Ranpo Edogawa

Ranpo Edogawa (江戸川 乱歩,) is a member of the Armed Detective Agency. Despite not being an ability user, he is known as one of the best detectives highly sought by the police, renowned by his comrades, himself, and others as the "greatest detective in the world" (世界最高の名探偵,).

Appearance
Ranpo is a young man with a fair complexion and short, messy black hair. His eyes, which are closed most of the time, are green.

His attire consists of a brown inverness cape that he wears over his shoulders and whose color matches both his hat and his pants. Under that, he wears a dark grey blazer and a white button-up with a light and dark blue striped tie. Under his three-quarter length pants, he wears long white socks that cover the visible part of his legs, and simple black shoes.

When he was young, Ranpo wears a with matching  and coat. When he chooses to activate his "ability", he will put on black glasses which were given to him by Yukichi Fukuzawa.

After the agency's founding, Ranpo wears a simple white long sleeves with checkered tie.

After the cannibalism, Ranpo wears a white long sleeves and a sleeveless vest suit together with a black ribbon tie.

After defying Fukuzawa's orders during the virus ordeal, Ranpo is told to help a sales staff at one of their client's shopping mall, hence him putting a teddy bear costume.

During the agency's frameup, Ranpo borrows a cloak from man and his as a distraction to get away from the military police. Ranpo also wears a disguise in order to get Fukuzawa out from detainment - consisting of black overalls and putting a gas mask.

Personality
Ranpo takes extreme pride in his "ability" which can deduct any mystery in mere seconds, with which he has solved countless cases. He is often found bragging about his status as the Greatest Detective.

He is also shown to be rather childish, frequently teasing the other detectives in the agency and sometimes refusing to do work or cases for trivial reasons such as laziness or spite. However, he can become serious and calm when the situation calls for it. He is also incredibly intelligent and is commended for it by the rest of the Armed Detective Agency, even more so because he lacks ability.

Even though his colleagues seem to think that he is completely oblivious to the fact that he is not an ability user, he is aware that his Super Deduction is in fact not an ability. However, since the agency puts so much faith into him, he refuses to openly admit to anyone in the agency, as he seems to dance around the topic with Akiko Yosano, yet outright admitted his lack of ability to Mushitaro Oguri and did so too after the Yokohama fog incident caused by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa.

Ranpo has been shown to be unable to complete simple tasks such as riding a train or finding his way home when not utilizing his Super Deduction.

Ability
His uncanny aptitude, self-named "Super Deduction" (超推理,), allows him to deduce the "truth" about any crime by giving him every information about it such as where to find evidence and who the culprit is within a matter of seconds. Ranpo "activates" this ability by putting on a pair of glasses given to him by the director.

His ability seems to not only be applicable to crime scenes but to other scenarios as well. When Ranpo decides to activate his "ability," he will be able to find information and clues about a certain situation no matter how small, and with them instantaneously make extremely precise predictions. In fact, so far none of his deductions have been known to be erroneous or inaccurate.

This is shown when he easily solved the murder of Yamagiwa, which was deemed almost impossible by the police due to the severe lack of evidence.

Eventually, it is revealed that he is able to deduce everything simply due to his own extraordinary intelligence and that he does not possess an ability. Though he is not unaware of this fact, he initially denies it and continues to believe that he is an ability user. However, after some time, Ranpo has come to accept that he is a non-ability user, albeit occasionally still putting on his glasses to "activate" his ability and perform deductions.

Background
Ranpo was born to two genius parents somewhere outside Yokohama. He was raised in the countryside until the death of his parents when he then moved to Yokohama shortly afterward per his father's suggestion.

Appearances
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 * Chapters =

Port Mafia Arc

 * Chapter 1 - Looking the Gift Tiger in the Mouth
 * Chapter 5 - The Fatalist's Sorrow
 * Chapter 6 - Murder on D Street
 * Chapter 7 - Kill A Man and Die Thee Too, Part 1
 * Chapter 10 - Detective Boys
 * Chapter 11 - Back in the Day... (flashback)
 * Chapter 13 - The Rupturous Detective Agency

The Guild Arc

 * Chapter 19 - The Three-Way Battle
 * Chapter 21 - The Brother and the Devil
 * Chapter 22 - The Strategy of Conflict
 * Chapter 32 - Poe and Ranpo
 * Chapter 33 - A White Whale, into the Oceans of Heaven
 * Chapter 35 - Rashomon, the Tiger and the Last Tycoon (flashback)
 * Chapter 36 - If I May Lay Down This Burden Today
 * Chapter 37 - Closing the Party

The Guild Aftermath Arc

 * Chapter 38 - Slap the Stick
 * Chapter 39 - Portrait of a Father
 * Chapter 40 - Walking Alone
 * Chapter 45 - Fix it, Master Craft

Cannibalism Arc

 * Chapter 47 - Mutual Destruction, Part 1
 * Chapter 49 - Mutual Destruction, Part 3
 * Chapter 53 - Echo, Part 3

Cannibalism Aftermath Arc

 * Chapter 54 - The Perfect Murder, The Perfect Killer, Part 1
 * Chapter 55 - The Perfect Murder, The Perfect Killer, Part 2
 * Chapter 56 - The Perfect Murder, The Perfect Killer, Part 3

Hunting Dogs Arc

 * Chapter 57 - Sunday Tragedy, Part 1
 * Chapter 58 - Sunday Tragedy, Part 2
 * Chapter 59 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 1
 * Chapter 64 - You and I, Children of Sin]] (flashback)
 * Chapter 66 - Dreaming of Butterflies, Part 2 (flashback)

Sky Casino Arc

 * Chapter 69 - The Escape (flashback)
 * Chapter 78 - To Threaten God, Part 1 (image)

Kamui Revelation Arc

 * Chapter 80 - The Strongest Man, Part 1
 * Chapter 81 - The Strongest Man, Part 2
 * Chapter 82 - The Greatest Conspirator
 * Chapter 83 - Toward the Complete Answer, Part 1
 * Chapter 83.5 - Toward the Complete Answer, Part 2
 * Chapter 88 - As Though Tumbling Down (mentioned)

Vampire Infection Outbreak Arc

 * Chapter 89 - Hero War, Gang War (cover)
 * Chapter 91 - Back to the Detective Agency
 * Chapter 92 - The Empty Port, Part 1
 * Chapter 92.5 - The Empty Port, Part 2
 * Episodes=

Port Mafia Arc

 * Episode 1 - Fortune is Unpredictable and Mutable
 * Episode 4 - The Tragedy of the Fatalist
 * Episode 5 - Murder on D Street
 * Episode 8 - Teaching Them to Kill; Then to Die
 * Episode 9 - The Beauty Is Quiet Like a Stone Statue
 * Episode 11 - First, an Unsuitable Profession for Her / Second, an Ecstatic Detective Agency

Dark Era Arc

 * Episode 16 - Bungo Stray Dogs

The Guild Arc

 * Episode 18 - The Strategy of Conflict
 * Episode 22 - Part 1: Poe and Rampo; Part 2: Moby Dick, Swimming in the Sky
 * Episode 23 - Rashoumon, The Tiger, and The Last Emperor (memory)
 * Episode 24 - If I May Shed Away My Burden Now

The Guild Aftermath Arc

 * Episode 30 - Slap the Stick & Addict
 * Episode 31 - Part 1: Herurisu! / Part 2: Portrait of a Father
 * Episode 32 - Fitzgerald Rising

Cannibalism Arc
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 * Episode 33 - The Masked Assassin
 * Episode 35 - Cannibalism (Part 2)
 * Episode 37 - Echo
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 * -| DEAD APPLE=

Quotes

 * (To Mushitaro Oguri) "There are only two things that drive a person to self-destruction: madness and duty."
 * (To Mushitaro Oguri) "The Agency lost once to Dostoevsky. It won't happen again. I won't let anyone else in the Agency get hurt. To that end, I will mould myself into a demon."
 * (To Yukichi Fukuzawa) "Am I not a great detective? And what a great detective does is one thing! Solving cases!"

Etymology

 * The name Ranpo is a pun on the name "-lan Poe", the kanji used means "riot" (乱) (ran) and "walk" (歩) (ho/po).
 * The surname Edogawa is a pun on the name "Edgar Allan", the kanji used means "creek" (江) (e), "door" (戸) (to), and "river" (川) (kawa/gawa).

Namesake

 * Ranpo Edogawa (1894 - 1965)
 * Arguably, the greatest figure in Japanese mystery fiction. Many of Edogawa's characters - such as the detective Kogorou Akechi, the Boys' Detective Club, and the Fiend with Twenty Faces - remain popular. His mysteries often lean more toward the occult, owing to his fondness for Edgar Allan Poe - in fact, his pen name is a play on the famous America author ("Edgar Allan Poe" → "Edoga Waran Po").

Trivia

 * The real life 's birthname is Hirai Tarō (平井 太郎).
 * He is named after the Japanese author, Ranpo Edogawa, who also played a significant role in developing Japanese mystery fiction. His name is a pun on Edgar Allan Poe, whom he admired. This admiration is inversed in the series.
 * Ranpo seems unable to sleep if it is pitch black.
 * Ranpo is the only known "ability user" whose ability name is not a reference to a work of the author they are named after. This is an early hint to the fact that it is not an ability at all and he is not an ability user.
 * Though Ranpo's father is never named, both his job as a detective and the famous cases he has solved imply that he may have been directly inspired by Akechi Kogoro, the detective who Ranpo Edogawa often focused his detective fiction around.
 * According to the second official guidebook:
 * He spends his leisure time these days by going to Poe's house, eat some candy, and go home.
 * His average bedtime and waking time: "I don't have a specific time, but I usually go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 7am."
 * My honest thoughts when I found out I wasn't an ability-user:"I was trying not to notice..."