Episode 5 – 8
Konnichiwa Minna, welcome to the second week of our Dororo challenge. As promised we will talk more about Osamu Tezuka and that is by an anime recommendation. There is a lot of anime to choose from, but one anime that is sometimes overlooked is Black Jack.
Black Jack
A young boy, born into a happy family, loses his family in a horrible accident. Facing certain death, he survives countless hours of surgery and goes through long, torturous rehabilitation. Orphaned and disfigured, the boy vows to become a surgeon, because of the kind old doctor stood by him through every operation. Years later, the miracle worker Black Jack is born. A doctor of unfathomable skill that performs the impossible on the operating table. A doctor who charges most of his patients unbelievable fees. And do these surgeries without a license.
People turn to Black Jack, the doctor when they have no hope left. Even animals like a killer whale… yes a killer whale… Well, he likes dealing with difficult and even strange medical cases be dangerous… He rarely gets recognition; often curing the poor and destitute for free, or teaching the arrogant a lesson in humility. He is the good guy anti-hero type, a modern-day Robin Hood with a scalpel, that charging his rich patients enormous fees, that hurts their pockets, but he treats the poor for free. At his beautiful house, overlooking the sea, a childlike girl, Pinoco and an eccentric dog named Largo lives with him. With Black Jack’s anime-villain looks, the trio makes for interesting an intriguing story.