Takeru Kouchi
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| Japanese name: | 高内 尊 (Kōuchi Takeru) |
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| Age: | 35 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Occupation: | Nichiuri TV movies producer |
| Status: | Dead |
| First appearance: | Anime: Episode 965 |
| Appearances: | Episodes: 1 |
| Cases solved: | 0 |
| Japanese voice: | Satoshi Taki |
| English voice: | Chris Jahn (Macias Group) |
Takeru Kouchi (高内 尊 Kōuchi Takeru) is a character in the anime franchise Detective Conan.
Background
Kouchi is a producer from the Nichiuri TV movie production department. Along with Yoshito Mihara and Hiromasa Kosugi, they were all affiliated with the "Yonekura Group", which is a group that always thought up great ideas for Isato Yonekura.
Personality
Compared to Mihara, when facing the interrogation of the police, he seemed more steady but still revealing a bit of arrogant. Who was also rather confident to himself. He mocked Heiji as well, saying words like: "using Heizo's relationship and took some credits from it", which made Heiji angry.
Appearance
He is more stout, and has a buzz cut, small eyes, thick eyebrows, big mouth. He wears a brown suit laced with a white shirt plus a blue tie.
Appellations
Plot overview
During the production conference of the movie "Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba" that was planned to commemorate the construction of the new building, the producer of that movie, Isato Yonekura, was killed by a heavy puppet of Gomera in the prop room. The culprit cut the ropes that were used to fix the Gomera puppet in place on the top of the prop shelf. The suspects were narrowed down to the staff that was at the back stage and possessed a storage ID card at the time of the crime. The police interrogated both himself and his fellow colleague, Yoshito Mihara. As they confessed, they all belonged to the "Yonekura Group", and most of the planning ideas were thought up by them, but all were published by Isato Yonekura. Therefore, Kouchi possessed a motive to kill Yonekura, since he was capable enough to replace Yonekura after his death.
Heiji then inquired of him for his alibi when the crime was implemented. Unlike Mihara, who had an alibi for his female colleague fetching the piankillers for him at the time of the crime, Kouchi did not have an alibi at the time, since he was patrolling in the restroom, which was very off the beaten track in the building, so nobody could verify his presence. He also has a difficulty that makes it seemingly impossible for him to kill Yonekura, that is, he has a fear of high altitudes, but the culprit cut the ropes high up the prop shelf. If he is afraid of high places, how could he manage to kill Yonekura with no problems in such a high place?
It was later surmised that Takeru Kouchi co-murdered Yonekura with Yoshito Mihara. Before Yonekura died utterly, Yonekura unlocked his cellphone and took a photo of the culprit (Mihara), and evidently the photo had an abnormally high amount of light, but the prop storage room was pitch dark, so it must be Kouchi holding the door of the storage room, helping his accomplice. Kouchi helped Mihara climb up the staircase and held him to climb up the ladder leading to the top of the prop shelf as well. The two of them backed up each other based on their specific difficulties, being complementary to each other for the murder plan. To escape the arrest from the police, they decided to drive Yonekura's car. Even though Mihara was still being caught by the police, Kouchi managed to escape and drive Yonekura's car out of the garage. He was rather sure that the police would not arrest him and drove boldly on the street, however, he encountered another random car, which made him turn the steering wheel. After that, the car went out of control and fell into the river and exploded. The two of them did not know that someone else was also targeting Yonekura before themselves. In which the car trunk was laid with bombs and exploded when the car got out of control. This car bomb incident was then related to another car accident that happened in Kyoto two days ago...
