Black Jack anime to stream at Crunchy Roll

The homepage for the second part of the anime adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha manga has released a ten-minute trailer with English subtitles which was shown at last month’s Cannes Film Festival. This is the second film in the trilogy and it features the voices of the seiyuu Ikue Ohtani as Tatta, a boy who … Continued

Ed Chavez, the marketing director of the North American manga publisher Vertical, reports that the Weekly Astro Boy Magazine application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch mobile devices will be available in Europe in English and French in the summer of 2010. The application with weekly installments of titles from manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka … Continued

Manga Entertainment is streaming the 1980-1981 Astro Boy (Mighty Atom) anime series on the YouTube video website, and the Crackle channel began streaming the 2003-2004 Astro Boy television anime series on the same site this past week. Both are remakes of the original 1963-1966 Astro Boy television anime, which in turn was an adaptation of … Continued

The Daily Sports newspaper reports on Thursday that ravex, a new musical unit attached to the Avex label, will ship a special 18-minute Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom/Mighty Atom) anime short with its debut album, trax, at the end of April. Tezuka Production is collaborating on this anime based on the robot boy created by the … Continued

Black Jack is a freelance master surgeon with unrivalled skills that allow him to perform the most difficult and dangerous operations. Cool-headed, professional and reclusive, he goes wherever he is called before disappearing as mysteriously as he had arrived. Following a crop of record-breakers at the Olympic Games, a group of people dubbed “super-humans’ by … Continued