Yamagishi Eiichi

**Eiichi Yamagishi**
**Profile**
**Gender:**
Male
**Date of birth:**
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**Place of birth:**
Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan[](#cite_note-1)
**Position:**
Mangaka
**Eiichi Yamagishi** (山岸 栄一 ,*Yamagishi Eiichi*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")) is one of [Gosho Aoyama](/wiki/Gosho_Aoyama "Gosho Aoyama")'s assistants and has done work for the *[Detective Conan Special](/wiki/Detective_Conan_Special "Detective Conan Special")* series. Two of these chapters, [The Kidnapping Location Case](/wiki/The_Kidnapping_Location_Case "The Kidnapping Location Case") and [The White Sandy Beach Murder Case](/wiki/The_White_Sandy_Beach_Murder_Case "The White Sandy Beach Murder Case"), were adapted for the anime.
Eiichi Yamagishi from an omake by Masaki Negishi
He is in charge of designing architecture and technical stuff, like vehicles[](#cite_note-2) and weapons[](#cite_note-3) and assists Gosho since his first manga.
He has several characters and places designed and/or named after him in their works: He appears as a [kitsune](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune "wikipedia:Kitsune")-like student at the school in *[Nonchalant Lupin](/wiki/Nonchalant_Lupin "Nonchalant Lupin")* and got cameos as a member of the "film crew" in the first and last omakes of *[Magic Kaito](/wiki/Magic_Kaito "Magic Kaito")*. He also has some background cameos. He furthermore shows up as an unwitting customer in [Kumo-Otoko](/wiki/Kumo-Otoko "Kumo-Otoko")'s restaurant in *[Yaiba](/wiki/Yaiba "Yaiba")* who gets chased away. There are also several stores named after him in the series. As "Yamagishi-san" he's a member of [Shigeo Nagashima](/wiki/index.php?title=Shigeo_Nagashima&action=edit&redlink=1 "Shigeo Nagashima (page does not exist)")'s baseball team at [Kohnan High School](/wiki/Kohnan_High_School "Kohnan High School") in *[3rd Base 4th](/wiki/3rd_Base_4th "3rd Base 4th")*, as well as a manager of [Yoko Okino](/wiki/Yoko_Okino "Yoko Okino") in *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")* and *[Zero's Tea Time](/wiki/Zero%27s_Tea_Time "Zero's Tea Time")*. In the omakes of the second to last series he is "Detective Puppet Yama-chan".
His own works include *Cocktail & Bar Course* (カクテル&バー講座 ,*Kakuteru & Bā Kōza*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")), a guide to bars and cocktails in the form of a manga, and *Secrets of Buddhism* (Bukkyō no Himitsu ,*仏教のひみつ*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")), another guide about buddhism, also in manga form.[](#cite_note-4)[](#cite_note-5)
## Trivia[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Eiichi_Yamagishi_(staff)&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Trivia")]
* [Yoko Okino](/wiki/Yoko_Okino "Yoko Okino")'s [manager](/wiki/Eiichi_Yamagishi_(character) "Eiichi Yamagishi (character)") from [An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case](/wiki/An_Idol%27s_Locked_Room_Murder_Case "An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case") is named after Yamagishi.