Not to be confused with comedian Jack Black. It received an anime adaptation for the October 2015, and is available on Crunchyroll. By 2011 a prequel to the series was made titled Young Black Jack, which stars a younger, more handsome Black Jack, and details his days working in the Japanese medical field in the 60s. The 2004 anime adaptation is legally available to watch on Tubi.

Black Jack is one of Tezuka's most popular characters, often named second only to Astro Boy in that regard. Other manga series have featured a Captain Ersatz or Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of Black Jack when the script calls for a doctor. Often, he will arrange circumstances to teach An Aesop to the guest character of the story. His behavior is often abrupt to the point of rudeness, and he has a rather dark sense of humor. Black Jack is a brilliant surgeon but has no license (the reasons for this vary a bit between adaptations.) He charges enormous fees to wealthy clients but often helps the needy for just as much as they can pay, or even for free, and if his operations fail generally refunds the money paid. He lives alone in an isolated beach house at the beginning of the series, before taking in Pinoko.

The series has had several animated adaptations.īlack Jack himself is a mysterious but distinctive figure, with a scarred, discolored face and a white shock in his black hair. Since Tezuka was himself a qualified medical doctor, the series often had a strong sense of verisimilitude, but the creator was not above exaggeration for Rule of Cool and Mundane Made Awesome moments, or even just making new diseases and medical conditions up. He actually charges however much people can afford to pay him, but he's not above defining 'afford to pay him' as 'every yen you've got and you'll be paying off the balance for years.'Ĭreated by Osamu Tezuka, the original manga series ran from 1973 to 1983 in Weekly Shonen Champion. A manga series about an unlicensed physician who charges immense fees to use his miraculous healing skills.

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