Detective Kawanaka

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| **Kawanaka** | |
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| **Profile** | |
| Japanese name: | 川中   (Kawanaka) |
| Age: | unknown |
| Gender: | Male |
| Occupation: | Police detective |
| Status: | Alive |
| **Statistics** | |
| First appearance: | Manga: [File 404](/wiki/Volume_40#Be_on_Guard_on_a_Sweet_Date.21 "Volume 40")   Anime: [Episode 358](/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Detective_Love_Story_5 "Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 5") |
| Appearances: | Chapters: (/wiki/Detective_Kawanaka_Appearances "Detective Kawanaka Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Detective_Kawanaka_Appearances "Detective Kawanaka Appearances") |
| **Actors** | |
| Japanese voice: | [Junichi Sugawara](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%27ichi_Sugawara "wikipedia:Jun'ichi Sugawara") (episode 480) |
**Kawanaka** (川中 ,*Kawanaka*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese"))[](#cite_note-1) is a character in the manga and anime franchise *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")*.
## Contents
* [1 Background](#Background)
* [2 Personality](#Personality)
* [3 Appearance](#Appearance)
* [4 Appellations](#Appellations)
* [5 Name origin](#Name_origin)
* [6 Different looks](#Different_looks)
* [7 See also](#See_also)
* [8 References](#References)
## Background[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Kawanaka&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Background")]
Kawanaka is a detective from the [Tokyo MPD](/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police "Tokyo Metropolitan Police"), Division One Investigations, Section Three. He loves [Sato](/wiki/Miwako_Sato "Miwako Sato") and is jealous of [Takagi](/wiki/Wataru_Takagi "Wataru Takagi"), often attempting to interrupt their dates along with several other officers. He has great respect for [Matsumoto](/wiki/Kiyonaga_Matsumoto "Kiyonaga Matsumoto") and [Kuroda](/wiki/Hyoue_Kuroda "Hyoue Kuroda"), and follows their orders conscientiously. He meets [Conan](/wiki/Conan_Edogawa "Conan Edogawa") in several cases and his great deduction impressed him only during Takagi's kidnapping, but Conan deflects suspicion off him by leaving all credit to [Shinichi](/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo "Shinichi Kudo") or [Agasa](/wiki/Hiroshi_Agasa "Hiroshi Agasa").[](#cite_note-2) Often times, when a huge case is closed, he likes to go drinking along with other officers that same night.[](#cite_note-3)
## Personality[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Kawanaka&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Personality")]
## Appearance[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Kawanaka&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Appearance")]
He is very similar to [Kogoro](/wiki/Kogoro_Mori "Kogoro Mori") when he was a police detective, without the mustache.
## Appellations[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Kawanaka&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Appellations")]
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| Picture | Name | What they call Kawanaka | What Kawanaka calls them |
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|  | [Juzo Megure](/wiki/Juzo_Megure "Juzo Megure") | Kawanaka-kun | - |
|  | [Detective Fukui](/wiki/Detective_Fukui "Detective Fukui") | Kawanaka | - |
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## Name origin[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Kawanaka&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Name origin")]
His name comes from [Mototsugu Kawanaka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ja:%E5%B7%9D%E4%B8%AD%E5%9F%BA%E5%97%A3 "wikipedia:ja:川中基嗣"), who was a player of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team at the time of the airing of episodes 358-359.[](#cite_note-4)
## Different looks[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Detective_Kawanaka&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Different looks")]
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