1993–2000 · ブラック・ジャック（OVA）Black Jack (OVA)

Burakku Jakku (OAV) · OVA (video) · Seinen (adults)

10episodes

49-52 minrunning time

8characters

8events

Titles

Japanese: ブラック・ジャック（OVA） (ぶらっくじゃっく)
Romaji: Burakku Jakku (OAV)
French: Black Jack (OAV) (translation)
English: Black Jack (OVA)

Titles abroad

Taiwan 怪醫黑傑克 [13]

Period · Genre

Broadcast / release in Japan: December 21, 1993 – 2000
Format: OVA (video)
Episodes: 10
Running time: 49-52 min
Picture: Colour
Studio: Tezuka Productions
Channel / distributor: Vidéo Akita Shoten, Forte Music, Nippon Columbia
Tezuka’s role: Original creator
Audience: Seinen (adults)
Themes: Medicine, Drama
Period: Posthumous production

Summary

The genius surgeon Black Jack, who operates without a licence and charges outrageous fees, faces mysterious diseases and moral dilemmas in ten episodes. The OVA series keeps only the manga’s characters and setting: each episode is a new story, with characters redesigned by Akio Sugino [1][2].

Information

Released on video from December 1993 to 2000 by Akita Shoten, Forte Music Entertainment and Nippon Columbia; ten episodes of 49 to 52 minutes [2][12].
Broadcast in Spain in 2006, in Italy in 2009 [13].

Abroad, from the chronology

On Tezukapedia

Source work (Series)

1973 Black Jack ブラック・ジャック

Episodes (10)

1
Clinical Chart 1: Iceberg, Chimaera Man流氷、キマイラの男
December 12, 1993
On a windswept island, the young wife of an old tycoon pays Black Jack three million dollars to treat her husband, whose body is draining of water. Black Jack identifies the kimaira, a disease peculiar to the island and thought to be extinct. The episode reworks “Hurricane” and borrows from “99.9% Water”. [13][14]
2
Clinical Chart 2: A Funeral, The Procession Game葬列遊戯
December 21, 1993
In a northern town, Black Jack once treated one of four friends. He later learns that two of them have died and the third is in a coma; the hospital director refuses to let him operate, and Black Jack senses a conspiracy. An original story. [13][14]
3
Clinical Chart 3: Decoration of Maria and Her Commradesマリア達の勲章
December 21, 1993
General Cruz, leader of the Republic of Ortega arrested by a foreign power, is freed by his soldiers; Black Jack operates on his cancer in the middle of a gun battle between his loyal troops and special forces. Based on the episode “The Promise”. [13][14]
4
Clinical Chart 4: Anorexia, The Two Dark Doctors拒食、ふたりの黒い医者
March 21, 1995
The actress Michelle, finally a star, can no longer eat and wastes away. Black Jack cannot find the cause, and in despair she meets Dr Kiriko, an advocate of euthanasia. Inspired by “Two Black Doctors” and “The Death of a Star”. [13][14]
5
Clinical Chart 5: The Owl of San Meridaサンメリーダのふくろう
May 20, 1995
Black Jack finds on a young Englishman’s body the scars of operations more skilful than his own. The young man dreams every night of a woman being killed; the trail leads to a village in a country just out of civil war. Inspired by “A Passed Moment”. [13][14]
6
Clinical Chart 6: Night Time Tale in the Snow雪の夜ばなし、恋姫
May 21, 1996
A letter posted two years earlier begs Black Jack to save a dying wife. Arriving in the snowbound mountains, he is met by the ghost of a Kamakura-era warrior. An original story. [13][14]
7
Clinical Chart 7: Black and White白い正義
August 21, 1998
Black Jack operates on a girl in a refugee camp in a war-torn country, watched by Catherine, a volunteer doctor who first opposes him. Impressed, she proposes that he be granted an international licence, which her fiancé, a head of surgery, contests. [13][14]
8
Clinical Chart 8: Thoughts For Green緑の想い
October 25, 1999
A young Englishman’s body is sprouting plant shoots, while an old man in the Andes defends an ancient beech that is to be felled. Black Jack looks for the link between the two. Based on “Buds” and “The Old Man and the Tree”. [13][14]
9
Clinical Chart 9: The Carbuncle人面瘡
February 25, 2000
The young heir of a large group has had since childhood a tumour shaped like a human face, which grows back after removal. Black Jack realises that its cause is a wound of the mind, while a killer stalks hotels. [13][14]
10
Clinical Chart 10: Sinking Womanしずむ女
July 25, 2000
Called in to treat the victims of industrial pollution in Mikazuki Bay, Black Jack meets Tsukiko, a sick girl who lives alone by selling fish, and comes to admire her freedom. [13][14]

1993–2000 · ブラック・ジャック（OVA）Black Jack (OVA)

Titles

Titles abroad

Period · Genre

Summary

Information

Abroad, from the chronology

On Tezukapedia

Source work (Series)

Other adaptations of the same work

Chronology 8 event(s)

MT-400 (Manga Zenshū, Kōdansha) of the source work

BT-200 (Bunko Zenshū, Kōdansha) of the source work

Star System

Episodes (10)

Characters

Black Jack

Pinoko

クロスワード

小百合

デビッド

シェル

ミネア

フレディ

Japanese editions

Foreign editions

France (1)

United States (11)

Video releases found in the chronology (1)

Production staff

Cast (voices)

Trivia

Sources

ブラック・ジャック	Akio ŌtsukaW·en 大塚明夫 (born November 24, 1959) ↗	Japanese	[1]
ピノコ	Yūko MizutaniW·en 水谷優子 (November 4, 1964 – May 17, 2016) ↗	Japanese	[1]
クロスワード	Chikao ŌtsukaW·en 大塚周夫 (July 5, 1929 – January 15, 2015) ↗	Japanese	[1]
小百合	Kikuko InoueW·en 井上喜久子 (born September 25, 1964) ↗	Japanese	[1]
デビッド	Shinya ŌtakiW·en 大滝進矢 (born July 29, 1953) ↗	Japanese	[1]
シェル	Yoshiko KameiW·en 亀井芳子 (born May 25, 1967) ↗	Japanese	[1]
ミネア	Yumi ToumaW·en 冬馬由美 (born December 20, 1966) ↗	Japanese	[1]
フレディ	Hirohiko KakegawaW·en 掛川裕彦 (born October 11, 1964) ↗	Japanese	[1]