Phantom Thief Kid

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Phantom Thief Kid, known in Japan as Kaitou Kid (怪盗キッド Kaitō Kiddo) is a fictional character created by Gosho Aoyama. The character appears in the Case Closed (Detective Conan) anime/manga and the Magic Kaito manga series.

1 Character
2 People known to be Supporting and Disagreeing with Kid
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Character

The Phantom Thief Kid is a world-renowned thief who steals treasures and gems. He is sometimes known as Kaitou Kid or International Criminal 1412. He got named Kid when some journalist hastily scrawled "1412" and Booker (Yusaku) Kudo read it as "KID" (14=KI, 12=D)^[1]. He is an internationally wanted criminal and was originally the world famous magician Touichi Kuroba (黒羽盗一, Kuroba Tōichi^?). Eight years before the story, Touichi was murdered in a magic show^[2] by a criminal organization^[3] when he decided to back out of the deal with them, feigning as an accident. The current Kaitou Kid is Touichi's son Kaito Kuroba (黒羽快斗, Kuroba Kaito^?), a 17-year old student and amateur magician who learned magic and the art of disguise from him. Besides Kaito, Kuroba Toichi had trained Vivian Kudo, Shinichi's mother in the art of disguise^[4]. Chris "Vermouth" Vineyard's mother Sharon was also one of his students^[5].

Inspector Nakamori had always chased after the Kid, though oddly enough approves of his daughter Aoko's childhood friend, one Kuroba Kaito. Aoko is Kaito's love interest in the manga Magic Kaito. The son of a high police official, Saguru Hakuba is his rival both for Aoko and as a detective to his thief. The witch, Akako Koizumi, has expressed interest in him.

Kaito uses a number to gadgets to help with his stealing; the most notable being the card gun, which shoots playing cards which can cut into concrete, a hang glider cape, pink smoke bombs, and blow-up mannequins.

Not many people know about his true identity, not even Conan Edogawa. Kaito became a thief to investigate the mysterious death of his father, killed by members of the Black Organization. He found out that they were searching for the Pandora Gem and decided to prevent them from finding it.

Hakuba and Kudo can be compared to Sherlock Holmes and Kaito to Arsène Lupin. Throughout the anime and manga, Kaito Kid and Conan have crossed paths but he has always managed to escape from Conan's clutches with his magic.

[edit] People known to be Supporting and Disagreeing with Kid

Known 1412 fans: Serena Sebastian, Akako Koizumi, Kaito Kuroba, Jii (Who often fills in case Young Master cannot), a vast majority of the female population in Ekoda High School, most of the people he has stolen from.

Active 1412 enemies: Aoko Nakamori (in 1412 form, she loves the Kuroba side), Ginzo Nakamori, Saguru Hakuba, Snake and the Organization, the 1412 Taskforce, Jimmy Kudo, Richard Moore, Takagi Wataru and the Police Force, Yaiba.

[edit] Trivia

Phantom Thief Kid's birthday is on June 21st.
Same as their son, there seems to be a thief and detective clash between Shinichi's and Kaitou's dad^[6].

[edit] References

^ Detective Conan Volume 55
^ Magic Kaito Volume 1.
^ Magic Kaito Volume 3
^ Detective Conan Volume 55.
^ Detective Conan Volume 34, when Vivian mentioned she and Sharon learnt the art of disguise under the same master.
^ Detective Conan, Volume 55.