Black Jack (manga)

Black Jack (Burakku Jakku) is a manga written by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of a doctor named Black Jack.

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.

Black Jack is a medical mercenary, selling his skills to the highest bidder. He is a shadowy figure, with a black cloak, eerie black-and-white hair, a scar across his face and partially black skin. 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 good 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.

Black Jack's real name is Kuro Hazama (Hazama Kur). A bomb destroyed his home when he was a child, killing his mother and giving him a lust for revenge. Kur's body was nearly torn to shreds, but he was rescued thanks to miraculous surgery by a Dr. Jotaro Honma ( Honma Jtar). Marked by this experience, Kuro decided to become a surgeon himself, taking the name of Black Jack. Despite his surgical genius, he has chosen never to obtain a surgical license, operating instead in the shadows. He scorns such things as licenses as a meaningless symbols of social status, preferring to live in anonymity. He is based in a secret private clinic far away from the city, but frequently travels to hospitals around the world to covertly assist terminally ill patients.

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.

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.

{===EPISODES===}
episode 1 is when you meet black jack must save a billionare who has been dieing for some time. He wife is a former client of black jack who is still in love with him. She is having a aaffiar with the billionare secold hand man. When she becomes pregenant. She leaves him for the billionare swearing the child is his. The point is that the billionare is dieing of a disease that craves water and then sucks the person dry. The billionare dies as his castle is being burt down by the town people ther thinking he is making them sick when really is a bacteria in the plants there that douing it. BJ finds that out in his attempt looks inside him as he has his last attack to find what causes it he is a hero but BJ gives real credit to a local doctor being a hero is bad for business for a secret dctor.

Ep2 He is passing through and helps a girl after she falls down he sees that she has three orther friends it seems like a chance encounter after a year. He meets her again this time all but one has died and the one is in a coma. Now BJ must save the girl. He finds that the girls found a secret plant that the mob planted helped by the owner of the hospital that they stay at. He also finds he could of helped her but he keeps her in a coma so no one finds out about the plant. BJ and the man almost die after mob find out in a fire where the plants are beacuse they set the evidence on fire. He also finds the girls were killed for the information.

EP3 BJ must keep a presume dictor alive so that he can return to his homeland the goverment (us) in the anime they say something else but it's us. Stop at nothing to stop them and they do. BJ falls for the general daughter who has a thrist for life. He ponders after every one has died what did he really do here and walks into the sun set.

EP4 there are two doctor one is BJ and another is a man who helps people die for a price. We meet a actress about to get the break of her life. But she is dieing of a disease that no one knows what to do. She can't eat and she can't stay alive like this. They found out that it is a biolical dirty bomb from the old war that got out and killing her. They also found that it killed her friend too as a child. Her friends ther manger and the director which is her friend older brother through she does not know that. BJ finds the cure and they destroy the place where they found it and she gives a wonderful performance.

EP5 He meets a man that little Pinokon finds Him so attractive she pines for BlackJack but understands it is all in vain. She now looks at him. As they sit on the train as a ray of hope. We first meet the man in the doctor office. He can't sleep he has voilent dreams about some women that he has never seen. in this adventure the man soon befreinds the doctor after he has fits all over europe as the doctor is having his vacation there. Pinoko falls for him while we don't know if he feels the same in that aspects he does feel connected if only as a friend. of course blackjack saves him the deeper stroy is the fact that the man was once on his death bed. He born in this country far away. A great doctor better then BlackJack saves him while a baby. He puts together parts of a women that he has memories of that why he dreams about her. In he fits he burst blood from his back like gun holes. It finds out they were just like from the women. BlackJack finds that it is holes from the old surgery that opened up from all those years ago. The doctor who did it the owl is a wanted man by the goverment and he has been watched by the kind priest that we meet. The doctor is killed and the prist disgusted because he thn inks that he will only be taken it but a maker as they hoped he never would as a herop to his people the owl. The doctor who saved al those people during the war. The man now lives knowing he was saved by the best doctor in the world.

Ep6 There is a new theme and a new resolve for BlackJack in this episode youl see. They are things in this world we can not explain Blackjack says as he goes home. There at home he gets a packages from afar off place he opens it to find it full of money and a map. That not a big deal unitll he finds it was sent two years agao. Lost in the mail backjack wants to know if that patient is died or not so he says for Pinoko to come with and see if the man wife is still alive. What he finds is a epic. Japanease story that happens around charcters that are set in feudal Japan. He finds the princess not the wife and the husband the warrior who secretly in his heart loves her. Then you find the jealous wife of the man that forces the princess to try to kill herself after the man gives a Royal degree that she must marry him. Now they want her died or marry to him. The man kills everyone to get to her. Her family is killed and all they have for each orther. Black seems to be magically teleported to the temple at will. He finds things strangely coming and going during the surgery to save her. hWe find that the mistress has been cursed the snake that ooks to be wraped around her is real and brought on by the mistresss. The warrior Kills it but Now they race to get away. She Dies as BlackJack fears he wounds opens up as they fight out of the biulding. They de together as they hope. The Mistress dies as the snake is killed. Then her seveant gives ut her dieing wish to be with her husband. And he is killed aong with the servant all that is left is BlackJack and Pinoko. BlackJack awakes to find it was all a dream but he can't remember. Now it is present day and all the charcters are there except the husband of the mistress. The mistress is a nice neighbor that helps them. We find the warrior and he leads them to the house and tells them to go see his wife. Then BlackJack calls to the husband but he is gone. He finds out that he met a ghost and he died two years ago. They walk into the sunset ready to save her life.

EP7

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Dr. Kiriko, the "death doctor", is another shadowy doctor, travelling 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 to their lives.

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.

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Pinoko (pinochle) is Black Jack's sidekick, a little girl constructed entirely by him from spare body parts. She was a rare type of Siamese twin, living in one of Black Jack patient's body for eighteen years until Black Jack extracted her and gave her a real body. She often acts as comic relief in Black Jack, physically and in many ways mentally appearing to be five years old, but claiming to be a girl of eighteen.

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Anime= version

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).

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 movie is in the works.

Anime Lyrics- BlackJack

Original Title	English Title	Description
I'll Be Back Again ~Tsuki no hikari~	I'll Be Back Again ~Moonlight~	Ending Song
Just Before the Sunrise		Opening Song
Kioku no kimi e		Second opening theme
Kono omoi tsutaerareru to...		Second ending theme

Trivia

There is widespread ignorance as to how Black Jack got his name. Some believe (wrongly) that it is because parts of his skin are dark (said by some sources to be skin grafts from a friend who was Black). Most believe (again, wrongly) it's a reference to the card game of the same name and/or the Jack rank in the deck of cards. Neither of those are the actual meaning of the name according to Tezuka. He once said that because Black Jack operated illegitimately (i.e. outside the official medical system), he was like a pirate and that the name referred to the universally known "skull and crossbones" Jolly Roger pirate flag-- which is also known as the Black Jack. Yet, Tezuka might have said this in response to comparisons to Captain Harlock who has a similar scarred facial appearance and is also a "by his own rules" outsider.

Black Jack made a brief cameo appearance 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. He also makes a cameo appearance (along with several other characters created by Osamu Tezuka) in the 2004 game Astro Boy: Omega Factor created for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance.

Black Jack

The Movie

Copyright: © 1996 Tezuka Productions (Japan) / Shochiku Co., Ltd© 1999 Manga Entertainment (North America)
Length: 90 minutes
Rating: NR, parental guidance suggested
Format: Japanese Language/English Subtitled (VHS)

Original Story: Tezuka Osamu Director: Dezaki Osamu Producers: Okuyama Kazuyoshi, Matsutani Takayuki Character Design: Tezuka Osamu Medical Supervision: Nagai Akira Character Design/Animation Director: Sugino Akio

The Summer Olympics have come to Atlanta, and world records have begun falling. Not by slim margins, but shattered by previously unknown athletes. No signs of doping or hormone treatments, the public begins to wonder if mankind has progressed to the next stage of evolution: the appearance of the Super-Human.

Two years later, the spread of the Super-Human condition is no longer limited to athletics. Amazing advances in many fields, including the arts and sciences have manifested itself. People of extraordinary talents are appearing from seemingly nowhere, displaying previously unheard of abilities.

But there's a cost to all this success. These Super-humans seem to be afflicted by a common condition; a condition which brings on a rapid, degenerative and violent death. Jo Carol, director of operations of the St. Joel Center, coerces the aid of Dr. Black Jack to find a cure. But there's more to this "disease" than what Dr. Carol is letting on.

Black Jack II (2000)
Black Jack III (2001)

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