Teiji Moriya

Teiji Moriya

Profile

Japanese name:

森谷 帝二
(Moriya Teiji)

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

Statistics

First appearance:

Anime: Movie 1

Appearances:

Movies: 3
OVAs: 1

Cases solved:

0

Actors

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.

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.

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.

See also

• List of minor recurring movie characters