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Kabukichō Sherlock Anime's Character Videos Highlight Fuyuto Kyogoku, John H. Watson, James Moriarty
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Production I.G's original anime premieres on October 11
project. The video highlights Fuyuto Kyogoku, a detective who dreams of getting rich.
Kadokawa also streamed two more character videos last Thursday and Monday.
John H. Watson, an ordinary client
James Moriarty, an impudent, brilliant high school student
The series will cours (quarters of a year) without an extended break.
The anime stars:
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Sherlock Holmes
- Yūichi Nakamura as John H. Watson
- Seiichirō Yamashita as James Moriarty
- Sōma Saitō as Fuyuto Kyogoku
- Nao Tōyama as Mary Morstan
- Mariko Higashiuchi as Lucy Morstan
- Yutaka Aoyama as Michel Belmont
- Tatsumaru Tachibana as Toratarō Kobayashi
- Junichi Suwabe as Mrs. Hudson
The show's website describes the story:
The East Side of Shinjuku Ward … The neon-lit Kabuki-chō district stretches across the center of this chaotic city. Where light shines, there are also deep shadows. Yet even deep in this darkness where evildoers lurk, the light of a detective tenement shines. The tenement run by Mrs. Hudson has seven peculiar, shady individuals.The curtains has risen on this stage on the night when a bizarre murder by Jack the Ripper has occurred. Is this suspense? No, comedy? An indistinguishable drama is about to begin….
performing the ending song "Hyakuoku Kōnen" (Ten Billion Lightyears).
The anime is Monthly Comic Garden magazine, while Akimaro Mori will pen the novel.