Monster: Everything You Ever Thought Is Wrong
Sometime after writing my review for Serial Experiments Lain , I visited an IMDB message board. One of the threads was "Which anime series are like Lain?", and one suggestion was Monster . I will sometimes watch the opening episode of an anime series out of curiosity. But Monster was the first time I did it and was hooked. That is saying something, considering that getting hooked meant committing to a 74-episode series, far longer than any other anime I had watched. But one episode led to another, which led to another, and before I knew it, I had finished the entire series in less than a week. The anime is closely based on Naoki Urasawa's manga series of the same name, which ran between 1994 and 2001 in 18 volumes. The anime series aired in Japan in 2004 and 2005, then in the United States in 2009 and 2010 on the SyFy Channel. Plot Synopsis Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a Japanese man living in Dusseldorf, West Germany in 1986, at a time when Germany still exists in