Renka Hazama

Reika (Renka) Hazama is the current wife of Kagemitsu Hazama and the mother of Shoren and Benitokage Hazama (Shoren is the only daugther in the manga). Acts like the stepmother of Black Jack. Her role is diferent in the manga in the anime Black Jack 21. She is the women that Kagemitsu fled to Macau, leaving Mio Hazama, his former wife and his son, Kuroo Hazama (Later know as Black Jack) in their own after the tragic bombing.

She doesn´t look sensitive or remorseful about the accomplish of the cruel abandonment of his prior family in their disgraceful situation, and his evil beign slowly drives her to her sad fate to gets leaved alone in the world.

Manga´s Biography

 * She met Kagemitsu in Macao when he came for work. They started living together and he never went back to Japan. In Volume 10 Chapter 2: "The Mask Chosen", she had Hansen's disease and Black Jack surgically repaired her face. Out of revenge for Kagamitsu for not loving Mio, Black Jack gave her the face of his ex-wife, Mio..Her second appearance was in Volume 10 Chapter 8: "Flesh and Blood". She called Black Jack to help Kagemitsu wake up from a coma but, instead, he dies. The reader later finds out that she sent Black Jack to come to Macao to then later kidnap him. She wanted Shoren to inherit Kagemitsu's legacy but Black Jack was in the way. Shoren was disgusted to learn that Reika would do such a shameful and forgivable, especially when she prevented Black Jack seeing his father's passing/ In the end, Shoren disowns Reika and is killed by the same assassins Reika had hired and her stepson has severed all ties with her, leaving her alone in the world.