Alternative Titles
English: Monster
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Japanese: モンスター
Information
Episodes: 74
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 7, 2004 to Sep 28, 2005
Broadcast: Wednesdays at 00:40 (JST)
Source: Manga
Demographic: Seinen
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R+ – Mild Nudity
Statistics
Score: 8.801 (scored by 237,193 users)
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Ranked: #282
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that ‘Not yet aired’ and ‘R18+’ titles are excluded.
Popularity: #159
Members: 747,600
Favorites: 31,923
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Dr. Kenzou Tenma, an elite neurosurgeon recently engaged to his hospital director’s daughter, is well on his way to ascending the hospital hierarchy. That is until one night, a seemingly small event changes Dr. Tenma’s life forever. While preparing to perform surgery on someone, he gets a call from the hospital director telling him to switch patients and instead perform life-saving brain surgery on a famous performer. His fellow doctors, fiancée, and the hospital director applaud his accomplishment; but because of the switch, a poor immigrant worker is dead, causing Dr. Tenma to have a crisis of conscience.
So when a similar situation arises, Dr. Tenma stands his ground and chooses to perform surgery on the young boy Johan Liebert instead of the town’s mayor. Unfortunately, this choice leads to serious ramifications for Dr. Tenma—losing his social standing being one of them. However, with the mysterious death of the director and two other doctors, Dr. Tenma’s position is restored. With no evidence to convict him, he is released and goes on to attain the position of hospital director.
Nine years later when Dr. Tenma saves the life of a criminal, his past comes back to haunt him—once again, he comes face to face with the monster he operated on. He must now embark on a quest of pursuit to make amends for the havoc spread by the one he saved.
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Characters & Voice Actors
“Grain” by Kuniaki Haishima
#1: “For The Love of Life” by David Sylvian (eps 1-32)
#2: “Make It Home” by Fujiko Heming (eps 33-74)
May 1, 2009
74 of 74 episodes seen
Monster plays out like a macabre game of cat and mouse in a world that is frighteningly similar to real life. Uncomfortable subjects such as coercive human conditioning and the psychology of the sociopath, morality issues regarding the origin of evil and the value of human life, are horrifyingly, yet engagingly, realized. The protagonist, Dr. Tenma, struggles to fix that which is so remorsefully broken in his world. Monster is a chilling tale rooted in reality, a far cry from the superpowers and supernatural forces found in more detached fantasy series.
Story: 10
The writing in Monster is exceptional. The pace is a slow burn that smartly read more
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Sep 23, 2013
74 of 74 episodes seen
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you”–Nietzsche
Those who have seen Monster can attest collectively (whether they liked it or not) to how incredibly uncomfortable and unconventional this show is. The topic of evil is proactively exploited through revealing the extent of human depravity in conjunction with exploring matters like child abuse, mass murder, collective brainwashing, human experimentation, the value of life, and so much more. These are some themes that most people make a conscious effort to keep as far read more
Aug 8, 2010
74 of 74 episodes seen
If you’ve heard of Monster, then odds are you’ve probably heard of the incredible hype surrounding it. For a while, Monster has been the absolute critic’s darling of anime, being the poster-boy for lofty intellectual types. Because of this, it can be very easy to imagine Monster as being overhyped.
But Monster lives up to every word of the praise it gets.
The story of Monster begins fairly simply. A skilled Neurosurgeon named Kenzo Tenma is due to perform an operation on a patient, but is called away to operate on a popular singer instead. The singer’s life is saved, but his original patient dies. Dr. Tenma read more
Nov 18, 2007
74 of 74 episodes seen
Monster is an anime that I used to scoff at every time I saw high ratings for it. I was never really into long plot driven anime and I couldn’t understand how so many people loved it, but seeing the ratings, I couldn’t help but be interested. I downloaded this anime over a year ago and burned it on to 3 DVDs, never really intending to watch it. Maybe I did it because of the hype, decided that a highly acclaimed series like this was something every anime fan needed in his/her collection. Or maybe I just did it so I would have something to read more
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