Black Jack 21
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Cover of the first manga volume
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ブラック・ジャック (Burakku Jakku) |
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| Genre | Medical, Drama |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Osamu Tezuka |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Imprint | Shōnen Champion Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Champion |
| Original run | 19 November 1973 – 14 October 1983 |
| Volumes | 17 |
| Manga | |
| Black Jack: the Dark Surgeon | |
| Written by | Kenji Yamamoto |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Shōnen Champion |
| Original run | 9 May 2005 – 9 February 2006 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Osamu Dezaki |
| Studio | Tezuka Productions |
| Released | 21 December 1993 – 16 December 2011 |
| Episodes | 12 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Makoto Tezuka |
| Studio | Tezuka Productions |
| Original network | Animax, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation |
| Original run | 11 October 2004 – 6 March 2006 |
| Episodes | 62 |
| Anime film | |
| Black Jack: Futari no Kuroi Isha | |
| Directed by | Satoshi Kuwabara |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Saitō Sumio Udagawa |
| Music by | Isao Tomita |
| Studio | Tezuka Productions |
| Released | 17 December 2005 |
| Runtime | 97 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Black Jack 21 | |
| Directed by | Satoshi Kuwabara |
| Studio | Tezuka Productions |
| Original network | Animax, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation |
| Original run | 10 April 2006 – 4 September 2006 |
| Episodes | 17 |
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Black Jack (Japanese: ブラック・ジャック Hepburn: Burakku Jakku?) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of the title character, doctor Black Jack.
Black Jack consists of hundreds of short, self-contained stories that are typically about 20 pages long. Black Jack has also been animated into an OVA, two television series (directed by Tezuka's son Makoto Tezuka) and two films. Black Jack is Tezuka's third most famous manga, after Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. In 1977, it won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen.About.com's Deb Aoki lists Black Jack as the best "re-issue of previously released material" of 2008. Osamu Dezaki's anime film adaptation, Black Jack The Movie, won Best Animation Film at the 1996 Mainichi Film Awards.
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 1973 to 1983. Each volume was divided into 12 to 15 chapters; each chapter is about 20-some pages long. The first episode was called "I Need a Doctor!", and the last episode was called "A Question of Priority". Most of the manga series had never been directly adapted into anime form until a Black Jack Special was aired in 2003, thus initiating the Black Jack anime series in 2004, and the Black Jack 21 series in 2006.
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