日漫版《神夏》来袭：卷福成不死之身

Sherlock Holmes has had many incarnations since he was first brought to life by the pen of Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. This summer, that most British of detectives, who has appeared as everything from a vampire hunter to a crime-fighting teenager, is being immortalised in Japanese manga.

自1887年阿瑟·柯南·道尔创作出夏洛克·福尔摩斯这个人物以来，有关福尔摩斯形象化身的作品便层出不穷。从吸血鬼猎人到惩恶扬善的少年，几乎无所不有。今夏，这位最具英伦风范的侦探将在日本漫画中成为不死之身。

Out in June, Sherlock: A study in Pink adapts the BBC series, which started in 2010, transforming Benedict Cumberbatch’s Holmes and Martin Freeman’s Dr John Watson into classic manga images. Publisher Titan Comics said the release would be the first time the manga series, illustrated by manga illustrator Jay, would be printed in English. It launched in Japan four years ago, and according to io9 its popularity has meant there have been a plethora of fan translations since.

日本漫画《神探夏洛克：粉色的研究》将于六月登陆英国。该漫画改编自2010年BBC出品的英剧《神探夏洛克》，其中由本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇饰演的福尔摩斯和马丁·弗瑞曼饰演的华生医生以经典日漫风格登场。出版商泰坦漫画公司表示，由插画师杰伊创作的这部系列漫画，将首次被译成英文出版发行。该漫画于四年前登陆日本。据每日科幻信息网消息，该漫画自出版以来大受追捧，有众多民间译本流传。

“It’s really interesting seeing such a British thing being reinterpreted in Japanese manga,” said Titan Comics editor Andrew James, who acquired the manga series for the publisher. “It’s still dynamic and full of action, but compared to American comics, there’s often a quietness and reflectiveness about manga.”

泰坦漫画编辑安德鲁·詹姆斯为公司争取到了该系列漫画的发行权。他表示：“如此经典的英国侦探故事被重塑为日本漫画，真是件有意思的事。改编后的故事依然惊险刺激，精彩连连。但与美国漫画相比，日本漫画会更为平和，引人深思。”

Titan is offering extended page counts, as well as new art and covers by artists including Alice X Zhang, in its manga series, the first issue of which opens with Holmes and Watson’s first meeting and ends with the pair moving in together.

在这部系列漫画中，泰坦增加了印刷页数，并邀请了艾丽斯·X·张在内的多位艺术家设计新封面。该漫画首卷以福尔摩斯与华生的初次会面开篇，最终在这对好友一同迁居的故事中落幕。

The pair’s relationship, James said, is “not made any more explicit than it is on the television, but it’s certainly something the television has hinted at ... so [the manga] is not a thing with love hearts appearing, but it’s definitely something in which the subtext is just as strong”.

詹姆斯表示：“这对好友的关系在漫画中并没有比电视剧里表现得更直白，但漫画中确实包含了电视剧里暗示的那层意思。所以这部漫画并未直接呈现两人的‘基情’，但在潜台词中就很明显了。”

Danie Ware, from retailer Forbidden Planet, said the manga series was “pitched just right”, and an “interesting crossover”. “It’s a very new thing, putting something which is very British into the manga format. It’s very unusual,” she said. “But ever since Benedict appeared on the television, Sherlock has been on the up and up. [And] there’s a huge following for manga amongst young women of around 21, and I think the same group follows Benedict, so there is a crossover.”

来自零售商“禁忌星球”的丹妮·韦尔说：“该漫画找准了定位，是一次有趣的交叉融合。将非常英式的故事融入日本漫画中，这是个别出心裁的尝试，很不平常。自从本尼迪克特饰演夏洛克以来，该剧受到了越来越多人的欢迎。许多21岁左右的年轻女性会追捧这部漫画，我想这群人也同样会追捧本尼迪克特本人，这就是交叉融合。”

Titan is also the publisher of the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series, in which the detective variously deals with alien attacks and vampires, as well as James Lovegrove’s forthcoming Cthulhu Casebooks series, in which he takes on occult forces. In Mycroft Holmes, by the basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the life of his older brother is imagined.

除这部漫画外，泰坦也是《福尔摩斯再历险》系列和《克苏鲁案卷》的出版商。前者讲述了大侦探福尔摩斯破解外星人袭击和吸血鬼之谜的故事，后者是詹姆斯·洛夫格罗夫的一部即将发行的作品，书中展现了超自然力量。篮球运动员卡里姆·阿布杜尔·贾巴尔一直是福尔摩斯迷，他在《麦考夫·福尔摩斯》一书中，构想了夏洛克哥哥麦考夫的生活故事。

“As a core starting place, Holmes is the detective – the first one, the one everyone references,” said Titan Books editor Miranda Jewess. “It’s nice to have that point of familiarity, then you can have writers from any genre playing with it ... We’ve had Holmes fighting everything – even Frankenstein’s monster.”

泰坦图书编辑米兰达·朱伊斯说道：“这些书籍都围绕着一个核心展开，都以福尔摩斯这位人尽皆知的大侦探的故事为出发点。从这样一个熟悉的点切入，任何流派的作家都能借此发挥加以创作，这是很好的。这些作品中的福尔摩斯所向披靡，甚至可以打败弗兰肯斯坦的怪物。”（注：弗兰肯斯坦是英国女作家玛丽·雪莱1818年所著小说中的主人公，他发明了一个最终毁灭了自己的怪物。）

According to book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, hundreds of Holmes-related titles were published in 2017. The most popular was Anthony Horowitz’s authorised sequel, The House of Silk, followed by a miniature edition of Conan Doyle’s Essential Mysteries. Other popular titles included Andrew Lane’s Young Sherlock Holmes books, Tim Dedopulos’s Holmes puzzles, and psychologist Maria Konnikova’s Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes.

据尼尔森图书调查机构显示，2017年有数百部与福尔摩斯相关的图书出版发行。其中最受欢迎的是安东尼·霍罗威茨所著的《丝之屋》，其次是柯南·道尔所著的《终极奥秘》的袖珍版。《丝之屋》是柯南·道尔产权会唯一认证的福尔摩斯新故事。另一些受欢迎的图书包括安德鲁·莱恩所著的《年轻的福尔摩斯》，蒂姆·戴多普洛斯所著的字谜图书《福尔摩斯》，以及心理学家玛丽亚·柯妮可娃所著的《天才大脑：如何像福尔摩斯一样思考》。

Jewess speculated that Conan Doyle himself probably wouldn’t have approved of the industry his creation has spawned. “Luckily, he’s out of copyright, because I don’t think he’d like it,” she said. “He tried to kill Holmes off once, and I’d think he’d want him to die again. But on the other hand, perhaps the fact that he has become more than a character, that he’s an icon, might help ease his mind.”

朱伊斯推测，如果柯南·道尔还活着，他本人很可能并不赞成自己的创作衍生出的福尔摩斯产业。她说：“我觉得他不会喜欢这些，幸运的是，他的图书版权已经失效。他在书中曾试图把福尔摩斯杀死，我想他也许还想让福尔摩斯再死一次。不过从另一方面说，福尔摩斯不再只是书中的一个角色，他还是位人人喜爱的偶像，或许这点能让道尔觉得慰藉些。”

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