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3	''Miss Sherlock'' is a Japanese drama series produced by Creator/{{HBO}} Asia and Creator/{{Hulu}} Japan, and premiered on April 27, 2018. Similar to [[Series/{{Sherlock}} other]] [[Series/{{Elementary}} recent]] adaptations of [[Creator/ArthurConanDoyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes series]], Miss Sherlock reinterprets the titular detective in a contemporary time period. The series depicts Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as [[GenderFlip Japanese women]] in modern Tokyo.
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5	Surgeon Wato Tachibana returns to Japan from a volunteer doctors' mission in Syria to recover from her experiences. Almost immediately upon her arrival, her mentor is killed from an explosive device that somehow appeared in his stomach. She finds herself requiring the aid of Sara "Sherlock" Futaba, a consulting detective for the police who solves particularly bizarre cases. Without any other homes at her disposal, Wato and Sherlock are forced to room with each other and quickly become embroiled in each other's lives, while fighting crime and taking down the agents of the mysterious [[BigBad Stella Maris]], a DiabolicalMastermind with a sinister agenda.
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7	While not particularly grounded or serious in its depiction of the Holmes story, the show nonetheless uses its premise to focus on Wato and Sherlock's growing friendship.
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9	The first season has eight episodes in total. It’s doubtful whether the series would continue, given Yuko Takeuchi (Sherlock)’s death in September 2020.
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11	See ''Series/SherlockUntoldStories'', another adaptation of Sherlock Holmes which aired in Japan in Fall 2019 under Fuji Television with 11 episodes.
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14	!!''Miss Sherlock'' contains examples of:
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16	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Kento Futaba, the show's take on Mycroft Holmes, is far nicer and more sociable than any previous incarnation of the character. He even shares a fairly warm relationship with Sherlock.
17	* AdaptationalJerkass: Miss Sherlock, even by the standards of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' (which this version is heavily inspired by). She unapologetically invades the personal space of strangers, displays ''zero'' sensitivity to others, and frequently belittles and insults people, including Wato-san (whom she spends most of the series being indifferent or even outright hostile towards).
18	* AdaptationalWimp: Arguably Wato-san. Unlike John Watson, who's a military veteran and practising doctor (skills that make him a useful companion to Sherlock Holmes during cases), she has given up medicine, has no military training or background, and is often TheLoad to Sherlock.
19	* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: [[spoiler:Moriya's autopsy, as revealed in the end of the series, reveals that he didn't die when Sherlock shot him: he died moments earlier as a result of the virus he injected himself with.]]
20	* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: This is what happens to Shiina Yuma thanks to her abusive father. The trauma turned her into a SoftSpokenSadist EmotionlessGirl.]]
21	* BigBad: Stella Maris, aka [[spoiler:Akira Moriwaki and Dr. Mariko Irikawa]], is the [[HiddenVillain mysterious]] Moriarty {{Expy}} and DiabolicalMastermind behind most of the series' killers.
22	* BigEater: Sherlock can often be seen eating something. Not even other peoples' food are safe from her appetite.
23	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Poor Wato. Sherlock choosing to TakeAThirdOption in TakingYouWithMe broke her out of it, though.]]
24	* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:After being forced to shoot and kill Moriya, Sherlock suffers a FreakOut that leaves her trembling and on the edge of a complete nervous breakdown.]]
25	* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: Dr. Mariko Irikawa AKA Akira Moriwaki is one of Ella Thompson, Watson's therapist from ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', and Jim Moriarty.]]
26	* DeathOfAChild: The motive for the killer in Episode 1 is [[spoiler:revenge for the death of her six-year-old daughter, killed ten years ago by a drug addict.]]
27	* DissonantSerenity: [[spoiler:Irikawa never raises her voice. All of her brainwashed patients have ''emotionless'' as their default expression and a CreepyMonotone to go with it.]]
28	* DownerBeginning: In the first scene of the first episode, Wato's plane lands in Tokyo. She gets off and meets her old friend and mentor, Dr. Mizuno--and he is promptly killed by a bomb that blows out his stomach.
29	* ElectricTorture: In Episode 3 Dr. Watanuki is brutally tortured with electric shocks by someone who wants a code. He's left a vegetable. [[spoiler:Wato is subjected to this later on, and would have suffered the same fate had the police not arrived in time.]]
30	* FingerInTheMail: The killer in Episode 6 sends an ear and a finger from two of his victims to the police.
31	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: In Episode 8 [[spoiler: the moment Sherlock mentions the ''Reichenbach'' Building, you ''know'' that the episode is going to end with her [[Recap/SherlockS02E03TheReichenbachFall taking a fall]].]]
32	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Constantly. One such example is the motivation and the true identity of the mystery killer in episode 1 when [[spoiler:Sherlock notices a recently widowed wife's reaction to being asked if she and her deceased husband had any children, and the ease and delight with which said widow fixes a little girl's hair for her, hinting at her motives for killing several people: the murder of her daughter by the hands of a drug addict.]]
33	** When Wato's friends come to Sherlock's place, their conversation turns to psychological tests and their veracity. Sherlock asks everyone a question, which turns out to be a test for whether a person is a psychopath. [[spoiler:Moriya, Wato's love interest, had the most eerily specific answer. He is later revealed to be part of a [=PTSD=] support group doubling as a breeding ground for terrorists]].
34	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Watch Sherlock whenever the camera isn't on her. She's usually a walking example of this trope as she pokes around with her customary lack of tact/manners/respect for personal boundaries.
35	* FriendOnTheForce: Inspector Reimon is the one who most often brings Sherlock in on the cases, to the point Shibata accuses him of not having the confidence to even ''try'' solving cases.
36	* GenderFlip: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are reinterpreted as women. Other Sherlock Holmes adaptations have done this (most notably Creator/LucyLiu as a female Watson in ''Series/{{Elementary}}'') but few have done both of the principal characters.
37	* GeniusSweetTooth: Chocolate is Sherlock's vice.
38	* GoingByTheMatchbook: Or the 21st-century, non-smoking equivalent thereof. In Episode 1, Sherlock sees a club re-entry stamp on the hand of murder victim Kurimoto, which leads them to the nightclub where they find a vital clue.
39	* GrailInTheGarbage: In Episode 2 everyone thinks that the mystery revolves around the old painting in the art gallery that was defaced by a vandal. It doesn't; the real objective of the bad guys is [[spoiler:the ''frame'', which just happened to have been made by Antonio Stradivari, of "Stradivarius" violin fame.]]
40	* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: One of the antagonists of episode 2. [[spoiler:He]] is quite easily swayed by unscrupuluous business persons to perform some truly terrible crimes, all for the promise of [[spoiler:own art gallery]] in spite of how unrealistic that is. {{Lampshaded}} when even the other antagonists specifically berate [[spoiler:him]] for this when the jig is up.
41	* InspectorLestrade: Sergeant Shibata fills the role, deeply resenting Sherlock's sway with Inspector Reimon as he's forced to gather essential clues.
42	* LeftHanging: Why does she call herself Sherlock? The question remains unanswered by the end of the series.
43	* LightIsNotGood / DarkIsNotEvil: The heroic Sherlock dresses in dark colors, usually black. [[spoiler:The villainous Irikawa dresses in light colors, usually blue.]]
44	* MythArc: Stella Maris.
45	* NoSocialSkills: Sherlock ''is'' capable of following social cues for people she cares for, but she has little patience for it and [[FunnyBackgroundEvent can be seen fiddling with various knick-knacks or twirling her chair when other people are talking.]]
46	* TheNotLoveInterest: Since the series is an adaptation of ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'', Dr. Wato Tachibana (aka Wato-san) naturally fulfills a lot of roles in her dynamic with Sherlock that would go to a love interest in another work. While their dynamic is colder than most versions, their growing bond forms the emotional core of the series. Wato is even kidnapped at one point to get Sherlock's cooperation in an IHaveYourWife situation. Sherlock even gets out of her funk in the finale for the specific purpose of saving Wato and sacrifices herself to save Wato from the BigBad, with Wato shown to be devastated by her death in the way a LoveInterest would normally be.
47	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:In order to snap Wato out of her brainwashing, Sherlock finally acknowledges her as her friend. It seems to rattle her enough to not shoot Sherlock immediately, but it takes Sherlock and Irikawa jumping off a building for Wato to fully come back to her senses]].
48	* PunnyName:
49	** Wato. Combined with Japanese honorifics, she's referred to as "Wato-san," which is pretty much how Japanese people pronounce the name "Watson."
50	** Moriya Toru. ''Moriarty''. [[spoiler:He's not the BigBad, but he works for her.]]
51	* PsychoPsychologist: [[spoiler: Irikawa. Wato went to her for help managing her PTSD caused by her time in a warzone, and ended up becoming her pawn via some method of MindControl (or possibly MoreThanMindControl given that Irikawa preyed on Wato's anger and grief resulting from Sherlock shooting Toru).]]
52	* RaceLift: Other than the obvious examples of Wato and Sherlock, the few remaining characters from the original text are similarly translated into modern Tokyo. Mycroft Holmes, for example, is depicted as "Kento Futaba."
53	* RooftopConfrontation: Both Episodes 7 and 8 have rooftop confrontations, one with a plague carrier and Sherlock, the last a confrontation with Sherlock, Wato, and the BigBad.
54	* RoomFullOfCrazy: In Episode 6, the killer, a father looking for revenge for the murder of his daughter, has a wall festooned with dozens of pictures of the victims he was stalking. More plot-relevant than usual, as the BigBad uses said pictures to send a message to Sherlock and the cops.
55	* RunningGag:
56	** Sherlock, whenever people call Wato her friend: "We're not friends!"
57	*** RunningGagStumbles: At a moment of crisis, Sherlock tells Wato that Wato is her first and only friend.
58	** Kento only ever has 20 minutes to talk.
59	* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The series ends, after Sherlock's HeroicSacrifice, with a familiar woman walking towards Wato as she grieves for Sherlock. Given Yuko Takeuchi's passing, however, another sequel is very unlikely...]]
60	* ShellShockedVeteran: Wato-san was traumatized so badly by her time as a doctor in combat zones in Syria that she's having flashbacks and hallucinations.
61	* SherlockScan: But of course! An early example would be Sherlock deducing Wato was on a medical mission in Syria, one of the pieces of evidence being the surgery thread tied to Wato's baggage.
62	* SoftSpokenSadist: [[spoiler:Shiina Yuma, the supposedly shy and deferential Shiina sister turned out to be a sadistic torturer who lacks empathy.]]
63	* SuckOutThePoison: It turns out that [[spoiler:the woman everybody thought was a vampire for drinking her baby's blood]] in episode 4 was really doing this. (ItMakesSenseInContext, and is a reference to "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire".)
64	* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. While Sherlock dismisses their usefulness, Wato attends counseling after her experiences in Syria. [[spoiler:TheReveal makes this into There Are No ''Good'' Therapists.]]
65	* TheseHandsHaveKilled: In Episode 7, Sherlock, eternally calm and unflappable, comes completely unglued after having to shoot [[spoiler:Toru]] InTheBack to prevent him from spreading a deadly virus all over Tokyo. She's left a sobbing mess, even as she figures out who the real BigBad is.
66	* ThousandYardStare: [[spoiler:Overlapping with MindControlEyes, it's Wato's cold, unflinching stare under Irikawa's control.]]
67	* TitleDrop: In Episode 7 Wato's boyfriend Toru says he's starting to dislike "Miss Sherlock" for continually distracting Wato.
68	* TropaholicsAnonymous: In Episode 1 a child murderer is traced to an addict support group.
69	* VitriolicBestBuds: Wato and Sherlock don't particularly even ''like'' other once they've become roommates, but continue to work together on cases despite having little reason to keep up their partnership after the first case.
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