Ace Attorney, Sherlock Holmes, & Japan
60The Great Ace Attorney games are set during the Meiji Era, a time when Japan opened its doors to the outside world and Western influence. Coincidentally, this was also the time when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories began exciting readers with all sorts of mysteries and deductions.
This combination created a fervor for Sherlock in Japan specifically. It was the start of a cultural staple we can still see there today. This video dives into that phenomenon, figuring out why the stories caught on so strongly back then, acknowledging that Sherlock is still popular today, and deducing why Capcom decided to poke fun with its “Herlock Sholmes” character.
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is available now on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC via Steam. It’s a collection of The Great Ace Attorney Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, which initially launched in Japan only in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Now the rest of the world can play them too!
00:00 -- Intro
1:29 -- Title Card
1:51 -- Spoiler Warning
2:24 -- The Origins Of Sherlock Holmes
3:58 -- Doyle’s Works & Adaptations
4:50 -- Japanese Translations
5:38 -- A Time Of Cultural Change
6:42 -- Changing Characters
8:30 -- Subverting Sherlock
10:01 -- The Dance Of Deduction
10:49 -- Sherlock Holmes vs Arsene Lupin
11:54 -- Adding Up All The Clues
13:10 -- Like, Comment, & Subscribe!
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Sources:
Why Sherlock Holmes is called Herlock Sholmes in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles [Eurogamer]
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eurogamer.net/amp/2021-04-24-why-sherlock-holmes-is-called-herlock-sholmes-in-the-great-ace-attorney-chronicles
Sherlock Holmes [Britannica]
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sherlock-Holmes
Without Edgar Allan Poe, We Wouldn’t Have Sherlock Holmes [Smithsonian Magazine]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/edgar-allan-poe-invented-detective-story-180962914/
Inspector Gregson under the Arch [gravelgirty]
https://www.deviantart.com/gravelgirty/art/Inspector-Gregson-under-the-Arch-590774535
Ultra-Influencers: The Two British Fictional Victorians that Changed Japan [Red Circle Authors]
https://www.redcircleauthors.com/news-and-views/ultra-influencers-the-two-british-fictional-victorians-that-changed-japan/
Sherlock Holmes Noodles (1995) Japanese TV Commercial [The Duke Mitchell Film Club]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bcACqKZPe4
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