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6.7/10 Original run 1992 – 2005 First episode date January 2005 Genres Anime, Animation | 7.6/10 MyAnimeList 8.2/10 Magazine Big Comic Spirits Volumes 32 Number of episodes 37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Toshiyuki Morikawa, Ayako Kawasumi, Satsuki Yukino, Atsuko Tanaka, Kenji Utsumi Similar Master Keaton, Dokkiri Doctor, Fighting Beauty Wulong, Karakurizōshi Ayatsuri Sakon, Tide‑Line Blue |
Gallery Fake (ギャラリーフェイク, Gyararī Feiku) is a Japanese manga by Fujihiko Hosono, which was adopted into an anime television series. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award.
Contents
Story

On a wharf on Tokyo Bay is a small gallery named Gallery Fake. The owner of the gallery, Reiji Fujita (藤田 玲司, Fujita Reiji), 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 real ones from the counterfeit."

However, Fujita is not a villain. He truly appreciates art and the artists who spent their lives to create it. He is not someone who just earns money by selling fake paintings. 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.
Characters
Reiji Fujita (藤田玲司, Fujita Reiji)

Sara Halifa (サラ・ハリファ, Sara Halifa)

Fei Cui (翡翠)
She is a proclaimed jewelry thief and is obsessed with them. She often calls Fujita to gloat about her latest items of which she stole. She has an obsessive fascination for certain items and will sometimes do whatever it takes to get them. Sara sees her as an evil woman. As said by her assistant, Fei can be sunny one day and stormy the next. She owns a store called Jade. She has a problem with her eyes and fears she may go blind and she states that if she goes blind she will die of not being able to see the beauty in things. Fujita claims that the jewels affect her eyes.Sayoko Mitamura (三田村小夜子, Mitamura Sayoko)
She is the director at Takada Art Museum. She thinks of Fujita as someone who will not help the art world but destroy it. She states that Fujita is a cold-blooded scam artist. She is a stiff confident person who works too much. She somewhat harbors some feelings for Fujita, as it was being shown in episode 12.