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The incident at Tokyo University instigated a rash of student activism across the nation.

After the riot police storming Yasuda Hall,

student activism rapidly waned.

However, a small subset of students

became radicalized, seeking to force change through violence.

Seeing activism as a war,

these students would go on to enact many violent incidents

that would shake Japan to its foundations during the Shouwa period.

Black Jack

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Episode 12: The Season of Mania

Looks like you earned plenty this month.

Are you doing surgeries for surgeons or something?

Of course not.

That'd mean I wouldn't be able to get my license.

There is no real purpose behind

the battle being fought in Vietnam!

And yet, our government has decided to join in the fray...

Hey, cops! Run!

Wait!

Eri.

Hazama-san?

I'm glad it's just a light sprain.

You hadn't stopped, huh?

I guess you caught me in the act.

Some day you'll reach the point of no return.

But if I don't actually do something,

it means I'm doing nothing, right?

The swelling will go down over time.

Okay.

Can I ask you a favor?

Just first aid, okay?

Okay.

Is it true there's a doctor here?

You're...

I've seen you before.

You know him?

He's the guy who did brain surgery on the deserter, Fujii-san.

That's bad.

Shit.

This one's beyond me.

Take him to a hospital.

He didn't just get gashed in the thigh.

Based on the swelling,

his tibia's broken, too.

He'll need surgery.

What?

I can't do the procedure. I'm still just a student.

You can't pull this on us now.

Didn't you do brain surgery?

It didn't win me any favors, I can tell you that.

His injury's not urgent,

and it doesn't have to be me treating him.

Eri, don't go too far.

You don't deserve to become a doctor!

We're fighting to create an ideal nation,

all the while you just loaf around!

Why would someone who just abandons fighters like us

deserve to become a doctor?

Who's been loafing around?

Don't force your world view on me using skewed logic!

Imagami...

Aoyama-san...

You know that Hazama guy?

He fixed this.

What?

You can't tell, right?

He stitched me up carefully to avoid leaving a scar.

Yeah.

He's rough around the edges,

but he's a very kind person at heart.

Don't get too involved.

He and we live in entirely different worlds.

You're right...

And we have a mission.

You understand, don't you?

Don't go too far.

Oh, Hazama-sa—

Oh, sorry.

I mistook you for someone else.

Are you a friend of Hazama-kun's?

Oh, no, um...

He's often here, after all.

Maybe he's in a practicum right now.

It's a busy time so close to graduation.

I see.

I think he'll be done by sunset.

Oh, it's all right.

I just happened to pass by.

Hazama-san's walking his own path.

The next one will be three days later.

I'll need you to do a prosthetic valve replacement.

Here, coffee.

Thank you, Senpai.

You seem to be at the hospital a lot lately.

What're you doing there?

I was asked to help with senior doctors' research.

You could say it's a part-time gig.

Honor roll students have it easy.

By the way, a girl who knew you talked to me on the walkway.

A girl?

Yeah, with short hair and big eyes.

Oh.

It's odd. You don't know that many girls.

We met during the First Haneda Incident, I think.

There was a brutal clash between protesters and the riot police.

The whole place was full of chloroacetophenone.

This stinks.

This'll leave a scar for sure if I don't do something.

Ever since, she's come to visit me now and then.

Sometimes she shows up with someone else who's been injured.

Other times, she's the one who's hurt.

I'm surprised you've gone to such lengths.

She's a patient to remember.

Huh?

Nothing.

There, the stitches are all out.

Wow.

There's hardly any scar!

I thought I'd have one for the rest of my life.

You're a genius, Hazama-san!

In another month, it'll be even less visible.

Oh, I need to pay you.

I'm just a student.

I didn't expect any—

Here.

I'm Imagami Eri.

See you around!

We will engage in military training here

to become the strongest warriors in Japan

and start a revolution that'll change Japan's stagnant society!

I want to accomplish something, too!

Oh, Hazama-kun, this is for you.

Thank you.

Eri?

Hazama-san, how are you?

I'm sorry I imposed on you when I ran into you at the demonstration.

You're always helping me.

Thank you for everything you've done for me.

Please become a good doctor.

The police have moved to conduct a sweep

of all radical cells hiding in mountainous regions.

Students who're in hiding are thought to possess numerous weapons...

Gunma

Gunma...

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Young Black Jack

Niiharu Post Office, Niiharu Post Office.

Gunma

Hazama Kuroo-sama

Who's there?

Why are you here?!

Stop!

Don't move!

Who's that?!

You're...

What'd you do?

What did you do to her?!

What are you guys doing here?!

I...

Imagami's...

Imagami was...

Aoyama!

Imagami's done the unthinkable: refusing to "educate" Aoyama,

and opposing the actions we have to take toward our revolution!

She defended me...

That's why she suffered even worse.

She was not prepared to be a soldier of the revolution.

That's why we "educated" her.

If we don't hurry, her life's in danger!

What do you think you're doing?

Taking her to a hospital.

Someone, help me!

You presume to think we'll actually let you go

after you learned where we're basing our operations?

Take her to the hospital, or else!

That's enough.

Is this really the revolution you were looking for?

Every second brings her closer to death.

Don't you care what happens to your comrades?!

If Imagami dies from this,

it just means she was not the right material to become a soldier of the revolution.

What did you say?

But her death won't be in vain.

The deaths of our comrades will form the foundation of our struggle

and come to symbolize the revolution itself!

Cut it out!

Does life mean anything to you lot?!

You think anything's allowed as long as you have ideals

and shout that you're leading a revolution?

I just didn't want to waste Imagami's sacrifi—

She's still alive!

But...

I won't let her die!

I'll operate on her right here, right now!

You can't be serious. Here?

That's right!

I won't let her become the "foundation" of your struggle!

Fujii-san, Imagami's...

She's going into shock!

Untie me!

Please do as he says!

He might be able to save Imagami!

If you let her die,

you're all just murderers!

Murderers?!

D-Do what you will!

Get me all the sheets and towels you have!

Disinfectant, bandages, gauze—everything!

And get me as much light as you can.

What's Eri's blood type?

B RH+, the same as mine.

Will my blood do?

Yeah, please.

Imagami...

What's going on?

It's clear she's developed a hemothorax

from broken ribs.

If we don't deal with it now,

she'll develop respiratory failure and hemorrhagic shock,

which can be lethal.

In addition,

she's suffered injuries to her nose and cheekbones,

an orbital fracture,

and damage to her liver and other organs.

That's the end result of the violence you inflicted on her

in the name of "education."

I will save you.

Operation complete.

Hazama... san?

Don't talk.

I just operated on you.

Operated?

You did well.

I'll go find painkillers and antibiotics.

You've got to be kidding!

You think you can just walk out of here?!

There's a sweep!

The cops are coming!

What?!

It's no good.

It's too late.

Shit!

Put down your weapons and surrender!

We'll make a barricade here, too.

Don't shoot!

Stop!

Don't fire, you have injured here!

You bastard!

Get out of the way!

Keep him down!

Do it!

Let me go!

I'm sorry.

I have to stop them...

Imagami!

Eri?

No! You need to stay down!

I have to stop them...

Imagami, no!

You idiot!

Don't come here!

Let's stop this...

Let's stop this already...

No!

Don't go outside!

Get away!

Why?

Imagami!

Sorry...

After everything you did to fix me...

I got hurt again...

It's okay.

I'll fix you right now—

I must look horrible.

Don't worry.

I'll fix you again and again.

Next time, I should give you proper payment...

and not some... second-hand necklace...

No, I still have that necklace.

It's my first memento...

First?

To tell you the truth,

you were the first person I ever stitched up.

That was your first time?

I knew you were... a real genius...

He's a medical student at Hongoshi University.

He was the personal acquaintance of the deceased, Imagami Eri.

He has no connection to the radicals.

I see.

Let him go.

So you're finally an intern.

Now you can rake in the big bucks without the secrecy.

Want me to pass you some lucrative deals?

They'll be black-market stuff, of course.

I'll pass.

Even without asking for anyone's help, those jobs will come in.

That seems to be my fate.

Hazama, you...

You've shouldered a lot of darkness.

The corruption of the medical field he'd long striven for...

The cruelty of the government whose mission was supposed to protect the people...

The disregard for the value of human life...

Hazama may only have learned the deepest of despairs over the course of his student life.

Still, I'll continue to cure people!

It'll help me keep going!

In time, I abandoned the name of Hazama Kuroo,

and became Black Jack.