Trivia / Moriarty the Patriot

• Bonus Material: As is common with Japanese media, the series is full of various tokuten, many of which are very hard to track down, including:
  • Bonus comics released with the tankobon from various bookstores featuring arguments between Sherlock and William.
  • Bromide cards featuring especially drawn art from Hikaru Miyoshi or artwork from the manga in color.
  • A Variant Cover of the Japanese version of volume 14 tankobon manga release that came with the Jump SQ edition containing chapter 58 of the Moriarty the Patriot manga. The alternate cover shows Sherlock and William, instead of Wiggins as the original jacket does.
  • Drama CDs for the anime covering the "Hunting of Baskervilles" and "The Adventure of the One Student" arcs.
  • CD's of lyric readings by the voice actors for William and Sherlock of the opening and ending theme songs to the anime.
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: The English dub uses both Los Angeles and Dallas talents.
• Fake Brit: Everyone in the English dub of the anime series except Theo Devaney playing Sherlock Holmes, since he's from England (and whose pronunciation was at one point corrected by the American voice director before the correction was rescinded). Ditto for Ciarán Strange (Harry) and Elsie Lovelock (Mary Morstan). The rest of the cast are all Americans pretending at an accent, some more successfully than others.
• Friendship on the Set: Theo Devaney, the English voice of Sherlock Holmes, and Ryan Colt Levy, the voice of John Watson, became fast friends over the course of dubbing the series.
• He Also Did:
  • Ryosuke Takeuchi, the writer of the manga, did the storyboard for the manga adaptation of All You Need Is Kill.
  • Hikaru Miyoshi, the artist of the manga, drew the manga adaptation of Psycho-Pass Season 1 entitled Inspector Akane Tsunemori.
• Newbie Boom: Once the series was licensed by Funimation, English-speaking fans gravitated to the series. The Viz Media manga license came the same year, so English-only fans can have official access to the series.
• Omake: Although this links to Bonus Material, this is listed as a separate trope from the bonuses and tokuten. Each chapter and volume except for the ones contained in volume fourteen have bonus omake comics.
  • Volume one has Louis The Depressed, part one, a discussion of the original ACD canon Moriarty explained by William, to which Louis reacts with distress.
  • Volume two has Louis The Depressed, part two, a strip about Louis repeatedly making Stargazy pie because William admitted to liking it in his diary.
  • Volume three has a strip about Sherlock's dislike of women, his violin playing, and rooming with Watson.
  • Volume four has the first merchandise strip, including Albert knitting Moran and his brothers sweaters.
  • Volume five has Louis the Depressed, part three, a strip hoping to make William laugh.
  • Volume six has a visual supplement art of William and Sherlock.
  • Volume seven has an alternate-universe strip in which everyone is William's student.
  • Volume eight has a popularity poll.
  • Volume nine has a strip about the Stage Play Adaptation and the characters performing.
  • Volume ten has a discussion about how the character depicted on the volume cover art is decided.
  • Volume eleven has an announcement for the Anime Adaptation and discussion about how to make it.
  • Volume twelve has a discussion about possible anime merchandise.
  • Volume thirteen features Fred having a nightmare about Sherlock
• Outdated by Canon:
  • Many fanworks of the series attempting to imagine a post-canon epilogue for the characters before The Final Problem assumed The Final Problem would culminate at Reichenbach Falls as in the original Sherlock Holmes canon instead of at home in London.
  • After the location of The Final Problem was made clear, fans liked to imagine Sherlock and William fleeing to France for three years. However, they later turned out to have been in New York for much of the time. At least one fic on AO3 has an author's note indicating that it was written before The Reveal, and therefore, they're in France.
• Portmanteau Series Nickname: Many fans of the series refer to it as "YuuMori."
• Series Hiatus: The manga is put on a hiatus after Part 1 ended in December 2022. This is because Miyoshi would work on the manga adaptation of Moriarty the Patriot: The Remains novels. The manga will continue with Part 2 once the The Remains manga is done.
• Trans Character, Cis Actor: Irene Adler comes out as "James Bonde", but they're still played by cisgender women, Yōko Hikasa in Japanese and Natalie Van Sistine in English.

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