Master Keaton (MASTERã‚ートン, MasutÄ KÄ«ton) is a Japanese manga series created by Hokusei Katsushika and Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Original between 1988 and 1994 and ran for 144 chapters. The chapters were combined into 18 tankÅbon volumes. An anime adaptation was created, with 24 episodes airing between 1998 and 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television. An additional 15 episodes were created and released as OVAs, bringing the total to 39 episodes. The manga's target audience was Japanese men in their 20's and 30's, a comparatively older target audience than is common for most anime series.
The anime and OVA series were dubbed into English and released by Pioneer Entertainment. Viz Media announced the North American rights to the manga.
Naoki Urasawa is writing a sequel to the series, titled Master Keaton Remaster (>MASTERã‚ートン Reマスター), with writer Takashi Nagasaki. Beginning in the March 2012 issue of Big Comic Original, it takes place 20 years after the original series ended.
Story
The story revolves around Taichi Hiraga-Keaton (平賀ï¼ã‚ートン・太一, Hiraga-KÄ«ton 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.
At Oxford, Keaton met and later married his wife, who was a mathematics student at Somerville College. The couple later divorced, with Keaton leaving his five-year-old daughter Yuriko (百åˆå) in her mother's care. After leaving Oxford, Keaton joined the British Army and became a member of the SAS, holding the post of survival instructor and seeing combat in the Falklands War and as one of the team members that responded to the Iranian Embassy incident. His combat training serves him in good stead as an insurance investigator for the prestigious Lloyd's of London where he is known for his abilities and his unorthodox methods of investigation.
In addition to his work for Lloyd's, Keaton and his friend Daniel O'Connell operate their own insurance investigation agency headquartered in London. Even though Keaton is fairly successful as an insurance investigator, his dream is to continue his archaeological research into the possible origins of an ancient European civilization in the Danube River basin.
Anime and OVA series
Characters
- Taichi Hiraga-Keaton: Norihiro Inoue
- Taihei Hiraga: IchirÅ Nagai
- Yuriko Hiraga: Houko Kuwashima
- Charlie Chapman: Masashi Sugawara
- Daniel O'Connell: Shinpachi Tsuji
- Hudson:
- Narrator: Keaton Yamada
Episode list
Theme songs
Opening Theme Song
- Opening Theme music by Kuniaki Haishima
Ending Theme Song
- "Eternal Wind" - Performed by BLÃœE (Episodes 1 - )
- "A Sigh" (ãŸã‚æ¯, Tameiki) - Performed by Kneuklid Romance (Episodes - 25)
- "From Beginning" - Music by Kuniaki Haishima (Episodes 26 - 39)
DVDs
The English version DVDs were released by Pioneer (later named Geneon). The Ocean Group produced the English dub for the anime. Each DVD had 5 episodes, except the last one, which had 4, and all included an English translated dialog along with the original Japanese dialog. The DVD volumes and their US release dates are:
- Master Keaton - Excavation I (DVD 1) 2003-06-10
- Master Keaton - Excavation II (DVD 2) 2003-08-12
- Master Keaton - Killer Conscience (DVD 3) 2003-10-14
- Master Keaton - Blood & Bullets (DVD 4) 2003-12-09
- Master Keaton - Blood & Dust (DVD 5) 2004-02-10
- Master Keaton - Fakers & Friends (DVD 6) 2004-04-13
- Master Keaton - Life & Death (DVD 7) 2004-06-08
- Master Keaton - Passion Games (DVD 8) 2004-08-10
Controversy over the "true" creator
Hokusei Katsushika is a pseudonym of Japanese manga story writer (not an artist) Hajime Kimura, who was also a co-writer of Golgo 13. Originally, Kimura created the series' story, while Urasawa did the artwork. However, after Kimura died of cancer in December 2004, Urasawa claimed in an interview with weekly magazine Shuukan Bunshun in May 2005 that Kimura stopped work as a story writer due to a personal conflict with Urasawa at one point, after which Urasawa alone created both story and art. Because of this, Urasawa demanded that Katsushika's name appear smaller than Urasawa on the manga's cover. Manga story writer Kariya Tetsu, who was a close friend of Kimura and an influential figure in Shogakukan, opposed this action vehemently, which resulted in the discontinuation of the further publication of the comics as of July 2005.
References
- ^ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-03-04/viz-media-adds-naoki-urasawa-master-keaton
- ^ a b "Master Keaton Manga to Get Sequel After 18 Years". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2012-02-29.Â
External links
- VAP's page of the anime (Japanese)
- Master Keaton (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Online World of Anime page
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