A skillful surgeon who lives an isolated island to save lives.
A surgeon Kensuke Goto moved into an isolated island Kojikishima, where is located 6 hours by ship from a mainland.
He was working at a university hospital in Tokyo as a skillful surgeon but moved to a local clinic because of his medical misjudgment and false accusation. He felt responsibility for the life that he could not saved and asked for relocation to an island where there was no doctor.
He was not welcomed by people in the island at first but his efforts to help lives sincerely with a nurse Ayaka Hoshino is accepted by the people. Now he is depended on by everyone and called âDr. Kotoâ
This comic of skillful surgeon becomes very popular for stories of peopleâs relationships in the island, economical problems, and Dr. Kotoâs background. This is made into a TV drama series featuring by Hidetaka Yoshioka.
âThere is no life that has no values.â
This is a drama of âlifeâ giving by the God.
A genius surgeon Black Jack, who doesnât have a license. His skill of surgery is godlike, but he is seen as a corrupt doctor since he requires outrageous operation fees. However, he never wastes of human lives. He makes miracles for patience that were given up by their doctors and meet their last hope. Black Jack always says âthere is no live that has no values.
Pinoko, who thinks herself as âthe wife of Black Jackâ and was born under the strange fate, and Black Jack are trying to help lives as much as they can. His rival, Dr. Kiriko, is for euthanasia, on the other hand, Black Jack gives lives to people even there are harsh futures ahead of them.
This is a dram of a âlifeâ created by Osamu Tezuka, who is called a God of comics and also is a medical doctor himself.
Ajihei challenges unbelievable battles of cooking.
Ajihei Shiomi, whose father is a first-class chef, works hard on training to be the best chef in the world. He does hard training with a great passion for cooking and wit. However, when Keisuke Daisuke replaced Chef Kitamuraâs position, which Ajihei respects, Ajihei gets confused by Keisukeâs way of doing things and gets angry.
Keisuke challenges such Ajihei with âthe test of knifeâ, which is a competition of showing 3 different skills with a knife.
Cutting a cucumber floating in the water, sculpturing ice with a knife and etc⌠Ajihei improves his skills such unbelievable battles of cooking.
This is a leading comic of cooking comics. The way of battles of cooking bugs me a little, but there is enough momentum and enthusiasm in the story. It is recommended to those of you who get tired of normal gourmet comics.
Food that my dad cooks is the best in Japan!
Kazumi Araiwa, whose face is a little scary and unsociable, works at Kanamaru Sangyo as a brilliant business man. He has another unknown face, that is of a father who can cooks well and is very sweet. He cooks meals very day in the place of his wife who works hard as a newspaper reporter. He solves various problems like a professional such as his co-workers worries/troubles, and troubles with neighbors and his kidsâ friends.
He hides his cooking skills as he gets embarrassed. Only Yumeko Kimura, who is his subordinate and keen to him, knows his cooking skill and his sweet heart.
There are recipes in each episode, which you can enjoy cooking it while reading comics. They become very popular since they are very delicious and easy to cook without any special tools or ingredients. Books of those recipes are published as well.
Bread that represents Japan.
I will make âJapan breadâ!
Kazuma Azumua, who has ideal hands âhands of Sunâ for making bread. He used to love rice, but was woken up by the taste of bread that he eats at âSan Pierreâ when he was six. There is bread which is named after the country, such as German bread, but there was no bread called Japan bread. Kazuma decided to make Japan bread that can be proud to the world.
Ten years has passed and Kazuma graduated from a junior high school. He moves to Tokyo with his Japan bread and started working for âPantasyâ, which is one of the best bakery shops in Tokyo, butâŚ
He pursues to make the best Japan bread in Japan with Kyosuke Kawachi, whom he met at the exam to get into âPantasyâ, Tukino Azusagawa, who is a grand daughter of C.E.O of Pantasy, Ken Matsuhiro, a bread maker whose afro hair and sunglass are his trademarks.
Why does he keep looking for a very rare wine among a hundred thousand kinds of wines?
âThere is no wine that I am looking for.â
Jo Satake, a Japanese sommelier who won at the sommelier contest in France, is a genius sommelier who can tell its brand, the kind of grapes used, and the location of the wine even it is a vintage wine. What he really wants is, however, not fame or honor but only one thing that is a memorial wine that his step mother gave him. Why does he keep looking for a very rare wine among a hundred thousand kinds of wines?
Jo Stake solves other peopleâs problems and worries by telling stories of wines with his heart for loving wine and for entertaining guest. What is a secret of his birth? Is he able to find his disappeared step mother at the end? What happens to his memorial wine?
This comic was made into a TV drama and it sparked a boom of sommelier.
Ultimate vs. supreme
Shiro Yamaoka and Yuko Kurita, who work for Tozai Newspaper that is one of the best newspaper companies in Japan, are to create âan ultimate menuâ that is a collection of best foods in the world. At the same time, however, their rival company, Teito Newspaper started their project to create âan supreme menuâ in cooperated with Yuzan Kaibara, who is a ceramic artist as well as chirographer and famous as living natural treasure, and who also organizes clubs for the best food. Shiroâs family name is his motherâs maiden name and he was in fact Yuzanâs son. Shiro had conflict with his father about his motherâs death and cut his connection with his father. But again, the conflict between father and son is repeated through âan ultimate vs. supreme menuâ.
This sparks the buzzword âultimateâ and the boom of gourmet. This is not just a gourmet comic but a social comic which tries to find the basics of Japanese through food by describing the problems of food culture in current Japan
Is he a human, or�
Challenges to invisible person behind a serial killing.
A genius surgeon, Temma Kenzo. One day twins are sent to his hospital. He was ordered to do another operation but he ignored the order and joined to the operation of the twins to save their lives. Their lives were saved but his future was shut down because he did not obey to directorâs order. However, the situation was changed when three people including the director were killed and twins were disappeared.
Nine years later, Yohan Reevelt, who was a boy of that twin, came to see Temma, who became successful. Yohan confessed that he was a serial killer that was causing disturbance in public and also that he killed the director of the hospital and two others, which Yohan claimed that it was for Temma.
Temma was wrongly accused of murder in stead of Yohan and he was chased after. But Temma has no time to get caught. He needed to end Yohanâs life that Temma saved. Temma keeps chasing a monster, Yohan, to kill him by himself.
All mysteries are solved, in the name of my grandpa!
Hajime Kindaichi, a grandson of master detective Kosuke Kindaichi is a genius with 180 IQs but has poor grades at school. Whenever he is with his friend, Miyuki Nanase, he gets involved with scary cases that connected to strange old legends, histories and mysterious fates, just like his grandfather.
Hajime solves various cases with detective powers that inherited by his grandfather with people from the police, a chief inspector Kenmochi, a deputy inspector Akechi, his idle Reika Hayami, his junior Ryuji Saki, a reporter Yosuke Itsuki, his cousin Fumi Kindaichi. His rival is Yoichi Takato who is called âan artist of crime; a puppet master from hell.
The series were completed once but restarted after remodeling lightly. A novel version and series with a deputy inspector Akechi as a main character becomes a hit as well. I was made into an animation and also live version dramas, in which Hajime was acted by Johnnyâsâ boys
His body is of a child but his brain is of a grown-up. A little master detective shows great performance.
Shiichi Kudo, whose father is a world-wide famous detective story writer, accidentally witnessed a crime scene of mysterious group. He was poisoned and his body became a child. He named himself as Conan Edogawa and begins a new life with a private detective Kogoro Mori, who is a father of his girl friend Ran, who is good at marshal art. He gets help from his neighbor Dr. Agasa to solve various cases and looks after the mysterious group.
He uses unique tools to solve, such as a small tranquilizer gun hidden in the wrist watch, which put Kogoro Akechi on sleep while Conan changes his voice to Akechiâs with a microphone in his bowtie, a skateboard with a turbo engine, a glasses which can chase criminals, shoes that can enhance kicking power. He goes a primary school as a student and organizes a âboyâs detective group. The boysâ performance is spectacular as well.
Can he find who the mysterious group is and get his body back?
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