Magic Kaito

Magic Kaito
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kaito Kuroba
まじっく快斗
(Majikku Kaito)
GenreAction, mystery[1]
Manga
Written byGosho Aoyama
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runJune 10, 1987 – present
Volumes5
Anime television series
Directed byToshiki Hirano
Produced by
  • Masahito Yoshioka, Mitomu Asai (1)
  • Shuichi Kitada, Mitomu Asai, Takeshi Mizogami (2–8)
  • Isato Yonekura, Mitomu Asai, Takeshi Mizogami (9–12)
Written by
  • Junichi Miyashita
  • Aya Yoshinaga
Music byAtsushi Umebori
StudioTMS Entertainment
Original networkNNS (ytv)
Original run April 17, 2010 December 29, 2012
Episodes12
Anime television series
Magic Kaito 1412
Directed bySusumu Kudo
Produced by
  • Koji Nagai
  • Tomonori Ochikoshi
Written by
  • Kunihiko Okada
  • Toshiya Ono
Music byTaku Iwasaki
StudioA-1 Pictures
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkNNS (ytv)
Original run October 4, 2014 March 28, 2015
Episodes24 (List of episodes)

Magic Kaito (Japanese: まじっく快斗, Hepburn: Majikku Kaito) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It premiered in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday in June 1987. It is Aoyama's first serialized manga. The story depicts the adventures of Kaito Kuroba, a teenage magician who secretly operates as the internationally-wanted phantom thief Kaito Kid.

Though the series was popular in its initial run, Aoyama placed it on hiatus in late 1988—after two tankōbon volumes had been published—in order to focus on Yaiba and later Case Closed. Since then, new installments have been produced very sporadically, often years apart; a third volume was compiled in 1994, a fourth in 2007, and a fifth in 2017; three more chapters were published in 2024. Notwithstanding this, Kaito Kid has (along with several associated characters) made numerous appearances in Case Closed and various spinoff media, achieving much wider recognition through them.

12 animated television specials based on the series have been produced by TMS Entertainment and aired between 2010 and 2012. A 24-episode anime series titled Magic Kaito 1412 was produced by A-1 Pictures and aired from October 2014 to March 2015.

  1. ^ "Magic Kaito 1412 - Kid the Phantom Thief -". Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation. Archived from the original on October 12, 2020. Retrieved October 12, 2020.