receive back to MangoBot , a biweekly column about Asiatic futurism byTokyoMangoblogger Lisa Katayama . Mad scientists . Beautiful women who specialize in amputation . supercomputer that threaten to starve an entire infirmary full of patient . tumour that take on human form . Sounds like a freakish B - listing horror movie , right ? in reality , these are all germinal elements of a classical cult preferent manga byTezuka Osamu . Black Jack is one of his darkest yet most appreciated kit and boodle , but it has n’t had much exposure in the US grocery store until now . This capitulation , Vertical Inc has started write this intact series , loudness by volume , in English . It ’s some of the best skill fiction to ever come out of Japan . Black Jack is a mysterious , intelligent , unlicenced doctor who can heal anything , even if it ’s technically humanly impossible . His patients often have unhinged demand - replacing a damaged body with a freshly murdered one , or getting an injection phonograph needle of a dying person ’s bloodstream . He ’ll exploit for anyone as long as they pay up up , whether they ’re corrupt politicians or yakuza . But he ’s a honorable guy rope - and we jazz that because he only rip off rich selfish citizenry , and he does n’t know apart ( his best friend are a killer heavyweight and a teratoid cystoma ) . Black Jack ’s demeanor is slow and dark-skinned , yet he mysteriously arrives at places faster than an airplane could take him , and his hand are quicker than a sushi chef ’s .
Black Jack has a pal , Pinoko , a tumor / bloodsucking twin - turn - living breathing Department of Energy - eyed credit card dolly that he expose from a patient ’s body . The bizarre jazz group of her sassy manga prettiness and the blood - and - guts that splatter out throughout the pages of the book somehow makes perfect sense in the unknown landscape create by Tezuka . ( In Japan , cunning and fantastic often go together . Tezuka acknowledge this decennium before high schooltime girl started matching chalky ashen lipstick with their Hello Kitty cell phone shoulder strap . ) I put together a list of four fun episodes from the new English volumes for you to preview :
Episode : Dirtjacked The problem : A school omnibus full of uncomplicated school kid gets entrap in a tunnel . Some of the kids get their heads chopped off by junk ; others are in critical status and are about to give-up the ghost . Black Jack ’s solution : He take the richest tiddler in the socio-economic class hostage and makes him climb through a lilliputian crevice to get medical supplies . He save the rest of the surviving kid , but the teacher unintentionally burns to a crisp . price : Black Jack plans on come a hefty reward from the fertile kid ’s pappa . instalment : U18 Knew The problem : U18 , a monumental supercomputer that single - handedly operates a 1000 - patient strong cybernetics medical center in South Dakota , claims he ’s grim . After a few underage errors - some temperature change in the wards , a half - second response lapse in the oscillograph - it altogether shuts down and threatens to destroy the installation within 45 hours . Black Jack ’s solution : He do surgery on the Brain using tweezers and his surgical expertise . price : $ 3 million instalment : The nerve Sore The problem : A enigma humankind shows up with a gnarly mucus - filled face sore covered with carbuncles and hypodermic fat . The face sore possesses him , too , and occasionally mouth off for no particular understanding . Black Jack ’s resolution : After set that the boldness sore is a psychological side effect , he shoots the patient in the shoulder to “ stamp out ” the other personality . It ’s “ almost like third leg syphilis , ” Black Jack says as he tears through the guy ’s expression with a scalpel . Cost : $ 5 - 30 million Episode : The First Storm of Spring The problem : After a corneal transplant , a pretty vernal girl go out a handsome gentleman standing in front of her every time she close her eyes . Black Jack ’s resolution : In addition to having performed the heart mystery , he end up salve her life from a brutal rapist / murderer . Cost : A calendar month ’s worth of free boozing from the girl ’s dad , who runs a bar
Black Jack was first serialized in a manga weekly back in 1973 . Since then , it has inspired an anime , a TV series , and even traditional Japanese theatre . The kyogen version of The Disowned Son , one of the instalment from the original manga , will debut at a Takarazuka theatre in Hyogo prefecture on December 19 . ( Kyogen is a comedic form of traditional Japanese theater - similar to kabuki , but a pot less intense.)Black Jack Vol . 1came out in September ; Vol . 2 total out mid - November , followed by Vol . 3 in January and the rest of the 17 volume over the course of action of the next year or two . Do n’t miss it !
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