Most of the stories involve Black Jack doing some good deed, for which he rarely gets recognition—often curing the poor and destitute for free, or teaching the arrogant a lesson in humility.

They sometimes end with a good, humane person enduring hardship, often unavoidable death, to save others. The manga series was first serialized from to Each volume was divided into 12 to 15 chapters; each chapter is about some pages long.

The first episode was called "I Need a Doctor! Most of the manga series had never been directly adapted into anime form until a Black Jack Special was aired in , thus initiating the Black Jack anime series in , and the Black Jack 21 series in These collected volumes include a dozen or so stories each in the original unflipped format, and the stories will be published in the same order as the Japanese Black Jack collections.

Two translated volumes had been previously published by Viz Communications , but those editions are now out of print.

There is also a series called Black Jack ALIVE which was published in , this series was created from numerous artists adding stories onto the original series.

A chapter from this series was published in the last volume of "Magetsukan Kitan". A remake of the series was titled Black Jack - Kuroi Ishi manga.

It may be another remake. Not much information is known. Young Black Jack is another manga, not by Tezuka but featuring his characters, that started in The story follows Black Jack as a medical student in the s.

The first televised appearance of Black Jack was in the remake of Tetsuwan Atom. In this storyline, Black Jack 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.

Black Jack also made a cameo appearance in the theatrical film Phoenix as an interstellar prison warden, and is one of the main characters of the TV movie One Million-Year Trip: The 4 Miracles of Life aired in Princess Sapphire appeared in episode 3 of this series.

There was an original television series called Black Jack TV , featuring 61 episodes that aired from 11 October through 6 March The sequel is Black Jack 21 TV , which aired seventeen episodes from 10 April through 4 September of the same year.

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It may be another remake. Not much information is known. Young Black Jack is another manga, not by Tezuka but featuring his characters, that started in The story follows Black Jack as a medical student in the s.

The first televised appearance of Black Jack was in the remake of Tetsuwan Atom. In this storyline, Black Jack 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.

Black Jack also made a cameo appearance in the theatrical film Phoenix as an interstellar prison warden, and is one of the main characters of the TV movie One Million-Year Trip: The 4 Miracles of Life aired in Princess Sapphire appeared in episode 3 of this series.

There was an original television series called Black Jack TV , featuring 61 episodes that aired from 11 October through 6 March The sequel is Black Jack 21 TV , which aired seventeen episodes from 10 April through 4 September of the same year.

Adapted from standalone manga chapters, Black Jack 21 features an all-new overarching storyline. Though the Black Jack 21 series has never been licensed in the U.

The previous two anime, Black Jack and Black Jack 21 , depart somewhat from the manga by changing the setting to the early s, allowing for flat-screen LCD computer displays and other items not present in the manga.

More closely following the timeline of the original manga by Osamu Tezuka , the new anime is however somewhat discontinuous with the anime.

While Young Black Jack is set in the late s against the backdrop of activism against the Vietnam War , the anime is set in the early s, representing nearly a year time difference, even though Black Jack appears to have aged less than 10 years between them.

Two OVAs were made for the series: Wizard selected the series as their "Anime Pick of the Month" for August , calling it "one of the darkest and hardest-hitting made-for-video series of recent years.

A movie of the series was made called Black Jack The Movie. Another one that was made in the same year is Black Jack: Capital Transfer To Heian.

A 7-minute movie called Dr. The Two Doctors of Darkness movie. The Two Doctors of Darkness movie was released in December The TV show can currently be viewed for free on Viki website and Crunchyroll.

Anime Sols has successfully crowd-funded the first 26 episodes of it for DVD release, starting from Episode 0. An anime version of the character was seen in an ad teaming up with Dr.

House from House for the promotion of the latter in Japan. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the manga.

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