In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Japanese manga (serialized comic book) series Master Keaton entertained readers with the globe-trotting adventures of its Anglo-Japanese protagonist, Taichi Hiraga-Keaton. Keaton's work as an insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London took him on journeys throughout Europe and Asia, including visits to a newly reunited Germany. When the Master Keaton manga was adapted as an anime (animated television series) in the late 1990s, four of the manga's Germany-centric plots were included in the 39 stories selected for animation. The television episodes faithfully reproduced the original illustrations and dialogues created a decade earlier, and were aimed at the same mature audience for which the manga had been written.