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…
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...
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...
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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