Eisuke Hondou

Eisuke Hondou
Profile
Japanese name:	本堂 瑛祐 (Hondou Eisuke)
Age:	17
Gender:	Male
Relatives:	Ethan Hondou (father; deceased) Hidemi Hondou (sister)
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: Chapter 508 Anime: Episode 429
Appearances:	TV: ? Movies: ? Specials: ? Openings: 3
Keyhole number:	Volume 49
Actors
Japanese voice:	Junko Noda

Eisuke Hondou (本堂 瑛祐 ,Hondou Eisuke) is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan.

Background

Eisuke Hondo first appeared soon after one of Conan's confrontations with the Black Organization, in which it was revealed that popular newscaster Rena Mizunashi was one of their members. He enlisted into Teitan High School and quickly made friends with Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki, who noticed the striking similarity to Mizunashi.

Some time later, Eisuke visited Ran's father in his office, where he also ran into Conan. After expressing a vivid interest in Mouri's work, he was invited by Ran to come by anytime, much to the displeasure of Conan, who had become suspicious of Eisuke. This suspicion was confirmed by the fact that in subsequent cases Eisuke made several blunders which would 'incidentally' contribute to the solution of the relevant case.

In time, Conan found out that Eisuke was indeed related to Rena Mizunashi. He had come to Tokyo looking for clues of his sister's whereabouts, sparked by him seeing her working as a newscaster by happenstance. He learned the truth from Conan, Hidemi and Shuichi Akai - that his sister, as well as his late father, were working for the CIA against the Black Organization. Following this revelation, he was offered a place in the Witness Protection Program, which he refused, though he decided to follow in his family's footsteps by joining the CIA one day. Alone with Conan, he also confessed that he had fallen in love with Ran and wished to take her with him to America. When Conan protested, Eisuke laughed out loud, stating that Conan's reaction was the final confirmation he had needed: that Conan was really Shinichi Kudo, and that in fact he was responsible for the 'Sleeping Kogoro's' success. With this revelation, he asked Conan/Shinichi to take good care of Ran in his stead, thus promising to keep his secret.

Personality

Eisuke is a person with extremely bad luck. He's constantly bumping into or falling over something. However, his clumsiness belie a sharp intellect and keen talent for observation: With only few clues to work with, he was able to track down his vanished sister to the Haido Central Hospital, where the FBI was keeping her under guard, and even penetrate the facility to confront Rena Mizunashi - who really was his sister Hidemi - before he was discovered by Conan. He figured out that Shinichi and Conan were the same person before even meeting Conan and managed to force to the truth out of him later.

As a person, Eisuke is usually quite jovial and friendly, though very emotional at times; in stressful situations he often lets his feelings get the better of him.

Plot overview

Secret Path to School

Ran mentioned they had recent transfer student in their school who looks like Mizunashi Rena, that student was Hondou Eisuke. With that description, Mouri expected that Eisuke was a girl before actually meeting him.

The Two who Cannot Return

This was the first episode wherein they met Hondou Eisuke. He wanted to meet Kogoro Mouri so he visited his office. He said he wanted to meet Kogoro to borrow some of his luck, he considered Kogoro's way of solving cases while sleeping as when God comes to him. He started observing Kogoro and even questioned why Conan was beside Kogoro while solving the case.

Shadows of the Black Org

During these episodes, Conan started getting more suspicious on Eisuke. He suspected that Eisuke is related to Mizunashi Rena as well as the Black Organization. He realized that Eisuke keeps on trying to put the subject on Mizunashi Rena by telling them hints about a missing TV personality lately, bringing them to the place wherein she got into an accident and taken custody by the FBI and other Rena-related things. He also noticed that they have the same technique in finding out if someone lied wherein Rena tested it on Conan before.

Name Origin

Eisuke's name comes from Bondo (ボンド), the Japanese pronounciation of (James) Bond, and mystery writer Eisuke Kaito (海渡 英祐 ,Kaito Eisuke).

See also

• Characters