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Say Hello to Black Jack (Japanese: ブラックジャックによろしく, Hepburn: Burakku Jakku ni Yoroshiku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shūhō Satō. It was serialized in Kodansha's Morning magazine from 2002 to 2005, with its individual chapters being collected into thirteen volumes.
Shūhō Satō (佐藤 秀峰, Satō Shūhō, born December 8, 1973 in Ikeda, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack. [1]
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
Black Jack's real name is Kurō Hazama (間 黒男, Hazama Kurō).In chapter 68, "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" (published April 14, 1975), Black Jack explains the meaning behind both of his names: "Kurō" is written with the Japanese characters for "black" and "man;" as "Jack" is a common name for a man, he translates his name as "Black Jack."
Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.
In Japanese culture, social hierarchy plays a significant role in the way someone speaks to the various people they interact with on a day-to-day basis. [5] Choice on level of speech, politeness, body language and appropriate content is assessed on a situational basis, [6] and intentional misuse of these social cues can be offensive to the listener in conversation.
Say You to Yo Asobi (声優と夜あそび, Seiyū to Yo Asobi, lit. "A Night Out with Voice Actors") is a Japanese Internet variety show broadcasting weeknights on AbemaTV 's Anime Live Channel. The show features voice actors , who have appeared in various anime and video game series, participating in acting scenarios, quizzes, and talk segments.
Japanese uses honorific constructions to show or emphasize social rank, social intimacy or similarity in rank. The choice of pronoun used, for example, will express the social relationship between the person speaking and the person being referred to, and Japanese often avoids pronouns entirely in favor of more explicit titles or kinship terms. [2]