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🔖 Quick links:

📚 Moriarty the Patriot light novels — Tumblr

🎇 Moriarty the Patriot (main series) — Cubari / Mangadex

🌃 Moriarty the Patriot: The Remains — Cubari / Mangadex

🌁 Metas and side translations

📕 What’s happening now (a summary):

Part 1 of the main series ended in Dec 2022

Currently, a manga adaptation of the light novels is being serialised under the title Moriarty the Patriot: The Remains

Part 2 of the main series will begin after the light novel manga ends

🔦 FAQs:

Has the main series ended? No, it’s on hiatus; Miyoshi-sensei is in the process of planning Part 2.

Where can I read the light novel chapters on your blog? See the Quick Links section of this post.

💡 Notes:

If you would like to re-translate the novels into another language, or use these translations for any other purpose, please contact me first: either through DMs or an ask.

Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know that I’ll be taking a break from scanlation starting this December 🙏 I’m not sure if I’ll be returning to scanlation/translation anytime soon (not for another half a year at least) — have been pretty overstretched keeping up with the chapters recently, and I need the time to handle work/life as it is m(_ _)m

If anyone’s been considering taking up this series, as always please feel free to go ahead! I’ll still hang around and respond to messages etc., just that chapters will no longer be released 👀

Now on: Cubari / Mangadex

Now on: Cubari / Mangadex

Thank you for waiting! A huge shoutout to ultra for redrawing this chapter 🫶 (this was a v tough one 😥)

Also the manga will be on break in November — so Ch9 will likely be out in December instead. Now that there’s a brief respite, I’ll see if I can find some time to update the canon references post 🙏 @All the people who have contributed more references: I haven’t forgotten you! Just haven’t had the time to get to that until now (^^;

Spoiler-y thoughts below the cut:

Now on: Cubari / Mangadex

Just left with the final checks!

Ch6: Cubari / Mangadex

V1 Bonus Manga: Cubari / Mangadex

Thank you for waiting 🙇🏻‍♀️ The V1 extras still have a few pages being cleaned, so those will be ready when they’re ready 😅 (There are so many edited panels this time!)

Collated announcements:

New artwork commemorating the release of The Remains Volume 1 (Twitter)

New artwork for the Yuumori 2024 calendar (Twitter) — this is based on the actual Baker Street Tube station in London!

There was a 5-page interview about the Yuumori musicals in this issue of Jump S.Q., with Miyoshi-sensei and Nishimori-sensei (the musical scriptwriter and director). You can find the raw pages here: Imgur

Footnote for Ch6 below the cut!

Now on: Cubari / Mangadex

Thank you for waiting! Somehow we're right on schedule this month (๑˃ᴗ˂) Also, Volume 1 of The Remains will be released with the next chapter on 4 Aug, and the next chapter will have a colour spread too 💕

Spoiler-y footnotes for this chapter under the cut:

Hello :) The light novels have not been licensed in English yet, so for now you can only obtain them in either the original Japanese, or Mandarin. (I'm not sure if it has been officially translated to other languages beyond Mandarin.)

For the Japanese novels, you can purchase them as either physical books or electronic ones. Here's the official website for the first light novel, with links to various online bookstores where you can buy the electronic versions. (Here are the links for Book 2 and Book 3 as well.)

Now on: Cubari / Mangadex

Thank you so much for waiting! Crossed a little bit into July 🙇🏻‍♀️ First off, a big thank you to both @willymoly and ultra for redrawing this chapter 💖 (It just gets harder and harder each month omg 😢)

Also, a shoutout to our new redrawer Aster (@luvmaill) who will be taking over from the next chapter onwards ☺️ Welcome!!

This June saw a perfect storm of stuff happening all at once… Here’s hoping July will be less hectic 😅 As usual, I’ll post an update around the third week from the chapter release, either with the chapter, or a note if there’s a delay 🙏

A quick update that Ch4 of The Remains will only be released next week at the earliest, hopefully before July comes around 🙇🏻‍♀️ (The past two weeks have been super-busy...)

Now on: Cubari / Mangadex

Thank you for waiting! First off a shoutout to ultra, bc the redrawing on this one was straight-up intense 🥲 Tyy for the amazing work! For some panels it didn’t even hit me just how much of it had been redrawn until I started typesetting (≧∀≦) 💕

Now on: Cubari / Mangadex

Thanks for waiting! This chapter is shorter but still had a lot of redrawing (and words…) |･ω･)

Update schedule

The current update schedule will be 3 weeks after the chapter release. I’ll try to push them out as quick as I can, but do remember that The Remains chapters are much longer than the main series’ (in terms of redrawing and words) — so despite a similar page count, there’s a lot more work to be done 🥲

As usual, if anyone would like to make their own scanlations, do feel free to go ahead! No need to ask or anything beforehand^^

The updated intro post

I’ve noticed that some questions keep popping up:

Is the main series not continuing anymore?

When will The Remains be complete?

Where are the light novel chapters on your blog?

As such I’ve updated the intro post to summarise what we know right now |ω･)ﾉ You can find it at the very top of this blog, whether on web or mobile.

A quick update that I'm in the middle of typesetting right now, so Ch2 of The Remains will be released nearer the end of this week |ω･)ﾉ That would make it 3 weeks since the chapter release on 4 April (JST), similar to the previous chapter.