Sonoko Suzuki

鈴木園子

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Sonoko is Ran Mouri's best friend and is the girlfriend of Makoto Kyogoku, with whom she currently is in a long-distance relationship. Conan Edogawa sometimes has to knock her out with his stun gun watch to use her as his mouthpiece. Because of this, Sonoko has claimed to be a great high school detective in her own right, "Deduction Queen Sonoko".

Sonoko Suzuki is the second daughter of Shiro Suzuki, head of the extremely wealthy family and large company, second only to Renya Karasuma, and his wife Tomoko. She has an older sister, Ayako, and an uncle, Jirokichi, who is often involved in trying to capture Kaitou Kid. She and Ran have been close friends since kindergarten.

Her primary character traits are her impulsiveness, her temper and sense for romanticism. She often acts without thinking ahead, thereby usually dragging Ran (and by extension, Conan) into her schemes or firing her mouth away with wild tales. Often she acts very insensitively to other's feelings; while she encourages Ran to take her relationship with Shinichi to a higher level, she just as much enjoys teasing her best friend and beholding her embarrassment. Despite coming from a very wealthy family and fully enjoying such a pampered lifestyle, Sonoko surprisingly humble about it. Never trying to buy popularity and friends or bride her way to get what she wants, Sonoko appreciates getting things that matter and for the right reasons.

At the series' start, Sonoko's primary interest was in boys and in trying to snag the "perfect boy". She often tried multiple avenues to attract a boyfriend, including dressing up specifically to attract a boy, making a boy chocolates, trying to impress a boy while wearing a bikini, or going to various events that young guys were going to attend. Whenever Ran's company diverts the attention of Sonoko's target, Sonoko feels jealous and disappointed (although this has never affected their friendship). However, this changed when Sonoko met and began dating Makoto. Although Sonoko is still easily attracted to other men, she is loyal to Makoto and tries to act the way she thinks a girlfriend should, including making him gifts and planning romantic rendezvous.

Conan has had to use Sonoko sometimes when he needs to do a deduction show. At first he struggled to mimic Sonoko's mannerisms and feminine speech patterns, but now he is better at it. However, because he has had to use Sonoko so often for a deduction, she, like Kogoro Mouri, has completely bought into her whole "sleeping" person, calling herself the best detective in Teitan High School, and a "Deduction Queen." This makes Conan sometimes regret using her to solve a case, though he does admire her courage in certain situations. Sonoko is sometimes able to solve little things on her own, and can figure things out when she is provided some assistance by Conan, such as when Conan was sick and had to communicate to Sonoko, Kogoro, and Yamamura in charades and sign language.

Like many other people, Sonoko is a big fan of the Kaitou Kid, due to his style, charm and daring exploits. She keeps cheering him on in trying to steal something, even when that 'something' is a rare treasure of the Suzuki family. She wishes to meet Kid up close (and have it develop into something more), and sometimes almost gets her wish, but is very disappointed at the ultimate failure.

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Detective Conan

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Detective Conan is one of the longest-running anime shows ever made. It began on Japanese TV on January 8, 1996, and it is still going today, with more than 1,200 episodes. The studio TMS Entertainment makes it together with Yomiuri Telecasting. The show is based on a manga (a Japanese comic) by Gosho Aoyama. His comic started in the magazine Weekly Shonen Sunday in January 1994. In some English releases, the show is called Case Closed. This new name was used because of legal problems with the name Detective Conan. The hero is Shinichi Kudo. He is a teenager, but he is already famous. He helps the police solve hard crimes, and newspapers love him. He is smart, a little proud, and he loves Sherlock Holmes stories. One evening, he goes to an amusement park with his close friend Ran Mori. There, he sees two men in black clothes doing something secret and against the law. He follows them, but one of the men hits him from behind. Then they make him swallow a poison. The poison does not kill him. Instead, his body becomes the body of a small child. Now Shinichi has a big problem. If the men in black learn that he is alive, they may come back to finish the job. They may also hurt the people close to him. So he hides who he really is. He takes a new name, Conan Edogawa. He makes this name from two famous mystery writers: Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Ranpo. He goes to live with Ran and her father, Kogoro Mori. Kogoro is a private detective, but he is not very good at his job. He is lazy, and he often gets the answer wrong. Conan hopes that living in a detective office will help him find clues about the men in black. This leads to the show's most famous joke. Conan solves case after case, but nobody listens to a little kid. So he uses small tools made by his old neighbor, the inventor Dr. Agasa. One tool is a watch that shoots a sleeping dart. Another is a bow tie that can change his voice. Conan puts Kogoro to sleep, hides nearby, and explains the answer in Kogoro's voice. Soon, people call Kogoro 'Sleeping Kogoro', a great detective, and he has no idea why. Conan also joins a group of elementary school friends called the Detective Boys. Later, a quiet girl named Ai Haibara joins his class. She once worked with the dark group, called the Black Organization, and she knows about the poison. Most episodes tell one mystery. A case may last one episode or a few. There is a crime, often a murder. Conan looks for clues and talks to the people who were there. At the end, he explains step by step how the crime happened and who did it. The explanations are clear, so viewers can try to solve the case too. Between these stand-alone mysteries, the main story moves forward slowly, as Conan gets closer to the Black Organization. The show also has comedy and a sweet, slow love story. Ran misses Shinichi very much, and she has no idea that he is the small boy living in her home. The manga is one of the best-selling comics of all time. By January 2023, it had more than 270 million copies in print around the world. The franchise also has many movies. Since 1997, a new film has come out almost every year, and there are now 29 of them. For people who love puzzles, clever tricks, and a hero who never gives up, Detective Conan is a classic worth knowing.

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