Reviews

I saw Monster ranked so highly on this site that when it appeared on Netflix, I knew I was going to get into it. I was completely drawn into the story, the mystery and the unraveling of missing pieces of information were delivered exceptionally well. Then I got halfway through the series and the same memories were expanded upon, delivering a sliver of new detail with the same images and lines per episode. No big deal, I can trudge through a few slow episodes, I'm not impatient after all. Never again did I feel the intrigue as I had at the start of the show, it dragged on introducing new characters that you knew existed from previous stories and memories. With each new character, a small bit of memory and story would be peeled off. Unraveling this story bit by bit was excruciating for me, I grew more and more anxious to get to the last episode of this anime, not because I wanted to know what happened but because I wanted the series to end, to know that it wouldn't keep dragging on. I had to take a two month break once I reached episode 65, I couldn't take the slow pace, the sentence of new memory per episode. Then finally I worked up my courage and lashed out to get to the end of this marathon that should have ended 30 episodes ago. I didn't feel the work of a master, yes, the characters interweave for 74 episodes, but I didn't care about any of them, I became completely apathetic to every aspect of this story. It had taken too long to reveal the chaos stored within the characters and I no longer cared to look for brilliant writing.

This was easily the most grating anime I've ever watched, I loved it to start and I couldn't wait for it to end.