Johan is a cold and calculating killer with a mysterious past, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracy and serial murder open the door to a compelling, intricately woven plot in this masterwork of suspense. Once upon a time, a monster in disguise lived in a peaceful little town in a peaceful little valley. The monster cut all ties to evil and began helping the people of the town. But one day, some devilish messengers came to visit. The town was suddenly enveloped in a miasma of fear, and the people began to kill each other. The messengers had come to the town with one goal in mind: to capture the monster named Franz Bonaparta! How can a real person become nothing more than fiction? By eliminating everyone who has ever known them, everyone who has ever known of their past—by becoming the only one in the world who knows of their existence. One man attempted to do this, trying to commit the perfect suicide. But he failed to wipe out all traces of his former life, and in this failure, he became the nameless Monster.
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Monster: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 9
Johan is a cold and calculating killer with a mysterious past, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracy and serial murder open the door to a compelling, intricately woven plot in this masterwork of suspense. Once upon a time, a monster in disguise lived in a peaceful little town in a peaceful little valley. The monster cut all ties to evil and began helping the people of the town. But one day, some devilish messengers came to visit. The town was suddenly enveloped in a miasma of fear, and the people began to kill each other. The messengers had come to the town with one goal in mind: to capture the monster named Franz Bonaparta! How can a real person become nothing more than fiction? By eliminating everyone who has ever known them, everyone who has ever known of their past—by becoming the only one in the world who knows of their existence. One man attempted to do this, trying to commit the perfect suicide. But he failed to wipe out all traces of his former life, and in this failure, he became the nameless Monster.
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Reviewed by Fereshte<blockquote>"Dr. Tenma, all lives were equal to you... and so I was revived. But you've noticed by now, haven't you? The only thing all humans are equal in... is death."</blockquote> <img src="https://morningroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/m1.png"description"/> I want to start this review by saying, this series is truly a masterpiece. Now let's start because there's so much to unpack here. Ready? Let's go. Dr. Tenma is a young brilliant neurosurgeon who believes all human's lives are equal and every life matters. So what happens when one day, because of that belief, instead of doing a surgery on the mayor like the director order him to do, he chooses to save the life of a ten year old boy who was shot in the head, because he was brought to the hospital before the mayor? And more importantly, what happens when he saves the boy and he grew up to become a monster? A true evil? As Johan himself says it, he was supposed to die that night, but Dr. Tenma basically resurrected him from the dead. So does that mean he is also responsible for the blood Johan has shed? And no, this is not the only philosophical question you would find yourself asking through the whole series. In fact, the entire series is filled with them. What determines someone is pure evil and someone's not? Can you tell for sure? The series is surly a slow burn. Throughout the whole story you will meet so many side characters and they'll all serve a purpose to the story, every single one of them, and even though you would only see them for a short amount of time, Urasawa's characterization is so strong that you will feel for them like you have personally known them. <blockquote>"Do you understand what it means to destroy the very nucleus of human good and evil? Do you understand what happens when you awaken the monster inside a human being??!"</blockquote> The mystery behind why Johan is the way he is will haunt you throughout the whole series and even when you get the full picture, as unbelievable as it seems, you start to feel for him too. After all, he was just a victim of the cruel world. And he <i>is</i> right. The only thing all humans are equal in, is death. <img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQM3liNSB_mdReX_UGanqm6s4NlhA600HmR_g&s"description"/> As for the ending, i loved and hated it at the same time. There were a lot of things that I wanted to be explained but nonetheless, I think the ending was perfect. Wow, yeah, I can totally see myself thinking about this series and the great question of it all for the rest of my life. I really think that its story and the message truly changed something in me.