Iryū | |
医龍-Team Medical Dragon- (Iryū Chīmu Medikaru Doragon) | |
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Genre | Medical[1] |
Manga | |
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Published by | Shogakukan |
Magazine | Big Comic Superior |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | April 26, 2002 – January 26, 2011 |
Volumes | 25 |
Television drama | |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
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Written by | Koji Hayashi |
Music by |
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Studio | Fuji TV Drama Center |
Original network | Fuji TV |
Original run | April 13, 2006 – June 29, 2006 |
Episodes | 11 |
Television drama | |
Team Medical Dragon 2 | |
Directed by |
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Produced by |
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Written by | Koji Hayashi |
Music by |
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Studio | Fuji TV Drama Center |
Original network | Fuji TV |
Original run | October 11, 2007 – December 20, 2007 |
Episodes | 11 |
Television drama | |
Team Medical Dragon 3 | |
Directed by |
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Produced by | Tsuneya Watanabe |
Written by | Koji Hayashi |
Music by |
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Studio | Fuji TV Drama Center |
Original network | Fuji TV |
Original run | October 14, 2010 – December 16, 2010 |
Episodes | 10 |
Television drama | |
Team Medical Dragon 4 | |
Directed by |
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Written by |
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Music by |
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Studio | Fuji TV Drama Center |
Original network | Fuji TV |
Original run | January 9, 2014 – March 20, 2014 |
Episodes | 11 |
Iryū: Team Medical Dragon (Japanese: 医龍-Team Medical Dragon-, Hepburn: Iryū Chīmu Medikaru Doragon) is a Japanese medical manga series created by Akira Nagai and illustrated by Tarō Nogizaka; following Nagai's death in 2004, Nogizaka became the sole author, with medical supervision taken by Mie Yoshinuma. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Superior from April 2002 to January 2011, with its chapters collected in 25 tankōbon volumes.
It was adapted into a live action series, which was broadcast for three seasons between April 2006 and December 2010.
In 2005, the manga won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category.
Plot
Ryūtarou Asada is a prodigal surgeon who was exiled from the medical field. He is recruited by Akira Katō, an assistant professor, who wishes to use his skills to complete her thesis on the Batista procedure to promote herself politically in order to change the corruption in the Japanese medical system. Ryūtarou accepts and begins by recruiting a team skilled enough for the surgery.
Characters
- Ryūtarou Asada (朝田龍太郎, Asada Ryūtarou)
- Ryūtarou is a prodigal surgeon who was framed for medical malpractice and exiled from the medical field. He is recruited by Akira Katō to work in a medical university. He was portrayed in the live action series by Kenji Sakaguchi.[2]
- Akira Katō (加藤晶, Katō Akira)
- Akira is an assistant professor who aims to become a professor to change the corrupt Japanese medical system. She is portrayed in the live action series by Izumi Inamori.[2]
- Miki Satohara (里原ミキ, Satohara Miki)
- Miki is a surgical nurse and Ryūtarou's lover. She is portrayed in the live action series by Asami Mizukawa.[2]
- Noboru Ijūin (伊集院登, Ijūin Noboru)
- Noboru is a hard working medical intern who is not assimilated into the corrupt Japanese medical system. He is portrayed in the live action series by Teppei Koike.[2]
- Keisuke Fujiyoshi (藤吉圭介, Fujiyoshi Keisuke)
- Keisuke is a cardiologist whose priority is for the patient and not the hospital. He is portrayed by Kuranosuke Sasaki.[2]
- Monji Arase (荒瀬門次, Arase Monji)
- Monji is a skilled anesthesiologist who charges high amount for every surgery. He is portrayed in the live action series by Sadao Abe.[2]
- Takeo Noguchi (野口賢雄, Noguchi Takeo)
- Takeo is the professor of the cardiology department. He values his reputation over the lives of his patients. He is portrayed in the live action series by Ittoku Kishibe.[2]
- Gunji Kirishima (霧島軍司, Kirishima Gunji)
- Gunji is Miki's half brother and is a strong political figure in the medical field. He was the one who framed Asada for medical malpractice and used his influence to exile him from the medical field. He is portrayed in the live action series by Kazuki Kitamura.[2]
- Naoto Kitō (鬼頭直人, Kitō Naoto)
- Naoto Kitō is the professor of the emergency department who wants to recruit Ryūtarou into his department.
- Shōko Kitō (鬼頭笙子, Kitō Shōko)
- Shōko Kitō is the professor of the emergency department. She is later the dean of the hospital. She is portrayed in the live action series by Mari Natsuki.[2]
- Takehiko Kihara (木原毅彦, Kihara Takehiko)
- Takehiko Kihara is Kato's assistant. He is portrayed in the live action series by Tetsuhiro Ikeda.[2]
Media
Manga
Team Medical Dragon was created by doctor, writer, and medical journalist Akira Nagai, and illustrated by Tarō Nogizaka. The series debuted in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Superior on April 26, 2002.[lower-alpha 1] Nagai died of liver cancer in 2004, and Nogizaka became the sole author of the series, with medical supervision taken by Mie Yoshinuma.[5] The series finished on January 28, 2011.[6][7] Shogakukan collected its chapters into twenty-five tankōbon volumes, released between September 30, 2002,[8] and February 26, 2011.[9]
Volumes
No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN | |
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1 | September 30, 2002[8] | 978-4-09-186561-8 | |
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Akira Katō is searching for Ryūtarou Asada, a prodigal surgeon who has been exiled from the medical field by a political figure, in order to use his skills to develop her thesis on the Batista procedure. After finding him, Akira makes arrangements to have Ryūtarou work at Meishin Medical University Center. During Ryūtarou's first surgery there, the lead surgeon decides to let the patient die after doing the minimal procedures needed to avoid a lawsuit; Ryūtarou takes over and saves the patient's life. That night, Ryūtarou and Noboru Ijūin, a medical intern, are put on call and a patient arrives needing an emergency appendectomy; Ryūtarou guides Noboru to the surgery and afterwards, decides to recruit him for the Batista procedure. Noboru goes to his side job at a hospital and finds Ryūtarou working there. A girl comes in requiring stitches on her scalp; Ryūtarou instead ties her hair with a surgical knot which is a better solution for that injury. The next day, Ryūtarou meets Keisuke Fujiyoshi, a cardiologist whose recent patient died due to a Hospital-acquired infection from an unnecessary surgery. Shortly after, two Meishin professors disregard Keisuke's diagnoses and plan a surgery for Keisuke's daughter. | |||
2 | January 30, 2003[10] | 978-4-09-186562-5 | |
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Having lost faith in Meishin's judgement, Keisuke runs away with his daughter to search for another hospital not affiliated with Meishin. On the way, Keisuke's Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome acts up and puts him in cardiac arrest; Ryūtarou is able to resuscitate him with a car battery and implants an Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator during surgery. Ryūtarou reviews Keisuke's daughter's diagnoses and agrees surgery is unnecessary and has Akira disregard the professors' diagnosis. Out of respect for Ryūtarou, Keisuke volunteers to join the Batista procedure for the pre/post surgery treatments. Later, Meishin a rise in admission of patients with Cardiac dysrhythmia; Ryūtarou investigates and discovers the artificial cardiac pacemaker endorsed by Takeo Noguchi, the professor of the cardiology department, is defective. After revealing that fact, the patients receive new pacemakers and Takeo shifts the pacemaker's fault onto another doctor to protect his reputation. Later, a Meishin doctor has his patient test a new medicine for cancer which, unknown to the patient, causes intense pain as a side effect. Ryūtarou reveals this fact to the patient's husband who requests a Hospice treatment for his wife. | |||
3 | April 30, 2003[11] | 978-4-09-186563-2 | |
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A returning patient for suicide requires surgery. Afterwards, Ryūtarou shows the patient a video of her beating heart during surgery and encourages her to live on. Later, a foreigner requires emergency surgery but is rejected by all hospitals due to the lack of insurance. Ryūtarou takes the foreigner in and saves his life by using an atriocaval shunt. Meishin's professor meet to decide which department will pay for the previous surgery. Naoto Kitō, the professor of the emergency department, decides to pay as he intends to recruit Ryūtarou into his department. Akira finalizes the Batista team with: Ryūtarou as the lead surgeon; herself and Noboru as assistants; Miki Satohara, a surgical nurse and Ryūtarou's lover; and two fillers as the anesthesiologist and clinical engineer. Akira arranges an operation for the team to test their capabilities. | |||
4 | September 30, 2003[12] | 978-4-09-186564-9 | |
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Akira receives two candidates afflicted with Dilated cardiomyopathy for the Batista procedure. Only one of them has a good chance of surviving causing her to be conflicted on whether to save both lives or sacrifice one for her thesis; Ryūtarou convinces her to rely on his abilities to save them both. Naoto arranges a meeting with Akira and asks her to give Ryūtarou to the emergency department in return for a vote in the professor candidate-ship. The Batista procedure begins and Ryūtarou requests the team to operate on the heart while it is beating. In doing so, he is able to detect the afflicted cardiac tissue through palpitation. | |||
5 | December 25, 2003[13] | 978-4-09-186565-6 | |
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6 | June 30, 2004[14] | 978-4-09-186566-3 | |
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7 | October 29, 2004[15] | 978-4-09-186567-0 | |
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8 | February 28, 2005[16] | 978-4-09-186568-7 | |
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9 | July 29, 2005[17] | 978-4-09-186569-4 | |
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10 | December 26, 2005[18] | 978-4-09-186570-0 | |
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11 | March 30, 2006[19] | 978-4-09-180216-3 | |
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12 | September 29, 2006[20] | 978-4-09-180725-0 | |
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13 | March 30, 2007[21] | 978-4-09-181168-4 | |
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14 | July 30, 2007[22] | 978-4-09-181379-4 | |
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15 | November 30, 2007[23] | 978-4-09-181539-2 | |
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16 | February 29, 2008[24] | 978-4-09-181749-5 | |
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17 | May 30, 2008[25] | 978-4-09-181897-3 | |
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18 | July 30, 2008[26] | 978-4-09-182100-3 | |
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19 | December 26, 2008[27] | 978-4-09-182289-5 | |
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20 | February 27, 2009[28] | 978-4-09-182375-5 | |
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21 | September 30, 2009[29] | 978-4-09-182609-1 | |
22 | January 29, 2010[30] | 978-4-09-183006-7 | |
23 | June 30, 2010[31] | 978-4-09-183207-8 | |
24 | October 29, 2010[32] | 978-4-09-183506-2 | |
25 | February 26, 2011[9] | 978-4-09-183668-7 |
Live action series
The manga was adapted into a series of live action dramas by Fuji TV.[33] Directed by both Satoshi Kubota and Naruhide Mizuta, the first season of the live action series was produced by Sōsuke Osabe and Yasuyuki Asuyuki with Koji Hayashi as the scriptwriter.[33] The series ran for 11 episodes which were broadcast on Fuji TV between April 13, 2006 and June 29, 2006.[33] The ending theme for the first season is "Believe" by Ai.[33] Fuji TV released a DVD box set on October 27, 2006.[34] The soundtrack for the series was released by Universal Sigma on June 7, 2006,[35] which was re-released by Universal Sigma on September 18, 2013.[36]
Directed by Hiroki Hayama, Kazunari Hoshino and Naruhide Mizuta, the second season of the live action series was produced by Sōsuke Osabe and Reiko Misao with Koji Hayashi as the scriptwriter.[37] The series ran for 11 episodes which were broadcast on Fuji TV between October 11, 2007 and December 20, 2007.[37] The ending theme for the second season is "One" by Ai.[37] Fuji TV released a DVD box set on April 16, 2008.[38] The soundtrack for the series was released by Universal Sigma on November 28, 2007,[39] which was re-released by Universal Sigma on September 18, 2013.[40]
Directed by Hiroki Hayama, Ryo Tanaka and Naruhide Mizuta, the third season of the live action series was produced by Tsuneya Watanabe with Koji Hayashi as the scriptwriter.[41] The series ran for 10 episodes which were broadcast on Fuji TV between October 14, 2010 and December 16, 2010.[41] The ending theme for the third season is "Door to the Future" (未来への扉, Mirai e no Tobira) by Deep.[41] Fuji TV released a DVD box set on April 6, 2011.[42] The soundtrack for the series was released by Universal Sigma on December 8, 2010.[43]
A fourth season of the drama was announced in 2013.[44] It was broadcast from January 9 to March 20, 2014.
Reception
Iryū: Team Medical Dragon received the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2005.[45]
Notes
- ↑ The series started in the May 17 issue (cover date),[3] released on April 26, 2002.[4]
References
- ↑ 医師が選んだ、好きな医療漫画・医療ドラマ・キャラクターTOP10発表! あの昭和の名作や令和の話題作がランクイン!. PR Times (in Japanese). December 16, 2021. Archived from the original on March 15, 2022. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
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- ↑ "Team Medical Dragon > Présentation". manga-news.com (in French). July 12, 2011. Archived from the original on May 4, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
- ↑ Loo, Egan (January 13, 2011). "Iryū - Team Medical Dragon Manga to End This Month". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
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- ↑ "医龍~Team Medical Dragon~ DVD Box" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ "「医龍 Team Medical Dragon」オリジナルサウンドトラック" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ "「医龍 Team Medical Dragon」オリジナルサウンドトラック" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- 1 2 3 "医龍2 Team Medical Dragon(医龍(2))" (in Japanese). TV Drama DB. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ "医龍~Team Medical Dragon 2~ DVD Box" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ "医龍 Team Medical Dragon 2 オリジナル・サウンドトラック" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
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- 1 2 3 "医龍 Team Medical Dragon 3" (in Japanese). TV Drama DB. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ "医龍 ~Team Medical Dragon~ 3 DVD Box" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ "医龍 Team Medical Dragon 3 -ザ・ベスト- オリジナル・サウンドトラック" (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
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External links
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- PlaneteBD 5 review (in French)
- PlaneteBD 7 review (in French)
- PlaneteBD 8 review (in French)
- Iryū (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia