There are 18 stories total, which comes up to about 600 pages. There are a handful I recognized, but many are artists that I wasn’t familiar with and probably just had a story running in Shounen Champion when this came out. When I say “various artists of note,” I mean people that work for Akita Shoten, mostly artists from Shounen Champion (the magazine that Black Jack ran in). It’s a tribute to Black Jack done by various artists of note, reinterpreting old Black Jack stories with varying degrees of faithfulness.
This magazine was published by Akita Shoten in 2005. I’ve got two others in mind, one of which I was going to post this weekend… but I got this yesterday, and I had to talk about it immediately.
I haven’t been good about posting these articles, which is mostly because I always back out of my topics at the last minute out of a fear of not knowing enough about them and looking like an idiot. If you are unfamiliar with Black Jack, there are several volumes of the regular series available in English. As a rule, I don’t cover non-English language releases here, so I thought I should point that out.
