Osamu Kenzaki
Osamu Kenzaki | |
Japanese name: | 剣崎 修 (Kenzaki Osamu) |
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English name: | Osamu Kenzaki |
Age: | 26 |
Gender: | Male |
Occupation: | Actor Show host |
Status: | Alive |
First appearance: | Manga: File 182 (As Detective Samonji) / File 322 Anime: Episode 116 (As Samonji) / Episode 249 |
Appearances: | Chapters: 12 Episodes: 9 |
Cases solved: | 0 |
Keyhole number: | N/A |
Japanese voice: | Eiichiro Suzuki (episode 116) Hisao Egawa (episode 249-present) |
Osamu Kenzaki (剣崎 修 Kenzaki Osamu ) is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan.
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Background
Osamu Kenzaki, age 26, is a famous Tokyo based actor who plays in many TV Shows and movies including Detective Samonji, who he portrays. He is also featured on the Detective Samonji books written by Kaori Shinmei. he has a lot of fans and is also a show host, appearing notably in the cooking show The Treasure Chest Filled with Fruits. He first encounters Conan, Kogoro and Ran at his friend's birthday party after the one whose having her birthday, Kaoru Kusano, is nearly killed. Although he is one of the four suspects, he is cleared of suspicion. He later re-encounters Conan on the stage of a cooking show where the judge of the show is killed. He makes a few cameo appearances on Detective Samonji books scattered in the series and on TV.
Personality
Kenzaki is a good actor, which made him get roles in famous movies and shows.
Appearance
Kenzaki is a tall well-built man who has black hair tied in ponytail. He has a large chin.
Appellations
Plot overview
The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case (Manga: 182-184, Anime: 116-117)
Kenzaki is shown on TV while portraying Detective Samonji. He only appears briefly in a scene as Kaori Shinmei talks about her books.
The Celebrities' Secret (Manga: 322-324, Anime: 249-250)
This is the case where he is properly introduced. Kogoro was invited by Yoko Okino to an engagement party of her best friend, Kaoru Kusano, apparently her future bridegroom was Kenzaki. When it was the time that "Detective Samonji" will be starting to broadcast, everyone gathered in the living room, and Kenzaki himself was watching the show too. But Kusano left and go bathing since she did not want to see herself in the TV. After some time, Kusano still did not return to the living room. Kogoro requested Kenzaki to go and check her out. Kenzaki knocked the door for several times but Kusano never responded. He opened the bathroom door and saw Kusano fainted in the bathtub. Therefore, Kenzaki became one of the suspects in this attempted murder case. Although he proclaimed hismelf to be the "future bridegroom" of Kusano, in fact it was all made up. It was an act devised by Kusano to test the sincereness for her true lover, her manager, Atsushi Makuma. Accordingly, Kenzaki only did a favour of Kusano's. At the end of the case, he is cleared of suspicion.
Kogoro-san is a Good Man (Manga: 787-789, Anime: 661-662)
Kenzaki only makes a brief appearance on TV as Detective Samonji.
The Treasure Chest Filled with Fruits (Manga: 844-846, Anime: 727-728)
Kenzaki is the show host in a cooking show. Unfortunately, the judge is killed by one of three suspects.
Non-canon plot overview
Cameo appearances
He only makes brief appearances on books, posters or TV in anime originals like in The Rainy Night Menace or in The Secret of the Missing Young Lady. He also has a book appearance in the anime version of Which One's Deduction Show.
Relationships analysis
Conan Edogawa
Yoko Okino
Masumi Sera
Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri
Kaori Shinmei
Different looks
Trivia
- Although he portrays a private detective, he himself doesn't have any deduction skills.
In other languages
Language | Given Name | Family Name |
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English | Osamu | Kenzaki |
French | Osamu | Kenzaki |
German | Osamu | Kenzaki |
Mandarin | 修 Xiū | 剑崎 Jiànqí |