Manga like Black Jack ni Yoroshiku

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 , Shounen , Ghost , Philosophy , Meta , Tragedy

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

Megumi no Daigo

Also known as Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

Fire, smoke, adrenaline, and fear--when everyone is running to escape from a fire, a few courageous people are running to jump right into the thick of it. Firefighters put their own lives on the line to protect others and Daigo Asahina has always dreamed of becoming one. He's fresh out of the training academy and has been newly assigned to Medaka-Ga-Hama fire station. Cocky and overconfident, Daigo responds to a few calls and is quickly humbled and put in his place--he's still got a lot to learn before he can call himself a true firefighter.



Tags: Firefighters , Urban , Work , Primarily Male Cast , Survival , Outdoor , Tragedy , Shounen , Heterosexual , Male Protagonist , Time Skip , Love Triangle

Jin

Also known as JIN.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Supernatural

As a result of a strange encounter with a mysterious carcinogenic fetus he found inside a patient’s skull, brain surgeon Minakata Jin has slipped back through time. Equipped with modern medical knowledge, he faces various fatal diseases and injuries. Then, he meets the ordinary people of Edo as well as illustrious figures, and his surgical knife carves out a new history and story of life.

Note: Won the Grand Prize at Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2011.

Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Historical , Educational , Urban , Samurai , Oiran , Male Protagonist , Time Manipulation , Food , Female Harem , Age Gap , Prison , Firefighters

MONSTER

Also known as Monster.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

Everyone faces uncertainty at some point in their lives. Even a brilliant surgeon like Kenzo Tenma is no exception. But there’s no way he could have known that his decision to stop chasing professional success and instead concentrate on his oath to save peoples’ lives would result in the birth of an abomination. The questions of good and evil now take on a terrifyingly real dimension.

Years later, in Germany during the tumultuous post-reunification period, middle-aged childless couples are being killed one after another. The serial killer’s identity is known. The reasons why he kills are not. Dr. Tenma sets out on a journey to find the killer’s twin sister, who may hold some clues to solving the enigma of the “Monster.”



Tags: Seinen , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Philosophy , Amnesia , Twins , Fugitive , Noir , Foreign , Male Protagonist , Memory Manipulation , Historical , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Detective , Police , Medicine , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Suicide , Achronological Order , Adoption , Assassins , Torture , Gore

Dr. Kumahige

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Tragedy , Detective , Episodic , Urban

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 , Male Protagonist , Rural , Seinen , Work , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast

Tokkou no Shima

Also known as The Isle of Tokkou.

Status: Finished
Genres: Mystery , Thriller

"You will not be able to return a live after piloting these weapons" ...is the only explanation the boys got, when asked if they would like to apply to become pilots for the special new weapons. As speculation fills their minds, they're sent to a certain island... What awaits them there?



Tags: War , Seinen , Military , Historical

Kenshirou ni Yoroshiku

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Ecchi

The "love, revenge, and slight euphoria" story centers on a young man who swears revenge against the yakuza. He studies the art of the "assassination fist" with all his might, and becomes an adult. But this man who is a genius at his martial art form realizes his techniques cannot actually be used to kill anyone.

Tags: Surreal Comedy , Male Protagonist , Parody , Revenge , Yakuza

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: Female Protagonist , Work , Seinen , Medicine