Tohei Benzaki

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| **Tohei Benzaki** | |
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| **Profile** | |
| Japanese name: | 弁崎 桐平   (Benzaki Tōhei) |
| Age: | 35 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Date of birth: | unknown |
| Occupation: | Office worker |
| **Statistics** | |
| First appearance: | Manga: [File 850](/wiki/Volume_80#A_Shrine_to_Remember "Volume 80")   Anime: [Episode 734](/wiki/Jodie%27s_Memories_and_the_Cherry_Blossom_Viewing_Trap "Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap") |
| Appearances: | Chapters: (/wiki/Tohei_Benzaki_Appearances "Tohei Benzaki Appearances") Chapters: (/wiki/Tohei_Benzaki_Appearances "Tohei Benzaki Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Tohei_Benzaki_Appearances "Tohei Benzaki Appearances") |
| Cases solved: | 0 |
| Keyhole number: | N/A |
| **Actors** | |
| Japanese voice: | [Yoshiyuki Kono](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Kono "wikipedia:Yoshiyuki Kono") |
**Tohei Benzaki** (弁崎 桐平 ,*Benzaki Tōhei*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")) is a character in the manga and anime franchise *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")*.
## Contents
* [1 Background](#Background)
* [2 Appearance](#Appearance)
* [3 Personality](#Personality)
* [4 Plot overview](#Plot_overview)
+ [4.1 A Shrine to Remember (Manga: 850-852, Anime: 734)](#A_Shrine_to_Remember_.28Manga:_850-852.2C_Anime:_734.29)
+ [4.2 Cocktail of Sorrow (Manga: 855, Anime: 739)](#Cocktail_of_Sorrow_.28Manga:_855.2C_Anime:_739.29)
* [5 Appellations](#Appellations)
* [6 Name origin](#Name_origin)
* [7 Gallery](#Gallery)
* [8 References](#References)
* [9 See also](#See_also)
## Background[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tohei_Benzaki&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Background")]
Tohei Benzaki is a Tokyo officer worker and lives in a humble appartment. He is single and has difficulty to find a wife and became an easy target for [Vermouth](/wiki/Vermouth "Vermouth") and [Bourbon](/wiki/Rei_Furuya "Rei Furuya") so they could knock him out and impersonate him in order to take information from [Jodie](/wiki/Jodie_Starling "Jodie Starling") about whether or not [Akai](/wiki/Shuichi_Akai "Shuichi Akai") is dead. He asked Jodie who was the one with her thinking it was Akai even if he knew it was only a disguise since Bourbon disguised himself as both [Scar Akai](/wiki/Scar_Akai "Scar Akai") and him.
It is stated that he can drive since police found his driver license in his wallet. He went to the bank to register his paycheck and knew Jodie, but a group of robbers made a bank heist and asked people to put tape on their mouths. He is religious since he recollected himself to a shrine to honor the traditions and watch the cherry blossoms.
According to the [Tokyo MPD](/wiki/Tokyo_MPD "Tokyo MPD"), he was a single and, as [Conan](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa") deduced, Motoe Benzaki, his pretended wife, was in fact Vermouth in disguise. She pretended she was his pregnant wife even though it was impossible since he was single and she couldn't have put the tape on people's mouths at the Teito Bank heist since only singles could put tape on people to eliminate any emotion involved.
## Appearance[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tohei_Benzaki&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Appearance")]
He is a man in pretty good shape and has a simple haircut with light bangs. He appears wearing a coat with a turtleneck and a medical mask to disguise his voice when Bourbon used it. He has an average height.
## Personality[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tohei_Benzaki&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Personality")]
He is a normal working man who doesn't like to be disturbed. He lives calmly and was irritated when the police went to question him. When Bourbon disguises as him, he seem more polite and inviting and likes conversation which really contrasts giving more clues to him having been impersonated. He is precautious since he only brings few money because when he was pickpocketed, he wasn't stolen a large amount of cash.
## Plot overview[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tohei_Benzaki&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Plot overview")]
### A Shrine to Remember (Manga: (/wiki/Volume_80#A_Shrine_to_Remember "Volume 80")-(/wiki/Volume_81#A_Shrine_to_Remember "Volume 81"), Anime: (/wiki/Jodie%27s_Memories_and_the_Cherry_Blossom_Viewing_Trap "Jodie's Memories and the Cherry Blossom Viewing Trap"))[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tohei_Benzaki&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: A Shrine to Remember (Manga: 850-852, Anime: 734)")]
Bourbon knocked him out to ask Jodie further information about Akai.
### Cocktail of Sorrow (Manga: (/wiki/Volume_81#Cocktail_of_Sorrow "Volume 81"), Anime: (/wiki/Kogoro_in_the_Bar "Kogoro in the Bar"))[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tohei_Benzaki&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Cocktail of Sorrow (Manga: 855, Anime: 739)")]
[Takagi](/wiki/Wataru_Takagi "Wataru Takagi") told Conan that he is strange, since there is a contradiction in bank robbery case. Then, the real one said that he does not remember he was involved in the preview pickpocket murder case and he is unmarried. Conan suspected that fake couple is Bourbon and Vermouth.
## Appellations[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tohei_Benzaki&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Appellations")]
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| Picture | Name | What they call Tohei Benzaki | What Tohei Benzaki calls them |
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|  | [Jodie Starling](/wiki/Jodie_Starling "Jodie Starling") | - | That foreign lady |
|  | [Shuichi Akai](/wiki/Shuichi_Akai "Shuichi Akai") | - | A close friend of yours |
| Picture | Name | What they call Tohei Benzaki | What Tohei Benzaki calls them |
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|  | [Motoe Benzaki](/wiki/Motoe_Benzaki "Motoe Benzaki") | - | My wife |
| Picture | Name | What they call Tohei Benzaki | What Tohei Benzaki calls them |
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|  | [Wataru Takagi](/wiki/Wataru_Takagi "Wataru Takagi") | That Tohei Benzaki guy | - |
| Picture | Name | What they call Tohei Benzaki | What Tohei Benzaki calls them |
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|  | [Conan Edogawa](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa") | One of the hostages   That couple | - |
| Picture | Name | What they call Tohei Benzaki | What Tohei Benzaki calls them |
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|  | [Scar Akai](/wiki/Scar_Akai "Scar Akai") | The guy with the scar next to you | - |
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## Name origin[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Tohei_Benzaki&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: Name origin")]
Tohei Benzaki (弁崎 桐平), just like the other suspects in his introductory case, has a name related to "flower viewing" (花見 ,*hanami*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese"))[](#cite_note-1). It comes from "[bento boxes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bento "wikipedia:bento")" (弁当), which are often brought as a quick way to eat while enjoying the flowers. Moreover, Motoe Benzaki (弁崎 素江), the name used by Vermouth and Bourbon to create a fake wife for him, is an anagram of Vermouth as "benmoto" sounds similar to "berumotto", the Japanese word for Vermouth[](#cite_note-2).