Black Jack Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Ryuusui, Chimaera no Otoko

Tue, Dec 21, 199349 mins

Dr Black Jack is called to investigate a new disease called Chimera.

Episode 1

The Vanished Needle

Pinoko becomes friends with a boy named Sharaku but Sharaku falls ill and Black Jack operates. Unfortunately, an accident occurs as he is transported to a room and a stray needle enters his heart and only a miracle can save him now.

Episode 1

Visited Memories

Episode 2

Sôretsu yûgi

Tue, Dec 21, 1993

Dr Black Jack discovers an illegal drug that causes young girls to lose control of their emotions.

Episode 2

The Ant's Legs

A young boy decides to walk 400 km from Hokkaido to Osaka by himself. Black Jack, whose story unknowingly inspired the boy, decides to follow.

Episode 3

Maria-tachi no kunshô

Tue, Dec 21, 1993

Black Jack is hired by an ailing revolutionary's beautiful daughter to cure him.

Episode 4

Anorexia, the Two Dark Doctors

A patient is wasting away due to an unknown illness. But should she trust Dr Black Jack to give her life, or Dr Kiriko to mercifully end her life?

Episode 5

The Owl of San Merida

A patient dreams of a young woman. This leads Black Jack to a tale of courage and sacrifice.

Episode 6

Night Time Tale in the Snow - "Lovelorn Princess"

Black Jack and Pinoko are hired by an ailing princess's bodyguard to cure her. The princess and bodyguard are in love, but a selfish emperor wants the princess for himself.

Episode 7

White Justice

Black Jack is sent by a mobster into a wilderness to save his ailing child.

Episode 8

Green Sentiments

A young boy is turning into a tree.

Episode 9

The Carbuncle with a Human Face

A young man suffers from split personalities, caused by a carbuncle.

Episode 10

The Sinking Woman

A young lady who lives at a seaside town being polluted by a refinery is losing the use of her legs.

Episode 11

Visited Memories

During a rehearsal of a traditional dance, Pinoko and Lady Yurie Saionji suddenly collapse. Black Jack discovers they're linked to a rare neurological condition tied to Yurie's ancestral heritage.

Episode 12

Give My Brother Back To Me!

An actor with a lympathic problem is mistakenly believed to have been kidnapped by Black Jack and his younger brother sets out to save him.

Episode 12

An Analogous Abduction

Black Jack is kidnapped by a dictator and forced to perform brain surgery. After surviving a coup and saving the tyrant, he regrets his decision-realizing he may have saved a monster.

Episode 13

A Pirate's Arm

Ichinoseki, a promising gymnast, loses an arm to gangrene and through the encouragement of his friend Toshie via transistor in his arm, pursues competitive shogi and realizes who his real friends are.

Episode 15

The Fabricated Wedding

Michiru is dying of cancer and decides to marry the first man she sees through her door, who turns out to be Black Jack.

Episode 17

The Voiceless Idol

A school idol named Rei loses her voice due to a vocal cord polyp. After surgery, she sings too soon and worsens her condition. Black Jack saves her again, helping her recover both her voice and her confidence.

Episode 18

Mail Friends

Jun is paraplegic but lies to his online friend Tom that he plays baseball while Tom lies to Jun about being able to horseback ride when in reality he suffers from an illness produced blindness.

Episode 20

Tetsu of Yamanote Line

This story reveals the past of Tetsu, the owner of Black Jack's favorite coffee shop and his past as a pickpocket and the circumstances that led to this.

Episode 21

Hints of Spring

Kumiko loses sight in one eye from glaucoma. Black Jack fits her with a corneal transplant, but she begins seeing a mysterious man's final moments. Pinoko's fears spark an investigation-and Jack restores both vision and peace.

Episode 26

Abacus Wizard

Black Jack remembers when he operated on a boy named Eiji, a genius at the abacus who couldn't move his fingers and used his tongue to operate the abacus.

Episode 32

The Terror of the Azure Sea

A boy defies his father's wishes and dives into the sea, only to suffer a serious injury. Black Jack rescues and treats him, helping father and son reconcile. The story highlights the risks of pride and the strength of family bonds.

Episode 33

Invaders from the Sky

A boy believes aliens are conducting experiments on him as he and the people around him begin to act strangely after he sees what appears to be a UFO.

Episode 34

The Shaking Operating Room

Black Jack visits a neighborhood to receive payment and bumps into the town mooch whose wife needs surgery but Black Jack is unable to perform because the train nearby makes the village shake, forcing the man to stop the trains himself.

Episode 35

Hospital Hijack

Black Jack must find a way to finish an operation when a group of terrorists seize the hospital he is working at.

Episode 36

The House on the Cape Is Incomplete

Black Jack explains to Pinoko that he will not fix his house until the carpenter that had built the house comes back to fix it himself.

Episode 37

The Dolphin and the Pirates

Black Jack is kidnapped and put on a ship by robbers who force him to save the brother of one of the robbers who is dying from a bullet wound, but things get worse when they are shipwrecked.

Episode 38

Challenge from the Unknown

Black Jack accompanies Sharaku and his sister Chiyoko on an archeological expedition with their father only to have Sharaku put under an alien's mind control.

Episode 39

The war still continues

Luna, a boy from Iru is suffering from a spinal cord injury made worse when his mother forces him to walk to enlist in the war. However, Black Jack fixes his back and helps mother and son make amends.

Episode 40

The Mannequin and the Police

A police officer known for his annoying rigidness pushes everyone away, including his dates and his coworkers. His only friend is a police statue.

Episode 41

The Miracle of a Movie and an Operation

A movie director wants to film Black Jack's operation of his son, who has a congenital disorder, putting his immune system at harm.

Episode 42

Life's Wrong Diagnosis

A cocky and overconfident doctor makes a misdiagnosis on one of his patients and it takes his young assistant and Black Jack to set him straight.

Episode 43

Shrinkage!

Black Jack creates a cure for a mysterious disease that plagues Africa but is too late to give it to his former mentor.

Episode 44

Pinoko was Born

A flashback to how Black Jack met Pinoko as a teratoma on her twin sister- a cystic tumor that contains an undeveloped twin that her sister tries to get rid of but Pinoko won't let the doctors operate on her.

Episode 45

A Classmate who Loves to Laugh

Black Jack remembers his friend Gera who taught him how to smile and whom he shares similarly tragic circumstances.

Episode 46

The Bodyguard at the Festival

Jaw is a boy that loves to push others around but when he discovers he has a heart disease that becomes worse with strenuous activity, he has a change of heart.

Episode 47

A Violin from a Snowfall

The plane Black Jack and Pinoko are on encounters a snowstorm and ends up precariously balancing at the edge of a crevice. Everyone panics until the famous violinist Morozov calms them.

Episode 48

The Robin and the Boy

Episode 49

Robin and Boy

A robin constantly brings money to Black Jack and Black Jack learns that the man who saved the robin's spouse is ill and the robin wants Black Jack's help.

Episode 50

The Brothers that were Separated

A company president asks Black Jack to pretend to be his son so he can operate on his brother, who he is not on good terms with since he abandoned the path to be a doctor.

Episode 51

The Rumored Acupuncturist

An acupuncturist named Biwamaru heals patients with no fee and undermines Black Jack and his surgeries. However, when one of his treatments proves more harm than good, Black Jack must show him the errors of his pride and arrogance.

Episode 52

The Moment of Witness

The police request Black Jack to restore the sight of a woman who witnessed the man who bombed a train station. However, Black Jack refuses as the surgery would only restore her sight for five minutes. Will he change his mind?

Episode 53

Locker's Cradle

A gangster asks Black Jack for help in raising a baby abandoned in locker while dealing with her estranged parents.

Episode 54

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the False Mother and Son

A man steals another man's face to earn his fortunes; however, the man's fortunes are gone and he is left with his mother who also turns out to be a fake.

Episode 55

The Platform of Life

Black Jack saves a model who suffers from a severe illness whose life has been one misery after another.

Episode 56

The Skin Donor

Black Jack goes to Europe where he meets his friend Takashi, the one who gave him part of his skin.

Episode 57

Pinoko's Entrance Exam Diary

Pinoko tries to enter high school by taking a high school entrance exam, but the stress proves too much for her.

Episode 58

The Old Man and the Big Tree

An old man tries to protect his tree that has protected him and been his friend for years.

Episode 59

Black Queen

Black Jack meets his female equivalent, a woman who is known for her cold exterior and amputations.

Episode 60

The Encounter Between the Two with a Past

Black Jack saves an amnesiac patient who is taken in by a truck driver who spotted her and took her to Black Jack. The two fall in love, however when the woman remembers who she once was, she leaves him.

Episode 61

The Two Pinokos

Black Jack meets a girl who looks like Pinoko and suffers from a bad cold and lungs problem due to living next to a factory that pollutes the air.