{"id":4991,"date":"2015-08-24T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=4991"},"modified":"2017-04-13T01:27:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T01:27:40","slug":"falling-object-black-jack-manga","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=4991","title":{"rendered":"Black Jack 209: Falling Object (Manga)"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_569\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blackjack-manga-falling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-569\" src=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blackjack-manga-falling-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Black Jack 209, &quot;Falling Object&quot;\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blackjack-manga-falling-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/blackjack-manga-falling.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Black Jack<\/em> 209, &#8220;Falling Object&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/osamu-tezuka-manga\/manga-a-h\/black-jack-manga\/\"><em>Black Jack<\/em> (1973-83)<\/a>, Chapter 209\u00a0\u2018Falling Object\u2019 (\u843d\u4e0b\u7269), was originally published on April\u00a0\u00a03, 1978 in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/about-tezuka\/manga-publications\/shonen-champion\/\">Weekly Shonen Champion<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0Please note: this chapter is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/?page_id=573\">sealed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>What it\u2019s about<\/h2>\n<p>After Doctor Kuma\u2019s death, Black Jack performs surgery on the infected villagers, but fails to save all seventeen of them. \u00a0Rumba, Kuma\u2019s daughter, gives Black Jack her ancestoral sword that kills demons, so that he will destroy the malady. \u00a0Even though the sword is inappropriate for surgery, it is used as she assists Black Jack in the search for a cure. \u00a0After some detective work, Black Jack sends samples of local yams to the University of Cairo for a detailed analysis. \u00a0When the results come back, and Black Jack is surprised to find that some of the yams have been subject to radiation contamination.<\/p>\n<p>Black Jack and Rumba investigate the yam fields, and discover the remains of a nuclear reactor in a satellite that had crash-landed. A secret agent from an unknown government shows up and tries to kill Black Jack and Rumba to cover up the secret, but Rumba sacrifices her life and kills the agent with her ancestral sword.<\/p>\n<h2>Why it\u2019s sealed<\/h2>\n<p>Tezuka reportedly added this sequel to Chapter 208, \u201cBlack Jack Syndrome\u201d because he thought that the solution to the malady wasn\u2019t \u201cromantic\u201d enough.<\/p>\n<p>Only semi-sealed, &#8220;Falling Object&#8221; was reprinted in a rare special issue published in 2005 by Akita Shoten, <em>Black Jack \u2013 Doctor\u2019s Mission<\/em> (\u30d6\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30fb\u30b8\u30e3\u30c3\u30af\u3000\u533b\u8005\u306e\u4f7f\u547d\u7de8). \u00a0It is included in the Special Limited Edition of Black Jack, Vol.22, \u201cA Doctor\u2019s Duty\u201d, as well as the Black Jack Treasure Book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Jack (1973-83), Chapter 209 \u2018Falling Object\u2019 (\u843d\u4e0b\u7269), was originally published on April  3, 1978 in Weekly Shonen Champion.  Please note: this chapter is sealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":569,"parent":573,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4991","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manga","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6vZWu-1iv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4991\/revisions\/9013"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezuka.strobez.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}