[Dorama Review] Team Medical Dragon ~ Iryu Season 2

Reviewed the first season, now I’m going to review Team Medical Dragon ~Iryu~ dorama season 2 which was aired on 2007.

For those who doesn't read my review yet about Iryu 1 before, you can find it here:

Team Medical Dragon - Iryu 1

Doesn’t like the reputation of Asada Ryutaro (played by Sakaguchi Kenji) as a genius-troublemaker surgeon, Noguchi Keno (played by Kishibe Ittoku) moved Asada and Ijyuuin Noboru (played by Koike Teppei) to a small hospital along with the other troublemakers, thinking that even a surgeon who is as genius as Asada couldn’t do anything without a help of the team. However, it turns out that the troublemakers are actually genius surgeons who had bad incidents and changed into a ‘trash’. Being with Asada, one by one started to do their best once again of being a surgeon.

It’s been a long time since I read the manga so I don’t fully remember, but as I recall, the season 2’s story is not in the manga and it started to deviate from the manga (correct me if I’m wrong). As I’ve said in the season 1’s review, the actors are great, the setting is so real that you can’t differ the difference between fake heart and real heart. It’s still applied for the season 2; however, the story of the season 1 is more interesting than this season 2. I personally love the 1^st season more. The thing I hate most in this season 2 is the disappearance of Katou Akira. Katou Akira is one of the main characters in Team Medical Dragon, she shouldn’t have disappeared no matter what the reason is. “If anyone leaves we can continue running, that’s a real team”, this famous word from Asada is the best for describing this season 2.

I give 7 out of 10 points for this dorama.

*this review is a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, please feel free to make a correction*

[Dorama Review] Team Medical Dragon ~ Iryu Season 1

So today I'm going to review Iryu ~Team Medical Dragon~ season 1 which is aired on 2006.

This dorama is made based on a famous anime/manga written by Akira Nagai, illustrated by Taro Nogizaka.

Iryu is a story about a genius surgeon, Asada Ryutaro (played by Sakaguchi Kenji) which is expelled from Higashi Nihon University Hospital because being framed for a misdiagnosis. An assistant professor from Meishin Hospital University Cardiac Department, Katou Akira (played by Inamori Izumi), once saw Asada's skill at MSAP, a non-governmental organization in medical field in a war torn countries, and wants Asada to be a part of her team to complete her thesis to be a professor, Batista Procedure. Asada agreed to help Akira and starts to find his own team to complete Batista surgery.

I personally love this dorama very much. I think this is one of the best dorama I've ever watched. The setting of the dorama is so real that makes you really get into the dorama! You really can't tell that it's a fake heart (even though I never saw a real one actually, hehe), and the actors and actresses are so great that you would think they are real surgeons!

Because I read and watch both the manga and the dorama, there are several differences between the two of them.
- Asada's character in the dorama is quite different from the one in the manga I think. Asada's character in the dorama is more serious where Asada's character is more cheerful and not so serious, even though both character are still troubling and annoying for Akira.
- In the manga, Miki, a great surgical nurse who followed Asada, is Asada's lover. In the dorama, Miki (played by Mizukawa Asami) is still following Asada, but it's hardly to be seen that they are actually a lover, nor there is a love story between both of them.
- Fujiyoshi Keisuke's image between the dorama and the manga is very different. In the manga, Fujiyoshi Keisuke is portrayed to be big and tall where in the dorama, Fujiyoshi Keisuke is played by Sasaki Kuranosuke who is quite thin and small. I mean, you can't match a real person exactly with a person in manga, but just I think the difference is too big.

Well, in summary, the difference between the dorama and manga is not a big problem. You can't expect all those story in the manga to be portrayed in a 11-episode-dorama anyway. Other than the difference I realize above, I'm also quite amazed with the so-similar-characteristic I found in Ijyuuin Noboru (played by Koike Teppei), Arase Monji (played by Abe Sadao), Noguchi Keno (played by Kishibe Ittoku), and Kihara Takehiko (played by Ikeda Tetsuhiro).

The dorama is very recommended and I give 10 out of 10 points for this dorama! ^^


*this review is a personal opinion and made by me who is a newbie reviewer, if there is any mistakes, please feel free to make a correction*