Heiji Hattori

服部平次

Male

Heiji is a high school detective, and the son of [Heizo Hattori,](https://anilist.co/character/30367/Heizo-Hattori) chief of the Osaka Police Department, and his wife [Shizuka Hattori.](https://anilist.co/character/41038/Shizuka-Hattori) Heiji wants to be a detective like his father since spending his childhood looking for lost cats in his neighborhood, and he is also very skilled in kendo and has become a favored tournament contender for his school. At one time during their childhood, Heiji had had the unfortunate idea of locking himself and his friend [Kazuha](https://anilist.co/character/3198/Kazuha-Toyama) together with a set of old handcuffs which had no key to unlock it; as a result they involuntarily had to spend time together even on some rather intimate occasions _(i.e., bathroom visits)_ before the cuffs could be removed. As a reminder of this 'closeness' and for good luck, Kazuha fashioned two identical lucky charms, each incorporating a chain link from the cuffs, which she and Heiji have been wearing ever since. In the news, Heiji has been publicly declared the "Great Detective of the West", while [Shinichi Kudo](https://anilist.co/character/1742/Conan-Edogawa) is th