Tezuka's famous cartoon, "Strange Doctor Black Jack", has been a sequel since November 22, with the aid of AI.

CTOnews.com, November 13 (Xinhua)-- according to a report by NHK in June this year, the famous Japanese cartoonist Hatsuki's masterpiece "Strange Doctor Black Jack" will usher in a sequel, in the form of AI-assisted creation.

The sequel to "Strange Doctor Black Jack" will be published in the latest issue of Weekly teenager Champion on November 22, officials announced today. As a tribute to the late master, interested CTOnews.com friends can look forward to it.

According to NHK, the team is made up of artificial intelligence (AI) experts and comic book creators, led by Shizuka Tezuka, the eldest son of Tezuka, and Satoshi Kurihara, a professor at Keio University. The project is called TEZUKA2023, and the team announced that the sequel will use GPT-4 to acquire Tezuka's unique painting style and plot style, enabling the team to create a sequel that is "consistent" with Tezuka's work.

The project team first digitized the existing story structure of "Strange Doctor Black Jack" and the relationship of the characters, and then asked GPT-4 to learn the painting style and ideas of Tezuka's previous works, in order to generate possible lines and mirrors, which were finally summarized by the project team members and perfected into the final work.

CTOnews.com Note: "Strange Doctor Black Jack" is a cartoon created by Tezuka in 1973, which tells the story of surgeon Black Jack without a medical license and always asking for huge medical fees, making him notorious in the medical community. But in fact, he is a doctor with noble medical ethics and saving lives. His superb surgical skills are unparalleled, and he negates traditional values and acts only in accordance with his own concept of medicine, so he is rejected and isolated by the authoritative medical profession. However, he was fearless and firmly followed the path of medicine he believed in with the help of his assistant.