Gallery Fake

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name = Gallery Fake


caption =
ja_name = ギャラリーフェイク
ja_name_trans = Gyararī Feiku
genre = Infobox animanga/Manga
author = Fujihiko Hosono
publisher = Shogakukan
demographic = Seinen
magazine = Big Comic Spirits
first = 1992
last = 2005
volumes = 32Infobox animanga/Anime
director = Akira Nishimori
studio = Shogakukan
network = TV Tokyo
first = 8 January 2005
last = 24 September 2005
episodes = 37

nihongo|"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.cite web | url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | title=小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 | publisher=Shogakukan | language=Japanese | accessdate=2007-08-19]

Story

On a wharf on Tokyo Bay is a small gallery named Gallery Fake. The owner of the gallery, nihongo|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.

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