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Young Miss Holmes is a seinen manga about Christie, the 10-year-old niece of Sherlock Holmes, via a younger sister. Christie lives with the family's servants while her parents are in India, and while I question the "leaving with servants" aspect, I think we can all agree that it was likely for the best to opt not to leave her in the care of either of her uncles (well, Mycroft hasn't been mentioned yet in the series, but I assume he's out there somewhere). Christie tends to be described in canon as a "miniature Holmes," and it's about 3/4 tiny!prissy!girl!Holmes, and 1/4 imitation as the highest form of flattery.
The stories in the manga are largely based on stories in the original Holmes canon. Early stories have Christie effectively stalking Holmes and Watson on their cases, but after a while she starts finding cases on her own that end up coinciding with Holmes's cases (there are a couple in which Holmes barely appears at all), and a couple have her merely as observer. Christie's posse consists of a maid named Nora, who carries a "Snake-tongue" whip and apparently has a habit of allowing herself to be lured into dark alleys by gangs of thugs so she can mug them, and head maid Ann-Marie, a considerably more prim and responsible maid who possesses a frightening knowledge of various types of weapons and has two pistols on her at all times. Later, Grace Dunbar joins as Christie's governess, who does not approve of the gallivanting into dangerous situations but is quite happy to coach Christie on how to use her pre-adolescent feminine wiles to get information, as well as how to find important information buried in gossip.
Holmes reaction to Christie's heroworship/stalking varies from "Fine you may join (my ego truly cares nothing about this)" to "This may not be a good idea...oh, you have your maids. That's good then" to "SWEET MERCY I AM RELATED TO A SUPERNATURAL (adorable) MONSTER WHO IS LIKE A BLOODHOUND WHEN IT COMES TO ME AND/OR MYSTERIES!" Watson, thankfully, is consistently "NO HOLMES A CRIME SCENE IS NOT THE PROPER PLACE FOR YOUR TEN YEAR OLD NIECE. NO, HER MAIDS DO NOT MAKE IT OK. BAD HOLMES BAD. I MEAN BOTH OF YOU." Watson and Christie go off adventuring on a couple cases, and it is adorable.
I can't speak for how faithfully the series follows the ACD stories as I'm not familiar enough with those, but I find it consistently enjoyable, suitably complex and frequently hilarious. It's marketed as seinen, but it has the shoujoiest of shoujo art and, despite the occasional dead body, most of it is pretty pure and kid-friendly, though Ann-Marie and Nora both have fairly dark and depressing back stories. Well, there was also that one time the series went all shoujo-ai with Christie and a permanently pre-pubescent vampire princess, but that was pretty innocent too.
The series is seven volumes long altogether, and the first four have been released in two omnibuses by Seven Seas, with an omnibus of the last three volumes due out later this year.
The stories in the manga are largely based on stories in the original Holmes canon. Early stories have Christie effectively stalking Holmes and Watson on their cases, but after a while she starts finding cases on her own that end up coinciding with Holmes's cases (there are a couple in which Holmes barely appears at all), and a couple have her merely as observer. Christie's posse consists of a maid named Nora, who carries a "Snake-tongue" whip and apparently has a habit of allowing herself to be lured into dark alleys by gangs of thugs so she can mug them, and head maid Ann-Marie, a considerably more prim and responsible maid who possesses a frightening knowledge of various types of weapons and has two pistols on her at all times. Later, Grace Dunbar joins as Christie's governess, who does not approve of the gallivanting into dangerous situations but is quite happy to coach Christie on how to use her pre-adolescent feminine wiles to get information, as well as how to find important information buried in gossip.
Holmes reaction to Christie's heroworship/stalking varies from "Fine you may join (my ego truly cares nothing about this)" to "This may not be a good idea...oh, you have your maids. That's good then" to "SWEET MERCY I AM RELATED TO A SUPERNATURAL (adorable) MONSTER WHO IS LIKE A BLOODHOUND WHEN IT COMES TO ME AND/OR MYSTERIES!" Watson, thankfully, is consistently "NO HOLMES A CRIME SCENE IS NOT THE PROPER PLACE FOR YOUR TEN YEAR OLD NIECE. NO, HER MAIDS DO NOT MAKE IT OK. BAD HOLMES BAD. I MEAN BOTH OF YOU." Watson and Christie go off adventuring on a couple cases, and it is adorable.
I can't speak for how faithfully the series follows the ACD stories as I'm not familiar enough with those, but I find it consistently enjoyable, suitably complex and frequently hilarious. It's marketed as seinen, but it has the shoujoiest of shoujo art and, despite the occasional dead body, most of it is pretty pure and kid-friendly, though Ann-Marie and Nora both have fairly dark and depressing back stories. Well, there was also that one time the series went all shoujo-ai with Christie and a permanently pre-pubescent vampire princess, but that was pretty innocent too.
The series is seven volumes long altogether, and the first four have been released in two omnibuses by Seven Seas, with an omnibus of the last three volumes due out later this year.