Goro Otaki

Goro Otaki
Profile
Japanese name:	大滝 悟郎 (Ōtaki Gorō)
English name:	Inspector Odin
Age:	unknown
Gender:	Male
Occupation:	Osaka Prefecture Police Chief Inspector
Status:	Alive
Nicknames:	Otaki-han (Heiji)
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 187 Anime: Episode 118
Appearances:	Chapters: 30 Chapters: 4 Episodes: 19 Movies: 5 OVAs: 1 Openings: 2 Closings: 1
Keyhole number:	Volume 32
Actors
Japanese voice:	Norio Wakamoto Masaya Onosaka (young)
English voice:	Bill Jenkins (FUNimation) Paul St. Peter (Bang Zoom!) Paul Louis (Macias Group)

Goro Otaki (大滝 悟郎 ,Ōtaki Gorō), also known in the Funimation dub as Inspector Odin, is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan.

Background

Otaki is the chief inspector of the Osaka police district, and good friends with Heizo Hattori and Ginshiro Toyama. Otaki is also close friends with Heizo's son, Heiji, whom often calls Otaki when he needs to find information for an important case. Sometimes, Otaki even assists Heiji, and has a few times before lent a big helping hand in helping Heiji and Conan solve cases.

When he was younger, Otaki wanted to be a professional baseball player. His team made it to the top 8 in the Detective Koshien.

Personality

He is close to chief of Osaka prefecture police headquarter, Heizo Hattori. He and Heiji are good friends and they are close. At work he is serious and also seems to like to have as much help as he could, like in episode 966 when he work together with Fumimaro Ayanokoji to solve the case.

Appellations

Picture	Name	What they call Goro Otaki	What Goro Otaki calls them
	Heizo Hattori	Otaki	Chief (Honbuchō)
	Ginshiro Toyama	Otaki	Old man Toyama-san
	Wataru Takagi	-	Takagi-san

Picture	Name	What they call Goro Otaki	What Goro Otaki calls them
	Heiji Hattori	Otaki-han	Hei-chan
	Kazuha Toyama	Otaki-han Otaki-san	Kazuha-chan

Picture	Name	What they call Goro Otaki	What Goro Otaki calls them
	Conan Edogawa	Inspector Otaki (Otaki-keibu)	Boy (Bozo)
	Kogoro Mouri	Inspector Otaki (Otaki-keibu)	Mouri-san Mouri-han

Plot overview

Detective Play Murder Case (Manga: 1129-1133, Anime: TBA)

Otaki appears after the murder of the first victim Miku Narasawa and secures the crime scene. He remembers one of the suspects, Tenma Anzaka, from his younger days when he had to arrest Anzaka after he killed a thug in self-defense. After the murder of two more suspects, Otaki is severely reprimanded by chief of police Toyama, and takes it to heart. When the culprit tries to commit suicide, Otaki is ready to tackle them and manages to stop them from doing it.

Name origin

Otaki's name comes from the character Gorozo of Otaki from the long-running Onihei Hankachou series.

In other languages

Language	Given Name	Family Name
Japanese	悟郎 Gorō	大滝 Ōtaki
Arabic	Not given	أوتاكي Ōtāki
Bahasa Indonesia	Goro	Otaki
Chinese (Simplified)	悟郎 Wùláng	大泷 Dàlóng
English	Not given Goro	Odin Otaki
Spanish	Goro	Otaki
Spanish (Latin America)	Not given Goro	Archundia Otaki
French	Not given	Otaki
Italian	Not given	Otaki
Korean	대용 Dae Yong	김 Kim
Thai	โกโร่	โอตากิ
Vietnamese	Goro	Otaki

Trivia

• In the non canon Movie 10, he has a cousin named Aoki.
• According to Gosho in JUSTICE PLUS Super Digest Book, he got his scar just after he became a detective.

Different looks

Episode 238

Episode 383

Episode 710

See also

• Characters