Partially Translated Story Time - Black Jack - TEZUKA Osamu

>>136213842
>>136213806
>A disease Black Jack can't heal
Literally a deathitis

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171 - The Wall

http://tezukainenglish.com/wp/?page_id=4988

I wonder how Vertical feels about the fact that Tezuka Productions released more sealed chapters a short while after Vertical published their "complete" hardcover editions. Oh well.

>>136214663
Wait, he just let Lalah die?

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>>136213956
Ha.

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>>136215432

The shit that Black Jack has to put up with.

>>136215705
>cat holding out fish bones to accompany the line

Ha, that's great. I know some modern audiences find Tezuka's comedy bits jarring in his serious works like Black Jack (for instance, the kangaroo tail in >>136215487), but there are times when it works really well.

As an old Black Jack fan, I just want to say you are doing god's work. Thank you!

>>136214770
Was this chapter not translated in English?

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>>136216171

No, it was sealed until recently.

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What's the appeal of this? the art is horrendous, the characters make no sense, and the slapstick humor is aggravating.
Is this just for hipsters who want to feel good about reading manga drawn 2 decades before their date of birth?

(You)

>>136216333
I was about to post the same thing, but I wasn't sure what image to use to accompain the post. Guess you were faster than me.

>>136216301
What happened anon?
Are there more pages or am I missing something?
Thank you for sharing.

>>136216301
Where's the continuation?

>>136216333
Weak bait??? If not you're entitled to your opinion. Why bother keep reading it?

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>>136216301

Oops, 4chanX ate the images.

>>136217050
So it was quintuplets after all.

>>136217050
GRIFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITH

Sorry to ask, but I'm not too clear. How many chapters need to be translated, besides the 3 you don't yet have scanned?

I might be able to help out.

>>136213723

Why were they sealed? was it his own decision, or did the media not like the subject matter?

>>136216333
(you)

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>>136217459

Finger, Vegetable, and The Wall need to be translated. I think that's it. Hydrocephalus, Sinking Woman, and Won't Stop Bleeding whenever I scan them.

>>136216333

The subject matter & stories being told. Tezuka's simple drawing style allowed him to make more manga than anyone (I think maybe ishinomori did more panels?)

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>>136217693

>finishing unheard of surgery successfully gets me high

I knew I liked blackjack for a reason.

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>>136215908
>I'm a doctor and a catholic!
I kinda understand why would he seal this chapter, he probably feared backlash for depicting catholics as superstitious, ostracizing people.

>>136216270
>Why not build a fire? Pray to it.
This is why I love Black Jack.

>>136217375
Wow, I wonder if the baby in Berserk actually IS based on this one.

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I love chapters that feature Kiriko, since he and Black Jack have such a great dynamic. I kinda sympathize with Kiriko, though, since I believe in the right to die (when one is a consenting adult, at the very least).

>>136217642
Huh, weird, I'm pretty sure iI've read Sinking Woman, Hydrocephalus, and Won't Stop Bleeding in Italian some years ago.

>>136218128
This is so going to be a "Life finds a way" chapter.

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>>136218895

I would find if strange if you did, but who knows.

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>>136217050
Jyushimatsuuuuuuuuu

>>136217520
Tezuka's choice.
Same reason why the chapters aren't in chronological order in the normal collections. He picked the best ones first, and some of them he wasn't pleased with.
I do remember one particular one which is the proto-version of a proper chapter that did make it into the normal collection. It was "sealed" just because it was an inferior version of the same story.

>>136217050
Look!
It's Casca's baby!

>>136220342
See, this chapter I definitely remember reading in Italian before. I mean you don't really forget the story of a child like that.
IIRC at the end the one that gets 'normalized' kills his brother because when they were united they had the ability to talk between themselves (while normally only one was awake at a time), agreed that the one with freedom of movement would do it, rather than allow his brother to live as a cavy-

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>>136220951

Yeah, Vertical published this one as well.

>>136218849
I don't think he's ever used well, because he never gets to spell out his own motivations. He's adamant about euthanasia in a way that doesn't really show a positive side to it.
I love him in concept, he makes a great medical antagonist. But he never really gets to play the "it has been enough" part. He ALWAYS quits as soon as he starts.

I've never read BlackJack past the original end, the train chapter. I felt that was a nice way to close it. It was bittersweet but it was nice.
Should i read the rest? Any important events or a final chapter with more closure?

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Whatever chapters I think of dumping next.

>>136221417
Plenty of the remaining chapters are still great. There's a lot of very early stories you're missing on, which are interesting.
I -think- there were a couple of chapters that continued the story of his vengeance on the people who failed to account for the bomb that killed his mother.

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>>136221209

I agree totally. I love Tezuka, I love Black Jack, but I'll be the first to admit this manga can be a subtle as a punch to the face. So all the exploring of the nuance has been left for the Japanese fan artists. Too bad I can't read moon runes!

>>136221612
The stories that involve his sister are my favorites.

One because he has to prove he can walk the walk when he's the one facing a painful certain death.

The other one because of the drama of killing his own father.

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Vertical finally got around to releasing Black Jack via ebook, if you feel like buying it.

>>136221917

So THAT's what ramen is.

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>>136222002

TL Note: Ramen means donut.

>>136221862
Guy just wanted to play golf. What a bitch.

>>136224048
I never understood the point of this chapter. He just made it so that some random guy had to leave the country for no reason whatsoever.
Like, if he hadn't "helped" Nikula, the tailors would live together just fine.

>>136222347
This would make a very good ending for Black Jack imo.

Thanks OP for storytiming Black Jack, I read through all the books and I really love the story. Pretty much timeless storytelling.

>>136224459

Black Jack was my first husbando, and I still love him dearly, but I literally pointed at my computer screen and laughed out loud at his misfortune.

>>136224360
>the tailors would live together just fine.
Except the son would have been killed on a whim just for "parts" for Nikula's son.

And that's image limit.

>>136224623
Why would he be killed if no one would have operated on the son?

>>136219582
I've already seen this chapter scanlated

>>136227131

There's a poor machine-TL'd scanlation floating around. I decided not to post it since half of the sentences didn't make sense, last I read it.

>>136220557
>Dicks are touching

>>136222565
Aw...Megumi!
How nice to have a little continuity

Thanks for the nostalgia

Black Jack will always have a special place in my heart

>>136224570
It kinda was an ending story, IIRC.

>>136224658
Thank you for the dump.

>>136228298

I don't remember how the series actually ended, but this should've been the last sorted chapter. Not that it matters much, Tezuka and Kodansha shuffled chapters around all the time, but this is just the perfect "and the adventure continues" chapter. Has a dream about people he's met, his arch-nemesis, has a brief talk about his role as a doctor and how he might be trying to make up for his own life and debts, and then he wakes up. If it were a finale chapter, it could've been a little longer, but I like to think of this as the last chapter.

>>136215705
holy shit a talking cat.

>>136216301
>guy that has a face shaped like a faucet

>>136216333
what a horrible waste of trips

>>136230055

Tezuka has a nice little visual joke every now and then, usually in the background.

>>136216974
This is from the hardcover book, right?

>>136230623

Yep. Refer to the spreadsheet.

>>136223086
d'aww

>>136217396
Blackjack you smug asshole

>>136220701
The non-chronological nature really bothers me a lot.

>>136224459
Well, that's blatantly Elmer Fudd

>>136218397
holy shit, kid

Well, since Tezuka threads are rare nowadays:

what's your favorite work? What do you wish was translated? Is anyone paying attention to DMP? I don't know whether or not they're doing a good job, as I haven't read their releases yet.

>>136222565
Wait, that's not his manfu, is it?

>>136231906

Just a reformed criminal. It's a brief "people that Black Jack has affected" kind of thing.

>>136223086
Cheese and crackers, if this is true why didn't he ever take her out of being a permatoddler?

>>136231629
Buddha is probably my favorite

>>136222669
That paneling