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Oct 01, 2015 Young Black Jack (ヤングブラック・ジャック Yangu Burakku Jakku?) is a Japanese manga based on the manga Black Jack written by Osamu Tezuka. It is an anime adaptation and follows Black Jack as a medical student in the 1960s. Young Black Jack tells the story of med-student Kuroo Hazama, his various paths.

ヤングブラック・ジャック (Yangu Burakku Jakku)
Young Black Jack
Manga
Written by	Yoshiaki Tabata
Illustrated by	Yūgo Ōkuma
Published by	Akita Shoten
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Young Champion
Original run	November 22, 2011 – present
Volumes	16
Television drama
Directed by	Kentaro Otani
Music by	Yoshihiro Ike
Studio	Toho Studios, Kadokawa Daiei Studio
Original network	Nippon TV
Original run	April 23, 2011
Episodes	12
Anime television series
Directed by	Atsuko Kase
Produced by	Junichirō Tanaka Shintarō Hashimoto Shunichi Uemura Mai Ichikawa Jun Fukuda Makoto Satō Yasuhiro Takano Yū Igawa
Written by	Ryōsuke Takahashi
Music by	Daisuke Ikeda Hirohito Furui Kensuke Akiyama
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Licensed by
Original network	TBS, CBC, Sun TV, BS-TBS
English network	Animax Asia^[1]
Original run	October 1, 2015 – December 17, 2015
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)

Young Black Jack (ヤングブラック・ジャック, Yangu Burakku Jakku) is a Japanese manga written by Yoshiaki Tabata and illustrated by Yūgo Ōkuma. It is based on Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka. It is serialized at Akita Shoten's Young Champion magazine in its November 2011 issue. An anime adaptation aired in Japan from October to December 2015.^[2] The story follows Black Jack as a medical student in the 1960s.^[3]

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Plot[edit]

In the 1960s, Kuroo Hazama is a gifted young medical student with a dark past who tries to make a name for himself. Despite only being a medical student, his is a brilliant surgeon and attracts attention after he completes seemingly impossible operations and displays greater skills than his formal training would allow. Hazama devotes himself to the world of medicine together with his friends, the intern Maiko Okamoto and the doctor Yabu. Set against the background of student riots, war, and corruption, Hazama finds himself caught up in a series of circumstances which challenge his integrity as a person and his path towards becoming a surgeon. The choices he makesleads him to become the legend known as Black Jack.

Characters[edit]

Kuroo Hazama (間黒男, Hazama Kuroo): Portrayed by: Masaki Okada (live-action drama), Voiced by: Yuichiro Umehara (anime)
Yabu (藪, Yabu): Voiced by: Kōji Yusa (anime)
Maiko Okamoto (岡本舞子, Okamoto Maiko): Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (anime)
Tōrō Tachiiri (立入灯郎, Tachiiri Tōrō): Voiced by: Hiroki Touchi (anime)^[4]
Doctor Kirī (軍医キリー, Dokutā Kirī): Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe (anime)
Eri Imagami (今上エリ, Imagami Eri)
Raymond (レイモンド, Reimondo): Voiced by: Norihiro Inoue (anime)^[4]
Tomezō Kanayama: Voiced by: Kazuo Oka (anime)
Jou: Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi (anime)
Aoyama: Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (anime)
Tamura: Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (anime)
Smith: Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (anime)
Marlon: Voiced by: Hisafumi Oda (anime)
Hugo (ヒューゴ, Hyugo): Voiced by: Shunsuke Takeuchi (anime)
Takayanagi: Voiced by: Kentarou Tone (anime)
Bob: Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (anime)
Phan: Voiced by: M.A.O (anime)
Steve: Voiced by: Shōta Yamamoto (anime)
Maruo Hyakki (百樹丸雄, Hyakki Maruo): Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (anime)

Media[edit]

Manga[edit]

The prequel manga based on Osamu Tesuka's Black Jack manga series is written by Yoshiaki Tabata, and illustrated by Yūgo Ōkuma. It began serialization in Akita Shoten's Young Champion issue #23 of 2011, released on November 22.^[3] Akita Shoten published the first tankōbon volume of the manga on May 18, 2012^[5], and fourteen volumes have been released as of December 20, 2018.^[6]^[7] In April 2019, it was announced that the manga will finish in its 16th volume that will be published in summer.^[8]

Live-action drama[edit]

A live-action TV special adaptation aired at April 23, 2011 at Nippon TV. The special starred lead actor Masaki Okada as young Black Jack. Kentaro Otani directed the special.^[3]

Anime[edit]

A 12-episode^[9]anime television series adaptation directed aired from October to December 2015 on TBS, CBC, Sun TV, and BS-TBS.^[2]^[4] Produced by Tezuka Productions, it is directed by Atsuko Kase, with Ryōsuke Takahashi handling series composition and serving as supervisor, Miyuki Katayama and Nana Miura designing the characters and Daisuke Ikeda, Hirohito Furui and Kensuke Akiyama composing the music. The anime has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks^[10] and is also streaming on Crunchyroll.

Episode list[edit]

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	'Where's the Doctor?' Transcription: 'Isha wa Doko da!' (Japanese: 医者はどこだ！)	Fumihiro Yoshimura	Mayumi Morita	October 2, 2015
After a tragic accident where a train collides with a bus stuck on the tracks, dozens of injured are rushed to a nearby hospital. We are introduced to Black Jack as a young medical student who offers to undertake the task of re-attaching the severed an arm and leg of a young boy hit by the train for JP¥5 million. He successfully saves the boys limbs during his first surgery at his friend Yobu's private clinic. However, the boy’s father offers only one tenth of the money because Jack is still a student.
2	'Abduction' Transcription: 'Rachi' (Japanese: 拉致)	Hiromichi Matano	Mayumi Morita	October 9, 2015
Black Jack and his gambling friend Yabu are kidnapped along with some other men by the shady Tachiiri to whom Yabu owes money. Tachiiri offers each of them a chance clear their debts in exchange for donating their heart for a heart transplant required by the ageing Kaneyama Tamezou, founder of the Kyuukoku sect. The doctor hired for the transplant disappears, and Jack agrees to carry out the first heart transplant in Japan for a fee of JP¥50 million. Raymond, one of the other men, offers his heart for money to heal his sick daughter back in his own country. However, as the operation commences Tamezou dies, so Jack altered Raymond’s appearance to replace Tamezou, avoiding the dilemma of ending an innocent life.
3	'Deserter' Transcription: 'Dassōhei' (Japanese: 脱走兵)	Fumio Maezono	Tōru Nozaki	October 16, 2015
During the Vietnam War, one of two army deserters falls ill. Meanwhile, Hazama's friend, Maiko Okamoto, visits his apartment to learn the secret of his surgical skills and she finds he has been practicing on fish and pigs feet. They discover that a sick deserter named Smith is in the adjacent apartment, and Hazama is pressured into helping him by his associates, especially Aoyama, after he diagnoses a cerebral edema. They take Smith to an obstetrics clinic, and Hazama operates to relieve pressure on the brain and saves his life. However, Hazama is arrested because Smith is actually a CIA operative tracking deserters in Japan. Hazama is eventually released, but wonders why he risked his medical career to save someone he did not know.
4	'In Vietnam Part 1' Transcription: 'Betonamu nite sono 1' (Japanese: ベトナムにてその1)	Kenichi Nishida	Tōru Nozaki	October 23, 2015
Hazama goes to Vietnam in looking for his friend Yabu, who'd vanished after arriving a month earlier to restart his career as a doctor. Hazama meets the photojournalist Takayanagi, who helps him find transport on a military convoy to Yabu's last known location in Danat, led by Bob with interpreter Phan. On the way, they are attacked by the Vietcong, and in the midst of the battle Hazama goes to the aid of a Steve, a wounded soldier. However, they are eventually all captured by the Vietcong.
5	'In Vietnam Part 2' Transcription: 'Betonamu nite sono 2' (Japanese: ベトナムにてその2)	Yorifusa Yamaguchi	Tōru Nozaki	October 30, 2015
Hazama's group are now captives of the Vietcong, but some days later their interpreter, Phan is given a key by a Vietcong whose friend was saved by a Japanese doctor, possibly Yabu. The group trek through the jungle, and at the point of exhaustion, they are found and taken to Yabu's field clinic and the old friends are united. However, the wounded Steve needs urgent medical attention, and they manage to arrange for a US doctor to be dropped in by parachute. He has excellent skills and technique, and he and Hazama grudgingly acknowledge each other's abilities.
6	'In Vietnam Part 3' Transcription: 'Betonamu nite sono 3' (Japanese: ベトナムにてその3)	Kenichi Maejima	Tōru Nozaki	November 6, 2015
Steve regains consciousness, but is delirious and paranoid. He wanders off into the fields, but before Bob and Hazama can reach him he steps on a land mine and is killed. Steve's death causes Bob to become unstable, and he becomes angry and vengeful when the Anh, the Vietnamese youth who helped them escape, arrives in the village badly wounded. The US doctor, Hazama and Yabu begin to operate on Anh, but frustrated by what he sees as traitorous behaviour, Bob reports that the village is a rebel base and calls in an air strike. The villagers evacuate, but the three doctors continue the operation despite the impending attack, with Hazama and the US doctor developing a growing respect for each other’s skills. They manage to complete the operation and evacuate just as bombs rain down, destroying the village. Later, the US doctor's name is revealed to be Kiriko.
7	'Painless Revolution Part 1' Transcription: 'Kutsū naki kakumei sono 1' (Japanese: 苦痛なき革命その1)	Shinichi Shōji	Tomoko Konparu	November 13, 2015
Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, and following Hazama's return from Vietnam, he and Maiko are in Chicago to observe a surgery by the much-renowned Dr. Risenberg. Later, they encounter Maiko's old friend Tiara and her friend, the civil rights activist Johnny Bassett. However, his is attacked by two African American men demanding that he take direct action, and Tiara is shot during the confrontation. Johnny's arm is also badly damaged, and Dr. Risenberg offers to operate, and Hazama and Maiko are co-opted to assist. After the operation, Hazama realizes that Johnny has analgesia, an inability to feel pain which he assumes is congenital. However Hazama discovers that Johnny acquired it later in life and offers to find a cure within the three days he has left in Chicago. Meanwhile Yabu and another doctor, Thomas Williams, arrive in the US.
8	'Painless Revolution Part 2' Transcription: 'Kutsū naki kakumei sono 2' (Japanese: 苦痛なき革命その2)	Fumio Maezono	Tomoko Konparu	November 20, 2015
Hazama does his best to investigate the cause of Johnny's analgesia condition. When he encounters Yabu, who arrives with his patient Tommy who has PTSD, Hazama learns that Johnny never went to Vietnam, and was the subject of military experiments by the CIA. The CIA agent, Hugo, visits Dr. Risenberg who is a former Nazi doctor whose real name is Dr. Linge, and Hugo pressures him to treat Johnny to remove his analgesia and restore his nerve impulses. At the next violent demonstration, Johnny immediately feels the pain of the police batons and runs away to escape the pain, destroying his reputation of a being a hero impervious to pain.
9	'The Gruesome Chronicle Part 1' Transcription: 'Muzanchō sono 1' (Japanese: 無残帳その1)	Kenichi Nishida	Mayumi Morita	November 27, 2015
Hazama meets a lecturer, Maruo Hyakki, a quadruple amputee, who was originally one of the surgeons who operated on him alongside Dr. Honma. Reference is made to the story of Dororo and Hyakkimaru by Osamu Tezuka in which Hyakkimaru lacked 48 parts of his body which was given to demons. Hazama learns of Hyakki's unfortunate fate, his research in advanced mechanical prostheses, and his plans to return as a surgeon. Hyakki wants to have the new prostheses implanted on his body, but can't find anyone willing, and so Hazama risks his future career by offers to do it himself. The surgery is successful and Hyakki proceeds to rebuild his reputation, gaining a request to do an operation by his former institution, Teito University. However, the plan is cancelled after being sabotaged by the circulation of photographs of him carrying out an autopsy wearing his prostheses. Shaken, Hyakki goes to bid his friend professor Takara goodbye, only to overhear him talking with Professor Tano indicating they were behind the sabotage.
10	'The Gruesome Chronicle Part 2' Transcription: 'Muzanchō sono 2' (Japanese: 無残帳その2)	Yorifusa Yamaguchi	Mayumi Morita	December 4, 2015
Police find a car that that crashed through a guardrail and burst into flames, incinerating the driver but his left arm was noticeably missing. Hyakki is coincidentally missing in action and takes a family sword named Hyakkimaru to be reforged. Meanwhile Miyo reveals that her wedding reception reservation with Hyakki has been cancelled, Detective Ban reveals to Takara that the dead driver was Professor Tano. Hyakki tracks down Takara and reveals that he killed Tano who said that Takara was behind the accident which made him a quadriplegic. Hyakki then severs Takara's left arm. Hazama and Okamoto find Takara on the street bleeding to death, and they perform a quick ligation of the brachial artery to save him. Hyakki later finds Professor Sabame on the rooftop of a building and cuts off his leg, leaving him to bleed to death. Takara wakes up three days later in the hospital and after Detective Ban informs him of Sabame's death, Takara has a nervous breakdown. Ban informs Hazama, Okamoto, and Miyo that Hyakki's motive for the attacks is related to how Director Daigou's faction forced Hyakki out of the University. However, Hazama suspects that there is another reason for the murders. Hazama tracks Hyakki to an old temple filled with statues of demons in the forest, and is shocked at the change in Hyakki's character.
11	'The Gruesome Chronicle Part 3' Transcription: 'Muzanchō sono 3' (Japanese: 無残帳その3)	Hiromichi Matano	Mayumi Morita	December 11, 2015
Hyakki divulges to Hazama that Takara and his associates were part of Assistant Director Kagemitsu Daigo's faction at the university, but when Daigo was involved funds mismanagement, control was transferred to Assistant Director Meio's faction which included Hyakki. Daigo's faction planned to discredit Meio by making him miss an important scheduled operation by sabotaging his car to delay him. However, Meio took ill and sent Hyakki instead, but the mechanic had tampered with the brakes and thus Hyakki was involved in his career-ending accident. Shortly afterwards, Meio died of his illness and Daigo became Director. Hyakki leaves the temple and attacks Daigo in his office, succeeding in severing Daigo's left leg. Hazama asks Takara to confess to the conspiracy, but Takara blames Hazama for giving Hyakki the ability to seek revenge. Hazama finds the injured Hyakki and patches him up, repairing his right eye in the process. Hyakki is eventually apprehended and is sentenced to death, but escapes jail thanks to a robotic eye implant Hazama had fitted to him. Some time later while still a student, Hazama secretly accepts money to replace a surgeon during an operation. Hyakki unexpected visits Hazama, noting the illegal path he has now chosen. Hazama replies that he understands the ruthless nature of the medical field, and is willing to become an enemy of the law to save patients
12	'The Season of Mania' Transcription: 'Kyōsō no kisetsu' (Japanese: 狂騒の季節)	Fumio Maezono	Mayumi Morita	December 18, 2015
Hazama continues to accept money from Tachiiri for operating illegally. One day, he comes across an anti-war protest and assists a young girl who sprains her ankle. He recognizes her as Eri Imagami whom he treated some time earlier when he relieved a cerebral edema on the deserter, Johnny. Hazama applies first-aid to some of the other protesters and again sees Aoyama from that time. Later, Hazama receives a postcard from Eri who is undertaking training with militant revolutionaries in the mountains of Gunma and decides to visit her. Hazama arrives and is shocked to see Imagami suffering from a beating and Aoyama also beaten and tied up after wanting to quit. Hazama is also taken prisoner, but when Imagami has a seizure from her injuries, the rebel leader relents and allows Hazama to treat her and he operates all night, fixing a hemothorax, rib fractures, nose and orbital fractures, and an injured liver. Suddenly, police surround the cabin and fire smoke grenades to cloud the rebels' vision. Eri staggers outside to stop the confrontation, but she is shot in the chest and falls into the snow. Hazama tells the dying girl that he will fix her again as she dies in his arms. After his graduation, Hazama repays his debts to Tachiiri who offers him more black market deals, but Hazama declines, saying that those jobs will come to him anyway. This is the beginning of Hazama's transformation into Black Jack.

References[edit]

^'Animax Asia Premieres Young Black Jack on June 6'. Anime News Network. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
^ ^a^b'Young Black Jack Anime Casts Junichi Suwabe'. Anime News Network. September 7, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
^ ^a^b^c'Young Black Jack Manga Inspired by Tezuka Classic'. Anime News Network. November 8, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ ^a^b^c'Young Black Jack TV Anime's Ad Outlines Premise'. Anime News Network. September 27, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
^ヤング　ブラック・ジャック第1巻秋田書店 [Young Black Jack Volume 1 Akita Shoten] (in Japanese). Akita Shoten. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^ヤングブラック・ジャック第14巻 [Young Black Jack Volume 14 Akita Shoten] (in Japanese). Akita Shoten. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
^ヤングブラック・ジャック – pixivコミックで漫画を無料試し読み [Young Black Jack – Read Manga Free Trial at pixiv Comics] (in Japanese). pixiv. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
^Hodgkins, Crystalyn (April 19, 2019). 'Young Black Jack Manga Ends in 16th Volume'. Anime News Network. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
^'Lance N' Masques, Young Black Jack Listed at 12 Episodes Each'. Anime News Network. September 27, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
^'Sentai Filmworks Licenses Young Black Jack'. SentaiFilmworks.com. October 1, 2015.

External links[edit]

Anime official website(in Japanese)
Young Black Jack (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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How would you rate episode 6 of
Young Black Jack ?

Young Black Jack surprised me a little bit this week. All my criticisms of how it mishandles the complexities of this conflict still stand, but it did inject some genuine human drama into the proceedings. We've now spent two episodes with the characters involved, so their fates are powerful stuff that tugs at the audience's heartstrings. It's more strange that this episode's tragedies don't affect the rest of the cast much, particularly Hazama.

Steve is recovering, but he's delirious when he wakes up and doesn't recognize his surroundings. He goes wandering out into the fields, with everyone calling after him. They tell him he's not in battle anymore, so he can come back and wait to be picked up and sent home. It takes a while, but they eventually get through to him, and he starts running back—only to step on a landmine and be instantly blown apart.

That's bleak stuff for a show that's felt afraid to engage with reality for a while now. For once, Hazama's work isn't magic. He and the other surgeons could heal Steve, but nothing can prevent a moment like that. Everything he did for the past two episodes is rendered completely futile in that moment. This deeply affects Phan, and Bob even moreso—he loses his mind, starts seeing enemies everywhere, and insists that Steve is still alive. One of the 'enemies' he sees is Phan, even though it almost seemed like the show was setting those two up for a romance. Whatever they might have had, it's destroyed when Bob sees her recognize a wounded Viet Cong soldier as Anh, the friend from her village who gave her the key to escape. Phan reassures Bob when he insists that Anh is suspicious, but the dude's lost his mind and can't be swayed. He declares Phan a secret spy and calls the army to bomb the village—while Hazama, Yabu, and the American doctor (revealed to be named Kiriko) are operating on Anh. The episode does an admirable job in its portrayal of Bob, depicting him as mentally unsound and a threat to the group, while still keeping him sympathetic.

I didn't talk about Hazama much in that description for a reason. For all that happens this week, our hero largely stays out of it. The same is true with the other doctors. They are the center of the concern at the end of the episode, because they're still in the village, but they play no part in its setup. Bob is frustrated to see the doctors insist on helping everyone, but that isn't what makes him snap. He loses it when he sees Phan reunite with her friend from the Viet Cong. Hazama and friends are apolitical—even Kiriko, who is actually working for the American army.

Yabu is the one doctor whose experiences with Vietnam obviously traumatized and changed him. So I was waiting this whole arc to get some answers about what Yabu saw and did, and how that led to him losing his fear of blood. Other than a brief mention of his change last week though, we've still got nothing. Why? For that matter, shouldn't all this affect Hazama in some way too? Shouldn't he be curious about what happened to his friend? We never find out. There are so many possible threads like this in the episode: whatever happens to Bob once he escapes into the jungle with his bloody bag? These are smaller qualms; I figured that Young Black Jack didn't have room to cover every part of the journey for its bit players, and we don't need to know Bob's fate for this arc to be satisfying. Yabu's a major character though, and his plight brought Hazama out to Vietnam in the first place. Shouldn't we at least get something?Young Black Jack declares his arc unimportant, and now that the Vietnam storyline is over, it will likely never come up again. Apparently, it's way more important to just watch him work with the other two doctors while the narration tells us how they're the best people in Vietnam.

The final, climactic scene of them operating on Anh is basically a long tribute to doctors, particularly medics on the battlefield. They never even waver in their conviction to stay the course and heal their patient, even at the cost of their own lives. That's admirable, but the show's presentation comes off as troubling instead. For one thing, would anyone really blame a doctor if they tried to rush out of there and save themselves? I'm sure at least some did in this situation, especially an American doctor who might get caught healing the enemy. We just saw how Hazama and Kiriko could put in all the effort possible to save a guy, and it doesn't matter if he's blown up by a landmine right afterward. I expected at least one of them (obviously not Hazama) to be gravely injured. Or maybe they would get out safely, but their patient would be killed by one of the blasts. But everyone and everything comes out of this fine. In Hazama's case, he comes out unfazed completely.

That's the strange thing about this arc and the show in general. Hazama does see genuinely harrowing things throughout the three Vietnam episodes, yet he remains the same person through all of it. He doesn't really have any convictions outside of his duties as a doctor, and this experience does nothing to shake that. Even when the man he's spent the past two episodes healing is instantly killed by a mine, it barely affects him. This series is supposed to be his gritty backstory, the one that turns him into the Black Jack of the manga, someone who does very deeply care about the people he works on beyond just professional duty. When is that going to happen?

Perhaps even more than any of the 'escapist' elements I mentioned in last week's review, this is what bothers me about Young Black Jack. These serious historical events are nothing more than dressing to make the show look more 'serious.' They don't bring anything new to the war-drama table, but more importantly, they don't even affect the hero in any notable way. Not only does he not gain any emotions, but his lack of emotional involvement is hailed as a virtue.

Black Jack Anime

I'm not sure what Young Black Jack's purpose is yet. It seems like the creator missed the point of the original manga—or they were deliberately disappointed by Tezuka's character and wanted to turn him into a completely different character. This Black Jack is more like a modern anime hero: in possession of special and unnatural talents, but stoic and unaffected by anything beyond his goals. It doesn't help that the conclusion of this arc chooses to emphasize this; the 'real tragedy' is that two geniuses like Hazama and Kiriko will never meet again outside of Vietnam. Not the horrors brought upon everyone around them? Not how those horrors might have affected the doctors themselves?

Next week, it looks like they'll use American racism as the vehicle for Hazama's non-angst. Even if this episode stuck the landing in its Vietnam plot, it still centered the whole story around Hazama's professional achievements, so I can't say I have high hopes for the storyline to come. Anime has an odd track record with racism in general, so I'm not sure what to expect from the already-rocky Young Black Jack.

Rating: B