Category — Code Blue

This special episode of Code Blue was shown early this year after the drama ended sometime in November last year. As much as I wanted to enjoy the drama in itself, I couldn’t help but find parallelisms to Grey’s Anatomy, which I used to really dig. However, I stuck to the drama because a) I missed Yamapi and b) I wanted to see a different genre of Jdorama. I read somewhere that K-dramas are also moving into these types of career-oriented dramas.

Back to Code Blue, the SP’s storyline starts a week after finale left off. We hear Aizawa’s (Yamashita Tomohisa) voice over, which again reminds me of Meredith Grey’s narratives. While showing flashes of an emergency situation, Aizawa’s voice over talks about separation and death, how it is inevitable and sometimes sudden.

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Story

This drama chronicles the lives of flight doctors, who respond to emergency cases using a helicopter. I read somewhere that the manga, in which the drama was based, was actually inspired by a legislative bill in Japan about helicopter-assisted medical emergency response.

The story is focused on four flight doctors in training—Aizawa Kousaku, Shiraishi Megumi, Hiyama Mihoko, Fujikawa Kazuo, who are all intent on becoming kick ass flight doctors.
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