Dr. Frost

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Japanese: 닥터 프로스트

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: 258

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 2, 2011 to Sep 2, 2021

Genre: Drama

Themes: Medical, Psychological

Serialization: Naver Webtoon

Authors: Lee, Jong-bum (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.96¹ (scored by 4,250 users)

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Ranked: #836²

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Popularity: #1648

Members: 13,022

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The consultation room of Yonggang University's psychology department is run by the genius Dr. Frost. Skilled at reading people, he is an easily recognizable figure with his shocking white hair and stoic face. But Dr. Frost has one fatal flaw—he lacks certain emotions, like love and empathy. Despite this, he solves every case that comes his way using his expansive textbook knowledge and sharp perception.

Aiding him in his work is his assistant Yoon Seong-Ah, a young psychology student at the university. As the two work together to uncover the emotions and motivations of others, Dr. Frost begins to discover a part of himself which he lost long ago.

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Dr. Frost is originally a webtoon series which has been officially published in book format by Anibooks (애니북스) since May 18, 2012. It was adapted into a live-action TV series from November 23, 2014, to February 1, 2015.

The series was published digitally in English by Webtoon Entertainment from December 27, 2014, to August 4, 2023.

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Cheon, Sang-Won

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Nov 9, 2024

owomachine

Recommended

Dr. Frost consist of two parts.

First, it's about a psychologist finding out the problems in people and trying to fix them. These parts are really good. The writer worked with real professionals from the field so it's on the realistic side. As you can see from the other preliminary reviews, reading it is recommended.

Second, with a classic webtoon twist the story drifts away from the original synopsis and takes on a criminal turn. I wasn't fond of these detective plots. There were also some parts about Dr. Frost's character progression but at that point you might just go watch Dr. House. I've waited for years ...

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Feb 1, 2015

Zeroskye

Recommended

Preliminary (82/258 eps)

Dr. Frost isn't like most psychological manga nowadays. It has nothing to do with using psychological manipulation to win some sort of game or competition. Instead, it revolves around investigating, explaining, and curing psychological problems like obsessive compulsive disorder and multiple personality disorder. Reading this manga makes you feel as if you’re in a psychology class. All the information is well-detailed and feels like it came straight out of an actual textbook or lecture; from, how they know that the person has a certain disorder to how it affects their lives to how they developed it to how to deal with it. Not a single ... piece of information is left out in the process. You get to fully understand the situation the person is in while simultaneously, learning about the world of psychology.

I never once felt that the manga was getting repetitive. All the arcs are unique. The problems, the symptoms, the back-stories, the solutions, and obviously the people are all different.

At the end of every arc, we either get a chapter called the Psychologist in the Yellow Room or the Psychologist in the White Room or both.

The Yellow Room story is what you’d call a break or intermission. It is a chapter dedicated to comedy and being light-hearted which makes for a nice change in the atmosphere.

The White Room is about our main protagonist, Dr. Frost. In each White Room chapter, we get to know bits of Dr. Frost’s background, a mysterious and central part of the story.

Psychological isn’t the manga’s only genre. There’s drama, comedy, slice-of-life, and even romance, but I would not expect much if I were you. All these genres simply make the story better and are never blown out of proportion.

The art is great. Its beautifully colored & it has nicely drawn backgrounds, objects, and characters. Also reactions and emotions are portrayed very well.

Now, for the characters. Our main protagonist is Dr. Frost. He is known for being intelligent and having an emotionless and rather blunt attitude. A major question of the story is, why is he like that? We, as well many of the characters around him, all want to find the answer. Every so often, we get to see events from his past, so we're slowly putting all of the pieces together. We also get to see him change because of him interacting more. He gradually becomes more sensitive, caring, and so much more. His character development is just well done and enjoyable.

As for his role in each arc, what he does is always pleasant to read. His explanations, deductions, and the lengths he goes to, never fail to keep my attention and bring a smile to my face. It's cool to see a character who is intelligent, but not wise.

The next character is Seong-Ah Yoon, Dr. Frost's assistant. She is competent unlike a lot of female protagonists. She helps Dr. Frost in each arc and sometimes, takes the lead herself. She's not a cry baby nor some hopeless romantic; she can think for herself and merely cares about those around her. She is what every female protagonist should be.

Then, we have Sang-Won Cheon, a mentor and father figure of sorts to Dr. Frost. Your opinion of him changes frequently throughout the story. Sometimes he feels like the main antagonist and other times, he's genuinely helping Dr. Frost. In a nutshell, Sang-Won is a shady yet kind man who you can't just help, but be wary about.

Lastly, we have the characters that Dr. Frost helps. None of them are one-dimensional. They all feel human. In fact, you'll probably relate to a couple of them because there are arcs about much more common problems such as insomnia and anxiety. I'm sure you'll empathize with all of them.

Dr. Frost is the paragon of psychological manga. It's educational and entertaining at the same time. The art, the characters, and their development are magnificent. You will feel all sorts of emotions from happy to sad to creeped out to disgusted to angry. All in all, Dr. Frost is a psychological story done right.

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Jun 1, 2013

missytot

Recommended

Preliminary (Unknown/258 eps)

Since this doesn't have any review yet, i decided to give one. This isn't your typical manga like love comedy style or action fantasy but if you are more into realismc, or have enjoy psychology class or quite curious (like me) to know more about psychology like meaning of gestures, hypnosis, personality disorder etc., then give this manga a shot you can really enjoy reading this while learning so much from it.

I just want to give some emphasize on the genre, the proper genre for this is psychological, comedy, drama, seinen and slice of life. A psychology based manwha, so from there you can expect ...

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