Overall, a thoroughly decent animated adaptation, though not one of my favourites. Holmes and Watson continue to be interesting characters, and Peter O'Toole's voice work as Holmes is splendid. The dialogue is intelligent, and the story is surprisingly very faithful with the crucial scenes at least having degrees tension and suspense. However, the music here is an improvement on The Baskerville Curse, it is much more subtly used and not as overbearing. The animation is at times rather shoddy- some of the backgrounds are handsome but the character designs look stiff to me-, some scenes come across as pedestrian and some of the line delivery for the side characters is on the monotone side. It is not easy to translate a literary source to television let alone for animation, and A Study in Scarlet does laudably in that regard. A Study in Scarlet is one of the better animated adaptations, for me second to The Baskerville Curse. None of them are perfect with all of them having similar flaws to the rest but they have pretty much the same pros as well. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. In regard to Burbank's Sherlock Holmes adaptations I do like them. A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
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