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Black Jack (2004)
Popularity 16.6
Overview
Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' life (as long as they have the money for it, that is), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in.
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Akio OtsukaBlack Jack (voice)
Yuko MizutaniPinoko (voice)
Mako Hyodo(voice)
Key Crew
Katsuyuki SumisawaSeries Composition
Makoto TezukaSeries Director
Osamu TezukaComic Book
Satoshi KuwabaraSeries Director
ARTWORK GALLERY
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Specials
12 episodes · First aired 2006-07-17 Black Jack TV: Lost Episodes. This was originally from the Black Jack (2004), but weren't aired then, only later. There are two episodes in this: "The Dog Thief", and "Kamaitachi in the Woodlands". Black Jack TV specials (2003). Four Black Jack specials titled "The 4 Miracles of Life" aired in 2003. Black Jack: The Boy Who Came from the Sky (2000). This OVA was a standalone 22-minute special installment produced as an exclusive supplement for the Black Jack Limited Edition Box gift set in March 22, 2000, the story was based faithfully on the chapter story from the manga titled "The Boy Who Came from the Sky".
E01
Thieving Dog
2006-07-17 · 25 min
One day when Pinoko and Sharaku are playing by the park they encounter a scruffy dog that promptly steals Pinoko’s purse - but as they begin their pursuit, a truck hits the four-legged thief. Upset that the poor hound might die, Pinoko immediately calls for Black Jack to save the canine, but can she persuade him to let her keep her?
E02
Kamaitachi in the Woodlands
2006-07-17 · 25 min
After one of his patients, Doctor Clonen, calls Black Jack to a remote lodge in the forest, the genius surgeon becomes caught up in a serial murder case where he himself is the prime suspect!
E03
Where is a Doctor!
2003-12-22 · 25 min
Akudo, the reckless juvenile delinquent son of the billionaire Nikla, crashes his sports car while driving dangerously around the streets of the city after cloth from Davy, a young tailor, obscures his windscreen when he has to jump out of the way. Nikla searches the world for a surgeon to save his severely injured son, and eventually hires Black Jack for three billion. Jack advises Nikla that his son can only be saved by using the body parts of a donor, and Nikla has Davy arrested for causing the accident and forces him to be the donor. Two months after the operation, the bandages are removed and Nikla sees his son fully recovered, however a few days later he disappears from the hospital. It is revealed that Jack actually remodelled Davy's face to look like Akudo who had actually died from his injuries. Jack then changes Davy's face again and Jack gives him the money so that he and his mother can leave the country and never have to work again.
E04
The Disowned Son
2003-12-22 · 25 min
Black Jack and Pinoko are sitting in the Tom café where Osamu Tezuka sits drinking coffee and drawing manga. Pinoko drags jack off to Sendai for an operation for the removal of a mole on a rich man's son. On the way, their car breaks down in the snow and they walk to a remote house inhabited by a talkative old woman. She is awaiting a visit from three of her four sons for her birthday, but they all notify her that they cannot come. However, Shiro, the fourth son arrives late, and explains to Jack that he was unwanted, became a delinquent and was disowned by his father, but has since become a doctor. Suddenly his mother falls with abdominal pain which Shiro suspects is long untreated appendicitis, but which Jack believes is "mobile cecum syndrome"and he operates on the old woman with Shiro assisting. They leave quietly the next morning while Shiro plans to stay and open a clinic in the village.
E05
U-18 Already Knew
2003-12-22 · 25 min
Dr. Wattman is the creator of the medical program, U-18 which uses computer technology to manage over 900 patients. However U-18 shuts down its operations, stating that it is ill and must be treated by Black Jack within 48 hours or it will terminate life support functions for the patients. Dr. Wattman argues that it is a machine which needs mechanical repair but the computer refuses to accept it. With only minutes to spare before the deadline, Jack arrives by helicopter, and agrees to operate for $10 million. After confirming his identity, U-18 agrees to switch its circuits off so that he can operate. Dr. Wattman tries to decommission U-18, but Jack refuses because it is his patient. After a successful operation, U-18 decides to retire, but Dr. Wattman realizes that the computer has become her daughter and they agree to run the hospital together.
E06
Just Like a Pearl
2003-12-22 · 25 min
While searching for a knife to cut a cake, Pinoko finds a case containing a scalpel encased in stone. Jack tells her the story of how he received it from Dr Jotaro Honma, who saved his life and inspired him to become a doctor. Years ago, in the operation which saved Jack's life, Honma accidentally left a scalpel inside Jack's body. During a second surgery, Honma extracted a stick from Jack's body which had secreted calcium to encase the scalpel, like how an oyster creates a pearl. Honma referred to it as a "miracle of life", but questioned if someone should have control over another human's life. Years later, the ageing Honma slipped into unconsciousness with cerebral softening/hemorrhage. Jack operated but could not save Honma and blamed himself for his death. In the present, Jack visits Honma's grave and considers his comment, which he thinks would make it pointless being a doctor. Back on the cape, Black Jack throws the scalpel into the ocean, proclaiming that he is a doctor.
E07
Black Jack: The Boy Who Came from the Sky
· 22 min
Escaping from the Berad Republic Air Force with his wife Miguela on a stolen Lepol plane, the former Air Force Major Ivan Juric Gaganoff insists Black Jack to save the life of their son Andrei, whom he has been diagnosed with Eisenmenger's syndrome. After the hardships with Major Gaganoff constantly threatening to kill him if he doesn't cure him, Black Jack, with Pinoko's help, performs the operation on Andrei, attaching his defected blood veins and fusing them with those from his mother; regardless, Gaganoff sacrifices himself after leaving the $2,000,000 he and his wife left him to pay for the surgery, leaving behind a blood-stained cloth on Andrei's hand as a final thank you for the client and blowing himself and the plane up in the process.
E08
Episode 8
2004-10-20 · 25 min
E09
Episode 9
2004-10-20 · 25 min
E10
Episode 10
2004-10-18 · 25 min
E11
Episode 11
2004-10-20 · 25 min
E12
Episode 12
2004-10-25 · 25 min
Black Jack
60 episodes · First aired 2004-10-11 · ★ 6.7 This is the first animated TV series of the popular manga Black Jack. Basically, it is a faithful production of the original but some adjustments were made in the plots and depiction of surgical scenes to make them acceptable to a wider audience. Moreover, Largo, the family dog, and Sharaku and Wato Chiyoko from The Three-Eyed One join the series as regular characters.
E01
The Order of Operations / The Missing Needle
2004-10-11 · 50 min
A ferry trip goes bad, and Black Jack saves an Iriomote cat, a baby, and a politician, in that order. The politician sues, but Black Jack saves him from cancer, and he relents.
Pinoko saves Sharaku from Kong, a bully, and they become friends. Then, Sharaku becomes sick and Black Jack operates on him, but a runaway gurney causes an IV needle to break off in his vein. Black Jack fails to extract the needle, but by a miracle it comes out on its own.
E02
The Ant's Legs
2004-10-18 · 25 min
E03
Playing Doctor
2004-11-01 · 25 min
E04
The Sixth-Magnitude Man
2004-11-08 · 25 min
E05
A Teacher and a Pupil
2004-11-15 · 25 min
E06
White Lion
2004-11-22 · 25 min
E07
The Miracle Arm
2004-11-29 · 25 min
E08
Moraimizu
2004-12-06 · 25 min
E09
Legend of the Phoenix
2004-12-13 · 25 min
E10
The Gift from a Killer Whale
2005-01-17 · 25 min
E11
Give My Brother Back!
2005-01-24 · 25 min
E12
A Pirate's Arm
2005-01-31 · 25 min
E13
Move, Solomon
2005-02-07 · 25 min
E14
The Fabricated Wedding
2005-02-14 · 25 min
E15
Missing Pinoko
2005-02-21 · 25 min
E16
The Idol Who Lost Her Voice
2005-02-28 · 25 min
E17
Mail Friends
2005-03-07 · 25 min
E18
Good Luck, Kowa Clinic
2005-03-14 · 25 min
E19
The Sage of Yamate Line
2005-03-21 · 25 min
E20
First Storm of Spring
2005-04-11 · 25 min
E21
Pinoko's Plans for Adulthood
2005-04-11 · 25 min
E22
Love after the Downpour
2005-04-18 · 25 min
E23
A Challenge called Avalanche
2005-04-25 · 25 min
E24
Cholera Uproar
2005-05-02 · 25 min
E25
Abacus Genius
2005-05-09 · 25 min
E26
Tragedy of an Ultra-fine Room
2005-05-16 · 25 min
E27
Wilderness Epidemic
2005-05-23 · 25 min
E28
The Life-Arranging Flower
2005-05-30 · 25 min
E29
Operation in the Midst of Thunder Clouds
2005-06-06 · 25 min
E30
20th Year Implication
2005-06-13 · 25 min
E31
The Blue Sea's Fear
2005-06-20 · 25 min
E32
Invader from the Sky
2005-06-27 · 25 min
E33
Shaking Operating Room
2005-07-04 · 25 min
E34
Jack Hospital
2005-07-11 · 25 min
E35
Misaki's House is Incomplete
2005-07-18 · 25 min
E36
Iruka and Gang
2005-08-01 · 25 min
E37
Challenge to an Unknown Person
2005-08-08 · 25 min
E38
War Will Continue
2005-08-15 · 25 min
E39
Doll and Policeman
2005-08-22 · 25 min
E40
Operation and A Movie's Miracle
2005-08-29 · 25 min
E41
Life's Misdiagnosis
2005-09-05 · 25 min
E42
Shrink!
2005-09-12 · 25 min
E43
Pinoko's Birth
2005-10-10 · 25 min
E44
Merry Drinker's Classmates
2005-10-17 · 25 min
E45
Cultural Festival Bodyguard
2005-10-24 · 25 min
E46
Snow Field's Violin
2005-10-31 · 25 min
E47
Robin Boy
2005-11-07 · 25 min
E48
The Carbuncle (The Face Affliction)
2005-11-14 · 25 min
E49
Brotherly Love
2005-11-21 · 25 min
E50
The Blind Doctor of Acupuncture
2005-11-28 · 25 min
E51
Eyewitness
2005-12-05 · 25 min
E52
Infant's Balad
2005-12-19 · 25 min
E53
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Deceitful Parent and Child
2006-01-16 · 25 min
E54
The Platform of Life
2006-01-23 · 25 min
E55
The Skin Donor
2006-01-30 · 25 min
E56
Pinoko's Exam Diary
2006-02-06 · 25 min
E57
The Old Man and the Big Tree
2006-02-13 · 25 min
E58
Black Queen
2006-02-20 · 25 min
E59
The Encounter Between the Two with a Past
2006-02-27 · 25 min
E60
The Two Pinokos
2006-03-06 · 25 min
