Kogoro Mouri
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| Richard Moore | |
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| Personnel File | |
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| Nickname | Sleeping Kogoro The Sleeping Sleuth |
| Age | 37(JP) 43(US) |
| Gender | Male |
| Relatives | Eri Mōri/Eva Kadan (wife) Ran Mōri/Rachel Moore (daughter) |
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| First Appearance | Roller Coaster Murder Case |
Richard Moore known as Kogoro Mouri (毛利 小五郎 Mōri Kogorō) in Japan is one of the main characters of the anime and manga Case Closed, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン Meitantei Conan). The name "Kogoro Mori" came from two mystery-related sources. "Kogoro" came from "Kogoro Akechi", the detective created by Edogawa Rampo, while Mori came from Maurice Leblanc.
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Character Information
Richard is a private investigator[1], but he prefers to laze around all day. Richard can easily become infatuated with beautiful women. His dream woman is pop idol Yoko Okino,[2] and he never misses her television show.[3] Because of his behavior around attractive woman, he often embarrasses his daughter Rachel Moore and while it is not the reason why Richard's wife left him, it is why she hasn't come back.
While he is never outright called an alcoholic, Richard has a tendency to get intoxicated at social events, and Jimmy/Conan makes sarcastic remarks about him spending money on alcohol. In the anime, his office is littered with empty beer cans[4], and he keeps a well-stocked liquor shelf.
In college, Richard was the ace of the Judo team, however, he was highly vulnerable to stage fright.[5] He is also an excellent marksman.[6]
Richard's daughter, Rachel Moore, is also the daughter of Eva Kadan, who is now living separately after an argument ten years prior.[7] Despite constantly feigning disinterest in her, Richard still has feelings for his wife—he has even asked her to move back in with him, but she pretends not to hear him because she is not "ready" yet,[8] though she still has feelings for him as well. These are expressed through jealousy when he comments on other girls' looks.
In the Japanese version due to his name Kogoro Mori he is often mistaken for the famous astronaut Mamoru Mohri when he introduces himself, because they both are in the news frequently, of Japanese decent, and have the same last name. In the English version when Richard introduces himself he is often mistaken for "oh, that famous astronaut," as well. In the English version it is possible he is also confused with Patrick Moore.
In the US version, Richard Moore says that he is forty-three, in opposed to being thirty-seven in the Japanese version. It is unknown if Eva's age remains the same since they had attended school together, and if not, if it'll affect the Princess Pageant storyline that occurred twenty years ago, making her in her twenties when she participated instead of a teenager.
Detective Skills
Throughout most of the series, he is seen as a pretty incompetent detective, often missing obvious clues and jumping to the wrong conclusions, though several of these conclusions were shared by other people on the scene. However, Richard does follow the proper police procedures, asks questions, and (with a little help from Conan) follows leads quite well. Despite his ineptness, he had been a prominent police officer under Inspector Joseph Megure ten years prior to the start of the series[9] He is shown to have left the police force after events addressed in the second movie, Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target.
Thanks to Conan's undercover help in solving numerous cases, Richard reputation as a detective grows quickly.[10] He hardly remembers the solutions of any cases because Conan knocks him out with tranquillizer darts so that he can announce the solution to the case while hidden, using a device that allows him to imitate Kogoro's voice as a proxy. However, Richard never seems to wonder about this fact and often boasts about his merits.
In later stories, there are times when Richard is actually able to solve crime cases without the help of Conan, especially when people he knows or cares about are involved. (It appears that, while he can connect the dots just fine, he can't actually find them as quickly as Conan does.) The most notable of these events takes place during a trip to a hot spring, where one of his old college friends is murdered. Richard is actually so disturbed and determined to find the killer on his own that Conan cannot bring himself to drug him, limiting himself to surreptitiously drawing attention to the necessary clues.[11] Despite his frequent moronic analyses, Richard is actually pretty smart when he applies himself. He is even able to completely solve a crime himself in the ninth movie, Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths, and Conan applauds him mentally for it.
Mouri Detective Agency
Kogoro has his own business, the Mouri Detective Agency. It is located on the second floor of a building above the Pierrot Cafe.
The building is broken into 3 main floors that we know of. First Floor - Pierrot Cafe
- Azusa Enomoto works here
Second Floor - Mouri Detective Agency Office
- All business meetings occur here
- A desk is in front of the window
- On it are a tv, lamp, and telephone
- Posters on the wall, presumably wanted posters
- A clock is above the door
- Couches are in the middle of the room
Third Floor - The Mouri Living Quarters
- Kogoro, Ran, and Conan live here
Anime Appearances
Richard is a main character and appears in a majority of the episodes. He has appeared in all the games and all of the movies.
References
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