Case Closed/Characters/People From Notable Cases

The Tsujimura clan (Toshimitsu, Isao, Takayoshi and Kimie Tsujimura, Yukiko Katsuragi, )
The Big Screwed-Up Family that shows up in the case that was Heiji Hattori's first appearance, i.e. The Diplomat Murder Case. Heiji shows up in Tokyo to challenge Shinichi Kudo, and the "stage" is the murder of the diplomat Isao Tsujimura. Who killed him: his father Toshimitsu, his son Takayoshi, his second wife Kimie, or Takayoshi's girlfriend Yukiko?


 * The Atoner:
 * Break the Cutie: Poor, poor Takayoshi and Yukiko.
 * Despair Event Horizon:
 * Jerkass Facade: Kimie treats Yukiko harshly
 * Parental Marriage Veto: Isao has a Freak Out and imposes this on Takayoshi when he sees the photo of the girl he fancies,
 * Kimie visits Kogoro's office to get Conan and co. to their mansion, ostensibly to ask Kogoro to get subtexts for one. And then... well, you see.
 * Jerkass Facade: Kimie treats Yukiko harshly
 * Parental Marriage Veto: Isao has a Freak Out and imposes this on Takayoshi when he sees the photo of the girl he fancies,
 * Kimie visits Kogoro's office to get Conan and co. to their mansion, ostensibly to ask Kogoro to get subtexts for one. And then... well, you see.
 * Kimie visits Kogoro's office to get Conan and co. to their mansion, ostensibly to ask Kogoro to get subtexts for one. And then... well, you see.

Harumi Matsuzaki, Kiwako Todou, Kunio Kawazu, Hiroshi Itou and Masahiko Matsuzaki
Ran still wants Eri and Kogoro to get back together, so she stages a small vacation to the beach. They befriend a group of scuba divers... but tragedy falls over them when one of the girls, Kiwako, almost drowns. And for worse, it's not an accident, but the doing of one of her friends.


 * Distressed Damsel: Poor Kiwako
 * Kikuko Inoue: Kiwako
 * Super Drowning Skills: Masahiko really can't swim.
 * Victorious Childhood Friends: Masahiko and Kiwako.
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Horribly played with.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: ... Well, Kiwako is voiced by Kikuko Inoue. She does show a cattier side in the beginning, but  is very much YN behavior.
 * Not only that:  It takes a very, very forgiving and kind person to do such things.
 * Yuko Minaguchi: Harumi
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Horribly played with.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: ... Well, Kiwako is voiced by Kikuko Inoue. She does show a cattier side in the beginning, but  is very much YN behavior.
 * Not only that:  It takes a very, very forgiving and kind person to do such things.
 * Yuko Minaguchi: Harumi

Mina and Masayo Aoshima
Once, Kogoro loses a ticket for a Yoko Okino concert he wanted to go to. He bumped into a girl named Masayo Aoshima, who also was a Yoko fan and had a spare ticket. They went to the house Masayo shared with her younger sister Mina... but they find out she's killed herself. However, Conan is suspicious and thinks Masayo knows more than she lets them see.


 * Aya Hisakawa: Masayo
 * Cool Big Sis: Mina adored her sister Masayo and imitated her in pretty much everything. )
 * The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry. Mina was the Beautiful Sister, Masayo was the Smart Sister.
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Mina was the flirty girly girl, Masayo was the shorthaired and kinda tomboyish Office Lady.
 * Yukari Tamura: Mina
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: Mina was the flirty girly girl, Masayo was the shorthaired and kinda tomboyish Office Lady.
 * Yukari Tamura: Mina
 * Yukari Tamura: Mina

The Hatamoto Family (Gozo, Kitaro, Mariko, Jouji, Akie, Tetsuo, Ichiro and Natsue Hatamoto. Also, Takeshi Hatamoto nee Zaiki and Kenji Suzuki).
The people involved in a rather notorious case from the first season. After having lost their ferry, Conan and the Mouris are "picked up" by the rich Hatamoto clan and board into their yacht. However, they start witnessing the extremely dark family dynamics as well as the Jerkass behavior from the leader, Gozo Hatamoto... who is bloodily murdered. And that's just the beginning!


 * Abusive Parents: More exactly, abusive grandfather and father-in-law. Gozo was an HORRIBLE Jerkass to everyone except to Natsue, and his preferred victims were Kitaro and Ichiro.
 * Akira Ishida: As Ichiro Hatamoto.
 * Asshole Victim: Gozo.
 * Big Screwed-Up Family: And holy shit, HOW.
 * Daddy's Girl: Natsue was a Grandpa's Girl.
 * Gold Digger: Akie's husband Tatsuo, who married her in hopes of inheriting money since she was one of the possible heirs. He even says so openly, and in front of Akie herself.
 * Takeshi is accused by Gozo of being this, since
 * He Knows Too Much: The reason why  died.
 * Henpecked Husband: Mariko is an Almighty Mom, so Kitaro obviously is this. They do care for each other, though.
 * The Jeeves: Suzuki
 * Kick the Dog: Gozo's psychological and emotional abuse of his son-in-law Kitaro and grandson Ichiro.
 * Pet the Dog: He cared for his youngest granddaughter Natsue, though.
 * : A huge plot point.
 * The Maiden Name Debate: The husbands of Akie and Natsue, Tatsuo and Takeshi, married into the Hatamoto family and thus took up their surname.
 * My Beloved Smother: Mariko has traces of this.
 * The Ojou: Akie and Natsue. Akie is the Rich Bitch type, Natsue is the Yamato Nadeshiko one.
 * Onee-Sama: Natsue, being a very polite Yamato Nadeshiko-like Ojou, addresses Akie as this.
 * Red Herring:
 * Rich Bitch: Both Akie and Tatsuo.
 * Shigeru Nakahara: As Takeshi Zaiki/Hatamoto.
 * Supreme Chef: Jouji, who works as a popular French chef and shows off his collection of rare professional knives.
 * Shrinking Violet: Ichiro
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit:
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit:
 * Wounded Gazelle Gambit:

Kogoro Mouri's college friends (Kazushi Nakanishi, Yumi Horikoshi, Noriko Ayashiro née Kimoto, Yukio Ayashiro, Jun Oomura)
Another famous case from the first season. Every five years Kogoro Mouri reunites himself in a hot spring site with his best friends from college, the members of the judo club he used to belong to. This year, Ran and Conan manage to join in - and just in time, as former Cute Sports Club Manager and current Office Lady Yumi Horikoshi apparently finishes her own life via Pretty Little Headshots. But to Conan and Kogoro, this is not suicide.


 * Bald of Awesome: Kazushi is fully bald, as well as a strong judo practitioner and a competent policeman.
 * Christmas Cake: Yumi, despite her beauty, was unmarried at age 34.
 * Driven to Suicide: People think at first that Yumi killed herself. This isn't helped by how she did express the wish to finish herself off since she's been depressed and in danger of losing her job in the middle of the economic crisis.
 * Genius Bruiser: Kazushi
 * Hello Nurse: Yumi, referred to as the Madonna of the group.
 * Hot Springs Episode: And very infamous for how Conan plays the role of Accidental Pervert at the beginning.
 * Hot Teacher: Yukio is pretty goodlooking and works as a schoolteacher.
 * Meganekko: Noriko is in her late 30's and still looks very Moe.
 * Nakama: Kogoro's. Which is why he's so incredibly pissed at Yumi's death.
 * Office Lady: Yumi
 * Sickeningly Sweethearts: Yukio and Noriko, though this is understandable since they just got married and the trip might be doubling as their honeymoon.
 * Tsundere: Yumi.
 * Office Lady: Yumi
 * Sickeningly Sweethearts: Yukio and Noriko, though this is understandable since they just got married and the trip might be doubling as their honeymoon.
 * Tsundere: Yumi.

Akiko Yonehara and others (Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, Sugiyama-sensei, Atsushi Mori, )
From the Ski Lodge case. Sonoko takes Ran and Conan to a ski trip and they run into their old school teacher Akiko Yonehara and her co-workers, who are there in vacation. They stay at the same lodge alongside a snarky reporter named Atsushi Mori, who notes that the villa was the scenario to a murder some time ago. And then another teacher, Sugiyama, is killed...

"Nakamura: It's the last strand of hope for a woman in her 30's who missed her prime marriage age, right?"
 * Break the Cutie: This case was very hard on
 * Christmas Cake: Nakamura teases Yonehara about being this:
 * Christmas Cake: Nakamura teases Yonehara about being this:


 * Distress Ball: Poor Sonoko,
 * Hot Teacher: Yonehara and Nakamura
 * Improbable Weapon User:
 * Looks Like Cesare: Moori, and how.
 * Psychological Horror: Invoked by the killer, who writes in lipstick some kana symbols that when put together, read:  This
 * Psychological Horror: Invoked by the killer, who writes in lipstick some kana symbols that when put together, read:  This

Ayako Suzuki's friends (Chikako Ikeda, Ryoichi Takahashi, Masaru Ohta, Hiroki Sumiya, )
The people involved in a case that is infamous for the huge dose of Nightmare Fuel. Sonoko invites Ran and Conan to a mountain villa to meet up with her sister Ayako and her friends and enjoy the autumn in nice company. Things get weird when Ran and Conan see a man with bandages on his face, and then one of the members of the club is first kidnapped and later gruesomely killed. The fact that their past is far more troubled that it looks like  doesn't help their case.


 * Accidental Pervert: As Ran searches for her and Conan's room, she ends up walking on the guys when they were changing clothes.
 * Ax Crazy: The culprit, whose Weapon of Choice is an axe and not only uses it to, but to
 * Bridal Carry: Horribly used when the group sees the killer carry a kidnapped  away in his arms, right before   body is found.
 * Handsome Lech: Ohta
 * Madness Mantra: 's "No one will believe me!", referring to
 * Smoking Is Cool: Ohta
 * There Is Only One Bed: Ran and Conan spend the night in the same bed. Not like that, of course.
 * Yandere:
 * Smoking Is Cool: Ohta
 * There Is Only One Bed: Ran and Conan spend the night in the same bed. Not like that, of course.
 * Yandere:
 * Yandere:

Motoyasu Tsukumo, his family and his disciples (Nanae and Ayano Tsukumo, Yuji Momochi, Mako Miyoshi, Kazumi Sanada, )
The first group featured in the popular double episode "The Cornered Famous detective! Two big murder cases". Motoyasu Tsukumo is a famous stage magician who appears dead in strange circumstances the day when his daughter Ayano turned six years old, so his widow Nanae goes to Kogoro to search for help since she suspects one of his three disciples is the murderer. This, however, brings Ran some memories... and evidence that Conan is Shinichi!


 * Adult Fear: The case's about to be deciphered... and then a bomb is dropped.
 * Cassandra Truth:
 * Chekhov's Gun: A certain photo album that Ran finds in the Mouri office.
 * In-story example:
 * Driven By Envy:
 * Drowning Pit:
 * Locked Out of the Loop: Ayano doesn't know that her dad's dead.
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: Yuji and Kazumi
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Mako
 * Tall, Dark and Handsome: Yuji and Kazumi
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Mako
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Mako

The Yabuchi family (Hiromi, Hidekazu, Yoshichika, Yoshifusa, Yoshiyuki, Keiko and Machiko Yabuchi. Also, Carlos and )
The second group from "The Cornered Famous detective! Two big murder cases". Yukiko Kudo has suddenly come from the USA, and manages to get Conan to stay with her for the weekend. The next day she's summoned by her childhood friend Hiromi Yabuchi, whose father Yoshichika died recently; her uncle Yoshifusa has arrived from Brazil alongside his bodyguard Carlos, but she's sure something strange is going on and thus she asks Yukiko for help. Conan senses something fishy is going on, thus he must protect his mother and defuse whatever plan is brewing behind closed doors.


 * Big Fancy House: The Yabuchis live in a pretty big traditional Japanese complex.
 * Big Screwed-Up Family: Hiromi and her husband Hidekazu are pretty good people, but her younger brother Yoshiyuki and his wife Keiko are huge Jerk Asses. Let's not even talk about Machiko...
 * Gold Digger: Implied in the case of Machiko.
 * The Maiden Name Debate: Hidekazu took up Hiromi's surname since she was the eldest daughter of the rich Yabuchi family.
 * May-December Romance: Yoshichika and Mariko, who is barely older than his adult kids.
 * Red Herring:
 * Scary Black Man: Carlos.
 * Smug Snake: Machiko, Keiko and Yoshiyuki. Machiko is far worse, though.
 * Theme Naming: Three of the males in the Yabuchi family have names starting with Yoshi: patriarch Yoshichika, uncle Yoshifusa, and son Yoshiyuki.
 * : Everyone was shocked to know that
 * Undying Loyalty:
 * Would Hit a Girl:
 * Theme Naming: Three of the males in the Yabuchi family have names starting with Yoshi: patriarch Yoshichika, uncle Yoshifusa, and son Yoshiyuki.
 * : Everyone was shocked to know that
 * Undying Loyalty:
 * Would Hit a Girl:

Reika Yotsui and her entourage (Mr. Yotsui, Takashi Ichieda, Yuji Nikaidou, Takaya Mifune, Osamu Gojou, Masao Rokuda, Nanao Yone, )
The people involved in the Billionaire Birthday Blues /  case. Reika Yotsui is a callous Rich Bitch with an Unwanted Harem who invites the Mouris and Conan to her birthday party since Kogoro found her lost puppydog. Everything goes well until the party is over and Kogoro, Ran, Conan and several others have to stay in the village due to a mysterious problem... Reika then disappears, one of her suitors is found dead, and Ran is drugged up and almost drowned to death. What the Hell is going on?!


 * Ambiguously Brown: Mifune has a much darker skin tone than the rest, but it's never brought up.
 * *shudder*
 * Asshole Victim:
 * Bound and Gagged:
 * Lady in Red: Reika wore two red dresses. A Pimped-Out Dress for the party,
 * It's Personal: Ran was attacked. Conan was most pissed off.
 * Nice Guy: Rokuda and Gojou
 * Numerical Theme Naming: The characters here have numbers that goes from 1 to 7.
 * Old Retainer: Yone, to the Yotsuis.
 * Rich Bitch: Reika, and how. She's so selfish and cruel that
 * Unwanted Harem: Ichieda, Nikaidou, Mifune, Rokuda and Gojou were this to Reika.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Yone
 * Unwanted Harem: Ichieda, Nikaidou, Mifune, Rokuda and Gojou were this to Reika.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko: Yone

The Nagato family and entourage (Dousan, Nobuko, Yasue, Hideomi, and Mitsuaki Nagato; Kuranosuke Take, Miyuki Hyuuga)
The people from the "Distinguished Family's Consecutive Accidental Death Case". A rich old man who's ill and not expected to live for long, Dousan Nagato, hires Kogoro to find his first love. All of a sudden, however, two persons are dead. What happened, what was the secret they both held, and will Conan find out the truth alongside Heiji, who's been called in too?

"Conan: With that personality, it's not like she'll ever get married..."
 * The Atoner:
 * Because Destiny Says So: Miyuki says she believes that her and Hideomi are destined to be together, since they've been "tied via a destiny made of fire" for a long time.
 * Big Screwed-Up Family: Not as big as others, but pretty fucked up. Yasue and Chairman Nagato were pretty nice persons, but Mitsuaki, Hideomi and Nobuko have... issues.
 * Broken Bird: Miyuki.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive: The fact that  places him squarely here.
 * Chekhov's Gunman: Conan sees a familiar man among the police, but doesn't recognize him. That man is Heizo Hattori, actually an old friend of Chairman Nagato... and Heiji shows up almost immediately afterwards.
 * Christmas Cake: When Nobuko bitchslaps Miyuki, Nagato speculates it's because "she hasn't found a husband". Considering that Nobuko is 39 years old, way past the "limit"... yeah.


 * Despair Event Horizon:
 * Good Scars, Evil Scars: Hideomi has half his face burned off.
 * Hikikomori: Hideomi, after he got scarred, left school and holed himself up in his room to write his novels without needing to interact with anyone.
 * Love Hurts: And holy goddamned shit, HOW. This case is a huge Tear Jerker.
 * The Maiden Name Debate: Mitsuaki, Yasue's husband, took up the family name.
 * Malevolent Masked Man: Hideomi is believed to be this, using bandages instead of a mask to cover his hideous scars.
 * No Hero to His Valet: Nobuko treats Miyuki quite badly, believing her to be a Gold Digger who takes advantage of Hideomi's isolation to get close to the family.
 * Sexy Secretary: Miyuki.
 * Smug Snake:
 * Spoiled Sweet: Yasue is remarkably sweet and kind, and gets along well with Miyuki.
 * Tragic Keepsake: Miyuki's burned fountain pen, which belonged to her deceased father.
 * Furthermore...
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: Chairman Nagato was this as a kid, to the lady that he wants Kogoro to find for him.
 * Furthermore...
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: Chairman Nagato was this as a kid, to the lady that he wants Kogoro to find for him.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: Chairman Nagato was this as a kid, to the lady that he wants Kogoro to find for him.
 * Unlucky Childhood Friend: Chairman Nagato was this as a kid, to the lady that he wants Kogoro to find for him.

Raita Banba and Hatsune Kamon
Raita is one of Kogoro's high school friends and Hatsune is his fiancee. The night before their wedding, however, Hatsune is burned to death in her car and it soon comes out that both of them were having the other investigated on suspicion of infidelity. Hatsune wanted to see if he'd flirt with other women and Raita hired a detective after becoming suspicious of her interactions with Tooru Amuro, who turns out to be the detective she'd hired to investigate him. Could Raita's jealousy have gone too far?


 * Always Murder:
 * Happily Adopted: Both of them. In fact, they were orphaned in the same fire.
 * Jerkass: Raita is this at his worst. It's mostly when he's drunk, though.
 * Happily Adopted: Both of them. In fact, they were orphaned in the same fire.
 * Jerkass: Raita is this at his worst. It's mostly when he's drunk, though.
 * Happily Adopted: Both of them. In fact, they were orphaned in the same fire.
 * Jerkass: Raita is this at his worst. It's mostly when he's drunk, though.

The attendants of the Night Baron Tour (Hideko Kamijou, Tokio Ebara, Satoru Maeda, Genichirou Kaneshiro, Shizune Hayashi, Shiro Konnou, Akiko Sayama)
Via Dr. Agasa, Conan finds out that there's a tour to a famous hotel featuring his father's iconic character, the Night Baron, as a main theme. Agasa was supposed to go but his companion and his granddaughter had to relinquish their spots, so Conan and the Mouris go in their place. It's a good thing, though, since it turns out that one of the attendants is a massive Jerkass named Tokio Ebara... and he's gruesomely killed while wearing a Night Baron outfit!


 * Bob Haircut: Sayama and Ebara.
 * Blow You Away: The Himekaze aka the "Wind of the Princess", which blows in that particular time of the year.
 * Broken Bird:
 * Chieko Honda: As Akiko Sayama.
 * Destination Defenestration: Conan is found snooping around by the killer and then gets thrown off a balcony. He survives, since he landed on the pool
 * Dirty Old Man: Subverted: Ebara is VERY dirty minded, but is also Younger Than They Look. Seriously, he's only in his 30's!
 * Love Martyr:
 * Looks Like Cesare: Konnou the banker, a very tall and pale man with dark hair and Stoic Spectacles.
 * MacGuffin: There's a diskette to be won by the people in the tour, containing a nasty computer virus that is called the Night Baron.
 * Show Hayami: As Konnou.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Sayama and Kamijou
 * Looks Like Cesare: Konnou the banker, a very tall and pale man with dark hair and Stoic Spectacles.
 * MacGuffin: There's a diskette to be won by the people in the tour, containing a nasty computer virus that is called the Night Baron.
 * Show Hayami: As Konnou.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Sayama and Kamijou
 * Show Hayami: As Konnou.
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Sayama and Kamijou
 * Tall, Dark and Bishoujo: Sayama and Kamijou