Saijō no Meii

Saijō no Meii (Japanese: 最上の命医, lit. "The Best Skilled Surgeon") is a Japanese manga series written by Kenzō Irie and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from December 2007 to February 2010, with its chapters collected in eleven tankōbon volumes. A sequel, titled Saijō no Meii: The King of Neet, was serialized in the same magazine from March 2010 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in nineteen tankōbon volumes.

Saijō no Meii
最上の命医
GenreMedical[1]
Manga
Written byKenzō Irie
Illustrated byTakashi Hashiguchi
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runDecember 5, 2007 – February 24, 2010
Volumes11
Manga
Saijō no Meii: The King of Neet
Written byKenzō Irie
Illustrated byTakashi Hashiguchi
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 31, 2010 – April 30, 2014
Volumes19
Television drama
Directed by
  • Manabu Aso (#1–2, #10)
  • Hisashi Kimura (#3, #4–8)
  • Kosuke Suzuki (#5–6, #9)
  • Kazusuke Yagi (#7)
Produced by
  • Junpei Nakagawa
  • Futoshi Asano
  • Tsuyoshi Sato
  • Tomoyo Nihei
Written by
  • Erika Yoshida
  • Takeshi Miyamoto
Music byKōji Endō
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run January 10, 2011 – March 14, 2011
Episodes10

A 10-episode Japanese television drama adaptation was broadcast on TV Tokyo from January to March 2011. 3 special episodes aired in February 2016, August 2017 and October 2019.

Media

Manga

Saijō no Meii' is written by Kenzō Irie and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi. The series began in the 2008 1st issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday, released on December 5, 2007,[2] and the series finished in the 2010 13th issue of the magazine, released on February 24, 2010.[3] Shogakukan collected its chapters in eleven tankōbon volumes, released from April 18, 2008 to June 19, 2010.[4][5]

A sequel, titled Saijō no Meii: The King of Neet (最上の明医～ザ・キング・オブ・ニート～, Saijō no meii ~ Za Kingu Obu Nīto ~) began in the 2010 18th issue of Weekly Shōnen Sunday, released on March 31, 2010, and the series finished in the 2014 combined 22nd-23rd issue of the magazine, released on April 30, 2014.[6][7] Shogakukan collected its chapters in nineteen tankōbon volumes, released from July 16, 2010 to June 18, 2014.[8][9]

Saijō no Meii
No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 April 18, 2008[4]978-4-09-121385-3
2 February 18, 2008[10]978-4-09-121446-1
3 October 17, 2008[11]978-4-09-121499-7
4 January 16, 2009[12]978-4-09-121569-7
5 April 17, 2009[13]978-4-09-122003-5
6 July 17, 2009[14]978-4-09-121708-0
7 September 17, 2009[15]978-4-09-121746-2
8 December 18, 2009[16]978-4-09-122029-5
9 March 18, 2010[17]978-4-09-122187-2
10 April 16, 2010[18]978-4-09-122260-2
11 June 19, 2010[5]978-4-09-122416-3
Saijō no Meii: The King of Neet
No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 July 16, 2010[8]978-4-09-122418-7
2 October 18, 2010[19]978-4-09-122655-6
3 December 17, 2010[20]978-4-09-122718-8
4 February 18, 2011[21]978-4-09-122784-3
5 May 18, 2011[22]978-4-09-122874-1
6 August 23, 2011[23]978-4-09-123217-5
7 November 18, 2011[24]978-4-09-123385-1
8 February 17, 2012[25]978-4-09-123546-6
9 May 18, 2012[26]978-4-09-123659-3
10 August 17, 2012[27]978-4-09-123795-8
11 October 18, 2012[28]978-4-09-123890-0
12 December 18, 2012[29]978-4-09-124035-4
13 March 18, 2013[30]978-4-09-124196-2
14 June 18, 2013[31]978-4-09-124299-0
15 August 16, 2013[32]978-4-09-124375-1
16 November 18, 2013[33]978-4-09-124497-0
17 February 18, 2014[34]978-4-09-124563-2
18 April 18, 2014[35]978-4-09-124586-1
19 June 18, 2014[9]978-4-09-124649-3

Drama

A Japanese television drama adaptation was announced in October 2010.[1] The series ran for 10 episodes on TV Tokyo from January 10 to March 14, 2011.[36][37] 3 special episodes aired on February 10, 2016,[38][39] August 23, 2017,[40] and October 2, 2019.[41][42]

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