Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!

Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!
Volume 1 cover, depicting Tomori Shirayuki (left) and Takuma Kurosumi
歯医者さん、あタってます！
(Haisha-san, Atattemasu!)
GenreComedy[1]
Manga
Written bySho Yamazaki
Published byShueisha
English publisherShueisha
ImprintJump Comics+
MagazineShōnen Jump+
DemographicShōnen
Original runMay 16, 2020 – January 21, 2023
Volumes8 (List of volumes)

Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me![Jp. 1] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sho Yamazaki. It was serialized on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ website from May 2020 to January 2023, with its chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes as of March 2023.

Premise

The series focuses on Takuma Kurosumi, the member of a yakuza 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.[2]

Production

In 2019, Sho Yamazaki published a one-shot manga on the free mobile app and website Shōnen Jump+ on October 5. At the time of its release, the one-shot won first place on a Twitter trend, exceeding 2.6 million views and becoming the most viewed one-shot work by Shōnen Jump+ in history.[3] Due to the popularity of the one-shot, Yamazaki decided to adapt it as a full-length serialization on Shōnen Jump+.[4]

Publication

Written and illustrated by Sho Yamazaki, Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me! was serialized on Shueisha's online magazine Shōnen Jump+ from May 16, 2020,[5] to January 21, 2023.[6][7] Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on October 2, 2020. As of March 3, 2023, eight volumes have been released.[8][9]

The series is also released in English simultaneously with its Japanese release through Shueisha's Manga Plus service.[10]

Volume list

No. Release date ISBN
1 October 2, 2020[11]978-4-08-882460-4
2 February 4, 2021[12]978-4-08-882571-7
3 July 2, 2021[13]978-4-08-882667-7
4 November 4, 2021[14]978-4-08-882802-2
5 March 4, 2022[15]978-4-08-883041-4
6 July 4, 2022[16]978-4-08-883155-8
7 December 2, 2022[17]978-4-08-883358-3
8 March 3, 2023[9]978-4-08-883478-8

Reception

As of February 2021, Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me! had over 3 million views on the Shōnen Jump+ platform.[18] As of July 2021, the manga had over 100.000 copies in circulation.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ Japanese: 歯医者さん、あタってます！, Hepburn: Haisha-san, Atattemasu!

References

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