Manga like Jin

Nobunaga no Chef

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama

Ken, a modern age chef, finds himself in back in the 16th century during the warring states period. Lacking any recollection of who he once was or how he arrived to such a time, he only has his knowledge and skills in cooking to rely on. But as he gains reputation for his incredible food, who else would come to demand his services than Oda Nobunaga himself.

Tags: Food , Time Manipulation , Seinen , Historical , War , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Amnesia

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

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 , Primarily Adult Cast , Heterosexual , Work

Hidamari no Ki

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Slice of Life

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his career as low-ranking retainer to the minor daimyo Lord Matsudaira. Tezuka Ryoan, 29, a disciple of Dutch medicine, has just been accepted as a student at Teki Academy in Osaka. Each has a temper to go with his talent, and in a time of brewing upheaval the two are not slow to find trouble, which brings them together in spite of their mutual dislike. Tezuka is called in one night to sew up Ibuya after an illicit duel; a few weeks later, Ibuya finds himself the only thing standing between Tezuka and a gang of swordsmen sent by the head of medicine for the Shogunate.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1984.

Tags: Seinen , Medicine , Historical , Swordplay , Samurai , Rescue , Male Protagonist

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

Thermae Romae

Also known as Thermae Romae.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his “outdated” thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs... over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome—Thermae Romae!



Note: Won the 3rd Manga Taisho Award in 2010.

Tags: Historical , Language Barrier , Anachronism , Time Manipulation , Foreign , Seinen , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Time Skip , Nudity , Heterosexual , Politics , Isekai , Educational

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

Tenju no Kuni

Also known as Blissful Land.

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Khang Zhipa is a 13-year-old doctor’s apprentice living in a mountain village in 18th-century Tibet. One day, when he gets back from collecting medicinal herbs, he finds a bride-to-be and her wedding party will be resting at his home for the night. The bride’s name is Moshi Rati and it turns out she’s actually Khang Zhipa’s fiancee from another land, here to stay! Enjoy this heartwarming slice-of-life tale woven by a kind-hearted boy and his mysterious bride.



Tags: Medicine , Rural , Iyashikei , Marriage , Family Life , Arranged Marriage , Foreign , Indigenous Cultures , Historical , Heterosexual , Animals , Primarily Child Cast , Male Protagonist , Educational , Shounen , Food , Nudity

Kounodori

Also known as Kounodori: Dr. Stork.

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

This drama, a smash-hit in Japan, looks at the lives of the men and women who work to deliver one million new lives into the world each year in Japan.



Note: Won the 40th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2016.

Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Educational , Primarily Adult Cast , Medicine , Work , Ensemble Cast , Survival

Theseus no Fune

Also known as The Ship of Theseus.

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

On June 24, 1989, 21 people, among them children, were found poisoned to death in the elementary school of Otousu village in Hokkaido. Bungo Sano, a police officer of the same village, was arrested. Twenty eight years later, Sano’s son, Shin Tamura, starts to suspect that his father, who continues to plead his innocence even after being handed the death penalty, may have been wrongfully convicted, and launches his own investigation. Upon arriving at the crime scene, a thick fog descends, engulfing Shin, and he finds that he has slipped back in time to the year 1989. The curtain rises on this authentic crime suspense that transcends time and space in a confrontation with the truth.



Tags: Time Manipulation , Seinen , Rural , Otaku Culture , Detective , Tragedy , Philosophy , Snowscape , Male Protagonist , Family Life , Ensemble Cast , Crime , School , Parenthood , Adoption