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Gallery Fake
ギャラリーフェイク (Gyararī Feiku)
Manga
Author	Fujihiko Hosono
Publisher	Shogakukan
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Big Comic Spirits
Original run	1992 – 2005
Volumes	32
TV anime
Director	Akira Nishimori
Studio	Shogakukan
Network	TV Tokyo
Original run	8 January 2005 – 24 September 2005
Episodes	37

Gallery Fake (ギャラリーフェイク, Gyararī Feiku^?) is a Japanese manga by Fujihiko Hosono. In 1996, it received the Shogakukan Manga Award.^[1]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Episodes

#	Title	Original air date
01	"The Man from Gallery Fake" "Gansaku Garou no Otoko" (贋作画廊の男)

02	"The Hurt "Sunflowers"" "Kizutsuita "Himawari"" (傷ついた『ひまわり』)

03	"The 13th Courier" "Juu San Hitome no Kūrie" (13人目のクーリエ)

04	"Muse Court" "Myūzu Kōto" (美神法廷（ミューズコート）)

05	"The Missing Golden Buddha" "Kieta Ōgon Butsu" (消えた黄金仏)

06	"Feichi's Shop" "Feitsi no Mise" (翡翠（フェイツィ）の店)

07	"The Rembrandt Research Project's Challenge" "Renburanto Iinkai no Chōsen" (レンブラント委員会の挑戦)

08	"The Father's Price" "Chichi no Nedan" (父の値段)

09	"Invitation to El Dorado" "Erudorado he no Izanai" (黄金郷（エルドラド）への誘い)

10	"The Prince of Happiness" "Kōfuku no Ōji" (幸福の王子)

11	"Vanished on the Battlefield" "Senjō ni Kiyu" (戦場に消ゆ)

12	"Living Ophelia" "Ikiteiru Ofīria" (生きているオフィーリア)

13	"The Prison's Michelangelo" "Kangoku no Mikeranjero" (監獄のミケランジェロ)

14	"Omitted Passages" "Pasāju o Nukete" (パサージュをぬけて)

15	"Duo" "Nijūsō" (二重奏)

16	"Incense of Yang Yuhuan" "Yōkihi no Kō" (楊貴妃の香)

17	"Karakuri Kitan" (からくり奇譚)

18	"Guiding Map" "Chizu ha Michibiku" (地図は導く)

19	"Chinen, In the Nick of Time!" "Shinen Kikiippatsu!" (知念、危機一髪!)

20	"Stars of the Landscape" "Sansui no Hoshi" (山水の星)

21	"Man of Senju-dō" "Senju-dō no Otoko" (千手堂の男)

22	"Empress of Hermitage" "Erumitāju no Jotei" (エルミタージュの女帝)

23	"Lady Sara (Part 1)" "Redī Sara (Zenpen)" (レディー・サラ（前編）)

24	"Lady Sara (Part 2)" "Redī Sara (Kōhen)" (レディー・サラ（後編）)

25	"Rain Shelter" "Ame Yadori" (雨やどり)

26	"Descendants of Gioconda (Part 1)" "Jokonda no Matsuei (Zenpen)" (ジョコンダの末裔（前編）)

27	"Descendants of Gioconda (Part 2)" "Jokonda no Matsuei (Kōhen)" (ジョコンダの末裔（後編）)

28	"Self Portrait without a Face" "Kao no Nai Jigazō" (顔のない自画像)

29	"Flower of Antiquity" "Koretsu no Hana" (古裂の華)

30	"Survival in the Sahara" "Sabaibaru In Sahara" (サバイバル・イン・サハラ)

31	"Aloof Green" "Kokō no Ao" (孤高の青)

32	"Lullaby on an Antique Organ" "Antīku Orugōru de Komoriuta o" (“アンティーク・オルゴールで子守唄を”)

33	"Zanjo-e Kane Mimai" (残暑絵金見舞)

34	"Jewel of the Gods" "Kamigami no Hōseki" (神々の宝石)

35	"Shūfuku suru wa Ware ni Ari" (修復するは我にあり)

36	"Kaleidoscope of Hawaii" "Hawai no Mangekō" (ハワイの万華鏡)

37	"One Metropolitan Night (Final Episode)" "Metoroporitan no Hitoyo (Saishūwa)" (メトロポリタンの一夜（最終話）)