Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestAn original medical murder mystery surrounds an unknown killer coccus (bacteria), that leaves no trace in the victim's body, which enables it to be used as the perfect weapon to kill. Fujimaki Tatsuomi is a pathologist working at the Pathlogy department at Meikyo Medical University Hospital. He's looked down upon by the other staff around him, and his relationship with Maho his wife, a former nurse, has cooled down. After a patient's suspicious death, he makes a new discovery; when the deadly bacteria "Gift" invades the body, the patient soon dies, but the "Gift" leaves no trace thereafter, enabling it to be used as the perfect weapon to kill. As a result of this discovery, Fujimaki's life dramatically changes. While searching for a way to treat his ailing wife's heart disease, he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy surrounding the killer bacteria "Gift."
Acting
Takashi Sorimachi's hollow desperation as a man out of options
Direction
Sterile hospital corridors feel increasingly suffocating
Writing
Bacteria as both weapon and metaphor for invisible rot
Takashi Sorimachi
Fujimaki Tatsuomi
Haru
Kurume Homare
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Shiratori Minoru
Matsuya Onoe
Kanbayashi Ikuto
Kenjiro Tsuda
Gunji Hiromitsu
Kana Kurashina
Azumi Anri
Michitaka Tsutsui
Honbo Takumi
Rio Asumi
Fujimaki Maho
Moemi Katayama
Tsurushita Ayaka
Karin Ono
Nara Mari
Shintarou Moriyama
Ijuin Kaoru
Ryoko Fujino
Fujimaki Akari
Tomohiro Ichikawa
Tachibana Yuma
Shogo Hama
Tsukiashi Shuhei
Runa Nakashima
Kanbayashi Kotoha
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series taps into Japan's medical thriller tradition (like 'Team Medical Dragon') but swaps heroic surgeons for disrespected pathologists — reflecting real hierarchies where lab diagnostics remain invisible labor.
The 'Gift' bacteria's vanishing act mirrors how corporate crime itself disappears into bureaucratic systems — the show's true villain isn't the germ but the institutional machinery that cultivates it.
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