First of all, I absolutely loved the integration of season 1 and season 2 characters. I especially loved how Kaji made it back to the main hospital (ttly shipped him and Daimon in season 1), and I love the continuing joke of Daimon not remembering Hara (also from season 1). I LOVED THE ADDITION OF THE NURSES! Thts one of the things the first 2 seasons were missing. I'm so glad Doctor X 3 emphasized on their importance and role in the hospital. I loved tht the main guy in charge this season, President Tendo, understood Daimon and actually appreciated her skill as a doctor. There was much less of people trying to block Daimon from performing surgeries. And the other doctors seemed to be learning to appreciate Daimon's skills, and instead of fighting against her, trying to learn from her. I love tht we learn what Akira is doing with all tht money he seems to be taking from Daimon. And this season's surgeries and patients are even more cool.
Although the storyline is almost the same, I think it's more enjoyable. The only thing I thought this drama could've done without was the last minute. It was weird and just ttly unnecessary. Anyways, I really hope tht there will be a fourth season.
As I've stated about the previous two seasons, this one is also ttly marathon-worthy. It's just a really good watch and an enjoyable drama.
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The show does get a bit repetitive in its stories and how each episode unfolds, yet remarkably it's still highly enjoyable regardless. You come to love Daimon Michiko and Akira-San and the rest of each seasons cast so much no matter how predictable certain aspects are - it stays enjoyable. I think it was relatively even keel from the start of Season 1 to episode 10 of season 3, but what caused me to bump my 'number rating' from season 1&2 was one reason. Season 3's finale. It was simply great. In everyway things for once felt 'on the line' even if you knew things would work out. The drama and emotions from every preceding episode seemed to culminate with season 3's final episode. I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly felt it. It was really a great finale. It marked the show with a hiatus too, but fortunately a season 4 is on the way!
Doctor X never fails;)
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Season 3 sees Daimon Michiko develop even more as a character. In season 1 she was the very self assured surgeon that could perform outrageous surgeries. Season 2 we saw her do even more innovative and outrageous surgeries with the same level of confidence. Season 3 she shows she knows her limits but will come in to save the day when lesser surgeons try to do what she does best which is to skilfully throw out the last lifeline a patient has for survival.
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Daimon Michiko is a national treasure! A Diamond! Protect her at all costs!
I’m back for the 3rd season of Doctor X, and Michiko’s back at it again- the stakes are higher than ever. She saves lives like nobody’s business, and is even personally requested by Hiruma, the previous hospital president, as he is dying of some stage 4 cancer (seriously everyone and their mom has cancer in this series!). He doesn’t even trust his own doctors that he raised him like Ebina, Haru, and Kaji- he’s like I want Daimon Michiko. When it comes to saving his life, he knows that she is the only one he can trust who will not fail him as a doctor. Other doctors have ulterior motives and their mind is not so pure. But Michiko is so pure- a pure hearted soul who doesn’t desire other worldly things that the corrupt doctors do, and so in the operating room, Hiruma is like “oh you are all like my sons, but I want my daughter Michiko, where is she??!” After all the image making and corruption, he knew that only she could save him. And she does not fail!In this season, the issue of “Where is all her money going?” really started to bother me, as it did Michiko herself. It causes a rift (not quite a falling out) with Akira San, but when she finds out at the end of the season that he has some incurable brain cancer (everyone is just floating around with stage 4 cancers in this show geez!), a very touching finale ensues. Akira makes himself unavailable to Michiko and gives up on his own life, prohibiting Michiko to see him, but she perseveres. It’s heartbreaking to see her going to her usual spots like the bathhouse, or table tennis place or their eatery spots alone without her favorite teacher, friend, manager, and guardian, Akira San. She misses him dearly and cannot give up on his life.
Akira isn’t just her manager — he is her last link to family, to a sense of home, to being cared for outside the operating room. His betrayal (or what she thinks is betrayal) is devastating because he is the only one she fully trusts. When she confronts him about the money, it isn’t greed that’s driving her — it’s pain. She feels as if the one person she’s allowed herself to depend on has failed her. That’s why her leaving is so powerful: she isn’t walking away from money, she’s testing what she has left without him. Outside the OR, Michiko is almost childlike — awkward, impulsive, sometimes naive. That’s what makes Akira’s role so essential. He’s the one who holds her life together so she can pour her entire being into surgery. When he collapses, it’s not just a medical emergency — it’s like the ground is ripped out from under her. The show turns the tables: now she is the one begging to save him, refusing to give up even when he tells her to let him go. His refusal is a test — not out of cruelty, but because love that can’t withstand separation isn’t yet whole. Michiko’s choice to decline Tendo’s lucrative offer is a pivotal moment. She could have chosen prestige, money, and her own “brand,” but she chooses the one patient who matters to her most. That moment is her true declaration of who she is — not just a surgeon, but a fiercely loyal soul who refuses to abandon the one who believed in her first.
Finally when the colleagues Ebina, Haru, and Kaji and the head nurse bring Michiko to the operating room when Akira collapses, Daimon is there to save the day- but unlike other surgeries, she is in tears as she operates, and she is reminded of her own training by Akira himself, teaching her to never give up on her patient. She leaves a very lucrative position and job offer from Tendo as the president of the chairman of the health ministry of whatever.. it doesn’t matter to Michiko in that moment. She declines the offer, overturns the desk and says in effect, “What good is all of this if I cannot even save the one I love?” That was so deeply touching. Because until then, we see Dr. Daimon as this hard shelled person with a childlike quirky personality with Akira San after work, but to see her heart bared open like that was truly touching and I was crying through the whole thing. The surgery itself was almost liturgical — Michiko crying while she operates, remembering the lessons Akira drilled into her: “Never give up on the patient.” It’s like the entire series brought her to this moment where her skills and her heart meet. She saves him not just with her technique, but with her devotion. It’s almost a prayerful act — her tears are part of the healing. This final surgery scene of Akira was truly heart wrenching to watch and I was praying that he would live. He didn’t want Michiko to fail but she never gave up on him. Akira says something important to Ebina, “Do you know why Michiko says these careless things like I never fail? It’s because of her determination. She will never give up on the patient.” And to see that Akira San didn’t swindle her money, but rather invested in her own future to build her a hospital in her own name where she can be free to do surgeries and save lives was truly honorable. Forgive me Akira San- you are a saint. And yes he was right to protect Michiko from her own money, because in the end she ends up saving Akira’s life but blowing all the money by going to outer space.
But the ending with her spending the money on space travel is so fitting — because Michiko is free. She doesn’t hoard, she doesn’t cling. She’s already received what she really wanted: Akira’s trust, his life, and the proof that she could save him. The space trip is almost her way of saying, “I won’t be tied down by this world.” She laughs, she returns to her silly self, but she’s been transformed.
This whole season is a parable -it’s not about money, status, or getting credit — it’s about staying faithful to the one thing that matters even when every ego system tells you to look away. It’s about never abandoning what you love, even when it seems impossible.
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