Japanese manga series
This article is about the manga. For other uses, see
Black Jack .
Genre Medical suspense [ 1]
Written by Osamu Tezuka Published by Akita Shoten English publisher Imprint Shōnen Champion Comics Magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion Demographic Shōnen Original run November 19, 1973 – October 14, 1983 Volumes 25 (List of volumes )
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Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi Produced by Written by Jêmusu Miki Music by Naoshi Miyazaki Studio Released November 26, 1977 (1977-11-26 ) Runtime 140 minutes
Directed by 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 December 21, 1993 – December 16, 2011 Runtime 47–53 minutes Episodes 12 (List of episodes )
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 Released November 30, 1996 (1996-11-30 ) Runtime 105 minutes
Directed by Shinji Seya Produced by Minoru Kubota Mitsuashi Ōishi Studio Tezuka Productions Released March 22, 2000 Runtime 22 minutes
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 October 11, 2004 – March 6, 2006 Episodes 61 (List of episodes )
Written by Kenji Yamamoto Published by Akita Shoten Magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion Demographic Shōnen Original run May 9, 2005 – February 9, 2006 Volumes 3
Directed by Makoto Tezuka Written by Katsuhiko Chiba Music by Isao Tomita Studio Tezuka Productions Released December 17, 2005 (2005-12-17 ) Runtime 97 minutes
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 April 10, 2006 – September 4, 2006 Episodes 17 (List of episodes )
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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.
Black Jack is Tezuka's second most famous manga, after Astro Boy .[citation needed ] In 1977, it won the first Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category.[ 2] It has since then became Tezuka's second best selling manga with over 50 million copies sold only in Japan.[ 3] [ 4] Osamu Dezaki's anime film adaptation, Black Jack: The Movie , won Best Animation Film at the 1996 Mainichi Film Awards .[citation needed ]