113 years ago maurice leblanc posed the question “what if i made your oc and my oc wrestle on a boat 😳and they could perceive one another’s very souls😳” to which arthur conan doyle answered “i hate you. never say this to me again.”
and now look where we are. who had the last laugh, doyle? was it you. or was it the man who decided herlock sholmes and arsene lupin were going to have a nice meal at a restaurant and wrestle on a boat
some people in the notes are confused so to elaborate
- Maurice Leblanc was told to capitalize on the popularity of sherlock holmes and write a french detective, to which he replied “no <3″
- Instead he wrote stories about a gentleman thief named Arsène Lupin that he apparently modeled off of a French Anarchist named Marius Jacob (and I def recommend looking into him if you have some free time)
- Choosing to write about thieves instead of detectives did NOT stop Leblanc or his editors from wanting to use Sherlock Holmes to generate hype for his OC, so he released Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late
- It ends in the humiliation of Sherlock
- This made Arthur Conan Doyle Very Angry
- Faced with legal action, Leblanc dodged copyright infringement by changing Sherlock Holmes to Herlock Sholmes, and Watson became Wilson
Side note, when Leblanc first came up with Lupin, he had to change the name, since there was a campaigning politician at the time that shared the original name, so this wasn’t the first time he did something like this
Anyway, fast forward to 2021- The doyle estate still holds the copyright for the ten final sherlock holmes stories, and they claim that they have legal rights to any representation of sherlock holmes that shows emotion or respects women because he only does that in those books
This is an issue for the localization of The Great Ace Attorney, or DGS, since Sherlock Holmes is a major character, and he does BOTH of those things
And so, in the grand tradition of Leblanc’s copyright dodging, the localization team has changed Sherlock Holmes… to Herlock Sholmes
Additionally, in answer to the people questioning my original tags, the estate and family of Natsume Soseki was consulted before putting him in the game and they essentially went “yes we give you full permission to represent Natsume Soseki as an anxious mess of a man go for it with our blessing”
i feel that the boat thing is self-explanatory but if not: in one of leblanc’s stories sherlock holmes and arsene lupin wrestle in a boat while lupin says this makes them look like a couple of jackasses
hope that answers all of your questions