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Yay! Roberto is dead (or at least I hope he is)!
I found it funny that both Tenma and Nina, want kill Johan so badly yet, when he's right in front of them, they both hesitate (at least Tenma did, Nina also seemed to).
Things are getting quite epic now :)

And to think, it could have all ended in one shot. Tenma's hesitancy to fire makes me wonder how he plans on really confronting Johan. What'll he do if he's not going to kill him? I wonder if he'll get the resolve to follow through next time or if he'll find another method to stop Johan by the series end.

so it takes 38 episodes for Tenma to realize that he cant shoot a gun when every viewer in the world knows that ever since episode 1 :( Killing that idiot had no story progression whatsoever. So he shot a damn subordinate... he had so many oppertunities to finish the job (and the series) if he pulled the trigger. But now that his fail status has solidified, we're here to endure another 30+ episodes of him trying to shoot again?? i mean sht :(

i would've been fine if he shot him now, and then worked the rest of the way to clear his name or at the very least do more renegade surgeries w/o this weak drama.

they shouldve shown ep 1-5, then 36-38 then 70-74... theres your whole season in a nut shell :(


...what a waste

Talk about an epic episode.

This episode hurt the series.

There's no reason Johan should still be alive right now. The show is going to have to make up for this, because that was a cop-out. Tenma had many chances to kill Johan. Stupid.

Epic

I'd be less annoyed if we hadn't just watched Tenma kill a man and so get over his "inability to kill another human" thing that has been with him for the series, only to then not shoot Johan. They give us this moment of change, this moment of Tenma being able to kill, then completely negate it 10 minutes later when he can't manage to kill johan.

I mean, Hamlet is one of the greatest plays ever written and really that's just about a guy who can't go through with killing someone. So I have nothing against that plot point, but imagine if in the last act when Hamlet finally felt like he could kill his uncle he suddenly changed his mind again, even though we'd just watched him decide for definite a second ago.

It feels like very forced tension, which is really annoying as the past run of 10 or so episodes have been fantastic and tension filled. Hopefully they can think up someway to pull it back for the next 30 eps.

Can't be described as something else.

Hooray Roberto finally got shot - he always freaked me out. It was obvious they weren't gonna shoot Johan now...wonder what will happen next.

Meh,I understand that they can't have Johan dead with so many episodes still left,but...It just seems kinda stupid.They really should give an explanation or something or get the series in other direction.Mayyyyybe that could be attributed to Johan's powers,because he sure as hell has some kind of unnormal influence to people.

It's clear that he didn't shoot because Johann, unlike Roberto has an almost unnatural charisma. That's also the reason he can get so many people to trust him, he's just that good.

OK truly epic...There is no other word that could describe this episode better. There was nothing deep here like in the rest of Monster's episodes. But it was heavily action packed. Therefore my post will be much shorter.

The fact that Tenma won't be able to shoot was know for a long time. His ability to shoot Roberto on the other hand, is a completely different thing. He shot Roberto only to save his own life. While Johan did not threaten Tenma directly. And therefore he could not kill a defenseless man. It seems that Anna was also hesitating. She shot after all, but it was obvious that her conscience let her do it only when Johan was gone far away behind the smokes, hoping that she would not hit.

One thing truly shocked me. The scene with Karl in Schuwald's office. His mom is also from czeckoslovakia like Johan and Anna. But not only they were from the same country. Karl's mom and Johan's father were close friends. It is highly possible that Johan is Karl's step brother too. It also seems that Johan lived with Margot in Germany for quite some time. They even participated in that bank of darkness thing, which was told about in that villa few episodes back, together. And of course, Johan is the one who killed Margot. It is also quite obvious since he killed all of his other foster parents.

Another thing I noticed is that Schuwald understood something from Johan's words. Maybe he already knows about his past, which was probably told to him by Margot? That would make a lot of sense. And add additional interesting story development.

Clearly I'm not the only one who liked when Tenma killed Roberto. :D

I really loved when Johan pointed at his forehead. That just seemed so badass. I do wish someone could have killed Johan even though I like him.

MAMIKO NOTO!!!!!!!!

hurray.. congratulations to tenma who made his 1st gunshot :)
but still he's hesitating to shoot johan.. same with nina ~_~

The ending was just stupid.

Not because Tenma was hestitating to shoot Johann, but because NINA doesn't want Tenma to shoot and Tenma doesn't want Nina to shoot, and neither one has the courage to do it. (I don't know why, this charisma thing is bullshit. You'll never see someone in real life saying, "oh, I want to kill him, but he has so much charisma that I can't ¬¬')

Why soo much drama about one simple homicide??

Woah, he actually shot someone :o

Don't know why, but I'm thoroughly convinced there is more to tenma and ana not killing Johann than the series is telling us. I mean he practically dared Tenma to shoot him. Maybe the defenseless thing is on the right track. It's quite a bit different to shoot someone trying to kill you.

Shit went from real to REALLY FUCKING REAL

this was awesome hope ninas ok