Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary

Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary (ヒトミ先生の保健室, Hitomi-sensei no Hokenshitsu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shake-O.^[3] It follows the daily life and adventures of Hitomi Manaka, a cyclops who works as a school nurse, and her co-workers and students dealing with their human (and not-so-human) problems.

Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Hitomi Manaka
ヒトミ先生の保健室 (Hitomi-sensei no Hokenshitsu)
Genre	Fantasy comedy[1] Slice of life[2]
Manga
Written by	Shake-O
Published by	Tokuma Shoten
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas
Magazine	Monthly Comic Ryū
Original run	19 September 2013 – present
Volumes	18

Nurse Hitomi's Monster Infirmary is published in Japan by Tokuma Shoten in their Monthly Comic Ryū magazine,^[3] and by Seven Seas Entertainment in North America.^[4]

Plot

In a world where certain individuals deal with unique and abnormal changes during puberty, Damoto Junior High's school nurse Hitomi Manaka does her best to help her patients work through their transition from insecurities to incidents like limbs that just will not stay attached and even shrinking spurts.

Characters

Hitomi Manaka (真中一美先生, Manaka Hitomi)

A cyclops and main heroine of the series who works as the school nurse, nicknamed Nurse Hitomi (ヒトミ先生, Hitomi-sensei). As a cyclops, and the eldest sibling in her family, despite her lack of depth perception, her eye allows her to observe any abnormalities in students to better help them.

Midori Itsuki (樹翠, Itsuki Midori)

A plant-based being of unknown gender who serves as Hitomi's assistant, keeping a record of all students with abnormalities who visit the nurse's office.

Nobuko Shitara (設楽伸子, Shitara Nobuko)

A 2nd year student from Class A whose tongue became elastic and grew to 320.5 cm in length, being the first of Hitomi's patients.

Yuki Moji (門司勇輝, Moji Yūki)

Class B's teacher at the school, a kind-hearted gentleman despite his initial imposing appearance due to fur covering his entire body.

Ken Tatara (多々良拳四郎, Tatara Kenshirō)

Class A's teacher, he is a childhood friend of Hitomi's and their parents' houses are next door to each other. He has two extra arms growing from his torso.

Haruna Tobita (鳶田陽菜, Tobita Haruna)

A winged girl and delinquent 2nd year student from Class B. She refuses to obey authority much of the time and is anti-social. She can fly, although it takes a lot out of her.

Naruki and Kaori Wakatsuki (若月成貴とカオリ, Watatsuki Naruki to Kaori)

Conjoined twin 2nd year students from Class D, Naruki being popular with the girls prior to Kaori appearing on his body. Kaori, identifying herself as female and initially a growth before becoming Naruki's right head, shares many of her brother's traits with admirers of her own.

Publication

Shake-O began publishing the series in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Ryū magazine on 19 September 2013.^[5] The series moved to online-only serialization when Comic Ryū changed formats on 19 June 2018.^[6] Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the series for publication in North America.^[1]

The series has been collected into eighteen tankōbon volumes,^[3] of which thirteen have been published in English.^[7]

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	13 March 2014[8]	978-4-19-950385-6	17 February 2015[7]	978-1-626921-47-4
2	13 September 2014[9]	978-4-19-950413-6	23 June 2015[7]	978-1-626921-52-8
3	13 March 2015[10]	978-4-19-950442-6	20 October 2015[7]	978-1-626922-05-1
4	12 September 2015[11]	978-4-19-950470-9	6 September 2016[7]	978-1-626924-14-7
5	13 April 2016[12]	978-4-19-950502-7	24 January 2017[7]	978-1-626924-19-2
6	13 October 2016[13]	978-4-19-950532-4	4 July 2017[7]	978-1-626923-57-7
7	13 April 2017[14]	978-4-19-950561-4	9 January 2018[7]	978-1-626926-76-9
8	13 October 2017[15]	978-4-19-950591-1	30 October 2018[7]	978-1-626929-60-9
9	13 April 2017[16]	978-4-19-950561-4	18 June 2019[7]	978-1-642750-98-0
10	13 November 2018[17]	978-4-19-950654-3	21 January 2020[7]	978-1-645051-89-3
11	13 June 2019[18]	978-4-19-950680-2	8 December 2020[7]	978-1-645054-77-1
12	1 January 2020[19]	978-4-19-950695-6	6 April 2021[7]	978-1-645058-11-3
13	12 September 2020[20]	978-4-19-950716-8	2 November 2021[7]	978-1-648273-32-2
14	11 June 2021[21]	978-4-19-950743-4	—	—
15	12 February 2022[22]	978-4-19-950766-3	—	—
16	13 October 2022[23]	978-4-19-950795-3	—	—
17	12 May 2023[24]	978-4-19-950815-8	—	—
18	13 March 2024[25]	978-4-19-950849-3	—	—

Reception

Lynzee Loveridge ranked the series at number five on her list of "7 Manga for Monster Girl Lovers" on Anime News Network.^[2]