Teiji Moriya
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| Japanese name: | 森谷 帝二 (Moriya Teiji) |
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| English name: | Leo Joel |
| Age: | 47 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Date of birth: | unknown |
| Relatives: | Mr. Moriya (father, deceased) Mrs. Moriya (mother, deceased) |
| Occupation: | Architect |
| Status: | Under judicial custody |
| First appearance: | Anime: Movie 1 |
| Appearances: | Movies: 2 |
| Cases solved: | 0 |
| Japanese voice: | Taro Ishida |
| English voice: | Kent Williams |
Teiji Moriya (森谷 帝二 Moriya Teiji) is a character in the movie franchise Detective Conan.
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Background
Teiji Moriya is a famous architect and professor from Tohto University Architecture Department. He is a perfectionist and many buildings throughout Japan are from his hands. When he was 34, he won the Japan Architectural Association Newcomer Award for designing the Sumida Canal Bridge.
Personality
Treat others exceedingly polite and possesses a strong passion upon architectural design. He is also very demanding on himself, which supports his perfectionism attitude.
Appearance
He has long face, big ears, striaght eybrows, black eyes, with brown hair. He wears a black stripped shirt, laced with a green suit jacket, plus a red-blue tie under his collar.
Appellations
Plot overview
The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (Movie: 1)
Countdown to Heaven (Movie: 5)
Name origin
His name is adapted from James Moriarty, a character from Conan Doyle's novel, who is the rival of Sherlock Holmes.
Trivia
- His original name was "Genji Moriya" and the reason that he changed it is to maintain symmetry, since each character from Japanese is symmetrical.
- Gosho Aoyama indicated that he liked this character and added that it's abit "wasting" to only use him in one film.
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