Facts about Sherlock Hound
Originally The Hound of Baskervilles was intended to be an episode in the series and be the first in production. The episode was dropped after issues popped up for the writers. Both Hayao Miyazaki and Marco Pagot gave up and abandoned the idea, deciding to write an original story to replace it.
A Small Client was the original story they wrote to replace The Hound of Baskervilles, this ended up being first in production.
Before the episode was dropped, the crew had multiple discussions on how to depict the Hound of Baskervilles. A final conclusion was made and there were plans to use the idea, the idea was that the Hound would be a robot dog.
As quoted by Marco Pagot, “It’s very difficult to pick a single best of the six episodes. Each was an important step in our collaboration. “Little Martha”s Big Case!!” is probably the closest thing to the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s work.”
The reason for the show’s creation was because “The purpose was to make Sherlock Holmes more accessible to young people.” As stated by Marco Pagot
Based on the image boards, interviews, and the art book, the crew had originally intended for the series to be more grim and darker than what the final product ended being. This was due to the crew realizing that they might’ve needed to tone it down a bit so as not to be too graphic.
During the production, Marco Pagot had noticed an issue with Holmes himself, “The Holmes character was initially graphic with a square feel. But by softening it, I was able to increase the appeal.” Because of this decision, Sherlock in the series is a much more gentle figure though still with some his original traits.
Originally Hound would’ve had some of his traits when it came to smoking and other substances, such as coc&1ne being injected into his arm as seen in an image board. The idea of Holmes and his substances were dropped in favor to him purely smoking just tobacco. “For example, since it was a story aimed at young people, it was necessary to keep the main character’s trademark pipe, but to make the scene where he smoked it less conspicuous than necessary.” As stated by Marco Pagot.
Hayao Miyazaki had drawn and intended for Hound to have a tail. He also planned for Hound to be a Basset Hound. He ended up being changed into a corgi like fox due to unexpected…. Issues.
In the art book, it describes the ages of characters, though we have no confirmed age, Hound and Hudson are close in age. It is confirmed for Hound to be in his 20’s. This can be found in clues given. Watson is middle aged as confirmed in the book. Hound is described in the book as being “the youth class” which with extra context in the text implies about his age status more. It is very heavily stated multiple times that he is in fact way younger than other depictions at the time to the point of even saying that Holmes would have probably done most of these things if he had been much younger.
If any of you want another post about hound facts let me know. There is still a lot more to cover, especially with other characters and unused concepts. See you later 👋
