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Japanese manga serial by Naoki Urasawa

Monster
Monster manga volume 1 cover.jpg

Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Kenzo Tenma
Genre
  • Crime[1]
  • Mystery[two]
  • Psychological thriller[i]
Manga
Written past Naoki Urasawa
Published by Shogakukan
English language publisher

NA

Viz Media
Mag Big Comic Original
Demographic Seinen
Original run Dec 1994 – December 2001
Volumes 18 (Listing of volumes)
Novel
Another Monster
Written by Naoki Urasawa
Published past Shogakukan
Published 21 June 2002
Anime idiot box series
Directed by Masayuki Kojima
Produced by
  • Hiroshi Yamashita (#1–x)
  • Toshio Nakatani (#xi–74)
  • Manabu Tamura
  • Takuya Yui
  • Masao Maruyama
Written past Tatsuhiko Urahata
Music by Kuniaki Haishima
Studio Madhouse
Licensed by

AUS

Siren Visual

NA

Viz Media

Body of water

Odex
Original network Nippon Idiot box
English network

CA

Super Aqueduct

The states

Syfy, Chiller, Funimation Channel
Original run 7 April 2004 – 28 September 2005
Episodes 74 (List of episodes)
Wikipe-tan face.svg Anime and manga portal

Monster (stylized as 🢒Thousand⊙NS†ER🢐) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was published past Shogakukan in their Big Comic Original magazine between 1994 and 2001, with the chapters nerveless in 18 tankōbon volumes. The story revolves around Kenzo Tenma, a Japanese surgeon living in Düsseldorf, Germany whose life enters turmoil subsequently getting himself involved with Johan Liebert, one of his sometime patients, who is revealed to be a unsafe series killer.

Urasawa later wrote and illustrated the novel Another Monster, a story detailing the events of the manga from an investigative reporter'south point of view, which was published in 2002. The manga was adapted by Madhouse into a seventy-four episode anime tv serial, which aired on Nippon Tv set from April 2004 to September 2005. The manga and anime were both licensed by Viz Media for English releases in Due north America, and the anime was circulate on several television channels. In 2013, Siren Visual licensed the anime for Australia.

Monster was Urasawa's first work to receive international acclaim and success; the manga has sold over 20 million copies, making it one of the acknowledged manga series in history. The manga has won several awards, and its anime adaptation has been called one of the all-time of the decade.

Plot [edit]

Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a young Japanese brain surgeon, working at Eisler Memorial Hospital in Düsseldorf, West Frg. Tenma is dissatisfied with the political bias of the infirmary in treating patients, and seizes the chance to change things after a massacre brings fraternal twins Johan and Anna Liebert into the hospital. Johan has a gunshot wound to his head, and Anna mutters virtually killing; Tenma operates on Johan instead of the mayor, who arrived subsequently. Johan is saved, but Mayor Roedecker dies; Tenma loses his social continuing. Managing director Heinemann and the other doctors in Tenma'due south mode are mysteriously murdered, and both children disappear from the hospital. The police force doubtable Tenma, but they accept no show and tin can only question him.

Nine years later, Tenma is Principal of Surgery at Eisler Memorial. Subsequently saving a criminal named Adolf Junkers, Junkers mutters virtually a "monster." Tenma returns with a clock for Junkers, he finds the guard in front of Junkers' room expressionless and Junkers gone. Following the trail to the construction site of a half-finished building well-nigh the infirmary, Tenma finds Junkers held at gunpoint. Junkers warns him against coming closer and pleads with him to run away. Tenma refuses, and the human being holding the gun is revealed to be Johan Liebert. Despite Tenma's attempts to reason with him, Johan shoots Junkers. Telling Tenma he could never impale the man who saved his life, he walks off into the night, with Tenma too shocked to stop him.

Tenma is suspected by the police, specially BKA Inspector Lunge, and he tries to detect more data about Johan. He before long discovers that the male child'due south sister is living a happy life equally an adopted girl; the only traces of her terrible by are a few nightmares. Tenma finds Anna, who was later on named Nina by her foster parents, on her altogether; he keeps her from Johan, but is too late to terminate him from murdering her foster parents. Tenma eventually learns the origins of this "monster": from the former Eastward Germany'due south attempt to utilise a secret orphanage known as "511 Kinderheim" to create perfect soldiers through psychological reprogramming, to the author of children's books used in a eugenics experiment in the former Czechoslovakia. Tenma learns the scope of the atrocities committed past this "monster", and vows to fix the mistake he made past saving Johan's life.

Production [edit]

Urasawa revealed that he pitched the idea of writing a manga about the medical field effectually 1986, but could tell his editor was not enjoying the idea. So he jokingly proposed a story near women's judo, and that lead to his showtime solo piece of work Yawara! (1986–1993).[3]

The original idea for Monster came from the 1960s American television series The Fugitive, which had a strong touch on Urasawa when he saw it at the age of eight. In the story, a doctor is wrongfully convicted of murder, but escapes and searches for the real killer while on the run from the police.[3] He said that his editor was determined that the series would not do well, and tried to stop him from creating it.[3]

The Japanese medical manufacture was strongly influenced by the professional practices in Germany, thus it seemed natural to the author to set Monster in Germany. Post-war Germany was chosen so that the neo-Nazi motility could exist included in the story.[4] When he started the semimonthly Monster at the end of 1994, Urasawa was already writing Happy! weekly and continued to serialize both at the aforementioned time. When Happy! ended in 1999, he began the weekly 20th Century Boys. Writing both Monster and 20th Century Boys at the same time acquired him to be briefly hospitalized for burnout.[v]

Media [edit]

Manga [edit]

Written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, Monster was published in Big Comic Original from December 1994 to December 2001. The 162 chapters were periodically nerveless into 18 tankōbon volumes published by Shogakukan, the start on 30 June 1995 and the final on 28 February 2002. Takashi Nagasaki is credited equally "co-producer" of the manga's story.[6] Monster received a nine-volume kanzenban re-release between 30 January and 29 August 2008.[seven] [8]

Monster was licensed in North America by Viz Media, who published all eighteen volumes between 21 Feb 2006 and 16 December 2008.[nine] They released the kanzenban version of the series, titled Monster: The Perfect Edition, between fifteen July 2014 and xix July 2016.[9] [10] [11] The series has also received domestic releases in other countries, such as in Deutschland by Egmont Manga & Anime, in France and holland by Kana, in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini, in Brazil by Conrad Editora and after by Panini Brasil, in Argentina by Larp Editores, in Taiwan by Tong Li Publishing, and in United mexican states by Grupo Editorial Vid.

Anime [edit]

The manga series was adapted into an anime past Madhouse, which aired between 7 April 2004 and 28 September 2005 on Nippon TV. Directed by Masayuki Kojima and written past Tatsuhiko Urahata, information technology features original character designs by long-fourth dimension Studio Ghibli animator Kitarō Kōsaka which were adjusted for the anime by Shigeru Fujita.

The anime includes an instrumental theme by the Chilean folk music group Quilapayún, "Transiente", which originally appeared on their 1984 anthology Tralalí Tralalá. David Sylvian was commissioned to write the ending theme, "For the Love of Life", on which he collaborated with Haishima Kuniaki. In the embrace notes to the official soundtrack he said, "I was attracted to the Monster material by the moral dilemma faced by its central character. The calm surface of the music giving mode to darker undercurrents, signifying the conscience of the lead protagonist and the themes of morality, fate, resignation, and gratuitous will."[12]

An English dub of Monster was produced past Salami Studios for Viz Media, which had the Northward American license to the anime. The show aired on Syfy's Ani-Mondays with two episodes back-to-back each Mon night at xi:00 pm EST, beginning 12 October 2009, equally well equally on its sis network Chiller.[6] A DVD box set of the series, containing the first xv episodes was released 8 December 2009. However, due to depression sales of the first box fix, Viz decided non to go along releasing the remaining episodes on DVD and later dropped the license.[thirteen] Monster began airing on Canada's Super Channel on xv March 2010,[xiv] and on the Funimation Channel on 3 Apr 2010 on weekends at 12:30 am.[fifteen] The series is as well available digitally from several cyberspace retailers. Siren Visual licensed the serial for Australia in 2013, and released it in 5 DVD volumes commencement in November 2013.[xvi]

The credit sequence features illustrations from the book Obluda, Která Nemá Své Jméno (The Monster Who Didn't Have A Name) by Emil Scherbe which was published by Shogakukan on thirty September 2008.[17]

Live-activeness adaptations [edit]

In 2005, information technology was appear that New Line Movie house acquired the rights for an American live-action film adaptation of Monster. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (A History of Violence) was hired to write the screenplay.[xviii] [nineteen] No new information on the movie was released since.[xx]

In 2013, it was revealed that Guillermo del Toro and American premium television receiver network HBO were collaborating on a pilot for a alive-action Idiot box series based on Monster.[21] Co-executive producer Stephen Thompson (Doctor Who and Sherlock) was writing the pilot, while del Toro was to direct it and be an executive producer alongside Don Murphy and Susan Montford.[22] In 2015, del Toro told Latino-Review that HBO had passed on the projection and that they were in the process of pitching to other studios.[23] [24] [25]

Reception [edit]

Manga [edit]

Monster has been critically acclaimed. It won an Excellence Prize in the Manga division at the first Japan Media Arts Festival in 1997,[26] the 46th Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category in 2001,[27] Best Series at the Lucca Comics Awards in 2004,[28] and Grand Prize at the 3rd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2005.[29] YALSA placed it on their 2007 Corking Graphic Novels for Teens listing.[thirty] Viz Media's English language release was nominated several times for Eisner Awards, twice in the category Best U.S. Edition of International Material – Japan (2007 and 2009) and 3 times in Best Standing Series (2007, 2008, 2009).[31] [32] [33] In 2009, when Oricon conducted a poll request which manga series the Japanese people wanted to see adapted into live-activeness, Monster came in 5th.[34] Monster won the honor for Best Drama Manga at the 2009 Anime Expo.[35] The Monster manga has sold over 20 1000000 copies, making information technology ane of the all-time-selling manga series in history. [36]

Writing for Time, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner Junot Díaz praised the manga, proclaiming "Urasawa is a national treasure in Japan, and if you ain't afraid of picture books, y'all'll see why".[37] Reviewing the Monster manga for Anime News Network (ANN), Carl Kimlinger chosen Urasawa a principal of suspense "effortlessly maintaining the frail residuum of deliberate misinformation and explicit depiction of the dangers facing protagonists that but the finest suspense thrillers ever achieve."[38] He commented that even the stories and characters that had felt unrelated to the greater flick are "somewhen drawn together by Johan'south grand plan."[39] Kimlinger deemed the art "invisible perfection," never "showy or superfluous," with panels laid out then well that it is easy to forget how much effort is put into each and every page.[38] Though he did not observe the characters' concrete designs attractive,[forty] he praised their expressiveness, writing that the characters "clothing their personalities on their faces, communicating changes in their outlooks, psychology, inner thoughts and emotions with shifts in expression that range from barely perceptible to masks of rage, hate and fear."[38] United kingdom Anime Network gave the first volume a perfect score based on the engrossing story but felt the artwork, while highly-seasoned, it was non "groundbreaking".[41] On the other mitt, Active Anime felt the art was improved beyond the serial' serialization.[42]

Carlo Santos, also for ANN, called Monster "a one-of-a-kind thriller" and suggests that i of the most disregarded qualities of it is that "among all the mystery and horror, at that place are moments of love and hope and all the good things about humanity."[43] Though she praised the manga for its "cinematically precise" art, never confusing the reader, and making each person visually distinct despite the big cast of characters,[44] IGN also commented on the last volumes of the manga but feared subplots would non be answered while the main narrative was still ongoing.[45] Casey Brienza was much more critical in her review of the last three volumes. Finishing up the ANN review, she felt that too much fourth dimension was spent developing small-scale characters "who are likely to be expressionless or forgotten only a few dozen pages subsequently," and that the serial' ending "went out with a whimper."[44] Brienza expressed thwarting that "in that location is naught satisfactory ever revealed to fully account for [Johan'southward] supremely scrambled psyche," but concluded that equally long as the reader doesn't look for "deep meanings or think besides hard about whether or not it all makes sense in the end" they will enjoy it.[46] Comic Book Bin praised the series finale for properly developing its characters likewise as the mysterious elements provided on it.[47]

Anime [edit]

THEM Anime Reviews called the anime adaptation "complex" and "cute", stating that it features "sophisticated storytelling and circuitous plot weaving, memorable characters, godly production values and excellent pacing".[48] Darius Washington of Otaku USA named Monster one of the 10 all-time anime of the by decade.[49] Carl Kimlinger enthused that "It cannot be overstated how brilliantly apart from the anime mainstream this unsettling, fiercely intelligent, and ultimately uncategorizable journeying into darkness is."[l] He praised Madhouse's blitheness for not only keeping up the dark "cinematic quality of Urasawa'due south art" but also improving on it, likewise every bit Kuniaki Haishima'southward score for adding "immeasurably to the serial' hair-raising atmosphere."[51] Though he noted Viz Media'southward inability to acquire the original ending theme song due to licensing problems, Kimlinger also called their English dub of the series one of the best in recent memory.[51]

Kimlinger critiqued the serial, notwithstanding, for "its unhealthy allegiance to Naoki Urasawa'southward original manga", commenting that "there isn't a scene left out, only a handful added in, and as far as I tin tell not a line of dialogue changed or omitted", as well equally for its frequent addiction of giving the spotlight to newly introduced characters instead of the principal cast. He also expressed disappointment in its ending, writing that "We feel vaguely let downwards when what we should actually exist doing is glorying in the somewhat messy, yes, but exhilarating final throes of 1 of last decade'southward bang-up series."[52] However, he considered such thwarting to be expected, since "Equally ambitious and complicated and just apparently huge as Monster is, no conclusion is going to be entirely satisfactory. Someone is jump to go short-changed, loose ends are leap to exist left dangling, and even if they weren't, the simple truth is that no climax could ever alive up to the series' build-upwards."

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External links [edit]

  • Monster official anime website at Nippon Television set (in Japanese)
  • Monster official manga website at Viz Media
  • Monster at IMDb
  • Monster (manga) at Anime News Network'southward encyclopedia

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