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Professor Hiroshi Agasa is a supporting character in the 2015 animated film Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno and in the larger Detective Conan franchise. He is an inventor and engineer who lives next door to the Kudo family in Beika Town, Tokyo, and he has been a friend of Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri since their childhood. After Shinichi was shrunk by the APTX 4869 poison and began living under the identity of Conan Edogawa, Agasa was the first person to learn his true secret and helped him build his new life, including enrolling him in Teitan Elementary School, where Conan met the children who would form the Detective Boys. Agasa also took in Shiho Miyano after she escaped the Black Organization and helped her assume the identity of Ai Haibara, becoming her guardian and a fatherly presence in her life.
Agasa is a jovial, caring, and outgoing person who has many friends in his community, a fact that has helped him conceal the true origins of Conan and Haibara by presenting them as children of his acquaintances. He is highly intelligent and holds an advanced degree, and he earns his living through a wide range of patents and inventions, including video games and the special gadgets he creates for Conan, such as the power-enhancing sneakers, the voice-changing bow tie, the tracking glasses, and the communication badges and flashlight watches used by the Detective Boys. He is proud of his inventions, though some of them are impractical or have caused mishaps in his home laboratory. In daily life he can be absent-minded, he has a fondness for sweets, pasta, and tomato juice, and he genuinely enjoys the company of the children he looks after. Physically, he is a middle-aged man of average height with a slightly overweight frame, a bald head with silver hair remaining around the sides, thick eyebrows, a mustache, a somewhat bulbous nose, and round glasses, and he is usually seen in his laboratory attire. He drives an old and not entirely reliable Volkswagen Beetle.
In Sunflowers of Inferno, Agasa acts as the group's adult guardian and source of technical support. He accompanies Conan, Ran, and the Detective Boys as they become drawn into a mystery involving a series of Van Gogh sunflower paintings and the phantom thief Kaito Kid. His role is that of a helper rather than a main hero: he provides transportation, stays with the others while Conan investigates, explains scientific and technical matters in simple terms, and supplies Conan with his gadgets, allowing the young detective to coordinate his efforts from a distance as the danger unfolds. His motivations are rooted in protecting the children in his care and supporting Conan's detective work whenever it puts him in harm's way.
Agasa's key relationships are defined by trust and guardianship. With Conan, he is a loyal confidant and the person Shinichi relied on most after his transformation, and he continues to advise him to act cautiously when dealing with the Black Organization. With Ai Haibara, he is a protective and fatherly guardian, and she in turn helps manage his household and keeps an eye on his health. With the Detective Boys, he is an unofficial adult sponsor who takes them on outings and looks after them during their adventures. Within the film itself, he does not undergo major personal change, but his consistent reliability and willingness to place his inventions at the service of others underline his development across the franchise as a dependable, warm-hearted figure whose wisdom and technical ingenuity make him indispensable to the group's efforts.
Agasa is a jovial, caring, and outgoing person who has many friends in his community, a fact that has helped him conceal the true origins of Conan and Haibara by presenting them as children of his acquaintances. He is highly intelligent and holds an advanced degree, and he earns his living through a wide range of patents and inventions, including video games and the special gadgets he creates for Conan, such as the power-enhancing sneakers, the voice-changing bow tie, the tracking glasses, and the communication badges and flashlight watches used by the Detective Boys. He is proud of his inventions, though some of them are impractical or have caused mishaps in his home laboratory. In daily life he can be absent-minded, he has a fondness for sweets, pasta, and tomato juice, and he genuinely enjoys the company of the children he looks after. Physically, he is a middle-aged man of average height with a slightly overweight frame, a bald head with silver hair remaining around the sides, thick eyebrows, a mustache, a somewhat bulbous nose, and round glasses, and he is usually seen in his laboratory attire. He drives an old and not entirely reliable Volkswagen Beetle.
In Sunflowers of Inferno, Agasa acts as the group's adult guardian and source of technical support. He accompanies Conan, Ran, and the Detective Boys as they become drawn into a mystery involving a series of Van Gogh sunflower paintings and the phantom thief Kaito Kid. His role is that of a helper rather than a main hero: he provides transportation, stays with the others while Conan investigates, explains scientific and technical matters in simple terms, and supplies Conan with his gadgets, allowing the young detective to coordinate his efforts from a distance as the danger unfolds. His motivations are rooted in protecting the children in his care and supporting Conan's detective work whenever it puts him in harm's way.
Agasa's key relationships are defined by trust and guardianship. With Conan, he is a loyal confidant and the person Shinichi relied on most after his transformation, and he continues to advise him to act cautiously when dealing with the Black Organization. With Ai Haibara, he is a protective and fatherly guardian, and she in turn helps manage his household and keeps an eye on his health. With the Detective Boys, he is an unofficial adult sponsor who takes them on outings and looks after them during their adventures. Within the film itself, he does not undergo major personal change, but his consistent reliability and willingness to place his inventions at the service of others underline his development across the franchise as a dependable, warm-hearted figure whose wisdom and technical ingenuity make him indispensable to the group's efforts.