'Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a nameless monster. The monster was dying to have a name.' In 1986, life was good for Japanese neurosurgeon Kenzo Tenma. He was an accomplished doctor living in Germany, had the favors of the hospital director, a hot fiancee (daughter of the same director), and a promising future. But one day, the guilt of primarily attending to the wealthy patients and leaving poorer people in need of his skills drives him to first operate on a child who was hurt in the murder of his adoptive parents rather than the mayor of Dusseldorf. As a result, the child lives, the mayor dies in the hands of less talented surgeons, and Tenma is demoted by his superiors and dumped by his fiancee. Even though his life is now in ruins, Tenma still believes that he did the right thing.
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Suddenly, the hospital directors that demoted Tenma die in very mysterious circumstances, leaving a vacant position that only he can fill. At the same time, the boy that Tenma operated on escapes from the hospital with his catatonic twin sister. Although none of the deaths can be directly attributed to the good doctor, a certain is not very convinced of his innocence. Nine years later, Tenma is still working in the same hospital when a criminal patient escapes in terror because he doesn't want to be killed by a person he calls the 'Monster.' Tenma follows him to a parking garage, only to see him mercilessly shot.
His horror increases when he sees who the killer is: the same boy he operated on nine years ago, now a young adult. Johan Liebert, the boy in question, confesses that he was the one who killed the directors years ago as a way to give him thanks, and abandons the scene leaving the doctor alive. Tenma, horrified to find that he is responsible for the existence of such a monster, abandons his work and his life, and devotes himself to finding Johan again and killing him once and for all. Following Johan's blood trail, however, becomes tricky and absorbing, and as Tenma's hunt becomes riddled with clues from the boy's childhood, finding the truth about Johan's past becomes as imperative as finding Johan himself. The quest is further complicated when Johan's crimes are ascribed to Tenma, and Lunge, convinced beyond a doubt that Tenma is the perpetrator, begins a chase of his own. The series, written and drawn by, one of the most popular mangakas in the business, has received several major awards and substantial critical acclaim; it is painstakingly drawn and, with an and a complex, story.
The is almost identical to the, differing only in several scenes that were cut and several that were added. Not to be confused with the starring, even for a minute (although that one is also about a serial killer). The anime was a fan-favorite on 's Ani-Mondays block. Unfortunately, it is no longer available on, Netflix (subbed), or the Manga Entertainment app for (dubbed) as Viz Media dropped the license. Fortunately the Australian company Siren Visual for full release, dubbed and all in its respective country. Has been trying to get it adapted into a live-action series for some time.
HBO has turned it down, so time will tell if it ever comes to fruition. Monster provides examples of:.:.: Johan's crime scenes are devoid of feeling. In one arc, this enables Lunge to determine that a certain murder was committed by a and not Johan.: Used by a woman in labor.: Happens quite often in this series.: Nina is saved from Professor Geidlitz by Johan. What makes this better is that they were using her as bait to lure Johan in to convince him to lead their group and make 'the master race' dominant once again, seeing him as the next Hitler. Anna tried to warn them that Johan didn't care about their cause or any cause.: Richard's death. It's unclear if he got drunk and fell off, or Johan pushed him.
Reichwein deduces that the alcohol found with him was a brand he hated, but it's not specified whether any alcohol was found in his system.: Another Monster reveals that Johan and Nina's mother (whose real name is Viera) was herself a twin, but her sister died at birth. Viera's mother always compared her to her dead sister, which is why Viera tried to do her sister's share of everything - and strangely enough, she believed that her sister was in fact alive somewhere, under the name of Anna.: A major motif in the series.
Note As mentioned by Tenma, Anna/Nina, and General Wolf, Johan is actually no typical neo-Nazi bigot (in spite of right-wing extremists wanting him to be the next Hitler); believe it or not, he's not interested in being a part of such groups — after all, he works alone and he'll only use minions until he decides to dispose of them when he no longer finds any use for them (he wants to be the last person standing on Earth). However, the fact that he isn't an overt bigot just adds to his scare factor.: Used with two of the main characters and some interesting children's books.: Even the most evil people deserve life and forgiveness.: Being anime, but it's quite unconventional. It was kept for all 74 episodes. It's an apart from some.: Do you have a favorite character you really like? Have they, at any point, so much as made eye contact with Johan? Beeeeg mistake.:.
'Look at how big the Monster inside of me has become!' . 'People can be. Whatever you want them to be.' .
'Welcome home.' Heinemann involves himself in dirty dealings, has complete disregard for human life, and steals candy from children. He pays dearly for that last one.: Bonaparta's story books.:. Thanks for killing Heinemann, Johan; Oppenheim and Boyer were pretty despicable too. This is probably the only good thing you've ever done, Johan. But remember: the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. And the corrupt cops in Prague.: Franz Bonaparta as the most obvious example, but also Wolf, Schubert, Rosso, Bernhardt, and many others.
Also given inversions and subversions, temporary and otherwise. Atonement and redemption are arguably two of the series' key themes.
Tenma himself could fit the mold fairly well - as kind-hearted as he is, he sees his absolute biggest mistake as being something he alone can fix. And despite numerous opportunities he gets where he could abandon his self-set mission, he refuses every time. Ironically, this trope is the reason Tenma saved Johan in the first place.: Quite a few characters. Reichwein, who's able to take down two hoodlums after getting the tar kicked out of him. Lunge counts as well for the epic fight with Roberto near the end.: Director Heinemann and exploits his skills to save rich and influential patients. Even if it means letting other patients die.
He then does his best to screw Tenma's career over for daring to defy him. He also takes credit for research done by his subordinates.: Christof to Johan.
At the very least, Peter Čapek and the organization he represents may have aspirations to mold Christof into this as a substitute for Johan if the latter proves too unwieldy for them, but according to Christof, the joke is on them, since Christof was merely using the organization to arrange a reintroduction with Johan for himself. People of all appearances occupy all positions on the morality spectrum.: In oh, so many ways. Let's count 'em:. Be careful wishing your boss and his cronies would drop dead out loud — it'll cost you if a certain young boy is in the room when you do it.
Wishing to find out what happened to your twin sibling when you were separated can go very badly wrong for both of you with massive psychological damage. Wanting to start World War III by finding a charismatic leader with skills? Be careful with that thought. Wishing to have a saviour to jump in and smash the bad guys who are hurting you and your friends can turn you into something amazing and awesome. But, also downright scary when you have no clue how you did what you did.: The German and Czech on signs, in documents, and everywhere else is pretty fun for students of the language.: Everybody who survives the story gets new chances to rebuild their lives again, but where did Johan go after the finale?.
According to Another Monster.: Martin develops one for Eva.: Johan gets shot in the head and Tenma saves him.:. The series' favorite method of ending people. Super mario rpg wad ntsc s.
Probably in that most of the murders are committed by experienced killers who don't like to risk leaving anyone alive. Johan, however, manages to get shot twice in the head by two separate people, neither of whom had much firearms experience. One was a little girl, and the other was a hallucinating alcoholic. It's like his brain is a bullet magnet. A bit of on that one. Johan is supposedly, and according to some legends about, he is supposed to suffer two head injuries before going on his ultimate rampage.
Martin mocks a guy for not shooting someone in the head. That someone was him.: Poor Nina, and poor, poor Tenma.: Our resident twins. Johan is psycho and Nina is damaged and repressed.: The Baby, as Nina points a gun at him. The Baby is terrified and notes that she is most definitely Johan's sister.: At the start, Tenma greatly looks up to his boss and seems to view him as a father figure. Said boss exploits his surgical skills for media publicity, plays political games that get one of Tenma's patients killed, and screws his career over for daring to defy him.
Nine years later, Tenma still tells his patients about how proud he is to have saved Johan, crediting him for turning his life around. Too bad it's all about to come crashing down. Another example happens with Jan Suk, who admired a police who actually was corrupt.: Despite being set in Germany, the main character is Japanese.: Tenma at the beginning, detective Jan Suk, Otto Heckel, Eva and ALL of the children that show up in the story. Also done by Grimmer, including on, of all people. Nina, when not in a bad mood.
Dieter's is a major one, and undoes Johan-induced damage.: Tenma has a lot of trouble getting people to believe his story.: In this story, the character designs are very distinctive.: Many of the major supporting characters take a few episodes after their introduction before they take an active role in the story.: Lunge packs a rifle and a pistol before his fight with Roberto. During the fight, he loses the first, but reveals the tiny gun.: Wim's father, who is introduced as nothing more than Ruhenheim's town drunk, is the one who ends up shooting Johan, thereby saving Tenma from the of either abandoning his ideals or watching Wim die.: is shown on the jogging track of an indoor gym while mulling over a case. This helps when he chases after two youngsters at a dead sprint.
He is also seen nagging his secretary to remember to lock the office door on her way out. When an unknown man enters later, a quick glance at the lock confirms that he is an intruder, buying him a few precious minutes to plan his escape. Oppenheim and Dr. Boyer are this to Director Heinemann at the start, with Boyer also being to Tenma.: Inspector Zemen subjects Grimmer to this.
With nail clippers. It's way worse than it sounds.: Much of the story can be traced to communist East Germany and Czechoslovakia.:. Used earlier as an incredibly black after Tenma complains of the politics of his hospital to a supposedly unconscious ten-year-old Johan. Before Johan suddenly wakes up and just stares at Tenma.: Nina's use of the four-barreled COP derringer.: Director Heinemann is the hospital equivalent, caring only about money and media attention.: Tenma after Dr. Heinemann, Dr. Boyer, and Dr.
Oppenheim are murdered and he gets promoted to an even higher position than he had lost. Later on, Johan is implied to have done this after finding out that he wasn't the one who was really sent to the Red Rose Mansion.: Very frequent. Chances are, if you're a side character in this series, you'll get your 'very own episode' or your 'very own series arc'. Also an, in that the title character (if that's how you see Johan, anyway) gets comparatively little air time.: Is all life equal?
The only thing equal is death? Is it alright to save one, then? Do some people deserve to live more than others?.: Many, but mostly and what it means to be a complete monster.: Mostly played with, though not for laughs: Tenma gets his intervention in early with Dieter, Nina attempts this retroactively with her brother, and Grimmer tries with Pedrov's boys, misguidedly as it turns out.: The Baby, a dwarf and the leader of a criminal group.: The security guard in Episode 4.: Tenma comes close to hitting this by the end of the second episode. It doesn't get much better from there. Nina comes perilously close near the end, to the point that Tenma has to talk her out of suicide. The crimes of neither the East German nor Czechoslovak communist regimes are ever justified and the flashbacks depict them as dark and unfriendly, which pretty much corresponds with the common view of the communist period in Eastern Europe. In a way may have even been taken as the East German regim as portrayed in the story bears a hell lot of similarities to the Nazi one.
Although may be considered, at least to some degree. The East German communist regime was notorious for its ideological devotion to the socialist cause (for instance most of the communist terrorist organizations in the world during the Cold War were funded by East Germany) and it did engage in various experiments tampering with human mind and body. In fact, evidence indicate that right before the fall of communism in Eastern Europe Premier Erich Honecker considered, following the example set by the Chinese in Tiananmen Square. Fan analysis of the real-life analogues for the experiments/abuses depicted in the series, including some actually perpetrated under the Communist bloc, can be found and.: The two detectives hired by Johan to kill Nina's adopted parents, Inspector Zemen, Commissioner Hamrlik, Chief Detective Batella, and Detective Janacek.: So, you disobeyed the director because you wouldn't walk out on your patient? He'll ruin your career over it.: Lotte is a gender-flipped example. Unfortunately for her, Karl is pretty damn and she suffers quite a bit over her relationship woes (or the lack of). Jan Suk plays the trope straight, though it's brutually subverted in the fact that the sweet girl that he's been crushing on turns out to be Johan in disguise.
There's also Lipsky, who seems to have a thing for Nina, but he ends up in a happy relationship with someone else in Another Monster.: Happens very often, especially in the anime. Generally tends to apply.: Roberto on behalf of Johann.: Everyone who knows and works with Johan, with the possible exception of Roberto, fears him to an extreme degree. There are even occasions where people figure out that Johan is nearby because of the overwhelming fear that suddenly overtakes them.: Roughly half of Johan's victims end up killing themselves thanks to his abilities.
He's even driven little kids (or at least tempted them) to kill themselves.: What is Johan planning? And does he even know himself?.: Tenma's alibi against charges of, complete with public staggering and ranting. Generally a source of trouble elsewhere ( Eva, Richard, Martin, and Wim), though not anviliciously so - is all part of Grimmer's and Reichwein's positive outlooks. Just be careful with who you drink with.: Muller, who has a pretty epic gunfight to save Nina's life. Considering he killed her foster parents, that was quite the redemption.: The entire plot is driven by this trope.: Despite almost setting itself up for a, most of the surviving characters definitely end up with this. Lunge gets back in touch with his daughter, Dieter seems to be living happily with Dr. Reichwein, Nina is well on her way to becoming a successful lawyer, and Tenma has joined Doctors Without Borders.
Eva kicks her problems and seems to get her life back in order. Even Johan, depending on what you consider a 'happy ending', gets one.: While there are various given as to why Johan is so incredibly vile and wretched, the most plausible theory out of all of them is that Johan was simply born evil.: So many people try to take advantage and use Johan's evilness for their own means.
They all find out, far too late, just how evil Johan is.: Heinemann is all over this. He sabotages Tenma's career purely out of spite, and orders him to be discharged from caring for Johan because he doesn't want Tenma getting the media attention it would bring.: The end credits gradually progress through the story, 'The Nameless Monster', until the final episode where there's simply a static shot of the empty bed where the supposedly comatose Johan was previously.: A few characters are based on members of 's 'Star System'. The most obvious is Dr. Reichwein, who is a clear homage to beloved Tezuka character Shansaku Ban, right down to his trademark moustache. Johan also has too many similarities to Yuki Michio from Tezuka's suspense-thriller to be coincidence.
Tenma shares his name with 's creator, although he's actually closer to. Urasawa would later go on to create, a of a story arc from the Astro Boy series. It would seem that this series has characters resembling to their counterparts from. Tenma is Loomis, Johan is Michael, and Nina is Laurie.: Two of Tenma's 'friends' at the hospital, Dr. Eisen and Dr.
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Boyer, are introduced effusively praising Tenma at the start of the first episode. Once Tenma goes against the director, they both turn against him, blaming him for the mayor's death, and Boyer is promoted to Tenma's old position.
Boyer also dismisses Tenma as Johan's doctor, and really relishes telling him that.: See list on the page.: In-universe, Franz Bonaparta's books deliberately contain plenty of these like, 'Sometimes you're simply screwed no matter which choice you take.' .: There are several instances, like when a kid searching for his mom ends up in a red light district, sees a prostitute bent over a trashcan servicing a patron, and is paid to watch. Also, Roberto, a very ugly character, who can be seen shirtless. Another being Nina in first half of the Prague arc being revealed to actually be Johan in drag.: Johan is probably the quintessential viper, with anyone who does a kindness to him suffering horribly for it. Tenma, the one who saved his life in the first place, gets the very worst of it through the horrible things that Johan does to others in order to repay him.: The various nihilistic children's books.: It borrows a few elements every once in awhile.: Grimmer is tortured by in this manner.: The Nameless Monster goes through four hosts.: Both twins, though in it's. Played straight with many of the other Kinderheim 511 alumni - and in a frighteningly effective way, to boot.
Kinderheim 511 was trying to create emotionless, vicious, who would kill without qualms. They succeeded, without a result.
Everyone became a murderer after killing one another (including the teachers).