Synopsis

Gallery Fake sits on a wharf overlooking Tokyo Bay, run by Fujita Reiji—a former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He was brilliant at his job: sharp memory, impeccable taste, expert at restoration, fluent in multiple languages. Colleagues called him "the Professor." But after some workplace trouble forced him out, he reinvented himself as an art dealer willing to sell both genuine and fake paintings for astronomical prices. His philosophy? "If you don't have an eye for art, you deserve to get ripped off. And maybe getting fooled will teach you the difference." That said, Fujita's not actually a villain. He genuinely loves art and respects the artists behind it. He's not just peddling forgeries for profit. He'll sometimes liberate paintings from corrupt politicians using them as bribery tools, and he takes on restoration projects for destroyed works. Readers end up rooting for him because of his real passion for the medium. He has a way of impacting the people around him, drawing them in despite his cynical exterior.

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