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== See also ==
* [[Valentine Murder Case]]

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Once-A-Month Present Threat Case/Gallery

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Art Museum Owner Murder Case/Gallery

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== See also ==
* [[Art Museum Owner Murder Case]]

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Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case/Gallery

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== See also ==
* [[Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case]]

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Luxury Liner Serial Murder Case/Gallery

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The Mysterious Shooting Message Case/Gallery

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The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case/Gallery

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== See also ==
* [[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case]]

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Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case/Gallery

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== See also ==
* [[Tenkaichi Night Festival Murder Case]]

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Moonlight Sonata Murder Case/Gallery

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== See also ==
* [[Moonlight Sonata Murder Case]]

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List of Black Organization related characters

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

Many main and minor characters have been linked to the [[Black Organization]].

This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.

== Collaborators ==
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with [[#Targets|targets below]].

=== Unnamed Weapons Smuggler ===
[[File:Weapon Smuggler.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
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=== Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang ===
[[File:Akemi Miyano.jpg|right|100px]]
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]]. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister [[Shiho Miyano]]. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.

Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help.<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Masami’s other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
Hirota was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.

=== The unnamed giant alias 'Akira Hirota' ===
The giant was hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as Akira Hirota, an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.

=== Unnamed woman ===
[[File:Woman near Window.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]]'' 
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|the corresponding episode]]. <ref>Manga Chapter 35</ref>
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case ]]'' 
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident.<ref>Manga Chapter 114</ref> The Black Organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
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=== Ki'ichiro Numabuchi ===
[[File:Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]] where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], Files 5-8 (185-188): Stabbed Wallet Case</ref> He appears again in [[Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest]]. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.<ref>Manga [[Volume 35]], Files 8-10 (358-360): Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case</ref>
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=== Suguru Itakura ===
[[File:Suguru Itakura.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Suguru Itakura]] was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films.<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], Files 5-10 (377-383): "Footsteps of Darkness"</ref> He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular “system software” Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn’t want to complete the program “not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity.”<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380): "White Snow... Black Shadow..."</ref> He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6 (398): "Torn Friendship 1"</ref> Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
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=== Asaka ===
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:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]] and [[Rum]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Asaka'''|浅香|Asaka}} is a mysterious person from 17 years ago who Conan believes is the killer of [[Kohji Haneda]] and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]]. Asaka approached the Black Organization target [[Amanda Hughes]] to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances; Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.

Asaka's gender is uncertain. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]] learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.

In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining [[Kohji Haneda]]'s broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and 17 years ago. [[Bourbon]] [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca"]] written by [[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]] who took a hiatus 17 years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization [[#Collaborators|are listed above]].

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the [[Black Organization timeline]].
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=== APTX 4869 Victims ===
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 1.jpg|thumb|tight|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from episode 129]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from File 1005]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims (Cover page 948)]]
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]].<ref name="179p6">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), pg 6: "The Girl made of Lies"</ref> According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead ({{lang|ja|死亡}}), except for Shinichi Kudo ({{lang|ja|工藤新一}}) who was listed as uncertain ({{lang|ja|不明}}).<ref name="179p6"/> Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that [[Rumi Wakasa]] looks at on her laptop in File 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), pg 32: "The Heisei Holmes" Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig"</ref> or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.<ref>Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations</ref>

* '''{{lang|ja|樽井英成}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
::Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
* '''{{lang|ja|新岡芳江}}'''<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in File 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
::Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
* '''{{lang|ja|松坂宗男}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Muneo Arimune|有宗宗男}} in [[Episode 129]] of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Matsusaka, Matsuzaka<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka {{lang|ja|広坂}}, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka {{lang|ja|松坂}}, Densaka {{lang|ja|伝坂}})</ref>
::Possible given names: Muneo<ref name="Viz">[[:File:English APTX list.jpg|Used by Viz]]</ref><ref name="uanime">Used in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the [[episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Takeshi, Takeishi
::Possible given names: Yoshio<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Ryoyu, Nagao
* '''{{lang|ja|工藤新一}} '''(Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
::Surname: Kudo
::Given name: Shinichi
* '''{{lang|ja|豊田稔}}'''<ref>This name was not included in Viz's translation.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Toyoda<ref name="uanime" />, Toyota
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime" />, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Haneda<ref name="Kohji">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|Used in the manga]]</ref><ref name="Viz"/>, Hada<ref name="uanime" />
::Possible given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji" />/Koji<ref name="uanime" /><ref name="Viz"/>
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Nomoto<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Yamoto
::Possible given names: Masaji<ref name="Viz"/>, Shoji, Masaharu, Yoshiji, Yoshiharu
* '''{{lang|ja|五島淳実}}'''<ref>Final character is 美 in the anime version</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
::Possible given name: Atsumi
* '''{{lang|ja|上園孝也}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
::Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
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==== Kohji Haneda====
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The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood brother. He was murdered 17 years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In chapter 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying {{nihongo|"one should stick with one's original plan"|初志貫徹|shoshi kantetsu}}. During "[[Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day#2016 DCTP thread version|Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016]]", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
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==== Mary Sera ====
{{Main|Mary Sera}}
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[[Mary Sera]], an unknown child whom [[Masumi]] calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in File 972 to be the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. 10 years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]]
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.<ref>source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation)</ref> The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.<ref>Manga [[Volume 18]], Files 180</ref>
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]]'' 
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
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=== Araide family ===
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Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.

=== Jazz club man ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last."<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 3 (287), pg 2: "The Invisible Fear"</ref> He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.

In the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name as {{nihongo|Masahito Yoshioka|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS_Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]].
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=== Starling family ===
{{Main|Jodie Starling}}
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents 20 years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
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=== Senzo Fukuura ===
[[File:Senzo Fukuura.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Domon Yasudera.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI ]]'' 
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash.<ref>Manga [[Volume 48]], File 10 (500): "A New Person in Black"</ref> The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the [[Wikipedia: Diet of Japan|Diet]] yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next [[Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair 20 years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
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=== Kogoro Mouri ===
{{Main|Kogoro Mouri}}
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact!]], [[Wedding Eve]], and [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is [[Conan|completely]] innocent.

Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] that Sherry supposedly planted.)

When Gin heard that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], someone who had information on the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case]], had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
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=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 49#Black Organization vs FBI|Black Organization vs FBI ]] and [[Volume 53#Mysterious Job Case|Mysterious Job Case]]'' 
Toji Funemoto is a young boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident.<ref>Manga [[Volume 49]], File 3 (503): "Black Organization vs FBI 1"</ref> Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew.<ref>Manga [[Volume 53]], File 10 (553): "The Mysterious Job"</ref> Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
{{Main|Tohei Benzaki}}
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 80#A Shrine to Remember|Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap]] and [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|A Detective Solves a Case in a Bar]]'' 
Tohei Benzaki is a single man<ref>[[Volume 81]], File 855, Page 16</ref> who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.

It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
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=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
{{Main|Natsuko Shibuya}}
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Scarlet Return]]'' 
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of [[Jodie Starling]]'s whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via [[Camel]]'s phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. [[Vermouth]] copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
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=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Amanda Hughes'''|アマンダ・ヒューズ|Amanda Hyūzu}} was an elderly wealthy American who was killed 17 years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by [[APTX 4869]] or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion [[Kohji Haneda]] whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
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=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
:''See: [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
{{Nihongo|'''Gaito Hotta'''|堀田凱人|Hotta Gaito}} was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]] {{Main|Rokumichi Hado}}
:''See: [[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|Bourbon's Mission]]'' 
{{nihongo|Rokumichi Hado|波土禄道|Hado Rokumichi}} is a Rock musician who took a hiatus 17 years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death 17 years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.{{clear}}

=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{Main|Tsutomu Akai}}
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the [[Case_from_17_years_ago|Kohji Haneda case]] and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
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== Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization ==
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization

=== Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro ===
Kimie Shimabukuro assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro an Elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the Elder Kimie was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the Elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.

== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on [[Black Organization#Former|the main Black Organization page]].

=== Hiroshi Agasa ===
[[File:Hiroshi Agasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Hiroshi Agasa]] is a distant acquaintance of [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]]. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]</ref>
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=== Toichi Kuroba ===
[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]] taught [[Vermouth]] (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
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=== Yukiko Kudo ===
[[File:Yukiko Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
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=== Shinichi Kudo ===
[[File:Shinichi Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew [[Shinichi Kudo]] since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know Conan is Shinichi]].
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=== Ran Mouri ===
[[File:Ran Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met [[Ran Mouri]] through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Degima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case ]]'' 
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara’s father’s childhood playmate. He hasn’t seen [[Atsushi Miyano]] for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara’s grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the Organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara’s mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by someone unrelated to the Black Organization.<ref>Manga [[Volume 41]], File 10 (423): "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>{{clear}}

=== Wataru Date ===
[[File:Wataru Date.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Wataru Date]] was a close friend of [[Rei Furuya]] while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
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=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder ]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archeologist who [[Renya Karasuma]], the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago to find the treasure before he died of old age. He was presumably a victim of Karasuma treasure hunting fanaticism.
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== Extended Canon ==
=== Collaboraters ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== UCAR Inc. ====
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''UCAR Inc.'''|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}} is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.

=== Targets ===
==== Kazuki Honjou{{anchor|Kazuki Honjo}} ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered their minor agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] for revenge of his younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the amulet bag with a memory card listing their complete agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders his men to retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was defeated by Conan and [[Irish]]. According to his sister's boyfriend, he'll get a death sentence for those murders, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.

==== Minoru Fukase ====
[[File:Minoru Fukase.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Minoru Fukase'''|深瀬稔|Fukase Minoru}}, age 27, is one of [[Kansuke Yamato|Inspector Yamato]]'s main suspect from Nagano in the first serial murder case of Shuhei Jinno.
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==== Sumire Shindo ====
[[File:Sumire Shindo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Sumire Shindo'''|信藤すみれ|Shindō Sumire}}, age 34, is an abstract painter in Hachioji. The police receive a call from her, who says she has a clue that could take them to their suspect. Then, Irish calls Gin, who goes immediately here along with Vodka before the police. However, she was kidnapped and killed by the serial killer before their arrival.
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==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[File:Kiyonaga Matsumoto.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], as a superintendent of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], was kidnapped by the [[Black Organization]] under their boss' order, so [[Irish]] could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
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==== Latoona ====
[[File:Princess Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Rato~ūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]]''
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポルト|Evu~a Poruto}} is a foreign child idol.
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=== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ===
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== References ==
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Masaaki Okakura

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| age = 32 (deceased)
| gender = Male
| occupation = Secretary of the [[Wikipedia: House of Representatives (Japan)|Diet]] [[Black Organization]] member
| first-appearance = Anime: [[The Raven Chaser|Movie 13]]
| appearances = {{:Masaaki Okakura Appearances}}
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'''{{nihongo|Masaaki Okakura|岡倉政明<ref>In the police report, his first name is written "正明".</ref>|Okakura Masaaki}}''' is a minor [[Black Organization]] member who appears only in [[The Raven Chaser]].

== Background ==
[[File:M13-memory card.jpg|thumb|left|His memory card.]]
Masaaki Okakura is a minor [[Black Organization]] agent, disguised as a parliamentary secretary, very suitable for a NOC sent by the organization to inquire about senior government officials information. His position is not low working undercover as a civilian, but it is not enough to have a codename. He is from Tokorozawa, Saitama.

He carried a memory card containing their entire NOC list, perhaps seeking some sort of insurance as speculated by [[Vermouth]]. The organization had grasped the fact and planned to get rid of him shortly. However, he was first stabbed to death by the vicious serial killer [[Kazuki Honjou]] for merely self-satisfaction, blaming him to take up a space in the final elevator that was able to escape the fire that killed his younger sister Nanako.

His murderer has unknowingly made off with his purple [[Wikipedia: Amulet#China and Japan|amulet bag]], one among the accessories often carried with the memory card. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders his men to retrieve it before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. For [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] could just be the one single trump card that crushes them, but it was destroyed by [[Chianti]] with a shot.

== Personality ==
Unlike most Black Organization members, Masaaki doesn't seem to be a very cruel person and he also has a thick side in obligation. Last year, on the first anniversary of her death, to express Nanako his gratitude for allowing him to board the elevator, he brought anonymously one flowers bouquet to her parents and elder brother on the memorial service day.

== Appearance ==
He has a large stature, brown hair and relatively big eyelashes.

== Appellations ==
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== Trivia ==
[[File:M13-omamori.jpg|thumb|right|His omamori bag.]]
* The seven people who were killed and their items stolen are listed in the police report. The memory card was found in the omamori bag, then the Black Organization NOC was him.
* The red wine drinked by [[Irish]] after secured the memory card is an [http://www.upperwine.com/products/wine-cachapoal-valley-chile-alto-cachapoal-valley-altair-2003 Altaïr Red 2003]. There are no official confirmation, but it could be his codename.
* He never even played mahjong.

== References ==
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== See also ==
* [[List of minor recurring movie characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]

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List of Black Organization related characters

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Many main and minor characters have been linked to the [[Black Organization]].

This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.

== Collaborators ==
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with [[#Targets|targets below]].

=== Unnamed Weapons Smuggler ===
[[File:Weapon Smuggler.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
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=== Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang ===
[[File:Akemi Miyano.jpg|right|100px]]
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]]. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister [[Shiho Miyano]]. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.

Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help.<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Masami’s other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
Hirota was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.

=== The unnamed giant alias 'Akira Hirota' ===
The giant was hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as Akira Hirota, an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.

=== Unnamed woman ===
[[File:Woman near Window.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]]'' 
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|the corresponding episode]]. <ref>Manga Chapter 35</ref>
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case ]]'' 
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident.<ref>Manga Chapter 114</ref> The Black Organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
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=== Ki'ichiro Numabuchi ===
[[File:Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]] where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], Files 5-8 (185-188): Stabbed Wallet Case</ref> He appears again in [[Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest]]. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.<ref>Manga [[Volume 35]], Files 8-10 (358-360): Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case</ref>
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=== Suguru Itakura ===
[[File:Suguru Itakura.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Suguru Itakura]] was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films.<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], Files 5-10 (377-383): "Footsteps of Darkness"</ref> He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular “system software” Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn’t want to complete the program “not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity.”<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380): "White Snow... Black Shadow..."</ref> He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6 (398): "Torn Friendship 1"</ref> Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
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=== Asaka ===
[[File:Asaka EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]] and [[Rum]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Asaka'''|浅香|Asaka}} is a mysterious person from 17 years ago who Conan believes is the killer of [[Kohji Haneda]] and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]]. Asaka approached the Black Organization target [[Amanda Hughes]] to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances; Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.

Asaka's gender is uncertain. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]] learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.

In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining [[Kohji Haneda]]'s broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and 17 years ago. [[Bourbon]] [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca"]] written by [[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]] who took a hiatus 17 years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization [[#Collaborators|are listed above]].

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the [[Black Organization timeline]].
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=== APTX 4869 Victims ===
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 1.jpg|thumb|tight|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from episode 129]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from File 1005]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims (Cover page 948)]]
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]].<ref name="179p6">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), pg 6: "The Girl made of Lies"</ref> According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead ({{lang|ja|死亡}}), except for Shinichi Kudo ({{lang|ja|工藤新一}}) who was listed as uncertain ({{lang|ja|不明}}).<ref name="179p6"/> Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that [[Rumi Wakasa]] looks at on her laptop in File 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), pg 32: "The Heisei Holmes" Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig"</ref> or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.<ref>Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations</ref>

* '''{{lang|ja|樽井英成}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
::Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
* '''{{lang|ja|新岡芳江}}'''<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in File 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
::Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
* '''{{lang|ja|松坂宗男}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Muneo Arimune|有宗宗男}} in [[Episode 129]] of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Matsusaka, Matsuzaka<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka {{lang|ja|広坂}}, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka {{lang|ja|松坂}}, Densaka {{lang|ja|伝坂}})</ref>
::Possible given names: Muneo<ref name="Viz">[[:File:English APTX list.jpg|Used by Viz]]</ref><ref name="uanime">Used in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the [[episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Takeshi, Takeishi
::Possible given names: Yoshio<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Ryoyu, Nagao
* '''{{lang|ja|工藤新一}} '''(Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
::Surname: Kudo
::Given name: Shinichi
* '''{{lang|ja|豊田稔}}'''<ref>This name was not included in Viz's translation.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Toyoda<ref name="uanime" />, Toyota
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime" />, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Haneda<ref name="Kohji">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|Used in the manga]]</ref><ref name="Viz"/>, Hada<ref name="uanime" />
::Possible given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji" />/Koji<ref name="uanime" /><ref name="Viz"/>
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Nomoto<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Yamoto
::Possible given names: Masaji<ref name="Viz"/>, Shoji, Masaharu, Yoshiji, Yoshiharu
* '''{{lang|ja|五島淳実}}'''<ref>Final character is 美 in the anime version</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
::Possible given name: Atsumi
* '''{{lang|ja|上園孝也}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
::Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
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==== Kohji Haneda====
{{Main|Kohji Haneda}}
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The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood brother. He was murdered 17 years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In chapter 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying {{nihongo|"one should stick with one's original plan"|初志貫徹|shoshi kantetsu}}. During "[[Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day#2016 DCTP thread version|Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016]]", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
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==== Mary Sera ====
{{Main|Mary Sera}}
[[File:Mary.jpg|100px|right]]
[[Mary Sera]], an unknown child whom [[Masumi]] calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in File 972 to be the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. 10 years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]]
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.<ref>source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation)</ref> The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.<ref>Manga [[Volume 18]], Files 180</ref>
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]]'' 
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
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=== Araide family ===
{{main|Tomoaki Araide}}[[File:Tomoaki Araide.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.

=== Jazz club man ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last."<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 3 (287), pg 2: "The Invisible Fear"</ref> He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.

In the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name as {{nihongo|Masahito Yoshioka|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS_Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]].
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=== Starling family ===
{{Main|Jodie Starling}}
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents 20 years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
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=== Senzo Fukuura ===
[[File:Senzo Fukuura.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Domon Yasudera.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI ]]'' 
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash.<ref>Manga [[Volume 48]], File 10 (500): "A New Person in Black"</ref> The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the [[Wikipedia: Diet of Japan|Diet]] yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next [[Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair 20 years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
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=== Kogoro Mouri ===
{{Main|Kogoro Mouri}}
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact!]], [[Wedding Eve]], and [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is [[Conan|completely]] innocent.

Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] that Sherry supposedly planted.)

When Gin heard that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], someone who had information on the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case]], had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
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=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 49#Black Organization vs FBI|Black Organization vs FBI ]] and [[Volume 53#Mysterious Job Case|Mysterious Job Case]]'' 
Toji Funemoto is a young boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident.<ref>Manga [[Volume 49]], File 3 (503): "Black Organization vs FBI 1"</ref> Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew.<ref>Manga [[Volume 53]], File 10 (553): "The Mysterious Job"</ref> Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
{{Main|Tohei Benzaki}}
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 80#A Shrine to Remember|Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap]] and [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|A Detective Solves a Case in a Bar]]'' 
Tohei Benzaki is a single man<ref>[[Volume 81]], File 855, Page 16</ref> who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.

It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
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=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
{{Main|Natsuko Shibuya}}
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Scarlet Return]]'' 
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of [[Jodie Starling]]'s whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via [[Camel]]'s phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. [[Vermouth]] copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
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=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Amanda Hughes'''|アマンダ・ヒューズ|Amanda Hyūzu}} was an elderly wealthy American who was killed 17 years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by [[APTX 4869]] or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion [[Kohji Haneda]] whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
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=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
:''See: [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
{{Nihongo|'''Gaito Hotta'''|堀田凱人|Hotta Gaito}} was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]] {{Main|Rokumichi Hado}}
:''See: [[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|Bourbon's Mission]]'' 
{{nihongo|Rokumichi Hado|波土禄道|Hado Rokumichi}} is a Rock musician who took a hiatus 17 years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death 17 years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.{{clear}}

=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{Main|Tsutomu Akai}}
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the [[Case_from_17_years_ago|Kohji Haneda case]] and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
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== Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization ==
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization

=== Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro ===
Kimie Shimabukuro assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro an Elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the Elder Kimie was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the Elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.

== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on [[Black Organization#Former|the main Black Organization page]].

=== Hiroshi Agasa ===
[[File:Hiroshi Agasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Hiroshi Agasa]] is a distant acquaintance of [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]]. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]</ref>
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=== Toichi Kuroba ===
[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]] taught [[Vermouth]] (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
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=== Yukiko Kudo ===
[[File:Yukiko Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
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=== Shinichi Kudo ===
[[File:Shinichi Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew [[Shinichi Kudo]] since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know Conan is Shinichi]].
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=== Ran Mouri ===
[[File:Ran Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met [[Ran Mouri]] through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Degima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case ]]'' 
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara’s father’s childhood playmate. He hasn’t seen [[Atsushi Miyano]] for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara’s grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the Organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara’s mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by someone unrelated to the Black Organization.<ref>Manga [[Volume 41]], File 10 (423): "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>{{clear}}

=== Wataru Date ===
[[File:Wataru Date.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Wataru Date]] was a close friend of [[Rei Furuya]] while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
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=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder ]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archeologist who [[Renya Karasuma]], the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago to find the treasure before he died of old age. He was presumably a victim of Karasuma treasure hunting fanaticism.
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== Extended Canon ==
=== Collaboraters ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== UCAR Inc. ====
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''UCAR Inc.'''|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}} is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.

=== Targets ===
==== Kazuki Honjou{{anchor|Kazuki Honjo}} ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered their minor agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] for revenge of his younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the charm bag with a memory card listing their complete agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders his men to retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was defeated by Conan and [[Irish]]. According to his sister's boyfriend, he'll get a death sentence for those murders, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.

==== Minoru Fukase ====
[[File:Minoru Fukase.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Minoru Fukase'''|深瀬稔|Fukase Minoru}}, age 27, is one of [[Kansuke Yamato|Inspector Yamato]]'s main suspect from Nagano in the first serial murder case of Shuhei Jinno.
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==== Sumire Shindo ====
[[File:Sumire Shindo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Sumire Shindo'''|信藤すみれ|Shindō Sumire}}, age 34, is an abstract painter in Hachioji. The police receive a call from her, who says she has a clue that could take them to their suspect. Then, Irish calls Gin, who goes immediately here along with Vodka before the police. However, she was kidnapped and killed by the serial killer before their arrival.
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==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[File:Kiyonaga Matsumoto.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], as a superintendent of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], was kidnapped by the [[Black Organization]] under their boss' order, so [[Irish]] could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
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==== Latoona ====
[[File:Princess Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Rato~ūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]]''
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポルト|Evu~a Poruto}} is a foreign child idol.
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=== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ===
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== References ==
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Many main and minor characters have been linked to the [[Black Organization]].

This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.

== Collaborators ==
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with [[#Targets|targets below]].

=== Unnamed Weapons Smuggler ===
[[File:Weapon Smuggler.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
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=== Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang ===
[[File:Akemi Miyano.jpg|right|100px]]
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]]. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister [[Shiho Miyano]]. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.

Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help.<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Masami’s other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
Hirota was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.

=== The unnamed giant alias 'Akira Hirota' ===
The giant was hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as Akira Hirota, an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.

=== Unnamed woman ===
[[File:Woman near Window.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]]'' 
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|the corresponding episode]]. <ref>Manga Chapter 35</ref>
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case ]]'' 
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident.<ref>Manga Chapter 114</ref> The Black Organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
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=== Ki'ichiro Numabuchi ===
[[File:Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]] where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], Files 5-8 (185-188): Stabbed Wallet Case</ref> He appears again in [[Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest]]. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.<ref>Manga [[Volume 35]], Files 8-10 (358-360): Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case</ref>
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=== Suguru Itakura ===
[[File:Suguru Itakura.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Suguru Itakura]] was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films.<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], Files 5-10 (377-383): "Footsteps of Darkness"</ref> He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular “system software” Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn’t want to complete the program “not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity.”<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380): "White Snow... Black Shadow..."</ref> He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6 (398): "Torn Friendship 1"</ref> Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
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=== Asaka ===
[[File:Asaka EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]] and [[Rum]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Asaka'''|浅香|Asaka}} is a mysterious person from 17 years ago who Conan believes is the killer of [[Kohji Haneda]] and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]]. Asaka approached the Black Organization target [[Amanda Hughes]] to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances; Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.

Asaka's gender is uncertain. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]] learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.

In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining [[Kohji Haneda]]'s broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and 17 years ago. [[Bourbon]] [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca"]] written by [[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]] who took a hiatus 17 years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization [[#Collaborators|are listed above]].

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the [[Black Organization timeline]].
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=== APTX 4869 Victims ===
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 1.jpg|thumb|tight|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from episode 129]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from File 1005]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims (Cover page 948)]]
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]].<ref name="179p6">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), pg 6: "The Girl made of Lies"</ref> According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead ({{lang|ja|死亡}}), except for Shinichi Kudo ({{lang|ja|工藤新一}}) who was listed as uncertain ({{lang|ja|不明}}).<ref name="179p6"/> Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that [[Rumi Wakasa]] looks at on her laptop in File 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), pg 32: "The Heisei Holmes" Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig"</ref> or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.<ref>Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations</ref>

* '''{{lang|ja|樽井英成}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
::Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
* '''{{lang|ja|新岡芳江}}'''<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in File 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
::Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
* '''{{lang|ja|松坂宗男}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Muneo Arimune|有宗宗男}} in [[Episode 129]] of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Matsusaka, Matsuzaka<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka {{lang|ja|広坂}}, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka {{lang|ja|松坂}}, Densaka {{lang|ja|伝坂}})</ref>
::Possible given names: Muneo<ref name="Viz">[[:File:English APTX list.jpg|Used by Viz]]</ref><ref name="uanime">Used in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the [[episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Takeshi, Takeishi
::Possible given names: Yoshio<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Ryoyu, Nagao
* '''{{lang|ja|工藤新一}} '''(Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
::Surname: Kudo
::Given name: Shinichi
* '''{{lang|ja|豊田稔}}'''<ref>This name was not included in Viz's translation.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Toyoda<ref name="uanime" />, Toyota
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime" />, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Haneda<ref name="Kohji">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|Used in the manga]]</ref><ref name="Viz"/>, Hada<ref name="uanime" />
::Possible given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji" />/Koji<ref name="uanime" /><ref name="Viz"/>
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Nomoto<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Yamoto
::Possible given names: Masaji<ref name="Viz"/>, Shoji, Masaharu, Yoshiji, Yoshiharu
* '''{{lang|ja|五島淳実}}'''<ref>Final character is 美 in the anime version</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
::Possible given name: Atsumi
* '''{{lang|ja|上園孝也}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
::Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
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==== Kohji Haneda====
{{Main|Kohji Haneda}}
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The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood brother. He was murdered 17 years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In chapter 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying {{nihongo|"one should stick with one's original plan"|初志貫徹|shoshi kantetsu}}. During "[[Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day#2016 DCTP thread version|Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016]]", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
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==== Mary Sera ====
{{Main|Mary Sera}}
[[File:Mary.jpg|100px|right]]
[[Mary Sera]], an unknown child whom [[Masumi]] calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in File 972 to be the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. 10 years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]]
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.<ref>source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation)</ref> The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.<ref>Manga [[Volume 18]], Files 180</ref>
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]]'' 
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
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=== Araide family ===
{{main|Tomoaki Araide}}[[File:Tomoaki Araide.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.

=== Jazz club man ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last."<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 3 (287), pg 2: "The Invisible Fear"</ref> He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.

In the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name as {{nihongo|Masahito Yoshioka|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS_Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]].
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=== Starling family ===
{{Main|Jodie Starling}}
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents 20 years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
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=== Senzo Fukuura ===
[[File:Senzo Fukuura.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Domon Yasudera.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI ]]'' 
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash.<ref>Manga [[Volume 48]], File 10 (500): "A New Person in Black"</ref> The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the [[Wikipedia: Diet of Japan|Diet]] yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next [[Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair 20 years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
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=== Kogoro Mouri ===
{{Main|Kogoro Mouri}}
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact!]], [[Wedding Eve]], and [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is [[Conan|completely]] innocent.

Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] that Sherry supposedly planted.)

When Gin heard that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], someone who had information on the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case]], had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
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=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 49#Black Organization vs FBI|Black Organization vs FBI ]] and [[Volume 53#Mysterious Job Case|Mysterious Job Case]]'' 
Toji Funemoto is a young boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident.<ref>Manga [[Volume 49]], File 3 (503): "Black Organization vs FBI 1"</ref> Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew.<ref>Manga [[Volume 53]], File 10 (553): "The Mysterious Job"</ref> Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
{{Main|Tohei Benzaki}}
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 80#A Shrine to Remember|Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap]] and [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|A Detective Solves a Case in a Bar]]'' 
Tohei Benzaki is a single man<ref>[[Volume 81]], File 855, Page 16</ref> who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.

It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
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=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
{{Main|Natsuko Shibuya}}
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Scarlet Return]]'' 
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of [[Jodie Starling]]'s whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via [[Camel]]'s phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. [[Vermouth]] copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
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=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Amanda Hughes'''|アマンダ・ヒューズ|Amanda Hyūzu}} was an elderly wealthy American who was killed 17 years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by [[APTX 4869]] or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion [[Kohji Haneda]] whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
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=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
:''See: [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
{{Nihongo|'''Gaito Hotta'''|堀田凱人|Hotta Gaito}} was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]] {{Main|Rokumichi Hado}}
:''See: [[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|Bourbon's Mission]]'' 
{{nihongo|Rokumichi Hado|波土禄道|Hado Rokumichi}} is a Rock musician who took a hiatus 17 years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death 17 years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.{{clear}}

=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{Main|Tsutomu Akai}}
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the [[Case_from_17_years_ago|Kohji Haneda case]] and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
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== Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization ==
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization

=== Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro ===
Kimie Shimabukuro assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro an Elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the Elder Kimie was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the Elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.

== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on [[Black Organization#Former|the main Black Organization page]].

=== Hiroshi Agasa ===
[[File:Hiroshi Agasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Hiroshi Agasa]] is a distant acquaintance of [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]]. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]</ref>
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=== Toichi Kuroba ===
[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]] taught [[Vermouth]] (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
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=== Yukiko Kudo ===
[[File:Yukiko Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
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=== Shinichi Kudo ===
[[File:Shinichi Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew [[Shinichi Kudo]] since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know Conan is Shinichi]].
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=== Ran Mouri ===
[[File:Ran Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met [[Ran Mouri]] through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Degima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case ]]'' 
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara’s father’s childhood playmate. He hasn’t seen [[Atsushi Miyano]] for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara’s grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the Organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara’s mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by someone unrelated to the Black Organization.<ref>Manga [[Volume 41]], File 10 (423): "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>{{clear}}

=== Wataru Date ===
[[File:Wataru Date.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Wataru Date]] was a close friend of [[Rei Furuya]] while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
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=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder ]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archeologist who [[Renya Karasuma]], the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago to find the treasure before he died of old age. He was presumably a victim of Karasuma treasure hunting fanaticism.
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== Extended Canon ==
=== Collaboraters ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== UCAR Inc. ====
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''UCAR Inc.'''|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}} is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.

=== Targets ===
==== Kazuki Honjou{{anchor|Kazuki Honjo}} ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered their minor agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] for revenge of his younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the charm bag with a memory card listing their complete agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders his men to retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was defeated by Conan and [[Irish]]. According to his sister's boyfriend, he'll get a death sentence for that murder, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.

==== Minoru Fukase ====
[[File:Minoru Fukase.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Minoru Fukase'''|深瀬稔|Fukase Minoru}}, age 27, is one of [[Kansuke Yamato|Inspector Yamato]]'s main suspect from Nagano in the first serial murder case of Shuhei Jinno.
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==== Sumire Shindo ====
[[File:Sumire Shindo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Sumire Shindo'''|信藤すみれ|Shindō Sumire}}, age 34, is an abstract painter in Hachioji. The police receive a call from her, who says she has a clue that could take them to their suspect. Then, Irish calls Gin, who goes immediately here along with Vodka before the police. However, she was kidnapped and killed by the serial killer before their arrival.
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==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[File:Kiyonaga Matsumoto.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], as a superintendent of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], was kidnapped by the [[Black Organization]] under their boss' order, so [[Irish]] could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
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==== Latoona ====
[[File:Princess Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Rato~ūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]]''
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポルト|Evu~a Poruto}} is a foreign child idol.
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=== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ===
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== References ==
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Many main and minor characters have been linked to the [[Black Organization]].

This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.

== Collaborators ==
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with [[#Targets|targets below]].

=== Unnamed Weapons Smuggler ===
[[File:Weapon Smuggler.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
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=== Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang ===
[[File:Akemi Miyano.jpg|right|100px]]
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]]. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister [[Shiho Miyano]]. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.

Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help.<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Masami’s other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
Hirota was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.

=== The unnamed giant alias 'Akira Hirota' ===
The giant was hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as Akira Hirota, an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.

=== Unnamed woman ===
[[File:Woman near Window.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]]'' 
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|the corresponding episode]]. <ref>Manga Chapter 35</ref>
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case ]]'' 
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident.<ref>Manga Chapter 114</ref> The Black Organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
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=== Ki'ichiro Numabuchi ===
[[File:Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]] where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], Files 5-8 (185-188): Stabbed Wallet Case</ref> He appears again in [[Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest]]. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.<ref>Manga [[Volume 35]], Files 8-10 (358-360): Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case</ref>
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=== Suguru Itakura ===
[[File:Suguru Itakura.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Suguru Itakura]] was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films.<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], Files 5-10 (377-383): "Footsteps of Darkness"</ref> He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular “system software” Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn’t want to complete the program “not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity.”<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380): "White Snow... Black Shadow..."</ref> He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6 (398): "Torn Friendship 1"</ref> Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
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=== Asaka ===
[[File:Asaka EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]] and [[Rum]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Asaka'''|浅香|Asaka}} is a mysterious person from 17 years ago who Conan believes is the killer of [[Kohji Haneda]] and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]]. Asaka approached the Black Organization target [[Amanda Hughes]] to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances; Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.

Asaka's gender is uncertain. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]] learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.

In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining [[Kohji Haneda]]'s broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and 17 years ago. [[Bourbon]] [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca"]] written by [[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]] who took a hiatus 17 years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization [[#Collaborators|are listed above]].

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the [[Black Organization timeline]].
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=== APTX 4869 Victims ===
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 1.jpg|thumb|tight|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from episode 129]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from File 1005]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims (Cover page 948)]]
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]].<ref name="179p6">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), pg 6: "The Girl made of Lies"</ref> According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead ({{lang|ja|死亡}}), except for Shinichi Kudo ({{lang|ja|工藤新一}}) who was listed as uncertain ({{lang|ja|不明}}).<ref name="179p6"/> Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that [[Rumi Wakasa]] looks at on her laptop in File 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), pg 32: "The Heisei Holmes" Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig"</ref> or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.<ref>Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations</ref>

* '''{{lang|ja|樽井英成}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
::Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
* '''{{lang|ja|新岡芳江}}'''<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in File 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
::Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
* '''{{lang|ja|松坂宗男}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Muneo Arimune|有宗宗男}} in [[Episode 129]] of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Matsusaka, Matsuzaka<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka {{lang|ja|広坂}}, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka {{lang|ja|松坂}}, Densaka {{lang|ja|伝坂}})</ref>
::Possible given names: Muneo<ref name="Viz">[[:File:English APTX list.jpg|Used by Viz]]</ref><ref name="uanime">Used in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the [[episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Takeshi, Takeishi
::Possible given names: Yoshio<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Ryoyu, Nagao
* '''{{lang|ja|工藤新一}} '''(Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
::Surname: Kudo
::Given name: Shinichi
* '''{{lang|ja|豊田稔}}'''<ref>This name was not included in Viz's translation.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Toyoda<ref name="uanime" />, Toyota
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime" />, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Haneda<ref name="Kohji">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|Used in the manga]]</ref><ref name="Viz"/>, Hada<ref name="uanime" />
::Possible given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji" />/Koji<ref name="uanime" /><ref name="Viz"/>
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Nomoto<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Yamoto
::Possible given names: Masaji<ref name="Viz"/>, Shoji, Masaharu, Yoshiji, Yoshiharu
* '''{{lang|ja|五島淳実}}'''<ref>Final character is 美 in the anime version</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
::Possible given name: Atsumi
* '''{{lang|ja|上園孝也}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
::Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
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==== Kohji Haneda====
{{Main|Kohji Haneda}}
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The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood brother. He was murdered 17 years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In chapter 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying {{nihongo|"one should stick with one's original plan"|初志貫徹|shoshi kantetsu}}. During "[[Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day#2016 DCTP thread version|Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016]]", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
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==== Mary Sera ====
{{Main|Mary Sera}}
[[File:Mary.jpg|100px|right]]
[[Mary Sera]], an unknown child whom [[Masumi]] calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in File 972 to be the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. 10 years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]]
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.<ref>source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation)</ref> The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.<ref>Manga [[Volume 18]], Files 180</ref>
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]]'' 
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
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=== Araide family ===
{{main|Tomoaki Araide}}[[File:Tomoaki Araide.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.

=== Jazz club man ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last."<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 3 (287), pg 2: "The Invisible Fear"</ref> He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.

In the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name as {{nihongo|Masahito Yoshioka|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS_Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]].
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=== Starling family ===
{{Main|Jodie Starling}}
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents 20 years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
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=== Senzo Fukuura ===
[[File:Senzo Fukuura.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Domon Yasudera.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI ]]'' 
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash.<ref>Manga [[Volume 48]], File 10 (500): "A New Person in Black"</ref> The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the [[Wikipedia: Diet of Japan|Diet]] yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next [[Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair 20 years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
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=== Kogoro Mouri ===
{{Main|Kogoro Mouri}}
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact!]], [[Wedding Eve]], and [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is [[Conan|completely]] innocent.

Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] that Sherry supposedly planted.)

When Gin heard that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], someone who had information on the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case]], had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
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=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 49#Black Organization vs FBI|Black Organization vs FBI ]] and [[Volume 53#Mysterious Job Case|Mysterious Job Case]]'' 
Toji Funemoto is a young boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident.<ref>Manga [[Volume 49]], File 3 (503): "Black Organization vs FBI 1"</ref> Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew.<ref>Manga [[Volume 53]], File 10 (553): "The Mysterious Job"</ref> Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
{{Main|Tohei Benzaki}}
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 80#A Shrine to Remember|Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap]] and [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|A Detective Solves a Case in a Bar]]'' 
Tohei Benzaki is a single man<ref>[[Volume 81]], File 855, Page 16</ref> who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.

It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
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=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
{{Main|Natsuko Shibuya}}
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Scarlet Return]]'' 
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of [[Jodie Starling]]'s whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via [[Camel]]'s phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. [[Vermouth]] copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
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=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Amanda Hughes'''|アマンダ・ヒューズ|Amanda Hyūzu}} was an elderly wealthy American who was killed 17 years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by [[APTX 4869]] or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion [[Kohji Haneda]] whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
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=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
:''See: [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
{{Nihongo|'''Gaito Hotta'''|堀田凱人|Hotta Gaito}} was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]] {{Main|Rokumichi Hado}}
:''See: [[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|Bourbon's Mission]]'' 
{{nihongo|Rokumichi Hado|波土禄道|Hado Rokumichi}} is a Rock musician who took a hiatus 17 years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death 17 years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.{{clear}}

=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{Main|Tsutomu Akai}}
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the [[Case_from_17_years_ago|Kohji Haneda case]] and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
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== Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization ==
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization

=== Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro ===
Kimie Shimabukuro assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro an Elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the Elder Kimie was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the Elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.

== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on [[Black Organization#Former|the main Black Organization page]].

=== Hiroshi Agasa ===
[[File:Hiroshi Agasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Hiroshi Agasa]] is a distant acquaintance of [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]]. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]</ref>
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=== Toichi Kuroba ===
[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]] taught [[Vermouth]] (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
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=== Yukiko Kudo ===
[[File:Yukiko Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
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=== Shinichi Kudo ===
[[File:Shinichi Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew [[Shinichi Kudo]] since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know Conan is Shinichi]].
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=== Ran Mouri ===
[[File:Ran Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met [[Ran Mouri]] through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Degima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case ]]'' 
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara’s father’s childhood playmate. He hasn’t seen [[Atsushi Miyano]] for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara’s grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the Organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara’s mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by someone unrelated to the Black Organization.<ref>Manga [[Volume 41]], File 10 (423): "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>{{clear}}

=== Wataru Date ===
[[File:Wataru Date.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Wataru Date]] was a close friend of [[Rei Furuya]] while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
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=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder ]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archeologist who [[Renya Karasuma]], the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago to find the treasure before he died of old age. He was presumably a victim of Karasuma treasure hunting fanaticism.
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== Extended Canon ==
=== Collaboraters ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== UCAR Inc. ====
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''UCAR Inc.'''|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}} is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.

=== Targets ===
==== Kazuki Honjou{{anchor|Kazuki Honjo}} ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered their minor agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] for revenge of his younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the charm bag with a memory card listing their complete agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders his men to retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was defeated by Conan and Irish. According to Mizutani, he'll get a death sentence for that murder, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.

==== Minoru Fukase ====
[[File:Minoru Fukase.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Minoru Fukase'''|深瀬稔|Fukase Minoru}}, age 27, is one of [[Kansuke Yamato|Inspector Yamato]]'s main suspect from Nagano in the first serial murder case of Shuhei Jinno.
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==== Sumire Shindo ====
[[File:Sumire Shindo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Sumire Shindo'''|信藤すみれ|Shindō Sumire}}, age 34, is an abstract painter in Hachioji. The police receive a call from her, who says she has a clue that could take them to their suspect. Then, Irish calls Gin, who goes immediately here along with Vodka before the police. However, she was kidnapped and killed by the serial killer before their arrival.
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==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[File:Kiyonaga Matsumoto.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], as a superintendent of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], was kidnapped by the [[Black Organization]] under their boss' order, so [[Irish]] could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
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==== Latoona ====
[[File:Princess Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Rato~ūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]]''
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポルト|Evu~a Poruto}} is a foreign child idol.
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=== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ===
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== References ==
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Many main and minor characters have been linked to the [[Black Organization]].

This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.

== Collaborators ==
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with [[#Targets|targets below]].

=== Unnamed Weapons Smuggler ===
[[File:Weapon Smuggler.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
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=== Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang ===
[[File:Akemi Miyano.jpg|right|100px]]
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]]. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister [[Shiho Miyano]]. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.

Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help.<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Masami’s other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
Hirota was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.

=== The unnamed giant alias 'Akira Hirota' ===
The giant was hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as Akira Hirota, an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.

=== Unnamed woman ===
[[File:Woman near Window.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]]'' 
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|the corresponding episode]]. <ref>Manga Chapter 35</ref>
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case ]]'' 
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident.<ref>Manga Chapter 114</ref> The Black Organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
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=== Ki'ichiro Numabuchi ===
[[File:Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]] where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], Files 5-8 (185-188): Stabbed Wallet Case</ref> He appears again in [[Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest]]. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.<ref>Manga [[Volume 35]], Files 8-10 (358-360): Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case</ref>
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=== Suguru Itakura ===
[[File:Suguru Itakura.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Suguru Itakura]] was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films.<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], Files 5-10 (377-383): "Footsteps of Darkness"</ref> He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular “system software” Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn’t want to complete the program “not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity.”<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380): "White Snow... Black Shadow..."</ref> He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6 (398): "Torn Friendship 1"</ref> Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
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=== Asaka ===
[[File:Asaka EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]] and [[Rum]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Asaka'''|浅香|Asaka}} is a mysterious person from 17 years ago who Conan believes is the killer of [[Kohji Haneda]] and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]]. Asaka approached the Black Organization target [[Amanda Hughes]] to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances; Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.

Asaka's gender is uncertain. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]] learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.

In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining [[Kohji Haneda]]'s broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and 17 years ago. [[Bourbon]] [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca"]] written by [[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]] who took a hiatus 17 years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization [[#Collaborators|are listed above]].

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the [[Black Organization timeline]].
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=== APTX 4869 Victims ===
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 1.jpg|thumb|tight|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from episode 129]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from File 1005]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims (Cover page 948)]]
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]].<ref name="179p6">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), pg 6: "The Girl made of Lies"</ref> According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead ({{lang|ja|死亡}}), except for Shinichi Kudo ({{lang|ja|工藤新一}}) who was listed as uncertain ({{lang|ja|不明}}).<ref name="179p6"/> Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that [[Rumi Wakasa]] looks at on her laptop in File 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), pg 32: "The Heisei Holmes" Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig"</ref> or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.<ref>Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations</ref>

* '''{{lang|ja|樽井英成}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
::Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
* '''{{lang|ja|新岡芳江}}'''<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in File 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
::Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
* '''{{lang|ja|松坂宗男}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Muneo Arimune|有宗宗男}} in [[Episode 129]] of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Matsusaka, Matsuzaka<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka {{lang|ja|広坂}}, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka {{lang|ja|松坂}}, Densaka {{lang|ja|伝坂}})</ref>
::Possible given names: Muneo<ref name="Viz">[[:File:English APTX list.jpg|Used by Viz]]</ref><ref name="uanime">Used in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the [[episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Takeshi, Takeishi
::Possible given names: Yoshio<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Ryoyu, Nagao
* '''{{lang|ja|工藤新一}} '''(Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
::Surname: Kudo
::Given name: Shinichi
* '''{{lang|ja|豊田稔}}'''<ref>This name was not included in Viz's translation.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Toyoda<ref name="uanime" />, Toyota
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime" />, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Haneda<ref name="Kohji">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|Used in the manga]]</ref><ref name="Viz"/>, Hada<ref name="uanime" />
::Possible given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji" />/Koji<ref name="uanime" /><ref name="Viz"/>
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Nomoto<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Yamoto
::Possible given names: Masaji<ref name="Viz"/>, Shoji, Masaharu, Yoshiji, Yoshiharu
* '''{{lang|ja|五島淳実}}'''<ref>Final character is 美 in the anime version</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
::Possible given name: Atsumi
* '''{{lang|ja|上園孝也}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
::Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
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==== Kohji Haneda====
{{Main|Kohji Haneda}}
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The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood brother. He was murdered 17 years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In chapter 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying {{nihongo|"one should stick with one's original plan"|初志貫徹|shoshi kantetsu}}. During "[[Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day#2016 DCTP thread version|Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016]]", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
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==== Mary Sera ====
{{Main|Mary Sera}}
[[File:Mary.jpg|100px|right]]
[[Mary Sera]], an unknown child whom [[Masumi]] calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in File 972 to be the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. 10 years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]]
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.<ref>source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation)</ref> The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.<ref>Manga [[Volume 18]], Files 180</ref>
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]]'' 
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
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=== Araide family ===
{{main|Tomoaki Araide}}[[File:Tomoaki Araide.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.

=== Jazz club man ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last."<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 3 (287), pg 2: "The Invisible Fear"</ref> He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.

In the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name as {{nihongo|Masahito Yoshioka|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS_Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]].
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=== Starling family ===
{{Main|Jodie Starling}}
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents 20 years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
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=== Senzo Fukuura ===
[[File:Senzo Fukuura.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Domon Yasudera.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI ]]'' 
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash.<ref>Manga [[Volume 48]], File 10 (500): "A New Person in Black"</ref> The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the [[Wikipedia: Diet of Japan|Diet]] yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next [[Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair 20 years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
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=== Kogoro Mouri ===
{{Main|Kogoro Mouri}}
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact!]], [[Wedding Eve]], and [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is [[Conan|completely]] innocent.

Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] that Sherry supposedly planted.)

When Gin heard that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], someone who had information on the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case]], had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
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=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 49#Black Organization vs FBI|Black Organization vs FBI ]] and [[Volume 53#Mysterious Job Case|Mysterious Job Case]]'' 
Toji Funemoto is a young boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident.<ref>Manga [[Volume 49]], File 3 (503): "Black Organization vs FBI 1"</ref> Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew.<ref>Manga [[Volume 53]], File 10 (553): "The Mysterious Job"</ref> Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
{{Main|Tohei Benzaki}}
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 80#A Shrine to Remember|Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap]] and [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|A Detective Solves a Case in a Bar]]'' 
Tohei Benzaki is a single man<ref>[[Volume 81]], File 855, Page 16</ref> who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.

It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
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=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
{{Main|Natsuko Shibuya}}
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Scarlet Return]]'' 
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of [[Jodie Starling]]'s whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via [[Camel]]'s phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. [[Vermouth]] copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
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=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Amanda Hughes'''|アマンダ・ヒューズ|Amanda Hyūzu}} was an elderly wealthy American who was killed 17 years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by [[APTX 4869]] or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion [[Kohji Haneda]] whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
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=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
:''See: [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
{{Nihongo|'''Gaito Hotta'''|堀田凱人|Hotta Gaito}} was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]] {{Main|Rokumichi Hado}}
:''See: [[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|Bourbon's Mission]]'' 
{{nihongo|Rokumichi Hado|波土禄道|Hado Rokumichi}} is a Rock musician who took a hiatus 17 years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death 17 years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.{{clear}}

=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{Main|Tsutomu Akai}}
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the [[Case_from_17_years_ago|Kohji Haneda case]] and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
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== Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization ==
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization

=== Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro ===
Kimie Shimabukuro assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro an Elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the Elder Kimie was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the Elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.

== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on [[Black Organization#Former|the main Black Organization page]].

=== Hiroshi Agasa ===
[[File:Hiroshi Agasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Hiroshi Agasa]] is a distant acquaintance of [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]]. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]</ref>
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=== Toichi Kuroba ===
[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]] taught [[Vermouth]] (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
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=== Yukiko Kudo ===
[[File:Yukiko Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
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=== Shinichi Kudo ===
[[File:Shinichi Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew [[Shinichi Kudo]] since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know Conan is Shinichi]].
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=== Ran Mouri ===
[[File:Ran Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met [[Ran Mouri]] through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Degima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case ]]'' 
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara’s father’s childhood playmate. He hasn’t seen [[Atsushi Miyano]] for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara’s grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the Organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara’s mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by someone unrelated to the Black Organization.<ref>Manga [[Volume 41]], File 10 (423): "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>{{clear}}

=== Wataru Date ===
[[File:Wataru Date.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Wataru Date]] was a close friend of [[Rei Furuya]] while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
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=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder ]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archeologist who [[Renya Karasuma]], the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago to find the treasure before he died of old age. He was presumably a victim of Karasuma treasure hunting fanaticism.
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== Extended Canon ==
=== Collaboraters ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== UCAR Inc. ====
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''UCAR Inc.'''|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}} is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.

=== Targets ===
==== Kazuki Honjou{{anchor|Kazuki Honjo}} ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered their minor agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] for revenge of his younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the charm bag with a memory card listing the complete Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders his men to retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was defeated by Conan and Irish. According to Mizutani, he'll get a death sentence for that murder, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.

==== Minoru Fukase ====
[[File:Minoru Fukase.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Minoru Fukase'''|深瀬稔|Fukase Minoru}}, age 27, is one of [[Kansuke Yamato|Inspector Yamato]]'s main suspect from Nagano in the first serial murder case of Shuhei Jinno.
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==== Sumire Shindo ====
[[File:Sumire Shindo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Sumire Shindo'''|信藤すみれ|Shindō Sumire}}, age 34, is an abstract painter in Hachioji. The police receive a call from her, who says she has a clue that could take them to their suspect. Then, Irish calls Gin, who goes immediately here along with Vodka before the police. However, she was kidnapped and killed by the serial killer before their arrival.
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==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[File:Kiyonaga Matsumoto.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], as a superintendent of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], was kidnapped by the [[Black Organization]] under their boss' order, so [[Irish]] could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
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==== Latoona ====
[[File:Princess Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Rato~ūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]]''
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポルト|Evu~a Poruto}} is a foreign child idol.
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=== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ===
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== References ==
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Many main and minor characters have been linked to the [[Black Organization]].

This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.

== Collaborators ==
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with [[#Targets|targets below]].

=== Unnamed Weapons Smuggler ===
[[File:Weapon Smuggler.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
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=== Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang ===
[[File:Akemi Miyano.jpg|right|100px]]
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]]. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister [[Shiho Miyano]]. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.

Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help.<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Masami’s other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
Hirota was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.

=== The unnamed giant alias 'Akira Hirota' ===
The giant was hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as Akira Hirota, an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.

=== Unnamed woman ===
[[File:Woman near Window.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]]'' 
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|the corresponding episode]]. <ref>Manga Chapter 35</ref>
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case ]]'' 
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident.<ref>Manga Chapter 114</ref> The Black Organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
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=== Ki'ichiro Numabuchi ===
[[File:Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]] where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], Files 5-8 (185-188): Stabbed Wallet Case</ref> He appears again in [[Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest]]. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.<ref>Manga [[Volume 35]], Files 8-10 (358-360): Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case</ref>
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=== Suguru Itakura ===
[[File:Suguru Itakura.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Suguru Itakura]] was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films.<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], Files 5-10 (377-383): "Footsteps of Darkness"</ref> He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular “system software” Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn’t want to complete the program “not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity.”<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380): "White Snow... Black Shadow..."</ref> He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6 (398): "Torn Friendship 1"</ref> Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
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=== Asaka ===
[[File:Asaka EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]] and [[Rum]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Asaka'''|浅香|Asaka}} is a mysterious person from 17 years ago who Conan believes is the killer of [[Kohji Haneda]] and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]]. Asaka approached the Black Organization target [[Amanda Hughes]] to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances; Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.

Asaka's gender is uncertain. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]] learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.

In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining [[Kohji Haneda]]'s broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and 17 years ago. [[Bourbon]] [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca"]] written by [[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]] who took a hiatus 17 years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization [[#Collaborators|are listed above]].

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the [[Black Organization timeline]].
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=== APTX 4869 Victims ===
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 1.jpg|thumb|tight|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from episode 129]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from File 1005]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims (Cover page 948)]]
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]].<ref name="179p6">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), pg 6: "The Girl made of Lies"</ref> According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead ({{lang|ja|死亡}}), except for Shinichi Kudo ({{lang|ja|工藤新一}}) who was listed as uncertain ({{lang|ja|不明}}).<ref name="179p6"/> Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that [[Rumi Wakasa]] looks at on her laptop in File 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), pg 32: "The Heisei Holmes" Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig"</ref> or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.<ref>Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations</ref>

* '''{{lang|ja|樽井英成}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
::Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
* '''{{lang|ja|新岡芳江}}'''<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in File 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
::Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
* '''{{lang|ja|松坂宗男}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Muneo Arimune|有宗宗男}} in [[Episode 129]] of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Matsusaka, Matsuzaka<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka {{lang|ja|広坂}}, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka {{lang|ja|松坂}}, Densaka {{lang|ja|伝坂}})</ref>
::Possible given names: Muneo<ref name="Viz">[[:File:English APTX list.jpg|Used by Viz]]</ref><ref name="uanime">Used in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the [[episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Takeshi, Takeishi
::Possible given names: Yoshio<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Ryoyu, Nagao
* '''{{lang|ja|工藤新一}} '''(Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
::Surname: Kudo
::Given name: Shinichi
* '''{{lang|ja|豊田稔}}'''<ref>This name was not included in Viz's translation.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Toyoda<ref name="uanime" />, Toyota
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime" />, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Haneda<ref name="Kohji">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|Used in the manga]]</ref><ref name="Viz"/>, Hada<ref name="uanime" />
::Possible given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji" />/Koji<ref name="uanime" /><ref name="Viz"/>
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Nomoto<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Yamoto
::Possible given names: Masaji<ref name="Viz"/>, Shoji, Masaharu, Yoshiji, Yoshiharu
* '''{{lang|ja|五島淳実}}'''<ref>Final character is 美 in the anime version</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
::Possible given name: Atsumi
* '''{{lang|ja|上園孝也}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
::Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
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==== Kohji Haneda====
{{Main|Kohji Haneda}}
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The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood brother. He was murdered 17 years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In chapter 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying {{nihongo|"one should stick with one's original plan"|初志貫徹|shoshi kantetsu}}. During "[[Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day#2016 DCTP thread version|Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016]]", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
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==== Mary Sera ====
{{Main|Mary Sera}}
[[File:Mary.jpg|100px|right]]
[[Mary Sera]], an unknown child whom [[Masumi]] calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in File 972 to be the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. 10 years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]]
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.<ref>source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation)</ref> The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.<ref>Manga [[Volume 18]], Files 180</ref>
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]]'' 
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
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=== Araide family ===
{{main|Tomoaki Araide}}[[File:Tomoaki Araide.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.

=== Jazz club man ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last."<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 3 (287), pg 2: "The Invisible Fear"</ref> He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.

In the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name as {{nihongo|Masahito Yoshioka|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS_Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]].
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=== Starling family ===
{{Main|Jodie Starling}}
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents 20 years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
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=== Senzo Fukuura ===
[[File:Senzo Fukuura.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Domon Yasudera.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI ]]'' 
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash.<ref>Manga [[Volume 48]], File 10 (500): "A New Person in Black"</ref> The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the [[Wikipedia: Diet of Japan|Diet]] yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next [[Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair 20 years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
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=== Kogoro Mouri ===
{{Main|Kogoro Mouri}}
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact!]], [[Wedding Eve]], and [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is [[Conan|completely]] innocent.

Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] that Sherry supposedly planted.)

When Gin heard that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], someone who had information on the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case]], had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
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=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 49#Black Organization vs FBI|Black Organization vs FBI ]] and [[Volume 53#Mysterious Job Case|Mysterious Job Case]]'' 
Toji Funemoto is a young boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident.<ref>Manga [[Volume 49]], File 3 (503): "Black Organization vs FBI 1"</ref> Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew.<ref>Manga [[Volume 53]], File 10 (553): "The Mysterious Job"</ref> Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
{{Main|Tohei Benzaki}}
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 80#A Shrine to Remember|Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap]] and [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|A Detective Solves a Case in a Bar]]'' 
Tohei Benzaki is a single man<ref>[[Volume 81]], File 855, Page 16</ref> who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.

It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
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=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
{{Main|Natsuko Shibuya}}
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Scarlet Return]]'' 
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of [[Jodie Starling]]'s whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via [[Camel]]'s phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. [[Vermouth]] copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
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=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Amanda Hughes'''|アマンダ・ヒューズ|Amanda Hyūzu}} was an elderly wealthy American who was killed 17 years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by [[APTX 4869]] or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion [[Kohji Haneda]] whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
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=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
:''See: [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
{{Nihongo|'''Gaito Hotta'''|堀田凱人|Hotta Gaito}} was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]] {{Main|Rokumichi Hado}}
:''See: [[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|Bourbon's Mission]]'' 
{{nihongo|Rokumichi Hado|波土禄道|Hado Rokumichi}} is a Rock musician who took a hiatus 17 years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death 17 years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.{{clear}}

=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{Main|Tsutomu Akai}}
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the [[Case_from_17_years_ago|Kohji Haneda case]] and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
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== Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization ==
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization

=== Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro ===
Kimie Shimabukuro assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro an Elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the Elder Kimie was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the Elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.

== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on [[Black Organization#Former|the main Black Organization page]].

=== Hiroshi Agasa ===
[[File:Hiroshi Agasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Hiroshi Agasa]] is a distant acquaintance of [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]]. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]</ref>
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=== Toichi Kuroba ===
[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]] taught [[Vermouth]] (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
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=== Yukiko Kudo ===
[[File:Yukiko Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
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=== Shinichi Kudo ===
[[File:Shinichi Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew [[Shinichi Kudo]] since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know Conan is Shinichi]].
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=== Ran Mouri ===
[[File:Ran Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met [[Ran Mouri]] through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Degima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case ]]'' 
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara’s father’s childhood playmate. He hasn’t seen [[Atsushi Miyano]] for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara’s grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the Organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara’s mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by someone unrelated to the Black Organization.<ref>Manga [[Volume 41]], File 10 (423): "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>{{clear}}

=== Wataru Date ===
[[File:Wataru Date.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Wataru Date]] was a close friend of [[Rei Furuya]] while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
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=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder ]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archeologist who [[Renya Karasuma]], the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago to find the treasure before he died of old age. He was presumably a victim of Karasuma treasure hunting fanaticism.
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== Extended Canon ==
=== Collaboraters ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== UCAR Inc. ====
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''UCAR Inc.'''|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}} is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.

=== Targets ===
==== Kazuki Honjou{{anchor|Kazuki Honjo}} ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered the parliamentary secretary [[Masaaki Okakura]], a minor agent, for revenge of his younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the charm bag with a memory card listing the complete Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance as speculated by Vermouth. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders his men to retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was defeated by Conan and Irish. According to Mizutani, he'll get a death sentence for that murder, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.

==== Minoru Fukase ====
[[File:Minoru Fukase.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Minoru Fukase'''|深瀬稔|Fukase Minoru}}, age 27, is one of [[Kansuke Yamato|Inspector Yamato]]'s main suspect from Nagano in the first serial murder case of Shuhei Jinno.
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==== Sumire Shindo ====
[[File:Sumire Shindo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Sumire Shindo'''|信藤すみれ|Shindō Sumire}}, age 34, is an abstract painter in Hachioji. The police receive a call from her, who says she has a clue that could take them to their suspect. Then, Irish calls Gin, who goes immediately here along with Vodka before the police. However, she was kidnapped and killed by the serial killer before their arrival.
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==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[File:Kiyonaga Matsumoto.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], as a superintendent of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], was kidnapped by the [[Black Organization]] under their boss' order, so [[Irish]] could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
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==== Latoona ====
[[File:Princess Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Rato~ūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]]''
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポルト|Evu~a Poruto}} is a foreign child idol.
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=== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ===
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== References ==
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Many main and minor characters have been linked to the [[Black Organization]].

This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.

== Collaborators ==
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with [[#Targets|targets below]].

=== Unnamed Weapons Smuggler ===
[[File:Weapon Smuggler.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
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=== Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang ===
[[File:Akemi Miyano.jpg|right|100px]]
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]]. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister [[Shiho Miyano]]. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.

Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help.<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Masami’s other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
Hirota was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.

=== The unnamed giant alias 'Akira Hirota' ===
The giant was hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as Akira Hirota, an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.

=== Unnamed woman ===
[[File:Woman near Window.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]]'' 
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|the corresponding episode]]. <ref>Manga Chapter 35</ref>
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case ]]'' 
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident.<ref>Manga Chapter 114</ref> The Black Organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
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=== Ki'ichiro Numabuchi ===
[[File:Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]] where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], Files 5-8 (185-188): Stabbed Wallet Case</ref> He appears again in [[Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest]]. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.<ref>Manga [[Volume 35]], Files 8-10 (358-360): Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case</ref>
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=== Suguru Itakura ===
[[File:Suguru Itakura.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Suguru Itakura]] was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films.<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], Files 5-10 (377-383): "Footsteps of Darkness"</ref> He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular “system software” Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn’t want to complete the program “not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity.”<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380): "White Snow... Black Shadow..."</ref> He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6 (398): "Torn Friendship 1"</ref> Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
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=== Asaka ===
[[File:Asaka EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]] and [[Rum]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Asaka'''|浅香|Asaka}} is a mysterious person from 17 years ago who Conan believes is the killer of [[Kohji Haneda]] and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]]. Asaka approached the Black Organization target [[Amanda Hughes]] to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances; Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.

Asaka's gender is uncertain. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]] learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.

In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining [[Kohji Haneda]]'s broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and 17 years ago. [[Bourbon]] [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca"]] written by [[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]] who took a hiatus 17 years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization [[#Collaborators|are listed above]].

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the [[Black Organization timeline]].
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=== APTX 4869 Victims ===
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 1.jpg|thumb|tight|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from episode 129]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from File 1005]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims (Cover page 948)]]
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]].<ref name="179p6">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), pg 6: "The Girl made of Lies"</ref> According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead ({{lang|ja|死亡}}), except for Shinichi Kudo ({{lang|ja|工藤新一}}) who was listed as uncertain ({{lang|ja|不明}}).<ref name="179p6"/> Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that [[Rumi Wakasa]] looks at on her laptop in File 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), pg 32: "The Heisei Holmes" Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig"</ref> or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.<ref>Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations</ref>

* '''{{lang|ja|樽井英成}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
::Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
* '''{{lang|ja|新岡芳江}}'''<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in File 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
::Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
* '''{{lang|ja|松坂宗男}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Muneo Arimune|有宗宗男}} in [[Episode 129]] of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Matsusaka, Matsuzaka<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka {{lang|ja|広坂}}, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka {{lang|ja|松坂}}, Densaka {{lang|ja|伝坂}})</ref>
::Possible given names: Muneo<ref name="Viz">[[:File:English APTX list.jpg|Used by Viz]]</ref><ref name="uanime">Used in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the [[episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Takeshi, Takeishi
::Possible given names: Yoshio<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Ryoyu, Nagao
* '''{{lang|ja|工藤新一}} '''(Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
::Surname: Kudo
::Given name: Shinichi
* '''{{lang|ja|豊田稔}}'''<ref>This name was not included in Viz's translation.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Toyoda<ref name="uanime" />, Toyota
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime" />, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Haneda<ref name="Kohji">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|Used in the manga]]</ref><ref name="Viz"/>, Hada<ref name="uanime" />
::Possible given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji" />/Koji<ref name="uanime" /><ref name="Viz"/>
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Nomoto<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Yamoto
::Possible given names: Masaji<ref name="Viz"/>, Shoji, Masaharu, Yoshiji, Yoshiharu
* '''{{lang|ja|五島淳実}}'''<ref>Final character is 美 in the anime version</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
::Possible given name: Atsumi
* '''{{lang|ja|上園孝也}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
::Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
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==== Kohji Haneda====
{{Main|Kohji Haneda}}
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The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood brother. He was murdered 17 years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In chapter 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying {{nihongo|"one should stick with one's original plan"|初志貫徹|shoshi kantetsu}}. During "[[Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day#2016 DCTP thread version|Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016]]", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
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==== Mary Sera ====
{{Main|Mary Sera}}
[[File:Mary.jpg|100px|right]]
[[Mary Sera]], an unknown child whom [[Masumi]] calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in File 972 to be the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. 10 years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]]
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.<ref>source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation)</ref> The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.<ref>Manga [[Volume 18]], Files 180</ref>
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]]'' 
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
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=== Araide family ===
{{main|Tomoaki Araide}}[[File:Tomoaki Araide.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.

=== Jazz club man ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last."<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 3 (287), pg 2: "The Invisible Fear"</ref> He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.

In the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name as {{nihongo|Masahito Yoshioka|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS_Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]].
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=== Starling family ===
{{Main|Jodie Starling}}
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents 20 years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
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=== Senzo Fukuura ===
[[File:Senzo Fukuura.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Domon Yasudera.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI ]]'' 
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash.<ref>Manga [[Volume 48]], File 10 (500): "A New Person in Black"</ref> The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the [[Wikipedia: Diet of Japan|Diet]] yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next [[Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair 20 years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
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=== Kogoro Mouri ===
{{Main|Kogoro Mouri}}
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact!]], [[Wedding Eve]], and [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is [[Conan|completely]] innocent.

Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] that Sherry supposedly planted.)

When Gin heard that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], someone who had information on the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case]], had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
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=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 49#Black Organization vs FBI|Black Organization vs FBI ]] and [[Volume 53#Mysterious Job Case|Mysterious Job Case]]'' 
Toji Funemoto is a young boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident.<ref>Manga [[Volume 49]], File 3 (503): "Black Organization vs FBI 1"</ref> Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew.<ref>Manga [[Volume 53]], File 10 (553): "The Mysterious Job"</ref> Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
{{Main|Tohei Benzaki}}
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 80#A Shrine to Remember|Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap]] and [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|A Detective Solves a Case in a Bar]]'' 
Tohei Benzaki is a single man<ref>[[Volume 81]], File 855, Page 16</ref> who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.

It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
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=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
{{Main|Natsuko Shibuya}}
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Scarlet Return]]'' 
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of [[Jodie Starling]]'s whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via [[Camel]]'s phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. [[Vermouth]] copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
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=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Amanda Hughes'''|アマンダ・ヒューズ|Amanda Hyūzu}} was an elderly wealthy American who was killed 17 years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by [[APTX 4869]] or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion [[Kohji Haneda]] whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
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=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
:''See: [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
{{Nihongo|'''Gaito Hotta'''|堀田凱人|Hotta Gaito}} was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]] {{Main|Rokumichi Hado}}
:''See: [[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|Bourbon's Mission]]'' 
{{nihongo|Rokumichi Hado|波土禄道|Hado Rokumichi}} is a Rock musician who took a hiatus 17 years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death 17 years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.{{clear}}

=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{Main|Tsutomu Akai}}
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the [[Case_from_17_years_ago|Kohji Haneda case]] and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
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== Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization ==
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization

=== Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro ===
Kimie Shimabukuro assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro an Elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the Elder Kimie was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the Elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.

== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on [[Black Organization#Former|the main Black Organization page]].

=== Hiroshi Agasa ===
[[File:Hiroshi Agasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Hiroshi Agasa]] is a distant acquaintance of [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]]. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]</ref>
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=== Toichi Kuroba ===
[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]] taught [[Vermouth]] (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
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=== Yukiko Kudo ===
[[File:Yukiko Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
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=== Shinichi Kudo ===
[[File:Shinichi Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew [[Shinichi Kudo]] since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know Conan is Shinichi]].
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=== Ran Mouri ===
[[File:Ran Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met [[Ran Mouri]] through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Degima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case ]]'' 
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara’s father’s childhood playmate. He hasn’t seen [[Atsushi Miyano]] for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara’s grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the Organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara’s mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by someone unrelated to the Black Organization.<ref>Manga [[Volume 41]], File 10 (423): "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>{{clear}}

=== Wataru Date ===
[[File:Wataru Date.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Wataru Date]] was a close friend of [[Rei Furuya]] while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
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=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder ]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archeologist who [[Renya Karasuma]], the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago to find the treasure before he died of old age. He was presumably a victim of Karasuma treasure hunting fanaticism.
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== Extended Canon ==
=== Collaboraters ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== UCAR Inc. ====
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''UCAR Inc.'''|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}} is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.

=== Targets ===
==== Kazuki Honjou{{anchor|Kazuki Honjo}} ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered the parliamentary secretary [[Masaaki Okakura]], a minor agent, for revenge of his younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the charm bag with a memory card listing the complete Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance as speculated by Vermouth. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Superintendent Matsumoto]] along with Vermouth's help and follow this serial murders case for retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was defeated by Conan and Irish. According to Mizutani, he'll get a death sentence for that murder, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.

==== Minoru Fukase ====
[[File:Minoru Fukase.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Minoru Fukase'''|深瀬稔|Fukase Minoru}}, age 27, is one of [[Kansuke Yamato|Inspector Yamato]]'s main suspect from Nagano in the first serial murder case of Shuhei Jinno.
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==== Sumire Shindo ====
[[File:Sumire Shindo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Sumire Shindo'''|信藤すみれ|Shindō Sumire}}, age 34, is an abstract painter in Hachioji. The police receive a call from her, who says she has a clue that could take them to their suspect. Then, Irish calls Gin, who goes immediately here along with Vodka before the police. However, she was kidnapped and killed by the serial killer before their arrival.
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==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[File:Kiyonaga Matsumoto.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], as a superintendent of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], was kidnapped by the [[Black Organization]] under their boss' order, so [[Irish]] could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
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==== Latoona ====
[[File:Princess Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Rato~ūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
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==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]]''
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポルト|Evu~a Poruto}} is a foreign child idol.
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=== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ===
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== References ==
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Many main and minor characters have been linked to the [[Black Organization]].

This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.

== Collaborators ==
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with [[#Targets|targets below]].

=== Unnamed Weapons Smuggler ===
[[File:Weapon Smuggler.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
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=== Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang ===
[[File:Akemi Miyano.jpg|right|100px]]
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]]. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister [[Shiho Miyano]]. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.

Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help.<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], file 4 (13): "The Missing Man "</ref> Masami’s other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
Hirota was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.

=== The unnamed giant alias 'Akira Hirota' ===
The giant was hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as Akira Hirota, an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.

=== Unnamed woman ===
[[File:Woman near Window.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]]'' 
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|the corresponding episode]]. <ref>Manga Chapter 35</ref>
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case ]]'' 
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident.<ref>Manga Chapter 114</ref> The Black Organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
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=== Ki'ichiro Numabuchi ===
[[File:Kichiro Numabuchi.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]] where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], Files 5-8 (185-188): Stabbed Wallet Case</ref> He appears again in [[Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest]]. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.<ref>Manga [[Volume 35]], Files 8-10 (358-360): Disappearing Mitsuhiko Case</ref>
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=== Suguru Itakura ===
[[File:Suguru Itakura.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Suguru Itakura]] was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films.<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], Files 5-10 (377-383): "Footsteps of Darkness"</ref> He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular “system software” Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn’t want to complete the program “not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity.”<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 8 (380): "White Snow... Black Shadow..."</ref> He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6 (398): "Torn Friendship 1"</ref> Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
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=== Asaka ===
[[File:Asaka EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]] and [[Rum]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Asaka'''|浅香|Asaka}} is a mysterious person from 17 years ago who Conan believes is the killer of [[Kohji Haneda]] and potentially the Black Organization member [[Rum]]. Asaka approached the Black Organization target [[Amanda Hughes]] to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances; Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.

Asaka's gender is uncertain. [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]] learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.

In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining [[Kohji Haneda]]'s broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and 17 years ago. [[Bourbon]] [[Volume 90#A song named ASACA|was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca"]] written by [[List of Black Organization related characters#Rokumichi Hado|Rokumichi Hado]] who took a hiatus 17 years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization [[#Collaborators|are listed above]].

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the [[Black Organization timeline]].
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=== APTX 4869 Victims ===
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 1.jpg|thumb|tight|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from episode 129]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims from File 1005]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|Partial list of APTX 4869 victims (Cover page 948)]]
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]].<ref name="179p6">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), pg 6: "The Girl made of Lies"</ref> According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead ({{lang|ja|死亡}}), except for Shinichi Kudo ({{lang|ja|工藤新一}}) who was listed as uncertain ({{lang|ja|不明}}).<ref name="179p6"/> Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that [[Rumi Wakasa]] looks at on her laptop in File 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), pg 32: "The Heisei Holmes" Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig"</ref> or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.<ref>Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations</ref>

* '''{{lang|ja|樽井英成}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
::Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
* '''{{lang|ja|新岡芳江}}'''<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in File 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
::Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
* '''{{lang|ja|松坂宗男}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Muneo Arimune|有宗宗男}} in [[Episode 129]] of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Matsusaka, Matsuzaka<ref>Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka {{lang|ja|広坂}}, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka {{lang|ja|松坂}}, Densaka {{lang|ja|伝坂}})</ref>
::Possible given names: Muneo<ref name="Viz">[[:File:English APTX list.jpg|Used by Viz]]</ref><ref name="uanime">Used in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the [[episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Takeshi, Takeishi
::Possible given names: Yoshio<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Ryoyu, Nagao
* '''{{lang|ja|工藤新一}} '''(Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
::Surname: Kudo
::Given name: Shinichi
* '''{{lang|ja|豊田稔}}'''<ref>This name was not included in Viz's translation.</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Toyoda<ref name="uanime" />, Toyota
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime" />, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Haneda<ref name="Kohji">[[Volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|Used in the manga]]</ref><ref name="Viz"/>, Hada<ref name="uanime" />
::Possible given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji" />/Koji<ref name="uanime" /><ref name="Viz"/>
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the [[Episode 129|anime]]</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Nomoto<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime" />, Yamoto
::Possible given names: Masaji<ref name="Viz"/>, Shoji, Masaharu, Yoshiji, Yoshiharu
* '''{{lang|ja|五島淳実}}'''<ref>Final character is 美 in the anime version</ref> (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
::Possible given name: Atsumi
* '''{{lang|ja|上園孝也}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
::Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
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==== Kohji Haneda====
{{Main|Kohji Haneda}}
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The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood brother. He was murdered 17 years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In chapter 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying {{nihongo|"one should stick with one's original plan"|初志貫徹|shoshi kantetsu}}. During "[[Lets Talk with Gosho Aoyama Day#2016 DCTP thread version|Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016]]", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in Volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
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==== Mary Sera ====
{{Main|Mary Sera}}
[[File:Mary.jpg|100px|right]]
[[Mary Sera]], an unknown child whom [[Masumi]] calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in File 972 to be the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. 10 years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]]
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.<ref>source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation)</ref> The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.<ref>Manga [[Volume 18]], Files 180</ref>
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]]'' 
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
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=== Araide family ===
{{main|Tomoaki Araide}}[[File:Tomoaki Araide.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.

=== Jazz club man ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]]'' 
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last."<ref>Manga [[Volume 29]], File 3 (287), pg 2: "The Invisible Fear"</ref> He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.

In the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name as {{nihongo|Masahito Yoshioka|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS_Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]].
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=== Starling family ===
{{Main|Jodie Starling}}
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents 20 years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
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=== Senzo Fukuura ===
[[File:Senzo Fukuura.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case ]]'' 
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Domon Yasudera.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI ]]'' 
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash.<ref>Manga [[Volume 48]], File 10 (500): "A New Person in Black"</ref> The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the [[Wikipedia: Diet of Japan|Diet]] yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next [[Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair 20 years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
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=== Kogoro Mouri ===
{{Main|Kogoro Mouri}}
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact!]], [[Wedding Eve]], and [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is [[Conan|completely]] innocent.

Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry.<ref name=827p16>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 10 (827), pg 16: "The key to solving the mystery"</ref> (Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|tracker]], [[microphone]], and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|the Ding Dong Dash case]] was the same style as the one Gin [[Reunion with the Black Organization|discovered in his car]] that Sherry supposedly planted.)

When Gin heard that [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Gaito Hotta]], someone who had information on the [[Case from 17 years ago|Kohji Haneda case]], had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
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=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 49#Black Organization vs FBI|Black Organization vs FBI ]] and [[Volume 53#Mysterious Job Case|Mysterious Job Case]]'' 
Toji Funemoto is a young boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident.<ref>Manga [[Volume 49]], File 3 (503): "Black Organization vs FBI 1"</ref> Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew.<ref>Manga [[Volume 53]], File 10 (553): "The Mysterious Job"</ref> Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
{{Main|Tohei Benzaki}}
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 80#A Shrine to Remember|Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap]] and [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|A Detective Solves a Case in a Bar]]'' 
Tohei Benzaki is a single man<ref>[[Volume 81]], File 855, Page 16</ref> who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.

It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
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=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
{{Main|Natsuko Shibuya}}
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Scarlet Return]]'' 
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of [[Jodie Starling]]'s whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. [[Rei Furuya|Tooru Amuro]] was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via [[Camel]]'s phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. [[Vermouth]] copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
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=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Case from 17 years ago]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Amanda Hughes'''|アマンダ・ヒューズ|Amanda Hyūzu}} was an elderly wealthy American who was killed 17 years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by [[APTX 4869]] or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion [[Kohji Haneda]] whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
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=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
:''See: [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]]'' 
{{Nihongo|'''Gaito Hotta'''|堀田凱人|Hotta Gaito}} was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]] {{Main|Rokumichi Hado}}
:''See: [[Volume 90#Bourbon's Mission|Bourbon's Mission]]'' 
{{nihongo|Rokumichi Hado|波土禄道|Hado Rokumichi}} is a Rock musician who took a hiatus 17 years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death 17 years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.{{clear}}

=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{Main|Tsutomu Akai}}
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the [[Case_from_17_years_ago|Kohji Haneda case]] and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
{{clear}}

== Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization ==
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization

=== Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro ===
Kimie Shimabukuro assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro an Elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the Elder Kimie was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the Elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found [[Shiho Miyano]]'s name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.

== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on [[Black Organization#Former|the main Black Organization page]].

=== Hiroshi Agasa ===
[[File:Hiroshi Agasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Hiroshi Agasa]] is a distant acquaintance of [[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]]. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]</ref>
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=== Toichi Kuroba ===
[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]] taught [[Vermouth]] (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
{{clear}}

=== Yukiko Kudo ===
[[File:Yukiko Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
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=== Shinichi Kudo ===
[[File:Shinichi Kudo.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew [[Shinichi Kudo]] since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|characters who know Conan is Shinichi]].
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=== Ran Mouri ===
[[File:Ran Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met [[Ran Mouri]] through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Degima.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case ]]'' 
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara’s father’s childhood playmate. He hasn’t seen [[Atsushi Miyano]] for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara’s grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the Organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara’s mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by someone unrelated to the Black Organization.<ref>Manga [[Volume 41]], File 10 (423): "A Mystery Left by a Visitor"</ref>{{clear}}

=== Wataru Date ===
[[File:Wataru Date.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Wataru Date]] was a close friend of [[Rei Furuya]] while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
{{clear}}

=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder ]]'' 
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archeologist who [[Renya Karasuma]], the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago to find the treasure before he died of old age. He was presumably a victim of Karasuma treasure hunting fanaticism.
{{clear}}

== Extended Canon ==
=== Collaboraters ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
{{clear}}

==== UCAR Inc. ====
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''UCAR Inc.'''|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}} is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.

=== Targets ===
==== Kazuki Honjou{{anchor|Kazuki Honjo}} ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered with a stab wound the parliamentary secretary [[Masaaki Okakura]], a non-[[canon]] minor agent, for revenge of his beloved younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the charm bag with a memory card listing the complete Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance as speculated by Vermouth. Then the [[The Boss|boss]] orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Superintendent Matsumoto]] along with Vermouth's help and follow this serial murders case for retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was defeated by Conan and Irish. According to Mizutani, he'll get a death sentence for that murder, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.

==== Minoru Fukase ====
[[File:Minoru Fukase.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Minoru Fukase'''|深瀬稔|Fukase Minoru}}, age 27, is one of [[Kansuke Yamato|Inspector Yamato]]'s main suspect from Nagano in the first serial murder case of Shuhei Jinno.
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==== Sumire Shindo ====
[[File:Sumire Shindo.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[The Raven Chaser]]''
{{nihongo|'''Sumire Shindo'''|信藤すみれ|Shindō Sumire}}, age 34, is an abstract painter in Hachioji. The police receive a call from her, who says she has a clue that could take them to their suspect. Then, Irish calls Gin, who goes immediately here along with Vodka before the police. However, she was kidnapped and killed by the serial killer before their arrival.
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==== Kiyonaga Matsumoto ====
[[File:Kiyonaga Matsumoto.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], as a superintendent of the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police]], was kidnapped by the [[Black Organization]] under their boss' order, so [[Irish]] could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
{{clear}}

==== Latoona ====
[[File:Princess Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]]''
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Rato~ūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
{{clear}}

==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
:''See: [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]]''
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポルト|Evu~a Poruto}} is a foreign child idol.
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=== Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members ===
{{clear}}

== References ==
<references/>

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Masaaki Okakura

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Masaaki Okakura
| japanese-name = 岡倉政明 (Okakura Masaaki)
| english-name =
| image = Masaaki Okakura.png
| age = 32 (deceased)
| gender = Male
| occupation = Secretary of the [[Wikipedia: House of Representatives (Japan)|Diet]] [[Black Organization]] member
| first-appearance = Anime: [[The Raven Chaser|Movie 13]]
| appearances = {{:Masaaki Okakura Appearances}}
| japanese-voice = None
| english-voice = None
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Masaaki Okakura|岡倉政明<ref>In the police report, his first name is also written "正明".</ref>|Okakura Masaaki}}''' is a minor [[Black Organization]] member who appears only in [[The Raven Chaser]].

== Background ==
[[File:M13-memory card.jpg|thumb|left|His memory card.]]
Masaaki Okakura is a minor [[Black Organization]] agent, disguised as a parliamentary secretary, very suitable for a NOC sent by the organization to inquire about senior government officials information. His position is not low working undercover as a civilian, but it is not enough to have a codename. He is from Tokorozawa, Saitama.

He carried a memory card containing their entire NOC list, perhaps seeking some sort of insurance as speculated by [[Vermouth]]. The organization had grasped the fact and planned to get rid of him shortly. However, he was first stabbed to death by the vicious serial killer [[Kazuki Honjou]] for merely self-satisfaction, blaming him to take up a space in the final elevator that was able to escape the fire that killed his younger sister Nanako.

His murderer has unknowingly made off with his purple [[Wikipedia: Amulet#China and Japan|amulet bag]], one among the accessories often carried with the memory card. The [[The Boss|boss]] orders his men to retrieve it before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. For [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] could just be the one single trump card that crushes them, but it was destroyed by [[Chianti]] with a shot.

== Personality ==
Unlike most Black Organization members, Masaaki doesn't seem to be a very cruel person and he also has a thick side in obligation. Last year, on the first anniversary of her death, to express Nanako his gratitude for allowing him to board the elevator, he brought anonymously one flowers bouquet to her parents and elder brother on the memorial service day.

== Appearance ==
He has a large stature, brown hair and relatively big eyelashes.

== Appellations ==
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== Trivia ==
[[File:M13-omamori.jpg|thumb|right|His omamori bag.]]
* The seven people who were killed and their items stolen are listed in the police report. The memory card was found in the omamori bag, then the Black Organization NOC was him.
* The red wine drinked by [[Irish]] after secured the memory card is an [http://www.upperwine.com/products/wine-cachapoal-valley-chile-alto-cachapoal-valley-altair-2003 Altaïr Red 2003]. There are no official confirmation, but it could be his codename.
* He never even played mahjong.

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[List of minor recurring movie characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]

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Black Organization

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| name = Black Organization
| japanese-name = 黒の組織
| english-name = Black Organization
| image = Black Organization Profile.jpg
| boss = [[Renya Karasuma]]
| members = [[Rum]] (unknown identity) [[Gin]] [[Vermouth]] [[Vodka]] [[Chianti]] [[Korn]]
| deceased-members = [[Atsushi Miyano]] [[Elena Miyano]] [[Akemi Miyano]] [[Tequila]] [[Pisco]] [[Calvados]] [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] [[Ethan Hondou]] [[Scotch]]
| former-members = [[Sherry]] ([[Ai Haibara]]) [[Rye]] ([[Shuichi Akai]]) [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] (death sentence)
| undercover-agents = [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
| Extended-Canon-agents = [[Yoshiaki Hara]] [[Irish]] [[Masaaki Okakura]] [[Arrack]] [[Generic]] [[Blackbeard]] [[Antonio Gomez]] [[Kate Lauren]] [[Curaçao]] [[Stout]] [[Aquavit]] [[Riesling]]
| aliases = Black Organization
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File 001 - The Heisei Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Black Organization Appearances}}
| footnotes =
}}
The {{nihongo|'''Black Organization'''|黒の組織|Kuro no Soshiki}}, serves as the main antagonist in the series. It is a secret criminal syndicate with a hidden objective. To achieve that goal, the Black Organization commits various crimes to maintain its secrecy, remove obstacles, and gather funding and resources for its mysterious research projects. The members of the organization are given code names based on alcoholic beverages. Their boss is [[Renya Karasuma]] and the first members to appear were [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]], who were responsible for transforming [[Shinichi Kudo]] into a child with the enigmatic drug [[APTX 4869]].

== Members ==
=== Current ===
==== Executive Members ====
* '''[[Renya Karasuma]]''': The primary antagonist of the series. Leader of the Black Organization, he is respectfully referred to as "that person" (ano kata) by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
* '''[[Rum]]''': The second main antagonist of the series. Second in charge of the Black Organization, his physical description varies: an elderly man, a feminine man, and a strongly-built man; but all sources agree that he has an artificial eye. The three main suspects are [[Hyoue Kuroda]], [[Rumi Wakasa]], and [[Kanenori Wakita]]
* '''[[Gin]]''': Third in charge of the Black Organization, he is a high ranking executive official who seems to specialize in coordinating deals and assassinations. He is one of the most frequently recurring Black Organization characters. He is shown to be highly intelligent, lethal, and very acute. His long silver hair and sweeping trench coat give him a distinctive appearance. He forced the drug [[APTX 4869]] on Shinichi.
* '''[[Vermouth]]''' (Sharon Vineyard/Chris Vineyard): A mysterious actress from America with exceptional disguise and voice changing abilities that allow her to pose as anyone. Like Gin, she is a Black Organization executive member.<ref>Conan Drill</ref> She is hated by a number of the members of the Black Organization, but due to the fact that she is their boss' favorite, she is untouchable and they are unable to do anything to her. It is unknown where her loyalty lies, as she often protects [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] (whom she knows to be Shinichi) and calls him a "silver bullet", implying that she believes him to be capable of bringing down the Black Organization. She also does not seem to age.

==== Other members ====
* '''[[Vodka]]''': Gin's secretary<ref name=CD237>Conan Drill page 237. Vodka's position is 全体監視役秘書係 which roughly translates to General Oversight division secretary</ref> and assistant, he is another frequently recurring Black Organization character. He wears a hat and sunglasses at all times. He is less intelligent compared to his boss Gin whom he often is seen working with.
* '''[[Chianti]]''': A professional sniper who has been seen to take orders from Gin. She has a fiery and impatient personality. She loathes Vermouth.
* '''[[Korn]]''': A professional sniper who is Chianti's partner and who has been seen to take orders from Gin. His speech is characterized by short phrases with many pauses.

=== Spies for other organizations ===
* '''[[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]''': Operates under alias of Rena Mizunashi, a TV reporter. Her true name is Hidemi Hondou. Like her deceased father, she is actually a member of the [[CIA]] who infiltrated the Black Organization. Her brother, [[Eisuke Hondou]], was not aware of this since Hidemi pretended not to know him after she went undercover.
* '''[[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]''': An operative specializing in deduction and intelligence gathering skills. He was initially dispatched to look for [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]], but spent more of that time investigating Shuichi Akai whom he hates for killing his partner Scotch. He works for the Japanese Secret Police. His true name is Rei Furuya, but he goes by Tooru Amuro in public.

=== Deceased ===
* '''[[Tequila]]''': An agent with the same rank as Vodka who seemed to primarily deal with programmers. He was a giant man who spoke with an Osakan accent. He was unintentionally killed in explosion.
* '''[[Pisco]]''': An elderly executive agent who was also the chairman of a car company. He was killed by Gin after being caught on camera performing an assassination. He discovered Haibara was Sherry, but was unable to inform anyone before he was killed by Gin.
* '''[[Calvados]]''': A sniper infatuated with Vermouth who shot himself after being crippled by [[Shuichi Akai]].
* '''[[Akemi Miyano]]''': Shiho Miyano's older sister and Shuichi Akai's girlfriend. She was a low ranking member of the organization and completed a billion yen robbery as part of an agreement to release herself and her sister from the organization. The organization reneged on the deal and she was killed by Gin.
* '''[[Atsushi Miyano]]''': Haibara's father and Elena's husband. He headed the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both he and Elena died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young.
* '''[[Elena Miyano]]''': Haibara's mother and Atsushi's wife. She was of British origin and was known within the organization as "Hell's Angel". She worked the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both she and Atsushi died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young. She left some mysterious tapes for Shiho.
* '''[[Rikumichi Kusuda]]''': An agent sent to infiltrate Haido Central Hospital to discover the whereabouts of Kir. He killed himself when Akai was hot on his trail.
* '''[[Ethan Hondou]]''': A CIA agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. He committed suicide to protect his daughter [[Hidemi Hondou]] from being uncovered as a CIA agent.
* '''[[Scotch]]''': An undercover operative who committed suicide before the Black Organization manages to reveal his true identity.

=== Former ===
* '''[[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]''' ([[Ai Haibara]]/Shiho Miyano): A high ranking biochemist who worked on [[APTX 4869]]. She was scheduled to be executed when she boycotted her work because her sister Akemi was murdered. Shiho took an APTX 4869 pill she had smuggled in with her, with an intention to commit suicide, but instead shrunk to her 6-7 year old body. She then escaped. She has been living with Professor Agasa and working on an antidote to the APTX 4869, in order to restore Conan to his actual 'Shinichi body'.
* '''[[Shuichi Akai|Rye]]''': The codename of Shuichi Akai, he was an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. His allegiance was discovered and he was rejected by the organization. His prowess led the organization to view him as the FBI's trump card.
* '''[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]''': A serial killer whom was slated to be the original test subject for the APTX drug before he escaped. He is currently in custody for murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him. In the end, the court sentences him to death.

=== Unknown ===
* An '''old man''' appeared during [[Shuichi Akai]]'s final loyalty test while he was waiting for [[Gin]] to arrive. FBI agent [[Andre Camel]] emerged from his hiding place to scare him away, thinking he was just an ordinary old man. Since Gin never appeared, it was very likely the old man was a member of the Black Organization who was sent to scout ahead and reported that "Dai Moroboshi" was a spy.

=== Extended canon ===
{{see also|List of notable Non-Canon Black Organization}}
These agents are original characters not found in the main [[canon|manga canon]]. They include Black Organization agents who were introduced in the anime, movies, special manga, and other sources.

==== Movies ====
* '''[[Yoshiaki Hara]]''': an agent who is killed by Gin.
* '''[[Irish]]''': an agent who is killed by Chianti.
* '''[[Masaaki Okakura]]''': an agent who is killed by a serial killer before the Black Organization.
* '''[[Curaçao]]''': Rum's right-hand agent.
* '''[[Stout]]''': a member of the English [[Wikipedia: Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Korn.
* '''[[Aquavit]]''': a member of the Canadian [[Wikipedia: Canadian Security Intelligence Service|CSIS]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Chianti.
* '''[[Riesling]]''': a member of the German [[Wikipedia: Federal Intelligence Service (Germany)|BND]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Gin.

==== Special Manga ====
* '''[[Arrack]]''': an agent who committed suicide.
* '''[[Generic]]''': a scientist who is an old friend of Sherry and considers her as his older sister. He used the Apoptoxin medicine to shrink his own body and entered the school where Haibara is. Due to [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], that frees his own memory removal gas, he lost his memory.
* '''[[Blackbeard]]''': a virologist who committed suicide.

==== [[Shogakukan Learning Series]] ====
* '''[[Antonio Gomez]]''': a Black Organization historiographer focusing on [[Wikipedia: Oda Nobunaga|Oda Nobunaga]].

==== Playstation ====
* '''[[Kate Lauren]]''': a Black Organization woman.

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


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| [[File:Renya Karasuma 60px.jpg]] || [[Renya Karasuma]]
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| align="center" |
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| [[File:Rum 60px.jpg]] || [[Rum]]
|}
|}
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| colspan="2" |
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! colspan="2" style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#555555;"|General Oversight
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| align="center" width="50%" |
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| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]]
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| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]]
|}
|}
|-

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! colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #777799;"|Internal Division || colspan="5" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #779977;"|External Division || colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #907040;"|Unknown
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! rowspan="2" width="16%"|Drug Development || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Software Development || rowspan="2" width="28%"|Reconnaissance || colspan="2" width="14%"|Operations || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Fundraising || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Unknown
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! style="color: #000000; background: #FFE0E0;"|Assassination || style="color: #000000; background: #E0E0FF;"|Robbery
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| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] ''(escaped)''
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| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|}

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| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
|}

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| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]]
|-
| [[File:Hidemi Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]<ref>Kir's division in the Black Organization has not been revealed, but it is likely she is in the Reconnaissance division because: 1)Her newscaster position is the type of job a reconnaissance division person would have. 2) She met with Vermouth many times while Vermouth was disguised as Araide 3) She discovered Bourbon's mission despite being mistrusted, and not even high rankers like Gin knew about it. If Kir was part of recon, she would be more likely to know.</ref> (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Rei Furuya 60px.jpg]] || [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
|-
| [[File:Rikumichi Kusuda 60px.jpg]] || [[Rikumichi Kusuda|Rikumichi Kusuda]] ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]]
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]]
|-
| [[File:Kichiro Numabuchi 60px.jpg]] || [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] ''(arrested)''
|-
| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] ''(deceased)''
|}

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

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

=== Extended canon table ===
This table includes characters that aren't part of manga [[canon]].
<spoiler>
{| width="1000" align="center" style="clear:both;"
| colspan="7" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0 3px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#222222;"|Boss
|-
| align="center"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Renya Karasuma 60px.jpg]] || [[Renya Karasuma]]
|}
|}
|-
||
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#393939;"|Second-in-command
|-
| align="center" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Rum 60px.jpg]] || [[Rum]]
|}
|}
|-

| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! colspan="2" style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#555555;"|General Oversight
|-
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]]
|}
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]]
|}
|}
|-

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 3px;"
! colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #777799;"|Internal Division || colspan="5" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #779977;"|External Division || colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #907040;"|Unknown
|-
! rowspan="2" width="16%"|Drug Development || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Software Development || rowspan="2" width="28%"|Reconnaissance || colspan="2" width="14%"|Operations || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Fundraising || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Unknown
|-
! style="color: #000000; background: #FFE0E0;"|Assassination || style="color: #000000; background: #E0E0FF;"|Robbery
|-

| style="vertical-align: top;" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] ''(escaped)''
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Generic 60px.jpg]] || [[Generic]]* ''(former)''
|-
| [[File:Blackbeard 60px.jpg]] || [[Blackbeard]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Yoshiaki Hara 60px.jpg]] || [[Yoshiaki Hara]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]]
|-
| [[File:Hidemi Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]<ref>Kir's division in the Black Organization has not been revealed, but it is likely she is in the Reconnaissance division because: 1)Her newscaster position is the type of job a reconnaissance division person would have. 2) She met with Vermouth many times while Vermouth was disguised as Araide 3) She discovered Bourbon's mission despite being mistrusted, and not even high rankers like Gin knew about it. If Kir was part of recon, she would be more likely to know.</ref> (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Rei Furuya 60px.jpg]] || [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
|-
| [[File:Rikumichi Kusuda 60px.jpg]] || [[Rikumichi Kusuda|Rikumichi Kusuda]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Irish 60px.jpg]] || [[Irish]]* ''(deceased)'' (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Masaaki Okakura 60px.jpg]] || [[Masaaki Okakura]]* ''(deceased)'' (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:M20 odd eyes woman 60px.jpg]] || [[Curaçao]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]]
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]]
|-
| [[File:Kichiro Numabuchi 60px.jpg]] || [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] ''(arrested)''
|-
| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Arrack 60px.jpg]] || [[Arrack]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Kate Lauren 60px.jpg]] || [[Kate Lauren]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

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

| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] ''(deceased)''
|}
| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai|Rye]] ''(former)''
|-
| [[File:Ethan Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Ethan Hondou]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Scotch 60px.jpg]] || [[Scotch]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Old man 60px.jpg|60px]] || Old man
|-
| [[File:Antonio Gomez 60px.jpg]] || [[Antonio Gomez]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Stout 60px.jpg]] || [[Stout]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Riesling 60px.jpg]] || [[Aquavit]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Aquavit 60px.jpg]] || [[Riesling]]* ''(deceased)''
|}
|}
|}

'''*''' ''These characters are not considered to be [[canon]].'' 
</spoiler>

== Rank ==

Agents who excel at their work and make their way up the ranks are given alcohol codenames by the boss. Even within codenamed agents there are further rank divisions.<ref>Official material accompanying the manga has given contrary information about the existence of ranks within the codenamed members. Some guidebooks (Conan Drill, Chapter 500 special) describe clear rank divisions. Yet, in the 865 Shounen Sunday Special Booklet, on pg9 under Korn, Gosho was listed as saying, "Fundamentally all members of the organization with code names are supposed to be at the same level, so Korn's supposed to be at the same rank as Gin. It just happened this time that when they chanced to form a team Gin came out as the most leader-like of all them." Evidence from the manga itself suggests that certain members have privileges and freedom that others are not allowed to have.</ref> One advantage that comes with being higher ranked is access to more informational files; lower rank agents have to request to see certain materials from higher ranking agents.<ref name=824p16>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 16: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> Agents from outside manga canon are italicized.

=== Executive agents ===
The "Executive"<ref>Manga [[Volume 58]], File 2 (599), pg 9: "Akai's past". "Executive" is a term used by the FBI to describe the agents who are high ranking like Gin and is not necessarily the term the Organization itself uses to refer to that top level.</ref> agents are the highest ranked codenamed agents within the Black Organization under the boss. They can command many other codenamed agents and have access to more information than lower ranked agents. Even among them, killing another executive agent without express orders from the boss would result in a loss of standing.<ref>As Pisco explains to Gin in [[Volume 24]], file 11, page 14</ref>
* [[Rum]]: Second-in-command<ref>File 906 pg 3</ref>
* [[Gin]]: Third-in-command
* [[Vermouth]]: Also the boss' favorite
* [[Pisco]]<ref name=CD239>[[:File:ConanDrill239.jpg|Conan Drill page 239]]</ref>

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

'''Work(ed) under Rum'''
* [[Curaçao]] (movie only): She is his/her right-hand agent.

'''Work(ed) under Gin'''
* [[Vodka]]: Tequila and Vodka are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
* [[Tequila]]: Vodka and Tequila are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
* [[Chianti]]
* [[Korn]]
* [[Shuichi Akai|Rye]]: With his promotion to codenamed agent, Rye was supposed to work for Gin, but he was revealed to be FBI and expelled from the Organization before he assumed that role.

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

'''General'''
* [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]: Known to be highly ranked but it has not been stated if she was an executive agent.
* [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]
* [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
* [[Scotch]]
* [[Irish]] (movie only)

=== Non codenamed agents ===
* [[Akemi Miyano]]
* [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]
* [[Ethan Hondou]]
* [[Rikumichi Kusuda]]
* [[Yoshiaki Hara]]
* [[Masaaki Okakura]]
* [[Antonio Gomez]]

=== Unknown if codenamed ===
* [[Atsushi Miyano]]
* [[Elena Miyano]]
* Old man who scouted Shuichi Akai's loyalty test

== Modus operandi ==

The Black Organization commits crimes such as illegal deals<ref>Manga [[Volume 4]], Files 4-6: Shinkansen Bomb Case</ref>, blackmail<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1: "The Heisei Holmes"</ref>, robberies<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], Files 4-7: "Masami Hirota Case"</ref>, and contract assassinations<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 5</ref> to raise money for research.<ref>The Miyano parents went to work for the Black Organization because they [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|received funding after being unable to find a sponsor]] that would pay for them to research their theories. Tequila bribed Hideaki Nakajima with a large amount of money for the world's best programmers. [[Suguru Itakura]] was offered a large sum of money to complete his program</ref> The organization operates like a hybrid of a business and a mafia group. The Black Organization recruits outside talent and cultivates clients and sponsors by sending high ranking members like Gin to business meetings, but they also use mafia-like tactics to intimidate desirable civilians into making deals with them.<ref>e.g. Suguru Itakura</ref> Besides their financially motivated crimes, the organization engages in other stereotypical criminal activities like bribery, spying, and eliminating threats or former partners who are deemed useless or a risk.

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

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

=== Criminal techniques ===
The Black Organization conducts its crimes in ways that are difficult to trace back to them. Handguns and sniping<ref>Akemi Miyano, Suguru Itakura, Yasuteru Domon, Mouri Kogoro, Scar Akai</ref>, fire and bombs<ref>Unnamed woman from the Shinkansen Bomb Case, the Bell Tree Express, Kir in Hyde Central Hospital</ref>, and poisons<ref>Shinichi Kudo, the giant of the Akemi's gang, various APTX 4869 victims, Shigehiko Nomiguchi, maybe the Jazz club man.</ref> seem to be their preferred techniques. Sometimes the organization attempts to disguise their murders as accidents or suicides.<ref>Shigehiko Nomiguchi</ref> To this end, [[APTX 4869]] was deployed as a poison because it is forensically difficult to detect.<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), "The Heisei Holmes"</ref> If they are unable to disguise a murder as something else, they will usually attempt to destroy any evidence using fire or explosives to make it difficult to investigate.<ref>Starling family murders, Shuichi Akai's "murder"</ref> Sometimes they will time their crimes so the blame will fall on another party instead, confusing the investigation.<ref>Yasuteru Domon</ref> If a meeting place or asset of theirs is compromised, the Black Organization typically thoroughly destroys it before it can be investigated properly.<ref>Daiko Building ("Cocktail" Bar), Shiho's Pharmaceutical Company</ref>

Their supplies of explosives and firearms are very extensive.

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

=== Personnel ===
The Organization is large enough to quickly dispatch field investigative teams of at least a dozen members<ref>[[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]] where the Kudo house is investigated, Vodka surrounding Itakura's meeting point, The team watching Gin and Kir's meetup location is FBI vs Org.</ref>. The members of the Organization are also demographically varied, including foreigners and natives, men and women, teenagers<ref>Sherry</ref> and elderly<ref>Pisco at 71, old man from [[Clash of Red and Black|episode 502]]</ref>.

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

=== Investigative ability ===
The Black Organization has a remarkable amount of resources for a criminal group, more than any other opponent of Conan's shown so far. Their financial resources, technology, and manpower seems to be on par with or even superior to the that of the [[FBI]] investigation team sent to Japan to investigate them, but less than the Japanese police. The Black Organization has enough manpower at their disposal to thoroughly monitor and investigate even minor threats or to observe all the avenues of entry to a crowded meeting place in the middle of a city. However, the organization is nowhere close to omniscient; Shinichi, who is supposed to be dead, was able to participate in several public cases that were successfully hushed up by the police, and leave the country with his passport without detection.

=== Gadgets ===
:''[[Minor gadgets#Black Organization|Main article: Black Organization's Gadgets]]''
The Black Organization is technologically sophisticated and their equipment rivals even that of the infiltrating FBI. In the manga they have access to a wide variety of firearms and ammunition, [[vehicles]], theatrical supplies, and large amounts of various explosives. Bourbon and Vermouth even planned to use a helicopter as part of one of their plans. The Black Organization's arsenal also includes various specialized gadgets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Speculation about the Black Organization's goal ===
==== Immortality/Anti-Aging ====
[[File:EP223-guestbook.jpg|thumb|right|Shiho Miyano's name is in a guestbook logging past contestants for the immortality arrows.]]
One possibility is that the Black Organization's research, especially [[APTX 4869]] development, is trying to create a therapy which will cause immortality, stall or reverse the effects of aging, or extend a human's lifespan. Gosho has said that immortality is not the ultimate goal of the Black Organization<ref name="April2014Interview">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 
Source: http://ddnavi.com/news/191132/ 
黒ずくめの組織の目的とはナニ？　APTX4869の作用から考えると、不老不死が怪しいのでは……。 
Please! Please, let me ask 2 more questions! What is the BO’s goal? Going by the APTX4869, I would think immortality… 
【青山】「違います。確かにそう思っちゃうよね。今ね、組織の中では大変なことが起こっていますよ」 
That’s wrong. It’s true that you’d think that, isn’t it? You see, right now, something really big is happening within the organization.</ref>; however, achieving immortality or anti-aging might be an important step to reach the true end.

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

The de-aging effect that occurred when Shinichi and Haibara took APTX 4869 probably indicates the main intent of the drug's development. After [[Pisco]] saw Haibara shrink back to her child form, he commented that he was impressed she had developed the drug to that point, implying that de-aging is in the right direction.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, pg 9</ref> Supporting this is Haibara’s line, "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."<ref>Manga [[Volume 19#File 189 - The Endangered Ball|Volume 19, File 9 (189), Page 6: The Endangered Ball]]; [[The Stadium Indiscriminate Threatening Case|Episodes 130-131: The Stadium Indiscriminate Threatening Case]]</ref> APTX 4869 is the only known intersection between Shinichi and the Black Organization; meaning that Shinichi's de-aging made him relevant to the Black Organization's project.

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

Besides APTX 4869, [[Vermouth#Non-aging|Vermouth's unnatural youth]] is another indicator that the Black Organization may be involved in research towards extending lifespan, halting aging, or rejuvenating the body. In addition, Shiho Miyano’s name was on the raffle list for the immortality arrows in the mermaid case in Fukui.<ref>Chapters 279-283</ref>

==== Raising the dead ====
There is a possibility that the Black Organization may be trying to develop a method to revive the dead. Suguru Itakura's diary contained a quote by one of the Black Organization's agents, most likely Vermouth: "We can be both God and Devil since we are trying to raise the dead against the stream of time" <ref name=380p13/> The original purpose of APTX 4869 might be to raise the dead. [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] and Conan later wondered if the line meant that the Black Organization was trying to create zombies.<ref name=380p16>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 16: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref> Once when Conan asked Haibara directly what APTX 4869 was meant to do she replied, "It's a nostrum to raise the dead. I wonder if that answer is satisfactory?"<ref name=384p8>Manga Volume 32, File 8, page 8: "The Old Picture"</ref> It may be her comment was a bluff intended to provoke Conan into revealing what he had been up to rather than a serious statement of the purpose of the drug.


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

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

== Manga to anime differences ==
[[File:EP5 Fake Men in Black.jpg|thumb|Gin (right) and Vodka's (left) anime doubles Ueda and Shimoda.]]
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
The first season of Detective Conan rarely featured the Black Organization because the anime writers wanted to downplay their presence.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/case-closed/mystery-mastermind/episode/336019/trivia.html#notes Episode trivia on TV.com]</ref> Two of the episodes at least, were altered heavily in light of this:

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

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

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

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

== Trivia ==
[[File:Demon.jpg|thumb|right|Conan vs. the demon.]]
* While Conan chases down leads on their organization, he's constantly confronted by difficult cases. In the [[The Last Wizard of the Century]] introduction sequence, one night running on ancient Greek ruins, he is suddenly stuck behind by a huge red demon with evil aura, of course the Black Organization, who moves among numerous yellow pieces, that represent all minor cases.
* This crime organization enshrouded in mystery, and even other unrelated case, is sometimes introduced with crows, the creepy bird which is also depicted on their boss' crest.
* In the English dub, "Case Closed", [[Gin]] is renamed "Melkior" and [[Vodka]] is renamed "Kaspar". In the English manga, these are explained as specific brands of the relevant drinks.
* [[Vermouth]] is the only living member of the organization who knows that [[List of characters who know Ai Haibara's identity|Ai Haibara is Shiho Miyano]] and [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|Conan Edogawa is Shinichi Kudo]]. Pisco discovered Haibara's identity and would've revealed it to [[Gin]] if he hadn't been murdered by him first. Conan told [[Akemi Miyano]] his real name as she died.
* The Black Organization members often call someone who poses an existential threat to the group a "[[Silver Bullet]]". Vermouth believes that Shinichi is the true Silver Bullet; however, everyone else thinks [[Shuichi Akai]] was their greatest threat.
* So far, the youngest member still in the Black Organization is [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] at age 27. [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] was 18 when she defected, and her sister, Akemi Miyano, was in her mid twenties when she was killed by Gin.
* Episodes 462-465 is the first 4-part Black Organization episode that was not aired as a special in Japan.
* Episodes 491-504 is the longest Black Organization arc to air, consisting of more than ten parts.
* Conan has personally interacted with almost every codenamed member: [[Gin]] in the episode 1, manga chapter 33 on the bullet train, and episode 178 when Conan shoots him with his needle while hiding, [[Vodka]] in manga chapter 33 on the bullet train and during the course of episodes 309-311, [[Vermouth]] in episode 345 and while she was disguised as Araide, [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] in episode 425, [[Akemi Miyano]] in manga chapters 13-16/episode 128, [[Pisco]] in episode 178, [[Tequila]] in episode 54, [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] in episode 118 and briefly in 290, and [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] in episodes 496-497.
* All members' anime version cars have Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate, then it is located somewhere here.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

== In other languages ==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|黒の組織 Kuro no soshiki}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|المنظّمة السوداء Al-Munaẓẓama As-Sawdā’}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Organisasi Hitam}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|L'Organització dels Homes de Negre}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|黑衣组织 Hēi'yī Zǔzhī}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Musta Organisaatio}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|L’Organisation des Hommes en Noir}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Schwarze Organisation}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|L'Organizzazione degli Uomini in Nero}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Kongsi Gelap (Dark Syndicate)/Organisasi Hitam}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|องค์กรชุดดำ Xngkh̒kr chud dả}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Tổ Chức Áo Đen}}
{{EndTable}}

== References ==
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[[de:Schwarze Organisation]]

Setting

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

= Beika City =
[[File:Beika Map.png|thumb|right|250px|A map of Beika City supplied in [[A Challenge from Agasa! Agasa vs. Conan and the Detective Boys|OVA 7]] by Agasa.]]
{{nihongo|Beika City|米花市|Beika-shi}} is named after Baker Street, the location of [[Sherlock Holmes]]'s flat.<ref name="Settingname">{{cite web|url=http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/cookie/name.html|accessdate=2010-01-06|title=名称集}}</ref> Beika City is divided into two towns: Beika and Haido.
{| class="wikitable" width="1000"
! colspan="3" | Beika City
|-
| colspan="3" |
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poly 873 684 965 687 934 794 855 777 [[Setting#Teitan Elementary School|Teitan Elementary School]]
rect 703 350 877 547 [[Setting#Teitan Elementary School|Teitan Elementary School]]
poly 0 1276 78 1276 93 1258 228 1258 228 1276 298 1276 298 1295 231 1391 0 1391 [[Setting#Teitan University|Teitan University]]
poly 530 55 581 55 591 39 628 39 626 55 699 55 734 72 705 159 487 159 [[Setting#Beika University|Beika University]]
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poly 1310 745 1406 749 1404 806 1295 796 [[Setting#Kudo Residence|Kudo Residence]]
rect 1139 924 1314 1125 [[Setting#Kudo Residence|Kudo Residence]]
poly 1442 765 1454 766 1458 757 1463 748 1469 744 1482 746 1487 747 1492 753 1492 758 1506 758 1500 800 1445 801 [[Setting#Agasa Residence|Agasa Residence]]
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rect 1603 440 1656 492 [[Setting#Beika Department Store|Beika Department Store]]
poly 346 733 365 714 418 722 401 743 401 780 346 775 [[Setting#Beika Post Office|Beika Post Office]]
rect 1504 432 1534 535 [[Setting#Beika General Hospital|Beika General Hospital]]
rect 2395 41 2455 180 [[Setting#Haido City Hotel|Haido City Hotel]]
rect 1848 829 1885 870 [[Setting#Donny's|Donny's]]
rect 1382 1222 1452 1250 [[Setting#Donny's|Donny's]]
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poly 1944 757 1962 724 1967 702 1971 680 1979 595 1986 670 1991 702 2000 728 2020 758 [[Setting#Tokyo_Tower.2FTouto_Tower|Tohto Tower]]
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poly 1372 249 1372 216 1428 216 1445 191 1468 216 1524 216 1524 249 [[Setting#Beika Station|Beika Station]]
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|-
! colspan="3" | Points of interest
|-
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01) Haido City Hotel ([[Volume 16#File 156 - Chance Meeting|File 156]]) 杯戸シティホテル 
02) TR Haido Station ([[Volume 34#File 344 - The Storm of Booing|File 344]]) TR杯戸駅 
03) Haido Department Store ([[Volume 28#File 284 - The Buried Secret|File 284]]) 杯戸百貨店 
04) [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko Suzuki's]] house ([[Volume 11#File 104 - Flash News Deduction Show|File 104]]) 鈴木園子の家 
05) Haido Town Shopping Mall and Ferris Wheel ([[Volume 36#File 369 - The Officer Who Never Returned|File 369]]) 杯戸町のショッピングモール&大観覧車 
06) Tohto Tower ([[Volume 4#File 36 - Code Sheet Obtained!!|File 36]]) 東都タワー 
07) Family Restaurant "Donny's" ([[Volume 4#File 37 - The ABC's of Deciphering|File 37]]) ファミレス「Donny's」 
08) Tsukimi Avenue ([[Volume 4#File 37 - The ABC's of Deciphering|File 37]]) 月見通り 
09) Yamago Highway ([[Volume 4#File 38 - An Answer and Another Answer|File 38]]) 山越街道 
10) Nanbu Aquarium ([[Volume 4#File 37 - The ABC's of Deciphering|File 37]]) 南部水族館 
11) Hotel New Beika ([[Volume 37#File 377 - Footsteps of Darkness 1|File 377]]) ホテルニュー米花 
12) Beika Center Building - Outlook Restaurant "Arséne" ([[Volume 26#File 258 - Momentary Rest|File 258]]) 米花センタービル・展望レストラン「Arséne」 
13) [[Eri Kisaki|Kisaki]] Law Firm Office ([[Volume 24#File 237 - From the Bottom of Heart|File 237]]) 妃法律事務所 (オフィス) 
14) Beika Hotel ([[Volume 5#File 50 - Escape and Pursuit|File 50]]) 米花ホテル 
15) [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa's]] house ([[Volume 1#File 2 - The Great Detective Turned Small|File 2]]) 阿笠博士の家 
| style="font-size: 90%; width: 333px; vertical-align:top;" |
16) [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi Kudo's]] house ([[Volume 1#File 2 - The Great Detective Turned Small|File 2]]) 工藤新一の家 
17) Family Restaurant "Donny's" ([[Volume 17#File 170 - The Actors Gathered|File 170]]) ファミレス「Donny's」 
18) TR Beika Station (Station Building) ([[Volume 30#File 304 - Genta's Trap|File 304]]) TR米花駅 (駅ビル) 
19) [[Kogoro Mouri|Mouri]] Detective Agency ([[Volume 1#File 2 - The Great Detective Turned Small|File 2]]) 毛利探偵事務所 
20) Beika Park ([[Volume 3#File 27 - The Same Person|File 27]]) 米花公園 
21) [[Tomoaki Araide|Araide]] Clinic ([[Volume 24#File 234 - Another Half Year|File 234]]) 新出医院 
22) Teimuzu River ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 提無津川 
23) Beika Library ([[Volume 10#File 96 - The Burning Body|File 96]]) 米花図書館 
24) Beika University ([[Volume 9#File 84 - Kogoro's Class Reunion|File 84]]) 米花大学 
25) Nichiuri TV Station ([[Volume 11#File 102 - A Death During a Live Broadcast|File 102]]) 日売TV局 
26) Teitan University ([[Volume 9#File 83 - What! Really!?|File 83]]) 帝丹大学 
27) Beika Tunnel ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 米花トンネル 
28) Beika Bridge ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 米花大橋 
29) Expressway ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 高速道路 
30) Beika 2-chōme Intersection ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 米花2丁目交差点 
31) 4-chōme Avenue ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 4丁目通り 
32) Church ([[Volume 8#File 78 - The Bride's Tragedy|File 78]]) 教会 
| style="font-size: 90%; width: 333px; vertical-align:top;" |
33) Beika Post Office ([[Volume 36#File 368 - The Bomber's Aim|File 368]]) 米花郵便局 
34) Teitan High School ([[Volume 26#File 255 - The Intruder's Sudden Arrival|File 255]]) 帝丹高校 
35) Teitan Elementary School ([[Volume 2#File 10 - An Advantageous Shadow|File 10]]) 帝丹小学校 
36) Beika General Hospital ([[Volume 3#File 27 - The Same Person|File 27]]) 米花総合病院 
37) Beika Department Store ([[Volume 17#File 166 - What Should We Do!?|File 166]]) べいかデパート 
38) [[Jodie Starling|Jodie Saintemillion's]] Apartment ([[Volume 34#File 341 - The Hint That Was Against|File 341]]) ジョディ・サンテミリオンの自宅 
39) Beika Art Museum ([[Volume 4#File 30 - The Armored Knight|File 30]]) 米花美術館 
40) Beika Museum ([[Volume 16#File 156 - Chance Meeting|File 156]]) 米花博物館 
41) [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi Yoshida's]] apartment ([[Volume 39#File 398 - The Torn Friendship 1|File 398]]) 吉田歩美の自宅 
42) [[Genta Kojima|Genta Kojima's]] house (Liquor Store) ([[Volume 30#File 303 - Genta's Misfortune|File 303]]) 小嶋元太の家 (酒屋) 
43) [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's]] house ([[Volume 35#File 358 - Disappearing Mitsuhiko 1|File 358]]) 円谷光彦の家 
44) Daikoku Building ("Cocktail" Bar) ([[Volume 12#File 116 - Conan's Mistake|File 116]]) 大黒ビル (バー「カクテル」) 
45) Expressway Entrance ([[Volume 9#File 82 - Follow the Voice!!|File 82]]) 高速道路入り口
|}
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== Beika Town ==
{{nihongo|Beika Town|米花町|Beika-chō}} is where Conan and a majority of the other main characters live. Like Beika City, it is named after Baker Street.

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

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

=== Kudo Residence ===
House where [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]], [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], and [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] lived. Current residence of [[Subaru Okiya]] after receiving permission from [[Conan Edogawa]]. After Yusaku and Yukiko traveled to America, Shinichi stayed in the house by himself while continuing to attend Teitan High School. Notable features of the house include its massive size and a huge library with dozens of shelves filled to capacity with mystery novels from all over the world.
[[Image:Kudo Residence.jpg|thumb|right|Kudo Residence.]]
According to the Detective Boys (who think it's a haunted house) in [[Volume 2#Scary Building Case|The Scary Building Case]] and the address on the letter from Teiji Moriya in [[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]], Shinichi's house is located at: 
'''{{nihongo|Beika City Beika Town|米花市米花町|Beika-shi Beika-chō}}''' 
'''{{nihongo|District 2, Block 21|２丁目２１番地|2-chōme, 21-banchi}}'''<ref name="Addresssystem">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system</ref>

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

=== Agasa Residence ===
Located next door to the Kudo residence, this is where [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] and later [[Ai Haibara]] live. Agasa's residence includes an upper circular floor, a circular kitchen, and a lab where he works on various inventions and where Haibara works to synthesize an [[Antidote (prototype)|antidote]] to [[APTX 4869]].
Agasa's house has a rarely seen backyard with his garage.
[[File:Agasa House Back.png|thumb|left|Agasa's backyard and garage]]
Agasa's house is located at: 
'''{{nihongo|Beika City Beika Town|米花市米花町|Beika-shi Beika-chō}}''' 
'''{{nihongo|District 2, Block 22|２丁目２２番地|2-chōme, 22-banchi}}'''<ref name="Addresssystem" />

=== Beika Center Building ===
{{nihongo|Beika Center Building|米花センタービル|Beika Centā Biru}}. It has a top floor restaurant called "Arséne" where Shinichi intended to confess to Ran in [[The Desperate Revival]] until a murder case interrupting things. Arséne is mentioned in file 976.

=== Mokuba-sō ===
[[File:EP509-511a Case.jpg|thumb|right|Burned remains of Mokuba-sō]]
{{nihongo|Mokuba-sō|木馬荘|4=<ref>[[wikipedia:ja:ホワイトベース|"Mokuba"]] appears in ''[[wikipedia:Mobile Suit Gundam|Mobile Suit Gundam]]''.</ref>}} was a small apartment building in between Agasa's house and Teitan Elementary where [[Subaru Okiya]] lived before it burnt down [[Conan_vs._Double_Code_Mystery#Red.2C_White.2C_Yellow.2C_and_the_Detective_Boys|in an arson case]]. Mokubasou was located at: 
'''{{nihongo|Beika City Beika Town|米花市米花町|Beika-shi Beika-chō}}''' 
'''{{nihongo|District 2, Block 23|2丁目23番地|2-chōme, 23-banchi}}'''<ref name="Addresssystem" /> 
Past residents were:
* Kaito Sugiura, a boy whose parents owned the house and a classmate of the Detective Boys'
* Ryuhei Hosoi (25 years old), a carpenter
* Mr Sugiura, Kaito's father who has been injured during the fire
* Ginya Makabe (29 years old), a part time worker.

=== Teito Bank ===
{{nihongo|Teito Bank|帝都銀行|Teito Ginkō}} is a bank near the Beika Department store where [[Detective Boys vs. Robber Group|a robbery]] took place.

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

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

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

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

=== Beika Park ===
{{nihongo|Beika Park|米花公園|Beika Kōen}} is a park in Beika Town usually involved in cases.

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

== Haido Town ==
{{nihongo|Haido Town|杯戸町|Haido-chō}} is a town in Beika City adjacent to Beika Town and is named after London's Hyde Park.<ref name="Settingname" />

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

=== Haido Art Museum ===
The {{nihongo|Haido Art Museum|杯戸美術館|Haido Bijutsukan}} was demolished by Agasa's Tropical Rainbow bomb in [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2]].

=== Haido Central Hospital ===
[[File:Haido Central Hospital.PNG|thumb|right|Haido Central Hospital]]
{{nihongo|Haido Central Hospital|杯戸中央病院|Haido Chūōbyōin}} was the location where the [[FBI]] held [[Kir]] while she was unconscious and the site of a showdown between the [[Black Organization]] and the FBI. [[The Tense Tea Party|Eri was operated]] for appendicitis there. Later, Jodie's friend, [[Natsuko Shibuya]], was attacked in [[The Scarlet Return|a case]] and stayed there a few days. The Haido Cinema building is nearby.
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=== Haido Park ===
{{nihongo|Haido Park|杯戸公園|Haido Kōen}}is a park in Haido Town where the [[Black Organization]] attempted to assassinate a politician.
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= Shizuoka Prefecture =
== Sunset Manor ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|Sunset Manor]]
{{nihongo|'''Sunset Manor'''|黄昏の館|Tasogare no yakata}} is a huge house in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]].<ref>Episode 219 original information, according to the villa junction and not Tokyo as Saguru said.</ref> Once belonged to [[Renya Karasuma]], who inherited it from his mother and hired scholars to search after the treasure for him. However, he killed scholars one by one to pressure the others to find the treasure. One of them was Furuyo Senma's father, who send his family a secret message about his dangerous job. Years later, Shukuzen Ogami brought the manor to search for the treasure himself, but when he didn't find any, he and Senma planned to recreated the tragedy and invite detectives to search for them. However, Senma killed Ogami and got arrested. Conan, who was among the invited, solves Karasuma's riddle and discovers that the manor's wall is plated with gold. It's unknown who owns the manor now, however, since Ogami had debts upon his death, it's probably that the manor first got sold to settle the debts and, if there is surely any money left from the sale, it would go to his heirs, if he had any. Because Karasuma is a crow-like man, it was his personified nest.

= Osaka Prefecture =
{{nihongo|Osaka Prefecture|大阪府|Ōsaka-fu}} is located in the Kansai region of Japan and is the home to [[Heiji Hattori]], [[Kazuha Toyama]], and the Osaka Police Department.

== Osaka ==
{{nihongo|Osaka|大阪|Ōsaka}} is the capital city of Osaka Prefecture featured prominently throughout the series. The city has many landmarks, including Osaka Castle, Tsūtenkaku Tower, and the Osaka Dome.
[[Image:Hattori Residence.png|thumb|right|Heiji's house]]
== Neyagawa ==
According to [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]], Heiji's family's home is not in Osaka City, the capitol of Osaka, but in the very nearby city of {{nihongo|[[Wikipedia:Neyagawa, Osaka|Neyagawa]]|寝屋川市|Neyagawa-shi}}.
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= Tottori Prefecture=
{{nihongo|Tottori Prefecture|鳥取県|Tottori-ken}} is located in the [[wikipedia: Chūgoku region|Chūgoku region]] of [[wikipedia: Japan|Japan]]
[[Misao Yamamura|Misao]] mentioned his grandmother lives in Kurayoshi. Officer [[Chosuke Takagi]] was transferred to Tottori to tackle a crime ring. Its capital is [[Wikipedia: Tottori, Tottori|the city of the same name]] which was involved in [[Tottori Sand Dunes Mystery Tour]] as well as the nearby city of [[Wikipedia: Kurayoshi, Tottori|Kurayoshi]].

= Yamanashi Prefecture =
{{nihongo|Yamanashi Prefecture|山梨県|Yamanashi ken}} is located in the [[wikipedia: Chūbu region|Chūbu region]] of [[wikipedia: Japan|Japan]]. The prefecture is landlocked, featuring a fertile central valley, surrounded by many of the highest mountains in Japan.

== Tokiwa Hotel ==
This is where [[Shukichi Haneda]] claimed his 7th title in a shogi match.

= Restaurants =
== Iroha Sushi ==
{{nihongo|Iroha Sushi|いろはず寿司|irohazu sushi}} is a sushi restaurant located just next-door to Cafe Poirot. It usually opens all week 7/7 days and on nights. Kogoro Mouri is a regular to that restaurant when he wins horse races. It sells many variety of sushis, sashimis, grilled fish (not found in every sushi shop) and many delicious dishes. It is the workplace of [[Kanenori Wakita]], a sushi chef who regularly changes of workplaces and his [[Irohazu Sushi Chef|Boss]]. Its owner usually organizes parties with the [[Café Poirot Master]] and other restaurant owners of the district. It is located in {{nihongo|Beika Town District 5|米花町5丁目|Beika-chō 5-chōme}}.

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

== Café Columbo ==
{{nihongo|Café Columbo|喫茶コロンボ|Kissa Koronbo}} was first mentioned in chapter 2 of the manga. It is the restaurant that [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] had been to right before meeting Conan. The restaurant itself first appears in the [[The Forgotten Cell Phone]]. The restaurant gets its name from TV detective [[Columbo]], whose show is [http://www.columbo-site.freeuk.com/japan.htm very well-loved in Japan]. It is located in {{nihongo|Beika Town District 5|米花町５丁目|Beika-chō 5-chōme}}.

== Danny's ==
[[File:Danny's locations.jpg|thumb|right|Danny's location.]]
{{nihongo|"'Restaurant Danny's Dinning"'|レストランダニーの食事|Resutorandanī no shokuji}} is a family restaurant, likely modeled off of Denny's. Location of one case in the manga, that has made repeat appearances in the anime originals and movies.
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== Donny's ==
[[File:Donnys locations.jpg|thumb|right|Two of the Donny's locations.]]
{{nihongo|'"Family Restaurant Donny's"'|ファミリーレストランドニーズ|Famirīresutorandonīzu}} is a family restaurant, likely modeled off of Denny's. [[Volume_4#Code_Sheet_Case|One Donny's location]] was seen when the Detective Boys were running around the area near the Touto Tower. A magician who abducted the daughter of her master [[Volume_14#Magician.27s_Suicide_Case|took her to a Donny's]]. Kogoro met a famous samurai actor client regarding a prospective case [[Volume_17#Actor.27s_Apartment_Case|at Donny's]].
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== Cucina Eigo ==
[[File:40.png|thumb|right|Cucina Eigo]]
{{nihongo|'"Cucina Eigo"'|クシナ・エイゴ|Kushina eigo}} is an italian restaurant which's architecture is modeled after the countryside restaurants of Italy. The name of the restaurant is named after ''Cucina'', an italian word meaning cuisine and Eigo, the name of the owner who is Eigo Kuchiishi. It is one of the few Michelin-starred restaurants of Japan and is located in the agglomeration of Tokyo. A disappearance case of some guests and the attempted murder of the owner happened there but was hopefully solved.
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== Café Raoul ==
{{nihongo|'"Café Raoul"'|カフェロウル|Kaferouru}} is a French restaurant with a Paris style interior that Kogoro considers his new-found secret hideout. After Conan told Ran about it, Eri and Ran went out to eat there as well.<ref>Manga Chapter 594</ref>

== Ramen Ogura ==
{{nihongo|Ramen Ogura|ラーメン小倉|Rāmen Ogura}} used to be a rundown shop on a shopping street in Haido Town. Despite the low customer traffic, its specialty dish full of bamboo shoots {{nihongo|"Yama ramen"|閻魔大王ラーメン|Enma Daiō rāmen}} is very tasty. The shop's motto is "So good, it's to die for." Ironically it was the scene of a murder case. After the case, it moved to Beika Town and became quite popular. Its motto also changed to "Ramen so wicked, it's to die for." <ref>Manga Chapter 765</ref>

== Blue Parrot ==
A billiards parlor and bar owned by [[Konosuke Jii]]. It first appears in Magic Kaito in [[Magic Kaito Volume 2#Hustler vs. Magician|Ch 13 Hustler vs. Magician]]. Later the parlor appears in Detective Conan with a different appearance in [[Volume 81#Cocktail of Sorrow|Ch 853 A Detective Encounters a Case in a Bar]], and has a bartender named [[ Yuzuki Fukui]].

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

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

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

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

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

==== Previous students ====
* [[Shinichi Kudo]] (graduated)
* [[Ran Mouri]] (graduated)
* [[Sonoko Suzuki]] (graduated)
* [[Fusae Campbell]] (graduated)
* [[Kazunobu Chiba]] (graduated)
* [[Naeko Miike]] (graduated)
* [[Sumiko Kobayashi]] (graduated)
* [[Hiroshi Agasa]] (graduated)

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

==== Staff ====
* [[Matsumoto family|Sayuri Matsumoto]] (music teacher)
* Sakuragi (anime-only soccer coach)

==== Current students ====
* Naomi Sawamura

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

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

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

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

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

=== Haido High School ===
{{nihongo|Haido High School|杯戸高校|Haido Kōkō}} is the high school of [[Makoto Kyogoku]] and [[Volume_89#UFO_Sighting_Murder_Case|Hina Wada]].

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

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

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

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

=== Jikogenba High School ===
This school is mentioned by Conan in episode 393 and is said to be near Beika Park. This location is [[Canon|non-canon]].
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== Colleges/Universities ==
=== Tohto University ===
{{nihongo|Tohto University|東都大学|Tōto Daigaku}} is the fictional counterpart of the similarly prestigious [[wikipedia:University of Tokyo|Tokyo University]].
It has a mountaineering club, but its leader dies in [[The Fearful Traversing Murder Case]].
One of the university's graduate student received the equivalent of the Nobel prize in astronomy in [[The Suspicious Astronomical Observation]]. 
Tohto University's Medical school students are the prime suspects in the [[Alpine Hut in the Snow Mountain Murder Case]].
An alumni of the Physical Education department appears in [[The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case]]. 
All the suspects of the [[The Memories of First Love Case|Memories of First Love case]] were Toto University literature students. 
After having faked his death, [[Shuichi Akai]] disguised as [[Subaru Okiya]] was admitted to the university's Engineering School to prepare for a doctorate.

==== Students ====
* [[Tomoaki Araide]] (graduated top of class)
* [[Taka'aki Morofushi]] (graduated from the Law school with "top grades" [[The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall|according to Yui Uehara]]
* [[Subaru Okiya]], engineering department.

=== Teitan University ===
{{nihongo|Teitan University|帝丹大学|Teitan Daigaku}} is associated with Teitan Elementary School and Teitan High School. Conan, Mitsuhiko, Genta and Ayumi were forced to act in a play at the university in [[Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case]].
[[The Whereabouts of the Embarrassing Charm|Teruaki Kunisue]], an acquaintance of Kazuha, is a student there and is a member of the tennis club. [[File:Teitan University.png|thumb|right|Campus of Teitan University, as seen in episode 573.]]

=== Beika University ===
{{nihongo|Beika University|米花大学|Beika Daigaku}} is a university in Beika City, Beika Town. Its drama students occasionally put on performances for the public. The University has appeared very rarely in the series, but its alumni make frequent appearances. 
A student from the Beika University School of Medecine was once a suspect in [[The Partner is Santa-san|a case]], and students from Beika University School of Agriculture made the Detective Boys visit a lab in [[Deadly Poisonous Spider Trap]]. 
The [[Valentine Murder Case|first filler episode of the series]] was about the tensions inside the Tennis club of Beika University.
The university has a film club whose members are shown in [[Riddle Solution at Café Poirot]].

==== Students ====
* [[Kogoro Mouri]], ace of the Judo club.

=== Beika Art School ===
{{nihongo|Beika Art School|米花美術学校|Beika Bijutsu gakkō}} is an art school in Beika Town in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Its existence is only mentionned in [[The Detective Boys Become Models]] which makes in still not confirmed in the canon plot.

=== Haido University ===
{{nihongo|Haido University|杯戸大学|Haido Daigaku}} is the fictional counterpart of [[wikipedia: Rikkyo University|Rikkyo University]]. It was shown in [[Episode 857|The Mystery of Beika Street Crossroad]]. Its existence is therefore not confirmed in the canon plot as it appeared in a filler episode.

=== Jonan University ===
{{nihongo|Jonan University|城南大学|Jounan Daigaku}} is first mentioned in the [[Night Baron Murder Case]], where one of the suspects was a member of the Electronics department. It appeared in later filler episodes, such as [[The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case]], where it is confirmed that Jonan has a Law school and an Engineering school. 
The university appeared more recently in [[The Raven Chaser]]. "Jonan University" is the equivalent of "Jane Doe" in English, as "Jonan" is used in Japan as a name for any normal university. 
The culprit of the [[Underwater Key in the Locked Room Case]] is a 4th year Med school student.
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=== Teito University ===
{{nihongo|Teito University|帝都大学|Teito Daigaku}} (Lit. Imperial Capital) is a university in the Tokyo Metropolitan area. It is first mentionned in [[Friendship Washed Away in the Riverbed]]. This filler episode suggests the university has a school of Humanities, of Philosophy and of Education. This is not confirmed in the canon as the episode was an anime original.

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

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

== Miracle Land ==
{{nihongo|'''Miracle Land'''|ミラクルランド|Mirakuru rando}} is an amusement park that is prominently featured in the 10th movie, [[The Private Eyes' Requiem]]. The over-sea ride is similar to the real-life Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama.

= Historical sites =
== Landmarks ==
=== Tokyo Tower/Tohto Tower ===
{{nihongo|Tokyo Tower|東京タワー|Tōkyō Tawā}} is a communications and observation tower located in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan built in the 1950s. Inspired in design by the Eiffel Tower, this landmark has become a popular tourist and school field trip destination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Tower|date=|accessdate=2010-01-04|publisher=Wikipedia|title=Tokyo Tower}}</ref> In the manga and anime series the tower is referred to as {{nihongo|Tohto<ref name="tohto" /> Tower|東都タワー|Tōto Tawā}}. "Tohto" is a shorter way of saying {{nihongo|Tokyo Metropolis|東京都|Tōkyō-to}}. The tower was featured in the 13th movie, ''[[The Raven Chaser]]'' during the climax of the film.
[[File:Belltreetower.jpg|thumb|right|Bell Tree Tower]]
=== Tsutenkaku Tower ===
The {{nihongo|Tsutenkaku Tower|通天閣|Tsūtenkaku}} is a weather and observation tower located in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan built originally in 1912, dismantled, and then rebuilt in the 1950s. This tower, like Tokyo Tower, was inspired in design by the Eiffel Tower in addition to the Arc de Triomphe. The 1912 Tsutenkaku Tower was built next to an amusement park but later dismantled in the 1940s in an effort to thwart American bombing raids. The current tower was built on the same site in the 1950s thanks to the efforts of the citizens of Osaka.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts%C5%ABtenkaku|date=|accessdate=2010-01-04|publisher=Wikipedia|title=Tsūtenkaku}}</ref> Notable appearances of this landmark in Detective Conan include [[The Naniwa Serial Murder Case]], [[Conan and Heiji and the Vanished Boy]], and ''[[The Last Wizard of the Century]]''.

=== Tokyo Sky Tree/Bell Tree Tower ===
The {{nihongo|Tokyo Sky Tree|東京スカイツリー|Tōkyō Sukai Tsurī}} is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower located in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan construction was complete on February 29, 2012, while it opened to the public on May 22, 2012. The Sky Tree was built mostly to give better digital terrestrial television coverage since the Tokyo Tower has long been overshadowed by taller high-rise buildings and is unable to provide the necessary coverage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Sky_Tree|date=|accessdate=2011-11-09|publisher=Wikipedia|title=Tower Sky Tree}}</ref> The in series name for the Tokyo Sky Tree is {{nihongo|Bell Tree Tower|ベルツリータワー|Beru Tsurī Tawā}}. Judging from the use of the name "Bell Tree", it seems it was built/is owned in series by the [[Suzuki family|Suzuki Zaibatsu]]. The Sky Tree replaced the Tokyo Tower as the scene of the climax for [[Akako Koizumi|Akako's]] face-off against [[Kaitou Kid]] in [[A Witch Sheds No Tears]]. The tower has been featured recently in ''[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]'', [[The Coded Invitation]], and ''[[Dimensional Sniper]]''.
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= Hotels =
== Hotel New Beika ==

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

== Haido Hotel ==

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

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

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

== Hotel Haido Pride ==
Located near the Mouri Detective Agency, [[Masumi Sera]] and the [[Unknown Child]] moved in here during the [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|Shogi Tournament Case]]. This is also where [[Yumi Miyamoto]] had been taken hostage.

= Railway Tracks and Stations =
Trains and their tracks play important roles in getting the characters around throughout Beika City and the rest of Japan. The prominent railway company is {{nihongo|Tohto<ref name="tohto" /> Railways|東都鉄道|Tōto Tetsudō}}, henceforth referred to as TR, a reference to the real-life [[Wikipedia:Japan Railways Group|Japan Railways]] (JR).

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

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

== Loop Line ==
The {{nihongo|Loop Line|環状線|Kanjōsen}} is the main set of tracks for Beika City and was featured prominently in ''[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]''. As its name suggests, this track runs in a loop around Beika City. A majority of the stations seem to be based on the real-life [[Wikipedia:Yamanote Line|Yamanote Line]].　In [[The Missing Page]] it is referred to as the {{nihongo|Tohto<ref name="tohto">[[:File:Spelling of 東都.jpg]]</ref> Line|東都線|Tōto-sen}}.
=== Stations ===
* Beika Station (米花駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Takadanobaba Station|Shimodababa Station]] (下田馬場駅) **
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* [[wikipedia:Higashi-ikebukuro Station|Higashi-sawabukuro Station]] (東沢袋駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Ikebukuro Station|Sawabukuro Station]] (沢袋駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Shinjuku Station|Shinjuku Station]] (新宿駅) **
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* [[wikipedia:Mejiro Station|Majiro Station]] (間白駅) **
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* [[wikipedia:Tokyo Station|Tohto Station]]<ref name="tohto" /> (東京駅) **
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* [[wikipedia:Maihama Station|Tokuhama-chō Station]] (徳浜町駅) **
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* [[wikipedia:Otsuka Station|Kozuka Station]] (小塚駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Nishisugamo Station|Nishi-sugame Station]] (西巣亀駅) - Renamed [[Wikipedia:Sugamo Station|Sugame Station]] (巣亀駅) in [[A Friend of Justice]]
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* [[wikipedia:Fujimidai Station|Fujimi Station]] (富士見駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Komagome Station|Komairi Station]] (駒入駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Tabata Station|Hatabata Station]] (畑端駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Nippori Station|Yūbori Station]] (夕暮里駅)
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* Nibanmachi Station (二番街駅) **
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* [[wikipedia:Uguisudani Station|Karasutani Station]] (烏谷駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Ueno Station|Shimono Station]] (下野駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Akihabara Station|Natsuhabara Station]] (夏葉原駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Kanda Station|Hotokeda Station]] (仏田駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Nihonbashi Station|Sanbonbashi Station]] (三本橋駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Tokyo Station|Minami-tokyo Station]] (南東京駅)
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*[[wikipedia:Yurakucho Station|Murakucho Station]] (無楽町駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Ginza Station|Doza Station]] (銅座駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Shinbashi Station|Furuhashi Station]] (古橋駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Hamamatsucho Station|Okamatsucho Station]] (岡松町駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Shibakoen Station|Shibahama Station]] (芝浜駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Shinagawa Station|Kawashina Station]] (川品駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Ebisu Station|Egisu Station]] (恵木寿駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Harajuku Station|Sorajuku Station]] (空宿駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Yoyogi Station|Yorogi Station]] (よろぎ駅) **
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* [[wikipedia:Okubo Station|Kokubo Station]] (小久保駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Sakuradai Station|Midoridai Station]]　(緑台駅)
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* Beika Station (米花駅)
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tarouroom.blog89.fc2.com/blog-entry-613.html|date=2009-11-07|accessdate=2012-03-25|publisher=太郎の部屋|title=「名探偵コナン」に登場する「東都環状線」を「山手線」と比較検証してみた　その1　駅名}}</ref>
{{clear}}
''**Not included in listing as of [[A Friend of Justice]]''

== Sakaimachi Line ==
The {{nihongo|Sakaimachi Line|境町線|Sakaimachisen}} is a connecting line to the series' main Loop Line. It is mentioned in the [[Canon|non-canon]] case [[The Missing Page]].

=== Stations ===
* Ashikōen Station (芦公園駅)
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* Yahatayama Station (八畑山駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Yoyogi Station|Yorogi Station]] (よろぎ駅) - Transfer station to Loop Line
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* Shimokado Station (下高戸駅)
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* Tsubakijōsui Station (椿上水駅)
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* Kamiminamizawa Station (上南沢駅)

== Minato Line ==
The {{nihongo|Minato Line|港線|Minatosen}} is a connecting line to the series' main Loop Line. It is mentioned in the [[Canon|non-canon]] case [[The Missing Page]].

=== Stations ===
* Sasazuka Station (佐々塚駅)
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* Hatagaya Station (波田ヶ谷駅)
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* [[wikipedia:Otsuka Station|Kozuka Station]] (小塚駅) - Transfer station to Loop Line
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* Ohtabashi Station (大田橋駅)
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* Meidaimae Station (明大前駅)

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

= References =
<references/>
#[http://www.geocities.jp/cona_kyu/hyakka.htm コナン大百科]

[[Category:Setting]][[Category:General Information]]

The Scarlet School Trip

2019-01-13T16:54:14Z

Inoue: /* Manga to anime changes */

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 927-928
| image = TV Episode 927-928.jpg
| title = {{PAGENAME}}
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|紅の修学旅行}} (Kurenai no Shūgakuryokō)
| rating = ?,??% (Bright Red Arc) ?,??% (Crimson Love Arc)
| Manga case number = #290
| airdate = January 5, 2019 (Bright Red Arc) January 12, 2019 (Red Love Arc)
| season = [[Season 27|27]]
| manga = [[Volume 94#Crimson School Trip Case|Volume 94: Files 8-11 (1000-1003)]] ~ [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|Volume 95: Files 1-2 (1004-1005)]]
| english-title =
| dubbed-episode =
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Masumi Sera]] [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Soshi Okita]] [[Muga Iori]] [[Momiji Ooka]] [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]] [[Chipmunk]] [[Nakamichi]] [[Eisuke Aizawa]] [[Tashiro]] [[Hidaka]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Subaru Okiya]] [[Yaiba Kurogane]] [[Moroha Kurogane]] [[Yukiko Kudo]] [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Professor]] [[Kaitou Kid]] [[Mai Kuraki]] [[Makoto Kyogoku]] [[Ryusuke Higo]] [[Okawa]] [[Ishizaki]]
| solved-by = [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Masumi Sera]] [[Heiji Hattori]]
| next-conan-hint = Bloody ceiling (Bright Red Arc) Movie poster (Red Love Arc)
| case =
| director = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| screenplay = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| storyboard = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| producer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| animation-director = [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] (Supervisor) 927: [[Chiemi Hironaka]], [[Seiji Muta]], [[Ken Shintani]], [[Keiko Sasaki]], [[Kenichi Otomo]], [[Rie Nakajima]], [[Rei Masunaga]], [[Makoto Ozawa]], [[Hirona Okada]], [[Ayaka Shimoji]], [[Ayu Imoto]], [[Asuka Tsubuki]], [[Miho Tanaka]], [[Hiroyuki Notake]] and [[Kousei Takahashi]]
|character-design = [[Hiroshi Ogawa]] (Design works) 927: [[Nobuyuki Iwai]], [[Akiko Motoyoshi]], [[Akio Kawamura]] and [[Kyoko Yoshimi]]
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Yuko Miyamura]] as [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] as [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]], [[Subaru Okiya]] [[Rikiya Koyama]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Daisuke Ono]] as [[Muga Iori]] [[Satsuki Yukino]] as [[Momiji Ooka]] [[Koji Yusa]] as [[Soshi Okita]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Mai Kuraki]] as Herself [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)]] as [[Genta Kojima]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Mitsuaki Hoshino]] as Taro Nishiki [[Katsuyuki Konishi]] as Shinya Ihaya [[Aya Hisakawa]] as Keiko Kurachi [[Kunihiko Yasui]] as Mineto Mayama [[Shuhei Sakaguchi]] as Riki Agata [[Shinobu Satouchi]] as Bellhop [[Junichi Sugawara]] as [[Professor]] [[Kenta Matsumoto]] as [[Nakamichi]] [[Yusuke Tonosaki]] as [[Eisuke Aizawa]] [[Shinnosuke Musashi]] as [[Okawa]] [[Ikuji Nose]] as [[Ishizaki]] [[Aya Kawakami]] as Manager [[Shota Takitani]] as Detective [[Atsuko Tanaka]] as [[Mary Sera]] [[Hideyuki Tanaka]] as [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Sumi Shimamoto]] as [[Yukiko Kudo]]
| opening-song = Barairo no Jinsei
| closing-song = Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai
| prev-episode = The Heartfelt Strap
| next-episode = A Woman Standing by the Window
| footnotes = 2 hours special divided into two 1 hour special episodes
}}
{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|紅の修学旅行|Kurenai no Shūgakuryokō}} is the 927th and the 928th episodes of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]]. They are composed of two 45 minutes special episodes and have been co-produced with [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s supervision. It introduces the first canonical performance of [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]] and his pet [[chipmunk]], and is set in Kyoto, where the animation team went to recreate the most realistically possible all the landmarks, including Kiyomizu Butai. There were also special guests from Yomiuri TV, which were introduced as voice actors, and a special planning was made by [[Michihiko Suwa]].

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{char|Masumi Sera}}
{{char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{char|Fumimaro Ayanokoji}}
{{char|Chipmunk}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Nakamichi}}
{{char|Eisuke Aizawa}}
{{char|Tashiro}}
{{char|Hidaka}}
{{char|Okawa}}
{{char|Ishizaki}}
{{char|Soshi Okita}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Momiji Ooka}}
{{char|Muga Iori}}
{{char|Mary Sera}}
{{char|Ai Haibara|display=Ai Haibara (flashback)}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida|display=Ayumi Yoshida (flashback)}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|display=Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya (flashback)}}
{{char|Genta Kojima|display=Genta Kojima (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa|display=Hiroshi Agasa (flashback)}}
{{char|Subaru Okiya|display=Subaru Okiya (flashback)}}
{{char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{char|Yusaku Kudo}}
{{char|Yaiba Kurogane|display=Yaiba Kurogane (background)}}
{{char|Moroha Kurogane|display=Moroha Kurogane (background)}}
{{char|Professor|EP304 Man|display=Professor}}
{{char|Kaitou Kid|display=Kaitou Kid (background)}}
{{char|Mai Kuraki|Mai Kuraki anime|display=Mai Kuraki}}
{{char|Makoto Kyogoku|display=Makoto Kyogoku (cellphone puppet)}}
{{char|Ryusuke Higo|display=Ryusuke Higo (doll flashback)}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
==== Bright Red Arc ====
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP927 Case1.png
| location = GION Hotel
| victim = Taro Nishiki
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Shinya Ihaya, Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata and Tengu
| description = After Nishiki meets with the others to show the riddle, he dies less than an hour later and is seen stabbed dead on the floor. Around him are scattered sheets of the screenplay, labels and a new riddle. On his forehead have been made two bumps and on the ceiling was a blood pond (in fact red paint painted beforehand except for a few droplets of real blood) and footsteps leading to the exterior of the room as if it was a tengu's doing.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted murder
| image = EP927 Case2.png
| location = GION Hotel
| victim = Riki Agata
| age = 37 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Stabbing
| cause-death-label = Attack Types
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Shinya Ihaya, Keiko Kurachi and Tengu
| description = Just and hour after Nishiki's murder, Agata is seen screaming in his room which alerts everyone. They gather at the door and get it unlocked by the bellhop before seeing inside Agata on the floor with two bumps on his head and screaming for help at a tengu on the ceiling. He then throws his ashtray at it before it explodes and vanished. The next day, Agata slowly recovered from the injury and there wasn't any new riddle.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP927 Case3.png
| location = Isogiyama restaurant front porch
| victim = Shinya Ihaya
| age = 37 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Throat slit
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata and Tengu
| description = After a hord of people disguised as tengus disturb the group (Shinichi, Nakamichi, Ran, Sonoko, Momiji and Masumi), they fight them before finding out that someone on a website was paying them 100 thousand Yen. As they feared it was the culprit's actions to distract them, they head back to the restaurant and find out it was too late: Ihaya was dead, lying upside-down on the Inuyarai where there were the same footprints as in Nishiki's room.
}}

==== Crimson Love Arc ====
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Suicide
| image = EP928 Case1.png
| location = Kiyomizu Butai
| victim = Michio Dekuri
| age = 37-38 years old
| time = 3-4 days ago
| cause-death = falling
| suspects =
| description = A few days before the murder spree in Kyoto, one of the previous members of the filming team who had wrote the first version of the story (in manga) killed himself by throwing himself from the top of the Kiyomizu dera shrine after he thought he was forgotten by the others (Mayama, Agata, Nishiki and Ihaya) since they didn't put his name in the credits or so what he thought.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = EP928 Case2.png
| location = Kiyomizu Butai
| victim = Mineto Mayama
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = falling
|cause-death-label = Cause
| suspects = Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata, Michio Dekuri's reincarnation and Tengu
| description = On the last day of the pre-open of the movie, Mayama receives a phone call from an unknown person telling him to go to the Kiyomizu Butai. Heading there, he sees a mysterious and invisible silhouette approaching him with bloody footprints before grabbing him and throwing him over the railing saying that he is Michio Dekuri reincarnated as a tengu after falling and that he'll seek revenge. He luckily survives without any injuries since Shinichi, Heiji, Yusaku and Masumi already planned the culprit's doings and prepared a matress under the shrine. Shinichi and Heiji then confront the culprit.
}}

=== People ===
{{beginBox}}
{{people|Keiko Kurachi|Keiko Kurachi.jpg|
* 37 years old
* Actress
* Yukiko's old friend}}
{{people|Shinya Ihaya|Shinya Ihaya.jpg|
* Victim (throat slit)
* 37 years old
* Actor}}
{{people|Mineto Mayama|Mineto Mayama.jpg|
* Victim (fell-survived)
* 38 years old
* Movie director}}
{{people|Riki Agata|Riki Agata.jpg|
* Victim (attempted stabbing)
* 37 years old
* Composer}}
{{people|Taro Nishiki|Tarou Nishiki.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 38 years old
* Screenwriter
* Naomoto award winner}}
{{clear}}
{{people|Michio Dekuri|Michio Dekuri.jpg|
* Deceased (fell)
* Mangaka
* Cipher writer?}}
{{people|Woman|EP927 Announcer.jpg|
* TV announcer}}
{{people|Bellhop|EP927 Bellhop.jpg|
* Gion Hotel bellhop
* In charge of floor 10}}
{{people|Police Detective|EP927 Detective.jpg|
* Kyoto Prefectural police Assistant Inspector
* Ayanokoji's assistant}}
{{people|Manager|EP927 Manager.jpg|
* Mai Kuraki's manager}}
{{endBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>Shinichi, Heiji and Masumi tell the killer his plan failed, and reveal him to be '''Riki Agata'''. The three teenagers say they solved the code: Dekuri's symbol was actually to be considered as a compass, and according to it, and to the code's kanji characters' position, and to the fact that these characters were extracted from some of Kyoto's streets' and districts' names corresponding to the position, the code can be understood as a succession of kanji characters who correspond to the first or second syllables of the streets' or districts' names they originate, for instance "kon" for "kontaka", etc., from left to right. The first lines of each code then read "koro sunoha", which means "I'm about to kill". Heiji says the reversed "saki" kanji means its corresponding character, "pon", is to be reversed to "npo", then "n". The first code accordingly means "I'm going to kill three people, the first one being the screenwriter". The second reads "I'm going to kill two more people, the next one being the leading role". And the third is "I'm going to kill one more person, then I'll jump off the balcony". In fact, Agata wanted to kill Mayama and pretend he was the murderer and committed suicide after he failed to kill Agata.

Agata had beforehand booked all of the hotel's smoking rooms and checked one out for Nishiki just as the latter was phoning the hotel. In this room, Agata had previously painted the ceiling red with fake blood splatters and footprints. He then stuck magnetic post-its (similar to Nishiki's ones) over the whole ceiling in order to conceal it, the post-its being of the same color as the ceiling. After killing Nishiki, Agata unstuck all post-its and threw them away on the floor, mixing them up with Nishiki's own ones. He then opened the window and sprayed some of Nishiki's blood with a syringe on the fake blood traces, to pretend he had indeed been murdered on the ceiling by a tengu. Agata, a plastic art expert, also made a fake tengu out of guncotton and used alcohol-ink marker pens to draw on it. He then pasted the very light piece of artwork on his room's ceiling, screamed, pretending to be assaulted by a monster, and threw the ashtray with his lit cigarette in it to the tengu's face to have it explode, burn and vanish into thin air, as this is how guncotton reacts to fire. He had lit his cigarette not long ago to do so, explaining the only 3-centimeter burn patterns left by his cigarette on the floor, that should have been longer if he'd been smoking for a longer period of time.

Agata had also prepared the restaurant's inuyarai by previously painting it red with the usual traces, but covering it with another inuyarai. After he killed Ihaya, he removed the cover inuyarai, threw his bloody glove, dagger and coat into it and put it over another restaurant's inuyarai. He hadn't left any fingerprints on the bloody things for the police still to believe Mayama was the murderer. Shinichi had noticed the dust gap around the first inuyarai, implying it had been covered by something that protected it from dust. Lastly, to frighten Mayama into pinning himself against the railing, Agata used a directional loudspeaker only Mayama could hear, with Dekuri's voice, and had previously painted transparent sheets with red footprints and stuck them on the balcony's floor, covering each of them with another sheet of the same color as the floor, to conceal them. He would then tie fishing lines to each of these same-color sheets and pull them away one after the other in order to fool Mayama into believing Dekuri was walking in his direction, and speaking to him. Agata left his fingerprints on the sheets as he was certain Mayama would die and everybody would rush to the railing, leaving him time and space enough to retrieve all sheets and discarding them later.

Agata tries to run away but gets surrounded by the police who were disguised as visitors. Agata finally confesses to being the serial killer, giving two bumps to his victims just like the tengu does to Kobutori Tale's evil old man who tries to imitate the good Kobutori, just like Nishiki, Ihaya and Mayama stole Dekuri's work and pretended his name would feature in the movie's credits while it was eventually not the case. Agata asked them for an explanation, saying Dekuri cried unceasingly, and the three men replied they were so happy their plan had worked perfectly, thus implying they wanted to humiliate their depressed friend and never had the intention to put his name in the movie. But Keiko and Mayama turn up and say that the producers had modified some very important typology spaces in the credits, preventing the name "Michio Dekuri" from appearing. As actually the name was supposed to appear across the five people's vertical names, which is why everyone changed names and spaces. Dekuri's name was supposed to appear at the same time, and it didn't beacuse of the producers, who didn't want to clear up the mistake afterwards for financial reasons. Agata wasn't told about it as their friends wanted Dekuri and him to discover the surprise while watching the movie together, as they were really close friends. Agata howls in regrets for what he did to his friends.

After the case is solved, Ran talks about a nice place that Okita had told her about and as Sonoko and Masumi start going ahead, Shinichi holds Ran back and asks her how she feels about him. Shinichi mentions Ran's meeting with Okita the previous and wonders if she has forgotten about his confession in London. In response, Ran pulls him closer by grabbing his tie and kisses him on the cheek.

Shinichi moves to kiss Ran on the lips, but the antidote begins to wear off, and he flees.

Masumi gives chase, only to run into Heiji. She realizes that the rucksack Heiji is wearing has the shrunken Shinichi inside it, but doesn't directly confront the two about it. Shinichi and Heiji therefore understand that Masumi knows about Shinichi being Conan.

A teacher of Teitan High School tells students Shinichi has to leave due to an emergency, and tells them not to say a word about Shinichi's coming and presence to Kyoto, as specially asked for by Shinichi himself.

Ran tells Sonoko she actually took Okita aside to give him back his talisman he had dropped during the "Kendo Case" (Vol. 94). She apologised to Okita because she and her father unwittingly opened the talisman, and found a piece of wood and a picture showing Moroha Kurogane, Okita's secret love and a skilled high school kendo practitioner as well. Okita says Moroha is actually his rival Yaiba Kurogane's little sister, and he will date Moroha as soon as he defeats Yaiba at kendo. Okita accepts Ran's excuse but just asks her not to tell a word of this to Momiji, probably because he loves her as well.

As Shinichi and Ran exchange texts about what the kiss means for their relationship, both of them being mutually satisfied with each other's declaration, Masumi speaks with Mary. Mary orders her to obtain the "medicine" that will return her to her true age, so that they can stop running, and counter-attack.

Heiji gives Conan a motorbike ride back to Tokyo, and Ran texts Shinichi to ask him if they're officially dating each other now. Conan thinks about the last antidote Haibara gave him but which he couldn't take as the timing made it impossible: the class was leaving Kyoto and Shinichi still needed to wait for another 8 hours before taking it... Heiji secretly envies Shinichi who not only "stole" his second favourite place in Japan to confess his love to Kazuha, but also as Shinichi is his rival, he now sets the bar high and Heiji has from here on to go further in his relationship with Kazuha as well.

Yukiko and Yusaku are watching the Kyoto Case on TV, in Los Angeles, and are puzzled over the case being so much broadcasted, even worldwide, and hitting the headlines. Yusaku replies it has to do with the victims' and culprit's fame. As Yukiko feels moved to hear the crime motive was Kyoko's boyfriend's death, Yusaku explains he knew about Michio Dekuri's full name as he had seen the movie's poster online and noticed the rearrangement of names and spaces, exactly the same as for the movie's credits, showing the boyfriend's name across his other friends' names, which is why Kyoko/Keiko changed her name. He then comments on the fact Dekuri would have probably not killed himself if he had seen the poster earlier. He also talks about a more burning issue: has Shinichi been spotted by media or else while he was solving the case ? Shinichi is considered dead for most people, including the Black Organisation.

His fears prove to be right as the case indeed attracts global attention, and someone claims that the apparently dead Shinichi Kudo helped to solve the case. Hyoue Kuroda, Kanenori Wakita, and Rumi Wakasa (who is revealed to have access to the APTX victim list) all take notice of this.</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* This case had to be initially set in Singapore, but that Asian country is reserved for [[The Fist of Blue Sapphire#trivia|The Fist of Blue Sapphire]].
* Along with [[Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery#Trivia|Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery]], this is the second one hour special episode, transmitted in two parts.
* The anime staff went to Kyoto to take reference material (photos, videos, etc.) for the two episodes special in the last months preceding the creation of the special.
* Shinichi and Nakamichi's room is 927, just like the episode that makes the first part of the case.
* Mai Kuraki's manager seen in the episode isn't the real manager, since the real one is a man named [[Toshinori Masuda]] and the president of Being.
* [[Gosho Aoyama]] worked as key animator for episode 928.

== Manga to anime changes ==
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
* The scene with Mai Kuraki and her manager is only seen in the anime, although the quote about the double couple was proposed by Gosho Aoyama.
* The part when Ran asks Keiko Kurachi if she has won the Macademy Awards is skipped in the anime.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== See also ==
* [[Season 27]]

{{Season 27}}

[[Category:Episodes]]

The Scarlet School Trip

2019-01-13T16:54:02Z

Inoue: /* Trivia */

{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 927-928
| image = TV Episode 927-928.jpg
| title = {{PAGENAME}}
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|紅の修学旅行}} (Kurenai no Shūgakuryokō)
| rating = ?,??% (Bright Red Arc) ?,??% (Crimson Love Arc)
| Manga case number = #290
| airdate = January 5, 2019 (Bright Red Arc) January 12, 2019 (Red Love Arc)
| season = [[Season 27|27]]
| manga = [[Volume 94#Crimson School Trip Case|Volume 94: Files 8-11 (1000-1003)]] ~ [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|Volume 95: Files 1-2 (1004-1005)]]
| english-title =
| dubbed-episode =
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Masumi Sera]] [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Soshi Okita]] [[Muga Iori]] [[Momiji Ooka]] [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]] [[Chipmunk]] [[Nakamichi]] [[Eisuke Aizawa]] [[Tashiro]] [[Hidaka]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Subaru Okiya]] [[Yaiba Kurogane]] [[Moroha Kurogane]] [[Yukiko Kudo]] [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Professor]] [[Kaitou Kid]] [[Mai Kuraki]] [[Makoto Kyogoku]] [[Ryusuke Higo]] [[Okawa]] [[Ishizaki]]
| solved-by = [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Masumi Sera]] [[Heiji Hattori]]
| next-conan-hint = Bloody ceiling (Bright Red Arc) Movie poster (Red Love Arc)
| case =
| director = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| screenplay = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| storyboard = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| producer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| animation-director = [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] (Supervisor) 927: [[Chiemi Hironaka]], [[Seiji Muta]], [[Ken Shintani]], [[Keiko Sasaki]], [[Kenichi Otomo]], [[Rie Nakajima]], [[Rei Masunaga]], [[Makoto Ozawa]], [[Hirona Okada]], [[Ayaka Shimoji]], [[Ayu Imoto]], [[Asuka Tsubuki]], [[Miho Tanaka]], [[Hiroyuki Notake]] and [[Kousei Takahashi]]
|character-design = [[Hiroshi Ogawa]] (Design works) 927: [[Nobuyuki Iwai]], [[Akiko Motoyoshi]], [[Akio Kawamura]] and [[Kyoko Yoshimi]]
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Yuko Miyamura]] as [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] as [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]], [[Subaru Okiya]] [[Rikiya Koyama]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Daisuke Ono]] as [[Muga Iori]] [[Satsuki Yukino]] as [[Momiji Ooka]] [[Koji Yusa]] as [[Soshi Okita]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Mai Kuraki]] as Herself [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)]] as [[Genta Kojima]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Mitsuaki Hoshino]] as Taro Nishiki [[Katsuyuki Konishi]] as Shinya Ihaya [[Aya Hisakawa]] as Keiko Kurachi [[Kunihiko Yasui]] as Mineto Mayama [[Shuhei Sakaguchi]] as Riki Agata [[Shinobu Satouchi]] as Bellhop [[Junichi Sugawara]] as [[Professor]] [[Kenta Matsumoto]] as [[Nakamichi]] [[Yusuke Tonosaki]] as [[Eisuke Aizawa]] [[Shinnosuke Musashi]] as [[Okawa]] [[Ikuji Nose]] as [[Ishizaki]] [[Aya Kawakami]] as Manager [[Shota Takitani]] as Detective [[Atsuko Tanaka]] as [[Mary Sera]] [[Hideyuki Tanaka]] as [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Sumi Shimamoto]] as [[Yukiko Kudo]]
| opening-song = Barairo no Jinsei
| closing-song = Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai
| prev-episode = The Heartfelt Strap
| next-episode = A Woman Standing by the Window
| footnotes = 2 hours special divided into two 1 hour special episodes
}}
{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|紅の修学旅行|Kurenai no Shūgakuryokō}} is the 927th and the 928th episodes of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]]. They are composed of two 45 minutes special episodes and have been co-produced with [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s supervision. It introduces the first canonical performance of [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]] and his pet [[chipmunk]], and is set in Kyoto, where the animation team went to recreate the most realistically possible all the landmarks, including Kiyomizu Butai. There were also special guests from Yomiuri TV, which were introduced as voice actors, and a special planning was made by [[Michihiko Suwa]].

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{char|Masumi Sera}}
{{char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{char|Fumimaro Ayanokoji}}
{{char|Chipmunk}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Nakamichi}}
{{char|Eisuke Aizawa}}
{{char|Tashiro}}
{{char|Hidaka}}
{{char|Okawa}}
{{char|Ishizaki}}
{{char|Soshi Okita}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Momiji Ooka}}
{{char|Muga Iori}}
{{char|Mary Sera}}
{{char|Ai Haibara|display=Ai Haibara (flashback)}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida|display=Ayumi Yoshida (flashback)}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|display=Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya (flashback)}}
{{char|Genta Kojima|display=Genta Kojima (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa|display=Hiroshi Agasa (flashback)}}
{{char|Subaru Okiya|display=Subaru Okiya (flashback)}}
{{char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{char|Yusaku Kudo}}
{{char|Yaiba Kurogane|display=Yaiba Kurogane (background)}}
{{char|Moroha Kurogane|display=Moroha Kurogane (background)}}
{{char|Professor|EP304 Man|display=Professor}}
{{char|Kaitou Kid|display=Kaitou Kid (background)}}
{{char|Mai Kuraki|Mai Kuraki anime|display=Mai Kuraki}}
{{char|Makoto Kyogoku|display=Makoto Kyogoku (cellphone puppet)}}
{{char|Ryusuke Higo|display=Ryusuke Higo (doll flashback)}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
==== Bright Red Arc ====
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP927 Case1.png
| location = GION Hotel
| victim = Taro Nishiki
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Shinya Ihaya, Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata and Tengu
| description = After Nishiki meets with the others to show the riddle, he dies less than an hour later and is seen stabbed dead on the floor. Around him are scattered sheets of the screenplay, labels and a new riddle. On his forehead have been made two bumps and on the ceiling was a blood pond (in fact red paint painted beforehand except for a few droplets of real blood) and footsteps leading to the exterior of the room as if it was a tengu's doing.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted murder
| image = EP927 Case2.png
| location = GION Hotel
| victim = Riki Agata
| age = 37 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Stabbing
| cause-death-label = Attack Types
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Shinya Ihaya, Keiko Kurachi and Tengu
| description = Just and hour after Nishiki's murder, Agata is seen screaming in his room which alerts everyone. They gather at the door and get it unlocked by the bellhop before seeing inside Agata on the floor with two bumps on his head and screaming for help at a tengu on the ceiling. He then throws his ashtray at it before it explodes and vanished. The next day, Agata slowly recovered from the injury and there wasn't any new riddle.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP927 Case3.png
| location = Isogiyama restaurant front porch
| victim = Shinya Ihaya
| age = 37 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Throat slit
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata and Tengu
| description = After a hord of people disguised as tengus disturb the group (Shinichi, Nakamichi, Ran, Sonoko, Momiji and Masumi), they fight them before finding out that someone on a website was paying them 100 thousand Yen. As they feared it was the culprit's actions to distract them, they head back to the restaurant and find out it was too late: Ihaya was dead, lying upside-down on the Inuyarai where there were the same footprints as in Nishiki's room.
}}

==== Crimson Love Arc ====
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Suicide
| image = EP928 Case1.png
| location = Kiyomizu Butai
| victim = Michio Dekuri
| age = 37-38 years old
| time = 3-4 days ago
| cause-death = falling
| suspects =
| description = A few days before the murder spree in Kyoto, one of the previous members of the filming team who had wrote the first version of the story (in manga) killed himself by throwing himself from the top of the Kiyomizu dera shrine after he thought he was forgotten by the others (Mayama, Agata, Nishiki and Ihaya) since they didn't put his name in the credits or so what he thought.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = EP928 Case2.png
| location = Kiyomizu Butai
| victim = Mineto Mayama
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = falling
|cause-death-label = Cause
| suspects = Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata, Michio Dekuri's reincarnation and Tengu
| description = On the last day of the pre-open of the movie, Mayama receives a phone call from an unknown person telling him to go to the Kiyomizu Butai. Heading there, he sees a mysterious and invisible silhouette approaching him with bloody footprints before grabbing him and throwing him over the railing saying that he is Michio Dekuri reincarnated as a tengu after falling and that he'll seek revenge. He luckily survives without any injuries since Shinichi, Heiji, Yusaku and Masumi already planned the culprit's doings and prepared a matress under the shrine. Shinichi and Heiji then confront the culprit.
}}

=== People ===
{{beginBox}}
{{people|Keiko Kurachi|Keiko Kurachi.jpg|
* 37 years old
* Actress
* Yukiko's old friend}}
{{people|Shinya Ihaya|Shinya Ihaya.jpg|
* Victim (throat slit)
* 37 years old
* Actor}}
{{people|Mineto Mayama|Mineto Mayama.jpg|
* Victim (fell-survived)
* 38 years old
* Movie director}}
{{people|Riki Agata|Riki Agata.jpg|
* Victim (attempted stabbing)
* 37 years old
* Composer}}
{{people|Taro Nishiki|Tarou Nishiki.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 38 years old
* Screenwriter
* Naomoto award winner}}
{{clear}}
{{people|Michio Dekuri|Michio Dekuri.jpg|
* Deceased (fell)
* Mangaka
* Cipher writer?}}
{{people|Woman|EP927 Announcer.jpg|
* TV announcer}}
{{people|Bellhop|EP927 Bellhop.jpg|
* Gion Hotel bellhop
* In charge of floor 10}}
{{people|Police Detective|EP927 Detective.jpg|
* Kyoto Prefectural police Assistant Inspector
* Ayanokoji's assistant}}
{{people|Manager|EP927 Manager.jpg|
* Mai Kuraki's manager}}
{{endBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>Shinichi, Heiji and Masumi tell the killer his plan failed, and reveal him to be '''Riki Agata'''. The three teenagers say they solved the code: Dekuri's symbol was actually to be considered as a compass, and according to it, and to the code's kanji characters' position, and to the fact that these characters were extracted from some of Kyoto's streets' and districts' names corresponding to the position, the code can be understood as a succession of kanji characters who correspond to the first or second syllables of the streets' or districts' names they originate, for instance "kon" for "kontaka", etc., from left to right. The first lines of each code then read "koro sunoha", which means "I'm about to kill". Heiji says the reversed "saki" kanji means its corresponding character, "pon", is to be reversed to "npo", then "n". The first code accordingly means "I'm going to kill three people, the first one being the screenwriter". The second reads "I'm going to kill two more people, the next one being the leading role". And the third is "I'm going to kill one more person, then I'll jump off the balcony". In fact, Agata wanted to kill Mayama and pretend he was the murderer and committed suicide after he failed to kill Agata.

Agata had beforehand booked all of the hotel's smoking rooms and checked one out for Nishiki just as the latter was phoning the hotel. In this room, Agata had previously painted the ceiling red with fake blood splatters and footprints. He then stuck magnetic post-its (similar to Nishiki's ones) over the whole ceiling in order to conceal it, the post-its being of the same color as the ceiling. After killing Nishiki, Agata unstuck all post-its and threw them away on the floor, mixing them up with Nishiki's own ones. He then opened the window and sprayed some of Nishiki's blood with a syringe on the fake blood traces, to pretend he had indeed been murdered on the ceiling by a tengu. Agata, a plastic art expert, also made a fake tengu out of guncotton and used alcohol-ink marker pens to draw on it. He then pasted the very light piece of artwork on his room's ceiling, screamed, pretending to be assaulted by a monster, and threw the ashtray with his lit cigarette in it to the tengu's face to have it explode, burn and vanish into thin air, as this is how guncotton reacts to fire. He had lit his cigarette not long ago to do so, explaining the only 3-centimeter burn patterns left by his cigarette on the floor, that should have been longer if he'd been smoking for a longer period of time.

Agata had also prepared the restaurant's inuyarai by previously painting it red with the usual traces, but covering it with another inuyarai. After he killed Ihaya, he removed the cover inuyarai, threw his bloody glove, dagger and coat into it and put it over another restaurant's inuyarai. He hadn't left any fingerprints on the bloody things for the police still to believe Mayama was the murderer. Shinichi had noticed the dust gap around the first inuyarai, implying it had been covered by something that protected it from dust. Lastly, to frighten Mayama into pinning himself against the railing, Agata used a directional loudspeaker only Mayama could hear, with Dekuri's voice, and had previously painted transparent sheets with red footprints and stuck them on the balcony's floor, covering each of them with another sheet of the same color as the floor, to conceal them. He would then tie fishing lines to each of these same-color sheets and pull them away one after the other in order to fool Mayama into believing Dekuri was walking in his direction, and speaking to him. Agata left his fingerprints on the sheets as he was certain Mayama would die and everybody would rush to the railing, leaving him time and space enough to retrieve all sheets and discarding them later.

Agata tries to run away but gets surrounded by the police who were disguised as visitors. Agata finally confesses to being the serial killer, giving two bumps to his victims just like the tengu does to Kobutori Tale's evil old man who tries to imitate the good Kobutori, just like Nishiki, Ihaya and Mayama stole Dekuri's work and pretended his name would feature in the movie's credits while it was eventually not the case. Agata asked them for an explanation, saying Dekuri cried unceasingly, and the three men replied they were so happy their plan had worked perfectly, thus implying they wanted to humiliate their depressed friend and never had the intention to put his name in the movie. But Keiko and Mayama turn up and say that the producers had modified some very important typology spaces in the credits, preventing the name "Michio Dekuri" from appearing. As actually the name was supposed to appear across the five people's vertical names, which is why everyone changed names and spaces. Dekuri's name was supposed to appear at the same time, and it didn't beacuse of the producers, who didn't want to clear up the mistake afterwards for financial reasons. Agata wasn't told about it as their friends wanted Dekuri and him to discover the surprise while watching the movie together, as they were really close friends. Agata howls in regrets for what he did to his friends.

After the case is solved, Ran talks about a nice place that Okita had told her about and as Sonoko and Masumi start going ahead, Shinichi holds Ran back and asks her how she feels about him. Shinichi mentions Ran's meeting with Okita the previous and wonders if she has forgotten about his confession in London. In response, Ran pulls him closer by grabbing his tie and kisses him on the cheek.

Shinichi moves to kiss Ran on the lips, but the antidote begins to wear off, and he flees.

Masumi gives chase, only to run into Heiji. She realizes that the rucksack Heiji is wearing has the shrunken Shinichi inside it, but doesn't directly confront the two about it. Shinichi and Heiji therefore understand that Masumi knows about Shinichi being Conan.

A teacher of Teitan High School tells students Shinichi has to leave due to an emergency, and tells them not to say a word about Shinichi's coming and presence to Kyoto, as specially asked for by Shinichi himself.

Ran tells Sonoko she actually took Okita aside to give him back his talisman he had dropped during the "Kendo Case" (Vol. 94). She apologised to Okita because she and her father unwittingly opened the talisman, and found a piece of wood and a picture showing Moroha Kurogane, Okita's secret love and a skilled high school kendo practitioner as well. Okita says Moroha is actually his rival Yaiba Kurogane's little sister, and he will date Moroha as soon as he defeats Yaiba at kendo. Okita accepts Ran's excuse but just asks her not to tell a word of this to Momiji, probably because he loves her as well.

As Shinichi and Ran exchange texts about what the kiss means for their relationship, both of them being mutually satisfied with each other's declaration, Masumi speaks with Mary. Mary orders her to obtain the "medicine" that will return her to her true age, so that they can stop running, and counter-attack.

Heiji gives Conan a motorbike ride back to Tokyo, and Ran texts Shinichi to ask him if they're officially dating each other now. Conan thinks about the last antidote Haibara gave him but which he couldn't take as the timing made it impossible: the class was leaving Kyoto and Shinichi still needed to wait for another 8 hours before taking it... Heiji secretly envies Shinichi who not only "stole" his second favourite place in Japan to confess his love to Kazuha, but also as Shinichi is his rival, he now sets the bar high and Heiji has from here on to go further in his relationship with Kazuha as well.

Yukiko and Yusaku are watching the Kyoto Case on TV, in Los Angeles, and are puzzled over the case being so much broadcasted, even worldwide, and hitting the headlines. Yusaku replies it has to do with the victims' and culprit's fame. As Yukiko feels moved to hear the crime motive was Kyoko's boyfriend's death, Yusaku explains he knew about Michio Dekuri's full name as he had seen the movie's poster online and noticed the rearrangement of names and spaces, exactly the same as for the movie's credits, showing the boyfriend's name across his other friends' names, which is why Kyoko/Keiko changed her name. He then comments on the fact Dekuri would have probably not killed himself if he had seen the poster earlier. He also talks about a more burning issue: has Shinichi been spotted by media or else while he was solving the case ? Shinichi is considered dead for most people, including the Black Organisation.

His fears prove to be right as the case indeed attracts global attention, and someone claims that the apparently dead Shinichi Kudo helped to solve the case. Hyoue Kuroda, Kanenori Wakita, and Rumi Wakasa (who is revealed to have access to the APTX victim list) all take notice of this.</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* This case had to be initially set in Singapore, but that Asian country is reserved for [[The Fist of Blue Sapphire#trivia|The Fist of Blue Sapphire]].
* Along with [[Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery#Trivia|Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery]], this is the second one hour special episode, transmitted in two parts.
* The anime staff went to Kyoto to take reference material (photos, videos, etc.) for the two episodes special in the last months preceding the creation of the special.
* Shinichi and Nakamichi's room is 927, just like the episode that makes the first part of the case.
* Mai Kuraki's manager seen in the episode isn't the real manager, since the real one is a man named [[Toshinori Masuda]] and the president of Being.
* [[Gosho Aoyama]] worked as key animator for episode 928.

== Manga to anime changes ==
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
* The scene with Mai Kuraki and her manager is only seen in the anime, although the quote about the double couple was proposed by [[Gosho Aoyama]].
* The part when Ran asks Keiko Kurachi if she has won the Macademy Awards is skipped in the anime.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== See also ==
* [[Season 27]]

{{Season 27}}

[[Category:Episodes]]

The Scarlet School Trip

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{{InfoBox TV
| episode = 927-928
| image = TV Episode 927-928.jpg
| title = {{PAGENAME}}
| japanese-title = {{lang|ja|紅の修学旅行}} (Kurenai no Shūgakuryokō)
| rating = ?,??% (Bright Red Arc) ?,??% (Crimson Love Arc)
| Manga case number = #290
| airdate = January 5, 2019 (Bright Red Arc) January 12, 2019 (Red Love Arc)
| season = [[Season 27|27]]
| manga = [[Volume 94#Crimson School Trip Case|Volume 94: Files 8-11 (1000-1003)]] ~ [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|Volume 95: Files 1-2 (1004-1005)]]
| english-title =
| dubbed-episode =
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Masumi Sera]] [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Soshi Okita]] [[Muga Iori]] [[Momiji Ooka]] [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]] [[Chipmunk]] [[Nakamichi]] [[Eisuke Aizawa]] [[Tashiro]] [[Hidaka]] [[Ai Haibara]] [[Detective Boys]] [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Subaru Okiya]] [[Yaiba Kurogane]] [[Moroha Kurogane]] [[Yukiko Kudo]] [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Professor]] [[Kaitou Kid]] [[Mai Kuraki]] [[Makoto Kyogoku]] [[Ryusuke Higo]] [[Okawa]] [[Ishizaki]]
| solved-by = [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Masumi Sera]] [[Heiji Hattori]]
| next-conan-hint = Bloody ceiling (Bright Red Arc) Movie poster (Red Love Arc)
| case =
| director = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| screenplay = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| storyboard = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| producer = [[Yasuichiro Yamamoto]]
| animation-director = [[Nobuyuki Iwai]] (Supervisor) 927: [[Chiemi Hironaka]], [[Seiji Muta]], [[Ken Shintani]], [[Keiko Sasaki]], [[Kenichi Otomo]], [[Rie Nakajima]], [[Rei Masunaga]], [[Makoto Ozawa]], [[Hirona Okada]], [[Ayaka Shimoji]], [[Ayu Imoto]], [[Asuka Tsubuki]], [[Miho Tanaka]], [[Hiroyuki Notake]] and [[Kousei Takahashi]]
|character-design = [[Hiroshi Ogawa]] (Design works) 927: [[Nobuyuki Iwai]], [[Akiko Motoyoshi]], [[Akio Kawamura]] and [[Kyoko Yoshimi]]
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Yuko Miyamura]] as [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] as [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]], [[Subaru Okiya]] [[Rikiya Koyama]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Daisuke Ono]] as [[Muga Iori]] [[Satsuki Yukino]] as [[Momiji Ooka]] [[Koji Yusa]] as [[Soshi Okita]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Mai Kuraki]] as Herself [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)]] as [[Genta Kojima]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Kenichi Ogata]] as [[Hiroshi Agasa]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Mitsuaki Hoshino]] as Taro Nishiki [[Katsuyuki Konishi]] as Shinya Ihaya [[Aya Hisakawa]] as Keiko Kurachi [[Kunihiko Yasui]] as Mineto Mayama [[Shuhei Sakaguchi]] as Riki Agata [[Shinobu Satouchi]] as Bellhop [[Junichi Sugawara]] as [[Professor]] [[Kenta Matsumoto]] as [[Nakamichi]] [[Yusuke Tonosaki]] as [[Eisuke Aizawa]] [[Shinnosuke Musashi]] as [[Okawa]] [[Ikuji Nose]] as [[Ishizaki]] [[Aya Kawakami]] as Manager [[Shota Takitani]] as Detective [[Atsuko Tanaka]] as [[Mary Sera]] [[Hideyuki Tanaka]] as [[Yusaku Kudo]] [[Sumi Shimamoto]] as [[Yukiko Kudo]]
| opening-song = Barairo no Jinsei
| closing-song = Kimi to Koi no Mama de Owarenai Itsumo Yume no Mama ja Irarenai
| prev-episode = The Heartfelt Strap
| next-episode = A Woman Standing by the Window
| footnotes = 2 hours special divided into two 1 hour special episodes
}}
{{nihongo|'''''{{PAGENAME}}'''''|紅の修学旅行|Kurenai no Shūgakuryokō}} is the 927th and the 928th episodes of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' [[anime]]. They are composed of two 45 minutes special episodes and have been co-produced with [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s supervision. It introduces the first canonical performance of [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]] and his pet [[chipmunk]], and is set in Kyoto, where the animation team went to recreate the most realistically possible all the landmarks, including Kiyomizu Butai. There were also special guests from Yomiuri TV, which were introduced as voice actors, and a special planning was made by [[Michihiko Suwa]].

== Cast ==
{{char Appearances|
{{char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{char|Masumi Sera}}
{{char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{char|Fumimaro Ayanokoji}}
{{char|Chipmunk}}
{{char|Ran Mouri}}
{{char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{char|Nakamichi}}
{{char|Eisuke Aizawa}}
{{char|Tashiro}}
{{char|Hidaka}}
{{char|Okawa}}
{{char|Ishizaki}}
{{char|Soshi Okita}}
{{char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{char|Momiji Ooka}}
{{char|Muga Iori}}
{{char|Mary Sera}}
{{char|Ai Haibara|display=Ai Haibara (flashback)}}
{{char|Ayumi Yoshida|display=Ayumi Yoshida (flashback)}}
{{char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|display=Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya (flashback)}}
{{char|Genta Kojima|display=Genta Kojima (flashback)}}
{{char|Hiroshi Agasa|display=Hiroshi Agasa (flashback)}}
{{char|Subaru Okiya|display=Subaru Okiya (flashback)}}
{{char|Yukiko Kudo}}
{{char|Yusaku Kudo}}
{{char|Yaiba Kurogane|display=Yaiba Kurogane (background)}}
{{char|Moroha Kurogane|display=Moroha Kurogane (background)}}
{{char|Professor|EP304 Man|display=Professor}}
{{char|Kaitou Kid|display=Kaitou Kid (background)}}
{{char|Mai Kuraki|Mai Kuraki anime|display=Mai Kuraki}}
{{char|Makoto Kyogoku|display=Makoto Kyogoku (cellphone puppet)}}
{{char|Ryusuke Higo|display=Ryusuke Higo (doll flashback)}}
}}

== Case ==
=== Situation ===
==== Bright Red Arc ====
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP927 Case1.png
| location = GION Hotel
| victim = Taro Nishiki
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Stab wound
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Shinya Ihaya, Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata and Tengu
| description = After Nishiki meets with the others to show the riddle, he dies less than an hour later and is seen stabbed dead on the floor. Around him are scattered sheets of the screenplay, labels and a new riddle. On his forehead have been made two bumps and on the ceiling was a blood pond (in fact red paint painted beforehand except for a few droplets of real blood) and footsteps leading to the exterior of the room as if it was a tengu's doing.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted murder
| image = EP927 Case2.png
| location = GION Hotel
| victim = Riki Agata
| age = 37 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Stabbing
| cause-death-label = Attack Types
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Shinya Ihaya, Keiko Kurachi and Tengu
| description = Just and hour after Nishiki's murder, Agata is seen screaming in his room which alerts everyone. They gather at the door and get it unlocked by the bellhop before seeing inside Agata on the floor with two bumps on his head and screaming for help at a tengu on the ceiling. He then throws his ashtray at it before it explodes and vanished. The next day, Agata slowly recovered from the injury and there wasn't any new riddle.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Murder
| image = EP927 Case3.png
| location = Isogiyama restaurant front porch
| victim = Shinya Ihaya
| age = 37 years old
| time =
| cause-death = Throat slit
| suspects = Mineto Mayama, Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata and Tengu
| description = After a hord of people disguised as tengus disturb the group (Shinichi, Nakamichi, Ran, Sonoko, Momiji and Masumi), they fight them before finding out that someone on a website was paying them 100 thousand Yen. As they feared it was the culprit's actions to distract them, they head back to the restaurant and find out it was too late: Ihaya was dead, lying upside-down on the Inuyarai where there were the same footprints as in Nishiki's room.
}}

==== Crimson Love Arc ====
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Suicide
| image = EP928 Case1.png
| location = Kiyomizu Butai
| victim = Michio Dekuri
| age = 37-38 years old
| time = 3-4 days ago
| cause-death = falling
| suspects =
| description = A few days before the murder spree in Kyoto, one of the previous members of the filming team who had wrote the first version of the story (in manga) killed himself by throwing himself from the top of the Kiyomizu dera shrine after he thought he was forgotten by the others (Mayama, Agata, Nishiki and Ihaya) since they didn't put his name in the credits or so what he thought.
}}
{{InfoBox Crime
| crime = Attempted Murder
| image = EP928 Case2.png
| location = Kiyomizu Butai
| victim = Mineto Mayama
| age = 38 years old
| time =
| cause-death = falling
|cause-death-label = Cause
| suspects = Keiko Kurachi, Riki Agata, Michio Dekuri's reincarnation and Tengu
| description = On the last day of the pre-open of the movie, Mayama receives a phone call from an unknown person telling him to go to the Kiyomizu Butai. Heading there, he sees a mysterious and invisible silhouette approaching him with bloody footprints before grabbing him and throwing him over the railing saying that he is Michio Dekuri reincarnated as a tengu after falling and that he'll seek revenge. He luckily survives without any injuries since Shinichi, Heiji, Yusaku and Masumi already planned the culprit's doings and prepared a matress under the shrine. Shinichi and Heiji then confront the culprit.
}}

=== People ===
{{beginBox}}
{{people|Keiko Kurachi|Keiko Kurachi.jpg|
* 37 years old
* Actress
* Yukiko's old friend}}
{{people|Shinya Ihaya|Shinya Ihaya.jpg|
* Victim (throat slit)
* 37 years old
* Actor}}
{{people|Mineto Mayama|Mineto Mayama.jpg|
* Victim (fell-survived)
* 38 years old
* Movie director}}
{{people|Riki Agata|Riki Agata.jpg|
* Victim (attempted stabbing)
* 37 years old
* Composer}}
{{people|Taro Nishiki|Tarou Nishiki.jpg|
* Victim (stabbed)
* 38 years old
* Screenwriter
* Naomoto award winner}}
{{clear}}
{{people|Michio Dekuri|Michio Dekuri.jpg|
* Deceased (fell)
* Mangaka
* Cipher writer?}}
{{people|Woman|EP927 Announcer.jpg|
* TV announcer}}
{{people|Bellhop|EP927 Bellhop.jpg|
* Gion Hotel bellhop
* In charge of floor 10}}
{{people|Police Detective|EP927 Detective.jpg|
* Kyoto Prefectural police Assistant Inspector
* Ayanokoji's assistant}}
{{people|Manager|EP927 Manager.jpg|
* Mai Kuraki's manager}}
{{endBox}}

=== Resolution ===
<spoiler>Shinichi, Heiji and Masumi tell the killer his plan failed, and reveal him to be '''Riki Agata'''. The three teenagers say they solved the code: Dekuri's symbol was actually to be considered as a compass, and according to it, and to the code's kanji characters' position, and to the fact that these characters were extracted from some of Kyoto's streets' and districts' names corresponding to the position, the code can be understood as a succession of kanji characters who correspond to the first or second syllables of the streets' or districts' names they originate, for instance "kon" for "kontaka", etc., from left to right. The first lines of each code then read "koro sunoha", which means "I'm about to kill". Heiji says the reversed "saki" kanji means its corresponding character, "pon", is to be reversed to "npo", then "n". The first code accordingly means "I'm going to kill three people, the first one being the screenwriter". The second reads "I'm going to kill two more people, the next one being the leading role". And the third is "I'm going to kill one more person, then I'll jump off the balcony". In fact, Agata wanted to kill Mayama and pretend he was the murderer and committed suicide after he failed to kill Agata.

Agata had beforehand booked all of the hotel's smoking rooms and checked one out for Nishiki just as the latter was phoning the hotel. In this room, Agata had previously painted the ceiling red with fake blood splatters and footprints. He then stuck magnetic post-its (similar to Nishiki's ones) over the whole ceiling in order to conceal it, the post-its being of the same color as the ceiling. After killing Nishiki, Agata unstuck all post-its and threw them away on the floor, mixing them up with Nishiki's own ones. He then opened the window and sprayed some of Nishiki's blood with a syringe on the fake blood traces, to pretend he had indeed been murdered on the ceiling by a tengu. Agata, a plastic art expert, also made a fake tengu out of guncotton and used alcohol-ink marker pens to draw on it. He then pasted the very light piece of artwork on his room's ceiling, screamed, pretending to be assaulted by a monster, and threw the ashtray with his lit cigarette in it to the tengu's face to have it explode, burn and vanish into thin air, as this is how guncotton reacts to fire. He had lit his cigarette not long ago to do so, explaining the only 3-centimeter burn patterns left by his cigarette on the floor, that should have been longer if he'd been smoking for a longer period of time.

Agata had also prepared the restaurant's inuyarai by previously painting it red with the usual traces, but covering it with another inuyarai. After he killed Ihaya, he removed the cover inuyarai, threw his bloody glove, dagger and coat into it and put it over another restaurant's inuyarai. He hadn't left any fingerprints on the bloody things for the police still to believe Mayama was the murderer. Shinichi had noticed the dust gap around the first inuyarai, implying it had been covered by something that protected it from dust. Lastly, to frighten Mayama into pinning himself against the railing, Agata used a directional loudspeaker only Mayama could hear, with Dekuri's voice, and had previously painted transparent sheets with red footprints and stuck them on the balcony's floor, covering each of them with another sheet of the same color as the floor, to conceal them. He would then tie fishing lines to each of these same-color sheets and pull them away one after the other in order to fool Mayama into believing Dekuri was walking in his direction, and speaking to him. Agata left his fingerprints on the sheets as he was certain Mayama would die and everybody would rush to the railing, leaving him time and space enough to retrieve all sheets and discarding them later.

Agata tries to run away but gets surrounded by the police who were disguised as visitors. Agata finally confesses to being the serial killer, giving two bumps to his victims just like the tengu does to Kobutori Tale's evil old man who tries to imitate the good Kobutori, just like Nishiki, Ihaya and Mayama stole Dekuri's work and pretended his name would feature in the movie's credits while it was eventually not the case. Agata asked them for an explanation, saying Dekuri cried unceasingly, and the three men replied they were so happy their plan had worked perfectly, thus implying they wanted to humiliate their depressed friend and never had the intention to put his name in the movie. But Keiko and Mayama turn up and say that the producers had modified some very important typology spaces in the credits, preventing the name "Michio Dekuri" from appearing. As actually the name was supposed to appear across the five people's vertical names, which is why everyone changed names and spaces. Dekuri's name was supposed to appear at the same time, and it didn't beacuse of the producers, who didn't want to clear up the mistake afterwards for financial reasons. Agata wasn't told about it as their friends wanted Dekuri and him to discover the surprise while watching the movie together, as they were really close friends. Agata howls in regrets for what he did to his friends.

After the case is solved, Ran talks about a nice place that Okita had told her about and as Sonoko and Masumi start going ahead, Shinichi holds Ran back and asks her how she feels about him. Shinichi mentions Ran's meeting with Okita the previous and wonders if she has forgotten about his confession in London. In response, Ran pulls him closer by grabbing his tie and kisses him on the cheek.

Shinichi moves to kiss Ran on the lips, but the antidote begins to wear off, and he flees.

Masumi gives chase, only to run into Heiji. She realizes that the rucksack Heiji is wearing has the shrunken Shinichi inside it, but doesn't directly confront the two about it. Shinichi and Heiji therefore understand that Masumi knows about Shinichi being Conan.

A teacher of Teitan High School tells students Shinichi has to leave due to an emergency, and tells them not to say a word about Shinichi's coming and presence to Kyoto, as specially asked for by Shinichi himself.

Ran tells Sonoko she actually took Okita aside to give him back his talisman he had dropped during the "Kendo Case" (Vol. 94). She apologised to Okita because she and her father unwittingly opened the talisman, and found a piece of wood and a picture showing Moroha Kurogane, Okita's secret love and a skilled high school kendo practitioner as well. Okita says Moroha is actually his rival Yaiba Kurogane's little sister, and he will date Moroha as soon as he defeats Yaiba at kendo. Okita accepts Ran's excuse but just asks her not to tell a word of this to Momiji, probably because he loves her as well.

As Shinichi and Ran exchange texts about what the kiss means for their relationship, both of them being mutually satisfied with each other's declaration, Masumi speaks with Mary. Mary orders her to obtain the "medicine" that will return her to her true age, so that they can stop running, and counter-attack.

Heiji gives Conan a motorbike ride back to Tokyo, and Ran texts Shinichi to ask him if they're officially dating each other now. Conan thinks about the last antidote Haibara gave him but which he couldn't take as the timing made it impossible: the class was leaving Kyoto and Shinichi still needed to wait for another 8 hours before taking it... Heiji secretly envies Shinichi who not only "stole" his second favourite place in Japan to confess his love to Kazuha, but also as Shinichi is his rival, he now sets the bar high and Heiji has from here on to go further in his relationship with Kazuha as well.

Yukiko and Yusaku are watching the Kyoto Case on TV, in Los Angeles, and are puzzled over the case being so much broadcasted, even worldwide, and hitting the headlines. Yusaku replies it has to do with the victims' and culprit's fame. As Yukiko feels moved to hear the crime motive was Kyoko's boyfriend's death, Yusaku explains he knew about Michio Dekuri's full name as he had seen the movie's poster online and noticed the rearrangement of names and spaces, exactly the same as for the movie's credits, showing the boyfriend's name across his other friends' names, which is why Kyoko/Keiko changed her name. He then comments on the fact Dekuri would have probably not killed himself if he had seen the poster earlier. He also talks about a more burning issue: has Shinichi been spotted by media or else while he was solving the case ? Shinichi is considered dead for most people, including the Black Organisation.

His fears prove to be right as the case indeed attracts global attention, and someone claims that the apparently dead Shinichi Kudo helped to solve the case. Hyoue Kuroda, Kanenori Wakita, and Rumi Wakasa (who is revealed to have access to the APTX victim list) all take notice of this.</spoiler>

== Trivia ==
* This case had to be initially set in Singapore, but that Asian country is reserved for [[The Fist of Blue Sapphire#trivia|The Fist of Blue Sapphire]].
* Along with [[Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery#Trivia|Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery]], this is the second one hour special episode, transmitted in two parts.
* The anime staff went to Kyoto to take reference material (photos, videos, etc.) for the two episodes special in the last months preceding the creation of the special.
* Shinichi and Nakamichi's room is 927, just like the episode that makes the first part of the case.
* Mai Kuraki's manager seen in the episode isn't the real manager, since the real one is a man named [[Toshinori Masuda]] and the president of Being.
* Gosho Aoyama worked as key animator for episode 928.

== Manga to anime changes ==
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
* The scene with Mai Kuraki and her manager is only seen in the anime, although the quote about the double couple was proposed by [[Gosho Aoyama]].
* The part when Ran asks Keiko Kurachi if she has won the Macademy Awards is skipped in the anime.

== Gallery ==
{{main gallery}}

== See also ==
* [[Season 27]]

{{Season 27}}

[[Category:Episodes]]

Black Organization

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

{{InfoBox BlackOrganization
| name = Black Organization
| japanese-name = 黒の組織
| english-name = Black Organization
| image = Black Organization Profile.jpg
| boss = [[Renya Karasuma]]
| members = [[Rum]] (unknown identity) [[Gin]] [[Vermouth]] [[Vodka]] [[Chianti]] [[Korn]]
| deceased-members = [[Atsushi Miyano]] [[Elena Miyano]] [[Akemi Miyano]] [[Tequila]] [[Pisco]] [[Calvados]] [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] [[Ethan Hondou]] [[Scotch]]
| former-members = [[Sherry]] ([[Ai Haibara]]) [[Rye]] ([[Shuichi Akai]]) [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] (death sentence)
| undercover-agents = [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
| Extended-Canon-agents = [[Yoshiaki Hara]] [[Irish]] [[Masaaki Okakura]] [[Arrack]] [[Generic]] [[Blackbeard]] [[Antonio Gomez]] [[Kate Lauren]] [[Curaçao]] [[Stout]] [[Aquavit]] [[Riesling]]
| aliases = Black Organization
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File 001 - The Heisei Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Black Organization Appearances}}
| footnotes =
}}
The {{nihongo|'''Black Organization'''|黒の組織|Kuro no Soshiki}}, serves as the main antagonist in the series. It is a secret criminal syndicate with a hidden objective. To achieve that goal, the Black Organization commits various crimes to maintain its secrecy, remove obstacles, and gather funding and resources for its mysterious research projects. The members of the organization are given code names based on alcoholic beverages. Their boss is [[Renya Karasuma]] and the first members to appear were [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]], who were responsible for transforming [[Shinichi Kudo]] into a child with the enigmatic drug [[APTX 4869]].

== Members ==
=== Current ===
==== Executive Members ====
* '''[[Renya Karasuma]]''': The primary antagonist of the series. Leader of the Black Organization, he is respectfully referred to as "that person" (ano kata) by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
* '''[[Rum]]''': The second main antagonist of the series. Second in charge of the Black Organization, his physical description varies: an elderly man, a feminine man, and a strongly-built man; but all sources agree that he has an artificial eye. The three main suspects are [[Hyoue Kuroda]], [[Rumi Wakasa]], and [[Kanenori Wakita]]
* '''[[Gin]]''': Third in charge of the Black Organization, he is a high ranking executive official who seems to specialize in coordinating deals and assassinations. He is one of the most frequently recurring Black Organization characters. He is shown to be highly intelligent, lethal, and very acute. His long silver hair and sweeping trench coat give him a distinctive appearance. He forced the drug [[APTX 4869]] on Shinichi.
* '''[[Vermouth]]''' (Sharon Vineyard/Chris Vineyard): A mysterious actress from America with exceptional disguise and voice changing abilities that allow her to pose as anyone. Like Gin, she is a Black Organization executive member.<ref>Conan Drill</ref> She is hated by a number of the members of the Black Organization, but due to the fact that she is their boss' favorite, she is untouchable and they are unable to do anything to her. It is unknown where her loyalty lies, as she often protects [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] (whom she knows to be Shinichi) and calls him a "silver bullet", implying that she believes him to be capable of bringing down the Black Organization. She also does not seem to age.

==== Other members ====
* '''[[Vodka]]''': Gin's secretary<ref name=CD237>Conan Drill page 237. Vodka's position is 全体監視役秘書係 which roughly translates to General Oversight division secretary</ref> and assistant, he is another frequently recurring Black Organization character. He wears a hat and sunglasses at all times. He is less intelligent compared to his boss Gin whom he often is seen working with.
* '''[[Chianti]]''': A professional sniper who has been seen to take orders from Gin. She has a fiery and impatient personality. She loathes Vermouth.
* '''[[Korn]]''': A professional sniper who is Chianti's partner and who has been seen to take orders from Gin. His speech is characterized by short phrases with many pauses.

=== Spies for other organizations ===
* '''[[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]''': Operates under alias of Rena Mizunashi, a TV reporter. Her true name is Hidemi Hondou. Like her deceased father, she is actually a member of the [[CIA]] who infiltrated the Black Organization. Her brother, [[Eisuke Hondou]], was not aware of this since Hidemi pretended not to know him after she went undercover.
* '''[[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]''': An operative specializing in deduction and intelligence gathering skills. He was initially dispatched to look for [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]], but spent more of that time investigating Shuichi Akai whom he hates for killing his partner Scotch. He works for the Japanese Secret Police. His true name is Rei Furuya, but he goes by Tooru Amuro in public.

=== Deceased ===
* '''[[Tequila]]''': An agent with the same rank as Vodka who seemed to primarily deal with programmers. He was a giant man who spoke with an Osakan accent. He was unintentionally killed in explosion.
* '''[[Pisco]]''': An elderly executive agent who was also the chairman of a car company. He was killed by Gin after being caught on camera performing an assassination. He discovered Haibara was Sherry, but was unable to inform anyone before he was killed by Gin.
* '''[[Calvados]]''': A sniper infatuated with Vermouth who shot himself after being crippled by [[Shuichi Akai]].
* '''[[Akemi Miyano]]''': Shiho Miyano's older sister and Shuichi Akai's girlfriend. She was a low ranking member of the organization and completed a billion yen robbery as part of an agreement to release herself and her sister from the organization. The organization reneged on the deal and she was killed by Gin.
* '''[[Atsushi Miyano]]''': Haibara's father and Elena's husband. He headed the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both he and Elena died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young.
* '''[[Elena Miyano]]''': Haibara's mother and Atsushi's wife. She was of British origin and was known within the organization as "Hell's Angel". She worked the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both she and Atsushi died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young. She left some mysterious tapes for Shiho.
* '''[[Rikumichi Kusuda]]''': An agent sent to infiltrate Haido Central Hospital to discover the whereabouts of Kir. He killed himself when Akai was hot on his trail.
* '''[[Ethan Hondou]]''': A CIA agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. He committed suicide to protect his daughter [[Hidemi Hondou]] from being uncovered as a CIA agent.
* '''[[Scotch]]''': An undercover operative who committed suicide before the Black Organization manages to reveal his true identity.

=== Former ===
* '''[[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]''' ([[Ai Haibara]]/Shiho Miyano): A high ranking biochemist who worked on [[APTX 4869]]. She was scheduled to be executed when she boycotted her work because her sister Akemi was murdered. Shiho took an APTX 4869 pill she had smuggled in with her, with an intention to commit suicide, but instead shrunk to her 6-7 year old body. She then escaped. She has been living with Professor Agasa and working on an antidote to the APTX 4869, in order to restore Conan to his actual 'Shinichi body'.
* '''[[Shuichi Akai|Rye]]''': The codename of Shuichi Akai, he was an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. His allegiance was discovered and he was rejected by the organization. His prowess led the organization to view him as the FBI's trump card.
* '''[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]''': A serial killer whom was slated to be the original test subject for the APTX drug before he escaped. He is currently in custody for murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him. In the end, the court sentences him to death.

=== Unknown ===
* An '''old man''' appeared during [[Shuichi Akai]]'s final loyalty test while he was waiting for [[Gin]] to arrive. FBI agent [[Andre Camel]] emerged from his hiding place to scare him away, thinking he was just an ordinary old man. Since Gin never appeared, it was very likely the old man was a member of the Black Organization who was sent to scout ahead and reported that "Dai Moroboshi" was a spy.

=== Extended canon ===
{{see also|List of notable Non-Canon Black Organization}}
These agents are original characters not found in the main [[canon|manga canon]]. They include Black Organization agents who were introduced in the anime, movies, special manga, and other sources.

==== Movies ====
* '''[[Yoshiaki Hara]]''': an agent who is killed by Gin.
* '''[[Irish]]''': an agent who is killed by Chianti.
* '''[[Masaaki Okakura]]''': an agent who is killed by a serial killer before the Black Organization.
* '''[[Curaçao]]''': Rum's right-hand agent.
* '''[[Stout]]''': a member of the English [[Wikipedia: Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Korn.
* '''[[Aquavit]]''': a member of the Canadian [[Wikipedia: Canadian Security Intelligence Service|CSIS]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Chianti.
* '''[[Riesling]]''': a member of the German [[Wikipedia: Federal Intelligence Service (Germany)|BND]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Gin.

==== Special Manga ====
* '''[[Arrack]]''': an agent who committed suicide.
* '''[[Generic]]''': a scientist who is an old friend of Sherry and considers her as his older sister. He used the Apoptoxin medicine to shrink his own body and entered the school where Haibara is. Due to [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], that frees his own memory removal gas, he lost his memory.
* '''[[Blackbeard]]''': a virologist who committed suicide.

==== [[Shogakukan Learning Series]] ====
* '''[[Antonio Gomez]]''': a Black Organization historiographer focusing on [[Wikipedia: Oda Nobunaga|Oda Nobunaga]].

==== Playstation ====
* '''[[Kate Lauren]]''': a Black Organization woman.

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


{| width="1000" align="center" style="clear:both;"
| colspan="7" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0 3px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#222222;"|Boss
|-
| align="center"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Renya Karasuma 60px.jpg]] || [[Renya Karasuma]]
|}
|}
|-
||
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#393939;"|Second-in-command
|-
| align="center" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Rum 60px.jpg]] || [[Rum]]
|}
|}
|-

| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! colspan="2" style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#555555;"|General Oversight
|-
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]]
|}
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]]
|}
|}
|-

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 3px;"
! colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #777799;"|Internal Division || colspan="5" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #779977;"|External Division || colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #907040;"|Unknown
|-
! rowspan="2" width="16%"|Drug Development || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Software Development || rowspan="2" width="28%"|Reconnaissance || colspan="2" width="14%"|Operations || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Fundraising || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Unknown
|-
! style="color: #000000; background: #FFE0E0;"|Assassination || style="color: #000000; background: #E0E0FF;"|Robbery
|-

| style="vertical-align: top;" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] ''(escaped)''
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
|}

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

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]]
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]]
|-
| [[File:Kichiro Numabuchi 60px.jpg]] || [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] ''(arrested)''
|-
| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] ''(deceased)''
|}

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

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

=== Extended canon table ===
This table includes characters that aren't part of manga [[canon]].
<spoiler>
{| width="1000" align="center" style="clear:both;"
| colspan="7" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0 3px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#222222;"|Boss
|-
| align="center"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Renya Karasuma 60px.jpg]] || [[Renya Karasuma]]
|}
|}
|-
||
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#393939;"|Second-in-command
|-
| align="center" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Rum 60px.jpg]] || [[Rum]]
|}
|}
|-

| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! colspan="2" style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#555555;"|General Oversight
|-
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]]
|}
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]]
|}
|}
|-

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 3px;"
! colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #777799;"|Internal Division || colspan="5" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #779977;"|External Division || colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #907040;"|Unknown
|-
! rowspan="2" width="16%"|Drug Development || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Software Development || rowspan="2" width="28%"|Reconnaissance || colspan="2" width="14%"|Operations || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Fundraising || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Unknown
|-
! style="color: #000000; background: #FFE0E0;"|Assassination || style="color: #000000; background: #E0E0FF;"|Robbery
|-

| style="vertical-align: top;" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] ''(escaped)''
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Generic 60px.jpg]] || [[Generic]]* ''(former)''
|-
| [[File:Blackbeard 60px.jpg]] || [[Blackbeard]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Yoshiaki Hara 60px.jpg]] || [[Yoshiaki Hara]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]]
|-
| [[File:Hidemi Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]<ref>Kir's division in the Black Organization has not been revealed, but it is likely she is in the Reconnaissance division because: 1)Her newscaster position is the type of job a reconnaissance division person would have. 2) She met with Vermouth many times while Vermouth was disguised as Araide 3) She discovered Bourbon's mission despite being mistrusted, and not even high rankers like Gin knew about it. If Kir was part of recon, she would be more likely to know.</ref> (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Rei Furuya 60px.jpg]] || [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
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| [[File:Rikumichi Kusuda 60px.jpg]] || [[Rikumichi Kusuda|Rikumichi Kusuda]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Irish 60px.jpg]] || [[Irish]]* ''(deceased)'' (Incertae sedis)
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| [[File:Masaaki Okakura 60px.jpg]] || [[Masaaki Okakura]]* ''(deceased)'' (Incertae sedis)
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| [[File:M20 odd eyes woman 60px.jpg]] || [[Curaçao]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]]
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| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]]
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| [[File:Kichiro Numabuchi 60px.jpg]] || [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] ''(arrested)''
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| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Arrack 60px.jpg]] || [[Arrack]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Kate Lauren 60px.jpg]] || [[Kate Lauren]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Akemi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Akemi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai|Rye]] ''(former)''
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| [[File:Ethan Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Ethan Hondou]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Scotch 60px.jpg]] || [[Scotch]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Old man 60px.jpg|60px]] || Old man
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| [[File:Antonio Gomez 60px.jpg]] || [[Antonio Gomez]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Stout 60px.jpg]] || [[Stout]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Riesling 60px.jpg]] || [[Aquavit]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Aquavit 60px.jpg]] || [[Riesling]]* ''(deceased)''
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'''*''' ''These characters are not considered to be [[canon]].'' 
</spoiler>

== Rank ==

Agents who excel at their work and make their way up the ranks are given alcohol codenames by the boss. Even within codenamed agents there are further rank divisions.<ref>Official material accompanying the manga has given contrary information about the existence of ranks within the codenamed members. Some guidebooks (Conan Drill, Chapter 500 special) describe clear rank divisions. Yet, in the 865 Shounen Sunday Special Booklet, on pg9 under Korn, Gosho was listed as saying, "Fundamentally all members of the organization with code names are supposed to be at the same level, so Korn's supposed to be at the same rank as Gin. It just happened this time that when they chanced to form a team Gin came out as the most leader-like of all them." Evidence from the manga itself suggests that certain members have privileges and freedom that others are not allowed to have.</ref> One advantage that comes with being higher ranked is access to more informational files; lower rank agents have to request to see certain materials from higher ranking agents.<ref name=824p16>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 16: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> Agents from outside manga canon are italicized.

=== Executive agents ===
The "Executive"<ref>Manga [[Volume 58]], File 2 (599), pg 9: "Akai's past". "Executive" is a term used by the FBI to describe the agents who are high ranking like Gin and is not necessarily the term the Organization itself uses to refer to that top level.</ref> agents are the highest ranked codenamed agents within the Black Organization under the boss. They can command many other codenamed agents and have access to more information than lower ranked agents. Even among them, killing another executive agent without express orders from the boss would result in a loss of standing.<ref>As Pisco explains to Gin in [[Volume 24]], file 11, page 14</ref>
* [[Rum]]: Second-in-command<ref>File 906 pg 3</ref>
* [[Gin]]: Third-in-command
* [[Vermouth]]: Also the boss' favorite
* [[Pisco]]<ref name=CD239>[[:File:ConanDrill239.jpg|Conan Drill page 239]]</ref>

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

'''Work(ed) under Rum'''
* [[Curaçao]] (movie only): She is his/her right-hand agent.

'''Work(ed) under Gin'''
* [[Vodka]]: Tequila and Vodka are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
* [[Tequila]]: Vodka and Tequila are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
* [[Chianti]]
* [[Korn]]
* [[Shuichi Akai|Rye]]: With his promotion to codenamed agent, Rye was supposed to work for Gin, but he was revealed to be FBI and expelled from the Organization before he assumed that role.

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

'''General'''
* [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]: Known to be highly ranked but it has not been stated if she was an executive agent.
* [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]
* [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
* [[Scotch]]
* [[Irish]] (movie only)

=== Non codenamed agents ===
* [[Akemi Miyano]]
* [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]
* [[Ethan Hondou]]
* [[Rikumichi Kusuda]]
* [[Yoshiaki Hara]]
* [[Masaaki Okakura]]
* [[Antonio Gomez]]

=== Unknown if codenamed ===
* [[Atsushi Miyano]]
* [[Elena Miyano]]
* Old man who scouted Shuichi Akai's loyalty test

== Modus operandi ==

The Black Organization commits crimes such as illegal deals<ref>Manga [[Volume 4]], Files 4-6: Shinkansen Bomb Case</ref>, blackmail<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1: "The Heisei Holmes"</ref>, robberies<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], Files 4-7: "Masami Hirota Case"</ref>, and contract assassinations<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 5</ref> to raise money for research.<ref>The Miyano parents went to work for the Black Organization because they [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|received funding after being unable to find a sponsor]] that would pay for them to research their theories. Tequila bribed Hideaki Nakajima with a large amount of money for the world's best programmers. [[Suguru Itakura]] was offered a large sum of money to complete his program</ref> The organization operates like a hybrid of a business and a mafia group. The Black Organization recruits outside talent and cultivates clients and sponsors by sending high ranking members like Gin to business meetings, but they also use mafia-like tactics to intimidate desirable civilians into making deals with them.<ref>e.g. Suguru Itakura</ref> Besides their financially motivated crimes, the organization engages in other stereotypical criminal activities like bribery, spying, and eliminating threats or former partners who are deemed useless or a risk.

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

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

=== Criminal techniques ===
The Black Organization conducts its crimes in ways that are difficult to trace back to them. Handguns and sniping<ref>Akemi Miyano, Suguru Itakura, Yasuteru Domon, Mouri Kogoro, Scar Akai</ref>, fire and bombs<ref>Unnamed woman from the Shinkansen Bomb Case, the Bell Tree Express, Kir in Hyde Central Hospital</ref>, and poisons<ref>Shinichi Kudo, the giant of the Akemi's gang, various APTX 4869 victims, Shigehiko Nomiguchi, maybe the Jazz club man.</ref> seem to be their preferred techniques. Sometimes the organization attempts to disguise their murders as accidents or suicides.<ref>Shigehiko Nomiguchi</ref> To this end, [[APTX 4869]] was deployed as a poison because it is forensically difficult to detect.<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), "The Heisei Holmes"</ref> If they are unable to disguise a murder as something else, they will usually attempt to destroy any evidence using fire or explosives to make it difficult to investigate.<ref>Starling family murders, Shuichi Akai's "murder"</ref> Sometimes they will time their crimes so the blame will fall on another party instead, confusing the investigation.<ref>Yasuteru Domon</ref> If a meeting place or asset of theirs is compromised, the Black Organization typically thoroughly destroys it before it can be investigated properly.<ref>Daiko Building ("Cocktail" Bar), Shiho's Pharmaceutical Company</ref>

Their supplies of explosives and firearms are very extensive.

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

=== Personnel ===
The Organization is large enough to quickly dispatch field investigative teams of at least a dozen members<ref>[[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]] where the Kudo house is investigated, Vodka surrounding Itakura's meeting point, The team watching Gin and Kir's meetup location is FBI vs Org.</ref>. The members of the Organization are also demographically varied, including foreigners and natives, men and women, teenagers<ref>Sherry</ref> and elderly<ref>Pisco at 71, old man from [[Clash of Red and Black|episode 502]]</ref>.

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

=== Investigative ability ===
The Black Organization has a remarkable amount of resources for a criminal group, more than any other opponent of Conan's shown so far. Their financial resources, technology, and manpower seems to be on par with or even superior to the that of the [[FBI]] investigation team sent to Japan to investigate them, but less than the Japanese police. The Black Organization has enough manpower at their disposal to thoroughly monitor and investigate even minor threats or to observe all the avenues of entry to a crowded meeting place in the middle of a city. However, the organization is nowhere close to omniscient; Shinichi, who is supposed to be dead, was able to participate in several public cases that were successfully hushed up by the police, and leave the country with his passport without detection.

=== Gadgets ===
:''[[Minor gadgets#Black Organization|Main article: Black Organization's Gadgets]]''
The Black Organization is technologically sophisticated and their equipment rivals even that of the infiltrating FBI. In the manga they have access to a wide variety of firearms and ammunition, [[vehicles]], theatrical supplies, and large amounts of various explosives. Bourbon and Vermouth even planned to use a helicopter as part of one of their plans. The Black Organization's arsenal also includes various specialized gadgets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Speculation about the Black Organization's goal ===
==== Immortality/Anti-Aging ====
[[File:EP223-guestbook.jpg|thumb|right|Shiho Miyano's name is in a guestbook logging past contestants for the immortality arrows.]]
One possibility is that the Black Organization's research, especially [[APTX 4869]] development, is trying to create a therapy which will cause immortality, stall or reverse the effects of aging, or extend a human's lifespan. Gosho has said that immortality is not the ultimate goal of the Black Organization<ref name="April2014Interview">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 
Source: http://ddnavi.com/news/191132/ 
黒ずくめの組織の目的とはナニ？　APTX4869の作用から考えると、不老不死が怪しいのでは……。 
Please! Please, let me ask 2 more questions! What is the BO’s goal? Going by the APTX4869, I would think immortality… 
【青山】「違います。確かにそう思っちゃうよね。今ね、組織の中では大変なことが起こっていますよ」 
That’s wrong. It’s true that you’d think that, isn’t it? You see, right now, something really big is happening within the organization.</ref>; however, achieving immortality or anti-aging might be an important step to reach the true end.

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

The de-aging effect that occurred when Shinichi and Haibara took APTX 4869 probably indicates the main intent of the drug's development. After [[Pisco]] saw Haibara shrink back to her child form, he commented that he was impressed she had developed the drug to that point, implying that de-aging is in the right direction.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, pg 9</ref> Supporting this is Haibara’s line, "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."<ref>Manga [[Volume 19#File 189 - The Endangered Ball|Volume 19, File 9 (189), Page 6: The Endangered Ball]]; [[The Stadium Indiscriminate Threatening Case|Episodes 130-131: The Stadium Indiscriminate Threatening Case]]</ref> APTX 4869 is the only known intersection between Shinichi and the Black Organization; meaning that Shinichi's de-aging made him relevant to the Black Organization's project.

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

Besides APTX 4869, [[Vermouth#Non-aging|Vermouth's unnatural youth]] is another indicator that the Black Organization may be involved in research towards extending lifespan, halting aging, or rejuvenating the body. In addition, Shiho Miyano’s name was on the raffle list for the immortality arrows in the mermaid case in Fukui.<ref>Chapters 279-283</ref>

==== Raising the dead ====
There is a possibility that the Black Organization may be trying to develop a method to revive the dead. Suguru Itakura's diary contained a quote by one of the Black Organization's agents, most likely Vermouth: "We can be both God and Devil since we are trying to raise the dead against the stream of time" <ref name=380p13/> The original purpose of APTX 4869 might be to raise the dead. [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] and Conan later wondered if the line meant that the Black Organization was trying to create zombies.<ref name=380p16>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 16: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref> Once when Conan asked Haibara directly what APTX 4869 was meant to do she replied, "It's a nostrum to raise the dead. I wonder if that answer is satisfactory?"<ref name=384p8>Manga Volume 32, File 8, page 8: "The Old Picture"</ref> It may be her comment was a bluff intended to provoke Conan into revealing what he had been up to rather than a serious statement of the purpose of the drug.


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

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

== Manga to anime differences ==
[[File:EP5 Fake Men in Black.jpg|thumb|Gin (right) and Vodka's (left) anime doubles Ueda and Shimoda.]]
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
The first season of Detective Conan rarely featured the Black Organization because the anime writers wanted to downplay their presence.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/case-closed/mystery-mastermind/episode/336019/trivia.html#notes Episode trivia on TV.com]</ref> Two of the episodes at least, were altered heavily in light of this:

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

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

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

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

== Trivia ==
[[File:Demon.jpg|thumb|right|Conan vs. the demon.]]
* While Conan chases down leads on their organization, he's constantly confronted by difficult cases. In the [[The Last Wizard of the Century]] introduction sequence, one night running on ancient Greek ruins, he is suddenly stuck behind by a huge red demon with evil aura, of course the Black Organization, who moves among numerous yellow pieces, that represent all minor cases.
* As other unrelated case, this crime organization enshrouded in mystery is sometimes introduced with crows, the creepy bird which is also depicted on their boss' crest.
* In the English dub, "Case Closed", [[Gin]] is renamed "Melkior" and [[Vodka]] is renamed "Kaspar". In the English manga, these are explained as specific brands of the relevant drinks.
* [[Vermouth]] is the only living member of the organization who knows that [[List of characters who know Ai Haibara's identity|Ai Haibara is Shiho Miyano]] and [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|Conan Edogawa is Shinichi Kudo]]. Pisco discovered Haibara's identity and would've revealed it to [[Gin]] if he hadn't been murdered by him first. Conan told [[Akemi Miyano]] his real name as she died.
* The Black Organization members often call someone who poses an existential threat to the group a "[[Silver Bullet]]". Vermouth believes that Shinichi is the true Silver Bullet; however, everyone else thinks [[Shuichi Akai]] was their greatest threat.
* So far, the youngest member still in the Black Organization is [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] at age 27. [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] was 18 when she defected, and her sister, Akemi Miyano, was in her mid twenties when she was killed by Gin.
* Episodes 462-465 is the first 4-part Black Organization episode that was not aired as a special in Japan.
* Episodes 491-504 is the longest Black Organization arc to air, consisting of more than ten parts.
* Conan has personally interacted with almost every codenamed member: [[Gin]] in the episode 1, manga chapter 33 on the bullet train, and episode 178 when Conan shoots him with his needle while hiding, [[Vodka]] in manga chapter 33 on the bullet train and during the course of episodes 309-311, [[Vermouth]] in episode 345 and while she was disguised as Araide, [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] in episode 425, [[Akemi Miyano]] in manga chapters 13-16/episode 128, [[Pisco]] in episode 178, [[Tequila]] in episode 54, [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] in episode 118 and briefly in 290, and [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] in episodes 496-497.
* All members' anime version cars have Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate, then it is located somewhere here.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

== In other languages ==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|黒の組織 Kuro no soshiki}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|المنظّمة السوداء Al-Munaẓẓama As-Sawdā’}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Organisasi Hitam}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|L'Organització dels Homes de Negre}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|黑衣组织 Hēi'yī Zǔzhī}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Musta Organisaatio}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|L’Organisation des Hommes en Noir}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Schwarze Organisation}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|L'Organizzazione degli Uomini in Nero}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Kongsi Gelap (Dark Syndicate)/Organisasi Hitam}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|องค์กรชุดดำ Xngkh̒kr chud dả}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Tổ Chức Áo Đen}}
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== References ==
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{{InfoBox BlackOrganization
| name = Black Organization
| japanese-name = 黒の組織
| english-name = Black Organization
| image = Black Organization Profile.jpg
| boss = [[Renya Karasuma]]
| members = [[Rum]] (unknown identity) [[Gin]] [[Vermouth]] [[Vodka]] [[Chianti]] [[Korn]]
| deceased-members = [[Atsushi Miyano]] [[Elena Miyano]] [[Akemi Miyano]] [[Tequila]] [[Pisco]] [[Calvados]] [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] [[Ethan Hondou]] [[Scotch]]
| former-members = [[Sherry]] ([[Ai Haibara]]) [[Rye]] ([[Shuichi Akai]]) [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] (death sentence)
| undercover-agents = [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
| Extended-Canon-agents = [[Yoshiaki Hara]] [[Irish]] [[Masaaki Okakura]] [[Arrack]] [[Generic]] [[Blackbeard]] [[Antonio Gomez]] [[Kate Lauren]] [[Curaçao]] [[Stout]] [[Aquavit]] [[Riesling]]
| aliases = Black Organization
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File 001 - The Heisei Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Black Organization Appearances}}
| footnotes =
}}
The {{nihongo|'''Black Organization'''|黒の組織|Kuro no Soshiki}}, serves as the main antagonist in the series. It is a secret criminal syndicate with a hidden objective. To achieve that goal, the Black Organization commits various crimes to maintain its secrecy, remove obstacles, and gather funding and resources for its mysterious research projects. The members of the organization are given code names based on alcoholic beverages. Their boss is [[Renya Karasuma]] and the first members to appear were [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]], who were responsible for transforming [[Shinichi Kudo]] into a child with the enigmatic drug [[APTX 4869]].

== Members ==
=== Current ===
==== Executive Members ====
* '''[[Renya Karasuma]]''': The primary antagonist of the series. Leader of the Black Organization, he is respectfully referred to as "that person" (ano kata) by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
* '''[[Rum]]''': The second main antagonist of the series. Second in charge of the Black Organization, his physical description varies: an elderly man, a feminine man, and a strongly-built man; but all sources agree that he has an artificial eye. The three main suspects are [[Hyoue Kuroda]], [[Rumi Wakasa]], and [[Kanenori Wakita]]
* '''[[Gin]]''': Third in charge of the Black Organization, he is a high ranking executive official who seems to specialize in coordinating deals and assassinations. He is one of the most frequently recurring Black Organization characters. He is shown to be highly intelligent, lethal, and very acute. His long silver hair and sweeping trench coat give him a distinctive appearance. He forced the drug [[APTX 4869]] on Shinichi.
* '''[[Vermouth]]''' (Sharon Vineyard/Chris Vineyard): A mysterious actress from America with exceptional disguise and voice changing abilities that allow her to pose as anyone. Like Gin, she is a Black Organization executive member.<ref>Conan Drill</ref> She is hated by a number of the members of the Black Organization, but due to the fact that she is their boss' favorite, she is untouchable and they are unable to do anything to her. It is unknown where her loyalty lies, as she often protects [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] (whom she knows to be Shinichi) and calls him a "silver bullet", implying that she believes him to be capable of bringing down the Black Organization. She also does not seem to age.

==== Other members ====
* '''[[Vodka]]''': Gin's secretary<ref name=CD237>Conan Drill page 237. Vodka's position is 全体監視役秘書係 which roughly translates to General Oversight division secretary</ref> and assistant, he is another frequently recurring Black Organization character. He wears a hat and sunglasses at all times. He is less intelligent compared to his boss Gin whom he often is seen working with.
* '''[[Chianti]]''': A professional sniper who has been seen to take orders from Gin. She has a fiery and impatient personality. She loathes Vermouth.
* '''[[Korn]]''': A professional sniper who is Chianti's partner and who has been seen to take orders from Gin. His speech is characterized by short phrases with many pauses.

=== Spies for other organizations ===
* '''[[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]''': Operates under alias of Rena Mizunashi, a TV reporter. Her true name is Hidemi Hondou. Like her deceased father, she is actually a member of the [[CIA]] who infiltrated the Black Organization. Her brother, [[Eisuke Hondou]], was not aware of this since Hidemi pretended not to know him after she went undercover.
* '''[[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]''': An operative specializing in deduction and intelligence gathering skills. He was initially dispatched to look for [[Ai Haibara|Sherry]], but spent more of that time investigating Shuichi Akai whom he hates for killing his partner Scotch. He works for the Japanese Secret Police. His true name is Rei Furuya, but he goes by Tooru Amuro in public.

=== Deceased ===
* '''[[Tequila]]''': An agent with the same rank as Vodka who seemed to primarily deal with programmers. He was a giant man who spoke with an Osakan accent. He was unintentionally killed in explosion.
* '''[[Pisco]]''': An elderly executive agent who was also the chairman of a car company. He was killed by Gin after being caught on camera performing an assassination. He discovered Haibara was Sherry, but was unable to inform anyone before he was killed by Gin.
* '''[[Calvados]]''': A sniper infatuated with Vermouth who shot himself after being crippled by [[Shuichi Akai]].
* '''[[Akemi Miyano]]''': Shiho Miyano's older sister and Shuichi Akai's girlfriend. She was a low ranking member of the organization and completed a billion yen robbery as part of an agreement to release herself and her sister from the organization. The organization reneged on the deal and she was killed by Gin.
* '''[[Atsushi Miyano]]''': Haibara's father and Elena's husband. He headed the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both he and Elena died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young.
* '''[[Elena Miyano]]''': Haibara's mother and Atsushi's wife. She was of British origin and was known within the organization as "Hell's Angel". She worked the APTX 4869 project before Shiho Miyano took over. Both she and Atsushi died for some reason which Pisco called an accident while Shiho was young. She left some mysterious tapes for Shiho.
* '''[[Rikumichi Kusuda]]''': An agent sent to infiltrate Haido Central Hospital to discover the whereabouts of Kir. He killed himself when Akai was hot on his trail.
* '''[[Ethan Hondou]]''': A CIA agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. He committed suicide to protect his daughter [[Hidemi Hondou]] from being uncovered as a CIA agent.
* '''[[Scotch]]''': An undercover operative who committed suicide before the Black Organization manages to reveal his true identity.

=== Former ===
* '''[[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]''' ([[Ai Haibara]]/Shiho Miyano): A high ranking biochemist who worked on [[APTX 4869]]. She was scheduled to be executed when she boycotted her work because her sister Akemi was murdered. Shiho took an APTX 4869 pill she had smuggled in with her, with an intention to commit suicide, but instead shrunk to her 6-7 year old body. She then escaped. She has been living with Professor Agasa and working on an antidote to the APTX 4869, in order to restore Conan to his actual 'Shinichi body'.
* '''[[Shuichi Akai|Rye]]''': The codename of Shuichi Akai, he was an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Black Organization. His allegiance was discovered and he was rejected by the organization. His prowess led the organization to view him as the FBI's trump card.
* '''[[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]''': A serial killer whom was slated to be the original test subject for the APTX drug before he escaped. He is currently in custody for murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him. In the end, the court sentences him to death.

=== Unknown ===
* An '''old man''' appeared during [[Shuichi Akai]]'s final loyalty test while he was waiting for [[Gin]] to arrive. FBI agent [[Andre Camel]] emerged from his hiding place to scare him away, thinking he was just an ordinary old man. Since Gin never appeared, it was very likely the old man was a member of the Black Organization who was sent to scout ahead and reported that "Dai Moroboshi" was a spy.

=== Extended canon ===
{{see also|List of notable Non-Canon Black Organization}}
These agents are original characters not found in the main [[canon|manga canon]]. They include Black Organization agents who were introduced in the anime, movies, special manga, and other sources.

==== Movies ====
* '''[[Yoshiaki Hara]]''': an agent who is killed by Gin.
* '''[[Irish]]''': an agent who is killed by Chianti.
* '''[[Masaaki Okakura]]''': an agent who is killed by a serial killer before the Black Organization.
* '''[[Curaçao]]''': Rum's right-hand agent.
* '''[[Stout]]''': a member of the English [[Wikipedia: Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Korn.
* '''[[Aquavit]]''': a member of the Canadian [[Wikipedia: Canadian Security Intelligence Service|CSIS]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Chianti.
* '''[[Riesling]]''': a member of the German [[Wikipedia: Federal Intelligence Service (Germany)|BND]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Gin.

==== Special Manga ====
* '''[[Arrack]]''': an agent who committed suicide.
* '''[[Generic]]''': a scientist who is an old friend of Sherry and considers her as his older sister. He used the Apoptoxin medicine to shrink his own body and entered the school where Haibara is. Due to [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], that frees his own memory removal gas, he lost his memory.
* '''[[Blackbeard]]''': a virologist who committed suicide.

==== [[Shogakukan Learning Series]] ====
* '''[[Antonio Gomez]]''': a Black Organization historiographer focusing on [[Wikipedia: Oda Nobunaga|Oda Nobunaga]].

==== Playstation ====
* '''[[Kate Lauren]]''': a Black Organization woman.

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


{| width="1000" align="center" style="clear:both;"
| colspan="7" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0 3px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#222222;"|Boss
|-
| align="center"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Renya Karasuma 60px.jpg]] || [[Renya Karasuma]]
|}
|}
|-
||
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#393939;"|Second-in-command
|-
| align="center" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Rum 60px.jpg]] || [[Rum]]
|}
|}
|-

| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! colspan="2" style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#555555;"|General Oversight
|-
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]]
|}
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]]
|}
|}
|-

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 3px;"
! colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #777799;"|Internal Division || colspan="5" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #779977;"|External Division || colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #907040;"|Unknown
|-
! rowspan="2" width="16%"|Drug Development || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Software Development || rowspan="2" width="28%"|Reconnaissance || colspan="2" width="14%"|Operations || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Fundraising || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Unknown
|-
! style="color: #000000; background: #FFE0E0;"|Assassination || style="color: #000000; background: #E0E0FF;"|Robbery
|-

| style="vertical-align: top;" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] ''(escaped)''
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
|}

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

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]]
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]]
|-
| [[File:Kichiro Numabuchi 60px.jpg]] || [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] ''(arrested)''
|-
| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] ''(deceased)''
|}

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

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

=== Extended canon table ===
This table includes characters that aren't part of manga [[canon]].
<spoiler>
{| width="1000" align="center" style="clear:both;"
| colspan="7" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0 3px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#222222;"|Boss
|-
| align="center"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Renya Karasuma 60px.jpg]] || [[Renya Karasuma]]
|}
|}
|-
||
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#393939;"|Second-in-command
|-
| align="center" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Rum 60px.jpg]] || [[Rum]]
|}
|}
|-

| colspan="2" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="margin: 3px 0; border: 0px;"
! colspan="2" style="color: #FFFFFF; background:#555555;"|General Oversight
|-
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Gin 60px.jpg]] || [[Gin]]
|}
| align="center" width="50%" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vodka 60px.jpg]] || [[Vodka]]
|}
|}
|-

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable" width="1000" style="border: 0px; margin-top: 3px;"
! colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #777799;"|Internal Division || colspan="5" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #779977;"|External Division || colspan="1" style="color: #FFFFFF; background: #907040;"|Unknown
|-
! rowspan="2" width="16%"|Drug Development || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Software Development || rowspan="2" width="28%"|Reconnaissance || colspan="2" width="14%"|Operations || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Fundraising || rowspan="2" width="14%"|Unknown
|-
! style="color: #000000; background: #FFE0E0;"|Assassination || style="color: #000000; background: #E0E0FF;"|Robbery
|-

| style="vertical-align: top;" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shiho Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] ''(escaped)''
|-
| [[File:Atsushi Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Atsushi Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Elena Miyano 60px.jpg]] || [[Elena Miyano]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Generic 60px.jpg]] || [[Generic]]* ''(former)''
|-
| [[File:Blackbeard 60px.jpg]] || [[Blackbeard]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Yoshiaki Hara 60px.jpg]] || [[Yoshiaki Hara]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Vermouth 60px.jpg]] || [[Vermouth]]
|-
| [[File:Hidemi Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]<ref>Kir's division in the Black Organization has not been revealed, but it is likely she is in the Reconnaissance division because: 1)Her newscaster position is the type of job a reconnaissance division person would have. 2) She met with Vermouth many times while Vermouth was disguised as Araide 3) She discovered Bourbon's mission despite being mistrusted, and not even high rankers like Gin knew about it. If Kir was part of recon, she would be more likely to know.</ref> (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Rei Furuya 60px.jpg]] || [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
|-
| [[File:Rikumichi Kusuda 60px.jpg]] || [[Rikumichi Kusuda|Rikumichi Kusuda]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Irish 60px.jpg]] || [[Irish]]* ''(deceased)'' (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Masaaki Okakura 60px.jpg]] || [[Masaaki Okakura]]* ''(deceased)'' (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:M20 odd eyes woman 60px.jpg]] || [[Curaçao]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

| style="vertical-align: top" |
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Chianti 60px.jpg]] || [[Chianti]]
|-
| [[File:Korn 60px.jpg]] || [[Korn]]
|-
| [[File:Kichiro Numabuchi 60px.jpg]] || [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] ''(arrested)''
|-
| [[File:Calvados 60px.jpg]] || [[Calvados]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Arrack 60px.jpg]] || [[Arrack]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Kate Lauren 60px.jpg]] || [[Kate Lauren]]* ''(deceased)''
|}

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

| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Pisco 60px.jpg]] || [[Pisco]] ''(deceased)''
|}
| style="vertical-align: top"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai|Rye]] ''(former)''
|-
| [[File:Ethan Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Ethan Hondou]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Scotch 60px.jpg]] || [[Scotch]] ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Old man 60px.jpg|60px]] || Old man
|-
| [[File:Antonio Gomez 60px.jpg]] || [[Antonio Gomez]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Stout 60px.jpg]] || [[Stout]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Riesling 60px.jpg]] || [[Aquavit]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:Aquavit 60px.jpg]] || [[Riesling]]* ''(deceased)''
|}
|}
|}

'''*''' ''These characters are not considered to be [[canon]].'' 
</spoiler>

== Rank ==

Agents who excel at their work and make their way up the ranks are given alcohol codenames by the boss. Even within codenamed agents there are further rank divisions.<ref>Official material accompanying the manga has given contrary information about the existence of ranks within the codenamed members. Some guidebooks (Conan Drill, Chapter 500 special) describe clear rank divisions. Yet, in the 865 Shounen Sunday Special Booklet, on pg9 under Korn, Gosho was listed as saying, "Fundamentally all members of the organization with code names are supposed to be at the same level, so Korn's supposed to be at the same rank as Gin. It just happened this time that when they chanced to form a team Gin came out as the most leader-like of all them." Evidence from the manga itself suggests that certain members have privileges and freedom that others are not allowed to have.</ref> One advantage that comes with being higher ranked is access to more informational files; lower rank agents have to request to see certain materials from higher ranking agents.<ref name=824p16>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 16: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> Agents from outside manga canon are italicized.

=== Executive agents ===
The "Executive"<ref>Manga [[Volume 58]], File 2 (599), pg 9: "Akai's past". "Executive" is a term used by the FBI to describe the agents who are high ranking like Gin and is not necessarily the term the Organization itself uses to refer to that top level.</ref> agents are the highest ranked codenamed agents within the Black Organization under the boss. They can command many other codenamed agents and have access to more information than lower ranked agents. Even among them, killing another executive agent without express orders from the boss would result in a loss of standing.<ref>As Pisco explains to Gin in [[Volume 24]], file 11, page 14</ref>
* [[Rum]]: Second-in-command<ref>File 906 pg 3</ref>
* [[Gin]]: Third-in-command
* [[Vermouth]]: Also the boss' favorite
* [[Pisco]]<ref name=CD239>[[:File:ConanDrill239.jpg|Conan Drill page 239]]</ref>

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

'''Work(ed) under Rum'''
* [[Curaçao]] (movie only): She is his/her right-hand agent.

'''Work(ed) under Gin'''
* [[Vodka]]: Tequila and Vodka are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
* [[Tequila]]: Vodka and Tequila are approximately the same rank<ref name=CD239>Conan Drill page 239</ref>
* [[Chianti]]
* [[Korn]]
* [[Shuichi Akai|Rye]]: With his promotion to codenamed agent, Rye was supposed to work for Gin, but he was revealed to be FBI and expelled from the Organization before he assumed that role.

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

'''General'''
* [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]]: Known to be highly ranked but it has not been stated if she was an executive agent.
* [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]]
* [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]
* [[Scotch]]
* [[Irish]] (movie only)

=== Non codenamed agents ===
* [[Akemi Miyano]]
* [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]
* [[Ethan Hondou]]
* [[Rikumichi Kusuda]]
* [[Yoshiaki Hara]]
* [[Masaaki Okakura]]
* [[Antonio Gomez]]

=== Unknown if codenamed ===
* [[Atsushi Miyano]]
* [[Elena Miyano]]
* Old man who scouted Shuichi Akai's loyalty test

== Modus operandi ==

The Black Organization commits crimes such as illegal deals<ref>Manga [[Volume 4]], Files 4-6: Shinkansen Bomb Case</ref>, blackmail<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1: "The Heisei Holmes"</ref>, robberies<ref>Manga [[Volume 2]], Files 4-7: "Masami Hirota Case"</ref>, and contract assassinations<ref>Manga [[Volume 37]], File 5</ref> to raise money for research.<ref>The Miyano parents went to work for the Black Organization because they [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|received funding after being unable to find a sponsor]] that would pay for them to research their theories. Tequila bribed Hideaki Nakajima with a large amount of money for the world's best programmers. [[Suguru Itakura]] was offered a large sum of money to complete his program</ref> The organization operates like a hybrid of a business and a mafia group. The Black Organization recruits outside talent and cultivates clients and sponsors by sending high ranking members like Gin to business meetings, but they also use mafia-like tactics to intimidate desirable civilians into making deals with them.<ref>e.g. Suguru Itakura</ref> Besides their financially motivated crimes, the organization engages in other stereotypical criminal activities like bribery, spying, and eliminating threats or former partners who are deemed useless or a risk.

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

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

=== Criminal techniques ===
The Black Organization conducts its crimes in ways that are difficult to trace back to them. Handguns and sniping<ref>Akemi Miyano, Suguru Itakura, Yasuteru Domon, Mouri Kogoro, Scar Akai</ref>, fire and bombs<ref>Unnamed woman from the Shinkansen Bomb Case, the Bell Tree Express, Kir in Hyde Central Hospital</ref>, and poisons<ref>Shinichi Kudo, the giant of the Akemi's gang, various APTX 4869 victims, Shigehiko Nomiguchi, maybe the Jazz club man.</ref> seem to be their preferred techniques. Sometimes the organization attempts to disguise their murders as accidents or suicides.<ref>Shigehiko Nomiguchi</ref> To this end, [[APTX 4869]] was deployed as a poison because it is forensically difficult to detect.<ref>Manga [[Volume 1]], File 1 (001), "The Heisei Holmes"</ref> If they are unable to disguise a murder as something else, they will usually attempt to destroy any evidence using fire or explosives to make it difficult to investigate.<ref>Starling family murders, Shuichi Akai's "murder"</ref> Sometimes they will time their crimes so the blame will fall on another party instead, confusing the investigation.<ref>Yasuteru Domon</ref> If a meeting place or asset of theirs is compromised, the Black Organization typically thoroughly destroys it before it can be investigated properly.<ref>Daiko Building ("Cocktail" Bar), Shiho's Pharmaceutical Company</ref>

Their supplies of explosives and firearms are very extensive.

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

=== Personnel ===
The Organization is large enough to quickly dispatch field investigative teams of at least a dozen members<ref>[[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]] where the Kudo house is investigated, Vodka surrounding Itakura's meeting point, The team watching Gin and Kir's meetup location is FBI vs Org.</ref>. The members of the Organization are also demographically varied, including foreigners and natives, men and women, teenagers<ref>Sherry</ref> and elderly<ref>Pisco at 71, old man from [[Clash of Red and Black|episode 502]]</ref>.

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

=== Investigative ability ===
The Black Organization has a remarkable amount of resources for a criminal group, more than any other opponent of Conan's shown so far. Their financial resources, technology, and manpower seems to be on par with or even superior to the that of the [[FBI]] investigation team sent to Japan to investigate them, but less than the Japanese police. The Black Organization has enough manpower at their disposal to thoroughly monitor and investigate even minor threats or to observe all the avenues of entry to a crowded meeting place in the middle of a city. However, the organization is nowhere close to omniscient; Shinichi, who is supposed to be dead, was able to participate in several public cases that were successfully hushed up by the police, and leave the country with his passport without detection.

=== Gadgets ===
:''[[Minor gadgets#Black Organization|Main article: Black Organization's Gadgets]]''
The Black Organization is technologically sophisticated and their equipment rivals even that of the infiltrating FBI. In the manga they have access to a wide variety of firearms and ammunition, [[vehicles]], theatrical supplies, and large amounts of various explosives. Bourbon and Vermouth even planned to use a helicopter as part of one of their plans. The Black Organization's arsenal also includes various specialized gadgets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Speculation about the Black Organization's goal ===
==== Immortality/Anti-Aging ====
[[File:EP223-guestbook.jpg|thumb|right|Shiho Miyano's name is in a guestbook logging past contestants for the immortality arrows.]]
One possibility is that the Black Organization's research, especially [[APTX 4869]] development, is trying to create a therapy which will cause immortality, stall or reverse the effects of aging, or extend a human's lifespan. Gosho has said that immortality is not the ultimate goal of the Black Organization<ref name="April2014Interview">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 
Source: http://ddnavi.com/news/191132/ 
黒ずくめの組織の目的とはナニ？　APTX4869の作用から考えると、不老不死が怪しいのでは……。 
Please! Please, let me ask 2 more questions! What is the BO’s goal? Going by the APTX4869, I would think immortality… 
【青山】「違います。確かにそう思っちゃうよね。今ね、組織の中では大変なことが起こっていますよ」 
That’s wrong. It’s true that you’d think that, isn’t it? You see, right now, something really big is happening within the organization.</ref>; however, achieving immortality or anti-aging might be an important step to reach the true end.

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

The de-aging effect that occurred when Shinichi and Haibara took APTX 4869 probably indicates the main intent of the drug's development. After [[Pisco]] saw Haibara shrink back to her child form, he commented that he was impressed she had developed the drug to that point, implying that de-aging is in the right direction.<ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11, pg 9</ref> Supporting this is Haibara’s line, "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."<ref>Manga [[Volume 19#File 189 - The Endangered Ball|Volume 19, File 9 (189), Page 6: The Endangered Ball]]; [[The Stadium Indiscriminate Threatening Case|Episodes 130-131: The Stadium Indiscriminate Threatening Case]]</ref> APTX 4869 is the only known intersection between Shinichi and the Black Organization; meaning that Shinichi's de-aging made him relevant to the Black Organization's project.

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

Besides APTX 4869, [[Vermouth#Non-aging|Vermouth's unnatural youth]] is another indicator that the Black Organization may be involved in research towards extending lifespan, halting aging, or rejuvenating the body. In addition, Shiho Miyano’s name was on the raffle list for the immortality arrows in the mermaid case in Fukui.<ref>Chapters 279-283</ref>

==== Raising the dead ====
There is a possibility that the Black Organization may be trying to develop a method to revive the dead. Suguru Itakura's diary contained a quote by one of the Black Organization's agents, most likely Vermouth: "We can be both God and Devil since we are trying to raise the dead against the stream of time" <ref name=380p13/> The original purpose of APTX 4869 might be to raise the dead. [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] and Conan later wondered if the line meant that the Black Organization was trying to create zombies.<ref name=380p16>Manga Volume 37, File 8, pg 16: "White Snow, Black Shadow"</ref> Once when Conan asked Haibara directly what APTX 4869 was meant to do she replied, "It's a nostrum to raise the dead. I wonder if that answer is satisfactory?"<ref name=384p8>Manga Volume 32, File 8, page 8: "The Old Picture"</ref> It may be her comment was a bluff intended to provoke Conan into revealing what he had been up to rather than a serious statement of the purpose of the drug.


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

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

== Manga to anime differences ==
[[File:EP5 Fake Men in Black.jpg|thumb|Gin (right) and Vodka's (left) anime doubles Ueda and Shimoda.]]
{{main|List of differences between the manga and anime}}
The first season of Detective Conan rarely featured the Black Organization because the anime writers wanted to downplay their presence.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/case-closed/mystery-mastermind/episode/336019/trivia.html#notes Episode trivia on TV.com]</ref> Two of the episodes at least, were altered heavily in light of this:

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

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

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

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

== Trivia ==
[[File:Demon.jpg|thumb|right|Conan vs. the demon.]]
* While Conan chases down leads on their organization, he's constantly confronted by difficult cases. In the [[The Last Wizard of the Century]] introduction sequence, one night running on ancient Greek ruins, he is suddenly stuck behind by a huge red demon with evil aura, of course the Black Organization, who moves among numerous yellow pieces, that represent all minor cases.
* Just like other unrelated case, this crime organization enshrouded in mystery is sometimes introduced with crows, the creepy bird which is also depicted on their boss' crest.
* In the English dub, "Case Closed", [[Gin]] is renamed "Melkior" and [[Vodka]] is renamed "Kaspar". In the English manga, these are explained as specific brands of the relevant drinks.
* [[Vermouth]] is the only living member of the organization who knows that [[List of characters who know Ai Haibara's identity|Ai Haibara is Shiho Miyano]] and [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|Conan Edogawa is Shinichi Kudo]]. Pisco discovered Haibara's identity and would've revealed it to [[Gin]] if he hadn't been murdered by him first. Conan told [[Akemi Miyano]] his real name as she died.
* The Black Organization members often call someone who poses an existential threat to the group a "[[Silver Bullet]]". Vermouth believes that Shinichi is the true Silver Bullet; however, everyone else thinks [[Shuichi Akai]] was their greatest threat.
* So far, the youngest member still in the Black Organization is [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] at age 27. [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] was 18 when she defected, and her sister, Akemi Miyano, was in her mid twenties when she was killed by Gin.
* Episodes 462-465 is the first 4-part Black Organization episode that was not aired as a special in Japan.
* Episodes 491-504 is the longest Black Organization arc to air, consisting of more than ten parts.
* Conan has personally interacted with almost every codenamed member: [[Gin]] in the episode 1, manga chapter 33 on the bullet train, and episode 178 when Conan shoots him with his needle while hiding, [[Vodka]] in manga chapter 33 on the bullet train and during the course of episodes 309-311, [[Vermouth]] in episode 345 and while she was disguised as Araide, [[Hidemi Hondou|Kir]] in episode 425, [[Akemi Miyano]] in manga chapters 13-16/episode 128, [[Pisco]] in episode 178, [[Tequila]] in episode 54, [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]] in episode 118 and briefly in 290, and [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] in episodes 496-497.
* All members' anime version cars have Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate, then it is located somewhere here.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

== In other languages ==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|黒の組織 Kuro no soshiki}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|المنظّمة السوداء Al-Munaẓẓama As-Sawdā’}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Organisasi Hitam}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|L'Organització dels Homes de Negre}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|黑衣组织 Hēi'yī Zǔzhī}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Musta Organisaatio}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|L’Organisation des Hommes en Noir}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Schwarze Organisation}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|L'Organizzazione degli Uomini in Nero}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Kongsi Gelap (Dark Syndicate)/Organisasi Hitam}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|องค์กรชุดดำ Xngkh̒kr chud dả}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Tổ Chức Áo Đen}}
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== References ==
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Renya Karasuma

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
<spoiler>
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "the [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a [[Silver Bullet]], someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma is a crow-like man who only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind [[Gin]], [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
<spoiler>
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "the [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a [[Silver Bullet]], someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma is a crow-like man who only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
<spoiler>
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "The [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a [[Silver Bullet]], someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma is a crow-like man who only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
<spoiler>
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "the [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a [[Silver Bullet]], someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma is a crow-like man who only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
<spoiler>
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "The [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a [[Silver Bullet]], someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma is a crow-like man who only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
<spoiler>
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "The [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a "[[Silver Bullet]]", someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma is a crow-like man who only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
<spoiler>
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "The [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a "[[Silver Bullet]]", someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma is a crow-like man and has only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
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{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "The [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a "[[Silver Bullet]]", someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma has only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest and sometimes is used to introduced the Black Organization enshrouded in mystery or even other unrelated cases. The operatives dress in black, which [[Akemi Miyano]] says is supposed to resemble crows, so he is a crow-like man and the Sunset Manor was his personified nest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boss Target<ref>Manga Volume 29, File 5; anime episode 231.</ref>|Silver Bullet}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Boss}}
{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Boss}}
{{appellations|James Black|Boss}}
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{{appellations|Ikumi Soda|file=Ikumi Soda.jpg|Karasuma}}
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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

== References ==
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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
<spoiler>
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
|}</spoiler>

He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "The [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a "[[Silver Bullet]]", someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma has only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest and sometimes is used to introduced the Black Organization enshrouded in mystery or even other unrelated cases. The operatives dress in black, which [[Akemi Miyano]] says is supposed to resemble crows, so he is a crow-like man and the Sunset Manor was his personified nest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

== Appellations ==
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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

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

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{{nihongo|'''Renya Karasuma'''|烏丸蓮耶|Karasuma Ren'ya}} is the mysterious boss behind the [[Black Organization]], who is respectfully called as '''{{nihongo|Ano kata|あの方|lit. "That Person"}}''' by his subordinates, and the primary antagonist in the entire manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:EP219-Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|right|The Sunset Manor.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who is the most powerful person in Japan, with a lot of famous, powerful and political people contacts. He is the very best richer than [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] and [[Ooka family]].<ref name=black>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> He is said to have died over 100 years old between forty and twenty years prior to the current timeline, during the Showa period, under mysterious circumstances. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of antique priceless art. When his mother had died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]] from her and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up crow. Below are several examples about that logo:
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{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 00.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The villa junction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 09.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The front door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The flatware.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-0.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The playing room.]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 01-1.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The back door.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 02.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The central tower knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 03.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The dining room knob.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Crow crest 05.jpg|thumb|left|x150px|The crow circle.]]
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He found a clue about the King, Queen, and Knight leading to a vast fortune left by his mother and supposedly hidden in that beautiful western-style manor house, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he came to hire people to solve the riddle for him, such as the archaeologist Kyosuke Senma, and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. The [[Karasuma family]] had died out, and the house had fallen into other hands. Hardly anything has been touched since the incident and those murders were the cause behind the numerous old bloodstains all over in the house.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Shinjuku<ref>All his subordinates' anime version cars have indeed Shinjuku (新宿) as license plate.</ref> that pay well as a sponsor but there are a lot of bad rumors going around about them, so directs illegal activities and plans crimes to protect and advance interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls "The [[Black Organization]]" as well. While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, he communicates with his subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deem worthy<ref name=v53f10>Manga Volume 53, File 10; anime episode 464.</ref> and deciding on their alcoholic code names, but he doesn't have one own.

== Personality ==
Though not much is known about his personality, Renya Karasuma is described by the famous detective Furuyo Senma as a greedy, cruel and impatient man. He appears to be materialistic as he was driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he seems not to value the cost of human life as he brutally killed numerous people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster, a decision made by himself who was driven by his own insanity.

Intelligent and manipulator, he is fairly ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been loyal to him for many years for a single mistake. [[Vermouth]] says that he is always careful to the extreme, the type to ruin the plan by overthinking it.<ref>Manga Volume 67, File 8; anime episode 581.</ref> Somehow, he can maintain loyalty and unity within the organization, despite many agents disliking or even outright wishing to murder certain others, acting contrary to his wishes. Unless he bring Conan back alive, [[Irish]] should think his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud because Yasuteru Domon, who is a politician hard on crime and not part of the Diet yet, may have a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. He thought [[Shuichi Akai]] could become a "[[Silver Bullet]]", someone who is especially dangerous to the entire Black Organization.

== Appearance ==
Renya Karasuma has only appeared as an ominous silhouette: the hair extended to the neck, a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held a walking stick with a ball handle on his right hand with long nails like a bird's leg, and on his left shoulder there is a pet crow, the creepy bird which is also depicted on his crest and sometimes is used to introduced the Black Organization enshrouded in mystery or even other unrelated cases. The operatives dress in black, which [[Akemi Miyano]] says is supposed to resemble crows, so he is a crow-like man and the Sunset Manor was his personified nest. He is right-handed.

== Plot overview ==
=== Kaitou Kid and the Murder (Manga: [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
[[File:Oogami-Karasuma.jpg|thumb|right|Detective Ogami possessed by Karasuma.]]
The six world greatest detectives [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Saguru Hakuba]], Furuyo Senma, Shukuzen Ogami, Harufumi Mogi, and Ikumi Soda were invited by [[Kaitou Kid]] to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated Shizuoka Prefecture mountains, 2 km from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]]. While they were having their so-called "last supper", the host told that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma and that there is a treasure hidden inside. That name seems to trigger the guests attention.
[[File:Sunset Manor.jpg|thumb|left|The entire Golden Manor.]]
Two years ago, after Senma accidentally let the story slip to him, Ogami immediately tracked down the house and started to look for the treasure, but he couldn't solve the riddle. He had put himself into massive debt to buy the house and was in serious trouble, so he came up with the plan to assemble a team of great detectives, but he was killed by his partner Senma before did just like Karasuma forty years ago. Conan solved the riddle: using the hands of the only clock in the dining room, which is the switch, as the combination for a lock, a layer peels off the entire outer walls of the building, revealing solid gold underneath. Soda notes that it must be worth a hundred billion yen, and that only Karasuma could do something on such a scale. Sunset being when the sky shines gold as the sun goes down, it is literally a "Golden Manor".

Kaitou Kid had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as Kogoro, but it was too big for him to carry away. Ogami, who wanted to kill the maid and all the others blaming Kaitou Kid once the treasure was found, and Senma, who killed him and almost created another same tragedy to decipher that riddle her father left for her while she was still alive, were all along possessed by Renya Karasuma.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|criminal silhouette]] behind Gin, [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with evil aura in the anime version to distinguish him from minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette behind Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm down sure he'll get his chance one day and he'll contact the boss.

=== Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: TBD) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo]] and [[Subaru Okiya]] have come to the conclusion that "ASACA" and "RUM", the dying message left at the scene of [[Kohji Haneda]]'s murder, is actually one single name: "CARASUMA". When Yusaku reveals it to his son, Conan visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette before Gin, Vodka, naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], as also his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reminds that the thing his group made her parents create at the lab they went to, which was the drug that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s and her body, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] visualized Renya Karasuma as a silhouette behind her parents, as also the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
[[File:BossBlackshadow5.jpg|thumb|right|The boss' ambition.]]
=== The Black Organization...Revealed (Special Manga: [[Special Volume 26#The Black Organization...Revealed|294]], Anime: TBD) ===
When she reveals to Conan the Black Organization's plan to use [[Generic]]'s memory erasure drug in order to have complete control of the world, Haibara visualized the boss as a criminal silhouette clutching a globe.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that he must trust him/her the most.

==== Gin ====
[[File:Ano Kata.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth.]]
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him an executive agent in the general oversight division, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking Black Organization members. Gin follows his orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return he entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. He often issues orders to Gin directly by text message for him to disseminate to the others, and the two are implied to contact each other fairly often about instructions and suspicions. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison [[Shinichi Kudo]] with the recently approved [[APTX 4869]] or to kill Vermouth if she does anything weird even if she is his favorite. For this reason the FBI thought Gin would be able to lead them to the boss if they captured him.

==== Vodka ====
[[Vodka]] fears consequence to act without his permission, but being only the general oversight division secretary, Gin takes full responsibility.<ref>Episode 345 and movie 13.</ref>

==== Vermouth ====
[[File:BossBlackshadow4.jpg|thumb|right|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and naked Vermouth.]]
[[Vermouth]] is known as his favorite member by the other members although the reason for the favoritism is unknown, to the point of giving her limited independence and protecting her from other members who hates, mistrusts and wishes to kill her. Bourbon reveals that there is some sort of connection between Vermouth and the boss, implying that her relationship with the boss goes further than merely being his favorite member. Bourbon also notes that he has arranged for her secret to be revealed to the whole Black Organization in case something happens to him, and points out that the other members would be quite surprised if they knew the nature of the relationship.<ref>Manga Volume 85, File 5; anime episode 783.</ref> However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Vermouth to undermine the organization by protecting someone she thinks is especially dangerous: [[Conan Edogawa|Silver Bullet]]. During an off-season Halloween party aboard a ship, discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the Black Organization's knowledge, he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. At the party, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone informing her that her freedom was now being restricted and she was to return: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth."

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] fears him and, being a direct order from him, she must also work with Vermouth.<ref>Manga Volume 48, File 10; anime episode 425.</ref> For avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago for real, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her.<ref>Manga Volume 49, File 1; anime episode 425.</ref> She seems envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their four years ago.<ref name=v53f10/>

==== Kir ====
He promoted [[Kir]] because she had uncovered a spy and confronted him. The spy, [[Ethan Hondou]], overpowered and tortured her for information, but [[Rena Mizunashi]] remained silent. Although completely crippled, Rena bit Ethan's wrist to force him to drop his gun, and then killed him. The bite marks and Ethan's recording device coincided with her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savageness. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan Hondou was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the Black Organization. Rena had made a mistake and was about to be uncovered as a spy. Ethan, who had prepared appropriately ahead of time in case this happened, told Rena to tell the organization she discovered he was a spy and tried to confront him. Ethan then committed suicide after maiming himself and his daughter to make it appear like the story Ethan had just explained. He orders Kir to assassinate the politician Yasuteru Domon while holding an interview. However, his assassinate plot was averted by the combined efforts of the FBI and Conan. The injured Kir was then captured by the FBI and was hospitalized in Haido Central Hospital for weeks. After the Black Organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Shuichi Akai did not made a strong move. Gin thought that Shuichi is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Meanwhile, [[Andre Camel|an FBI agent]] becomes a suspect in a coincidental murder case. The Black Organization hears about it, and taking advantage of the FBI's distraction, Gin calls out Kir and tells her his order. In order to regain his trust, she is to call Akai out to meet with her and kill him. Kir meets with Akai at Raiha Pass and apparently kills him. However, he was fooled again. [[Akai faked his death theory|Akai and Kir conspired to fake Akai's death]].

==== Bourbon ====
He dispatches [[Bourbon]] to search for the escaped scientist Shiho Miyano. However, Bourbon received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Shuichi Akai's death by disguising as Akai and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency|NPA]], Rei has been persevering to turn in Shuichi to the organization to earn higher ranks to approach more closely to him.

==== Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 9; anime episode 129.</ref> Before she could be even executed, Shiho manages to escape and he ordered the Black Organization to hunt her down and murder her.<ref>Manga Volume 18, File 7; anime episode 129.</ref><ref>Manga Volume 24, File 11; anime episode 178.</ref> Conan figures out his full number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to [[Wikipedia: Pandora's Box|Pandora's Box]]. Of course she knows all this from the start: the email address and the person behind it.

==== Miyano family ====
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were two biochemists in his organization. Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the Shirohato Pharmaceutical where Atsushi worked, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and Elena were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer. However, as nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served him for many years. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence Shigehiko Nomiguchi, a politician who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on camera in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. As Conan before, he notices it. Fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the Black Organization to the public, he direct ordered Gin to kill Pisco and burn to the ground his house, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry is.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, he sends [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] to Haido Central Hospital to act as a patient while searching for Kir, who is currently held captive by the FBI. Kusuda continues to write to his e-mail address every day, until he was cornered to death by Shuichi Akai.

==== Irish ====
He orders [[Irish]] to disguise himself as [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]], infiltrate into [[Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department]], and retrieve a memory card with the personal information of all the Black Organization agents that have infiltrated various organizations, before the police catch the serial killer, who took it from their agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] he murdered before them without knowing what is on it, and find the card. When he discovers Conan's true identity, Irish plans to capture and bring the boy before him to discredit Gin, who killed Pisco, whom Irish respected like a father. Irish believes that he would definitely demote or have Gin killed for carelessly leaving Shinichi alive. However, because his cover was blown, Irish was killed by Chianti under Gin's orders before Conan can force him to reveal the boss' true identity.

==== Generic ====
He orders [[Generic]] to leave Sherry alone with her experiments and to make a new drug that controls memories. He planned to use this drug on all the most important people in the world, in particular to make the US president think who is one of the organization members, ergo having complete control of the world. However, Generic escapes the Black Organization using the same method as Sherry.

=== Others ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], now [[Conan Edogawa]], is the greatest enemy of his organization, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole life-threatening situation. When he met Gin and Vodka on a bullet train to Kyoto, Conan hoped that they could be meeting their mastermind in the dining car, but it wasn't his primary target.<ref>The [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|corresponding anime episode]] replaced Gin and Vodka with two lookalike criminals unrelated to the Black Organization, and the line about their mastermind was omitted.</ref> Gin's discussion with Pisco about the planned murder of Nomiguchi revealed to Conan his existence. Conan forced Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. Asking confirm to [[Kyosuke Haga]] about that old song, Conan later uncovers his phone number, but Haibara warns him not to call it. From now on, until this comes to a close, Shinichi is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high ranking member of the Black Organization who could lead the FBI to the boss was the goal of [[Shuichi Akai]]'s spy mission. After three years of infiltration, he gave the undercover FBI agent the codename "Rye" and ordered him to work under Gin. The FBI's plan to capture Gin fell apart when Akai's true allegiance was uncovered due to a mistake made by [[Andre Camel]]. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to regard Akai could become the Black Organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

==== Kyosuke Senma ====
[[File:EP219-Kyosuke Senma.jpg|thumb|right|Kyosuke Senma reminded by his old daughter.]]
Kyosuke Senma was an archeologist of a village who Karasuma invited to his manor house forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. He had made copies of the riddle on a cheap mimeograph print on straw paper to hand out, and left one stuck between the piano keys, back in the days before they invented copiers. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and then 23-year-old daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Renya had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle: "I've finally gotten hold of the trump card that will decipher Karasuma's riddle, Kyosuke Senma." The key to the riddle was "Trump card" and he was referring to the respective playing card ranks. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma<ref name=black/> and was taken into custody by the police for Ogami's planned murder.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Karasuma.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|Renya Karasuma reminded by Furuyo Senma (episode 219).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a big criminal silhouette with evil aura in the anime version (episode 385).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:BossBlackshadow7.jpg|x200px|thumb|left|The boss as a criminal silhouette (episode 398).]]
|}

== Speculation ==
The fact that his supposed 'death' should have occurred forty years ago could fit with Haibara's thought that Shinichi had gotten involved in a project that the organization had worked on for a half century, and that there could be some unbelievable people, that are not supposed to be a part of this world.

It is clear that he, to be still alive, must have been rejuvenated and hide inside another known person, just like Shinichi.

== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" is literally "crow circle", as his crest or a [[Wikipedia: Tengu|Tengu]], a long-nosed demon that is also "Crow billed Tengu" and, like that bird, represents [[Wikipedia: Karasuma Street|Karasuma Avenue]] in Kyoto.<ref>Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the characters for "[[Wikipedia: Nelumbo nucifera|lotus]]" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|Professor James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization boss.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017)</ref> Just like Moriarty, the boss doesn't show his face and works as a shadow behind the scenes, only pulling the strings on the crimes from far away, sort of like [[Wikipedia: Al Capone|Al Capone]] did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, while working and remains anonymous to the public, and the silhouette similar to Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version big painting in his manor dining room is a ''[[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Trivia|Visita de la reina de Saba a Salomón]]'' replica, but with an inverted orientation. There is a possible parallel with [[Wikipedia: Solomon|Solomon]]'s story, because he was also the most rich and powerful man in all of Japan in his time, but eventually turned into a devil for his own selfish reasons.
* Due his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the US comics favorited by the author.
* His role as Shinichi/Conan's arch-enemy is just like the alien boss of the evil organization Jocker in the children's show ''[[Kamen Yaiba#Trivia|Kamen Yaiba]]''.<ref>Manga Volume 92, File 7; anime episode 895.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|蓮耶 Renya|烏丸 Karasuma}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|莲耶 Renya|乌丸 Karasuma}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Renya|Karasuma}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Renya|Karasuma}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|Renya|Karasumaru<ref name=karasumaru>The second kanji can also be translated as "maru".</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Renya|Karasuma}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Renya|Karasumaru<ref name=karasumaru/>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Renya|Karasuma}}
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]

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