In general, Daniel tends to stay at the office, while Keaton does the legwork. The two started working together in 1982. Daniel O'Connell ( ダニエル・オコンネル) Voiced by: Shinpachi Tsuji (Japanese) Ross Douglas (English) Keaton's business partner at the Keaton & O'Connell Assurance Investigating Office on Baker Street. Although a junior high school student, Yuriko is mature for her age and also has an interest in archeology. The two divorced when Yuriko was five, just like Keaton's parents had done when he was the same age. Keaton met Yuriko's Japanese mother when she was studying mathematics at Somerville College, Oxford and they married while still students. Yuriko Hiraga ( 平賀百合子, Hiraga Yuriko) Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese) Kelly Sheridan (English) Keaton's 15-year-old daughter. Bernard mix, Taisuke ( 太助), who has an extraordinary sense of smell, even for a dog. His well-born English wife, Patricia Keaton, seems to have not cared about his womanizing ways, but they are separated. He occasionally gets involved in his own investigative mysteries.
Taihei Hiraga ( 平賀太平, Hiraga Tahei) Voiced by: Ichirō Nagai (Japanese) William Samples (English) Keaton's Japanese father who is a zoologist. He studied archeology at Balliol College, Oxford before joining the British Army and becoming a member of the Special Air Service (SAS), where he held the post of survival skills instructor and saw combat in the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege and the 1982 Falklands War. Keaton's parents separated when he was five and he grew up in Cornwall with his mother. However, his dream is to continue his archaeological research into the possible origins of an ancient European civilization in the Danube river basin. Even though Keaton is extremely 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.Ĭharacters Taichi Hiraga-Keaton ( 平賀=キートン・太一, Hiraga-Kīton Taichi) Voiced by: Norihiro Inoue (Japanese) Ted Cole (English) A British National who works as a freelance insurance investigator in London, and occasionally as a visiting lecturer at universities. In addition to his work for Lloyd's, Keaton and his friend Daniel O'Connell operate their own insurance investigation agency headquartered in London. 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. 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 siege. The couple years later divorced, with Keaton leaving his five-year-old daughter Yuriko in her mother's care. As an adult, he studied archeology at Oxford University, in part under the tutelage of Professor Yuri Scott.Īt Oxford, Keaton met and later married his wife, who was a mathematics student at Somerville College. Keaton's parents separated when he was five, and young Taichi moved back to England with his mother. The story revolves around Taichi Hiraga-Keaton, the son of Japanese zoologist Taihei Hiraga and well-born Englishwoman Patricia Keaton. Viz Media released the manga in North America from 2014 to 2017.
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The anime and OVA series were dubbed into English and released in North America by Pioneer Entertainment from 2003 to 2004. 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.Īs of 2014, Master Keaton had 20 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki created a sequel to the series, titled Master Keaton Remaster.
An additional 15 episodes were created and released as original video animations (OVAs), bringing the total to 39 episodes. It was serialized in Big Comic Original from 1988 to 1994, with the 144 chapters collected into 18 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan.Īn anime adaptation was created by Madhouse, with 24 episodes airing from 1998 to 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television. 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.