History Anime / SherlockHound

A [[InternationalCoproduction co-production]] between the Japanese studio Creator/TMSEntertainment and the Italian channel Creator/{{RAI}}, ''Sherlock Hound'' (a.k.a. ''Meitantei Holmes'') is a FunnyAnimal adaptation series of the GreatDetective Franchise/SherlockHolmes, featuring the characters... [[AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation as dogs]]! Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, famous for his later work with Creator/StudioGhibli, worked on six episodes of the series (directing five of them himself), starting in 1981.

* AnAesop: Spoofed in one episode. Moriarty steals a giant gold statue filled with coins, accidentally kidnapping a rich businessman obsessed with the coins during his escape. Hound and the man's son eventually chase them down and rescue him, prompting the man to remark the son was his greatest treasure. This is immediately lost when the man realizes Moriarty's destroyed his statue and the coins are scattered all over the place, over which he and Moriarty get into a scuffle.

Creator/DiscotekMedia (and before them, Creator/PioneerEntertainment) have released the series on home video.

* CatchPhrase: Sherlock often says "Hellllo?" upon finding clues.

* InconsistentSpelling: Interesting example. In the English dub, everyone addresses the main character as "Hound", but whenever his name appears in writing, it's Holmes. This never appears to cause any sort of confusion. In Japanese he's always called Holmes and the Japanese name of the series is Meitantei Hoomuzu which means Great Detective Holmes.
** One of Moriarty's henchmen (the short, fat one) is either called "George" or "Todd" (also his name in Japanese) but they eventually settled with the latter.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Interesting example. In the English dub, everyone addresses the main character as "Hound", but whenever his name appears in writing, it's Holmes. This never appears to cause any sort of confusion. In Japanese he's always called Holmes and the Japanese name of the series is Meitantei Hoomuzu which means Great Detective Holmes.
** One of Moriarty's henchmen (the short, fat one) is either called "George" or "Todd" (also his name in Japanese) but they eventually settled with the latter.

[[TroubledProduction Unfortunately, there were problems]] with Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's estate, which led to a suspension in production after only six episodes were completed. By the time the issues were resolved, Miyazaki had turned to ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', never to work in TV again, and the remaining series was directed by Kyosuke Mikuriya. The complete series was finally broadcast on Creator/TVAsahi from 1984 to 1985. Episode 3 (one of the Miyazaki episodes) actually aired in the U.S. ''before'' it aired in Japan, as it had been dubbed into English in 1982 by TMS and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in late 1983 as ''The Adventure of Sherlock Hound'', which marked possibly the first-ever U.S. TV broadcast of a Miyazaki work.[[note]]HBO would also later air the Miyazaki-despised original English dub of ''Nausicaa'', ''Warriors of the Wind''.[[/note]] Episodes 5 and 9 were also screened in Japanese cinemas in a double bill with ''Nausicaa'', several months before making it to Japanese TV. Episodes 4 and 10 were later screened in a double bill with ''[[Anime/CastleInTheSky Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]''.

A [[InternationalCoproduction co-production]] between the Japanese studio Creator/TMSEntertainment and the Italian channel Creator/{{RAI}}, ''Sherlock Hound'' (a.k.a. ''Meitantei Holmes'') is a FunnyAnimal adaptation series of the GreatDetective Franchise/SherlockHolmes, featuring the characters... [[AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation as dogs]]! Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, famous for his work with Creator/StudioGhibli, worked on six episodes of the series (directing five of them himself), starting in 1981.

Creator/DiscotekMedia (and before them, Creator/PioneerEntertainment) has released the series on home video.

Creator/DiscotekMedia has released the series on home video.

A [[InternationalCoproduction co-production]] between the Japanese studio Creator/TMSEntertainment and the Italian channel Creator/{{RAI}}, ''Sherlock Hound'' (a.k.a. ''Meitantei Holmes'') is a FunnyAnimal adaptation series of the GreatDetective Franchise/SherlockHolmes, featuring the characters... [[AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation as dogs]]! Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, famous for his work with Creator/StudioGhibli, working on six episodes of the series, starting in 1981.

A [[InternationalCoproduction co-production]] between the Japanese studio Creator/TMSEntertainment and the Italian channel Creator/{{RAI}}, ''Sherlock Hound'' (a.k.a. ''Meitantei Holmes'') is a FunnyAnimal adaptation series of the GreatDetective Franchise/SherlockHolmes, featuring the characters... [[AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation as dogs]]! Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, famous for his work with Creator/StudioGhibli, directed six episodes of the series, starting in 1981.

[[TroubledProduction Unfortunately, there were problems]] with Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's estate, which led to a suspension in production after only six episodes were completed. By the time the issues were resolved, Miyazaki had turned to ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', never to work in TV again, and the remaining episodes were directed by Kyosuke Mikuriya. The complete series was finally broadcast on Creator/TVAsahi from 1984 to 1985. Episode 3 (one of the Miyazaki episodes) actually aired in the U.S. ''before'' it aired in Japan, as it had been dubbed into English in 1982 by TMS and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in late 1983 as ''The Adventure of Sherlock Hound'', which marked possibly the first-ever U.S. TV broadcast of a Miyazaki work.[[note]]HBO would also later air the Miyazaki-despised original English dub of ''Nausicaa'', ''Warriors of the Wind''.[[/note]] Episodes 5 and 9 were also screened in Japanese cinemas in a double bill with ''Nausicaa'', several months before making it to Japanese TV. Episodes 4 and 10 were later screened in a double bill with ''[[Anime/CastleInTheSky Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]''.

[[TroubledProduction Unfortunately, there were problems]] with Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's estate, which led to a suspension in production after only six episodes were completed. By the time the issues were resolved, Miyazaki had turned to ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', never to work in TV again, and the remaining episodes were directed by Kyosuke Mikuriya. The complete series was finally broadcast on Creator/TVAsahi from 1984 to 1985. Episode 3 (one of the Miyazaki episodes) actually aired in the U.S. ''before'' it aired in Japan, as it had been dubbed into English in 1982 by TMS and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in late 1983 as ''The Adventure of Sherlock Hound'', which marked possibly the first-ever U.S. TV broadcast of a Miyazaki work.[[note]]HBO would also later air the Miyazaki-despised original English dub of ''Nausicaa'', ''Warriors of the Wind''.[[/note]] Episodes 5 and 9 were also screened in Japanese cinemas in a double bill with ''Nausicaa'', several months before making it to Japanese TV. Episodes 4 and 10 were later screened in a double bill with ''[[Anime/CastleInTheSky ]]''.

[[TroubledProduction Unfortunately, there were problems]] with Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's estate, which led to a suspension in production after only six episodes were completed. By the time the issues were resolved, Miyazaki had turned to ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', never to work in TV again, and the remaining episodes were directed by Kyosuke Mikuriya. The complete series was finally broadcast on Creator/TVAsahi from 1984 to 1985. Episode 3 (one of the Miyazaki episodes) actually aired in the U.S. ''before'' it aired in Japan, as it had been dubbed into English in 1982 by TMS and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in late 1983 as ''The Adventure of Sherlock Hound'', which marked possibly the first-ever U.S. TV broadcast of a Miyazaki work.[[note]]HBO would also later air the Miyazaki-despised original English dub of ''Nausicaa'', ''Warriors of the Wind''.[[/note]] Episodes 5 and 9 were also screened in Japanese cinemas in a double bill with ''Nausicaa'', several months before making it to Japanese TV. Episodes 4 and 10 were later screened in a double bill with ''Anime/LaputaCastleInTheSky''.

[[TroubledProduction Unfortunately, there were problems]] with Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's estate, which led to a suspension in production after only six episodes were completed. By the time the issues were resolved, Miyazaki had turned to ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', never to work in TV again, and the remaining episodes were directed by Kyosuke Mikuriya. The complete series was finally broadcast on Creator/TVAsahi from 1984 to 1985. Episode 3 (one of the Miyazaki episodes) actually aired in the U.S. ''before'' it aired in Japan, as it had been dubbed into English in 1982 by TMS and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in late 1983 as ''The Adventure of Sherlock Hound'', which marked possibly the first-ever U.S. TV broadcast of a Miyazaki work.[[note]]HBO would also later air the Miyazaki-despised original English dub of ''Nausicaa'', ''Warriors of the Wind''.[[/note]] Episodes 5 and 9 were also screened in Japanese cinemas in a double bill with ''Nausicaa'', several months before making it to Japanese TV.

[[TroubledProduction Unfortunately, there were problems]] with Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's estate, which led to a suspension in production after only six episodes were completed. By the time the issues were resolved, Miyazaki had turned to ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', never to work in TV again, and the remaining episodes were directed by Kyosuke Mikuriya. The complete series was finally broadcast on Creator/TVAsahi from 1984 to 1985. Episode 11 (one of the Miyazaki episodes) actually aired in the U.S. ''before'' it aired in Japan, as it had been dubbed into English in 1982 by TMS and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in late 1983 as ''The Adventure of Sherlock Hound'', which marked possibly the first-ever U.S. TV broadcast of a Miyazaki work.[[note]]HBO would also later air the Miyazaki-despised original English dub of ''Nausicaa'', ''Warriors of the Wind''.[[/note]] Episodes 5 and 9 were also screened in Japanese cinemas in a double bill with ''Nausicaa'', several months before making it to Japanese TV.

* OnlySixFaces[=/=]PaletteSwap: Some of the guest character share character models, with different colour schemes. Somewhat interesting is an example in the final episode, where the groom and his father share character models with a father and son from the second episode.

* PetTheDog: In the episode "Mrs. Hudson is Taken Hostage", Mrs. Hudson is taken hostage by Moriarty. Despite being kidnapped, Mrs. Hudson treats Moriarty very kindly. Moriarty is so moved, once his plan blows up in his face he releases her and vows never to intentionally involve her in his plans again. And he keeps that promise - apart from two incidents where she takes an active role in Hound's case of the week and thus places herself in danger, the closest he gets to endangering her in the twenty-two episodes that followed was making Hound ''think'' she was in danger to lure him into a trap.

* AbortedArc: In "Mrs. Hudson is Taken Hostage", Moriarty appears to be falling in love with Mrs. Hudson, playing She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not and imagining the two of them married. When he releases her, he just says he'll never involve her in his battle with Hound and that he would be a different man if he'd met her earlier in his life. Afterwards, Moriarty's VillainousCrush is never brought up again.

* OffModel: In the Miyazaki episodes, Smiley is coloured green and had a tiny spot under his left eye.

* DeterminedWidow: Mrs. Hudson which also counts her as a PluckyGirl. Whenever a plane crashes, she'll make sure that the pilot gets saved. [[spoiler:Note that her late husband died in a plane crash.]]

[[TroubledProduction Unfortunately, there were problems]] with Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's estate, which led to a suspension in production after only six episodes were completed. By the time the issues were resolved, Miyazaki had turned to ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', never to work in TV again, and the remaining episodes were directed by Kyosuke Mikuriya. The complete series was finally broadcast on Creator/TVAsahi from 1984 to 1985. Episode 11 (one of the Miyazaki episodes) actually aired in the U.S. ''before'' it aired in Japan, as it had been dubbed into English in 1982 by TMS and aired on Creator/{{HBO}} in late 1983 as ''The Adventure of Sherlock Hound'', which marked possibly the first ever U.S. TV broadcast of a Miyazaki work.[[note]]HBO would also later air the Miyazaki-despised original English dub of ''Nausicaa'', ''Warriors of the Wind''.[[/note]] Episodes 5 and 9 were also screened in Japanese cinemas in a double bill with ''Nausicaa'', several months before making it to Japanese TV.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The main characters have different personalities compare to the books.
* AdaptedOut: Many famous characters from the books, including Irene Adler, Mycroft Holmes, Mary Watson and the Baker Street Irregulars are omitted from this adaptation, which instead runs on original characters to replace them.

* AuthorAppeal: If you're wondering why all of a sudden [[PluckyGirl Marie, the only female character in the group, starts to be more competent than Sherlock and Watson]] and about the reason for the flying scenes...[[Creator/HayaoMiyazaki well, the answer is obvious...]]

** Mrs. Hudson is usually calm, sweet and polite. But she's also a talented pilot, race car driver and crack pistol shot.

* ContinuityNod: One of Moriarty's men note while riding on a rowboat that they're former pirates. Depending on the order, this was only the second episode. See EarlyBirdCameo.

** The sixth episode, "The Green Balloon", has Hound use Mrs. Hudson's contacts with the aviator community to get the loan of a seaplane, and again in the ninth, "Treasure Under The Sea", to get an airship. But it isn't until the tenth, "The White Cliffs of Dover", that it was revealed that her late husband was a pilot and that she was on a first name basis with virtually every other pilot in London. Given that Moriarty's pterodactyl plane from "Blue Carbuncle" was a plot point in that episode, it may have been made in the same batch of episodes before an ordering was decided.

* EvilGloating: Moriarty mockingly bids a goodbye to Lestrade every time the latter's close to catching him.

** Moriarty blackmails Hound into stealing the Mona Lisa in exchange for Mrs Hudson. At the exchange, Moriarty should have known that the painting Hound produced was a fake on sight - the painting Hound has is a rolled up canvas, and the Mona Lisa was painted on wood.
** When his scheme starts falling apart, Moriarty claims that Hound, Watson and Lestrade can't get to him because they're on the opposite side of a river. At which point Hound informs Moriarty that the river in question is only ankle deep.

* GetRichQuickScheme: The crux of Moriarty's numerous evil plans. They never work out, leaving him dirt poor most of the time.

** Moriarty is about to chop someone with an axe. Hound runs up, shoots the axe handle, at the base of the head, with a quick-draw from a revolver, through a window, from at least 20 feet away, and doesn't even scratch Moriarty. The most damage that Moriarty gets is getting bonked on the noggin with the blunt part of the axe head.
** Mrs. Hudson shoots Moriarty's anchor rope with Watson's revolver, while riding a speeding sports car. Note that the anchor was buried in the wing rib of an airplane and there was a bottle of nitroglycerin about to go off.
* ImprovisedParachute: In "The Stormy Getaway", Moriarty, Smiley and Todd use Moriarty's cloak as a parachute (while it is still around Moriarty's neck) after their steam car plunges off a cliff.

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Moriarty and his men. In later episodes they become increasingly comedic.

** In "The Green Balloon", the son of the lighthouse worker was the one sending messages when trapped, and knew enough chemistry to make a knockout gas to deal with Moriarty's men.

* LighterAndSofter: As mentioned above the show is a more kid-friendly version of Sherlock. According to the art book it seems they were thinking of a darker storyline, with Sherlock digging up graves and using drugs, but decided against it. That being said, at times the series comes close to implying some grisly violence, such as an episode where Professor Moriarty is prepared to strike a man dangling from a windowsill with an axe in any number of places. The fact that a gunshot from Sherlock breaks the axe handle and conks Moriarty on the head with the axe blade's dull end demonstrates aptly that the show still has a comic prerogative. One episode shows that Mrs. Hudson's unrequited suitors were about to commit suicide (out of heartbreak) on her wedding day. Thankfully, they didn't really kill themselves.

* MistakenForThief: On multiple occasions Hound and Watson try to warn someone of an impending theft attempt by Moriarty only for the would be victim to attempt to shoot them on the assumption that they are thieves themselves.

* ReverseWhodunnit: Moriarty did it in all but one episode, often in full-view of the viewer and sometimes right in front of Hound. Thus the main conflict of each episode is where Moriarty is hiding himself / the item in question, along with Hound figuring out how Moriarty pulled off the caper.

* SettingUpdate: The series seems to be set in the 1900/1910s, with cars, airplanes and clothes (roughly) from this era instead of the traditional Holmesian VictorianLondon.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Zig-zagged. Moriarty states that he doesn't ''need'' to kill anyone, but apparently makes an exception to Hound who he has attempted to shoot down a few times whenever they get into a showdown. He once had a man held in gunpoint by his two henchmen and attempted to strike him down with an axe when he tried to escape. Perhaps Moriarty just ''wants'' to kill on whims.

The series is not related to the children's novels by Karen Wallace, which have a similar premise. Also, this series, despite the name, isn't adapted from ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles''.

* DisposableFiancee: Robert, whom Elizabeth Racliffe was supposed to marry, only appears in two scenes and speaks only once.