Black Jack

One day when Pinoko and Sharaku are playing by the park they encounter a scruffy dog that promptly steals Pinoko’s purse - but as they begin their pursuit, a truck hits the four-legged thief. Upset that the poor hound might die, Pinoko immediately calls for Black Jack to save the canine, but can she persuade him to let her keep her?

After one of his patients, Doctor Clonen, calls Black Jack to a remote lodge in the forest, the genius surgeon becomes caught up in a serial murder case where he himself is the prime suspect!

Akudo, the reckless juvenile delinquent son of the billionaire Nikla, crashes his sports car while driving dangerously around the streets of the city after cloth from Davy, a young tailor, obscures his windscreen when he has to jump out of the way. Nikla searches the world for a surgeon to save his severely injured son, and eventually hires Black Jack for three billion. Jack advises Nikla that his son can only be saved by using the body parts of a donor, and Nikla has Davy arrested for causing the accident and forces him to be the donor. Two months after the operation, the bandages are removed and Nikla sees his son fully recovered, however a few days later he disappears from the hospital. It is revealed that Jack actually remodelled Davy's face to look like Akudo who had actually died from his injuries. Jack then changes Davy's face again and Jack gives him the money so that he and his mother can leave the country and never have to work again.

Black Jack and Pinoko are sitting in the Tom café where Osamu Tezuka sits drinking coffee and drawing manga. Pinoko drags jack off to Sendai for an operation for the removal of a mole on a rich man's son. On the way, their car breaks down in the snow and they walk to a remote house inhabited by a talkative old woman. She is awaiting a visit from three of her four sons for her birthday, but they all notify her that they cannot come. However, Shiro, the fourth son arrives late, and explains to Jack that he was unwanted, became a delinquent and was disowned by his father, but has since become a doctor. Suddenly his mother falls with abdominal pain which Shiro suspects is long untreated appendicitis, but which Jack believes is "mobile cecum syndrome"and he operates on the old woman with Shiro assisting. They leave quietly the next morning while Shiro plans to stay and open a clinic in the village.

Dr. Wattman is the creator of the medical program, U-18 which uses computer technology to manage over 900 patients. However U-18 shuts down its operations, stating that it is ill and must be treated by Black Jack within 48 hours or it will terminate life support functions for the patients. Dr. Wattman argues that it is a machine which needs mechanical repair but the computer refuses to accept it. With only minutes to spare before the deadline, Jack arrives by helicopter, and agrees to operate for $10 million. After confirming his identity, U-18 agrees to switch its circuits off so that he can operate. Dr. Wattman tries to decommission U-18, but Jack refuses because it is his patient. After a successful operation, U-18 decides to retire, but Dr. Wattman realizes that the computer has become her daughter and they agree to run the hospital together.

While searching for a knife to cut a cake, Pinoko finds a case containing a scalpel encased in stone. Jack tells her the story of how he received it from Dr Jotaro Honma, who saved his life and inspired him to become a doctor. Years ago, in the operation which saved Jack's life, Honma accidentally left a scalpel inside Jack's body. During a second surgery, Honma extracted a stick from Jack's body which had secreted calcium to encase the scalpel, like how an oyster creates a pearl. Honma referred to it as a "miracle of life", but questioned if someone should have control over another human's life. Years later, the ageing Honma slipped into unconsciousness with cerebral softening/hemorrhage. Jack operated but could not save Honma and blamed himself for his death. In the present, Jack visits Honma's grave and considers his comment, which he thinks would make it pointless being a doctor. Back on the cape, Black Jack throws the scalpel into the ocean, proclaiming that he is a doctor.

Escaping from the Berad Republic Air Force with his wife Miguela on a stolen Lepol plane, the former Air Force Major Ivan Juric Gaganoff insists Black Jack to save the life of their son Andrei, whom he has been diagnosed with Eisenmenger's syndrome. After the hardships with Major Gaganoff constantly threatening to kill him if he doesn't cure him, Black Jack, with Pinoko's help, performs the operation on Andrei, attaching his defected blood veins and fusing them with those from his mother; regardless, Gaganoff sacrifices himself after leaving the $2,000,000 he and his wife left him to pay for the surgery, leaving behind a blood-stained cloth on Andrei's hand as a final thank you for the client and blowing himself and the plane up in the process.