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You have so many scars!

They are living proof that I am a patchwork.

I would not want to become a doctor who has no imagination

and hesitate to put parts together.

It was a time of chaos.

An emerging nation, Japan was experiencing rapid growth

as well as countless issues.

In 1968, protests began at Tokyo University.

They led many youths to confront national authority.

In such a time,

there was one young man who turned his back on the prevailing mood

and forged on alone in his solitary battle to save lives.

His name was Hazama Kuroo:

the man who'll later become known as Black Jack.

Episode 1: Where's the Doctor?

Okamoto-kun, do we have the chest X-ray for Akimoto-san in 201?

Yes, coming right up.

Please get documents together for the prof when he comes around, too.

Yes, sir.

I'm so sorry!

Where are the other interns?!

Well...

Abolish the Internship

Take them all down.

Oh, Yamada-kun?!

Kimura-kun, Sakamoto, and Tahara, too?

Not them, too!

Our struggle will blaze a trail to a brighter future!

Let us have our freedom and our rights!

Scalpel.

Incision along the ligamentum teres hepatis...

Mosquito forceps...

Hey, Hazama!

You should join the protest, too!

We have the right to just compensation.

Don't you think all medical students should join the fight?!

Suction.

Hemostat.

Scalpel...

Bastard!

Don't ignore us!

Leave me alone.

You, come with me!

How many injured?

Tell us what happened in more detail!

What happened?

A train collided with a bus.

The critically injured should be taken to the back!

Assess the extent of their injuries and treat them accordingly!

We don't have enough people!

Call the department.

Try looking around campus for help.

Got it!

Someone, please help!

There are so many injured!

Please, someone!

Hey, out of the way!

Someone...

Anyone...

That patchy face...

He's the student everyone thought was strange.

Snap out of it!

Hey, are you Hazama-kun?

Mattress stitch...

Square knot...

Hi, I'm Okamato Maiko, an intern.

I need your help.

There was a collision between a train and a bus at a crossing.

We're shorthanded.

We can use any help we can get!

Operation, complete.

I think my help would be better than "any."

You two!

Stitch that one up!

Yes, sir!

Ow!

Please bear with it!

Patches isn't half bad...

Out of the way, please!

Professor, we have a critical patient!

Please save him, Doctor!

Taku-chan!

Stay with us!

It's only for a little longer now.

The doctor'll make you all better.

Look at this, Doctor.

He was dragged under the train.

He lost his right arm and left leg.

This is bad.

We'll amputate.

Take him to the back.

"Amputate"?

You are his parents?

It's not possible to rejoin your son's limbs to his body.

We will stop the bleeding and close the wounds as is.

"As is"?

He'll be without his arm and leg?!

You can't be serious.

Please, tell us it's not true!

His life is in danger.

I heard it's possible to join arms and legs even if they've been severed.

Please!

Please put him back together!

Please!

Make him the way he was before!

Which is more important to you: his life or his limbs?

If you don't like your choice, go elsewhere.

That is, if there's anyone else who can put him back together.

You two, prep for surgery.

Yes, sir.

When Taku-chan left home, he was fine.

He waved to us as he left,

and look at him now.

Hazama-kun, let's go.

We have to prep.

Taku-chan...

Taku-chan...

Taku-chan...

Taku-chan!

They can still be put back together.

That arm and leg can be rejoined to your son's body.

What?

Hazama-kun?

If you'll let me do the surgery,

I swear...

I'll put him back together.

If you'll let me do the surgery,

I swear

I'll put him back together.

Are you sure... really sure?

Please save my son!

But you're so young...

In the end, what matters in surgery is one's skills.

Age is irrelevant.

Are you telling the truth?!

However, that will cost you five million.

Five million?!

Of course, if I fail I won't take a penny.

Well?

There's not much time left to lose.

Honey...

I entrust him to you!

I only ask that you put him back together!

Yes, I will.

He needs a transfusion.

Six units of A plus.

Where do you think you're going?

To the hospital of someone I know!

H-Hazama!

Wh-What are you doing here out of the blue?!

You're getting high again?

Wh-What're you plotting now?

Blood! Blood!

So much blood!

Get him away from me!

What's with him?!

Let me use your OR.

You've got to be kidding!

You have no right to perform a surgery—

Look who's talking: a doc scared of blood.

I'll pay you 500 grand for it.

You're up to your neck in loans

and can't even rustle up patients.

I'd say you need the help.

H-How dare you take advantage of my weakness?

There's no time to lose!

Fine, fine, do whatever you want.

You'll be helping me, too.

What about you, Senpai?

I can't let a student like you do this alone!

You have so many scars!

They are living proof that I am a patchwork.

I would not want to become a doctor who has no imagination

and hesitate to put parts together.

You have 'til eight.

It's been four hours since those limbs were amputated.

In another four hours, they'll be dead and useless.

If you can't restore blood circulation in those limbs by eight,

then...

I'll stop you.

Let's do this!

We'll now begin replantation of the right arm and left leg.

Yabu-san, please keep an eye on his vitals.

O-Okay.

Preparing the injury site first. Scalpel!

We'll excise the crushed tissue

and prepare the blood vessels and nerves for repair.

We're now in a race against time.

Preparing the injury site.

Reconnecting blood vessels and nerves.

Each procedure is a delicate task that can take any number of hours.

The longer the surgery, the greater the patient's risk, as well.

He's so fast.

Forceps.

Got it.

Preparation complete.

We'll now proceed to bone fixation,

then repair the tendons.

Plate.

Yes, sir!

How are his vitals, Yabu-san?

They're fine.

He's stable.

He was quick with the bone fixation,

and he's very efficient.

How did he get this good?

We'll now repair the nerves. Scalpel.

Here.

Kocher clamp.

Here!

BP's 110 over 60.

He's stable.

Needle.

Tweezers.

Nerve repair is difficult, but he's making it look easy!

And his speed!

I've never seen anything like it, even at the university hospital.

There's only thirty minutes left.

Moving to artery repair.

Yes, sir!

We're going to speed things up.

Yes, sir.

Needle.

Tweezers.

How is he so fast?!

Hazama-kun?

The popliteal artery's damaged.

Do you have any grafts, Yabu-san?

A-A graft?

A synthetic graft?

As if we'd have anything pricey like that here!

Oh, no...

Without a synthetic graft, we can't repair the artery.

Even if we try to get one now, it won't arrive in time!

It's over.

Hazama-kun.

You did well, but we have to amputate.

Hazama-kun?!

What're you doing?!

H-Hazama, his vitals are going down!

Hazama-kun, switch over to perform amputations, now!

If we can't restore blood circulation, those limbs will die.

The patient's life will be in danger!

Quiet, please!

The great saphenous vein!

Hazama-kun?

We'll use the GSV from his other leg!

Yabu-san, adrenaline 1.0, IV push!

If we can't get his BP back up, we'll give him more blood.

At the same time, we'll harvest the graft and continue with the operation.

Senpai, put some saline in a vat!

Yes, sir!

S-So fast!

Who is this guy?

We'll implant the graft and repair the artery.

Does Hazama-kun always do surgeries like this?

Of course not!

He's just a student, so this should be his first.

No way!

No, it doesn't matter to him if it's his first time.

He's only thinking about how to make the patient better.

This is me.

This boy is me!

This man...

He'd never given up on the boy, even from the start!

You'd never given up on him!

Artery repair, complete.

Removing vascular clamps.

If circulation can be restored...

Please, come back!

Circulation restored!

Yay!

Good, good.

Suturing site.

O-Okay.

All done.

It's done.

I can't believe it!

I didn't think it'd really work!

If I didn't believe I could make it work,

I wouldn't have accepted the job.

Operation in Progress

The limbs have been reattached.

The surgery was a success.

Thank goodness.

I'm so glad.

So his arm and leg were both saved.

Taku-chan, everything's going to be okay now.

The doctor made you all better.

Yes, yes.

Good job back there.

Oh.

Thanks.

You're amazing.

Not really.

My hands are still shaking.

Still, you're amazing.

Wasn't that your first surgery?

Yeah.

It was my first.

Five hundred grand?!

I looked you up, you see.

You're not even an intern. You're just a student, right?

We can go to the cops.

Then you'd never be able to get your license.

We can't pay 5 million.

That's uncalled for!

I'm not saying it's fair to ask for money,

but to go back on what you agreed!

It's not like we want to rip you off.

Five hundred grand is appropriate, wouldn't you say?

With your skills,

you'll become a doctor with a profitable practice

without having to do things like this.

All right?

This is for the use of your OR.

H-Hazama.

B-But that'd mean you worked for nothing.

You're willing to haggle over the price of your child's life?

You're going walk all over me for wanting to save him?

Seeing his past self in the young boy,

Hazama Kuroo embarked on his first operation,

but only bitter regret remained after his success.

At age 22, Hazama Kuroo had only just begun his journey to becoming a surgeon.

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A live-donor heart transplant...

In that era, those words held special meaning for every surgeon.

"You're going to do it! Who else can?"

Hazama Kuroo is forced to face the difficult challenge and a temptation as a medical student.

A scalpel trembles in hesitation.

The procedure presents a moral quandary.

Abduction

"Abduction."

Now that I am Black Jack, I can say with certainty

that there exists no medicine that does not doubt itself.