Lab_Member001_HK said:JYX said:Tenma is boring. First of all, I hate the way Naoki Urasawa has to constantly remind us what a good person he is.
I also hate the fact that Tenma had so many instances where he could've killed Johan but chose not to. He supposedly believes that all lives are equal and that no lives are greater than another but his actions contradict that belief. If that was really his ideology then you'd think that he wouldn't hesitate to kill Johan because that would in turn save more lives, right?
I'm not trying to change your opinion. I'm just giving you a piece of information that you're not taking into consideration when bringing up Dr. Tenma's philosophy.
So, Tenma believes that all lives are created equally & at the end that's the reason why he once again saved Johan's life, despite knowing he is a mass murderer.
The biggest reason why Tenma's philosophy works for him & him alone is because he is a DOCTOR. Seems like many people don't try to comprehend this from Tenma's perspective.
When a shounen protagonist follows no kill philosophy like Edward Elric for example, he does it because he's written as a good person but when Tenma doesn't kill anyone(He shot Roberto in self defence & always regretted it until he found he was alive), he does it not only because he's good but mostly because he is bound by the Hippocratic oath. So, he concluded that his job doesn't allow him to kill even if he actually wanted to kill Johan at all cost.
At the end he saves Johan because that's his job as a doctor. As a doctor, he considers it his moral duty to save every life possible, irrespective of who they are & what they did. He questioned this morality of his in the very beginning & that's the moral dilemma that Tenma goes through throughout the show.
He decided to kill Johan to indirectly save more lives in the beginning but whenever he tried, he was reminded of his philosophy & ofcourse his duty as a doctor. If he firmly believed all lives are created equally, how can he kill another person when his own job is to save human lives?
What Tenma did was right or wrong, Urasawa left it for viewers to interpret. That's all.
Tenma being boring to the public is quite understandable to me. I'm not taking any offence & I hope you don't either.
I can personally just relate to him on many levels.
But for me, all animals will be created equally...
I found Tenma's character interesting because he only lived for others, but at the cost of hurting himself. this trait of his felt frustrating as a viewer, he would just never speak his mind. that's why he ended up being Eva's accessory husband, because he fulfilled all of her narcissistic and self-absorbing needs.