He sold two copies before he was caught by the police and fined ¥300,000 by the Tokyo court in March 2003. The man who made the edition copied the chapters from his own personal collection of the original serialized issues, and offered the illegal volume for ¥100,000 per copy (roughly $1,000). When he is asked to join the Guardians to stop Pitch Black, he is skeptical. For the longest time, he was not well liked by the spirit realm. Printed with a professional-seeming cover, it was made to match the original 25-volume Shōnen Champion edition. Mute Jack Frost (Rise of the Guardians) Blizzard of 68 (Rise of the Guardians) Mother Nature Seraphina Pitchiner Being an Asshole.

In one particular case the sealed and semi-sealed chapters, as well as three other excluded chapters, were reprinted illegally by a Japanese Tezuka fan in a pirated volume known as “Black Jack 26”. Obviously, despite Tezuka’s wishes, these sealed and semi-sealed chapters are in high demand for anyone wanting to have a “complete” Black Jack (1973-83) collection. Three of these chapters are considered “sealed”, and the other two considered “semi-sealed”. Although most of the excluded chapters have eventually made it back into print in at least one Japanese edition, there are five chapters that have almost never been reprinted since they originally appeared in Weekly Shonen Champion.