The Adventure of Henry Baskerville and a Dog

Country

Japan

How it feels

A Japanese puppetry series transplants Sherlock Holmes into a boarding school setting. The teenage detective and his roommate John Watson solve mysteries around the school but no murders occur.

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What happens

Sherlock Holmes (シャーロック ホームズ), also known as Puppet Entertainment Sherlock Holmes, is a Japanese puppetry television series written by Kōki Mitani and produced and broadcast by NHK. The puppets for the series were designed by Bunta Inoue. The first series, consisting of 18 episodes, was broadcast on Sundays from 12 October 2014 to 15 February 2015 on NHK Educational TV (ETV). The first six episodes were previously broadcast on NHK General TV (GTV) in March and August 2014. A special programme titled 放送直前SP 徹底調査!シャーロックホームズ ("Let's Search 'Sherlock Holmes' Thoroughly") was aired on 5 October 2014, and a segment titled "Sherlock Holmes Award" was broadcast on 28 December 2014. Each episode was rebroadcast on the following Friday. The programme received the Japan Sherlock Holmes Award on 22 March 2015. The series is based on the Canon of Sherlock Holmes, with characters and events adapted to a fictional London boarding school, where a teenage Sherlock Holmes (voiced by Kōichi Yamadera) investigates various incidents with his roommate John H. Watson (voiced by Wataru Takagi). There are no murder cases, and some characters appear in situations or stories where they did not feature in the original works. Some episodes began being rebroadcast from 22 February 2015. The production of new episodes was announced on the official programme website and on the "Sherlock Gakuen" website. Staff member Kunio Yoshikawa stated that an English-language version was also planned for production and broadcast. On 1 June 2015, NHK announced that a new series, titled Holmes and Watson Mystery – (No heya: A Room of Mystery), would be broadcast on Thursdays from July to September 2015. The series featured John H. Watson providing commentary on Holmes's deductions, and also included rebroadcasts of some episodes from the first series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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