The staff for the new live-action series of Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack manga revealed on Tuesday that musician and actor Pistol Takehara will join the show’s cast as Biwamaru.
“Black Jack Kikai no Shinzō – Heartbeat Mark II” (Black Jack Mechanical Heart – Heartbeat Mark II, a new partially generative AI-produced 32-page one-shot Black Jack manga, debuted in Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine on November 22.
This is a medical drama in which an unlicensed but gifted surgeon, Black Jack, is the main character.
Endowed with excellent surgical technique, Black Jack always miraculously saves seriously ill patients and those on the verge of death.