is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sho Yamazaki. It was serialized on

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'' website from May 2020 to January 2023, with its chapters collected into eight ''

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'' volumes as of March 2023.

Premise

The series focuses on Takuma Kurosumi, the member of a ''

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'' group who falls in love with the dentist Tomori Shirayuki during an appointment under the belief that Tomori is a woman; in reality, he is a cross-dressing man of a rival ''yakuza'' group.

Production

In 2019, Sho Yamazaki published a one-shot manga on the free

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and website ''

'' on October 5. At the time of its release, the one-shot won first place on a

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, exceeding 2.6 million views and becoming the most viewed one-shot work by ''Shōnen Jump+'' in history. Due to the popularity of the one-shot, Yamazaki decided to adapt it as a full-length serialization on ''Shōnen Jump+''.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Sho Yamazaki, ''Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!'' was serialized on

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'' from May 16, 2020, to January 21, 2023. Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual ''

'' volumes. The first volume was released on October 2, 2020. As of March 3, 2023, eight volumes have been released. The series is also released in English simultaneously with its Japanese release through Shueisha's

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service.

Volume list

Reception

As of February 2021, ''Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!'' had over 3 million views on the ''Shōnen Jump+'' platform. As of July 2021, the manga had over 100.000 copies in circulation.

Notes

References

External links

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''Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!'' on ''Manga Plus''
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