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Cho_Desu
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I might be the only one, but I was always really bothered by their lack of tails. (Almost as annoying as Doraemon not having ears.)
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mdo7
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So I got chance to watch several episodes of Sherlock Hound on Retrocrush, and I got to say I think this anime can appeal to kids that have been watching Hayao Miyazaki's (or any of Studio Ghibli's) work (and I can include Future Boy Conan).
If you're a parent reading this and you're looking for a anime that has the same feel like Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki for your young one out there, this anime series and Future Boy Conan will have that same feel given that Miyazaki worked on both of them before founding Studio Ghibli.
Yep, I can spot those too if one is a long time fan of Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli's work, and have watch a lot of his works.
I haven't got chance to watch the dub (well I'm a dub watcher/lover and I watched Sherlock Hound subtitled first on Retrocrush, and another reason is I didn't grew up watching this anime as a kid so that's why I didn't watch it dub). But there is a big plus of having this series subtitled: If you have young kids with a advanced-level reading skill (yes, they exist. One of my niece when she was 7 years old, her reading level was off the chart), the Japanese audio with English subtitles really does come in handy to give those young kids with higher level reading skill a good level of challenges. I always advocated that if a young kid with a higher level reading skill and really love to read books or watching TV and movies with closed captioning and/or SDH on, then turn on a foreign-language kid content with English subtitle on to give them/add challenges to their reading. Oh and:
Well this animation was targeted toward children demographic, so this anime is not for everyone. The 6 episodes that were handled by Hayao Miyazaki are worth watching if you're a fan of his work, if you got young kids that loved and enjoyed Studio Ghibli/Hayao Miyazaki's work, those particular 6 episodes will really impressed and appealed to them. |
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Top Gun
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I watched this back when TMS uploaded it to YouTube, and as a Holmes fan it was a real blast. As you'd expect, the Miyazaki episodes in particular were delightful. I second the dub recommendation; it just feels right for Hound to have a proper British accent.
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kgw
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As someone who watched it as a kid on land TV, the chapters were just not "misplaced" , but they changed the script of the 1st episode to make the viewers believe Sherlock and Watson were "pretending" they didn't know each other*, when actually it was the first time they meet!
Also, I am quite sure that all around the world the series was called "Sherlock Holmes" except in English-speaking countries. In the same way Lupin III was Lupin almost all around the globe [except in France, where he was Edgar, for a while]. Because lawyers had far less reach those days. * even as kids we didn't buy it totally. |
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ZiharkXVI
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I had an old bootleg copy of the show with eng dub back in the late 80s on vhs. I watched it to death. No idea where my mother obtained the tape. I of course bought the bluray when it was available mainly for nostalgia, but I still enjoyed watching through them.
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ChibiGoku
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It should be noted that the first 6 or so episodes were the original production order of the series, and for reasons I'm not sure, whenever TMS has added the series for streaming overseas, the English version often follows the production order rather than on-air/chronological order.
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Swissman
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Definitely disagree with this take. The action scenes and pacing in the episodes Miyazaki worked on are truly great for TV animation of the early to mid eighties. Just take the chase scene from A small client for example. The amount of detail of the mechanical designs and debree flying around, the crowd of people running & dodging, the fast paced cuts and mise-en-scène overall, these are all blueprints for what Miyazaki later did in Laputa or Porco Rosso. To me he has always been a great action animation director first before starting to being known worldwide for his mystical world building with weird creatures. His Sherlock Hound episodes are a showcase of his talent as an action animation director. |
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Zendervai
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I watched the show with my boyfriend last year (I got the Discotek blu-ray of it) and we had a really good time with it. Sometimes, you just want a fun Saturday morning cartoon.
We also decided that the show is extremely good fodder for like, a classic style point and click adventure game and that someone needs to get on that.
Honestly, yeah. There's a whole sequence where Mrs. Hudson drives the duo to catch a plane and it's extremely well done. |
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Top Gun
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Ooh, yeah, that episode had some fantastic sequences in it. |
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