Yusaku Kudo

工藤優作

Male

Yusaku Kudo was already noted for his sharp intellect and deductive abilities at a young age. He met Inspector [Juzo Megure](https://anilist.co/character/4253/Juzo-Megure) and became a good friend and valuable adviser to him in solving very difficult cases. While he often assisted the police, Yusaku's primary aspiration was that of a writer. Quickly attracting acclaim in his early twenties as a young novelist, he encountered the girl whom he resolved to marry: [Yukiko Fujimine,](https://anilist.co/character/20372/Yukiko-Kudo) an already famed and beautiful actress. While taking her out in an expensive restaurant to make his proposal, he was involved in a murder case which he solved brilliantly, and right afterward proposed to a startled Yukiko - which she accepted _(twenty years later, his son Shinichi would become involved in a follow-up of the exact same case in the exact same restaurant, but unlike Yusaku he wouldn't be able to profess his feelings to his own love, Ran Mouri)._ Yusaku's detective stories have won international acclaim, especially his novels involving the character called Night Baron, who has become a popular cultural item. He prefers to be known as a novelist,