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Kiyonaga Matsumoto (松本清長 ,Matsumoto Kiyonaga^?), known as Kristopher McLaughlin in the Funimation dub, is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan.

Background

At the beginning of the series, Matsumoto was a superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department^[1]^[2], and Juzo Megure's superior, often giving him specific instructions on very dangerous cases. Sometimes, Megure puts his plan through to Matsumoto first, and then sees what he has to say about it. He has a scar over his left eye.

Matsumoto was a minor character and only made limited appearances. His main appearances were his first appearance in the Poisoned Bride Case and in the Scar and Ginger Case when the story behind his scar was explored. In Poisoned Bride Case, Matsumoto's only daughter Sayuri gets poisoned during her wedding. The culprit was the groom, who was attempting to avenge his mother's death by Matsumoto's negligence. They reconciliated and Sayuri recovered. In the Scar and Ginger Case, we learn that Matsumoto got the scar 15 years ago from a katana slash from a serial killer he was chasing. The case was finally closed when the connection between the victims was discovered and the serial killer was identified.

In storyline, he was promoted to Senior Superintendent, and replaced by Hyoue Kuroda although his last appearance was much earlier in the Overnight Deadline case. Unlike Matsumoto, Kuroda has a deeper involvement with the plot with a complicated past and a connection with the Black Organization.

Personality

Although Matsumoto looks to be a stern, harsh, brute man, he can be a very kind and gentle person, only getting very angry when a loved one is put in danger. However, his demeanor changes to complete seriousness and professionalism while at work. When one of his people is put in danger, he gets very serious on getting them back.

Appellations

Law enforcementFamilyProtagonists

Name	What they call Kiyonaga Matsumoto	What Kiyonaga Matsumoto calls them
Juzo Megure	Managing Officer Matsumoto (Matsumoto-kanrikan) Managing Officer (Kanrikan)^[3] Superintendent (Keishi)^[4]	Megure
Wataru Takagi	Managing Officer (Kanrikan)	Takagi^[3] Takagi Wataru
Miwako Sato	Managing Officer (Kanrikan)	Sato^[3]
Ninzaburo Shiratori	Managing Officer (Kanrikan)^[3]	Shiratori
Kazunobu Chiba	Managing Officer (Kanrikan)	Chiba
Hyoue Kuroda	Senior Superintendent Matsumoto Kiyonaga (Matsumoto Kiyonaga-keishisei)	-
Kansuke Yamato	-	Inspector Yamato (Yamato-keibu)^[3]
Officer Tome	Superintendent (Keishi)^[4]	-

Picture	Name	What they call Kiyonaga Matsumoto	What Kiyonaga Matsumoto calls them
	Sayuri Takasugi	Dad (Otōsan)^[4] My father (watashi no chichi)^[4]	Sayuri^[4] Daughter (musume)^[4]
	Toshihiko Takasugi	-	That man (ano otoko)^[4]

Name	What they call Kiyonaga Matsumoto	What Kiyonaga Matsumoto calls them
Conan Edogawa	Superintendent Matsumoto (Matsumoto-keishi) Superintendent-san (Keishi-san)^[4]	That kid (sono ko)^[4]
Shinichi Kudo	-	Kudo^[3] Kudo Shinichi-kun
Ran Mouri	Superintendent Matsumoto (Matsumoto-keishi)^[3]	-
Kogoro Mouri	Superintendent Matsumoto-dono (Matsumoto-keishi-dono) Superintendent-dono (Keishi-dono) Superintendent Matsumoto Kiyonaga (Matsumoto Kiyonaga-keishi)^[3]	Mouri^[3] Mouri-kun^[3]
Sonoko Suzuki	Superintendent Matsumoto (Matsumoto-keishi)^[4] Superintendent (Keishi)^[4] Gorilla (first time)^[4] Father (otōsan)^[4]	-

Plot overview

Poisoned Bride Case (Manga: 078-080, Anime: 18)

Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: 285-286, Anime: 217-218)

Serial Bomber Case (Manga: 370-372, Anime: 304)

Scar and Ginger Case (Manga: 667-669, Anime: 532-533)

Whistling Killer Case (Manga: 670-673, Anime: 534-535)

Matsumoto leads an investigation on a serial killer case, in which the suspect gave Matsumoto a scar fifteen years ago.

Overnight Deadline (Manga: 804-808, Anime: 681-683)

Non-canon plot overview

The Raven Chaser (Movie: 13)

Matsumoto's identity was used by Irish.

The Bride of Halloween (Movie: 25)

Name origin

His name, Kiyonaga Matsumoto (松本清長) comes from Seichō Matsumoto (松本清張, his real given name is Kiyoharu), a Japanese mystery writer.

Different looks

Quotes

“	Being a detective is a line of work in which one is constantly resented. One never knows where the resentment come from.	„
— File 805

References

^ http://forums.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=6114.0
^ Volume 8, File 8, Page 9; File 78
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Movie 13: The Raven Chaser
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Episode 18: A June Bride Murder Case

v • d • e Main Characters
Protagonists	Shinichi Kudo • Conan Edogawa • Ran Mouri • Kogoro Mouri
Detective Boys	Ai Haibara • Ayumi Yoshida • Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya • Genta Kojima
Family & Friends	Hiroshi Agasa • Sonoko Suzuki • Eri Kisaki • Yusaku Kudo • Yukiko Kudo • Heiji Hattori • Kazuha Toyama • Yoko Okino • Sumiko Kobayashi • Tomoaki Araide • Makoto Kyogoku • Shizuka Hattori • Jirokichi Suzuki • Eisuke Hondou • Azusa Enomoto • Subaru Okiya • Masumi Sera • Shukichi Haneda • Sakurako Yonehara • Rumi Wakasa • Momiji Ooka • Muga Iori • Elena Miyano • Atsushi Miyano
Tokyo Metropolitan Police District	Juzo Megure • Wataru Takagi • Miwako Sato • Ninzaburo Shiratori • Yumi Miyamoto • Kazunobu Chiba • Naeko Miike • Kiyonaga Matsumoto • Inspector Yuminaga • Shintaro Chaki • Hyoue Kuroda • Kenji Hagiwara • Jinpei Matsuda • Wataru Date
Osaka Police District	Heizo Hattori • Ginshiro Toyama • Goro Otaki
Nagano Police District	Kansuke Yamato • Yui Uehara • Taka'aki Morofushi
Other police districts	Sango Yokomizo • Misao Yamamura • Jugo Yokomizo • Chihaya Hagiwara • Fumimaro Ayanokoji
NPA and Public Security Bureau	Rei Furuya (Bourbon) • Hiromitsu Morofushi • Yuya Kazami
FBI	Shuichi Akai • Jodie Starling • James Black • Andre Camel
CIA	Hidemi Hondou (Kir) • Ethan Hondou
MI6	Mary Sera • Tsutomu Akai
Black Organization	The Boss • Rum • Gin • Vodka • Vermouth • Chianti • Korn • Shiho Miyano • Akemi Miyano • Tequila • Pisco • Calvados • Rikumichi Kusuda • Ki'ichiro Numabuchi
Magic Kaito	Kaito Kuroba • Kaitou Kid • Aoko Nakamori • Ginzo Nakamori • Midoriko Nakamori • Toichi Kuroba • Chikage Kuroba • Konosuke Jii • Keiko Momoi • Akako Koizumi • Saguru Hakuba • Snake • Kaitou Corbeau
Others	"The Criminal" • Hideo Akagi • Ryusuke Higo • Takahiro Sanada • Scar Akai • Kohji Haneda • Kamen Yaiba • Amanda Hughes

v • d • e Police
Tokyo Metropolitan Police	Juzo Megure • Wataru Takagi • Miwako Sato • Ninzaburo Shiratori • Yumi Miyamoto • Kazunobu Chiba • Naeko Miike • Ginzo Nakamori • Shintaro Chaki • Inspector Yuminaga • Kiyonaga Matsumoto • Hyoue Kuroda • Inspector Momose • Inspector Hatori • Chosuke Takagi (transferred) • Jinpei Matsuda (deceased) • Kenji Hagiwara (deceased) • Wataru Date (deceased) • Masayoshi Sato (deceased) • Officer Tome (AOAnime-only) • Toshiro Odagiri (AOAnime-only) • Hachizo Onizuka • Detective Kobayashi (AOAnime-only) • Detective Yokoyama (AOAnime-only) • Detective Kojima (AOAnime-only) • Superintendent General Hakuba • Manabu Fujimaki • Detective Takikawa • Detective Nakamura • Detective Fukui • Detective Kawanaka • Detective Saitoh • Detective Horita • Detective Takano • Detective Sogawa • Detective Okumura • Detective Sugita • Detective Hirota (AOAnime-only) • Officer Numata • Detective Terashima (AOAnime-only) • Toshio Moroboshi (AOAnime-only) • Female forensics member (AOAnime-only) • Detective Miyazaki • Detective Tomokawa • Tadayoshi Uno (AOAnime-only) • Detective Yama (AOAnime-only) • Inspector Yuminaga's assistant
Osaka Prefectural Police	Heizo Hattori • Ginshiro Toyama • Goro Otaki
Nagano Prefectural Police	Kansuke Yamato • Yui Uehara • Taka'aki Morofushi (Komei)
Kanagawa Prefectural Police	Jugo Yokomizo • Chihaya Hagiwara
Hokkaido Prefectural Police	Kyohei Nishimura • Detective Tamura
Kyoto Prefectural Police	Fumimaro Ayanokoji • Detective Kurumazaki (AOAnime-only)
Shizuoka Prefectural Police	Sango Yokomizo • Tomonori Ogawara (AOAnime-only) • Detective Tsukumo
Other Prefectures	Misao Yamamura (Gunma) • Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno (AOAnime-only, Nara) • Tamekichi Matsushiro (AOAnime-only, Gifu) • Shoji Terabayashi (Chiba) • Katsuhiko Yamane (AOAnime-only, Tottori) • Ryo Okamoto (AOAnime-only, Tottori)
Japanese Intelligence Agencies	Rei Furuya • Yuya Kazami • Hiromitsu Morofushi (deceased)
Primary Tokyo MPD Cases	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story One • MPD Two • MPD Three • Megure's Sealed Secret • Shinkansen Transport Case • MPD Four • Serial Bomber • MPD Five • MPD Six • Jewelry Robbery • MPD Seven • Fake Wedding • MPD Eight • Hammer Man • The Scar that Evokes the Past • Inspector Shiratori, Memories of the Cherry Blossom • Kobayashi-sensei's Love • A Video Letter of First Love • Co-Investigating with a First Love • The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love • The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene • MDP Nine • Taiko Meijin's Match of Love • Chiba's Difficult UFO Case • The Marriage Registration's Password • The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department
Other Significant Police Cases	The Osaka Double Mystery (Osaka) • Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun (Tokyo-Theft) • The Red Horse within the Flames (Tokyo Arson) • Furinkazan (Nagano) • A Dangerous Party of Two & The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall (Nagano) • Heiji Hattori and the Vampire Mansion (Osaka) • The Scarlet Return (NPA) • The Darkness of the Prefectural Police (Nagano NPA) • A song named ASACA (PSB NPA) • Captured in Her Eyes (Tokyo) • Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (Kyoto) • The Raven Chaser (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, Kyoto, and Chiba)
Related Pages	Police Organization • Law Enforcement • Minor law enforcement • Unnamed law enforcers • Tokyo Metropolitan Police • PSB • FBI • CIA • MI6

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 == Background ==
-At the beginning of the series, Matsumoto was a superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department<ref name=PoliceRanks>http://forums.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=6114.0</ref><ref>Volume 8, File 8, Page 9; File 78</ref>, and [[Juzo Megure]]'s superior, often giving him specific instructions on very dangerous cases. Sometimes, Megure puts his plan through to Matsumoto first, and then sees what he has to say about it.
+At the beginning of the series, Matsumoto was a superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department<ref name=PoliceRanks>http://forums.dctp.ws/index.php?topic=6114.0</ref><ref>Volume 8, File 8, Page 9; File 78</ref>, and [[Juzo Megure]]'s superior, often giving him specific instructions on very dangerous cases. Sometimes, Megure puts his plan through to Matsumoto first, and then sees what he has to say about it. He has a scar over his left eye.
-Matsumoto got the scar over his left eye from his chasing a serial killer fifteen years ago who wounded him with a katana slash, a case that remained unsolved until Conan helped unravel it and enabled the killer's arrest.<ref>Manga Chapter 667: Scar and Ginger Case</ref> He was married, but his wife died at some unspecified point in the past.
+Matsumoto was a minor character and only made limited appearances. His main appearances were his first appearance in the [[A June Bride Murder Case|Poisoned Bride Case]] and in the [[The Scar that Evokes the Past|Scar and Ginger Case]] when the story behind his scar was explored. In Poisoned Bride Case, Matsumoto's only daughter Sayuri gets poisoned during her wedding. The culprit was the groom, who was attempting to avenge his mother's death by Matsumoto's negligence. They reconciliated and Sayuri recovered. In the Scar and Ginger Case, we learn that Matsumoto got the scar 15 years ago from a katana slash from a serial killer he was chasing. The case was finally closed when the connection between the victims was discovered and the serial killer was identified.
-Matsumoto first appears during the wedding of his only daughter, Sayuri (dub name Catherine McLaughlin), who used to be [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]], [[Ran Mouri|Ran]], and [[Sonoko Suzuki|Sonoko]]'s music teacher in middle school, all three of them having been also invited to the wedding (though Shinichi had to attend as [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], obviously). When his daughter fell victim to a poisoning attack, a sad case was revealed in which the groom attempted to avenge his mother's death by Matsumoto's negligence; the incident, of Matsumoto's involvement for the accidental death, was covered up, it is unknown if Matsumoto was responsible for the cover up or if a superior did it for Matsumoto's sake. But unexpectedly, the case did take several good turns in the end, and Matsumoto ended up with the victim of his past mistake and would-be-murderer of his daughter as his son-in-law.<ref>Manga Chapter 080: Poisoned Bride Case</ref>
+In storyline, he was promoted to Senior Superintendent, and replaced by [[Hyoue Kuroda]] although his last appearance was much earlier in the [[Volume 77#Overnight Deadline|Overnight Deadline]] case. Unlike Matsumoto, Kuroda has a deeper involvement with the plot with a complicated past and a connection with the [[Black Organization]].
-Matsumoto was a minor character and only made limited appearances. In storyline, he was promoted to Senior Superintendent, and replaced by [[Hyoue Kuroda]] although his last appearance was much earlier in the [[Volume 77#Overnight Deadline|Overnight Deadline]] case. Unlike Matsumoto, Kuroda has a deeper involvement with the plot with a complicated past and a connection with the [[Black Organization]].
 == Personality ==