Moriarty: Is He Really A Patriot? Anime Review On Lord Of Crime

How would you change the world according to your bidding? Much more to change it by heinous crimes? The review will be sensitive if we put it into perspective that being patriots would consider killing the upper class, as a noble act. Patriots usually die first, but in the eyes of James Moriarty, exposing the bad deeds of a nobleman, and eventually giving the taste of his own crime, will be patriotic.

It is Anime time and this is a review of Moriarty the Patriot.

Moriarty is introduced to me as a villain, and so I got intrigued that there is a part of him that is Patriot. In his own awesomeness, he seems not the usual patriot that was introduced to us by the media. You know who Moriarty is, right? The echoes of movies and series are always connected to the peculiar detective we all know, Sherlock. Though Sherlock is not the focus on thai one, Sherlock was introduced in the anime later on. Sherlock is basically on the sideline on this one.

Moriarty has a gruesome back story or I must specifically mention Albert James Moriarty. Though the real William died at the hands of Albert, the name Moriarty was assumed later on by the unknown boy that Albert had adopted to pursue changing the world. Assuming the name Moriarty, he is not from a noble berth, but Albert got interested in him based on the popularity Moriarty gained from the Ragged School.

Moriarty is not just smart, in a very young age he advises adults on their issues. He has a brother that has an illness. When the two brothers came to the Moriarty residence, the two were bullied by Wiliam, brother of Albert. Albert got fed up with the system and an unnamed boy from the Ragged School fulfilled the first steps in changing the country.

Society back then needs a correction and lower class got labeled as rude, stupid and people that would do more harm than good, basically bad people. Albert, a nobleman, knows that being noble has nothing to do if he will do good or bad. He tried to expose the scams of the nobleman and that is where Moriarty gets into the picture. If you will go from the point of view of a nobleman any crime that was reported is done by a person in the lower-classes. Exposing that the crimes are created by noblemen would reciprocate what they think of a nobleman. If you are in the point-of-view of lower-classes, you are screaming for justice. Why do it both? Expose the wrong doing of a nobleman and give justice to the oppressed.

The anime is very dark indeed in terms of its plot and Moriarty shows the much darker side of the sparkling nobleman. Moriarty is a villain in some literary works of Arthur Conan Doyle, in this anime, he could be categorized as a villain but the people that he “helped” on their wishes, he is not a villain. He is a genius.

Usually I would figure out what was the author’s goal in an anime, or the message she conveyed, however I can only see the social equality lessons embedded is the only lesson I can see here. The connection however with the characters and how the story teller describes the whole series is where it disconnects. Though I did not finish the whole series yet, I was mesmerized with the strategy and how he plans the whole show. 

Probably in the end of the series I may figure out the whole connection to it all, but I have a feeling that the showrunners would leave it open ended and prepare for a second season. Not sure the statistics of this anime in Japan nor in Netflix, however I wish they can have a second season.