I’m a really big Sherlock Holmes fan for years, and I love to see all kinds of adaptions. When Kabukichou Sherlock had its first trailer, I was so excited! All the novelty, the setting, the weird characters! I waited and waited, watched the trailer over and over. Well, the bigger the anticipation, the worse the disappointment.
Dreadful characterization, so dreadful that by the end of the anime the only person I still actually like is Mrs. Hudson.
I welcome innovative approach to Sherlock Holmes adaptations, in fact I love it. Innovation toward characterization? Marvelous! But you have to make them into actual people, sane rational human beings. I don’t see any of that with this anime.
I typed and deleted, typed and deleted. Just writing this review brings me back the anger I had when I tried finish watching this anime months ago.
If you like Sherlock Holmes in the ACD novel, or actually, any good adaptations, don’t watch it, you’ll likely be disgusted.
If you want to watch characters with sane minds interacting, don’t watch it, there’re very few in the anime, and none of them is the main characters.
If you want to completely disregard the actual Sherlock Holmes novel, watch characters interact in ways you think “why would you do that???”, enjoy non-mystery mystery. Go ahead, I guess when you don’t think about it, pretending everything is okay, it might be somehow fun. I mean, it’s supposed to be funny. Although by the end of the anime, I was nothing near being entertained.
