With the first episode set to premiere on October 11th, the official website for the upcoming anime adaptation of Moriarty the Patriot has already revealed that the series will be a split-cour series with 24 total episodes. The second cour is already scheduled to air in the spring 2021 season.
If you missed it before, here’s a promotional video for the series which was posted to the J-List blog last month.
As previously reported, the series will have animation produced by Production I.G and will feature Kazuya Nomura as director. Tooru Ohkubo will provide character designs. Nomura will be working off scripts created by Go Zappa and Taku Kishimoto.
The voice cast features (character names first):
William James Moriarty: Soma Saito
Albert James Moriarty: Takuya Sato
Louis James Moriarty: Chiaki Kobayashi
Sherlock Holmes: Makoto Furukawa
Moriarty the Patriot is a manga written by Takeuchi Ryousuke and illustrated by Miyoshi Hikaru that first appeared in Jump SQ magazine in August 2016. It has since been compiled into twelve volumes. While this will be the first time that the series has received a television adaptation, it isn’t the first time that it has been animated, as a promotional video was produced for the manga back in July 2018.
The story for the manga takes place in Victorian England and follows the sworn enemy of Sherlock Holmes. In this version of the story, Moriarty is an orphan along with his brother and they are adopted into the same family. After growing up in the noble household, the brothers decide to turn to a life of crime with the ultimate objective being to eliminate the class system in England.
On February 14th, 2020, Viz Media announced that it had acquired the North American digital and physical licensing rights to the manga and released the first volume on October 6th.
Source: Mantan Web
