Black Jack Details and Screenshots
A game called Black Jack will be released by Sega in Japan for the Nintendo DS on November 9. The game is based on a manga written by Osamu Tezuka, who also wrote Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. It follows the adventures of Black Jack, a medical medical mercenary, selling his skills to the highest bidder. He is a shadowy figure, with a black cloak, eerie black-and-white hair, a scar across his face and partially black skin. Black Jack cures patients indiscriminately, from common folk to presidents and yakuza leaders, of which he charges absurd sums of money.
Osamu Tezuka drew from his knowledge as physician in writing Black Jack and the manga contains frequent medical details, but Tezuka chose to generally avoid medical plausibility: Black Jack is superhuman, regularly performing spectacular and impossible feats of surgical virtuosity, like transplanting organs and even limbs without any risk of rejection. Black Jack’s real name is Kuroo Hazama who was rescued by a surgeon named Dr. Jotaro Honma after his body was nearly torn to shreds after a bomb hit his home, killing his mother and triggering his lust for revenge. Kuro decided to become a surgeon himself and took the name Black Jack. Despite his medical genius, he has chosen never to obtain a surgical license and operates instead in the shadows. He maintains a secret private clinic far away from the city, preferring to live in anonymity.
He has a sidekick, a little girl named Pinoko, constructed entirely by him from spare body parts. She was a rare type of Siamese twin, living in one of Black Jack’s patients’ bodies for eighteen years until Black Jack extracted her and gave her a real body.
Check out these comic-book style images from the game.
Via Sega
A game called Black Jack will be released by Sega in Japan for the Nintendo DS on November 9. The game is based on a manga written by Osamu Tezuka, who also wrote Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. It follows the adventures of Black Jack, a medical medical mercenary, selling his skills to the highest bidder. He is a shadowy figure, with a black cloak, eerie black-and-white hair, a scar across his face and partially black skin. Black Jack cures patients indiscriminately, from common folk to presidents and yakuza leaders, of which he charges absurd sums of money.
Osamu Tezuka drew from his knowledge as physician in writing Black Jack and the manga contains frequent medical details, but Tezuka chose to generally avoid medical plausibility: Black Jack is superhuman, regularly performing spectacular and impossible feats of surgical virtuosity, like transplanting organs and even limbs without any risk of rejection. Black Jack’s real name is Kuroo Hazama who was rescued by a surgeon named Dr. Jotaro Honma after his body was nearly torn to shreds after a bomb hit his home, killing his mother and triggering his lust for revenge. Kuro decided to become a surgeon himself and took the name Black Jack. Despite his medical genius, he has chosen never to obtain a surgical license and operates instead in the shadows. He maintains a secret private clinic far away from the city, preferring to live in anonymity.
He has a sidekick, a little girl named Pinoko, constructed entirely by him from spare body parts. She was a rare type of Siamese twin, living in one of Black Jack’s patients’ bodies for eighteen years until Black Jack extracted her and gave her a real body.
Check out these comic-book style images from the game.
Via Sega
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