Black Jack

ブラック・ジャック Manga

Informações adicionais

Format MANGA
Status Finished
Start date Nov 19, 1973
End date Oct 14, 1983
Average score 81/100
Popularity 9389
Favorites 460
Genres Drama

Tags

Episodic 95%
Features story arcs that are loosely tied or lack an overarching plot.
Male Protagonist 82%
Main character is male.
Medicine 82%
Centered around the activities of people working in the field of medicine.
Work 80%
Centers around the activities of a certain occupation.
Ghost 79%
Prominently features a character who is a ghost.
Disability 73%
A work that features one or more characters with a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs, interferes with, or limits the person's ability to engage in certain tasks or actions.
Tragedy 70%
Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
Suicide 66%
The act or an instance of taking or attempting to take one's own life voluntarily and intentionally.
Shounen 65%
Target demographic is teenage and young adult males.
Meta 64%
Features fourth wall-breaking references to itself or genre tropes.
Philosophy 60%
Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
Drugs 60%
Prominently features the usage of drugs such as opioids, stimulants, hallucinogens etc.
War 60%
Partly or completely set during wartime.

Links externos

Kodansha USA
Official Site (Japanese)
Kodansha USA (Japanese)

Sinopse

Among adult readers in Japan Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement, and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story.

(Source: Kodansha USA)

Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977.

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