On this road called alive, everyone is a passerby, most people are eager to go further, but it always has an end, living until death seems to be more meaningful, and can go farther on this road and "live" The content is richer and helps people overcome the pain of illness again and again and bring death is a group of life artists - doctors.
In recent years, there have been endless dramas about medical themes, such as the Japanese drama "Doctor-x Surgical Gate Unknown" American drama "Emergency Room Story" has been liked by many people, but medical theme anime is rare.
So today, I will talk to you about a landmark masterpiece that is known as the "pioneer of Japanese medical manga" - "Doctor Strange Black Jack".
"Doctor Strange Black Jack" is known as the author of the "God of Manga", Osamu Tezuka, who knows a little about Japanese manga, the author not only made a household name as a boy with an iron arm, "Doctor Strange Black Jack" is another peak of his manga career, to mention this work, you have to mention the background of Osamu Tezuka's creation.
In 1945, Osamu Tezuka joined the Faculty of Medicine affiliated with Osaka University (later received his Doctor of Medicine degree), laying a solid foundation for the medical content of this work.
Black Jack was created in 1973, the second year after the end of Japan's postwar New Left Movement, when society was swept by an impetuous wind, and it was at this time that Osamu Tezuka's "bug making business" was facing bankruptcy and was in debt of 300 million yen, and Tezuka-sensei was also in a low period of life and career.
At this time, the editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Champion approached Osamu Tezuka and asked him to draw four works that would make his well-known manga characters appear in the name of the 30th anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's life, which was also an important opportunity for the birth of "Doctor Strange Black Jack".
This work was born at this time, which also made it more endowed with Tezuka Sensei's cryptic satire on the society at that time and the criticism of human nature, which was also a spiritual core rarely possessed in early works, and the depiction of human nature was even more vivid, which also caused this work to cause a great response in the society at that time, and was loved and supported by many people, and this work changed from the original four episodes to a decades-long serial, and was adapted into a TV animation in 2003.
A head of white-rimmed black hair, a patch-like stitched skin on his face, a black coat no matter how hot it is, a cold but full of conscience on the outside, a genius surgeon with top-notch medical skills but no doctor's license, and always demanding huge surgical fees, this is the well-known and classic image of Black Jack.
This image is derived from his encounter, his real name is Kuroma Man, when he was a child, he was playing with his mother on the beach when he accidentally found an unexploded bomb and an accidental explosion occurred, and his mother unfortunately died and he was on the verge of death.
At this time, Honma Shotaro's non-abandonment of him and his superb medical skills survived, so he was determined to learn from his life-saving benefactor Honma Shotaro to become a doctor who saved lives and helped the injured, and saving lives became his ideal.
But later became an intern in a large hospital, but he saw that the doctors in the hospital did not pay attention to patients around the intrigues and gangs of the powerful, and he would rather be a black doctor and draw a line with them.
And the identity of the black doctor also makes him have no restrictions on the treatment of patients, so he often charges huge surgical fees, but the surgical fees are not always expensive, perhaps "I am not a philanthropist." ”
This is his biggest lie, in Tezuka Sensei's pen he was endowed with a soul and conscience always knife mouth tofu heart, in the face of good or respectable people often free of charge treatment but in the face of the powerful and bad people never soft, but I also hope that they can understand the value of life, from which can see Tezuka Sensei's view of life and death and the concept of good and evil.
Although Black Jack cannot be said to be a pure good person, he has and adheres to the goodness and conscience that ordinary people do not have, and has a trace of conscience, but because his values are different from his own concept of medicine and others, he is also disapproved by others, often suppressed and discriminated against, and is lonely and snubbed.
However, he always insisted on going farther and farther on the road of the black doctor, perhaps guarding the pure area of his heart.
And the image of a doctor like Black Jack I think is also the ideal image in Tezuka Sensei's heart, through such an image to accuse, to satirize the society at that time, to expose the social problems of the time, but also let this work leave a deep imprint of the times.
Many people think that "Doctor Strange Black Jack" is depressing, but there are also many people who are cured from it, and its content explicitly exposes the cruel dark side of society that is often difficult to accept, and including the protagonist Black Jack, he depicts a warm and humane aura of characters, which in turn highlights the darkness of the other side of society, the reality of dignitaries and dignitaries.
And such a medical story instead leads to thinking about human nature, the exploration of life, the search for the meaning of living makes it more a story of human nature, and such a society, such a problem, such a person is possessed by every era.
This also shows that such stories will not become obsolete even now, and his conscience and moral values are what people need to find in one era after another, which I think Tezuka Sensei wants to tell us through this work.
As a phrase in the "Doctor Strange Black Jack" animation is "with a magical scalpel, the artist of life who writes miracles, the genius surgeon called by the times - black jack." ”
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Author: Gray Deer
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