Black Jack (manga)

Black Jack
Cover of Black Jack tankōbon volume 1, featuring Kuroo Hazama (Black Jack)
ブラック・ジャック (Burakku Jakku)
Genre	Medical suspense[1]
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	November 19, 1973 – October 14, 1983
Volumes	25 (List of volumes)
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 Company Hori Productions Released November 26, 1977 (1977-11-26) 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 December 21, 1993 – December 16, 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 November 30, 1996 (1996-11-30) 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 March 22, 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 Yomiuri TV Original run October 11, 2004 – March 6, 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 May 9, 2005 – February 9, 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 December 17, 2005 (2005-12-17) 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 April 10, 2006 – September 4, 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.

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]}