Airborne Emergency - Recommendations

• Other (1 ep)
• 2004

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2007

One dark and blustery night, a lone doctor is called to a village ten miles away in order to help with a sick patient. Quickly losing his servant to ill-intentioned hands and whisked away upon frightening horses, the doctor meets his young and ailing patient under the scrutinizing eyes of his family. It is here that the doctor will try to discover the root of the boy’s illness and also try to make some sense out of his own psyche.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2000

After abandoning his country and stealing a fighter jet from a military base, the now ex-major Gaganoff suddenly appears at Black Jack’s door asking him to save his son, Andrei. After examining the boy, the unlicensed surgeon claims that he cannot help, staunchly refusing to help even when Gaganoff pulls a gun on him. However, after hearing the family’s story, Black Jack racks his brain for a way to cure Andrei’s disease and decides to attempt a radical surgery as a last-ditch attempt to save the boy’s life...

• TV Special (4 eps)
• 2003

Having suffered a terrible accident when he was a child that left his body torn apart, Black Jack was saved from death by a miraculous operation. Motivated by his surgeon’s skills, he decided to work hard to make a full recovery and become a doctor himself. Now he is a world-renowned, but unlicensed doctor, whose awe inspiring and highly expensive surgeries save people who are on the brink of death. From a car crash victim with no salvageable organs, to operating on an old woman in her home, to even repairing a medically-programmed computer, Black Jack will fix the problem, creating miracles in his own unique way.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1996

Black Jack is an unlicensed doctor whose skills are world-renowned, and come at a high price. What starts as a routine call turns into a deadly race to stop a strange malady known as the Moira Syndrome: a virus which enhances the body and gives rise to super-humans, people who are breaking world records in everything from sports to music. With time running out and no one to trust, Black Jack must solve the mystery of the syndrome, or die trying!

• Web (3 eps)
• 2020

In this short animation, Luna, a girl who is uncomfortable with hospitals, medicine and injections, comes to understand the value of medicine via the thrilling explanations of a mysterious doctor.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2000

• Web (12 eps)
• 2001

Black Jack, a mysterious young unlicensed doctor with godlike skills, travels the world performing feats of impossible surgery, charging vast fees for his services, and challenging the corrupt practices of the medical establishment. This selection of stories, each adapted from a single original manga issue, focuses more on interpersonal relationships and back-story than most other Black Jack series.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2004

A recap episode that covers episode 1-17 of Monster.

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2006

One day when Pinoko and Sharaku are playing by the park they encounter a scruffy dog that promptly steals Pinoko’s purse - but as they begin their pursuit, a truck hits the four-legged thief. Upset that the poor hound might die, Pinoko immediately calls for Black Jack to save the canine, but can she persuade him to let her keep her? Then, after one of his patients, Doctor Clonen, calls Black Jack to a remote lodge in the forest, the genius surgeon becomes caught up in a serial murder case where he himself is the prime suspect!