2 days back my wallet was"taking damages" at the comic shop and came to see this new release. The original story was called "Black Jack" and was released in the 1970s. It was written by the great Osamu Tezuka, whom did titles like "Astro Boy" and "Cyborg 009". If you have read any of the titles mentioned above you would know the writer style of drawings were pretty nostalgic and curvy-looking characters. The new release was drawn by Masayuki Taguchi, who gives a sharper design and a darker interpretation of the story.
Summary extract from wikipedia:
Most of the episodes involve Black Jack doing some good deed, for which he rarely gets recognition—often curing the poor and destitute for free, or teaching a capitalist fat cat and his pompous colleagues a lesson in humility. They frequently end with a good, humane person enduring hardship, often unavoidable death, to save others.
Osamu Tezuka drew on his knowledge as a physician in writing Black Jack, and the manga contains frequent medical details. However, Tezuka chose to generally eschew medical plausibility in his manga: Black Jack is superhuman, regularly performing spectacular and impossible feats of surgical virtuosity, such as operating in absolute darkness completely from memory, and transplanting body parts without any risk of rejection. (However, rejection is accounted for in some anime episodes.) The Black Jack stories also frequently include pseudoscience and science fiction elements.
Reading after thought:
Osamu Tezuka drew on his knowledge as a physician in writing Black Jack, and the manga contains frequent medical details. However, Tezuka chose to generally eschew medical plausibility in his manga: Black Jack is superhuman, regularly performing spectacular and impossible feats of surgical virtuosity, such as operating in absolute darkness completely from memory, and transplanting body parts without any risk of rejection. (However, rejection is accounted for in some anime episodes.) The Black Jack stories also frequently include pseudoscience and science fiction elements.
Reading after thought:
Personally I have not read most of the original chapter, due to the "astro boy-like" drawing style (sorry, Osamu Tezuka san), but this new version gives a more mature and artsy impression of the storyline. The story is still in early stage development, so there's not pretty much strong elements to captivate the readers. If you like to reading pseudoscience, science fiction comic and can stand the gorginess of some images, this is the book for you.
Overall rating: 2.8/5
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