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Characters from Black Jack:

The Main Duo

Kuro'o Hazama (alias Dr. Black Jack)

Akio Ohtsuka (Japanese), Kirk Thornton (English)

A brilliant unlicensed surgeon, who charges huge fees and cultivates a (partly false) Dr. Jerk persona. When he was a child, he and his mother were severely injured by a landmine. While his mother later died, Black Jack's life was saved by Dr. Honma, who inspired Black Jack to become a doctor.


Pinoko Hazama

Yuko Mizutani, Utada Hikaru (Japanese); Julie Kliewer, Kim Mai Guest (English)

Black Jack's loyal assistant/surrogate daughter. She spent 18 years as a parasitic twin, using psychokinetic powers (don't ask) to fend off the doctors trying to remove her. After convincing her that she wouldn't be pitched out with the Medical Waste, Black Jack built a synthetic body to house her organs. The first thing she did once in her new body was violently call her twin sister out for trying to have her killed. This freaked out the sister, who got the hell out and left Pinoko with Black Jack.


Recurring Characters

Dr. Jotaro Honma

Surgeon who saved Black Jack's life when the latter was a kid, and Black Jack's role model.


  • My Greatest Failure: Confesses to Black Jack on his death bed that when first operating on him, he accidentally left a scalpel in his body, but adamantly refused to believe he could be so careless and therefore ignored it. When he discovered the calcium-sheathed tool in a follow-up operation, he was so disgusted with himself for putting a patient's life in jeopardy for the sake of pride that he immediately retired from practice.
  • The Obi-Wan: To Black Jack. Also the man that saved Black Jack's life and pretty much raised him.
  • Posthumous Character

Dr. Kiriko

Black Jack's rival, a euthanasia specialist and former military doctor. Since Black Jack is against euthanizing patients, whenever the two docs cross paths the result is never pretty.


  • Deadpan Snarker: Manages to be even snarkier than Black Jack.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: While Dr. Kiriko has no issues with ending a patient's life, seeing the U.S. government condemn men to death when they have a chance of recovery in "Terror Virus" sends him into a Tranquil Fury.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Black Jack...sort of.
  • Eyepatch of Power
  • Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
  • Shadow Archetype: Also to Black Jack. A doctor who served in wartime, he believes in helping patients die painlessly when there is no chance for recovery. He's not evil, as such, but where Black Jack will do anything possible to make a patient live, Dr. Kiriko will choose euthanasia rather than prolong the patient's suffering. Naturally, the physicians clash at times but must cooperate at others. To his credit, if he discovers that the patient has a chance of recovery, guess who he turns to?
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran
  • White-Haired Pretty Boy: Well, the pretty part is debatable, but he is white-haired and morally ambiguous.
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