Yuukoku no Moriarty Part 2

Great Britain is ablaze with news of a so-called "Lord of Crime," a criminal mastermind responsible for the downfall of several unruly nobles. In truth, the Lord of Crime is not an individual, but rather a group consisting of William James Moriarty and his two brothers, Louis and Albert. Together, they wish to destroy everything rotten about their current world and create a new, fair society for all. To accomplish their goal, they must commit criminal acts, which the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John H. Watson, cannot abide by. A dangerous cat and mouse game begins between the Lord of Crime and Sherlock, with each trying to outwit the other. Yet Sherlock, despite his skills, has no idea that his foe is right under his nose.

Involved with both parties is a woman named Irene Adler, who is as beautiful as she is cunning. No stranger to scandal, Irene has embroiled herself in one that may be too big even for her, as the classified documents she stole could shake the very foundations of the British Empire. Can Irene be saved, or does a deadly future await her?

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James Moriarty, William Main

Saitou, Souma Japanese

Holmes, Sherlock Main

Furukawa, Makoto Japanese

James Moriarty, Albert Main

Satou, Takuya Japanese

James Moriarty, Louis Main

Kobayashi, Chiaki Japanese

Adler, Irene Main

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Moran, Sebastian ing

Hino, Satoshi Japanese

Porlock, Fred ing

Uemura, Yuuto Japanese

Watson, John H. ing

Ono, Yuuki Japanese

Holmes, Mycroft ing

Yasumoto, Hiroki Japanese

Herder, Von ing

Toriumi, Kousuke Japanese

Maeda, Toshihiro Producer

Morihiro, Fumi Producer

Kurita, Hiroko Producer

Ohira, Masashi Producer

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Jun 27, 2021

Aroy3482

Recommended

I do not write reviews that much but after finishing the anime i feel like it deserves a review for how amazing it is
Story : Moriarties entire premise is to bring reform to England that has been corrupted by nobles exploiting the commoners and getting away with it. The main casts goal is to bring equality to the entire nation by taking the lives of nobles and giving the commoners the courage to revolt back. This plan ensures that the nobles are conscious of their actions and live in the fear that the lord of crime may target them next and in turn stabilize ... England in the long run. This plan in the anime had been carried out fluently and the conclusion to it to me was satisfactory and really amazing. The story has several moments which i can only describe as genius.

Characters : The overall character quality in this anime is very good, my favourite ones were moriarty and sherlock, the dynamic between them was always entertaining. As for the side characters, it did a good job in portraying their motivations and ideals .

Animation and artstyle : Production IG did a fantastic job with the artwork especially with the character designs and the surrounding areas and objects in the anime which pay a lot of attention to detail to the real life London in the 1800s. The animation was very smooth as well.

Ending: With non spoilers, i would describe the ending segment of moriarty to be absolutely great , from what i heard they adapt a lot of chapters into the last two episodes but honestly that did not really subvert my stance on the anime , the ending was very good and heartwarming.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jun 27, 2021

Blue_Maroon

Mixed Feelings

A disappointing conclusion after a promising first season.

Overall, it felt like they were just trying to throw in a bunch of Holmes stories and other references without much thought to the overarching narrative and character building.

This season is essentially a compilation of “Hey you know Jack the Ripper? How about James Bond? Do you how good The Dark Knight was? Would you like it if we just copied a large part of that?”.

Most of the arcs feel very meaningless in retrospect. There might be a couple plot points that carry to the next arc, but they could be cut out with little ... to no impact on the final arc.

These arcs feel like even more of a waste of time when you also factor in that Sherlock and Moriaty get almost no development this season. None of the changes in their behavior feels earned or realistic. It just happens and we are told to accept it.

Sherlock in particular is disappointing this season because he never does anything despite being hyped up as an equal to Moriaty. They talk about how Moriaty was his “great nemesis”, but it never even felt like they were on the opposite ends of cases very often. Other side characters might as well not exist. They are either not important and/or receive no noteworthy development.

Writing aside, this anime still delivers with top-notch production. The art & animation look very clean and remain some of the best this season. The OST is also great and it covers up a lot of the script’s failings to draw out emotion.

All-in-all, I expected much more from this season. I thought the first season was good and I hoped that this was going to be where this series delivered on all of its potential. But here I am feeling completely underwhelmed by a highly forgettable conclusion. Watch it if you really liked the first season I guess. But if you were kinda on the fence with it, you can skip this one.

It’s a 5/10. Closer to a 6 than a 4.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 22, 2021

CaptainKenshiro

Not Recommended

I already covered the first season so I won’t go over the basics again but I will compare the two for a bit to better stablish why I think the second season is slightly better, there are spoilers but who cares, everyone already watched this show.

In of visuals, the second season got rid of the stupid red and brown horror like filters and features more action scenes with ok enough motions. In of sound the opening and endings were better, albeit still pretty forgettable.

The best aspect of the second season was reducing a lot the amount of purely evil one dimensional nobles that ... ruined the first and focusing more on the cat and mouse game between Holmes and Moriarty with high stakes, even attempting to deal with the birth of the nation and a woman’s life at stake in a conspiranoical way…for about three episodes before going back to the same thing, and the woman changing gender thus being a transgender man in 1800’s London because I’m sure that was a thing back then.

A complaint I’ve seen from others that I agree with is that this season feels like it’s throwing references to iconic names just as fanservice, here is Jack the Ripper, here someone names himself James Bonde, Bond, without the e so it’s not too obvious, although not a major problem.

The bad things implemented in the second season that weren’t present in the first were more comical scenes and cool action. The former were supposed to add a bit of personality to the main characters and give them some scenes to interact between them in a relaxed way to make them more likable, but they clash a lot with the overall serious tone and approach of the series, not fitting into the whole thing, plus a character changed his personality completely between episodes and the fact that he can adapt different personalities and looks with ease does not let these moments feel genuine. The latter were supposed to make things more exciting but they are short, over the top and feel way too improbable within a more or less realistic setting in a show that takes itself seriously to the most part, kicking a coin at a ridiculous speed to make a bullet bounce? Come on now.

Anyways the show got rid of the one dimensional evil nobles to the most part, thank God (besides a completely absurd flashback episode) to focus more on the gang trolling them and getting important information of them while presenting more enemies and people with ideals similar to William’s along the way, thus becoming more political, which would have made things more interesting if they were handled properly. More seemingly capable enemies would have add more tension but since anyone’s still playing under William’s rules, that doesn’t happen. There are even fights among two gangs of assassins and you can barely see them.

No major complaints about the other guy, but he was too idealized and threw away his ideals way too easily, before becoming a tragic figure in a rather preachy manner and disappearing from the show completely in a couple of episodes.

Eventually the major issues within the show were, ironically, the elements that I expected to save it at the end of the first season, the interactions between Holmes and Moriarty and the conclusion, which was rushed and contradictory. Regarding the former, for a show that was supposed about these two geniuses going against each other, making one of them being completely fooled by the other was a major disappointment, but making them respect each other and even become friends with major fujoshi vibes ruined it completely, especially with the finale, which did the right thing of not being the exact same as the original, but it was too different, a very lukewarm alternative to it. I recently watched the 1995 “Heat” and the 2004 “Collateral” movies where, respectively, a cop and a criminal and an assasin and his hostage come to respect each other while trying to get rid of the other and they don’t become friends, because their very line of work and positions in the conflict make it impossible, and the finale of those movies were a lot better while still keeping the dynamic between them.

The second aspect was seriously bad for several reasons, first it tried to pull a Lelouch without comitting itself completely to it, second it resolved the major conflict very easily, all it took after all the killings was a two minutes preachy speech about the ways of the past and how the former nobles were different to resolve everything and last but not least, both Moriarty and the series desperately tries to paint him as some sort of villain and a necessary evil, yet almost every new character he encounters treats him as a tragic hero and one of them even says something like “you’re the man this country needs to change”. Excuse me, what? We’re talking about a mass murderer here. As much as I dislike the V for Vendetta and The Dark Knight movies for being too silly and too improbable and forced at points, they still did a good job when it comes to present both of their criminals as the villains who are clearly wrong, even if somehow they ended being ed by the majority of their audience.

Apparently the manga still goes on but what’s the point? The main character accomplished what he wanted, the main objective of the series and the themes already got a conclusion, sure, it was terrible, but it was there, going on with it is just stretching it at that point. That is why I won’t keep track of the franchise anymore, there’s no point for it to keep going and what I expected to raise its level was terribly handled. With Death Note, I guess Monster, Heat, Collateral and perhaps even The Dark Knight around, there’s no reason to watch this one.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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