Kaito Kuroba

Kaito Kuroba, also known as Kid Kaitou, is the main protagonist from the Magic Kaito anime and manga, and a supporting character from the Detective Conan anime and manga.

Kaito is a second-year student at Ekoda High School Class 2-B alongside his childhood friend Aoko Nakamori, the witch Akako Koizumi, and transfer student detective Saguru Hakuba. Kaito discovers his father's identity as the original Kaitou Kid after eight years following his death thanks to a secret room inside his house as well as talking with his father's attendant and friend, Konosuke Jii. Picking up where his father left off, Kaito takes up the mantle of Kaitou Kid in an effort to lure out his father's murderers by making Kid a world-famous thief once again.

Appearance
Kaito is a tall, handsome young man with a messy brown hair and has blue eyes.

As Kid Kaitou, he wears a white cape over white tuxedo jacket over a blue dress shirt and neck tie, white pants, white leather shoes, gloves and a top hat. He also wears a monocle.

Personality
Kaito as his normal self seems to be rather popular in school although he tends to get in trouble with the ladies, particularly Aoko, for flipping up their skirts or peeking on them in the locker room. He is a compulsive trickster who loves to demonstrate his magic tricks and share them with others, and hates to see people upset.

Although he hasn't demonstrated it while in full costume, Kaito has an extreme fear of fish (ichthyophobia) to the point where he freaks out upon seeing Aoko wear fish-print underwear one day.

Abilities
Kaito seems to be quite good at many things, including skiing, but (much to Aoko's amusement) cannot ice skate or play billiards.

Kaito is ambidextrous. He is sometimes shown using his left hand, but his right hand is dominant for tricks that require one hand only.

Trivia

 * The characters in Kuroba mean "black feather". Kaito's given name has different kanji than the word 'kaitou', which means 'phantom thief,' although they intentionally sound alike.


 * A prototype version of Kaito appears in Aoyama's "Nonchalant Lupin (Sarigenaku Rupan)" short story. In this version, Kaito is named Kaito Lupin (Rupan Kaito).
 * The name 'Kuroba' is a transliteration of 'clover.' A four-leaf clover also appears on the tag of Kid's monocle.
 * Gosho Aoyama gave Kaito the same height and weight measurements that he had in 1990, as well as his own blood type.
 * Kaito and Gosho Aoyama also have the same birthday, June 21.
 * Gosho Aoyama stated in the comments of the Magic Kaito chapters in the Treasured Edition releases of the manga, that he considers Kaito's ice cream line from Magic Kaito Chapter 4 to be the most embarassing line of dialogue he has ever written.
 * In both the Japanese and English dub, Kaito shares the same voice actor as that of Shinichi Kudo. Kaito and Shinichi already resemble each other so closely that in the Black Star case, Ran sees Kaito in the street and mistakes him for Shinichi. In Movie 8 and again in Movie 19, Kaito disguises himself as Shinichi and without the use of a mask succeeds in completely fooling everyone except for Ran.
 * In Spanish, he doesn't share his voice with Shinichi, but with Hattori. However, this isn't much of a problem since he can perfectly mimic voices.
 * Although Kaito's and Shinichi's teenaged-selves share the same voice actor, Kappei Yamaguchi, two different voice actors portray them as children: young Kaito is still voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi, while Conan and young Shinichi are voiced by Minami Takayama.