Master Keaton
| Master Keaton | |
Cover of an English DVD release.
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MASTERキートン (Masutā Kīton) |
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| Genre | Detective fiction, Adventure, Drama |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hokusei Katsushika Takashi Nagasaki |
| Illustrated by | Naoki Urasawa |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Big Comic Original |
| Original run | November 1988 – August 1994 |
| Volumes | 18 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masayuki Kojima |
| Music by | Kuniaki Haishima |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| Licensed by | Geneon Entertainment USA |
| Original network | Nippon Television |
| Original run |
Season 1 October 5, 1998 – March 29, 1999 Season 2 (direct-to-video) December 21, 1999 – June 20, 2000 |
| Episodes | 39 |
| Manga | |
| Master Keaton Remaster | |
| Written by | Takashi Nagasaki |
| Illustrated by | Naoki Urasawa |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Big Comic Original |
| Original run | March 2012 – August 2014 |
| Volumes | 1 |
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 between 1988 and 1994, with the 144 chapters collected into 18 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan.
An anime adaptation was created by Madhouse, with 24 episodes airing between 1998 and 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television. An additional 15 episodes were created and released as original video animations, bringing the total to 39 episodes. Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki created a sequel to the series, titled Master Keaton Remaster (MASTERキートン Reマスター?). 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.
The anime and OVA series were dubbed into English and released in North America by Pioneer Entertainment. Viz Media began releasing the manga in North America in 2014.
The story revolves around Taichi Hiraga-Keaton (平賀＝キートン・太一 Hiraga-Kīton Taichi?), the son of Japanese zoologist Taihei Hiraga (平賀太平 Hiraga Tahei?) and well-born Englishwoman Patricia Keaton. Keaton's parents separated when he was five, and young Taichi moved back to England with his mother. As an adult, he studied archeology at Oxford University, in part under the tutelage of Professor Yuri Scott.
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