MASTER Keaton (OVA)

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Taichi Hiraga-Keaton

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Yuriko Hiraga

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Daniel O'Connell

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Taihei Hiraga

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MASTER Keaton

TV · 1998

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  1

  EP 1

  Keaton überlebt die Wüstenverlassung nach Tragödie der archäologischen Ausgrabung

  21. Juni 1999

  In the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Taichi Hiraga-Keaton visits an archaeological site at the Taklamakan Desert led by Professor Takakura. While touring the archaeological site with Assistant Professor Yamamoto, Keaton momentarily meets Karim Muhammad, the Sheikh of the Uyghurs who allowed the excavation to be possible, as well as Abdullah Abbas, Muhammad's problem son who despises outsiders setting foot on the land. Professor Collins and Mr. Harney disagree with Takakura wanting to excavate an ancient wall, in which Keaton and Yamamoto soon learn from Muhammad that it is a sacred monument of the legendary hero Sadiq. Muhammad soon dies after overwhelmingly witnessing the monument being excavated on Takakura's orders despite Keaton's plea. Seeking revenge for his father's death, Abbas leaves Keaton, Takakura, Yamamoto, Collins and Harney in the middle of the desert. Keaton puts his survival skills to the test, digging a hole in a dune in order to provide shade, setting up a trap in order to catch a desert rat for food and creating a latrine using six waterproof bags in order to gather clean water. While leading them to safety, Keaton guarantees the others that Abbas will not pursue them if they make it out of the desert alive, according to the story of Sadiq. After four days in the desert within two miles towards the southern road, Abbas is surprised to see Keaton still living. Abbas orders his men to give Keaton some water, honoring him as a legendary hero. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  2

  EP 2

  Karl Neumann schützt Flüchtlinge in Leipzig, während er sich mit seinem vergangenen Doping-Skandal auseinandersetzt.

  23. Juli 1999

  In Leipzig, Karl Neumann, a former Olympic swimmer, shares an abandoned building with a hospitable group of refugees from Yugoslavia. Neumann lets go of his past by giving his gold medal to a boy named Eliah, whom he later protects by standing up to three bullying nationalist skinheads. Passing by the building, Keaton shares his sake with the refugees while they eat grilled sausages. However, the skinheads return and try to force the refugees out of the building. As Neumann and Eliah show up outside the building, the skinheads realize that Neumann broke a world record by doping. Keaton and the refugees throw icicles at the skinheads, chasing them away. With his heart in critical condition, Neumann reveals to Keaton that he used performance-enhancing drugs during the swimming competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics just to beat his rival Thomas Wenner. Keaton admits that he was hired by Wenner in order to find Neumann, who confirms that he is suffering from muscle fatigue. When Keaton later brings Wenner to the building, it is shown that Neumann already left the building while Eliah followed him. Eliah accidentally drops the gold medal into the riverbank and falls into the river below, prompting Neumann to dive in and rescue Eliah back to the riverbank. Neumann drowns in the river, only to wake up surrounded by the refugees. Keaton mentions that Wenner saved Neumann from drowning. Neumann decides to stay with the refugees and build a snowman with Eliah. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 3

  Keaton untersucht die Morde am Roten Wind an Stefans Leibwächtern und deckt einen tragischen Pakt-Verrat auf.

  21. Aug. 1999

  Three boys named Stefan Razin, Mikhail and Nikolai made a childhood pact to become fine upstanding gentlemen. In the present, Stefan works as an economics reformer from Moscow. Keaton learns about the death of Stefan's first bodyguard Dmitri Donskoi, determining that Donskoi was pierced with a twig through his medulla oblongata. After Keaton is introduced to Stefan's second bodyguard Vladimir Kovalenko, Stefan invites Keaton to attend an upcoming air show in Corringham. Stefan soon finds out that Kovalenko was strangled to death with his necktie hung from a doorknob. Because of this, Stefan enlists Keaton to protect him from a potential assassin. Keaton encounters his former commanding officer Captain West, who believes that an operative of the KGB nicknamed Red Wind is responsible for murdering the two bodyguards by using available objects. Stefan faints after realizing his handkerchief quotes the pact that he made with his comrades. In a hotel, Keaton later learns that Stefan, Mikhail and Nikolai each wrote love letters to their teacher Natalya Raskolnikov, who inspired them to make the pact. Keaton soon deduces that Mikhail is actually Red Wind and that Stefan betrayed the pact by becoming an economics reformer. At night, Keaton is captured by Mikhail, who accuses Stefan of killing Nikolai in the past. Keaton frees himself and attempts to help Stefan escape from Mikhail, but to no avail. At the stairwell, Stefan and Mikhail end up killing each other, since they both technically had betrayed their pact with Nikolai. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 4

  Sendel übergibt Keaton eine Aktentasche mit einer Bombe und einer Nachricht von Alexeyev.

  22. Sept. 1999

  On a stormy day at a resort in Formentera, Sendel takes his briefcase and walks to the beach. As the rain clears up, Sendel handcuffs himself to the briefcase and chucks the key into the sea. Keaton finds an ornamental seashell at the beach, concluding that oriental agriculture reached Formentera about 7,000 years ago. Sendel tells Keaton about a nearby mansion belonging to Velasco, whose mistress makes an appearance at the resort. Noticing that Keaton is both perceptive and whimsical, Sendel tasks Keaton to discreetly observe Velasco at a restaurant. After Velasco leaves, Keaton deduces that Velasco is unhappy with his fortunate lifestyle. Sendel explains how he was involved in the Spanish Civil War fifty years ago, when he fought alongside Tomski and Alexeyev, who were two Russian spies. During a display of fireworks celebrating their victory, the three of them became good friends. However, they eventually parted ways after they passionately but secretly betrayed each other. It is revealed that Tomski is in fact Velasco, while Alexeyev was a fugitive for forty years. Sendel received the briefcase from Alexeyev containing a message to keep his pocket watch if he does not return. Although the briefcase actually contains a bomb, Sendel has a change of heart, thanks to Keaton's positive outlook on life. Keaton unlocks Sendel's handcuffs using tweezers, taking the briefcase to the beach and letting the bomb safely detonate. Remembering the display of fireworks, Sendel finally has closure to pardon his past. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 5

  Keaton untersucht die Todesfälle verdächtiger Vorstandsmitglieder, während er auf James Kellings Anwesen weil

  21. Okt. 1999

  When Keaton has a faulty carburetor, James Kelling picks up Keaton, who is nurturing a sparrow back to health. James takes Keaton to the Arthur Malthus country estate, a premiere accounting firm which is located on a ridge overlooking Blackdown. Fellow board members Eugene Hart, Harold Smith, Pat Campbell and Oscar Hammer are introduced. While waiting for Frank Miller, who is engaged to Eugene's daughter Janet Hart, Keaton is reluctant to find out that his car will not be repaired until the next day, meaning that he will spend the night with the board members. When Frank and Janet finally arrive, the board members have a toast celebrating Frank as the newest and youngest board member. It is revealed that James offered a proposal ten years ago to set up a holding company in Brunei, which would be tax exempt from Malaysia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. When Keaton brings up the suspicious deaths of three former board members, he mentions that they were poisoned by a plant called monkshood. After Russian tea is served, Keaton reveals his true motive of investigating the deaths and prevents everyone from drinking their Russian tea. He suspects James as the culprit, seeing as the three former board members were poisoned before their promotions. James drinks Frank's Russian tea, and he recalls that he poisoned his own brother during childhood. In order to avoid being arrested, James runs out the window and falls to his death into the ridge below. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 6

  Keaton rettet den kurzsichtigen Künstler Douglas aus einem Gebäude in Finchingfield, in dem Morris Fälschungen erzwingt.

  21. Nov. 1999

  At a building in Finchingfield, Keaton attempts to rescue elderly artist Douglas, who has extreme myopia. Unfortunately, bodyguard Morris forces Douglas to forge a painting by Edgar Degas for art dealer Clifford Ferris. Keaton is captured by Morris, who injures Keaton's shin with a paddle before leaving. Keaton uses Douglas's easel to create an impromptu splint. Although Douglas has little interest in escaping, he secretly has sketched the scenery of the Scottish Highlands. Douglas developed myopia as a boy due to his love for drawing, but he eventually forged paintings for work as a man after his sketches did not bring him much income. He felt confident after forging a painting by Vincent van Gogh, but he began having recurring nightmares of walking aimlessly in a strange forest as a boy. However, he later had a dream that he found a mountain path outside the forest, resulting in his sketch of the Scottish Highlands. Explaining that humans have a passion for taking what is seen and expressing it in their own style, Keaton fills up a light bulb with charcoal and oil thinner and stuffs it inside a bust, fooling Morris into an explosion when he arrives. Keaton and Douglas try to escape with the sketch, but Clifford shoots at them. Clifford impales Douglas with his rifle, and Douglas's eyesight is miraculously restored, only for Clifford to destroy the sketch. Keaton and Douglas work together to knock out Clifford before they drive off from the burning building. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 7

  Heinen beauftragt Keaton, den Tod von Seidel in Dresden zu untersuchen, wobei er ein Stasi-Verbrechen aufdeckt, das ein giftiges Mittel mit Pfirsichduft beinhaltet.

  22. Dez. 1999

  In Dresden, Heinen tasks Keaton to investigate the untimely death of his friend Seidel. Mrs. Wagner, a neighbor who has a hobby for potpourri, mentions that Seidel had a characteristic scent when he collapsed. Ascott, a painter who lives across the street, says that he witnessed Seidel walking inside the front entrance of the apartment building. A congested doctor informs that Seidel was a war veteran with a burn mark. Heinen soon reveals that Seidel lacked the scent of death. Ascott remembers that Seidel was secretly watched by a man holding an umbrella near the front entrance of the apartment building. The doctor confirms that Seidel's burn mark was on the inner surface of his right arm. Wagner recalls that Seidel had a distinct scent of peaches when he died. While taking his dog Kurt for a walk, Heinen comes across the man, concealing a gas gun under the umbrella that contains potassium cyanide with an aroma of peaches. Kurt inhales the fumes and dies. After Keaton chases away the man, recognized as Johan Kurten, it is revealed that Heinen and Seidel were informants for the government of East Germany, while Kurten was their supervisor working for the Stasi. Mentioning that Seidel's burn mark covered a tattoo of the Schutzstaffel symbol, Heinen admits that he was blackmailed and manipulated by the government. Kurten tried to cover his tracks after the war relieved Heinen and Seidel of being informants. Heinen carries Kurt in his arms, lamenting that he lost two friends. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 8

  Keaton untersucht Kayoko Kidas Vergangenheit und sichert die gestohlenen Beweise von Usami.

  21. Jan. 2000

  Keaton visits Taihei Hiraga at the cottage, where his friend Naomi is staying for awhile. After tracking down display window designer Kayoko Kida, who believes that Taihei is her biological father, Keaton is taken to her apartment. When she was six years old, she frequently followed Taihei to his former apartment in the slums and saw him on the second floor. Keaton leaves the apartment after returning money that Kayoko gave to Taihei, but he quickly comes back, finding her passed out from drug overdose. When she recovers, she says that her mother advised her that all men who are always kind at first end up using and hurting women. After recalling that Taihei called her dog cute when she was six years old, Kayoko reveals that her mother committed suicide after Taihei disappeared. Kayoko was sent to an orphanage and received a scholarship, making up her mind to learn a skill and live on her own merit. However, she fell in love with her business partner Usami, who left her after stealing her registered seal and computer discs containing her database. Arriving at Usami's apartment, Keaton breaks in and uses Taisuke to sniff Kayoko's handkerchief, soon locating the computer discs behind Usami's bed. Kayoko drops off Keaton, hoping to see him again. At the cottage, Keaton confirms that Taihei lived on the third floor of the apartment in the slums. The man living on the second floor was actually a pimp, who was stabbed to death by Kayoko's mother. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 9

  Keaton ermittelt in Florenz in einem Fall eines vermissten Schülers und eines Terroristen, um ein Testament zu sichern.

  21. Feb. 2000

  In Florence, Keaton searches for Hiroshi Matsui, a Japanese exchange student studying at the Masaccio Art Institute of Higher Learning, in order for him to sign his deceased mother's will as the beneficiary. With Matsui's sudden disappearance, Keaton is told to look for a man named Pietro Moralli. At Moralli's apartment, Keaton learns that Moralli offered to hide Matsui there due to being involved in a political movement, but Matsui has gone missing. Keaton secretly takes a painting knife left at the apartment. He eventually encounters two detectives, who believe that Matsui is involved with a man named Francesco Meda, a terrorist from the Red Brigades. Moralli follows Keaton to the ruins of Serravalle Duomo on the outskirts of Florence, where Moralli attempts to stab Keaton with a cinquedea. Meanwhile, the detectives learn that Moralli and Meda are the same person, in which he is targeting Matsui for the insurance claim. Keaton defends with the painting knife, but he is unexpectedly knocked out by Matsui. Meda urges Matsui to sign the will worth 400 million lira over to him. With Keaton trapped inside the ruins, he uses his survival skills to escape. When Matsui refuses to sign the will over to Meda, Keaton arrives in time and defeats Meda in combat. The next day, after Meda is arrested, Matsui tells Keaton that his mother supported his ambition for painting. However, Matsui was unable to finish a painting of the ruins as a gift to his mother. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 10

  Keaton erzählt Yuriko während einer Zugfahrt von seiner Kindheit in Cornwall.

  23. März 2000

  While traveling by train through Cornwall, Keaton tell Yuriko tells the story of his childhood. At St Ives in 1967, Keaton was told by bus driver Christopher "Chris" Watkins that he will be a "master of life". At a pier, Keaton had a scuffle with three boys named Dean, Ralph and Phil, who were jealous that Keaton stayed at his grandmother's summer house. Chris once told a married couple as well as a smoker named John to leave the bus for disruptive behavior. After telling Keaton that the poor locals customarily resent the wealthy outsiders every summer, Chris took him to a special spot at Land's End, where the sea sparkled red. Keaton was soon invited by Dean, Ralph and Phil to cross Bodmin Moor. Chris parted ways with Keaton after lamenting his miserable life. Keaton, Dean, Ralph and Phil cross Bodmin Moor, despite the fact that Dean threw out Keaton's water canteen. Luckily, Keaton dug up water inside an ancient tomb, but the four of them were forced to stay there all night. The next morning, the mothers of Dean, Ralph and Phil were relieved for their safety. However, Dean accused Keaton of coercing him to cross Bodmin Moor. Chris arrived to vouch for Keaton and take him home. Chris took Keaton back to Land's End, where the sea sparkled green. In the present, Keaton reveals to Yuriko that Chris, the father of Dean, remarried his ex-wife Carol. Keaton still remembers the unforgettable color of the sea. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 11

  Yuriko hilft Sachiko dabei, eine gestohlene Handtasche zurückzuholen, die ein Geschenk für ihre lange vermisste Freundin Paul Wilkins enthält.

  21. Apr. 2000

  During her Golden Week vacation, Yuriko leaves Daniel O'Connell to look after Keaton, who is in the hospital with a broken left leg. In Piccadilly Circus, Yuriko encounters an elderly Japanese woman named Sachiko Shiatori, whose handbag was snatched by a luggage thief. Unfortunately, the handbag contained a gift for a long-lost friend of Sachiko. Identifying the luggage thief as Olaf Helmer, a detective in the Scotland Yard says that there needs to be concrete evidence before making a move. Yuriko learns that it has been fifty years since Sachiko saw her lost-long friend, revealed as a British university entomology professor from Marlow named Paul Wilkins, who first met Sachiko after fainting in the street behind her family's wholesale textile business and stayed a week in her guest house to recover while thinking about the koinobori on display. Yuriko and Sachiko encounter and follow Helmer to a harbor shed, working together to defeat him and get back the handbag. While traveling by train to Marlow, Sachiko explains that Paul wrote several letters to her before and after the war, but her father thought Paul was a spy and disposed of the letters. They are unable to find Paul once reaching Marlow, but Yuriko decides to hang the gift, revealed as a carp streamer, on a clock tower. Gladly, Sachiko is fetched to reunite with Paul, who saw the carp streamer from his hospital window. Sachiko tells Yuriko that she has decided to live in Marlow and stay with Paul. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 12

  Keaton untersucht Edgar Fisher, während Daniel Louise Brown datet, die die Ereignisse manipuliert, um Reeds Anwesen zu schützen.

  24. Mai 2000

  Keaton reports to Daniel about an elusive insurance beneficiary named Edgar Fisher, who was an illegitimate child of the deceased Mr. Reed. At a bar, Daniel introduces Keaton to his beautiful date named Louise Brown, a secretary for her uncle's precious metals firm. During his investigation to find Edgar, Keaton learns that Edgar used to play the bass in the indie rock band Fires under the name Ted Thunderstorm. When Keaton goes to Edgar's apartment, Edgar sneaks up and knocks out Keaton with a beer bottle before running away. The next day, Keaton finds out that Edgar was fired from a music store due to storming off after receiving an anonymous phone call. As Keaton suspects that someone is secretly contacting Edgar in order to avoid him, Keaton finds and subdues Edgar in an alleyway, only to learn that Edgar has been repeatedly warned about the cops from receiving random phone calls. Before Louise tries to meet Daniel inside the bar, Keaton stands in her way. Louise admits that she was assigned to intervene somehow so that Edgar would not split the insurance money and estate with Reed's three legitimate sons. She used Daniel by getting information about Keaton's plans and anonymously tipped off Edgar so Keaton would not meet him. Although it was a job for her, she enjoyed being around Daniel despite having an incarcerated husband. Keaton goes to the bar and hangs out with Daniel, while an ashamed Louise rides off in a bus. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 13

  Keaton verpasst ein Universitätsgespräch, während Taihei und Pai Li einen Tiger vor Waffenschmugglern verteidigen.

  24. Mai 2000

  At the cottage, Yuriko schedules Keaton for a job interview for tomorrow afternoon at Tozai University. Taihei later arrives to borrow some money from Keaton, who is advised to avoid becoming indebted to a woman. After using the money to buy ten kilograms of beef, Tahei is halted by two Chinese gunrunners asking the whereabouts of a certain Mei Lin. Taihei manages to escape thanks to Taisuke's distraction and Keaton's unseen aid. After Keaton witnesses Taihei buying ten more kilograms of beef the next day, Keaton follows Taihei to an abandoned warehouse. Keaton encounters Pai Li, a young Taiwanese woman who is nurturing Mei Lin, a Malayan tiger. Pai Li's father died a year ago after a mafia of gunrunners called the Red Dragon assumed his enormous debt by confiscating his animal shop. The Red Dragon legally sold Mei Lin to Japan for research purposes, but Taihei and Pai Li managed to rescue Mei Lin and use the warehouse as a hideout. Unfortunately, Taisuke leads the Red Dragon directly to the warehouse. The Red Dragon fall prey to several booby traps set up by Keaton, Taihei and Pai Li, but the mafia boss eventually takes Pai Li as a hostage. Luckily, Mei Lin appears and attacks the mafia boss in time. After the Red Dragon is apprehended, Keaton deduces that the Red Dragon actually wanted to smuggle Tokarev pistols hidden underneath the warehouse floorboards. Due to the incident, Keaton missed out on attending the job interview. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 14

  Chief Otter ermittelt gegen James Wolf, ein ehemaliges Mitglied des Special Air Service, der mit mehreren Morden und Mafia-Kontakten in Verbindung gebracht wird.

  21. Juni 2000

  Chief Otter leads an investigation concerning James Wolf, a former staff sergeant skilled with military fighting knives. In Whitechapel, James saved Clare from three members from the Corsican mafia and murdered one of them named Robin, a hoodlum from Mayfair. In Earl's Court, James previously killed Paul Sparrow, a former military agent who was a heroin smuggler in Afghanistan. Otter confirms with Colonel Fox that the main culprit is James, who left the Special Air Service after attacking a colleague. Meanwhile, James shelters Clare, who worked for Leon Hannah, the Corsican mafia boss involved in drug trafficking and human trafficking. As it is revealed that Clare is a cocaine addict, James later attempts to offer Hannah 300,000 pounds in exchange for Clare's freedom. Personally summoned by Fox in order to hunt down James, Keaton recalls that James was his former instructor but left the Special Air Service in order to take care of his daughter Karen Wolf. James tells Clare to meet him at an inn in Southport. Keaton learns that Paul cut James out of the cocaine smuggling business and worked with the Corsican mafia instead. At an estate in Ilford, Keaton and Otter visit Lord Swan, a sponsor in the business, but Swan does not heed their warning about James. Otter triggers a laser sensor alarm when he tries to follow Keaton to the backyard. After becoming surrounded by Corsican mafia guards and their Dobermanns, Keaton clears up the confusion, allowing him and Otter to leave unharmed. (Source: Wikipedia)

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  EP 15

  Keaton und James dringen in das Anwesen ein, um Clare zu retten und sich Hannah zu stellen, während Otter Swan festnimmt.

  21. Juni 2000

  Before driving away from the estate, Otter learns that Keaton's skilled fencing instructor James attacked Keaton's sadistic combat instructor Al Flare during a training demonstration. Hannah plans to use Clare as bait to catch James. After James's sister explains that James's daughter Karen became a drug addict and died in a car accident after running away, she begs Keaton to save James from sacrificing his life. Otter relays a message for Keaton to meet James at Ladywell. James tells Keaton that he shot at a brown rabbit during childhood, but it escaped with an injured left hind leg. The Corsican mafia guards remind Hannah that he is only supposed to capture Clare, but Hannah goes against the deal and plans to kill James by himself. Although James's business partner Paul and financier Swan previously sold James out of the drug smuggling business, James murdered Paul for having sold drugs to Karen, who was later killed by an oncoming truck. At night, Keaton and James infiltrate the estate, managing to get past the Dobermanns and the Corsican mafia guards. Keaton rescues Clare from captivity, while James murders Hannah, though incurring a wound on his arm in the process. Otter arrests Swan at a dock and prevents him from drug smuggling. James says farewell to Keaton as it begins to snow. In the inn, Clare spots a white rabbit outside, noting that it has the courage to fight even if it gets cornered. (Source: Wikipedia)

Häufige Fragen

Wie viele Episoden hat MASTER Keaton (OVA)?

MASTER Keaton (OVA) hat 15 Episoden.

Wann erschien MASTER Keaton (OVA)?

MASTER Keaton (OVA) erschien 2000.

Welches Studio produzierte MASTER Keaton (OVA)?

MASTER Keaton (OVA) wurde von MADHOUSE produziert.

Wer führte bei MASTER Keaton (OVA) Regie?

Regie bei MASTER Keaton (OVA) führte Yuuji Ikeda.

Ist MASTER Keaton (OVA) abgeschlossen?

Aktueller Status von MASTER Keaton (OVA): Abgeschlossen.