Tsutomu Akai

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Tsutomu Akai
Profile
Japanese name:	赤井 務武 (Akai Tsutomu)
Age:	unknown
Gender:	Male
Relatives:	Mary Sera (wife) Shuichi Akai (first son) Shukichi Haneda (second son) Masumi Sera (third daughter)
Occupation:	MI6 agent
Status:	Missing (presumed dead)
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 974 Anime: Episode 881
Appearances:	Chapters: 6 Episodes: 5 Movies: 0 OVAs: 0 Specials: 0 Openings: 1 Closings: 0
Keyhole number:	Volume 92
Actors
Japanese voice:	Koichi Yamadera

Tsutomu Akai (赤井 務武 ,Akai Tsutomu) is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan. He is Mary Sera's husband and the father of Shuichi Akai, Shukichi Haneda, and Masumi Sera.

Background

Seventeen years ago, Tsutomu Akai was involved in the double murders of Kohji Haneda and Amanda Hughes. What happened to him during and after the incident is currently unknown. He was believed to be deceased by his family, though his body was never found. It was his involvement with the murder case that prompted his first son Shuichi to join the FBI in order to investigate what happened to him, and his assumed death led Shuichi to seek vengeance against those responsible.

Before he went missing, Tsutomu sent his wife a message telling her that he had made enemies with "horrible people", asking her to take their children, Shuichi and Shukichi, to Japan, and to think of him as someone who no longer existed. Sometime after his daughter Masumi was born, so both she and her father never got to know each other.

Appearance

He looks quite similar to his second son, Shukichi, having roughly the same hairstyle and facial design. Unlike Shukichi, he did not appear to shave his facial hair regularly. In Mary's memory, he wore a large jacket, a loose white tie, and a cap which, along with his hair, concealed part of his face.

Abilities

He did jeet kune do, which motivated Shuichi to do it too.

Appellations

Picture	Name	What they call Tsutomu Akai	What Tsutomu Akai calls them
	Mary Sera	Tsutomu-san Husband (Shujin) Ano hito (literally "that person", but the intended meaning is "husband")	-
	Shuichi Akai	Father (Chichi)	-
	Subaru Okiya	Father (Chichi)	-
	Shukichi Haneda	Dad (Otōsan)	-
	Masumi Sera	Papa	-

Picture	Name	What they call Tsutomu Akai	What Tsutomu Akai calls them
	Conan Edogawa	Akai-san's father (Akai-san no otōsan)	-

Plot overview

A Chance Meeting at the Beach (Manga: 974, Anime: 882)

Ten years ago, mary reminds Shuichi of his father's last words before his death: "Pretend I never existed. I seem to have made some serious enemies". Shuichi reflects that Tsutomu's body still hasn't been found. When Shuichi speaks of being "infected by the disease called curiosity", Mary is immediately reminded of Tsutomu. Shukichi is also reminded of Tsutomu when Mary tells Shuichi to "purge the fog that covers the truth".

Antique Facet Case (Manga: 1037-1038, Anime: 1019-1020)

After having talked to his sister, Shuichi recalls a flashback, where it said that his father was hired/requested by his friend Yasuharu Haneda, Kohji's father, to investigate his son's suspicious death in the United States, but after having found out that his enemy was in fact really powerful, instructed his wife and sons to leave England secretly for Japan, where it could be safer for them and it was at this time that Tsutomu disappeared, seventeen years ago. It's revealed that Tsumotu uses the phrase "It was 50:50 so we’re both to blame", which is what Shuichi inherited from and Mary uses as well.

Beach House Murder Case (Manga: 1099, Anime: TBD)

When Rumi witness Subaru using jeet kune do and his words, causing her recalls of Tsutomu done the similar things seventeen years ago.

Relationships analysis

Mary Sera

Mary trust her husband's judgment enough to go into hiding with their children, when he instructed them to.

Shuichi Akai

His father's disappearance drove Shuichi to seek revenge.

Masumi Sera

Masumi was born after the family moved to Japan, so she never met her father. But a good friend of her father would provide for her. Tsutomu did know he would have the third child and really wanted to meet her.

Speculation

The mysterious old man using a breather could be Kohji's father, who hated the Japanese police for their incompetence in solving his son's murder case. Then, his driver, a mysterious middle-aged with sunglasses, could be Tsutomu Akai, since they're friends and actually protecting Mary and Masumi.

Trivia

• His name was first revealed via Shukichi's marriage registration in volume 89. However, at the time, the exact pronunciation of the name was unknown.
• The kanji in his name, 務武, can also be read as "Zumu". This is a possible reference to Zeon "Zum" Deikun (ジオン・ズム・ダイクン ,Jion "Zumu" Daikun), Char Aznable's father.
• According to Gosho Aoyama in JUSTICE PLUS Super Digest Book, he went missing in America.

See also

• Characters
• Akai family