Gin

Gin
Profile
Japanese name:	ジン (Jin)
English name:	Melkior
Age:	Unknown
Gender:	Male
Nicknames:	Aniki (Vodka), Koibito
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 1 Anime: Episode 1
Appearances:	Chapters: 106 Chapters: 10 Chapters: 1 Episodes: 69 Episodes: 1 Movies: 5 OVAs: 1 Specials: 1 Openings: 28 Closings: 4
Actors
Japanese voice:	Yukitoshi Hori
English voice:	Troy Baker
Drama actor:	Kuranosuke Sasaki

Gin (ジン ,Jin) is a high-ranking official in the Black Organization and the primary antagonist of the series. He is the organization member who gave Shinichi Kudo the experimental poison APTX 4869 which turned him into Conan Edogawa. He is frequently paired on missions with Vodka. In the English manga, he was first introduced as Melkior, but later was reverted to Gin. This is likely due to the fact that Conan is often reminded of the Black Organization by references to alcohol.

Background

Gin is a high-ranking "executive agent", often giving the other members their orders and supervising group missions. He works in the "general oversight division" along with Vodka who is his secretary. Despite his high ranking leadership position, he often takes to the field to participate in missions, complete business transactions, and assassinate people. When on missions, he is typically the one giving orders, even to agents who are equally ranked, like Vermouth. Gin seems to be able to communicate freely with Anokata.

Virtually nothing of Gin's history before the present timeline is known. From the FBI's discussion, he was in a high ranking position, perhaps the same one, two years ago, and his appearance has not changed between then and the current timeline.

Two years ago, FBI agent Shuichi Akai, who was on a infiltration mission, was promoted to the codename Rye. He was called to work under Gin and a meeting for them was set in a warehouse. The FBI staked out the warehouse hoping to capture Gin as it was believed he could lead them to the boss, but the Black Organization discovered Akai's true allegiance and Gin never appeared.

When the tracker placed on the new agent Mizunashi Rena indicated she was in a warehouse where she shouldn't be, Gin and Vodka went to investigate. At the time she was meeting with her father and fellow CIA agent, Ethan Hondou. Recognizing that if Gin discovered the situation he would know they were spies, Ethan committed suicide to protect Hidemi by making it look like she had confronted him for being a spy and had killed him. Gin believed the ploy.

Personality

Although Gin is loyal to the boss of the Black Organization and follows all orders, he is also shown to act on his own initiative on more than one occasion. He is more than willing to take matters into his own hands when he feels another member has failed. He does not trust anyone and does not fully believe anything he doesn't witness himself.. He even once pulled a gun on his own partner, Vodka, when he went against orders and rescheduled a meeting with one of their contacts outside of the organization.

Gin is quite perceptive and intelligent; he can smell out traps his partner Vodka easily falls for. He has yet to be truly outsmarted by Conan, although he has been foiled a couple times. As soon as he becomes suspicious of someone he gets to work looking into them, but as soon as his suspicions are proven wrong he tends to lose interest completely.

Despite being menacing and coldblooded, Gin appears to respect certain members of his team; Vodka, Vermouth (when she persuades him to leave Conan and Kogoro alone), and Kir (when he decides not to kill anyone at the hospital after she asks him not to). Gin doesn't seem to enjoy Vermouth's antics; he tried to put an icepick through her head after she disguised as a waiter to tease him.

Appearance

Gin's murderous eyes.

Gin is a tall man with, as Shinichi put it, the eyes of someone who has easily killed many people without a care. He has long silver hair (light-brown at first in the anime, then blond, then finally changed to match the manga as can be seen in the 13^th movie: The Raven Chaser) that goes down to his hips and dark green eyes. He wears a black hat, long black coat, and a white turtleneck sweater.

Later in the series he receives a scar on his left cheek after a bullet from Shuichi Akai's rifle grazes him.

Abilities

Stamina

Gin seems to have undergone serious physical training, giving him incredible stamina and a high pain tolerance, as shown when he remained conscious after being hit by Conan's stun-gun wristwatch and then shot himself in the arm to regain full consciousness. He then climbed down and back up a chimney despite the shot in the arm. He was able to flee with internal injuries bad enough to cause him to bleed from the mouth when Akai put two rifle rounds in his ballistic vest.

Firearms

Handguns

Gin is skilled with handguns. He prefers a Beretta M9.

Sniping

Although Gin has not fired a sniper rifle canonically, Gin probably has sniping skills based on the way he handled Korn's rifle to locate Shuichi Akai who is 700 yards away, center him in the scope, and steadily aim at him while standing up. In Countdown to Heaven, Gin is an excellent sniper, as shown when he accidentally shoots at Sonoko.

Disguise

He is also capable of disguise, although the extent of his ability is unknown.

Plot overview

Shinichi and APTX 4869

Kudo is forced to ingest the poison APTX 4869.

In his first appearance in the series, Gin is at Tropical Land with Vodka to blackmail a company owner involved in gun smuggling. His and Vodka's suspicious appearance causes Shinichi to follow them, stumbling across Vodka's transaction with the businessman. Gin, who seems to have been keeping watch, knocks down Shinichi with a blunt weapon, then force-feeds him APTX 4869. His parting words to Shinichi are "So long, great detective."

Murder of Akemi Miyano

Akemi Miyano was told that the only way that she and her sister would be allowed to leave the Black Organization was to successfully pull off a 10 billion yen bank robbery. After tricking her into accidentally poisoning one of her team members, she confronts Gin at the shipping yard to complete the transaction. She tries to tell Gin to hold up his end of the bargain, but he tells her the Organization wouldn't let her sister leave anyway because she was too valuable. He then kills Akemi and flees.

Bullet Train Case

(This case only features Gin in the manga. In the anime episode, he is replaced here with a man who looks and dresses very similarly. The same is true for Vodka.) Here, Gin and Vodka are making a deal aboard the Shinkansen. For a large sum of money, their client is given what she believes to be a black attaché case containing information about the stock market. However, the case actually contains a bomb rigged to explode when she calls a certain number on her mobile phone. Thanks to a bug Conan placed in their seats, he is able to learn Gin and Vodka's codenames, but is unable to catch them before they leave the train.

Sherry's Escape

Gin and Vodka were supposed to remove Sherry from the Organization because she began asking too many questions about her sister's death. At this time, Sherry takes the Apoptoxin 4869 and escapes. When Gin and Vodka return, she isn't there. Gin develops an obsession with capturing Sherry and killing her himself.

Haido City Hotel

One day, Conan and Ai saw his car on a street. They put a a transmitter in it only some seconds before he arrived there. After a while, Gin found an auburn hair in the car and he deduced it was Shiho's. He found also the transmitter, so he destroyed it (after that is the famous moment when he imagines Shiho naked). However, Conan and Ai knew where was he going to go, so they went also to the Haido Hotel. There, Pisco kidnapped Haibara and took her to a room with a big fireplace. When Gin and Vodka arrived at the room, she (with her adult body beacuse of the Baikal)was hidden in the fireplace. Gin heared her breathing, and, when she arrived at the roof, he was there. He shot her many times. When he was ready to kill her, Conan arrived and shot a sleeping dart at him. However, he showed a resistance to it, not falling asleep promptly and shot himself in the arm so he would stay conscious. After that, he climbed down the chimney, killed Pisco and climbed back up. He returned to his car with Vodka and Vermouth and they talked about Sherry. In this chapter, it is hinted that he knows Shiho very well, predicting her movements and being able to confidently distinguish her by just a hair she left in his car.

Black Impact

Shuichi Akai shoots Gin's scope out and grazes his cheek. The wound will eventually scar and is seen in all of Gin's later appearances.

Gin coordinates the assassination of Domon Yasuteru. His first plan, is to get Domon interviewed using Kir, have him sit down on a bench, where Chianti and Korn to kill him. His backup plan; which consisted of Vermouth in disguise crashing in front of Domon's car, after which Kir, Chianti, and Korn would kill Domon and his two bodyguards, was canceled when he discovered the transmitter Conan set up. Gin assumes the transmitter was set up by Kogoro, and gets permission from the boss to kill him. However, the assassination of Kogoro is interrupted by Conan whose soccer ball breaking Mouri's window distracts Chainti and Korn who were taking aim. Over the protests of Vermouth, Gin orders the two snipers to kill Conan as well for, as Vodka says, being suspicious. This too is interrupted when Shuichi Akai snipes the transmitter out from between Gin's fingers from 700 yards away. A brief exchange of gunfire ensues, but ends quickly after Akai shoots out Gin's scope and puts two bullets in his flak jacket. Gin recognizes the disadvantage and orders the Black Organization members to disperse without taking any more action against Conan or Kogoro. Gin and the other operatives assume the transmitter was set up by the FBI, but still has residual suspicions about Kogoro. Gin eventually decides not to kill Kogoro at the word of Vermouth.

Clash of Red and Black

Akai's Assassination

Gin is the one that orders Kir to kill Akai. He doubted her allegiances to the Organization and was suspicious of her so he put her at gunpoint and forced her to call Akai to tell him to meet her somewhere. He tells her he will be watching the whole assassination so if she planned on doing anything suspicious, he would kill her. Kir kills Akai (even though there are theories that he may still be alive) and Gin is reassured of her allegiance to the Organization.

Movie Appearances

Countdown to Heaven

Initially, Gin is involved in the plot because he is to eliminate a traitor in the Organization. Later though, he finds out that Sherry was attending a party at the Twin Tower Buildings, the targeted location, and decides to kill two birds with one stone. He shoots at Sonoko, who got her hair permed and looks a lot like Sherry, but he realizes that it wasn't her after all after Conan gets Sonoko to dodge the bullet and she starts panicking in a very uncomposed manner. He leaves the towers in the end, looking forward to killing Sherry the next time he sees her

Raven Chaser

In the beginning, during Conan's dream, Gin appears and is shown to know Conan's true identity. Later, in reality, Gin is looking for a memory card that contains information crucial to the Organization. His next appearance is during the climax of the movie. He, Vodka, Chianti, and Korn arrive at the top of Tokyo Tower in a black helicopter. Gin calls Irish and tells him to hold out the computer chip, then orders Chianti to kill Irish and destroy the chip in one shot. He spots someone (Conan) trying to hide and orders Vodka to start using the machine gun that was built into the helicopter. After Conan catapults the broken light into the back of the helicopter and Vodka is trying to get it back in control, he wonders who could have done so much damage to the Organization and leaves the scene.

Relationships analysis

Black Organization

Vodka

Gin is Vodka's superior and they frequently work together, or are seen communicating with one another by phone. Vodka shows Gin absolute respect, using honorifics while speaking with Gin rather than simply using his codename. Gin in turn values Vodka for his obedience. Gin views and treats Vodka as an "inexperienced little brother".

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Gin imagines Shiho Miyano naked.

Sherry

Gin has an abnormal attachment for Shiho and seems to enjoy hunting for her, while she seems to hate him. They may have had a romantic relationship in the past. In the anime and in the manga, Gin also, imagines Shiho naked once.

Vermouth

Gin and Vermouth are or were in a sexual relationship with one another. They get along well enough on missions, but Gin does not like Vermouth's habit of keeping secrets or her teasing. Before the events of the showdown on the ghost ship, Gin and Vermouth trusted one another, but some of Gin's trust may have disappeared as Vermouth failed to inform even the boss of her intentions.

Tequila

Although Tequila is a subordinate of Gin's, he doesn't use honorifics like Vodka does to refer to Gin, giving the impression Tequila and Gin appear equally ranked.

Pisco

Although Pisco and Gin are executive members and Pisco is Gin's senior, Gin dislikes and looks down on him. He does not show emotion when he kills him in the burning hotel.

Law enforcement

Shuichi Akai

Gin and Shuichi Akai are rivals and enemies.

Character popularity

• eBookJapan held a character popularity poll from April 12, 2011 to May 12, 2011 in which readers of Detective Conan (international included) could vote for their favorite character. Gin placed 20th in the poll with 34 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.

• In honor of the release of the 15th movie, Quarter of Silence, the official Conan movie website held a popularity poll for the top 10 Detective Conan characters. Gin placed 8th out of 10.

• In honor of the release of the 800th manga chapter, Shonen Sunday held a popularity poll/contest containing 91 Detective Conan characters to choose from. Gin placed 12th overall with 190 votes.

Name origin

Gin comes from the hard liquor which is known for its juniper berry flavor. It follows the Black Organization codename pattern of hard liquor codenames for men. Gin's English name, Melkior, is the name of one of the Magi, or three kings, who visits the infant Jesus in Christian tradition. The name is Semitic and means 'king city.' Gin's English name was later switched to Gin to follow the Japanese.

Quotes

“	"So long... great detective."	„

“	"Traitors can't hide their scent."	„

Trivia

• Gin is left handed.(Manga chapter 304)
• Gin can't seem to remember faces he encounters or kills, which explains that he doesn't remember Shinichi.
• His favorite car is his Porsche 356A, which he refers to as "German black rain frog". Notably, the cars registration numbers are 4-8-6-9, the same numbers that are used in APTX-4869.
  

  Gin's Porsche.
• Gin's design has drastically been changed throughout the anime. At first, his hair is actually light brown, and the line structure is not as detailed. In addition, part of his hair comes down his face across his nose. As the series progresses Gin's hair is blond, and the line structure is strongly detailed. Moreover, there is no hair that comes down across his face anymore. Gin's hair color changes once again in Opening 24 where it is then silver to match his manga depiction.
• One glare from Gin can end an argument before it even starts. In episode 176, Gin and Vodka were jaywalking and a man from vehicle that had been forced to stop sharply was preparing to yell at them. Gin looks at him harshly, and the man fearfully shrinks back into his car. In some regions, it is believed that the people with green eyes can bestow the evil eye, intentionally or unintentionally.
• In Episode 425, Gin took Korn's rifle to locate Shuichi Akai who was on a building that is 700 yards. At that moment Akai shot at Gin and the bullet was very visible on Gin's reticule. Gin managed to move his head in time to mostly dodge the bullet.

In other languages

Language	Name	Notes
Japanese	ジン Jin
English	Melkior/Gin	Changed to Gin in the Manga
French	Gin
German	Gin
Vietnamese	Gin
Arabic	جين Jin
Finnish	Gin

See also

• Characters
• Gin (alcohol)
• Black Organization