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Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [Week 4] (ani.social)
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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The classic anime medical drama is Tezuka's Black Jack (there have been multiple anime adaptations of the manga over the years, the last one being the TV series Black Jack 21, from 2006). Other than that, there's Ray (also airing in 2006), some individual episodes of Monster, and maybe the currently airing Surgeon Elise, depending on the direction it goes in? There was a period where you didn't see medical dramas much on Western TV either, and maybe Japan is going through a similar time. (Now I feel old. 😭 )

[–] wjs018@ani.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Ah! More shows from the mid-late 2000's that I am not really familiar with. I really should go back to those years and pick up some of them to fill in my lapse of knowledge. Engaging in conversations in this community has really shown me that I just wasn't really keeping up with releasing shows during that time period.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 9 months ago

For what it's worth, Ray isn't really worth going back for, or at least it didn't make enough of an impression for me to remember much except the title.

Some of the Black Jack material is worth watching, but you can dip into it at almost any point from the 1990s OAVs on and make some sense of it, since it's fairly episodic. The characters' backstories are interesting, but rarely necessary for understanding the plot. (There's also Young Black Jack, a more recent series—Wiki gives a 2015 airdate—that I forgot about initially which traces part of the title character's origin story.)

Monster is worth watching on its own merits, if you haven't seen it already (it was early 2000s, if I recall correctly, so outside your timeframe), but only the first few episodes could be considered medical drama. After that, it proceeds in quite a different direction.