Black Jack (manga)

Black Jack (Japanese: ブラック・ジャック, Hepburn: Burakku Jakku) is a Japanese manga series 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 Satoshi Kuwahara and Tezuka's son Makoto Tezuka) and two films.

Black Jack
Cover of Black Jack tankōbon volume 1, featuring Kuroo Hazama (Black Jack)
ブラック・ジャック
(Burakku Jakku)
GenreMedical suspense
Manga
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byAkita Shoten
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Champion Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Champion
DemographicShōnen
Original runNovember 19, 1973October 14, 1983
Volumes25
Further information
Live-action film
The Visitor in the Eye
Directed byNobuhiko Obayashi
Produced by
  • Takeo Hori
  • Hideo Sasai
Written byJêmusu Miki
Music byNaoshi Miyazaki
Studio
  • Toho Company
  • Hori Productions
ReleasedNovember 26, 1977 (1977-11-26)
Runtime140 minutes
Original video animation
Directed by
  • Osamu Dezaki
  • Satoshi Kuwahara (#11)
  • Masayoshi Nishida (#12)
Produced by
  • Sumio Udagawa
  • Minoru Kubota (#1–10)
  • Tomoyuki Saitō (#11–12)
Written by
  • Kuniaki Yamashita (#1)
  • Eto Mori (#2)
  • Katsuhiko Koide (#3–6)
  • Kei Hiyoshi (#7, 9)
  • Tomoko Konparu (#8)
  • Mayumi Morita (#11)
  • Masayoshi Nishida (#12)
Music by
  • Osamu Shōji (#1–5)
  • Eiji Kawamura (#6–10)
  • Seiji Suzuki (#11–12)
StudioTezuka Productions
Released December 21, 1993 December 16, 2011
Runtime47–53 minutes
Episodes12
Anime film
Black Jack: The Movie
Directed byOsamu Dezaki
Produced by
  • Kazuyoshi Okuyama
  • Minoru Kotoku
  • Takayuki Matsutani
  • Yasuo Ishida
  • Yoshihiro Shimizu
Written byEto Mori
Music byEiji Kawamura
StudioTezuka Productions
Licensed by
ReleasedNovember 30, 1996 (1996-11-30)
Runtime105 minutes
Original video animation
Black Jack: The Boy Who Came from the Sky
Directed byShinji Seya
Produced by
  • Minoru Kubota
  • Mitsuashi Ōishi
StudioTezuka Productions
ReleasedMarch 22, 2000
Runtime22 minutes
Episodes1
Anime television series
Directed bySatoshi Kuwahara
Produced by
  • Tomoyuki Saitō
  • Sumio Udagawa
Written byGenki Yoshimura
Music byAkihiko Matsumoto
StudioTezuka Productions
Original networkYomiuri TV
Original run October 11, 2004 March 6, 2006
Episodes61
Manga
Black Jack: the Dark Surgeon
Written byKenji Yamamoto
Published byAkita Shoten
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Champion
DemographicShōnen
Original runMay 9, 2005February 9, 2006
Volumes3
Anime film
Black Jack: The Two Doctors of Darkness
Directed byMakoto Tezuka
Written byKatsuhiko Chiba
Music byIsao Tomita
StudioTezuka Productions
ReleasedDecember 17, 2005 (2005-12-17)
Runtime97 minutes
Anime television series
Black Jack 21
Directed byMakoto Tezuka
Produced by
  • Tomoyuki Saitō
  • Sumio Udagawa
Written byKatsuyuki Sumisawa
Music byAkihiko Matsumoto
StudioTezuka Productions
Original networkYomiuri TV
Original run April 10, 2006 September 4, 2006
Episodes17
Related
  • Ray
  • Young Black Jack

Black Jack is Tezuka's second most famous manga, after Astro Boy. In 1977, it won the first Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category. It has since then became Tezuka's second best selling manga with over 50 million copies sold only in Japan. Osamu Dezaki's anime film adaptation, Black Jack: The Movie, won Best Animation Film at the 1996 Mainichi Film Awards.

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