Feb 17, 2014
*NO SPOILERS*
Naoki Urasawa's "Monster" is such a well done, well thought out series. My recommendation is, to watch the anime first. The anime is identical to the manga in every way! At first, I was surprised to see how similar in dialog and in panels, the anime was to the manga.The style in witch the characters are done, helps you feel more like them with each expression. Not to mention the soundtrack helps build up the tension.
Although many of you know what the story is about... for those of you who don't well...
Monster, is a story
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about a Japaneses doctor called Kenzo Tenma, working in Germany as a brain surgeon. While working, he decides that the value of each patient, must be treated fair and equal. He decides to save the life of a small boy who has a gun shot wound in the head.This boy was placed under his care first, before the hospital director ordered Tenma instead, to save the life of the mayor. Its safe to say that Tenma saved the life of the boy, but the mayor died without the help of Tenma's abilities.
Tenma looses everything in his life, including his status, lover, and respect for the brilliant doctor he is, just because he saved the life of that small child. He believes that no matter what he lost to save the life of the small boy, he will never stop from being what a real doctor should be. Weeks later, the twin orphaned children (the boy who Tenma saved his life and his sister) disappear from the hospital and are never found again. But the same day those children disappear, the hospital director and other two doctors got murdered.
9 years pass and now Tenma recovered his status as a doctor and is helping the patients as he normally would. He treats a man who is suspected of helping in various murder cases, and that man grows to trust Tenma instead of the police, who are trying to investigate him, during his recovery in the hospital. The suspect flees from the hospital one night, and Tenma chases after him. Only to find that the man who hired the suspect, is Johan. The small boy who disappeared 9 years ago, now reveals that he was the one who killed the hospital director and the 2 doctors, 9 years ago. Johan shoots the suspect who helped him in his murders, and leaves.
Tenma is now a suspect from the murders that happened 9 years ago, and for the murders that Johan is committing. Tenma must find Johan, and place him into justice. To clear his name and stop the killings that Johan is committing... Will Tenma have to kill this man to end the horror?
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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