Chief Detective Kenichi | |
![]() Cover of Chief Detective Kenichi volume 1 from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition. | |
ケン1探偵長 (Kenichi Tantei Chou) | |
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Manga | |
Written by | Osamu Tezuka |
Published by | Kodansha |
Magazine | Shōnen Club |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | June 1954 – December 1956 |
Volumes | 2 |
Chief Detective Kenichi (ケン1探偵長, Kenichi Tantei Chou) is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka published in Kodansha's Shōnen Club from June 1954 to December 1956.
Plot
The manga follows Kenichi, the chief detective of the national Boy Detectives' Street Society. He is joined by Donguri, a talking bird. Together, they travel to various exotic locations solving mysteries, revealing tricks and settling cases. Every chapter has him solving a new mystery in various locations across the world.
- Incident of the House of Spiders
Kenichi's final case ("Incident of the House of Spiders") was published in Akita Publishing's Boken-O magazine.
Characters
- Kenichi
The protagonist and chief of the Boy Detectives' Street Society.
- Donguri
A Myna bird that is always at Kenichi's side. He has a special ability to be able to reproduce the voice of a person it has heard only once before.
- Kenichi's Mother
- Kenichi's Father
- Mouse Boy
- Mr. Hiranuma
- Lemonade Citron
- Detective Beringen
- Elise
External links
- Chief Detective Kenichi in the Tezuka World database
- Chief Detective Ken'ichi in Tezuka Osamu official website
- Kenichi Shikishima character profile in Tezuka (in English)
- Kenichi official character profile in Tezuka Osamu official website