Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Magic Kaito and Tuxedo Mask

One of the interesting things you will learn as you really dig deep into Detective Conan is that the character of Kaitou Kid/Kid The Phantom Thief has his own Manga and it's actually older going back to 1987.  A date which also makes it older then Sailor Moon.

Meaning that Manga seems very likely to be part of the Pre-History of Sailor Moon that Mahou Shoujo aficionados like to look into.  Because Kid and Tuxedo Mask visually are practically pallet swaps of each other.  And both are looking for a very specific Gem that they can't know if one is it or not till they see it up close.  Kid's elusive Gem hunt even also involves the Moon.

The 90s Anime completely forgets about Tuxedo Mask being a Phantom Thief which is why many casual fans don't know about it either, but it is stressed in the original Manga, Crystal and the Live Action show commonly called PGSM.

Codename Sailor V also had her own Phantom Thief love interest called Kaito Ace.  

The Magic Kaito Manga is technically Shounen not Shoujo. So Kid being a Shounen protagonist rather then a Shoujo Romantic lead has a tendency to be not actually as SauvĂ© out of costume as he is in costume.  But I'm willing to bet that Manga had always been able to attract a bit of a female audience and maybe Naoko Takeuchi was one of them.

There are two other Manga that I think were influenced by Magic Kaito while Animated sooner, and they too were Mahou Shoujo but while applying the Phantom Thief format to the titular Magical Girl herself.  Saint Tail and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne.

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