History Manga / Jin

* LargeHam: Holy penicillin, Ryoma is getting more hamtastic with his every appearance.
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* 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.

* LargeHam: Holy penicilin, Ryoma is getting more hamtastic with his every appearance.

* TheKnightsWhoSaySqee: Usually calm and composed Saki goes nuts when she has opportunity to meet a kabuki actor she adores.

* IdentityAmnesia: Jin uses "I don't remember who I am" as a cover story for Saki's family to avoid having to explain that he's actually from the future. Unfortunately for him, they are rather eager to help him find out who he really is and so he ends up confessing the truth to Suki. Later he completely abandons the concept.

* IntimateHealing: See above.

* XMeetsY: BlackJack meets AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt.

* CastOfSnowflakes: Averted with the justification that hair and clothing styles are ''really'' limited in Edo. Aside from that, characters in crowd scenes are consistently given unique facial expressions and posture - no two characters ever actually look the same.

* DreamSequence: Jin dreams that he gets to show 21st century Tokyo to Saki.

** 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 ''actual'' making out was interrupted CrowningMomentOfFunny]].

** Actually happens a few times throughout the series, to varying degrees of 'romance'. Nokaze seems to have gotten it by proxy for Jin, Ki'ichi fever-dreams that Jin's his dad, O-Koma actively crushes on him for a while... As time passes, it seems that the fastest way to raise an army would be to tell the population of Edo, "Doctor Minakata is in danger and needs your help."
* FuroScene: Played entirely for non-comedic effect in Volume 9.

* HighClassCallGirl: Nokaze.

* HonorOverReason: ''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 he drags enough people back from the brink of death.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Saki. And, as it turns out, [[spoiler:Nokaze]] as well.

* PleaseIWillDoAnything: Kyotaro in the TV show.

* XMeetsY: BlackJack meets Edo Japan.

* BladeOnAStick: Saki's mother uses a naginata for self-defense.

** Amusingly, Jin and Saki are the ''only'' couple that's ''merely'' embracing -- and said [[spoiler: assassins leave with their tails between their legs when they're mocked by the couples whose ''actual'' making out was interrupted CrowningMomentOfFunny]].
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Pre-Meiji Japanese society takes some getting used to.

** Jin starts off sharing modern surgical techniques, instrument design, sanitation, and low-tech treatments for cholera and malnutrition. When he runs up against syphilis, however, Jin's knowledge butts up against the limits of his era's technological toolkit. Even though he eventually manages to create a version of penicillin, it's weak compared to modern antibiotics and can only be produced in limited quantities and with great effort.

** While for the first four volumes Jin intermittently shares his knowledge, depending mainly on what's required to solve the problem of the week, [[spoiler: Okata-sensei]] begs on [[spoiler: his]] deathbed for Jin to push forward the world's knowledge of medicine as far as possible before Jin's own death... and that [[spoiler: Jin never return to the future if the chance comes up]]. Jin agrees wholeheartedly to both requests.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Saki.

* LiveActionAdaptation: See [[http://www.tbs.co.jp/jin2009/ here]].
* ObsoleteMentor: Pretty much everyone in the pre-Meiji Era medical profession feels this way when they learn what Jin can do. Some eagerly learn from Jin. Others try to kill him to as to not lose everything they've ever worked for.

* YamatoNadeshiko: Jin develops a relationship with Saki, the traditionally-educated daughter of a samurai family.

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

** However, he later remembers a proposed method, which not only works but it is capable of being produced in large quantities even in the technologically restricted pre-Meiji era, of concentrating the penicillin to the point where it is just shy of being as effective as most antibacterial lotions today.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: 19th century Edo as a whole during the cholera. [[spoiler:Without panic or resignation they organize a quarantine, care for the sick, instantly understand Jin's explanations of what causes it and how to treat it without much superstitious awe or clinging to past ideas and then proceed to manufacture the needed medical tools en masse with only manual skills.]] They beat back an epidemic that scourged them many times with sheer comprehension and discipline and show themselves as anything ''but'' MedievalMorons.
* {{Squick}}: Open-brain surgery--with carpenter tools. And a bursting cerebral edema. Also, it's hard to preserve much dignity when suffering from cholera and a cholera epidemic is no fun for anyone.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: 19th century Edo as a whole during the cholera. [[spoiler:Without panic or resignation they organize a quarantine, care for the sick, instantly understand Jin's explanations of what causes it and how to treat it without much superstitious awe or clinging to past ideas and then proceed to manufacture the needed medical tools en masse with only manual skills.]] They beat back an epidemic that scourged them many times with sheer comprehension and discipline and show themselves as anything ''but'' MedievalMorons.

* {{Squick}}: Open-brain surgery--with carpenter tools. And a bursting cerebral edema. Also, it's hard to preserve much dignity when suffering from cholera and a cholera epidemic is no fun for anyone.

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* GivingRadioToTheRomans: Jin starts off sharing modern surgical techniques, instrument design, sanitation, and low-tech treatments for cholera and malnutrition. When he runs up against syphilis, however, Jin's knowledge butts up against the limits of his era's technological toolkit. Even though he eventually manages to create a version of penicillin, it's weak compared to modern antibiotics and can only be produced in limited quantities and with great effort.

* TrappedInThePast

* GivingRadioToTheRomans

* AlternateHistory: For better or worse, Jin's involvement in the past has invariably altered the course of Japan's history.

** [[spoiler:He meets a young girl whom he later realizes is his great-great-great-grandmother, and, indirectly because of him, she dies. So in this timeline he knows he will never be born no matter what happens.]]

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

** Amusingly, Jin and Saki are the ''only'' couple that's ''merely'' embracing.

* FakeOutMakeOut: In order to evade hired assassins, Jin and Suki hide in a grove used as a make-out place, and in order to blend in, lock in embrace.