Black Jack ni Yoroshiku (Say hello to BLACK JACK)

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Synonyms: Give My Regards to Black Jack

Japanese: ブラックジャックによろしく

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 13

Chapters: 127

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 2002 to Jan 26, 2006

Genre: Drama

Themes: Medical, Psychological

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Morning

Authors: Sato, Shuho (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #935²

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Popularity: #3815

Members: 4,157

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MangaMorningSato, Shuho (Story & Art)

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Saitou Eijirou is a newly established intern doctor, who is forced to take on a second night job at another, much smaller hospital because of the extremely low pay he receives. As he bounces between the two different hospitals, he is forced to dig deeper and deeper into Japan's largely corrupted medical society and starts to question even his own initial beliefs, as he asks himself just what being a doctor means.

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In 2002, Black Jack ni Yoroshiku received Award of Excellence in manga category at the 6th Japan Media Arts Festival.

Black Jack ni Yoroshiku was digitally published in English as Give My Regards To Black Jack by Digital Manga Guild from June 30 to August 15, 2013.

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Mar 31, 2009

127 of 127 chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

wakka9ca (All reviews)

44 people found this review helpful

Say hello to Black Jack is one of the most overlooked manga on MAL due to its lack of English scans and publications (I read it in French). However, it is one of the few manga that left a strong impression on me.

Story: 10/10
The story focuses on a young intern in Eiroku (University famous for medicine) and the chronicles of his experience as an intern in different departments of the hospital. Each story arc is a 3-4 months internship in one of the major departments of medicine and Saito (protagonist) is always left in charge of one particular case/patient. However, his naive ideals and stubbornness read more

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Aug 8, 2015

127 of 127 chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

takarabako (All reviews)

18 people found this review helpful

This manga is not for typical otaku, who are looking for a manga that lets them escape the harsh reality.

This manga is all about reality.

It's hard to read this manga, but it's hard to stop.

This is one of few mangas that will make you feel like you don't want to live in this world anymore, and the main reason is the reality of this manga. 100% realistic situations, backed-up with real-life problems and issues that you can find info about in any media.

It's no wonder some people rate it so low. Many people read manga to escape into the world of magic, superpowers and main read more

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Oct 6, 2020

127 of 127 chapters read

Overall Rating: 7

hexashadow13 (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

tl;dr: A manga that has interesting stories about patients and their doctors, but has a protagonist that feels overtly lost and hence doesn’t really convey much overall.

This manga has a number of interesting sub stories, and most do manage to invoke a high level of emotion, however after reading it it largely wasn’t clear to me what it was trying to do or convey. It starts out with Saitou being incredibly naïve and being put off by the harsh realities of what being a doctor is truly like. However, he manages to gather some backbone and determines that he’ll do what’s right to save the patient. OK, simple enough. That concept works well for the earlier stories where he encounters issues where his patients are put in danger due to bureaucratic issues, corruption, and the egos of those higher up, wherein its clear what the right thing to do is and he boldly does so despite how it would hurt him.

However, the manga keeps a similar structure beyond that when he begins encountering issues that are tremendously more complex. These are issues where there very much isn’t a right answer that he should just single-mindedly pursue. However, he still pretty much deals with these issues as if there is, and the manga doesn’t really make a good case for why he’s in the right for doing so. Furthermore, the complexity of these issues isn’t simply in choosing whether to break a rule or take a risk or not, wherein whether the treatment succeeds would be justification for whether he was in the right or not. Rather, these are more complicated cases, where he questions what the point of him being a doctor is and what he truly wishes to do for patients. However, in the end it doesn’t really feel like he’s gotten an answer. At the end, he states that he’s stopped asking himself what sort of doctor he wishes to be, but as I have no clue what his answer to that is, it feels more like he’s given up on trying to answer the question than having answered it. Thus in the end, I have no clue what it was trying to convey overall other than things are really complicated, which I don’t think is a particularly meaningful statement.

That said, independent of Saitou’s involvement, the look into various people and doctors dealing with various diseases in their own ways was interesting and well written, being quite gripping and, as noted, managing to bring out a lot of emotion from me at times, and hence it may be worth reading the series for that alone. There’s also a romantic subplot but it was really minor and also didn’t seem to have much of a point. I also thought the art was pretty terrible, even if it was going for an incredibly realistic and gritty look.

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Oct 16, 2015

5 of 127 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

mangareader123 (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

Preliminary

I stumbled upon this manga by pure chance while searching for Black Jack(by Tezuka). The two manga are not related but both are among my favourites.

This manga is based on a common intern who is struggling to find out what is a doctor. Who is he? What is his role? The protagonist does not like the bureaucracy in the medical world. He wants to be himself and not a robot driven by rules of the medical association.

What is important to note here is that this manga is not targeted to a wide audience seeking laughs and action. This is a seinen manga meant for thinking read more

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