Black Jack (manga)

Black Jack
	First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Kuroo Hazama (Black Jack)
ブラック・ジャック; (Burakku Jakku)
Genre	Medical suspense
Manga
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Akita Shoten
English publisher	NA: Vertical Inc.;
Imprint	Shōnen Champion Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Champion
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	19 November 1973 – 14 October 1983
Volumes	25 (List of volumes)
Directed by	Nobuhiko Obayashi
Further information
Live-action film
The Visitor in the Eye
Directed by	Nobuhiko Obayashi
Produced by	Takeo Hori; Hideo Sasai;
Written by	Jêmusu Miki
Music by	Naoshi Miyazaki
Studio	Toho; Hori Productions;
Released	26 November 1977
Runtime	140 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);
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Released	21 December 1993 – 16 December 2011
Runtime	47–53 minutes
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Black Jack: The Movie
Directed by	Osamu Dezaki
Produced by	Kazuyoshi Okuyama; Minoru Kotoku; Takayuki Matsutani; Yasuo Ishida; Yoshihiro Shimizu;
Written by	Eto Mori
Music by	Eiji Kawamura
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Licensed by	NA: Discotek Media; SEA: Muse Communication;
Released	30 November 1996
Runtime	105 minutes
Original video animation
Black Jack: The Boy Who Came from the Sky
Directed by	Shinji Seya
Produced by	Minoru Kubota; Mitsuashi Ōishi;
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Released	22 March 2000
Runtime	22 minutes
Anime television series
Directed by	Satoshi Kuwahara
Produced by	Tomoyuki Saitō; Sumio Udagawa;
Written by	Genki Yoshimura
Music by	Akihiko Matsumoto
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Original network	NNS (YTV)
Original run	11 October 2004 – 6 March 2006
Episodes	61 (List of episodes)
Manga
Black Jack: the Dark Surgeon
Written by	Kenji Yamamoto
Published by	Akita Shoten
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Champion
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	9 May 2005 – 9 February 2006
Volumes	3
Anime film
Black Jack: The Two Doctors of Darkness
Directed by	Makoto Tezuka
Written by	Katsuhiko Chiba
Music by	Isao Tomita
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Released	17 December 2005
Runtime	97 minutes
Anime television series
Black Jack 21
Directed by	Makoto Tezuka
Produced by	Tomoyuki Saitō; Sumio Udagawa;
Written by	Katsuyuki Sumisawa
Music by	Akihiko Matsumoto
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Original network	Yomiuri TV
Original run	10 April 2006 – 4 September 2006
Episodes	17 (List of episodes)
Related
	Ray; Young Black Jack;
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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.

In 1977, it won the first Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category.^[2] It has since then became one of Tezuka's best selling manga with over 47.66 million copies sold in Japan.^[3] Osamu Dezaki's anime film adaptation, Black Jack: The Movie, won Best Animation Film at the 1996 Mainichi Film Awards.^{[citation needed]}

^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (2 August 2012). "Deadline: Independent Studio eOne to Produce Live-Action Black Jack TV Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2007.
^ "生成AIで「ブラック・ジャック」新作を AIの創造性はどこまで人間に迫れるか？". NHK Science & Culture Journal. 3 July 2023. Archived from the original on 18 September 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.

[1] Hodgkins, Crystalyn (2 August 2012). "Deadline: Independent Studio eOne to Produce Live-Action Black Jack TV Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved 26 June 2018.

[2] Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 21 August 2007.

[3] "生成AIで「ブラック・ジャック」新作を AIの創造性はどこまで人間に迫れるか？". NHK Science & Culture Journal. 3 July 2023. Archived from the original on 18 September 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2024.

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