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'''Sherlock Holmes''' is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. The Holmes stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and roommate '''Dr. John Watson'''.
 
'''Sherlock Holmes''' is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. The Holmes stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and roommate '''Dr. John Watson'''.
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He was the [[Detective Picture Book|featured detective]] of [[volume 1]] of the ''[[Detective Conan]]'' manga.
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He was also the featured detective of [[volume 100]], but this time he was based on BBC TV series ''[[Wikipedia: Sherlock (TV series)|Sherlock]]'', where [[Wikipedia: Benedict Cumberbatch|Benedict Cumberbatch]] starred as Sherlock Holmes.
  
 
== About ==
 
== About ==
 
A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.
 
A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.
  
Holmes is famous for using small details, such as mud or water stains, to piece together the solution to a crime. He can use the same method to figure out someone's occupation. When he first met Watson, he was able to tell with a glance and a handshake that he was an army surgeon and had been to Afghanistan. He was also quite physically fit, skilled at boxing, fencing, and [[wikipedia:bartitsu|baritsu]].
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Holmes is famous for using small details, such as mud or water stains, to piece together the solution to a crime. He can use the same method to figure out someone's occupation. When he first met Watson, he was able to tell with a glance and a handshake that he was an army surgeon and had been to Afghanistan. He was also quite physically fit, skilled at boxing, fencing, and [[Wikipedia: bartitsu|baritsu]].
  
 
Although a fictional character, [[Shinichi Kudo]] looks up to him as the world's greatest detective. Shinichi admires his deductive skills, physical abilities, and even his love for the violin. It was to be more like Holmes that Shinichi played soccer and picked up the violin.
 
Although a fictional character, [[Shinichi Kudo]] looks up to him as the world's greatest detective. Shinichi admires his deductive skills, physical abilities, and even his love for the violin. It was to be more like Holmes that Shinichi played soccer and picked up the violin.
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== Allusions ==
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* In the [[Roller Coaster Murder Case]] Shinichi tells Ran about Holmes' deduction about Watson when they first met and proceeds to demonstrate the process by grabbing the hand of the girl waiting in line in front of him for the Mystery Coaster, deducing that she's a gymnast. Ran is surprised until Shinichi explains that the calluses on her hand are from performing on the uneven bars and that he had seen odd bruising above the girl's legs when the wind lifted her skirt earlier.
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* In the [[Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case]] a shrunken Shinichi uses Holmes' method of deduction (including recognizing mud stains) to prove to Agasa that he really is Shinichi. The main clue in the episode was that the family's dogs did not bark, as in "Silver Blaze" with its "curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
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* In the [[Holmes Freak Murder Case]] there are several allusions to the Holmes stories. "Mycroft" is the name of Sherlock's older brother, the characters complete a test that only true Holmes fans would be able to answer, and the murderer's motive was due to one of the victims sullying the character of [[Wikipedia: Irene Adler|Irene Adler]].
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:* In the same episode it also revealed that Shinichi/Conan’s favorite Holmes story is revealed in this case to be "The Sign of Four", one of the four Holmes novels.
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* In [[The Convenience Store Trap]] Ran remembers a quote from Holmes that Shinichi told her: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Using this quote to help her, Ran deduces who has been stealing items from the convenience store.
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* In [[Holmes' Revelation]] the bomber used titles and quotes from Holmes' stories to give clues as to where his next bombing would take place.
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* In [[The Phantom of Baker Street]], the setting is a virtual reality of Holmes' London with many references to characters, situations, and quotes.
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* In [[Reunion with the Black Organization]] The name Shelling Ford input by Conan in the computer is supposed to be Arthur Conan Doyle's first planned name for Sherlock Holmes. Nevertheless, this name is proven to be wrong, as Sherlock's first prototype name was Sherrinford Holmes.
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* Gosho Aoyama said in an interview posted in the May 2014 issue of Da Vinci magazine stated that the "Ai" in [[Ai Haibara]] name comes from [[Wikipedia: Irene Adler|'''I'''rene Adler]], a character from the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' story "A Scandal in Bohemia", and she is inspired by her.
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* In [[Crossroad in the Ancient Capital]] cafe from which Shinichi calls Ran at the start of the movie has number 221B as it adress just like Sherlock Holmes and John Watson's apartment (221B Baker Street).
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* In [[Ran's Suspicions]] Shinichi's pin-code has the same number as the Black Organization's [[APTX 4869]] (4869), which is also a reference to Sherlock Holmes in Japanese (Shi-ya-ro-ku - "Sherlock").
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* In [[The Truth Behind the Urban Legend]] Conan's statement, that 'The Hammer man' never existed, is similar to a statement made by his hero Sherlock Holmes in 'The adventure of the noble bachelor'. Holmes who are searching for a missing woman, who had just married Lord St. Simon, tells Lestrade that Lady St. Simon is 'a myth', because he had figured out that the woman was already married to a man she left to meet, and therefor the marriage with Lord St. Simon wasn't legit. Conan says that there never existed a 'Hammer Man', because he had realized that the Hammer 'man' was in reality a woman.
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* In [[Girigiri chop|opening 3]] Conan and Shinichi appeared as Sherlock Holmes.
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* In [[Thoroughbred Kidnapping Case]] the case is inspired by The Adventure of Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories cited during the investigation. It centered around the disappearance of a race horse the night before an important race, along with the murder of his trainer.
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* In [[The Small Eye-Witnesses]] Conan was read a Sherlock Holmes book called Sherlock Holmes His Idealology & Lifestyle.
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* In [[Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café]] Muga Iori uses the name "Shinichi Wada" (和田 進一 Wada Shin'ichi?) that he introduces himself  was also the localized name of Dr. Watson in one of the first translated releases of A Study in Scarlet in Japan. The last name "Wada" is written with the same kanji as the last name of Hina Wada.
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:* Shinichi has a tendency to call Ran "Watson" and she tends to play this role in flashbacks.
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* In [[The Culprit is Genta's Dad]] Conan uses a quote from Sherlock Holmes "It is of the first importance not to allow you judgment to be biased by personal qualities" to Takagi in order for him not to release Genta dad from the suspect list.
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* [[James Black]]: Conan points out that there is another British man beside [[James Bond]] with a similar name: James Moriarty. James reveals he was actually born in Baker Street.
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* [[Beika]], which is a fictional ward of Tokyo or a city inside the Greater Tokyo Area and its the main setting of Detective Conan, is the Japanese word for Baker after Baker Street.
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:* "Haido" from Haido Town in turn is a transcription of "Hyde", as in Hyde Park, which is close to Baker Street.
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* In Nonchalant Lupin Aoko surnames was Holmes.
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* The place name Raiha Pass, the location where [[Akai's fake death technique|Akai supposedly died]], is derived from Reichenbach Falls, the location where Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty apparently fell to their deaths at the end of The Final Problem. It is later revealed that Sherlock survived the fall, but decided to fake his own death and go into hiding in order to protect himself and John Watson from Moriarty's henchmen.
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* Haibara mother name [[Elena Miyano]] comes from the German reading of the Irene of Irene Adler.
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* Saguru Hakuba eagle is named Watson after Doctor Watson in episode 219.
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* In [[The Last Wizard of the Century|movie 3]] While on the cruise-liner after bandaging the bird, there is a brief glimpse of the room on the ship Conan is in. He is staying in room 221-A. 221-B Baker Street was Holmes' apartment in London. This is an obvious homage to the Holmes' series which is referenced in the anime quite frequently.
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* In [[The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Sonoko Suzuki]] The title of the case comes from a book of Arthur Conan Doyle titled The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
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* In [[The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun]] Conan compares the code that they found to the dancing men from the Sherlock Holmes book ''The Adventure of the Dancing Men''.
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* Both [[The Secret of the High Sales]], and [[The Case of Ayumi's Illustrated Diary]] both have an element of Red-Headed League which is a Sherlock Holmes short story.
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* In movie 1 The name of Moriya Teiji is a pun on the name of Sherlock Holmes' antagonist Professor James Moriarty if written as "Moriarty J.".
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* Saguru Hakuba share the same initials as Sherlock Holmes.
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* Detective Samonji share some similarities with Sherlock Holmes. They are both detectives whose writer 'killed' them along their enemy with the intention of being done writing stories about them, but was later brought back.
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* [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's Detective Notes]] had many references to Sherlock Holmes like "Adventure of the Six Napoleons".
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== See also ==
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* [[Detective Picture Book]]
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== References ==
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Sherlock Holmes
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Holmes stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and roommate Dr. John Watson.

He was the featured detective of volume 1 of the Detective Conan manga.

He was also the featured detective of volume 100, but this time he was based on BBC TV series Sherlock, where Benedict Cumberbatch starred as Sherlock Holmes.

About

A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.

Holmes is famous for using small details, such as mud or water stains, to piece together the solution to a crime. He can use the same method to figure out someone's occupation. When he first met Watson, he was able to tell with a glance and a handshake that he was an army surgeon and had been to Afghanistan. He was also quite physically fit, skilled at boxing, fencing, and baritsu.

Although a fictional character, Shinichi Kudo looks up to him as the world's greatest detective. Shinichi admires his deductive skills, physical abilities, and even his love for the violin. It was to be more like Holmes that Shinichi played soccer and picked up the violin.

Allusions

  • In the Roller Coaster Murder Case Shinichi tells Ran about Holmes' deduction about Watson when they first met and proceeds to demonstrate the process by grabbing the hand of the girl waiting in line in front of him for the Mystery Coaster, deducing that she's a gymnast. Ran is surprised until Shinichi explains that the calluses on her hand are from performing on the uneven bars and that he had seen odd bruising above the girl's legs when the wind lifted her skirt earlier.
  • In the Company President's Daughter Kidnapping Case a shrunken Shinichi uses Holmes' method of deduction (including recognizing mud stains) to prove to Agasa that he really is Shinichi. The main clue in the episode was that the family's dogs did not bark, as in "Silver Blaze" with its "curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
  • In the Holmes Freak Murder Case there are several allusions to the Holmes stories. "Mycroft" is the name of Sherlock's older brother, the characters complete a test that only true Holmes fans would be able to answer, and the murderer's motive was due to one of the victims sullying the character of Irene Adler.
  • In the same episode it also revealed that Shinichi/Conan’s favorite Holmes story is revealed in this case to be "The Sign of Four", one of the four Holmes novels.
  • In The Convenience Store Trap Ran remembers a quote from Holmes that Shinichi told her: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Using this quote to help her, Ran deduces who has been stealing items from the convenience store.
  • In Holmes' Revelation the bomber used titles and quotes from Holmes' stories to give clues as to where his next bombing would take place.
  • In The Phantom of Baker Street, the setting is a virtual reality of Holmes' London with many references to characters, situations, and quotes.
  • In Reunion with the Black Organization The name Shelling Ford input by Conan in the computer is supposed to be Arthur Conan Doyle's first planned name for Sherlock Holmes. Nevertheless, this name is proven to be wrong, as Sherlock's first prototype name was Sherrinford Holmes.
  • Gosho Aoyama said in an interview posted in the May 2014 issue of Da Vinci magazine stated that the "Ai" in Ai Haibara name comes from Irene Adler, a character from the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia", and she is inspired by her.
  • In Crossroad in the Ancient Capital cafe from which Shinichi calls Ran at the start of the movie has number 221B as it adress just like Sherlock Holmes and John Watson's apartment (221B Baker Street).
  • In Ran's Suspicions Shinichi's pin-code has the same number as the Black Organization's APTX 4869 (4869), which is also a reference to Sherlock Holmes in Japanese (Shi-ya-ro-ku - "Sherlock").
  • In The Truth Behind the Urban Legend Conan's statement, that 'The Hammer man' never existed, is similar to a statement made by his hero Sherlock Holmes in 'The adventure of the noble bachelor'. Holmes who are searching for a missing woman, who had just married Lord St. Simon, tells Lestrade that Lady St. Simon is 'a myth', because he had figured out that the woman was already married to a man she left to meet, and therefor the marriage with Lord St. Simon wasn't legit. Conan says that there never existed a 'Hammer Man', because he had realized that the Hammer 'man' was in reality a woman.
  • In opening 3 Conan and Shinichi appeared as Sherlock Holmes.
  • In Thoroughbred Kidnapping Case the case is inspired by The Adventure of Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories cited during the investigation. It centered around the disappearance of a race horse the night before an important race, along with the murder of his trainer.
  • In The Small Eye-Witnesses Conan was read a Sherlock Holmes book called Sherlock Holmes His Idealology & Lifestyle.
  • In Solving Mysteries at the Poirot Café Muga Iori uses the name "Shinichi Wada" (和田 進一 Wada Shin'ichi?) that he introduces himself was also the localized name of Dr. Watson in one of the first translated releases of A Study in Scarlet in Japan. The last name "Wada" is written with the same kanji as the last name of Hina Wada.
  • Shinichi has a tendency to call Ran "Watson" and she tends to play this role in flashbacks.
  • In The Culprit is Genta's Dad Conan uses a quote from Sherlock Holmes "It is of the first importance not to allow you judgment to be biased by personal qualities" to Takagi in order for him not to release Genta dad from the suspect list.
  • James Black: Conan points out that there is another British man beside James Bond with a similar name: James Moriarty. James reveals he was actually born in Baker Street.
  • Beika, which is a fictional ward of Tokyo or a city inside the Greater Tokyo Area and its the main setting of Detective Conan, is the Japanese word for Baker after Baker Street.
  • "Haido" from Haido Town in turn is a transcription of "Hyde", as in Hyde Park, which is close to Baker Street.
  • In Nonchalant Lupin Aoko surnames was Holmes.
  • The place name Raiha Pass, the location where Akai supposedly died, is derived from Reichenbach Falls, the location where Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty apparently fell to their deaths at the end of The Final Problem. It is later revealed that Sherlock survived the fall, but decided to fake his own death and go into hiding in order to protect himself and John Watson from Moriarty's henchmen.
  • Haibara mother name Elena Miyano comes from the German reading of the Irene of Irene Adler.
  • Saguru Hakuba eagle is named Watson after Doctor Watson in episode 219.
  • In movie 3 While on the cruise-liner after bandaging the bird, there is a brief glimpse of the room on the ship Conan is in. He is staying in room 221-A. 221-B Baker Street was Holmes' apartment in London. This is an obvious homage to the Holmes' series which is referenced in the anime quite frequently.
  • In The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Sonoko Suzuki The title of the case comes from a book of Arthur Conan Doyle titled The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
  • In The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun Conan compares the code that they found to the dancing men from the Sherlock Holmes book The Adventure of the Dancing Men.
  • Both The Secret of the High Sales, and The Case of Ayumi's Illustrated Diary both have an element of Red-Headed League which is a Sherlock Holmes short story.
  • In movie 1 The name of Moriya Teiji is a pun on the name of Sherlock Holmes' antagonist Professor James Moriarty if written as "Moriarty J.".
  • Saguru Hakuba share the same initials as Sherlock Holmes.
  • Detective Samonji share some similarities with Sherlock Holmes. They are both detectives whose writer 'killed' them along their enemy with the intention of being done writing stories about them, but was later brought back.
  • Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's Detective Notes had many references to Sherlock Holmes like "Adventure of the Six Napoleons".

See also

References