Miki Nagasawa (1998–present) is a young pop star idol who is a regular focus of worship by Richard Moore. She has a number of appearances throughout the series, mostly as a prominent guest at some social gatherings which turn into criminal cases. In one of the cases, she is revealed to be a former member of a girl group called Earth Ladies. Yusaku Kudo Voiced by (English): Randy Tallman, John Swasey (The Phantom of Baker Street (Funimation); Keith Silverstein (Bang Zoom) Voiced by (Japanese): Hideyuki Tanaka , known in English as Booker Kudo, is Shinichi Kudo's father. He is a famous author of detective stories and created the popular character. He is extremely intelligent, with deduction skills even superior to Shinichi's, and often helped the police solve cases in the past. He was the one who created the name Kaito Kid from the Phantom Thief 1412 moniker. It was even hinted that he may have known Toichi Kuroba was the Kaito Kid he was facing. Yukiko Kudo Voiced by (English): Laurie Steele (Funimation); Erika Harlacher (Bang Zoom) Voiced by (Japanese): Sumi Shimamoto , known in English as Vivian Kudo, is Shinichi Kudo's mother and wife of Yusaku Kudo. Her maiden name is . She was a former actress who was trained in the art of disguise by Toichi Kuroba but gave up her career at age twenty to marry Yusaku. She occasionally shows up in Japan to see her son. Because of her reputation as the wife of a famous mystery author and for involving herself in some criminal cases which she occasionally helps to solve, she has been given the nickname "The Night Baroness" after the main character that her husband created for his mystery novels. Vivian was inspired by Fujiko Mine from Lupin III and represents her good side, while Vermouth represents the bad. The Yukiko Fujimine name combines Fujiko Mine and the first name of Fujiko's former voice actress, Yukiko Nikaido. Eri Kisaki Voiced by (English): Julie Mayfield (Funimation); Jane Alan (Bang Zoom) Voiced by (Japanese): Gara Takashima , known in English as Eva Kisaki, and dubbed by Funimation as Eva Kadan, is Ran Mori's lawyer mother who has been separated from Kogoro for the last ten years. She is known as the Queen of the legal world. She still wears her wedding ring and still cares for him, but is not above testing his love for