Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary (ヒトミ先生の保健室,Hitomi-sensei no Hokenshitsu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shake-O. [3] It follows the daily life and adventures of Hitomi Manaka,a cyclops who works as a school nurse,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 in their Monthly Comic Ryū magazine, [3] and by Seven Seas Entertainment in North America. [4]
In a world where certain individuals deal with unique and abnormal changes during puberty,Damoto Junior High's school nurse 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.
Shake-O began publishing the series in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryū magazine on 19 September 2013. [5] The series moved to online-only serialization when Comic Ryū changed formats on 19 June 2018. [6] Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the series for publication in North America. [1]
The series has been collected into eighteen tankōbon volumes, [3] of which thirteen have been published in English. [7]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | 13 March 2014 [8] | |||
17 February 2015 [7] | 978-1-626921-47-4 | |||
2 | 13 September 2014 [9] | 978-4-19-950413-6 | 23 June 2015 [7] | 978-1-626921-52-8 |
3 | 13 March 2015 [10] | 978-4-19-950442-6 | 20 October 2015 [7] | 978-1-626922-05-1 |
4 | 12 September 2015 [11] | 978-4-19-950470-9 | 6 September 2016 [7] | 978-1-626924-14-7 |
5 | 13 April 2016 [12] | 978-4-19-950502-7 | 24 January 2017 [7] | 978-1-626924-19-2 |
6 | 13 October 2016 [13] | 978-4-19-950532-4 | 4 July 2017 [7] | 978-1-626923-57-7 |
7 | 13 April 2017 [14] | 978-4-19-950561-4 | 9 January 2018 [7] | 978-1-626926-76-9 |
8 | 13 October 2017 [15] | 978-4-19-950591-1 | 30 October 2018 [7] | 978-1-626929-60-9 |
9 | 13 April 2017 [16] | 978-4-19-950561-4 | 18 June 2019 [7] | 978-1-642750-98-0 |
10 | 13 November 2018 [17] | 978-4-19-950654-3 | 21 January 2020 [7] | 978-1-645051-89-3 |
11 | 13 June 2019 [18] | 978-4-19-950680-2 | 8 December 2020 [7] | 978-1-645054-77-1 |
12 | 1 January 2020 [19] | 978-4-19-950695-6 | 6 April 2021 [7] | 978-1-645058-11-3 |
13 | 12 September 2020 [20] | 978-4-19-950716-8 | 2 November 2021 [7] | 978-1-648273-32-2 |
14 | 11 June 2021 [21] | 978-4-19-950743-4 | — | — |
15 | 12 February 2022 [22] | 978-4-19-950766-3 | — | — |
16 | 13 October 2022 [23] | 978-4-19-950795-3 | — | — |
17 | 12 May 2023 [24] | 978-4-19-950815-8 | — | — |
18 | 13 March 2024 [25] | 978-4-19-950849-3 | — | — |
Lynzee Loveridge ranked the series at number five on her list of "7 Manga for Monster Girl Lovers" on Anime News Network . [2]
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