Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
AshParth
No surprise that everyone has said that this show was pretty bad that even critics and journalists would have a ranking outlet, showing this anime being a part of that list. I know what you're thinking. Why do I put up with it and just watch this even if it's a bad show? Well, I've seen a lot of really good anime throughout the year, and why not add a little more soured spice into the dish to balance it out? I mean, I gotta pay my garbage bill eventually, right?
What's the story? There isn't much of a story except for these two guys named Holmes, voiced by Yoshinobu Sena, a private detective, and his assistant, Hudson, voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki. They would dick around a lot, bicker, and every once in a while, solve a case. There's also this house cat named Kira, voiced by Ayahi Takagaki…
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Number 9 in my shitty anime review series:
Now THIS is what I'm talking about, ABSOLUTE CINEMA at its finest!
Vampire Holmes is roughly 26 (ignoring the op/ed) minutes of pure MASTERPIECE, straight up deep philosophy that hits hard and keeps pulling at you- "even just one person is difficult to protect" is one of the MANY thought-evoking lines within this gem of a show.
On a serious note: despite its random spouts of nonsense, a poorly thought out plot and clear lack of budget, Vampire Holmes is unironically hilarious, it never takes itself seriously, nor does it expect its audience to- it legitimately exists to be ridiculed and taken as a joke. If you come into this expecting anything more than a load of bollocks, I'm not entirely sure what you were expecting and that's now entirely on…
Read at the sourceBlookazoo13
I watched this anime (if you can even call it that) out of morbid curiosity. What a disaster. The show can't commit to an art style—it's constantly jumping between chibi, late 2000s digital animation, visual novel stills, and some unholy mix of all three. It's like watching someone flip through different animation software demos without any plan.
This Sherlock Holmes is hollow. He's got all the modern traits lazy, crass, kind of a jerk but none of the payoff. Most adaptations at least show you why Holmes is brilliant, give you that moment where his deductive genius clicks into place. Here? It's just an outline of a caricature with no filling. No substance, no cleverness, nothing that makes you think "ah, that's Holmes." Just an empty shell wearing the name.
Skip it. Unless you're into wa…
Read at the sourceBugsGirlGirl
Lmaooo this has to be a joke anime, right???? Like the OP has more plot than the actual show. Not to mention half the episodes are the OP, ED, and ads for the app. And 0% of my questions were answered. Also where were the vampires?!?
On the other hand, I have to say that the character design for Holmes is pretty nice. It had a lot of potential. Oh well.
I would say watch it if you have about 36 minutes to waste and time for some dumb humor. Also, the subtitles for the first like 3 episodes are terrible. But after that they make more sense.
Read at the sourceZoeyBito
An odd short form anime series that has Holmes not solving cases and doing nonsensical things to avoid paying rent and working in general, much to his assistant Hudson's dismay.
Kind of hard to recommend this one even to puritan Sherlock Holmes fans, the anime hinges on being a whacky comedy.
The subbed version I watched also had a few translation errors that made the show look even more low budget and amateurish.
Overall I didn't find it offensive or the worst thing in the world if anything it just left me scratching my head in confusion at the end of it.
There's also ads at the start of most episodes that looks like an app where the player solves Holmes cases, seems like an interesting concept on paper and probably could work better if another detective based franchise tried this…
Read at the sourceSgtSalamander
I am truly flabbergasted. I don't even know where to begin. I walked into this not knowing what I was in for, which made the whole experience that much more bewildering. Vampire Holmes represents a legendary failure, a work so profoundly bad that it is truly only fit to laugh at, and even then that is being quite merciful. Every moment in Vampire Holmes is a new unfolding creative travesty, and it just gets worse the more you watch. It's like trying to explain an ambien hallucination. Who's the white-haired dude in the OP? Is that supposed to be Holmes? But I never saw him with white hair. Why can I see jpg compression artifacts throughout the anime? Is that on purpose? Why do the backgrounds keep changing mid-scene? Why are some scenes completely unanimated? Does it ever come up that Holm…
Read at the sourcebatongpuso
Meh, I have seen worse, it actually did a great job of having the game not be some boring forgotten, and out-of-service Japanese-exclusive game so I give them that. It's not offensively bad or disgustingly wrong, it's just some anime some unknown mobile game company managed to make, and the quality matches that. It did not plan to be ambitious and fail expectations or be generic and some basic random plot, it is just some omake-style show for the lolz. Sure, the Opening has nothing to do with the show, there are large amounts of product placement, and the animation is comparable to the seven deadly sins, there is absolutely no plot and more...
... but this is literally an unknown mobile-game company and it is already better than most advertisers such as Raid, Gardenscape, Rise of Kingdoms…
Read at the sourcePlk_Lesiak
Wow... Just wow...
This extremely ugly and obnoxiously merchandised (it promotes a similarly crappy mobile game, reminding you about it in every episode) slapstick comedy had, in my experience, one fairly funny joke (the one with 30% discount) and one somewhat passable one. The rest is complete gibberish with no redeeming qualities.
There's also absolutely no value in watching as a kind of "so bad it's good" piece of anime. It actively tries to be parody, but the awful writing, horrible art and mediocre delivery of the jokes make it utterly worthless, leaving nothing to laugh at even ironically. Did I already mentioned obnoxious advertisement? It's a constant element that adds even more insult to the injury of suffering through this. The only positive is 3 minute episodes that make it po…
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This show is genuinely hideous, with one exception.
There is nothing meaningful to discuss about it, and I can't even try to spoil some stuff to present my case, a cursory glance at the first episode clearly shows how terrible it is at... everything. I am also left wondering why "Vampire" is even in the title, given the complete absence of vampires from the anime.
It should have been a promotional material for the detective-style game the anime was based on, but it ended up being a disgusting promo that arguably caused fewer people to be interested in the game.
Because of the lack of budget, they just skipped solving any case (which is the main reason one would have downloaded the game, to begin with) and resolved them off-screen during the last episode. This appalling decision makes me…
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Vampire Holmes
Peak anime. The greatest show ever created. A lucious meal filled with every delectable dish you could ever imagine. That’s what comes to mind whenever my brain gives me the pleasure of thinking about Vampire Holmes. More wondrous thoughts have never graced the mind of an individual; if anyone rates Vampire anything below an undoubted and indisputed masterpiece, I will personally find them to torture them in any way imaginable, from extracting nails to psychological vengeance. If I had to go even one day without the orgasm-inducing flawlessly produced expertly woven story of philosophical depth that Vampire Holmes is, I would baja blast my brain out.
Characters
What is there not to like? Holmes likely has the greatest and most profound development I’ve ever witnessed. He…
Read at the sourceShrimp3
I found this anime one night while I was up and not able to sleep, I immediately watched the entire thing. Many may think that this anime is no good and overall a joke, but not me. once you finish the entire show the plot really gets pulled together into a masterpiece of work. Not only was it able to help me fall asleep that dark night it made me laugh as I had never before and brought me a real sense of joy that I haven't experienced since I was a child. This anime basically changed my life and has inspired me to be a better person and do the things I'd never think I was able to before. some may think that this review is a joke but I'm wholeheartedly and 100% serious about how this anime changed my world. Thank you vampire holmes and the entire cast involved it changed my life for the bet…
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Despite the reviews stating that this work of art is anything less than a masterpiece, well they are fools. This show is both humorous and incredibly thrilling. If you love mystery and vampires, then this is a must-watch. By far the best show that I have ever seen. The mystery surrounding his lover is a mystery even holmes himself can't solve. Nor the audience. Only one man can figure it out. There is also an amazing twist at the end that will leave you begging for more. Please you must watch this show. The app with the show is amazing as well if you can get your hands on it. It adds a whole new depth to the show that I was not expecting.
Read at the sourceABoyNamedScoot
Vampire Holmes is an anime based on a mobile app. That single sentence would probably be enough to signpost that this isn't going to be particularly good, but oh no... this is much worse.
Across 12 episodes lasting 3 minutes (or 2 minutes, if you take out the opening and closing credits) we follow the story of Holmes and his assistant Hudson (did the creators actually read the original work?) as they bicker and argue about, well, anything really. Whether it's the rent, food, Holmes' lack of engagement with cases or a white cat that for some reason calls itself a black cat. If you were expecting some deep character development, I suggest you look elsewhere since the show doesn't even live up to its title: Holmes never displays vampire traits, nor are vampires actually shown.
In terms of a…
Read at the sourcemegafat
The Vampire Holmes anime is a pretty obvious advertisement, and it's not even that good of an advertisement. Made to promote a mystery smartphone game developed by Cucuri for iOS and Android devices, the plot follows Detective Holmes, and his assistant Hudson, as both of them solve a case given to them by the Metropolitan Police of London.
While the plot is basic, it is enough to get a mystery mobile game rolling. And you'd think that a short anime used to advertise said mobile game, it could lead into the games plot as some sort of prelude, or maybe be an adaptation of a small part of the plot from right at the beginning, but it isn't.
In the anime, Holmes is given a case to solve, but we don't see him solve any of it. Oh, he does solve the case that was given to him, you just don't see…
Read at the sourceLily77
So for this review, I thought I would compile a list of questions I want to ask the director/ directors about this show. Hopefully it will subtly describe my views on the show.
Why is the show called Vampire Holmes when it doesn't feature a vampire? Why does the show feature a werewolf? Why isn't this show called Werewolf Holmes or Holmes discovers werewolf? What two-year-olds animated this? Why does the animation switch from 2D to 3D without any reason or need to? Why does the show use 3D animation? Why does this show consist of filler episodes when the episodes are only three minutes long? Why do some of the episodes include previews when the episodes are only three minutes long? Why are the episodes three minutes long? What was your budget for this? What was the need for the cat? Was t…
Read at the sourceGingerMuggins
Ok, so...uh, remember "Nyan~ Neko Sugar Girls"? Or just any cringe-worthy video of someone making their own anime with only MS Paint? Hell, I made one of those shows in eighth grade. Oh, god, I'm cringing. But just imagine if someone made a show with those set of skills and they somehow had a budget other than zero dollars.
Everything about this show just seems incomprehensible to me. The humor, the pacing, the writing, that animation...was this actually made by humans, or was this programmed by a computer program who you just described anime to for the first time?
Episodes are extremely short, clocking in at about two minutes if you cut out the opening and ending song. However, it's not worth it. Even with such a short span, you feel every single second scrape past. It's like "Pupa", b…
Read at the sourceNebby-Mao
If you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes and Vampires while also liking the genre of Comedy, then you should try this anime. It's funny and kinda refreshing since the original Holmes is such a serious guy while this Holmes is pretty laid-back.
Even if it seems like he's not much of a "detective", towards the end it shows that his actions do have some impact on his work as a detective; even if you don't notice while watching the episodes as his actions seem pretty random. However, it's pretty much explained near the end on his actions and their effects.
Even if you already saw the rating this anime got, just try it for yourself. Who knows, you might enjoy it or you might not. It depends on you, not what others think. Just try it, like you try other anime.
Read at the sourceMakaWakaMayMay
Vampire Holmes is an anime that honestly has nothing going for it. I decided since this show was short I might as well give it a shot, and my god did I waste my mere 36 minutes watching this show. Though it does have a few funny moments(very rarely)it brings nothing new to the table.
(Story) 3
With every new episode connecting to the same premise, it may as well be a cartoon. Granted, it did have continuity, but it was very sparse. The story was very poorly written at that, as all they focused on was well...comedy! The continuity is the ONLY thing keeping this from getting a 2 or lower.
(Art) 4
Meh, the art is nothing special. but it's something that I quite liked in the cover image. The art style was weird but the character Holmes himself looked a little cool. However, the animation wa…
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In my opinion, the synopsis of Vampire Holmes gave me an idea of something that sounded promising. It was not even close to how it really was.
STORY (1/10)
The opening might seem promising, but hardly anything shown in it will be mentioned throughout the course of the story. Through about three quarters of the anime, there is absolutely no plot. For episodes on end, it only displays Holmes in his home together with Hudson, doing nothing of importance. You might find yourself continuously waiting for something plot-like to happen, and then the episode ends. Closing to the end, some things shown in the OP are finally displayed, but in the end are never explained. As a side-effect of not having any plot in the early, incredibly short episodes, the story ends on an unsatisfying note as they h…
Read at the sourceCatSoul
As I continue on my quest to watch infamous bad anime, I came across a title known as "Vampire Holmes". Hilariously, this is the most dropped anime on MAL, even though it shouldn't take you more than a half hour to an hour to watch. Even the fansub group that was subbing it dropped it after the third episode.
But what is it exactly that makes Vampire Holmes so bad? This was a question I could not resist finding the answers to.
STORY (3/10):
The synopsis to Vampire Holmes is pretty useless, as for the majority of the series nothing happens. Every episode tends to go something like this:
Hudson: Holmes let's do detective stuff
Holmes: Nah, *irrelevant bullshit*
*rest of the episode will be about irrelevant bullshit*
You might be thinking, "Oh, I like slice of life anime a lot, maybe I'l…
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