Yusaku Kudo
Yusaku Kudo | |
English name: | Booker Kudo |
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Age: | ? |
Gender: | Male |
Relatives: | Yukiko Kudo (wife) Shinichi Kudo (son) |
First appearance: | Manga: Chapter 49 Anime: Episode 43 |
Appearances: | Chapters: 59 Chapters: 3 Episodes: 38 Movies: 3 OVAs: 3 Specials: 1 Openings: 12 Closings: 3 |
Keyhole number: | Volume 22 |
Japanese voice: | Hideyuki Tanaka |
Yusaku Kudo (工藤 優作 Kudou Yuusaku ) is the father of Shinichi Kudo and, along with his wife Yukiko, is one of only a few characters to know he is Conan Edogawa. He is also a world famous novelist and the creator of the popular Night Baron series.
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Background
While still attending Teitan High School, Yusaku Kudo was already noted for his sharp intellect and deductive abilities. In those years, he also enountered the girl whom he resolved to marry: Yukiko, an already famed and beautiful junior actress. While taking her out in an expensive restaurant to make his proposal, he was involved in a murder case which he solved brilliantly, and right afterwards made his proposal to a startled Yukiko - a proposal which was eventually accepted. (Twenty years later, his son Shinichi would become involved in a follow-up of the exact same case, but unlike Yusaku he wouldn't be able to profess his feelings to his own love.).[1]
Personality
Name origin
Yusaku's name comes from Shunsaku Kudo (protagonist of the TV Drama Tantei Monogatari (Detective Tales) and actor Yusaku Matsuda (who portrayed Shunsaku Kudo).