Ryutaro Asada was the chief surgeon of Team Medical Dragon, a globally active emergency medical care team that worked in refugee camps. After his return to Japan, this amazingly talented surgeon starts work at a university hospital, where he uncovers one case of corruption after another and takes on a lot of powerful contenders in this heroic drama. The struggles between the hospital and the patients, the infighting among the hospital staff, and the patients who get involved in those struggles are all depicted in a realistic manner in a drama that has an overwhelming feeling of speed. Here’s a human drama depicting a thrilling battle between life and death, a totally new, outstanding form of entertainment.
Japanese study overview
Iryu: Team Medical Dragon is a Japanese drama of 597,074 characters, with 9,840 unique words and 1,682 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 9,840 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 先生teacher×2,873
- 患者patient×1,643
- 朝田Asata×1,517
- 俺I×963
- 病院hospital×825
- 手術surgery×775
- 言うto say×673
- お前you×670
- 心臓heart×623
- 僕I×561
- 今now×526
- 伊集院Ishuuin×520
- 野口Nokuchi×433
- 桜井Sakurai×394
- 荒瀬Arase×335
- 人工心肺cardiopulmonary bypass×310
- 医局medical office (esp. in a hospital)×227
- 鑷子tweezers (esp. in a medical or laboratory setting)×223
- 北洋northern waters×217
- 心筋cardiac muscle×199