Renato Zero Renato Zero participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Spalle al muro", and from that moment on his career began to rise again. In 1993 he ranked #1 on the Italian charts with the LP "Quando non sei più nessuno". The following year "L'imperfetto" repeated this success. His concerts would regularly sell out, and he returned to his famous dress changes, although in a more balanced style. In the mid-1990s Zero dubbed the character of Jack Skellington and sang the songs in the Italian release of Tim Burton's motion picture "The Nightmare Before Christmas". In 1999, he sang
Black Jack (manga character) Tezuka's most beloved characters and his popularity is rivaled only by Astro Boy. Other manga artists have paid homage to Tezuka's surgeon. Shūhō Satō's "Say Hello to Black Jack" is named after Tezuka's character. A surgeon, identified only as B.J., appears in Akihito Yoshitomi's "Ray". In the story, B.J. operates on the title character, giving her X-ray vision. The character of former police coroner and serial killer Shingo Zuhaku, whose design is based on Tezuka's Black Jack, appears in horror manga The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Ōtsuka and Housui Yamazaki. Kamen Rider Den-O's Imagin Anime OVA parodized Black