The Kaitou Kid is the secret identity of Case Closed"s main character, but there are plenty of things most fans don"t know about Kid.

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Case Closed follows the story of one Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa, a super-smart teenager who spends all his không tính phí time solving criminal cases, who eventually runs afoul of an organization that decides lớn kill him. But instead, they wind up transforming him into a young child, who continues to try and solve cases while hunting down the organization.

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But when he’s not dealing with murder cases & battling the đen Organization, he occasionally giao dịch with a certain phantom thief known as The Kaito Kid. But what bởi we really know about Kid? Well, as it turns out, quite a bit as he’s one of Gosho Aoyama’s earlier creations. Read on khổng lồ learn about Shinichi/Conan’s most formidable foe, & one of the most famous gentlemen thieves in anime.

Something that could easily elude casual Case Closed fans is that the Kaitou Kid got his own anime a while back. In fact, the character actually predates Shinichi Kudo and Case Closed by several years, as Gosho Aoyama’s first chapter of the manga released in 1987 in the pages of Weekly Shonen Sunday. This series was later adapted into an anime series in the khung of Magic Kaito 1412, which came out in the Fall of 2014. This series ran a full 24 episodes và brought us into Kaito Kuroba’s world.

It’s a little vague, but Kaito’s goal is fighting a shadowy organization that we’ve never actually known the name of. It"s referred khổng lồ as the "Magic Kaito Organization" in some circles but that seems lượt thích it implies Kaito is actually running the group rather than fighting it. Fans have occasionally suspected this is the same group as the đen Organization, but in addition to lớn the naming schemes being entirely different, writer Aoyama has confirmed this not lớn be the case. In any case, after learning this group killed his father because he refused to lớn help them find the Pandora, a gem which can give someone immortality, Kaito’s been working khổng lồ bring them out of hiding & shut them down.

When fans think of Lupin, they tend to lớn view him in a lighter sense than most thieves because of his personality. Well compared lớn Lupin, Kaito’s somehow even less dangerous. His goal is khổng lồ find the Pandora gem before The Organization does khổng lồ foil their crimes.

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Everything he steals is focused around this goal, and when a gem isn’t the Pandora? He just gives it back. Though he’s still a thief, Kaito’s goal is much closer lớn saving the world và avenging his father rather than being self-serving.

Despite his name literally being Kaito, Kaito Kuroba is actually not the first Kaito Kid. He isn’t even the second. His father Toichi Kuroba was the first Kaito Kid, taking on the role & performing capers for sometime before dying in a mysterious “accident”. The second Kaito Kid was Toichi’s assistant, Konosuke Jii. He played as Kaito to lớn try & lure out the people who murdered Toichi, before Kaito took on the job for himself. Since taking on the job, he’s found Toichi’s secret room where all his Kaito Kid gadgets và tricks were, và learned more about the hidden world his dad was plunged into.

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Sometimes you’re simply born into your position. It certainly feels that way with Kaito, because his mom was a thief long before he or his father was. Chikage Kuroba was originally known as The Phantom Lady. As a anh hùng of the people, Chikage would steal from massive corporations that made their money through shady means, so pretty much all of them, technically. Later in her career, she began stealing forgeries people were selling for money and giving them khổng lồ the police. After being saved by Kaito’s father Toichi, the two of them began dating.

Kaito just so happens khổng lồ look almost identical khổng lồ Shinichi Kudo, the lead protagonist of Case Closed. The most likely reason for this is that Aoyama really wanted that design khổng lồ take off, so he simply copied it over lớn the series he did alongside Magic Kaito. But it’s actually something that’s acknowledged in universe as well. Kaito has multiple times used this fact to his advantage, helping him lớn get away despite not having a disguise handy. Lượt thích this, he’s even fooled Ran, Shinichi’s girlfriend.

Before Kaito Kuroba became the Kaito Kid, he specialized in magic tricks—he was great with sleight of hand & illusionary tricks. As Kaito Kid, this ability seems to be turned up lớn eleven. With proper preparation, he’s managed to lớn imitate dozens of different people.

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He’s able to lớn subsume himself into a role regardless of a person’s sex (he’s been a woman numerous times) or stature (he’s played everything from a maid to lớn an airline pilot). He’s even proven capable of looking like some children or playing his own rivals and enemies.

Normally, the most popular character of a television series is often a thành viên of the main cast. They might not be the main character, but they’re usually someone who’s in the show more often than not. But Kaito Kid only makes sporadic appearances in Case Closed, as the story is about Shinichi stopping a massive crime organization, not some kid who steals stuff only to lớn give it back. Nonetheless, in everything from online polls lớn polls in Shonen Sunday where Case Closed is published, Kaito typically tends lớn come in either first or second.

There are layers lớn Kaito’s name. His last name, Kuroba, means “black feather”--referring to how he’s always battling with the law. It’s also how one pronounces “clover” in Japanese—and there happens lớn be a clover on his monocle. “Kaitou” means Phantom Thief in Japanese, và when the original Kaitou Kid began performing his art, he was referred to lớn as “International Criminal #1412”. After a reporter referred lớn him as Kaitou 1412, their messily written handwriting was read as “Kaitou Kid”, thus leading us khổng lồ the birth of Conan’s greatest gentleman thief.

Unfortunately, to this day there’s been no end to Kaito Kid’s storyline. Aoyama began working on Case Closed in the early 90’s và it took off as an immediate hit, resulting in him shelving this storyline. Since then, the remaining chapters have been turned into two more volumes, one released in 2007 and another in 2017. Ultimately, if anyone holds the (totally correct) view that Kaito Kid is a better series and would want lớn get an ending to lớn it, they’d have khổng lồ wait until Case Closed came lớn an end. But with the series at over 1000 chapters and counting, people shouldn’t their hopes up.

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