agents ===
* '''[[Rei Furuya]]''': Also going by the alias Tooru Amuro, he has the codename Bourbon in the [[Black Organization]]. He has a rivalry with [[Shuichi Akai]] and the FBI as a whole stemming form [[Scotch]]'s death. He works in the '''Security Bureau Security Planning Division'''.
* Various '''unnamed agents''' ordered by Rei in [[The Scarlet Return]].
* {{nihongo|'''[[Yuya Kazami]]'''|風見裕也|Kazami Yūya}} is a Rei's direct subordinate who appears in ''[[The Darkest Nightmare]]'' and recently in manga, Chapter 998 as his first appearance.<ref name="CharAmuroInterview">[[Shuichi Ikeda|Ikeda, Shuichi]]; [[Tohru Furuya|Furuya, Tohru]] (March 23, 2016). [http://www.animate.tv/news/details.php?id=1458689734 "劇場版『名探偵コナン』が「通常の3倍」観たくなる奇跡の対談！――劇場版『名探偵コナン純黒の悪夢(ナイトメア)」』インタビュー"]. Interviewer: Sòng, Risk. [[wikipedia:Animate|Animate]].. Animate TV. Retrieved March 24, 2016.</ref>
{{clear}}

=== Former agents ===
* '''[[Hyoue Kuroda]]''': Current Tokyo Police First Division Managing Officer, but before he got into a serious accident 10 years ago, he worked for the National Police Agency. It's unknown which department was he in.

=== Non-canon agents ===

== Organization Structure and Divisions ==
:''See also: [[Police_Organization#National Police Agency Organization|National Police Agency Organization]]''

=== Security Bureau ===
[[File:Rei Furuya.jpg|thumb|right|Rei Furuya]]
The {{nihongo|'''Security Bureau of the National Police Agency (NPA SB)'''|警察庁警備局|Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku}} is a bureau of the NPA in charge of national-level public security. It is charged with counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organizations, and social phenomena. It also supervises the prefectural police forces for those issues.<ref>[[wikipedia:National Police Agency Security Bureau (Japan)|Wikipedia: National Police Agency Security Bureau (Japan)]]</ref>

In the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]'', the NPA SB is one of the [[Japanese intelligence agencies]] that participate in the fight against the [[Black Organization]]. The undercover agent [[Rei Furuya]] is a member of one of the departments of the NPA SB called the {{nihongo|'''National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division'''<ref>[[:File:Postcard2016 40.jpg]]</ref>|警察庁警備局警備企画課|Keisatsuchō Keibi-kyoku Keibi-Kikaku-ka}} which has the nickname '''Zero'''.

In the movie [[The Darkest Nightmare]] they kept a list of NOCs from bureaus around the world who infiltrated the organization.

{{clear}}

== Plot Overview ==
=== Bourbon and Akai Arc ===
Rei was assigned to locate [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]. [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], with the help of [[Kaitou Kid]] and several others, managed to convince Rei that [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|she was killed in a train bombing.]] While Rei was looking for Shiho he also took the time to investigate [[Shuichi Akai]]'s alleged death and the FBI illegally stationed in Japan. With the help of [[Vermouth]], he impersonated Shuichi and discovered that he was not actually dead.

Rei later gathered up a team of men to confront a man he believed to be Shuichi in disguise: [[Subaru Okiya]]. Shuichi then challenged the Security Bureau directly, preventing them from detaining [[Jodie Starling]] and [[Andre Camel]]. Rei confronted Shuichi by phone and found out that Shuichi did not kill [[Scotch]] out of malice, and he was genuinely sorry he died. Shuichi also turned over a handgun to the Security Bureau for analysis. Rei's discovery of Shuichi's faked death was not disclosed to the [[Black Organization]].

=== Rum Arc ===
Despite the events of [[Volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|Scarlet Showdown]], Rei still blames Shuichi for Scotch's death. When [[Masumi Sera]] encounters Rei during the [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|Girls Band Murder Case]], she has a flashback to 4 years ago when she saw her brother Shuichi along with a man who teaches her a few notes of base guitar. A third man, who appears to resemble Rei, appeared and referred to that man as Scotch.

== Non-canon Plot Overview ==
=== Episode 813: [[The Shadow Approaching Amuro]] ===

This episode is a pre-story for movie 20, The Darkest Nightmare.

=== Movie 20: [[The Darkest Nightmare]] ===
At the beginning of the movie, [[Curaçao]] is caught breaking into the NPA's headquarter in order to retrieve the data about undercover agents who infiltrated the Black Organization all over the world.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== The NPA and the [[Black Organization]] ===
It hasn't been stated how the Security Bureau and the NPA in general discovered the Black Organization. The Black Organization in general hasn't shown any indication that they specifically suspect the Security Bureau might be investigating them.

=== The NPA and the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] ===
Initially Rei Furuya and the NPA SB in general wanted the FBI, who are operating illegally in Japan, completely deported. Rei Furuya in particular wanted to arrest Shuichi Akai for killing Scotch. After [[The Scarlet Return]], the NPA SB appear to be grudgingly tolerating the FBI's presence.

=== The NPA and the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] ===

=== The NPA and the ordinary [[Law Enforcement#Police|Japanese Law Enforcement]] ===
The NPA in general is the central coordinating and supervising agency of the Japanese police system. While the NPA SB works closely with the [[Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police#Public_Security_Bureau|Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau]] in the fight against the Black Organization, the ordinary Japanese law enforcement doesn't appear to know about its mission or about the organization at all. [[Hyoue Kuroda]], an ex-NPA agent who has since moved to the Tokyo MPD division one, may know something courtesy of Rei Furuya who is currently an NPA agent.

=== The NPA and [[Conan Edogawa]] ===
It is stated by Hyoue Kuroda that he heard the rumor of Conan being the real brain behind Sleeping Kogoro from the NPA, indicating that they have known or at least suspect Conan's true intelligence.

== See also ==
* [[Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police#Public_Security_Bureau|Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau]]
* [[Law Enforcement]]
* [[Rei Furuya]]
* [[Hyoue Kuroda]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{Japanese Intelligence Agencies}}
{{Police}}

[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Law Enforcement]]

National Police Agency

2017-10-06T14:21:03Z

Detective Reaper: /* Canon agents */

The {{Nihongo|'''National Police Agency (NPA)'''|警察庁|Keisatsu-chō}} is the central coordinating agency of the Japanese police system. It is administered by the [[Wikipedia:National Public Safety Commission (Japan)|National Public Safety Commission]], which appoints the {{nihongo|Commissioner General|警察庁長官|Keisatsu-chō Chōkan}}. As head of the NPA, the Commissioner General holds the highest position in the Japanese police.

The NPA supervises the Regional Police Bureaus and prefectural police organizations, as well as the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]]. Unlike the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] of the United States, the NPA does not have any police officers of its own. Instead, its role is to determine general standards and policies, although in national emergencies or large-scale disasters the agency is authorized to take command of prefectural police forces.

== Background ==
At some point the NPA, or namely its [[#Security Bureau|Security Bureau]], learned of the existence of the [[Black Organization]]. [[Rei Furuya]], using the alias Tooru Amuro, and [[Scotch|another man]] who was an officer from the [[Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police#Public_Security_Bureau|Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau]] infiltrated the Organization. After distinguishing themselves in an unknown fashion, [[the Boss of the Black Organization]] gave the two codenames. Rei became "Bourbon" and the other man became "Scotch".

Eventually, Scotch's identity as a spy was found out by the Black Organization. When he was confronted by [[Shuichi Akai]], who was also infiltrating the organization on behalf of the FBI at the same time, Scotch attempted to steal Shuichi's gun to commit suicide and destroy his phone which contains sensitive data, but was stopped as Shuichi revealed his true affiliation to him. However, at that moment, a worried Rei quickly arrived at the scene and Scotch mistook his ally's approaching footsteps for those of a Black Organization member. He then pulled the trigger and shot himself along with the phone. Shuichi, not knowing of Rei's true identity at the time, picked up the gun and made it look like he had killed Scotch himself. As a result, Rei hated Shuichi and the FBI generally and hoped they would leave Japan altogether.

== Known Agents ==



=== Canon agents ===
* '''[[Rei Furuya]]''': Also going by the alias Tooru Amuro, he has the codename Bourbon in the [[Black Organization]]. He has a rivalry with [[Shuichi Akai]] and the FBI as a whole stemming form [[Scotch]]'s death. He works in the '''Security Bureau Security Planning Division'''.
* Various '''unnamed agents''' ordered by Rei in [[The Scarlet Return]].
* {{nihongo|'''[[Yuya Kazami]]'''|風見裕也|Kazami Yūya}} is a Rei's direct subordinate who appears in ''[[The Darkest Nightmare]] and recently in manga, Chapter 998 as his first appearance.''.<ref name="CharAmuroInterview">[[Shuichi Ikeda|Ikeda, Shuichi]]; [[Tohru Furuya|Furuya, Tohru]] (March 23, 2016). [http://www.animate.tv/news/details.php?id=1458689734 "劇場版『名探偵コナン』が「通常の3倍」観たくなる奇跡の対談！――劇場版『名探偵コナン純黒の悪夢(ナイトメア)」』インタビュー"]. Interviewer: Sòng, Risk. [[wikipedia:Animate|Animate]].. Animate TV. Retrieved March 24, 2016.</ref>
{{clear}}

=== Former agents ===
* '''[[Hyoue Kuroda]]''': Current Tokyo Police First Division Managing Officer, but before he got into a serious accident 10 years ago, he worked for the National Police Agency. It's unknown which department was he in.

=== Non-canon agents ===

== Organization Structure and Divisions ==
:''See also: [[Police_Organization#National Police Agency Organization|National Police Agency Organization]]''

=== Security Bureau ===
[[File:Rei Furuya.jpg|thumb|right|Rei Furuya]]
The {{nihongo|'''Security Bureau of the National Police Agency (NPA SB)'''|警察庁警備局|Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku}} is a bureau of the NPA in charge of national-level public security. It is charged with counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organizations, and social phenomena. It also supervises the prefectural police forces for those issues.<ref>[[wikipedia:National Police Agency Security Bureau (Japan)|Wikipedia: National Police Agency Security Bureau (Japan)]]</ref>

In the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]'', the NPA SB is one of the [[Japanese intelligence agencies]] that participate in the fight against the [[Black Organization]]. The undercover agent [[Rei Furuya]] is a member of one of the departments of the NPA SB called the {{nihongo|'''National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division'''<ref>[[:File:Postcard2016 40.jpg]]</ref>|警察庁警備局警備企画課|Keisatsuchō Keibi-kyoku Keibi-Kikaku-ka}} which has the nickname '''Zero'''.

In the movie [[The Darkest Nightmare]] they kept a list of NOCs from bureaus around the world who infiltrated the organization.

{{clear}}

== Plot Overview ==
=== Bourbon and Akai Arc ===
Rei was assigned to locate [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]. [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], with the help of [[Kaitou Kid]] and several others, managed to convince Rei that [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|she was killed in a train bombing.]] While Rei was looking for Shiho he also took the time to investigate [[Shuichi Akai]]'s alleged death and the FBI illegally stationed in Japan. With the help of [[Vermouth]], he impersonated Shuichi and discovered that he was not actually dead.

Rei later gathered up a team of men to confront a man he believed to be Shuichi in disguise: [[Subaru Okiya]]. Shuichi then challenged the Security Bureau directly, preventing them from detaining [[Jodie Starling]] and [[Andre Camel]]. Rei confronted Shuichi by phone and found out that Shuichi did not kill [[Scotch]] out of malice, and he was genuinely sorry he died. Shuichi also turned over a handgun to the Security Bureau for analysis. Rei's discovery of Shuichi's faked death was not disclosed to the [[Black Organization]].

=== Rum Arc ===
Despite the events of [[Volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|Scarlet Showdown]], Rei still blames Shuichi for Scotch's death. When [[Masumi Sera]] encounters Rei during the [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|Girls Band Murder Case]], she has a flashback to 4 years ago when she saw her brother Shuichi along with a man who teaches her a few notes of base guitar. A third man, who appears to resemble Rei, appeared and referred to that man as Scotch.

== Non-canon Plot Overview ==
=== Episode 813: [[The Shadow Approaching Amuro]] ===

This episode is a pre-story for movie 20, The Darkest Nightmare.

=== Movie 20: [[The Darkest Nightmare]] ===
At the beginning of the movie, [[Curaçao]] is caught breaking into the NPA's headquarter in order to retrieve the data about undercover agents who infiltrated the Black Organization all over the world.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== The NPA and the [[Black Organization]] ===
It hasn't been stated how the Security Bureau and the NPA in general discovered the Black Organization. The Black Organization in general hasn't shown any indication that they specifically suspect the Security Bureau might be investigating them.

=== The NPA and the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] ===
Initially Rei Furuya and the NPA SB in general wanted the FBI, who are operating illegally in Japan, completely deported. Rei Furuya in particular wanted to arrest Shuichi Akai for killing Scotch. After [[The Scarlet Return]], the NPA SB appear to be grudgingly tolerating the FBI's presence.

=== The NPA and the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] ===

=== The NPA and the ordinary [[Law Enforcement#Police|Japanese Law Enforcement]] ===
The NPA in general is the central coordinating and supervising agency of the Japanese police system. While the NPA SB works closely with the [[Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police#Public_Security_Bureau|Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau]] in the fight against the Black Organization, the ordinary Japanese law enforcement doesn't appear to know about its mission or about the organization at all. [[Hyoue Kuroda]], an ex-NPA agent who has since moved to the Tokyo MPD division one, may know something courtesy of Rei Furuya who is currently an NPA agent.

=== The NPA and [[Conan Edogawa]] ===
It is stated by Hyoue Kuroda that he heard the rumor of Conan being the real brain behind Sleeping Kogoro from the NPA, indicating that they have known or at least suspect Conan's true intelligence.

== See also ==
* [[Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police#Public_Security_Bureau|Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau]]
* [[Law Enforcement]]
* [[Rei Furuya]]
* [[Hyoue Kuroda]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{Japanese Intelligence Agencies}}
{{Police}}

[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Law Enforcement]]

Rumi Wakasa

2017-10-06T14:15:28Z

Detective Reaper:

Case from 17 years ago

2017-10-03T02:59:35Z

Detective Reaper: /* Asaka's identity */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this case. 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]].}}

[[File:Conan reads the case online.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Conan reads about the case online.]]
17 years ago [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] were found dead in their hotel rooms. Kohji had managed to leave a mysterious dying message that may indicate that a member of the [[Black Organization]] was involved.

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Kohji Haneda}}
{{char|Amanda Hughes|Amanda Hughes EP861}}
{{char|Asaka|Asaka EP861}}
{{char|Rum|"The Criminal"}}
{{char|Tsutomu Akai}}
}}

== Description ==
Kohji Haneda, a shogi player, went to the US to participate in a chess competition at the Juke Hotel, however the day before the match he was found murdered in his hotel room. According to a website with numerous photos of the crime scene, his room was a total mess which was chalked up to a struggle between Kohji and his assailant. The website reported that the cause of his death remains unclear, but Haibara recalls his name was on the APTX 4869 victims list. On the same day in a different hotel room Amanda Hughes, a wealthy person who has contacts with both the FBI and CIA, was found murdered and the cause of her death is also unclear.

Amanda had been a fan of Kohji's and had been in contact with him in the past. She had visited his hotel room some time before the murder, her fingerprints were found on the door handle, sofa, tea cups, knife, and fork. After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. Several defensive wounds were found on Kohji's arms and his palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. There were some bruises on his face as well. Amanda's own room, on the other hand, was neat and tidy, as though nothing had happened. The sink in the bathroom was even left running. It is not known who of them was murdered first.

On the day of the murders Amanda's bodyguard, who she called "Asaka", disappeared. Currently Asaka is the prime suspect in both murders. Neither relatives or acquaintances of Amanda know when Asaka was hired on as her bodyguard. It is currently unknown whether Asaka is a given name or a surname. If it were a given name then it would be likely that Asaka would be female, however if it were a surname then it would not be possible to determine the gender. At some point Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror, which leads Gaito Hotta to believe that Asaka is a woman. As a bodyguard, it is thought that Asaka is skilled at bringing down opponents.

Tsutomu Akai was either involved in the case or its aftermath. As a result, he made enemies with some really bad people and sent a message to his family telling them to move to the safety of Japan. Since then Tsutomu has not been seen, leading many to believe that he is dead. However, a body has never been found.

Gin comments that this case is a job in which Rum screwed up, clarifying that Rum was present, or at least involved some way or another, and that things did not happen according to plan back then.

=== Aftermath ===
[[File:Kohji Hanedas body.jpg|right|thumb|285px|Kuroda connects Rumi to the Kohji case.]]
Mary Sera took her family to Japan as instructed by her husband's text. Shuichi Akai then left his family to study abroad in the United States with the intention of obtaining a green card and joining the FBI to find out what happened to his father. Shukichi Akai eventually leaves the family as well, changing his family name to Haneda. He also claims to be a non-blood brother of Kohji and possesses his fan that has his motto.

When Conan learns that the case involved APTX, he finds information about the case that had been uploaded to the internet. Even when it gets taken down the person who uploaded it tries to re-upload it. Conan thinks that its almost if they are saying "Please help me solve this mystery!".

Gaito Hotta had obtained information that sates that Asaka had been seen holding a hand mirror and was going to use that to claim that Asaka was a woman. However it is unclear whether this is first or second hand information. Mary seemed to think that this information was boring.

A woman whose name, {{nihongo|Rumi Wakasa|若狭留美|Wakasa Rumi}}, bears similar spelling to the dying message of the Kohji case appears at Conan's school. When Hyoue Kuroda learns of this person, he seems to make a connection between her and the Kohji case and implies that he might know her by saying "that's not like that person at all" when he was told she was going camping.

Currently the list of people who know about the case are as follows: Conan, Haibara, Agasa, Shuichi, Masumi, Mary, Kogoro, Gin, Vodka, Bourbon, Vermouth, and Kuroda. It is presumed that since Rumi's name bares resemblance to the dying message that she may know as well. Shukichi seems to be aware of Kohji's death, but it is unclear what he knows, or what his connection to Kohji is, since he is called a 'non-biological brother'.

== Dying Message ==
After the murder there were tea cups, plates, and a hand mirror found smashed on the floor of Kohji's room. The mirror had writing on it that Haibara recognized as saying "PUT ON MASCARA", however it had been broken so that only "P T O N" remained. Kohji's palm was bruised from gripping a pair of scissors very tightly. The sink in Amanda's bathroom was even left running. It seems as if Kohji had gone to her room and turned the sink on, then ran water over the mirror to use the scissors to cut the mirror up, although it's unclear how he managed to do that during such circumstances. With the letters "P T O N" removed, the message remaining is "U MASCARA", which can be arranged to make "ASACA RUM".
The Black Organization is aware of the dying message.

{| style="float:left;"
|-
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:broken mirror letters.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Broken mirror dying message]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:scissors and bruise.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Gripping the scissors tightly]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|
|}
{{clear}}

== APTX Connection ==
Even though the cause of death is unclear in both cases, only Kohji's name appeared on the [[List_of_Black_Organization_related_characters#APTX_4869_Victims|APTX 4869 victims list]]. However it is interesting to note that Kohji's name appeared two names below Shinichi's name on the list. Haibara thinks that the person who compiled the victims list may not have compiled it chronologically, but rather in some other fashion, like blood type.

Since Haibara states that the drug she worked on was created from the burnt remains from the data left behind by her parents, she says that its possible that Kohji was made to ingest an early prototype made by her parents. Haibara hasn't mentioned whether Amanda Hughes' name is on the list or not.
[[File:APTX_4869_victim_list 2.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
{{clear}}

== Motive ==
The motive for the murders is unknown. In Kohji Haneda's case, Haibara suggest it might have been because he was close to Amanda Hughes. If that's true, then that means that Amanda was the main target, possibly because of her connections to the FBI and the CIA.

== Anime Changes ==
* Given that the Romanized spelling of Asaca and Rum in the dying message is important, it seems relevant to note that the Romanized spelling of "Kohji" was changed for the anime version to "Kouji". 

== Speculation ==

=== Asaka's identity ===
Conan suspects that Asaka is Rum, based on that the missing letters from the mirror spells out ASACA RUM. Conan also suspected that Mary is Asaka, by thinking that Asaka is a strong woman.

=== The one putting the case online ===
A mysterious individual, the uploader, is in possession of detailed crime scene photographs and case information. This includes pictures of Kohji's dying message hand mirror broken on the ground prior to Asaka removing a hand mirror from the scene. This unknown uploader posts this information online, seemingly asking for the case to be solved.

Information about the case was online at the time Okiya and Conan solved the "The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters" case, but was removed by the beginning of the "Soul Detective Murder Case". The reason why the information was deleted and the identity of the one doing the takedowns --perhaps the uploader themselves or another force who wishes to scrub the essential details of Kohji's case from the internet-- is still uncertain.

It should be noted that current Police Superintendent [[Hyoue Kuroda]] has access to the information on the website and seems to see some sort of connection to Elementary teacher [[Rumi Wakasa]]. Some fans speculate that it is possible that Rumi is the one uploading the information to the site due to her name being a close letter scramble of the dying message ASAKA RUM and her method of approaching Conan.

=== Alternate interpretations of the mirror ===

=== Kohji's palm bruise ===
In the picture of Kohji's hand, there are several bruises on the fingers and one on the center of his palm. These are presumed to be from holding the scissors tightly. Kohji's method of holding the scissors is unclear, but the bruises are consistent with looping one's thumb and index finger through the two rings so the rings as close to the base of the fingers. If the blade is angled across the palm and the other three fingers folded over, it makes a defensive-like pose. This grip does not explain the bruise in the hollow of his palm. If a defensive grip was used, then the bruise must have been caused by an item secreted in Kohji's palm he was gripping along with the scissors, holding the scissors another way, or another force altogether. It may also be of concern that despite supposedly gripping the scissors tightly in life, after Kohji was killed and the body photographed, the scissors were elsewhere nearby and Kohji's hand opened.

== See also ==
* [[Rum]]
* [[Kohji Haneda]]
* [[List of Black Organization related characters]]

{{APTX 4869}}
{{Black Organization}}
{{rum arc}}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Black Organization]]

Ai Haibara

2017-09-27T05:07:00Z

Detective Reaper: /* Mary Sera */

{{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.jpg
| 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<ref name=CD49/>
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective Boys member
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames = Haibara (by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) 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)
| 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]]
| 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:Investigation Kudo's house.jpg‎|thumb|right|170px|Shiho and other Organization members inspect the Kudo mansion.]]
{{main|Shiho Miyano}}
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|220px|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|245px|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.

Haibara is one of the few major characters in Detective Conan who does not have a potential romantic interest. Previously, she developed a crush on Conan/Shinichi, and she is aware that Mitsuhiko likes her; however, it is unlikely that either of these relationships will materialize. Currently she idolizes footballer [[Higo Ryusuke]].

== Personality ==
[[File:Ai - Sai Brand's Wallet.jpg|thumb|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 Conan, 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|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>

In the OVA ''[[A Secret Order From London]]'', Haibara reveals to [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] that she likes sandwiches with a mixture of peanut butter and blueberry jam, from her schooldays in America. 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|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> 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) during a soccer game in the Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case.<ref>[[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|Episode 130: The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case]]</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|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>

In non canon, Haibara was 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.
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== 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/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Haibara|Kudo-kun}}

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|
Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)<ref>[[A Dangerous Party of Two|Episode 557: A Dangerous Party of Two]]</ref> Sherry Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

|Edogawa-kun (around others) 
Kudo-kun (in private) 
Great Detective-san (Meitantei-san) (once)<ref>[[The Private Eyes' Requiem|Movie 10:The Private Eyes' Requiem]]</ref> 
Conan (once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref> 
Sherlock Holmes of the modern world<ref>[[The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code|Episode 411: The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code (Part I)]]</ref> 
A pervert little brat<ref>[[Movie 16]]</ref> 
Death magnet 
Corpse magnet 
A certain detective, someone 
Shin-chan (once, post credit) 
Detective-san (Tantei-san) (once)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Ai-chan|Mouri-san The girl at the Detective Agency Ran-san<ref>[[Movie 11]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|-|Kogoro-san Detective Mouri (''Mouri-tantei'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Haibara-san (formerly) Ai-chan|Yoshida-san (''usually'') Ayumi-chan (''twice'')<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[SOS! Messages from Ayumi|episode 140]]</ref><ref>''Detective Conan'' [[A Secret Order From London|OVA 11]]</ref>}}

{{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>}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Haibara-san Ai-chan (once)|Tsuburaya-kun}}
|-
|[[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]]||Herself||Haibara The girl of the Black Organization (to Conan)||-

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Haibara-san|Kobayashi-sensei}}
|}
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<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Shiho|Onēchan}}

{{appellations|Elena Miyano|Shiho|Mom (''Okāsan'')}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Dad (''Otōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Haibara-san Ai-chan<ref>Chapter 824</ref>}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Ai-kun|Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|That little girl|Osaka friend}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Ai-chan}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Ai-chan|Suzuki-san}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|-|Wakasa-sensei}}
|}
</tab>
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{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Gin|Sherry|Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|-|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref>Chapter 823</ref>|Vermouth}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Shiho-chan|Pisco}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|-|Numabuchi Ki'ichiro}}

{{appellations|Yoshiaki Hara|-|Hara-san}}

{{appellations|Irish|-|Irish}}

{{appellations|file=M20 odd eyes woman.jpg|List of notable case characters#Curaçao{{!}}Curaçao|Sherry Sherry-chan|-}}
|}
</tab>
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{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Ai-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

{{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|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'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{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'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{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|Sera Masumi<ref>Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]]</ref>}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Older Brother Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 18|176-178]], Anime: [[Episode 129|129]]) ===
[[File:129-1.png|thumb|left|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|179-180]] and [[Volume 19|181]], Anime: [[Episode 129|129]])===
[[image:Ai cries.png|thumb|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.

=== 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|150px|Shiho shot by Gin.]]
In Episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. Haibara is kidnapped and confined to 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. Gin shoots her repeatedly, hoping he can force her to explain how she escaped from the Organization. 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, and Vodka shoots at him, but Conan gets away. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm to stay awake. Inside, Pisco almost kills Haibara, but Conan rescues her after tricking Pisco into accidentally causing a fire. Gin kills Pisco for failure before Pisco's 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.

[[File:Flower gun.png|thumb|Haibara's about to shoot Conan.]]
=== 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]]) ===
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 predicted that Shinichi would run into the men´s bathroom after the symptoms of the back transformation would start to appear. She then switches Shinichi into Conan's clothes after the antidote runs out.

=== Mermaid's Curse Case (Manga: [[Volume_28#Mermaid.27s_Curse_Case|281]], Anime: [[And_Then_There_Were_No_Mermaids|223]]) ===
During investigation 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|left|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, staying deliberately in the bus whose explosion was imminent. Only Conan's quick thinking saves her, and he asks her to not run away from life. However, those events make her remain anxious for several days.
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=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume_42#Halloween_Party_Case|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head_Match_with_the_Black_Organization:_A_Dual_Mystery_on_a_Full_Moon_Night|345]]) ===
[[File:345-1.png|thumb|right|Ran covering Haibara from getting shot]]

Vermouth finally launches her plan to kill Shiho. She prepares a distraction to lure Conan away so that Haibara is alone at Agasa's. Taking advantage of the fact that Haibara has practically become ill from fear, she calls as Dr. Araide to tell Haibara she is taking her to the hospital because she has been unwell for so long. The eavesdropping FBI agent [[Jodie Starling]] arrives first to protect Haibara and starts driving her towards the shipping yard where the FBI have laid a trap for Vermouth.

In a complicated turn of events, Vermouth reveals she already thwarted Jodie's trap, and then shoots her. Haibara then reveals herself to be Conan; Yukiko had helped with his disguise while Conan sent [[Heiji Hattori]] to participate in Vermouth's distraction. The real Haibara then shows up which distracts Conan long enough for Vermouth to dart him with his own stun-gun watch. Just as Haibara is about to be killed, Ran, who had suspected Jodie of being untrustworthy and decided to spy on her, jumps from Jodie's car trunk and protects Haibara. Vermouth is unwilling to kill either Conan or Ran because they had saved her life in the past. Part of the reason why she originally did not tell the rest of the Black Organization about Haibara's true identity is likely because they would find out about Conan too and then silence him and everyone around him as well.

Before Vermouth can come up with another plan, the other FBI agent, [[Shuichi Akai]] arrives and forces Vermouth to flee with Conan as a hostage. Vermouth dials [[anokata|the boss]] of the Black Organization to lie to him about why she was injured. Conan overhears the number and threatens to give it to the police for analysis unless Vermouth promises that she will give up on trying to kill Haibara. Vermouth consents and escapes.


=== 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.


===[[Episode 509|Subaru Okiya]]===
[[File:Haibara doesn't like Okiya.PNG|thumb|left|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 kind 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.

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===[[Episode 699|Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret]]===
[[File:Shiho_700.png|thumb|Haibara turns into Shiho via the [[Prototype antidote|prototype antidote]] for the first time]]

Later, when Haibara is forced to revert to Shiho using a [[temporary antidote]], 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.
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==Non-Canon Plot Overview==
=== Movie 5: [[Countdown to Heaven]]===



== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & 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 after her death, but probably suspended that there was more to the story.

In movie, she missed her dearly and 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====
[[File:Shiranpuri derp.png|thumb|left|Haibara's reaction after hearing Conan's ''[[Clash_of_Red_and_Black#Ready_to_Die_.28Manga:_605-608.2C_Anime:_503.29|Shiranpuri]]'' plan]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

Both are de-aged by APTX and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes Haibara and [[Conan]] close confidants and more sympathetic to one 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. Ai Haibara has romantic feelings for Conan/Shinichi, although she never truly admits to it (due to her assumption of Conan loving Ran). Haibara expresses a lot of interest in 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. Haibara also often enjoys teasing Conan which Conan takes in good stride. Conan is oblivious of Haibara's feelings and sometimes finds it difficult to deal with her sarcasm and impudent, cold nature. Although close on many matters, they still don't fully trust one another with information about the Black Organization out of concern for the safety and feelings of the other.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[File:772-1.png|thumb|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. 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.
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==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:247-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's first greeting with Ran]]

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|Haibara uncovering Subaru's scrarf]]

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 something behind his neck, probably noticing some small machines made by Professor Agasa.

Currently, although Akai/Subaru has known 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 questioned whether Akai is a "lolicon".

====Dai Moroboshi====
[[File:701_8.png|thumb|left|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. 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, and Haibara dislikes his hot temperament. However, on more than one occasion, Haibara entrusts Heiji to keep the secret of the drug and keep Conan/Shinichi safe in occasions that Conan turning 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.
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=== 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 friendliness anymore and gradually warms up to them.

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
[[File:330-1.png|thumb|left|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>
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==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ====
[[Image:279haibaramitsuhiko.png|thumb|right|220|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 does admire 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 ===
==== 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> possibly romantic.<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>

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

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] and Shiho have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Shiho fears Vermouth more than other Black Organization members except perhaps Gin: 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 similiarites between her and [[Mary]], and he thinks that they might be blood related. Conan thinks that Haibara is somehow connected to the [[Akai family]].
Many fans beleives that Haibara's [[Elena|mother]] is the sister of Mary, as Gosho confirmed that two mothers will be revealed as sisters with Mary being one of the sister pair. However, up to this point, it's never mentioned that Mary and Shiho have met each other.

== 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.

== 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>

== 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 '''I'''rene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Da Vinci|month=May|year=2014|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten}}</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 ==

<gallery>
File:Ai_Before.jpg|Haibara's "1999" Appearance (Episode 129)
File:Ai Middle.JPG|Haibara's "2007" Appearance (Episode 477)
File:Ai_After.jpg|Haibara's "2011" Appearance (Episode 631)
File:haibara 2015.png|Haibara's "2015" Appearance (Episode 779)
File:haibara ai magic kaito 1412.png|Haibara's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 21)
</gallery>

== 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!?"]]}}

=== 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?|}}

===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.
* 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>
* Haibara reveals to [[Fujiko Mine]] that she used to ride a Harley before she shrank.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>
* The first appearance of Haibara has her hair colored as brown but later on changed to reddish brown. However, it's changed to brown again.
* 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>

==In other languages==
===Ai Haibara===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|哀 Ai|灰原 Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|آي Āi|هيبارا Hībāra}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|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|Хайбара}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ไอ XỊ|ไฮบาระ Ḥị-bā-ra}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{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|志保 Zhìbǎo|宫野 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|Мияно}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ Chi-ḥoa|มิยาโนะ Mi-yā-noa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宮野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sherry===
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شيري Sheri}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly, due to translating errors}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|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| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шерри| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sherry|Once "Jerez".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่ Chex-rī̀| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Miyano family]]
* [[Agasa family]]
* [[APTX4869]]
* [[Antidote (Prototype)]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]

== References ==
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{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}
{{Black Organization}}

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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.jpg
| 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<ref name=CD49/>
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective Boys member
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames = Haibara (by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) 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)
| 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]]
| drama-actor = [[Kyoka Shibata]] (Ai Haibara) [[Yu Kashii]] (Shiho Miyano)
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'''{{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:Investigation Kudo's house.jpg‎|thumb|right|170px|Shiho and other Organization members inspect the Kudo mansion.]]
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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|220px|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|245px|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.

Haibara is one of the few major characters in Detective Conan who does not have a potential romantic interest. Previously, she developed a crush on Conan/Shinichi, and she is aware that Mitsuhiko likes her; however, it is unlikely that either of these relationships will materialize. Currently she idolizes footballer [[Higo Ryusuke]].

== Personality ==
[[File:Ai - Sai Brand's Wallet.jpg|thumb|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 Conan, 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|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>

In the OVA ''[[A Secret Order From London]]'', Haibara reveals to [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] that she likes sandwiches with a mixture of peanut butter and blueberry jam, from her schooldays in America. 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|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> 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) during a soccer game in the Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case.<ref>[[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|Episode 130: The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case]]</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|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>

In non canon, Haibara was 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.
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== 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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<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Haibara|Kudo-kun}}

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|
Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)<ref>[[A Dangerous Party of Two|Episode 557: A Dangerous Party of Two]]</ref> Sherry Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

|Edogawa-kun (around others) 
Kudo-kun (in private) 
Great Detective-san (Meitantei-san) (once)<ref>[[The Private Eyes' Requiem|Movie 10:The Private Eyes' Requiem]]</ref> 
Conan (once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref> 
Sherlock Holmes of the modern world<ref>[[The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code|Episode 411: The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code (Part I)]]</ref> 
A pervert little brat<ref>[[Movie 16]]</ref> 
Death magnet 
Corpse magnet 
A certain detective, someone 
Shin-chan (once, post credit) 
Detective-san (Tantei-san) (once)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Ai-chan|Mouri-san The girl at the Detective Agency Ran-san<ref>[[Movie 11]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|-|Kogoro-san Detective Mouri (''Mouri-tantei'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Haibara-san (formerly) Ai-chan|Yoshida-san (''usually'') Ayumi-chan (''twice'')<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[SOS! Messages from Ayumi|episode 140]]</ref><ref>''Detective Conan'' [[A Secret Order From London|OVA 11]]</ref>}}

{{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>}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Haibara-san Ai-chan (once)|Tsuburaya-kun}}
|-
|[[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]]||Herself||Haibara The girl of the Black Organization (to Conan)||-

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Haibara-san|Kobayashi-sensei}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Shiho|Onēchan}}

{{appellations|Elena Miyano|Shiho|Mom (''Okāsan'')}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Dad (''Otōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Haibara-san Ai-chan<ref>Chapter 824</ref>}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Ai-kun|Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|That little girl|Osaka friend}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Ai-chan}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Ai-chan|Suzuki-san}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|-|Wakasa-sensei}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Gin|Sherry|Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|-|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref>Chapter 823</ref>|Vermouth}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Shiho-chan|Pisco}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|-|Numabuchi Ki'ichiro}}

{{appellations|Yoshiaki Hara|-|Hara-san}}

{{appellations|Irish|-|Irish}}

{{appellations|file=M20 odd eyes woman.jpg|List of notable case characters#Curaçao{{!}}Curaçao|Sherry Sherry-chan|-}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Ai-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

{{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|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'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{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'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{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|Sera Masumi<ref>Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]]</ref>}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Older Brother Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 18|176-178]], Anime: [[Episode 129|129]]) ===
[[File:129-1.png|thumb|left|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|179-180]] and [[Volume 19|181]], Anime: [[Episode 129|129]])===
[[image:Ai cries.png|thumb|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.

=== 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|150px|Shiho shot by Gin.]]
In Episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. Haibara is kidnapped and confined to 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. Gin shoots her repeatedly, hoping he can force her to explain how she escaped from the Organization. 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, and Vodka shoots at him, but Conan gets away. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm to stay awake. Inside, Pisco almost kills Haibara, but Conan rescues her after tricking Pisco into accidentally causing a fire. Gin kills Pisco for failure before Pisco's 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.

[[File:Flower gun.png|thumb|Haibara's about to shoot Conan.]]
=== 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]]) ===
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 predicted that Shinichi would run into the men´s bathroom after the symptoms of the back transformation would start to appear. She then switches Shinichi into Conan's clothes after the antidote runs out.

=== Mermaid's Curse Case (Manga: [[Volume_28#Mermaid.27s_Curse_Case|281]], Anime: [[And_Then_There_Were_No_Mermaids|223]]) ===
During investigation 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|left|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, staying deliberately in the bus whose explosion was imminent. Only Conan's quick thinking saves her, and he asks her to not run away from life. However, those events make her remain anxious for several days.
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=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume_42#Halloween_Party_Case|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head_Match_with_the_Black_Organization:_A_Dual_Mystery_on_a_Full_Moon_Night|345]]) ===
[[File:345-1.png|thumb|right|Ran covering Haibara from getting shot]]

Vermouth finally launches her plan to kill Shiho. She prepares a distraction to lure Conan away so that Haibara is alone at Agasa's. Taking advantage of the fact that Haibara has practically become ill from fear, she calls as Dr. Araide to tell Haibara she is taking her to the hospital because she has been unwell for so long. The eavesdropping FBI agent [[Jodie Starling]] arrives first to protect Haibara and starts driving her towards the shipping yard where the FBI have laid a trap for Vermouth.

In a complicated turn of events, Vermouth reveals she already thwarted Jodie's trap, and then shoots her. Haibara then reveals herself to be Conan; Yukiko had helped with his disguise while Conan sent [[Heiji Hattori]] to participate in Vermouth's distraction. The real Haibara then shows up which distracts Conan long enough for Vermouth to dart him with his own stun-gun watch. Just as Haibara is about to be killed, Ran, who had suspected Jodie of being untrustworthy and decided to spy on her, jumps from Jodie's car trunk and protects Haibara. Vermouth is unwilling to kill either Conan or Ran because they had saved her life in the past. Part of the reason why she originally did not tell the rest of the Black Organization about Haibara's true identity is likely because they would find out about Conan too and then silence him and everyone around him as well.

Before Vermouth can come up with another plan, the other FBI agent, [[Shuichi Akai]] arrives and forces Vermouth to flee with Conan as a hostage. Vermouth dials [[anokata|the boss]] of the Black Organization to lie to him about why she was injured. Conan overhears the number and threatens to give it to the police for analysis unless Vermouth promises that she will give up on trying to kill Haibara. Vermouth consents and escapes.


=== 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.


===[[Episode 509|Subaru Okiya]]===
[[File:Haibara doesn't like Okiya.PNG|thumb|left|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 kind 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.

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===[[Episode 699|Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret]]===
[[File:Shiho_700.png|thumb|Haibara turns into Shiho via the [[Prototype antidote|prototype antidote]] for the first time]]

Later, when Haibara is forced to revert to Shiho using a [[temporary antidote]], 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.
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==Non-Canon Plot Overview==
=== Movie 5: [[Countdown to Heaven]]===



== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & 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 after her death, but probably suspended that there was more to the story.

In movie, she missed her dearly and 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====
[[File:Shiranpuri derp.png|thumb|left|Haibara's reaction after hearing Conan's ''[[Clash_of_Red_and_Black#Ready_to_Die_.28Manga:_605-608.2C_Anime:_503.29|Shiranpuri]]'' plan]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

Both are de-aged by APTX and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes Haibara and [[Conan]] close confidants and more sympathetic to one 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. Ai Haibara has romantic feelings for Conan/Shinichi, although she never truly admits to it (due to her assumption of Conan loving Ran). Haibara expresses a lot of interest in 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. Haibara also often enjoys teasing Conan which Conan takes in good stride. Conan is oblivious of Haibara's feelings and sometimes finds it difficult to deal with her sarcasm and impudent, cold nature. Although close on many matters, they still don't fully trust one another with information about the Black Organization out of concern for the safety and feelings of the other.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[File:772-1.png|thumb|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. 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.
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==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:247-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's first greeting with Ran]]

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|Haibara uncovering Subaru's scrarf]]

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 something behind his neck, probably noticing some small machines made by Professor Agasa.

Currently, although Akai/Subaru has known 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 questioned whether Akai is a "lolicon".

====Dai Moroboshi====
[[File:701_8.png|thumb|left|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. 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, and Haibara dislikes his hot temperament. However, on more than one occasion, Haibara entrusts Heiji to keep the secret of the drug and keep Conan/Shinichi safe in occasions that Conan turning 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.
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=== 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 friendliness anymore and gradually warms up to them.

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
[[File:330-1.png|thumb|left|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>
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==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ====
[[Image:279haibaramitsuhiko.png|thumb|right|220|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 does admire 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 ===
==== 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> possibly romantic.<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>

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

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] and Shiho have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Shiho fears Vermouth more than other Black Organization members except perhaps Gin: 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 similiarites between her and [[Mary]], and he thinks that they might be blood related. Conan thinks that Haibara is somehow connected to the [[Akai family]].
Many fans beleives that Haibara's [[Elena|mother]] is the sister of Mary, as Gosho confirmed that two mothers will be revealed as sisters with Mary being one of the sister pair.

== 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.

== 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>

== 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 '''I'''rene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Da Vinci|month=May|year=2014|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten}}</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 ==

<gallery>
File:Ai_Before.jpg|Haibara's "1999" Appearance (Episode 129)
File:Ai Middle.JPG|Haibara's "2007" Appearance (Episode 477)
File:Ai_After.jpg|Haibara's "2011" Appearance (Episode 631)
File:haibara 2015.png|Haibara's "2015" Appearance (Episode 779)
File:haibara ai magic kaito 1412.png|Haibara's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 21)
</gallery>

== 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!?"]]}}

=== 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?|}}

===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.
* 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>
* Haibara reveals to [[Fujiko Mine]] that she used to ride a Harley before she shrank.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>
* The first appearance of Haibara has her hair colored as brown but later on changed to reddish brown. However, it's changed to brown again.
* 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>

==In other languages==
===Ai Haibara===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|哀 Ai|灰原 Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|آي Āi|هيبارا Hībāra}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|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|Хайбара}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ไอ XỊ|ไฮบาระ Ḥị-bā-ra}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{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|志保 Zhìbǎo|宫野 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|Мияно}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ Chi-ḥoa|มิยาโนะ Mi-yā-noa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宮野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sherry===
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شيري Sheri}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly, due to translating errors}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|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| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шерри| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sherry|Once "Jerez".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่ Chex-rī̀| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Miyano family]]
* [[Agasa family]]
* [[APTX4869]]
* [[Antidote (Prototype)]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]

== References ==
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{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}
{{Black Organization}}

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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.jpg
| 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<ref name=CD49/>
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective Boys member
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames = Haibara (by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) 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)
| 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]]
| 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:Investigation Kudo's house.jpg‎|thumb|right|170px|Shiho and other Organization members inspect the Kudo mansion.]]
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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|220px|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|245px|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.

Haibara is one of the few major characters in Detective Conan who does not have a potential romantic interest. Previously, she developed a crush on Conan/Shinichi, and she is aware that Mitsuhiko likes her; however, it is unlikely that either of these relationships will materialize. Currently she idolizes footballer [[Higo Ryusuke]].

== Personality ==
[[File:Ai - Sai Brand's Wallet.jpg|thumb|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 Conan, 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|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>

In the OVA ''[[A Secret Order From London]]'', Haibara reveals to [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] that she likes sandwiches with a mixture of peanut butter and blueberry jam, from her schooldays in America. 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|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> 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) during a soccer game in the Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case.<ref>[[The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case|Episode 130: The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case]]</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|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>

In non canon, Haibara was 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.
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== 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/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Haibara|Kudo-kun}}

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|
Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)<ref>[[A Dangerous Party of Two|Episode 557: A Dangerous Party of Two]]</ref> Sherry Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

|Edogawa-kun (around others) 
Kudo-kun (in private) 
Great Detective-san (Meitantei-san) (once)<ref>[[The Private Eyes' Requiem|Movie 10:The Private Eyes' Requiem]]</ref> 
Conan (once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref> 
Sherlock Holmes of the modern world<ref>[[The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code|Episode 411: The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code (Part I)]]</ref> 
A pervert little brat<ref>[[Movie 16]]</ref> 
Death magnet 
Corpse magnet 
A certain detective, someone 
Shin-chan (once, post credit) 
Detective-san (Tantei-san) (once)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Ai-chan|Mouri-san The girl at the Detective Agency Ran-san<ref>[[Movie 11]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|-|Kogoro-san Detective Mouri (''Mouri-tantei'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Haibara-san (formerly) Ai-chan|Yoshida-san (''usually'') Ayumi-chan (''twice'')<ref>''Detective Conan'' [[SOS! Messages from Ayumi|episode 140]]</ref><ref>''Detective Conan'' [[A Secret Order From London|OVA 11]]</ref>}}

{{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>}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Haibara-san Ai-chan (once)|Tsuburaya-kun}}
|-
|[[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]]||Herself||Haibara The girl of the Black Organization (to Conan)||-

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Haibara-san|Kobayashi-sensei}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Shiho|Onēchan}}

{{appellations|Elena Miyano|Shiho|Mom (''Okāsan'')}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Dad (''Otōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Haibara-san Ai-chan<ref>Chapter 824</ref>}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Ai-kun|Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|That little girl|Osaka friend}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Ai-chan}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Ai-chan|Suzuki-san}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|-|Wakasa-sensei}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Gin|Sherry|Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|-|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Sherry That girl Special Lady<ref>Chapter 823</ref>|Vermouth}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Shiho-chan|Pisco}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|-|Numabuchi Ki'ichiro}}

{{appellations|Yoshiaki Hara|-|Hara-san}}

{{appellations|Irish|-|Irish}}

{{appellations|file=M20 odd eyes woman.jpg|List of notable case characters#Curaçao{{!}}Curaçao|Sherry Sherry-chan|-}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Ai-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

{{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|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'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{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'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Ai}}
{{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|Sera Masumi<ref>Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]]</ref>}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Older Brother Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 18|176-178]], Anime: [[Episode 129|129]]) ===
[[File:129-1.png|thumb|left|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|179-180]] and [[Volume 19|181]], Anime: [[Episode 129|129]])===
[[image:Ai cries.png|thumb|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.

=== 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|150px|Shiho shot by Gin.]]
In Episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. Haibara is kidnapped and confined to 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. Gin shoots her repeatedly, hoping he can force her to explain how she escaped from the Organization. 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, and Vodka shoots at him, but Conan gets away. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm to stay awake. Inside, Pisco almost kills Haibara, but Conan rescues her after tricking Pisco into accidentally causing a fire. Gin kills Pisco for failure before Pisco's 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.

[[File:Flower gun.png|thumb|Haibara's about to shoot Conan.]]
=== 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]]) ===
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 predicted that Shinichi would run into the men´s bathroom after the symptoms of the back transformation would start to appear. She then switches Shinichi into Conan's clothes after the antidote runs out.

=== Mermaid's Curse Case (Manga: [[Volume_28#Mermaid.27s_Curse_Case|281]], Anime: [[And_Then_There_Were_No_Mermaids|223]]) ===
During investigation 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|left|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, staying deliberately in the bus whose explosion was imminent. Only Conan's quick thinking saves her, and he asks her to not run away from life. However, those events make her remain anxious for several days.
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=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume_42#Halloween_Party_Case|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head_Match_with_the_Black_Organization:_A_Dual_Mystery_on_a_Full_Moon_Night|345]]) ===
[[File:345-1.png|thumb|right|Ran covering Haibara from getting shot]]

Vermouth finally launches her plan to kill Shiho. She prepares a distraction to lure Conan away so that Haibara is alone at Agasa's. Taking advantage of the fact that Haibara has practically become ill from fear, she calls as Dr. Araide to tell Haibara she is taking her to the hospital because she has been unwell for so long. The eavesdropping FBI agent [[Jodie Starling]] arrives first to protect Haibara and starts driving her towards the shipping yard where the FBI have laid a trap for Vermouth.

In a complicated turn of events, Vermouth reveals she already thwarted Jodie's trap, and then shoots her. Haibara then reveals herself to be Conan; Yukiko had helped with his disguise while Conan sent [[Heiji Hattori]] to participate in Vermouth's distraction. The real Haibara then shows up which distracts Conan long enough for Vermouth to dart him with his own stun-gun watch. Just as Haibara is about to be killed, Ran, who had suspected Jodie of being untrustworthy and decided to spy on her, jumps from Jodie's car trunk and protects Haibara. Vermouth is unwilling to kill either Conan or Ran because they had saved her life in the past. Part of the reason why she originally did not tell the rest of the Black Organization about Haibara's true identity is likely because they would find out about Conan too and then silence him and everyone around him as well.

Before Vermouth can come up with another plan, the other FBI agent, [[Shuichi Akai]] arrives and forces Vermouth to flee with Conan as a hostage. Vermouth dials [[anokata|the boss]] of the Black Organization to lie to him about why she was injured. Conan overhears the number and threatens to give it to the police for analysis unless Vermouth promises that she will give up on trying to kill Haibara. Vermouth consents and escapes.


=== 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.


===[[Episode 509|Subaru Okiya]]===
[[File:Haibara doesn't like Okiya.PNG|thumb|left|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 kind 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.

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===[[Episode 699|Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret]]===
[[File:Shiho_700.png|thumb|Haibara turns into Shiho via the [[Prototype antidote|prototype antidote]] for the first time]]

Later, when Haibara is forced to revert to Shiho using a [[temporary antidote]], 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.
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==Non-Canon Plot Overview==
=== Movie 5: [[Countdown to Heaven]]===



== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & 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 after her death, but probably suspended that there was more to the story.

In movie, she missed her dearly and 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====
[[File:Shiranpuri derp.png|thumb|left|Haibara's reaction after hearing Conan's ''[[Clash_of_Red_and_Black#Ready_to_Die_.28Manga:_605-608.2C_Anime:_503.29|Shiranpuri]]'' plan]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

Both are de-aged by APTX and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes Haibara and [[Conan]] close confidants and more sympathetic to one 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. Ai Haibara has romantic feelings for Conan/Shinichi, although she never truly admits to it (due to her assumption of Conan loving Ran). Haibara expresses a lot of interest in 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. Haibara also often enjoys teasing Conan which Conan takes in good stride. Conan is oblivious of Haibara's feelings and sometimes finds it difficult to deal with her sarcasm and impudent, cold nature. Although close on many matters, they still don't fully trust one another with information about the Black Organization out of concern for the safety and feelings of the other.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[File:772-1.png|thumb|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. 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.
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==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:247-1.png|thumb|left|Haibara's first greeting with Ran]]

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|Haibara uncovering Subaru's scrarf]]

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 something behind his neck, probably noticing some small machines made by Professor Agasa.

Currently, although Akai/Subaru has known 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 questioned whether Akai is a "lolicon".

====Dai Moroboshi====
[[File:701_8.png|thumb|left|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. 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, and Haibara dislikes his hot temperament. However, on more than one occasion, Haibara entrusts Heiji to keep the secret of the drug and keep Conan/Shinichi safe in occasions that Conan turning 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.
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=== 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 friendliness anymore and gradually warms up to them.

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
[[File:330-1.png|thumb|left|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>
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==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ====
[[Image:279haibaramitsuhiko.png|thumb|right|220|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 does admire 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 ===
==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Sherry}}
[[Gin]] has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting her, 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> possibly romantic.<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>

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

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] and Shiho have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Shiho fears Vermouth more than other Black Organization members except perhaps Gin: 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 similiarites between her and [[Mary]], and he thinks that they might be blood related. Conan thinks that Haibara is somehow connected to the [[Akai family]].
Many fans beleives that Haibara's [[Elena|mother]] is the sister of Mary, as Gosho confirmed that two mothers will be revealed as sisters with Mary being one of the sister pair.

== 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.

== 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>

== 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 '''I'''rene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Da Vinci|month=May|year=2014|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten}}</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 ==

<gallery>
File:Ai_Before.jpg|Haibara's "1999" Appearance (Episode 129)
File:Ai Middle.JPG|Haibara's "2007" Appearance (Episode 477)
File:Ai_After.jpg|Haibara's "2011" Appearance (Episode 631)
File:haibara 2015.png|Haibara's "2015" Appearance (Episode 779)
File:haibara ai magic kaito 1412.png|Haibara's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 21)
</gallery>

== 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!?"]]}}

=== 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?|}}

===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.
* 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>
* Haibara reveals to [[Fujiko Mine]] that she used to ride a Harley before she shrank.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>
* The first appearance of Haibara has her hair colored as brown but later on changed to reddish brown. However, it's changed to brown again.
* 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>

==In other languages==
===Ai Haibara===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|哀 Ai|灰原 Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|آي Āi|هيبارا Hībāra}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|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|Хайбара}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ไอ XỊ|ไฮบาระ Ḥị-bā-ra}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|哀 Aī|灰原 Huīyuán}}
{{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|志保 Zhìbǎo|宫野 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|Мияно}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ Chi-ḥoa|มิยาโนะ Mi-yā-noa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|志保 Zhìbǎo|宮野 Gōngyě}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sherry===
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|شيري Sheri}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly, due to translating errors}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|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| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Шерри| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Sherry|Once "Jerez".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่ Chex-rī̀| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sherry| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Miyano family]]
* [[Agasa family]]
* [[APTX4869]]
* [[Antidote (Prototype)]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]

== References ==
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{{Detective Boys}}
{{Black Organization}}

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Hyoue Kuroda

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Detective Reaper: /* Kyoto School Trip Case (Manga: 1005, Anime: TBA) */

Muga Iori

2017-09-27T03:43:13Z

Detective Reaper: /* Plot overview */

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| name = Muga Iori
| japanese-name = 伊織無我 (Iori Muga)
| english-name =
| image = Muga Iori Profile.jpg
| age = 30
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| nicknames = 和田進一 (Wada Shin'ichi; Name given to Takagi)
| first-appearance = Manga: Chapter 981
| appearances = {{:Muga Iori Appearances }}
| cases-solved =
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| japanese-voice = Daisuke Ono
| english-voice =
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'''{{nihongo|Muga Iori|伊織無我|Iori Muga}}''' is a butler of [[Momiji Ooka|Momiji Ooka's]] family in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
He seems to have extensive knowledge of European history. He is a butler of [[Momiji Ooka]], a Kyoto high school student.

[[File:Muga Iori initial appearance.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Muga's initial appearance at Café Poirot.]]

== Appearance ==
Muga's face seems to be designed very similarly to [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Shukichi Haneda]], however the eyes have marks that are similar to Movie 20's [[Curacao]] and various minor case characters. He is wearing a hat that is identical to the hat worn by [[Tsutomu Akai]] in Shuichi and [[Mary]]'s flashback images of him. What hair can be seen from under the hat on the back of his head is similar to that of [[Ethan Hondou]]. He wears glasses with thick black rims similar to [[Kohji Haneda]]'s and a button up coat.

Later, when Muga is at the airport, he removes the glasses, the scarf and the hat and reveals that he has long, curly hair.

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== Personality ==
Muga is a loyal butler of Momiji, who vows to do his best to support her and her romantic endeavor with [[Heiji Hattori]]. He is confident that Heiji's primary love interest, [[Kazuha]], won't be an obstacle for Momiji. Momiji relies on Muga for second opinions. For instance, she asks Muga's opinion on Heiji and even sent him to Tokyo so that Muga could see him with his own eyes; Muga approves of Heiji as the choice for her future partner.

Muga is also analytic and careful about planning for Momiji, making him a trustworthy butler. During the first encounter with Heiji and Conan where he fell under suspicion of a murder at the [[Cafe Poirot]], Muga easily improvised believable answers for Conan, Heiji, and the police's questions. Muga is apparently also stealthy because Conan and Heiji "could not feel his presence" and even the police didn't notice when he later leaves the crime scene.

== Plot overview ==
===Murder inside Café Poirot (Manga: [[Volume_92#Murder_inside_Caf.C3.A9_Poirot_Case|981]]-[[Volume_93#Murder_inside_Caf.C3.A9_Poirot_Case|983]], Anime: TBA)===
Conan and Heiji meet at cafe Poirot and are served by Amuro when Muga enters the conversation. The two didn't even notice he was sitting at a nearby table drinking tea. All three detectives look surprised. Muga is present when the attempted murder takes place and makes sure that no one could've escaped through the front door. He introduces himself to the police as Shinichi Wada, borrowing the Japanese name of Dr. Watson. Later, he receives the solution of the case from Momiji through his earphone and relays a hint in form of Hyakunin Isshu poem to Heiji, Conan and Amuro, with which they manage to solve the case. After the case is solved, Muga travels back to Kyoto and in a call with Momiji at the airport, he approves of her choosing Heiji as her future partner and tells her that he will do his best to support her.

===Kendo Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_93#Kendo_Tournament_Murder_Case|990]]-[[Volume_94#Kendo_Tournament_Murder_Case|993]], Anime: TBA)===
Muga and Momiji were present at the tournament. They were hoping Heiji would win, but he became involved in a case and was disqualified for not appearing at his match in time. Disappointed, the two fail to approach Heiji. 

===Movie 21: [[The Crimson Love Letter]]===

=== The Field Trip to Kyoto (Manga: [[Volume_93#|1000-1005]], Anime:TBA) ===
Muga has made brief appearance in the entire case. He showed up shortly after Momiji was present. During the Tengu chaos, he protected Momiji by knocking out a person behind a Tengu mask. His brief presence, however, surprised Sonoko.

== Speculations ==
=== How Iori could be Rum ===


== Name origin ==
His name, Muga Iori, comes from {{nihongo|'''Iori Sakakibara'''|榊原伊織|Sakakibara Iori}}, a doctor and close friend of [[wikipedia:Ōoka Tadasuke|Ooka Tadasuke]] in the series [[wikipedia:Ōoka Echizen|Ōoka Echizen]], and {{nihongo|'''[[wikipedia:Muga Takewaki|Muga Takewaki]]'''|竹脇無我|Takewaki Muga}}, the actor who plays the role of Iori Sakakibara in the series.

The name {{nihongo|"Shinichi Wada"|和田進一|Wada Shin'ichi}} that he introduces himself with sounds identical to the first name of [[Shinichi Kudo]], however, for Iori it is written with the kanji for "progress" (進) instead of the one for "new" (新) used in Shinichi's name. The last name "Wada" is written with the same kanji as the last name of Hina Wada, a 17 year old high school student, a member of the Haido High School karate club and a friend of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], whom [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] previously [[Volume_89#UFO_Sighting_Murder_Case|met during a case]]. Shinichi Wada was also the localized name of Dr. Watson in one of the first translated releases of A Study in Scarlet in Japan.

== See also ==
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==References==
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Heiji Hattori

2017-09-27T03:38:18Z

Detective Reaper: /* Plot overview */

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| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
| height =
| weight =
| date-of-birth = Unknown date<ref name=CD56/> in July or August<ref>[http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdetektivconan-wiki.com%2Fwiki%2FInterview_mit_Gosho_Aoyama&act=url Interview with Gosho Aoyama at Comic Salon in Erlangen, July 22, 2006]</ref>
| occupation = High School Student Detective
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West" Detective Freak ([[Kazuha]]) Dark skinned man ([[Conan]]) Osaka boy ([[Kogoro]]) Detective boy
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_10#Great_Detective_of_the_West|File 92]] Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|Episode 48]]
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 33 (cases in the anime series) 1000+ (including the cases of lost cats when Heiji was a kid)<ref>[[Three Days with Heiji Hattori|Episode 479: Three Days with Heiji Hattori]]; [[Volume 54|Volume 54, File 563, page 3: "The Detective Koshien"]]</ref>
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]] [[Kumiko Higa]] (young)<ref>[[The Crimson Love Letter|Movie 21: The Crimson Love Letter]]</ref>
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is an Osakan high school detective in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend and the romantic interest of [[Kazuha Toyama]]. Originally a detective rival to [[Shinichi Kudo]], Heiji has since [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|found out]] [[Conan]]'s true identity and the two often team up to work on cases. He was the first person to ''deduce'' Conan's true identity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heiji occasionally enjoys teasing Shinichi's kid form. He has fun jokingly (sometimes mistakenly) calling Conan "Kudo" in front of Ran at his friend's expense. He often treats Conan/ Shinichi as a younger brother and their close relationship even evokes Kazuha's jealousy from time to time. In return Conan truly trusts and respects Heiji.

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

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

== Appellations ==

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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Hattori (alone) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke) Dark skinned man (once)|Kudo (alone/accidentally)<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref> Conan-kun Kid Boy (''Bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Hattori-kun Heiji-kun Brother Heiji (''Heiji-niisan'')|Sister/Miss (''Nēchan'') Ran-san Ran-chan}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Osaka brat Detective boy Hattori Heiji|Uncle (''otchan''; casual) Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-otchan'')}}
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{{appellations|Heizo Hattori|Heiji|Dad (''oyaji'')}}

{{appellations|Shizuka Hattori|Heiji|Mom (''okan'') Old lady (''obahan'')}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Heiji-kun|Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Goro Otaki|Hei-chan|Otaki-han}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Hattori-kun|Female detective (''onna-tantei'')}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Heiji-kun|[[Shinichi Kudo|His]] mom (''aitsu no okan'')}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Hattori Heiji-kun|-|}}
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{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Heiji-oniichan}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Heiji-san}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Heiji-san}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Osaka friend|That little girl That big sister}}
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{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Hattori-kun Heiji-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'') Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Heiji-kun Hattori-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|[[Conan Edogawa|Cool Kid]]'s friend (''Cool Kid no tomodachi'') Hattori-kun|Ms. Jodie}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Heiji-kun|Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|The detective kid from Osaka (''Osaka no tantei bōzu'')|That one-eyed police detective Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|The young, dark-skinned detective}}

{{appellations|Misao Yamamura|Osaka-accented kid}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|Hattori Heiji-kun<ref name="m13" />}}
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{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|-|Hondou Eisuke}}
{{appellations|Momiji Ooka|Heiji-kun My future husband (''uchi no mirai no danna-san'')|Momiji}}
{{Appellations|Soshi Okita|Hattori-kun|Okita}}
{{Appellations|Muga Iori|Hattori-sama|Iori-san}}
{{Appellations|Kaitou Kid|-|Kaitou Kid}}
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== Appearance ==
[[File:vlcsnap-2013-09-20-15h27m58s194.png|thumb|right|Heiji talks about his skin color in Movie 7.]]
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark brown skin which he claims is inherited from his grandfather. His eyes are blue in the manga (like every character). Initially, his eyes appeared dark green, but are now blue<ref>[[Episode 710]]</ref>. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref> He has a scar behind the left ear from being hit during an Oyodo competition.

He has also been shown to be popular with girls due to his good looks, position as kendo captain at his high school, and his fame as a high school detective. For example, in episode 263 when several girls tried to flirt with him but he had switched his gear with another team member to make a last minute call to Conan to visit his match. This was shown in Magic File 4: The Osaka Okonomiyaki Killer where several girls came to ask for an autograph and in [[OVA 9]], he was referred to as a lady killer.
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== Skills ==

=== Detective skills ===
Heiji's detective skills are same as [[Shinichi]]'s. Because of his skills, Heiji has acquired his nick name "The Great Detective Of The West". Like Shinichi, he has a keen eye for details, and can spot any unusual aspects in a case that most people tend to ignore or not take into account and has extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to recall every detail of an investigation, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Heiji's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony. However, unlike Shinichi, Heiji seem to be more competitive and hot-blooded while solving a case, which sometimes leads him into making a wrong deduction [[Diplomat Murder Case| i.e. the case in his first appearance.]]

=== Eidetic memory ===
Like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, Heiji has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan.

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

Heiji is also very nimble. He can jump higher than a bookshelf, and balance perfectly on a katana. This is shown in episode 263 of the anime, when Kotegawa tries to kill him.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle rider. He also speaks fluent English. During Episode 291, Heiji has shown to have the ability to deduce a woman's swimsuit without actually looking at it.

== Plot overview ==

===Great Detective of the West (Manga: [[Volume_10#Great_Detective_of_the_West|92-96]], Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|48-49]])===

One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. He had read of Kogoro solving cases and jumps to the conclusion that he is getting help from Shinichi. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tsujimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.

===Holmes Freak Case (Manga: [[Volume_12#Holmes_Freak_Case|117-121]], Anime: [[Holmes Freak Murder Case|57-58]])===

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

===Bond of Fire Case (Manga: [[Volume_15#Bond_of_Fire_Case|150-153]], Anime: [[Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case|77-78]])===

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

===Mystery Writer Case (Manga: [[Volume_19#Mystery_Writer_Case|183]], Anime: [[The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case|117]])===
Heiji calls Conan having deciphered the text in the first new chapter, and with this information Conan manages to solve the rest of the hidden riddles.

===Stabbed Wallet Case (Manga: [[Volume_19#Stabbed_Wallet_Case|185-188]], Anime: [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case|118]])===

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

===Wedding Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_21#Wedding_Murder_Case|211-214]], Anime: [[The Night Before the Wedding Locked Room Case|141-142]])===

Heiji and Kazuha visit Tokyo accompanied by Kogoro, Ran, and Conan. They run into Heiji's father's friend and are invited to their mansion. There a murder occurs and his father's friend is found dead in a locked room. It seems he was dragged to another room after being stabbed in the heart. Continuing the investigation, Heiji proclaims the butler was the murderer and he is taken away, screaming his innocence. Late that night, an unknown man takes the murder weapon and tries to place it in a bag, but is caught by Heiji and Conan who reveal that they placed the blame on the butler to lure out the true culprit. The culprit is revealed to be Kikuhito Morizono. He reveals that he murdered the man because he tried to cancel the wedding and take his love away from him.

===Cruise Ship Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_23#Cruise_Ship_Murder_Case|225-230]], Anime: [[The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case|174]])===

In this episode, Heiji meets up once again with Conan and the gang on an overnight cruise in Tokyo. Unfortunately, instead of being able to spend a relaxing day on board, a serial murder case is created, leaving Heiji and Conan to work together to solve it. After they gather much of the evidence of the murder cases, Heiji and Conan share their deductions with each other only to find that, once again, their deductions are different. Heiji tries to beat Conan to the truth and goes off on his own to investigate. When he happens to come across the final piece of evidence that disproves both his and Conan's deductions, he is attacked and thrown overboard into the ocean. Later, Conan realizes that he's missing and is extremely concerned.

===Spider Mansion Case (Manga: [[Volume_25#Spider_Mansion_Case|246-250]], Anime: [[Tottori Spider Mansion Demon|166-168]])===

Kogoro and Heiji are hired to solve a murder case in a mansion supposedly haunted by a spider demon. Heiji and Kazuha, on their way to the mansion, find one of the residents who is also lost: an American named Robert Taylor who is a photographer. The three are picked up by Kogoro and co. in a truck. Apparently, the spider god's victims are always found hanged. During their stay, they find a hanged man surrounded by web-like strings. The case continues, and Conan and Heiji investigate further in the case. Conan and Heiji cooperate to reveal the murderer's identity and his trick.

[[File:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]
===The Desperate Revival (Manga: [[Volume_26|254-258]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival|189-192]])===

Ran is cast in a school play. While discussing the play with her friends backstage, Conan shows up wearing a face mask due to a cold. During a romantic scene, a man in the audience falls dead, seemingly by potassium cyanide, as revealed by a young man in the audience who appears to be Shinichi Kudo. This is quickly debunked, as Kazuha recognizes Heiji in disguise, and the real Shinichi has shown up anyway. Heiji originally planned on disguising as Shinichi in order to clear Ran's suspicions that Conan and Shinichi were one and the same, and was unaware that Shinichi would take the antidote with Haibara present in disguise as Conan.

===Old Photograph Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_28#Old_Photograph_Murder_Case|278]], Anime: [[The Client Full of Lies|221]])===

A woman named Shizuka Ikenami asks Kogoro to help find a man named Shiro Shibata so she could retrieve an old photograph; Conan realizes that the Ikenami is lying to Kogoro when she introduces herself for unknown reasons. After Conan solved the case, Heiji and Kazuha arrive and reveal that Shizuka Ikenami is actually Heiji's mother. Shizuka confesses and tells Kogoro that she wanted to see what kind of person he was since Heiji was injured the last time he stayed over.

===Mermaid's Curse Case (Manga: [[Volume_28#Mermaid's_Curse_Case|279-283]], Anime: [[And Then There Were No Mermaids|222-224]])===

Heiji along with Conan, Ran, and Kogoro visit the Isle of Mermaids looking for Saori, who had sent a letter to Heiji and Kogoro asking them to save her from being killed by a mermaid, but when they try to look for her she has been reported missing. Conan and Heiji investigate the area and history of Mermaids Grave, a forest on the island. They learn that an elder who is over 130 years old is a holder of the arrow and the head of the festival. While investigating, three murders occur. Conan reveals to Heiji he knows who the murderer is and to meet him later, but later he and Kazuha fall off a cliff. Kazuha attempts to save Heiji by stabbing him with an arrow so that he would let go of her and save himself, but Heiji persists and ends up saving both Kazuha and himself in the end.

===K3 Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_29#K3_Murder_Case|293-295]], Anime: [[The 3 "K"s of Osaka Case|238-239]])===

At the Mouri Detective Agency, Conan is on the phone talking to Heiji about the much publicised K3 Restaurant's opening party. Heiji's parents got invited but they both got colds and are unable to attend. Heiji decides to invite Conan, Ran, and Kogoro to come to the party. Three famous athletes from America are going to be there also. Once Heiji tells Conan who the three athletes are, Conan accepts the invitation. Suddenly, the news reporter named Ed McCay, who was invited to the K3 Restaurant, asks whether Japan isn't the home of many scandals, and mentions that K stands for "kitanai" meaning filth. Heiji wonders who he is and Kogoro mentions that McCay is famous in America. He's a reporter who specializes in exposing famous athletes' scandals like taking illegal drugs, playing fixed games and having secret affairs. McCay later gets murdered, but Heiji and Conan solve the case.

===Police Escort Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_30#Police_Escort_Murder_Case|296]], Anime: [[The Shinkansen Transport Case|240]])===

===Naniwa Swordsman Case (Manga: [[Volume_31#Naniwa_Swordsman_Case|314-316]], Anime: [[The Osaka Double Mystery - The Naniwa Swordsman and Toyotomi's Castle|263]])===

Heiji invites Conan to his kendo tournament but a drunk man named Atsushi Tarumi is found dead in the storage room. Heiji comes to investigate only to find that the body had somehow been moved to the shower room without anyone noticing. While Heiji was investigating, Kazuha suddenly appears asking Heiji to come back and take part in tournament and told him that Shinichi (Actually Conan, with whom Heiji was talking using the name "Kudo") would solve this case before him, which made Heiji jealous and he told Kazuha to not to tell anything about this case to Kudo. After a thorough investigation, Heiji reveals the culprit before Shinichi. However, in the end Heiji's high school lost the tournament because of Heiji's absence, but he seemed to be happy because he won his duel against Kudo. After the culprit is arrested, Heiji and Conan explore the town.

===Tiger Scroll Case (Manga: [[Volume_31#Tiger_Scroll_Case|317-321]], Anime: [[The Osaka Double Mystery - The Naniwa Swordsman and Toyotomi's Castle|263]])===

===Flying Neighbor Case (Manga: [[Volume_34#Flying_Neighbor_Case|341-343]], Anime: [[English Teacher vs. Great Western Detective|277-278]])===

While at Agasa's house, Conan recalls his last meeting with the Black Organization. Conan deduces that another Black Organization member must have been at the hotel party. This is when he finally singles out Chris Vineyard as his suspect. Heiji came to Tokyo to help Conan out with the case. Heiji suspects Jodie-sensei of being a possible Black Organization member, and although Conan seems reluctant to support this idea, they pay Jodie-sensei a visit at her apartment. They find out here that her full name is "Jodie Saintemillion". After Jodie agrees to go out for a while with Heiji and Conan, the man living next door to Jodie falls dead outside from over 30 stories coincidentally as the three step outside. After the police arrive, it seems likely that the man committed suicide. However, Conan and Heiji have their doubts. Heiji immediately destroys the theory of suicide by showing that the man who fell from his apartment attempted to grab onto a curtain to save his life. Conan and Heiji reveal the truth by showing how the room was switched around so that when the man was drunken he would expect to be stepping out onto the balcony, but instead would wind up falling. After they solve the case, Heiji asks Jodie who she is. In reply, Jodie asks Heiji the same question. When Conan and Heiji leave, they concur that Jodie is suspicious but innocuous. The ending scene shows that she's already on to them in that Jodie's already knows Heiji's name and has pictures of Kudo during the time he regressed back to his former self in the Desperate Revival arc.

===Mysterious Words Case (Manga: [[Volume_35#Mysterious_Words_Case|361-365]], Anime: [[Solitary Island of the Princess and the Dragon King's Palace|291-293]])===

===Heiji Hattori's Desperate Situation (Manga: [[Volume_38#Heiji_Hattori's_Desperate_Situation|390-392]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori's Desperate Situation!|323-324]])===

Heiji, Kazuha and a man named Kasukawa are held hostage in an attic of someone's home. Meanwhile, Conan, Ran, and Kogoro are tired of waiting for the two and begin searching for them based on clues from the last phone call. They investigate Detective Kasukawa's home and discover evidence that Heiji had been there. Conan finds a memo which discloses Kenbashi City, Ito Residence. They investigate those with the surname Ito but are unable to find information about Heiji. Meanwhile, it is revealed Heiji is held hostage by Misari Ito, an attorney who is the head of a tax evasion group. Ito demands Heiji to solve a code made by Kasukawa which contains a seven-digit-code to a safe box containing evidence of her scandal. While held at gunpoint, Heiji sends a modified version of the code to Kogoro and asks him to solve it. Conan manages to solve the code, realizing that K, Q, and J stand for King, Queen, and Jack and replaces them with numbers accordingly. When Heiji receives the code back from Kogoro, he tells Misari he will tell her the seven digits and they head to the bank. Conan realizes the last three digits are actually letters and realizes what Heiji is trying to tell him and replies a modified code. Heiji tells Misari Ito he will tell her the seven digits and they head to the bank. Heiji reveals that the numbers, if placed in a 3 by 3 diagram, will create a diagram of a dice with the 1's representing the dots on a dice. Heiji reveals that the code he sent Kogoro had the letters LIB meaning Libra which is referring to the scales Libra and the attorney badge Ito has; He explains that the code "Kogoro" replied with means to "Lure One of them Out". At Ito's home, Conan knocks out the two kidnappers and frees Kazuha. The police arrive later and apprehends the criminals.

===Red Horse Case (Manga: [[Volume_39#Red_Horse_Case|393-397]], Anime: [[The Red Horse within the Flames|325-327]])===
While Heiji and Kazuha were having dinner over at [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s place, Kogoro started to discuss about the serial cases that have been occurring in the area. At every crime scene, a horse would be found engulfed in flames, as the house where the crime occurred, gets burnt down. Humorously, all the cases that appeared to be linked to a serial killer, were not connected at all. It was all done to lessen the suspicion on the culprit's true intention of murder. During their conversation, Heiji invited Kogoro and Conan to assist him in a new case that he wished to solve. They keep a close watch on the house whose occupant had asked for their assistance, even after the one who requested them declined the service. They kept surveillance for a long time until Ran called and asked them to hurry back home for dinner. Just as they left, the house went up in flames, along with a red horse. The woman who had asked them for help was burnt to death. The case triggered the enthusiasm in the two young detectives (Conan and Heiji), and they uncovered the murderer through a joint investigation.

===Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume_42#Halloween_Party_Case|429-434]], Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]])===

===Heiji vs. Kazuha (Manga: [[Volume_43#Heiji_vs._Kazuha|441-444]], Anime: [[Which One's Deduction Show|381-382]])===
Heiji wants to go watch Koushien, while Kazuha wants to go see the Takarazuha. In order to settle the dispute, Kogoro comes up with an idea. They split up into two groups, with Heiji and Conan up against Kazuha, Ran and Kogoro, to see who can solve the case of the murdered President first.

===Koshien Bomber Case (Manga: [[Volume_43#Koshien_Bomber_Case|445-449]], Anime: [[Miracle at Koshien Ball Park! The Defiants Face the Dark Demon|383]])===

===Magician Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_47#Magician_Murder_Case|487-490]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Deduction Magic|406-408]])===

===Yuki-Onna Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_50#Yuki-Onna_Murder_Case|518-522]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope|490]])===
Through a phone call between Heiji and Conan (Shinichi), Heiji mentions that he had come across another young detective in the past who seemed more brilliant than him. A flashback then occurs to reveal what had happened before. It was on a middle school trip among many different schools when a crime happened. A famous actor was murdered, but was told to have committed suicide. Heiji and Shinichi both had set out to solve the case independently, only to know time and again that the other person was just ahead of them in figuring things out. The two detectives had unknowingly solved the same case and stumbled upon the same conclusion, without knowing who the other person is. At the end of the episode it is revealed that the totally awesome detective that Heiji is talking about, is none other than Shinichi.

===Phantom Corpse Case (Manga: [[Volume_54#Phantom_Corpse_Case|559-561]], Anime: [[Three Days with Heiji Hattori|479]])===

===Detective Koshien Case (Manga: [[Volume_54#Phantom_Corpse_Case|562-566]], Anime: [[Three Days with Heiji Hattori|479]])===

===Missing Photo Case (Manga: [[Volume_56#Missing_Photo_Case|582]], Anime: [[Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph|484]])===

===Billing Fraud Case (Manga: [[Volume_56#Billing_Fraud_Case|585]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|491]])===

===Furinkazan Case (Manga: [[Volume_59#Furinkazan_Case|613-618]], Anime: [[Furinkazan|516-517]])===

===Murderer Shinichi Kudo Case (Manga: [[Volume_62#Murderer_Shinichi_Kudo_Case|646-651]], Anime: [[Murderer, Shinichi Kudo|521-522]])===

Heiji, along with Ran, Kogoro and Kazuha, finds Shinichi with his memory completely erased, during a village trip. They are also surprised to find that almost everyone in the village seems to hate Shinichi, due to a supposedly 'stupid' and 'flawed' solution he gave about the deaths of the local leader and his wife, one year ago. A news reporter, who was present to cover the original case, accuses Shinichi of faking the memory loss and states that she knows the 'truth' about him. The next morning, the reporter is found stabbed, with no one but Shinichi in the house, and a knife with him, turning him into the one and only suspect.

Heiji takes it upon himself to both prove Shinichi's innocence and hide him from the police, helped by Ran, Kogoro and Kazuha. He skilfully proves that the culprit had undergone cosmetic surgery, to impersonate Shinichi and commit a crime to destroy his reputation. The real Shinichi, too, turns up (after mistakenly ingesting [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s APTX 4869 antidote prototype) to justify his deductions about the year-old double deaths.

After the antidote's effects start wearing off, Heiji tries to prevent Shinichi from turning into Conan in front of Ran, by taking him to the toilet and asking him to hide in his (Heiji's) travel bag, so that he can make up some story about the disappearance and get him home.

===Highway Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_62#Highway_Murder_Case|652-654]], Anime: [[What She Truly Wants to Ask|523]])===

This is a continuation of the plot from the 'Murderer Shinichi Kudo' episode. Having been given another APTX 4869 antidote prototype by Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], Shinichi manages to remain in his 17-year old body. While returning home in Kogoro's hired car, the group spot a dead man inside a speeding car, and are able to stop it. Heiji and Shinichi, after narrowing down the suspects, together apprehend the criminal with such finesse that even Detective [[Miwako Sato]] (who happened to be present there along with her colleague, [[Wataru Takagi]]) is left surprised. Heiji also lends Shinichi his cap to prevent him from being recognized easily, due to Shinichi's fears about the [[Black Organization]].

===The Blue Spark of Hate(Manga: [[Volume_63#Sushi_Bar_Murder_Case|655]], Anime: [[The Blue Spark of Hate|524]])===

===Haunted Warehouse Case (Manga: [[Volume_66#Haunted_Warehouse_Case|692]], Anime: [[Battle of the Haunted Warehouse's Treasure|572]])===

===Kazuha's Charm Case (Manga: [[Volume_66#Kazuha's_Charm_Case|693-695]], Anime: [[The Whereabouts of the Embarrassing Charm|573-574]])===

===Demon Dog Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_70#Demon_Dog_Murder_Case|734-740]], Anime: [[The Victim is Shinichi Kudo|610]][[Inubushi Castle, The Ablazed Demon Dog|-613]])===

===East vs. West (Manga: [[Volume_74#East_vs._West|778-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]])===

===Eye for an Eye (Manga: [[Volume_74#Eye_for_an_Eye|781-786]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|652-655]])===

===Unexpected Murder (Manga: [[Volume_79#Unexpected_Murder|831-833]], Anime: [[Everyone Saw|710-711]])===

===Vampire's Mansion (Manga: [[Volume_79#Vampire's_Mansion|834-840]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori and the Vampire Mansion|712-715]])===

===Drug Trading Case (Manga: [[Volume_83#Drug_Trading_Case|879-881]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|763-764]])===

===Kamaitachi Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_86#Kamaitachi_Murder_Case|909-912]], Anime: [[the Kamaitachi Inn|808-809]])===

===Kawanakajima Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_86#Kawanakajima_Murder_Case|913]])===

===Zombie Movie Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_88#Zombie Movie Murder Case|931-935]], Anime: [[A Cottage Surrounded by Zombies|830-832]])===
Conan and company encounter Heiji and Kazuha at the spot that Yoko Okino filmed a movie. After a murder occurs zombies appear outside the house. At the end of the case, Heiji tries to confess to Kazuha but is interrupted by a zombie.

===Curse of the Nue (Manga: [[Volume 90#Curse of the Nue|958]]-[[Volume 91#Curse of the Nue|962]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend|872-874]])===
A mysterious summons brings Conan, Heiji and company to Yadori Village where they encounter a creature known as a Nue. At the end of the case, Heiji tries to confess again, but is interrupted by a paratrooper from the Japanese Air Defense Force.

===Murder inside Café Poirot (Manga: [[Volume_92#Murder_inside_Caf.C3.A9_Poirot_Case|981]]-[[Volume_93#Murder_inside_Caf.C3.A9_Poirot_Case|983]], Anime: TBA)===

Heiji and Kazuha come to Tokyo to see the Ginza illumination, however a case breaks out in Poirot cafe. This is Heiji's first time meeting Amuro.

=== The Field Trip to Kyoto (Manga: [[Volume_93#|1000-1005]], Anime:TBA) ===
Heiji first came to the field trip in a disguise, with a mission to help Shinichi hide his real identity when the antidote's effects wear off. He also solves a murder case in Kyoto with other high school detectives like Shinichi and [[Masumi Sera]]. In the end of the case, he promises that he will confess to Kazuha in the same way that Shinichi does to Ran.

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
{{main|Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama}}
Like Shinichi's relationship with Ran, Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] is a very close one: they know each other since their childhoods, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship is identified as a romantic one by other characters and fans alike, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and in the majority of the manga and anime has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, it has been shown that he becomes visibly jealous when he sees Kazuha with other guys, becoming distracted throughout the whole case. At one point, after a certain case, while looking at Kazuha, his thoughts read: 'Fool. You're too naive. I promise you, as long as you're with me, I'll never let anyone hurt you.'. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him In on of the mangas Kazuha attempts to confess her feelings after finding out that Shinichi had done so with Ran, but is unlucky because by telling him, Heiji ran off to tease Conan(Shinichi) for it. She one time even attempted to sacrifice herself to save Heiji during a case in which accidentally both fell off a cliff. When the branch that Heiji was holding and both of them were hanging on to was breaking, she stabbed his hand with an arrow of love to prevent him from falling and force him to let her fall; however, he still held on despite the wound. Also, they have a similar situation to Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have similar backgrounds. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police detective's daughter, like Ran is a detective's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time. In the most recent case, Heiji confessed to Kazuha when she was taken away by some suspicious men, saying "What are you doing to my Kazuha?!". When Kazuha questioned him about it, he claimed that she was wrong and there was no evidence that proves his confession (although Shinichi recorded it). Nonetheless, it is shown in the file 912 that he has actually realized his feelings for her, as Ran questions him about the confession. He denies it to her, but thinks that he needed a more important place to confess, as Kudo confessed in front of the Big Ben.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions so that no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji is concerned for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and life-or-death situations. They are as close as real brothers, both being detectives who have romantic feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other. However, they are both all business when a case gets serious. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.
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==== Ran Mouri ====
Heiji and [[Ran]] are very good friends, bonding after Heiji's many trips to Tokyo because he "misses Conan". Ran respects Heiji as a very skilled detective who reminds her of Shinichi, but whenever Heiji and Kazuha run into an argument, Ran seems to take Kazuha's side.

Since Heiji knows that Ran is Shinichi's Girlfriend, he tends to tease Shinichi about her quite often and will give him advice on his romantic relationship with her. Since it's practically identical with his relationship with Kazuha (Even though they aren't on the same level as Shinichi & Ran's romantic relationship).

Heiji almost views Ran as a sister, as he will tease her from time to time and he'll help explain things to her during cases along with Kazuha.

==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his [[Heizo Hattori|father]] is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

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

==== Kogoro Mouri ====
[[Kogoro]] respects him a little as a detective, but due to Heiji being the better detective, he seems to get annoyed whenever Heiji is with him while solving cases.

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

==== Juzo Megure ====
Usually Megure gets a little annoyed whenever Heiji runs into a case he is handling. He often tells Kogoro to not to lose to an outsider like Heiji. Despite this, Megure respects Heiji as a very skilled detective, and he has even declared Heiji as a better detective than Shinichi.

==== Momiji Ooka ====
[[Momiji Ooka|Momiji]] is close to her "future husband" Heiji.

== Injuries ==
Heiji has been shown to receive the most amount of injuries out of the characters in the franchise, not including the numerous times Conan has been hit by [[Kogoro Mouri|Mouri]]. His so far are:

'''[[Volume 10|Volume 10, File 2-6]]''':
Heiji and Conan's head collide, raising bumps.

'''[[Volume 12|Volume 12, File 7-10]]''':
Heiji and Conan's head collide, raising bumps.

'''[[Volume 19|Volume 19, File 8]]''':
Shot in the belly by Detective Sakata.

'''[[Volume 23|Volume 23, File 4-9]]''':
Hit over the head and tossed overboard into the ocean.

'''[[Volume 25|Volume 25, File 4-8]]''':
Kazuha slaps Heiji after he bursts into her room demanding she take her clothes off, then attempts to assist her in doing so.

'''[[Volume 28|Volume 28, File 6-10]]''':
Right hand stabbed by Kazuha with an arrow while dangling off a cliff.

'''[[Volume 31|Volume 31, File 8]]''':
Kazuha nails him on the back of the head with something, raising a bump.

'''[[Volume 31|Volume 31, File 8]] (mentioned)''':
Scar behind the left ear from last year's Oyodo competition. Given to him by Okita when he was unable to stop Okita's 5-step attack. The match was stopped because his neck wouldn't stop bleeding until a doctor tended to it.

'''[[Volume 31|Volume 31, File 10]]''':
Shallow cut to left cheek with a katana by Takashi Kotegawa.

'''[[Volume 31|Volume 31, File 11]]/[[Volume 32|Volume 32, File 1]]''':
Heiji's father punches him in the face, sends him flying.

'''[[Volume 38|Volume 38, File 8-10]]''':
Handcuffed behind his back in an attic, beaten with fists and feet, face shoved into the floor, gun pointed at his head repeatedly.

'''[[Volume 83|Volume 83, File 9]]''':
Beaten up in a fist fight with narcotics agents.

'''[[Volume 86|Volume 86, File 5]]'''
Hand sliced by the Kamaitachi.

'''[[Movie 3]]''':
Heiji crashes his motorcycle, sprains something, most likely a leg.

'''[[Movie 7]]''':
Slice on his forehead and voluntarily took a cut to the left shoulder with a poisoned dagger.

'''[[Movie 10]]''':
Shot in the arm and leg.

'''[[Movie 17]]''':
Shot in the arm while saving Kazuha

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

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

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

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

*Heiji ranked 5th in the Digest Book 50+ poll "Best Detective Conan characters", with 268 votes.

*Heiji ranked 2nd in the Digest Book 70+ poll "Characters you want to go on a date with", with 368 votes.

*Heiji ranked 3rd in the Digest Book 80+ poll "Characters you want to marry", with 843 votes.

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

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Heiji's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 479)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
|}

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

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

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

{{cquote|Whatcha doin' to MY Kazuha!!?|Heiji's 'confession' to Kazuha upon strangling the suspect}}

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=US|Spanish Latin America|Alfredo|Adame}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Heiji|Hattori}}
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== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here]. As the link is now dead, a new list can be found on this page under "[[Heiji Hattori#Injuries|Injuries]]".
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo]], [[Kaito Kuroba]], and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.
*In OVA 9, Heiji and Kazuha are asked, "When are you two getting married?" However, this can be dismissed as it was all part of Conan's dream.
*Heiji's favorite author is Ellery Queen.
*It has become the series' trope that Heiji (and sometimes Kazuha) often appear in long cases (more than three chapters) setting in isolated and remote locations. Their entries are often mentioned at the end of the preceding case as well.

==Gallery==
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File:Heiji10yrs.png|Heiji in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
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Masumi Sera

2017-09-27T03:33:04Z

Detective Reaper: /* The Field Trip to Kyoto (Manga: 1000-1005, Anime:TBA) */

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| name = Masumi Sera
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|世良真純}} (Sera Masumi)
| english-name =
| image = Masumi_Sera_Profile.jpg
| age = 16-17? 
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = Teitan High School Student Detective
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second-older brother)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 73|File 768]] Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|Episode 646]]
| appearances = {{:Masumi Sera Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 73]]
| japanese-voice = [[Noriko Hidaka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://combination.jp/blog/2012/02/post-383.html|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-02-01|title=新しいお仕事 | Blog | コンビネーション|publisher=combination Co.Ltd.|author=Noriko Hidaka}}</ref>
| cases-solved = 8
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'''{{nihongo|Masumi Sera|世良真純|Sera Masumi}}''' is a high school detective in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]].

== Background ==
Masumi Sera is a high school detective and the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and shogi player, [[Shukichi Haneda]]. She is the only daughter of [[Tsutomu Akai]] and [[Mary]]. 17 years ago, her father, before he disappeared, instructed his family to hide in Japan, where Masumi later was born. Her oldest brother had prior to her birth left Japan to study in America, so they first got to meet each other when Masumi was six-seven years old. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved abroad three years ago with her mother, presumably due to Shuichi infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Her other brother stayed in Japan. She has recently returned to Japan for some unknown reason. After meeting Conan, Ran, and Sonoko during a case, she transfers to [[Setting#Teitan High School (帝丹高校)|Ran's high school class]]. Masumi is skilled at [[Wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]], a hobby encouraged by her brother Shuichi who mailed her instruction videos while in elementary school. She can fight on the same level as [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. She seems to know that Conan is Shinichi and she had in fact met Ran and Shinichi sometime in their past. Currently she is living with [[Mary]], whom she calls "Mama", at a hotel. She claims that she is provided for by a rich friend of her late father, but it hasn't been revealed who it is. Every time they encounter the possibility of information on Mary getting out, they end up moving to a new hotel under Mary's order. While Masumi is eager to seek help from Conan, Mary is skeptical of him.
The three siblings has different last names. Sera is supposedly her mother's maiden name.

==Personality==
[[File:691-15.png|thumb|Masumi beats a gangster in [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case]]]]

Masumi has a cheery, sociable, boyish personality<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> and is well liked by her classmates at Teitan High. On their first meeting, Masumi fails to correct Sonoko's mistaken impression that she is a man and even makes it worse by declaring that Ran is "[her] type".<ref name=pronouns>The Japanese pronoun used is gender neutral and can refer to either males or females.</ref> Her rather boyish appearance - especially in relation with her flat chest - is a bit of a touchy subject to Masumi, who claims that her mother's bust size is rather well developed and keeps expressing her hope that someday her own chest size will similarly change for her.

Masumi is quite quick-minded, coming up with clever plans and adapting them to sudden changes rapidly. Masumi seems to be prone to dramatics like most detectives are, but perhaps to a lesser degree than [[Shinichi]] or [[Heiji]] as she bluntly says who the criminal is without preamble. On the other hand, Masumi is tough to the point that she is willing to risk all to achieve a successful conclusion of a case. In one instance, she purposefully lured a hostage-taker into a sniper's sight with a smile, hoping he would be shot without showing any apprehension about his possible demise.

Although she has crime scene experience<ref name=769p3>Manga Volume 73, File 7, pg 3: "A Detective Just Like You, Little Boy"</ref>, Masumi seems to be less skilled as a detective than Shinichi or Heiji, apparently missing a critical clue that was necessary to understand how the murderer's setup worked, although Conan opines that Masumi purposely made an error in order to test him. In some degree, she seems to like rivalry or contests to see who is the winner.

Sera's catchphrase upon the conclusion of a case is "case closed".

Sera shows a protective and caring side towards Conan, as seen in the Detectives Nocturne and in the beginning of the Red Woman case when she helps Conan up after falling, as well as having it made clear in the Haunted Hotel case that she was also clearly investigating Conan before they first met, as she knew he was a detective. Its likely to believe that them being on the same bus was not an accident, which could even lead to be argued that she somehow hinted to them about the cake buffet so they would be on the same bus as her. It is safe to assume though she was, and possibly still is, investigating Conan.

Sera's way of referring to her parents as 'Mama' and 'Papa' indicates a privileges background.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Sera_transfers.png‎|thumb|Masumi transfers to Teitan High School]]

At first, she wears a grey fedora that used to belong to Shuichi Akai and a dark jacket which gives her an androgynous appearance. When she transfers to Teitan High, she gets rid of her fedora and wears female clothing. Her hair is dark, wavy, and short; it doesn't even touch her shoulders. Even then, she is rather tomboyish; Genta mistakes her for a man, and Sonoko comments she has a petite figure. Later, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Hattori comment that her bosoms are rather small. Masumi also has an uneven tooth that shows when she smiles.

Masumi and her brother Shuichi presumably more closely resemble their mother than their father.
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==Appellations==
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{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Sera-san Sera-no-nēchan Sera Sera Masumi<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume 88)]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s younger sister (''Akai-san no imōto'')|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file771">[[volume 73#Bomber's Request|File 771 (Volume 73)]]</ref> Boy (''Bōya''; first time) Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Sera Sera Masumi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="ep690">[[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|Episode 690]]</ref>| Kudo Shinichi}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Sera-san Sera Masumi-chan<ref>File 778</ref> Sera-chan|Ran-chan Ran-kun}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Tomboy-ish Girl|Kogoro-san Poiro-san ([[Hercule Poirot|'''Poiro'''t]] + Kogo'''ro''')<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|File 820 (Volume 78)]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro-san (''Nemuri no Kogoro-san'')<ref name="file771" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Papa}}

{{appellations|Mary Sera|Masumi<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|Mama<ref name="file953" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Masumi|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file938">[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938: The Crime in the Blind Spot (Volume 89)]]</ref> Ani<ref name="file859">[[volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859: Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate (Volume 81)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file954">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 954: Sanction of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Sera-san<ref name="file954" />|Subaru}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Masumi<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Kichi-nii ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014_4.JPG]] (Sera-chan calls him Kichi-nii)</ref> Kichi-niichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Sera-san Sensei (once) Sera-chan Female High-School Detective (''JK Tantei'')<ref name="file938" /> Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file859" />|Sonoko-chan Sonoko-kun}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Female detective (''onna-tantei'')|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|-|The girl with the ponytail}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Mari-chan<ref name="file930" />|Taisho<ref name="file930" />}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|Sera}}
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{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Female High-School Detective (''Jōshi-Kōsei Tantei'')|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Sera-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>[[Volume 86#Poolside Case|File 905 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|"FBI Guy"}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file828">[[Volume 78#The Blush Mermaid|File 828 (Volume 78)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file828" /> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="file828"/>}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Amuro-san<ref name="file937">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch<ref name="file937" /> [[Shuichi Akai|My brother]]'s friend (''Aniki no yūjin'')<ref name="file936" /> The friend (''sono yūjin'')<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Young girl (''wakai no'')<ref name="file858">[[volume 81#Steamy Relations|File 858: A Problematic Deduction (Volume 81)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file858" />}}
|}
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{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Sera Masumi<ref name="m18" />|Haibara Haibara Ai}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Onēsan<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')}}
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<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|-|Kudo Yusaku<ref name="ep690" />}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Sera<ref>[[Volume 78]], File 6</ref>|-}}

{{appellations|Scar Akai|Masumi<ref name="MT">[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]]</ref>|Shu-nii<ref name="MT" /> Acquaintance (''shiriai'')}}

{{appellations|Makoto Kyogoku|-|Master of Karate (''Karate no Tatsujin'')}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda<ref>[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file953" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953" />|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}
|}
</tab>
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==Plot overview==
=== Masumi's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 73#Jeet Kune Do|768 - 770]], Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|646 - 647)]] ===
[[File:Sera_Kick.png|thumb|right|Masumi defends herself from Ran.]]
Masumi first met [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] on a bus after she was mistaken for a [[Wikipedia:Groping|groper]]. After Sonoko declared Masumi was the groper, Masumi and Ran got into a fight, with Masumi's Jeet Kune Do holding even against Ran's karate. Conan and Masumi cleared up the misunderstanding by pointing out the real groper. Sonoko then mistook Masumi for a boy, an impression which wasn't helped by Masumi declaring that Ran was "his type".<ref name=pronouns/> Masumi and Ran both discovered they were heading to the same hotel, about which Conan is less than pleased.

Masumi finds out the hotel she is staying at doesn't have a room available and complains at the front desk. A man then falls into the parking lot and dies. Conan runs to the source of screaming while Masumi told the guard to watch the elevators before running to the roof. She immediately declares the crime to be a murder, giving her reasoning. She then reveals her name, Masumi, that she is a detective, and knows Conan is a detective as well. She also revealed before she knew Conan's name despite it not being mentioned in front of her, revealing that Masumi has been investigating Conan for awhile now.

[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] is not pleased to have another high school detective underfoot but lets Masumi and Conan investigate regardless. After listening to the suspect testimony, police observations, and examining the crime scene, Masumi announces that she has solved the case.

However, Masumi's deduction leaves out a critical detail; Conan is therefore forced to use Shinichi's phone to call his own, give Inspector Megure Conan's phone, and speak through Shinichi's as Shinichi using the voice-changer bow tie. Shinichi figures out the detail that had Masumi stumped, although a look she gives Conan as he runs off suggests her omission was possibly intentional, and once during the phone conversation she tries to trick Shinichi into admitting that he is physically present at the crime scene instead of being explained the details by Conan and Megure.

The following day, Masumi transfers to Teitan High School, surprising both Ran and Sonoko. She was rather popular at school surrounded by students asking her questions about herself.

===Kogoro Detective Agency Hostage Crisis (Manga: [[Volume 73#Bomber's Request|771]]-[[Volume 74#Bomber's Request|774]], Anime: [[Hostage Situation at the Mouri Detective Agency|648 - 650]])===

====Let's hear your brilliant deduction! (771)====
According to Sonoko, Masumi has become very popular at Teitan high for being "cheery, sociable, boyish, and cute...and on top of that, she is a jeet kun do-using female detective!"<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> One classmate compares her to [[Shinichi Kudo]] who has been taking a break from school. Masumi tells inquiring classmates that she has been staying in America with her parents since three years ago, but "rebelled" because she would rather live in her Japan where she was born and raised. She sneaks up behind Sonoko and Ran after school because she wanted to speak to Conan at the Mouri Detective Agency. At the agency, Masumi is unhappy to hear that Conan and the rest of Detective Boys are staying at Agasa's house and will be camping the following day. She settles for asking Kogoro if Conan is always at his side when he solves cases, hinting that she suspects Conan is the real brains behind "Sleeping Kogoro".

[[File:Sera_slide_kick.png|thumb|left|Masumi sweeps out the Hostage Taker's legs]]
Just as Masumi is about to walk out the door, three female mystery writers and a man enter the agency. After a moment of confusion, the man suddenly fires a gun into the roof and takes the detective agency hostage. His demands are that Kogoro figure out which of the three writers killed his sister at a ryokan one month ago. The quick thinking Masumi sidles up to Ran and tells her to go for the man's gun after she takes his legs out. Sera's leg sweep sends the man to the floor, and Ran removes the gun from the man's hand with a kick; however, Masumi leaps back when the man reveals he has bombs strapped around his chest and will detonate them if they try to stop him.

Meanwhile at Agasa's, Haibara is angry that Conan used Shinichi's voice to solve a case around the suspicious Masumi. Conan's response is that Masumi is familiar somehow, like they have met before or she looks like someone, and Conan feels she isn't an enemy. Genta and Mitsuhiko told Conan they saw a high school student walking home with Ran, so the jealous Conan calls Ran's cellphone to hear about it from her.

The hostage taker man orders Ran to answer her phone, but Masumi snatches the phone away and says hello to Conan (who is shocked that Masumi is with Ran). Masumi then tricks the hostage taker and keeps the line connected so Conan can listen in by closing Ran's [[Yaiba#Characters|Sea Cucumber Man]] cellphone strap in between the screen and keypad of the the flip phone.

====Nickname Rules (772)====
Masumi asks a few insightful questions about the case; however the hostage taker man discovers Ran's phone is still connected. Under gunpoint, Masumi steps in front of Ran and takes the blame, but Conan, using Shinichi's voice, says he ordered Ran to do it. Masumi is mystified by why Shinichi is now on Conan's phone. Masumi meanwhile spots a glint of light across from the detective agency and declares that the case will come to an end without Shinichi's help.

====Possible Sniping (773)====
[[File:Sera773.png|thumb|right|Masumi surprised by Ran's attitude.]]
Masumi explains to Ran that she secretly kept the call to Conan connected so he could call the police and research into the case. While Masumi is still surprised that Shinichi was on the other end of the line instead of Conan, she had initially hoped that Shinichi would somehow be able to talk down the would-be-murderer. She suspects that Shinichi has already figured which one of the suspects is the murderer in the ryokan case, but Shinichi is unable to reveal the truth because the hostage taker would then kill the named culprit and then himself. Sera's plan changed when she noticed the lights from the police snipers on the building across from Mouri Detective Agency. She explains to Ran in detail the names and functions of the various police divisions responsible for hostage situations, and tells Ran in a roundabout fashion that this situation will end with the hostage taker being killed by the police.

Masumi launches a plan to bring the hostage taker into the snipers' range by telling him he should charge Ran's phone battery. Ran foils Sera's intentions by shutting the curtains, blocking the snipers' shot. To Masumi's utter astonishment, Ran tells her that she doesn't want to see anyone die in front of her and declares that "Shinichi won't allow anyone to die. He absolutely wouldn't!"<ref>Volume 73, File 11, page 13, "Possible Sniping." Shinichi then begins to present his deductions over the phone and Masumi wonders how he will manage to resolve this situation without bloodshed.</ref>

====The book with unturned pages (774)====
Masumi and Ran take the opportunity to disable the hostage taker when he loses his composure and grip on the detonator after Shinichi tricks him into believing his sister committed suicide. Masumi yells for the waiting bomb squad to secure the area. With the hostage taker arrested, Shinichi then reveals the true culprit. Masumi realizes the mistake in her deduction and explains the correct timeline of events before the murder. Sometime soon after the conclusion of the case, Masumi, walking with Ran and Sonoko speculates aloud that there must be some reason Shinichi left Agasa's before Ran could meet him there. She then exclaims that "due to what just happened, she really gets it", that Conan and Shinichi are on very good terms with one another, and that Ran "is tougher than Masumi thought". Conan isn't sure what to make of these last comments.

===Video Site (Manga: [[Volume 74|775-777]], Anime: [[The Professor's Video Site|656-657]])===
[[File:Ai image.png|thumb|Masumi deletes Haibara's image]]

Masumi stops [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] outside of [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]]'s house to ask them if they are acquaintances of Professor Agasa. The topic of [[Shinichi]] comes up when she talks to Mitsuhiko and Genta about the prior hostage case. Mitsuhiko mentions that [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] told them to keep Shinichi's involvement secret. After asking about Haibara, Masumi mentions that she saw Haibara in one of the professor's online videos. Next, Masumi asks who is currently living in the Kudo house because she saw the curtains shift slightly. The Detective Boys tell her that [[Subaru Okiya]] has been staying there since his apartment burnt down. Masumi cryptically comments with a smirk on her face, "And here I thought that someone had just settled in without permission...But it seems I was just getting worked up over nothing..." while looking up at where Subaru is hiding.

At the end of the case, Masumi is in her hotel room deleting various files. One of her deleted files was a still image from Agasa's video blown up to show Haibara reflected in Agasa's glasses. This indicates that she is not only keeping an eye on Conan but also on Haibara.
"Delete... Delete... For data, at least is an easy task to accomplish...", were her words while she was doing it.

===East vs. West Rematch (Manga: [[Volume_74#East_vs._West|778-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]])===
[[File:Sera FBI.png|thumb|left|Masumi thinks about the FBI]]
The case opens with Ran talking to Masumi about [[Heiji Hattori]] who is stopping by for a visit. Masumi is curious whether Heiji or Shinichi is the better detective. After Heiji is introduced to Masumi, Kazuha then calls Heiji and tells him that she is stuck at a restaurant because someone died and a foreigner [[Andre Camel]] is keeping everyone from leaving. Masumi proposes Heiji and Shinichi (via Conan's cellphone) have a deduction match. At the crime scene, Masumi becomes curious about the foreigner, Camel who secured the area. The police and Conan reveal Camel is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and Masumi takes interest. Meanwhile, Camel finds that Masumi looks familiar, but can't quite place why. He takes a picture of her and mails it to [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] and [[James Black]] who are waiting outside. Jodie and James think Masumi resembles someone too, but only James Black correctly identified Masumi as female.

Meanwhile Masumi is busy helping with the case, asking questions and making comments about various deductions. Heiji nearly slips up with Conan's identity in front of her earning a pointed question from Masumi, but Heiji rescues himself by saying he thinks of Conan as Kudo when Conan gets smug have hearing Shinichi's deductions over the phone. Masumi doesn't seemed to be fooled though, her thoughts show that she seems to know Conan, not Shinichi, is the one solving the case while watching Conan come to his final conclusion.

===EYE (Manga: [[Volume_74#Eye_for_an_Eye|781]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|652]])===
Conan, Heiji, Masumi, and the rest of the group return to the Mouri Detective Agency after the poisoning case at Danny's restaurant. Heiji reveals the case that brought him to Tokyo; he received a mysterious letter signed in the name of a person who was murdered in Karuizawa requesting an investigation. Masumi takes an immediate interest in the case and wants to tag along, but Heiji refuses saying that the people he is visiting are only expected five people. Masumi is peeved at being left behind.

===Kogoro-san is a Good Man (Manga: [[Volume 75|787]], Anime: [[Kogoro-san is a Good Man|661]])===
Masumi is walking with Conan, Ran and Sonoko. While they wonder why Kogoro has been coming home late, Sonoko thinks he's found himself a mistress. Masumi thinks that he is just investigating a case. When an old lady named Takae Kiritani comes, she claims that Kogoro has been helping her. Masumi asks what he does for her to which she replies that its small things like helping around the house. Masumi isn't seen again for the rest of the case.

===Murder at Mouri Detective Agency (Manga: [[Volume 76|797-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]])===
[[File:Sera's motorcycle.jpg|thumb|right|Masumi in her motorcycle.]]
During a murder case at Mouri Detective Agency, after meeting Kogoro's new apprentice [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]], [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] comments that the number of detectives around Kogoro has increased again, referring to Masumi. Amuro takes interest in Masumi. Later, Kogoro and friends go over to a suspect's apartment. Masumi calls Ran after hearing about the murder on the news because she is worried about her and Conan. The call has an usual amount of static which alerts Amuro that there are listening devices present. Amuro abruptly hangs up Ran's phone on Masumi. Meanwhile, Conan intentionally gets himself kidnapped by the primary suspect. After Ran enables calling again, Masumi calls back immediately and is very upset because she was worried something had happened to Ran. Ran tells her that Conan has been kidnapped, and details to Masumi the murder at Kogoro's agency. In order to figure out where the kidnapper is headed, Kogoro and Amuro search the apartment and decide to go to the address of one of the other suspects.

Masumi arrives at suspect's home on [[Cars|her motorcycle]], but just misses Kogoro and the gang leaving. She hears the elevator descending and rushes back downstairs in time to follow Amuro's [[Cars|car]]. Meanwhile, the culprit has been driving around with Conan while Haibara has been directing Okiya's car towards them using the criminal tracking glasses. Okiya catches up to the kidnapper and relays what the car looks like to Kogoro. Amuro sees the suspect's car heading in the opposite direction so he quickly wheels around after it. Masumi, who has been following Amuro's car this whole time, u-turns after Amuro and continues chasing. Amuro gets in front of the suspect's car and stops it. The suspect gets out of the car holding Conan at gunpoint, but Masumi drives up onto the roof of the car. She swings her motorcycle around so that the rear wheel slams into the woman's face knocking her unconscious. With tears of relief, Masumi hugs Conan, happy he is safe. Amuro, Okiya, and [[Vermouth]] look on.

===Meeting with Scar Akai (Manga: [[Volume 76|801]], Anime: [[Won't Forgive Even One Millimeter|675]])===
[[File:Sera_675.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Masumi looking for Scar Akai.]]
Masumi is walking with Sonoko and Ran, and Ran is talking by phone with Conan. Masumi hears Haibara's voice in the background and becomes curious. She asks the two others what Haibara is like, and Sonoko says Haibara is like a woman in a child's body.

When Ran hangs up her cellphone, the topic switches over to [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]]. Masumi says to Ran she wants to meet Amuro because she never got a really good look at him from the last case, but Sonoko thinks she wants to meet Conan, instead. Ran says Shinichi and Conan are big fans of Sherlock Holmes. Masumi thinks about that she has known that for a long time.

Suddenly, Masumi sees [[Scar Akai]] in the crowd ahead. She runs after him, but she can't catch him. Ran wonders who Masumi was chasing, but Masumi replies she thought it was someone she knew, and silently appends in her mind that it would be impossible for the man she was chasing to be the person she thinks it was.

[[File:690-3.png|thumb|Masumi is shocked to see Subaru]]
===Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case (Manga: [[Volume 77|812-814]], Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|690-691]])===
Masumi meets [[Subaru Okiya]] at Shinichi's house and she finds him suspicious. She began to think there is a woman at Kudo's house because there are a hair elastic, lipstick in a glass and a long hair in the sink trap. After that, all of them solved a case together that is similar to a case that Shinichi Kudo's father dropped out 10 years ago. It was revealed to be a theft case. Both Subaru and Masumi had got more suspicious of Conan and the identity of Shinichi Kudo. At the end, when the criminals were knocked, she saw Ran and Conan and she thought she was a 'bad kid', after all.

===Gunma Campground's Cabin Trap (Manga: [[Volume 77|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-700]])===
[[File:Masome.png|thumb|left|120px|Masumi at the campground]]
She went camping when she meets Professor Agasa and Conan. The Detective Boys were lost. Masumi and Conan found the two policemen finding the corpse. After she and Conan solved the case, she and Conan rushed towards the burning cabin. Conan and the Detective Boys were talking about how they got safe. Mitsuhiko pointed the way were their savior went. Masumi then began to ask what kind of woman is their savior. She seemed to be surprised when she saw her on Mitsuhiko's cell phone.
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[[File:new-sera.png|thumb|left|150px|Masumi leans in to get a good look at Haibara]]
[[File:Sera is akai sister.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi is revealed to be Shuichi's sister.]]

===Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]])===
Masumi finally meets Haibara, and Haibara has a bad feeling about her (although it could have been due to Scar Akai spying on them from behind the door just then). Later when a murder occurs on the Bell Tree Express, she and Conan investigate. Masumi takes a video recording of the suspects running so she can show it to the detective boys in order to ask them which one had the closest gait to the masked suspect from earlier, but she is intercepted first by Scar Akai in the hallway. She stops and angrily asks him who he is. Scar Akai simply replies that she hasn't changed, reveals his face to her, and refers to her by her first name, "Masumi". In her shock Masumi calls him "Shu-nii", signifying that Shuichi is Masumi's older brother. She questions Scar Akai about what happened, saying that she heard he had died. Scar Akai then tasers her unconscious, stating that he was hoping for that response. Scar Akai later is revealed to be Vermouth in disguise, explaining why he attacked Masumi.

===The Blush Mermaid Heist (Manga: [[Volume 78|828]]-[[Volume 79|830]], Anime: [[Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid|724-725]])===
[[File:SeraHat.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Masumi is relieved that she has got her hat back.]]
Masumi accompanies Conan, Ran, and Sonoko to the location of Kaitou Kid's next heist: a museum where the Blush Mermaid, a gem adhered to the shell of a turtle as a last ditch effort by a an Italian actress in an accident at sea to save her turtle by encouraging someone to rescue it. Before checking out the museum, Masumi asks Ran if she saw a [[Scar Akai|strange man in black]] when she found the hat on the Belltree Express. After the group arrives at the room where the turtle is being held in a large aquarium, [[Ginzo Nakamori|Inspector Nakamori]] pulls Masumi's face to see if it is a mask worn by Kid. Annoyed by Nakamori's mistaken gender assumption and having her face pinched, Masumi knees him in the privates ostensibly to prove he isn't Kid. Masumi then runs off to the bathroom. Later, when Kid makes his move, Masumi is one of many caught in his trap: the rug on the floor is pulled up by strings so that it pins everyone standing on it to the front of aquarium. As soon as the rug drops, everyone sees the tank is empty except for a card left by Kid. This leaves Conan and Masumi quite dumbfounded as to how Kaitou Kid could have removed the turtle. Later, Conan reveals that Masumi is really Kaitou Kid, and he had made a critical error in his acting by assuming Masumi was a male. Kaitou Kid had locked the real Masumi bound and gagged in the men's bathroom after knocking her out with a stun gun. Upon gaining consciousness, Masumi escapes her bonds, rushes out of the bathroom, and gives a still disguised Kid a fierce kick to the face. After Kid escapes (due to Ran distracting Masumi by pointing out that everyone can see her underwear), Masumi is relieved that she at least managed to recover her hat, which she thinks is special because it somehow has the same feel as her brother Shuichi Akai's hat.

=== Cooking Show Murder (Manga: [[Volume 80|844-846]], Anime: [[The Treasure Chest Filled with Fruits|727-728]])===
[[File:SeraSmile.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Masumi is smiling and blushing when Conan asks her if they had met each other before.]]
Conan, Ran, Sonoko, Kogoro and Masumi go to a live cooking show. Conan wants to ask something important to Masumi, but a murder gets in his way. While solving the case, Ran realises that Masumi and her might have met each other before, since Ran thinks of waves in the beach each time Masumi gets away. At the end of the case, Conan asks Masumi if they had met each other before. Masumi smiles and says she doesn´t know, but actually she thinks "Of course we have, but I can´t tell you until the time comes..."

===Adultery Investigation (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]] )===
[[File:SeraCall.png|left|thumb|150px|Masumi is calling her brother on the phone.]]
After being hired by a classmate, Keiko Kitao, Masumi is investigating to see if the boyfriend of Keiko's sister has fully committed to their relationship. However, as the atmosphere is rapidly changed by the murder, Masumi and Conan start to investigate the crime scene. When Conan has finally deduced who the culprit is, he also observes Masumi making a call with someone saying "...Say, my deduction... It's not wrong, is it?". Upon solving the case, Eri states having seen Masumi talking to her brother on the phone.

=== Meeting Makoto (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]])===
[[File:SeraAndMakoto.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Masumi attacks Makoto with her Jeet Kune Do.]]
At a Bowling Center with Conan, Ran, Sonoko and Kogoro, Masumi is introduced to Sonoko's boyfriend Makoto. Shortly before, Makoto mistakes Masumi for a stranger being "overly friendly" with Sonoko and tries to fight her. Masumi explains that she has been taught Jeet Kune Do by her older brother, she also reveals that besides her assumingly dead brother, she also has a second-oldest brother. Furthermore, Masumi explains to Conan that her brother also advises her on cases by phone. After successfully investigating the crime scene with Conan, Masumi steps aside with her smartphone and types in the message "It seems like he's also arrived at the truth... But whether or not our deductions are the same - lately I've been losing confidence in that regard...". When the recipient writes back "Who is he? I'd like an explanation!", Masumi takes a picture with her smartphone. However, the recipient's answer, "If it's him, there's no problem." reveals that he is familiar with Conan. It is heavily implied that it is the same person Conan saw Masumi making a call with in File 857.

===Red Woman Case (Manga: [[Volume 82|872]]-[[Volume 83|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|754-756]])===
Masumi takes a request from her middle brother to consult in his place about a case involving some of his high school classmates who are now 28-29 years old. On the way to a cabin in the woods, Masumi tells Conan and the gang more about her family history and timeline. She reveals that she and her brothers each have different family names for various reasons, one of which is the death of her father. The case takes a dark turn when one of the classmates is found murdered in a bathtub of tomatoes. With the help of the Nagano police, Conan and Masumi manage to solve the case. Later, Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone in the kitchen by calling it with his. He does so and Conan notices the call background screen is a [[Mary|child who looks like Masumi]] with eye bags similar to those of the [[Akai family]] members. Masumi mentions having a younger sister earlier on (Episode 754), so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

===Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876]]-[[Volume 83|878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]])===
On the way home from school, Ran and Sonoko decide to visit Masumi's hotel (which is different from the other one she has been staying at earlier). Masumi claims she had a meeting with her supposedly-hard-to-reach [[Akai family's middle brother|middle brother]] planned, so she texts him to reschedule. Conan seems to notice this contradiction. At the hotel, Conan tries to peek in Masumi's bedroom, but Masumi wards him off by embarrassing him. Masumi also asks Conan is she reminds him of someone he met in the past, but Conan draws a blank. A murder interrupts the meeting. While Conan is investigating, he notices the middle-school aged [[Mary|child]] from Masumi's cellphone picture in the gathered crowd. Later, Conan and the gang return to Masumi's room, and Conan hides his glasses earpiece [[microphone]] to spy on the apartment. It is quickly found and destroyed by Masumi and the child after Conan departs with Ran and Sonoko. Masumi asks the child is she is beginning to like him, but the child responds that she is still long way from trusting him. The child asks Masumi to tell Conan she is her little sister from outside the territory if he asks about her. Masumi doesn't mention that she showed Conan the child's picture.
[[File:Masumi and Scotch Flashback EP836 (3).jpg|150px|thumb|right|Masumi remembers meeting a man nicknamed Scotch]]

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===

=== Ran & Shinichi - First Contact (Manga: [[Volume 87#Ran & Shinichi - First Contact|921-924]], Anime: [[Memories from Sakura Class|853-854]]) ===

=== 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]]) ===

=== Girls Band Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|936-938]], Anime:[[The Unfriendly Girls Band|836-837]]) ===
Four years ago, Masumi was taught a few notes on the base guitar by a friend of her brother, [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]]. The friend was referred to as "[[Scotch]]" by another person who Masumi thinks looks like [[Rei Furuya|Rei]].

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[Soul Detective Murder Case|863-864]]) ===
Masumi and Mary has moved into another hotel, where a murder takes place next door.

=== Swimsuit Festival Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_91#Swimsuit_Festival|969]]-[[Volume_92#Swimsuit_Festival|971]], Anime:TBA) ===
Masumi intentionally puts on a bathing suit similar to the one that she had worn in the past to try to jog Conan's memory of where they met. A case occurs, which involved the method of counting fingers in different countries. Masumi seems to count the same way that is used in the UK, but seems to think that it is the way it is done in the US. As Conan corrects her, she seems confused. Conan thinks back on all of the times that Masumi has done things that seem to imply that she was in the UK rather than the US and he finally remembers the events of 10 years ago by repeating イギリス (Igirisu / Britain) in is head.
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=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume_92#A_Chance_Meeting_at_the_Beach|972-974]], Anime:TBA) ===

=== Café Rice Flower Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_94#Café_Rice_Flower_Murder_Case|994-996]], Anime:TBA) ===
Masumi and Sonoko meets up with Ran in a café to discuss details of the school field trip to Kyoto.

=== The Field Trip to Kyoto (Manga: [[Volume_93#-94#|1000-1005]], Anime:TBA) ===

Masumi, together with other high school students such as Ran, Shinichi, etc, goes on a field trip to Kyoto. In Kyoto, she participated in solving a murder case along with other high school detectives, Heiji and Shinichi. This whole case is a confirmation of Masumi knowing Shinichi's real identity. After the case is solved, Masumi is seen calling her mother, [[Mary Sera]] telling her that "it seems the antidote exists" and her mission now is to get it without fail.

== Non-Canon Plot Overview ==

=== Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]] ===
Sera appeared in this movie as an investigator of the person who had been shot in the Bell Tower. She and Conan helped in chasing the culprit and afterwards was shot by the culprit after saving Conan.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Masumi was Shuichi Akai's sister ===
Masumi was revealed to be Shuichi Akai's sister on the Bell Tree Express after a confrontation with [[Scar Akai]]<ref name=821p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pg 16: "Mystery Train (Junction)"</ref> and while sleeptalking.<ref name=823p4>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 6 (823), pg 4: "Mystery Train (Releasing Smoke)"</ref>
[[File:Sera_and_Shuuichi.png|thumb|right|300px|Masumi and [[Shuichi Akai]].]]
* Masumi has bags under her eyes identical to Shuichi Akai's.
* Masumi Sera's name is also incredibly similar to Mobile Suit Gundam character [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Sayla_Mass Sayla Mass] ({{lang|ja|セイラ・マス}}, ''Seira Masu''). [[Shuichi Akai#Name origin|Shuichi's name is derived]] from Sayla Mass's older brother's name, Char Aznable.
* Conan said he has a feeling he had met her before. "''Somehow I feel like we've met somewhere before, it might be that person resembles someone I know, that's why the feeling that we've met before is on my mind...''"<ref>Manga Chapter 771: Let's Hear Your Brilliant Deduction! p.11</ref>
* [[Andre Camel]] and most likely [[James Black]] seem to recognize her from somewhere. On another interesting note, James was the first to recognize that Masumi was a girl. Everyone else thought that she was a guy when they first saw her. Since James was Shuichi's boss, he would most likely know that Shuichi has a younger sister and what she would look like.
* Masumi lived in Japan until three years ago when her family moved to America. This matches with the time when Shuichi was infiltrating the Black Organization. The family's move to America could be the FBI's attempt to protect them should something go wrong with Shuichi's mission.
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew".
* In Chapter 859, Masumi, when being asked who taught her Jeet Kune Do, answers that her older brother did. Consequently, Conan asks Sera: "But, didn't you say your older brother was dead?" This leads to Masumi remarking "Yeah... That's what I heard." also further supporting the theory that Masumi is in Japan to investigate her brother's death.

=== Hints that Masumi was not Bourbon ===
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew". She then thinks there is "no way it was possible" regarding the man she saw, which would make sense if she thought Shuichi was dead. This implied she wasn't Bourbon, since Bourbon believes he is the only one who can kill Shuichi, implying that Gin might have failed to do so. Hence Bourbon wouldn't think that it was impossible to meet Shuichi again in the street.

==Relationships analysis==

===Friends & Family ===

==== Shuichi Akai ====
[[Shuichi Akai]] is Masumi's older brother. She didn't get to meet him until she was six-seven years old, because Shuichi went to study abroad before Masumi was born. At first meeting she was very shy, but she did make some pranks in an attempt to make him smile. Masumi refers to Shuichi as "Shu-nii", implying that they were close. Masumi seems to miss him after his supposed death. In the Blush Mermaid Heist, Masumi is shown to be fond of her fedora as she believes it has the same "feel" as Shuichi's old hats. Shuichi sent Masumi Jeet-Kune-Do training tapes while she was in elementary school. She watched these so many times while practicing that she wore them out.<ref name="876p2">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 2: "Romance Novelist"</ref> She describes her eldest brother as ''strong'' in contrast to her second - oldest brother.<ref name="859p6-7">Manga [[Volume 81]], File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[File:EP671-674_25.png|thumb|right|Masumi hugs Conan after rescuing him in [[Detectives' Nocturne]].]]
Masumi is interested in [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s abilities as a detective and has been gathering information on him and his friends. She appears to be certain that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. Despite her initial suspicious presentation, Conan felt like she wasn't a bad person and so didn't mistrust her. Conan at several points questions her if they've met before, but she denies this, once secretly thinking, "Now's not the time". The period in which such an encounter could have taken place is initially hinted to be somewhere before the three-year span of Masumi's sojourn in the United States, when she was in her preteen years.<ref name="Mang83">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 7-8: "Red Past"</ref><ref name="Mang86">Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905): "The Truth Rises to the Surface"</ref>

It is later shown that she had met Conan/Shinichi ten years ago, when the Akai family had gathered on an undisclosed beach in Japan prior to Shuichi Akai joining the FBI. By chance, Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] had also vacationed there, and they all ended up as witnesses and investigators in a gone-awry flight attempt from a robbery. When Shinichi managed to make Shuichi laugh (something Masumi had miserably failed to achieve) with his intelligence, observation skills and some unintended jokes, Masumi, in her admiration for Shinichi, began to call him "wizard". It is quite possible that this meeting inspired Masumi to become a detective herself.<ref name="Mang92">Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2-4 (972-974): "A Chance Meeting at the Beach"</ref>

If Masumi really lived in England, instead of America, then it's possible that she saw the tennis match from the London case on TV and recognized Conan as Shinichi based on his proclamation as 'Holmes' apprentice'.

On several occasions, such as the dramatic conclusion of the [[Volume 76#Online Client|Online Client Case]], Masumi has displayed an intensely affectionate air towards Conan which somewhat transcends a mere "big sister" relationship.<ref>Manga Chapter 800: ''Online Client Case'' - "When Objects Collide"; Anime Episode 674: ''[[Detectives' Nocturne]]'' - "Bourbon"</ref> In fact, it is hinted during the [[Volume 83#Romance Novelist Murder Case|Romance Novelist murder]] and in the movie ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]'' that she may actually be entertaining a crush on Shinichi/Conan and hopes of initiating a closer relationship with him. However, the actual level of her feelings for him is yet to be publicly revealed.

==== Ai Haibara ====
Masumi has been interested in meeting [[Ai Haibara]] for yet unrevealed reasons and has been secretly gathering information on her. She also seemed to recognize [[Shiho Miyano]] in the video of her rescuing the [[Detective Boys]]. Haibara in turn feels uneasy around Masumi, especially in close contact situations though arguably it could also be due to Scar Akai's presence near Masumi. The reason behind her interest might be due to Haibara's resemblance with [[Mary]].

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sera and Wave.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Ran hears sounds of rippling waves when she sees Masumi hurried away]]
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] have become friends and often walk home from school together. Masumi has also declared Ran as "her type" when they first met as a sign of liking, though this ultimately led Sonoko, Conan and Ran herself to mistake Masumi for a boy.

At one point, Ran recalls having met Masumi before in the past, hearing the sound of "rippling waves" when the she sees the latter leaving, "as if some sort of magic were at work".<ref name="Mang86"></ref> It is revealed in a later story that she and Masumi had actually met 10 years before, when they were both still children, on a beach, where by happenstance she, Shinichi and the Akai family inadvertently became embroiled in the aftermath of a crime (see '''Conan Edogawa''', above).<ref name="Mang92"></ref>

==== Sonoko Suzuki ====
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have become friends and often walk home from school together, with Sonoko describing Masumi as a popular girl who is "cheery, sociable, boyish and cute" and on top of that, a "Jeet Kune Do using detective", though she also teasingly remarks that the only thing "against Sera" is her flat chest.

==== Akai family's middle brother ====
Masumi appears to have a good relationship with her [[Akai family's middle brother|second-older brother]] and often consults him regarding information or deductions about the cases she faced, and also has a high regard of her brother's intellect, even considering the already sharp Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to her second older-brother.

==== Tsutomu Akai ====
Masumi's father was missing before she was born, so she never knew him. But she refer to him as 'Papa.

=== Mary Sera ===
[[ Mary]] seems very mature and cold while talking to Masumi. She also treats her more like a coworker than her daughter, as she always advises her what to do and switch hotels if any intel about Mary is leaked.She is also somehow stubborn as she declined Masumi's trust in Conan despite the latter's motive and pursuit of justice are geniune.

=== Black Organization ===

==== Rei Furuya ====
Rei first saw Masumi in Detectives Nocturne case and seemed to recognise her. They formally met in chapter 936 (Girls Band) at [[Café Poirot]]. Masumi felt like having met him and even asked him directly about that, but Rei said that was the first time they met. When Masumi talked about a friend of her brother who taught her play the guitar, Rei also seemed to know about that incident. In Masumi's flashback of that friend, a man who looked very much like Rei appeared, and Masumi once again wondered about it, to which Amuro replied that she took the wrong person.

==== Scotch ====
Sera recalled meeting Scotch 4 years ago. That was when Scotch was with Akai and Rei in a train station. Sera also remembered Scotch teaching her how to play the bass and though it was only 10 minutes, she seemed to enjoy it. Sera is not sure of Scotch's true identity or allegiance, but thinks that Scotch is Japanese and that Scotch is not the real name.

==Speculation==
[[File:Sera Knowing Conan's Name.png‎|thumb|right|170px|Masumi mentioning Conan's name.]]
=== Masumi met Shinichi and Ran when she was younger and knows Conan is Shinichi ===
*Masumi knew [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s identities before they introduced themselves. She also knew that Conan is a detective.<ref> [[Volume 73]], File 6 (768)</ref>
*Masumi seems to know that Conan is the brains behind Sleeping Kogoro. Conan seems to think that he may have met Masumi before or that she resembles someone that he knows. He believes that she got the deduction of a case wrong just so that he would reveal himself. <ref> [[Volume 73]], File 9 (771)</ref>
*Conan realizes he met Masumi before because he finds her snaggletoothed smile familiar,<ref name=845p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 6 (845), pg 16: "Our Territory"</ref>
*Masumi admits that she has met Conan before, but she can´t tell him until "the time" comes.<ref name=846p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 16: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
*Ran has met Masumi as well because Masumi's figure as she runs away reminds her of "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
*Masumi, asks Conan if he once met a girl "a long time ago and could never forget [her]"<ref name=876p11>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 11: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> and gets annoyed when he says he can't recall someone like that.
*Ran has a flashback to when she saw a younger Masumi, who is wearing a bathing suit, say, "You are a wizard, right?". Ran also feels that she has met [[Mary]].<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref>
*The meeting occurred 10 years ago, as mentioned by Mary.<ref> Manga [[Volume 90]], File 5 (953)</ref>
*Masumi puts on a swimsuit similar to the one in Ran's flashback in order to jog Conan's memory, which results in him remembering her in that bathing suit as well, along as three other people, assumed to be her relatives. <ref> Manga [[Volume 91]], File 11 (969)</ref>

In Chapter 771, it is revealed that she also knows Professor Agasa, although she calls him "Professor what's his name". Although this could be explained away as her talking to Conan off screen and her just not remembering Agasa's name.

=== Identity of Masumi's middle brother ===
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=== The Wizard ===
In a PS, [[Akai family's middle brother|Masumi's middle brother]] asks if she "has already met the Wizard?"<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> Masumi's thought reply is "You could say so..." Later, Masumi "thinks aloud" that her reason for returning to Japan is to meet the Wizard once more.<ref name=874p8>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 8: "The red past"</ref> The identity of the Wizard is revealed in File 974 to be Shinichi.

==== Shinichi Kudo ====
Tellingly, Masumi turns towards Conan when thinking of the answer "You could say so". At this point Masumi seems to know Conan is Shinichi. If Shinichi was nicknamed "The Wizard" by Masumi and/or her brother because of what happened when he and Masumi met in the past, then the response is appropriate since she could only sort of meet with Shinichi, because Shinichi shrunk into Conan. It's possible that the event where Shinichi earned the nickname "The Wizard" was Shinichi and Ran's meeting with Masumi 10 years ago. When trying to remember Masumi, Ran specifically mentions "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref> A "magical" incident, if it was Shinichi's doing, might have earned him the nickname. Ran has a flashback of a young Masumi saying "You are a wizard, right?".<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref> Conan seems to have remembered meeting Masumi 10 years ago and is shown as a young Shinichi standing in front of a large wave.<ref> Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2 (971)</ref>

==== Someone else ====
At this point it is unlikely that the Wizard is anyone else. There is evidence that Masumi nicknamed the person who she calls Wizard, at a point in the past while Ran was nearby. If Ran was nearby, then this would have to have happened when they first met 10 years ago, meaning that the person must be someone who existed back then. The topic of the Wizard came up during a text conversation about Conan between Masumi and her middle brother, and her response to if she had met the Wizard again was "You could say so", which is more than likely implying that she is referring to Conan, and therefore Shinichi.

[[File:Akai's picture 338.PNG|thumb|right|The picture of the Detective Boys the mystery assistants captured]]

===Masumi learned about Haibara from Shuichi's picture===
Masumi initially had an interest in Haibara. This is strange because Haibara didn't exist prior to Shiho shrinking. The knowledge of Shiho should have been secret to her as well, because Shuichi Akai's infiltration of the Black Organization was a secret. If Masumi doesn't even know the details of her brother's death, why should she know about Shiho? Masumi may recognize Haibara from pictures of Conan and Haibara that Shuichi took back during the Vermouth arc. It is standard procedure in the US to send the personal belongings of the dead back to their families. If Shuichi mixed these pictures in with his own things when he took them out of his truck before meeting with Kir, it's possible they were overlooked when the FBI sent Shuichi 's things to his family. If Masumi was interested in finding out how and why Shuichi died, she would begin by researching the people in those pictures and those connected with them in hopes of finding clues.
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==Character popularity==
*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. Masumi placed 9th overall with 292 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8024|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 50+ poll "Best Detective Conan characters", with 107 votes.

*Masumi ranked 5th in the Digest Book 60+ poll "Cutest Detective Conan characters", with 135 votes.

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 70+ poll "Characters you want to go on a date with", with 106 votes.

*Masumi ranked 11th in the Digest Book 80+ poll "Character you want to marry", with 281 votes.

==Name origin==
{{Nihongo|Masumi Sera's|世良・真純|Sera Masumi}} name comes 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 Masumi is Shuichi's sister (Manga File 821): {{lang|ja|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> The kanji for Masumi's surname mean 'good world'. The kanji for her first name, Masumi, mean 'true' and either 'pure' or 'net.'

==Quotes==
{{cquote|Deletion. For data at least ... is an easy task to accomplish.|Masumi, on deleting a picture of Haibara from her computer, File 777 pg 16}}

{{cquote|I guess I'm a bad kid after all...|Masumi, while crying, File 814 pg 16}}

==Trivia==
*Masumi is based on [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], a tomboy detective girl turned criminal who made her first appearance in the [[Volume 54#Detective Koshien Case|''Detective Koshien Case'']]. Since Natsuki had proven highly popular, but Aoyama couldn't recycle her as a protagonist, the character of Masumi was created instead.<ref>''Shonen Sunday'' #33</ref>
*When she was young she liked to read the "[[Night Baron]]" series, so she is fan of [[Yusaku Kudo]].
*Her catchphrase, "Case Closed" (said in English), is likely a reference to the English-language name of Detective Conan.
*Masumi owns an [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Sera's Yamaha_Artesia_XT400|Artesia XT400]].
*In File 859, Masumi reveals that she has a second-older brother and that her oldest brother taught her Jeet-Kune-Do.
*Masumi speaks Queen's English.<ref>[[:File:Postcard2015 1.jpg]]</ref>

==In other languages==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|ماسومي Māsūmi|سيرا Sēra}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|세라 Sera|양 Yang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|มาสึมิ Mās̄ụ-mi|เซระ Sera}}
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==See also==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Akai family]]

==References==
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| name = Masumi Sera
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|世良真純}} (Sera Masumi)
| english-name =
| image = Masumi_Sera_Profile.jpg
| age = 16-17? 
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = Teitan High School Student Detective
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second-older brother)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 73|File 768]] Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|Episode 646]]
| appearances = {{:Masumi Sera Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 73]]
| japanese-voice = [[Noriko Hidaka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://combination.jp/blog/2012/02/post-383.html|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-02-01|title=新しいお仕事 | Blog | コンビネーション|publisher=combination Co.Ltd.|author=Noriko Hidaka}}</ref>
| cases-solved = 8
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Masumi Sera|世良真純|Sera Masumi}}''' is a high school detective in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]].

== Background ==
Masumi Sera is a high school detective and the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and shogi player, [[Shukichi Haneda]]. She is the only daughter of [[Tsutomu Akai]] and [[Mary]]. 17 years ago, her father, before he disappeared, instructed his family to hide in Japan, where Masumi later was born. Her oldest brother had prior to her birth left Japan to study in America, so they first got to meet each other when Masumi was six-seven years old. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved abroad three years ago with her mother, presumably due to Shuichi infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Her other brother stayed in Japan. She has recently returned to Japan for some unknown reason. After meeting Conan, Ran, and Sonoko during a case, she transfers to [[Setting#Teitan High School (帝丹高校)|Ran's high school class]]. Masumi is skilled at [[Wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]], a hobby encouraged by her brother Shuichi who mailed her instruction videos while in elementary school. She can fight on the same level as [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. She seems to know that Conan is Shinichi and she had in fact met Ran and Shinichi sometime in their past. Currently she is living with [[Mary]], whom she calls "Mama", at a hotel. She claims that she is provided for by a rich friend of her late father, but it hasn't been revealed who it is. Every time they encounter the possibility of information on Mary getting out, they end up moving to a new hotel under Mary's order. While Masumi is eager to seek help from Conan, Mary is skeptical of him.
The three siblings has different last names. Sera is supposedly her mother's maiden name.

==Personality==
[[File:691-15.png|thumb|Masumi beats a gangster in [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case]]]]

Masumi has a cheery, sociable, boyish personality<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> and is well liked by her classmates at Teitan High. On their first meeting, Masumi fails to correct Sonoko's mistaken impression that she is a man and even makes it worse by declaring that Ran is "[her] type".<ref name=pronouns>The Japanese pronoun used is gender neutral and can refer to either males or females.</ref> Her rather boyish appearance - especially in relation with her flat chest - is a bit of a touchy subject to Masumi, who claims that her mother's bust size is rather well developed and keeps expressing her hope that someday her own chest size will similarly change for her.

Masumi is quite quick-minded, coming up with clever plans and adapting them to sudden changes rapidly. Masumi seems to be prone to dramatics like most detectives are, but perhaps to a lesser degree than [[Shinichi]] or [[Heiji]] as she bluntly says who the criminal is without preamble. On the other hand, Masumi is tough to the point that she is willing to risk all to achieve a successful conclusion of a case. In one instance, she purposefully lured a hostage-taker into a sniper's sight with a smile, hoping he would be shot without showing any apprehension about his possible demise.

Although she has crime scene experience<ref name=769p3>Manga Volume 73, File 7, pg 3: "A Detective Just Like You, Little Boy"</ref>, Masumi seems to be less skilled as a detective than Shinichi or Heiji, apparently missing a critical clue that was necessary to understand how the murderer's setup worked, although Conan opines that Masumi purposely made an error in order to test him. In some degree, she seems to like rivalry or contests to see who is the winner.

Sera's catchphrase upon the conclusion of a case is "case closed".

Sera shows a protective and caring side towards Conan, as seen in the Detectives Nocturne and in the beginning of the Red Woman case when she helps Conan up after falling, as well as having it made clear in the Haunted Hotel case that she was also clearly investigating Conan before they first met, as she knew he was a detective. Its likely to believe that them being on the same bus was not an accident, which could even lead to be argued that she somehow hinted to them about the cake buffet so they would be on the same bus as her. It is safe to assume though she was, and possibly still is, investigating Conan.

Sera's way of referring to her parents as 'Mama' and 'Papa' indicates a privileges background.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Sera_transfers.png‎|thumb|Masumi transfers to Teitan High School]]

At first, she wears a grey fedora that used to belong to Shuichi Akai and a dark jacket which gives her an androgynous appearance. When she transfers to Teitan High, she gets rid of her fedora and wears female clothing. Her hair is dark, wavy, and short; it doesn't even touch her shoulders. Even then, she is rather tomboyish; Genta mistakes her for a man, and Sonoko comments she has a petite figure. Later, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Hattori comment that her bosoms are rather small. Masumi also has an uneven tooth that shows when she smiles.

Masumi and her brother Shuichi presumably more closely resemble their mother than their father.
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==Appellations==
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<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Sera-san Sera-no-nēchan Sera Sera Masumi<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume 88)]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s younger sister (''Akai-san no imōto'')|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file771">[[volume 73#Bomber's Request|File 771 (Volume 73)]]</ref> Boy (''Bōya''; first time) Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Sera Sera Masumi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="ep690">[[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|Episode 690]]</ref>| Kudo Shinichi}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Sera-san Sera Masumi-chan<ref>File 778</ref> Sera-chan|Ran-chan Ran-kun}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Tomboy-ish Girl|Kogoro-san Poiro-san ([[Hercule Poirot|'''Poiro'''t]] + Kogo'''ro''')<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|File 820 (Volume 78)]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro-san (''Nemuri no Kogoro-san'')<ref name="file771" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Papa}}

{{appellations|Mary Sera|Masumi<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|Mama<ref name="file953" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Masumi|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file938">[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938: The Crime in the Blind Spot (Volume 89)]]</ref> Ani<ref name="file859">[[volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859: Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate (Volume 81)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file954">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 954: Sanction of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Sera-san<ref name="file954" />|Subaru}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Masumi<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Kichi-nii ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014_4.JPG]] (Sera-chan calls him Kichi-nii)</ref> Kichi-niichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Sera-san Sensei (once) Sera-chan Female High-School Detective (''JK Tantei'')<ref name="file938" /> Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file859" />|Sonoko-chan Sonoko-kun}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Female detective (''onna-tantei'')|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|-|The girl with the ponytail}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Mari-chan<ref name="file930" />|Taisho<ref name="file930" />}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|Sera}}
|}
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{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Female High-School Detective (''Jōshi-Kōsei Tantei'')|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Sera-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>[[Volume 86#Poolside Case|File 905 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|"FBI Guy"}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file828">[[Volume 78#The Blush Mermaid|File 828 (Volume 78)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file828" /> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="file828"/>}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Amuro-san<ref name="file937">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch<ref name="file937" /> [[Shuichi Akai|My brother]]'s friend (''Aniki no yūjin'')<ref name="file936" /> The friend (''sono yūjin'')<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Young girl (''wakai no'')<ref name="file858">[[volume 81#Steamy Relations|File 858: A Problematic Deduction (Volume 81)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file858" />}}
|}
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<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Sera Masumi<ref name="m18" />|Haibara Haibara Ai}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Onēsan<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|-|Kudo Yusaku<ref name="ep690" />}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Sera<ref>[[Volume 78]], File 6</ref>|-}}

{{appellations|Scar Akai|Masumi<ref name="MT">[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]]</ref>|Shu-nii<ref name="MT" /> Acquaintance (''shiriai'')}}

{{appellations|Makoto Kyogoku|-|Master of Karate (''Karate no Tatsujin'')}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda<ref>[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file953" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953" />|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

==Plot overview==
=== Masumi's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 73#Jeet Kune Do|768 - 770]], Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|646 - 647)]] ===
[[File:Sera_Kick.png|thumb|right|Masumi defends herself from Ran.]]
Masumi first met [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] on a bus after she was mistaken for a [[Wikipedia:Groping|groper]]. After Sonoko declared Masumi was the groper, Masumi and Ran got into a fight, with Masumi's Jeet Kune Do holding even against Ran's karate. Conan and Masumi cleared up the misunderstanding by pointing out the real groper. Sonoko then mistook Masumi for a boy, an impression which wasn't helped by Masumi declaring that Ran was "his type".<ref name=pronouns/> Masumi and Ran both discovered they were heading to the same hotel, about which Conan is less than pleased.

Masumi finds out the hotel she is staying at doesn't have a room available and complains at the front desk. A man then falls into the parking lot and dies. Conan runs to the source of screaming while Masumi told the guard to watch the elevators before running to the roof. She immediately declares the crime to be a murder, giving her reasoning. She then reveals her name, Masumi, that she is a detective, and knows Conan is a detective as well. She also revealed before she knew Conan's name despite it not being mentioned in front of her, revealing that Masumi has been investigating Conan for awhile now.

[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] is not pleased to have another high school detective underfoot but lets Masumi and Conan investigate regardless. After listening to the suspect testimony, police observations, and examining the crime scene, Masumi announces that she has solved the case.

However, Masumi's deduction leaves out a critical detail; Conan is therefore forced to use Shinichi's phone to call his own, give Inspector Megure Conan's phone, and speak through Shinichi's as Shinichi using the voice-changer bow tie. Shinichi figures out the detail that had Masumi stumped, although a look she gives Conan as he runs off suggests her omission was possibly intentional, and once during the phone conversation she tries to trick Shinichi into admitting that he is physically present at the crime scene instead of being explained the details by Conan and Megure.

The following day, Masumi transfers to Teitan High School, surprising both Ran and Sonoko. She was rather popular at school surrounded by students asking her questions about herself.

===Kogoro Detective Agency Hostage Crisis (Manga: [[Volume 73#Bomber's Request|771]]-[[Volume 74#Bomber's Request|774]], Anime: [[Hostage Situation at the Mouri Detective Agency|648 - 650]])===

====Let's hear your brilliant deduction! (771)====
According to Sonoko, Masumi has become very popular at Teitan high for being "cheery, sociable, boyish, and cute...and on top of that, she is a jeet kun do-using female detective!"<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> One classmate compares her to [[Shinichi Kudo]] who has been taking a break from school. Masumi tells inquiring classmates that she has been staying in America with her parents since three years ago, but "rebelled" because she would rather live in her Japan where she was born and raised. She sneaks up behind Sonoko and Ran after school because she wanted to speak to Conan at the Mouri Detective Agency. At the agency, Masumi is unhappy to hear that Conan and the rest of Detective Boys are staying at Agasa's house and will be camping the following day. She settles for asking Kogoro if Conan is always at his side when he solves cases, hinting that she suspects Conan is the real brains behind "Sleeping Kogoro".

[[File:Sera_slide_kick.png|thumb|left|Masumi sweeps out the Hostage Taker's legs]]
Just as Masumi is about to walk out the door, three female mystery writers and a man enter the agency. After a moment of confusion, the man suddenly fires a gun into the roof and takes the detective agency hostage. His demands are that Kogoro figure out which of the three writers killed his sister at a ryokan one month ago. The quick thinking Masumi sidles up to Ran and tells her to go for the man's gun after she takes his legs out. Sera's leg sweep sends the man to the floor, and Ran removes the gun from the man's hand with a kick; however, Masumi leaps back when the man reveals he has bombs strapped around his chest and will detonate them if they try to stop him.

Meanwhile at Agasa's, Haibara is angry that Conan used Shinichi's voice to solve a case around the suspicious Masumi. Conan's response is that Masumi is familiar somehow, like they have met before or she looks like someone, and Conan feels she isn't an enemy. Genta and Mitsuhiko told Conan they saw a high school student walking home with Ran, so the jealous Conan calls Ran's cellphone to hear about it from her.

The hostage taker man orders Ran to answer her phone, but Masumi snatches the phone away and says hello to Conan (who is shocked that Masumi is with Ran). Masumi then tricks the hostage taker and keeps the line connected so Conan can listen in by closing Ran's [[Yaiba#Characters|Sea Cucumber Man]] cellphone strap in between the screen and keypad of the the flip phone.

====Nickname Rules (772)====
Masumi asks a few insightful questions about the case; however the hostage taker man discovers Ran's phone is still connected. Under gunpoint, Masumi steps in front of Ran and takes the blame, but Conan, using Shinichi's voice, says he ordered Ran to do it. Masumi is mystified by why Shinichi is now on Conan's phone. Masumi meanwhile spots a glint of light across from the detective agency and declares that the case will come to an end without Shinichi's help.

====Possible Sniping (773)====
[[File:Sera773.png|thumb|right|Masumi surprised by Ran's attitude.]]
Masumi explains to Ran that she secretly kept the call to Conan connected so he could call the police and research into the case. While Masumi is still surprised that Shinichi was on the other end of the line instead of Conan, she had initially hoped that Shinichi would somehow be able to talk down the would-be-murderer. She suspects that Shinichi has already figured which one of the suspects is the murderer in the ryokan case, but Shinichi is unable to reveal the truth because the hostage taker would then kill the named culprit and then himself. Sera's plan changed when she noticed the lights from the police snipers on the building across from Mouri Detective Agency. She explains to Ran in detail the names and functions of the various police divisions responsible for hostage situations, and tells Ran in a roundabout fashion that this situation will end with the hostage taker being killed by the police.

Masumi launches a plan to bring the hostage taker into the snipers' range by telling him he should charge Ran's phone battery. Ran foils Sera's intentions by shutting the curtains, blocking the snipers' shot. To Masumi's utter astonishment, Ran tells her that she doesn't want to see anyone die in front of her and declares that "Shinichi won't allow anyone to die. He absolutely wouldn't!"<ref>Volume 73, File 11, page 13, "Possible Sniping." Shinichi then begins to present his deductions over the phone and Masumi wonders how he will manage to resolve this situation without bloodshed.</ref>

====The book with unturned pages (774)====
Masumi and Ran take the opportunity to disable the hostage taker when he loses his composure and grip on the detonator after Shinichi tricks him into believing his sister committed suicide. Masumi yells for the waiting bomb squad to secure the area. With the hostage taker arrested, Shinichi then reveals the true culprit. Masumi realizes the mistake in her deduction and explains the correct timeline of events before the murder. Sometime soon after the conclusion of the case, Masumi, walking with Ran and Sonoko speculates aloud that there must be some reason Shinichi left Agasa's before Ran could meet him there. She then exclaims that "due to what just happened, she really gets it", that Conan and Shinichi are on very good terms with one another, and that Ran "is tougher than Masumi thought". Conan isn't sure what to make of these last comments.

===Video Site (Manga: [[Volume 74|775-777]], Anime: [[The Professor's Video Site|656-657]])===
[[File:Ai image.png|thumb|Masumi deletes Haibara's image]]

Masumi stops [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] outside of [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]]'s house to ask them if they are acquaintances of Professor Agasa. The topic of [[Shinichi]] comes up when she talks to Mitsuhiko and Genta about the prior hostage case. Mitsuhiko mentions that [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] told them to keep Shinichi's involvement secret. After asking about Haibara, Masumi mentions that she saw Haibara in one of the professor's online videos. Next, Masumi asks who is currently living in the Kudo house because she saw the curtains shift slightly. The Detective Boys tell her that [[Subaru Okiya]] has been staying there since his apartment burnt down. Masumi cryptically comments with a smirk on her face, "And here I thought that someone had just settled in without permission...But it seems I was just getting worked up over nothing..." while looking up at where Subaru is hiding.

At the end of the case, Masumi is in her hotel room deleting various files. One of her deleted files was a still image from Agasa's video blown up to show Haibara reflected in Agasa's glasses. This indicates that she is not only keeping an eye on Conan but also on Haibara.
"Delete... Delete... For data, at least is an easy task to accomplish...", were her words while she was doing it.

===East vs. West Rematch (Manga: [[Volume_74#East_vs._West|778-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]])===
[[File:Sera FBI.png|thumb|left|Masumi thinks about the FBI]]
The case opens with Ran talking to Masumi about [[Heiji Hattori]] who is stopping by for a visit. Masumi is curious whether Heiji or Shinichi is the better detective. After Heiji is introduced to Masumi, Kazuha then calls Heiji and tells him that she is stuck at a restaurant because someone died and a foreigner [[Andre Camel]] is keeping everyone from leaving. Masumi proposes Heiji and Shinichi (via Conan's cellphone) have a deduction match. At the crime scene, Masumi becomes curious about the foreigner, Camel who secured the area. The police and Conan reveal Camel is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and Masumi takes interest. Meanwhile, Camel finds that Masumi looks familiar, but can't quite place why. He takes a picture of her and mails it to [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] and [[James Black]] who are waiting outside. Jodie and James think Masumi resembles someone too, but only James Black correctly identified Masumi as female.

Meanwhile Masumi is busy helping with the case, asking questions and making comments about various deductions. Heiji nearly slips up with Conan's identity in front of her earning a pointed question from Masumi, but Heiji rescues himself by saying he thinks of Conan as Kudo when Conan gets smug have hearing Shinichi's deductions over the phone. Masumi doesn't seemed to be fooled though, her thoughts show that she seems to know Conan, not Shinichi, is the one solving the case while watching Conan come to his final conclusion.

===EYE (Manga: [[Volume_74#Eye_for_an_Eye|781]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|652]])===
Conan, Heiji, Masumi, and the rest of the group return to the Mouri Detective Agency after the poisoning case at Danny's restaurant. Heiji reveals the case that brought him to Tokyo; he received a mysterious letter signed in the name of a person who was murdered in Karuizawa requesting an investigation. Masumi takes an immediate interest in the case and wants to tag along, but Heiji refuses saying that the people he is visiting are only expected five people. Masumi is peeved at being left behind.

===Kogoro-san is a Good Man (Manga: [[Volume 75|787]], Anime: [[Kogoro-san is a Good Man|661]])===
Masumi is walking with Conan, Ran and Sonoko. While they wonder why Kogoro has been coming home late, Sonoko thinks he's found himself a mistress. Masumi thinks that he is just investigating a case. When an old lady named Takae Kiritani comes, she claims that Kogoro has been helping her. Masumi asks what he does for her to which she replies that its small things like helping around the house. Masumi isn't seen again for the rest of the case.

===Murder at Mouri Detective Agency (Manga: [[Volume 76|797-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]])===
[[File:Sera's motorcycle.jpg|thumb|right|Masumi in her motorcycle.]]
During a murder case at Mouri Detective Agency, after meeting Kogoro's new apprentice [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]], [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] comments that the number of detectives around Kogoro has increased again, referring to Masumi. Amuro takes interest in Masumi. Later, Kogoro and friends go over to a suspect's apartment. Masumi calls Ran after hearing about the murder on the news because she is worried about her and Conan. The call has an usual amount of static which alerts Amuro that there are listening devices present. Amuro abruptly hangs up Ran's phone on Masumi. Meanwhile, Conan intentionally gets himself kidnapped by the primary suspect. After Ran enables calling again, Masumi calls back immediately and is very upset because she was worried something had happened to Ran. Ran tells her that Conan has been kidnapped, and details to Masumi the murder at Kogoro's agency. In order to figure out where the kidnapper is headed, Kogoro and Amuro search the apartment and decide to go to the address of one of the other suspects.

Masumi arrives at suspect's home on [[Cars|her motorcycle]], but just misses Kogoro and the gang leaving. She hears the elevator descending and rushes back downstairs in time to follow Amuro's [[Cars|car]]. Meanwhile, the culprit has been driving around with Conan while Haibara has been directing Okiya's car towards them using the criminal tracking glasses. Okiya catches up to the kidnapper and relays what the car looks like to Kogoro. Amuro sees the suspect's car heading in the opposite direction so he quickly wheels around after it. Masumi, who has been following Amuro's car this whole time, u-turns after Amuro and continues chasing. Amuro gets in front of the suspect's car and stops it. The suspect gets out of the car holding Conan at gunpoint, but Masumi drives up onto the roof of the car. She swings her motorcycle around so that the rear wheel slams into the woman's face knocking her unconscious. With tears of relief, Masumi hugs Conan, happy he is safe. Amuro, Okiya, and [[Vermouth]] look on.

===Meeting with Scar Akai (Manga: [[Volume 76|801]], Anime: [[Won't Forgive Even One Millimeter|675]])===
[[File:Sera_675.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Masumi looking for Scar Akai.]]
Masumi is walking with Sonoko and Ran, and Ran is talking by phone with Conan. Masumi hears Haibara's voice in the background and becomes curious. She asks the two others what Haibara is like, and Sonoko says Haibara is like a woman in a child's body.

When Ran hangs up her cellphone, the topic switches over to [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]]. Masumi says to Ran she wants to meet Amuro because she never got a really good look at him from the last case, but Sonoko thinks she wants to meet Conan, instead. Ran says Shinichi and Conan are big fans of Sherlock Holmes. Masumi thinks about that she has known that for a long time.

Suddenly, Masumi sees [[Scar Akai]] in the crowd ahead. She runs after him, but she can't catch him. Ran wonders who Masumi was chasing, but Masumi replies she thought it was someone she knew, and silently appends in her mind that it would be impossible for the man she was chasing to be the person she thinks it was.

[[File:690-3.png|thumb|Masumi is shocked to see Subaru]]
===Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case (Manga: [[Volume 77|812-814]], Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|690-691]])===
Masumi meets [[Subaru Okiya]] at Shinichi's house and she finds him suspicious. She began to think there is a woman at Kudo's house because there are a hair elastic, lipstick in a glass and a long hair in the sink trap. After that, all of them solved a case together that is similar to a case that Shinichi Kudo's father dropped out 10 years ago. It was revealed to be a theft case. Both Subaru and Masumi had got more suspicious of Conan and the identity of Shinichi Kudo. At the end, when the criminals were knocked, she saw Ran and Conan and she thought she was a 'bad kid', after all.

===Gunma Campground's Cabin Trap (Manga: [[Volume 77|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-700]])===
[[File:Masome.png|thumb|left|120px|Masumi at the campground]]
She went camping when she meets Professor Agasa and Conan. The Detective Boys were lost. Masumi and Conan found the two policemen finding the corpse. After she and Conan solved the case, she and Conan rushed towards the burning cabin. Conan and the Detective Boys were talking about how they got safe. Mitsuhiko pointed the way were their savior went. Masumi then began to ask what kind of woman is their savior. She seemed to be surprised when she saw her on Mitsuhiko's cell phone.
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[[File:new-sera.png|thumb|left|150px|Masumi leans in to get a good look at Haibara]]
[[File:Sera is akai sister.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi is revealed to be Shuichi's sister.]]

===Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]])===
Masumi finally meets Haibara, and Haibara has a bad feeling about her (although it could have been due to Scar Akai spying on them from behind the door just then). Later when a murder occurs on the Bell Tree Express, she and Conan investigate. Masumi takes a video recording of the suspects running so she can show it to the detective boys in order to ask them which one had the closest gait to the masked suspect from earlier, but she is intercepted first by Scar Akai in the hallway. She stops and angrily asks him who he is. Scar Akai simply replies that she hasn't changed, reveals his face to her, and refers to her by her first name, "Masumi". In her shock Masumi calls him "Shu-nii", signifying that Shuichi is Masumi's older brother. She questions Scar Akai about what happened, saying that she heard he had died. Scar Akai then tasers her unconscious, stating that he was hoping for that response. Scar Akai later is revealed to be Vermouth in disguise, explaining why he attacked Masumi.

===The Blush Mermaid Heist (Manga: [[Volume 78|828]]-[[Volume 79|830]], Anime: [[Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid|724-725]])===
[[File:SeraHat.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Masumi is relieved that she has got her hat back.]]
Masumi accompanies Conan, Ran, and Sonoko to the location of Kaitou Kid's next heist: a museum where the Blush Mermaid, a gem adhered to the shell of a turtle as a last ditch effort by a an Italian actress in an accident at sea to save her turtle by encouraging someone to rescue it. Before checking out the museum, Masumi asks Ran if she saw a [[Scar Akai|strange man in black]] when she found the hat on the Belltree Express. After the group arrives at the room where the turtle is being held in a large aquarium, [[Ginzo Nakamori|Inspector Nakamori]] pulls Masumi's face to see if it is a mask worn by Kid. Annoyed by Nakamori's mistaken gender assumption and having her face pinched, Masumi knees him in the privates ostensibly to prove he isn't Kid. Masumi then runs off to the bathroom. Later, when Kid makes his move, Masumi is one of many caught in his trap: the rug on the floor is pulled up by strings so that it pins everyone standing on it to the front of aquarium. As soon as the rug drops, everyone sees the tank is empty except for a card left by Kid. This leaves Conan and Masumi quite dumbfounded as to how Kaitou Kid could have removed the turtle. Later, Conan reveals that Masumi is really Kaitou Kid, and he had made a critical error in his acting by assuming Masumi was a male. Kaitou Kid had locked the real Masumi bound and gagged in the men's bathroom after knocking her out with a stun gun. Upon gaining consciousness, Masumi escapes her bonds, rushes out of the bathroom, and gives a still disguised Kid a fierce kick to the face. After Kid escapes (due to Ran distracting Masumi by pointing out that everyone can see her underwear), Masumi is relieved that she at least managed to recover her hat, which she thinks is special because it somehow has the same feel as her brother Shuichi Akai's hat.

=== Cooking Show Murder (Manga: [[Volume 80|844-846]], Anime: [[The Treasure Chest Filled with Fruits|727-728]])===
[[File:SeraSmile.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Masumi is smiling and blushing when Conan asks her if they had met each other before.]]
Conan, Ran, Sonoko, Kogoro and Masumi go to a live cooking show. Conan wants to ask something important to Masumi, but a murder gets in his way. While solving the case, Ran realises that Masumi and her might have met each other before, since Ran thinks of waves in the beach each time Masumi gets away. At the end of the case, Conan asks Masumi if they had met each other before. Masumi smiles and says she doesn´t know, but actually she thinks "Of course we have, but I can´t tell you until the time comes..."

===Adultery Investigation (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]] )===
[[File:SeraCall.png|left|thumb|150px|Masumi is calling her brother on the phone.]]
After being hired by a classmate, Keiko Kitao, Masumi is investigating to see if the boyfriend of Keiko's sister has fully committed to their relationship. However, as the atmosphere is rapidly changed by the murder, Masumi and Conan start to investigate the crime scene. When Conan has finally deduced who the culprit is, he also observes Masumi making a call with someone saying "...Say, my deduction... It's not wrong, is it?". Upon solving the case, Eri states having seen Masumi talking to her brother on the phone.

=== Meeting Makoto (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]])===
[[File:SeraAndMakoto.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Masumi attacks Makoto with her Jeet Kune Do.]]
At a Bowling Center with Conan, Ran, Sonoko and Kogoro, Masumi is introduced to Sonoko's boyfriend Makoto. Shortly before, Makoto mistakes Masumi for a stranger being "overly friendly" with Sonoko and tries to fight her. Masumi explains that she has been taught Jeet Kune Do by her older brother, she also reveals that besides her assumingly dead brother, she also has a second-oldest brother. Furthermore, Masumi explains to Conan that her brother also advises her on cases by phone. After successfully investigating the crime scene with Conan, Masumi steps aside with her smartphone and types in the message "It seems like he's also arrived at the truth... But whether or not our deductions are the same - lately I've been losing confidence in that regard...". When the recipient writes back "Who is he? I'd like an explanation!", Masumi takes a picture with her smartphone. However, the recipient's answer, "If it's him, there's no problem." reveals that he is familiar with Conan. It is heavily implied that it is the same person Conan saw Masumi making a call with in File 857.

===Red Woman Case (Manga: [[Volume 82|872]]-[[Volume 83|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|754-756]])===
Masumi takes a request from her middle brother to consult in his place about a case involving some of his high school classmates who are now 28-29 years old. On the way to a cabin in the woods, Masumi tells Conan and the gang more about her family history and timeline. She reveals that she and her brothers each have different family names for various reasons, one of which is the death of her father. The case takes a dark turn when one of the classmates is found murdered in a bathtub of tomatoes. With the help of the Nagano police, Conan and Masumi manage to solve the case. Later, Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone in the kitchen by calling it with his. He does so and Conan notices the call background screen is a [[Mary|child who looks like Masumi]] with eye bags similar to those of the [[Akai family]] members. Masumi mentions having a younger sister earlier on (Episode 754), so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

===Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876]]-[[Volume 83|878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]])===
On the way home from school, Ran and Sonoko decide to visit Masumi's hotel (which is different from the other one she has been staying at earlier). Masumi claims she had a meeting with her supposedly-hard-to-reach [[Akai family's middle brother|middle brother]] planned, so she texts him to reschedule. Conan seems to notice this contradiction. At the hotel, Conan tries to peek in Masumi's bedroom, but Masumi wards him off by embarrassing him. Masumi also asks Conan is she reminds him of someone he met in the past, but Conan draws a blank. A murder interrupts the meeting. While Conan is investigating, he notices the middle-school aged [[Mary|child]] from Masumi's cellphone picture in the gathered crowd. Later, Conan and the gang return to Masumi's room, and Conan hides his glasses earpiece [[microphone]] to spy on the apartment. It is quickly found and destroyed by Masumi and the child after Conan departs with Ran and Sonoko. Masumi asks the child is she is beginning to like him, but the child responds that she is still long way from trusting him. The child asks Masumi to tell Conan she is her little sister from outside the territory if he asks about her. Masumi doesn't mention that she showed Conan the child's picture.
[[File:Masumi and Scotch Flashback EP836 (3).jpg|150px|thumb|right|Masumi remembers meeting a man nicknamed Scotch]]

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===

=== Ran & Shinichi - First Contact (Manga: [[Volume 87#Ran & Shinichi - First Contact|921-924]], Anime: [[Memories from Sakura Class|853-854]]) ===

=== 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]]) ===

=== Girls Band Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|936-938]], Anime:[[The Unfriendly Girls Band|836-837]]) ===
Four years ago, Masumi was taught a few notes on the base guitar by a friend of her brother, [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]]. The friend was referred to as "[[Scotch]]" by another person who Masumi thinks looks like [[Rei Furuya|Rei]].

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[Soul Detective Murder Case|863-864]]) ===
Masumi and Mary has moved into another hotel, where a murder takes place next door.

=== Swimsuit Festival Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_91#Swimsuit_Festival|969]]-[[Volume_92#Swimsuit_Festival|971]], Anime:TBA) ===
Masumi intentionally puts on a bathing suit similar to the one that she had worn in the past to try to jog Conan's memory of where they met. A case occurs, which involved the method of counting fingers in different countries. Masumi seems to count the same way that is used in the UK, but seems to think that it is the way it is done in the US. As Conan corrects her, she seems confused. Conan thinks back on all of the times that Masumi has done things that seem to imply that she was in the UK rather than the US and he finally remembers the events of 10 years ago by repeating イギリス (Igirisu / Britain) in is head.
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=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume_92#A_Chance_Meeting_at_the_Beach|972-974]], Anime:TBA) ===

=== Café Rice Flower Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_94#Café_Rice_Flower_Murder_Case|994-996]], Anime:TBA) ===
Masumi and Sonoko meets up with Ran in a café to discuss details of the school field trip to Kyoto.

=== The Field Trip to Kyoto (Manga: [[Volume_93-94#|1000-1005]], Anime:TBA) ===

Masumi, together with other high school students such as Ran, Shinichi, etc, goes on a field trip to Kyoto. In Kyoto, she participated in solving a murder case along with other high school detectives, Heiji and Shinichi. This whole case is a confirmation of Masumi knowing Shinichi's real identity. After the case is solved, Masumi is seen calling her mother, [[Mary Sera]] telling her that "it seems the antidote exists" and her mission now is to get it without fail.

== Non-Canon Plot Overview ==

=== Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]] ===
Sera appeared in this movie as an investigator of the person who had been shot in the Bell Tower. She and Conan helped in chasing the culprit and afterwards was shot by the culprit after saving Conan.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Masumi was Shuichi Akai's sister ===
Masumi was revealed to be Shuichi Akai's sister on the Bell Tree Express after a confrontation with [[Scar Akai]]<ref name=821p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pg 16: "Mystery Train (Junction)"</ref> and while sleeptalking.<ref name=823p4>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 6 (823), pg 4: "Mystery Train (Releasing Smoke)"</ref>
[[File:Sera_and_Shuuichi.png|thumb|right|300px|Masumi and [[Shuichi Akai]].]]
* Masumi has bags under her eyes identical to Shuichi Akai's.
* Masumi Sera's name is also incredibly similar to Mobile Suit Gundam character [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Sayla_Mass Sayla Mass] ({{lang|ja|セイラ・マス}}, ''Seira Masu''). [[Shuichi Akai#Name origin|Shuichi's name is derived]] from Sayla Mass's older brother's name, Char Aznable.
* Conan said he has a feeling he had met her before. "''Somehow I feel like we've met somewhere before, it might be that person resembles someone I know, that's why the feeling that we've met before is on my mind...''"<ref>Manga Chapter 771: Let's Hear Your Brilliant Deduction! p.11</ref>
* [[Andre Camel]] and most likely [[James Black]] seem to recognize her from somewhere. On another interesting note, James was the first to recognize that Masumi was a girl. Everyone else thought that she was a guy when they first saw her. Since James was Shuichi's boss, he would most likely know that Shuichi has a younger sister and what she would look like.
* Masumi lived in Japan until three years ago when her family moved to America. This matches with the time when Shuichi was infiltrating the Black Organization. The family's move to America could be the FBI's attempt to protect them should something go wrong with Shuichi's mission.
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew".
* In Chapter 859, Masumi, when being asked who taught her Jeet Kune Do, answers that her older brother did. Consequently, Conan asks Sera: "But, didn't you say your older brother was dead?" This leads to Masumi remarking "Yeah... That's what I heard." also further supporting the theory that Masumi is in Japan to investigate her brother's death.

=== Hints that Masumi was not Bourbon ===
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew". She then thinks there is "no way it was possible" regarding the man she saw, which would make sense if she thought Shuichi was dead. This implied she wasn't Bourbon, since Bourbon believes he is the only one who can kill Shuichi, implying that Gin might have failed to do so. Hence Bourbon wouldn't think that it was impossible to meet Shuichi again in the street.

==Relationships analysis==

===Friends & Family ===

==== Shuichi Akai ====
[[Shuichi Akai]] is Masumi's older brother. She didn't get to meet him until she was six-seven years old, because Shuichi went to study abroad before Masumi was born. At first meeting she was very shy, but she did make some pranks in an attempt to make him smile. Masumi refers to Shuichi as "Shu-nii", implying that they were close. Masumi seems to miss him after his supposed death. In the Blush Mermaid Heist, Masumi is shown to be fond of her fedora as she believes it has the same "feel" as Shuichi's old hats. Shuichi sent Masumi Jeet-Kune-Do training tapes while she was in elementary school. She watched these so many times while practicing that she wore them out.<ref name="876p2">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 2: "Romance Novelist"</ref> She describes her eldest brother as ''strong'' in contrast to her second - oldest brother.<ref name="859p6-7">Manga [[Volume 81]], File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[File:EP671-674_25.png|thumb|right|Masumi hugs Conan after rescuing him in [[Detectives' Nocturne]].]]
Masumi is interested in [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s abilities as a detective and has been gathering information on him and his friends. She appears to be certain that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. Despite her initial suspicious presentation, Conan felt like she wasn't a bad person and so didn't mistrust her. Conan at several points questions her if they've met before, but she denies this, once secretly thinking, "Now's not the time". The period in which such an encounter could have taken place is initially hinted to be somewhere before the three-year span of Masumi's sojourn in the United States, when she was in her preteen years.<ref name="Mang83">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 7-8: "Red Past"</ref><ref name="Mang86">Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905): "The Truth Rises to the Surface"</ref>

It is later shown that she had met Conan/Shinichi ten years ago, when the Akai family had gathered on an undisclosed beach in Japan prior to Shuichi Akai joining the FBI. By chance, Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] had also vacationed there, and they all ended up as witnesses and investigators in a gone-awry flight attempt from a robbery. When Shinichi managed to make Shuichi laugh (something Masumi had miserably failed to achieve) with his intelligence, observation skills and some unintended jokes, Masumi, in her admiration for Shinichi, began to call him "wizard". It is quite possible that this meeting inspired Masumi to become a detective herself.<ref name="Mang92">Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2-4 (972-974): "A Chance Meeting at the Beach"</ref>

If Masumi really lived in England, instead of America, then it's possible that she saw the tennis match from the London case on TV and recognized Conan as Shinichi based on his proclamation as 'Holmes' apprentice'.

On several occasions, such as the dramatic conclusion of the [[Volume 76#Online Client|Online Client Case]], Masumi has displayed an intensely affectionate air towards Conan which somewhat transcends a mere "big sister" relationship.<ref>Manga Chapter 800: ''Online Client Case'' - "When Objects Collide"; Anime Episode 674: ''[[Detectives' Nocturne]]'' - "Bourbon"</ref> In fact, it is hinted during the [[Volume 83#Romance Novelist Murder Case|Romance Novelist murder]] and in the movie ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]'' that she may actually be entertaining a crush on Shinichi/Conan and hopes of initiating a closer relationship with him. However, the actual level of her feelings for him is yet to be publicly revealed.

==== Ai Haibara ====
Masumi has been interested in meeting [[Ai Haibara]] for yet unrevealed reasons and has been secretly gathering information on her. She also seemed to recognize [[Shiho Miyano]] in the video of her rescuing the [[Detective Boys]]. Haibara in turn feels uneasy around Masumi, especially in close contact situations though arguably it could also be due to Scar Akai's presence near Masumi. The reason behind her interest might be due to Haibara's resemblance with [[Mary]].

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sera and Wave.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Ran hears sounds of rippling waves when she sees Masumi hurried away]]
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] have become friends and often walk home from school together. Masumi has also declared Ran as "her type" when they first met as a sign of liking, though this ultimately led Sonoko, Conan and Ran herself to mistake Masumi for a boy.

At one point, Ran recalls having met Masumi before in the past, hearing the sound of "rippling waves" when the she sees the latter leaving, "as if some sort of magic were at work".<ref name="Mang86"></ref> It is revealed in a later story that she and Masumi had actually met 10 years before, when they were both still children, on a beach, where by happenstance she, Shinichi and the Akai family inadvertently became embroiled in the aftermath of a crime (see '''Conan Edogawa''', above).<ref name="Mang92"></ref>

==== Sonoko Suzuki ====
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have become friends and often walk home from school together, with Sonoko describing Masumi as a popular girl who is "cheery, sociable, boyish and cute" and on top of that, a "Jeet Kune Do using detective", though she also teasingly remarks that the only thing "against Sera" is her flat chest.

==== Akai family's middle brother ====
Masumi appears to have a good relationship with her [[Akai family's middle brother|second-older brother]] and often consults him regarding information or deductions about the cases she faced, and also has a high regard of her brother's intellect, even considering the already sharp Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to her second older-brother.

==== Tsutomu Akai ====
Masumi's father was missing before she was born, so she never knew him. But she refer to him as 'Papa.

=== Mary Sera ===
[[ Mary]] seems very mature and cold while talking to Masumi. She also treats her more like a coworker than her daughter, as she always advises her what to do and switch hotels if any intel about Mary is leaked.She is also somehow stubborn as she declined Masumi's trust in Conan despite the latter's motive and pursuit of justice are geniune.

=== Black Organization ===

==== Rei Furuya ====
Rei first saw Masumi in Detectives Nocturne case and seemed to recognise her. They formally met in chapter 936 (Girls Band) at [[Café Poirot]]. Masumi felt like having met him and even asked him directly about that, but Rei said that was the first time they met. When Masumi talked about a friend of her brother who taught her play the guitar, Rei also seemed to know about that incident. In Masumi's flashback of that friend, a man who looked very much like Rei appeared, and Masumi once again wondered about it, to which Amuro replied that she took the wrong person.

==== Scotch ====
Sera recalled meeting Scotch 4 years ago. That was when Scotch was with Akai and Rei in a train station. Sera also remembered Scotch teaching her how to play the bass and though it was only 10 minutes, she seemed to enjoy it. Sera is not sure of Scotch's true identity or allegiance, but thinks that Scotch is Japanese and that Scotch is not the real name.

==Speculation==
[[File:Sera Knowing Conan's Name.png‎|thumb|right|170px|Masumi mentioning Conan's name.]]
=== Masumi met Shinichi and Ran when she was younger and knows Conan is Shinichi ===
*Masumi knew [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s identities before they introduced themselves. She also knew that Conan is a detective.<ref> [[Volume 73]], File 6 (768)</ref>
*Masumi seems to know that Conan is the brains behind Sleeping Kogoro. Conan seems to think that he may have met Masumi before or that she resembles someone that he knows. He believes that she got the deduction of a case wrong just so that he would reveal himself. <ref> [[Volume 73]], File 9 (771)</ref>
*Conan realizes he met Masumi before because he finds her snaggletoothed smile familiar,<ref name=845p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 6 (845), pg 16: "Our Territory"</ref>
*Masumi admits that she has met Conan before, but she can´t tell him until "the time" comes.<ref name=846p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 16: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
*Ran has met Masumi as well because Masumi's figure as she runs away reminds her of "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
*Masumi, asks Conan if he once met a girl "a long time ago and could never forget [her]"<ref name=876p11>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 11: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> and gets annoyed when he says he can't recall someone like that.
*Ran has a flashback to when she saw a younger Masumi, who is wearing a bathing suit, say, "You are a wizard, right?". Ran also feels that she has met [[Mary]].<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref>
*The meeting occurred 10 years ago, as mentioned by Mary.<ref> Manga [[Volume 90]], File 5 (953)</ref>
*Masumi puts on a swimsuit similar to the one in Ran's flashback in order to jog Conan's memory, which results in him remembering her in that bathing suit as well, along as three other people, assumed to be her relatives. <ref> Manga [[Volume 91]], File 11 (969)</ref>

In Chapter 771, it is revealed that she also knows Professor Agasa, although she calls him "Professor what's his name". Although this could be explained away as her talking to Conan off screen and her just not remembering Agasa's name.

=== Identity of Masumi's middle brother ===
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=== The Wizard ===
In a PS, [[Akai family's middle brother|Masumi's middle brother]] asks if she "has already met the Wizard?"<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> Masumi's thought reply is "You could say so..." Later, Masumi "thinks aloud" that her reason for returning to Japan is to meet the Wizard once more.<ref name=874p8>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 8: "The red past"</ref> The identity of the Wizard is revealed in File 974 to be Shinichi.

==== Shinichi Kudo ====
Tellingly, Masumi turns towards Conan when thinking of the answer "You could say so". At this point Masumi seems to know Conan is Shinichi. If Shinichi was nicknamed "The Wizard" by Masumi and/or her brother because of what happened when he and Masumi met in the past, then the response is appropriate since she could only sort of meet with Shinichi, because Shinichi shrunk into Conan. It's possible that the event where Shinichi earned the nickname "The Wizard" was Shinichi and Ran's meeting with Masumi 10 years ago. When trying to remember Masumi, Ran specifically mentions "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref> A "magical" incident, if it was Shinichi's doing, might have earned him the nickname. Ran has a flashback of a young Masumi saying "You are a wizard, right?".<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref> Conan seems to have remembered meeting Masumi 10 years ago and is shown as a young Shinichi standing in front of a large wave.<ref> Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2 (971)</ref>

==== Someone else ====
At this point it is unlikely that the Wizard is anyone else. There is evidence that Masumi nicknamed the person who she calls Wizard, at a point in the past while Ran was nearby. If Ran was nearby, then this would have to have happened when they first met 10 years ago, meaning that the person must be someone who existed back then. The topic of the Wizard came up during a text conversation about Conan between Masumi and her middle brother, and her response to if she had met the Wizard again was "You could say so", which is more than likely implying that she is referring to Conan, and therefore Shinichi.

[[File:Akai's picture 338.PNG|thumb|right|The picture of the Detective Boys the mystery assistants captured]]

===Masumi learned about Haibara from Shuichi's picture===
Masumi initially had an interest in Haibara. This is strange because Haibara didn't exist prior to Shiho shrinking. The knowledge of Shiho should have been secret to her as well, because Shuichi Akai's infiltration of the Black Organization was a secret. If Masumi doesn't even know the details of her brother's death, why should she know about Shiho? Masumi may recognize Haibara from pictures of Conan and Haibara that Shuichi took back during the Vermouth arc. It is standard procedure in the US to send the personal belongings of the dead back to their families. If Shuichi mixed these pictures in with his own things when he took them out of his truck before meeting with Kir, it's possible they were overlooked when the FBI sent Shuichi 's things to his family. If Masumi was interested in finding out how and why Shuichi died, she would begin by researching the people in those pictures and those connected with them in hopes of finding clues.
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==Character popularity==
*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. Masumi placed 9th overall with 292 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8024|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 50+ poll "Best Detective Conan characters", with 107 votes.

*Masumi ranked 5th in the Digest Book 60+ poll "Cutest Detective Conan characters", with 135 votes.

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 70+ poll "Characters you want to go on a date with", with 106 votes.

*Masumi ranked 11th in the Digest Book 80+ poll "Character you want to marry", with 281 votes.

==Name origin==
{{Nihongo|Masumi Sera's|世良・真純|Sera Masumi}} name comes 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 Masumi is Shuichi's sister (Manga File 821): {{lang|ja|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> The kanji for Masumi's surname mean 'good world'. The kanji for her first name, Masumi, mean 'true' and either 'pure' or 'net.'

==Quotes==
{{cquote|Deletion. For data at least ... is an easy task to accomplish.|Masumi, on deleting a picture of Haibara from her computer, File 777 pg 16}}

{{cquote|I guess I'm a bad kid after all...|Masumi, while crying, File 814 pg 16}}

==Trivia==
*Masumi is based on [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], a tomboy detective girl turned criminal who made her first appearance in the [[Volume 54#Detective Koshien Case|''Detective Koshien Case'']]. Since Natsuki had proven highly popular, but Aoyama couldn't recycle her as a protagonist, the character of Masumi was created instead.<ref>''Shonen Sunday'' #33</ref>
*When she was young she liked to read the "[[Night Baron]]" series, so she is fan of [[Yusaku Kudo]].
*Her catchphrase, "Case Closed" (said in English), is likely a reference to the English-language name of Detective Conan.
*Masumi owns an [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Sera's Yamaha_Artesia_XT400|Artesia XT400]].
*In File 859, Masumi reveals that she has a second-older brother and that her oldest brother taught her Jeet-Kune-Do.
*Masumi speaks Queen's English.<ref>[[:File:Postcard2015 1.jpg]]</ref>

==In other languages==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|ماسومي Māsūmi|سيرا Sēra}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Mexico|American Spanish|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Brazil|Brazilian Portuguese|Masumi|Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Masumi|Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|세라 Sera|양 Yang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|มาสึมิ Mās̄ụ-mi|เซระ Sera}}
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==See also==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Akai family]]

==References==
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Masumi Sera

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| name = Masumi Sera
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|世良真純}} (Sera Masumi)
| english-name =
| image = Masumi_Sera_Profile.jpg
| age = 16-17? 
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = Teitan High School Student Detective
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second-older brother)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 73|File 768]] Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|Episode 646]]
| appearances = {{:Masumi Sera Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 73]]
| japanese-voice = [[Noriko Hidaka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://combination.jp/blog/2012/02/post-383.html|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-02-01|title=新しいお仕事 | Blog | コンビネーション|publisher=combination Co.Ltd.|author=Noriko Hidaka}}</ref>
| cases-solved = 8
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Masumi Sera|世良真純|Sera Masumi}}''' is a high school detective in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]].

== Background ==
Masumi Sera is a high school detective and the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and shogi player, [[Shukichi Haneda]]. She is the only daughter of [[Tsutomu Akai]] and [[Mary]]. 17 years ago, her father, before he disappeared, instructed his family to hide in Japan, where Masumi later was born. Her oldest brother had prior to her birth left Japan to study in America, so they first got to meet each other when Masumi was six-seven years old. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved abroad three years ago with her mother, presumably due to Shuichi infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Her other brother stayed in Japan. She has recently returned to Japan for some unknown reason. After meeting Conan, Ran, and Sonoko during a case, she transfers to [[Setting#Teitan High School (帝丹高校)|Ran's high school class]]. Masumi is skilled at [[Wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]], a hobby encouraged by her brother Shuichi who mailed her instruction videos while in elementary school. She can fight on the same level as [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. She seems to know that Conan is Shinichi and she had in fact met Ran and Shinichi sometime in their past. Currently she is living with [[Mary]], whom she calls "Mama", at a hotel. She claims that she is provided for by a rich friend of her late father, but it hasn't been revealed who it is. Every time they encounter the possibility of information on Mary getting out, they end up moving to a new hotel under Mary's order. While Masumi is eager to seek help from Conan, Mary is skeptical of him.
The three siblings has different last names. Sera is supposedly her mother's maiden name.

==Personality==
[[File:691-15.png|thumb|Masumi beats a gangster in [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case]]]]

Masumi has a cheery, sociable, boyish personality<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> and is well liked by her classmates at Teitan High. On their first meeting, Masumi fails to correct Sonoko's mistaken impression that she is a man and even makes it worse by declaring that Ran is "[her] type".<ref name=pronouns>The Japanese pronoun used is gender neutral and can refer to either males or females.</ref> Her rather boyish appearance - especially in relation with her flat chest - is a bit of a touchy subject to Masumi, who claims that her mother's bust size is rather well developed and keeps expressing her hope that someday her own chest size will similarly change for her.

Masumi is quite quick-minded, coming up with clever plans and adapting them to sudden changes rapidly. Masumi seems to be prone to dramatics like most detectives are, but perhaps to a lesser degree than [[Shinichi]] or [[Heiji]] as she bluntly says who the criminal is without preamble. On the other hand, Masumi is tough to the point that she is willing to risk all to achieve a successful conclusion of a case. In one instance, she purposefully lured a hostage-taker into a sniper's sight with a smile, hoping he would be shot without showing any apprehension about his possible demise.

Although she has crime scene experience<ref name=769p3>Manga Volume 73, File 7, pg 3: "A Detective Just Like You, Little Boy"</ref>, Masumi seems to be less skilled as a detective than Shinichi or Heiji, apparently missing a critical clue that was necessary to understand how the murderer's setup worked, although Conan opines that Masumi purposely made an error in order to test him. In some degree, she seems to like rivalry or contests to see who is the winner.

Sera's catchphrase upon the conclusion of a case is "case closed".

Sera shows a protective and caring side towards Conan, as seen in the Detectives Nocturne and in the beginning of the Red Woman case when she helps Conan up after falling, as well as having it made clear in the Haunted Hotel case that she was also clearly investigating Conan before they first met, as she knew he was a detective. Its likely to believe that them being on the same bus was not an accident, which could even lead to be argued that she somehow hinted to them about the cake buffet so they would be on the same bus as her. It is safe to assume though she was, and possibly still is, investigating Conan.

Sera's way of referring to her parents as 'Mama' and 'Papa' indicates a privileges background.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Sera_transfers.png‎|thumb|Masumi transfers to Teitan High School]]

At first, she wears a grey fedora that used to belong to Shuichi Akai and a dark jacket which gives her an androgynous appearance. When she transfers to Teitan High, she gets rid of her fedora and wears female clothing. Her hair is dark, wavy, and short; it doesn't even touch her shoulders. Even then, she is rather tomboyish; Genta mistakes her for a man, and Sonoko comments she has a petite figure. Later, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Hattori comment that her bosoms are rather small. Masumi also has an uneven tooth that shows when she smiles.

Masumi and her brother Shuichi presumably more closely resemble their mother than their father.
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==Appellations==
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<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Sera-san Sera-no-nēchan Sera Sera Masumi<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume 88)]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s younger sister (''Akai-san no imōto'')|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file771">[[volume 73#Bomber's Request|File 771 (Volume 73)]]</ref> Boy (''Bōya''; first time) Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Sera Sera Masumi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="ep690">[[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|Episode 690]]</ref>| Kudo Shinichi}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Sera-san Sera Masumi-chan<ref>File 778</ref> Sera-chan|Ran-chan Ran-kun}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Tomboy-ish Girl|Kogoro-san Poiro-san ([[Hercule Poirot|'''Poiro'''t]] + Kogo'''ro''')<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|File 820 (Volume 78)]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro-san (''Nemuri no Kogoro-san'')<ref name="file771" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Papa}}

{{appellations|Mary Sera|Masumi<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|Mama<ref name="file953" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Masumi|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file938">[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938: The Crime in the Blind Spot (Volume 89)]]</ref> Ani<ref name="file859">[[volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859: Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate (Volume 81)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file954">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 954: Sanction of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Sera-san<ref name="file954" />|Subaru}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Masumi<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Kichi-nii ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014_4.JPG]] (Sera-chan calls him Kichi-nii)</ref> Kichi-niichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Sera-san Sensei (once) Sera-chan Female High-School Detective (''JK Tantei'')<ref name="file938" /> Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file859" />|Sonoko-chan Sonoko-kun}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Female detective (''onna-tantei'')|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|-|The girl with the ponytail}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Mari-chan<ref name="file930" />|Taisho<ref name="file930" />}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|Sera}}
|}
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{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Female High-School Detective (''Jōshi-Kōsei Tantei'')|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Sera-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>[[Volume 86#Poolside Case|File 905 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|"FBI Guy"}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file828">[[Volume 78#The Blush Mermaid|File 828 (Volume 78)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file828" /> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="file828"/>}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Amuro-san<ref name="file937">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch<ref name="file937" /> [[Shuichi Akai|My brother]]'s friend (''Aniki no yūjin'')<ref name="file936" /> The friend (''sono yūjin'')<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Young girl (''wakai no'')<ref name="file858">[[volume 81#Steamy Relations|File 858: A Problematic Deduction (Volume 81)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file858" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Sera Masumi<ref name="m18" />|Haibara Haibara Ai}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Onēsan<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|-|Kudo Yusaku<ref name="ep690" />}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Sera<ref>[[Volume 78]], File 6</ref>|-}}

{{appellations|Scar Akai|Masumi<ref name="MT">[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]]</ref>|Shu-nii<ref name="MT" /> Acquaintance (''shiriai'')}}

{{appellations|Makoto Kyogoku|-|Master of Karate (''Karate no Tatsujin'')}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda<ref>[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file953" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953" />|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

==Plot overview==
=== Masumi's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 73#Jeet Kune Do|768 - 770]], Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|646 - 647)]] ===
[[File:Sera_Kick.png|thumb|right|Masumi defends herself from Ran.]]
Masumi first met [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] on a bus after she was mistaken for a [[Wikipedia:Groping|groper]]. After Sonoko declared Masumi was the groper, Masumi and Ran got into a fight, with Masumi's Jeet Kune Do holding even against Ran's karate. Conan and Masumi cleared up the misunderstanding by pointing out the real groper. Sonoko then mistook Masumi for a boy, an impression which wasn't helped by Masumi declaring that Ran was "his type".<ref name=pronouns/> Masumi and Ran both discovered they were heading to the same hotel, about which Conan is less than pleased.

Masumi finds out the hotel she is staying at doesn't have a room available and complains at the front desk. A man then falls into the parking lot and dies. Conan runs to the source of screaming while Masumi told the guard to watch the elevators before running to the roof. She immediately declares the crime to be a murder, giving her reasoning. She then reveals her name, Masumi, that she is a detective, and knows Conan is a detective as well. She also revealed before she knew Conan's name despite it not being mentioned in front of her, revealing that Masumi has been investigating Conan for awhile now.

[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] is not pleased to have another high school detective underfoot but lets Masumi and Conan investigate regardless. After listening to the suspect testimony, police observations, and examining the crime scene, Masumi announces that she has solved the case.

However, Masumi's deduction leaves out a critical detail; Conan is therefore forced to use Shinichi's phone to call his own, give Inspector Megure Conan's phone, and speak through Shinichi's as Shinichi using the voice-changer bow tie. Shinichi figures out the detail that had Masumi stumped, although a look she gives Conan as he runs off suggests her omission was possibly intentional, and once during the phone conversation she tries to trick Shinichi into admitting that he is physically present at the crime scene instead of being explained the details by Conan and Megure.

The following day, Masumi transfers to Teitan High School, surprising both Ran and Sonoko. She was rather popular at school surrounded by students asking her questions about herself.

===Kogoro Detective Agency Hostage Crisis (Manga: [[Volume 73#Bomber's Request|771]]-[[Volume 74#Bomber's Request|774]], Anime: [[Hostage Situation at the Mouri Detective Agency|648 - 650]])===

====Let's hear your brilliant deduction! (771)====
According to Sonoko, Masumi has become very popular at Teitan high for being "cheery, sociable, boyish, and cute...and on top of that, she is a jeet kun do-using female detective!"<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> One classmate compares her to [[Shinichi Kudo]] who has been taking a break from school. Masumi tells inquiring classmates that she has been staying in America with her parents since three years ago, but "rebelled" because she would rather live in her Japan where she was born and raised. She sneaks up behind Sonoko and Ran after school because she wanted to speak to Conan at the Mouri Detective Agency. At the agency, Masumi is unhappy to hear that Conan and the rest of Detective Boys are staying at Agasa's house and will be camping the following day. She settles for asking Kogoro if Conan is always at his side when he solves cases, hinting that she suspects Conan is the real brains behind "Sleeping Kogoro".

[[File:Sera_slide_kick.png|thumb|left|Masumi sweeps out the Hostage Taker's legs]]
Just as Masumi is about to walk out the door, three female mystery writers and a man enter the agency. After a moment of confusion, the man suddenly fires a gun into the roof and takes the detective agency hostage. His demands are that Kogoro figure out which of the three writers killed his sister at a ryokan one month ago. The quick thinking Masumi sidles up to Ran and tells her to go for the man's gun after she takes his legs out. Sera's leg sweep sends the man to the floor, and Ran removes the gun from the man's hand with a kick; however, Masumi leaps back when the man reveals he has bombs strapped around his chest and will detonate them if they try to stop him.

Meanwhile at Agasa's, Haibara is angry that Conan used Shinichi's voice to solve a case around the suspicious Masumi. Conan's response is that Masumi is familiar somehow, like they have met before or she looks like someone, and Conan feels she isn't an enemy. Genta and Mitsuhiko told Conan they saw a high school student walking home with Ran, so the jealous Conan calls Ran's cellphone to hear about it from her.

The hostage taker man orders Ran to answer her phone, but Masumi snatches the phone away and says hello to Conan (who is shocked that Masumi is with Ran). Masumi then tricks the hostage taker and keeps the line connected so Conan can listen in by closing Ran's [[Yaiba#Characters|Sea Cucumber Man]] cellphone strap in between the screen and keypad of the the flip phone.

====Nickname Rules (772)====
Masumi asks a few insightful questions about the case; however the hostage taker man discovers Ran's phone is still connected. Under gunpoint, Masumi steps in front of Ran and takes the blame, but Conan, using Shinichi's voice, says he ordered Ran to do it. Masumi is mystified by why Shinichi is now on Conan's phone. Masumi meanwhile spots a glint of light across from the detective agency and declares that the case will come to an end without Shinichi's help.

====Possible Sniping (773)====
[[File:Sera773.png|thumb|right|Masumi surprised by Ran's attitude.]]
Masumi explains to Ran that she secretly kept the call to Conan connected so he could call the police and research into the case. While Masumi is still surprised that Shinichi was on the other end of the line instead of Conan, she had initially hoped that Shinichi would somehow be able to talk down the would-be-murderer. She suspects that Shinichi has already figured which one of the suspects is the murderer in the ryokan case, but Shinichi is unable to reveal the truth because the hostage taker would then kill the named culprit and then himself. Sera's plan changed when she noticed the lights from the police snipers on the building across from Mouri Detective Agency. She explains to Ran in detail the names and functions of the various police divisions responsible for hostage situations, and tells Ran in a roundabout fashion that this situation will end with the hostage taker being killed by the police.

Masumi launches a plan to bring the hostage taker into the snipers' range by telling him he should charge Ran's phone battery. Ran foils Sera's intentions by shutting the curtains, blocking the snipers' shot. To Masumi's utter astonishment, Ran tells her that she doesn't want to see anyone die in front of her and declares that "Shinichi won't allow anyone to die. He absolutely wouldn't!"<ref>Volume 73, File 11, page 13, "Possible Sniping." Shinichi then begins to present his deductions over the phone and Masumi wonders how he will manage to resolve this situation without bloodshed.</ref>

====The book with unturned pages (774)====
Masumi and Ran take the opportunity to disable the hostage taker when he loses his composure and grip on the detonator after Shinichi tricks him into believing his sister committed suicide. Masumi yells for the waiting bomb squad to secure the area. With the hostage taker arrested, Shinichi then reveals the true culprit. Masumi realizes the mistake in her deduction and explains the correct timeline of events before the murder. Sometime soon after the conclusion of the case, Masumi, walking with Ran and Sonoko speculates aloud that there must be some reason Shinichi left Agasa's before Ran could meet him there. She then exclaims that "due to what just happened, she really gets it", that Conan and Shinichi are on very good terms with one another, and that Ran "is tougher than Masumi thought". Conan isn't sure what to make of these last comments.

===Video Site (Manga: [[Volume 74|775-777]], Anime: [[The Professor's Video Site|656-657]])===
[[File:Ai image.png|thumb|Masumi deletes Haibara's image]]

Masumi stops [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] outside of [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]]'s house to ask them if they are acquaintances of Professor Agasa. The topic of [[Shinichi]] comes up when she talks to Mitsuhiko and Genta about the prior hostage case. Mitsuhiko mentions that [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] told them to keep Shinichi's involvement secret. After asking about Haibara, Masumi mentions that she saw Haibara in one of the professor's online videos. Next, Masumi asks who is currently living in the Kudo house because she saw the curtains shift slightly. The Detective Boys tell her that [[Subaru Okiya]] has been staying there since his apartment burnt down. Masumi cryptically comments with a smirk on her face, "And here I thought that someone had just settled in without permission...But it seems I was just getting worked up over nothing..." while looking up at where Subaru is hiding.

At the end of the case, Masumi is in her hotel room deleting various files. One of her deleted files was a still image from Agasa's video blown up to show Haibara reflected in Agasa's glasses. This indicates that she is not only keeping an eye on Conan but also on Haibara.
"Delete... Delete... For data, at least is an easy task to accomplish...", were her words while she was doing it.

===East vs. West Rematch (Manga: [[Volume_74#East_vs._West|778-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]])===
[[File:Sera FBI.png|thumb|left|Masumi thinks about the FBI]]
The case opens with Ran talking to Masumi about [[Heiji Hattori]] who is stopping by for a visit. Masumi is curious whether Heiji or Shinichi is the better detective. After Heiji is introduced to Masumi, Kazuha then calls Heiji and tells him that she is stuck at a restaurant because someone died and a foreigner [[Andre Camel]] is keeping everyone from leaving. Masumi proposes Heiji and Shinichi (via Conan's cellphone) have a deduction match. At the crime scene, Masumi becomes curious about the foreigner, Camel who secured the area. The police and Conan reveal Camel is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and Masumi takes interest. Meanwhile, Camel finds that Masumi looks familiar, but can't quite place why. He takes a picture of her and mails it to [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] and [[James Black]] who are waiting outside. Jodie and James think Masumi resembles someone too, but only James Black correctly identified Masumi as female.

Meanwhile Masumi is busy helping with the case, asking questions and making comments about various deductions. Heiji nearly slips up with Conan's identity in front of her earning a pointed question from Masumi, but Heiji rescues himself by saying he thinks of Conan as Kudo when Conan gets smug have hearing Shinichi's deductions over the phone. Masumi doesn't seemed to be fooled though, her thoughts show that she seems to know Conan, not Shinichi, is the one solving the case while watching Conan come to his final conclusion.

===EYE (Manga: [[Volume_74#Eye_for_an_Eye|781]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|652]])===
Conan, Heiji, Masumi, and the rest of the group return to the Mouri Detective Agency after the poisoning case at Danny's restaurant. Heiji reveals the case that brought him to Tokyo; he received a mysterious letter signed in the name of a person who was murdered in Karuizawa requesting an investigation. Masumi takes an immediate interest in the case and wants to tag along, but Heiji refuses saying that the people he is visiting are only expected five people. Masumi is peeved at being left behind.

===Kogoro-san is a Good Man (Manga: [[Volume 75|787]], Anime: [[Kogoro-san is a Good Man|661]])===
Masumi is walking with Conan, Ran and Sonoko. While they wonder why Kogoro has been coming home late, Sonoko thinks he's found himself a mistress. Masumi thinks that he is just investigating a case. When an old lady named Takae Kiritani comes, she claims that Kogoro has been helping her. Masumi asks what he does for her to which she replies that its small things like helping around the house. Masumi isn't seen again for the rest of the case.

===Murder at Mouri Detective Agency (Manga: [[Volume 76|797-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]])===
[[File:Sera's motorcycle.jpg|thumb|right|Masumi in her motorcycle.]]
During a murder case at Mouri Detective Agency, after meeting Kogoro's new apprentice [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]], [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] comments that the number of detectives around Kogoro has increased again, referring to Masumi. Amuro takes interest in Masumi. Later, Kogoro and friends go over to a suspect's apartment. Masumi calls Ran after hearing about the murder on the news because she is worried about her and Conan. The call has an usual amount of static which alerts Amuro that there are listening devices present. Amuro abruptly hangs up Ran's phone on Masumi. Meanwhile, Conan intentionally gets himself kidnapped by the primary suspect. After Ran enables calling again, Masumi calls back immediately and is very upset because she was worried something had happened to Ran. Ran tells her that Conan has been kidnapped, and details to Masumi the murder at Kogoro's agency. In order to figure out where the kidnapper is headed, Kogoro and Amuro search the apartment and decide to go to the address of one of the other suspects.

Masumi arrives at suspect's home on [[Cars|her motorcycle]], but just misses Kogoro and the gang leaving. She hears the elevator descending and rushes back downstairs in time to follow Amuro's [[Cars|car]]. Meanwhile, the culprit has been driving around with Conan while Haibara has been directing Okiya's car towards them using the criminal tracking glasses. Okiya catches up to the kidnapper and relays what the car looks like to Kogoro. Amuro sees the suspect's car heading in the opposite direction so he quickly wheels around after it. Masumi, who has been following Amuro's car this whole time, u-turns after Amuro and continues chasing. Amuro gets in front of the suspect's car and stops it. The suspect gets out of the car holding Conan at gunpoint, but Masumi drives up onto the roof of the car. She swings her motorcycle around so that the rear wheel slams into the woman's face knocking her unconscious. With tears of relief, Masumi hugs Conan, happy he is safe. Amuro, Okiya, and [[Vermouth]] look on.

===Meeting with Scar Akai (Manga: [[Volume 76|801]], Anime: [[Won't Forgive Even One Millimeter|675]])===
[[File:Sera_675.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Masumi looking for Scar Akai.]]
Masumi is walking with Sonoko and Ran, and Ran is talking by phone with Conan. Masumi hears Haibara's voice in the background and becomes curious. She asks the two others what Haibara is like, and Sonoko says Haibara is like a woman in a child's body.

When Ran hangs up her cellphone, the topic switches over to [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]]. Masumi says to Ran she wants to meet Amuro because she never got a really good look at him from the last case, but Sonoko thinks she wants to meet Conan, instead. Ran says Shinichi and Conan are big fans of Sherlock Holmes. Masumi thinks about that she has known that for a long time.

Suddenly, Masumi sees [[Scar Akai]] in the crowd ahead. She runs after him, but she can't catch him. Ran wonders who Masumi was chasing, but Masumi replies she thought it was someone she knew, and silently appends in her mind that it would be impossible for the man she was chasing to be the person she thinks it was.

[[File:690-3.png|thumb|Masumi is shocked to see Subaru]]
===Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case (Manga: [[Volume 77|812-814]], Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|690-691]])===
Masumi meets [[Subaru Okiya]] at Shinichi's house and she finds him suspicious. She began to think there is a woman at Kudo's house because there are a hair elastic, lipstick in a glass and a long hair in the sink trap. After that, all of them solved a case together that is similar to a case that Shinichi Kudo's father dropped out 10 years ago. It was revealed to be a theft case. Both Subaru and Masumi had got more suspicious of Conan and the identity of Shinichi Kudo. At the end, when the criminals were knocked, she saw Ran and Conan and she thought she was a 'bad kid', after all.

===Gunma Campground's Cabin Trap (Manga: [[Volume 77|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-700]])===
[[File:Masome.png|thumb|left|120px|Masumi at the campground]]
She went camping when she meets Professor Agasa and Conan. The Detective Boys were lost. Masumi and Conan found the two policemen finding the corpse. After she and Conan solved the case, she and Conan rushed towards the burning cabin. Conan and the Detective Boys were talking about how they got safe. Mitsuhiko pointed the way were their savior went. Masumi then began to ask what kind of woman is their savior. She seemed to be surprised when she saw her on Mitsuhiko's cell phone.
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[[File:new-sera.png|thumb|left|150px|Masumi leans in to get a good look at Haibara]]
[[File:Sera is akai sister.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi is revealed to be Shuichi's sister.]]

===Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]])===
Masumi finally meets Haibara, and Haibara has a bad feeling about her (although it could have been due to Scar Akai spying on them from behind the door just then). Later when a murder occurs on the Bell Tree Express, she and Conan investigate. Masumi takes a video recording of the suspects running so she can show it to the detective boys in order to ask them which one had the closest gait to the masked suspect from earlier, but she is intercepted first by Scar Akai in the hallway. She stops and angrily asks him who he is. Scar Akai simply replies that she hasn't changed, reveals his face to her, and refers to her by her first name, "Masumi". In her shock Masumi calls him "Shu-nii", signifying that Shuichi is Masumi's older brother. She questions Scar Akai about what happened, saying that she heard he had died. Scar Akai then tasers her unconscious, stating that he was hoping for that response. Scar Akai later is revealed to be Vermouth in disguise, explaining why he attacked Masumi.

===The Blush Mermaid Heist (Manga: [[Volume 78|828]]-[[Volume 79|830]], Anime: [[Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid|724-725]])===
[[File:SeraHat.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Masumi is relieved that she has got her hat back.]]
Masumi accompanies Conan, Ran, and Sonoko to the location of Kaitou Kid's next heist: a museum where the Blush Mermaid, a gem adhered to the shell of a turtle as a last ditch effort by a an Italian actress in an accident at sea to save her turtle by encouraging someone to rescue it. Before checking out the museum, Masumi asks Ran if she saw a [[Scar Akai|strange man in black]] when she found the hat on the Belltree Express. After the group arrives at the room where the turtle is being held in a large aquarium, [[Ginzo Nakamori|Inspector Nakamori]] pulls Masumi's face to see if it is a mask worn by Kid. Annoyed by Nakamori's mistaken gender assumption and having her face pinched, Masumi knees him in the privates ostensibly to prove he isn't Kid. Masumi then runs off to the bathroom. Later, when Kid makes his move, Masumi is one of many caught in his trap: the rug on the floor is pulled up by strings so that it pins everyone standing on it to the front of aquarium. As soon as the rug drops, everyone sees the tank is empty except for a card left by Kid. This leaves Conan and Masumi quite dumbfounded as to how Kaitou Kid could have removed the turtle. Later, Conan reveals that Masumi is really Kaitou Kid, and he had made a critical error in his acting by assuming Masumi was a male. Kaitou Kid had locked the real Masumi bound and gagged in the men's bathroom after knocking her out with a stun gun. Upon gaining consciousness, Masumi escapes her bonds, rushes out of the bathroom, and gives a still disguised Kid a fierce kick to the face. After Kid escapes (due to Ran distracting Masumi by pointing out that everyone can see her underwear), Masumi is relieved that she at least managed to recover her hat, which she thinks is special because it somehow has the same feel as her brother Shuichi Akai's hat.

=== Cooking Show Murder (Manga: [[Volume 80|844-846]], Anime: [[The Treasure Chest Filled with Fruits|727-728]])===
[[File:SeraSmile.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Masumi is smiling and blushing when Conan asks her if they had met each other before.]]
Conan, Ran, Sonoko, Kogoro and Masumi go to a live cooking show. Conan wants to ask something important to Masumi, but a murder gets in his way. While solving the case, Ran realises that Masumi and her might have met each other before, since Ran thinks of waves in the beach each time Masumi gets away. At the end of the case, Conan asks Masumi if they had met each other before. Masumi smiles and says she doesn´t know, but actually she thinks "Of course we have, but I can´t tell you until the time comes..."

===Adultery Investigation (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]] )===
[[File:SeraCall.png|left|thumb|150px|Masumi is calling her brother on the phone.]]
After being hired by a classmate, Keiko Kitao, Masumi is investigating to see if the boyfriend of Keiko's sister has fully committed to their relationship. However, as the atmosphere is rapidly changed by the murder, Masumi and Conan start to investigate the crime scene. When Conan has finally deduced who the culprit is, he also observes Masumi making a call with someone saying "...Say, my deduction... It's not wrong, is it?". Upon solving the case, Eri states having seen Masumi talking to her brother on the phone.

=== Meeting Makoto (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]])===
[[File:SeraAndMakoto.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Masumi attacks Makoto with her Jeet Kune Do.]]
At a Bowling Center with Conan, Ran, Sonoko and Kogoro, Masumi is introduced to Sonoko's boyfriend Makoto. Shortly before, Makoto mistakes Masumi for a stranger being "overly friendly" with Sonoko and tries to fight her. Masumi explains that she has been taught Jeet Kune Do by her older brother, she also reveals that besides her assumingly dead brother, she also has a second-oldest brother. Furthermore, Masumi explains to Conan that her brother also advises her on cases by phone. After successfully investigating the crime scene with Conan, Masumi steps aside with her smartphone and types in the message "It seems like he's also arrived at the truth... But whether or not our deductions are the same - lately I've been losing confidence in that regard...". When the recipient writes back "Who is he? I'd like an explanation!", Masumi takes a picture with her smartphone. However, the recipient's answer, "If it's him, there's no problem." reveals that he is familiar with Conan. It is heavily implied that it is the same person Conan saw Masumi making a call with in File 857.

===Red Woman Case (Manga: [[Volume 82|872]]-[[Volume 83|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|754-756]])===
Masumi takes a request from her middle brother to consult in his place about a case involving some of his high school classmates who are now 28-29 years old. On the way to a cabin in the woods, Masumi tells Conan and the gang more about her family history and timeline. She reveals that she and her brothers each have different family names for various reasons, one of which is the death of her father. The case takes a dark turn when one of the classmates is found murdered in a bathtub of tomatoes. With the help of the Nagano police, Conan and Masumi manage to solve the case. Later, Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone in the kitchen by calling it with his. He does so and Conan notices the call background screen is a [[Mary|child who looks like Masumi]] with eye bags similar to those of the [[Akai family]] members. Masumi mentions having a younger sister earlier on (Episode 754), so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

===Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876]]-[[Volume 83|878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]])===
On the way home from school, Ran and Sonoko decide to visit Masumi's hotel (which is different from the other one she has been staying at earlier). Masumi claims she had a meeting with her supposedly-hard-to-reach [[Akai family's middle brother|middle brother]] planned, so she texts him to reschedule. Conan seems to notice this contradiction. At the hotel, Conan tries to peek in Masumi's bedroom, but Masumi wards him off by embarrassing him. Masumi also asks Conan is she reminds him of someone he met in the past, but Conan draws a blank. A murder interrupts the meeting. While Conan is investigating, he notices the middle-school aged [[Mary|child]] from Masumi's cellphone picture in the gathered crowd. Later, Conan and the gang return to Masumi's room, and Conan hides his glasses earpiece [[microphone]] to spy on the apartment. It is quickly found and destroyed by Masumi and the child after Conan departs with Ran and Sonoko. Masumi asks the child is she is beginning to like him, but the child responds that she is still long way from trusting him. The child asks Masumi to tell Conan she is her little sister from outside the territory if he asks about her. Masumi doesn't mention that she showed Conan the child's picture.
[[File:Masumi and Scotch Flashback EP836 (3).jpg|150px|thumb|right|Masumi remembers meeting a man nicknamed Scotch]]

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===

=== Ran & Shinichi - First Contact (Manga: [[Volume 87#Ran & Shinichi - First Contact|921-924]], Anime: [[Memories from Sakura Class|853-854]]) ===

=== 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]]) ===

=== Girls Band Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|936-938]], Anime:[[The Unfriendly Girls Band|836-837]]) ===
Four years ago, Masumi was taught a few notes on the base guitar by a friend of her brother, [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]]. The friend was referred to as "[[Scotch]]" by another person who Masumi thinks looks like [[Rei Furuya|Rei]].

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[Soul Detective Murder Case|863-864]]) ===
Masumi and Mary has moved into another hotel, where a murder takes place next door.

=== Swimsuit Festival Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_91#Swimsuit_Festival|969]]-[[Volume_92#Swimsuit_Festival|971]], Anime:TBA) ===
Masumi intentionally puts on a bathing suit similar to the one that she had worn in the past to try to jog Conan's memory of where they met. A case occurs, which involved the method of counting fingers in different countries. Masumi seems to count the same way that is used in the UK, but seems to think that it is the way it is done in the US. As Conan corrects her, she seems confused. Conan thinks back on all of the times that Masumi has done things that seem to imply that she was in the UK rather than the US and he finally remembers the events of 10 years ago by repeating イギリス (Igirisu / Britain) in is head.
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=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume_92#A_Chance_Meeting_at_the_Beach|972-974]], Anime:TBA) ===

=== Café Rice Flower Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_94#Café_Rice_Flower_Murder_Case|994-996]], Anime:TBA) ===
Masumi and Sonoko meets up with Ran in a café to discuss details of the school field trip to Kyoto.

== Non-Canon Plot Overview ==

=== Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]] ===
Sera appeared in this movie as an investigator of the person who had been shot in the Bell Tower. She and Conan helped in chasing the culprit and afterwards was shot by the culprit after saving Conan.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Masumi was Shuichi Akai's sister ===
Masumi was revealed to be Shuichi Akai's sister on the Bell Tree Express after a confrontation with [[Scar Akai]]<ref name=821p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pg 16: "Mystery Train (Junction)"</ref> and while sleeptalking.<ref name=823p4>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 6 (823), pg 4: "Mystery Train (Releasing Smoke)"</ref>
[[File:Sera_and_Shuuichi.png|thumb|right|300px|Masumi and [[Shuichi Akai]].]]
* Masumi has bags under her eyes identical to Shuichi Akai's.
* Masumi Sera's name is also incredibly similar to Mobile Suit Gundam character [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Sayla_Mass Sayla Mass] ({{lang|ja|セイラ・マス}}, ''Seira Masu''). [[Shuichi Akai#Name origin|Shuichi's name is derived]] from Sayla Mass's older brother's name, Char Aznable.
* Conan said he has a feeling he had met her before. "''Somehow I feel like we've met somewhere before, it might be that person resembles someone I know, that's why the feeling that we've met before is on my mind...''"<ref>Manga Chapter 771: Let's Hear Your Brilliant Deduction! p.11</ref>
* [[Andre Camel]] and most likely [[James Black]] seem to recognize her from somewhere. On another interesting note, James was the first to recognize that Masumi was a girl. Everyone else thought that she was a guy when they first saw her. Since James was Shuichi's boss, he would most likely know that Shuichi has a younger sister and what she would look like.
* Masumi lived in Japan until three years ago when her family moved to America. This matches with the time when Shuichi was infiltrating the Black Organization. The family's move to America could be the FBI's attempt to protect them should something go wrong with Shuichi's mission.
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew".
* In Chapter 859, Masumi, when being asked who taught her Jeet Kune Do, answers that her older brother did. Consequently, Conan asks Sera: "But, didn't you say your older brother was dead?" This leads to Masumi remarking "Yeah... That's what I heard." also further supporting the theory that Masumi is in Japan to investigate her brother's death.

=== Hints that Masumi was not Bourbon ===
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew". She then thinks there is "no way it was possible" regarding the man she saw, which would make sense if she thought Shuichi was dead. This implied she wasn't Bourbon, since Bourbon believes he is the only one who can kill Shuichi, implying that Gin might have failed to do so. Hence Bourbon wouldn't think that it was impossible to meet Shuichi again in the street.

==Relationships analysis==

===Friends & Family ===

==== Shuichi Akai ====
[[Shuichi Akai]] is Masumi's older brother. She didn't get to meet him until she was six-seven years old, because Shuichi went to study abroad before Masumi was born. At first meeting she was very shy, but she did make some pranks in an attempt to make him smile. Masumi refers to Shuichi as "Shu-nii", implying that they were close. Masumi seems to miss him after his supposed death. In the Blush Mermaid Heist, Masumi is shown to be fond of her fedora as she believes it has the same "feel" as Shuichi's old hats. Shuichi sent Masumi Jeet-Kune-Do training tapes while she was in elementary school. She watched these so many times while practicing that she wore them out.<ref name="876p2">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 2: "Romance Novelist"</ref> She describes her eldest brother as ''strong'' in contrast to her second - oldest brother.<ref name="859p6-7">Manga [[Volume 81]], File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[File:EP671-674_25.png|thumb|right|Masumi hugs Conan after rescuing him in [[Detectives' Nocturne]].]]
Masumi is interested in [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s abilities as a detective and has been gathering information on him and his friends. She appears to be certain that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. Despite her initial suspicious presentation, Conan felt like she wasn't a bad person and so didn't mistrust her. Conan at several points questions her if they've met before, but she denies this, once secretly thinking, "Now's not the time". The period in which such an encounter could have taken place is initially hinted to be somewhere before the three-year span of Masumi's sojourn in the United States, when she was in her preteen years.<ref name="Mang83">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 7-8: "Red Past"</ref><ref name="Mang86">Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905): "The Truth Rises to the Surface"</ref>

It is later shown that she had met Conan/Shinichi ten years ago, when the Akai family had gathered on an undisclosed beach in Japan prior to Shuichi Akai joining the FBI. By chance, Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] had also vacationed there, and they all ended up as witnesses and investigators in a gone-awry flight attempt from a robbery. When Shinichi managed to make Shuichi laugh (something Masumi had miserably failed to achieve) with his intelligence, observation skills and some unintended jokes, Masumi, in her admiration for Shinichi, began to call him "wizard". It is quite possible that this meeting inspired Masumi to become a detective herself.<ref name="Mang92">Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2-4 (972-974): "A Chance Meeting at the Beach"</ref>

If Masumi really lived in England, instead of America, then it's possible that she saw the tennis match from the London case on TV and recognized Conan as Shinichi based on his proclamation as 'Holmes' apprentice'.

On several occasions, such as the dramatic conclusion of the [[Volume 76#Online Client|Online Client Case]], Masumi has displayed an intensely affectionate air towards Conan which somewhat transcends a mere "big sister" relationship.<ref>Manga Chapter 800: ''Online Client Case'' - "When Objects Collide"; Anime Episode 674: ''[[Detectives' Nocturne]]'' - "Bourbon"</ref> In fact, it is hinted during the [[Volume 83#Romance Novelist Murder Case|Romance Novelist murder]] and in the movie ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]'' that she may actually be entertaining a crush on Shinichi/Conan and hopes of initiating a closer relationship with him. However, the actual level of her feelings for him is yet to be publicly revealed.

==== Ai Haibara ====
Masumi has been interested in meeting [[Ai Haibara]] for yet unrevealed reasons and has been secretly gathering information on her. She also seemed to recognize [[Shiho Miyano]] in the video of her rescuing the [[Detective Boys]]. Haibara in turn feels uneasy around Masumi, especially in close contact situations though arguably it could also be due to Scar Akai's presence near Masumi. The reason behind her interest might be due to Haibara's resemblance with [[Mary]].

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sera and Wave.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Ran hears sounds of rippling waves when she sees Masumi hurried away]]
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] have become friends and often walk home from school together. Masumi has also declared Ran as "her type" when they first met as a sign of liking, though this ultimately led Sonoko, Conan and Ran herself to mistake Masumi for a boy.

At one point, Ran recalls having met Masumi before in the past, hearing the sound of "rippling waves" when the she sees the latter leaving, "as if some sort of magic were at work".<ref name="Mang86"></ref> It is revealed in a later story that she and Masumi had actually met 10 years before, when they were both still children, on a beach, where by happenstance she, Shinichi and the Akai family inadvertently became embroiled in the aftermath of a crime (see '''Conan Edogawa''', above).<ref name="Mang92"></ref>

==== Sonoko Suzuki ====
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have become friends and often walk home from school together, with Sonoko describing Masumi as a popular girl who is "cheery, sociable, boyish and cute" and on top of that, a "Jeet Kune Do using detective", though she also teasingly remarks that the only thing "against Sera" is her flat chest.

==== Akai family's middle brother ====
Masumi appears to have a good relationship with her [[Akai family's middle brother|second-older brother]] and often consults him regarding information or deductions about the cases she faced, and also has a high regard of her brother's intellect, even considering the already sharp Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to her second older-brother.

==== Tsutomu Akai ====
Masumi's father was missing before she was born, so she never knew him. But she refer to him as 'Papa.

=== Mary Sera ===
[[ Mary]] seems very mature and cold while talking to Masumi. She also treats her more like a coworker than her daughter, as she always advises her what to do and switch hotels if any intel about Mary is leaked.She is also somehow stubborn as she declined Masumi's trust in Conan despite the latter's motive and pursuit of justice are geniune.

=== Black Organization ===

==== Rei Furuya ====
Rei first saw Masumi in Detectives Nocturne case and seemed to recognise her. They formally met in chapter 936 (Girls Band) at [[Café Poirot]]. Masumi felt like having met him and even asked him directly about that, but Rei said that was the first time they met. When Masumi talked about a friend of her brother who taught her play the guitar, Rei also seemed to know about that incident. In Masumi's flashback of that friend, a man who looked very much like Rei appeared, and Masumi once again wondered about it, to which Amuro replied that she took the wrong person.

==== Scotch ====
Sera recalled meeting Scotch 4 years ago. That was when Scotch was with Akai and Rei in a train station. Sera also remembered Scotch teaching her how to play the bass and though it was only 10 minutes, she seemed to enjoy it. Sera is not sure of Scotch's true identity or allegiance, but thinks that Scotch is Japanese and that Scotch is not the real name.

==Speculation==
[[File:Sera Knowing Conan's Name.png‎|thumb|right|170px|Masumi mentioning Conan's name.]]
=== Masumi met Shinichi and Ran when she was younger and knows Conan is Shinichi ===
*Masumi knew [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s identities before they introduced themselves. She also knew that Conan is a detective.<ref> [[Volume 73]], File 6 (768)</ref>
*Masumi seems to know that Conan is the brains behind Sleeping Kogoro. Conan seems to think that he may have met Masumi before or that she resembles someone that he knows. He believes that she got the deduction of a case wrong just so that he would reveal himself. <ref> [[Volume 73]], File 9 (771)</ref>
*Conan realizes he met Masumi before because he finds her snaggletoothed smile familiar,<ref name=845p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 6 (845), pg 16: "Our Territory"</ref>
*Masumi admits that she has met Conan before, but she can´t tell him until "the time" comes.<ref name=846p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 16: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
*Ran has met Masumi as well because Masumi's figure as she runs away reminds her of "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
*Masumi, asks Conan if he once met a girl "a long time ago and could never forget [her]"<ref name=876p11>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 11: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> and gets annoyed when he says he can't recall someone like that.
*Ran has a flashback to when she saw a younger Masumi, who is wearing a bathing suit, say, "You are a wizard, right?". Ran also feels that she has met [[Mary]].<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref>
*The meeting occurred 10 years ago, as mentioned by Mary.<ref> Manga [[Volume 90]], File 5 (953)</ref>
*Masumi puts on a swimsuit similar to the one in Ran's flashback in order to jog Conan's memory, which results in him remembering her in that bathing suit as well, along as three other people, assumed to be her relatives. <ref> Manga [[Volume 91]], File 11 (969)</ref>

In Chapter 771, it is revealed that she also knows Professor Agasa, although she calls him "Professor what's his name". Although this could be explained away as her talking to Conan off screen and her just not remembering Agasa's name.

=== Identity of Masumi's middle brother ===
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=== The Wizard ===
In a PS, [[Akai family's middle brother|Masumi's middle brother]] asks if she "has already met the Wizard?"<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> Masumi's thought reply is "You could say so..." Later, Masumi "thinks aloud" that her reason for returning to Japan is to meet the Wizard once more.<ref name=874p8>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 8: "The red past"</ref> The identity of the Wizard is revealed in File 974 to be Shinichi.

==== Shinichi Kudo ====
Tellingly, Masumi turns towards Conan when thinking of the answer "You could say so". At this point Masumi seems to know Conan is Shinichi. If Shinichi was nicknamed "The Wizard" by Masumi and/or her brother because of what happened when he and Masumi met in the past, then the response is appropriate since she could only sort of meet with Shinichi, because Shinichi shrunk into Conan. It's possible that the event where Shinichi earned the nickname "The Wizard" was Shinichi and Ran's meeting with Masumi 10 years ago. When trying to remember Masumi, Ran specifically mentions "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref> A "magical" incident, if it was Shinichi's doing, might have earned him the nickname. Ran has a flashback of a young Masumi saying "You are a wizard, right?".<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref> Conan seems to have remembered meeting Masumi 10 years ago and is shown as a young Shinichi standing in front of a large wave.<ref> Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2 (971)</ref>

==== Someone else ====
At this point it is unlikely that the Wizard is anyone else. There is evidence that Masumi nicknamed the person who she calls Wizard, at a point in the past while Ran was nearby. If Ran was nearby, then this would have to have happened when they first met 10 years ago, meaning that the person must be someone who existed back then. The topic of the Wizard came up during a text conversation about Conan between Masumi and her middle brother, and her response to if she had met the Wizard again was "You could say so", which is more than likely implying that she is referring to Conan, and therefore Shinichi.

[[File:Akai's picture 338.PNG|thumb|right|The picture of the Detective Boys the mystery assistants captured]]

===Masumi learned about Haibara from Shuichi's picture===
Masumi initially had an interest in Haibara. This is strange because Haibara didn't exist prior to Shiho shrinking. The knowledge of Shiho should have been secret to her as well, because Shuichi Akai's infiltration of the Black Organization was a secret. If Masumi doesn't even know the details of her brother's death, why should she know about Shiho? Masumi may recognize Haibara from pictures of Conan and Haibara that Shuichi took back during the Vermouth arc. It is standard procedure in the US to send the personal belongings of the dead back to their families. If Shuichi mixed these pictures in with his own things when he took them out of his truck before meeting with Kir, it's possible they were overlooked when the FBI sent Shuichi 's things to his family. If Masumi was interested in finding out how and why Shuichi died, she would begin by researching the people in those pictures and those connected with them in hopes of finding clues.
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==Character popularity==
*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. Masumi placed 9th overall with 292 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8024|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 50+ poll "Best Detective Conan characters", with 107 votes.

*Masumi ranked 5th in the Digest Book 60+ poll "Cutest Detective Conan characters", with 135 votes.

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 70+ poll "Characters you want to go on a date with", with 106 votes.

*Masumi ranked 11th in the Digest Book 80+ poll "Character you want to marry", with 281 votes.

==Name origin==
{{Nihongo|Masumi Sera's|世良・真純|Sera Masumi}} name comes 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 Masumi is Shuichi's sister (Manga File 821): {{lang|ja|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> The kanji for Masumi's surname mean 'good world'. The kanji for her first name, Masumi, mean 'true' and either 'pure' or 'net.'

==Quotes==
{{cquote|Deletion. For data at least ... is an easy task to accomplish.|Masumi, on deleting a picture of Haibara from her computer, File 777 pg 16}}

{{cquote|I guess I'm a bad kid after all...|Masumi, while crying, File 814 pg 16}}

==Trivia==
*Masumi is based on [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], a tomboy detective girl turned criminal who made her first appearance in the [[Volume 54#Detective Koshien Case|''Detective Koshien Case'']]. Since Natsuki had proven highly popular, but Aoyama couldn't recycle her as a protagonist, the character of Masumi was created instead.<ref>''Shonen Sunday'' #33</ref>
*When she was young she liked to read the "[[Night Baron]]" series, so she is fan of [[Yusaku Kudo]].
*Her catchphrase, "Case Closed" (said in English), is likely a reference to the English-language name of Detective Conan.
*Masumi owns an [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Sera's Yamaha_Artesia_XT400|Artesia XT400]].
*In File 859, Masumi reveals that she has a second-older brother and that her oldest brother taught her Jeet-Kune-Do.
*Masumi speaks Queen's English.<ref>[[:File:Postcard2015 1.jpg]]</ref>

==In other languages==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|真純 Masumi|世良 Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|ماسومي Māsūmi|سيرا Sēra}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Mexico|American Spanish|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Brazil|Brazilian Portuguese|Masumi|Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Masumi|Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|세라 Sera|양 Yang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|มาสึมิ Mās̄ụ-mi|เซระ Sera}}
{{EndTable}}

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

==References==
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Rum

2017-09-27T03:18:02Z

Detective Reaper: /* Curaçao */

Rei Furuya

2017-09-23T05:46:33Z

Detective Reaper: /* Yuya Kazami */

{{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]].}}
{{hatnote|"Furuya" and "Tooru" redirect here. For the voice actor ([[wikipedia:Voice acting in Japan|seiyū]]), see [[Tohru Furuya]].}}

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Rei Furuya
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|降谷零}} (Furuya Rei)
| english-name =
| image = Rei Furuya Profile.jpg
| age = 29
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Detective Café Poirot worker National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division Agent<ref>[[:File:Postcard2016 40.jpg]]</ref>
| nicknames =Zero ([[Scotch]]) Rei-kun (Childhood nickname) Zero-no-niichan ([[Conan Edogawa|Conan]])
| aliases = Bourbon Tooru Amuro
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_75#Private_Eye|File 793]] Anime: [[Wedding Eve|Episode 667]]
| appearances = {{:Rei Furuya Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 76]]
| cases-solved = 8 (1 as Scar Akai)
| footnotes =
| japanese-voice = [[Tohru Furuya]]<ref>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-08-11/gundam-tohru-furuya-to-play-detective-conan-tohru-amuro</ref>
}}
{{nihongo|'''Rei Furuya'''|降谷零|Furuya Rei}}, also known as {{nihongo|'''Tooru Amuro'''|安室透|Amuro Tōru}} and {{nihongo|'''Bourbon'''|バーボン|Bābon}}, is a [[Public Security Bureau|National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division]] agent working undercover in the [[Black Organization]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a recently dispatched operative who specializes in deduction and intelligence gathering and frequently works with [[Vermouth]]. At present, Rei both poses as a private detective who first appeared as a waiter while helping a client with a case and works as a waiter at Café Poirot and [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s apprentice.

==Background==
Rei's past within the [[Black Organization]] is unknown, but it seems he has been tied to them for a while. He knew [[Shiho Miyano]]'s (now Ai Haibara) parents who died when Shiho was young suggesting that he has some involvement with the Organization since he was a teenager.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> He was the rival of [[Shuichi Akai]] (alias Dai Moroboshi) who was [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]]'s lover at the time.<ref name=824p5/> He had suspected Dai Moroboshi was a spy for the FBI which turned out to be the case.<ref name=824p5/>

Soon after Shuichi Akai's (fake) death, [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] called [[Jodie Starling]] to report that a new member of the Black Organization called Bourbon had been dispatched. Kir said that Bourbon's target was the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano and that Bourbon has excellent information gathering skills and keen insight.<ref name=622p4>Manga Volume 60, File 3, Page 4: "Red, White and Yellow"</ref> Later, Bourbon appears as Tooru Amuro, a free-lance private detective while also maintaining other employments to further his investigating missions, like his part-time job as a waiter at Ristorante Sundayrino. After his introductory case, Amuro begins working part-time at [[Setting#Cafe Poirot|Café Poirot]]. He is currently [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s apprentice and turns out to be a spy infiltrating the Black Organization who works under the [[Public Security Bureau]].

== Personality ==
[[File:Amuro_Personality.jpg|thumb|right|Rei and Ran are happy that Kogoro cracked the code in the [[Detectives' Nocturne]] Case.]]
Rei has a cheerful personality. He is also generous, bringing a plate of sandwiches for the detective agency bought with his money. In more serious situations, he seems to be patient, keeping calm even while others are abusing him. Although somewhat of a "cool type", he does not hide his emotions and is quite expressive. Like other detectives in ''[[Detective Conan]]'', he enjoys presenting his deductions about cases to others. Kogoro calls him "effeminate".

Rei has a darker side. He is manipulative, tricking others into performing certain actions so he can gather information. He favors using psychological traps and catching his enemies offguard. Rei can also be extremely cruel in the pursuit of goals. He planned to run over and hospitalize an elementary school teacher with his car in order to lure out FBI agents, and he would have allowed a suspect destroy his exonerating evidence in order to test Kogoro. Rei alternates between going out of his way to care about the wellbeing others and ignoring them when it is inconvenient. As Scar Akai, he saved Conan at the [[Detective Boys vs. Robber Group|Teito bank heist]], but neglected to inform Ran and Kogoro later when he noticed that Conan might have been kidnapped by a murderer in [[Detectives' Nocturne]].

[[Gin]] says Bourbon has a secretive personality like [[Vermouth]], and that no one can ever guess what he's up to or what he will do.<ref name=703p3/> [[Vodka]] says that Bourbon hates Shuichi Akai even more than Gin does, presumably because Rei thinks that Akai killed Scotch.<ref name=703p3/> Bourbon believes he is the only person capable of killing Akai.<ref name=703p3/> Gin said that if Bourbon found out Akai was alive, he would surely boast that his suspicion was correct.<ref name=703p3/> Gin and Bourbon probably don't get along and they don't seem to communicate with one another.<ref name=703p3/> 
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== Appearance ==
[[File:Low res Amuro colored.PNG|thumb|left|125px|Colored drawing by Gosho Aoyama]]
Rei is a good-looking man (claimed by [[Sonoko]] and [[Ayumi]]) with dark skin, lighter than, but closer to [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]'s color and has brown hair <ref> "Lets Talk with Gosho Day 2014" : Amuro-san’s white hair… is that dyed? Aah.Rather than white it’s brown. I can’t answer this. His dark skin too, there is a profound meaning behind it. (laughs) </ref> He wears glasses at first, but it is unknown if he actually needs them because he was using them to conceal his identity at the time and takes them off midway through the case and has not had them on since. Unlike other Black Organization members, he dresses mostly casually and sometimes wears outfits with only a little black, suggesting that he is an undercover of the Black Organization.
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== Abilities ==
=== Deduction and intelligence ===
Rei is a good detective with excellent information gathering skills. Although, since Rei is undercover as Kogoro's apprentice, he hasn't shown his real deduction skills, which is his specialty in the Black Organization. His friend, [[Wataru Date]], said Rei was the smartest student at the police academy.<ref name=807p11>Manga [[Volume 77]], File 1 (807), pg 11: "The Strongest Senpai"</ref>

=== Driving ===
Rei is a capable driver, capable of precisely swinging his car in front of another during a high speed car chase in order to stop it with a controlled collision.

=== Tennis ===
Rei is an excellent tennis player. He claimed he was a junior champion in middle school, but quit after he injured his shoulder.<ref name=825p7>Manga Volume 78, File 8 (825), pg 7: "Special Coach"</ref> He offered to tutor [[Sonoko]] who had surpassed her teammates and friends.

=== First aid ===
When Conan received a concussion from an errant tennis racket, Rei "carried out the procedures pretty efficiently" before the doctor even arrived.<ref name=825p11>Manga Volume 78, File 8 (825), pg 11: "Special Coach"</ref>

=== Lockpicking ===
Rei seems to carry lockpicks with him and was able to lockpick a door fairly quickly. He claimed he learned it from a friend in a security company.<ref name=825p15>Manga Volume 78, File 8 (825), pg 15: "Special Coach"</ref> Japan's law prohibits possession of any lock picking tools and carries a penalty of one year imprisonment or a 500,000 yen fine.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Japan Possession of Lock-picking Tools Act
|url=http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E6%AE%8A%E9%96%8B%E9%8C%A0%E7%94%A8%E5%85%B7%E3%81%AE%E6%89%80%E6%8C%81%E3%81%AE%E7%A6%81%E6%AD%A2%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AB%E9%96%A2%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E6%B3%95%E5%BE%8B}}</ref>

=== Martial arts ===
Rei is good at boxing,<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__view__findpost__p__287218 青山剛昌先生と話そうDAY] (Let's talk with Aoyama Gosho-sensei day), held January 3, 2013 安室はボクシングをしている。 (Amuro is doing boxing.)</ref> shown when a single punch to an attacker's gut causes him to spray blood from the mouth and collapse.<ref name=843p15>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 4 (843), pg 15: "A parcel for Kudo-samakata"</ref> Rei also likely knows some [[Wikipedia:Jujutsu|Jujutsu]] from his time in police academy; Jujutsu is routinely taught to Tokyo police officers to aid in suspect immobilization and arrest. [[Wataru Date]] said Rei was the strongest student at the police academy.<ref name=807p11/>

== Appellations ==
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<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Amuro-san Bourbon Amuro-no-niichan<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 5, pg 7</ref> Zero-no-niichan<ref>[[Volume 84|Volume 84, File 890, Page 6]]</ref>|Conan-kun Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')<ref name="78f10">[[Volume 78]], File 10</ref> Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Amuro-san Detective-san (''Tantei-san'')<ref name="file820">[[volume 78#Mystery Train|File 820 (Volume 78)]]</ref>|Ran-san}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Amuro-kun Tooru<ref name="file888">[[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|File 888 (Volume 84)]]</ref>|Mouri-sensei Sensei Great Detective Mouri (''Mouri-meitantei'')<ref name="78f10" /> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')<ref name="78f10" />}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Bourbon Amuro Tooru}}
|}
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<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Amuro-san}}
{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Detective Guy (''Tantei-no-niichan'') Amuro-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Detective-san (''Tantei-san'')|Ayumi-chan}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Amuro-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref>|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|Scotch|Furuya<ref name="file954">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 954: Sanction of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Zero (although the kanji for Rei was used, the special reading was Zero)<ref name="file954" />|Scotch<ref name="file937">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Your brother]]'s friend (''kimi no ani no yūjin''; talking to [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]])<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Amuro-kun<ref name="m20" /> Bourbon<ref name="file897">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|File 897 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Amuro Tooru-kun<ref name="file897" /> Zero<ref name="file897" /> Furuya Rei-kun<ref name="file897" /> Wolf (''ōkami'')<ref name="file897" />|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<ref name=824p5/> Your brother (''Kimi no ani''; talking to [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]])<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|That man (''ano otoko'')<ref name="file898" />|Okiya-san<ref name="file955" /> Okiya Subaru<ref name="file955" /> Okiya Subaru-san<ref name="file895">[[Volume 85|File 895 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file895" />}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Amuro Tooru<ref name="file898">[[Volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Bourbon<ref name="file898" />|FBI}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|Amuro Tooru<ref name="file898" /> Bourbon|German (''Deutsch-kei'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Amuro-kun Café Detective (''Kissaten Tantei'')<ref name="file937" />|}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|My friend}}

{{appellations|Jinpei Matsuda|-|Matsuda<ref name="m20" />}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Bourbon|Kir}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Amuro-san<ref name="file955" /> Amuro Tooru-san<ref name="file955" />}}

{{appellations|Yuya Kazami|file=Yuya Kazami.jpg|Furuya-san|Kazami}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|The Boss|-|Boss}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum}}

{{appellations|Gin|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Bourbon|Vermouth}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Elena Miyano|Rei-kun|Hell Angel}}

{{appellations|Rikumichi Kusuda|-|Kusuda Rikumichi<ref name="file888">[[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|File 888 (Volume 84)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|-|Pisco<ref name="85f2">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|Volume 85, File 2]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shiho Miyano|-|Hell Angel's Daughter}}

{{appellations|Curaçao|Bourbon|Curaçao That Woman (''Ano onna'')}}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Amuro-san<ref name="file936" /> This good-looking guy (''kono ikemen''; first time)<ref name="file820" />|Sonoko-san}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|-|Kudo Yusaku<ref name="file895" />}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|-|Okino Yoko-san<ref name="file936" /> Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Amuro-san|Azusa-san<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Amuro-san<ref name="file937" />}}

{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}
</tabs>

==Mission==
Bourbon's primary mission was to search for the escaped scientist [[Shiho Miyano]], which the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spy [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] heard about and informed the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] of. He also had a second secret mission fueled by his hunch that his archenemy Shuichi Akai should not have died so easily;<ref name=703p3>Manga [[Volume 67]], File 7, page 3: "The Truth Amidst the Snowstorm"</ref> he received the [[Anokata|boss]]'s permission to verify Shuichi's death. He approached the FBI as [[Scar Akai|an Shuichi lookalike]] by using [[Vermouth]]'s disguise help hoping to see if Akai was truly dead.<ref name=824p7>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824), pg 7: "Final Destination"</ref> He later apprenticed himself to [[Kogoro Mouri]] because Bourbon suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] and assumed that Sherry planted it.)

Currently, Bourbon thinks Shiho has been killed,<ref name=824p12>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824), pg 12: "Final Destination"</ref> and had come to believe Shuichi was dead as well until a suspicious man shrouded by smoke threw a grenade by him on the [[Volume_78#Mystery_Train|Mystery Express]].<ref name=824p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824), pg 16: "Final Destination"</ref> The sighting caused Bourbon to second guess himself and request that Vermouth show him the detailed files from before and after Shuichi's death again.<ref name=824p16/> Bourbon has also decided to continue as Kogoro's apprentice because he noticed [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] is the real brains behind "Sleeping Kogoro" and is curious.<ref name=827p16/>

One of the most important missions of Bourbon, however, is implied that he infiltrates and undermines the Black Organization like Kir. Shuichi Akai has revealed that Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to [[Anokata]], boss of the organization.

== Plot overview ==
{{main|Rei Furuya timeline}}

===Childhood===
When Rei was a child he got in fights with other children. When this happened he would get bandaged up by Elena Miyano. At one point she told him that she had to move far away and would not be able to bandage him up again. As a child Rei had the nickname "Zero".

=== National Police Association ===

=== Black Organization ===
==== With Scotch ====
[[Shuichi Akai]] (Rye), Rei Furuya (Bourbon), and [[Scotch]] were all members of the [[Black Organization]] at a point four years ago. Between four years ago and two years ago, Shuichi was found by Rei, standing over Scotch's dead body holding a smoking gun. Ever since then Rei has blamed Shuichi and has sought out to kill him.

==== Scar Akai ====
{{main|Scar Akai}}[[File:Scar Akai.jpg|right]]
Before Rei Furuya appeared as Tooru Amuro, he disguised as [[Scar Akai|Shuichi with a large burn]] with [[Vermouth]]'s help. In this disguise, he approached the close friends of [[Shuichi Akai]] to gauge whether he was truly dead. Rei first used the disguise to approach [[Jodie Starling]] at [[Teito Bank]], then [[Andre Camel]] at [[Beika Department Store]], he also sends Kogoro a text message on his deduction of the current case using a borrowed phone from a bystander. Whether he did this out of concern for the hostages or his own well being is not mentioned.
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==== Tooru Amuro ====
[[File:Amuro_abuse.jpg|thumb|right|Amuro gets knocked over by a case suspect]]
After that Rei Furuya appeared as a private investigator on a case, where he runs into Kogoro and Conan. Through this interaction he became Kogoro's apprentice and monitored his actions by working at the Poirot Cafe below the Detective Agency. During this monitoring, he saw a video of [[Shiho Miyano]] with a Mystery Train Pass ring, resulting in a [[Black Organization]] attack in an attempt to kill her on the train. Later, through information gathered from Jodie, Takagi, and Camel, he managed to discover the truth behind Shuichi Akai's death. Now that he knows that knows he is alive, he wishes to kill Shuichi himself as a way of getting revenge for Shuichi killing [[Scotch]].
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==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

=== Episode 813: [[The Shadow Approaching Amuro]] ===
This episode will be a pre-story to [[The Darkest Nightmare|Movie 20]]

=== Movie 20: [[The Darkest Nightmare]] ===

== Hints that Tooru Amuro was Bourbon ==
* The character Tooru Amuro is named after, Amuro Ray, is the mortal enemy of the character [[Shuichi Akai]] is named after, Char Aznable.
* He is a detective and very skilled at information gathering as Kir described.
* He is male as the codename Bourbon implies. The [[Black Organization]] codename pattern is that hard liquors are used for men's codenames, and [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] used a male specific pronoun to refer to Bourbon in the [[Volume_67#Department_Store_Bomber_Case|Department Store Bomber Case]].<ref name=703p3elab>Manga Volume 67, File 7, page 3: "The Truth Amidst the Snowstorm" Kir uses the masculine only term "kare" (彼) to refer to Bourbon instead of a gender neutral term.</ref>
* He has a type of personality [[Gin]] would not like. Gin thinks Bourbon is irritating.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8, pages 13-14: "Silent Clash"</ref>
* When Rei offers Kogoro an unknown "tuition" per case Kogoro brings him on, the amount he offers is enough to get Kogoro excited and accept Rei as an apprentice without hesitation. This is strange because Rei would not be expected to have much money because he is young, lacks a formal agency, and works part time at restaurants in one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in.
* Unlike other detectives so far, Rei is a calculating type who chose avoidable courses of action (or non-action) that may have resulted in harm to others if things had gone slightly differently. In his introductory case, Rei doesn't intervene when a suspect he knows to be innocent is half a step from destroying his exonerating evidence because it seems Rei was testing Kogoro. Later, Rei noticed that Conan was alone with a murderer and considered that Conan might have been kidnapped, yet said nothing about it until others realized Conan and the murder suspect were gone.
* The timing of Bourbon's report to [[Vermouth]] about [[Volume_77#Cabin_Trap|Shiho's appearance at Gunma]] suggested Rei was Bourbon. The other two Bourbon suspects, [[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]] and [[Masumi]], both had seen Haibara and were suspicious of her long before Bourbon reported Shiho to Vermouth, but the video from Gunma was the first time Rei had seen an image of Shiho or Haibara. Subaru had met Haibara in person in his [[Volume_60#Red.2C_White.2C_and_Yellow_Case|first appearance case]] and multiple times afterward. Masumi had obtained a picture of Haibara via a reflection from Agasa's glasses in the [[Volume_74#Target_on_Tape|Ayumi kidnapping case]]. Both of them should have reported to Vermouth if they were Bourbon soon after their respective encounters.
* He completely cut off communication with his close friend [[Wataru Date]]. A complete cutoff would not be necessary if Rei worked for a non-secret organization like the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District. It is more sensible that Rei was trying to protect Date from any potential dangers associated with infiltrating the Black Organization as a member of the National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division.
* Rei kept a bug detector with him - only Organization members have been shown to do this, while normal detectives like Conan do not.
* In 793, the first case in which appears Rei, the detective Sanji Haruoka order to the waiter (Rei himself) to bring him the Bourbon with ice.
* Amuro is the most likely suspect of the three (Subaru, Masumi, Amuro) to be Bourbon via the process of elimination. Subaru Okiya is not Bourbon, as Conan, who is normally a very careful person, invites him to stay as his Shinichi's home. If Subaru was someone that Conan did not know, it would be very unlikely that Conan would let him live in the Kudo's house and near Haibara (Sherry). Masumi Sera who looks like Shuichi Akai, is most likely a relative of the FBI agent and thus not an enemy. She also knew Conan was Shinichi, and thus must have deduced that shrinking was possible. Despite knowing this, Haibara was not threatened until her adult form was captured on video prior to the mystery train case.
* Of the three major suspects, only Amuro isn't particularly interested in Conan at first. Instead he kisses up to Kogoro. There was no reason for a member of the Black Organization to care about Conan since all the blame for Conan's prior meddling has fallen on Sherry, Kogoro, the FBI, or an unknown person. The other two suspects, Subaru and Masumi, either were interested in or knew Conan's true identity from the outset.


=== Hints that Scar Akai was Tooru Amuro/Bourbon ===
[[File:Scar_Akai.jpg|right]]
:''For the former theory, please see [[Scar Akai is Bourbon Theory]]'' 
While [[Scar Akai]] was played by Vermouth during the last appearance on the train, Bourbon had been Scar Akai during the three earlier appearances at [[Detective Boys vs. Robber Group|Teito Bank]], [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen|Beika Department Store]], and outside [[Volume_76#Domestic_Violence|Mouri Detective Agency]].<ref>Manga File 824, pg 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> The evidence that Rei being Scar Akai these times was:
* In Scar Akai's appearance at the Beika Dept. Store, Rei was the only known Black Organization operative not seen at the same time time as Scar Akai. Gin began discussing Bourbon with Kir after seeing this Scar Akai. 
* Rei was absent from his job at the Poirot when Scar Akai appeared outside the detective agency where Masumi was walking with Ran. This also notable because this occurred right after Masumi and Rei met and Rei found out Masumi was friends with Ran.
* In Scar Akai's appearances at the Teito Bank case, the Beika Dept Store, and outside Mouri Detective Agency, he never spoke in front of anyone who would know Shuichi's real voice, suggesting that this Scar Akai could not imitate voices like Vermouth.
* Rei is right-handed like Scar Akai.
* He has the right body size, face shape, and height to disguise as Scar Akai.
* He has an interest in the Mouri Detective Agency which makes sense because [[Scar_Akai_is_Bourbon_Theory#Bourbon.27s_investigation-_He_suspects_Kir_is_a_traitor.|Scar Akai saw fit to keep Kogoro's cellphone number with him]].
* Rei's hypothetical disguise suggestion in 795, a knit cap and long windbreaker, are articles of clothing Shuichi Akai and Scar Akai wear respectively.
=== Hints that Tooru Amuro was a NPA undercover agent ===
* Tooru attended police academy and was close friends with police officer [[Wataru Date]]. Amuro cut off contact with Date to protect him from the Black Organization's investigation while infiltrating. Tooru later paid his respects at the grave of detective Wataru Date.<ref>Manga Volume 77, File 808, Page 16: "The Late Grave Visit"</ref>
* Tooru reacted negatively to the presence of the FBI investigating illegally in Japan. He told them to "get out of his Japan" because they were infringing on his and the PSB's jurisdiction.

* Tooru was able to amass a number of assistants to help him capture the person he thought was Shuichi Akai despite not having the backing of the Black Organization with his plan. The assistants were members of the National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division.

==Relationships analysis==
===Family & Friends===
====Wataru Date====
[[File:Amuro deletes message.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Amuro deleting Date's message.]]
[[Wataru Date]] and Rei Furuya were friends in the police academy; Rei was the top ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else and fell out of contact with Date for unknown reasons. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. Rei was shown visiting Date's grave, and likely left a toothpick out of respect for Date; Date used them habitually.
Date had called Rei for a gentleman like detective Takagi.
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==== Jinpei Matsuda ====
It has not been specified in manga about the relationship between Rei and Matsuda. However, in movie 20, [[The Darkest Nightmare]] Matsuda was recounted by Rei to be his friend in the police academy.

====Conan Edogawa====
Rei seems to respect [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s intelligence and also seems to look out for Conan as well. He wound up protecting Conan while disguised as [[Scar Akai]] at the Teito Bank, and as Rei helped Conan get out of a kidnapping situation and doctored him when Conan took a racket to the head. Before knowing he was Bourbon, Conan was generally friendly towards Rei. After the events of the Bell Tree Express, dealing with Rei hanging around has become awkward for Conan especially because he worries for Ran's safety around a member of the Black Organization.

Although his mission concerning Sherry is over, Rei has decided to investigate Conan. Rei seems to know that Conan is using Mouri Kogoro as a puppet for his deductions. He also overheard a conversation between Jodie and Conan about how Conan helped the FBI fight the Black Organization while [[Kir]] was at Haido Central Hospital. He comments that Conan is a terrifying man.

During the Teacher Assault Case, Conan indirectly asks Rei if he is undercover in the Black Organization, whispering, "You are an enemy, right? Of the bad guys..." unaware that Rei was wearing a wire at the time, monitored by Vermouth. To throw off suspicion, Rei assures Conan in a very threatening manner that Conan was mistaken. After the Scarlet Showdown, however, Conan approaches Rei in Poirot Cafe and calls him a liar. Rei returns the favor, the two of them exchanging knowing smiles.

====Kogoro Mouri====
[[File:名侦探柯南-第679集000347.jpg|thumb|right|Amuro wants to go on a case with Kogoro.]]
Rei tends to act ingratiating whenever [[Kogoro Mouri]] is around, and is especially fawning over his "Mouri-sensei". Kogoro is alternatively flattered by Rei's praise and annoyed with his effusive personality. Overall Kogoro tends to treat Rei flippantly despite being paid a handsome sum for the apprenticeship. When among members of the Black Organization, Rei doesn't speak too badly of Kogoro despite Kogoro's obvious incompetence. Rei is becoming more skilled at herding Kogoro through cases without having the older man realize that Rei is a far superior detective and is manipulating him for information.
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====Yuya Kazami====
[[File:Yuya Kazami.jpg|thumb|right|Officer Kazami]]
Yuya Kazami is a Rei's direct subordinate who first appeared in the movie 20,''[[The Darkest Nightmare]]''. However, recently, he has officially appeared in manga, Chapter 998, for the first time, as Rei's subordinate as well.
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===Black Organization===

====Scotch====
Scotch was an undercover agent, who got killed on duty. He was aware of Rei's true identity, and Rei most likely was aware of Scotch's. His death appears to be caused by Shuichi Akai, which is the reason behind Rei's vendetta against him.

====Shuichi Akai====
Rei has a deep-seeded hatred for [[Shuichi Akai]], because he thinks that Shuichi is responsible for the death of [[Scotch]]. Rei believes he is the only one capable of killing Shuichi.<ref name=703p3/>

====Vermouth====
[[File:783-6.jpg|thumb|Vermouth threatens Bourbon for holding hostage a critical secret of hers as insurance.]]

[[Vermouth]] and Bourbon keep close contact with one another, and seem to be closer to one another than, say, Bourbon and Gin. Bourbon specializes in intelligence gathering, so he likely belongs to the same [[Black_Organization#Organization_structure_and_divisions|reconnaissance division of the Black Organization]] as Vermouth. While it is still uncertain whether Bourbon is working directly under Vermouth, she seems to keep track of his actions during his missions at times,<ref>[[Detectives' Nocturne]]</ref> and he also often informs her about his discoveries or his future plans.<ref>[[Volume 78|File 818]] (Bourbon was said to have told Vermouth about Sherry's video); [[Volume 78|File 827]] (Bourbon tells Vermouth that he is now interested in "Sleeping Kogoro")</ref> Vermouth helped Bourbon create a [[Scar Akai|disguise]] that looked like Akai so he can investigate his enemy's death. Later, she somehow helped him approach [[Kogoro]] because he suspected that the detective was in contact with [[Sherry]]. Bourbon made an unknown promise to Vermouth (in File 955, it was revealed that Bourbon promised Vermouth to not let any harm comes to Conan and Ran no matter what happens.) , and she calls to ask him if he will be upholding it after the car chase in [[Detectives' Nocturne]]. 

The two have shown to be working together, not unlike Gin and Vodka, though the bond and trust between them are somewhat lacking. In addition to Bourbon's promise to Vermouth, he is also aware of her secret relationship to the Boss/Anokata, as noted at the end of the Scarlet Showdown. Bourbon utilizes this information to enlist Vermouth's assistance in his investigations, arranging for her secret to be released to the other members of the Organization. Vermouth threaten to kill him if he decide to reveal it to the organization although decide not to after he told her that her secret will be leaked to the organization if he dies.

==== Elena Miyano ====
Rei was probably close with [[Elena Miyano]] as a child before she died. Elena would doctor Rei after he got into fights. She is also aware of his true name, calling him "Rei-kun."

====Gin====
[[Gin]] dislikes Bourbon's personality and finds him annoying for being secretive and always doing what he pleases. At the same time, Gin respects Bourbon's detective abilities. The two do not seem to be in contact with one another, as Gin has no idea what Bourbon is doing.

====Akemi Miyano====
[[Akemi Miyano]] and Rei seem to have met at some point because Akemi told Shiho that Bourbon has a rivalry with Akai.

====Shiho Miyano====
Rei doesn't seem to have any hostility towards [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] unlike other Black Organization members. He attempted to capture the person he thought was her alive instead of trying to kill her, regretting he might have to resort to violence to do so. Rei says he had met Elena and Atsushi Miyano while they were alive. Rei does not know Shiho is [[Ai Haibara|Ai]]. During a car chase in [[Detectives' Nocturne‎]], Shiho gets a strong feeling that member of the Black Organization was behind her, but she doesn't seem to pinpoint it to Rei's pursuing [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Mazda_RX-7_2|Mazda FD RX-7]].

===Others===
====Masumi Sera====
Rei first saw [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] at a train station four years ago. He approached Scotch while he was teaching Masumi several notes on a base guitar. It is unknown whether he saw that she was connected to Shuichi at that time.

Much later when Conan gets kidnapped by a murderer they cross each other's path again. After both of them save Conan, he becomes very surprised to see her and wonders "Why is she here" and presumably notices that she looks similar to Shuichi Akai. The next day Rei takes the day off from his job at Poirot cafe. In order to confirm his theory, Rei once again disguised himself as [[Scar Akai]] in order to gauge her reaction. Suddenly, Masumi sees him in the crowd ahead and just like Jodie and Camel before her, Masumi becomes just as shocked by his appearance. She runs after him, but he disappears before she can catch him. Ran wonders who Masumi was chasing, but Masumi replies she thought it was someone she knew. Masumi silently appends in her mind that it would be impossible for the man she was chasing to be the person she thinks it was. While Rei watches her from a little ahead, confirming his suspicion that Masumi is related to Akai.

During another case, Masumi recalls a time that she saw her brother in a train station four years ago with a man called Scotch taught her several notes of base guitar. Another man wearing a hat that blocked his face had approached them. Masumi believes that this man must have been Rei, however each time she asks him if they have met, he avoids the question. When she announces aloud that her brother's name is [[Shuichi Akai]], Rei inwardly comments that her brother had killed Scotch.

Despite his hatred toward Akai, it doesn't seem like he is letting it cloud his judgment toward Masumi

==Speculation==
Gin has revealed that Bourbon is as secretive as Vermouth. Bourbon has shown a friendly relationship with Vermouth but not with other members so far. Bourbon even hid some details from Conan. It is possible that Bourbon, as well as Kir, is a member who doesn´t like the Organization. Date himself revealed that Bourbon was the best man at the police academy, and that Bourbon was a gentleman like Takagi, too. Besides, at the end of Takagi´s Kidnapping Case, Bourbon refers to Date as "my friend", which means he had no option but to cut all means of contact with him for his own safety.

== Name origin ==
Tooru Amuro has a [[wikipedia:Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] inspired name. He is named after the main protagonist [[wikipedia:Amuro Ray|'''Amuro''' Ray]], and Amuro's voice actor [[Tohru_Furuya|'''Tohru''' Furuya]].<ref>Sherry's Soliloquy http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/2609-file-793-private-eye/page__view__findpost__p__207297</ref> Amuro is also played by Furuya in the animated series. His real name, Rei Furuya, shares the same source.

==Quotes==
=== General ===
{{cquote|''Well, a child's curiosity and a detective's spirit of inquiry... Do have much in common, after all...''|[[Volume 76|Volume 76, File 799, Page 14]]}}

===Specific===
{{cquote|''As Expected of [[Elena Miyano|Hell Angel's]] daughter... You look very much alike... Pleased to meet you... Bourbon... That's my codename...''|[[Volume 78|File 823]]|said to [[Kaitou Kid|the person]] whom he thought was [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]}}

===Quotes about Rei===
{{cquote|Gin: ''Heh, Always doing as he pleases... that bastard irritates me as usual'' 
Kir: ''Who do you mean?'' 
Gin: ''Like you said, one who you wish only existed in novels. A detective like Sherlock Holmes.''|[[Volume 67|Volume 67, File 8, Pages 13-14: "Silent Clash"]]}}
{{cquote|''Well, it seems you've gained some trust for the time being... You will abide by the promise you made to me, right, Bourbon?''|[[Volume 76|File 800, Pages 15-16: "When Objects Collide"]]|[[Vermouth]] spoke to him on the phone}}

== In other languages ==
=== Rei Furuya ===
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|零 Líng|降谷 Jiànggǔ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|준영 Jun Young|강 Kang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เรย์|ฟุรุยะ}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia | Rei | Furuya }}
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=== Tooru Amuro ===
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|تورو Tōro|أمورو Amōro}}
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|透 Tòu|安室 Ānshì}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Touru|Amuro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Tooru|Amuro}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|기준 Gi Jun|안 Ahn}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Tooru|Amuro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Tooru|Amuro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โทโอรุ|อามุโระ}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Toru|Amuro}}
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=== Bourbon ===
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|バーボン Bābon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|بوربون Bōrbōn}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|波本 Bōběn}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Bourbon/Babon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|버본 Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เบอร์บอน}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Bourbon}}
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== Trivia ==
[[File:Amurocar.PNG‎|thumb|right|150px|Rei's RX-7]]
* Rei is a right-handed person.
* During an 2010 interview with [[Shuichi Ikeda]], Gosho Aoyama said it would be interesting if a character from the [[Black Organization]] was named after [[wikipedia:Amuro Ray|Amuro Ray]] because [[Shuichi Akai]] was named after [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]].<ref>http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__view__findpost__p__235287</ref><ref>http://www.kudonet.info/</ref><ref>http://wnsgur5941.blog.me/80143064942</ref>
*Rei [[Vehicles in Detective Conan#Rei's Mazda RX-7|owns a white RX-7]], the same car as [[Miwako Sato]]. The RX-7 is a reference to the white<ref>The RX-78-2 Gundam itself used to be more white in the original animation, but late in production toy manufacturers requested for it to be more colorful. Although the animation was changed, the dialogue was not changed leading to many references to the original mostly white coloration. One example is Amuro's Zeon nickname the "White Devil".</ref> Gundam that the Mobile Suit Gundam character Amuro Ray piloted, the '''RX-7'''8-2.
* Technically, Rei's first appearence in the anime was in the new opening theme song during the Kaitou Kid special in August 2012.
* His last name “Furuya” (降谷) is written with the Kanji for “descent, precipitate” and “valley”. “Rei” (零) means “zero”. “Amuro” (安室) can be translated as “quiet room”, and “Tōru” (透) means “transparent”.
* Rei Furuya's voice actor, [[Tohru Furuya]], was the former husband of [[Vermouth]]'s voice actress, [[Mami Koyama]].
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==See also==
*[[Characters]]
*[[Public Security Bureau]]
*[[Black Organization]]
*[[Shuichi Akai]]
*[[Subaru Okiya]]
*[[Scar Akai]]
*[[wikipedia:Bourbon whiskey|Bourbon]] (Alcohol)

== References ==
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Rei Furuya

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Detective Reaper: /* Yuya Kazami */

{{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]].}}
{{hatnote|"Furuya" and "Tooru" redirect here. For the voice actor ([[wikipedia:Voice acting in Japan|seiyū]]), see [[Tohru Furuya]].}}

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| name = Rei Furuya
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|降谷零}} (Furuya Rei)
| english-name =
| image = Rei Furuya Profile.jpg
| age = 29
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = Detective Café Poirot worker National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division Agent<ref>[[:File:Postcard2016 40.jpg]]</ref>
| nicknames =Zero ([[Scotch]]) Rei-kun (Childhood nickname) Zero-no-niichan ([[Conan Edogawa|Conan]])
| aliases = Bourbon Tooru Amuro
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_75#Private_Eye|File 793]] Anime: [[Wedding Eve|Episode 667]]
| appearances = {{:Rei Furuya Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 76]]
| cases-solved = 8 (1 as Scar Akai)
| footnotes =
| japanese-voice = [[Tohru Furuya]]<ref>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-08-11/gundam-tohru-furuya-to-play-detective-conan-tohru-amuro</ref>
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{{nihongo|'''Rei Furuya'''|降谷零|Furuya Rei}}, also known as {{nihongo|'''Tooru Amuro'''|安室透|Amuro Tōru}} and {{nihongo|'''Bourbon'''|バーボン|Bābon}}, is a [[Public Security Bureau|National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division]] agent working undercover in the [[Black Organization]] in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a recently dispatched operative who specializes in deduction and intelligence gathering and frequently works with [[Vermouth]]. At present, Rei both poses as a private detective who first appeared as a waiter while helping a client with a case and works as a waiter at Café Poirot and [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s apprentice.

==Background==
Rei's past within the [[Black Organization]] is unknown, but it seems he has been tied to them for a while. He knew [[Shiho Miyano]]'s (now Ai Haibara) parents who died when Shiho was young suggesting that he has some involvement with the Organization since he was a teenager.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> He was the rival of [[Shuichi Akai]] (alias Dai Moroboshi) who was [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]]'s lover at the time.<ref name=824p5/> He had suspected Dai Moroboshi was a spy for the FBI which turned out to be the case.<ref name=824p5/>

Soon after Shuichi Akai's (fake) death, [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] called [[Jodie Starling]] to report that a new member of the Black Organization called Bourbon had been dispatched. Kir said that Bourbon's target was the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano and that Bourbon has excellent information gathering skills and keen insight.<ref name=622p4>Manga Volume 60, File 3, Page 4: "Red, White and Yellow"</ref> Later, Bourbon appears as Tooru Amuro, a free-lance private detective while also maintaining other employments to further his investigating missions, like his part-time job as a waiter at Ristorante Sundayrino. After his introductory case, Amuro begins working part-time at [[Setting#Cafe Poirot|Café Poirot]]. He is currently [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s apprentice and turns out to be a spy infiltrating the Black Organization who works under the [[Public Security Bureau]].

== Personality ==
[[File:Amuro_Personality.jpg|thumb|right|Rei and Ran are happy that Kogoro cracked the code in the [[Detectives' Nocturne]] Case.]]
Rei has a cheerful personality. He is also generous, bringing a plate of sandwiches for the detective agency bought with his money. In more serious situations, he seems to be patient, keeping calm even while others are abusing him. Although somewhat of a "cool type", he does not hide his emotions and is quite expressive. Like other detectives in ''[[Detective Conan]]'', he enjoys presenting his deductions about cases to others. Kogoro calls him "effeminate".

Rei has a darker side. He is manipulative, tricking others into performing certain actions so he can gather information. He favors using psychological traps and catching his enemies offguard. Rei can also be extremely cruel in the pursuit of goals. He planned to run over and hospitalize an elementary school teacher with his car in order to lure out FBI agents, and he would have allowed a suspect destroy his exonerating evidence in order to test Kogoro. Rei alternates between going out of his way to care about the wellbeing others and ignoring them when it is inconvenient. As Scar Akai, he saved Conan at the [[Detective Boys vs. Robber Group|Teito bank heist]], but neglected to inform Ran and Kogoro later when he noticed that Conan might have been kidnapped by a murderer in [[Detectives' Nocturne]].

[[Gin]] says Bourbon has a secretive personality like [[Vermouth]], and that no one can ever guess what he's up to or what he will do.<ref name=703p3/> [[Vodka]] says that Bourbon hates Shuichi Akai even more than Gin does, presumably because Rei thinks that Akai killed Scotch.<ref name=703p3/> Bourbon believes he is the only person capable of killing Akai.<ref name=703p3/> Gin said that if Bourbon found out Akai was alive, he would surely boast that his suspicion was correct.<ref name=703p3/> Gin and Bourbon probably don't get along and they don't seem to communicate with one another.<ref name=703p3/> 
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== Appearance ==
[[File:Low res Amuro colored.PNG|thumb|left|125px|Colored drawing by Gosho Aoyama]]
Rei is a good-looking man (claimed by [[Sonoko]] and [[Ayumi]]) with dark skin, lighter than, but closer to [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]'s color and has brown hair <ref> "Lets Talk with Gosho Day 2014" : Amuro-san’s white hair… is that dyed? Aah.Rather than white it’s brown. I can’t answer this. His dark skin too, there is a profound meaning behind it. (laughs) </ref> He wears glasses at first, but it is unknown if he actually needs them because he was using them to conceal his identity at the time and takes them off midway through the case and has not had them on since. Unlike other Black Organization members, he dresses mostly casually and sometimes wears outfits with only a little black, suggesting that he is an undercover of the Black Organization.
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== Abilities ==
=== Deduction and intelligence ===
Rei is a good detective with excellent information gathering skills. Although, since Rei is undercover as Kogoro's apprentice, he hasn't shown his real deduction skills, which is his specialty in the Black Organization. His friend, [[Wataru Date]], said Rei was the smartest student at the police academy.<ref name=807p11>Manga [[Volume 77]], File 1 (807), pg 11: "The Strongest Senpai"</ref>

=== Driving ===
Rei is a capable driver, capable of precisely swinging his car in front of another during a high speed car chase in order to stop it with a controlled collision.

=== Tennis ===
Rei is an excellent tennis player. He claimed he was a junior champion in middle school, but quit after he injured his shoulder.<ref name=825p7>Manga Volume 78, File 8 (825), pg 7: "Special Coach"</ref> He offered to tutor [[Sonoko]] who had surpassed her teammates and friends.

=== First aid ===
When Conan received a concussion from an errant tennis racket, Rei "carried out the procedures pretty efficiently" before the doctor even arrived.<ref name=825p11>Manga Volume 78, File 8 (825), pg 11: "Special Coach"</ref>

=== Lockpicking ===
Rei seems to carry lockpicks with him and was able to lockpick a door fairly quickly. He claimed he learned it from a friend in a security company.<ref name=825p15>Manga Volume 78, File 8 (825), pg 15: "Special Coach"</ref> Japan's law prohibits possession of any lock picking tools and carries a penalty of one year imprisonment or a 500,000 yen fine.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Japan Possession of Lock-picking Tools Act
|url=http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E6%AE%8A%E9%96%8B%E9%8C%A0%E7%94%A8%E5%85%B7%E3%81%AE%E6%89%80%E6%8C%81%E3%81%AE%E7%A6%81%E6%AD%A2%E7%AD%89%E3%81%AB%E9%96%A2%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E6%B3%95%E5%BE%8B}}</ref>

=== Martial arts ===
Rei is good at boxing,<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__view__findpost__p__287218 青山剛昌先生と話そうDAY] (Let's talk with Aoyama Gosho-sensei day), held January 3, 2013 安室はボクシングをしている。 (Amuro is doing boxing.)</ref> shown when a single punch to an attacker's gut causes him to spray blood from the mouth and collapse.<ref name=843p15>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 4 (843), pg 15: "A parcel for Kudo-samakata"</ref> Rei also likely knows some [[Wikipedia:Jujutsu|Jujutsu]] from his time in police academy; Jujutsu is routinely taught to Tokyo police officers to aid in suspect immobilization and arrest. [[Wataru Date]] said Rei was the strongest student at the police academy.<ref name=807p11/>

== Appellations ==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Amuro-san Bourbon Amuro-no-niichan<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 5, pg 7</ref> Zero-no-niichan<ref>[[Volume 84|Volume 84, File 890, Page 6]]</ref>|Conan-kun Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')<ref name="78f10">[[Volume 78]], File 10</ref> Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Amuro-san Detective-san (''Tantei-san'')<ref name="file820">[[volume 78#Mystery Train|File 820 (Volume 78)]]</ref>|Ran-san}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Amuro-kun Tooru<ref name="file888">[[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|File 888 (Volume 84)]]</ref>|Mouri-sensei Sensei Great Detective Mouri (''Mouri-meitantei'')<ref name="78f10" /> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')<ref name="78f10" />}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Bourbon Amuro Tooru}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Amuro-san}}
{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Detective Guy (''Tantei-no-niichan'') Amuro-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Detective-san (''Tantei-san'')|Ayumi-chan}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Amuro-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref>|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|Scotch|Furuya<ref name="file954">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 954: Sanction of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Zero (although the kanji for Rei was used, the special reading was Zero)<ref name="file954" />|Scotch<ref name="file937">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Your brother]]'s friend (''kimi no ani no yūjin''; talking to [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]])<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Amuro-kun<ref name="m20" /> Bourbon<ref name="file897">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|File 897 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Amuro Tooru-kun<ref name="file897" /> Zero<ref name="file897" /> Furuya Rei-kun<ref name="file897" /> Wolf (''ōkami'')<ref name="file897" />|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<ref name=824p5/> Your brother (''Kimi no ani''; talking to [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]])<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|That man (''ano otoko'')<ref name="file898" />|Okiya-san<ref name="file955" /> Okiya Subaru<ref name="file955" /> Okiya Subaru-san<ref name="file895">[[Volume 85|File 895 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file895" />}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Amuro Tooru<ref name="file898">[[Volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Bourbon<ref name="file898" />|FBI}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|Amuro Tooru<ref name="file898" /> Bourbon|German (''Deutsch-kei'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Amuro-kun Café Detective (''Kissaten Tantei'')<ref name="file937" />|}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|My friend}}

{{appellations|Jinpei Matsuda|-|Matsuda<ref name="m20" />}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Bourbon|Kir}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Amuro-san<ref name="file955" /> Amuro Tooru-san<ref name="file955" />}}

{{appellations|Yuya Kazami|file=Yuya Kazami.jpg|Furuya-san|Kazami}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|The Boss|-|Boss}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum}}

{{appellations|Gin|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Bourbon|Vermouth}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Elena Miyano|Rei-kun|Hell Angel}}

{{appellations|Rikumichi Kusuda|-|Kusuda Rikumichi<ref name="file888">[[Volume 84#Tea Poisoning Murder Case|File 888 (Volume 84)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|-|Pisco<ref name="85f2">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|Volume 85, File 2]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Shiho Miyano|-|Hell Angel's Daughter}}

{{appellations|Curaçao|Bourbon|Curaçao That Woman (''Ano onna'')}}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Rei}}
{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Amuro-san<ref name="file936" /> This good-looking guy (''kono ikemen''; first time)<ref name="file820" />|Sonoko-san}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|-|Kudo Yusaku<ref name="file895" />}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|-|Okino Yoko-san<ref name="file936" /> Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Amuro-san|Azusa-san<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Amuro-san<ref name="file937" />}}

{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}
</tabs>

==Mission==
Bourbon's primary mission was to search for the escaped scientist [[Shiho Miyano]], which the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spy [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] heard about and informed the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] of. He also had a second secret mission fueled by his hunch that his archenemy Shuichi Akai should not have died so easily;<ref name=703p3>Manga [[Volume 67]], File 7, page 3: "The Truth Amidst the Snowstorm"</ref> he received the [[Anokata|boss]]'s permission to verify Shuichi's death. He approached the FBI as [[Scar Akai|an Shuichi lookalike]] by using [[Vermouth]]'s disguise help hoping to see if Akai was truly dead.<ref name=824p7>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824), pg 7: "Final Destination"</ref> He later apprenticed himself to [[Kogoro Mouri]] because Bourbon suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] and assumed that Sherry planted it.)

Currently, Bourbon thinks Shiho has been killed,<ref name=824p12>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824), pg 12: "Final Destination"</ref> and had come to believe Shuichi was dead as well until a suspicious man shrouded by smoke threw a grenade by him on the [[Volume_78#Mystery_Train|Mystery Express]].<ref name=824p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824), pg 16: "Final Destination"</ref> The sighting caused Bourbon to second guess himself and request that Vermouth show him the detailed files from before and after Shuichi's death again.<ref name=824p16/> Bourbon has also decided to continue as Kogoro's apprentice because he noticed [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] is the real brains behind "Sleeping Kogoro" and is curious.<ref name=827p16/>

One of the most important missions of Bourbon, however, is implied that he infiltrates and undermines the Black Organization like Kir. Shuichi Akai has revealed that Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to [[Anokata]], boss of the organization.

== Plot overview ==
{{main|Rei Furuya timeline}}

===Childhood===
When Rei was a child he got in fights with other children. When this happened he would get bandaged up by Elena Miyano. At one point she told him that she had to move far away and would not be able to bandage him up again. As a child Rei had the nickname "Zero".

=== National Police Association ===

=== Black Organization ===
==== With Scotch ====
[[Shuichi Akai]] (Rye), Rei Furuya (Bourbon), and [[Scotch]] were all members of the [[Black Organization]] at a point four years ago. Between four years ago and two years ago, Shuichi was found by Rei, standing over Scotch's dead body holding a smoking gun. Ever since then Rei has blamed Shuichi and has sought out to kill him.

==== Scar Akai ====
{{main|Scar Akai}}[[File:Scar Akai.jpg|right]]
Before Rei Furuya appeared as Tooru Amuro, he disguised as [[Scar Akai|Shuichi with a large burn]] with [[Vermouth]]'s help. In this disguise, he approached the close friends of [[Shuichi Akai]] to gauge whether he was truly dead. Rei first used the disguise to approach [[Jodie Starling]] at [[Teito Bank]], then [[Andre Camel]] at [[Beika Department Store]], he also sends Kogoro a text message on his deduction of the current case using a borrowed phone from a bystander. Whether he did this out of concern for the hostages or his own well being is not mentioned.
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==== Tooru Amuro ====
[[File:Amuro_abuse.jpg|thumb|right|Amuro gets knocked over by a case suspect]]
After that Rei Furuya appeared as a private investigator on a case, where he runs into Kogoro and Conan. Through this interaction he became Kogoro's apprentice and monitored his actions by working at the Poirot Cafe below the Detective Agency. During this monitoring, he saw a video of [[Shiho Miyano]] with a Mystery Train Pass ring, resulting in a [[Black Organization]] attack in an attempt to kill her on the train. Later, through information gathered from Jodie, Takagi, and Camel, he managed to discover the truth behind Shuichi Akai's death. Now that he knows that knows he is alive, he wishes to kill Shuichi himself as a way of getting revenge for Shuichi killing [[Scotch]].
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==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

=== Episode 813: [[The Shadow Approaching Amuro]] ===
This episode will be a pre-story to [[The Darkest Nightmare|Movie 20]]

=== Movie 20: [[The Darkest Nightmare]] ===

== Hints that Tooru Amuro was Bourbon ==
* The character Tooru Amuro is named after, Amuro Ray, is the mortal enemy of the character [[Shuichi Akai]] is named after, Char Aznable.
* He is a detective and very skilled at information gathering as Kir described.
* He is male as the codename Bourbon implies. The [[Black Organization]] codename pattern is that hard liquors are used for men's codenames, and [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] used a male specific pronoun to refer to Bourbon in the [[Volume_67#Department_Store_Bomber_Case|Department Store Bomber Case]].<ref name=703p3elab>Manga Volume 67, File 7, page 3: "The Truth Amidst the Snowstorm" Kir uses the masculine only term "kare" (彼) to refer to Bourbon instead of a gender neutral term.</ref>
* He has a type of personality [[Gin]] would not like. Gin thinks Bourbon is irritating.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8, pages 13-14: "Silent Clash"</ref>
* When Rei offers Kogoro an unknown "tuition" per case Kogoro brings him on, the amount he offers is enough to get Kogoro excited and accept Rei as an apprentice without hesitation. This is strange because Rei would not be expected to have much money because he is young, lacks a formal agency, and works part time at restaurants in one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in.
* Unlike other detectives so far, Rei is a calculating type who chose avoidable courses of action (or non-action) that may have resulted in harm to others if things had gone slightly differently. In his introductory case, Rei doesn't intervene when a suspect he knows to be innocent is half a step from destroying his exonerating evidence because it seems Rei was testing Kogoro. Later, Rei noticed that Conan was alone with a murderer and considered that Conan might have been kidnapped, yet said nothing about it until others realized Conan and the murder suspect were gone.
* The timing of Bourbon's report to [[Vermouth]] about [[Volume_77#Cabin_Trap|Shiho's appearance at Gunma]] suggested Rei was Bourbon. The other two Bourbon suspects, [[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]] and [[Masumi]], both had seen Haibara and were suspicious of her long before Bourbon reported Shiho to Vermouth, but the video from Gunma was the first time Rei had seen an image of Shiho or Haibara. Subaru had met Haibara in person in his [[Volume_60#Red.2C_White.2C_and_Yellow_Case|first appearance case]] and multiple times afterward. Masumi had obtained a picture of Haibara via a reflection from Agasa's glasses in the [[Volume_74#Target_on_Tape|Ayumi kidnapping case]]. Both of them should have reported to Vermouth if they were Bourbon soon after their respective encounters.
* He completely cut off communication with his close friend [[Wataru Date]]. A complete cutoff would not be necessary if Rei worked for a non-secret organization like the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District. It is more sensible that Rei was trying to protect Date from any potential dangers associated with infiltrating the Black Organization as a member of the National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division.
* Rei kept a bug detector with him - only Organization members have been shown to do this, while normal detectives like Conan do not.
* In 793, the first case in which appears Rei, the detective Sanji Haruoka order to the waiter (Rei himself) to bring him the Bourbon with ice.
* Amuro is the most likely suspect of the three (Subaru, Masumi, Amuro) to be Bourbon via the process of elimination. Subaru Okiya is not Bourbon, as Conan, who is normally a very careful person, invites him to stay as his Shinichi's home. If Subaru was someone that Conan did not know, it would be very unlikely that Conan would let him live in the Kudo's house and near Haibara (Sherry). Masumi Sera who looks like Shuichi Akai, is most likely a relative of the FBI agent and thus not an enemy. She also knew Conan was Shinichi, and thus must have deduced that shrinking was possible. Despite knowing this, Haibara was not threatened until her adult form was captured on video prior to the mystery train case.
* Of the three major suspects, only Amuro isn't particularly interested in Conan at first. Instead he kisses up to Kogoro. There was no reason for a member of the Black Organization to care about Conan since all the blame for Conan's prior meddling has fallen on Sherry, Kogoro, the FBI, or an unknown person. The other two suspects, Subaru and Masumi, either were interested in or knew Conan's true identity from the outset.


=== Hints that Scar Akai was Tooru Amuro/Bourbon ===
[[File:Scar_Akai.jpg|right]]
:''For the former theory, please see [[Scar Akai is Bourbon Theory]]'' 
While [[Scar Akai]] was played by Vermouth during the last appearance on the train, Bourbon had been Scar Akai during the three earlier appearances at [[Detective Boys vs. Robber Group|Teito Bank]], [[The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen|Beika Department Store]], and outside [[Volume_76#Domestic_Violence|Mouri Detective Agency]].<ref>Manga File 824, pg 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> The evidence that Rei being Scar Akai these times was:
* In Scar Akai's appearance at the Beika Dept. Store, Rei was the only known Black Organization operative not seen at the same time time as Scar Akai. Gin began discussing Bourbon with Kir after seeing this Scar Akai. 
* Rei was absent from his job at the Poirot when Scar Akai appeared outside the detective agency where Masumi was walking with Ran. This also notable because this occurred right after Masumi and Rei met and Rei found out Masumi was friends with Ran.
* In Scar Akai's appearances at the Teito Bank case, the Beika Dept Store, and outside Mouri Detective Agency, he never spoke in front of anyone who would know Shuichi's real voice, suggesting that this Scar Akai could not imitate voices like Vermouth.
* Rei is right-handed like Scar Akai.
* He has the right body size, face shape, and height to disguise as Scar Akai.
* He has an interest in the Mouri Detective Agency which makes sense because [[Scar_Akai_is_Bourbon_Theory#Bourbon.27s_investigation-_He_suspects_Kir_is_a_traitor.|Scar Akai saw fit to keep Kogoro's cellphone number with him]].
* Rei's hypothetical disguise suggestion in 795, a knit cap and long windbreaker, are articles of clothing Shuichi Akai and Scar Akai wear respectively.
=== Hints that Tooru Amuro was a NPA undercover agent ===
* Tooru attended police academy and was close friends with police officer [[Wataru Date]]. Amuro cut off contact with Date to protect him from the Black Organization's investigation while infiltrating. Tooru later paid his respects at the grave of detective Wataru Date.<ref>Manga Volume 77, File 808, Page 16: "The Late Grave Visit"</ref>
* Tooru reacted negatively to the presence of the FBI investigating illegally in Japan. He told them to "get out of his Japan" because they were infringing on his and the PSB's jurisdiction.

* Tooru was able to amass a number of assistants to help him capture the person he thought was Shuichi Akai despite not having the backing of the Black Organization with his plan. The assistants were members of the National Police Agency Security Bureau Security Planning Division.

==Relationships analysis==
===Family & Friends===
====Wataru Date====
[[File:Amuro deletes message.jpg|thumb|right|125px|Amuro deleting Date's message.]]
[[Wataru Date]] and Rei Furuya were friends in the police academy; Rei was the top ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else and fell out of contact with Date for unknown reasons. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. Rei was shown visiting Date's grave, and likely left a toothpick out of respect for Date; Date used them habitually.
Date had called Rei for a gentleman like detective Takagi.
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==== Jinpei Matsuda ====
It has not been specified in manga about the relationship between Rei and Matsuda. However, in movie 20, [[The Darkest Nightmare]] Matsuda was recounted by Rei to be his friend in the police academy.

====Conan Edogawa====
Rei seems to respect [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s intelligence and also seems to look out for Conan as well. He wound up protecting Conan while disguised as [[Scar Akai]] at the Teito Bank, and as Rei helped Conan get out of a kidnapping situation and doctored him when Conan took a racket to the head. Before knowing he was Bourbon, Conan was generally friendly towards Rei. After the events of the Bell Tree Express, dealing with Rei hanging around has become awkward for Conan especially because he worries for Ran's safety around a member of the Black Organization.

Although his mission concerning Sherry is over, Rei has decided to investigate Conan. Rei seems to know that Conan is using Mouri Kogoro as a puppet for his deductions. He also overheard a conversation between Jodie and Conan about how Conan helped the FBI fight the Black Organization while [[Kir]] was at Haido Central Hospital. He comments that Conan is a terrifying man.

During the Teacher Assault Case, Conan indirectly asks Rei if he is undercover in the Black Organization, whispering, "You are an enemy, right? Of the bad guys..." unaware that Rei was wearing a wire at the time, monitored by Vermouth. To throw off suspicion, Rei assures Conan in a very threatening manner that Conan was mistaken. After the Scarlet Showdown, however, Conan approaches Rei in Poirot Cafe and calls him a liar. Rei returns the favor, the two of them exchanging knowing smiles.

====Kogoro Mouri====
[[File:名侦探柯南-第679集000347.jpg|thumb|right|Amuro wants to go on a case with Kogoro.]]
Rei tends to act ingratiating whenever [[Kogoro Mouri]] is around, and is especially fawning over his "Mouri-sensei". Kogoro is alternatively flattered by Rei's praise and annoyed with his effusive personality. Overall Kogoro tends to treat Rei flippantly despite being paid a handsome sum for the apprenticeship. When among members of the Black Organization, Rei doesn't speak too badly of Kogoro despite Kogoro's obvious incompetence. Rei is becoming more skilled at herding Kogoro through cases without having the older man realize that Rei is a far superior detective and is manipulating him for information.
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====Yuya Kazami====
[[File:Yuya Kazami.jpg|thumb|right|Officer Kazami]]
Yuya Kazami is a Rei's direct subordinate who first appeared in the movie 20,''[[The Darkest Nightmare]]''. However, recently, he has officially appeared in manga, Chapter 998, as Rei's subordinate as well.
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===Black Organization===

====Scotch====
Scotch was an undercover agent, who got killed on duty. He was aware of Rei's true identity, and Rei most likely was aware of Scotch's. His death appears to be caused by Shuichi Akai, which is the reason behind Rei's vendetta against him.

====Shuichi Akai====
Rei has a deep-seeded hatred for [[Shuichi Akai]], because he thinks that Shuichi is responsible for the death of [[Scotch]]. Rei believes he is the only one capable of killing Shuichi.<ref name=703p3/>

====Vermouth====
[[File:783-6.jpg|thumb|Vermouth threatens Bourbon for holding hostage a critical secret of hers as insurance.]]

[[Vermouth]] and Bourbon keep close contact with one another, and seem to be closer to one another than, say, Bourbon and Gin. Bourbon specializes in intelligence gathering, so he likely belongs to the same [[Black_Organization#Organization_structure_and_divisions|reconnaissance division of the Black Organization]] as Vermouth. While it is still uncertain whether Bourbon is working directly under Vermouth, she seems to keep track of his actions during his missions at times,<ref>[[Detectives' Nocturne]]</ref> and he also often informs her about his discoveries or his future plans.<ref>[[Volume 78|File 818]] (Bourbon was said to have told Vermouth about Sherry's video); [[Volume 78|File 827]] (Bourbon tells Vermouth that he is now interested in "Sleeping Kogoro")</ref> Vermouth helped Bourbon create a [[Scar Akai|disguise]] that looked like Akai so he can investigate his enemy's death. Later, she somehow helped him approach [[Kogoro]] because he suspected that the detective was in contact with [[Sherry]]. Bourbon made an unknown promise to Vermouth (in File 955, it was revealed that Bourbon promised Vermouth to not let any harm comes to Conan and Ran no matter what happens.) , and she calls to ask him if he will be upholding it after the car chase in [[Detectives' Nocturne]]. 

The two have shown to be working together, not unlike Gin and Vodka, though the bond and trust between them are somewhat lacking. In addition to Bourbon's promise to Vermouth, he is also aware of her secret relationship to the Boss/Anokata, as noted at the end of the Scarlet Showdown. Bourbon utilizes this information to enlist Vermouth's assistance in his investigations, arranging for her secret to be released to the other members of the Organization. Vermouth threaten to kill him if he decide to reveal it to the organization although decide not to after he told her that her secret will be leaked to the organization if he dies.

==== Elena Miyano ====
Rei was probably close with [[Elena Miyano]] as a child before she died. Elena would doctor Rei after he got into fights. She is also aware of his true name, calling him "Rei-kun."

====Gin====
[[Gin]] dislikes Bourbon's personality and finds him annoying for being secretive and always doing what he pleases. At the same time, Gin respects Bourbon's detective abilities. The two do not seem to be in contact with one another, as Gin has no idea what Bourbon is doing.

====Akemi Miyano====
[[Akemi Miyano]] and Rei seem to have met at some point because Akemi told Shiho that Bourbon has a rivalry with Akai.

====Shiho Miyano====
Rei doesn't seem to have any hostility towards [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] unlike other Black Organization members. He attempted to capture the person he thought was her alive instead of trying to kill her, regretting he might have to resort to violence to do so. Rei says he had met Elena and Atsushi Miyano while they were alive. Rei does not know Shiho is [[Ai Haibara|Ai]]. During a car chase in [[Detectives' Nocturne‎]], Shiho gets a strong feeling that member of the Black Organization was behind her, but she doesn't seem to pinpoint it to Rei's pursuing [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Mazda_RX-7_2|Mazda FD RX-7]].

===Others===
====Masumi Sera====
Rei first saw [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] at a train station four years ago. He approached Scotch while he was teaching Masumi several notes on a base guitar. It is unknown whether he saw that she was connected to Shuichi at that time.

Much later when Conan gets kidnapped by a murderer they cross each other's path again. After both of them save Conan, he becomes very surprised to see her and wonders "Why is she here" and presumably notices that she looks similar to Shuichi Akai. The next day Rei takes the day off from his job at Poirot cafe. In order to confirm his theory, Rei once again disguised himself as [[Scar Akai]] in order to gauge her reaction. Suddenly, Masumi sees him in the crowd ahead and just like Jodie and Camel before her, Masumi becomes just as shocked by his appearance. She runs after him, but he disappears before she can catch him. Ran wonders who Masumi was chasing, but Masumi replies she thought it was someone she knew. Masumi silently appends in her mind that it would be impossible for the man she was chasing to be the person she thinks it was. While Rei watches her from a little ahead, confirming his suspicion that Masumi is related to Akai.

During another case, Masumi recalls a time that she saw her brother in a train station four years ago with a man called Scotch taught her several notes of base guitar. Another man wearing a hat that blocked his face had approached them. Masumi believes that this man must have been Rei, however each time she asks him if they have met, he avoids the question. When she announces aloud that her brother's name is [[Shuichi Akai]], Rei inwardly comments that her brother had killed Scotch.

Despite his hatred toward Akai, it doesn't seem like he is letting it cloud his judgment toward Masumi

==Speculation==
Gin has revealed that Bourbon is as secretive as Vermouth. Bourbon has shown a friendly relationship with Vermouth but not with other members so far. Bourbon even hid some details from Conan. It is possible that Bourbon, as well as Kir, is a member who doesn´t like the Organization. Date himself revealed that Bourbon was the best man at the police academy, and that Bourbon was a gentleman like Takagi, too. Besides, at the end of Takagi´s Kidnapping Case, Bourbon refers to Date as "my friend", which means he had no option but to cut all means of contact with him for his own safety.

== Name origin ==
Tooru Amuro has a [[wikipedia:Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]] inspired name. He is named after the main protagonist [[wikipedia:Amuro Ray|'''Amuro''' Ray]], and Amuro's voice actor [[Tohru_Furuya|'''Tohru''' Furuya]].<ref>Sherry's Soliloquy http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/2609-file-793-private-eye/page__view__findpost__p__207297</ref> Amuro is also played by Furuya in the animated series. His real name, Rei Furuya, shares the same source.

==Quotes==
=== General ===
{{cquote|''Well, a child's curiosity and a detective's spirit of inquiry... Do have much in common, after all...''|[[Volume 76|Volume 76, File 799, Page 14]]}}

===Specific===
{{cquote|''As Expected of [[Elena Miyano|Hell Angel's]] daughter... You look very much alike... Pleased to meet you... Bourbon... That's my codename...''|[[Volume 78|File 823]]|said to [[Kaitou Kid|the person]] whom he thought was [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]}}

===Quotes about Rei===
{{cquote|Gin: ''Heh, Always doing as he pleases... that bastard irritates me as usual'' 
Kir: ''Who do you mean?'' 
Gin: ''Like you said, one who you wish only existed in novels. A detective like Sherlock Holmes.''|[[Volume 67|Volume 67, File 8, Pages 13-14: "Silent Clash"]]}}
{{cquote|''Well, it seems you've gained some trust for the time being... You will abide by the promise you made to me, right, Bourbon?''|[[Volume 76|File 800, Pages 15-16: "When Objects Collide"]]|[[Vermouth]] spoke to him on the phone}}

== In other languages ==
=== Rei Furuya ===
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|零 Rei|降谷 Furuya}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|零 Líng|降谷 Jiànggǔ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|준영 Jun Young|강 Kang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เรย์|ฟุรุยะ}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia | Rei | Furuya }}
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=== Tooru Amuro ===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|透 Tōru|安室 Amuro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|تورو Tōro|أمورو Amōro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Toru|Amuro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|透 Tòu|安室 Ānshì}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Touru|Amuro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Tooru|Amuro}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|기준 Gi Jun|안 Ahn}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Tooru|Amuro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Tooru|Amuro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โทโอรุ|อามุโระ}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Toru|Amuro}}
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=== Bourbon ===
{{BeginTable OtherLang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|バーボン Bābon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arabic|Arabic|بوربون Bōrbōn}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|波本 Bōběn}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Bourbon/Babon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|버본 Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Bourbon}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เบอร์บอน}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Bourbon}}
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== Trivia ==
[[File:Amurocar.PNG‎|thumb|right|150px|Rei's RX-7]]
* Rei is a right-handed person.
* During an 2010 interview with [[Shuichi Ikeda]], Gosho Aoyama said it would be interesting if a character from the [[Black Organization]] was named after [[wikipedia:Amuro Ray|Amuro Ray]] because [[Shuichi Akai]] was named after [[wikipedia:Char Aznable|Char Aznable]].<ref>http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__view__findpost__p__235287</ref><ref>http://www.kudonet.info/</ref><ref>http://wnsgur5941.blog.me/80143064942</ref>
*Rei [[Vehicles in Detective Conan#Rei's Mazda RX-7|owns a white RX-7]], the same car as [[Miwako Sato]]. The RX-7 is a reference to the white<ref>The RX-78-2 Gundam itself used to be more white in the original animation, but late in production toy manufacturers requested for it to be more colorful. Although the animation was changed, the dialogue was not changed leading to many references to the original mostly white coloration. One example is Amuro's Zeon nickname the "White Devil".</ref> Gundam that the Mobile Suit Gundam character Amuro Ray piloted, the '''RX-7'''8-2.
* Technically, Rei's first appearence in the anime was in the new opening theme song during the Kaitou Kid special in August 2012.
* His last name “Furuya” (降谷) is written with the Kanji for “descent, precipitate” and “valley”. “Rei” (零) means “zero”. “Amuro” (安室) can be translated as “quiet room”, and “Tōru” (透) means “transparent”.
* Rei Furuya's voice actor, [[Tohru Furuya]], was the former husband of [[Vermouth]]'s voice actress, [[Mami Koyama]].
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==See also==
*[[Characters]]
*[[Public Security Bureau]]
*[[Black Organization]]
*[[Shuichi Akai]]
*[[Subaru Okiya]]
*[[Scar Akai]]
*[[wikipedia:Bourbon whiskey|Bourbon]] (Alcohol)

== References ==
<references />

{{Black Organization}}
{{Japanese Intelligence Agencies}}
{{police}}
{{Characters}}

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[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Detectives]]
[[Category:Private Detectives]]
[[Category:Characters named after their voice actors]]
[[Category:Characters named after Mobile Suit Gundam characters]]
[[Category:Martial artists]]
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Collectibles

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== Blu-ray ==

{{BeginTable Collectible|watchable=yes}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Blu-ray|Japan|Japanese Blu-ray|Japanese|November 25, 2009|November 21, 2012|movies=19|seasons=0|collections=0|others=1|20}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Blu-ray|Germany|German Blu-ray|German|May 13, 2011|September 25, 2015|movies=5|seasons=0|collections=0|others=0|5}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Blu-ray|Italy|Italian Blu-ray|Italian|?|?|movies=?|seasons=?|collections=?|others=?|?}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Blu-ray|Thailand|Thai Blu-ray|Thai|?|?|movies=?|seasons=?|collections=?|others=?|?}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Blu-ray|Republic of China|Traditional Chinese Blu-ray|Traditional Chinese|December 17, 2010|January 6, 2012|movies=15|seasons=0|collections=0|others=0|15}}
{{EndTable}}

== DVDs ==

{{BeginTable Collectible|watchable=yes}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|Japan|Japanese DVDs|Japanese|October 25, 2000|June 29, 2012|movies=19|seasons=169|collections=30|others=19|237}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|US|English DVDs|English|August 24, 2004|March 23, 2010|movies=7|seasons=18|collections=10|others=1|36}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|Galicia|Galician DVDs|Galician|April 17, 2008|?|movies=?|seasons=?|collections=?|others=?|?}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|Germany|German DVDs|German|March 21, 2005|September 25, 2015|movies=18|seasons=9|collections=0|others=0|27}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|France|French DVDs|French|June 23, 2005|October 28, 2009|movies=5|seasons=?|collections=?|others=?|?}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|Italy|Italian DVDs|Italian|?|?|movies=?|seasons=?|collections=?|others=?|?}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|Spain|Spanish DVDs|Spanish|?|?|movies=?|seasons=?|collections=?|others=?|?}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|DVD|Thailand|Thai DVDs|Thai|?|2014|movies=?|seasons=?|collections=?|others=?|?}}

{{EndTable}}

== VHS Tapes ==

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

{{BeginTable Collectible|watchable=yes}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|Laserdisc|Japan|Japanese Laserdisc|Japanese Laserdisc|June 26, 1996|December 22, 1999|movies=3|seasons=36|collections=0|others=1|40}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|GBA|Japan|Gameboy Advance Video|Japanese GBA Video|November 20, 2003|March 25, 2004|movies=0|seasons=0|collections=14|others=0|14}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|VCD|Thailand|Thai VCDs|Thai VCDs|}}
{{CollectibleItem|watchable=yes|playstation network|US|Thai VCD|Playstation Network, iTunes, Xbox Live|April 16th 2013|TBA|movies=0|seasons=5|collections=5|others=0|14}}
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== Detective Conan Manga ==
{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Japan|Japanese Manga|Japanese|June 18, 1994|July 18, 2017|93}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Spain|Catalan Manga|Catalan|October 2004|July 2008|8}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Belgium|Dutch Manga|Dutch|July 11, 2007|September 1, 2010|13}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|US|English Manga|English|September 7, 2004|Oct 11, 2016|60}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Singapore|English Manga (Shogakukan Asia)|English|June 6, 2014|June 6, 2014|2}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Finland|Finnish Manga|Finnish|September 15, 2004|September 26, 2012|73}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|France|French Manga|French|April 5, 1997|December 2, 2016|87}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Germany|German Manga|German|November 15, 2001|June 29, 2017|91}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Indonesia|Indonesian Manga|Indonesian|January 6, 1997|February 27, 2015|82}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Italy|Italian Manga|Italian (Kabuki Publishing)|January 2003|January 2003|1}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Italy|Italian Manga|Italian (Star Comics)|February 2, 2005|August 2016|86}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Italy|Italian Manga|Italian (Comic Art)|August 1998|November 2000|22 (smaller volumes)<ref>These volumes have a different number of chapters compared to the original version, and they only include the first 147 chapters (which correspond to the first 14 Japanese volumes and the first seven chapters of Japanese volume 15)</ref>|}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|South Korea|Korean Manga|Korean|December 31, 1996|December, 2016|87}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Malaysia|Malaysian Manga |Malay|April 2000|December 2013|78}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Norway|Norwegian Manga|Norwegian|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|China|Chinese Manga (Changchun)|Simplified Chinese|July 2002|October 31, 2013|78}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Malaysia|Chinese Manga (Tora Aman)|Simplified Chinese||July 2014|79}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Singapore|Chinese Manga (Chaung Yi)|Simplified Chinese|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Spain|Spanish Manga|Spanish|May, 1998|July 2015|78}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Sweden|Swedish Manga|Swedish|||}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Thailand|Thai Manga|Thai|?|February 29, 2016 |83}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Republic of China|Chinese Manga (Chingwin)|Traditional Chinese|October 1, 1994|November 25, 2015|86}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Hong Kong|Chinese Manga (Edko)|Traditional Chinese||April 30, 2012|74}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Vietnam|Vietnamese Manga|Vietnamese|2000|Feburary 24, 2017|90}}
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== Detective Conan Special Manga ==
{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Japan|Japanese Special Manga|Japanese|January 28, 1997|December 25, 2014|40}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|China|Chinese Special Manga|Chinese|December 1, 2002|December 1, 2009|34}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Germany|German Special Manga|German|May 15, 2005|March 15, 2008|18}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Italy|Italian Special Manga|Italian|January 24, 2011|November 22, 2012|12}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Malaysia|Malaysian Special Manga|Malay|?|?|34}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Republic of China|Traditional Chinese Special Manga|Traditional Chinese||January 11, 2012|36}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Spain|Spanish Special Manga|Spanish|October 2006|October 2009|31}}
{{CollectibleItem|Special|Vietnam|Vietnamese Special Manga|Vietnamese|2010|August 7, 2015|39}}
{{EndTable}}

== Magic Kaito Manga ==

{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Japan|Japanese Magic Kaito Manga|Japanese|May 15, 1988|March 15, 2007|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|France|French Magic Kaito Manga|France|October 24, 2014|April 3, 2015|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Germany|German Magic Kaito Manga|German|March 15, 2006|August 15, 2008|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Indonesia|Indonesian Magic Kaito Manga|Indonesian|?|?|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Italy|Italian Magic Kaito Manga|Italian|September 19, 2007|December 19, 2007|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Spain|Spanish Magic Kaito Manga|Spanish|May 2004|November 2008|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Thailand|Thai Magic Kaito Manga|Thai|?|?|4}}
{{CollectibleItem|MagicKaito|Vietnam|Vietnamese Magic Kaito Manga|Vietnamese|?|?|4}}
{{EndTable}}

== Novels ==
{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Novel|Japan|Japanese Novels|Japanese|May 15, 2005|June 18, 2012|10}}
{{CollectibleItem|Novel|China|Chinese Novels|Chinese|July 1, 2005|August 1, 2012|7}}
{{CollectibleItem|Novel|Spain|Spanish Novels|Spanish|November 2008|November 2008|2}}
{{CollectibleItem|Novel|Vietnam|Vietnamese Novels|Vietnamese|?|May 4, 2013|9}}
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== Manga compilations and other books ==
{{BeginTable Collectible}}
{{CollectibleItem|Manga|Japan|Shonen Sunday Books and Specials|Shonen Sunday Books and Specials|||1}}
{{CollectibleItem|Book|Japan|Reference Books|Reference Books|May 10, 2001|September 16, 2014|14}}
{{CollectibleItem|Book|Japan|Shogakukan Learning Series|Shogakukan Learning Series|March 20, 2001|June 6, 2012|38}}
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== Toys ==

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

== Miscellaneous ==

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

== References ==

<references/>

[[Category:Collectibles]] [[Category:General Information]]

Shinichi Kudo

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| japanese-name = 工藤新一 (Kudō Shin'ichi)
| english-name = Jimmy Kudo
| name = Shinichi Kudo
| image = Shinichi Kudo Profile.jpg
| age =16-17<ref name=CD41>Conan Drill Page 41</ref><ref name="f2">[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]] - Conan nearly gives his age as "16" before correcting himself and saying "6".</ref><ref name=141p8>Manga Volume 15, File 1, Page 8: "Gone!? ". The reporter gives Shinichi's age as 16.</ref><ref name="e3">[[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case|Episode 003: An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case]] - Shinichi's opening prologue speech refers to him as 17</ref>, 6-7 as Conan<ref>Conan Drill Page 38</ref><ref name="f2" /><ref>[[The Significant Music Box|Episode 194: The Significant Music Box]] - Conan says he is "around 7" years old.</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 174 cm<ref name=CD41 /> (5'8.5")
| weight = Unknown<ref name=CD41/>
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name=CD41/>
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan High School student Detective
| nicknames = Detective Geek Detective of the East The savior of the police force Shin-chan ([[Yukiko Kudo|his mother]]) Silver Bullet ([[Vermouth]]) The Heisei Holmes Cool guy ([[Vermouth]]) The Wizard ([[Masumi Sera]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_1#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Shinichi Kudo Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750{{citation needed}} (as Conan Edogawa) (one case solved by Ran) 60+ (as Shinichi Kudo)
| keyhole = [[Volume 1]] [[Volume 62]] (Shiragami-sama)
| japanese-voice = [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] [[Minami Takayama]] (young)
| english-voice = [[Jerry Jewell]]
| drama-actor = [[Shun Oguri]] (1st) [[Junpei Mizobata]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Shinichi Kudo'''|工藤新一|Kudō Shin'ichi}} is the high school detective protagonist of the manga and anime [[Detective Conan]]. While on a date with his childhood friend and romantic interest [[Ran Mouri]], Shinichi encounters [[Gin|two]] [[Vodka|men]] from a [[Black Organization|secret criminal organization]] who force feed him [[APTX 4869|a strange poison]] that causes his body to shrink back to first grade age. Shinichi takes up the alias '''[[Conan Edogawa]]''' and plans to use his immense skill as a detective to make Ran's [[Kogoro Mouri|bumbling private detective father]] famous in hopes that he will find a case involving the secret organization so he can expose its crimes and acquire an antidote that will turn him back into a teenager.

Viz romanized his original name as ''Shin'ichi Kudo'' while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as ''Shinichi Kudoh''.

== Background ==
Shinichi is a 16-year old<ref name="f2" /><ref>[[Volume_15#File_141_-_Gone.21.3F|Volume 15, File 141, page 12: "Gone!?"]]</ref> (17, according to the anime)<ref name="e3" /> student at [[Setting#Teitan_High_School|Teitan High School]] who has become famous for helping the [[Law_Enforcement#Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police|Tokyo police]] solve murder mysteries. Shinichi was born to [[Yusaku Kudo]], a mystery writer, and [[Yukiko Kudo]], a former movie star.<ref>[[Volume 5#File 049 - An Unfamiliar Visitor|Volume 5, File 49, page 163: "An Unfamiliar Visitor"]]</ref>

He met Ran when he started in kindergarten and spotted strange things that his father figured out were preparations to kidnap Ran. The kidnapping was foiled, and Ran and Shinichi formed a friendship when Shinichi defended her from the bullies.

The story begins when Shinichi takes his childhood friend [[Ran Mouri]] to a theme park, [[Tropical Land]], to celebrate her victory in a recent karate championship. During the course of their visit, Shinichi ends up solving [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|a murder case]]. He separates from Ran to follow a man in black, [[Vodka]], who was blackmailing a company president. He didn't notice when another man in black, [[Gin]], sneak up behind him and knocks him out with a baseball bat. Gin decides to test an experimental untraceable poison, [[APTX 4869]], on Shinichi to ensure that his death couldn't be traced back to them. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurs: his body shrinks into that of his six-year-old self.<ref name="f2" />

[[Image:Conan Edogawa Investigating.jpg|120px|thumb|right|Conan Edogawa, the "small" Shinichi]]
=== Conan Edogawa ===
{{main|Conan Edogawa}}
After escaping from well-meaning but skeptical park security, with nowhere else to go Shinichi runs home. He there encounters into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. He convinces Agasa of his identity and head inside [[Setting#Kudo_Residence|Shinichi's home]] to discuss the next move. Agasa warns him that he must keep his identity secret because the [[Black Organization]] will kill him and others associated with him should they discover the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>

Ran arrives to find out what happened to Shinichi, which forces him to come up with the alias Conan Edogawa from [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Rampo Edogawa|Rampo '''''Edogawa''''']] and he pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's, who places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father [[Kogoro Mouri]] owns a [[Setting#Mouri_Detective_Agency|Detective Agency]], which will allow Conan to run into cases involving the Black Organization. He occasionally uses Kogoro, and Agasa, among others as a mouthpiece to solve crimes while searching for how to get his body back.

In the meantime, to protect his identity he is forced to play the part of a first-year Elementary student, enrolling as a student at [[Teitan Elementary]]. Three of his classmates, [[Ayumi]], [[Genta]], and [[Mitsuhiko]], befriend him and pull him into creating the ''[[Detective Boys]]'', <ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref> after which he tries to keep them out of trouble. Their group is later joined by the creator of APTX 4869, [[Shiho Miyano]], shrunk down and using the alias [[Ai Haibara]].

Although he mostly uses the Conan alias to solve cases, in some (especially emergency) situations, he uses the Voice-Changing Bowtie to call the police using his original, Shinichi's voice and get involved with cases, which allow him to gain the authority that Conan lacks. In the aftermath; however, Shinichi requests his identity not to be revealed to the public, a clear contrast to what his attention-seeking behavior before turning to Conan.
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== Personality ==
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi is already well-known as a brilliant young detective, the "Savior of the police force", for solving many difficult cases the professionals could not.<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]].</ref> He is extremely intelligent, and even from a young age was very intuitive and observant. Due to the influence of his father and the general laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels.<ref name="f569">[[Volume 55#File 569 - The Mischievous Boy|Volume 55, Files 569-572: "The Mischievous Boy"]]</ref> His father, Yusaku started taking Shinichi to crime scenes as a child, which inspired him to be a detective.<ref>[[Volume 21#File 205 - Midair Sealed Chamber|Volume 21, File 205, pages 74-78: "Midair Sealed Chamber"]]</ref> Due to his bluntness and matter-of-fact manner, Shinichi can come off as rude and arrogant. However, he cares deeply about human life, unable to understand how any reason could be sufficient motive for murder,<ref>[[Volume 26#File 258 - Momentary Rest|Volume 26, File 258, page 71: "Momentary Rest"]]</ref> and is convinced that driving a culprit to suicide is no better than murder itself. <ref>[[Volume 16#File 153 - Bonds of Flame|Volume 16, File 153: "Bonds of Flame"]]</ref> The few times he has been too late to save a life haunt him throughout the series.

Prior to his transformation, Shinichi enjoyed being in the spotlight and was rather arrogant, reveling in making local headlines and receiving fan-mail. Throughout the series, Shinichi's predicament causes him to gain a sense of humility. Shinichi still keeps his flair for the dramatic (like his mother) that can be seen every time he sets out a deduction in pieces building to a climax.

Despite his popularity with the masses and his schoolmates, Shinichi has very few close friends. He is close to Ran and Agasa, and after deaging, he befriended Heiji, Haibara, and to some extent the other Detective Boys. Another reason for his lack of close friends was because his arrogant personality was a negative turn-off to many of his classmates and even teachers, making it hard to befriend him. Even with his close friends (one being older than him), Shinichi doesn't hesitate to call them "idiot", instead of calmly explaining his reason for doing or not doing something, sometimes causing arguments between him and Ran.

Shinichi also had a tendency, since elementary school, to have an air of being the "distant, cool guy". While he is a truly good and heroic individual, he doesn't make it known to others that obviously, and will make some "deductive reasoning" for why he did such a thing. His insensitive nature is also horrible, which was shown most prominently during the Holmes' Revelation Arc, when Ran started crying because she believed that Shinichi not telling her he was in London meant that he was indifferent to her feelings for him. However, instead of trying to comfort her, Shinichi repeatedly asked her about the [[Yukiko Kudo|strange woman]] she met, and told her to pull herself together.

Despite his intelligence, Shinichi is rather dense when it comes to love or romantic subjects, though perhaps not to the same extent as [[Heiji Hattori]]. He struggled to confess his love for to Ran, even after he knew her feelings (as Conan), and temporarily returned to his original body in the Desperate Revival Arc, he was about to confess to her, but chickened out at the last minute. After several failures, finally succeeded in [[Holmes' Revelation|London]]. However, he was revealed to be an amazing "wingman" in Episodes 253-254.

== Appearance ==
Shinichi is a 174 cm<ref name=CD41 /> (5'8.5") Japanese teenager with a thin, athletic build. He has pale skin and a dark brown/black hair with a cowlick in front and distinctive tuft in the back. Shinichi bears a striking resemblance to his father, [[Yusaku Kudo]] minus his father's mustache and round glasses. Shinichi has blue eyes in the manga (a trait shared by all the characters), and they are blue in the anime as well.

Shinichi is right handed and right footed, but he is good with both feet because of his soccer skills.

Shinichi often appears in his high school uniform, but he also wears a suit and tie or regular clothing depending on the occasion. When Conan turns back into Shinichi by using [[baijiu]] or a [[temporary antidote]], Shinichi will wear whatever appropriately sized clothing he can find at the time. He was also very popular with the girls as he was handsome not to mention a high school detective.

==Skills==
:''See also: [[Conan Edogawa#Skills|Conan's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
Shinichi is very skilled as a detective, often earning him comparisons to [[Sherlock Holmes]]. Shinichi has acquired various nicknames because of his prowess, such as the "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and the "Detective of the East". He has a keen eye for details, and can spot any unusual aspects in a case that most people tend to ignore or not take into account. In the english version his motto is "Only one truth prevails". He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to recall every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Shinichi's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Shinichi has extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases, something he likely acquired from incessant reading as a child. Only his father [[Yusaku Kudo]], and the current [[Kaitou Kid]], [[Kaito Kuroba]], regularly surpass him.

=== Athletic ability ===
[[File:Shinichi playing soccer 4 years ago.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Shinichi playing soccer in middle school.]]
Besides intelligence, Shinichi also has an amazing athletic ability, partially derived from playing soccer, his favorite sport. Shinichi is an extremely skilled soccer player, having been professionally scouted while only in middle school, but he chooses to stay at the amateur level. He initially played to hone his reflexes and often juggles a ball to clear his mind, but he is also an enthusiastic fan of the sport in its own right.<ref name="e1"/> In order to defend himself and others from criminals, Shinichi has perfected a signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Shinichi's kick is accurate over long distances and he is capable of mentally reckoning the angle of impact necessary to rebound a soccer ball off a wall and strike an attacker from behind. He is also good at skiing and snowboarding.

Aside from soccer, Shinichi exhibits a knack for handling firearms due to his father taking him to shooting ranges from time to time. During the Clocktower Heist, Shinichi is able to shoot and dislodge the support beam of a giant projection screen, which Kaitou Kid had placed in order to fool a crowd of onlookers, with a single shot from a moving helicopter. Additionally, in [[Movie 2]] Conan shot a gun at Ran and the criminal holding her hostage with impeccable accuracy; in doing so, he reminds her of Shinichi.

Shinichi is nimble as well as strong. In the manga, he is capable of considerable acrobatics, jumping great distances and swinging from tree to tree to escape onlookers.<ref>Shiragami case</ref> The anime and movies augment Shinichi's athletic abilities in addition to what is shown in the manga. He has been able to skillfully dodge a kicking assault from an angry Ran, something very few have ever managed.

=== Music ===
Shinichi cannot sing on key in the slightest so he is often accused of being [[Wikipedia:tone deaf|tone deaf]]. Despite being a hilariously awful singer, Shinichi has [[Wikipedia:perfect pitch|perfect pitch]] and can identify notes accurately even in difficult contexts like the sound of phone button presses forming a melody.<ref>[[Volume 15#File 144 - Their Voices Are Alike!?|Volume 15, File 144: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref> Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 ''[[Full Score of Fear]]'' when he played "Amazing Grace" for Ran. However, he is stumped on what Ran meant when she said, "He has a funny habit when he plays." His proficiency with the violin became canon in Episode 836.

=== Language ===
Shinichi is well-educated in English, as he once conversed with and translated for an American diplomat, and later solved a case in London without evidence of any language barrier.<ref>[[Volume 21#File 205 - Midair Sealed Chamber|Volume 21, File 205: "Midair Sealed Chamber"]]</ref><ref name="f743">[[Volume 71#File 743 - Holmes' Apprentice|Volumes 71-72, Files 743-752: "Holmes' Apprentice"]]</ref> Shinichi also knows some German, at least how to count.<ref>[[Genta's Certain Kill Shot]]</ref> Shinichi is not familiar with Italian.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref> Shinichi seems to understand "Girl Writing", due to the fact that he had solved an e-mail cipher of a 2nd year high school girl quickly.<ref>[[Secret of the Russian Blue| Episode 445: Secret of the Russian Blue]]</ref>

==Appellations==
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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Shinichi Shinichi-kun (childhood)<ref name="file921">[[Volume 87#Ran & Shinichi - First Contact|File 921 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Deduction freak Kinichi-kun (one episode) Mystery Geek Deduction Nut Prince of Fools Detective Maniac Kudo-kun<ref>[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper|Movie 1]]</ref> Shinichi-chan (once)|Ran Mouri (-san) (twice during the original Kaitou Kid flashback)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Kudo Shinichi Detective Boy (''Tantei-bōzu'')|Kogoro-san Uncle (''Ojisan'' or ''Otchan'') Detective Mouri (''Mouri-tantei'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Shinichi}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Shinichi-oniisan|Ayumi Ayumi-chan <ref>[[Conan vs. Kid vs. Yaiba - The Grand Battle for the Treasure Sword!!|OVA 1]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Shinichi-oniichan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Shinichi-san|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun|Haibara}}

{{appellations|Shiho Miyano|Kudo-kun|Haibara}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi-kun Shinichi|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'') Professor (''Hakase'')}}
|}
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<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Shinichi}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi|Mom (''Kāsan'')}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo|Hattori}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Kudo-kun|Kazuha (also seen in Conan's thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Shinichi-kun Kudo-kun (sometimes when talking directly to him as seen in the 8th movie)|Sonoko}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Shinichi-san Kudo Shinichi}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Shinichi-kun|Kisaki-san}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun|Sera Sera Masumi (movie introduction)<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|Kudo|Nakamichi}}
|}
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<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Shinichi}}
{{appellations|Gin|Kudo Shinichi Detective<ref>[[Volume 1|'''File 001''': The Heisei Holmes]]</ref> That dead brat<ref>[[Volume 42|Volume 42, File 434, Page 2]]</ref>|Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Brat<ref>[[Volume 42|Volume 42, File 434, Page 2]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Silver Bullet Cool Guy|Vermouth}}

{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi}}
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<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Shinichi}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun<ref>[[Volume 86#Scriptwriter Murder Case|File 908 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Kudo-kun|Inspector Takagi ("Takagi-keiji")}}

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Kudo-kun|Inspector Sato ("Sato-keiji")}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Kudo Shinichi<ref name="blackstar">[[Magic Kaito Volume 4#Black Star|Magic Kaito Chapter 23-24: Black Star]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="blackstar" />}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref> Kudo<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="file898">[[Volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898: Scarlet Epilogue (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Jodie Starling (movie introduction)<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref>[[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case]] (Part 2)</ref>|Okiya Subaru (movie introduction)<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Holmes' Apprentice-kun (''Homuzu no deshi-kun'')<ref name="file 973">[[Volume_92#A_Chance_Meeting_at_the_Beach|File 973 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Akai Shuichi (movie introduction)<ref name="m18" /> Pierrot<ref name="file972">[[Volume_92#A_Chance_Meeting_at_the_Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref> Pierrot Oni-san}}

{{appellations|James Black|-|James Black (movie introduction)<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|Andre Camel (movie introduction)<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|-|Kir Mizunashi Rena [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] staff (''CIA kyokuin''; movie introduction)<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Bourbon Amuro Tooru}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Shinichi}}
{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Akagi Hideo-senshu}}

{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki-san Uemura Naoki}}

{{appellations|Shizuka Hattori|Kudo Shinichi}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
Because the main plot revolves around the fact that Shinichi has become 'Conan' and is forced into hiding, Shinichi is rarely in the series as himself. However, Conan is frequently shown calling Ran using his voice-changing bow tie to sound like Shinichi and sending/receiving text messages from her with "Shinichi's" phone. In these instances, it can be said that the character of Shinichi, albeit in the body of Conan, is appearing, since these phone conversations and text messages allow Shinichi to be himself, however briefly. The below instances however, are actual appearances of Shinichi as well as flashbacks from before the series began.

=== Transformations back into Shinichi ===

==== Roller Coaster Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 1|001-002]], Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|001]])====
[[Image:Shinichi appears.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi appears to correct Hattori's deduction]] Shinichi starts as himself in the Roller coaster murder case, but by the end he has been transformed into Conan, thus beginning the series' plot. Since then, Conan has temporarily turned back to Shinichi several times.

==== Great Detective of the West (Manga: [[Volume 10|092-095]], Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|048-049]])====
Shinichi's next real appearance after shrinking is in [[Volume 10]], when a strange detective from Osaka named [[Heiji Hattori]] arrives at Mouri Detective Agency looking for Shinichi in order to determine which of them is the better detective. A strange combination of having a cold and drinking the [[baijiu]] that Heiji had brought along allows Conan to briefly grow into Shinichi once again.<ref>[[Volume 10#File 092 - The Great Detective Of The West|Volume 10, Files 92-96: "The Great Detective Of The West"]]</ref> However, he develops an immunity to the alcohol and cannot replicate the transformation.

==== The Desperate Revival (Manga: [[Volume 26|254-260]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival|188-193]]) ====
In [[Volume 26]], Conan is able to become Shinichi using an [[Antidote (prototype)]] that [[Ai Haibara]] synthesized. As himself, he tries to surprise Ran by disguising himself as a character in her play, but is interrupted by a murder case and ends up revealing himself to his entire high school. [[Heiji Hattori]] covers for him and Shinichi is able to spend about 48 hours as himself, albeit with a brief collapse about halfway through. He turns back into Conan just as he seems to be about to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 26#File 254 - An Infatuated Heart|Volume 26, Files 254-260: "An Infatuated Heart"]]</ref>

==== The Murderer is Shinichi Kudo (Manga: [[Volume 62|646-651]], Anime: [[Murderer, Shinichi Kudo|521-523]])====
Shinichi's next appearance is not until [[Volume 62]], when, while on a case with Heiji, Conan goes missing and 'Shinichi' seems to appear. The 'Shinichi' is actually someone who had gotten plastic surgery to look like Shinichi Kudo, and is actually trying to blame Shinichi for a murder. The real Shinichi hides in the forest until he can clear his name. Shinichi had been temporarily restored by another of Haibara's prototypes, but this time by accident; Agasa mistakenly gave them to Shinichi thinking they were cold medicine.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 646 - Village of Animosity|Volume 62, Files 646-651: "Village of Animosity"]]</ref> After the case is solved Shinichi transforms back to Conan, but luckily, Haibara secretly followed him there and gives him another antidote, saving him from revealing his identity to Kogoro, Ran and Kazuha. While driving home from the case, the group is stopped by another murder which Shinichi and Heiji investigate together, despite increasing pangs that warn of his imminent reversion to Conan. After the case is resolved, Ran tries to stop Shinichi from leaving, saying she has something to tell him. Shinichi stops her, saying "According to my deductions, what you have to say and what I have to say are the same thing." Ran seizes his hand while he is transforming back into Conan, and though Haibara knocks her out with Conan's wristwatch, she refuses to let go of his hand. Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] have to cut and re-pin Conan's shirt onto him because Ran is still clutching his hand and he refuses to pull out of her grip.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 652 - The Thing She Really Wants to Ask|Volumes 62-63, Files 652-654: "The Thing She Really Wants to Ask"]]</ref>

==== Holmes' Revelation (Manga: [[Volume 71|743-751]], Anime: [[Holmes' Revelation|616-621]])====
In [[Volume 71]], Conan, Ran, and Kogoro are invited to England by a rich, elite British woman, Diana Kingstone, after Kogoro finds her cat under the table in Café Poirot. However, since 'Conan Edogawa' doesn't have the proper credentials to fly internationally, Ai gives him a prototype pill so that Shinichi and Agasa can fly low-profile to England on the same plane that Ran and Kogoro are flying. Ai provides a second prototype pill for the return journey, but Conan uses it while Ran was pursuing him in London. During that trip, Shinichi answers Ran's hurt feelings over his behavior with the fact that he cares for her and that he likes her; unfortunately, before she could respond or confess in kind, Shinichi has to vanish and becomes Conan again. Luckily for Conan, Shinichi's parents appear because Ai had expected him to use the second pill, and they provide him with an extra antidote to let Conan return to Japan. <ref name="f743" />

==== Kyoto School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 94|1000-10??]], Anime: TBD)====

=== Flashback Appearances ===

==== Shinichi's first case (Manga: [[Volume 21|204-207]], Anime: [[The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case|162]])====
One year ago, Shinichi solved his first case by himself on a plane flying to Los Angeles.

==== Golden Apple (Manga: [[Volume 34|350]] and [[Volume 35|351-354]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|286-288]])====
One year ago, Shinichi, [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Yukiko Kudo|his mother]] went to New York City to see the play "Golden Apple". There, they encountered [[Vermouth|Sharron Vineyard]] and [[Shuichi Akai]].

==== Heiji's Memories (Manga: [[Volume 50|518-521]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope|490]])====
During a call to Conan, Heiji talks about a brilliant detective kid he met at a skiing trip during middle school, 3 years ago. That kid was actually Shinichi, who he competed with to solve the mystery.

==== Challenge from the original Kaitou Kid (Manga: [[Volume 55|570-573]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure|472-473]])====
A flashback revealed that 10 years ago, as first-graders, Shinichi and Ran had been given a riddle by the original [[Kaitou Kid]], [[Toichi Kuroba]].

==== Memories of Light Blue (Manga: [[Volume 83|882]] and [[Volume 84|883-884]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo Aquarium Case|772-773]])====
During an aquarium visit with Conan and the Detective Boys, Ran remembers going to the aquarium with Shinichi almost a year ago. After solving a murder case there, it is revealed how Shinichi came to promise Ran [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|their trip to Tropical Land]].

==== Ran GIRL/Shinichi BOY (Manga: [[Volume 87|921-924]], Anime: [[Memories from Sakura Class|853-854]])====
13 years ago Ran and Shinichi meet for the first time in pre-school.

==== Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume_92#A_Chance_Meeting_at_the_Beach|972-974]], Anime: TBD)====
10 years ago Shinichi and Ran encounter the [[Akai family]] at the beach.

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==
=== Transformations back into Shinichi ===
==== Movie 7: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital ====
{{main|Crossroad in the Ancient Capital}}
In Movie 7, Heiji was injured and Kazuha kidnapped; her abductors threatened to kill her unless Heiji showed up for her. Believing Heiji to be unable to do so, Conan contacted Ai and asked if there was any way for him to briefly become Heiji. Ai gave him medicine to simulate the effects of a cold, then he drank some [[Baijiu]] which had changed him in his and Heiji's first manga appearance. Conan became Shinichi for approximately an hour, but according to Ai he was extremely weak and sick for the entire time.

==== OVA 9: The Stranger from Ten Years Later ====
{{main|The Stranger from Ten Years Later}}
In OVA 9, Conan takes another prototype antidote. However, it proves less effective than the prototype he used during the Desperate Revival arc; Conan became Shinichi, but only for a few hours, and remained in a feverish state, unable to wake up until he had reverted back to Conan. During his time unconscious, he had a vivid hallucination that he had grown to age 17 again as Conan and that Ran, aged 27, was about to marry [[Tomoaki Araide]].

==== Live action special 2 ====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization}}

=== Flashback Appearances ===
==== Kaitou Kid's Clock Tower Heist (Manga: [[Magic_Kaito_Volume_4#Black_Star|MK 23-24]], Anime: [[The_Gathering_of_the_Detectives!_Shinichi_Kudo_vs._Kaitou_Kid#Clocktower_Heist|DC 129]], [[Black_Star|MK 06]]) ====
The first meeting of Shinichi and the current [[Kaitou Kid]], [[Kaito Kuroba]].

==== Ten Planets in the Night Sky ====
{{main|The Ten Planets in the Night Sky}}

==== Magic File 2 ====
{{main|Magic File 2: Shinichi Kudo, The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab}}

==== Magic File 3 ====
{{main|Magic File 3: Shinichi and Ran, Memories of Mahjong Tiles and Tanabata}}

==== Magic File 6 ====
{{main|Magic File 6: Flower of Fantasista}}

==== Live-action special 1 ====
{{main|A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~Prologue Until Goodbye~}}

==== Live-action special 3 ====
{{main|A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~The Mystery of the Legendary Bird~}}

==== Live-action special 4 ====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and the Kyoto Shinsengumi Murder Case}}

==== Live-action drama series ====
{{main|Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo}}

== Relationships analysis ==
Since Shinichi is not featured as prominently as Conan throughout the series, only a few of his relationships with other characters have been substantially explored.

=== Family & Friends ===
[[Image:Shinichi and Ran.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Shinichi and Ran]]
==== Ran Mouri ====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
[[Ran Mouri]] is Shinichi's childhood friend and canonical love interest. They have been friends and playmates since kindergarten<ref name="f569"/><ref>[[Volume 11#File 107 - The Two Mysteries|Volume 11, File 107: "The Two Mysteries"]]</ref>, though Shinichi's tendency to drag Ran along into minor trouble caused some censure from [[Eri Kisaki|her mother]]. Shinichi has liked Ran since they were little. It was revealed when he is in the first year of middle school, and turned down any other potential love interests as a result, but she has never realized this.<ref>[[Volume 18#File 175 - Unlock Your Heart!?|Volume 18, File 175, page 92: "Unlock Your Heart!?"]]</ref> Shinichi was similarly oblivious to Ran's regard until Ran confessed to Conan that despite his faults, which she is well aware of, she has liked Shinichi for some time.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 64: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> He is very protective of her, and has been amazed by her various skills and kindness on more than one occasion. Shinichi has since confessed his feelings to Ran in the non-[[canon]] 4th movie 'Captured In Her Eyes' (which Ran mistook as his attempt to get her memories back), and made attempts to say something during temporary cures in the manga and anime, but cases always seem to interfere until the cure runs out. Shinichi since then has finally canonically confessed to Ran in the case in London.<ref>[[Volume 72#File 752 - A Troublesome and Difficult Case|Volume 72, File 752, page 14: "A Troublesome and Difficult Case"]]</ref> Ran has yet to verbally return his confession, but Shinichi is confident he now understands how she feels already.

[[File:Shinichi Confesses.jpg|thumb|250px|Shinichi Kudo somewhat and somehow confesses his feelings for [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to her under the Big Ben in London, during the Holmes' Revelation Arc.]]
Shinichi's initial disappearance troubled Ran to the point of insomnia and nearly going to the police. Since then, Shinichi sometimes calls Ran over the telephone and imitates his normal voice with the [[voice-changing bowtie]] so that she doesn't worry about him. He convinces her that he is off solving a very difficult case and will return once the investigation concludes.<ref>[[Volume_1#File_009_-_An_Unfortunate_Misunderstanding|Volume 1, File 9, Page 15: "An Unfortunate Misunderstanding"]]</ref> In reality, he is the brain behind her father's rapid rise to fame as a detective.

Shinichi/Conan is not without sexual fantasies regarding Ran, the most obvious evidence being his nosebleeds or blushing when he sees her in a bathing suit<ref>[[Volume 83#File 873 - Red Devil|Volume 83, File 873, Page 4: "Red Devil"]]</ref>, or when Ran pulled him into an [[wikipedia: onsen|onsen]] with her.<ref>[[Volume_9#File_084_-_Kogoro.27s_Class_Reunion|Volume 9, File 4: "Kogoro's Class Reunion"]]</ref> For her part, Ran often blushes when thinking of Shinichi, especially when Sonoko teases her about their relationship. Her attitude towards Conan is one of more open, sisterly affection, such as giving him hugs or holding his hand. Shinichi has some concerns of bodily harm should Ran realize that not only has he been lying to her, but they've shared a bed and taken a bath together.<ref>[[Volume 14#File 134 - Question In Dead Leave|Volume 14, File 134, pages 60-67: "Question In Dead Leave"]]</ref>

Shinichi and Ran appear to share a close empathic link due to their strong feelings for each other, making each of them feel the other's worry and agitation in times of extreme danger.<ref>Manga Chapters 372-373: Serial Bomber Case</ref>

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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
{{main|Kudo family}}
[[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] Kudo are both aware that [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] is in fact Shinichi. His parents are even more famous than he is, with Yusaku being a famous mystery novelist and Yukiko being a retired actress who remains partially involved in the industry. They currently live in the United States and travel extensively, having left Shinichi in Japan on his own when he was fourteen. Though he sometimes finds his parents' carefree ways to be annoying, he loves them dearly. Yusaku is also a detective with the same keen eye for details, and similarly to Holmes' brother Mycroft, Yusaku always seems to solve a case one step ahead of his son.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
Although not related by blood, there is a strong family-like bond between Shinichi and [[Hiroshi Agasa]]. Agasa was the first to know about Shinichi's shrunk predicament and was the one to tell him to keep it a secret. Most of the gadgets that Shinichi has were made by Agasa to help Shinichi catch the criminals and solve the cases as Conan. He also knows about Shinichi's romantic relationship with Ran and sometimes teases him about it in front of her (when Shinichi can't do anything about it since he is Conan).

==== Heiji Hattori ====
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. Even though Heiji discovers Shinichi's secret, he decides to keep quiet (though he often slips up and calls him Kudo in front of others). After Heiji realizes the truth, the two have become best friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They have solved many cases together, and Heiji is the person Shinichi turns to for advice or for confirmation regarding a deduction. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend or brother.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better (or even equal), and will often go to great lengths to show that the "west" (Osaka) is better than the "east" (Tokyo). Shinichi usually starts off acting like he is disinterested in the frivolous competition, but may then become competitive himself if Heiji starts "winning" or someone bruises his ego. Others, like Ran and Kazuha, see them both as equally skilled detectives.

====Sonoko Suzuki====
Sonoko and Shinichi have known each other since childhood. Sonoko finds Shinichi's obsession with mysteries annoying and considers him to be an arrogant showoff.{{citation needed}} That being said, she acknowledges his knowledge and intelligence. Sonoko enjoys teasing him about his relationship with Ran, calling them husband and wife or boyfriend / girlfriend. Shinichi finds her attempts at attracting boys to be rather irritating. Sonoko is one of the few people who calls Shinichi by his first name with kun. Shinichi also calls Sonoko by her first name without including any honorific.

=== Detective Boys ===
So far, Shinichi did not canonically meet the detective boys before becoming Conan. In the non-canonical animated special, [[Magic File 2: The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab|OVA Magic File 2]], four years prior to him becoming Conan, a thirteen-year-old Shinichi came across the Detective Boys, [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], while they were still three years old. He needed their help in confirming a client's alibi. Also, in the first live action drama and the first episode of the anime<ref>The anime was altered to introduce the Detective Boys early. In the manga they met after Shinichi became Conan.</ref>, the Detective Boys are seen sneaking into Tropical Land for treasure. Ran then says, pointing to the children, "It was like that last time, huh?" to Shinichi.

==== Ai Haibara ====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}

[[Ai Haibara]], a defector from the [[Black Organization]] who was shrunk with the same poison as Shinichi, is the third girl that seems to have somewhat romantic feelings for Conan/Shinichi, although she never truly admits it. Indeed, it is a mystery just exactly what she feels for him, whether friendship or otherwise. Some people, such as [[Yukiko Kudo|Conan's mother]], have stated that she has feelings for Conan. It could be said that, because of their almost equal level of intelligence as well as similarities in their pasts (i.e. they're both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She loves to tease him or otherwise insult him, pointing out his weakness.

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Juzo Megure ====
[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] has worked together with Shinichi to solve many cases. During Shinichi's [[The_Locked_Room_in_the_Sky:_Shinichi_Kudo%27s_First_Case|first case on the plane]], Megure mentions that he has not seen him since he was in his 6th year of Elementary school. Megure seemed irritated that Shinichi was poking his nose into a murder case. Since then, because Shinichi has proven himself solving cases one after the other, Megure has grown to respect Shinichi and his deductive abilities, thanking him for his assistance.

=== Others ===
==== Kaitou Kid ====
Despite the fact [[Toichi Kuroba|Toichi]] and Shinichi only met once prior to Toichi's death, it's worth mentioning that Toichi referred to Shinichi as his "older brother" and himself as the "younger brother". This is because Yusaku created and thus was the '''father''' of the moniker [[Kaitou Kid|Kaitou '''Kid''']], Toichi's secret identity. Toichi's son and successor, [[Kaito Kuroba|Kaito]], has also only crossed paths with Shinichi as Shinichi once, during the [[The_Gathering_of_the_Detectives!_Kudo_Shinichi_vs._Kaitou_Kid|Clocktower heist]]. Kaito thought Shinichi made the heist harder (and thus less boring) in [[Saguru Hakuba]]'s absence, and Shinichi found Kid's intention of 'stealing' the Clocktower in order to save it from demolition to be fairly admirable. Notably, neither of them saw the other's face.

In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi had become Conan, Kid disguised himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki Black Star pearl. When Conan cornered him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid suggested that he'd stolen all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ended up being a bluff, Conan was shocked and infuriated. In subsequent encounters between Kid and Conan, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid. In several instances he appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence; knowing Kid is close by often causes Conan to behave far more frenetically. However, in several instances, beginning with the "Big Adventure in the Eccentric Residence" case, when Kid does Conan/Shinichi a favor, such as saving Genta's life in the aforementioned case, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape unhindered.

== People who know Conan's real identity ==
{{main|List of characters who know Conan's identity}}
There are only a few characters in the series who know Conan's real identity and none have betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], Conan's parents, [[Heiji Hattori]] and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] also knows, but she has kept it a secret from the rest of the Organization to protect Shinichi because he had [[Vermouth_timeline#Golden_Apple_Case_.28Manga:_350-354.2C_Anime:_286-288.29|saved her life in New York]]. [[Eisuke Hondou]], the younger brother of C.I.A. agent [[Hidemi Hondou]], also knows and keeps Conan's secret. [[Kaitou Kid]] also knows Conan's identity in the movies, though it is not clear whether he knows Conan's secret in the actual anime and manga. However, Kid seems to know there is something unusual about Conan, as whenever he tries to publicly steal he usually reveals that he only wants to compete with Conan as thief and detective. [[Ran]] gets suspicious on occasion, but so far Conan has managed to trick her into thinking Conan and Shinichi are two different people. Finally, [[Subaru Okiya]] has seen Conan use Shinichi's voice with his bowtie voice modifier. Since Subaru Okiya is actually [[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise, this means that Akai knows about it as well.

== Character popularity ==
*In a ''Newtype'' poll from 2001, Shinichi ranked fourth in the category "Top 10 Most Popular Male Anime Characters in Japan."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-08-12/newtype-top-10-anime|title=Newtype top 10 Anime|date=2001-08-12|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2009-06-29}}</ref> In a ''Newtype Magazine'' poll from March 2010, Shinichi was voted as the ninth most popular male anime character from the 1990's.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Newtype, Issue 4|month=March|year=2010|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten|title=NT Research}}</ref>

*In the survey "Friendship" developed by rankingjapan.com in which people had to choose what anime character they would like to have as a friend, Shinichi ranked third.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-02-28/which-anime-character-do-you-wish-you-could-be-friends-with|title=Which Anime Character Do You Wish You Could Be Friends With?|date=2007-02-28|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2009-06-29}}</ref>

*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. Shinichi placed 2nd in the poll with 1,425 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*Shinichi placed 1st in the results of a poll ranking the top 3 "ikemen" ("good-looking men") of the series aired during the promotional special for [[The Lost Ship in the Sky]].<ref>The Lost Ship in the Sky Special Edition Blu-ray</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Shinichi/Conan placed 1st out of 10 with 30.46% of the votes cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Shinichi placed 4th overall with 1,443 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Shinichi's given name is a pun on "one truth". The "ichi" (一) means "one" and "shin" can be read as truth (真), however the kanji actually used for "shin" (新) in Shinichi's name means "new".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C|title=WWWJDIC: Word Search|date=2011|publisher=Jim Breen|accessdate=2011-09-04}}</ref> Shinichi's family name "Kudo" comes from the fictional detective Shunsaku Kudo created by Nobumitsu Kodaka. <ref>{{cite book|last=Aoyama|first=Gosho|title=Detective Conan|volume=18|publisher=Shogakukan|date=1998-01-17 |isbn=4-09-125048-3|chapter=|page=Back cover flap|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo}}</ref> The ON-readings of the kanji for "Kudo" mean "craft" or "construction" (工) and "wisteria" (藤). <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1B|title=WWWJDIC: Kanji Selection|date=2011|publisher=Jim Breen|accessdate=2011-09-04}}</ref>
"Shinichi" may also have come from "Shinichi Suzuki", a famous violinist. Shinichi Kudo plays violin.<ref>Ch 936 Ran mentions that Shinchi plays the violin very well but also mentions his tone-deafness</ref>

== Character inspiration ==
Shinichi's design was based off of Conan's. Gosho said Shinichi's hairstyle was designed in about one minute. He smoothed [[Yaiba]]'s hair and added a tuft modeled after the apostrophe hairstyle of Kabu from [[Wikipedia:Sally_the_Witch|Sally the Witch]]. The tuft on hair on the top of Shinichi's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Shinichi's speech habits were meant to be slightly rough like Joe from [[Wikipedia:Ashita no Joe|Ashita no Joe]] and [[Wikipedia:Touch (manga)|Touch]].<ref>File 865 Shounen Sunday Special Booklet</ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:First_Color_Page.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Shinichi's "Before" Manga Appearance [[Volume 1]].]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Aquarium case Shinichi manga.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Shinichi's "After" Manga Appearance [[Volume 84]].]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi_Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Shinichi's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1; Movies introduction: 1-7)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Shinichi's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 192)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi_After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Shinichi's "After" Appearance (Movie introduction: Movies 8-15)]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi Kudo MK1412.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Shinichi's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 6)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
===General===
{{quote|When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.|Shinichi, quoting Sherlock Holmes from ''The Sign of the Four'', ch. 6}}

{{quote|In detective work, there's no winning or losing...there's no being superior or inferior...That's because...there is always one and only one truth.|[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episode 49]], talking to [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]}}

{{quote|One truth prevails!|One of Shinichi's catchphrases.}}

{{quote|The only ones who can miss a kick draw are those who have the courage to kick it.{{citation needed}}}}

{{quote|Zero is where everything starts! Nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there...And nothing would ever be achieved!|Episode 621}}

{{quote|A trick is nothing but a puzzle mankind came up with. If you use your head, you can uncover the logical answer.|[[The Desperate Revival|Episode 191]], talking to [[Hattori Heiji|Heiji]]}}

{{quote|It's always the little things, that we overlook, that are the most important.{{citation needed}}}}

{{quote|The strong one doesn’t win. The one who wins is strong.{{citation needed}}}}

===Specific===
{{quote|You're a troublesome case, you know! With these unnecessary emotions entering me like crazy... Even if I were Holmes it is impossible to solve! The heart of the girl whom one likes... How can one accurately deduces that! (お前は厄介な難事件なんだよ！余計な感情が入りまくって、例え俺がホームズでも解くのは無理だろうぜ！好きな女の心を…正確に読み取るなんてことはな！！) (Omē wa yakkaina nan jiken'na nda yo! Yokeina kanjō ga hairi makutte, tatoe ore ga hōmuzu demo toku no wa muridaro ̄ ze! Sukina on'na no kokoro o...Sei kaku ni yomitoru nante koto wa na!!) |Shinichi confessing to Ran in London.|Episode 621}}

{{quote|Serial killer: Why did you save me?

Shinichi: Is a reason necessary? I don't know why you would kill someone, but as for saving someone...A logical mind isn't needed, right?|After rescuing the [[Vermouth|serial killer, NY Case]].|Episode 288}}

{{quote|A detective who corners a culprit with their reasoning...and drives them to suicide in front of himself is no different than a murderer.|Conan/Shinichi Telling Heiji why letting the criminal commit suicide is wrong.|Episode 78}}

{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone else.|Conan/Shinichi to Ran in Movie 4, [[Captured in Her Eyes]], replying Ran on why he keeps protecting her.}}

=== Quotes about Shinichi ===
{{quote|You're gonna be a great detective.|Akimoto to Shinichi.{{citation needed}}}}

== Trivia ==
*Shinichi has been mentioned and parodied in many other anime series. See [[Detective Conan#Appearances in other media|this wiki page]] for more information.
*He was used as a character to promote people to follow the law in Japan, due to the popularity of the series.
*Shinichi seems to have plane narcolepsy, as mentioned in [[The Sealed Chamber in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case|Episode 162]] and [[Volume 21|Chapter 204]]. This shows up when he is Conan as well.
*Shinichi, along with [[Heiji Hattori]], [[Kaito Kuroba]] and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|سينشي Sēnshi|كودو Kōdo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|新一 Xīnyī|工藤 Gōngténg}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Denmark|Danish|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Jimmy|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|도일 Doyle|남 Nam}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian|Шиничи|Күдо}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Синьити|Кудо}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America|Bobby (anime dub, 1-123) Shinichi (anime dub, 124+)|Jackson (anime dub, 1-123) Kudo (anime dub, 124+)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Sweden|Swedish|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชินอิจิ Chi-nxi-ci|คุโด้ Khu-dô}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|新一 Xīnyī|工藤 Gōngténg}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shinichi|Kudo}}
{{EndTable}}

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Baby_kudo_shinichi.png|Baby Shinichi. Ten Planets OVA.
File:Pre-gradeschool Shinichi and Ran.PNG|Shinichi and Ran before grade school
Image:Vlcsnap-2013-11-06-19h00m20s6.png|Shinichi's body begins to shrink again
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Conan Edogawa]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo Appearances]]
* [[Kudo family]]

== References ==
<references/>
{{APTX 4869}}
{{Characters}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kudo Shinichi}}
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[[Category:Detectives]]
[[Category:High school detectives]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Characters who know Ai Haibara's identity]]
[[Category:Characters who know Subaru Okiya's identity]]

[[de:Shinichi Kudo]]

Ethan Hondou

2017-08-05T01:22:00Z

Detective Reaper: /* Death */

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| age = ? (deceased)
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Hidemi Hondou]] (daughter) [[Eisuke Hondou]] (son) [[Hondou_family|Unnamed wife]] (deceased)
| occupation = [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] Agent
| aliases =
| nicknames =
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| japanese-voice = [[Rikiya Koyama]]
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'''{{nihongo|Ethan Hondou|イーサン・本堂|Īsan Hondō}}''' is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Ethan Hondou is also known by Conan as the deceased father of [[Eisuke Hondou]] and [[Hidemi Hondou]] (Rena Mizunashi or Kir).
He was a second generation Japanese-American, which suggests that his parents (or just one of them) might have been Japanese people who moved to USA. He later married a Japanese woman, who worked as a housekeeper and had two children with her. He was a CIA agent who went into deep cover as a Black Organization member. His daughter Hidemi went overseas to study and Eisuke lived with his mother.

He and his son Eisuke at one point lived in Osaka after the death of his wife. He used to eat at an Okonomiyaki restaurant with his CIA colleagues and separately with Eisuke on occasion but stopped coming several years ago, presumably because he died or started infiltrating the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 56, File 7, Page 2, File 582: "Clue from the West"</ref> He left Eisuke in care with a friend and would seen him allowance every month.

After Ethan went overseas for work, he would occasionally type out messages to his boss' mobile email address while talking to his son on the phone. Eisuke describes the sound as the melody for the "Seven Children" song. This fact, relayed via Ran, allows Conan to deduce that Eisuke's father was in fact a member of the Black Organization as well as a CIA agent and that he had been undercover.

During infiltration his middle man was killed, so his daughter Hidemi, who had joined the CIA as well, went undercover in the organization with the purpose to introduce a new middle man, Barney.

=== Death ===
Recognizing that his newly recruited daughter was about to be found out as a spy by the Black Organization, Ethan committed suicide to protect Hidemi by making it look like she was the one who killed him. He encouraged her to finish the mission in his place and tells her to wait for an ally. After he was killed, a colleague from the CIA, Barney, came in the warehouse he was killed in and started calling him "Hondou." Notably, after the incident Gin claimed he knew Ethan's last name (Hondou) through Ethan's colleague, who committed suicide before he could be killed by the Black Organization, and they burned down the warehouse. This was all witnessed by a homeless man living on the second floor of the warehouse who luckily escaped the burning warehouse. Sometime later, [[Shuichi Akai]] found the homeless man and found out all these evidence that would be later used to help the FBI.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Father (''chichi'')}}
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{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Ethan Hondou NOC}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Ethan Hondou The father of [[Eisuke Hondou|the child]] (''sono ko no chichi'')}}
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{{appellations|Gin|Hondou|Gin}}
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== Personality ==

== Plot overview ==

===Mysterious Job Case (Manga: [[Volume_53#Mysterious_Job_Case|553, 555]], Anime: [[The Shadow of the Black Organization|464-465]])===

===Missing Photo Case (Manga: [[Volume_56#Missing_Photo_Case|582-584]], Anime: [[Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph|484-485]])===

===Billing Fraud Case (Manga: [[Volume_56#Billing_Fraud_Case|585]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|491]])===

===Fake Patient Case (Manga: [[Volume_57#Fake_Patient_Case|595]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|495]])===

===Kir Transport Case (Manga: [[Volume_58#Kir_Transport_Case|604]], Anime: [[Clash of Red and Black|500]])===

== Name origin ==
Ethan comes from '''Ethan Hunt''' from the 1996 [[wikipedia:Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible]] film, while Hondou comes from '''Bondo''', the Japanese pronunciation of [[wikipedia:James Bond|(James) '''Bond''']].

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

== References ==
<references/>
{{Black Organization}}
{{Characters}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hondou Ethan}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Deceased characters]]
[[Category:CIA]]
[[de:Ethan Hondo]]

Masumi Sera

2017-07-10T13:07:39Z

Detective Reaper: /* Black Organization */

{{FeaturedArticle|March 23, 2011}}

{{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 = {{lang|ja|世良真純}} (Sera Masumi)
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| image = Masumi_Sera_Profile.jpg
| age = 16-17? 
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = Teitan High School Student Detective
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (father, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (mother) [[Shuichi Akai]] (older brother) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second-older brother) Unnamed aunt
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 73|File 768]] Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|Episode 646]]
| appearances = {{:Masumi Sera Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 73]]
| japanese-voice = [[Noriko Hidaka]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://combination.jp/blog/2012/02/post-383.html|date=2012-02-01|accessdate=2012-02-01|title=新しいお仕事 | Blog | コンビネーション|publisher=combination Co.Ltd.|author=Noriko Hidaka}}</ref>
| cases-solved = 8
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Masumi Sera|世良真純|Sera Masumi}}''' is a high school detective in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]].

== Background ==
Masumi Sera is a high school detective and the younger sister of [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and shogi player, [[Shukichi Haneda]]. She is the only daughter of [[Tsutomu Akai]] and [[Mary]]. 17 years ago, her father, before he disappeared, instructed his family to hide in Japan, where Masumi later was born. Her oldest brother had prior to her birth left Japan to study in America, so they first got to meet each other when Masumi was six-seven years old. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved abroad three years ago with her mother, presumably due to Shuichi infiltrating the [[Black Organization]]. Her other brother stayed in Japan. She has recently returned to Japan for some unknown reason. After meeting Conan, Ran, and Sonoko during a case, she transfers to [[Setting#Teitan High School (帝丹高校)|Ran's high school class]]. Masumi is skilled at [[Wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]], a hobby encouraged by her brother Shuichi who mailed her instruction videos while in elementary school. She can fight on the same level as [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. She seems to know that Conan is Shinichi and she had in fact met Ran and Shinichi sometime in their past. Currently she is living with [[Mary]], whom she calls "Mama", at a hotel. She claims that she is provided for by a rich friend of her late father, but it hasn't been revealed who it is. Every time they encounter the possibility of information on Mary getting out, they end up moving to a new hotel under Mary's order. While Masumi is eager to seek help from Conan, Mary is skeptical of him.
The three siblings has different last names. Sera is supposedly her mother's maiden name.

==Personality==
[[File:691-15.png|thumb|Masumi beats a gangster in [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case]]]]

Masumi has a cheery, sociable, boyish personality<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> and is well liked by her classmates at Teitan High. On their first meeting, Masumi fails to correct Sonoko's mistaken impression that she is a man and even makes it worse by declaring that Ran is "[her] type".<ref name=pronouns>The Japanese pronoun used is gender neutral and can refer to either males or females.</ref> Her rather boyish appearance - especially in relation with her flat chest - is a bit of a touchy subject to Masumi, who claims that her mother's bust size is rather well developed and keeps expressing her hope that someday her own chest size will similarly change for her.

Masumi is quite quick-minded, coming up with clever plans and adapting them to sudden changes rapidly. Masumi seems to be prone to dramatics like most detectives are, but perhaps to a lesser degree than [[Shinichi]] or [[Heiji]] as she bluntly says who the criminal is without preamble. On the other hand, Masumi is tough to the point that she is willing to risk all to achieve a successful conclusion of a case. In one instance, she purposefully lured a hostage-taker into a sniper's sight with a smile, hoping he would be shot without showing any apprehension about his possible demise.

Although she has crime scene experience<ref name=769p3>Manga Volume 73, File 7, pg 3: "A Detective Just Like You, Little Boy"</ref>, Masumi seems to be less skilled as a detective than Shinichi or Heiji, apparently missing a critical clue that was necessary to understand how the murderer's setup worked, although Conan opines that Masumi purposely made an error in order to test him. In some degree, she seems to like rivalry or contests to see who is the winner.

Sera's catchphrase upon the conclusion of a case is "case closed".

Sera shows a protective and caring side towards Conan, as seen in the Detectives Nocturne and in the beginning of the Red Woman case when she helps Conan up after falling, as well as having it made clear in the Haunted Hotel case that she was also clearly investigating Conan before they first met, as she knew he was a detective. Its likely to believe that them being on the same bus was not an accident, which could even lead to be argued that she somehow hinted to them about the cake buffet so they would be on the same bus as her. It is safe to assume though she was, and possibly still is, investigating Conan.

Sera's way of referring to her parents as 'Mama' and 'Papa' indicates a privileges background.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Sera_transfers.png‎|thumb|Masumi transfers to Teitan High School]]

At first, she wears a grey fedora that used to belong to Shuichi Akai and a dark jacket which gives her an androgynous appearance. When she transfers to Teitan High, she gets rid of her fedora and wears female clothing. Her hair is dark, wavy, and short; it doesn't even touch her shoulders. Even then, she is rather tomboyish; Genta mistakes her for a man, and Sonoko comments she has a petite figure. Later, Genta, Mitsuhiko and Hattori comment that her bosoms are rather small. Masumi also has an uneven tooth that shows when she smiles.

Masumi and her brother Shuichi presumably more closely resemble their mother than their father.
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==Appellations==
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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Sera-san Sera-no-nēchan Sera Sera Masumi<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume 88)]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s younger sister (''Akai-san no imōto'')|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file771">[[volume 73#Bomber's Request|File 771 (Volume 73)]]</ref> Boy (''Bōya''; first time) Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Sera Masumi (movie introdcution)<ref name="m18">Movie 18: ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''</ref>|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="ep690">[[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|Episode 690]]</ref>| Kudo Shinichi}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Sera-san Sera Masumi-chan<ref>File 778</ref> Sera-chan|Ran-chan Ran-kun}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Tomboy-ish Girl|Kogoro-san Poiro-san ([[Hercule Poirot|'''Poiro'''t]] + Kogo'''ro''')<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|File 820 (Volume 78)]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro-san (''Nemuri no Kogoro-san'')<ref name="file771" />}}
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{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Papa}}

{{appellations|Mary Sera|Masumi<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|Mama<ref name="file953" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Masumi|Shu-nii Oniichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki<ref name="file936">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 936]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="file938">[[volume 89#Girls Band Murder Case|File 938: The Crime in the Blind Spot (Volume 89)]]</ref> Ani<ref name="file859">[[volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859: Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate (Volume 81)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file954">[[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|File 954: Sanction of the Betrayal (Volume 90)]]</ref> Sera-san<ref name="file954" />|Subaru}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Masumi<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972 (Volume 92)]]</ref>|Kichi-nii ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref>[[:File:AChint8-06-2014_4.JPG]] (Sera-chan calls him Kichi-nii)</ref> Kichi-niichan<ref name="file972" /> Aniki Chukichi (talking to [[Yumi Miyamoto|Yumi]])<ref>[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Sera-san Sensei (once) Sera-chan Female High-School Detective (''JK Tantei'')<ref name="file938" /> Sera Masumi-san<ref name="file859" />|Sonoko-chan Sonoko-kun}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Female detective (''onna-tantei'')|Hattori-kun}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|-|The girl with the ponytail}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Mari-chan<ref name="file930" />|Taisho<ref name="file930" />}}
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{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Female High-School Detective (''Jōshi-Kōsei Tantei'')|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')}}

{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Sera-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')<ref>[[Volume 86#Poolside Case|File 905 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|"FBI Guy"}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file828">[[Volume 78#The Blush Mermaid|File 828 (Volume 78)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file828" /> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="file828"/>}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|-|Amuro-san<ref name="file937">[[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|File 937]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Scotch|-|Scotch<ref name="file937" /> [[Shuichi Akai|My brother]]'s friend (''Aniki no yūjin'')<ref name="file936" /> The friend (''sono yūjin'')<ref name="file936" />}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Young girl (''wakai no'')<ref name="file858">[[volume 81#Steamy Relations|File 858: A Problematic Deduction (Volume 81)]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="file858" />}}
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{{appellations/head|Masumi}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Sera Masumi<ref name="m18" />|Haibara Haibara Ai}}

{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Onēsan<ref name="m18" />}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|-|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')}}
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{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|-|Kudo Yusaku<ref name="ep690" />}}

{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Sera<ref>[[Volume 78]], File 6</ref>|-}}

{{appellations|Scar Akai|Masumi<ref name="MT">[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]]</ref>|Shu-nii<ref name="MT" /> Acquaintance (''shiriai'')}}

{{appellations|Makoto Kyogoku|-|Master of Karate (''Karate no Tatsujin'')}}

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda<ref>[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file953" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953" />|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}
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==Plot overview==
=== Masumi's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 73#Jeet Kune Do|768 - 770]], Anime: [[Deduction Showdown at the Haunted Hotel|646 - 647)]] ===
[[File:Sera_Kick.png|thumb|right|Masumi defends herself from Ran.]]
Masumi first met [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] on a bus after she was mistaken for a [[Wikipedia:Groping|groper]]. After Sonoko declared Masumi was the groper, Masumi and Ran got into a fight, with Masumi's Jeet Kune Do holding even against Ran's karate. Conan and Masumi cleared up the misunderstanding by pointing out the real groper. Sonoko then mistook Masumi for a boy, an impression which wasn't helped by Masumi declaring that Ran was "his type".<ref name=pronouns/> Masumi and Ran both discovered they were heading to the same hotel, about which Conan is less than pleased.

Masumi finds out the hotel she is staying at doesn't have a room available and complains at the front desk. A man then falls into the parking lot and dies. Conan runs to the source of screaming while Masumi told the guard to watch the elevators before running to the roof. She immediately declares the crime to be a murder, giving her reasoning. She then reveals her name, Masumi, that she is a detective, and knows Conan is a detective as well. She also revealed before she knew Conan's name despite it not being mentioned in front of her, revealing that Masumi has been investigating Conan for awhile now.

[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] is not pleased to have another high school detective underfoot but lets Masumi and Conan investigate regardless. After listening to the suspect testimony, police observations, and examining the crime scene, Masumi announces that she has solved the case.

However, Masumi's deduction leaves out a critical detail; Conan is therefore forced to use Shinichi's phone to call his own, give Inspector Megure Conan's phone, and speak through Shinichi's as Shinichi using the voice-changer bow tie. Shinichi figures out the detail that had Masumi stumped, although a look she gives Conan as he runs off suggests her omission was possibly intentional, and once during the phone conversation she tries to trick Shinichi into admitting that he is physically present at the crime scene instead of being explained the details by Conan and Megure.

The following day, Masumi transfers to Teitan High School, surprising both Ran and Sonoko. She was rather popular at school surrounded by students asking her questions about herself.

===Kogoro Detective Agency Hostage Crisis (Manga: [[Volume 73#Bomber's Request|771]]-[[Volume 74#Bomber's Request|774]], Anime: [[Hostage Situation at the Mouri Detective Agency|648 - 650]])===

====Let's hear your brilliant deduction! (771)====
According to Sonoko, Masumi has become very popular at Teitan high for being "cheery, sociable, boyish, and cute...and on top of that, she is a jeet kun do-using female detective!"<ref>Manga Volume 73, File 9, Page 3, "Let's hear your brilliant deduction!"</ref> One classmate compares her to [[Shinichi Kudo]] who has been taking a break from school. Masumi tells inquiring classmates that she has been staying in America with her parents since three years ago, but "rebelled" because she would rather live in her Japan where she was born and raised. She sneaks up behind Sonoko and Ran after school because she wanted to speak to Conan at the Mouri Detective Agency. At the agency, Masumi is unhappy to hear that Conan and the rest of Detective Boys are staying at Agasa's house and will be camping the following day. She settles for asking Kogoro if Conan is always at his side when he solves cases, hinting that she suspects Conan is the real brains behind "Sleeping Kogoro".

[[File:Sera_slide_kick.png|thumb|left|Masumi sweeps out the Hostage Taker's legs]]
Just as Masumi is about to walk out the door, three female mystery writers and a man enter the agency. After a moment of confusion, the man suddenly fires a gun into the roof and takes the detective agency hostage. His demands are that Kogoro figure out which of the three writers killed his sister at a ryokan one month ago. The quick thinking Masumi sidles up to Ran and tells her to go for the man's gun after she takes his legs out. Sera's leg sweep sends the man to the floor, and Ran removes the gun from the man's hand with a kick; however, Masumi leaps back when the man reveals he has bombs strapped around his chest and will detonate them if they try to stop him.

Meanwhile at Agasa's, Haibara is angry that Conan used Shinichi's voice to solve a case around the suspicious Masumi. Conan's response is that Masumi is familiar somehow, like they have met before or she looks like someone, and Conan feels she isn't an enemy. Genta and Mitsuhiko told Conan they saw a high school student walking home with Ran, so the jealous Conan calls Ran's cellphone to hear about it from her.

The hostage taker man orders Ran to answer her phone, but Masumi snatches the phone away and says hello to Conan (who is shocked that Masumi is with Ran). Masumi then tricks the hostage taker and keeps the line connected so Conan can listen in by closing Ran's [[Yaiba#Characters|Sea Cucumber Man]] cellphone strap in between the screen and keypad of the the flip phone.

====Nickname Rules (772)====
Masumi asks a few insightful questions about the case; however the hostage taker man discovers Ran's phone is still connected. Under gunpoint, Masumi steps in front of Ran and takes the blame, but Conan, using Shinichi's voice, says he ordered Ran to do it. Masumi is mystified by why Shinichi is now on Conan's phone. Masumi meanwhile spots a glint of light across from the detective agency and declares that the case will come to an end without Shinichi's help.

====Possible Sniping (773)====
[[File:Sera773.png|thumb|right|Masumi surprised by Ran's attitude.]]
Masumi explains to Ran that she secretly kept the call to Conan connected so he could call the police and research into the case. While Masumi is still surprised that Shinichi was on the other end of the line instead of Conan, she had initially hoped that Shinichi would somehow be able to talk down the would-be-murderer. She suspects that Shinichi has already figured which one of the suspects is the murderer in the ryokan case, but Shinichi is unable to reveal the truth because the hostage taker would then kill the named culprit and then himself. Sera's plan changed when she noticed the lights from the police snipers on the building across from Mouri Detective Agency. She explains to Ran in detail the names and functions of the various police divisions responsible for hostage situations, and tells Ran in a roundabout fashion that this situation will end with the hostage taker being killed by the police.

Masumi launches a plan to bring the hostage taker into the snipers' range by telling him he should charge Ran's phone battery. Ran foils Sera's intentions by shutting the curtains, blocking the snipers' shot. To Masumi's utter astonishment, Ran tells her that she doesn't want to see anyone die in front of her and declares that "Shinichi won't allow anyone to die. He absolutely wouldn't!"<ref>Volume 73, File 11, page 13, "Possible Sniping." Shinichi then begins to present his deductions over the phone and Masumi wonders how he will manage to resolve this situation without bloodshed.</ref>

====The book with unturned pages (774)====
Masumi and Ran take the opportunity to disable the hostage taker when he loses his composure and grip on the detonator after Shinichi tricks him into believing his sister committed suicide. Masumi yells for the waiting bomb squad to secure the area. With the hostage taker arrested, Shinichi then reveals the true culprit. Masumi realizes the mistake in her deduction and explains the correct timeline of events before the murder. Sometime soon after the conclusion of the case, Masumi, walking with Ran and Sonoko speculates aloud that there must be some reason Shinichi left Agasa's before Ran could meet him there. She then exclaims that "due to what just happened, she really gets it", that Conan and Shinichi are on very good terms with one another, and that Ran "is tougher than Masumi thought". Conan isn't sure what to make of these last comments.

===Video Site (Manga: [[Volume 74|775-777]], Anime: [[The Professor's Video Site|656-657]])===
[[File:Ai image.png|thumb|Masumi deletes Haibara's image]]

Masumi stops [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] outside of [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]]'s house to ask them if they are acquaintances of Professor Agasa. The topic of [[Shinichi]] comes up when she talks to Mitsuhiko and Genta about the prior hostage case. Mitsuhiko mentions that [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] told them to keep Shinichi's involvement secret. After asking about Haibara, Masumi mentions that she saw Haibara in one of the professor's online videos. Next, Masumi asks who is currently living in the Kudo house because she saw the curtains shift slightly. The Detective Boys tell her that [[Subaru Okiya]] has been staying there since his apartment burnt down. Masumi cryptically comments with a smirk on her face, "And here I thought that someone had just settled in without permission...But it seems I was just getting worked up over nothing..." while looking up at where Subaru is hiding.

At the end of the case, Masumi is in her hotel room deleting various files. One of her deleted files was a still image from Agasa's video blown up to show Haibara reflected in Agasa's glasses. This indicates that she is not only keeping an eye on Conan but also on Haibara.
"Delete... Delete... For data, at least is an easy task to accomplish...", were her words while she was doing it.

===East vs. West Rematch (Manga: [[Volume_74#East_vs._West|778-780]], Anime: [[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West|651]])===
[[File:Sera FBI.png|thumb|left|Masumi thinks about the FBI]]
The case opens with Ran talking to Masumi about [[Heiji Hattori]] who is stopping by for a visit. Masumi is curious whether Heiji or Shinichi is the better detective. After Heiji is introduced to Masumi, Kazuha then calls Heiji and tells him that she is stuck at a restaurant because someone died and a foreigner [[Andre Camel]] is keeping everyone from leaving. Masumi proposes Heiji and Shinichi (via Conan's cellphone) have a deduction match. At the crime scene, Masumi becomes curious about the foreigner, Camel who secured the area. The police and Conan reveal Camel is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and Masumi takes interest. Meanwhile, Camel finds that Masumi looks familiar, but can't quite place why. He takes a picture of her and mails it to [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] and [[James Black]] who are waiting outside. Jodie and James think Masumi resembles someone too, but only James Black correctly identified Masumi as female.

Meanwhile Masumi is busy helping with the case, asking questions and making comments about various deductions. Heiji nearly slips up with Conan's identity in front of her earning a pointed question from Masumi, but Heiji rescues himself by saying he thinks of Conan as Kudo when Conan gets smug have hearing Shinichi's deductions over the phone. Masumi doesn't seemed to be fooled though, her thoughts show that she seems to know Conan, not Shinichi, is the one solving the case while watching Conan come to his final conclusion.

===EYE (Manga: [[Volume_74#Eye_for_an_Eye|781]], Anime: [[The Design of Poison and Mirage|652]])===
Conan, Heiji, Masumi, and the rest of the group return to the Mouri Detective Agency after the poisoning case at Danny's restaurant. Heiji reveals the case that brought him to Tokyo; he received a mysterious letter signed in the name of a person who was murdered in Karuizawa requesting an investigation. Masumi takes an immediate interest in the case and wants to tag along, but Heiji refuses saying that the people he is visiting are only expected five people. Masumi is peeved at being left behind.

===Kogoro-san is a Good Man (Manga: [[Volume 75|787]], Anime: [[Kogoro-san is a Good Man|661]])===
Masumi is walking with Conan, Ran and Sonoko. While they wonder why Kogoro has been coming home late, Sonoko thinks he's found himself a mistress. Masumi thinks that he is just investigating a case. When an old lady named Takae Kiritani comes, she claims that Kogoro has been helping her. Masumi asks what he does for her to which she replies that its small things like helping around the house. Masumi isn't seen again for the rest of the case.

===Murder at Mouri Detective Agency (Manga: [[Volume 76|797-800]], Anime: [[Detectives' Nocturne|672-674]])===
[[File:Sera's motorcycle.jpg|thumb|right|Masumi in her motorcycle.]]
During a murder case at Mouri Detective Agency, after meeting Kogoro's new apprentice [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]], [[Juzo Megure|Megure]] comments that the number of detectives around Kogoro has increased again, referring to Masumi. Amuro takes interest in Masumi. Later, Kogoro and friends go over to a suspect's apartment. Masumi calls Ran after hearing about the murder on the news because she is worried about her and Conan. The call has an usual amount of static which alerts Amuro that there are listening devices present. Amuro abruptly hangs up Ran's phone on Masumi. Meanwhile, Conan intentionally gets himself kidnapped by the primary suspect. After Ran enables calling again, Masumi calls back immediately and is very upset because she was worried something had happened to Ran. Ran tells her that Conan has been kidnapped, and details to Masumi the murder at Kogoro's agency. In order to figure out where the kidnapper is headed, Kogoro and Amuro search the apartment and decide to go to the address of one of the other suspects.

Masumi arrives at suspect's home on [[Cars|her motorcycle]], but just misses Kogoro and the gang leaving. She hears the elevator descending and rushes back downstairs in time to follow Amuro's [[Cars|car]]. Meanwhile, the culprit has been driving around with Conan while Haibara has been directing Okiya's car towards them using the criminal tracking glasses. Okiya catches up to the kidnapper and relays what the car looks like to Kogoro. Amuro sees the suspect's car heading in the opposite direction so he quickly wheels around after it. Masumi, who has been following Amuro's car this whole time, u-turns after Amuro and continues chasing. Amuro gets in front of the suspect's car and stops it. The suspect gets out of the car holding Conan at gunpoint, but Masumi drives up onto the roof of the car. She swings her motorcycle around so that the rear wheel slams into the woman's face knocking her unconscious. With tears of relief, Masumi hugs Conan, happy he is safe. Amuro, Okiya, and [[Vermouth]] look on.

===Meeting with Scar Akai (Manga: [[Volume 76|801]], Anime: [[Won't Forgive Even One Millimeter|675]])===
[[File:Sera_675.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Masumi looking for Scar Akai.]]
Masumi is walking with Sonoko and Ran, and Ran is talking by phone with Conan. Masumi hears Haibara's voice in the background and becomes curious. She asks the two others what Haibara is like, and Sonoko says Haibara is like a woman in a child's body.

When Ran hangs up her cellphone, the topic switches over to [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]]. Masumi says to Ran she wants to meet Amuro because she never got a really good look at him from the last case, but Sonoko thinks she wants to meet Conan, instead. Ran says Shinichi and Conan are big fans of Sherlock Holmes. Masumi thinks about that she has known that for a long time.

Suddenly, Masumi sees [[Scar Akai]] in the crowd ahead. She runs after him, but she can't catch him. Ran wonders who Masumi was chasing, but Masumi replies she thought it was someone she knew, and silently appends in her mind that it would be impossible for the man she was chasing to be the person she thinks it was.

[[File:690-3.png|thumb|Masumi is shocked to see Subaru]]
===Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case (Manga: [[Volume 77|812-814]], Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Cold Case|690-691]])===
Masumi meets [[Subaru Okiya]] at Shinichi's house and she finds him suspicious. She began to think there is a woman at Kudo's house because there are a hair elastic, lipstick in a glass and a long hair in the sink trap. After that, all of them solved a case together that is similar to a case that Shinichi Kudo's father dropped out 10 years ago. It was revealed to be a theft case. Both Subaru and Masumi had got more suspicious of Conan and the identity of Shinichi Kudo. At the end, when the criminals were knocked, she saw Ran and Conan and she thought she was a 'bad kid', after all.

===Gunma Campground's Cabin Trap (Manga: [[Volume 77|815-817]], Anime: [[The Shadow Approaching Haibara's Secret|699-700]])===
[[File:Masome.png|thumb|left|120px|Masumi at the campground]]
She went camping when she meets Professor Agasa and Conan. The Detective Boys were lost. Masumi and Conan found the two policemen finding the corpse. After she and Conan solved the case, she and Conan rushed towards the burning cabin. Conan and the Detective Boys were talking about how they got safe. Mitsuhiko pointed the way were their savior went. Masumi then began to ask what kind of woman is their savior. She seemed to be surprised when she saw her on Mitsuhiko's cell phone.
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[[File:new-sera.png|thumb|left|150px|Masumi leans in to get a good look at Haibara]]
[[File:Sera is akai sister.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi is revealed to be Shuichi's sister.]]

===Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]])===
Masumi finally meets Haibara, and Haibara has a bad feeling about her (although it could have been due to Scar Akai spying on them from behind the door just then). Later when a murder occurs on the Bell Tree Express, she and Conan investigate. Masumi takes a video recording of the suspects running so she can show it to the detective boys in order to ask them which one had the closest gait to the masked suspect from earlier, but she is intercepted first by Scar Akai in the hallway. She stops and angrily asks him who he is. Scar Akai simply replies that she hasn't changed, reveals his face to her, and refers to her by her first name, "Masumi". In her shock Masumi calls him "Shu-nii", signifying that Shuichi is Masumi's older brother. She questions Scar Akai about what happened, saying that she heard he had died. Scar Akai then tasers her unconscious, stating that he was hoping for that response. Scar Akai later is revealed to be Vermouth in disguise, explaining why he attacked Masumi.

===The Blush Mermaid Heist (Manga: [[Volume 78|828]]-[[Volume 79|830]], Anime: [[Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid|724-725]])===
[[File:SeraHat.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Masumi is relieved that she has got her hat back.]]
Masumi accompanies Conan, Ran, and Sonoko to the location of Kaitou Kid's next heist: a museum where the Blush Mermaid, a gem adhered to the shell of a turtle as a last ditch effort by a an Italian actress in an accident at sea to save her turtle by encouraging someone to rescue it. Before checking out the museum, Masumi asks Ran if she saw a [[Scar Akai|strange man in black]] when she found the hat on the Belltree Express. After the group arrives at the room where the turtle is being held in a large aquarium, [[Ginzo Nakamori|Inspector Nakamori]] pulls Masumi's face to see if it is a mask worn by Kid. Annoyed by Nakamori's mistaken gender assumption and having her face pinched, Masumi knees him in the privates ostensibly to prove he isn't Kid. Masumi then runs off to the bathroom. Later, when Kid makes his move, Masumi is one of many caught in his trap: the rug on the floor is pulled up by strings so that it pins everyone standing on it to the front of aquarium. As soon as the rug drops, everyone sees the tank is empty except for a card left by Kid. This leaves Conan and Masumi quite dumbfounded as to how Kaitou Kid could have removed the turtle. Later, Conan reveals that Masumi is really Kaitou Kid, and he had made a critical error in his acting by assuming Masumi was a male. Kaitou Kid had locked the real Masumi bound and gagged in the men's bathroom after knocking her out with a stun gun. Upon gaining consciousness, Masumi escapes her bonds, rushes out of the bathroom, and gives a still disguised Kid a fierce kick to the face. After Kid escapes (due to Ran distracting Masumi by pointing out that everyone can see her underwear), Masumi is relieved that she at least managed to recover her hat, which she thinks is special because it somehow has the same feel as her brother Shuichi Akai's hat.

=== Cooking Show Murder (Manga: [[Volume 80|844-846]], Anime: [[The Treasure Chest Filled with Fruits|727-728]])===
[[File:SeraSmile.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Masumi is smiling and blushing when Conan asks her if they had met each other before.]]
Conan, Ran, Sonoko, Kogoro and Masumi go to a live cooking show. Conan wants to ask something important to Masumi, but a murder gets in his way. While solving the case, Ran realises that Masumi and her might have met each other before, since Ran thinks of waves in the beach each time Masumi gets away. At the end of the case, Conan asks Masumi if they had met each other before. Masumi smiles and says she doesn´t know, but actually she thinks "Of course we have, but I can´t tell you until the time comes..."

===Adultery Investigation (Manga: [[Volume 81|856-858]], Anime: [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|740-741]] )===
[[File:SeraCall.png|left|thumb|150px|Masumi is calling her brother on the phone.]]
After being hired by a classmate, Keiko Kitao, Masumi is investigating to see if the boyfriend of Keiko's sister has fully committed to their relationship. However, as the atmosphere is rapidly changed by the murder, Masumi and Conan start to investigate the crime scene. When Conan has finally deduced who the culprit is, he also observes Masumi making a call with someone saying "...Say, my deduction... It's not wrong, is it?". Upon solving the case, Eri states having seen Masumi talking to her brother on the phone.

=== Meeting Makoto (Manga: [[Volume 81|859-861]], Anime: [[The Suspect is Makoto Kyogoku|744-745]])===
[[File:SeraAndMakoto.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Masumi attacks Makoto with her Jeet Kune Do.]]
At a Bowling Center with Conan, Ran, Sonoko and Kogoro, Masumi is introduced to Sonoko's boyfriend Makoto. Shortly before, Makoto mistakes Masumi for a stranger being "overly friendly" with Sonoko and tries to fight her. Masumi explains that she has been taught Jeet Kune Do by her older brother, she also reveals that besides her assumingly dead brother, she also has a second-oldest brother. Furthermore, Masumi explains to Conan that her brother also advises her on cases by phone. After successfully investigating the crime scene with Conan, Masumi steps aside with her smartphone and types in the message "It seems like he's also arrived at the truth... But whether or not our deductions are the same - lately I've been losing confidence in that regard...". When the recipient writes back "Who is he? I'd like an explanation!", Masumi takes a picture with her smartphone. However, the recipient's answer, "If it's him, there's no problem." reveals that he is familiar with Conan. It is heavily implied that it is the same person Conan saw Masumi making a call with in File 857.

===Red Woman Case (Manga: [[Volume 82|872]]-[[Volume 83|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|754-756]])===
Masumi takes a request from her middle brother to consult in his place about a case involving some of his high school classmates who are now 28-29 years old. On the way to a cabin in the woods, Masumi tells Conan and the gang more about her family history and timeline. She reveals that she and her brothers each have different family names for various reasons, one of which is the death of her father. The case takes a dark turn when one of the classmates is found murdered in a bathtub of tomatoes. With the help of the Nagano police, Conan and Masumi manage to solve the case. Later, Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone in the kitchen by calling it with his. He does so and Conan notices the call background screen is a [[Mary|child who looks like Masumi]] with eye bags similar to those of the [[Akai family]] members. Masumi mentions having a younger sister earlier on (Episode 754), so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

===Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876]]-[[Volume 83|878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]])===
On the way home from school, Ran and Sonoko decide to visit Masumi's hotel (which is different from the other one she has been staying at earlier). Masumi claims she had a meeting with her supposedly-hard-to-reach [[Akai family's middle brother|middle brother]] planned, so she texts him to reschedule. Conan seems to notice this contradiction. At the hotel, Conan tries to peek in Masumi's bedroom, but Masumi wards him off by embarrassing him. Masumi also asks Conan is she reminds him of someone he met in the past, but Conan draws a blank. A murder interrupts the meeting. While Conan is investigating, he notices the middle-school aged [[Mary|child]] from Masumi's cellphone picture in the gathered crowd. Later, Conan and the gang return to Masumi's room, and Conan hides his glasses earpiece [[microphone]] to spy on the apartment. It is quickly found and destroyed by Masumi and the child after Conan departs with Ran and Sonoko. Masumi asks the child is she is beginning to like him, but the child responds that she is still long way from trusting him. The child asks Masumi to tell Conan she is her little sister from outside the territory if he asks about her. Masumi doesn't mention that she showed Conan the child's picture.
[[File:Masumi and Scotch Flashback EP836 (3).jpg|150px|thumb|right|Masumi remembers meeting a man nicknamed Scotch]]

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===

=== Ran & Shinichi - First Contact (Manga: [[Volume 87#Ran & Shinichi - First Contact|921-924]], Anime: [[Memories from Sakura Class|853-854]]) ===

=== 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]]) ===

=== Girls Band Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 88#Girls Band Murder Case|936-938]], Anime:[[The Unfriendly Girls Band|836-837]]) ===
Four years ago, Masumi was taught a few notes on the base guitar by a friend of her brother, [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]]. The friend was referred to as "[[Scotch]]" by another person who Masumi thinks looks like [[Rei Furuya|Rei]].

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[Soul Detective Murder Case|863-864]]) ===
Masumi and Mary has moved into another hotel, where a murder takes place next door.

=== Swimsuit Festival Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_91#Swimsuit_Festival|969]]-[[Volume_92#Swimsuit_Festival|971]], Anime:TBA) ===
Masumi intentionally puts on a bathing suit similar to the one that she had worn in the past to try to jog Conan's memory of where they met. A case occurs, which involved the method of counting fingers in different countries. Masumi seems to count the same way that is used in the UK, but seems to think that it is the way it is done in the US. As Conan corrects her, she seems confused. Conan thinks back on all of the times that Masumi has done things that seem to imply that she was in the UK rather than the US and he finally remembers the events of 10 years ago by repeating イギリス (Igirisu / Britain) in is head.
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=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume_92#A_Chance_Meeting_at_the_Beach|972-974]], Anime:TBA) ===

=== Café Rice Flower Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_94#Café_Rice_Flower_Murder_Case|994-996]], Anime:TBA) ===
Masumi and Sonoko meets up with Ran in a café to discuss details of the school field trip to Kyoto.

== Non-Canon Plot Overview ==

=== Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]] ===
Sera appeared in this movie as an investigator of the person who had been shot in the Bell Tower. She and Conan helped in chasing the culprit and afterwards was shot by the culprit after saving Conan.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Masumi was Shuichi Akai's sister ===
Masumi was revealed to be Shuichi Akai's sister on the Bell Tree Express after a confrontation with [[Scar Akai]]<ref name=821p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pg 16: "Mystery Train (Junction)"</ref> and while sleeptalking.<ref name=823p4>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 6 (823), pg 4: "Mystery Train (Releasing Smoke)"</ref>
[[File:Sera_and_Shuuichi.png|thumb|right|300px|Masumi and [[Shuichi Akai]].]]
* Masumi has bags under her eyes identical to Shuichi Akai's.
* Masumi Sera's name is also incredibly similar to Mobile Suit Gundam character [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Sayla_Mass Sayla Mass] ({{lang|ja|セイラ・マス}}, ''Seira Masu''). [[Shuichi Akai#Name origin|Shuichi's name is derived]] from Sayla Mass's older brother's name, Char Aznable.
* Conan said he has a feeling he had met her before. "''Somehow I feel like we've met somewhere before, it might be that person resembles someone I know, that's why the feeling that we've met before is on my mind...''"<ref>Manga Chapter 771: Let's Hear Your Brilliant Deduction! p.11</ref>
* [[Andre Camel]] and most likely [[James Black]] seem to recognize her from somewhere. On another interesting note, James was the first to recognize that Masumi was a girl. Everyone else thought that she was a guy when they first saw her. Since James was Shuichi's boss, he would most likely know that Shuichi has a younger sister and what she would look like.
* Masumi lived in Japan until three years ago when her family moved to America. This matches with the time when Shuichi was infiltrating the Black Organization. The family's move to America could be the FBI's attempt to protect them should something go wrong with Shuichi's mission.
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew".
* In Chapter 859, Masumi, when being asked who taught her Jeet Kune Do, answers that her older brother did. Consequently, Conan asks Sera: "But, didn't you say your older brother was dead?" This leads to Masumi remarking "Yeah... That's what I heard." also further supporting the theory that Masumi is in Japan to investigate her brother's death.

=== Hints that Masumi was not Bourbon ===
* In Chapter 801, Masumi chased after [[Scar Akai]] who appeared while she was walking with Ran in front of the Mouri Detective Agency. Although, Scar Akai hid before she could find him, she told Ran that she had just seen "someone she knew". She then thinks there is "no way it was possible" regarding the man she saw, which would make sense if she thought Shuichi was dead. This implied she wasn't Bourbon, since Bourbon believes he is the only one who can kill Shuichi, implying that Gin might have failed to do so. Hence Bourbon wouldn't think that it was impossible to meet Shuichi again in the street.

==Relationships analysis==

===Friends & Family ===

==== Shuichi Akai ====
[[Shuichi Akai]] is Masumi's older brother. She didn't get to meet him until she was six-seven years old, because Shuichi went to study abroad before Masumi was born. At first meeting she was very shy, but she did make some pranks in an attempt to make him smile. Masumi refers to Shuichi as "Shu-nii", implying that they were close. Masumi seems to miss him after his supposed death. In the Blush Mermaid Heist, Masumi is shown to be fond of her fedora as she believes it has the same "feel" as Shuichi's old hats. Shuichi sent Masumi Jeet-Kune-Do training tapes while she was in elementary school. She watched these so many times while practicing that she wore them out.<ref name="876p2">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 2: "Romance Novelist"</ref> She describes her eldest brother as ''strong'' in contrast to her second - oldest brother.<ref name="859p6-7">Manga [[Volume 81]], File 9 (859): pgs 6-7: "Jeet Kune Do vs. Karate"</ref>

==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[File:EP671-674_25.png|thumb|right|Masumi hugs Conan after rescuing him in [[Detectives' Nocturne]].]]
Masumi is interested in [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s abilities as a detective and has been gathering information on him and his friends. She appears to be certain that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. Despite her initial suspicious presentation, Conan felt like she wasn't a bad person and so didn't mistrust her. Conan at several points questions her if they've met before, but she denies this, once secretly thinking, "Now's not the time". The period in which such an encounter could have taken place is initially hinted to be somewhere before the three-year span of Masumi's sojourn in the United States, when she was in her preteen years.<ref name="Mang83">Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 7-8: "Red Past"</ref><ref name="Mang86">Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905): "The Truth Rises to the Surface"</ref>

It is later shown that she had met Conan/Shinichi ten years ago, when the Akai family had gathered on an undisclosed beach in Japan prior to Shuichi Akai joining the FBI. By chance, Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] had also vacationed there, and they all ended up as witnesses and investigators in a gone-awry flight attempt from a robbery. When Shinichi managed to make Shuichi laugh (something Masumi had miserably failed to achieve) with his intelligence, observation skills and some unintended jokes, Masumi, in her admiration for Shinichi, began to call him "wizard". It is quite possible that this meeting inspired Masumi to become a detective herself.<ref name="Mang92">Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2-4 (972-974): "A Chance Meeting at the Beach"</ref>

If Masumi really lived in England, instead of America, then it's possible that she saw the tennis match from the London case on TV and recognized Conan as Shinichi based on his proclamation as 'Holmes' apprentice'.

On several occasions, such as the dramatic conclusion of the [[Volume 76#Online Client|Online Client Case]], Masumi has displayed an intensely affectionate air towards Conan which somewhat transcends a mere "big sister" relationship.<ref>Manga Chapter 800: ''Online Client Case'' - "When Objects Collide"; Anime Episode 674: ''[[Detectives' Nocturne]]'' - "Bourbon"</ref> In fact, it is hinted during the [[Volume 83#Romance Novelist Murder Case|Romance Novelist murder]] and in the movie ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]'' that she may actually be entertaining a crush on Shinichi/Conan and hopes of initiating a closer relationship with him. However, the actual level of her feelings for him is yet to be publicly revealed.

==== Ai Haibara ====
Masumi has been interested in meeting [[Ai Haibara]] for yet unrevealed reasons and has been secretly gathering information on her. She also seemed to recognize [[Shiho Miyano]] in the video of her rescuing the [[Detective Boys]]. Haibara in turn feels uneasy around Masumi, especially in close contact situations though arguably it could also be due to Scar Akai's presence near Masumi. The reason behind her interest might be due to Haibara's resemblance with [[Mary]].

==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Sera and Wave.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Ran hears sounds of rippling waves when she sees Masumi hurried away]]
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] have become friends and often walk home from school together. Masumi has also declared Ran as "her type" when they first met as a sign of liking, though this ultimately led Sonoko, Conan and Ran herself to mistake Masumi for a boy.

At one point, Ran recalls having met Masumi before in the past, hearing the sound of "rippling waves" when the she sees the latter leaving, "as if some sort of magic were at work".<ref name="Mang86"></ref> It is revealed in a later story that she and Masumi had actually met 10 years before, when they were both still children, on a beach, where by happenstance she, Shinichi and the Akai family inadvertently became embroiled in the aftermath of a crime (see '''Conan Edogawa''', above).<ref name="Mang92"></ref>

==== Sonoko Suzuki ====
Since enrolling at Teitan High, Masumi and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have become friends and often walk home from school together, with Sonoko describing Masumi as a popular girl who is "cheery, sociable, boyish and cute" and on top of that, a "Jeet Kune Do using detective", though she also teasingly remarks that the only thing "against Sera" is her flat chest.

==== Akai family's middle brother ====
Masumi appears to have a good relationship with her [[Akai family's middle brother|second-older brother]] and often consults him regarding information or deductions about the cases she faced, and also has a high regard of her brother's intellect, even considering the already sharp Shuichi as "strong" in contrast to her second older-brother.

==== Tsutomi Akai ====
Masumi's father died before she was born, so she never knew him. But he refer to him as 'Papa'

=== Mary Sera ===
[[ Mary]] seems very mature and cold while talking to Masumi. She also treats her more like a coworker than her daughter, as she always advises her what to do and switch hotels if any intel about Mary is leaked.She is also somehow stubborn as she declined Masumi's trust in Conan despite the latter's motive and pursuit of justice are geniune.

=== Black Organization ===

==== Rei Furuya ====
Rei first saw Masumi in Detectives Nocturne case and seemed to recognise her. They formally met in chapter 936 (Girls Band) at [[Café Poirot]]. Masumi felt like having met him and even asked him directly about that, but Rei said that was the first time they met. When Masumi talked about a friend of her brother who taught her play the guitar, Rei also seemed to know about that incident. In Masumi's flashback of that friend, a man who looked very much like Rei appeared, and Masumi once again wondered about it, to which Amuro replied that she took the wrong person.

==== Scotch ====
Sera recalled meeting Scotch 4 years ago. That was when Scotch was with Akai and Rei in a train station. Sera also remembered Scotch teaching her how to play the bass and though it was only 10 minutes, she seemed to enjoy it. Sera is not sure of Scotch's true identity or allegiance, but thinks that Scotch is Japanese and that Scotch is not the real name.

==Speculation==
[[File:Sera Knowing Conan's Name.png‎|thumb|right|170px|Masumi mentioning Conan's name.]]
=== Masumi met Shinichi and Ran when she was younger and knows Conan is Shinichi ===
*Masumi knew [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]'s identities before they introduced themselves. She also knew that Conan is a detective.<ref> [[Volume 73]], File 6 (768)</ref>
*Masumi seems to know that Conan is the brains behind Sleeping Kogoro. Conan seems to think that he may have met Masumi before or that she resembles someone that he knows. He believes that she got the deduction of a case wrong just so that he would reveal himself. <ref> [[Volume 73]], File 9 (771)</ref>
*Conan realizes he met Masumi before because he finds her snaggletoothed smile familiar,<ref name=845p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 6 (845), pg 16: "Our Territory"</ref>
*Masumi admits that she has met Conan before, but she can´t tell him until "the time" comes.<ref name=846p16>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 16: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
*Ran has met Masumi as well because Masumi's figure as she runs away reminds her of "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref>
*Masumi, asks Conan if he once met a girl "a long time ago and could never forget [her]"<ref name=876p11>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 11: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> and gets annoyed when he says he can't recall someone like that.
*Ran has a flashback to when she saw a younger Masumi, who is wearing a bathing suit, say, "You are a wizard, right?". Ran also feels that she has met [[Mary]].<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref>
*The meeting occurred 10 years ago, as mentioned by Mary.<ref> Manga [[Volume 90]], File 5 (953)</ref>
*Masumi puts on a swimsuit similar to the one in Ran's flashback in order to jog Conan's memory, which results in him remembering her in that bathing suit as well, along as three other people, assumed to be her relatives. <ref> Manga [[Volume 91]], File 11 (969)</ref>

In Chapter 771, it is revealed that she also knows Professor Agasa, although she calls him "Professor what's his name". Although this could be explained away as her talking to Conan off screen and her just not remembering Agasa's name.

=== Identity of Masumi's middle brother ===
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=== The Wizard ===
In a PS, [[Akai family's middle brother|Masumi's middle brother]] asks if she "has already met the Wizard?"<ref name=861p15-16>Manga Volume 81, File 11 (861), pg 15-16: "Just like Magic"</ref> Masumi's thought reply is "You could say so..." Later, Masumi "thinks aloud" that her reason for returning to Japan is to meet the Wizard once more.<ref name=874p8>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 2 (874), pg 8: "The red past"</ref> The identity of the Wizard is revealed in File 974 to be Shinichi.

==== Shinichi Kudo ====
Tellingly, Masumi turns towards Conan when thinking of the answer "You could say so". At this point Masumi seems to know Conan is Shinichi. If Shinichi was nicknamed "The Wizard" by Masumi and/or her brother because of what happened when he and Masumi met in the past, then the response is appropriate since she could only sort of meet with Shinichi, because Shinichi shrunk into Conan. It's possible that the event where Shinichi earned the nickname "The Wizard" was Shinichi and Ran's meeting with Masumi 10 years ago. When trying to remember Masumi, Ran specifically mentions "sounds of rippling waves, as if some sort of magic were at work."<ref name=846p4>Manga [[Volume 80]], File 7 (846), pg 4: "The Magic Lock"</ref> A "magical" incident, if it was Shinichi's doing, might have earned him the nickname. Ran has a flashback of a young Masumi saying "You are a wizard, right?".<ref> Manga [[Volume 86]], File 1 (905)</ref> Conan seems to have remembered meeting Masumi 10 years ago and is shown as a young Shinichi standing in front of a large wave.<ref> Manga [[Volume 92]], File 2 (971)</ref>

==== Someone else ====
At this point it is unlikely that the Wizard is anyone else. There is evidence that Masumi nicknamed the person who she calls Wizard, at a point in the past while Ran was nearby. If Ran was nearby, then this would have to have happened when they first met 10 years ago, meaning that the person must be someone who existed back then. The topic of the Wizard came up during a text conversation about Conan between Masumi and her middle brother, and her response to if she had met the Wizard again was "You could say so", which is more than likely implying that she is referring to Conan, and therefore Shinichi.

[[File:Akai's picture 338.PNG|thumb|right|The picture of the Detective Boys the mystery assistants captured]]

===Masumi learned about Haibara from Shuichi's picture===
Masumi initially had an interest in Haibara. This is strange because Haibara didn't exist prior to Shiho shrinking. The knowledge of Shiho should have been secret to her as well, because Shuichi Akai's infiltration of the Black Organization was a secret. If Masumi doesn't even know the details of her brother's death, why should she know about Shiho? Masumi may recognize Haibara from pictures of Conan and Haibara that Shuichi took back during the Vermouth arc. It is standard procedure in the US to send the personal belongings of the dead back to their families. If Shuichi mixed these pictures in with his own things when he took them out of his truck before meeting with Kir, it's possible they were overlooked when the FBI sent Shuichi 's things to his family. If Masumi was interested in finding out how and why Shuichi died, she would begin by researching the people in those pictures and those connected with them in hopes of finding clues.
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==Character popularity==
*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. Masumi placed 9th overall with 292 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8024|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 50+ poll "Best Detective Conan characters", with 107 votes.

*Masumi ranked 5th in the Digest Book 60+ poll "Cutest Detective Conan characters", with 135 votes.

*Masumi ranked 10th in the Digest Book 70+ poll "Characters you want to go on a date with", with 106 votes.

*Masumi ranked 11th in the Digest Book 80+ poll "Character you want to marry", with 281 votes.

==Name origin==
{{Nihongo|Masumi Sera's|世良・真純|Sera Masumi}} name comes 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 Masumi is Shuichi's sister (Manga File 821): {{lang|ja|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> The kanji for Masumi's surname mean 'good world'. The kanji for her first name, Masumi, mean 'true' and either 'pure' or 'net.'

==Quotes==
{{cquote|Deletion. For data at least ... is an easy task to accomplish.|Masumi, on deleting a picture of Haibara from her computer, File 777 pg 16}}

{{cquote|I guess I'm a bad kid after all...|Masumi, while crying, File 814 pg 16}}

==Trivia==
*Masumi is based on [[Natsuki Koshimizu]], a tomboy detective girl turned criminal who made her first appearance in the [[Volume 54#Detective Koshien Case|''Detective Koshien Case'']]. Since Natsuki had proven highly popular, but Aoyama couldn't recycle her as a protagonist, the character of Masumi was created instead.<ref>''Shonen Sunday'' #33</ref>
*When she was young she liked to read the "[[Night Baron]]" series, so she is fan of [[Yusaku Kudo]].
*Her catchphrase, "Case Closed" (said in English), is likely a reference to the English-language name of Detective Conan.
*Masumi owns an [[Vehicles_in_Detective_Conan#Sera's Yamaha_Artesia_XT400|Artesia XT400]].
*In File 859, Masumi reveals that she has a second-older brother and that her oldest brother taught her Jeet-Kune-Do.
*Masumi speaks Queen's English.<ref>[[:File:Postcard2015 1.jpg]]</ref>

==In other languages==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|真純 Masumi|世良 Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|ماسومي Māsūmi|سيرا Sēra}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Mexico|American Spanish|Masumi|Sera}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Brazil|Brazilian Portuguese|Masumi|Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Masumi|Sera}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|세라 Sera|양 Yang}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|มาสึมิ Mās̄ụ-mi|เซระ Sera}}
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==See also==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Akai family]]

==References==
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