Rumi Wakasa

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Rumi Wakasa
Profile
Japanese name:	若狭留美 (Wakasa Rumi)
Age:	37
Gender:	Female
Occupation:	Deputy Homeroom Teacher at Teitan Elementary school, Year 1 Class B
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 966 Anime: TBA
Appearances:	Chapters: 37 Episodes: 17 Openings: 4 Closings: 3

Rumi Wakasa (若狭留美 ,Wakasa Rumi) is the new Deputy Homeroom Teacher at Teitan Elementary school for Year 1 Class B.

Background

Due to an increase in the number of transfer students to Teitan Elementary school over the past year, they have hired new teachers. Rumi is the new Deputy Homeroom Teacher for Year 1 class B.

Personality

Her personality seems to be that of a well meaning but really clumsy and incapable teacher. She approached the Detective Boys on the grounds that she is scared of the old warehouse at the school and needed them to come with her. However, once she was out of sight of the Detective Boys, her personality changed dramatically to that of a skilled fighter with a scary face, where she rendered three assailants unconscious with a broom in what could have been seconds.

Abilities

Although not directly seen, it seems that she is a skilled fighter. It is still unknown what style she uses.

Appellations

Picture	Name	What they call Rumi	What Rumi calls them
	Conan Edogawa	Sensei Wakasa-sensei	-
	Ayumi Yoshida	Wakasa-sensei Wakasa Rumi-sensei	Yoshida-san
	Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya	Wakasa-sensei	-
	Hiroshi Agasa	-	Professor (Hakase)
	Sumiko Kobayashi	Wakasa-sensei	Kobayashi-sensei

Picture	Name	What they call Rumi	What Rumi calls them
	Ninzaburo Shiratori	-	Detective-san (Keiji-san)
	Hyoue Kuroda	Wakasa Rumi-Sensei	-

Plot overview

Rumi about to attack the robbers.

The Old Warehouse of Teitan Elementary School (Manga: File 966-968, Anime: TBA)

Sumiko Kobayashi introduces her class to the new Deputy Homeroom teacher, Rumi Wakasa. She appears to be a clumsy, shy and fearful person. Rumi approaches the Detective Boys for their help retrieving quicklime from the old warehouse in the school yard which causes them to come across a dead body. Over the course of the case Rumi uses her clumsiness to give hints to Conan on how to solve the case. Once she was out of their sight, her personality completely changed and she beat up a few robbers.

Rumi Wakasa's Neighbor Murder Case (Manga: 978-980, Anime: TBA)

Rumi overhears an argument between her neighbor and his girlfriend, as she was leaving for school, and smiles. Later she accidently destroys a picture that was going to be used for a school play and she says that she will redraw it. Conan and the detective boys accompanied her to help. After they finish, Rumi treats them to dinner. But when they hear loud sounds from the neighbor, they goes over to check it out and finds a dead body and an unconscious man. Later back in Rumi's apartment, Conan finds a receipt that may prove that she knew the case would happen before hand and invited them there on purpose. Later Rumi incapacitates the culprit under the guise of falling over. The news crews outside happen to take a picture and Ayumi gives them Rumi's name. Hyoue Kuroda is shown reading the news article on his phone. Kanenori Wakita is shown reading a newspaper, but the article is not shown to us.

Rumi stunned in silence, can't hear Ayumi.

Burning Tent Murder Case (Manga: 987-989, Anime: TBA)

Rumi takes the Detective Boys camping. When they approach a group cooking curry over a fire near by, one of them mentions that he has an injured eye and nearly had to get a prosthetic eye. Rumi clenches up, and Conan notices her gripping something in her pocket. A little bit later one of the other campers is burned alive inside his own tent. Kuroda emerges from an adjacent tent and asks her whether the police should be called. However Rumi is standing in stunned silence, staring forward. When she snaps back to reality, Haibara seems to notice that Rumi can't see out of her right eye. Conan starts to wonder if Rumi is clumsy on purpose or that she cannot see so she is clumsy. When Kuroda seems to know the order that everyone introduced themselves in, despite originally claiming to have had earplugs in while sleeping. Rumi accuses him of spying on someone. Rumi has the Detective Boys build an acorn balance toy, which leads to the solution of the case.

Speculation

The name "Wakasa Rumi" is suspiciously similar to the dying message "ASAKA RUM" that Kohji Haneda left when he was killed 17 years ago.

Rumi is not Rum

Rumi is unlikely to be Rum because the Black Organization has no motive to allow someone to use a name which draws attention to "Rum" and the Kohji Haneda case of 17 years ago. Haibara did not react to Rumi, and Rumi does not appear to have any vision problems that would suggest a false eye.

There is no apparent benefit the Black Organization would gain from publicly flaunting the names "Asaka" or "Rum", which can be linked to Kohji's murder. The Black Organization appears to want to cover up anything related to Rum and Asaka since they have sent Vermouth and Amuro to investigate possible references to it, and someone with significant reach is actively scrubbing the internet of information from the past murder case. It would also not make sense for the vital number two of the Organization to flaunt their identity where FBI agents have worked previously and risk being captured.

Haibara directly interacted with Rumi, yet Rumi did not trigger her ability to detect Black Organization agents. Rumi did not appear to recognize Haibara either, instead focusing her attention on Conan.

Rumi's actions, while perhaps intentionally clumsy, do not show she has any vision problems. Most importantly she demonstrated that she has functional peripheral vision on both her left and right sides. This strongly implies both of her eyes are intact because someone with a false eye will lack peripheral vision on one side. However in the latest chapter (988) both Haibara and Conan have a suspicion that Rumi-sensei cannot see through her right eye.

While Rumi is feminine and her brawling strength could be mistaken for a healthy man's, she does not seem to have any characteristics that would cause people to mistake her for an old man.

Relationships analysis

Conan Edogawa, Ai Haibara, and the Detective Boys

Rumi is the new Deputy Homeroom teacher for Conan Edogawa, Ai Haibara, and the Detective Boys' class. She has approached them directly twice to lead them to the warehouse of the school that a robber group had used. Rumi is aware of three of Professor Agasa's gadgets given to the Detective Boys: the flashlight watch, the detective badge, and the tranquilizer dart.

Sumiko Kobayashi

Sumiko Kobayashi is her superior as Homeroom teacher.

Ryujiro Uematsu

Ryujiro Uematsu is the headmaster of her new school.

Name origin

Most likely her name is meant to resemble "ASAKA RUM", the code from Kohji Haneda's death from 17 years ago, with the addition of a W and an I.

See also

• Characters
• List of minor recurring manga characters