Magic Kaito

Magic Kaito
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kaito Kuroba
まじっく快斗 (Majikku Kaito)
Genre	Action, mystery[1]
Manga
Written by	Gosho Aoyama
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	June 10, 1987 – present
Volumes	5
Anime television series
Directed by	Toshiki Hirano
Produced by	Masahito Yoshioka, Mitomu Asai (1) Shuichi Kitada, Mitomu Asai, Takeshi Mizogami (2–8) Isato Yonekura, Mitomu Asai, Takeshi Mizogami (9–12)
Written by	Junichi Miyashita Aya Yoshinaga
Music by	Atsushi Umebori
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Original network	NNS (ytv)
Original run	April 17, 2010 – December 29, 2012
Episodes	12
Anime television series
Magic Kaito 1412
Directed by	Susumu Kudo
Produced by	Koji Nagai Tomonori Ochikoshi
Written by	Kunihiko Okada Toshiya Ono
Music by	Taku Iwasaki
Studio	A-1 Pictures
Licensed by	Crunchyroll
Original network	NNS (ytv)
Original run	October 4, 2014 – March 28, 2015
Episodes	24 (List of episodes)

Magic Kaito (Japanese: まじっく快斗, Hepburn: Majikku Kaito) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It premiered in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday in June 1987. It is Aoyama's first serialized manga. The story depicts the adventures of Kaito Kuroba, a teenage magician who secretly operates as the internationally-wanted phantom thief Kaito Kid.

Though the series was popular in its initial run, Aoyama placed it on hiatus in late 1988—after two tankōbon volumes had been published—in order to focus on Yaiba and later Case Closed. Since then, new installments have been produced very sporadically, often years apart; a third volume was compiled in 1994, a fourth in 2007, and a fifth in 2017; three more chapters were published in 2024. Notwithstanding this, Kaito Kid has (along with several associated characters) made numerous appearances in Case Closed and various spinoff media, achieving much wider recognition through them.

12 animated television specials based on the series have been produced by TMS Entertainment and aired between 2010 and 2012. A 24-episode anime series titled Magic Kaito 1412 was produced by A-1 Pictures and aired from October 2014 to March 2015.