“Overweight doctor reunites with first love while working at rooftop castle clinic in elementary school.”
Startling Doctor
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Overweight doctor reunites with first love while working at rooftop castle clinic in elementary school.
Haruka Nishikikoji is an overweight doctor that never seems to attract any girls. Fate finds a way as he lands a job as a doctor in an elementary school, wherein his workplace can be found on top of the schools' roof and the actual clinic looks like a medieval castle. Just when everything seems to go downhill, a surprise came one day, her first love Koizumi Miyuki, applies as his soon to be nurse.
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A Tv Production · Fall 1998
Studio Pierrot.- Format 26 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 50m all episodes
- Aired Oct 1998 – Jun 1999 Fall 1998
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-3702 catalog