Mystery continues to play a big part with not only Johan and his backstory, but there are forces of good and evil are about to forge. His boundless imagination and his sense of set up and pay off will keep readers entertained as the story moves along as it does, culminating to an ending that is as oddly fitting as you could be with this story.

I was also confused by when exactly Johan possibly interacted with Kemp, and what he did exactly to manipulate Jurgen into killing her for him. Kemudian, di akhir perjalanan setelah Tenma dan Dieter turun, si kakek mengetahui bahwa Tenma adalah buronan polisi tetapi si kakek merasa Tenma tidak bersalah, setidaknya ia bukanlah orang jahat. Side note: if anyone knows why like 5 random pages in the middle of the manga are coloured instead of black and white, please help a girl out. A pesar de haber leído el tomo cuatro hace 5 meses aproximadamente, no necesité recordar cosas muy específicas para unirme a la historia y seguir disfrutándola. He is perhaps best known for Monster (which drew praise from Junot Díaz, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner) and 20th Century Boys.This time we have the ever-smiling Herr Grimmer as he tracks the origins of the mysterious orphanage that seems to have birthed the Monster. Apesar de ser mais um volume fantástico, é o primeiro no qual um aspecto muito importante me incomoda: a desinformação do autor sobre comunismo - bem como socialismo -, e, como consequência, as constantes propagandas anti-comunistas irradiando ao longo dos capítulos, a partir do aparecimento de um personagem chamado Grimmer. More than that though, Nina was once again put in a situation wherein she might have to take someone else's life to save her own. This is certainly the most action-orientated the manga has ever been, in how it builds up to the moment where Tenma is about to take his first life, whilst the likes of Dr Reichwein, Nina and little Dieter are desperate to save Tenma from making a terrible mistake. Tengo los tomos seis y siete y aunque normalmente me toma meses retomar la historia, creo que la leeré lo más pronto posible, nuevamente me enganchó esta trama.

Apart from the end of the children’s story in which a monster is one with the young boy named Johan – possibly the inspiration for naming the main antagonist of Monster – the story itself reflects on the recurring theme that Urasawa has explored, which is the monster within everybody.I was also very surprised with the depth of the side characters that Urasawa introduced and how many stories he weaved into the story without losing the threads of the main plot.

I really thought that Kemp was Jurgen's abusive mother, but it seemed that Johan somehow got him to project his mother on Kemp? Halfway through this volume, the narrative takes a shift as follows the aftermath where there is some tying up of loose-ends, Tenma takes a seat-back as during his journey to Prague, he crosses paths with Grimmer. Inspector Lunge interrogates the couple's nephew but publicly claims it's one of the series of the murders. The complexity of human nature, the small deeds that change the world around us little by little, the hero and the monster that lives inside all of us, how our actions shape the next generation, the controversy of nature vs.While they might seem frivolous at first glance, Urasawa always manages to find a way to weave them back into the main story somehow, where no detail is lost in the abyss. the last volume must have been a bump in the road cause I feel like this one has gone back to what I love most about the series: the mystery, the interesting side characters and the little surprises/twists. Much of his skill also comes from his sense of the mystique, giving us little niblets of a much grander mystery that keeps his audience coming back for more. However, when Tenma is threatened by Roberto at the library, Tenma shoots Roberto out of self-defence without much thought.