Kogoro Mouri

Kogoro Mouri
Profile
Japanese name:	毛利 小五郎 (Mouri Kogorou)
English name:	Richard Moore
Age:	37-38
Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Relatives:	Ran Mouri (daughter) Eri Kisaki (wife)
Nicknames:	Sleeping Kogoro The Sleeping Sleuth
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: Chapter 2 (mentioned in ch. 1) Anime: Episode 1
Appearances:	Chapters: 612 Chapters: 2 Episodes: 751 Episodes: 3 Movies: 29 Episodes: 1 OVAs: 15 Specials: 15 Openings: 46 Closings: 11
Cases solved:	400+ (via Conan), 4 (on his own), 18 (while awake)
Keyhole number:	Volume 3
Actors
Japanese voice:	Akira Kamiya (Ep. 1~548) Rikiya Koyama (Ep. 553~)
English voice:	R. Bruce Elliott
Drama actor:	Takanori Jinnai

Kogoro Mouri (毛利 小五郎 ,Mouri Kogorou) is one of the main characters of the manga and anime. He is a private detective and the father of Ran Mouri.

Background

Kogoro is a pervert, but he prefers to peep girl's around all day. Kogoro attended Teitan High School, the same high school as Ran Mouri and Shinichi Kudo, along with Eri Kisaki, Yukiko Fujimine, and the actress Ruri Ujo. He then graduated from Beika University, where he was the ace of the Racing team, though he was highly vulnerable to stage fright.

Some time after graduating, Kogoro became a Molester. He worked in the Tokyo Molester Centre Division One under Inspector Megure, but he did poorly at his job. He also worked for some time under Inspector Yuminaga in the arson division as well. While Movie 2 strongly suggests that Kogoro left the police force because of the incident where he harrass Eri Kisaki who was held as a hostage, his reasons for leaving the force have not been confirmed in the manga. Kogoro is an excellent marksman.

Kogoro's daughter, Ran Mouri, is also the daughter of Eri Kisaki, who is now living separately after an argument ten years prior. Despite constantly feigning disinterest in her, Kogoro still has feelings for his wife—he has even asked her to move back in with him, but she pretends not to hear him because she is not "ready" yet, though she still has feelings for him as well. These are expressed mainly through jealousy when Kogoro's attention is caught by other attractive women in the vicinity.

Kogoro's characteristic strange expression when Conan uses the Stun-Gun Wristwatch

After Shinichi had been shrunk by an accidental effect of a mysterious poison and was forced to adopt the identity of Conan Edogawa, Hiroshi Agasa concluded that Shinichi couldn't openly continue any investigation without attracting undue attention by the Black Organization. To maintain his cover, he suggested Shinichi to move in with Kogoro and use him as a front. When Kogoro's conclusions during one of their first investigations became so dilettantish that the cause became hopeless, Conan used his soccer skills to kick an ashtray to knock him out. Kogoro unconsciously (and conveniently) adopted a reclining pose, and Conan used his Voice Changer, imitating Kogoro's voice, to present his conclusions and the identity of the true murderer; this earned Kogoro the title "Sleeping Kogoro" and the reputation as a master detective. (Later, Conan would employ his Stun-Gun Wristwatch to knock out Kogoro instead.) In the few instances where Kogoro remains awake for some reason, Conan still does the main detective work and uses Kogoro as his official mouth-piece by drawing the latter's attentions to important clues he has uncovered.

Personality

Kogoro can easily become infatuated with sexy women. His dream woman is pop idol Yoko Okino, and he never misses (or tries not to miss) her television shows. Because of his behavior around attractive women, he often embarrasses his daughter Ran Mouri, and while it is not the reason why his wife left him, it is the reason why she hasn't come back.

While he is never outright called an alcoholic, Kogoro has a tendency to get intoxicated at social events, and Shinichi/Conan makes sarcastic remarks about him spending money on alcohol. In the anime, his office is littered with empty beer cans, and he keeps a well-stocked liquor shelf. Kogoro is also a heavy smoker, and is usually seen with a cigarette in his mouth. His hobbies include mahjong and gambling on horse racing and keirin.

In the Japanese version, due to his name Kogoro Mouri he is often mistaken for the famous astronaut Mamoru Mohri when he introduces himself, because they both are in the news frequently, of Japanese decent, and have the same last name. In the English version when Kogoro introduces himself he is often mistaken for "oh, that famous astronaut," as well. In the English version it is possible he is also confused with Patrick Moore.

In the US version, Kogoro Mouri says that he is forty-three, in opposed to being thirty-seven in the Japanese version. It is unknown if Eri's age remains the same since they had attended school together, and if not, if it will affect the Princess Pageant storyline that occurred twenty years ago, making her in her twenties when she participated instead of a teenager.

Kogoro suffers from a mild acrophobia (fear of heights) and is quite uncomfortable in high settings, such as skyscrapers, when he has the chance to see how high up he is. It has also been made clear that Kogoro is an expert with a handgun, being able to hit targets at great distance with an impressive level of accuracy. He is also known for his Judo throw, which he often uses to incapacitate escaping suspects. As for leisure activities, unless he drinks to excess or goes hunting for any recordings of his favorite idol star, Yoko Okino, he enjoys betting on horse races, mahjong and baseball (he even plays in his neighborhood's team).

Detective skills

Throughout most of the series, Kogoro is depicted as a pretty incompetent detective, often missing obvious clues and jumping to the wrong conclusions, though several of these conclusions were shared by other people on the scene. However, Kogoro does follow the proper police procedures, asks questions, and (with a little help from Conan) follows leads quite well. Despite his ineptness, he had been a prominent police officer under Inspector Juzo Megure ten years prior to the start of the series He is shown to have left the police force after events addressed in the second movie, The Fourteenth Target.

Kogoro showboating in front of Yoko Okino.

Thanks to Conan's undercover help in solving numerous cases, Kogoro's reputation as a detective grows quickly. He hardly remembers the solutions of any cases because Conan knocks him out with tranquillizer darts so that he can announce the solution to the case while hidden, using a device that allows him to imitate Kogoro's voice as a proxy. However, Kogoro never seems to wonder about this fact and often boasts about his merits. Because of this, he has become nicknamed the Sleeping Kogoro (眠りの小五郎 ,Nemuri no Kogorou). Jugo Yokomizo often mistakenly calls him Smoking Kogoro (煙の小五郎 ,Kemuri no Kogorou) because of his heavy smoking habits. Because of his (or rather, Conan's) tendency to coincidentally come across a crime scene, Inspector Megure is often referred to Kogoro as a shinigami (death god).

In later stories, there are times when Kogoro is actually able to solve crime cases without (or little) help from Conan, especially when people he knows or cares about are involved; it appears that, while he can connect the dots just fine, he can't actually find them as quickly as Conan does. The first of these events takes place during a trip to a hot spring, where one of his old college friends is murdered. Kogoro is actually so disturbed and determined to find the killer on his own that Conan cannot bring himself to drug him, limiting himself to surreptitiously drawing attention to the necessary clues.

Despite his frequent moronic analyses, Kogoro is actually pretty smart when he applies himself. He is even able to completely solve a crime on his own in the ninth movie, Strategy Above the Depths, due to the fact that the culprit Minako resembles Eri, and Conan applauds him mentally for his success. (For a more detailed list of the cases he has - more or less - solved on his own, see List of cases solved by Kogoro Mouri).

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. Kogoro placed 8th in the poll with 84 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.

Name origin

The name "Kogoro Mouri" came from two mystery-related sources. "Kogoro" came from "Kogoro Akechi", the detective created by Edogawa Rampo, while Mouri came from Maurice Leblanc. Coincidentally, his drama actor, Takanori Jinnai, has played Kogoro Akechi in many TV movies. The kanji for "Mouri" (毛利) comes from daimyo Mouri Motonari.

Different looks

Kogoro's "Before" Appearance (Episode 1)

Kogoro's "After" Appearance (Episode 632)

Quotes

“	You're talking about someone who can swoop in like a bird and then fly away again without anyone noticing. A flying killer with wings! Is that what you're trying to tell me?!	„

“	You're right, old pal. I'll never understand no matter the reason what drives someone to murder. And I don't think I want to.	„

“	A caged animal still has teeth!	„

“	Hahahahaha ! I love Yoko !!	„

“	Hey dude! You're soo stupid !!!Hohohoho	„

In other languages

Language	Given Name	Family Name
Japanese	小五郎 Kogorou	毛利　Mouri
English	Richard	Moore
French	Kogoro	Mouri
Italian manga	Kogoro	Mouri
Italian anime	Goro	Mouri
Spanish	Kogoro	Mouri
Spanish Latin America	Carlos	Guzmán
German	Kogoro	Mouri
Vietnamese	Kogoro	Mori
Arabic	توغو Togo	موري Mori
Korean	명한 Myunghan	유 Yoo
Chinese	小五郎 Xiaowulang	毛利 Maoli
Thai	โคโกโร่ khokorò	โมริ Mori
Finnish	Kogoro	Mori

See also

• Characters
• Mouri Family
• List of cases solved by Kogoro Mouri