Black Jack
ブラック・ジャック (Black Jack)
Genre	Medical, Drama
Manga
Authored by	Osamu Tezuka
Publisher	Akita Shoten
Serialized in	Shonen Champion
Original run	19 November 1973 – 14 October 1983
No. of volumes	17 [1]
Manga: Black Jack - the Dark Surgeon
Authored by	Osamu Tezuka
Publisher	Akita Shoten
Serialized in	Shonen Champion
Original run	– 9 February 2006
No. of volumes
OVA
Directed by	Osamu Dezaki
Studio
No. of episodes	10[2]
Released	21 December 1993-
TV anime: Black Jack TV
Directed by	Makoto Tezuka, Satoshi Kuwabara
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Network	Animax, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Original run	11 October 2004 – 2006
No. of episodes	61
Movie: Black Jack: Futari no Kuroi Isha
ブラック・ジャック ふたりの黒い医者 (Black Jack: Two Black Doctors)
Directed by	Makoto Tezuka
Produced by	Tomoyuki Saitō Sumio Udagawa
Music by	Isao Tomita
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Released	17 December 2005
Runtime	97m[3]
TV anime: Black Jack 21
Directed by	Makoto Tezuka, Satoshi Kuwabara
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Network	Animax, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Original run	10 April 2006 – 4 September 2006
No. of episodes	17
Related anime
Black Jack: Capital Transfer To Heian (Movie; Sidestory to 1993 version) Black Jack the Movie (1996, adaptation of 1993/manga version) Black Jack Special: the 4 Miracles of Life (Promotional special; Lead-on episodes of Black Jack TV) Ray the Animation (TV)

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Black Jack consists of hundreds of short, self-contained episodes, on the order of 20 pages of manga each. Some of it has been translated into English by Viz Communications. "Black Jack" has also been animated a number of times, two of his animations available from Central Park Media and Manga Entertainment. Black Jack is Tezuka's third most famous manga, after Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. In 1977, it won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. Viz, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a major American manga publisher. ... Central Park Media is a distributor of East Asian cinema, television, and comics. ... Manga Entertainment is a licensor and distributor of Japanese animation (anime) in the United States and United Kingdom. ... Astro Boy is the American title for the Japanese animated series Tetsuwan Atom , which roughly translates to Mighty Atom and literally to Iron-arm Atom) first broadcast on Japanese television from 1963 to 1966. ... Kimba the White Lion , lit. ... The Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year. ... Bleach , a well-known example of Shōnen manga This article is about the shōnen style of anime and manga. ...

Summary

Black Jack is a medical mercenary, selling his skills to the highest bidder. He is a shadowy figure, with a black cape, eerie black-and-white hair and a scar across his face. Black Jack cures patients indiscriminately, from common folk to presidents and yakuza leaders. To his VIP patients, he charges absurd sums. All this has given him a reputation for callousness and greed which he gleefully cultivates. However, to the reader it is clear that Black Jack actually is a bad man: he is anti-wealth and anti-prestige, and believes he is actually doing rich people a favor by removing their material wealth. The opposition to wealth and power is a common theme in Tezuka's work: powerful men are almost always portrayed in a negative light. A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict who is not a national of a Party to the conflict and is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a... For other uses, see Yakuza (disambiguation). ... A Very Important Person, or VIP is a person who is accorded special privileges due to his or her status or importance. ...

Black Jack's real name is Kuro Hazama (間 黒男 Hazama Kuroo). His odd appearance comes from an incident during his childhood where both he and his mother were severely injured in an explosion. His mother lost all four limbs, later slipping into a coma, and dying shortly afterward. Meanwhile, Kuro's own body was nearly torn to shreds, but he was rescued thanks to a miraculous operation by a Dr. Jotaro Honma (本間丈太郎 Honma Jōtarō). Marked by this experience, Kuro decided to become a surgeon himself, taking the name of Black Jack. Despite his medical genius, he has chosen never to obtain a surgical license, operating instead in the shadows. He scorns such things as licenses as meaningless symbols of social status, preferring to live in anonymity. Also, a license would mean he would have to follow certain rules, including not charging large fees for operations. An early episode of Black Jack 21 shows that he was once licensed, but it was revoked after he refused to obey orders from his superior. Ever since, he has been based in a private clinic on a sea cliff far away from civilization, but frequently travels to hospitals around the world to covertly assist terminally ill patients. In medicine, a coma (from the Greek koma, meaning deep sleep) is a profound state of unconsciousness. ... “Surgeon” redirects here. ... In most countries, only persons licensed by specified government-approved professional associations are allowed to practice medicine. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Terminal illness is a medical term popularized in the 20th century for an active and progressive disease which cannot be cured easily by popular medicinal practice. ...

Most of the episodes involve Black Jack doing some good deed, for which he rarely gets recognition – often curing the poor and destitute for free, or teaching capitalist fat cats and his pompous colleagues a lesson in humility. They frequently end with a good, humane person enduring hardship, often unavoidable death, to save others. Destitution is an extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support. ...

Osamu Tezuka drew on his knowledge as a physician in writing Black Jack, and the manga contains frequent medical details. However, Tezuka chose to generally eschew medical plausibility in his manga: Black Jack is superhuman, regularly performing spectacular and impossible feats of surgical virtuosity, such as operating in absolute darkness completely from memory, and transplanting body parts without any risk of rejection. (However, rejection is accounted for in some anime episodes) Transplant rejection occurs when the immune system of the recipient of a transplant attacks the transplanted organ or tissue. ...

Secondary characters

Pinoko

Pinoko (ピノコ) is Black Jack's sidekick, a little girl constructed by him who is actually a Teratogenous Cystoma, a sort of tumor also known as a teratoma. As seen in Teratogenous Cystoma, she was a rare type of Siamese twin, living in one of Black Jack's patients' bodies for eighteen years until Black Jack extracted her and gave her a real body, a plastic exo-skeleton. After being rejected by her twin sister, she started to live with him in his house. She always helps the doctor by doing house-chores and even acting as an assistant to some of his operations. She often acts as comic relief in Black Jack, physically and in many ways mentally appearing to be around the age of five years, but claiming to be a girl of eighteen and engaged to him, despite that he only treats her as a daughter. Image File history File links Pinoko. ... Look up teratoma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Siamese Twin can refer to: It is a slang term for conjoined twins Siamese Twin, the alias of AQi Fzono, a Japanese composer and electronic musician This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ...

Pinoko's main form of comic relief is yelling アッチョンブリケ(acchonburike), equivalent to "Oh my goodness!" in English, whilst pressing her cheeks together with her hands when something surprising happens. Sometimes, this is translated as "OHMIGEWDNESS" to fit the phrase being distorted by the action.

She appears to have been named after the fairy-tale character Pinocchio.ass fucking shit in hell. For other uses, see Pinocchio (disambiguation). ...

Biwamaru

Biwamaru is an acupuncture doctor who specializes in needle techniques. He made his first appearance in episode 51. He is blind and goes wandering everywhere where his sensitive nose takes him. He has a sensitive nose that is able to smell out the whereabouts of people who are sick. He cures his patients without accepting any money in return, making him homeless. He carries a walking stick and a huge purse-like bag with his medical equipment. Although he is blind, he can walk on his own to many places. He dislikes operations, saying that humans are not suppose to be operated too many times. He is a stubborn and weird character. He believes that his needle techniques are the perfect solution to any medical problem. He often cures Black Jack's patients causing Black Jack to feel unhappy and annoyed. One day he found a small kid (who was also Black Jack's patient), but he made a terrible mistake. He had thought that his needle techniques were perfect, but what he didn't know was that the small child had a fear of needles. Her condition became worse. Black Jack was furious and intended to show the proud Biwamaru about his mistake. Biwamaru was grateful when Black Jack saved the child's life. Later on that night, Biwamaru cured Black Jack's large intestine, which Black Jack has attempted to treat through surgery, by piercing a needle into his foot to return his kindness.

Black Queen

First making her appearance in Black Queen, Kuwata Konomi was a doctor specializing in amputations, thought to be heartless by many, earning her the nickname Black Queen in the medical world. She is engaged to Makube Rokuro, Rock Holmes, but her being infamous sends troubles for the couple. She met Black Jack, drunk, in the Tom, addressing herself as the Black Queen. The former is impressed by their similarities and falls in love. The end was bittersweet as he later discovered that Rock was actually her fiance.

Megumi Kisaragi

Black Jack's tragic love, they met during their internship. She stayed up late at work and cared more about the patients than everyone else. She discovers that Kuroo Hazama has been the one looking after her whenever she walks alone at night. Later, she reveals to have ovarian cancer, and is afraid to tell Black Jack because of her fear that having these parts removed will interfere with their relationship. Nevertheless, the couple confess their love before the operation. Ovarian cancer is a malignant tumor (a kind of neoplasm) located on an ovary. ...

Afterwards, Megumi changed her name to Kei, a male name, and started living her life as a man, treating sick patients as a ship's doctor.

Dr. Jotaro Honma

The reason why Black Jack pursued the career in medicine, mentor and life-saver, he played as the young boy's father-figure after the tragedy struck. Kagemitsu Hazama, Black Jack's father, flew to Macao, China with his new wife, Renka, abadoning his son and his first wife. The boy suffered from paralysis in all four limbs and spent many lonely years in a wheelchair until he regained the use of them. Dr. Honma wrote a book about the miracle, as seen in The Leg of an Ant. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Dr. Honma dies in the episode Sometimes Like Pearls after a failed surgical attempt by the man he inspired to revive him.

Dr. Kiriko

Dr. Kiriko (キリコ), the "death doctor", is another shadowy doctor, traveling the world like Black Jack. When Kiriko was a war doctor, he saw many patients in great pain, and got into the habit of using euthanasia. He often appears in the manga, attempting to kill terminally ill patients which Black Jack wants to save. He is so dedicated to euthanasia that he once attempted to kill himself when he got a rare infectious disease. Although he is not a villain, some have called him Black Jack's opposite: he leads patients to their deaths and Black Jack leads patients to their lives. Image File history File links Kiriko. ... Euthanasia (from Ancient Greek: ευθανασία, good death) is the practice of ending the life of a terminally ill person in a painless or minimally painful way, for the purpose of limiting suffering. ... “Bad guy” redirects here. ...

Though arch-rivals, they have been in situations where they had to cooperate in order to survive or to accomplish a task, and manage to do so with good results.

In the 'Clinical Chart' OVA series release in the US, Dr. Kiriko is introduced only as "Mozart", in homage to his affinity for classical music.

Manga chapters

Main article: List of Black Jack manga

The manga series was first serialized from 1973 to 1983. The first episode was called "I Need a Doctor!", and the last episode was called "A Question of Priority". Most of the manga was never made into an anime until very recently when a Black Jack Special was aired in 2003, thus initiating the Black Jack anime series in 2004, and the Black Jack 21 series in 2006. The following is a list of chapters for the Japanese manga Black Jack. ...

Anime versions

Black Jack, in a scene from the series Black Jack 21.

Perhaps the first televised appearance of Black Jack was in the 1980 remake of Tetsuwan Atom. Episode 26 of Astro Boy brought together three separate Tezuka creations, as Astro, Uran, Doctor Roget (Black Jack) and Penny (Pinoko) travel back through time to 15th Century Molavia (Silverland). In this storyline, Blackjack performs a life-saving operation on a critically injured Princess Sapphire (from Ribbon no Kishi), while Astro and Uran fend off Gor, a malevolent magician bent on usurping the throne. Characteristically, Roget/Black Jack refuses to operate until he is offered the key to the treasury vault, but later takes only one commemorative coin from the grateful court (which turns out to be worth $20,000 when he returns to his own time). Presumably, the name changes were due to Western audiences being unfamiliar with the Black Jack franchise at the time. Image File history File links Blackjack21. ... Image File history File links Blackjack21. ... Astro Boy Volume 1 (English version) Astro Boy is the American title for the Japanese animated series Tetsuwan Atomu (鉄腕アトム), which roughly translates to Mighty Atom (literally Iron-arm Atom); first broadcast on Japanese television from 1963 to 1966. ... Astro Boy is a remake of the 1960s anime series Astro Boy; both series are adapted from the manga series by Osamu Tezuka. ... Princess Knight, also known as Choppy and the Princess, was a 1967 Japanese childrens animated series called Ribbon No Kishi that was dubbed into English and brought over to Western audiences in 1970. ...

In 1992 Tezuka's protege Osamu Dezaki did the direction for an OVA series. Ten OVAs were made (six of which were originally only available in dub-only VHS form in North America, but all 10 OVAs are now available on bilingual Region 1 DVD), and a movie (also by Dezaki).^[2] Osamu Dezaki ) (also known as Makura Saki )) is a Japanese director of anime born on November 18, 1943 in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. ... A human ovum An ovum (loosely, egg or egg cell) is a female sex cell or gamete. ...

There is also a four episode TV special from 2003 called Black Jack: The 4 Miracles of Life.

A new TV series was released in fall of 2004 in Japan, and a new film entitled "Black Jack: The Two Doctors of Darkness" was released in December 2005. While the television series is an adaptation of Tezuka's original manga, the film's storyline is wholly original. The film describes Black Jack's attempts to prevent a group known as the Ghost of Icarus from starting a wide-spread, biological war which could wipe out humanity, while working alongside the infamous Dr. Kiriko.

In late April of 2006, a new, seventeen episode series entitled "Black Jack 21" premiered. Like the previous series, "Black Jack 21" was an adaptation of Tezuka's work. This time an overarching storyline was added in to connect each episode.

Around the same time, another series, Ray the Animation -- a medical drama which takes on a more science fictional approach to operations, diseases, and the main character -- has Black Jack, who was alluded to in the manga (as B.J.) and stars as a full on character. In this series, Black Jack performs surgery on the titular character's eyes (replacing the ones that were taken as a form of farmed medical donation) that allows her to see through solid objects, which leads to the character herself becoming a doctor like Black Jack (albeit, a fully licensed one). // Characters Spoiler warning: Written with family name first and given named second Main Characters Kasugano Ray (春日野 零) - The main character and expert surgeon, Ray is often thought of as distant and private by her coworkers. ...

Also in U.S., AZN TV shows Black Jack OVA at late night weekly, whose license is held by Manga Entertainment, Inc.

Episodes

Main article: List of Black Jack episodes

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Music

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Trivia

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• There is widespread confusion as to how and why Black Jack got his nickname. Usual assumptions include:

• Because parts of his skin are dark. (In some episodes, it is revealed that some of skin grafts came from a childhood friend who was Black. He was the only person who able to donate skin to the mortally wounded Kuro, because he had no parents to forbid the operation.)
• As a reference to the card game of the same name. (A game of chance, like difficult medical operations, and whose outcome is unsure, like the endings of Black Jack stories. This also fits with the idea that Pinoko's name comes from Pinochle, another card game.)
• As a reference to the Jack rank in the deck of cards. (This explains why Black Jack holds a (black) Jack of Spades during a TV episode's cutscene. Also, in Black Jack 21, he is shot through card Ace of Spades, making the supposed hand Blackjack.)
• Possibly as a reference to the weapon of the same name, a heavy club. (After WW2, during the US occupation of Japan, the Japanese learned to dread the "burakku jakku" of the US police and military.)
• Possibly from the character's first name, "Kuro-o", which in Japanese is written with the characters for "black" and "man"; since a jack is also a term for a man, these two characters would translate to "Black Jack". This is suggested in the original manga issue "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", and in the anime Black Jack 21.

• Black Jack starred as a side character along with Pinoko in episode 27 (Dr. Black Jack's Operation) of Tezuka's other, more famous work, Astro Boy (1980s). Both he and Astro were recruited by a detective from the distant future and were taken back to a medieval castle to catch a man who was messing up the timeline, where Black Jack was to heal a sick prince and Astro was to protect the castle from the evil sorcerer. While Astro attempts to fight the beasts sent by an evil sorcerer, Black Jack makes the startling discovery that the prince is actually a princess, and using some clever deception to outwit their nemesis, heals her as Astro defeats the sorcerer, showing him to be the man that the futuristic detective was looking for. In true Black Jack fashion, he tells the town to learn to accept that they would have a female ruler, and refuses payment, instead taking a commemorative coin which Astro later values to be worth several million dollars.

• Black Jack makes a brief cameo appearance in many works.

• In the 1980 movie Phoenix 2772 which was based on another Tezuka work. Here, he is seen as the foreman of the prison planet work camp, while Dr. Honma appears as the character named Saruta.
• He also makes an appearance as himself in the anime Marine Express, along with several other characters created by Osamu Tezuka.
• Black Jack also makes a cameo appearance in the 2004 game Astro Boy: Omega Factor created for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and is part of the game's "Rebirth" storyline.
• The character of Black Jack was so beloved by general public and manga artists, many manga artists created their own versions of Black Jack series.

• A character who resembles Black Jack appeared in Akihito Yoshitomi's manga, Ray, in volume 1 and 7 (beginning and the end). She claims that she had her eyes fixed by a surgeon named B.J.. In the anime version produced by Tezuka Productions Black Jack appears fully and is referred to by name.
• Another version, named Dr. Norifumi Iwata, appears in the manga Excel Saga [a manga that often parodies pop-culture icons]. The reference is even brought up by the American editor; the notes at the back of the first volume refer to him as a "Black Jack looking quack".
• Recent Nicktoons Network cartoon called Kappa Mikey's episode named Saving Face contained a slight humorous reference; Dr. Takashi Katashi claims that he removed the Black Jack's scar to make him appear better, being his patient.

• Since 2005, Black Jack is rewritten by Yamamoto Kenji under the control of Tezuka Production.

• Black Jack TV did not run episode 03, or Karte 03, due to the Japanese Earthquake. According to Fansubber Froth-Bite's Forum [1], it was sympathy for the dead, equivalent to having the Twin Towers removed after 9/11 in the movies, because places in the episode featured the places that had most casualties.

This episode was later aired in Japan on July 17, 2006, due to a canceled baseball game, but was not labeled as Karte 03. According to the same forum it also aired a different unreleased episode on the same date, but it is unclear how it's related to the show at the moment.

• Kimba the White Lion appears quite frequently as a cameo, especially in episode 7 of 2004 TV as the main animal saved (in this episode he is renamed "Luna-luna").

• TV Asahi releases Top 100 Anime of All Time around the end of the year. 2005, Black Jack has made to 35th. At year 2006, Black Jack is listed 54th, while the character itself celebrity rank has been listed as 52nd[2][3].

• When Pinoko was finishing up a jigsaw puzzle in the movie, the puzzle featured a picture of Astro Boy.

• Rock Holmes has his own manga by Tezuka. The most famous role he played in was in Metropolis.

• Black Queen is another Tezuka character whose real name is Zephyrus.

• Not only does Black Jack appear in Tezuka works, Tezuka also appears himself in his manga as either an author or a doctor. This is a single animation/manga series he appeared most on, appearing least once a volume of a manga, or every three episode as a cameo or comical relief.

• Sharaku and Wato from Three-Eyed One first appear as siblings in the Black Jack series in The Missing Needle.

• Famous Japanese singer Utada Hikaru voiced Pinoko in the anime's online version.

• Argentine writer Pablo Nieto published an article that analyzes one of Black Jack's stories from the standpoint of lacanian psychoanalysis, Lo siniestro en el noveno arte.

• A Black Jack cosplayer appeared in an anime/manga convention in volume 6 of the Midori Days manga.

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See Also

• List of Osamu Tezuka anime
• List of Osamu Tezuka manga
• Osamu Tezuka
• Osamu Tezuka's Star System

This is a list of Osamu Tezukas anime work in alphabetical order. ... This is a list of Osamu Tezukas manga work in alphabetical order. ... This article is about the manga artist and animator. ... Over the course of his career, the mangaka Osamu Tezuka reused the same characters in different roles in different stories. ...

External links

Official websites

• Official Black Jack TV Site (Japanese)
• Official Black Jack Manga/TV Site (Japanese); Has Officially all the Black Jack + Spinoffs chapter/volume lists
• Official list of Black Jack collected editions in Japan (partially out-of-date: 17th bunko was published in 2003)
• Official list of all 242 Black Jack chapters
• Black Jack manga at TezukaOsamu@World
• Black Jack OAV at TezukaOsamu@World
• Black Jack Movie at TezukaOsamu@World
• Black Jack: Capital Transfer to Heian at TezukaOsamu@World
• AZN Television's Official Black Jack Animation Link (Unknown to which anime it is)

Selected fansites resources

• Animetric's Review of Black Jack the Movie
• (Japanese) Map of 241 chapters and where they are collected (in each of the four successive editions)