Mushoi: Joshi Keimusho no Karute - Recommendations

• Other (1 ep)
• 2004

• 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.

• 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...

• 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!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2020

Welcome to the town of Lindworm, where humans and monsters coexist and rookie doctor Glenn carries out some…risqué medical examinations! Whether probing deep into the gills of a mermaid, suturing the thigh of a flesh golem, helping a harpy lay an egg, or palpating each and every scale of a dragon… No matter how different their looks, bodies, and properties, Glenn devotes his all to saving them—and, in the process, winds up in some pretty dangerous liaisons…? But don’t worry—it’s all just a part of his medical exams!

• TV (12 eps)
• 2015

The year is 1968, the war in Vietnam is approaching its zenith, and the counterculture movement that's been sweeping the world is engulfing Japan. While others are in the streets protesting, one young medical student becomes embroiled in a different kind of battle.As new medical technologies to save and extend lives come into play, the temptation for a surgeon to play God has never been so powerful. Even as he strives to prove his own skills to his colleagues, Hazama Kuroo begins to suspect that the potentials for abuse inherent in the medical system are already being exploited.To attempt to change the system means risking his own promising career as a surgeon, and to move against the perpetrators will put his own life in danger. However, as a doctor, how can he not act when lives are on the line?

• 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)
• 2005

When a bomb goes off in a nearby building, the unlicensed surgeon Black Jack secures a release from jail in return for helping out at the scene. A few months later, the group that planted the bomb lure Black Jack to a mysterious island that used to be a military base. When he arrives, he is stunned to find that his patients are all infected with a new type of anthrax, but what he also discovers is that he is not the only doctor to have been called. Dr Kiriko - a renegade doctor known as Death Incarnate due to his willingness to kill his patients on request - is also there. With their differing views on medicine, Black Jack and Kiriko clash, but with both their lives at stake for knowing too much, the pair will have to work together if they want to get out of this alive.

• 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 (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!