(Woooow… was looking into something for a 30 days of DCMK post on my personal, and I ended up with a notepad file that eventually became this:
Black Star [Returned via Conan]
Clocktower [Kept safe, ‘successfuly unsuccessful heist’]
Midair Walk (Blue Wonder) [Returned via Conan]
Teleportation (Purple Nail) [Returned via Conan]
Iron Tanuki [Pft]
Kirin Horn [Returned through Conan]
Blush Mermaid [Never stolen, informed Jirokichi that it’s fake]
(Alexandrite) Green Emperor [Returned via Makoto]
Eye of the Moon (anime) or Kono Star Sapphire (manga) (Jii’s heist Kaito showed up to, it looks like a generic diamond shape either way) [Returned accidentally]
Beaucoup de soleil a Paris (also has a different manga name) [Returned via Nakamori]
Ticking heart (technical) [Returned with a note]
Angel Crown [???] (It was never shown if Kaito actually got it the second time, it just went into his disguising as Aoko)
Akako’s appearance (The gem was never named or described) [Never stolen]
Cleopatra’s vanity case (tiny robots heist) [???]
Enperor’s Gold Seal [???]
Homerun ball [Pft]
Cue of legend [Never stolen? V: ]
Star War (Giant’s Star) [Returned-ish via Nakamori’s tree]
Adam’s Smile [???]
Bronze statue [Never stolen]
Pink Sapphire (Unnamed in the manga) [??? Akako has it?]
Treasured Sword [Returned/never stolen/not a successful heist]
Blue Birthday [Returned by leaving it to be found]
Green Dream [Never stolen]
Crystal Mother [Returned through Aoko]
Red Tear [Cancelled target, protected]
-Clocktower- [See first time]
Golden Eye [Given to Ruby]
Black Knight [Returned by Jack…]
Midnight Crow [Never stolen]
Other gems stolen include the one from Jii’s first heist Kaito didn’t show up to, a spoken-about heist by robo Kaito before the one we see (and he says he stole ‘things’, so who knows what he actually took), three heists in a row before Hakuba got a piece of hair that are assumed to be successful, a mention before the Blue Birthday heist that the ring he stole was the 5th target that month, implied recent heist before the clocktower that Kid was successful in, [unltimately failed/returned] attempt at stealing the Jeweled Dagger before the Golden Eye heist, likely stole something even if he had trouble escaping when he met Nightmare…
And then finally we see a more casual theft and return of a jewel before the backstory of the Phantom Lady is shown, and it being mentioned that this is the fifth time Kaito’s used Aoko’s face to deal with escaping. If you want to headcanon Kaito’s always returned what he stole, go ahead, personally I’ll keep my doubts about the heists prior to Kid’s better image stemming from DC that bled into MK.
…Clearly I don’t like to analyse things at all. But really, the tangent I went off into on thoughts just made me want to make a point in saying that most of the good things we associate with Kaito were made in DC first. MK was a gag manga before DC’s more logical/suave way of portraying Kid bled over into when MK was continued. Even most returning of targets (not exclusively jewels, which happened after learning about Pandora) was accidental or done for a reason in the beginning, not the casual giving it back he has now.)














