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Kenji Hagiwara | |
Japanese name: | 萩原 研二 (Hagiwara Kenji) |
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Age: | 22 (deceased seven years ago)[1] |
Gender: | Male |
Date of birth: | unknown |
Relatives: | Chihaya Hagiwara (Older Sister) |
Occupation: | Police HQ Mobile Team Explosive Disposal Unit |
First appearance: | Manga: File 1021 Anime: Episode 304 |
Appearances: | Chapters: 4 Chapters: 3 Chapters: 13 Episodes: 9 Episodes: 2 Movies: 1 OVAs: 0 Specials: 1 Openings: 1 Closings: 1 |
Cases solved: | unknown |
Keyhole number: | N/A |
Japanese voice: | Shin'ichiro Miki (episode 304) |
Kenji Hagiwara (萩原 研二 Hagiwara Kenji ) is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. He is also a main character in Wild Police Story manga.
Contents
Background
Kenji's father was a mechanic and he wanted to become a mechanic, but later their shop was bankrupt. He decided to become a police because they will never be bankrupt. He attended police academy with Jinpei Matsuda, Rei Furuya, Hiromitsu Morofushi, and Wataru Date. He was popular with girls. All five friends graduate together.
Kenji Hagiwara then join the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department bomb squadron with Jinpei Matsuda. However, he died in the first of a series of bombings seven years prior to the current timeline.
Personality
Kenji is a pretty carefree guy who always have time to joke a bit. He is a heavy smoker and does the job right. He prevents other people so they can be saved before him and always respect his friends.
Appearance
Kenji is an average height man with long black hair and white skin. He is pretty well-built and strong.
Abilities
He has the ability to defuse bombs really quickly but not as quick as Matsuda. He was one of the bests in police academy which granted him a quick hire in the MPD Bomb Squadron. He is able to put on and off his defusal suit really faster than average people.
Appellations
Plot overview
Serial Bomber Case (Manga: 369-373, Anime: 304)
In the case, there is a flashback of seven years ago in a residential building where two bombs were planted by two serial bombers in Shinjuku[2] who had just started his bombing spree. Jinpei Matsuda defused the first with ease and the city paid the ransom for the second bomb so the bombers stopped the bomb. The second bomber died as he panicked when he ran and to avenge himself, the other bomber restarted the second bomb. Kenji Hagiwara and a few other squad members where called to room twenty on the floor before the last to defuse the bomb. At first, the squad members took a pause to wait until everybody had been evacuated and Kenji lit his cigarette to chill. Everybody waited patiently until they received a call from the operators telling them they could start. Then, as they got started, Hagiwara's friend Jinpei Matsuda called him to tell him to quit playing and to defuse it already but Hagiwara told him the bomb's timer stopped. Upon analyzing the bomb, he deduced the bomb would take a bit more than three minutes to defuse but he quickly realized that there were only six seconds left and unfortunately, part of the squad members died along with Hagiwara. Four years later, it was Matsuda's turn to die and that year, the bomber multiplied his attacks.
Kaitou Kid and the Fairy's Lips (Manga: 1021, Anime: 984)
Hagiwara appears in a flashback along with Jinpei Matsuda, Wataru Date, Hiromitsu Morofushi, and Rei Furuya.
Relationships analysis
Jinpei Matsuda
Jinpei Matsuda and Hagiwara were really good friends and always did missions together. They also attended the same police academy. Although Jinpei was more careful to his friend, Kenji was more carefree. On Kenji's last mission, Jinpei called him like he always did and chated with him and told him he should have worn his bomb defusal suit to which Kenji replied he was fine. Unfortunately for him, he died, and Jinpei decided to avenge him although himself died at the hands of the same bomber four years later. Although Kenji died, Jinpei still sent mails to his email even after.
Rei Furuya
Rei Furuya had a good friendship with Kenji and was aquainted with him since he went to the same police academy as Kenji and they all graduated together.
Wataru Date
Wataru Date attended the same police academy as Kenji. They also graduated together.
Hiromitsu Morofushi
Kenji was well acquainted with Hiromitsu Morofushi since they were good friends along with the three others and attended the academy together.
Different looks
Name origin
His surname meaning was "bush clover", while his given name have varies of meanings, from strong and vigorous to iron and purpose, which explains his tenacity and laid back when facing a life-death situation.
Quotes
“ | ...three minutes is more than enough. Right? | „ |
— Preceding Jinpei in his sentence (episode 304). |
In other languages
Language | Given Name | Family Name |
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French | Kenji | Hagiwara |
Thai | เคนจิ | ฮางิวาระ |
Trivia
- Even if he was introduced in the manga in volume 36, it wasn't before file 1021, more than sixty volumes later, that his face was shown. Nevertheless, the anime showed his face in its adaptation of the case and in opening 47.
- He appears with Matsuda in a poster for The Private Eyes' Requiem, but with a halo on his head since he's dead.
References
See also
Wild Police Story | ||
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Characters | Rei Furuya • Hiromitsu Morofushi • Wataru Date • Jinpei Matsuda • Kenji Hagiwara • Hachizo Onizuka • List of Wild Police Story characters | |
Key People | Takahiro Arai • Gosho Aoyama | |
Volumes | Volume 1 • 2 | |
Anime Adaptation | Episode 1029 • 1038 • 1042 • 1061 • R133 | |
Related Articles | Detective Conan (Manga, Anime) • Zero's Tea Time (Anime) • Hanzawa the Criminal (Anime) • Movie 25: The Bride of Halloween |