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Character Name: Black Jack (Hazama Kuroo)
Series: Black Jack. Uhm. I take his speech/personality a bit more from the manga, but it’s mainly just dialogue translation for manga vs. fansubs for anime.
Canon Point: Black Jack does not have a clear timeline, but he’s taken from after the major event in which he adopts his “daughter”, Pinoco.
Character's Age: 27
Canon resource: TezukaInEnglish, Wiki.
How familiar are you with your character's canon? I’ve watched all ten of the 1991 OAVs, watched both the 1995 and 2005 movie, I’ve read all the 70’s manga that’s been published thus far, I’ve watched all of the 2004 TV series and the 2006 sequel series, I’ve tracked down every cameo appearance in a work (Tezuka or otherwise) he’s made, and I’ve watched about ten minutes of the horrible live action series before I couldn’t stand it anymore. And a partridge in a pear tree.
History:
When Hazama Kuroo was seven years old, he and his mother were caught in an explosion. The cause: an undetonated bomb, a relic from the war, that went off when the two were playing on the beach. The boy was torn nearly to pieces, his heart even stopping at one point. The only reason he survived was because of the efforts of genius surgeon Dr. Honma Joutaro who decided to operate after he saw how the boy’s body was struggling to survive. The operation was a success, however leaving Kuroo with a body and face covered in scars, paralysed in all four limbs, and a patch of hair where it had presumably turned white with fear. His mother was not so lucky - she lost all four extremities and became mute, forced to survive with a tube supplying her oxygen and nutrients.
Eventually, her husband and Kuroo’s father, Hazama Kagemitsu left for China with his mistress, abandoning his literally broken family. Shortly thereafter, Kuroo’s mother wasted away and died in the hospital. Kuroo was left only with Dr. Honma to take care of him. The good doctor nursed the boy back to health, spending the better part of a decade helping with rehabilitation. Hazama Kuroo eventually regained use of all his limbs, and, inspired by his mentor and saviour, decided to pursue a career in medicine.
It was a match made in heaven. The teen had an almost natural affinity for medicine, most likely accounted for by spending ten years essentially living in a hospital. By the time he completed his medical education - paid for by Dr. Honma - Hazama Kuroo’s skill as an entry-level surgeon exceeded that of most of the seniors in the university hospital. That was his downfall.
There came a time when the leading surgeons gave up on a patient. Kuroo had the misfortune to be working under the doctor heading this particular case. Despite his vehement protests that the patient should be given a chance to live, to be given an operation, he was not the one in charge and had no right to suggest that. Seething with anger, and confident in his own abilities to cure the patient, Kuroo took matters into his own hands. He performed the surgery without permission - the result? Success. The patient survived an otherwise deadly condition, and his family was overjoyed.
That couldn’t be said for the senior surgeons, however. Kuroo was stripped of his privileges and kicked out of official medical practice for insubordination. From an early age, he showed his disregard for rules, and this was where it brought him.
Hazama Kuroo took his leave from organised medical practice that day. He changed his name to Black Jack, from “kuro” meaning black, and “o” meaning man (Jack being a common man’s name,) and set up his own clinic on a cape near a small town. Obviously, this was illegal as he did not have a licence. This would become a point of great contention among highly ethical types in the medical community, not to mention the police. Business was slow, but soon his fame - or infamy - spread. Cultivating a reputation for charging only the highest fees for his work, word of Black Jack’s skill spread through universities and hospitals alike. He became a rogue surgeon, living outside the law, but being too skilful for anyone to do anything about him. Reputable hospitals even began commissioning him for their most impossible operations. And on more than one occasion, he’s even been offered a medical licence, all offers of which he turned down. Acquiring a licence would mean that he’d have to follow the rules of medical practice, and he already proved his disregard for authority. So above the law he remained...
Ever since he forged out on his own, the doctor began to hoard the money he earned from his insane fees. Ever since the day of the accident, he had sworn revenge on the people who had wrecked his life and his mother’s life, so as to visit a greater suffering upon them. He began to search for the corrupt men responsible for the undetonated shells and the missing “Do Not Enter” signs that were should have saved the boy and mother.
Along the way, Black Jack “met” his adoptive daughter, Pinoco. Actually an amalgamation of fully-formed organs found inside a tumour, the apparently eight-year-old girl became his assistant and charge, a source of humanity for Black Jack. He finally had something of his own to protect (and he had his work cut out for him with the number of times she got kidnapped.)
Since then, Black Jack has performed numerous brain transplants, between species in some cases; operated on dogs, monkeys, birds, whales, aliens, ghosts, mummies, plants, and computers; operated both blind and in darkness, using his memory of anatomy; performed surgery backwards using a mirror; grafted two people together to share one heart; and has operated on his own intestines in the middle of the Australian outback while surrounded by ravenous dingoes.
Personality:
Much of Black Jack’s true personality is never seen behind his cold outer shell, not that it bothers him. He pretty much fosters the popular belief that he’s a heartless, greedy, evil bastard who only cares about money and personal gain...To quote one of the characters, Kuwata Konomi, he’s a “chilly, cold-blooded fiend of the scalpel, a vampire, a Frankenstein, a robot man of ice.” He doesn’t deny it. But under the hard exterior is a a truly good person.
Although he can be abrasive at times, Black Jack has a powerful passion for taking care of his charges; whether it’s a patient, his adoptive daughter Pinoco, or an endangered Iriomote cat that got itself injured, he will see them through to the end whether it be inevitable death, or (with him as their doctor) a more inevitable survival. And despite his outrageous medical fees, he doesn’t do this out of greed. In fact, he often won’t bother following through on the bill with a family who can’t afford it, and a good portion of money he does get goes to helping the environment, or otherwise to his darker goal.
It can be said that Black Jack forsakes the medical license (and its subsequent Hippocratic Oath), because he can’t promise to never harm another being. His entire goal for hoarding money -- forcing him to live in a small cottage despite the billions of yen he has stockpiled away -- is for his revenge plot on the five businessmen responsible for his accident and his mother’s death. It is implied that he even goes through with murder for one of them. This is the focus point for the ambiguity in Black Jack’s character: while he fights to preserve lives, all of which are precious to him, he does it to destroy lives of people he’s judged.
Basically, the doctor hates two things: one, corrupt capitalists and criminals; and two, anyone who tries to harm the people under his care. Throughout the series, Black Jack demonstrates a sort of Aesop complex with these corrupted figures: often he’ll orchestrate an elaborate, chess-like scheme in order to teach the value of life to a otherwise selfish person. Furthermore, he’ll extort them for all they’re worth and give the money to the people they’ve harmed.
BJ does have a bit of a proud streak. He doesn’t take insults to his skill very well, and can get fiercely competitive. He doesn’t like to admit when he’s done something wrong (especially because there were lives at stake), and isn’t very good at working with other people beyond the general “Hand me the hemoclamp,” or “Check vitals” brand of assistance.
How will you character react to the setting?:
While he is by no means a philanthropist, Black Jack will do everything in his power to help out people in the town. You know, because accidents happen all the time, if by "accidents", you mean crazy ass monsters eating people. He will be a little pissed that there's a definite dearth of good medical supplies, but he's essentially the MacGuyver of medicine. He'll adapt.
It's very likely he'll find people he dislikes, and he'll be sure to try and squeeze whatever he can get out of them. Maybe an IOU if need be.
As a man of science, he'll obviously be sceptical of the setting upon first entering. However, he is no stranger to nearly supernatural situations, so he'll eventually come to accept that what's happening to him isn't a dream (or IS it?!) and focus on survival and proper treatment for the injured.
Series: Black Jack. Uhm. I take his speech/personality a bit more from the manga, but it’s mainly just dialogue translation for manga vs. fansubs for anime.
Canon Point: Black Jack does not have a clear timeline, but he’s taken from after the major event in which he adopts his “daughter”, Pinoco.
Character's Age: 27
Canon resource: TezukaInEnglish, Wiki.
How familiar are you with your character's canon? I’ve watched all ten of the 1991 OAVs, watched both the 1995 and 2005 movie, I’ve read all the 70’s manga that’s been published thus far, I’ve watched all of the 2004 TV series and the 2006 sequel series, I’ve tracked down every cameo appearance in a work (Tezuka or otherwise) he’s made, and I’ve watched about ten minutes of the horrible live action series before I couldn’t stand it anymore. And a partridge in a pear tree.
History:
When Hazama Kuroo was seven years old, he and his mother were caught in an explosion. The cause: an undetonated bomb, a relic from the war, that went off when the two were playing on the beach. The boy was torn nearly to pieces, his heart even stopping at one point. The only reason he survived was because of the efforts of genius surgeon Dr. Honma Joutaro who decided to operate after he saw how the boy’s body was struggling to survive. The operation was a success, however leaving Kuroo with a body and face covered in scars, paralysed in all four limbs, and a patch of hair where it had presumably turned white with fear. His mother was not so lucky - she lost all four extremities and became mute, forced to survive with a tube supplying her oxygen and nutrients.
Eventually, her husband and Kuroo’s father, Hazama Kagemitsu left for China with his mistress, abandoning his literally broken family. Shortly thereafter, Kuroo’s mother wasted away and died in the hospital. Kuroo was left only with Dr. Honma to take care of him. The good doctor nursed the boy back to health, spending the better part of a decade helping with rehabilitation. Hazama Kuroo eventually regained use of all his limbs, and, inspired by his mentor and saviour, decided to pursue a career in medicine.
It was a match made in heaven. The teen had an almost natural affinity for medicine, most likely accounted for by spending ten years essentially living in a hospital. By the time he completed his medical education - paid for by Dr. Honma - Hazama Kuroo’s skill as an entry-level surgeon exceeded that of most of the seniors in the university hospital. That was his downfall.
There came a time when the leading surgeons gave up on a patient. Kuroo had the misfortune to be working under the doctor heading this particular case. Despite his vehement protests that the patient should be given a chance to live, to be given an operation, he was not the one in charge and had no right to suggest that. Seething with anger, and confident in his own abilities to cure the patient, Kuroo took matters into his own hands. He performed the surgery without permission - the result? Success. The patient survived an otherwise deadly condition, and his family was overjoyed.
That couldn’t be said for the senior surgeons, however. Kuroo was stripped of his privileges and kicked out of official medical practice for insubordination. From an early age, he showed his disregard for rules, and this was where it brought him.
Hazama Kuroo took his leave from organised medical practice that day. He changed his name to Black Jack, from “kuro” meaning black, and “o” meaning man (Jack being a common man’s name,) and set up his own clinic on a cape near a small town. Obviously, this was illegal as he did not have a licence. This would become a point of great contention among highly ethical types in the medical community, not to mention the police. Business was slow, but soon his fame - or infamy - spread. Cultivating a reputation for charging only the highest fees for his work, word of Black Jack’s skill spread through universities and hospitals alike. He became a rogue surgeon, living outside the law, but being too skilful for anyone to do anything about him. Reputable hospitals even began commissioning him for their most impossible operations. And on more than one occasion, he’s even been offered a medical licence, all offers of which he turned down. Acquiring a licence would mean that he’d have to follow the rules of medical practice, and he already proved his disregard for authority. So above the law he remained...
Ever since he forged out on his own, the doctor began to hoard the money he earned from his insane fees. Ever since the day of the accident, he had sworn revenge on the people who had wrecked his life and his mother’s life, so as to visit a greater suffering upon them. He began to search for the corrupt men responsible for the undetonated shells and the missing “Do Not Enter” signs that were should have saved the boy and mother.
Along the way, Black Jack “met” his adoptive daughter, Pinoco. Actually an amalgamation of fully-formed organs found inside a tumour, the apparently eight-year-old girl became his assistant and charge, a source of humanity for Black Jack. He finally had something of his own to protect (and he had his work cut out for him with the number of times she got kidnapped.)
Since then, Black Jack has performed numerous brain transplants, between species in some cases; operated on dogs, monkeys, birds, whales, aliens, ghosts, mummies, plants, and computers; operated both blind and in darkness, using his memory of anatomy; performed surgery backwards using a mirror; grafted two people together to share one heart; and has operated on his own intestines in the middle of the Australian outback while surrounded by ravenous dingoes.
Personality:
Much of Black Jack’s true personality is never seen behind his cold outer shell, not that it bothers him. He pretty much fosters the popular belief that he’s a heartless, greedy, evil bastard who only cares about money and personal gain...To quote one of the characters, Kuwata Konomi, he’s a “chilly, cold-blooded fiend of the scalpel, a vampire, a Frankenstein, a robot man of ice.” He doesn’t deny it. But under the hard exterior is a a truly good person.
Although he can be abrasive at times, Black Jack has a powerful passion for taking care of his charges; whether it’s a patient, his adoptive daughter Pinoco, or an endangered Iriomote cat that got itself injured, he will see them through to the end whether it be inevitable death, or (with him as their doctor) a more inevitable survival. And despite his outrageous medical fees, he doesn’t do this out of greed. In fact, he often won’t bother following through on the bill with a family who can’t afford it, and a good portion of money he does get goes to helping the environment, or otherwise to his darker goal.
It can be said that Black Jack forsakes the medical license (and its subsequent Hippocratic Oath), because he can’t promise to never harm another being. His entire goal for hoarding money -- forcing him to live in a small cottage despite the billions of yen he has stockpiled away -- is for his revenge plot on the five businessmen responsible for his accident and his mother’s death. It is implied that he even goes through with murder for one of them. This is the focus point for the ambiguity in Black Jack’s character: while he fights to preserve lives, all of which are precious to him, he does it to destroy lives of people he’s judged.
Basically, the doctor hates two things: one, corrupt capitalists and criminals; and two, anyone who tries to harm the people under his care. Throughout the series, Black Jack demonstrates a sort of Aesop complex with these corrupted figures: often he’ll orchestrate an elaborate, chess-like scheme in order to teach the value of life to a otherwise selfish person. Furthermore, he’ll extort them for all they’re worth and give the money to the people they’ve harmed.
BJ does have a bit of a proud streak. He doesn’t take insults to his skill very well, and can get fiercely competitive. He doesn’t like to admit when he’s done something wrong (especially because there were lives at stake), and isn’t very good at working with other people beyond the general “Hand me the hemoclamp,” or “Check vitals” brand of assistance.
How will you character react to the setting?:
While he is by no means a philanthropist, Black Jack will do everything in his power to help out people in the town. You know, because accidents happen all the time, if by "accidents", you mean crazy ass monsters eating people. He will be a little pissed that there's a definite dearth of good medical supplies, but he's essentially the MacGuyver of medicine. He'll adapt.
It's very likely he'll find people he dislikes, and he'll be sure to try and squeeze whatever he can get out of them. Maybe an IOU if need be.
As a man of science, he'll obviously be sceptical of the setting upon first entering. However, he is no stranger to nearly supernatural situations, so he'll eventually come to accept that what's happening to him isn't a dream (or IS it?!) and focus on survival and proper treatment for the injured.