Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato

Relationship analysis

Takagi and Sato

Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato are two officers working under Inspector Megure in the first division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, where Sato is currently Takagi's superior. As the story progresses, they start developing strong mutual romantic feelings for one another.

Despite being heavily admired by many male colleagues around her, especially Inspector Shiratori in the beginning, Sato still cares and worries about Takagi deeply, most notably during situations where his safety was put at risk. She also finds in Takagi traits that remind her of her late colleague and lover, Jinpei Matsuda. Takagi, on the other hand, respects Sato as his senior and loves her sincerely as a girlfriend, even to the point of willingly sacrificing his own life just to keep her away from all dangers. After going through numerous difficulties and challenges, in some later cases, their relationship was subtly hinted to have developed to a sexual period; however, the true nature of this development has yet to be confirmed.

A running joke in the series is that their relationship never progresses because of interruptions by the rest of the police force or other characters.

Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato moments

Episode 146-147: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story

• Takagi tells the Detective Boys he has someone he likes and it's quickly inferred that it's Sato.
• Takagi is told that there is someone Sato likes in the 1st division and he wonders who it is, and worries if it is Shiratori.
• Shiratori invites Sato out for dinner at a french restaurant after the case is resolved, and is dejected when he gets rejected by Sato.
• Sato instead invites Takagi out, and then also invites Megune, making Takagi worried that the one Sato likes might be Megune instead of Shiratori.

Episode 156-157: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2

• Takagi asks if Sato likes Inspector Megune (in that way), to which Sato replies yes (she misunderstood). She explains it's because he reminds her of her father, and Takagi realises what she means, that he misunderstood (from before). Sato teases and says he looks like he wants to say something more.

Episode 304: The Trembling Police Headquarters

Near the end of the episode, Sato begins to cry on Takagi's shoulder saying that she wants to forget Matsuda, and after Takagi tells her she shouldn't forget, the two nearly kiss. However, they are interrupted by Inspector Megure

Episode 390-391: Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6

The police department is lead to believe that Takagi will be sent far away on a case for a long time. Takagi decides he will become engaged to Sato before he leaves. Right when he is about to ask her, Inspector Megure tells them it is actually Chosuke Takagi who is being sent away not Wataru.

Episode 534-535: The Scar that Evokes the Past

Sato kissed Takagi

Sato kissed Takagi when he was hospitalized, after Conan and the Detective Boys warded off Megure and some others who were about to enter.

Episode 681-683: The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love

Takagi and Sato's second kiss.

Sato saves Takagi and kisses him, with a camera showing them. The male police officers see that scene and make them angry and jealous.

Episode 751-752: The Beckoning Calico Cat Case

Takagi accidentally reveals that he has slept on Sato's bed because he knows that it's "soft and fluffy", both of them blushed awkwardly in response to the Detective Boys' speculation; later in Page 9 (not in anime), Takagi whispers to Sato that "what was really soft and warm wasn't, of course, the bedding..." in front of the kids, making her furiously embarrassed.

Movies and OVAs

In Movie 4, when a man pushes a woman out of a train and Takagi catches her he remembers when he was holding Sato (who was shot and undergoing surgery) and gets distracted long enough for the culprit to push Ran onto the rail track.

See also

• Wataru Takagi
• Miwako Sato