Kogoro Mouri
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| English name: | Richard Moore |
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| Age: | 37 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Relatives: | Ran Mouri (daughter) Eri Kisaki (wife) |
| Nicknames: | Sleeping Kogoro The Sleeping Sleuth |
| First appearance: | Anime: Episode 1 Manga: Chapter 1 |
| Appearances: | TV: ? Movies: ? Specials: ? |
| Cases solved: | 400+ (via Conan) |
Kogoro Mouri (毛利 小五郎 Mōri Kogorō) is one of the main characters of the anime and manga. The name "Kogoro Mori" came from two mystery-related sources. "Kogoro" came from "Kogoro Akechi", the detective created by Edogawa Rampo, while Mori came from Maurice Leblanc.
Background
Kogoro is a private investigator,[1] but he prefers to laze around all day. Kogoro can easily become infatuated with beautiful women. His dream woman is pop idol Yoko Okino,[2] and he never misses her television show.[3] Because of his behavior around attractive woman, he often embarrasses his daughter Ran Mouri and while it is not the reason why Kogoro's wife left him, it is why she hasn't come back.
While he is never outright called an alcoholic, Kogoro has a tendency to get intoxicated at social events, and Shinichi/Conan makes sarcastic remarks about him spending money on alcohol. In the anime, his office is littered with empty beer cans,[4] and he keeps a well-stocked liquor shelf.
In college, Kogoro was the ace of the Judo team, however, he was highly vulnerable to stage fright.[5] He is also an excellent marksman.[6]
Kogoro's daughter, Ran Mouri, is also the daughter of Eri Kisaki, who is now living separately after an argument ten years prior.[7] Despite constantly feigning disinterest in her, Kogoro still has feelings for his wife—he has even asked her to move back in with him, but she pretends not to hear him because she is not "ready" yet,[8] though she still has feelings for him as well. These are expressed through jealousy when he comments on other girls' looks.
In the Japanese version due to his name Kogoro Mori he is often mistaken for the famous astronaut Mamoru Mohri when he introduces himself, because they both are in the news frequently, of Japanese decent, and have the same last name. In the English version when Kogoro introduces himself he is often mistaken for "oh, that famous astronaut," as well. In the English version it is possible he is also confused with Patrick Mouri.
In the US version, Kogoro Mouri says that he is forty-three, in opposed to being thirty-seven in the Japanese version. It is unknown if Eva's age remains the same since they had attended school together, and if not, if it'll affect the Princess Pageant storyline that occurred twenty years ago, making her in her twenties when she participated instead of a teenager.
Detective Skills
Throughout most of the series, he is seen as a pretty incompetent detective, often missing obvious clues and jumping to the wrong conclusions, though several of these conclusions were shared by other people on the scene. However, Kogoro does follow the proper police procedures, asks questions, and (with a little help from Conan) follows leads quite well. Despite his ineptness, he had been a prominent police officer under Inspector Juzo Megure ten years prior to the start of the series[9] He is shown to have left the police force after events addressed in the second movie, Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target.
Thanks to Conan's undercover help in solving numerous cases, Kogoro reputation as a detective grows quickly.[10] He hardly remembers the solutions of any cases because Conan knocks him out with tranquillizer darts so that he can announce the solution to the case while hidden, using a device that allows him to imitate Kogoro's voice as a proxy. However, Kogoro never seems to wonder about this fact and often boasts about his merits.
In later stories, there are times when Kogoro is actually able to solve crime cases without the help of Conan, especially when people he knows or cares about are involved (It appears that, while he can connect the dots just fine, he can't actually find them as quickly as Conan does). The most notable of these events takes place during a trip to a hot spring, where one of his old college friends is murdered. Kogoro is actually so disturbed and determined to find the killer on his own that Conan cannot bring himself to drug him, limiting himself to surreptitiously drawing attention to the necessary clues.[11] Despite his frequent moronic analyses, Kogoro is actually pretty smart when he applies himself. He is even able to completely solve a crime himself in the ninth movie, Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths, and Conan applauds him mentally for it.
Appearances
Kogoro is a main character and appears in a majority of the episodes. He has appeared in all the games and all of the movies.
See also
References
- ^ Case Closed, Volume 1, File 1.
- ^ Case Closed Volume 3, File 6.
- ^ Such behaviors can be seen consistently from Case Closed Volume 1, File 6, to Detective Conan Volume 52, File9.
- ^ Case Closed, Volume 1, File 2.
- ^ Case Closed Volume 9, File 6.
- ^ Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target.
- ^ Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target.
- ^ Case Closed Volume 17.
- ^ Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target.
- ^ He first rises to fame in Case Closed Volume 4.
- ^ Case Closed Volume 9, Files 4-6.
