Ai Eishi & Satomi Kei | Zero - The Man of the Creation (R13)

Japanese: ゼロ (里見桂)
Synonyms: ゼロ―THE MAN OF THE CREATION, 巧手天匠 , Zero: Cleopatra no Yuuwaku - Zero to Onnatachi, Zero: Da Vinci no Fuuin - Inpei Sareta Shijitsu
Type: Manga
Volumes: 78
Chapters: 1 +
Status: Complete
Published: 1991 to 2011
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Mature, Mystery, Seinen, Supernatural  
Authors: Satomi Kei (Art), Ai Eishi* (Story)
Serialization: Super Jump

Synopsis: The man known as “Zero” is an expert on antiquities, archaeology, art, and other types of artifacts. Specifically, he is an expert on rooting out their histories and discovering any extra-special qualities they might have – curses and so on – and then gets rid of them, and he will search the world to find the answers he seeks for his clients. He charges whatever fee he feels is appropriate; it might be a million dollars, and it might just be one.

Groups Scanlating

Hokuto no Gun

Source: MAL Manga info, Baka updates, Wikipedia (JPN)

*Google translate gives a name of: Ai Hideki (Wikipedia) and moving from there to another Japanese wikipedia page the name changes to: Shiro Tokorozaki (遠崎史朗) who uses many different aliases - though Ai Hideki isn't on the list. Instead there is Ai Eiji (愛 英史) so the romanisation changes a bit. Ai Eishi is mentioned by the translation group's scans and Baka updates.

Side notes: The art is good but it's old and you can almost feel the time when watching and reading the first chapter. Being episodic by nature the stories tend to be short though the chapters a long sided. This all served well when this manga was published in magazine as people could read one story without having to wait next magazine to come out to have a chance to read the continuation. As a manga book, it is okay format too, though I like long stories and having episodic format is kinda boring to me. The first story was okay to me though there is a bit of violence involved so I added the R13 tag.

Main character

Zero, 1991 version