Master Keaton

Genre

detective fiction

Country

Japan

How it feels

A former SAS soldier turned archaeologist and insurance investigator travels the world solving mysteries. His cases mix historical puzzles with human drama, often connecting to his past and his family.

thoughtfulleisurelyepisodicatmosphericunderstatedintellectualwarmmelancholicnostalgic

What happens

Master Keaton (Japanese: MASTERキートン, Hepburn: Masutā Kīton) is a Japanese manga series created by Hokusei Katsushika, Naoki Urasawa, and Takashi Nagasaki. It was serialized in Big Comic Original from 1988 to 1994, with its 144 chapters collected into 18 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga for English release. An anime adaptation was created by Madhouse, with 24 episodes airing from 1998 to 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television. An additional 15 episodes were created and released as original video animations (OVAs), bringing the total to 39 episodes. The anime and OVA series were dubbed into English and released in North America by Pioneer Entertainment from 2003 to 2004. Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki created a sequel to the series, titled Master Keaton Remaster. Set 20 years after the original series ended, it ran in Big Comic Original from 2012 to 2014 and was collected into a single volume. By 2014, Master Keaton had over 20 million copies in circulation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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