Therein lies another aspect of Black Jack’s unusual style of practicing medicine. Now based on those first two sentences, you’re probably asking yourself how he helps the poor and destitute in their time of need if he’s going to demand that they pay him money that they could never possibly amass. His services come at a price however, usually in the form of an egregiously large sum of money. Despite the slew of variations and spin-offs, I’m most fond of the original version of the character which is why we’ll be focusing on that version for this review.īlack Jack follows the exploits of the character of the same name, an unlicensed doctor who possesses incredible medical and surgical skills and is willing to help any patient, no matter their social or financial standing. Black Jack is arguably one of the most influential and most used of Tezuka’s “star system” of characters, having appeared not only in multiple anime adaptions of the source material, but also being one of a small number of Tezuka’s characters to be adapted and reimagined by other authors in manga form. This week we’ll be looking at one of the more famous works by the “god of manga” himself, Osamu Tezuka, in the form of Black Jack. It may not be Monday anymore, but I’m not about to forgo my weekly duty of examining and recommending the best of the best manga that Japan has to offer! It’s somewhat ironic that on a week where I suffered through illness, I also decided to review a manga about a doctor.

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