Yes, this is an official BBC-sanctioned manga of A Study in Pink.
The manga is a fun way to get your Sherlock fix during the hiatus and brush up on your detective vocabulary in Japanese, but the real reason I want to recommend this is how the artist captured Benedict-Cumberbatch-as-Sherlock’s hilarious facial expressions. Oh, it’s Christmas, readers.
p. 21 “We’ll start with the riding crop”
“Oh, it’s Christmas!” p. 39
Sherlock: Wanna see some more?
John: Oh, god, yes. p. 43
“The killer would panic” p. 104
“Welcome to London!” p. 124
Bonus:
:dramatically pulls on gloves: (p. 171)
SHERLOCK ピンク色の研究. Manga by Jay. Screenplay by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Available at Kinokuniya Seattle, amazon.co.jp, or wherever Japanese manga are sold.
Meretricious and a happy new year!
I loved A Study in Pink and The Blind Banker (Shi o yobu angō) so much that I assigned the first chapter from the latter to my fourth-year Japanese language class this past semester. The adaptations follow the episodes almost word-for-word, so they’re easy to read… even though they have a lot of text, especially for a seinen manga!
I think my one complaint is that the artist makes Martin Freeman’s nose look enormous. There’s no way it’s that prominent, and nor is Benedict Cumberbatch that cross-eyed. I wish the artist, whoever s/he is, had manga-fied the characters a bit more…
Anyway, it’s cool that the Sherlock manga is running in Young Ace, which is also serializing the CLAMP series Drug & Drop, which is totally a Sherlock parody, except with magic and canonically queer romantic relationships. Oh, CLAMP…
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