Is Kogoro the tritagonist of the series?

[DCUniverseAficionado]

Out of curiosity I went back and searched for the last pure Kogoro-Ran-Conan manga case and the latest I could find goes back a very long way :

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki ... me's_Sword

I suppose one could argue that Amuro's first case could count but even then it was nearly 15 volumes ago.

I miss the 'Ran, Conan and Kogoro/Sonoko' go somewhere in the middle of nowhere cases. Those were always the best stories imo. There was a ton of them at the beginning (Bandaged man, Moutain Villa in the snow, Reika case, Yonehara-sensei case etc.) and they got progressively rarer until they simply became extinct. Those were among the cases where Kogoro actually did something.

Too bad AOs haven't taken the opportunity to fill this gap.

Considering how little the plot has moved forward for since that case, you'd think there'd be plenty of room for cases like that—and who says the plot had to be ignored during such cases? Just have a focus on a case.

Kogoro is way too underused—since all these government agencies came into the story and Shinichi/Conan started interacting with them, Kogoro has lost his plot purpose, really. Some character development or action he takes/witnesses that leads to a major plot development would offset this.

AOs haven't really affected the manga canon much—I personally think that they and the movies should be allowed to take more risks and do things that the manga wouldn't.

I agree, I miss the old cases, I also really really liked the cases that Kogoro solved by himself with only few hints from Conan, Gosho should do one sometime.

We're overdue, on that score—it's been over 200 files, since the last one of those cases.

[Vinnie]

Kogoro needs character development. That man doesn't solve a case properly by HIMSELF since the Class Reunion. I wonder why Gosho is sleeping on him... TT_TT

[DCUniverseAficionado]

Kogoro needs character development. That man doesn't solve a case properly by HIMSELF since the Class Reunion. I wonder why Gosho is sleeping on him... TT_TT

Actually, he solved that case, Kogoro's Choice/The Unseen Suspect (374–376/305–306) and Eri's Birthday/The Worst Birthday (709–711/590–591) with a key hint from Shinichi/Conan, each time.

But it has been a while since he solved a case, or since his character developed.

[irishock]

He has the 2nd most screentime in the series, but has less to do with the main plot than a throwaway character like Araide.

I think it's also part of the reason why people suspect that one of his family members might be BO. There's got to be some connection that exists between the Mouris and the baddies.

[Serinox]

He has the 2nd most screentime in the series, but has less to do with the main plot than a throwaway character like Araide.

I think it's also part of the reason why people suspect that one of his family members might be BO. There's got to be some connection that exists between the Mouris and the baddies.

Ran has the 2nd most screentime, Kogoro has the 3rd most. Not every character with much screentime has to be important, Megure also has a massive amount of screentime, yet he's not important for the overall plot.