Hiroshi Agasa

Hiroshi Agasa (阿笠 博士) is a Engineer & Inventor of the Detective Boys Special Gadgets and supporting character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan.

Background
Agasa is a inventor that live next door to Shinichi's home. He makes his living with a wide number of patents and inventions, including video games

During Agasa early life He went to Teitan Elementary and then Okuho middle school. During that time He met Fusae Kinoshita during sixth grade, though she moved away during the fall term and his family moved from Tokyo to the countryside soon after the term ended.

Appearance
Agasa is an average size man with slightly-overweight frame. Looking somewhat older than his actual age, he is bald on the top of his head with the rest of his hair silver. He sports thick eyebrows and a mustache and a somewhat bulbous nose. He wears round glasses and is regularly seen in his lab attire

Personality
Agasa is a jovial, caring and outgoing person and has many friends in his community, a fact which helped him in his covering up of Conan's and Haibara's true origins as he simply claims that they are the children of his friends and acquaintances.

Shinichi noted him as Eccentric Inventor and Agasa has called him a genius inventor but only invented junk despite this Agasa is highly intelligent, having achieved at least one advanced degree and managing to invent a slew of useful gadgets for Shinichi after he turn small and become Conan Edogawa.

Agasa is especially proud of his inventions, and their quality must have been recognized, since they have already been used during official events. While a bachelor, he is very paternal and enjoys the company of the Detective Boys. Agasa has a special love for pasta and tomato juice.

Trivia

 * Agasa Hiroshi's Given Name comes from Mystery Writer Agatha Christie.
 * "Hiroshi" is a pun as it is written with the same Kanji for Hakase (博士, Professor).
 * Agasa's English Given Name "Herschel" likely comes from the Physician Friend of V. I. Warshawski, Dr. Charlotte “Lotty” Herschel.
 * Agasa Hiroshi's Vehicle is a Yellow Volkswagen Beetle with a Built-In Television.
 * Conan Edogawa, while trying to persuade the Professor into believing that he is Shinichi Kudo, reveals that Agasa Hiroshi has a mole on his butt with a hair sticking on it which was divulged in Episode 2.
 * Agasa Hiroshi is right-handed.
 * His car is based on Bumblebee from the Transformers franchise based on his G1 self.