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Aki_Leaves
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I think it is time to check this out with my wife. We both love horror anime and I am still bitter that Franken Fran never got an anime adaption.
Also, can you guy consider doing a TWIA about the new Baki season that dropped on Netflix in June? The TWIA columns for the first were hilarious. The Raitai Tournament is incredible and there are plenty of memes to be had. It is disappointing to see we are going retro before doing a TWIA for an anime whose previous season got coverage. |
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Takkun4343
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Easily the most underrated TWIA of all time, not just because OVA Black Jack sounds so much cooler than the TV version I decided to watch first (25 episodes and on indefinite hiatus), but because it's missing from the sidebar so it's going under the radar of those not browsing the front page or the TWIA archives.
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Agent355
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I haven’t seen the OVAs yet, but I absolutely recommend the Black Jack manga. It’s my favorite of the Tezuka works I’ve read, and it has all the dramatic moments you describe in the show (Watch Black Jack operate on *himself* in the Australian Outback while fighting off dingoes!) Plus some of Tezuka’s trademark humor, and some weird stuff besides (Black Jack meets aliens? Why not?). You also get Black Jack’s origin story!
Some fun facts about Black Jack: —Tezuka went to medical school before becoming a cartoonist, that’s why the anatomy in Black Jack is detailed and realistic, and the medical mysteries (usually) have some basis in real science! —Vertical Comics, who published the Black Jack complete collection in English, told me at a con that the writers of House were inspired in part by Black Jack (&, of course, by Sherlock Holmes). I have no direct proof of this, but there was a House promo in Japan that featured Black Jack and Pinoko! https://youtu.be/d8YoHF2TIGA —Talking about American media inspired by Black Jack, I saw the “tumor is actually a sentient sibling” thing via Rusty Venture on the Venture Brothers before I read Black Jack, but Black Jack came first and it wouldn’t surprise me if the Venture Brothers writers were thus inspired |
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ATastySub
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That would be my fault. I’ve had to work overtime during the covid crisis and as one of the two who had done those there just hasn’t been time for anyone else to go back and catch up on the series while also pulling double duty. Trust me, Baki isn’t being snubbed or ignored, and rather than be disappointed I’d encourage you to enjoy Black Jack for being on a similar crazy wavelength as Baki. Retrocrush’s library is a hell of a boon to anime fans (and obviously the column) that probably have never seen many of their titles, and deserves to be highlighted every now and then. |
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yeehaw
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I read the Pinoko chapters of the manga a couple of years ago and I could have sworn she was a twin that had been absorbed into her sister, not a tumor, and that that was the reason she had organs and stuff.
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penguintruth
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This was a great TWIA. The Black Jack OVA is full of entertaingly insane content. There's an episode where Black Jack travels to the past, except he doesn't, it's a dream, except maybe it's not entirely a dream, but it is. And Pinoko is always a little disturbing, claiming to be Black Jack's wife. But there's rarely a dull moment in this anime.
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