In Tenikai General Hospital, patients with illnesses that just can’t be solved by other doctors are sent to Ameku Takao, an eccentric, difficult to deal with doctor that lives and works at the hospital.
Ameku is renowned for her ability to find the root cause of even the most mysterious illnesses, so much so that even the police contact her when they can’t figure out their strangest murder cases.
After helping him cure his patient, young doctor Takanashi Yuu becomes Takao’s assistant and is pulled into her brilliant, mysterious world.
She’s no Black Jack, but she’ll do. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective, head on down below.
Anime Like Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective
For Fans of Medical Mysteries
Black Jack
The genius and “unregistered” doctor known as Black Jack has a past shrouded in mystery.
Together with his assistant Pinoko, he takes on cases that are too dangerous, feature obscure medical ailments, or handle ailments that no doctor has ever seen before.
Thanks to his skills, he can save any patient’s life – as long as they have the money for it.
Similarities Between Ameku MD and Black Jack
- Brilliant doctor and their assistant solving medical mysteries
- Episodic series where each mystery is wrapped up by the end of the episode
- Medical science that sometimes seems so detached from reality, but isn’t.
Differences Between Ameku MD and Black Jack
- Sometimes the cases in Black Jack are actually fictional maladies, but they are treated with real techniques. There is also a decent bit of sci-fi in the storytelling as well.
- The main character in Black Jack is a bit of an anti-hero in that he’ll help you, but he won’t be nice about it.
- The “detective and side kick” dynamic is a bit different as Black Jack’s side kick is almost purely comic relief.
Dr. Ramune – Mysterious Diseases Specialist
If something takes root deep enough in someone’s heart, it can attract spirits that will cause mysterious diseases that modern medicine cannot cure.
For those that have these unique ailments, like crying condiments from your eyes, there is Dr. Ramune who helps his patients explore the root cause of the issue in order to rid them of the disease.
Similarities Between Ameku MD and Dr. Ramune
- Eccentric doctor and their straight-laced assistant who often keeps them in line solve medical mysteries.
- Episodic series where each mystery is wrapped up by the end of the episode
- Weird medical maladies
Differences Between Ameku MD and Dr. Ramune
- Dr. Ramune illnesses are not at all based in real medical science, and are often food-related and caused by some sort of emotional turmoil.
- Dr. Ramune features the more eccentric doctor.
Beautiful Bones – Sakurako’s Investigation
Initially, high schooler Shoutaro is suspicious of Sakurako Kujo, a cool beauty in her twenties, for the disappearances in his neighborhood. However, he soon learns her true talent is analyzing bones as an osteologist.
Accompanying her on her outings, he finds himself embroiled in a number of mysteries.
Similarities Between Ameku MD and Beautiful Bones
- Eccentric doctor and her normal straight-laced assistant
- Female doctor, male assistant, romantic baiting.
- Real medical science, even when it doesn’t seem like it.
Differences Between Ameku MD and Beautiful Bones
- Beautiful Bones is about a woman that studies bones, so the “patients” involved in the mysteries are already dead.
- While Beautiful Bones is sometimes episodic, it does have a few longer arcs.
- Sakurako is more a serene cool beauty with minimal social skills compared to the more fiery Ameku.
The Apothecary Diaries
Learning to be an apothecary from her father, Maomao honed her skills in the brothels of her town. However, one day she is kidnapped and forced to work as a servant in the rear section of the Imperial Palace that houses the emperor’s consorts.
While trying to stay under the radar until her contract was up, Maomao catches the attention of the emperor’s favorite consort when her skills as an apothecary end up saving the life of the consorts’ baby daughter.
This act leads to her being taken on as the consort’s lady-in-waiting and food taster due to Maomao’s prolific knowledge of both medicine and poisons.
Similarities Between Ameku MD and The Apothecary Diaries
- Eccentric heroine with a man in her orbit clearly romantic interested
- Heroine is passionate about at least one area of medicine and uses that knowledge to solve medical mysteries
- Use of real world medical knowledge
Differences Between Ameku MD and The Apothecary Diaries
- The Apothecary Diaries is set in a fictional China-inspired Imperial Palace
- The medical knowledge used in Apothecary Diaries is ancient medicine, not modern medicine
- The Apothecary Diaries is not episodic, but rather uses a series of small mysteries, sometimes not even medical-related, that build into larger intrigue going on in the palace.
For Fans of Eccentric Mystery Solvers
Ron Kamonohashi’s Forbidden Deductions
Although he was the best student in the history of the prestigious Detective Training Academy BLUE, Ron Kamonohashi was kicked out of school and barred from ever working as detective after being involved in a murder case during his training.
Barely keeping a grasp on his love for mysteries and living in seclusion, he is excited to help rookie police detective Totomaru Isshiki who seeks Kamonohashi’s advice on a case at the urging of an older colleague.
Reluctantly and excitingly agreeing to help, Kamonohashi quickly solves Isshiki’s cold case, but Isshiki soon learns why Ron Kamonohashi cannot work as a detective – upon finding the culprit, Ron possesses the uncontrollable power to make the culprit kill themselves.
Similarities Between Ameku MD and Ron Kamonohashi
- Eccentric detective and their skilled, but normal sidekick
- Supernatural-seeming mysteries with, as it turns out, perfectly normal realistic explanations
Differences Between Ameku MD and Ron Kamonohashi
- Ron Kamonohashi is the more eccentric detective
- Ron Kamonohashi was a bit episodic in the first season, but moved into longer arcs for better storytelling.
- Ron Kamonohashi is a murder mysteries, not medical mysteries
In/Spectre
At a young age, Kotoko Iwanaga was abducted by yokai and asked to become their Goddess of Wisdom to act as a mediator between spiritual and human issues. She agreed and lost her right eye and left leg in the agreement.
Meanwhile, Kotoko meets Kuro Sakuragawa, a man who just broke up with his girlfriend after a kappa fled before him.
Kotoko makes her move to not only lock him down as a boyfriend, but to have him help her settle various disputes with spirits.
Similarities Between Ameku MD and In/Spectre
- Eccentric detective and her straight-laced assistant who takes care of her
- Tiny female detective, tall male assistant, romantic baiting.
Differences Between Ameku MD and In/Spectre
- In/Spectre is fully about solving and mediating problems between supernatural creatures and humanity.
- In/Spectre is very verbose, but does occasionally have some action too
- In/Spectre tells its mysteries in longer arcs
- In/Spectre is very unambiguous in its romantic leanings, although it has more of a “she’s more into him than he is to her” thing going on.
Heaven’s Memo Pad
Narumi Fujishima doesn’t really fit in at school, but still craves friends.
When another misfit introduces him to a strange NEET girl that lives above a ramen shop, he is drafted into her ultra elite private detective agency.
Similarities Between Ameku MD and Heaven’s Memo Pad
- Eccentric detective and her straight-laced assistant who takes care of her
- Tiny female detective, normal male assistant, romantic baiting
Differences Between Ameku MD and Heaven’s Memo Pad
- The female detective in Heaven’s Memo Pad technically has a whole slew of of people that help her
- Heaven’s Memo Pad explores a few smaller events that are all building and feeding into the main singular mystery of the series
- Heaven’s Memo Pad is more urban fantasy in that it is investigating a fictional thing, but in a realistic way.
- Heaven’s Memo Pad is about crime mysteries, not medical mysteries
Gosick
Kujou Kazuya is a transfer student to the elite Saint Marguerite Academy in the Southern European country of Sauville. However, because of his Japanese descent, he is shunned by the other students.
One day in the library of the school, he ends up following a long blonde hair to a beautiful doll-like girl call Victorique de Blois who can predict the future, including their own currently entwined one.
Together, the pair begin to solve the mysteries that are beginning to plague their surroundings.
Similarities Between Ameku MD and Gosick
- Eccentric detective and her straight-laced assistant who takes care of her
- Tiny female detective, normal male assistant, romantic baiting
- Supernatural-seeming mysteries with usually realistic explanations
Differences Between Ameku MD and Gosick
- Gosick does technically have some supernatural in it, just not really in the mysteries.
- Gosick does progress its romance
- Gosick is set in a fictional country in Post-WWII Europe, so it has a few period piece elements
- Gosick is murder mysteries, not detective mysteries
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