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Muse Asia Licenses Moriarty the Patriot OVA
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Muse Asia announced on Friday that it has licensed the two-episode original video anime (OVA) project for the television anime of Ryōsuke Takeuchi and Hikaru Miyoshi's Moriarty the Patriot (Yūkoku no Moriarty) manga. The company will announce distribution details at a later date.
The Blu-ray Disc and DVD shipped on April 27 and included two exclusive mini character illustration sheets and an eight-page booklet in a sleeve case illustrated by character designer Tooru Ookubo.
Kenji Hamada plays Baron George Cubid, a painter whose painting with a lily motif is very popular. He is also an enthusiastic philanthropist. Additional guest cast members include Hirofumi Nojima and Atsumi Tanezaki.
The first episode of the OVA, "Yuri no Tsuioku" (Recollection of Lily), is an anime-original story not told in the manga. The story is about a popular aristocratic painter's masterpiece that is defaced in Bath, the British city renowned for its Roman baths. The second episode "Moriarty-ke no Kyūjitsu" (Tea Party or literally, Moriarty Family Holiday) adapts the manga chapter of the same name.
The television anime premiered in October 2020, and it had 24 episodes. Muse Asia streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
The story's protagonist is James Moriarty, the famous antagonist from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. In the manga, he is an orphan who assumes the name William James Moriarty when he and his younger brother are adopted into the Moriarty family. As a young man, he seeks to remove the ills caused by England's strict class system.
