Manga like 19-banme no Karte: Tokushige Akira no Monshin

Unmet: Aru Nougekai no Nikki

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Tags: Medicine , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast

Masuikai Hana

Also known as Anesthesiologist Hana.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Slice of Life

Of the major causes causing the collapse of modern medical care, the lack of anesthesiologists is most severe. At times serious and at times comical, this story of university hospital anesthesiologist Hanaoka Hanako realistically depicts her every day work and life. While she faces the struggles of hard work, low pay, and sexual harassment, Hanako is ready every day to administer anesthesia.



Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Anachronism , Primarily Adult Cast , Female Protagonist , Work

Iryuu: Team Medical Dragon

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Dr. Katou is an ambitious woman who seeks to revolutionize the corrupt and inefficient Japanese medical system from within by becoming a professor in a teaching hospital. She enlists a maverick surgeon, Dr. Asada Ryuutarou, to help her with research that would catapult her to a professorship should they succeed and publish. However, Asada's refusal to conform to the system soon threatens to destroy not only her plans but her entire career. Katou is prepared to do anything, including going along with the system, in order to achieve her end goal, but she begins to question whether she has gone too far as Asada's actions bring many of the system's shortcomings to light.



Tags: Medicine , Politics , Work , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Family Life

Black Jack ni Yoroshiku

Also known as Give My Regards to Black Jack.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

"What is a doctor?"- a young intern faces the dark side of the medical world.
The reality awaiting intern Eijirou Saito at the ultra-prestigious Eiroku University hospital turns out to be brutally long hours of work for a paltry salary of less than $500 a month. 3 months after his graduation from the university, his patients-first idealism crashes head-on into a medical system that's a veritable tangle of contradictions and competing interests.



Note: Won Excellence Prize for Manga in Japan Media Arts Festival (2002) and Grand Award in Japan Cartoonist Association Award (2004).

Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Educational , Rehabilitation , Work , Disability , Episodic , Suicide , Heterosexual , Nudity

Black Jack

Also known as Black Jack.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Among adult readers in Japan Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement, and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story.



Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977.

Tags: Episodic , Male Protagonist , Medicine , Work , Ghost , Disability , Tragedy , Suicide , Shounen , Meta , Philosophy , War , Drugs