Taka'aki Morofushi

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Taka'aki Morofushi
Profile
Japanese name:	諸伏 高明 (Morofushi Takaaki)
Age:	35
Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Relatives:	Mr. Morofushi (father, deceased) Mrs. Morofushi (mother, deceased) Hiromitsu Morofushi (younger brother, deceased)
Occupation:	Nagano Prefecture Police Inspector
Nicknames:	Komei (高明)
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 682 Anime: Episode 558
Appearances:	Chapters: 25 Chapters: 1 Episodes: 18 Movies: 1 Openings: 3 Closings: 2
Keyhole number:	Volume 65
Actors
Japanese voice:	Sho Hayami

Taka'aki Morofushi (諸伏 高明 ,Morofushi Takaaki), more commonly known as Komei (高明 ,Kōmei) is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan.

Background

Taka'aki's parents died prematurely, and his younger brother Hiromitsu was taken in by relatives in Tokyo and separated from Taka'aki. Morofushi and Kansuke Yamato were students at the same elementary school, which is where the two met. Morofushi's exploits were so well known that a book about a child who solved a case in a elementary school, titled "Komei-kun from Second Grade Class A!" was based off of him, while another character in the book was based off of Yamato. Morofushi cherishes the book, keeping it in the glove compartment of his car, as the author was a friend of his (she unfortunately died). He was originally a high ranking inspector in Nagano, until he abandoned his job briefly to try and find Yamato when he was left for dead in the snow during a case. After Morofushi found the suspect, and helped save Yamato, he was demoted as an inspector in a local force in Nagano. In episode 653, it is revealed that he has returned to the main headquarters using his abilities.

Personality

Komei is generally shown to be calm and well-mannered, in contrast to the quick-tempered Yamato. According to Yamato, Komei tends to ignore others completely while investigating, and sometimes goes out of his jurisdiction to try and solve a case. He will even put his life on the line if he has to.

Appellation

Picture	Name	What they call Komei	What Komei calls them
	Conan Edogawa	Inspector Morofushi (Morofushi-keibu)	-
	Ran Mouri	Inspector Morofushi (Morofushi-keibu)	-
	Kogoro Mouri	-	Mouri-san

Picture	Name	What they call Komei	What Komei calls them
	Hiromitsu Morofushi	Niisan Taka'aki-niichan	Hiromitsu

Picture	Name	What they call Komei	What Komei calls them
	Hyoue Kuroda	Morofushi	First Division Chief Kuroda (Kuroda-sōsa-ikka-chō) Chief (Kachō)
	Kansuke Yamato	Komei Morofushi	Kansuke-kun Yamato Kansuke
	Yui Uehara	Inspector Morofushi (Morofushi-keibu)	Yui-san (Gosho's thought)
	Ginzo Nakamori		Inspector Nakamori (Nakamori-keibu)

Picture	Name	What they call Komei	What Komei calls them
	Jirokichi Suzuki	Inspector Morofushi Taka'aki (Morofushi-Takaaki-keibu)	Adviser Suzuki Jirokichi (Suzuki Jirokichi-sōdan'yaku)
	Kaitou Kid		Kid

Plot overview

Red Wall Case (Manga: 682-686, Anime: 558-561)

Morofushi is the first one to realize that by looking at red things for a long period of time and then looking at something white, one sees green in the after image (this dying message thus implies the Italian Flag, a vital clue to uncovering the culprit). Right after Morofushi notices the secret message, he texts Kansuke "the late Kōmei" as a hint, and the culprit ambushes him, smacks his head and renders him unconscious. The culprit later sets the house on fire to kill Morofushi, but fortunately he is able to escape before the whole house is engulfed by flames.

Kaitou Kid and the Fairy's Lips (Manga: 1018-1021, Anime: 983-984)

Morofushi arrives at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters to retrieve an envelope addressed to him, and stumbles upon a case involving Kaitou Kid after meeting Jirokichi Suzuki. While talking on the phone with Yamato, Yui Uehara mentions that he had a younger brother who had moved to Tokyo after their parents' deaths and working in MPD. Morofushi replies that he has not been in touch with his younger brother, and thus does not know where he is or what he is doing.

After seeing through Kid's tricks and "solving" the case, he meets up with Sato and Takagi, who hands him the envelope. Inside Morofushi finds a destroyed phone with a hole on it. He thus realizes that his brother Hiromitsu Morofushi has been working for the Public Security Bureau and died while in an undercover mission.

Nagano Snowy Mountains Case (Manga: 1027-1031, Anime: 1003-1005)

Morofushi appears with Kansuke Yamato and Yui Uehara for the investigation of the crime scene which is shown from the video footage. During the investigation, he sees Amuro and realizes he met him somewhere once before. In his flashback, he remembers that Amuro is his brother Hiromitsu's friend whom he met in the café during his study in the collage, who had a nickname "Zero". He suspect that the envelope could be send by Amuro. After that, Kuroda talks to him privately; the conversation is not revealed to us readers, but it can be deduced from his subsequent behavior that he is instructed by his former boss to pretend to not know Amuro.

After arriving at the crime scene, Kogoro, Conan, Amuro, and Wakita, Morofushi greets Kogoro only (and ignoring Amuro) and asks him who Amuro and Wakita are. And as he is called away by Yamato, Morofushi goes past Amuro and says "every moment is precious and not a moment should be wasted." with the inner monologue "time is money, as the saying goes."

Relationships analysis

Hiromitsu Morofushi

Taka'aki and Hiromitsu are siblings. After their parents' death, Hiromitsu was taken in by relatives in Tokyo and was separated from Taka'aki, but they still kept a good relationship. Their contact was forced to stop when Hiromitsu quitted the Tokyo MPD and "took on another assignment" (i.e. began working for the Public Security Bureau). Afterwards, Hiromitsu became an undercover and died during his mission, but Taka'aki was not aware of this until he retrieves Hiromitsu's broken phone four years later and infers from the phone the fate of his younger brother.

Kansuke Yamato

The rivalry between Yamato and Morofushi is mostly friendly, in which they see who can solve the case first. The two are also friends, and although they sometimes clash (with Yamato being quite rude to Morofushi), the overall relationship is not affected (as evidenced by, for example, Yamato's attempt to get Morofushi back to the prefectural police force after Morofushi's demotion to a local police station).

Morofushi is grateful that Yamato has introduced him to Conan, as he realizes after the Red Wall case that Conan is highly intelligent. He even believes, and confides this to Yamato, that if it were not for Conan's observations, they would have never even come close to solving the case. He even compares Conan to a young version of Zhuge Liang.

Name origin

The Komei nickname in kanji with a katakana reading.

Morofushi's name has a lot to do with Zhuge Liang (诸葛亮), a prominent Chinese military strategist living in the Three Kingdoms era, about 1800 years ago. The courtesy name of Zhuge Liang is "孔明", which is pronounced as "Kōmei" in Japanese. Morofushi's given name "高明" is also pronounced in this way with the on'yomi reading (Sino-Japanese reading) ("Taka'aki" is the kun'yomi reading, or native reading, of the name "高明"). Furthermore, the on'yomi reading of Morofushi ("Shofuku") is somewhat similar to the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese surname 诸葛 ("Shokatsu").

Quotes

“	Make no intrusion into others' affairs. When it comes to relationships between close people, outsiders must never interfere.	„

Trivia

• During Taka'aki's first appearance, after hearing him noting about the case being under his department's jurisdiction and learning his name, Conan inwardly commented "Shokatsu no Kōmei" (Komei's jurisdiction). This is a pun on the Japanese reading of Zhuge Kongming.

Different looks

Episode 558

Episode 653

Episode 810

In other languages

Language	Given Name	Family Name
Japanese	高明 Taka'aki	諸伏 Morofushi
Chinese (Simplified)	高明 Gāomíng	诸伏 Zhūfú

See also

• Characters