Anime Profile: Magic Kaito 1412

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Magic Kaito 1412 is the 2014 television adaptation of Gosho Aoyama's manga Magic Kaito, a teenage-thief comedy adventure set in the same universe as Aoyama's massive hit Detective Conan. Kaito Kuroba is an ordinary high schooler with two secrets: he is a stage magician of nearly impossible talent, and he is the second Kaitou Kid, a legendary phantom thief whose elaborate calling cards and impossible heists have baffled the international police for a generation.

Kaito inherited the role from his late father, who was murdered while pursuing an ancient gem called Pandora that is said to grant immortality, and his nightly mission is to find and destroy the stone before its mysterious enemies can claim it. Standing against him on the rooftops are his unsuspecting childhood friend Aoko Nakamori (whose father leads the Kid-task-force), the brilliant British high-school detective Saguru Hakuba, and the genuinely supernatural witch Akako Koizumi, all weaving in and out of Kaito's flashy, magic-fueled heists.

Animated by A-1 Pictures over twenty-four episodes, Magic Kaito 1412 adapts the major arcs of Aoyama's long-running manga and follows on from eight earlier Magic Kaito specials produced as part of the Detective Conan anime. It is a lighter, more theatrical companion to its older sibling, leaning on misdirection, character chemistry, and the simple pleasure of a thief who insists on giving the audience a show.