is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Evening from October 2018 to November 2020, and in the website from December 2024 to February 2025. Its chapters were collected in six volumes. An eleven-episode Japanese television drama adaptation was broadcast on TBS and its affiliates from April to June 2019.
Akato launched two previous manga series in Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Afternoon; Nemesis no Tsue, published in 2013, and In Hand: Himokura Hakase to Majime na Migiude, published in 2016.
Plot Tetsu Himokura is a brilliant but eccentric parasitologist, spending his days in his home studying parasites with his prosthetic right arm. He takes on difficult, even criminal cases outside his field of expertise, thanks to his advanced scientific methods and extensive knowledge in various fields beyond medicine.
Characters Main characters
Supporting characters
Media Manga Before creating In Hand, launched a short manga series, titled , which ran in Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from January 25 to June 25, 2013. Its chapters were collected in a single volume, released on September 20, 2013.
A three-chapter prologue miniseries, titled , was serialized in Monthly Afternoon from March 25 to May 25, 2016. Its chapters were collected in a single volume, released on July 22, 2016. Both the miniseries and Nemesis no Tsue were republished in two volumes on February 22, 2019, under the title .
In Hand was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Evening from October 23, 2018, to November 24, 2020. It was later revived in Kodansha's website on December 12, 2024, where it was serialized until February 13, 2025. Kodansha collected its chapters in six volumes, released from March 22, 2019, to March 12, 2025.
Volumes
Drama In Hand was adapted into a 11-episode Japanese television drama, which was broadcast on TBS from April 12 to June 21, 2019.<ref></p></ref> It stars Tomohisa Yamashita as protagonist Dr. Tetsu Himokura, Gaku Hamada as assistant Haruma Takaie, and Nanao as politician Tomoe Makino.
See also Rieux o Machinagara, another manga series by the same author
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