The manga is a prequel to Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka’s classic series about a brilliant maverick doctor who practices without a license.
The prequel follows Black Jack when he was still a young, unorthodox medical student in 1968.
This year’s seventh issue of Akita Shoten’s Young Champion magazine revealed on Tuesday that Yū-Go Ōkuma and Yoshiaki Tabata’s Young Black Jack manga is going on hiatus until summer so that the creators can prepare for the manga’s next arc.
The magazine also reveals that the manga’s 12th compiled book volume is slated to ship on April 20.