Overview
FormatTV
StudioMADHOUSE
AniList Score73%
StatusFINISHED
Characters
Taichi Hiraga-Keatonmain
Yuriko Hiragasupporting
Taihei Hiragasupporting
Daniel O'Connellsupporting
Narratorsupporting
Charlie Chapmansupporting
Staff
Naoki UrasawaOriginal Creator
Hokusei KatsushikaOriginal Creator
Masayuki KojimaDirector
Tatsuhiko UrahataSeries Composition
Daisuke AranishiLiterary Arts
Kitarou KousakaCharacter Design
Yuuji IkedaArt Director
Hisao Shirai Director of Photography
Satoshi TerauchiEditing
Harutoshi OgataEditing
Yasunori HondaSound Director
Shizuo KurahashiSound Effects
Kuniaki HaishimaMusic
Kazunari SengokuMusic Production
Satoshi YoshimotoAnimation Producer
Maki NegamiProduction Desk
Daisuke AranishiDesign Manager
Akihito YamashitaPlanning
Kazuaki ItouPlanning
Umeo ItouPlanning
Other Details
Native TitleMASTERキートン
Aired Year1998 (FALL)
Source MaterialMANGA
Genres
AdventureDramaMystery
MASTER Keaton
1998TVFINISHED73% Score
Synopsis
Taichi Keaton is a half-British half-Japanese archeologist and SAS veteran of the Falklands War. He solves mysteries and investigates insurance fraud for Lloyd's around the world.
(Source: Anime News Network)
(Source: Anime News Network)
EP 1
Man in a Maze
The mysterious death of a soldier in Greece causes suspicion. Lloyd's sends Keaton as an insurance investigator.
EP 2
Little Giant
Bounty hunters stakes out a former German Red Army member, Rosa. Keaton is hired by her wealthy family to protect her.
EP 3
Strange Tale of Lasagna
Keaton is hired to retrieve nine year old Flora from Italy. They flee for France where her mother waits.
EP 4
Immortal Man
Keaton saves the "immortal man" from the Russian Mafia. The man reveals the secret of the Romanov Treasures.
EP 5
Paris Under the Roof
After being fired from a college in Tokyo, Keaton finds a job as an instructor at an adult education center in France. There he meets...
EP 6
White Goddess
Keaton meets Anna in Scilly Islands in England, who is protecting an archaeological site all by herself.
EP 7
Memories of Summer Pudding
Keaton, hoping to spend the summer vacation alone with Yuriko, heads for a farmhouse where he spent summers as a boy.
EP 8
Negotiator's Rule
Keaton heads for the countryside in England to rescue a kidnapped manager of a Japanese electronics corporation.
EP 9
Journey with a Lady
Keaton meets an arrogant old lady on a train from Germany to Switzerland who claims to be pursued by the Czech Secret Service.
EP 10
Charlie
Keaton helps a childhood friend Charlie Chapman, also a world-renowned detective, with the murder case of an art dealer.
EP 11
Special Menu
Keaton assists an Englishman to become a Chinese chef with the help of a secret recipe.
EP 12
A Case for Ladies
Keaton and an elderly woman who loves detective movies pursue the truth behind a high-profile murder case.
EP 13
A Peaceful Death
A terrorist finds his conscience and seeks Keaton's help to locate and defuse two IRA bombs in a crowded London shopping mall.
EP 14
Wall in One's Heart
Keaton helps a German businessman to locate his long-lost daughter while she seeks to avenge her mother's death in a labor camp in East Germany.
EP 15
Long Hot Day
An attack dog ruthlessly stalks Keaton deep in the mountains of Spain.
EP 16
The Elm Tree Forever
Earl Fenders' bankruptcy leaves him a broken man, but his son, Robert, needs his fathers overbearing personality to inspire his music - can Keaton restore the father's domineering arrogance?
EP 17
A Mansion of Roses
Edmond Layman was found murdered in his rose garden and his widow fears for her life. Their gardener, Eric, disappeared and is the chief suspect but Keaton soon unburies a thorny secret!
EP 18
Faker's Miscalculation
Professor Bennington runs for Chancellor to save the college only to be targeted by a team of con men. But will the con men's professional pride lead them to change their minds?
EP 19
Into the Vast Sky...
Keaton's daughter meets a childhood friend who wants to free a hawk. Keaton and the boy's father secretly follow out of concern for the boy who also desperately wants to be free.
EP 20
The Island of the Cowards
The Polish Mafia takes over Keaton's hotel in a blaze of gunfire. Although accused of being cowards for their inaction, Keaton and a secret legend use their experience to win despite the terrible odds.
EP 21
The Thistle Emblem
Keaton flies to Scotland to investigate a watch preserved in a shrine in Japan.
EP 22
Chateau Lajonchee 1944
Keaton visits Burgundy to insure the extraordinary vintage wine Chateau Lajonchee 1944.
EP 23
No Way Out
Keaton must escort a fugitive through a perilous road across a bottomless swamp.
EP 24
The Day the Op Was Born
Keaton recalls the first time he met Daniel and became the insurance investigator 10 years ago...