Kogorou usually just provides comic relief via his prideful, drunken, lecherous buffoonery. When the series begins, he’s short on cash because he can’t get any work, and only Shinichi’s use of him to solve crimes has improved things for him. Every once in a while, however, he actually demonstrates that he can be a decent detective, most often in episodes involving Eri.
Speaking of which, those two usually provide “bickering coupleâ€








