Sonoko Suzuki

Sonoko Suzuki
Profile
Japanese name:	鈴木 園子 (Suzuki Sonoko)
English name:	Serena Sebastian
Age:	17
Gender:	Female
Relatives:	Shiro Suzuki (father) Tomoko Suzuki (mother) Ayako Suzuki (older sister) Jirokichi Suzuki (uncle)
Nicknames:	Deduction Queen Sonoko Annoying Sonoko (Genta)
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 40 Anime: Episode 6
Appearances:	Chapters: 264 Chapters: 35 Episodes: 218 Movies: 28 Episodes: 4 OVAs: 11 Specials: 9 Openings: 41 Closings: 15
Keyhole number:	Volume 8
Actors
Japanese voice:	Naoko Matsui
English voice:	Laura Bailey
Drama actor:	Mayuko Iwasa (1st) Sayaka Akimoto (2nd)

Sonoko Suzuki (鈴木 園子 ,Suzuki Sonoko), known in the Funimation English dub as Serena Sebastian, is a character from the manga and anime Detective Conan. Sonoko is Ran Mouri's best friend, and is the girlfriend of Makoto Kyogoku, with whom she currently is in a long-distance relationship. Conan Edogawa sometimes has to knock her out with his stun gun watch to use her as "Deduction Queen Sonoko". Because of this, Sonoko has claimed to be a great high school detective in her own right.

Background

Sonoko is the daughter of Tomoko and Shiro Suzuki, the extremely wealthy family of a large company. She has a sister, Ayako, and an uncle named Jirokichi, who is often involved in trying to capture the Kaitou Kid.

Personality

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Sonoko is rather expressive.

Before she began dating Makoto, Sonoko displayed the typical girl her age, acting very boy-crazy, and often mostly thinking about trying to snag the "perfect boy." She would often act sad because she couldn't get a boyfriend, using all necessary means to try and get one. She often dressed in clothes meant to attract boys, and would try to sweet talk her way into being with a boy, by making him chocolates, trying to impress a boy while wearing a bikini, or going to various events that young guys were going to attend. Ran, in the meanwhile, would always be the one to unwillingly attract the boys, which would cause jealousy in Sonoko. However, this all changed when Sonoko met and began dating Makoto.

Sonoko loves using her money to go on big vacations, like expensive ski trips, and loves to buy fancy clothes and items. Also, she is a sugar and sweets glutton, and loves to go to festivals where sugary sweets are on display, often picking up gigantic plates filled with various cakes. She has even used Conan for the sole purpose of having a children's discount on food. She is also a big fan of the band LEX, and various other people in pop music, including Two-Mix.

Conan has had to use Sonoko sometimes, when he needs to do a deduction show. At first, he sometimes struggled to copy Sonoko's mannerism's down, but now is used to it. However, because he has had to use Sonoko so often for a deduction, Sonoko, like Kogoro Mouri, completely buys into her whole "sleeping" person, calling her self the best detective in Teitan High School, and a "Deduction Queen." This makes Conan sometimes completely regret using her to solve a case, though he does admire her courage in certain situations. Sonoko is shown to not be completely clueless, and is sometimes able to solve little things on her own, and can figure things out when she is provided some assistance by Conan, like in The Suspicious Spicy Curry, when Conan had to communicate to Sonoko, Kogoro, and Yamamura in charades and sign language.

Sonoko is a big fanatic of the Kaitou Kid, thinking that not only is he very handsome, but is also herself a very big fan of him, cheering him on in trying to steal something, even when that something is a rare treasure of the Suzuki family! She wishes to meet the Kid up close, and sometimes almost gets her wish, but is very disappointed when she doesn't.

Appearance

Sonoko often wears a bandanna backing up her fringe, skirt, random clothes covering the top. Her clothes often show more skin, in comparison to Ran, mostly for the purpose of attracting guys. In Countdown to Heaven, she temporarily changes her hairstyle to a perm.

Plot overview

Deduction Queen Sonoko (Manga: 40-44, Anime: 34-35)

Deduction Queen Sonoko appears!

Conan and Ran visit Sonoko's mountain villa to see the autumn leaves and meet up with some old friends. On the way to the front they see a strange bandaged man in a dark cloak crossing the bridge. When they see him he turns around, shocking them with his face and eye contact as he quickly makes a retreat around the side of the house. Everything seems fine as Ran tries to find her room, accidentally walking in on the boys of the house. When everyone is asked about the bandaged man he is brushed off as possibly a crazy man with nothing better to do. However he is taken far more seriously when later one of the girls is seen being carried off by him from the windows, the boys give chase and find her dismembered body in the woods.

He had previously attacked Ran in the woods earlier, but ran off when Conan gave chase. Everyone panics and decides that it's best to go to bed for the night, when he strikes again, this time trying to kill Ran in her sleep. Conan kicks Ran out of the way, using his bow-tie to wake her up, she freezes up as Conan grabs for him, but he is thrown against the bed, twisting his ankle. The bandaged man quickly makes a hasty retreat, leaving Conan to wonder why he is targeting Ran. Everyone decides to stay up for the night and keep together to throw off the murderous man in bandages. Conan suspects that Ran saw something that made her a target for the bandaged man, and the culprit is one of the people staying there. The rush for remembrance is on as Conan desperately tries to solve the mystery before the bandaged man strikes again.

After the investigation, Conan solve the case. Kogoro isn't there to be put to sleep, so he decides to solve the case by Ran. But when he shoots the anesthetic needle, Sonoko appears and she falls asleep. Conan reveals, by Sonoko, the killer is Ryoichi Takahashi. Sonoko is very proud, she thinks she settled the case. She was in love with Masaru Ohta, but already isn't. Currently, Conan often uses Sonoko for solving cases.

An important date (Manga: 105-107, Anime: 32)

At the end of the case, Conan asks Ran if she meets Shiro Wakaoji, a young man who was in the coffee shop. She says no, but Shiro is interested by Ran. When he begin to flirt with her, Sonoko arrives. She was his autentic date! Sonoko, very angry, hits him and goes out from there.

Makoto's Introduction (Manga: 219-221, Anime: 153-154)

Sonoko, Ran, and Conan go to Izu because of Sonoko's schemes to get a man. At the beach, Sonoko takes a picture of Ran fixing her bathing suit and threatens to send the picture to Shinichi. Sonoko is upset about her lack of love life. However, a college student approaches the girls and asks Sonoko to lunch. He appears to be romantically interested and asks Sonoko to dinner as well. They agree to meet at their lodgings later that day. The college student tells the group a story about a brunette that was murdered a year ago and now haunts the restaurant he wants to dine at. The group then finds out that another brunette was murdered in the woods recently in the same manner as the brunette from a year ago.

The serial killer tries to kill Sonoko...

The group goes to the crime scene and meet Sango Yokomizo who cautions them to stay safe. Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are staying at a cheap Ryokan because Sonoko doesn't want to scare men away by staying at an expensive luxury hotel. In the evening, the three of them wait for the college student to pick them up in his car. Sonoko realizes that she forgot something in her room and goes back up to get it. Here she discovers a suspicious figure searching her bags. The figure attacks her and is about to stab her with a knife when Ran and Conan, worried about the time Sonoko is taking, come to find her.

Sonoko is saved and the figure escapes through the window. The stoic, and somewhat unfriendly, high school student (Makoto Kyogoku) that is working at the Ryokan moves the group to another room. Ran thinks she has seen this person somewhere before but cannot remember where. The college student shows up muddy and wet and Conan suspects him of attacking Sonoko. Sonoko says she bit the attacker's bicep in her struggle and Conan makes the college student take off his shirt. However, the college student does not have a bite mark on his arm. Makoto has a bandaged bicep and falls under suspicion but Sonoko says he wasn't the attacker since the attacker was hairy. The college student, Sonoko, Ran, and Conan decide to have dinner at the Ryokan because the college student says his car broke down. Conan speculates that Sonoko's attacker was looking for the photographs she was taking during the trip, but cannot figure out why. Conan does not think there are any incriminating photos. Perhaps the murderer overheard Sonoko talking about the photographs and misunderstood. This case is still full of mysteries and Conan cannot figure out why Sonoko was attacked.

Later, Michiwaki (the student), Ran and Conan go to eat to a restaurant, and Sonoko is in Michiwaki's car, sleepy. Suddenly, the car gets on and Sonoko is, again, near the death. When they go to the police station, Sonoko and Michiwaki enter into the forest. There, Michiwaki tries to kill Sonko: he is the serial killer! Finally, when Sonoko thinks she is going to death, Makoto appears and save her. Michiwaki is arrested and Makoto says to Sonoko he is in love whit her, but he must goes abroad. Currently, Sonoko is involved with Makoto.

Jodie's Introduction (Manga: 271-273, Anime: 226-227)

Sonoko, Ran, and Conan are at the arcade where they meet their High School English teacher, Jodie Saintemillion who is an avid gamer. Jodie introduces Ran to a virtual reality fighting game which uses mechanics to simulate a real fight. Ran loses to a gamer named Kengo Bito who taunts her in her lost. Bito plays the game again his rival, Takayasu Shimizu; The battle is projected on a large screen. Bito's avatar overwhelms Shimizu's but stops at the climax of the match. The people in the arcade realize Bito is dead and the police are called in. The police investigate; after reviewing the security camera's footage, they limit the suspects down to four people, a middle aged man, an employee, Shimizu, and Jodie.

Sonoko thinks about Makoto

The autopsy reveals the poison to be Tetrodotoxin; a poison that causes instant paralysis and death soon after. Conan investigates and learns the method and the culprit who murdered Bito. Conan tranquilizes Sonoko and impersonates her; declaring Shimizu to be the murderer. Conan reveals that Shimizu was the one playing Bito's avatar in order disguise the fact Bito was already dead. As for the weapon, Conan explains Shimizu hid a needle inside a cigarette, put gum around it, wrapped it around paper and had it stuck to the employee's shoes. As certain evidence, Conan reveals that a coin with Shimizu's fingerprints should be found in Bito's arcade machine. Shimizu confesses revealing Bito's gambling and debt caused his sister to develop Vitamin A deficiency and resulting in her blindness. As Sonoko, Ran, and Jodie leave the arcade, their discussion leads to Shinichi whom Jodie dubs as Cool Guy; She says goodbye whilst calling Conan Cool Guy and leaves. That night, Jodie calls an unknown person discussing how her target, the Rotten Apple has changed appearance.

Girl Clubbing Case (Manga: 284-286, Anime: 217-218)

Ran and Sonoko are shopping for a sweater as Sonoko wants to buy for Makoto Kyogoku; Sonoko gets scolded by Ran when she learns that Sonoko wants to make it pass as if she had knitted the sweater for him. Sonoko arrives to the pasta shop right then and upon seeing the girls's pictures she identifies them as Ganguro, girls who change their looks drastically to look fashionable and exotic and as a way to rebel against Japanese society. Sonoko calls Ran to ask where she is. She says she's in a parking lot and then she screams in terror because she has just found another victim. Said victim is a 20 year old girl named Tae Aizawa, who used to work at the same store: again, a very young woman with bleached hair, tanned skin, and wearing the special jewelry gifts. Unlike the others, however, Aizawa is actually dead. After discussing some more details, Takagi returns and confirms the information already given. Conan and Ran see that Sonoko isn't with them; Ran mentions that Sonoko was supposed to go to the car and then to the restroom, and then Conan realizes that Sonoko was wearing platform boots... like all the victims. Ran calls Sonoko to her cellphone, and Sonoko says she's looking for a safe way out since the lights are out. She then gets scared since it looks like she's being followed, and as she turns, the culprit is right in front of her and she starts screaming.

Sonoko... saved!?

Sonoko manages to avoid the culprit's pipe and throws her phone at him, revealing his face. She tries running downstairs, with the man being horrified since she saw him clearly. Conan says that the killer saw Sonoko with Mouri's keys and mistook her for the driver, hence why he's chasing her now. Sonoko's phone lands near a purikura machine located near a restaurant in the tenth floor, so they deduce Sonoko and the killer are not too far away from it. Megure takes active part in commanding the police, and both Matsumoto and Mouri notice how pumped up he is. Sonoko runs aimlessly in the tenth floor, and when she's about to reach the gates she trips over her boots and falls to the ground. Ran and the police find her phone on the stairs and deduce she's in the apartment store as no one has seen her in the restaurants. Meanwhile, the maddened killer starts ranting about how all the fashionable girls are bitches in sheep's clothing who should be all killed. Sonoko screams again and this time Ran, Conan, Megure and Co. hear her; they also hear the sound of several things falling, Go stones among them, which allow them to see she's now on the fourth floor (the only one with such arrangments). Sonoko again dodges the pipe, as the culprit rants about how he only wanted to teach her a lesson, but after seeing his face, he had to kill her. Cornered again, Sonoko cowers as he tries to hit her directly... and then Megure shows up. He takes the hit for her and gets struck in the head, but the blow is softened by his hat. At the end, Ran and Sonoko are moved to tears, thinking Megure's girlfriend died. A video of Megure Saving Sonoko can be seen Here.

Murderous Pottery Class (Manga: 305-307, Anime: 228-229)

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Sonoko looking at Ran's vessel.

Sonoko tells Ran she is attending pottery classes to make a gift to Makoto, a big vessel. Ran decides to join too. One day, Conan follows the girls to the pottery class. Ran is making an earthel vessel and Sonoko wants to see that, but Ran doesn't want. Joking, the vessel fell. All the class heard a noise, and Sonoko thins Ran's vessel is broken. But no, Ran has got the vessel in her hand. Conan, Ran, and all the class go to find the origin of the noise, and Sonoko attempts to uncover Ran's vessel. Ran tells her if she do it, their friendship will be broken. Motoo Mino is killed and they try to discover the truth. Suddenly, Conan find out the truth: the master murdered Motoo! The little detective uses 'Deduction Queen Sonoko' to solve it.

At the end, she is talking with Ran and Conan, and they see a photo that Makoto send to Sonoko. In the photo, he is with friends and he put flowers in Sonoko's vessel. She is sad because he thought it was a vase.

Halloween Party (Manga: 429-434, Anime: 345)

Sonoko as a witch

Kogoro Mouri receives an invitation to a Halloween cruise; the Halloween cruise is famous for hiring guests to star in a horror film. At the beginning, Sonoko is making-up Kogoro as a monster, specifically as a vampire. He can bring a friend, and Sonoko wants to go with him because Ran doesn't want, she is afraid by zombies, witches and monsters in general. The day of the party, she goes with Kogoro there, wearing a witch costume. When they are in a taxi, the taxi driver was disguised as a monster too and scared them. During the cruise, the party members are divided into groups with team devil consisting of Kogoro, Sonoko, and people disguised as a werewolf, a mummy, a medusa and an invisible man. Sonoko and Kogoro meet Medusa and they talk a lot with her.

During the party, the host is shot by a crossbow, attached to the arrow is a card from team devil. First, Sonoko thinks, as Kogoro, the mummy is the culprit, because he is the only who hasn't got the card. When Kogoro calls to his house for explain the situation to Ran and nobody picks up the phone, she says Ran could be having a shower. Later, when the invisible man gets rid of his bands and is Shinichi Kudo, she is very surprised. Kudo explains the culprit is the werewolf. The murderer says someone called 'Vermouth' forced him to kill the captain. After, she discovers, at the same time than Kogoro and the others, that the 'invisible man' Shinichi was a faker, and he really is Heiji Hattori.

Sonoko's disguise is entirely black, with a large hat with a stripe in the center, black too. The dress reaches to the thighs, with peak shape. She also wears high boots and long gloves, both black. She carries a broom too. She looks very happy for go to the party, disguise as a "sexy" witch and search cute and handsome monsters. We don't know if Sonoko knows Medusa is really Yukiko Kudo.

Jodie's Truth (Manga: 435, Anime: 346)

At the begin, Sonoko is with Ran visiting Jodie at the hospital. She is very surprised because miss Jodie is a FBI agent. Ahe tihnks she was infiltrated in the high school. She talks with Ran about her friend did while she was in the 'horror cruise'. She says that this attitude is typical of Ran. Also, they talk to Jodie's photos.

Dark Photograph (Manga: 582, Anime: 484)

At the beginning of the case, Sonoko is walking with Ran and Conan to return home after school. She says it's very hot and and she should do as Eisuke, which disappears after school.

The Culprit is Sonoko (Anime: 602)

Is Sonoko the culprit?

Sonoko, Ran and Conan are playing tennis in a court. Sonoko likes Takao Goto, the tennis club vice-captain. But suddenly, Goto dies. Inspector Yamamura goes to investigate the mysterious case. There are three suspects: Yuka Tsuchida, Fumihiro Azuma and Chie Otake. Yamamura surprisingly accuses Sonoko as the culprit. Conan discovers the truth and he uses Sonoko to solve the case. Sonoko then proves her innocence.

In the end, when she solves the case and reveals the murderer is Azuma, Ran says she was worried. Sonoko got very upset with Yamamura of accusing her as the culprit.

Relationships analysis

Family & Friends

Ran Mouri

Sonoko hugging Ran

Sonoko and Ran have been best friends ever since they were little. Sonoko is often there to help Ran whenever she is bullied by other school children, more often there than even Shinichi was. They were often shown hanging out with each others on the way home after school. Sonoko usually invite Ran to join her on trips, attend some activities of her family (most of the times are her uncle's showdowns with Kaitou Kid), even enjoy expensive services, or simply just go shopping together.

Sonoko once said to a murderer what she thought about friendship: "So what if friendship is unreliable and fragile! That way when you communicate with your heart, you can feel the warmth inside. If it were as hard as some chattering iron plate, you wouldn’t feel the warmth, y’know?"

Meanwhile, even though Ran knows that Sonoko has a lot of money, she always makes sure that money never gets involved in their friendship, not going to ski vacations with Sonoko because she doesn't have the money, when she knows that Sonoko would pay for her to go. This, along with other things, has helped strengthen the bond between both Ran and Sonoko.

Before meeting the man of her own, Sonoko was sometimes envious that Ran always got the attentions from boys, however, this didn't affect the deep friendship between them.

Conan Edogawa

Whenever Conan is near at Sonoko, she gets annoyed.

Makoto Kyogoku

Sonoko originally met Makoto Kyogoku while on a vacation, when he worked at his father's hotel in his spare time. At first, neither she, Conan, nor Ran recognized him, because he wore glasses to hide his features. He later saves her when he takes a knife in the arm for her, to protect her from getting killed by a crazed serial killer. This is when Ran finally realizes that he is the famous karate champion. After defeating the killer, he confesses his feelings for her, which leaves Sonoko dumbfounded and flustered. According to Makoto, he originally met Sonoko during one of Ran's tournaments, and loved how feisty and firey she was in trying to cheer her friend on. After this, Sonoko and Makoto begin a long distance relationship.

Sonoko presenting the chocolate she made to Makoto.

Makoto often saves Sonoko from dangerous peril, like in a snow lodge, and in a forest. Sonoko loves to use some kind of concocted scheme to get Makoto to come to her, usually in some romantic way, to create a romantic and dreamy experience for her. This, however, doesn't always end in success, but he sometimes does stumble through her little schemes. He often warns her of the way she is dressed, because he believes that guys will try to come after her because of it.

Sonoko gives the chocolate she made to Makoto.

Sonoko often wants to show Makoto that her feelings for him are stronger than he thinks, planning simple ideas to make him feel special. However, these often go in awry, as she either cannot make what she had planned to make, like when she promised to make him a home-made sweater, but had to resort to buying one in a mall, or Makoto has no idea what she gave him is, like when he believed that the pottery she sent him was supposed to be for flowers. Sonoko keeps a photo of Makoto in her bag, and uses it as a good luck charm for when she takes exams. She has also made him a chocolate, trying to make him feel jealous by not saying who it was for, thus forcing him to visit her in a snow lodge to ask her what was going on. When he finds out that indeed, she made him the chocolate, he gets very embarrassed himself.

Although long distance relationships can be hard to be in, Sonoko has stayed faithful to Makoto, other than dreaming of meeting up with the Kaitou Kid, though this is mostly to see him up close more than anything else.

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. Sonoko placed 7th in the poll with 86 votes out of the 5,883 that were cast.

Different looks

Sonoko's "Before" Appearance (Episode 6)

Sonoko's "After" Appearance (Episode 627)

Quotes

“	Are you an idiot? So what if friendship is unreliable and fragile! That way when you communicate with your heart, you can feel the warmth inside. If it were as hard as some chattering iron plate, you wouldn’t feel the warmth, y’know?	„
— Sonoko spoke to Shodo.

Trivia

• Sonoko has been shown to be very aggressive. For example when Genta called her "Auntie Sonoko", she punched him extremely hard, and when she was interrupted by a soccer ball, she threw it back at the kicker, causing him to fall back.

In other languages

Language	Given Name	Family Name
Japanese	園子　Sonoko	鈴木 Suzuki
English	Serena	Sebastian
Catalan	Sonoko	Suzuki
French	Sonoko	Suzuki
German	Sonoko	Suzuki
Malay	Sonoko	Suzuki
Vietnamese	Sonoko	Suzuki
Arabic	سوكو 　Soko	Suzuki سوزوكي
Korean	보라 Bo Ra	정 Jung
Finnish	Sonoko	Suzuki
Thai	โซโนโกะ	ซึซึกิ

Gallery

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  Sonoko and Ran clutching Conan in fear in a haunted house in Episode 625-626.

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  Sonoko in 10 years of the future, as shown in OVA 9

See also

• Characters
• Suzuki family