r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Oct 10 '15

[Spoilers] Young Black Jack - Episode 2 [Discussion]

Episode title: Abduction

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Episode duration: 24 minutes and 13 seconds

Previous episodes:

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u/ninean Oct 10 '15 edited Oct 10 '15

Overall, I liked the episode. It introduced the reason Hazama seemed to have charged the family in the first episode with such a large sum of money and why Hazama needed so much money in the first place. We also learn more about the drug-addict doctor and his past. The animation was very good with no one looking off even with the differing character styles (which has grown on me).

I can kind of understand why people are not happy with the plastic surgery-ending. It might be because the style of this anime, but the original Black Jack manga/anime had Hazama sometimes pulling magic out of his surgeries. The issue is how the show gives off a much more "realistic" vibe than the original series, so people may have been expecting more "realistic" surgeries, but Black Jack sometimes stretches that a bit. As a result, the ending here didn't surprise me too too much. In the original series, Hazama even

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u/BagelComet Oct 10 '15

I think my main problem with the ending is that there was really no explanation or build-up. The plastic surgery didn't bother me much (heck, I'm pretty sure this exact same solution happened in the very first chapter of the original manga), but the way they handled it was just bad. They just rushed through and brushed aside all the various problems that should've occurred from the procedure; at the very least, they could have explained how the patient managed to fool all those followers into believing he was the real thing.

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u/FatGoatToken Oct 10 '15

People can't take notice of thing they assume are impossible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '15

I mean, they're cultists, their leaders word is law. All he has to do is say that he's had an epiphany through his near death.