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"What is a doctor?"- a young intern faces the dark side of the medical world. The reality awaiting intern Eijirou Saito at the ultra-prestigious Eiroku University hospital turns out to be brutally long hours of work for a paltry salary of less than $500 a month. 3 months after his graduation from the university, his patients-first idealism crashes head-on into a medical system that's a veritable tangle of contradictions and competing interests. (Source: Manga Club) *Note: Won Excellence Prize for Manga in Japan Media Arts Festival (2002) and Grand Award in Japan Cartoonist Association Award (2004).*
A continuation of Black Jack ni Yoroshiku.
"You will not be able to return a live after piloting these weapons" ...is the only explanation the boys got, when asked if they would like to apply to become pilots for the special new weapons. As speculation fills their minds, they're sent to a certain island... What awaits them there? (Source: Manga Club)
Umizaru, the Sea Monkey, is about the Maritime Safety Agency. The main character is Daisuke Senzaki age 19, a newbie navigation officer aboard the Nagare. He has a trauma from the past and hates to over look at lives he could save even if it means risking his own. See what kind of troubles arise and how Daisuke moves from just a navigation officer to an Umizaru!
Jiro gambles at mahjong, but loses big. His opponent, however want him as a partner and takes Jiro to a factory where the Uehara yakuza group are gambling about something more than money - a man's life. No matter if he wins or loses, somebody has to die. The game quickly turns into a violence story about life and death. Together with Takeda, whom he had managed to save from said game, they try to take down the Uehara group once and for all. And the yakuza - they have their matters to settle.
