is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shake-O. It follows the daily life and adventures of Hitomi Manaka, a cyclops who works as a

school nurse School nursing, a specialized practice of public health nursing, protects and promotes student health, facilitates normal development, and advances academic success. School nurses, grounded in ethical and evidence-based practice, bridge the gap b ...

, and her co-workers and students dealing with their human (and not-so-human) problems. ''Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary'' is published in Japan by

Tokuma Shoten is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, ...

in their ''

Monthly Comic Ryū is a Japanese monthly ''seinen'' manga and anime magazine published by Tokuma Shoten. The magazine was originally a quarterly special issue of ''Animage'', beginning in 1979 before switching to a monthly schedule and finally suspending publica ...

'' magazine, and by

Seven Seas Entertainment Seven Seas Entertainment is an American publishing company located in Los Angeles, California. It was originally dedicated to the publication of original English-language manga, but now publishes licensed manga and light novels from Japan, as w ...

in North America.

Plot

In a world where certain individuals deal with unique and abnormal changes during puberty, Damoto Junior High's

Hitomi Manaka does her best to help her patients work through their transition from insecurities to incidents like limbs that just will not stay attached and even shrinking spurts.

Characters

; :A cyclops and main heroine of the series who works as the school nurse, nicknamed . As a cyclops, and the eldest sibling in her family, despite her lack of depth perception, her eye allows her to observe any abnormalities in students to better help them. ; : A plant-based being of unknown gender who serves as Hitomi's assistant, keeping a record of all students with abnormalities who visit the nurse's office. ; : A 2nd year student from Class A whose tongue became elastic and grew to 320.5 cm in length, being the first of Hitomi's patients. ; : Class B's teacher at the school, a kind-hearted gentleman despite being his initial imposing appearance due to fur covering his entire body. ; :Class A's teacher, he is a childhood friend of Hitomi's and their parents' houses are next door to each other. He has two extra arms growing from his torso. ; : A winged girl and delinquent 2nd year student from Class B. She refuses to obey authority much of the time and is anti-social. She can fly, although it takes a lot out of her. ; : Conjoined twin 2nd year students from Class D, Naruki being popular with the girls prior to Kaori appearing on his body. Kaori, identifying herself as female and initially a growth before becoming Naruki's right head, shares many of her brother's traits with admirers of her own.

Release

Shake-O began publishing the series in

's ''

'' magazine on 19 September 2013. The series moved to online-only serialization when ''Comic Ryū'' changed formats on 19 June 2018.

licensed the series for publication in North America. The series has been collected into sixteen ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...

'' volumes, of which thirteen have been published in English.

Reception

Lynzee Loveridge ranked the series at number five on her list of "7 Manga for Monster Girl Lovers" on '' Anime News Network''.

References

External links

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