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 »
If The Book of Human Insects happened to be a manga by Hideshi Hino or Kazuo Umezu, one might find the title more indicative of the book's contents on a surface level. Instead we're treated to another layered story by the master, Osamu Tezuka, and …Read more »
Christianity gets all the good movies. Oh sure, they get quite a few stinkers, but if a Left Behind is what it takes to get a Jesus of Montreal or The Gospel According to Matthew (which was produced by a gay communist for crying out …Read more »
The nice thing about this news is that we'll soon have access to Osamu Tezuka's original manga, Ningen Konchuki ( The Book of Human Insects , which Vertical Inc. is publishing in a single volume this July. Then perhaps we can compare it to its …Read more »
File Vertical Inc. Osamu Tezuka releases under "things I can't get enough of." I'm sure the same can be said for many of you readers out there, and Vertical knows this well. Hence the addition of Tezuka's 1953-1956 shoujo series Princess Knight to their ever-expanding …Read more »
If the latest rumblings from Universal Pictures are any indication, it seems there's a strong possibility we may eventually see Naoki Urasawa's bold riff on a classic Tezuka tale come to life. Universal Pictures, Chris Meledandri's Illumination Entertainment ( Despicable Me ) and Tezuka Productions …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka and Fred Patten once conspired to make you "watch cartoons in a language you can't understand". As even casual observers of paradox and head-scratching conundrums know all too well, the life of a time traveler can get complicated fast. Just a few days …Read more »
If you've read any of Vertical's publication of Osamu Tezuka's Buddha manga, you know it's absolutely worthy of the "epic tale" category. Despite its sprawling nature, Buddha is something that could work really well in animated form if handled with care, and Warner Bros. have …Read more »
Give it a glance and you may mistake it for an Osamu Tezuka original. Who could blame you, it looks enough like the real thing after all. That's the whole point of Keiichi Tanaka's gag manga Minari no Seishun : the god of manga raunchified …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 »
Before you get too excited, this is not a top 10, 5, or even 3 list. I enjoy skimming those as much as the next, but if I haven't been cataloging every single thing I touched over the course of a year, it …Read more »
Now we can finally stop speculating about Ed Chavez's hint-hint tweets regarding the next big title from Vertical. We knew it would be Tezuka, and that it would come in at around 700 pages in length, but now we know the actual title in question: …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 »
Things haven't been too hot for Tetsuwan Atom and his Imagi Studios theatrical effort, Astro Boy . David Bowers' film, which was produced with a budget of $65 million, pulled in $1.7 million during its fourth weekend, bringing it down to #13 on the box …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 »
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