Hiroshi Agasa

Hiroshi Agasa
Profile
Japanese name:	阿笠 博士 (Agasa Hiroshi)
English name:	Hershel Agasa
Age:	52
Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	Unknown
Relatives:	Kurisuke Agasa (great-uncle) Teiko Agasa (great-aunt)
Nicknames:	Hakase (Ai Haibara) Agasa-hakase (Conan Edogawa, Detective Boys)
Aliases:	Dr. Agasa Professor Agasa
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: Chapter 2 Anime: Episode 1
Appearances:	Chapters: 295 Episodes: 254 Movies: 27 OVAs: 11 Specials: 5 Openings: 33 Closings: 9
Keyhole number:	Volume 5
Actors
Japanese voice:	Kenichi Ogata Kazunari Tanaka (young)
English voice:	Bill Flynn
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 commonly referred to as Professor Agasa (阿笠博士 ,Agasa-hakase), and known in the Funimation dub as Hershel Agasa, is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. Agasa is Shinichi Kudo's next door neighbor and family friend. The first person to learn Shinichi is Conan Edogawa, he has invented all of Conan's special gadgets as well as the Detective Boys' badges.

Background

Hiroshi Agasa is an inventor and Shinichi's closest neighbor, living in a large house right next to the Kudo residence.

Agasa's house

He makes his living with a wide number of patents and inventions, mostly video games (of whom the Detective Boys are enthusiastic test players). He has been a friend of Shinichi and Ran since their childhood years.

After Shinichi had been shrunk by the APTX 4869, the first person he met and entrusted himself to was Agasa. After having been convinced that the little boy was Shinichi, Agasa was also the first one to advise Shinichi to exercise caution in his pursuit of the Black Organization. He also helped Shinichi in establishing his new identity as Conan Edogawa, including constructing several gadgets which help Shinichi in carrying on his detective work surreptitiously, and in order to perfect Conan's cover, he also enlisted him into Teitan Elementary and thus came to know the children who would form the Detective Boys. When Shiho Miyano fled the clutches of the Organization, she fled to Shinichi's house but collapsed from exhaustion before Agasa's doorstep. Agasa subsequently took her in, learned about her true identity and helped her establish her new identity as Ai Haibara. He also entrusted Shinichi's parents with the secret about what has happened to their son.

Ever since these beginnings, Agasa has been an invaluable friend for Shinichi and the Detective Boys as a confidant, paternal friend, and someone to hang out with. He often takes the children on trips, most of which turn into criminal cases instead.

Childhood and relatives

Agasa went to Teitan Elementary and then Okuho middle school. His family moved to Japan from abroad soon after the end of fall term of his sixth grade after he met Kinoshita Fusae. Agasa was living in Japan before his family moved and he may have changed his address when they arrived. He has a rich accountant uncle named Kurisuke Agasa who died 50 years before the present timeline at the age of 38. The uncle liked gadgets. Teiko, the sister of his uncle (Agasa’s aunt) was alive until a year ago when she passed away at 76. Agasa’s cousin’s granddaughter is of the right age to be introduced to Takagi.

Personality

Hiroshi Agasa is a jovial and outgoing person and has many friends in his community, a fact which helped him in his covering up of Conan's and Ai's true origins (he simply claims that they are the children of his friends and acquaintances).

Agasa has a special love for pasta and tomato juice.

Relationships analysis

Family & Friends

Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa

Conan treats Agasa as a member of his own family, like an uncle. Due to the fact that they both share the secret behind Shinichi's transformation and knowledge about the Black Organization, Conan often comes to him when in trouble or seeking for help.

Ai Haibara

The relationship between Haibara and Professor Agasa is rather unusual, if not humorous. Despite what their actual (and apparent) ages are, Ai often times acts more like a mother to the professor, constantly reminding him to watch what he eats. On several occasions, she has removed fattening foods from his reach, and is attempting to help get him into better shape. There have also been instances where she'll instinctively step in front of Agasa to protect him from danger.
Out of all the people she's met, Ai seems most comfortable about acting herself with the Professor; which might be attributed to the fact that he was the one who found her after she escaped the Black Organization, and took her in. As it turned out some time later, Agasa had known her parents - especially her father, Atsushi Miyano, personally, even though he didn't know at that time that they've had children.

Fourth Grade Agasa with Fusae Campbell

Fusae Campbell

Fusae Campbell, today a successful fashion designer, was Agasa's first love in their childhood years. Because of her half-American heritage she has blonde hair, which had made her the target of ridicule among her fellow students and thus made her very shy; she usually wore a large hat to conceal her hair. Right after she found her first love in Agasa, she had to move away, but promised to return every ten year to a special place to meet him again. However, in his forgetfulness Agasa misplaced the postcard on which she had placed her clues, and it took him forty years and the help of the Detective Boys to find the place again. While they did not openly talk about their feelings, there is a hint that their relationship is now beginning to grow.

Character popularity

eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Agasa placed 19th in the poll with 36 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.

Quizzes

Agasa usually gives quizzes to the Detective Boys. These quizzes are multiple choice which he usually gives to them for a reward or just to test their knowledge. These are mostly based on puns or rearranging the strokes in a character to get the answer.

Name origin

Agasa's name comes from mystery writer Agatha Christie. His first name Hiroshi is a pun as it is written with the same kanji for hakase (博士 ,professor). Agasa's English given name "Herschel" likely comes from the physician friend of V. I. Warshawski, Dr. Charlotte “Lotty” Herschel.

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)).

Different looks

Agasa's "Before" Appearance (Episode 2)

Agasa's "After" Appearance (Episode 621)

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).
• In a recent fan poll, Professor Agasa was voted as the character most likely to be That Person.
• The Professor has a built in television in his car.

Gallery

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  Shinichi can't get into his house luckily he finds Professor Agasa but has slight trouble trying to prove to him that he is Shinichi and that he's shrunk.

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  "We need to be careful Shinichi, those men are bound to come looking for you if they find out you're still alive! You must tell no one your true identity or what happened! Not even Ran! Do you understand?!"

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  There's someone at the door and it's Ran! What unlucky timing! Professor Agasa and Shinichi try not to panic and do their best to improvise!

In other languages

Language	Given Name	Family Name
Japanese	博士 Hiroshi	阿笠 Agasa
Chinese	博士	阿笠博士
English	Hershal	Agasa
French	Hiroshi	Agasa
German	Hiroshi	Agasa
Vietnamese	Hiroshi	Agasa
Arabic	Not given	أغاثا/أغاسا Agasa/Agatha
Korean	박사 Bak Sa	브라운 Brown
Finnish	Hiroshi	Agasa

See also

• Characters