Akako Koizumi's Residence
Akako Koizumi's residence is a seemingly decrepit mansion in the style of the Tudor and Tudor Revival architecture, located in some non-descript forest or park area which has to be somewhere in or close to the Ekoda Area, since Akako Koizumi - one of the so far only two known residents of the house, besides her servant - attends Ekoda High School, implying for the building to be in its catchment area.
It's a recurring location in the Magic Kaito franchise and appears in Hanzawa the Criminal once, now suddenly located in the middle of Beika.
Contents
Magic Kaito plot overview
The Scarlet Temptress (MK Manga: 6, MKS: 4, MK1412: 5)
In the beginning, Akako Koizumi talks with the magic mirror at her home, who explains that only Kaitou Kid can resist her. She later on finds out that her fellow classmate Kaito Kuroba indeed is that very kid and somehow brews some Valentine's chocolate in her personal witches' kitchen which will make him her slave.
Later, after torturing Kaitou Kid by impaling a voodoo doll version of his likeness while he's active with a theft, she teleports him in front of her residence, catching him in a circle of black magic drawn on the ground and urging him to eat her chocolate, which he declines.
Would You Grow Up? (MK Manga: 10, MKS: 4, MK1412: 8)
Akako's Delivery Service (MK Manga: 17, MKS: 9)
Sun Halo (MK Manga: 34-36)
Omake Manga (MK Manga: Volume 5 Omake)
Gosho Aoyama as director finishes the shooting of "Sun Halo" and tells his assistants to get "the gate for the other series" for a remodeling of Akako Koizumi's residence into the Kudo residence. Kaito Kuroba is flabbergasted that Gosho's just recycling settings.
Non-canon Magic Kaito plot overview
Magic Kaito TV Specials
The Splendid Rivals (MKS: 7)
Hanzawa the Criminal plot overview
Taboo (Hanzawa Manga: 24)
Models
Magic Kaito 1412
Akako Koizumi's mansion is based on the Bansui-sō in this adaption, a real mansion in the Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku. The same building was later used as a model for a one-off location in a case of Detective Conan too (Kogoro in a Dilemma), as a villa in Karuizawa Yoko Okino tells about.
Trivia
- The Kudo residence seemingly shares a model with Akako Koizumi's residence, considering their similar appearances. Gosho Aoyama also alluded to this during a meta joke in the Omake (Bonus Comic) of Magic Kaito Volume 5. Furthermore, a mansion identical to the Kudo residence in architecture and hence again similar to Akako's home appears in the background of the mystery TV show George Kirishima (from Detective George's Mini-Mini Big Strategy) features in during file 102 of Detective Conan.
