Chief Detective Kenichi
- Name
- Chief Detective Kenichi
- Creator
- Osamu Tezuka
- Genre
- detective fiction
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Key facts
• Name — Chief Detective Kenichi • Ja Kanji — ケン1探偵長 • Ja Romaji — Kenichi Tantei Chou
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Key facts
• Type — Manga • Author — Osamu Tezuka • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Shōnen Club • First — June 1954 • Last — December 1956 • Volumes — 2 Chief Detective Kenichi is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka published in Kodansha's Shōnen Club from June 1954 to December 1956.
Plot
Plot
The manga follows Kenichi, the chief detective of the national Boy Detectives' Street Society. He is joined by Donguri, a talking bird. Together, they travel to various exotic locations solving mysteries, revealing tricks and settling cases. Every chapter has him solving a new mystery in various locations across the world. • Incident of the House of Spiders Kenichi's final case ("Incident of the House of Spiders") was published in Akita Publishing's Boken-O magazine.
Characters
Characters
• Kenichi The protagonist and chief of the Boy Detectives' Street Society. • Donguri A Myna bird that is always at Kenichi's side. He has a special ability to be able to reproduce the voice of a person it has heard only once before. • Kenichi's Mother • Kenichi's Father • Mouse Boy • Mr. Hiranuma • Lemonade Citron • Detective Beringen • Elise
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