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Kuroba family

2026-03-14T21:15:35Z

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The '''Kuroba family''' currently consists of 3 people: [[Toichi Kuroba]], [[Chikage Kuroba]], and [[Kaito Kuroba]].

== Members ==
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== References ==
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[[Category:Families]]

[[de:Familie Kuroba]]

Template:Familytree/Toichi Kuroba

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[[File:Toichi Kuroba.jpg|centre|100px|link=Toichi Kuroba]]
[[Toichi Kuroba]]
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Kudo family

2026-03-14T21:12:19Z

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The '''Kudo family''' currently consists of 3 people: [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], and [[Shinichi Kudo]].

== Members ==
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[[Category:Families]]

[[de:Familie Kudo]]
[[fr:Famille Kudo]]

Miyano family

2026-03-14T21:05:22Z

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The '''Miyano family''' currently consists of 4 person: [[Atsushi Miyano]], [[Elena Miyano]], [[Akemi Miyano]], and [[Shiho Miyano]].

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

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

[[Category:Families]]

[[de:Familie Miyano]]

Template:Familytree/Mary

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[[File:Mary.jpg|centre|100px|link=Mary Sera]]
[[Mary Sera|Mary Akai née Sera]]
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2026-03-14T21:03:38Z

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[[File:Mary.jpg|100px|link=Mary Sera]]
[[Mary Sera|Mary Akai née Sera]]
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Akai family

2026-03-14T21:03:32Z

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

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

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

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=== Tsutomu Akai ===
{{main|Tsutomu Akai}}
* Tsutomu is missing (unknown if alive or dead since his body was never found).
* Tsutomu passed his looks down to his middle son Shukichi.
* Tsutomu was not an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent.<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>
* Tsutomu was involved in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]].
* He instructed his family to escape to Japan. It happened before Masumi was born, so he never got to meet her.
* He had a rich friend, that looks after Masumi.
* He is an MI6 agent.

=== Mary Sera ===
[[File:Mary Profile.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mary]]
{{main|Mary}}
Mary is the mother of the three Akai siblings. She was forced to ingest the [[APTX 4869]] by Vermouth, causing her age to be regressed in the body of a middle-school child. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past. Mary passed her looks onto Shuichi and Masumi, who share her characteristic eyes. She moved to Britain three years ago with Masumi.
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=== Shuichi Akai (1st son) ===
{{main|Shuichi Akai}}
Shuichi Akai is the 1st son in Akai family. He is an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent and a major figure in the battle against the [[Black Organization]]. He once assumed the identity of Dai Moroboshi and infiltrated the Organization, where he was given the codename Rye. During this time he made enemies with [[Gin]] and [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and became romantically involved with [[Akemi Miyano]]. He subsequently put an end to his relationship with Jodie Starling (his colleague at the FBI). Recently, he faked his own death in order to keep the CIA infiltrator [[Hidemi Hondou]] from being uncovered as a spy within the Organization and disguised as [[Subaru Okiya]].

=== Shukichi Haneda (2nd son) ===
[[File:EP881 5.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|Shuichi and Shukichi on the beach.]]
{{main|Shukichi Haneda}}
Shukichi Haneda is the 2nd son in Akai family. He is a professional shogi player, as well as the boyfriend of Yumi Miyamoto. He has a non-blood brother named Kohji Haneda, a masterful shogi player, and a victim of APTX 4869.
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=== Masumi Sera (1st daughter) ===
{{main|Masumi Sera}}
Masumi Sera is the 1st daughter in Akai family. She is a high school detective. She is the younger sister of FBI agent [[Shuichi Akai]] and shogi player [[Shukichi Haneda]]. Also a practitioner of the martial art [[wikipedia:Jeet Kune Do|Jeet Kune Do]]. Although she grew up in Japan during her elementary school years, she moved to Britain three years ago with her mother, due to she learns that her father apparently roaming London. She has recently returned to Japan, in order to get closer to Conan and get the [[Prototype antidote|APTX antidote]] for her mother.

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

== Timeline ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width=120px style="background:brown;color:white;"|Time
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Event
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Shuichi's age
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Shukichi's age
! style="background:brown;color:white;"|Masumi's age
|-
| ??
| [[Tsutomu Akai]] and [[Mary]] are born and married. Mary takes her husband's surname Akai.
| N/A
| N/A
| N/A
|-
| >32 years ago
| [[Shuichi Akai]] is born.
| 0
| N/A
| N/A
|-
| 28 years ago
| [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi Akai]] is born.
| 4
| 0
| N/A
|-
| 17 years ago
| [[Kohji Haneda]] is killed with some formulation of [[APTX 4869]]. Tsutomu and Mary conceive Masumi.
| 15
| 11
| N/A
|-
| 16-17 years ago
| After Kohji's incident, Tsutomu Akai becomes involved with "horrible people." He leaves a message telling his family to leave England for Japan because it is safer. Tsutomu then disappears, no body is found, and he is presumed dead. Shuichi Akai refuses to let his father's murderers escape and formulates a plan to study in the US, get a US citizenship, and enter the FBI to investigate his "father's incident". Shuichi lies to Mary about his intentions and then leaves his family for the United States when Mary is beginning to have visible signs of being pregnant with Masumi.
| 15-16
| 11-12
| <0
|-
| 16-17 years ago
| [[Masumi Sera|Masumi Akai]] is born in Japan.
| 15-16
| 11-12
| 0
|-
| >14-15 years ago
| Masumi and Shukichi start using the family name Sera instead of Akai.
| <18
| <14
| <3
|-
| 14-15 years ago
| Shukichi enters high school with the family name Sera.
| 17-18
| 13-14
| 1-2
|-
| 10 years ago
| Shukichi graduates high school and changes his family name from Sera to Haneda. (Masumi says all three siblings have different family names. Masumi has "Sera", Shuichi has "Akai", and Shukichi has "Haneda".) Mary, Masumi, and Shukichi reunite with Shuichi at a Japanese beach after 7 years. Shuichi and Masumi meet for the first time. Shuichi has obtained full USA citizenship after getting a green card. He has not taken the test to become an FBI agent yet.
| 21-22
| 17-18
| 6-7
|-
| 5-10 years ago
| Shuichi sends Masumi Jeet Kune Do videos to Masumi in elementary school.
| 22-27
| 18-23
| 6-11
|-
| 5 years ago
| Shuichi starts infiltrating the [[Black Organization]] and dating [[Akemi Miyano]].
| 27
| 23
| 11-12
|-
| 4 years ago
| Masumi sees Shuichi in Japan.
| 28
| 24
| 12-13
|-
| 3 years ago
| Mary learns that Tsutomu is apparently roaming London and immediately moves to Britain, taking Masumi along as added insurance. Masumi studies middle school at Britain.
| 29
| 25
| 13-14
|-
| 2 years ago
| Shuichi is uncovered as an FBI agent and is ejected from the Black Organization.
| 30
| 26
| 14-15
|-
| Current
| Shuichi has his death faked and is living in secret. Mary leaving Masumi and meet Tsutomu at Vauxhall Bridge, but Tsutomu is revealed to be [[Vermouth]] in disguise. There she was trapped and forced to ingest the APTX 4869, causing her age to be regressed and return to Masumi hours later in the body of a middle-school child. Later on, they witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during [[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Minerva's match on TV]], and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|10 years ago]]. They realised that Conan is Shinichi who shrunk the same way as Mary, however, he has a way of returning as Shinichi to board a plane to London. Masumi comes back to Japan and has been living in different hotels with Mary, in order to get closer to Conan and get their hands on the antidote. Shukichi has been living in Japan winning shogi awards.
| 32
| 28
| 16-17
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== See also ==
* [[Haneda family]]
* [[Miyano family]]

[[Category:Families]]

[[de:Familie Akai]]

Momiji Ooka

2025-08-19T13:30:33Z

SocietyBox: /* Background */ 大岡コンツェルン

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| japanese-name = 大岡紅葉 (Ōoka Momiji)
| english-name = Momiji Ooka (bangzoom)
| image = Momiji Ooka Profile.png
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| gender = Female
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| relatives = Mrs. Ooka (mother) Mr. Ooka (grandfather, retiree)<ref>Murder on the Shinkansen Case</ref>
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| english-voice = [[Faye Mata]]
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{{nihongo|'''Momiji Ooka'''|大岡紅葉|Ōoka Momiji}} is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Momiji Ooka is a second-year student from Kyoto Senshin High School. Her family is linked to the Ooka Group and likely to be wealthy, since she has a personal butler and her grandfather is a former Prime Minister<ref name=f114>[[Volume 105#The Butler and the Young Lady|Volume 105, File 1114, Page 06: The Butler and the Young Lady]]</ref>, third to [[Renya Karasuma]] and [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] in Tokyo.<ref>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> She has romantic interest in [[Heiji Hattori]] and refers to him as her future husband. They knew each other when they were kids and played karuta together.<ref>[[Volume 98#Momiji's Challenge|Volume 98, File 1039: Momiji's Challenge]]</ref> This makes her a rival of [[Kazuha Toyama]] and she tries to disrupt their romance.

Momiji appears to be an extremely competent detective, as she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with her butler, [[Muga Iori]], before [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], Heiji or [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] did. Later, Iori says that her deduction was great as usual, implying that she regularly solves cases and also says that Heiji's great deductive skill was to be expected from the person that Momiji chose as her partner.

== Personality ==
Momiji has a close personal interest in Heiji's cases as he makes the news. For some reason, she believes Heiji will be her future husband, despite his feelings for Kazuha. She and Heiji did meet as children and apparently made a promise. Momiji is also extremely smart, especially in regards to catching details that others miss. When Iori informed her via phone some details about a case Heiji was working, Momiji actually caught other signals that Iori himself had missed and used them to reach a correct deduction that would greatly help Conan and Heiji. Iori also implies that Momiji engages in her own detective work at times, as she is no stranger to making such deductions. Momiji seems to be very girlish and a bit vain, plus fond of taking some degree of care in her appearance.

== Appearance ==
Momoji is a fair-skinned girl of average height and slender frame. She is considered very beautiful with noticeably full lips and wavy, ash-blond hair that is cheek-length and parts on to the left of her forehead. The most noticeable trait about her is her very large bust, which is bigger than most girls her age, so much that the flat-chested [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] was jealous and baffled and [[Soshi Okita|Okita]] to simply referring to Momiji as "Boobs". She is a very stylish girl with pierced ears and small earrings, and her nails are seen painted in intricate patterns.

== Abilities ==
Momiji is a skilled detective as she could solve a case just from hearing voice from phone and noticing knowing names of Kyoto on code.

== Appellations ==
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{{Appellations|Muga Iori|Young Lady (''Ojō-sama'') Momiji-sama Young Lady Momiji (''Momiji-ojō-sama'')|Iori}}
{{Appellations|Soshi Okita|Boobs (''Oppai'')|Okita-kun That kendo boy (''ano kendō kozō'')}}
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{{Appellations|Heiji Hattori|Momiji|Heiji-kun My future husband (''uchi no mirai no danna-san'')}}
{{Appellations|Kazuha Toyama|That girl (''ano ko'') Momiji|Leaf girl (''Happa-chan'') Kazuha-chan}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Momiji-san|Ran-san}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Momiji-san|Conan-kun}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|-|Kudo-kun}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Curse of the Nue (Manga: [[Volume 91#Curse of the Nue|962]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend|874]]) ===
After the case, Momiji appears by reads about the case on her smartphone and calls Heiji her future husband.

=== Murder inside Café Poirot (Manga: [[Volume 93#Murder inside Café Poirot Case|983]], Anime: [[Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café|886]]) ===
Momiji send her butler, Muga Iori, to observe Heiji at cafe Poirot. Later, a case happen at cafe Poirot and she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with Iori and relays a hint in form of Hyakunin Isshu poem to Heiji via Iori to solve the case. After the case is solved, Iori travels back to Kyoto and in a call with Momiji at the airport, despite his apparent affection for a [[Kazuha Toyama|different girl]]. Iori approves of her choosing Heiji as her future partner and tells her that he will do his best to support her.

=== Kendo Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 93#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|990]]-[[Volume 94#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|993]], Anime: [[The Kendo Tournament of Love and Mystery|916-917]]) ===
Momiji and Iori were present at the tournament. They were hoping Heiji would win, but he became involved in a case and was disqualified for not appearing at his match in time. Disappointed, the two fail to approach Heiji.

=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 94#Crimson School Trip Case|1002-1003]] & [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|927-928]]) ===
Momiji showed up by meeting Ran, Shinichi, Sonoko, Masumi, and Nakamichi on a part of the Kyoto school trip. Masumi and Nakamichi is jealous and baffled of her having a notably larger bust size. They encounter the Tengu chaos, leaving Momiji and Sonoko behind. However, they were protected by Iori and Heiji which surprised her. She saw through the code which is similar to Kyoto's streets' and districts' corresponding to the position, which help Shinichi, Heiji, and Masumi to solve the case. It is also revealed that she and Okita are classmates.

=== Lover Code Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Lover Code Case|1039-1042]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Challenge|1024-1025]]) ===
Momiji and Iori meet Heiji and Kazuha to convinced Heiji to solve the code. She hinted to Heiji that Shinichi will also try to solve it and if Heiji loses the challenge then he must do as Momiji wishes. After Heiji and Shinichi crack the code they arrive at the scene to find a man dead. Iori then states that the first person to find the culprit is the winner. They also find that Heiji wants to confessing his feeling to Kazuha and decide to help Shinichi. However, Heiji is able to solve the case and grabs Kazuha in order to confess to her. Iori whispers something to Kazuha and she runs off when Heiji is in the middle of speaking to prevent his confessing.

=== Detective Play Director Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Detective Play Director Murder Case|1088-1090]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Sweet Trap|1135-1136]]) ===
Momiji is the sponsor for a detective show and invited [[Hyoue Kuroda|Kuroda]] as the advisor, since he is well known to her family. She also take a chance to kiss Heiji, only to be disrupt by Conan.

=== Detective Play Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 106#Detective Play Murder Case|1129-1133]], Anime: TBA) ===
Even after director Kyosuke Kabumoto died and screenwriter Reisuke Inaba is arrested, Momiji decides that she will go forward and sponsor the play to go in motion. Conan, Kogoro, Ran, Kazuha and Heiji end up going to the play's premiere, which adapts their life, with the "Heiji" in the play actually being in love with the "Momiji" in the play. Even though she does not appear in the case itself, after the case concludes, Heiji confesses to Kazuha, which Momiji seems to have been able to sense a hundred kilometers away in Omi Shrine in Shiga Prefecture, as she cries, feeling like she lost something, even though she won her Karuta tournament.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Crimson Love Letter (Movie: [[The Crimson Love Letter|21]]) ===
Momiji Ooka is introduced as a champion of [[Wikipedia: Uta-garuta|Hyakunin Isshu karuta]] who met Heiji when they were younger at a karuta tournament. Momiji claims Heiji promised to marry her. At the end, Heiji reveals she misheard him and that he actually said: "But next time we meet, I'll be even stronger, so hone yer skills and wait for me". In Japanese, the word for stronger is "tsuyome" and the one for bride is "yome".

=== The Million-dollar Pentagram (Movie: [[The Million-dollar Pentagram|27]]) ===
Momiji and her butler, Iori, go to possible romantic spots in Hakodate, Hokkaido, knowing Heiji would most likely be considering the best spot to confess. Momiji and Heiji never meet face to face in the film, but Momiji helps Heiji with a code part of the central mystery. She and Iori help in the climax by dropping flash bombs on the antagonists during a car chase involving Conan.

== Relationships ==
=== Heiji Hattori ===
Momiji and Heiji met when they were kids. Momiji has a love interest for Heiji and even calls him her "future husband".

=== Kazuha Toyama ===
Because of this love interest, Momiji and Kazuha consider one another as rivals and their interactions are laced with one or another degree of passive-aggression.

=== Muga Iori ===
Iori is Momiji's butler and loyal servant. She values that he approves of Heiji as her future husband.

=== Soshi Okita ===
Momiji and Okita are classmates. While talking to Ran, Momiji is annoyed at the mere mention of Okita, whom she calls "that kendo boy", though she is willing to deliver a message from Ran to him. When he later comes over to the crime scene with some kendo buddies to hunt down tengus, Momiji only has sarcastic comments and further annoyance to offer. In turn, Okita doesn't want Momiji to learn of the girl he has a crush on, fearing he would never hear the end of it if she heard of his crush. Somewhat rudely, Okita only refers to Momiji as "Boobs" in a conversation with Ran, in reference to her overly large breasts.

=== Ran Mouri ===
Ran and Momiji are acquainted but not close. They exchanged contact details and Momiji tried to send a message to Shinichi through Ran. They're mostly polite to one another.

== Manga vs. movie ==
Momiji is unique in that her character was introduced primarily in the movie [[The Crimson Love Letter]]. Despite movies being non-canon, her background and her connection with other characters are established in the movie, without which the manga does not fully make sense. In the movie, Momiji meets Ran, Kazuha and Conan for the first time and she knew Heiji from when they were younger. In file 1002, Ran says they only met recently when she and her father travelled to Kyoto (not depicted in the manga) while Kazuha and Heiji are already very familiar with Momiji despite never having met in the manga.

== Name origin ==
Her first name means "[[Wikipedia: Acer palmatum|red leaves]]," which is the name of the Japanese maple tree. In Japan, the custom of viewing the changing colour of maples in the autumn is called "[[Wikipedia: Leaf peeping#Japan|Momijigari]]," and Kyoto, the city where Momiji is from, is known for its "momijigari" spots.

Her surname means "large hill", and it comes from Ooka Tadasuke (大岡忠相). Not only was he a real-life samurai and magistrate in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate, but he has also been featured in jidai geki series like ''Ōoka Echizen'' and ''Meibugyō! Ōoka Echizen'', among others.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Momiji Ooka Profile 2.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Movie 21]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP874-Momiji.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 874]]
|}

==Trivia==
*Due to being from a privileged family, she has never eaten pizza and doesn’t know how to cook, thus she holds a knife improperly.<ref>Detective Play Director Murder Case</ref>

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

== References ==
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[[Category:High school students]]

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Momiji Ooka

2025-08-19T12:47:26Z

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| name = Momiji Ooka
| japanese-name = 大岡紅葉 (Ōoka Momiji)
| english-name = Momiji Ooka (bangzoom)
| image = Momiji Ooka Profile.png
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = Mrs. Ooka (mother) Mr. Ooka (grandfather, retiree)<ref>Murder on the Shinkansen Case</ref>
| nicknames =
| aliases =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 91|File 962]] Anime: [[The Crimson Love Letter|Movie 21]]
| appearances = {{:Momiji Ooka Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 98]]
| japanese-voice = [[Satsuki Yukino]]
| english-voice = [[Faye Mata]]
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Momiji Ooka'''|大岡紅葉|Ōoka Momiji}} is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Momiji Ooka is a second-year student from Kyoto Senshin High School. Her family is likely to be wealthy, since she has a personal butler and her grandfather is a former Prime Minister<ref name=f114>[[Volume 105#The Butler and the Young Lady|Volume 105, File 1114, Page 06: The Butler and the Young Lady]]</ref>, third to [[Renya Karasuma]] and [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] in Tokyo.<ref>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> She has romantic interest in [[Heiji Hattori]] and refers to him as her future husband. They knew each other when they were kids and played karuta together.<ref>[[Volume 98#Momiji's Challenge|Volume 98, File 1039: Momiji's Challenge]]</ref> This makes her a rival of [[Kazuha Toyama]] and she tries to disrupt their romance.

Momiji appears to be an extremely competent detective, as she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with her butler, [[Muga Iori]], before [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], Heiji or [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] did. Later, Iori says that her deduction was great as usual, implying that she regularly solves cases and also says that Heiji's great deductive skill was to be expected from the person that Momiji chose as her partner.

== Personality ==
Momiji has a close personal interest in Heiji's cases as he makes the news. For some reason, she believes Heiji will be her future husband, despite his feelings for Kazuha. She and Heiji did meet as children and apparently made a promise. Momiji is also extremely smart, especially in regards to catching details that others miss. When Iori informed her via phone some details about a case Heiji was working, Momiji actually caught other signals that Iori himself had missed and used them to reach a correct deduction that would greatly help Conan and Heiji. Iori also implies that Momiji engages in her own detective work at times, as she is no stranger to making such deductions. Momiji seems to be very girlish and a bit vain, plus fond of taking some degree of care in her appearance.

== Appearance ==
Momoji is a fair-skinned girl of average height and slender frame. She is considered very beautiful with noticeably full lips and wavy, ash-blond hair that is cheek-length and parts on to the left of her forehead. The most noticeable trait about her is her very large bust, which is bigger than most girls her age, so much that the flat-chested [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] was jealous and baffled and [[Soshi Okita|Okita]] to simply referring to Momiji as "Boobs". She is a very stylish girl with pierced ears and small earrings, and her nails are seen painted in intricate patterns.

== Abilities ==
Momiji is a skilled detective as she could solve a case just from hearing voice from phone and noticing knowing names of Kyoto on code.

== Appellations ==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Friends and relatives">
{{appellations/head|Momiji Ooka}}
{{Appellations|Muga Iori|Young Lady (''Ojō-sama'') Momiji-sama Young Lady Momiji (''Momiji-ojō-sama'')|Iori}}
{{Appellations|Soshi Okita|Boobs (''Oppai'')|Okita-kun That kendo boy (''ano kendō kozō'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{Appellations/head|Momiji Ooka}}
{{Appellations|Heiji Hattori|Momiji|Heiji-kun My future husband (''uchi no mirai no danna-san'')}}
{{Appellations|Kazuha Toyama|That girl (''ano ko'') Momiji|Leaf girl (''Happa-chan'') Kazuha-chan}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Momiji-san|Ran-san}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Momiji-san|Conan-kun}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|-|Kudo-kun}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Curse of the Nue (Manga: [[Volume 91#Curse of the Nue|962]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend|874]]) ===
After the case, Momiji appears by reads about the case on her smartphone and calls Heiji her future husband.

=== Murder inside Café Poirot (Manga: [[Volume 93#Murder inside Café Poirot Case|983]], Anime: [[Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café|886]]) ===
Momiji send her butler, Muga Iori, to observe Heiji at cafe Poirot. Later, a case happen at cafe Poirot and she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with Iori and relays a hint in form of Hyakunin Isshu poem to Heiji via Iori to solve the case. After the case is solved, Iori travels back to Kyoto and in a call with Momiji at the airport, despite his apparent affection for a [[Kazuha Toyama|different girl]]. Iori approves of her choosing Heiji as her future partner and tells her that he will do his best to support her.

=== Kendo Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 93#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|990]]-[[Volume 94#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|993]], Anime: [[The Kendo Tournament of Love and Mystery|916-917]]) ===
Momiji and Iori were present at the tournament. They were hoping Heiji would win, but he became involved in a case and was disqualified for not appearing at his match in time. Disappointed, the two fail to approach Heiji.

=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 94#Crimson School Trip Case|1002-1003]] & [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|927-928]]) ===
Momiji showed up by meeting Ran, Shinichi, Sonoko, Masumi, and Nakamichi on a part of the Kyoto school trip. Masumi and Nakamichi is jealous and baffled of her having a notably larger bust size. They encounter the Tengu chaos, leaving Momiji and Sonoko behind. However, they were protected by Iori and Heiji which surprised her. She saw through the code which is similar to Kyoto's streets' and districts' corresponding to the position, which help Shinichi, Heiji, and Masumi to solve the case. It is also revealed that she and Okita are classmates.

=== Lover Code Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Lover Code Case|1039-1042]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Challenge|1024-1025]]) ===
Momiji and Iori meet Heiji and Kazuha to convinced Heiji to solve the code. She hinted to Heiji that Shinichi will also try to solve it and if Heiji loses the challenge then he must do as Momiji wishes. After Heiji and Shinichi crack the code they arrive at the scene to find a man dead. Iori then states that the first person to find the culprit is the winner. They also find that Heiji wants to confessing his feeling to Kazuha and decide to help Shinichi. However, Heiji is able to solve the case and grabs Kazuha in order to confess to her. Iori whispers something to Kazuha and she runs off when Heiji is in the middle of speaking to prevent his confessing.

=== Detective Play Director Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Detective Play Director Murder Case|1088-1090]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Sweet Trap|1135-1136]]) ===
Momiji is the sponsor for a detective show and invited [[Hyoue Kuroda|Kuroda]] as the advisor, since he is well known to her family. She also take a chance to kiss Heiji, only to be disrupt by Conan.

=== Detective Play Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 106#Detective Play Murder Case|1129-1133]], Anime: TBA) ===
Even after director Kyosuke Kabumoto died and screenwriter Reisuke Inaba is arrested, Momiji decides that she will go forward and sponsor the play to go in motion. Conan, Kogoro, Ran, Kazuha and Heiji end up going to the play's premiere, which adapts their life, with the "Heiji" in the play actually being in love with the "Momiji" in the play. Even though she does not appear in the case itself, after the case concludes, Heiji confesses to Kazuha, which Momiji seems to have been able to sense a hundred kilometers away in Omi Shrine in Shiga Prefecture, as she cries, feeling like she lost something, even though she won her Karuta tournament.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Crimson Love Letter (Movie: [[The Crimson Love Letter|21]]) ===
Momiji Ooka is introduced as a champion of [[Wikipedia: Uta-garuta|Hyakunin Isshu karuta]] who met Heiji when they were younger at a karuta tournament. Momiji claims Heiji promised to marry her. At the end, Heiji reveals she misheard him and that he actually said: "But next time we meet, I'll be even stronger, so hone yer skills and wait for me". In Japanese, the word for stronger is "tsuyome" and the one for bride is "yome".

=== The Million-dollar Pentagram (Movie: [[The Million-dollar Pentagram|27]]) ===
Momiji and her butler, Iori, go to possible romantic spots in Hakodate, Hokkaido, knowing Heiji would most likely be considering the best spot to confess. Momiji and Heiji never meet face to face in the film, but Momiji helps Heiji with a code part of the central mystery. She and Iori help in the climax by dropping flash bombs on the antagonists during a car chase involving Conan.

== Relationships ==
=== Heiji Hattori ===
Momiji and Heiji met when they were kids. Momiji has a love interest for Heiji and even calls him her "future husband".

=== Kazuha Toyama ===
Because of this love interest, Momiji and Kazuha consider one another as rivals and their interactions are laced with one or another degree of passive-aggression.

=== Muga Iori ===
Iori is Momiji's butler and loyal servant. She values that he approves of Heiji as her future husband.

=== Soshi Okita ===
Momiji and Okita are classmates. While talking to Ran, Momiji is annoyed at the mere mention of Okita, whom she calls "that kendo boy", though she is willing to deliver a message from Ran to him. When he later comes over to the crime scene with some kendo buddies to hunt down tengus, Momiji only has sarcastic comments and further annoyance to offer. In turn, Okita doesn't want Momiji to learn of the girl he has a crush on, fearing he would never hear the end of it if she heard of his crush. Somewhat rudely, Okita only refers to Momiji as "Boobs" in a conversation with Ran, in reference to her overly large breasts.

=== Ran Mouri ===
Ran and Momiji are acquainted but not close. They exchanged contact details and Momiji tried to send a message to Shinichi through Ran. They're mostly polite to one another.

== Manga vs. movie ==
Momiji is unique in that her character was introduced primarily in the movie [[The Crimson Love Letter]]. Despite movies being non-canon, her background and her connection with other characters are established in the movie, without which the manga does not fully make sense. In the movie, Momiji meets Ran, Kazuha and Conan for the first time and she knew Heiji from when they were younger. In file 1002, Ran says they only met recently when she and her father travelled to Kyoto (not depicted in the manga) while Kazuha and Heiji are already very familiar with Momiji despite never having met in the manga.

== Name origin ==
Her first name means "[[Wikipedia: Acer palmatum|red leaves]]," which is the name of the Japanese maple tree. In Japan, the custom of viewing the changing colour of maples in the autumn is called "[[Wikipedia: Leaf peeping#Japan|Momijigari]]," and Kyoto, the city where Momiji is from, is known for its "momijigari" spots.

Her surname means "large hill", and it comes from Ooka Tadasuke (大岡忠相). Not only was he a real-life samurai and magistrate in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate, but he has also been featured in jidai geki series like ''Ōoka Echizen'' and ''Meibugyō! Ōoka Echizen'', among others.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Momiji Ooka Profile 2.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Movie 21]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP874-Momiji.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 874]]
|}

==Trivia==
*Due to being from a privileged family, she has never eaten pizza and doesn’t know how to cook, thus she holds a knife improperly.<ref>Detective Play Director Murder Case</ref>

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

== References ==
<references/>

{{Characters}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ooka Momiji}}

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:High school students]]

[[de:Momiji Ooka]]
[[zh:大冈红叶]]

Momiji Ooka

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| name = Momiji Ooka
| japanese-name = 大岡紅葉 (Ōoka Momiji)
| english-name = Momiji Ooka (bangzoom)
| image = Momiji Ooka Profile.png
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = Mrs. Ooka (mother) Mr. Ooka (grandfather, retiree)<ref>Murder on the Shinkansen Case</ref>
| nicknames =
| aliases =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 91|File 962]] Anime: [[The Crimson Love Letter|Movie 21]]
| appearances = {{:Momiji Ooka Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 98]]
| japanese-voice = [[Satsuki Yukino]]
| english-voice = [[Faye Mata]]
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Momiji Ooka'''|大岡紅葉|Ōoka Momiji}} is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Momiji Ooka is a second-year student from Kyoto Senshin High School. Her family is likely to be wealthy, since she has a personal butler and her grandfather is a former Prime Minister<ref name=f114>[[Volume 105#The Butler and the Young Lady|Volume 105, File 1114, Page 06: The Butler and the Young Lady]]</ref>, third to [[Renya Karasuma]] and [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] in Tokyo.<ref>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> She has romantic interest in [[Heiji Hattori]] and refers to him as her future husband. They knew each other when they were kids and played karuta together.<ref>[[Volume 98#Momiji's Challenge|Volume 98, File 1039: Momiji's Challenge]]</ref> This makes her a rival of [[Kazuha Toyama]] and she tries to disrupt their romance.

Momiji appears to be an extremely competent detective, as she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with her butler, [[Muga Iori]], before [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], Heiji or [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] did. Later, Iori says that her deduction was great as usual, implying that she regularly solves cases and also says that Heiji's great deductive skill was to be expected from the person that Momiji chose as her partner.

== Personality ==
Momiji has a close personal interest in Heiji's cases as he makes the news. For some reason, she believes Heiji will be her future husband, despite his feelings for Kazuha. She and Heiji did meet as children and apparently made a promise. Momiji is also extremely smart, especially in regards to catching details that others miss. When Iori informed her via phone some details about a case Heiji was working, Momiji actually caught other signals that Iori himself had missed and used them to reach a correct deduction that would greatly help Conan and Heiji. Iori also implies that Momiji engages in her own detective work at times, as she is no stranger to making such deductions. Momiji seems to be very girlish and a bit vain, plus fond of taking some degree of care in her appearance.

== Appearance ==
Momoji is a fair-skinned girl of average height and slender frame. She is considered very beautiful with noticeably full lips and wavy, ash-blond hair that is cheek-length and parts on to the left of her forehead. The most noticeable trait about her is her very large bust, which is bigger than most girls her age, so much that the flat-chested [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] was jealous and baffled and [[Soshi Okita|Okita]] to simply referring to Momiji as "Boobs". She is a very stylish girl with pierced ears and small earrings, and her nails are seen painted in intricate patterns.

== Abilities ==
Momiji is a skilled detective as she could solve a case just from hearing voice from phone and noticing knowing names of Kyoto on code.

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations/head|Momiji Ooka}}
{{Appellations|Muga Iori|Young Lady (''Ojō-sama'') Momiji-sama Young Lady Momiji (''Momiji-ojō-sama'')|Iori}}
{{Appellations|Soshi Okita|Boobs (''Oppai'')|Okita-kun That kendo boy (''ano kendō kozō'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{Appellations/head|Momiji Ooka}}
{{Appellations|Heiji Hattori|Momiji|Heiji-kun My future husband (''uchi no mirai no danna-san'')}}
{{Appellations|Kazuha Toyama|That girl (''ano ko'') Momiji|Leaf girl (''Happa-chan'') Kazuha-chan}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Momiji-san|Ran-san}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Momiji-san|Conan-kun}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|-|Kudo-kun}}
|}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Curse of the Nue (Manga: [[Volume 91#Curse of the Nue|962]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend|874]]) ===
After the case, Momiji appears by reads about the case on her smartphone and calls Heiji her future husband.

=== Murder inside Café Poirot (Manga: [[Volume 93#Murder inside Café Poirot Case|983]], Anime: [[Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café|886]]) ===
Momiji send her butler, Muga Iori, to observe Heiji at cafe Poirot. Later, a case happen at cafe Poirot and she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with Iori and relays a hint in form of Hyakunin Isshu poem to Heiji via Iori to solve the case. After the case is solved, Iori travels back to Kyoto and in a call with Momiji at the airport, despite his apparent affection for a [[Kazuha Toyama|different girl]]. Iori approves of her choosing Heiji as her future partner and tells her that he will do his best to support her.

=== Kendo Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 93#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|990]]-[[Volume 94#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|993]], Anime: [[The Kendo Tournament of Love and Mystery|916-917]]) ===
Momiji and Iori were present at the tournament. They were hoping Heiji would win, but he became involved in a case and was disqualified for not appearing at his match in time. Disappointed, the two fail to approach Heiji.

=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 94#Crimson School Trip Case|1002-1003]] & [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|927-928]]) ===
Momiji showed up by meeting Ran, Shinichi, Sonoko, Masumi, and Nakamichi on a part of the Kyoto school trip. Masumi and Nakamichi is jealous and baffled of her having a notably larger bust size. They encounter the Tengu chaos, leaving Momiji and Sonoko behind. However, they were protected by Iori and Heiji which surprised her. She saw through the code which is similar to Kyoto's streets' and districts' corresponding to the position, which help Shinichi, Heiji, and Masumi to solve the case. It is also revealed that she and Okita are classmates.

=== Lover Code Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Lover Code Case|1039-1042]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Challenge|1024-1025]]) ===
Momiji and Iori meet Heiji and Kazuha to convinced Heiji to solve the code. She hinted to Heiji that Shinichi will also try to solve it and if Heiji loses the challenge then he must do as Momiji wishes. After Heiji and Shinichi crack the code they arrive at the scene to find a man dead. Iori then states that the first person to find the culprit is the winner. They also find that Heiji wants to confessing his feeling to Kazuha and decide to help Shinichi. However, Heiji is able to solve the case and grabs Kazuha in order to confess to her. Iori whispers something to Kazuha and she runs off when Heiji is in the middle of speaking to prevent his confessing.

=== Detective Play Director Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Detective Play Director Murder Case|1088-1090]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Sweet Trap|1135-1136]]) ===
Momiji is the sponsor for a detective show and invited [[Hyoue Kuroda|Kuroda]] as the advisor, since he is well known to her family. She also take a chance to kiss Heiji, only to be disrupt by Conan.

=== Detective Play Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 106#Detective Play Murder Case|1129-1133]], Anime: TBA) ===
Even after director Kyosuke Kabumoto died and screenwriter Reisuke Inaba is arrested, Momiji decides that she will go forward and sponsor the play to go in motion. Conan, Kogoro, Ran, Kazuha and Heiji end up going to the play's premiere, which adapts their life, with the "Heiji" in the play actually being in love with the "Momiji" in the play. Even though she does not appear in the case itself, after the case concludes, Heiji confesses to Kazuha, which Momiji seems to have been able to sense a hundred kilometers away in Omi Shrine in Shiga Prefecture, as she cries, feeling like she lost something, even though she won her Karuta tournament.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Crimson Love Letter (Movie: [[The Crimson Love Letter|21]]) ===
Momiji Ooka is introduced as a champion of [[Wikipedia: Uta-garuta|Hyakunin Isshu karuta]] who met Heiji when they were younger at a karuta tournament. Momiji claims Heiji promised to marry her. At the end, Heiji reveals she misheard him and that he actually said: "But next time we meet, I'll be even stronger, so hone yer skills and wait for me". In Japanese, the word for stronger is "tsuyome" and the one for bride is "yome".

=== The Million-dollar Pentagram (Movie: [[The Million-dollar Pentagram|27]]) ===
Momiji and her butler, Iori, go to possible romantic spots in Hakodate, Hokkaido, knowing Heiji would most likely be considering the best spot to confess. Momiji and Heiji never meet face to face in the film, but Momiji helps Heiji with a code part of the central mystery. She and Iori help in the climax by dropping flash bombs on the antagonists during a car chase involving Conan.

== Relationships ==
=== Heiji Hattori ===
Momiji and Heiji made a promise years ago, which she still remembers and was revealed to be that Heiji proposed to her. She immediately recognized him, but Heiji at first didn't. She has a love interest for Heiji and even calls him her "future husband". This promise was proven otherwise in the movie.

=== Kazuha Toyama ===
Because of this love interest, Momiji and Kazuha consider one another as rivals and their interactions are laced with one or another degree of passive-aggression.

=== Muga Iori ===
Iori is Momiji's butler and loyal servant. She values that he approves of Heiji as her future husband.

=== Soshi Okita ===
Momiji and Okita are classmates. While talking to Ran, Momiji is annoyed at the mere mention of Okita, whom she calls "that kendo boy", though she is willing to deliver a message from Ran to him. When he later comes over to the crime scene with some kendo buddies to hunt down tengus, Momiji only has sarcastic comments and further annoyance to offer. In turn, Okita doesn't want Momiji to learn of the girl he has a crush on, fearing he would never hear the end of it if she heard of his crush. Somewhat rudely, Okita only refers to Momiji as "Boobs" in a conversation with Ran, in reference to her overly large breasts.

=== Ran Mouri ===
Ran and Momiji have met in the past: see below. They're mostly polite to one another.

== Manga vs. movie ==
Momiji is unique in that her character was introduced primarily in the movie [[The Crimson Love Letter]]. Despite movies being non-canon, her background and her connection with other characters are established in the movie, without which the manga does not fully make sense. In the movie, Momiji meets Ran, Kazuha and Conan for the first time and she knew Heiji from when they were younger. In file 1002, Ran says they only met recently when she and her father travelled to Kyoto (not depicted in the manga) while Kazuha and Heiji are already very familiar with Momiji despite never having met in the manga.

== Name origin ==
Her first name means "[[Wikipedia: Acer palmatum|red leaves]]," which is the name of the Japanese maple tree. In Japan, the custom of viewing the changing colour of maples in the autumn is called "[[Wikipedia: Leaf peeping#Japan|Momijigari]]," and Kyoto, the city where Momiji is from, is known for its "momijigari" spots.

Her surname means "large hill", and it comes from Ooka Tadasuke (大岡忠相). Not only was he a real-life samurai and magistrate in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate, but he has also been featured in jidai geki series like ''Ōoka Echizen'' and ''Meibugyō! Ōoka Echizen'', among others.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Momiji Ooka Profile 2.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Movie 21]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP874-Momiji.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 874]]
|}

==Trivia==
*Due to being from a privileged family, she has never eaten pizza and doesn’t know how to cook, thus she holds a knife improperly.<ref>Detective Play Director Murder Case</ref>

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

== References ==
<references/>

{{Characters}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ooka Momiji}}

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:High school students]]

[[de:Momiji Ooka]]
[[zh:大冈红叶]]

Momiji Ooka

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| name = Momiji Ooka
| japanese-name = 大岡紅葉 (Ōoka Momiji)
| english-name = Momiji Ooka (bangzoom)
| image = Momiji Ooka Profile.png
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = Mrs. Ooka (mother) Mr. Ooka (grandfather, retiree)<ref>Murder on the Shinkansen Case</ref>
| nicknames =
| aliases =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 91|File 962]] Anime: [[The Crimson Love Letter|Movie 21]]
| appearances = {{:Momiji Ooka Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 98]]
| japanese-voice = [[Satsuki Yukino]]
| english-voice = [[Faye Mata]]
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Momiji Ooka'''|大岡紅葉|Ōoka Momiji}} is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Momiji Ooka is a second-year student from Kyoto Senshin High School. Her family is likely to be wealthy, since she has a personal butler and her grandfather is a former Prime Minister<ref name=f114>[[Volume 105#The Butler and the Young Lady|Volume 105, File 1114, Page 06: The Butler and the Young Lady]]</ref>, third to [[Renya Karasuma]] and [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] in Tokyo.<ref>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> She has romantic interest in [[Heiji Hattori]] and refers to him as her future husband. This makes her a rival of [[Kazuha Toyama]] and she tries to disrupt their romance.

Momiji appears to be an extremely competent detective, as she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with her butler, [[Muga Iori]], before [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], Heiji or [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] did. Later, Iori says that her deduction was great as usual, implying that she regularly solves cases and also says that Heiji's great deductive skill was to be expected from the person that Momiji chose as her partner.

== Personality ==
Momiji has a close personal interest in Heiji's cases as he makes the news. For some reason, she believes Heiji will be her future husband, despite his feelings for Kazuha. She and Heiji did meet as children and apparently made a promise. Momiji is also extremely smart, especially in regards to catching details that others miss. When Iori informed her via phone some details about a case Heiji was working, Momiji actually caught other signals that Iori himself had missed and used them to reach a correct deduction that would greatly help Conan and Heiji. Iori also implies that Momiji engages in her own detective work at times, as she is no stranger to making such deductions. Momiji seems to be very girlish and a bit vain, plus fond of taking some degree of care in her appearance.

== Appearance ==
Momoji is a fair-skinned girl of average height and slender frame. She is considered very beautiful with noticeably full lips and wavy, ash-blond hair that is cheek-length and parts on to the left of her forehead. The most noticeable trait about her is her very large bust, which is bigger than most girls her age, so much that the flat-chested [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] was jealous and baffled and [[Soshi Okita|Okita]] to simply referring to Momiji as "Boobs". She is a very stylish girl with pierced ears and small earrings, and her nails are seen painted in intricate patterns.

== Abilities ==
Momiji is a skilled detective as she could solve a case just from hearing voice from phone and noticing knowing names of Kyoto on code.

== Appellations ==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Friends and relatives">
{{appellations/head|Momiji Ooka}}
{{Appellations|Muga Iori|Young Lady (''Ojō-sama'') Momiji-sama Young Lady Momiji (''Momiji-ojō-sama'')|Iori}}
{{Appellations|Soshi Okita|Boobs (''Oppai'')|Okita-kun That kendo boy (''ano kendō kozō'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{Appellations/head|Momiji Ooka}}
{{Appellations|Heiji Hattori|Momiji|Heiji-kun My future husband (''uchi no mirai no danna-san'')}}
{{Appellations|Kazuha Toyama|That girl (''ano ko'') Momiji|Leaf girl (''Happa-chan'') Kazuha-chan}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Momiji-san|Ran-san}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Momiji-san|Conan-kun}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|-|Kudo-kun}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Plot overview ==
=== Curse of the Nue (Manga: [[Volume 91#Curse of the Nue|962]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend|874]]) ===
After the case, Momiji appears by reads about the case on her smartphone and calls Heiji her future husband.

=== Murder inside Café Poirot (Manga: [[Volume 93#Murder inside Café Poirot Case|983]], Anime: [[Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café|886]]) ===
Momiji send her butler, Muga Iori, to observe Heiji at cafe Poirot. Later, a case happen at cafe Poirot and she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with Iori and relays a hint in form of Hyakunin Isshu poem to Heiji via Iori to solve the case. After the case is solved, Iori travels back to Kyoto and in a call with Momiji at the airport, despite his apparent affection for a [[Kazuha Toyama|different girl]]. Iori approves of her choosing Heiji as her future partner and tells her that he will do his best to support her.

=== Kendo Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 93#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|990]]-[[Volume 94#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|993]], Anime: [[The Kendo Tournament of Love and Mystery|916-917]]) ===
Momiji and Iori were present at the tournament. They were hoping Heiji would win, but he became involved in a case and was disqualified for not appearing at his match in time. Disappointed, the two fail to approach Heiji.

=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 94#Crimson School Trip Case|1002-1003]] & [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|927-928]]) ===
Momiji showed up by meeting Ran, Shinichi, Sonoko, Masumi, and Nakamichi on a part of the Kyoto school trip. Masumi and Nakamichi is jealous and baffled of her having a notably larger bust size. They encounter the Tengu chaos, leaving Momiji and Sonoko behind. However, they were protected by Iori and Heiji which surprised her. She saw through the code which is similar to Kyoto's streets' and districts' corresponding to the position, which help Shinichi, Heiji, and Masumi to solve the case. It is also revealed that she and Okita are classmates.

=== Lover Code Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Lover Code Case|1039-1042]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Challenge|1024-1025]]) ===
Momiji and Iori meet Heiji and Kazuha to convinced Heiji to solve the code. She hinted to Heiji that Shinichi will also try to solve it and if Heiji loses the challenge then he must do as Momiji wishes. After Heiji and Shinichi crack the code they arrive at the scene to find a man dead. Iori then states that the first person to find the culprit is the winner. They also find that Heiji wants to confessing his feeling to Kazuha and decide to help Shinichi. However, Heiji is able to solve the case and grabs Kazuha in order to confess to her. Iori whispers something to Kazuha and she runs off when Heiji is in the middle of speaking to prevent his confessing.

=== Detective Play Director Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Detective Play Director Murder Case|1088-1090]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Sweet Trap|1135-1136]]) ===
Momiji is the sponsor for a detective show and invited [[Hyoue Kuroda|Kuroda]] as the advisor, since he is well known to her family. She also take a chance to kiss Heiji, only to be disrupt by Conan.

=== Detective Play Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 106#Detective Play Murder Case|1129-1133]], Anime: TBA) ===
Even after director Kyosuke Kabumoto died and screenwriter Reisuke Inaba is arrested, Momiji decides that she will go forward and sponsor the play to go in motion. Conan, Kogoro, Ran, Kazuha and Heiji end up going to the play's premiere, which adapts their life, with the "Heiji" in the play actually being in love with the "Momiji" in the play. Even though she does not appear in the case itself, after the case concludes, Heiji confesses to Kazuha, which Momiji seems to have been able to sense a hundred kilometers away in Omi Shrine in Shiga Prefecture, as she cries, feeling like she lost something, even though she won her Karuta tournament.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Crimson Love Letter (Movie: [[The Crimson Love Letter|21]]) ===
Momiji Ooka is introduced as a champion of [[Wikipedia: Uta-garuta|Hyakunin Isshu karuta]] who met Heiji when they were younger at a karuta tournament. Momiji claims Heiji promised to marry her. At the end, Heiji reveals she misheard him and that he actually said: "But next time we meet, I'll be even stronger, so hone yer skills and wait for me". In Japanese, the word for stronger is "tsuyome" and the one for bride is "yome".

=== The Million-dollar Pentagram (Movie: [[The Million-dollar Pentagram|27]]) ===
Momiji and her butler, Iori, go to possible romantic spots in Hakodate, Hokkaido, knowing Heiji would most likely be considering the best spot to confess. Momiji and Heiji never meet face to face in the film, but Momiji helps Heiji with a code part of the central mystery. She and Iori help in the climax by dropping flash bombs on the antagonists during a car chase involving Conan.

== Relationships ==
=== Heiji Hattori ===
Momiji and Heiji made a promise years ago, which she still remembers and was revealed to be that Heiji proposed to her. She immediately recognized him, but Heiji at first didn't. She has a love interest for Heiji and even calls him her "future husband". This promise was proven otherwise in the movie.

=== Kazuha Toyama ===
Because of this love interest, Momiji and Kazuha consider one another as rivals and their interactions are laced with one or another degree of passive-aggression.

=== Muga Iori ===
Iori is Momiji's butler and loyal servant. She values that he approves of Heiji as her future husband.

=== Soshi Okita ===
Momiji and Okita are classmates. While talking to Ran, Momiji is annoyed at the mere mention of Okita, whom she calls "that kendo boy", though she is willing to deliver a message from Ran to him. When he later comes over to the crime scene with some kendo buddies to hunt down tengus, Momiji only has sarcastic comments and further annoyance to offer. In turn, Okita doesn't want Momiji to learn of the girl he has a crush on, fearing he would never hear the end of it if she heard of his crush. Somewhat rudely, Okita only refers to Momiji as "Boobs" in a conversation with Ran, in reference to her overly large breasts.

=== Ran Mouri ===
Ran and Momiji have met in the past: see below. They're mostly polite to one another.

== Manga vs. movie ==
Momiji is unique in that her character was introduced primarily in the movie [[The Crimson Love Letter]]. Despite movies being non-canon, her background and her connection with other characters are established in the movie, without which the manga does not fully make sense. In the movie, Momiji meets Ran, Kazuha and Conan for the first time and she knew Heiji from when they were younger. In file 1002, Ran says they only met recently when she and her father travelled to Kyoto (not depicted in the manga) while Kazuha and Heiji are already very familiar with Momiji despite never having met in the manga.

== Name origin ==
Her first name means "[[Wikipedia: Acer palmatum|red leaves]]," which is the name of the Japanese maple tree. In Japan, the custom of viewing the changing colour of maples in the autumn is called "[[Wikipedia: Leaf peeping#Japan|Momijigari]]," and Kyoto, the city where Momiji is from, is known for its "momijigari" spots.

Her surname means "large hill", and it comes from Ooka Tadasuke (大岡忠相). Not only was he a real-life samurai and magistrate in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate, but he has also been featured in jidai geki series like ''Ōoka Echizen'' and ''Meibugyō! Ōoka Echizen'', among others.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Momiji Ooka Profile 2.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Movie 21]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP874-Momiji.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 874]]
|}

==Trivia==
*Due to being from a privileged family, she has never eaten pizza and doesn’t know how to cook, thus she holds a knife improperly.<ref>Detective Play Director Murder Case</ref>

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

== References ==
<references/>

{{Characters}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ooka Momiji}}

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:High school students]]

[[de:Momiji Ooka]]
[[zh:大冈红叶]]

Momiji Ooka

2025-08-19T12:09:09Z

SocietyBox: non-canon cleanup

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Momiji Ooka
| japanese-name = 大岡紅葉 (Ōoka Momiji)
| english-name = Momiji Ooka (bangzoom)
| image = Momiji Ooka Profile.png
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = Mrs. Ooka (mother) Mr. Ooka (grandfather, retiree)<ref>Murder on the Shinkansen Case</ref>
| nicknames =
| aliases =
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 91|File 962]] Anime: [[The Crimson Love Letter|Movie 21]]
| appearances = {{:Momiji Ooka Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 98]]
| japanese-voice = [[Satsuki Yukino]]
| english-voice = [[Faye Mata]]
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Momiji Ooka'''|大岡紅葉|Ōoka Momiji}} is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Momiji Ooka is a second-year student from Kyoto Senshin High School. Her family is likely to be wealthy, since she has a personal butler and her grandfather is a former Prime Minister<ref name=f114>[[Volume 105#The Butler and the Young Lady|Volume 105, File 1114, Page 06: The Butler and the Young Lady]]</ref>, third to [[Renya Karasuma]] and [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] in Tokyo.<ref>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)</ref> She has romantic interest in [[Heiji Hattori]] and refers to him as her future husband. This makes her a rival of [[Kazuha Toyama]] and she tries to disrupt their romance.

Momiji appears to be an extremely competent detective, as she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with her butler, [[Muga Iori]], before [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], Heiji or [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] did. Later, Iori says that her deduction was great as usual, implying that she regularly solves cases and also says that Heiji's great deductive skill was to be expected from the person that Momiji chose as her partner.

== Personality ==
Momiji has a close personal interest in Heiji's cases as he makes the news. For some reason, she believes Heiji will be her future husband, despite his feelings for Kazuha. She and Heiji did meet as children and apparently made a promise. Momiji is also extremely smart, especially in regards to catching details that others miss. When Iori informed her via phone some details about a case Heiji was working, Momiji actually caught other signals that Iori himself had missed and used them to reach a correct deduction that would greatly help Conan and Heiji. Iori also implies that Momiji engages in her own detective work at times, as she is no stranger to making such deductions. Momiji seems to be very girlish and a bit vain, plus fond of taking some degree of care in her appearance.

== Appearance ==
Momoji is a fair-skinned girl of average height and slender frame. She is considered very beautiful with noticeably full lips and wavy, ash-blond hair that is cheek-length and parts on to the left of her forehead. The most noticeable trait about her is her very large bust, which is bigger than most girls her age, so much that the flat-chested [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] was jealous and baffled and [[Soshi Okita|Okita]] to simply referring to Momiji as "Boobs". She is a very stylish girl with pierced ears and small earrings, and her nails are seen painted in intricate patterns.

== Abilities ==
Momiji is a skilled detective as she could solve a case just from hearing voice from phone and noticing knowing names of Kyoto on code.

== Appellations ==
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{{Appellations|Soshi Okita|Boobs (''Oppai'')|Okita-kun That kendo boy (''ano kendō kozō'')}}
|}
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{{Appellations/head|Momiji Ooka}}
{{Appellations|Heiji Hattori|Momiji|Heiji-kun My future husband (''uchi no mirai no danna-san'')}}
{{Appellations|Kazuha Toyama|That girl (''ano ko'') Momiji|Leaf girl (''Happa-chan'') Kazuha-chan}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Momiji-san|Ran-san}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Momiji-san|Conan-kun}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|-|Kudo-kun}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Curse of the Nue (Manga: [[Volume 91#Curse of the Nue|962]], Anime: [[Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend|874]]) ===
After the case, Momiji appears by reads about the case on her smartphone and calls Heiji her future husband.

=== Murder inside Café Poirot (Manga: [[Volume 93#Murder inside Café Poirot Case|983]], Anime: [[Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café|886]]) ===
Momiji send her butler, Muga Iori, to observe Heiji at cafe Poirot. Later, a case happen at cafe Poirot and she saw through a trick merely based on a sound she heard in a phone call with Iori and relays a hint in form of Hyakunin Isshu poem to Heiji via Iori to solve the case. After the case is solved, Iori travels back to Kyoto and in a call with Momiji at the airport, despite his apparent affection for a [[Kazuha Toyama|different girl]]. Iori approves of her choosing Heiji as her future partner and tells her that he will do his best to support her.

=== Kendo Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 93#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|990]]-[[Volume 94#Kendo Tournament Murder Case|993]], Anime: [[The Kendo Tournament of Love and Mystery|916-917]]) ===
Momiji and Iori were present at the tournament. They were hoping Heiji would win, but he became involved in a case and was disqualified for not appearing at his match in time. Disappointed, the two fail to approach Heiji.

=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 94#Crimson School Trip Case|1002-1003]] & [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|927-928]]) ===
Momiji showed up by meeting Ran, Shinichi, Sonoko, Masumi, and Nakamichi on a part of the Kyoto school trip. Masumi and Nakamichi is jealous and baffled of her having a notably larger bust size. They encounter the Tengu chaos, leaving Momiji and Sonoko behind. However, they were protected by Iori and Heiji which surprised her. She saw through the code which is similar to Kyoto's streets' and districts' corresponding to the position, which help Shinichi, Heiji, and Masumi to solve the case. It is also revealed that she and Okita are classmates.

=== Lover Code Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Lover Code Case|1039-1042]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Challenge|1024-1025]]) ===
Momiji and Iori meet Heiji and Kazuha to convinced Heiji to solve the code. She hinted to Heiji that Shinichi will also try to solve it and if Heiji loses the challenge then he must do as Momiji wishes. After Heiji and Shinichi crack the code they arrive at the scene to find a man dead. Iori then states that the first person to find the culprit is the winner. They also find that Heiji wants to confessing his feeling to Kazuha and decide to help Shinichi. However, Heiji is able to solve the case and grabs Kazuha in order to confess to her. Iori whispers something to Kazuha and she runs off when Heiji is in the middle of speaking to prevent his confessing.

=== Detective Play Director Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Detective Play Director Murder Case|1088-1090]], Anime: [[Momiji Ooka's Sweet Trap|1135-1136]]) ===
Momiji is the sponsor for a detective show and invited [[Hyoue Kuroda|Kuroda]] as the advisor, since he is well known to her family. She also take a chance to kiss Heiji, only to be disrupt by Conan.

=== Detective Play Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 106#Detective Play Murder Case|1129-1133]], Anime: TBA) ===
Even after director Kyosuke Kabumoto died and screenwriter Reisuke Inaba is arrested, Momiji decides that she will go forward and sponsor the play to go in motion. Conan, Kogoro, Ran, Kazuha and Heiji end up going to the play's premiere, which adapts their life, with the "Heiji" in the play actually being in love with the "Momiji" in the play. Even though she does not appear in the case itself, after the case concludes, Heiji confesses to Kazuha, which Momiji seems to have been able to sense a hundred kilometers away in Omi Shrine in Shiga Prefecture, as she cries, feeling like she lost something, even though she won her Karuta tournament.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== The Crimson Love Letter (Movie: [[The Crimson Love Letter|21]]) ===
Momiji Ooka is introduced as a champion of [[Wikipedia: Uta-garuta|Hyakunin Isshu karuta]] who met Heiji when they were younger at a karuta tournament. Momiji claims Heiji promised to marry her. At the end, Heiji reveals she misheard him and that he actually said: "But next time we meet, I'll be even stronger, so hone yer skills and wait for me". In Japanese, the word for stronger is "tsuyome" and the one for bride is "yome".

=== The Million-dollar Pentagram (Movie: [[The Million-dollar Pentagram|27]]) ===
Momiji and her butler, Iori, go to possible romantic spots in Hakodate, Hokkaido, knowing Heiji would most likely be considering the best spot to confess. Momiji and Heiji never meet face to face in the film, but Momiji helps Heiji with a code part of the central mystery. She and Iori help in the climax by dropping flash bombs on the antagonists during a car chase involving Conan.

== Relationships ==
=== Heiji Hattori ===
Momiji and Heiji made a promise years ago, which she still remembers and was revealed to be that Heiji proposed to her. She immediately recognized him, but Heiji at first didn't. She has a love interest for Heiji and even calls him her "future husband". This promise was proven otherwise in the movie.

=== Kazuha Toyama ===
Because of this love interest, Momiji and Kazuha consider one another as rivals and their interactions are laced with one or another degree of passive-aggression.

=== Muga Iori ===
Iori is Momiji's butler and loyal servant. She values that he approves of Heiji as her future husband.

=== Soshi Okita ===
Momiji and Okita are classmates. While talking to Ran, Momiji is annoyed at the mere mention of Okita, whom she calls "that kendo boy", though she is willing to deliver a message from Ran to him. When he later comes over to the crime scene with some kendo buddies to hunt down tengus, Momiji only has sarcastic comments and further annoyance to offer. In turn, Okita doesn't want Momiji to learn of the girl he has a crush on, fearing he would never hear the end of it if she heard of his crush. Somewhat rudely, Okita only refers to Momiji as "Boobs" in a conversation with Ran, in reference to her overly large breasts.

=== Ran Mouri ===
Ran and Momiji have met in the past: see below. They're mostly polite to one another.

== Manga vs. movie ==
Momiji is unique in that her character was introduced primarily in the movie [[The Crimson Love Letter]]. Despite movies being non-canon, her background and her connection with other characters are established in the movie, without which the manga does not fully make sense. In the movie, Momiji meets Ran, Kazuha and Conan for the first time and she knew Heiji from when they were younger. In file 1002, Ran says they met recently when she and her father travelled to Kyoto (not depicted in the manga) while inexplicably (discounting the movie), Kazuha and Heiji already know Momiji.

== Name origin ==
Her first name means "[[Wikipedia: Acer palmatum|red leaves]]," which is the name of the Japanese maple tree. In Japan, the custom of viewing the changing colour of maples in the autumn is called "[[Wikipedia: Leaf peeping#Japan|Momijigari]]," and Kyoto, the city where Momiji is from, is known for its "momijigari" spots.

Her surname means "large hill", and it comes from Ooka Tadasuke (大岡忠相). Not only was he a real-life samurai and magistrate in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate, but he has also been featured in jidai geki series like ''Ōoka Echizen'' and ''Meibugyō! Ōoka Echizen'', among others.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Momiji Ooka Profile 2.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Movie 21]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP874-Momiji.png|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 874]]
|}

==Trivia==
*Due to being from a privileged family, she has never eaten pizza and doesn’t know how to cook, thus she holds a knife improperly.<ref>Detective Play Director Murder Case</ref>

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

== References ==
<references/>

{{Characters}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ooka Momiji}}

[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:High school students]]

[[de:Momiji Ooka]]
[[zh:大冈红叶]]

User talk:Tsutomu25

2025-02-12T19:52:49Z

SocietyBox: /* Tea Party */ reply

== Tea Party ==

How do you know the Tea Party happened? If it has yet to be animated, no spoilers please. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 04:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

:The conversation between Yusaku and Akai at the end of The Black Organization's Scheme implies that they "discussed about some matter" and is yet to receive a response regarding that. The way Crunchyroll translated this line in anime may make us think the opposite, but a more accurate fan translation makes it clear. You can check it out here: https://meo.comick.pictures/zpfJVzv-4-m.jpg. --[[User:Tsutomu25|Tsutomu25]] ([[User talk:Tsutomu25|talk]]) 11:47, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

::I thought it would an issue with translation. The actual line in Japanese[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsvuO5jUcAw0qYg?format=jpg&name=4096x4096] is "例の(that)深夜の(late night)お茶会の(tea party's)答え(answer/reply)をまだ(still)頂いてませんし(not received)", which translates to "Regarding that late night tea party, we still haven't got a response". So there's no mention of "matter" and so it's possible the "response" they're waiting for is one to the invitation itself and we can't say for certain the tea party happened. That said, my speculation's the same as everyone else's which is that something did happen. If I've convinced you, please update Unsolved Mysteries. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 19:42, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

User talk:Tsutomu25

2025-02-12T19:50:39Z

SocietyBox: /* Tea Party */ reply

== Tea Party ==

How do you know the Tea Party happened? If it has yet to be animated, no spoilers please. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 04:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

:The conversation between Yusaku and Akai at the end of The Black Organization's Scheme implies that they "discussed about some matter" and is yet to receive a response regarding that. The way Crunchyroll translated this line in anime may make us think the opposite, but a more accurate fan translation makes it clear. You can check it out here: https://meo.comick.pictures/zpfJVzv-4-m.jpg. --[[User:Tsutomu25|Tsutomu25]] ([[User talk:Tsutomu25|talk]]) 11:47, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

::I thought it would an issue with translation. The actual line in Japanese[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsvuO5jUcAw0qYg?format=jpg&name=4096x4096] is "例の(that)深夜の(late night)お茶会の(tea party's)答え(answer/reply)をまだ(still)頂いていませんし(not received)", which translates to "Regarding that late night tea party, we still haven't got a response". So there's no mention of "matter" and so it's possible the "response" they're waiting for is one to the invitation itself and we can't say for certain the tea party happened. That said, my speculation's the same as everyone else's which is that something did happen. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 19:42, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

User talk:Tsutomu25

2025-02-12T19:42:57Z

SocietyBox: /* Tea Party */ reply

== Tea Party ==

How do you know the Tea Party happened? If it has yet to be animated, no spoilers please. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 04:35, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

:The conversation between Yusaku and Akai at the end of The Black Organization's Scheme implies that they "discussed about some matter" and is yet to receive a response regarding that. The way Crunchyroll translated this line in anime may make us think the opposite, but a more accurate fan translation makes it clear. You can check it out here: https://meo.comick.pictures/zpfJVzv-4-m.jpg. --[[User:Tsutomu25|Tsutomu25]] ([[User talk:Tsutomu25|talk]]) 11:47, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

::I thought it would an issue with translation. I don't have access to the Japanese manga but I doubt it would have been different. The actual line in the anime is "例の(that)深夜の(late night)お茶会の(tea party's)答え(answer/reply)をまだ(still)頂いていませんし(not received)", which translates to "Regarding that late night tea party, we still haven't got a response". So there's no mention of "matter" and so it's possible the "response" they're waiting for is one to the invitation itself and we can't say for certain the tea party happened. That said, my speculation's the same as everyone else's which is that something did happen. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 19:42, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

User talk:SocietyBox

2025-02-08T06:28:42Z

SocietyBox: /* About Baijiu/Baiganr/Paikaru */ reply

== About Baijiu/Baiganr/Paikaru ==
Hello SocietyBox, wherever in you may reside in the world. I see you are very active in editing things across the wiki, and I appreciate that, as should everyone else on this wiki. As for your string of edits about Baijiu, I have some thoughts about it.

First of all, it's quite clear that "白乾児" is the name of the Chinese liquor that helps Conan and Haibara return to adult form, besides the antidote. The "乾児" part in "白乾児" contains Japanese [[wikipedia:shinjitai|shinjitai]] kanji characters and are exclusive to the Japanese language, meaning that "Baiganr", a Pinyin romanization used for '''Chinese''' characters, is incorrect. Instead, "Paikaru" should be used.

As for the moving the article "Baijiu" to "Baiganr", I would like to politely object, but not undo, this action. This is because the article is referring to the general use and appearances of Baijiu in the anime, not just Paikaru itself. Paikaru is a type of Baijiu, and the APTX 4869 prototype antidote is implied to have some components of Baijiu in general, but not specifically Paikaru. For this reason, not only do I believe the Baiganr article should be moved back to Baijiu, but also, references to the prototype antidote's ingredients should say "Baijiu" and not "Baiganr" or "Paikaru." However, "Paikaru" should continue to be used when referencing the specific liquor.

Of course, these are not any sort of ''mandatory'' commands, they are only a list of my personal suggestions and their supporting reasons, of which can be ignored. But I hope that you could maybe take these into account for future edits and continue your diligent contributions to this wiki. Take care. --[[User:AvidConanContributor|Avico]] ([[User talk:AvidConanContributor|talk]]) 22:53, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

:Personally, I dislike any Chinese words being used as I only enjoy Conan in its original Japanese text/audio so I'm not a fan of using "baiganr" either. But it's still an English wiki so using "Paikaru" seems wrong. To me, it would be like calling the Netherlands "Oranda" (the Japanese name) which is just too insensitive to the readers. As for "baijiu", given there's no reference to the "baijiu" term in the manga/anime, why introduce it? That's my only argument on "baijiu". --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 23:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

::I see what you're getting at, but think of it this way:On a wiki targeting English-speaking readers, which of the following would make more sense for that audience: "Netherlands" or "Oranda"? Obivously "Netherlands".Now, on a wiki targeting English-speaking viewers of a Japanese show that constantly and consistently uses the native Japanese name to refer to foreign countries, which of the following would make more sense for that audience: "Netherlands" or "Oranda"? For this one, either could work, but it depends on what is used more in that show's English-speaking fandom.Extending that logic, on this wiki that targets English-speaking viewers of Detective Conan and spotlights the original Japanese version of DC more than the English dub or fansubs, which of the following would make more sense: "Paikaru" or "Baiganr"? That would be "Paikaru," since I don't think many people in the DC fandom know about the Chinese reading "Baiganr".You could say using "Paikaru" is insensitive, but we would probably be more insensitive to readers if we used terms that our targeted readers don't understand. Besides, "baiganr" isn't even a proper Japanese romanization (as I've said before, it is Pinyin, which is only used for Chinese).As for why we use "Baijiu" when it was never mentioned in the anime/manga, I think that comes down to a precedence in the community. I haven't been following the community since the start, but from what I can tell, "Baijiu" makes sense considering how long the article stayed with that name (Although, I would also argue that "Paikaru" would be a better article name). --[[User:AvidConanContributor|Avico]] ([[User talk:AvidConanContributor|talk]]) 23:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

:::"Precedence" really annoys me as I can keep seeing "baijiu" for decades and still not get used to it. But I can accept my place in the extreme minority and let you target the wiki for "the community". I can't agree with using "Paikaru" to target the "DC fandom" either, or we'd be switching the character names to "surname first name" (which I wouldn't mind personally). If there was a random (mainland) Chinese person who got popular in Japan only, I'd say their English Wikipedia page would still have their Pinyin name as the title. Likewise, if 白乾兒 deserved its own English Wikipedia page, it would be baiganr. As we're talking convention in general, I'd rather not bring this up but it does say "Bai Ganr" on the bottle. That said, I know my place and won't fight anyone on this. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 01:55, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

::::There's no need to feel discouraged like that, I gladly accept your opinion and am considering to use it for a future edit. Allow me to correct and clarify myself with some info from Wikitionary (If you find this repetitive, please skip this part):"[[wikt:白乾兒|白乾兒]]" is the Chinese name for this liquor, which is romanized as "báigānr" using Pinyin ("baiganr" if you omit the accents). These characters, however, were not written on the bottle.What is instead written on the bottle is "[[wikt:白乾児|白乾児]]" (note the slightly modified last character) which is romanized as "paikaru" using Hepburn. This ''is'' what was written on the bottle and is the proper romanization.I hope I've made this point clear: "baiganr" is not the proper romanization. But as you've pointed out, "Bai ganr" is written on the bottle (I don't know why), so if I were to contribute to this article, I wouldn't entirely exclude "baiganr" from the article, maybe mention it in a sentence or two. But it's definitely not going to be the name of the article like it is now. Whether the article is going to be named "Baijiu" or "Paikaru" is going to need some further discussion with other contributors on this wiki since we are "touching" on a precedence and I would like to respect that precedence.Do know that I am with you on '''not naming''' the article "Baijiu" since that does seem awkward to introduce something not mentioned in the anime/manga. Let me know of any further concerns! --[[User:AvidConanContributor|Avico]] ([[User talk:AvidConanContributor|talk]]) 03:58, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

:::::That's for the friendliness. I should start by saying I'm fluent in Chinese, Japanese and English. Just because the bottle has the Japanese version of the name (like how 中國/中国 zhongguo in Chinese is 中国 chuugoku in Japanese) doesn't mean they're referring to different things (please don't mention chuugoku-chiho) and that we should use "chuugoku" for any Japanese references to the country. Unless you're suggesting paikaru should mean specifically "baiganr that's been manufactured in Japan or imported and relabelled in Japan" (like how "anime" means, specifically, Japanese animation), I don't see your point. I can also throw in the "ramen" example which, despite its Chinese origin and considered "chuuka" cuisine in Japan, is globally considered Japanese cuisine and thus the Japanese name is most popular. Baiganr is Chinese liquor, and having the English name based on the Chinese name (or even just a Chinese-sounding name) would feel more natural to readers. Again, do what you want. There's only like 20 pages referring to it so I can just turn a blind eye. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 07:54, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

:::::I've just remembered and have gone back to check that 白乾児 seems to be exclusively (or nearly exclusively) used in Japan and is (or might as well be) made-up (wasei) Chinese. Still, the idea should carry over and the English name should also sound like made-up Chinese and be "baiganr". I'll also cover the only argument I'll accept for "baijiu" which is that it's the official and 100% accurate English translation of the liquor. But instead, according to Wikipedia anyway, the correct translation is "Kaoliang liquor". --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 08:45, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

:I've just realised we've been discussing what the best name for the article would be when that didn't even cross my mind when I moved the article. I've been defending "baiganr" as if it was my number one preference and I never actually had one. I read the opening sentence to the article (which I haven't edited) and it sounded like "baijiu", "shaojiu" and "baiganr" were all equally valid names for the liquor and, therefore, equally valid names for the article. Given two are irrelevant to the canon and the remaining one's on the bottle, I made what I thought would be an acceptable page rename. If I were to choose a name as if I were writing the article from scratch (which is too radical and I wouldn't dream of making that decision on my own), I might actually go with Kaoliang liquor and have '''{{#if: Kaoliang liquor | Kaoliang liquor | {{#if: paikaru | paikaru}}}}{{#if: 白乾児{{#if: Kaoliang liquor | paikaru }} | (}}{{#if: 白乾児 | {{lang|ja|白乾児}} }}{{#if: Kaoliang liquor | {{#if: paikaru | {{#if: 白乾児 | , }}paikaru}}}}{{#if: 白乾児 | [[Help:Japanese|?]]}}{{#if: | {{#if: {{#if: paikaru| Kaoliang liquor}}白乾児 | ,}} {{{4}}} }}{{#if: 白乾児{{#if: Kaoliang liquor | paikaru }} | )}}{{#if: | {{{5}}} }}''' in the intro. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 18:43, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

::I'll have to check with at least one more reputable editor before I make any edits, but since you've come to that realization, I'd say "paikaru" would also be an acceptable change as well. Thanks for discussing this! --[[User:AvidConanContributor|Avico]] ([[User talk:AvidConanContributor|talk]]) 01:12, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

:::Hey guys! Know I might be a little late in this thread but it seems that baiganr is just a type of baijiu so there should not be any issues leaving the name baijiu. I don't speak Chinese but there is a [[wikt:白乾兒|Wiktionary entry]] about "白乾兒". The pinyin form is a bit cheesy so I'm leaning more towards keeping "baijiu", but of course, this is just a suggestion. --[[User:Nakamura|'''Nakamura''']] [[User talk:Nakamura|'''talk''']] 00:37, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

::::You're not late at all, Nakamura! I was planning to check with with you about this but it seems I ''unnecessarily'' procrastinated that task. Anyhow, what SocietyBox and I agree with is that baijiu was never mentioned in the anime, only paikaru. While of course paikaru is a type of baijiu, it seems awkward to introduce something that wasn't in the anime/manga (for me at least). In any case, since you're reply was only a suggestion, I assume that you would also accept the change to "paikaru"? --[[User:AvidConanContributor|Avico]] ([[User talk:AvidConanContributor|talk]]) 00:54, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

:::::Why do you care so much anyway? I'm asking as I wasted, like, 2 hours in a debate I got forced into, defending something I didn't care that much about, only for neither of us to accept the other's points. There's pages I could have been contributing to instead. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 06:28, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

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Silver Bullet (drug)

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[[File:702 e.png|thumb|right|200px|Haibara remembering Elena's tapes. The tape for her 18th birthday revealed the existence of "Silver Bullet". Tape's contents were revealed between two flashbacks.]]
"'''Silver Bullet'''" is the name given to a mysterious drug created by [[Elena Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano]]. It is related to the [[APTX 4869]] created by the [[Black Organization]].

== Background ==
19 years ago, the Miyanos were running the Miyano Clinic and not doing research but were considering accepting the [[Karasuma Group]]'s offer to sponsor their research.<ref>Black Bunny's Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Black Bunny's Club Case|1009-1012]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|952-954]])</ref> 17 years ago, revealed through cassette tapes Elena left behind for Shiho<ref>Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]]; Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]])</ref>, they were working on a certain drug. While their lab mates were excited about it and considered it "a dream drug", Elena considered it "a truly terrifying drug" and the Miyanos were "calling it the ''Silver Bullet'' in hope" (perhaps in hope that it ends up as a drug for good rather than bad).<ref>Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|821, 823-824]]; Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|702, 704]])</ref><ref name=821p7>Manga Chapter 821, pg 7: "Mystery Train 「Junction」"</ref> Elena and Atsushi had to leave behind [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] and [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] in order to complete the drug.<ref name=821p7/>

After thinking about this message left by Elena, [[Ai Haibara]] regrets making [[APTX 4869]] and thinks it is something that should have never been made.<ref name=821p7/>

The research related to Silver Bullet was partially or wholly destroyed by the fire which also took the Miyanos' lives.<ref>Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948), Pages 3-4: "The Clenched Scissors"
</ref> If some of it survived, it is possible that Shiho Miyano incorporated it into one of her modern projects. At the current time, it is still unstated how [[Silver Bullet]], APTX 4869, and any other research projects of the Black Organization are related to one another.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I'm totally on your side! Well, it will be you nineteenth birthday next time. Bye-bye, honey. Oh yes, maybe it's about time I told you... The truth is, your mom is making a truly ''terrifying'' drug at the moment. My lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a dream drug. Your dad and I are calling it the Silver Bullet, putting our wishes in the name. But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister. Please understand, Shiho.|Part of Elena's message on Shiho's 18th tape.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pgs 7-8: "Mystery Train: Junction"</ref>}}

== Speculation ==
=== "Silver Bullet" and "APTX 4869" are two names for the same project ===
:''See also: [[APTX 4869]]''
From the loving nature of the Miyanos, it is likely they had good intentions and were trying to create a benevolent drug. From what [[APTX 4869]] became, it could be an anti-aging, de-aging or immortality drug. Elena's 18th tape suggests the drug development showed promise but they also realized the drug's potential to become something bad. APTX 4869 would therefore be a continuation of Silver Bullet in the bad direction. Shiho Miyano also hinted at two different possibilities for the drug when she said that she did not intend to create a poison,<ref name="179p9">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), page 9: "The Girl Made Of Lies"</ref> and "what [the organization] wanted me to make, was another drug".

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

Regardless of what the parents' version of APTX 4869 was intended for, those who know about the shrinking side effect of Shiho's modern version of APTX 4869 have a tendency to compare it to the Miyanos' research. After watching Haibara shrink, Pisco, who knew about the project the Miyanos worked on, commented that Shiho's parents would be proud of the progress Shiho had made on the drug.<ref name=V24-11p9>Manga [[Volume 24]], File 11, page 9: "The White World"</ref> As Haibara was holding and considering taking the antidote to APTX 4869, she thinks back to the tapes. She then regrets having developed the drug, strongly implying she had worked on the same drug as well.<ref name=821p7/> Lastly, [[Vermouth]], who opposed the Miyanos' research, seems to have transposed her distaste onto Shiho's research and Shiho herself.<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref>

It is also notable that Vermouth has been a part of the Black Organization long enough to have heard the Miyanos use the name "Silver Bullet",<ref>Vermouth has been in the Organization at least 20 years dated by when she assassinated Jodie's father which is more time than the theoretical maximum 18 years the tapes could be recorded -- dated to Shiho's conception.</ref> and may have given Conan the same nickname in reference to his deaged state caused by the drug.

== See also ==
* [[Silver Bullet]] (other uses)
* [[APTX 4869]]
* [[Prototype antidote]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{APTX 4869}}

[[Category:Objects]]
[[Category:Black Organization]]

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Silver Bullet (drug)

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[[File:702 e.png|thumb|right|200px|Haibara remembering Elena's tapes. The tape for her 18th birthday revealed the existence of "Silver Bullet". Tape's contents were revealed between two flashbacks.]]
"'''Silver Bullet'''" is the name given to a mysterious drug created by [[Elena Miyano]] and [[Atsushi Miyano]]. It is related to the [[APTX 4869]] created by the [[Black Organization]].

== Background ==
19 years ago, the Miyanos were running the Miyano Clinic and not doing research but were considering accepting the [[Karasuma Group]]'s offer to sponsor their research.<ref>Black Bunny's Club Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Black Bunny's Club Case|1009-1012]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|952-954]])</ref> 17 years ago, revealed through cassette tapes Elena left behind for Shiho<ref>Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]]; Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]])</ref>, they were working on a certain drug. While their lab mates were excited about it and considered it "a dream drug", Elena considered it "a truly terrifying drug" and the Miyanos were "calling it the ''Silver Bullet'' in hope" (perhaps in hope that it ends up as a drug for good rather than bad).<ref>Mystery Train (Manga: [[Volume 78#Mystery Train|821, 823-824]]; Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|702, 704]])</ref><ref name=821p7>Manga Chapter 821, pg 7: "Mystery Train 「Junction」"</ref> Elena and Atsushi had to leave behind [[Shiho Miyano|Shiho]] and [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] in order to complete the drug.<ref name=821p7/>

After thinking about this message left by Elena, [[Ai Haibara]] regrets making [[APTX 4869]] and thinks it is something that should have never been made.<ref name=821p7/>

The research related to Silver Bullet was partially or wholly destroyed by the fire which also took the Miyanos' lives.<ref>Manga [[Volume 89]], File 11 (948), Pages 3-4: "The Clenched Scissors"
</ref> If some of it survived, it is possible that Shiho Miyano incorporated it into one of her modern projects. At the current time, it is still unstated how [[Silver Bullet]], APTX 4869, and any other research projects of the Black Organization are related to one another.

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Shiho, won't you regret what you are about to do? If so, I'm totally on your side! Well, it will be you nineteenth birthday next time. Bye-bye, honey. Oh yes, maybe it's about time I told you... The truth is, your mom is making a truly ''terrifying'' drug at the moment. My lab mates are getting really excited about it, they say it's like a dream drug. Your dad and I are calling it the Silver Bullet, putting our wishes in the name. But in order to complete the drug, your dad and I will have to leave you and your sister. Please understand, Shiho.|Part of Elena's message on Shiho's 18th tape.<ref>Manga [[Volume 78]], File 4 (821), pgs 7-8: "Mystery Train: Junction"</ref>}}

== Speculation ==
=== "Silver Bullet" and "APTX 4869" are two names for the same project ===
:''See also: [[APTX 4869]]''
From the loving nature of the Miyanos, it is likely they had good intentions and were trying to create a benevolent drug. From what [[APTX 4869]] became, it could be an anti-aging, de-aging or immortality drug. Elena's 18th tape suggests the drug development showed promise but they also realized the drug's potential to become something bad. APTX 4869 would therefore be a continuation of Silver Bullet in the bad direction. Shiho Miyano also hinted at two different possibilities for the drug when say said that she did not intend to create a poison,<ref name="179p9">Manga [[Volume 18]], File 9 (179), page 9: "The Girl Made Of Lies"</ref> and "what [the organization] wanted me to make, was another drug".

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

Regardless of what the parents' version of APTX 4869 was intended for, those who know about the shrinking side effect of Shiho's modern version of APTX 4869 have a tendency to compare it to the Miyanos' research. After watching Haibara shrink, Pisco, who knew about the project the Miyanos worked on, commented that Shiho's parents would be proud of the progress Shiho had made on the drug.<ref name=V24-11p9>Manga [[Volume 24]], File 11, page 9: "The White World"</ref> As Haibara was holding and considering taking the antidote to APTX 4869, she thinks back to the tapes. She then regrets having developed the drug, strongly implying she had worked on the same drug as well.<ref name=821p7/> Lastly, [[Vermouth]], who opposed the Miyanos' research, seems to have transposed her distaste onto Shiho's research and Shiho herself.<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref>

It is also notable that Vermouth has been a part of the Black Organization long enough to have heard the Miyanos use the name "Silver Bullet",<ref>Vermouth has been in the Organization at least 20 years dated by when she assassinated Jodie's father which is more time than the theoretical maximum 18 years the tapes could be recorded -- dated to Shiho's conception.</ref> and may have given Conan the same nickname in reference to his deaged state caused by the drug.

== See also ==
* [[Silver Bullet]] (other uses)
* [[APTX 4869]]
* [[Prototype antidote]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{APTX 4869}}

[[Category:Objects]]
[[Category:Black Organization]]

[[de:Silberne Kugel]]

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 organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the 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 organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with targets below.

=== Weapon smuggler ===
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Gin and Vodka blackmailed a 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 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. He appears in [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|Roller Coaster Murder Case]].
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=== Kenzo Hirota ===
[[File:Kenzou Hirota.jpg|right|100px]][[File:Shirou Kaizuka.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Kenzo Hirota'''|広田健三|Hirota Kenzō}}, age 48, was a former taxi driver, who [[Akemi Miyano]] 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. He appears in [[Volume 2#¥1,000,000,000 Robbery|¥1,000,000,000 Robbery]], but [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case]] replaced him with Shiro Kaizuka.
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=== Akira Hirota ===
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{{nihongo|'''Akira Hirota'''|広田明|Hirota Akira}}, age 28, was the giant Pachinko parlor guard hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo betrayed them, he hired a detective to search for him, posing as an elder brother. After Kenzo 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. He appears in ¥1,000,000,000 Robbery, but The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case replaced him with Kishii.
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=== Woman ===
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A corrupt career-woman from Tokyo 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. She was saved by Conan and arrested by the Kyoto police. She appears in [[Volume 4#Shinkansen Bomb Case|Shinkansen Bomb Case]], but the [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|anime version]] replaced Gin and Vodka with look-alike criminals.
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=== Hideaki Nakajima ===
[[File:Hideaki Nakajima.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Hideaki Nakajima'''|中島英明|Nakajima Hideaki}}, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro. He was in a university boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving him a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of his two co-workers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident. The organization then immediately blew up the [[Setting|Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar]] where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings. He appears in [[Volume 12#Game Convention Case|Game Convention Case]].
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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. 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" he stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. He didn't want to complete the program "not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity." He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an old friend. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her. Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 0032. He also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko 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, and due to his skills with computers, Tequila was was tasked with intimidating/harassing Itakura with Vermouth.

=== Atsushi and Elena Miyano ===
[[Atsushi Miyano]] and [[Elena Miyano]] were Haibara's parents. They headed the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]/[[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 was known within the organization as "Hell Angel". She left some mysterious tapes for Shiho.

=== Rumi Wakasa ===
[[File:Rumi Wakasa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[File:Asaka EP861.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''[[Rumi Wakasa]]'''|若狭留美|Wakasa Rumi}}, age 37, is the new deputy homeroom teacher for class 1-B of [[Teitan Elementary School]]. Her real identity is {{nihongo|'''Rachel Asaka'''|レイチェル·浅香|Reicheru Asaka}}, the missing bodyguard of Amanda Hughes after Kohji Haneda's murder seventeen years ago.
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== Targets ==
This is a list of people involved in an organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the organization are listed above.

=== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ===
[[File:Conan Edogawa.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Shinichi Kudo]] has been involved in many 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|right|200px]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 4.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 2.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
[[File:APTX 4869 victim list 3.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
The organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with [[APTX 4869]]. 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}}). 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>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". However, Haneda was killed seventeen years ago.</ref> or alphabetical order. Haibara said it could be blood type order. At least ten people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown.

Plus, Mary Sera should now be on the list, somewhere, as well after [[Holmes' Revelation]], when Vermouth administered it to her. Amanda Hughes too.

The following people are known to be on the list

* '''{{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 anime.</ref>, Norio
* '''{{lang|ja|武石良雄}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Yoshio Ōishi|大石良雄}} in the 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"/><ref name="guestbook">[https://www.megane-shufu.com/conan-boss Someone] noticed that this surname appears also in the guestbook from [[And Then There Were No Mermaids#Trivia|And Then There Were No Mermaids]].</ref>, Toyota<ref name="guestbook"/>
::Possible given names: Minoru<ref name="uanime"/>, Toshi, Minori, Jin, Jinji, Nen, Yutaka
* '''{{lang|ja|羽田浩司}}''' (Status: Dead)
::Surname: Haneda<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="Kohji">Used in the manga.</ref> Other used surnames: Hada<ref name="uanime"/> (Anime's first APTX victims list)
::Given name: Kohji<ref name="Kohji"/> (Also written Koji<ref name="Viz"/><ref name="uanime"/>)
* '''{{lang|ja|野本昌治}}'''<ref>{{nihongo|Masahiro Nomoto|野本昌浩}} in the 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

=== Amanda Hughes ===
[[File:Amanda Hughes.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Amanda Hughes]] was an elderly wealthy American who was killed by Rum seventeen years prior to the current timeline, when she was 81-year-old. Ai 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.
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=== Kohji Haneda ===
[[File:Kohji Haneda.jpg|right|100px]]
The victim [[Kohji Haneda]] is [[Shukichi Haneda]]'s non-blood older brother. He was murdered by Rum seventeen years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In file 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 ===
[[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]]. Before [[Holmes' Revelation]], she possessed an adult body. She was forced to take the APTX 4869 by Vermouth in London, which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat. Mary and Masumi were forced to go back in Japan in hopes of finding an antidote to bring back her adult body, and she saw such hope in the boy they met ten years ago, Shinichi Kudo.
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=== Masami Hirota ===
[[File:Masami Hirota.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Masami Hirota'''|広田正巳|Hirota Masami}}, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor who lived in Shizuoka with his wife Toshiko. Akemi had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name, for the same pronunciation and the same spelling of surname, 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 him.<ref>Source of disks is volume 18, file 9, page 12 (English online fan translation).</ref> The organization intended to kill him, but he was first killed by one of his students. 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. He appears in [[Volume 18#Murdered Professor Case|Murdered Professor Case]].
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=== Shigehiko Nomiguchi ===
[[File:Shigehiko Nomiguchi.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Shigehiko Nomiguchi'''|呑口重彦|Nomiguchi Shigehiko}}, age 56, and a lawyer, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. Their head decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill him 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 organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the 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. He appears in [[Volume 24#Hotel Party Murder Case|Hotel Party Murder Case]].
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=== Araide family ===
[[File:Tomoaki Araide.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of [[Tomoaki Araide]]. He was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara, Conan, and Ran. 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, 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 organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki was of any interest to the rest of the organization.

=== Masahito Yoshioka ===
[[File:EP230 BO victim.png|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Masahito Yoshioka'''|吉岡昌仁|Yoshioka Masahito}}, age 42, was a Ministry of Foreign Affairs general summary in OK Trading Co., Ltd. who lived in Haido City. Gin and Vodka set up that man to be killed the night they met with him at the "Polestar", a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last." He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. He appears in [[Volume 29#Bus Hijacking Case|Bus Hijacking Case]], and in the anime added a [[canon|non-canonical]] business card which lists his name, the real-life chief producer of many related films and episodes from the anime studio [[TMS Entertainment|Tokyo Movie Shinsa]], appeared also on the party registry in [[Captured in Her Eyes]] and on the visitors' of Matsue Castle in [[Sword of the Eight-Headed Serpent#Trivia|Sword of the Eight-Headed Serpent]], where he lives in Nagasaki. His name is also in the anime list of APTX 4869 victims in [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case]].
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=== Starling family ===
[[File:Jodie Starling.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth killed [[Jodie Starling]]'s parents twenty 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]]
{{nihongo|'''Senzo Fukuura'''|福浦千造|Fukuura Senzō}}, 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 away from 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 organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the organization. He appears in [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|Halloween Party Case]].
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=== Werewolf man ===
[[File:Werewolf.jpg|right|100px]]
Vermouth blackmailed this man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill 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 away from 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 organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the organization. He was found out by Heiji and arrested by the Tokyo police. He appears in Halloween Party Case.
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=== Yasuteru Domon ===
[[File:Yasuteru Domon.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Yasuteru Domon'''|土門康輝|Domon Yasuteru}} is a politician hard on crime whom the organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash. The FBI believed their head ordered the assassination of him who wasn't even part of the Diet yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. The 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 twenty years ago. The organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because he decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office. He appears in [[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|Black Organization vs. FBI]].

=== Kogoro Mouri ===
[[File:Kogoro Mouri.jpg|right|100px]]
[[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 their head's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Akai, and the organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is completely innocent. Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry. 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 the [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|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 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."

=== Toji Funemoto ===
[[File:Toji Funemoto.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Toji Funemoto'''|船本透司|Funemoto Tōji}}, age 8, is a boy who bore witness to Rena's motorcycle accident. Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew. Gin noticed he was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
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=== Tohei Benzaki ===
[[File:Tohei Benzaki.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tohei Benzaki]] is a single man 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 organization have no further interest in him. It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.

=== Natsuko Shibuya ===
[[File:Natsuko Shibuya.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Natsuko Shibuya]] is a Japanese friend of Jodie's whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. 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. Although since he was investigating Conan at the time, and found out that he was involved in some FBI plans, he probably was investigating Jodie, since she was the FBI agent, who was speaking with Conan at the shrine. He also may have had his Japanese Secret Police friends dig up that information for him.

=== Gaito Hotta ===
[[File:Gaito Hotta.jpg|100px|right]]
{{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 Kohji Haneda 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 by the director before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him. He appears in [[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Soul Detective Murder Case]].
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=== Rokumichi Hado ===
[[File:Rokumichi Hado.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Rokumichi Hado]], age 39, is a Japanese rock musician who took a hiatus seventeen years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA, and to finish him if it was. However, he committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death seventeen years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.
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=== Tsutomu Akai ===
[[File:Tsutomu Akai.jpg|right|100px]]
[[Tsutomu Akai]] somehow became involved with the 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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=== Mikoto Shimabukuro ===
[[File:Mikoto Shimabukuro.jpg|right|100px]][[File:Kimie Shimabukuro.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Kimie Shimabukuro'''|島袋君恵|Shimabukuro Kimie}}, age 27, assumed the identity of her late great-grandmother and matriarch of the family {{nihongo|'''Mikoto Shimabukuro'''|島袋弥琴|Shimabukuro Mikoto}}, an elder from the solitary mermaid island in the high seas off Wakasa Bay, Fukui Prefecture, claimed to be 130-year-old and rumoured to be immortal, when her mother died in a fire three years ago. The elder is the host in an annual festival on the island shrine, with her great-granddaughter as the priestess, and in a raffle gave three people a dugong arrow each, said to give its owner a long life and protection against demons. Because of the elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in the fire, who was actually her mother disguised, it has garnered interest of many people around Japan, even from high-up and celebrities. The organization was also interested, sending Gin, Vodka, and Sherry to investigate. After the famous Sleeping Kogoro solved her case along with Heiji, she is arrested by the Fukui police for having killed three childhood friends avenging her mother's death, who was burned alive to prove her immortality. She appears in [[Volume 28#Mermaid's Curse Case|Mermaid's Curse Case]].
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== Acquaintances of individual organization members ==
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of organization members, but were never part of the organization themselves. Former organization members are listed on the main [[Black Organization#Former|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.
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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]] 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 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 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 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, Vermouth nicknames Ran "Angel".
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=== Sohei Dejima ===
[[File:Souhei Dejima.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Sohei Dejima'''|出島壮平|Dejima Sōhei}}, age 54, was Atsushi Miyano's childhood playmate. They hadn't seen for twenty-five years and he had lived in the house that Atsushi inherited from his father. Atsushi and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old, and they were in the organization, to tell him something important, but his friend was out so he never got to say what it was. He was being watched by the organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by her mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the organization came to investigate secretly. He was killed by one of his three office designers. He appears in [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|Bathroom Murder Case]].
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=== 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 he held second place. While he went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the [[Public Security Bureau|Secret Police]] or the organization, and fell out of contact with him. His 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 his grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for him.
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=== Kyosuke Senma ===
[[File:Kyousuke Senma.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Kyosuke Senma'''|千間恭介|Senma Kyōsuke}} was an archaeologist of a village in Tokyo<ref>The license plate of his old daughter's car in the anime version is "Shinjuku" (新宿).</ref> who [[Renya Karasuma]] invited to his [[Sunset Manor]] forty years ago, wanting him to find the treasure before he died of old age. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and 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. He, who had never given them his address, vanished forever. His daughter, now a famous detective, 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, that Karasuma had begun to kill them, 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 ago, when Karasuma had already died. A victim of Karasuma's treasure hunting fanaticism, he did solve the riddle and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano. After Conan has finally solved that old case, his daughter, who hasn't ever met Karasuma<ref>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018).</ref> but hated him after learning it, is arrested by the Tokyo police for murder. He appears in [[Volume 30#Kaitou Kid and the Murder|Kaitou Kid and the Murder]].

== Extended canon ==
=== Collaborators ===
==== Yakub ====
[[File:Yakub.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Yakub'''|ヤクブ|Yakubu}} is Princess Latoona's ambitious uncle. The organization had corrupted him through {{nihongo|"UCAR Inc."|ユーカル社|Yūkaru-sha}}, a company they run. He appears in [[Special Volume 26#The Wish Put on the Airship|The Wish Put on the Airship]].
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=== Targets ===
==== Eric Gamelan ====
[[File:Eric Gamelan.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Eric Gamelan'''|エリック＝ガムラン|Erikku Gamuran}} is the Minister of Commerce of the Republic of Cecilia. He appears in [[Detective Conan: The Great Deduction of Three People|The Great Deduction of Three People]].
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==== Kazuki Honjou ====
[[File:Kazuki Honjo.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Kazuki Honjou'''|本上和樹|Honjō Kazuki}} is a certified public accountant who lived with his parents in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered their minor agent [[Masaaki Okakura]] before them for revenge of his younger sister's death. Without knowing it, he has taken away the amulet bag with a memory card listing their complete agents that have infiltrated various organizations, which Masaaki obtained possibly as insurance. [[Irish]] must retrieve it before the police catch him and look into the database. He was found out by Conan and defeated by Irish, disguised as Matsumoto. His sister's boyfriend and Conan confirmed he'll get a [[Wikipedia: Capital punishment in Japan|death sentence]] anyway. He appears in [[The Raven Chaser]].
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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 organization, so Irish could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
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==== Latoona ====
[[File:Latoona.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Latoona'''|ラトゥーナ|Ratūna}} is the Princess of Panasunugara, a poor country in the African Savannah. She appears in The Wish Put on the Airship.
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==== Eva Port ====
[[File:Eva Port.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Eva Port'''|エヴァポート|Eva Pōto}} is a foreign child idol. She appears in [[Special Volume 35#Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus|Protect the Luxury Liner from the Virus]].
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==== Nina Balmer ====
[[File:Nina Balmer.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Nina Balmer'''|ニーナ・バルマー|Nīna Barumā}} was a Europol agent and Jodie's friend. Her life was threatened by the organization from a certain incident. After locating her in Frankfurt, Kir tried to let her escape, but she is shot to death by Gin. She appears in [[Black Iron Submarine]].
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==== Naomi Argento ====
[[File:Naomi Argento.jpg|right|100px]]
{{nihongo|'''Naomi Argento'''|直美・アルジェント|Naomi Arujento}}, age 19, is an engineer of "Pacific Buoy" in Hachijo-jima. She wants to create a world without racism, so she develops the "old and young authentication system" called All Age Recognition, which can match the same person of different ages. She met Shiho when they were elementary school's classmates from the US, and is still looking forward to seeing her again. Under Karasuma's order, she is kidnapped by the organization. She appears in [[Black Iron Submarine]]. At the end she figures out Haibara was Shiho.
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== References ==
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| name = Atsushi Miyano
| english-name =
| japanese-name = 宮野厚司 (Miyano Atsushi)
| image = Atsushi Miyano Profile.png
| age = 35-37<ref>He was 35 when Elena was 3-months pregnant with Shiho in a flashback from [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|file 1011]]. He died shortly after Shiho was born.</ref>
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Elena Miyano]] (wife, deceased) [[Akemi Miyano]] (first daughter, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second daughter) [[Mary Sera]] (sister-in-law) [[Tsutomu Akai]] (brother-in-law) [[ Shuichi Akai]] (nephew-in-law) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (nephew-in-law) [[Masumi Sera]] (niece-in-law)
| occupation = Doctor Scientist
| nicknames = Mad Scientist<ref>Volume 38, file 2.</ref>
| status = Dead
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|File 1011]] Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|Episode 340]]
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| japanese-voice = [[Yuichi Nakamura]]
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{{nihongo|'''Atsushi Miyano'''|宮野厚司|Miyano Atsushi}} was a doctor and a biochemist and [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and [[Shiho Miyano]]'s father.<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> Atsushi Miyano and his wife [[Elena Miyano]] started or continued on the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]/[[APTX 4869]] research.<ref>Episode 345: "If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research."</ref> The project was eventually taken over by Shiho. Both Elena and Atsushi died for some reason which [[Pisco]] called an accident while Shiho was young.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano was a "mad scientist" who was unpopular in the scientific community because his work and theories were not mainstream.<ref>[[Volume 38|Volume 38, File 2, Page 7: "The Unexpected Treasure"]]; [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|Episode 312: "Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun"]]</ref> Agasa was a distant acquaintance of Atsushi and had met him and his wife at conferences. Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]; [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329: "A Friendship That Can't Be Bought"]]</ref> Atsushi Miyano's true appearance was unknown as he hadn't appeared in the manga until file 1011 in a flashback. He was shown in shadow in the anime. He moved out of his father's house in [[Wikipedia: Kōenji|Kōenji]]<ref>In the anime version, the office hang several posters with the inscription Kohenji, Minami.</ref> thirty years ago to go somewhere for his research; he had found someone to sponsor his theory, and was moving to join a large research facility.<ref>Manga Volume 41, File 10 (423)</ref> Conan and Haibara think this is the Black Organization. He got married in this time period to Elena and then visited his father's house then occupied by his childhood friend and playmate Souhei Dejima later with Elena when Akemi was 4-5 years old. It was said that he seemed to have something important to discuss with his friend.<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 11]]; [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|Episode 340: "Hidden Bathroom Secret"]]</ref> The visit occurred 20 years prior to the current timeline.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] said he met Atsushi some time before he died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref>

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

== Appellations ==
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== Plot overview ==
=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP340-Atsushi Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 340]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Atsushi Miyano manga.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Manga]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP953-Atsushi Miyano.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 953]]
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==Trivia==
*The Miyano couple met in the medical college according to the LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== References ==
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Elena Miyano

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| english-name =
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|宮野エレーナ}} (Miyano Erēna)
| image = Elena Miyano Profile.png
| age = 29-30<ref>She was 29 and 3-months pregnant with Shiho in a flashback from [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|file 1011]]. She died shortly after Shiho was born.</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (first daughter, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second daughter) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (husband, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (older sister) [[Tsutomu Akai]] (brother-in-law) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first nephew) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second nephew) [[Masumi Sera]] (niece)
| occupation = Doctor Scientist
| nicknames = "Hell Angel" (Black Organization)<ref name="hell angel">Manga Volume 41, File 11, pg 12: "A Mystery Left in a Small Sealed Room". Hell's Angel comes from Haibara's Japanese translation as "The angel which fell into hell".</ref>
| alias = Elena Sera (birth name)
| status = Dead
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 39|File 398]] Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329]]
| appearances = {{:Elena Miyano Appearances}}
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| english-voice = [[Vivian Lu]] (Zero's Tea Time)
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{{nihongo|'''Elena Miyano'''|宮野エレーナ|Miyano Erēna}} was a doctor at Miyano Clinic and a biochemist. She was married to [[Atsushi Miyano]] and had two children, [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> She and Atsushi started the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]/[[APTX 4869]] research.<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> Both Elena and Atsushi died during a research facility fire that [[Pisco]] called an accident. Later the project was taken over by her daughter Shiho.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house thirty years ago to go to [[Shirohato Pharmaceuticals]] for his research<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 1 (425)</ref>. He got married in this time period to Elena, a foreigner of British origin. [[Vermouth]] hints that they worked on an existing project upon joining,<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents '''who took over''' this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> which is probably part of the one Shiho implied was at least fifty years old.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 9 (189): "The Endangered Ball "; Episodes [[Episode 130|130]]-[[Episode 131|131]] "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."</ref> While researching, they worked on a project they called [[Silver Bullet]], which their lab mates refereed to as a "dream drug".<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Elena was nicknamed "Hell Angel" while in the Organization, which [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] translates into Japanese as "the angel which fell into hell".<ref name="hell angel"/> She may have earned the nickname because of her nice personality which set her apart from the darkness of the rest of the organization. She and her husband met [[Hiroshi Agasa]] at a science conference at some point. Agasa remembers that Atsushi was a very polite person who complimented his inventions, but that Elena was a very quiet person who you couldn't tell what she was thinking.<ref> Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6-8 (398-400)</ref> Around twenty-five years ago Elena gave birth to [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and then twenty years ago, the couple and a 4~5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi's father's house then occupied by Atsushi's childhood friend and playmate Sohei Dejima.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] revealed that he had met Elena some time before she died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> She appears in one of Amuro's flashbacks, where she asked him not to pick fights anymore as she wouldn't be able to tend his wounds the next time he comes, because she will go to somewhere "very far away".<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara's mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>

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

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

She was always shy and a poor talker.<ref>[[Super Digest Books#BLACK PLUS Super Digest Book|BLACK PLUS Super Digest Book]]</ref>

== Skills ==
Due to her work on drug related projects for the [[Black Organization]] she would have to be skilled at biochemistry. She made significant advances on her research project working with her lab mates on creating a "dream drug" that they were calling "[[Silver Bullet]]". It is unknown how much progress was made, only that her daughter [[Shiho Miyano]] was able to make further advances on a project called "[[APTX 4869]]". Despite her quiet nature and foreign appearance, Elena can speak Japanese fluently. This was called into question by one of the workers living at Atsushi's house. In the anime he later sees Elena talking with Akemi quietly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== [[Mary Sera]] ===
In [[Volume_99#File 1049 - It's Unbelievable!|File 1049]], the flashback shows that Vermouth forced Mary to drink [[APTX-4869]] and said "How is it? The feeling of leaving this world with this poison your younger sister created", which is officially confrim Mary and Elena are sisters.

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

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

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

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

== Speculation ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== References ==
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| japanese-name = 宮野厚司 (Miyano Atsushi)
| image = Atsushi Miyano Profile.png
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{{nihongo|'''Atsushi Miyano'''|宮野厚司|Miyano Atsushi}} was a doctor and a biochemist and [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and [[Shiho Miyano]]'s father.<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> Atsushi Miyano and his wife [[Elena Miyano]] started or continued on the [[APTX 4869]] research according to [[Vermouth]].<ref>Episode 345: "If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research."</ref> One or both of them worked on the project before Shiho took over. Both Elena and Atsushi died for some reason which [[Pisco]] called an accident while Shiho was young.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano was a "mad scientist" who was unpopular in the scientific community because his work and theories were not mainstream.<ref>[[Volume 38|Volume 38, File 2, Page 7: "The Unexpected Treasure"]]; [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|Episode 312: "Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun"]]</ref> Agasa was a distant acquaintance of Atsushi and had met him and his wife at conferences. Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.<ref name="Volume 39">[[Volume 39|Volume 39, File 6, Page 6: "Torn Friendship 1"]]; [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329: "A Friendship That Can't Be Bought"]]</ref> Atsushi Miyano's true appearance was unknown as he hadn't appeared in the manga until file 1011 in a flashback. He was shown in shadow in the anime. He moved out of his father's house in [[Wikipedia: Kōenji|Kōenji]]<ref>In the anime version, the office hang several posters with the inscription Kohenji, Minami.</ref> thirty years ago to go somewhere for his research; he had found someone to sponsor his theory, and was moving to join a large research facility.<ref>Manga Volume 41, File 10 (423)</ref> Conan and Haibara think this is the Black Organization. He got married in this time period to Elena and then visited his father's house then occupied by his childhood friend and playmate Souhei Dejima later with Elena when Akemi was 4-5 years old. It was said that he seemed to have something important to discuss with his friend.<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 11]]; [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|Episode 340: "Hidden Bathroom Secret"]]</ref> The visit occurred 20 years prior to the current timeline.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] said he met Atsushi some time before he died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref>

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

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== Plot overview ==
=== Bathroom Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Bathroom Murder Case|423-425]], Anime: [[Hidden Bathroom Secret|340-341]]) ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Trivia==
*The Miyano couple met in the medical college according to the LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== References ==
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{{APTX 4869}}
{{Characters}}
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Elena Miyano

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| english-name =
| japanese-name = {{lang|ja|宮野エレーナ}} (Miyano Erēna)
| image = Elena Miyano Profile.png
| age = 29<ref>She was 29 and 3-months pregnant with Shiho in a flashback from [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club|file 1011]]. She died shortly after Shiho was born.</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (first daughter, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second daughter) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (husband, deceased) [[Mary Sera]] (older sister) [[Tsutomu Akai]] (brother-in-law) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first nephew) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second nephew) [[Masumi Sera]] (niece)
| occupation = Doctor Scientist
| nicknames = "Hell Angel" (Black Organization)<ref name="hell angel">Manga Volume 41, File 11, pg 12: "A Mystery Left in a Small Sealed Room". Hell's Angel comes from Haibara's Japanese translation as "The angel which fell into hell".</ref>
| alias = Elena Sera (birth name)
| status = Dead
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 39|File 398]] Anime: [[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329]]
| appearances = {{:Elena Miyano Appearances}}
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| english-voice = [[Vivian Lu]] (Zero's Tea Time)
| footnotes =
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{{nihongo|'''Elena Miyano'''|宮野エレーナ|Miyano Erēna}} was a doctor at Miyano Clinic and a biochemist. She was married to [[Atsushi Miyano]] and had two children, [[Shiho Miyano]] and [[Akemi Miyano]].<ref>Manga chapter 424</ref> She and Atsushi started the [[Silver Bullet (drug)|Silver Bullet]]/[[APTX 4869]] research.<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents who took over this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> Both Elena and Atsushi died during a research facility fire that [[Pisco]] called an accident. Later the project was taken over by her daughter Shiho.

== Background ==
Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house thirty years ago to go to [[Shirohato Pharmaceuticals]] for his research<ref>Manga [[Volume 42]], File 1 (425)</ref>. He got married in this time period to Elena, a foreigner of British origin. [[Vermouth]] hints that they worked on an existing project upon joining,<ref>"If you [Shiho] want to blame someone, blame your parents '''who took over''' this foolish research." Episode 345</ref> which is probably part of the one Shiho implied was at least fifty years old.<ref>Manga [[Volume 19]], File 9 (189): "The Endangered Ball "; Episodes [[Episode 130|130]]-[[Episode 131|131]] "Kudo-kun? You would probably never even dream that you are already part of a project the Black Organization has been working on already for half a century."</ref> While researching, they worked on a project they called [[Silver Bullet]], which their lab mates refereed to as a "dream drug".<ref> Manga [[Volume 78]], File 1-7 (818-824)</ref> Elena was nicknamed "Hell Angel" while in the Organization, which [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] translates into Japanese as "the angel which fell into hell".<ref name="hell angel"/> She may have earned the nickname because of her nice personality which set her apart from the darkness of the rest of the organization. She and her husband met [[Hiroshi Agasa]] at a science conference at some point. Agasa remembers that Atsushi was a very polite person who complimented his inventions, but that Elena was a very quiet person who you couldn't tell what she was thinking.<ref> Manga [[Volume 39]], File 6-8 (398-400)</ref> Around twenty-five years ago Elena gave birth to [[Akemi Miyano|Akemi]] and then twenty years ago, the couple and a 4~5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi's father's house then occupied by Atsushi's childhood friend and playmate Sohei Dejima.<ref>Manga Volume 42, File 1 (425), pg 12: "The Hidden Truth"</ref> [[Rei Furuya]] revealed that he had met Elena some time before she died.<ref name=824p5>Manga Volume 78, File 7 (824), Page 5: "Mystery Train: Final Destination"</ref> She appears in one of Amuro's flashbacks, where she asked him not to pick fights anymore as she wouldn't be able to tend his wounds the next time he comes, because she will go to somewhere "very far away".<ref> Manga [[Volume 84]], File 7 (889), Gosho confirmed it was Elena in the interview in Da Vinci Magazine 2014 "First, Amuro Tōru’s real name will be revealed. Then, why did he think of '''Haibara's mother, Elena,''' will also be explained."</ref>

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

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

She was always shy and a poor talker.<ref>[[Super Digest Books#BLACK PLUS Super Digest Book|BLACK PLUS Super Digest Book]]</ref>

== Skills ==
Due to her work on drug related projects for the [[Black Organization]] she would have to be skilled at biochemistry. She made significant advances on her research project working with her lab mates on creating a "dream drug" that they were calling "[[Silver Bullet]]". It is unknown how much progress was made, only that her daughter [[Shiho Miyano]] was able to make further advances on a project called "[[APTX 4869]]". Despite her quiet nature and foreign appearance, Elena can speak Japanese fluently. This was called into question by one of the workers living at Atsushi's house. In the anime he later sees Elena talking with Akemi quietly.

== Appellations ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== [[Mary Sera]] ===
In [[Volume_99#File 1049 - It's Unbelievable!|File 1049]], the flashback shows that Vermouth forced Mary to drink [[APTX-4869]] and said "How is it? The feeling of leaving this world with this poison your younger sister created", which is officially confrim Mary and Elena are sisters.

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

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

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

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

== Speculation ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== References ==
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== About Baijiu/Baiganr/Paikaru ==
Hello SocietyBox, wherever in you may reside in the world. I see you are very active in editing things across the wiki, and I appreciate that, as should everyone else on this wiki. As for your string of edits about Baijiu, I have some thoughts about it.

First of all, it's quite clear that "白乾児" is the name of the Chinese liquor that helps Conan and Haibara return to adult form, besides the antidote. The "乾児" part in "白乾児" contains Japanese [[wikipedia:shinjitai|shinjitai]] kanji characters and are exclusive to the Japanese language, meaning that "Baiganr", a Pinyin romanization used for '''Chinese''' characters, is incorrect. Instead, "Paikaru" should be used.

As for the moving the article "Baijiu" to "Baiganr", I would like to politely object, but not undo, this action. This is because the article is referring to the general use and appearances of Baijiu in the anime, not just Paikaru itself. Paikaru is a type of Baijiu, and the APTX 4869 prototype antidote is implied to have some components of Baijiu in general, but not specifically Paikaru. For this reason, not only do I believe the Baiganr article should be moved back to Baijiu, but also, references to the prototype antidote's ingredients should say "Baijiu" and not "Baiganr" or "Paikaru." However, "Paikaru" should continue to be used when referencing the specific liquor.

Of course, these are not any sort of ''mandatory'' commands, they are only a list of my personal suggestions and their supporting reasons, of which can be ignored. But I hope that you could maybe take these into account for future edits and continue your diligent contributions to this wiki. Take care. --[[User:AvidConanContributor|Avico]] ([[User talk:AvidConanContributor|talk]]) 22:53, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

:Personally, I dislike any Chinese words being used as I only enjoy Conan in its original Japanese text/audio so I'm not a fan of using "baiganr" either. But it's still an English wiki so using "Paikaru" seems wrong. To me, it would be like calling the Netherlands "Oranda" (the Japanese name) which is just too insensitive to the readers. As for "baijiu", given there's no reference to the "baijiu" term in the manga/anime, why introduce it? That's my only argument on "baijiu". --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 23:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

::I see what you're getting at, but think of it this way:On a wiki targeting English-speaking readers, which of the following would make more sense for that audience: "Netherlands" or "Oranda"? Obivously "Netherlands".Now, on a wiki targeting English-speaking viewers of a Japanese show that constantly and consistently uses the native Japanese name to refer to foreign countries, which of the following would make more sense for that audience: "Netherlands" or "Oranda"? For this one, either could work, but it depends on what is used more in that show's English-speaking fandom.Extending that logic, on this wiki that targets English-speaking viewers of Detective Conan and spotlights the original Japanese version of DC more than the English dub or fansubs, which of the following would make more sense: "Paikaru" or "Baiganr"? That would be "Paikaru," since I don't think many people in the DC fandom know about the Chinese reading "Baiganr".You could say using "Paikaru" is insensitive, but we would probably be more insensitive to readers if we used terms that our targeted readers don't understand. Besides, "baiganr" isn't even a proper Japanese romanization (as I've said before, it is Pinyin, which is only used for Chinese).As for why we use "Baijiu" when it was never mentioned in the anime/manga, I think that comes down to a precedence in the community. I haven't been following the community since the start, but from what I can tell, "Baijiu" makes sense considering how long the article stayed with that name (Although, I would also argue that "Paikaru" would be a better article name). --[[User:AvidConanContributor|Avico]] ([[User talk:AvidConanContributor|talk]]) 23:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

:::"Precedence" really annoys me as I can keep seeing "baijiu" for decades and still not get used to it. But I can accept my place in the extreme minority and let you target the wiki for "the community". I can't agree with using "Paikaru" to target the "DC fandom" either, or we'd be switching the character names to "surname first name" (which I wouldn't mind personally). If there was a random (mainland) Chinese person who got popular in Japan only, I'd say their English Wikipedia page would still have their Pinyin name as the title. Likewise, if 白乾兒 deserved its own English Wikipedia page, it would be baiganr. As we're talking convention in general, I'd rather not bring this up but it does say "Bai Ganr" on the bottle. That said, I know my place and won't fight anyone on this. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 01:55, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

::::There's no need to feel discouraged like that, I gladly accept your opinion and am considering to use it for a future edit. Allow me to correct and clarify myself with some info from Wikitionary (If you find this repetitive, please skip this part):"[[wikt:白乾兒|白乾兒]]" is the Chinese name for this liquor, which is romanized as "báigānr" using Pinyin ("baiganr" if you omit the accents). These characters, however, were not written on the bottle.What is instead written on the bottle is "[[wikt:白乾児|白乾児]]" (note the slightly modified last character) which is romanized as "paikaru" using Hepburn. This ''is'' what was written on the bottle and is the proper romanization.I hope I've made this point clear: "baiganr" is not the proper romanization. But as you've pointed out, "Bai ganr" is written on the bottle (I don't know why), so if I were to contribute to this article, I wouldn't entirely exclude "baiganr" from the article, maybe mention it in a sentence or two. But it's definitely not going to be the name of the article like it is now. Whether the article is going to be named "Baijiu" or "Paikaru" is going to need some further discussion with other contributors on this wiki since we are "touching" on a precedence and I would like to respect that precedence.Do know that I am with you on '''not naming''' the article "Baijiu" since that does seem awkward to introduce something not mentioned in the anime/manga. Let me know of any further concerns! --[[User:AvidConanContributor|Avico]] ([[User talk:AvidConanContributor|talk]]) 03:58, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

:::::That's for the friendliness. I should start by saying I'm fluent in Chinese, Japanese and English. Just because the bottle has the Japanese version of the name (like how 中國/中国 zhongguo in Chinese is 中国 chuugoku in Japanese) doesn't mean they're referring to different things (please don't mention chuugoku-chiho) and that we should use "chuugoku" for any Japanese references to the country. Unless you're suggesting paikaru should mean specifically "baiganr that's been manufactured in Japan or imported and relabelled in Japan" (like how "anime" means, specifically, Japanese animation), I don't see your point. I can also throw in the "ramen" example which, despite its Chinese origin and considered "chuuka" cuisine in Japan, is globally considered Japanese cuisine and thus the Japanese name is most popular. Baiganr is Chinese liquor, and having the English name based on the Chinese name (or even just a Chinese-sounding name) would feel more natural to readers. Again, do what you want. There's only like 20 pages referring to it so I can just turn a blind eye. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 07:54, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

:::::I've just remembered and have gone back to check that 白乾児 seems to be exclusively (or nearly exclusively) used in Japan and is (or might as well be) made-up (wasei) Chinese. Still, the idea should carry over and the English name should also sound like made-up Chinese and be "baiganr". I'll also cover the only argument I'll accept for "baijiu" which is that it's the official and 100% accurate English translation of the liquor. But instead, according to Wikipedia anyway, the correct translation is "Kaoliang liquor". --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 08:45, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

:I've just realised we've been discussing what the best name for the article would be when that didn't even cross my mind when I moved the article. I read the opening sentence to the article (which I haven't edited) and it sounded like "baijiu", "shaojiu" and "baiganr" were all equally valid names for the liquor and, therefore, equally valid names for the article. Given two are irrelevant to the canon and the remaining one's on the bottle, I made what I thought would be an acceptable page rename. If I were to choose a name as if I were writing the article from scratch (which is too radical and I wouldn't dream of making that decision on my own), I might actually go with Kaoliang liquor and have '''{{#if: Kaoliang liquor | Kaoliang liquor | {{#if: paikaru | paikaru}}}}{{#if: 白乾児{{#if: Kaoliang liquor | paikaru }} | (}}{{#if: 白乾児 | {{lang|ja|白乾児}} }}{{#if: Kaoliang liquor | {{#if: paikaru | {{#if: 白乾児 | , }}paikaru}}}}{{#if: 白乾児 | [[Help:Japanese|?]]}}{{#if: | {{#if: {{#if: paikaru| Kaoliang liquor}}白乾児 | ,}} {{{4}}} }}{{#if: 白乾児{{#if: Kaoliang liquor | paikaru }} | )}}{{#if: | {{{5}}} }}''' in the intro. --[[User:SocietyBox|SocietyBox]] ([[User talk:SocietyBox|talk]]) 18:43, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

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

His name has been a long-kept secret for most of the series, but on December 13, 2017, [[Gosho Aoyama]] finally revealed his identity. Before this important revelation, only [[Minami Takayama]], the [[Kobun Shizuno|director]] and the producer of the anime staff in [[The Darkest Nightmare]] knew who the infamous boss was.

== Background ==
[[File:Ep942 Carasuma.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Karasuma's criminal organization.]]
Renya Karasuma was a wealthy and influential multi-millionaire who was the most powerful person in all of modern Japan, with an extensive range of contacts all over in the world. He is richer than the [[Suzuki family|Suzuki plutocrats]] in Tokyo and the [[Ooka family]] in Kyoto.<ref>Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018).</ref> He is said to have died at over 100 years old about fourty years ago, under quite mysterious circumstances and his legacy is unknown. During his lifetime, he had collected over three hundred pieces of priceless art and antiques. About sixty-seven years ago, as a guest at his birthday party, he met [[Amanda Hughes]], an American VIP.

When his mother died, he inherited the [[Sunset Manor]], a huge western-style manor house, and over time filled his vacation home with his silver crest which depicts a rolled-up [[crow]]. Forty years ago, he found a clue leading to a vast fortune left by his mother supposedly hidden in the manor, but he was unable to solve it himself. Consumed by his own greed for the treasure, he hired people to solve the riddle for him and then began killing them as motivation for the others to work faster. After his supposed death, the [[Karasuma family]] died out and the house fell into other hands.

He founded the shady [[Karasuma Group]], a big company in Tokyo that pays well as a sponsor but is associated with various bad rumors. He is the man at the center of it all, directing illegal activities and planning crimes to protect and advance the interests of those [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] calls the "[[Black Organization]]". While mysteriously operating behind the scenes, the boss communicates with his ruthless subordinates only through text messages. His phone number, encoded as the famous children's song [[Nanatsu no Ko]], is #969#6261. He is responsible for promoting agents deemed worthy and deciding on their alcoholic codenames, but he does not have one of his own because he is the big boss and does not need a codename. However, he does not want anyone in the organization to know about his current location.

== Personality ==
He is described as a greedy, corrupt, cruel, and impatient man. He is materialistic as driven by his own greed while searching for the hidden treasure inside the Sunset Manor. Furthermore, he doesn't value human life, as brutally killed numerous innocent people that he invited just as motivation to find the treasure faster. Wise and quiet, intelligent and manipulative, he is ruthless, willing to dispatch senior agents who have been extremely 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. Somehow, he can maintain loyalty and unity within the organization, despite many members disliking or even outright wishing to murder certain others. The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] believed he was hoping to nip a potential obstacle in the bud, because 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|Akai]] could become a [[silver bullet]], someone who is especially dangerous to the entire organization. Unless he brought Conan back alive, [[Irish]] thought his true identity is something the boss would find hard to believe.

== Appearance ==
He is a crow-like man who has only appeared as an ominous shape. He is bald on the top of his head with the rest of his hair extended to the neck, with a large nose shaped like a beak, and a somewhat obese body shape. His eyes are drooping. He dressed in black with a white scarf, held his left arm behind the back and 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 ==
=== Sunset Mansion Case (Manga: [[Volume 30#Sunset_Mansion_Case|299-302]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid|219]]) ===
The world's greatest detectives were invited to an old mansion covered in blood in the isolated mountains of Matsumoto, a Nagano Prefecture's rural area at 2 kilometers from [[Wikipedia: Okuno Dam|Okuno Dam]].<ref>Anime-original information: see the [[:File:EP219-invitation.jpg|invitation]] and [[:File:EP219-junction.jpg|sign]].</ref> The host told them that this huge mansion belonged to Renya Karasuma, who died half-a-century ago, at the age of 99, and that there is a treasure hidden inside.<ref>The host dummy wears a frightening phantom's purple hood with two eye slits, just like the members of the [[Wikipedia: KKK|KKK]], one of the secret societies that were the sources of inspiration for his organization.</ref> That name triggers the guests attention, since he had tremendous influence throughout Japan. Conan solved the riddle, peeling off the entire outer walls of the black building and revealing solid gold underneath. Only Karasuma could do something on such a scale, and it must be worth a hundred billion yen. [[Kaitou Kid]] had come for Karasuma's treasure disguised as [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], but it was too big for him to carry away and then flees from there. The victim and the culprit were possessed by Karasuma all along.

=== Stradivarius Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Stradivarius Murder Case|470]], Anime: [[The Dissonance of the Stradivarius|385]]) ===
Conan visualizes the boss as a big [["The Criminal"|black figure]] behind [[Gin]], [[Vodka]], and Vermouth, with an evil aura to distinguish him from all the other minor criminals.

=== Suspicious Cellphone Case (Manga: [[Volume 46#Suspicious Cellphone Case|479]], Anime: [[The Strange Family's Request|398]]) ===
Conan visualizes the boss as a black figure behind Gin, Vodka, and a naked Vermouth in the anime version. It'd be a bad idea to send a message to that address, but Conan is calm, sure that 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: [[Search for Maria-chan!|942]]) ===
[[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Subaru Okiya|Subaru]] have reached 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 and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]], Conan visualizes Karasuma as a shape before Gin, Vodka, a naked Vermouth, [[Chianti]], and [[Korn]], his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder. That's why [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s parents decided to stay in Japan and think of a plan, just what Conan wanted.

=== TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|1025]], Anime: [[Makoto Kyogoku the Understudy|995]]) ===
When [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] reminds the drug her parents were forced to create by the organization, which shrunk Shinichi and Haibara's bodies, she visualizes Karasuma as a shape behind her parents, the pet crow on his left shoulder, and that drug.

=== Trapped at Hatoyama Farm (Manga: [[Volume 99#Trapped at Hatoyama Farm|1051]], Anime: [[The Spark That Fell on the Ranch|1053]]) ===
When [[Rumi Wakasa|Rumi]], talking with [[Sumiko Kobayashi|Sumiko]] about someone named "Karasuda" (crow field) as a crow, imagines that person all black and sly, a conspirator who's hard to get close to, but someone with such a name might well be a bright and cheery person instead, Conan visualizes Karasuma as a shape and the pet crow on his left shoulder, suspecting that she is a candidate for being the organization's second-in-command, [[Rum]], and might personally know him.

=== Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case (Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Detective Show|1072]]) ===
Conan, Yusaku, and Akai visualize Karasuma as a shape behind Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth, and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== A criminal wasn't made in a day (Hanzawa the Criminal: [[Hanzawa the Criminal Volume 4#File 020: A criminal (Hannin) wasn't made in a day|20]], Anime: TBD) ===
In an old-fashioned requiem shop, [[Hanzawa-san|Hanzawa]] visualizes Karasuma as a shape, his crest and the pet crow on his left shoulder.

=== Black Iron Submarine (Movie: [[Black Iron Submarine|26]]) ===
The Boss orders the Black Organization to kidnap Naomi in order to modify the All-Ages Recognition and delete their traces from past security camera footage around the world. After got texted by Vermouth about the possible threat caused by the AI system, he order to destroy it instead. He then appear as a shape in Rum's imagination, as he wonder about his whereabouts since he initially intended to use the AI system to locate him.

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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Black Organization ===
==== Rum ====
[[Rum]] is the second-in-command in the organization, meaning that Karasuma must trust him the most, enough to make him the new highest ranking executive agent after his late father's long service. Rum has his support to do criminal activities, such as blackmailing big names in the political and financial world in order to strengthen their position. About forty-seven years ago, Rum appeared at the International Economic Forum's annual general meeting on behalf of him, who was absent due to poor health. However, Rum is scolded by the boss when his conspicuous actions can threaten the secrecy of the organization, for example by burning an island, instead of searching closely, to lure out their target. Even Rum has not seen him in a long time and has been trying to find out about his whereabouts.

==== Gin ====
He trusts [[Gin]] enough to make him the chief administrator in the organization, and for good reason: Gin is among the most loyal of the high-ranking members. Gin follows the boss' orders closely and virtually never acts against the organization's greater interests, and in return the boss entrusts Gin to direct critical missions and key assassinations. The boss 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. He needs Gin to do the more criminal works, as other men are prevented from acting to that extent. Although Gin follows all orders from the boss, he acts on his own initiative on more than one occasion, as deciding to poison Shinichi 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]] is the managerial secretary in the organization. He is scared of consequence to act without the boss' permission, for example by killing Vermouth during a spy mission, but of course Gin takes full responsibility for his partner in the general oversight division.

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] is known as Karasuma's 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 hate, mistrust, and wish 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 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. However, even then, he still willingly sends her into deadly missions. He has also unintentionally allowed Chris Vineyard to undermine the organization by protecting Conan, someone she thinks is especially dangerous. During a Halloween party, he discovered that Vermouth was up to something without the organization's knowledge, so he ordered Gin and Vodka to investigate. Aboard the ship, a man that Vermouth blackmailed to murder a director began screaming someone called Vermouth was to blame. Later on, he sends a text message to Vermouth's cellphone: "It looks like I have given you too much freedom. Come back to my side, Vermouth." Conan tried to force Vermouth to surrender and take him to find the boss, but failed. [[Jodie Starling|Jodie]] hopes to capture Vermouth, who could lead the FBI to the elusive boss.

==== Chianti ====
[[Chianti]] is scared of him even more than she proves to be scared of Gin and must work with Vermouth due to direct orders from the boss. In order to avenge [[Calvados]]' death, she would've killed Vermouth a long time ago, if she wasn't his favorite, but swears she'll definitely kill her in the end. She also proves to be envious for what Kir has used to make him let her join their group four years ago, but she and Kir have a cordial relation.

==== 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 corroborated her story, so he promoted her to the codename Kir in recognition of her loyalty and sheer savagery. In truth, he was fooled. Ethan was Kir's father and they both are [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] spies infiltrating the organization. Hidemi Hondou 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 prove that the story was true. He orders Kir to assassinate a politician 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 organization easily retrieved Kir from the FBI, Gin became suspicious of how ineffective the FBI's plan was and that Akai did not make a strong move. Gin thought that Akai is hiding something and relays his doubt to him, who also agrees. He and Gin plan a test of Kir's loyalty. Hearing about [[Andre Camel|Camel]] became a suspect in a coincidental murder case, the organization takes advantage of the FBI's distraction, so 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. Conan, Akai, and Kir conspired to fake that death.

==== Bourbon ====
[[Bourbon]] is dispatched to search for the escaped scientist Sherry. However, Tooru Amuro received his permission to execute a second, secret mission: verified Akai's death by disguising himself as him and approaching his FBI colleagues. In truth, with the indirect support of the [[National Police Agency]], Rei Furuya has been persevering to turn in Akai to the organization to earn higher ranks to get closer to the boss. Moreover, Bourbon is one of the few people who know his secret relationship with Vermouth.

==== Sherry ====
He orders the execution of [[Shiho Miyano]] after she boycotted the development of APTX 4869 and rebelled against the organization. Naturally, when Sherry manages to escape before she could be even executed, he ordered the organization to hunt the traitor down and murder her, and to get rid of anyone associated with her. Conan later uncovers his phone number, but [[Ai Haibara]] warns him of the danger of calling it, likening it to Pandora's Box for his safety. Of course she knows all this from the start, the email address and the unbelievable person behind it, but this important secret is extremely dangerous, so Haibara has been hiding his true identity because she fears Conan will make a rash move and get himself killed.

==== Miyano family ====
Twenty-five years ago, he wanted to buy the [[Shirohato Pharmaceuticals‎‎|pharmaceutical company]] where [[Atsushi Miyano]] worked as part of a drug development team, but it went badly and that company was suddenly shut down. During the time Atsushi and his wife [[Elena Miyano|Elena]] were running their private clinic, they received invitations from him many times, but Atsushi had always refused his offer, considering the strange rumors surrounding that organization, discovered by his sister-in-law, [[Mary Sera|Mary]]. However, nineteen years ago they went to his group's lab after all, so he sponsored their research to make APTX 4869.

==== Pisco ====
[[Pisco]] is a big auto manufacturer chairman who had served under him for many years. He trusted Kenzo Masuyama enough to make him an executive agent of the organization. Gin relayed his orders to Pisco: silence a politician, who was going to be arrested for bribery, and use APTX 4869 if it was necessary. This conversation revealed his existence to Conan, which he had suspected from the beginning. Pisco successfully assassinated the target, but he was accidentally caught on a flash photo in the act of murder, showing him holding his gun in the newspaper. Then, fearing that Pisco may expose the existence and goals of the organization to the public, he ordered Gin to kill him and burn his house to the ground, which the latter does even though Pisco knew where Sherry was.

==== Rikumichi Kusuda ====
For assurance, [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] is sent 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 by Akai and killed himself.

=== Enemies ===
==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
[[Shinichi Kudo]], the high school student and world's greatest detective, currently shrank into a little kid, [[Conan Edogawa]], due to Gin and is the arch-enemy of Karasuma's criminal organization. From the beginning, as responsible for shrinking his body with their pill, Conan must manage to reach their mastermind and catch the organization in one fell swoop, all for the sake of returning to his original form. He is indirectly responsible for Shinichi's whole current life-threatening situation. An extremely dangerous man, far worse than everyone else in the organization, he is a diabolical presence that chilled the boy to the bone, which no other man in black or minor criminal can do. In fact, despite the two never actually confronting each other in person, every time he sees someone on a cell phone or sing Nanatsu no Ko, Conan gets flashbacks to Vermouth, from whom he got a vital clue, the email address that could lead him to the name and whereabouts of the supreme commander who controls them, and suddenly he looks pale and frightened. From now on, until his mission comes to a close, anyone associated with Conan, his parents or friends, is in a do-or-die situation.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Capturing a high-ranking member of the 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 Dai Moroboshi 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 by Rum due to a mistake made by Camel. In the two years since the mission failure, he came to believe Akai could become the organization's silver bullet, the threat whom he fears the most, and is more like Vermouth than Gin.

== Gallery ==
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File:Renya Karasuma Silhouette 2.jpg|Renya Karasuma (episode 219).
File:BossBlackshadow.jpg|The boss (episode 385).
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== Name origin ==
"Karasuma" literally means "crow circle", as the logo in his crest. It is a very unusual surname and most known for being a [[wikipedia:Karasuma Street|street]] (and its associated [[wikipedia:Karasuma Station|station]] and [[wikipedia:Karasuma Line|train line]]) in Kyoto. It can also be translated "[[wikipedia:ja:烏丸家|Karasumaru]]", one of the old court nobles, or "Ugan", another name for the [[Wikipedia: Wuhuan|Wuhuan]].

"Renya" is a name also used for women, written with the kanji for "lotus" and "father".

== Character inspiration ==
[[Gosho Aoyama]] was inspired by the fictional character [[Wikipedia: Professor Moriarty|James Moriarty]], the main antagonist in the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''' series, to create the Black Organization's head.<ref>Aoyama's latest interview for NHK (2017).</ref> Just like the "Napoleon of Crime", he 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 Al Capone did.<ref>Interview with Aoyama Gosho March 2014.</ref> He is depicted as a cold-blooded person who controls underworld and doesn't leave a single scrap of evidence, remaining anonymous to the public, and the shape similar to Professor Moriarty's in the novels.

== Trivia ==
* The anime version's biblical painting in his former manor's dining room is a replica of ''[[Wikipedia: The Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon|The Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon]]'', although with an inverted orientation. Since sunset also indicates an idea of glorious sun that goes out, he is almost like the wise but then corrupt King Solomon.
* Due to his obese and aristocratic appearance, as well as his bird-like face, he bears a resemblance with the [[Wikipedia: Penguin (character)|Penguin]], the famous Batman villain, one of the author's favorite US comics.

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|Renya|Karasumaru}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Renya|Karasumaru}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|Eok Man 억만|Oh 오}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|Рэнъя Ren'ya|Карасума Karasuma}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Renya|Karasuma}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เรนยะ Renya|คาราสึมะ Khārās̄ụma}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Renya|Karasuma}}
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]
* [[Crow]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== References ==
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Black Organization

2025-02-05T02:15:55Z

SocietyBox: 黒ずくめの組織

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| name = Black Organization
| japanese-name = 黒ずくめの組織 or 黒の組織
| english-name = Black Organization
| image = EP942 11.jpg
| boss = [[Renya Karasuma]]
| members = [[Rum]] (second-in-command) [[Gin]] (chief administrator) [[Vodka]] (managerial secretary) [[Vermouth]] [[Chianti]] [[Korn]]
| deceased-members = [[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]]
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File 001 - The Heisei Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Black Organization Appearances}}
| footnotes =
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The {{nihongo|'''Black Organization'''|黒ずくめの組織|Kuro-zukume no Soshiki|lit. Completely Black Organization, also 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, they commit 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. The head 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]]. They are the arch-enemy of [[Conan Edogawa]].

== Members ==
=== Current ===
==== Executive members ====
* '''[[Renya Karasuma]]''': The true central antagonist of the series. Thought to be dead, but is still alive at an age of over 140-year-old. Head of the Black Organization, he is the man at the center of it all, respectfully referred to as "that person" ("ano kata") by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
* '''[[Rum]]''': Second in charge of the Black Organization, he has the left eye artificial. He is actually disguised as [[Kanenori Wakita]].
* '''[[Gin]]''': The chief administrator who is specialized 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 openly made Ran aware of her presence in a disguise, although that's likely because she knows Ran won't go to the police with this information. She also does not seem to age.

==== Other members ====
* '''[[Vodka]]''': Managerial secretary of the Black Organization<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> as Gin's partner, 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. However, in the Chess Tournament Murder Case, Rum directly commands her to kill Wakasa. 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. However, in the Chess Tournament Murder Case, Rum directly commands him to kill Wakasa. 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 [[Central Intelligence Agency|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. His true name is Rei Furuya, but he goes by Tooru Amuro in public. He was initially dispatched to look for Sherry (who's confirmed dead by the organization currently), but spent more of that time investigating Shuichi Akai whom he hates because of the death of Scotch. He works for the [[Public Security Bureau|Public Security Bureau]].

=== 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: Gin said that was the boss' order. 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.
* '''[[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. He shot his smartphone along with his own chest in order to protect his secret info and committed suicide.

=== 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 was in custody for the murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him. In the end, the court sentences him to death.

=== Extended canon ===
{{see also|List of notable Non-Canon Black Organization}}
These agents are original characters not found in the main 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 (deceased).
* '''[[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.
* '''[[Stout]]''': a member of the English [[Wikipedia: Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Korn.
* '''[[Pinga]]''': killed in the submarine blast in Movie 26.

==== 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]].
* '''[[List of notable case characters#Two men|Two men]]''': two Black Organization hunters for holy relics.

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

== 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>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|60px]] || [[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: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:Curaçao 60px.jpg]] || [[Curaçao]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:mysteriousman.png|60px]] || [[Man in bar (Black Organization)‎‎|Mysterious man]]* ''(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)''
|-
| [[File:L2-Man.jpg|60px]] || [[List of notable case characters#Drama assassin|Man]]* ''(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:Antonio Gomez 60px.jpg]] || [[Antonio Gomez]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:SLS BO Hunter 1 60px.jpg]] || [[List of notable case characters#Two men|Man #1]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:SLS BO Hunter 2 60px.jpg]] || [[List of notable case characters#Two men|Man #2]]* ''(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]].'' 

== 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]]
* [[Vermouth]]: The boss' favorite
* [[Pisco]]<ref>[[: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 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]]

== 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 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|200px|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. The host dummy in the Sunset Manor case wears a frightening phantom's purple hood with only two eye slits, just like the members of the KKK.</ref> The Black Organization members all tend to wear black outfits, which Akemi says is intentional and supposed to resemble [[Crow|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, Kogoro Mouri, 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>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 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 [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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 twenty 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. 30 years before Conan was shrunk, it is rumored that they had their eye on [[Shirohato Pharmaceuticals]] and one on of their biochemists [[Atsushi Miyano]], and had a hand in the company's demise. 19 years ago, the [[Karasuma Group]] offered to sponsor Atsushi Miyano and Elena Miyano's research. Eventually, the two scientists developed a drug they called [[Silver Bullet (drug)|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. 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 she was locked in a room with Pisco's computer, but then lied to Conan about losing it.<ref>In episode 188 (file 251), Haibara has the bloody disk of copied APTX 4869 data from episode 178. 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 episode 54, 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|200px|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 9 (189), Page 6: The Endangered Ball; 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'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|Professor 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.

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

== Manga to anime differences ==
{{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:

* '''[[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|Episode 5]]''': 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 [[Game Company Murder Case|episode 54]]. Conan recognizes their code names when Tequila speaks to them, yet Conan never learned their code names in the anime version of events.

* '''[[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13]]''': 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 [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|episode 128]], 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 Kuroba]] 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]], 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]] thought to possibily grant immortality in some way. This could be connected to the age-reversing drug mentioned earlier but the true magical nature of Magic Kaito and its organization's search does not mesh with the non-magical setting of Detective Conan. Although after Toichi and Yuusaku are revealed to be twins in Movie 27, it's possible a connection between the two organisations as well could arise in the future.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=180px perrow=5>
File:EP385 3.jpg|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth (episode 385).
File:EP398-1.PNG|Conan visualizes the boss, Gin, Vodka, and a naked Vermouth (episode 398).
File:EP425-BO.jpg|Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (episode 425).
File:EP500-BO.jpg|Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (episode 500).
File:Op50-Karasuma.jpg|Conan vs. Karasuma, Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (opening 50).
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[File:Demon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan against the demon.]]
* This crime organization enshrouded in mystery, and even other unrelated case, are sometimes introduced with crows, the creepy bird which is also depicted on their head's crest.
* The cars and motorcycles of all Black Organization's members in the anime version have "Shinjuku" (新宿) as license plate, then their founding location is somewhere in Tokyo.
* While chasing down leads on their organization, Conan is constantly confronted by difficult cases. In the introduction of [[The Last Wizard of the Century|movie 3]], on a Greek palace ruins at night, he is suddenly attacked by a big red demon with evil aura from many yellow stratus, the Black Organization behind all minor criminals.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]
* [[Crow]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable OtherLang|translation=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|黒の組織 Kuro no soshiki|Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|المنظّمة السوداء Al-Munaẓẓama As-Sawdā’|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Organisasi Hitam| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Kongsi Gelap / Organisasi Hitam|Dark Syndicate}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|L'Organització dels Homes de Negre|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|黑衣组织 Hēi'yī Zǔzhī|Organization in Black (in the sense of "men in black") }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Musta Organisaatio| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|L’Organisation des Hommes en Noir|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Schwarze Organisation|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|L'Organizzazione degli Uomini in Nero|The Organization of the Men in Black}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Poland|Polish|Czarna organizacja| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|องค์กรชุดดำ Xngkh̒kr chud dả|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Tổ Chức Áo Đen|The Black Organization}}
{{EndTable}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Crow]]

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[[File:Baijiu.jpg|thumb|right|200px||A bottle of baiganr, with "Made by ancient way, with good taste" written on it.]]
'''''Baijiu''''' (Chinese: {{lang|zh|[[wikt:白酒|白酒]]}}; pinyin: báijiǔ), '''''shaojiu''''' ({{lang|zh|[[wikt:烧酒|烧酒]]}}) or '''''baiganr'''''（{{lang|zh|[[wiktionary:白乾兒|白乾兒]]}}) is a Chinese distilled alcoholic beverage. The name ''baijiu'' literally means "white liquor", "white alcohol" or "white spirits". In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', it goes by the {{nihongo|baiganr|白乾児|paikaru}} name and it is a temporary antidote for [[APTX 4869]], temporarily reverting [[Conan Edogawa]] and [[Ai Haibara]] to their teenager forms. Unfortunately, it only works once.

== Etymology and production ==
{{rellink|extraclasses=noprint relarticle mainarticle|Main article: [[Wikipedia: Baijiu|Baijiu]]}}
''Baijiu'' is often mistakenly translated as "wine" or "white wine", but it is actually a [[wikipedia:distilled beverage|distilled]] liquor, generally about 80 to 120 [[Wikipedia: Proof (alcohol)|proof]], or 40-60% alcohol by volume (ABV).

''[[Wikipedia: Baijiu|Baijiu]]'' is a clear drink usually distilled from [[Wikipedia: Sorghum|sorghum]], although sometimes other grains may be used; ''baijiu'' varieties produced in southern China are typically made from glutinous rice, while those from northern China are generally made of sorghum, [[Wikipedia: Wheat|wheat]], [[Wikipedia: Barley|barley]], [[Wikipedia: Millet|millet]], or occasionally [[Wikipedia: Job's tears|Job's tears]].

== Appearances ==
[[File:Baijiu manga.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan remembers the bottle of baiganr.]]

=== Speculation about the origins of the alcohol ===
The label on the bottle is written in a mixture of Japanese and Chinese:
:{{lang|ja|白乾児}} is Japanese kanji (Sino-Japanese version of Chinese characters); in Chinese it would be {{lang|zh|白乾兒}} in traditional, {{lang|zh|白干儿}} in simplified
:{{lang|zh|古法乾式}} is not standard Chinese, roughly means "traditionally-made dry-type"
:{{lang|zh|芳香千里}} however IS a Chinese phrase in common use, meaning roughly "renowned for its taste"
This strongly suggests the bottle was imported or manufactured by a Japanese company, vs. the alcohol having come directly from China through other means.
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== APTX antidote ==
{{Main|Prototype antidote}}
The baiganr gave [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] a limited time (maybe 15 to 30 minutes) reversion to adult form. Unlike Haibara's later temporary antidotes, the baiganr took a considerable time before it began to work, and only then after making their respective colds much worse. The transformation and reversion are heralded by repeated bouts of sharp chest pain centered over the heart which become more frequent as the transformation draws near. In the short time Conan and Haibara were in their adult forms, they were unwell, sweating, and breathing heavily. After the reversion back to child form, both Conan and Haibara seemed more taxed and ill than they started.

The baiganr antidote only works once as Haibara says the body builds a resistance to it. Additionally, it may only work when the drinker is sick and thus has a weakened immune system as both Conan and Haibara used it while sick with colds. Haibara speculated there was some [[Wikipedia: Enzyme|enzyme]] in the baiganr which enabled the change.

=== Canon ===
==== The [[Diplomat Murder Case]] and the [[Library Murder Case]] ====
[[Heiji Hattori]] gives [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] a cup of baiganr as a remedy for his cold, causing Conan to change back into [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] in the middle of a murder case investigation. He manages to solve the case and escapes before changing back into Conan. Later, Conan tries to use the baiganr to change back but finds it no longer works. It may have failed because Conan was no longer afflicted with a cold, but Haibara also considers that that his body built up a resistance to the baiganr after using it once.

==== [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] ====
[[Ai Haibara|Haibara]] drinks baiganr at Conan's suggestion in order to escape the locked alcohol storage room [[Pisco]] had trapped her in at the [[Haido City Hotel]]. She is able to scale the chimney in her 18-year-old form to leave the locked room. Her half-drunken, left-behind bottle is noticed by Vodka, but neither he nor Gin realize its purpose. After being confronted by [[Gin]] on the roof, she falls back down the chimney and turns back into Haibara. Pisco sees her reversion, but is unable to tell anyone before Gin kills him.

=== Non-canon ===
==== [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]] ====
Conan took some of Haibara's medicine to create the symptoms of an awful cold and then drank baiganr. He became Shinichi for around an hour, but felt terrible as a result.<ref>[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital|Movie, No. 7: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]</ref>

==== [[Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization]] ====
Conan and Haibara accidentally returned to Shinichi and Shiho when they ate some alcohol-containing cake.

== Trivia ==
* In an interview in Conan Drill<ref name=conandrill>{{cite web|url=http://conan.aga-search.com/501-33-4-4officialbook.html|title=コナンドリル　オフィシャル・ブック (''Conan Drill Official Book'')}}</ref>, Aoyama claims that the name of the alcohol comes from the name of a villain in ''Lupin III''.

== References ==
<references/>

{{APTX 4869}}

[[Category:Objects]]
[[Category:APTX 4869 antidotes]]

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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 = EP942 11.jpg
| boss = [[Renya Karasuma]]
| members = [[Rum]] (second-in-command) [[Gin]] (chief administrator) [[Vodka]] (managerial secretary) [[Vermouth]] [[Chianti]] [[Korn]]
| deceased-members = [[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, they commit 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. The head 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]]. They are the arch-enemy of [[Conan Edogawa]].

== Members ==
=== Current ===
==== Executive members ====
* '''[[Renya Karasuma]]''': The true central antagonist of the series. Thought to be dead, but is still alive at an age of over 140-year-old. Head of the Black Organization, he is the man at the center of it all, respectfully referred to as "that person" ("ano kata") by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
* '''[[Rum]]''': Second in charge of the Black Organization, he has the left eye artificial. He is actually disguised as [[Kanenori Wakita]].
* '''[[Gin]]''': The chief administrator who is specialized 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 openly made Ran aware of her presence in a disguise, although that's likely because she knows Ran won't go to the police with this information. She also does not seem to age.

==== Other members ====
* '''[[Vodka]]''': Managerial secretary of the Black Organization<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> as Gin's partner, 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. However, in the Chess Tournament Murder Case, Rum directly commands her to kill Wakasa. 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. However, in the Chess Tournament Murder Case, Rum directly commands him to kill Wakasa. 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 [[Central Intelligence Agency|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. His true name is Rei Furuya, but he goes by Tooru Amuro in public. He was initially dispatched to look for Sherry (who's confirmed dead by the organization currently), but spent more of that time investigating Shuichi Akai whom he hates because of the death of Scotch. He works for the [[Public Security Bureau|Public Security Bureau]].

=== 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: Gin said that was the boss' order. 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.
* '''[[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. He shot his smartphone along with his own chest in order to protect his secret info and committed suicide.

=== 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 was in custody for the murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him. In the end, the court sentences him to death.

=== Extended canon ===
{{see also|List of notable Non-Canon Black Organization}}
These agents are original characters not found in the main 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 (deceased).
* '''[[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.
* '''[[Stout]]''': a member of the English [[Wikipedia: Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Korn.
* '''[[Pinga]]''': killed in the submarine blast in Movie 26.

==== 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]].
* '''[[List of notable case characters#Two men|Two men]]''': two Black Organization hunters for holy relics.

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

== 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>Conan Drill page 237</ref> (e.g Vermouth is higher ranking than Vodka.)

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| align="center"|
{| class="wikitable noborder" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px;"
| [[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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|-

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

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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
|-
! 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
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| [[File:Generic 60px.jpg]] || [[Generic]]* ''(former)''
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| [[File:Blackbeard 60px.jpg]] || [[Blackbeard]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Tequila 60px.jpg]] || [[Tequila]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Yoshiaki Hara 60px.jpg]] || [[Yoshiaki Hara]]* ''(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)''
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| [[File:Irish 60px.jpg]] || [[Irish]]* ''(deceased)'' (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Masaaki Okakura 60px.jpg]] || [[Masaaki Okakura]]* ''(deceased)'' (Incertae sedis)
|-
| [[File:Curaçao 60px.jpg]] || [[Curaçao]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:mysteriousman.png|60px]] || [[Man in bar (Black Organization)‎‎|Mysterious man]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Antonio Gomez 60px.jpg]] || [[Antonio Gomez]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:SLS BO Hunter 1 60px.jpg]] || [[List of notable case characters#Two men|Man #1]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:SLS BO Hunter 2 60px.jpg]] || [[List of notable case characters#Two men|Man #2]]* ''(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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'''*''' ''These characters are not considered to be [[canon]].'' 

== 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]]
* [[Vermouth]]: The boss' favorite
* [[Pisco]]<ref>[[: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 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]]

== 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 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|200px|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. The host dummy in the Sunset Manor case wears a frightening phantom's purple hood with only two eye slits, just like the members of the KKK.</ref> The Black Organization members all tend to wear black outfits, which Akemi says is intentional and supposed to resemble [[Crow|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, Kogoro Mouri, 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>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 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 [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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 twenty 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. 30 years before Conan was shrunk, it is rumored that they had their eye on [[Shirohato Pharmaceuticals]] and one on of their biochemists [[Atsushi Miyano]], and had a hand in the company's demise. 19 years ago, the [[Karasuma Group]] offered to sponsor Atsushi Miyano and Elena Miyano's research. Eventually, the two scientists developed a drug they called [[Silver Bullet (drug)|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. 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 she was locked in a room with Pisco's computer, but then lied to Conan about losing it.<ref>In episode 188 (file 251), Haibara has the bloody disk of copied APTX 4869 data from episode 178. 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 episode 54, 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|200px|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 9 (189), Page 6: The Endangered Ball; 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'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|Professor 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.

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

== Manga to anime differences ==
{{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:

* '''[[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|Episode 5]]''': 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 [[Game Company Murder Case|episode 54]]. Conan recognizes their code names when Tequila speaks to them, yet Conan never learned their code names in the anime version of events.

* '''[[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13]]''': 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 [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|episode 128]], 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 Kuroba]] 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]], 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]] thought to possibily grant immortality in some way. This could be connected to the age-reversing drug mentioned earlier but the true magical nature of Magic Kaito and its organization's search does not mesh with the non-magical setting of Detective Conan. Although after Toichi and Yuusaku are revealed to be twins in Movie 27, it's possible a connection between the two organisations as well could arise in the future.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=180px perrow=5>
File:EP385 3.jpg|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth (episode 385).
File:EP398-1.PNG|Conan visualizes the boss, Gin, Vodka, and a naked Vermouth (episode 398).
File:EP425-BO.jpg|Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (episode 425).
File:EP500-BO.jpg|Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (episode 500).
File:Op50-Karasuma.jpg|Conan vs. Karasuma, Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (opening 50).
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[File:Demon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan against the demon.]]
* This crime organization enshrouded in mystery, and even other unrelated case, are sometimes introduced with crows, the creepy bird which is also depicted on their head's crest.
* The cars and motorcycles of all Black Organization's members in the anime version have "Shinjuku" (新宿) as license plate, then their founding location is somewhere in Tokyo.
* While chasing down leads on their organization, Conan is constantly confronted by difficult cases. In the introduction of [[The Last Wizard of the Century|movie 3]], on a Greek palace ruins at night, he is suddenly attacked by a big red demon with evil aura from many yellow stratus, the Black Organization behind all minor criminals.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]
* [[Crow]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable OtherLang|translation=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|黒の組織 Kuro no soshiki|Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|المنظّمة السوداء Al-Munaẓẓama As-Sawdā’|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Organisasi Hitam| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Kongsi Gelap / Organisasi Hitam|Dark Syndicate}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|L'Organització dels Homes de Negre|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|黑衣组织 Hēi'yī Zǔzhī|Organization in Black (in the sense of "men in black") }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Musta Organisaatio| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|L’Organisation des Hommes en Noir|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Schwarze Organisation|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|L'Organizzazione degli Uomini in Nero|The Organization of the Men in Black}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Poland|Polish|Czarna organizacja| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|องค์กรชุดดำ Xngkh̒kr chud dả|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Tổ Chức Áo Đen|The Black Organization}}
{{EndTable}}

== References ==
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| name = Black Organization
| japanese-name = 黒の組織
| english-name = Black Organization
| image = EP942 11.jpg
| boss = [[Renya Karasuma]]
| members = [[Rum]] (second-in-command) [[Gin]] (chief administrator) [[Vodka]] (managerial secretary) [[Vermouth]] [[Chianti]] [[Korn]]
| deceased-members = [[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, they commit 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. The head 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]]. They are the arch-enemy of [[Conan Edogawa]].

== Members ==
=== Current ===
==== Executive members ====
* '''[[Renya Karasuma]]''': The true central antagonist of the series. Thought to be dead, but is still alive at an age of over 140-year-old. Head of the Black Organization, he is the man at the center of it all, respectfully referred to as "that person" ("ano kata") by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
* '''[[Rum]]''': Second in charge of the Black Organization, he has the left eye artificial. He is actually disguised as [[Kanenori Wakita]].
* '''[[Gin]]''': The chief administrator who is specialized 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 openly made Ran aware of her presence in a disguise, although that's likely because she knows Ran won't go to the police with this information. She also does not seem to age.

==== Other members ====
* '''[[Vodka]]''': Managerial secretary of the Black Organization<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> as Gin's partner, 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. However, in the Chess Tournament Murder Case, Rum directly commands her to kill Wakasa. 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. However, in the Chess Tournament Murder Case, Rum directly commands him to kill Wakasa. 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 [[Central Intelligence Agency|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. His true name is Rei Furuya, but he goes by Tooru Amuro in public. He was initially dispatched to look for Sherry (who's confirmed dead by the organization currently), but spent more of that time investigating Shuichi Akai whom he hates because of the death of Scotch. He works for the [[Public Security Bureau|Public Security Bureau]].

=== 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: Gin said that was the boss' order. 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.
* '''[[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. He shot his smartphone along with his own chest in order to protect his secret info and committed suicide.

=== 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 was in custody for the murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him. In the end, the court sentences him to death.

=== Extended canon ===
{{see also|List of notable Non-Canon Black Organization}}
These agents are original characters not found in the main 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 (deceased).
* '''[[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.
* '''[[Stout]]''': a member of the English [[Wikipedia: Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Korn.
* '''[[Pinga]]''': killed in the submarine blast in Movie 26.

==== 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]].
* '''[[List of notable case characters#Two men|Two men]]''': two Black Organization hunters for holy relics.

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

== 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>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|60px]] || [[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: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:Curaçao 60px.jpg]] || [[Curaçao]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:mysteriousman.png|60px]] || [[Man in bar (Black Organization)‎‎|Mysterious man]]* ''(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)''
|-
| [[File:L2-Man.jpg|60px]] || [[List of notable case characters#Drama assassin|Man]]* ''(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:Antonio Gomez 60px.jpg]] || [[Antonio Gomez]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:SLS BO Hunter 1 60px.jpg]] || [[List of notable case characters#Two men|Man #1]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:SLS BO Hunter 2 60px.jpg]] || [[List of notable case characters#Two men|Man #2]]* ''(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]].'' 

== 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]]
* [[Vermouth]]: The boss' favorite
* [[Pisco]]<ref>[[: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 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]]

== 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 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|200px|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. The host dummy in the Sunset Manor case wears a frightening phantom's purple hood with only two eye slits, just like the members of the KKK.</ref> The Black Organization members all tend to wear black outfits, which Akemi says is intentional and supposed to resemble [[Crow|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, Kogoro Mouri, 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>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 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 [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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 twenty 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. 19 years before Conan was shrunk, the [[Karasuma Group]] sponsored Atsushi Miyano and Elena Miyano's research. Eventually, the two scientists developed a drug they called [[Silver Bullet (drug)|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. 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 she was locked in a room with Pisco's computer, but then lied to Conan about losing it.<ref>In episode 188 (file 251), Haibara has the bloody disk of copied APTX 4869 data from episode 178. 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 episode 54, 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|200px|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 9 (189), Page 6: The Endangered Ball; 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'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|Professor 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.

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

== Manga to anime differences ==
{{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:

* '''[[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|Episode 5]]''': 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 [[Game Company Murder Case|episode 54]]. Conan recognizes their code names when Tequila speaks to them, yet Conan never learned their code names in the anime version of events.

* '''[[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13]]''': 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 [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|episode 128]], 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 Kuroba]] 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]], 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]] thought to possibily grant immortality in some way. This could be connected to the age-reversing drug mentioned earlier but the true magical nature of Magic Kaito and its organization's search does not mesh with the non-magical setting of Detective Conan. Although after Toichi and Yuusaku are revealed to be twins in Movie 27, it's possible a connection between the two organisations as well could arise in the future.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=180px perrow=5>
File:EP385 3.jpg|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth (episode 385).
File:EP398-1.PNG|Conan visualizes the boss, Gin, Vodka, and a naked Vermouth (episode 398).
File:EP425-BO.jpg|Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (episode 425).
File:EP500-BO.jpg|Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (episode 500).
File:Op50-Karasuma.jpg|Conan vs. Karasuma, Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (opening 50).
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[File:Demon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan against the demon.]]
* This crime organization enshrouded in mystery, and even other unrelated case, are sometimes introduced with crows, the creepy bird which is also depicted on their head's crest.
* The cars and motorcycles of all Black Organization's members in the anime version have "Shinjuku" (新宿) as license plate, then their founding location is somewhere in Tokyo.
* While chasing down leads on their organization, Conan is constantly confronted by difficult cases. In the introduction of [[The Last Wizard of the Century|movie 3]], on a Greek palace ruins at night, he is suddenly attacked by a big red demon with evil aura from many yellow stratus, the Black Organization behind all minor criminals.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]
* [[Crow]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable OtherLang|translation=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|黒の組織 Kuro no soshiki|Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|المنظّمة السوداء Al-Munaẓẓama As-Sawdā’|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Organisasi Hitam| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Kongsi Gelap / Organisasi Hitam|Dark Syndicate}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|L'Organització dels Homes de Negre|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|黑衣组织 Hēi'yī Zǔzhī|Organization in Black (in the sense of "men in black") }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Musta Organisaatio| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|L’Organisation des Hommes en Noir|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Schwarze Organisation|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|L'Organizzazione degli Uomini in Nero|The Organization of the Men in Black}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Poland|Polish|Czarna organizacja| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|องค์กรชุดดำ Xngkh̒kr chud dả|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Tổ Chức Áo Đen|The Black Organization}}
{{EndTable}}

== References ==
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{{InfoBox BlackOrganization
| name = Black Organization
| japanese-name = 黒の組織
| english-name = Black Organization
| image = EP942 11.jpg
| boss = [[Renya Karasuma]]
| members = [[Rum]] (second-in-command) [[Gin]] (chief administrator) [[Vodka]] (managerial secretary) [[Vermouth]] [[Chianti]] [[Korn]]
| deceased-members = [[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, they commit 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. The head 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]]. They are the arch-enemy of [[Conan Edogawa]].

== Members ==
=== Current ===
==== Executive members ====
* '''[[Renya Karasuma]]''': The true central antagonist of the series. Thought to be dead, but is still alive at an age of over 140-year-old. Head of the Black Organization, he is the man at the center of it all, respectfully referred to as "that person" ("ano kata") by lower ranked members of the Black Organization.
* '''[[Rum]]''': Second in charge of the Black Organization, he has the left eye artificial. He is actually disguised as [[Kanenori Wakita]].
* '''[[Gin]]''': The chief administrator who is specialized 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 openly made Ran aware of her presence in a disguise, although that's likely because she knows Ran won't go to the police with this information. She also does not seem to age.

==== Other members ====
* '''[[Vodka]]''': Managerial secretary of the Black Organization<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> as Gin's partner, 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. However, in the Chess Tournament Murder Case, Rum directly commands her to kill Wakasa. 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. However, in the Chess Tournament Murder Case, Rum directly commands him to kill Wakasa. 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 [[Central Intelligence Agency|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. His true name is Rei Furuya, but he goes by Tooru Amuro in public. He was initially dispatched to look for Sherry (who's confirmed dead by the organization currently), but spent more of that time investigating Shuichi Akai whom he hates because of the death of Scotch. He works for the [[Public Security Bureau|Public Security Bureau]].

=== 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: Gin said that was the boss' order. 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.
* '''[[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. He shot his smartphone along with his own chest in order to protect his secret info and committed suicide.

=== 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 was in custody for the murders he has committed, mostly in fear of the Black Organization sending agents after him. In the end, the court sentences him to death.

=== Extended canon ===
{{see also|List of notable Non-Canon Black Organization}}
These agents are original characters not found in the main 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 (deceased).
* '''[[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.
* '''[[Stout]]''': a member of the English [[Wikipedia: Secret Intelligence Service|MI6]] who infiltrated the Black Organization and is killed by Korn.
* '''[[Pinga]]''': killed in the submarine blast in Movie 26.

==== 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]].
* '''[[List of notable case characters#Two men|Two men]]''': two Black Organization hunters for holy relics.

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

== 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>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|60px]] || [[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: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:Curaçao 60px.jpg]] || [[Curaçao]]* ''(deceased)''
|-
| [[File:mysteriousman.png|60px]] || [[Man in bar (Black Organization)‎‎|Mysterious man]]* ''(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)''
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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:Ethan Hondou 60px.jpg]] || [[Ethan Hondou]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Scotch 60px.jpg]] || [[Scotch]] ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:Antonio Gomez 60px.jpg]] || [[Antonio Gomez]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:SLS BO Hunter 1 60px.jpg]] || [[List of notable case characters#Two men|Man #1]]* ''(deceased)''
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| [[File:SLS BO Hunter 2 60px.jpg]] || [[List of notable case characters#Two men|Man #2]]* ''(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]].'' 

== 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]]
* [[Vermouth]]: The boss' favorite
* [[Pisco]]<ref>[[: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 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]]

== 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 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|200px|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. The host dummy in the Sunset Manor case wears a frightening phantom's purple hood with only two eye slits, just like the members of the KKK.</ref> The Black Organization members all tend to wear black outfits, which Akemi says is intentional and supposed to resemble [[Crow|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, Kogoro Mouri, 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>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 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 [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|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 twenty 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, the [[Karasuma Group]] sponsored Atsushi Miyano and Elena Miyano's research. Eventually, the two scientists developed a drug they called [[Silver Bullet (drug)|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. 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 she was locked in a room with Pisco's computer, but then lied to Conan about losing it.<ref>In episode 188 (file 251), Haibara has the bloody disk of copied APTX 4869 data from episode 178. 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 episode 54, 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|200px|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 9 (189), Page 6: The Endangered Ball; 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'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|Professor 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.

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

== Manga to anime differences ==
{{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:

* '''[[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|Episode 5]]''': 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 [[Game Company Murder Case|episode 54]]. Conan recognizes their code names when Tequila speaks to them, yet Conan never learned their code names in the anime version of events.

* '''[[The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case|Episode 13]]''': 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 [[The Black Organization: One Billion Yen Robbery Case|episode 128]], 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 Kuroba]] 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]], 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]] thought to possibily grant immortality in some way. This could be connected to the age-reversing drug mentioned earlier but the true magical nature of Magic Kaito and its organization's search does not mesh with the non-magical setting of Detective Conan. Although after Toichi and Yuusaku are revealed to be twins in Movie 27, it's possible a connection between the two organisations as well could arise in the future.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=180px perrow=5>
File:EP385 3.jpg|The boss, Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth (episode 385).
File:EP398-1.PNG|Conan visualizes the boss, Gin, Vodka, and a naked Vermouth (episode 398).
File:EP425-BO.jpg|Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (episode 425).
File:EP500-BO.jpg|Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (episode 500).
File:Op50-Karasuma.jpg|Conan vs. Karasuma, Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn (opening 50).
</gallery>

== Trivia ==
[[File:Demon.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan against the demon.]]
* This crime organization enshrouded in mystery, and even other unrelated case, are sometimes introduced with crows, the creepy bird which is also depicted on their head's crest.
* The cars and motorcycles of all Black Organization's members in the anime version have "Shinjuku" (新宿) as license plate, then their founding location is somewhere in Tokyo.
* While chasing down leads on their organization, Conan is constantly confronted by difficult cases. In the introduction of [[The Last Wizard of the Century|movie 3]], on a Greek palace ruins at night, he is suddenly attacked by a big red demon with evil aura from many yellow stratus, the Black Organization behind all minor criminals.

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Karasuma Group]]
* [[Crow]]
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]]

== In other languages ==
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{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|黒の組織 Kuro no soshiki|Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|المنظّمة السوداء Al-Munaẓẓama As-Sawdā’|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Organisasi Hitam| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Kongsi Gelap / Organisasi Hitam|Dark Syndicate}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|L'Organització dels Homes de Negre|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=China|Chinese (Simplified)|黑衣组织 Hēi'yī Zǔzhī|Organization in Black (in the sense of "men in black") }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Musta Organisaatio| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|L’Organisation des Hommes en Noir|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Die Schwarze Organisation|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|L'Organizzazione degli Uomini in Nero|The Organization of the Men in Black}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=South Korea|Korean|검은조직 Geom-eunjojig| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Poland|Polish|Czarna organizacja| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|La Organización de los Hombres de Negro|The Black Men's Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|องค์กรชุดดำ Xngkh̒kr chud dả|The Black Organization}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Tổ Chức Áo Đen|The Black Organization}}
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Detective Boys''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%; background: #F0F0F0;" | [[Ai Haibara]] • [[Ayumi Yoshida]] • [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] • [[Genta Kojima]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Family & Friends''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%;" | [[Hiroshi Agasa]] • [[Sonoko Suzuki]] • [[Eri Kisaki]] • [[Yusaku Kudo]] • [[Yukiko Kudo]] • [[Heiji Hattori]] • [[Kazuha Toyama]] • [[Yoko Okino]] • [[Sumiko Kobayashi]] • [[Tomoaki Araide]] • [[Makoto Kyogoku]] • [[Shizuka Hattori]] • [[Jirokichi Suzuki]] • [[Eisuke Hondou]] • [[Azusa Enomoto]] • [[Subaru Okiya]] • [[Masumi Sera]] • [[Shukichi Haneda]] • [[Sakurako Yonehara]] • [[Rumi Wakasa]] • [[Momiji Ooka]] • [[Muga Iori]] • [[Elena Miyano]] • [[Atsushi Miyano]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Tokyo Metropolitan Police District''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%; background: #F0F0F0;" | [[Juzo Megure]] • [[Wataru Takagi]] • [[Miwako Sato]] • [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] • [[Yumi Miyamoto]] • [[Kazunobu Chiba]] • [[Naeko Miike]] • [[Kiyonaga Matsumoto]] • [[Inspector Yuminaga]] • [[Shintaro Chaki]] • [[Hyoue Kuroda]] • [[Kenji Hagiwara]] • [[Jinpei Matsuda]] • [[Wataru Date]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Osaka Police District''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%;" | [[Heizo Hattori]] • [[Ginshiro Toyama]] • [[Goro Otaki]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Nagano Police District''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%; background: #F0F0F0;" | [[Kansuke Yamato]] • [[Yui Uehara]] • [[Taka'aki Morofushi]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Other police districts''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%;" | [[Sango Yokomizo]] • [[Misao Yamamura]] • [[Jugo Yokomizo]] • [[Chihaya Hagiwara]] • [[Fumimaro Ayanokoji]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''NPA and Public Security Bureau''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%; background: #F0F0F0;" | [[Rei Furuya|Rei Furuya (Bourbon)]] • [[Hiromitsu Morofushi]] • [[Yuya Kazami]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''FBI''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%;" | [[Shuichi Akai]] • [[Jodie Starling]] • [[James Black]] • [[Andre Camel]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''CIA''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%; background: #F0F0F0;" | [[Hidemi Hondou|Hidemi Hondou (Kir)]] • [[Ethan Hondou]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''MI6''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%;" | [[Mary Sera]] • [[Tsutomu Akai]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Black Organization''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%; background: #F0F0F0;" | [[Renya Karasuma|The Boss]] • [[Kanenori Wakita|Rum]] • [[Gin]] • [[Vodka]] • [[Vermouth]] • [[Chianti]] • [[Korn]] • [[Shiho Miyano]] • [[Akemi Miyano]] • [[Tequila]] • [[Pisco]] • [[Calvados]] • [[Rikumichi Kusuda]] • [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Magic Kaito''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%;" | [[Kaito Kuroba]] • [[Kaitou Kid]] • [[Aoko Nakamori]] • [[Ginzo Nakamori]] • [[Midoriko Nakamori]] • [[Toichi Kuroba]] • [[Chikage Kuroba]] • [[Konosuke Jii]] • [[Keiko Momoi]] • [[Akako Koizumi]] • [[Saguru Hakuba]] • [[Snake]] • [[Kaitou Corbeau]]
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| width="120" align="right" style="width: 120px; font-size:90%; background-color:#99CCFF; padding-right: 5px;" | '''Others''' || style="padding-left: 5px; font-size:90%; background: #F0F0F0;" | [["The Criminal"]] • [[Hideo Akagi]] • [[Ryusuke Higo]] • [[Takahiro Sanada]] • [[Scar Akai]] • [[Kohji Haneda]] • [[Kamen Yaiba]] • [[Amanda Hughes]]
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