Green Dragon (Part 1)

Template:InfoBox MKChapter Green Dragon (Part 1) (グリーン・ドラゴンの巻（前編） ,Gurīn Doragon no Maki (Zenpen)) is the 37th chapter of the Magic Kaito manga. It was written by Gosho Aoyama, drawn by him and his assistants and originally appeared in the Shōnen Sunday issue #20/2024, released on April 10th, 2024. It was written as part of a new case to promote the release of Movie 27: The Million-dollar Pentagram in April 2024.

Characters

Introduced

In order of introduction:

Midoriko Nakamori
File:Midoriko Nakamori.jpg	40 years old Prosecutor Aoko's mother and Ginzo's wife

Juro Tsunakura
File:Juro Tsunakura.jpg	40 years old Prosecutor Aoko's mother and Ginzo's wife

Featured

Characters

Kaitou Kid

Kaito Kuroba

Aoko Nakamori

Saguru Hakuba

Ginzo Nakamori

Shintaro Chaki

Kashiko Shikibe
Kashiko Shikibe

Keiko Momoi

Konosuke Jii

Gadgets

Gadgets

Card Gun

Heist

Green Dragon's Scale
	World's largest phosphophyllite Encrusted in the pupil of the bronze statue of Date Masamune

Settings

• Tokyo
  • Chiyoda Ward
    • Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office
  • Ekoda Area
    • Nakamori Residence
  • Ōta Ward
    • Haneda Airport
  • Unknown ward
    • Ristorante Verde
    • Tsunakura Museum (綱倉博物館)

Continuity

Referencing

• Kaitou Under Scrutiny (Manga: 16) : Nakamori referencing Kid stealing a whole statue is a reference to the bronze statue heist at the Ekoda Natural History Museum.

Sherry's Soliloquy

Sherry's soliloquy for File 37.

Sherry's Soliloquy (シェリーのひとりごと ,Sherī no Hitorigoto) is a collection of comments Gosho Aoyama has Ai Haibara say on the official Detective Conan website, Conan News Agency (こなん通信社 Konan Tsūshin-sha) in the course of every new chapter's publication.

Soliloquy of File 37:
アンダーリム眼鏡・・・萌えるわね♡
Half-rim glasses.. So cute!
(April 12, 2024, translation by Nakamura)

Real Life Models

Tsunakura Museum

Tsunakura Museum is modeled after the real-life Art Institute of Chicago Building, a Beaux-Arts building completed in 1893. Tsunakura Museum is shorter than its real-life counterpart, only having 5 windows per side as opposed to the Art Institute's 7 windows. It also incorporates the street lamps outside the museum. The interior is however different, the real-life AIOC Building having Corinthian columns, while the Tsunakura Museum has Ionic columns.

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  Tsunakura Museum
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  The real-life Art Institute of Chicago.

Trivia

• Date Masamune (伊達 政宗, 1567-1636) was a famous regional ruler of Northern Japan during the Edo Period (1603-1868), and notably founded the city of Sendai. The diamond in his eye is also a reference to his moniker of the "One-Eyed Dragon of Ōshū".
• Phosphophyllite, known in Japanese as "Rinyō-seki" (燐葉石) is a rare mineral composed of hydrated zinc phosphate and often left uncut as its crystals are brittle, making the existence of the "Green Dragon" rather improbable.
• Jurō Tsunakura (綱倉 十朗) is named after the first Katakura Kojūrō (片倉 小十郎), Katakura Kagetsuna (片倉 景綱, 1557-1615), head of the Katakura clan and a close aide of Date Masamune.
• The Italian restaurant at the beginning is named "Verde", meaning "green/lush".
• In the case Midoriko is working on, the people involved are named after Shōnen Sunday editors: Domoto (堂本), Murata (村田) and Funamoto (舟本), whose name is also used for a riot police officer in Detective Conan file 1119.
• Kaito's handkerchief bears the inscription "hocus-pocus", meaning to "deceive", a fitting name for his persona as Kaitou Kid.

See also

• Magic Kaito Chapters not yet included in a Volume
• Magic Kaito

References

Chapters not yet published in volume format
37 • 38 • 39