Black Jack - Season 1

Black Jack - Season 1
Black Jack - Season 1
2004
Comedy, Drama
TV Season
Season 1 - The 2004 anime adaptation of Black Jack, based on Osamu Tezuka's iconic manga, is a haunting yet compassionate exploration of medicine, ethics, and the human condition. At its center is Kuroo Hazama, known only by his alias Black Jack, an unlicensed but legendary surgeon who performs miraculous operations-often for exorbitant fees. Scarred physically and emotionally b...
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Created by:
Osamu TezukaStarring:
Akio Ôtsuka, Kenji Hamada, Tamie KubotaRatings & Reviews
Black Jack visits an island and performs an operation on an Iriomote cat, a baby, and a politician in that order.
Black Jack saves an injured orca, showing compassion beyond species. In return, the whale leaves pearls-silent gifts of gratitude and proof that kindness needs no words.
The Vanished Needle (2004)
- S1E1
Pinoko becomes friends with a boy named Sharaku but Sharaku falls ill and Black Jack operates. Unfortunately, an accident occurs as he is transported to a room and a stray needle enters his heart and only a miracle can save him now.
The Ant's Legs (2004)
- S1E2
A young boy decides to walk 400 km from Hokkaido to Osaka by himself. Black Jack, whose story unknowingly inspired the boy, decides to follow.
Thieving Dog (2004)
- S1E3
After a young thief loses his fingers to gang violence, Black Jack restores them with surgical precision. In return, the boy pays him with stolen goods-proof that even a criminal can find redemption.
Playing Doctor (2004)
- S1E4
A sick girl believes a classmate is the real Black Jack, but he's only pretending to comfort her. When her condition worsens, the real Black Jack appears-saving her life and revealing the value of truth over make-believe.
A humble doctor earns recognition after stepping up when Black Jack declines a case. Meanwhile, Jack quietly helps a boy injured in a crash, showing that even small acts of care can have lasting impact.
A Teacher and a Pupil (2004)
- S1E6
A student fears his strict teacher and gets into an accident. Black Jack saves him-and later the teacher too-healing both their bodies and bond. The once-feared teacher learns compassion, while the student finds courage.
White Lion (2004)
- S1E7
A white lion mauls a wealthy man at a private reserve. Black Jack is called to save him, but uncovers illegal animal smuggling and abuse. He exposes the truth, saves the man, and ensures the lion is sent to a safe sanctuary.
The Miracle Arm (2004)
- S1E8
A sushi chef loses both arms in an accident. A truck driver donates his own, and with Black Jack's help, the chef finds hope-and purpose-again. He returns to cooking, honoring the man who gave him a second chance at life.
Moraimizu (2004)
- S1E9
An old woman is stranded after a landslide. Black Jack rescues her and teaches her neglectful son, a doctor, the value of compassion.
Legend of the Phoenix (2004)
- S1E10
Black Jack treats a man believed to be immortal. He uncovers a medical cause behind the myth and saves the man's life. The experience highlights the tension between science and legend, and the enduring hope people place in miracles.
An actor with a lympathic problem is mistakenly believed to have been kidnapped by Black Jack and his younger brother sets out to save him.
A Pirate's Arm (2005)
- S1E13
Ichinoseki, a promising gymnast, loses an arm to gangrene and through the encouragement of his friend Toshie via transistor in his arm, pursues competitive shogi and realizes who his real friends are.
Move, Solomon (2005)
- S1E14
Black Jack treats Solomon, a military-trained monkey injured after defying order to kill. Through surgery and empathy Black Jack challenge the idea of obedience without morality showing even animals deserve dignity, choice, and compassion.
The Fabricated Wedding (2005)
- S1E15
Michiru is dying of cancer and decides to marry the first man she sees through her door, who turns out to be Black Jack.
Missing Pinoko (2005)
- S1E16
Pinoko disappears, prompting Black Jack to search frantically. He finds her exhausted after secretly caring for a sick child. Moved, he treats the child and reminds Pinoko that helping others also means taking care of herself.
The Voiceless Idol (2005)
- S1E17
A school idol named Rei loses her voice due to a vocal cord polyp. After surgery, she sings too soon and worsens her condition. Black Jack saves her again, helping her recover both her voice and her confidence.
Mail Friends (2005)
- S1E18
Jun is paraplegic but lies to his online friend Tom that he plays baseball while Tom lies to Jun about being able to horseback ride when in reality he suffers from an illness produced blindness.
Good Luck, Kowa Clinic (2005)
- S1E19
Black Jack visits a rural village and meets Dr. Kowa, a kind unlicensed doctor. When a young patient falls seriously ill, the two team up to save the child-proving that compassion and skill matter more than credentials.
Tetsu of Yamanote Line (2005)
- S1E20
This story reveals the past of Tetsu, the owner of Black Jack's favorite coffee shop and his past as a pickpocket and the circumstances that led to this.
Hints of Spring (2005)
- S1E21
Kumiko loses sight in one eye from glaucoma. Black Jack fits her with a corneal transplant, but she begins seeing a mysterious man's final moments. Pinoko's fears spark an investigation-and Jack restores both vision and peace.
Pinoko pretends to date a boy named Tinq to make Black Jack jealous. When Tinq collapses, Black Jack discovers his organs are reversed. He performs a successful surgery, showing that real care goes beyond appearances and emotions.
Love after the Downpour (2005)
- S1E23
While stranded on a stormy island, Black Jack meets a local doctor named Kiyomi. She develops feelings for him, but after he saves her during a landslide, he quietly leaves-showing love through action, not words.
A Challenge named Nadare (2005)
- S1E24
A young vet enhances a deer's intelligence, but it becomes aggressive. Black Jack intervenes to prevent harm, saving both the deer and its creator. The story shows that altering nature requires responsibility and compassion.
Cholera Uproar (2005)
- S1E25
Black Jack quarantines himself fearing he has cholera and lets Pinoko care for clinic patients. After incubation, he returns to operate but falls ill. It turns out Pinoko's homemade medicine caused his symptoms, not cholera.
Abacus Wizard (2005)
- S1E26
Black Jack remembers when he operated on a boy named Eiji, a genius at the abacus who couldn't move his fingers and used his tongue to operate the abacus.
Black Jack and Pinoko become trapped in a sealed high-tech room with wealthy investors. As oxygen runs low, he uses his medical skills to save them, proving that quick thinking and compassion can turn panic into survival
Wilderness Epidemic (2005)
- S1E28
Black Jack is called to a remote area struck by a deadly epidemic. After becoming infected himself, he performs surgery to save a villager and himself. With Pinoko's help, he fights to stop the outbreak and protect those in need.
The Life-Arranging Flower (2005)
- S1E29
Sono, a young ikebana artist, suffers from a heart condition made worse by pressure from her strict father. Black Jack treats her and helps the father realize that nurturing life is more important than upholding rigid tradition.
Ikebana master Yongho Shimizu asks Black Jack to examine his 19-year-old daughter, Sono. Sono is ill and has only a few months to live. Eiko asks Black Jack to extend her life expectancy to one year so that she can become the head of the school in a year's time. However, Black Jack objects, saying that Sono will die soon after becoming Iemoto.
20th Year Implication (2005)
- S1E31
Black Jack and Pinoko are staying at a resort hotel at the top of a mountain. A seriously ill patient is brought to the hotel, but when the hotel goes on strike, the commissioned doctor, Dr. Yabu, goes home on his way to treat the patient. When Mizuhara, a guest with an incurable disease, writes his will and opens a vial of pills, they hear the patient's son, Ricky, crying in the hallway, and they ask Black Jack to treat his father.
Black Jack visits an island he bought that has a fisherman and a son arguing over what the son should do with his future.
Invaders from the Sky (2005)
- S1E33
A boy believes aliens are conducting experiments on him as he and the people around him begin to act strangely after he sees what appears to be a UFO.
Shaky Operating Room (2005)
- S1E34
Black Jack visits a neighborhood to receive payment and bumps into the town mooch whose wife needs surgery but Black Jack is unable to perform because the train nearby makes the village shake, forcing the man to stop the trains himself.
Hospital Hijack (2005)
- S1E35
Black Jack must find a way to finish an operation when a group of terrorists seize the hospital he is working at.
Black Jack explains to Pinoko that he will not fix his house until the carpenter that had built the house comes back to fix it himself.
Black Jack is kidnapped and put on a ship by robbers who force him to save the brother of one of the robbers who is dying from a bullet wound, but things get worse when they are shipwrecked.
Black Jack accompanies Sharaku and his sister Chiyoko on an archeological expedition with their father only to have Sharaku put under an alien's mind control.
The war still continues (2005)
- S1E39
Luna, a boy from Iru is suffering from a spinal cord injury made worse when his mother forces him to walk to enlist in the war. However, Black Jack fixes his back and helps mother and son make amends.
A police officer known for his annoying rigidness pushes everyone away, including his dates and his coworkers. His only friend is a police statue.
A movie director wants to film Black Jack's operation of his son, who has a congenital disorder, putting his immune system at harm.
Life's Wrong Diagnosis (2005)
- S1E42
A cocky and overconfident doctor makes a misdiagnosis on one of his patients and it takes his young assistant and Black Jack to set him straight.
Shrinkage! (2005)
- S1E43
Black Jack creates a cure for a mysterious disease that plagues Africa but is too late to give it to his former mentor.
Pinoko was Born (2005)
- S1E44
A flashback to how Black Jack met Pinoko as a teratoma on her twin sister- a cystic tumor that contains an undeveloped twin that her sister tries to get rid of but Pinoko won't let the doctors operate on her.
Black Jack remembers his friend Gera who taught him how to smile and whom he shares similarly tragic circumstances.
Jaw is a boy that loves to push others around but when he discovers he has a heart disease that becomes worse with strenuous activity, he has a change of heart.
A Violin from a Snowfall (2005)
- S1E47
The plane Black Jack and Pinoko are on encounters a snowstorm and ends up precariously balancing at the edge of a crevice. Everyone panics until the famous violinist Morozov calms them.
The Robin and the Boy (2005)
- S1E48
A passenger plane carrying Black Jack and Pinoko makes an emergency landing in the Arctic snowfields due to a blizzard. The passengers are evacuated to a nearby village, and the FA instructs them not to carry any baggage. Black Jack has no choice but to leave his medical equipment behind, but Morozov, a world-renowned violinist, straps a case containing a violin to his body with a tie and goes outside.
Robin and Boy (2005)
- S1E49
A robin constantly brings money to Black Jack and Black Jack learns that the man who saved the robin's spouse is ill and the robin wants Black Jack's help.
A company president asks Black Jack to pretend to be his son so he can operate on his brother, who he is not on good terms with since he abandoned the path to be a doctor.
The Rumored Acupuncturist (2005)
- S1E51
An acupuncturist named Biwamaru heals patients with no fee and undermines Black Jack and his surgeries. However, when one of his treatments proves more harm than good, Black Jack must show him the errors of his pride and arrogance.
The Moment of Witness (2005)
- S1E52
The police request Black Jack to restore the sight of a woman who witnessed the man who bombed a train station. However, Black Jack refuses as the surgery would only restore her sight for five minutes. Will he change his mind?
Locker's Cradle (2005)
- S1E53
A gangster asks Black Jack for help in raising a baby abandoned in locker while dealing with her estranged parents.
A man steals another man's face to earn his fortunes; however, the man's fortunes are gone and he is left with his mother who also turns out to be a fake.
The Platform of Life (2006)
- S1E55
Black Jack saves a model who suffers from a severe illness whose life has been one misery after another.
The Skin Donor (2006)
- S1E56
Black Jack goes to Europe where he meets his friend Takashi, the one who gave him part of his skin.
Pinoko tries to enter high school by taking a high school entrance exam, but the stress proves too much for her.
An old man tries to protect his tree that has protected him and been his friend for years.
Black Queen (2006)
- S1E59
Black Jack meets his female equivalent, a woman who is known for her cold exterior and amputations.
Black Jack saves an amnesiac patient who is taken in by a truck driver who spotted her and took her to Black Jack. The two fall in love, however when the woman remembers who she once was, she leaves him.
The Two Pinokos (2006)
- S1E61
Black Jack meets a girl who looks like Pinoko and suffers from a bad cold and lungs problem due to living next to a factory that pollutes the air.
Cast & Info
Created by:
Osamu TezukaStarring:
Akio Ôtsuka, Kenji Hamada, Tamie Kubota
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