is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by Sho Yamazaki. It was serialized on

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's ''

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'' website from May 2020 to January 2023, with its chapters collected into eight volumes.

Premise

The series focuses on Takuma Kurosumi, the member of a

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group who falls in love with the dentist Tomori Shirayuki during an appointment under the belief that Tomori is a woman; in reality, he is a

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man of a rival ''yakuza'' group.

Production

In 2019, Sho Yamazaki published a

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on the free

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'' on October 5. At the time of its release, the one-shot won first place on a

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, exceeding 2.6 million views and becoming the most viewed one-shot work by ''Shōnen Jump+'' in history. Due to the popularity of the one-shot, Yamazaki decided to adapt it as a full-length serialization on ''Shōnen Jump+''.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Sho Yamazaki, ''Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!'' was serialized on

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'' from May 16, 2020, to January 21, 2023. Shueisha collected its chapters in eight volumes, released from October 2, 2020, to March 3, 2023. The series is also released in English simultaneously with its Japanese release through Shueisha's

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service.

Volumes

Reception

By February 2021, the manga had over 3 million views on the ''Shōnen Jump+'' platform. By July 2021, it had over 100.000 copies in circulation. The series won the grand prize at the first EbookJapan Manga Award in 2021.

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External links

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