Jimmy Kudo, also known as Kudo Shinichi (工藤 新一, Kudo Shin'ichi?) in Japan, is the main character of the anime and manga Case Closed, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン Meitantei Conan). Viz romanized his original name as Shin'ichi Kudo while Shogakukan's website romanizes it as Shinichi Kudoh. He later takes on the alias Conan Edogawa (江戸川 コナン, Edogawa Konan?) to protect those around him from the Black Organization.
Shinichi was born to Booker Kudo, a myster writer and Vivian Kudo a former movie star. He was born on the 4th of May, but repeatedly forgets his birthday every year. He is a genius savant, and even from a young age, was very intuitive and observant. In addition, his father often made him puzzles and games to help sharpen his mind even more as he grew up.
Due to the influence of his father, and the generally laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels-- he finished the entire collection of mystery novels in his elementary school library during his elementary school years. Also, Booker started to bring young Shinichi to crime scenes until Shinichi was in sixth grade. This caused Shinichi to have a love of crime investigation, and for that reason, peers like Rachel Moore and Serena Sebastian called him a mystery geek in passing.
His life between ages 6 to 16 was not well-documented. During junior high school he was made a starting midfielder on the school's soccer team as a freshman. The head of the soccer club even fell in love with him, but he rejected her due to the fact that he was secretly in love with Ran.
His parents moved to the United States when he was 14 to pursue their own careers, while he was left in Tokyo.
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi is a 17-year old student at Teitan High School. He was already a well-known detective who closed many difficult cases, and known as the saviour of the police force. That same year, he left the soccer club even though his soccer skills were considered national level. He explained he liked soccer as a way to train his reflexes-- akin to his idol, Sherlock Holmes's practice of fencing-- for his detective skills; he aspires to be the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era.
Shinichi is also known for his inability to sing; but since he can still distinguish different musical notes, by definition he cannot be referred to as tone deaf.
He apparently can speak English, as he once conversed with and translated for an American diplomat.
Shinichi Kudo
Due to the influence of his father, and the generally laissez-faire environment at home, he has long been an incessant and persistent reader, especially of mystery novels-- he finished the entire collection of mystery novels in his elementary school library during his elementary school years. Also, Booker started to bring young Shinichi to crime scenes until Shinichi was in sixth grade. This caused Shinichi to have a love of crime investigation, and for that reason, peers like Rachel Moore and Serena Sebastian called him a mystery geek in passing.
His life between ages 6 to 16 was not well-documented. During junior high school he was made a starting midfielder on the school's soccer team as a freshman. The head of the soccer club even fell in love with him, but he rejected her due to the fact that he was secretly in love with Ran.
His parents moved to the United States when he was 14 to pursue their own careers, while he was left in Tokyo.
At the beginning of the series, Shinichi is a 17-year old student at Teitan High School. He was already a well-known detective who closed many difficult cases, and known as the saviour of the police force. That same year, he left the soccer club even though his soccer skills were considered national level. He explained he liked soccer as a way to train his reflexes-- akin to his idol, Sherlock Holmes's practice of fencing-- for his detective skills; he aspires to be the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era.
Shinichi is also known for his inability to sing; but since he can still distinguish different musical notes, by definition he cannot be referred to as tone deaf.
He apparently can speak English, as he once conversed with and translated for an American diplomat.
Shinichi Kudo
Shinichi Kudo
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