![]() Kogoro Akechi is a tall, handsome man with heavy eyebrows who dresses well, although in earlier stories he always wore a dirty green yukata and had messy hair. Akechi smokes Egyptian cigarettes when he is thinking about a case. His version of the Baker Street Irregulars is known as the Detective Boys ( 少年探偵団, Shōnen Tantei-dan, lit. Also like Holmes, Akechi makes use of a group of young boys to gather information. He is a master of disguise and an expert at judo whose genius lets him solve seemingly impossible cases. Like Holmes, Akechi is a brilliant but eccentric detective who consults with the police on especially difficult cases. Akechi is the first recurring detective character in Japanese fiction and is clearly inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. ![]() He first appeared in the story "The D Slope Murder case" in 1925 and continued to appear in stories for a quarter of a century. He was the featured detective for Volume 2 of the Detective Conan manga. Kogoro Akechi ( 明智 小五郎, Akechi Kogorō ?) is a fictional character and the creation of Japanese mystery writer Rampo Edogawa. ![]()
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