Like "Dogtanian And The Three Muskehounds" and "Around the World with Willy Fogg", it features animals as the main characters.
The series was dubbed into English and was renamed "Sherlock Hound", and is now being released by Manga Entertainment on DVD after all these years. It's an exclusive to the shop HMV, and although the release date is the 1st of February 2010, my preorder copy arrived today.
It cost £17.99 for this 26 episode 5 DVD box set, and the series is presented as dub-only. The cast aren't so bad, they're voice actors whose names I recognise from US cartoons, not specifically as anime dub actors. There are only 4 names so they're doubling up, but it's very good considering that they are also probably from the 1980s. The British accents don't sound overdone, which was a concern I had. Well, actually Inspector Lestrade might take some getting used to, hehe.
I've only watched 2 episodes so far. The first episode seemed to be quite action oriented, but the second episode had more eagle-eyed detective work. Sherlock Hound's car seems to be as much of an assistant as Watson!
The DVD box says on the side: "Hayao Miyazaki and Kyousuke Mikuriya's Sherlock Hound The Complete Series", though it appears that Miyazaki only had involvement in a few episodes. There are typos on the back of the box. :/
I'm just interested because it looks like another Dogtanian or Willy Fogg. :)
It seems quite fun. :)
