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まじっく快斗 [Magic Kaito] #1

まじっく快斗 1 [Magic Kaito 1]

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まじっく快斗 当時のカラーも再現!

『名探偵コナン』の作者、青山剛昌先生の傑作マジシャン漫画『まじっく快斗』を再録し、当時のカラーなどを収録した特別編集コミックス!

また、巻末には青山剛昌先生が当時の思い出や裏話を語るプレイバックエピソードも!!

いま、ここでしか観れないTVアニメ第1話!
怪盗キッドの誕生秘話をアニメで…!!!

202 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 1988

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Gosho Aoyama

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Gosho Aoyama (青山剛昌) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Detective Conan (known in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom as Case Closed).

Aoyama made his debut as a manga artist with the work Chotto Matte which was published in the weekly magazine Shōnen Sunday on winter of 1987. Shortly after that, another work by Aoyama, Magic Kaito, was published on the same magazine.

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887 reviews2,575 followers
March 18, 2017
Story: 5/5
Art: 2/5 (it was made in the 80s to be fair and i'm not an expert if this was good at the time so +1 only)
Characters: 4.5/5
Overall: 3.8/5
Profile Image for Raoufa Ibrahim.
435 reviews324 followers
April 22, 2017
I've always admired Kaito kid
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and I waited for his appearance in every episode.. but I never knew his history and how he became phantom thief.
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I can't stop myself from asking about the relation between Kaito and Shinichi.. it's not coincidence that they look like each other!!
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anyhow, Gosho said he will stop Conan manga until he finish Kaito's .. that's why I started reading it
Profile Image for Michael Schmid.
Author 8 books96 followers
June 27, 2015
Hat mir echt gut gefallen! :D Man merkt zwar, dass es das "Erstlingswerk" vom "Conan" Mangaka, deswegen auch keine fünf Sterne, aber alles in allem hat mir der Meisterdieb sehr zugesagt und hab den ersten Band echt genossen. Hol mir auch definitiv die anderen Bände. ^__^
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107 reviews
September 13, 2021
4.5 ⭐

~•¿De que trata?•~

Kaito kuroba es un estudiante de secundaria que desde pequeño ama hacer magia al igual que su padre.
Kaito se entera 8 años después de la muerte de su padre que no fue una accidente como lo hicieron parecer y que él era el famoso Kaito Kid, el ladrón fantasma.
Kaito kuroba revive al personaje de kaito kid comenzando a robar joyas para descubrir quien asesino a su padre.

~•Opinión personal•~

Desdé pequeña que amo el anime y ahora por fin tengo el privilegio de leerme el manga 😍
Estoy muy emocionada.
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746 reviews30 followers
July 29, 2022
Quá trình hồi phục ngày #12.

3 sao. Nét vẽ sơ sài và nói thẳng là hơi xấu, đúng kiểu Conan thời đầu (Nghe đâu là bác già còn vẽ bộ này trước cả Conan nữa). Mình đã không còn quen với những nét vẽ hơi ngờ nghệch kiểu này nữa rồi.

Nhưng nội dung thì vẫn rất ổn khi tập trung vào anh siêu trộm.
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32 reviews27 followers
August 2, 2022
có vài chapter không có trong phim, đọc truyện mới biết ~~
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69 reviews
April 12, 2023
Yes o really liked Conan as a kid and Kaito kid was my childhood crush so yes
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455 reviews
May 26, 2022
Me gustó mucho leer a Kaito, a raíz de Detective Conan, tenía muchísimas ganas de leer a Kaito y ver sus 2 Animes!!!

Lo recomiendo muchísimo, tiene toda una historia de fondo y tiene una razón muy especial por la que salió Kaito Kid de su retiro después de 8 años de inactividad.

Kaito Kuroba me cae muy bien y me divierte con sus tonterías y Aoki Nakamori a veces la siento muy pesadita, pero cuando esta con Kaito sus personalidades se complementan y eso hace interesante la historia.

Siguiendo el molde de Shinichi y Ran, este par son igualmente amigos (y más) de la infancia y Aoko siendo hija del inspector cuya meta es atrapar a Kid lo vuelve un par más que sale del molde.

Aún así cada Ship, tiene su individualidad y vale mucho la pena seguirlo.

Y mientras todo esto sucede Kaito debe descubrir la verdad sobre lo que pasó hace 8 años con su padre y su misteriosa muerte.

*Esto no sale en la historia de Kaito, sino en Conan, pero me gusta muchísimo cuando se topan este par, y además Kaito es una de las personas que conoce el secreto de Conan y le saca máximo provecho a su parecido físico;aún siendo rivales, son tremendos aliados y no dudo que Kaito estará por ahí en el enfrentamiento final con los Hombres de Negro.

(Mi teoría es que incluso puede estar relacionada la muerte del padre de Kaito con los Hombres de Negro de Conan)
Profile Image for Jules Vandemberg.
462 reviews122 followers
March 28, 2020
Molti non sanno che Kaito Kuroba è nato molto prima del più famoso Conan Edogawa. Lo si nota già dalle prime pagine e dallo stile manga anni '80. Purtroppo proprio perché è così vecchio (e temo per una questione di diritti) è impossibile reperire le copie fisiche. Per esempio io lo cerco da anni e ancora non sono riuscita ad aggiungerlo alla mia collezione.
E' un peccato perché è molto carino e secondo me è perfetto per tutti quei fan di Gosho che hanno abbandonato Conan perché troppo lungo. In realtà è un manga ancora in corso ma lo ha ripreso solo negli ultimi anni quindi i capitoli sono pochi.

P.s. se volete farvi un'idea potete guardare l'anime.
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29 reviews
June 13, 2022
خیلی کیوته و عاشق کایتو عم خیلی خوبههه
واقعا از این که سعی میکنه برای یه هدف کاری رو بکنه حتی اگه هیشکی نفهمه خوشم میاد
شخصیتش خیلی باحاله
آرت نویسنده هم روونه
کلا عالی


This manga is very cute and I love kaito. That person is very good I really like that he tries to do something for a purpose even if he does not understand anything. His character is very cool The author's art is also good Totally great
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164 reviews4 followers
September 11, 2024
Placeholder for an entire series though it's still ongoing. Currently at chapter 39. (5 volumes and 3 chapters)

This is such a fun and sweet read. I love Kaito so much. It would be a lot more fun if I hadn't spoiled myself with watching the anime beforehand but it's still fun nonetheless.

Love The Sun Halo and The Boy who bet on the Ball chapter. Those two are definitely my fav.
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758 reviews11 followers
September 22, 2025
Si Sinichi Kudo fuera un ladrón... Pues de eso van estos tomos con su propia Ran. La verdad es que el autor se caracteriza por no saber dibujar más que 4 personajes jajajaja.

Las historias de Kaito se diferencian por ese pique entre el policía y el ladrón de arte y joyas que hace tan entretenida y divertida la lectura.

+6 años
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35 reviews1 follower
April 1, 2024
Leggo Kaito kid da quando sono bambina ma continuo a non sopportare nakamori aoko, è più forte di me. Tutto sommato però sono super felice di questa riedizione, perché Kid è uno dei miei personaggi preferiti di Detcon e se la meritava!!

3.5⭐
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451 reviews
August 17, 2025
Cute books, very old style humor (like innocently joking about the color of girl’s panties… you know 80s stuff 😅). The adventures get more ingesting but definitely way sillier and fantasy than the Conan books. Makes me wonder if they’re even the same world (which I think they’re supposed to be)!
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288 reviews18 followers
May 12, 2018
No ha estado mal, pero Kaito es bastante más infantil en Magic Kaito que en Detective Conan. Se nota bastante que esta serie es anterior a la de Conan.


Pronto la reseña de verdad.
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267 reviews
January 19, 2020
Der Anime gefällt mir von der Erzählsturktur mehr. Werde wahrscheinlich den Anime weiterschauen.
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61 reviews
May 5, 2023
Solider Manga, aber einfach nicht ganz mein Geschmack
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234 reviews1 follower
June 22, 2024
Seru bangeet baca Kaitoo, gk kalah seru sama Conan
63 reviews6 followers
February 9, 2025
A cute, fun manga. There are some chapters that aren't in the anime, so if you like the anime/detective conan then it's worth the read!
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9 reviews1 follower
April 11, 2025
Mi affascina più Kaito che Conan, posso farci ben poco.

(amo anche Conan)
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15 reviews
November 14, 2025
Kaito kid 🩵🤍💙🩵🤍💙🩵🤍💙
Love the art style and the character 🩵🤍💙🩵🤍💙🩵🤍💙
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361 reviews25 followers
December 3, 2014
[Review is up to Chapter 33, manga is still ongoing]

Aoyama-sensei is famed for his manga Detective Conan. But before that he had drawn other manga, one of which was Magic Kaito. In fact he actually stopped drawing Kaito when he started on Conan and only picked it up again much later, and now the characters intermingle with each other, making appearances in each other's stories.

Kaito is about Kuroba Kaito whose father was a famous magician cum phantom thief (à la Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief) who would send a note to his target to inform when he would be taking what he wanted. When his father was murdered, Kaito took over the role of the phantom thief in order to find out who killed his father and why.

When the manga first started out, it had a very relaxed tone and pace. Kaitou was a high school student after all, so he did have to study even if at night he would go a-thieving. Unlike Conan which needed a lot of brain work, Kaitou's trick was not that much of a trick and he depended a lot on his luck (and the stupidity of the police force...). So Kaitou twaddled around pulling pranks on his childhood friend, Ako.

I wasn't even born when Aoyama-sensei started drawing Kaito. When I was 17, the tankobon finally returned. Imagine that. By that time, Kaito had adapted the style Conan used all along - intricate tricks, psychology, and science, science, science. If Kaito remained as it originally was, it would not have a long lifetime. As it is, Kaito probably will continue after Conan is finally over (like seriously, it has to be over some time right?).

Now that the focus has shifted from the characters (I say characters, not character development, which are two totally different things), the plot has started to progress. Which means there is less Aoko, yay! Despite her character design being so similar to Ran, her relationship to Kaito is more like Kazuha and Heiji than Ran and Shinichi. They fight all the time and by God, I hate fighting 'couples', be it in Korean drama or real life. Also she is loud, seemingly shallow, and has the personality of a five-year-old. What saddens me is unfortunately, less focus on characters means less focus on Saguru Hakuba as well.

Hakuba was supposed to be the archenemy of Kaito the Phantom Thief, the way Sherlock Holmes was the nemesis of Professor Moriarty, or more befittingly maybe, like Herlock Sholmes who was more than willing to be the downfall of Lupin's (don't ask me about that name, ask Maurice Leblanc). But this was Kaito's story, if he was caught he would not be the elusive thief anymore. So Hakuba was made to be a very intelligent young detective, slightly cocky because of his upbringing, but even tough he was smart enough to figure out some of Kaito's tricks, he was always one step behind Kaito. And now that the worlds of Conan and Kaito have been suffused into one, Hakuba has sadly been relegated to a less important seat so the place of nemesis can be taken over by Shinichi Kudo. Still smart, but also mostly the eye candy factor, being blond of mixed blood.

Also, Akako. The second female lead in this manga. She is a witch who knows real magic, so how that will be integrated into the combined world of Conan and Kaito which is based on cold hard logic, is yet to be discovered. By using her charm she manages to put all guys under her spell, but Kaito for some reasons, is untouchable. Which is why she is determined to get him. But she does seem to have a soft spot for Kaito, saving his neck a couple of times and keeping track of his thievery. She is of a calmer deposition, cunning, and smart. Maybe she is not a 'good' girl, but I prefer her over Aoko the dunderhead, unless Aoyama-sensei gives the chance for Aoko to develop a personality thicker than an A4 paper.

Currently this manga is still ongoing and the updates are far between. But I accept that because I am hoping that when Conan is over, Shinichi and co. will make more cameos in Kaito. That way I can have Aoyama-sensei's works accompanying me from my childhood to my old age, yay.
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17 reviews10 followers
June 17, 2013
If you have ever read Gosho Aoyama's more well-known manga, Detective Conan/Case Closed , the charming Phantom Thief Kid makes numerous appearances in a lot of Conan's cases. Magic Kaito was made before Detective Conan and is kind of like the origin story for the infamous phantom thief.

This manga was so much fun to read! Every page was filled with so much action and comedy, that I really enjoyed reading it. However, there wasn't really much plot progression in this volume and I felt like I was reading mostly about the misadventures of Phantom Thief Kid.

The main character, Kaito Kuroba, is absolutely adorable and I adore him to pieces. He's charming, goofy, a bit of a pervert, but you can tell he's a good kid. Kaito is a magician just like his father, and uses his magic for pranks--pranks his childhood friend, Aoko Nakamura doesn't put up with ;). He and Aoko have a bickering relationship, the kind where they can trade insults and where it's perfectly acceptable for one of them to try to hit the other with a mop during class.

By the end of the first chapter, Kaito inherits his family's secret and adapts to it pretty well. He really shows his resourcefulness and cleverness at moments when he really needs to. I just wish there was more information or motive given about Kaito's family secret since it's such a crucial part of the plot. Hopefully this would be explained further in the series.

All in all, Magic Kaito is a very fun light-hearted read. I will most definitely be reading the next volume.
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Author 8 books14 followers
June 2, 2016
Baca nih komik pas jaman SMP. Aku ingat KID pernah muncul di Conan nomer 16. Hihi.... dulu waktu aku masih jadi penggila Conan aku hapal semua cerita dari seluruh serinya. Jika kamu tanya conan nomer berapa aku pasti hapal bagaimana sinopsisnya. Tapi setelah beranjak dewasa daya ingatku menurun sehingga aku hanya ingat beberapa seri saya yang membekas di hati yang pasti aku ingat itu volume 1,10,12,26,36 seri lainnya aku lupa-lupa ingat karena saking banyaknya... Aku hanya berdoa supaya Aoyama Sensei diberi pencerahan supaya segera membuat komik ini tamat, supaya aku nggak baper terus....
Eh lho... ini Magic Kaito kok aku malah bahas Conan sih... salah tempat wkwkwk.... yang jelas komik karya Aoyama Sensei selalu keren. Kaito keren abis karena IQ-nya 400. Bayangkan ada nggak makhluk kayak gini di dunia nyata?
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865 reviews5 followers
July 21, 2020
Kaito Kid #1: 2 Stars
[3.39 - not for me]

I figured this would be where we would end up - because I remember not liking it. Don't get me wrong - this is fun. But simply not for me. I do love Kaito though and really like Aoko. And will read the other manga and hopefully like those more. As some of them were written 20+ years after this Volume^^

The fact that Gosho officially says in here that we should see this as a parallel universe because Akako doesn't belong in the Detective Conan World ♥ YEEEES ♥

I am currently onto Volume 2 and it's already MUCH better and much more fun so that's great! I am also simple dying for Saguru to come in let's be real here.
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28 reviews8 followers
December 13, 2010
di usia smp ini kaito kuroba baru tahu ternyata ayahnya adalah kaito kid! dia bertekad tuk meneruskan tokoh kaito kid, untuk mengetahui siapa yang telah membunuh ayahnya. komik yang kocak... gak seserius detective conan.
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November 11, 2015
One of my favorites of all times. It is truly amazing. I can't remember how many times I've laughed in this manga. Very inspiring and it'll will surely never leave you. Up until now, I'm hang over-ed with this manga.
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678 reviews4 followers
September 17, 2016
Definitely not as good as Detective Conan, but I think this one may have been written first. They're quite a few logical gaps here, which is a bit surprising considering how much Aoyama focuses on logic in Detective Conan, but still fun.
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