Meitantei Holmes

What a delicious bit of nostalgia and 1980s charm. I can watching Sherlock Hound on VHS when I was a kid and now being able to watch the whole series as an adult felt kind of like finally getting the platinum trophy on a PlayStation 3 game that was sitting on the bottom shelf of my closet for years.

The story is straight forward. A combination of 26 individual capers that pits the world's greatest detective against the world's most brilliant criminal. The episodes are extremely repetitive with the same recycled formula over and over. Moriarty steals something with a goofy invention, Hound and Watson ... foil the plan, and Scotland Yard's police officers flail about making human pyramids trying to apprehend the criminals who always escape and live to steal another day. But even after all of that the show still throws a few curve balls your way. I found myself pondering a few times: "just how did the villain manage to steal a single train car out of the middle of a moving train?". While the answers are almost always "cartoon logic" it still was enjoyable enough. There isn't much in the form of character development but I didn't think that it really matters. You don't really need to know why Sherlock is the greatest detective or why Moriarty turned to a life of crime. Just accept that they are what they are spent the next half hour or so watching them pit their wits against each other.

The animation is dated to be sure but on par with similar pieces around the period. The fact that the godfather Miyazaki himself lent his creative talent to the project is a plus today but overlooked when I was younger. The music was also enjoyable, particularly the introduction sequence.

Overall a very enjoyable experience to an old head like me and not a waste of time to some of the younger folks too. Solid 8 / 10

I’m pretty sure if the Character has been a human it's will be one of greatest anime in the history everything is good but the Character and store is kiddy .

Art ‘Meitantei Holmes’ is the best things i like it, thanks to the involvement of Italians, we got wonderful artistic style and great animation,Meitantei Holmes’ looks better than most titles of the nineties.
when i saw it in first time in aonther recommendations i thinking it's for children, but if you like sharlok you will be like ‘Meitantei Holmes’ .
the Sound and music, i really liked the music it's not mannered .
Overall i ... enjoyed everything is good

I love this anime ever since I got it from my local Library. I found it by accident while looking for a different video (which seemed to not actually be there) and so picked it up.

At first, I thought this was going to be serious like all the other Sherlock Homes creations out there but this is like a children’s version of the story. It feels strange to see Professor Moriarty actually taking part in the crimes instead of just having his henchmen doing it. It pulls away a lot from the normal story line with the difference that each show can pretty much ... be standing on its own and you don’t need much to understand them. It’s like a crime of the week and I don’t if there was any that actually went 2 shows long.

I like how whimsical they make the story and it has some of the feel as the real Sherlock Homes, although they don’t really let you try to piece together the crime yourself which makes me rather sad.

I never really liked the music to it but I love the animals being portrayed as humans. Though sometimes the dogs look like cats such as a very small boy in one of the episodes. I wasn’t surprised when I found out that Miyazaki actually helped create this show even if some of it wasn’t the greatest.