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Miwako Sato

2015-09-29T16:58:34Z

Mymintz Nicomaru: /* Appellations */

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Appellations ==
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| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure]] || Sato Sato-kun || Inspector Megure (Megure-keibu) Inspector (Keibu) Sergeant Wataru Takagi<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|Episode 254]]</ref>
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| [[File:Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg]] || [[Wataru Takagi]] || Sato-san Lieutenant Miwako Sato<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|Episode 254]]</ref> Takao-kun<ref name="file930">[[volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume88)]]</ref> || Takagi-kun (usually) Takagi Wataru (rare) Sergeant Wataru Takagi<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|Episode 254]]</ref> Satoko-san<ref name="file930" />
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|[[File:Ninzaburo Shiratori 60px.jpg]]||[[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]|| Sato-san Miwako-san ||Shiratori-kun
|-
|[[File:Detective Chiba 60px.jpg]]||[[Detective Chiba]]|| Sato-san || Chiba-kun
|-
|[[File:Yumi Miyamoto 60px.jpg]]||[[Yumi Miyamoto]]|| Miwako || Yumi
|-
|[[File:Naeko Miike 60px.jpg]]||[[Naeko Miike]]|| Sato-san || ''Anata''<ref>[[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|Episode 681]]</ref>
|-
| [[File:Jinpei Matsuda 60px.jpg]] || [[Jinpei Matsuda]] || Anata<ref>[[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304]]</ref>|| Matsuda-kun
|-
| [[File:Misao Yamamura 60px.jpg]] || [[Misao Yamamura]] || Sato-san|| -
{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|This girl (''Kono nēchan''; talking to Lupin)|Inspector (''Keibu'') Inspector Zenigata (''Zenigata-keibu'')}}
|}
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| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Kudo-kun
|-
| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Conan-kun
|-
| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Ran-chan
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| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Mouri-san
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| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Ayumi-chan
|-
| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Genta-kun
|-
| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Mitsuhiko-kun
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| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')|| -
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| [[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]] || [[Hiroshi Agasa]] || Agasa-san
|-
|[[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]]||[[Sonoko Suzuki]] ||Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')|| -
|-
|[[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]]||[[Heiji Hattori]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')|| Hattori-kun
{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Girl (''Onēchan'')|Lupin Lupin III (''Lupin Sansei'') My first love (Watashi no Hatsukoi)}}
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== Plot overview ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Sato's Omiai Case (Manga: [[Volume 32|328]]-[[Volume 33|330]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|253-254]]) ===
[[File:Miwako picking randomly.jpg|thumb|right| Randomly picks a file.]]
In these episodes, Sato and Takagi's feelings for each other are explored. Sato chose randomly and incidentally Shiratori for her omiai. Meanwhile, Sato realized her feelings for Takagi. Before she and Shiratori can kiss, Conan stopped them with Araide's help.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Hammer Man Case (Manga: [[Volume 60|625-627]]; Anime: [[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|530-531]]) ===
[[File:Takagi and Miwako about to kiss.jpg|thumb|right| Miwako and Takagi about to kiss.]]

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

Sato and Takagi had agreed on going out to a spa as soon as a difficult case (involving a serial killer whose cases are about to caducate) that they're working on alongside Megure, Shiratori and Matsumoto. Takagi gets very fired up and decides to work harder than usual; their seniors, however, see it as a terrible signal since officers who behave like that often end up dying in the line of duty, which greatly worries Sato. This bad omen almost becomes true when Takagi ends up being shot, with only a mahjong tile he carried in his pocket saving him from death. Sato is greatly relieved when he survives, and they finally can share a kiss.

=== The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love (Manga: [[Volume 76|804]]-[[Volume 77|808]]; Anime: [[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|681-683]]) ===
[[File:683-6.png|thumb|Sato jumps from a helicopter to save Takagi]]

Takagi is kidnapped by a mysterious man who misunderstands that he is [[Wataru Date]] who makes his daughter commits suicide. He is bandaged on a plank of wood and there is a bomb under it. Sato saves kidnapped Takagi from killed by a bomb put under him.

===Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9 ([[Volume 82|869-871]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9|748-749]])===
[[File:748-1.png|thumb|Embarrassed Sato]]

Sato hesitates when thinking about that she's expecting but has lost. Naeko, Takagi and Yumi believe that her period is late... and since Takagi is now her lover as well as her partner, this means she might be pregnant. The thing Sato was actually missing was her red badge which is given to all officers in the 1st Division. The whole pregnancy situation was a huge misunderstanding.

===Non-canon Appearances===
==== Captured in Her Eyes ([[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4]]) ====
During ''Captured in Her Eyes'', Miwako was a target of a serial killer. She thought she was safe, but when she and Ran went to the bathroom, a blackout in the hotel occurred. A gunman then came into the bathroom, and she jumped on Ran to protect her. However, she was shot several times and put into a coma. This incident caused a large deal of grief for Ran and Takagi, even going as far as to make Ran completely lose her memories. She was given by doctors a 50% chance at surviving due to one bullet stopping extremely close to her heart. Luckily, she survived.

== Relationship analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Wataru Takagi ====
{{main|Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato}}
[[Image:Episode 535 - Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sato and Takagi]]Miwako started to have feelings for [[Takagi]] after seeing the resemblance he has of the deceased Matsuda Jinpei. Their relationship gradually develops as the series continues.
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==== Yumi Miyamoto ====
[[Image:Miwako and Yumi.png|thumb|right|150px|Miwako and Yumi chatting]]Yumi is Miwako's best friend in the headquarter. They are seen together a lot, and Yumi always teases Miwako about her relationship with Takagi. She often tries to bring the two closer together, much to the chagrin of Sato and Takagi. They have been friends for at least 10 years.
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==== Inspector Megure ====
[[Image:Inspector Megure and Miwako Sato.png|thumb|right|150px|Inspector Megure with Miwako Sato]]Inspector Megure is like a father figure to Miwako as she said to Takagi in one of the episodes (although Takagi mistook it as a love interest at first).
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==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[Image:Conan with Officer Sato.png|thumb|right|150px|Miwako listens to Conan]]Miwako seems to admire Conan, like Takagi, usually telling Conan information that are actually forbidden to be leaked to normal citizens.
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==== Ninzaburo Shiratori ====
Although Shiratori crushes on Sato and at some point attempts to marry her, she views him as a friend. It is later revealed that the main reason Shiratori had a crush on her was because he believed her to be the "girl of destiny" who changed his life but later it turned out that said woman was [[Sumiko Kobayashi]], who bears an extreme physical similarity to Sato. Once this is revealed, Shiratori stops chasing after Sato's affections.

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

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Sato placed 13th in the poll with 50 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

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

*She ranked 7th in the Super Digest Book 60+ "Cutest Detective Conan characters" poll, with 80 votes.

== Name origin ==

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Miwako's "Before" Appearance (Episode 146)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Miwako's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 402)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Miwako's "After" Appearance (Episode 661)]]
|}

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

== Gallery ==
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File:Miwako as a child.png|Miwako Sato as a child (18 years ago.)
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[File:Satos FD.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Sato's RX-7]]
* Sato drives a [[Cars#Miwako_Sato|red series 6 Mazda (Ẽfini) RX-7]]. It used to be white, but she painted it red so it would be more visible in the fog.
* Sato has a habit of shrieking while drifting without pulling the handbrake as she feels that shrieking helps make it easier. But she finds it embarrassing, though. This habit caused the "Mountain Witch" story to happen, as people reported the the witch would drift using a white FD and scream really loud.
* Sato is a fan of [[Lupin III]] and has stated that he was her first love.
* Sato dislikes any shiny and expensive jewelry. This fact was used by Yumi to trick some of Sato's admirers to buy expensive her jewels that Yumi herself finds nice. However, Sato currently wears a ring which that Takagi bought for her, not realizing that he intended it to be an engagement ring.
* A running gag in the series is how whenever she and Takagi go on a date, they are stalked by other police detectives who have crushes on her.
* In the English Dub, during Captured In Her Eyes, a script error says that Sato died when she was shot. This is false, however, all parts of the movie say she died, until the end of the movie where it says she will survive. Why this is like this is unknown.
* Sato is bad at drawing.
* Sato, Takagi and Yumi are the only Police Officers to take Conan seriously, usually treating him as an equal.
* Sato means ''sugar'' in English.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Sato family]]
* [[Miwako Sato Appearances]]
* [[Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato]]

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Miwako Sato

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Mymintz Nicomaru: /* Appellations */

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

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

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

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

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

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

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| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure]] || Sato Sato-kun || Inspector Megure (Megure-keibu) Inspector (Keibu) Sergeant Wataru Takagi<ref>[[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story|Episode 254]]</ref>
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|[[File:Ninzaburo Shiratori 60px.jpg]]||[[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]|| Sato-san Miwako-san ||Shiratori-kun
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|[[File:Yumi Miyamoto 60px.jpg]]||[[Yumi Miyamoto]]|| Miwako || Yumi
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|[[File:Naeko Miike 60px.jpg]]||[[Naeko Miike]]|| Sato-san || ''Anata''<ref>[[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|Episode 681]]</ref>
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| [[File:Jinpei Matsuda 60px.jpg]] || [[Jinpei Matsuda]] || Anata<ref>[[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304]]</ref>|| Matsuda-kun
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| [[File:Misao Yamamura 60px.jpg]] || [[Misao Yamamura]] || Sato-san|| -
{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|This girl (''Kono nēchan''; talking to Lupin)|Inspector (''Keibu'') Inspector Zenigata (''Zenigata-keibu'')}}
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| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Kudo-kun
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| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Conan-kun
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| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Ran-chan
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| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Genta-kun
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| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'') || Mitsuhiko-kun
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|[[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]]||[[Sonoko Suzuki]] ||Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')|| -
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|[[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]]||[[Heiji Hattori]] || Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')|| Hattori-kun
{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Girl (''Onēchan'')|Lupin Lupin III (''Lupin Sansei'') My first love(Watashi no Hatsukoi}}
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== Plot overview ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Sato's Omiai Case (Manga: [[Volume 32|328]]-[[Volume 33|330]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4|253-254]]) ===
[[File:Miwako picking randomly.jpg|thumb|right| Randomly picks a file.]]
In these episodes, Sato and Takagi's feelings for each other are explored. Sato chose randomly and incidentally Shiratori for her omiai. Meanwhile, Sato realized her feelings for Takagi. Before she and Shiratori can kiss, Conan stopped them with Araide's help.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Hammer Man Case (Manga: [[Volume 60|625-627]]; Anime: [[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend|530-531]]) ===
[[File:Takagi and Miwako about to kiss.jpg|thumb|right| Miwako and Takagi about to kiss.]]

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

Sato and Takagi had agreed on going out to a spa as soon as a difficult case (involving a serial killer whose cases are about to caducate) that they're working on alongside Megure, Shiratori and Matsumoto. Takagi gets very fired up and decides to work harder than usual; their seniors, however, see it as a terrible signal since officers who behave like that often end up dying in the line of duty, which greatly worries Sato. This bad omen almost becomes true when Takagi ends up being shot, with only a mahjong tile he carried in his pocket saving him from death. Sato is greatly relieved when he survives, and they finally can share a kiss.

=== The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love (Manga: [[Volume 76|804]]-[[Volume 77|808]]; Anime: [[The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love|681-683]]) ===
[[File:683-6.png|thumb|Sato jumps from a helicopter to save Takagi]]

Takagi is kidnapped by a mysterious man who misunderstands that he is [[Wataru Date]] who makes his daughter commits suicide. He is bandaged on a plank of wood and there is a bomb under it. Sato saves kidnapped Takagi from killed by a bomb put under him.

===Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9 ([[Volume 82|869-871]]; Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9|748-749]])===
[[File:748-1.png|thumb|Embarrassed Sato]]

Sato hesitates when thinking about that she's expecting but has lost. Naeko, Takagi and Yumi believe that her period is late... and since Takagi is now her lover as well as her partner, this means she might be pregnant. The thing Sato was actually missing was her red badge which is given to all officers in the 1st Division. The whole pregnancy situation was a huge misunderstanding.

===Non-canon Appearances===
==== Captured in Her Eyes ([[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4]]) ====
During ''Captured in Her Eyes'', Miwako was a target of a serial killer. She thought she was safe, but when she and Ran went to the bathroom, a blackout in the hotel occurred. A gunman then came into the bathroom, and she jumped on Ran to protect her. However, she was shot several times and put into a coma. This incident caused a large deal of grief for Ran and Takagi, even going as far as to make Ran completely lose her memories. She was given by doctors a 50% chance at surviving due to one bullet stopping extremely close to her heart. Luckily, she survived.

== Relationship analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Wataru Takagi ====
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[[Image:Episode 535 - Sato and Takagi kiss.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sato and Takagi]]Miwako started to have feelings for [[Takagi]] after seeing the resemblance he has of the deceased Matsuda Jinpei. Their relationship gradually develops as the series continues.
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==== Yumi Miyamoto ====
[[Image:Miwako and Yumi.png|thumb|right|150px|Miwako and Yumi chatting]]Yumi is Miwako's best friend in the headquarter. They are seen together a lot, and Yumi always teases Miwako about her relationship with Takagi. She often tries to bring the two closer together, much to the chagrin of Sato and Takagi. They have been friends for at least 10 years.
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==== Inspector Megure ====
[[Image:Inspector Megure and Miwako Sato.png|thumb|right|150px|Inspector Megure with Miwako Sato]]Inspector Megure is like a father figure to Miwako as she said to Takagi in one of the episodes (although Takagi mistook it as a love interest at first).
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==== Conan Edogawa ====
[[Image:Conan with Officer Sato.png|thumb|right|150px|Miwako listens to Conan]]Miwako seems to admire Conan, like Takagi, usually telling Conan information that are actually forbidden to be leaked to normal citizens.
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==== Ninzaburo Shiratori ====
Although Shiratori crushes on Sato and at some point attempts to marry her, she views him as a friend. It is later revealed that the main reason Shiratori had a crush on her was because he believed her to be the "girl of destiny" who changed his life but later it turned out that said woman was [[Sumiko Kobayashi]], who bears an extreme physical similarity to Sato. Once this is revealed, Shiratori stops chasing after Sato's affections.

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

== Character popularity ==
*eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Sato placed 13th in the poll with 50 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

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

*She ranked 7th in the Super Digest Book 60+ "Cutest Detective Conan characters" poll, with 80 votes.

== Name origin ==

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Miwako's "Before" Appearance (Episode 146)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Miwako's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 402)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Miwako_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Miwako's "After" Appearance (Episode 661)]]
|}

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

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=185px perrow=5>
File:Miwako as a child.png|Miwako Sato as a child (18 years ago.)
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[File:Satos FD.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Sato's RX-7]]
* Sato drives a [[Cars#Miwako_Sato|red series 6 Mazda (Ẽfini) RX-7]]. It used to be white, but she painted it red so it would be more visible in the fog.
* Sato has a habit of shrieking while drifting without pulling the handbrake as she feels that shrieking helps make it easier. But she finds it embarrassing, though. This habit caused the "Mountain Witch" story to happen, as people reported the the witch would drift using a white FD and scream really loud.
* Sato is a fan of [[Lupin III]] and has stated that he was her first love.
* Sato dislikes any shiny and expensive jewelry. This fact was used by Yumi to trick some of Sato's admirers to buy expensive her jewels that Yumi herself finds nice. However, Sato currently wears a ring which that Takagi bought for her, not realizing that he intended it to be an engagement ring.
* A running gag in the series is how whenever she and Takagi go on a date, they are stalked by other police detectives who have crushes on her.
* In the English Dub, during Captured In Her Eyes, a script error says that Sato died when she was shot. This is false, however, all parts of the movie say she died, until the end of the movie where it says she will survive. Why this is like this is unknown.
* Sato is bad at drawing.
* Sato, Takagi and Yumi are the only Police Officers to take Conan seriously, usually treating him as an equal.
* Sato means ''sugar'' in English.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Sato family]]
* [[Miwako Sato Appearances]]
* [[Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato]]

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