Ranpo Edogawa/Relationships

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Clairvoyant
"He probably wasn't amazing enough to be known to the public or anything, though. He could never beat my mom when it came to solving mysteries or reasoning, so she always got the upper hand on him when they argued back home."

- Ranpo talks about his father

The Clairvoyant is Ranpo's father whom Yukichi Fukuzawa recognized as a legendary detective known to have solved various difficult cases throughout the country. Despite the man's fame and being praised by many for his extraordinary deduction and observation prowess, Ranpo surmised that his father was "not amazing enough" to be popular among the public, since he could never beat his mother in solving mysteries, reasoning, and arguments. Ranpo was also seemingly taught by his father regarding the field, once telling him that fingerprints were easy to falsify.

Ranpo's father once advised him that he shall soon surpass his parents due to his gift and, until the right time, asked him to humbly observe others and learn virtue until he could grow with good judgment and knowledge about how the world worked, though Ranpo did not quite understand what his father meant. Ranpo also went to Yokohama and entered the Yokohama Police Academy as instructed by his father if anything were to happen to him, an endeavor Ranpo did following his parents' death due to an accident.

Unnamed Mother
"Don't think you can control me with a few compliments. My mother told me to never look down on others."

- Ranpo echoes his mother's teaching to Fukuzawa

Ranpo apparently looked up to his mother's deduction skills, able to best his father in deductions and arguments. Sharp enough to go up against the Clairvoyant despite not being a police officer, detective, or criminal psychologist, she and her spouse partook in raising Ranpo as an ordinary child to protect his extraordinary gift, teaching him never to look down on others and to observe the people around him until he could understand them. Ranpo was often told by his mother that he was "still just a kid", which Ranpo correlated with adults being "smarter" than him and caused him over time to develop the perspective that adults thought and noticed things like him.

Yukichi Fukuzawa
"Your point of reference may be justice, but mine is to face the same direction as the President."

- Ranpo to Ōchi Fukuchi

Fukuzawa took Ranpo in as an orphan twelve years ago. Fukuzawa first met Ranpo after running into him on a job where Fukuzawa was working as a bodyguard for a CEOs murder. Ranpo came into the room where he was meeting the client, looking for a job, and continued to ramble before offhandedly remarking that the client killed the CEO. Fukuzawa, impressed by Ranpo's ability to solve the case immediately, takes Ranpo to a restaurant to repay him.

From there, Ranpo pesters Fukuzawa until he takes Ranpo with him on his next job at a theater, where a performer had received a dreath threat. Halfway through the play Ranpo starts a commotion, with Fukuzawa ultimately storming outside the theater with him. After talking to him and discovering that Ranpo's loneliness and anger towards other people was caused by Ranpo genuinely believing he was no different nor special than others, Fukuzawa tells Ranpo a white lie; that he’s an ability user. Ranpo, filled with newfound confidence, solves the case at the theater.

However, while luring out the organization behind the case, Ranpo puts himself in danger. When Fukuzawa comes to save him, he gets incredibly upset with Ranpo for putting himself in harms way, resulting in Fukuzawa slapping him. Ranpo cries, before Fukuzawa consoles him and takes him with him.

They stayed together for a while, Fukuzawa going to missions where he acted as a bodyguard (and ultimately not needing to protect anyone due to Ranpo solving the threat beforehand), and Fukuzawa accompanying Ranpo on cases. However it didn't take long before Fukuzawa realized there was an issue. Ranpo was brilliant, but weak, and would need someone to protect him while he solved crimes. And while Fukuzawa could do so, there would come a time where he couldn't. And with that, the Armed Detective Agency was formed.

Ranpo and Fukuzawa are shown as very close, and their relationship being hinted towards a parent-guardian one. Fukuzawa, though sometimes annoyed with Ranpo, puts up with it out of deep care and respect for him. As for Ranpo, he seems to have a deep seated admiration for Fukuzawa, doing things simply for the sake of being praised by him and becoming incredibly depressed when harm befalls him.

Akiko Yosano
"Join the Armed Detective Agency. We don't want your ability. We want that kindness of yours"

- Ranpo recruits Yosano to the agency.

Yosano appears to be close with Ranpo. Yosano was the first hire to the agency, after its establishment. When she first came in, Fukuzawa and Mori were fighting over her.

Ranpo took her aside and used Super Deduction to find her missing butterfly adornment gifted to her three years prior, and told her she wouldn't have to use her ability often as he was the star of the agency. Instead, they wanted her ‘gentleness’, and empathy. This made Yosano cry tears of joy, and helped her break out of her trance-like depressive state.

She's also with Ranpo when they arrived at the location where Poe invited Ranpo for another competition on solving his novel. With Yosano fails to catch the culprit, and eventually falls victim to the murderer, she places her trust in the great detective for whom the Agency was established and thanks him for recruiting her to the organization. As Yosano "dies", Ranpo uses his deduction prowess and solves the case, causing him and Yosano to return to reality They seem to know each-over well, correctly assuming the others moves (like when Yosano asks Atsushi to go shopping).

Doppo Kunikida
"Kunikida. You are the noblest, strongest member of the Agency. That's why our enemy tried to break you first. Keep that in mind."

- Ranpo's view towards Kunikida

Osamu Dazai
"A coworker and an enigma, even to me."

- Ranpo describing Dazai to Minoura

Ranpo and Dazai are shown to be on good terms with each other. Both have eccentric personalities and seem unbothered by it which is shown during the Yamagiwa's murder case when Ranpo simply reacts to Dazai's theatrical attitude by stating that he's always like that and describes him as an enigma.

The two are also shown to be the most intelligent and most capable strategists in the Armed Detective Agency as they worked together to come up with a plan to take down the Moby Dick. On top of that, despite Ranpo stating that he is better than Dazai and is still not quite to his level yet, he seem to respect Dazai's intellect with Ranpo stating that facing Fyodor Dostoevsky was complicated as it was like facing Dazai.

Kyōka Izumi
Despite not having many interactions, Ranpo is the most excited among the agency members when Kyōka first came to the agency, even buying candies and teaching her how to make it. They are also described to be looking like grade school siblings when together by Atsushi.

Chūya Nakahara
"Oh, I'm afraid that won't do, Mr. Fancy Hat. By my deduction, you'd reduce our chances of winning. Thus, I'm here to stop you."

- Ranpo taunts Chūya

Edgar Allan Poe
"I remember it like it was yesterday, we tested each other's wits right here. That's the only time another detective's given me the chills… Never before, never since."

- Ranpo remembers and acknowledges Poe

Six years ago, Poe and Ranpo took a case together in which they decided to have a detective battle. However, Poe lost and fell into a depression where he cut off ties with his family and friends. For six years afterwards, he started working on a plot to get back at Ranpo. He joined the guild just to challenge Ranpo.

But, even though Poe challenges Ranpo (with Akiko Yosano) again, he doesn't win. Even more, Ranpo seemed to not have remembered their original detective battle at first, which greatly upset Poe. Though, after their 'fight', Ranpo remembers Poe and exclaims that it was the first time he'd been pushed that far by another detective.

More recently, when Poe asks for his output or deductions, he doesn't seem to mind it and helps him. Poe seems to still refer to Ranpo as his ‘rival’, but Ranpo calls him his friend instead. It is often remarked that Poe’s so-called rivalry towards Ranpo is odd considering his obvious admiration and ‘fanlike’ behavior towards him. More recently, Ranpo spends his free time both at Poe's house, and eating sweets.

Mushitarō Oguri
"Mushitarō-kun, you've won! I knew from the start that regular people can't defeat ability users. But I'm still going to defeat you. Why? Because my friends think I'm invincible."

- Ranpo accepts the challenge posed by Mushitarō

Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The Agency has fallen to Dostoevsky once. It won't lose again. I won't let him hurt a single person there."

- Ranpo's unyielding aura against Fyodor

Ms. Egawa
"The adult world is so bizarre. What made her so mad?"

- Ranpo's confusion to Ms. Egawa's anger after deducing her personal life

Tokio Murakami
"''The silicone padding, the hospital, the blood—there was so much evidence that you didn’t even have to go looking for it. All that's left is a confession. That's why I prepared a place better suited for you than a dismal, boring interrogation room with the police. Enjoy."

- Ranpo exposes Murakami to the theater audience

Officer Sugimoto
"Okay, Sugimoto-kun, you're the detective now! Solve this case for us within sixty seconds!"

- Ranpo challenges Sugimoto to solve a case

Jun Mitamura
"‘Negotiate’? I have no intention of negotiating, and when the conversation doesn't interest me, it just goes in one ear and out the other. Just sounds like a cow mooing to me. Moooo."

- Ranpo absentmindedly provokes Mitamura