Hiroshi Agasa

Hiroshi Agasa

Profile

English name:

Hershel Agasa

Age:

52

Gender:

Male

Relatives:

Kurisuke Agasa (great-uncle)
Teiko Agasa (great-aunt)

Statistics

First appearance:

Manga: Chapter 2
Anime: Episode 1

Appearances:

TV: ?
Movies: ?
Specials: ?
Openings: 15

Actors

Japanese voice:

Kenichi Ogata
Kazunari Tanaka (young)

Drama actor:

Ryosei Tayama

Was voted most likely to be "That Person" in a fan poll

Hiroshi Agasa (阿笠 博士 ,Agasa Hiroshi), most commenly referred to as Professor Agasa (あがさはかせ ,Agasa-hakase), is Shinichi Kudo's next door neighbor and family friend. He is the inventor of all of Conan Edogawa's special gadgets as well as the Detective Boys' badges.

Name origin

Agasa's name comes from mystery writer Agatha Christie. Also, his first name Hiroshi is a pun as it is written with the same kanji for hakase (博士 ,professor).

Additionally, his great uncle and aunt, Kurisuke (栗介 ) and Teiko (定子 ), get their names from the Japanese pronunciation of Christie (クリスティ ,Kurisuti) (Kurisuke obviously comes from Kurisu (クリス), but Teiko comes from Tei (テイ), and alternate writing for Ti (ティ)).

Trivia

• Agasa has a mole on his butt with a hair sticking out of it (which Conan revealed while trying to prove his real identity to the Professor).

See also

• Characters