Manga like Hataraku Saibou

Dr. STONE

Also known as Dr. STONE.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Sci-Fi

One fateful day, all of humanity was petrified by a blinding flash of light. After several millennia, high schooler Taiju awakens and finds himself lost in a world of statues. However, he’s not alone! His science-loving friend Senku’s been up and running for a few months and he's got a grand plan in mind—to kickstart civilization with the power of science!



Note: Shueisha published its 27th volume on April 4, 2024. This volume contains the one-shot Dr. STONE: TERRAFORMING and the mini-series Dr. STONE 4D SCIENCE.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Survival , Ensemble Cast , Educational , Male Protagonist , Lost Civilization , Shounen , Travel , War , Philosophy , Environmental , Time Skip , Kingdom Management , Space , Primarily Male Cast , Tragedy , Espionage , Ships , Food , Asexual , Adoption , Bisexual , Time Manipulation , Guns , Wilderness

Tenchi Souzou Design-bu

Also known as Heaven's Design Team.

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

In Heaven’s Animal Design Department, designers create a variety of new animals daily while contending with the unreasonable requests of their client: God. Funny, interesting, and full of useful information, this series answers questions such as, “Why can’t unicorns exist?”, “What makes an animal taste delicious?”, “What’s the most powerful creature in the ocean?”, and, “Bird versus snake: who would win?” You won’t believe it’s a manga series when you read up on the featured animals in the included encyclopedia entries. Heaven’s Design Team will make your next trip to the zoo or aquarium 100 times more fun!



Tags: Animals , Educational , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Angels , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Gods , Work , Transgender , Dinosaurs , Satire , Drawing

Manga de Wakaru Menekigaku

Status: Finished
Genres: Slice of Life

Our bodies are equipped with "immunity," a mechanism that protects us from infection and disease. This book covers the basic mechanism of immune response, as well as infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, allergies, and transplantation medicine, which is of current interest. The book introduces the difficult-to-understand mechanisms of immunity in an easy-to-understand manner using cartoons and text explanations, making it a worthwhile introductory text.



Tags: Medicine , Educational

Saijou no Meii

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A young boy named Mikoto Saijou was saved as a child by a skilled surgeon. After recuperating, the boy vows to dedicate his life to becoming the world's greatest pediatrician.

Tags: Shounen , Work , Medicine , Male Protagonist

Manga de Wakaru Kiso Seirigaku

Also known as The Manga Guide to Physiology.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Student nurse Kumiko has just flunked her physiology exam and has one last shot at passing her makeup test. Lucky for her, newbie health science professor Kaisei needs a guinea pig for his physiology lectures.

Join Kumiko in The Manga Guide to Physiology as she examines the inner workings of the body while training hard for the campus marathon. You’ll learn all about:

How the digestive system and the Citric Acid Cycle break food down into nutrients and energy
How the body regulates temperature and vital fluids
The body’s powerful cell defense system, led by helper T cells and enforced by macrophages
The architecture of the central nervous system
The kidneys’ many talents: blood filtration, homeostasis, and energy production
You’ll also gain insight into medical procedures like electrocardiograms, blood pressure tests, spirograms, and more.

Whether you’re cramming for a test like Kumiko or just want a refresher, The Manga Guide to Physiology is your fun, cartoon guide to the human body.



Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , College , Educational , Medicine , Female Protagonist , Teacher , School

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

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 , Drugs , Philosophy , War

Dinosan

Also known as Dinosaur Sanctuary.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sci-Fi

Dinosaurs are alive! In 1946, a remote island was discovered where dinosaurs never went extinct. Through breeding and genetic manipulation, dinosaur populations increased and dino-mania reached a fever pitch worldwide…until a certain terrible incident occurred. Afterward, dinosaur reserves like Enoshima Dinoland fell on hard times. Enter Suma Suzume, a kindhearted rookie dino-keeper! Can she be the one to save Dinoland from extinction?



Tags: Dinosaurs , Animals , Educational , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Female Protagonist , Seinen

Shiroi Kyotou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

A remake of the original Shiroi Kyotou novel, now set in Osaka.

Tags: Seinen

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 , Philosophy , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Educational , Rehabilitation , Work , Disability , Episodic , Nudity , Heterosexual , Suicide