He is close to Ran and Agasa, and after deaging, he befriended Heiji, Haibara, and to some extent the other Detective Boys. Shinichi still keeps his flair for the dramatic (like his mother) that can be seen every time he sets out a deduction in pieces building to a climax.ĭespite his popularity with the masses and his schoolmates, Shinichi has very few close friends. Throughout the series, Shinichi's predicament causes him to gain a sense of humility. Prior to his transformation, Shinichi enjoyed being in the spotlight and was rather arrogant, reveling in making local headlines and receiving fan-mail. The few times he has been too late to save a life haunt him throughout the series. However, he cares deeply about human life, unable to understand how any reason could be sufficient motive for murder, and is convinced that driving a culprit to suicide is no better than murder itself. Due to his bluntness and matter-of-fact manner, Shinichi can come off as rude and arrogant.
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His father, Yusaku started taking Shinichi to crime scenes as a child, which inspired him to be a detective. Due to the influence of his father and the general laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels. He is extremely intelligent, and even from a young age was very intuitive and observant. He was also very popular with the girls as he was handsome not to mention a high school detective.Īt the beginning of the series, Shinichi is already well-known as a brilliant young detective, the "Savior of the police force", for solving many difficult cases the professionals could not. When Conan turns back into Shinichi by using baijiu or a temporary antidote, Shinichi will wear whatever appropriately sized clothing he can find at the time. Shinichi often appears in his high school uniform, but he also wears a suit and tie or regular clothing depending on the occasion. Shinichi is right handed and right footed, but he is good with both feet because of his soccer skills. Shinichi has blue eyes in the manga (a trait shared by all the characters), and they are blue in the anime as well. Shinichi bears a striking resemblance to his father, Yusaku Kudo minus his father's mustache and round glasses.
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He has pale skin and a dark brown/black hair with a cowlick in front and distinctive tuft in the back. Shinichi is a 174 cm (5'8.5") Japanese teenager with a thin, athletic build. The latter warns him he must keep his identity secret as the Black Organization will surely try to kill him and others associated with him should they learn the truth. After a few attempts at proving he's in fact Shinichi, he finally succeeds in convincing the Professor. In desperation and confusion, Shinichi heads back to his house and runs into his next door neighbor and close family friend, Professor Agasa. Shinichi's body shrunk back to that of his six-year-old self. However, instead of killing Shinichi, a rare side-effect occurred. While spying on the suspicious men, Shinichi does not notice another man in black, who knocks him out from behind and forces him to swallow a new experimental poison known as APTX 4869.
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As they are leaving, Shinichi witnesses a suspicious exchange between an unknown business man and a man in black in a secluded area by the ferris wheel. He later ends up solving a murder case there. Viz romanized his original name as Shin'ichi Kudo while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as Shinichi Kudoh.Īt the beginning of the series, Shinichi brings his friend Ran Mouri to Tropical Land, a local theme park, to celebrate her victory in the Metropolitan Karate Championships. Shinichi takes up the alias Conan Edogawa and plans to use his immense skill as a detective to make Ran's bumbling private detective father famous in hopes that he will find a case involving the secret organization so he can expose its crimes and acquire an antidote that will turn him back into a teenager. While on a date with his childhood friend and romantic interest Ran Mouri, Shinichi encounters two men from a secret criminal organization who force feed him a strange poison that causes his body to shrink back to first grade age. Shinichi Kudo (工藤 新一 Kudō Shin'ichi) is the high school detective protagonist of the manga and anime Detective Conan.