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Protagonists
Sherlock Holmes/Hound
Voiced by: Taichiro Hirokawa (Japanese), Larry Moss (English), Seppo Kolehmainen (Finnish)
Famous consulting detective and our title character.- Casual Danger Dialogue: Even in the troughs of danger, he never loses his stoic, sarcastic demeanor. Only if things get really bad will you see him break a sweat.
- Detective Animal: He's an anthropomorphic dog version of the most famous fictional detective, after all.
- Dub Name Change: In the English version, his last name is Hound.
- Great Detective: Well, this is pretty obvious.
- Nice Guy: While still retaining his original's sarcasm, it's toned down for the Lighter and Softer adaptation. While others always look to test their minds with cases, Hound doesn't care what the client wants, he'll take them up. Given even smaller odd jobs (like a missing cat in one episode where the cat's owner had also gone missing) seem to eventually lead to Moriarty, it's better that he does.
- Smoking Is Cool: Hound is almost constantly seen with his tobacco pipe. It also comes in handy during emergencies.
Dr. Watson
Voiced by: Kosei Tomita (Japanese), Lewis Arquette (English), Rainer Kaunisto (Finnish)
A doctor who returned to England and now assists Hound in his investigations, though he can't really keep up (he's on the heavier side)- The Lancer: To Sherlock Hound natch.
- Lost in Imitation: This Watson owes much to how Nigel Bruce portrayed him back in the 1940's. He still has his moments of competence, of course.
- The Watson: Also serves as an Audience Surrogate so that Hound can explain how crimes or victim actions were carried out.
Mrs. Marie Hudson
Voiced by: Yoko Asagami (Japanese), Patricia Parris (English), Kaija Pakarinen (Finnish)
Holmes' and Watson's landlady.- Action Girl: Whenever an episode involves her friends from the aerodrome, expect her to spring into action.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In the original stories, Mrs. Hudson is elderly. Here, she's an attractive young widow.
- Age Lift: She goes from elderly in the original story, to merely nineteen years old here.
- Badass Adorable: A kind, beautiful young woman who's also an Action Girl.
- Badass Driver: Give her control of a powerful sports car. She'll manage to drive the car through fences and fair turf, across the tracks of a speeding train (with a very panicked engine crew looking on), skip the same car down an embankment once across the tracks and smack through a river, catch up to a damaged plane in order to save the occupants, and then cause the car to jump from one Dover cliff to another so that the plane's occupants can bail out of the plane and into the car, and then land and stop the car on the edge of the last cliff without anyone falling out of the car. Oh, by the way, we didn't mention that the sports car did NOT have seatbelts or a back seat!
- Beware the Nice Ones: Whatever you do, do NOT try to wreck her friend's plane midflight. Moriarty finds out how dangerous she can get the hard way.
- First-Name Basis: Her friends from the aerodrome call her by her given name, Marie.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: She won't kill you, but she's a good enough shot to knock out an airplane's engine from the seat of a speeding race car. She can also Shoot the Rope with Watson's revolver.
- Improbable Piloting Skills: Mrs. Hudson is a great pilot and can dodge machine-gun fire. No surprise if she's already able to outperform everyone at driving...
- Tragic Keepsake: Her late husband's photograph is all she has left of him.
Inspector Lestrade
Voiced by: Shōzō Iizuka (Japanese), Lewis Arquette (English), Ossi Ahlapuro (Finnish)
Hound's main contact within Scotland Yard.- Accidental Truth: In the final episode, Lestrade hypothesizes that a missing bride simply fell in love with another man. At the end of the episode, Hound admits that Lestrade was actually correct the whole time despite having no evidence of the bride's feelings for a foreign prince!
- Inspector Lestrade: What Sherlock Holmes adaptation would be complete without him?
- Lemming Cops: Goodness, several times Lestrade and his men will do this while chasing Moriarty. It gets worse if enough of them actually catch up to Moriarty at the latter's expense (at least two of his vehicles got wrecked by police interference).
- Police Are Useless: He's not totally useless, but he uses rather primitive methods to solve cases.
- Super-Persistent Predator: He won't allow crooks to get away easily. Even though Moriarty escapes from Lestrade all the time, Lestrade's stubbornness forces Moriarty to use LOTS of effort to shake him off. Not even a considerable height between the roof of a police van and Moriarty's get-away balloon will prevent Lestrade from latching onto said balloon.
Antagonists
Professor Moriarty
Voiced by: Chikao Ohtsuka (Japanese), Hamilton Camp (English), Gérard Hernandez (European French, main voice), Roger Carel (European French, episode 6), Heikki Määttänen/Jarmo Koski (Finnish)
A mathematics professor turned criminal. He's more hands-on here than in most renditions.- Bad Boss: He's not always reasonable and will nearly kill his own goons from time to time.
- Big Bad: He is the villain in practically every episode.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Moriarty could have made quite the fortune if he didn't make all his fancy inventions for criminal use. Worse, he thinks nobody would appreciate his talent if he weren't a criminal mastermind.
- Dastardly Whiplash: Suit, cape, top hat, and mustache. Yup.
- Evil Is Hammy: Evil Laugh included.
- Fatal Flaw: Pride. His need to not only be the world's greatest criminal, but be openly acknowledged as such, causes him to deliberately draw attention to his crimes, which invariably brings Hound in. If he was content to commit his crimes in such a way that they weren't noticed until after he was gone, he'd be a lot more successful.
- High-Class Glass: His monocle, of course, and it doubles as a magnifying glass. Though any convex lens can be used for magnification.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Moriarty may have guns, but he'll never be able to hurt heroes with them. A bunch of kids with slingshots could easily defeat him at spitting distance.
- Large Ham: See for yourself! His plans are overly dramatic, overly complicated, and involve lots of screen-time.
- Never My Fault: Ninety percent of the time, a failed scheme will result in Moriarty blaming either Hound and Lestrade for somehow outwitting him or Todd and Smiley for failing their part of the plan.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Unlike the original Moriarty, who held a prestigious academic chair and ran his criminal empire in his off hours, this one is never seen doing anything connected with his ostensible status as a professor.
- Villain in a White Suit: Complete white tuxedo complete with matching cape and hat.
Todd and Smiley
Todd voiced by: Hiroshi Masuoka (Japanese), Larry Moss (English), Ossi Ahlapuro (Finnish)
Smiley voiced by: Mitsuo Senda (Japanese), Lewis Arquette (English), Seppo Kolehmainen (Finnish)
Moriarty's bumbling henchmen.- Dumbass Has a Point: Both Todd and Smiley wish that their boss came up with a simple plan. They also note that Moriarty's intelligence would have been better used for a legitimate career.
- Fat and Skinny: Todd is the short, stout one and Smiley is the tall, lanky one.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Smiley really doesn't like to do bad things, and accidentally sabotages his boss's plans by blurting out info to Hound several times.
