Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte

Nestled away on the rooftop of Tenikai General Hospital is the unconventional Department of Investigative Pathology headed by the eccentric Dr. Takao Ameku. The tiny department, consisting of Takao and her sole resident Yuu "Kotori" Takanashi, treats complex cases that most other departments within the hospital cannot resolve on their own.

The mystery-obsessed Takao always tries to insert herself into cases that capture her fancy—much to the dismay of her colleagues and the police. Even if her meddling creates more problems for the hospital and those around her, none can deny the brilliance that the young department head exhibits as she weaves a diagnosis together. No matter the specialty, no case is impossible for Takao and a somewhat reluctant Takanashi to solve.

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Ameku, Takao Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Takanashi, Yuu Main

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Kounoike, Mai Supporting

Iwami, Manaka Japanese

Miki, Kenta Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Ameku, Mazuru Supporting

Mizuki, Nana Japanese

Sakurai, Kimiyasu Supporting

Hirata, Hiroaki Japanese

Fuyumoto, Atsushi Supporting

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Suzuhara, Souichirou Supporting

Aoki, Haruka Japanese

Kumakawa, Daijirou Supporting

Takeuchi, Ryouta Japanese

Kuwata, Ryuuichirou Supporting

Ootsuka, Houchuu Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Takahashi, Kanako Producer

Kimura, Yoshitaka Producer

Koutani, Satoshi Producer

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Apr 2, 2025

Marinate1016

Recommended

We have been eating so good recently with detective series. Ameku MD has to be near the top of the bunch for me. If you’ve ever imagined what Maomao from Apothecary Diaries would be like in a present day setting or what House from Fox back in the day would be like as an anime, this is the show for you. It’s got some of the best mystery, twists and is actually a fairly accurate series in terms of medical knowledge. I was both educated on the workings of the human body and extremely entertained while watching this show+Takao has to be one of my ... fave recent protagonists. It’s a must watch for any mystery fan or anyone who likes cool ass female leads!

Ameku is cool because it’s not afraid to tackle dark subject matter in its cases. Abuse, domestic violence, murder, you name it, we see a wide range of situations and motivations in this one. It made every episode feel intriguing because you didn’t expect everything to be simple and clean like you might in other mystery shows. People commit crimes for a variety of reasons and they’re not always pretty or clean cut. It’s great having a mystery show where even if you think you have the case solved, you probably don’t have the right motive, method or person. It seemed like there was always the perfect twist that had your jaw on the floor.

One of the biggest complaints you’re going to hear about this series is that its appeal is meant to be having a doctor solving medical based cases with her expertise, but often times Takao is out of the hospital and solving cases like a traditional detective series would. The first episode takes place basically inside a hospital and is her just trying to diagnose illnesses, after that it sort of becomes a murder investigation thing with the occasional hospital diagnosis case. I don’t mind this because ultimately, it would probably get claustrophobic and boring staying in the same setting all the time, Takao is a great lead who manages to make every case feel fun AND I just liked the cast so I don’t care what case they’re solving as long as they’re together. YMMV on that , but to me it wasn’t anything to really be upset about.

Speaking of the cast, it’s a tight crew in this show, but I loved Takao and Kotori’s relationship, banter and how they worked together to handle cases. I liked the subtle romantic spark they had going on as well! While Takao might be a medical genius, she lacks a lot of social skills and struggles to understand people, so having someone like Kotori around basically complimented her weaknesses. Seiyuus are really good in this as well and we can’t forget about that Aimer OP!

Ameku MD is a very fun mystery series with a great cast, badass genius MC and some well written cases that’ll have you second guessing. One of the best shows of Winter 2025 easily. The only reason I’m not rating it higher is because I wanted more development between the leads!

Ameku gets 8 scalpels out of 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 2, 2025

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective — Are we ready for a House M.D. derivative anime drama just yet? I sure hope so...

In the realm of television dramas, I feel that there was a unique area that used to fascinate and blow people's minds ever to grace the small screen, and it's in the segments related to hospitals, medicals, and the like. Sure, you have the all-time favourites of shows the likes of Grey's Anatomy, House M.D., and the lesser-known Scrubs, which is what should be in the minds of anyone who watched the best of the best hospital dramas. Though I'd beg to differ that hospital ... dramas outside of the US do have their popularity as well, namely one of Japan's most consistently highly-rated hospital/medical drama shows of the 2010s, that being Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon (if you have not heard of this long-lasting TV drama, I highly suggest you go and watch it; it rivals that of American counterparts being similar and great.)

The reason why I bring up Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon, is on the basis of the one show where the hospital/medical drama has made somewhat of a resurgence: novelist Mikito Chinen's Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte a.k.a. Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective, which explores a rather unorthodox and unconventional doctor in the face of hospital politics and diagnoses, just like how Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie) played his role to exact mimicry. Though I should give a bit of context as to who exactly Mikito Chinen is, given his rather rich background.

Born in Nanjo City, Okinawa Prefecture, novelist Mikito Chinen is actually a certified physician, having graduated from Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine and being a certified doctor of the Japan Society of Internal Medicine. That is his realistic profession, but deep down he wanted to become a novelist as a dream from his young days, and this started when he wrote a short detective novel in his high school days, leading to the famous novelist and literary critic Tetsuya Ayukawa (real name Toru Nakagawa) publishing his stories under the Honkakusuiri anthologies of detective novels published between 1993 and 2009. Sure, his interest is in the veins of Edogawa Ranpo's Shonen Detective Agency and the ever-so-popular Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, and it's only until his graduation from the Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine that he started to write novels earnestly, which saw many of his later works being published, some even nominated and winning awards. Interestingly, the accolades didn't include his most prized notary work, Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte, for which the novel is still in serialization since September 2014.

But back to Ameku Takao, it's clear that Mikito Chinen was inspired by the likes of Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon and (especially) the predominance of American hospital/medical dramas like House M.D. to create his own derivative of Dr. Gregory House and his small group of friends, as seen by the titular character of Takao Ameku and her host of contacts in the hospital environment they reside in, full of investigative wonders and medical cases that she can only solve when others cannot.

The titular MC being the director of the Department of Investigative Pathology at Tenikai General Hospital, don't ever underestimate her chibi size for someone easy to be stepped on, because aside from her lucrative role, she is the vice-chairman of the hospital alongside her uncle Owashi, though both cousins always have the "agree to disagree" counterintuitive arguments that never seem to end, with Owashi thinking that she's wasting her time with a department that only specializes in medical scenarios where no case can be diagnosed by any other physician in the hospital. Naturally, the rift between cousins forces Takao to isolate herself, as seen by the weird brick house on the hospital's rooftop, which also serves as her residing office, visited by the people that are closest to her. The first of which is her closest assistant, Yu Takanashi, the man who's always being chided by Takao most of the time under her whims and is the main support of her investigative detective mystery-solving adventures enough for her to nickname him Kotori a.k.a. birdbrain, alongside ER nurse Mai Konoike and her own caring older sister Mazuru. On the police's end, you have the detectives Ryuuya Naruse and Kimiyasu Sakurai, who are always coming into contact with Takao should she need their help when it comes to the mysterious deaths and murders. And they all have to work together like a well-oiled machine because it's their careers on the line that they face judgment of if wrong assumptions are made that result in the outcome of the deaths of the people they're involved with.

I've consistently seen that the one criticism of the series in general is how superlative it feels against the sightings of the cases that Takao got herself into. Be it the medical diagnoses or the detective mysteries, it just doesn't have that realism that's rooted in the "true" Sherlock Holmes style, or that the medical cases are not supervised stringently, considering the workload of the doctors and nurses in typical hospitals. But then again, you have to remember that this is fiction (with the notion of the disclaimers in the episode openings), and the medical drama that goes into it may seem juxtaposed and contrary to real-life operations, but that's the reality of most medical drama-centric series: you can "fake it till you make it", however, medical prescriptions, diseases, and the like still have to sound real enough to induce the drama that comes out from it. It's a thing just to bring out the drama; some will love it, others will hate it, plain and simple.

Admittedly, any production under Aniplex will suffer in the long term, as is Project No. 9 here, with clearly flailing animation that gets worse as the series progresses with its fervent delays and such. It's not the best; it's serviceable at best, but you will certainly see the degradation in quality. To be fair, Loop 7-kaime a.k.a. 7th Time Loop director Kazuya Iwata tried his best, but the circumstances speak for themselves here.

The OST is also decent, though I really didn't notice much of it composed by Fox Capture Plan. At least Aimer's OP song is solid, as is The Gospellers with their ED song alongside Anly.

This is a reality that's harder to swallow, but if you're expecting House M.D. vibes from this, you've come to the wrong place. Against the "genius" that is Takao Ameku, it's clear that Mikito Chinen was hoping to marry both the medical and detective segments together and make it work; the only problem is that the arcs (at least within the anime) can feel like they were played with a fiddle, or just enough medical advice is instilled to the point where it "feels" believable (of course, not forgetting that this is still fiction after all).

Whatever the case profile is, just go into Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte a.k.a. Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective, not thinking that you'll come out a whizz in medical proficiency but rather, savouring a show that is just alright and for the dramaticization purposes alone.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 8, 2025

ggol

Not Recommended

Brief Overview: It's a detective mystery series that is about a doctor who is solving murder cases.

Story 4/10
The story is super rushed and have almost no build-up for most of it's case. It is about a director from a crime medical department that is in charge to investigate the deceased victims body on how they got murdered. Most of the case in the story that the detective is trying solve, is always briefly explained and all of its content is all saved towards the end of each case. At the beginning there is little to no content because the story always wants to save the ... best for the last however, what we got instead is a story that hasn't given enough build-up and rushed content. To keep it short whenever there is a case their isn't enough build-up or at least adequate interesting content to lead towards a certain mystery because most of the content that is shown when the case is over is either very blend or boring,

Character 5/10
The character is ok, but the background of the MC does not make any sense. This is because the MC is the director of the medical department, but throughout the story she is showcase in the frontline doing detective work. What I mean by that is that it does not make sense for her to do a detective work because she is a director and wouldn't a director's work mostly be a leader type of role such as managing and organizing with other superiors at the offices? It would've been something more interesting if she has the portrayal like commander Erwin Smith from AOT. The character of the MC is just both too blend and typical that would've been suited towards a detective, but the problem is she is not a detective, she is a director and she needs a personality that develops a strategy something like leadership, manipulation, trickery or trapping an opponent to make multiple difficult and critical decision on the battlefield which Erwin shows a great example on how a leader should be. She behave and acts more like a person working under another one which is not how a director acts.

Animation 6/10
The animation looks fine at best and most of the scene looks blend and a little janky when it comes to the movements. However, one thing for sure that they did it right is when the MC detective mode is on it looks very cool. Other is either plain or average animation.

TLDR:
Just go watch detective Conan. It is the same genre and way better series than this because this series is super rushed and in some case extremely cliche with its story and character that makes almost no sense.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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