233 – Give My Regards to Black Jack part 1

On this episode we begin our retrospective review of Shuho Sato’s Give My Regards to Black Jack!

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Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “I am Just Feeling Alive” by UMI KUUN from Young Black Jack, Opening, Introductions, Curry
• 00:01:29 – Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Seamus checks out some dramatic scenes in volume 5 of Shojo Fight!
• 00:05:51 – Seamus explains the difference between cramer and cremer
• 00:06:52 – The ending of Starving Anonymous is REALLY nuts *FULL SPOILERS*
• 00:12:09 – dakazu reads some more Kakegurui -Compulsive Gambler – from last week’s Triple Dip
• 00:14:44 – News: 3rd season of the anime Psycho-Pass is announced
• 00:15:50 – Darfox gives *FULL SPOILERS* on the twist of Psycho-Pass and why the protagonist Akane was great
• 00:21:19 – The popular 90’s action manga Spriggan will be getting an anime adaptation
• 00:23:35 – Rumors about the live-action One Piece show being on Netflix and discussing what we want from it
• 00:26:12 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Retrospective on Give My Regards to Black Jack, we will continue our comprehensive review of Shuho Sato’s manga(covers volumes 5-7)
• 00:26:47 – Main Segment Retrospective: Give My Regards to Black Jack, Transition Song: “LIFE is… 〜another story〜” by Ken Hirai from Give My Regards to Black Jack, comprehensive review of Shuho Sato’s medical drama
• 00:29:08 – We discuss the introduction of main character Eijirou Saito and his harsh reality check with the world of doctors
• 00:31:06 – Seamus doesn’t like Saito’s idealistic character and would prefer the attending doctors characters who have more experience
• 00:32:25 – We talk about the 1st story arc with the comatose old man on life support
• 00:35:20 – We get into the heavy drama of cardiac surgery patient Mr. Miyamura and Dr. Kita’s putting down the scalpel
• 00:39:12 – Darfox recognizes Sato has an agenda when presenting the evil doctors in this arc
• 00:42:31 – Seamus wonders if Saito will eventually suffer from burnout after caring so much for each patient
• 00:43:37 – We laugh about how useless Saito is and the fits he throws
• 00:44:17 – We get into the heavy subject matter of newborn intensive care unit with the prenatal twins in the 4th arc
• 00:50:36 – We discuss the dramatic storytelling and the questionable scenes of the prenatal twins talking to each other
• 00:58:23 – dakazu praises Sato’s believable characterization of the father
• 01:00:02 – We remember to discuss the 3rd arc about fellow intern Hisayoshi Michiba and concept of a family oriented doctor
• 01:01:45 – We introduce some other side characters and lament that some of them don’t even have names
• 01:05:47 – Seamus enjoys the medical information introduced in this and points out that Saito is the audience surrogate to learn these facts
• 01:09:48 – We talk about Sato’s beautiful use of heavy ink lines and shadowing to show dramatic scenes
• 01:06:49 – dakazu compares this series to another medical manga Team Medical Dragon
• 01:14:22 – We share our thoughts about the series so far and give some predictions about what will happen next
• 01:20:07 – Next Week’s Topic: Give My Regards to Black Jack, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster