Gin
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| English name: | Melkior |
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| Age: | Unknown |
| Gender: | Male |
| Relatives: | Vodka (Subordinate, Unrelated) |
| Nicknames: | Aniki (Vodka), Koibito |
| First appearance: | Manga: Chapter 1 Anime: Episode 1 |
| Appearances: | TV: ? Movies: ? Specials: ? Openings: 12 |
| Japanese voice: | Yukitoshi Hori |
| English voice: | Troy Baker |
| Drama actor: | Kuranosuke Sasaki |
Gin (ジン Jin) is a high-ranking official in the Black Organization and the primary antagonist of the series. He is the organization member who gave Shinichi Kudo the experimental poison APTX 4869 which turned him into Conan Edogawa.[1] He is frequently paired on missions with Vodka.
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Appearance
Gin is a tall man with, as Shinichi put it, the eyes of someone who has easily killed many people without a care.[1] He has long silver hair (light-brown at first in the anime, then blond, then finally changed to match the manga as can be seen in the 13th movie: The Raven Chaser) that goes down to his hips and dark green eyes. He wears a black hat, long black coat, and a white turtleneck sweater.
Later in the series he receives a scar on his left cheek after a bullet from Shuichi Akai's rifle grazes him.[2]
Background
Gin is a high-ranking "executive agent", often giving the other members their orders and supervising group missions, and seems to be able to communicate freely with Anokata. However, his true position is unknown, as he often goes on missions himself.
Gin seems to have undergone serious physical training, giving him incredible stamina and a high pain tolerance, as shown when he remained conscious after receiving a sleep dart and shot himself in the arm to regain full consciousness.[3]
In episode 425, either his name or alias most likely had to do something with a 'Koibito' when Akai Shuichi said "....My lovely, lovely archenemy, Koibito-san"
Personality
Although Gin is loyal to Anokata and follows all of their orders, he is also shown to act on his own initiative on more than one occasion. He is more than willing to take matters into his own hands when he feels another member has failed.[4] He does not trust anyone and does not fully believe anything he doesn't witness himself.[5]. He even once pulled a gun on his own partner, Vodka, when he went against orders and rescheduled a meeting with one of their contacts outside of the organization.[4]
Gin is quite perceptive and intelligent[4]; he can smell out traps his partner Vodka easily falls for. He has yet to be truly outsmarted by Conan, although he has been foiled a couple of times. As soon as he becomes suspicious of someone he gets to work looking into them,[6] but as soon as his suspicions are proven wrong he tends to lose interest completely.[2][7]
Despite being menacing and coldblooded, Gin appeares to respect certain members of his team; Vodka, Vermouth (when she persuades him to leave Conan and Kogoro alone), and Kir (when he decides not to kill anyone at the hospital after she asks him not to).
Relationships analysis
Gin is Vodka's superior and they frequently work together, or are seen communicating with one another by phone. Vodka shows Gin absolute respect, using honorifics[8] while speaking with Gin rather than simply using his codename. Gin in turn values Vodka for his obedience. Gin views and treats Vodka as an "inexperienced little brother".[9]
Gin has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting for her, while she hates him. They may have had a romantic relationship in the past.
Gin and Akai are rivals and enemies.
- Gin and Vermouth
Gin and Vermouth are or were in a sexual relationship with one another.[10] They get along well enough on missions, but Gin does not like Vermouth's habit of keeping secrets or her teasing. Before the events of the showdown on the ghost ship, Gin and Vermouth trusted one another, but some of Gin's trust may have disappeared as Vermouth failed to inform even the boss of her intentions.[10]
- Gin and Tequila
Although Tequila is a subordinate of Gin's, he doesn't use honorifics like Vodka does[11] to refer to Gin, giving the impression Tequila and Gin appear equally ranked.[10]
Trivia
- Gin is left handed.
- Gin can't seem to remember faces he encounters or kills, which explains that he doesn't remember Shinichi.
- His favorite car is Porsche 356A.
- Gin's design has drastically been changed throughout the series. At first, his hair is actually light brown, and the line structure is not as detailed. In addition, part of his hair comes down his face across his nose. As the series progresses Gin's hair is blond, and the line structure is strongly detailed. Moreover, there is no hair that comes down across his face anymore. Gin's hair color changes once again in Opening 24 where it is then silver.
- Gin's English name, Melkior, is the name of one of the Magi, or three kings, who visits the infant Jesus in Christian tradition. The name is Semitic and means 'king city.'
See also
- Characters
- Gin the alcohol
References
- ^ a b Manga Chapter 1: The Heisei Holmes
- ^ a b Manga Chapter 504: Black Organization vs. FBI 2
- ^ Manga Chapter 242: A White World
- ^ a b c Manga Chapter 383: The New Weapon
- ^ Manga Chapter 702: The Bomber's Aim
- ^ Manga Chapter 700: Dangerous Area
- ^ Movie 13: The Raven Chaser
- ^ Vodka uses "aniki" meaning literally meaning "older brother", but in context means "one's senior".
- ^ Conan drill page 239: 出来の悪い弟分
- ^ a b c Conan drill page 239
- ^ Vodka uses "aniki" meaning literally meaning "older brother", but in context means "one's senior".
