Richard Moore (Case Closed)

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Richard Moore, known in Japan as Kogoro Mori (毛利小五郎 Mōri Kogorō) is a character from the detective manga and anime series Case Closed, known in Japan as Detective Conan.

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[edit] Character Information

Richard is a private investigator, but he always lazed around and tries to peep at anything with a sexual appeal. Occasionally he will become infatuated with other woman, especially the pop idol Yoko Okino, with whom he never misses a chance to meet. Because of his behavior around attractive woman, he can embarrass his daughter Rachel.

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 on alcohol. In the anime, his office is littered with empty beer cans, and he keeps a well-stocked liquor shelf.

Throughout most of the series, he is seen as a pretty incompetent detective, often missing obvious clues and jumping to conclusions. Despite his ineptness, he was a prominent police officer under Inspector Juzo Megure ten years ago. He left the police force after events addressed in Detective Conan: The Fourteenth Target.

In later stories, there are times when Kogoro is actually able to solve crime cases without the help of Conan. (It appears that, while he can connect the dots just fine, he can't actually find them as quickly as Conan.) The most notable one was when, during a trip to a hot spring, one of his old college friends and teammates was murdered. Kogoro was actually so disturbed and determined to find the killer on his own that Conan couldn't bring himself to drug him, limiting himself to give him the clues necessary for him to resolve the mystery. When the murderer was unmasked, the person tried to attack Kogoro, but was easily defeated. He was even able to best Jimmy Kudo in the Detective Conan: Strategy Above The Depths.

In college, he was the ace of the Judo team. However, he was highly vulnerable to stage fright. He is also a brilliant shooter.

Richard's daughter, Rachel Moore (Ran Mori), is also the daughter of Eva Kadan (Eri Kisaki), who is now living separately after a misunderstood fight ten years ago. 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 pretended not to hear him because she is not "ready" yet.

[edit] Trivia

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.