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Conan Edogawa

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Wizard ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer Sleeping Kogoro's Bag of Wisdom ([[Hyoue Kuroda]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.At times when he fails to save the killer it haunts him .

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
|}
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<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

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== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] Conan and Haibara crossed paths with them at an hotel party while they were trying to prevent someone from dying at the hands of the organization. While there Haibara is kidnapped by one of the members of the organization [[Pisco]]. Conan manages to save Haibara and also learn about [[Anokata]]

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====
Eisuke discovered that Conan is the real Sleeping Kogoro before they even first met.Conan found him suspicious to his ressemblance to Rena Mizunashi who is a member of the organisation.On the other hand, Eisuke have realised that Conan's behaviour towards Ran ressembles that of a boyfriend and kept monitoring him. Eventually,Conan found that he is the younger brother of Rena who is a member of CIA infltrating the organisation,the relationship between the two seems to have improven somehow after Conan reveals his identity to Eisuke without hesitating refusing his offer to take Ran with him in America.At that moment, Eisuke confesses to Conan in an amical way that he was aware from the beginning that he was sleeping Kogoro and Shinichi Kudo. He asked Conan to take care of Ran and the two leave on good terms.

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}

Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====
[[Kuroda]] is aware how good Conan is as a detective, calling him " Sleeping Kogoro's bag of wisdom", he also trusts his deductions and have already ordered the Tokyo police to follow Conan's Instructions. On the other hand, Conan is suspicious of Kuroda because he almost matches [[Rum]]'s description, he also became shocked that Kuroda became the Superintindent of Tokyo Police in [[Matsumoto]]'s place.

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken. On the other hand, Mary remains skeptical of Conan telling her daughter to be aware of him as he isn't the same boy they met 10 years ago.

== 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. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
{{main|Gadgets}}
Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
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== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee.Shinichi favourite food is lemon pie was frist shown in [[The Memories of First Love Case]] and is also shown in [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]] when Daisuke say's that he isnt the only one who drinks iced coffee throughout the year.

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Conan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
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Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Wizard ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer Sleeping Kogoro's Bag of Wisdom ([[Hyoue Kuroda]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
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'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.At times when he fails to save the killer it haunts him .

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
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{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
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<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
|}
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<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
|}
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<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}

{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Ojisan<ref name="ep18" />}}
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<tab title="Thieves">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Detective-kun (Tantei-kun) Pint-Sized Detective Great Detective (''Meitantei'') Heisei Sherlock Holmes (once)|Kaitou Kid Kid Kaitou 1412 (first time)}}

{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Edogawa Conan<ref name="lcm">[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Saucy Great Detective (''Konamaiki na Meitantei'') Brat (''Gaki'' or ''Gakincho'')|Lupin III<ref name="lcm" /> Lupin<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Daisuke Jigen|file=Daisuke Jigen.jpg|?|Jigen Daisuke<ref name="lcm" /> Papa}}

{{appellations|Goemon Ishikawa{{!}}Goemon Ishikawa XIII|file=Goemon Ishikawa.jpg|?|Ishikawa Goemon XIII (''Jūsan-daime Ishikawa Goemon'')<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|?|Mine Fujiko}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file948" /> Haneda<ref name="file948" /> [[Shukichi Haneda|Taiko Meijin]]'s brother-in-law (''Taiko Meijin no giri no niisan'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref> The shogi player (''sono kishi'')<ref name="file947"/>}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Conan-kun|Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide Akagi Hideo}}

{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki Uemura Naoki}}

{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-senshu Higo}}

{{appellations|Takahiro Sanada|-|Sanada-senshu}}

{{appellations|file=Minami Takayama anime.jpg|Minami Takayama|Boy (''Boya'')<ref name="ep82">[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]]</ref> Detective-kun (''Tantei-kun'')<ref name="ep82" />|Takayama Minami-san<ref name="ep82" /> Takayama-san<ref name="ep82" />}}

{{appellations|Minerva Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Queen of the Grass Court (''Shiba no Joō'')}}

{{appellations|Naomichi Mugikura|-|Mugikura-san Mugikura Naomichi}}

{{appellations|Osamu Kenzaki|Conan-kun<ref name="file845">[[Volume 80#Our Territory|File 845: Our Territory (Volume 80)]]</ref>|Kenzaki-san<ref name="file845" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaito Kuroba|Mr. Heisei Sherlock Holmes (''Heisei no Sherlock Holmes-san'')|Kaitou Kid Kid<ref>[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Magician-san Under the Moonlight (''Gekka no Kijutsushi-san'')<ref name="file634">[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Mary|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[volume 85#Pool Side Case|File 903 (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''Kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903" />|Mary<ref name="file930" /> That girl (''Ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Araide-sensei<ref name="file422">[[Volume 41#Four Porsches Case|File 422: Inescapable Target (Volume 41)]]</ref>}}


{{appellations|Zengo Goto|-|Bodyguard-san}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|[[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s dad (''Akai-san no otōsan'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Suguru Itakura|-|Itakura-san<ref name="ep309" /> Itakura Suguru-san (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308">[[Episode 308]]</ref> Itakura-shi (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}

{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}

{{appellations|Mrs. Kojima|file=Mrs. Kojima.jpg|-|Genta's mom (''Genta no kāsan'')}}
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</tabs>

== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] Conan and Haibara crossed paths with them at an hotel party while they were trying to prevent someone from dying at the hands of the organization. While there Haibara is kidnapped by one of the members of the organization [[Pisco]]. Conan manages to save Haibara and also learn about [[Anokata]]

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====
Eisuke discovered that Conan is the real Sleeping Kogoro before they even first met.Conan found him suspicious to his ressemblance to Rena Mizunashi who is a member of the organisation.On the other hand, Eisuke have realised that Conan's behaviour towards Ran ressembles that of a boyfriend and kept monitoring him. Eventually,Conan found that he is the younger brother of Rena who is a member of CIA infltrating the organisation,the relationship between the two seems to have improven somehow after Conan reveals his identity to Eisuke without hesitating refusing his offer to take Ran with him in America.At that moment, Eisuke confesses to Conan in an amical way that he was aware from the beginning that he was sleeping Kogoro and Shinichi Kudo. He asked Conan to take care of Ran and the two leave on good terms.

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
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[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
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Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====
[[Kuroda]] is aware how good Conan is as a detective, calling him " Sleeping Kogoro's bag of wisdom", he also trusts his deductions and have already ordered the Tokyo police to follow Conan's Instructions. On the other hand, Conan is suspicious of Kuroda because he almost matches [[Rum]]'s description, he also became shocked that Kuroda became the Superintindent of Tokyo Police in [[Matsumoto]]'s place.

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

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Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken. On the other hand, Mary remains skeptical of Conan telling her daughter to be aware of him as he isn't the same boy they met 10 years ago.

== People who know Conan's real identity ==
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There are only a few characters in the series who know Conan's real identity. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
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Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
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{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
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== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee.Shinichi favourite food is lemon pie was frist shown in [[The Memories of First Love Case]] and is also shown in [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]when Daisuke say's that he isnt the only one who drinks iced coffee throughout the year.

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
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Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Wizard ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer Sleeping Kogoro's Bag of Wisdom ([[Hyoue Kuroda]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
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'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.At times when he fails to save the killer it haunts him .

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
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<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
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<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
|}
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<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}

{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Ojisan<ref name="ep18" />}}
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</tab>
<tab title="Thieves">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Detective-kun (Tantei-kun) Pint-Sized Detective Great Detective (''Meitantei'') Heisei Sherlock Holmes (once)|Kaitou Kid Kid Kaitou 1412 (first time)}}

{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Edogawa Conan<ref name="lcm">[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Saucy Great Detective (''Konamaiki na Meitantei'') Brat (''Gaki'' or ''Gakincho'')|Lupin III<ref name="lcm" /> Lupin<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Daisuke Jigen|file=Daisuke Jigen.jpg|?|Jigen Daisuke<ref name="lcm" /> Papa}}

{{appellations|Goemon Ishikawa{{!}}Goemon Ishikawa XIII|file=Goemon Ishikawa.jpg|?|Ishikawa Goemon XIII (''Jūsan-daime Ishikawa Goemon'')<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|?|Mine Fujiko}}
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</tab>
<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file948" /> Haneda<ref name="file948" /> [[Shukichi Haneda|Taiko Meijin]]'s brother-in-law (''Taiko Meijin no giri no niisan'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref> The shogi player (''sono kishi'')<ref name="file947"/>}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Conan-kun|Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide Akagi Hideo}}

{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki Uemura Naoki}}

{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-senshu Higo}}

{{appellations|Takahiro Sanada|-|Sanada-senshu}}

{{appellations|file=Minami Takayama anime.jpg|Minami Takayama|Boy (''Boya'')<ref name="ep82">[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]]</ref> Detective-kun (''Tantei-kun'')<ref name="ep82" />|Takayama Minami-san<ref name="ep82" /> Takayama-san<ref name="ep82" />}}

{{appellations|Minerva Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Queen of the Grass Court (''Shiba no Joō'')}}

{{appellations|Naomichi Mugikura|-|Mugikura-san Mugikura Naomichi}}

{{appellations|Osamu Kenzaki|Conan-kun<ref name="file845">[[Volume 80#Our Territory|File 845: Our Territory (Volume 80)]]</ref>|Kenzaki-san<ref name="file845" />}}
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</tab>
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
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{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}

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== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] Conan and Haibara crossed paths with them at an hotel party while they were trying to prevent someone from dying at the hands of the organization. While there Haibara is kidnapped by one of the members of the organization [[Pisco]]. Conan manages to save Haibara and also learn about [[Anokata]]

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
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Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====
Eisuke discovered that Conan is the real Sleeping Kogoro before they even first met.Conan found him suspicious to his ressemblance to Rena Mizunashi who is a member of the organisation.On the other hand, Eisuke have realised that Conan's behaviour towards Ran ressembles that of a boyfriend and kept monitoring him. Eventually,Conan found that he is the younger brother of Rena who is a member of CIA infltrating the organisation,the relationship between the two seems to have improven somehow after Conan reveals his identity to Eisuke without hesitating refusing his offer to take Ran with him in America.At that moment, Eisuke confesses to Conan in an amical way that he was aware from the beginning that he was sleeping Kogoro and Shinichi Kudo. He asked Conan to take care of Ran and the two leave on good terms.

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}

Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====
[[Kuroda]] is aware how good Conan is as a detective, calling him " Sleeping Kogoro's bag of wisdom", he also trusts his deductions and have already ordered the Tokyo police to follow Conan's Instructions. On the other hand, Conan is suspicious of Kuroda because he almost matches [[Rum]]'s description, he also became shocked that Kuroda became the Superintindent of Tokyo Police in [[Matsumoto]]'s place.

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken. On the other hand, Mary remains skeptical of Conan telling her daughter to be aware of him as he isn't the same boy they met 10 years ago.

== 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. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
{{main|Gadgets}}
Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
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{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
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== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee.Shinichi favourite food is lemon pie was frist shown in [[The Memories of First Love Case]]and is also shown in [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]when Daisuke say's that he isnt the only one who drinks iced coffee throughout the year.

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Conan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Wizard ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer Sleeping Kogoro's Bag of Wisdom ([[Hyoue Kuroda]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.At times when he fails to save the killer it haunts him .

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
|}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

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{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

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{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

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{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}

{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Ojisan<ref name="ep18" />}}
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{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Edogawa Conan<ref name="lcm">[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Saucy Great Detective (''Konamaiki na Meitantei'') Brat (''Gaki'' or ''Gakincho'')|Lupin III<ref name="lcm" /> Lupin<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Daisuke Jigen|file=Daisuke Jigen.jpg|?|Jigen Daisuke<ref name="lcm" /> Papa}}

{{appellations|Goemon Ishikawa{{!}}Goemon Ishikawa XIII|file=Goemon Ishikawa.jpg|?|Ishikawa Goemon XIII (''Jūsan-daime Ishikawa Goemon'')<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|?|Mine Fujiko}}
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{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Conan-kun|Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide Akagi Hideo}}

{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki Uemura Naoki}}

{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-senshu Higo}}

{{appellations|Takahiro Sanada|-|Sanada-senshu}}

{{appellations|file=Minami Takayama anime.jpg|Minami Takayama|Boy (''Boya'')<ref name="ep82">[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]]</ref> Detective-kun (''Tantei-kun'')<ref name="ep82" />|Takayama Minami-san<ref name="ep82" /> Takayama-san<ref name="ep82" />}}

{{appellations|Minerva Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Queen of the Grass Court (''Shiba no Joō'')}}

{{appellations|Naomichi Mugikura|-|Mugikura-san Mugikura Naomichi}}

{{appellations|Osamu Kenzaki|Conan-kun<ref name="file845">[[Volume 80#Our Territory|File 845: Our Territory (Volume 80)]]</ref>|Kenzaki-san<ref name="file845" />}}
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{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Araide-sensei<ref name="file422">[[Volume 41#Four Porsches Case|File 422: Inescapable Target (Volume 41)]]</ref>}}


{{appellations|Zengo Goto|-|Bodyguard-san}}

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{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}

{{appellations|Mrs. Kojima|file=Mrs. Kojima.jpg|-|Genta's mom (''Genta no kāsan'')}}
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== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] Conan and Haibara crossed paths with them at an hotel party while they were trying to prevent someone from dying at the hands of the organization. While there Haibara is kidnapped by one of the members of the organization [[Pisco]]. Conan manages to save Haibara and also learn about [[Anokata]]

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====
Eisuke discovered that Conan is the real Sleeping Kogoro before they even first met.Conan found him suspicious to his ressemblance to Rena Mizunashi who is a member of the organisation.On the other hand, Eisuke have realised that Conan's behaviour towards Ran ressembles that of a boyfriend and kept monitoring him. Eventually,Conan found that he is the younger brother of Rena who is a member of CIA infltrating the organisation,the relationship between the two seems to have improven somehow after Conan reveals his identity to Eisuke without hesitating refusing his offer to take Ran with him in America.At that moment, Eisuke confesses to Conan in an amical way that he was aware from the beginning that he was sleeping Kogoro and Shinichi Kudo. He asked Conan to take care of Ran and the two leave on good terms.

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}

Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====
[[Kuroda]] is aware how good Conan is as a detective, calling him " Sleeping Kogoro's bag of wisdom", he also trusts his deductions and have already ordered the Tokyo police to follow Conan's Instructions. On the other hand, Conan is suspicious of Kuroda because he almost matches [[Rum]]'s description, he also became shocked that Kuroda became the Superintindent of Tokyo Police in [[Matsumoto]]'s place.

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken. On the other hand, Mary remains skeptical of Conan telling her daughter to be aware of him as he isn't the same boy they met 10 years ago.

== People who know Conan's real identity ==
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There are only a few characters in the series who know Conan's real identity. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
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Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee. [[The Memories of First Love Case]] [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Conan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Magician ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
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'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.At times when he fails to save the killer it haunts him .

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}

{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Ojisan<ref name="ep18" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Thieves">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Detective-kun (Tantei-kun) Pint-Sized Detective Great Detective (''Meitantei'') Heisei Sherlock Holmes (once)|Kaitou Kid Kid Kaitou 1412 (first time)}}

{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Edogawa Conan<ref name="lcm">[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Saucy Great Detective (''Konamaiki na Meitantei'') Brat (''Gaki'' or ''Gakincho'')|Lupin III<ref name="lcm" /> Lupin<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Daisuke Jigen|file=Daisuke Jigen.jpg|?|Jigen Daisuke<ref name="lcm" /> Papa}}

{{appellations|Goemon Ishikawa{{!}}Goemon Ishikawa XIII|file=Goemon Ishikawa.jpg|?|Ishikawa Goemon XIII (''Jūsan-daime Ishikawa Goemon'')<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|?|Mine Fujiko}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file948" /> Haneda<ref name="file948" /> [[Shukichi Haneda|Taiko Meijin]]'s brother-in-law (''Taiko Meijin no giri no niisan'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref> The shogi player (''sono kishi'')<ref name="file947"/>}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Conan-kun|Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide Akagi Hideo}}

{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki Uemura Naoki}}

{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-senshu Higo}}

{{appellations|Takahiro Sanada|-|Sanada-senshu}}

{{appellations|file=Minami Takayama anime.jpg|Minami Takayama|Boy (''Boya'')<ref name="ep82">[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]]</ref> Detective-kun (''Tantei-kun'')<ref name="ep82" />|Takayama Minami-san<ref name="ep82" /> Takayama-san<ref name="ep82" />}}

{{appellations|Minerva Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Queen of the Grass Court (''Shiba no Joō'')}}

{{appellations|Naomichi Mugikura|-|Mugikura-san Mugikura Naomichi}}

{{appellations|Osamu Kenzaki|Conan-kun<ref name="file845">[[Volume 80#Our Territory|File 845: Our Territory (Volume 80)]]</ref>|Kenzaki-san<ref name="file845" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaito Kuroba|Mr. Heisei Sherlock Holmes (''Heisei no Sherlock Holmes-san'')|Kaitou Kid Kid<ref>[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Magician-san Under the Moonlight (''Gekka no Kijutsushi-san'')<ref name="file634">[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Mary|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[volume 85#Pool Side Case|File 903 (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''Kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903" />|Mary<ref name="file930" /> That girl (''Ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Araide-sensei<ref name="file422">[[Volume 41#Four Porsches Case|File 422: Inescapable Target (Volume 41)]]</ref>}}


{{appellations|Zengo Goto|-|Bodyguard-san}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|[[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s dad (''Akai-san no otōsan'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Suguru Itakura|-|Itakura-san<ref name="ep309" /> Itakura Suguru-san (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308">[[Episode 308]]</ref> Itakura-shi (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}

{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}

{{appellations|Mrs. Kojima|file=Mrs. Kojima.jpg|-|Genta's mom (''Genta no kāsan'')}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] Conan and Haibara crossed paths with them at an hotel party while they were trying to prevent someone from dying at the hands of the organization. While there Haibara is kidnapped by one of the members of the organization [[Pisco]]. Conan manages to save Haibara and also learn about [[Anokata]]

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
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Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
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[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
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Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken.

== 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. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
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Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
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{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
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== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee. {{citation needed}}

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Conan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Magician ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.At times when he fails to save the killer it haunts him .

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

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== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] Conan and Haibara crossed paths with them at an hotel party while they were trying to prevent someone from dying at the hands of the organization. While there Haibara is kidnapped by one of the members of the organization [[Pisco]]. Conan manages to save Haibara and also learn about [[Anokata]]

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====
In Conan Edogawa form, whenever Shinichi/ Conan is near Sonoko, she gets annoyed. She thinks of him as a brat who knows a lot of weird stuff. Conan finds her annoying in turn, especially when she teases Ran about her relationship with Shinichi.

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}

Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken.

== 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. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
{{main|Gadgets}}
Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee. {{citation needed}}

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Conan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Magician ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
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'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.At times when he fails to save the killer it haunts him .

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
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<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
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<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}

{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Ojisan<ref name="ep18" />}}
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<tab title="Thieves">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Detective-kun (Tantei-kun) Pint-Sized Detective Great Detective (''Meitantei'') Heisei Sherlock Holmes (once)|Kaitou Kid Kid Kaitou 1412 (first time)}}

{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Edogawa Conan<ref name="lcm">[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Saucy Great Detective (''Konamaiki na Meitantei'') Brat (''Gaki'' or ''Gakincho'')|Lupin III<ref name="lcm" /> Lupin<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Daisuke Jigen|file=Daisuke Jigen.jpg|?|Jigen Daisuke<ref name="lcm" /> Papa}}

{{appellations|Goemon Ishikawa{{!}}Goemon Ishikawa XIII|file=Goemon Ishikawa.jpg|?|Ishikawa Goemon XIII (''Jūsan-daime Ishikawa Goemon'')<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|?|Mine Fujiko}}
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<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file948" /> Haneda<ref name="file948" /> [[Shukichi Haneda|Taiko Meijin]]'s brother-in-law (''Taiko Meijin no giri no niisan'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref> The shogi player (''sono kishi'')<ref name="file947"/>}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Conan-kun|Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide Akagi Hideo}}

{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki Uemura Naoki}}

{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-senshu Higo}}

{{appellations|Takahiro Sanada|-|Sanada-senshu}}

{{appellations|file=Minami Takayama anime.jpg|Minami Takayama|Boy (''Boya'')<ref name="ep82">[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]]</ref> Detective-kun (''Tantei-kun'')<ref name="ep82" />|Takayama Minami-san<ref name="ep82" /> Takayama-san<ref name="ep82" />}}

{{appellations|Minerva Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Queen of the Grass Court (''Shiba no Joō'')}}

{{appellations|Naomichi Mugikura|-|Mugikura-san Mugikura Naomichi}}

{{appellations|Osamu Kenzaki|Conan-kun<ref name="file845">[[Volume 80#Our Territory|File 845: Our Territory (Volume 80)]]</ref>|Kenzaki-san<ref name="file845" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaito Kuroba|Mr. Heisei Sherlock Holmes (''Heisei no Sherlock Holmes-san'')|Kaitou Kid Kid<ref>[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Magician-san Under the Moonlight (''Gekka no Kijutsushi-san'')<ref name="file634">[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Mary|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[volume 85#Pool Side Case|File 903 (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''Kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903" />|Mary<ref name="file930" /> That girl (''Ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Araide-sensei<ref name="file422">[[Volume 41#Four Porsches Case|File 422: Inescapable Target (Volume 41)]]</ref>}}


{{appellations|Zengo Goto|-|Bodyguard-san}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|[[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s dad (''Akai-san no otōsan'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Suguru Itakura|-|Itakura-san<ref name="ep309" /> Itakura Suguru-san (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308">[[Episode 308]]</ref> Itakura-shi (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}

{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}

{{appellations|Mrs. Kojima|file=Mrs. Kojima.jpg|-|Genta's mom (''Genta no kāsan'')}}
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</tabs>

== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===
In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] Conan and Haibara crossed paths with them at an hotel party while they were trying to prevent someone from dying at the hands of the organization. While there Haibara is kidnapped by one of the members of the organization [[Pisco]]. Conan manages to save Haibara and also learn about [[Anokata]]

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
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[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
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Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken.

== People who know Conan's real identity ==
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There are only a few characters in the series who know Conan's real identity. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
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Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
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== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee. {{citation needed}}

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Conan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Magician ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
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'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}

{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}

{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Ojisan<ref name="ep18" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Thieves">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Detective-kun (Tantei-kun) Pint-Sized Detective Great Detective (''Meitantei'') Heisei Sherlock Holmes (once)|Kaitou Kid Kid Kaitou 1412 (first time)}}

{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Edogawa Conan<ref name="lcm">[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Saucy Great Detective (''Konamaiki na Meitantei'') Brat (''Gaki'' or ''Gakincho'')|Lupin III<ref name="lcm" /> Lupin<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Daisuke Jigen|file=Daisuke Jigen.jpg|?|Jigen Daisuke<ref name="lcm" /> Papa}}

{{appellations|Goemon Ishikawa{{!}}Goemon Ishikawa XIII|file=Goemon Ishikawa.jpg|?|Ishikawa Goemon XIII (''Jūsan-daime Ishikawa Goemon'')<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|?|Mine Fujiko}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file948" /> Haneda<ref name="file948" /> [[Shukichi Haneda|Taiko Meijin]]'s brother-in-law (''Taiko Meijin no giri no niisan'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref> The shogi player (''sono kishi'')<ref name="file947"/>}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Conan-kun|Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide Akagi Hideo}}

{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki Uemura Naoki}}

{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-senshu Higo}}

{{appellations|Takahiro Sanada|-|Sanada-senshu}}

{{appellations|file=Minami Takayama anime.jpg|Minami Takayama|Boy (''Boya'')<ref name="ep82">[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]]</ref> Detective-kun (''Tantei-kun'')<ref name="ep82" />|Takayama Minami-san<ref name="ep82" /> Takayama-san<ref name="ep82" />}}

{{appellations|Minerva Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Queen of the Grass Court (''Shiba no Joō'')}}

{{appellations|Naomichi Mugikura|-|Mugikura-san Mugikura Naomichi}}

{{appellations|Osamu Kenzaki|Conan-kun<ref name="file845">[[Volume 80#Our Territory|File 845: Our Territory (Volume 80)]]</ref>|Kenzaki-san<ref name="file845" />}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaito Kuroba|Mr. Heisei Sherlock Holmes (''Heisei no Sherlock Holmes-san'')|Kaitou Kid Kid<ref>[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Magician-san Under the Moonlight (''Gekka no Kijutsushi-san'')<ref name="file634">[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Mary|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[volume 85#Pool Side Case|File 903 (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''Kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903" />|Mary<ref name="file930" /> That girl (''Ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Araide-sensei<ref name="file422">[[Volume 41#Four Porsches Case|File 422: Inescapable Target (Volume 41)]]</ref>}}


{{appellations|Zengo Goto|-|Bodyguard-san}}

{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|[[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s dad (''Akai-san no otōsan'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Suguru Itakura|-|Itakura-san<ref name="ep309" /> Itakura Suguru-san (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308">[[Episode 308]]</ref> Itakura-shi (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}

{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}

{{appellations|Mrs. Kojima|file=Mrs. Kojima.jpg|-|Genta's mom (''Genta no kāsan'')}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===
Conan and Haibara crossed paths with them at an hotel party while they were trying to prevent someone from dying at the hands of the organization
[[Reunion_with_the_Black_Organization]] over there Haibara is kidnapped by one of the members of the organization [[Pisco]] .Conan manages to save Haibara and also learn about [[Anokata]]

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
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Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
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Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
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[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
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Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken.

== 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. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
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Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
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{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
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== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee. {{citation needed}}

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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Rum

2017-03-05T17:44:42Z

Detectiveconanmim: /* Mary */

{{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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| name = Rum
| japanese-name = ラム (Ramu)
| english-name =
| image = Generic Male Profile.jpg
| age = Unknown
| gender = Unknown 
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| occupation = [[Black Organization]] second-in-command
| nicknames =
| aliases =
| first-appearance = Unknown
| appearances = {{:Rum Appearances}}
| keyhole =
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| footnotes =
| japanese-voice = Unknown ([[The Darkest Nightmare|movie 20]])<ref>Rum was only given a computerized altered voice, and the movie credits does not list a voice actor. They did this intentionally so that no one could look up what other characters that voice actor/actress might play in the anime series.</ref>
}}
{{nihongo|'''Rum'''|ラム|Ramu}} is a high ranking member and the second-in-command of the [[Black Organization]] in ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Judging from [[Shuichi Akai]]/[[Subaru Okiya]]'s descriptions, Rum appears to have high rank in the organization and is very close to [[The Boss of the Black Organization|the Boss]]. Later on, [[Ai Haibara]] remarks that Rum is second only to the Boss of the Black Organization, suggesting that he/she is their second-in-command. Rum's identity, sex and mission are currently unknown.


== Appearance ==
Rum has a damaged eye which has been replaced with an artificial eye.<ref name=908p16>Manga [[Volume 86]], File 4 (908), pg 16: "Betting With Your Life..."</ref> It is unknown which eye was damaged.<ref name=908p16/> So far, characters with damaged eyes have been shown to either have a scar over the eye (e.g. [[Kansuke Yamato]]) or wear sunglasses (e.g. [[Hyoue Kuroda]] and [[Magic_Kaito_Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume#The_Phantom_Lady|Gozu]]) where one lens is drawn tinted so the damaged eye is not visible. The anime treatment of the "false eye and glasses"-type characters shows their false pupils not contracting or enlarging like their working eye. However, there is no guarantee that Rum will follow either of these character models.

Various Black Organization members have given conflicting accounts of his/her overall appearance and build. Some say Rum is a strongly-built man, some say he/she looks feminine, and some say he/she is an old man.<ref name=906p3>Manga [[Volume 86]], File 2 (906), pg 3: "A Kind Aunt"</ref> The conflicting descriptions of Rum's appearance suggests that he/she doesn't present himself to others in a straightforward fashion.

<gallery widths=185px perrow=3>
File:792 Rum1.jpg|Rum's silhouette with a strongly-built man physique ([[Three First Discoverers|episode 792]]).
File:792 Rum2.jpg|Rum's silhouette with a feminine physique (episode 792).
File:792 Rum3.jpg|Rum's silhouette with an elderly physique (episode 792).
</gallery>



== Appellations==
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{{appellations|Gin|Rum<ref name="file953">[[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref> Close aide of [[the Boss of the Black Organization|that person]] (''ano kata no sokkin'')<ref>A TV commercial trailer of ''[[The Darkest Nightmare]]''</ref>}}
{{Appellations|Vermouth|Rum}}
{{Appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Rum}}
{{Appellations|Bourbon|Rum}}
{{Appellations|file=M20 odd eyes woman.jpg|Curaçao|Rum|Curaçao}}
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{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Rum<ref name="file950">[[Volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|File 950: The Clipped Letters (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Rum<ref name="file950" />}}
{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Rum}}
{{appellations|James Black|Rum}}

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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Rum<ref name="file950" />}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Rum<ref name="file950" />}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Rum}}
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== Plot overview ==
[[File:The RUM text message.jpg|130px|thumb|right|The text message that Shuichi received.]]
=== Scarlet Epilogue (Manga: [[Volume 85#File 898 - Scarlet Epilogue|898]], Anime: [[The Scarlet Return|783]]) ===
Shuichi Akai (as Subaru Okiya) calls [[Jodie Starling]] and [[Andre Camel]] to the [[Shinichi Kudo|Kudos]]' house. He informs them that the undercover [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent [[Hidemi Hondou]] reported to him that a new organization member is on the move. As she only sent three letters "RUM", Akai deduces that it was done in a hurry. He recalls having heard the code name a few times when he was still infiltrating the organization, and notes that the member seems to be really close to the boss. Akai also tells them to report this back to [[James Black]], while emphasizing that their new threat is someone even more important than [[Gin]].

=== Scriptwriter Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 86#Scriptwriter Murder Case|906-908]], Anime: [[Three First Discoverers|792-793]]) ===
[[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] asks [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] about Rum. She tells him that she never met Rum in person but has heard of the number two-ranked agent in the Organization. His/her characteristics differ depending on who is describing him/her. Some say he/she is a strongly-built man, some say he/she looks feminine, and some say he/she is an old man. Others believe that all of these are just descriptions of body substitutes Rum uses. Haibara also says there is one characteristic that is the same for all stories about Rum -- one of his/her eyes is damaged and has been replaced with an artificial eye.

They then encounter a murder case where all three suspects happen to have characteristics like Rum's: Kuramichi Habanaka a 40 years old strong-built man, Ronpei Sakaba a 31 years old feminine-looking man, and Denji Shibakaru a 63 years old man.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing_Case|939-941]], Anime: TBA) ===
While not directly related to Rum's plot, this case showed how several different people could see the same person and describe them as completely different. The culprit in this case flees down the stairs past various people of different heights and past objects of different colors, which resulted in the [[Detective Boys]] giving contradicting eye witness accounts. To further liken the situation to Rum, Genta even claims that he saw the number two written on the culprits clothes. In addition this case had a [[Mary#Department Store Stabbing Case .28Manga: 939-941.2C Anime: TBA.29|secondary plot point involving mascara]].

=== Kohji Haneda's Death Case (Manga: [[Volume 90#The Clenched Scissors and the Clipped Letters|950]], Anime: TBA) ===
{| style="float:right;"
|-
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Asaka_manga.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Asaka's photo.]]
| style="vertical-align: top"|[[File:Kohji's mirror.png|thumb|right|Kohji's dying message mirror is a flip mirror. ]]
|}
After Conan and Subaru solve the murder of Kunihisa Hiyama, they realize they can solve the dying message of [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji's case]]. They decipher the meaning of the missing letters on the mirror of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s room. Kohji's dying message from 17 years ago was "ASACA RUM", so Rum might be involved in his death and the death of [[Amanda Hughes]], a big fan of Koji's, along with the disappearance of [[Asaka]], her bodyguard.

Since the dying message was "P T O N", the answer to it must contain all of the missing letters of "U MASCARA" 
PUT ON MASCARA - P T ON = U MASCARA 
U MASCARA - ASACA (for Asaka) = U M R 
Which can be rearranged to make RUM 
making the answer "ASACA RUM"
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=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 90#The Soul Detective|951]]-[[Volume 90#As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness|953]], Anime: TBA) ===
Conan decides that the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]] is most likely Rum.

After the case was over [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] speaks to [[Mary]] and says that the only information that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], the soul detective, had was that he believed Asaka to be a woman. He was going to pretend that he had summoned Kohji's spirit and have it say that a woman was going to kill him. According to Masumi, the culprit said that someone saw Asaka holding "that small mirror".

Conan considers that if Asaka is Rum, then perhaps what Haibara said about being feminine refers to looking girly on the outside but strong like a man on the inside. If Rum had been a bodyguard 17 years ago, then their age must be pretty high. Conan also ponders the possibility that Mary is Rum after having shrunken, being girly yet strong and older than she looks.

=== A song named ASACA (Manga: [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|954-957]], Anime: TBA) ===
[[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]], a famous artist coming back from a seventeen year hiatus, announces a new song called "ASACA". Because of the spelling and the timing, Conan and [[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]] go to the concert hall to investigate. There they encounter [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Vermouth]] in disguise as [[Azusa Enomoto]] who are trying to get in as well. Their presence suggests that the Black Organization decoded Kohji's dying message mirror and are investigating for the same reasons as Subaru and Conan. By the end of the case, both groups determine that the song being named "ASACA" is only a coincidence and not related to Rum or Kohji's murder.

[[File:Conan and Bourbon dying message.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Conan thinks that Amuro knows about the dying message.]]

=== Curse of the Nue (Manga: [[Volume 90#Curse of the Nue|958]], Anime: TBA) ===
Conan inwardly comments about Vermouth and Amuro's presence in the last case. He states that they must have been there because they know about the code "ASACA RUM" that was left by Kohji Haneda 17 years ago. When Azusa mentions that she had seen two strangers approach the detective agency, Conan immediately assumes that it might have been Gin and Vodka, but it turns out to be [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] and [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] instead.
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=== Interchanged Betting Ticket Case (Manga: [[Volume 91#Interchanged Betting Ticket Case|975]], Anime: TBA) ===

=== Burning Tent Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume_93#Burning_Tent_Murder_Case|987-989]], Anime: TBA) ===

== Non-Canon Plot Overview ==
=== Movie 20: [[The Darkest Nightmare]] ===
Rum doesn't appear in this movie directly:
* Haibara imagines his/her three silhouettes like in [[Volume 86#Scriptwriter Murder Case|file 906]], and his/her artificial eye.
* When she finally regained her lost memory, a [[Curaçao]]'s flashback shows Rum speaking to [[Vermouth]] through a computer in an altered voice. Vermouth was about to execute Curaçao because her brain recorded facts inconvenient to the Organization, but Rum's voice stopped her. He appointed Curaçao as his/her right-handed agent.
* Rum sends orders to Vermouth and Gin ordering them not to execute [[Toru Amuro|Bourbon]] and [[Hidemi Hondo|Kir]] because he/she received a new messsage, apparently from Curaçao, that they weren't NOCs.
* Rum also orders them to retrieve Curaçao to verify if the message is authentic or not.
* Vermouth has a conversation with him/her by the end titles, while she is in her car along with [[Hidemi Hondo|Kir]]. She lets Kir listen to what he/she has to say before hanging up.


== Relationships analysis ==
=== Organization ===
==== The Boss ====
[[The Boss of the Black Organization]] is his/her only direct superior.

==== Gin ====
[[Gin]] referred to the [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]] double murder as a "job [that] Rum screwed up."

==== Curaçao (Movie 20) ====
[[Curaçao]] is a member who works as Rum's right-handed agent.

In the past, because her brain recorded facts inconvenient to the Organization, Vermouth was about to execute her, but Rum's voice stopped her. Rum then appointed her as her right-hand agent.

Rum then charges her to break into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department|Tokyo police headquarters]] and accesses classified secret files on spies planted in the Black Organization by many intelligence agencies.

== Speculation ==
=== Gender ===
So far, all the Black Organization codenames for men are liquors while women's codenames are wine or wine-based cocktails. Rum should be a man if this pattern holds.

Haibara's list of potential descriptions "strong man, feminine man, and elderly man" all suggest Rum is a man, although Conan has entertained the possibility Rum is a woman by suspecting [[Mary]].

Conan currently suspects an individual named [[Asaka]] is Rum. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], who witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, believed Asaka was a woman. Hotta's reliability is questionable, because the hand mirror—typically a woman's accessory—that a witness saw Asaka holding could have been Kohji's.

=== Individual characters ===

==== Asaka ====
Conan implicates the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]] as Kohji Haneda's and Amanda Hughes' killer from 17 years ago. The encoded dying message left by Kohji using a broken mirror seems to point to Asaka being Rum. While it unclear whether Asaka is Rum or merely related (the extent of Kohji's knowledge of Rum and Asaka and how he came by it is unclear), the Black Organization itself believes the decoding "ASACA RUM" is correct by being paranoid about things named "Asaca" with a C connected to a 17 year ago timeframe. [[Volume 90#The Soul Detective|Gaito Hotta]] assumed Asaka was female. Gin refers to Kohji Haneda's murder as "a job which Rum had screwed up seventeen years ago..."<ref name="file953"/>

==== Mary ====
Conan considers the possibility [[Mary]] is Rum after being shrunken. She is feminine but tough on the inside like a man and perhaps older than she looks, which is one way of interpreting Haibara's description of Rum. But later in the manga she was revealed to be the mother of sera, shuichi and shukichi and the wife of tsutomu akai .

[[File:Kuroda full face image.jpg|90px|right|]]

==== Hyoue Kuroda ====
[[Hyoue Kuroda]] is chief of the first division of Nagano Police and first introduced at the end of file 913. He is a middle-aged strong-built man with white hair that makes him look older. Kuroda has a bad right eye surrounded by extensive facial scarring which he hides behind a darkened glasses lens, but the eye is shown to be closed similar to Kansuke's eye socket and not an artificial eye like Rum is described as having. The circumstances behind the loss of his right eye are unclear, but it likely involved burning or caustic chemicals considering the extent of the scarring.

Kuroda's favorite drink is black tea, which is actually a dark red color.

'''In file 925, Haibara said to Conan that [[Shiho Miyano#"Black Organization sense"|she hadn't felt the Black Organization "aura" from Kuroda]]. She had only gripped Conan's shoulder because Hyoue's face and expression were really scary. In fact, she implied Kuroda couldn't be Rum as he saw her and should have noticed she resembles [[Shiho Miyano]]. If he were Rum, he would've broken into [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]'s house, yet this didn't happen.'''
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==== Rumi Wakasa ====
[[Rumi Wakasa]] is the new Deputy Homeroom Teacher at Teitan Elementary school for Year 1 Class B. Her personality seems to be that of a really clumsy and incapable teacher. She approached the [[Detective Boys]] on the grounds that she is scared of the old warehouse at the school and needed them to come with her. However, once she was out of sight of the Detective Boys, her personality changed dramatically to that of a skilled fighter with a scary face. Most likely her name is meant to resemble "ASAKA RUM", the code from [[Kohji Haneda]]'s death, with the addition of a W and an I.

'''Rumi is unlikely to be [[Rum]] because the [[Black Organization]] has no motive to allow someone to use a name which draws attention to "Rum" and the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case of 17 years ago]]. There is no apparent benefit the Black Organization would gain from publicly flaunting the names "Asaka" or "Rum", which can be linked to Kohji's murder. The Black Organization appears to want to cover up anything related to Rum and Asaka since they have sent [[Vermouth]] and [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] to investigate possible references to it, and someone with significant reach is actively scrubbing the internet of information from the past murder case. It would also not make sense for the vital number two of the Organization to flaunt their identity where [[FBI]] agents have worked previously and risk being captured. In addition Haibara directly interacted with Rumi, yet Rumi did not appear to recognize Haibara either, instead focusing her attention on Conan.'''

==== Kanenori Wakita ====
[[Kanenori Wakita]] is a sushi chief, edokko (tokyo-ite) detective. Conan considers him a suspect.
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==== Kansuke Yamato ====
[[Kansuke Yamato]] is a strong young man, but limps like an old man because he uses a cane to compensate for an injured left leg. Kansuke has long hair pulled back into a ponytail which could be considered feminine if he let it down. Kansuke's left eye is also damaged, but he does not use an artificial eye. '''Gosho Aoyama disclaimed Kansuke Yamato from being Rum in two animal crossing hints.'''

==== Taka'aki Morofushi ====
[[Taka'aki Morofushi]] is a young man with a feminine physique. So far, there's been no indication he has a prosthetic eye.

==== Shukichi Haneda ====
[[Shukichi Haneda]] is a young man with no indication of a prosthetic eye. He has seen both Conan and Haibara twice, giving him an easy opportunity to find Sherry and report it to the Black Organization.

==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]] is a middle-aged strongly-built man whose left eye has a scar over it.

==== The Old Man at Shuichi Akai's loyalty test ====
Since Gin never appeared at the loyalty test, it was very likely the old man was a member of the Black Organization who went to scout ahead and reported that "Dai Moroboshi" was a spy. If he has a prosthetic eye is unknown, and he does not appear effeminate nor strongly built.

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=== Three descriptions for one person ===
Various members of the Black Organization all disagree about Rum's overall appearance. For this to be the case, Rum must not present himself/herself to others straightforwardly. There are several possibilities why this could be:

* Rum can disguise himself/herself well.
::Fairly straightforward as far as explanations go, Rum could appear to different agents with different faces and builds leading to confusion. Since he/she is the number two of the Black Organization and likely close to [[The Boss of the Black Organization|the boss]], he/she has a need for security and secrecy and is probably also multi-talented like most other codenamed agents.

* He/she has features of all three types leading to different conclusions.
:: Rum might have features of all three types of builds so that each witness comes to a different conclusion about his appearance depending on what they personally emphasize. As an example, Kansuke Yamato is a strongly built man, uses a cane like an old man, and his ponytail could give someone the impression he/she is feminine. If Kansuke tended to only appear to others in shadowed environments, then it's possible he/she could be mistaken for an old man or even a woman when viewed in profile.
:: The confusion may not stem solely from appearance. In [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|The Department Store Stabbing Case]], the three [[detective boys]] give conflicting statements of the same stabber because they each saw different things depending on their vantage points and personal prejudices. [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4]] and [[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]] are cases with a similar theme. Similarly, members of the Black Organization with different backgrounds might come to different conclusions depending on the context they encounter Rum in.
:: If members of the Black Organization only interact with Rum by video-phone conversation, they might come to different conclusions about his appearance depending on how he/she speaks. If Rum uses old style Japanese like an elderly person might, has a deep voice like that of a well built man, but is excessively polite and uses pronouns like {{nihongo|watashi|私}}, then three different conclusions of his overall appearance can result.

* The codename Rum is shared by more than one person.
::Also self explanatory, but requires each Rum persona to have a fake eye - a pretty unlikely coincidence if each of their eyes was lost in a separate accident.
::In a [[postcards|postcard]] from Gosho in 2016 he said that Rum was one person.

* Rum uses body doubles.
::Rum using body doubles with different builds was suggested by Haibara to explain why different Black Organization agents had different impressions.<ref name="906p3"/> It does not explain the fake eye common between them, unless these doubles were required to wear one.

=== Contradictions about the fake eye ===
[[File:Nick_griffin_bnp_from_flickr_user_britishnationalism_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|A man with a prosthetic eye (left eye)]]It is particularly odd that the Black Organization members are unanimous about Rum having a fake eye while disagreeing about obvious appearance facts that are typically the first to be noticed. Prosthetic eyes are usually subtle, as shown in the picture on the right, and can be easily mistaken for some other type of ocular problem such as lazy eye. That implies there is some distinct reason why everyone agrees that Rum has a prosthetic eye while disagreeing about other obvious facts. There are several possibilities why this might be:

* The prosthetic eye Rum uses when talking to other members of the Black Organization is very obviously fake
::While such an obvious fake eye would be detrimental in public because it would draw attention, Rum may prefer using a non-subtle prosthetic when in the presence of the rest of the Black Organization. For instance, Rum could use an obvious fake for the purposes of intimidation or to draw attention away from the rest of him/her so that he is not well remembered. Rum could also use a mechanical gadget in place of his/her eye that augments his/her vision.

* Rum's prosthetic eye is a rumor everyone knows.
::One possible reason everyone agrees about Rum's fake eye is because it is an oft-circulated fact that he/she has one. Perhaps there is some tale about how he/she lost it that gets passed from member to member. In this case, it wouldn't even matter if Rum actually had a fake eye so long as everyone was inclined to say that he/she did.

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== Animal Crossing hints==
[[File:MyLum_gag_strip.gif|thumb|right|x200px|A joke panel in which Gosho introduced the character [[wikipedia:Lum Invader|Lum Invader]] as Rum. Click the image for more information.]]

In two promotional messages sent out through the video game ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf'' for Nintendo 3DS sometime around or slightly before September 3rd 2014<ref>This blog post with links to screenshots was made September 3, 2014 http://sky969blue6261.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-115.html Comments on the blog discussing the hint are time stamped at the same date, September 3 2014, so it is unlikely that the old entry was updated.</ref>, Gosho said:

* "Actually, Rum has already appeared lol"<ref>じつはもうラムはでてたりしてｗ Translated by Alaktorn [[:File:Rum animal crossing 1.jpg|Rum has appeared]]</ref>
:* Please note that Gosho, as a crossover joke, has introduced a character named [[wikipedia:_Lum_Invader|Lum Invader]] from another manga as the Black Organization member Rum. Gosho also showed Lum in a panel in file 906 and referenced the earlier gag in the concurrent Sherry's soliloquy. Gosho may have been intending to mislead fans with this animal crossing by exploiting the ambiguity between Rum and Lum.

* "Kan-chan is not Rum ^^"<ref>カンちゃんはラムじゃないって（＾＾ Translated by Alaktorn [[:File:Rum animal crossing 2.jpg|Rum is not Kansuke]]</ref>

Taking these hints at face value, Rum has appeared at or before [[Volume 86|File 906]].
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== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="185px" perrow="5">
File:The Scarlet Return rum.jpg|[[Kir]]'s mail for [[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]]/[[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]] ([[The Scarlet Return|episode 783]])
File:Three Rums.jpg|Three Rum's silhouettes ([[Volume 86#Scriptwriter Murder Case|file 906]])
File:793 fake eye.jpg|Three Rum's silhouettes with fake eyes (anime version of [[Three First Discoverers|episode 793]])
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[wikipedia:Rum|Rum]] (Alcohol)

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[[de:Rum]]

Conan Edogawa

2017-02-25T18:06:57Z

Detectiveconanmim: /* Trivia */

{{redirect|Conan|the author of [[Sherlock Holmes]] series|Arthur Conan Doyle}}
{{InfoBox Char
| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Magician ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
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'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
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<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
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<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}
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<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
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<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}

{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Ojisan<ref name="ep18" />}}
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<tab title="Thieves">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Detective-kun (Tantei-kun) Pint-Sized Detective Great Detective (''Meitantei'') Heisei Sherlock Holmes (once)|Kaitou Kid Kid Kaitou 1412 (first time)}}

{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732" />}}

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== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}

Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken.

== 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. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
{{main|Gadgets}}
Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
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{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
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== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

* Conan/Shinchi's favorite food is lemon pie and favorite drink iced coffee

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Conan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm{{citation needed}}, Unknown<ref name="CD38">Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| weight = 18 kg<ref name="CD38" /><ref>[[Manga#Chapters_not_yet_included_in_a_Volume|Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."]]</ref> (39 lbs)
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38" />
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother)
| occupation = Teitan Elementary School student Detective
| nicknames = Conan-Kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Magician ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_002_-_The_Great_Detective_Turned_Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 750+ (one solved by Ran)
| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue)
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
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'''{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}}''' is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven year old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

Conan is often treated as a separate character from Shinichi by fans, and often viewed as the main character of the series while Shinichi is viewed as a recurring character. He has become a popular figure in Japan and even appeared at numerous occasions in different anime series (i.e. mainly cameo appearances) as well as other medias.

== Background ==
''Conan Edogawa'' is [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s alter ego. He did not exist prior to the chain of events, involving members of the [[Black Organization]], that led Shinichi to transform back into a child.

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is really the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref>

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|200px|thumb|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]
=== Solving cases ===
As Conan, Shinichi helps Ran's father solve cases by putting him to sleep and simulating Kogoro's voice using the special bowtie gadget Professor Agasa made for him. He also spends a good amount of time with his Detective Boys fellows and solves many small cases with them and sometimes in the company of Professor Agasa. In some situations, when there's only Ran, Sonoko, and himself, he will use Sonoko instead to solve the case at hand. Because of that, Sonoko eventually becomes another moderately well-known "sleeping" detective, although her reputation is only known to the local police investigation team and Sonoko's friends. In much later files, Conan has solved the case as himself then claimed afterwards that Shinichi told him what to say.

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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

Conan's intelligence remains intact even though he has shrunken into a child. As Shinichi, his deductive ability earned him the monikers "[[Wikipedia:Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and "Savior of the Japanese police force". Conan maintains an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases and escape tricky situations. Conan tries to speak in a child-like manner when dealing with adults, but he often gets caught up in the current case and begins speaking like an adult, referring to advanced topics and using reasoning much too complex for a normal child. When this happens, he often tries to pass it off as "something [he] heard on TV" or "taught by uncle Kogoro/professor Agasa/Shinichi-niichan". [[File:Conan, Tome, and Chiba.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Conan whispers to [[Kazunobu Chiba]] and [[Officer Tome|Tome]].]] Likewise, he makes no effort to hide his love for [[Sherlock Holmes]] and soccer, so if he called out for talking about either subject in too much detail, he tries to escape suspicion by saying it was something Shinichi told him about. Although as the series has progressed the adults around him have become more used to his "being quite smart for a child", causing him to behave more like himself around them, he still tries to pass as a normal child. The only police officers with whom Conan can speak in a professional manner are the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye.

Conan tends to act more like himself around the [[Detective Boys]], even to the point that they find it odd when he acts like a child around adults. He will often play games like baseball with the Detective Boys, but he is too used to soccer to perform well and will even instinctively use soccer techniques, such as kicking in games that do not call for it. Because he is unfamiliar with popular games and TV shows, and bad at video games, Genta and the others tend to think of him as dumb. This annoys Conan so much that he will secretly watch TV in the living room after Kogoro and Ran go to sleep to get more "practice" in.

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seem willing to give culprits, who has attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide, he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|right|150px]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue suit jacket with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband. Additionally, in the Red, White, Yellow case, Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a fellow classmate.
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==Skills==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not the have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about, and may have a photographic memory to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Conan has extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only few people like [[Heiji]], [[Kaito]] and [[Hakuba]] who are as intelligent as Conan.

As a child, Conan can attract less suspicion while investigating crime scenes, get away with searching people's personal property, and ask innocent questions without setting suspects on guard, although it comes with the drawback of not having Shinichi's authority or reputation. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's Power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over 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, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

Conan also has some skill with firearms despite the recoil being much more severe for a child's body. He shoots out a bus window during a bus hijacking, and precisely grazes Ran's leg to render her useless as a hostage in the second movie.

Conan's nimbleness is especially noticeable in the non-[[canon]] movies. For example, in the sixth movie, Conan is seen to fight with various antagonists, and he even holds his own against Jack the Ripper, a notorious serial killer who bests even Ran in combat. In the fourteenth movie, Conan does a back flip on his skateboard in order to avoid being killed by the blimp's hijackers. Conan shows a proclivity for skateboarding. In the movies and anime, Conan can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

=== First Aid ===
Conan has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan_singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan 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, Conan 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. In Episode 11: The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 (Episode 614), Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf.

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in movie 12 of the '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."

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Conan by his name suffixed with ''-kun'', or simply ''kid'', a lot of the characters have different ways of calling him due to the special relationships they share. The following is a list of the different appellations for Conan (and the ones Conan gives in return) encountered in the series.


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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case| Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}

{{appellations|Genta Kojima| Conan|Genta}}

{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}

{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'') (once)|Haibara Haibara-san (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref>

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'')}}

{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
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<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898" /> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898" />}}

{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Boy with Glasses|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}

{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|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'')}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899" /> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929" />}}

{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}

{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}

{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}

{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645" />|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}

{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}

{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}

{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}

{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Eisuke-niichan Eisuke Hondou Eisuke Oniichan}}

{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}


{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}

{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}

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{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin & Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}

{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}

{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref>|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}

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

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

{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}

{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}

{{appellations|Chianti|-|Chianti}}

{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}

{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}

{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}

{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}

{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}

{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
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{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}

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

{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}

{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}

{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv" />}}

{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18" /> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')<ref name="m13" />}}

{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914" />|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914" /> Yui-san}}

{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|-|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'')|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309" />}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948" /> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}

{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}

{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}

{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}

{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}

{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref>}}

{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan}}

{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}

{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}

{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}

{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')}}

{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Ojisan<ref name="ep18" />}}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Detective-kun (Tantei-kun) Pint-Sized Detective Great Detective (''Meitantei'') Heisei Sherlock Holmes (once)|Kaitou Kid Kid Kaitou 1412 (first time)}}

{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732" />}}

{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Edogawa Conan<ref name="lcm">[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Saucy Great Detective (''Konamaiki na Meitantei'') Brat (''Gaki'' or ''Gakincho'')|Lupin III<ref name="lcm" /> Lupin<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Daisuke Jigen|file=Daisuke Jigen.jpg|?|Jigen Daisuke<ref name="lcm" /> Papa}}

{{appellations|Goemon Ishikawa{{!}}Goemon Ishikawa XIII|file=Goemon Ishikawa.jpg|?|Ishikawa Goemon XIII (''Jūsan-daime Ishikawa Goemon'')<ref name="lcm" />}}

{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|?|Mine Fujiko}}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file948" /> Haneda<ref name="file948" /> [[Shukichi Haneda|Taiko Meijin]]'s brother-in-law (''Taiko Meijin no giri no niisan'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref> The shogi player (''sono kishi'')<ref name="file947"/>}}

{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Conan-kun|Okino Yoko}}

{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide Akagi Hideo}}

{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki Uemura Naoki}}

{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-senshu Higo}}

{{appellations|Takahiro Sanada|-|Sanada-senshu}}

{{appellations|file=Minami Takayama anime.jpg|Minami Takayama|Boy (''Boya'')<ref name="ep82">[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]]</ref> Detective-kun (''Tantei-kun'')<ref name="ep82" />|Takayama Minami-san<ref name="ep82" /> Takayama-san<ref name="ep82" />}}

{{appellations|Minerva Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Queen of the Grass Court (''Shiba no Joō'')}}

{{appellations|Naomichi Mugikura|-|Mugikura-san Mugikura Naomichi}}

{{appellations|Osamu Kenzaki|Conan-kun<ref name="file845">[[Volume 80#Our Territory|File 845: Our Territory (Volume 80)]]</ref>|Kenzaki-san<ref name="file845" />}}
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{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaito Kuroba|Mr. Heisei Sherlock Holmes (''Heisei no Sherlock Holmes-san'')|Kaitou Kid Kid<ref>[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Magician-san Under the Moonlight (''Gekka no Kijutsushi-san'')<ref name="file634">[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Mary|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[volume 85#Pool Side Case|File 903 (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''Kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903" />|Mary<ref name="file930" /> That girl (''Ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}

{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Araide-sensei<ref name="file422">[[Volume 41#Four Porsches Case|File 422: Inescapable Target (Volume 41)]]</ref>}}


{{appellations|Zengo Goto|-|Bodyguard-san}}

{{appellations|file=No Pic.jpg|Akai family's middle brother|Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai''; email)<ref>File 861</ref>}}

{{appellations|Akai family#Mr. Akai (The Father){{!}}Mr. Akai|file=No Pic.jpg|-|[[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s dad (''Akai-san no otōsan'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}

{{appellations|Suguru Itakura|-|Itakura-san<ref name="ep309" /> Itakura Suguru-san (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308">[[Episode 308]]</ref> Itakura-shi (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308" />}}

{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}

{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}

{{appellations|Mrs. Kojima|file=Mrs. Kojima.jpg|-|Genta's mom (''Genta no kāsan'')}}
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== Plot overview ==

=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman name [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

Conan runs across the men in black again on a bullet train, this time learning their codenames: [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]].

At a game convention, Conan meets a third man in black named [[Tequila]], only to have him die in an explosion meant for someone else. Conan learns about a meeting place from the murderer, but just before he reaches the bar an explosion set by the men in black destroys the place entirely, leaving Conan without any leads.

=== Introduction of Ai Haibara===

Later on, Conan meets child-size biochemist [[Ai Haibara]], the creator of [[APTX 4869]]. Ai grew up within the Black Organization as [[Shiho Miyano]] and is a former member of it along with her deceased sister, Akemi.<ref name="f178">[[Volume_18#File 178 - Code Name Sherry|Volume 18, File 178: "Code Name Sherry"]]</ref> After Akemi died, Shiho refused to keep working and took APTX 4869 to die before the Black Organization could execute her. Instead, she shrinks like Conan did and is adopted by Agasa so she and Conan can work together to find a cure and catch the men in black.

=== Meeting with the Black Organization ===

=== After Vermouth ===

=== The Phone Number of 'That Person' ===
After Conan solves a [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius#Postlude|case]] of serial murders, the [[Kyosuke Haga#Friends and acquaintances|culprit]] tells Conan that the tune created by dialing the phone number for the Leader of the Black Organization is the song "[[Seven Children]]".

=== Returning Back to Shinichi ===
Throughout the series Conan has returned back to Shinichi several times, but never permanently.
==== East versus West Detective ====
First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.<ref>[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episodes 48-49: Diplomat Murder Case]].</ref>
He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case and develops an immunity to the alcohol.

==== Desperate revival ====
{{Main|Antidote (Prototype)}}
Haibara invented an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] prototype for the APTX 4869, and Conan first uses it in [[Volume 26]] to conceal his identity and allay Ran's suspicions that he is Shinichi. Haibara disguises as Conan and appears in front of Ran with Shinichi in order to put Ran's fears to rest.<ref>[[The Desperate Revival|Episodes 191-193: The Desperate Revival]].</ref><ref>[[Volume 26#File 256 - Concealed Truth|Volume 26, Files 256-258: "Concealed Truth"]]</ref>

==== Shiragami case ====
The antidote prototype is again taken, this time accidentally in place of cough syrup. It wears off 24 hours later, with Haibara giving him another one to protect his identity. This time it wears off in a shortened 4 hours, once again interrupting his chance to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 647 - The Lost Memory|Volumes 62-63, Files 647-654: "The Lost Memory"]]</ref>

==== London Arc ====
During the Holmes' Revelation arc in London, Conan takes an antidote so he can go overseas, because "Conan Edogawa" does not exist in real life, and has no passport. Ran quickly deduces that Shinichi is in London as well. She asks some Londoners about a Japanese boy, and they give her directions, without specifying it was actually a six-year-old they saw. In a phone booth, Conan takes the pill originally meant for his return trip to Tokyo in order to conceal his identity from Ran. During this time, he manages to confess his feelings to her. Luckily for Conan, Haibara asks Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo, his parents, to go to London and give him a third pill, as she guessed he would have used his spare one for Ran.<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 616-621]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Volume 71, Files 743-751]]</ref><ref>[[Volume 72#Following Holmes|Volume 72, File 752]]</ref>

==Non-Canon Plot Overview==

== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===

[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|Ran holding Conan.]]
====Ran Mouri====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in an difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran unconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
====Kogoro Mouri====
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and actually gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. However, their relationship is actually intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into troubles with the Black Organization.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public]]

Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo in order to show Conan how dangerous his goals are.

Yukiko loves to meddle in Conan's (and Shinichi's) love life, as she will often make allusions regarding Ran being her possible future daughter-in-law and Ai or Ayumi having feelings for Conan. He doesn't usually pay much attention to them. Once she told Conan that Ai has romantic feelings for him because she looked at him ten times in a short span of time, saying that the only time a girl would do that is if she likes the boy or the boy has something on his face. Conan simply pushes it off as Ai checking on her "lab mouse," but at night, in bed, Conan asks Ai if he has something on his face.

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa_and_Conan_investigating.png|thumb|right|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests, but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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====Heiji Hattori====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better , 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.
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====Sonoko Suzuki====

====Masumi Sera====
Masumi Sera is like a older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Suguru.

====Eisuke Hondou====

====Shukichi Haneda====

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|Conan and Haibara investigating]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song]]

====Ai Haibara====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
[[Ai Haibara]] 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. both victims of the [[APTX 4869]]), she finds it easier to talk to him. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.
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====Ayumi Yoshida====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi]]
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}

Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn clearly seems to like Conan and isn't aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of him because of this. Sonoko is also thinking the same after Sera teased Conan about the girl he likes.

====Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima====
[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] sees Conan as a role model, someone he looks up to. [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and more so Mitsuhiko, are often impressed by Conan's vast knowledge and incredible deduction skills. However, they both become quite jealous of Conan whenever Ayumi shows gestures of affection towards him (usually a small kiss on the cheek). While Conan initially only tolerated their presence, he has grown fond of them despite their relative immaturity.
In a case, where Genta's father was a suspect, Conan decided to solve the case without telling the other, because he didn't want Genta to worry about his father being a suspect for murder.

=== Law enforcement ===
====Police====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
With the exception of a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation.

====Wataru Takagi====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity .In episode 304 ,while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously so as to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

====Kansuke Yamato====

====Hyoue Kuroda====

====FBI====
The FBI contains most of the few people that Conan acts normally around despite them not knowing his identity. Conan seems to place trust in the FBI, and occasionally helps in their operations.

====Jodie Starling====
[[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid" and Conan (despite being wary when he first met her) now places complete trust in Jodie. Jodie has also called Conan to share what would normally be classified information, notifying him of a new Black Organization member, Bourbon.

====Shuichi Akai / Subaru Okiya====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are one and the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

=== Black Organization ===
====Gin and Vodka====
Even though [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] do not yet know who's interfering with their operations, Gin has been shown to be curious who "that guy" is, referring to Conan. In the movie [[The Raven Chaser]], Gin tries to catch a glimpse of Conan's face from a helicopter, but fails when Conan successfully downs the helicopter. Conan seems to have a very bitter hatred towards them, and this only increases as more people are targeted by the Black Organization.

====Vermouth====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet'. She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran. When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth. Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he is able to bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

====Kir====

====Bourbon====
[[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] (codenamed Bourbon) has attached himself to the Mouri Detective Agency as Kogoro's "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person's showed up" when he learns Amuro will be joining Kogoro on cases. After learning of Amuro's membership in the Black Organization, though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near Ran. He's become more cautious and is somewhat confused by Amuro's helpful behavior, though he attempts to pretend nothing has changed. His bond with Amuro later seemed to improve when he learns that Amuro is actually an undercover operative from Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot.<ref>[[Volume 85#File 897 - Scarlet Truth|Volumes 85, File 897: "Scarlet Truth"]]</ref>

=== Others ===
====Kaitou Kid====

{{Main|Shinichi Kudo and Kaito Kuroba}}
Before being shrunk, Shinichi encountered [[Kaitou Kid]] once during the Clock Tower heist, though they did not meet face-to-face. In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi has become Conan, Kid disguises himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki family's Black Star pearl. When Conan corners him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid implies that he stole all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ends up being a bluff, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid in subsequent encounters. Conan stops Kid from escaping with the jewel often enough that Conan has gained reputation with the press as Kid's "natural enemy". In several instances Conan appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence, and seems excited by the chance to catch Kid again; appropriately, Kid seems to find Conan dangerous enough to warrant specific measures to keep him distracted.

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

Conan does not buy in to Kid's reputation as a mysterious, uncatchable phantom, saying once "He's only a thief that uses magic",<ref>Anime Episode 515: Kaitou Kid's Teleportation Magic</ref> and encouraging police officers that Kid is only a man and he can be arrested. However, if necessary, the two can put their rivalry aside for a little while and work together.<ref>[[Kaitou Kid and the Four Masterpieces]]</ref> Conan has something of a gentleman's agreement with Kaitou Kid, in that he doesn't try to find or catch the thief outside of heists. In several instances, when Kid does Conan a favor, such as saving Genta's life<ref>[[Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion]]</ref>, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape mostly unhindered. This exchange of favors can sometimes become a bit unbalanced; in exchange for not giving Kid away on a train Conan has Kid face down the [[Black Organization]] in disguise, and because Kid narrowly escapes an explosion with his life, he says that Conan now owes ''him'' one.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 7 (824): "Mystery Train (Final Destination)"</ref>

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan. However, this has not been confirmed by Gosho Aoyama, nor has it been implied in the manga.

====Mary====
Conan has been trying to discover the truth about Mary since the day he first saw her in a picture with Masumi Sera. In "The detective boys in the grove" case, he noticed Ai's uncanny resemblance to Mary. Then, he find out that the mysterious girl is the mother of Masumi Sera, Shukichi Haneda and Shuichi Akai and the wife of Tsutomu Akai, now somehow shrunken.

== 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. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapter 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] may also be suspicious that Conan is Shinichi Kudo.

In the 13th movie, the Black Organization member [[Irish]] discovers that Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo.

The 3rd, 8th, 14th and 19th movies also demonstrate that Kaitou Kid apparently knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. However, this has yet to be backed up by the original artist, Gosho Aoyama, in the manga or (as would follow) the anime main series.

== Gadgets ==
{{main|Gadgets}}
Professor Agasa has made many gadgets for Conan, including a tranquilizer wristwatch, voice-modulating bow tie, kick-enhancing shoes, tracking/binocular glasses, stretchable suspenders, and a solar powered skateboard. Conan uses the first two regularly to create "Sleeping Kogoro", and the glasses and other gadgets to investigate cases or catch criminals. Agasa also created radio badges and watch flashlights Conan and the other Detective Boys.

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 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. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 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 ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan'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 Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan'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:Conan_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Conan's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 358)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan's "After" Appearance (Episode 763)]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Conan's Appearance in Magic Kaito 1412 (Episode 11)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!||Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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=== Specific ===
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{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he really is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{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]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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===Quotes about Conan===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone in order to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>

* [[Image:EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.

* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquilized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.

* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type.

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Conan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edojāwa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, where all last names in Korean must be one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay (Bahasa Melayu / Bahasa Malaysia)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America (until Ep123)|Conan|Blasi}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|柯南 Kēnán|江戶川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episode 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation pose seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Mouri family]]
* [[Conan Edogawa Appearances]]
* [[Detective Boys]]

==References==
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Mary Sera

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

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| name = Mary
| japanese-name = メアリー (Mearī)
| english-name =
| image = Mary_Profile.jpg
| age = Looks approximately middle school aged according to Conan
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation =
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (husband, deceased) [[Shuichi Akai]] (son) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (son) [[Masumi Sera]] (daughter)
| nicknames = Mary Sera
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 83#Red Tragedy|File 875]] Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|Episode 756]]
| appearances = {{:Mary Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 83]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Tanaka]]
| cases-solved = 1
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Mary'''|メアリー|Mearī}} is a middle-school age girl with light hair who has been hiding in various hotels in Tokyo with [[Masumi Sera]]. Despite her appearance, she is actually a middle-aged woman and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and [[Masumi Sera]].

==Background==
Mary Sera is a British woman who married [[Tsutomu Akai]] . She bore three children, [[Shuichi]], [[Shukichi]], and [[Masumi]]. For some unknown reason, something like APTX4869 must have caused her body to shrink from that of a middle-aged woman to that of a middle-school child. The change occurred sometime during the last ten years.

Mary's full background is currently unknown. Her existence was revealed by Masumi to [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] through an image on her cell phone and the name "The little sister from outside the domain" (ryōiki-gai no imōto). Mary and Masumi currently live in a hotel, and when their position becomes known, they move to a new one. In a recent appearance they seemed to be investigating the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] to find out what a tv personality knew about [[Asaka]]. Mary has also implied that Conan is no longer the same person that she and Masumi met 10 years ago, lending credit to both the idea that she is a shrunken individual and that they are aware that Conan is [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]

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

She is proud of her British heritage.

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

But she does express joy at Shukichi's victory for becoming the seven-crowned Shogi master. It indicates that she does care for her children.

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

In her varying appearances, Mary's eyes have been drawn slightly differently. In her original and current chapter appearances she seems to have an extra lash on the top of her eye, where as in the Pool case and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s comparison of her and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s eyes in the Department store case she does not have that extra lash.
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[[File:Mary wall climbing skills.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Mary's hiding skills]]
==Skills==
Mary seems to know about several types of wire taps. When she and Masumi find Conan's wire tap in their room, she says that she hasn't seen that type before. She also describes the components of it such as its battery life and performance. She spoke in a similar fashion about Conan's voice changer after she gets a chance to use it herself.

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

10 years ago she already had the ability to fight well enough that she landed a "knife-hand strike" to her son Shuichi's face, who at the time had already been practicing Jeet Kune Do. In the present, even with her small body, she was able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service".
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== Appellations ==
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{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Tsutomu-san<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974]]</ref> Husband (''Shujin'')<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> ''Ano hito'' (literally "that person", but the intended meaning is "husband")<ref name="file974" />}}

{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972" />|Shuichi<ref name="file974" />}}

{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972" />|Shukichi<ref name="file974" />}}

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

{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Kohji<ref name="file952">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file952" />}}
|}
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<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Mary<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930: Excessive Seasoning (Volume 88)]]</ref> That girl (''ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930" /> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[Volume 85#Poolside Case|File 903: The Corpse in the Pool (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903" />}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|That girl (''ano ko'')}}
|}
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== Plot overview ==
[[File:Another person with eye bags appears.png|thumb|left|Mary on Masumi's phone.]]
=== The Red Woman Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman Murder Case|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|756]])===
Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone by calling it with his. When he does he notices the call background screen is a child with eye bags similar to those of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. He remarks that the girl looks similar to Masumi. Earlier in the case she only mentioned having two brothers; a mother; and a father, so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

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

[[File:Mary & Masumi.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Mary and Masumi in the bedroom.]]
=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
Mary is interested in [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s shogi match. When Masumi returns to the hotel room in the middle of the case while Mary is napping, she turns on the TV and sees the shogi match. Later after the case is solved, Masumi enters the room for a second time to see Mary turning off the TV. Presumably she saw the end of the match and was happy at Shukichi's victory, as was Subaru Okiya, whose identity was revealed in the case before this one, to be Shuichi.

[[File:Ran and Unknown Child.jpg|thumb|left|210px|Ran sees Masumi and Mary.]]
=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===
Mary is waiting for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to visit her and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] in their hotel room. She expresses her still-lingering concern of trusting Conan, even though she thinks he is bright enough. Mary does comment that if anything were to go wrong they would have to move hotels again. Her talk with him alone is put on hold, however, because [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have invited themselves in accompanying Conan in order to enjoy the hotel's pool. As Conan, Ran, and Sonoko head back home after the case is solved, Ran turns around and sees Masumi talking to her. Ran gets the feeling that she has seen that child before.

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

[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|left|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]

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


=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: TBA) ===
[[File:Mary is Masumi's mother.jpg|300px|thumb|right|"Mama?!"]]
[[kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] is put in contact with a Soul Detective who wishes to reveal some information about the [[Kohji Haneda]] case. When Conan and Kogoro go to meet with him at a hotel they find him dead and that [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] and Mary have mysteriously moved in to the next hotel room. During the investigation Conan runs into Masumi's hotel room and checks the balcony. Mary has hidden herself by anchoring herself to the balcony and hiding by hugging the wall underneath it. Conan nearly discovers that she is hiding there by trying to take a picture over the edge, which startles her. Conan then drops his voice-changer on his way back inside. Mary picks it up, and later uses it in place of Conan to solve the case. When the culprit tried to flee, Mary was able to take him down single handed using skills comparable to that of the secret service. Masumi calls her "Mama". Once Conan had left, Mary and Masumi discuss what information the Soul Detective had, which was that before Kohji's death, Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror and thinks that it means that Asaka is a woman. Mary warns Masumi about Conan saying that "it is like encountering a demon in the darkness" (暗がりに鬼を繋ぐが如く), and that he is not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Conan goes home and theorizes that Mary could have been Asaka. Later Gin uses the same demon line that Mary used to refer to Kogoro.
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[[File:Mary Masumi Shuichi at beach.jpg|left|thumb|150px|A flashback to 10 years ago at the beach.]]
=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume_92#A_Chance_Meeting_at_the_Beach|972-974]], Anime:TBA) ===
10 years ago at a beach somewhere in Japan, Shuichi reunited with his family after his 7 years in the US. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of [[Akai family's father|his father]]. She also tells both Shuichi and Masumi not to do things that got them involved in the case, because there are people out there that are after them.
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== Non-Canon Plot Overview ==
=== Movie 18: [[Dimensional Sniper]] ===
Mary is only shown two times at dawn under her hotel bed's blankets.

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

=== Fan speculation ===

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

The secrecy surrounding Mary, as well as Masumi's attempts to get her to trust Conan, whom Masumi knows is a shrunken Shinichi, might be indications that Masumi is trying to get the child help about an [[APTX 4869]] problem. Mary appears to be sickly and is often seen coughing. This could be a side effect of an earlier version of ATPX she may have ingested.

==== Akai family mother ====
Continuing from the previous speculation, Mary could be the mother of the Akai /Sera family. There are currently five known members of the family: a deceased [[Akai family's father|Father]], a Mother, [[Shuichi Akai]], a middle [[Akai family's middle brother|Son]], and [[Masumi Sera]]. Mary's eyes and features are similar to those of Masumi Sera and Shuichi Akai as noted by Conan, and so she presumably looks like the mother of the family. Masumi seems to recognize Conan Edogawa to be Shinichi Kudo despite him having such a young appearance, and if she does indeed recognize him she is not surprised by his appearance, which could imply that she is aware of shrinking and the drugs which cause it; and perhaps even looking into it because her mother was affected by such.

In chapter 953 of the manga, Masumi calls Mary, "Mama". In chapter 972 it is revealed that Masumi's mother is called Mary.

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

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

==== Middle brother ====
Along the same lines as the mother theory, another option for the child's identity is the [[Akai family's middle brother|middle brother of the Akai family]] shrunken by some drug such as APTX 4869. Mary's appearance as a girl may be misleading similar to how Masumi is mistaken for a man, something the child is taking advantage of in order to conceal his true identity. Although the eyes are similar to Masumi's and Shuichi's, the light colored curly hair sets the child apart from the other two in appearance. Contradicting this, Conan believes the child looks very similar to Masumi<ref>Episode 759</ref> which suggests the child does not look like the Akai father and by extension the middle brother.

Mary said to Masumi that he/she is still a long way from trusting Conan<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 6 (878), pg 16: "The Phone, the Sea, and I"</ref>, while the middle brother approves of Conan over the phone: "If it is him [Conan], there is no problem."<ref>Manga [[Volume 81]], File 10 (860), pg 16: "The Smell of Kerosine"</ref>

== Gallery ==
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File:Mary original appearance.jpg|Mary as she originally appeared in file 875
File:2014-06-08 00.25.28.jpg|Mary in file 899
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== See also ==
*[[Akai family]]
*[[Shuichi Akai]]
*[[Masumi Sera]]
*[[Akai family's middle brother]]

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