Takahiro Sanada

For other uses, see Sanada.

Takahiro Sanada
Profile
Japanese name:	真田 貴大 (Sanada Takahiro)
Age:	18
Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Relatives:	unknown
Occupation:	Big Osaka soccer player
Statistics
First appearance:	Anime: Movie 16 Manga: File 887
Appearances:	Chapters: 4 Episodes: 5 Movies: 1
Actors
Japanese voice:	Hiroyuki Yoshino

Takahiro Sanada (真田 貴大 ,Sanada Takahiro) is a character in the anime and later manga franchise Detective Conan.

Background

Takahiro Sanada is Big Osaka's striker bench. He usually kicks with his left foot and is the second best Osaka Big soccer player, after Ryusuke Higo.

Personality

Takahiro is fun-loving, goofy, and kind hearted. He keeps his promises and is trustworthy. He promised to Koh Watanabe to kick only with his right foot in the game because he injured Koh. Even Haibara remarked how Takahiro took a promise with a kid way too seriously.

Appellations

Picture	Name	What they call Takahiro Sanada	What Takahiro Sanada calls them
	Ryusuke Higo	Takahiro	This guy (kono otchan)
	Yoko Okino	-	Okino Yoko-chan

Picture	Name	What they call Takahiro Sanada	What Takahiro Sanada calls them
	Conan Edogawa	Sanada-senshu	-
	Genta Kojima	Sanada	-

Plot overview

Kite-Flying Competition Murder Case (Manga: 887, Anime: 766)

Takahiro makes his debut in the manga series.

A Secret of the Big Couple (Manga: 925, Anime: 822)

Higo mentioned Sanada when he talked to Ai Haibara for being in his team, much to joy for her.

Haibara's Lost Phone Strap Case (Manga: 997-999. Anime: 925-926)

The Detective Boys went to the metro station's lost and found to retrieve Haibara's Higo phone strap but the one the clerk gave them was in fact a phone strap with Sanada which made them sigh and continue to look back over for it.

Non-canon plot overview

The Eleventh Striker (Movie: 16)

J. League All-Star Soccer is the bomber's target as it has the highest viewership. The letter declares in all ten simultaneous games, the strikers must use the following play hidden in the letter against the home team to stop the bomb. Conan reveals the border and the staple matches an association football pitch and the kanji written in red is written in a way so that the staple has red markings on top of it; He deduces the bomber wants the strikers to kick the ball in the center of the goal post. As per the letter, the police are only able to alert the coaches and the strikers in each game about the bombs. Without Ryusuke, Takahiro is the best striker so he accepted this task. Signals didn't appear after he kicked in the middle of the crossbar, he was able to kick to the ball in the center of the goal post under the dual pressures of missing and the threat of a bomb.

Promise with a J-Leaguer (Anime: 742)

While practicing penalty kicks, Takahiro's soccer ball accidentally hits Koh Watanabe while he's riding his bike past the park, injuring Koh's ankle. Koh is upset and makes Takahiro promise to play his next match and score a goal using his right leg. Later, it is proved that Takahiro's soccer ball hit Shingo Fukazawa not Koh in the face, knocking off his glasses. Angry, Fukazawa then picked up the ball and threw it, accidentally hitting Koh and causing the accident. After the misunderstanding was cleared, Takahiro tries to score a goal with his left foot, but misses. Fukazawa later apologizes to both Koh and Takahiro, and Takahiro in turn apologizes to Fukazawa.

Different looks

Phone strap souvenir (episode 925).

Trivia

• Plays for Big Osaka and wears jersey number "19".
• Sanada seems know Higo's secret, like his favorite song or singer.
• Unlike Ryusuke Higo,Ai Haibara dislike Sanada, because Sanada always made a mistakes for Big Osaka.
• He is the third original character from the movie, becoming a character in canon manga.

See also

• List of minor recurring manga characters