Kounodori - Recommendations

• Vol: 25; Ch: 210
• 2002 - 2011

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.

• Vol: 13; Ch: 127
• 2002 - 2006

Saito Eijirou is a newly established intern doctor, who is forced to take on a second night job at another, much smaller hospital because of the extremely low pay he receives. As he bounces between the two different hospitals, he is forced to dig deeper and deeper into Japan's largely corrupted medical society and starts to question even his own initial believes, as he asks himself just what being a doctor means.

• Vol: 24+; Ch: 113+
• 2014 - ?

Kishi Keiichirou is a pathologist who advises doctors on their diagnoses and whose judgement is widely accepted. Though an eccentric that few people can stand to associate personally, Kishi is passionate about the lives of his patients and a genius at his job.

• Vol: 16; Ch: 192
• 2011 - 2015

Follow the local hospital director "Dr. Jumbo," whose nickname comes from his unlikely appearance. Jumbo argues frequently with Asuka, the nurse who is the daughter of the previous hospital director, but saves his patients with his great skill as a doctor.

• Vol: 6+; Ch: 30+
• 2018 - ?

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"!

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 3+
• 2023 - ?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 15
• 2011 - 2012

• Vol: 3; Ch: 12
• 2013 - 2014

• Vol: 13+; Ch: 107+
• 2015 - ?

A medical diagnosis mystery manga depicting the other side of medical care, the radiology department.

• Vol: 7; Ch: 80
• 1995 - 2000

After graduation, doctor-in-training Sugisaka Nanako is starting her residency, along with a group of her classmates. They are all in that awkward period where they have their degrees, but they don't yet have enough experience to be really useful around the hospital. Nanako also has to deal with people underestimating her (or even refusing to accept that she is a doctor!), due to her age, gender and physical attractiveness. Nanako and the others observe their assigned mentor doctors, and begin to shed their inexperience by performing tasks under supervision. They will work hard to become the best doctors they can be.