Gallery Fake

Gallery Fake
The cover of the first volume of Gallery Fake
ギャラリーフェイク (Gyararī Feiku)
Genre	Historical, Comedy
Manga
Written by	Fujihiko Hosono
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits
Original run	1992 – 2005
Volumes	32
Anime television series
Directed by	Akira Nishimori Osamu Yamasaki
Studio	Tokyo Movie (episodes 1–25), Tokyo Kids (episodes 26 onwards), Aniplex
Original network	TV Tokyo, Animax
Original run	8 January 2005 – 24 September 2005
Episodes	37 (List of episodes)

Gallery Fake (ギャラリーフェイク, Gyararī Feiku^?) is a Japanese manga by Fujihiko Hosono, which was adopted into an anime television series. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award.

On a wharf on Tokyo Bay is a small gallery named Gallery Fake. The owner of the gallery, Reiji Fujita (藤田 玲司, Fujita Reiji^?), was once a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was a learned curator with remarkable memory, keen aesthetic sense, great skill in restoration of paintings and knowledge of many languages, so he was called the "Professor". However, because of trouble in the workplace, Fujita was forced to quit the museum. Now he is an art dealer who sells paintings, authentic and fake alike, at extraordinary prices. His motto is "One without aesthetic sense can't help being cheated out of his money. And by being deceived, one may learn to distinguish real ones from the counterfeit."

However, Fujita is not a villain. He truly appreciates art and the artists who spent their lives to create it. He is not someone who just earns money by selling fake paintings. Sometimes he takes paintings from a wicked politician who considers art only as a means of exchanging bribes. Sometimes he tries to restore destroyed paintings. He often touches the lives of those he encounters and people are attracted to him in spite of himself.

Reiji Fujita (藤田玲司, Fujita Reiji^?)