This post is inspired by Booya’s recent post on Team Medical Dragon tv series. I was replying to his recent reply to my comment and figure I might as well make an actual post about j-drama recommendations because I got overboard with the info-dump of a reply that will really kill his post’s comments XD;;;
Genre : Medical, Human Drama, OMFG Can’t-the-Bastard-Die-Already?!
Team Medical Dragon : I am a fan on the manga and thus was kind of wary about how it’ll translate on screen. Because it’s a manga certain level of excessive dramatic expressions are expected. And it made the manga an AWESOME read. The mangaka makes performing surgery as the next most badass thing EVER. So how will it turn out in a live action adaptation? Will the tv production crew keep the awesome dramatics and NOT make it … y’know, cheesey?
Team Medical Dragon tv series took it all up, did all that and managed to still manage to make you bite your fingernails watching it. Kudos to the screen-writers who managed to adapt the manga to tv series wonderfully, compressing many many manga chapters into a 11 episodes series that stays quite true to the original source ( as for the changes, I happened to like them a lot too 
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The synopsis in block 
Ryutaro Asada is enjoying his peaceful life in the countryside, when he is visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospital.
Ryutaro is a genius surgeon who used to lead “Team Medical Dragon,” a world-class NGO medical team. In harsh environments that lacked medicine and electricity, Ryutaro witnessed many lives pass away. At the same time, he saved many other lives, helping his matchless skill overwhelm other doctors.
As a female doctor, Akira managed to become an assistant professor. She has ambitions to be promoted to professor by succeeding in a surgery using the Batista technique; an extremely difficult type of heart surgery and also by writing a paper on it. A year ago, Akira witnessed Ryutaro’s skills when he was an NGO doctor. That’s why she recruits him and asks him to use the Batista technique. Since Ryutaro’s arrival, urgent patients who would have been abandoned in the past, are miraculously saved by the “hands of God.” –Fuji TV
Booya had posted a nice review on this series over at his blog ( from a non-jdrama watching person POV ) so I won’t say more of it.
So he asked me to recommend some other j-dramas that has [quote] weird mix of stuff [unquote]. And because I *like* inflicting these on unsuspecting people sharing, here is a giant of a post. Because I care. Really
MADHATTER’S TOP 3 FAVOURITE J-DRAMA LIST!
In no particular order actually because I loved all these three for different reasons.
