Season 1 • Episode 39
LatestTwo knife murders in London drags Keaton into a chase tying the SAS to a vicious drug ring.
The amazing Taichi Keaton works on cases around the globe that always lead to adventure! He combines his arsenal of multidisciplinary expertise in investigation, archeology, and survival with his experience as a professor, a Falklands Conflict veteran and a SAS agent to unravel the often dangerous challenges in each riveting episode.
Writing
Naoki Urasawa's pre-Monster tightrope between pulp and poignancy.
Production
Madhouse at peak 90s — detailed globetrotting on a TV budget.
Direction
Episode structures that trust viewers to connect the emotional dots.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Urasawa and Katsushika Ōkubo co-created the manga while both were assistants to the legendary Osamu Tezuka — the Tezuka DNA in Keaton's humanist dilemmas is unmistakable.
The 1998 anime arrived during Japan's 'Lost Decade,' when steady employment like Keaton's insurance investigator gig suddenly looked enviable rather than boring — his competence porn hit different.
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