Manga like Yugo

Master Keaton

Also known as Master Keaton.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Slice of Life

Taichi Hiraga Keaton, the son of a Japanese zoologist and an English noblewoman, is an insurance investigator educated in archaeology and a former member of the SAS. When a life insurance policy worth one million pounds takes Master Keaton to the Dodecanese islands of Greece, what will he discover amidst his scuffles with bloodthirsty thieves and assassins?



Tags: Military , Episodic , Work , Male Protagonist , Seinen

Zero: The Man of the Creation

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

The man known as “Zero” is an expert on antiquities, archaeology, art, and other types of artifacts. Specifically, he is an expert on rooting out their histories and discovering any extra-special qualities they might have – curses and so on – and then gets rid of them, and he will search the world to find the answers he seeks for his clients. He charges whatever fee he feels is appropriate; it might be a million dollars, and it might just be one.



Tags: Seinen

Munakata Kyouju Ikouroku

Also known as Case Records of Professor Munakata.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery

Munakata is an anthropology professor who studies the relationship between folklore or fairy tales and real historical events. He believes that many of these stories that most presume to be entirely fictional are actually based on real events. This manga tells the story of Professor Munakata as he follows the clues left from both the imaginary world of fairy tales and the real world of historical evidence.

Tags: Seinen , Historical

Iliad

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery

Searching for the lost island Atlantis.

Tags: Seinen

Auction House

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Mystery

Tags: Seinen , Crime

Gallery Fake

Status: Releasing
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Mystery

On a wharf on Tokyo Bay is a small art gallery named Gallery Fake. The owner of the gallery, Fujita Reiji (藤田 玲司), was once a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was a learned curator with remarkable memory, keen aesthetic sense, great skill in restoration of paintings, and knowledge of many languages, so he was called "the Professor." However, because of trouble in the workplace, Fujita was forced to quit the museum.

Now he is an art dealer who sells paintings, authentic and fake alike, at extraordinary prices. His motto is, "One without aesthetic sense can't help being cheated out of his money. And, by being deceived, one may learn to distinguish the real one from the counterfeit."

However, Fujita is not a villain?not someone who sells fake paintings just as a means to earn money. He truly appreciates art and the artists who spent their lives to create it. Sometimes he takes paintings from a wicked politician who considers art only as a means of exchanging bribes. Sometimes he tries to restore destroyed paintings. He often touches the lives of those he encounters, and people are attracted to him in spite of himself.

Note: In 1996, Gallery Fake received the Shogakukan Manga Award.

Tags: Seinen