AI helps legacy live on for 'god of manga' Osamu Tezuka

New story in artist's 'Black Jack' series released three decades after his death

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Osamu Tezuka in 1985 and the weekly magazine that ran the latest installment of "Black Jack." Tezuka's prediction that manga would become a global language seems to be coming true. (Source photos by Kyodo and Chihiro Ishikawa)

CHIHIRO ISHIKAWA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Artificial intelligence has created everything from music to novels, but how effective is the technology when it comes to crafting work in the style of high-profile human artists such as Japan's "god of manga," the late Osamu Tezuka?

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