Shinichi Kudo(工藤新一)
17 year old high school detective. Big fan of Sherlock Homes, a suiri otaku (big fan of speculation), and great at soccer. Childhood friend of Ran Mouri. Shinichi has feelings for Ran, but can't be truthful about it.

Conan Edogawa(江户川柯南)

The child form of Shinichi after being forced to drink a mysterious pill by men in black. Shinichi used the name Conan Edogawa to hid his true identity from the people around him while searching out members of the myterious organization. He lives with Ran Mouri and her dad, Kogoro Mouri. Uses

voice changing bowtie and other nifty devices created by Dr. Agasa.

Ran Mouri(毛利兰)
Classmate and childhood friend of Shinichi Kudo. She secretly likes Shinichi and worries about him during his absence. Ran is very strong willed and a great karate athelete. She can beat the crap out ofher opponents if she isn't scared or semi-unconcious. Ran cooks for Conan and her dad and when she's not around they starve or go out for food. She is also the responsible one between her and her dad.

Kogoro Mouri(毛利小五郎)
Ran's father and incompetent detective. He hasn't been able to solve a single mystery for himself. Conan secretly solved all his crimes for him. Before he became a private dectective, Kogoro was a detective in the police department, working along side with Inspector Megure. An incident caused him to retire from the force early and do what he does now. Believe it or not, Kogoro was actually kakkoii when he was younger! A.K.A The Sleeping Kogoro.

Detective Boys(少年侦探团) - Genta Kojima(小岛元太) , Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya(円谷光彦), Ayumi Yoshida(吉田步美)
Classmatesof Conan. They like to solve mysteries, but most of the ones that they do solve is mainly solved by Conan. They do however help Conan with ideas. There is a little love triangle going on between the foursome; Ayumi likes Conan, but Mitsuhiko and Genta like Ayumi and, of course, Conan likes Ran.

Ai Haibara(灰原哀)
She is like Shinichi. Her real name is Shiho Miyano. She was the one who invented the drug that shrunk Shinichi and herself. Her codename was Sherry, but the death of her older sister made her turn away from the Underground Crime Ring. When the Underground decided to kill her, they handcuffed her to a pipe on the wall to await her execution. Since theywere going to kill her, she took her own drug, intent on killing herself first. Instead, she was shrunk, and her hand was able to slip out of the handcuffs.

Dr. Agasa(阿笠博士)

Shinichi's neighbor and Conan's "distant relative". He invented the cool gadgets for Conan (i.e. power-up shoes, voice changing bowtie, stun gun wristwatch, etc...).

Inspector Megure(目暮警官)

He is the detective of the police force and relies on Shinichi to solve crimes. But with the disappearance of Shinichi, he comes to rely on Kogoro Mouri, whom he once thought was an idiotic detective.

Heiji Hattori(服部平次)

Being from Osaka, he is the West's version of Shin'ichi (the East's). Hattori has appeared in several cases. He figured out the Conan is really Shinichi.

Sonoko Suzuki(玲木园子)

Ran and Shinichi's classmate. Ran's

closest girl friend. Sonoko was the one who told Hattori that Ran and Shinichi are boyfriend and girlfriend.

Wataru Takagi
A de

tective in the Beika City Police Department. His partner is always Detective Satou. There seems to be a love triangle

going on between Takagi and Satou, but who is the third person?

Miwako Satou
A female detective in the Beika City Police Department. Her

partner is always Detective Takagi. She's always oblivious to Takagi's love sick puppy dog reactions around her, but is she really that oblivious? And who does she like?

Kaitou Kid(1412)
Just who is this mysterious character? Actually, fans of Gosho Aoyama's other works would recognize him, he's none other than Kid the Phantom Thief, or Kaito Kuroba. His uncanny resemblence to Shinic

hi confused Ran in his first apperance in Detective Conan.

Gin

One of the men in black, or part of an Underground Crime Ring, Gin was the one who hit Shinichi in the head and forced a strange drug down his throat.

Vodka

One of the men in black, he is always seen with Gin.