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This is the first time I am writing a review because I am forced to do so after watching a monstrosity of 74 episodes! The anime is very popular and highly rated and being a fan of mystery, suspense genre, I have read the most famous mystery novels, anime, manga etc. so surely I was looking forward to 'Monster'.
The story for the starting 14 episodes goes pretty well, the character development too! But after that the story goes haywire. The most important thing in any piece of work is it's story, the animation can be average.
The animation is good though according to anime of ... those times, the dialogues too are fine. But the story just makes your stomach curl with pain! I have a habit of finishing anime even if they are a snoozefest, but Monster was not even that! It was pure torture!
Well the biggest fact being the whole anime deals with the villain Johan for almost 60 episodes who turns out to be in the last or so episodes a victim of Franz Bonaparte who managed the experiment! Franz gets killed in the penultimate episode by Roberto (Adolf) who just teleports at all the crucial junctures of the anime and then Tenma who trained twice by 2 armymen throughout the anime just to shoot Johan finally gets a chance to do so but waits for an eternity and finally Johan gets shot by a hobo drunkard! During this scene Johan's sister said "I want to forgive you"! Can't make head or tails of it at all!
Ok there might be people feeling: that that was the essence of this anime. But I am talking about the irrationality that this anime is filled with! Johan had killed 1000 or more people in the whole anime, and finally conducted a massacre as well, so we all expect him to die or be punished atleast. Or to be restrained by atleast inspector Lunge. But No Tenma saves him, by again doing his brain surgery only to make him run away from the hospital once again! The worst plot twist ever!
It almost felt like the story writer started on a good note but didn't think it through. 70% of the characters are completely useless. The only good thing that happened in this anime is Mr.Grimmer.
So those who rate this anime anything above a 7 definitely hasn't seen good anime or don't know much about the mystery genre. Definitely not recommendable.