Black Jack Yanen

流水, キマイラの男

In the original story entitled "Hurricane," a young wife taking care of her rich old husband, who is dying on a solitary island, and his secretary ask Black Jack to prolong the man's life until they can finish altering his will.

Black Jack meets four girls in a northern town. Some months later, he chances upon one of them again and finds out that two of the original groups are dead and another has become a vegetable following an accident.

This story is based on the Manga episode "Promise". In the original story, Black Jack gives first-aid treatment to a revolutionary soldier sheltered at a refugee camp where there are no medical supplies or drugs.

This is an original story inspired by the works "Black Mirror Image" and "Death of a Movie Star".

The story is inspired by "A Passed Moment." In the original, Black Jack finds on a taxi driver's back a scar from an operation that indicates that the surgeon is more skillful than even Black Jack himself.

There also is an episode called “Tale of a Snowy Night” in the original story, but apart from that, a completely different story is told in this episode.

A civil war breaks out in the Middle East. Black Jack fearlessly marches into a refugee camp following his patient Karen.

A boy who is gradually turning into a plant sprouts buds from his body.

Tsuzuki Koichiro, who is in his early 30's, takes over as representative of the Tsuzuki Group-one of the leading zaibatsu in the world.

"Crescent Disease" is caused by environmental pollution. It causes symptoms among the residents who eat fish caught in the Crescent Gulf.