Magic Kaito (Japanese: まじっく快斗, Hepburn: Majikku Kaito) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. It began in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday in June 1987. The story tells of a phantom thief named Kaito Kid. Aoyama put the manga on hiatus after the first two tankōbon volumes were published in 1988, and only occasionally draws new chapters; the third volume was published in 1994, the fourth in 2007, and the fifth in 2017. Kaito Kid and other characters from Magic Kaito make occasional appearances in Case Closed, another manga series by Aoyama that has also been adapted into an anime.
Kuroba Kaito is a high school student with an interest in magic. His father was a great magician who had passed away eight years ago after a botched magic trick. One day, Kaito finds the costume of Phantom Thief Kid, the world's greatest thief, hidden behind a secret door in his room. Putting two and two together, Kaito realises that Kid and his deceased father were one and the same! Furthermore, it turns out that his father's death was not the result of an accident, but murder! In order to discover the identity of the perpetrators of this crime, Kaito dons the mantle of Phantom Thief Kid, Junior.
マジック好きの高校生・黒羽快斗はある日、自室に隠し扉があることを発見する。それは、8年前にマジックの最中に事故死した世界的マジシャンの父・黒羽盗一が仕掛けた最後のマジックだった。そこにあったのは世界的な大泥棒・怪盗キッドの衣装。キッドは8年前から姿を消していたが、最近になって復活していた。快斗は衣装を纏い、キッドに会いに行った。そこで出会ったのはかつて父の付き人をしていた、寺井黄之助だった。快斗は父が怪盗キッドであり、事故死ではなく殺されたのだと知らされる。快斗は父を殺した人物を探すべく、自ら怪盗キッドとなる。