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The TV series
[Ray](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6163) is
about a woman with "X-Ray vision" who was saved by a doctor when she was
young. In the first episode of the anime, this doctor is made out to look like
Black Jack:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hxGos.jpg)

Although you never get a look at his face but you can see that there is some
stitches on the doctor's face and his hair is black and white.

Is this cameo just a bit of "fan service"/homage to the old Black Jack series
or is this more like a same-universe side-story or spin-off of Black Jack? It
doesn't seem like the staff of this show has worked on any of the Black Jack
manga or anime.


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Is "Ray" a sidestory of "Black Jack"?


It looks like a homage. [From
Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitomi_Akihito), it seems the
mangaka of Ray has worked on Tezuka's Black Jack.


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[MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/anime/919/Ray_The_Animation) claims that
Ray is a side-story of Black Jack, while
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_the_animation) takes the more
conservative approach of just saying that they're related. However, it's not
clear whether Ray is canon material in the Black Jack universe (and if so, in
what sense). In any case, Ray mangaka Yoshitomi Akihito is on good terms with
the current license-holders of Black Jack, and has produced [his own
version](http://myanimelist.net/manga/23711/Black_Jack%3a_BJ_x_bj) based on
the original but with his own artwork.

> Because of copyright reasons, Black Jack was only alluded to as BJ and never
> seen fully in the original manga, but because the anime was produced by
> Osamu Tezuka's own studio he is able to appear fully in the anime (though
> still somewhat obscured) and be referred to by his original name.
> Interestingly, in Black Jack 21, the sequel to the Black Jack anime, Black
> Jack was referred to as "BJ" by the assassins hell bent on killing him.

As far as I can tell, there's no official word on what the relation between
the two are, so it's sort of a matter of opinion whether it's a sidestory or
just a homage. My opinion is that, by animating Ray, it was more-or-less
retconned into the Black Jack universe, or at least some alternate universe,
so I think it can be elevated to the level of a sidestory. However, that was a
decision made by whoever the current rights-holders are for Black Jack, and
while it's valid in a legal sense some might argue that it shouldn't be
considered a side-story but a homage. Tezuka manga purists could very-well
object and describe it differently, as everything related to Ray (manga
beginning in 2004) happened well after Tezuka's death in 1989.


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She literally calls him black Jack what more proof do you need I mean
seriously there is no room for debate in this


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