After a strange encounter with a mysterious carcinogenic fetus he found inside a patient’s skull, brain surgeon Minakata Jin slipped back through time. Equipped with modern medical knowledge, he faces various fatal diseases and injuries. He meets the ordinary people of Edo as well as illustrious figures, as his surgical knife carves out a new history.

Award: Won the Grand Prize of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2011.

Official English: Author Murakami Motoka fully commissioned an English translation of the manga himself. It can be found on his Patreon, Amazon, or Mangamo.