Fragile
First tankōbon volume cover
フラジャイル 病理医岸京一郎の所見
(Furajairu Byōrii Kishi Keiichirō no Shoken)
GenreMedical drama[1]
Manga
Written byBin Kusamizu
Illustrated bySaburō Megumi
Published byKodansha
MagazineMonthly Afternoon
DemographicSeinen
Original runJune 25, 2014 – present
Volumes26
Television drama
Directed byJunichi Ishikawa
Produced byHiroshi Kobayashi
Written byAtsuko Hashibe
Music by
Original networkFuji TV
Original run January 13, 2016 – March 16, 2016
Episodes10

Fragile: Byōrii Kishi Keiichirō no Shoken (Japanese: フラジャイル 病理医岸京一郎の所見, Hepburn: Furajairu Byōrii Kishi Keiichirō no Shoken, "Fragile: The Finds of Pathologist Keiichirō Kishi") is a Japanese manga series written by Bin Kusamizu and illustrated by Saburō Megumi. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since June 2014. A 10-episode Japanese television drama was broadcast on Fuji Television from January to March 2016.

In 2018, Fragile won the 42nd Kodansha Manga Award in the general category.

Plot

Kēichirō Kishi is an extremely talented pathologist with amazing clinical eye, helped by his vast amount of knowledge, but he is also known as an eccentric and arrogant troublemaker. He uses his diagnostic skills to save patients in secret.

Media

Manga

Written by Bin Kusamizu and illustrated by Saburō Megumi, Fragile started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon on June 25, 2014.[1] Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on November 21, 2014.[2] As of September 22, 2023, 26 volumes have been released.[3]

Volumes

No. Release date ISBN
1 November 21, 2014[2]978-4-06-388015-1
2 February 23, 2015[4]978-4-06-388035-9
3 July 23, 2015[5]978-4-06-388066-3
4 October 23, 2015[6]978-4-06-388095-3
5 January 22, 2016[7]978-4-06-388114-1
6 June 23, 2016[8]978-4-06-388144-8
7 October 21, 2016[9]978-4-06-388192-9
8 March 23, 2017[10]978-4-06-388243-8
9 July 21, 2017[11]978-4-06-388278-0
10 November 22, 2017[12]978-4-06-510364-7
11 March 23, 2018[13]978-4-06-510780-5
12 August 23, 2018[14]978-4-06-512322-5
13 January 23, 2019[15]978-4-06-514211-0
14 May 23, 2019[16]978-4-06-515484-7
15 September 20, 2019[17]978-4-06-517248-3
16 October 23, 2019[18]978-4-06-517876-8
17 March 23, 2020[19]978-4-06-518888-0
18 August 21, 2020[20]978-4-06-520540-2
19 December 23, 2020[21]978-4-06-521728-3
20 May 21, 2021[22]978-4-06-523311-5
21 September 22, 2021[23]978-4-06-524818-8
22 April 21, 2022[24]978-4-06-526860-5
23 September 22, 2022[25]978-4-06-529190-0
24 January 23, 2023[26]978-4-06-530268-2
25 May 23, 2023[27]978-4-06-531686-3
26 September 22, 2023[3]978-4-06-532980-1

Drama

The manga was adapted into a Japanese television drama starring Tomoya Nagase as Keiichirō Kishi and Emi Takei as Chihiro Miyazaki. It was directed by Junichi Ishikawa, scripted by Atsuko Hashibe, planning by Hiroaki Narukawa and produced by Hiroshi Kobayashi.[28][29][30] The series ran for ten episodes on Fuji Television from January 13 to March 16, 2016.[31][32]

Reception

Alongside Sanju Mariko, Fragile won the 42nd Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2018.[33][34] It was nominated for the 23rd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2019.[35] Fragile was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2019.[36]

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