Among adult readers in Japan Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement, and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story. (Source: Kodansha USA) Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977.
Japanese study overview
Black Jack is a Japanese manga of 650,890 characters, with 19,758 unique words and 1,937 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is expert, 4.0 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 19,758 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 先生teacher×2,493
- 私I×1,264
- 手術surgery×1,044
- 死ぬto die×700
- 医者doctor×643
- 年year×591
- 患者patient×508
- 思うto think×466
- 人person×464
- 出るto leave×414
- 知るto know×384
- 人間human being×372
- 手塚治虫Tezuka Osamu (1928.11.3-1989.2.9)×187
- 全集complete works×131
- 併録including (an extra work) within the same book, DVD, etc.×123
- 手塚Tazuka×119
- 本間Honma×85
- 切開incision×67
- 無免許having no license×65
- 手おくれbeing too late×59