《Moriarty The Patriot》

Review of what I think is the best mystery and anime in a long time

First of all, this is my first review. Pls not be too strict. I'll just say what's close to my heart about this anime

And of course there is a spoiler warning here, because you never know what I'm going to say here

For now, superficially speaking about the anime:

In my eyes, the anime is something new in every respect. Whether it is about the goal, what is the fight against the class system or London in the 19th century.

But what I liked the most was just plain and simple the character "William James Moriarty". Whether it's his past, his ideas and the embodiment of good and bad.

It was really fun that you can follow his plans and get to know his way of thinking. The whole thing decreased with the 2nd season because it was more about "Irene Adler" and "Jack The Ripper".

Just "the bad" side of the story was just something different than always Sherlock Holmes.

Now let's get a little deeper into the matter:

When you saw his past when he was younger in the first episodes, you saw the effort there made. At the latest when they dished up the story where William, when he was younger, dragged the aristocrat into court to give the money back to the orphanage.

The only thing that really made me sad was that you really didn't know anything about his parents or where they were in front of the orphanage. Has he been repelled? Has he always lived in London? or where exactly did the hatred of nobles come from, to hate them in such a way that one devotes one's whole life to nothing but that?

In the first season in general there was never really anything I had to complain about except for one point!

In the manga, after the incident in the Noathic, Albert was ordered to run the Mi6, which he then used in one case. In the anime, on the other hand, it was never mentioned. (in season one, in the second I'll talk about it later)

In the second season you could see that they didn't take that much time to take in everything from the manga. I'm not talking about the side stories of Fred or Moran, but the details in the main story.

For example, the conversation between Sherlock and Irene Adler in the park was completely omitted and the incident when Sherlock and Watson set off the smoke bomb in her house. A lot of dialogues were left out and I thought whether it would go on like this and became more skeptical.

In the case of "Jack The Ripper" everything went back to Manga and was then relieved again. In general, I didn't find the case that exciting, but it was still well done. I thought it was nice that they included the greatest murderer in Britain, who was also in the 19th century, in history.

From then on everything went really well and I was pretty happy with the next case of "Charles Augustus Milverton", the master of blackmail. I also found his character very interesting and would have liked to know his story about it too, but I think that otherwise they couldn't keep the episodes at 13 and that's why they left it (or it wasn't there, it could be).

I was also very surprised when Sherlock shot him, I was expecting everything but not that he would kill him. William didn't think that either and you saw his reaction to it when something in his plan doesn't go as he planned. As soon as you saw the desperation in Sherlock that he only did what William wanted before killing, even though he did not intend it himself.

And now to the end of the anime in episode 13 in the second season:

I was undecided ...... will William die ..... or will Sherlock save him ..... the developers really played with you. I thought the idea of ​​setting the whole city on fire was good, only because I don't know whether it will really be of any use to change the way the aritocrats think. Even if you have worked there once with the citizens, this does not mean that you are suddenly best friends. But I can be wrong about that too.

In the end, when William and Sherlock were standing on the bridge that had not yet been built ..... I actually thought Sherlock would save him, but when William attacked him, I thought to myself in the fight when he ran, "Not that Sherlock now dies ". But that was also a nuisance, because in the end both of them fell into the water and in the end neither of them found them.

After the finale, there were short excerpts of what Moriarty's followers were doing in the future and how Albert was behind bars and Louis and James Bond work in Mi6 ...... yes, Mi6 was discussed in the last 3 minutes ..... but it didn't play a big role in the manga either, so it's not dramatic now.

I also found the ending clip of Sherlock sitting at the bar with William in Switzerland very successful and you could see that although they weren't in good contact, they became really good friends

On the whole, I found the anime really nice and found it so good in the first season that it became one of my favorites.

I will give the anime with the 2nd tier a 95-100 and then rounded up my list to a 10/10, because I don't know whether an anime in such a genre can top it