Black Jack

One day when Pinoko and Sharaku are playing by the park they encounter a scruffy dog that promptly steals Pinoko’s purse - but as they begin their pursuit, a truck hits the four-legged thief. Upset that the poor hound might die, Pinoko immediately calls for Black Jack to save the canine, but can she persuade him to let her keep her?

After one of his patients, Doctor Clonen, calls Black Jack to a remote lodge in the forest, the genius surgeon becomes caught up in a serial murder case where he himself is the prime suspect!

Akudo, the reckless juvenile delinquent son of the billionaire Nikla, crashes his sports car while driving dangerously around the streets of the city after cloth from Davy, a young tailor, obscures his windscreen when he has to jump out of the way. Nikla searches the world for a surgeon to save his severely injured son, and eventually hires Black Jack for three billion. Jack advises Nikla that his son can only be saved by using the body parts of a donor, and Nikla has Davy arrested for causing the accident and forces him to be the donor. Two months after the operation, the bandages are removed and Nikla sees his son fully recovered, however a few days later he disappears from the hospital. It is revealed that Jack actually remodelled Davy's face to look like Akudo who had actually died from his injuries. Jack then changes Davy's face again and Jack gives him the money so that he and his mother can leave the country and never have to work again.

A ferry trip goes bad, and Black Jack saves an Iriomote cat, a baby, and a politician, in that order. The politician sues, but Black Jack saves him from cancer, and he relents. Pinoko saves Sharaku from Kong, a bully, and they become friends. Then, Sharaku becomes sick and Black Jack operates on him, but a runaway gurney causes an IV needle to break off in his vein. Black Jack fails to extract the needle, but by a miracle it comes out on its own.

Black Jack is given a chance to redeem his medical license, but refuses and is arrested. During Black Jack's imprisonment, an Italian billionaire who was encountered in the other series begs Black Jack to save his grandson, knowing that Black Jack was the only doctor with the necessary talents. The head of the medical association in Japan refuses to release Black Jack despite the billionaires attempt at bribery, and the operation is taken on by Dr. White who attempts to do the operation using a robotic surgical aid. The billionaire visits Black Jack in jail and tells him of the boys miraculous recovery, but Black Jack states that the recovery was too dramatic, and the boy dies anyway. Enraged at the death of his grandson, the billionaire puts out a hit on the son of the head of the medical association. Black Jack is released from prison and ordered to save the boy.

Black Jack's father contacts him for the first time in 21 years and asks Black Jack to perform plastic surgery on his second wife. Black Jack, still holding a grudge on his father for walking out on him and his mother when they were injured in a bombing, does the surgery under the instructions to make the woman "The most beautiful woman alive." Black Jack constructs her face to look like his late mothers. After he arrives at his house, a bomb detonates, much in the same way that happened to him when he was a boy.

Pinoko, refusing to believe that Black Jack is dead, continues to try and dig through the rubble of their bombed out house. For a while, she lives in the diner owned by Black Jack's friend Tetsu, but is later adopted by a family that runs a local hospital. Pinoko still rejects her predicament, and later spots someone in a black cloak, similar to the one Black Jack wore. It is then revealed that Black Jack had survived the bomb blast thanks to help from his whale friend Torition. Black Jack went into hiding to prevent putting Pinoko in danger in case the group that was after him tried another assassination attempt, though he later comes out of hiding and takes Pinoko with him when he discovers an old picture in the clinic once owned by Dr. Honma, Black Jack's mentor.