Manga like Dr. Kumahige

Super Doctor K

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama

Doctor K is a doctor with exceptional skill. Graduated from a top-tier, high profile medical college, instead of working in a hospital or running his own clinic, he prefers to live his life wandering around to treat people in needs of help.

Being observant, this make K diagnosis the patient symptom quickly. However, his outstanding skill that always leave the other doctor in awe is his surgery skill-the way he uses his knife is extremely quick and precise. His patient comes from all walk of live, from an ordinary young kids who is a nobody that don't know who K is to a high profile people who have heard about his skill and needs him for his medical skills.

Note: Chapter count includes 2 extras.

Tags: Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Medicine , Episodic , Shounen , Gore , Educational

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 , Drugs , War

Dr. Koto Shinryoujo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

After making a serious mistake in his work in Tokyo, talented surgeon Goto Kensuke is invited to take charge of the only clinic on the small island of Yonaguni, Okinawa. It is difficult to get competent doctors to serve on this remote island, and the islanders are now used to traveling for hours via boat for proper medical care. Despite seeming weak and unreliable (he gets very seasick, and does not have a driving license), he wins over the skeptical islanders with his skill and dedication. Some children of the island make a flag for his clinic, but get his name wrong. Thereafter he is known by all as Koto.

Tags: Medicine , Rural , Male Protagonist , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Work

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

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

Dr. Quench

Also known as Dr.Quench.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

Despite having a foul mouth, with his great skills, any appearance can be transformed as desired by the genius cosmetic surgeon Kyuichiro Gondo. He saves the hearts of numerous modern individuals trapped by their own beauty or ugliness. He is going to revolutionize the hidden beauty powerhouse in Japan!



Tags: Medicine , Seinen

Lucifer no Migite

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Three years ago, Katsumi Yu headed to Africa for a volunteer project as a doctor. However, soon after, a civil war erupted and he was captured by a guerilla group who was desperate for a doctor to treat the injured. He kept doing what he came to do, help people in need, and he does this for several years. But with the regime change in the country, the guerilla group was hunted down and Yu was forced into a situation of kill or be killed. He quits being a doctor soon thereafter and gets a tattoo of Lucifer on his right arm as a reminder of his past crimes.

Although Yu returns to Japan, he spends his days drinking. After a night of drunken brawls, he wakes up in a clinic run by Dr. Minatono. This shady looking clinic takes in all patients, even those without insurance and those who can’t pay at all, but still maintains state of the art equipment. It turns out Dr. Minatono deals with clients, such as the mob, who are unable to go to regular hospitals due to legal reasons and in exchange receives exorbitant amounts of money to help keep the clinic up and running. At first, Yu rejects the job offer from Dr. Minatono, but situations keep coming up that keep him busy in the surgery room.

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

Wild Life

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Romance

Tesshō is a high school juvenile delinquent. He has a special ability of perfect pitch. He saves a wild dog with the help of Kashu, a veterinarian. He later names the wild dog inu (Japanese for "dog"). He then finds his purpose in life: to become a veterinarian.

Tags: Medicine , Superhero , Shounen , Work , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Animals , Veterinarian , Heterosexual , Delinquents , LGBTQ+ Themes

Godhand Teru

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Drama

Teru Mahigashi is a surgeon just out of medical school. Saving lives and helping people is the point of his chosen profession, and he seems pretty good at it, when he's not screwing up. People wonder why he has decided to become a doctor, when he is so clumsy, until his past starts reveal, and his ability to save lives becomes apparent with each operation... Gradually, Teru and all of his colleagues will make a huge change in the medical world.

Tags: Medicine , Shounen , Work

Unsung Cinderella: Byouin Yakusaishi Aoi Midori

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Aoi Midori, 26, works as a 2nd-year pharmacist at a general hospital. Even if she can't be relied on like a doctor and she can't be as close as a nurse, she runs around the hospital in order to protect the patient's "normal day-to-day"!

Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Work , Female Protagonist