Notes from the Lupin Gang: ----------------------------------------- As of 7/14/98, the world's pole vault record is 6.14 meters, set on 7/3/94 by Sergey Bubka of the Ukraine.
An incredible new world record has been established!
He jumped an even seven meters, exceeding human limits!
Nicholas Doris - A hero who came out of nowhere!
He was even considering retirement.
Super jump!
To we who are unworthy of his grace, the Lord has opened a new path.
Unbelievable! This new record went far beyond the previous men's record!
9.61 seconds. An amazing record was established in the woman's 100 meter dash!
Doctor, doctor!
It's amazing.
A rush of new world records! Moreover, all these records are miraculous!
So?
"So?" Well...
It's time to go. I'm leaving.
People are so excited about the Olympics, and you're...
You've got a cold. Your temperature is a little high.
Doctor?
I'm going to be away for three days, but if there is any change, I'll let you know.
Take some fever medicine every four hours.
Roger, Pinocco will obey!
The gold medalist in the 100 meter dash is an innocent fifteen year old girl!
I feel great!
Well, you should after this!
A miracle is about to happen in the men's 400M free style.
There's only 100 meters left, and they're 25 seconds ahead of the world record! This is for real, folks!
Another amazing super-record has been established!
3mg of Heparin.
Done.
Is the equipment ready?
Ready.
Scalpel.
I'm in. I've reached the tumor.
It's cut off.
What a wonderful Olympics! A memorable event as we head towards the 21st century!
Including track and field and swimming, incredible new records have been established in more than ten areas!
Doctor BlackJack.
Please accept this $150,000 for the operation.
I asked you to deposit the money to my account.
Yes... Well...
Oh, I see. If there's any evidence your hospital did business with me, it would hurt your hospital's reputation.
Look at the lively muscle movement!
It is here that they broke the wall which was said to be unbreakable!
Everyone thought that there was a limit to human ability, especially physical capability.
However, these athletes' performance turned that idea on it's head.
I think this could symbolize the human dream towards the 21st century.
If that's so, I'd have to call them "super-human!"
"Super-human," yes! "Super-human." You're right!
They really are "super-human." We've witnessed the birth of "super-humans!"
Story/Original Characters: Osamu Tezuka
Production: Kazuyoshi Okuyama Takamasa Matsutani
(credits)
Sound Director: Hiroshi Sakonju Editing: Seiji Morita
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Music
Eiji Kawamura
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Theme Song
Invisible Love
Song
Mai Yamane
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Music Director
Seiji Suzuki
Music Producer
Kazuo Kumada
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Medical Supervision
Akira Nagai
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Producers
Sumio Utagawa
Minoru Kubota
Chiharu Akiba
Production Studio
Tezuka Production
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Production
Tezuka Production
Shochiku
Production Cooperation
Akita Shoten
Columbia Entertainment
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Director
K. Dezaki
Planning: Yoshihiro Shimizu Minoru Furutoku Yasuo Ishida
Scenario: Etsu Mori K. Dezaki
Character Design / Design Director: Akio Sugino
Art Director: Jiro Kawano
Producer: Fumihiro Yoshimura
Shooting Director: H. Takahashi Hajime Noguchi
Let's see.
Drat!
Doctor, telephone! Telephone! I said telephone!
I am out right now. If you wish a medical consultation, please leave your name...
...where I can reach you, the condition of your patient, and how much you can pay.
I'll get back to you in a few days.
0880-258-7101.
Please get in touch with me.
I have prepared a check for you with a blank space in the amount. I look forward to hearing from you.
This is the fifth time she called.
0880-258-7101.
I've memorized it!
You're not going to call?
She didn't say who she was and what the patient's condition is.
We don't have to.
You're right.
It's been two years since the Olympics.
Even after two years, this boom of "super-humans" is occupying the news every day.
The thing I have to note here is that it did not stay within the world of sports alone.
Music, art, literature, physics and science.
Abnormally talented people have started appearing in every field.
Super-human pitcher in Major League. 110 mph pitching!
Doctor, this is Roger Seagil. Do you remember me?
I'm the father of Lisa Seagil, whom you operated on two years ago.
Please help Lisa. It's happening again!
A relapse?
The post-operation care was perfect.
Please help Lisa!
This can't be happening.
Doctor, thank you! Thank you for coming!
She's in critical condition!
Noradrenaline, disinfectant!
Yes, sir. Noradrenaline, disinfectant!
Why isn't she in the hospital when she's this bad?
She just came back from the hospital yesterday.
She had been doing well for the past five days. She got permission to recuperate at home.
Call an ambulance! Quickly!
Doctor. Doctor BlackJack.
You're a super-human.
I know you will cure me.
It is true that the illness came back to Lisa Seagil.
We can see the tumor clearly here in the atrioventricular valves.
The tumor wasn't malignant.
Her biopsy was perfect. I still can't believe it.
That's just natural.
Lisa's condition was very unique.
When she was brought here, her intestines were bleeding excessively.
When it was cured, the second kidney's hypertrophy was found.
Next it was transient high blood sugar. A week later it was liver hypertrophy.
I don't know what the cause was, but everything was out of the ordinary.
I would like to attend the autopsy.
The direct cause of the death was heart failure.
However, what we found at the autopsy was amazing.
Including heart, kidney, liver, we could see extensive degeneration in her internal organs.
Moreover, her organs no longer resembled those of a fourteen year old girl...
...but were overworked as if she was ninety years old.
The condition was similar to that which comes after exhaustion.
Does it mean this girl has lived nearly eighty years in the past two years?
When I performed surgery on her two years ago, her organs were a healthy pink.
Doctor, please wait, doctor.
Here.
Please accept this as our gratitude. This is Lisa's last painting.
No, I can't accept it. I couldn't help her.
Oh, no. My wife and I would like you to accept it.
I've also returned the $150,000 that I previously received.
Doctor.
Let's go, Pinocco.
Please take care.
Well, it's such a beautiful painting.
I am out right now. If you wish a medical consultation, please leave your name...
...where I can reach you, the condition of your patient, and how much you can pay.
I'll get back to you in a few days.
0880-258-7101.
I look forward to hearing from you. My name is Jo Carroll.
Would you like to work with me on a dream?
When I was a boy, I was the runt in my class.
I hated math so much, I always scored a "0" on my tests.
I didn't have any friends...
...so I hung out at an empty warehouse.
When I was twelve years old, my mother left my little sister and me to run off with some guy.
But the 7m height I jumped over showed that I got over my childhood.
I jumped towards the 21st century, toward my bright future, with your dreams!
Thank you!
Please clap your hands again for our super-human, Nicholas Doris!
He's sweating abnormally.
I'll be back by morning.
Okay!
Next is "About super-humans" by Dr. Watson.
Yes?
I got the information.
He's here in New York right now.
What?
He's been staying at the Royal Hotel for the past three days.
He'll operate on a SPB patient at 8 PM tonight.
Which hospital?
St. Kerbia Hospital.
Data check.
Heartbeat 60, no irregularity, blood pressure 100 to 50.
Doctor, now we need to approach the pulmonary hilum.
Please let me do it.
Don't be silly. You might hurt the lymph node. Don't do it.
Hey!
You handle a scalpel wonderfully, but I don't like you butting into my work.
Why don't you explain the reason why you did it?
Before I do, you should explain why you didn't contact me.
0880-258-7101.
You finally showed up in front of me.
The world's best unlicensed doctor, BlackJack.
You're being pushy.
I really need your help.
I decline it.
Why? Without even listening to what it's about?
I don't explain why I accept or decline.
Oh, that's not good. I already have your little girl's permission.
What?
The little girl staying at the Royal Hotel with you. She should be on a trip with my assistant.
Pinocco!
Yes, this is the Royal Hotel.
Room 3012, please.
I'll transfer you. Please hold.
I guarantee you will be interested in this.
I decline it!
0880-258-7101.
'Till then, we'll take good care of your little girl.
You can help the super-humans.
Did she say I could help super-humans?
Doctor, you have guests.
I'm busy right now. Tell them I'm not in.
Sorry, but he's not in, he said.
Oh, this is it!
It certainly is!
Doctor, we have looked for your house!
Here's our business card.
Art dealer?
Yes.
We heard that you had Lisa Seagil's last painting and we've looked so hard to find you. Yes!
$250,000!
No, $500,000!
Please sell it to us right away!
No, no, no, no, no!
Why do you offer that much for this painting?
You don't know?
We value her paintings very highly because she was known as a genius, no, a super-human artist among us.
Explain. I'll listen to what you have to say.
How does the good doctor like his veal? Rare or medium rare?
The woman's name is Jo Carroll.
She is the chief researcher at St. Joel's Research Center.
Please come to the center at 11 o'clock tomorrow.
It's easier to explain after you see the patients in person.
Patients?
We currently treat about twenty patients at the center.
What is the relationship with super-humans?
Let me say one thing: The safety of Pinocco is the priority for any kind of contract.
He's here. Let him in.
I would like to confirm your priorities first.
Hi, Doctor. How are you? I'm doing great!
I'm spending a wonderful time on the island of Oahu. You know, it's always summer here!
I really wanted to come here with you, but I was told that you got an urgent job to do.
Please take care!
We deposited two million dollars of the contract fee to your account this morning.
Look.
Nicholas Doris.
Right. The gold medallist that jumped over 7m.
This is Jo. Please show us the thermographs and data.
Yes, ma'am.
He is experiencing heavy dehydration.
It's a typical case that shows up when a patient has a heart attack.
This case is more abnormal.
He keeps bleeding 50 cc per minute while he is having an attack.
If we stop the blood transfusion in the middle, he will die from excessive bleeding in thirty minutes.
It's already been half a year since this patient who used to be called a genius pianist came here.
She was a gold medallist as well.
She lived in a rural town in Eastern Europe and had never even experienced a race until she was twelve years old.
However, she suddenly established a junior record when she was thirteen...
...and she participated in the Olympics at the age of fifteen.
Although she barely made the preliminary race, she got 9.61 seconds in the final.
It was an impossible record to beat, even for men.
But she's here now because she has diarrhea and anorexia nervosa.
And we cannot determine the cause.
We need you.
You're the only one who can save these geniuses. Please help us.
The "super-human" boom that started two years ago has been showing an incredible development.
Those who were called heroes and were popular as geniuses have become sick with diseases with unknown causes...
...and secretly gathered to this center.
We have admitted fourty patients so far, and seventeen have already died.
There are 1,230 people recognized to be super-humans who have been showing their amazing talent.
One of your female patients is among them.
Lisa Seagil!
Right.
This is your room.
You said 1,230 people.
Right.
Are you saying they're all going to be taken ill?
That number is just those we know about.
I think there are over ten times that number of people who may be infected.
So that was it.
Being a super-human means that he or she is sick with some kind of disease.
All kinds of organs, nerves, blood and even connective tissues are destroyed...
...and the symptoms are seen all over the body.
It is a progressive multi-organ imperfection syndrome that leads the patient to death.
We named this disease "Moira Syndrome."
Moira?
Moira is the name of a Greek goddess who controls people's destinies.
We would like to study this Moira secretly, and look for the cure to avoid the possible panic.
I would like to introduce him to you.
This is Doctor BlackJack.
He will join the project from today.
This is Doctor Michigan from Kent State University
Nice to meet you. I've heard about you. I don't remember how many years ago.
You did an operation on crossed optic nerves that was considered impossible, and you succeeded.
Doctor Else is our authority on bacteriology.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
Doctor Takemoto, he's a neurologist. He came from Tokyo.
Doctor Eric Kudely, a brain surgeon. He will be in your team.
And one more person. Your assistant, Ms. Betty McCole. She is a first-class anesthesiologist.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
I have a question.
I've heard a rumor that you continue medical care with a high charge even without your license. Is that true?
Yes, it is true.
He sounds proud of it.
Room 12, it's an emergency!
I can still run!
Let me go! Let me go!
The first night, 2:35 AM.
Ellen Shrier, who was the gold medallist for the woman's 100m dash, died.
She ran into the wall in her room with her 9.61 second legs and finished the goal of her seventeen year old life.
Let me see your V-sign!
"V!"
Put some caramel on the popcorn.
Okay, Miss.
Where did you go today?
I went to the zoo, Fantasy Park, and Sea World.
Hey, I wanna ride Star Rocket this time.
Okay, let's ride it together.
Okay!
Doctor BlackJack...
Yeah?
He got along with the staff and is busy researching now.
I see. How about his meals and laundry?
Don't worry. There are people who take care of those things.
I see.
It may take more time since he will be working on very important things.
Well, it may be good for him once in a while that he works by himself.
Oh?
He sometimes tries to get me to spoil him.
This is Ellen Shrier's autopsy view.
Show me the picture and the data from the liver operation.
Okay.
Zoom up to the affected part.
Annihilate decrepitude phenomenon. This happened to all the organs.
Even if she didn't commit suicide, she was going to die sooner or later.
This is her second kidney. Overall, it shows the abnormal phenomena of aging, but the cortex shows hypertrophy.
In the intestines, it begins to show decay on the mucus membrane layer.
This is the end of the century. She rotted while she was alive.
Let me see the brain tissue.
Okay.
I heard that an unlicensed doctor joined the project.
I think we took the best way possible.
Best or not, he can be a troublemaker.
Please, don't worry.
I heard that MSJ has started investigating.
We are currently checking on them, but you should do what you can now.
I know.
I can't stand those cold eyes.
We don't have much time left.
Brane Medicine?
Thought so. Looks like you don't know anything.
This research center is 100% funded by Brane Medicine, from the land, to the building, to our operating fund.
Most of these famous doctors, except for you, are somehow related to the company.
That woman.
Jo Carroll.
Her full name is Jo Carroll Brane. She's the adopted daughter of the CEO of Brane Medicine.
Her title is research chief, but make no mistake, she's the boss of this center.
The patient in Room 7 is having a heart attack.
We'll immediately have open-heart surgery.
Okay.
Dr. BlackJack will operate today.
We'll do our best.
How is the anesthesia working?
Good. You can start any time.
Please start, doctor.
This is just a hypothesis. I've established a way to throw light on the Moira.
Among all patients, the common thing was that they are super-humans.
Moreover, they were not super-humans from their births.
But what makes it possible for them to show such amazing talent so suddenly?
What is the body mechanism for that?
The answer I've reached is that an endorphin is being secreted by the hypothalamus...
...in the limbic system, to the pituitary gland.
If this hormone, called the brain's natural opiate, is excreted in large amounts...
...humans gain more ability to focus and they can show enormous talents.
If this abnormal hormone secretion continues for several years, nothing is questionable, even if the organs decay.
All the problems exist in the pituitary gland. That is my hypothesis.
So you're saying you would like to open the brain.
Right.
You've been here only a week and you've already established that much. I'm impressed!
This is just a hypothesis.
I'll call for a staff meeting immediately.
Wait.
What is the relationship between Brane Medicine and this project?
I wasn't told it has some kind of relationship with a business.
It's true that Brane Medicine is the number one business in the medicine field...
...but this center's main purpose is public service.
This is definitely non-profit.
It is very important to prove this hypothesis. However, the operation on the brain involves so many dangers.
One mistake could cost the patient their life.
That's why Doctor BlackJack should do this, don't you agree?
Have you decided which patient?
I heard that the operation is at 8 o'clock tomorrow. The patient is Nicholas Doris.
Right.
I see. Please check it as soon as possible.
What? Stop working? The operation?
Right.
I'll let you know when you should start the operation again.
Keep the minimum number of people to maintain equipment...
...and let the rest of the people go back to their country.
When will we start again?
Well... In half a year at most, but in a month if everything goes well.
Stop the operation. Stop the operation. Stop the operation.
Raise the temperature, more.
My name is BlackJack and I'll operate on you tomorrow.
Will I be able to jump again?
You guys turned my stomach upside-down, opened my heart, got my blood...
...took my liver out, and operated on me over and over again.
But I still can't hold the stick to jump over 7m yet.
I heard you'll operate on my brain. I'm not your guinea pig!
I heard that you gave us permission for the operation.
I did.
I also asked that if there was no chance for recovery, please erase my memory.
The glory of 7m was a little too much for me.
I also heard you said that we don't have to contact your family.
Do you think I can be seen like this? Me, a super-human?
There's even a statue of me in the village.
Doctor, did you check it out?
No, not yet.
That's absurd! If the cut is off even a little, the patient will stop breathing!
I'm sorry, we failed.
Prepare the next patient immediately.
Yes.
I can't do it! It's too dangerous to operate on a living person's brain!
Keep going.
We need data on the patient's brain while it's alive.
Unforgivable records showed up one after the other.
It was probably for super-humans who were dropped from the list.
No matter what it's for, no one has the right to experiment on living people.
What happened? Give me a report!
This is MSJ.
To serve our humanitarian purpose, we will occupy this research center and protect patients' human rights.
Doctor, did you see it?
We are MSJ, the Medical Soldiers for Justice.
We're a medical volunteer group that was established to save vulnerable people...
...who are trampled down by governmental power or organizational violence.
Capture the person in charge.
Her name is Jo Carroll Brane.
Miss, please hurry up.
Doctors, nurses, and staff members.
St. Joel Research Center is now fully occupied by MSJ.
It will be managed by us for a while.
From now on our purpose is to protect the patients' human rights...
...and the continuation of fair treatment of the patients.
If there are some people who would like to cooperate with us, please let us know.
We are prepared to accept your cooperation.
However, other people have to be managed by us to avoid outside pressure.
Doctor, of course you will collaborate, right?
We need your help.
Jo Carroll.
7101.
I warned you that you should watch out for MSJ, didn't I?
I ordered a halt of the operation at the factory for a while for the worst case.
I got a report that there are many MSJ members among the staff that you had contacts with.
Please pressure the governor to give us some state soldiers.
Unless these MSJ get cleared away, we can't keep on working.
Since they took hostages, there's nothing state soldiers or police can do.
If they blow our secret, we'll be dead.
I don't think they know that much.
7101, what made you go so wrong?
Your project is dead.
Please wait, Chairman.
You're dismissed from your position as Director of the Research Center.
This is the leader of the North American MSJ, Thomas Jonston.
I practice psychoanalogy in Vancouver.
Please make it quick. We'll start the operation at eight as planned.
I know.
That's Nicholas's CAT scan.
I wanted to let you know the most important and sufficient information that we have.
We found out that the Moira patients, especially all the patients that were gathered at this center...
...had some sort of contact with Brane Medicine in the last five years.
Contact?
Brane has it's hospitals in sixty cities and 300 towns and villages all over the world.
Those patients have records of seeing a doctor regularly or being hospitalized.
The problem is that the patients don't want to talk about it at all.
If one of the patients talks about it, it is possible to appeal to WHT.
What did Brane Medicine do to those patients in the past?
Are you asking me to ask Nicholas to talk about it?
If you get a chance.
Human lives are more important than WHT.
Let's start.
Fendy.
Yes, miss?
Is everything okay?
Yes, everything is just fine.
No, that's not it.
I made a reservation for the last flight. Go to the airport.
Okay.
Ah, there it is!
I'll join you later. So please get me a room with a nice view.
Wow! This time, it'll be the Mediterranean?
How is the EEG?
EEG = electroencephalogram
Nothing is wrong.
I've reached from the hypothalamus in the limbic system to the pituitary gland.
There must be something abnormal around here.
I've operated with scalpel according to the hypothesis...
...that something should be wrong around here.
I had a conviction that there was something around here because their live experiments were obviously done on the pituitary gland, which shouldn't be done with a scalpel.
Right, for a regular doctor, he or she never thinks of operating on the pituitary gland...
...unless they are sure there is a tumor...
...because it is highly possible that a miscalculation of 1mm can kill the patient.
However, I risked it.
I'd like to believe...
...that my ability to focus 150% will win against less than 1% of possibility.
Looks like there's no abnormal situation, Doctor.
Color and shape look like a normal pituitary gland.
Get an electrode. We'll give it a shock.
What?
I saw they were giving electrical shocks in the experiment record.
Yes.
I thought I saw something when the shock was given to the hypothalamus.
The picture was rough so it wasn't clear, but something shined in the pituitary gland.
Doctor, it's ready now.
We'll start with 50 joules.
Yes, sir.
Go.
Raise it 25 joules.
Done.
Go.
This is it.
Is it a tumor?
Scalpel.
Run a tissue test on this immediately.
Yes, Doctor.
Doctor, I got the results!
This?
Right.
Doctor!
Nicholas is now conscious!
Blood pressure is 100 to 60. Heartbeat 90. No irregularity. The operation was a success!
Don't rush to a conclusion. The patient still hasn't gone back to a normal life.
Right.
I... I'm not a super-human anymore, am I?
I don't know.
But I think I took off the thing that was giving stimulation to the pituitary gland to secrete endorphins to the brain.
I'm no longer a super-human.
It's true, I don't have that passionate feeling any more.
You tell me to live as a regular man?
Nicholas, what did Brane Medicine do to you?
Endorph R...