Moriarty The Patriot https://dw9to29mmj727.cloudfront.net/promo/2016/6133HeaderMoriartyv22000x800.jpg 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. Ill just say whats close to my heart about this anime And of course there is a spoiler warning here because you never know what Im 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 its 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 lets 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 didnt 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 ones 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 Ill talk about it later In the second season you could see that they didnt take that much time to take in everything from the manga. Im 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 didnt 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 couldnt keep the episodes at 13 and thats why they left it or it wasnt 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 didnt think that either and you saw his reaction to it when something in his plan doesnt 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 dont 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 Moriartys 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 didnt play a big role in the manga either so its 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 werent 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 95100 and then rounded up my list to a 10/10 because I dont know whether an anime in such a genre can top it