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| >>Conan Dictionary | >>The Kanji Names of the Characters |
When reading Aoyama-sensei's manga, you may notice sometimes that a name sounds like a famous detective or a well-known mystery writer. It is because Aoyama has gotten the idea from them. In this section you can read about the sources of the names! There are more actually but I'll add 'em when I've got time~
++Character
names++
Edogawa Conan
Edogawa
Rampo and Conan Doyle (mystery writers)
Mouri Ran
Maurice Leblanc
(mystery writer who created the famous Arsène Lupin)
Dr Agasa
Agatha Christie (mystery writer)
Kisaki Eri
Ellery Queen
(Kisaki=Queen
in Japanese; Ellery Queen is
a mystery writer)
Mouri Kogoro
Maurice Leblanc and Akechi Kogoro
(a famous detective created by Edogawa Rampo)
Megure Juuzou
Jules Maigret (a famous detective created
by Georges Simenon) and Unno Juuzou (Japanese
mystery writer)
Hattori Heiji
Zenigata Heiji (a famous detective created
by Nomura Kodo) and Inspector Hattori (character
from a Japanese TV drama series)
Miyano Shiho
Sherlock Holmes
(a famous detective created by Conan Doyle)
Haibara Ai
Cordelia Gray (female detective created by
P.D. James) and V.I. Warshawski (female detective
created by Sara Paretsky). Haibara in Japanese means gray and V.I. is
the inverted Ai
Tsuburaya
Mitsuhiko
Asami Mitsuhiko (a detective created by the
Japanese mystery writer Yasuo Uchida)
Yoshida
Ayumi
Kitagawa Ayumi (Japanese mystery writer)
Hattori Heizo
Inspector Hattori and Hasegawa Heizo
(detective created by Ikenami Shoutarou)
Ikenami Shizuka
Ikenami
Shoutarou
(Japanese mystery writer)
Edogawa Rampo
The pseudonym Edogawa Rampo was taken from the American writer Edward
Allan Poe
++Place Names++
Beika
Same as Sherlock Holmes' Baker street
~ the street where he lives (same pronunciation, different kanji)
Teitan
The name of Ran's highschool and Conan's elementery school, "Tei-tan"
is the inverted pronunciation of "Tan-tei" (Tantei in Japanese
means Detective)
POARO - Poriot (the coffee shop beneath Mouri Kogoro's detective agency)
Hercule Poriot (a famous private detective
created by Agatha Christie)
| >>Conan Dictionary | >>The Kanji Names of the Characters |
