Richard Moore known as Kogorou Mouri (毛利 小五郎 Mōri Kogorō?)

Richard Moore known as Kogorou Mouri (毛利 小五郎 Mōri Kogorō^?) in Japan is one of the protagonists of the anime and manga Case Closed, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン Meitantei Conan). The name "Kogoro Mori" came from two mystery-related sources. "Kogoro" came from "Kogoro Akechi", the detective created by Edogawa Rampo, while Mori came fromMaurice Leblanc.

Richard is a private investigator^[1], but he prefers to laze around all day. Richard can easily become infatuated with beautiful women. His dream woman is pop idol Yoko Okino,^[2] and he never misses her television show.^[3] Because of his behavior around attractive women, he often embarrasses his daughter Rachel Moore and while it is not the reason why Richard's wife left him, it is why she hasn't come back.

While he is never outright called an alcoholic, Richard has a tendency to get intoxicated at social events, and Jimmy/Conan makes sarcastic remarks about him spending money on alcohol. In the anime, his office is littered with empty beer cans^[4], and he keeps a well-stocked liquor shelf.

In college, Richard was the ace of the Judo team, however, he was highly vulnerable to stage fright.^[5] He is also a brilliant marksman.^[6]

Richard's daughter, Rachel Moore, is also the daughter of Eva Kadan, who is now living separately after an argument ten years prior.^[6] Despite constantly feigning disinterest in her, Richard still has feelings for his wife—he has even asked her to move back in with him, but she pretends not to hear him because she is not "ready" yet,^[7] though she still has feelings for him as well. These are expressed through jealousy when he comments on other girls' looks.

In the Japanese version due to his name being Kogoro Mori he is often mistaken for the famous astronaut Mamoru Mohri when he introduces himself, because they both are in the news frequently, of Japanese decent, and have the same last name. In the English version when Richard introduces himself he is often mistaken for "oh, that famous astronaut," as well. In the English version it is possible he is also confused with Patrick Moore.

In the US version, Richard Moore says that he is forty-three, in opposed to being thirty-seven in the Japanese version. It is unknown if Eva's age remains was altered as well since the characters attented school together. It is thought that the age change would effect the Princess Pageant storyline that occurred twenty years before the series began because if her age was altered she would be in her twenties and not a teenager as she was in the Japanese version.

[edit]Detective Skills

Throughout most of the series, he is seen as a pretty incompetent detective, often missing obvious clues and jumping to the wrong conclusions, though several of these conclusions were shared by other people on the scene. However, Richard does follow the proper police procedures, asks questions, and (with a little help from Conan) follows leads quite well. Despite his ineptness, he had been a prominent police officer under Inspector Joseph Megure ten years prior to the start of the series^[8] He is shown to have left the police force after events addressed in the second movie, Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target.

Conan adjusting Richard, pretending to be him

Thanks to Conan's undercover help in solving numerous cases, Richard reputation as a detective grows quickly.^[9] He hardly remembers the solutions of any cases because Conan knocks him out with tranquillizer darts so that he can announce the solution to the case while hidden, using a device that allows him to imitate Richard's voice as a proxy. However, Richard never seems to wonder about this fact and often boasts about his merits.

In later stories, there are times when Richard is actually able to solve crime cases with little to no help from Conan, especially when people he knows or cares about are involved. (It appears that, while he can connect the dots just fine, he can't actually find them as quickly as Conan does.) The most notable of these events takes place during a trip to a hot spring, where one of his old college friends is murdered. Richard is actually so disturbed and determined to find the killer on his own that Conan cannot bring himself to drug him, limiting himself to surreptitiously drawing attention to the necessary clues.^[10] Despite his frequent moronic analyses, Richard is actually pretty smart when he applies himself. He is even able to completely solve a crime himself in the ninth movie, Detective Conan: Strategy Above the Depths, and Conan applauds him mentally for it.