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| Pretty dark stuff and also a bit slow but I'm sure it'll get faster. |
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| It was ok but I expect much more from the story.. I hope it won't be 74 episodes about operations and doctors ;d |
| (づ￣ ³￣)づ ちゅっ ちゅっ キス (´｡✪ω✪｡｀) I hate it when anime/manga that I enjoyed ends, especially when there could be much longer plot and when I love main heroine :P I wish I had magic glasses that let me see real world in anime colors ;) |
| A nice start to a series that I've heard is one of a kind from an author who has brought us many amazing series from Monster to Pluto. I've heard a lot of praise about Naoki Urasawa and I'm happy to finally be diving into his work. This first episode was quite entertaining with plenty of great moments. I really like are main character doctor Tenma. This episode may have been slow but it really showed us some dark themes with the director picking and choosing who Tenma operates on, even when hes about to operate on someone the director calls on him to operate on someone else such as a politician. Throughout this episode I really enjoyed the atmosphere that is portrayed throughout, the darkness of it all is really nice and the animation helps with the atmosphere. The animation is also very solid for its time. Im glad Tenma chose to operate on the boy instead. I cant wait to watch the next ep. |
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| now that's what i expect from an anime.. a compelling story from the first episode itself. we got a brief introduction of every character. i would say it is pretty nice paced story for what it's trying to achieve i guess. |
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| I spent almost 40 minutes just for one episode because honestly, I was really nervous. Who should be killed? Is it the boy? Is this the beginning of disaster? |
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Reply to shiratori90
This is the second time I've watched this anime, but the first time I only watched up to episode 27, and I didn't pay any attention to the characters' feelings. I was just watching it to practise my Japanese, but it really is a cool anime! I want to keep watching and understand more about everything!
The old-style animation, with its touch of reality, is really cool too! I get excited just watching it, even though it's a story with heavy events, I find this anime easy to watch, unlike Elfen Lied for example, which is quite crazy.
The old-style animation, with its touch of reality, is really cool too! I get excited just watching it, even though it's a story with heavy events, I find this anime easy to watch, unlike Elfen Lied for example, which is quite crazy.
| @shiratori90 What an absurd comparison of two unrelated anime. |
| Naoki Urasawa is OBSESSED with Europe and European aesthetics and specifically the West Germany - East Germany dynamic. |
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| @JoeChip It doesn't change his West Germany - East Germany obsession. He makes it a point to bring it up multiple times for multiple srcs in Master Keaton. And there's a reasok he chose Gesicht as his focus character for his rewrite of Astro Boy. And there's Billy Bat which is more global but still has that undertone to it. And now Monster which is a work that screams "I love Germany". |
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@JoeChip It doesn't change his West Germany - East Germany obsession. He makes it a point to bring it up multiple times for multiple srcs in Master Keaton. And there's a reasok he chose Gesicht as his focus character for his rewrite of Astro Boy. And there's Billy Bat which is more global but still has that undertone to it. And now Monster which is a work that screams "I love Germany".
| @Dienen Okay, but why did you feel like posting all this under episode 1 discussion thread of Monster instead of making a separate thread? |
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@Dienen
Okay, but why did you feel like posting all this under episode 1 discussion thread of Monster instead of making a separate thread?
Okay, but why did you feel like posting all this under episode 1 discussion thread of Monster instead of making a separate thread?
| @JoeChip Because watching the episode and seeing the news broadcast on east germany situation shows that Urasawa thinks about the dynamic more than actual Germans do. |
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