Phantom Thief Kid

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.
You can assist by editing it now. A how-to guide is available, as is general documentation.
This article has been tagged since January 2007.

Phantom Thief Kid in "Case Closed" anime

Phantom Thief Kid, known in Japan as Kaitou Kid (怪盗キッド Kaitō Kiddo) is a fictional character created by Gosho Aoyama. The character appears in the Case Closed (Detective Conan) anime/manga and the Magic Kaito manga series.

1 Character Information
2 People known to be Supporting and Disagreeing with Kid
3 Notes
4 Trivia
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Character Information

The Phantom Thief Kid is a world-renowned thief who steals treasures and gems. He is sometimes known as Kaitou Kid or International Criminal 1412. He was named Kid when a journalist hastily scrawled "1412" and Booker (Yusaku) Kudo read it as "KID" (14=KI, 12=D)^[1]. "Kaitou" (in the Japanese name) means "mysterious phantom thief."

He is an internationally wanted criminal and is originally the world famous magician Touichi Kuroba (黒羽盗一, Kuroba Tōichi^?). Eight years before the story, Touichi was murdered in a magic show^[2] by a criminal organization^[3] when he decided to back out of a deal with them, which feigned his death as an accident. The current Kaitou Kid is Touichi's son Kaito Kuroba (黒羽快斗, Kuroba Kaito^?), a 17-year old student and amateur magician who learns magic and the art of disguise from him. Besides Kaito, Kuroba Toichi had trained Vivian Kudo, Shinichi's mother in the art of disguise^[4]. Chris "Vermouth" Vineyard's mother Sharon is also one of his students^[5].

Inspector Nakamori has always chased after Kid, though oddly enough approves of his daughter Aoko's childhood friend, one Kuroba Kaito. Aoko is Kaito's love interest in the manga Magic Kaito. The son of a high police official, Saguru Hakuba is his rival both for Aoko and as a detective to his thief. The witch, Akako Koizumi, has expressed interest in him.

Kaito uses a number of gadgets to help with his stealing; the most notable are the card gun, the playing cards which can cut concrete, a hang glider cape, pink smoke bombs, and blow-up mannequins.

Not many people know about his true identity, even Conan Edogawa. Kaito becomes a thief to investigate the mysterious death of his father, who was killed by members of the Black Organization. He finds out that they are searching for the Pandora Gem and decides to prevent them from finding it.

Hakuba and Kudo can be compared to Sherlock Holmes and Kaito to Arsène Lupin. Throughout the anime and manga, Kaito Kid and Conan have crossed paths but he has always managed to escape from Conan's clutches by his special skills.

[edit] People known to be Supporting and Disagreeing with Kid

Known 1412 fans: Serena Sebastian, Akako Koizumi, Kaito Kuroba, Jii (Who often fills in case Young Master cannot), a vast majority of the female population in Ekoda High School, most of the people he has stolen from, and most of the public.

Active 1412 enemies: Aoko Nakamori (in 1412 form, she loves the Kuroba side), Ginzo Nakamori, Saguru Hakuba, Snake and the Organization, the 1412 Taskforce, Jimmy Kudo, Richard Moore, Takagi Wataru and the Police Force, Yaiba.

[edit] Notes

He had called Ai Haibara "ojou-san" once in episode 396 of Case Closed/Detective Conan this shows that this is the first time they met.

[edit] Trivia

Phantom Thief Kid's birthday is on June 21st.
Same as their son, there seems to be a thief and detective clash between Shinichi's and Kaitou's dad^[6].
He has a fear of fish.
He has never received a compliment from a person before.

[edit] References

^ Detective Conan Volume 55
^ Magic Kaito Volume 1.
^ Magic Kaito Volume 3
^ Detective Conan Volume 55.
^ Detective Conan Volume 34, when Vivian mentions she and Sharon learnt the art of disguise under the same master.
^ Detective Conan, Volume 55.