Black Jack (TV)

First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
Great episodic enjoyment about odd doctor and annoying sidekick. As episodes pass, you get sometimes flashback episodes where you learn a bit about the main characters. Isn't much else to say about story. I guess some diseases and medical components of the story might confuse viewer now and then, but for the most part everything gets explanation. Probably the weakest link of the story would be that few stories/episodes were quite far fetched and moronic. But overall story was quite enjoyable.

✦Art & Sound
Were good, that's all I ... can really comment. It has it's odd/unique artstyle/character designs and quite enjoyable music&OST. It isn't anything amazing nor anything bad, it is simply good.

✦Character
It's episodic Anime, thus most characters don't really matter. But now and then some side-characters show up at later episodes as well. So in a sense it's quite good balance of main character importance & presence and side-kicks/characters method of surfacing now and then. Rest of importance regarding main cast, explains synopsis anyhow.

Probably only thing I would have to mention is the sidekick Pinoco, she truly frustrates and annoys me. I'm never been fond of brats. But her flashback episode which explains, who she is, was quite disturbing, especially after I googled afterwards certain thing on medical side.

✦Enjoyment&Overall
In a nutshell it's a enjoyable episodic medical Anime about notorious/genius unlicensed doctor and annoying kid side-kick brat. But I found this Anime quite enjoyable and will end up watching the whole franchise.

Story 9/10
Black Jack is a "unlicensed" doctor who with his fellow assistant Pinoco takes on difficult cases. Each episode follows a different case. I gave the story a 9 out of 10 because there are 61 episodes of Black Jack, but yet it felt like the show was going to go on, but we never got that.

Art 9/10
The art is good. I'm giving it 9 out of 10 because the noses felt weirdly drawn (go ahead and call me out, I have a picky style lol) and some of the art didn't match the background in my opinion.

Sound 10/10
Black Jack has three openings and three ... endings: Gekkouka, Here I Am, and Fantastic (openings); Kuroge Wagyuu Kamishio Tanyaki 680 En, Clover, and Careless Breath (endings) I loved all of them. I really don't have criticism for the soundtrack here.

Character 8/10
I just love seeing Black Jack and Pinoco together. They have such great chemistry and interactions together. I gave it 8 out of 10 because well some of the characters (the patients) weren't all great, but they were still good.

Enjoyment 9/10
I really enjoyed the show. It's not the greatest show for me, but it's a nice show to watch if you don't really have a lot of time to watch a whole anime. I know a lot of people who work and they only like have 1 hour, so they would watch Black Jack.

Overall 9/10
Black Jack is a nice, relaxing, and heartwarming show that you can watch anytime with anyone, even non-amine fans. I recommend this show to anyone who just started out in anime and well, the show is fun for the whole family!

Thanks for reading. Let me know your thoughts on this review and any feedback you may have for me. Until next time!

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.