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The Vanished Needle

Anime

TV-14

24

Nov 18, 1973

Sharaku is a middle-schooler who is often bullied. One day, Pinoko saves him from Kong, a bully, and they become friends. Sharaku suddenly becomes gravely sick and Black Jack is called into the hospital to operate on him.

Season 1, 52 episodes

season 1 (52 episodes)

The Order of Operations,

A poacher traps an endangered Iriomote cat on a remote island and boards a ferry. Onboard is Black Jack and Pinoko, along with a haughty politician. The wild cat escapes, causing a ruckus, and injuring the politician and a passenger's baby.

The Vanished Needle,

Sharaku is a middle-schooler who is often bullied. One day, Pinoko saves him from Kong, a bully, and they become friends. Sharaku suddenly becomes gravely sick and Black Jack is called into the hospital to operate on him.

The Ant's Legs,

At Tom, their favorite cafe, Black Jack and Pinoko encounter a boy with a physical disability who is intently reading a book by a handicapped person. Inspired by the memoir, he decides to walk 350km from Hiroshima to Osaka by himself.

The Snatching Dog,

Pinoko and Sharaku are playing in a park when a stray dog grabs Pinoko's purse and runs off. They chase after the stray, but the dog is suddenly hit by a car outside of the park. Pinoko gets Black Jack to operate on the dog, and is successful.

Playing Doctor,

The bully Kong comes home to his sister Chako, who has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and another unknown disease. Chako, having heard about Black Jack, wants her brother to find him and take her case.

The Sixth-Magnitude Man,

Doctors at Manaka Hospital hold a conference to decide the successor to the recently deceased hospital director. There are two veteran doctors with 20 years experience, however, one other doctor with similar experience is overlooked, Dr. Shiitake.

A Teacher and a Pupil,

A boy is reluctant to go to school because he is afraid of his strict teacher, Mr. Muramasa. The teacher explains to this co-workers that he tries to motivate students by a tough-love approach.

Black Jack and Pinoko visit a zoo to see a white lion cub named Luna Luna, but the lion is sick. Pinoko and the lion's keeper beg Black Jack for help, but he refuses.

The Miracle Arms,

Black Jack takes Pinoko to his favorite sushi restaurant. The sushi chef, Taku, after years of training, feels that he is now ready to make the best sushi in Japan for his blind mother. However, he is hit by a truck and loses his arms.

An old lady is forced to leave her son's hospital where she is living when it becomes full with patients. The son's wife proposes to have her sent to a nursing home, but the son refuses. Pinoko and Sharaku befriend her and offer a place to stay.

Legend of the Phoenix,

Black Jack receives correspondence from overseas regarding a 200-year-old patient suffering from a painful disease. A relative of the patient offers 10 million dollars for successful treatment. Black Jack at first decides not to go, but changes his mind.

Gift from a Killer Whale,

Pinoko notices that Largo has fetched a pearl. She shows Black Jack, which surprises him, and he heads out to the shore. Pinoko and Largo follow, and they come across a bay filled with shining pearls. Black Jack tells Pinoko the story of the killer whale.

Give My Brother Back To Me!,

Pinoko and Sharaku watch a TV show, and Pinoko takes a liking to the monster villain of the show instead of the hero. Sharaku is friends with the show staff and Pinoko ends up visiting the set at the TV studio.

A Pirate's Arm,

Kazuo is a star gymnast at the local high school Everyone has high expectations that he will medal at the athletic competition, but he feels pain in his left arm. His classmate Toshie notices the swollen arm is getting worse, and alerts his mother.

Solomon, Move!,

Pinoko visits a pool with Sharaku, and despite Black Jack's warning not to go into the water, she goes in with an inner tube. She begins to drown, but is saved by Musashi, a lifeguard who also works as an animator.

The Fake Wedding,

Michiru learns that she has terminal cancer and only a few weeks left to live. Her dying wish is to marry the next man who walks into her hospital room, even if it is just a token wedding.

Black Jack performs an operation to treat an aortic aneurysm. The four foreign doctors who watch the surgery are astonished with his technique. They are from the world medical federation, and help him get a license from the Japan Medical Association.

The Voiceless Idol,

Rei is the school's star vocalist, and is popular among the students. Kumiko notices Rei coughing in pain. However, she continues to sing, practicing for a contest coming up in three months. Rei asks Kumiko if her father, Dr. Honma, can examine her.

Friendship by Mail,

Jun has a best friend that he has never met before in person. He is Tom from New Zealand, with whom he chats often online. Although Jun's condition doesn't allow him to play sports, he tells Tom he plays baseball. Jun's mother disapproves of the charade.

The Tale of the Kowa Clinic,

Black Jack and Pinoko are on vacation in snowy Nagano. On the bus, they see a mother who is taking her daughter Tsuyuko to a village clinic. Suddenly, Pinoko has stomach pains, and she and Black Jack get off the bus with them to visit the Kowa Clinic.

Yamanote Tetsu,

Kumiko returns home from school to Cafe Tom. The mustachioed owner Tetsu had taken her in after her father Dr. Honma passed away. After a while, Black Jack enters the cafe, soon followed by a police detective.

Hints of Spring,

At Cafe Tom, Black Jack and Pinoko listen as Kumiko relates her first love. She was about to fall off a rooftop when a man rescued her, but she doesn't recall his face or name.

Pinoko's Grown-Up Plans,

While out shopping, Pinoko spots a field and goes off looking for four-leaf clovers. She runs into a boy named Tink, and they soon become close. She arrives home and starts to write a love letter.

Love in the Storm,

Kiyomi is a school physician examining students when Black Jack arrives on the island, inquiring about her brother. Her brother came to his aid while he was overseas and his medical kit had been stolen.

A Challenge Called Nadare,

At a construction site deep in the mountains, an ominous shadow approaches, and workers are attacked. Injured workers are taken to a hospital at the base of the mountain.

Coming back from a business trip abroad, Black Jack runs into a medical school classmate, Ando. He is returning from a medical association trip to South East Asia and insists that he and Black Jack have dinner to catch up.

At Cafe Tom, Pinoko becomes interested in the abacus used by the owner. This causes Black Jack to recall a while back when an elementary school boy Eiji and his teacher and father visited him.

Disaster in the Hi-Tech Room,

Black Jack arrives at a state-of-the-art office building that is nearing completion. He gets out and tells Pinoko & her friends to stay in the car. The owner of the building, Toranomon, is about to begin a tour of the new building when Black Jack arrives.

Epidemic in the Outback,

Black Jack and Pinoko travel overseas to visit a former patient. The patient had phoned the doctor reporting persistent fever and skin blotches and claimed that the operation was botched.

Life-Giving Flowers,

Black Jack is introduced to Sono, who is the daughter of an Ikebana (flower arrangement) master and head of the family/school. Doctors have pronounced that Sono only has a few months to live.

The Operation in the Midst of Thunder Clouds,

Black Jack and Pinoko are staying at a mountain-top resort hotel. A man who was trapped under a falling tree and in critical condition is brought in. Despite the son's pleas, the doctor on-call refuses to treat him due to a strike at the hotel and leaves.

Suggestion in the 20th Year,

While Black Jack is operating on a patient, his hand suddenly becomes paralyzed. He consults with another doctor, and they both believe that it may have to do with the fact that Dr. Honma had operated on him 20 years ago.

The Terror of the Blue Ocean,

Black Jack and Pinoko go visit a remote island and meet a fisherman acquaintance and his son Taichi. The fisherman wants his son to go to high school on the mainland and borrows Black Jack's boat to receive the enrollment forms.

Invaders from the Sky,

Satoru, a friend of Sharaku, watches a movie about aliens and later witnesses a meteor streak across the sky. He then notices a strange lump on his side and is later admitted to the hospital when it becomes even more swollen.

Shaking Operating Room,

Hachi lives in a neighborhood crossed by high-speed rail tracks. Each time an express train rumbles through, Hachi's wooden house shakes, and he complains of sleep deprivation and migraines. Hachi's wife suddenly complains of abdominal pains.

Hospital Hijack,

Black Jack begins operating on a young boy with a serious condition when the hospital is taken over by armed men. They hold the patients and staff of the hospital hostage, and phone the police for ransom.

The House on the Cape is Incomplete,

Pinoko is frustrated with the poor condition of their house and complains to Black Jack that she wants to move. However, Black Jack tells her he has no intention to move or renovate. He explains the reason.

A Dolphin and a Gang of Robbers,

Black Jack is kidnapped as he is arriving home and wakes up on a boat in the ocean. He is forced to operate on a gang member who had been severely injured during an armored car heist. Black Jack warns that the wounded man needs a blood transfusion.

A Challenge to the Unknown,

Sharaku, his sister, Black Jack, and Pinoko are on an overseas trip visiting an archaeological dig headed by Sharaku's father. That night, a glowing staff that was recovered from the dig site guides a seemingly possessed Sharaku deep into the jungle.

The War Still Continues,

When Black Jack finds out that the mother wants her son to get better to send him off to war, he gets angry. She explains that her husband was executed for speaking out against the war.

Mannequin and Policeman,

A traffic cop, Kotaro, begins talking to a statue in the likeness of a police officer, opening up in ways he can't with actual people. He soon becomes obsessed with the statue and starts taking care of it, such as cleaning off graffiti.

The Miracle of the Movie and the Operation,

A movie director, Tenma, announces at an awards ceremony that his next film will help save lives. Later, Tenma visits Black Jack and explains that he wants to film the doctor performing surgery on a patient with collagen disease.

Mis-Diagnosis of Life,

A doctor, Futoppara, who graduated from the same medical school as Black Jack now heads his own hospital. He is arrogant, and dismisses another young doctor's opinion that perhaps a certain patient was misdiagnosed.

Black Jack arrives at a laboratory set up on the savanna. Dr. Togakushi had invited him there to help with research into a mysterious illness that is making animals and now people shrink and eventually die.

The Birth of Pinoko,

On Pinoko's birthday, Black Jack remembers how Pinoko came into his life. One night, four years before, doctors brought a masked woman to Black Jack's house. She had a Teratoma.

A Big Laughing Classmate,

Black Jack reminisces about his high school days, when he was known as Kuro Hazama. His classmate Gera, loved to laugh, and Kuro tried to find out why. He didn't understand how he could laugh, especially after Gera's parents abandoned him.

The Security Guard for the School Festival,

Pinoko and her friends visit a culture festival at a high school. However, a gang of delinquent students headed by Jaws, a boy from another school, is wrecking the event.

The Violin in the Snowfield,

The plane Black Jack and Pinoko are on crash lands in the Arctic during a blizzard. The passengers panic until a world-renown violinist, Morozov, calms them down with his music.

Pinoko finds money that is mysteriously showing up at the Black Jack residence. She and Black Jack are puzzled but soon discover a Japanese Robin which is leaving the money. Eventually, Black Jack finds the robin's nest.

The Carbuncle's Real Motive,

A man with bandages wrapped around his face visits Black Jack. The man reveals his swollen face and explains that he has a bizarre condition with a carbuncle. It turns out that he has dissociative identity disorder with two personalities.

Details

Black Jack

Anime

TV-14

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24

Black Jack is an unregistered doctor with a clouded, mysterious past.

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