This anime has to be by far one of the best I have seen ever.The story revolves around a scary looking half masked,black caped looking doctor(he does resemble Dracula in a way!),by the name of Dr Black Jack. The doctor holds the reputation for being the world's best surgeon,but only works for the 'rich'.Though initially you get a feeling that this guy is pretty greedy,but in reality he is a very kind hearted man. The anime boasts of a very independant storyline.Most episodes remain independant of each other,with each story touching your heart in a very unusual way.The animation is really good and if you are wondering why the style issoo similar to Astro Boy's,then you should know that both the original Manga's were authored by Osamu Tezuka. Overall the anime is excellent and I would reccommend everyone to atleast try watching the series once.

In short, this anime is excellent in the fact that it doesn;t revolve around guns and action, but it's not slow and dragging. The idea of a doctor saving lives is excellent, and the dramatic [and some times a little ridiculous] ways is more than entertaining. I've watched most of these episodes three and more times, and will probably continue to do so. The animation may seem a little too childish, but I assure you that the subject matter isn't really. And, it's generally accurate, so you may learn a little anatomy at the same time. I highly recommend this anime, both to first timewatchers and die hard anime fans.

I watched this show right after watching the OVAs and right away I can say that Black Jack TV was a lot less dark and more kid-friendly than the OVA, but it's still very entertaining. Some of the stories will touch your heart and others will actually make you laugh. I'm glad we got some episodes that revolved around Pinoco and what she and her friends do in their free time, since in the OVAs it seemed she was always stuck at home waiting for the doctor to return. This version of Black Jack was less serious and more comedic, but that does not mean I enjoyedit any less. I'm glad that I watched this show, and I'm also happy with the amount of episodes there are.

Story 9/10 Black Jack is a "unlicensed" doctor who with his fellow assistant Pinoco takes on difficult cases. Each episode follows a different case. I gave the story a 9 out of 10 because there are 61 episodes of Black Jack, but yet it felt like the show was going to go on, but we never got that. Art 9/10 The art is good. I'm giving it 9 out of 10 because the noses felt weirdly drawn (go ahead and call me out, I have a picky style lol) and some of the art didn't match the background in my opinion. Sound 10/10 Black Jack has three openings and threeendings: Gekkouka, Here I Am, and Fantastic (openings); Kuroge Wagyuu Kamishio Tanyaki 680 En, Clover, and Careless Breath (endings) I loved all of them. I really don't have criticism for the soundtrack here. Character 8/10 I just love seeing Black Jack and Pinoco together. They have such great chemistry and interactions together. I gave it 8 out of 10 because well some of the characters (the patients) weren't all great, but they were still good. Enjoyment 9/10 I really enjoyed the show. It's not the greatest show for me, but it's a nice show to watch if you don't really have a lot of time to watch a whole anime. I know a lot of people who work and they only like have 1 hour, so they would watch Black Jack. Overall 9/10 Black Jack is a nice, relaxing, and heartwarming show that you can watch anytime with anyone, even non-amine fans. I recommend this show to anyone who just started out in anime and well, the show is fun for the whole family! Thanks for reading. Let me know your thoughts on this review and any feedback you may have for me. Until next time!

Black Jack is one of Mr. Tezuka's most famous works next to Astro boy of course. It portrays the medical world through the eyes unlicensed doctor, Black Jack, as he gets all sorts of unique and life changing tasks and surgeries he must perform to the best of his abilities. Story: 7 The story follows Black Jack, a mysterious doctor that has sort of an unknown past as everyone only knows him because of his reputation. According to almost everyone in the show, this man is superb in his surgery abilities and is one of the best doctors in Japan. Each episodeis it's own new case that I found to be always unique. Even though most of the episodes are stand-alone, each of them are well paced and do a good job explaining the story for that episode. Art: 6 Now even if the design is a little childish and perhaps a little hard to look at, I found myself glancing more at the emotions each character depicts. Even if the characters are unsightly, the emotions they portray stand out to me the most. Tezuka knows how to make us feel for a character by creating emotions through facial gestures. What we can't get by looking at his art, we can get by looking at the emotional value of the characters. Sound: 8 The music in this show I just simply adored. From the intro, to the music in the show, everything I enjoyed to my heart's content. I'd have to say if I were to pick my favorite intro, it would for sure be "Here I am" by globe. The vocalist of the song was great, as were the instruments and such within the song. The only problem I had with some of the songs was that they got a bit repetitive sometimes. Some songs played multiple times in one episode and that got a bit bland for me. Thank God the music was actually good. Otherwise I wouldn't be giving it this praise right now. Character: 7 I wanna say the only character I enjoyed was Black Jack. Pinoko got annoying as hell real quick, and I already knew I was going to hate her. As for the episode related characters, they were just there so you'd feel sad for them. I couldn't have emotional bonds with them because all episodes were only 1 parters. If an episode extended to 2 parts, then we could start talking characters. As for minor characters, they weren't stand out at all. I guess that's why they're minor, so that's only a nitpick. Enjoyment: 9 I for sure really enjoyed this anime. My only problem: wayyyyy to long. Seriously, I'm all for making an anime long if it has a story to go off of, but it doesn't. This series would have worked as maybe a 24 episode series at best, but 61? That's a little much Tezuka. OVERALL: 8 Yeah I say for sure check this one out. If your a fan of House or doctor shows, do it. You won't regret it. And hey, if an episode seems awful 10 minutes in, just skip it. It won't matter. EXCEPT the Pinoko episode. Don't skip that one, trust me. Have a good day!

First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile. ------ ✦Story Great episodic enjoyment about odd doctor and annoying sidekick. As episodes pass, you get sometimes flashback episodes where you learn a bit about the main characters. Isn't much else to say about story. I guess some diseases and medical components of the story might confuse viewer now and then, but for the most part everything gets explanation. Probably the weakest link of the story would be that few stories/episodes were quite far fetched and moronic. But overall story was quite enjoyable. ✦Art & Sound Were good, that's all Ican really comment. It has it's odd/unique artstyle/character designs and quite enjoyable music&OST. It isn't anything amazing nor anything bad, it is simply good. ✦Character It's episodic Anime, thus most characters don't really matter. But now and then some side-characters show up at later episodes as well. So in a sense it's quite good balance of main character importance & presence and side-kicks/characters method of surfacing now and then. Rest of importance regarding main cast, explains synopsis anyhow. Probably only thing I would have to mention is the sidekick Pinoco, she truly frustrates and annoys me. I'm never been fond of brats. But her flashback episode which explains, who she is, was quite disturbing, especially after I googled afterwards certain thing on medical side. ✦Enjoyment&Overall In a nutshell it's a enjoyable episodic medical Anime about notorious/genius unlicensed doctor and annoying kid side-kick brat. But I found this Anime quite enjoyable and will end up watching the whole franchise.

my ratings for this anime is a 4 this anime seems to more target making a black jack anime fore children and it could of done this and still be good. but as being part of the black franchise i expected it to still focus on medical drama but it feels like it almost could care less about it. and was forced to have it because of the franchise this left me lose all interest in it. if this was not part of black jack this would be average and i would of enjoyed it a bit. but i wanted the medical dramaand for most episodes the medical stuff get two maybe four minutes on average. so if this was the part you liked about the franchise this might fall painfully flat. really it is best not to watch this as something part of the black jack franchise and just a average kids show with medical things thrown in. and there are good number episodes were it is literally thrown in as black jack travels to a random place and a person gets hurt and now that person needs a doctor to save there life. on a plus if you wanted pinoko to get more time as this is trying to make something for children. she gets large chunk of more time of her having fun. the show really in general heavily focus on slice of life elements of the patient of the day and fun things and nothing relating to medical issues. because i guess they felt no child would be interested while i feel outside of making sure not to show the insides of people the structure needs little change to appeal to children. something like Black Jack: Futari no Kuroi Isha i feel is something plenty of children would find entertaining. while not showing anything inappropriate for a child while staying true to the point of black jack focusing on medical issues and drama. while this i feel like it just did not feel black jack could connect to children so basally hacked away mostly everything the franchise was about. to make a black jack they feel would appeal to children while losing far to much of the franchises essence. like i said as a kids show its fine but it just missing far to much of the focus of black jack for me not to consider it a bad black jack series.