Kogoro Mouri and Eri Kisaki

The romantic relationship between Kogoro Mouri and Eri Kisaki.

Kogoro and Eri in opening 25

Relationship analysis

Kogoro and Eri in school

Kogoro Mouri and Eri Kisaki are a married couple, who have been living separately from each other for ten years because of a personality clash. Despite being separated, they still love each other, although they will sometimes put on a show of disdain for the other. They were known to be a couple even in elementary school, making them childhood friends. It is a running gag that over the course of a case, one of the pair will come close to asking the other if they could move back in together, but then somehow Kogoro ruins the situation by doing something inappropriate or drunkenly flirting with another woman. Their daughter, Ran, tries to get them to hook up with each other by planning out ways for them to see each other out of the blue.

Kogoro and Eri moments

Manga/Anime

Volume 11: Files 105-107 / Episode 32: Coffee Shop Murder Case

• Eri mentions that she would go back to Kogoro if he would just be a little bit nicer and not act immaturely to her.

Volume 14: Files 131-138 / Episode 96: The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases

• Ran encourages Eri to call Kogoro; she does exactly that, and helps get Kogoro more clients, only to be yelled at by an indignant Kogoro, who says that he does not need her help. Kogoro then orders her to stop bothering her before hanging up angrily.

Volume 17: Files 163-165 / Episodes 114-115: Scuba Diving Murder Case

• In this case, Eri accidentally loses her wedding ring on the beach, but pretends to have left it at home to see if Kogoro noticed. She gets angry when Kogoro doesn't appear to notice it, especially when he leaves their lunch early to go back to the beach. Later, it is discovered that Kogoro had always known that she wasn't wearing her wedding ring, and had gone back to the beach to look for it. This left a visibly shocked Eri to drive home speechless, but pleased.

Volume 27: Files 264-266 / Episodes 199-200: Kogoro Mouri, Suspect

• In this case, it is revealed that Kogoro and Eri both keep track of the cases that the other one deals with. Ran is overjoyed by this.

Kogoro asks Eri to come back with him.

• The events take place when Kogoro, along with Ran and Conan, unexpectedly finds Eri shopping with a fellow lawyer. He suspects that his wife is going out with that lawyer, not knowing that she id actually trying to pick a present for himself (as the next day will be their wedding anniversary). They agree to have a drink together with Eri's acquainted lawyers, but the detective's old bad habits while drunk once again enrages her.
• Later, Kogoro accompanies the lawyers back to the hotel, where he, while unconscious, is instead brought to Usui's room as one of her tactics to ruin Eri's career by having "the queen" suspect that her husband has been cheating on her. An unexpected turn of events occurs when Usui is strangled by an unknown culprit with Kogoro being the only one found sleeping inside the locked crime scene. He is then suspected to have committed the murder.
• Much to everyone's surprise, Eri refuses to defend her husband in court, while openly declaring her accusation of Kogoro. However, her real intention is to remain at the crime scene in order to find a way to prove his innocence, but Kogoro misunderstands this and angrily walks away after replying with some sarcastic comments.
• Eri, with Conan's help, eventually manages to unmask the true murderer and clear Kogoro's name. The next day morning, after learning of his wife's deeds, Kogoro walks to where Eri is sitting and apologizes to her. He also sincerely asks her to come back with him, only to find out that she's just listening to Ran's MD without actually hearing anything that he said. This angers Kogoro, and he refuses to play nice anymore. What he does not know is that Eri was recording his nice words, and that she would play them over and over again.

(TV Original) Episodes 264-265: Courtroom Confrontation: Kisaki vs. Kogoro

• Kogoro even goes on the opposing side of a case that Eri is working on, in a plan done by her professional rival Reiko Kujo to try and get under Eri's skin. However, his plan fails, as Kogoro's testimony is able to help out Eri's case instead of Reiko's.

Volume 37: Files 374-376 / Episodes 305-306: The Unseen Suspect

• Both Kogoro and Eri find that the color grey looks warmer than black (later, it is revealed that Kogoro thinks so only because Eri does as well).
  

  Kogoro and Eri share the same Opinion
• Ruri - a former classmate of Kogoro and Eri - reveals that the pair used to bicker over everything in middle school, such as which sauce should be served with fried eggs. And that was why everybody around would make fun of them and exclaim "the lover's quarrel has started again!"

Volume 40: File 413 & Volume 41: Files 414-416 / Episodes 333-334: The Similar Princesses

• It is found that the last ballot for the Miss Teitan competition (of about 20 years ago) was in Kogoro's clothes; it turns out that Kogoro noted for Eri.
• Kogoro reveals that he did so because he thought the word "Miss" in "Miss Teitan" was an abbreviation of "mistake". After realizing the true purpose of the competition, he says without hesitation or reservation that he would have voted for Yukiko instead of Eri. In the midst of anger and disappointment, Eri confiscates money that she earned by doing a detective job for him for Yukiko, Ran and herself, and Ran is also immensely disappointed by Kogoro.

Volume 51: Files 528-529 / Episode 445: Secret of the Russian Blue

• It is revealed that Eri named her cat 'Goro' after Kogoro. As Kogoro fails to realize this, Eri thinks to herself that the two "Goros" differ a lot in terms of brightness.

Volume 55: Files 574-575 / Episode 474: The Love of Lawyer Eri Kisaki

• Kogoro and Eri remember many very important dates in their relationship, and it is found out that she and Kogoro share many things in their minds, including the idea of wearing the outfits both wore on their first date on its anniversary (each of them made this decision independently).

Volume 62: Files 643-645 / Episodes 528-529: Might Over Mystery

• Kogoro figured out to break an alibi by playing pre-recorded background noises using a tape player because he used this trick to fool his wife into thinking he was working. Kogoro tries to help Eri by demonstrating the trick. Unfortunately, he ruins the goodwill when his cassette tape plays a part where a woman flirts with him and Eri misunderstands.
• Eri refusing to consider the idea of actually divorcing Kogoro.

Volume 68: Files 708-710 / Episodes 589-590: The Worst Birthday

• Sango Yokomizo is excited as he finally gets to know Kogoro's wife. He remarks that he has seen many attractive ladies around Kogoro and thus has mistaken a few of them for Kogoro's wife.
• Kogoro gives Eri her birthday present, but on the wrong day. Eri still happily accepts the gift, not minding Kogoro's rather stupid strategy of treating her badly and lowering her expectations and finally surprising her with the present; she even gives him a kiss on the cheek.
• However, it turns out the next day that Kogoro messed up the gifts, and that Eri ends up getting prayer beads. She is utterly irate about this, and yells in her phone call to Ran, demanding to know whether Kogoro wants her dead.

Volume 69: Files 725-727 / Episodes 608-609: White Day of Betrayal

• Kogoro gives Ran a wrapped gift, saying in a feigned nonchalant manner that Ran should give it to Eri when Ran sees her. Ran is happy and asks if it is for white day, and Kogoro exclaims that it is absolutely is not, and that he just does not want the chocolate that he was going to give to Yoko Okino to be wasted.
• However, Conan notes that the wrapping of his gift to Yoko is completely different, showing that in fact, Kogoro has prepared chocolate especially for Eri beforehand.
• When she receives Kogoro's White Dy gift, she tries to hold back her smile, and she is seen later to be enjoying it.

(TV Original) Episode 689: The Client's Message

• Kogoro (inspired by the case) makes his own art out the of the shadows of beer cans, although he doesn't know what the shadow will look like, when the lights close, the shadow is in the shape of Eri.

Volume 75: Files 793-795 / Episodes 667-668: Wedding Eve

• Raita Banba, one of Kogoro and Eri's classmate during high school, mentions that during that time, Kogoro would glare at any guy who dared to talk to Eri. Ran, as usual, is delighted by such stories, and Kogoro, as usual, deems such old memories as unimportant and not worthy of bringing up.

Files 888-890 / Episodes 770-771: The Tense Tea Party

• Kogoro runs straight to Haido Hospital when he gets a text saying that Eri is in the hospital for surgery. To make the moment sweeter, he keeps yelling out her name until he gets to her room.
• However, he is later thrown out of the room by Eri, as he made some stupid remarks while in Eri's room, and Conan pointed out that Kogoro was actually minding his gambling successes before he received the news and thus was not able to get to the hospital as soon as possible.

Volume 93: File 984-986 / Episodes 901-902: Lawyer Kisaki's SOS

• For the first time, Kogoro is not interested in a Yoko Okino movie because she plays a female lawyer, and even worse, the case resembles one of Kogoro's own situation in Kogoro Mouri, Suspect, where Kogoro was a suspect of a murder case and Eri refused to protect him, but instead secretly find evidence to prove him innocent.
• Eri is kidnapped by some husbands who lost their divorce cases against her. They wants to strip her naked and force her to apologize. Upon them announcing their intention while holding Eri hostage, Kogoro, climbing a four-story building using the water pipes (despite having acrophobia), reaches Eri and declares that only he has the permission to see Eri naked.
• As he says this, Kogoro wraps his arm around Eri's shoulder; he proceeds to knock out the kidnappers.
• Eri and Kogoro hold hands after the case is solved. Takagi wants them to go to the police station for questioning, but Kogoro says that that is for another day, and then he outlines his plan to have dinner and then a date with Eri.
• Their happy moment is short-lived, as they start quarrelling again in the cinema after the movie ends.

Movies

Movie 2: The Fourteenth Target

Conan mentions that although Kogoro did shoot Eri, he questions if that was the whole truth, and hangs up.

• In The Fourteenth Target, Eri and Kogoro are shown having a great time eating dinner, but it ends when Kogoro looks out the window and sees the very attractive owner of the bar that he visits. This makes Eri turn angry and act how she normally acts to Kogoro.

Movie 4: Captured in Her Eyes

• Eri is blushing as she recalls that Kogoro's words when he proposed were, "I love you. More than anyone else in the world."

Trivia

• Kogoro and Eri are also part of the "childhood friends" couples.
• According to Gosho in LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book both Kogoro and Eri-san both became self-conscious of their love for each other and they confessed to each other at the same time on both occasions.
• According to Gosho in LOVE PLUS Super Digest Book Eri calls Kogoro before her marriage, Gorô-chan.

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See also

• Kogoro Mouri
• Eri Kisaki