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Diary of a Surgical Resident: Madoka (2025)

  • Drama
  • 46 min episodes
  • 1 seasons
  • ★ 7.8/10 from 4 ratings

Madoka Wakatsuki, a 26-year-old resident, strives to find happiness while navigating the challenges of being both a doctor and a woman in the medical field.

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    Crossroad

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    2026 · Drama

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    A medical drama following rookie emergency physicians, paramedics, and police officers as they clash with bitter realities and social issues while striving to save lives on the front lines.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared theme: medical
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    GM: General Medicine

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    2010 · Drama

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    A brilliant general medicine doctor dreams only of becoming a famous dancer. He returns to Japan to make a name for himself in the entertainment industry only to find out the agency he signed up with was a sham. He stays in Japan and works part-time in a run-down GM center solving baffling medical mysteries. All the while he plans for his dancing comeback.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared network: TBS
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  3. 03

    Mirai's Future Son

    Shared cast

    2026 · Comedy · Drama

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    A love story across time where an aimless woman in her late twenties, whose life is at a standstill, suddenly becomes a mother to a boy claiming to be her future son, leading her to discover the meaning of connection and reinvent her life.

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    • substantial genre overlap
    • a principal cast member
    • a closely matched era
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  4. 04

    Plastic Beauty

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    2026 · Drama

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    When a gifted ER surgeon is thrust into cosmetic medicine, her clash with a celebrity doctor exposes the greed and desire beneath the glamour.

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    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared theme: medical
    • a closely matched era
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    Night Doctor

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    2021 · 54 min · Drama

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    Doctors from various fields and with various personalities come together and formed the "Night Doctor", specialized in night-time emergencies. This drama will show the challenges they face every night and how they slowly create a unique bond.

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    • strong story and style similarity
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    • a closely matched era
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  6. 06

    Delinquent to Doctor

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    2026 · 47 min · Drama

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    An ex-delinquent girl dramatically transforms into a highly skilled neurosurgeon, challenging the outdated and bureaucratic medical establishment to fiercely advocate for her patients.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  7. 07

    Liaison

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    2023 · 48 min · Drama

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    This is a medical manga set in a child psychiatry clinic, where the heroine, Shiho Tono, a trainee doctor, meets children with various mental illnesses, including the director Takashi Sayama, and tries to find solutions. There are very few stories that can be completed in one episode, and the style is often of dividing a theme into multiple stories and solving the problem from various angles, rather than solving the problem completely.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared theme: medical
    • a closely matched era
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    PICU: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

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    2022 · 70 min · Drama

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    Takeshiro Shikota is a 27-year-old pediatrician in Hokkaido, Japan. He was born and raised in Hokkaido. One day, Takeshiro is transferred to the newly established PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit). The unit is for children under the age of 15 who require advance and intensive treatment. There, he meets Dr. Hajime Ueno. Hajime is a pioneer in his field and hopes to establish PICU all over Japan. His goal is to bring sick children to PICU as quickly as possible and accept them under any circumstances. Meeting with Hajim, changes Takeshiro life as a pediatrician.

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    • strong story and style similarity
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    • a closely matched era
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    Never Let Me Go

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    2016 · 54 min · Drama

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    30-year-old Kyoko has a "job". The story starts with her looking back 20 years to her boarding school of Yoko Gakuen in the mountains. Tomohiko, Miwa, and Kyoko are all in the same grade. Inspired by the educational philosophy of the principal - Emiko, teacher Tatsuko joins the boarding school staff, but soon finds the school rather strange...

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    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared network: TBS
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    Mad Doctor

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    2022 · 60 min · Comedy · Drama

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    To run away from the dark past, Dr. Liu works at a countryside hospital. She assumes the job would be nice and easy there, but instead she witnesses and deals with various bizarre medical cases.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared theme: medical
    • a closely matched era
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