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EP. REVIEW: Young Black Jack


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SchwingBoner



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 4:09 am Reply with quote
One of my favorite shows this season. I like that it focuses on the moral dilemma and psychological aspects of the characters.

I also like how most of the people who need saving (or are close to them) are complete scum. It makes Hazama's moral struggles more interesting to watch.
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xMemorie



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 5:00 am Reply with quote
SchwingBoner wrote:
One of my favorite shows this season. I like that it focuses on the moral dilemma and psychological aspects of the characters.

I also like how most of the people who need saving (or are close to them) are complete scum. It makes Hazama's moral struggles more interesting to watch.


I completely agree.
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penguintruth



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:40 am Reply with quote
I'm enjoying this, it does have a similar feeling to the Dezaki-directed OVAs and movie. But sometimes, as with those, the stories kind of peters out at the end.
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Mewzard



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 18, 2015 4:13 pm Reply with quote
I'm actually rereading the original Tezuka manga right now, so this is a fun compare and contrast. Honestly, I do prefer the moral quandaries and unique set ups in Tezuka's original manga, but Young Black Jack's had some interesting moments (little odd the way the series seems so anti-protesting, given both Black Jack's own financial extremes and distaste for war),
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anddo



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:26 am Reply with quote
Dying to find the time to read the manga, or watch any other material of this series. Really happy with what I've watched and it's just what I expect of an Osamu Tezuka-based story.
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Mewzard



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:40 am Reply with quote
Anddo wrote:
Dying to find the time to read the manga, or watch any other material of this series. Really happy with what I've watched and it's just what I expect of an Osamu Tezuka-based story.


On twitter, we're actually 9 chapters into a daily read through of Black Jack (one chapter a day). It's been fun to go back through the series.

Tezuka has a way with stories and characters.
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SailorTralfamadore



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 3:47 pm Reply with quote
Anddo wrote:
Dying to find the time to read the manga, or watch any other material of this series. Really happy with what I've watched and it's just what I expect of an Osamu Tezuka-based story.


The nice thing about the manga is the chapters are mostly self-contained vignettes. So you don't have to worry about stampeding through all 200+ chapters in succession, you can jump around and stuff. It's more ideal for a casual reading experience than a lot of manga.
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Lemonchest



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 10:37 am Reply with quote
I'm enjoying the teenage nihilism in this series. I know Black Jack was always about taking on morally ambiguous cases (he's a backroom surgeon, after all) but YBJ seems to be set in a world where everyone is a bastard. I like how it's trying to backtrack on YBJ himself, though. The first thing he does is basically blackmail a family to save their son, but since then it's been about how the world's a big mean place but he's a good soul trying to make his way through it. Still laughing at the face transplant story.
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Gina Szanboti



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:31 am Reply with quote
Well, war certainly seems to agree with Yabu, although he's probably the only person who ever kicked a drug habit in 60's Viet Nam.
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Levitz9



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 7:33 pm Reply with quote
Really smart bit about the double-standard in with male-vs-female fanservice. Top-notch stuff.

I don't keep up to date with YJB, but from what it sounds it just doesn't hold a candle to the older stuff. What a shame.
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navycherub



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 7:40 pm Reply with quote
Personally, sexualization never crossed my mind watching that scene, I just thought "ah, this is brutal," and so on. I guess i don't need to see the blood and guts of it all to feel like the brutality is being conveyed well enough. But I see where the fanservice comes in with him not sustaining visible injury. It's interesting to read a perspective on the fanservice in this show like this, since I seem to be missing it most of the time.
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Animechic420



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:13 pm Reply with quote
Levitz9 wrote:
Really smart bit about the double-standard in with male-vs-female fanservice. Top-notch stuff.

I don't keep up to date with YJB, but from what it sounds it just doesn't hold a candle to the older stuff. What a shame.

You thought THAT was fanservice??? It didn't seem like it to me...
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Chrysostomus



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 12:25 pm Reply with quote
I don't know if this show is "conservative" when, before this Vietnam arc, there were little episodic reminders of the Vietnam war, and that war is hell, and now we're in Vietnam, and everything about it just screams "war is bad, okay kids? Look how people are routinely shot on the street for trivial reasons."

Also, Yabu-san is a junkie but he is portrayed very positively. I dunno, the whole anime seems very grey to me. It's like the reviewer can't handle that the show decided to criticize people who aren't cliched stock villains, like the revolting college students, and the deserter organizations. Of course one of the "deserters" ended up being a spy. Can anyone say the show portrayed him in a good light? I don't think so.

When the show bashes an evil cult leader it's par the course, everybody knows cult leaders are evil, right? But whaaaaat? You mean a war photographer just might be in it for the sake of having a huge scoop and possibly fame? Oh the revisionism!
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anddo



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PostPosted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 6:06 pm Reply with quote
I like it Smile
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Brand



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 1:38 pm Reply with quote
I pretty much agree with the review on episode 5. I had to stop the episode and post this on Facebook:

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In episode 5 of Young Black Jack we reach the s&m episode where shirtless Black Jack is beaten by a guy out of a Kouta Hirano manga. Then in the next scene a dude pees himself... I can't even this series...


I think it would have been better to stick with the weird hard boiled stories they did for the first few episodes. I feel like the weird fetish this show has for shirtless Black Jack works better in that context.
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