"Meitantei Holmes" (1984)TV series

Directors:

Kyosuke Mikuriya
Tatsuo Hayakawa
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Writers:

Arthur Conan Doyle (story)
Tsunehisa Itô (writer)
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Seasons:

1

Release Date:

26 November 1984 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Crime | Family

Plot Keywords:

Steampunk | Villain | Personal Assistant | Cult Favorite | Anime

Cast

Taichirô Hirokawa	...	Sherlock Holmes (2 episodes, 1984)
Kousei Tomita	...	Watson (2 episodes, 1984)

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Series Directed by
Hayao Miyazaki		(6 episodes, 1984-1985)
Tatsuo Hayakawa		(unknown episodes)
Kyosuke Mikuriya		(unknown episodes)
Takaya Mizutani		(unknown episodes)
Seiji Okuta		(unknown episodes)
Heipachio Tanaka		(unknown episodes)

Series Writing credits
Arthur Conan Doyle		(unknown episodes)
Tsunehisa Itô		(unknown episodes)
Sunao Katabuchi		(unknown episodes)
Gi Pagot		(unknown episodes)
Marco Pagot		(unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
Yutaka Fujioka	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Luciano Scaffa	....	executive producer (unknown episodes)
Yoshimitsu Takahashi	....	producer (unknown episodes)
Koji Takeuchi	....	associate producer (unknown episodes)

Series Original Music by
Kentaro Haneda		(unknown episodes)

Series Cinematography by
Hirokata Takahashi		(unknown episodes)

Series Film Editing by
Takeshi Seyama		(unknown episodes)

Series Art Direction by
Kazumi Yamamoto		(unknown episodes)
Nizou Yamamoto		(unknown episodes)

Series Production Management
Wataru Date	....	production supervisor (unknown episodes)
Seiji Suzuki	....	production supervisor (unknown episodes)

Series Animation Department
Tatsuo Yanagino	....	animation director (1 episode, 1984)
Kazuyuki Kobayashi	....	animation director (1 episode, 1985)
Kitaro Kosaka	....	animation director (1 episode, 1985)
Yoshinobu Michihata	....	animation director (1 episode, 1985)
Kazuhide Tomonaga	....	animation director (1 episode, 1985)
Tsukasa Abe	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Tetsuro Aoki	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Mariko Arano	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Masaaki Endo	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Makiko Futaki	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Satoshi Ichishita	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Takahiro Iida	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Akira Kasahara	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Shinsuke Kasahara	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Emiko Kataoka	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Yoshifumi Kondo	....	character designer (unknown episodes)
Yôko Konishi	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Junko Kore	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Koichi Maruyama	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Kôzô Masanobu	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Norihiro Matsubara	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Sayuri Matsumoto	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Hideaki Matsuoka	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Tomomi Mizuta	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Toshi Noma	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Shuichi Obara	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Naoki Ôhira	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Fusako Ôme	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Masanori Ono	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Yoshihiro Owada	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Gi Pagot	....	character designer (unknown episodes)
Marco Pagot	....	character designer (unknown episodes)
Yoko Sakurai	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Tôru Satô	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Yuzo Sato	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Yasuhiro Seo	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Kazuko Shibata	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Hiroshi Shimizu	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Masako Shinohara	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Kyôko Sugiyama	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Atsuko Tanaka	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Heihachirou Tanaka	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Jirô Tanaka	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Tsukasa Tannai	....	animator / character designer (unknown episodes)
Hatsuki Tsuji	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Yôko Tsukada	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Atsushi Ueda	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Hitoshi Ueda	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Chie Uratani	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Takashi Watanabe	....	animator (unknown episodes)
Tetsuya Yamamoto	....	animator (unknown episodes)

Series Music Department
Ryô Fukui	....	music arranger (unknown episodes)
Ken Satô	....	composer: theme songs (unknown episodes)

Series Other crew
Nobuo Tomizawa	....	technical director (1 episode, 1985)
Takashi Yanagisawa	....	technical director (1 episode, 1985)
Keiji Hayakawa	....	technical director (unknown episodes)
Hayao Miyazaki	....	technical director (unknown episodes)
Takaya Mizutani	....	technical director (unknown episodes)
Seiji Okuda	....	technical director (unknown episodes)
Mayumi Shimazaki	....	story consultant (unknown episodes)
Sumio Tokoro	....	technical director (unknown episodes)
Keiji Yamazaki	....	story consultant (unknown episodes)

Distributors

• Suevia Films (2005) (Spain) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Sherlock Hound, the Detective

Runtime:

24 min (26 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Italian | English | Japanese

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Spain:T

Trivia:

The episodes made by Miyazaki can be easily told apart from the rest because Moriarty's henchman, Smiley, has green fur in a Miyazaki episode.

Freely adapted.....

Sure, sure, Meitantei Hound, or The Amazing Adventures of Sherlock Hound as it was so called, was a cartoon and because of this there's all the usual cartoon hi-jinks. Yes, animals that talk, mechanical devices that just couldn't have been made in 19th Century London, and the typical Japanese drawings, meaning, the cartoons doing over the top reactions.

But putting it down isn't what I wanted to do. This series was great. So it was loosely based on the Arthur Conan Doyle books (like, really loosely), but that's fine, because the characters and outlandish plots more than made up for it. The character traits of Holmes, or rather, Hound, are all there - Science experiments, the pipe, even the deer stalker hat. Watson, too, is just like his 1930's counterpart, Nigel Bruce, being the upper class Brit (with an American accent).

And of course there's the token bad guy, along with his completely useless henchmen, because that's what cartoon henchmen are for, right? Professor Moriarty is devious and cunning and just can't seem to outwit Sherlock Hound, whatever he may try. Moriarty gets away every time, much to the annoyance of Hound, along with his bumbling assistants, who can't do anything right.

Voicing Sherlock Hound, in English, is Larry Moss, and the late Lewis Arquette as Watson, and they do a bang up job, making the stories sound believable and is generally very well acted. The music, too, adds to the over all feel of the series. Not so much action and adventure, as mystery and excitement.

This series certainly has its appeal. The mystery, the slapstick, the romance. It's all here in The Amazing Adventures of Sherlock Hound, and makes for an easy watching cartoon that can be enjoyed even now, 20 years on. Of you get the chance I recommend that you watch it. You won't regret it.

As Holmes, and indeed, Hound said: 'Elementary, my dear Watson'.