Fake (manga)

Fake
Cover of Fake by Sanami Matoh.
フェイク (Feiku)
Genre	Shōnen-ai, action, comedy, yaoi
Manga
Written by	Sanami Matoh
Published by	Biblos (former) Mediation (current)
English publisher	AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Tokyopop
Magazine	Magazine Be × Boy
Demographic	Shoujo
Original run	1994 – 2000
Volumes	7
Manga
Fake 2
Written by	Sanami Matoh
Published by	Asuka Shisha
Magazine	Hug
Original run	2007 – 2007
Volumes	5
Manga
Fake 3
Written by	Sanami Matoh
Published by	Studio Thunder Comics
Original run	2010 – 2011
Volumes	3
Original video animation
Directed by	Iku Suzuki
Written by	Akinori Endo
Music by	Katsuo Ono
Studio	J.C.Staff
Licensed by	US: Media Blasters
Released	April 21, 1996
Runtime	55 minutes

Fake (フェイク, Feiku) is a seven-volume BL manga by Sanami Matoh. The story focuses in a romance between Randy "Ryo" Maclean and Dee Laytner, two New York City detectives from the fictitious 27th precinct. An anime version of the fifth act (or chapter) from the second manga is also available, in the form of an OVA. Fake was first published as seven volumes by Biblos, but after the company went bankrupt in 2006, Fake was republished by Mediation as five volumes, with one newly drawn extra story featured at the back of each.^[1] Fake's English translation is published by Tokyopop in the United States of America, and by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. All seven volumes are available in English. The one-off sequel "Like, like love" is only available in Japan as a part of an art book by Matoh.

On May 12, 2007, the manga Fake "Second Season", a sequel, premiered in a new Japanese magazine called Hug, also published by Mediation. There is currently no news on North American licensing.^[2]