Yuukoku no Moriarty (Moriarty the Patriot)

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Synonyms: Moriarty's Patriotism

Japanese: 憂国のモリアーティ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 11

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 11, 2020 to Dec 20, 2020

Premiered: Fall 2020

Broadcast: Sundays at 23:53 (JST)

Producers: Mainichi Broadcasting System, Shueisha, Yomiuri TV Enterprise, Bandai Namco Arts, Bandai Spirits

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Manga

Genres: Mystery, Suspense

Themes: Adult Cast, Historical, Organized Crime, Psychological

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.17¹ (scored by 180,231 users)

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Ranked: #420²

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Popularity: #531

Members: 427,809

Favorites: 7,310

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During the late 19th century, Great Britain has become the greatest empire the world has ever known. Hidden within its success, the nation's rigid economic hierarchy dictates the value of one's life solely on status and wealth. To no surprise, the system favors the aristocracy at the top and renders it impossible for the working class to ascend the ranks.

William James Moriarty, the second son of the Moriarty household, lives as a regular noble while also being a consultant for the common folk to give them a hand and solve their problems. However, deep inside him lies a desire to destroy the current structure that dominates British society and those who benefit from it.

Alongside his brothers Albert and Louis, William will do anything it takes to change the filthy world he lives in—even if blood must be spilled.

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Adaptation:	Yuukoku no Moriarty
Sequel:	Yuukoku no Moriarty Part 2

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"DYING WISH" by Tasuku Hatanaka

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"ALPHA" by STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION

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Sep 2, 2023

Animeaddictedper

Recommended

I'm not gonna lie i watched this anime because i saw it on tiktok and when i found out there's Sherlock i thought it's not gonna be good at all but i still decided to watch it and i'm glad i made that decision necause after i watched it i regretted thinking it and now i'm totally obsessed with the story and the characters are masterpiece and the openings make it even better i watched Sherlock movies so that's why i was like eh but then i realized i like it more than the movies themselves , my sis is the reason i watch anime ...

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Jan 9, 2024

hexashadow13

Mixed Feelings

tl;dr: A very strong premise that shows a lot of promise towards the beginning but is overall terrible executed.

*Note: This is a review of Part 1, Part 2, and the OVAs.*

Moriarty the Patriot is an anime that focuses on James Moriarty, the best known adversary of the renowned detective Sherlock Holmes. To be more precise, there’s a group of three brothers all of whom are James Moriarty and all of whom are focused on to a degree, but the deuteragonist is undoubtedly William James Moriarty. From the start, from the title even, it is clear that Moriarty won’t be portrayed as a villain, but rather ... as somewhat of an anti-hero who does what he does out of patriotism. More specifically, he wishes to improve Britain through eliminating the class divide and his plans to do so involve becoming the Lord of Crime infamous throughout London. As one would expect, this results in him getting into conflict with Holmes with the two becoming bitter rivals.

Except, that’s not really what it feels like at all. The writing seems to act like this has become the case at some point, but very little occurs to really establish as actually having happened. Sherlock Holmes and William James Moriarty having a complex relationship where Holmes wishes to discover the identity of the Lord of Crime while also having a begrudging respect for him, while also independently becoming friends with William I think is a fantastic set up. However, I feel the value in this set up isn’t in the destination but in the journey to get there. The writing in this seems to gloss over that completely with very little of the cat and mouse game I was expecting.

Based on what characters say, it can be assumed that there were likely many more mysteries involving the two that were never explicitly shown. However, skipping them feels like putting the cart before the horse. This was especially disastrous towards the final stretch of the second cour, wherein it seemed to be focused on hitting heavy emotional beats centered around the relationship between the two. But due to a lack of building up that relationship, these emotional beats, and the ending overall, simply doesn’t land at all.

Another area I feel the writing in this anime is surprisingly weak, is that for a story based on Sherlock Holmes there is a shocking lack of intelligence and wit. Most of Moriarty’s crimes aren’t all that intricate. The crimes that Holmes solves are somewhat better, though still not strong enough to hold up the show. The first cour is still pretty decent in this regard, but the second cour regresses significantly. Unfortunately, the second cour also has the cases that are much more significant, and thus the overall impression of the series feels much more rooted in the second cour than the first.

The primary example of that would be the finale of the second cour, wherein it finally gets to explaining what William’s plan is and why he needed to become the Lord of Crime. However, his plan is to put it simply completely and utterly juvenile. Speaking in vague terms so as to avoid spoilers, it basically comes down to nobles finding their conscious and becoming good people when faced with a major threat also facing the commoners. It is incredibly hard to believe that this happens to a degree significant to have an effect on the class divide. Especially as right up to that point, by which I mean literally right up to the preceding scene, nobles are portrayed as cartoon villains that see commoners as less human than themselves. Maybe if it was drawn out with better pacing than it could seem reasonable, but within the context that it occurs it felt laughably stupid.

I also felt that the writing had a very hard time with the source material it was using as it’s foundation. Of course no one should expect derivative works to stick to what they’re inspired by completely, as that would just be boring. However, I would still expect them to demonstrate a good understanding of the original work and to have deviations feel worthwhile. Here it felt more like it was only using broad and superficial elements of the stories of Sherlock Holmes, and thus I don’t think this anime has much value to those that are interested in it for it’s Sherlock Holmes related aspects. It’s portrayal of Victorian Britain was also off in a lot of regards so I don’t particularly think it has a lot of value for those interested in it for it’s historical setting either.

Still, it’s not like it’s all bad. The various cases may not be all that smart, but a lot of them are still pretty enjoyable. Seeing Moriarty take down spoiled nobles is pretty satisfying, and the stupider and more absurd it gets and more fun it is. The various other crazy stuff that happens during his plans such as shooting a coin to change the angle of the bullet, or using an automobile (in Victorian London) on what is supposed to be a covert mission, was hilarious. Sherlock is also a really amusing character, so that alone is enough to hold up a lot of the anime. The action was also pretty cool at times. The anime is at it’s best when it’s just doing it’s thing without caring at all about any overarching plot threads or character arcs. Though that unfortunately does mean that it’s highs aren’t all that high while it’s lows are really low.

The art is pretty good, especially the backgrounds, and animation is decent enough as well. The character designs I don’t really get though. They’re generally pretty boring. If they were historically accurate I would get it, but they don’t seem to be that strict on that regard. I feel there was definitely room for them to be more interesting. Both OPs were pretty great in terms of songs and visuals. I wasn’t all that fond of the visuals or songs of the EDs though. The soundtrack was decent enough but not particularly memorable.

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Feb 10, 2021

Dogkid

Not Recommended

Time and time again Sherlock Holmes has been re-imagined, re-invented, modernised and so on. But often times, when set in the particular historical period the original novel is set, people forget the effects of the time period small intricacies.
(as well as read and pay attention to the source material, but then again Sherlock name sells, seen by how much people venerate this anime lol)

Moriarty is a incredibly interesting character in the novels, however he was not given a lot of focus.

Here the anime had a chance to explore his character and...well choose to play the "Noble bad, poor good" card as his motivation. ...

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