Master Keaton | |
MASTERキートン (Masutā Kīton) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by |
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Illustrated by | Naoki Urasawa |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Big Comics |
Magazine | Big Comic Original |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 1988 – 1994 |
Volumes | 18 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Masayuki Kojima |
Produced by |
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Written by | Tatsuhiko Urahata |
Music by | Kuniaki Haishima |
Studio | Madhouse |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Nippon TV |
Original run | Season 1 October 6, 1998 – March 30, 1999 Season 2 (direct-to-video) June 21, 1999 – June 21, 2000 |
Episodes | 39 |
Manga | |
Master Keaton Remaster | |
Written by | Takashi Nagasaki |
Illustrated by | Naoki Urasawa |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Imprint |
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Magazine | Big Comic Original |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | March 19, 2012 – August 20, 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 from 1988 to 1994, with its 144 chapters collected into 18 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga for English release.
An anime adaptation was created by Madhouse, with 24 episodes airing from 1998 to 1999 in Japan on Nippon Television. An additional 15 episodes were created and released as original video animations (OVAs), bringing the total to 39 episodes. The anime and OVA series were dubbed into English and released in North America by Pioneer Entertainment from 2003 to 2004. Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki created a sequel to the series, titled Master Keaton Remaster. 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.
By 2014, Master Keaton had over 20 million copies in circulation.