Jii Kounosuke

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| **Konosuke Jii** | |
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| **Profile** | |
| Japanese name: | 寺井 黄之助   (Jii Kōnosuke) |
| Age: | 61[](#cite_note-1) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 174 cm[](#cite_note-2) |
| Occupation: | [Koyata Yamamoto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ja:%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E9%A1%A7%E5%BD%8C%E5%A4%AA "wikipedia:ja:山本顧彌太")'s former servant (until 1945)   [Kuroba family](/wiki/Kuroba_family "Kuroba family")'s actual assistant (present) |
| Status: | Alive |
| **Statistics** | |
| First appearance: | [Magic Kaito](/wiki/Magic_Kaito "Magic Kaito") Manga: Chapter 1   Manga: [File 456](/wiki/Volume_44#File_456_-_Escape "Volume 44")   Anime: [Episode 219](/wiki/The_Gathering_of_the_Detectives!_Shinichi_Kudo_vs._Kaitou_Kid "The Gathering of the Detectives! Shinichi Kudo vs. Kaitou Kid")   [Magic Kaito 1412](/wiki/Magic_Kaito_1412 "Magic Kaito 1412"): [Episode 1](/wiki/The_Revived_Phantom_Thief_Kid "The Revived Phantom Thief Kid") |
| Appearances: | Chapters: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") Movies: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") Chapters: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") Specials: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") Openings: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") Closings: (/wiki/Konosuke_Jii_Appearances "Konosuke Jii Appearances") |
| **Actors** | |
| Japanese voice: | [Kaneta Kimotsuki](/wiki/index.php?title=Kaneta_Kimotsuki&action=edit&redlink=1 "Kaneta Kimotsuki (page does not exist)") (episode 219)   [Yōsuke Akimoto](/wiki/index.php?title=Y%C5%8Dsuke_Akimoto&action=edit&redlink=1 "Yōsuke Akimoto (page does not exist)") (episode 356)   [Koji Yada](/wiki/index.php?title=Koji_Yada&action=edit&redlink=1 "Koji Yada (page does not exist)") (TV Specials)   [Michio Hazama](/wiki/index.php?title=Michio_Hazama&action=edit&redlink=1 "Michio Hazama (page does not exist)") ([Magic Kaito 1412](/wiki/Magic_Kaito_1412 "Magic Kaito 1412"))   [Akio Nojima](/wiki/index.php?title=Akio_Nojima&action=edit&redlink=1 "Akio Nojima (page does not exist)") ([The Culprit Hanzawa](/wiki/The_Culprit_Hanzawa "The Culprit Hanzawa"))   [Akio Suyama](/wiki/index.php?title=Akio_Suyama&action=edit&redlink=1 "Akio Suyama (page does not exist)") (youth) |
| English voice: | [Frank Todaro](/wiki/index.php?title=Frank_Todaro&action=edit&redlink=1 "Frank Todaro (page does not exist)") (Bang Zoom!)   [Landon McDonald](/wiki/index.php?title=Landon_McDonald&action=edit&redlink=1 "Landon McDonald (page does not exist)") (Bang Zoom!;young)   [Doug Jackson](/wiki/index.php?title=Doug_Jackson&action=edit&redlink=1 "Doug Jackson (page does not exist)") (Studio Nano) |
**Konosuke Jii** (寺井 黄之助 ,*Jii Kōnosuke*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")) is a character in the manga franchise *[Magic Kaito](/wiki/Magic_Kaito "Magic Kaito")*, as well as the manga and anime franchise *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")*.
## Contents
* [1 Background](#Background)
* [2 Personality](#Personality)
* [3 Skills](#Skills)
* [4 Appellations](#Appellations)
* [5 Plot overview](#Plot_overview)
* [6 Non-canon plot overview](#Non-canon_plot_overview)
+ [6.1 Sunflowers of Inferno (Movie: 19)](#Sunflowers_of_Inferno_.28Movie:_19.29)
+ [6.2 The Fist of Blue Sapphire‎ (Movie: 23)](#The_Fist_of_Blue_Sapphire_.28Movie:_23.29)
* [7 Name origin](#Name_origin)
* [8 Different looks](#Different_looks)
* [9 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [10 See also](#See_also)
* [11 References](#References)
## Background[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Background")]
Jii worked as the famous magician [Toichi Kuroba](/wiki/Toichi_Kuroba "Toichi Kuroba")'s loyal friend and assistant. He also knew of Toichi's alter ego as the [Kaitou Kid](/wiki/Kaitou_Kid "Kaitou Kid"), and presumably assisted him in his heists. According to Jii, Toichi made him swear never to tell his son [Kaito](/wiki/Kaito_Kuroba "Kaito Kuroba") about his father's secret identity. Because Kaito did not immediately recognize Jii, it seems that he may not have been close to the entire Kuroba family, or perhaps Toichi wanted to protect Kaito from his Kaitou Kid identity, and thus kept him away from Jii.
Jii currently runs a a billiards parlor called the Blue Parrot. He lost a legendary pool cue to a rival billiards parlor 13 years ago, prior to when he met Toichi, but it is not clear whether Jii owned the Blue Parrot at that time or if he opened it only after Toichi's death.[](#cite_note-3)
## Personality[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Personality")]
Jii appears to be deeply loyal to the Kuroba family, always willing to assist both Toichi and Kaito's activities as Kaitou Kid. Though he is not as outgoing as either of his employers, he is brave enough to take on many high-risk assignments with little hesitation.
When not assisting on heists, Jii's interests seem to include billiards and classic art (as evidenced by his interest in the Paris Collection).
## Skills[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Skills")]
A former magician's assistant, Jii is quite knowledgeable about magic. Jii currently assists Kaito Kuroba on heists, and likely assisted Toichi Kuroba in the past. Jii does at least some of the scouting and preparation needed to develop tricks for heists, and occasionally helps in the tricks themselves during the main event. He is also a swift and skilled but reckless driver who weaves in and out of traffic.
The police are aware that Kaito Kid has assistances. Nakamori mentions that the description are a young woman or an old man. The old man is clearly Jii, while the young woman could be Kaito Kid in disguise or Akako.
## Appellations[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Appellations")]
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| Picture | Name | What they call Jii | What Jii calls them |
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|  | [Kaito Kuroba](/wiki/Kaito_Kuroba "Kaito Kuroba") | Jii-chan | Young Master Kaito (*Kaito-botchama*)   Young Master (*Botchama*) |
|  | [Toichi Kuroba](/wiki/Toichi_Kuroba "Toichi Kuroba") | - | Master Toichi (*Toichi-sama*) |
|  | [Chikage Kuroba](/wiki/Chikage_Kuroba "Chikage Kuroba") |  | Madam (*Okusama*) |
| Picture | Name | What they call Jii | What Jii calls them |
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|  | [Aoko Nakamori](/wiki/Aoko_Nakamori "Aoko Nakamori") | Jii-san | Aoko-san |
|  | [Jirokichi Suzuki](/wiki/Jirokichi_Suzuki "Jirokichi Suzuki") | - | Advisor Suzuki (*Suzuki-sodan-yaku*) |
|  | [Conan Edogawa](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa") | Fellow (*Nakama*; talking to Kaitou Kid)[](#cite_note-4) | - |
|  | [Kiyosuke Azuma](/wiki/Sunflowers_of_Inferno "Sunflowers of Inferno") | - | Azuma-san |
|  | [Umeno](/wiki/Sunflowers_of_Inferno "Sunflowers of Inferno") | - | Milady (*Ojōsama*) |
|  | [Koji Azuma](/wiki/Sunflowers_of_Inferno "Sunflowers of Inferno") | - | The servant |
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## Plot overview[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Plot overview")]
Jii first appears in the opening file of Magic Kaito, where he dresses as the Kaitou Kid and steals a diamond using a magic trick that makes most of his body disappear. After Kaito stumbles through the trap door to his father's Kaitou Kid room and realizes that his father was the original Kid who disappeared eight years ago, he decides to dress as the Kid and discover the identity of the current Kaitou Kid.
Kaito confronts Jii on the top of a building and manages to see through Jii's disappearing trick. Jii mistakes Kaito for his father, then Kaito recognizes Jii from tapes of his father's magic shows. Jii tells Kaito that Toichi was murdered eight years ago, and that he, Jii, had donned the costume in an attempt to lure out the [murderers](/wiki/Magic_Kaito_Organization "Magic Kaito Organization"). Kaito immediately decides to become the Kid, to Jii's seeming dismay, but Jii's advanced age make it clear that Kaito has a better chance of successfully pulling off heists than Jii does.[](#cite_note-TheResurrectedDKaitou-5)
Since then, Jii has appeared to offer Kaito advice and sometimes assist him in his heists. It was implied that the Kid's 'assistant' in the Magical Midair Walk[](#cite_note-Kaitou_Kid.27s_Magical_Midair_Walk-6) and in the Teleportation Heist[](#cite_note-KaitouKidsTeleportationMagic-7) was Jii himself.
## Non-canon plot overview[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Non-canon plot overview")]
### Sunflowers of Inferno (Movie: (/wiki/Sunflowers_of_Inferno "Sunflowers of Inferno"))[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Sunflowers of Inferno (Movie: 19)")]
His youth was during World War II, in 1945. He was hired by [Koyata Yamamoto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ja:%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E9%A1%A7%E5%BD%8C%E5%A4%AA "wikipedia:ja:山本顧彌太"), a businessman who bought the 'Ashiya Sunflowers', as a servant of his household in Ashiya coast, Hyogo Prefecture, and even then wore glasses. His first love was Umeno, the 15-year-old mistress of that house, but she was secretly in love with Kiyosuke Azuma, hired by Yamamoto as a carpenter, although he was married and had a son. He had never hated Azuma and they were good friends. The whole city was engulfed in flames on the day of the air strike. In order to save the painting, who embedded it in the wall firmly to prevent theft, Azuma ran back inside the building mansion. Amid the blazing flames sparked by the raid, Umeno and Jii were entrusted that painting by him, as they witnessed his final moments before their very eyes, and Jii saved her from that fire. To avoid confiscation by the Allied Forces, it was passed off as a fake and sent to Europe, where was sitting quietly in the attic of an old house in Arles. Helped by his words, a year before, Koichi and Koji, Azuma's twin grandsons, finally found it after years of searching. During [Jirokichi Suzuki](/wiki/Jirokichi_Suzuki "Jirokichi Suzuki")'s exhibition, disguised as [Zengo Goto](/wiki/Zengo_Goto "Zengo Goto"), he happy cries seeing on the monitor Umeno moved reviewing the painting. Now finally 'Ashiya Sunflowers' safely returned to Japan, and the people of the world will be able to gaze at it just like in an art museum that [Saneatsu Mushanokoji](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saneatsu_Mushanok%C5%8Dji "wikipedia:Saneatsu Mushanokōji") spoke of, Azuma and his son's wish has been granted.
### The Fist of Blue Sapphire‎ (Movie: (/wiki/The_Fist_of_Blue_Sapphire "The Fist of Blue Sapphire"))[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: The Fist of Blue Sapphire‎ (Movie: 23)")]
## Name origin[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=9 "Edit section: Name origin")]
Like other characters in *Magic Kaito*, his name contains a color. The kanji "黄" in *Kō*nosuke means "yellow". The kanji "助" in Kōno*suke* means "help", "assist" or "assistant". "Jii" also shares the same sound as "gramps" in Japanese.
## Different looks[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=10 "Edit section: Different looks")]
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| Episode 219 | Younger (movie 19). | Movie 19 | Magic Kaito Special (episode 8). |
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| Magic Kaito 1412 (episode 2). |
## Trivia[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Konosuke_Jii&action=edit&section=11 "Edit section: Trivia")]
Jii and [Vermouth](/wiki/Vermouth "Vermouth") (episode 704).
* In the *Teleportation Magic* case, Conan catches a glimpse of Kid's assistant. In the manga, this is clearly Jii himself, judging from his hairstyle and body shape. In the anime depiction, however, Kid's assistant is depicted as a figure identical to Kaito himself, albeit with a shadowed face.
* In [Kogoro in the Bar](/wiki/Kogoro_in_the_Bar "Kogoro in the Bar"), his billiards parlor the Blue Parrot is featured as a murder location. However, neither Jii nor any other Magic Kaito characters appear.
* Jii cameos in [The Jet-Black Mystery Train](/wiki/The_Jet-Black_Mystery_Train "The Jet-Black Mystery Train").
* Jii's surname can also be read **Terai** *寺井*.
* It is hinted that he and [Hiroshi Agasa](/wiki/Hiroshi_Agasa "Hiroshi Agasa") are friends which Jii's "professor friend" who repaired Kaito Kuroba's bike in Magic Kaito Sun Halo. This allusion is returned in FILE.997 of Detective Conan, where Agasa mentions that he lent his VW Beetle to his "barkeeper friend".