Kansuke Yamato

Kansuke Yamato
Profile
Japanese name:	大和 敢助 (Yamato Kansuke)
Age:	35
Gender:	Male
Occupation:	Nagano Prefectural Police Inspector
Status:	Alive
Nicknames:	Kan-chan (Uehara) Kansuke-kun (Komei)
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 613 Anime: Episode 516
Appearances:	Chapters: 35 Episodes: 22 Movies: 2 OVAs: 0 Specials: 0 Openings: 3 Closings: 1
Keyhole number:	Volume 59
Actors
Japanese voice:	Yuji Takada
English voice:	Christopher Diaz (Macias Group)

Kansuke Yamato (大和 敢助 ,Yamato Kansuke) is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. He was originally introduced as police detective from Nagano Prefecture. Some time before his second appearance, Yamato is promoted as police inspector. His direct subordinate is Detective Yui Uehara. Yamato lost his left eye in a snow avalanche and now has an X-shaped scar in its place. This same avalanche caused severe and "permanent damage" to his left leg, forcing him to use a forearm crutch to walk around.

Background

Yamato grew up in a small Nagano village with Yui Uehara. Like most people from the village, he greatly admired police officer and town hero Kuroto Kai, who inspired him and Uehara to join the police. One year before the Furinkazan Case, Yamato chased a parole jumper he believed to be involved with Kai's mysterious death into a mountain, where he got caught in the avalanche that took his left eye and leg. He was missing and believed dead for several days until school friend Taka'aki "Komei" Morofushi, also a police inspector, went against orders to track down the criminal and find Yamato. After recovering, he returned to the force and resumed working on solving Kai's death. With the aid of Conan Edogawa and Heiji Hattori the case was finally resolved, and soon afterwards Uehara rejoined the police force as his partner.

Personality

In contrast to other police inspectors like Megure, Sango Yokomizo, and Yamamura, Yamato is shown to be very serious and hard-boiled. He is often short-tempered and has been known to yell at and intimidate suspects. This aspect of his personality causes him to become quite visibly annoyed with Kogoro's ignorance and Yamamura's goofiness. Still, he does have softer spots, though he does not show them often, and there are hints that he is both aware and accepting of Uehara's affection towards him.

Yamato does have a petty rivalry with fellow police detective Koumei, often competing with him to see who can solve a case first. Despite this, they remain very close friends, and Yamato was even willing to run into a burning mansion to save him at one point. Yamato is also aware of Conan's intelligence and is one of few characters who treats him like an adult and equal.

Appellation

Picture	Name	What they call Kansuke	What Kansuke calls them
	Conan Edogawa	Inspector Yamato Kansuke (Yamato Kansuke-keibu) Inspector Yamato (Yamato-keibu)	Boy (Bōzu)
	Ran Mouri	Inspector Yamato Kansuke (Yamato Kansuke-keibu) Inspector Yamato (Yamato-keibu)	-
	Kogoro Mouri	Inspector Yamato Kansuke (Yamato Kansuke-keibu)	-

Picture	Name	What they call Kansuke	What Kansuke calls them
	Hyoue Kuroda	Yamato	First Division Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō) Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-kachō) That middle-aged man (ano ossan)
	Yui Uehara	Kan-chan Inspector Yamato (Yamato-keibu)	Uehara Yui
	Taka'aki Morofushi	Kansuke-kun Yamato Kansuke	Komei Morofushi Morofushi Taka'aki
	Misao Yamamura	Inspector Yamato (Yamato-keibu)	This guy (Aitsu)
	Kiyonaga Matsumoto	Inspector Yamato (Yamato-keibu)	-
	Mamoru Saegusa	Yamato

Picture	Name	What they call Kansuke	What Kansuke calls them
	Kazuha Toyama	Inspector-san (Keibu-san) Inspector Yamato (Yamato-keibu) That super smart one-eyed inspector	-
	Heiji Hattori	That one-eyed police detective Inspector Yamato (Yamato-keibu)	The detective boy from Osaka (Osaka no tantei bōzu)

Plot overview

Furinkazan Case (Manga: 613-618, Anime: 516-517)

• Yamato makes his first appearance in this case as a police detective from Nagano Prefecture and the one is in charge of this case.
  • Yamato interrogates Yui Torada (maiden name Yui Uehara) about the case of 6 years ago, much to Yui's annoyance.
• When Yamato calls her “Uehara” and orders her to tell him the time (as he needs to know when exactly they discovered the body), Yui does so without thinking twice, and it is only after she answered that both suddenly realize that she is no longer his subordinate. Yamato apologizes, as Yui says that it is ok.
• It is revealed that Yui is probably regretting over the fact that as she hesitated and did not confess to Yamato in time, he went missing, which (indirectly) drove her to marry Yoshiro Torada, which eventually resulted her current status as a widow.
• Yamato announces that Yui (and six other people, including some from the Torada family) are suspects, and orders them to go home and pray before he makes an arrest. Yui, hearing Yamato’s cold words, says “Kan-chan, you no longer call my name as you did before” with some sorrow on her face.
• Yamato replies that due to the case, instead of treating her as a childhood friend or as a former subordinate, he needs to see her as a suspect and as the widow of a victim.
• Yui is later shown to be looking at a photo taken with Yamato and Officer Kai when they were both still kids. Yui recalls asking Officer Kai to marry her, and remembers that he replies, amused: “Spare me of this, please! Kansuke would loathe me!”
• Yui is able to solve the case and predict that the culprit’s next target is Akira Tatsuo. She thus goes to his household to protect him, but is not anticipating the culprit to bring subordinates. Yamato, Conan and Heiji, who are anticipating this, are able to save her and Akira Tatsuo and defeat the culprit and her men.
• After the case concludes, Yui tells Yamato why she married Yoshiro Torada, adding that she feels sorry for him. Yamato tells that she should rejoin the police force once she feels ready, and jokes that their superintendent misses the coffee that she makes (despite it being terrible).

Red Wall Case (Manga: 682-686, Anime: 558-561)

Morofushi was the 1st one who realized that by observing the red wall for a long period of time then looking at the white wall, one sees Green in the after image before both Kansuke & Conan did too afterwards. This was meant to denote the Italian Flag, a vital clue to uncovering the culprit. Right after Morofushi noticed the secret message, he immediately text Kansuke a sentence "The late Koumei" but unfortunately, before the text was sent, he has his head smacked by the culprit. Fortunately enough, the message was successfully sent at a second before his consciousness lost.

Kawanakajima Murder Case (Manga: 913-917, Anime: 810-812)

• Yui reveals that the drug-addicted man who was shot dead 9 years ago is Yamato's childhood friend, and Yui even feels jealous with that friend, and she tells Ran to keep it as a secret.
• Yamato and Morufushi have to act that they have conflicts to lure the culprit out, Yui is misled to believe that Yamato is in grave danger.
• After the case is solved, Yui is relieved, but thinks that Yamato could have told her about their plans to mislead the culprit beforehand to not make her worry.
• Yamato thinks that she is talking way to much and shouts at her to make her shut up, which prompts her to say bitterly that she will not be so concerned with him anymore, as he does not want attention from a "woman with one X" (バツイチ Batsu ichi, a slang term for widow) anyways, and she sheds her tears.
• In a rare act, Yamato smiles and replies warmly that the huge "X" (バツ Batsu) scar on his face puts him in a similar situation, and tells her not to think too much about it. Yui blushes after hearing this.

Kaitou Kid and the Fairy's Lips (Manga: 1018-1021, Anime: 983-984)

While talking on the phone with Kansuke Yamato, Yui Uehara says that Morofushi had an younger brother who had moved to Tokyo after their parents' deaths and working in Tokyo MPD.

Nagano Snowy Mountains Case (Manga: 1027-1031, Anime: 1003-1005)

Morofushi appears with Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara for the investigation of the crime scene which is shown from the video footage.

Relationships analysis

Yui Uehara

Kansuke Yamato cares very deeply for his subordinate and childhood friend Yui Uehara. He was upset over her leaving the force and tried to distance himself from her, but had no problem allowing her back on the force. Uehara in return cares for him and even seems to have feeling for him, affectionatley referring to him as Kan-chan, which he always scolds her for doing.

Taka'aki Morofushi

The two are childhood friends who went to the same primary and high school as each other. Both have also become inspectors of a police headquarters. In the past, when Yamato was thought to be dead, Morofushi went against his boss' orders and went to look for him. Afterwards, Yamato was found and in the hospital while Morofushi himself got put down into the local police headquarters. This is to show even if Morofushi loses his position in the main headquarters, he will definite be willing to go and save his friend. Even now, they still remain as best friends and even compete with each other to see who can solve cases first. Yamato also on the other hand will go and help his friend out. This is shown by how he would go into a burning mansion to save him. Their friendship and rivalry can be considered similar to that of Heiji and Shinichi's, with Heiji being hot-tempered impatient Yamato and Shinichi being well-mannered calm Morofushi.

Conan Edogawa

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

In fact, in that car ride, they were giving Agasa and Haibara a lift back to Tokyo, but he really kept taking in a Nagano dialect, using phrases that terrified Haibara, such as "Half-Kill" and "Over-Kill, which dealth with a kind of Mochi."

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

Name origin

Yamato's name comes from Yamamoto Kansuke (山本勘助 ), the strategist of Takeda Shingen, the famous daimyo who used "Fūrinkazan" as his battle slogan. This is even pointed out by Conan during the Red Wall Case.

Different looks

Episode 516

Episode 653

Episode 810

Still in the Police Academy, with his eye unharmed (episode 756).

See also

• Characters