Shinichi Kudo

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Shinichi Kudo

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Profile
English name: Jimmy Kudo
Age: 17, 7 as Conan
Gender: Male
Date of birth: May 4th
Relatives: Yusaku Kudo (father)
Yukiko Kudo (mother)
Nicknames: Detective of the East
The savior of the police force
Cool guy (Jodie Saintemillion)
Statistics
First appearance: Anime: Episode 1
Manga: Chapter 1
Appearances: TV: 533+
Movies: 13
Specials: 12
Cases solved: 558+

Shinichi Kudo (工藤 新一 Kudō Shin'ichi?) is the protagonist of the anime and manga. Viz romanized his original name as Shin'ichi Kudo while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as Shinichi Kudoh. Shinichi Kudo was a well known High School Detective who helped solve cases which the police could not. One day, he investigates a suspicious man. Later he is attacked and forced to swallow a poison called the APTX 4869 which turns him back into a child. Now he lives with his childhood friend Ran Mouri as Conan Edogawa and helps her father Kogoro Mouri solve cases hoping that they will run into a case involving those strange men, part of the Black Organization, who forced him to drink the poison. He later takes on the alias Conan Edogawa (江戸川 コナン Edogawa Conan?) to keep his real identity secret from everyone (besides a select few) to protect his closed ones.

Background

At the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend Ran to a local theme park called "Tropical Land", to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. He later ends up solving a murder case there.[1] As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown man and another suspicious one named Vodka in a secluded area just outside the park. He leaves Ran and investigates but does not notice Gin, Vodka's partner, who knocks him out and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as APTX 4869. They then leave him to die. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. It shrinks his body to his appearance back to that of his six or seven year-old self. In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, Dr. Hiroshi Agasa who warns him he must keep his idenitity as the Black Organization, will endanger his life and others associated with him.[2]

Conan Edogawa

Conan Edogawa, the "small" Shinichi

Shinichi comes up with alias Conan Edogawa after Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Rampo and pretends to be a distant relative of Agasa's who places Conan in Ran's care.[3] Ran's father Kogoro Mouri, owns a Detective Agency which may allow him to run into a case involving the Black Organization. He is signed up at Titan Elementary to further protect his identity and makes friends with some of the kids and forms the Detective Boys [4]. As the story progresses, Conan later befriends biochemist Ai Haibara. Haibara Ai or Ai Haibara grew up within the Black Organization and is a former member of it along with her sister.[5]

She is the creator of the APTX 4869 drug but took the drug in order to escape from the Black Organization. Conan has run into the Black Organization multiple times, but he fails in tracking them due to Gin's cleverness. But sometimes everyone think both Conan and Haibara had a special relation and friendship that nobody would understands. This is particularly true for members of the Detective Boys who often try to question their relationship.

In some episodes and manga chapters, Haibara would give hint to Conan about her feelings towards him. But in the end, she would always told him that it's a lie. Even though everybody including The Detective Boys, Sonoko, Ran and the other know about Haibara's secret feelings toward Conan, he never realizes it.

It's also been shown that Conan has a strong feeling to protect Haibara if anything happens to her. For example on the episode where Haibara stayed in a bus that has a bomb in it, Conan immediately saved her and tell her to accept fate and never turn back.

Throughout the series Conan has returned back to normal. First he temporary returns to normal after drinking alcohol while infected with a cold.[6] He quickly turns back into Conan after solving the case. The next time was after taking the prototype antidote for APTX 4869.

After two days, the antidote wears off and he becomes Conan again.[7][8] Much further into the series, Shinichi accidentally takes a prototype antidote for APTX 4896. The antidote wears off 24 hours later but he is given another one by Ai to keep his identity secret. After another four hours, he becomes Conan again.[9]

APTX 4869

Main article: APTX 4869

APTX 4869 (四八六九 Yon-Hachi-Roku-Kyuu?), code named Prototype Detective, is a fictional toxin is a derivative of an experimental immortality formula developed by Shiho Miyano, which is used by the Black Organization as an untraceable, lethal poison. APTX is an abbreviation of "Apotoxin," and, as the name implies, it involves the activation of uncontrolled apoptosis which causes death by the destruction of cells. In addition, it can also activate telomerase. However, in very rare cases, it causes the apoptosis of non-neural cells only and the apoptosis would stabilize at some point, causing the victim's apparent age to be decreased. Shinichi, the series' protagonist, is such a victim; later Shiho Miyano, who chooses to attempt suicide by using her own drug, was added to the two known people to have survive after taking the APTX-4869 throughout the series.

Throughout the series there are several instances in which the APTX was temporarily neutralized and Shinichi and Shiho were returned to their actual age forms. The main ingredient for this reversal is a component found in Chinese ginseng root schnaps, which Ai has already incorporated in a prototype antidote for the APTX. It is to note that in the instances where Shinichi or Shiho changed back, the recipient was suffering from a common cold while the component was ingested, indicating that the immune system somehow has to be taxed for the antidote to work.

Personality

At the beginning of the series, Shinichi is a 17-year old student at Teitan High School. He was already well-known as a brilliant young detective who solved many difficult cases that the professionals could not, and known as the savior of the police force[10]. Shinichi was born to Yusaku Kudo, a mystery writer and Yukiko Kudo a former movie star.[11]. He is extremely intelligent, and even from a young age, was very intuitive and observant. Due to the influence of his father, and the generally laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels.[12] Yusaku started taking Shinichi to crime scenes since sixth grade which inspired him to be a Detective.[13]. Besides his intelligence, Shinichi is an extremely skilled soccer player. At first, it was to hone his reflexes but he grew fond of the sport.[14][15] Shinichi is also known for his inability to sing, but was revealed to have perfect pitch. [16][17] He is also a skilled violinist, taking after his idol Sherlock Holmes. He apparently can speak English, as he once conversed with and translated for an American diplomat.[18]

Shinichi is a good friend to Ran Mouri whom he has known since kindergarten.[12][19] Shinichi has not found any interest in other girls.[20] After changing into Conan, Shinichi sometimes calls her over the telephone and imitates his normal voice with the voice-changing bowtie, so that she is not worried about him.[21] He convinces her that he is off solving a very difficult case and will return once the investigation concludes.[22] Shinichi/Conan is not without sexual fantasies regarding Ran; the most obvious example being his getting nosebleeds or blushing--manga shorthand for lust-- when he sees her in a bathing suit, or when Ran pulled him into an onsen with her.[23]

Appearances in other media

Reception

References

  1. ^ TV Episode 1: Roller Coaster Murder Case.
  2. ^ TV Episode 2: Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case.
  3. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1" (in English). Case Closed. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 58–59. ISBN 1-59116-327-7. 
  4. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2005-07-01) (in English). Case Closed. 6. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-59116-838-4. 
  5. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2007-07-17). "File 8" (in English). Case Closed. 18. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-0883-4. 
  6. ^ Case Closed Episodes 48-49
  7. ^ Detective Conan 191- 193
  8. ^ Files 3-7 volume 26
  9. ^ Files 647 to 654
  10. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1" (in English). Case Closed. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 11. ISBN 1-59116-327-7. 
  11. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2005-05-05). "File 10" (in English). Case Closed. 5. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 163. ISBN 1-59116-633-0. 
  12. ^ a b Files 5-8, Detective Conan volume 55
  13. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2008-01-15). "File 5" (in English). Case Closed. 21. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 74, 78. ISBN 1-4215-1456-7. 
  14. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1" (in English). Case Closed. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 13. ISBN 1-59116-327-7. 
  15. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 1" (in English). Case Closed. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 13. ISBN 1-59116-327-7. 
  16. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2007-01-16). "File 4" (in English). Case Closed. 15. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-0445-6. 
  17. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2005-09-08). "File 5" (in English). Case Closed. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-59116-978-X. 
  18. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2008-01-15). "File 5" (in English). Case Closed. 21. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-1456-7. 
  19. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2006-05-16). "File 7" (in English). Case Closed. 11. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-0441-4. 
  20. ^ Chapter 5, Detective Conan volume 26.
  21. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 10" (in English). Case Closed. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 180–182. ISBN 1-59116-327-7. 
  22. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2004-09-07). "File 10" (in English). Case Closed. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media. pp. 180–182. ISBN 1-59116-327-7. 
  23. ^ Aoyama, Gosho (2006-01-10). "File 4" (in English). Case Closed. 9. San Francisco: Viz Media. ISBN 1-4215-0166-X. 

See also

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