Saijō no Meii

Saijō no Meii
	Manga volume 1 cover
最上の命医
Genre	Medical
Manga
Written by	Kenzō Irie
Illustrated by	Takashi Hashiguchi
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run	December 5, 2007 – February 24, 2010
Volumes	11
Manga
Saijō no Meii: The King of Neet
Written by	Kenzō Irie
Illustrated by	Takashi Hashiguchi
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run	March 31, 2010 – April 30, 2014
Volumes	19
Television drama
Directed by	Manabu Aso (1–2, 10); Hisashi Kimura (3, 4–8); Kosuke Suzuki (5–6, 9); Kazusuke Yagi (7);
Produced by	Junpei Nakagawa; Futoshi Asano; Tsuyoshi Sato; Tomoyo Nihei;
Written by	Erika Yoshida; Takeshi Miyamoto;
Music by	Kōji Endō
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	January 10, 2011 – March 14, 2011
Episodes	10
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GenreMedical^[1]

WrittenbyKenzō Irie

IllustratedbyTakashi Hashiguchi

PublishedbyShogakukan

Saijō no Meii (最上の命医; lit. "The Best Skilled Surgeon") is a Japanese manga series written by Kenzō Irie and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from December 2007 to February 2010, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. A sequel, titled Saijō no Meii: The King of Neet, was serialized in the same magazine from March 2010 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes.

A 10-episode Japanese television drama adaptation was broadcast on TV Tokyo from January to March 2011. Three special episodes aired in February 2016, August 2017 and October 2019.

[1]

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	April 18, 2008^[5]	978-4-09-121385-3
2	February 18, 2008^[11]	978-4-09-121446-1
3	October 17, 2008^[12]	978-4-09-121499-7
4	January 16, 2009^[13]	978-4-09-121569-7
5	April 17, 2009^[14]	978-4-09-122003-5
6	July 17, 2009^[15]	978-4-09-121708-0
7	September 17, 2009^[16]	978-4-09-121746-2
8	December 18, 2009^[17]	978-4-09-122029-5
9	March 18, 2010^[18]	978-4-09-122187-2
10	April 16, 2010^[19]	978-4-09-122260-2
11	June 19, 2010^[6]	978-4-09-122416-3

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	July 16, 2010^[9]	978-4-09-122418-7
2	October 18, 2010^[20]	978-4-09-122655-6
3	December 17, 2010^[21]	978-4-09-122718-8
4	February 18, 2011^[22]	978-4-09-122784-3
5	May 18, 2011^[23]	978-4-09-122874-1
6	August 18, 2011^[24]	978-4-09-123217-5
7	November 18, 2011^[25]	978-4-09-123385-1
8	February 17, 2012^[26]	978-4-09-123546-6
9	May 18, 2012^[27]	978-4-09-123659-3
10	August 17, 2012^[28]	978-4-09-123795-8
11	October 18, 2012^[29]	978-4-09-123890-0
12	December 18, 2012^[30]	978-4-09-124035-4
13	March 18, 2013^[31]	978-4-09-124196-2
14	June 18, 2013^[32]	978-4-09-124299-0
15	August 16, 2013^[33]	978-4-09-124375-1
16	November 18, 2013^[34]	978-4-09-124497-0
17	February 18, 2014^[35]	978-4-09-124563-2
18	April 18, 2014^[36]	978-4-09-124586-1
19	June 18, 2014^[37]	978-4-09-124649-3

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