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Monster(manga)

Not to be confused withMonsters(manga).

Monster(stylized inall caps) is a Japanesemangaseries written and illustrated byNaoki Urasawa.It was published byShogakukanin itsseinenmangamagazineBig Comic Originalbetween December 1994 and December 2001, with its chapters collected in 18tankōbonvolumes. The story revolves aroundKenzo Tenma,a Japanese surgeon living inDüsseldorf,Germany whose life enters turmoil after he gets himself involved withJohan Liebert,one of his former patients, who is revealed to be a psychopathicserial killer.

Monster
Firsttankōbonvolume cover, featuring Kenzo Tenma
Genre
Manga
Written byNaoki Urasawa
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintBig Comics
MagazineBig Comic Original
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 1994–December 2001
Volumes18(List of volumes)
Novel
Another Monster
Written byNaoki Urasawa
Published byShogakukan
Published21 June 2002
Anime television series
Directed byMasayuki Kojima
Produced by
  • Hiroshi Yamashita (#1–10)
  • Toshio Nakatani (#11–74)
  • Manabu Tamura
  • Takuya Yui
  • Masao Maruyama
Written byTatsuhiko Urahata
Music byKuniaki Haishima
StudioMadhouse
Licensed by
Original networkNippon TV
English network
Original run7 April 2004–28 September 2005
Episodes74(List of episodes)
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Urasawa later wrote and illustrated the novelAnother Monster,a story detailing the events of the manga from an investigative reporter's point of view, which was published in 2002. The manga was adapted byMadhouseinto a 74-episodeanimetelevision series, which aired onNippon TVfrom April 2004 to September 2005. The manga and anime were both licensed byViz Mediafor English releases in North America, and the anime was broadcast on several television channels. In 2013,Siren Visuallicensed the anime for Australia.

Monsterwas Urasawa's first work to receive international acclaim and success; the manga has sold over 20 million copies, making it one of thebest-selling manga series of all time.The manga has won several awards, including the 46thShogakukan Manga Awardand theJapan Media Arts Festival.Its anime adaptation has been called one of the best anime series of its decade.

Plot

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Dr.Kenzo Tenmais a young Japanesebrain surgeon,working at Eisler Memorial Hospital inDüsseldorf,West Germany.Tenma is dissatisfied with the political bias of the hospital in treating patients, and seizes the chance to change things after a massacre brings fraternal twinsJohanandAnna Liebertinto the hospital. Johan has a gunshot wound to his head, and Anna mutters about killing; Tenma operates on Johan instead of the mayor, who arrived later. Johan is saved, but Mayor Roedecker dies; Tenma loses his social standing. Director Heinemann and the other doctors in Tenma's way are mysteriously murdered, and both children disappear from the hospital. The police suspect Tenma, but they have no evidence and can only question him.

Nine years later, Tenma is Chief of Surgery at Eisler Memorial. After saving a criminal named Adolf Junkers, Junkers mutters about a "monster." Tenma returns with a clock for Junkers, he finds the guard in front of Junkers' room dead and Junkers gone. Following the trail to the construction site of a half-finished building near the hospital, Tenma finds Junkers held at gunpoint. Junkers warns him against coming closer and pleads with him to run away. Tenma refuses, and the man 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 kill 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, particularlyBKAInspector Lunge,and he tries to find more information about Johan. He soon discovers that the boy's sister is living a happy life as an adopted daughter; the only traces of her terrible past are a few nightmares. Tenma finds Anna, who was subsequently named Nina by her adoptive parents, on her birthday; he keeps her from Johan, but is too late to stop him from murdering her adoptive parents. Tenma eventually learns the origins of this "monster": from the formerEast Germany's attempt to use a secretorphanageknown as "511 Kinderheim" to create perfect soldiers through psychological reprogramming, to the author of children's books used in aeugenicsexperiment in the formerCzechoslovakia.Tenma learns the scope of the atrocities committed by this "monster", and vows to fix the mistake he made by ending Johan's life.

Production

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

The original idea forMonstercame from the 1960s American television seriesThe Fugitive,which had a strong impact 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 adamant that the series would not do well, and tried to stop him from creating it.[3]

The Japanese medical industry was strongly influenced by the professional practices in Germany, thus it seemed natural to the author to setMonsterin Germany.Post-warGermany was chosen so that theneo-Nazimovement could be included in the story.[4]When he started the semimonthlyMonsterat the end of 1994, Urasawa was already writingHappy!weekly and continued to serialize both at the same time. WhenHappy!ended in 1999, he began the weekly20th Century Boys.Writing bothMonsterand20th Century Boysat the same time caused him to be briefly hospitalized for exhaustion.[5]

Media

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Manga

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Main article:List ofMonsterchapters

Written and illustrated byNaoki Urasawa,Monsterwas serialized inShōgakukan'sseinenmangamagazineBig Comic Originalfrom December 1994 to December 2001.[6]Shōgakukan collected its 162 chapters into 18tankōbonvolumes released from 30 June 1995 to 28 February 2002.[7]Takashi Nagasakiis credited as "co-producer" of the manga's story.[8]Monsterreceived a nine-volumekanzenbanre-release between 30 January and 29 August 2008.[9][10]

Monsterwas licensed in North America byViz Media,who published all 18 volumes between 21 February 2006 and 16 December 2008.[11]They released thekanzenbanversion of the series, titledMonster: The Perfect Edition,between 15 July 2014 and 19 July 2016.[11][12][13]

Anime

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Main article:List ofMonsterepisodes

The manga series was adapted into an anime byMadhouse,which aired between 7 April 2004 and 28 September 2005 onNippon TV.Directed byMasayuki Kojimaand written by Tatsuhiko Urahata, it features original character designs by long-timeStudio GhiblianimatorKitarō Kōsakawhich were adapted for the anime by Shigeru Fujita. The music was composed byKuniaki Haishima,including the opening theme "Grain".

David Sylvianwas commissioned to write the first ending theme, "For the Love of Life", on which he collaborated with Haishima. In the cover notes to the official soundtrack he said, "I was attracted to theMonstermaterial by the moral dilemma faced by its central character. The calm surface of the music giving way to darker undercurrents, signifying the conscience of the lead protagonist and the themes of morality, fate, resignation, and free will. "[14]It was used for the first 32 episodes. The second ending theme, "Make It Home" byFujiko Hemming,was used for the remaining 42 episodes. It is the only song Hemming sung in her career.[15]

The credit sequence features illustrations from the bookObluda, Která Nemá Své Jméno(The Monster Who Didn't Have A Name) by Emil Scherbe which was published by Shogakukan on 30 September 2008.[16]

An English dub ofMonsterwas produced by Salami Studios forViz Media,which had the North American license to the anime. The show aired onSyfy's Ani-Mondays with two episodes back-to-back each Monday night at 11:00 pm EST, beginning 12 October 2009, as well as on its sister networkChiller.[8]A DVD box set of the series, containing the first 15 episodes was released 8 December 2009. However, due to low sales of the first box set, Viz decided not to continue releasing the remaining episodes on DVD and later dropped the license.[17]Monsterbegan airing on Canada'sSuper Channelon 15 March 2010,[18]and on theFunimation Channelon 3 April 2010 on weekends at 12:30 am.[19]The series was also available digitally from several internet retailers.Siren Visuallicensed the series for Australia in 2013, and released it in five DVD volumes beginning in November 2013.[20]

Netflixbegan streaming the series internationally on 1 January 2023, premiering the first 30 episodes;[21]the entire 74 episodes were made available for the following month.[22]

Live-action adaptations

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In 2005, it was announced thatNew Line Cinemaacquired the rights for an Americanlive-actionfilm adaptation ofMonster.Academy Award-nominated screenwriterJosh Olson(A History of Violence) was hired to write the screenplay.[23][24]No new information on the film was released since.[25]

In 2013, it was revealed thatGuillermo del Toroand Americanpremium televisionnetworkHBOwere collaborating on a pilot for a live-action TV series based onMonster.[26]Co-executive producerStephen Thompson(Doctor WhoandSherlock) was writing the pilot, while del Toro was to direct it and be an executive producer alongsideDon MurphyandSusan Montford.[27]In 2015, del Toro told Latino-Review that HBO had passed on the project and that they were in the process of pitching to other studios.[28][29][30]

Reception

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Manga

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Monsterhas been critically acclaimed. It won an Excellence Prize in the Manga Division at the firstJapan Media Arts Festivalin 1997;[31]and the Grand Prize of the 3rdTezuka Osamu Cultural Prizein 1999.[32]It also won the 46thShogakukan Manga Awardin the General category in 2001;[33]and the Best Manga Series at theLucca Comics Awardsin 2004.[34]TheYoung Adult Library Services AssociationplacedMonsteron their 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list.[35]Viz Media's English release was nominated several times forEisner Awards,twice in the categoryBest U.S. Edition of International Material – Japan(2007 and 2009) and three times in Best Continuing Series (2007, 2008, 2009).[36][37][38]In 2009, whenOriconconducted a poll asking which manga series the Japanese people wanted to see adapted into live-action,Monstercame in fifth.[39]At the 2009 Industry Awards held by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, the organizers ofAnime Expo,Monsterwon the award for Best Drama Manga.[40]TheMonstermanga has over 20 million copies in circulation.[41]

Writing forTime,Pulitzer Prize for FictionwinnerJunot Díazpraised the manga, proclaiming "Urasawa is a national treasure in Japan, and if you ain't afraid of picture books, you'll see why".[42]About.com's Deb Aoki calledMonstera multi-layered suspense series and satisfying mystery that stands up to repeat readings, although it is sometimes a "little hard to follow".[43]Reviewing theMonstermanga forAnime News Network,Carl Kimlinger called Urasawa a master of suspense "effortlessly maintaining the delicate balance of deliberate misinformation and explicit delineation of the dangers facing protagonists that only the finest suspense thrillers ever achieve."[44]He commented that even the stories and characters that had felt unrelated to the greater picture are "eventually drawn together by Johan's grand plan."[45]Kimlinger deemed the art "invisible perfection," never "showy or superfluous," with panels laid out so well that it is easy to forget how much effort is put into each and every page.[44]Though he did not find the characters' physical designs attractive,[46]he praised their expressiveness, writing that the characters "wear 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."[44]UK Anime Networkgave the first volume a perfect score based on the engrossing story, but felt the artwork, while appealing, was not "groundbreaking".[47]On the other hand,Active Animefelt the art improved across the manga's serialization.[48]

A.E. Sparrow ofIGNdescribedMonsteras a "Hitchcockfilm set to manga "and felt its real strength comes from its huge cast of interesting characters, who each have" a unique story and history to relate ".[49]Carlo Santos, also forAnime News Network,calledMonster"a one-of-a-kind thriller" and suggests that one of the most overlooked qualities of it is that "amidst all the mystery and horror, there are moments of love and hope and all the good things about humanity."[50]Though she praised the manga for its "cinematically precise" art, never confusing the reader, and making each person visually distinct despite the large cast of characters,[51]Casey Brienza from the same website felt that too much time was spent developing minor characters "who are likely to be dead or forgotten just a few dozen pages later," and that the series' ending "went out with a whimper."[51]Brienza noted that "there is nothing satisfactory ever revealed to fully account for [Johan's] supremely scrambled psyche," but concluded that as long as the reader does not look for "deep meanings or think too hard about whether or not it all makes sense in the end" they will enjoy it.[52]Leroy Douresseaux ofComic Book Bin,praisedMonster's finale and wrote that the manga is "worth reading again and again. It's perfection".[53]

Anime

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THEM Anime Reviewscalled the anime adaptation "complex" and "beautiful", stating that it features "sophisticated storytelling and complex plot weaving, memorable characters, godly production values and excellent pacing".[54]Darius Washington ofOtaku USAnamedMonsterone of the ten best anime of the past decade.[55]Carl Kimlinger enthused that "It cannot be overstated how brilliantly apart from the anime mainstream this unsettling, fiercely intelligent, and ultimately uncategorizable journey into darkness is."[56]He praised Madhouse's animation for not only keeping up the dark "cinematic quality of Urasawa's art" but also improving on it, as well as Kuniaki Haishima's score for adding "immeasurably to the series' hair-raising atmosphere."[57]Though he noted Viz Media's 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.[57]

Kimlinger praised the series, for "its fidelity to Naoki Urasawa's original manga", commenting that "there isn't a scene left out, only a handful added in, and as far as I can tell not a line of dialogue changed or omitted. Given its faithfulness, fans of the manga will know that the series won't get any better than this, this is as good as the series gets." As well as for its frequent habit of giving the spotlight to newly introduced characters instead of the main cast.[56][57]He also described the ending of the series as, "we feel vaguely let down when what we should really be doing is glorying in the somewhat messy, yes, but exhilarating final throes of one of last decade's great series". Nonetheless, he considered such an ending to be expected, since "as ambitious and complicated and just plain huge asMonsteris, no conclusion is going to be entirely satisfactory. Someone is bound to get short-changed, loose ends are bound to be left dangling, and even if they weren't, the simple truth is that no climax could ever live up to the series' build-up ".[58]

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