Soul Mechanic and Dr. Rintaro have a lot in common. Similar story and characters. Both are about a psychiatrist working in a hospital who is excellent but somehow different: He often doing work even outside of his workplace, has an ideal of healing everyone and uses unorthodox methods to care patients, and eventually geting himself into trouble. Both has a Doctor Patient Relationship. Both young woman has seriuos mental illness because of a childhood trauma related to her mother.
