Black Jack Alive vol.1 and vol.2

[Lugt]

I have just read the 2 volumes of "Black Jack Alive", an anthology by today's famous manga artists. Each episode features Black Jack of course, sometimes other Tezuka characters as well, or famous characters of the author. There are short essays by each author in the last pages of the book.Published in January 2006, by Akita Shoten.

Following is the list of the authors;

Vol. 1

Taguchi Masayuki
Hazuki Kyo
Murao Mio
Kondo Yoshifumi
Takakura Atsuko
Iogi Juichi
Serizawa Naoki
Tezuka Makoto
Kikuchi Shouta
Sato Makoto
Kitami Ken'ichi

Vol.2

Aoike Yasuko
Tachihara Ayumi
Shibata Masahiro
Okazaki Takashi
Yoshitomi Akihito
Takaguchi Satosumi
Tagami Yoshihisa
Yamada Naito
Inui Yoshihiko
Yagami Ken
Nagai Gou


I might be safe to say this anthology is just like a doujinshi made by famous artists. The list is really gorgeous.
And it was fun reading them. Especially the episodes by my favourite artists such as Aoike Yasuko, Shibata Masahiro were a great treat for me. Some artists were new to me, though the episode by Yamada Naito in vol.2 made me cry; it was quite moving.

[Huscheli]

[putrocca]

I have that anthology in the old pulp edition, but I shold get the nicer ones since it's getting fragile. I didn't like a lot of the art, but some of it was excellent.

[Huscheli]

Well what about "Black Jack M"?
It has the same cover design as "Black Jack Alive"...is it an anthology too or something else? If yes: Is it better or worse than BJ Alive?

[putrocca]

There's an info page about this on the main site, but BJ alive was a set of new original stories not writte by Tezuka illustrated by various artists. BJ M followed it and is a set of old BJ stories originally done by Tezuka re-done by different artists, kind-of like BJ Kuroi Ishii, only with lots of different artists instead of just one. They're both collected in the big fat yellow anthology that reprinted "The Wall" (a semi-sealed BJ issue). You can see more info if you look for Black Jack M on the Black Jack page.

[Xenops]

How would I find these to purchase? I found a link about such and it looks interesting: