This original video animation series were produced based on the Manga of the same title, but only the same settings were employed. Though inspired by the original Manga, each episode is a completely new story. Characters newly designed by Sugino Akio were used in place of Tezuka Osamu's drawings.
Karte: 6 Tale of a Snowy Night: the Lovelorn Princess
The story is inspired by "A Passed Moment." In the original, Black Jack finds on a taxi driver's back a scar from an operation that indicates that the surgeon is more skillful than even Black Jack himself. In this animated version, however, Black Jack discovers an artistic scar from an operation on a young Englishman's body. Every night, the young man has a dream in which the same woman gets killed. What is the meaning of the dream? How are the scar and the dream related? And who is it who possesses surgical skills that surpass even those of Black Jack?
May 21, 1996
(c) Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd. / Akita Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. / Columbia Edutainment
Released by Akita Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., Forte Music Entertainment and Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. / 49 - 52 minutes / In color (Original Video)
BJ Production Executive Committee of Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd. / December 21, 1993 - May 21, 1996
Original Manga: Tezuka Osamu
Director: Dezaki Osamu
Picture Director: Sugino Akio
Screenplay: Dezaki Osamu, Koide Katsuhiko
Rendition: Yoshimura Fumihiro
Music: Kawamura Eiji
Medical Supervision: Nagai Akira
Planning: Matsuya Takamasa, Shimizu Yoshihiro
Character Design: Sugino Akio
Art Director: Saito Masami
Editing: Morita Seiji (Morita Editorial Office)
Shooting Director: Takahasi Hirokata, Noguchi Hajime
Sound Director: Yamada Tomoaki
Producer: Kubota Minoru, Udagawa Sumio
Music Director: Suzuki Seiji
Music Producer: Kumata Kazuo
Opening:
"Moon Shadow"
Lyrics and song by Miyahara Manabu
Arranged by THE ORANGE VOX
Performed by THE ORANGE VOX
Ending:
"Black Jack"
Lyrics and music by Miyahara Manabu
Arranged by THE ORANGE VOX