This year’s Kodansha’s Shuukan Gendai general-interest weekly magazine’s March 7 issue revealed on Monday that Ryou Koshino’s (Ns’Aoi, Toushi Adviser Yuriko) medical manga, Machiisha Jumbo!!, will end in the magazine’s March 14 issue which will be released on March 2, 2015.
Koshino published Machiisha Jumbo!! in the same magazine on 2011. There are currently 13 compiled manga volume for the series. The first volume was released on October 21, 2011 while the latest volume was released on December 22, 2014. The 14th compiled manga volume is scheduled to be released on March 23, 2015.
The manga received a live-action adaptation on July 4, 2013. The show was broadcasted on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV until September 26, 2013 with 13 episodes. Each episode is approximately 43 minutes. Crunchyroll streamed the live-action drama as it aired in Japan.
Cast:
- Daisuke Maki (Jpop group EXILE member) as Masayoshi Tsuruda
- Shiori Kutsuna (Ran on Detective Conan: Kudo Shinichi e no Chousenjou) as Asuka Baba
- Yo Yoshida (Tsubasa Murai on GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka) as Chikusa Nagao
- Chukichi Kubo (Eiichiro Umeda on The Wife of Gegege) as Kohei Baba
- Daichi Yamaguchi (Toyama on GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka) as Mitsushige Misawa
- Toshinori Omi (Yukio Katsuragi on GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka) as Ichiro Tenryu
- Yuko Fueki (Tamao Terui on Doctor-X) as Reiko Satonaka
- Tomohiro Kaku (Tomonaga-sensei on Hana to Arisu Satsujin Jiken) as Jiro Kurahashi
Visit Machiisha Jumbo!!‘s official drama website here.
Synopsis of Machiisha Jumbo!! from MangaUpdates:
The story follows the local hospital director “Dr. Jumbo,” whose nickname comes from his unlikely appearance. Jumbo argues frequently with Asuka, the nurse who is the daughter of the previous hospital director, but saves his patients with his great skill as a doctor.
Source – ANN
