METADATA & RELEASE INFORMATION

Series Title (Original): 名探偵ホームズ (アニメージュ文庫)

Series Title (Romaji): Meitantei Holmes (Animage Bunko)

Series Title (English): Sherlock Hound (Animage Pocketbook Series)

Franchise: Sherlock Hound / 名探偵ホームズ (Meitantei Holmes)

Original Creator: Arthur Conan Doyle (Characters/Concept)

Anime Directors: Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿), Kyosuke Mikuriya (御厨恭輔)

Publisher: 徳間書店 (Tokuma Shoten)

Imprint / Label: アニメージュ文庫 (Animage Bunko / AM JuJu)

Release Period: 1984 – 1985

Format: Anime Light Novel / Storybook Adaptation (Bunko Paperback)

Language: Japanese

Total Volumes: 6 Volumes (Complete Main Series Run)

VOLUME BREAKDOWN

Volume 1 [Code: F-005]

Japanese: 海底の財宝の巻

Romaji: Kaitei no Zaihou no Maki

English: The Undersea Treasure

Adapter: 池田憲 (Noriaki Ikeda)

Price: 380 JPY

Volume 2 [Code: F-004]

Japanese: 「青い紅玉」の巻

Romaji: Aoi Kougyoku no Maki

English: The Blue Carbuncle

Adapter: 池田憲 (Noriaki Ikeda)

Price: 380 JPY

Volume 3 [Code: F-007]

Japanese: 「小さな依頼人」

Romaji: Chiisana Irainin

English: The Little Client

Adapter: 町田知 (Tomoji Machida)

Price: 380 JPY

Volume 4 [Code: F-008]

Japanese: 「ソベリン金貨の行方」

Romaji: Soverin Kinka no Yukue

English: The Whereabouts of the Sovereign Gold Coins

Adapter: ただのかず (Kazu Tada) / 編 (Ed.)

Price: 380 JPY

Volume 5 [Code: F-009]

Japanese: 「ミセス・ハドソン人質事件」

Romaji: Mrs. Hudson Hitojichi Jiken

English: The Mrs. Hudson Kidnapping Affair

Adapter: ただのかず (Kazu Tada)

Price: 380 JPY

Volume 6 [Code: F-010]

Japanese: 「ドーバーの白い崖」

Romaji: Doobaa no Shiroi Gake

English: The White Cliffs of Dover

Adapter: 池田憲 (Noriaki Ikeda)

Price: 380 JPY

OVERVIEW & HISTORICAL NOTES

Official pocket novelizations published by Tokuma Shoten under their Animage Bunko imprint, adapting episodes from the 1984–1985 animated series "Sherlock Hound" (co-directed by Hayao Miyazaki and Kyosuke Mikuriya).

The yellow promotional wraparound band (obi) on Volume 1 advertises the theatrical premiere of Hayao Miyazaki's "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" (March 11, 1984), where the first two Miyazaki-directed Sherlock Hound episodes ("The Blue Carbuncle" and "Treasure Under the Sea") were originally screened as accompanying theatrical featurettes before the television broadcast began.