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“Brain surgeon time-travels to Edo, using modern medicine to save lives and reshape history.”
Jin
JIN-仁-
7.87
1,209 rank · 7,515 readers · 81 favorites
Seinen
Historical
Medical
Time Travel
Award Winning
Drama
Supernatural
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Synopsis
Brain surgeon time-travels to Edo, using modern medicine to save lives and reshape history.
As a result of a strange encounter with a mysterious carcinogenic fetus he found inside a patient's skull, brain surgeon Minakata Jin has slipped back through time. Equipped with modern medical knowledge, he faces various fatal diseases and injuries. Then, he meets the ordinary people of Edo as well as illustrious figures, and his surgical knife carves out a new history and story of life. (Source: Easy Going Scanlations)
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
8.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 0.94
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.94 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.67
Running avg · Jun 2012 → Apr 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “So let me start with a review here since no one has done yet at the time. Jin is a manga made for people that enjoy some kind of historical conflicts. What I mean by this is a surgeon travelling...”
- 7 “Jin is the tale of a Japanese brain surgeon named Minakata Jin that gets sent back in time to the Bakumetsu period. There he uses his modern medical knowledge to help the people of Edo while...”
- 9 “The manga Jin is born from the author (Motoka Murakami) asking himself a question: "If a doctor with knowledge of modern medicine was sent back to the Edo period, what would that man have been able...”
Verbosity
Short · 0%
Medium · 33%
Long · 67%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 137 × 20 ch × vol
- Total read 18h 16m approx
- Published Apr 2000 – Nov 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M7686 catalog