Hyoue Kuroda (黒田 兵衛 ,Kuroda Hyōe?), is the former Nagano Police First Division Chief and a character within the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. He is currently the Tokyo Police First Division Managing Officer.
Background
Hyoue Kuroda was originally an officer from the National Police Agency.[2] At some unknown point in the past, he became the victim of an accident, which put him in a 10-year long coma; that accident was what caused him to lose his right eye. His hair turned white due to the stress of the accident and he looked like a completely different person, and he says that he's missing a few memories.[3]
After having recovered, Kuroda was assigned to Nagano Prefectural Police as the Chief of the First Division, where he first encountered Conan. Some time after the Kawanakajima murder case, he was transferred to Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to replace Kiyonaga Matsumoto.
Personality
Appellations
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What they call Kuroda |
What Kuroda calls them
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Wataru Takagi |
Managing Officer (Kanrikan)[4] |
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Kansuke Yamato |
Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-kachō)[5] First Division Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō)[5] That middle-aged man (ano ossan)[6] |
Yamato[7]
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Yui Uehara |
First Division Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō)[7] Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-kachō)[8] Chief (Kachō)[7] |
Uehara[7]
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Taka'aki Morofushi |
First Division Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō)[6] Chief (Kachō)[7] |
Morofushi[7]
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Kiyonaga Matsumoto |
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Senior Superintendent Matsumoto Kiyonaga (Matsumoto Kiyonaga-keishisei)
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What they call Kuroda |
What Kuroda calls them
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Conan Edogawa |
First Division Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō)[9] Managing Officer Kuroda (Kuroda-kanrikan)[10] |
Edogawa Conan-kun[4] The brain behind Sleeping Kogoro (Nemuri-no-Kogoro no chiebukuro)[4] Boy (Bōzu)[8]
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Kogoro Mouri |
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Detective Mouri (Mouri-tantei)[7]
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Ai Haibara |
Kuroda[10] |
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Plot overview
Kawanakajima Murder Case (Manga: 913-917, Anime: 810-812)
This case marks Kuroda's first appearance. He came to the crime scene right after Shigeru Takeda's head was found in the river. Conan got surprised as he was a well-built and old one-eyed man, which partially fits Haibara's description of Rum. He hinted knowing that Conan was the brain behind the Sleeping Kogoro, which was a rumor he heard from the National Police Agency.
He was shown to be a scary person but in the end he turned out to be on Kansuke Yamato and Taka'aki Morofushi's side, helping them to catch the real killer in the case. Yui Uehara said that he had been in a coma for ten years and had pitch black hair before that.
A Blog That Causes a Death (Manga: 918-920, Anime: 814-815)
Conan and Haibara were discussing about Kuroda. Ai said that they shouldn't worry because he didn't make any suspicious moves and he was in Nagano, far from the Black Organization. However, at the end of the case it was found out that he had moved to the Tokyo police department replacing Kiyonaga Matsumoto who presumably got promoted. He asked Conan to take care of him. Haibara got scared when Kuroda leaned in closer.
A Secret of the Big Couple (Manga: 925-927, Anime: TBA)
Haibara said to Conan that she hadn't felt the Black Organization Aura from Kuroda. She had only gripped his shoulder because his face was and his expression were really scary. In fact, she implied Kuroda couldn't be Rum as he saw her and should have noticed she resembles Shiho Miyano. If this had happened, things would have gone out of control and Rum would've broken into Agasa's house and this didn't happen.
Relationship analysis
Family and friends
Nagano Police Detectives and Investigators
Name origin
The name comes from Kuroda Kanbei (黒田 官兵衛 ,Kuroda Kanbee?, a.k.a. Kuroda Yoshitaka (黒田 孝高)), Japanese daimyo of the late Sengoku through early Edo periods.
Quotes
Trivia
See also
References
| Police
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| Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department |
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
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| Osaka Prefectural Police |
Heizo Hattori • Ginshiro Toyama • Goro Otaki
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| Nagano Prefectural Police |
Kansuke Yamato • Yui Uehara • Taka'aki Morofushi (Komei)
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| Kanagawa Prefectural Police |
Jugo Yokomizo • Chihaya Hagiwara
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| Hokkaido Prefectural Police |
Kyohei Nishimura • Detective Tamura
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| Kyoto Prefectural Police |
Fumimaro Ayanokoji • Detective Kurumazaki (aoanime-only)
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| Shizuoka Prefectural Police |
Sango Yokomizo • Tomonori Ogawara (aoanime-only) • Detective Tsukumo
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| 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)
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| Japanese Intelligence Agencies |
Rei Furuya • Yuya Kazami • Hiromitsu Morofushi (deceased)
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| 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
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| 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)
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| Related Pages |
Police Organization • Law Enforcement • Minor law enforcement • Unnamed law enforcers • Tokyo Metropolitan Police • PSB • FBI • CIA • MI6
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