A more acclaimed masterpiece than I Am Not a Medicine God, Doctor Strange Black Jack was created in 1973 by Osamu Tezuka and is the first of its kind in medical manga. The emergence of "Black Jack" is like a salvation signal.
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Recently, the domestic masterpiece "I Am Not a Medicine God" adapted from a real case landed on the screen and quickly brushed out 9 points of praise on Douban.
The story tells that Cheng Yong, an Indian god oil dealer who could not pay the rent, because of an unexpected opportunity, came into contact with the Indian generic drug of the sky-high drug Glenin and became the Chinese agent of the drug, due to the low price of the Indian Glenin, he was called "medicine god" who saved many patients.
However, the game between many parties reflected in the film, the balance between love and law, and the joy and sorrow of human nature are the biggest points of view.
However, today our protagonist is not a medicine god, but a god work that is more praised than the medicine god. Many years ago, there was a medical-related animation that scored 9.2 points on Douban, which was 0.2 points higher than "I Am Not a Medicine God".
With its exquisite narrative technique and surrealist fantasy style, this work broke many of the rules and regulations of early manga creation, and with its unique and sharp style, it ushered in a new era of Japanese manga and promoted the transformation of Japanese manga in the 1970s.
Together with Hiroshi Nagai's Demon Man and Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles, it has been called the three immortal masterpieces of the 1970s.
Demon Man
The Rose of Versailles
Titled Doctor Black Jack, it is a 1973 manga created by Osamu Tezuka and the first of its kind in medical manga.
"Doctor Strange Black Jack" 1993 ova version of the anime Douban Gundam 9.2
It was this work that ushered in a great turnaround in Osamu Tezuka's creation and established his identity as a great manga artist. As the saying goes, luck makes heroes. The birth of this work is also similar to the background of "Medicine God".
The birth of the prototype of the "Medicine God" Lu Yong is famous for the joint appeal of 1,002 patients, who claim that Lu Yong has enabled more patients to get self-help, step by step away from the indissoluble clouds brought about by the disease above their heads.
It was the time of the fire of the American film "Dallas Buyers Club."
"Dallas Buyers Club," a 2014 Academy Award-winning film, tells the story of the protagonist's lone struggle against discrimination, AIDS, and the National Regulatory Authority.
Under the influence of many factors, Lu Yong was able to retreat completely. And the birth of "Black Jack" is also like a salvation signal.
The birth of Black Jack was the lowest tide in Osamu Tezuka's life. Less than two years after the end of the New Left student movement in Japan, Japanese society is depressed and people's hearts are cold. Osamu Tezuka was on the verge of bankruptcy. By chance, the editor-in-chief of Akita Shoten Weekly Shonen Champion found Osamu Tezuka and asked him for a manuscript, so he began the creation of "Strange Doctor Black Jack".
Black Jack is, in a way, like Osamu Tezuka's doppelganger: Black Jack is a doctor. In "Young Black Jack", he owes a huge debt of 300 million yuan as soon as he appears, and Osamu Tezuka is also a medical doctor, and it is precisely because of his company's bankruptcy of 300 million yuan that he began to create Black Jack.
Originally titled as the 30th anniversary of Osamu Ezuka's life, the game was only intended to be serialized for four episodes, and all of Tezuka's manga characters appeared together, but unexpectedly, the popularity soared, so it had to start a decades-long series.
Since the release of Yakushin, people have gradually changed from overwhelming praise to calm criticism. And "Doctor Strange Black Jack" is a decades-long word-of-mouth masterpiece.
If "I Am Not a Medicine God" lacks a deep understanding of the medical system and drug patent rights, as well as a relatively one-sided position.
Then "Doctor Strange Black Jack" is a more direct display of the maintenance of human nature and the firm position of implementing self-justice.
Black Jack was a secret doctor who, when he was playing on the beach with his mother as a child, touched the undeleted unexploded bomb left by the Us military station and exploded, resulting in his mother's death after being sent to the hospital, and Black Jack was almost completely broken.
After Honma Shotaro's healing and a large number of skin transplants, he survived because he was accidentally blown up by a bomb and was torn apart by a bomb, and after a large number of transplant surgeries by his teacher, he was re-"spelled" into a human being. He later became a doctor.
He has no license to practice medicine, is not limited by the medical system, and wanders between black and white, acting arbitrarily. Implement your personal philosophy of practicing medicine.
In the popular concept, the healer is synonymous with saving lives and helping the injured, angels dressed in white, and having no desires and no needs. But in reality, this is just the wishful thinking of the public. Black Jack didn't. His only purpose is to save people and implement the rules of his own practice: to open a black clinic on the edge of a cliff alone, and to constantly use medical skills to punch the authoritative medical community.
He was well-skilled, but his fees were extremely high, ranging from tens of millions to tens of billions. Nevertheless, he often paid nothing or only a small fee for the poor patients.
This "goodness" is manifested in many ways.
While the owner of the mansion who has donated three million dollars to treat the disease, he will also heroically shoot at the young child who sneaks into the mansion to disperse the wild dogs chasing him. Although the other party did not have the money to pay for the medical expenses, in The eyes of Black Jack was the same.
In the TV animation, there is a patient who is a female high school student who loves singing, due to excessive contact caused by vocal cord injuries, in order to recover quickly, she must be silenced, but this is too cruel for a girl who loves singing, she always can't help singing, so that it deteriorates to almost lose her voice.
Black Jack used a trachea to deceive her with kindness, forcing her to rest and eventually recover.
In the eighth episode of the TV anime, King Kong's sister is seriously ill, Black Jack is initially unable to visit, King Kong runs privately for his sister, and then must not ask someone to play Black Jack to relieve his sister, and finally Black Jack still appears.
It is these small kindnesses that burst out in Black Jack's own strong personal consciousness that make this character flesh and blood.
"Doctor Strange Black Jack" has enjoyed such a reputation in history, and it is not just because of the characterization. There are also many thought-provoking and profound inks on the plot.
Osamu Tezuka once said in an interview that he used the plot to vent some of his dissatisfaction with society. He declared that modern morality is often just a haze of vanity that obscures the facts.
Black Jack had an unforgettable experience. He has a part of black skin on his face that is never removed. This part of the skin he wanted to commemorate the only black friend Gao Zhi who encouraged him and donated the skin at that time, but died unexpectedly as a result of the government's crackdown on environmental groups. At that time, Osamu Tezuka had boldly added the opposition between racial equality, the power machine and the will of the individual to the plot.
In the first episode of the 1993 ova anime, it tells about a miraculous condition: Chimera's disease. In the corner of an island, there is a rich man with a strange disease who has a disease that can only rely on drinking a lot of water to relieve severe pain for a short time.
Meanwhile, his beautiful young wife is preparing for her birth, and his personal secretary is eyeing his assets and his wife; and Black Jack is still at a loss for the disease.
Under the tense two-line plot, it shows Osamu Tezuka's super control of the story structure.
As the plot progresses, the mystery of the story is peeled off little by little: it turns out that the rich man is not living here, he himself is the native of this small island.
The disease he suffered from was a local terroir that had been rampant one hundred and fifty years earlier, had been eradicated and then relapsed sixty years earlier, when almost all of his patients had been executed by the villagers, and only the young man had escaped, and after his fame, he returned here because of his nostalgia for his homeland. I didn't expect the illness to recur again.
Here, Osamu Tezuka adds another story line, that is, the local villagers have begun to get the disease again, they have discovered the identity of the rich, and foolishly believe that he has brought back the disease, so they gather together to prepare to eliminate the rich.
The coolness and selfishness of human nature are vividly displayed.
And the rich man himself, who had always been like a gloomy villain, finally confided in Black Jack before he died: it turned out that he hired Black Jack at a high price not to treat him, but to make him dissect himself after his death and find the source of the lesion, thus ending this nightmare that had plagued the island for many years.
The mountain rain is about to fill the building, and after death, he has become a rich man with dry bones, and the black jack and Pepe who stand proudly are in stark contrast with the faces of the villagers.
In the end, Black Jack fulfilled his long-cherished wish and solved the mystery of Chimera's symptoms.
Physical illness can be cured, but heart disease is difficult to treat. Black Jack's scalpel not only treats patients, but also cuts through the haze of this society and shows us the real humanity that is not very beautiful.
The will of every individual should be respected, and every practitioner should carry out his own justice without hesitation.
Because there's nothing wrong with patients wanting to live. Whether it is the medicine god or black jack, the core of the work is the same.
Life is so precious, and those who have the ability to continue it, even if they cross the ethics and morality, cross the hope of survival, must help life to continue.
Maybe it's too extreme, maybe it's not comprehensive enough. But our society is so short of such things. This is the medical code of "Doctor Strange Black Jack". It is also the most lacking shot of cardiotonic agent in today's world.
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