List of Black Jack episodes
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The following is a list of episodes for the Japanese anime Black Jack. It was directed for Tezuka Productions by Makoto Tezuka and Satoshi Kuwabara.
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[edit] Initial release dates
Black Jack TV first aired on October 11, 2004, and continues to air since, while Black Jack 21 first aired in April 10, 2006.
[edit] List of Episodes
[edit] Black Jack TV Episodes (2004-2006)
| # | Title | Original airdate | ||||
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| 0 | "The Order of Operations" | October 11, 2004 | ||||
| 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. | ||||||
| 1 | "The Missing Needle" | October 11, 2004 | ||||
| Pinoko saves Sharaku, a boy, from Kong, a bully, and they become friends. Then, Sharaku becomes sick and Black Jack operates on him, but a runaway gurney causes a needle to break off in his vein. Black Jack fails to extract the needle, but by a miracle it comes out on its own. | ||||||
| 2 | "The Ant's Legs" | October 18, 2004 | ||||
| A handicapped boy is inspired by a book to walk the 400km from Hokkaido to Osaka by himself. Black Jack follows him, to the boy's annoyance. The boy succeeds and the book turns out to have been about BJ's own rehabilitation. | ||||||
| 3 | "The Dog Thief" | July 17, 2006 | ||||
| Black Jack and Pinoko take in a dog they name Largo. The dog has a habit of stealing things and putting them outside. Inevitably, Largo takes a necklace the doctor received as payment, forcing Black Jack and Pinoko leave the house. An earthquake occurs and both are saved as the dog had detected the catastrophe. ** This episode was shown out-of-order due to a major earthquake occurring shortly before the intended airdate. |
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| 4 | "Playing Doctor" | November 1, 2004 | ||||
| Kong's sister Chako has TB. Chako, having heard about Black Jack, begs her brother to make BJ take her case. Kong can't find the doctor, though, so he gets Keaton from the drama club to pretend to be BJ and help raise her spirits. In the end, the real Black Jack operates and saves her. | ||||||
| 5 | "The Sixth-Magnitude Man" | November 8, 2004 | ||||
| Black Jack meets a Dr. Shitake at the scene of a fallen building. Dr. Shitake, a skilled but unnoticed doctor, works for a hospital whose leadership has recently come under fire and many of whose staff has been arrested for fraud. When a man is injured by fireworks, Black Jack's fee is too much for the hospital, and the underestimated Dr. Shitake is given the chance to show his real skills. | ||||||
| 6 | "A Teacher and a Pupil" | November 15, 2004 | ||||
| A boy who is afraid of his teacher is hit by a motorcycle when forced to go to school. The teacher hires Black Jack to save the boy's legs. When the instructor learns of the boy's fear, he leaves the hospital in a daze and is struck by a car. He offers Black Jack his life insurance to pay him for his student's operation, but BJ saves them both. | ||||||
| 7 | "White Lion" | November 22, 2004 | ||||
| The white lion at the local zoo is sick. The lion's keeper begs Jack for help, but Jack refuses. In the end Jack takes the lion as his fee, releasing it in Africa. | ||||||
| 8 | "The Miracle Arm" | November 29, 2004 | ||||
| A skilled sushi chef, Taku, is hit by a truck and loses his arms. The truck driver Akira then learns to be Taku's arms and make sushi. They form an unlikely friend- and partnership, until Akira is mortally injured saving a child from a fire. As his last wish, his arms are transplanted onto Taku. | ||||||
| 9 | "Moraimizu" | December 6, 2004 | ||||
| Pinoko and Sharaku befriend an old lady who is homeless. Her doctor son kicked her out of the hospital room she was living in. After she's trapped in a mudslide, Black Jack rescues her, and forces her son to decide what's really important to him. | ||||||
| 10 | "Legend of the Phoenix" | December 13, 2004 | ||||
| Black Jack and Pinoco fly to Asia to treat a 200 year old man. Miriam, the man's descendant, wants him to be able to talk so he can tell her how to find the phoenix, whose blood supposedly grants everlasting life. Black Jack cures the old man, but the legend turns out to be a hoax - the phoenix is really just a bird covered in luminescent bacteria. | ||||||
| 11 | "The Gift from a Killer Whale" | January 17, 2005 | ||||
| Black Jack tells Pinoco about how he befriended the killer whale Toriton. One day at the beach, BJ discovered the injured Toriton. He patched him up, and again each time he was injured. Toriton is falsely accused of attacking a fisherman, and Black Jack tries to end their friendship, but the whale turns out to be innocent, and Black Jack rescues him just in time. | ||||||
| 12 | "Give My Brother Back!" | January 24, 2005 | ||||
| Pinoco befriends the actor inside a monster suit. The actor has a lymphatic problem that Black Jack treats, but the actor's brother Yukio thinks BJ is part of the TV show and has kidnapped his sibling. Pinoco comes up with a plan; the actor "saves" Yukio from BJ and they escape. | ||||||
| 13 | "A Pirate's Arm" | January 31, 2005 | ||||
| Ichinoseki is a local star gymnast. He loses an arm to gangrene, and Black Jack replaces it with a metal pincer. Ichinoseki becomes depressed, but his arm talks him into playing competitive shogi. He wins the championship, and the arm turns out to be voiced via transistor by his long-suffering friend Toshie. | ||||||
| 14 | "Move, Solomon" | February 7, 2005 | ||||
| Pinoco is saved by Musashi, a lifeguard/animator, and becomes interested in his animation work. Musashi wants to make anime that truly appears to live, despite being constantly put down by his successful friend Kojiro. However, when Musashi becomes sick, Black Jack saves him in return for his animation cells. | ||||||
| 15 | "The Fabricated Wedding" | February 14, 2005 | ||||
| Michiru is a teenage girl dying of cancer. Her dying wish is to marry the next man she sees, and in walks Black Jack. After he cures her, she wants to continue the marriage. BJ declines and gives her a pep talk about living her new life. | ||||||
| 16 | "Missing Pinoco" | February 21, 2005 | ||||
| Pinoco befriends a burglar who has lost his job and family. She goes with him to help him, and they begin a long journey on foot to find his family. However, Black Jack believes Pinoco has been kidnapped, and gives up a chance to have his medical license reinstated in order to search for her. After he and Largo locate them the man takes a tumble off a cliff. Pinoco not only persuades BJ to save the man, but also to help him get a job and reunite with his family. | ||||||
| 17 | "The Idol Who Lost Her Voice" | February 28, 2005 | ||||
| Rei is the school's star vocalist, until a polyp on her vocal cords causes her to lose her voice. Black Jack operates, but she can't remain silent for two weeks and reinjures her throat. Forced to be silent for three months, she becomes depressed, but befriends Shakaru's sister Wato, and eventually is able to regain her voice. | ||||||
| 18 | "Mail Friends" | March 7, 2005 | ||||
| Although Jun is in wheelchair, he tells his Internet friend Tom he can play baseball. When Tom is about to visit, Jun asks Black Jack to heal his weak heart. The price is too high, and Jun breaks off his friendship with Tom instead. Tom offers to pay for it instead of having his blind eyes fixed. BJ fixes them both. | ||||||
| 19 | "Good Luck, Kowa Clinic" | March 14, 2005 | ||||
| Black Jack is forced to take Pinoco to a local clinic for digestion medicine, and comes to assist Dr. Kowa, a country doctor, in a thyroid operation. BJ is extremely impressed by the friendliness and respect Dr. Kowa is treated with by his patients, especially since he can tell Dr. Kowa is an unlicensed doctor. In the end, Dr. Kowa goes back to school. | ||||||
| 20 | "Tetsu of of Yamanote Line" | March 21, 2005 | ||||
| Tetsu, the owner of Black Jack's favorite cafe, tells the story of how he was a famous pickpocket chased constantly by a police detective. The detective desperately wanted to catch Tetsu red-handed, but during a chase, Tetsu is injured in an accident involving sheet glass and loses two fingers. The detective blackmails BJ into performing surgery to reattach them, hoping to continue as before, but Black Jack covers for Tetsu, and in the episode Tetsu returns the favour when the detective tries to arrest Black Jack for unlicensed practice. | ||||||
| 21 | "First Storm of Spring" | April 11, 2005 | ||||
| Kumiko loses sight in one eye due to glaucoma. Black Jack implants a cornea, and Kumiko starts seeing the donor's last sight; a man reaching towards her. Pinoco thinks the man is a murderer and begins a rescue effort, but it turns out the vision is of the donor's fiancee in his last, desperate attempt to save her. | ||||||
| 22 | "Pinoko's Plans for Adulthood" | April 11, 2005 | ||||
| Pinoco meets Tinq, a boy her age, and tried to have an adult relationship with him, much to Sharak's horror. Tinq has a strange condition, though; his organs are reversed, and Black Jack with Pinoco's help undertakes an operation to save his life. It turns Pinoco has been trying to make the Doctor jealous, as he is the one she truly loves. | ||||||
| 23 | "Love after the Downpour" | April 18, 2005 | ||||
| Black Jack meets a Kiyomi, a pretty young physician, and the only doctor on her island. Kiyomi falls in love with BJ, but he knows he's not worth her giving up her life on the island with so many people depending on her. Then, Kiyomi is injured in a landslide and is saved by Black Jack, only to wake up and find him already gone. | ||||||
| 24 | "A Challenge called Nadare" | April 25, 2005 | ||||
| A genetically-enhanced deer, Nadare, is attacking forest workers. In the past, the deer was befriended by a young doctor and treated as his own sibling. Wishing Nadare was intelligent enough to talk back, the doctor convinces Black Jack to move Nadare's brain from his skull to his chest, allowing it to grow and make him smarter. In the present, the doctor who owned the deer must stop Nadare who, out of control from his own intelligence and emotions, attacks his fiance. They drive Nadare off, and Black Jack operates to save the woman's life. | ||||||
| 25 | "The Cholera Epidemic" | May 2, 2005 | ||||
| Black Jack thinks that he may have cholera, so he quarantines himself, leaving Pinoco to take care of a patient at the clinic for three days. Thinking he is in the clear after the incubation period has passed, Black Jack returns to the clinic and performs an operation, only to become extremely sick in the moments afterward. BJ thinks he has cholera after all, but it turns out to be Pinoco's special medicine that cause the symptoms. | ||||||
| 26 | "Abacus Genius" | May 9, 2005 | ||||
| While hearing Pinoco talk about the abacus, Black Jack remembers when the teacher and father of Eiji, a boy, came to see him a long time before. Eiji dreamed of being an abacuschampion, but he couldn't move his hands. Black Jack operated to fix them, but when his hands cramp up in a competition, reverts to using the abacus with his tongue. | ||||||
| 27 | "Tragedy of an Ultra-High Technology Room" | May 16, 2005 | ||||
| Black Jack, Pinoco and several rich men are trapped in an underground, disaster-proof bunker, where the oxygen is being sucked out. BJ breaks through the wall with a scalpel and cuts a wire, finally releasing them when all were on the verge of death. The men had promised him money to free them, then tried to renege. Fortunately, Black Jack has their promise on tape. | ||||||
| 28 | "Wilderness Epidemic" | May 23, 2005 | ||||
| Black Jack and Pinoco investigate a mysterious plague in Australia. They become separated; Pinoco befriends an aussie, BJ walks for days. Black Jack contracts the deadly plague, and realizes it's actually a parasite. He removes it by performing surgery on himself inside a plastic tent. | ||||||
| 29 | "The Life-Arranging Flower" | May 30, 2005 | ||||
| BJ takes on a case of Sono, a young girl who is sensetive to light and has a weak heart. Her father wants her to become better at all cost so she can become the head of the family. The family's main focus is ikebana so Sono is pushed to the brink of death to make the ultimate ikebana for her recital. When Sono almost dies trying to go outside to see wildflowers in their natural beauty, BJ tells her father she is being pushed too hard. Sono tells BJ she will die anyway so why give her the surgery. Hearing this BJ tells Sono that flowers and human are both beautiful because they live. He states he has seen patients far worse than her including Pinoco who struggled so much to live. BJ states if she is not interested in living the operation is off. Later Sono states she wants to live and BJ goes ahead with the operation lengthening her life. | ||||||
| 30 | "The Operation at the Thunderstorm" | 2005 | ||||
| There is a massive strike of Doctors in a hospital, where a little kid asks a doctor to cure his father but due to the strike the doctor refuses. Then the kid finds a young lady that tries to get help. Finally trying to take the Kid's father to another hospital a thunder makes a tree to fall making impossible to keep going, while they find the doctor who refuses the operation. BJ's enters in action and decides to operate the sick man in a countdown before a Tree falls on them. A Tree fell on the Doctor and he asks help to BlackJack which says "He will go to strike" and finally agrees to operate by the high amounts he usually asks. | ||||||
| 31 | "Intimidation in the Twentieth Year" | 2005 | ||||
| While Black Jack was operating on a patient, his hand suddenly became paralyzed and he didn't know why. It was 20 years after Dr. Honma operated on him and he remembers that he blocked his memory about a doctor telling Dr. Honma that the hand of Black Jack will not be able to move after 2 decades. | ||||||
| 32 | "The Blue Terror" | 2005 | ||||
| Black Jack and Pinoko go to visit a remote island and end up meeting a fisherman and his son. The fisherman wants his son to grow up and go to school, but when his son hears him talking about enrollment he runs away. After hours of searching, BJ finds him trapped by a huge clam. attempting to free the boy, Black Jack dives underwater and ends up getting stuck himself. After nearly drowning, BJ and the young boy are both free and not badly injured, but in the process Black Jack broke his arm. | ||||||
| 33 | "An Invader from the Sky" | 2005 | ||||
| A friend of Sharaku witnesses a comet fall from the sky and thinks it is a UFO. Soon he develops a strange lump on his side and is admitted to the hospital. Doctors, nurses and even his own mother has been acting strangely around him... growing paranoid by the minute, he begins to suspect aliens are conducting experiments on him. Black Jack arrives, clears things up and operates on the boy... | ||||||
| 34 | "Vibrations" | 2005 | ||||
| BlackJack met this guys "Hotch" while going to a neighborhood where a patient of his is not yet paid. Then Hotch's wife became sick and BlackJack took care of it even though Hotch never had enough money But the vibrations of the train above them keep distracting BlackJack and his work so Hotch goes to the train station and ask the man in charge to stop the train. | ||||||
| 35 | "Hijack the Hospital" | 2005 | ||||
| BlackJack is requested to help in the operation of a young boy, when a group enters and decides to take the Doctors and the other people as hostages, threatening the police of cutting off the generator of the hospital that would case many patients to die. The leader of the Gang prohibites the doctors to operate the baby, while one of the doctors remembers the leader's face and reveals his baby on the past had the same illness as the baby right now, and seek for revenge due of the baby's death some years ago. With the energy cut off, BlackJack makes use of his ability to cure the baby, and the Leader of the gang gets happy for BJ's operation while arrested. | ||||||
| 36 | "The Unfinished House at the Cliff" | 2005 | ||||
| Pinoko is frustrated of living in their home by the cliff and urges Black Jack to move out. Black Jack refuses and further explains the reason why the house means so much to him... | ||||||
| 37 | "The Dolphin and the Pirates" | 2005 | ||||
| 38 | "A Challenge from the Unknown" | 2006 | ||||
| Sharaku's family invites BlackJack & Pinoko to some ancient ruins. In the night Sharaku takes a kind of staff and gets into a kind of ancient temple, where BJ, Pinoko and Sharaku's sister gets on the temple where they meet a Monk which mysteriously gets injured while he says he needs to know about BJs skills. Sharaku appears and reveals he's possessed by inhabitants of another far galaxy that got attacked by some military forces making one of the inhabitants get sick and got their Healing Machine destroyed they ask BJ to heal the Inhabitant. After a long chat of refusing, BlackJack decides to heal the Inhabitant, in which then he gets vision in which he sees himself with her mother. When they awake they decide to keep what happened as secret. | ||||||
| 39 | "The War Continues" | 2006 | ||||
| Luna, a boy from Iru, sicked, unable to walk and stand up. He has a mother that force him to stand up and walk. Because their house was under surveillance | ||||||
| 40 | "The Manequin and the Police" | 2006 | ||||
| An idiot police loves the MANEQUIN. He wants to catch the gangster. Fortunately, BJ saves his life for free | ||||||
| 41 | "The Miracle of a Movie and of Operation" | 2006 | ||||
| A movie director wants to film how BJ heal his son Asuto from a kind a sickness. | ||||||
| 42 | "Life's Wrong Diagnosis" | 2006 | ||||
| 43 | "Shrinkage!" | 2006 | ||||
| 44 | "Pinoko was Born" | 2006 | ||||
| BlackJack tells the story about how Pinoko came to his life. Some years ago, some doctors came and visited BJ with a young woman, with Teratoma (Pinoko was inside her) the doctor asked BJ to heal her, as the other hospitals couldn't due to some unknown forces. BJ tried to operate the woman when he gets pushed by the powers, BJ started a chat with Pinoko and he tells her he will let her live. After the operation BJ takes Pinoko's flesh and with some mannequin pieces to build her a body. Then BJ raises Pinoko when she tried to walk, to speak, etc. Later then BJ makes the Young Woman and Pinoko face each other. The Young woman rejects Pinoko as her sister and Pinoko treats her as "Fool" and attacks her. | ||||||
| 45 | "A Classmate who Loves to Laugh" | 2006 | ||||
| BlackJack's classmate from elementary school loves to laugh even though his parents abandoned him because they cant pay the crooks their debts. Then the crooks went to his house and stabbed a dart on his neck. BlackJack promised to be a doctor to help save him. | ||||||
| 46 | "The Bodyguard at the Festival" | 2006 | ||||
| 47 | "A Violin from a Snowfall" | 2006 | ||||
| 48 | "The Robin and the Boy" | 2006 | ||||
| 49 | "The Voice of a Distorted Face" | 2006 | ||||
| 50 | "The Brothers that were Separated" | 2006 | ||||
| Two brothers where orphaned after a flood leaving them both homeless. Only one of them is adopted leaving the other in the streets. Bj and Pinoko visit the town where both of them live. Then the homeless brother comes down extreemly ill and needs a liver transplant. At the last minute the other brother comes to help, reuniting the two. | ||||||
| 51 | "The Infamous Acupuncturist" | 2006 | ||||
| Biwamaru, an acupuncturist, heals people with his needle and without pay and somewhat got BlackJack's patients to heal. But then a girl with an illness was visited by Biwamaru and put the needle on her but he doesn't know that the girl had an extreme fear of needles causing her to have panic attacks. Then BlackJack came to save the day and teaches Biwamaru that needles aren't always the way to heal patients. Later Biwamaru returns the favor by using a needle to heal BlackJack's weak intestines. | ||||||
| 52 | "The Moment of Witness" | 2006 | ||||
| A bomb is detonated in a train station, in which BJ brings support to the injured. The investigation starts and there are 4 people who are suspicious. A young woman who lost her sight due to the bomb is the only witness. BJ acepts to operate her even knowing that she will only see by 5 minutes. The witness recognizes the culprit and is immediately arrested. | ||||||
[edit] Black Jack 21 Episodes (2006)
| # | Title | Original airdate | ||||
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| 1 | "The Day His Medical License Returns" | April 10,2006 | ||||
| BJ is given a chance to get a medical license, but he's upset the director of the medical association. An Italian billionaire tries to have him released to treat his grandson, but fails. The Medical association send Dr White instead, but the boy dies. Furious, the billionaire has the director's son shot. BJ is bailed out to save the day. | ||||||
| 2 | "BJ Meets His Father Again" | April 17,2006 | ||||
| BJ's father, Kagemitsu Hazama, pays him to make his second wife the most beautiful woman in the world. BJ agrees, and gives her his mother's face. He comes home to find a bomb in his surgery, which sets off with him inside in front of Pinoko. | ||||||
| 3 | "Pinoko's Sadness" | April 24,2006 | ||||
| Surviving the bomb blast thanks to Toriton, BJ tells the local cops to announce his death, and goes to Honma's clinic. Pinoko, now adopted, runs away to find him. Wondering how his father and Dr. Honma know each other, BJ and Pinoko go off in search of answers. | ||||||
| 4 | "The Black Angel of Northern Europe" | May 8,2006 | ||||
| Black Jack and Pinoko go to Europe to see Dr Kreutzer, an old colleague of Dr. Honma. There, he meets Suzie, a girl who thinks he's a devil because he wears black. The hospital's controller, Devon, wants BJ to pretend to be Kreutzer in order to buy time to pick a new director. BJ refuses, until he finds out the patient is Suzie's mother. | ||||||
| 5 | "The Robotic Arm" | May 15,2006 | ||||
| After seeing him at Kreutzer's hospital, BJ goes to talk to Stein, who runs a hospital in Germany. There he meets a familiar face and finds out an orphan and a pianist is going to get a replacement robotic arm. Upon learning from Pinoko that anyone could play the piano with them, he asks for an alternative. After BJ treats the patient, Stein flees to England. | ||||||
| 6 | "The Flying Hospital" | May 22,2006 | ||||
| With the help of Ayako, BJ boards the Sky Hospital, a plane developed by Dr White, which is on the way to England. But the plane is hijacked by militants en route. The pilots are injured and fuel is low, it's a race against time to get onto the ground. | ||||||
| 7 | "The Promise Concerning Life, Worth Ten Billion Yen" | May 29,2006 | ||||
| BJ is cleared of a murder thanks to Aritani, a man working for a company that makes medical supplies. In return, he promises to save Aritani's life if he needs treatment. When Aritani is pushed in front of a train to cover a large embezzlement, BJ buys the hospital he's in in order to save his life. | ||||||
| 8 | "Awake After Sixty-Five Years" | June 05,2006 | ||||
| BJ finally arrives in England to hear of a man who's been in a coma, unaged, for 65 years. Stein wants to analyse him to find out why he hasn't aged, but his niece has hired Kiriko to put an end to it. BJ operates, but afterwards the patient ages and dies upon finding out that his family had died. | ||||||
| 9 | "The Imprint on the Heart" | June 12,2006 | ||||
| 10 | "A Miracle in New York" | June 19,2006 | ||||
| 11 | "The Destiny of the Black Doctor" | 2006 | ||||
| 12 | "Beyond the Aura" | 2006 | ||||
| 13 | "Pinoco go Back to Japan" | 2006 | ||||
| 14 | "The Terrifying Phoenix Disease" | 2006 | ||||
| 15 | "The Truth About BJ's Father" | 2006 | ||||
| BJ is called by Renka, he thinks that about his father but she says she want him to stay and be a family, but Renka's daughter thinks BJ is after his father's fortune. When about operating on his father, the organization henchmen kidnap Pinoco and lure him in a trap, in which he gives up the pendant. Benitokage appears and saves the day, apparently because one of the Organization knocks BJ and then he awakes to meet Zen Mantoku the former leader. He tells that the reason of his father to leave BJ and his mother was to protect them from the Organization (meaning the bomb that near killed BJ was a plot of the organization) it is revealed who Benitokage is, and then both of them work together to escape. At the end BJ is aimed with a Sniper Rifle in which Benitokage saves his life using her. | ||||||
| 16 | "The Challenge Against Extinction" | 2006 | ||||
| BJ is ready to go Japan with Pinoco when is requested to go to the Sky Hospital and check on Zen Mantoku who has Phoenix Disease, by a direct request of Dr. White & Renka. BJ agrees in performing the operation with Dr. White. Renka secretly plots to get the Disease cure so she can win much money when she spreades Phoenix disease. One of Renka's henchmen tries to hijack the Hospital and by that Mantoku gets out of the Capsule causing the Phoenix Disease to spread among the aircraft. Now BJ has to face the Phoenix Disease to save Pinoco and the others lives. | ||||||
| 17 | "The Sanctity of Life" | 2006 | ||||
| BJ tells Dr. White to chance course to the North Pole, in the meanwhile Renka start her plan in getting the Phoenix Disease. Later the Sky Hospital receives a call from the US alaska base, and are told that Doctors from all the world are trying to find the cure to the Phoenix Disease, one of them being Dr. Kuma revealing that they only have 21 hours to cure or die. . The National Security manager is told that they are going to launch a Nuclear Missile to rid of the Virus and as well of those ill from it. Renka gets on the Sky Hospital. When operating BJ finds the cure to the Phoenix Disease. The missile has been shot without any way to making it to don't crash on North Pole, in a state of confusion from BJ, he sees Pinoco in a 18 years old shape makes BJ to go back into his senses. The Antiserum is named Honma Antiserum . Finally BJ & Pinoco return with their friends, after dealing with the most dangerous "enemy" yet. | ||||||
