Do we like Conan Edogawa?
A character from Detective Conan (Case Closed) (1994–present)
Our score: 9 out of 10. Yes, we'd back him. He has a sharp mind and a strong sense of justice, and he's always the one running toward the crime scene. He tells a lot of white lies, but only to protect people.
Conan Edogawa is the child identity of Shinichi Kudo, a celebrated high school detective. A secret criminal group, the Black Organization, gave Shinichi an experimental drug that was meant to kill him. It shrank him into a child instead. To stay safe, and to keep the people he loves safe, he takes the name Conan Edogawa, a mash-up of the mystery writers Arthur Conan Doyle and Edogawa Ranpo.
He moves in with his childhood friend Ran and her father Kogoro, a bumbling private detective. He enrolls in elementary school and ends up leading the Detective Boys, a band of classmates. Whenever a case turns up, Conan secretly feeds the answers to Kogoro, who gets the credit. The plan also keeps Conan close to the kind of cases that might lead him to the people who shrank him.
Why he scores so high: he has real deductive brilliance and a wide knowledge of everything, and he won't leave a crime unsolved even when nobody believes a kid. He is loyal to his friends and he puts people's safety first. The main knock against him is the constant deception, especially toward Ran, which is painful for everyone but understandable. He is a hero we'd gladly follow into the next mystery.