Black Jack

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Characters
  • Kuroo Hazama (間 黒男)

    Hazama Kuroo

    Main

    Black Jack is a medical mercenary, selling his skills to the highest bidder. He is a shadowy figure, with a black cloak, eerie black-and-white hair, a scar across his face and partially black skin. Black Jack cures patients indiscriminately, from common f...

  • Pinoko (ピノコ)

    Pinoko

    Main

    Pinoko is Black Jacks sidekick, a little girl constructed by him who is actually a Teratogenous Cystoma, a sort of tumor also known as a teratoma. As seen in Teratogenous Cystoma, she was a rare type of Siamese twin, living in one of Black Jacks patients ...

  • Biwamaru (琵琶丸)

    Biwamaru

    Supporting

    Biwamaru is a blind, itinerant acupuncture doctor, who wanders around Japan curing all sorts of ailments with miraculous speed. He is extremely disheveled in appearance, dressed in rags and walking with a twisted stick as a cane, and a rough bundle on his...

  • Monabis Crossworth

    Crossworth Monabis

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Davy

    Davy

    Supporting

    A tailor who was at the scene of Acudas car crash. He is arrested as per Mr. Nickulas orders....

  • Doctor Kiriko (ドクター・キリコ)

    Doctor Kiriko

    Supporting

    Black Jacks nemesis and rival Dr. Kiriko also known as the "Death Doctor" or "Black Jacks Dark Reflection" served in the second world war. His experiences of violence and suffering have driven him to believe that death is sometimes a better alternative th...

  • Ham Egg (ハム・エッグ)

    Ham Egg

    Supporting

    First Appearance: 1945 Tezukas Treasure IslandHamegg is one of Tezukas longest running charactersfirst appearing in Tezukas older commercial manga Treasure Island. He is notably known for his other roles in: Kimba the White Li...

  • Kagemitsu Hazama (間影三)

    Hazama Kagemitsu

    Supporting

    Black Jacks Father...

  • Hige Oyaji (伴 俊作 / ヒゲオヤジ)

    Hige Oyaji

    Supporting

    A recurrent character in the works of Osamu Tezuka, especially Astro Boy and Metropolis, and a part of Osamu Tezukas Star System. He has had many voice actors in many of his anime appearances, but his most famous seiyuu is Kazuo Kumakura.Higeoyaji appears...

  • Rock Holmes (ロック)

    Holmes Rock

    Supporting

    Rock is a recurrent character in Osamu Tezukas manga series, and he is an important part of Osamu Tezukas Star System. Rock is a young boy with shiny dark hair. He first appeared in the manga series Detective Boy Rock Holmes, as a child detective. While m...

  • Joutarou Honma (本間 丈太郎)

    Honma Joutarou

    Supporting

    Like Dr. Ochanomizu, Saruta is visually identifiable by his large nose, though in his case it is grotesquely spotted. Where Ochanomizu generally appears in light and uplifting roles, Saruta is quite the opposite. His two main roles in Tezuka manga are bot...

  • Kumiko Honma (本間 久美子)

    Honma Kumiko

    Supporting

    Daughter of the late Dr. Honma who saved Black Jack's life. Black Jack sees her as a sister and looks after her.She is known as Kumi Yamashita in the manga....

  • Megumi Kisaragi

    Kisaragi Megumi

    Supporting

    Black Jacks tragic love, they met during their internship. She stayed up late at work and cared more about the patients than everyone else. She discovers that Kuro Hazama has been the one looking after her whenever she walks alone at night. Later, she rev...

  • Acetylene Lamp (アセチレン・ランプ)

    Lamp Acetylene

    Supporting

    First Appearance: 1948 Jungle KingdomAcetylene Lamp is widely known for the running-gag candle that appears in the dent in the back of his head. This came about from the image of one of Tezukas childhood friends who has similarities that the chara...

  • Largo (ラルゴ)

    Largo

    Supporting

    Largo was a stray dog found by Pinoko, Wato, and Sharaku during a car accident, in "Thieving Dog". Contrary to the manga, she is saved after an earthquake caused Black Jack's house to collapse on top of her, and she becomes his pet dog. She is named Largo...

  • Lune

    Lune

    Supporting

    Leo and Lyres son...

  • Acudo Nickula

    Nickula Acudo

    Supporting

    Mr. Nickulas good-for-nothing son. He is described as a thug by the local people....

  • Reika

    Reika

    Supporting

    A performer known as the "Human Tempura", she is friendly to Kirihito when they meet in Mahn's palace....

  • Yurie Saionji (西園寺ゆりえ)

    Saionji Yurie

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Sapphire (サファイヤ)

    Sapphire

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Shibugaki (シブガキ)

    Shibugaki

    Supporting

    Shibugaki is the schoolyard bully, usually tormenting smaller kids or Tamao. When he first met Astro, he dismissed him as "a stupid pile of micro-chips" and refused to associate with him.As time went on, Kenichi convinced Shibugaki to accept Astro and let...

  • Kenichi Shikishima (敷島健一)

    Shikishima Kenichi

    Supporting

    Rock achieved a long life as an actor because of his various defects and his portrayals of the numerous dark sides of human nature; Kenichi meanwhile, is loved as the everlasting youth in Tezuka Osamus manga. At any rate, Tezuka Osamus manga began in earn...

  • Yasuhiko Shirabyoshi (白拍子泰彦)

    Shirabyoshi Yasuhiko

    Supporting

    No biography written....

  • Skunk Kusai (スカンク草井)

    Skunk Kusai

    Supporting

    Skunk Kusai is one of Tezuka's less savory characters. He debuted in Astro Boy as a minor but noticeable villain, and played increasingly drastic roles over the course of Tezuka's writing. He went on to play villains in Lion Books, Black Jack, and Rainbow...

  •  Tawashi (タワシ長官 / 田鷲警部)

    Tawashi

    Supporting

    Police Inspector Tawashi (a.k.a. Inspector Gumshoe) is a law enforcer and recurring character in the Tetsuwan Atom mythos.Known for his surly demeanor, Inspector Tawashi is a dedicated officer. And he hates robots....

  • Umatarou Tenma (天馬午太郎)

    Tenma Umatarou

    Supporting

    Dr. Tenma (which means "Pegasus" or literally "Heaven-horse" in Japanese) was a renowned roboticist and the Japanese Minister of Science. When his nine-year-old son Tobio died in a car accident, he decided to recreate him as the invincible robot "Atom."...

  • Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫)

    Tezuka Osamu

    Supporting

    Osamu Tezukas anime/manga version of himself....

  • Melmo Watari (渡 メルモ)

    Watari Melmo

    Main

    Melmo was given a bottle of candy from God. The blue candy turns Melmo into a lovely 19-year-old version of herself, while the red candy turns her back into a child. Combining the two turns her first into a fetus, then into an animal of her choosing. When...

  • Zephyrus (ゼフィルス)

    Zephyrus

    Supporting

    In Swallowing the Earth she is an extremely beautiful, mysterious woman first reported on the island of Mamoo in the South Pacific during World War II. She resurfaces in Japan in the 1960s. Gohonmatsu Seki is the only man that seems to be immune to her c...