Unmet: A Neurosurgeon’s Diary Blu-ray Box

“Nothing has changed. Who you are now, and who you were before.” Starring Hana Sugisaki, this medical drama introduces an unprecedented protagonist: a neurosurgeon with a memory disorder who strives to save the patients before her while rebuilding her own life.

Sugisaki plays Miyabi Kawauchi, a neurosurgeon left with serious memory impairment after an accident. The previous two years have disappeared from her memory, and everything she experiences today will be forgotten tomorrow. She has given up working as a doctor when a neurosurgeon returning from America, Dr. Sanpei, appears before her. Despite his forceful and unconventional manner, he helps and guides Miyabi as both a physician and a patient. A mystery eventually emerges within her lost two years: what great secret lies in memories she can no longer retrieve, and what are her true feelings?

The original manga, Unmet: A Neurosurgeon’s Diary, is serialized in Kodansha’s Morning, written by Yuzuru Kojika and illustrated by Kanto Otsuki. Kojika previously worked as a neurosurgeon, giving the cases and doctors’ lives a realism praised by readers and medical professionals. The drama preserves this strength of the original, depicting the world of neurosurgery and the people within it.

Ryuya Wakaba’s accomplished performance attracted widespread attention. The first episode follows Miyabi, whose memories before the accident are missing and whose new memories reset each day, as her encounter with Sanpei helps her take another step as a physician. After the broadcast began, the show’s hashtag reached number one among worldwide trends on X, formerly Twitter. Viewers drawn into the world of Unmet praised the authenticity of its characters, called it a masterpiece, described being moved to tears and said it exceeded their expectations. Wakaba’s performance as Sanpei continued to receive acclaim, while his name and Sanpei’s also became trending topics.

Miyabi is supported by warm and dependable colleagues. Emergency department head Kota Hoshimae, played by Yudai Chiba, gently supports her return to neurosurgery in a different way from Sanpei. Head nurse Reiko Tsubata, played by Michiko Kichise; anesthesiologist Takako Narimasu, played by Kayo Noro; nurses Hinako Mori, played by Kasumi Yamaya, and Koharu Arai, played by Riho Nakamura; and intern Toori Kazama, played by Takumi Ozaki of INI, form the friendly medical team at Kyuryo Central Hospital that supports and watches over Dr. Miyabi.

“Am I still a doctor?” Every morning, the previous day’s memories have been erased, and the records in her diary are her only lifeline. Can neurosurgeon Miyabi Kawauchi, living with a memory disorder, face patients again as a doctor? A year and a half earlier, an unexpected accident damaged her brain. She lost all memories of the preceding two years, and new memories now last only a day: after sleeping, she wakes without remembering yesterday. Each morning at five, she reads the diary on her desk and begins the day by relearning what she has forgotten. While receiving treatment from Koichi Osako, a professor of neurosurgery at Kanto Medical University Hospital, she works at Kyuryo Central Hospital, where she trained before losing her memory. She performs no medical procedures and instead assists the nurses.

One day, Sanpei arrives from America to take up a position at the hospital. As Miyabi shows him around, an emergency patient is brought in. The patient, actress Rena Akamine, is diagnosed with a cerebral infarction. With the consent of her husband and manager, Hirotsugu Emoto, treatment is arranged immediately. Sanpei asks Miyabi to help, but head nurse Tsubata stops her. After the procedure, emergency department head Hoshimae tells Sanpei about Miyabi’s memory disorder. Rena wakes after treatment but can barely speak, and is diagnosed with aphasia as an aftereffect. Witnessing the hopeless situation of an actress who has lost her voice, Miyabi struggles with her own inability to help. Sanpei, fully aware of her condition, tells her, “We are short of staff, so you need to do what you can,” and appeals directly to hospital director Toshiyuki Todo to let Miyabi examine and diagnose patients as a physician.

All 11 episodes are included, with director’s-cut versions of episodes 2, 5, 6 and 11. These restore previously unseen exchanges, improvised moments and scenes omitted from the broadcast. The final episode also restores scenes cut with regret and is re-edited as a complete version, including the overall structure and the pauses within the performances. The set contains three main-program discs and one bonus disc. Itsvideo extras comprise making-of footage, a roundtable discussion with Sugisaki, Wakaba, Okayama and Chiba, and Takumi Ozaki’s set tour and interview. The enclosed 32-page original booklet revisits Unmet through Miyabi’s diary, with a special layout and selected diary passages not shown in the series.

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