Crow
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Crow (カラス karasu, also written as 鴉 or 烏) is a specie of ravenous birds of the genus Corvus. They are a main feature in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan, as they represent darkness and the Black Organization, and Magic Kaito.
The Japanese believe black crows carry souls to the beyond. They also think the action of the city crows is the true manifestation of evil, because they are annoyed that dreadful crows are always invading their privacy by searching their food, or wire and hangers to make their nests, through other people's garbage. Furthermore, crows attack people.
In Detective Conan
- Renya Karasuma, the head of the Black Organization, has the kanji for crow in his surname and is shaped like a crow, also having one as a pet. He also uses Nanatsu no Ko, a song about crows, to encode his phone number.
- At numerous occasions, when the main characters witness the organization or some unrelated cases, evil looking crows fly above or are near them.
- Two anime original cases focus mainly on city crows: episodes 135 and 363.
- Corvin Castle derivates from the word Corvus and has been shown in a painting two times in the series: in the culprit's apartment from movie 2 and in the Sunset Manor's piano room from episode 219. Then, Karasuma's former manor and personified nest is modeled after that castle.
- Matsumoto Castle, the famous Japanese black place, is known as "Crow Castle" and a crow stands for it in the nickname "Kaa-chan" given many years ago by Miyako Kaneshiro, the step-daughter of Okinawa's mayor, when she was a girl, to her housekeeper named Yoshiko Matsumoto in episode 291-293. Open spoiler box to see images.
- Tengu, a long-nosed demon that often appears in Japanese literature, is also "Crow billed Tengu" and the hint in a Kyoto murder case from episode 927-928. Furthermore, in the picture's puzzle invented by Yoshitsune, the late head of the robbers group Genjibotaru, just like this creepy bird at the cabinet in his Gyokuryu Temple on Mount Kurama, it represents the beginning and ending of Karasuma Avenue in Kyoto from movie 7. Open spoiler box to see images.
- Kogoro shuts up crows, because they're perching on the third-floor railing again, while he watched Yoko Okino's TV program who sings like a bird in episode 495.
In Magic Kaito
- Akako Koizumi often has crows for her witch's spells.
- The chest emblem of Samurai Blue is Yatagarasu, the mythical raven, and in Greek mythology, a crow served the sun god, Apollo.
