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Hataraku Saibou

Also known as Cells at Work!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

From Akane Shimizu, winner of Shounen Sirius' Rookie Award, comes an informative tale about anthropomorthized cells!
Strep throat! Hay fever! Influenza! The world is a dangerous place for a red blood cell just trying to get her deliveries finished. Fortunately, she’s not alone … She’s got a whole human body’s worth of cells ready to help out! The mysterious white blood cell, the buff and brash killer T cell, the nerdy neuron, even the cute little platelets—everyone’s got to come together if they want to keep you healthy!



Note: Contains the spin-off one-shot "Hataraku Saibou: Kansen-hen".

Tags: Educational , Shounen , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Anthropomorphism , Survival , Gore , Pandemic , Female Protagonist , Urban

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

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

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 , Work , Heterosexual , Primarily Adult Cast

Dr. Kumahige

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

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

Shiroi Kyotou

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

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

Tags: Seinen

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

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 , Work , Shounen , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Veterinarian , Animals , LGBTQ+ Themes , Delinquents , Heterosexual

Hataraku Saibou BLACK

Also known as Cells at Work! CODE BLACK.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

A newbie Red Blood Cell is one of 37 trillion working to keep this body running. But something’s wrong! Stress hormones keep yelling at him to go faster. The blood vessels are crusted over with cholesterol. Ulcers, fatty liver, trouble (ahem) downstairs … It’s hard for a cell to keep working when every day is a CODE BLACK!



Tags: Educational , Seinen , Survival , Dystopian , Gore , Suicide , Fitness , Anthropomorphism , Nudity , Drugs , Medicine , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Urban , Work

Hataraku Saibou Friend

Also known as Cells at Work and Friends!.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

The smash-hit anthropomorphic cell fantasy’s latest spinoff features a fearsome Killer T Cell as its protagonist! Killer T Cells are the assassins who destroy virus-infected cells and other foreign contaminants to keep things peaceful inside the body. The Squad Leader of the Killer T Cells is feared by all … but he wants to change his public persona! He wants friends! But he can’t just say so! Solo karaoke, hot pot parties, and smartphones … Cells using modern gadgets in their daily lives unexpectedly result in one hilarious situation after another!



Tags: Shoujo , Male Protagonist , Anthropomorphism