Team Medical Dragon

Team Medical Dragon
医龍-Team Medical Dragon- (Iryū -Team Medical Dragon-)
Genre	Drama
Manga
Written by	Akira Nagai Taro Nogizaka
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Big Comic Superior
Original run	November 1, 2002 – February 26, 2011
Volumes	25
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Team Medical Dragon (医龍-Team Medical Dragon-, Iryū -Team Medical Dragon-^?) is a seinen manga about Japanese medical care written by Akira Nagai and drawn by Taro Nogizaka, under medical supervision by Mie Yoshinuma. It has been adapted into the television drama Iryu, Iryu 2, and Iryu 3. The first volume of released on September 30, 2002 in Japan.^[1]

Summary

"Team Medical Dragon" has been serialized in Big Comic Superior since 2002. It received the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 2005.^[2] The story uses a cast of characters and focuses on many problems prevalent in modern Japan medicine, such as medical malpractice, drug trial, and the stagnancy of reform for the troubled health care system.

Akira Nagai, the original creator of the story, was a successful doctor and medical journalist. He died from complications resulting from liver cancer on July 7, 2004.^{[citation needed]}

TV series

"Team Medical Dragon" was adapted as 3 TV series(until now) starring Kenji Sakaguchi, Izumi Inamori, and Teppei Koike. Season 1(11 episodes) was aired on Fuji Television at 10:00 pm every Thursday from April 13,2006 to June 29,2006. Season 2(11 episodes) was aired from October 11,2007 to December 20,2007 and Season 3(10 episodes) was aired from October 14,2010 to December 16,2010.

Cast

Main Cast

• Kenji Sakaguchi as Ryūtaro Asada - All Series
• Izumi Inamori as Akira Katō - Season 1&3
• Teppei Koike as Noboru Ijūin - All Season
• Asami Mizukawa as Miki Satohara - Season 1&2
• Sadao Abe as Monji Arase - All Season
• Tetsuhiro Ikeda as Takehiko Kihara - All Season
• Kuranosuke Sasaki as Keisuke Fujiyoshi - All Season
• Mari Natsuki as Shōko Kitō - All Season
• Ittoku Kishibe as Takeo Noguchi - All Season

Others

• Kazuki Kitamura as Gunji Kirishima - Season 1 only
• Yuki Uchida as Kazumi Kataoka - Season 2 only
• Jiro Sato as Kōtarō Matsudaira - Season 2 only
• Nene Otsuka as Nanami Kodaka - Season 2 only
• Kōtarō Shiga as Hideki Zenda - Season 2 only
• Issei Takahashi as Seiji Toyama - Season 2 only
• Yasuhi Nakamura as Hiroto Nomura - Season 2 only
• Kenichi Endou as Keijirō Kuroki - Season 3 only
• Mitsuki Tanimura as Fuyumi Magara - Season 3 only

References

1. ^ "ビッグコミックス" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/solc_dtl?isbn=4091865615. Retrieved August 4, 2009. 
2. ^ "小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html. Retrieved August 19, 2007. 

External links

• Team Medical Dragon (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia