Character designs revealed for "military doctor"

The official website for the television anime of Yū-Go Ōkuma and Yoshiaki Tabata's Young Black Jack manga revealed on Tuesday that Junichi Suwabe ( Black Butler, Fairy Tail, Fate/stay night ) will voice the military doctor who will one day become Kurō Hazama's rival.

A stage event at TBS Anime Festa revealed the staff and main cast of the anime in August. Yuichiro Umehara will play Kurō Hazama, the titular character Black Jack. Other confirmed main cast members include:

Koji Yusa as Yabu

Shizuka Itou as Maiko Okamoto

Akio Ohtsuka as Narrator



Umehara will host a live-action web series promoting the title. The series has 11 half-hour episodes planned, starting on November 22 and airing on Tuesdays.

Mitsuko Kase (SaiKano, Ristorante Paradiso) is directing the anime at Tezuka Productions, and Armored Trooper Votoms creator Ryousuke Takahashi is supervising and writing the series scripts. Miyuki Katayama and Nana Miura are designing the characters and serving as chief animation directors. Minoru Nishida (Phoenix, Jungle Emperor Leo special, Thundercats) and Masato Shibata (Black Jack, Black Jack 21, Phoenix) are the art directors, and Megumi Arai is the color key artist.

Kazumasa Someya is the director of photography, and Tamami Watabe is editing. Toshiki KAMEYAMA is directing the sound at Grooove, and Daisuke IKEDA (Golgo 13, Project ARMS) is composing the music at Being. The duo UMI☆KUUN is performing the opening theme song "I Am Just Feeling Alive," and Takuto is handling the ending song.

The series will premiere on October 1 at 2:16 a.m. on TBS, and it will then run on CBC, Sun TV, BS-TBS, and other stations.

Young Black Jack is a prequel to Osamu Tezuka's classic series about a brilliant maverick doctor who practices without a license. Ōkuma and author Tabata launched the ongoing series in Akita Shoten's Young Champion magazine in 2011, with Nobumasa Gotō as the medical supervisor. The prequel follows Black Jack when he was still a medical student in the 1960s.

Image © Young Black Jack Production Committee

Source: Comic Natalie