Doctor Dokkiri

Dokkiri Doctor
Promotional image for the Dokkiri Doctor anime series
どっきりドクター (Dokkiri Dokutā)
Genre	Comedy
Manga
Written by	Fujihiko Hosono
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run	1981 – 1982
Volumes	4
Anime television series
Directed by	Kazunori Mizuno
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Original network	Fuji TV, Animax
Original run	21 October 1998 – 23 June 1999
Episodes	27

Dokkiri Doctor (どっきりドクター, Dokkiri Dokutā), also known as Startling Doctor or Dr. Dokkiri, is a manga series by Hosono Fujihiko, serialized from 1981 to 1982 in Shōnen Sunday. It was later adapted into a 27-episode anime television series by Studio Pierrot, originally broadcast on Fuji TV from 1998 to 1999 and later translated and broadcast in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South-East Asia, South Asia, and other regions, by the Animax television network.

Dokkiri Doctor chronicles events in the life of Dr. Haruka Nishikikōji, a humorous overweight school doctor who manages his school's clinic and health center, a medieval castle–like complex situated on the school's rooftop, and the crazy and unique inventions he conjures to impress his childhood friend and pretty nurse, Miyuki Koizumi, and to assist his students, but which often lead to a large amount of highly embarrassing and funny situations and adventures for the doctor, Miyuki and the students and the teachers of his school.

The opening theme for the anime series is Nenai Nenai Nenai (ねない ねない ねない), performed by The Castanets. For the first 19 episodes (episodes 1-19), the ending theme was I Wish by Electric Combat, and the ending theme used for the last ten episodes (episodes 20-26) was Make it Somehow by LUKA.