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Yukiko Kudo

2012-07-14T13:32:42Z

Waynot: /* Quotes */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Yukiko Kudo
| japanese-name = 工藤有希子 (Kudō Yukiko)
| english-name = Vivian Kudo
| image = Yukiko Kudo Profile.jpg
| age = 37<ref name=CD58>Conan Drill page 58</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD58/>
| relatives = [[Yusaku Kudo]] (husband) [[Shinichi Kudo]] (son)
| nicknames = The Night Baroness
| aliases = Yukiko Fujimine (maiden name) Fumiyo Edogawa Fumiyo Akechi
| first-appearance = Manga: File 49 Anime: Episode 43
| appearances = {{:Yukiko Kudo Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 14]]
| japanese-voice = [[Sumi Shimamoto]]
| english-voice = [[Laurie Steele]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Yukiko Kudo|工藤有希子|Kudō Yukiko}}''' is the mother of [[Shinichi Kudo]] and, along with her husband [[Yusaku Kudo|Yusaku]], one of few characters who knows he is [[Conan Edogawa]]. She was once a famous actress, but retired after marrying Yusaku. She was also close friends with fellow actress, [[Sharon Vineyard]], both being excellent masters of disguise.

== Background ==
Yukiko was born in the Tosa Province (today's Kochi Prefecture, located in the southern portion of Shikoku), and became a fan of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakamoto_Ryoma Sakamoto Ryoma] after having played the part of his older sister Otome in a historical drama. (This role also made her internationally famous as a talented actress.)<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, [[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>

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>

== 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-chan" in Japanese (in English, the closest equivalent would be "aunt"), she sets up such a furious face that Shinichi must quickly correct himself by calling her "onee-chan" ("older sister").

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> She takes pride in being an excellent actress and a mistress of disguise, able to fool even close friends and family with her skills.
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== Plot overview ==
=== Conan Edogawa Kidnapping Case ===
Yukiko first appearance was disguised as Fumiyo Edogawa, a woman claiming to be Conan's mom.
=== The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases ===
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. It is a good one.

== Plot exposition ==
===List of disguises used===
{{main|Disguise}}
Yukiko prefers relatively simple female disguises. These are the known ones used so far.
<gallery perrow="6">
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|As a mysterious woman with Okiya
</gallery>

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

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

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yukiko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Yukiko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 43)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Yukiko_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Yukiko's "After" Appearance (Episode 621)]]
|}

== 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.|[[Secret of the Touto Film Making Centre|Episode 335]]||talking to Conan about Haibara}}

== Trivia ==
==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Vivian|Kudo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Yukiko|Kudo}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|يوكويو Yokoyo|كودو Kodo}}
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Kudo family]]
* [[Yukiko Kudo Appearances]]

== References ==
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Jodie Starling

2012-06-11T12:41:09Z

Waynot: /* Ran Mouri */

{{InfoBox Char
| name = Jodie Starling
| japanese-name = ジョディ・スターリング (Jodi Sutaaringu)
| english-name = Jodie Starling
| image = Jodie Starling Profile.jpg
| age = 28-29
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| nicknames =
| aliases = Jodie Santemillion
| first-appearance = Manga: File 270 Anime: Episode 226
| appearances = {{:Jodie Starling Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 42]]
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Miyuki Ichijo]] [[Yumi Toma]] (young)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Jodie Starling|ジョディ・スターリング|Jodi Sutaaringu}}''', referred to in earlier episodes as '''{{nihongo|Jodie Santemillion|ジョディ・サンテミリオン|Jodi Santemirion}}''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Jodie as a child.png|thumb|120px|left|Jodie as a child]]
Some twenty years ago, when Jodie was still just a little girl, [[Vermouth]] killed her parents, who had been working on the [[Black Organization]] for the FBI. Vermouth was surprised to find her in her house, and after Jodie had asked what was going on, Vermouth told her to wait by her father until he woke up, and that "a secret makes a woman woman". She then set the house ablaze, thus destroying any evidence that she had been there, along with the corpses of Jodie's parents and any records about the Black Organization.

Fortunately, Jodie had decided to run down the street to the store to buy her father some orange juice, and had thus survived. She was put under protection by the FBI, although she declined the Witness Protection Program, and eventually became an FBI agent herself under the tutelage and patronage of [[James Black]]. The only remaining memento from her past is the set of glasses she wears, which had originally belonged to her father.
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== Personality ==
Jodie usually is a very serious person, but also has demonstrated a very playful and carefree side (as it is seen when she is Ran's English teacher). She seems to like movies (especially mystery and action-oriented films), and enjoys action videogames.

==Appellations==
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| [[File:James Black 60px.jpg]] || [[James Black]] || Jodie-kun || James
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| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] || Jodie || Shuu
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| [[File:Andre Camel 60px.jpg]] || [[Andre Camel]] || ??? || Agent Camel
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! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Jodie !! style="width:450px;"|What Jodie calls them
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| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Jodie-sensei || Cool Kid, Conan-kun, Boss
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| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Jodie-sensei, Sensei || Mouri-san
|-
| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Jodie-sensei || "Little Red Riding Hood"
|-
| [[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]] || [[Sonoko Suzuki]] || Jodie-sensei || Suzuki-san, Sonoko
|-
| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure]] || Jodie-sensei || N/A
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| [[File:Tomoaki Araide 60px.jpg]] || [[Tomoaki Araide]] || Jodie, Jodie-sensei || Doctor Araide
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== Plot overview ==
===Plot Timeline===
Jodie appears around the same time as Vermouth as Ran's new English teacher at Teitan High under the name of "Jodie Saintemillion". She comes off as somewhat strange, and refers to Conan as "Cool Guy", which caused fans to believe that she knew his secret. (In fact, she now knows he's an incredible detective, but it is unclear if she knows his true identity). She is noted for often using the phrase of her enemy, Vermouth ('A secret makes a woman woman'). In episode 226-227 Jodie, after watching Conan suspiciously, informs someone over the phone that she has found their target, whom she refers to as "Rotten Apple".

First indications of Jodie's FBI training are shown during the confrontation with the bus hijackers. She stealthily turns on the safety to one of the hijacker's guns, while knocking him down thus he cannot shoot it when he attempts to fire at her. She appears later in 271-272 and gives Conan information that allows him to solve the case. In episodes 277-278, she is investigated by Conan and Heiji, both believing her to be Vermouth in disguise, as she pretends to not know japanese despite being perfectly fluent, and even helps them solve a case in the same episode.

It is not until her personal confrontation with Vermouth that Jodie's past and true identity as an FBI agent is revealed, as well as the real reason she's in Japan and the person she's looking for. She is tracking down Vermouth, and after a brief confrontation with her, Jodie is rescued by Conan and her colleague [[Shuichi Akai]]. Following this, she offers Ai a place in the Witness Protection Program, but Ai declines. She does not appear again until when she helps Conan prevent an assassination plot of a politician orchestrated by the Black Organization and the subsequent capture and hospitalization of the BO member Kir.

Jodie has been heavily involved in the BO arc episodes 492-504, which has involved the BO and the FBI. The death of her partner, Akai, takes a very emotional toll on her. As it later turns out, they used to be lovers before Akai infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]], with whom he eventually became more intensely involved. Still, despite their breakup Jodie does maintain strong feelings for him.<ref name=Akai>Manga Chapter 677: The Fated Individual</ref>. When a man who looks like Shuichi Akai appears, Jodie is convinced that the stranger is her partner who has lost his memory, but he is gone before she can affirm her suspicion.

===Hints that Jodie was not Vermouth, but an FBI agent===
[[File:Jodie mirror pictures.PNG|thumb|right|Jodie's copies have uneven borders, highlighted in red, from imperfect camera alignment while photographing Vermouth's images.]]
* The records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases that [[Vermouth]] stole did not contain any cases involving Jodie Saintemillion, but did the contain the murder case [[Tomoaki Araide]] was involved in. This was the clue that allowed [[Conan]] to deduce Araide was Vermouth and not Jodie.
* Jodie's copies of [[Media:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard]] have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.<ref name="f343p18">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
* Jodie calls Conan "cool guy" after the first time they meet in reference to the caption on Vermouth's photo of Conan, but she switches to to "cool kid" after that. This showed that Jodie did not know Conan was Shinichi, unlike Vermouth who was grateful to Conan (and thus trying not to target him) after Shinichi saved her in the New York case.
* Jodie mentions the nickname for the FBI is "The Bureau".

== Relationships analysis ==
Due to her undercover status in Japan, Jodie’s personality and style of communication varies from person to person. Outside of a select few who know of her involvement with the FBI, Jodie maintains her cover at all times, first being a high school English teacher at Teitan High, and later an American tourist vacationing with her “boyfriend”.

===Colleagues===

====Shuichi Akai====
Shuichi and Jodie are co-workers that came to Japan as part of an FBI unit led by James Black in pursuit of Vermouth and the Black Organization. While their relationship is mostly professional in the current-timeline, the two were romantically involved at least five years prior. When Akai was given the mission to earn the trust of and become a mole inside the Organization, he got close to Akemi Miyano for the purpose of using her inside connections. Despite his original intentions, however, Akai genuinely fell in love with Akemi, leading him to break up with a blindsided Jodie. While the feelings were still there, Akai explained himself by saying, “To be able to love two women at the same time…it’s not that handy a personality.” While the two were no longer lovers, Jodie's feelings for Akai never swayed. Despite an end to their relationship, the two continued on as colleagues until the fateful day when Akai was killed. While his death was a tragic loss for all those in the FBI, Jodie took it especially hard. When first hearing the news, she was in complete denial that Akai could die. Despite her frantic attempts at proving Akai was alive, however, Jodie came to the cold hard truth on her own, bringing the agent to tears.

Since the incidents of Clash of Red and Black, Akai has become an understandably sore topic for Jodie. On one occasion when conversation about drinks led Camel to mention Akai's love for Bourbon alcohol, Jodie stormed away from her friends. In addition to an inability to cope with this loss, her thought process has become seemingly more aggressive and risky, something that was unheard of during her long, careful investigation of Vermouth. Jodie's mindset has been especially fixated since her encounter with [[Scar Akai]]. When Camel mentioned that the sudden reappearance of Akai could be a trap set up by the organization, Jodie refused to accept the possibility of such a scenario.

====James Black====
Although James Black is in charge of the FBI agents stationed in Japan, his relationship with Jodie couldn’t be further from the usual boss and subordinate stereotype. In fact, during several occasions, Jodie takes over the role of giving out orders while James serves as her chauffeur. <ref>[[Volume 49#File 502 - A New Objective|Volume 49, File 502: "A New Objective", Page 11]]</ref> While there are many possibilities to explain such an arrangement, such as her strong personality and supposedly bad driving skills, James does not seem to mind in the least. The two have been acquainted long before she joined the FBI, dating back at least twenty years before the series. Following the murder of Jodie’s father, also an FBI agent, James tried convincing the young girl to join the witness protection program. Both out of concern for her safety and respect for his deceased friend, James pushed the offer hard and often, but Jodie refused him time and time again until at some point when she made him a deal; she would join the program if, and only if, she was promised a position in the FBI when she was older. <ref>[[Volume 43#File 437 - Ai Haibara's Resolution|Volume 43, File 437: "Ai Haibara's Resolution ", Pages 15 - 18]]</ref> Whether or not he accepted the deal, Jodie’s current employment with the FBI seems to speak for itself. Despite this unusual working relationship, Jodie is a loyal and hard-working agent that wholeheartedly respects the man whom she has come to see as a sort of father figure. Work aside, the two have been shown to spend time together as friends, often along with Camel.

====Andre Camel====

===Black Organization===

====Vermouth====
[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|175 px|right|Jodie (Age 7) encounters Vermouth twenty years prior to the series.]]
Bitter hatred for Vermouth is putting Jodie's feelings very lightly. The animosity she holds for the American actress stems back twenty years, during Jodie’s early childhood, when her father was murdered in cold blood and home burned to a crisp by none other than Vermouth. Jodie’s father was an FBI agent working in secret on files pertaining to Vermouth. Thinking that Jodie would die along with her mother and the files when the fire was set ablaze, Vermouth allowed the young girl to wait with her daddy for the bedtime story he promised her before dying. Things did not work out as planned, however, when Jodie left to buy orange juice at the grocery store as the fire began, later returning to find her house in shambles. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for the escapee, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues.

While Vermouth had since moved on from that incident, Jodie’s whole life was shaped during that fateful night. Albeit hesitant at first to join the program, Jodie made a deal with the persistent FBI agent, James Black: if promised a place in the FBI, she would take up his offer and go into the witness protection program. Ever since then, the burning desire to avenge her father, mother, and lost childhood drove Jodie to seek out the murderess. Vowing to always remember what took place, Jodie even took up the infamous motto that Vermouth spoke on the night of their encounter: “A secret makes a woman, woman.” When, years later, the FBI found a new lead on Vermouth, Jodie was given the opportunity to finally bring the high ranking organization member to justice.

Compared to the girl she made an orphan, Vermouth’s strong dislike for Jodie pales in comparison but exists nonetheless. When the two were finally reunited after a long period of time where both posed as school teachers, Vermouth was just as determined to finish what she started twenty years ago as Jodie was to bringing her nemesis into FBI custody. Although intervention from both sides led to a stalemate during their encounter, their fierce rivalry lives on, each with renewed efforts to put an end to the other.

====Kir====

===Other===

==== Conan Edogawa ====

Impressed by his intelligence, deductionary abilities and knowledge, Jodie considers [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] her "favorite detective". She always takes him seriously, and lets him help her in figuring out plans. Also, it is shown that Jodie has placed great trust on the boy detective. It is because when Conan asks a favor, or is asked by him to do a certain action, even though it doesn't make much sense, Jodie complies without question.

====Ran Mouri====
Although the two first met off screen when Jodie began teaching at Teitan High, Jodie’s stern personality and tough teaching style left a bad, perhaps more uncertain, impression on Ran. After coincidentally running into Jodie after school one day at an arcade, an entirely new impression was left on Ran. The high school girl began to admire and enjoy Jodie’s fun, friendly side. On more than one occasion, Ran even went to Jodie for advice. Unbeknownst to Ran, however, Jodie was putting on a front, at times even using the girl as a means to see Conan in action. As an FBI agent, Jodie closely monitored Ran and Conan after discovering a dartboard with their pictures during her investigation of Vermouth. As a school teacher, Jodie easily managed to keep close tabs on the girl labeled “Angel”.

When Jodie left her teaching position, the class was deeply saddened. Despite Jodie’s protests, Ran and Sonoko attempted to throw their favorite teacher a farewell party, which later turned into a case. To prove a friend’s innocence, Ran attempted to call Shinichi to solve the case for her. Jodie, however, took the phone away, claiming that Ran needed to learn how to become independent. This gesture helps encourage Ran to try and solve the case on her own, further strengthening Ran’s admiration for Jodie. When the time came to say good-bye, however, Ran went to use Jodie’s bathroom only to find photos of her friends and her hidden behind the sink mirror. Concerned by the discovery, Ran couldn’t decide what to make of the photos. When she finally found the courage to bring the topic up to Jodie during the latter’s hospitalization, the quick thinking FBI agent explained that displaying photos of friends was an American tradition. Relieved to hear her teacher's reasoning, Ran's admiration and respect for Jodie quickly returned.

====Ai Haibara====
Jodie takes great interest in Haibara originally due to her investigation of Vermouth; although the reasons at first where unknown to her, Jodie suspected that there was a connection between the woman who Vermouth called “Sherry” and the young girl by the name of Ai Haibara. <ref>[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask ", Pages 5 - 6]]</ref> Following the [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|showdown with Vermouth]], Jodie encourages Haibara to take part in the witness protection program, an offer that she declines after much consideration. As an FBI agent, she had hoped that Haibara would accept the offer, but because of their similar backgrounds, Jodie’s feelings were far closer to acceptance and admiration than they were disappointment. While the two have yet to completely realize just how similar their pasts are, Jodie has admitted to seeing a little bit of herself in the young girl, even going as far as to comment on how Haibara had something that she lacked at that age; friends who she can depend on. <ref>[[Volume 43#File 437 - Ai Haibara's Resolution|Volume 43, File 437: "Ai Haibara's Resolution ", Pages 15 - 18]]</ref> Although the relationship was mostly one-sided in the beginning, Haibara has started to see Jodie as a trustworthy figure of whom she can put her faith in, particularly after the many situations where FBI involvement has saved the day.

====Tomoaki Araide====
When Conan and Jodie succeeded in unmasking Vermouth and subsequently foiling her plans, the Araide family returned home to Japan, much to the dismay of the FBI agents who had gone to such lengths to protect them. It was encouraged that they take part in the [[Witness Protection Program]], but Tomoaki declined on behalf of the family. In order to make the transition back to daily life as smooth as possible, Jodie filled Tomoaki in on what he had missed, omitting certain details while making other things up to protect intelligence, allowing the doctor to return to his regular life again. During their final phone call, Jodie tells him that they will not speak again. Tomoaki uses this final opportunity to ask if Vermouth was really a bad person, infuriating Jodie who asked how a good person could kill while wearing a smile. <ref>[[Volume 45#File 459 - Truth Behind the Remaining Desk|Volume 45, File 459: "Truth Behind the Remaining Desk", Pages 16 - 18]]</ref>

== 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. Jodie 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|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Jodie Starling was named after both Clarice Starling, one of the main protagonists in ''Silence of the Lambs'', and actress Jodie Foster who performed Starling's role in the movie adaptation of the same name. Her fake name Saintemillion was from Saint-Émilion, a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in south-western France.

== Quotes ==

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Jodie|Sterling}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Jodie|Starling}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Jodie|Starling}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Jodie|Starling}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| جودي Judi | سيمون Simon}}
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== Trivia ==
*As a kid, Jodie's hairstyle looks similar to Haibara's.
*According to Akai, Jodie has no driving skills, however, she was perfectly capable of performing a skidding about face with her car when being followed by Vermouth.

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

== References ==
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Jodie Starling

2012-06-11T12:33:47Z

Waynot: /* Conan Edogawa */

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| name = Jodie Starling
| japanese-name = ジョディ・スターリング (Jodi Sutaaringu)
| english-name = Jodie Starling
| image = Jodie Starling Profile.jpg
| age = 28-29
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives =
| nicknames =
| aliases = Jodie Santemillion
| first-appearance = Manga: File 270 Anime: Episode 226
| appearances = {{:Jodie Starling Appearances}}
| keyhole = [[Volume 42]]
| cases-solved =
| japanese-voice = [[Miyuki Ichijo]] [[Yumi Toma]] (young)
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'''{{nihongo|Jodie Starling|ジョディ・スターリング|Jodi Sutaaringu}}''', referred to in earlier episodes as '''{{nihongo|Jodie Santemillion|ジョディ・サンテミリオン|Jodi Santemirion}}''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Jodie as a child.png|thumb|120px|left|Jodie as a child]]
Some twenty years ago, when Jodie was still just a little girl, [[Vermouth]] killed her parents, who had been working on the [[Black Organization]] for the FBI. Vermouth was surprised to find her in her house, and after Jodie had asked what was going on, Vermouth told her to wait by her father until he woke up, and that "a secret makes a woman woman". She then set the house ablaze, thus destroying any evidence that she had been there, along with the corpses of Jodie's parents and any records about the Black Organization.

Fortunately, Jodie had decided to run down the street to the store to buy her father some orange juice, and had thus survived. She was put under protection by the FBI, although she declined the Witness Protection Program, and eventually became an FBI agent herself under the tutelage and patronage of [[James Black]]. The only remaining memento from her past is the set of glasses she wears, which had originally belonged to her father.
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== Personality ==
Jodie usually is a very serious person, but also has demonstrated a very playful and carefree side (as it is seen when she is Ran's English teacher). She seems to like movies (especially mystery and action-oriented films), and enjoys action videogames.

==Appellations==
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| [[File:James Black 60px.jpg]] || [[James Black]] || Jodie-kun || James
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| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] || Jodie || Shuu
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| [[File:Andre Camel 60px.jpg]] || [[Andre Camel]] || ??? || Agent Camel
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| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Jodie-sensei, Sensei || Mouri-san
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| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Jodie-sensei || "Little Red Riding Hood"
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| [[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]] || [[Sonoko Suzuki]] || Jodie-sensei || Suzuki-san, Sonoko
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| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure]] || Jodie-sensei || N/A
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== Plot overview ==
===Plot Timeline===
Jodie appears around the same time as Vermouth as Ran's new English teacher at Teitan High under the name of "Jodie Saintemillion". She comes off as somewhat strange, and refers to Conan as "Cool Guy", which caused fans to believe that she knew his secret. (In fact, she now knows he's an incredible detective, but it is unclear if she knows his true identity). She is noted for often using the phrase of her enemy, Vermouth ('A secret makes a woman woman'). In episode 226-227 Jodie, after watching Conan suspiciously, informs someone over the phone that she has found their target, whom she refers to as "Rotten Apple".

First indications of Jodie's FBI training are shown during the confrontation with the bus hijackers. She stealthily turns on the safety to one of the hijacker's guns, while knocking him down thus he cannot shoot it when he attempts to fire at her. She appears later in 271-272 and gives Conan information that allows him to solve the case. In episodes 277-278, she is investigated by Conan and Heiji, both believing her to be Vermouth in disguise, as she pretends to not know japanese despite being perfectly fluent, and even helps them solve a case in the same episode.

It is not until her personal confrontation with Vermouth that Jodie's past and true identity as an FBI agent is revealed, as well as the real reason she's in Japan and the person she's looking for. She is tracking down Vermouth, and after a brief confrontation with her, Jodie is rescued by Conan and her colleague [[Shuichi Akai]]. Following this, she offers Ai a place in the Witness Protection Program, but Ai declines. She does not appear again until when she helps Conan prevent an assassination plot of a politician orchestrated by the Black Organization and the subsequent capture and hospitalization of the BO member Kir.

Jodie has been heavily involved in the BO arc episodes 492-504, which has involved the BO and the FBI. The death of her partner, Akai, takes a very emotional toll on her. As it later turns out, they used to be lovers before Akai infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]], with whom he eventually became more intensely involved. Still, despite their breakup Jodie does maintain strong feelings for him.<ref name=Akai>Manga Chapter 677: The Fated Individual</ref>. When a man who looks like Shuichi Akai appears, Jodie is convinced that the stranger is her partner who has lost his memory, but he is gone before she can affirm her suspicion.

===Hints that Jodie was not Vermouth, but an FBI agent===
[[File:Jodie mirror pictures.PNG|thumb|right|Jodie's copies have uneven borders, highlighted in red, from imperfect camera alignment while photographing Vermouth's images.]]
* The records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases that [[Vermouth]] stole did not contain any cases involving Jodie Saintemillion, but did the contain the murder case [[Tomoaki Araide]] was involved in. This was the clue that allowed [[Conan]] to deduce Araide was Vermouth and not Jodie.
* Jodie's copies of [[Media:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard]] have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.<ref name="f343p18">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
* Jodie calls Conan "cool guy" after the first time they meet in reference to the caption on Vermouth's photo of Conan, but she switches to to "cool kid" after that. This showed that Jodie did not know Conan was Shinichi, unlike Vermouth who was grateful to Conan (and thus trying not to target him) after Shinichi saved her in the New York case.
* Jodie mentions the nickname for the FBI is "The Bureau".

== Relationships analysis ==
Due to her undercover status in Japan, Jodie’s personality and style of communication varies from person to person. Outside of a select few who know of her involvement with the FBI, Jodie maintains her cover at all times, first being a high school English teacher at Teitan High, and later an American tourist vacationing with her “boyfriend”.

===Colleagues===

====Shuichi Akai====
Shuichi and Jodie are co-workers that came to Japan as part of an FBI unit led by James Black in pursuit of Vermouth and the Black Organization. While their relationship is mostly professional in the current-timeline, the two were romantically involved at least five years prior. When Akai was given the mission to earn the trust of and become a mole inside the Organization, he got close to Akemi Miyano for the purpose of using her inside connections. Despite his original intentions, however, Akai genuinely fell in love with Akemi, leading him to break up with a blindsided Jodie. While the feelings were still there, Akai explained himself by saying, “To be able to love two women at the same time…it’s not that handy a personality.” While the two were no longer lovers, Jodie's feelings for Akai never swayed. Despite an end to their relationship, the two continued on as colleagues until the fateful day when Akai was killed. While his death was a tragic loss for all those in the FBI, Jodie took it especially hard. When first hearing the news, she was in complete denial that Akai could die. Despite her frantic attempts at proving Akai was alive, however, Jodie came to the cold hard truth on her own, bringing the agent to tears.

Since the incidents of Clash of Red and Black, Akai has become an understandably sore topic for Jodie. On one occasion when conversation about drinks led Camel to mention Akai's love for Bourbon alcohol, Jodie stormed away from her friends. In addition to an inability to cope with this loss, her thought process has become seemingly more aggressive and risky, something that was unheard of during her long, careful investigation of Vermouth. Jodie's mindset has been especially fixated since her encounter with [[Scar Akai]]. When Camel mentioned that the sudden reappearance of Akai could be a trap set up by the organization, Jodie refused to accept the possibility of such a scenario.

====James Black====
Although James Black is in charge of the FBI agents stationed in Japan, his relationship with Jodie couldn’t be further from the usual boss and subordinate stereotype. In fact, during several occasions, Jodie takes over the role of giving out orders while James serves as her chauffeur. <ref>[[Volume 49#File 502 - A New Objective|Volume 49, File 502: "A New Objective", Page 11]]</ref> While there are many possibilities to explain such an arrangement, such as her strong personality and supposedly bad driving skills, James does not seem to mind in the least. The two have been acquainted long before she joined the FBI, dating back at least twenty years before the series. Following the murder of Jodie’s father, also an FBI agent, James tried convincing the young girl to join the witness protection program. Both out of concern for her safety and respect for his deceased friend, James pushed the offer hard and often, but Jodie refused him time and time again until at some point when she made him a deal; she would join the program if, and only if, she was promised a position in the FBI when she was older. <ref>[[Volume 43#File 437 - Ai Haibara's Resolution|Volume 43, File 437: "Ai Haibara's Resolution ", Pages 15 - 18]]</ref> Whether or not he accepted the deal, Jodie’s current employment with the FBI seems to speak for itself. Despite this unusual working relationship, Jodie is a loyal and hard-working agent that wholeheartedly respects the man whom she has come to see as a sort of father figure. Work aside, the two have been shown to spend time together as friends, often along with Camel.

====Andre Camel====

===Black Organization===

====Vermouth====
[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|175 px|right|Jodie (Age 7) encounters Vermouth twenty years prior to the series.]]
Bitter hatred for Vermouth is putting Jodie's feelings very lightly. The animosity she holds for the American actress stems back twenty years, during Jodie’s early childhood, when her father was murdered in cold blood and home burned to a crisp by none other than Vermouth. Jodie’s father was an FBI agent working in secret on files pertaining to Vermouth. Thinking that Jodie would die along with her mother and the files when the fire was set ablaze, Vermouth allowed the young girl to wait with her daddy for the bedtime story he promised her before dying. Things did not work out as planned, however, when Jodie left to buy orange juice at the grocery store as the fire began, later returning to find her house in shambles. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for the escapee, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues.

While Vermouth had since moved on from that incident, Jodie’s whole life was shaped during that fateful night. Albeit hesitant at first to join the program, Jodie made a deal with the persistent FBI agent, James Black: if promised a place in the FBI, she would take up his offer and go into the witness protection program. Ever since then, the burning desire to avenge her father, mother, and lost childhood drove Jodie to seek out the murderess. Vowing to always remember what took place, Jodie even took up the infamous motto that Vermouth spoke on the night of their encounter: “A secret makes a woman, woman.” When, years later, the FBI found a new lead on Vermouth, Jodie was given the opportunity to finally bring the high ranking organization member to justice.

Compared to the girl she made an orphan, Vermouth’s strong dislike for Jodie pales in comparison but exists nonetheless. When the two were finally reunited after a long period of time where both posed as school teachers, Vermouth was just as determined to finish what she started twenty years ago as Jodie was to bringing her nemesis into FBI custody. Although intervention from both sides led to a stalemate during their encounter, their fierce rivalry lives on, each with renewed efforts to put an end to the other.

====Kir====

===Other===

==== Conan Edogawa ====

Impressed by his intelligence, deductionary abilities and knowledge, Jodie considers [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] her "favorite detective". She always takes him seriously, and lets him help her in figuring out plans. Also, it is shown that Jodie has placed great trust on the boy detective. It is because when Conan asks a favor, or is asked by him to do a certain action, even though it doesn't make much sense, Jodie complies without question.

====Ran Mouri====
Although the two first met off screen when Jodie began teaching at Teitan High, Jodie’s stern personality and tough teaching style left a bad, perhaps more uncertain, impression on Ran. After coincidentally running into Jodie after school one day at an arcade, an entirely new impression was left on Ran. The high school girl began to admire and enjoy Jodie’s fun, friendly side. On more than one occasion, Ran even went to Jodie for advice. Unbeknownst to Ran, however, Jodie was putting on a front, at times even using the girl as a means to see Conan in action. As an FBI agent, Jodie closely monitored Ran and Conan after discovering a dartboard with their pictures during her investigation of Vermouth. As a school teacher, Jodie easily managed to keep close tabs on the girl labeled “Angel”.

When Jodie left her teaching position, the class was deeply saddened. Despite Jodie’s protests, Ran and Sonoko attempted to throw their favorite teacher a farewell party, which later turned into a case. To prove her friend’s innocence, Ran attempted to call Shinichi to solve the case for her. Jodie, however, took the phone away, claiming that Ran needed to learn how to become independent. This gesture helps encourage Ran to try and solve the case on her own, further strengthening Ran’s admiration for Jodie. When the time came to say good-bye, however, Ran went to use Jodie’s bathroom only to find photos of her friends and her hidden behind the sink mirror. Concerned by the discovery, Ran couldn’t decide what to make of the photos. When she finally found the courage to bring the topic up to Jodie during the latter’s hospitalization, the quick thinking FBI agent explained that displaying photos of friends was an American tradition. Relieved to hear her teacher's reasoning, Ran's admiration and respect for Jodie quickly returned.

====Ai Haibara====
Jodie takes great interest in Haibara originally due to her investigation of Vermouth; although the reasons at first where unknown to her, Jodie suspected that there was a connection between the woman who Vermouth called “Sherry” and the young girl by the name of Ai Haibara. <ref>[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask ", Pages 5 - 6]]</ref> Following the [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|showdown with Vermouth]], Jodie encourages Haibara to take part in the witness protection program, an offer that she declines after much consideration. As an FBI agent, she had hoped that Haibara would accept the offer, but because of their similar backgrounds, Jodie’s feelings were far closer to acceptance and admiration than they were disappointment. While the two have yet to completely realize just how similar their pasts are, Jodie has admitted to seeing a little bit of herself in the young girl, even going as far as to comment on how Haibara had something that she lacked at that age; friends who she can depend on. <ref>[[Volume 43#File 437 - Ai Haibara's Resolution|Volume 43, File 437: "Ai Haibara's Resolution ", Pages 15 - 18]]</ref> Although the relationship was mostly one-sided in the beginning, Haibara has started to see Jodie as a trustworthy figure of whom she can put her faith in, particularly after the many situations where FBI involvement has saved the day.

====Tomoaki Araide====
When Conan and Jodie succeeded in unmasking Vermouth and subsequently foiling her plans, the Araide family returned home to Japan, much to the dismay of the FBI agents who had gone to such lengths to protect them. It was encouraged that they take part in the [[Witness Protection Program]], but Tomoaki declined on behalf of the family. In order to make the transition back to daily life as smooth as possible, Jodie filled Tomoaki in on what he had missed, omitting certain details while making other things up to protect intelligence, allowing the doctor to return to his regular life again. During their final phone call, Jodie tells him that they will not speak again. Tomoaki uses this final opportunity to ask if Vermouth was really a bad person, infuriating Jodie who asked how a good person could kill while wearing a smile. <ref>[[Volume 45#File 459 - Truth Behind the Remaining Desk|Volume 45, File 459: "Truth Behind the Remaining Desk", Pages 16 - 18]]</ref>

== 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. Jodie 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|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Jodie Starling was named after both Clarice Starling, one of the main protagonists in ''Silence of the Lambs'', and actress Jodie Foster who performed Starling's role in the movie adaptation of the same name. Her fake name Saintemillion was from Saint-Émilion, a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in south-western France.

== Quotes ==

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| جودي Judi | سيمون Simon}}
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== Trivia ==
*As a kid, Jodie's hairstyle looks similar to Haibara's.
*According to Akai, Jodie has no driving skills, however, she was perfectly capable of performing a skidding about face with her car when being followed by Vermouth.

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

== References ==
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'''{{nihongo|Jodie Starling|ジョディ・スターリング|Jodi Sutaaringu}}''', referred to in earlier episodes as '''{{nihongo|Jodie Santemillion|ジョディ・サンテミリオン|Jodi Santemirion}}''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Jodie as a child.png|thumb|120px|left|Jodie as a child]]
Some twenty years ago, when Jodie was still just a little girl, [[Vermouth]] killed her parents, who had been working on the [[Black Organization]] for the FBI. Vermouth was surprised to find her in her house, and after Jodie had asked what was going on, Vermouth told her to wait by her father until he woke up, and that "a secret makes a woman woman". She then set the house ablaze, thus destroying any evidence that she had been there, along with the corpses of Jodie's parents and any records about the Black Organization.

Fortunately, Jodie had decided to run down the street to the store to buy her father some orange juice, and had thus survived. She was put under protection by the FBI, although she declined the Witness Protection Program, and eventually became an FBI agent herself under the tutelage and patronage of [[James Black]]. The only remaining memento from her past is the set of glasses she wears, which had originally belonged to her father.
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== Personality ==
Jodie usually is a very serious person, but also has demonstrated a very playful and carefree side (as it is seen when she is Ran's English teacher). She seems to like movies (especially mystery and action-oriented films), and enjoys action videogames.

==Appellations==
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| [[File:James Black 60px.jpg]] || [[James Black]] || Jodie-kun || James
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| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] || Jodie || Shuu
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| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Jodie-sensei || Cool Kid, Conan-kun, Boss
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| [[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Ran Mouri]] || Jodie-sensei, Sensei || Mouri-san
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| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Jodie-sensei || "Little Red Riding Hood"
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| [[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]] || [[Sonoko Suzuki]] || Jodie-sensei || Suzuki-san, Sonoko
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== Plot overview ==
===Plot Timeline===
Jodie appears around the same time as Vermouth as Ran's new English teacher at Teitan High under the name of "Jodie Saintemillion". She comes off as somewhat strange, and refers to Conan as "Cool Guy", which caused fans to believe that she knew his secret. (In fact, she now knows he's an incredible detective, but it is unclear if she knows his true identity). She is noted for often using the phrase of her enemy, Vermouth ('A secret makes a woman woman'). In episode 226-227 Jodie, after watching Conan suspiciously, informs someone over the phone that she has found their target, whom she refers to as "Rotten Apple".

First indications of Jodie's FBI training are shown during the confrontation with the bus hijackers. She stealthily turns on the safety to one of the hijacker's guns, while knocking him down thus he cannot shoot it when he attempts to fire at her. She appears later in 271-272 and gives Conan information that allows him to solve the case. In episodes 277-278, she is investigated by Conan and Heiji, both believing her to be Vermouth in disguise, as she pretends to not know japanese despite being perfectly fluent, and even helps them solve a case in the same episode.

It is not until her personal confrontation with Vermouth that Jodie's past and true identity as an FBI agent is revealed, as well as the real reason she's in Japan and the person she's looking for. She is tracking down Vermouth, and after a brief confrontation with her, Jodie is rescued by Conan and her colleague [[Shuichi Akai]]. Following this, she offers Ai a place in the Witness Protection Program, but Ai declines. She does not appear again until when she helps Conan prevent an assassination plot of a politician orchestrated by the Black Organization and the subsequent capture and hospitalization of the BO member Kir.

Jodie has been heavily involved in the BO arc episodes 492-504, which has involved the BO and the FBI. The death of her partner, Akai, takes a very emotional toll on her. As it later turns out, they used to be lovers before Akai infiltrated the Black Organization by dating [[Akemi Miyano]], with whom he eventually became more intensely involved. Still, despite their breakup Jodie does maintain strong feelings for him.<ref name=Akai>Manga Chapter 677: The Fated Individual</ref>. When a man who looks like Shuichi Akai appears, Jodie is convinced that the stranger is her partner who has lost his memory, but he is gone before she can affirm her suspicion.

===Hints that Jodie was not Vermouth, but an FBI agent===
[[File:Jodie mirror pictures.PNG|thumb|right|Jodie's copies have uneven borders, highlighted in red, from imperfect camera alignment while photographing Vermouth's images.]]
* The records of [[Kogoro Mouri]]'s cases that [[Vermouth]] stole did not contain any cases involving Jodie Saintemillion, but did the contain the murder case [[Tomoaki Araide]] was involved in. This was the clue that allowed [[Conan]] to deduce Araide was Vermouth and not Jodie.
* Jodie's copies of [[Media:Vermouth dartboard.PNG|the pictures of Ran and Conan on Vermouth's dartboard]] have irregular borders indicating they were photographs of Vermouth's pictures.<ref name="f343p18">[[Volume 34#File 343 - Who Are You?|Volume 34, File 343, page 18: "Who Are You?"]]</ref> This detail was overlooked in the anime. Also Jodie has a picture of Dr. Araide.
* Jodie calls Conan "cool guy" after the first time they meet in reference to the caption on Vermouth's photo of Conan, but she switches to to "cool kid" after that. This showed that Jodie did not know Conan was Shinichi, unlike Vermouth who was grateful to Conan (and thus trying not to target him) after Shinichi saved her in the New York case.
* Jodie mentions the nickname for the FBI is "The Bureau".

== Relationships analysis ==
Due to her undercover status in Japan, Jodie’s personality and style of communication varies from person to person. Outside of a select few who know of her involvement with the FBI, Jodie maintains her cover at all times, first being a high school English teacher at Teitan High, and later an American tourist vacationing with her “boyfriend”.

===Colleagues===

====Shuichi Akai====
Shuichi and Jodie are co-workers that came to Japan as part of an FBI unit led by James Black in pursuit of Vermouth and the Black Organization. While their relationship is mostly professional in the current-timeline, the two were romantically involved at least five years prior. When Akai was given the mission to earn the trust of and become a mole inside the Organization, he got close to Akemi Miyano for the purpose of using her inside connections. Despite his original intentions, however, Akai genuinely fell in love with Akemi, leading him to break up with a blindsided Jodie. While the feelings were still there, Akai explained himself by saying, “To be able to love two women at the same time…it’s not that handy a personality.” While the two were no longer lovers, Jodie's feelings for Akai never swayed. Despite an end to their relationship, the two continued on as colleagues until the fateful day when Akai was killed. While his death was a tragic loss for all those in the FBI, Jodie took it especially hard. When first hearing the news, she was in complete denial that Akai could die. Despite her frantic attempts at proving Akai was alive, however, Jodie came to the cold hard truth on her own, bringing the agent to tears.

Since the incidents of Clash of Red and Black, Akai has become an understandably sore topic for Jodie. On one occasion when conversation about drinks led Camel to mention Akai's love for Bourbon alcohol, Jodie stormed away from her friends. In addition to an inability to cope with this loss, her thought process has become seemingly more aggressive and risky, something that was unheard of during her long, careful investigation of Vermouth. Jodie's mindset has been especially fixated since her encounter with [[Scar Akai]]. When Camel mentioned that the sudden reappearance of Akai could be a trap set up by the organization, Jodie refused to accept the possibility of such a scenario.

====James Black====
Although James Black is in charge of the FBI agents stationed in Japan, his relationship with Jodie couldn’t be further from the usual boss and subordinate stereotype. In fact, during several occasions, Jodie takes over the role of giving out orders while James serves as her chauffeur. <ref>[[Volume 49#File 502 - A New Objective|Volume 49, File 502: "A New Objective", Page 11]]</ref> While there are many possibilities to explain such an arrangement, such as her strong personality and supposedly bad driving skills, James does not seem to mind in the least. The two have been acquainted long before she joined the FBI, dating back at least twenty years before the series. Following the murder of Jodie’s father, also an FBI agent, James tried convincing the young girl to join the witness protection program. Both out of concern for her safety and respect for his deceased friend, James pushed the offer hard and often, but Jodie refused him time and time again until at some point when she made him a deal; she would join the program if, and only if, she was promised a position in the FBI when she was older. <ref>[[Volume 43#File 437 - Ai Haibara's Resolution|Volume 43, File 437: "Ai Haibara's Resolution ", Pages 15 - 18]]</ref> Whether or not he accepted the deal, Jodie’s current employment with the FBI seems to speak for itself. Despite this unusual working relationship, Jodie is a loyal and hard-working agent that wholeheartedly respects the man whom she has come to see as a sort of father figure. Work aside, the two have been shown to spend time together as friends, often along with Camel.

====Andre Camel====

===Black Organization===

====Vermouth====
[[File:Vermouth with little Jodie.png|thumb|175 px|right|Jodie (Age 7) encounters Vermouth twenty years prior to the series.]]
Bitter hatred for Vermouth is putting Jodie's feelings very lightly. The animosity she holds for the American actress stems back twenty years, during Jodie’s early childhood, when her father was murdered in cold blood and home burned to a crisp by none other than Vermouth. Jodie’s father was an FBI agent working in secret on files pertaining to Vermouth. Thinking that Jodie would die along with her mother and the files when the fire was set ablaze, Vermouth allowed the young girl to wait with her daddy for the bedtime story he promised her before dying. Things did not work out as planned, however, when Jodie left to buy orange juice at the grocery store as the fire began, later returning to find her house in shambles. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for the escapee, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father’s colleagues.

While Vermouth had since moved on from that incident, Jodie’s whole life was shaped during that fateful night. Albeit hesitant at first to join the program, Jodie made a deal with the persistent FBI agent, James Black: if promised a place in the FBI, she would take up his offer and go into the witness protection program. Ever since then, the burning desire to avenge her father, mother, and lost childhood drove Jodie to seek out the murderess. Vowing to always remember what took place, Jodie even took up the infamous motto that Vermouth spoke on the night of their encounter: “A secret makes a woman, woman.” When, years later, the FBI found a new lead on Vermouth, Jodie was given the opportunity to finally bring the high ranking organization member to justice.

Compared to the girl she made an orphan, Vermouth’s strong dislike for Jodie pales in comparison but exists nonetheless. When the two were finally reunited after a long period of time where both posed as school teachers, Vermouth was just as determined to finish what she started twenty years ago as Jodie was to bringing her nemesis into FBI custody. Although intervention from both sides led to a stalemate during their encounter, their fierce rivalry lives on, each with renewed efforts to put an end to the other.

====Kir====

===Other===

==== Conan Edogawa ====

====Ran Mouri====
Although the two first met off screen when Jodie began teaching at Teitan High, Jodie’s stern personality and tough teaching style left a bad, perhaps more uncertain, impression on Ran. After coincidentally running into Jodie after school one day at an arcade, an entirely new impression was left on Ran. The high school girl began to admire and enjoy Jodie’s fun, friendly side. On more than one occasion, Ran even went to Jodie for advice. Unbeknownst to Ran, however, Jodie was putting on a front, at times even using the girl as a means to see Conan in action. As an FBI agent, Jodie closely monitored Ran and Conan after discovering a dartboard with their pictures during her investigation of Vermouth. As a school teacher, Jodie easily managed to keep close tabs on the girl labeled “Angel”.

When Jodie left her teaching position, the class was deeply saddened. Despite Jodie’s protests, Ran and Sonoko attempted to throw their favorite teacher a farewell party, which later turned into a case. To prove her friend’s innocence, Ran attempted to call Shinichi to solve the case for her. Jodie, however, took the phone away, claiming that Ran needed to learn how to become independent. This gesture helps encourage Ran to try and solve the case on her own, further strengthening Ran’s admiration for Jodie. When the time came to say good-bye, however, Ran went to use Jodie’s bathroom only to find photos of her friends and her hidden behind the sink mirror. Concerned by the discovery, Ran couldn’t decide what to make of the photos. When she finally found the courage to bring the topic up to Jodie during the latter’s hospitalization, the quick thinking FBI agent explained that displaying photos of friends was an American tradition. Relieved to hear her teacher's reasoning, Ran's admiration and respect for Jodie quickly returned.

====Ai Haibara====
Jodie takes great interest in Haibara originally due to her investigation of Vermouth; although the reasons at first where unknown to her, Jodie suspected that there was a connection between the woman who Vermouth called “Sherry” and the young girl by the name of Ai Haibara. <ref>[[Volume 42#File 433 - The Truth Behind the Mask|Volume 42, File 433: "The Truth Behind the Mask ", Pages 5 - 6]]</ref> Following the [[Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night|showdown with Vermouth]], Jodie encourages Haibara to take part in the witness protection program, an offer that she declines after much consideration. As an FBI agent, she had hoped that Haibara would accept the offer, but because of their similar backgrounds, Jodie’s feelings were far closer to acceptance and admiration than they were disappointment. While the two have yet to completely realize just how similar their pasts are, Jodie has admitted to seeing a little bit of herself in the young girl, even going as far as to comment on how Haibara had something that she lacked at that age; friends who she can depend on. <ref>[[Volume 43#File 437 - Ai Haibara's Resolution|Volume 43, File 437: "Ai Haibara's Resolution ", Pages 15 - 18]]</ref> Although the relationship was mostly one-sided in the beginning, Haibara has started to see Jodie as a trustworthy figure of whom she can put her faith in, particularly after the many situations where FBI involvement has saved the day.

====Tomoaki Araide====
When Conan and Jodie succeeded in unmasking Vermouth and subsequently foiling her plans, the Araide family returned home to Japan, much to the dismay of the FBI agents who had gone to such lengths to protect them. It was encouraged that they take part in the [[Witness Protection Program]], but Tomoaki declined on behalf of the family. In order to make the transition back to daily life as smooth as possible, Jodie filled Tomoaki in on what he had missed, omitting certain details while making other things up to protect intelligence, allowing the doctor to return to his regular life again. During their final phone call, Jodie tells him that they will not speak again. Tomoaki uses this final opportunity to ask if Vermouth was really a bad person, infuriating Jodie who asked how a good person could kill while wearing a smile. <ref>[[Volume 45#File 459 - Truth Behind the Remaining Desk|Volume 45, File 459: "Truth Behind the Remaining Desk", Pages 16 - 18]]</ref>

== 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. Jodie 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|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

== Name origin ==
Jodie Starling was named after both Clarice Starling, one of the main protagonists in ''Silence of the Lambs'', and actress Jodie Foster who performed Starling's role in the movie adaptation of the same name. Her fake name Saintemillion was from Saint-Émilion, a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in south-western France.

== Quotes ==

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| جودي Judi | سيمون Simon}}
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== Trivia ==
*As a kid, Jodie's hairstyle looks similar to Haibara's.
*According to Akai, Jodie has no driving skills, however, she was perfectly capable of performing a skidding about face with her car when being followed by Vermouth.

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

== References ==
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Heizo Hattori

2012-06-11T11:08:48Z

Waynot: /* Personality */

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| name = Heizo Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平蔵 (Hattori Heizou)
| english-name = Martin Hartwell
| image = Heizo Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = ?
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = [[Heiji Hattori]] (son) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (wife)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 93 Anime: Episode 48
| appearances = {{:Heizo Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 15]]
| japanese-voice = [[Takehiro Koyama]]
| english-voice = [[Andrew T. Chandler]]
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Heizo Hattori|服部平蔵|Hattori Heizou}}''', known in the Funimation dub as '''Martin Hartwell''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
Heizo is the highest ranking officer at the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters; he is Superintendent Supervisor (Rank 2).<ref name=PoliceRanks>Volume 10, File 3, Page 7; Chap 93; http://forums.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=6114.0</ref> Heizo is the father of the high school detective [[Heiji Hattori]], and is sometimes very supportive of his son's desire to be a detective. Heizo has sometimes lent his son a hand in solving a tough case. Though he has a hard exterior, Heizo is very caring for his son, family, and friends. At the Osaka district, he is very close with [[Goro Otaki]] and [[Detective Toyama]]. It is due to his friendship with Detective Toyama that his son, Heiji, originally met Toyama's daughter, [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]]. His wife is [[Shizuka Hattori]].

== Personality ==

He has a very serious attitude and seemingly cold, especially when he punched his son in front of many people hard enough for Heiji to fall down. But it was revealed later on that he merely punched Heiji for his son to be more aggressive in solving the case and using both Heiji and Conan as a bait, although he apologized later on. He also is supportive of his son's career as a high school detective but also, as a caring father, he is also cares for his son's well-being.

== Plot overview ==

== Relationships analysis ==
===Family & Friends===
====Shizuka Hattori====
Shizuka and Heizo appear to have a good relationship. She is not intimidated by Heizo's fierce personality, and he seems to listen to her.

====Heiji Hattori====
Heizo seems to disapprove of Heiji's choice to be a detective. Heizo knows his son very well, however, including how Heiji would react to being forcefully told to leave a case alone — rather than obey, Heiji continues to investigate and distracts the culprits so that Heizo can surround the criminals with his police force. Heizo does care for and will protect his son, but his brusque and stoic personality leave him unlikely to say as much, or even if he is proud of Heiji. Heiji, for his part, doesn't seem to care what Heizo thinks of him, and addresses Heizo very informally.

== Name origin ==

Hanzo '''Hattori''' was a famous Japanese samurai, while '''Heizo''' Hasegawa is the main protagonist of "Onihei Hanakacho".

== Quotes ==
==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| هيزو Hizo| هاتوري Hattori}}
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== Trivia ==

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]

== References ==
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Heiji Hattori

2012-06-11T10:16:33Z

Waynot: /* Quotes */

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| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
| height =
| weight =
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD56/>
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West"
| first-appearance = Manga: File 92 Anime: Episode 48
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = All cases with [[Conan]]
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]]
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| german-voice =[[Oliver Feld]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend of [[Kazuha Toyama]].

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [[Heizo Hattori]], chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [[Shizuka Hattori]]. Heiji wants to be a detective like his father, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school.

At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name=StabbetWallet>Manga Volume 19: Files 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [[Shinichi Kudo]] is the "Great Detective of the East". As a result, Heiji showed up unannounced at the Mouri Detective Agency looking for Kudo, seeking to challenge his rival to a showdown of wits. (In fact, they had such a contest before, three years previously, during a skiing trip in the Yamagata prefecture, although they never learned about each other's identities at that time.<ref>Manga Chapters 518-522: Yuki-Onna Murder Case</ref>) Heiji was soundly defeated in the following case after [[Conan Edogawa]] temporarily turned back into Shinichi, but he gained a lot of respect for Shinichi in the process.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-096: The Great Detective Of The West</ref>.

During their second encounter, Conan knocked Heiji out to solve the on-going case, but during his final presentation of the facts, Heiji awoke prematurely and discovered Conan's secret.<ref>Manga Chapters 121: The Holmes Freak Case: The Revelation</ref> Ever since that revelation, Heiji has been helping Conan in hiding his secret identity, though he occasionally slips up by calling him "Kudo" in front of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].

Heiji and Conan most often congenially team up to solve assorted cases. Heiji has also helped Conan investigate the [[Black Organization]] on several occasions, such as when the two investigated [[Jodie Starling]] <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=34 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 2-7 |language=English }}</ref>, or when Heiji investigated [[Eisuke Hondou]] on his own and then told Conan his findings<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=56 | chapter=Files 7 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. He's also helped cover for Conan during several of the brief instances where Conan regained his true adolescent age, and has even disguised himself as Shinichi on several occasions in order to protect his identity, even though he is not very good at it. When not working on a case, he regularly attempts to invite Conan to take in the sights and culinary delights in Osaka, which he considers more wholesome than Tokyo's.
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== Personality ==
Even while solving a case, Heiji tends to be lighthearted and good-humored, preferring to work through it with a grin on his face. He is a big fan of baseball, and is most of the time shown wearing an Osaka cap, to support the local Osaka baseball team. He usually wears his cap with its visor pointed backward, but if he feels challenged, he turns the visor forward.

Despite him knowing the value and necessity of remaining calm in the face of a crime, Heiji tends to be impulsive at times, which tends to cloud his judgment a little. This was discussed directly in the "Detective Koushien" case, when [[Saguru Hakuba]] accused Heiji of being a poor detective for disrupting a crime scene in his rush to see if the victim could still be saved. Heiji, however, solved the case in the end, and reminded Saguru that the detective's first job is to prevent death if he can. Heiji is also known to be extremely protective of those he values as close friends, and tries hard to keep them out of harm. There are several instances where Hattori tells Kazuha to wait for him or leaves her behind in order to keep her from being involved in cases, simply because he's afraid of her getting hurt.<ref>Manga Volume 59, File 6, pg 6: Armored Warrior</ref><ref>Manga Volume 59, File 7, pg 11: Art of War</ref><ref name=653p3>Manga Volume 63, File 1, page 3: My Deduction</ref>

Furthermore, he's pretty much always watching Shinichi's back, and does whatever he can to not only keep Shinichi safe, but to keep his identity under cover. Although he is very competitive when it comes to detective cases, when a case gets hot, he and Shinichi work effectively together. During Shinichi's first return to his high school during the play performance, Heiji let him take the lead role in the investigations, saying it was because they were in Tokyo, Shinichi's turf.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=26 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 1-7 |language=English }}</ref>

Although he frequently mocks Kazuha for her superstitions and enthusiasm for good-luck charms, Heiji has several times revealed that he puts more trust in them than he would admit. He once dreamed of Shinichi being murdered, and out subsequently insisted that Conan wear his omamori, the good luck charm Kazuha gave him. The omamori ended up saving Shinichi's life by deflecting a knife blow, but Heiji, without his usual protection, was shot in the stomach.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=19 | chapter=Files 5-8 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. In another case, Ran hung a teruterubozu, a charm that's supposed to ensure good weather, in the window so that Conan would have good weather for his field trip the next day. Heiji, however, got up in the middle of the night to take down the teruterubozu so that Conan's field trip would be rained out and he could accompany Heiji on an investigation of the The Red Horse Among The Flames.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=39 |language=Japanese}}</ref>.

== Appearance and Attributes ==
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark skin, and his eyes are normally dark green in the anime but are drawn as blue in the manga. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref>

=== Intelligence and eidetic memory ===
Heiji, like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan. <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan |volume=38 |chapter=Files 8-10 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

=== Kendo ===
As Shinichi is to soccer, so is Heiji to kendo. He's the fifth position, or taisho, and captain of his high school Kendo team. Heiji may disable criminals using an improvised bokken similar to how Shinichi uses his soccer skills.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle driver. He also speaks fluent English.

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]].''
[[image:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]
===The Great Detective Of The West===
One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tusjimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.<ref>Manga Chapters 092: </ref>

===Finding the One Truth===
After this first case, it only takes one more run-in with Conan to get Heiji thinking about the similarities between Conan and Shinichi. It is on the "Holmes Freak Murder Case" that Heiji, despite professing a preference for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen Ellery Queen], exercises the Holmesian axiom: "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." In addition, after Conan had [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|knocked him out]] to use him as his mouthpiece to present his evidence, Heiji receives a clout on the head from [[Kogoro Mouri]], which wakes him up again, and from the corner of his eye he spies Conan standing behind him and using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to mimick his voice; he thus discovers Conan's secret, which forces Conan to explain his situation.

===Fast Friends===
On their third case together, Conan was initially irritated to see Heiji, but they quickly formed a strong team. Together they cornered the murderer and even took steps to preventing the suicide she had planned. When she realizes that she won't be able to kill herself she weeps piteously, causing Heiji to whisper to Conan, "perhaps we should have let her die." Conan replies that "a detective who corners a murderer with logic and then lets them commit suicide is no better than a murderer."

Although Heiji seemed to laugh this off at the time, soon after he invites Conan (and [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Ran Mouri]], because otherwise it'd look suspicious) to Osaka. It is revealed by [[Kazuha Toyama]] (in her first appearance) that Heiji has been talking about 'Kudo' so often that Kazuha thought 'Kudo' was his new Tokyo girlfriend. Heiji suggests that the reason he invited Conan to Osaka is because he has been worried about Conan's safety; he has had dreams of Conan being murdered. On a case together in Osaka, Heiji gives Conan his omamori, which ends up saving his life by deflecting a knife thrust. However, without it Heiji is injured while trying to prevent the murderer from committing suicide. In the ambulance, he reveals to Conan that he has taken to heart Conan's admonishment.

===A Friend in Need===
Since that time, Heiji has quickly grown to be one of the people that Conan/Shinichi trusts most. Heiji has helped Conan investigate the Black Organization, including [[Jodie Starling]], has disguised himself as Shinichi on multiple occasions to protect his identity, and has, perhaps most importantly, become Conan's closest friend and confidante.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
{{main|Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama}}
Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama]] is a very close one; they were childhood friends, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship is identified as a romantic one by other characters and fans alike, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, it has been shown that he becomes visibly jealous when he sees Kazuha with other guys, becoming distracted throughout the whole case. At one point, after a certain case, while looking at Kazuha, his thoughts read: 'Fool. You're too naive. I promise you, as long as you're with me, I'll never let anyone hurt you.'. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him. Also, they have the same situation as Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have the same background as them. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police's daughter, like Ran is a police's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions, so no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji can be a little bit worried for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and in a life or death situation. They are as close as real brothers, both being detective's and having feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other, although when a case gets serious, they are both all business. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.

==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his father is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

== 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. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 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>

*Heiji placed 3rd 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. Heiji placed 3rd out of 10 with 10.79% 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. Heiji placed 5th overall with 956 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 ==
Heiji's name comes from fictional Edo period police detective '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]]|銭形平次}}''' and famous samurai and ninja '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Hattori Hanzō|Hattori Hanzou]]|服部半蔵}}'''.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they wanna find a flaw.}}

{{cquote|Life is limited, that's why it's so precious. Since there's a limit, we try our best to live.}}

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|平次 Pingchi|服部 Fubu }}
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== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here].
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo | Shinichi]], [[Kaito Kuroba | Kaito]] and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Heiji10yrs.png|Heiji in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
<references/>

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Heiji Hattori

2012-06-11T10:15:19Z

Waynot: /* Quotes */

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| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
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| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD56/>
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West"
| first-appearance = Manga: File 92 Anime: Episode 48
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = All cases with [[Conan]]
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]]
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| german-voice =[[Oliver Feld]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend of [[Kazuha Toyama]].

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [[Heizo Hattori]], chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [[Shizuka Hattori]]. Heiji wants to be a detective like his father, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school.

At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name=StabbetWallet>Manga Volume 19: Files 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [[Shinichi Kudo]] is the "Great Detective of the East". As a result, Heiji showed up unannounced at the Mouri Detective Agency looking for Kudo, seeking to challenge his rival to a showdown of wits. (In fact, they had such a contest before, three years previously, during a skiing trip in the Yamagata prefecture, although they never learned about each other's identities at that time.<ref>Manga Chapters 518-522: Yuki-Onna Murder Case</ref>) Heiji was soundly defeated in the following case after [[Conan Edogawa]] temporarily turned back into Shinichi, but he gained a lot of respect for Shinichi in the process.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-096: The Great Detective Of The West</ref>.

During their second encounter, Conan knocked Heiji out to solve the on-going case, but during his final presentation of the facts, Heiji awoke prematurely and discovered Conan's secret.<ref>Manga Chapters 121: The Holmes Freak Case: The Revelation</ref> Ever since that revelation, Heiji has been helping Conan in hiding his secret identity, though he occasionally slips up by calling him "Kudo" in front of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].

Heiji and Conan most often congenially team up to solve assorted cases. Heiji has also helped Conan investigate the [[Black Organization]] on several occasions, such as when the two investigated [[Jodie Starling]] <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=34 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 2-7 |language=English }}</ref>, or when Heiji investigated [[Eisuke Hondou]] on his own and then told Conan his findings<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=56 | chapter=Files 7 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. He's also helped cover for Conan during several of the brief instances where Conan regained his true adolescent age, and has even disguised himself as Shinichi on several occasions in order to protect his identity, even though he is not very good at it. When not working on a case, he regularly attempts to invite Conan to take in the sights and culinary delights in Osaka, which he considers more wholesome than Tokyo's.
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== Personality ==
Even while solving a case, Heiji tends to be lighthearted and good-humored, preferring to work through it with a grin on his face. He is a big fan of baseball, and is most of the time shown wearing an Osaka cap, to support the local Osaka baseball team. He usually wears his cap with its visor pointed backward, but if he feels challenged, he turns the visor forward.

Despite him knowing the value and necessity of remaining calm in the face of a crime, Heiji tends to be impulsive at times, which tends to cloud his judgment a little. This was discussed directly in the "Detective Koushien" case, when [[Saguru Hakuba]] accused Heiji of being a poor detective for disrupting a crime scene in his rush to see if the victim could still be saved. Heiji, however, solved the case in the end, and reminded Saguru that the detective's first job is to prevent death if he can. Heiji is also known to be extremely protective of those he values as close friends, and tries hard to keep them out of harm. There are several instances where Hattori tells Kazuha to wait for him or leaves her behind in order to keep her from being involved in cases, simply because he's afraid of her getting hurt.<ref>Manga Volume 59, File 6, pg 6: Armored Warrior</ref><ref>Manga Volume 59, File 7, pg 11: Art of War</ref><ref name=653p3>Manga Volume 63, File 1, page 3: My Deduction</ref>

Furthermore, he's pretty much always watching Shinichi's back, and does whatever he can to not only keep Shinichi safe, but to keep his identity under cover. Although he is very competitive when it comes to detective cases, when a case gets hot, he and Shinichi work effectively together. During Shinichi's first return to his high school during the play performance, Heiji let him take the lead role in the investigations, saying it was because they were in Tokyo, Shinichi's turf.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=26 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 1-7 |language=English }}</ref>

Although he frequently mocks Kazuha for her superstitions and enthusiasm for good-luck charms, Heiji has several times revealed that he puts more trust in them than he would admit. He once dreamed of Shinichi being murdered, and out subsequently insisted that Conan wear his omamori, the good luck charm Kazuha gave him. The omamori ended up saving Shinichi's life by deflecting a knife blow, but Heiji, without his usual protection, was shot in the stomach.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=19 | chapter=Files 5-8 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. In another case, Ran hung a teruterubozu, a charm that's supposed to ensure good weather, in the window so that Conan would have good weather for his field trip the next day. Heiji, however, got up in the middle of the night to take down the teruterubozu so that Conan's field trip would be rained out and he could accompany Heiji on an investigation of the The Red Horse Among The Flames.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=39 |language=Japanese}}</ref>.

== Appearance and Attributes ==
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark skin, and his eyes are normally dark green in the anime but are drawn as blue in the manga. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref>

=== Intelligence and eidetic memory ===
Heiji, like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan. <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan |volume=38 |chapter=Files 8-10 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

=== Kendo ===
As Shinichi is to soccer, so is Heiji to kendo. He's the fifth position, or taisho, and captain of his high school Kendo team. Heiji may disable criminals using an improvised bokken similar to how Shinichi uses his soccer skills.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle driver. He also speaks fluent English.

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]].''
[[image:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]
===The Great Detective Of The West===
One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tusjimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.<ref>Manga Chapters 092: </ref>

===Finding the One Truth===
After this first case, it only takes one more run-in with Conan to get Heiji thinking about the similarities between Conan and Shinichi. It is on the "Holmes Freak Murder Case" that Heiji, despite professing a preference for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen Ellery Queen], exercises the Holmesian axiom: "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." In addition, after Conan had [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|knocked him out]] to use him as his mouthpiece to present his evidence, Heiji receives a clout on the head from [[Kogoro Mouri]], which wakes him up again, and from the corner of his eye he spies Conan standing behind him and using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to mimick his voice; he thus discovers Conan's secret, which forces Conan to explain his situation.

===Fast Friends===
On their third case together, Conan was initially irritated to see Heiji, but they quickly formed a strong team. Together they cornered the murderer and even took steps to preventing the suicide she had planned. When she realizes that she won't be able to kill herself she weeps piteously, causing Heiji to whisper to Conan, "perhaps we should have let her die." Conan replies that "a detective who corners a murderer with logic and then lets them commit suicide is no better than a murderer."

Although Heiji seemed to laugh this off at the time, soon after he invites Conan (and [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Ran Mouri]], because otherwise it'd look suspicious) to Osaka. It is revealed by [[Kazuha Toyama]] (in her first appearance) that Heiji has been talking about 'Kudo' so often that Kazuha thought 'Kudo' was his new Tokyo girlfriend. Heiji suggests that the reason he invited Conan to Osaka is because he has been worried about Conan's safety; he has had dreams of Conan being murdered. On a case together in Osaka, Heiji gives Conan his omamori, which ends up saving his life by deflecting a knife thrust. However, without it Heiji is injured while trying to prevent the murderer from committing suicide. In the ambulance, he reveals to Conan that he has taken to heart Conan's admonishment.

===A Friend in Need===
Since that time, Heiji has quickly grown to be one of the people that Conan/Shinichi trusts most. Heiji has helped Conan investigate the Black Organization, including [[Jodie Starling]], has disguised himself as Shinichi on multiple occasions to protect his identity, and has, perhaps most importantly, become Conan's closest friend and confidante.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
{{main|Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama}}
Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama]] is a very close one; they were childhood friends, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship is identified as a romantic one by other characters and fans alike, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, it has been shown that he becomes visibly jealous when he sees Kazuha with other guys, becoming distracted throughout the whole case. At one point, after a certain case, while looking at Kazuha, his thoughts read: 'Fool. You're too naive. I promise you, as long as you're with me, I'll never let anyone hurt you.'. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him. Also, they have the same situation as Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have the same background as them. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police's daughter, like Ran is a police's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions, so no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji can be a little bit worried for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and in a life or death situation. They are as close as real brothers, both being detective's and having feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other, although when a case gets serious, they are both all business. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.

==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his father is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

== 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. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 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>

*Heiji placed 3rd 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. Heiji placed 3rd out of 10 with 10.79% 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. Heiji placed 5th overall with 956 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 ==
Heiji's name comes from fictional Edo period police detective '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]]|銭形平次}}''' and famous samurai and ninja '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Hattori Hanzō|Hattori Hanzou]]|服部半蔵}}'''.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something ''perfect'', they wanna find a flaw.}}

{{cquote|Life is limited, that's why it's so precious. Since there's a limit, we try our best to live.}}

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harley|Hartwell}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Heiji|Hattori / Hatsutori (in Volume 10)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Heiji|Hattori (Anime) / Hatsutori (Manga)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| هيجي Hiji |هاتوري Hattori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|인성 In Sung|하 Ha}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|平次 Pingchi|服部 Fubu }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Heiji|Hattori}}
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== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here].
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo | Shinichi]], [[Kaito Kuroba | Kaito]] and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Heiji10yrs.png|Heiji in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
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Heiji Hattori

2012-06-11T10:10:05Z

Waynot: /* Kazuha Toyama */

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| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
| height =
| weight =
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD56/>
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West"
| first-appearance = Manga: File 92 Anime: Episode 48
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = All cases with [[Conan]]
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]]
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| german-voice =[[Oliver Feld]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend of [[Kazuha Toyama]].

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [[Heizo Hattori]], chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [[Shizuka Hattori]]. Heiji wants to be a detective like his father, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school.

At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name=StabbetWallet>Manga Volume 19: Files 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [[Shinichi Kudo]] is the "Great Detective of the East". As a result, Heiji showed up unannounced at the Mouri Detective Agency looking for Kudo, seeking to challenge his rival to a showdown of wits. (In fact, they had such a contest before, three years previously, during a skiing trip in the Yamagata prefecture, although they never learned about each other's identities at that time.<ref>Manga Chapters 518-522: Yuki-Onna Murder Case</ref>) Heiji was soundly defeated in the following case after [[Conan Edogawa]] temporarily turned back into Shinichi, but he gained a lot of respect for Shinichi in the process.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-096: The Great Detective Of The West</ref>.

During their second encounter, Conan knocked Heiji out to solve the on-going case, but during his final presentation of the facts, Heiji awoke prematurely and discovered Conan's secret.<ref>Manga Chapters 121: The Holmes Freak Case: The Revelation</ref> Ever since that revelation, Heiji has been helping Conan in hiding his secret identity, though he occasionally slips up by calling him "Kudo" in front of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].

Heiji and Conan most often congenially team up to solve assorted cases. Heiji has also helped Conan investigate the [[Black Organization]] on several occasions, such as when the two investigated [[Jodie Starling]] <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=34 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 2-7 |language=English }}</ref>, or when Heiji investigated [[Eisuke Hondou]] on his own and then told Conan his findings<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=56 | chapter=Files 7 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. He's also helped cover for Conan during several of the brief instances where Conan regained his true adolescent age, and has even disguised himself as Shinichi on several occasions in order to protect his identity, even though he is not very good at it. When not working on a case, he regularly attempts to invite Conan to take in the sights and culinary delights in Osaka, which he considers more wholesome than Tokyo's.
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== Personality ==
Even while solving a case, Heiji tends to be lighthearted and good-humored, preferring to work through it with a grin on his face. He is a big fan of baseball, and is most of the time shown wearing an Osaka cap, to support the local Osaka baseball team. He usually wears his cap with its visor pointed backward, but if he feels challenged, he turns the visor forward.

Despite him knowing the value and necessity of remaining calm in the face of a crime, Heiji tends to be impulsive at times, which tends to cloud his judgment a little. This was discussed directly in the "Detective Koushien" case, when [[Saguru Hakuba]] accused Heiji of being a poor detective for disrupting a crime scene in his rush to see if the victim could still be saved. Heiji, however, solved the case in the end, and reminded Saguru that the detective's first job is to prevent death if he can. Heiji is also known to be extremely protective of those he values as close friends, and tries hard to keep them out of harm. There are several instances where Hattori tells Kazuha to wait for him or leaves her behind in order to keep her from being involved in cases, simply because he's afraid of her getting hurt.<ref>Manga Volume 59, File 6, pg 6: Armored Warrior</ref><ref>Manga Volume 59, File 7, pg 11: Art of War</ref><ref name=653p3>Manga Volume 63, File 1, page 3: My Deduction</ref>

Furthermore, he's pretty much always watching Shinichi's back, and does whatever he can to not only keep Shinichi safe, but to keep his identity under cover. Although he is very competitive when it comes to detective cases, when a case gets hot, he and Shinichi work effectively together. During Shinichi's first return to his high school during the play performance, Heiji let him take the lead role in the investigations, saying it was because they were in Tokyo, Shinichi's turf.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=26 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 1-7 |language=English }}</ref>

Although he frequently mocks Kazuha for her superstitions and enthusiasm for good-luck charms, Heiji has several times revealed that he puts more trust in them than he would admit. He once dreamed of Shinichi being murdered, and out subsequently insisted that Conan wear his omamori, the good luck charm Kazuha gave him. The omamori ended up saving Shinichi's life by deflecting a knife blow, but Heiji, without his usual protection, was shot in the stomach.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=19 | chapter=Files 5-8 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. In another case, Ran hung a teruterubozu, a charm that's supposed to ensure good weather, in the window so that Conan would have good weather for his field trip the next day. Heiji, however, got up in the middle of the night to take down the teruterubozu so that Conan's field trip would be rained out and he could accompany Heiji on an investigation of the The Red Horse Among The Flames.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=39 |language=Japanese}}</ref>.

== Appearance and Attributes ==
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark skin, and his eyes are normally dark green in the anime but are drawn as blue in the manga. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref>

=== Intelligence and eidetic memory ===
Heiji, like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan. <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan |volume=38 |chapter=Files 8-10 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

=== Kendo ===
As Shinichi is to soccer, so is Heiji to kendo. He's the fifth position, or taisho, and captain of his high school Kendo team. Heiji may disable criminals using an improvised bokken similar to how Shinichi uses his soccer skills.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle driver. He also speaks fluent English.

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]].''
[[image:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]
===The Great Detective Of The West===
One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tusjimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.<ref>Manga Chapters 092: </ref>

===Finding the One Truth===
After this first case, it only takes one more run-in with Conan to get Heiji thinking about the similarities between Conan and Shinichi. It is on the "Holmes Freak Murder Case" that Heiji, despite professing a preference for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen Ellery Queen], exercises the Holmesian axiom: "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." In addition, after Conan had [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|knocked him out]] to use him as his mouthpiece to present his evidence, Heiji receives a clout on the head from [[Kogoro Mouri]], which wakes him up again, and from the corner of his eye he spies Conan standing behind him and using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to mimick his voice; he thus discovers Conan's secret, which forces Conan to explain his situation.

===Fast Friends===
On their third case together, Conan was initially irritated to see Heiji, but they quickly formed a strong team. Together they cornered the murderer and even took steps to preventing the suicide she had planned. When she realizes that she won't be able to kill herself she weeps piteously, causing Heiji to whisper to Conan, "perhaps we should have let her die." Conan replies that "a detective who corners a murderer with logic and then lets them commit suicide is no better than a murderer."

Although Heiji seemed to laugh this off at the time, soon after he invites Conan (and [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Ran Mouri]], because otherwise it'd look suspicious) to Osaka. It is revealed by [[Kazuha Toyama]] (in her first appearance) that Heiji has been talking about 'Kudo' so often that Kazuha thought 'Kudo' was his new Tokyo girlfriend. Heiji suggests that the reason he invited Conan to Osaka is because he has been worried about Conan's safety; he has had dreams of Conan being murdered. On a case together in Osaka, Heiji gives Conan his omamori, which ends up saving his life by deflecting a knife thrust. However, without it Heiji is injured while trying to prevent the murderer from committing suicide. In the ambulance, he reveals to Conan that he has taken to heart Conan's admonishment.

===A Friend in Need===
Since that time, Heiji has quickly grown to be one of the people that Conan/Shinichi trusts most. Heiji has helped Conan investigate the Black Organization, including [[Jodie Starling]], has disguised himself as Shinichi on multiple occasions to protect his identity, and has, perhaps most importantly, become Conan's closest friend and confidante.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
{{main|Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama}}
Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama]] is a very close one; they were childhood friends, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship is identified as a romantic one by other characters and fans alike, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, it has been shown that he becomes visibly jealous when he sees Kazuha with other guys, becoming distracted throughout the whole case. At one point, after a certain case, while looking at Kazuha, his thoughts read: 'Fool. You're too naive. I promise you, as long as you're with me, I'll never let anyone hurt you.'. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him. Also, they have the same situation as Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have the same background as them. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police's daughter, like Ran is a police's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions, so no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji can be a little bit worried for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and in a life or death situation. They are as close as real brothers, both being detective's and having feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other, although when a case gets serious, they are both all business. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.

==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his father is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

== 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. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 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>

*Heiji placed 3rd 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. Heiji placed 3rd out of 10 with 10.79% 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. Heiji placed 5th overall with 956 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 ==
Heiji's name comes from fictional Edo period police detective '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]]|銭形平次}}''' and famous samurai and ninja '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Hattori Hanzō|Hattori Hanzou]]|服部半蔵}}'''.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something ''perfect'', they wanna find a flaw.}}

{{cquote|We can see the importance of life only because it is short.}}

== In other languages ==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|平次　Heiji|服部 Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harley|Hartwell}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Heiji|Hattori / Hatsutori (in Volume 10)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Heiji|Hattori (Anime) / Hatsutori (Manga)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| هيجي Hiji |هاتوري Hattori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|인성 In Sung|하 Ha}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|平次 Pingchi|服部 Fubu }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here].
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo | Shinichi]], [[Kaito Kuroba | Kaito]] and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Heiji10yrs.png|Heiji in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hattori Heiji}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Detectives]]
[[category:High school detectives]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Martial artists]]
[[Category:Characters from Osaka]]
[[Category:Characters who know Conan's identity]]
[[Category:Sleeping detectives]]

[[de:Heiji Hattori]]
{{Characters}}

Kazuha Toyama

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Kazuha Toyama
| japanese-name = 遠山和葉 (Tōyama Kazuha)
| english-name = Kirsten Thomas
| image = Kazuha Toyama Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD57>Conan Drill page 57</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD57/>
| relatives = [[Ginshiro Toyama]] (father) Mother (unnamed)<ref>[[Volume 66#File 693 - The Charm Recovery Operation!|Volume 66, File 693: "The Charm Recovery Operation!", Page 4]] - Kazuha's mother is mentioned for the first time.</ref>
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 185 Anime: Episode 118
| appearances = {{:Kazuha Toyama Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 19]]
| japanese-voice = [[Yuko Miyamura]]
| english-voice = [[Gwendolyn Lau]]
| drama-actor = [[Rei Okamoto]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Kazuha Toyama|遠山和葉|Tōyama Kazuha}}''', also known as '''Kirsten Thomas''' in the [[Funimation]] dub, is character in the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is a childhood friend and the romantic interest of [[Heiji Hattori]].

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Kazuha and [[Heiji Hattori]] have been close friends since childhood. Their fathers work together at the Osaka Police station, where Kazuha's father, [[Ginshiro Toyama]] is a subordinate and close friend of Heiji's father, [[Heizo Hattori | Police Chief Heizo Hattori]].

At one time in their youth, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking themselves together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name="StabbedWallet">Manga Volume 19: File 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref> At some later point, Kazuha added a picture of Heiji into her own charm pouch.<ref>Manga Chapters 693-695: Kazuha's Charm Case</ref>

After Heiji had met [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and discovered his [[Shinichi Kudo|true identity]], he talked about him so frequently and enthusiastically to Kazuha that she became convinced that Heiji was in love with a Tokyo girl named 'Kudo.' When Heiji invited Conan, [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] to Osaka, Kazuha spied on them, believing Ran to be 'Kudo.' At an okonomiyaki restaurant, when Heiji got up for a moment, Kazuha sat down in his seat and warned Ran to back off him, at which point Heiji returned, the misunderstanding was cleared up, and Heiji laughed at Kazuha's behavior.<ref name="SerialKillerofNaniwa">Manga Volume 19: Chapters 5-8(Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref> In their next meeting, Kazuha continued to treat Ran coldly, pointing out that Ran and Heiji's clothes had coincidentally matched the last few times they had been together. In response, Ran immediately changed clothes, after which point the girls became much friendlier. <ref name="Wedding Murder">Manga Volume 21: File 211 (Wedding Murder Case)</ref>

== Personality ==
Kazuha has a hot temper and can be highly critical of people around her. Moreover, she is highly confrontational and unafraid to let others know of her dislike. This trait leads to frequent shouting matches with Heiji, but it also allowed her and Ran to forge a strong friendship despite the fact that Kazuha, believing that Ran was Heiji's new girlfriend, took an initial deep dislike to Ran out of jealousy. Affection and approval are apparently much harder for her to express, most significantly with regard to Heiji; she is perfectly aware of her feelings for him and, after a few initial attempts to deny it to Ran, openly discusses her love for Heiji with her. However, even when a good opening appears to discuss her feelings with him, she instead panics and does her best to pretend that she and Heiji are 'only friends.'

She also has a marked belief in spirits, good-luck charms, and other superstitions. Right from her first experience, she displayed her belief in the importance of hers and Heiji's omamori, charms which Kazuha made to protect her and Heiji from harm. And indeed, during the same case, Heiji lent Conan his omamori, and the metal inside the charm stopped a knife blade that would have killed Conan.<ref name="SerialKillerofNaniwa">Manga Volume 19: Chapters 5-8</ref> On subsequent cases, Kazuha is quick to attribute mysterious shadows and strange events to ghosts and other malignant spirits, which usually sends Ran into a panic as well.

== Skills ==

Despite her fearfulness, Kazuha is also a 2-dan in aikido, and has exhibited her skills in taking down several criminals, including [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]].<ref name="SerialKillerofNaniwa">Manga Volume 19: Chapters 5-8</ref>

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Kazuha Toyama Appearances]].''
=== Introduction ===
Soon after [[Heiji Hattori]] made Conan/Shinichi's acquaintance, he invited [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to Osaka. Several times throughout the day Ran felt herself being watched by a pair of malevolent eyes. At lunchtime that day, a girl sat down and, to Conan's horror and Ran's bafflement, addressed Ran as "Kudo." She warned "Kudo" to stay away from Heiji, who soon returned and sets her right. Heiji introduced her as his childhood friend Kazuha and introduced Ran as Kudo's girlfriend- which Ran hotly denied -, whereupon Ran asked them if they are together, which Kazuha and Heiji hotly denied in turn.<ref name="SerialKillerofNaniwa">Manga Volume 19: Chapters 5 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

=== Subsequent appearances ===
[[image:408_Kaz_saves_Conan.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Kazuha saves Conan from Heiji's jealous rage, which she unknowingly caused by flirting with another man.]]Since her introduction, Kazuha has accompanied Heiji in the majority of his appearances. The two frequently visit Tokyo and stay at the Mouri residence, and Kazuha accompanies Heiji on several cases. Because of this, she has from time to time been in great danger. She was almost killed by the Spider Mansion murderer because she found a BB gun bullet that the criminal had used in his setup; only Heiji's arrival chased the murderer away before Kazuha was strangled.<ref name="Spider Mansion">Manga Volume 25: Chapters 4-8 (Spider Mansion Case)</ref> Later, in the Mermaid Island case, Heiji nearly fell off a cliff during his investigation. Kazuha saved him, but overbalanced and fell off the cliff herself. Heiji jumped after her, managing to grab her wrist with his left hand and a jutting branch with his right. However, the branch began to bend, so Kazuha stabbed Heiji's hand in an attempt to make him let her go and save himself. Despite the wound, Heiji did not let go, and managed to save the both of them.<ref name="The Mermaid Weeps Again">Manga Volume 28: Chapters 6-10 </ref> He still bears the scar on his left hand, and has been known to mock Kazuha about it.<ref name="Heiji's First Standalone Case">Manga Volume 31: Chapters 8-10</ref> In a later case, Heiji and Kazuha were kidnapped by a corrupt lawyer in an attempt to force Heiji to crack a code. When he wouldn't comply, the lawyer decided to kill them both. Heiji asked to be allowed to say a few last words to Kazuha, claiming he had to tell her something he had wanted to say for a long time. This, it turned out, was a ploy to distract the lawyer, but when it failed, Heiji, with a gun to his head, told Kazuha that "I meant it when I said my last words were for you" and promised, if they survived, to tell them to her "until you're sick of hearing it." Afterward, when she asked him what he was going to say, he panicked and insisted that he had wanted to tell her that her ponytail had been tickling him while they were handcuffed together - which earned him an enraged slap in the face.<ref name="Hattori Heiji in Grave Danger">Manga Volume 38: Chapters 8-10</ref>

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Heiji Hattori ====
{{main|Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama}}
Kazuha has been best friends with Heiji since they were very young. Often times they act more like a couple then like friends, though they both deny having any such relation with each other. Kazuha tends to be somewhat overbearing and extremely protective of '''[[Heiji]]''', and has no problems in chasing off any potential female who may show some interest in him. Also in Movie 7 '''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]''', it is shown that she is Heiji's first love.

==== Ran Mouri ====
Despite having rather different temperaments and personalities, Kazuha and Ran have several things in common, including: proficiency in a martial art, father's connection to police work and detective work, and detective-obsessed childhood love interests. Kazuha was initially cold and rude to Ran, suspecting her of being interested in Heiji. However, thanks to Kazuha's frankness and Ran's accommodating nature, the girls quickly overcame this misunderstanding. They have since become close friends and seem to regard each other as confidantes, since they are in similar romantic situations: Ran and Shinichi cannot confess their feelings for each other, as Shinichi is, aside from telephone calls, physically absent from her life, and Kazuha and Heiji cannot confess their feelings for each other due to their own stubbornness and irascibility. While Conan/Shinichi and Heiji are on cases together, Ran and Kazuha almost always spend the time together. When Kazuha visits the Mouris' in Tokyo with Heiji, she is shown to share Ran's bed.

== 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. Kazuha placed 16th in the poll with 40 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. Kazuha placed 7th out of 10.<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. Kazuha placed 11th overall with 203 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 'Toyama' comes from Edo period "police detective" [[wikipedia:Tōyama Kagemoto|Kagetomo Toyama]], aka [[wikipedia:Tōyama no Kin-san|Toyama no Kin-san]], while Kazuha comes from one of [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s assistants.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kazuha_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Kazuha's "Before" Appearance (Episode 118)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kazuha_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Kazuha's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|和葉　Kazuha|遠山 Tooyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Kirsten|Thomas}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Kazuha|Toyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Kazuha|Toyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Kazuha|Toyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|كازوها Kazoha | توياما Toyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|가영 Ka Young|서 Suh}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|和葉　|遠山 }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Kazuha|Toyama}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
* The kanji for Kazuha's first name mean 'Japanese Leaf.' Her last name, Toyama, means 'distant mountain.'
* Besides[[ Eri Kisaki]], Kazuha almost always keeps her hair in a ponytail.

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Kazuha10yrs.png|Kazuha in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Toyama family]]
* [[Kazuha Toyama Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]

== References ==
<references/>

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[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Martial artists]]
[[Category:Characters from Osaka]]
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[[de:Kazuha Toyama]]

Heiji Hattori

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
| height =
| weight =
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD56/>
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West"
| first-appearance = Manga: File 92 Anime: Episode 48
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = All cases with [[Conan]]
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]]
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| german-voice =[[Oliver Feld]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend of [[Kazuha Toyama]].

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [[Heizo Hattori]], chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [[Shizuka Hattori]]. Heiji wants to be a detective like his father, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school.

At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name=StabbetWallet>Manga Volume 19: Files 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [[Shinichi Kudo]] is the "Great Detective of the East". As a result, Heiji showed up unannounced at the Mouri Detective Agency looking for Kudo, seeking to challenge his rival to a showdown of wits. (In fact, they had such a contest before, three years previously, during a skiing trip in the Yamagata prefecture, although they never learned about each other's identities at that time.<ref>Manga Chapters 518-522: Yuki-Onna Murder Case</ref>) Heiji was soundly defeated in the following case after [[Conan Edogawa]] temporarily turned back into Shinichi, but he gained a lot of respect for Shinichi in the process.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-096: The Great Detective Of The West</ref>.

During their second encounter, Conan knocked Heiji out to solve the on-going case, but during his final presentation of the facts, Heiji awoke prematurely and discovered Conan's secret.<ref>Manga Chapters 121: The Holmes Freak Case: The Revelation</ref> Ever since that revelation, Heiji has been helping Conan in hiding his secret identity, though he occasionally slips up by calling him "Kudo" in front of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].

Heiji and Conan most often congenially team up to solve assorted cases. Heiji has also helped Conan investigate the [[Black Organization]] on several occasions, such as when the two investigated [[Jodie Starling]] <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=34 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 2-7 |language=English }}</ref>, or when Heiji investigated [[Eisuke Hondou]] on his own and then told Conan his findings<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=56 | chapter=Files 7 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. He's also helped cover for Conan during several of the brief instances where Conan regained his true adolescent age, and has even disguised himself as Shinichi on several occasions in order to protect his identity, even though he is not very good at it. When not working on a case, he regularly attempts to invite Conan to take in the sights and culinary delights in Osaka, which he considers more wholesome than Tokyo's.
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== Personality ==
Even while solving a case, Heiji tends to be lighthearted and good-humored, preferring to work through it with a grin on his face. He is a big fan of baseball, and is most of the time shown wearing an Osaka cap, to support the local Osaka baseball team. He usually wears his cap with its visor pointed backward, but if he feels challenged, he turns the visor forward.

Despite him knowing the value and necessity of remaining calm in the face of a crime, Heiji tends to be impulsive at times, which tends to cloud his judgment a little. This was discussed directly in the "Detective Koushien" case, when [[Saguru Hakuba]] accused Heiji of being a poor detective for disrupting a crime scene in his rush to see if the victim could still be saved. Heiji, however, solved the case in the end, and reminded Saguru that the detective's first job is to prevent death if he can. Heiji is also known to be extremely protective of those he values as close friends, and tries hard to keep them out of harm. There are several instances where Hattori tells Kazuha to wait for him or leaves her behind in order to keep her from being involved in cases, simply because he's afraid of her getting hurt.<ref>Manga Volume 59, File 6, pg 6: Armored Warrior</ref><ref>Manga Volume 59, File 7, pg 11: Art of War</ref><ref name=653p3>Manga Volume 63, File 1, page 3: My Deduction</ref>

Furthermore, he's pretty much always watching Shinichi's back, and does whatever he can to not only keep Shinichi safe, but to keep his identity under cover. Although he is very competitive when it comes to detective cases, when a case gets hot, he and Shinichi work effectively together. During Shinichi's first return to his high school during the play performance, Heiji let him take the lead role in the investigations, saying it was because they were in Tokyo, Shinichi's turf.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=26 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 1-7 |language=English }}</ref>

Although he frequently mocks Kazuha for her superstitions and enthusiasm for good-luck charms, Heiji has several times revealed that he puts more trust in them than he would admit. He once dreamed of Shinichi being murdered, and out subsequently insisted that Conan wear his omamori, the good luck charm Kazuha gave him. The omamori ended up saving Shinichi's life by deflecting a knife blow, but Heiji, without his usual protection, was shot in the stomach.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=19 | chapter=Files 5-8 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. In another case, Ran hung a teruterubozu, a charm that's supposed to ensure good weather, in the window so that Conan would have good weather for his field trip the next day. Heiji, however, got up in the middle of the night to take down the teruterubozu so that Conan's field trip would be rained out and he could accompany Heiji on an investigation of the The Red Horse Among The Flames.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=39 |language=Japanese}}</ref>.

== Appearance and Attributes ==
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark skin, and his eyes are normally dark green in the anime but are drawn as blue in the manga. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref>

=== Intelligence and eidetic memory ===
Heiji, like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan. <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan |volume=38 |chapter=Files 8-10 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

=== Kendo ===
As Shinichi is to soccer, so is Heiji to kendo. He's the fifth position, or taisho, and captain of his high school Kendo team. Heiji may disable criminals using an improvised bokken similar to how Shinichi uses his soccer skills.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle driver. He also speaks fluent English.

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]].''
[[image:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]
===The Great Detective Of The West===
One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tusjimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.<ref>Manga Chapters 092: </ref>

===Finding the One Truth===
After this first case, it only takes one more run-in with Conan to get Heiji thinking about the similarities between Conan and Shinichi. It is on the "Holmes Freak Murder Case" that Heiji, despite professing a preference for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen Ellery Queen], exercises the Holmesian axiom: "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." In addition, after Conan had [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|knocked him out]] to use him as his mouthpiece to present his evidence, Heiji receives a clout on the head from [[Kogoro Mouri]], which wakes him up again, and from the corner of his eye he spies Conan standing behind him and using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to mimick his voice; he thus discovers Conan's secret, which forces Conan to explain his situation.

===Fast Friends===
On their third case together, Conan was initially irritated to see Heiji, but they quickly formed a strong team. Together they cornered the murderer and even took steps to preventing the suicide she had planned. When she realizes that she won't be able to kill herself she weeps piteously, causing Heiji to whisper to Conan, "perhaps we should have let her die." Conan replies that "a detective who corners a murderer with logic and then lets them commit suicide is no better than a murderer."

Although Heiji seemed to laugh this off at the time, soon after he invites Conan (and [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Ran Mouri]], because otherwise it'd look suspicious) to Osaka. It is revealed by [[Kazuha Toyama]] (in her first appearance) that Heiji has been talking about 'Kudo' so often that Kazuha thought 'Kudo' was his new Tokyo girlfriend. Heiji suggests that the reason he invited Conan to Osaka is because he has been worried about Conan's safety; he has had dreams of Conan being murdered. On a case together in Osaka, Heiji gives Conan his omamori, which ends up saving his life by deflecting a knife thrust. However, without it Heiji is injured while trying to prevent the murderer from committing suicide. In the ambulance, he reveals to Conan that he has taken to heart Conan's admonishment.

===A Friend in Need===
Since that time, Heiji has quickly grown to be one of the people that Conan/Shinichi trusts most. Heiji has helped Conan investigate the Black Organization, including [[Jodie Starling]], has disguised himself as Shinichi on multiple occasions to protect his identity, and has, perhaps most importantly, become Conan's closest friend and confidante.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
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Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama]] is a very close one; they were childhood friends, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship gets mistaken for a romantic relationship by everyone, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, he has shown that he is protective of her when she is with other guys and says that he will never let her get hurt no matter what. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him. Also, they have the same situation as Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have the same background as them. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police's daughter, like Ran is a police's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions, so no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji can be a little bit worried for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and in a life or death situation. They are as close as real brothers, both being detective's and having feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other, although when a case gets serious, they are both all business. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.

==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his father is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

== 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. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 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>

*Heiji placed 3rd 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. Heiji placed 3rd out of 10 with 10.79% 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. Heiji placed 5th overall with 956 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 ==
Heiji's name comes from fictional Edo period police detective '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]]|銭形平次}}''' and famous samurai and ninja '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Hattori Hanzō|Hattori Hanzou]]|服部半蔵}}'''.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something ''perfect'', they wanna find a flaw.}}

{{cquote|We can see the importance of life only because it is short.}}

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harley|Hartwell}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Heiji|Hattori / Hatsutori (in Volume 10)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Heiji|Hattori (Anime) / Hatsutori (Manga)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| هيجي Hiji |هاتوري Hattori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|인성 In Sung|하 Ha}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|平次 Pingchi|服部 Fubu }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{EndTable}}

== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here].
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo | Shinichi]], [[Kaito Kuroba | Kaito]] and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

==Gallery==
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File:Heiji10yrs.png|Heiji in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ai Haibara
| japanese-name = 灰原哀 (Haibara Ai)
| english-name = Vi Graythorn (movies and anime) Anita Hailey (manga and game)
| image = Ai Haibara Profile.jpg
| age = Estimated to be 18 <ref name=CD51>Conan Drill Page 51</ref> 6 or 7 (as Ai Haibara)<ref name=CD49>Conan Drill Page 49</ref><ref>Stated to be 7 in OVA 11</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD49/>
| relatives = [[Akemi Miyano]] (older sister, deceased) [[Elena Miyano]] (mother, deceased) [[Atsushi Miyano]] (father, deceased)
| nicknames = Haibara (by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Ai-chan (by [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]) (by [[Ran Mouri|Ran]]) Ai-kun (by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]) The evil-eyed yawny girl (once by [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]])
| aliases = [[Shiho Miyano]] (real name) Sherry
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_2#File_016_-_A_Devil-like_Woman|File 16]] (In a silhouette) / [[Volume_18#File_176_-_The_New_Student...|File 176]] (1st full appearance) Anime: [[The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case|Episode 129]]
| appearances = {{:Ai Haibara Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 18]]
| japanese-voice = [[Megumi Hayashibara]]
| english-voice = [[Brina Palencia]]
| drama-actor = [[Kyoka Shibata]] (Ai) [[Yu Kashii]] (Sherry)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ai Haibara|灰原哀|Haibara Ai}}''', real name '''{{nihongo|[[Shiho Miyano]]|宮野志保|Miyano Shiho}}''', is the inventor of the [[APTX 4869]] poison that shrunk [[Shinichi Kudo]] into [[Conan Edogawa]], and a victim of the poison herself. Formerly '''{{nihongo|Sherry|シェリー}}''' of the [[Black Organization]], she is on the run from them and lives with [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]]. She is also one of few characters who knows Shinichi is Conan.

== Background ==
[[Image:Investigation_Kudo's_house.jpg‎|thumb|left|170px|Search team were sent to Kudo's house to investigate.]]Shiho Miyano and her older sister, Akemi Miyano aka Masami Hirota were born into the secret crime syndicate "The [[Black Organization]]". Of course, while Akemi lived a normal life, Haibara was sent to America as a small child to go to school and was groomed to finish her parents' research <ref> File 384-386 Volume 38 File 2-4</ref>. She was born to an English mother, Elena Miyano, and a Japanese father, Atsushi Miyano. Both of whom were members of the organization, and deceased. A prodigy, she was sent to the United States for education at a very young age, then later came back to Japan to finish her parents' secret project for the organization. By the age of thirteen she was working as a scientist for the Black Organization.<ref>Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization five years ago. He did so by becoming Akemi’s girlfriend in order to get close to Shiho and use her influence to get in. (Manga Volume 58, File 2, pg 9: "Akai's Past") According to the FBI’s description, Shiho was “a scientist for them” at the time. Furthermore this took place in Japan since everyone was speaking Japanese, Akemi lived in Japan, and the FBI bust two years prior to the current timeline was in Japan (607 pg 8). If Shiho is 18 now, she would be 13 at the time Akai started infiltrating the Black Organization and she was already a scientist for them at this point and high ranked.</ref> Her codename in the Black Organization is "Sherry", after the alcoholic drink.

Shiho was about 18 years old when she developed the experimental test compound [[APTX 4869]]. She discovered that it could be used as a poison to kill without leaving any traces of itself in a body. While researching its effects, Shiho noticed that a rare few of her lab mice had become younger after being given the drug instead of dying. Meanwhile, the Black Organization started using APTX 4869 to commit untraceable murders. Unaware of the drug's rare side effect when they used it on [[Shinichi Kudo]], the Black Organization ordered a search for him because his body had not been found. Shiho searched Shinichi's house twice after he had been shrunk to confirm his death for the Black Organization. She began to suspect Shinichi's transformation after she searched his house for a second time and found that his clothes from primary school were missing. Shiho then confirmed him as deceased so the organization would not look into the matter further and kill him after all.

[[Image:Shiho_taking_APTX4869.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Shiho swallows the [[APTX 4869]]]] Her unhappiness over the Black Organization's usage of the APTX 4869 for killing purposes though the drug has not yet been fully developed, in addition to her open questioning pertaining to the murder of her sister, Akemi Miyano, resulted in her imprisonment and scheduled execution by the Black Organization. With no other way out, she took a pill of APTX 4869 to commit suicide, but instead shrunk into a seven or eight year old girl. In her new smaller body, she escaped from the Black Organization and attempted to reach Shinichi's house, hoping he may be able to help her. Exhausted, she collapsed in front of Shinichi's house, where she was found by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]], who eventually adopted her.<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> In fact, as it turned out later, Agasa had known her parents - especially her father, [[Atsushi Miyano]] -, personally, even though he didn't know at that time that they've had children.<ref>Manga Chapter 398: The Torn Friendship, Part 1</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 423: A Mystery Left by a Visitor</ref>

=== Ai Haibara ===
[[Image:Haibara_founded_infront_of_Kudo's_house.JPG|thumb|right|245px|Haibara collapsed in front of Kudo's house.]]To prevent the knowledge of her transfiguration from being discovered, Shiho and Professor Agasa created her alias ''Ai Haibara'' (known as Anita Hailey - recently Vi Graythorn - in the English dub). As Ai Haibara, she attends [[Teitan Elementary School]] with [[Shinichi Kudo]]'s shrunken form, [[Conan Edogawa]]. Following her first adventure with the [[Detective Boys]] in which they investigated the disappearance of a schoolmate's brother, she revealed her true identity to Conan and the fact that she had developed the [[APTX 4869]].<ref>Manga Chapter 178: Code Name Sherry</ref> At first stunned, then outraged, Conan protested her presence,<ref>Manga Chapter 179: The Girl Made Of Lies</ref> but as time went by, he accepted Haibara as a friend and fellow victim, though her cynicism and secretive air still rail him at times.

Haibara has begun working on an antidote for the APTX 4869, but since most of the important data had been stored on computer files, which are now mostly destroyed, the work progresses slowly. Eventually, Haibara joined the ranks of the [[Detective Boys]], and although she does not think too highly of her mates' immature antics, she has come to value them all as close friends. Eventually, Conan succeeded in persuading [[Vermouth]], who was attempting to track down Shiho and had found out about her new identity, to leave Haibara in peace, a promise Vermouth has upheld so far, easing the air of menace which had loomed over Haibara so far in her fear of the Black Organization.<ref>Manga Chapter 434: Rotten Apple</ref>

=== The boiling point ===
More recently, Haibara has begun to suspect [[Subaru Okiya]] as being a member of the Black Organization, code-named "Bourbon", sent to track her down, though the sense of menace she feels in the presence of such individuals strangely keeps coming and going, making her unsure of her own judgements about him. Whether - and how closely - Subaru is really involved with the Black Organization is yet to be confirmed. She has also come under closer scrutiny by the new amateur high school detective [[Masumi Sera]], who has taken an unusually close interest in Conan.<ref>Manga Chapter 775-777: Target On Tape</ref>

== Personality ==
[[File:Ai - Sai Brand's Wallet.jpg|thumb|150px|Haibara asking for a ''Sai Brand'''s wallet for her cooperation]]Shiho has a sang-froid, mistrustful, sarcastic, cold attitude, and often reminds others about the darker side of reality and human nature. As Ai Haibara, she acts older than she is supposed to be, which the Detective Boys refer to her as "cool". But despite her jaded demeanor, she has been kind and caring on occasion, though usually more to animals than people. She's a bit quiet, though this may be due to her caution to keep herself hidden from the Black Organization. She is sometimes cold and very analytical, but there are times where she softens her demeanor and reveals herself to be a true friend. In fact, she considers Conan and the Detective Boys as the first real friends she has ever had, and is even willing to sacrifice herself just to ensure their safety.<ref>Manga Chapters 289: Bus Hijacking Case</ref><ref>Manga Chapters 434: Rotten Apple Case</ref>

Shiho is generally a loner and misses her older sister, Akemi, greatly (in the film ''Countdown to Heaven'', she would call her sister's old apartment just to hear her voice on the voicemail). Her greatest fear is being caught by the [[Black Organization]], and she is especially terrified of [[Gin]]. Smart, stubborn, and with a somewhat twisted sense of humor, she tries to keep Conan from doing reckless things that may give away their identity, though often she is surprised by his actions that usually result in his gaining the information he needs while also keeping their identities secret.

While she generally accompanies her fellow Detective Boys to soccer matches played by the Tokyo Spirits, Haibara herself is a fan of [[Culture#Soccer|Big Osaka]] in general and of the player [[List of minor recurring manga characters#Celebrities|Ryusuke Higo]] in particular, especially since the latter has likewise abandoned an organization which had betrayed him and had remained an outcast for a time.<ref>Manga Chapters 344-346: Soccer Supporter Case</ref> Because she occasionally works overnight at the antidote for the APTX 4869, she tends to be tired quite frequently, causing Conan to call her an "evil-eyed yawny girl" on one occasion.<ref>Manga Chapter 680: A Dangerous Couple</ref>

In the OVA ''[[A Secret Order From London]]'' Haibara reveals to [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] that she likes sandwiches with a mixture of peanut butter and blueberry jam, from her schooldays in America. However, since [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] caught her eating one of these sandwiches - especially since Haibara was on her part constantly pestering him into eating low-calory foods only - she had to abandon that habit for a while.<ref>OAV 11: ''A Secret Order From London''</ref>

=== Taste for fashion ===
[[File:Haibara and fashion.png|thumb|150px|Haibara reading fashion magazine 'Com Com'.]]Haibara seems to have some interest in fashion, as she has made repeated requests for a certain type of purse when asked to do something. In one of the cases for instance, in order to expose the identity of the person who hid the phone cables to cut off communications with the outside world, she was asked by Conan to fake an unbearable appendix pain, which she agreed to after jokingly requesting for a Fusae Brand's wallet for her cooperation. She then started rolling on the floor and screaming for help. The culprit felt like he had no choice but to reveal the cable from his pockets and reconnect the phone to ask for an ambulance. <ref>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 374-375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco]]</ref>

== Appellations ==
Although most people will call Haibara by her name suffixed with ''-san'' (due to her personality), and some with ''-chan'' (due to her agreement), a lot of the characters have different ways of calling her due to their different relationships. The following is a list of the different appellations for Haibara (and the ones Haibara gives in return) encountered in the series.

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| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Haibara-san (formerly) Ai-chan || Yoshida-san (usually) Ayumi-chan (once)
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| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Haibara || Kojima-kun
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| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Haibara-san || Tsuburaya-kun
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| [[File:Yukiko Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Yukiko Kudo]] || Haibara-san || ???
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| [[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]] || [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] || Ai-kun || Professor (Hakase)
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| [[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heiji Hattori]] || That little girl (in Japanese "nee-chan" = "older sister") || Osaka friend
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| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Ai-chan || ???
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| [[File:Subaru Okiya 60px.jpg]] || [[Subaru Okiya]] || ??? || Subaru-san (Chapter 801)
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| [[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]] || [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] || ??? || Inspector Megure (Megure-keibu)
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| [[File:Jodie Starling 60px.jpg]] || [[Jodie Starling]] || "Little red hiding hood" Brown haired girl || Jodie-sensei
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| [[File:Shuichi Akai 60px.jpg]] || [[Shuichi Akai]] || That brown haired girl || ???
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| [[File:Kaitou Kid 60px.jpg]] || [[Kaitou Kid]] || Young lady || Kid (in her thought) Mr. Magician in the Moonlight (once)
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== Plot overview ==
=== Introduction of Ai Haibara ===
Conan's class receives a new student named Ai Haibara. She acts rather cold and reserved when the Detective Boys try to befriend her, and Genta notices she's looking at Conan suspiciously. She tells them where she lives but Conan fails to realize it's at Agasa's home.

After school, a boy named Toshiya asks the Detective Boys to find his missing brother. The Detective Boys along with Haibara investigate Toshiya's house and finds a painting of Natsume Sōseki. Toshiya reveals that before his brother disappeared, a woman, who had an interest in that portrait, approached Toshiya.

The Detective Boys search around town to ask whether anyone has seen the woman or Toshiya's brother. Conan notices that a man was using a counterfeit ¥1000 and realizes Toshiya's brother was actually kidnapped and forced to help create counterfeit bills. After following the man along with the clues Toshiya's brother left behind, they are able to apprehend the organized crime group and save Toshiya's brother.

On the way home, Haibara reveals to Conan that she's a girl named Shiho Miyano, former member of the Black Organization. She actualy betrayed the group and escaped with the use of the APTX 4869 which caused her to become a child. She reveals that she accidentally sent a floppy disk containing data on the Black Organization to her older sister...which is now in the possession of her sister's professor, Masami Hirota.

[[image:Ai cries.png|thumb|right|150px|Haibara cries on Conan after asking him why hadn't he helped her sister.]]Agasa takes Conan and Haibara there to retrieve the disk, only to realize that Hirota has been murdered. The suspects are Hirota's three students who visited that day. Conan reveals the culprit to be a man named Akira Shirakura; Shirakura after bludgeoning Hirota to death tied the answering machine cassette tape around the key to the room which rewound when a call was made and subsequently bringing the key into the room. As evidence, Conan reveals that Shirakura's fingerprints should be found on the tape.

Haibara breaks down and asks Conan why he could not save her sister, Akemi, from the Black Organization. Later that day, Haibara attempts to read the files off the disk only to have a virus delete all the data.

=== The first head to head battle arc ===
[[image:Sherry_shot_1.JPG|thumb|left|150px|Shiho shot by Gin.]]In Episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. Haibara is kidnapped and confined to a wine cellar, but turns into an adult after she drinks [[baijiu]]. Despite wearing glasses and janitor clothing, Gin and Vodka recognize her and shoot her repeatedly until Conan appears. He shoots Gin with his needle, but Gin doesn't fall asleep. He tells Haibara to jump into the chimmey, and Vodka shoots at him, but he gets away. Gin purposely shoots himself in the arm due to trying to stay awake. Inside, Pisco almost kills her, but Conan rescues her after Pisco accidentally causes a fire. Gin kills Pisco for failure before he's able to tell him the truth about Shiho Miyano. Worried that the organization is after her, Haibara decides to leave the city.

=== The Desperate Revival arc ===
During the Desperate Revival episodes, Conan finds out that Ran suspects him of being Shinichi, due to Ran knowing Conan's blood type (for a blood transfusion). While Conan is in the hospital contemplating about admitting his identity, Haibara enters at night and points a gun at his head, saying that the Black Organization has found Haibara out due to an unknown agent being present at the Pisco incident. Because of this, Professor Agasa is held hostage and, in exchange for his life and a chance to return to the Black Organization, Haibara is required to terminate all the links she had as a child. However, she pulls the trigger and a bunch of flowers come out, showing that the story was just an act. Still, she uses this story as her point; that both Haibara and Conan cannot reveal their identities no matter the situation.

During that night, Haibara explains her plan to disassociate Conan from Shinichi in Ran's eyes. She has Conan take a prototype antidote for the shrinking drug and then disguises herself as Conan. For the rest of the arc, Conan returns as Shinichi while Haibara is present as Conan, thus creating the illusion of Shinichi and Conan existing at the same time, disproving that the two are the same person.

At the end of the Desperate Revival arc, the antidote begins to run out and Shinichi runs into the bathroom, where Haibara knocks him out using the sleeping needle. She then switches Shinichi into Conan's clothes after the antidote runs out.

=== A new threat: Vermouth, and the carjacking incident ===
Aside from Gin and Vodka being the most recurring members, a female member introduced late into the series named Vermouth also starts to play a huge role in the series. She makes her first appearance in Episodes 176-178, but her talents aren't revealed until Episode 230. She is one of the few characters who knows who Conan really is, since she'd seen Shinichi in pictures or in person via Yukiko when Shinichi was originally seven. In one episode she is saved by Ran and Shinichi from falling through a fire escape (though they don't know it's her), and keeps his secret unknown from the rest possibly because of this. She disguises herself as two actresses, Chris Vineyard and Sharon Vineyard. It is noted several times in the series that she is a master of disguise, who trained with Shinichi's mother in the past under a famous magician, [[Toichi Kuroba]], before he died.


=== The second head to head battle, and revealed allegiances ===
[[Image:Episode_345_Screencap.jpg‎|thumb|right|180px|Encounter with Vermouth.]] In Episode 345, many identities are finally unveiled: Vermouth is revealed to be Dr. Araide, Chris Vineyard, [[Sharon Vineyard]], and the silver-haired serial killer in Shinichi's New York Case; Jodie Santemillion is revealed to be an undercover FBI agent working towards capturing Vermouth, who killed her father when she was younger; Shuichi Akai is confirmed to be an FBI agent, and one with great skill too--enough to make the boss of the Black Organization believe that he is their ''Silver Bullet.'' Near the end of the episode, it becomes clear that Vermouth's purpose was to seek and eliminate Sherry, but her attempts are thwarted by several people: Shinichi/Conan, Jodie Saintemillion, Shuichi Akai, and even Ran. When she becomes cornered, she takes Conan hostage and drives away into a forest. There, she makes a call to her boss (still nameless), and to her surprise, Conan was recording the entire conversation. In order to preserve the organization's secrecy, she sprays sleeping gas in the car, putting both herself and Conan to sleep. She claims that this would be a duel--whoever wakes up first will win. Vermouth does indeed wake up first, but does not kill Conan. Instead, she just crushes his recording device. Ultimately, the only clue Conan gained from this whole ordeal is the ringtone that the boss uses; this is mentioned in Episode 425 as well, although its importance has not yet been revealed.

In Episode 394, Conan figures out the boss's number, but Haibara warns him not to call it because it is "[[Pandora's Box]]", Conan then thinks he can get Detective Takagi to figure out who the number belongs to. But then Haibara warns if he does, Detective Takagi will be killed.

Although Vermouth often comes off as evil and malicious, her allegiance is rather ambiguous. She chooses to protect both Conan/Shinichi and Ran, most likely because they let her live back in the New York Case when she was disguised as the silver-haired serial killer. At the end of the episode, she could have very well killed Shinichi, but instead she lets him live and even drapes her coat over his sleeping body so he wouldn't get cold. She even kept her promise with Shinichi to stop her attempt on killing Sherry/Shiho. For some reason, she seems to wish for the Black Organization to be taken down as well--for she believes that Shinichi Kudo is their true ''Silver Bullet.

=== Clash of Red and Black ===

=== The third head to head battle, and three new threats ===

=== Subaru Okiya, and "Bourbon" ===
As Conan and Haibara investigate a normal case, Haibara feels that an organization member is around. The organization member which she felt is implied to be one of the innocent suspects, [[Subaru Okiya]]. Conan invites Okiya to live in Kudo's house since Okiya's apartment was burnt. Okiya appears in other cases later on, including at the Haido mall where the rest of the Black Organization gathered to chase a rumored sighting of a [[Scar Akai|scarred Shuichi Akai]]. Despite the apparent implications, [[Bourbon]]'s true identity and Okiya's true motivations remain unconfirmed. At the end of Episode 543 (Anime), Subaru Okiya can be seen drinking a bottle of Baker's Mark, which is a brand of Kentucky Bourbon.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
====Conan Edogawa====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara}}
Ai Haibara seems to have somewhat romantic feelings for [[Conan]]/[[Shinichi]], although she never truly admits to it. In the fourth movie, she says to Conan that she wished she could forget her memories about the Black Organization and the death of her sister and the pill, claiming that all she wants to be was a normal little girl and live together with Conan forever. But then as Conan was shocked by the words, Haibara immediately said she was lying. Indeed, it is a mystery just exactly what she feels for him, whether friend or otherwise. It could be said that, because of their almost equal level of intelligence, she finds it easier to talk to him. Also, he is one of the few people in front of whom she has shown any signs of weakness, such as breaking down.

==== Hiroshi Agasa ====
{{main|Agasa family}}
The relationship between Haibara and [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] is rather unusual, if not humorous. Despite what their actual ages are, Haibara often times acts more like a mother to the professor, constantly reminding him to watch what he eats. On several occassions, she has removed fattening foods from his reach<ref name=Depths>[[Strategy Above the Depths|Movie 9: Strategy Above the Depths]]</ref>, and is attempting to help get him into better shape. There's also been instances where she'll automatically step in front of Agasa in cases of danger.<ref name=Eyes>[[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]]</ref> Out of all the people she's met, Haibara seems most comfortable about acting herself with Professor Agasa; which might be attributed to the fact that he was the one who found her after she escaped the Black Organization, and took her in.

==== Ran Mouri ====
There are instances where Haibara will caution Conan from actions that involve [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], though it's assumed this is due merely to the fact that she wants to keep her identity hidden. At one point, she was very cold and distant towards Ran, just like she was to most other people. Ran believed that it was because that Haibara had hated her.<ref name=Net>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref> However, later that day, Haibara finally properly introduced herself to Ran, and they slowly became friends. Haibara finds that Ran resembles her older sister, Akemi Miyano, so she takes special interest in protecting her. These feelings began after Ran jumped through a slew of bullets from Calvados (the sniper who Vermouth had cover her) to save Haibara.<ref name=Vermouth>[[Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon|Episode 345: Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon]]</ref> Haibara immediately thought of her own sister, and began to treat and look at Ran as a splitting image of Akemi. Haibara also begs for Ran to stay at Agasa's house, during when she had learned that [[Korn]], [[Chianti]], and the rest of the Black Organization were lurking about, immediately thinking of her own sister's death, and wanting to keep Ran safe.<ref name=KornChianti>[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!|Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!]]</ref>

=== Detective Boys ===
==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
Haibara has tried to keep an emotional distance away from the rest of the Detective Boys since the beginning. However, over time, she can't resist their friendliness anymore and gradually warms up to them.

This is especially true in the case of [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]]. At one time, Ayumi noticed that she called everyone by their first names except for Haibara and decided to try and call her "Ai-chan", but without success. At the end of a case which involved a shattered friendship, Haibara told Ayumi that it was okay for her to call her "Ai-chan". When Mitsuhiko and Genta tried to call her that, however, she told them that only Ayumi was allowed to call her by her first name.<ref name=Ai-chan>[[A Friendship That Can't Be Bought|Episode 329-330: A Friendship That Can't Be Bought]]</ref> On the whole, Haibara seems to see Ayumi as a little sister, even going so far as to physically shield her from danger.<ref name=starsandtobacco>[[A Code of Stars and Tobacco|Episode 375: A Code of Stars and Tobacco (Part 2)]]</ref>

[[Image:200526142537303.JPG|thumb|right|220|Haibara listening in on Mitsuhiko's radio.]]
==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya ====
{{main|Ai Haibara and Mitsuhiko Tsubaraya}}
Haibara's classmate and fellow detective [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] develops heavy romantic feelings for her, and Haibara is fully aware of this. Haibara uses Mitsuhiko's feelings to her advantage when she needs him to do something, but she also does admire his intelligence and courage during missions the Detective Boys must perform and respects his feelings. In some episodes she even shows more confidence in Mitsuhiko than in Ayumi or Genta when the going gets tough.

=== Black Organization ===
==== Gin ====
{{main|Gin and Sherry}}
[[Gin]] has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting her, while she hates him. They may have had a romantic relationship in the past.<ref name=CD239>Conan drill page 239</ref>

==== Vodka ====
Shiho and [[Vodka]] have met and are acquaintances.<ref name=CD239/>

==== Vermouth ====
[[Vermouth]] and Shiho have some connection, although it has not been elaborated on. Shiho fears Vermouth more than other Black Organization members except perhaps Gin. Shiho was Vermouth's target, but Vermouth gave up on her after Conan's intervention. If Shiho was in a romantic relationship with Gin, then Vermouth and Shiho were love rivals as Vermouth was in a sexual relationship with Gin.<ref name=CD239/>

== People who know Haibara's real identity ==
These people know Haibara's true identity: Professor Agasa, Conan, Vermouth, Pisco, Heiji Hattori, Yukiko Kudo, Yusaku Kudo, and Shuichi Akai. it is also possible that James Black and Jodie Starling of the FBI know Haibara's true identity since they call Haibara by her codename "Sherry", although they may not know yet her true name.

== 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. Haibara placed 4th in the poll with 686 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. Haibara placed 4th out of 10.<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. Haibara placed 3rd overall with 1,592 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 ==
According to Agasa, Ai Haibara's name comes from [[wikipedia:Cordelia Gray|Cordelia '''Gray''']] (the character 灰 in her name means "ash") and [[wikipedia:V.I. Warshawski|'''V.I.''' Warshawski]] (V.I. upside down = "Ai"). Although Agasa suggested she use the kanji 愛 (love) for "Ai", she preferred to use the kanji 哀 (sorrow). Her US FUNimation name, "Vi Graythorn", has similar roots.

Her US Viz name, Anita Hailey, comes from:
* Anita: Anne Katherine Green (the first American Mystery Writer)
* Hailey: Hero (though Anita didn't care much for the choice)<ref>Volume 18: File 179</ref>

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ai_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Haibara's "Before" Appearance (Episode 129)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ai_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Haibara's "After" Appearance (Episode 631)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

=== Specific ===
{{cquote|Using too much of your brain can make you bald like Professor Agasa! <ref>Manga Chapter 222: The Last Movie p.07, to Conan</ref> }}
{{cquote|''(Talking to Conan)'' "I'll run with you." <ref>Anime Series Chapter 295: Smash of Love and
Determination Part 2</ref> }}
{{cquote|''(Talking to Conan)'' "You'll protect me, right?" <ref>Anime Chapter 280: The Hooligan's Labyrinth Part 2</ref>}}

== Trivia ==
*Sherry is a fortified wine from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain. Most sherries are initially dry, with sweetness added later. This could be a play on her personality that the Black Organization recognized. To further confirm the pun, in the Spanish dub of the anime, her codename in the organization is "Jerez" rather than "Sherry" (in Spanish language, both the town and the wine share the name), although she was renamed later to "Sherry" again.

==In other languages==
===Haibara===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|哀Ai|灰原Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Anita/Vi|Hailey/Graythorn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ai|Haibara}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| هيبارا 　Hibara| <ref>In the Arabic version, Ai Haibara was just simply referred as Hibara.</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|장미 Jang Mee|홍 Hong}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ไอ|ไฮบาระ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ai|Haibara}}
{{EndTable}}

===Shiho Miyano===
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|志保Shiho |宮野Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|시호 Shi Ho|안 Ahn}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|ชิโฮ|มิยาโนะ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Shiho|Miyano}}
{{EndTable}}

===Sherry===
{{BeginTable OtherLang|notes=1}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|シェリー Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=US|English|Sherry|Once called Shelly, due to translating errors}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=France|French|Sherry| }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Jerez/Sherry| In the Spanish dub, her codename was first "Jerez" and later changed into "Sherry".<ref> Note: "Jerez" means "Sherry".</ref>}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnam|Sherry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|雪莉 Xuě lì}}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|شيري Shirry| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เชอรี่| }}
{{OtherLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sherry| }}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Miyano family]]
* [[Agasa family]]
* [[Black Organization]]
* [[Sherry's soliloquy]]

== References ==
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{{Black Organization}}

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The Stranger from Ten Years Later

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{{InfoBox OVA
| ova = 9
| image = OVA 9.jpg
| title = The Stranger from Ten Years Later
| english-title =
| japanese-title = 10年後の異邦人 (10nen go no i Hōjin)
| airdate = 2009
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Ai Haibara]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = No one.
| case =
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Yuko Miyamura]] as [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Hideyuki Hori]] as [[Tomoaki Araide]]
| prev-ova = The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Sonoko Suzuki
| next-ova = Kid in Trap Island
| footnotes =
}}
'''The Stranger from Ten Years Later''' is the ninth [[OVAs|OVA]] of the anime and manga franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. In this OVA, [[Conan Edogawa]] is sick and has to stay home with a cold. He overhears [[Sonoko Suzuki]] telling [[Ran Mouri]] to dump [[Shinichi Kudo]] and instead date Dr. [[Tomoaki Araide]]. Conan gets angry over this, and falls asleep, waking up to a phone call from [[Ai Haibara]]. She tells him that she has created an antidote for him to try out, for testing purposes. Conan takes the antidote, and passes out. When he wakes up, he is [[Shinichi Kudo]] again! However, Haibara is gone, and everything looks strange... could he really be still Conan, but only ten years into the future? And also, what does this mean for the love of his life, Ran?

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Shiho Miyano}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Tomoaki Araide}}
{{Char|Yoko Okino|display=Yoko Okino (photo)}}
{{Char|Gin|display=Gin (flashback)}}
{{Char|Vodka|display=Vodka (flashback)}}
}}

== Plot ==
Conan has a cold, and he is stuck in bed, sick, and unable to go to school. While resting, he overhears Sonoko telling Ran to dump Shinichi and date someone else, because he is never around. She cites Dr. Araide as an example. Conan gets angry, but thinks about how much he truly misses being a high schooler. He decides to go to sleep. While sleeping, Haibara calls him, and announces that she has an antidote for him to try out. He runs over to Agasa's house, but not before stopping at his house to get his high school uniform, because he wants to stop there while Ran is taking a class, to see her before anyone else. He takes the antidote, and immediately passes out. He wakes up, and finds that he is Shinichi Kudo once again! So, he decides to surprise everyone at Teitan High School.

However, he notices some strange things along the way. For example, buildings he had never seen before, trees he never knew had grown so tall. And when he goes to Teitan High School, everything looks different. He wanders the hallways, to find a sign that says "The Detective Club." He opens the door to find that The Detective Boys have their own Detective club. One problem, they are all ten years older, and [[Ayumi Yoshida]] referes to Shinichi as "Conan-kun." Shinichi finally realizes what has happened: Somehow everything has skipped ten years, and he is living life as Conan Edogawa, 17 year old high schooler. Conan finds Haibara, and asks her what happened. She says that he has taken her antidote's so many times that for the past three years, he had become immune to them. Upon hearing this, Conan runs out of school, mostly wondering what is going on.

While walking around town, Conan catches a TV monitor, where an interviewer is interviewing "Famous Detective" [[Heiji Hattori]], as well as [[Kazuha Toyama]]. Not surprisingly, ten years into the future and they still continue to bicker. It is also hinted that they are a couple, as they both freeze and get very embarrassed when the interviewer asks them when they are getting married. Conan then runs to the Mouri Detective Agency, to find Sonoko drinking alcohol, while [[Kogoro Mouri]] muses over [[Yoko Okino]]'s retirement from the music scene. He learns from Sonoko that Ran is planning on either accepting or rejecting Dr. Tomoaki Araide's marriage proposal, and is currently at the one place that she had the most memories with Shinichi. She says that Ran is trying to settle her feelings for Shinichi once and for all, and is trying to figure out just what she will do. Conan is told by Sonoko that Ran is at a place where he most important memories with Shinichi are, and Conan begins his search.

== Resolution ==
<spoiler>
Conan runs to his house to find her there, in the library, all alone. Ran immediately tells Conan to leave the lights off, because she doesn't want him to see her crying. Conan is heartbroken at seeing Ran in such pain, and tells her to not get married, because he would be hurt. Ran asks him why, and right then and there he tells her that he is Shinichi, and once again begs for her to not get married. Ran smiles and tells him that she thought it was sweet that he cared enough about her to tell her something like that, but she still believes that Conan is Conan, saying that he and Shinichi do look similar. She also announces that she will reject Dr. Araide's proposal, wanting to wait ten more years for Shinichi to return. Conan keeps saying that he is Shinichi, and passes out on the floor, while Ran tries to wake him up. He finally wakes up, and finds himself back in his seven year old body, with Haibara looking on. It turns out that the whole situation was a dream, a side-effect from Haibara's antidote. Conan turned into Shinichi for a total of three hours and 20 minutes, but he was asleep the whole time. Haibara tells him that he must have been having a nightmare, and that his high temperature may have affected his mind.

Conan returns to Mouri's Agency, happier than ever to be Conan again. He goes back to sleep, only to be awoken by Ran. Dr. Araide comes in afterwards, as does Sonoko. Sonoko explains that Ran had told Araide the whole situation, and he immediately went to Mouri's house because he was concerned over Conan's cold, and wanted to see him. The Detective Boys and Kogoro also stop by to see him. Conan gets a check-up from Dr. Araide, who announces that Conan's temperature has gone down, and that he is going to get much better. Ran decides to make a dinner for everyone, and everyone has dinner together at the table, while Conan reflects on his dream. He also muses that for the first time, he's glad to be back as Conan.

[[File:Gang in 10 yrs.png|thumb|Conan's last shown hallucination in OVA 9 while eating dinner with everyone]]
</spoiler>

[[File:gang in 10 yrs 2.png|thumb|Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi in 10 years; as shown in OVA 9]]

== Quotes ==

{{charquote|I've already waited ten years... so another ten will be just fine.||Ran}}

== See also ==

* [[OVAs]]
{{OVAs}}
[[Category:OVAs]]
[[Category:Anime Exclusive]]

Ayumi Yoshida

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ayumi Yoshida
| japanese-name = 吉田歩美 (Yoshida Ayumi)
| english-name = Amy Yoshida (manga by Viz) Amy Yeager (FUNimation dub)
| image = Ayumi Yoshida Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD54>Conan Drill page 54</ref>
| gender = Female
| height = Unknown<ref name=CD54/>
| weight = 15kg<ref name=CD54/> (33 lbs)
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD54/>
| relatives =
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 17 Anime: Episode 1
| appearances = {{:Ayumi Yoshida Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 6]]
| japanese-voice = [[Yukiko Iwai]]
| english-voice = [[Monica Rial]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ayumi Yoshida|吉田歩美|''Yoshida Ayumi''}}''', also known '''Amy Yeager''' in the english [[Funimation]] dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Ayumi clear background.jpg|thumb|left|125px|Ayumi]]
Ayumi Yoshida is a student in [[Teitan Elementary]] when [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was enlisted into her class [[Conan Edogawa|after he had been shrunk]] by the drug [[APTX 4869]]. Shortly afterwards, Ayumi and her classmate [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] had the idea of investigating an apparently haunted mansion. They persuaded Conan to come along, and Genta also personally drafted [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] when the latter expressed his criticism about supernatural hauntings.

As it turned out, the haunting served as a cover-up for an old homicide case. Following its resolution, the foursome decided to stay together and form the nucleus of what would become the [[Detective Boys]]. For a time, Ayumi was the sole female member of the Detective Boys until [[Ai Haibara]] joined the group. During a case involving a cache of stolen Italian gold coins just prior to the official formation of the Detective Boys, Conan saved the group from getting killed by the Mafioso who were also after the gold, earning Ayumi's gratitude which quickly developed into a serious crush.<ref>Manga Chapter 39: Code Sheet Case: The Shining Fish's True Form</ref>
{{clearleft}}

== Personality ==
Ayumi is a naive and innocent little girl who shows courage from time to time and acts as the team's cheerful spirit.
She has an open crush on Conan, which makes him uncomfortable, though Ayumi thinks that he has feelings for Haibara because he tries to protect her and she often sees them talking amongst themselves in private. Ayumi later becomes better friends with Haibara, and in the Japanese version, Haibara allows Ayumi to use the more informal term Ai-"chan" to address her.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan, Volume 39 |isbn=4-09-126169-8 |publisher=[[Viz Media]] |page=18}}</ref>

When on a case, Ayumi often makes really simple observations that allows its progress and resolution. For instance, she unlocked one of the codes from the Momotaro container the [[Detective Boys]] found in Kurashiki by deducing that it was most likely referring to one of the statues at the Oohara Art Museum: they had to walk 25 steps from the statue towards the direction it was facing.<ref name="ep377">[[Momotarou Mystery Solving Tour|Episode 377-378: Momotarou Mystery Solving Tour]]</ref>

== Plot overview ==
=== Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case (Anime: [[Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case|12]]) ===
Ayumi plays hide and seek with the Detective Boys. She hides in the trunk of a parked car, not knowing that the owners would drive off with her. While in the dark, she hears the driver and passenger saying criminal things and, feeling around in the dark, finds a bundles of cash and a severed head! Conan and the other detective boys chase after the car using the skateboard. When they catch up and free Ayumi, they discover the "criminals" were really actors practicing their lines for a play and the "severed head" and "money" were only props made out of newspaper. To make up for the damage they caused, the reluctant Ayumi has to play the role of the dead girl in the play.

=== The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case (Anime: [[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|136-137]]) ===
=== Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun (Anime: [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|312-313]]) ===
=== Find the Buttock's Mark (Anime: [[Find the Buttock's Mark|346-347]]) ===

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Detective Boys ===
[[Image:Conan_Ayumi_Kiss.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ayumi gives Conan her first kiss.]]
==== Conan Edogawa ====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}
Ayumi has strong romantic feelings for [[Conan]] and sees him as a role model as well as an extremely reliable person she can look up to and may always count on.<ref>Manga Chapter 039: The Shining Fish's True Form</ref> Conan in turn is unnerved by Ayumi's feelings, though he does respect her as a good friend.<ref>Manga Chapter 081: A Dangerous Game of Hide-And-Seek</ref>

==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima ====
Ayumi gets along well with [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], but blissfully fails to realize that they both have a crush on her.<ref>Manga Chapter 081: A Dangerous Game of Hide-And-Seek</ref> As a result, her open flirting with Conan leaves them frequently outraged or devastated.<ref>Manga Chapter 437: Ai Haibara's Resolution</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 386: Stairs in the Setting Sun</ref>

==== Ai Haibara ====
In her cheerful spirits, Ayumi initially also tries hard to makes friends with her new classmate, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]. At first Haibara remains distant, but later recognizes the value of friendship and allows Ayumi (and only her) to call her "Ai-chan". In turn, Haibara considers Ayumi like a little sister and gets along with her much better than with her other teammates.

== 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. Ayumi placed 11th in the poll with 55 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Ayumi placed 15th overall with 95 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 ==
Ayumi's name comes from mystery writer '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:ja:北川歩実|Ayumi Kitagawa]]|北川歩実|Kitagawa Ayumi}}'''.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ayumi_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ayumi's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ayumi_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ayumi's "After" Appearance (Episode 631)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|But, I... don't want to run! If I keep running, I won't win! I definitely won't!|Ayumi on why she wants to get closer to the suspects so she can identify the criminal. V32-2 pg 17}}

== Trivia ==
*"Ayumi" means beautiful step.
*Ayumi appears to be an only child living with her father and mother.
*Ayumi has a pink cellphone and her background is of her playing with a sparkler.
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Detective boys parents.jpg|Ayumi is scolded by her father.
File:Ayumi Cellphone.jpg|Ayumi talking about her cellphone.
</gallery>

[[File:Ayumi10yrs.png|thumb|Ayumi in 10 years, along with Mitsuhiko and Conan/Shinichi in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9]]

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|歩美Ayumi|吉田Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Amy|Yeager/Yoshida<ref>Used in the Manga Series</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| أيومي Ayomi|''Not given'' }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|아름 Ah Reum|한 Han}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|อายูมิ|โยชิดะ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Yoshida family]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshida Ayumi}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Elementary school students]]
[[Category:Detective Boys]]

[[de:Ayumi Yoshida]]
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}

File:Ayumi10yrs.png

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Ayumi Yoshida

2012-06-01T09:01:11Z

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ayumi Yoshida
| japanese-name = 吉田歩美 (Yoshida Ayumi)
| english-name = Amy Yoshida (manga by Viz) Amy Yeager (FUNimation dub)
| image = Ayumi Yoshida Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD54>Conan Drill page 54</ref>
| gender = Female
| height = Unknown<ref name=CD54/>
| weight = 15kg<ref name=CD54/> (33 lbs)
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD54/>
| relatives =
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 17 Anime: Episode 1
| appearances = {{:Ayumi Yoshida Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 6]]
| japanese-voice = [[Yukiko Iwai]]
| english-voice = [[Monica Rial]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ayumi Yoshida|吉田歩美|''Yoshida Ayumi''}}''', also known '''Amy Yeager''' in the english [[Funimation]] dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Ayumi clear background.jpg|thumb|left|125px|Ayumi]]
Ayumi Yoshida is a student in [[Teitan Elementary]] when [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was enlisted into her class [[Conan Edogawa|after he had been shrunk]] by the drug [[APTX 4869]]. Shortly afterwards, Ayumi and her classmate [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] had the idea of investigating an apparently haunted mansion. They persuaded Conan to come along, and Genta also personally drafted [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] when the latter expressed his criticism about supernatural hauntings.

As it turned out, the haunting served as a cover-up for an old homicide case. Following its resolution, the foursome decided to stay together and form the nucleus of what would become the [[Detective Boys]]. For a time, Ayumi was the sole female member of the Detective Boys until [[Ai Haibara]] joined the group. During a case involving a cache of stolen Italian gold coins just prior to the official formation of the Detective Boys, Conan saved the group from getting killed by the Mafioso who were also after the gold, earning Ayumi's gratitude which quickly developed into a serious crush.<ref>Manga Chapter 39: Code Sheet Case: The Shining Fish's True Form</ref>
{{clearleft}}

== Personality ==
Ayumi is a naive and innocent little girl who shows courage from time to time and acts as the team's cheerful spirit.
She has an open crush on Conan, which makes him uncomfortable, though Ayumi thinks that he has feelings for Haibara because he tries to protect her and she often sees them talking amongst themselves in private. Ayumi later becomes better friends with Haibara, and in the Japanese version, Haibara allows Ayumi to use the more informal term Ai-"chan" to address her.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan, Volume 39 |isbn=4-09-126169-8 |publisher=[[Viz Media]] |page=18}}</ref>

When on a case, Ayumi often makes really simple observations that allows its progress and resolution. For instance, she unlocked one of the codes from the Momotaro container the [[Detective Boys]] found in Kurashiki by deducing that it was most likely referring to one of the statues at the Oohara Art Museum: they had to walk 25 steps from the statue towards the direction it was facing.<ref name="ep377">[[Momotarou Mystery Solving Tour|Episode 377-378: Momotarou Mystery Solving Tour]]</ref>

== Plot overview ==
=== Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case (Anime: [[Ayumi-chan Kidnapping Case|12]]) ===
Ayumi plays hide and seek with the Detective Boys. She hides in the trunk of a parked car, not knowing that the owners would drive off with her. While in the dark, she hears the driver and passenger saying criminal things and, feeling around in the dark, finds a bundles of cash and a severed head! Conan and the other detective boys chase after the car using the skateboard. When they catch up and free Ayumi, they discover the "criminals" were really actors practicing their lines for a play and the "severed head" and "money" were only props made out of newspaper. To make up for the damage they caused, the reluctant Ayumi has to play the role of the dead girl in the play.

=== The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case (Anime: [[The Old Blue Castle Investigation Case|136-137]]) ===
=== Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun (Anime: [[Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun|312-313]]) ===
=== Find the Buttock's Mark (Anime: [[Find the Buttock's Mark|346-347]]) ===

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Detective Boys ===
[[Image:Conan_Ayumi_Kiss.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ayumi gives Conan her first kiss.]]
==== Conan Edogawa ====
{{main|Conan Edogawa and Ayumi Yoshida}}
Ayumi has strong romantic feelings for [[Conan]] and sees him as a role model as well as an extremely reliable person she can look up to and may always count on.<ref>Manga Chapter 039: The Shining Fish's True Form</ref> Conan in turn is unnerved by Ayumi's feelings, though he does respect her as a good friend.<ref>Manga Chapter 081: A Dangerous Game of Hide-And-Seek</ref>

==== Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima ====
Ayumi gets along well with [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], but blissfully fails to realize that they both have a crush on her.<ref>Manga Chapter 081: A Dangerous Game of Hide-And-Seek</ref> As a result, her open flirting with Conan leaves them frequently outraged or devastated.<ref>Manga Chapter 437: Ai Haibara's Resolution</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 386: Stairs in the Setting Sun</ref>

==== Ai Haibara ====
In her cheerful spirits, Ayumi initially also tries hard to makes friends with her new classmate, [[Ai Haibara|Haibara]]. At first Haibara remains distant, but later recognizes the value of friendship and allows Ayumi (and only her) to call her "Ai-chan". In turn, Haibara considers Ayumi like a little sister and gets along with her much better than with her other teammates.

== 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. Ayumi placed 11th in the poll with 55 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/special/conan/vote_kekka2.asp|title=『名探偵コナン』人気投票結|date=2011-05-12|publisher=eBookJapan|accessdate=2011-05-15}}</ref>

*In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Ayumi placed 15th overall with 95 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 ==
Ayumi's name comes from mystery writer '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:ja:北川歩実|Ayumi Kitagawa]]|北川歩実|Kitagawa Ayumi}}'''.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ayumi_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ayumi's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ayumi_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ayumi's "After" Appearance (Episode 631)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|But, I... don't want to run! If I keep running, I won't win! I definitely won't!|Ayumi on why she wants to get closer to the suspects so she can identify the criminal. V32-2 pg 17}}

== Trivia ==
*"Ayumi" means beautiful step.
*Ayumi appears to be an only child living with her father and mother.
*Ayumi has a pink cellphone and her background is of her playing with a sparkler.
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Detective boys parents.jpg|Ayumi is scolded by her father.
File:Ayumi Cellphone.jpg|Ayumi talking about her cellphone.
</gallery>

[[File:Ayumi10yrs.png|Ayumi in 10 years, along with Mitsuhiko and Conan/Shinichi in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9]]

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|歩美Ayumi|吉田Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Amy|Yeager/Yoshida<ref>Used in the Manga Series</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Bahasa|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| أيومي Ayomi|''Not given'' }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|아름 Ah Reum|한 Han}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|อายูมิ|โยชิดะ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ayumi|Yoshida}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Yoshida family]]

== References ==
<references/>

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshida Ayumi}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:Elementary school students]]
[[Category:Detective Boys]]

[[de:Ayumi Yoshida]]
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}

File:Ran in 10 years.png

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Ran Mouri

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Ran Mouri
| japanese-name = 毛利蘭 (Mōri Ran)
| english-name = Rachel Moore
| image = Ran Mouri Profile.jpg
| age = 16<ref name="Goshodayinterview">{{cite web|url=http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/forum/topic/1555-translating-interviews/page__st__20__p__245256#entry245256|date=2012-01-05|accessdate=2012-01-05|publisher=|title=Translating Interviews - Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day}}</ref>
| gender = Female
| height = {{Bracket|160 cm|5'3"}}<ref name="CD44">Conan Drill Page 44</ref>
| weight = Unknown<ref name="CD44" />
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref>Conan Drill page 44 "生年月日不明" - translates to "birthday unknown"</ref><ref>Note: Movie 1 shows Ran looking at a horoscope for Taurus with the dates listed between April 20 and May 20 and remarking that she and Shinichi share May's lucky color red.</ref>
| relatives = [[Kogoro Mouri]] (father) [[Eri Kisaki]] (mother)
| nicknames = Ran-neechan ([[Conan Edogawa|Conan]]) Ran-kun ([[Hiroshi Agasa|Agasa]], [[Juzo Megure|Megure]]) Ran-chan ([[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]]) Angel ([[Vermouth]])
| first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume 1#File_001_-_The_Heisei_Holmes|File 1]] Anime: [[Roller_Coaster_Murder_Case|Episode 1]]
| appearances = {{:Ran Mouri Appearances}}
| cases-solved = 3 (on her own)
| keyhole = [[Volume 2]]
| japanese-voice = [[Wakana Yamazaki]]
| english-voice = [[Colleen Clinkenbeard]]
| drama-actor = [[Tomoka Kurokawa]] (1st) [[Shiori Kutsuna]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Ran Mouri|毛利蘭|Mōri Ran}}''', also known as '''Rachel Moore''' in the [[Funimation]] dub, is the 2nd protagonist in the manga and anime series, ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Child Ran and Fusae.jpg|thumb|left|First Grade Ran meets [[Fusae Campbell]] ten years ago and borrows her umbrella]]
Ran is a childhood friend of [[Shinichi Kudo]]. She is the daughter of [[Kogoro Mouri]], a private detective, and [[Eri Kisaki]], a lawyer. Her parents got separated when she was seven,<ref name="m2">[[The Fourteenth Target|Movie 2: The Fourteenth Target]]</ref> and one of her biggest goals is to get them back together. Her best friend next to Shinichi is her classmate [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]], who constantly teases her about her relationship with Shinichi.

One year before the series' start, Ran and Shinichi had gone to the United States to visit Shinichi's parents in New York. They met [[Yukiko Kudo|his mother]] and her actress friend, [[Sharon Vineyard]] (also known as Vermouth, a member of the [[Black Organization]]). Later that evening, Vermouth disguised as a serial killer to do BO work, and was saved by Ran and Shinichi who encountered her on their way back from a show turned murder case. Vermouth had slipped and would have fallen to her death, but Ran caught her arm and Shinichi helped her pull her to safety. Due to this, Sharon gave Ran the nickname "Angel", and Shinichi the nickname "Cool Guy".<ref>[[Volume 34#File 350 - Golden Apple 1|Volumes 34-35, Files 350-354: "Golden Apple 1"]]</ref> Vermouth later showed hesitance to kill Ran and later Conan as well,<ref name="e345" /> but whether or not it was because of any emotional attachment is unclear.

After Shinichi's disappearance, Ran met [[Conan Edogawa]], who was introduced by [[Hiroshi Agasa|Professor Agasa]] as a "distant relative" and asked Ran if she wouldn't mind taking care of him at her house. She and her father practically adopted him; Ran immediately came to think of him as a surrogate little brother.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 002 - The Great Detective Turned Small|Volume 1, File 2: "The Great Detective Turned Small"]]</ref> Little did (and still does) Ran know that "Conan" ''is'' actually Shinichi.
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== Personality ==
Ran's greatest personality trait is that she genuinely cares for those she loves. She is also patient, kind, and nurturing. Like Shinichi, she highly values justice to the point of idealism. To avoid making Shinichi choose between her and his important case (really an excuse because Shinichi has turned into Conan and can't return), she has decided to wait for him to finish it, trusting his promise that he will come back despite their separation causing Ran a lot of emotional pain. Ran is also very hot-blooded and tends to act on impulses when the people she cares about are involved; the combination of jumping to conclusions and not hesitating to use karate on those who she perceives to have wronged someone have led to several "near-miss" misunderstandings. Early on, she would become violently suspicious if she thought Shinichi was philandering although more recently his confessions have lead her to trust his intentions. Even though Ran is in love with Shinichi, she often fails to convey her feelings because she suddenly becomes self conscious.

She can be very brave and resourceful when she wants to be, and rescues Conan from trouble on occasion. However, she has an irrational fear of the supernatural and is thus - unlike her friend Sonoko - absolutely no fan of anything related to the horror genre.<ref name="e274">[[Truth About the Haunted House|Episode 274-275: Truth About the Haunted House]]</ref> She also constantly tries to reunite her father and mother again - though with little success, thanks to the mutual stubbornness of both parents. Men also tend to pay her a lot of undue romantic attention, a fact that makes Sonoko somewhat jealous (and of which Ran herself is completely unaware).

Ran is very self sufficient for her age. This is because her father is drunk, slovenly, and fiscally irresponsible. She handles many of the Mouri household's financial affairs and all the cooking and housework. She also ensures Kogoro doesn't slack off on his job, is on his best behavior for client meetings, and she often greets and provides refreshments for potential clients.

She appreciates fine art. Ran is noted by both Shinichi and Shuichi Akai to cry a lot. This claim has been attributed to the manga file called "Ran's Tears".

== Abilities ==
Ran's most notable trait is her great prowess in martial arts; she is highly skilled if not masterful in karate and is also well-trained by her father in Judo. Ran is the captain and ace of the karate team of Teitan High School.<ref>[[Volume 1#File 001 - The Heisei Holmes|Volume 1, File 1: "The Heisei Holmes"]]</ref> She has further demonstrated her great might as she has won many tournaments; she holds the title of Regional Champion for her age group. Her deceptive strength and skill have been seen repeatedly, both from her ability to effortlessly smash stone and other very sturdy objects and also take out possible assailants. In the ninth movie, ''[[Strategy Above the Depths]]'', Conan states that Ran has an unusual amount of stamina.<ref name="m9">[[Strategy Above the Depths|Movie 9: Strategy Above the Depths]]</ref>

Despite her prowess, she may not always be able to use; whether it's because she is too scared or just because she is just too weakened.<ref name="m2" /> In the fourth movie (''[[Captured in Her Eyes]]''), Ran also was unable to use karate due to suffering of amnesia at the time, but as soon as she recovered her memories she also got the use of her abilities back and incapacitated the culprit who was about to kill her and Conan.<ref name="m4">[[Captured in Her Eyes|Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes]]</ref>

She is also very skilled in all forms of house chores, including sewing and cooking (unlike her mother), and can also play the piano well. She also has astonishingly lucky at gambling, lotteries, and any game of chance; having never been known to lose once.<ref>[[Volume 8]]</ref><ref name="e75">[[Loan Company President's Murder Case|Episode 75: Loan Company President's Murder Case]]</ref>

==Appellations==
In the Detective Conan Franchise, most characters simply call Ran by her name, but characters have another way of calling her. This table shows what Ran call other characters and what they call her.
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! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Ran !! style="width:200px;"|What Ran calls them
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| [[File:Shinichi Kudo 60px.jpg]] || [[Shinichi Kudo]] || Ran || Shinichi Deduction freak Mystery Geek
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| [[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]] || [[Conan Edogawa]] || Ran-neechan || Conan-kun
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| [[File:Kogoro Mouri 60px.jpg]] || [[Kogoro Mouri]] || Ran || Dad or father (Otousan) </tab>
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! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Ran !! style="width:200px;"|What Ran calls them
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| [[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]] || [[Ayumi Yoshida]] || Ran-onessan || Ayumi-chan
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| [[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]] || [[Genta Kojima]] || Ran-neechan || Genta-kun
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| [[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]] || [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] || Ran-san|| Mitsuhiko-kun
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| [[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]] || [[Ai Haibara]] || Mouri-san The girl at the Detective Agency || Ai-chan
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! style="width:60px;"|Picture !! style="width:125px;"|Name !! style="width:200px;"|What they call Ran !! style="width:200px;"|What Ran calls them
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| [[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]] || [[Hiroshi Agasa]] || Ran-kun || Professor (Hakase) Professor Agasa (Agasa-hakase)
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| [[File:Sonoko Suzuki 60px.jpg]] || [[Sonoko Suzuki]] || Ran || Sonoko
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| [[File:Heiji Hattori 60px.jpg]] || [[Heiji Hattori]] || Neechan || Hattori-kun
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| [[File:Kazuha Toyama 60px.jpg]] || [[Kazuha Toyama]] || Ran-chan || Kazuha-chan
|-
|-
| [[File:Masumi Sera 60px.jpg]] || [[Masumi Sera]] || Ran-chan || Sera-san Masumi-chan (File 778)
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== Plot overview ==
=== Doubts about Conan's identity ===
In time, Ran comes to suspect that Conan is actually Shinichi despite what her common sense would say, but he always manages to trick her and prove her wrong. There are however occasions where she appears to be so sure that Shinichi and Conan are one and the same, such incidents include once when Ran finds Conan asleep on the sofa, she takes off his glasses while he's asleep and notices the huge reseamblance he has to Shinichi as a child, later she confronts him and feels so certain that Conan is Shinichi as it explained his splitting reseamblance to Shinichi when he was younger, possessing Shinichi's great powers of deduction, and even Shinichi's lack of any musical knowledge. However Shinichi's mother unexpectatly shows up and covers for him by explaining that Conan's resembalance to Shinichi when he was younger, because that they're distant relatives and Conan possesing Shinichi's deductive ability is a result of Shinichi teaching Conan.

At another time she is also certain her reasoning was correct, as Conan had been critically injured and required a blood donation, Ran donated her blood but somehow knew his blood type without being told revealing that she knew that Conan was actually Shinichi. So with the help of [[Ai Haibara]] he manages to fool Ran by allowing Shinichi to appear before her while Conan was present (who was really Ai Haibara in disguise).

==== Ran's Suspicion ====
[[File:Ran_suspecting_Conan.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran suspecting Conan's identity]] Conan once forgets his cell phone on the couch and Ran, in the room at the time, remembers to send an email to Shinichi to let him know that she's going with her father on a case and that his presence would be most welcome as Kogoro could use the help. Right after sending the message, Conan's phone starts vibrating. Ran, quite perplexed by the perfect timing, checks his phone only to discover a new email (she hasn't seen the content yet). At that moment, Conan enters the room, and seeing his phone in Ran's hands, rushes towards it while shouting and grabs it back asking: "''Did you look?''". He quickly understands that Ran's email may have risen doubts about his identity.<ref name="e398">[[The Weird Family's Commission|Episode 398-399: The Weird Family's Commission]]</ref>

The first time Ran suspected Conan was episode 7. After seeing the similarity between Conan and Shinichi's occupation deduction just simply by touching someone's hand, she started being very suspicious and kept an eye on Conan the whole case. However, Professor Agasa called Ran with the voice changing bowtie at the end and Conan was free of suspicion for a while.

Following this event, Ran first believes that Shinichi often contacts Conan without her knowing, which would in some way explain how he always seems to help out on cases. Later on, after seeing Conan give an important clue to the investigation team without making use of his cell phone (to eventually contact Shinichi like she was suspecting), she starts to believe that Conan is actually Shinichi thinking that past occurrences of both being present at the same time was just a trick he used to fool her.<ref name="e398" />

At the end of the day, Ran is able to retrieve Conan's phone. Late at night, after waiting for everybody to go to bed, she tries to get past the phone's PIN code to check whether her email is there or not. This, to her, would be undeniable proof that Conan is indeed Shinichi. After finally guessing the number equivalent of "Sherlock" to be the PIN code, she's surprised not to see her email there. She instantly tries a few times to resend another email but nothing comes up on Conan's phone. That's when Shinichi calls her complaining about the numerous emails she's been sending. Conan, then knocks at the door and claims back his phone saying that he didn't want people looking inside because of messages he received from a girl he likes. It is later showed that Conan actually exchanged his phone with Agasa's (which are both of the same model) and used his phone upstairs to call Ran, while she was experimenting with the Professor's phone, to create this whole alibi. Shinichi then tells Ran that she now knows his phone number. And Ran, pleased with the situation, clears her mind out of all suspicions she had about Conan's identity<ref>[[Ran's Suspicions|Episode 400: Ran's Suspicions]]</ref> - at least, consciously.

During "The Whereabouts of the Embarrassing Charm" case we can see that Ran's suspicions are arising again. This is thanks to Heiji, openly revealed the fingerprint matching during the "Murder, Shinichi Kudo" case. Kazuha gave a likely, but not to Conan or Heiji, explanation on how Shinichi's fingerprints got onto the handcuff's piece of chain. However, for some reason Ran talked directly to Conan, which he pointed out that she is talking to the wrong person. Unconsciously she thinks she is talking to Shinichi.

In manga chapter 814, Conan and the girls solve a case similar to one [[Yusaku Kudo]] abandoned 10 years ago. While explaining the solution, Conan talks so convincingly that Ran feels a strong impression that Shinichi is the one speaking. It unnerves her to the point where she stops Conan, but he states that he's only reading Shinichi's e-mail.
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== Relationships analysis ==

=== Family & Friends ===
==== Shinichi Kudo ====
{{main|Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri}}
Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri have been friends ever since childhood. When the two first met, they were at kindergarten age, and later they were playmates. [[Eri Kisaki]], Ran's mom, and [[Yukiko Kudo]], Shinichi's mom, would often set playdates for the two to play together.<ref>[[Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure|Episode 472-473: Shinichi Kudo's Childhood Adventure]]</ref> Shinichi and Ran have stayed close all the way through the present age, which has led to both of them feeling romantic feelings for each other. Ran recalls that she truly felt her feelings for Shinichi were true love when he rescued her from the serial killer in New York.<ref>[[Shinichi Kudo's New York Case|Episode 286-288: Shinichi Kudo's New York Case]]</ref> When Shinichi is turned into Conan, thanks to the Black Organization, Ran becomes especially worried for Shinichi, especially about where he is, and often hopes that he isn't in danger.

[[Image:Shinichi and Ran.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Shinichi and Ran]]
Shinichi, as Conan, often calls Ran, and using his bowtie, talks to Ran in his normal teenager voice, mostly to calm her when she is feeling fear about if he is hurt, or when he wants to make her feel better because she feels lonely without him. As Conan, Shinichi has grown closer to Ran. Ran is shown throughout to be dedicated to Shinichi, and will always love him no matter where he is. Shinichi himself also has strong feelings for Ran, and is madly in love with her. He is very protective of her when there are other guys with her, and he keeps her away from any other man.

Ran and Shinichi have shared many precious romantic moments, such as when Shinichi bought Ran a pair of red gloves for Christmas,<ref>[[Karaoke Box Murder Case|Episode 42: Karaoke Box Murder Case]]</ref> or when he pretended that as Shinichi, he ate her Valentine's Day chocolate that she had made for him, while she was asleep.<ref>[[The Truth Behind Valentine's|Episode 266-268: The Truth Behind Valentine's]]</ref> Shinichi is deeply saddened knowing that Ran is waiting for him to return, and that he himself cannot do anything about it. Although various characters, including [[Heiji Hattori]], have told him to just admit everything to her, for the sake of her heart, he realizes he cannot tell her, because he does not want to put her in danger from the Black Organization, as he considers her life more important than his. People also look at them as a couple by how they act and how they talk about each other. When asked to Ran though, she does say that Shinichi is her boyfriend (this causes him/conan to blush slightly but never really says anything about it), though Shinichi finally confessed to her in London. After that, Sonoko teased her because she did not say anything in return. Sonoko said that maybe Shinichi will transfer to another girl because Ran did not reply. Conan/Shinichi heard their conversation and said in his mind, "Like I'd ever do that." He finally confesses somehow to Ran during the Holmes Revelation arc.

[[File:Shinichi Confesses.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] somewhat and somehow confesses his feelings for [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to her under the Big Ben in London, during the Holmes' Revelation Arc.]]
Shinichi and Ran appear to share a close empathic link due to their strong feelings for each other, making each of them almost impossibly aware of when the other is in extreme danger, and often able to sense the other's worried thoughts.<ref>[[Volume_36#File_372_-_The_Most_in_This_World...|Volume 36, File 372: "The Most in This World..."]] and [[Volume_37#File_373_-_Bye_Bye| Volume 37, File 373: "Bye-Bye"]]</ref>

==== Kogoro Mouri and Eri Kisaki ====
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Ran remains close to both [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] and [[Eri Kisaki|Eri]] even though they have been separated for ten years. Her constant hope is that they finally get together again, and on occasion she even plays (re-)matchmaker by arranging not-so-accidental meetings between them, though a reunion, while possible, is so far constantly hampered by mutual stubbornness and the occasional criminal incident taking place in the immediate vicinity.

=== Detective Boys ===
==== Ai Haibara ====
There are instances where Haibara will caution Conan from actions that involve Ran, though it's assumed this is due merely to the fact that she wants to keep her identity hidden. At one point, she was very cold and distant towards Ran, just like she was to most other people. Ran believed that it was because that Haibara had hated her.<ref>[[The Mystery in the Net|Episode 246-247: The Mystery in the Net]]</ref> However, later that day, Haibara finally properly introduced herself to Ran, and they slowly became friends.

Haibara considers Ran a spitting image her older sister, Akemi Miyano, so she takes special interest in protecting her. These feelings began after Ran jumped through a slew of bullets from [[Calvados]] (and later [[Vermouth]]), to save Haibara and hold her down to the ground to shield her from the gunfire.<ref name="e345">[[Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon|Episode 345: Head-to-Head Match With the Black Organization; Two Mysteries of the Night of the Full Moon]]</ref> Haibara immediately thinks of her own sister, and begins to treat and look at Ran as a spitting image of her. When at a later point she had learned that [[Korn]], [[Chianti]], and the rest of the Black Organization were lurking about, Haibara begs for Ran to stay at Agasa's house, immediately thinking of her own sister's death, and wanting to keep Ran safe.<ref>[[Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!|Episode 425: Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out!]]</ref>

=== Black Organization ===
==== Vermouth ====
Ran was a fan of the actress Sharon Vineyard and is currently unaware about Sharon's double-life as Chris Vineyard and Vermouth. Vermouth has a great deal of respect for Ran and protects her from the Organization's activities because Ran unknowingly saved a disguised Vermouth from falling to her death during the Golden Apple case. Vermouth's codename for Ran is "Angel".

=== Others ===
==== Eisuke Hondou ====
In [[The Blind Spot in the Karaoke Box]], Eisuke has shown some interest in Ran. He had admitted to Conan that he loved Ran and claimed that he would take Ran to America and live happily ever after there, and thinks if he could ask for Shinichi's permission. But Conan, without hesitating, said no in a very serious expression, which the look on Conan's face revealed his true identity to Eisuke.

== 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. Ran placed 5th in the poll with 347 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. Ran placed 5th out of 10.<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. Ran placed 6th overall with 612 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>

== Fan theories ==
*''Ran's 17th birthday will play a major role during the main plot of Detective Conan.''

In an interview given on January 3, 2012, Gosho Aoyama revealed that there is an "obstacle" preventing him from revealing Ran's birth date, "but since the birthday hasn't passed Ran is 16 right now".<ref name="Goshodayinterview" />

== Name origin ==
Ran's Japanese name derives from the Japanese rendering of [[Maurice Leblanc|Maurice Leblanc]] (from ''Mouri''su Rubu''ran'', according to Aoyama).

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ran_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Ran_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ran's "After" Appearance (Episode 625)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Courage is a word of justice. It means the quality of mind that enables one to face apprehension with confidence and resolution. It is not right to use it as an excuse to kill someone.<ref>[[Volume 31#File 313 - A Courageous Decision|Volume 31, File 313: "A Courageous Decision"]]</ref>}}
{{cquote|There are things one cannot do no matter the circumstances.}}

== Trivia ==
* Her first phone (the pink one) was given by [[Shinichi Kudo]].


[[File:Ran_in_10_years.png|thumb|Ran in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9]]

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Rachel|Moore}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Philippines|Filipino|Ran|Mouri}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Italy|Italian|Ran|Mouri}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish|Ran|Mouri}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Spain|Spanish Latin America|Claudia|Guzmán}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Ran|Mouri}}
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|ران 　Ran|موري Mori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|미란 Miran|유 Yoo}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=China|Chinese|兰 Lan|毛利 Maoli}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|蘭 Lan|毛利 Maoli}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|รัน rạn|โมริ Mori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Ran|Mori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Indonesia|Indonesia|Ran|Mouri}}
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== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Mouri family]]

== References ==
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Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama

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[[Image:KazuHei_1.jpg|thumb|right|256px|Heiji and Kazuha]]

[[Heiji Hattori]] and [[Kazuha Toyama]] serve as the beta couple for [[Detective Conan]] and a foil for Shinichi and Ran's [[Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri | relationship]].
== Background ==
===Detective Conan===
[[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]] and [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] have been best friends since childhood and has kept close together throughout the years. Kazuha is perhaps the most important and closest person to him out of everyone in the series, vice versa. They go just about everywhere together from vacations to dinner dates, and even mystery cases. There are very rare episodes where the two aren't together because they always travel together to most of the places they go to. Kazuha and Heiji both share Twin Good - Luck Charms that contain the chain that kept them bonded together from when they where children and have worn them throughout the years. Heiji has been shown to be very jealous when another man takes a interest in her, as seen when he was clearly jealous when she told him she was hugging another man. In their love life status, Kazuha seems to be a few levels ahead of Heiji. Her feelings for him are pretty clear (love), while Heiji is still at a kindergarten level in the feelings department, however, recently, he's has begun to understand his feelings for Kazuha. Although, Heiji still can't find a way to express them to her, parallel to Shinichi's dilemma.

== Moments ==
=== Episode 118: Naniwa Serial Murder Case ===
[[File:Kazuha Accusation.png|thumb|right|Kazuha accuses Ran of being the Kudo that Heiji is in love with.]]
*[[Kazuha Toyama]], makes her first appearance. She sits next to Ran and Conan, and begins to threaten Ran that she should stay far away from Heiji. Kazuha actually thought Ran was Kudo, who Heiji often talk about and say how amazing a person he was.Kazuha had believed "Kudo", was his girlfriend and became extremely jealous of their "love", and upon seeing Ran, where they were supposed to meet up with Heiji, her jealousy only deepened. However, it was all cleared up by Heiji, when he arrived, moments later.

*Heiji and Kazuha reveal that their "bond of steel", meant how they were both chained to each other by handcuffs as children.

*Ran thought Kazuha and Heiji were dating.To which Kazuha denies, while slightly blushing.

*Kazuha admits that she was secretly following them since Tsuuten Tower, in order to keep Heiji from,"being tricked by a Tokyo girl", all the while blushing.

*Heiji allows Kazuha to tag along on the "Osaka Tour".

*Kazuha calls out for Heiji, when he runs off to investigate with Conan.

*Kazuha asks Heiji if he has the charm, much to her relief, he said, "Yes. Don't worry, See you later".

*Heiji and Kazuha have their first onscreen "love fight".

*After Heiji was accidentally shot by the culprit, Kazuha, Ran, and Conan decided to drive with him to the hospital. Heiji told them not to worry, be quiet, so he can sleep. When he closed his eyelids, Both of them thought Heiji had just died, and Kazuha began to cry, until Heiji loudly awoke and told her to be silent, so he can rest. Them, the two get into another love fight.

=== Episode 141-142:The Night Before the Wedding Locked Room Murder Case Arc ===
*Kazuha and Heiji are in Tokyo together, to take a tour with Kogoro,Ran, and Conan.

*Kazuha is still treating Ran coldly, and Ran doesn't know why. When the two were alone, in the car, Ran asked why she was, Kazuha shyly explains that it was because she and Heiji were wearing the same shirt, just as they did when Kazuha made her first appearance. Even though Ran tried to tell her it was only a coincidence, Kazuha had a hard time believing her story. That was until Ran took off the shirt she was wearing and put on the one she bought earlier. Ran's selfless action, finally convinced Kazuha that Ran only thought of Heiji as a friend, and since then, both of the girls have been great friends towards each other.
*At the Meiji Jing, Heiji told Kazuha she should pray for "thinner legs", this caused Kazuha to slightly blush.

*Kazuha was slightly irritated that Heiji was talking to Kaede Katagiri.

*Heiji and Kazuha are walking next to each other toward the Morisono Mansion.

*After a window was suddenly broken, Heiji told Kazuha to go and get Mr. Shigematsu.

*Kazuha hides behind Heiji and holds his shoulder, when they, Conan, and Kogoro went to go see where the blood was leading to.

*Heiji tells Kazuha to round up everyone who was involved in the case.

*Kazuha was shocked at Heiji's attitude when Sakuraba was arrested, however this was all apart of his and Conan's plan to catch the real killer, Kikuhito Morisono.

*At the end of the case, Heiji was waiting for Kazuha at the train station, to go back to Osaka, he was speaking to Conan and Kogoro, before the girls showed up. Kazuha was convinced by Ran to wear the same t-shirt as Heiji was. After Heiji asked why she wore the same thing, Kazuha decided it was too embarassing and went off to change. Heiji stopped her, explaining he liked it and they looked like siblings. Kazuha thought he was about to say something romantic, but was slightly disappointed by his answer.

=== Episode 174:The 20 Year Old Murder Case,The Symphony Serial Murders ===
* Heiji comments that he and Kazuha aren't "like Ran and Shinichi", but stops speaking on after Conan reminds him why.

* Heiji looks happily at the charm Kazuha gave him, before he left, wondering about if it worked or not. As he thought this, he also thought about Kazuha's angry face. Then, Ran and Conan, began to tease him about thanking Kazuha for the charm. Heiji greatly denied thinking about the charm, saying he should throw it in the sea, but decides to keep it, thinking he might be punished if he did.

=== Episode 222-224: And Then There Were No More Mermaids Arc ===
*Heiji and Kazuha travel to an island called, Fukui, to investigate, along with Kogoro,Ran,and Conan, with them.

*Heiji and Kazuha wear their school uniforms at Yoshimi's funeral service.

*When Kazuha discovered the body of Naoko, Heiji showed up next to her, and realized something had happened and asked what was wrong.

*Kazuha follows Heiji, who goes out to investigate Conan's deductions, and ends up learning that Conan was right, but he ends up nearly falling off a cliff,but is saved by Kazuha, who ends up falling instead, with Heiji barely saving her, but now, both are endanger, with Heiji barely holding onto a weak, small branch. Heiji keeps on telling Kazuha to hold on, but Kazuha, afraid of losing Heiji, decides to sacrifice herself to save him,she takes out the arrow she had won ealier, and stabs it in his hand,that was holding her.Instead of moving his bleeding hand, he doesn't let go, with a surprised Kazuha asking why he would,with tears in her eyes,suddenly, Heiji, in a serious tone, with an equally determined face, tells her, he won't let go and she shouldn't either. Later, at the end of Conan/Kogoro's deductions on the murder cases, Heiji appears, and behind him is Kazuha, whom he presumbaly carried, after she fainted.

*Ran teases Kazuha and Heiji, about the wound that he recieved from Kazuha, as the "stab of love".

*Heiji gives his most memorable line of his feelings for Kazuha:
{{cquote|"Fool.You're too naive. I will never... never...let you be hurt."|Heiji's seecret promise to Kazuha, that she will always be safe, when he's with her.}}

=== Episode 238-239:The 3 "K's" of Osaka Arc ===
*Kazuha was inside Heiji's house, helping with some chores. She then overhears Heiji talking to a "mysterious woman", but was actually Conan, although, thanks to Kazuha's easily jealous nature, she thinks Heiji is having an affair with a married woman.

*Kazuha shows up with Heiji, at the priemere opening of, "K3 World Restaurant".

*Kazuha tells Ran about Heiji's strange behavior, with the conversation he had with the "woman", and the "affair", he might be having.

*Kazuha slyly hints to Heiji she knows about his "affair", but he's left confused at her statement, and she doesn't say anymore.

*Heiji scolds Kazuha for not learning some simple facts on sports, in which, Kazuha smartly replies, "So I should be more interested in their phone numbers, then their uniform numbers, right?", Heiji is confused at her question, and she saids it means nothing.

*Heiji tells Kazuha to make sure the three "kings", stay in their rooms.

*Kazuha tells Ran not to worry about Conan helping Heiji investigate, and proudly adds that since Heiji's on the case, no on will get hurt. Her statement is a storng indication that she forgot about Heiji's "presumed affair".

*At Heiji's house, Kazuha smiles, along with Ran and Kogoro, when Heiji, inadverently, cheers up Conan, and saying, "That those two look like brothers.".

=== Episode 263: The Osaka Double Mystery- The Swordsman and Toyotami's Castle ===
*Kazuha finds Heiji so he can arrive to his kendo tournament on time, even though he was in the '''BOYS BATHROOM''', and she purposely '''DROPPED''' a bucket on his head.

*Kazuha thought she was the reason Heiji skipped a few preliminaries, because she gave him a scar on Bikuni Island, but instead he made a joke out of it by claiming it was making him itchy, causing Kazuha, not surprisingly, to walk off angry.

*Kazuha cheered Heiji on, when his match was about to begin.

*Later, after the first murder was committed, Kazuha found Heiji, to remind him to eat his lunch, so he can have his strength and energy for the semi-preliminary games.

*Kazuha is searching and yelling for Heiji.

*Kazuha grabs Heiji, after the case is solved, so he can compete in the tournament, but was too late.

*Kazuha falls asleep, onto Heiji's shoulder, before she could even eat the blowfish, [[Shizuka Hattori]] had made. Shizuka tells her son that it was because she kept looking for him all day.

*While in the car, Kazuha overhears her father, [[Detective Toyama]], telling Heiji's father,[[Heizo Hattori]], that since Kazuha is "reaching the age of marriage", he wants Heiji to be with her, and not some, "irresponsible punk". Kazuha is slightly angry at her father's statement, but this scene showed that Kazuha's father wishes that his daughter and Heiji marry, meaning he trusts Heiji with Kazuha.

*Heiji lets Kazuha give [[Kogoro Mouri]], [[Ran Mouri]], and [[Conan Edogawa]] a tour of Osaka, but sarcastically states he regrets it. Then, he comes very close to her face, when he scolded her, Kazuha then would defend herself, in a "girlfriend" way.

*Heiji grabs Kazuha's arm, by surprise, telling her not to help the tourist group they met, or as he dubbed them, "weirdos".

*Heiji and Kazuha have another "love quarrel", about Kazuha's misplaced wallet, which she stated was because Heiji kept rushing her to leave. When he suggested that she forget about it, Kazuha told him it had her "lucky charm" inside, and raindrop hits her face. Heiji mistakes this as tears, and tells her not cry, until he realizes the rain pouring down. As the two look up at the sky about to rain, the viewers notice how close they are to each other.

*Kazuha tells Heiji that she isn't lying about the "treasure" their fathers were talking about before the current case started.

*Kazuha's father, [[Detective Toyama]] arrives to help in the case, courtesy of Kazuha, so Heiji wouldn't be too preoccupied and they could have a delicious dinner. However, Heiji reacts badly and immaturely to her proposal, and begins berating her out loud and in front of her father, who reminds Heiji to be polite to Kazuha, when he's around, with a menacing glare. Getting the idea, Heiji quickly changes his attitude, and "respectfully" declined her invite, and tells her to go eat with Ran, which she does in irritation. This is a bit of foreshadowing, that a girl's boyfriend is expected be nice to her, while in front of her father, especially if her father's tough,has a gun,works with the law enforcement, or all of the above, even though they're not officially a couple. Although, as Kazuha leaves with Ran, she looks back at Heiji and smiles, secretly happy of his decision.

*At the restaurant, Ran figures out that Kazuha called her father to '''HELP''' Heiji, and she tried to cover it up with insults, so she wouldn't be embarrassed. After this, Kazuha admits it was true, but she wanted to see Heiji's expression when he solved a case, that being the trait she '''ADMIRES''' and '''LOVES''' the most about him.

*Heiji hears Kazuha's scream, and quickly becomes worried.

*Heiji asks Kazuha questions about the supposed "suicide".

*Kazuha tells everyone Heiji they solved the case, and left with Conan. Kazuha stated she knew, while smiling and blushing, saying that, "Heiji had that look on his face, whenever he solved case".

=== Red Horse Inside the Flame Arc ===
*After the last arc, Heiji and Kazuha stay at the Mouri Residence.

*Kazuha told Ran that Heiji and Cona get along very well, making Ran comment that Kazuha might be jealous of the Conan's relationship with Heiji, but Kazuha tries to explain that's not what she meant.

*Heiji momentarily looks back at the two girls, probably at Kazuha, worrying that the arsonist might strike near the Mouri Residence, until Conan, dryly, explains it wouldn't.

=== Episode 381-382: Whose Reasoning Show Arc ===
*Heiji and Kazuha go to visit Ran,Conan, and Kogoro in Tokyo.

*Heiji and Kazuha have a "love fight", over whether to go to Koshien or Takarazuka, and decide to do a deduction competition, that Kogoro suggested on an unsolved case.

*Kazuha and Heiji are next to each other, during the investigation.

*In a brief moment,Kazuha smiles at Heiji, as he deduces the victim's dying message, before she realized about their "competition".

*After found out some crucial tricks the culprit used on the case,he looks over at Kazuha, and apologizes that he was going to win. However, he notices her crying over not figuring out the case.As Heiji he watches his expression becomes more sad and guilty.

*Leaving off from the last scene,Heiji recalls Shinichi's speech on "inferior and superior" deductions, and chooses to let Kazuha win, by secretly giving her hints.

*Even though Heiji did win the showdown, he didn't mean to, he only wanted to give enough hints so Kazuha would scope out the real culprit.He tries to tell Kazuha they can go to Takarazuka, but she decides not to,much to his confusion.

*Kazuha congradulates Heiji on winning, and agrees to go to Koshien,Ran tries to convince her that she did do half the work, but Kazuha decides to not bother about it.She secretly reveals to herself, that she didn't care if she wnt to Koushien or Takaeazuka, all she wanted to see Heiji's expression of when he solved a case.

=== Episode 383:Miracle at Koshien Ball Park, The Defiants Face the Dark Demon ===
*Heiji and Kazuha, appear with Conan and Ran, during the opening of the special episode. Both were seen standing next to each other, during the ending.

*After Conan's introduction, Kazuha was on the same side as Heiji.

*Kazuha starts to wonder what's taking Heiji so long.

*Heiji grabs the phone picked up,and begins to yell,greatly shocking and confusing Kazuha.

=== Episode 406-408: Conan and Heiji's Mysterious Magic Arc ===

*Heiji accompanies Kazuha to a magic show in Osaka.

*Kazuha became noticebly irritated at Heiji, when he stated the women in the magic show were "beauties".

*Conan and Heiji dash worriedly to where they heard Ran and Kazuha scream.

*Heiji teases Kazuha about wanting to see a magic show.

*Kazuha tells Heiji that Hoshikawa couldn't be the criminal, because she hugged him, causing Heiji to become frustrated, and chastise her for bieng "intimate" with an adult man briefly.

*After Kazuha comments on how "brilliant and cool" [[Shinichi Kudo]] is, Heiji quickly becomes jealous, walks over to her, with an aggravted look and takes Ran's cellphone, with an excuse, he roughly grabs Conan, and sarcastically asks what the "great Kudo", has come up with during the investigation.

*Heiji confides in Conan, that whenever Kazuha speaks with another guy, he starts getting agitated and is not able to concentrate. Conan realizes that Heiji has fallen in love with Kazuha, without even knowing it himself, but instead of telling him the real reason Heiji had these feelings, Conan saids the reason Heiji is feeling this way is because he's a "brat".

*Heiji is shocked at the fact Kazuha was speaking to another man, and the becomes noticeably jealous, and before further investigating the case, he tells her to stay with Ran, giving the reason that she made him angry. Kazuha starts wonders why he's behaving so strangely, and Ran tries tell her, Heiji was jealous, but Kazuha misunderstood.

*Kazuha grabs Heiji's arm, so he can reveal how Hoshikawa committed the crime, but it leaves the Osaka boy detective blushing.

*At the end of the case, Heiji finally figures out why he was acting so weird, and was going to tell Kazuha he didn't like her talking to other guys because she was his follower, such as, how her father is his father's subordinate. This, of course got Kazuha very upset. Then, the two began another one of their, "love fights".

===Movies and OVAs===
In The 7th movie [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]] Heiji realizes that Kazuha was his first love and remains to be his true love from that day. Though they may bicker and make fun of each other, Heiji and Kazuha both care for each other very deeply and cares for the others safety and would even risk their own safety for the cost of the others.

[[File:HeijiKazuha10yrs.png|thumb|Heiji and Kazuha's reaction when a reporter inquired when they will be married]]

==Trivia==
* Fans of the Heiji-Kazuha pairing sometimes refer to them as "KazuHei."
* [[Detective Toyama | Kazuha's father]] once told [[Heizo Hattori | Heiji's father]] that he would prefer for Kazuha to marry Heiji than any other boy.
* In most openings, the couple have been shown together.
*Their habit of calling each other, "Ahou", might be their own little "pet name", for each other.

==See also==
* [[Heiji Hattori]]
* [[Kazuha Toyama]]
* [[Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri]]
* [[Kaito Kuroba and Aoko Nakamori]]
[[Category:Relationships]]

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Kazuha Toyama

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| name = Kazuha Toyama
| japanese-name = 遠山和葉 (Tōyama Kazuha)
| english-name = Kirsten Thomas
| image = Kazuha Toyama Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD57>Conan Drill page 57</ref>
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD57/>
| relatives = [[Ginshiro Toyama]] (father) Mother (unnamed)<ref>[[Volume 66#File 693 - The Charm Recovery Operation!|Volume 66, File 693: "The Charm Recovery Operation!", Page 4]] - Kazuha's mother is mentioned for the first time.</ref>
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 185 Anime: Episode 118
| appearances = {{:Kazuha Toyama Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 19]]
| japanese-voice = [[Yuko Miyamura]]
| english-voice = [[Gwendolyn Lau]]
| drama-actor = [[Rei Okamoto]]
| footnotes =
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'''{{nihongo|Kazuha Toyama|遠山和葉|Tōyama Kazuha}}''', also known as '''Kirsten Thomas''' in the [[Funimation]] dub, is character in the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''. She is a childhood friend and the romantic interest of [[Heiji Hattori]].

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Kazuha and [[Heiji Hattori]] have been close friends since childhood. Their fathers work together at the Osaka Police station, where Kazuha's father, [[Ginshiro Toyama]] is a subordinate and close friend of Heiji's father, [[Heizo Hattori | Police Chief Heizo Hattori]].

At one time in their youth, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking themselves together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name="StabbedWallet">Manga Volume 19: File 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref> At some later point, Kazuha added a picture of Heiji into her own charm pouch.<ref>Manga Chapters 693-695: Kazuha's Charm Case</ref>

After Heiji had met [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and discovered his [[Shinichi Kudo|true identity]], he talked about him so frequently and enthusiastically to Kazuha that she became convinced that Heiji was in love with a Tokyo girl named 'Kudo.' When Heiji invited Conan, [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]] to Osaka, Kazuha spied on them, believing Ran to be 'Kudo.' At an okonomiyaki restaurant, when Heiji got up for a moment, Kazuha sat down in his seat and warned Ran to back off him, at which point Heiji returned, the misunderstanding was cleared up, and Heiji laughed at Kazuha's behavior.<ref name="SerialKillerofNaniwa">Manga Volume 19: Chapters 5-8(Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref> In their next meeting, Kazuha continued to treat Ran coldly, pointing out that Ran and Heiji's clothes had coincidentally matched the last few times they had been together. In response, Ran immediately changed clothes, after which point the girls became much friendlier. <ref name="Wedding Murder">Manga Volume 21: File 211 (Wedding Murder Case)</ref>

== Personality ==
Kazuha has a hot temper and can be highly critical of people around her. Moreover, she is highly confrontational and unafraid to let others know of her dislike. This trait leads to frequent shouting matches with Heiji, but it also allowed her and Ran to forge a strong friendship despite the fact that Kazuha, believing that Ran was Heiji's new girlfriend, took an initial deep dislike to Ran out of jealousy. Affection and approval are apparently much harder for her to express, most significantly with regard to Heiji; she is perfectly aware of her feelings for him and, after a few initial attempts to deny it to Ran, openly discusses her love for Heiji with her. However, even when a good opening appears to discuss her feelings with him, she instead panics and does her best to pretend that she and Heiji are 'only friends.'

She also has a marked belief in spirits, good-luck charms, and other superstitions. Right from her first experience, she displayed her belief in the importance of hers and Heiji's omamori, charms which Kazuha made to protect her and Heiji from harm. And indeed, during the same case, Heiji lent Conan his omamori, and the metal inside the charm stopped a knife blade that would have killed Conan.<ref name="SerialKillerofNaniwa">Manga Volume 19: Chapters 5-8</ref> On subsequent cases, Kazuha is quick to attribute mysterious shadows and strange events to ghosts and other malignant spirits, which usually sends Ran into a panic as well.

== Skills ==

Despite her fearfulness, Kazuha is also a 2-dan in aikido, and has exhibited her skills in taking down several criminals, including [[Ki'ichiro Numabuchi]].<ref name="SerialKillerofNaniwa">Manga Volume 19: Chapters 5-8</ref>

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Kazuha Toyama Appearances]].''
=== Introduction ===
Soon after [[Heiji Hattori]] made Conan/Shinichi's acquaintance, he invited [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] to Osaka. Several times throughout the day Ran felt herself being watched by a pair of malevolent eyes. At lunchtime that day, a girl sat down and, to Conan's horror and Ran's bafflement, addressed Ran as "Kudo." She warned "Kudo" to stay away from Heiji, who soon returned and sets her right. Heiji introduced her as his childhood friend Kazuha and introduced Ran as Kudo's girlfriend- which Ran hotly denied -, whereupon Ran asked them if they are together, which Kazuha and Heiji hotly denied in turn.<ref name="SerialKillerofNaniwa">Manga Volume 19: Chapters 5 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

=== Subsequent appearances ===
[[image:408_Kaz_saves_Conan.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Kazuha saves Conan from Heiji's jealous rage, which she unknowingly caused by flirting with another man.]]Since her introduction, Kazuha has accompanied Heiji in the majority of his appearances. The two frequently visit Tokyo and stay at the Mouri residence, and Kazuha accompanies Heiji on several cases. Because of this, she has from time to time been in great danger. She was almost killed by the Spider Mansion murderer because she found a BB gun bullet that the criminal had used in his setup; only Heiji's arrival chased the murderer away before Kazuha was strangled.<ref name="Spider Mansion">Manga Volume 25: Chapters 4-8 (Spider Mansion Case)</ref> Later, in the Mermaid Island case, Heiji nearly fell off a cliff during his investigation. Kazuha saved him, but overbalanced and fell off the cliff herself. Heiji jumped after her, managing to grab her wrist with his left hand and a jutting branch with his right. However, the branch began to bend, so Kazuha stabbed Heiji's hand in an attempt to make him let her go and save himself. Despite the wound, Heiji did not let go, and managed to save the both of them.<ref name="The Mermaid Weeps Again">Manga Volume 28: Chapters 6-10 </ref> He still bears the scar on his left hand, and has been known to mock Kazuha about it.<ref name="Heiji's First Standalone Case">Manga Volume 31: Chapters 8-10</ref> In a later case, Heiji and Kazuha were kidnapped by a corrupt lawyer in an attempt to force Heiji to crack a code. When he wouldn't comply, the lawyer decided to kill them both. Heiji asked to be allowed to say a few last words to Kazuha, claiming he had to tell her something he had wanted to say for a long time. This, it turned out, was a ploy to distract the lawyer, but when it failed, Heiji, with a gun to his head, told Kazuha that "I meant it when I said my last words were for you" and promised, if they survived, to tell them to her "until you're sick of hearing it." Afterward, when she asked him what he was going to say, he panicked and insisted that he had wanted to tell her that her ponytail had been tickling him while they were handcuffed together - which earned him an enraged slap in the face.<ref name="Hattori Heiji in Grave Danger">Manga Volume 38: Chapters 8-10</ref>

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Heiji Hattori ====
{{main|Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama}}
Kazuha has been best friends with Heiji since they were very young. Often times they act more like a couple then like friends, though they both deny having any such relation with each other. Kazuha tends to be somewhat overbearing and extremely protective of '''[[Heiji]]''', and has no problems in chasing off any potential female who may show some interest in him. Also in Movie 7 '''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]''', it is shown that she is Heiji's First Love.

==== Ran Mouri ====
Despite having rather different temperaments and personalities, Kazuha and Ran have several things in common, including: proficiency in a martial art, father's connection to police work and detective work, and detective-obsessed childhood love interests. Kazuha was initially cold and rude to Ran, suspecting her of being interested in Heiji. However, thanks to Kazuha's frankness and Ran's accommodating nature, the girls quickly overcame this misunderstanding. They have since become close friends and seem to regard each other as confidantes, since they are in similar romantic situations: Ran and Shinichi cannot confess their feelings for each other, as Shinichi is, aside from telephone calls, physically absent from her life, and Kazuha and Heiji cannot confess their feelings for each other due to their own stubbornness and irascibility. While Conan/Shinichi and Heiji are on cases together, Ran and Kazuha almost always spend the time together. When Kazuha visits the Mouris' in Tokyo with Heiji, she is shown to share Ran's bed.

== 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. Kazuha placed 16th in the poll with 40 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. Kazuha placed 7th out of 10.<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. Kazuha placed 11th overall with 203 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 'Toyama' comes from Edo period "police detective" [[wikipedia:Tōyama Kagemoto|Kagetomo Toyama]], aka [[wikipedia:Tōyama no Kin-san|Toyama no Kin-san]], while Kazuha comes from one of [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s assistants.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kazuha_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Kazuha's "Before" Appearance (Episode 118)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Kazuha_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Kazuha's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|和葉　Kazuha|遠山 Tooyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Kirsten|Thomas}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Kazuha|Toyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Kazuha|Toyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Kazuha|Toyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|كازوها Kazoha | توياما Toyama}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|가영 Ka Young|서 Suh}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|和葉　|遠山 }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Kazuha|Toyama}}
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== Trivia ==
* The kanji for Kazuha's first name mean 'Japanese Leaf.' Her last name, Toyama, means 'distant mountain.'

*Besides[[ Eri Kisaki]], Kazuha almost always keeps her hair in a ponytail.

[[File:Kazuha10yrs.png|thumb|Kazuha in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9]]

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Toyama family]]
* [[Kazuha Toyama Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]

== References ==
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Heiji Hattori

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Heiji Hattori
| japanese-name = 服部平次 (Hattori Heiji)
| english-name = Harley Hartwell
| image = Heiji Hattori Profile.jpg
| age = 17<ref name=CD56>Conan drill page 56</ref>
| gender = Male
| height =
| weight =
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD56/>
| relatives = [[Heizo Hattori]] (father) [[Shizuka Hattori]] (mother)
| nicknames = Hei-chan ([[Goro Otaki|Otaki]]) "The Great Detective of the West"
| first-appearance = Manga: File 92 Anime: Episode 48
| appearances = {{:Heiji Hattori Appearances}}
| cases-solved = All cases with [[Conan]]
| keyhole = [[Volume 10]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ryo Horikawa]]
| english-voice = [[Kevin M. Connolly]]
| german-voice =[[Oliver Feld]]
| drama-actor = [[Tori Matsuzaka]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Heiji Hattori|服部平次|Hattori Heiji}}''', also known as '''Harley Hartwell''' in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime series ''[[Detective Conan]]''. He is a childhood friend of [[Kazuha Toyama]].

== Background ==
[[File:Cuffed.png|thumb|left|Heiji and Kazuha cuffed together as children]]
Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [[Heizo Hattori]], chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [[Shizuka Hattori]]. Heiji wants to be a detective like his father, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school.

At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions (i.e., bathroom visits) before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since.<ref name=StabbetWallet>Manga Volume 19: Files 185 (Stabbed Wallet Case)</ref>

In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [[Shinichi Kudo]] is the "Great Detective of the East". As a result, Heiji showed up unannounced at the Mouri Detective Agency looking for Kudo, seeking to challenge his rival to a showdown of wits. (In fact, they had such a contest before, three years previously, during a skiing trip in the Yamagata prefecture, although they never learned about each other's identities at that time.<ref>Manga Chapters 518-522: Yuki-Onna Murder Case</ref>) Heiji was soundly defeated in the following case after [[Conan Edogawa]] temporarily turned back into Shinichi, but he gained a lot of respect for Shinichi in the process.<ref>Manga Chapters 092-096: The Great Detective Of The West</ref>.

During their second encounter, Conan knocked Heiji out to solve the on-going case, but during his final presentation of the facts, Heiji awoke prematurely and discovered Conan's secret.<ref>Manga Chapters 121: The Holmes Freak Case: The Revelation</ref> Ever since that revelation, Heiji has been helping Conan in hiding his secret identity, though he occasionally slips up by calling him "Kudo" in front of [[Ran Mouri|Ran]].

Heiji and Conan most often congenially team up to solve assorted cases. Heiji has also helped Conan investigate the [[Black Organization]] on several occasions, such as when the two investigated [[Jodie Starling]] <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=34 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 2-7 |language=English }}</ref>, or when Heiji investigated [[Eisuke Hondou]] on his own and then told Conan his findings<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=56 | chapter=Files 7 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. He's also helped cover for Conan during several of the brief instances where Conan regained his true adolescent age, and has even disguised himself as Shinichi on several occasions in order to protect his identity. When not working on a case, he regularly attempts to invite Conan to take in the sights and culinary delights in Osaka, which he considers more wholesome than Tokyo's.
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== Personality ==
Even while solving a case, Heiji tends to be lighthearted and good-humored, preferring to work through it with a grin on his face. He is a big fan of baseball, and is most of the time shown wearing an Osaka cap, to support the local Osaka baseball team. He usually wears his cap with its visor pointed backward, but if he feels challenged, he turns the visor forward.

Despite him knowing the value and necessity of remaining calm in the face of a crime, Heiji tends to be impulsive at times, which tends to cloud his judgment a little. This was discussed directly in the "Detective Koushien" case, when [[Saguru Hakuba]] accused Heiji of being a poor detective for disrupting a crime scene in his rush to see if the victim could still be saved. Heiji, however, solved the case in the end, and reminded Saguru that the detective's first job is to prevent death if he can. Heiji is also known to be extremely protective of those he values as close friends, and tries hard to keep them out of harm. There are several instances where Hattori tells Kazuha to wait for him or leaves her behind in order to keep her from being involved in cases, simply because he's afraid of her getting hurt.<ref>Manga Volume 59, File 6, pg 6: Armored Warrior</ref><ref>Manga Volume 59, File 7, pg 11: Art of War</ref><ref name=653p3>Manga Volume 63, File 1, page 3: My Deduction</ref>

Furthermore, he's pretty much always watching Shinichi's back, and does whatever he can to not only keep Shinichi safe, but to keep his identity under cover. Although he is very competitive when it comes to detective cases, when a case gets hot, he and Shinichi work effectively together. During Shinichi's first return to his high school during the play performance, Heiji let him take the lead role in the investigations, saying it was because they were in Tokyo, Shinichi's turf.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Case Closed |volume=26 |publisher=Viz Media chapter=Files 1-7 |language=English }}</ref>

Although he frequently mocks Kazuha for her superstitions and enthusiasm for good-luck charms, Heiji has several times revealed that he puts more trust in them than he would admit. He once dreamed of Shinichi being murdered, and out subsequently insisted that Conan wear his omamori, the good luck charm Kazuha gave him. The omamori ended up saving Shinichi's life by deflecting a knife blow, but Heiji, without his usual protection, was shot in the stomach.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=19 | chapter=Files 5-8 |language=Japanese}}</ref>. In another case, Ran hung a teruterubozu, a charm that's supposed to ensure good weather, in the window so that Conan would have good weather for his field trip the next day. Heiji, however, got up in the middle of the night to take down the teruterubozu so that Conan's field trip would be rained out and he could accompany Heiji on an investigation of the The Red Horse Among The Flames.<ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Meitantei Conan |volume=39 |language=Japanese}}</ref>.

== Appearance and Attributes ==
Heiji has dark brown, spiky hair and dark skin, and his eyes are normally dark green in the anime but are drawn as blue in the manga. He speaks with a strong Kansai Ben accent, which is typical of the Osaka region. Since Heiji is so strongly accustomed to this accent, his lingual habit can be a disadvantage at times, especially when he has to impersonate someone who uses standard Japanese.<ref>[[Volume 26# School Play Case|Manga Chapter 256: ''Concealed Truth'']]</ref><ref>OVA 06: ''[[Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid!]]''</ref>

=== Intelligence and eidetic memory ===
Heiji, like the other 'geniuses' of Detective Conan, has shown himself to have an eidetic memory, capable of remembering complex letter and number sequences at only a glance, such as when he was able to solve a code in his head during the "Heiji and Kazuha in Grave Danger" arc, and even reproduce another message using the same code to text to Conan. <ref>{{cite book |last=Aoyama |first=Gosho |title=Detective Conan |volume=38 |chapter=Files 8-10 |language=Japanese}}</ref>

=== Kendo ===
As Shinichi is to soccer, so is Heiji to kendo. He's the fifth position, or taisho, and captain of his high school Kendo team. Heiji may disable criminals using an improvised bokken similar to how Shinichi uses his soccer skills.

===Others===
Heiji is also a capable motorcycle driver. He also speaks fluent English.

== Plot overview ==
''Main Article: [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]].''
[[image:190_heiji_as_shinichi.JPG|thumb|right|180px| Heiji attempting to disguise himself as Shinichi to alleviate Ran's suspicions.]]
===The Great Detective Of The West===
One day, Conan (using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie|Voice-Changer Tie]] to imitate [[Shinichi Kudo|his old voice]]) calls [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] to tell her once again that he is all right and that he is still stuck with the 'special case' when Ran hangs up on him as someone has just entered the detective agency. Coming home, Conan finds to his surprise that the 'customer' is a youth who keeps demanding to see Shinichi Kudo. When Ran mentions that Shinichi has just called, without asking about Ran's state, the youth deduces that Shinichi must actually be nearby, watching Ran from afar. He then introduces himself as high school detective Heiji Hattori and presents a gift, a bottle of [[baijiu]], of which he gives Conan a swig. Just then, Kimie Tusjimura, the wife of a known diplomat, enters [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s office to ask him to investigate the girlfriend of her son. In order to be inconspicuous, Kogoro takes Ran and Conan along, and Heiji, hoping to flush out Shinichi, tags along as well. What is originally meant to be a simple investigation job turns out to be a murder case, as they find Kimie's husband slain at his desk.<ref>Manga Chapters 092: </ref>

===Finding the One Truth===
After this first case, it only takes one more run-in with Conan to get Heiji thinking about the similarities between Conan and Shinichi. It is on the "Holmes Freak Murder Case" that Heiji, despite professing a preference for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen Ellery Queen], exercises the Holmesian axiom: "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." In addition, after Conan had [[Stun-Gun Wristwatch|knocked him out]] to use him as his mouthpiece to present his evidence, Heiji receives a clout on the head from [[Kogoro Mouri]], which wakes him up again, and from the corner of his eye he spies Conan standing behind him and using his [[Voice-Changing Bowtie]] to mimick his voice; he thus discovers Conan's secret, which forces Conan to explain his situation.

===Fast Friends===
On their third case together, Conan was initially irritated to see Heiji, but they quickly formed a strong team. Together they cornered the murderer and even took steps to preventing the suicide she had planned. When she realizes that she won't be able to kill herself she weeps piteously, causing Heiji to whisper to Conan, "perhaps we should have let her die." Conan replies that "a detective who corners a murderer with logic and then lets them commit suicide is no better than a murderer."

Although Heiji seemed to laugh this off at the time, soon after he invites Conan (and [[Kogoro Mouri]] and [[Ran Mouri]], because otherwise it'd look suspicious) to Osaka. It is revealed by [[Kazuha Toyama]] (in her first appearance) that Heiji has been talking about 'Kudo' so often that Kazuha thought 'Kudo' was his new Tokyo girlfriend. Heiji suggests that the reason he invited Conan to Osaka is because he has been worried about Conan's safety; he has had dreams of Conan being murdered. On a case together in Osaka, Heiji gives Conan his omamori, which ends up saving his life by deflecting a knife thrust. However, without it Heiji is injured while trying to prevent the murderer from committing suicide. In the ambulance, he reveals to Conan that he has taken to heart Conan's admonishment.

===A Friend in Need===
Since that time, Heiji has quickly grown to be one of the people that Conan/Shinichi trusts most. Heiji has helped Conan investigate the Black Organization, including [[Jodie Starling]], has disguised himself as Shinichi on multiple occasions to protect his identity, and has, perhaps most importantly, become Conan's closest friend and confidante.

== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends ===
==== Kazuha Toyama ====
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Heiji's relationship with [[Kazuha Toyama]] is a very close one; they were childhood friends, and have stayed close through the years. Their relationship gets mistaken for a romantic relationship by everyone, even though they claim that they don't have that sort of relationship or feelings for each other. Heiji is clueless when it comes to love and has not yet realized he has actual feelings for Kazuha. However, he has shown that he is protective of her when she is with other guys and says that he will never let her get hurt no matter what. Kazuha knows she has feelings for Heiji, as she shows this by being protective and chasing off other women that might have a interest in him. Also, they have the same situation as Ran and Shinichi, being childhood friends that have romantic feelings for each other and have the same background as them. Heiji is a teenage detective and she is a police's daughter, like Ran is a police's daughter and Shinichi is a teenage detective. They are even called the 'Ran and Shinichi of Osaka' by fans of the series, since they're so similar. Although they are constantly fighting, they both are very close friends. It is also shown in the seventh movie, ''[[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]]'', that Kazuha is Heiji's first love, though he didn't know it was her at the time.

==== Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa ====
Heiji acts rather brotherly towards [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], even going so far as to pretend to be him on various occasions, so no one figures out that Shinichi and Conan are the same person. Of course, this might also be to make up for all the times Heiji calls him Kudo, which has nearly given Shinichi away multiple times. Heiji can be a little bit worried for Shinichi when he gets into trouble and in a life or death situation. They are as close as real brothers, both being detective's and having feelings for their childhood friends. When they're caught solving a case together, it's not unusual for their minds to move in sync; because of this and several other factors, they maintain a sort of friendly rivalry with each other, although when a case gets serious, they are both all business. Heiji has, on several occasions, declared himself to be Shinichi's best friend.

==== Heizo Hattori ====
Heiji wants to become a detective, and his father is very supportive of this, helping him solve tough cases. However, his father prefers a "tough love" approach, though mostly for the sole purpose of using Heiji to lure out a suspect.

== 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. Heiji placed 6th in the poll with 261 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>

*Heiji placed 3rd 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. Heiji placed 3rd out of 10 with 10.79% 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. Heiji placed 5th overall with 956 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 ==
Heiji's name comes from fictional Edo period police detective '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Zenigata Heiji|Zenigata Heiji]]|銭形平次}}''' and famous samurai and ninja '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:Hattori Hanzō|Hattori Hanzou]]|服部半蔵}}'''.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "Before" Appearance (Episode 48)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Heiji_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Heiji's "After" Appearance (Episode 611)]]
|}

== Quotes ==
{{cquote|Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something ''perfect'', they wanna find a flaw.}}

{{cquote|We can see the importance of life only because it is short.}}

== In other languages ==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Harley|Hartwell}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Heiji|Hattori / Hatsutori (in Volume 10)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Heiji|Hattori (Anime) / Hatsutori (Manga)}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Heiji|Hattori}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| هيجي Hiji |هاتوري Hattori }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|인성 In Sung|하 Ha}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|平次 Pingchi|服部 Fubu }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Heiji|Hattori}}
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== Trivia ==
*Heiji has become somewhat infamous for the amount of injuries he has sustained throughout the series. A fan-compiled full list can be found [http://www.mischif.net/ahou/injuries.htm here].
*Heiji, along with [[Shinichi Kudo | Shinichi]], [[Kaito Kuroba | Kaito]] and [[Saguru Hakuba]], are sometimes referred to as 'The Four Geniuses' or 'The Gosho Boys' by fans.

[[File:Heiji10yrs.png|thumb|Heiji in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9]]

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Hattori family]]
* [[Heiji Hattori Appearances]]
* [[Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama]]
* "[http://www.mischif.net/ahou/ Ahou Calling]", a fan-made Heiji Hattori reference site.

==References==
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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Sonoko Suzuki
| japanese-name = 鈴木園子 (Suzuki Sonoko)
| english-name = Serena Sebastian
| image = Sonoko Suzuki Profile.jpg
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = Shiro Suzuki (father) Tomoko Suzuki (mother) [[Ayako Suzuki]] (older sister) [[Jirokichi Suzuki]] (uncle)
| nicknames = Deduction Queen Sonoko Annoying Sonoko ([[Genta]])
| first-appearance = Manga: File 40 Anime: Episode 6
| appearances = {{: Sonoko Suzuki Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 8]]
| japanese-voice = [[Naoko Matsui]]
| english-voice = [[Laura Bailey]]
| drama-actor = [[Mayuko Iwasa]] (1st) [[Sayaka Akimoto]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Sonoko Suzuki|鈴木園子|Suzuki Sonoko}}''', known in the Funimation English dub as '''Serena Sebastian''', is a character from the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Sonoko is [[Ran Mouri]]'s best friend, and is the girlfriend of [[Makoto Kyogoku]], with whom she currently is in a long-distance relationship. [[Conan Edogawa]] sometimes has to knock her out with his stun gun watch to use her as "Deduction Queen Sonoko". Because of this, Sonoko has claimed to be a great high school detective in her own right.

== Background ==
Sonoko is the daughter of Tomoko and Shiro Suzuki, the extremely wealthy family of a large company. She has a sister, Ayako, and an uncle named [[Jirokichi Suzuki|Jirokichi]], who is often involved in trying to capture the [[Kaitou Kid]].

Sonoko and Ran have been best friends ever since they were little.<ref name=Magic>[[Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata|Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata]]</ref> Sonoko is often there to help Ran whenever she is bullied by other school children, more often there than even [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was.<ref name=Magic /> Although Ran knows that Sonoko has a lot of money, she always makes sure that money never gets involved in thier friendship, not going to ski vacations with Sonoko because she doesn't have the money, when she knows that Sonoko would pay for her to go.<ref name=Friendship>[[Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money|Episode 329-330: Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money]]</ref> This, along with other things, has helped strengthen the bond between both Ran and Sonoko.

== Personality ==
[[File:Sonoko is scary.png|right|225px|thumb|Sonoko is rather expressive.]]
Before she began dating [[Makoto Kyogoku|Makoto]], Sonoko displayed the typical girl her age, acting very boy-crazy, and often mostly thinking about trying to snag the "perfect boy." She would often act sad because she couldn't get a boyfriend, using all necessary means to try and get one. She often dressed in clothes meant to attract boys, and would try to sweet talk her way into being with a boy, by making him chocolates,<ref name=ValChoc>[[Valentine Murder Case|Episode 6: Valentine Murder Case]]</ref> trying to impress a boy while wearing a bikini,<ref name=Triplet>[[The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case|Episode 72: The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case]]</ref> or going to various events that young guys were going to attend.<ref name=Lodge>[[Ski Lodge Murder Case|Episode 84-85: Ski Lodge Murder Case]]</ref> [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], in the meanwhile, would always be the one to unwillingly attract the boys, which would cause jealousy in Sonoko.<ref name=Villa>[[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|Episode 34-35: Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case]]</ref> However, this all changed when Sonoko met and began dating Makoto.

Sonoko loves using her money to go on big vacations, like expensive ski trips,<ref name=Lodge /> and loves to buy fancy clothes and items.<ref name=Megure /> Also, she is a sugar and sweets glutton, and loves to go to festivals where sugary sweets are on display, often picking up gigantic plates filled with various cakes.<ref name=Sweets>[[The Candy House the Witch Lives In|Episode 368: The Candy House the Witch Lives In]]</ref> She has even used [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] for the sole purpose of having a children's discount on food.<ref name=Culprit>[[Two Days with the Culprit|Episode 547-548: Two Days with the Culprit]]</ref> She is also a big fan of the band LEX,<ref name=LEX>[[Karaoke Box Murder Case|Episode 42: Karaoke Box Murder Case]]</ref> and various other people in pop music, including [[Two-Mix]].<ref name=Mix>[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 81-82: The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case]]</ref>

Conan has had to use Sonoko sometimes, when he needs to do a deduction show. At first, he sometimes struggled to copy Sonoko's mannerism's down, but now is used to it.<ref name=Bank>[[The Bank Heist Murder Case|Episode 79: The Bank Heist Murder Case]]</ref> However, because he has had to use Sonoko so often for a deduction, Sonoko, like [[Kogoro Mouri]], completely buys into her whole "sleeping" person, calling her self the best detective in [[Teitan High School]], and a "Deduction Queen."<ref name=Bank /> This makes Conan sometimes completely regret using her to solve a case, though he does admire her courage in certain situations. Sonoko is shown to not be completely clueless, and is sometimes able to solve little things on her own, and can figure things out when she is provided some assistance by Conan, like in [[The Suspicious Spicy Curry]], when Conan had to communicate to Sonoko, Kogoro, and [[Misao Yamamura|Yamamura]] in charades and sign language.<ref name=Curry>[[The Suspicious Spicy Curry|Episode 331-332: The Suspicious Spicy Curry]]</ref>

Sonoko is a big fanatic of the [[Kaitou Kid]], thinking that not only is he very handsome, but is also herself a very big fan of him, cheering him on in trying to steal something, even when that something is a rare treasure of the Suzuki family! She wishes to meet the Kid up close, and sometimes almost gets her wish, but is very disappointed when she doesn't.<ref name=Kid>[[Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk|Episode 356: Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk]]</ref>

== Appearance ==
Sonoko often wears a bandanna backing up her fringe, skirt, random clothes covering the top. Her clothes often show more skin, in comparison to Ran, mostly for the purpose of attracting guys.

== Plot overview ==
===Deduction Queen Sonoko (Manga: [[Volume 5#Bandaged Man Case|40-44]], Anime: [[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|34-35]])===
[[File: Sonoko35.png|thumb|left|Deduction Queen Sonoko appears!]]
Conan and Ran visit Sonoko's mountain villa to see the autumn leaves and meet up with some old friends. On the way to the front they see a strange bandaged man in a dark cloak crossing the bridge. When they see him he turns around, shocking them with his face and eye contact as he quickly makes a retreat around the side of the house. Everything seems fine as Ran tries to find her room, accidentally walking in on the boys of the house. When everyone is asked about the bandaged man he is brushed off as possibly a crazy man with nothing better to do. However he is taken far more seriously when later one of the girls is seen being carried off by him from the windows, the boys give chase and find her dismembered body in the woods.

He had previously attacked Ran in the woods earlier, but ran off when Conan gave chase. Everyone panics and decides that it's best to go to bed for the night, when he strikes again, this time trying to kill Ran in her sleep. Conan kicks Ran out of the way, using his bow-tie to wake her up, she freezes up as Conan grabs for him, but he is thrown against the bed, twisting his ankle. The bandaged man quickly makes a hasty retreat, leaving Conan to wonder why he is targeting Ran.
Everyone decides to stay up for the night and keep together to throw off the murderous man in bandages. Conan suspects that Ran saw something that made her a target for the bandaged man, and the culprit is one of the people staying there. The rush for remembrance is on as Conan desperately tries to solve the mystery before the bandaged man strikes again.

After the investigation, Conan solve the case. Kogoro isn't there to be put to sleep, so he decides to solve the case by Ran. But when he shoots the anesthetic needle, Sonoko appears and she falls asleep. Conan reveals, by Sonoko, the killer is Ryoichi Takahashi.
Sonoko is very proud, she thinks she settled the case. She was in love with Masaru Ohta, but already isn't.
Currently, Conan often uses Sonoko for solving cases.
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===An important date (Manga: [[Volume 11#Coffee Shop Case|105-107]], Anime: [[Coffee Shop Murder Case|32]])===
At the end of the case, Conan asks Ran if she meets Shiro Wakaoji, a young man who was in the coffee shop. She says no, but Shiro is interested by Ran. When he begin to flirt with her, Sonoko arrives. She was his autentic date! Sonoko, very angry, hits him and goes out from there.

===Makoto's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 22#Sonoko's Camera Case|219-221]], Anime: [[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|153-154]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan go to Izu because of Sonoko's schemes to get a man. At the beach, Sonoko takes a picture of Ran fixing her bathing suit and threatens to send the picture to Shinichi. Sonoko is upset about her lack of love life. However, a college student approaches the girls and asks Sonoko to lunch. He appears to be romantically interested and asks Sonoko to dinner as well. They agree to meet at their lodgings later that day. The college student tells the group a story about a brunette that was murdered a year ago and now haunts the restaurant he wants to dine at. The group then finds out that another brunette was murdered in the woods recently in the same manner as the brunette from a year ago.

[[File: EP153-154b_Case.jpg|thumb|right|The serial killer tries to kill Sonoko...]]
The group goes to the crime scene and meet Sango Yokomizo who cautions them to stay safe. Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are staying at a cheap Ryokan because Sonoko doesn't want to scare men away by staying at an expensive luxury hotel. In the evening, the three of them wait for the college student to pick them up in his car. Sonoko realizes that she forgot something in her room and goes back up to get it. Here she discovers a suspicious figure searching her bags. The figure attacks her and is about to stab her with a knife when Ran and Conan, worried about the time Sonoko is taking, come to find her.

Sonoko is saved and the figure escapes through the window. The stoic, and somewhat unfriendly, high school student (Makoto Kyogoku) that is working at the Ryokan moves the group to another room. Ran thinks she has seen this person somewhere before but cannot remember where. The college student shows up muddy and wet and Conan suspects him of attacking Sonoko. Sonoko says she bit the attacker's bicep in her struggle and Conan makes the college student take off his shirt. However, the college student does not have a bite mark on his arm. Makoto has a bandaged bicep and falls under suspicion but Sonoko says he wasn't the attacker since the attacker was hairy. The college student, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan decide to have dinner at the Ryokan because the college student says his car broke down. Conan speculates that Sonoko's attacker was looking for the photographs she was taking during the trip, but cannot figure out why. Conan does not think there are any incriminating photos. Perhaps the murderer overheard Sonoko talking about the photographs and misunderstood. This case is still full of mysteries and Conan cannot figure out why Sonoko was attacked.

Later, Michiwaki (the student), Ran and Conan go to eat to a restaurant, and Sonoko is in Michiwaki's car, sleepy. Suddenly, the car gets on and Sonoko is, again, near the death.
When they go to the police station, Sonoko and Michiwaki enter into the forest. There, Michiwaki tries to kill Sonko: he is the serial killer!
Finally, when Sonoko thinks she is going to death, Makoto appears and save her. Michiwaki is arrested and Makoto says to Sonoko he is in love whit her, but he must goes abroad.
Currently, Sonoko is involved with Makoto.

===Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 28#Girl Clubbing Case|284-286]], Anime: [[Megure's Sealed Secret|217-218]])===
Ran and Sonoko are shopping for a sweater as Sonoko wants to buy for Makoto Kyogoku; Sonoko gets scolded by Ran when she learns that Sonoko wants to make it pass as if she had knitted the sweater for him. Sonoko arrives to the pasta shop right then and upon seeing the girls's pictures she identifies them as Ganguro, girls who change their looks drastically to look fashionable and exotic and as a way to rebel against Japanese society.
Sonoko calls Ran to ask where she is. She says she's in a parking lot and then she screams in terror because she has just found another victim. Said victim is a 20 year old girl named Tae Aizawa, who used to work at the same store: again, a very young woman with bleached hair, tanned skin, and wearing the special jewelry gifts. Unlike the others, however, Aizawa is actually dead.
After discussing some more details, Takagi returns and confirms the information already given. Conan and Ran see that Sonoko isn't with them; Ran mentions that Sonoko was supposed to go to the car and then to the restroom, and then Conan realizes that Sonoko was wearing platform boots... like all the victims. Ran calls Sonoko to her cellphone, and Sonoko says she's looking for a safe way out since the lights are out. She then gets scared since it looks like she's being followed, and as she turns, the culprit is right in front of her and she starts screaming.

[[File: Sonoko218.png|thumb|right|Sonoko... saved!?]]
Sonoko manages to avoid the culprit's pipe and throws her phone at him, revealing his face. She tries running downstairs, with the man being horrified since she saw him clearly. Conan says that the killer saw Sonoko with Mouri's keys and mistook her for the driver, hence why he's chasing her now. Sonoko's phone lands near a purikura machine located near a restaurant in the tenth floor, so they deduce Sonoko and the killer are not too far away from it. Megure takes active part in commanding the police, and both Matsumoto and Mouri notice how pumped up he is.
Sonoko runs aimlessly in the tenth floor, and when she's about to reach the gates she trips over her boots and falls to the ground. Ran and the police find her phone on the stairs and deduce she's in the apartment store as no one has seen her in the restaurants. Meanwhile, the maddened killer starts ranting about how all the fashionable girls are bitches in sheep's clothing who should be all killed. Sonoko screams again and this time Ran, Conan, Megure and Co. hear her; they also hear the sound of several things falling, Go stones among them, which allow them to see she's now on the fourth floor (the only one with such arrangments).
Sonoko again dodges the pipe, as the culprit rants about how he only wanted to teach her a lesson, but after seeing his face, he had to kill her. Cornered again, Sonoko cowers as he tries to hit her directly... and then Megure shows up. He takes the hit for her and gets struck in the head, but the blow is softened by his hat.
At the end, Ran and Sonoko are moved to tears, thinking Megure's girlfriend died.

===Jodie's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 27#Arcade Murder Case|271-273]], Anime: [[The Battle Game Trap|226-227]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are at the arcade where they meet their High School English teacher, Jodie Saintemillion who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Ran to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Ran loses to a gamer named Kengo Bito who taunts her in her lost. Bito plays the game again his rival, Takayasu Shimizu; The battle is projected on a large screen. Bito's avatar overwhelms Shimizu's but stops at the climax of the match. The people in the arcade realize Bito is dead and the police are called in.
The police investigate; after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people, a middle aged man, an employee, Shimizu, and Jodie.
[[File: Sonoko227.png|thumb|right|Sonoko thinks about Makoto]]
The autopsy reveals the poison to be Tetrodotoxin; a poison that causes instant paralysis and death soon after. Conan investigates and learns the method and the culprit who murdered Bito.
Conan tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her; declaring Shimizu to be the murderer. Conan reveals that Shimizu was the one playing Bito's avatar in order disguise the fact Bito was already dead. As for the weapon, Conan explains Shimizu hid a needle inside a cigarette, put gum around it, wrapped it around paper and had it stuck to the employee's shoes. As certain evidence, Conan reveals that a coin with Shimizu's fingerprints should be found in Bito's arcade machine. Shimizu confesses revealing Bito's gambling and debt caused his sister to develop Vitamin A deficiency and resulting in her blindness. As Sonoko, Ran, and Jodie leave the arcade, their discussion leads to Shinichi whom Jodie dubs as Cool Guy; She says goodbye whilst calling Conan Cool Guy and leaves. That night, Jodie calls an unknown person discussing how her target, the Rotten Apple has changed appearance.

===Murderous Pottery Class (Manga: [[Volume 30#Pottery Class Case|305-307]], Anime: [[The Murderous Pottery Class|228-229]])===
[[File: Sonoko228.png|thumb|left|Sonoko looking at Ran's vessel.]]
Sonoko tells Ran she is attending pottery classes to make a gift to Makoto, a big vessel. Ran decides to join too. One day, Conan follows the girls to the pottery class.
Ran is making an earthel vessel and Sonoko wants to see that, but Ran doesn't want. Joking, the vessel fell. All the class heard a noise, and Sonoko thins Ran's vessel is broken. But no, Ran has got the vessel in her hand.
Conan, Ran, and all the class go to find the origin of the noise, and Sonoko attempts to uncover Ran's vessel. Ran tells her if she do it, their friendship will be broken.
Motoo Mino is killed and they try to discover the truth.
Suddenly, Conan find out the truth: the master murdered Motoo! The little detective uses 'Deduction Queen Sonoko' to solve it.

At the end, she is talking with Ran and Conan, and they see a photo that Makoto send to Sonoko. In the photo, he is with friends and he put flowers in Sonoko's vessel. She is sad because he thought it was a vase.
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===Halloween Party (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]])===
[[File: Sonoko witch.png|thumb|right|Sonoko as a witch]]
[[Kogoro Mouri]] receives an invitation to a Halloween cruise; the Halloween cruise is famous for hiring guests to star in a horror film. At the beginning, Sonoko is making-up Kogoro as a monster, specifically as a vampire.
He can bring a friend, and Sonoko wants to go with him because Ran doesn't want, she is afraid by zombies, witches and monsters in general.
The day of the party, she goes with Kogoro there, wearing a witch costume. When they are in a taxi, the taxi driver was disguised as a monster too and scared them.
During the cruise, the party members are divided into groups with team devil consisting of Kogoro, Sonoko, and people disguised as a werewolf, a mummy, a medusa and an invisible man. Sonoko and Kogoro meet Medusa and they talk a lot with her.

During the party, the host is shot by a crossbow, attached to the arrow is a card from team devil.
First, Sonoko thinks, as Kogoro, the mummy is the culprit, because he is the only who hasn't got the card. When Kogoro calls to his house for explain the situation to [[Ran]] and nobody picks up the phone, she says Ran could be having a shower.
Later, when the invisible man gets rid of his bands and is [[Shinichi Kudo]], she is very surprised. Kudo explains the culprit is the werewolf. The murderer says someone called '[[Vermouth]]' forced him to kill the captain.
After, she discovers, at the same time than Kogoro and the others, that the 'invisible man' Shinichi was a faker, and he really is [[Heiji Hattori]].

Sonoko's disguise is entirely black, with a large hat with a stripe in the center, black too. The dress reaches to the thighs, with peak shape. She also wears high boots and long gloves, both black. She carries a broom too.
She looks very happy for go to the party, disguise as a "sexy" witch and search cute and handsome monsters.
We don't know if Sonoko knows Medusa is really [[Yukiko Kudo]].

===Jodie's Truth (Manga: [[Volume 42#Murderer's Car Case|435]], Anime: [[Find the Buttocks' Mark!|346]])===
At the begin, Sonoko is with Ran visiting Jodie at the hospital. She is very surprised because miss Jodie is a FBI agent. Ahe tihnks she was infiltrated in the high school.
She talks with Ran about her friend did while she was in the 'horror cruise'. She says that this attitude is typical of Ran. Also, they talk to Jodie's photos.

===Dark Photograph (Manga: [[Volume 56#Missing Photo Case|582]], Anime: [[Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph|484]])===
At the beginning of the case, Sonoko is walking with Ran and Conan to return home after school. She says it's very hot and and she should do as Eisuke, which disappears after school.

===The Culprit is Sonoko (Anime: [[The Devil Hidden in the Tennis Court|602]])===
[[File: Sonoko602.png|thumb|left|Is Sonoko the culprit?]]
Sonoko, Ran and Conan are playing tennis in a court. Sonoko likes Takao Goto, the tennis club vice-captain. But suddenly, Goto dies.
Inspector Yamamura goes to investigate the mysterious case. There are three suspects: Yuka Tsuchida, Fumihiro Azuma and Chie Otake. Yamamura surprisingly accuses Sonoko as the culprit.
Conan discovers the truth and he uses Sonoko to solve the case. Sonoko then proves her innocence.

In the end, when she solves the case and reveals the murderer is Azuma, Ran says she was worried. Sonoko got very upset with Yamamura of accusing her as the culprit.
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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends===
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==== Makoto Kyogoku ====
Sonoko originally met [[Makoto Kyogoku]] while on a vacation, when he worked at his father's hotel in his spare time.<ref name=Summer>[[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|Episode 153-154: Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story]]</ref> At first, neither she, Conan, nor Ran recognized him, because he wore glasses to hide his features. He later saves her when he takes a knife in the arm for her, to protect her from getting killed by a crazed serial killer.<ref name=Summer /> This is when Ran finally realizes that he is the famous karate champion. After defeating the killer, he confesses his feelings for her, which leaves Sonoko dumbfounded and flustered.<ref name=Summer /> According to Makoto, he originally met Sonoko during one of Ran's tournaments, and loved how feisty and firey she was in trying to cheer her friend on.<ref name=Summer /> After this, Sonoko and Makoto begin a long distance relationship.<ref name=Summer />
[[Image:Sonoko Presents Her Chocolate to Makoto.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Sonoko presenting the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Makoto often saves Sonoko from dangerous peril, like in a snow lodge,<ref name=Valentine>[[The Truth Behind Valentine's|Episode 266-268: The Truth Behind Valentine's]]</ref> and in a forest.<ref name=Red>[[Sonoko's Red Handkerchief|Episode 457-458: Sonoko's Red Handkerchief]]</ref> Sonoko loves to use some kind of concocted scheme to get Makoto to come to her, usually in some romantic way, to create a romantic and dreamy experience for her.<ref name=Red /> This, however, doesn't always end in success, but he sometimes does stumble through her little schemes.<ref name=Valentine /><ref name=Red /> He often warns her of the way she is dressed, because he believes that guys will try to come after her because of it.<ref name=Summer /><ref name=Valentine />
[[Image:Sonoko Gives Makoto Her Chocolate.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Sonoko gives the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Sonoko often wants to show Makoto that her feelings for him are stronger than he thinks, planning simple ideas to make him feel special. However, these often go in awry, as she either cannot make what she had planned to make, like when she promised to make him a home-made sweater, but had to resort to buying one in a mall,<ref name=Megure>[[Megure's Locked Away Secret|Episode 217-218: Megure's Locked Away Secret]]</ref> or Makoto has no idea what she gave him is, like when he believed that the pottery she sent him was supposed to be for flowers.<ref name=Pottery>[[The Murderous Pottery Class|Episode 228-229: The Murderous Pottery Class]]</ref> Sonoko keeps a photo of Makoto in her bag, and uses it as a good luck charm for when she takes exams.<ref name=Photo>[[Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages]]</ref> She has also made him a chocolate, trying to make him feel jealous by not saying who it was more, thus forcing him to visit her in a snow lodge to ask her what was going on.<ref name=Valentine /> When he finds out that indeed, she made him the chocolate, he gets very embarrassed himself.<ref name=Valentine />

Although long distance relationships can be hard to be in, Sonoko has stayed faithful to Makoto, other than dreaming of meeting up with the Kaitou Kid, though this is mostly to see him up close more than anything else.
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== 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. Sonoko placed 7th in the poll with 86 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>

== Name origin ==

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 6)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "After" Appearance (Episode 627)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

== Trivia ==
* Sonoko has been shown to be very aggressive. For example when Genta called her "Auntie Sonoko", she punched him extremely hard, and when she was interrupted by a soccer ball, she threw it back at the kicker, causing him to fall back.

==In other languages==
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{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|園子　Sonoko|鈴木 Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Serena|Sebastian}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| سوكو 　Soko|''Not given''}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|보라 Bo Ra|정 Jung}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
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==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Sonoko_625-626.jpg|Sonoko and Ran clutching Conan in fear in a haunted house in Episode 625-626.
</gallery> [[File:Sonoko10yrs.png|thumb|Sonoko in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9]]

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Suzuki family]]

== References ==
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Sonoko Suzuki

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Sonoko Suzuki
| japanese-name = 鈴木園子 (Suzuki Sonoko)
| english-name = Serena Sebastian
| image = Sonoko Suzuki Profile.jpg
| age = 17
| gender = Female
| date-of-birth =
| relatives = Shiro Suzuki (father) Tomoko Suzuki (mother) [[Ayako Suzuki]] (older sister) [[Jirokichi Suzuki]] (uncle)
| nicknames = Deduction Queen Sonoko Annoying Sonoko ([[Genta]])
| first-appearance = Manga: File 40 Anime: Episode 6
| appearances = {{: Sonoko Suzuki Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 8]]
| japanese-voice = [[Naoko Matsui]]
| english-voice = [[Laura Bailey]]
| drama-actor = [[Mayuko Iwasa]] (1st) [[Sayaka Akimoto]] (2nd)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Sonoko Suzuki|鈴木園子|Suzuki Sonoko}}''', known in the Funimation English dub as '''Serena Sebastian''', is a character from the manga and anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Sonoko is [[Ran Mouri]]'s best friend, and is the girlfriend of [[Makoto Kyogoku]], with whom she currently is in a long-distance relationship. [[Conan Edogawa]] sometimes has to knock her out with his stun gun watch to use her as "Deduction Queen Sonoko". Because of this, Sonoko has claimed to be a great high school detective in her own right.

== Background ==
Sonoko is the daughter of Tomoko and Shiro Suzuki, the extremely wealthy family of a large company. She has a sister, Ayako, and an uncle named [[Jirokichi Suzuki|Jirokichi]], who is often involved in trying to capture the [[Kaitou Kid]].

Sonoko and Ran have been best friends ever since they were little.<ref name=Magic>[[Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata|Magic File 3: Mahjong Pieces and the Memories from Tanabata]]</ref> Sonoko is often there to help Ran whenever she is bullied by other school children, more often there than even [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was.<ref name=Magic /> Although Ran knows that Sonoko has a lot of money, she always makes sure that money never gets involved in thier friendship, not going to ski vacations with Sonoko because she doesn't have the money, when she knows that Sonoko would pay for her to go.<ref name=Friendship>[[Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money|Episode 329-330: Friendship Can't Be Bought With Money]]</ref> This, along with other things, has helped strengthen the bond between both Ran and Sonoko.

== Personality ==
[[File:Sonoko is scary.png|right|225px|thumb|Sonoko is rather expressive.]]
Before she began dating [[Makoto Kyogoku|Makoto]], Sonoko displayed the typical girl her age, acting very boy-crazy, and often mostly thinking about trying to snag the "perfect boy." She would often act sad because she couldn't get a boyfriend, using all necessary means to try and get one. She often dressed in clothes meant to attract boys, and would try to sweet talk her way into being with a boy, by making him chocolates,<ref name=ValChoc>[[Valentine Murder Case|Episode 6: Valentine Murder Case]]</ref> trying to impress a boy while wearing a bikini,<ref name=Triplet>[[The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case|Episode 72: The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case]]</ref> or going to various events that young guys were going to attend.<ref name=Lodge>[[Ski Lodge Murder Case|Episode 84-85: Ski Lodge Murder Case]]</ref> [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], in the meanwhile, would always be the one to unwillingly attract the boys, which would cause jealousy in Sonoko.<ref name=Villa>[[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|Episode 34-35: Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case]]</ref> However, this all changed when Sonoko met and began dating Makoto.

Sonoko loves using her money to go on big vacations, like expensive ski trips,<ref name=Lodge /> and loves to buy fancy clothes and items.<ref name=Megure /> Also, she is a sugar and sweets glutton, and loves to go to festivals where sugary sweets are on display, often picking up gigantic plates filled with various cakes.<ref name=Sweets>[[The Candy House the Witch Lives In|Episode 368: The Candy House the Witch Lives In]]</ref> She has even used [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] for the sole purpose of having a children's discount on food.<ref name=Culprit>[[Two Days with the Culprit|Episode 547-548: Two Days with the Culprit]]</ref> She is also a big fan of the band LEX,<ref name=LEX>[[Karaoke Box Murder Case|Episode 42: Karaoke Box Murder Case]]</ref> and various other people in pop music, including [[Two-Mix]].<ref name=Mix>[[The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case|Episode 81-82: The Kidnapping of a Popular Artist Case]]</ref>

Conan has had to use Sonoko sometimes, when he needs to do a deduction show. At first, he sometimes struggled to copy Sonoko's mannerism's down, but now is used to it.<ref name=Bank>[[The Bank Heist Murder Case|Episode 79: The Bank Heist Murder Case]]</ref> However, because he has had to use Sonoko so often for a deduction, Sonoko, like [[Kogoro Mouri]], completely buys into her whole "sleeping" person, calling her self the best detective in [[Teitan High School]], and a "Deduction Queen."<ref name=Bank /> This makes Conan sometimes completely regret using her to solve a case, though he does admire her courage in certain situations. Sonoko is shown to not be completely clueless, and is sometimes able to solve little things on her own, and can figure things out when she is provided some assistance by Conan, like in [[The Suspicious Spicy Curry]], when Conan had to communicate to Sonoko, Kogoro, and [[Misao Yamamura|Yamamura]] in charades and sign language.<ref name=Curry>[[The Suspicious Spicy Curry|Episode 331-332: The Suspicious Spicy Curry]]</ref>

Sonoko is a big fanatic of the [[Kaitou Kid]], thinking that not only is he very handsome, but is also herself a very big fan of him, cheering him on in trying to steal something, even when that something is a rare treasure of the Suzuki family! She wishes to meet the Kid up close, and sometimes almost gets her wish, but is very disappointed when she doesn't.<ref name=Kid>[[Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk|Episode 356: Kaito Kid's Miracle Midair Walk]]</ref>

== Appearance ==
Sonoko often wears a bandanna backing up her fringe, skirt, random clothes covering the top. Her clothes often show more skin, in comparison to Ran, mostly for the purpose of attracting guys.

== Plot overview ==
===Deduction Queen Sonoko (Manga: [[Volume 5#Bandaged Man Case|40-44]], Anime: [[Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case|34-35]])===
[[File: Sonoko35.png|thumb|left|Deduction Queen Sonoko appears!]]
Conan and Ran visit Sonoko's mountain villa to see the autumn leaves and meet up with some old friends. On the way to the front they see a strange bandaged man in a dark cloak crossing the bridge. When they see him he turns around, shocking them with his face and eye contact as he quickly makes a retreat around the side of the house. Everything seems fine as Ran tries to find her room, accidentally walking in on the boys of the house. When everyone is asked about the bandaged man he is brushed off as possibly a crazy man with nothing better to do. However he is taken far more seriously when later one of the girls is seen being carried off by him from the windows, the boys give chase and find her dismembered body in the woods.

He had previously attacked Ran in the woods earlier, but ran off when Conan gave chase. Everyone panics and decides that it's best to go to bed for the night, when he strikes again, this time trying to kill Ran in her sleep. Conan kicks Ran out of the way, using his bow-tie to wake her up, she freezes up as Conan grabs for him, but he is thrown against the bed, twisting his ankle. The bandaged man quickly makes a hasty retreat, leaving Conan to wonder why he is targeting Ran.
Everyone decides to stay up for the night and keep together to throw off the murderous man in bandages. Conan suspects that Ran saw something that made her a target for the bandaged man, and the culprit is one of the people staying there. The rush for remembrance is on as Conan desperately tries to solve the mystery before the bandaged man strikes again.

After the investigation, Conan solve the case. Kogoro isn't there to be put to sleep, so he decides to solve the case by Ran. But when he shoots the anesthetic needle, Sonoko appears and she falls asleep. Conan reveals, by Sonoko, the killer is Ryoichi Takahashi.
Sonoko is very proud, she thinks she settled the case. She was in love with Masaru Ohta, but already isn't.
Currently, Conan often uses Sonoko for solving cases.
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===An important date (Manga: [[Volume 11#Coffee Shop Case|105-107]], Anime: [[Coffee Shop Murder Case|32]])===
At the end of the case, Conan asks Ran if she meets Shiro Wakaoji, a young man who was in the coffee shop. She says no, but Shiro is interested by Ran. When he begin to flirt with her, Sonoko arrives. She was his autentic date! Sonoko, very angry, hits him and goes out from there.

===Makoto's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 22#Sonoko's Camera Case|219-221]], Anime: [[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|153-154]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan go to Izu because of Sonoko's schemes to get a man. At the beach, Sonoko takes a picture of Ran fixing her bathing suit and threatens to send the picture to Shinichi. Sonoko is upset about her lack of love life. However, a college student approaches the girls and asks Sonoko to lunch. He appears to be romantically interested and asks Sonoko to dinner as well. They agree to meet at their lodgings later that day. The college student tells the group a story about a brunette that was murdered a year ago and now haunts the restaurant he wants to dine at. The group then finds out that another brunette was murdered in the woods recently in the same manner as the brunette from a year ago.

[[File: EP153-154b_Case.jpg|thumb|right|The serial killer tries to kill Sonoko...]]
The group goes to the crime scene and meet Sango Yokomizo who cautions them to stay safe. Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are staying at a cheap Ryokan because Sonoko doesn't want to scare men away by staying at an expensive luxury hotel. In the evening, the three of them wait for the college student to pick them up in his car. Sonoko realizes that she forgot something in her room and goes back up to get it. Here she discovers a suspicious figure searching her bags. The figure attacks her and is about to stab her with a knife when Ran and Conan, worried about the time Sonoko is taking, come to find her.

Sonoko is saved and the figure escapes through the window. The stoic, and somewhat unfriendly, high school student (Makoto Kyogoku) that is working at the Ryokan moves the group to another room. Ran thinks she has seen this person somewhere before but cannot remember where. The college student shows up muddy and wet and Conan suspects him of attacking Sonoko. Sonoko says she bit the attacker's bicep in her struggle and Conan makes the college student take off his shirt. However, the college student does not have a bite mark on his arm. Makoto has a bandaged bicep and falls under suspicion but Sonoko says he wasn't the attacker since the attacker was hairy. The college student, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan decide to have dinner at the Ryokan because the college student says his car broke down. Conan speculates that Sonoko's attacker was looking for the photographs she was taking during the trip, but cannot figure out why. Conan does not think there are any incriminating photos. Perhaps the murderer overheard Sonoko talking about the photographs and misunderstood. This case is still full of mysteries and Conan cannot figure out why Sonoko was attacked.

Later, Michiwaki (the student), Ran and Conan go to eat to a restaurant, and Sonoko is in Michiwaki's car, sleepy. Suddenly, the car gets on and Sonoko is, again, near the death.
When they go to the police station, Sonoko and Michiwaki enter into the forest. There, Michiwaki tries to kill Sonko: he is the serial killer!
Finally, when Sonoko thinks she is going to death, Makoto appears and save her. Michiwaki is arrested and Makoto says to Sonoko he is in love whit her, but he must goes abroad.
Currently, Sonoko is involved with Makoto.

===Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: [[Volume 28#Girl Clubbing Case|284-286]], Anime: [[Megure's Sealed Secret|217-218]])===
Ran and Sonoko are shopping for a sweater as Sonoko wants to buy for Makoto Kyogoku; Sonoko gets scolded by Ran when she learns that Sonoko wants to make it pass as if she had knitted the sweater for him. Sonoko arrives to the pasta shop right then and upon seeing the girls's pictures she identifies them as Ganguro, girls who change their looks drastically to look fashionable and exotic and as a way to rebel against Japanese society.
Sonoko calls Ran to ask where she is. She says she's in a parking lot and then she screams in terror because she has just found another victim. Said victim is a 20 year old girl named Tae Aizawa, who used to work at the same store: again, a very young woman with bleached hair, tanned skin, and wearing the special jewelry gifts. Unlike the others, however, Aizawa is actually dead.
After discussing some more details, Takagi returns and confirms the information already given. Conan and Ran see that Sonoko isn't with them; Ran mentions that Sonoko was supposed to go to the car and then to the restroom, and then Conan realizes that Sonoko was wearing platform boots... like all the victims. Ran calls Sonoko to her cellphone, and Sonoko says she's looking for a safe way out since the lights are out. She then gets scared since it looks like she's being followed, and as she turns, the culprit is right in front of her and she starts screaming.

[[File: Sonoko218.png|thumb|right|Sonoko... saved!?]]
Sonoko manages to avoid the culprit's pipe and throws her phone at him, revealing his face. She tries running downstairs, with the man being horrified since she saw him clearly. Conan says that the killer saw Sonoko with Mouri's keys and mistook her for the driver, hence why he's chasing her now. Sonoko's phone lands near a purikura machine located near a restaurant in the tenth floor, so they deduce Sonoko and the killer are not too far away from it. Megure takes active part in commanding the police, and both Matsumoto and Mouri notice how pumped up he is.
Sonoko runs aimlessly in the tenth floor, and when she's about to reach the gates she trips over her boots and falls to the ground. Ran and the police find her phone on the stairs and deduce she's in the apartment store as no one has seen her in the restaurants. Meanwhile, the maddened killer starts ranting about how all the fashionable girls are bitches in sheep's clothing who should be all killed. Sonoko screams again and this time Ran, Conan, Megure and Co. hear her; they also hear the sound of several things falling, Go stones among them, which allow them to see she's now on the fourth floor (the only one with such arrangments).
Sonoko again dodges the pipe, as the culprit rants about how he only wanted to teach her a lesson, but after seeing his face, he had to kill her. Cornered again, Sonoko cowers as he tries to hit her directly... and then Megure shows up. He takes the hit for her and gets struck in the head, but the blow is softened by his hat.
At the end, Ran and Sonoko are moved to tears, thinking Megure's girlfriend died.

===Jodie's Introduction (Manga: [[Volume 27#Arcade Murder Case|271-273]], Anime: [[The Battle Game Trap|226-227]])===
Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are at the arcade where they meet their High School English teacher, Jodie Saintemillion who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Ran to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Ran loses to a gamer named Kengo Bito who taunts her in her lost. Bito plays the game again his rival, Takayasu Shimizu; The battle is projected on a large screen. Bito's avatar overwhelms Shimizu's but stops at the climax of the match. The people in the arcade realize Bito is dead and the police are called in.
The police investigate; after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people, a middle aged man, an employee, Shimizu, and Jodie.
[[File: Sonoko227.png|thumb|right|Sonoko thinks about Makoto]]
The autopsy reveals the poison to be Tetrodotoxin; a poison that causes instant paralysis and death soon after. Conan investigates and learns the method and the culprit who murdered Bito.
Conan tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her; declaring Shimizu to be the murderer. Conan reveals that Shimizu was the one playing Bito's avatar in order disguise the fact Bito was already dead. As for the weapon, Conan explains Shimizu hid a needle inside a cigarette, put gum around it, wrapped it around paper and had it stuck to the employee's shoes. As certain evidence, Conan reveals that a coin with Shimizu's fingerprints should be found in Bito's arcade machine. Shimizu confesses revealing Bito's gambling and debt caused his sister to develop Vitamin A deficiency and resulting in her blindness. As Sonoko, Ran, and Jodie leave the arcade, their discussion leads to Shinichi whom Jodie dubs as Cool Guy; She says goodbye whilst calling Conan Cool Guy and leaves. That night, Jodie calls an unknown person discussing how her target, the Rotten Apple has changed appearance.

===Murderous Pottery Class (Manga: [[Volume 30#Pottery Class Case|305-307]], Anime: [[The Murderous Pottery Class|228-229]])===
[[File: Sonoko228.png|thumb|left|Sonoko looking at Ran's vessel.]]
Sonoko tells Ran she is attending pottery classes to make a gift to Makoto, a big vessel. Ran decides to join too. One day, Conan follows the girls to the pottery class.
Ran is making an earthel vessel and Sonoko wants to see that, but Ran doesn't want. Joking, the vessel fell. All the class heard a noise, and Sonoko thins Ran's vessel is broken. But no, Ran has got the vessel in her hand.
Conan, Ran, and all the class go to find the origin of the noise, and Sonoko attempts to uncover Ran's vessel. Ran tells her if she do it, their friendship will be broken.
Motoo Mino is killed and they try to discover the truth.
Suddenly, Conan find out the truth: the master murdered Motoo! The little detective uses 'Deduction Queen Sonoko' to solve it.

At the end, she is talking with Ran and Conan, and they see a photo that Makoto send to Sonoko. In the photo, he is with friends and he put flowers in Sonoko's vessel. She is sad because he thought it was a vase.
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===Halloween Party (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]])===
[[File: Sonoko witch.png|thumb|right|Sonoko as a witch]]
[[Kogoro Mouri]] receives an invitation to a Halloween cruise; the Halloween cruise is famous for hiring guests to star in a horror film. At the beginning, Sonoko is making-up Kogoro as a monster, specifically as a vampire.
He can bring a friend, and Sonoko wants to go with him because Ran doesn't want, she is afraid by zombies, witches and monsters in general.
The day of the party, she goes with Kogoro there, wearing a witch costume. When they are in a taxi, the taxi driver was disguised as a monster too and scared them.
During the cruise, the party members are divided into groups with team devil consisting of Kogoro, Sonoko, and people disguised as a werewolf, a mummy, a medusa and an invisible man. Sonoko and Kogoro meet Medusa and they talk a lot with her.

During the party, the host is shot by a crossbow, attached to the arrow is a card from team devil.
First, Sonoko thinks, as Kogoro, the mummy is the culprit, because he is the only who hasn't got the card. When Kogoro calls to his house for explain the situation to [[Ran]] and nobody picks up the phone, she says Ran could be having a shower.
Later, when the invisible man gets rid of his bands and is [[Shinichi Kudo]], she is very surprised. Kudo explains the culprit is the werewolf. The murderer says someone called '[[Vermouth]]' forced him to kill the captain.
After, she discovers, at the same time than Kogoro and the others, that the 'invisible man' Shinichi was a faker, and he really is [[Heiji Hattori]].

Sonoko's disguise is entirely black, with a large hat with a stripe in the center, black too. The dress reaches to the thighs, with peak shape. She also wears high boots and long gloves, both black. She carries a broom too.
She looks very happy for go to the party, disguise as a "sexy" witch and search cute and handsome monsters.
We don't know if Sonoko knows Medusa is really [[Yukiko Kudo]].

===Jodie's Truth (Manga: [[Volume 42#Murderer's Car Case|435]], Anime: [[Find the Buttocks' Mark!|346]])===
At the begin, Sonoko is with Ran visiting Jodie at the hospital. She is very surprised because miss Jodie is a FBI agent. Ahe tihnks she was infiltrated in the high school.
She talks with Ran about her friend did while she was in the 'horror cruise'. She says that this attitude is typical of Ran. Also, they talk to Jodie's photos.

===Dark Photograph (Manga: [[Volume 56#Missing Photo Case|582]], Anime: [[Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph|484]])===
At the beginning of the case, Sonoko is walking with Ran and Conan to return home after school. She says it's very hot and and she should do as Eisuke, which disappears after school.

===The Culprit is Sonoko (Anime: [[The Devil Hidden in the Tennis Court|602]])===
[[File: Sonoko602.png|thumb|left|Is Sonoko the culprit?]]
Sonoko, Ran and Conan are playing tennis in a court. Sonoko likes Takao Goto, the tennis club vice-captain. But suddenly, Goto dies.
Inspector Yamamura goes to investigate the mysterious case. There are three suspects: Yuka Tsuchida, Fumihiro Azuma and Chie Otake. Yamamura surprisingly accuses Sonoko as the culprit.
Conan discovers the truth and he uses Sonoko to solve the case. Sonoko then proves her innocence.

In the end, when she solves the case and reveals the murderer is Azuma, Ran says she was worried. Sonoko got very upset with Yamamura of accusing her as the culprit.
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== Relationships analysis ==
=== Family & Friends===
{{main|Suzuki family}}

==== Makoto Kyogoku ====
Sonoko originally met [[Makoto Kyogoku]] while on a vacation, when he worked at his father's hotel in his spare time.<ref name=Summer>[[Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story|Episode 153-154: Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story]]</ref> At first, neither she, Conan, nor Ran recognized him, because he wore glasses to hide his features. He later saves her when he takes a knife in the arm for her, to protect her from getting killed by a crazed serial killer.<ref name=Summer /> This is when Ran finally realizes that he is the famous karate champion. After defeating the killer, he confesses his feelings for her, which leaves Sonoko dumbfounded and flustered.<ref name=Summer /> According to Makoto, he originally met Sonoko during one of Ran's tournaments, and loved how feisty and firey she was in trying to cheer her friend on.<ref name=Summer /> After this, Sonoko and Makoto begin a long distance relationship.<ref name=Summer />
[[Image:Sonoko Presents Her Chocolate to Makoto.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Sonoko presenting the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Makoto often saves Sonoko from dangerous peril, like in a snow lodge,<ref name=Valentine>[[The Truth Behind Valentine's|Episode 266-268: The Truth Behind Valentine's]]</ref> and in a forest.<ref name=Red>[[Sonoko's Red Handkerchief|Episode 457-458: Sonoko's Red Handkerchief]]</ref> Sonoko loves to use some kind of concocted scheme to get Makoto to come to her, usually in some romantic way, to create a romantic and dreamy experience for her.<ref name=Red /> This, however, doesn't always end in success, but he sometimes does stumble through her little schemes.<ref name=Valentine /><ref name=Red /> He often warns her of the way she is dressed, because he believes that guys will try to come after her because of it.<ref name=Summer /><ref name=Valentine />
[[Image:Sonoko Gives Makoto Her Chocolate.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Sonoko gives the chocolate she made to Makoto.]]

Sonoko often wants to show Makoto that her feelings for him are stronger than he thinks, planning simple ideas to make him feel special. However, these often go in awry, as she either cannot make what she had planned to make, like when she promised to make him a home-made sweater, but had to resort to buying one in a mall,<ref name=Megure>[[Megure's Locked Away Secret|Episode 217-218: Megure's Locked Away Secret]]</ref> or Makoto has no idea what she gave him is, like when he believed that the pottery she sent him was supposed to be for flowers.<ref name=Pottery>[[The Murderous Pottery Class|Episode 228-229: The Murderous Pottery Class]]</ref> Sonoko keeps a photo of Makoto in her bag, and uses it as a good luck charm for when she takes exams.<ref name=Photo>[[Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages|Episode 304: Trembling Metropolitan Police Headquarters 12 Million Hostages]]</ref> She has also made him a chocolate, trying to make him feel jealous by not saying who it was more, thus forcing him to visit her in a snow lodge to ask her what was going on.<ref name=Valentine /> When he finds out that indeed, she made him the chocolate, he gets very embarrassed himself.<ref name=Valentine />

Although long distance relationships can be hard to be in, Sonoko has stayed faithful to Makoto, other than dreaming of meeting up with the Kaitou Kid, though this is mostly to see him up close more than anything else.
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== 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. Sonoko placed 7th in the poll with 86 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>

== Name origin ==

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 6)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Sonoko_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Sonoko's "After" Appearance (Episode 627)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

== Trivia ==
* Sonoko has been shown to be very aggressive. For example when Genta called her "Auntie Sonoko", she punched him extremely hard, and when she was interrupted by a soccer ball, she threw it back at the kicker, causing him to fall back.

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|園子　Sonoko|鈴木 Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Serena|Sebastian}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| سوكو 　Soko|''Not given''}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|보라 Bo Ra|정 Jung}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Sonoko|Suzuki}}
{{EndTable}}

==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
File:Sonoko_625-626.jpg|Sonoko and Ran clutching Conan in fear in a haunted house in Episode 625-626.
</gallery> <gallery perrow=5> File:Sonoko10yrs.png|Sonoko in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9 </gallery>

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Suzuki family]]

== References ==
<references />

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki Sonoko}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Female characters]]
[[Category:High school students]]
[[Category:Sleeping detectives]]

[[de:Sonoko Suzuki]]
{{Characters}}

File:Genta10yrs.png

2012-06-01T08:37:24Z

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Genta Kojima

2012-06-01T08:36:45Z

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Genta Kojima
| japanese-name = 小嶋元太 (Kojima Genta)
| english-name = George Kaminski
| image = Genta Kojima Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref>Conan Drill Page 52</ref>
| gender = Male
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref>Conan Drill Page 52</ref>
| weight = 40 kg<ref>Conan Drill Page 52</ref> (80 lbs)
| relatives = [[Genji Kojima]] (father) Mother (unnamed) Grandmother (unnamed)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 17 Anime: Episode 1
| appearances = {{:Genta Kojima Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 9]]
| japanese-voice = [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]]
| english-voice = [[Dameon Clarke]] [[Mike McFarland]] (current)
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Genta Kojima|小嶋元太|''Kojima Genta''}}''', also known as ''George Kaminski'' in the [[Funimation]] dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Genta Background Clear.jpg|thumb|left|125px|Genta]]
Genta Kojima was a student in [[Teitan Elementary]] when [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was enlisted into his class [[Conan Edogawa|after he had been shrunk]] by the drug [[APTX 4869]]. Shortly afterwards, he and his classmate [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] had the idea of investigating an apparently haunted mansion. They persuaded Conan to come along, and Genta also personally drafted [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]] when the latter expressed his criticism about supernatural hauntings.

As it turned out, the haunting served as a cover-up for an old homicide case. Following its resolution, the foursome decided to stay together and form the nucleus of what would become the [[Detective Boys]]. Genta was quick to pronounce himself the leader of the group, but his lackadaisical leadership abilities are commonly neglected in the field, and in fact everyone (even Genta) unanimously views Conan as the group's actual leader. His school shoe locker is used as a mailbox for any of their fellow students who can present them with a case.
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== Personality ==
Genta is the overweight, self-proclaimed leader of the Detective Boys. He loves food, especially braised eel on rice, and can eat more than all the other Detective Boys members combined. He also tends to mess up certain Japanese terms with similar-sounding words (especially if the latter are related to food) and is quite inept in reading even the most common Kanji, which on occasion evicts some ridicule from his classmates and friends. His brash personality, ignorance of his surroundings and tendency of not thinking before leaping often lands the Detective Boys (or at least himself) in sticky situations.

Even though he is brash, ignorant and outspoken and can be intimidating, Genta is actually very kind and dependable. He is a good friend of [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] and [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]], and has been shown to admire his father, who owns a liquor store.

== Gallery ==
[[image:Genta's Full Figure.png|thumb|left|170px]]
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[[File:genta10yrs.png|thumb|Genta in 10 years, as shown in OVA 9]]

== Plot overview ==

== Relationship analysis ==
=== Detective Boys ===
==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
Genta clearly has a crush on his teammate Ayumi, and as a result he - along with Mitsuhiko - is rather jealous of Conan because she likes him the most. He has also initially expressed some interest in [[Ai Haibara]], their newest member.

== 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. Genta placed 23rd in the poll with 19 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>

== Name origin ==
Genta's name (小嶋元太) comes from mystery writer '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:ja:小峰元|Hajime Komine]]|小峰元|Komine Hajime}}.

== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Genta_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Genta's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Genta_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Genta's "After" Appearance (Episode 631)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

== Trivia ==
*Genta's residence is also a liquor store owned by his father called "Kojima Liquors".

==In other languages==
{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|元太Genta|小島Kojima}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|George|Kamiski/Kojima<ref>in the manga</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Genta|Kojima}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Genta|Kojima}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malay|Genta|Kojima}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Genta|Kojima}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic| جينتا Jinta|''Not given''}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|뭉치 Moong Chi|고 Ko }}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|เก็นตะ|โคจิมะ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Genta|Kojima}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Kojima family]]

== References ==
<references />

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kojima Genta}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Elementary school students]]
[[Category:Detective Boys]]

[[de:Genta Kojima]]
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}

File:Mit10yrs.png

2012-06-01T08:34:32Z

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Mitsuhiko in 10 years, as shown in 0VA 9 Stranger from 10 Years Later

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

2012-06-01T08:33:19Z

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{{InfoBox Char
| name = Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
| japanese-name = 円谷光彦 (Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko)
| english-name = Mitch Tennison
| image = Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Profile.jpg
| age = 6-7<ref name=CD53>Conan Drill Page 53</ref>
| gender = Male
| height = Unknown<ref name=CD53/>
| weight = 20 kg<ref name=CD53/> (44 lbs)
| date-of-birth = Unknown<ref name=CD53/>
| relatives = [[Asami Tsuburaya]] (older sister)
| nicknames =
| first-appearance = Manga: File 17 Anime: Episode 1
| appearances = {{:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Appearances}}
| cases-solved =
| keyhole = [[Volume 12]]
| japanese-voice = [[Ikue Otani]] [[Ai Orikasa]] (Ep. 425~436, [[The Private Eyes' Requiem|Movie 10]])
| english-voice = [[Cynthia Cranz]]
| footnotes =
}}
'''{{nihongo|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|円谷光彦|''Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko''}}''', also known as '''Mitch Tennison''' in the [[Funimation]] dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

== Background ==
[[File:Mitsuhiko Clear Background.jpg|thumb|left|125px|Mitsuhiko]]
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was a student in [[Teitan Elementary]] when [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]] was enlisted into his class [[Conan Edogawa|after he had been shrunk]] by the drug [[APTX 4869]]. Shortly afterwards, his classmates [[Ayumi Yoshida|Ayumi]] and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]] had the idea of investigating an apparently haunted mansion, and they persuaded Conan to come along. When Mitsuhiko espressed his scepticism about supernatural hauntings, Genta forcefully 'persuaded' him to tag along as well.

As it turned out, the haunting served as a cover-up for an old homicide case. Following its resolution, the foursome decided to stay together and form the nucleus of what would become the [[Detective Boys]]. It is later revealed that Mitsuhiko's parents are both teachers, and he has an older sister, {{nihongo|[[Asami Tsuburaya]]|円谷朝美|Tsuburaya Asami}}, about ten years his senior.<ref>[[Mitsuhiko in a Forest of Indecision|Episode 289: Mitsuhiko in a Forest of Indecision]]</ref>
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== Plot overview ==

==Personality==
[[File:Mitsuhiko - Impressed Ayumi.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Mitsuhiko happy to have impressed Ayumi]]
Mitsuhiko enjoys reading science books and takes a scientific approach to problem-solving. He is a smart and well-read first-grader who believes that technology can solve most problems. Due to his strict and formal upbringing, he tends to be very formal towards his elders, addressing them (in Japanese) with the formal suffix "-san" without regard to the intimacy of their relationship.

It has been shown at numerous times that Mitsuhiko really likes to be prepared for any occasion. He enjoys studying scientific, historical and general subjects for his own interest and fun. This eventually allows him to provide useful insights whenever necessary. He's been (or felt) rewarded a few times for his knowledge. In one instance, Ayumi said [[File:Mitsuhiko_daydreams_about_Haibara_Ai.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Mitsuhiko daydreams about marrying Ai]]how impressed she was after Mitsuhiko provided some precise historical facts behind the Ohashi House in Kurashiki, and he thought to himself with a big happy smile on his face: "I'm so glad I studied!".<ref name="ep377">[[Momotarou Mystery Solving Tour|Episode 377-378: Momotarou Mystery Solving Tour]]</ref>

One of his other qualities is that he tends to be pro-active in many situations and think ahead of possible outcomes. For example, while the [[Detective Boys]] were trying to solve riddles they found in a Momotaro container in a small river in Kurashiki, a murder occurred which eventually led to the different codes to get burned. [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], knowing that resolving those codes would lead to concrete proof as to who the murderer might be, was quite pleased when Mitsuhiko proudly announced that he took notes in his Detective Boys notebook "thinking that something like that could happen".<ref name="ep377" /> With time and experience, he will probably become about as intelligent as [[Shinichi Kudo]] and [[Heiji Hattori]].

Mitsuhiko has a dislike for carrots, and will always eat them last (if ever) if he can help it.
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== Relationship analysis ==
=== Detective Boys ===

==== Ayumi Yoshida ====
As the cheerful and innocent girl she is, Ayumi has attracted the romantic interests of her teammates Mitsuhiko and [[Genta Kojima|Genta]], but she is blissfully unaware of that. Instead, her romantic feelings are set on Conan because of his intelligence and courage, making her view him as the person she can surely count upon.<ref>Manga Chapter 039: The Shining Fish's True Form</ref><ref>Manga Chapter 081: A Dangerous Game of Hide-And-Seek</ref> However, Conan views Ayumi as a good friend and nothing more, and her open flirting with him often incites feelings of outrage in Mitsuhiko and Genta. According to the 5th movie, Mitsuhiko seemed to have liked Ayumi since kindergarten.

[[Image:200526142537303.JPG|thumb|right|220|Haibara listening in on Mitsuhiko's radio.]]
==== Ai Haibara ====
{{main|Ai Haibara and Mitsuhiko Tsubaraya}}
In due time following her arrival, Mitsuhiko develops heavy romantic feelings for his classmate and fellow detective [[Ai Haibara]]. To date, Ai hasn't shown any romantic feelings for him and uses his feelings to her advantage when she needs him to do something, but she also does admire his intelligence and courage during missions the Detective Boys must perform and respects his feelings. In some episodes she even shows more confidence in Mitsuhiko than in Ayumi or Genta when the going gets tough.

== 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. Mitsuhiko placed 26th in the poll with 8 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>

== Name origin ==
Mitsuhiko's name comes from novelist [[wikipedia:ja:内田康夫|Yasuo Uchida's]] reporter character '''{{nihongo|[[wikipedia:ja:浅見光彦|Mitsuhiko Asami]]|浅見光彦|Asami Mitsuhiko}}'''.
== Different looks ==
{|
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Mitsuhiko_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mitsuhiko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)]]
| style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Mitsuhiko_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mitsuhiko's "After" Appearance (Episode 631)]]
|}

== Quotes ==

== Trivia ==
[[Image:Detective boys parents.jpg|thumb|right|Mitsuhiko is scolded by his mother.]]
*Mitsuhiko's parents are both teachers and he was strictly raised to be polite.<ref name=358p8>Volume 35, File 8, pg 8: "Mitsuhiko's Disappearance 1"</ref> He has an older sister named [[Asami Tsuburaya]]. Mitsuhiko has a mother who has only been seen but once, and also was heard talking to his sister Asami through a door<ref name=358p8/>. His mother appeared to scold him after the haunted mansion murder case.

[[File:Mit10yrs.png|thumb]]

==In other languages==

{{BeginTable CharLang}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Japan|Japanese|光彦 Mitsuhiko|円谷　Tsuburaya}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=US|English|Mitch|Tennison/Tsuburaya<ref>In the Manga</ref>}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=France|French|Mitsuhiko|Tsuburaya}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Germany|German|Mitsuhiko|Tsuburaya}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Malaysia|Malaysia|Mitsuhiko|Tsuburaya}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Vietnam|Vietnamese|Mitsuhiko|Tsuburaya}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Saudi Arabia|Arabic|ميتسو　Mitso|''Not given''}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=North Korea|flag2=South Korea|Korean|세모 Sae Mo|박 Park}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Republic of China|Traditional Chinese|光彥|圓谷}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Thailand|Thai|มิซึฮิโกะ|ซึบุรายะ}}
{{CharLangItem|flag=Finland|Finnish|Mitsuhiko|Tsuburaya}}
{{EndTable}}

== See also ==
* [[Characters]]
* [[Tsuburaya family]]

== References ==
<references />

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Male characters]]
[[Category:Elementary school students]]
[[Category:Detective Boys]]

[[de:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]]
{{Characters}}
{{Detective Boys}}

The Stranger from Ten Years Later

2012-06-01T08:26:19Z

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{{InfoBox OVA
| ova = 9
| image = OVA 9.jpg
| title = The Stranger from Ten Years Later
| english-title =
| japanese-title = 10年後の異邦人 (10nen go no i Hōjin)
| airdate = 2009
| english-airdate =
| cast = [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Ran Mouri]] [[Ai Haibara]]
| suspects =
| solved-by = No one.
| case =
| voice-cast = [[Minami Takayama]] as [[Conan Edogawa]] [[Akira Kamiya]] as [[Kogoro Mouri]] [[Wakana Yamazaki]] as [[Ran Mouri]] [[Naoko Matsui]] as [[Sonoko Suzuki]] [[Kappei Yamaguchi]] as [[Shinichi Kudo]] [[Yukiko Iwai]] as [[Ayumi Yoshida]] [[Wataru Takagi (voice actor)|Wataru Takagi]] as [[Genta Kojima]] [[Ikue Otani]] as [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]] [[Megumi Hayashibara]] as [[Ai Haibara]] [[Ryo Horikawa]] as [[Heiji Hattori]] [[Yuko Miyamura]] as [[Kazuha Toyama]] [[Hideyuki Hori]] as [[Tomoaki Araide]]
| prev-ova = The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Sonoko Suzuki
| next-ova = Kid in Trap Island
| footnotes =
}}
'''The Stranger from Ten Years Later''' is the ninth [[OVAs|OVA]] of the anime and manga franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. In this OVA, [[Conan Edogawa]] is sick and has to stay home with a cold. He overhears [[Sonoko Suzuki]] telling [[Ran Mouri]] to dump [[Shinichi Kudo]] and instead date Dr. [[Tomoaki Araide]]. Conan gets angry over this, and falls asleep, waking up to a phone call from [[Ai Haibara]]. She tells him that she has created an antidote for him to try out, for testing purposes. Conan takes the antidote, and passes out. When he wakes up, he is [[Shinichi Kudo]] again! However, Haibara is gone, and everything looks strange... could he really be still Conan, but only ten years into the future? And also, what does this mean for the love of his life, Ran?

== Cast ==
{{Char Appearances|
{{Char|Conan Edogawa}}
{{Char|Ran Mouri}}
{{Char|Shinichi Kudo}}
{{Char|Ai Haibara}}
{{Char|Shiho Miyano}}
{{Char|Ayumi Yoshida}}
{{Char|Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya}}
{{Char|Genta Kojima}}
{{Char|Heiji Hattori}}
{{Char|Kazuha Toyama}}
{{Char|Kogoro Mouri}}
{{Char|Sonoko Suzuki}}
{{Char|Tomoaki Araide}}
{{Char|Yoko Okino|display=Yoko Okino (photo)}}
{{Char|Gin|display=Gin (flashback)}}
{{Char|Vodka|display=Vodka (flashback)}}
}}

== Plot ==
Conan has a cold, and he is stuck in bed, sick, and unable to go to school. While resting, he overhears Sonoko telling Ran to dump Shinichi and date someone else, because he is never around. She cites Dr. Araide as an example. Conan gets angry, but thinks about how much he truly misses being a high schooler. He decides to go to sleep. While sleeping, Haibara calls him, and announces that she has an antidote for him to try out. He runs over to Agasa's house, but not before stopping at his house to get his high school uniform, because he wants to stop there while Ran is taking a class, to see her before anyone else. He takes the antidote, and immediately passes out. He wakes up, and finds that he is Shinichi Kudo once again! So, he decides to surprise everyone at Teitan High School.

However, he notices some strange things along the way. For example, buildings he had never seen before, trees he never knew had grown so tall. And when he goes to Teitan High School, everything looks different. He wanders the hallways, to find a sign that says "The Detective Club." He opens the door to find that The Detective Boys have their own Detective club. One problem, they are all ten years older, and [[Ayumi Yoshida]] referes to Shinichi as "Conan-kun." Shinichi finally realizes what has happened: Somehow everything has skipped ten years, and he is living life as Conan Edogawa, 17 year old high schooler. Conan finds Haibara, and asks her what happened. She says that he has taken her antidote's so many times that for the past three years, he had become immune to them. Upon hearing this, Conan runs out of school, mostly wondering what is going on.

While walking around town, Conan catches a TV monitor, where an interviewer is interviewing "Famous Detective" [[Heiji Hattori]], as well as [[Kazuha Toyama]]. Not surprisingly, ten years into the future and they still continue to bicker. It is also hinted that they are a couple, as they both freeze and get very embarrassed when the interviewer asks them when they are getting married. Conan then runs to the Mouri Detective Agency, to find Sonoko drinking alcohol, while [[Kogoro Mouri]] muses over [[Yoko Okino]]'s retirement from the music scene. He learns from Sonoko that Ran is planning on either accepting or rejecting Dr. Tomoaki Araide's marriage proposal, and is currently at the one place that she had the most memories with Shinichi. She says that Ran is trying to settle her feelings for Shinichi once and for all, and is trying to figure out just what she will do. Conan is told by Sonoko that Ran is at a place where he most important memories with Shinichi are, and Conan begins his search.

== Resolution ==
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Conan runs to his house to find her there, in the library, all alone. Ran immediately tells Conan to leave the lights off, because she doesn't want him to see her crying. Conan is heartbroken at seeing Ran in such pain, and tells her to not get married, because he would be hurt. Ran asks him why, and right then and there he tells her that he is Shinichi, and once again begs for her to not get married. Ran smiles and tells him that she thought it was sweet that he cared enough about her to tell her something like that, but she still believes that Conan is Conan, saying that he and Shinichi do look similar. She also announces that she will reject Dr. Araide's proposal, wanting to wait ten more years for Shinichi to return. Conan keeps saying that he is Shinichi, and passes out on the floor, while Ran tries to wake him up. He finally wakes up, and finds himself back in his seven year old body, with Haibara looking on. It turns out that the whole situation was a dream, a side-effect from Haibara's antidote. Conan turned into Shinichi for a total of three hours and 20 minutes, but he was asleep the whole time. Haibara tells him that he must have been having a nightmare, and that his high temperature may have affected his mind.

Conan returns to Mouri's Agency, happier than ever to be Conan again. He goes back to sleep, only to be awoken by Ran. Dr. Araide comes in afterwards, as does Sonoko. Sonoko explains that Ran had told Araide the whole situation, and he immediately went to Mouri's house because he was concerned over Conan's cold, and wanted to see him. The Detective Boys and Kogoro also stop by to see him. Conan gets a check-up from Dr. Araide, who announces that Conan's temperature has gone down, and that he is going to get much better. Ran decides to make a dinner for everyone, and everyone has dinner together at the table, while Conan reflects on his dream. He also muses that for the first time, he's glad to be back as Conan.
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[[File:gang in 10 yrs 2.png|thumb|Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi in 10 years; as shown in OVA 9]]

== Quotes ==

{{charquote|I've already waited ten years... so another ten will be just fine.||Ran}}

== See also ==

* [[OVAs]]
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