Black Jack (TV)

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
is ... soo 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 time ... watchers and die hard anime fans.

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 drama ... and 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.