📺 Japanese Tv Series Review: Radiation House (ラジエーションハウス)

I’m here today with another medical J-drama, Radiation House.
I saw an ad while riding the subway and got curious since I already knew the lead actor Masataka Kubota, which starred in the live-action movie ‘Tokyo Ghoul’

Fun Fact: actor Nobuyuki Suzuki is present in 'Tokyo Ghoul' as well as in 'Radiation House' and acts as Masataka's opponent in both! Once rivals, always rivals, I guess…
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Igarashi Iori and Hirose Hirono are two newbie technicians who just joined Amakasu General Hospital’s Radiology department. Commonly called Radiation House, the existing 5 members team includes Onodera Toshio, the chief technician, and 4 subalterns while Amakusa An and Dr. Kaburagi Yasutomi are the radiologists in charge of analyzing the images these technicians take.
Igarashi seems to already know Dr. Amakusa but she, on the other hand, doesn’t and is a bit annoyed because of him keeping on bring up the topic. 
After his first day at the hospital, it’s clear that Igarashi isn’t the average technician: he’s very skilled in taking X-Ray or MRI pictures and also dares to object doctors' diagnosis, but he worked in the US so everyone thinks that’s how they did things there…The only one who knows the truth is Omori Nagisa, the hospital director, who promised Igarashi to keep is secret, but under one condition...
Risultati immagini per ラジエーションハウス
As the story goes on, the number of cases the team works on increase and they're variegate so the viewer gets to see how important radiology technicians' work is and the many branches this field has, with each technician mastering one: Inou Kei, for instance, is an Ai (Autopsy Image - determine the cause of death by taking a CT or MRI of a corpse) expert while Yuki Rin is passionate about how technical machines work.

My Opinion👍👎
This is an 11-episodes series, what I appreciated was the ability to showing in each one the main story while simultaneously focusing on the one specific technician, so that the viewer has a 360° view on the whole cast.
The balance between funny and ironical scenes mixed well together with more serious ones (more or less like Doctor House) and I enjoyed the overall production, which is why I was a bit disappointed by its final episode and how the ended it.

Igarashi and director Omori characters are so original, with him gushing and talking to himself every time doctor Amakusa (he calls her An-chan) passes by and the hospital director playing also the unwanted therapist, offering to her employees improbable and undrinkable tea as well as all-natural cosmetic products.

Related Japanese medical drama 
Good Doctor (グッド ドクター) my review HERE

Ranking: 4½/5

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