Juzo Megure
| "Inspector" Juzo Megure | |
| English name: | "Inspector" Joseph Meguire |
|---|---|
| Age: | early/mid 40s |
| Gender: | Male |
| Relatives: | Midori Megure (wife) |
| Nicknames: | Inspector Inspector-dono (Kogoro) |
| First appearance: | Manga: Chapter 1 Anime: Episode 1 |
| Appearances: | Chapters: 336 Episodes: 546 Movies: 25 OVAs: 3 Specials: 4 Chapters: 2 Episodes: 1 Openings: 40 Closings: 6 |
| Keyhole number: | Volume 4 |
| Japanese voice: | Chafurin |
| English voice: | Mark Stoddard |
| Drama actor: | Masahiko Nishimura (Ep. 1) Masato Ibu (Ep. 2) |
Juzo Megure (目暮 十三 Megure Juuzou), also known as Joseph Meguire in the Funimation, but commonly referred to as Inspector Megure, is a character in the manga and anime Detective Conan.
Background
Shortly after Megure had come to the police force, he was involved in a case in which he would meet his future wife, Midori. As a result of the case, he has taken to wearing a hat in public in order to hide a scar which he gained and his own self-consciousness about how he came to his marriage.[1] Megure was also a good friend of star detective story novelist Yusaku Kudo, and would in the past consult him about one case or another. On many such occasions, Yusaku would take his son Shinichi with him, who would pick up his father's investigate skills and eventually become a detective in his own right.[2]
Megure is almost always there on the scene when a murder occurs, always interviewing the suspects, and acting as the commanding officer of the group of police he brings along with him, among them Wataru Takagi, Miwako Sato, Ninzaburo Shiratori, and Chiba. Megure and Kogoro Mouri were former co-officers in the district.[3]
Plot overview
Personality
Megure is a capable veteran officer who cares much for his underlings, but he is prone to occasional shouting fits whenever something does not go right or when his excitement gets the better of him. He also has little patience for fools, but tends to be a bit too conservative, limiting his ability for flexible thinking.
After Shinichi solved their first mutual case for him, he has regularly consulted him in difficult cases and considered him a great help.[4] In stark contrast to this, he tends to think not much of Conan and the Detective Boys, usually thinking of them as a nuisance until they solve the ongoing case for him. Likewise, from their common police days, he has no high regard for Kogoro, and he thinks that he may actually be under some kind of jinx, since wherever Kogoro shows up, there is always some murder case nearby (a fact which actually conforms to Conan, which in later cases he seems to have realised).
In some Anime Originals Megure has the habit of trying to tell the culprit after they've been revealed that Murdering Is Bad And Totally Unforgivable, he doesn't do this in the manga though.
Trivia
- Megure's scar has yet to be seen, because even when he was hospitalized, he either had his hat or had a bandage that wrapped the whole top of his head.
- Megure does not know how to work with computers well. He doesn't know the most basic jargon nor the proper way to turn one off.[5]
