{"product_id":"9781941220818","title":"Black Jack, Volume 13","description":"Black  Jack is a mysterious and charismatic genius surgeon who travels the  world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Through highly  trained, he freelances without a license because he distains the medical  establishment. This leads to run-ins with the authorities and  unscrupulous, sometimes criminal, individuals. Because Black Jack keeps  his true motives secret, his ethics are perceived as questionable and he  is considered a selfish, uncaring devil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Animator Suffering  from Cancer: In a chapter devoted to Pinoko, we follow her to the pool  where she is starting to take swimming lessons. The nineteen-year-old in  a tween's body is struggling with her slow development and is anxious  to learn to do what most everyone else her age takes for granted. So  after finding herself in a bit of a verbal bind, she decides to take the  plunge only to quickly sink like a rock. Her body made of prostetics,  she had little chance of floating let alone swimming very far. But a  proud teen came to her aide. The boy is a genius. A budding animator he  is working on the animated adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor  Leo but there is something lurking within him that might take his dreams  away...cancer. Pinoko knows too much about the disease, and she knows  that there is someone in her life that can treat it like no one else  ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeath of an Actress:  Marilyn Swanson, the top female actor  of the 40's, is suddenly seeing a revival among the cinema  inteligentia. Her films are being broadcast on TV through almost every  channel in prime time and every major film festival is devoting  screenings to her performances. She was a rare beauty that captivated a  generation on and off the screen. But age has caught up to her. Because  of her pride she cannot make any appearances at these events, and worst  of all she cannot perform again without regret. So she asks a medic with  god-like skills to reverse time, if only briefly so she can dazzle  audiences one last time.","brand":"Kodansha USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180479037680,"sku":"9781941220818","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941220818_p0.jpg?v=1763755129","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941220818","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}