Summary
In real life, a trip to the doctor’s office isn’t any fun, no matter how cool the doctor in charge is. In anime,the best doctorshave fans absolutely captivated with their intensity, intelligence, and ability to heal any injury and cure any disease. Until they break out the needles, scalpels, and other pointy instruments, one imagines it would be great to be their patient.
These doctors use their skills and training to perform out-of-this-world feats, usually ones impossible in real life. Sometimes, they will have supernatural abilities (outside of healing powers) that enhance their natural talent in medicine. But most often, they will simply be performing medicine, based in real life but on an entirely different level than any other medical professional.
10Kuro’o Hazama Travels the World Treating Patients
Black Jack
Legendary mangaka Osamu Tezukawas also a trained doctor, and one can imagine his excitement at being able to put his medical knowledge to full use in his manga.Dr. Kuro’o Hazama, also known asBlack Jack, lost his medical license, but that doesn’t stop him from secretly treating patients,or from charging them as much as he pleases for his services. At his core, though, he’s a deeply compassionate person.
Black Jack never has any trouble finding work: from deadly diseases to terrible injuries, medical emergencies just drop into his lap, and when he’s the one in danger, he can easily operate on himself. As quick as he is effective, he’ll even perform free surgeries just to prove anyone who doubts his skill wrong. He also trains another doctor, Ray Kasugano, who stars in her own spinoffRay the Animation.
9Elise de Clorence Was Reincarnated to Be a Doctor
Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
In her first life, Empress Elise de Clorence was the terror of Britta, and was ultimately executed for her crimes. In her second life, she’s reborn as Aoi Takamoto, a renowned surgeon. When she dies in a plane crash, succumbing to her injuries because she strove to save everyone else first, she’srewarded with a second chance to live Elise’s life, and uses it to become her kingdom’s greatest doctor.
Knowledge of modern medicine is thestrongest weapon the reincarnated Elise wields in this unconventional isekai.Though the state of medicine in the medieval Britta is inconsistent (they have X-rays but never heard of a tracheotomy?), its medical community is quick to recognize Elise’s talent. She’s able to recognize symptoms of disease rarely or never diagnosed in her world, and introduce modern treatments and procedures that are shockingly (to her peers, at least) effective.
Cast
A mean princess who lost everything to her foolish behaviour and to an epidemic gets thrown back in time to before it happened. Now she wishes to become a better person and a doctor to protect her family and kingdom.
8Leorio Paladiknight Is a Doctor Who Packs a Punch
Hunter X Hunter
Leorio is so dedicated to his chosen career path that his character song is even called “Leorio the HUNTER X DOCTOR”.
Though Leorio would love to have people believe that he is a greedy freewheeler who only cares about money, he reveals pretty quicklywhyhe wants to be rich so badly. His childhood best friend died of a disease whose cure his family couldn’t afford, and hedreams of becoming a doctor to open a free clinic and cure as many people as he can. In the little screen time he gets,Leorio’s best momentsprove he has what it takes to achieve that dream.
Leorio’s Nen abilities are very useful for finding and attacking disease. The Remote Punch that let him deck Ging from across an auditorium is meant for instantly curing parts of the body that surgery can’t reach. In the manga, he’s appointed head of the medical team on the Dark Continent expedition, where he demonstrates his second ability: performing a Nen ultrasound to detect parasites or abnormalities inside the body.
Hunter × Hunteris a Japanese manga and anime franchise created by Yoshihiro Togashi. The story follows Gon Freecss, a boy who discovers his father is a legendary Hunter, and embarks on a journey to become one himself. Along the way, he encounters friends and foes in a world filled with martial arts, adventure, and paranormal elements. The franchise spans manga, multiple anime adaptations, films, OVAs, and video games.
7Fran Madaraki Is a Monstrous Genius Surgeon
Franken Fran
Victor Frankenstein may have immediately abandoned his resurrected corpse-child, but Professor Naomitsu Madaraki taught everything he knows to his daughter Fran,programming her to be a doctor and surgeon that will never take a life.(Thenhe abandoned his creations for parts unknown.) She proves to be even more skilled than her father, able to bring her own creations to life and cure anything up to and including death.
There’s only one little problem with being Fran’s patient: being the hero of one of thebest horror manga, Fran’s talent is great, but her morality is completely alien. She won’t kill or let a patient die, but also won’t understand what could be upsetting about being kept alive in a painful or monstrous state. While she cares deeply and does her best to help, patients often won’t get exactly what they wished for — or worse, as the saying goes, they will.
6Kenzou Tenma Will Always Save His Patients
Monster
Tenma may be among the best neurosurgeons in the world, but unfortunately, his luck is among the worst. Jaded by the money-hungry medical system around him,he almost ruins his career by choosing to save a child shot in the head over the mayor.When he’s finally recovered, the child he saved comes back: all grown up and a remorseless serial killer who frames Tenma for his crimes inone of anime’s best psychological thrillers.
Tenma’s skills allow him to treat his allies and innocent bystanders who need help alike, though the latter tends to get him into trouble. Much as he regrets being the reason Johan is alive, he still cannot resist the temptation to use his talents whenever he’s able, no matter the cost. Though he’s loath to kill, his medical knowledge means he knows exactly how much damage can be done to the body by striking certain locations, and he doesn’t mind making threats with this information or passing it to allies whowilluse it.
5Shinra Kishitani the Back-Alley Doctor Treats Criminals and Creatures
Durarara!!
Like his father Shingen, Shinra is abrilliant doctor who uses his skills to serve a fairly shady clientele(neither of them ever removing their white coats as they do). Despite his youth, he is already experienced enough in stitching up stab wounds, removing bullets, and other such requirements of the back-alley doctor to afford the fancy Ikebukuro apartment he works from and lives in with his headless Dullahan girlfriend Celty.
Helping Shingen vivisect Celty when he was young sparked his obsession with both the medical sciences and Celty herself. Even as a kid, he was enough at ease around injuries to tell Izaya to calm down and stop the bleeding after getting stabbed in Izaya’s place. He often is the one to try and explain the many strange and supernatural happenings in Ikebukuro in scientific terms, but not many other characters care to listen.
Durarara!! is a Japanese anime series set in the bustling district of Ikebukuro, Tokyo. The plot follows an eclectic group of characters, including an underground informant, a headless rider, and a high school student seeking excitement beyond his mundane life. Interwoven tales of supernatural beings and gang conflict create a complex narrative that delves into the mysterious and chaotic urban landscape.
4Trafalgar Law’s Devil Fruit Makes Him a Perfect Surgeon
One Piece
The Straw Hats’ resident medic and one of thebest creature companions in anime, Tony Tony Chopper, worked hard for years to achieve his dream of becoming a great doctor. Trafalgar Law figured he’d just take a shortcut by eating the Op-Op Fruit, which enables him tocreate an area where he can shatter the laws of physics and manipulate anything inside however he wishes. Naturally, he’s a dangerous fighter and a perfect surgeon.
From removing and replacing organs to cutting people to pieces, Law can do anything he likes with anybody without harming it. He used these powers to deliver the 100 beating pirate hearts he needed to become a Warlord of the Sea, earning the title “Surgeon of Death” among his peers as a bonus. Technically, he also has the power to grant immortality, but since it will kill him, he has zero interest in using it.
The One Piece anime began in 1999 and follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a boy with rubber-like abilities, as he embarks on a journey to find the legendary treasure “One Piece.” Inspired by the pirate Shanks, Luffy aims to become the King of the Pirates, accompanied by a diverse crew.
3Maomao Serves the Palace as a Pharmaceutical Genius
The Apothecary Diaries
In the original novels, Maomao begins training as a surgeon as well as an apothecary.
Despite her great intelligence, Maomao has no ambition beyond working alongside her apothecary father and doing dangerous science experiments in her spare time. But when she’s kidnapped and sold to the imperial palace as a servant, her life is changed forever. Court eunuch Jinshi quickly promotes her when he recognizes how her talents can benefit the royal family.
Maomao may not be an officially titled doctor, buther knowledge of plants and their effects on the human body is second to none.When she isn’t working alongside the palace doctors, she’s five steps ahead of them already solving mysteries, medical and otherwise, including some that had been plaguing the court for years. It takes quite a lot to make her lose her cool: blood and poison don’t even come close to qualifying.
The Apothecary Diaries follows Maomao, sold from her peaceful life to serve in the emperor’s palace. Her unique talents emerge when she solves a medical crisis involving the imperial heirs, attracting the attention of Jinshi, a palace official, and launching her into the complex world of palace intrigue and mysteries.
2Hajime Hanafusa Performs Surgery on Himself to Become Stronger
Kengan Ashura
Hanafusa has diagnosed himself as completely bonkers, but doesn’t see why that should disqualify him from being a surgeon, assassin, or a participant in the World Annihilation Tournament. He not only delights in dissecting other people, but has opened himself up as well several times. Theextensive modifications he’s made to his own body make him unlike any other fighter in the world.
Unable to sweat, tire, or even feel pain, Hanafusa is a mechanical monster in the kengan arena. His fighting style targets pressure points with deadly accuracy, and he can heal himself and other tournament participants no matter what horrific injuries they suffer in their bloody battles. He isn’t even the official tournament doctor, but the people who were actually hired sure aren’t going to call him on it.
1Franken Stein Is Death City’s Greatest Doctor
Soul Eater
If there’s one doctor in anime who has a dissection obsession to beat all the others, it’s Stein. He’s a genius doctor, scientist, and fighter, and Shibusen is very lucky that he’s determined to stay on their side. The extensive stitching on his body and screw in his skull go to showhow far he’s taken experimenting on himself.
In a world where madness is a tangible force that regresses mind, body,andsoul into ferality and chaos, susceptibility to it is a considerable weakness. Stein must always fight his more bloodthirsty urges so he can do good instead of cut people up to his heart’s content. Though he claims to not be able to feel or understand love for others, he is fiercely protective of his students and loved ones, and does everything in his power to keep them alive.
Soul Eater is an anime series set in the Death Weapon Meister Academy, where students train to become meisters and weapon partners to hunt evil souls. The protagonist, Maka Albarn, along with her living weapon partner Soul Eater, aim to transform Soul into a powerful Death Scythe. The series explores their battles against various supernatural threats and the complex dynamics within the academy.
