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I watched the anime many times but in the first episode of _Detective Conan_ ,
both Vodka and Gin never mentioned their names. But later as the series
continues, it looks like he knows their names even before Haibara appeared in
the series.


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How does Conan know the names of Vodka and Gin in the anime?


**Conan never learned about their codenames in the anime due to the plot
modification, which makes a big plothole**.

[Detective Conan World's
Wiki](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Black_Organization#Manga_to_anime_differences)
stated:

> The first season of Detective Conan rarely featured the Black Organization
> because the anime writers wanted to downplay their presence. Two of the
> episodes at least, were altered heavily in light of this:
>
>   * **Episode 5, The Shinkansen's Bomb Case:** The episode replaces the two
> men who shrunk Conan with lookalikes unrelated to the Black Organization. In
> the manga version of this case, Conan runs into the real pair and learns
> their code names (Gin/Vodka in the Japanese Version, Melkior and Kaspar in
> the English Version). Their replacement creates a continuity error in
> **Episode 54, Game Company Murder Case**. Conan recognizes their code names
> when Tequila speaks to them, yet Conan never learned their code names in the
> anime version of events.
>
>   * [...]
>
>

As already mentioned, in the manga version, Conan first learned about their
codenames in "The Shinkansen's Bomb Case" (vol 4, files 4-6) where he ran into
them inside the train.

![first meeting](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xdDW6l.png)

There, using the microphone bug gadget by Professor Agasa, he eavesdropped on
their conversation and learned about Gin and Vodka, their codenames.

![codenames revealed](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sUhtsl.png)


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