Anita Hailey
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| Anita Hailey | |
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| First appearance | The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case |
| Created by | Gosho Aoyama |
| Voiced by | Japanese: Megumi Hayashibara |
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| Aliases | Ai Haibara |
| Age | 18 as Shiho, 8 as Ai |
| Gender | Female |
| Known relatives | Atsushi Miyano (father; deceased) Elena Miyano (mother; deceased) Akemi Miyano (sister; deceased) |
Anita Hailey, known in Japan as Shiho Miyano (宮野志保 Miyano Shiho), is a character and protagonist in the manga and anime Case Closed (Detective Conan). She first appears in the 2-hour special episode #129 The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case and manga volume 18 file 6 (A Transfer Student).
Anita is a friend, ally, and classmate of Jimmy Kudo/Conan Edogawa, and an ex-member and fugitive from the "Black Organization" which she betrayed. Although mentally an adult, her body has reverted back to childhood form due to an experimental poison, APTX 4869, which she developed and subsequently used on herself.
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[edit] Character Information
Anita grew up within the "Black Organization" along with her sister, Akemi. She is the daughter of an English mother and a Japanese father, also members of the Black Organization, both of whom are dead. A prodigy, she was sent to the United States for education at a young age, then came back to Japan to continue her parents' unfinished project on corporal reanimation. In the Japanese version, she obtains the codename of Sherry in the process.
Her dissatisfaction over the usage of one of her test compounds -- the APTX 4869-- for killing purposes, in addition to her open questioning over the death of her sister Akemi Miyano (who had tried to arrange for the two of them to leave the B.O. in exchange for committing a robbery) resulted in her imprisonment and scheduled execution by the Organization. With no other way out, she decided to commit suicide by taking a pill of APTX 4869. However, it made her body shrink to that of about her seven-year-old self, the same fluke that happened to Jimmy Kudo (Shinichi Kudo). With her new small body, she easily escaped from the Black Organization, ran away, and was later found by Hiroshi Agasa, who took her in. She now attends Teitan Elementary school under the alias of Ai Haibara (灰原哀 Haibara Ai?), along with Conan Edogawa, Amy Yeager (Ayumi Yoshida), George Kaminski (Genta Kojima) and Mitch Tennison (Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya).
Anita first began to suspect Jimmy's transformation after she had searched Jimmy's house for the Black Organization twice after he had been shrunk to confirm that he indeed was dead due to the fact that his body had not been found. After returning a second time, she noticed that only some his childhood clothes were missing and realized what must have happened, since a rare few of her lab mice had become younger after being given the drug. She confirmed him as deceased so the Organization would not kill him. After she escaped from the Organization, she fled to and collapsed in front of Jimmy's house hoping that he would sympathize with her situation. [1]
Anita's constant worry is that the Organization will eventually track her down and her friends will be killed along with her, so she was initially very cautious about taking risks with her former colleagues, at times to the point of paranoia. Determined not to run from her fate anymore, however, she has recently begun to shed this caution.
She seems to have feelings towards Conan Edogawa, which is suggested in many episodes though she denies that she has any romantic interests towards him when being asked by Amy and Mitch. She also feels very comfortable talking to him, since they are on more or less the same intellectual level, and feels she has a lot in common with Conan. She even tells Conan about her feelings towards him, but ends up always saying "just kidding"; Conan always gets confused after that. And as a consequence, Ai may have been jealous of Rachel Moore (Ran Mouri) for at least some time, but eventually warms up to her, and even begins to regard Rachel as a surrogate sister after Ran saves her life from Vermouth and Calvados.
She also has a good relationship with her fellow detectives Amy, George and Mitch, and considers them, along with Conan, as the first real friends she has ever had. Starting in Volume 39 of the compiled manga with story entitled "Torn Friendship", she allows Amy to start calling her "Ai-Chan".
She is still working on the antidote for the APTX 4869, and helps Conan gather clues about the Black Organization in order to help bring them down. She appears to know the secret objective of the Black Organization judging from the first conversation between Gin and Vodka in episode 129.[2]
[edit] Profile
- Real Name: Shiho Miyano
- Codename: Sherry
- Alias: Ai Haibara
- Age: 18, but appears to be ~8 years old
- Occupation: Chemist, Biological Researcher
- Parents: Atsushi Miyano & Elena Miyano
- Sibling: Akemi Miyano
- Organization: Black Organization (Case Closed)
- Favorite Books: Beauty Magazines
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[edit] Ai Haibara
She and Hiroshi Agasa created her child alias using the names of two fictional female detectives:
- V.I. Warshawski (for 'Ai') (Note: Agasa proposed the homophonus kanji 愛 (love) for the name but she deliberately chose 哀 (sorrow), possibly to reflect her mental situation.)
- Cordelia Gray (for 'Hai' in Haibara, which means gray)
[edit] Anita Hailey
This is the reason for Anita's name as mentioned in the manga Case Closed Volume 18, Case 9.[3]
- Anna Katherine Green the first American mystery writer was the basis for Anita.
- Hailey was suggested by Agasa as it means Hero. Though she took the name, she disagreed with the reasoning.
[edit] Name in English
The English Manga refers to her as Anita Hailey. This will be the English anime name as well. It is confirmed in Vol. 18 of Case Closed.[4]
[edit] Voice Actor
Her character voice role is done by Megumi Hayashibara in the Japanese version. A different voice actor played the character during the eight movie. Her appearance was temporarily limited and showed in re-runs due to Megumi's pregnancy leave in the Summer of 2004.[5] This is also why some episodes made around 2004 do not have the character Anita Hailey in them, because she was on leave, and couldn't lend her voice for the show. An English voice actor has not been picked by Funimation at this time.
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