It’s a great read and look into the history of manga.Black Jack is a pretty dope manga. I highly recommend you all check out Black Jack. Honestly I think modern animators and artists could learn a lot from going back to their roots and studying this style. Unlike modern anime styles which differ little from series to series Tezuka utilizes a personal style with pleasant aesthetic variations in each character. Along with the astounding storyline is the amazing art style. Greatly under appreciated I can hardly praise Tezuka enough.

Structured into potentially stand alone chapters with reoccurring characters, each volume contains amazing story lines, with the ability to tug on your heartstrings in just a few pages. Pinoko another main character provides an interesting contrast to Black Jack with her innocence and humor. Black Jack himself is a highly facinating character and alternates between cruel antihero and selfless savior, making his backstory all the more intriguing. Most notably is his aesthetic style and its obvious influence on American animation, specifically that of Walt Disney.īlack Jack features episodic stories based around the renowned doctor for which the manga is named. A genius of his medium Tezuka not only influenced Japanese culture, but also the west. I canning stress Tezuka’s influence in the growth and development of manga enough. Not very well known among current manga enthusiasts, it is Tezuka’s third most famous work, along with Astroboy and Kimba the White Lion. So for my first manga review I’d like to talk about Black Jack, by far my all time favorite.īlack Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s medical drama manga. Among that is my love of anime and manga. Something I haven’t talked about much yet is my love of Japanese culture.

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