List of characters who know Kaitou Kid's identity

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The following is a list of characters who are either aware of or suspicious of Kaito Kuroba's secret identity as Kaitou Kid.

In their respective categories, characters are listed by the order they came to discover (or become suspicious of) Kaitou Kid's identity.

Canon

Konosuke Jii

Jii discovers Kaito's identity during their confrontation on a rooftop in Volume 1. At first, Jii mistook Kaito for being Toichi, Kaito's father. After this confrontation, Jii stops dressing up as the Kaitou Kid since Kaito takes the role over.[1] Instead, Jii opts to assist Kaito in any way he can with his heists, although he's concerned for Kaito's well being.

Akako Koizumi

Akako discovers Kaito's identity after her magic mirror reveals that there is only one man on Earth able to resist her: Kaitou Kid. When Kaito turns down the offer of getting one of Akako's chocolates on Valentine's Day in return for throwing away the others he's received, Akako puts two and two together and realizes Kaito must be Kaitou Kid.[2] Kaito continues to deny this allegation but does occasionally listen to Akako's advice.

Suspicious

Chikage Kuroba

In the manga version, despite not actually seeing Kaito go into Toichi's secret room, heard the panel to the room open from where she was standing in the house with Aoko.[3] In the TV special Chikage is not suspicious because she was away in Las Vegas at the time Kaito discovered Toichi's secret room. However, it is hard to believe that Toichi could hide his secret identity from his wife. Therefore it is most likely that she knows the true identity of the new Kaitou KID.

Ginzo Nakamori

Ginzo first becomes suspicious of Kaito's secret identity during the Angel Crown heist. The police manage to shine a light on Kid's face before he's able to cover it with his cape.[4] In disbelief of this allegation that Kaito is really Kaitou Kid, his daughter Aoko claims it's impossible because she'll be on a date with Kaito at the same time Kaitou Kid is scheduled to do a heist.

Aoko Nakamori

Aoko first becomes suspicious of Kaito's secret identity after her father swears that he saw that Kid was Kaito during the Angel Crown heist. Out of disbelief and concern Aoko asks Kaito out on a date to Tropical Land at the same time Kaitou Kid is scheduled to complete a heist.[5] Because she believes Kaito never left her side during the time of the heist (he did) and the heist was completed successfully, she thinks she's proven Kaito cannot possibly be Kaitou Kid.

Saguru Hakuba

Hakuba first becomes suspicious of Kaito's secret identity after using his grandfather's analyzer on a piece of Kaitou Kid's hair. The results of the analysis come up a perfect match for Kaito.[6] Despite Hakuba's careful planning in proving Kaito is Kid he is fooled when Akako dresses up as Kid and covers for Kaito. Realizing Kaito and Kid couldn't be in the same room together, he is stumped.[7]

Ran Mouri

As Ran, Sonoko and Conan walks to school the day after the Black Star event Ran sees someone who resembles Shinichi. She looks at him knowingly and comments in a realizing fashion. This might be because she recognized him as the person who put her to sleep at the same time she sees a resemblance between him and Shinichi. And so it is probable that she knows that Kid is a young teenager her age that resembles Shinichi.(Note that she claims the same thing in the movie 4)

Yusaku Kudo

Yusaku knew Kaitou's father when he was alive and was aware that he was Phantom Thief/Kid. After Toichi's death, it is supposed that Yusaku would guess that Toichi's son would continue his role, supporting that he had information from his wife Yukiko who studied disguise under Toichi (and would have informed him of Toichi's death if Yusaku did not find out himself) and the recent news Kid. Also, after the original Phantom Thief died there was a time gap where Phantom Thief was so to say, inactive. For a clever man like Yusaku this seems like a plausible supposition that he was replaced by his son. Whether Yusaku ever met Toichi's son is not a large issue as Yukiko knows Kaito's face and Shinichi as Conan faced Kaito with possibly the same type rivalry Yusaku had with Toichi. Yusaku has not revealed Toichi's role as Kaito Kid I to his wife.

As previously mentioned (under 'Chikage Kuroba'), it would be difficult for Toichi to hide his identity from his wife so if his wife supposes that the new Kaitou Kid is her son then it would be quite obvious to Yusaku who canonically is aware of Toichi being Kid.

See also

References

  1. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (1988-05-15). "The Revived Phantom Thief" (in Japanese). Magic Kaito. 1. Tokyo: Shogakukan. p. 33. ISBN 4-09-122081-9. 
  2. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (1988-05-15). "The Scarlet Temptress" (in Japanese). Magic Kaito. 1. Tokyo: Shogakukan. p. 162. ISBN 4-09-122081-9. 
  3. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (1988-05-15). "The Revived Phantom Thief" (in Japanese). Magic Kaito. 1. Tokyo: Shogakukan. p. 20. ISBN 4-09-122081-9. 
  4. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (1988-05-15). "Kaitou Kid's Busy Day Off" (in Japanese). Magic Kaito. 1. Tokyo: Shogakukan. p. 95. ISBN 4-09-122081-9. 
  5. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (1988-05-15). "Kaitou Kid's Busy Day Off" (in Japanese). Magic Kaito. 1. Tokyo: Shogakukan. p. 97-100. ISBN 4-09-122081-9. 
  6. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (1994-10-15). "Akako's Delivery Service" (in Japanese). Magic Kaito. 3. Tokyo: Shogakukan. p. 98. ISBN 4-09-122083-5. 
  7. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (1994-10-15). "Akako's Delivery Service" (in Japanese). Magic Kaito. 3. Tokyo: Shogakukan. p. 104. ISBN 4-09-122083-5. 
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