Manga like Houkago Karte

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 , Philosophy , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Educational , Work , Disability , Episodic , Rehabilitation , Nudity , Heterosexual , Suicide , Tragedy , Rescue , Writing , Crime , Estranged Family

Toumei na Yurikago: Sanfujinkain Kangoshi Minarai Nikki

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

17-year-old Aoi came to Yui Obstetrics and Gynecology clinic as a part-time nurse apprentice in Summer 1997. Right after her entry, she is shocked after witnessing an abortion surgery. However, she also met staff members like Yui, the head of the clinic who is careful about everything, Sayako, a reliable and experienced nurse, and Sakaki, the gentle head nurse, who face each pregnant patient and support them after surgeries. Fumika, Aoi's mother, is worried about her clumsy nature and poor communication skills, but Aoi's unique compassion and kindness draws patients' hearts. "I wonder what's life..." Aoi matures while looking at the newborn babies' overwhelming life and asking herself that question.

Tags: Medicine , Josei

Owakare Hospital

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Henmi is second-year nurse who works where death lies in wait - a hospital. She witnesses the naked tragedy concerning life and death of various patients.



Tags: Female Protagonist , Disability , Work , Medicine , Seinen , Heterosexual , Crime , Suicide

Haibaiyoushi Mizuiro

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama

An expert in artificial insemination is helping people who struggle with having kids.

Tags: Medicine , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Transgender , Family Life

Shrink: Seishinkai Yowai

Also known as Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Psychological , Slice of Life

Panic disorder, depression, developmental disorders, and more. Japan, often called a hidden mental illness superpower, actually has fewer mental health patients compared to countries like the United States. On the other hand, its suicide rate is among the worst in developed nations. Even when people are struggling, the perception that psychiatric care is something special keeps them from seeking help. Psychiatrist Yowai hopes to change this reality in Japan and save as many hearts as possible. Actually, he sincerely hopes that the number of mental health patients in his country will increase.



Tags: Rehabilitation , Medicine , Educational , Disability , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Seinen

Kokoro no Nurse Yano-san

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

A story of a psychiatric nurse dealing with emotional pain

Just as you go to the dentist when you have a cavity, there exist psychiatrists for those who suffer from mental illness. But what is mental illness?

It is the job of nurses to help patients become their true selves. This is a small but sincere story of a psychiatric nurse who listens to the pain in the hearts of her patients.

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Radiation House

Also known as Radiation House.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Iori Igarashi, a rad tech with top-tier skills in imaging scans, is very socially awkward. He gets hired at the hospital where his beloved childhood friend, An Amakasu, works as a radiologist. Determined to support her in his role as a technologist, Iori gives his all—but she doesn’t seem to remember him…! Thus begins a medical comic about diagnostic imaging, where unseen illnesses are uncovered through the power of radiology!



Tags: Work , Medicine , Seinen , Primarily Adult Cast , Educational , Artificial Intelligence , Software Development