Dr. Kotō Shinryōjo
| Manga | |
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| title | Dr. Kotō Shinryōjo |
| Original title | Dr. コ ト ー 診療 所 |
| transcription | Dokutā Kotō Shinryōjō |
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| country |
 Japan
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| author | Takatoshi Yamada |
| publishing company | Shogakukan |
| magazine | Weekly Young Sunday → Big Comic Original (since 2008) |
| First publication | June 2000 - ... |
| expenditure | 26th |
Dr. Kotō Shinryōjo ( Japanese: Dr. コ ト ー 診療 所 ) is a manga by Takatoshi Yamada , which initially appeared in Weekly Young Sunday issue 29/2000 by Shōgakukan , but from 2008 after the magazine was discontinued in Big Comic Original of the same Publisher appears. It deals with the life of the talented surgeon Dr. Kensuke Gotō, who got involved in a scandal and therefore moves to the fictional island of Kōjikishima, which is said to be near Okinawa .
From 2003 to 2006 the manga was also adapted as a television series of the same name .
action
Dr. Kensuke Gotō, a respected surgeon at the fictional university hospital of Tenshindo University in Tokyo ( 天津 堂 大学 ), accepts the offer from the small island of Kōjikishima ( 古 志 木 島 ) near Okinawa, because a scandal occurred at the university hospital. A patient who was in his care died because the resident doctor he had instructed threatened to fail from stress and fear, fled from responsibility and left the patient to die. The fact that the patient might still be alive if she had got medical help immediately is a problem for Gotō, so he decided to take up the offer from far-away Okinawa in order to travel far from Tokyo , where his reputation has been destroyed to remove. Nobody on the island knows its secret at first.
 
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A map to show you where Tokyo , the location Okinawa and the template Koshiki-jima are |
Dr. Gotō has to deal with a lot of hostility from the islanders at the beginning. Since no doctor lasted long on the island and until now every doctor has left after a few months, the clinic nurse Ayaka Hoshino in particular sees him as a failure. Among other things, he earns ridicule at the beginning for the fact that he set up the room, which was originally intended as an operating room , but was never used for it, for what it is, and no one wants to put himself under his medical care. Partly due to the fact that he doesn't make an exemplary impression from the start (he gets seasick , he doesn't have a driver's license and rides his bike, he's a typical antihero ) and the fact that he's new. The population trusts the naturopathy of a villager Tsuruko Uchi, a midwife for 50 years, more. This attitude weighs on Gotō, but he stays on the island and does not leave again.
The turning point is an emergency operation on the boy Takehiro Hara, who suffers from acute appendicitis . The operation takes place on the fishing boat, the father's Taketoshi Hara. Since he is strictly reluctant to have an operation by Gotō, as his wife died during a routine operation due to a mistake by the then island doctor and therefore wants to go to the mainland three hours away with his fishing boat to have Takehiro operated there. It was only through a trick that Gotō managed to convince his father, with the help of Ayaka, to allow Takehiro to operate on the boat. Gotō, who actually suffers from motion sickness , does not even have to vomit during the entire time that the operation takes, although he vomited several times and persistently on his way there, which took three hours. Only when you are on the mainland and Takehiro is in an ambulance do the typical characteristics that distinguish Gotō break out again. This event and an operation by the old midwife Uchi, who realizes the true values of Goto after this operation, make the people of the island realize that he is a doctor who is not out for fame and honor, but wants to help people.
Takehiro and his school friends, who want to thank Takehiro Gotō for rescuing him, tinker a flag for him and hang it on the mast of his clinic, only if they make a mistake in the name, instead of Dr. Gotō, Dr. Kotō ( Dr. コ ト ー ). From then on he was called by this name all over the island.
In the further course of the manga Gotō is confronted with his past, among other things, he meets Dr. Rei Ebato know, a doctor who is similar in ability to Gotō, but who has different goals than Gotō in treating his patients. Gotō also meets the resident doctor who caused him the scandal in Tokyo: Shin'ichi Mikami.
people
main characters
- Dr. Kensuke Gotō ( 五 島 健 助 ), the main character of the manga. He gets seasick the instant he gets on a boat and he looks very insecure as he often falls out of the ordinary. And he loves junk food even though he is a doctor . At first glance he looks very strong, like a typical antihero . But he quickly destroys this image when a medical emergency occurs or when it comes to medicine in general. There he shines with excellent knowledge in theory as well as in practice. He became a doctor because he loved reading medicine books as a child and his grandfather is also a doctor who lives in Hawaii . In the manga there are often hints that a love affair is developing between him and Ayaka.
- Ayaka Hoshino ( 星野 彩 佳 ) one, and in the beginning also the only, nurse on Kōjikishima, who lives on the island only four weeks longer than Gotō. She finds Gotō very unsympathetic at the beginning and is of the opinion that he is a good-for-nothing. She took up the job of a nurse in order to someday one day be able to look after her father, who is in need of care and lives on the mainland. But her father dies in the course of the manga. But he spends his last days on Kōjikishima. She is diagnosed with breast cancer later in the manga and, out of shame in front of Gotō, she goes to a hospital in Tokyo. During this time she is represented on the island by Mina Nakai. But she appears again in the manga and from then on Gotō works with two nurses.
- Tsuruko Uchi ( 内 つ る 子 ), the old midwife of the village, like everyone else on the island, initially had a very negative attitude towards Gotō. But over time she becomes friends with him and supports him as actively as possible. She is for her age, she is 88 years old, very robust and very jolly. Her son lives with his family on the mainland, and she moves to the mainland for a while after the latter repeatedly urged her to do so. But she doesn't feel at home there and due to her typical behavior of a country person she also attracts negative attention in the big city. So the son decides, with a heavy heart, to let his mother go back to the island.
- Taketoshi Hara ( 原 剛 裕 ), a fisherman on the island whose pride and joy is his fishing boat. He is a very simple person and at the beginning struggled for a long time with the fact that his son Takehiro decided against a life as a fisherman and wanted to go to the mainland to study medicine and become a doctor like Goto. But in the end he accepts this decision, among other things, because one of Takehiro's schoolmates is doing an apprenticeship with him.
- Takehiro Hara ( 原健裕 ): Goto's first patient on Kōjikishima and the namesake of Dr. Kotō. After seeing the passion with which Gotō works as a doctor, the decision to become a doctor matures in him, even if that means for him that he has to go to the mainland to attend secondary schools there. Later he appears less often in the manga.
Minor characters
- Mina Nakai ( 仲 依 ミ ナ ), the second nurse on Kōjikishima. Even though she is 20 years old, she is very childish and immature. She also sees the stay on the island as a kind of adventure at the beginning. Nevertheless, she grows into a mature person over time, but she is very similar to the young Gotō and has a tendency to get things wrong.
- Shigeo Andō ( 安藤 重 男 ), a fisherman who never fully accepts Gotō and who comes into the Gotō in every tricky situation, doubts his abilities. His dislike comes from being afraid of injections and having very bad experiences with doctors as a child.
- Dr. Rei Ebato ( 江 葉 都 怜 ), a doctor who, like Gotō, is a talented surgeon . They get to know each other on an airplane, where you quickly notice that for Dr. Ebato being a doctor is just a burden. He often seems unemotional and later in the manga suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and becomes an alcoholic . He very often speaks German - which used to be the jargon among Japanese doctors - when he says bad things about others.
- Dr. Shin'ichi Mikami ( 三 上 新 一 ), the assistant doctor at Tenshindō University Hospital in Tokyo ( 天津 堂 大学 ) who is responsible for the scandal. At the beginning of the manga he has a pejorative attitude towards Dr. Gotō and looks very calculating. But this is just a farce. He is actually a person with a very soft character and not suitable for hospital work. You can see this clearly in the fact that he is making further mistakes, but this time they are not fatal, as Dr. Gotō, who was in Tokyo at the moment, intervenes and saves the patient's life. After this incident, Dr. Mikami announced his behavior and quit his job at the hospital and, like Dr. Gotō on the small island of Mashōshima ( 増 生 島 ). He marries later in the manga and then dies of dengue fever .
Backgrounds for the manga
- The manga was created because the author Takatoshi Yamada wants to point out the medical abuses that prevail in Japan.
“Japan has been complaining about a shortage of certain specialists, especially anesthesiologists, for years. Long service hours, poor pay and disregard (and sexual harassment) by the surgeons are among the reasons. "
- The template for the island of Kōjikishima is one of the islands from the Koshikijima archipelago ( 甑 島 列島 ). These are located in Kagoshima Prefecture .
- Takatoshi Yamada received for Dr. Kotō Shinryōjo the 49th Shōgakukan Manga Prize .
- The manga has so far been translated into two languages: French and Chinese.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page about the manga on Anime News Networks accessed on December 1, 2010.
- ↑ Page about the manga on Myanimelist requested on December 1, 2010.
- ^ Shogakukan suspends Young Sunday , accessed December 1, 2010.
- ↑ Deutsches Ärzteblatt Edition 106
- ↑ List of winners in English. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
- ^ List of Manga in France , accessed December 1, 2010.
- ↑ List of Manga in Taiwan , accessed December 1, 2010.