Chikao Ohtsuka was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He was most known for the roles of Captain Hook, Dick Dastardly, Goemon Ishikawa XIII, Nezumi Otoko, Denzō Yamada, Professor Moriarty, Jagi, Doctor Eggman, Gol D. Roger, Xehanort, Dr. Weil, Taopaipai, Piedmon and Apocalymon (Digimon), and Wario in his commercials. He was the official dubbing artist of Charles Bronson and Richard Widmark. At the time of his death, he was attached with Aoni Production.

Sherlock Hound is an Italian-Japanese anime television series produced by RAI and Tokyo Movie Shinsha. Based on the character Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, almost all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic dogs. The show featured regular appearances of Jules Verne-steampunk style technology, adding a 19th-century science-fiction atmosphere to the series. It consists of 26 episodes and aired between 1984 and 1985.