Monster Review

Year: April 7, 2004 to September 28, 2005
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Drama, Psychological, Thriller, Police, Seinen.
Episodes: 74

Kenzō Tenma is a very talented japanese doctor whose life seems to be going the right way. He has a prestigious job, a respected place in the society and he is engaged with a beautiful and rich woman. Brain surgery is his specialty and he works in a german hospital whose director is his fiancee's father, Udo Heinemann. However the director is a greedy man who only cares for wealth and fame and orders Tenma to operate the VIP patients first and then the others even though they may need immediate help.At that time a girl and a boy that had been shot in the head arrived. Feeling guilty about letting a patient die because of the director's order Tenma decides to operate the boy that had arrived before the city's major believing that everyone's life should be treated the same. The boy's life was saved and the major died. From that day Tenma's life changed in way he couldn't ever imagine. He lost Eva(his fiancee) and his social position. Afterwards Director Heinemann and some other doctors were mysteriously killed and the children disappeared from the hospital. The police suspected Tenma because he was the only one who could benefit from these murders but they didn't have any evidence so they only asked him some questions. Nine years had to pass until the day when Tenma realized that he had saved a life of murderer,a real monster. Even though he knows that as a doctor he made the right choice now Tenma has to take responsibility for it. Will he be able to stop this "Monster" ?



Until I watched about 50 episodes of this anime it felt like the story was a bit slow paced and it was difficult to determine how it would go on. However during the remaining episodes the pieces started to fall together and everything got very interesting. This anime has a different  air around it, it feels more like soap opera than your traditional anime. One great thing about it to me it's the monster this anime tells us about,Johan Liebert, who is like a modern Adolf Hitler. He is indeed evil incarnate and not a character who'd be liked by everyone but still he makes this anime worthy to spend your time on it.
+Great plot
+Its originality
+ or - depending if you don't have a problem watching an anime of this genre with so many episodes
- The story is a bit slow paced
Overall: 8.2