Major spoilers: Black Organization identities, infiltrators, deaths, and movie endings. This inventory covers the character information discussed below, including manga developments through Volume 108.
This list contains 20 distinct alcohol-based codenames: 14 from the manga storyline and six from the movies. It counts names, not every person who has ever used them. Rum, for example, was inherited from father to son and still counts as one name.
A codename also says little by itself about loyalty. Some holders remain hostile Organization operatives, some are undercover investigators, and others have escaped or died. Reading the name beside the person’s actual position is far more revealing than treating all twenty as one team.
The twenty codenames at a glance
| Codename | Identity | Drink | Status and continuity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rum | Kanenori Wakita (current holder) | Sugarcane spirit | Manga; active No. 2; inherited codename |
| Gin | Real name unknown | Juniper-flavored spirit | Manga; active field commander |
| Vodka | Real name unknown | Grain- or potato-based spirit | Manga; active; Gin's assistant |
| Vermouth | Sharon Vineyard / Chris Vineyard | Aromatized fortified wine | Manga; active; disguise specialist |
| Chianti | Real name unknown | Tuscan red wine | Manga; active sniper |
| Korn | Real name unknown | German grain spirit | Manga; active sniper |
| Kir | Hidemi Hondou / Rena Mizunashi | White wine and crème de cassis | Manga; CIA infiltrator; still undercover |
| Bourbon | Rei Furuya / Tooru Amuro | Corn-based American whiskey | Manga; Japanese public-security infiltrator |
| Sherry | Shiho Miyano / Ai Haibara | Spanish fortified wine | Manga; escaped; alive |
| Rye | Shuichi Akai / Dai Moroboshi | Rye whiskey | Manga; FBI infiltrator; cover exposed; alive |
| Scotch | Hiromitsu Morofushi | Scotch whisky | Manga; public-security infiltrator; deceased |
| Calvados | Real name unknown | Normandy apple brandy | Manga; sniper; deceased |
| Tequila | Real name unknown | Mexican blue-agave spirit | Manga; operative; deceased in an unrelated bombing |
| Pisco | Kenzo Masuyama | Grape spirit | Manga; longtime operative; executed |
| Irish | Real name unknown; disguised as Kiyonaga Matsumoto | Irish whiskey | Movie-only: The Raven Chaser; deceased |
| Curaçao | Real name unknown | Orange-peel liqueur | Movie-only: The Darkest Nightmare; Rum's aide; deceased |
| Stout | Real name unknown | Dark beer | Movie-only: The Darkest Nightmare; MI6 infiltrator; deceased |
| Riesling | Real name unknown | White wine | Movie-only: The Darkest Nightmare; BND infiltrator; deceased |
| Aquavit | Real name unknown | Nordic caraway- or dill-flavored spirit | Movie-only: The Darkest Nightmare; CSIS infiltrator; deceased |
| Pinga | Real name unknown; disguised as Grace | Brazilian sugarcane spirit | Movie-only: Black Iron Submarine; Rum's subordinate; deceased |
The six manga codenames held by people still working on the Organization’s side in this inventory are Rum, Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Chianti, and Korn. This describes their operational position; it does not mean that all six share every motive or secret.
The two manga codenames used by investigators still undercover are Kir and Bourbon. Kir serves the CIA; Bourbon is a Japanese public-security officer. They remain inside the Organization while working against its interests.
The remaining six manga names are Sherry and Rye, whose holders are alive outside their former undercover or Organization positions, and Scotch, Calvados, Tequila, and Pisco, whose holders have died.
The six movie-only names are Irish, Curaçao, Stout, Riesling, Aquavit, and Pinga. All six characters die in their respective movie stories. Stout, Riesling, and Aquavit are infiltrators from intelligence agencies; possessing a drink name does not make them loyal Organization members.
These groups total 20 names, not the entire Organization’s membership. Members without disclosed alcohol codenames and the earlier holder of Rum should not be silently added as new drink names.
What rules govern the alcohol names?
A gender pattern exists, but it is not absolute
Men often receive names associated with spirits or whisky, while women often receive wine, liqueur, or cocktail names. Gin, Vodka, Bourbon, Rye, Scotch, Rum, and Pinga fit the first pattern; Vermouth, Sherry, Kir, Curaçao, and Riesling illustrate the second.
In the movie-only example Black Iron Submarine, Pinga’s spirit-based name helps suggest that the operative could be a man despite the female disguise. But Stout is a man named after a dark beer. The pattern is a clue, not a rule that can establish someone’s gender on its own.
Who assigns a codename, and when?
Who chooses these names, the exact qualifications required, and the moment at which they are awarded remain unclear. Many recipients have specialist skills in intelligence, assassination, sniping, research, or infiltration, so proven ability may be relevant.
That does not establish that every holder is an executive. Kir, Bourbon, Rye, and Scotch all received names while secretly serving outside agencies. Conversely, Akemi Miyano and Rikumichi Kusuda performed Organization work without a known alcohol codename.
The irony is sharp: a title that seems to mark recognition of someone’s usefulness has repeatedly been held by the people trying to undermine the Organization. It certifies neither loyalty nor a fully checked identity.
Rum is an inherited name
The present Rum inherited the name from his father, a longtime servant of Renya Karasuma. Two people therefore share one entry in the drink list. A connection between the name and the second-in-command position is possible, but a formal hereditary office or a universal succession rule is not confirmed.
The name surviving its first holder adds an impersonal edge to the Organization. Still, one father-to-son example does not establish how any other codename is passed on.
Drink symbolism is interpretation
The drinks can suggest parallels with the characters: relatively neutral vodka beside strongly aromatic gin, or sugarcane-derived Rum above sugarcane-derived Pinga. These are appealing associations, not confirmed explanations of why the names were chosen.
The movie-only Curaçao offers another possible parallel through the liqueur’s different colors and the character’s changing loyalties. The comparison works as a fan reading precisely when it is kept separate from an asserted authorial explanation.
The six manga operatives on the Organization’s side
Rum: the second-in-command hiding as Kanenori Wakita
Rum is the Organization’s second-in-command and the man using the identity Kanenori Wakita, presented as a 56-year-old sushi chef at Beika Iroha Sushi. That position brings him close to Kogoro and Conan while he gathers information. Rum the drink is distilled from sugarcane products such as molasses or juice.
His left eye is prosthetic in the later storyline, but it was intact seventeen years earlier and associated with extraordinary memory for faces and movements. In the Volume 108 developments covered here, Conan and the FBI reach the conclusion that Wakita is Rum, while Rum becomes increasingly interested in APTX 4869 and its apparent ability to turn back time.
The shift matters: the question is no longer only who Rum is. Once the protagonists reach him as a suspect, an identity puzzle begins turning toward a more direct conflict. That does not establish every detail of his knowledge about the drug.
Gin and Vodka: command and support
Gin directs field operations, assassinations, and transactions, eliminating people he regards as threats. Vodka assists with deals, driving, communication, and infiltration. His habit of deferring to Gin does not reduce him to a chauffeur; he knows contacts and practical details needed to make their operations work.
Gin’s readiness to punish suspicion makes him especially dangerous to infiltrators. It shows his operating mentality, not a complete formal rank structure or proof that he personally awards every codename.
Gin is a spirit flavored with juniper and other botanicals. Vodka is distilled from sources that can include grain or potatoes and is generally relatively neutral in character. Their contrasting drinks invite a comparison with Gin’s imposing presence and Vodka’s supporting role, but that naming intention remains unconfirmed.
They have been central threats since the beginning of the story. The familiar pairing can bring back the Organization’s atmosphere immediately, even when the practical task before them is only a conversation or a deal.
Vermouth: favored, skilled, and secretive
Vermouth is the actress Sharon Vineyard, who has also presented Chris Vineyard as her daughter while playing both identities herself. Her disguise and acting skills extend to voices. The boss favors her, and she often acts independently while withholding information.
Her hostility toward Sherry coexists with a willingness to protect Shinichi Kudo and Ran. That tension makes her operational presence on the Organization’s side different from uncomplicated loyalty to every one of its aims.
Vermouth is an aromatized fortified wine flavored with herbs and spices, available in sweet and dry styles. Its layers of flavor may suggest a pleasing parallel with a woman who lives behind different faces. The story does not establish that as the reason for her name.
Chianti and Korn: the sniper pair
Chianti is expressive and eager to engage her targets, while Korn is quieter and speaks sparingly. Both are active Organization snipers within this inventory. Their names refer respectively to red wine from Tuscany in Italy and a German grain spirit.
Both retain feelings about Calvados’s death. Chianti in particular resents Vermouth for using and abandoning him. That resentment gives the sniper team relationships beyond their immediate assignments: ruthlessness has not erased every attachment to a colleague.
Two names held by investigators still undercover
Kir: Hidemi Hondou, publicly Rena Mizunashi
Kir is CIA operative Hidemi Hondou, known publicly as announcer Rena Mizunashi. She continues working inside the Organization while covertly exchanging information with the FBI and Shuichi Akai. Kir the cocktail combines white wine with crème de cassis.
Her codename marks how deeply she has entered the Organization; it does not identify the agency she truly serves. Treating the drink list as a loyalty list would erase the central danger of her position.
Bourbon: Rei Furuya, living as Tooru Amuro
Bourbon is Rei Furuya, a Japanese officer working in public security. As Tooru Amuro, he works at Café Poirot and approaches Kogoro as a detective; as Bourbon, he specializes in gathering information inside the Organization.
Bourbon is American whisky made principally from corn. Alongside Rye and Scotch, the name makes him part of a memorable whisky trio. All three characters actually serve agencies opposed to the Organization, although their objectives and relationships are not identical.
Six manga names linked to departure or death
Sherry: Shiho Miyano, now Ai Haibara
Sherry is Shiho Miyano, the scientist who continued her parents’ research and worked on APTX 4869. After the Organization killed her sister Akemi, she refused to continue the work. Confined by the Organization, she took the drug, became physically younger, and escaped.
She is alive as Ai Haibara, with a place among Conan, Professor Hiroshi Agasa, and the Detective Boys, although Gin and Vermouth still threaten her. Sherry is a fortified wine from Spain. The researcher escaping through the effects of her own field of work is a particularly pointed irony.
Rye and Scotch: the FBI and public security
Rye is Shuichi Akai, who infiltrated under the name Dai Moroboshi. A planned operation to capture Gin failed after Andre Camel spoke to an elderly man at the site, a man later identified as Rum. Camel’s action exposed the operation; this should not be simplified into a claim that Rum directly recognized Akai’s entire identity on sight.
Akai survived the end of his infiltration. Scotch, by contrast, was Hiromitsu Morofushi, a public-security officer and childhood friend of Rei. After his cover was exposed, he died by suicide while destroying the phone that contained information about his family and colleagues.
The two whisky names refer to rye-based whisky and whisky from Scotland. Together with Bourbon they make the Organization’s infiltration problem almost startlingly visible. The pattern is satisfying to recognize, but Scotch’s death makes it impossible to treat it as a painless victory.
Calvados: a sniper whose death left resentment
Calvados supported Vermouth as a sniper in the manga storyline. Shuichi disabled him, taking his weapons and injuring his legs, and Calvados subsequently died by suicide. His death continues to shape Chianti and Korn’s attitude toward Vermouth.
Calvados is an apple brandy from Normandy in France. The character appears briefly, yet the anger left behind keeps him relevant to the Organization’s relationships long after his own part has ended.
Tequila: killed by a bomb meant for another person
Tequila, a large Kansai-speaking operative, sought information about skilled programmers during a game-company transaction. An unrelated murder plot caused him to receive a bomb-filled case. He died in the explosion, rather than being executed by the Organization.
Tequila is a Mexican spirit made from blue agave. The sudden disappearance of such an intimidating enemy before a sustained confrontation with Conan gives his debut a jarring ending.
Pisco: seniority offered no protection
Pisco was Kenzo Masuyama, a car-company chairman and longtime servant of the boss. He knew the Miyano parents and recognized the younger-looking Haibara as Sherry. But a press camera captured him committing an assassination, creating a risk of exposure for the Organization.
Gin killed him on the boss’s orders. Pisco is a grape spirit. Years of service and social standing did not outweigh one failure that threatened secrecy; the episode reveals how conditional the Organization’s protection really is.
Six movie-only codenames
The following six entries belong to movie-only stories and are counted separately from the fourteen manga names. Their abilities, discoveries, allegiances, and deaths below are evidence within those films.
Irish in The Raven Chaser
In this movie-only story, Irish uses Vermouth’s disguise skills to infiltrate a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department investigation as Kiyonaga Matsumoto. Comparing Conan’s and Shinichi’s fingerprints lets him determine that they are the same person.
In this movie-only example, Irish admired Pisco as a father figure and resented Gin for killing him. In the movie, he keeps the identity discovery to use for his own advantage instead of immediately reporting it. After being shot by the Organization, he dies while acting to shield Conan. His name refers to Irish whiskey.
That movie-only ending gives his hostility a complicated final turn. He recognizes Conan’s ability and moves toward protecting the very person he had exposed, without making his earlier actions harmless.
Curaçao in The Darkest Nightmare
In this movie-only story, Curaçao is Rum’s trusted operative, with an unusual memory that associates information with colors. She steals a list of undercover agents from Japan’s National Police Agency, placing operatives from several countries in danger.
After an accident causes memory loss, she spends time with the Detective Boys. Even after regaining her memories, her choices change: within the movie, she does not hand over Kir, Bourbon, or Sherry and ultimately dies protecting the children.
Curaçao is a liqueur flavored with orange peel and sold in clear and colored varieties. As a reading of this movie-only character, choosing a different color becomes a moving parallel to choosing a different allegiance. It is interpretation, not a confirmed naming explanation.
Stout, Riesling, and Aquavit in The Darkest Nightmare
These three movie-only operatives are NOCs, undercover agents working inside the Organization. Stout serves Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; Riesling serves Germany’s BND; Aquavit serves Canada’s CSIS. The stolen list exposes their covers, and the Organization kills them.
For these movie-only codenames, Stout refers to dark beer with roasted malt or barley character; Riesling names a white-wine grape and the wines made from it; Aquavit is a Nordic spirit flavored with botanicals such as caraway or dill.
Their movie-only appearances are brief but decisive. All three had penetrated far enough to receive codenames, yet that standing offered no safety once their true allegiance became known.
Pinga in Black Iron Submarine
In this movie-only story, Pinga works under Rum and resents Gin. Disguised as female engineer Grace, he enters Pacific Buoy and uses the age-recognition system, approaching the secrets linking Haibara to Shiho and Conan to Shinichi.
Pinga seeks advancement through his achievements but dies amid the Organization’s operation. The movie-only character is not confirmed as the Organization’s number three or as Curaçao’s formally appointed successor. What is established is his valued role under Rum, alongside his rivalry with Gin.
Pinga is a colloquial name for Brazil’s sugarcane spirit cachaça. The shared sugarcane connection with rum may suggest a symbolic link between superior and subordinate in this movie-only example, but the naming intention is not established.
Organization connections without alcohol codenames
Renya Karasuma is addressed as the boss, with no disclosed alcohol codename in this inventory. Akemi Miyano carried out assigned work without a known one. Rikumichi Kusuda infiltrated a hospital to look for Kir, but no alcohol name is established for him either.
These examples show why the codename list cannot stand in for a complete membership chart. Specialist work and recognized ability may be factors in receiving a name, but the actual criteria remain unclear.
Hell Angel and Silver Bullet are different kinds of labels
Elena Miyano’s Hell Angel epithet and the Silver Bullet description applied to Shuichi or Conan are not alcohol codenames. Vermouth sees Shinichi as someone who could destroy the Organization, while the boss regards Shuichi as a potentially devastating threat.
Boss, references to the unnamed leader, and NOC also serve different purposes. Some conceal a personal name, some express fear of an enemy, and some identify undercover status. They should not be counted as additional drink names.
What the names reveal beyond the drinks
Within this inventory, the total remains twenty drink names: fourteen manga names and six movie-only names. That total does not change when Rum passes from father to son, and it does not mean twenty loyal operatives working together.
The polished names sit over infiltration, rivalry, defection, death, and inheritance. Knowing the drink is enjoyable; knowing what the name hides is what gives the list its bite. The Organization’s identity system is stylish, but the people using it repeatedly expose how little a codename guarantees.
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