Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!

Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!^{[Jp. 1]} is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sho Yamazaki. It was serialized on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ website from May 2020 to January 2023, with its chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes.

Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!
First volume cover, featuring Tomori Shirayuki (left) and Takuma Kurosumi
歯医者さん、あタってます！ (Haisha-san, Atattemasu!)
Genre	Comedy[1]
Manga
Written by	Sho Yamazaki
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	Shueisha
Imprint	Jump Comics+
Magazine	Shōnen Jump+
Original run	May 16, 2020 – January 21, 2023
Volumes	8

Premise

The series focuses on Takuma Kurosumi, the member of a yakuza 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 cross-dressing man of a rival yakuza group.^[2]

Production

In 2019, Sho Yamazaki published a one-shot manga on the free mobile app and website Shōnen Jump+ on October 5. At the time of its release, the one-shot won first place on a Twitter trend, exceeding 2.6 million views and becoming the most viewed one-shot work by Shōnen Jump+ in history.^[3] Due to the popularity of the one-shot, Yamazaki decided to adapt it as a full-length serialization on Shōnen Jump+.^[4]

Publication

Written and illustrated by Sho Yamazaki, Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me! was serialized on Shueisha's online magazine Shōnen Jump+ from May 16, 2020,^[5] to January 21, 2023.^[6][7] Shueisha collected its chapters in eight tankōbon volumes, released from October 2, 2020, to March 3, 2023.^[8][9]

The series is also released in English simultaneously with its Japanese release through Shueisha's Manga Plus service.^[10]

Volumes

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	October 2, 2020[11]	978-4-08-882460-4
2	February 4, 2021[12]	978-4-08-882571-7
3	July 2, 2021[13]	978-4-08-882667-7
4	November 4, 2021[14]	978-4-08-882802-2
5	March 4, 2022[15]	978-4-08-883041-4
6	July 4, 2022[16]	978-4-08-883155-8
7	December 2, 2022[17]	978-4-08-883358-3
8	March 3, 2023[9]	978-4-08-883478-8

Reception

By February 2021, the manga had over 3 million views on the Shōnen Jump+ platform.^[18] By July 2021, it had over 100.000 copies in circulation.^[13]

The series won the grand prize at the first EbookJapan Manga Award in 2021.^[19]

Notes

1. Japanese: 歯医者さん、あタってます！, Hepburn: Haisha-san, Atattemasu!