The December issue of Shueisha’s Jump SQ. magazine revealed on Friday that the previously teased “project” for Ryōsuke Takeuchi and Hikaru Miyoshi’s Yūkoku no Moriarty (Moriarty the Patriot) manga is a character popularity poll to commemorate the manga reaching 1 million copies in print.
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.
The sixth volume shipped on July 4 and the seventh volume will ship on November 7.