Vampire Holmes

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Japanese: VAMPIRE HOLMES

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 2015 to Jun 20, 2015

Premiered: Spring 2015

Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:55 (JST)

Producers: CUCURI

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Studio! Cucuri

Source: Game

Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Supernatural

Duration: 3 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 3.30¹ (scored by 9,530 users)

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Ranked: #13312²

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Popularity: #4755

Members: 21,098

Favorites: 49

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The great detective Holmes does not solve mysteries or use deductive reasoning. He does, however, hunt vampires. Using three-minute episodes, Vampire Holmes retells the story of the great Holmes and his assistant. What begins as an ordinary detective agency takes a turn for the occult when the Metropolitan Police of London secretly hire Holmes and Hudson to investigate vampires.

Or at least that's what Holmes would tell anyone who asks. In reality, he and Hudson spend most of their time sitting around arguing, and failing to solve any cases. Joined by the not-so-black, demon cat Kira, and their terrifying rent-hungry landlady, this is the story of the man who was most definitely not London's greatest detective.

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Holmes

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Sena, Yoshinobu
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Kira

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Takagaki, Ayahi
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Hudson

Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga
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Christina

Supporting

Takagaki, Ayahi
Japanese

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Sena, Yoshinobu

Producer, Director, Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition, Original Creator, Music, Character Design

Tamaki, Nami

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Opening Theme

"Everlasting Love" by Nami Tamaki

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Ending Theme

"Everlasting Love" by Nami Tamaki

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Dec 31, 2022

batongpuso

Recommended

Meh, I have seen worse, it actually did a great job of having the game not be some boring forgotten, and out-of-service Japanese-exclusive game so I give them that. It's not offensively bad or disgustingly wrong, it's just some anime some unknown mobile game company managed to make, and the quality matches that. It did not plan to be ambitious and fail expectations or be generic and some basic random plot, it is just some omake-style show for the lolz. Sure, the Opening has nothing to do with the show, there are large amounts of product placement, and the animation is comparable to the seven ...

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Mar 16, 2024

SgtSalamander

Mixed Feelings

I am truly flabbergasted. I don't even know where to begin. I walked into this not knowing what I was in for, which made the whole experience that much more bewildering. Vampire Holmes represents a legendary failure, a work so profoundly bad that it is truly only fit to laugh at, and even then that is being quite merciful. Every moment in Vampire Holmes is a new unfolding creative travesty, and it just gets worse the more you watch. It's like trying to explain an ambien hallucination. Who's the white-haired dude in the OP? Is that supposed to be Holmes? But I never saw him ... with white hair. Why can I see jpg compression artifacts throughout the anime? Is that on purpose? Why do the backgrounds keep changing mid-scene? Why are some scenes completely unanimated? Does it ever come up that Holmes is a vampire? This anime is based off a mobile game? Did they just break the 4th wall to hawk their DVD? This anime has a DVD? How did this happen, how did any of this happen? I suppose I must begin somewhere, so I'll begin with the story. Or, I guess I won't because there truly isn't one. That being said, it is still the best part of Vampire Holmes. The story consists of a barely strung-together series of nonsensical vignettes and bad punchlines. When it does attempt a story with more cohesion, spanning more than a single episode, it does so in a clumsy, melodramatic manner that totally fails to generate anything resembling an engaging moment. Its only redeeming quality is that it's funny, but not because of the comedy it intends to bring to the table, but instead because it is so bafflingly horrible that you really can't help but laugh. The art, meanwhile, is irredeemably bad. Shoddy animation which often completely stops altogether, garbage, uninspired character design, frequent lapses between different animation styles and levels of relative quality- everything about it really is just that bad. The characters are somehow even worse, feeling simultaneously flat and unbearable. Holmes' is a characteristic deadbeat who is pretentious and refuses to ever work, abusing Watson at every opportunity, while Watson is a whiny, annoying springboard for Holmes and his ridiculous antics. Overall, Vampire Holmes is one of the worst anime I have ever seen, by far. The final nail in its coffin is that, at least with some other bottom-of-the-barrel shows, the effort put in is at least genuine. Not so with Vampire Holmes. Vampire Holmes is an advertisement which has stumbled clumsily into infamy, and all the joy that can be derived from it takes the form of derisive mirth at its expense, laughter spent in disbelief that its creators made something quite so bad, so unfunny, that it circles back around into something that is almost artfully terrible. I can't in good conscience recommend Vampire Holmes on the merits of its ironic enjoyment alone, but for better or worse, it has made itself a part of anime history, and if you have the stomach for trainwrecks, or perhaps a morbid curiosity for the worst of the worst, why not really plunge the depths?

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Aug 1, 2022

Plk_Lesiak

Not Recommended

Wow... Just wow...

This extremely ugly and obnoxiously merchandised (it promotes a similarly crappy mobile game, reminding you about it in every episode) slapstick comedy had, in my experience, one fairly funny joke (the one with 30% discount) and one somewhat passable one. The rest is complete gibberish with no redeeming qualities.

There's also absolutely no value in watching as a kind of "so bad it's good" piece of anime. It actively tries to be parody, but the awful writing, horrible art and mediocre delivery of the jokes make it utterly worthless, leaving nothing to laugh at even ironically. Did I already mentioned obnoxious advertisement? It's a ...

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