Akemi Miyano

Akemi Miyano
Profile
Japanese name:	宮野 明美 (Miyano Akemi)
English name:	Akemi Miyano (Kendra in Case Closed episode 14)
Age:	Around 25 (deceased)
Gender:	Female
Relatives:	Shiho Miyano (younger sister) Elena Miyano (mother, deceased) Atsushi Miyano (father, deceased)
Aliases:	Masami Hirota (Michelle in Case Closed episode 14)
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 13 Anime: Episode 13 (She is reintroduced in 128, though her previous appearance is ignored.)
Appearances:	Chapters: 25 Episodes: 23 Movies: 2 Specials: 1 Openings: 6 Closings: 2
Keyhole number:	Volume 41
Actors
Japanese voice:	Sakiko Tamagawa Masako Katsuki (Masami Hirota)
English voice:	Clarine Harp (Michelle Hamlin/Kendra in Case Closed episode 14) Alex Valle (Countdown to Heaven)

Akemi Miyano (宮野 明美 ,Miyano Akemi), also known by her alias as Masami Hirota (広田 雅美 ,Hirota Masami), is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. Akemi is the older sister of Shiho Miyano, and both were members of the Black Organization. However, unlike her sister, Akemi was never considered a high ranking member of the Organization.

After completing a bank heist that was supposed to free her and her sister from the Organization, Gin and Vodka betrayed and killed her before Conan can save her. Akemi is one of the few characters in the show that knows Conan is Shinichi Kudo, as he admits it to her while she is dying in front of him, telling him about how dangerous the Organization is.

Although she dies in her first appearance, Akemi shows up numerous times throughout the series, mostly in episodes featuring Haibara, whom looks at Ran Mouri as a spitting image of her sister. It is also later learned that Akemi was the girlfriend of Shuichi Akai, back when he was undercover in the Organization, and wanted to begin a real relationship with him after she would have left.

Background

A dying Akemi warns Conan about the Black Organization.

Akemi was shot by Gin and killed. Akemi was never considered a high ranking member of the Organization, as her sister was considered more important, due to her being the one that created the poison the shrunk Shinichi. After many years in it, she decides she wants to leave, along with her sister. Both wanted to start a new life, and Akemi was in love with undercover FBI agent Shuichi Akai, who she knew as her boyfriend Dai Moroboshi.

Akemi made a deal with Gin to pull a bank heist in exchange for her and Shiho's freedom. She hired two men to help her out, taxi driver Kenzo Hirota for his getaway car, and a large man for his strength. The night before the heist, Akemi sent Dai-kun (Akai) a text message, asking him to be her real boyfriend if she is able to escape from the organization.

Plot overview

Manga version

Akemi with Shiho, only a little bit before her death, in one of the last times they ever saw each other.

However, after successfully completing the heist, Hirota betrayed them and took the loot for himself. In order to find Hirota and the money, Akemi disguised herself as a school girl and visited Kogoro's office, claiming to be Hirota's daughter Masami searching for her runaway father. After they found him, Akemi contacted the giant, whom had hired his own detective, and a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Hirota. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Akemi slipped some pills given to her by Gin into the giants drink, unaware that they were poisonous and would kill him instantly. With both of her partners dead, she hides the suitcases of money at the hotel's front desk and heads of to meet Gin and Vodka, with Conan following closely behind.

When she arrives at the meeting place, she tells Gin she will only tell him where the money is after he frees her sister, but Gin goes back on his word, saying her sister is far too valuable to let go of. He gives her one last chance to cooperate, but she refuses and he shoots her. Conan arrives at the scene too late, and she dies while he tries to save her. It is here that Conan reveals to her, while she is dying, that he is Shinichi Kudo. Akemi's death is ruled a suicide, as Gin's fingerprints were not found on the gun that killed her, but her fingerprints were.

Anime version

In the anime, she works at a bank under the name Masami Hirota and pulls an inside job, without any partners, while the Kenzo Hirota part of the story was used for another case unrelated to Akemi or the Black Organization.

Personality

Akemi was a friendly, cheerful and outgoing personality. While she could kill without remorse if she had to, she retained enough compassion to despise her life of crime and try to find a better life for herself and her sister.

Relationships analysis

Family & Friends

Shuichi Akai

Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano were lovers while he was infiltrating the Black Organization. Akai's original mission was to date Akemi Miyano in order to meet Shiho Miyano. Akai used Shiho's influence to gain rank in the Organization, intending to become trusted enough to meet with high level agents so the FBI could capture one for questioning. As James Black later recalls, although Akai's relationship with Akemi was merely a stepping stone, Akai actually fell in love with Akemi, and considered her his real girlfriend. Because of this he broke up with Jodie Starling.

The last text message Akemi had sent Shuichi, before her death.

Sometime later, Akemi develops the suspicion that Akai really wasn't who he claimed to be, and he confirms that he is an FBI agent to her. To Akai's surprise, Akemi doesn't seemed surprised by this, so Akai asks her why she never said anything about her suspicions that she was being used by him before, and Akemi hints it is because she loves him. Later, due to a massive error by Andre Camel, Akai is discovered by the rest of the Organization to be an FBI agent, leading to his expulsion. Initially, the Organization couldn't do anything about Akemi because they needed the loyalty of her sister, but two years later they decided that the risk of her contact with Akai was too much. They decided to create a situation where they could eliminate her by having her do a bank heist she was supposed to fail. Sometime near the day of the heist, Akemi sent Akai a long text message, asking him if he wants to be her real boyfriend when she is finally free from the Organization. After the heist, Akemi is killed by Gin, and it is unknown how Akai responded if at all. Akai treasures her final text message, and keeps it in his phone many months after Akemi's death.

How Akemi and Akai met in the manga is unknown, but in the anime, Shuichi Akai originally met Akemi by an intentional accident. She accidentally hit him with her car when he deliberately walked into the street in front of her in order to be hit by her. Akemi helped take him to the hospital, watching over him until he was better. When he woke up, he felt no anger over what she did, and even asked for her name, to which a very flustered Akemi replied, while he told her his fake name: Dai Moroboshi. After this they began dating.

Ai Haibara

Despite the fact that they couldn't see each other often, Akemi and her sister Shiho were very close to each other. Akemi had constantly tried to encourage the studious and workaholic Shiho to relax and find herself a boyfriend.

Akemi's death scarred her sister deeply. Much of Akemi's personality Shiho finds personified in Ran Mouri - perhaps this is the main reason why Shiho was first reluctant to accept her (due to the still-fresh pain of her loss), but eventually came to consider her as a surrogate sister.

Tooru Amuro

Akemi seems to have known Tooru Amuro, and described him and his relationship with Akai to Shiho.

Different looks

Akemi's "Before" Appearance (Episode 13)

Akemi's "After" Appearance (Episode 492)

Trivia

• Akemi's voice actress, Sakiko Tamagawa, is in real-life married to Akai's voice actor, Shuichi Ikeda.

See also

• Characters
• Miyano family
• Shuichi Akai
• Black Organization