Black Organization (Case Closed)

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The Black Organization (黒の組織, kuro no soshiki) serves as the main antagonist in the anime/manga series Case Closed (Detective Conan). It is a syndicate that commits crimes such as illegal deals, blackmail, robberies, and assassinations. The first members to appear were Gin and Vodka, who were responsible for Shinichi's transformation in the first place.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In episode 128, the Black Organization planned to have a billion yen heist. Gin and Vodka were the members that made a plan to rob 10 billion yen. Conan stops the two again from stealing the yens, who escaped. After the episode, the organization introduces a member named Shiho Miyano, also known as Sherry, the creator of APTX-4869. After the organization killed Akemi Miyano, Shiho's older sister, the organization makes an imprisonment for Sherry. In order to escape, Sherry takes her poison, and her body shrinks. The organization finds out that Sherry has betrayed them, and needed to be destroyed. Later, Sherry lives with Dr. Agasa under her alias Ai Haibara.

In episode 176-178, Conan encounters Gin and Vodka again. After Ai turns into an adult after the wine spills on her, Gin almost had killed her. Pisco almost had killed Ai when Conan made an interruption. Gin killed Pisco for failure. Worried that the organization is after her, Ai decided to leave the city.

Aside from Gin and Vodka being the most reocurring members, a female member introduced late into the series named Vermouth also starts to play a huge role in the series. She makes her first appearance in episodes 230-231. She disguises herself as a doctor named Araide and is one of the few characters that learns who Conan really is. In one episode she is saved by Ran and Shinichi from falling through a fire escape, and keeps his secret unknown from the rest possibly because of this reason. She is disguises herself as two well-known actresses, Chris Vineyard and Sharon Vineyard. It is noted several times in the series that she is a master of disguise, who trained with Shinichi's mother in the past.

In episode 345, many identities are finally unveiled: Vermouth is revealed to be Araide, Chris Vineyard, Sharon Vineyard, and the silver-haired serial killer in Shinichi's New York Case; Jodie Saintemillion is revealed to be an undercover FBI agent working towards capturing Vermouth, who killed her father when she was younger; Akai Shuichi is confirmed to be an FBI agent, and one with great skill too--enough to make the boss of the Black Organization believe that he is their Silver Bullet. Near the end of the episode, it becomes clear that Vermouth's purpose was to seek and eliminate Sherry, but her attempts are thwarted by several people: Shinichi/Conan, Jodie Saintemillion, Akai Shuichi, and even Ran. When she becomes cornered, she takes Conan hostage and drives away into a forest. There, she makes a call to her boss (still nameless), and to her surprise, Conan was recording the entire conversation. In order to preserve the organization's secrecy, she sprays sleeping gas in the car, putting both herself and Conan to sleep. She claims that this would be a duel--whoever wakes up first will win. Vermouth does indeed wake up first, but does not kill Conan. Instead, she just crushes his recording device. Ultimately, the only clue Conan gained from this whole ordeal is the ringtone that the boss uses; this is mentioned in episode 425 as well, although its importance has not yet been revealed.

Although Vermouth often comes off as evil and malicious, her allegiance is actually rather ambiguous. She chooses to protect both Conan/Shinichi and Ran, most likely because they let her live back in the New York Case when she was disguised as the silver-haired serial killer. At the end of the episode, she could have very well killed Shinichi, but instead she lets him live and even drapes her coat over his sleeping body so he wouldn't get cold. It seems that she wishes for the Black Organization to be taken down as well--for she believes that Kudo Shinichi is their true Silver Bullet.

In episode 425, the Black Organization introduces three new members, Chianti, Kir, and Korn, who first make their introduction in the 16th Opening episodes before their actual appearance in the series. Chianti and Korn are introduced in the very beginning of episode 425 as highly trained assassins that Gin recruits after seeing their sniping skills. Kir is first introduced to Conan and the others as a news reporter (Rena Mizunashi) and a friend of Yoko Okino's, however, she is revealed as a member of the black corps later on. After a brief showdown, Kir gets knocked unconscious and taken by the FBI agents. However, a spoiler in the 17th Opening shows her as part of Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth's group already foreshadowing that, despite her injuries, she may also start to play a huge role in the series. This speculation is also supported in the manga, where Heiji Hattori mentions she has been seen in Osaka before and she may also be related to a character named Eisuke.

The Black Organization tends to kill anyone who stumbles upon their secret, however, as of now, the Black Organization's main purpose and goal still remains unknown.

1 Other Members
2 Appearances
- 2.1 Manga To Anime
3 Members
4 Trivia
5 Navigation

[edit] Other Members

As of ep425, the only new members to have appeared and lived are Kir, Chianti and Korn(other new members have usually died in the episode of their appearance, such as Tequilia, Pisco, Akemi, etc). In Opening 16, there are a few other members that are silouetted behind Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth. Only Chianti, Korn, and Kir are shown close-up later in this opening animation, and properly introduced in episode 425. As of now, it is unknown if the other silouetted members or the mysterious boss will be properly introduced in future episodes. Neither the manga or current intro have revealed any as of yet.

[edit] Appearances

Episodes: 1, 54, 128-129, 176-178, 230-231, 307-311, 345, 425, 429-430
Movies: "Movie 5, Countdown to Heaven"

Opening Animation: 1st (recap), 5th (Gin and Vodka), 10th (Gin and Vodka), 13th (Vermouth, Gin, and Vodka), 15th (Vermouth only), 16th (new members Chianti, Korn, and Kir)[1], 17th (Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, and Kir only), 18th (Kir only)

[edit] Manga To Anime

The first season of Detective Conan, featured The Organization scarcely, due to the writers wanting to down play their presense.[2] Two of the episodes at least, were altered heavily in light of it:

======Episode 5 The Shinkansen's Bomb Case======: The episode has Conan running into lookalikes of the men who druggged him. Volume 4 of the manga, however, it is the same guys. Infact, that story has him learning their code name (Gin/Vodka in the Japanese Version, Melkior and Kaspar in the English Version.)

======Episode 13 The Strange Person Hunt Murder Case======: In the episodes end, Masami runs into the criminal in charge the recent murders. She survives a gunshot wound thanks to Conan. The manga version, which is in Volume 2, the masterminds are Gin and Vodka.

Masami is actually Akemi Miyano, and stole the yen to buy her sister out of the organization. Upon refusal to give the location Gin (who has an idea where it is) shoots her. Conan arrvies shortly to try helping Akemi. He gives her his real name, and before dying she tell Conan the location of the yen.

The anime had to do a similar story in Episode 128 The Black Corps One Billion Yen Robbery Case in order to repair the storyline.

[edit] Members

Vodka

Vermouth (Chris Vineyard/Sharon Vineyard)

Tequila (killed in explosion in ep54)

Calvados (shot himself after being crippled by Shuichi in episode 345)

Pisco (killed by Gin in episode 178)

Kir (Mizunashi Rena, 007) (accidentally crashed, currently in a coma in ep425)

Chianti

Korn

Sherry (former) (Ai Haibara)

Akemi (killed by Gin in ep128)

Anokata '(that person)' (the boss, currently unknown)

[edit] Trivia

All the Black organization's code names are types of alcoholic drinks.

According to the English-language Case Closed Volume 1: The Secret Life of Jimmy Kudo, Gin's real name is "Kaspar" and Vodka's real name is "Melkior".

Gin can't seem to remember faces he encounters or kills, which explains that he doesn't remember Jimmy.

Members don't exactly get along.

The Black Organization commits crimes such as illegal deals, blackmail, robberies, and assassinations.

In certain episodes the Organization kills their own members for certain reasons.

Gin and Vodka are close to figuring out who is behind the attempts to stopping them (Conan/Shinichi)

Vermouth knows Conan's intentions but does not really try to rat him out to the Organization when having the chance.

Vermouth is the only living member of the organization who learned that Ai Haibara is Shiho Miyano and Conan Edogawa is Jimmy Kudo. Pisco also knew Ai's identity, and unlike Vermouth, would've revealed it to Gin if he hadn't been murdered by him first.

Although Vermouth's true appearance is a young woman, confirmed by Akai Shuichi in episode 345, it still does not explain why she does not appear to age--the very question that she never answered when Jodie confronted her about it.