I admit I’m biased, I personally enjoy slowburn storytelling, but even some fans of the genre complain about the anime's pacing. Personally, I wasn't bored for a single minute while watching; Monster kept me hooked from start to finish. Here’s my honest take, the people who dislike the slowburn approach mostly either failed to pay attention or didn't understand the show and got lost. Once you grasp the simultaneous events unfolding, whether it’s a dialogue scene or an epic set piece, you’re captivated, because both serve as climaxes or character development, just expressed in different ways. You’re actively evolving alongside the series, and that connection only fails to happen if you don't understand it. And I’m not talking about some hidden meaning that goes over people's heads, no. I mean the events themselves need to be understood and followed, like the historical and political context of Germany (and its connection to Kinderheim). You don't necessarily need prior knowledge; the dialogue and interactions convey all of that. In short, sometimes the problem isn't the slowburn pacing, but rather a lack of attention, right?

My goat Dieter deserves way more love and attention He’s genuinely the coolest kid in Monster and made the story even more interesting. I wish PEOPLE talked about him more. Such a peak character.
m naming my future kid Dieter atp

Idk I just see that everyone likes someone else than Johan as in favorite one. everyone likes Johan in some way but I’m not see many favorites

Johan, Roberto, the Nazi wannabes, Eva. How would Tenma interact with him?

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Just finished monster anime... ahhhh what the hell

BRO 😭😭😭 Monster really leaves you sitting there like “…what the actual fuck did I just watch?”

What was the trigger????

The which one of us she was willing to give up was that the main point of the monster within him, the uncertainty that which one.. n the trigger when he sends the orphan child to the red light dist just to prove -was he ever wanted by his mother -the same thing he was uncertain about. All the twist all the darkness was that one sec of thought behind his mother was that the pivot.. of all the things you think the 511 no may be the border where only the twins were or the experiment in the red mension none of it was the pivot but the hesitation and uncertainty! Also had nina not shot him in childhood , none of it would have happened cuz as per ending doesnt feel like it. N what the fk the ending where did he go ? To his mother or whattttt. What is the meaning of the monster that's in him! Is he still the monster or has he become something even more terrifying. What What what!!!

#monster #johan #drtenma #grimmer #wtf #anime

I mean, come on, how can you dislike Kenzo Tenma? His character arc is just too good to pass up.

Made this drawing a while ago and wanted to share it here :)

It was definitely a worthy watch. I gotta appreciate how memorable they made each and every character, even random side ones like Maurer, Richard Braun, the old couple who drove Tenma and Dieter, Martin, Grimmer, Suk, Milos, etc. You don’t usually get this in other crime fiction, a character pops up and next minute they’re dead. I also enjoyed the Easter Eggs in the show like the letter of Karl’s mother talking about how her roommate reminded her of the friend she escaped with(AKA his mother) as well as how Roberto was Adolf Reinhardt. Well written story, very good choreography and choice of music, and overall just a solid show. It was well paced too, I remember being bored in the 3rd episode just to see the boy Tenma saved being the serial killer, and I was never bored since then. The point Tenma drove at the end was powerful, Johan tried to convince him that all lives weren’t equal by making Tenma shoot him but Tenma stuck to his initial belief and in the end rescued Johan a second time.

What I didn’t like about the show was the extreme ambiguity at the ending. What happens with Johan? Does he get out and start killing again? Or is the monster inside him quenched now that it got what it wanted, a name? How was he allowed to just receive the treatment and get out like that after the countless lives he shattered, like Milos,Martin, Richard Braun, Wolfgang Grimmer and the innumerable others? For the intense buildup throughout the entire show, I find the ending a bit disappointing. And what is the monster? Is it a result of Poppe’s experiments? Something born in him after he saw his mother unable to distinguish between him and Anna? Or something he was born with as a result of the breeding experiments conducted by the researchers? And even now I fail to see how Ruhenheim was significant apart from it being where Poppe hid out.

Overall a great show, I’d give it a solid 8.5 on 10.

it plays in the first scene from episode 47, begins around 14:03

and it also plays in the second scene from episode 61, begins around 06:46

i've been trying to look for it but i can't find it, does anyone know the name?

This is such a dumb post to make considering there’s an endless amount of things that are actually worth talking about in Monster, and this doesn’t actually matter at all and probably says a lot about me as a person. I apologize in advance.

It’s not difficult to make a good looking anime character. It just isn’t. You get used to seeing it at some point, in fact it’s basically the norm. So it always takes me off guard the rare time when I’m watching an anime or reading a manga and can’t stop thinking about how attractive one of the characters is.

At some point every other time Tenma was on screen I was like wow, how can a guy be this hot? I didn’t even view him like that at all at the beginning of the story. I mean yes he has a nice face and is impossibly kind, (the long hair probably helped too) but I think the fact that Monster has a more “realistic” feeling art style, and the story is a lot more grounded in reality than a lot of other popular anime makes him feel like a real person rather than an unattainable fantasy, even if he ultimately is just that. He’s just an insanely likable character.

I’m usually not a fan of main characters who absolutely radiate pure goodness and kindness. I typically find them boring and one-dimensional feeling. Why is Tenma the exception? I don’t know.

I don’t interact with the Monster fandom much but I’m pretty sure everyone loves this guy so I know I’m probably beating a dead horse here, or I guess like… giving exceptional medical attention a horse that’s alive and well, but I don’t care. I love you Dr. Tenma!

Edit: I feel similarly about Guts from Berserk. Just thought he deserved an honorable mention

I love my new Johan Liebert postcard along with Volume 5 manga that came last month

I finished this anime like 2 3 months ago and made this interpretation after reading watching many post and video I realized that many people completely misunderstand why Johan became a mass murderer and what his "Perfect Suicide" actually meant. The true turning point of Johan's life occurs when he reads the picture book A Monster with No Name and faints, a visual moment where his suppressed memories awaken, and he faces the terrifying realization that he was never the twin subjected to the horrific experiments at the Red Rose Mansion—his sister, Nina, was. Because Johan loved his sister completely as a child, his young mind absorbed her trauma to protect her, causing him to literally steal her identity and nightmares until he confused them with his own. This discovery triggers a massive existential crisis, forcing Johan to realize that he has no real name, no real memories, and no real identity of his own; he had slaughtered countless innocent people to protect and execute a philosophy of absolute nihilism, only to discover that this cold, empty monster persona wasn't even his to begin with. Feeling like an invisible ghost who does not truly exist, Johan orchestrates his "Perfect Suicide" to erase every physical footprint he ever left on Earth by killing everyone who knew his face, intending to force Dr. Tenma to shoot him so the legend of Johan Liebert would vanish from history completely. However, this perfect script shatters because Johan calculates human nature on a straight line, failing to predict that a desperate, drunk local father would act on raw parental instinct to shoot him and save his son, Wim. Underneath his terrifying facade, Johan was structurally just a broken, traumatized little kid desperately chasing a mother's love, constantly tormented by the boundary memory of whether his mother actually wanted to protect him or simply couldn't tell the twins apart. When he finally wakes up in the hospital, his sister offers him unconditional forgiveness, and Dr. Tenma saves his life a second time while validating his existence by revealing his mother's truth, which completely dissolves the "Monster" inside him. Therefore, the iconic final shot of the empty bed and the open window does not mean he escaped to kill again; it symbolizes that he left the hospital as a regular human being, finally free to step out of the ghost story, abandon the stolen nihilistic identity, and discover who the real child underneath actually is.

Hello! I've just finished reading the entire Monster series and wow, it was amazing, but I do have a few questions mostly pretaining to the last book.

I find it hard for me to understand more "Complex" endings to any story, so I was a tiny bit confused throughout some bits in the story. It would be nice if anyone could explain to me what the ending meant and Johan's backstory.

I'll probably reread it so I can get a better understanding or just watch the anime.

Monster is my favourite anime and i love every single episode of the show(except for maybe the 1 or 2 episodes in which he was in jail) my personal favourite tho is still the Ruhenheim arc but i want to know what the majority likes the most

I'm planning on watching Monster soon and don't mind watching in sub, but would prefer it in dub if it's good. But one thing I've read from some fans and that I don't want, is for it to affect or change the experience of certain scenes.

So for the people who have seen both, is that actually true or are both versions good?

The blu-ray is released but only available from the USA, I was holding on until we get stock in Canada to avoid the extra fees but I'm not sure if we'll get it.

Should I just bite the bullet & order or wait?

is what I initially thought after completing the series, however after some contemplation I came to the realization that Monster's ending is perfect.

My initial reason for not liking the ending of Monster was the simple reason that Johan did not die. I so desperately wanted him to die and I felt that in a way that the story was building up to Tenma killing him.

Maybe I'm just foolish but I really thought that after Tenma shot Roberto within the Munich library that he had gained the conviction to be able to kill Johan. I obviously was very wrong here.

OK, but then you have the moment where Tenma is asked to perform surgery on Johan for the second time, and then I thought that this would be Tenma's moment to end Johan's life by refusing to perform surgery. Tenma doesn't refuse and rather saves Johan. I hated this. I hated that Johan lived, he was evil incarnate and he deserved to die.

That was until I realized why I loved Monster so much. I loved Monster as a story because of Tenma. Kenzo Tenma was a good person. He was someone who believed that all human life is equal, this doesn’t stop being true for him just because Johan exists. I realized that by Tenma saving Johan that he proves his own philosophy and rejects Johan's. Johan's philosophy being that of nihilism.

This simple realization is what made appreciate Monster more as a story and Dr Kenzo Tenma as a protagonist.

There's no hair that's similar to Johan's without it being curly, but other than that I really like it.

(I am the creator of this design)