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I think everybody knows and likes the very famous Sherlock Holmes mystery stories written by sir Arthur Conan Doyle, so I’d like to talk about a brilliant Japanese mystery manga series titled “憂国のモリアーティ (Yūkoku no Moriāti)”, in English “Moriarty the patriot”, inspired to the world of the popular detective hoping you may like it too.
The writer,
Ryōsuke Takeuchi, aficionado of “Sherlock Holmes’s stories” decided to create
this manga series in which the protagonist is not Sherlock, but rather his nemesis, William James Moriarty. The whole story is in William’s perspective, that is, the sequence of events are seen
through the eyes of the villain.
About this choice, Ryōsuke says: “When I was little, I liked the characters who were on the protagonist’s side. As I grew older, the more I understood the absurdity of the world, the more my sympathies turned to the evil. Captain Muska or the great demon lord Zoma...who knows why they wanted to rule the world? It is also funny to imagine this aspect of the villains who could not speak of their motivations in their respective works. And professor Moriarty is one of them.”
The plot
The story
is set in 19th century Britain, in an era when the empire became a
global power. Due to the strict class stratification, the average citizen had little
chance of successfully rising up to the top and the despicable nobility ruled over them all. After Albert Moriarty's family adopts two
orphans, William James and Louis James they learn how cruel and cynical the
nobility was.
It is from this hatred that the idea of
becoming a crime consultant was born. His figure is hidden in the shadows, no
one knows that he is the famous crime consultant, as no one knows the whole
organization he found with his brothers. He is helped by other characters, like
Colonel Sebastian Moran and Fred Porlock.
There’s a
sequence of crimes and mysteries on which
two excellent minds, William Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes investigate together.
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