is a

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

series by

Osamu Tezuka Osamu Tezuka (, born , ''Tezuka Osamu'', – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator. Considered to be among the greatest and most influential cartoonists of all time, his prolific output, pioneering techniques an ...

published in

Kodansha is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines which include ''Nakayoshi'', ''Morning (magazine), Morning'', ''Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon'', ''Evening (magazine), Eveni ...

's '' Shōnen Club'' from June 1954 to December 1956.

Plot

The manga follows Kenichi, the chief detective of the national Boy Detectives' Street Society. He is joined by Donguri, a

talking bird Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots also have some cognitive understanding of the language. Birds have varying degrees of talking ability: ...

. Together, they travel to various exotic locations solving mysteries, revealing tricks and settling cases. Every chapter has him solving a new mystery in various locations across the world. ;Incident of the House of Spiders Kenichi's final case ("Incident of the House of Spiders") was published in Akita Publishing's ''Boken-O'' magazine.

Characters

;Kenichi The protagonist and chief of the Boy Detectives' Street Society. ;Donguri A Myna bird that is always at Kenichi's side. He has a special ability to be able to reproduce the voice of a person it has heard only once before. ;Kenichi's Mother ;Kenichi's Father ;Mouse Boy ;Mr. Hiranuma ;Lemonade Citron ;Detective Beringen ;Elise

External links

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Chief Detective Kenichi
' in the Tezuka World database *

' in Tezuka Osamu official website *
Kenichi Shikishima
' character profile in Tezuka (in English)

official character profile in Tezuka Osamu official website 1954 manga Osamu Tezuka manga Shōnen manga {{manga-stub