Inspector Hatori

Not to be confused with Hattori.

Inspector Hatori

Profile

Japanese name:

羽鳥
(Hatori)

Age:

unknown

Gender:

Male

Occupation:

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Special Investigation Team Inspector

Status:

Alive

Statistics

First appearance:

Manga: File 1123
Anime: Episode 1184

Appearances:

Chapters: 2
Episodes: 2

Actors

Japanese voice:

Ryota Takeuchi

Hatori (羽鳥 ,Hatori) is a character in Detective Conan. He is a police inspector for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Special Investigation Team.

Background

Hatori is an inspector (rank 6) of the SIT, a special task force responsible for handling tactical operations like stakeouts, surveillance and crisis negotiations notably.

Appearance

He is a tall and bulky man with broad shoulders and a prominent jawline. He has a big nose and unshaved beard on his chin. His medium-length black hair are sent to his right. He is seen wearing plain clothes, consisting of a suit jacket and pants with a pale sweater and a black shirt under.

Personality

Hatori is a serious and loud man, typical of police detectives often involved in tough cases like kidnappings.

Appellations

Law Enforcement Picture Name What they call Hatori What Hatori calls them Miwako Sato Inspector Hatori (Hatori-keibu) Sato

Plot overview

Foiled Kidnapping Transaction Case (Manga: 1123-1125, Anime: 1184-1185)

While trying to coordinate the rescue of kidnapped Shiori Ishigami, he sets up a ransom exchange with his men at Haido Park. Unbeknownst to him, detectives Sato and Takagi were on stakeout there and accidentally made the kidnapper, who was trying to retrieve the briefcase filled with the ransom money, get away. Hatori orders them to chase after the kidnapper, as they were already in their car, and foiled his plan.

Later, per Conan's deduction, Hatori and two assistants head inside the Ishigami residence and corner the kidnapper's accomplice, who was the housekeeper all along. His assistants manage to find Shiori in the house's attic and later arrest the housekeeper.

Name origin

His name comes from "bat planes" (コウモリ飛行機), a type of origami paper plane that flies like a bird and is shaped like a bat, since his name contains the kanji for bird ("鳥") and wings ("羽"). The "bat plane" was one of the clues to solve the case.

Trivia

He is the first member of the SIT to appear in the manga, even though Kenzo Katsuragi, another inspector for the SIT, appeared before in the anime-original case Rainbow Color Kidnapping along with other members.

See also

• Minor law enforcement