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Mary Sera

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Mary Sera
| japanese-name = メアリー世良 (Mearī Sera)
| english-name =
| image = Mary Sera Profile.jpg
| age = Looks approximately middle school aged according to Conan Real age is 53<ref>Akai is 32 (SDB90+ Q4) so add 17 years on that at reasonable minimum.</ref><ref>'''Chapter 1037:''' Mary was 36 eighteen years ago.</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = MI6 agent Housewife
|status = Alive (shrunk) Dead (for the Black Organization)
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (husband, deceased) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first son) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second son) [[Masumi Sera]] (daughter) [[Elena Miyano]] (younger sister, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (brother-in-law, deceased) [[Akemi Miyano]] (first niece, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second niece)
| nicknames = Sister from outside the domain
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 83#Red Tragedy|File 875]] Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|Episode 756]]
| appearances = {{:Mary Sera Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 83]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Tanaka]] (Episode 756~1046; Movie 24) [[Takako Honda]] (Episode 1144 onwards)
| english-voice = [[Amber Lee Connors]] (Bang Zoom!)
| cases-solved = 1
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリー世良|Mearī Sera}}, also known by her marriage name as {{nihongo|'''Mary Akai'''|赤井メアリー|Akai Mearī}}<ref>'''Chapter 1037'''</ref>, appears as a middle-school age girl with blonde hair who has been hiding in various hotels in Tokyo with [[Masumi Sera]]. Despite her appearance, she is actually a middle-aged woman; She is the wife of [[Tsutomu Akai]], and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and Masumi Sera. She is a member of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6.

== Background ==
[[File:Ep 995 Mary's flashback.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Masumi thinking back to her mother's transformation]]Mary Sera's full background is currently unknown. She met and married [[Tsutomu Akai]], and bore three children, [[Shuichi]], [[Shukichi]], and [[Masumi]]. Her husband left, at some point before Masumi was born, to investigate the double murder of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]], which got him tangled with the [[Black Organization]].

Later on, Mary learned that her husband was apparently roaming London and immediately travelled there, taking Masumi along as added insurance.<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1049: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> Leaving her daughter in their hotel room, she left to meet Tsutomu at their favorite meeting place at Vauxhall Bridge. There she was trapped and forced to ingest the [[APTX 4869]] by [[Vermouth]],<ref name="ch1048">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1048: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> causing her age to be regressed. She returned to Masumi hours later in the body of a middle-school child.<ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref><ref name="ch1049" />

Right after her return, Mary and Sera watched a recording of a TV broadcast featuring [[Conan Edogawa]]'s involvement in the attempted blackmail of Minerva Glass<ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Manga volume 71, file 743]] to [[Volume 72#Following Holmes|volume 72, file 752]]: "Following Holmes"</ref> and immediately recognized him as [[Shinichi Kudo]], whom they [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|had encountered ten years ago]].<ref>[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, file 1050: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> She returned to Japan with Masumi in order to find out about the existence of an antidote to the APTX 4869, to which they think Shinichi has access, using Masumi as a proxy. She also has an interest in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and the identity of the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]].<ref>[[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Manga volume 90: "Soul Detective Murder Case"]]</ref>

== Personality ==
Mary seems very mature and direct, especially when speaking to Masumi. She seems hesitant to trust others at the moment and is being extremely cautious about who knows about her. Currently, because of her cautiousness, she and Masumi have been moving from one hotel to another to keep their location hidden.

She is proud of her British heritage.

Like her eldest son, she also seems to be clumsy at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and how to interact positively with others. In dealing with her children, Mary seems to be strict and cold, treating her children more like coworkers than a family. Shukichi seemed to be more nurturing to Masumi than her mom. When Mary was 10 years younger, she came to physical blows with her eldest son Shuichi since he lied to her about his reasons to study in the USA and planned to join the FBI and investigate her husband's incident. They both went as far as attacking each other's faces, leaving black eyes. She also thought Shuichi, who is a rather cold person as well, would make a good replacement father figure for Masumi and Shukichi. However, soon after, she realized that Shuichi was driven by the same sense of curiosity as his father and he would go his own way. To her daughter Masumi, she acts secretively by hiding a lot of important information from Masumi, such as turning off the TV during Shukichi's shogi match, and possibly some other whereabouts of the Black Organization and the Akai family overall. Her continued mistrust of Conan is another example of her general denseness at understanding others, since it is long past the point where she should be able to tell that Conan's motives and pursuit of justice are genuine.

But she does express joy at Shukichi becoming the seven-crowned shogi master. It indicates that she does care for her children. Additionally, when Mary easily sees through Vermouth's disguise of Tsutomu, she appears genuinely distraught at the fact that her husband is apparently dead and even cries and didn't seem to be concerned about her fate as long as Masumi remains safe, showing regardless of her tough attitude, she truly cares for her family. The apparent death of Tsutomu may have contributed to her hardened personality.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Mary different eyes.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mary's two different eye patterns.]]
Mary is a girl of middle school age (12-15) with blonde, curly, neck-length hair. She has eyes similar to those of [[Masumi Sera]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. In her appearance in File 877, she was shown wearing a high-neck pleated top, hoodie jacket, and hat. Like all the other manga characters, the color of her eyes is supposed to be blue, as seen in the keyhole of manga volume 83. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past.

In her varying appearances, Mary's eyes have been drawn slightly differently. In her original and current chapter appearances she seems to have an extra lash on the top of her eye, where as in the Pool case and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s comparison of her and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s eyes in the Department store case she does not have that extra lash.

== Skills ==
[[File:Mary skills.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Mary's hiding skills.]]
Mary seems to know about several types of wire taps. When she and Masumi find Conan's wire tap in their room, she says that she hasn't seen that type before. She also describes the components of it such as its battery life and performance. She spoke in a similar fashion about Conan's voice changer after she got a chance to use it herself.

She has demonstrated the ability to hang from a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She has the strength to vault back up on to the balcony, much like [[Vermouth]] did in the New York case.

10 years ago, she already had the ability to fight well enough that she landed a "knife-hand strike" to her son Shuichi's face, who at the time had already been practicing Jeet Kune Do. In the present, even with her small body, she was able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service".

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Tsutomu-san<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974]]</ref> Husband (''Shujin'')<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> ''Ano hito'' (literally "that person", but the intended meaning is "husband")<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shuichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|-|Brat of the FBI (''FBI no kozo'')}}
{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shukichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Mama<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Masumi<ref name="file953"/>}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Kohji<ref name="file952">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file952"/>}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Mary<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930: Excessive Seasoning (Volume 88)]]</ref> That girl (''ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930"/> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[Volume 85#Poolside Case|File 903: The Corpse in the Pool (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903"/>}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|-|Kudo Shinichi}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|That girl (''ano ko'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Mary}}
{{appellations|Vermouth|Mary Akai|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')}}
|}
</tab>
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== Plot overview ==
=== The Red Woman Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman Murder Case|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|756]])===
[[File:Another person with eye bags appears.png|thumb|left|200px|Mary on Masumi's phone.]]
Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone by calling it with his. When he does he notices the call background screen is a child with eye bags similar to those of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. He remarks that the girl looks similar to Masumi. Earlier in the case she only mentioned having two brothers; a mother; and a father, so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

=== Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876-878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]]) ===
[[File:Unknown child and Masumi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mary and Masumi.]]
[[File:EP763-1.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi tells Conan about Mary.]]
When Ran, Sonoko, and Conan visit Masumi's hotel room, Mary is shown opening Masumi's door as Conan, Masumi, Sonoko, and Ran rush to investigate a crime. It is implied she was hiding in Masumi's bedroom while the other three were in the dining area because Masumi asks Conan not to enter her bedroom. Mary later goes downstairs to the scene of the crime where she is seen by Conan. At some point off screen Conan leaves behind a bug in Masumi's room. After the case is solved, Mary finds the bug, crushes it and examines it with Masumi. Mary comments on the quality of the performance of the bug itself and that she has never seen one like it. When Masumi asks if Mary has taken a liking to Conan, she says that it is still early to trust him, and asks Masumi to introduce her as "{{nihongo|the little sister from outside the domain|領域外の妹|ryōiki-gai no imōto}}", should Conan ask.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
[[File:Mary & Masumi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mary and Masumi in the bedroom.]]
Mary is interested in [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s shogi match. When Masumi returns to the hotel room in the middle of the case while Mary is napping, she turns on the TV and sees the shogi match. Later, after the case is solved, Masumi enters the room for a second time to see Mary turning off the TV. Presumably she saw the end of the match and was happy at Shukichi's victory, as was Subaru Okiya, whose identity was revealed in the case before this one, to be Shuichi.

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===
[[File:Ran and Unknown Child.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran sees Masumi and Mary.]]
Mary is waiting for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to visit her and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] in their hotel room. She expresses her still-lingering concern of trusting Conan, even though she thinks he is bright enough. Mary does comment that if anything were to go wrong, they would have to move hotels again. Her talk with him alone is put on hold, however, because [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have invited themselves in accompanying Conan in order to enjoy the hotel's pool. As Conan, Ran, and Sonoko head back home after the case is solved, Ran turns around and sees Masumi talking to her. Ran gets the feeling that she has seen that child before.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
[[File:Conan and the handkerchief.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan with the handkerchief.]]
[[Masumi Sera]] is at Ramen Ogura with Conan, Sonoko and Ran. [[Katsumasa Ogura]] asks Masumi (mistakenly calling her "Mari") if she's going to take the same food to her apartment again. Conan implies that Masumi could be giving food to someone she's letting stay in her apartment, making a clear reference to Mary, but she jokes saying that it's for her secret boyfriend. At the end of the case it is revealed that Ogura had found a handkerchief that Masumi had left behind that said "Mary" on it in English. Ogura had confused the English name with the Japanese name "Mari". Conan believes that the handkerchief may be related to the child as well.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843-844]]) ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
Conan wonders why Sera is in Japan and thinks it has to do with Mary. Conan's worked out her name and noticed her resemblance to Sera but also to someone else. At the end of the case Haibara tried to wipe some of the makeup off of her face in the bathroom, but she missed some just below her left eye. The left over makeup made it look like she had the same eye bags as Shuichi, Masumi, and Mary. This causes Conan to make a connection between her and Mary.

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[The Spirit Detective's Murder|863-864]]) ===
[[File:Mary is Masumi's mother.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Mama?!"]]
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] is put in contact with a Soul Detective who wishes to reveal some information about the [[Kohji Haneda]] case. When Conan and Kogoro go to meet with him at the hotel, they find him dead and that [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] and Mary are presently staying in the next room. During the investigation Conan runs into Masumi's hotel room and checks the balcony as that is the only place a person would hide. However, Mary has hidden herself by anchoring herself and hiding by hugging the wall underneath the balcony. Conan takes a picture of a car parked on the ground floor below the balconies and decides to take a snapshot of the underside of the balcony, just to be certain. Masumi rushes to interrupt him on some pretense. Conan then drops his voice-changer on his way back inside. Mary picks it up, and later uses it in place of Conan to solve the case. When the culprit tries to flee by leaping over the balcony of the murder room over to their room, Mary takes him down single handedly using skills comparable to that of the secret service. Masumi rushes after Conan who has followed the suspect, calling out "Mama". Once Conan has left, Mary and Masumi discuss what information the Soul Detective had, which was that before Kohji's death, Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror and thinks that it means that Asaka is a woman. Mary warns Masumi about Conan saying that "true identity is unknown, gives off a bad feeling like a demon" (暗がりに鬼を繋ぐが如く), and that he is not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Conan looks at the photo he took of Mary and theorizes that Mary could have been Asaka. Later Gin uses the same demon line that Mary used to refer to Kogoro.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
[[File:Mary Masumi Shuichi at beach.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A flashback to 10 years ago at the beach.]]
10 years ago at a beach somewhere in Japan, Shuichi reunited with his family after his 7 years in the US. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of [[Tsutomu Akai|his father]]. She also tells both Shuichi and Masumi not to do things that got them involved in the case, because there are people out there that are after them.
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=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|928]]) ===
After the case is solved, Masumi calls Mary and informs her about the drug that will return her back to normal, after witnessing Shinichi's appearance. Mary ordered Masumi to find [[Ai Haibara|the developer]] of the drug and obtain it. Once she succeeds, Mary declared that they will stop running from hotel to hotel and counterattack.

=== Antique Facet Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Antique Facet Case|1038]], Anime: [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|1020]]) ===
At the end of the case, Sera asks her mother about her "50:50" catchphrase, Mary revealed that it is a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Mary asks Sera if she can gets her hands on the drug, which the latter told her that it is difficult for the moment since [[Subaru Okiya]] is standing in her way. Mary asks her if he is such a noteworthy person, however, Sera is more concerned about whether Subaru is her brother Akai or not, since he's using the same "50:50" catchphrase as her brother.

=== Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98|1047]]-[[Volume 99|1050]], Anime: [[The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment|1045-1046]]) ===
Mary receives a call from Masumi, informing her that Conan brought the antidote that can returns her to her orginal body, and it is blue and white compared to the drug she was forced to take, which is red and white. Mary ordered her daughter to steal the antidote if possible. Later, Mary calls her daughter, asking if she was able to get the antidote, which Masumi responded that she was involved in a poisoning murder case. Hearing about poison, Mary started to remember her shrinking moment. Several months ago, Mary was supposed to meet her husband at Vauxhall Bridge in London, [[Tsutomu Akai]] appeared in front of her, however Mary realised that he isn't her husband after giving him false informations about her daughter. Tsutomu is revealed to be [[Vermouth]] in disguise, who intended to poison her with [[APTX 4869]]. Vermouth feeds Mary the drug with her mouth directly, which is created by her [[Elena Miyano|sister]]. Mary then jumps into the river due to the effect of the drug being very instant. After Mary shrinked, she returned to Sera, explaining to her the whole situation. Later, Mary and Sera witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during [[Holmes' Revelation|Minerva's match on TV]], and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi 10 years ago. The two 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. Since then, Mary ordered Masumi to get closer to him, in order get their hands on the antidote.

=== Serial Hotel Bombing Case (Manga: [[Volume 103|1094-1096]], Anime: [[The Hotel Serial Bombing Case|1144-1145]]) ===
After luring Conan to their current hotel to get their hands on the APTX antidote, Sera and Mary get involved in the resolution of a serial bombing case. However, they are discovred by an unknown man, who is the driver of an unknown old man, to the hotel and triggers a fire alert, forcing the building's evacuation. As Sera and Mary try to avoid drawing attention to themselves, they are nevertheless spotted by the unknown old man.<ref name="File 1096">Manga [[Volume 103]], [[Volume 103#Serial Hotel Bombing Case|File 1094-1096]]</ref>

=== Chess Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 104#Chess Tournament Murder Case|1103]], Anime: [[The 17-Year-Old Truth|1167]]) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Mary is only shown twice at dawn under her hotel bed's blankets.

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Mary is shown working with her daughter Masumi to find a VIP from England who was kidnapped. She is seen attacking Subaru (Shuichi Akai) landing a few clean blows before running disappearing. She is also seen towards the end of the movie as she hides in Subaru’s car and waits for him to jump in. She points the gun to his head and threatens him and the FBI as they risked the life of an important VIP.

== Relationship ==
=== Tsutomu Akai ===
Tsutomu is her husband, who she lost around 17 years prior to the series. In his last message, he advice them to hide in Japan and think of him as dead due to that he has made himself some enemies. Although much of their relationship remains unknown, she knew her husband enough to easily see through Vermouth's disguise and in contrast to her distant and hardened exterior, the fact that Tsutomu was possibly dead was enough to cause her to cry, showing she cared deeply for him.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
Shuichi is her oldest son. She didn't approve at first of his decision to join the FBI and investigate his father's death, but eventually she gave him her blessing.

=== Shukichi Haneda ===
Shukichi is her second-oldest child and youngest son. It's not certain how she feels of him, but she keeps track of his Shogi-career and seemed happy when he became the seven-crowned king.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Masumi is her only daughter and youngest child, who was born after the family moved to Japan. Currently the two of them switch between hotels to hide themselves. Mary cares for Masumi, but doesn't trust her entirely (probably due to her extreme youth).

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Mary reacted to Kohji's name when she heard Kogoro mention it. It's possible that the Akai family, including Mary, might know Kohji in person.

=== [[Elena Miyano]] ===
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 officially confirms that Mary and Elena are sisters.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Mary is the Akai family mother ===
These were the hints that fans used to determine that Mary was the Akai family mother prior to the end of the Soul Detective Murder Case where Masumi called Mary "mother"<ref>File 953</ref>, and the flashback to Shinichi and Ran meeting the Akai family on a beach.

* Mary shares a resemblance to [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]], and it was known from Masumi's earlier testimony that Akai family's mother also passed her looks into Shuichi and Sera.
* Mary is unusually mature while talking to Masumi. She gave Masumi instructions despite Masumi being apparently older and a skillful detective in her own right.
* Mary was happy when [[Shukichi]] (who was later revealed to be the middle brother of the Akai Family) won his 7th Shogi title.

* Mary seems to have some knowledge abut wiretaps, she also demonstrated the ability to a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She was also able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service." A normal middle school girl wouldn't be able to do this.

=== Mary is an adult shrunken by APTX 4869 ===
Mary acts like an adult despite having the appearance of a middle-school aged female. When Masumi and Mary speak, the speech honorifics are not those appropriate for an elder Masumi talking to a younger girl. Instead, they appear to indicate the two are on equal levels, or even reverse with Mary expressing greater seniority. In addition, Mary's voice actor in the anime, [[Atsuko Tanaka]], has a deep and sultry voice which is often used to portray mature female characters.

The secrecy surrounding Mary, as well as Masumi's attempts to get her to trust Conan, whom Masumi knows is a shrunken Shinichi, might be indications that Masumi is trying to get the child help about an [[APTX 4869]] problem. This plot point is finally canonized in manga chapter 1049, when a flashback reveals a fateful confrontation between Mary and Vermouth which resulted in Mary getting force-fed the APTX.<ref name="ch1049" />

=== Mary is the sister of Elena Miyano ===
This very popular fan theory<ref>According to polls at DCW as of Sep 10, 2015, the most popular choice for her true identity is APTX-dosed Akai family mother</ref> was born after Gosho hinted that two mother characters are sisters.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639 Leaked interview notes from the May issue of the magazine 「ダ・ヴィンチ」 (da Vinci) with the fans/reporters/whatever, leaked April 15, 2014] "Two mothers will also be revealed as being sisters, etc.…… A lot of things are connected together. This is bad, I'm talking too much. Well, please look forward to the manga.</ref> After it was confirmed the sisters were not the previous most popular choice [[Yukiko Kudo]] and [[Chikage Kuroba]], and that the Akai family mother was one member of the sister pair,<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12439&p=842050#p842050 Super Digest Book 70+: Gosho Aoyama's Interview] "Are Yukiko and Sera's mum sisters?" 
Answer : The sister isn't Yukiko but... 
</ref> fan suspicion fell squarely on Elena Miyano as the other mother. After all, both women are British. Gosho has given evasive answers when asked about Elena and the Akai family mother being related, which is his habit when a fan theory is correct but he can't admit to it.<ref>When answering fan questions, Gosho often bluntly says "no" if a guess is wrong. If it is correct and would spoil a mystery, Gosho's habit is to be vague and avoid giving a firm answer rather than lying or giving in and revealing the truth. After narrowing down the choices, fans started trying to trap Gosho. 
[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=361432 Conan Super Digest Book SDB 80+]
 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and Shuichi Akai's/Sera's mother sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 

Q62: Are Sera and Haibara cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) </ref>

=== Mary is a British SIS/MI6 Agent ===
Mary is British and has several unusual skill sets that match those of other spy-like characters in ''Detective Conan''. Mary has knowledge of incapacitating martial arts that can bring down adult men despite her size<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, extraordinary flexibility and climbing skills that allowed her to hide below a balcony like a ninja<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, and knowledge of listening devices and hidden microphones.<ref>Romance Novelist Murder Case</ref>

Because of her British nationality, the theory that she is a member of the British [[Wikipedia:Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6, has gained traction in many Detective Conan fandoms. In chapter 1049, that detail is inserted into ''Detective Conan'' canon when in a flashback Vermouth expresses regret that she cannot disguise herself as Mary to infiltrate MI6 for the time being when she is forced to assassinate the latter.<ref name="ch1049" />
== Speculation ==
At the time Mary was introduced, her relationship to Masumi Sera was unknown. Masumi testifies that she has two older brothers: [[Shuichi Akai]] and an unknown brother (later revealed to be [[Shukichi Haneda]]) living in Japan.<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: Red Woman. "We're three siblings: My two oldest brothers and me, their little sister!" </ref> She says her father is dead, and her mother lives overseas in America. Masumi says she doesn't have any more relatives close enough to depend on.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 3: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> Masumi only started claiming to have a "younger sister from outside the domain" after the unknown child coached her to use that cover story if Conan asked about her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 6 (878), pg 16: "The Phone, the Sea, and I" She requests Masumi call her the younger sister from outside the domain if Conan asks</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 7 (879), pgs 2-3: "Detective's Master" Conan asks about the girl and Masumi uses the "younger sister from outside the domain" explanation as she was instructed. Conan notices the discrepancy between this and her earlier statements which didn't mention a sister.</ref><ref>[[Episode 759]] 1min 41sec Crunchyroll translation: "If she has two brothers and doesn't know of her relatives, then who is that young girl I saw on her phone that looks just like her?"</ref> She is currently being financially supported by a friend of her father's. If Masumi has told the truth, minus what she said about having a "younger sister from outside the domain", that leaves relatively few options for Mary's identity assuming the child is related by blood somehow to Masumi. In file 972, Mary is revealed to be the Akai family's mother.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
File:756 23.jpg|Mary's original appearance in the anime adaptation of the case (episode 756).
File:Mary original appearance.jpg|Mary as she originally appeared in file 875.
File:2014-06-08 00.25.28.jpg|Mary in file 899.
EP1019 3.jpeg|Mary 17 years ago
EP881 8.jpeg|Mary 10 years ago
Keyhole_83.jpg|Mary as child in keyhole
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*In File 1038 its reveal that like Shuichi and Tsumotu, she uses the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame”.
*It is revealed in many manga panels that Mary is left-handed, just like her son.
*Mary usually coughs, properly due to the side effects of APTX-4869.
*Mary's seiyuu is Atsuko Tanaka.
*According to Super Digest Book plus 100 Mary had her MI6 colleagues create a fake passport for her.

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

== References ==
<references/>

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Chihaya Hagiwara

2025-07-05T22:31:09Z

Viktor2003:

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| age = 31<ref name="file 1073">''[[Detective Conan]]'', [[Volume 101]], chapter 4 ([[The Goddess of Wind|File 1073]]). Chihaya Hagiwara debuts and saves [[Conan Edogawa]]. The character box during her introduction on the last page gives her age as 31.</ref>
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{{nihongo|'''Chihaya Hagiwara'''|萩原千速|Hagiwara Chihaya}} is an assistant inspector from the police department of Kanagawa Prefecture and the older sister of [[Kenji Hagiwara]], who passed away before the plot of the [[manga]] started. She was mentioned in five fan questions from ''[[Wild Police Story]]'' before getting a proper introduction in [[Volume 101#Hiroshi Agasa Abduction Case|File 1073]] of ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
She is an assistant inspector from Kanagawa prefecture. She is the older sister of the late Kenji Hagiwara and is also the helper of the [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] in [[Volume 101#Hiroshi Agasa Abduction Case|files 1073-1075]].

One time, she could not go to a concert with her friend, [[Volume 101#Hiroshi Agasa Abduction Case|Shinobu Ooe]] because [[Jinpei Matsuda]] took apart her phone. They were gonna meet up at a venue and she can't find her without her phone. But, Kenji took her sister, Chihaya to the venue and called out to her friend. Her friend found her and Kenji tells Chihaya "See, I told you, right? There is never any need to give up!". This line was similarly quoted by Conan years later and that was the first time she finds him resembling her late brother.

== Appearance ==
Chihaya has blonde and very long hair that almost reaches her waist. She has slanted blue eyes and wears pinkish-red lipstick. She is described as very pretty and looks like a 'Goddess of Wind', as quoted by [[Ran Mouri]] when she first saw Chihaya.
== Personality ==
She is a kind woman as she saved Conan from falling and helped him in finding [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]]. She seems to come to trust Conan and let him come with her in [[Chihaya Hagiwara, Goddess of the Wind|1098-1099]], and sees through Conan's Sleeping Kogoro trick in [[Chihaya and Jugo's Matchmaking Party|1115-1116]]. She also displayed a flirtatious personality towards [[Jugo Yokomizo]] and she doesn't seem to fear him. Despite this, she has shown to have an aggressive side as she used her motorcycle to hit a criminal's face to knock him out and threaten the other criminal. She is also a reckless driver, similar to [[Rei Furuya]] and her late brother, [[Kenji Hagiwara]] as shown in ''[[Wild Police Story]]''.

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== Relationships ==
=== Jugo Yokomizo ===
Both seem to have romantic feelings for each other. For example, when Jugo asked Chihaya if she wanted to go with him for dinner, she turned him down, but then reconsidered. Chihaya doesn't seem to fear him, and Jugo blushed in front of her when she flirted with him.

=== Conan Edogawa ===
She comes to trust [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and took him with her. She compares Conan to her younger brother, Kenji. She would always say that if she could repay Conan's favour for reliving her brother’s remorse by disarming her brother's murderer's bomb that even Kenji and Matsuda couldn’t disarm, she would even put her life on the line.

=== Kenji Hagiwara ===
Kenji is her late younger brother. In files 1074-1075, she thinks Conan as her younger brother because they both won't give up.

=== Jinpei Matsuda ===
In file 1075, he appeared as a flashback for fixing Chihaya's broken phone. In file 1085, it is mentioned that Matsuda fell in love with her, and she calls him an idiot. In file 1087, he appeared as a flashback for stopping Shinobu's suicide attempt and saying "Seeing the blood makes it clearer, doesn't it?".

=== Shinobu Ooe ===
She is Chihaya's friend.

=== Wataru Takagi ===
In file 1087, Chihaya thinks of him as Matsuda for doing dangerous things, and appraises him as "instinctively stand in the way of danger to protect what's important to you".

== Plot overview ==
=== ''Wild Police Story'' ===
She was mentioned in the Extra Questions for Gosho Aoyama no. 8, 15 from [[Wild Police Story Volume 1#Extra: 56 Questions for Gosho Aoyama!|volume 1]] and 18, 19, 54 from [[Wild Police Story Volume 2#Extra: 55 Questions for Gosho Aoyama!|volume 2]].

=== ''Detective Conan'' ===
==== Hiroshi Agasa Abduction Case (Manga: [[Volume 101#Hiroshi Agasa Abduction Case|1073-1075]], Anime: [[Chihaya Hagiwara, Goddess of the Wind|1098-1099]]) ====
[[Conan Edogawa]] was saved by Chihaya Hagiwara when the kidnappers try to force him off a highway. She symbolically gets depicted sporting an angel's wings during this act.<ref name="file 1073"/>

==== Marriage Partner Searching Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 102#Marriage Partner Searching Party Murder Case|1085-1087]], Anime: [[Chihaya and Jugo's Matchmaking Party|1115-1116]]) ====

==== Foiled Kidnapping Transaction Case (Manga: [[Volume 106#Foiled Kidnapping Transaction Case|1123-1125]], Anime: TBA) ====

== Name origin ==
Chihaya Hagiwara (萩原千速) comes from Jun Hayami (早見淳), character in the detective show [[wikipedia:Taiyō ni hoero!|Taiyō ni hoero!]], and his actor [[wikipedia:Kenichi Hagiwara|Kenichi Hagiwara]] (萩原健一), who is also the name inspiration for her brother Kenji. The first name Chihaya is also a reference to Chihaya Ayase (綾瀬千早), main character of the manga [[wikipedia:Chihayafuru|Chihayafuru]], whose main theme is [[wikipedia:Competitive karuta|competitive karuta]]. This manga was earlier used as inspiration for [[The Crimson Love Letter|Movie 21: The Crimson Love Letter]]<ref>http://mysteriouscolors.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-231.html</ref>.

== References ==
<references/>

== See also ==
* [[List of minor recurring manga characters]]
* [[Minor law enforcement]]

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Mary Sera

2025-06-01T16:59:43Z

Viktor2003: /* Plot overview */

{{SpoilerWarningArticle|This article contains significant '''[[Glossary#Spoiler|spoilers]]''' about major events concerning this person. It is likely you will be spoiled if you have not read all the manga released to date. To find out what pages will be safe for you to read, please consult our [[Glossary#Spoiler|wiki spoiler policy]].}}
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| age = Looks approximately middle school aged according to Conan Real age is 53<ref>Akai is 32 (SDB90+ Q4) so add 17 years on that at reasonable minimum.</ref><ref>'''Chapter 1037:''' Mary was 36 eighteen years ago.</ref>
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| occupation = MI6 agent Housewife
|status = Alive (shrunk) Dead (for the Black Organization)
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (husband, deceased) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first son) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second son) [[Masumi Sera]] (daughter) [[Elena Miyano]] (younger sister, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (brother-in-law, deceased) [[Akemi Miyano]] (first niece, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second niece)
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| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 83#Red Tragedy|File 875]] Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|Episode 756]]
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| keyhole = [[Volume 83]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Tanaka]] (Episode 756~1046; Movie 24) [[Takako Honda]] (Episode 1144 onwards)
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{{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリー世良|Mearī Sera}}, also known by her marriage name as {{nihongo|'''Mary Akai'''|赤井メアリー|Akai Mearī}}<ref>'''Chapter 1037'''</ref>, appears as a middle-school age girl with blonde hair who has been hiding in various hotels in Tokyo with [[Masumi Sera]]. Despite her appearance, she is actually a middle-aged woman; She is the wife of [[Tsutomu Akai]], and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and Masumi Sera. She is a member of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6.

== Background ==
[[File:Ep 995 Mary's flashback.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Masumi thinking back to her mother's transformation]]Mary Sera's full background is currently unknown. She met and married [[Tsutomu Akai]], and bore three children, [[Shuichi]], [[Shukichi]], and [[Masumi]]. Her husband left, at some point before Masumi was born, to investigate the double murder of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]], which got him tangled with the [[Black Organization]].

Later on, Mary learned that her husband was apparently roaming London and immediately travelled there, taking Masumi along as added insurance.<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1049: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> Leaving her daughter in their hotel room, she left to meet Tsutomu at their favorite meeting place at Vauxhall Bridge. There she was trapped and forced to ingest the [[APTX 4869]] by [[Vermouth]],<ref name="ch1048">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1048: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> causing her age to be regressed. She returned to Masumi hours later in the body of a middle-school child.<ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref><ref name="ch1049" />

Right after her return, Mary and Sera watched a recording of a TV broadcast featuring [[Conan Edogawa]]'s involvement in the attempted blackmail of Minerva Glass<ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Manga volume 71, file 743]] to [[Volume 72#Following Holmes|volume 72, file 752]]: "Following Holmes"</ref> and immediately recognized him as [[Shinichi Kudo]], whom they [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|had encountered ten years ago]].<ref>[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, file 1050: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> She returned to Japan with Masumi in order to find out about the existence of an antidote to the APTX 4869, to which they think Shinichi has access, using Masumi as a proxy. She also has an interest in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and the identity of the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]].<ref>[[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Manga volume 90: "Soul Detective Murder Case"]]</ref>

== Personality ==
Mary seems very mature and direct, especially when speaking to Masumi. She seems hesitant to trust others at the moment and is being extremely cautious about who knows about her. Currently, because of her cautiousness, she and Masumi have been moving from one hotel to another to keep their location hidden.

She is proud of her British heritage.

Like her eldest son, she also seems to be clumsy at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and how to interact positively with others. In dealing with her children, Mary seems to be strict and cold, treating her children more like coworkers than a family. Shukichi seemed to be more nurturing to Masumi than her mom. When Mary was 10 years younger, she came to physical blows with her eldest son Shuichi since he lied to her about his reasons to study in the USA and planned to join the FBI and investigate her husband's incident. They both went as far as attacking each other's faces, leaving black eyes. She also thought Shuichi, who is a rather cold person as well, would make a good replacement father figure for Masumi and Shukichi. However, soon after, she realized that Shuichi was driven by the same sense of curiosity as his father and he would go his own way. To her daughter Masumi, she acts secretively by hiding a lot of important information from Masumi, such as turning off the TV during Shukichi's shogi match, and possibly some other whereabouts of the Black Organization and the Akai family overall. Her continued mistrust of Conan is another example of her general denseness at understanding others, since it is long past the point where she should be able to tell that Conan's motives and pursuit of justice are genuine.

But she does express joy at Shukichi becoming the seven-crowned shogi master. It indicates that she does care for her children. Additionally, when Mary easily sees through Vermouth's disguise of Tsutomu, she appears genuinely distraught at the fact that her husband is apparently dead and even cries and didn't seem to be concerned about her fate as long as Masumi remains safe, showing regardless of her tough attitude, she truly cares for her family. The apparent death of Tsutomu may have contributed to her hardened personality.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Mary different eyes.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mary's two different eye patterns.]]
Mary is a girl of middle school age (12-15) with blonde, curly, neck-length hair. She has eyes similar to those of [[Masumi Sera]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. In her appearance in File 877, she was shown wearing a high-neck pleated top, hoodie jacket, and hat. Like all the other manga characters, the color of her eyes is supposed to be blue, as seen in the keyhole of manga volume 83. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past.

In her varying appearances, Mary's eyes have been drawn slightly differently. In her original and current chapter appearances she seems to have an extra lash on the top of her eye, where as in the Pool case and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s comparison of her and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s eyes in the Department store case she does not have that extra lash.

== Skills ==
[[File:Mary skills.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Mary's hiding skills.]]
Mary seems to know about several types of wire taps. When she and Masumi find Conan's wire tap in their room, she says that she hasn't seen that type before. She also describes the components of it such as its battery life and performance. She spoke in a similar fashion about Conan's voice changer after she got a chance to use it herself.

She has demonstrated the ability to hang from a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She has the strength to vault back up on to the balcony, much like [[Vermouth]] did in the New York case.

10 years ago, she already had the ability to fight well enough that she landed a "knife-hand strike" to her son Shuichi's face, who at the time had already been practicing Jeet Kune Do. In the present, even with her small body, she was able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service".

== Appellations ==
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== Plot overview ==
=== The Red Woman Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman Murder Case|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|756]])===
[[File:Another person with eye bags appears.png|thumb|left|200px|Mary on Masumi's phone.]]
Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone by calling it with his. When he does he notices the call background screen is a child with eye bags similar to those of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. He remarks that the girl looks similar to Masumi. Earlier in the case she only mentioned having two brothers; a mother; and a father, so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

=== Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876-878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]]) ===
[[File:Unknown child and Masumi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mary and Masumi.]]
[[File:EP763-1.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi tells Conan about Mary.]]
When Ran, Sonoko, and Conan visit Masumi's hotel room, Mary is shown opening Masumi's door as Conan, Masumi, Sonoko, and Ran rush to investigate a crime. It is implied she was hiding in Masumi's bedroom while the other three were in the dining area because Masumi asks Conan not to enter her bedroom. Mary later goes downstairs to the scene of the crime where she is seen by Conan. At some point off screen Conan leaves behind a bug in Masumi's room. After the case is solved, Mary finds the bug, crushes it and examines it with Masumi. Mary comments on the quality of the performance of the bug itself and that she has never seen one like it. When Masumi asks if Mary has taken a liking to Conan, she says that it is still early to trust him, and asks Masumi to introduce her as "{{nihongo|the little sister from outside the domain|領域外の妹|ryōiki-gai no imōto}}", should Conan ask.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
[[File:Mary & Masumi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mary and Masumi in the bedroom.]]
Mary is interested in [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s shogi match. When Masumi returns to the hotel room in the middle of the case while Mary is napping, she turns on the TV and sees the shogi match. Later, after the case is solved, Masumi enters the room for a second time to see Mary turning off the TV. Presumably she saw the end of the match and was happy at Shukichi's victory, as was Subaru Okiya, whose identity was revealed in the case before this one, to be Shuichi.

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===
[[File:Ran and Unknown Child.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran sees Masumi and Mary.]]
Mary is waiting for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to visit her and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] in their hotel room. She expresses her still-lingering concern of trusting Conan, even though she thinks he is bright enough. Mary does comment that if anything were to go wrong, they would have to move hotels again. Her talk with him alone is put on hold, however, because [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have invited themselves in accompanying Conan in order to enjoy the hotel's pool. As Conan, Ran, and Sonoko head back home after the case is solved, Ran turns around and sees Masumi talking to her. Ran gets the feeling that she has seen that child before.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
[[File:Conan and the handkerchief.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan with the handkerchief.]]
[[Masumi Sera]] is at Ramen Ogura with Conan, Sonoko and Ran. [[Katsumasa Ogura]] asks Masumi (mistakenly calling her "Mari") if she's going to take the same food to her apartment again. Conan implies that Masumi could be giving food to someone she's letting stay in her apartment, making a clear reference to Mary, but she jokes saying that it's for her secret boyfriend. At the end of the case it is revealed that Ogura had found a handkerchief that Masumi had left behind that said "Mary" on it in English. Ogura had confused the English name with the Japanese name "Mari". Conan believes that the handkerchief may be related to the child as well.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843-844]]) ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
Conan wonders why Sera is in Japan and thinks it has to do with Mary. Conan's worked out her name and noticed her resemblance to Sera but also to someone else. At the end of the case Haibara tried to wipe some of the makeup off of her face in the bathroom, but she missed some just below her left eye. The left over makeup made it look like she had the same eye bags as Shuichi, Masumi, and Mary. This causes Conan to make a connection between her and Mary.

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[The Spirit Detective's Murder|863-864]]) ===
[[File:Mary is Masumi's mother.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Mama?!"]]
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] is put in contact with a Soul Detective who wishes to reveal some information about the [[Kohji Haneda]] case. When Conan and Kogoro go to meet with him at the hotel, they find him dead and that [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] and Mary are presently staying in the next room. During the investigation Conan runs into Masumi's hotel room and checks the balcony as that is the only place a person would hide. However, Mary has hidden herself by anchoring herself and hiding by hugging the wall underneath the balcony. Conan takes a picture of a car parked on the ground floor below the balconies and decides to take a snapshot of the underside of the balcony, just to be certain. Masumi rushes to interrupt him on some pretense. Conan then drops his voice-changer on his way back inside. Mary picks it up, and later uses it in place of Conan to solve the case. When the culprit tries to flee by leaping over the balcony of the murder room over to their room, Mary takes him down single handedly using skills comparable to that of the secret service. Masumi rushes after Conan who has followed the suspect, calling out "Mama". Once Conan has left, Mary and Masumi discuss what information the Soul Detective had, which was that before Kohji's death, Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror and thinks that it means that Asaka is a woman. Mary warns Masumi about Conan saying that "true identity is unknown, gives off a bad feeling like a demon" (暗がりに鬼を繋ぐが如く), and that he is not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Conan looks at the photo he took of Mary and theorizes that Mary could have been Asaka. Later Gin uses the same demon line that Mary used to refer to Kogoro.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
[[File:Mary Masumi Shuichi at beach.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A flashback to 10 years ago at the beach.]]
10 years ago at a beach somewhere in Japan, Shuichi reunited with his family after his 7 years in the US. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of [[Tsutomu Akai|his father]]. She also tells both Shuichi and Masumi not to do things that got them involved in the case, because there are people out there that are after them.
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=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|928]]) ===
After the case is solved, Masumi calls Mary and informs her about the drug that will return her back to normal, after witnessing Shinichi's appearance. Mary ordered Masumi to find [[Ai Haibara|the developer]] of the drug and obtain it. Once she succeeds, Mary declared that they will stop running from hotel to hotel and counterattack.

=== Antique Facet Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Antique Facet Case|1038]], Anime: [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|1020]]) ===
At the end of the case, Sera asks her mother about her "50:50" catchphrase, Mary revealed that it is a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Mary asks Sera if she can gets her hands on the drug, which the latter told her that it is difficult for the moment since [[Subaru Okiya]] is standing in her way. Mary asks her if he is such a noteworthy person, however, Sera is more concerned about whether Subaru is her brother Akai or not, since he's using the same "50:50" catchphrase as her brother.

=== Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98|1047]]-[[Volume 99|1050]], Anime: [[The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment|1045-1046]]) ===
Mary receives a call from Masumi, informing her that Conan brought the antidote that can returns her to her orginal body, and it is blue and white compared to the drug she was forced to take, which is red and white. Mary ordered her daughter to steal the antidote if possible. Later, Mary calls her daughter, asking if she was able to get the antidote, which Masumi responded that she was involved in a poisoning murder case. Hearing about poison, Mary started to remember her shrinking moment. Several months ago, Mary was supposed to meet her husband at Vauxhall Bridge in London, [[Tsutomu Akai]] appeared in front of her, however Mary realised that he isn't her husband after giving him false informations about her daughter. Tsutomu is revealed to be [[Vermouth]] in disguise, who intended to poison her with [[APTX 4869]]. Vermouth feeds Mary the drug with her mouth directly, which is created by her [[Elena Miyano|sister]]. Mary then jumps into the river due to the effect of the drug being very instant. After Mary shrinked, she returned to Sera, explaining to her the whole situation. Later, Mary and Sera witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during [[Holmes' Revelation|Minerva's match on TV]], and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi 10 years ago. The two 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. Since then, Mary ordered Masumi to get closer to him, in order get their hands on the antidote.

=== Serial Hotel Bombing Case (Manga: [[Volume 103|1094-1096]], Anime: [[The Hotel Serial Bombing Case|1144-1145]]) ===
After luring Conan to their current hotel to get their hands on the APTX antidote, Sera and Mary get involved in the resolution of a serial bombing case. However, they are discovred by an unknown man, who is the driver of an unknown old man, to the hotel and triggers a fire alert, forcing the building's evacuation. As Sera and Mary try to avoid drawing attention to themselves, they are nevertheless spotted by the unknown old man.<ref name="File 1096">Manga [[Volume 103]], [[Volume 103#Serial Hotel Bombing Case|File 1094-1096]]</ref>

=== Chess Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 104#Chess Tournament Murder Case|1109]], Anime: 1167) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Mary is only shown twice at dawn under her hotel bed's blankets.

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Mary is shown working with her daughter Masumi to find a VIP from England who was kidnapped. She is seen attacking Subaru (Shuichi Akai) landing a few clean blows before running disappearing. She is also seen towards the end of the movie as she hides in Subaru’s car and waits for him to jump in. She points the gun to his head and threatens him and the FBI as they risked the life of an important VIP.

== Relationship ==
=== Tsutomu Akai ===
Tsutomu is her husband, who she lost around 17 years prior to the series. In his last message, he advice them to hide in Japan and think of him as dead due to that he has made himself some enemies. Although much of their relationship remains unknown, she knew her husband enough to easily see through Vermouth's disguise and in contrast to her distant and hardened exterior, the fact that Tsutomu was possibly dead was enough to cause her to cry, showing she cared deeply for him.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
Shuichi is her oldest son. She didn't approve at first of his decision to join the FBI and investigate his father's death, but eventually she gave him her blessing.

=== Shukichi Haneda ===
Shukichi is her second-oldest child and youngest son. It's not certain how she feels of him, but she keeps track of his Shogi-career and seemed happy when he became the seven-crowned king.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Masumi is her only daughter and youngest child, who was born after the family moved to Japan. Currently the two of them switch between hotels to hide themselves. Mary cares for Masumi, but doesn't trust her entirely (probably due to her extreme youth).

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Mary reacted to Kohji's name when she heard Kogoro mention it. It's possible that the Akai family, including Mary, might know Kohji in person.

=== [[Elena Miyano]] ===
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 officially confirms that Mary and Elena are sisters.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Mary is the Akai family mother ===
These were the hints that fans used to determine that Mary was the Akai family mother prior to the end of the Soul Detective Murder Case where Masumi called Mary "mother"<ref>File 953</ref>, and the flashback to Shinichi and Ran meeting the Akai family on a beach.

* Mary shares a resemblance to [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]], and it was known from Masumi's earlier testimony that Akai family's mother also passed her looks into Shuichi and Sera.
* Mary is unusually mature while talking to Masumi. She gave Masumi instructions despite Masumi being apparently older and a skillful detective in her own right.
* Mary was happy when [[Shukichi]] (who was later revealed to be the middle brother of the Akai Family) won his 7th Shogi title.

* Mary seems to have some knowledge abut wiretaps, she also demonstrated the ability to a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She was also able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service." A normal middle school girl wouldn't be able to do this.

=== Mary is an adult shrunken by APTX 4869 ===
Mary acts like an adult despite having the appearance of a middle-school aged female. When Masumi and Mary speak, the speech honorifics are not those appropriate for an elder Masumi talking to a younger girl. Instead, they appear to indicate the two are on equal levels, or even reverse with Mary expressing greater seniority. In addition, Mary's voice actor in the anime, [[Atsuko Tanaka]], has a deep and sultry voice which is often used to portray mature female characters.

The secrecy surrounding Mary, as well as Masumi's attempts to get her to trust Conan, whom Masumi knows is a shrunken Shinichi, might be indications that Masumi is trying to get the child help about an [[APTX 4869]] problem. This plot point is finally canonized in manga chapter 1049, when a flashback reveals a fateful confrontation between Mary and Vermouth which resulted in Mary getting force-fed the APTX.<ref name="ch1049" />

=== Mary is the sister of Elena Miyano ===
This very popular fan theory<ref>According to polls at DCW as of Sep 10, 2015, the most popular choice for her true identity is APTX-dosed Akai family mother</ref> was born after Gosho hinted that two mother characters are sisters.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639 Leaked interview notes from the May issue of the magazine 「ダ・ヴィンチ」 (da Vinci) with the fans/reporters/whatever, leaked April 15, 2014] "Two mothers will also be revealed as being sisters, etc.…… A lot of things are connected together. This is bad, I'm talking too much. Well, please look forward to the manga.</ref> After it was confirmed the sisters were not the previous most popular choice [[Yukiko Kudo]] and [[Chikage Kuroba]], and that the Akai family mother was one member of the sister pair,<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12439&p=842050#p842050 Super Digest Book 70+: Gosho Aoyama's Interview] "Are Yukiko and Sera's mum sisters?" 
Answer : The sister isn't Yukiko but... 
</ref> fan suspicion fell squarely on Elena Miyano as the other mother. After all, both women are British. Gosho has given evasive answers when asked about Elena and the Akai family mother being related, which is his habit when a fan theory is correct but he can't admit to it.<ref>When answering fan questions, Gosho often bluntly says "no" if a guess is wrong. If it is correct and would spoil a mystery, Gosho's habit is to be vague and avoid giving a firm answer rather than lying or giving in and revealing the truth. After narrowing down the choices, fans started trying to trap Gosho. 
[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=361432 Conan Super Digest Book SDB 80+]
 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and Shuichi Akai's/Sera's mother sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 

Q62: Are Sera and Haibara cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) </ref>

=== Mary is a British SIS/MI6 Agent ===
Mary is British and has several unusual skill sets that match those of other spy-like characters in ''Detective Conan''. Mary has knowledge of incapacitating martial arts that can bring down adult men despite her size<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, extraordinary flexibility and climbing skills that allowed her to hide below a balcony like a ninja<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, and knowledge of listening devices and hidden microphones.<ref>Romance Novelist Murder Case</ref>

Because of her British nationality, the theory that she is a member of the British [[Wikipedia:Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6, has gained traction in many Detective Conan fandoms. In chapter 1049, that detail is inserted into ''Detective Conan'' canon when in a flashback Vermouth expresses regret that she cannot disguise herself as Mary to infiltrate MI6 for the time being when she is forced to assassinate the latter.<ref name="ch1049" />
== Speculation ==
At the time Mary was introduced, her relationship to Masumi Sera was unknown. Masumi testifies that she has two older brothers: [[Shuichi Akai]] and an unknown brother (later revealed to be [[Shukichi Haneda]]) living in Japan.<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: Red Woman. "We're three siblings: My two oldest brothers and me, their little sister!" </ref> She says her father is dead, and her mother lives overseas in America. Masumi says she doesn't have any more relatives close enough to depend on.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 3: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> Masumi only started claiming to have a "younger sister from outside the domain" after the unknown child coached her to use that cover story if Conan asked about her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 6 (878), pg 16: "The Phone, the Sea, and I" She requests Masumi call her the younger sister from outside the domain if Conan asks</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 7 (879), pgs 2-3: "Detective's Master" Conan asks about the girl and Masumi uses the "younger sister from outside the domain" explanation as she was instructed. Conan notices the discrepancy between this and her earlier statements which didn't mention a sister.</ref><ref>[[Episode 759]] 1min 41sec Crunchyroll translation: "If she has two brothers and doesn't know of her relatives, then who is that young girl I saw on her phone that looks just like her?"</ref> She is currently being financially supported by a friend of her father's. If Masumi has told the truth, minus what she said about having a "younger sister from outside the domain", that leaves relatively few options for Mary's identity assuming the child is related by blood somehow to Masumi. In file 972, Mary is revealed to be the Akai family's mother.

== Gallery ==
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File:756 23.jpg|Mary's original appearance in the anime adaptation of the case (episode 756).
File:Mary original appearance.jpg|Mary as she originally appeared in file 875.
File:2014-06-08 00.25.28.jpg|Mary in file 899.
EP1019 3.jpeg|Mary 17 years ago
EP881 8.jpeg|Mary 10 years ago
Keyhole_83.jpg|Mary as child in keyhole
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*In File 1038 its reveal that like Shuichi and Tsumotu, she uses the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame”.
*It is revealed in many manga panels that Mary is left-handed, just like her son.
*Mary usually coughs, properly due to the side effects of APTX-4869.
*Mary's seiyuu is Atsuko Tanaka.
*According to Super Digest Book plus 100 Mary had her MI6 colleagues create a fake passport for her.

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

== References ==
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| name = Mary Sera
| japanese-name = メアリー世良 (Mearī Sera)
| english-name =
| image = Mary Sera Profile.jpg
| age = Looks approximately middle school aged according to Conan Real age is 53<ref>Akai is 32 (SDB90+ Q4) so add 17 years on that at reasonable minimum.</ref><ref>'''Chapter 1037:''' Mary was 36 eighteen years ago.</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = MI6 agent Housewife
|status = Alive (shrunk) Dead (for the Black Organization)
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (husband, deceased) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first son) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second son) [[Masumi Sera]] (daughter) [[Elena Miyano]] (younger sister, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (brother-in-law, deceased) [[Akemi Miyano]] (first niece, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second niece)
| nicknames = Sister from outside the domain
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 83#Red Tragedy|File 875]] Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|Episode 756]]
| appearances = {{:Mary Sera Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 83]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Tanaka]] (Episode 756~1046; Movie 24) [[Takako Honda]] (Episode 1144 onwards)
| english-voice = [[Amber Lee Connors]] (Bang Zoom!)
| cases-solved = 1
| footnotes =
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{{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリー世良|Mearī Sera}}, also known by her marriage name as {{nihongo|'''Mary Akai'''|赤井メアリー|Akai Mearī}}<ref>'''Chapter 1037'''</ref>, appears as a middle-school age girl with blonde hair who has been hiding in various hotels in Tokyo with [[Masumi Sera]]. Despite her appearance, she is actually a middle-aged woman; She is the wife of [[Tsutomu Akai]], and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and Masumi Sera. She is a member of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6.

== Background ==
[[File:Ep 995 Mary's flashback.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Masumi thinking back to her mother's transformation]]Mary Sera's full background is currently unknown. She met and married [[Tsutomu Akai]], and bore three children, [[Shuichi]], [[Shukichi]], and [[Masumi]]. Her husband left, at some point before Masumi was born, to investigate the double murder of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]], which got him tangled with the [[Black Organization]].

Later on, Mary learned that her husband was apparently roaming London and immediately travelled there, taking Masumi along as added insurance.<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1049: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> Leaving her daughter in their hotel room, she left to meet Tsutomu at their favorite meeting place at Vauxhall Bridge. There she was trapped and forced to ingest the [[APTX 4869]] by [[Vermouth]],<ref name="ch1048">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1048: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> causing her age to be regressed. She returned to Masumi hours later in the body of a middle-school child.<ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref><ref name="ch1049" />

Right after her return, Mary and Sera watched a recording of a TV broadcast featuring [[Conan Edogawa]]'s involvement in the attempted blackmail of Minerva Glass<ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Manga volume 71, file 743]] to [[Volume 72#Following Holmes|volume 72, file 752]]: "Following Holmes"</ref> and immediately recognized him as [[Shinichi Kudo]], whom they [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|had encountered ten years ago]].<ref>[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, file 1050: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> She returned to Japan with Masumi in order to find out about the existence of an antidote to the APTX 4869, to which they think Shinichi has access, using Masumi as a proxy. She also has an interest in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and the identity of the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]].<ref>[[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Manga volume 90: "Soul Detective Murder Case"]]</ref>

== Personality ==
Mary seems very mature and direct, especially when speaking to Masumi. She seems hesitant to trust others at the moment and is being extremely cautious about who knows about her. Currently, because of her cautiousness, she and Masumi have been moving from one hotel to another to keep their location hidden.

She is proud of her British heritage.

Like her eldest son, she also seems to be clumsy at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and how to interact positively with others. In dealing with her children, Mary seems to be strict and cold, treating her children more like coworkers than a family. Shukichi seemed to be more nurturing to Masumi than her mom. When Mary was 10 years younger, she came to physical blows with her eldest son Shuichi since he lied to her about his reasons to study in the USA and planned to join the FBI and investigate her husband's incident. They both went as far as attacking each other's faces, leaving black eyes. She also thought Shuichi, who is a rather cold person as well, would make a good replacement father figure for Masumi and Shukichi. However, soon after, she realized that Shuichi was driven by the same sense of curiosity as his father and he would go his own way. To her daughter Masumi, she acts secretively by hiding a lot of important information from Masumi, such as turning off the TV during Shukichi's shogi match, and possibly some other whereabouts of the Black Organization and the Akai family overall. Her continued mistrust of Conan is another example of her general denseness at understanding others, since it is long past the point where she should be able to tell that Conan's motives and pursuit of justice are genuine.

But she does express joy at Shukichi becoming the seven-crowned shogi master. It indicates that she does care for her children. Additionally, when Mary easily sees through Vermouth's disguise of Tsutomu, she appears genuinely distraught at the fact that her husband is apparently dead and even cries and didn't seem to be concerned about her fate as long as Masumi remains safe, showing regardless of her tough attitude, she truly cares for her family. The apparent death of Tsutomu may have contributed to her hardened personality.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Mary different eyes.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mary's two different eye patterns.]]
Mary is a girl of middle school age (12-15) with blonde, curly, neck-length hair. She has eyes similar to those of [[Masumi Sera]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. In her appearance in File 877, she was shown wearing a high-neck pleated top, hoodie jacket, and hat. Like all the other manga characters, the color of her eyes is supposed to be blue, as seen in the keyhole of manga volume 83. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past.

In her varying appearances, Mary's eyes have been drawn slightly differently. In her original and current chapter appearances she seems to have an extra lash on the top of her eye, where as in the Pool case and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s comparison of her and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s eyes in the Department store case she does not have that extra lash.

== Skills ==
[[File:Mary skills.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Mary's hiding skills.]]
Mary seems to know about several types of wire taps. When she and Masumi find Conan's wire tap in their room, she says that she hasn't seen that type before. She also describes the components of it such as its battery life and performance. She spoke in a similar fashion about Conan's voice changer after she got a chance to use it herself.

She has demonstrated the ability to hang from a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She has the strength to vault back up on to the balcony, much like [[Vermouth]] did in the New York case.

10 years ago, she already had the ability to fight well enough that she landed a "knife-hand strike" to her son Shuichi's face, who at the time had already been practicing Jeet Kune Do. In the present, even with her small body, she was able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service".

== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shuichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|-|Brat of the FBI (''FBI no kozo'')}}
{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shukichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Mama<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Masumi<ref name="file953"/>}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Kohji<ref name="file952">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file952"/>}}
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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Mary<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930: Excessive Seasoning (Volume 88)]]</ref> That girl (''ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930"/> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[Volume 85#Poolside Case|File 903: The Corpse in the Pool (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903"/>}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|-|Kudo Shinichi}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|That girl (''ano ko'')}}
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{{appellations|Vermouth|Mary Akai|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== The Red Woman Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman Murder Case|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|756]])===
[[File:Another person with eye bags appears.png|thumb|left|200px|Mary on Masumi's phone.]]
Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone by calling it with his. When he does he notices the call background screen is a child with eye bags similar to those of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. He remarks that the girl looks similar to Masumi. Earlier in the case she only mentioned having two brothers; a mother; and a father, so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

=== Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876-878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]]) ===
[[File:Unknown child and Masumi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mary and Masumi.]]
[[File:EP763-1.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Masumi tells Conan about Mary.]]
When Ran, Sonoko, and Conan visit Masumi's hotel room, Mary is shown opening Masumi's door as Conan, Masumi, Sonoko, and Ran rush to investigate a crime. It is implied she was hiding in Masumi's bedroom while the other three were in the dining area because Masumi asks Conan not to enter her bedroom. Mary later goes downstairs to the scene of the crime where she is seen by Conan. At some point off screen Conan leaves behind a bug in Masumi's room. After the case is solved, Mary finds the bug, crushes it and examines it with Masumi. Mary comments on the quality of the performance of the bug itself and that she has never seen one like it. When Masumi asks if Mary has taken a liking to Conan, she says that it is still early to trust him, and asks Masumi to introduce her as "{{nihongo|the little sister from outside the domain|領域外の妹|ryōiki-gai no imōto}}", should Conan ask.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
[[File:Mary & Masumi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mary and Masumi in the bedroom.]]
Mary is interested in [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s shogi match. When Masumi returns to the hotel room in the middle of the case while Mary is napping, she turns on the TV and sees the shogi match. Later, after the case is solved, Masumi enters the room for a second time to see Mary turning off the TV. Presumably she saw the end of the match and was happy at Shukichi's victory, as was Subaru Okiya, whose identity was revealed in the case before this one, to be Shuichi.

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===
[[File:Ran and Unknown Child.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran sees Masumi and Mary.]]
Mary is waiting for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to visit her and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] in their hotel room. She expresses her still-lingering concern of trusting Conan, even though she thinks he is bright enough. Mary does comment that if anything were to go wrong, they would have to move hotels again. Her talk with him alone is put on hold, however, because [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have invited themselves in accompanying Conan in order to enjoy the hotel's pool. As Conan, Ran, and Sonoko head back home after the case is solved, Ran turns around and sees Masumi talking to her. Ran gets the feeling that she has seen that child before.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
[[File:Conan and the handkerchief.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan with the handkerchief.]]
[[Masumi Sera]] is at Ramen Ogura with Conan, Sonoko and Ran. [[Katsumasa Ogura]] asks Masumi (mistakenly calling her "Mari") if she's going to take the same food to her apartment again. Conan implies that Masumi could be giving food to someone she's letting stay in her apartment, making a clear reference to Mary, but she jokes saying that it's for her secret boyfriend. At the end of the case it is revealed that Ogura had found a handkerchief that Masumi had left behind that said "Mary" on it in English. Ogura had confused the English name with the Japanese name "Mari". Conan believes that the handkerchief may be related to the child as well.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843-844]]) ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
Conan wonders why Sera is in Japan and thinks it has to do with Mary. Conan's worked out her name and noticed her resemblance to Sera but also to someone else. At the end of the case Haibara tried to wipe some of the makeup off of her face in the bathroom, but she missed some just below her left eye. The left over makeup made it look like she had the same eye bags as Shuichi, Masumi, and Mary. This causes Conan to make a connection between her and Mary.

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[The Spirit Detective's Murder|863-864]]) ===
[[File:Mary is Masumi's mother.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Mama?!"]]
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] is put in contact with a Soul Detective who wishes to reveal some information about the [[Kohji Haneda]] case. When Conan and Kogoro go to meet with him at the hotel, they find him dead and that [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] and Mary are presently staying in the next room. During the investigation Conan runs into Masumi's hotel room and checks the balcony as that is the only place a person would hide. However, Mary has hidden herself by anchoring herself and hiding by hugging the wall underneath the balcony. Conan takes a picture of a car parked on the ground floor below the balconies and decides to take a snapshot of the underside of the balcony, just to be certain. Masumi rushes to interrupt him on some pretense. Conan then drops his voice-changer on his way back inside. Mary picks it up, and later uses it in place of Conan to solve the case. When the culprit tries to flee by leaping over the balcony of the murder room over to their room, Mary takes him down single handedly using skills comparable to that of the secret service. Masumi rushes after Conan who has followed the suspect, calling out "Mama". Once Conan has left, Mary and Masumi discuss what information the Soul Detective had, which was that before Kohji's death, Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror and thinks that it means that Asaka is a woman. Mary warns Masumi about Conan saying that "true identity is unknown, gives off a bad feeling like a demon" (暗がりに鬼を繋ぐが如く), and that he is not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Conan looks at the photo he took of Mary and theorizes that Mary could have been Asaka. Later Gin uses the same demon line that Mary used to refer to Kogoro.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
[[File:Mary Masumi Shuichi at beach.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A flashback to 10 years ago at the beach.]]
10 years ago at a beach somewhere in Japan, Shuichi reunited with his family after his 7 years in the US. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of [[Tsutomu Akai|his father]]. She also tells both Shuichi and Masumi not to do things that got them involved in the case, because there are people out there that are after them.
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=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|928]]) ===
After the case is solved, Masumi calls Mary and informs her about the drug that will return her back to normal, after witnessing Shinichi's appearance. Mary ordered Masumi to find [[Ai Haibara|the developer]] of the drug and obtain it. Once she succeeds, Mary declared that they will stop running from hotel to hotel and counterattack.

=== Antique Facet Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Antique Facet Case|1038]], Anime: [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|1020]]) ===
At the end of the case, Sera asks her mother about her "50:50" catchphrase, Mary revealed that it is a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Mary asks Sera if she can gets her hands on the drug, which the latter told her that it is difficult for the moment since [[Subaru Okiya]] is standing in her way. Mary asks her if he is such a noteworthy person, however, Sera is more concerned about whether Subaru is her brother Akai or not, since he's using the same "50:50" catchphrase as her brother.

=== Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98|1047]]-[[Volume 99|1050]], Anime: [[The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment|1045-1046]]) ===
Mary receives a call from Masumi, informing her that Conan brought the antidote that can returns her to her orginal body, and it is blue and white compared to the drug she was forced to take, which is red and white. Mary ordered her daughter to steal the antidote if possible. Later, Mary calls her daughter, asking if she was able to get the antidote, which Masumi responded that she was involved in a poisoning murder case. Hearing about poison, Mary started to remember her shrinking moment. Several months ago, Mary was supposed to meet her husband at Vauxhall Bridge in London, [[Tsutomu Akai]] appeared in front of her, however Mary realised that he isn't her husband after giving him false informations about her daughter. Tsutomu is revealed to be [[Vermouth]] in disguise, who intended to poison her with [[APTX 4869]]. Vermouth feeds Mary the drug with her mouth directly, which is created by her [[Elena Miyano|sister]]. Mary then jumps into the river due to the effect of the drug being very instant. After Mary shrinked, she returned to Sera, explaining to her the whole situation. Later, Mary and Sera witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during [[Holmes' Revelation|Minerva's match on TV]], and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi 10 years ago. The two 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. Since then, Mary ordered Masumi to get closer to him, in order get their hands on the antidote.

=== Serial Hotel Bombing Case (Manga: [[Volume 103|1094-1096]], Anime: [[The Hotel Serial Bombing Case|1144-1145]]) ===
After luring Conan to their current hotel to get their hands on the APTX antidote, Sera and Mary get involved in the resolution of a serial bombing case. However, they are discovred by an unknown man, who is the driver of an unknown old man, to the hotel and triggers a fire alert, forcing the building's evacuation. As Sera and Mary try to avoid drawing attention to themselves, they are nevertheless spotted by the unknown old man.<ref name="File 1096">Manga [[Volume 103]], [[Volume 103#Serial Hotel Bombing Case|File 1094-1096]]</ref>

=== Chess Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 104#Chess Tournament Murder Case|1109]], Anime: 1067) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Mary is only shown twice at dawn under her hotel bed's blankets.

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Mary is shown working with her daughter Masumi to find a VIP from England who was kidnapped. She is seen attacking Subaru (Shuichi Akai) landing a few clean blows before running disappearing. She is also seen towards the end of the movie as she hides in Subaru’s car and waits for him to jump in. She points the gun to his head and threatens him and the FBI as they risked the life of an important VIP.

== Relationship ==
=== Tsutomu Akai ===
Tsutomu is her husband, who she lost around 17 years prior to the series. In his last message, he advice them to hide in Japan and think of him as dead due to that he has made himself some enemies. Although much of their relationship remains unknown, she knew her husband enough to easily see through Vermouth's disguise and in contrast to her distant and hardened exterior, the fact that Tsutomu was possibly dead was enough to cause her to cry, showing she cared deeply for him.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
Shuichi is her oldest son. She didn't approve at first of his decision to join the FBI and investigate his father's death, but eventually she gave him her blessing.

=== Shukichi Haneda ===
Shukichi is her second-oldest child and youngest son. It's not certain how she feels of him, but she keeps track of his Shogi-career and seemed happy when he became the seven-crowned king.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Masumi is her only daughter and youngest child, who was born after the family moved to Japan. Currently the two of them switch between hotels to hide themselves. Mary cares for Masumi, but doesn't trust her entirely (probably due to her extreme youth).

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Mary reacted to Kohji's name when she heard Kogoro mention it. It's possible that the Akai family, including Mary, might know Kohji in person.

=== [[Elena Miyano]] ===
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 officially confirms that Mary and Elena are sisters.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Mary is the Akai family mother ===
These were the hints that fans used to determine that Mary was the Akai family mother prior to the end of the Soul Detective Murder Case where Masumi called Mary "mother"<ref>File 953</ref>, and the flashback to Shinichi and Ran meeting the Akai family on a beach.

* Mary shares a resemblance to [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]], and it was known from Masumi's earlier testimony that Akai family's mother also passed her looks into Shuichi and Sera.
* Mary is unusually mature while talking to Masumi. She gave Masumi instructions despite Masumi being apparently older and a skillful detective in her own right.
* Mary was happy when [[Shukichi]] (who was later revealed to be the middle brother of the Akai Family) won his 7th Shogi title.

* Mary seems to have some knowledge abut wiretaps, she also demonstrated the ability to a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She was also able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service." A normal middle school girl wouldn't be able to do this.

=== Mary is an adult shrunken by APTX 4869 ===
Mary acts like an adult despite having the appearance of a middle-school aged female. When Masumi and Mary speak, the speech honorifics are not those appropriate for an elder Masumi talking to a younger girl. Instead, they appear to indicate the two are on equal levels, or even reverse with Mary expressing greater seniority. In addition, Mary's voice actor in the anime, [[Atsuko Tanaka]], has a deep and sultry voice which is often used to portray mature female characters.

The secrecy surrounding Mary, as well as Masumi's attempts to get her to trust Conan, whom Masumi knows is a shrunken Shinichi, might be indications that Masumi is trying to get the child help about an [[APTX 4869]] problem. This plot point is finally canonized in manga chapter 1049, when a flashback reveals a fateful confrontation between Mary and Vermouth which resulted in Mary getting force-fed the APTX.<ref name="ch1049" />

=== Mary is the sister of Elena Miyano ===
This very popular fan theory<ref>According to polls at DCW as of Sep 10, 2015, the most popular choice for her true identity is APTX-dosed Akai family mother</ref> was born after Gosho hinted that two mother characters are sisters.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639 Leaked interview notes from the May issue of the magazine 「ダ・ヴィンチ」 (da Vinci) with the fans/reporters/whatever, leaked April 15, 2014] "Two mothers will also be revealed as being sisters, etc.…… A lot of things are connected together. This is bad, I'm talking too much. Well, please look forward to the manga.</ref> After it was confirmed the sisters were not the previous most popular choice [[Yukiko Kudo]] and [[Chikage Kuroba]], and that the Akai family mother was one member of the sister pair,<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12439&p=842050#p842050 Super Digest Book 70+: Gosho Aoyama's Interview] "Are Yukiko and Sera's mum sisters?" 
Answer : The sister isn't Yukiko but... 
</ref> fan suspicion fell squarely on Elena Miyano as the other mother. After all, both women are British. Gosho has given evasive answers when asked about Elena and the Akai family mother being related, which is his habit when a fan theory is correct but he can't admit to it.<ref>When answering fan questions, Gosho often bluntly says "no" if a guess is wrong. If it is correct and would spoil a mystery, Gosho's habit is to be vague and avoid giving a firm answer rather than lying or giving in and revealing the truth. After narrowing down the choices, fans started trying to trap Gosho. 
[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=361432 Conan Super Digest Book SDB 80+]
 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and Shuichi Akai's/Sera's mother sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 

Q62: Are Sera and Haibara cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) </ref>

=== Mary is a British SIS/MI6 Agent ===
Mary is British and has several unusual skill sets that match those of other spy-like characters in ''Detective Conan''. Mary has knowledge of incapacitating martial arts that can bring down adult men despite her size<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, extraordinary flexibility and climbing skills that allowed her to hide below a balcony like a ninja<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, and knowledge of listening devices and hidden microphones.<ref>Romance Novelist Murder Case</ref>

Because of her British nationality, the theory that she is a member of the British [[Wikipedia:Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6, has gained traction in many Detective Conan fandoms. In chapter 1049, that detail is inserted into ''Detective Conan'' canon when in a flashback Vermouth expresses regret that she cannot disguise herself as Mary to infiltrate MI6 for the time being when she is forced to assassinate the latter.<ref name="ch1049" />
== Speculation ==
At the time Mary was introduced, her relationship to Masumi Sera was unknown. Masumi testifies that she has two older brothers: [[Shuichi Akai]] and an unknown brother (later revealed to be [[Shukichi Haneda]]) living in Japan.<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: Red Woman. "We're three siblings: My two oldest brothers and me, their little sister!" </ref> She says her father is dead, and her mother lives overseas in America. Masumi says she doesn't have any more relatives close enough to depend on.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 3: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> Masumi only started claiming to have a "younger sister from outside the domain" after the unknown child coached her to use that cover story if Conan asked about her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 6 (878), pg 16: "The Phone, the Sea, and I" She requests Masumi call her the younger sister from outside the domain if Conan asks</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 7 (879), pgs 2-3: "Detective's Master" Conan asks about the girl and Masumi uses the "younger sister from outside the domain" explanation as she was instructed. Conan notices the discrepancy between this and her earlier statements which didn't mention a sister.</ref><ref>[[Episode 759]] 1min 41sec Crunchyroll translation: "If she has two brothers and doesn't know of her relatives, then who is that young girl I saw on her phone that looks just like her?"</ref> She is currently being financially supported by a friend of her father's. If Masumi has told the truth, minus what she said about having a "younger sister from outside the domain", that leaves relatively few options for Mary's identity assuming the child is related by blood somehow to Masumi. In file 972, Mary is revealed to be the Akai family's mother.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
File:756 23.jpg|Mary's original appearance in the anime adaptation of the case (episode 756).
File:Mary original appearance.jpg|Mary as she originally appeared in file 875.
File:2014-06-08 00.25.28.jpg|Mary in file 899.
EP1019 3.jpeg|Mary 17 years ago
EP881 8.jpeg|Mary 10 years ago
Keyhole_83.jpg|Mary as child in keyhole
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*In File 1038 its reveal that like Shuichi and Tsumotu, she uses the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame”.
*It is revealed in many manga panels that Mary is left-handed, just like her son.
*Mary usually coughs, properly due to the side effects of APTX-4869.
*Mary's seiyuu is Atsuko Tanaka.
*According to Super Digest Book plus 100 Mary had her MI6 colleagues create a fake passport for her.

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

== References ==
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| name = Mary Sera
| japanese-name = メアリー世良 (Mearī Sera)
| english-name =
| image = Mary Sera Profile.jpg
| age = Looks approximately middle school aged according to Conan Real age is 53<ref>Akai is 32 (SDB90+ Q4) so add 17 years on that at reasonable minimum.</ref><ref>'''Chapter 1037:''' Mary was 36 eighteen years ago.</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| occupation = MI6 agent Housewife
|status = Alive (shrunk) Dead (for the Black Organization)
| relatives = [[Tsutomu Akai]] (husband, deceased) [[Shuichi Akai]] (first son) [[Shukichi Haneda]] (second son) [[Masumi Sera]] (daughter) [[Elena Miyano]] (younger sister, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (brother-in-law, deceased) [[Akemi Miyano]] (first niece, deceased) [[Shiho Miyano]] (second niece)
| nicknames = Sister from outside the domain
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 83#Red Tragedy|File 875]] Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|Episode 756]]
| appearances = {{:Mary Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 83]]
| japanese-voice = [[Atsuko Tanaka]] (Episode 756~1046; Movie 24) [[Noriko Hidaka]]
| english-voice = [[Amber Lee Connors]] (Bang Zoom!)
| cases-solved = 1
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Mary Sera'''|メアリー世良|Mearī Sera}}, also known by her marriage name as {{nihongo|'''Mary Akai'''|赤井メアリー|Akai Mearī}}<ref>'''Chapter 1037'''</ref> appears as a middle-school age girl with blonde hair who has been hiding in various hotels in Tokyo with [[Masumi Sera]]. Despite her appearance, she is actually a middle-aged woman; she is the wife of [[Tsutomu Akai]], and the mother of [[Shuichi Akai]], [[Shukichi Haneda]], and Masumi Sera. She is a member of the British [[Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6.

== Background ==
[[File:Ep 995 Mary's flashback.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Masumi thinking back to her mother's transformation]]Mary Sera's full background is currently unknown, She met and married [[Tsutomu Akai]], and bore three children, [[Shuichi]], [[Shukichi]], and [[Masumi]]. Her husband left at some point before Masumi was born, to investigate the double murder of [[Kohji Haneda]] and [[Amanda Hughes]], which got him tangled with the [[Black Organization]].

Later on, Mary learned that her husband was apparently roaming London and immediately travelled there, taking Masumi along as added insurance.<ref name="ch1049">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1049: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> Leaving her daughter in their hotel room, she left to meet Tsutomu at their favorite meeting place at Vauxhall Bridge. There she was trapped and forced to ingest the [[APTX]] by [[Vermouth]],<ref name="ch1048">[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, chapter 1048: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> causing her age to be regressed and return to Masumi hours later in the body of a middle-school child.<ref name="ch1025">[[Volume 96#TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case|Manga volume 96, chapter 1025: "TV Drama Filming Site Murder Case"]]</ref><ref name="ch1049" />

Right after her return, Mary and Sera watched a recording of a TV broadcast about [[Conan Edogawa]]'s involvement in the attempted blackmail of Minerva Glass<ref>[[Volume 71#Following Holmes|Manga volume 71, file 743]] to [[Volume 72#Following Holmes|volume 72, file 752]]: "Following Holmes"</ref> and immediately recognized him as [[Shinichi Kudo]], whom they [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|had encountered ten years ago]].<ref>[[Volume 99#Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case|Manga volume 99, file 1050: "Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case"]]</ref> She returned to Japan with Masumi in order to find out about the existence of an antidote to the APTX, which Shinichi apparently has access to, using Masumi as a proxy for her investigations. She also has expressed an interest in the death of [[Kohji Haneda]] and the identity of the missing bodyguard [[Asaka]].<ref>[[Volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|Manga volume 90: "Soul Detective Murder Case"]]</ref>

== Personality ==
Mary seems very mature and direct, especially when speaking to Masumi. She seems hesitant to trust others at the moment and is being extremely cautious about who knows about her. Currently because of her cautiousness, she and Masumi have been moving from one hotel to another to keep their location hidden.

She is proud of her British heritage.

Like her eldest son she also seems to be clumsy at recognizing the motives behind the feelings of others and how to interact positively with others. In dealing with her children, Mary seems to be strict and cold, treating her children more like coworkers than a family. Shukichi seemed to be more nurturing to Masumi than her mom. When Mary was 10 years younger, she came to physical blows with her eldest son, Shuichi, since he lied to her about his reasons to study in the USA and planned to join the FBI and investigate her husbands' incident. They both went as far as attacking each other's faces, leaving black eyes. She also thought Shuichi, who is a rather cold person as well, would make a good replacement father figure for Masumi and Shukichi. However, soon after she realized that Shuichi was driven by the same sense of curiosity as his father and he would go his own way. To her daughter Masumi, she acts secretively by hiding a lot of important information from Masumi, such as turning off the TV when Shuukichi shogi match was shown, and possibly some other whereabouts of the Black Organization and the Akai family overall. Her continued mistrust of Conan is another example of her general denseness at understanding others, since it is long past the point where she should be able to tell that Conan's motives and pursuit of justice are genuine.

But she does express joy at Shukichi's victory for becoming the seven-crowned Shogi master. It indicates that she does care for her children. Additionally, when Mary easily sees through Vermouth's disguise of Tsutomu, she appears genuinely distraught at the fact that her husband is apparently dead and even cries and didn't seem to be concerned about her fate as long as Masumi remains save, showing regardless of her tough attitude, she truly cares for her family. The apparent death of Tsutomu may have contributed to her hardened personality.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Mary different eyes.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Mary's two different eye patterns.]]
Mary is a girl of middle school age (12-15) with blonde, curly, neck length hair. The child has eyes similar to those of [[Masumi Sera]] and [[Shuichi Akai]]. In her appearance in File 877, she was shown wearing a high-neck pleated top, hoodie jacket, and hat. Like all the other manga characters, the color of her eyes is supposed to be blue, as seen in the keyhole of manga volume 83. She had a well-endowed adult body when young Shinichi and Ran met the Akai family on a beach in the past.

In her varying appearances, Mary's eyes have been drawn slightly differently. In her original and current chapter appearances she seems to have an extra lash on the top of her eye, where as in the Pool case and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]'s comparison of her and [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]'s eyes in the Department store case she does not have that extra lash.

== Skills ==
[[File:Mary skills.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Mary's hiding skills.]]
Mary seems to know about several types of wire taps. When she and Masumi find Conan's wire tap in their room, she says that she hasn't seen that type before. She also describes the components of it such as its battery life and performance. She spoke in a similar fashion about Conan's voice changer after she gets a chance to use it herself.

She has demonstrated the ability to hang from a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She has the strength to vault back up on to the balcony, much like [[Vermouth]] did in the New York case.

10 years ago she already had the ability to fight well enough that she landed a "knife-hand strike" to her son Shuichi's face, who at the time had already been practicing Jeet Kune Do. In the present, even with her small body, she was able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service".
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== Appellations ==
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{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|Tsutomu-san<ref name="file974">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 974]]</ref> Husband (''Shujin'')<ref name="file972">[[volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|File 972]]</ref> ''Ano hito'' (literally "that person", but the intended meaning is "husband")<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file972" /> Mother (''Haha'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shuichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|-|Brat of the FBI (''FBI no kozo'')}}
{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Mom (''Kāsan'')<ref name="file974" /> Mom Mary (''Mary-kāsan'')<ref name="file972"/>|Shukichi<ref name="file974"/>}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Mama<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Masumi<ref name="file953"/>}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Kohji<ref name="file952">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 952: In the Suspicious Next Room (Volume 90)]]</ref> Haneda Kohji<ref name="file952"/>}}
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{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Mary<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930: Excessive Seasoning (Volume 88)]]</ref> That girl (''ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930"/> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[Volume 85#Poolside Case|File 903: The Corpse in the Pool (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903"/>}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|-|Kudo Shinichi}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|That girl (''ano ko'')}}
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{{appellations|Vermouth|Mary Akai|Witch of a thousand faces (''sen no kao wo motsu majo'')}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== The Red Woman Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83#The Red Woman Murder Case|875]], Anime: [[The Tragedy of the Red Woman|756]])===
[[File:Another person with eye bags appears.png|thumb|left|200px|Mary on Masumi's phone.]]
Masumi asks Conan to find her cellphone by calling it with his. When he does he notices the call background screen is a child with eye bags similar to those of [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]]. He remarks that the girl looks similar to Masumi. Earlier in the case she only mentioned having two brothers; a mother; and a father, so Conan suspects Masumi was intentionally trying to show him the child for some reason.

=== Romance Novelist Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 83|876-878]], Anime: [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion|759-760]]) ===
[[File:Unknown child and Masumi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Mary and Masumi.]]
When Ran, Sonoko, and Conan visit Masumi's apartment, Mary is shown opening Masumi's door as Conan, Masumi, Sonoko, and Ran rush to investigate a crime. It is implied she was hiding in Masumi's bedroom while the other three were in the dining area because Masumi asks Conan not to enter her bedroom. Mary later goes downstairs to the scene of the crime where she is seen by Conan. At some point off screen Conan leaves behind a bug in Masumi's room. After the case is solved, Mary is shown examining Conan's bug along with Masumi, who had found it and crushed it. Mary comments on the quality of the performance of the bug itself and that she has never seen one like it. When Masumi asks if Mary has taken a liking to Conan she says that it is still early to trust Conan, and asks Masumi to introduce her as "{{nihongo|the little sister from ''outside the domain''|領域外の妹|ryōiki-gai no imōto}}", should Conan question her in the future.

=== Shogi Tournament (Manga: [[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|899-902]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Match of Love|785-786]]) ===
[[File:Mary & Masumi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mary and Masumi in the bedroom.]]
Mary is interested in [[Shukichi Haneda|Shukichi]]'s shogi match. When Masumi returns to the hotel room in the middle of the case while Mary is napping, she turns on the TV and sees the shogi match. Later after the case is solved, Masumi enters the room for a second time to see Mary turning off the TV. Presumably she saw the end of the match and was happy at Shukichi's victory, as was Subaru Okiya, whose identity was revealed in the case before this one, to be Shuichi.

=== Poolside Case (Manga: [[Volume 85|903]]-[[Volume 86|905]], Anime: [[The Mystery Sinking in the Midsummer Pool|787-788]]) ===
[[File:Ran and Unknown Child.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran sees Masumi and Mary.]]
Mary is waiting for [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to visit her and [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] in their hotel room. She expresses her still-lingering concern of trusting Conan, even though she thinks he is bright enough. Mary does comment that if anything were to go wrong they would have to move hotels again. Her talk with him alone is put on hold, however, because [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]] have invited themselves in accompanying Conan in order to enjoy the hotel's pool. As Conan, Ran, and Sonoko head back home after the case is solved, Ran turns around and sees Masumi talking to her. Ran gets the feeling that she has seen that child before.

=== A Killer in Ramen Ogura (Manga: [[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|928-930]], Anime: [[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For 2|827-828]]) ===
[[File:Conan and the handkerchief.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan with the handkerchief.]]
[[Masumi Sera]] is at Ramen Ogura with Conan, Sonoko and Ran. [[Katsumasa Ogura]] asks Masumi (mistakenly calling her "Mari") if she's going to take the same food to her apartment again. Conan implies that Masumi could be giving food to someone she's letting stay in her apartment, making a clear reference to Mary, but she jokes saying that it's for her secret boyfriend. At the end of the case it is revealed that Ogura had found a handkerchief that Masumi had left behind that said "Mary" on it in English. Ogura had confused the English name with the Japanese name "Mari". Conan believes that the handkerchief may be related to the child as well.

=== Department Store Stabbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 89#Department Store Stabbing Case|939-941]], Anime: [[The Detective Boys in a Grove|843-844]]) ===
[[File:Haibara and Mary EP844.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Conan makes a connection between Mary and Haibara due to some remaining makeup.]]
Conan thinks about Mary, "the little sister from outside the domain looks a lot like Sera, no wait, more than that girl resembling Sera..." (領域外の妹と名乗る… 世良によく似た… いや…　あの子世良というより…‥ ). Conan also thinks to himself that the child's name is probably Mary. At the end of the case Haibara tried to wipe some of the makeup off of her face in the bathroom, but she missed some just below her left eye. The left over makeup made it look like she had the same eye bags as Shuichi, Masumi, and Mary. This causes Conan to make a connection between her and Mary.

=== Soul Detective Murder Case (Manga: [[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|951-953]], Anime: [[The Spirit Detective's Murder|863-864]]) ===
[[File:Mary is Masumi's mother.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"Mama?!"]]
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] is put in contact with a Soul Detective who wishes to reveal some information about the [[Kohji Haneda]] case. When Conan and Kogoro go to meet with him at the hotel, they find him dead and that [[Masumi Sera|Masumi]] and Mary are presently staying in the next room. During the investigation Conan runs into Masumi's hotel room and checks the balcony as that is the only place a person would hide. However, Mary has hidden herself by anchoring herself and hiding by hugging the wall underneath the balcony. Conan takes a picture of a car parked on the ground floor below the balconies and decides to take a snapshot of the underside of the balcony, just to be certain. Masumi rushes to interrupt him on some pretense. Conan then drops his voice-changer on his way back inside. Mary picks it up, and later uses it in place of Conan to solve the case. When the culprit tries to flee by leaping over the balcony of the murder room over to their room, Mary takes him down single handedly using skills comparable to that of the secret service. Masumi rushes after Conan who has followed the suspect, calling out "Mama". Once Conan has left, Mary and Masumi discuss what information the Soul Detective had, which was that before Kohji's death, Asaka was seen holding a hand mirror and thinks that it means that Asaka is a woman. Mary warns Masumi about Conan saying that "it is like encountering a demon in the darkness" (暗がりに鬼を繋ぐが如く), and that he is not the same boy they met 10 years ago. Conan goes home and looks at the snapshot he has taken of the underside of the balcony. He theorizes that Mary could have been Asaka. Later Gin uses the same demon line that Mary used to refer to Kogoro.

=== A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ===
[[File:Mary Masumi Shuichi at beach.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A flashback to 10 years ago at the beach.]]
10 years ago at a beach somewhere in Japan, Shuichi reunited with his family after his 7 years in the US. Mary had an off-screen fight with him where they both managed to injure each other's eye. Through out the case Mary warns him to stop investigating the disappearance of [[Tsutomu Akai|his father]]. She also tells both Shuichi and Masumi not to do things that got them involved in the case, because there are people out there that are after them.
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=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|928]]) ===
After the case is solved, Masumi calls Mary and informs her about the drug that will return her back to normal, after witnessing Shinichi's appearance. Mary ordered Masumi to find [[Ai Haibara|the developer]] of the drug and obtain it. Once she succeeds, Mary declared that they will stop running from hotel to hotel and counterattack.

=== Antique Facet Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Antique Facet Case|1038]], Anime: [[The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden|1020]]) ===
At the end of the case, Sera asks her mother about her "50:50" catchphrase, Mary revealed that it is a line that her husband used to say and her son Shuichi inherited from him. Mary asks Sera if she can gets her hands on the drug, which the latter told her that it is difficult for the moment since [[Subaru Okiya]] is standing in her way. Mary asks her if he is such a noteworthy person, however, Sera is more concerned about whether Subaru is her brother Akai or not, since he's using the same "50:50" catchphrase as her brother.

=== Sisters' Birthday Party Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98|1047]]-[[Volume 99|1050]], Anime: [[The Birthday Party of Divine Punishment|1045-1046]]) ===
Mary receives a call from Masumi, informing her that Conan brought the antidote that can returns her to her orginal body, and it is blue and white compared to the drug she was forced to take, which is red and white. Mary ordered her daughter to steal the antidote if possible. Later, Mary calls her daughter, asking if she was able to get the antidote, which Masumi responded that she was involved in a poisoning murder case. Hearing about poison, Mary started to remember her shrinking moment. Several months ago, Mary was supposed to meet her husband at Vauxhall Bridge in London, [[Tsutomu Akai]] appeared in front of her, however Mary realised that he isn't her husband after giving him false informations about her daughter. Tsutomu is revealed to be [[Vermouth]] in disguise, who intended to poison her with [[APTX 4869]]. Vermouth feeds Mary the drug with her mouth directly, which is created by her [[Elena Miyano|sister]]. Mary then jumps into the river due to the effect of the drug being very instant. After Mary shrinked, she returned to Sera, explaining to her the whole situation. Later, Mary and Sera witnessed Conan proclaiming himself as Holmes' apprentice during [[Holmes' Revelation|Minerva's match on TV]], and remembered the same proclamation of Shinichi 10 years ago. The two 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. Since then, Mary ordered Masumi to get closer to him, in order get their hands on the antidote.

=== Serial Hotel Bombing Case (Manga: [[Volume 103|1094-1096]], Anime: TBA) ===
After luring Conan to their current hotel to get their hands on the APTX antidote, Sera and Mary get involved in the resolution of a serial bombing case. However, they are discovred by an unknown man, who is the driver of an unknown old man, to the hotel and triggers a fire alert, forcing the building's evacuation. As Sera and Mary try to avoid drawing attention to themselves, they are nevertheless spotted by the unknown old man.<ref name="File 1096">Manga [[Volume 103]], [[Volume 103#Serial Hotel Bombing Case|File 1094-1096]]</ref>

=== Chess Tournament Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 104#Chess Tournament Murder Case|1109]], Anime: TBA) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Dimensional Sniper (Movie: [[Dimensional Sniper|18]]) ===
Mary is only shown twice at dawn under her hotel bed's blankets.

=== The Scarlet Bullet (Movie: [[The Scarlet Bullet|24]]) ===
Mary is shown working with her daughter Masumi to find a VIP from England who was kidnapped. She is seen attacking Subaru (Shuichi Akai) landing a few clean blows before running disappearing. She is also seen towards the end of the movie as she hides in Subaru’s car and waits for him to jump in. She points the gun to his head and threatens him and the FBI as they risked the life of an important VIP.

== Relationship ==
=== Tsutomu Akai ===
Tsutomu is her husband, who she lost around 17 years prior to the series. In his last message, he advice them to hide in Japan and think of him as dead due to that he has made himself some enemies. Although much of their relationship remains unknown, she knew her husband enough to easily see through Vermouth's disguise and in contrast to her distant and hardened exterior, the fact that Tsutomu was possibly dead was enough to cause her to cry, showing she cared deeply for him.

=== Shuichi Akai ===
Shuichi is her oldest son. She didn't approve at first of his decision to join the FBI and investigate his father's death, but eventually she gave him her blessing.

=== Shukichi Haneda ===
Shukichi is her second-oldest child and youngest son. It's not certain how she feels of him, but she keeps track of his Shogi-career and seemed happy when he became the seven-crowned king.

=== Masumi Sera ===
Masumi is her only daughter and youngest child, who was born after the family moved to Japan. Currently the two of them switch between hotels to hide themselves. Mary cares for Masumi, but doesn't trust her entirely (probably due to her extreme youth).

=== Kohji Haneda ===
Mary reacted to Kohji's name when she heard Kogoro mention it. It's possible that the Akai family, including Mary, might know Kohji in person.

=== [[Elena Miyano]] ===
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.

== Plot Exposition ==
=== Hints that Mary is the Akai family mother ===
These were the hints that fans used to determine that Mary was the Akai family mother prior to the end of the Soul Detective Murder Case where Masumi called Mary "mother"<ref>File 953</ref>, and the flashback to Shinichi and Ran meeting the Akai family on a beach.

* Mary shares a resemblance to [[Shuichi Akai]] and [[Masumi Sera]], and it was known from Masumi's earlier testimony that Akai family's mother also passed her looks into Shuichi and Sera.
* Mary is unusually mature while talking to Masumi. She gave Masumi instructions despite Masumi being apparently older and a skillful detective in her own right.
* Mary was happy when [[Shukichi]] (who was later revealed to be the middle brother of the Akai Family) won his 7th Shogi title.

* Mary seems to have some knowledge abut wiretaps, she also demonstrated the ability to a balcony by a thin rope/wire and hug the wall like a ninja. She was also able to take down a fully grown man by herself. Conan described the damage as "a copped blow to a vital spot, similar to the techniques used by the secret service." A normal middle school girl wouldn't be able to do this.

=== Mary is an adult shrunken by APTX 4869 ===
Mary acts like an adult despite having the appearance of a middle-school aged female. When Masumi and Mary speak, the speech honorifics are not those appropriate for an elder Masumi talking to a younger girl. Instead, they appear to indicate the two are on equal levels, or even reverse with Mary expressing greater seniority. In addition, Mary's voice actor in the anime, [[Atsuko Tanaka]], has a deep and sultry voice which is often used to portray mature female characters.

The secrecy surrounding Mary, as well as Masumi's attempts to get her to trust Conan, whom Masumi knows is a shrunken Shinichi, might be indications that Masumi is trying to get the child help about an [[APTX 4869]] problem. This plot point is finally canonized in manga chapter 1049, when a flashback reveals a fateful confrontation between Mary and Vermouth which resulted in Mary getting force-fed the APTX.<ref name="ch1049" />

=== Mary is the sister of Elena Miyano ===
This very popular fan theory<ref>According to polls at DCW as of Sep 10, 2015, the most popular choice for her true identity is APTX-dosed Akai family mother</ref> was born after Gosho hinted that two mother characters are sisters.<ref>[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=316639 Leaked interview notes from the May issue of the magazine 「ダ・ヴィンチ」 (da Vinci) with the fans/reporters/whatever, leaked April 15, 2014] "Two mothers will also be revealed as being sisters, etc.…… A lot of things are connected together. This is bad, I'm talking too much. Well, please look forward to the manga.</ref> After it was confirmed the sisters were not the previous most popular choice [[Yukiko Kudo]] and [[Chikage Kuroba]], and that the Akai family mother was one member of the sister pair,<ref>[http://forums.dctp.ws/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12439&p=842050#p842050 Super Digest Book 70+: Gosho Aoyama's Interview] "Are Yukiko and Sera's mum sisters?" 
Answer : The sister isn't Yukiko but... 
</ref> fan suspicion fell squarely on Elena Miyano as the other mother. After all, both women are British. Gosho has given evasive answers when asked about Elena and the Akai family mother being related, which is his habit when a fan theory is correct but he can't admit to it.<ref>When answering fan questions, Gosho often bluntly says "no" if a guess is wrong. If it is correct and would spoil a mystery, Gosho's habit is to be vague and avoid giving a firm answer rather than lying or giving in and revealing the truth. After narrowing down the choices, fans started trying to trap Gosho. 
[http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/?p=361432 Conan Super Digest Book SDB 80+]
 
Q5: Are Elena Miyano and Shuichi Akai's/Sera's mother sisters? 
A: Eh? Why's that? 

Q62: Are Sera and Haibara cousins? 
A: Stop asking in a roundabout way, I'm not going to get tricked! (laughs) </ref>

=== Mary is a British SIS/MI6 Agent ===
Mary is British and has several unusual skill sets that match those of other spy-like characters in ''Detective Conan''. Mary has knowledge of incapacitating martial arts that can bring down adult men despite her size<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, extraordinary flexibility and climbing skills that allowed her to hide below a balcony like a ninja<ref>Soul Detective Murder case</ref>, and knowledge of listening devices and hidden microphones.<ref>Romance Novelist Murder Case</ref>

Because of her British nationality, the theory that she is a member of the British [[Wikipedia:Secret Intelligence Service|Secret Intelligence Service]], often known as MI6, has gained traction in many Detective Conan fandoms. In chapter 1049, that detail is inserted into ''Detective Conan'' canon when in a flashback Vermouth expresses regret that she cannot disguise herself as Mary to infiltrate MI6 for the time being when she is forced to assassinate the latter.<ref name="ch1049" />
== Speculation ==
At the time Mary was introduced, her relationship to Masumi Sera was unknown. Masumi testifies that she has two older brothers: [[Shuichi Akai]] and an unknown brother (later revealed to be [[Shukichi Haneda]]) living in Japan.<ref>Manga [[Volume 82]], File 11 (872), pg 3: Red Woman. "We're three siblings: My two oldest brothers and me, their little sister!" </ref> She says her father is dead, and her mother lives overseas in America. Masumi says she doesn't have any more relatives close enough to depend on.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 4 (876), pg 3: "The Romance Novelist"</ref> Masumi only started claiming to have a "younger sister from outside the domain" after the unknown child coached her to use that cover story if Conan asked about her.<ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 6 (878), pg 16: "The Phone, the Sea, and I" She requests Masumi call her the younger sister from outside the domain if Conan asks</ref><ref>Manga [[Volume 83]], File 7 (879), pgs 2-3: "Detective's Master" Conan asks about the girl and Masumi uses the "younger sister from outside the domain" explanation as she was instructed. Conan notices the discrepancy between this and her earlier statements which didn't mention a sister.</ref><ref>[[Episode 759]] 1min 41sec Crunchyroll translation: "If she has two brothers and doesn't know of her relatives, then who is that young girl I saw on her phone that looks just like her?"</ref> She is currently being financially supported by a friend of her father's. If Masumi has told the truth, minus what she said about having a "younger sister from outside the domain", that leaves relatively few options for Mary's identity assuming the child is related by blood somehow to Masumi. In file 972, Mary is revealed to be the Akai family's mother.

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
File:756 23.jpg|Mary's original appearance in the anime adaptation of the case (episode 756).
File:Mary original appearance.jpg|Mary as she originally appeared in file 875.
File:2014-06-08 00.25.28.jpg|Mary in file 899.
EP1019 3.jpeg|Mary 17 years ago
EP881 8.jpeg|Mary 10 years ago
Keyhole_83.jpg|Mary as child in keyhole
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*In File 1038 its reveal that like Shuichi and Tsumotu, she uses the phrase “It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame”.
*It is revealed in many manga panels that Mary is left-handed, just like her son.
*Mary usually coughs, properly due to the side effects of APTX-4869.
*Mary's seiyuu is Atsuko Tanaka.
*According to Super Digest Book plus 100 Mary had her MI6 colleagues create a fake passport for her.

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

== References ==
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| japanese-name = 工藤新一 (Kudō Shin'ichi)
| english-name = Jimmy Kudo
| name = Shinichi Kudo
| image = Shinichi Kudo Profile.jpg
| age = 16-17<ref name=CD41>Conan Drill Page 41</ref><ref name="f2">[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]] - Conan nearly gives his age as "16" before correcting himself and saying "6".</ref><ref name=141p8>Manga Volume 15, File 1, Page 8: "Gone!? ". The reporter gives Shinichi's age as 16.</ref><ref name="e3">[[An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case]] - Shinichi's opening prologue speech refers to him as 17</ref> 6-7 as Conan<ref>Conan Drill Page 38</ref><ref name="f2"/><ref>[[The Significant Music Box|Episode 194: The Significant Music Box]] - Conan says he is "around 7" years old.</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = {{Bracket|174 cm|5'8.5"}}<ref name=CD41/>
| weight = Unknown<ref name=CD41/>
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name=CD41/>
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother) [[Ran Mouri]] (girlfriend) [[Conan Edogawa]] (brother)
| occupation = Teitan High School student Detective Soccer player (formerly)
| status = Alive Dead (for the [[Black Organization]])
| nicknames = Detective Geek ([[Ran Mouri]]) “The Great Detective of the East” The saviour of the police force Shin-chan ([[Yukiko Kudo|his mother]]) Silver Bullet ([[Vermouth]]) The Heisei Holmes Cool guy ([[Vermouth]]) The Wizard ([[Masumi Sera]]) Great Detective ([[Kaito Kid]])
| aliases = Conan Edogawa
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File 001 - The Heisei Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Shinichi Kudo Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 291 (approx, manga only) (as Conan Edogawa) (one case solved by Ran) 60+ (as Shinichi Kudo){{citation needed}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 1]] [[Volume 62]] (Shiragami-sama)
| japanese-voice = [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] [[Minami Takayama]] (young)
| english-voice = [[Jerry Jewell]] (FUNimation) [[Griffin Burns]] (Bang Zoom!)
| korean-voice = Su Jin Gang
| drama-actor = [[Shun Oguri]] (1st) [[Junpei Mizobata]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Shinichi Kudo'''|工藤新一|Kudō Shin'ichi}} is the high school detective, narrator and main protagonist of the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''. While on a date with his childhood friend (later girlfriend) [[Ran Mouri]], Shinichi encounters [[Gin|two]] [[Vodka|men]] from a [[Black Organization|secret criminal organization]] who force feed him [[APTX 4869|a strange poison]] that causes his body to shrink back to first grade age. Shinichi takes up the alias '''[[Conan Edogawa]]''' and plans to use his immense skill as a detective to make Ran's [[Kogoro Mouri|bumbling private detective father]] famous in hopes that he will find a case involving the secret organization so he can expose its crimes and acquire an antidote that will turn him back into a teenager.

Viz romanized his original name as '''Shin'ichi Kudo'''.

== Background ==
Shinichi is a 16-year old<ref name="f2"/><ref>[[Volume 15#File 141 - Gone.21.3F|Volume 15, File 141, page 12: "Gone!?"]]</ref> (17, according to the anime)<ref name="e3"/> student at [[Setting#Teitan High School|Teitan High School]] who has become famous for helping the [[Law Enforcement#Tokyo Metropolitan Police|Tokyo police]] solve murder mysteries. Shinichi was born to [[Yusaku Kudo]], a mystery writer, and [[Yukiko Kudo]], a former movie star.<ref>[[Volume 5#File 049 - An Unfamiliar Visitor|Volume 5, File 49, page 163: "An Unfamiliar Visitor"]]</ref>

He met Ran when he started in kindergarten and spotted strange things that his father figured out were preparations to kidnap Ran. The kidnapping was foiled, and Ran and Shinichi formed a friendship when Shinichi defended her from the bullies.

At some point Both Ran and Shinichi with Ran's parents once visited one of Yoshiro Kinoshita show and took a picture with him.<ref>File 131</ref>

The story begins when Shinichi takes his childhood friend [[Ran Mouri]] to a theme park, [[Tropical Land]], to celebrate her victory in a recent karate championship. During the course of their visit, Shinichi ends up solving [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|a murder case]]. He separates from Ran to follow a man in black, [[Vodka]], who was blackmailing a company president. He didn't notice when another man in black, [[Gin]], sneak up behind him and knocks him out with a baseball bat. Gin decides to test an experimental untraceable poison, [[APTX 4869]], on Shinichi to ensure that his death couldn't be traced back to them. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurs: his body shrinks into that of his six-year-old self.<ref name="f2"/>

=== Conan Edogawa ===
{{main|Conan Edogawa}}
After escaping from well-meaning but skeptical park security, with nowhere else to go Shinichi runs home. He there encounters into his next door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. He convinces Agasa of his identity and head inside [[Setting#Kudo Residence|Shinichi's home]] to discuss the next move. Agasa warns him that he must keep his identity secret because the [[Black Organization]] will kill him and others associated with him should they discover the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
[[Image:Shinichi and Conan.jpg|thumb|right|Edogawa Conan, the shrunken Shinichi]]

Ran arrives to find out what happened to Shinichi, which forces him to come up with the alias Conan Edogawa from [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Rampo Edogawa|Rampo '''''Edogawa''''']] and he pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's, who places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2"/> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a [[Setting#Mouri Detective Agency|Detective Agency]], which will allow Conan to run into cases involving the Black Organization. He occasionally uses Kogoro, and Agasa, among others as a mouthpiece to solve crimes while searching for how to get his body back.

In the meantime, to protect his identity he is forced to play the part of a first-year Elementary student, enrolling as a student at [[Teitan Elementary School]]. Three of his classmates, [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], befriend him and pull him into creating the ''[[Detective Boys<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref> after which he tries to keep them out of trouble. Their group is later joined by the creator of APTX 4869, [[Shiho Miyano]], shrunk down and using the alias [[Ai Haibara]].

Although he mostly uses the Conan alias to solve cases, in some (especially emergency) situations, he uses the Voice-Changing Bowtie to call the police using his original, Shinichi's voice and get involved with cases, which allow him to gain the authority that Conan lacks. In the aftermath; however, Shinichi requests his identity not to be revealed to the public, a clear contrast to his earlier attention-seeking behavior before turning to Conan.

== Personality ==
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi is already well-known as a brilliant young detective, the "Savior of the police force", for solving many difficult cases the professionals could not.<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]].</ref> He is extremely intelligent, and even from a young age was very intuitive and observant. Due to the influence of his father and the general laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels.<ref name="f569">[[Volume 55#File 569 - The Mischievous Boy|Volume 55, Files 569-572: "The Mischievous Boy"]]</ref> His father, Yusaku started taking Shinichi to crime scenes as a child, which inspired him to be a detective.<ref>[[Volume 21#File 205 - Midair Sealed Chamber|Volume 21, File 205, pages 74-78: "Midair Sealed Chamber"]]</ref> Due to his bluntness and matter-of-fact manner, Shinichi can come off as rude and arrogant. However, he cares deeply about human life, unable to understand how any reason could be sufficient motive for murder,<ref>[[Volume 26#File 258 - Momentary Rest|Volume 26, File 258, page 71: "Momentary Rest"]]</ref> and is convinced that driving a culprit to suicide is no better than murder itself.<ref>[[Volume 16#File 153 - Bonds of Flame|Volume 16, File 153: "Bonds of Flame"]]</ref> The few times he has been too late to save a life haunt him throughout the series. He also thinks of other people's feelings, and in some cases he has been willing to conceal facts from certains parties in order spare them from being scarred from the ugly truth.

Prior to his transformation, Shinichi enjoyed being in the spotlight and was rather arrogant, reveling in making local headlines and receiving fan-mail. Throughout the series, Shinichi's predicament causes him to gain a sense of humility. Shinichi still keeps his flair for the dramatic (like his mother) that can be seen every time he sets out a deduction in pieces building to a climax.

Despite his popularity with the masses and his schoolmates, Shinichi has very few close friends. He is close to Ran and Agasa, and after deaging, he befriended Heiji, Haibara, and to some extent the other Detective Boys. Another reason for his lack of close friends was because his arrogant personality was a negative turn-off to many of his classmates and even teachers, making it hard to befriend him. Even with his close friends (one being older than him), Shinichi doesn't hesitate to call them "idiot", instead of calmly explaining his reason for doing or not doing something, sometimes causing arguments between him and Ran.

Shinichi also had a tendency, since elementary school, to have an air of being the "distant, cool guy". While he is a truly good and heroic individual, he doesn't make it known to others that obviously, and will make some "deductive reasoning" for why he did such a thing. His insensitive nature is also horrible, which was shown most prominently during the Holmes' Revelation Arc, when Ran started crying because she believed that Shinichi not telling her he was in London meant that he was indifferent to her feelings for him. However, instead of trying to comfort her, Shinichi repeatedly asked her about the [[Yukiko Kudo|strange woman]] she met, and told her to pull herself together.

Shinichi was ready to confess his feelings during the Roller Coaster Murder Case but due to Ran's teasing, he didn't. After turning into Conan and knowing that Ran loved him, whenever he turned back into Shinichi, he would try to confess his feelings for her but the antidote running out would foil his attempts. He was successfully able to convey his feelings in London.

The reason behind Shinichi's desensitization towards violent and brutal crime scenes is because his father would take him to crime scenes as a child.

Shinichi is also quite fearless not scaring of threatening by guns or surrounding by fire, he also doesn't believe in supernatural like magic or abnormal creatures and believes there is always an explanation for it, he was also fearless as a child.

== Appearance ==
Shinichi is an above-average height Japanese teenager with a light-complexion, pale skin and a thin yet athletic build. He has blue eyes and short dark brown/black hair with a cowlick in front and distinctive tuft in the back. Shinichi bears a striking resemblance to his father, [[Yusaku Kudo]] albeit a less defined jawline and minus his father's mustache. Often, he is well-noted as very handsome as he became very popular with the girls around his age, regularly getting love letters, which has only grown since becoming a famous detective. Shinichi often appears in his high school uniform, but he also wears a suit and tie or regular clothing depending on the occasion. When Conan turns back into Shinichi by using [[baijiu]] or the [[Prototype antidote|prototype antidote]], Shinichi will wear whatever appropriately sized clothing he can find at the time.

== Skills ==
:''See also: [[Conan Edogawa#Skills|Conan's Skills]]''
=== Intelligence ===
Consistently, Shinichi has proven himself to be a very sharp-witted and calculating individual. While only in high school, his passion mysterious have lead him to be a very well-read to showcase advanced knowledge and understanding in a myriad of subjects, which he can methodically use to aid him in investigations. His detective skills often earns him comparisons to [[Sherlock Holmes]]. Shinichi has acquired various nicknames because of his prowess, such as the "[[Wikipedia: Heisei|Heisei]] Holmes" and the "Detective of the East". He has a keen eye for details, and can spot any unusual aspects in a case that most people tend to miss or not take into account. He has a keen understanding for criminal psychology, occasionally being able to sense if someone is the true criminal. He can also predict movement and plan of the criminals, and in some cases, he used this skill to "bluff". By deliberately giving wrong deduction, he managed to make the criminal reveal the key evidence of the case, confess, abandon suicide's attempt, or lead them to the wrong ends. He repeatedly demonstrates an eidetic memory and perfect recall, able to recount every aspect from the situation he has placed himself in. Shinichi's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies in order to link them to the crime. Shinichi has extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases. Few people are able to match wits with him, including [[Heiji Hattori]] and [[Kaito Kuroba]], while only his father, [[Yusaku Kudo]], has shown able consistently proven himself to far surpass his son, both solving mysterious well-before Shinichi and even regularly tricking his on for "tests".

=== Language ===
Besides his native language, Shinichi is fluent in reading/writing and speaking English, as seen when he solved a case in London without evidence of any language barrier.<ref>[[Volume 21#File 205 - Midair Sealed Chamber|Volume 21, File 205: "Midair Sealed Chamber"]]</ref><ref name="f743">[[Volume 71#File 743 - Holmes' Apprentice|Volumes 71-72, Files 743-752: "Holmes' Apprentice"]]</ref> Shinichi also knows German,<ref>[[Genta's Certain Kill Shot]]</ref>, Italian,<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref> and French.<ref>[[The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun]]</ref> Shinichi seems to understand "Girl Writing", due to the fact that he had solved an e-mail cipher of a 2nd year high school girl quickly.<ref>[[Secret of the Russian Blue]]</ref>

=== Athletic ability ===
[[File:Shinichi playing soccer 4 years ago.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi playing soccer in middle school.]]
Like his intelligence, Shinichi also has an amazing athletic ability. Shinichi is an extremely skilled soccer player, having been professionally scouted while only in middle school, but he chooses to stay at the amateur level. He initially played to hone his reflexes and coordination as he often juggles a ball to clear his mind, but he is also an enthusiastic fan of the sport in its own right.<ref name="e1"/> While naturally right-handed and right-footed, Shinichi trained himself to be ambidextrous, being just as efficient with either hand or foot. Against criminals, his signature technique is launching various objects with superb precision from his kick to knock the foe out. Shinichi's kick is accurate over long distances and he is capable of mentally reckoning the angle of impact necessary to rebound a soccer ball off a wall and strike an attacker from behind. He is also good at skiing, snowboarding, and ice-skating. Likewise, on a skateboard he can easily perform very complicated tricks and dodges with his skateboard at high speed.

Aside from sports, Shinichi exhibits a knack and impeccable accuracy for handling firearms due to his father taking him to shooting ranges from time to time. During the Clocktower Heist, Shinichi is able to shoot and dislodge the support beam of a giant projection screen with a single shot from a moving helicopter. Additionally, in [[The Fourteenth Target]], as Conan, he shot a bullet at Ran's leg with such precision, that while it rendered her unable to walk to force the criminal to let her go, but afterwards her leg healed cleanly with no lingering signs or damage. Between his natural aim and coordination, he can likewise hit his target shooting darts like in [[The Detective Boys Get Out of the Rain]], when he throws them to a giant [[Gomera]] puppet so it can fall on the culprit.

Shinichi is nimble as well as strong. He is capable of considerable acrobatics, jumping great distances and swinging from tree to tree to escape onlookers.<ref>[[Murderer, Shinichi Kudo|Shiragami case]]</ref> Shinichi is also well-trained in martial arts, showing remarkable flexibility and precision in his kicks, noted for having an especially good roundhouse kick. With his proficiency, as seen in [[Murderer, Shinichi Kudo|Shiragami Case]], he disarms the culprit trying to commit suicide. Even against the expert judo practitioner Kogoro, in [[Drama Episode 13]], he avoided Kogoro and take him down as he tries to hurt him. While it is unclear where his skill compares to Ran, he can effortlessly dodge a kicking assault from an angry Ran, something very few have ever managed. How does however openly acknowledge Ran as stronger than him.

=== Music ===
Shinichi cannot sing on key in the slightest so he is often accused of being [[Wikipedia:tone deaf|tone deaf]]. Despite being a hilariously awful singer, Shinichi has [[Wikipedia:perfect pitch|perfect pitch]] and can identify notes accurately even in difficult contexts like the sound of phone button presses forming a melody.<ref>[[Volume 15#File 144 - Their Voices Are Alike!?|Volume 15, File 144: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref> Also, he can replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is because he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. Like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in [[Full Score of Fear]], when he played "Amazing Grace" for Ran. However, he is stumped on what Ran meant when she said, "He has a funny habit when he plays."

=== Other skills ===
He has remarkable intuition, able to tell when people are spying on him and if they are hiding something. He can defuse a bomb effortlessly without external instruction. Shinichi has repeatedly dispensed first aid to stabbed/shot/cardiac/poisoned/hurt victims before the rescuers arrive. He is also shown able to read lips.<ref>[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Having seemingly inherited his mother's acting talent, he can seamlessly change his persona, as seen from his longstanding deception of the carefree child Conan. He is skilled in impersonation, able to mimic other people's voices, once pretending to be Heji, however he can have some difficultly changing his dialect. He has skills in computer programming and hacking, however they are inferior Haibara's, regularly relying on her to help out; he was not able to crack Black Organization's encrypted data. In non-canon movie 2 he was able to pilot a helicopter as he had been training with a simulator since he was a kid. In non-canon movie 5 he was able to drive a car.

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{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Shinichi-kun|Kisaki-san}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Kudo-kun Shinichi-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun|Sera Sera Masumi (movie introduction)<ref name="m18">[[Dimensional Sniper]]</ref>}}
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{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Kudo-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')}}
{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Kudo-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}
{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Kudo Shinichi<ref name="blackstar">[[Magic Kaito Volume 4#Black Star|Magic Kaito Chapter 23-24: Black Star]]</ref>|Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'')<ref name="blackstar"/>}}
{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="m13">[[The Raven Chaser]]</ref> Kudo<ref name="m13"/>}}
{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Kudo Shinichi-kun|-}}
{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Kudo Shinichi-kun<ref name="file898">[[Volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898: Scarlet Epilogue (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Jodie Starling (movie introduction)<ref name="m18"/>}}
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{{appellations|Andre Camel|-|Andre Camel (movie introduction)<ref name="m18"/>}}
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{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Kudo Shinichi-kun|Bourbon Amuro Tooru}}
{{appellations|Kenji Hagiwara|Boy (''bozu'')|Hagiwara<ref>[[The Bride of Halloween]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|Kudo Shinichi-kun|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}
{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Kudo}}
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{{appellations|Gin|Kudo Shinichi Detective<ref>[[Volume 1|'''File 001''': The Heisei Holmes]]</ref> That dead brat<ref>[[Volume 42|Volume 42, File 434, Page 2]]</ref>|Gin}}
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{{appellations|Soshi Okita|-|Okita}}
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{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Shinichi-kun}}
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{{appellations|Momiji Ooka|Kudo-kun}}
{{appellations|Muga Iori|Kudo-sama<ref>File 1040</ref>}}
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== Plot overview ==
Because the main plot revolves around the fact that Shinichi has become 'Conan' and is forced into hiding, Shinichi is rarely in the series as himself. However, Conan is frequently shown calling Ran using his voice-changing bow tie to sound like Shinichi and sending/receiving text messages from her with "Shinichi's" phone. In these instances, it can be said that the character of Shinichi, albeit in the body of Conan, is appearing, since these phone conversations and text messages allow Shinichi to be himself, however briefly. The below instances however, are actual appearances of Shinichi as well as flashbacks from before the series began.

=== Transformation into Conan ===
==== Roller Coaster Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 1|001-002]], Anime: [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|001]]) ====
[[Image:Shinichi appears.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi appears to correct Hattori's deduction]] Shinichi starts as himself in the Roller coaster murder case, but by the end he has been transformed into Conan, thus beginning the series' plot. Since then, Conan has temporarily turned back to Shinichi several times.

=== Transformations back into Shinichi ===
==== Great Detective of the West (Manga: [[Volume 10|092-095]], Anime: [[Diplomat Murder Case|048-049]]) ====
Shinichi's next real appearance after shrinking is when a strange detective from Osaka named [[Heiji Hattori]] arrives at Mouri Detective Agency looking for Shinichi in order to determine which of them is the better detective. A strange combination of having a cold and drinking the [[baijiu]] that Heiji had brought along allows Conan to briefly grow into Shinichi once again.<ref>[[Volume 10#File 092 - The Great Detective Of The West|Volume 10, Files 92-96: "The Great Detective Of The West"]]</ref> However, the transformation quickly wears off and he develops an immunity to the alcohol and cannot replicate the transformation.

==== The Desperate Revival (Manga: [[Volume 26|254-260]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival|188-193]]) ====
Conan is able to become Shinichi using an [[Prototype antidote|antidote]] that [[Ai Haibara]] synthesized. As himself, he tries to surprise Ran by disguising himself as a character in her play, but is interrupted by a murder case and ends up revealing himself to his entire high school. [[Heiji Hattori]] covers for him and Shinichi is able to spend about 48 hours as himself, albeit with a brief collapse about halfway through. He turns back into Conan just as he seems to be about to confess his feelings to Ran.<ref>[[Volume 26#File 254 - An Infatuated Heart|Volume 26, Files 254-260: "An Infatuated Heart"]]</ref>

==== The Murderer is Shinichi Kudo (Manga: [[Volume 62|646-651]], Anime: [[Murderer, Shinichi Kudo|521-523]]) ====
Shinichi's next appearance is when, while on a case with Heiji, Conan goes missing and 'Shinichi' seems to appear. This 'Shinichi' is actually someone who had gotten plastic surgery to look like Shinichi and is trying to frame Shinichi for a murder. The real Shinichi hides in the forest until he can clear his name. Shinichi had been temporarily restored by another of Haibara's prototypes, but this time by accident; Agasa mistakenly gave them to Shinichi thinking they were cold medicine.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 646 - Village of Animosity|Volume 62, Files 646-651: "Village of Animosity"]]</ref> After the case is solved, Shinichi transforms back into Conan, but luckily Haibara secretly followed him there and gives him another antidote, saving him from revealing his identity to Kogoro, Ran, and Kazuha. While driving home from the case, the group is stopped by another murder which Shinichi and Heiji investigate together, despite increasing pangs that warn of his imminent reversion to Conan. After the case is resolved, Ran tries to stop Shinichi from leaving, saying she has something to tell him. Shinichi stops her, saying "According to my deductions, what you have to say and what I have to say are the same thing." Ran seizes his hand while he is transforming back into Conan, and though Haibara knocks her out with Conan's wristwatch, she refuses to let go of his hand. Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] have to cut and re-pin Conan's shirt onto him because Ran is still clutching his hand and he refuses to pull out of her grip.<ref>[[Volume 62#File 652 - The Thing She Really Wants to Ask|Volumes 62-63, Files 652-654: "The Thing She Really Wants to Ask"]]</ref>

==== Holmes' Revelation (Manga: [[Volume 71|743-751]], Anime: [[Holmes' Revelation|616-621]]) ====
Conan, Ran, and Kogoro are invited to England by a rich, elite British woman, Diana Kingstone, after Kogoro finds her cat under the table in Café Poirot. However, since 'Conan Edogawa' doesn't have the proper credentials to fly internationally, Ai gives him a prototype pill so that Shinichi and Agasa can fly low-profile to England on the same plane that Ran and Kogoro are flying. Ai provides a second prototype pill for the return journey, but Conan uses it while Ran was pursuing him in London. During that trip, Shinichi answers Ran's hurt feelings over his behavior with the fact that he cares for her and that he likes her; unfortunately, before she could respond or confess in kind, Shinichi has to vanish and becomes Conan again. Luckily for Conan, Shinichi's parents appear because Ai had expected him to use the second pill, and they provide him with an extra antidote to let Conan return to Japan.<ref name="f743" />

==== Kyoto School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 94|1000-1005]], Anime: [https://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/The_Scarlet_School_Trip 927-928]) ====
Shinichi returns to his real body to take part in the field trip of his school to Kyoto. Shinichi meets an old friend of his mother and through her gets involved in a serial murder case among her and her famous movie friends. After the case was solved, jealousy led Shinichi to ask Ran how she feels about him, since she never formally replied to his confession in London. Ran responds by kissing him on the cheek. Shinichi wants to go in for a full kiss after that, but before they can do it, the antidote wears off and Shinichi has to leave. He later thanks Ran for her reply via text message, making her happy and forget his rushed exit.

Although Shinichi asked the police to keep his involvement in the case secret again, rumours about high school detectives helping in the case spread quickly through the internet, with one poster mentioning seeing Shinichi in Kyoto, which doesn't go unnoticed by [[Hyoue Kuroda]] and [[Kanenori Wakita]]. The rumours then rapidly evolve into another media frenzy around Shinichi's person.

=== Flashback appearances ===
==== Shinichi's first case (Manga: [[Volume 21|204-207]], Anime: [[The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case|162]]) ====
One year ago, Shinichi solved his first case by himself on a plane flying to Los Angeles.

==== Golden Apple (Manga: [[Volume 34|350]]-[[Volume 35|354]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|286-288]]) ====
One year ago, Shinichi, [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Yukiko Kudo|his mother]] went to New York City to see the play "Golden Apple". There, they encountered [[Vermouth|Sharon Vineyard]] and [[Shuichi Akai]].

==== Heiji's Memories (Manga: [[Volume 50|518-521]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope|490]]) ====
During a call to Conan, Heiji talks about a brilliant detective kid he met at a skiing trip during middle school, 3 years ago. That kid was actually Shinichi, who he competed with to solve the mystery.

==== Challenge from the original Kaitou Kid (Manga: [[Volume 55|570-573]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure|472-473]]) ====
A flashback revealed that 10 years ago, as first-graders, Shinichi and Ran had been given a riddle by the original [[Kaitou Kid]], [[Toichi Kuroba]].

==== Memories of Light Blue (Manga: [[Volume 83|882]]-[[Volume 84|884]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo Aquarium Case|772-773]]) ====
During an aquarium visit with Conan and the Detective Boys, Ran remembers going to the aquarium with Shinichi almost a year ago. After solving a murder case there, it is revealed how Shinichi came to promise Ran [[Volume 1#Prologue - Roller Coaster Murder Case|their trip to Tropical Land]].

==== Ran GIRL/Shinichi BOY (Manga: [[Volume 87|921-924]], Anime: [[Memories from Sakura Class|853-854]]) ====
13 years ago Ran and Shinichi meet for the first time in pre-school.

==== Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: [[Volume 92#A Chance Meeting at the Beach|972-974]], Anime: [[The Wizard of the Ripples|881-882]]) ====
10 years ago Shinichi and Ran encounter the [[Akai family]] at the beach.

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Transformations back into Shinichi ===
==== Movie 7: [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]] ====
Heiji was injured and Kazuha kidnapped; her abductors threatened to kill her unless Heiji showed up for her. Believing Heiji to be unable to do so, Conan contacted Ai and asked if there was any way for him to briefly become Heiji. Ai gave him medicine to simulate the effects of a cold, then he drank some [[Baijiu]] which had changed him in his and Heiji's first manga appearance. Conan became Shinichi for approximately an hour, but according to Ai he was extremely weak and sick for the entire time.

==== OVA 9: [[The Stranger from Ten Years Later]] ====
Conan takes another prototype antidote. However, it proves less effective than the prototype he used during the Desperate Revival arc; Conan became Shinichi, but only for a few hours, and remained in a feverish state, unable to wake up until he had reverted back to Conan. During his time unconscious, he had a vivid hallucination that he had grown to age 17 again as Conan and that Ran, aged 27, was about to marry [[Tomoaki Araide]].

==== Live action special 2 ====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization}}

=== Flashback Appearances ===
==== Kaitou Kid's Clock Tower Heist (Manga: [[Magic Kaito Volume 4#Black Star|MK 23-24]], Anime: [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid#Clocktower Heist|DC 219]], [[Black_Star|MK 06]]) ====
The first meeting of Shinichi and the current [[Kaitou Kid]], [[Kaito Kuroba]].

==== [[The Ten Planets in the Night Sky]] ====

==== [[Magic File 2: Shinichi Kudo, The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab]] ====

==== [[Magic File 3: Shinichi and Ran, Memories of Mahjong Tiles and Tanabata]] ====

==== [[Magic File 6: Flower of Fantasista|Bonus File 1: Flower of Fantasista]] ====

==== Live-action special 1 ====
{{main|A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~Prologue Until Goodbye~}}

==== Live-action special 3 ====
{{main|A Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo ~The Mystery of the Legendary Bird~}}

==== Live-action special 4 ====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and the Kyoto Shinsengumi Murder Case}}

==== Live-action drama series ====
{{main|Challenge Letter to Shinichi Kudo}}

== Relationships analysis ==
Since Shinichi is not featured as prominently as Conan throughout the series, only a few of his relationships with other characters have been substantially explored.

=== Family and friends ===
[[File:Shinichi Ran SPVer. Episode One.png|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi and Ran (Scene from [[Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small|Episode one]].)]]
==== Ran Mouri ====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
[[Ran Mouri]] is Shinichi's childhood friend and canonical love interest. They have been friends and playmates since kindergarten<ref name="f569"/><ref>[[Volume 11#File 107 - The Two Mysteries|Volume 11, File 107: "The Two Mysteries"]]</ref>, though Shinichi's tendency to drag Ran along into minor trouble caused some censure from [[Eri Kisaki|her mother]]. Shinichi has liked Ran since they were little. It was revealed when he is in the first year of middle school, and turned down any other potential love interests as a result, but she has never realized this.<ref>[[Volume 18#File 175 - Unlock Your Heart!?|Volume 18, File 175, page 92: "Unlock Your Heart!?"]]</ref> Shinichi was similarly oblivious to Ran's regard until Ran confessed to Conan that despite his faults, which she is well aware of, she has liked Shinichi for some time.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 64: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> He is very protective of her, and has been amazed by her various skills and kindness on more than one occasion. Shinichi has since confessed his feelings to Ran in the non-[[canon]] 4th movie 'Captured In Her Eyes' (which Ran mistook as his attempt to get her memories back), and made attempts to say something during temporary cures in the manga and anime, but cases always seem to interfere until the cure runs out. Shinichi since then has finally canonically confessed to Ran in the case in London.<ref>[[Volume 72#File 752 - A Troublesome and Difficult Case|Volume 72, File 752, page 14: "A Troublesome and Difficult Case"]]</ref> Later, Ran kissed Shinichi in the cheek in Kyoto school trip as her answer for his confession in London. Immediately, Shinichi tries to do a full kiss with Ran, only for the antidote's effects to wear off; turning him back into Conan. Shinichi has many times now admitted that Ran is the most important person to him/ the one he loves the most.

[[File:Shinichi Confesses.jpg|thumb|200px|Shinichi Kudo somewhat and somehow confesses his feelings for [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to her under the Big Ben in London, during the Holmes' Revelation Arc.]]
Shinichi's initial disappearance troubled Ran to the point of insomnia and nearly going to the police. Since then, Shinichi sometimes calls Ran over the telephone and imitates his normal voice with the [[voice-changing bowtie]] so that she doesn't worry about him. He convinces her that he is off solving a very difficult case and will return once the investigation concludes.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 009 - An Unfortunate Misunderstanding|Volume 1, File 9, Page 15: "An Unfortunate Misunderstanding"]]</ref> In reality, he is the brain behind her father's rapid rise to fame as a detective.

Shinichi/Conan is not without sexual fantasies regarding Ran, the most obvious evidence being his nosebleeds or blushing when he sees her in a bathing suit<ref>[[Volume 83#File 873 - Red Devil|Volume 83, File 873, Page 4: "Red Devil"]]</ref>, or when Ran pulled him into an [[wikipedia: onsen|onsen]] with her.<ref>[[Volume 9#File 084 - Kogoro.27s Class Reunion|Volume 9, File 4: "Kogoro's Class Reunion"]]</ref> For her part, Ran often blushes when thinking of Shinichi, especially when Sonoko teases her about their relationship. Her attitude towards Conan is one of more open, sisterly affection, such as giving him hugs or holding his hand. Shinichi has some concerns of bodily harm should Ran realize that not only has he been lying to her, but they've shared a bed and taken a bath together.<ref>[[Volume 14#File 134 - Question In Dead Leave|Volume 14, File 134, pages 60-67: "Question In Dead Leave"]]</ref>

Shinichi and Ran appear to share a close empathic link due to their strong feelings for each other, making each of them feel the other's worry and agitation in times of extreme danger.<ref>Manga Chapters 372-373: Serial Bomber Case</ref>

==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
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[[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]] Kudo are both aware that [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] is in fact Shinichi. His parents are even more famous than he is, with Yusaku being a famous mystery novelist and Yukiko being a retired actress who remains partially involved in the industry. They currently live in the United States and travel extensively, having left Shinichi in Japan on his own when he was fourteen. Though he sometimes finds his parents' carefree ways to be annoying, he loves them dearly. Yusaku is also a detective with the same keen eye for details, and similarly to Holmes' brother Mycroft, Yusaku always seems to solve a case one step ahead of his son.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
Although not related by blood, there is a strong family-like bond between Shinichi and [[Hiroshi Agasa]]. Agasa was the first to know about Shinichi's shrunk predicament and was the one to tell him to keep it a secret. Most of the gadgets that Shinichi has were made by Agasa to help Shinichi catch the criminals and solve the cases as Conan. He also knows about Shinichi's romantic relationship with Ran and sometimes teases him about it in front of her (when Shinichi can't do anything about it since he is Conan).

==== Heiji Hattori ====
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. Even though Heiji discovers Shinichi's secret, he decides to keep quiet (though he often slips up and calls him Kudo in front of others). After Heiji realizes the truth, the two have become best friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They have solved many cases together, and Heiji is the person Shinichi turns to for advice or for confirmation regarding a deduction. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend or brother.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry, and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better (or even equal), and will often go to great lengths to show that the "west" (Osaka) is better than the "east" (Tokyo). Shinichi usually starts off acting like he is disinterested in the frivolous competition, but may then become competitive himself if Heiji starts "winning" or someone bruises his ego. Others, like Ran and Kazuha, see them both as equally skilled detectives.
In canon, Heiji is also seen piggybacking Conan, as Conan has shrunken and cannot run as fast as Hattori.

==== Sonoko Suzuki ====
[[File:EP490 12.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi and Sonoko.]]
Sonoko and Shinichi have known each other since childhood. Sonoko finds Shinichi's obsession with mysteries annoying and considers him to be an arrogant showoff.{{citation needed}} That being said, she acknowledges his knowledge and intelligence. Sonoko enjoys teasing him about his relationship with Ran, calling them husband and wife or boyfriend / girlfriend. Shinichi finds her attempts at attracting boys to be rather irritating. Sonoko is one of the few people who calls Shinichi by his first name with honorofic kun. Shinichi also calls Sonoko by her first name without including any honorific. Sonoko would sometimes send Shinichi photographs of important moments including Ran; for example when Kogoro was acquitted, Sonoko was about to take a photo of the reunion between Ran, Kisaki, and Kogoro to send to Shinichi but was interrupted when the electricity shuts down (Zero The Enforcer) and during 'The Scarlet School Trip' when Ran was talking with Okita Soshi away from the group. Although Sonoko would sometimes tease Ran and tell him to forget about Shinichi, she supports the relationship between the two.

=== Detective Boys ===
So far, Shinichi did not canonically meet the detective boys before becoming Conan. In the non-canonical animated special, [[Magic File 2: The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab|OVA Magic File 2]], four years prior to him becoming Conan, a thirteen-year-old Shinichi came across the Detective Boys, [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], while they were still three years old. He needed their help in confirming a client's alibi. Also, in the first live action drama and the first episode of the anime<ref>The anime was altered to introduce the Detective Boys early. In the manga they met after Shinichi became Conan.</ref>, the Detective Boys are seen sneaking into Tropical Land for treasure. Ran then says, pointing to the children, "It was like that last time, huh?" to Shinichi.

==== Ai Haibara ====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
Both are de-aged by APTX4869 and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes [[Ai Haibara]] and Conan close confidants and more empathetic with each other than most other characters. They share an interesting relationship. They believe and rely on each other. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him, and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Juzo Megure ====
[[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] has worked together with Shinichi to solve many cases. During Shinichi's [[The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case|first case on the plane]], Megure mentions that he has not seen him since he was in his 6th year of Elementary school. Megure seemed irritated that Shinichi was poking his nose into a murder case. Since then, because Shinichi has proven himself solving cases one after the other, Megure has grown to respect Shinichi and his deductive abilities, thanking him for his assistance.

=== Others ===
==== Kaitou Kid ====
Despite the fact [[Toichi Kuroba|Toichi]] and Shinichi only met once prior to Toichi's death, it's worth mentioning that Toichi referred to Shinichi as his "older brother" and himself as the "younger brother". This is because Yusaku created and thus was the '''father''' of the moniker [[Kaitou Kid|Kaitou '''Kid''']], Toichi's secret identity. Toichi's son and successor, [[Kaito Kuroba|Kaito]], has also only crossed paths with Shinichi as Shinichi once, during the [[The Gathering of the Detectives! Kudo Shinichi vs. Kaitou Kid|Clocktower heist]]. Kaito thought Shinichi made the heist harder (and thus less boring) in [[Saguru Hakuba]]'s absence, and Shinichi found Kid's intention of 'stealing' the Clocktower in order to save it from demolition to be fairly admirable. Notably, neither of them saw the other's face.

In their next encounter, however, after Shinichi had become Conan, Kid disguised himself as Ran in order to steal the Suzuki Black Star pearl. When Conan cornered him on the Suzuki cruise ship, Kid suggested that he'd stolen all of Ran's clothes to impersonate her, and left her naked on the deck. While this ended up being a bluff, Conan was shocked and infuriated. In subsequent encounters between Kid and Conan, Conan displays a much more intense desire to capture Kid. In several instances he appears to be able to 'sense' Kid's presence; knowing Kid is close by often causes Conan to behave far more frenetically. However, in several instances, beginning with the "Big Adventure in the Eccentric Residence" case, when Kid does Conan/Shinichi a favor, such as saving Genta's life in the aforementioned case, Conan reciprocates by halting his investigation just shy of capturing Kid, thereby allowing him to escape unhindered.

== People who know Conan's real identity ==
{{main|List of characters who know Conan's identity}}
There are only a few characters in the series who know Conan's real identity and none have betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], Conan's parents, [[Heiji Hattori]] and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] also knows, but she has kept it a secret from the rest of the Organization to protect Shinichi because he had [[Vermouth timeline#Golden Apple Case .28Manga: 350-354.2C Anime: 286-288.29|saved her life in New York]]. [[Eisuke Hondou]], the younger brother of C.I.A. agent [[Hidemi Hondou]], also knows and keeps Conan's secret. [[Kaitou Kid]] was first aware of Conan's identity in the movies, showing up as Shinichi in the third movie to protect Conan's identity, making it non-canon. Canonically however, File 1018 implies that Kaito is aware of Conan's secret, as he addresses Conan and Heiji as "the high-school detectives". [[Ran]] gets suspicious on occasion, but so far Conan has managed to trick her into thinking Conan and Shinichi are two different people. Also, [[Subaru Okiya]] has seen Conan use Shinichi's voice with his bowtie voice modifier. Since Subaru Okiya is actually [[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise, this means that Akai knows about it as well.

== Character popularity ==
* In a ''Newtype'' poll from 2001, Shinichi ranked fourth in the category "Top 10 Most Popular Male Anime Characters in Japan."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-08-12/newtype-top-10-anime|title=Newtype top 10 Anime|date=2001-08-12|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2009-06-29}}</ref> In a ''Newtype Magazine'' poll from March 2010, Shinichi was voted as the ninth most popular male anime character from the 1990's.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Newtype, Issue 4|month=March|year=2010|publisher=Kadokawa Shoten|title=NT Research}}</ref>
* In the survey "Friendship" developed by rankingjapan.com in which people had to choose what anime character they would like to have as a friend, Shinichi ranked third.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-02-28/which-anime-character-do-you-wish-you-could-be-friends-with|title=Which Anime Character Do You Wish You Could Be Friends With?|date=2007-02-28|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2009-06-29}}</ref>
* eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Shinichi placed 2nd in the poll with 1,425 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>
* Shinichi placed 1st in the results of a poll ranking the top 3 "ikemen" ("good-looking men") of the series aired during the promotional special for [[The Lost Ship in the Sky]].<ref>The Lost Ship in the Sky Special Edition Blu-ray</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Shinichi/Conan placed 1st out of 10 with 30.46% of the votes cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Shinichi placed 4th overall with 1,443 votes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}.</ref>.
* In a poll held on June 5, 2020 by asking women age 20 to 40 who were their favourite Detective Conan character, Shinichi ranked second<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/hjkevu/detective_conan_character_popularity_poll_june_5/</ref>.

== Name origin ==
Shinichi's given name is a pun on "one truth". The "ichi" (一) means "one" and "shin" can be read as truth (真), however the kanji actually used for "shin" (新) in Shinichi's name means "new".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C|title=WWWJDIC: Word Search|date=2011|publisher=Jim Breen|accessdate=2011-09-04}}</ref> Shinichi's family name "Kudo" comes from the fictional detective Shunsaku Kudo created by Nobumitsu Kodaka.<ref>{{cite book|last=Aoyama|first=Gosho|title=Detective Conan|volume=18|publisher=Shogakukan|date=1998-01-17|isbn=4-09-125048-3|chapter=|page=Back cover flap|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo}}</ref> The ON-readings of the kanji for "Kudo" mean "craft" or "construction" (工) and "wisteria" (藤).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1B|title=WWWJDIC: Kanji Selection|date=2011|publisher=Jim Breen|accessdate=2011-09-04}}</ref>
"Shinichi" may also have come from "Shinichi Suzuki", a famous violinist. Shinichi Kudo plays violin.<ref>File 936: Ran mentions that Shinchi plays the violin very well but also mentions his tone-deafness.</ref>

== Character inspiration ==
Shinichi's design was based off of Conan's. Gosho said Shinichi's hairstyle was designed in about one minute. He smoothed [[Yaiba]]'s hair and added a tuft modeled after the apostrophe hairstyle of Kabu from [[Wikipedia: Sally the Witch|Sally the Witch]]. The tuft on hair on the top of Shinichi's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia: Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Shinichi's speech habits were meant to be slightly rough like Joe from [[Wikipedia: Ashita no Joe|Ashita no Joe]] and [[Wikipedia: Touch (manga)|Touch]].<ref>File 865 Shounen Sunday Special Booklet</ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:First Color Page.jpg|x185px|thumb|left|Volume 1]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Aquarium case Shinichi manga.jpg|x185px|thumb|left|Volume 84]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi Before.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|Episode 1]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|Episode 192]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi After.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|Movie 8-15 introduction.]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Shinichi Kudo MK1412.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|Magic Kaito 1412 (episode 6).]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kudo Shinichi EP1.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kudo Shinichi 772.jpg|thumb|left|x185px|Episode 772]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kudo Shinichi 854.png|thumb|left|x185px|Young Kudo Shinichi (EP 854)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kudo Shinichi 927.png|thumb|left|x185px|Episode 928]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== General ===
{{cquote|When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.|Shinichi, quoting Sherlock Holmes from ''The Sign of the Four'', ch. 6}}

{{cquote|In detective work, there's no winning or losing...there's no being superior or inferior...That's because...there is always one and only one truth.|[[Diplomat Murder Case|Episode 49]], talking to [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]}}

{{cquote|One truth prevails!|One of Shinichi's catchphrases.}}

{{cquote|The only one who can miss a penalty kick is the one who has enough courage to take the penalty kick.|Episode 476, Quoting the "Treasure of Italy" Roberto Baggio}}

{{cquote|Zero is where everything starts! Nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there...And nothing would ever be achieved!|Episode 621}}

{{cquote|A trick is nothing but a puzzle mankind came up with. If you use your head, you can uncover the logical answer.|[[The Desperate Revival|Episode 191]], talking to Heiji}}

{{cquote|It's always the little things, that we overlook, that are the most important.{{citation needed}}}}

{{cquote|The strong one doesn’t win. The one who wins is strong.|Episode 476-477, Quoting Franz Beckenbauer}}

{{cquote|They’re like sharks. Sharks can smell the faintest trace of blood. They approach using their sense of smell, determine their prey’s exact location, and attack. They head to the crime scene when they smell blood. They use all their senses to find the culprit. They tear into their prey with the sharp teeth of evidence. That’s what a detective does.}}

=== Specific ===
{{quote|You're a troublesome case, you know! With these unnecessary emotions entering me like crazy... Even if I were Holmes it is impossible to solve! The heart of the girl whom one likes... How can one accurately deduces that! (お前は厄介な難事件なんだよ！余計な感情が入りまくって、例え俺がホームズでも解くのは無理だろうぜ！好きな女の心を…正確に読み取るなんてことはな！！) (Omē wa yakkaina nan jiken'na nda yo! Yokeina kanjō ga hairi makutte, tatoe ore ga hōmuzu demo toku no wa muridaro ze! Sukina on'na no kokoro o...Sei kaku ni yomitoru nante koto wa na!!) |Shinichi confessing to Ran in London.|Episode 621}}

{{quote|Serial killer: Why did you save me?

Shinichi: Is a reason necessary? I don't know why you would kill someone, but as for saving someone...A logical mind isn't needed, right?|After rescuing the [[Vermouth|serial killer, NY Case]].|Episode 288}}

{{quote|A detective who corners a culprit with their reasoning...and drives them to suicide in front of himself is no different than a murderer.|Conan/Shinichi Telling Heiji why letting the criminal commit suicide is wrong.|Episode 78}}

{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone else.|Conan/Shinichi to Ran in [[Captured in Her Eyes]], replying Ran on why he keeps protecting her.}}

=== Quotes about Shinichi ===
{{quote|You're gonna be a great detective.|Akimoto to Shinichi.{{citation needed}}}}

{{quote|Ever since he was little he was a jerk, always full of himself, and a mystery otaku. But whenever you need him, he's dependable and brave and cool. I really like Shinichi!|Ran talking about her feelings towards Shinichi to "Conan".|Episode 2}}

== Trivia ==
* Shinichi has been mentioned and parodied in many other anime series. See [[Detective Conan#Appearances in other media|this wiki page]] for more information.
* He was used as a character to promote people to follow the law in Japan, due to the popularity of the series.
* Shinichi seems to have plane narcolepsy, as mentioned in [[The Sealed Chamber in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case|episode 162]] and [[Volume 21|file 204]]. This shows up when he is Conan as well..
* When he was really a child, Shinichi would always try to act more mature than his actual age.
* He encountered [[Ryusuke Higo]] and [[Rikuo Endo]] during a soccer match for his middle school team and became impressed enough with his abilities to invite him to join them.<ref name="DC Mang34">Manga: [[Volume 34#Soccer Supporter Case|Case 334-346]], Anime: [[Hooligan's Labyrinth|episode 279-280]]</ref>
* Shinichi not liking raisins originated from the Detective Conan Special series. It then joined the anime canon in episode 854.
* It reveal Shinichi give Ran an extra key to his house before his parents went to LA according to the LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book.
* While in preschool Shinichi was in Sakura Class in year 2.
* Shinchi/Conan mention he went to Hawaii in the non-canon Movie 2 and Movie 5.
* In File 743 Conan/Shinichi mentions that Yusaku taken him to a lots of places overseas.
* Shinichi/Conan is an Edokko<ref>[[Volume 35#File 361 - Death Island|Volume 35, File 361: "Death Island"]]</ref>.
* Shinichi/Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type<ref>[[Volume 25#File 253 - One Conviction|Volume 25, File 253: "One Conviction"]]</ref>.
* In [[Magic Kaito Volume 3#Akako's Delivery Service|Akako's Delivery Service]], [[Saguru Hakuba]] acquires a strand of [[Kaitou Kid]]'s hair and runs a genetic scan on it, determining that Kid is a fifteen-to-seventeen-year-old male with a higher-than-average IQ. He then runs this information against a database of Tokyo teenagers and comes up with a list of possible Kaitou Kids, at the top of which was [[Kaito Kuroba]]'s name. However, it's interesting to wonder whether Shinichi, another sixteen-year-old Tokyo resident with a similar build and above-average intelligence, made Saguru's list, but the search included only teenagers with blood type B, and it has never actually been stated what Shinichi's is (although [[Kogoro Mouri]] mentions that Conan's blood type is rare<ref>Episode 189</ref>). Type B is not a common blood type<ref>See population breakdown by country here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABO_blood_group_system#ABO_and_Rh_distribution_by_country</ref>, so it is possible that this is Shinichi's type.

== In other languages ==
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== Gallery ==
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File:Baby kudo shinichi.png|Baby Shinichi.
File:Pre-gradeschool Shinichi and Ran.PNG|Shinichi and Ran before grade school.
Image:Vlcsnap-2013-11-06-19h00m20s6.png|Shinichi's body begins to shrink again.
File:EP882-Photo.jpg
File:EP144-2.jpg
File:EP162-1.jpg|One Year ago
File:EP437-1.jpg
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Conan Edogawa]]

== References ==
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{{nihongo|'''Yukiko Kudo'''|工藤有希子|Kudō Yukiko|née {{nihongo|'''Fujimine'''|藤峰|Fujimine}}}} is the mother of [[Shinichi Kudo]] and, along with her husband [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]], one of few characters who [[List of characters who know Conan's identity|knows]] he is [[Conan Edogawa]]. She was once a famous actress, but retired after marrying Yusaku. She was also close friends with fellow actress, [[Vermouth|Sharon Vineyard]].

== Background ==
Yukiko became internationally famous as a talented actress after having played the part of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakamoto_Ryoma Sakamoto Ryoma's] older sister Otome in a historical drama.<ref>Manga Chapter 733: ''[[Volume 70#Kaitou Kid and Ryoma's Gunbelt|Kaitou Kid and Ryoma's Gunbelt]]''</ref> 

Despite her then-tender years as a student at Teitan High, Yukiko had a prospectively prosperous future in the film industry.<ref>Manga Chapter 414: Mama's Rival!?</ref> Thus it came as a major surprise to the world when, practically out of the blue, she married [[Yusaku Kudo]] and retired from acting.<ref>Manga Chapter 260: The Memorable Place</ref> She still retains good contacts in the acting and film industry, however, and has since become known as the "Night Baroness" (named after one of her husband's characters) after babbling out some clues provided by Yusaku on a live television show which helped solve a criminal case.<ref>Manga Chapter 342: Golden Apple 2</ref>

During her acting years, Yukiko went to a famous [[Toichi Kuroba|stage magician and disguise artist]] to learn the finer arts of disguise for a role she was preparing to play. There she met another actress who would become one of her closest friends, [[vermouth|Sharon Vineyard]]. Until Sharon's (supposed) death, the two women stayed in touch, and Yukiko even attended her funeral, but her appearance was overshadowed by a small scandal involving Sharon's 'daughter', Chris Vineyard. Yukiko has since learned from her son about Chris/Sharon's secret life, a revelation which troubles her deeply.<ref>Manga Chapter 341: Golden Apple 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 433: The Truth Behind The Mask</ref> She has since confronted her former friend with her knowledge, partially to know for sure, but also to save the life of [[Ai Haibara]], who was being threatened by the [[Black Organization]].<ref>[[Volume 78#Mystery Train|Manga Chapter 818-824: Mystery Train]]</ref>

Despite a certain rivalry for popularity in their high school years, which had culminated in a Miss Teitan Election, Yukiko is also a close friend of [[Eri Kisaki]], and (unlike Eri) finds her daughter [[Ran Mouri]], a perfect match for her son.<ref>Manga Chapter 342: Golden Apple 2</ref>

She is closed friends with Keiko Kurachi and childhood friends with Hiromi Yabuuchi.

== Personality ==
[[Image:Eri and Yukiko.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Yukiko and her childhood friend, [[Eri Kisaki]].]]
Despite her adult age, Yukiko still behaves like a teenager. She is bubbly, overconfident and attention-seeking, and prefers to stand in the lime-light (literally) whenever possible. She can be prone to jealousy over Yusaku's occasionally flirtatious behavior, and can demonstrate impulsive tendencies. She is an extremely reckless driver and very sensitive about her age: whenever her son ''dares'' to call her "oba-san" in Japanese (in English, the closest equivalent would be "aunt" or "old lady"), she sets up such a furious face that Conan must quickly correct himself by calling her "onee-san" ("older sister" or "young girl"). She is also likes to stay trendy and dresses more youthfully.
[[File:783-1.jpg|thumb|200px|Yukiko showing her displeasure at being called "obasan".]]
However, despite her faults, Yukiko is extremely loyal and cares for both her husband and her son (though a heavy streak of mischief causes her to often tease Shinichi). Her loyalty extends to her friends, as she thinks nothing of flying across the Pacific to help a friend from elementary school.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan |volume=14 |publisher=Shogakukan |date=1997-03-18 |isbn=4-09-125044-0 |chapter=File 4 |language=Japanese |location=Tokyo|}}</ref> Even though she is retired, she takes pride in being an successful actress, to which, she is also willing to pressure Shinichi to practice his role, so he won't embarrass her reputation.<ref>Episode 896</ref>{{clearleft}}

== Appearance ==
Yukiko is a fairly tall and fair-skinned woman. She has bright-blue eyes long wavy light-brown hair that curls at the ends with shorter bangs that part to the left to frame her forehead. She is slender yet curvaceous and well-endowed in built, she is considered very beautiful and admired by most men. She has been well-known for her stunning beauty since high school, where she was only ever rivaled by in looks by Eri Mouri. A woman who doesn't accept aging gracefully, she will commonly dressed in attire more commonly seen by women in their twenties.

==Abilities==
=== Intelligence ===
While not nearly on the same level as her husband or son, Yukiko has commonly shown herself to be a very insightful and methodical person, able to notice details that most would miss. She is also likewise very knowledge about the distinct differences of various cultures, including how things are refered to and how their gestures work. A very composed and creative person, she excels in making up lies on the spot with well-thought out backstories, able to constantly adapt to situations to continue the deception and likewise remember her deceptions for later usage. Very persuasive, she as a talent for reading a person's nature and adapting her nature to make them more compliment.

=== Disguise ===
[[Image:Sharon and Yukiko young.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Sharon Vineyard with Yukiko while under Toichi's tutelage]]
Yukiko is an exceptional actress, having earned world-wide fame and various prestigious awards when only a teenager. Showing her talent since high school for it, Yukiko has an uncanny ability to perfectly adapt herself to what ever character she chooses. She can effortlessly change her mannerisms and speech-patterns, as well as accent and dialect, to suit the situation. Expanding upon this and learned from [[Toichi Kuroba]], she became a master of disguise. Much like her former friend, Vermouth, with only minimum preparation required, she can perfectly change her appearance or that of others to perfectly look like virtually anyone. Her performance is able to easily fool even close friends and family. At the same time, her skill in disguise is limited vocally, as she is unable to mimic male voices. As such, she normally takes on personas of non-existent people or simple cover-ups to conceal her identity, which her son usually is able to see through.

=== Other Skills ===
Yukiko is an accomplished driver, able to perform daring stunts behind the wheel. She is also a highly skilled cook.

== Plot overview ==
=== Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 5|049-050]]-[[Volume 6|051]], Anime: [[Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case|043]])===
Yukiko first appearance was disguised as Fumiyo (Fanny in the [[Funimation]] Dub) Edogawa, a woman claiming to be Conan's mom. She and Yusaku pulled a con upon their son to convince him that his hunt for the organization is too dangerous and tried to convince him to come with them abroad. But Conan refuses, and they agree to let him deal with this case. Yukiko (as Fumiyo) brings Conan back to the Mouris and give Kogoro a bank book with money to care for Conan with.

=== The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases (Manga: [[Volume 14|131-138]], Anime: [[The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases |096]])===
After having a quarrel with her husband, Yukiko secretly returned to Japan. She then meets Ran and Conan in front of her house. She successfully covered for Conan who Ran suspected at that time. In the Manga she gives the explanation that Conan is "the nephew of the grandfather of the cousin of the daughter of the brother of my uncle," which produces a long and complicated family tree showing that conan is in fact her son.

=== Desperate Revival: Shinichi's Return and The Promised Place (Manga: [[Volume 26#Elevator Murder Case|258-260]], Anime: [[The Desperate Revival#Shinichi.27s Return and The Promised Place .28Manga: 258-260.2C Anime: 192-193.29|192-193]]) ===

=== The North Star No.3 Express (Manga: [[Volume 22#Unpublished Novel Case|215-218]], Anime: [[The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno|144-145]]) ===

=== Shinichi Kudo's New York Case (Manga: [[Volume 34#Golden Apple Case|350]] and [[Volume 35#Golden Apple Case|351-354]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo%27s New York Case|286-288]]) ===

=== The Similar Princesses (Manga: [[Volume 40#Eri vs. Yukiko|413]] and [[Volume 41#Eri vs. Yukiko|414-416]], Anime: [[The Similar Princesses|333-334]]) ===

=== Secret of the Tohto Film Development Studio (Manga: [[Volume 41#Dark and Cluttered Room Case|417-419]], Anime: [[Secret of the Tohto Film Development Studio|335-336]]) ===

=== Halloween Party Case (Manga: [[Volume 42#Halloween Party Case|429-434]]; Anime: [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|345]]) ===

=== Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slopes (Manga: [[Volume 50#Yuki-Onna Murder Case|518-521]] and [[Volume 51#Yuki-Onna Murder Case|522]], Anime: [[Heiji Hattori vs. Shinichi Kudo: Deduction Battle on the Ski Slope|490]]) ===

=== Shinichi's Childhood Adventure (Manga: [[Volume 55#Shinichi.27s Childhood Adventure|570-573]], Anime: [[Shinichi Kudo%27s Childhood Adventure|472-473]]) ===

=== Holmes' Revelation (Manga: [[Volume 71|743-751]], Anime: [[Holmes' Revelation|616-621]]) ===
Knowing that Conan(Kudo Shinichi) is going to take the antidote for apotoxin 4869 that is intended for his return trip, Yukiko Kudo and Yusaku Kudo were asked by Haibara to go to London and bring a spare antidote.

=== Bell Train arc (Manga: [[Volume 78|818-824]], Anime: [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|701-704]]) ===
Yukiko turns out to be the lady who had been visiting [[Subaru Okiya]] at the Kudo house. On the Bell Tree express, with Conan and Subaru's help, she foiled [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]] and [[Vermouth]]'s plans to capture and kill [[Shiho Miyano]] respectively while also tricking the [[Black Organization]] (except for Vermouth) into thinking Sherry died. Her part of the plan involved removing Haibara from danger when she tried to run away, and then challenging Vermouth in order to draw her attention. Yukiko then kept Vermouth occupied, so that she was unaware that she was being tricked until it was too late. At the same time, Yukiko also extracted a promise from Vermouth that she would truly give up on trying to kill Sherry.

=== The Scarlet Return (Manga: [[Volume 84#Elementary Teacher Assault|891]]-[[Volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|898]], Anime: [[The Scarlet Return|779-783]]) ===
[[File:yukiko subaru.jpg|thumb|200px|Yukiko helping Shuichi disguising as Subaru.]]
Yukiko disguised as Yusaku to attend Macademy Awards. After finishing the job, she returned home to meet [[Shuichi Akai]] and disguise him as [[Subaru Okiya]] once more. Shuichi had learned to how to apply the disguise himself satisfactorily, which makes Yukiko a little disappointed since she has no reason to meet Shuichi anymore. Conan becomes annoyed that Yukiko liked seeing Shuichi a little too much. Yukiko nearly outed Conan's secret identity as Shinichi in front of the three [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents.

=== Ran GIRL/Shinichi BOY (Manga: [[Volume 87#Ran .26 Shinichi .E2.80.93 First Contact|921-924]], Anime: [[Memories from Sakura Class|853-854]]) ===

=== Crimson School Trip Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Crimson School Trip Case|1005]], Anime: [[The Scarlet School Trip|927-928]]) ===

=== The Missing Maria Higashio Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Missing Maria Higashio Case|1008]], Anime: [[Search for Maria-chan!|942]]) ===
Yukiko and Yusaku have returned to Japan and reveal to Conan that they convinced the blog owner to retract her claim in exchange for their autographs. They decide to remain in the country for the foreseeable future, in light of Yusaku's interpretation of [[Koji Haneda]]'s dying message, which leads them and Conan to believe that [[Renya Karasuma]] is connected to the organization.

=== Black Bunny Club Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 95#Black Bunny Club Murder Case|1012]], Anime: [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|954]]) ===
Yusaku and Yukiko interrupted Amuro's confrontation with Akai for infiltrating the Kudo house. They invite him to have a tea.

=== Shogi Player Serial Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 98#Shogi Player Serial Murder Case|1045]], Anime: [[Taiko Meijin's Shogi Board|1034]]) ===

=== Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case (Manga: [[Volume 99#Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case|1058]]-[[Volume 100#Yusaku Kudo's TV Show Case|1060]], Anime: [[Yusaku Kudo's Detective Show|1071-1072]]) ===
Yusaku decide to solve a serial murder case in a TV show but both Yusaku and Yukiko got food poisoning before the TV shoot. Later on, Kaitou Kid appears as Yusaku to return a favor for him of clearing his crime and cooperate with Conan to join the TV shoot. After the case, Conan realizes that the fake Yusaku is not Kid, but rather Vermouth to investigate Yusaku. However, Yusaku and Yukiko pretended to have food poisoning, as they saw through the Black Organization attempt to take them out. They plan with the FBI and pretended to get the symptoms of food poisoning to fool the Black Organization. Yusaku and Shuichi mention the only things left is to prepare the Black Organization's big move.

=== FBI Serial Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 100#FBI Serial Murder Case|1061-1066]], Anime: [[The Black Organization's Scheme|1077-1079]]) ===

== Non-canon plot overview ==
=== Home of Beika's Grenier (Anime: [[Home of Beika's Grenier|418]]) ===

== Plot exposition ==
=== List of disguises used ===
{{main|Disguise}}
<gallery perrow=7>
File:Fumiyo Edogawa.jpg|[[Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case|Conan's fictitious mom.]]
File:Ep144-145 woman.jpg|[[The North Star No.3 Express Leaving Ueno|A woman with glasses and a hat.]]
File:Medusa.jpg|[[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|Medusa for a Halloween themed mystery]]
File:Mrs. Udohisashi.jpg|[[Home of Beika's Grenier|Disguise as an old lady]]
File:Mysterious London Case Woman.jpg|[[Holmes' Revelation|A suspicious woman in London]]
File:Bell Tree Express woman.jpg|[[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|As a mysterious woman with Subaru]]
File:Yukiko Yusaku.jpg|With the aid of a [[Voice-Changing Choker|voice-changer]], Yukiko filled in for [[Yusaku Kudo]] at the [[The Scarlet Return|Macademy Awards]].
</gallery>

== Appellations ==
<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Yukiko}}
{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Yukiko<ref name="14f8">[[Volume 14]], File 8</ref>|Yusaku Yu-chan}}

{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Mom (''Kāsan'')|Shin-chan Shinichi<ref name="14f4" />}}

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa|Mom (''Kāsan'') Yukiko-obasan Yukiko-onēsan|Shin... I mean Conan-Chan ([[The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases|Once]]) Shin-chan<ref name="14f4" /> Conan-kun<ref name="14f4" /> Shin-Conan-kun Conan-chan<ref name="14f4">[[Volume 14]], File 4</ref> Conan<ref name="14f7">[[Volume 14]], File 7</ref> Shinichi<ref name="14f8" />}}

{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Shinichi's mom (''Shinichi no okāsan'')|Ran-chan<ref name="14f4" />}}

{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Yukiko Yuki-chan|Eri Eri-chan}}

{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Yuki-chan|Kogoro-kun}}

{{appellations|Vermouth|Yukiko|Sharon<ref>[[Volume 78]], File 5</ref> Sharon Vineyard<ref name="78f6" />}}

{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Yukiko-san|Professor Agasa (''Agasa-hakase'')<ref name="14f4" />}}

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

{{appellations|Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case{{!}}Fumiyo Edogawa|file=Fumiyo Edogawa.jpg|-|Fumiyo-san<ref name="14f4" />}}

|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Yukiko}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun's Mom (''Conan-kun no kāsan'')<ref>[[Secret of the Tohto Film Development Studio]]</ref>|-}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Your Mother (talking to Conan)|Haibara-san Ai-chan<ref name="78f6">[[Volume 78]], File 6</ref> Haibara Ai<ref>[[Holmes' Revelation|Episode 621]]</ref>}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Yukiko}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Yukiko-san (as Subaru)<ref name="file898">[[Volume 85#Scarlet|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Shu-chan ([[Gosho Aoyama|Gosho]]'s thought)<ref>[[:File:Postcard2016 18.jpg]] (Yukiko calls him "Shu-chan")</ref>}}

{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Yukiko-san<ref name="file898" />|-}}

{{appellations|Misao Yamamura|Fujimine Yukiko-san<ref name="14f6">[[Volume 14]], File 6</ref> Yukiko-san<ref name="14f7" />|Poor detective (''Heppoko keiji'')<ref name="14f6" />}}

{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Yukiko-san|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Yukiko}}
{{appellations|Toichi Kuroba|-|Kuroba Toichi Famous Japanese magician (''Yūmei na Nippon no magician'')}}

{{appellations|Masumi Sera|-|Sera}}

{{appellations|Kaito Kuroba|Old lady (''Obasan'')|Little boy (''Boku'')}}

{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|-|Kid}}

{{appellations|Minerva Glass|-|Grass Court Queen (''Shiba no Joō'')}}
|}
</tab>
</tabs>

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family ===
{{main|Kudo family}}

==== Yusaku Kudo ====
{{main|Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko Kudo}}
Not much is known about Yusaku and Yukiko's backstory before they get married. The most notable scene was from 20 years ago, when Yusaku and Yukiko met in a high end restaurant. Yusaku observed a murder crime, quickly solved it and suddenly proposed to a startled Yukiko, which she accepted. Yukiko can be really angry with Yusaku if he has flirtatious behavior, but they truly love each other.

==== Conan Edogawa / Shinichi Kudo ====
Shinichi is her son. When Shinichi was shrunk into Conan, Yukiko staged a fake kidnapping scheme with Yusaku and Professor Agasa to make Shinichi realize the danger of the organization he was trying to investigate. As a mother, she truly cares for his wellbeing (sometimes too much, much to Conan's annoyance) and assisted him when it comes to cases. Nevertheless, their relationship is quite dynamic: Yukiko enjoys teasing Shinichi/Conan; in addition, she sometimes disguises to fool him. In return, Conan often makes sarcastic remarks about Yukiko being old (obasa-san) and retired for many years, which earned him death glares and even physical blows from Yukiko.

=== Friends ===
==== Eri Kisaki ====
20 years ago from the current timeline, she and Eri were rivals in Miss Teitan, a beauty contest that shook the country. Yukiko had a charming beauty that attracted men, while Eri had a more bookish look, relying her advantage on academic talents. The vote was split at 20000 votes for each before the competition was canceled, with [[Mouri Kogoro]] having the last uncounted ticket.

In later years, despite their previous intense competition, the two are actually in good terms with each other, supporting the other party emotionally. On relationships of their children, Shinichi and Ran, Yukiko shows her full support, at one point even calls Ran her future daughter in law; however, Eri is more reluctant. Eri doesn't like Yukiko's hand off approach with Shinichi and constantly reminds Ran to be beware of Shinichi, remarking on her rocky marriage as reference.

==== Ran Mouri ====
Yukiko treats [[Ran]] like her own daughter in law, and often teases her about her romantic relationship with Shinichi. She is also able to read through her thoughts; in episode 96, when Ran suspected that Conan is Shinichi. Despite that Yukiko covered for Conan telling Ran that Conan is a smart kid who learnt deductive skills from Shinichi, Yukiko found the last smile that Ran made was a bit weird, realising that the girl wasn't convinced about Yukiko's answer; which turned out to be true in the [[Desperate Revival]] arc.

==== Shuichi Akai ====
Yukiko helped Shuichi Akai go into hiding after he faked his death. She taught him how to disguise himself and cooking. While faithful to and in love with her husband, she has openly commented on finding Shuichi very handsome, to which she likes visiting him every week.

====Hiroshi Agasa====
One of Yukiko Kudo's Friend. In the past few years, the Kudo Family grew closer with their neighbor, Professor Hiroshi, who is making fancy gadgets and inventions.
After Shinichi shrunk into Conan, Yukiko entrusted him the task of looking after her son for the meantime while they work overseas.

==== Kogoro Mouri ====
One of Yukiko Kudo's Friend. In High School, Yukiko and her childhood friend Eri Kisaki were involved in a "Miss Teitan High School" Pageant where the winner gets determined by the number of their votes. However, due to the carelessness of Kogoro, he had forgotten to vote thus tying the two contestants. It was later discovered that due to his clumsiness, Kogoro thought that the "Miss" meant "Mistake" and was going to vote for Eri as a result of that misconception, much to Eri's anger later on.
When Ran questioned his father about the individual he would vote for, Kogoro, despite knowing the true nature of the pageant, still voted for Yukiko and complimented her as "pretty", making Eri and Ran upset and angry.

== Character popularity ==
* eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Yukiko placed 17th in the poll with 37 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結果|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Yukiko placed 20th overall with 34 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
The name Yukiko Fujimine ({{lang|ja|藤峰}}) name comes from [[Lupin III]] character [[Fujiko Mine|'''Fuji'''ko '''Mine''']] and actress [[Wikipedia:二階堂有希子|"Yukiko" Nikaido]] (the original voice of Fujiko). Her alias, "Fumiyo" ({{lang|ja|文代}}), comes from Fumiyo Akechi, wife of [[Rampo Edogawa]]'s [[Kogoro Akechi]].

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yukiko Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 96]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yukiko Middle.JPG|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 418]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yukiko After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 621]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yukiko mk1412 ep11.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Magic Kaito 1412 (episode 11).]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Hey, you may be looking at my future daughter-in-law.|Referring to Ran, [[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 286]]||}}
{{cquote|There's only two reasons for a girl to look at a boy like that: he has something on his face or she likes him.|Talking to Conan about Haibara, [[Secret of the Tohto Film Development Studio|Episode 335]]}}

== Trivia ==
* Aoyama has stated in Super Digest Book 10+ that Yusaku and Yukiko met because Yukiko had been chosen to play the main character of a drama based on one of Yusaku's books.
* In Episode 286, it is revealed that Yukiko has (or had) a California Driver's License. Her ID is 471108628. This would seem to be inconsistent with the actual ID number system used by the State of California in issuing driver's licenses, in which only eight digits are used.
* [[Wikipedia: Sumi Shimamoto|Yukiko's voice actress]] also starred a role as wife alongside [[Wikipedia: Hideyuki Tanaka|Hideyuki Tanaka]] in Rumiko Takahashi's work as Kyoko Otonashi in Maison Ikkoku.

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|{{lang|kr|하연}} Ha Yeon|{{lang|kr|이}} Lee}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian|{{lang|ru|Юкико}} Yukiko|{{lang|ru|Кудо}} Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|{{lang|th|ยูกิโกะ Yū-ki-koa}}|{{lang|th|คุโด้ Khu-dô}}}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Yukiko|Kudo}}
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== Gallery ==
<gallery widths=200px perrow=5>
File:Yukiko Kudo schooler.jpg|High school girl.
File:Yukiko Kudo 17.jpg|Twenty years ago.
File:Yukiko Kudo -10.PNG|Ten years ago.
File:EP853 15.png|13 years ago.
File:EP882-Photo.jpg|14 years ago.
File:EP995 1.jpeg|A younger Yukiko
</gallery>

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

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Conan Edogawa

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| name = Conan Edogawa
| japanese-name = 江戸川コナン (Edogawa Konan)
| english-name = Conan Edogawa
| image = Conan Edogawa Profile.png
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD38>Conan Drill Page 38</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = 95 cm<ref>https://k.mandarake.co.jp/auction/item/itemInfoJa.html?index=595531</ref>
| weight = {{Bracket|18 kg|39 lbs}}<ref name="CD38"/><ref>Chapter 908, page 11: "Betting With Your Life..."</ref>
| date-of-birth = May 4th<ref name="CD38/>
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (father) [[Yukiko Kudo]] (mother) [[Shinichi Kudo]] (brother)
| occupation = [[Teitan Elementary School]] student Detective [[Detective Boys]] leader
|status = Alive
| nicknames = Conan-kun ([[Ran Mouri]]) Cool Kid ([[Jodie Starling|Jodie]]) Cool Guy ([[Vermouth]] & [[James Black|James]]) Silver Bullet-kun ([[Vermouth]]) Glasses Kid ([[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]) Holmes' Apprentice ([[Apollo Glass|Apollo]] & [[Minerva Glass|Minerva]] Glass) Tantei-kun ([[Kaitou Kid]]) Kudo ([[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]]) Kudo-Kun ([[Ai Haibara]]) Kuroshiro-kun (Kaito Sugiura) The Wizard ([[Masumi Sera]]) KID Killer Sleeping Kogoro's Bag of Wisdom ([[Hyoue Kuroda]]) Sleeping Kogoro's Advisor ([[Hyoue Kuroda]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|File 2]] Anime: [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2]] [[Magic Kaito 1412]]: [[The Phantom Lady and Ryoma's Treasure|Episode 10]]
| appearances = {{:Conan Edogawa Appearances}}

| japanese-voice = [[Minami Takayama]]
| korean-voice = Seon-hye Kim
| english-voice = [[Alison Viktorin]] (FUNimation) [[Jerry Jewell]] (Inner monologue) [[Wendee Lee]] (Bang Zoom!, Macias Group)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Conan:_Zero_the_Enforcer|title=Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer-Wikipedia|date=|publisher=https://en.wikipedia.org|accessdate=2019-09-02}}</ref>
| vietnamese-voice = [[Hoàng Sơn]]
| drama-actor = [[Nao Fujisaki]] [[Minami Takayama]] (voice)
| footnotes =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Conan Edogawa'''|江戸川コナン|Edogawa Konan}} is the alias used by [[Shinichi Kudo]] in his shrunken form. Shinichi took the appearance of his six or seven-year-old self after being exposed to a prototype poison called [[APTX 4869]], which he had been forced to swallow by two men in black later revealed to be members of the [[Black Organization]].<ref name="e1">[[Roller Coaster Murder Case|Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case]]</ref> The poison de-aged Shinichi's entire body except for his nervous system and therefore he still has the personality, memories, and incredible deductive ability of his teenage self. Conan's goal is to hunt down the Black Organization and have them arrested for their crimes, as well as find an antidote to the APTX 4869. To do so he plans to make the washout detective [[Kogoro Mouri]] famous in hopes of attracting cases related to the Black Organization.

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

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

[[File:APTX 4869 given to Shinichi.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi being drugged.]]
=== The Transformation ===
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend [[Ran Mouri]] to [[Setting#Tropical_Land|Tropical Land]], a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.<ref name="e1" /> As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown businessman and [[Vodka|a man in black]] in a secluded area by the Ferris wheel. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice [[Gin|another man in black]], who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as [[APTX 4869]]. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2, page 59: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next-door neighbor and close family friend, [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. After a few attempts at proving he's Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the [[Black Organization]] will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth.<ref name="e2">[[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case|Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]].</ref>
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[[File:Agasa shinichi.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Shinichi as Conan in his shrunken form with Hiroshi Agasa first time met and Professor Agasa will go to
Report to the police about this kid.]]

=== Taking a new identity ===
Shinichi comes up with the alias Conan Edogawa using the mystery author names [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Arthur '''''Conan''''' Doyle]] and [[Edogawa Rampo|'''''Edogawa''''' Rampo]] and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who then places Conan in Ran's care.<ref name="e2" /> Ran's father, [[Kogoro Mouri]], owns a Detective Agency which may provide a chance for Conan to run into a case involving the Black Organization. However, Kogoro is a terrible detective with little credibility. Using helpful gadgets that Agasa makes, Conan sets out to improve Kogoro's detective reputation by solving cases for him while also hiding the truth that Conan is the one solving cases. By knocking Kogoro out at crime scenes with a fast-acting [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|tranquilizer]] and using a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice modulator]] to relay deductions in Kogoro's voice, Conan creates 'Sleeping Kogoro'. The conceited Kogoro enjoys his newfound reputation and the money it brings in so much that he doesn't question why he is suddenly passing out at crime scenes and solving cases in his sleep.

=== Creation of the Detective Boys ===
Conan enrolls at [[Teitan Elementary School]] to further protect his identity and is befriended by classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]], [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], who create the ''[[Detective Boys]]'' not long after.<ref>[[The Coded Map of the City Case|Episode 4: The Coded Map of the City Case]]</ref> In the beginning he found the kids annoying, but he started to warm up to them and even gives them missions to accomplish.

[[Image:Conan Stuns Kogoro.jpg|thumb|200px|Conan stuns Kogoro with his wristwatch, ready to solve a case!]]

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

=== Encounter Black Organization ===
Soon after being shrunk, Conan sets the plan to pursue and arrest the Black Organization members. Initial attempts were in vain until Haibara appears and starts giving clues on their whereabouts. However, in some of his early attempts, Conan tends to underestimate the ability of the Organization, leading to situations where he or his close friends being harmed and almost killed. Once understood the Organization and having allies to help, among them Shuichi Akai, who had been undercover in the organization and knows their ways, his later plans are more successful to foil Black Organization's plans, although he hasn't been able to expose the Black Organization and arrest their members yet.
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== Personality ==
As Conan, Shinichi tries to behave like a child. He refers to Ran as "Ran-neechan" (''nee-chan'' meaning older sister, a common nickname Japanese children give to teenagers and young adults they look up to), and refers to Shinichi as "Shinichi-niichan" (''nii-chan'' meaning older brother). He also refers to Kogoro as "Oji-san" or "Occhan" (both meaning Uncle), although he also does this as Shinichi. As Shinichi, he refers to Conan as usually "Conan-kun" or the "Kid in the Glasses". Shinichi treats Conan as a separate person completely, thinking for example, "changing back into Conan".

[[File:Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi.]]
[[File:Ran conan do not tell.PNG|thumb|right|200px|Ran telling Conan she likes Shinichi (Picture from the "[[Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small|Episode one]]" version).]]
Conan remains very close to Ran, who in return is very protective of him. However, because Ran is unaware of his true identity, Conan often finds himself in awkward situations with her, such as when she confessed her feeling for Shinichi to him and when she made him bathe with her at a hot spring.

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

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

While he thinks that criminals should be punished, he also seems willing to give culprits, who have attempted murder due to misunderstandings and fail, a second chance and let them off the hook.<ref>The Celebrities' Secret</ref><ref>Won't Forgive Even One Millimeter</ref><ref>Scuba Diving Murder Case</ref><ref>Poisoned Fisherman Attempted Murder Case</ref>

After he had one time failed to stop the culprit from committing suicide,<ref>[[Moonlight Sonata Murder Case|Episodes 11: Moonlight Sonata Murder Case]].</ref> he began to believe that a detective who has cornered a killer and just let him kill himself is no better than a murderer, and therefore he tries to do everything to stop it. At times when he fails to save the killer, it haunts him. At first, he's callous and unempathetic: in The Bandage Man Villa murder case, when the culprit threatens to commit suicide, Shinichi calls his bluff by outright telling him to do it. However, soon after that Shinichi suffers through his own Norbury with the Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, during which a culprit commits suicide because Shinichi identified them without thinking ahead to how the culprit might react. The next two cases were, a culprit planning to commit suicide to have Shinichi removing the lethal tools before confronting them and placing officers around the perimeter to prevent the culprit from jumping respectively—and in each instance, Shinichi is haunted by the death of the culprit in the Moonlight Sonata case, enough to snap at Hattori for offhandedly suggesting it may have been better if they let the culprit of the day kill themself, stating that a detective that allows that is "no better than a murderer himself." The Detective's Nocturne case caps off this development arc, with Shinichi accompanying and befriending a suicidal murderer to form an emotional connection and convince them not to kill themself.

However, an innate characteristic that he has, and probably had as Shinichi may be due to being a detective. Whenever he hears a scream or sees a culprit, he will immediately and without hesitation run toward the sound or culprit instinctively.

If he is with another adult, or detective, he will most likely be in front of 2 people running toward the sound.
If by himself or with some other non-detective, he will still be running toward the sound.
Whether it is a victim or a culprit, he will be one of the first 2 people.

If it is to a victim, and another detective or officer is present, he may hang back a little, but he has no hesitations to checking on the victim, looking for clues, or going after culprits.

And while it may have been somewhat forced on, Shinichi/Conan stops being as attention-seeking as he was in his original body.
Subtle, but during "The 3 'K's of Osaka" story, Conan/Shinichi didn't want to investigate the case because his soccer idol was a suspect (and later confirmed to be the actual culprit). Afterward, he stopped thinking like this, deciding that even if his friends, family, or someone close to either one is a suspect, he will consider that person a suspect until proven otherwise (such as Genta's dad being a possible suspect in "The Culprit is Genta's Dad" or Ran in "Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid").
In regards to his attitude in dealing with mysterious and dangerous Black Organization (B.O.), Shinichi initially and arrogantly believed he could easily take them down, taking only minimum precautions in the safety of himself and others. For example, when a B.O. member was suspected to be near in the "Reunion With The Black Organization" arc, Conan's way of protecting Haibara from being recognized is simply putting glasses on her; unfortunately, there was a B.O. member (Pisco) who instantly knew that Haibara was the shrunken Shiho Miyano and would have revealed her identity had he not been killed by Gin. It could've ended in more tragedy since Gin was very close to killing Haibara. This incident was a major wake-up call to the young detective that the organization isn't as easy to take down as he thought and that if he made a mistake, he or his loved ones could die. And while Shinichi/Conan still has a bit of a reckless side, he now asks for help when dealing with the B.O. and formulating plans to keep him and his allies safe.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Conan full face.png|thumb|right|200px|]]
Conan has dark brown hair which mostly hangs downwards just above his blue eyes, but there are also a few strands that stick up at the front and back of his head. Conan's usual outfit consists of a blue blazer with a single button and a pair of shorts, red trainers, and white socks, even though he has taken to wearing more casual clothing as time goes on. He also wears a red bowtie and his dad's old glasses. Both these items were later [[Gadgets|specifically modified]] by Professor Agasa to include a [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|voice changer]], [[Button Speaker|microphone]], and [[Criminal Tracking Glasses|homing device]], to aid in Conan in his cases. His [[Power-Enhancing Kick Shoes|red shoes]] have also been modified to harness electric and magnetic fields to stimulate pressure points on Conan's foot, greatly enhancing his kicking power.

Additionally, much like Hattori and Shinichi, Conan is incredibly popular. Ayumi and Haibara both have crushes on him, he has been hit on by girls around his shrunken age repeatedly, and even Jodie and Vermouth have both been charmed by his charisma. One even promised to make him her husband.
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== Skills ==
:''See also: [[Shinichi Kudo#Skills|Shinichi's Skills]]''
=== Detective skills ===
[[File:Glasses Modification(Microphone).PNG|210px|thumb|left|
Conan eavesdrop Police investigation meeting in [[Zero the Enforcer|Conan the movie 22]] to save Kogoro mouri from being a suspect.]]
All of Shinichi's detective skills carry over to his Conan form, although Conan does not have the reputation Shinichi had. He repeatedly demonstrates the ability to remember every detail of an investigation or other topics he cares about and may have a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic_memory photographic memory] to manage such perfect recall so consistently. Conan's fastidious attention to detail allows him to notice minor inconsistencies in crime scenes and suspect testimony that other people miss, and using astute logic he uncovers the reasons behind those inconsistencies to link them to the crime. Conan has an extraordinarily broad knowledge of many subjects and trivia that help him solve cases; something he likely acquired from his incessant reading in his "first childhood". There are only a few people like [[Heiji]], [[Saguru]] and [[Yusaku]] who are at the same detective level as Conan, with Yusaku, be the only person who is noticeably better than Conan.

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

Additionally, in the [[Conan vs. Double Code Mystery|Red, White, Yellow case]], Conan was specifically referred to and asked for help by a classmate.

=== Observation Sense ===
He is highly observant on almost every single thing in his life, whether at a crime scene or his everyday life, whether he is Shinichi or Conan. If he notices anything amiss, he will frequently leave the Detective Boys, or whoever to investigate immediately, esp. if he thinks the organization is involved, but his curiousity knows no bounds.

It is kind of like his brain will not rest, as long as he is awake because he frequently observes everything, and wants to investigate it.

[[Conan Cornered in the Darkness|At one point]], this is why he was kidnapped, and placed in a coffin with a fake bottom, in an old-style hearse, which the kidnappers did not know was going to be sent to the scrapyard and crushed within hours of placing him in there.

He is also a real people watcher and spends a lot of time watching people help determine careers, emotions, what is going on with them to name a few. If need be he will get up, and investigate further.

He frequently notices momentary facial expressions that are only on a person's face for a second or two, which is all it takes for him to register the true emotions of people and various culprits. Such as a suddenly hidden smile upon finding the body of one's spouse, and the list goes on.

Some examples are the following:

In [[Home of Beika's Grenier]], when the old man used a hand to stand up, despite the presence of 4 little children, Conan noticed instantly the look that the old woman gave her husband since he should not have used his hands to stand up in the presence of others.

In [[The Tense Tea Party]], in [[Haido Central Hospital]], Conan was watching [[Tooru Amuro|Amuro]], and instantly noticed how he reacted after a small child was counting down, "Three... Two... One..." and shouted out, "Zero!!" Since Amuro noticed his reaction, he had to cover it up, and say that "'Zero' was one of his nicknames when he was a little child."

This was the first clue to Conan that Amuro may not just be the Black Organization Member Bourbon, but [[Public Security Bureau|something else too]]. During [[The Scarlet Return]], Conan began to deduce from his observations, that Amuro was from the Japanese Secret Police, which became confirmed by the end of the saga.

Even when he was little he was practicing observing details and guessing careers of people, [[Episode 881|not always accurately]], but he was a little boy at the time. This became much more accurate as he became older, and he retained this knowledge when he shrunk down to Conan.

=== Being Watched or Paranoia Sense ===
However, this particular Sense is the sense to know when he is being watched or observed by others. It may be called Paranoia, but it is not Paranoid if someone is really watching or following him, which he can quickly pick up on usually.

This may stem from his involvement with the [[Black Organization]], and others.

It may also help that his parents like to watch their son in disguise, and [[Yukiko Kudo|esp. his Master Of Disguise Mother]], with his [[Yusaku Kudo|Mystery Author father's]] habit of testing his son's observations and deductions from the time when he was a young child.

This ability is even more important due to the Black Organization wanting both [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] and his [[Shinichi Kudo|teenage self]] 'Dead," since it helps to protect them.

This sense comes in a lesser degree as well:

Although Conan can speak professionally with the FBI, especially [[Jodie Starling]], [[Shuichi Akai]], [[James Black]], and Inspector [[Kansuke Yamato]] of the Nagano Police, all of whom suspect that there is more to Conan than meets the eye, as well as everyone, who know his identity, it does cause problems with everyone else.
He can even speak this way to the [[Detective Boys]].

This Sense also allows him to eventually realize when he is being highly descriptive, and rambling with adult knowledge, for him to quickly cover it up with "saw it on Tv'" "Heard it from [[Kogoro Mouri|Uncle]], [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]], or [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]," and to begin talking and acting like a kid, even though the Detective Boys do not get why he suddenly goes all child-like, which is the only time he does.

It may also help him to know when [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] is suspicious that he is Shinichi Kudo, so he has to attempt to behave more like a child to mislead her for her protection.

This sense also allows him to determine if it is safe to use his tranquilizer on someone for the "sleeping Detective" routine. If he is being too closely watched, he has to continue to give hints, and possibly throughout the entire deduction, if he is unable to tranquilize someone: Kogoro, [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], or someone else, if necessary.

This sense did not seem to activate at all at [[Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap|the shrine]], when he was talking to Jodie, however, after a disguised Bourbon had a little chat with Jodie, and secretly placed a listening device in her sleeve, he wandered off, so that he can continue listening to them.

However, with that deceased pickpocketing case, he and the other pickpocket victims were brought to the crime scene, so he continued listening to Jodie and Conan's conversation, although he did not appear to watch or pay any attention to Jodie, Conan, Agasa, or any of the 4 kids, he probably had a good view of [[Haibara]], unlike every other time, [[Sweet and Cold Delivery Service|when she attempts to hide her face from him]].

If he was visually watching intently, Conan would probably have picked it up, but Bourbon's observations were done in a way, that did not place Conan on high alert, except for when Jodie kept bringing up "Shuu."

Needless to say, after the [[Kogoro in the Bar]] case, when Takagi told him some information, he was really on high alert, and this sense may not have activated due to his panic mode, which was still evident at the beginning of [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well]] case, although he was being observed by Bourbon, who was listening around the corner, however for several hours later, he did appear to be quite paranoid, and maybe that is why it did not appear to activate because he was already on high alert and frightened at the time.

Now, this sense is sometimes just a fleeting sense, however, something does seem to activate it, even if it was just momentarily, but it does leave a hint that someone might be watching him.

=== Speed Reader ===
In [[Once-A-Month Present Threat Case]], he was shown to be able to read through hospital records at a lightning-fast speed.

=== Killer Radar ===
This radar is not completely accurate, but at times, he only has to see a person to know that they are the killer.

In the first episode, he could sense that [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] were killers, but that did not stop him from tailing Vodka, only to be knocked out by Gin, and fed a [[Apoptoxin 4869|poison pill, which made him shrink to the body of a 7-year-old]].

In [[The Romance Novel with the Unexpected Conclusion]], he knew who the killer was within minutes of the body being discovered, and merely had to get the evidence and figure out the trick.

There are many other instances as well.

In [[The Mysterious Woman With Amnesia Case]], he probably would have picked up on the amnesiac woman being a killer, but she did have amnesia, although he highly suspected when he saw her hands, which are the hands of someone who works with wire. He picked up that she was a hitwoman, who specialized in killing by use of a wire garrote, which she used to strangle her victims.

In one episode, someone fell from a balcony, and Conan instantly knew this woman was the killer. The police brought up the information of her husband being killed during a robbery a while back.

After she was questioned and was allowed to leave, Conan began acting and begging her to let him ride in her expensive-looking car, and she did. They left without [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].

He even managed to have her take him to see her place.

After she left him alone, he began investigating, and around the time of his deduction, Kogoro called him, and the call ended soon afterward.

When Conan stated that he knows that she is responsible for the death of her husband, and the guy who just fell, she threatened to kill him, and he lets her know that he hit redial on the phone, and Kogoro stated, "The police are on there way."

=== Suicide Alertness ===
This sense allows him to determine if a person, and most likely the culprit is likely to commit suicide, which would probably be a result of the deduction stage of a case.
Sometimes, it may be simply obvious, with the culprit stating their suicidal intentions, but it is not usually that way, and Conan's sense was developed after a specific incident.

In [[Moonlight Sonata Murder Case]], Conan figured out that the serial killer planned to die, like his father, and before their mind could be changed, the culprit threw Conan through the window, just before the building went up in flames. Since that incident, Conan is more determined to take the suicidal choice away from the culprits.

In [[Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case]], Conan had asked, [[Heiji]], "If he ever killed anyone before," stating that he feels that letting a person commit suicide when it can be stopped is the same as killing the person oneself.
While Conan was talking with Heiji, he was also replacing the gasoline with water to stop the culprit's Murder/Suicide.

In [[The Case of the Besieged Detective Agency]], a gunman strapped with bombs came into the detective agency, shortly followed by three women. His instructions were to discover which of the 3 women murdered his sister and made it look like a suicide. Conan called [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], who was with [[Sera Masumi|Sera]], and Sera closed Ran's phone but kept her little phone thing placed inside the phone, so it is still open, and Conan can hear everything that is being spoken.

The gunman stated that he will blow up the agency if Kogoro cannot name the killer and that once the killer is named, he will only kill the killer and himself. Thankfully, after the gunman discovered Ran's phone was still open, he welcomed the assistance of another [[Shinichi Kudo|Detective Shinichi Kudo]].

After [[the Detective Boys]] managed to do the footwork, Conan was able to finish solving the case, but he first had to stop the gunman from committing a murder/suicide, so he bluffed that the sister killed herself.
After the gunman was arrested, Conan finished solving the case, out of earshot of the suicidal man and named the killer, who is not who they thought it was.

In [[Detectives' Nocturne]], Conan quickly figured out that the woman in the agency's bathroom was the killer of the "accused deceased guy.
After [[Bourbon|Amuro]], [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], Ran, and Conan escorted her home to her apartment, then Conan behaved like he was desperate to use the bathroom, which made sense, since a corpse was on the toilet seat of the apartment until the police removed it, and it is still a crime scene.

When everyone else went to the kitchen for tea or something, Conan rushed to the bathroom and quickly went in the other direction to investigate the apartment. Most likely, he discovered bugs, and especially a bug in the suitcase with another corpse, which was under the bed.

When he was finished with his investigation, he left the apartment and waited for her.

After Masumi called Ran, Amuro and Kogoro realized there are bugs present, and Amuro hung up on Masumi.

Amuro has a bug detector, and while Amuro, Kogoro, and Ran went on the search to discover all of the bugs in the apartment, the woman made up an excuse and immediately bumped into Conan, who was waiting for her.

She agreed to take him with her to a nearby convenience store and gave him some juice, which she drugged with sleeping pills. After he appeared to fall asleep, she continued driving.

When Kogoro, Ran, and Amuro discovered the body and noticed Conan's absence, Kogoro called the culprit/kidnapper, and she stated that Conan will be returned in the morning.

After Kogoro and Amuro did more investigating, and noticing that bank robbery, and that 2 of the suspects are the dead guy in the suitcase and the deceased one at the agency.

Ran told Masumi and Agasa that Conan has been kidnapped, which of course sets the stage for the big rescue scene:

Masumi on her motorcycle

[[Subaru]], [[Agasa]], and [[Haibara]] in Subaru's car, with Haibara wearing the tracking glasses.

Amuro, Ran, and Kogoro are in another Vehicle, with Kogoro in the back seat.

At some point, Conan stopped acting like he was asleep, and gave her his deduction and even helped her to discover which of those 3 women is the third bank robber, who killed her boyfriend in the bank. However, he would not give her the answer straight away, since he told her, "I do not want to lose anyone. I mean you," since he read that she intended to kill the third robber, and then herself.

By bonding with her, he managed to get her to agree to let the police handle it, and to turn herself in, once he told her.
His plan was working splendidly until the third robber, with a shooting gun, entered the car, and grabbed and immobilized Conan, as well as holding tightly to his right wrist, so that he could not tranquilize her, which is where the rescuers came in.

In another episode, Conan was with [[the Detective Boys]], when they came across a man, and after he dropped his lottery tickets, they helped him to pick it up. This man was talking positively about the future, and he even had lunch with the 5 children.

After he left, Conan notified and began teaching the other Detective Boys the signs that this man was about to commit suicide today, and they followed this man to a subway station.

Conan stating, "It'll hurt, you know," referring to jumping in front of the subway train.

Conan and all of the Detective Boys: [[Genta]], [[Mitsuhiko]], [[Ayumi]], and [[Haibara]] told him their evidence that he was about to commit suicide.

Conan even managed to help him to locate the winning lottery ticket that he had lost, which was inside of the eyeglass container that his sick and hospitalized granddaughter gave him. He had not opened it since he lost that ticket. He was contemplating suicide to have his life insurance pay for her operation, thankfully he now has the lottery ticket, which may be able to help his granddaughter.

After all, if he did commit suicide, the insurance company would not have paid it, if they were aware it was a suicide, which thankfully these 5 kids prevented.

Thankfully, Conan began teaching the other Detective Boys some of the signs of a suicidal person, so they may be aware of them next time they find another suicidal person.

=== Bluffing and Telling Lies===
He can bluff if needed to come to the correct deduction. However, he is not a great liar.

Bluffing is giving misinformation, to trip up the culprit. A few examples of Conan's Bluffs are the following:

In [[Holmes Freak Murder Case]], he stated the incorrect question of number 241 on that Holmes Test to prove that the culprit did not answer any of the 1,000 questions since he knew the test grader was already deceased.

In [[The Case of the Lucky Calico|the Lucky Calico]] case, he told 2 bluffs, although only 1 bluff was discussed:

The first one was to mistake the gender of a male calico, and stating it was a female, to gauge how this "supposed owner" would react since male calico cats are worth a fortune. Conan managed to see the reaction before [[the Detective Boys]] blew it. Either way, this "supposed owner would have backed out if the calico was a female.

The second bluff was discussed when [[Azusa]] stated that she did not know that "when a group of people is together, the cat will always jump to the one in the middle." [[Amuro]] stated that Conan did a bluff so that he can perform his experiment with the calico and the 3 "supposed owners," before remarking that Conan is like a cat sharpening his claws." Amuro also did not state that it was to allow more time to pass, so that the [http://catnip catnip], would not affect [[Taii]] or [[Goro]], so that Taii's true owner can be properly identified.

In [[The Case of the Besieged Detective Agency]], a gunman strapped with bombs came into the detective agency, shortly followed by three women. His instructions were to discover which of the 3 women murdered his sister and made it look like a suicide. Conan called [[Ran]], who was with [[Sera Masumi|Sera]], and Sera closed Ran's phone but kept her little phone thing placed inside the phone, so it is still open, and Conan can hear everything that is being spoken.

The gunman stated that he will blow up the agency if Kogoro cannot name the killer and that once the killer is named, he will only kill the killer and himself. Thankfully, after the gunman discovered Ran's phone was still open, he welcomed the assistance of another [[Shinichi Kudo|Detective Shinichi Kudo]].

After the [[Detective Boys]] managed to do the footwork, Conan was able to finish solving the case, but he first had to stop the gunman from committing a murder/suicide, so he bluffed that the sister killed herself.
After the gunman was arrested, Conan finished solving the case, out of earshot of the suicidal man and named the killer, who is not who they thought it was.

As far as his cover of Conan Edogawa, he does have a hard time keeping others ignorant of his true identity.
It does not help that he behaves more like an adult, when not actively playing with the Detective Boys, and he quickly switches to Adult Mode, if an investigation is in order, due to a crime or something else entirely.

Two major examples of his being a lousy liar:

When he had a hold of [[Kir]]'s shoe, with his bug and transmitter, at the park, she asked him if he followed her, while applying her CIA Lie Test to him.
She made him feel weird, and he did say "no," but she knew that he did follow her, and lied about it. It is a good thing that she previously turned off her camera or wire, so the other [[Black Organization|Black Organization Operatives]] may not kill him. She then thanked him for "picking up her shoe for her," before leaving.

In [[Haido Central Hospital]], [[Amuro]] asked Conan if he remembers his friend, [[Kusuda Rikumichi]], who was a patient, but went missing.
[[The Tense Tea Party|Conan, quickly trying to end that line of questioning from Bourbon, quickly answered, "No."]]

Amuro smiled and told him that he was amazing. He then went to question other people nearby, and returned to Conan, and stated, "Most people are not confident in their memories to instantly remember a person by their name only. Usually, they have to ask questions, before answering."
It is kind of like Amuro was aware of how amazing Conan is at so many different things, but he can't lie to save his life.
It is like Amuro decided to give the kid a tip on how to tell a convincing lie.

=== Strategist ===
He may not have always been a great strategist, but his strategies are becoming much better.

In [[Boy Genta's Misfortune]], he deduced information of the culprit, and ... He may not have organized the stakeout of that building yet, however, he did organize a roadblock with Sato, who got in contact with Yumi in [[The Man from Chicago]], when a [[James Black|foreign man]] was kidnapped. Unfortunately, Yumi did let them through since they were in a police car and dressed as policemen, however when they deduced that Conan came up with a scheme so that the police can surround the culprits, by making it look like they were chasing some kidnappers, who kidnapped some kids. The plan worked wonders. By the way, even James Black the kidnappee, knew who staged his rescue with that ploy, after just one encounter with the five "Detective Boys," and all Conan had to go on was "P & A."

In [[Contact with the Black Organization]], when Conan was on the phone with [[Vodka]], pretending to be the recently found '[[Suguru Itakura|dead guy]],' he successfully managed to move the meet up. He wanted to have the meet before they found out the guy was dead, and he was hoping to get fingerprints, saliva, DNA, etc.

The thing is it may have worked if [[Gin]] did not stop Vodka from touching the item. In short, Gin became aware that someone crafty, like a fox, is after them. In short, Conan forgot, who he was dealing with, the "[[Black Organization|Men in Black]]," and to be more precise, the two that [[Roller Coaster Murder Case|shrunk, and almost killed]] him before.

Conan managed to survive that encounter, but just barely due to Gin discounting something important. At any rate, Conan was stuck in that locker for several hours, and even lost some oxygen, and blacked out for a while. Conan has since that time became much more cautious when dealing with the organization, unfortunately, there is no one-hundred-percent safe way to take on that organization.

In [[Episode 345|Head-To-Head]], after he received an invitation from [[Vermouth]], he asked [[Haibara]] about her, and decided to tranquilize her, and lock her in the basement, and attempted to hide the spare tracking glasses.

He mentioned to [[Agasa]], that [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s name is on the invitation and envelope, and his: Conan Edogawa's name is on the letter, in short, Vermouth knows his identity.

He e-mailed someone and got a reply and a sudden cough.
He inspected his house and found [[Yukiko Kudo|his mother]].

He told his mother about Vermouth, and her knowing his identity. He had her do some disguises.
Yukiko disguised [[Hattori]] as first a teenage Shinichi, and then as the Invisible Man for the party.
She then disguised Conan to took like Haibara.
She then gave herself a Medusa Disguise and accompanied Hattori on the ship with Kudo's invitation.

[[Jodie]] picked up Haibara, who was a disguised Conan, and he told her what to say for Vermouth to reveal herself.

He planned on having her take him into the Organization, but she attempted to kill Jodie, he unmasked himself, and his plan went out the window, when Haibara escaped from the basement, and found the spare tracking glasses, and arrived at the scene since she was tracking Conan.

In [[Clash of Red and Black]], he came up with a few strategies:
He told his plan to [[Akai]], who was heavily involved with both major SECRET strategies.

First, you need a "[[Eisuke Hondo|Prince]] to wake up the [[Kir|sleeping Princess]]," which means Eisuke to wake up his sister, who is continuing to fake her comatose condition.

Then Conan, Akai, Kir, and [[Camel]] are involved in the returning Kir Undercover in the [[Black Organization]], keeping everyone else in the dark, until she is back undercover.

Then Conan came up with the plan to fake Akai's death by out-guessing [[Gin]], the entire way. Only Akai and Kir, as well as Conan, were in on this plan, but Conan could not be present, at this time at all, and did need to give Jodie his phone with the needed fingerprints. Everyone else was left in the dark, except for [[James Black]], who noticed the glue-like substance on Akai's fingertips just before the meet.

In [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train]], Conan had even less time to come up with a working strategy, since he did have his guard down. Thankfully, his mother let him know Vermouth was on the train, and he saw the Picture [[Mitsuhiko]] took of [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]] when she saved them a little earlier.

He had to quickly come up with a plan, which used an all-star cast of himself, his mother, [[Subaru]], and [[Kaito Kid|Kid disguised as Sherry]] as the finishing touches.

That strategy worked out big time, since they were able to save Haibara's life, discover [[Bourbon]]'s identity, and make Vermouth agree to quit trying to kill her.

In [[Scarlet showdown|the Scarlet episodes]], after Camel let it slip that [[Rikumichi Kusuda|Kusada]] shot himself in the head, Conan had less than a day to come up with a plan that made Bourbon think that Subaru and Akai were 2 different people and to save Akai again.

This time, Akai was in the back of Jodie and Camel's car.

His mother, Yukiko Kudo, was disguised as her husband appearing on tv at an awards ceremony.

His father, Yusaku Kudo, was dressed as [[Subaru]].
His father was wearing a voice-changing facemask and did a bit of coughing.
Sometimes he answered, and Conan listening in another room, with several cameras, had to also use Subaru's voice when talking to Bourbon in the living room.

=== Athletic ability ===
Conan is just as skilled as Shinichi in soccer, but a lot less powerful because he only has the strength of a young child. To make up for this, Conan uses Agasa's power-enhancing kick shoes. Conan uses a signature, powerful precision kick to knock out criminals using soccer balls or whatever substitute is handy. Like Shinichi, Conan's kick is accurate over distances and he is capable of mentally reckoning the angle of impact necessary to rebound a soccer ball off a wall and strike an attacker from behind. He is also good at skiing, snowboarding, and ice-skating.

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

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

=== Acting Ability ===
He may not have great acting ability, however, he is good enough to accomplish his goals.

In [[Detectives' Nocturne]], he was given some juice, drugged with sleeping pills. He noticed that the safety seal was broken, so he pretended to drink it, and also at some time, appeared to fall asleep, spilling half of the juice on the back seat floorboard of her car, and acted asleep for a long time.

At some point, she even laid him down in the back seat, where he remained in that pose for a long time.

When it was dark, and she stopped to get gas and go to the restroom, she covered him with her coat, so he would not get sick.

He continued acting asleep when she returned, although he probably went through her coat pockets when she was away.

He continued acting asleep, until he decided that he had enough evidence for his deduction, and to give it to her.

In [[Two Days with the Culprit]], after he was kidnapped by Ryousuke Oomine, when he had an opening in some kind of room, he acted like he was scared of a rat or something, and began hugging, but in reality, he was frisking him to determine if he is armed.

After he solved the case, he asked Ryousuke Oomine, "how are you at acting," and they went to the location of the three suspects, and put on an act like he was about to kill Conan, for the culprit to reveal himself. It worked.

In [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night]], Conan did a good job of acting like [[Haibara]] in the car with [[Jodie]], but he probably broke character to tell Jodie what to say to [[Vermouth]] to get her to reveal herself to them, but that also earned his trust in Jodie at the same time.

After he removed his Haibara mask, he was distracted, when Haibara showed up on the scene, which gave Vermouth the needed opening to use his stun gun wristwatch on him, to place him to sleep, before gently sitting him down beside the car, so he does not get hurt in the fall.

After Vermouth abducted the unconscious Conan and drove some distance away, she e-mailed the boss and began thinking. When she touched his shoulders, she felt some wires and stuff on him, so she cut his coat, and found some tubes going from Conan's body into a box. She started to rip out the wires from the box, and heard, "I wouldn't if I were you." If those wires were pulled, it would send information to the machine that he is dead, and that e-mail that she just sent would be sent to his partner and the police. It is unknown just how long he was asleep, and when he woke up, but he later recalled the sound of the digits to the Boss.

In [[The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History]], the TV Special, while in a public bathroom, and after Conan saw some important evidence, he realized the danger, and faked a slip on the wet floor, where he was promptly chloroformed, and abducted.

When he woke up, he pretended that he had amnesia.
He eventually revealed that he was Edogawa Conan Detective to one of the people involved, however, the amnesiac child act had to continue for the duration of the case.

In [[The Woman with White Hands|The Woman with White Hands Case]], while rehearsing his lines for tomorrow's play, Conan is playing 'Ikku' in the school play.

All of the following: [[Kobayashi-sensei]], [[Rumi Wakasa|Rumi-sensei]] as well as Conan's classmates are astonished at his wonderful acting and delivery of his lines.

He told Haibara that he played that part when he was in third grade, and his parents had trained him well. With [[Yukiko Kudo|his mother being an actress]], and his [[Yusaku Kudo|father being a mystery writer]], who suggested a better phrase for him to say rather than the written line.

In short, neither of his parents would have permitted him to give anything less than stellar performance, so they made certain his performance was perfect. This is why he missed several rehearsals as Conan as he remembered most of his lines.

In [[A Crab and Whale Kidnapping Case]], at a beer garden at night, Conan overheard this man on the phone and surmised that his child had been abducted. Surprisingly Kogoro and Ran listened, and they followed this man, who they found out was a dentist.

However, the only way to find out more, and everything, is to talk to the dentist. Since there may be some onlookers, Conan decided to play the part of a patient.

He did a magnificent job of acting like a little boy who had an excruciatingly bad toothache to convince any onlookers that he was a patient so that they could enter the Dentist's office and talk to the Dentist. He appeared to be even louder than Kogoro on the intercom, asking for his child to be able to see the dentist, even though the dentist's office is closed.

As good as he is at acting, he is not always great at it.

Most notably, when he is petrified.

When he hears the [[Nanatsu no Ko|7 children's melody]], he is unable to even act, like it is nothing, and esp. if he hears it in regards to dialing the [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Boss's]] [[The Raven Chaser|E-mail]] [[Dissonance of the Stradivarius Violin|address]].

At the [[Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap|shrine with Jodie]], he was definitely unguarded, and the two did quite a bit of talking: before and after she had been bugged by a disguised [[Bourbon]] (Claiming to be [[Tohei Benzaki|a hostage, who was coincidentally pickpocketed just before being knocked out by Bourbon]], at the same bank with Jodie and the [[Scar Akai|scarred guy]]), until a disguised Vermouth (Claiming to be his [[Motoe Benzaki| 6-month pregnant wife, who taped up Jodie]] at the bank) removed the bug.

In the [[Kogoro in the Bar|Kogoro at the Bar Case]], [[Takagi Wataru|Detective Takagi]] notified Conan, that Tohei Benzaki, claims that he was never involved in a pickpocket case and that he is single, and Conan begins to remember that the Bank robbers separated the hostages, who came with someone, from those who came alone. Only those who came alone taped up the ones who came with others.

This placed Conan in a panicky state, and he began running from the bar, probably to the [[Agasa|professor]]'s house, since it is unlikely that he would have fled back to the Detective Agency, since [[Haibara]] might be in danger. If he did go to Agasa's house, it may also have placed [[Subaru]]/ [[Akai]] in danger too.

In [[Bathroom Where Ran Collapsed As Well|the Bathroom where Ran Collapsed As Well Case]], he was still running from the bar.

He began thinking that Bourbon and Vermouth may have made those purposeful mistakes in their story to trap him into making a mistake too, so he tried to calm down and called Haibara, who is safe, at this time. He then hung up.

Around the corner, Bourbon had been closely watching him, when he was on the phone.

Later that day, [[Ran]] and Conan were in an apartment complex lobby, while they were waiting for [[Eri Kisaki|Ran's mother]], to have lunch.

Conan was attempting to act normal, although he failed miserably since he was looking around the entire time, since they arrived, and probably ever since he hung up from Haibara earlier.

He was so obviously frightened, that Ran asked if he is okay. He answered in the affirmative, but soon afterward, he was sweating bullets.

Ran thought about taking him home, rather than eating with her Mom, since he might be coming down with something.

Soon afterward, an already terrified Conan begins hearing the shutter of a camera and becomes even more terrified. Soon afterward, he saw a camera take his picture from behind a nearby chair, and [[Masumi]] came out of hiding, which helped his fear to disappear, so that he can go back to his normal "Not terrified for your life" state again.

She probably witnessed his fear, while working on a case for her client, but chose to help him to calm down finally.

In short, when he is terrified, he is unable to act like everything is normal.

Another way that he fails at acting is when he cracks the culprit's trick and gets the last bit of evidence for his deduction.

If anyone is watching Conan at these times, he may have some explaining to do.
However, no one is paying attention to him at these many times. They are either not around, due to 'less footwork' or completely ignoring him, unless they (Kogoro) want to get on to him for being where he shouldn't, and react promptly to that reprimand, rather than observing him.

He has shown both of these expressions a lot, and sometimes even both of them.
The first is when he usually figures out the trick, and the momentary reaction he has when everything clicks into place.
The second has finally been termed as a 'Prankster Smile' in the lucky calico case, by the detective boys, most noticeably Haibara and Ayumi in that order to realize that when he shows that smile, he has cracked the case and figured out everything.

Unfortunately, he is frequently unable to act bored much of the time, even as Conan, since he is a genius, who could probably teach his high school teachers things as Shinichi Kudo, and bring him back to elementary school, and he is bored to death if he can't use his intellectual brain, which does help that most of the culprits do have a trick that requires to be cracked if they are to be caught.

However, if a trick, code, or riddle is highly perplexing, Conan seems not to be able to hide his excitement, which he is not good at hiding from the observant.

=== Thirst For Intellectual Stimuli ===
In [[The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun]], Professor Agasa made a treasure hunt game for the Detective Boys, really wanting it to be very difficult that Shinichi would practically give up, forgetting that if it was that way, the three real first graders would be unable to crack it at all.

At any rate, Conan had already cracked the case and found the professor's box within five minutes of entering the house, and he was focused on a much more complex code that someone else had come up with at the house.

The Detective Boys reprimanded Conan for being lazy, and not help to figure out where the clues to the Professor's treasure hunt, so that Conan had to lead the lazy children to each clue, so it is surprising that he did not just tell them where the box is, and don't bother him while he is focused on this less boring code.

However, Agasa noticed Conan's deliriously happy expression when he was getting to solve a complicated riddle. Conan even stated, "The more I don't understand, the more excited I get."

Conan seems not to be able to hide his excitement in these cases, much like his boredom when he cannot use his brain, and [[The Final Screening Murder Case]] showed his limit is only two hours than he HAS to use his brain to be HAPPY.

He only seems happy when he can use his brain or with Ran, and even then, there are lots of idiots in his world, not saying names though. Even though she is not one usually.

Thankfully, most of the culprits do use a trick or code to excite him, in contrast to a very simple one in [[The Secret of the High Sales]], which was solved by 3 real first-grade children. He even stated at the end of that case, "His brain needs a smart culprit." Due to the simpleness of the culprit, he had a hard time with that case. That may explain why Haibara was uninvolved in that case since she was aware 'the culprit' was too simple and unintellectual for Conan's level of complexity.

In fact, in [[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid]], he was bored at the talk of the thief, since "This is stupid. Thieves are boring.," and planned on going to bed, however as soon as they mentioned a coded message of the announcement, he was all ears. In fact. Even though he cracked the code at Beika Museum, in the daytime, he did not tell anyone else that they were far off the mark.

Instead, he snuck out at night to meet the Kid that night. Conan asked Agasa about tome information in his father's files, before meeting Kid, since he was fascinated to meet Kaito Kid, a "strange retro-thief, whose crazy enough to announce his moves."

Thankfully, there are some detectives and federal agents, where he can show his intellectual stimuli, and this is done by them recognizing that he is the one solving Kogoro's cases and that he is a very smart child, even if they are unaware of who he is:
[[Jodie Starling]], [[James Black]], [[Miwako Sato]], [[Kansuke Yamato]], and [[Yui Uehara]], and even [[Wataru Takagi]], and the famous Shogi player, [[Shukichi Haneda]], an [[Black Organization|undercover]] [[Japanese Intelligence Agencies|Federal Agent]], [[Rei Furuya]].

It is hard to say if he can even hide his intellect and thirst for it from [[Hyoue Kuroda]], a [[Rum]] Contender, since before their [[Kawanakajima Murder Case|first case]], Kuroda had already allowed it to be known that he was aware of Conan's deductive intelligence, by his introduction of Conan, 'The Brain behind Sleeping Kogoro' and say that Conan can crack cases by seeing what no one else does. Conan Edogawa, Detective," in front of the Nagano Policemen present. In [[Mystery of the Burning Tent]], he refers to Conan as "Sleeping Kogoro's Bag of Wisdom" to both: Ninzaburo Shiratori and Inspector Yuminaga.

As much as Conan may want to hide his intellect from Hyoue Kuroda until he deduces Rum's identity, it may not be possible.
After all, in a case, Kuroda did tell Takagi and Megure to do whatever Conan says, and in another case, he did instruct Bourbon to answer all of Conan's questions about the case, when he realized that Conan is also investigating this case too.

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

In [[A June Bride Murder Case]], In the manga, Conan rinses out Miss Matsumoto's mouth with milk after he sees her collapsing, to neutralize the poison in her body. It is later stated that this bit of first aid may have been the reason why Miss Matsumoto was discharged from the hospital sooner than anticipated. These parts are cut from the anime entirely.

In [[Scuba Diving Murder Case]], after a woman had suffered a snake bite from a water snake, Conan immediately grabbed a glass of ice tea and gave it to those sucking out the poison, and treating her.

Although Kogoro did not know of any of this, Eri told him, "Ice Tea has Tannin. The first thing to do in the case of a snake bite... is to make use of the Tannin component in tea to clean the wound and alleviate the poison." While Kogoro is flabbergasted that Conan is aware of what to do in a snake bite, Eri states, "That boy is quite sharp. Compared to people like us, sitting here with our arms folded, he's much more of an asset. More importantly, the ex-policeman here doesn't seem to know a thing about this."

In [[The Celebrities' Secret]], is the first case that does go more into detail about Conan's first aid skills, such as giving sugar sticks to a person who attempted suicide with a hypoglycemic drug, which is used to treat Diabetes. The other case that showed his first aid skills was in the Scuba Diving Murder Case, when he quickly grabbed a glass of ice tea, due to the needed Tannin, to combat the poisonous snake bite. In the other case, he handed the tea to the rescuers, however in this case, he began administering it himself.

In all three cases, the person survived, due to his first aid knowledge and skills.

However, these are just three of the cases that showcase it or two in the anime.

=== Stamina ===
It is hard to say about his stamina since he was shrunk down to Conan.
It is not as good when he is in his 17-year-old body since he now has the body of a 7-year-old.

Without Agasa's gadgets, His strength is also that of a 7-year-old too, which includes his kicking strength as well.

However, he is a very active, and maybe hyperactive little kid, who frequently uses his feet and legs, whether running, kicking, and skateboarding around the town. So his feet and leg muscles are probably stronger than when he was first shrunk, but still..., he would be toast without the professor's Gadgets and especially his superkick shoes.

He probably has normal stamina for a little kid, although some of the feats, and esp. in non-cannon movies, may seem to exaggerate his stamina, but even in the scene when Ran was pushed in front of a moving train, and Conan immediately jumped down, grabbed her, and dragged her to safety, he was panting afterward.

=== Music ===
[[File:Conan singing.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Conan sings in the Karaoke.]]
Conan cannot sing on key in the slightest so he is often accused of being [[Wikipedia:tone deaf|tone deaf]]. Despite being a hilariously awful singer, Conan has [[Wikipedia:perfect pitch|perfect pitch]] and can identify notes accurately even in difficult contexts like the sound of phone button presses forming a melody. In Episode 11: [[The Moonlight Sonata Murder Case]], he knows that the piano is in tune and deciphers a message at the end just by listening to the notes that are played. Haibara directly described Shinichi Kudo as having a perfect pitch in the last scenes of the twelfth Detective Conan movie, [[Full Score of Fear]]. He also manages to replicate and sing dial tones for a phone, showing that the reason he can't sing is that he simply doesn't have ''relative'' pitch. In File 728 [[The Secret Played by the Diary|(Episode 614)]], Conan stated he isn't very knowledgeable about music but identified the untuned piano key whereupon Haibara joked about his sharp ears despite being tone-deaf. Surprisingly, Conan recognizes Twinkle Twinkle Little Star lyric from hearing 4 sets of 7-times tapping on the phone and can sing this song very well when he distracts a serial killer from assaulting Naeko in File 1017 [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department|(Episode 974)]].

Also, to be like his favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes, he plays the violin. This was confirmed in Movie 12, 'Full Score of Fear' when he played "Amazing Grace" for Ran. However, he is stumped on what Ran meant when she said, "He has a funny habit when he plays."

=== Bomb defusion ===
Conan can defuse a bomb effortlessly without external instruction. This has been demonstrated once in canon, and multiple times in movies.

When Conan was in the area with the bomb, which only he could reach, while the bomb squad was trying to determine the kind of bomb that Conan is with so that they can give the little boy instructions on how to disarm the bomb.<ref name="ep304">[[Episode 304]]</ref>

He had already begun disarming it, and only stopped, when he realized if he waited until 3 seconds before the detonation, he will receive a hint as to the location of another bomb, so he hesitated, and discovered that it was Teitan High School, with the letters E-V-I-T. He also managed to disarm it before it blew up.

=== Criminal psychology ===
Conan shows a keen understanding of criminal psychology, occasionally being able to sense if someone is the true criminal. He can also predict the movement and plan of the criminals, and in some cases, he used this skill to "bluff". By deliberately giving the wrong deduction, he managed to make the criminal reveal the key evidence of the case, confess, abandon suicide's attempt, or lead them to the wrong ends (if they are chasing Conan).

In non-canon, it was shown that if the criminal doesn't conform to the general intellectual pattern, Conan will have trouble deducing their crime, even if it is so obvious that the Detective Boys can deduce perfectly.

[[File:Conan First met Kaito Kid.png|thumb|right|200px|Conan introduces himself to Kaito Kid when they first met. "Conan Edogawa, a detective!" in [[Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small|Episode One]].]]

=== Reverse Psychology ===
In the Clash of Red and Black Arc, he planned along with Shuichi how to replace Kir ack undercover in the Black Organization, without telling the rest of the FBI until it was over, however he did have to outthink Gin.

He had to outthink Gin, and implement Reverse Psychology, if not Reverse Reverse Psychology when planning Akai's Faked death at Railla Pass.

They knew that Kir would have to prove herself by killing Akai and that Gin always kills with headshots, so he would demand that of her.

He also knew it would be at Railla Pass, and used Kusada's body, thanks to that spy shooting himself in the head and committing suicide.

He also knew since Kusada had already touched his phone, make it look to the other FBI Members that Akai touched Conan's phone, but Akai had some substance to keep his fingerprints off of it entirely.

In short, Conan had to predict what Gin would demand and where at, along with Kir and Akai, and at the same time, making Gin think that it is all "his idea."

The only ones allowed in on the following secrets:

Placing Kir back undercover:
Conan, who planned it
Akai
Kir
Andre Camel, who had to drive her.

The other FBI members did not find out until she was placed back undercover, otherwise, they may have given the act away.

Akai's Faked Death:
Conan, who planned it, and even arranged for Akai to meet his Mom and Agasa somewhere else to help his new disguise.
Kir, who was to kill him to prove herself to Gin
Akai, who was to die
James Black, who noticed the glue or substance to Akai's fingertips, just before the fateful meeting.

No one else was let in on that secret at all, until the scarlet episodes, when Jodie and Camel finally learned about it, including Bourbon, who figured it out due to his keen observation skills.

=== "7 Children" or "[[Nanatsu no Ko]]" Alertness ===
This can also be called the Boss's E-Mail Address Alertness as well.

After Conan's confrontation with Vermouth, when he appeared to still be unconscious from his tranquilizer dart, he heard her press the digits on her cell phone to reply to "BOSS" of the Black Organization at the end of Head to Head Halloween Party episode.

He remembered the sounds of the digits being pressed when she was dialing the boss's e-mail address to respond to a message that he had sent her.

Conan may be tone-deaf, but he does have Perfect Pitch and can recognize the tune of the Boss's e-mail address.

At the end of The Dissonance of the Stradivarius Episode 387, he found out those digits are for the song of "7 Children" or "Nanatsu no Ko," which happens to the Boss of the Black Organization's E-mail address.

He can recognize that tune in an instant, and immediately is on the hunt for the Black Organization Member, who just e-mailed their Boss.
He cannot even pretend to act normally when he hears this tune.

Even just the first four digits place him on high alert before he discovered the name of the tune.

Even though Haibara stated that the e-mail address is a Pandora Box, which should never be opened, or dialed.

Since he can recognize the Boss's e-mail immediately, which has shown many times:

After his bug and transmitter, accidentally fell on the ground, and Rena stepped on it, he immediately heard her dial the Boss's e-mail address, and found out her code name of Kir, among other stuff.

That tune also came in handy at finding out that a Black Organization Spy had infiltrated Haido Central Hospital, where Kir was hospitalized due to the e-mail being dialed.

Even in the Non-cannon movie: The Raven Chaser, after Conan found out that the Boss's E-mailed had been dialed, he immediately chased after a disguised Vermouth, and saw her enter Gin's Porsche. Unfortunately, Irish, another disguised Black Organization Member, who was impersonating the Superintendant Kiyonaga Matsumoto, noticed Conan's behavior, and immediately began investigating Conan, and he even managed to obtain Conan's fingerprints and match them to Kudo Shinichi's fingerprints, when he held that mask and helmet in the Desperate Revival Festival, earlier.
He may not have noticed if it was not for the Panic Mode or Near Panic Mode that this number and song instills in Conan.

=== Computer skills ===
Conan has some programming skills, for being able to create Mouri Detective Agency's website. He doesn't know about hacking, at least he is not able to crack Black Organization's encrypted data.

=== Kaitou Kid radar ===
Conan occasionally seems to be able to sense if [[Kaitou Kid]] is present at a crime scene.<ref>Black Star</ref><ref>Luna Memoria File 964 page 10</ref> Unlike [[Shiho Miyano#"Black Organization sense"|Haibara's "Black Organization smell" sense]], Conan's Kid detector isn't very reliable.

=== Codebreaker and Codewriter ===
He is great at discovering codes, as well as deciphering them.

He frequently can decipher Kid's codes, among many others.
In the paper airplane episode, Subaru and Conan, both managed to decipher the airplane code at about the same time.
He was also able to decipher from E-V-I-T, that the next bomb was Teitan High School.<ref name="ep304"></ref>

He has even been shown to be able to write codes as well. When Conan, Haibara, Mitsuhiko, Genta, and Ayumi, were locked in a freezing delivery van, without their cell phones, and all they had on hand were some odds and ends, taxi receipt, and Taii, the cat. Conan managed to create a code out of the taxi receipt, which would look like trash to almost everyone, except the only person who would be able to decipher it in an instant, Amuro, who works at Cafe Poirot, and Taii makes his stop there every day at around this time. The code read, COR...P..SE," and the license plate number.<ref>[[Episode 722]]</ref>

He then placed the note in Taii's collar, who managed to escape. However, when Azusa was about to hand the note to Amuro, it blew away in the wind, only for Bourbon to find out the spelling from Azusa, and pieced together instantly, "Corpse." After Azusa stated that Conan knows the cat comes here every day, he took the rest of the day off work to track the note using his Wind App, taking into account the location of the building.

Conan then remembered the cake that Agasa ordered for a delivery at a special time, located it, and wrote a message to redirect the cake to the Kudo Residence, where Subaru is living, and redirected it, "In the care of Mr. Kudo," and even added a message in the customer's copy of the receipt so that Subaru would know that they are trapped in the delivery van.

Subaru sent a package, which was a cell phone to help the kids. However, they were found out by the culprits. Fortunately, Amuro came in time and disabling the culprits. Conan was able to use that phone to call the police.

=== Literature ===
Conan recognizes a phrase ("Kill me tomorrow--but let me live tonight.") from Shakespeare's Othello, which helps him realize that the victim was rehearsing a play, not having an argument with someone.<ref>[[Episode 975]]</ref>

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

<tabs jsId="nicknames">
<tab title="Protagonists">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Shinichi Kudo|Conan-kun Kid in the Glasses Ore (in his thoughts)|Shinichi-niichan Ore (in his thoughts) Kudo Shinichi (in his thoughts)}}
{{appellations|Ran Mouri|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan<ref>[[Hijacked Department Store Case]]</ref> My Boyfriend (once)<ref>[[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case|Episode 149: The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case]]</ref>|Ran-nēchan Ran (in his thoughts and on accident)}}
{{appellations|Kogoro Mouri|Brat (''Gaki/kozo'') Conan (rarely) Freeloader Conan-kun (rarely) Four Eyed squirt Great Merciful God Conan-sama(once)<ref>[[Movie 6]]</ref> Boy (Bōzu)<ref>[[Movie 19]]</ref>|Uncle Kogoro (''Kogoro-no-ojisan'', ''Kogoro-no-otchan'', or ''Kogoro-ojisan'') Mouri Kogoro Uncle Mouri (''Mouri-no-ojisan)}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Detective Boys">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Ayumi Yoshida|Conan-kun|Ayumi-chan Ayumi}}
{{appellations|Genta Kojima|Conan|Genta}}
{{appellations|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Conan-kun|Mitsuhiko}}
{{appellations|Ai Haibara|Kudo-kun (privately) Edogawa-kun (around others) Great Detective-san (''Meitantei-san'')|Haibara Haibara-san (once) Crybaby girl (once) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once)}} Hana-chan (once)<ref>[[Reunion with the Black Organization|Episode 176: Reunion with the Black Organization (Haibara)]]</ref> Ai-kun (once)<ref>[[Hidden Bathroom Secret|Conan calls "Ai-kun" while using Professor Agasa's voice in the 341st episode]]</ref> Haibara Ai (movie 16 introduction)
{{appellations|Shiho Miyano|Kudo-kun|Haibara}}
{{appellations|Hiroshi Agasa|Shinichi Shinichi-kun Conan-kun|Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase) Professor (''Hakase'') Agasa Hiroshi (movie 16 introduction)}}
{{appellations|Sumiko Kobayashi|Edogawa-kun Conan-kun|Kobayashi-sensei That Ranpo-maniac}}
{{appellations|Rumi Wakasa|Conan-kun|Wakasa-sensei Wakasa Rumi-sensei}}
{{appellations|Touya|file=Touya.jpg|Conan-kun|Sensei}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Friends & relatives">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Yukiko Kudo|Shin... I mean Conan-Chan ([[The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases|Once]]) Shin-chan Shinichi Conan-kun (around others) Shin-Conan-kun<ref name="file898">[[volume 85#Scarlet Showdown|File 898 (Volume 85)]]</ref>|Mom (''Kāsan'') Aunt (''Obasan'', much to her annoyance)<ref name="file898"/> Big sister (''Onēsan'', after Yukiko gets angry at ''Obasan'')<ref name="file898"/>}}
{{appellations|Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi Kudo Shinichi Boy with Glasses Edogawa Conan-kun|Dad (''Tōsan'')}}
{{appellations|Sonoko Suzuki|Conan-kun Brat in the glasses (''Megane no gakincho'') Little boy (''Chibi-chan'') Brat (''Gakincho'')|Sonoko-neechan Sonoko (in his thoughts)}}
{{appellations|Makoto Kyogoku|-|Kyogoku-san}}
{{appellations|Jirokichi Suzuki|Boy (''Kowappa'') Kid-Killer<ref>Movie 19: [[Sunflowers of Inferno]]</ref>|This old man (''kono jiisan'')}}
{{appellations|Masumi Sera|Conan-kun Boy (''Boya''; first time) Edogawa Conan-kun Wizard (''Mahō-tsukai'')|Sera-san Sera-no-nēchan Sera Sera Masumi<ref name="file930">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 930 (Volume 88)]]</ref> [[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s younger sister (''Akai-san no imōto'')}}
{{appellations|Shukichi Haneda|Wizard (Mahō-tsukai; email)<ref>File 861</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file1043">[[Volume_98#Shogi Player Serial Murder Case|File 1043 (Volume 98)]]</ref>|Haneda-san Haneda Shukichi<ref name="file899">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 899 (Volume 85)]]</ref> Taiko Meijin<ref name="file899"/> Boyfriend-san (''Kareshi-san''; talking to Yumi)<ref name="file929">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 929 (Volume 88)]]</ref> Haneda-meijin<ref name="file929"/> Chuukichi<ref>[[The Scarlet Alibi]]</ref> Shuukichi-san}}
{{appellations|Heiji Hattori|Kudo (privately, on accident) Kid Conan-kun Brat Boy (''Bōzu'')|Hattori (privately) Heiji-niichan Heiji-kun (joke)}}
{{appellations|Kazuha Toyama|Conan-kun|Kazuha-neechan Kazuha (in his thoughts) Kazuha-chan (talking to Heiji)<ref>[[Conan and Heiji's Code of Love|Episode 764]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Eri Kisaki|Conan-kun|Aunt Eri (''Eri-no-obasan'') Kisaki-sensei Attorney Kisaki (''Kisaki-bengoshi'') Aunt (''Obasan'') Eri-san}}
{{appellations|Asami Tsuburaya|-|Mitsuhiko's older sister (''Mitsuhiko no nēsan'')}}
{{appellations|Sayo Ohashi|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref name="ep644">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 644]]</ref> Conan-kun<ref name="file928">[[Volume 88#A Killer in Ramen Ogura|File 928 (Volume 88)]]</ref>|Sayo-san<ref name="ep645">[[Ramen So Good, It's to Die For|Episode 645]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Katsumasa Ogura|Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="ep645"/>|Manager Ogura-san (''Ogura-tenchō-san'')<ref name="ep645"/>}}
{{appellations|Lupin (dog){{!}}Lupin|file=Lupin (dog).jpg|-|Lupin}}
{{appellations|Azusa Enomoto|Conan-kun|Azusa-nēchan Azusa-san}}
{{appellations|Sakurako Yonehara|Conan-kun Boy (''Bōya'')|Sakurako-san Housekeeper (''Kaseifu-san'') Yonehara-san Yonehara Sakurako-san}}
{{appellations|Saguru Hakuba|Edogawa Conan-kun|Hakuba-niichan}}
{{appellations|Eisuke Hondou|Conan-kun Kudo Shinichi|Eisuke nii-chan Eisuke Hondo Eisuke}}
{{appellations|Nakamichi|-|Nakamichi-no-oniichan Nakamichi (in his thoughts)}}
{{appellations|Apollo Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Glass-kun (first time) Apollo}}
{{appellations|Kaoru Koda|Conan-kun|Kaoru-san|file=Kaoru Koda.jpg}}
{{appellations|Futoshi Ejiri|Boy (''bōzu'')|Ejiri-no-ojisan Ejiri Futoshi-san|file=Futoshi Ejiri.jpg}}
{{appellations|Takuma Sakamoto|file=Takuma Sakamoto.jpg|Conan-kun|Takuma-kun}}
{{appellations|Maria Higashio|Conan-kun|Maria-chan}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Law enforcement">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Juzo Megure|Conan-kun|Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'')}}
{{appellations|Wataru Takagi|Conan-kun|Detective Takagi (''Takagi-keiji'')}}
{{appellations|Miwako Sato|Conan-kun|Detective Sato (''Sato-keiji'')}}
{{appellations|Misao Yamamura|Conan-kun|Inspector Yamamura (''Yamamura-keibu'')<ref name="m13">Movie 13: ''[[The Raven Chaser]]''</ref> Inspector-san (''Keibu-san'') Detective Yamamura (''Yamamura-keiji'')<ref name="m13" />}}
{{appellations|Kazunobu Chiba|Conan-kun|Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')}}
{{appellations|Naeko Miike|Conan-kun|Naeko-san Miike Naeko-san Officer Miike Naeko-san (''Miike Naeko-fukei-san'')}}
{{appellations|Ninzaburo Shiratori|Conan-kun|Inspector Shiratori (''Shiratori-keibu'')<ref name="kobluv">[[Kobayashi-sensei's Love]]</ref> Inspector (''Keibu'')<ref name="kobluv"/>}}
{{appellations|Ginzo Nakamori|Conan-kun<ref>''[[Magic Kaito 1412]]''</ref>|Inspector Nakamori (''Nakamori-keibu'')}}
{{appellations|Hyoue Kuroda|Edogawa Conan-kun The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro'') Boy (''Bōzu'')<ref name="file916">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 916 (Volume 87)]]</ref>|First Division Chief Kuroda (''Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō'')<ref name="file918">[[Volume 87#A Blog That Causes a Death|File 918 (Volume 87)]]</ref> Management Officer Kuroda (''Kuroda-kanrikan'')<ref name="file925">[[Volume 87#A Secret of the Big Couple|File 925 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Kiyonaga Matsumoto|That kid (''sono ko'')<ref name="ep18">[[a June Bride Murder Case|Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case]]</ref>|Superintendent Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-keishi'') Superintendent-san (''Keishi-san'')<ref name="ep18"/> Managing Officer Matsumoto (''Matsumoto-kanrikan'')}}
{{appellations|Yumi Miyamoto|Conan-kun|Yumi-san<ref name="file900">[[Volume 85#Shogi Tournament|File 900 (Volume 85)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Kansuke Yamato|Boy (''Bozu'')<ref name="file913">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 913 (Volume 86)]]</ref>|Inspector Yamato Kansuke (''Yamato Kansuke-keibu'')<ref name="file913" /> Inspector Yamato (''Yamato-keibu'')<ref name="file914">[[Volume 86#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 914 (Volume 86)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Yui Uehara|Conan-kun<ref name="file914"/>|Detective Yui (''Yui-keiji'')<ref name="file914"/> Yui-san}}
{{appellations|Taka'aki Morofushi|-|Inspector Morofushi (''Morofushi-keibu'')<ref name="file917">[[Volume 87#Kawanakajima Murder Case|File 917 (Volume 87)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Fumimaro Ayanokoji|Conan-kun|Inspector Ayanokoji (''Ayanokoji-keibu'')}}
{{appellations|Shuichi Akai|Boy (''Bōya'') Conan-kun|Akai-san Oniisan<ref>[[Volume 81#Bumper Brawn|File 859 (Volume 81)]]</ref> Akai Shuichi<ref name="ep309"/>}}
{{appellations|Subaru Okiya|Conan-kun Boy (''bōya'')<ref name="file948">[[Volume 89#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 948: The Clenched Scissors (Volume 89)]]</ref> Edogawa Conan-kun Kudo Shinichi-kun|Subaru-san Akai-san<ref name="file948"/> Okiya Subaru-san Okiya-san (first time) Oniisan}}
{{appellations|Jodie Starling|Cool Kid Cool Kid Conan (once) Cool Guy Conan-kun Boss Edogawa Conan-kun|Jodie-sensei Sensei Agent Jodie (''Jodie-sōsakan'')}}
{{appellations|James Black|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun Cool Guy|James-san}}
{{appellations|Koichi Zenigata|That boy (''ano shōnen'')}}
{{appellations|Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno|Conan-kun|Inspector Shikatsuno (''Shikatsuno-keibu'') Detective Shikatsuno(''Shikatsuno-keiji'') Shikatsuno-san}}
{{appellations|Sango Yokomizo|Conan-kun|Inspector Yokomizo (''Yokomizo keibu'')}}
{{appellations|Jugo Yokomizo|Boy (''bōzu'')|Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}
{{appellations|Rei Furuya|Conan-kun Edogawa Conan-kun<ref name="file843">[[volume 80#Delivery Service|File 843 (Volume 80]]</ref> Sleeping Kogoro (''Nemuri no Kogoro'')|Amuro-san Amuro-no-niichan Bourbon (thoughts) Zero-no-niichan Furuya}}
{{appellations|Wataru Date|-|Date-san Detective Date (''Date-keiji'') Detective-san (''Keiji-san'')}}
{{appellations|Hiromitsu Morofushi|-|Hiro-chan Morofushi}}
{{appellations|Jinpei Matsuda|-|Detective Matsuda (''Matsuda-keiji'') Matsuda Jinpei}}
{{appellations|Kenji Hagiwara|-|Hagiwara<ref name="movie25">[[The Bride of Halloween]]</ref> Detective Hagiwara (''Hagiwara-taiin'')}}
{{appellations|Hidemi Hondou|Little Boy (''Bōya'')|Mizunashi-san<ref>[[Volume 48#Black Organization vs. FBI|File 499 (Volume 48)]]</ref> Mizunashi Rena-san Mizunashi Rena Kir Announcer-san Lady (''Onēsan'') Hondou Eisuke's sister (''Hondou Eisuke no ane'') Eisuke's sister (''Eisuke no onēsan'') Fellow trader of [[Black Organization|the men in black]] (''Kurozukume no yatsura no nakama'')}}
{{appellations|Mary|Edogawa Conan<ref name="file903">[[volume 85#Pool Side Case|File 903 (Volume 85)]]</ref> This boy (''Kono shōnen'')<ref name="file903"/>|Mary<ref name="file930"/> That girl (''Ano shōjo'')<ref name="file930"/> The little sister from outside the domain (''ryōiki-gai no imōto'')}}
{{appellations|Tsutomu Akai|-|[[Shuichi Akai|Akai-san]]'s dad (''Akai-san no otōsan'')<ref name="file949">[[Volume 90#Kohji Haneda's Death Case|File 949: Sweet Scent (Volume 90)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Reiko Kujo|Conan-kun}}
{{appellations|Inspector Momose|Boy (''bōzu'')|Inspector Momose (Momose-keibu) Inspector (Keibu-san)}}
{{appellations|Officer Tome|-|Tome-san}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Black Organization">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Renya Karasuma|-|Mastermind (Kuromaku) Boss Karasuma Renya}}
{{appellations|Gin|{{nihongo|Brat|ガキ|Gaki}}<ref>Manga File 504, pg 11</ref>|Man in Black (formerly)<ref>He referred to Gin and Vodka as "Men in Black" before learning their codenames. E.g. in [[Volume 2|Volume 2, File 16, Page 17]].</ref> Gin}}
{{appellations|Vodka|Stupid Brat<ref>[[Volume 4|'''File 033''': Running intro the two]]</ref>|Vodka}}
{{appellations|Vermouth|Cool Guy Silver Bullet-kun Boy (Bōya)|Vermouth Chris Vineyard}}
{{appellations|Rum|-|Rum}}
{{appellations|Atsushi Miyano|-|Professor Miyano (''Miyano-hakase'')<ref>[[Volume 41|Volume 41, File 423, Page 10]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Akemi Miyano|Little Detective-sa (''Chiisana Tantei-sa'')<ref>Akemi wanted to say "Little Detective'''-san'''", but she died.</ref> Kudo Shinichi|Miyano Akemi Masami-san Hirota-san's daughter (''Hirota-san no musume'')}}
{{appellations|Ki'ichiro Numabuchi|-|Numabuchi}}
{{appellations|Yoshiaki Hara|-|Hara-san}}
{{Appellations|Scar Akai|-|Bourbon}}
{{appellations|Tequila|-|Tequila<ref name="ep309">[[Episode 309]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Pisco|Brat (''kozō'')|Pisco Masuyama-san Pisco-san}}
{{appellations|Chianti|Brat (''Gaki'')|Chianti}}
{{appellations|Korn|-|Korn}}
{{appellations|Rikumichi Kusuda|-|Kusuda Rikumichi}}
{{appellations|Shigehiko Nomiguchi|-|The Honorable Nomiguchi (''Nomiguchi-giin'')}}
{{appellations|Kate Lauren|Boy (''Bōya'')<ref>[[:File:Kate7.jpg]]</ref>|Kate<ref>[[:File:Kate4.jpg]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Generic|-|Generic}}
{{appellations|Arrack|-|Arrack Amylin}}
{{appellations|Irish|Kudo Shinichi|Irish}}
{{appellations|Curaçao|-|Curaçao}}
{{appellations|Blackbeard|-|Blackbeard (''Kurohige'')}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Thieves">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaitou Kid|Detective-kun (Tantei-kun) Pint-Sized Detective Great Detective (''Meitantei'') Heisei Sherlock Holmes (once) High school detective<ref name="file1018">[[Volume 96#File 1018 - In the Ice|File 1018 (Volume 96)]]</ref>|Kaitou Kid Kid Kaitou 1412 (first time)

Strange retro-thief, whose crazy enough to announce his moves. ([[Conan vs. Kaitou Kid|one time]])}}
{{appellations|Konosuke Jii|-|Fellow (''Nakama''; talking to Kaitou Kid)<ref>[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|file=Phantom Lady.jpg|Chikage Kuroba{{!}}Phantom Lady|-|Phantom Lady<ref name="file732">[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Woman thief<ref name="file732"/>}}

{{appellations|Lupin III{{!}}Arsène Lupin III|file=Lupin III.jpg|Edogawa Conan<ref name="lcm">[[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]]</ref> Saucy Great Detective (''Konamaiki na Meitantei'') Brat (''Gaki'' or ''Gakincho'')|Lupin III<ref name="lcm"/> Lupin<ref name="lcm"/>}}
{{appellations|Daisuke Jigen|file=Daisuke Jigen.jpg|?|Jigen Daisuke<ref name="lcm"/> Papa}}
{{appellations|Goemon Ishikawa{{!}}Goemon Ishikawa XIII|file=Goemon Ishikawa.jpg|?|Ishikawa Goemon XIII (''Jūsan-daime Ishikawa Goemon'')<ref name="lcm"/>}}
{{appellations|Fujiko Mine|file=Fujiko Mine.jpg|Boy (''Boku'')|Mine Fujiko}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Celebrities">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kohji Haneda|-|Haneda Kohji<ref name="file948"/> Haneda<ref name="file948"/> [[Shukichi Haneda|Taiko Meijin]]'s brother-in-law (''Taiko Meijin no giri no niisan'')<ref name="file947">[[volume 89#Shukichi's Envelope Case|File 947 (Volume 89)]]</ref> The shogi player (''sono kishi'')<ref name="file947"/>}}
{{appellations|Yoko Okino|Conan-kun|Okino Yoko Yoko-chan (once)<ref>[[The Witch Enshrouded by Fog]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Hideo Akagi|-|Hide Akagi Hideo}}
{{appellations|Naoki Uemura|-|Naoki Uemura Naoki}}
{{appellations|Ryusuke Higo|-|Higo-senshu Higo}}
{{appellations|Takahiro Sanada|-|Sanada-senshu}}
{{appellations|file=Minami Takayama anime.jpg|Minami Takayama|Boy (''Boya'')<ref name="ep82">[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 82]]</ref> Detective-kun (''Tantei-kun'')<ref name="ep82"/>|Takayama Minami-san<ref name="ep82"/> Takayama-san<ref name="ep82" />}}
{{appellations|Minerva Glass|Holmes' Apprentice (''Holmes no Deshi'')|Queen of the Grass Court (''Shiba no Joō'')}}
{{appellations|Naomichi Mugikura|-|Mugikura-san Mugikura Naomichi}}
{{appellations|Osamu Kenzaki|Conan-kun<ref name="file845">[[Volume 80#Our Territory|File 845: Our Territory (Volume 80)]]</ref>|Kenzaki-san<ref name="file845"/>}}
|}
</tab>
<tab title="Others">
{{appellations/head|Conan}}
{{appellations|Kaito Kuroba|Mr. Heisei Sherlock Holmes (''Heisei no Sherlock Holmes-san'')|Kaitou Kid Kid<ref>[[Volume 70#Ryoma's Gunbelt Case|File 732 (Volume 70)]]</ref> Magician-san Under the Moonlight (''Gekka no Kijutsushi-san'')<ref name="file634">[[Volume 61#Kaitou Kid and the Purple Nail|File 634 (Volume 61)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Tomoaki Araide|-|Araide-sensei<ref name="file422">[[Volume 41#Four Porsches Case|File 422: Inescapable Target (Volume 41)]]</ref>}}
{{appellations|Zengo Goto|-|Bodyguard-san}}
{{appellations|Suguru Itakura|-|Itakura-san<ref name="ep309"/> Itakura Suguru-san (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308">[[Episode 308]]</ref> Itakura-shi (anime introduction)<ref name="ep308"/>}}
{{appellations|Asaka|-|Asaka<ref name="file953">[[volume 90#Soul Detective Murder Case|File 953: As If Connecting with a Demon in the Darkness (Volume 90)]]</ref>|file=Asaka manga.jpg}}
{{appellations|Café Poirot Master|-|Master}}
{{appellations|Taii|-|Taii Taii-kun
{{appellations|Mrs. Kojima|file=Mrs. Kojima.jpg|-|Genta's mom (''Genta no kāsan'')}}
{{appellations|Soshi Okita|-|Okita}}
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== Plot overview ==
=== Initial pursuit ===
After Shinichi becomes Conan, he sets out to find the men in black almost immediately. At the suggestion of Agasa, he moves in with Ran and Kogoro, hoping that cases related to them come by. Pretty soon, a case involving a woman named [[Akemi Miyano]] (using the alias Masami Hirota) appears. Akemi robs a bank for the men in black in the hopes that they will free her sister from their organization. Conan is unable to realize the case's connection to the organization until after the men in black have shot Akemi and left her for dead rather than give up such a valuable asset as her sister. In her dying moments, Akemi warns Conan of the danger of the organization.<ref>[[Volume 2#File 013 - The Missing Man|Volume 2, Files 13-16: "The Missing Man"]]</ref>

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

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

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

However, when she introduced herself to him at night in front of the Kudo and Agasa's house, she did it in a way, where she showed that she can be quite evil, like the rest of the Black Organization, even telling him that Agasa, who is his lifeline to being a detective in his child's body is dead, really freaking him out. When he went to Agasa, he was alive and well, and all three spoke, but ...

After the professor's case, he saw her real tears, when she was crying in his shirt, and since then their relationship has improved dramatically, and they even protect each other.

She is also helping him to be more cautious than his initial, "The Black Organization is involved. I am scared, but I will hunt them down, and try and get the antidote," without thinking of the consequences.

He is still determined to take down that organization, but he is now wiser than he was at in, whereas, she is more inclined to err on the side of caution, "Stop. Don't Go. Stay out of this," which will not take the organization down but may keep them safer.

In regards to the Black Organization, they both tend to withhold information to protect the other one.
It is difficult to know just how much she knows of the Organization's leaders and such, but she feels if she tells him anything until it comes up, he may carelessly act on it.

When Conan found out that the '7 Children' song's first lines' tone was the Boss's e-mail address, his initial thought was to have Takagi investigate it, until she told him that "He will die. Takagi as soon as he reaches that person, and then they will find out who gave him that number, and you will die next.
The e-mail address is Pandora's box that should never be opened.

In return, Conan protects her a lot in regards to the organization: saving her life, withholding risky information, and coming up with plans to save her life, when she has been found out and trying to hide her from them.

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

=== After Vermouth ===

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

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

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

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

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

== Non-canon plot overview ==

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family and friends ===
==== Ran Mouri ====
[[File:Ran and Conan.jpg|thumb|200px|Ran holding Conan.]]
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Although they are romantic interests as Shinichi and Ran, Conan and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share a brother/sister kind of relationship. Ran plays a nurturing protective role and treats Conan like a child version of Shinichi. They do a lot of activities together, such as swimming, going to the movies or festivals, and more. Ran and Conan both look out for each other's well-being. Ran stands up for Conan during Kogoro's outbursts and destroys any criminals seeking to inflict harm on Conan with her karate. Conan lends an ear and advice when Ran is in a difficult situation or needs to vent, and he comforts and encourages her when she is feeling down, especially about Shinichi being away for so long. It is even likely that Ran subconsciously knows that Conan actually ''is'' Shinichi, even though she seems reluctant to follow that notion.<ref>Ran told Conan that if only he is Shinichi on Episode 308.</ref>
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==== Kogoro Mouri ====
[[File:Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.jpg|thumb|200px|Kogoro noticing Conan in the car.]]
[[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and Conan most often see each other as nuisances. Conan dislikes Kogoro's usually poor detective ability and case handling, slovenly personal habits, and overinflated ego. Kogoro's deduction doesn't seem to improve so Conan almost always needs to knock Kogoro out when he starts spouting off incorrect theories. Although in most cases Conan merely sees Kogoro as a drunk idiot, he often is impressed when Kogoro gets serious and gets the case right, so he will allow the "non-sleeping Kogoro" to take the spotlight. Kogoro views Conan as a freeloader who constantly gets underfoot and never fails to insinuate himself at cases, "interfere" with the scene, and pipe up with childish observations that consistently ruin Kogoro's deductions. Sometimes, Kogoro will also grab Conan by the jacket, leave him outside, or knock him on the head if he is too nosy when involved in a case. However, their relationship is intimate and Kogoro takes care of Conan just like a member of the house. At times when Conan is in danger or his life is in peril, Kogoro is seen to be visibly distressed, focused only on getting Conan back. In one episode where Conan was kidnapped, put into a car, and the car was in the process of being crushed, Kogoro was even in tears at Conan's apparent death but then rejoiced tearfully when he was shown to be unharmed.
Conan in return does everything in his power to protect Kogoro from getting into trouble with the Black Organization, saving his life multiple times whenever Kogoro unknowingly gets involved with them.
They are usually seen going to cases together (probably because Conan sneaks along with Kogoro, inserts himself into the case, or simply annoys Kogoro enough to bring him) and sometimes they'll follow Ran whenever they think she might be off to see a boy or "that detective brat" as Kogoro refers to Shinichi.
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==== Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo ====
[[File:783-2.jpg|thumb|200px|Yukiko nearly calls Conan "Shinichi" in public.]]
Conan's parents, [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]] and [[Yukiko Kudo|Yukiko]], like to push their child towards becoming an even better detective. They enjoy giving him challenges, typically without letting Conan know who's giving them; once they disguised as Black Organization operatives trying to kill Shinichi Kudo to show Conan how dangerous his goals are. However, after seeing that their son is determined to dive into the matter, they decide to follow his wish and even helps him out with disguises and plans.

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

Yukiko helped him out once to keep his secret identity from being exposed to Ran by creating an alibi for him. Yukiko once nearly called Conan "Shinichi" in public but Conan was able to cover it by creating a distraction.
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==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
[[image:Agasa and Conan investigating.png|thumb|right|200px|Conan investigates with Agasa.]]
Conan treats [[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]] as a member of his own family, as an uncle. Because they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking help. Agasa's willingness to help whenever possible makes Shinichi's life as Conan more convenient. He was the one who created most of Conan's gadgets, including his power shoes and tracking glasses. He willingly plays Conan's case-solving mouthpiece when Conan lacks someone else convenient to use. When Conan needs something, such as information regarding past cases, he usually asks Agasa to get it. Agasa often acts as a chauffeur because he is trustworthy and the only adult with a car regularly available.

Agasa often worries about Shinichi, especially when he thinks Shinichi might be getting over his head. Agasa almost always responds positively to Shinichi's requests but doesn't like it when Shinichi hides the reasons for it, especially if it is dangerous.
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==== "Shinichi Kudo" ====
[[File:EP398 2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan and Shinichi.]]
They never meet each other for obvious reasons: Conan is Shinichi's secret identity. However, since Conan tries to act like a child, he often thinks of Shinichi as a separate character (in one episode, when Ran claims to go on a date with Shinichi, Conan bids goodbye, oblivious for a while that he is Shinichi). Judging from his completely made-up speech, Conan talks to Shinichi frequently by phone and learns a lot of skills and knowledge from him, and Conan admires and loves Shinichi. In turn, Shinichi is willing to satiate Conan's curiosity, but at one point he gets annoyed for Conan's inquisitiveness.

==== Heiji Hattori ====
[[Image:Heiji teasing Conan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Heiji enjoys teasing Conan.]]
When they first meet, Conan and [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] seem bound to become lifelong rivals, especially after Kudo beats Heiji in their first case. However, after discovering Conan's real identity, Heiji starts to act like an older brother towards him, much to the annoyance of Conan. Since then, the two have become closest friends, and consult one another on cases, developments concerning the Black Organization, and even their "girlfriends". They tend to stick together on cases, although sometimes this is because Heiji forces the less enthusiastic Conan to come along. While fond of Heiji as a fellow detective he can relate to, Conan finds Heiji's antics occasionally annoying. Much to Conan's chagrin, Heiji even convinces others that Conan is his disciple. Conan especially dislikes Heiji's dangerous habit of unthinkingly calling Conan 'Kudo' when others are present.

Heiji still maintains some of his original feelings of rivalry and gets annoyed if anyone claims Shinichi is better, and will often go to great lengths to show that the "west" (Osaka) is better than the "east" (Tokyo). Shinichi usually starts off acting like he is disinterested in the frivolous competition, but may then become competitive himself if Heiji starts "winning" or someone bruises his ego. Others, like Ran and Kazuha, see them both as equally skilled detectives. Despite his teasing, Conan/Shinichi genuinely thinks Kazuha and Heiji would make a great couple.
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==== Sonoko Suzuki ====
She frequently talks to him like a brat and primary school kid, and he thinks of her as annoying.

==== Masumi Sera ====
Masumi Sera is like an older sister figure to Conan. She knows that Conan is Shinichi Kudo. She is a mystery but is revealed to be the sister of Shuichi Akai and Shukichi Haneda. Conan takes Sera to be like a fellow detective, similar to how he treats Heiji and Saguru. Sera in return is very protective of him and also seems to have a crush on him, calling him a "wizard"; because when they first met 10 years ago, Shinichi/Conan was able to make her brother Shuichi laugh when she couldn't.

==== Eisuke Hondou ====
Eisuke discovered that Conan is the real Sleeping Kogoro before they even first met. Conan found him suspicious due to his resemblance to Rena Mizunashi. Eisuke was quick to notice that Conan's behavior towards Ran was similar to that of a protective boyfriend and decided to monitor him. Eventually, Conan found that he is the younger brother of Rena who is a member of the CIA infiltrating the organization, the relationship between the two seems to have improved somehow after Conan reveals his identity to Eisuke without hesitating to refuse his offer to take Ran with him in America. At that moment, Eisuke amicably confesses to Conan that he was aware from the beginning that he was sleeping Kogoro and Shinichi Kudo. He asked Conan to take care of Ran and the two leave on good terms.

==== Shukichi Haneda ====
Shukichi seems to have noticed Conan's intelligence and trusted his deductions the first time they met. Shinichi has met Shukichi in the past as a child, so Shukichi might recognize him as Conan because of his memorization skills, and also due to Shukichi calling Conan a Wizard, the same nickname that Masumi attributed to Shinichi when they met 10 years ago.

=== Detective Boys ===
[[File:Conan and Ai.jpg|thumb|200px|Conan and Haibara investigating.]]
[[File:conan scary face.png|thumb|left|200px|Conan's scary face when he's intending to know Haibara's secret song.]]
==== Ai Haibara ====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
Both are de-aged by APTX4869 and have almost equal levels of intelligence, which makes [[Ai Haibara]] and Conan close confidants and more empathetic with each other than most other characters. They share an interesting relationship. They believe and rely on each other. She certainly has no qualms about teasing him and is more than willing to poke a hole in his ego. While Conan initially was disgusted by Ai's ties to the Black Organization, especially with how she introduced herself, seeing her remorse and pain has improved his opinion of her. He is repeatedly protective of her and tries to give her hope when her fear of the men in black is overwhelming.

However, when she introduced herself to him at night in front of the [[Kudo]] and [[Agasa|Agasa's]] house, she did it in a way, where she showed that she can be quite evil, like the rest of the [[Black Organization]], even telling him that Agasa, who is his lifeline to being a detective in his child's body is dead, really freaking him out. When he went to Agasa, he was alive and well, and all three spoke, but ...

After the professor's case, he saw her real tears, when she was crying in his shirt, and since then their relationship has improved dramatically, and they even protect each other.

She is also helping him to be more cautious than his initial, "The Black Organization is involved. I am scared, but I will hunt them down, and try and get the antidote," without thinking of the consequences.

He is still determined to take down that organization, but he is now wiser than he was at in, whereas, she is more inclined to err on the side of caution, "Stop. Don't Go. Stay out of this," which will not take the organization down but may keep them safer.

In regards to the Black Organization, they both tend to withhold information to protect the other one.
It is difficult to know just how much she knows of the Organization's leaders and such, but she feels if she tells him anything until it comes up, he may carelessly act on it.

When Conan found out that [[Nanatsu no Ko|7 children]] was the [[Boss]]'s e-mail address, his initial thought was to have [[Takagi]] investigate it, until she told him that "He will die. Takagi as soon as he reaches that person, and then they will find out who gave him that number, and you will die next.
The e-mail address is Pandora's box that should never be opened.

In return, Conan protects her a lot in regards to the organization: saving her life, withholding risky information, and coming up with plans to save her life, when she has been found out and trying to hide her from them.

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
[[File:759-3.png|thumb|200px|Sonoko is teasing Conan about Ayumi.]]
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Conan grows to respect the little girl in his class for her sharp wit and observational skills, along with the other members of the [[Detective Boys]]. [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] in turn has a very open crush for Conan as seen in instances when she gave him kisses on his cheek. However, she seems to not be aware that the other two Detective Boys are jealous of Conan because of this. Sonoko once mentioned that she thought Conan likes Ayumi to which shocked Conan and made him internally admit his love for Ran.

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

=== Law enforcement ===
==== Police ====
[[File:Megure and Conan Relationship.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Megure waffles between treating Conan like a child and a detective]]
Except for a few inspectors, most listen to the little clues that Conan points out. After a while, Conan gets the attention of the whole Tokyo police department for noticing things even pros miss. [[Wataru Takagi]] in particular has taken to trusting Conan completely and doing whatever Conan asks him to without hesitation. Even [[Sato]] also treats him more like a detective.

Even when Takagi is hesitant to do what Conan asks of him, as soon as Sato hears Conan's name, she immediately will take action or give him information sometimes.

After [[Hyoue Kuroda]] became the superintendent of the Tokyo Prefecture, he has told Takagi and [[Megure]] to do what Conan asks of them in the [[The Actress Blogger's Locked Room Case|Actress Blogger Case]].

He even periodically refers to Conan as "Sleeping Kogoro's Bag of Wisdom" in front of the other police officers, such as Nagano Police Prefecture Officers, [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] and Inspector [[Yuminaga]], as well as Bourbon, who he instructed to answer all of Conan's questions when he realized that Conan was also investigating the case of [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department]].

==== Wataru Takagi ====
Wataru Takagi is the only police officer who has come the closest to finding out about [[Conan]]'s identity.

In [[The Man from Chicago]], When Conan is telling the police officers present about the Panda colors of the Police Cars, and that the younger generation may not know this information about their black and white cars, Takagi asks himself, "What generation is this kid from?"

In [[The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages]], while they waited for the elevator bomb's clock to run down to give the final clue to stop the greater crime. Takagi asked Conan about his real identity to which Conan answered that he would in the afterlife.

He also is aware of Conan's sharp intelligence and takes him seriously to take him for questioning the suspects. He trusts Conan so much that he would take him seriously.

Takagi has also come to acknowledge Conan's sharp mind and intellect, taking Conan's observations seriously and even allowing him to accompany him to question suspects, most notably during the New Scar and the Whistling Man Case where he has the rest of the Detective Boys remain in the car.

Conan also fully supports Takagi's relationship with Sato, at one point orchestrated a plan to foil [[Shiratori]]'s attempt at an arranged marriage with [[Sato]]. When asked for reasons, he didn't answer but quietly relate the experience with Ran's relationship.

==== Miwako Sato ====
[[File:EP424 5.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Miwako and Conan during a case Investigation]]

She had developed a deep trust in Conan and his intelligence from her real first time investigating with him, and seeing him in action in the case of [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story]].

Even when Takagi is hesitant to do as Conan says, unquestioningly, she will immediately and unhesitantly do as he says, almost all of the time, since she first met him.

==== Kansuke Yamato ====
Kansuke is one of the few police officers, who Conan can talk like an adult in front of.

In [[A Dangerous Party of Two]], he even told [[Yui Uehara|Yui]] Uehara that he suspects Conan of being "the one leading everything," in regards to [[Kogoro|Kogoro's]] cases, and that is after only after they met up in one case so far.

In fact, in that car ride, they were giving [[Agasa]] and [[Haibara]] a lift back to Tokyo, but he kept taking in a Nagano dialect, using phrases that terrified Haibara, such as "Half-Kill" and "Over-Kill, which dealt with a kind of Mochi, and not what Agasa and Haibara were thinking of."

The reason why he and Yui were heading to Tokyo was to enlist Kogoro's help with the Red Wall Case, which Yui told Conan that it was his help they were wanting.

==== Hyoue Kuroda ====
[[Kuroda]] is aware of how good Conan is as a detective, calling him " Sleeping Kogoro's bag of wisdom", he also trusts his deductions and has already ordered the Tokyo police to follow Conan's Instructions.

On the other hand, Conan is suspicious of Kuroda because he almost matches [[Rum]]'s description, he also became shocked that Kuroda became the Superintendent of Tokyo Police in [[Matsumoto]]'s place.

In [[Kawanakajima Murder Case]], which was his first appearance, he already knew that Conan was 'The Brain behind Sleeping Kogoro,' and stated an entire dialogue stating his knowledge of Edogawa Conan in front of the Nagano Police Officers present, in his first speech to Conan.

In [[Mystery of the Burning Tent|Mystery of the Burning Tent]], He refers to Conan as "Sleeping Kogoro's Bag of Wisdom" to both: [[Ninzaburo Shiratori]] and [[Inspector Yuminaga]].

In [[The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department]], he also instructed Amuro to answer all of Conan's questions, when he realized that Conan was also investigating the case as well.

==== Rei Furuya ====
[[Rei Furuya|Rei]] (Aliases as Tooru Amuro) has attached himself to the [[Mouri Detective Agency]] as [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s "apprentice". Conan initially treats him in a somewhat friendly manner, though he privately thinks "another annoying person has shown up" when he learns Rei will be joining Kogoro on cases. However, after he finds out [[The Jet-Black Mystery Train|Amuro's membership in the Black Organization]], though, Conan has been relatively nervous about him being near [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]. This was made even worse when Rei caught him attempting to tranquilize Kogoro, but due to Rei's attentiveness, he was unable to and had to give hints to Kogoro instead. Although Amuro may not have seen the trick, he became convinced that Conan was the puppeteer behind Sleeping Kogoro, and began investigating Conan, which only made Conan more nervous of him. Their relationship later seemed to improve in [[The Scarlet Return]] when Conan learns that Rei is an undercover operative from the Japanese Secret Police when the two exchange smiles in Café Poirot. Conan even used his Voice Changing Bow Tie in front of Rei in [[The Heartfelt Strap]].

When Shinichi Kudo is exposed on the media due to [[The Scarlet School Trip|Kyoto Field Trip]], he receives an email from [[Rum]], ordering him to gather information about Shinichi. After he helped to solve the [[The Unsolved Cocktail Case|Bunny Girls Case]], Amuro broke into the Kudo home, so that he can find out information about [[Kudo Shinichi]]. He had the altercation with an [[Akai Shuichi|unmasked Akai]], and both of [[Yusaku Kudo|Shinichi's]] [[Yukiko Kudo|parents]] turned on the light, so that the four of them can have a meeting. Currently, it is unknown what was discussed in that meeting, other than Conan planned it.

It seemed to become strained again in the movie: [[Zero the Enforcer]], however that is due to Amuro had his subordinate, [[Yuya Kazami]] of the [[Public Security Bureau|Japanese Secret Police- Public Security Bureau]], plant phony incriminating evidence against Kogoro Mouri for a bombing incident. However, it turns out that the framing was to use Conan as a Collaborator and to rely on his strength so that Conan can do what he was unable to do for his investigation. This way, he was able to use Conan as a Collaborator and to rely on his strength.

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

==== Shuichi Akai/Subaru Okiya ====
[[File:The Scarlet Return-Shuichi and Conan.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Shuichi and Conan ([[The Scarlet Return|Ep. 782]])]]
[[Shuichi Akai|Shuichi]] has been shown to respect Conan's detective skills. Together they hatched a plan to send Hidemi Hondou back into the organization and fake Akai's death. He has discovered that Conan and Shinichi are the same by spying on him in a [[Volume 77#File 814 - Conan-kun, Right?|recent plot line]]. Conan once says to Shuichi, "I'm glad you're an ally."

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

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

In [[Reunion with the Black Organization|Reunion of the Black Organization]], Gin had to shoot himself in the arm to stay awake, after he was shot with Conan's tranquilizer dart.
He also found Conan's bug and transmitter in his car, however, due to a strand of [[Haibara Ai|Haibara]]'s hair, he is convinced it was [[Shiho Miyano|Sherry]], who planted them.

In [[Contact with the Black Organization]], Gin told Vodka "You have to be always on guard. It seems Someone is investigating about us, a Detective clever as a Fox," without being aware that it happens to be a 7-year-old little child.

In [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out]], he found Conan's bug and transmitter on [[Kir]]'s shoe and immediately planned to exterminate [[Kogoro Mouri]], who he was convinced left the bug. When Conan kicked a soccer ball into the Detective Agency window, Gin decided to add another victim, the little kid. Thankfully, [[Akai]] made him think the bug and transmitter were planted by the FBI, which saved them both.

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] seems to have a great personal interest in Conan, referring to him as the Black Organization's 'Silver Bullet' and her "Cool Guy."

She also protects Conan, probably because when she was disguising as a serial killer in New York she was saved by Conan (Shinichi at the time) and Ran.

When the Organization plans on killing Kogoro, and later Conan, she strongly objects to a degree where Gin suspects whether Kogoro is related to Vermouth.

Because of this, Conan does not react strongly when she is mentioned, as opposed to Haibara. He also seems to consider her less of a threat than the other members because he can bargain with her about Haibara and knows Vermouth is keeping his secret for personal reasons.

In [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|Head-to Head]], After Conan removed his Haibara mask, he was distracted, when Haibara showed up on the scene, which gave Vermouth the needed opening to use his stun gun wristwatch on him, to place him to sleep, before gently sitting him down beside the car, so he does not get hurt in the fall.

She also destroyed the box that he was connected to by many wires, so as not to possibly accidentally kill or hurt him, which pulling out the wires would have, according to Conan.

After she used sleeping gas, to knock him back out, so that she can escape, and not lead the Black Organization members to him.

She even covered the sleeping boy up with her coat, so that he would not get sick, since she had cut his shirt wide open, to see the wires and connected box, which may have made him sick, if he is not found right away, since it is pretty cold, and colds are spreading at this time.

She shot herself in the leg and had to hobble some distance away from the car, so that he would remain out of sight, and nowhere around her when Gin came to pick her up.

In [[The Raven Chaser]], she even provided Conan with the name of [[Irish]] and gave him a little bit of information on why the Organization is interested in this serial murder case.

In [[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out|Black Impact]], when she was speaking on the cell phone to Gin, she mentioned hearing noise, and then she thought that Conan may have had something to do with the noise coming from Gin's car, and when Gin asked about what noise, she quickly "Never mind. It is nothing," to protect Conan.

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

[[File:704 20.png|thumb|200px|Kaitou Kid disguised as [[Shiho]] as requested from Conan]]

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

In the non-[[canon]] movies, it is implied that Kid knows Conan's identity; he even helps Conan maintain his cover by disguising himself as Shinichi so that a suspicious Ran would stop suspecting Conan.

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

==== [[Kanenori Wakita]] ====
In his [[The Tokyo-Style Detective Show Next Door|introductory case]], Conan noticed that he had a medical patch on his left eye, although Wakita claims it is only temporary. He chose not to see the messy left eye, along with Kogoro and Ran.

In the [[Search for Maria-chan!]], while Conan is hiding at Agasa's due to the uproar or his appearance as Kudo Shinichi on a case, during his Kyoto Field Trip, he noticed that Wakita knocked on Agasa's door, and asked about all of the press stationed next door outside of the Kudo gate, while he claimed to be making a delivery to someone in the neighborhood.

(He could have just asked the person that his delivery was for, but no. Let's ask the Kudos' [[Agasa Hiroshi|next door neighbor]]. Plus it is highly unlikely that [[Subaru]], the supposedly DEAD FBI agent, [[Akai]], who is residing in the [[Kudo Shinichi|Kudo]] house, which is the house to the supposedly dead teenage detective, would ever order for Delivery. Take-out, maybe, but not Delivery.)

== People who know Conan's real identity ==
{{main|List of characters who know Conan's identity}}
There are only a few characters in the series who know Conan's real identity. None of them have ever betrayed Conan's identity to date. The main characters to know the secret are [[Hiroshi Agasa]], [[Yusaku Kudo]], [[Yukiko Kudo]], [[Heiji Hattori]], and [[Ai Haibara]]. [[Vermouth]] of the Black Organization also knows about Conan's secret. Later, in Episode 508 of the anime, [[Eisuke Hondou]] confirms Conan's identity as [[Shinichi Kudo]] straight from him. In manga chapters 812-814, [[Subaru Okiya]] ([[Shuichi Akai]] in disguise,) confirms that Conan is Shinichi. [[Masumi Sera]] also knows that Conan is Shinichi Kudo before they even first met. It is also hinted that [[Mary]] knows about Conan's true identity, telling her daughter Masumi to be wary of him.

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

The 3rd, 8th, 14th, 19th, and 23rd movies also demonstrate that [[Kaitou Kid]] knows Conan's identity and acts to protect it. Though it was once unconfirmed if he knew in the manga, it was recently confirmed in the Fairy Lips case, where Kid thinks that there are "two high school detectives" on the scene, referring to Heiji, and Conan, the only other high school detective there. It is unknown how he came to figure this out.

== People who know that Conan is behind the "Sleeping Kogoro" ==
{{main|List of characters who know Conan is Sleeping Kogoro}}
There is even a varied list of those who know that Conan is the puppeteer behind the "Sleeping Kogoro."

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

== Character popularity ==
* eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011, to May 12, 2011, in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Conan placed 3rd in the poll with 866 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 15th movie, [[Quarter of Silence]], the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Shinichi/Conan placed 1st out of 10 with 30.46% of the votes cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conan-movie.jp/camp_chara/camp15th_res.html|title=名探偵コナン「キャラクター人気投票」|date=2011|publisher=www.conan-movie.jp|accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref>
* In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Conan placed 1st overall with 2,843 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forum.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=8024.msg651566#msg651566|title=Shonen magazine detective Conan official poll results published [magazine pic]|date=2012-02-28|publisher=eva|accessdate=2012-02-29}}</ref>
* In a poll held on June 5, 2020, by asking women age 20 to 40 who were their favourite Detective Conan character, Conan ranked first<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/OneTruthPrevails/comments/hjkevu/detective_conan_character_popularity_poll_june_5/</ref>.

== Name origin ==
Gosho Aoyama (and Shinichi, in the story) got the name 'Conan Edogawa' from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories, and Edogawa Rampo, the pen name of Japanese mystery fiction writer Hirai Tarō. Hirai Tarō himself got the pen name "Edogawa Rampo" from a transliteration of "Edgar Allan Poe." Pronouncing Poe's name in a Japanese accent sounds like 'Edogawa Rampo.'

== Character inspiration ==
Gosho said Conan's hairstyle was designed in about one minute. He smoothed [[Yaiba]]'s hair and added a tuft modeled after the apostrophe hairstyle of Kabu from [[Wikipedia:Sally_the_Witch|Sally the Witch]]. The tuft on the hair on the top of Conan's head comes from the character Shichimi in [[Wikipedia:Niji Iro Tōgarashi|Niji Iro Tōgarashi]]. Conan's clothes were modeled after [[Wikipedia:Shichi-Go-San|Shichi-Go-San (7-5-3) clothing]]. Young Gosho wore a bow tie and shorts in his Shichi-Go-San photographs. Gosho tries to restrict Conan's gadgets to what Conan can wear, but he has run out of ideas lately. The use of glasses as a disguise was modeled after [[Wikipedia:Superman|Superman]]'s Clark Kent. Conan's speech habits were meant to be slightly rough like Joe from [[Wikipedia:Ashita no Joe|Ashita no Joe]] and [[Wikipedia:Touch (manga)|Touch]].<ref>File 865 Shounen Sunday Special Booklet</ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan Before.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 2]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan Middle.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 358]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:EP561 5.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 561]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan After.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 763]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan Alt.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|Episode 890]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:conan mk1412 ep11.png|thumb|x200px|Magic Kaito 1412 (episode 11).]]
|}
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Conan TCH.jpg|thumb|left|x200px|The Culprit Hanzawa Episode 4]]
|}

== Quotes ==
=== General ===
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{{quote|{{nihongo|Conan Edogawa, a detective!|江戸川コナン, 探偵さ|Edogawa Konan, tantei sa!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|There is always only one truth!|真実はいつもひとつ！|Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|Only one truth is revealed, the appearance of a child, the brains of an adult, I am the great Detective Conan! |たった一つの真実見抜く、見た目は子供、頭脳は大人、その名は名探偵コナン!！|Tatta hitotsu no shinjitsu minuku, mitame wa kodomo, zunou wa otona, sono na wa Meitantei Konan!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the beginning of every episode.}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|Even if I'm smaller my brain is still that of a great detective, there is always only one truth!|小さくなっても頭脳は同じ迷宮なしの名探偵真実はいつもひとつ！|Chiisaku natte mo zunou wa onaji, Meikyuu nashi no meitantei, Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu!}}|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears during the intro of every movie.}}
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{{quote|Only one truth prevails!|One of Conan's catchphrases, which appears at the end of every solved case in Case Closed.}}
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{{quote|There's so such thing as a perfect person in this world}}
{{quote|{{nihongo|When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.|あなたが不可能を除外するとき、どんなにありそうもないとしても、残っていることは真実でなければなりません|Anata ga fukanō o jogai suru toki, don'nani ari-sō mo nai to shite mo, nokotte iru koto wa shinjitsudenakereba narimasen}}|One of Conan's catchphrases.}}

=== Specific ===
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{{quote|You can’t cure your suffering by making others suffer.}}
{{quote|If you believe in nothing and stand up for nothing, you’ll become and achieve nothing.}}
{{quote|After all, I'm the guy who's been breaking [[Ran Mouri|her]] heart by making her wait an eternity... even though I'm always by her side.|Talking to Haibara about Ran}}
{{quote|Don't run away, Haibara. Don't look away from your fate.|After rescuing Haibara from a suicidal situation.<ref>[[Volume 29]], File 5, pg 15: "Concealed beneath the truth"</ref>}}
{{quote|Ah, if you want to know, I'll tell you... In the afterlife...|Conan's response when [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] asked who he is.}}
{{quote|Even if you're facing a bitter aspect of life, drugs, and murder are foul without any excuse, deserves a red card for a loser.|Talking to Ray Curtis in English}}
{{quote|Ran, If we die, we die together...|[[The Time-Bombed Skyscraper]]}}
{{quote|A detective who corners a culprit with their reasoning...and drives them to suicide in front of himself is no different than a murderer.|Conan/Shinichi telling Heiji why letting the criminal commit suicide is wrong|[[Episode 78]]}}
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{{quote|Because I love you. I love you. In this world, more than anyone...|[[Captured in Her Eyes]]}}
{{quote|Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way they'll turn into ugly weapons. Once those words leave your mouth, you'll never be able to take them back.|[[Quarter of Silence]], talking to the Detective Boys}}
{{quote|Don’t be tricked by what you see now. Sometimes the things which seem unbelievable, are the truth.}}
{{quote|If you're going to hide a leaf, hide it in a forest. When there's no forest, you can make one yourself.|[[OVA 4]], talking to Phillip}}
{{quote|Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything.|Talking to Ran}}
{{quote|Culprit: I thought my crime is perfect. Just like my operations. Conan (voiced as Kogoro): Crimes committed by humans can never be perfect.|[[Episode 55]]}}
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{{quote|Humans are animals that cannot change their habits.| Talking as Mouri Kogoro [[Episode 439]]}}
{{quote|Even if the owner commits a crime the animal is innocent|[[Ai Haibara Imprisonment Case|Episode 769]]}}

=== Quotes about Conan ===
{{quote|While pursuing the truth and justice without thinking about consequences...you stand the strain of all pressure alone to protect everyone...Such boy-like temperaments of yours are astonishingly intriguing, however...I wonder if you realize it...That clean scent of yours is strangling her, us, and yourself with loneliness and danger.|Ai thinking about Conan|[[Volume 33|File 336: "Clean Scent"]]}}

{{quote|You have to be always on guard. It seems Someone is investigating about us, a Detective clever as a Fox.|Gin warning Vodka|[[Volume 38|File 383: "The New Weapon!"]]}}

== Trivia ==
[[Image: EP622-623 Gallery 16.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Conan's cellphone wallpaper - Kogoro changed it when he was drunk]]
* Conan's bad singing came to light as a joke after the anime began airing because Conan's voice actress [[Minami Takayama]] is a well-known singer. In [[Volume 15]] of the manga, Takayama herself is kidnapped and Conan, who sounds similar to her, tries to take her place at a concert. However, despite having similar voices, they sound completely different when it comes to singing.<ref>[[Volume 15|Volume 15, Files 144-146: "Their Voices Are Alike!?"]]</ref>
* He owns two cellphones, the one he uses as Conan and one that he uses as Shinichi. He is also shown using different kinds of cellphones throughout the series.
* Conan often uses the expression "Ah-le-le?" when he is trying to point out a clue, something that is usually said by Japanese grade-schoolers. The expression was even [[The Sullied Masked Hero|said by Kogoro]] out of irritation at Conan (right before Conan tranquillized him). Conan's habit of acting juvenile to disguise his real abilities also [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|draws the ire]] of the Detective Boys.
* Conan/Shinichi and [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] share the same blood type as mentioned in episode 189.
* In [[Magic Kaito Volume 3#Akako's Delivery Service|Akako's Delivery Service]], [[Saguru Hakuba]] acquires a strand of [[Kaitou Kid]]'s hair and runs a genetic scan on it, determining that Kid is a fifteen-to-seventeen-year-old male with a higher-than-average IQ. He then runs this information against a database of Tokyo teenagers and comes up with a list of possible Kaitou Kids, at the top of which was [[Kaito Kuroba]]'s name. However, it's interesting to wonder whether Shinichi, another sixteen-year-old Tokyo resident with a similar build and above-average intelligence, made Saguru's list, but the search included only teenagers with blood type B, and it has never actually been stated what Shinichi's is (although [[Kogoro Mouri]] mentions that Conan's blood type is rare<ref>Episode 189</ref>). Type B is not a common blood type<ref>See population breakdown by country here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABO_blood_group_system#ABO_and_Rh_distribution_by_country</ref>, so it is possible that this is Shinichi's type.
* Conan/Shinchi's favourite drink is iced coffee as shown in episode 814, 919, etc. Shinichi's favourite drink is shown in [[Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie]] when Daisuke says that he isn't the only one who drinks iced coffee throughout the year. The lemon pie does not count as Shinichi's favourite during [[The Memories of First Love Case]] because the woman Asami Uchida, whose first love was Shinichi, told this to Ran and her speciality in the past was baking that same lemon pie that she finally perfected so Shinichi will tell her that the pie was delicious. Unless Gosho Aoyama said otherwise, the lemon pie may not be Shinichi's favourite and it was only brought up during that case alone.
* Whenever dealing with a particularly difficult case, Shinichi/Conan juggles a soccer ball to think better. In scenes where he doesn't have one, he often holds his chin with his thumb and forefinger.
* Conan/Shinichi doesn't know that ironically, due to all his secret-keeping from Ran, he's potentially locked himself out of learning about Ran's encounter(s) with the Black Organization, because she has no reason to tell 'Conan' about them. Shinichi/Conan has no idea that Ran has encountered Vermouth and saved Haibara from her, even 500+ chapters after it occurred. The fact that Haibara herself is invested in keeping Ran out of anything to do with the Black Organization only adds to this, as she deliberately lied to Conan/Shinichi about who saved her that night. Ran not knowing Conan's identity also prevents them from confiding in each other or pooling together the information they might have in other areas and thus can extend the time it takes for important realizations to come to light.
* In file 1045, it is revealed that Conan and Yumi have each other's phone numbers.
* In file 900, it is revealed that Conan and Miwako Sato have each other's phone numbers.
* According to Gosho in Super Digest Book 90+ that from time to time, Conan wears a jumper with a "K" written on which stands for "Karl Helmutt", a Japanese clothing brand.
* No matter where Conan goes, he can't go anywhere without stumbling upon a murder or some other crime. Lampshaded after a while by whichever of the police officers happens to be on duty in that area and some of the characters:
:* Megure in particular begins to wonder if Kogoro is the Angel of Death, later on, more accurately shifting his joking suspicions towards Conan himself as seen in Episode 549.
:* During The Final Screening Murder Case (manga chapter 222/anime episode 138) where the Detective Boys are watching movies in a theatre and Ai tells Conan he should relax and enjoy a "child's vacation." When someone is killed at the back of the theatre, Ai remarks, "It seems you never have time for a vacation."
:* In episode 141, Heiji says about Conan, "Every time I see that guy a case occurs," ... about thirty seconds before a scream is heard and a body discovered.
:* In file 1088 Heiji said that the level of his Grim Reaper that gets him involved in cases is not high as Conan’s.
:* And during The Mystery in the Netcase (File 311-313/episodes 246-247) where the Detective Boys and Ran and Sonoko independently wind up at the same beach, Sonoko says of Conan, "The reason we didn't bring him was that there are always cases when he's around!"
:** Later in the same episode, Haibara learns where Conan and the others are after they're late returning to their hotel (having discovered a murder while she was not present) by asking the hotel staff if there is a murder being investigated nearby.
:* At the beginning of the first file of the paper aeroplane case, Conan notices how he seems to be running into cases all the time. This is the first time he's ever noticed, and this is over 600 chapters into the manga.
:* Except that in the very first chapter of the whole manga, he tells Ran that murders "happen all the time", which implies that encountering a lot of murders is normal to him. The rate of cases must have ramped up even further for him to notice that something is odd.
:* In Zero Tea Time File 52 Amuro thought about Conan when he thought that something bad happens wherever you go like the Grim Reaper when Sakurako Yonehara talked about the grim reaper when she said she feels like she cursed because there are cases and police investigations happen at the places she works as a housekeeper.
* In episode 681, it's revealed Conan has Detective Chiba's phone number.
* According to RECIPE PLUS Super Digest Book he likes curry the most, he and his dad like Yukiko's paella the most.
* According to [[Gosho Aoyama]], Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara are in no way related to each other.<ref>[https://conannews.org/fragerunde-mit-gosho-aoyama-day2023/49323/ ''Fragerunde mit Gosho Aoyama: DAY2023.''] ''ConanNews.org'' (in German). 16 February 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.</ref>

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|コナン Konan|江戸川 Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Arab League|Arabic|كونان Konan|إيدوجاوا Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa Indonesia|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Bahasa Melayu|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Catalonia|Catalan|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|flag2 = Hong Kong | Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) |柯南 Kēnán|江户川 Jiānghùchuān}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Galicia|Galician|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|코난 Konan|(강)(in past pirate version)에도가와<ref>In the Korean version, Conan was never given a last name, possibly because his original last name, Edogawa, has 4 syllables, while all last names in Korean must be of one syllable.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Mongolia|Mongolian |Конан|Эдогава}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Russia|Russian |Конан Konan|Эдогава Edogava}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish (Spain)|Conan|Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish (Latin America) |Conan|Blasi<ref>Only in the first 123 episodes in the Latin Spanish Dub.</ref>/Edogawa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|โคนัน Khonạ-n|เอโดะงาวะ XE-do-ngā-wa}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Conan|Edogawa}}
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== Gallery ==
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Image:Conan white bow tie.jpg|Conan wearing a white version of his bow tie.<ref>In episodes 505-506, and 520</ref>
Image:vlcsnap-2013-09-21-15h36m56s117.png|"There is only one truth!" Conan's accusation poses seen in the opening of every movie.
Image:vlcsnap-2013-11-02-21h07m32s178.png|Conan has a cameo in most of the [[Magic Kaito]] Specials and OVAs.
Image:Conan Wearing His Hat.png|Conan wearing his hat.
</gallery>

== References ==
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo]]

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