History Manga / Jin

* CatSmile: Seen on one occasion, a rare use of a contemporary graphic convention in a series that uses a classic/realist style

* DudeLooksLikeALady: If it wasn't for his short hair and other characters referring to him as male, you probably wouldn't guess that Tanasuke is a man. His acting career started with him playing women.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Jin interacts with Sakamoto Ryoma and other famous figures of the period. In fact most character with a surname is most likely historical, save for the Tachibanas.

* PlatonicProstitution: His friend hires a prostitute on Jin's behalf, but the latter is too passed out from drink to even wake up when she enters his bed. The next morning, she returns the money.

* RunningGag: ''Every time'' Jin has to surgically open someone's stomach or neck up, someone nearby (possibly the patient) will act as though he's cutting that area with a ''sword''.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Jin interacts with Sakamoto Ryoma and other famous figures of the period.

* InSpiteOfANail: Trying to prevent [[spoiler:Ryoma's assassination - Jin's only true attempt to defy the history he knows - only extends the guy's life by about two weeks. In the end, the Age of Samurai gets swallowed up by the Meiji Restoration after all]].

* BladeOnAStick: Saki's mother uses a naginata for self-defense. And is apparently totally ready to put it into an intruder on a moment's notice.

* AnyoneCanDie: Invoked during the cholera epidemic which showed both the poor and rich alike falling victim to the sickness, showing that in Japan during the 1880s, death really didn't care who you were.

'''''Jin''''' (仁) is a manga by Murakami Motoka.

** Ultimately [[spoiler:downplayed. While Jin's future know-how retroactively alters ''some'' aspects of Japanese/world history, it doesn't make too much of a difference in the really big events, like the Shogunate - and the Samurai Age as a whole - being ended by the Meiji Restoration. It's even implied that Japan's participation in the World Wars remains the same. Practically speaking, his impact comes down to a bunch of medical inventions ([[ItMakesSenseInContext and pastries like donuts]]) being ascribed to one random Japanese guy instead of a collection of Europeans.]]

** And one of those results turns out to have large consequences. [[spoiler:The Tokugawa Shogunate survives, with the Meiji Restoration as we know it all but aborted.]]

* SecretKeeper: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogata_K%C5%8Dan]] asks Jin to confirm his suspicion that he's from the future, before revealing that he's dying from Tuberculosis and will take Jin's secret to his grave. He then tearfully asks that Jin not leave the era for the sake of the people.

* SecretKeeper: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogata_K%C5%8Dan Ogata Kōan]] asks Jin to confirm his suspicion that he's from the future, before revealing that he's dying from Tuberculosis and will take Jin's secret to his grave. He then tearfully asks that Jin not leave the era for the sake of the people.

* HonorBeforeReason: ''Constantly'', and the primary source of red tape Jin runs into. On a few occasions, Jin (or someone close by) has to put their life on the line just so he can operate - the agreement being that if the patient dies, so does he. It tapers off as time passes, after picks up a reputation as someone who can reliably drag people back from the brink of death.

** Amusingly, Jin and Saki are the ''only'' couple that are ''merely'' embracing -- and said [[spoiler: assassins leave with their tails between their legs when they're mocked by the couples whose more-than-making out was interrupted, in a CrowningMomentOfFunny]].

A Live Action TV show called ''JIN'' has been made of it in 2009.

* ChekovsGun: Sometime after the measles and cholera epidemic, Jin and someone from the Western Medical Institute dicuss Beriberi, B vitamin deficency, it's causes and treatments. Cue a few arcs later and Saki's mother begins suffering from it due to her HeroicBSOD.

* CatSmile: Seen on one occasion, a rare use of a contemporary graphic convention in a series that uses a classic/realist style.

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Minakata Jin is a brilliant brain surgeon in contemporary Tokyo. One day, after operating a patient with a freak brain tumor, he starts hearing strange voices, and all of a sudden he finds himself [[TrappedInThePast transported 140 years into the past]]. One minute he was in the hospital he works at, the next he's in a grove, while men are having a swordfight mere meters away. He soon figures out he is stranded at the end of the Tokugawa era, a few years before the beginning of the Meiji era.

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* FetusTerrible: The fetus which ends up sending Jin to the past is pretty damn terrifying mixture of NauseaFuel and NightmareFuel. Not to mention that it's apparently spent 40 years in another man's brain and can talk telepathically to Jin even when he's miles away or in the past.