Black Jack, the famous manga by Osamu Tezuka, is about to get a new chapter over 30 years since Tezuka’s death thanks to AI. The project was announced last week by folks at Tezuka Productions, including Macoto Tezka, son of the legendary manga creator. “While …Read more »
It’s been 75 years since Osamu Tezuka first began selling his manga, and people want to celebrate. A limited edition of 350 prints showing his iconic Black Jack character have been made, pulling from a 1977 cover of Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shonen Champion. Each print …Read more »
Nothing says classy and expensive quite like a life-size gold statue, so it’s a bonus when said statue happens to be of the lead character from Osamu Tezuka’s classic Black Jack manga. The Black Jack statue is set to go on sale in Japan on …Read more »
The antihero: far cooler than your average goody two shoes, this is the archetypal badass who takes no prisoners, cares about no one, and doesn’t have time to chat. Think Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly , Mad Max or basically …Read more »
With the anime adaption of Yū-Go Ōkuma and Yoshiaki Tabata's Young Black Jack manga rapidly approaching its October 1 premiere on TBS, another member of the voice cast has been revealed. The latest update has Junichi Suwabe (Grimmjow in Bleach , Dandy in Space Dandy …Read more »
Before Black Jack was the rogue doctor we came to know and love in Osamu Tezuka's original, classic manga series, he was in medical school, naturally. That's the period depicted in Yū-Go Ōkuma and Yoshiaki Tabata's Young Black Jack prequel manga, which is officially getting …Read more »
If you are in the habit of pouring one out for dead homies, please offer your next libation to crowdfunding site Anime Sols, who will shutter their virtual doors May 1. As stated on the Anime Sols news page : As you may have noticed, …Read more »
After quite a bit of skepticism at its launch, the Anime Sols crowdfunding service has happily come in just under the wire funding two of the eight projects it had launched upon opening in May. Creamy Mami and Black Jack both had passionate bases that …Read more »
Sam Pinansky of Yomiuri TV Enterprise appeared on the Anime News Network ANNCast on May 3 to talk about “Anime Sols,” a new web site he helped found that might just change the way anime is sold in the west. The goal of Sols is …Read more »
The "Demon of Surgery" is back in Vertical Inc.'s latest volume of Black Jack and, unfortunately, there's only one more to go after this one. Don't let that get you down, though, as volume 16 packs nearly 350 pages of unlicensed surgical action into yet …Read more »
Before the latest volume of Black Jack is even a third of the way through, the good doctor fends off sharks with scalpels while adrift at sea with a critical patient. Does something as seemingly preposterous as this make me balk? Oddly enough, no. Instead, …Read more »
In the latest volume of Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack , the good doctor goes above and beyond the call of duty many times to show that he's just about the coolest manga character there is. He takes rabid dog-bites to the arm to prove a …Read more »
Black Jack can do anything he wants. Money isn't an issue, and there's hardly such a thing as going too far to teach the kinds of lessons he deems important. Take the case of one Mr. Ichigahara, for instance. Formerly involved in the disposal of …Read more »
It seems like just yesterday that I was sitting on the couch reading Black Jack volume 5, so I was a little shocked when the next one came my way like some mist-born apparition. Then I sat and thought about how I live in a …Read more »
Hey, remember pogs? How about Troll dolls? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry. It’s only a matter of time before someone tries to bring them back. The same is true for our entertainment. Whether talking about America or Japan, the last …Read more »
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