Kogoro Mouri

Kogoro Mouri, (Richard Moore in the English translation) father of Ran Mouri, an unsuccessful private detective. He isn't fond of Shinichi Kudo, and just tolerates Conan Edogawa, mostly because of the ¥10,000 check that arrives in the mail every month. Blames Shinichi for his failure to become successful at first, and is always quite disdainful when the missing teen is mentioned. Is married to Eri Kisaki, a lawyer. She has been separated from her for ten years and often talks about getting a divorce, but does not really want one, as he is still in love with her. Because of Conan's help, he becomes quite famous as a detective, and infamous to the degree that a prospective murderer is often dismayed to hear who he is. He is known as the 'Sleeping Kogoro', due to the fact that Conan often knocks him out with a stun gun, so that he can take over and reveal the truth himself. Conan does not always do this, preferring to just point out the clues, but Kogoro is often lazy, preferring to go with the first, most obvious culprit, and will stick with it despite evidence to the contrary. However, given sufficient reason, he can be a brilliant detective, it simply takes an extremely good reason. He may act arrogant and mean to his daughter, Ran, however, he actually cares about her very much and is very protective of her, especially from Shinichi and other guys.

Kogoro Mouri's name comes from detective Kogoro Akechi and mystery author Maurice Leblanc.