The OVA episodes were first screened in Japan at the Nakano Sunplaza in Tokyo on March 5, 2022.
By: Nicole S. Castro on March 18, 2022 at 16:26 PHT
Official channels for Ryōsuke Takeuchi and Hikaru Miyoshi's Moriarty the Patriot have released a preview video of the two original video animation (OVA) episodes in the Blu-ray/DVD which go on sale this April 27, 2022.
The OVA episodes were first screened in Japan at the Nakano Sunplaza in Tokyo on March 5, 2022.
Episode 1 is titled 「百合の追憶」(English: Reminiscence/Recollection of Lily), and features William and Louis on a vacation at the hot springs when they meet Sherlock. The three of them become involved in a mystery about an artist with a distinct lily sketch.
Episode 2 is titled 「モリアーティ家の休日」(English: Moriarty Family Holiday/Tea Party) and features the Moriarty household finally succumbing to social pressure and holding a tea party at their estate for the nobles (Chapter 32 of the manga).
About Moriarty the Patriot
Moriarty the Patriot (Japanese: 憂国のモリアーティ, Romaji: Yūkoku no Moriāti) is a Japanese mystery manga series written by Ryōsuke Takeuchi and illustrated by Hikaru Miyoshi, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. The manga is ongoing serialization on Shueisha's Jump Square magazine.
It focuses on the youth of Holmes' nemesis, William James Moriarty. The two-season anime television series adaptation was produced by Production I.G and aired from October 2020 to June 2021.
NICOLE S. CASTRO
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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.
