Talk:List of Case Closed characters
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[edit] Meh
The following is a little misleading: "He also appeared to know about Conan/Shinichi's secret identity and problem. This is seen when he makes close observation to Conan in some investigation and in the end of Volume 36( when Conan wants to defuse the time bomb).This might make him a 'hidden backup plan' for Kudo's plan." This makes it seems like he might know Conan's real identity. However in that scene he merely wonders who Conan is and doesn't make the connection to Shin'ichi Kudo.
- I agree. This is original research which would not be on Wikipedia; I would remove it in due course. --Samuel Curtis 10:14, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
you only need revert all edits made by this user...it's borderline vandalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=84.61.176.73 87.51.114.252 11:18, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Detective Boys
Should the Detective Boys' members be moved into one page? Not much is known about the children except their likes and dislikes, and their individual pages are stubs. Mazinkaiser666 14:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References of Japanese names
In the explanation of the character Jodie Starling, I saw "Please note that her name is a reference to Agent Clarice Starling from "Silence of the Lambs" played by actress Jodie Foster."
And like Conan Edogawa is an amalgum of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Rampo, the Japanese names of the characters have many references to mystery literature and other jokes which are easily recognized by Japanese.
I assembled several below. But I'm afraid my English is not good enough, and these informations may be useless for English-spaeking people. So I post it here for inspection, rather than putting them into the article directly. If anyone find these info useful, feel free to use/edit them.
- While 'Kogoro Mouri' is not a funny name by itself, it still sounds like Sherlock Hemlock to Japanese, because of famous Kogoro Akechi.
- Both Akechi and Mouri are the names of the famous warlords of Sengoku period, Akechi Mitsuhide and Mouri Motonari.
- In a few anime episodes, when Kogoro Mouri introduced himself, he was received with "oh, that famous astronaut," mistaken for Mamoru Mohri who suddenly became very famous in Japan for NASA space shuttle missions at the time.
- Dr. Hiroshi Agasa: refers to Agatha Christie, because Japanese don't distiguish 'sa' and 'tha'.
- Ai Haibara: Dr. Agasa explains to Conan that he came up with the name 'Haibara' inspired by Cordelia Grey. Kanji for 'Hai' in 'Haibara' means 'grey'.
- While 'Ai' is a rather common name for Japanese girls, usually it's spelled with kanji that means 'love', as Dr. Agasa proposed. But Shiho Miyano chose the kanji that means 'sorrow'.
- Juzo Megure: refers to Commissaire Jules Maigret.
- Eri Kisaki: refers to Ellery Queen. Kanji used for 'Kisaki' means 'Queen'.
- Yusaku Kudo: refers to actor Yusaku Matsuda and Shunsaku Kudo, the detective played by Matsuda.
- Hattori Heiji: refers to Hattori Hanzo and Zenigata Heiji.
- Kazuha Toyama: refers to character Kinshiro Toyama, aka Toyama no Kin-san.
- Ninzaburou Shiratori: refers to Furuhata Ninzaburo.
- Sara Haretsuki (Ninzaburou Shiratori's sister): refers to Sara Paretsky.
- Teitan elementary school: 'Teitan' is an anagram of 'tantei', Japanese word for 'detective'.
- Beika (Conan's hometown): refers to Baker street.
- Some surnames of the recurring characters are taken from famous Japanese mystery writers: Yokomizo, Matsumoto, Yamamura, Kyougoku.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 221.132.153.231 (talk) 12:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC).
