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Sherlock Hound is an animated adaptation of the hip and cool and super awesome Detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Detective Sherlock Holmes and his homo-erotic platonic roommate and ‘intimate friend and companion’, John Watson. This is one of the several adaptations where Sherlock is featured as an animal other than a human, my favorite of which being Great Mouse Detective (which is an Adaptation of an Adaptation, Basil of Baker Street), where he is featured as a mouse, or a more recent adaptation, Catlock, which pretty much no one besides me and maybe 4 other people might have seen because it was shared ‘exclusively’ to us and made me want to tear my eyes out.
The point being, Sherlock Holmes is a famous character, so the audience is already Built-in for the show’s creators. (which if you recognize this production, you will know it was made by Studio Ghibli.) Though the series is overall fun and visually beautiful like most of their works, it didn’t have a long run period, airing only from November 1984 to May 1985.
Though it was Sherlock and Watson adapted from the original stories (as well as everyone’s favorite, Ms Hudson, and the later-to-be-twinkified by the woke mob; Professor Moriarty)- the episodes and stories were unique. No longer was Sherlock mainly solving murder, but now he was mostly solving robberies. However, this separation didn’t seem to deter audiences, and the series is held to a pretty high regard. Especially amongst hardcorde Anime-Holmes fans and Holmes enthusiasts who kinda like sherlock no matter what he is in. (especially some of those people who love that version of sherlock called Herlock Sholmes, who I admit I find insufferable)
Personally, I haven’t seen enough of the series to form a solid opinion on if I like it or not. It just doesn’t appeal to me in the way that other Holmes media does. And for the people it does appeal to- it works really well! The series actually was never officially canceled, but rather was suspended from production after Miyazaki moved on to other projects and licensing for the Sherlock Holmes character was getting dicey with production. (Don’t worry guys, if you are thinking ‘oh no! how will I ever create a gay romance adaptation on twitter dot com about these characters if they are copyrighted!’ then don’t worry any more! Sherlock Holmes is proudly in the public domain.)
But if you were thinking “Oh no! Romie! But where can I watch Clips of this show! Preferably out of context and in a manner where I really don’t know what is going on!” then don’t worry because now I got you covered.
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But when it comes to adaptations, I am a sucker for Sherlock adaptations. When writing this, I was specifically thinking of writing about an animated Sherlock adaptation. Some of my favorite adaptations of all time are Sherlock adaptations! But I will admit, some of my least favorite are also Sherlock adaptations.
anyways here are my sources.
https://bakerstreet.fandom.com/wiki/Sherlock_Hound
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