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Psychiatrist Irabu series

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The psychiatrist Irabu series is a series of short stories by the Japanese writer Hideo Okuda which features the fictional psychiatrist Dr. Ichirō Irabu. The stories were originally published in the literary magazine All Yomimono from August 2000 - January 2006 and later collected in three tankōbon: In the Pool, "Flying trapeze" and "Mayoral election". Of these, Kūchū Buranko is particularly acclaimed, having won Okuda the 131st Naoki Prize (given for a book published in the first half of 2004). However, as of January 2011, only In the Pool has been published in English, though the other collections have been published in other languages, including German and French. Works in other media based on the stories include a feature film, television drama, stage play and animated television series. Ichiro Irabu is a psychiatrist of the Irabu General Hospital. He is fat and pale skinned, with a fetish for administering injections to patients. An unreasonable and rather immature person, in the story "Kūchū Buranko", he normally ignores Yamashita's plights while challenging him to mid-air trapeze flying due to his self-proclaimed "light-weightedness." During his student days, he frequently misunderstood his lectures. Treated as a general nuisance at the School of Medicine, he entered pediatrics soon after graduation. However, due to claims of his tantrums and quarrels with child patients, he switched to psychiatry instead. Doubts remain about his actual grades. "Flying Trapeze" Kōhei Yamashita is a member of a circus troupe of seven years and is the leader of a flying trapeze team. Both his parents are fellow members. After suffering repeated failures on the trapeze act, he visits a psychiatrist on his wife's and fellow members' advice. Due to his failure during an act, he believes his partner is harassing him. He has been played by Masato Sakai in the television drama, Kenji Sakamoto in the stage play and Toshiyuki Morikawa in the animated series. "Hedgehog" Seiji Ino is an underboss of the yakuza "Kioi family" from Shibuya.
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