Japanese Series : Nurse Aoi

Following the law or saving a life. If you have to choose only one, which one would you choose?

Misora Aoi is a nurse who works in the emergency room. But because of an incident, she is demoted and transfers to another hospital. This hospital is worse than her previous workplace. There are unskilled doctors and there are some who only care about gaining profit. After seeing this, Misora decides to change this hospital. And she learns more about moral values from there.

Misora assists Nurse Komine with the assigned patients. She treats the patients like family. She showers them with care and kindness.

Komine is a senior nurse who tries to keep the hospital going. She can be bossy but she does it for the good of the people. She yells at the nurses for slacking off. She yells at the patients for not following the rules for their health. At first, she gives Misora a cold shoulder. But she starts to loosen up after knowing her better. She helps Misora when it is needed.

Takagi is preverted but a good doctor. He tries to save as many lives as he can. He still haven’t given up on curing this one patient, who has been in coma for several years..

Koyama Keiichirou has a minor role, even though his character seems like should be together with Misora. Kitazawa is a part-timer. He doesn’t really care about the hospital, nor the co-workers pay much attention to him. He hopes to become a musician. *Squee* He can sing!! ^.^ Anyways, Kitazawa is…just there. He has been of some help though.

The main characters usually hang out in a small restaurant. The owner of the restaurant looks familiar. “I’ve seen him somewhere, but I can’t recognize him.” I gave up and looked at the credits. Sainei Ryuji! “No wonder!” The banchou listens to their stories and joins in the conversation.

As I mentioned before, there is a doctor who is not skilled, and another who only cares about profits. There is only one good doctor. Each of them (plus a few nurses) has his (or her) own personal problems, which will be dealt with in the drama.

It’s kinda boring that all the patients are cured at the end. I guess it would be bad for Misora if they don’t though.. This is the opposite of the TVB drama Healing Hands where not many patients survive. I would prefer watching this drama rather than Healing Hands. I don’t know why I compare these two dramas. Probably it’s just that that TVB drama pops up in my head when thinking about Ns’ Aoi because these two are about doctors and nurses.