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{{redirect|Chiba|a voice actor ([[seiyū]])|Isshin Chiba}} {{InfoBox Char | name = Kazunobu Chiba | japanese-name = 千葉和伸 <br> (Chiba Kazunobu) | english-name = Detective Chiba | image = Detective Chiba Profile.jpg | age = 24-25<ref>[[Volume_71#File_742_-_Love_Transcending_13_Years|Volume 71, File 742: "Love Transcending 13 years"]]: Chiba was in the 6th grade 13 years ago, when he was about 11-12 years old, which would make him about 24-25 in the current timeline.</ref><ref>[[Volume 71|Volume 71, File 741]] and [[Volume 80|Volume 80, File 848, Page 11]]: Chiba was two grade below Kobayashi (who's exactly 26) and one grade above Sakurako (who's exactly 23).</ref> | gender = Male | date-of-birth = | relatives = Older brother (unnamed) | occupation = Police Detective | nicknames = | first-appearance = Manga: [[Volume_27#Sato.27s_Father_Case|File 269]]<br />Anime: [[The Final Screening Murder Case|Episode 138]] | appearances = {{:Detective Chiba Appearances}} | cases-solved = | keyhole = [[Volume 33]] | japanese-voice = [[Isshin Chiba]] | english-voice = [[Chris Cason]] | footnotes = }} '''{{nihongo|Kazunobu Chiba|千葉和伸|Chiba Kazunobu}}''', commonly referred to as '''{{nihongo|Detective Chiba|千葉刑事|Chiba-keiji}}''', is a character in the manga and anime franchise ''[[Detective Conan]]''. Chiba is a detective in the Tokyo district, and very often works alongside [[Juzo Megure|Inspector Megure]] and [[Wataru Takagi]]. His main duty appears to be to obtain information outside of the crime scenes. Sometimes, he will even go out and substitute as inspector when Megure is busy on another case. He is a childhood friend and the love interest of [[Naeko Miike]]. == Background == [[File:Young Chiba.PNG|100px|thumb|left|A young Chiba]] Initially, he was introduced as a minor role in the 4th Detective Conan Movie, as well as with a minor cameo in [[The Final Screening Murder Case]]. He later takes more of a noticeable role throughout the series. Chiba attended [[Setting#Teitan_Elementary_School|Teitan Elementary School]], in the 20th graduating class, 2 classes below [[Sumiko Kobayashi]]. Since childhood, he has a tendency to sweat.<ref name=Naeko>Manga Chapters 741~742: The VHS of Memory Case</ref> Chiba currently works in the Second violent crimes investigative division, section 3.<ref>Manga Chapter 792 page 4</ref> {{clearleft}} == Personality == Chiba can be serious, but he is shown to be a mostly light hearted officer. He has been a huge fan of ''tokusatsu'' shows like ''[[Kamen Yaiba]]'' for a long time, and was a member of the broadcasting committee at his elementary school. For a project, he and the other club members made a tokusatsu film called ''Kamen Baiya''.<ref name=Naeko></ref> He also loves to eat and is sometimes shown stuffing his face, usually with burgers and sodas, but usually this is merely done for comic effect. Nonetheless, Chiba can be very supportive, and is a big help, especially for using his size to catch criminals. He, as well as [[Yumi Miyamoto]], is very supportive for [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]]'s relationship and feelings for [[Miwako Sato|Sato]], and is one of the few officers in the Tokyo district to not get involved in [[Ninzaburo Shiratori|Shiratori]]'s schemes to get the couple to break up. A very notable trait of Chiba praised by his colleagues in Law Enforcement is that he would always follow and uphold the law no matter what the circumstances are, especially when it is he who breaks it. This is one of the main reasons why Naeko liked him in the first place; it was because he scolded her over a traffic violation, saying that doing the wrong thing will develop into a habit that's hard to get rid of. This event also inspired Naeko to join the Police Force as a traffic cop. Chiba has a habit of checking VHS tapes to see if they were rewound. He believes he picked this habit up from his older brother.<ref name=Naeko></ref> == Appellations == <tabs jsId="nicknames"> <tab title="Friends"> {| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;" ! style="width:60px;"|Picture!! style="width:125px;"|Name!! style="width:200px;"|What they call Chiba!! style="width:200px;"|What Chiba calls them |- |[[File:Sakurako Yonehara 60px.jpg]]||[[Sakurako Yonehara]]||Chiba-tchi<ref name="sdb80-121">Detective Conan 80 + Super Digest Book - p121</ref>||Sakurako-chan<ref name="sdb80-121" /> |- |[[File:Sumiko Kobayashi 60px.jpg]]||[[Sumiko Kobayashi]]||-||Kobayashi-sensei<ref name="sdb80-113">Detective Conan 80 + Super Digest Book - p113</ref><br>Sato-san (first time, by mistake) |} </tab> <tab title="Law enforcement"> {| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;" ! style="width:60px;"|Picture!! style="width:125px;"|Name!! style="width:200px;"|What they call Chiba!! style="width:200px;"|What Chiba calls them |- |[[File:Wataru Takagi 60px.jpg]]||[[Wataru Takagi]]||Chiba||Takagi-san |- |[[File:Naeko Miike 60px.jpg]]||[[Naeko Miike]]||Chiba-kun<ref name="sdb80-130">Detective Conan 80 + Super Digest Book - p130</ref>||Miike Naeko |- |[[File:Ninzaburo Shiratori 60px.jpg]]||[[Ninzaburo Shiratori]]||Chiba-kun<ref name="sdb80-113" />||Shiratori-san |- |[[File:Yumi Miyamoto 60px.jpg]]||[[Yumi Miyamoto]]||Chiba-kun||Yumi-san |- |[[File:Juzo Megure 60px.jpg]]||[[Juzo Megure]]||Chiba-kun||Inspector Megure (''Megure-keibu'') |- |[[File:Miwako Sato 60px.jpg]]||[[Miwako Sato]]||Chiba-kun||Sato-san |- |[[File:Eri Kisaki 60px.jpg]]||[[Eri Kisaki]]||Chiba-kun|| |} </tab> <tab title="Protagonists"> {| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;" ! style="width:60px;"|Picture!! style="width:125px;"|Name!! style="width:200px;"|What they call Chiba!! style="width:200px;"|What Chiba calls them |- |[[File:Conan Edogawa 60px.jpg]]||[[Conan Edogawa]]||Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')||Conan-kun |- |[[File:Ran Mouri 60px.jpg]]||[[Ran Mouri]]||Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')|| |} </tab> <tab title="Detective Boys"> {| class="chartable cells-centered" style="margin: 0px;" ! style="width:60px;"|Picture!! style="width:125px;"|Name!! style="width:200px;"|What they call Chiba!! style="width:200px;"|What Chiba calls them |- |[[File:Genta Kojima 60px.jpg]]||[[Genta Kojima]]||Chiba|| |- |[[File:Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya 60px.jpg]]||[[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya]]||Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')|| |- |[[File:Ayumi Yoshida 60px.jpg]]||[[Ayumi Yoshida]]||Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')|| |- |[[File:Ai Haibara 60px.jpg]]||[[Ai Haibara]]||Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')|| |- |[[File:Hiroshi Agasa 60px.jpg]]||[[Hiroshi Agasa]]||Detective Chiba (''Chiba-keiji'')|| |} </tabs> == Plot overview == === UFO Murder Case === A fan of Chiba's sends him a package with his full name written on it as "Kazunobu Chiba". == Relationships analysis == === Family & Friends === ==== [[Wataru Takagi]] ==== [[Wataru Takagi|Takagi]] and Chiba are fellow officers in the 1st investigative division (Homicides) of the Metropolian Police, and very good friends and partners. In fact, Chiba was the only male officer in the department who did not harbor an obsessive crush on [[Miwako Sato|Sato]] and would even assist Takagi in his endeavors to win her heart.<ref>[[Volume 33#Sato's Omiai Case|File 330: ''Sato's Feelings'']]</ref> ==== [[Miwako Sato]] ==== Chiba is the only male officer who does not have a crush on Sato and they are shown to be just friends. ==== [[Naeko Miike]] ==== Chiba and [[Naeko Miike|Naeko]] were childhood friends and attended Teitan Elementary together where they both joined the school broadcasting committee (although Naeko only joined because Chiba did). When Naeko was to move away, Chiba wrote down his feelings in a love letter. Naeko wrote her response on the side of a VHS in the committee storage room, hoping Chiba's sweating habit would cause the message "I like you, too" to show up on his hands after grabbing the tape. Unfortunately, Chiba couldn't find the right tape and never got the message. On the day of his elementary school reunion, Chiba returned to the school and searched for the tape again. With the help of Conan and the [[Detective Boys]], he finally finds the message and heads for the reunion. Unfortunately Naeko doesn't show, and he hears from a former classmate that she said she is "now with the one she loved". Depressed, Chiba immediately leaves and finds a lady traffic cop giving him a ticket. When the officer offers to forget about the ticket since he is a fellow officer, Chiba scolds her for offering to ignore his illegal parking. Chiba leaves with the ticket, but then wonders how the girl knew he was a detective. The officer turns out to be Naeko, who has just been transferred to the police headquarters in Tokyo (working under Yumi) and looks forward to working with the one she loves.<ref name=Naeko></ref> ==== [[Sakurako Yonehara]] ==== Chiba remembers that the person who created the message on the VHS tape (Naeko) was good friends with Sakurako, and they were always together. Sakurako was in the grade level below Chiba. == Name origin == Chiba's name comes from his voice actor [[Isshin Chiba]]. The kanji for Isshin can also be pronounced as "Kazunobu", which was the voice actor's original name. Gosho gave the character a given name with different kanji that are still pronounced as "Kazunobu". His original physical appearance was modeled after him as well. == Different looks == {| | style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Chiba_Before.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Chiba's "Before" Appearance (Episode 138)]] | style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Chiba_Middle.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Chiba's "Middle" Appearance (Episode 363)]] | style="vertical-align: top" | [[File:Chiba_After.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Chiba's "After" Appearance (Episode 666)]] |} == Quotes == {{cquote|If you break the rules and let yourself off the hook even once, it'll become a habit! You might think you can break a habit, but you can't!|Detective Chiba to [[Naeko Miike]]<ref>[[Volume 71]], File 742</ref>}} == Trivia == == See also == * [[Characters]] * [[Detective Chiba and Naeko Miike]] == References == <references/> {{Characters}} {{Police}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chiba}} [[Category:Characters]] [[Category:Male characters]] [[Category:Police detectives]] [[Category:Anime original characters]] [[Category:Anime to manga characters]] [[Category:Characters named after their voice actors]] [[de:Inspektor Chiba]]

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