{{Short description|2018 Japanese drama}} '''''Black Forceps''''' (Japanese: {{Lang|ja|ブラックペアン}}), also known as ''"Black Pean"'' or ''"Black Paean"'', is a Japanese drama based on the book "Black Pean 1988" by author {{Ill|Takeru Kaidō|ja|海堂尊}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Black Pean 1988 (2007) |url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/4062142546 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611230949/https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4062142546 |archive-date=11 June 2024 |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=Amazon}}</ref> It aired in April 2018 on TBS Television (Japan).
A sequel, based on the books "Blaze Mes 1990"<ref>{{Cite web |title=ブレイズメス1990 |url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4062163136 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611234845/https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4062163136 |archive-date=11 June 2024 |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=Amazon |language=Japanese}}</ref> and "Cerisier Center 1991"<ref>{{Cite web |title=スリジエセンター1991 |url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4062179539 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611235241/https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4062179539 |archive-date=11 June 2024 |access-date=11 June 2024 |website=Amazon |language=Japanese}}</ref> by the same author,<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 May 2024 |title=シーズン1からの続投キャストを発表！さらに佐伯のライバル役として段田安則の出演決定！日曜劇場 『ブラックペアン シーズン2』 |url=https://topics.tbs.co.jp/article/detail/?id=20383 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611231355/https://topics.tbs.co.jp/article/detail/?id=20383 |archive-date=11 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=TBS Topics |language=Japanese}}</ref> is scheduled to air in July 2024.
== Synopsis == === Season 1 === Tojo University Hospital is known for having high success in its Surgery Department. Its Director, Professor and heart surgeon Seigō Saeki has implemented the "Saeki Procedure",<ref name="Oricon BP1 20180221">{{Cite web |date=21 February 2018 |title=葵わかな、朝ドラ後は『日曜劇場』で看護師役 二宮、竹内涼真らと共演 |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2106050/full/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612003031/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2106050/full/ |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=Oricon |language=Japanese}}</ref> which is a heart surgery performed without stopping the heart. He has been considered as a candidate for President of the Japanese Society of Cardiac Surgery, as is his rival, Keisuke Nishizaki, Director of Surgery of Teika University.<ref name="市川猿之助、けが復帰後初のドラマ出演 外科教授役に経験活かす">{{Cite web |date=11 March 2018 |title=市川猿之助、けが復帰後初のドラマ出演 外科教授役に経験活かす |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2107256/full/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612005552/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2107256/full/ |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=Oricon |language=Japanese}}</ref> Nishisaki considers he is better for the position and schemes to bring down Tojo's fame to achieve it. For that, he sends surgeon Gonta Takashina, fervent user of the latest devices, to Tojo.<ref name="市川猿之助、けが復帰後初のドラマ出演 外科教授役に経験活かす"/>
In Tojo, Takashina will face Seishirō Tokai, a genius surgeon whose (non-mechanical) surgical technique has a 100% of success, but whose attitude alienates everyone around him.
=== Season 2 === Six years have passed since the last encounter with Tokai. Tojo's medical crew has continued to grow and improve, including Tokai's "rival", Takashina, promoter of the "Snipe" medical device, formerly of Teika, now a part of Tojo.
Saeki, creator of the world-famous Saeki surgery technique, is now Tojo University Hospital's director. He aims for the position of president of the Japanese Medical Association, pinnacle of research medicine in Japan, and plans to open a new hospital that specializes in cardiac surgery. He has heard about Yukihiko Amagi, a devilish, world-renowned genius surgeon that works in the Heart Center in Australia's Gold Coast, and wants him for his team.
Sera, former resident and an assistant to Tokai, now a full-fledged cardiac surgeon, is in charge of getting to Amagi, who is, eerily, a Tokai doppleganger.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Black Pean About |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/about/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629013149/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/about/ |archive-date=29 June 2024 |access-date=29 June 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean official site |language=Japanese}}</ref> Sera is to deliver a letter from Saeki to Amagi.<ref name="Oricon Korean cast" />
== Cast == {{small|Additional information}}
=== Tojo University Hospital === * ''Kazunari Ninomiya'' ** as surgeon Seishiro Tokai (season 1). Known as a surgery genius for his perfect score, he is a rebel, rarely attends conferences and other administrative events. His attitude often alienates those around him<ref name="Oricon BP1 20180221" /><ref name="TV 20180221">{{Cite web |date=21 February 2018 |title=二宮和也主演「ブラックペアン」に竹内涼真、葵わかなら豪華キャスト！ |url=https://thetv.jp/news/detail/137976/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613024108/https://thetv.jp/news/detail/137976/ |archive-date=13 June 2024 |access-date=13 June 2024 |website=The Television |language=Japanese}}</ref> Re-appears in (season 2) in flashbacks, and in episode 8 he makes a come back.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 September 2024 |title=『ブラックペアン2』二宮和也の一人二役の意味がここに "心臓で繋がっていた"渡海と天城 |url=https://realsound.jp/movie/2024/09/post-1767186_2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901213016/https://realsound.jp/movie/2024/09/post-1767186_2.html |archive-date=1 September 2024 |access-date=1 September 2024 |website=Real Sound |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1 September 2024 |title=『ブラックペアン2』天城＆渡海の"関係性"にネット「マジ!?」「考察通り」 再登場ラストに歓喜の声（第8話）【ネタバレあり】 |url=https://www.sankei.com/article/20240901-PWHC77TG6RLSJA2ELXRJINLL64/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901215852/https://www.sankei.com/article/20240901-PWHC77TG6RLSJA2ELXRJINLL64/ |archive-date=1 September 2024 |access-date=1 September 2024 |website=Sankei Shimbun |language=Japanese}}</ref> ** as surgeon Yukihiko Amagi (season 2), a world leader in cardiac coronary artery bypass grafting; has worked for many years at the Heart Center on Australia's Gold Coast. His other passion is gambling<ref name="Oricon BP2 cast">{{Cite web |date=12 May 2024 |title=二宮和也『ブラックペアン2』異例の"役柄変更" 渡海先生→新キャラ・天城雪彦に「新鮮」 |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2326590/full/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240615052844/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2326590/full/ |archive-date=15 June 2024 |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=Oricon |language=Japanese}}</ref> * ''Wakana Aoi'' as operating room nurse Miwa Hanabusa (season 1).<ref name="Oricon BP1 20180221" /><ref name="TV 20180221" /> Continues in season 2 as a more experienced, caring nurse.<ref name="Oricon BP2 cast" /> * ''Ryoma Takeuchi'' as 1st. year resident Masashi Sera (season 1).<ref name="Oricon BP1 20180221" /><ref name="TV 20180221" /> Continues in season 2 as a more experienced and reliable doctor<ref name="Oricon BP2 cast" /> * ''Seiyō Uchino'' as Director of the Surgery Department, Professor and cardiac surgeon Seigō Saeki (season 1). Known for the "Saeki Procedure".<ref name="TBS BP1 cast">{{Cite web |title=Black Pean cast |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/cast/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526160038/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/cast/ |archive-date=26 May 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean official site |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref name="TV 20180221" /> He has become Director of the hospital in season 2 <ref name="Oricon BP2 cast" /> * ''Kotaro Koizumi'' returns in season 2 as doctor Takashina Gonta (originally from Teika), as a Tojo ally.<ref name="Oricon BP2 cast" /> * ''Taro Shigaki'' as Tojo University Director Nobuaki Moriya (season 1), his affiliation is with Teika, not Tojo<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Satoshi Hashimoto'' as Surgery Department associate professor Seiichirō Kurosaki (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Misuzu Kanno|ja|神野三鈴}}'' as Head nurse Makoto Fujiwara (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Shuri (actress)|lt=Shuri|ja|趣里}}'' as surgical nurse Mari Nekota (season 1), with a skill in preparing medical instruments,<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> continues in season 2<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 June 2024 |title=趣里が"猫田"役で『ブラックペアン シーズン2』に出演決定「キャラクターの成長をしっかり演じていきたい」 |url=https://www.tvlife.jp/drama/711029 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240625235615/https://www.tvlife.jp/drama/711029 |archive-date=25 June 2024 |access-date=25 June 2024 |website=TV Life |language=Japanese}}</ref> * ''{{ill|Haruka Uchimura|ja|内村遥}}'' as surgeon Yūji Kakitani (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Hiroki Konno'' as surgeon Fuminori Sekikawa (season 1), second surgery using a snipe<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Kanro Morita|ja|森田甘路}}'' as resident doctor Kouhei Taguchi (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Yusuke Yamada|ja|山田悠介 (俳優)}}'' as resident doctor Kōichi Hayami (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Sae Okazaki'' as resident doctor Tōko Shimazu (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Naruki Matsukawa'' as resident doctor Tatsuya Kitajima (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Kaho Mizutani|ja|水谷果穂}}'' as nurse Ayumi Miyamoto (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Anna Hara|ja|原アンナ}}'' as nurse Mio Arai (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Kōki Okada|ja|岡田浩暉}}'' as Sera's supervisor Tadashi Yokoyama (season 1). He leaves the hospital after a botched surgery that Tokai has to fix<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" />
=== Teika University Hospital === * ''Kotaro Koizumi'' as surgeon and lecturer Takashina Gonta (season 1), who is on loan in Tojo. Promoter of new surgical technology<ref name="Oricon BP1 20180221" /><ref name="TV 20180221" /> * ''Ichikawa Ennosuke IV'' as Professor of Surgery Keisuke Nishizaki (season 1). Mainly engaged in research<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" />
=== Others === * ''{{ill|Ayako Kato|ja|加藤綾子}}'' as Clinical trial coordinator Kaori Kinoshita (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Kōji Katō'' as Hideto Ikenaga (season 1), editor-in-chief of the medical journal Japan Journal of Surgery<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Itta Maru|ja|丸一太}}'' as surgeon Kenichi Shinohara (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Jouji Shibue'' as surgeon Masato Fukumoto (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Kim Moo-joon|ko|김무준}}'' as resident Park Min-jae (season 2), a resident in a Korean hospital that goes to Australia in search for Amagi.<ref name="Sponichi Korean cast">{{Cite web |date=2 July 2024 |title=チェ・ジウ8年ぶり日本の公の場 二宮和也、竹内涼真ら日本の俳優陣デレデレ「かわいい」「存在感ある」 |url=https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2024/07/02/kiji/20240702s00041000182000c.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240703012814/https://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainment/news/2024/07/02/kiji/20240702s00041000182000c.html |archive-date=3 July 2024 |access-date=3 July 2024 |website=Sponichi |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref name="Oricon Korean cast">{{Cite web |date=2 July 2024 |title=『ブラックペアン2』キム・ムジュン、日本ドラマに初出演 二宮和也&竹内涼真を早くも慕う |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2331299/full/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240703020546/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2331299/full/ |archive-date=3 July 2024 |access-date=3 July 2024 |website=Oricon |language=Japanese}}</ref> * ''Choi Ji-woo'' as Korean doctor, hospital and restaurant owner Park Seo-hyun (season 2). She is resident Park Min-jae's mother. She goes with him to Australia to look for Amagi.<ref name="Sponichi Korean cast" />
=== Tokai family === * ''Mitsuko Baisho'' as Tokai's mother, Harue Tokai (season 1)<ref name="Oricon BP1 20180221" /><ref name="TV 20180221" /> * ''{{ill|Kazunaga Tsuji|ja|辻萬長}}'' as Tokai's deceased father, surgeon Ichiro Tokai (season 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" />
=== Season 1 guests === * ''Momiji Yamamura'' as Taeko Minagawa, Sera's first patient (ep. 1)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Naoko Sawamatsu'' as Yoshie Koyama, the wife of a patient (ep. 2)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Yōshichi Shimada|ja|島田洋七}}'' as Kaneto Koyama, a patient brought in an emergency (ep. 2)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Shinya Tasaki'' as Hideo Kusunoki, a patient under the care of Tokai and Sera (ep. 3)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Yugo Kochi'' (SixTones) as Hayato Tamura, candidate for snipe surgery, but ends being operated on by Tokai, due to being a complicated and rare case(ep. 3)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Tsukasa Yoda|ja|依田司}}'' as Koji Tamura, Hayato's father (ep. 3)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Kurumi Inagaki|ja|稲垣来泉}}'' as Koharu Shimano, a patient who has been transferred from Teika University Hospital. Takashina was her primary care physician at Teika (eps. 4, 5)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Masami Tanaka'' as Naho Shimano, Koharu's mother (eps. 4, 5)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Takuma Oto|ja|音尾琢真}}'' as Jin Matsuoka, a surgeon at Teika University Hospital who specializes in endoscopic surgery using support robot "Darwin" (ep. 5)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Akira Fukuzawa|ja|福澤朗}}'' as Masayuki Tomizawa, Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (ep. 5)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''Saki Aibu'' as Shoko Yamamoto, Kinoshita's former colleague nurse (ep. 7)<ref name="TBS BP1 cast" /> * ''{{ill|Shinobu Hasegawa|ja|長谷川忍}}'' as Hidefumi Takeda, a doctor at Teika University Hospital (ep. 7)<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 June 2018 |title=『ブラックペアン』で人の成長と堕落描く シソンヌ長谷川「渡海先生の圧に気を失いかけた…」 |url=https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/Techinsight_20180604_511447/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612113317/https://www.excite.co.jp/news/article/Techinsight_20180604_511447/ |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=Excite |language=Japanese}}</ref> * ''Shintarō Hayashi (Hayashin)'' (YouTuber, Laters) as Ryuichi Kobayashi, a patient without an apparent reason to be hospitaized.<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 November 2018 |title=ブラックペアン出演のはやしんはYouTuber？演技の評判は？【レイターズ】 |url=https://bibi-star.jp/posts/4754 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612133748/https://bibi-star.jp/posts/4754 |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=Bibi Star |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=12 June 2018 |title=ブラックペアン8話の患者・小林役は誰？ |url=https://doramabox.com/archives/2681 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612131124/https://doramabox.com/archives/2681 |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=Dorama Box |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |user=laters_hayashin |number=1004287478390386688 |date= June 6, 2018 |title=6月10日21:00〜放送TBS日曜劇場「ブラックペアン」8話に出演させていただくことになりました〜 |language=Japanese |access-date=12 June 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240612133509/https://x.com/laters_hayashin/status/1004287478390386688 |archive-date=12 June 2024 |}}</ref> * ''{{ill|Shōzō Uesugi|ja|上杉祥三}}'' as Kobayashi<ref>{{Cite web |title=上杉祥三（うえすぎしょうぞう） |url=https://thetv.jp/person/0000003771/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612121557/https://thetv.jp/person/0000003771/ |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=The Television |language=Japanese}}</ref> * ''{{ill|Yo Takahashi|ja|高橋洋 (俳優)}}'' as Katsuya Sakaguchi surgeon at Teika (ep. 8)<ref>{{Cite web |title=髙橋洋「ブラックペアン」出演決定！！ 6/20更新 |url=https://www.k-factory.net/information/act/post/11118 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612124015/https://www.k-factory.net/information/act/post/11118 |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=k-factory |language=Japanese}}</ref> * ''{{ill|Akira Yamamoto (actor)|ja|山本亨 (俳優)}}'' as Tatsuji Iinuma, a patient under the care of nurse Hanabusa. He was originally Ichiro Tokai's patient.<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 March 2024 |title=【ブラックぺアン最終回】のネタバレと視聴率！続編が期待できる3つの理由とは？ |url=https://dorama9.com/blackpean-final-episode/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612141057/https://dorama9.com/blackpean-final-episode/ |archive-date=12 June 2024 |access-date=12 June 2024 |website=Dorama9 |language=Japanese}}</ref>
==Story== ===Season 1=== Doctor Seigo Saeki, professor and director of the Cardiac Surgery department at Tojo University Hospital, is known for his method called "Saeki Procedure", in which he operates on the heart of the patient without stopping it. His rival from Teika University, Professor Keisuke Nishizaki, who is seeking the post of president of the Japan Surgical Society, as is Saeki, has gone to Tojo, as have clinical trial coordinator Kaori Kinoshita and editor-in-chief of the medical journal Hideto Ikenaga, to watch Saeki in action, when a sudden emergency arises. Saeki sends a team to another operating room to attend that patient, but when his condition worsens, surgeon Seishiro Tokai, appears and finishes the operation, surprising doctor and lecturer Gonta Takashina.<ref>{{Cite web |title=第1話 2018年4月22日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613070946/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/1.html |archive-date=13 June 2024 |access-date=9 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean official site |language=Japanese}}</ref> Tokai, who's called the "Devil of the operating room", has only one condition to do it: that the operating doctor submit his resignation letter and give him 10 million yen as compensation.
Takashina, who had been sent to Tojo by Nishizaki to promote the use of the "Snipe" medical device, has operated on a couple of patients with it, to prove the benefits of its use, but fails the 2nd surgery due to the patient's pre-existing condition, which was resolved by Tokai, after resident Sera begged him to (and got forced to work "for life" for Tokai), since it was his patient. On another day, Tokai works on patient Koyama to save his life, but he still needs another surgery to replace his mitral valve. Takashina suggests using the Snipe for it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=第2話 2018年4月29日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613071128/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/2.html |archive-date=13 June 2024 |access-date=9 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean Site |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Takashina has not produced the results expected by Nishizaki to get the "impact factor"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vol. 2 "インパクトファクター"とは？ |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721235307/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/2.html |archive-date=21 July 2024 |access-date=21 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref> that will get him elected as president. There are 2 new patients at Tojo, one of which could be an ideal candidate to have a "Snipe" procedure done. As Takashina refuses to do the procedure on the music student, Saeki orders Tokai to do it.<ref>{{Cite web |title=第3話 2018年5月6日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/3.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722034253/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/3.html |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref> Seeing the success that "Snipe" has brought to Tojo, Takashina is conflicted as to who to include as chief researcher on his papers, Saeki, where the procedures had been taking part, or Nishizaki, where the paper was being written, and was at its final stages. In between, Takashina had transferred a patient from Teika to Tojo, and asked Saeki to perform a "Snipe" procedure on him. When Saeki appointed Tokai to do it, he refused, and, angrily, recriminated Saeki for crossing to the other side. Saeki, furious, told Tokai to not intervene in any more surgeries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=第4話 2018年5月13日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/4.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710043230/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/4.html |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Takashina has finally decided who to include in his paper: Nishizaki. This means that he will return to Teika. Tokai had conveyed "certain concerns" to Saeki about patient Koharu Shimano, those concerns related to a "Snipe" procedure, which, because of her condition, couldn't be resolved through open-heart surgery. Takashina suggested using the endoscopic surgery support robot "Darwin".<ref>{{Cite web |title=第5話 2018年5月20日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/5.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710043234/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/5.html |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Tokai's mother is taken in for an emergency surgery. Kurosaki, the attending surgeon, operates on her, but, unknowingly, leaves some of the tumor he was removing, and that is noticed by Tokai in a post-operative examination. He blames Kurosaki for malpractice, and demands compensation from Tojo.<ref name="TBS BP 1.6">{{Cite web |title=第6話 2018年5月27日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/6.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710043231/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/6.html |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref> The election of president of the Japan Surgical Society has shifted battle, from the use of the "Snipe" to the use of "Darwin". A Japanese version, the "Caesar" was introduced in Tojo as a clinical trial, and Saeki puts Takashina in charge of it. Takashina considers who the perfect candidate to try it out on is: Tokai's mother, Harue.<ref name="TBS BP 1.6" />
Tokai is recruited by Teika, and Takashina begins to question Nishisaki's reasons to do it. Saeki also questions Nishizaki's actions, when Tomizawa, from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, promoter of the Darwin / Caesar, and who is an acquaintance of Nishizaki, takes a patient to Tojo to undergo a Darwin procedure.<ref>{{Cite web |title=第7話 2018年6月3日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/7.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710043232/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/7.html |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref> The Darwin / Caesar trials are over, and Nishizaki wants to unveil the perform the unveiling surgery under the leadership of Teika. Seeing no benefit, Saeki proposes Nishizaki to combine teams into one, with Tokai, Takashina and Sera at the helm. Teika staff went to Tojo, but immediately felt overwhelmed with Tokai's presence, as he was in charge of the Darwin surgeries. On the other hand, Saeki's presence around Tojo had declined, and Tokai had urged a reluctant Sera to follow him.<ref>{{Cite web |title=第8話 2018年6月10日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/8.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710043234/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/8.html |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Saeki falls, and his condition reveals an existing disease in the cardiac area. Urgent intervention is required, and only Tokai can do it, but he is away looking for a patient at a neighboring hospital. However, the patient is not there, and Saeki holds that key. Tokai reveals to Sera that his true intention will be resolved after helping Saeki. But Saeki refuses Tokai's surgery, and proposes the use of Caesar, information of which has been taken away to Teika on Nishizaki's orders.<ref>{{Cite web |title=第9話 2018年6月17日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/9.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710043235/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/9.html |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref> Tokai performs the operation as a temporary measure. He asks Saeki to reveal the whereabouts of "Tatsuji Iinuma", the patient he is looking for, as a condition for performing a reoperation to cure him completely. Saeki refuses to answer, and forces himself to travel to Tokyo to a surgical conference. In Tojo, the condition of a "hidden" patient is discovered by Takashina. This patient is Iinuma, the one that Tokai was looking for. Miwa was in charge of him, at the request of Head nurse Fujiwara. He and Saeki are the reason behind Tokai being in Tojo... and the black forceps.<ref>{{Cite web |title=最終回 2018年6月24日 放送 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/10.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710043230/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/story/10.html |archive-date=10 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
===Season 2=== Six years have passed since Tokai left Tojo. Saeki is now Director of the hospital at Tojo, and is planning to open a new one, specialized in cardiac surgery. His next target is to become president of the All Japan Medical Association. Sera is now a full-fledge cardiac surgeon. Sera is to deliver a letter that Saeki gave him, to a doctor called Yukihiko Amagi, who is attending a medical conference in Australia.<ref name="TBS BP2.1">{{Cite web |title=#1 2024.7.7 ONAIR |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/story/ep1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722052732/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/story/ep1.html |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2024) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Sera travels to Australia with Yuji Kakitani, a senior doctor. They find a boy unconscious on a beach on the Gold Coast and Kakitani decides to give him first aid. A mysterious man appears and advises Kakitani, who is confused when the boy does not regain consciousness. On his advice, the boy survives. After that, they go to the conference, but Amagi is nowhere in sight. Frustrated, they meet Park Seo-hyun and her son Min-jae, who have also gone to Australia searching for Amagi. Min-jae joins the pair as they go in search of Amagi, after they are informed that he could be at the racetrack. Sera does a double-take as he sees the man standing in front of him. It is the same man he had passed earlier. Is it Tokai? That was Amagi, a world-class genius surgeon, called a diabulous (devil) in the medical world, who played with people and money.<ref name="TBS BP2.1" />
After learning the plans that Saeki has for him, Amagi decides to go to Japan> But it isn't without controversy. His plans for the new hospital draw resentment from those around him, And to add to it, he boasts that his introduction in the Japanese medical world will be performing a public surgery. Amagi is the only one in the world with a way to handle successfully direct anastomosis, an advanced form of coronary artery bypass grafting, and he says that he will show it off. Meanwhile, Sera is in charge of patient Shigeno, a pastry shop owner. He is in need of a surgery, but doesn't have the funds to cover it. His daughter Asami tries to gather the money by selling the recipe and rights to an apple pie that Shigeno developed. But when he and his granddaughter learn about it, they vehemently oppose. Unfortunately, Shigeno has no choice but to receive Amagi's direct anastomosis, which is very expensive. So Amagi and Yui make a bet.<ref name="TBS BP2.2">{{Cite web |title=#2 2024.7.14 ONAIR |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/story/ep2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722052913/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/story/ep2.html |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2024) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Takashina has been working at Tojo. He has been secretly aiming for the top position of the new hospital, as the shadow of Sugai, who is competing with Saeki for the position of president of the All Japan Medical Association, is creeping up on him.<ref name="TBS BP2.2" />
Amagi arbitrarily has named the new hospital being planned in Sakuranomiya City as the "Cerisier Heart Center". However, he is scolded by Saeki saying he should explain the situation to local people first, and tells him that he will hold a public surgery to announce his appointment as director of the center, as well as its name.<ref name="TBS BP2.3">{{Cite web |title=#3 2024.7.21 ONAIR |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/story/ep3.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715193137/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/story/ep3.html |archive-date=15 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2024) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Toshiko, A welfare recipient has become a patient at Tojo. New resident Park is in charge of her. Sera, Park's supervisor, sees Toshiko's results and deems Amagi the perfect person to operate on her, but Amagi refuses. Amagi instead tries to persuade Mizuno, a director of the business association coordinating investments for the new hospital, to undergo direct anastomosis surgery. However, it turns out that Mizuno is an intermediary from Sugai, a professor at Ishin University, who is in conflict with Saeki. Amagi asks Shingyoji, the president of the Sakuranomiya City Medical Association, to introduce him to patients for public surgery.<ref name="TBS BP2.3" />
Kazuko Tomiya, a famous lawyer for medical litigation, looking for Amagi, who is being sought out for fraud. Saeki stops the situation by settling with the people who have come with her, canceling Amagi's upcoming surgery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=#4 2024.7.28 ONAIR |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722052833/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/ |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2024) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Sera sees Miwa arguing with Tomiya, and intervenes. It turns out that she is Miwa's mother. And she suffered a collapse while at the hospital. She needs urgent medical intervention. And Sera is the one who attends her. But there is a complication. There is too much of a calcification, and the only one who can get through is Amagi, but Tomiya refuses, opting for an AI procedure developed at Ishin. Sera and Miwa try to convince her otherwise.
== Music == "Kono Michi o", theme song for the drama, was written by Kazumasa Oda. The song was included in a single, released on May 2.<ref>{{Cite web |title=主題歌情報 主題歌は小田和正「この道を」に決定！！ |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/news/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320210145/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/news/ |archive-date=20 March 2024 |access-date=13 June 2024 |website=13 June 2024 |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=27 March 2018 |title=二宮和也主演『ブラックペアン』小田和正「この道を」が主題歌に決定 |url=https://plus.tver.jp/news/53090/detail/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613033014/https://plus.tver.jp/news/53090/detail/ |archive-date=13 June 2024 |access-date=13 June 2024 |website=TVer Plus |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Soundtrack for the series was written by composer {{ill|Hideakira Kimura|ja|木村秀彬}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TBS系 日曜劇場「ブラックペアン」オリジナル・サウンドトラック |url=https://www.neowing.co.jp/product/UZCL-2136 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613062147/https://www.neowing.co.jp/product/UZCL-2136 |archive-date=13 June 2024 |access-date=13 June 2024 |website=Neowing |language=Japanese}}</ref>
Oda returns with "Sono saki ni aru mono", theme song for season 2 (2024), that has chorus by actress Takako Matsu and Triceratops member Shō Wada.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 June 2024 |title=主題歌が決定！！ |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/news/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240629023715/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/news/ |archive-date=29 June 2024 |access-date=29 June 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean official site |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=17 June 2024 |title=小田和正、新曲「その先にあるもの」がTBS系日曜劇場『ブラックペアン シーズン2』主題歌に |url=https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000248216 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629025243/https://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000248216 |archive-date=29 June 2024 |access-date=29 June 2024 |website=Barks |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=17 June 2024 |title=新曲「その先にあるもの」TBS系 日曜劇場「ブラックペアン シーズン２」主題歌に決定！ |url=https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/oda/info/564264 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240629030954/https://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/oda/info/564264 |archive-date=29 June 2024 |access-date=29 June 2024 |website=Kazumasa Oda Sony Music site |language=Japanese}}</ref>
== Main medical instruments shown in the drama == * Dr. Saeki uses the heart-lung machine (a machine that temporarily takes over the function of the heart and lungs during open-heart surgery by maintaining the circulation of blood and oxygen throughout the body) to work on the heart in his "Saeki Procedure", which can produce very little damage in the heart muscle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vol. 4 1話の医学的解説① |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/4.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722023017/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/4.html |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref> In ep. 2, Dr. Takashina, who proudly mentions the use of the "Snipe" device without the need to use the heart-lung machine, had to use it, as an emergency arose after trying to retrieve a stent from the heart of the patient they were operating on.<ref name="TBS BP Doctor's Opinion ep2">{{Cite web |title=Vol. 10 2話医学的解説② |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/10.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721235219/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/10.html |archive-date=21 July 2024 |access-date=21 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref> * "Snipe" is a type of device used, including after cardiac catheterization, to install, primarily, a stent in a mitral valve replacement procedure. Takashina had studied the artifact overseas and took it to Japan to introduce its use as an alternative to regular surgery. Though it does not exist in reality, there are several manufacturers getting up-to-date with technology that can bring them to light. The model in the series is a pistol-type apparatus, probably molded from some types of catheter syringes, used to insert the catheter into the body in angiography and other catheterization procedures.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vol.8 "スナイプ"って？ |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/8.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240721235403/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/8.html |archive-date=21 July 2024 |access-date=21 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PediaVascular Angiography Catheters |url=https://www.bvmmedical.com/products/pediavascular-angiography-catheters/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722021732/https://www.bvmmedical.com/products/pediavascular-angiography-catheters/ |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=bvm Medical}}</ref> According to Dr. Shunsuke Yamagishi, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, IMUS Tokyo Katsushika General Hospital, and technical advisor for the series, the use of the "Snipe" as said by Takashina ("anyone can use it") was proven wrong, since not even himself could perform the operation correctly. Knowing all the technical data for the apparatus is not enough if the doctor has not taken the time to examine all possible consequences.<ref name="TBS BP Doctor's Opinion ep2" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Vol. 6 1話の医学的解説③ |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/6.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722023327/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/6.html |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref> * Use of the Da Vinci robot (named in the drama as Darwin) was shown in episode 5. Newhart Watanabe International Hospital, a pioneer in da Vinci surgery for the heart in Japan, was used as background for the drama, with Dr. Gou Watanabe providing technical support.<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 May 2018 |title=『ブラックペアン』ドラマ史上初、手術支援ロボ・ダビンチが登場 |url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2111207/full/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613041704/https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2111207/full/ |archive-date=13 June 2024 |access-date=13 June 2024 |website=Oricon |language=Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=第５話から登場する手術支援ロボット・ダーウィン(※)。最先端の"ロボット手術"について、監修先生のお話を基に紐解いていきます。 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/robot/1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613045059/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/robot/1.html |archive-date=13 June 2024 |access-date=13 June 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean official site |language=Japanese}}</ref> * "Black Pean", the instrument that gives the name to the drama, is a type of forceps called a hemostat. It is used to clamp exposed blood vessels shut during an operation. Saeki uses it as a symbol of his responsibility, and as an instrument during Iinuma's operation in the last episode.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vol. 31 最終話医学的解説 |url=https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/31.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722023139/https://www.tbs.co.jp/blackpean_tbs/2018/information/31.html |archive-date=22 July 2024 |access-date=22 July 2024 |website=TBS Black Pean (2018) |language=Japanese}}</ref>
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