With a fall 2015 anime series, the Young Black Jack TV series is getting some new streaming distribution. HIDIVE has the show going live today on the service at 1:00 pm EDT with it in its original Japanese language with English subtitles.
Sentai Filmworks has the North American home video rights. Check out our review of it.
The show is directed by Mitsuko Kase and based on scripts and supervision from Ryousuke Takahashi. Miyuki Katayama and Nana Miura on board as the character designers and chief animation directors for the project that’s being animated by Tezuka Productions. The cast includes Yuichiro Umehara as Kuro Hazama, Koji Yusa as Yabu, Shizuka Itou as Maiko Okamoto and Akio Ohtsuka as the narrator.
Plot concept: The year is 1968, the war in Vietnam is approaching its zenith, and the counterculture movement that’s been sweeping the world is engulfing Japan. While others are in the streets protesting, one young medical student becomes embroiled in a different kind of battle. As new medical technologies to save and extend lives come into play, the temptation for a surgeon to play God has never been so powerful. Even as he strives to prove his own skills to his colleagues, Hazama Kuroo begins to suspect that the potential for abuse inherent in the medical system are already being exploited. To attempt to change the system means risking his own promising career as a surgeon, and to move against the perpetrators will put his own life in danger. However, as a doctor, how can he not act when lives are on the line?
